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A beet Student Forum
IN THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR
COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 2 4.
TELEPHONE 8
NUMBER 57
Mrs. J. W. Barger To
Direct Cotton Style Show
Students to Serve
On Committees Are
Named for Events
It wss announced today that
Mra. J. Wheeler Baryer will again
be director of the Cotton Style
Show Pageant and Ball this year.
Mrs. Barger, who directed the cot
ton show last year, has had much
experience la this field, and u
great ball and a grand time was
said to be expected under her com
petent leadership.
The announcement included the
following arrangements: King of
the Cotton Style Show and Ball,
Beal Hargrove; Business Manager.
L. L. Jacobs; Social Secretary, Er
mon A. Miller; Plans .and Deco ra
tions, B. H. Rucker; Social Com
mits. EL A. Miller, W. H. Atkin-
aon, J. D. A ugh try, C. J. Ellison,
and R. M. Wright; Floor Commit
tee, A. V. Sheppard, A- H. Allen,
L. W. Crews, W. H. Camp, R--m
Mitchell, E. F. Bauman, and H. D.
Bryant; Rooms Committee, W. R
Finch, R. V. MeNiece, J. S. Mor-
ria, E. M. Kay, J. P. Kerchvillu.
J. L. Brown; Decoration Commit
tee, R. L. Gregg, C. F. Lewis, J.
R. Naughton, F. M. Mebane, J. Q.
Jenson, D. W.- Gibbs, J. R. Thomp
son, O. J. Gipa; Music Committee.
W. £. Lawson, H. F. Goodloe, C. B.
Armstrong, T. J. Hickerson, N. R.
Watkins; Publicity Committee, G.
B. Winstead, L. L. Stewart; Batta
lion R. pr. * nuUve, & M. Wilkin-
Yank At Oxford
Manufacturers And
Farmers Meet Here
February 9 And 10
Governor O'Daniel Asked
To Attend; All Phases
Of Farming Represented
College Station will be the meet-
lag place Feb. 9 and 10 for a
group of Texas farmers and a
group of American Man ufactor-
, meeting together to discuss
problems which confront agricul
ture and industry today. This con
ference will make a large contri
bution to the groundwork naces-
aary for and preliminary to further
industrial development in Texas,
college officials said.
SIMMON ELECTED
KING OF ROSS 17
VOLUNTEER COURT: ;
B. Simmon Jr. of A Fngiasii s
has been elected King of the Ross
Volunteers court for the annual
festivities of the organisation to
be held here daring the Easter
holidays
Simmon, from Houston, is lieu
tenant colonel of the Engineer
regiment and a petroleum engi-
ik'^l
Governor O’Daniel has been in
vited to attend the meetings and
> V :SE
take part in the discussion by
President Walton.
The committee on agricultural
000peration at the National Menu-
facturers’ Association will bo re-
The Ross Volunteer Company is
one of the oldest student organi
sations at A A M. Daring the
spring holidays—which until this
pear were known as R. V. holidays
—dances and banquets am held by
the orguniistien.'
Organised with the purpose of
supplying a crack military com
pany, the R- V.’s served as guard
of honor for the inauguration of
GoV. W. Lee O’Daniel last Tues
day.
Byrea “Whisser" WMte. wl
exploits oa the gridirwi are la-
delibly written in American foot
ball aanesla. is shown at Hert
ford College, Oxford. England, ia
cap and gown. He is a Rhodes
Scholar transferred from Colorado
University to Oxford.
Williams Selected
To Act as Chairman
Of Judging Committee
D. W. Williams, Head of the
Animal Husbandry Department of
A A M., has been selected by
Swift and Company, national 1
meat-packing firm, as chairman of
the judging committee bo judge the
winning essays in the national es
say contest for high-school ■tR-j
dents recently announced by the
company.
The contest, en the subject of
the marketing of live-stock and
live-stock products, will cover
every state of the Union, and somr
37 cash awards totaling several
thousands of dollars will be pre
sented the winning essay-writers
Wiliams hah named R. M. Sher
wood at the Texas Experiment Sta
tion and Professor A. L. Darnell
of the Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment to serve as judges on the
committee of which he is chair-
Short Course In
Beef-Cattle Is
Scheduled Here
Auction Sale of Cattle
And Hors He Ion King To
A. & M. Also Slated
D, W. Williams, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department,
has announced that Reef Cattle
Breedens |>ay, a one-day short
course, will be held at A. A M
Feb. 22. |
At the tame time sn auction sale
of college cattle and hogs will be
held. Most of the cattle to be
sold are Here fords; the hogs are
of PolandiChina and Hampshire
presented by some SO to 40 di
recting heads of tha largest manu
facturers in the United States.
Warren W. Shoemaker, vice presi
dent of Armour end Co., Chicago,
is chairman of the association. Col.
R. C. Kuldell of Houston, presi
dent of Hughes Tool Company; is
the only Texas member.
Farmers representing all phases
of agriculture in Texas are being
invited by 1 college officials to at
tend the meetings. Fall and free
discussion of the problems of agri
culture and their relationship to
the industrial economy will mark
these sessions. The group of manu
facturers ewho will attend repre
sent foods and feed, chemicals, and
practieaBy all other phases of in
dustry.
The oommittee on. agricultural
cooperation is composed at: Chair
man, Warren W. Shoemaker, vice
president. Armour and company,
Chicago; vice chairman, Herbert
YESTERDAY PRESIDENT
Walton attended a banquet in Dal
las given by the authorities of the
Southwest Medical Foundation,
honoring Dr. Alan Gregg, Director
of Medical Sciences of the Rocke
feller Foundation, and other die
tinguished visitors.
First $125,000 Raised By Texas
Methodist Church To Go To A. & M.
SEEK AIR i ORPS INCREASE
A. & M. Debate Club
And USCLA Team To
Meet Here February 7
Resolved: That The United States
Should Cease to Use Public Funds
For the Purpose of Stimulating
Business. This is tha question to
be debated when the debate team
from the University of California
at Los Angeles comes here Feb.
7 for a debate with the A. A M.
team.
Both teams consist of two men
each. M, J. Thompson and G. D.
Gkbriel will do all the arguing fbr
A A M.; the UCLA team members
sre not known yet. UCLA will take
the negative side of the question
and A. A M. win taka the affirms
■Mb ! J ■
The debate will be held Feb. 7
at 7:00 pm. The place where the
debate will be held will be announc
ed later.
General Mslih Craig OeftX Army chief of staff and Secretary
of War Harry Woedrhig (fight), confer with Rep. Andrew J. May, of
Kentucky, chairman of House Military Affairs committer, when Craig
and Woodring asked Congirsa te increase Air Carps bp 31,079 enlisted
men, to aisa 3,000 to 4.000 additional planes sought under President
Roosevelt’s rrsrmsment program.
Funds Will Be Used
To Build Methodist
Church and Chapel
The first 1126,000.00
the state-wide campaign
begun by the Methodist
of Texas will go tor the ptapusi
of constructing s Methodist Church
end Chapel and Wesley Founda
tion at A A M., according bo Dr. :
Glenn FI Inn, Chairrrp n of tha
Methodist Student Movement in
Texas. I .
Purpose of the entire campaign
ip to take the church to the col
lege student, and a minimum of:
*500,000.00 has been set a» tfcs:
goal of the Church.
When completed, the new build
ing will be the first of Ra kind
at A A M. It will contain several
game rooms; parlors, lounges,
club rooms, banquet facilities and
assembly rooms, making H uaetofj
for almost all types of recreation,
as well as an Assembly of God.
This' is not a new program, ac
cording to Dr. Flmn, but merely
an extension or enlargement of a
program that the - Methodist
Church has b.. n furnishing , to
some of the campuses in the state
for several years. Such facilities
aa are being proposed have long
been needed at A. A M. Tha build
ing of a beautiful chapel and
student center here will be simply
the beginning of the work, accord
ing to Dr. Flhm.
L. Bod man, Milmine, Bod man and
company, Inc., New York City; .
idenArPop” Shaw Has Spent
More Than Five Years
Feeding Customers
BY A J. ROBINSON
The Animnl Husbandry Depart
ment is presenting the event, with
N. G. Sohuessler of the depart
ment in charge of the arrange
ments for both the Breeders Day
and the. suction. Two Aggies—
Merle Ss*e and Walter S. Britton
—will act as auctioneers.
Schuestler has sent oat letters
to county agents and other work
ers in the field of animal indus
try all over the state. Full details
of the Breeders Day program will
be announced later.
The annual Horae, Jack and
Mule Breeders Short Course will
also bo presented by the Depart
ment some time durii^ February.
It will last two or three days.
4
Horace M. Albright, vice president,
I'nitcd States Potash company,
New York City; W. D. Anderson,
president. Bibb Manufacturing com-
pany, Macon, Ga.; Lewis H. Brown,
president, Johns-ManvilU- corpora
tion, New York City; Harry A. Bul-
Ks, vice president. General Mills,
Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
H. C. Carr, vice president, Libby,
McNeill and Libby; Chicago; Pao|
8. Clapp, vies president, Columbia
Gas sad Electric corporation, Co
lumbus, Ohio; Fred H. Clausen,
president. Van Brunt Manufactur
ing company. Horicon, Wis.; J. L»
Davis, president, Blish Milling
company, Seymour, Ind.; C. H. Has
kell, president, Beatrice Creamery
company, Chicago; James W. Book,
president. The Geometric Tool
company. New Haven, Coan.; R. C.
(Continued on page 4)
COLLEGIANS APPROVE FDR’S PLAN
TO TRAIN YOUTH FOR AIR SERVICE
BY STUDENT OPINION *"( V' * ' ! '' Wl
SURVEYS OF AMERICA
AUSTIN. Texas, Jan. *4—Col
lege youth stands ready to do its
part in the half-billion rearmament
program that President Roosevelt
proposes for tha United States.
Specifically, seVen-tenths of
American college students today
approve of the plan to train 20.000
civilian pilots a r year in colleges
and universities of the nation, a
country-wide poll of the Student
Opinion Surveys of America
allows.
When the President asked Con
gresw to appropriate flO.OOOjOOd
for training aviator* in cooperation
with educational institutions he
was in reality silo ting college men
their part in the task of making
the United States safe from the
possibility of aa invasion. The Sur
veys have conducted this scienti
fic sampling exclusively for The
Battalion and the seventy-six other
sponsoring newspapers throughout
the nation.
Collegiaas everywhere have been
asked, “Do you approve of Presi
dent Roosevelt’s plan to train an
air reserve corps of 20,000 men
now in college?"
YES, have answered 7L8%
‘ NO; have answered 2K2%
j. The figures represent the only
REGISTRATION,'
FEES FOR 2ND TERM
MAY BE PAID NOW
MUSIC, PAINTING, DRAMA HOBBIES
OF ASSISTANT STATE CHEMIST
A. & M. INVITED /
TO TAKE PART IN
ORATORICAL MEET
barometer of public opinions or
this question in the particular sec
tion of the populahiom—college
students—that will be affected by
the propesa). Before the idea ia
tried the second semester with 300
volunteers In afven schools,
thoritie* there and officials ia]
Washington will know that it has
the approval (of the majority of
the Student bodies. Only three out
of seven are against tha program,
the Surrey indicates.
The preliminary courses will be
offered at the Universities off
Washington, Alabama, and Minne
sota. , ahd at Purdae, N.T.A.C.,
Ceorgia! Tech aad M.I.T.
Defense measures coating *552,
000,000 (will call for an increase in
the air force aa one of the para
mount' ipoints. More planes will
mean n»ore aviators. College men
are always preferred; so campuses
have been assigned as elementary
training bases until a reserve of
100,000 pilots has been created.
The sit-month’s training will in
clude fifty hours of dual and solo
flying. Many are expected to con
tinue ad the advarux-d Army and
Navy pch..ols, p .ssibly entering
the regular service or becoming
reserve officers.
Payment *f registration fees
to the Fiscal Department for en
trance into the college for the
second semester began yesterday
morning, and will Continue through
February *. The sixth ia the last
late oa ‘ which the fees can be
said by old students without the
imposition of the lato-registration
penalty of *2.
February 3 and 8 are the offi
cial registration (toys, but all feta
may bC paid in advance. The Fis
cal Depart meat, anticipating
great rush on those days, urges
all students who Css to pay their
fees early.
The fees payable to the Fiscal
Department on registering total
$■>■> r.o for dormitory students,
*:;i '->0 for day students, not in
eluding the voluntary fee of *2.60
tor the Y.M.C.A. privilege card.
The amount for day students does
not include the cost of room rent,
board, and laundry te March 6,
which are included in the amount
for dermitory students.
The Fiscal Department announ
cei that all fee* for the entire
semester (totaling *155 for dormi
tory students) may be paid at this
time.
Aggies like hamburgers," says
George B. Shaw, and he should
know for he has been helping the
Mess Hall feed A. * M. students
for five end one-half years.
Shaw to better known on the
campus as “Pop,” aad with his
white spree and cap, be runs the
little hamburger stand in back of
Leggett Hall. “Pop” is a
amiable person and to a friend
of all the Aggies. He even gets
along with his ’competitor* Casey,
with whom he sometimes swaps
hutches.
“Pop” was bora in Braaos Coon
ty and was raised in Bryan. He to
well acquainted with Toss aa he
has traveled quite a hit in this
state. He married a native of Bryan
and has two daughters. “Pop” has
in his present business for
twenty-three years, of ^tich seven
teen were spent in Bryan. I
“Pop” says that in hto busmt.--
he has met practically every kind
of character and has served people
from every walk at Ufa. Ha has
souvenir, a stainless steel knife
that ha bought for a special asil-
lionaire customer of hto to use on
grapefruit served in “Pop’s”
With a reputation of serving the
best hamburgers in this part of
the state, “Pop” Shaw declares
that hi* most enjoyable pastime
to that of pleasing the Aggies.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
drama loan library tost year pro-
v idrd Texas high school studeats
with copies j>t 20,000 plays.
Van Gundy Speaks On
Refining Business To
Chemical Engineers
M. C. Van Gundy of Houston,
Technologist of the Texas Gem
pany. talked to the A. A M. Chem
ical Engineering Society last Friday
night on what to expect when one
got a position in the refining end
of the oil industry. The talk was
of special interest to those who
will graduate this year.
Several points which Mr. Van
Gundy discussed from the view
point of the employer were those
of the perttnality of the student,
his appearance, and his willingness
to study and work hard for five
or even ten years te then be in
a position to handle a responsible
Job.
Grades were not to be consider
ed, because anyone who graduated
from a good school of engineering
BY LEWIS CBAVAlLLIER
His vocation has btan chemistry.
His avocation has betn the arts.
Dr. Samuel E. Asbury cams to
A. A M. in 1904 to sfrve as assis
tant state chemist a*d for thirty-
five years has held the same posi
tion with the same title in the Ex
periment Station. B<A those years
have not passed in ^ dull routine,
for many and varied hobbies have
enlivened his bachelor existence
in the little two-rookn cottage at
the North Gat*.
Not' content with Imerely learn
ing the details of ally one hobby
as any dilettante irould. Doctor
Asbury has delved (deeply into
many subjects and [has added to
the store of original knowledge by
his untiring and unselfish efforts.
Hto record to one t4 bring pnu-o
from tha professional workers in
-the fields into which hto inteftats
have led him.
Music, painting ahd di-amp ar*
hie' pet interests;
home will give ai
that. Four pianos
with stacks of
ing tha names of
surrounding the
first view upon
ther inquiry you w
has been lauded as
Music Courier’’
York Times”, this
1918-19. Strange
“Doc", in all the
becoming a comp,
never learned
well, but you’d
hear you make a
The paintings
where in the ho
ceiling of the
copies of the
ing in the art
marik j - v
Historical drai
thespian accompli
has worked opt
plays on a miniature stage, cora-
plete With miniature characters
and furnishings, i
Another phase in hto hobbies
has been" Texas history. And. he
is one of the three men sharing
the reputation of being Jhe best
authorities on the original sources
of Texas History, A statement
characteristic of him, in erittoing
a supposedly authentic history, is,
“A pretty book, good pictures to it;
not true though.’’, All hto hooks
will eventually go to the library,
the Asbufy 'Room be in 2 saved for
bat purpose. /, ;
Everybody going to school here
has seen the rose hushes growing ‘
to a height of twenty-five feet and
completely hiding ihls home. The
rose industry of Texas and the
United States can'thank hfm for
useful information that he hah
gleaned from those roe* hashes.
He has not taken those hobbies
one at a time but has nWngled the
DEAN BOLTON LEFT LAST
Saturday far New York City, to
attend the meeting there 9f the
Board of Directors of tha Amer-
work on one with work on all, an iean Institute of rUclih gl Engi-
visit to hto
evidence of
front room
music bear
ar musicians
is your
On fur-
that he
in “The
the 1 Nuw
far back as
t may seem
he spent in
music critir
y hto pianos
not let him
would have the proper training.
insatiable desire dor knowledge
leading him to national recogni
tion in two of thorn, and to per
sonal satisfaction in them all.
A LIST OF
couraea for
mitted by the
of the college
by Dean Winkler,j direcUjr of | the
Summer School
given so that
template ai
may arrange
the next long
advantage for
The complete
may be found
Notices".
of tha courses
the "Official
The Department of English of
Texas A. A M. has again been
vited to send representative'- to
take part in the annual oratorical '
contest st the Battle of Flowers
in San Antonio on April 21.
nig fanrittakui was extended
the Department by g letter recent
ly received from Mrs. Henry Carr
of San Antonio, chairman of the
Oratorical Contest Committee of
the Battle of Flowers Association.
The subject matter ban been,
defined as ’Character delineation
or event pertaining to Texas his
tory”. A tryout for the selection
of the A. A M. speakers will bn
held in March, not later than thh .'
15th. Interested students may coO-
C. O. Spriggs. R. M. Weav
or other members of the
staff.
Weaver,
English
nearing. Dean Bolton to vkce-pres
ident of tha seventh district ef
this national engineering organisa
tion.
ivc Aggie Profs Offer Advice For
Students Studying For Examinations
Here to the latest theories on* ■ «.» ; i ■ -t- ■ *' ■ 'f' I 1
preparing for exams—which be- “will make * student forget all
gin next Friday pioming. A per-j pf it, but If the work to dona so
ehologfst, a mathematician, a hto- as to get the weaker points ef tha ,
torianPtn education professor and course soon enough, the work win
an English prof have expressed ' usually help the student’s grade*." >
their views on (he all important The head #f the English IVpsrt-
subjeet of the weak. The following: ment. Dr. George Sommey, be-
advice has been ■offered by these, Itevea that students ar* on tha
instructors who Itev* spent many ^ wMole going to need to do so ate
years at A. A M., and no doubt organised reviewing,
have also taken as well as given | Dr. Summey and other
many final exatdjuationa..-- ! grades are on tha
The head of tNt Psychology De ! Par. For this reason Dr. 1
pertinent. Dr. C. fe. Winkler, advo- **jr* some students need to got
cates reviewing the high lights or i »nd study for ftopto to «
bead lines of a churse rather than
doing too muchdetailed reading.
He feels that many students read
rathsF, than ' satMte <» - preparing
for a quiz. “The best preparation
for a quiz is t^ study all yeat,”
Dr. Winkldr, “then Utile re
view to necessari and the Student
can refresh his toemory by hitting
the various more important topics
he has covered to the couree."
V. K. Sugsreff, professor of his
tory, says that tramming to some
thing that, can’t he done away with
and if done intelligently, will be
to the student's benefit. “Too much
| aratosatog,” saya Mr. Sogareff,
. I J* 1. r f J
systematic way.
“A short summary review of tha
whole coarse will bnag more
benefits to the students,* says J.
W. JtitehM» wmthamaticL pramti-
sor. According to Mr. Mitchell,
cramming doesn’t help a lot to tha
math department, but a little saat-
mary review will bring to a Stu
dent’. maid many thing* ha has
learned aad forgotten.
The head of the educatien depart
ment. W. L. Hughes advocates
regular hours in reviewing and
says he spends the week before
finals helping his students to their