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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1933)
} u I BATTAL1 ON m Afi COillfll Of 11X45 coul#i fnnoi^TlMi BaUnd oa Mcond cIom matter at the Post Office at Collage Texaa, under Um Act of ( oni^ress, March 1, 1879. Station, Subecription nU 11.75 per year. Adrertiaing rates upon request. ED1TOK1AL STAFF — W. O. Sanders L. W. Btonos -•U -if Editor Managing Editor Sport. Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor 4- , .rolnmni.t iJ— Aft Ed,tor Reporters: W M. WaUon, H. G. Seeligaoh. H. F. Martin. C. A. Toach, E. C. Roberta, J. F. Rollins, J. N Fergusoh D. I. Ttsinger. Jack Sloan, L A. Reid, Jack Askins. ' [If / V. BUSINESS STAOT/ Trygre Bogevold — . Advert.sing Manager R- N. Eeid Assistant Advertising Manager flam Cooper Assistant Advertising Manager J. B. Heinen Assistant Advertising Manager F. W. Bren.IK- Wi.stant Advertising Manager W. M. Wataon Circulation Manager Jf. A. Connelly ^4 AiMstant Circulation Manager C. B. Hussey AodMurt ( irculation Manager Tom Metz r ^AfliBtant Circulation Manager iFincke and Halter Win Annual Contest For Math Students M. F. Fincke, San Antoaio, aad R. C. Halter, also of San Antonio, iron first prises respectively in the annual sophomore and freshman mathematics contests according to an announcement last night at the fifth annual mathematics depart ment banquet. Second prises were awarded U J. W. Hull, Sonora, for calcuhie and D. S. Bowman, Longview, for the freshman mathe matics. W. W. Lawson, Houston, donate 1 the first freshman mathematics prise and J. W. Porter of Dallas gave the second, while W. L. Por ter. head of the mathematics de partment, and J. W. Mitchell, also of the mathematics department, do nated the calculus awards. Campus Personalities W. ^>4 Vela Elected nt of Debate Club for New Year At a meeting of the DebeU Club 'I DR. MARK FRANCIS Probably nS other one man has contributed sS materially through scientific research to the cattle in dustry of this country as Dr. Mark Francis, dean of the school of vet erinary medicine and chief of the diviakm of veUrinary science of the experiment sUtion, whose fight I\ FINALE With this issue of the BatUlion, the *ork of the 1932-83 staff ia completed as next week’s issue will be published by the new 1933-34 staff. The present staff has edited the Battalion during the past year, appreciating the honor that has bees bestowed upon us, and trying to do our beet to give the students, faculty, iad administration a repre sentative college newspaper, the merit of Irhich we do not know, but we hope our faults and shortcomings are dbch that they caa be over looked, and that the staff next year will appreciate our mistakes and profit by them. In dosing, the Battalion wishes to efcpress its appreciation for the help and advice given by Mr. J. E. Angel 1, hpainaas manager of student publications, and by Mr. Curtis Vinson, Tony Ketterson, and Mu* Ruby Morrow of the Publicity Department, and by Mr. J. F. Mayo of the college library. 1 YOUR BANIT Aa open letter addressed especially to the class of *84 By R. J. Dunn. Bandmasicr \ and M College. The greater and moat loyal part of th4 student body, the ex-stu dents and the friends and supporters of A and M, take great pride in referring to the A and M Band as the “finest college band in the soqth.” We hope it is and, if it is, the fact is due:to nothing other than the SPIRIT of the personnel that makes up the- band. Sometimes, however, we are inclined to allow our enthusiasm to obscpre the actual facta. Let us glance at same of opr nearby comp. - tors in the Southwest Conference. The band at one university nearby, aajoy* a practice period of two hours daily for five days each week. A minimum of ten hours. In addition, many of the members take music as a subject, sit in class five hours each week and the band plays a short concert at chapel assemblies. Twice each month the band plays a grand concert in their beautiful modern auditorium to a crowded house. In our compariaon, in order to not exaggerpte we will say a maximum of fifteen hours weekly. • T ‘ At another of the schools in the conference they have recently built a beautiful band hall for practice and general band assembly activities and at that school the band members receive letters. last Thursday evening. WO. Vela, . T#xaJ fever has Laredo, Battery E, Field Artillery, was elected president of the club for the coming year. Vela, a junior liberal arts students, was' also awarded a gold medal for meri torious forensic work this year. He participated in debates with Lou- ^ isiana State University and Rice Institute. Succeeding J. W. Wells of San Antonio, D. L. Tisinger, Garland, was elected aa vice-president, and G. E. Wyse, Palestine, was chosen secretary-treasurer of the club. Immediately following the selec tion of officers, L A. Handler, Gal veston, retiring president of the club, presented Professor C. 0. Spriggs, director of debate, with a pipe, given by the debaters in appreciation of his leadership. The Debate Club loses four let ter-men this year. Handler, Wells, J« E. Gaston. Henderson, and R. B. Jenkinp, De Leon. However, ex cellent material should be fur nished by the Freshman Forensic Club next fall, according to Pro fessor Spriggs. Move) Architectural Problem By L. M. Cook To Be On Exhibition L Striking a new note in the field of architectural design, L M. Conk, Dallas, graduate student of the A and Ml architectural department, has completed to scale a plaster »l of a large suburban home, according to Ern«st Langford md of the department of archi- etare. Being Complicated by a creek and otheB irregularities in the ter rain, the right was moat suited to Sptaiah type of architecture which was folldwed closely in design. Each pietje. including a swimming pool and' terraces, \ separately in clar and cast in plas ter of paris. Thi carvings around tha windows and ok the doors were done to exactness, even show ing the nail* This problem is the first of such detail and site to have ever been constructed here and it will be left on permanent exhibition in the ar chitecture department, Mr. Lang ford said. OTTS ELECTED TO EDIT TECHNOSCOPE FOR TEAR 1933-34 Ferguson, Owens, Get Positions Year’s Staff. Either this system is going to chaag* or there isa’t going to be any country here 50 years from now -Father C. H. U Blond. Next J. G. Otts, Cuero, junior student in mechanical engineering, was elected to edit the 1938-84 Tech no- scope at a meeting of the advisory board of that publication Friday We Appreciate and Thank You For the business you have iriven us this u Agffieland Studio ramisled Other members se lected to fill positions next y>+ - were: J. N. Ferguson, El Past, as sociate editor; F. E. Owens, Edna, circulation manager; and 8. D. Bruns, Louise, business manager. Otts requests that aayons who may be interested in working en the Technoscope get in touch with Mm immediately, as preparation- Are now being made for the next issue, which will be published in September. Mayo In New York Getting Doctor of Philosophy Degree ,N • \! \ T. F. Mayo, head librarian and professor in the English depart ment. is now in New York taking examinations which are to con clude his work for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His disser tation “Epicurus in England” has ‘In recent years the practice of scouting the campus for freshmen | already been approved but haa not at the opening ol school, for the various Companies troops and bat- yet been published, ttries, has grown steadily and we regret to state that in their enthus.- With the teaching staff since asm, many upperclassmen convey a very p4ar impres-ion of the bar ! 1916, Mr. Mayo was appointed col to the freshman who happens to be a musician or we might say an lege librarian in 1919. — embryo musician, and advise them ‘ to notjapply for membership In the band,” but to join their particular company, troop or battery. Blear ‘ ip aaind that at other schools in the conference they give musician* free t nit ion and other inducements. ^ i-.Jn some cases the upperclassmen assure the fteshmen that the work is so great in the band that he will not be ablejto accomplish his scholastic work. In the survey published at mid-teri^, the band stood second over a period of four years in scholastic work among twenty- si* organisations. In one case last year, the bandmaster had been cor- i responding with a young man who performed on what we call -in ' uncommon instrument. After about eight months cofraapondence, the Js young man came to A and M and upon his arrival he was met and ) 2 ^talked out of joining the band." A . This practice is n$t only unfair to "your band” but unfair to the 'Vreshman and his parents who most likely bare spent quite a lot of money for a musical instrument and musical instruction for their son. f hoping that at least he would maintain a coftact with music while At r dafipga. ~ q Each year the band has some di8tingub*hed students and every t effort h made to encourage tha band membarto pass his work. s q We trust that this letter will be considered “a plea” to each meia- ^ ber of the senior class of ’34 and also to our next junior and sophomore classes, when you observe a freshman arriving on tbe campus next T. R. Timm To Head 1933-34 Marketing and Finance Club T. R. Timm, junior student of Hallettsville, was elected presiden-. of the Marketing and Finance Club for the 1933-84 year at a meeting of club members Wednesday night. May 10. Other officers elected were: J. | H. Willard. Giddings, vice-presi dent; J. R. Martin, Shamrock, sec retary-treasurer; and Lee Scarpi- nato. Bryan, chairman of the prog ram committee. September, with a musical instrument or bebr one » / tyen a member of the high school band, cause him t Heinen Is Elected Newman Club Head For Year 1933-34 J. B. Heinen, Jr., Dallas, was el ected president of the Newman Club for next year at a meeting te that he has report at onoe for rumination for membership ih the band and assure him that it b very seldom that we can afford to reject aa applicant^ if he can read nyisic. In conclusion, if this much talked of "SHRIT OF AGGIELAND** 1 held in the club room of St. Mary’s really txiaU, the pulse of that spirit is right in your bfcnd and we re- ' Chapel last Sunday morning. Hein- call several occasions when the band accompanied the fpotRall team on ( >n succeeds F. J. Kana, La Grange. ji trip withoat the corps that u{K)n their retbra the yrll leaders told | £. A. Olsovsky.Hallettsville. re- the corps at yell practice that the band both;played music and yelled placed T. M. Weaver. Dallas, as as loud as if half the corps had been at the galne. vice presideat; H. G. Seeligson, II, j— . , wa> reelected recording sec- England ia essentially ahead or retary; B. F. Carter. Shreveport, essentially behind Aaserica -I La., succeeded R. E. O’Connell, never make up my mind which.— Waco, as sacial secretary; A. P. Mrs. Henry T-Fleikmann. Callahan. Dallas, succeeded E. 0. * > L ■ < I - i Wunbarh, San Antonio, as treas- la this country we never fac* ! urer; W. O. \ ela. Laredo, was el- facts. We’are neither socially, po- ected corresponding secretary; LUCCHESE BOOT CO. Custom Boot Making ii Custom Tailoring Shoe Repairing New Location, In Milam Bldg. 101 W. Travis Street San Antonio, Texas. become veterinary history. “Who * Who In America” speaks of Dr. Francis’ work as follows: “Veterinarian to the Texas Experi ment Station and introduced meth ods of produeikf immunity to Tex- fever by subsutaneous injec tions with infected cattle blood; this has reduced mortality from Texas fever from about 75 to 10 per cant, and. has made possible the importation of breading ani mals of highest quality to Texas.” This brief comment fails to tell the romantic story and the far reaching significance of Dr. Fran cis’ work, not only for Texas beef cattle but for the Southwest and for the dairying industry as well. Dr. Francis was born at Shan- don, Ohio, Marth 19, 1863. He gra duated with the degree of Doctor of Veterinary fcedicine from Ohio Skate University, 1887, spent one year at the American Veterinary College, New York, some time at the University of Michigan, Berlin and Munich. 19(M He came to A and M college in 1888 aa professor of veterinary science and became dean of the school of veterinary medinrine in iMft. During the period following the civil war, great numbers of cattle were taken from Texas aad the Southwest to the Corn Belt to be finished for market. These cattle were infested with a tick, as was later discovered, to which they were strongly resistant, but not so became infected with a disease caused by these ticks. Thi» disease was known as “Texas” or “tick" fever, and caused great losses a- mong the cattla native to the com belt. In 1888. Dr. Francis took up his work *on the tick fever problem which was then developing into a gigantic problem for the South west. Attempts were made to im muniae the Northern cattle by in- noculating them with injections of blood serum of immune Southern cattle but this failed. Next, it was attempted to create immunity by inflicting young cattle with the vi rulent blood in the fall of winter time when the attack would not be fatal. Gratifying results were ob tained from this work, and in one case, the death rate of a herd which had been formerly between fifty and eighty per cent was re duced to approximately five or six percent Later a systematic eradi cation of the tick was undertaken by the Department of Agriculture and the dipping process developed by Dr. Francis was enforced by law in the state of Texas. Much of Dr. Francis’ work was done while suffering the ridicule of press and platform who derided his study of the disease as “wanton waste of public fundM". However, the re sults of Dr. Francid’ investigation have saved the siate of Texas far more than the cost of the entire Experiment Station. In 1930, Dr. Francis was nomi nated to receive the Capper Award for Distinguished Service to Am- Texas A and M Track Stars To Compete In National Track Meet At least two, and maybe three member-* of Coach Anderson's track and field team will journay to Chicago' about June 9 to par ticipate in £he National Track and Field Meet, They are Honk Irwin and John Herring, weight man and Hurdler r.-p.--1 ively. The other man has not yet been selected. Irwin waf picked to go last yaar, -hut the trip was put off. Hia heaves in the shot pot last yaar wan him a place on the All-Amer ican roll, add probably he will get recognition in the discus also this year. Honk ‘ will have to compete agaipat Torrence, giant shot put ter of Louisiana State and the pre sent holder of the Southern Con ference record of 52 feet. Herring will have to run against probably the beet hurdler in the United Sutea. Jack Keller of Ohio State. I Harper Winner of Annual Freshman Agronomy Contest I. W. Harper, College Station, Will have his name engraved the W. S. Howell trophy which ia on display in the Agriculture Build ing, as a result of taking first place in the annual Freshman con test in crop production held by the Agronomy department recently. Others placing in the contest are listed in the order of the high est scorers: B. M. E. Smith, Jr n McKinney; A. A. Crownover, No- cona; D. P. Gallman, Cotulla; and D. W. Lay, Beaumont. Awards for the winners of this contest are donated by the A. M. Waldrop Company, Morris Sckul- man, the College Tailor Shop, and the staff of the agronomy depart ment. eriegn Agriculture. Another honor was bsatowed upon Dr. Francis this past week end, when the Tex as Academy'of Science gave him an honorary lifetime fellowship in the Academy, this being the first fellowship of this kind given to any Texas scientist since the re- orggnitation of the Academy. D^. Francii* hobby is the collec tion of fossils of animal life that flou|Tiahod ini prehistoric days. He has been engaged for forty-four years in the*, work of identifying relics of prehistoric animals that i - -a tried Texaf. As a result he has gathering at A and M, a museum collection containing the largests assortment of specimens to be found in this) section of the coun try. Most of the zoological collec tion belongs to Dr. Francis perso nally but he has announced that he expects to donate the collection to the college, - WHEN IN DOUBT A bast Taar Km «r Taw Claam i EARLY SALE Young Men's SPRING SUITS Our entire stock of Young Men’s Spring Suits are ON SALE at these extreme low prices — $16.50 Suits $12.75 $19.50 Suits $14.65 $24.50 Suits $18.35 $29.50 Suits $22.15 $34.50 Suits $25.85 This is your opportunity to nave on your Spring Clothing _ V. , 1 Tva Caavtalaat 1am *TAN AND COIXBCB Y On Summer Weight Clothes Linen Suits Tropicals Linen Slacks and Knickers IpTo-Date Haberdaahery Ceh e in tan see me v fore you buy. be- M EAPLAN Are you an ' j; | j I | ’ -j ■**. a eat-and-run If 4 J * student? mJ litically nor aconoipicaUy minded and F. C. Schleicher, Victoria, waa —Anita BUk. , |charted club reporter. Jr CAMPUS CLEANERS & TAILORS SERVICE CtEANL^G, PRESSING, REPAIRING. AND ALTERATIONS V W. E« (Shorty) Halbrooks Joel English “IT WONT BE pONG!' VACATION TIME l| HERE We want to thank you fot the patronage you have given us his yelar. Ill I * J j J 4 j We wish.you an enjoyable summei r I Tl ilvi'lf* hope to see you Ofxt ar FIVE minutes for break fast! That’s plenty of time for a big bowl of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. Jnst pour on milk or cream. Listen a second to that appetizing sound-—snap, crackle, pop—then enjoy tbe finest, criapeat rice cereal ever made. A grand energy food! Nourishing! Easy to digest! And listen —Rice Krispies are a great food to wind up the day. Yon’U sleep better. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. Listen!- and Aggieland P Tbe |><>|*ul*r rrad* lo-ral rrrrala IWy in !ud. Flak.-. ***! Battfe Crock ' PEP Hrnn It WBOU WBKAT _ AlroKcfccH^Ccfcc-.^, that lets voa afeep. ‘ ' ir r> i n ?i£e £ / A