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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1939)
IK. f 'a , IN THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR STUDENT SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. ft It COLLEGE iHTH YEAR COLLEGE STATION, piAS. FMDA^FTCRNOON, JANUARY 13, 1939 | j 111 - TELEPHONES [ ^ NUMBER U Hargrove Is Selected As King Of Cotton Ball Professors May Be Ineligible To Hold City KREAM, KOWKLUI HONORS SHEPARDSON ft* Only New Ruling Will Solve Problem , Of City Officials Collect Station may bt facing a dilemma, it was learned this week. If an unfavorable ruling by At- torney-Ceneral-elect Gerald Mana ia made, the city either will have ita officials supplied by the small number of businessmen here or will seek to “un-incorporate" to prevent that , For in the constitution of Texan Is a provision that no employe of the mate may hold a position of “trust or honor". An unofficial ruling received re cently from the Attorney-General's office was to the effect that the professors at A. 4 M. may not serve as officials of College Sta tion. \ What an official opinion erill be after the inauguration of Mr. Mann baa become a matter of conjecture Provided an official ruling ia m the aame tone at th» unofficial •pinion, then the S50 professors on the campus will be ineligible to • hold public office, leaving only the email number of buaineai living here eligible to serve as of ficials. College Station was incorporat ed this year by an overwhelming majority, due primarily, observers believed, to efforts to reduce rates . on fire insurance at the college and 1 to prevent the undue expansion of Bryan, which, if it had been et tended to include College Station, might have provided for higher tax rates than can be obtained with College Station as a city. , Present officials of College Sta tion are Dr. J. H. Binney of the Mathematics Department, mayor Sam Hopper of the Mechanical Engineering Department, coi ble; and L. P. Gabbard of the Ex peri meat Station, George Wilcox of the Education Department, Era- eat Langford of the Architecture Department, Alva Mitchell of the , Mathematics Department and Lc ther Jones of the Agronomy De partment, aldermen. WILCOX SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE IN HOUSTON Upper picture is a scene of the banquet held last Saturday honor ing the ten years of service of Prof. Charles Shepardaon, head of Dm Department of Dairy Hus bandry. Lower photo shows Kream and Kow Klub President A. 0. Kaubus presenting Prof. Shepard aon a watch on behalf of the cluo while ‘•Hoot’’ Gibson, an ex-stu dent looks on. ’ “The Need et Occupational In formation and* jMfMtmsnt as Re flected by Some Differeneee cf College Freshmen," was the sub ject of an address delivered by Professor G. B Wilcox of A. 4 M last night at the regional meeting of the National Occupational Con ference held ia Houaton yesterday and today. The meeting is spon sored by the Board of Education and Administrative Group of the Houston Public Schools, and baa as speakers occupational leaden in the country. Prof. Wileox ia author of the Equalisation Bill which went be fore the legislature for consider a tion yesterday. The bill is one of a group of educational b)Us that ia beiafe introduced to the legislature by the State Department of Edu< edition, the State Board of Edaca tiorf and the State Teachers Asao- ciatinn, of which Prof.j Wilcox ia president. Other bills in this group include: the Teachers Retirement H11, Clarification of per capita Apportionment, Teachers Certifi cation -Bill, Public School Laws Board, Teachers Tenure Bill and dm hill for an appointive state sup erintendent pnomy tertainment H Rule Outstanding Captain Garrison Transferred To Washington School Will ( ompleU Year’* Work^m; Transfer Effective in Sommer . It DUNN TO JUDGE ALL-SOUTHWESTERN BANDTRYOUTSHERE • Tryouts for the All-Southwest era baud for high school student musicians residing in Region S, comprising 27 south Texas coun ties will be held here Jan. 21, ac cording to announcement made by Lt Col. R. J. Dunn, bandmaster of the Texas Aggie band. CdL Dunn will serve as judge and select the beat instrumentalists from the region who will have a chance to become a member of the 90-piece band selected from eight south western states to play at the an- { nual meeting of the Music Educt ion National Conference in San Antonio, April 12-11. Sta Us from which the band members will be selected will in clude: Tax**, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Now Mexico, Arisons, Miaaiaaippi and Kansas. ’ Counties comprising district 5 In Texas include: Brnsoria, Brazos. Burleson, Chambers, Fort flhpk Galveston, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Madison, Milam, Mont- gomery, Newton, Orange, Polk. Robertson, San Jacinto, Trinity, Tyler, Waller, Walker and Wash ington. • Following is a poem written by Jimmy Chance which was read at the football banquet held Wednesday night in the mees hall: Lhancefoem Read At Banquet Chides Those Who Would “Fire The Coach”' When the going is tough. And the scoring is rough, And the team don’t get the bfWtktJ We haee fpt That ahrays howl, For they're es low as snakes. I U- The teem don’t click; Can’t min a lick. The gool-line they fail to approach. And the Exes yeU And haul like hrII. ’’Gang, let’s fire the coach. We are all wrong, The >« t-uji is bad.” We have the best coach any The thing we should do, If you’ll pardon my prudence, Lets all get together pnd fire the Et-Students.’ e ever had. (Full detals of the football on the peer) LATE PRESIDENT FOSTER'S IS REMOVED FROM OLOl IT BEAL HARGROVE \ Captain L R. Garrison of the Field Artillery sUff here has b- * selected as one of the two field artillery officers in the entire army to study industrial mobilization at the Armament Industrial Collage st Washington, D. C. for tha com ing fall term. The course which starts next September is for the purpose of studying and planning industrial pr«-parodncus in time of war and will be attended by some fifty selected officers from over the en tire United SUtea. CapUin Biiby, of the R. 0 T. C. Staff at Prim ton, is the other field artHlery of ficer selected to attend the school. Because the course does not be gin until Septcmbig, CapUin Gar rison will be able to complete hia work hern for this school term but will be transferred during the sum- r aa the course ia of a year’s duration. j In selection of officers for the course HUir entire record of ser vice in the army is token into con sideration and in addition all line officers must bt graduates of the Commanding and General SUff school of Fort Leavenworth, Kan ' Ashton Magazine^ Article Published Dr. John Ashton of the A. 4 ftt. Department of Rural Sonologyit author of an article titled “Fences Changed Industry’s Course” in the January 1 issue of the American Hereford Journal ia which he trac es the history of fencing and gates in the cattle country of the United States, with particular reference to Texas. Material contained in the article was gathered by Dr. Ashton over a period of more than SO years. DATE SET FOR : j READING OF OIL TECHNICAL PAPERS Science Seminar \ An illustrated popular talk on astronomy will be given by l|r. D. F. Weekes at the maettof of the Science Seminar in the Phy sics Lecture Room at 7^' on Tasa- day evening, Jan. 17. Wr* Weekes is an instructor in tliai Physics Department Hia talk will deal ia a descriptive manner with certain interesting astronom ical objects, including plants. Star i ixutb and nebulae. Photograph* of such objects will be shown sa l the peculiar characteristics of each will be described briefly. Weather permitting, telescopes will be made available for the am of say who wfefc to take a look st the star* after the meeting. \ [I By C. M. WILKINSON The bodies of President L. L Foster and tea other parsons have raeentiy been disinterred from the old cemetery where they have lain for marly half * century, and have been buried in a new plot on tha east aide of the college property across the railway tracks fh>m the Hrdlicka plane. Removal of the grave* was nec- •asaqf in order to make room for ' 1 * the ooistruenon et the new dormi tories, The cemetery was near the sheep bams and was located ap proximately where one corner of the n^kjjmass hall will stand. It il flj possibility that the new location will he usd as the offi cial college cemetery in the fu ture, ar.4 a committee ia working on the plan to beautify the plot (Continued on P*C«4) PROF DEDICATES BOOK TO AGGIES Dedication sf John A. Loan Uteri beak ’Wmer longs" is in part to the stadiats af the A. 4 M College af Teua aa follows: To J THBOBOV ROOSEVELT who while PresMaat wu not t<><> buy to tarn aside cheerfully and effectively—and aid workers ia tha field cf American balladry And to the students of the AgricaHani a»d Mechanical College of Texas whose eriiws help (Tam 1N7 to ItlO made this eaBecttoa poaaibie; particular Mm E Jaaea, thru Houston, Texas, new of La* Aagc- Ua, Calif auto-" [ Mr. Laamx, whs Is new a fsaner ef fegish at tha Utaeeraitr et Texas, wu a teacher to the Baghah iiptatanin at A. 4 M. from IPfT until 1110 ' lWord has bee# received by Har old Vance, head’ of the petroleum «B0taWto£ department, that the Oil Weekly Exppsition to be held to Houston April 24-29 ia setting aside the Wednesday night of that week for the delivering af toch nical papers bf students of the various engineering colleges of the Southwest (Oklahoma, Texas, Now Mexico, and Louisiana). Eight prises fotolmg $300 will be given as rash awards to stu- dMfta ipresenting the best pup< at the meeting. 1 l t'wo students will ■UUUt' each school and the pa|»vr> must deal along toe lines of oil production, refining, or drill- ] Inasmuch as Bouston Is the oil capital of the wdgld, H Is quite sig nificant that the Oil World Expo sition be held iS that (sty. Senior engineering students will probably attend the Exposition as a body and see the sights ef tot Exposi tion , - L : -—•— SENIORS IN AGRICULTURAL Education 402 classes will do prac- tki haching dpung the second Mii .-t. r in thq vocational agri- ijitaN lipmaE of public schools near Deaton. Sherman and Fort Worth front Feb. II to March 24* it was annsunced by Henry Boas, :■ • , T Shaw Of For BmI H.rr»v* Jim. «f a, Kri’iTt.nrimerit Scries and captain of “A” Infancy, will serve as ktag of the Cotton Ball and Style Show this ysprl TV j affair will be held April % 1 J Hargrove \ us elected to that position at a neetmu of the Agro nomy ,|oetot|r Tuesday nigtyt Ha was eleetcii b] jnc lamaUon. A change i i the method af se lecting the queen af the BaR wu made, the selection this year to ha made by all E* senior* instead ut by the king i lone. The Cotton Ball is one of tha oldest* social t auto et tha eamfus and ia the otv mori widely known over the atota FProee. ,1* from tha show are used to defray exj ensee of tha annual totton tour O! .Immpean cotiDtriea by three studctito each yeag. The cotton tour was storied to "CV and h;** bean held each year Mnr«\ Seven (pm, iritii a total vi ’ vd' M’* studying foreign cote- ton priKtucttodj have been made. ’• r All ripdmto who have had one or monr bourses in cotton are eli gible to t^ka the qramtoatiana for • ptoaBfl Examiaatkois in charge of Prof. J. 8. Mogford have been *cte>dtiled aa followa: Hotany of thaj.fotton plant, March f; cotton prwtocUoa, March lb; di*.m.«c« of cotton, March 18; cotton indiria,'Earth 24; cot ton machinery, April 14; cotton te-xtilen, April! 22; cotton genetic*, April 28; no ton n irketirtR, May $, and gradtof and stapling, May M-Mfcix AUER APPRO D AUSTIN, F. D. R. FOliCrl January I84- Lut week Prtaident RooaeveK to hia message to < ongress a*ke«i for armed force* strong enough to aid entire American college that world policy by a SWIMHIRO COACH ALSO DORS! WORLD TRAVELING SOMETIMES BylNLL MURRAY One of the moat popular athle tic coaches on the campus ia swim ming coach and globe-trotter Art Adamson. He was bora in London, England, where ha lived the first six years of hia Ufa. Then he mi grated to Caaado—Oxbow, Saskat chewan, to be exact—where be lived nine years. During this time he became officially roc.>gr,i««d aa one af the be*t swimmers in the i| Next he moved all the way to New Zealand and became the New Zealand national swimming cham pion two years in a row. That he made another change af residence to San Francisco, where he swam with the Olympic Athletic CK6. becoming a number af the chib’s free-style relay team, and winaing *»vond place in the Pacific Ceawt AJk.U. 140-yard swimming contest From California Adamson jour neyed to Dallas, winning the Tex as A.A.F. 100 and 220 yard chain• pion-hifta. Chicago waa his neat place of reside nee; hare ha was 1 * member of tha Illinois Athletic Gtab, ip which-be was a U mate of the great swimming star Johm > \Vris*muller and the club’* raprepentotive |n the National Water Polo Meet, in which he fin ished second. Houston was |(fc next atop; here he organized the Hnu*t >n Amateur Xthletic Association which forrm i the first water polo leagu In Texas, and here •'he coached water polo three yeant During the five pears since thef he baa been a coach at A. 4 Ma, \v: TT’ , i V.* ’ ■iAdtoUon is (jha- Aggie swim ming. diving and, water polo coach and a physical Bluest ion instruct or, Uf Incident! y ia taking IT hours of school trork on tha aide, jul MittalMrinf A in physical adu cation and minoring in tconomir* end will ba graduated this year. (Continued on P*U 4) *;• in the era Hei youth, the may have war, good | Students of pH sections of thq United carefully ! RH M have bean interviowe<l sentotivea of (he Stadeut Survtyi of America Tha study points ( ut that 62 of the stodento are foil ing "the United St. i. * navy far tha rotection tions in the W)eriarn I A good numbat of dento, howeUr—|8,f thorn- fear that this ia way out. Opppaition to ident’a program has a many groups, including (ommittoe Against War. Everito in 11 hyataiknl the Amencan solidarity the Lima Obnference, growing thraato to nevertheless, bate Preaidant to petiem. Cbllej approve*, tic Burreya These rrsulto pagnM, atimr Ra tional polls i tat from time to time have shown I to citizenry aa a whale favors stronj ar artn**i forr.*, ; Students BriBiaiMb tofc.tod women, feel about the same. Ike strongest group for renrmafmnt it the .Southerly which voted 7i„7 par cent in the 1 ffinactive. In the Par Weal tba et la waa «vt 2 p* r cent; in the Midda Attoatk atotaa MJ par oaiit; an | to Rw New lb«toad states MW ] ar mptl brought Q)0ag4: reveal.