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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 , -
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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.