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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1939)
BIG AS 'POSSUMS ,/j The Battalion Not b«U killed i« t*l Ball bat 57 half an boar, are shown nbote with milr* east of Bryan. Mr. Traat bad a rata la bis small barn bat wbaa he —Coartesy Bryaa News i killed la laaa t farmer living three ea" that there ware It last week there were VOL. 38 PHONE 8 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 2^1939 Z725 NO. 49 Profs May Serve as City Officials rodents la crtdaaee. Bat poking aroand the space oceapied by the barn, Mr. Traat rooted oat M enormous rats burrowed la the ground. The Bttle white SpHs dog shown la the #i*are disposed of II The rats ala so largo they appear to bo ’peasants • Back in 1906 Hie,‘Bull’ Had 20 Commandments BY DON BUBK ^ The following “Twenty Com mandments of the Commandant’’ is taken from the 1906 “Longhorn’’. And the Boll spake onto the Major, saying: 1. “Ye shall not be ‘Delinquent’, for I, the ‘Boll’, your ‘BuD’, am not ‘Deliaqoaaf. 1 "Ye shall fear every man hir ’Captain’, his ‘First Sergeant', and obey my ‘Special Ordero*. 1 am the ‘Ball’, your ‘Commandant 1 . 5. “Turn ye not In tisse of trou ble unto the ’Faculty', nor trouble the ‘Associate Professors' with your grievances - I am the ‘High * Mogul’. 4. "And if yt offer n sufficient sacrifice of reports unto the ‘Bull’, he will assuredly give you n ‘Rank’. |. "The ‘Report’ shall be record ed the same day they are tamed in’, and shall be ‘read out’ on the morrow. And if the one who to ‘rammed’ brings not an ezplana- “tion before the third day, H go against him on the day of reckoning. 6. “If it be submitted before the third day, and to plausible ante mine ears, then the ’Report’ to for feit, and shall be scratched through . by a lead pencil. 7. "Therefore, be that to ‘report ed’ shall fear his iniquity, because he hath transgressed the mighty 'orders’ of a mightier ‘Bull’; and that soul shall be cut off from all football and baseball games’, nor shall he he allowed to visit Bryan (Continued on page 4) MM. SCHOOL DISTRICT TOTES FOR BOND ISSUE Taxpayers of the A. A M. Con- sohdated School District voted 409 to 61 for a $75,000 bond issue to build n new elementry and high school for College Station. Ylmj new school buildings will serve an anaa of approximately 50 sq.isro miles. This territory in cludes the old Independent school district on College property, part «f district 6 between Bryan and College Station, and all of districts 2 and 8 which take in Wellborn and College Park-Oakwood additions, respectively. It to estimated 800 school children will benefit from these buildings. 3 lion of the now school buildiggs has not been decided, amf will Bit be given offidnl considers- until after March II, accord- to E. E. Vesey, President of School Board. «|lowever, he stated that an offer of 18 acres has boon received from the College Hills Estates. The College Board of Directors has been asked to make a gnmt of land on the college property, Mr. Vesey said. One definite ruling the board has made ^s that the school will be lo cated as near the center of pop ulation as possible.. Tyler Junior CoUege Wins Tournament Wins First On . Affirmative And\ Ties for Negative Tyler Junior College, in the Junior CoUege Debate Tournament held here last Friday and Satur day, won first place with ita ai firmative team and tied for first place with John Tarleton on the negative side of the question. The subject of the debate was “ Resol v ed That the United States Should Cease to Use Public Funds for the Purpose of Stimulating Business.' The Tyler Junior College teams were presented with brense cups for winning first on the affirma tive and for sharing first with the John Tarleton team on the nega tive. The John Tarleton team was presented with a duplicate cup be cause of the tie with the Tyler team. The cupe were offered by the Kx.Students Association and the Star Engraving Company Houston. E. J. Howell presented the cupe 'to the winning teams. There were six schools repre sented. Temple Junior CoUege Lamar Junior CoUege, Beaumont Kilgore Junior CoUege; Tyler Junior CoUege; John Tarleton, StephonvUle; and A. A M., with only freshmen and sophomores tak ing part as U customary as the other contestants were from two year colleges. Each school entered two teams, one affirmative team and one nega tive team. There were five meet ings to determine the winners, the teams being judged by the A. A M- English department, the coaches of the teams, and J. . Gay of the y II C A*. R. M. Weaver of the English department, assisted by C. O. Spriggs of the English department, organised sad managed the eon- APPEARED HERE LAST WEEKEND Frankie Marten, above (left) brwgkt hie erehertra to A. A M. last weekend to play for the Field I Artillerymen and for the corps dance Saturday night Masters and his orebcatra paned all exportations ia their dellgktfal rkytkau and daace tonsk, as did Marina Francis, above (right) who held down the) feminise hide se vocalist for the band. Adventures of Don Quixote Have Nothing on Aggies at p. S. C. W. BY GEORGE FUERMANN < The adventures of Don Quixote have nothing on the never-to-be- forgotten week-end that was apent last Friday and Saturday at Den ton by the five Aggies there to ■elect the beauties of T. S. C. W. Bob Adams, W. D. Barton, Andy Rollins, Bill Smith, and Joe Boyd— who are the five men that made the trip—are still talking about the wonderful reception given them by the T. 3. C. W.’ians and the tima they uptnt there The Aggies left college Friday morning and arrived in Denton shortly before noon. After talking with T. 8. C. W.’s manager of stu dent publications, they obtained rooms in the Southern Hotel. And then the fun began .... First on the “fun list" was (be lieve it or not) a tea dance which lasted until 5 o’clock. After this the Aggies were taken to the din- first group of Aggiee who ever ate in a T. S. C. W. dining hall and were able to enjoy the meal at the same time! The business at hand began at 7:30 in the auditorium. From a group of sixteen beautiful girls, the Aggien were to select six who wens the most beautiful of this already select group. All five of the boys will readily -testify that they Have never before fa<*d such a difficult problem. Finally, how ever, B>e selection was made but unfonuna^aly* the results will not be announced for eamend- weeks yet. From the aixteen candidates ASH PRIZES FOR PETROLEUM PAPERS ANNOUNCED one was selected from each of the four dimes and two were selected "at Huge.” At 9 o’clock a program dance was held in the gymn and -accord ing to what the five men say—they were furnished with five truly ing hall where they had a special j beautiful dates—and they did say table—thus being probably the! beautiful. + ■j AGGIES HAVE THEIR PLACE IN MARY-HARDIN BAYLOR’S STUNT AND “CHEER” NIGHT SATURDAY Stunt and cheer night was held Saturday night at Mary Hardin Baylor at Belton for homecoming of Exee, and A. A M. was well re presented in the audience beside* being the ‘stunts’, Which to a mild form of a play. An attendance of six hundred overcrowded the audi torium at Mary Hardin. R. B. Dooley, J. H. Rest, W. E. Frort, E. R. Clark, Glenn Evans, L. Tomaso, George TQlaon and PhD Go) man were a few ef the Aggiee that headed an aggregation from Aggieland. The sophomore clam put on called the Munich Mimic had aa characters Hitler ini, Chamberlain aojl. Do , The girl representing Mus- had misplaced her uniform the stunts started. Going to section of A A M ■he obtained the blouse brown of Phil Golman considerable convincing 0I| Mrt that she would ask for no of hit uniform, freshmen put on their stunt scene of a college erw and on the desk of the pictures of Aggie Five Most Popular A. & M. Seniors to Be Selected This Week from Poll Conducted by The Battalion \ Ten senior Petroleum Engineer ing students were swarded cash prises in a project that to believed to be unique, was what Henry E. Gross, associate professor of Pe troleum Engineering at A. ft M. said when naked how the seniors in Petroleum Engineering came out on their latest contest A number of manufacturers of oil field equip ment have put up prise money so that $21 was awarded for first prise papers and $10 for second prise papers.’’ The subject sponsor and Winner of each division in the contest are aa follows: Development of Underground Casing Perforatora’’; Ume-Wells Company; John D. Stukenburg, first prise of $25; J. R, Orbiaon, second prise of $10. “Blow-out Preventers”; Camer on Iron Works; L. M. Walls, first prise of $25; W. A. Orth, second prise of $10. "Drill Pipe Protectors"; Pattcr- »on Ballsufh Corporation; J. L. Van Atten, first prise of $25; Wil lis Teller, second prise of $10. “Sucker Rods”; 8. M. Jones Cora ptaF)'^. 8. Gopton, $10 prise. “Oil Well Cementing Equip ment"; Baker Oil Tools, Incorpo rated; J. A. Laird, $10 prise. “Mud Fluids"; .'Hamid Sales Company; Ed A. Radack, $10 prise “Oil Well Pump*"; Axelson Manufacturing Company; H. H. Kalsell, $10 prise. “This noble gesture on the part of manufacturers of oil field equip ment was mads to stimulate the all-important subject of technical writing. Mea who cannot The members of the 19S9 Seniorf ass will select the five meet popular seniors by means of a poll conducted under the auspices of The Battalion. Nomination* for the honors are to bo made by in dividual voters, restricted to the graduating seniors. The ballots will be printed in next Friday's issue of The Battalion AU eligible to take part in the poll are requested to write down the names of the five most popular seniors on the campus in their opinion, on the ballots. These bal lota are to bo turned in to the firai sergeants of each organise tion, and they must have them in Tbs Batulion office, room 122, Administration building before p. m. Saturday. Bach man has a rather definite opinion of each of his classmates and his judgment of them, recorded by his vote in the popularity con test, indicates the impression they have made. The value attached to winning a place on this five-man team to due to the fact that, in i of nearly seven hundred, i becomes well-known by the students he has been most closely associated with in the tort four Sale of 13 Herefords for Average Of $158 Each Climaxes Field Day dearly and attractively have their reman jeopardised,” concluded Mr. Gross years. • In the past years, this poll has been spirited and closely contested, and all indications an that this one will be no exception. Last year approximately half a hundred men received one or more to tea, and then was a very slight margin be tween the most popular man and any of the next highest ten nomi- ea. That the opinion of (he senior saa to rather closely represents tive of the opinions of the student body aa a whole to indicated by the honors men have received in put yean from students and fac ulty before and after being select ed aa members of the team of moat popular seniors. The ballots will bo counted by the editors Saturday afternoon and the five moat popular mrmbors will be announced ia the Tuesday issuo of The Battalion. A. & M. Receives Goat as Gift from Governor O’Daniel A hiyhly blooded bflly goat which has been browsing around the lawns of Doe Governor’s Mansion in Austin tines the inauguration was, in Governor W. Loo O’Daniel’a own words, “asnt to college.” A gift of the governor from the dtUens of Mills County in the mohair-producing arsis of Texaa, the animal was turned over to Tsxaa A. ft M. with the specifics tion i( was to be used for educa tional purposes only. “That goat became quite a mem her of our family," the governor said. "We didn't want to bo par tial so. since other members of our family were going to the Uni versity of,Hum, wo offered billy to A. ft M. -T. 0. Walton, president of A. M. (put it up to the board and they accepted it I’m afraid wall miss Him." Officials | • Sworn into Office Friday Favorable iRuling Made by Attorney General’s Office Members of tbs staff of Texas M. may serve as officials of the newly incorporated city of Col lege Station wu the ruling hand- : ed dowirhy the attorney general’s office receaQy. As a result the of ficials were sworn into oMn VHl <tor ~ Rcferrtng to article 16, sections $3 and 40 of the Constitution uf [ the state of Texas, the attorney raersl’s office ruled aa follows: “There are no decisions of the | Texaa courts directly in point However, the Supreme Court of this Sute in Kimbrough v. Bur nett 83 Tex. 301, defined “public At the first meeting of the Gty Council ef College 8ta- tion yesterday afternoon, UP. 7 Gabbard was elected mayor pro-tern, J. T. U HeNew dty . engineer, |. Wheeler Barger dty attorney; K. W. Steele, dty engineer; and Dr. J. B. Marsh, dty health officer. Sam Hopper, dty marshall, was aatheriaed In work with Col. Moore and Col. Aahbura toward a sola tion ef the traffic problem oa the campus. J. W. Barger to to work ap a franchise with Bryan for water distrihutietei taxes, and the boa lines. I , <y -f f f * r- ■*, _ ’ ^,1; j 1; ' ^ office" as. The right authority and duty created and conferred by Sole of 18 Hereford cattle for 11**. by which, for u given period, the record local average of $158 tither ,iwd ^ ^ Uw °r «*»uring per head climaxed the end of the * ** ' '“T ^ T"** y i I power, an individual is invested well-attended beef cattle field day w jth some portion of eoverign func- held here last Wednesday for the tions of the government te be ex- purpose of discussing tee outs tend- errised by him for the benefit of SOME FIFTY HEAD QP THE best livestock owned by the col lege was taken to Houston this week to compete with livestock from all over Texas In both in dividual and group contests there. Included in the animals taken are 23 bogs, 6 sheep and 19 head of . Shorthorn, Hereford, and Aberdeen j Angus cattle. ing problems confronting the cat tlemen of Texaa today. Some 176 ranchers and beef cat tle men attended the course, which * opened by an address by Dean. Kyle and included talks by R. R Lancaster, pasture specialist of the Extension! service; Mitt Dantey rancher, D W. Williams, bead of the Animal Husbandry department; J. Q. Jones, Texas Experiment Sta. tion; and Larry Miller, R. J. von Rooder, R. K. Peterson, and N. G. Schuesslcr, all of tee Animal Hus bandry department'' ' * Ope of tee moM vital problem* discussed in the program Was the adaption of the cattle industry to future conditions and problems that stock ‘raisers could expect to be confronted with under these con- tee public. V\ “In Leyrnel v. Johnsom 288 Pac. 858, the District Court of Appeals of the Stkte of California had ho- (Continued on page 4) COTTONSEED v CRUSHERS MEET HERE MONDAY N.TsA.C, and John Tarleton May Become Senior Colleges If the opinion of the Senate of the Texas Legislature corresponds with that of the House, next year North Texas Agricultural College an Arlington and John Tarleton Junior College at Stephenvite, both branches of A. ft M, will become four-ytar college. A bill making tkis possible was approved by the House after being co-authorised by Representatives Boa* Reader of Stephenville and H. A. Hull of Port Worth. Last Thursday the House agreed te a motion made to postpone con sideration of the Bill until March 87, equivalent to killing the plan but passed the bill Saturday. Fri day the bill was reconsidered and a rapid verbal exchange waa hold between two representatives am) press releases stated that only the sergeant-at-arms prevented a hand to hand combat between the two i At the afternoon auction sole manned entirely by the department • record sale was made for the three year period that the sales have been held when some thirteen head of Hereford cattle, 12 fe males and one bull calf, sold for the .i. < rage price of $158 per head. In addition some 12 registered breed ing hogs were sold in order to give cattle breeders the opportunity to secure some of tht College’s breed ing stock. The sale was necessi tated because of the over crowd- tafjof the collegd facilities which ma4« it necessary to dispose of some of the registered herd belong ing to the school. Deadline for Aggie . Plfcy Is Extended| Due to the interest being shown b the contest to select tee play for use as the annual Aggie stage production and te order to give the playwrights more time to fin ish their, compositions the deadline for the acripta to bp entered in the contest has bean extended until JmI Jv to R. L. Elkina, business manager of the play com- M* L The Board of Directors of the V Texaa Cottonseed Crusher* Asso ciation met at A ft M. Monday morning sad went on record aa opposing aay change te the Feed Control Service as bow adminis tered here. Following this they transacted routine business and •et the dates for the annual con vention and abort bourao. . Dr. F. D. Fuller, head of the Feed Control Service, appeared be- { fore the board and pointed out teat while the service endeavors to regulate soed production, they do not have police powers. The board voted to again co operate with the East Texas Chamber of Commerce in the trench ailo and pasture improve ment contests staged by that or ganization and voted funds for that purpose. . J The da tee ef the annual con vention were act for June 12-1$ at Houston, and the dates for the renewal of the aaaual shorteoerse at A ft M. were set for June 19-23. D. Ralph Lee, graduate student in chemical research at the col lege, discussed his findings in the production of furfhraL e product obtained from cottonseed hulls. He •aid that the estimated need to bow five million pounds annually and that 200 pounds can be pro- (Continued on page 4) r EDITORIAL What's buppencd to dead week. THE WEATHER Generally fair through Tuesday. Somewhat colder tonight. .* :ront baseme: