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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1939)
e ■ i \y * if f IN THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR 1 STUDENT SEMI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Of TEXAS A. * M. COLLEGE "COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS. TUESDAY AT ERNOON, JANUARY 17 O’Daniel Inaugurated Texas’ Governor Today Ceremoniefl Shatter AO Fill UT’g Stadium W.- Lee O'Dentel today wan mauifuraU-fJ aa tke new Governor of Teiaa TV tnaufural ceremonies shat tered all tradition, in that they TO held in the Memorial Sta dium of the University of Texas. A Joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate wan held in the center of the Sta dium piayinf field hefinninf $i •:00 this morning. Seventy-two bands, including tV Longhorn Band of the Uni versity as tV official one, tV 143- rd Infantry Band of Waco as the military ban<C and the Texas Ap- gie Band, played for the occasion. TV greatest mass event of the morning was tV singing of 10,000 ■chool children of Texas accompan ied by aD tV bands. O’Daniel did not “dress up" for the occasion; V wore only an ordinary business suit At 3:10 this afternoon took place a two-hour parade of all the bands up Congress Avenue. Tonight at 8:00 is tV governor’s reception in Gregory Gymnasium and the Aus tin and Driskil Hotels, followed by the inaugural ball in these three places at 9:00. Tonight there is alao an open-air reception on Con gress Avenue north of tV Capi tol, and street dandng for which Governor O'Daniel and his now- famous hillbilly band will play. To climax the celebration there will Va huge display of fireworks. More tVa 60.000 people were present for tV inauguration Authority on Soil Mechanics Associated With Texas A. & M. Dr. Karl Von Tertaghi, one of tV world’s foremost authorities on soil mechanics, is now asso ciated with-A. A M. for a ten month period from Dec. 1, 1938 until Oct 1, 1939. Dr. Terxaghi will V on tV A. A M campus from Feb- 8 to 15 at which time V will make a series of three lectures, the exact dates of which Vve aot been an nounced. 1', | Dr. Terxaghi is now advising the college oa the purchase of equip ment for a laboratory in soil me- eVnies in tV Department of Civil Engineering. Formerly Associated with many European universities, the Univer sity of Austria in particular, Dr. Terxaghi ia now associated with Harvard University and Texas A. A M. He is the author of mauh. publications and is a member of many of the world’s outstanding engineering societies. He ii also tV recipient of tV Normal Medal of tV American Society of Cisgl Engineering, tV Fitzgerald Medal and Herschet Prixe of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Over 20(1 Aggies Attend Governor s Inauguration 144 Band Mtabera And 30 R. V.’a Make Trip Over 200 Aggies left College Station by train today to trek to Austin to m* and take part in tV inauguration of governor W. Lee O’Daniel. Included in this in ber were 144 tnemVrs of the Vod and 30 memVrs of the Rosa Volunteers. Besides this number •round 50 students left by cur sad a few used tV proverbial thumb to see the inaugural ceremonies. The A. A M Band will V the largest unit taking an active part in tv Ceremonies, and will Vve no important part in tV program of tV 4uy. Including tV conclu- su>n of the entire program with tV pluyiug of 'TV Star Spangled Bujmhr.T TV white clad members of tV Ro.-- Volunteers will serve as Vnor guta'tp Mr. O’Dahiel throughout tOtMOiAlmLj [ The members of the Band and of the Ross Volunteers will also at tend the Inaugural Reception be ing giv«n in honor of Governor O’DanieJ and Lieutenant Gover nor Coke Stevenson following the inauguration Tuesday night BOARD CONSIDERS T BUILDING PBOORAM AT MEET Plans of tV YJI.CLA. for an elaborate expansion program un derwent consideration by the Board of Directors in tVir meeting at College Station last Saturday morning. However, according to Col. IV Ashbum, Executive Secretary to tV President, no definite move waa decided upon 4s there are furtVr considerations along the line of '<>< >al -activities and the social welfare of the students of A. A M. that tV Board of Directors Vs in mind. FurtVr than this, nothing could V learned otVr than that Vfore tV end of tV forthcoming semes ter some definite annopneement would probably be made concern ing tV YJKOA. program. SCIENTIFIC REVIEW TO BE ISSjUED TV second issue of TV Scien tific R. new will V issued Wed nesdsy afternoon in tV basement Of MM ''Administration Buildm*. according to editors Sam Harris and Buddy Mandell TV magazine will contain tv following articles: TV Students Machine Shop, Foreign Foes—Our Defense Against Inaocts Along tv Rio Grande, Prickly Pear Per •coition, A Portable Automatic Mfll, Counter, TV M. K. 8. System of Units, Porosity Deter mination, (Up Why of Mystery Tuning, and news on Vth agricul tural and engineering camps- clubs ALLEN ACADBMT BAS EXDBABGB STUDESENROLLED AT THE LAST MEETING OF the A. A M Poultry and Egg Club junior officers weA> elected to taV over tty dub. Earl Roesner was elected president, Louis Jurcak. member of this year’s judging team, was made vice-president, ityd W. Swallow is tV pew secre tory and G. R. Davis ie to V tV club reporter. I These officers will Vve charge of tV dub until this time next year. Field Artillerymen Use B B Pistols For Sharpshooter Training J BY BILL MURRAY “Z-I-N-G!" “OWI XA!<d%e?i" Such are tV sounds growing fa miliar to Aggie oars these .daty And wVt is tV reason? Wig/, Just some innocent-looking little black metal B-B pistol, in tV hand* of sotoe would-V Aggie sharp shooters who non-comVtants are Vginsdng to regard at followers of tV A1 Capono and John Dillinger school. 7 Seriously spooking these pistols •re being put to some very prac tical uee. Captain Philip Easlow of tV Field Artillery, eager to have his students of third-year military science become steady and accurate ■Voters Vfore going to summer oamp, interested many of tVra in the idea of practicing with tVsc toy-Hke but aecumle pistols, which V has Ven ordering for them by the dozen*. TV pistols shoot small B-B’t, by means of a strong rubVr band. The idea is similar to timt of tV eld big wooden guns many of os used when we were kids to Vve mock bsttles shooting Vnds made from cut-up strips of auto inner tubes. Targets, tuget-printers, and B-B’s ia pound lots (3,500 to tV pound) are also included in many of the orders Ving sent in from A. A M , and some of tV boys are really becoming experts in tVir marksmanship. I . Menrly everywhere you go you esn see fellows shooting tVir new pistols. TV idee is beginning to ■Pread from the Field Artillery juniors to otVr campus groups. Ons of tV latest pistol purchaser* waa Disk Todd neighbor may V anotVr DilUngur hi d^uiset Mi etyty from Colegio de of Bogou, Colombia. South Anmrik|«tyirted by Lieut. Alfredo Angel Tamayo of the Colombiairf Ahny arrived in Bryan laet Tuesday to spend two month- aa students at Allen Military Aea- demyr Lieut ft.A. Hughes, comman dant Major E. H. Mitchell, head of tv Military Science Depart ment, and M. G. Nydegger, Span pk ||fl|Uiv!at the academy who initialM jtV exchange arrangn- menta, met them. A group of Alien Academy student* will go to B gota this summer to spend two months at the academy tVre. ThO cadets from Colombia are < arlo* Grillo, Jaime Rueda, Alfre do Sampto, Jofty Eaftint, Jhhue Caicedo, Juan Gaviria, Eduardo ( aicedo, t-uis Carlos Londono, and Sanitygmitylaur. The exchange students wore dark bhie uniform* with gold stripes on tVir trouser* and gold trimming* on tVir Ousts, while Lieut Tamayo wore a dark green uniform, black CSV airy bo<A*, and a full length gray military coat. The group went immediately to the acadomj where, because of tV soggy ground, only s partial re- and afterwards they were in(r d eed to the student Mi 1 HI The < dlombian students trill con tinue thdir regular school course* at Allen and trill visit several collages, including A. A M. and tV University of Texas. Tlis Exchange arrangement ia tV first 'made by any preparatory school iq the United States and Alien authorities believe it WiD help to 4rvelop friendship between ftO ]peo|ie of Cohimbia and the United States. They hope to see the day dhtn similar arrangements ena V made with OtVr South American Countries by the schools in the United States. | Not \\\ Sophomore Representatives To ( ouneil Elected Prctyeut Jack Bailey ef the HopV^ore class has reqeeet- ^ thut all outfits who Vve Uiat aa yet elected their rv- 3 'tires to tV sophomore to do so at once. TV Of representatives wV v turned up at tV last meetiag v «f the council waa highly un satisfactory, Bailey said. T. TV rlaas has secured p«r to stage a eophomor. prem this year, la order Out the Amocil might correctly function and plans for the prom V mode, aH represenU- Uveo toast V elected by the next meeting time which will be sometime soon, Bailey said M. A. Mills Places ht; In Livestock Judging Contest 103 Freshmen Take Part a Saturday’ x Medals ft A. Mills, from carried off first honors in IV Freshman Livestock Judging Con test, Vld last Saturday I |i Am A. H. Pavillion. Six medals were giv en In this contest which brought out s field of 103 eoutcstdnte. Mills soared a total of 01 points out of a possible 100. J. 1. Heart sill, of Weatherford, was hi second pi«* with 118 points, the third medal went to C. C. Hatch in *on. from Itaaea, wV scored 518, he was closely followed by A. E White, of Pearsall, with 4 total of 51t, in fifth place was 1 A) L Mur ry, from Miami, who scored 510, and tV sixth place medal was tak en by T. S. Richardson, of Heb bronvillo, with a score of 506 TV student* judged tWo classes each of sheep, swine, c4ttle, and horses. One class of sleep was judged tor market qualities and the otVr for type and breed char acteristics. There was a fat class of beef csttle and the other class was judged as breeding animal*. Both classes of horses were judg ed as draft animals, while the swine were divided into market md breeding classes. In the sheep division, first place) went to J. P. Robinson, second to Mills and third to D. D. Tureotte. A. E. White won first honors in the swine cl***, with second going to J. Cleveland and L C. Callo way taking third. First place in the cattle division was a tie be tween Heartsill and Murry, with Calloway taking third. T. E. Stuart won the Vrae claasea, and J. R.l Puller was second with Mills in third place. Each class of live stock judged counted fifty points and reasons were given on one class in each | division, these reasons counted a total of 200 points in the contest, while tV fracings counted 4Q0 points. STATESDHOOL COSTS ID RISE CAPtAlN T. D. ROBERTS. U. S. Army and instructor in tV mili tary science department, will V the speaker at tV meeting of tV Reserve Officers Association to night at 7 p. m. in the Petroleum tyitaMi Room. | Captain RoVrt’s subject will V "The 2nd Cavalry and Early Texas History". All seniors art urged to attend. ! ! MAIBR JOSEPH. GRADUATE of Southern Methodist Unhmreity, „ _ has accepted a temporary appoint- fo ntyTs^oru. AUSTIN.*—Advocates of drastic slashes in cost of state govermuei It were hurled a thunderbolt Vre Ss l- urday with the Board of Control's support of a 22% increaas in ei- rotlment at state colleges the past two years. In view of the leaping registr k- Gon, tV board recommended to tile Legislature convening Tuesday a 20 per cent boost in educatienUl appropriations, amounting to $1 317,450 and bringing t)^ total f »r the 19.19-41 biennium to $19,81 m. * j ' The board cited increases ing from 18 to 55 per cent In tain institutions and reported 000 in deficiency appropriations ready spent in effort* to relieve heavy load. Lifting of tV 100 freshmen lim it at the University of Texas cal School at Galveston, a annual appropriation for to continue tVir education st leges outside of Texas after k*f- iug Prairie View College, $5^>00 additional yearly for agricultural- iadustrial research at tV univer sity, 11 new buildings costing 81,- 664,000 at various schools and es tablishment of « social welfare workers’ trairfing' course at tV university were included in tV re commendation*. TV proposed budget suggested so general salary increases, hut s few salary adjustments upward. Methods of determing equalised summer school appropriations were outlined for tV Vneflt of' tV lawmakers. TV board said restricted ad mission at tV medic*] school has Ven in effect many years, and, while not recommending amounts of money, it advised tV Legi*i.i- ture to provide additional spprop nations for tVt purpose. Because of increasing epseialixa- tion and preferencs for living in large cities, tV board expressed tV opinion there was aa insuffi cient number of doctors available 1939 TELEPHONE 8 NUMBER 33 Demke New Director Of A. & SL; Two Members Are Reappoin Chinese Graduate Of A. & M. b One Of China’s Agricultural Leaders By DI FU TU An internationally famous ex- Aggie is H. T. Moh, one of tV leaders in agriculture and indus trial circles in Chinp. Following six ysare of college work at tV Universities of Wisconsin and I1H-. noil, V received his degree of Mafrer of Science it agriculture at Texas A. A M. in 1914. After Mr. Mop Mmed to Chfca„ V used his abilities an I American education to improve tV methods for tV production of Cheese cotton, set |p three cot ton mills, organised the Chinese Colton Mill-Owners Axsociatidn, serWed six consecutive terms as a director of tV Chinese Cotton Godds Exchange which V helped to prgaaix^, served 4s vice-minis ter in the Miniatryjof Industry, Commerce, and Laix*- of the Re l> ibhc of China, and at present is chairman of tV Comtoittee for the Promotion of Agritultural Pro duction in Chungking, China. Mr. Moh was borq in ShangVi in tyll- He received |is college ed ucntion very late, iot beginning tV study of English till V was twbntf-one. He had experience as a cotton firm apprentice, customs cli»k, Vad of s itormsl school, and chief of police of s railroad company, Vfore edming to the l a 1 ted States. He j entered first the University of Wisconsin, then in 1911 the UniverAty of Illinois Where V received hjs Bachelor of Seience degree in 1|13. Immediately after his return to China in 1914, Mr. |toh translated info his native language and pub liJVd Dr. F. W. Taylor’s book Ie Principle of Scientific Man a; ement”. He has dope a great deal if tV improvement and extension 01 cotton growing iji China. Thru hs efforts many tens of Ameri- o n upland cotton seed and many thousands of copiei of bulletin* 0 1 scientific agriculture have j (Continued onjpage 4) mpnt as assistant chemist in the department of Eg. 0. 8. Frapv state ckatoist T ' *TVre appease to V many people living ‘ou tV brink of Ul- (Continued m pugu 4) Hook Designed By Aggie Prof Selected As One of Best Books ■ i 1 1 TV textbook Colli ye Algebra by Fhvm Smith, putiished by tto' Cordon Comptsiy, was selected in t>oc. 1938 as one of the Best Fifty Books of the Year. {This is an an nual selection madejby the Ameri can Institute of tiraphie Arts. This book was deal jned by S. B. Zisman of the A. (t M. Architec ture Department. T tie selection of this book is more s gnificant than it appears as only two or thr^e textbooks are seleced each year. The designing 0! a book con- sists of far more th lb is generally thought. This work consists of sp* lecting what mati rfal that tV author has written will V used, what type will V u ltd, what kind of paper will be used and the nature of tV coves and all other mltton pertaining to tV general construction of a fa wk. •Mr. Zisman is V author of several publication! in respect to architecture and ia* presented many papers and a dresses on tV subject over the m tion, especially in Texaa. He was a »pointed by the General Education Board of tV Rockefeller Fi countrywide of aVlter (archi planning) in gene February 1, 1938 month leave of a M. to work on finifrwd tV worl Intel- One of the work ia now publication. to make a of tV study ire, housing, education. On received a six from A. A project and seven month* I of this prepared for DEAN E. X tV School of tending tV National farm tion in Houston and will V back reoantiy res tV third e director of tV HEAD OF ty meeting of tV Admimstra. left Monday, H. T. MOH lionirhorn Editor. Corrects Earlier Announcement I-on r horn Editor W. D. Sar to* •aid today that aa curlier announcement concerning en tries in Vanity Fair and Senior Favorites sections of TV Lwngborn is ia error. “If u student enters a girl’s photograph iaT Vanity Pair competition and pays that fee, sV will automatically V plac ed ia the Senior Favorite* por tion if sV is not diooen In the Vanity Fair groap.” Barton H* •* 1 ■ iff Earl Carrel is to make the Vanity Fair selections this To On College A ft Demke of director of tV Association, 1 Governor W. tV place of view on tV Texas A. A M. Mr. Demke Baby Chick aa president sixth year aa sociatwn, and third teem aa treasurer of th ; Donald organization, son, has at- rter. — SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS SEMINAR TOPIC ty E. ik Bertaer. President of the State Medical Association and one of the most prominent physi cians in tV sta^ of Texas, will lecture Monday bight at 7:80 in tV Chemistry Lecture Room on tV subject of socialized medicine. I^-. Bertner has appeared sev eral times before congressional committees studying tV advan tages of socialised medicine nnd the fusibility Jv gouxtytotya) support of it pf late years V ha* been 'devotipg much of his time to tecturing on the subject. tended Ttgf|i A^jA M. for tW last three yuan in B Company, Infantry, majoring ia veterinary OtVr member* of tV Board who .Vve been reappointed are E. J. Keist of two terms, andi R. W. Briggu of Farr, »to has »:rved one tom TV members wV are still nerving terms are F. ft Uw af Houston, Walter G. Lauy of Ware, Joe Utey of Dallas, H. C. Sehokmaek- er of Houston; Ellmtt Roosevelt of Fort WartB aeti G. ft White of Brady. Mt. Demke whs recently appoint ed aa a committee of draft tV Vby ! chick association's constitution which was adopted lit 1933. He baa also served ns presi-' dent and eXec4lve direct4>r of tV International Rahy Chick Associa tion. , Cm t A. Girls Prefer Doctors as Husbands DKNTON—Apy |.5- year-old doc- t r a I* nit six I ret tall and weigh- k ls0 pound* wV would HV a wuve of immediate popularity ^uld go immtdiately to tV earn- P># at Texaa State CoHegu for Women (C. L A.), siace tV major- itjr of girls thty Vve judged uurh a person the,r .deal man for mar riage. Other specifications are that V must be a collage graduate^ that V should have areed $1,000 Vfore the fate! step; and that V should V malting $2fl « week at the very least -Lawyer^, business mcr and cnirmeers are runners upj Ip the collective TSCW preference, and 24, 26 and 23 arc also considered acceptable arts. TV girls them- •elves prefer to marry at the ages of 21, 28 or 30 I About one third of tv Student plan to continue their professional work after mqrriage. AD tV girls want fhildreii and tV greatest number want jour, with many vot ing for three And two KEN FDR WHDIT DEDICATIONS WERE HADE WERE TRUE AGGIES la tV spring And summer hun dreds, even thousands, of A. A M. students stop at, the fountain on tV steps of tV T M. C A. every* 4*y to gut a cooling drink of water, but few of them |ver wonder about tV inscription on the fountain. In Meipory of t'. • | ! J. M. Woodson Junior Lovingly known as , • *1|g* ; . Who is Peg? fp the living , mem ory of many whb knew him while he attended school Vre, V was a boy who had ovOrcome a physical handicap and made himself an ath lete. He was slightly deformed in one leg but V d- . !<q>ed the rest of hit body unt| V had a mag nificent physique. Beside bring well known for his swimming and giving ability the feats V performed on a motor cycle were tV talk of the campus. AnotVr display of strength and endurance on hi| part, aa told fay one who knew |im, was to start at tV steps of fhe Y and walk to tV railroad station and back, there is nothing sensational ia that ex. cept jV walking waa done on his However^ that waa not his usual method, of travel. Mote ef all V Ir remember,ri fay tV men _ m to serve for who knew him tor the term a* a number of frietes V had. OudR Ad. Curiosity will lead thou* who ds- iru to knew more shunt tVir school to oth-r interesting bite of ? information. For instance In tV at Vth end* are two .trd f i’ Lir.- tv background into tVir struc- withso many on the cam ever wanted to know ‘ background more •re? lobby of tV tile fared They have intangibly tore timt is of tV older pus. Have some sf closely than Before thme waa « Y building on th.U Ihr. C. P. FMnfaahi worked for >^0^ yuan to obtain eontriMitiona fdr tV purpose cf buildiqg a Y, M. C. A. center for tV students. Sit is hia untiring ef fort that we have to thank for the present structure. Hie brother. •Jamea Ude foentain, and two of his nephews, J*mes MiltoAlFour- Uin and Edipund Jones Fountain, coopeemted wlih him in hfepwork Vside giving; money for tV Vfli- ing fund. An I jt is there men srho Vve tVir ni me mlaKl in the sur face of tV n aatels. 1 TV whole puilding waa not ren- •tnieted aa stogie unit but was built to dart M tV money WM ob- tainod ,*704., H constructioa sod when tV njafeWy waa Mt there msa, )r. C. t. lUM brother ai»4 nephews, contributed tv htoe tiled manu is tost add se ereeh to the wchomta* 1 rnm snpsteriftj bf dflw i " ft * iff • ! 1 i m • •