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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
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