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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1938)
:ONT BASE' III I VI I VI /!>•' trdiut i jj tSl •IV A a (" v '■ ;i ’ ‘ 725 VOLl XXXVII —i—■—- Seniors To Wait \ Until Next Year To Elect Officers Older System To Be Employed by Members Of Claw of 1939 The junior clau this year will j revert (to the old system and 'Will j elect their officers in the jfell «*f | The athletic council has awarded »*“• in * U * d ^ V ,em mijor varsity letters to 13 mem before the term ends, as did the txr* of the baseball team and >22 present senior class. The reason Letteirs Are Awarded To 48 Athletes Participants In Six IJate Sports Cited ! by Council members of the varsity track tedifc. Minor spoils vassity letter* hive . bden awarded four members each ' oil the pohi. tennis and yolf teams aad one Member of the fencinc tsmm. • j ; Numerap were awarded 14 mera- Mrs of tae > Freshman baseball ttkm and 13 menlbers of the fresh- nLn track team.' ' {Marion C. ; Fu|th. of Fort Worth. {.state) high school back. A (title athlete to ro edive thrfjr athletic awards this year. He'received freshman num eral in falj&aU. track and baseball iitid missel) a baskatbaU numeral I ^ only two and one-half minutes of require^ playjmc time. (i l j U-tlirnWn in baseball inrlude:! A. D. Alsibi-pok. Branham; W. M. Eh<11. NewfBraunfels; Henry Cohn. [|allak; Jj G. Cooper, Dallas; J., H. Doran,iMidland; A. H. Karcher. J»-.. Giddinys; C. V. Kirkpatrick, llouston; |R. E. Lindsey, Kurtcn:' Jl E. No)*n, Houston; A, T. r Pola- moriteh. Wort Worth; R. S, -Stone. Hqllatid; B- O. Timmerman. Rock that the election was held in the spi inic last year was to organise On- class better to meet the strain ed condition* It is the opinion of the junior class now that ths boys will know each other better after camp and can elect the better men to the different positions. Tbs officers to be elected see president, vice-president, secretary, historian and parliamentarian. The social secretary has already been selected. ‘The elecQoo will be held the Second Sunday .after school start* next year. RETIRING BATTALION EDITORS Kctterson Will Leave Aggieland For New York V ff 1 fm Commencement This Friday Will Conclude, 1938 Session at A and M Traditional Exercises On Tap For Ending Year, Including Sih Taps and President Rollins Chosen A.S.C.E. Prexy Above are C. W. Walker, feft, snd R. E. While, editor and managing editor respectively of jfiis year's BATTALION newspaper and magasine. who leave the staff with this isoae. Walker and White both served as jaaior editors last year, and when Walker won the general election for editorship. White was appointed managing editor. Walker la an Engineering Administration student and White i* a Mechanical' Engineer ing xtsdent. Walker and White have both been active in student affairs during their college yearn. Weldon Stone, A and M English Prof, May Have Play Produced on Broadway A and M Graduate. For Seven Years Publicity Writer, Quits Position Tony Kettersun. who for sevfn years has been putting Texas 4 snd M in the newspapers of Texas, will leave Saturday for New York City, where he is to make his home. He has resigned from the staff of the College Publicity Department. I . Cof. Ike Ashburn, Director of Publicity, said of Ketterson. “Tony has been an effective and faithful college employee,” as he expressed regret at his leaving. Graduating from A and M in 1931, Ketterson at once starved followed by their annual prom ID p work in tlje Publicity Department, —f——r—•’flX » working untU last year under Car i-vj* I tis Vinaon. When Col. Ashburn was EfOrOUiy IximtX-Tl, named Dirartor of Publicity thi- Sister of Senior, Sing Here Frida, )ER 35 Next Fridlri',i five hundred and forty-two largest gmdustiWg class il| the history of the degrees ia the iixVy-fwst Aanual Commencement in Guion Hajl. \ \ .- The oonimenoemqnt celebration mill begin and will be initiated by the Piaal Concert of the A The Juniors will give their Annual banquet frUsu meveo untd nine. ,y Powell Maket Speech to Clii Departing Members Annaml n w re Tony is well-known in Texas newspaper circles, snd is e fami liar-campus figure. Col. Ashburn said that no plans have been made yet concerning the organisation of next year’s pub-; licity staff. ALEXANDER TO'' WASHINGTON FOR YEAR’S AAA WORK Professor E. R. Alexander, head His ammunition jnclude* one of j little Italian news vendor of “Sweet of the Agricultural Education De- Growi P. C. Dillon, San An- >nioj Henry DHtman. Goose! reek; J. [1^. Faubion, Freeport; C. j, eslaco; M. E. Hogan. V Maynard. Peatl; J. A. h,s “ irady; J. K. Mills, Groes- On Friday, t grass will del ^ reate Sermon Guion Ball — j the si partfnetits wit A solo will be sung at the Bsc be wtlromed The Com- rsdauroatc ceremonies in Caipn Hall mrpr^mtnV Pr*c*ssionsl will be at Friday by Miss Dorothy I-ambert exjrttoes wlllf ollow at of Dallas. She will sing “Un-beldi," EMTf^ACH The O. W. ment 1 from Madami- Butterfly, aad will ' be accompanied by RusseD Curtis, Assistant professor of Musk- from North Teih* Agricultural College* Arlington. Miss Lambert, a student of N'. T. Seniors—the -will reesivs to be held ay afternoon College Band. t Krv. R. C. Snod- \ the Baccaulau- y the seniors in Fh>ki one to four in rnoompll of the at bool de- t be open and all A. C„ is ai ter of Floyd A Lam- York ' *** 1 tn Thrice winner in playwriting of Houfe” and “When the Stars Fall", the annual Midwestern folk drama NO slouch with a knife himself, tournament at Cape Girardeau^; Stone spent months tramping Mo., Weldon Stone, instructor in through the Ozark* to collect his Englith at TeXas A and M College, stord of whittler character*. He At the conclusion of a banquet now aims for a successful Broad-1 also spent some time in New York's uwTvi ^ Williams, Bl plso' h *« th * Paction. lovrar E«t Side, where he saw the The tne*k* letter-men inrlude- T C -^-t '“"t Tuesday ntght, A. P. His ammuniti R( . Knr]no ., . 1 TjL), Rollins was elected president of the the roost picturesque folk char- Charity" in real life. I part ment at Texas A and M Col X arnm ’\ P r p Dl , lon s.n An student chapter for the year 1938 acters in the country, the whUtlert .‘‘IJevil Take a Whittier" wasj.| c)re has recently been granted a 1939. especially the expert shaving first published in •‘The Best One ODO ,. r , r lp>vp of ahww>cei ..ff^-ttve With the exception of twa B’s make, of the Ozark Mountains in Act Play of 1937'’, edited by Mar- , macks in his sophomore year. Roll-j Arkansas. , g.ret M.yorga, and drew ^ June 1, to work in the Agncultural record of straight A's He may reach his goal this year, praise from Sidney B. Whipple, Adjustment Administration s div for two and a half years of work, for producers already are flirting; dramatic crime for the New York ision of information. His hemd- He won second place in-both the with the idea of including “Devil World Telegram: “This play ... , quarters during the year will he in > MM '1 S' ■ freshman and soghamr.r. mathe Take a Whittier", first of his is unquestionably as fine as the Washington. D. C. ; Kiinmipf I nlirkl/IHV matics contest; ha la a member of-•‘whittler” set-ids and sixth of hit best of the folk -‘rams that have professor Al«iasd*jf earns to A 1 UU1 J\iaj the. Scholarship Homer Society; plays.to- be published, among sev- flourished in Ireland. It has imagi- an d M in 1919 to teach and ha- and hnhle the pinWan of regimen- era) One-act dramas to be staged nation and humor. It ia, further- been here ever since, with the ex-{ lat supply sergeant in the Engi on Broadway the coming winter, more, if you make exceptions for ception of one year. Previously he MUM. "* ‘ -i-- ’ s.:—». - . ... _ "Y. Gri*fe B’aco; (J, BcLaan, krthur k'itek Polo fcttermeu Plataaia; H. F. Pott - n K. Schiller, Jr, B. E. Sehroeder, Lock- Storms. Port ^JCrowell: R D. and Roy Young, ; M. {A. Shield*. Dallas idles, j Leonard; H. H. Ston Marios; C. P. Strother, P »r; D. S. Todd. ■ , Granger; an Artaur. include; Joha. bert, senior Electrical Engineer' , M ing student of A and M. She is a v “*xd' student in the department of Mq- fon ^ e sic, and, according to Dr. E. P. Humbert, in charge of the Com-' •J' 1 menoement program, has a very fine voico, I German Count To Speak at Jr. . t JoUs-e, pr. of niors »2l be addressed by ..•w-hback- {Personual Dvpart- f the |kd*-r»ai'. Telephone and Telegraph (lompany of New lajor Noble David lias will give the >ry. Thq degrees will be by Lbs Honorable F. M. resident ‘of the Board of o^ jMlCoDuBU-. • i President ahd. Mrs. Walton will receive; all mhiriber* of the grad uating ' class, Nhkir guests, former studt>ts hatH WUr' families, and members of -|li<I faculty and their l families, at fM|r home at eight- ihirty. The Rirml Ball will mark the end of thh aftivities of the day. COMMISSIftiM TO Rp GIVEN Count H. J. von Rosenburg Will arrive in Texas the end of this Two other “whittior"-plays. “Mam- the esctravagance and fantasy which had received hi* Bachelor of Arts; month and will probably be in Richard L. Powell, the depart- mon and the WhittlUr” and “That'is a part of its legend, a faithful degree from Baylor Uoiversity, and ' College Station June 1 and 2. Dr. ing president, gave a short farewell Son of a Whittier", are to be pub- picture of a group of our most tmd six years of experience in pub j q. Walton, who met Count von Rosenburg in Washington, D. . j. . .. . , . , 11 speech in which he thanked all lishe.l soon. j eolpful citizens." | lie school, teaching, before begin the members for the iUterast and Several publishers have askU^p fcti n in Holland, Bell County, ining as an instructor here. , cooperation that they have shown Stone to march his whittler char- Texas, in 1902, Stone attended Hol-|l Mr. Alexander earned his Bad'he- I in 1925 announced Monday. This is \on Rosenlmu;'' eecond trip to the United States from hi* home in Berlin, Germany. Count von Rosenburg i» an inter national authority) on educational methods and practices. Hr is in brvah SSn Angelo- D W Hick* rooiKration that they have shown Stone to march ms wnittior cnar lexas, in swz. stone attemlea Mol-|l Mr. Alexander earned hi» BaXhe Ran h-ra-^C A Jones Alninet and ' n t|»e chapter this year A (notion meters into a full-length book, land and Waco high schools. He lor of Science degree at f and M FWi Iordan Marfa' • to * he e ^ ect that the A and M protipJily to be entitled: '".\<ll feedkfed his Bachelor ef Arts de , n 1923, and his Master of Science TetJnisTlettermen includq; S WJ chapter send delegates to the A. SJ Tales of a Whittler". He hopes to gtee froip Baylor University, in 1924. He has also done additional -vine (‘or.triina! C P Mitchell C. K national roavention each year complete this work during the Waco, and Master of Art* degree work lit the University of Texas llalduairai- | M Walls Seguin' wa -' i unanimously carried. At the Summer. ' ftom Southern Methodist Univer- and iat Iowa State College, end Berwick Wray San Antonio rotrilusion of the business meeting. Stone first won the playwriting, *ity, Dallas. He also has studied at His work hety has consisted of G<^f littermen include:. R. B. I oil wuernw mciuue n o (kiree-reel moving picturt- of contest at Cape Girardeau in 1936 the University of Texas, Austin, teacher training in vocational agri- Stares at this time t,. This ti aditiodalj good-bye ai Amarillo^ 1 May-! ^ Gilchriaf. trip to Mexico - with “Qimirrytow.”. He repeated He if married and has one daugh- culture, to prepare young men u> American system of edu- ***• «••• »ri>ule''to the l Jr.MrX; W.D. McMahon. Long- ow P«-American high- m 193, with &mrtm Ma.z.e and «»- , - • tmeh in that field in high schwols. c>Uon iB ; universities »■ j t, f shown. then made It three strftifrht thih ; Lntho»lactic *5 he 19 about his That the merit of his work 1 has ^ that whil# in ! * German, Count von Rosenborg niAI ADV ^1 1ID heard of A and M. He is very in- dKJiuUu I vLUD M,ph(omore third baseman for the- ment’s Agricultural r| ACDC VRAR Texas Aggies and considered by Admirostratron chiefs. ^ a|vi & lntprwltod in ULUDClO I DAI\ AO irwai as a great major league Mr. Alexanders work in Wash- , , s„„i. tsitcvsrss mvnvsswc |vigw{ and R. L. ^lerrill. Temple, j 11 Alvin- Gwodstein. Dallas, receiv- j i-d the oifly fencing letter awarded, j , Fri-shtpan numerals in baseball inclined:;W. B. Bass, Houston; E. ' F Bbyle; San K'nincism, Calif.; S. .jt | (Cantinued on page 41 1 Ind. Ed. Seniors Have More Jobs Than Graduates L. Williams of the In ducatian Dept in a recent KISSINGER WILL GO TO MARINES, MOORE ANNOUNCES year with “Sweet Charity", a play involving a little Italian news ven- no play-writing endeavors. Stone is achieved widespread reputati no less enthusiastic *>ver the base testified to by his winnings the dor who is going to start free map ball playing of hi* first coasip. i recognition of the national govern distribution. < Other plays by Stone which have been published include “A Dark I be A and M's Mil- jj>r General Claude dromanding GoccraJ c, ■ ision, San Antonio, will present two hundred seniors with com- . Coe OfCKer* in the j, is the- largest numbcL of rien to -receive commis sions ft the history of the school. After the prrsfstation the entire Corps >f Cadets, p ill peas in review Indore the Setnfr Class. At < (evpi* to'flpck. Fridhy lyght, all ac ivities will cense and the Senior of today, those of the pest and til t ones jif the future-will join hands and liptqn to Silver'. Tape. A and lass of 3$. \ some Fumrjtr' FISH DANFORTH All Through the prospect. G. H. Kissinger, senior architec ture student from San Antonio* har ___ _ __ FELLOWSHIP TO , | Marine Corps, according to an an- /IA TA II I VWUQ nouncement by Col. G. F. Moores. \JV/ IU HA I HuO P. 4 S. A T, A H. Williford of Hasse, senior Cayl G. Haynes, a freshman agri Hays to Obtain Leave of Absence For Year’s Study ington, according to 'the present understanding, will be the collec tion and organization of materials all good points back to his country when he returns. If Count von Roaeakorgl College Station at this liatc. and for the use of county agricultural wU , cnnmi to do so. he will ad- RUSSELL SPEAKS The Biology ICIub of A and M dress the Juniors at their annual Tuesds y with banquet the evening of June 2. agents and teachers of vfratifoal agriculture hr their nation-Wide work cooperating with farmers. He Professor J. Q: Hays of the Eng- will be under the supervision of lish Department and freshman de- Mr. Wayne H. Darrow, formerly U/rAVER Will RE bate coach this past year has an- 1 connected with the, Texas A and M if £jA 1 OI\ IslKiKi OlI that he ia taking a year's Agi .cultural Extension Service and ..^lihred ^ sgrjiculturml education students, poitur, student who Is majoring least' of absence effective this com his last capacity here editor. Of FRESHMAN DEBATE MtotT.al Education Dept **»£■“**] H ‘* en »« hlternate. |n mmrkfitng . nd fin,™-,, was ■- ing geptember Mr- Hays, howevar, the Extenakm Service publication,. ^ •SJrstfi- —»»—*>■ coach next year jmand. lM»e received request* for graduates of R. 0. T. C. colleges lowship award for A and M Co|l- ‘ y ^ that h# u >h>(Trt M jn June, 1939, to resume his teaebi rs from some, of the b*sti ,„d universities. This year A and rgr. The award is a monetary one. froni A M jg. Hays will at teaching and tiy* position he now tj«y*tima4n the state.” . ’ Ill has been allowed one appoint- which pay* half hi* expense* to te nd'the University wf California hold*. / • 11 Most 4radu.te, ^kUmttoU^ ment. - r (J Camp Minriranca. located at Bhel- at Berkley. He will be there during I u.__ possible. This popular sor Da siel Rtswll. head of the de-' paftm, nt of Rfral Sociology, Mr. Russelj spoke on aepecte of a course in “n arriag 1 relations and the family" tentatively arranged to be tau rht at A and M next year. Offi-er- fof kext year ate M. M Prarsiln. . KX- parsiden The appointment of Profkssor R. pi ahant . M. Weaver to esach the freahman L ' debaters during the absence of J. 1 Q. Hays- has been announced by I the English Department. Aa an out- L growth of the Freshman Debate *f the Hub has beea IK HMhwst in ell Club work during the past year. and especially from its contacts 10 ’ > * 0r place at the contest at C.mp Miai- torsi degree and wil specialize in mVllillhl VlintlUnmi ! snd debate, with various Junior '"•“t'». ^Tl ffl T : ^ St . ndy wanes'all his expense* for the en- American literature and Araeri- At (heir last meeting of the '-ollege*, - which debates .tkiU bo, . J j4. ran History. While attending the yMr t b, student branch of the continued this coming year at a 10 ^ 'F thus fbr ex - ed from hen - ng at the U.j \ h salary of 1 u*hr»ol The - , j - J receiving high most cases the average- t $1500 for a nine month R. Balthus fbr ex-i graduated nok- teaching pi with Boling school system ope* for a manual instructor with a starting $1150. . . ' I So to the Seniors who are still out of ^ j°b and have had Indus- ttrial Education training, take note, and if jou are interested, era Mr. Williamp In the Mechanical Engi neering j Building. He w>H be glad to help j you obtain a position. Miatajigbeteg kept f possible. Thi. popular; in*! whM K. Mnt 1 . ** “>e winners from all thy oUmr Augu'-u A. I. E. E. SELECTS baseless says. Mr. Wil- mUqne base for a six months per- ' ,u, * rr *"‘ co,, «»** th e Lnrtwl c buin hi^Doc MAD DIO All 1 IDU A U ■»» » IMORRIS CHAIRMAN and untrue. Many of graduates of former year* occupying fine posts a, »~1 M graduate* have " This" U Th^ fTrsTthn* that smjh L’alvrrsily of CaWornia Mr Hay. AIEE c , 01 wd thesr yehre acUHtiee! Jonior Coll.-ge Tounmment which c !* h ■ an award has been given a freA to receive a teaching as- by electing the officers for the '*11 be held on the A and M cam- ^ * I" ' P ’ last vear man at A and M. Selections were sistanuhip. It is expected that he\ comm g year. The m w officers are Pus next year. , f ru» made from, ten distinguished wl, l "torn to A and M at the w. C. Morris of Shreveport. U,.- All junior college* over the ntate. aown ,or V' dent* who satisfied the activities begeming of the fall session In chairman; and W. P. Smith of San about 38, and some from neighbor- TheJ first V. Mr A. Elects require™™t. . these ten. 19 **- - Doyle Justice and A. A. Hansen. last meeting for the current the regular Danfortji Fellowship < 0 -^' rlo? ' IT-ANNED nmrt year. The dub expects year of the Student Chapter of the winners of last year, selected tin- Plans are now uadpr way for s|hd,the senior electrical engineers I* February. _ , , A V M 4 was held Mondav nirht winner by personal Interview Of all the third annual convention of the SgriteMistric! convention to be held Thi* tournament is a highly de-' ■JJFt"**' , V , , the applicants. The qualifica'-ion- Texas Federation of Federal Ert- in IMIston next year. Present at livable feature for A and M aa it Other pi to elect ollicers lor next year. apon were physical, mental, ployees Unions, to be held at Tex- the convention iwill be students j will bring the college iato closer ' J The following officers were elect- ‘ and relious activities Af-, a* A and M College June 18- Del- from Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, contact With the junior colleges of. •“‘i r * ode Willard <X Brooks of Prairie ter examining each candidate thor (-gates arc expected from every Oklahoma, Texas, and New Meg- the state; a condition that has not | of lif< • oughly Justice and Hansen decided section of the state, representing geo. During the summer, Morris existed heretofore, according to Mr. The ■* •on Hanes because bi* activity re-; more than twenty local union* plan* to find out what speakers Weaver. 'scan tra in cord was superior to those of the made up of employe** in various can be obtained for next year's The plan for holding thi* tourna- ntoig of nei :t other candidate*. 1 I phases of governmental work. meetings. ment eras suggested by J. Q. Hays 1 Frank Hatr$. Benito, secretary aad treasurer, to* state*, win compete with the campt 1 to ftnlv quo plan i<«« )*<““* aad ijl freshmen. The tourna- wurM deal to ment sftrpfbbably be bald early ?«* Grove, Arkansas, president; Omar G,' Werntx. Collage Station. Texas, vk-e-preeident; and H. D. Miller, filar. Texas, secretary-treasurer. its ytstj of programs last ai kpefleh by Profee- Krank Hatch Erek. parliarieni Motte is The nt; Pat H4nna, I chairman of the Committee; A. W. 4 W. Stark, Chat*.-, U- Heutlll on the and sponsor a th awmav and Ae. Bfeiogy dub has a *0 bet n agHew-ia <<(>« a'lmi; eaugeual diseaars. ef the Hah I Delude of health, reports ,ng varies form*