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
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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.
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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)
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EDITORIAL
What's buppencd
to dead week.
THE WEATHER
Generally fair through Tuesday.
Somewhat colder tonight. .*
:ront baseme: