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IN THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Dead Week
For First
Term ‘Dead’
Pre-Exam Problem
Will be Settled
In Second Term
Texan Plays In Our Backyard And
Concludes We’re |bt A Bad Plight
EDITORIAL
*
There is ilifht chance that Dead
Week will be adopted here this
semester, Dean Bolton said today.
Dean Bolton stated that “many
illnesses and absences of mem
bers'’ have prevented a meeting of
the faculty this week. The subject
was to have been aired at that
meeting.
Prior to the Christmas holidays,
Dean Bolton had announced that
the iasue would be seUled at a
meeting of the faculty is be held
immediately after the holidays.
"Such an important matter as
this deserves a great deal of at
tention and consideration. The exe
cutive committee has not yet been
able to complete its study of it
It now seems impossible that Dead
Week can be instituted this semes
ter, as the organisation of the
i Cannes and plans of the instructors
would be too violently disrupted.
“However, I believe that for tne
second semester we can work oat
a satisfactory solution to the pre
exam week problem.” r
Dean Bolton did not amplify his
views as to what a “satisfacUM y
solution” is. .
“ Students who first learned of
the state of affairs were disap-
When you want to blind yourself to your own
weaknesses, find somebody else’s.
That, in short, stems is be the editorial
phflttafrhy of The Daily Texan, stadent new*
paper of the University of Texas. [
. prtap this yaar The Texan has kit A. 4 k. be
low the b< h Th. first time it was about the allege i
burning of a ear by Aggies; this last time it was an
attack on Coach Homer Norton.
Let’s take the last incident first
U its Jan. 6 issue, The Texan allowed
sports editor to run rampant with twaddki f<>o!i»h
on its face against < <mch Norton. ]
Among other things, Sports Editor La Roche
painted a picture of a total failure in the coaching
profc**iog|Wha spent gobs of money geting football
players snd Who couldn’t do anything with them
after he got them. Bports Editor La Roche should
make a study of s roach before he lets lo<*e hi-
venom
Enrollment
Committee Makes
Program For ’39
I.
haven’t exactly kept ep the standard set while Coach
Norton was at Centenary.
The Texaa writer tells how Nor Urn could
have helped Todd— by saiag him exrlasivel)
for end sweeps. We’re sure Coaches Norton.
Marty Ksrow, Bill James, Dough Rollins. Man
ning Smith et al tjuuid have been glad to have
Mr. La Roc be sa tactician kero this year.
With regard to the scat roach Norton used to
occupy in the press box during games, “it ain’t no
more”. He told us the other day that figuring out
the game from that position had been his procedure
for 12 years, but that he gave itmp immediate!;.-
• hen he thought sitting oa the bench would keep the
players from thinking he was trying to be "high
hat.” And the coaching tower he used to use on the
football field after his serious illness will be dis*
mantled this year.
This all adds up to something like this: Norton
is likely to produce a team next year that will sur-
pass any he has had here yet. And we sure enough
45 Recommendation*
Made at Meeting For
Increasing Enrollment
Anniversary Day
In Mess Hall Sa
A program en die way* and
He says Joe Koutt, Roy Young, John Kimbrough, believe Mr. La Roc he't Lor^homs are going to get
and a host of others were bought for A. A ¥• The ‘ stampeded, along with their $16,000 a year coach,
correct statement is that Joe Routt was already at come next Thanksgiving. (Note to La Roche: Com-
A. A M. when Norton came here; Roy Young held pare Norton’s first two years here with the two
never played • game of football la his life until Dana X. Bible has just gone through at Texas;
he came to A. A )i; John Kimbrough came here you'll get a surprise,)
because thif is the Kimbrough family school ^
Of couree A. A M. has brought in other football
players; so 'bds every other Southwest school.
. To get to point uumber two, though: Whet
,1a* Nor tea dene with them after they got here?
Hr made Jae Routt aa All-American and he
has produced several All-Conference players, in ! *
eluding John Whitfield; Virgil Jones, Ray Yswg,»
> Charlie DeWafe, Dick Todd. Johnny Morrow.)
Martin Liadaay, Joe Boyd, and Nkl Wfl*. j
And what have his teams done? Norton's all
pointed, since the attention of tjhe 1 soatAiag moond ib 18 gasses won, S$ * gamps
faculty was first called to the ,0!,t and 14 Tfci * y<* r his team won foti,
problem of the pre-exam week 1<>st fw,r And ^ L “ t 7"* ll lo$t
i fkse%^A tk VS /1 • 1 .v.4 SVMA a....... _ .al — _ _! -*
this session on Nov. 29.
*
Short Course
For Dairymen
Set For Jan. 16
three and tied one. ’Hint record isn’t exactly a slouch
In Mr. LaRoche's opinion, A. A M. should hate
gotten Coach Norton’s assistant at Centenary, Cm -
tis Parkor, But even Mr. La Roche should have redd
And now for the other Texas incident.
Following the Thanksgiving Day game, a column
in The Texan written by Joe Neiscr told a tale of
Aggies catting up the seats in a car, saturating
them with gasoline and then burning it.
As soon as we saw that column we wrote two
letters—one to Pat Daniels, Texss editor, and the
other to the man whose car is said to have boon
burned. Neither was answered.
j Mfe also investigated in the office of President
T. 0. Walton, and nobody had ever heard a word
about the incident.
Something smelU, and the stink is coming
from outside A. A M.
means of increasing the student
enrollment at A. A M. in order
fill the new dermitories which will
b< ready for the fall term was the
principal topic discussed at the
meeting of the Student Enrollment
Committee last Friday. There
Imre I 46 recommendation^ drawn
•p by the committee, the outstand
ing ones being mentioned below.
The practice of sending repre
sentatives to various high achoa *
In the state to present the advan
tages of A. A M. is to be continued.
In this respndt a special effort *
to be made to get the most desir
able students to contact their local
prigkjmfcool, and send re preset! ta-
tires to junior colleges in the state
to urge them to finish their work
in this college.
Stories will be run in local high
school papers snd home town
papers about boys who are now in
A M. and short courses of inter
est to the high school students. A»
many regular editions of The Bot-
talion as possible will be sent to
the libraries of high schools to
reate an interest in the boy of
A. A M
The committee promises to mak«*
determined effort to keep in
hA.A1.PR0F
IS HONORED BY
AGRONOMY SOCIETY
newspapers gnouKh to know that Parker’s team*
A note to Mr. Pat Daniela, Mr. Joe Neiaer and
Mh Clarence LaRgchf: Why in hell don't you play
in your own backyard? It .
I
The Department of Dairy Hus
bandry will hold its twelfth annual
dairying manufacturing short
course this year from Jan. 16 to 21.
This couree is held primarily for
plant operators who are unable
to be abaent from their duties for
a long course. The program is
A. A M. Has Had Professorettes As Well As
Woman Graduate -Not A Man’s School After All
l
r
presented in a way that makes
previous scholastic training unne
cessary, but some plant experience
highly desirable.
This year the dairy department,
teaching, extension, extension and
experiment station staffs will be
assisted by Professors E. W. Stas!
knd J. S. Hopper of the engineer
ing school and Professor F. W.
Hensel, bead of the Department of
Landscape Art. The Dairy Hus
bandry Department has also se
cured the services of Henry Braun
stein, W. S. Bussey, E. H. Leien
decker, M. E. McMurrsy, J. W.
Ridgwsy snd Dr. M. B. Stame*
These men are widely known snd
recognised ss authorities in tlwir
respective positions is Texss.
The short course will concern
the processing of butter, dtfate,
ice cream, and milk with particu
lar attention to the productions ef
high quality products.
By GEORGE FUBRMANN
Not only has A. A M. had women
fCredpgtes, but, belters it or not,
mien jnufcusors also
According t^ Df. 0. M. Ball.
Curator of thel A. A M. Museum
and former head of the Biology
Department, the Mp NBMhuAr
employed woman instructor at A.
AiM) was BIN. Wands K. Farr of
Bigr^ Dn Ball employed Mrs.
Fan as instructor of “fish” botany
during the 1917-1$ semesters. Mrfe.
Farr’s hnfhsuf I w$s also a pro
fessor in the biology department,
and thereby handgs the tale. When
the United States entered the war,
Df Fgrr was one of the first to
go itnd it was his wife who was
sppointed as acting instructor to
fill his vacancy. Mrs. Farr left
the A. A M. faculty in 1918 and
Inter obtained her doctors degree.
She is now associated with Boyce-
< ompton Institute for Plant Re
searchist Yonkers, New York.
Hoteever, the list af A. A M.
— faculty members does not
employ pevertl women instructors
in the . Department of Modern
mes 1
esd with Mrs. Fair, So many mem
bers of the Aggie faculty went to
war that it
Languagea. Is 1918-lv Miss Yolan-
de Rensksw was acting instructor
in this department, and she was not
without company, tor a period
Of one year or less there were five
others deluding Miss Daniels. Miss
CttofMC jMbs Morrison, Miss
Btackshear from Navasota and
Miss Tiser Curtis from Henderson.
The latter five mentioned women
were employed at A. A M. for
ssch a short time that their names
did not apper in the college cata
logue as did the names of Mrs.
Farr ahd Mbs Renshaw,
In all caste, however, the posi
tions that these women held ware
refilled by Hen as soon aa possi
ble following the signing of the
Armtetn Ahieh, ineMratally, is
one argfcment for ww.
According to E. J. Howell, regis
trar, thase are the only women who
have acted aa instructors at A. A
M. and H is to Mrs. Farr that goes
the distinction of being the first
woman in the history of the col
lege to be appointed to the A. A M
Of
Best-Liked Men
At Afftfieland
My A. J. ROBINSON
The staff of A; A M. aad agri-
cultursf workers' of the entire
state have bees aignally honored
by election of ong of their numbe-
to the honorsry position ef "Fel
low” in tlte Aiterioao Society of
Agronomy. The recipient is Dr. Me
Peebles Trattril,.; head of the de
partaunt of Agrtmomy. . Ayt the
annual meeting pf the American
N. Shepard-
Dairy Husbandry
en to
the banquet rofm of th« Meet Hal
last jSttjvdep bight, on the
sion of the anniversary of his Urn
years of service as hegd of the Do-
pa rtmenft.
ing
Society of Agreabmy in Washing
ton, D 0-. three agronomists of
the United State* were so honored.
Others were Df. W Henry Pierre,
professor and hegd of the depart
ment of agronomy, Iowa State Col
lege, Ames, lotraj Dr. Charles Jul
ius Willard, prdfspsor of agronomy,
Ohio State CoOqge. and associate
in agrteiomy, Ohjo State Agricul
tural Experiment 1 Station, Colum
bus, .(Mb. r j y ,
It is believed that this is the
first time that a -member of the
staff of a’ Texas institution has
sum
school all those who register »bdI* - * 1 ' thu * ho
are capable of doing a collage ■IP^omic oi
>norod by this national
rginisation. The State
grade of wortt. It will also ea-l^ members in Up
com H?' more students to come here American Society of Agronomy,
to take their pre-law and pre-med ; "h^h jlares it ayong U>e top three
I the
urorftJ and prepare themselves to
teach la high schools particularly
such subjects as science and math
ematics. The practice of sendiag
out personal letters to the 16,000
male high school graduates in the
State of Texas will be continued
of Texas will be continued.
The committee recommended th-
Former Students Association' he
asked to take the lead in the autk-
ing of motion picture films of ai-
tivities at A. A M.; such films to
be shown free of charge to loca.
groups. Ex-students would be urg
ed to make commencement ad
dressee to Texas high school grad-
classes, snd to grant felknr-
and scholarships to students
tree necessary to
Committee To WorkjOn School Song
Problem Appointed By Bob Adams
faculty. .
A committee to inspect songs
submitted to Aggies for possible
use by the Band was appointed
recently by Senior President Bob
Adams. The committee will meet
with Bandmaster Richard Duim
soon to discuss songs already sub
lit teed.
It
To serve In the group are Adams,
Cadet Colonel David Thrift, BatU-
\lion Advertising Manager ■ MB
Smith, Battalion Editor-in-Chief
U R. L Doss, Band Major Byrom
Wehner, Chief Yell Leader Hub
Aston, J. Wayne Stark, snd Senior
Secretary-Treasurer Leonard Gar
rett.
- Col. Dunn and many others
have remarked on A. A M.’s need
r for more school songs. Most of
the large collegiate institutions of
the United States use a number of
songs. The Jpngs we now hare,
and have IH for the past many
years, are the “Aggie War Hymn*
composed by an ex'-Aggie, “Pinky”
Wilson, who wrote the words snd
music while serving in the trench
es of France during the World
WarjI’The Spirit of Aggieland”,
composed .by 'ihhlttousier Dunn,
which) has been psed every year
'' i-^-tsed; snd “There
Shall Be No Regrets”, also by Col.
Dunn, which was used last fear
and the year before during football
me CHECKS
TO BE READY
AROUND JAN. 15
recent weeks the great a
of discuwion of the Aggie
school songs has awakened the
Biteifst of many song writers,
who have been sending m an un
precedented number of songs sug
gested for our use, Included in this
and to be considered by
the
Committee, are the following:
Dtour Old Texas”—By Dr. C.
L Blocks, D.D.S. of Gainesville,
membar af the House of
Texah, no
Kepr natives of the Texas U-
(Continued on page 4)
Commutation of pay for advane
ed military science students will be
paid ah>und the middle of the
month. Col.'Moore announced to
day. ijhe checks have been sent
to the Qp-area in Austin, Col. Moore
The Bff for senior military *ci-
ence students will bt $23.00 if they
hsve attended all classes snd drill.*
snd $27 00 for jumois if they have
not missed any classes or drills
The total amount to be paid out to
the advanced students will be ap
proximately $20,000. This amount
covert' a p<iiod from Sept. 16
until Dec. $1, HrisA’
This yaar there were 486 con
tracts far junior students, the
greatest number the military ad-
ence department has ever had for
students, ami 866 seniors are tak
ing advanced military science.
Most af the boys that kaow him
call him just “Sarge”, but the real
name of the man in charge of the
Al A M. gymnasium is James T.
Carroll. ij y'
James CarroH was born in Sal-
ato, Mafoyto 1877. He served iri
the angf for thiAy years from
1191 Hhti April to 1921, when he
retired as a master sergeant
Besides having visited evary
state in the union. ''Sarge" has
lad a lift that was full of unusual
happenings. He has made three
trips to the Phillipine Islands, and
he has fought in five wart, the
CO ban Occupation War, Mexican
War, Bpankh American War,
Phillipine Insurrection, and the
World War. In 1909 he was honor,
ed by bong presented with the
medal of The Purple Heart for
military merit in the Phillipine In-
WruaMwt ' s ' j . J
In 1928, after Sergeant CarroD
had retired, Colonel Ike Aahburn,
who was then commandant at A.
A M., asked him to come to A. A M.
to work. “Sarge” accepted and in
1923 he opened the first postoffice
at A. A M. la 1924, ’26. and 2i
he was night sergeant an the A
A M. Campus.
Since 1921, he has been in charge
of the college gym. When he is ht
work, you can usually find him
behind the grated window in the
uniform room at the gym.
VANITY FAIR
PICTURES DUE
Editor W. D. Barton o( tw
'liMpMlU has requested that
all aeniora turn la their candi
dates far VANITY FAIR u
Paul W. Anderson at 78 Law
as soon aa possible. The dead
line far vanity fair pictnrea
ha- been set aa Jaa. 16.
Andersen will answer any
questions related to the pm:
tores for the vanity fair sec-
or four jutes in point member
ship and participation in the or
gintMtoM- l / i
Dr. Trotter has worked in this
organ nation foe some years and
during the pas$ year served as
chwrnmn of the Crop* Section of
the American of Agron
omy, responsible for organising
the program recently held in Wash
ing ton. He was pne.of a group in
terested in havtyg the organisation
hold some of its meetings in the
South and closer to a large num
ber of southern agronomists. Tbit
meeting culm in* tod in the action
of the Society drhich schedules the
next meeting in' New Orleans, La.,
in November, tfl$9 That will be the
first time that Society has held
its annual meeting in the South
Earl Carroll. Hollywssd’a
BlWly “picker ”, will cheese
the eigkt girl’s pictures to le
entered hi this eectien.
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BUDGETING
WILL BE TAUGHT
NEXT SEMESTER
C. I. A. Gals Say
Davey Most Popular
1938 Gridiron Hero
Texas State College for Women,
C. I. A., 2700 girls voted 162 pound
Daviey O’Brien, T. C. U. quarter
back, the most popular football
player in the Southwest Confer
enae for the past season. O’Brien
was closely seconded by the Aggie*
Dick Todd.
Sammy Baugh was the first con
ference player to bo voted in by
the girls in 1936. The next year
found the Usees in favor of the
Aggies’ twice All-America Jae
Routt.
21 OUTFITS
GET THEIR
TELEPHONES
i Onr 100
seventy
the Kreant
the banquet,
officials of
dents of the
of the state
homage to
occasion. In
congra
highly
and former
throughout
Following
of the college
took
•or
the work of
Department,
the ou
this field
G. G. ‘Hoot-
dairyman
tension
presided
ing the
First the
introduced
to the entire
name, yew of
sent occupation,
a graduate ol the
Husbandry
member of tie
Directors, s| rt
Husbandry sthdenta
uated, like bil
Shepardson"), He
good old dayp'
the College
tributod on 4 w
of an ojd waj |tto
horse; when milk
the mess hal| in
of half-pint
were
struck
with an
Twenty-one telephones have been
recently Uatalbd in the dormi
tories, and ten more that have been
ordered will be put In within the
visitors
Kow
than thirty
and ex-oto
■ »U|
present to
Shepardson on
Profe
at A. A
Exes present
s informally
giving ttMT
ition, and pr$-
Roy DavK
M. Daffy
1 ik
Board Of
the Daily
had grad
L" (Before
ire*
products *if
were dfe-
by means
by an did
served hr
Next,
gave
As an aid to working oat the
answer to the question of “What
is in the future?”, the Accounting
and Statistics Department wi| of
fer a two hour course in perOonal
budgeting to be known as A. A A
310 next semester which will em-
Am ) technique in estimat
ing future incomes and expenses.
[mm, * record of actual expendi
tures and incomes over the given
period, and then working o«t an
analysis of the net result obtained
by comparing the two records.
R. A. Dolan, who srill teach the
> ( irse. stated that it will not be
necessary to have any previfa* ac
counting coursea to take this eooree
and work already taken in acoum
iag will not be duplicated.
The rourse will through class-
work explain the budget and also
will acquaint the student with out
side sources which he may or may
not read for his further eah$$rtf -
ment on the subject. It alaa will
■how the students how a*irv«
offered in other department* srill
be beneficial to him aa wall aa be
a great aid srhen he graduates.
text two weeks, which will make
tot*] of thirty one There are
now three phones in Mitchell Hall,
one in Roes, three in Milner, three
m Leggett, fodr in Puryear, four
in Law, tsro iq Hart, and one in
Kosto#..
Those won to be installed include
one m Bascii, one in Walton, one
in Hart, two ig Mitchell, three in
Law, and two in Foster. All the
dorm itoi-y! telephones installed up
to January 3 will be listed in the
pur Rryan-College directory to
come oat next meek. At least three
phones erill be put in this week.
These are the statistics given
by l4 C. Atkifs, district manager
of OwBouthtovst Telephone Com
pany, with offices in Bryan, serv
ing that city, College Station, and
this part of .tlte stale. “Aa far aa
the concerned,” de
claret Mr. Atkins, “sre are very
(Cootiaasd on page 4)
er, was not p whit disconcerted,
but returned the onslaught by giv
ing hit assail$nt a terrific beatigg
Tux-
1 fo-
preaentotive of thd graduates of
A. A
Mr. Shep sme head )of
the Depai >29. He prafa-
«d Mr. S [or the great
love for I id interest jfu
his stud* i has ahrpya
shown, i >d that Mr.
Shepards* r recommend
ed for a r student that
♦
Un-American Groups Steer
Colleges, Students Report
PRO-
wiD grew pig-
be seen, bat that
will have • ges-
of rice is an easy
E. W. Bo yet t, a larg*
•r and a loyal stp-
M. baa donated a
rice to the boys Is
Th* oecu-
project houses were
the He* Saturday
l of I
hauling.
Gear Of '
J I* T ’ I
n Survey
By Student Opinion Surveys
af Ateartsa | g
6
AUSTIN, ;.J*n 10.—Communist,
socialist, and Taacwt propaganda
among college students is being
HapahAy lit the East Central
Middle Atlantic atetea. This
lajsMva bp -a nation-wide poll
taken by the Student Opinion Sur
veys of A me rite just aa the Dies
committee Wxfcd Ha investigation
of un-American activities and is
making preparations for another.
TH* committee questioned pro
fess# rs of a Npw York college and
other witnesses whan H directed its
search for J propaganda to the coL
lege and puteeraity ranks ef the
nation What there people L
en and 1 card went into the re*,
or* -but, t hat tbout the views od
the t>Uide*ta themselves who are
■up) oaedly beh4 hemegud
a mi Ititude of “lama?*
with
The StAdgift
America or the
out what
say in al
Although whan
en nationally; o
rertiona of
rhdn th# results are tgk-
one student la evegy
(Cintepird en pagu 4)