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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1939)
The Weather Colder and CUmdy The Battalion ' 1 EdHorial Defense Bil VOL. S8 PHONE 8 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FKB. 14, 1989 Z725 NO. Intra-Squad Clash Will Begin at 4:15 This Afternoon National Manufacturers and Texas Fanners End 2 Day Meeting at College To Cooperate jbi Solving Problems Hold Open Discnasaons At Meeting on Friday Morning In Parlor Q f Y. M. C. A. I Vowing fall aid ut oolving t-ach othar*' problem*, farmer* mad in dustrialists concluded their twq- daj meeting of the National Man ufactures Association agricultural commit tee at A. A M. last Fridajr afternoon. All seas ions were held in the paM- lor of the Y. M. C. A. J In concluding the meeting, W Shoemaker, committee told fanners their main trouble pears to. V inequitable ratea. "Knowing Texans as a b«£- igerant and agresssive group I fefel sure they will get rate if that is what they want”, he The meeting cloaed without resolutions aimed to aohre lem* presented and both sides ed with beet of feelings to each other. The members were ia session fi their last open discussion Friday morning. At the beginn of the discussion the livesteckrom took the floor when they why wool mills are not eatablisl in Texas. B. C. Heacock. president, C pillar Co., replied by saying regions heed a balance of and agriculture but the South ter* from a lack of industrial ▼ity.” He quickly explained he not imply laziness on the part Southerners hut action of IN emeds for passage of laws to keep themselves busy instead of allowing: migration of indostry. He added the freight rates be adjusted to favor the South establishing industrial plants. An addition to Heacock’s rq» marks was made by R. C. Kuldel, president, Hughes Tool Co., Hous ton, who said that lack of skillet workers prevented expansion of in dustry in Texas. He pointed ou that generations have followed the same trade in certain sections c the nation and establishment ol similar industries would ental I moving whole familiet to get need- ed workers. "On the other hand , be said, "the loss of those induat- < Continued on page 4) i Present Aggie Band Is a Far Cry From College Band of Earlier Years VENUS *BY BILL MURRAY It’d a far cry indeed, from the present Texas Aggie M^t started out the 1M8-N session with an enrollment of 200, back to th. days of the- early Aggie Band of Joat a fees hoys. But it’s a farther cry yet, to the ninth year of our schools life, when one boy formed half of what might be called the earliest "Aggie Band” of them all. This was back in 1085. when just two Aggies—Frits Hoffman and Ed Gruene-—furnished all the music at A. A M. And till 1887 they were all the band there wss. They play ed “fiddles”. There were then no / i Large Audience | Hears Dickerson Lecture Friday ■ io to Marriage and Several Chiba Visit to Campus I A large audience of Aggies and College pvople was drawn to Guioa Hall last Friday evening by an in teresting lecture. “Walking Back ward into Marriage”, presented by Roy E. Dickerson, noted sociologist, lecturer, and author, from Kansas City,-Mis*ni! i Iiirkt i son i compared “walking backward into marriage" to the act of a person backing into i haunted house the ‘'backing in' making poss.bl. $ quick and easy escape. Dickerson described the cause of people’s walking back ward into marriage as emotional immaturity usually caused by harmful actions in which people thmsrfvep Malga.-^ To make a conception of emo tional immaturiyt easy, Dicker- son referred to the concrete idea CELEBRATE SCOUT WEEK other musicians at college. The av erage enrollment ot the entire col-Jof smallness of statute in human lege during those years was 105 boys—one-forty-third of this year’s enrollment, and considerably small- than the present Aggie Band alone. Hoffman and Greene on their fiddles played fbr all the “eoipa dances” of those days, and on all other occasions when music was desired. Occasionally they even took the lead of the corps in marching to the mess hall, as the Aggies Band does every day, Hoffman graduated from A. A M. in 1888. He is sow deceased. Greene got his B. 8. in Mechani cal Engineering here in *87. A let ter was just recently received from him in which he recounted memo ries of those early days at A. A M. and of fan* playing for a corps ot 185 students. Gruene has been liv ing for many years at New Braun fels. beings which may be caused by an insufficient food diet And to make clear his ideas of an insufficient mental diet which usually brings about emotional immaturity, Dick erson referred first to stages of mental development ia people from childhood to adulthood and then he described three types of attractions which he found to be in existence between the sexes. He considered environment snd custom to he of tremendous importance in one's reactions to various conditions, es pecially in marital relationships. This will be seen more clearly af- <Continued on page 4) . W - Lsf V. —- ..r TV Bey Scents of New Tnrk City hernld opening of National Bey Scant Week with the erect tea of a log cabin en top of the R. C. \. R*IMing, Radio Qty. The celebration marks the 28th anniversary of Boy Scooting ia America, , '1 Water Works Short Course Is Now / Id Annual Session at A. \ M. Campus lllli MscDouiald of Freeport. L L an artists’ model, is the charm- iag eyeful. She has been selected as the modern veaas by the society ef illastrston*. in New York. Her *«*r(1 is trip -to Florida where ■hell get a Min burn to go with the ■ait, hi VANDERBILT TO APPEAR ON NEXT SERIES PROGRAM Cornelius Vanderbilt, world veler, lecturer, radio commea and newspaperman will be pre sented by the Entertainment Senes Thursday night, Fab. 16th. Vander- bUt will speak on foreign person alities who are prominent at the present time in world affairs. This talk has been especially prepared for the series by Vander- bUt in his tour of European coun tries the past severs! months talk promjses to be very inU ing doe to the first hand informa tion obtained by Vanderbilt oq war conditions in Europe. Cornelius Vanderbilt is a noted; columnist, Ic turer, scenarist, au thor, publicity director, and adver- WHERE DO A. & M. STUDENTS SPEND THEIR MONEY? .tmmtfiti uxinigM Dr one year the Texas Aggies smoke elrvea million “ready-roll ed" cigarets. Such is the conclusion Play by A. & M. Prof To be Used at Purdue ‘ij, fcS itJ Hj . I . . - The historical play, "DeSoto Serving Roast Pork to the Chitk- aaas" by Dr. John Ashton, of the department of rural sociology, will be staged at 'Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., on the evening of February 28th, according to word received from Professor W. W. Smith, of the Purdue Department of Animal Husbandry. The play which was given ha pre miere in a rio broadcast over the Texas Quality Network from Col lege Station recently, will be given as one of the most important events on the banquet program of the Hoof and Horn dub of Purdue during the Annual Eight Weeks CL < l -m.f.nt .•xp*'ii-!inir(*rt, made by the advertwing staff Jf The Battalion. We spend some 187,192 a year i rusarets. This amount would purchase 528,060 17f packages of ciggretx. At an average price of 4/5 cent per rigaret, we smoke about 10,900,006 -practically elev en million cigarets per year. According to the survey, the typical Aggie spend* his nickels at the rat* of tom tor soft drinks to one for candy. Wa spend around 868,500 a year for soft drinks, and $13,266 fe# candy. For these re- Short Course, now in progress. The play dramatised the first H. .Mm; of past, to aboriflMl Americans snd is based on his- derived from the recent sunrey daU compiU!d by j* ton and included in his "HiMoiy of Hog production in Missouri."' THREE LECTURES ARE PRESENTED BY TERZAGH! I, | LI Dr. Karl Tenaghi, world's fort- most authority oa soil mechanics who recently became associated with the A. A M. engineering de partments aa a consultant for a one year period, delivered a series of three lectures here last Friday and Saturday. The subject of the first lecture, which was delivered on Frid.iv afternoon, was "Application of Mohr’s Diagram to Earth Pres sure Computations". Dr. Tersa- ghi’s second lecture was delivered Friday night and the subject was "The Mechanics of Piping Under Dams”. The subject of the final lecture, which was drii\ire<l en Saturday afternoon, was "Settle ment Due to Excavation*. These lectures were delivered in the Physics lecture loom and all were attended ty capacity audi ences. Dr. TersagW’s lectures last ed shout two hours i-uch and Wore illustrated by numerous black board drawings. * The 21st Annual Wnter Works Short Course began here Monday morning by registering 160 super intendent'* frsm towns and cities | throughout the state. More dele gates are expected to register be- I J. Ri "Lewis-of tits Core Labors fore the school closes Friday, lories, inc, of Dallas, will present Deal Gilchrist opened the pro- “Cote Analysis 1 ’ Is Title of Lecture For Club Meeting a papqr to the members of the Pe- K r * m • troleui and made an address of »n •‘Core Analysis". Thursday pr « sident pf Tdxas Division, evening at 7 3<i in the main lecture The school consists of two parte, roem of the Petroleum-Geology the water superintendents' section hgjlfjjg and a section for sewage superin- iir.ftswis will also show a series ^ Of sthi* Ashling with the subject The " < ‘ rwn have been invited here The talk coincides with the FVtro- A. A M. through E. W. Ethel of leum 3»» Inborn to ry work in which I** 1 * ( a series of experiments is perAona-1 tor tb * of bringing out 4 Teams in Local Grid Tournament Giants, Redskins, Bears and Packers Named in Ag: Squad The New York Giants' mttt the Washington K.d-k:: and the Green Bay Peckers meet the Chi cago Bears, hi two football gamea here thir evening at 4:18. Thcsy are names that the Afgie> mentors have given the teams on th* spring traming squad. The Giants are the first team, the Redikin* are the third, the Packers are the teepnd, and the Bears are the fourth. Favored this evening wity bo thi> Giants ever the Redskins, and Ate Packers over the Bears. That hack- field consisting of Price, Jeffrey, Kimbrough eM Thomason with Moser as an alternate is going to be hard to step. The Redektoi are going to be hard to turn back. The first and thir| teams may be tho best two of the bunch when the smoke clears. ^ Thursday evening the Packers meet the K» dskins and the Giants meet the Packets in two more rough-and-tumble games. : During the early part ef this spring season the games will ha short, bet the last few games will be standaiA jristyjaunute frays. The schedule is as follows: Feb. 14—New York ^Giants vs. Washington Redskins. Vlreen Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears. Feb. 16—Green Bay Packers vs. Washington .Redskin*. Chicago Bears vs. New York Giants. Feb. 21—New York Giants so. Green Bay Peckers. Washington Redskins vs. Chicago Bears. •Feb. 23—Qrieajto. Bears vs. Green Bay Packers. Washington Redskins vs. New York Giants. Feb. 2K--Green Bay Packers es. New York Giants. Chicago Bears vs. Washington Redskins. Mar. 2—Championship game be tween two top teams in the stand ings. ed on a wm- extracted from a well. the have Mc<'or.ju/xiale, president ol (b, will be in charge of th* and requests that all wht paid their dues in ful I do so at the meeting. Using executive. He hat worked ,peet,vp ** «uld purchase with many newspapers as corre- LI <0.000 nickel soda*, and ifdUH spondrnt, editor and publisher. He nic * ie l candy, has contributed to most natiooalj At 264 a ticket, one of us could magaaines and has covered special: M’OOO different moving pic- events tor hundreds of U. 8, dailies and waeklisa through his syndi cated columns. Out ot his achieve ments consists of his lectures on interesting celebrities. He has pub lished several works including, “Experiences of A Cub Reporter", “The Far West", “Park Avenue". "Palm Beach”, "Farewell to Fifth Avenue”, and "A Woman of Wash ington". Vanderbilt likes horse-back rid ing and is interested in amateur photography and chess. 1 tures, for what aB of us spend to| a year on shows—a total of $*50.3tW the survey indicates. That letter writtof is indeed a "major sport” at A. A M. seems to be proved by the fact that ere Ag gies expend some 822,000 a year for stationery—«a average of $4 a student That Aggies really are lovers of the beautiful would seem to be de- monMt rated by the fact that are -pend aome $20,500 a year for flowers. ■ wM If! , ■ Brazos County Reserve Officers’ Association Is Largest 1 Single Unit In Entire Texas'.State Department of R. 0. A. ItKl; FIELD ARTILLERY RE ilMk. Mm recently Frankir Masters and his tra to play for the annual Artillery Ball te be held on the night of Feb. 24. Frankie Mas ters ahd hi* group of muMmi!’.- tre earning here directly from. The College Inn in Chicago. K. J. HOW El I State R. O. A. Preeideat For the past six years the Re serve Officer* Association of the United States has sponsored a Na tional Defense W«k from Febru ary 12 (Lincoln's birthday) to Feb ruary 22 (Washington’s birthday) i The Brazos (ounty Chapter of The Reserve Officers Association of the United States was organised in 1981. The chapter was granted March 19, 1981 with Captain Eu gene J. Howell, president. Lieu tenant Marvin J. Btrdweil, secre tary-treasurer, and thirty-seven charter member* Captain Howell, now Major Howell, is president of the Texas Department of the Re serve Officers Association which, with its .HiKKJ members, is the largest department of 52 depart ments ia the United States and its possessions. The Braxo*. County Chapter, wife Ffrnt Lieutenant Berthold E. Nowotny as president, and 500 members has the honor of being th* largest chapter in Tex PICTURE ON STEEL-MAKING 1 SHOWN THURSDAY * if.-lT T' v . | i k1, || ' For the first time, an accurate color movie nhpwing the inside new idea* and information in order that the cities af Texas might hsve a more sanitary and more efficient water supply. / • ' The members have also been in vited to bring with them any prob lem* which they have had to face, under a guarantee that they will worW,n * of the steel induatry is be correctly oiswered. available. "Steelman’s Servant" ia the thrilling dream of steel-making .from the ore mine to the finished product •* ] J j } ■ Jy The equipment direction and technique used in making . this picture were the Mm* as ia mak ing a Holywood feature produc tion, but with this important dif ference. The actors in this drama are the men who actually make steel They played the leading roleo. There was no rehearsing. The Teci*iirolor camera men took their equipment from oaa end of the <-oufatry to th* other, fr»m the depths of the mine* te the blast furnace* and mills. They raptoreCri the meet thrilling steps in steel staking, the transforms lions which take place in th* changing of ore to th* many kinds of steel, the blendiqg of natural hues of open-pit ore mine and of lake and sky. ’ * ^\ [ They show you the and yellow* as they the Bessemer convertors or iBnK A t 1 “Spawn of the North” Press Club Benefit at Assembly Hall The V A. A M. Press Club will sponsor s benefft show at the As sembly Hall tbursday and Friday nights. "Spawn of the North" ha* been secured a* thfa feature for these night* fed several eelected abort subject* have been billed. The Press Club membership is made up of every member of the staff* ,of Th4t Scientific; Review, The longhorn, and The Battalion. I * : 'Tt 1 \ Infantry Senior And 5 ( ompanions Injured in Wreck L B. Gaffing, Infantry senior, wa* seriously injured late Satur day night in Freeport, when the car in which he was riding ereah- •d with a train, , ^ Of the three couples in tjie car, one girl was igjured fatally. One of the boys suffered s broken leg. The othega wgre', reported not baity iajundt ' . Ife kfetiRg 64 Gaffney's com- they pern through the rolling mills, penion* rooM pot be learned. If The w hde magnificent story ia is believed that all are frem'Free- told m beautiful sequence sup- port. K • '!' •' (parted tf aauMaflteifa R E. NOWOTNY Brsww Chapter President mine open hearth charging floors; th* soakibg-pita radiating yeDour- whites, row* of newly shaped in gots imparting orenge-reda; slab* taking form in the slabbing mills; the glowing ribbons of steel ae Gaffney was taken to a hospital in Freeport. Sis condition was de clared senous. Be is-a Marketing •ad Finance student in Company D Infantry. His home ia Freeport. We especially urge all engineer* to attend this picture because af the importance of the subject and because this picture 'will directiy tj* in with th* rIaMroom work.