K A i . -ML.. .A Published Weekly By The Student* of The A. * M. CoUefo of i VOLUME XXXIII COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 10, 1934. M M HER 13 DAVIS RENDERS DECISION IN A AND M I *, r' . ir A And M Graduates Favored In Selection of Workers For The Projects Mapped Out By CWA Recent Survey Reveals That Only Two A and M Gradu* , ates In Electrical and Three _'In Civil Enirineerinfr Now Unemployed, j. Indications show that A and M graduates are in demand for the Federal projects under the Chril Works Administration as a recent survey showed only two electrical and three civil engineering gradu ates unemployed in Texas. ' Three new projects of particular interest are the Rural Beautifies Uon Project, carried on by the Civilian Conservation Corps sad the State Highway Department; Survey of Farm Tax Delinquencies and Foreclosures, under the direc Uon of L. P. Gabbard, of the Ex periment Statioa; and the Farm Home Survey, with Dan Scoates as vice-chairman of the State in charge of the men connected with the work. > Request for twenty men for Tex as and adjoining states has already been made for the Rural Beautifi cation Project, according to F. W. Hensel, head of the Landscape Art Department. This work is to last for a year or two as the highways ale to be beautified and aeveral large parks are to be made in Tex as. Only two of these places have been filled and the names of those who will be employed from A and M are qot available yet . ' Mr. Gabbard la to employ 840 men on the Farm Tax Delinquen cies project which has received an $81,000‘appropriation. The organi sation is being made now, and even though it is supposed to last only to February 15, extension of time is expected. Numerous A and M graduates are employed on this project Twenty-five men have already bean employed on the Farm House Survey for technical advice to the women workers, regarding im provements to- the farms and houses. Seven of these men are graduate architects from A and M. They will be distributed over 25 counties. This project was started a week ago and is to terminate February 15, but extensibn is also expected The A and M graduates connected with this work are: John L. Wilaon, F. R. Carpenter, John B. Damia, J. Leo Norton, Blum E. Raster, Ray Cantrell, and Harvey Perrin. Keeling Elected To Presidency of Local Chapter of DeMolay At a meeting of the De Molay Club held early in December in the Meas Hall, W. L. Keeling, Mar- - lin, was elected president for the current year. Other officers are: G. W. Cox, San Antonio, vice-pres ident; and L. R. Pietxsch, Neder land, secretary-treasurer. A social committee composed of the follow- M. men: H. N. Morrow, Browns ville; L. G. Gieaecke, Houston; and N. T. Langham, Mission, was also elected at the meeting. HOWARD RECEIVES APPOINTMENT TO NAVAL ACADEMY Freshman Engineering Stu dent Receives Appointment After Making the Highest Grade On Competitive Ex- Jesse C Howard, freshman en gineering student from Center, Texas, received a telegram last Thursday stating that he had re ceived an appointment to the Unit ed States Naval Academy at An napolis, Maryland. The appoint ment was made bjr United State* Congressman Martin Dies of the second Congressional district. Howard received Ahe appointment as the result of making the highest grade on the competitive examina tion given four boys for the vacan cy in the aFademy from the second and ninth districts of Texas. The other three contestants for the va cancy who took the examination, which was given in Bryan in Oc tober, were from the ninth Con gressional district., Prior to sntering A and M, How ard was a student 4t Marshall Jan- ior College, Marshall, Texas, hav ing graduated from Center High School with the highest honors of his class. He will laave for Annap olis early in June to take the en trance examination. 29 New Members Added To Honor Society Monday Scholarship Honor Society Reaches Full Membership; Twenty Seniors and Eight Juniors Admitted. Meeting in the "Y” Chapel Mon day night, the Scholarship Honor Society completely filled its mem bership tor the year. Under the eli gibility requirements of the society 28 new members were added. 20 aeniorw and 8 juniors, making a total membership of 88, and affi liating with the membership re quirements of national honor or ganizations. AH of the eligible can didates were voted into the society and iti is believed that the present membership is the largest since the society was organised. The new members are: seniors, 1 W. L. Bartlett, Arlington; M. E. Erwin, Charlotte; J. M. Hatton, Abilene; B. F. Heil, San Antonio; P. G. Homeyer, Ft. Worth; N. L. HuU t Pittsburg; W. L. Jameson, j Floydada; P. D. Me Neely, FV WortH; H. N. Morrow, Browns ville; J. A. Nichols. College Sta tion; H. F. Barnhart, Gainesville; F. O. Cook, Lampasas; R. MT. FKchuer, San Antonio; J. L. Har ris, Media; E. E. Huffines, Rich ardson; A. J. McKenzie, San An- Renders Decision A And M To Send Two Debateileams To Baylor Friday A and M To Re Represented At InvitatkNi F o r e n a i c Tournament; A1 South western Universities Invit ed. Bryan Judge Rules That Board 1 Of Directors Has Authority To Act On Co-education Question Judge W. C- Davis, of the Eighty- fifth Judicial District, who last week ruled that the A and M Board it Directors had power to act in co-education case. SCIENCE SEMINAR HEARS DR. SILYEY SPEAKONMATTER Tali On “Changes In the States of Matter Was II- lustrated With Laboratory Demonstrations Monday * ffiET Two debate team* will' leave here Friday moraing to represent A and M College in an invitation foren sic tournament to be htid at Bay- ; m lor University in Wacbj on Janu ary 12-13. ; W. O. Yelp, Laredo, president of the Debate Club, and H. G. Seeligson, Dallas.; will make up one team and the other team will be composed of G.; E. Wyse, Palestine, gild T. K. Irwin, Dallas. Univer*it$M of Taxas, Lousiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas have been invited to Send delegates to this tournament. The current Pi Kappa Delta question, K. solved that, “The Power* of the President of the United £ tales Should Be Sub stantially Increased As! A Settled iLPolicy” will be aaad. th. L. W. Courtney, forensic director at Bay lor, is aponsonng the tournament. Dr. CourtiW|r has annoom-cd that TRUEITNER SPEAKS ATAEROHAUTICiL SOCIETY MEETING / W. Johnston IVas Fleeted President At First Meeting of Society On December 11. W. L. Truettner. professor in the mechanical engineering de- ; artment and sponsor of the newly organised Aeronautical Society, spoke to the Aeronautical Society Moaday. January 18, in the me chanical engineering building. Mr. Truettner traced the development of aviation from its early history to the present day, giving an ac count of all the important advanc es made in aviation. Talks by E. W. Hagan, Waco, on the proposed light commercial airplane and M. W. Johnson, Amarillo, president the various debats teato coaches of the society, on the Boeing trans- will act as judges and that an ade- port ship concluded the program Judge Davis of Eighty-fifth Judicial District Files Three Point Decision Two Months After Case Taken Under Advisement. quale number of local judges will be available to serve m the ab sence of anf coaches. Students Interested in debate should watch tht Daily Bulletin tonio; - J. B. Hetnen, Dallas; Lowel ^ . j . .. V« Zandt. Zephyr; A. W. L«ch. Pf- W. O- Silrry. h~d .f U,. SUvhwvlUr; .nd J. T. Sld.d. S.n •• I , _ . . ] ' the Science Seminar on the sub- , tor announcements ef try outa for Junior,; S. B. ArchitaM, Cl- jf** j" I* 8 *" 0 ' l* 1 " °- Imt. kt.tinn. F K Pmuch Lo- «ght o’clock Monday f«*«or of public ■.peaking and de- |lege Station, E. K. Crouch, Lp- |n ^ lectart . ^ ^ tb4 j b. u teem eomrh announced. physics building. Professor E. W. Emery Announces Commutations To Be Paid Shortly Organization Photographs To Be Made During Drifl Pe riods This Week. (Continued on Page 2) BATTALION’S ART WORK WILL GO ON DIFFRRBNT BASIS M e MSB ■ V vjsavbm ■ wm Steel, president of the Seminar, introduced the speaker. Illustrating the principal points of his talk with laboratory demon strations, by using varied pieces of apparatus. Dr. SUvey dUcuaaed a wide range of experimental, data. A common property of all -“X. s TERM EXAMS ARE SCHEOULED FOR The Aeronautical Society organised December 11 for the pur^babNof discussing subjects a- long the lines of aeronautics and aeronautical design in the automo tive industry. Other officers Hect ed at the initial meeting were: T. H. Fraser, Fort Worth, vice-presi dent; J. L. Cassell, Fort Worth, secretary and chairman of the program committee. Other mem bers of the program committee are J. M. Kenderdine, Fort Worth; W. E. Scarborough, Abilene;, and W. A. Trembly, Dallas. Attractive Comic Magazine. The payroll for students in the Ail art work and cartoons for the Battalion Comic Magazine will be put on a competitive basis, be ginning with the February issue of the magazine. This decision was finally made by the editor of the magazine, with hopes to increasing advance R O T t courses was ‘he attractiveness of the magazine E. L. Williams Was 'Married In Minden On Christmas Day Miss Faye Ellington of Miftden. Louisiana, and E. L. Williams, major of the First Battalion In fantry last year, were united in marriage at Minden on Christmas Day. Jack Langston, Garrison, gra duate of A and M last year, at tended the bridegroom as beat man. Following the ceremony the bride and bridegroom left on an extended trip to Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are now residing in Harper, Texas, where Mr. Williams la teacher of voca tional work in Harper High School. compiled during the holidays, and its return is expected shortly, ac cording to an announcement made by Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Em ery, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, Monday morning. “It is hoped that students will receive their money in time for payment of their maintenance,” Colonel Emery said. The announcement was also made that drill periods this week were to be used for the purpose of taking organization photographs for the Longhorn. The completion ef this task is expecuvj by Thurs day afternoon, J. W. Dry den, edi tor, stated. CWAPROJECTTO OPEN 0FF[CE HERE State Headquarter* of Part Time Farm Census Created At College. As part of the program of the Civil Works Admbustration, the Part Time Farm Census has been created and the state headquar ters located at Coli.^f Station, Texas, according to H. L. Heaton, state supervisor. The work of this organisation is to determine the economic situation of the people living outside the cities. Although work has not begun as yet, a plan of action has been submitted to J. B. Kellie, Federal representa tive of the C W A at Austin. Despite the fact that a large farce of assistants is to be engag- ed,\at the present time onK the office staff has been cboser,. W. C. Holley, through the recommen dation of Mr. Heaton, has assum ed the position of assistant super visor while Mrs. Griffcloud has through the art work and creating an interest among the students which, it is hoped, will lead to a greater amount af originality. Exact rules in which contribu tions are to be made haven’t been made. The present plana, nowever, are that all contributions must be in eighteen days before the maga zine is to be printed. The contribu tors of the ten best cartoons will be paid fifty cents for each car toon; the designer of the cover wlil receive two dollars; the illus trator of the short story will be transition of heat energy from one medium to another. As his first demonstration, the physicist chose to heat k piano wire (some twelve feet id length snd hung in a horizontal position between two supports) to a state of bright redness. When h4 did so, the wire left its near-test posi tion, and became very slack, sink ing nearly two feet at it* center. ‘This slackening of the wtoe,” Dr. Silvey explained, “is caused by the WEEK OF JAN. 22 Entrance Cost For Next Term Amounts To $69 Registration Oo Monday and Cbmes Will Be Resumed Tuesday Morning On Sched ules for Second Term. f Final examination*, which will begin Mondfey morning; January 22 and continue throughout that week, will bring to a close the first term of this school yaat. The exams will be h«fd at two periods each day: from eight till eleven in the moraing and from one till four in the afternoon expansion of the steel when the These period* are pun t>. red con- heat was applied.” I secutively from on# to ’ ten, with Numbered among the other ex- the last digit of the Bection num- perimenta carried out by the lec- her of each course indicating the turer were: the affect of pressure period at which time thq examina- on freezing points of liquids; the tion in that courts la to be held, crystallisation of super-saturated This period number is the last in solutions by agitation; the proper- the sequence of munberi. For ex- Matriculation Fee Increased From $10 to $25 But Lab oratory Fees Are To Be In cluded. A slight change in the cost of registration for the second **me ter is reported by the registrar’s office. Matriculation Fee .... .X $26.iX) Room Rent 15.0oard of directors. Net Discrimination The judge calls attention to the fact that in 1925 the board of di rectors passed a resolution “that women should not be admitted as students” in the college, and “in enforcing its provisions acted in good faith and in keeping with' the history and policy of the institu tion for more than 50 years;” add ing that “the policy of said bdard of directors in refusing admKtdftee of girls in said institution as stu dents is not unlawful and arbi trary, nor is such act discrimma- tioa." L * .It was in Judge Davis’ first (Continued oo Pag* 2) Junior Livestock Team Begins Work For Ft Worth Show Practice for the junior livestock judging team began last week when fifteen juniors reportec vo J. H. Knox, professor in Animal Hus bandry who will coach the team | this year. A five-man team will be selected from the group to parti cipate in the contest to be held in conjunction with the Southwestern j Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth the early part of . March. This year the Exposition will ; hear part of the expenses of all I teams sntering the contest, thus J encouraging a greater number of entrants Among the colleges ex pected to enter teema are Taxas Left to right, back row, Jos. Kopecky. Hsllettsville, editor; J. D. Wardlaw, Fort Worth, lawyer; Guy T. Tech, Oklahoma A and M Leui Anderson, Cahrert, planter; Walter G. Lacy. Waco, hank presidant; F..M. Unr, Houston, bank presoW siane State, New Mexico Agncul Front row, 8. G. Bailey, College Station, executive aeerrtary of A and M College; Dr. T. O. Walton, Col- tural College g--— Agricultural lege Station, president of A and M Collage; G. R. White. Brady, bank preside*; Edwin J. Kiest, Dallas, Col legs. University of Nebraska publisher, H. C. Schuhmacher, Houston, wholesale grocer; and Byrd E. White. Dallas, lawyer. and loia State. \ ' (Continued on Page 3) Huntsville Church Sends Invitation To College Glee Club The A and M Collie Glee Club has received an invitation to sing at the Huatsville Methodist Church Sunday night, January 14. Mem bers of the club plan to leave col lege for Huntsville SundMl! after noon to fill the invitation, accord ing to an announcement by L. B. Cox. Houston,' president of the CNMv This 1* one of the many invita tions that the Glee Club has re ceived from the churches and civic organizations of the neighboring cities. * ' j Appropriations have been pro vided by the college for the club to make several extended trips during the spring. Last year the club was the guests of several of the larger cities of the state, and appeared on aeveral of the State’s moat popular radio stations. Several new popular pieces have been secured for the club and are being rehearsed during practice. Among the new pieces that the club has secured are “The Last Round Up”, “Heme On The Range”, “The Bella ot Saint Mary’s”, and aeveral other new negro spirituals. It has always seemed to me that real people, whether millionaires or coal miners, could m^-t and have an interesting'and profitable time together if a proper atmos phere were created around them. —Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt