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VOL. 38 PHONE 8
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, I DAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8, 1939
NO. 50
Coast Artillery Ball Held Tonight
Coast Holds' Students Secure
Regimental $5000ToW
PERFECTION
Hom«r H. Norton
Aggie Coach Began His
Sports Career on High
School Baseball Team! 1
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BY H. a MeBLROY
Atfie Sparta Writer
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Known primarily aa a footl.all -oach. Homer Hill Norton, baad
coac^ and athletic director at A. A M . made hia first bid for fame as
a baseball player, petroling the outfield at Birmingham High School
in Alabama. Later he did such an oatatanding baseball jol/with the
Birmingham-Southern College nine that he was signed by theitfnning-
ham Barons in the Southern Aasonation when he was graduated from
college in 1916. "
a brief stay with the
Baron* he landed with the Greens
boro N. C., dub in the Piedmont
League. Hb next atop was Lake
land, Fla., m the Million Dollar cir
cuit and at the end of an excep
tionally good year in 1919, Colum
bia, Ohio, in the American Asso
ciation bought hb contract. Right
then Norton forsook profr^ional
baseball to begin hb career he a
football coach. He went on base
ball’s Tolontarily retired list and
accepted the post of haM’iootba.l
coach at Centenary Colleg.\ Shreve
port, La., a Job he heU'tMl^
1920 and 1121, and later from 1926
through 1988, relinquishing it only
to come to Texas A. A M. in 1934.
FOUR-SPORT MAN
Daring his playing day* Norton
was a four-sport man, winning let
ters in baaeball, football, basket
ball and track in high school and
repeating the feat in college. In
1911 he captained hb football and
baaeball teams, and la 1916 his
senior year, he was awarded a
medal as the beat all-around ath
lete in the Southwest and was
named aa an all-conference back.
Sports writers said at the time he
eras the best all-round athlete am
to play in the Southwest and one
moat likely to teach high spot* as
a professional.
Prior to Nartaa’u going to Cen
tenary, the,ashed lad never played
football aa aa totoreolleK.ai. .port
in hia first year they did play a
few other college teams but there
b no rectrd in the books as to the
results, '^he only rooord found for
that year b an item in the “Shreve
port Times" which shows that the
Gents tool a 18-0 defeat from Mar-
*alL I
Ball iTonight
Layton Bailey,
Aggieland, Play
For Battle Dance
A new dance system at A. A M
will be inaugurated tonight in
Sbiaa Hall whan the Coast Artillery
Regiment presents a “Swing Bat
tle of the tunds," featuring the
orchestra of Layton Bailey, from
Dallas, and the Aggie land Orches
tra, led by Tommy Littlejoha, in
“Battle Dance" to take place
from eigth til one.
Layton Bailey’s orchestra b com
posed of fomer members of the
8. M. U. band, and features Ann
Barrett, vocalist, who combines a
good singing voice with a pleasing
personality and an unusually pret
ty face and figure.
The Coast Artillery Ball b open
only to members of the Regiment,
ex-student* of the same organiu-
tkm, and a few instructor* who
have bees given special bids. Quite
a few out-of-Aownera are expected
The Coast Artillery has been
noted during the past few years
for both the quantity and quality
of the young ladies who come from
all over the state to attend the
Ball. To take care of the girls over
the week-end, five ramps of Law
Hall will be vacated by the Cav
alry.
Layton Bailey and hb orchestra
will play fog a Corps Dance Sat
urday night from nine ’til twelve,
In Sbiaa Hall. Everyone b invited
to attend. Script will be one dol
lar.
Chinese Refugees
NEW YORK CITY, March 4.-
Amertean college studenta have col
lected approximately $5,000 for the
aid of student refugees in China,
Miss Molly Yard, secretary of the
Far Eastern Student Service Fund
announced last week. Of thb
amount, 83,000 has already been
cabled to Dr. J. Usang Ly of the
National Student Relbf Committee
in ShnagMl.'
With a campaign goal of $60,000,
Miss Yard reports that SI colleges
already have held campus cam
paigns and nearly 200 others ex
pect to do so during the second
semester. Dances, bataars, and
lectures have featured moet of the
drives. Contributions have come
from Smith, Vasaar, Mounty Holy,
oke, Randolph-Mscon College for
Women and smaller institutions.
The Far Eastern Student Service
Fund has been asked by the Chinese
studenta to help establish tempo
rary universities in western China
to replace the 54 institutions par
tially or totally destroyed by Jap-
anese bombardment*. At least 80,-
000 studenta are in need, Miss
Yard declaroa.
GENTS ORGANIZED
In 1921, the first year they
played a regular schedule aad for
which records are complete, the
beam won fbur games and lost
three. Before the next seat
opened the school decided it would
4o in for football on a large scale
and hiral A. N. (Bo) McMillan,
three-time All-American back of
ttu "Flaking Colonels" of Centra
College, as head coach.
When "Bo” accepted the offer,
Norton stepped down and served
aa I Hn coach during hb three-
year regime. The school found no
fault with Norton’s work and only
the feeling that a big name was
needed caused him to be replaced as
chief-of-staff.
When McMillan left to accept si
more lucrative offer at the close of
the 1924 season, Norton was of
fered hb old post but declined it
and continued as assistant under
Earl Davis for tho 1925 season.
The following year he was pre
vailed upon to become head coach
agaitv which Job he took and held
until he came to Texas A. A M. in
1984. I i ,
Dr. Potter To Speak
Dr. George E. Potter, head of
Baylor University's Biology De
partment, will address the Science
Seminar in the Physics Lecture
Room at 7:80 P. M. Monday, March
Dr.' Potter’s subject will be
“Animal Anomalies."
Dr. Potter will first discuss the
frequency of anomalies in the ani
mal kingdom and then their spe
cial relationship to factors of
environment. From thb point he
will lead the discussion to biolo
gical application to man and tb
up hb subject with eugenics.
The discussion, which win be
informal and not highly technical,
will be illustrated with laatern
slides. ,
INSIDE TODAY'S BATTALION
A-B and C-M
Full 60-Minute
Saturday . . . ?••• ‘
Aggie Swimirtwb
Long, Hand Sch4**
Two.
Intra-Squad LesfU
Halt in Alphabetical
Page Two.
Scmior Class to
Popular Seniors Threagh
ing ,j. . Pug* One. Ba%$
Two. \
Exhibition Baapfaall ft
tween First and Saesft
Scheduled tor Saturday Jj
Three.
quads Will Play | George Ashford, Familiar Cam
Football Game{9°* Figure, Has Been Hera Since
to
Mom
1888 . . . Page Three.
Aggies Wind Up Cage Season
by Dropping Tilt With Longhorns
. . . Page Three
Rfrifw ef the Mevb. “The Girl
Dnwnsbftu. 1 * showing Saturday
Afternoon at the Assembly Hall
. . . page Four.
SsAhs Plan To Ihvite T.S.C.W.
Students Here for Annual Sopho
more BaH . , L Page Four
Collegians Favor Congressional
Actions in Slashing Relief Appro
priations •.. Page Five.
A. P. Rollins, Jr., Will Be Ele
venth in HU Family To Graduate
from A. A M. . . • Age Six.
Where Do Aggies
Spend Their Money?
Aggies spend about $16,000 a
yaar for magazines. That b about
$2.70 u student, or at a price of
154 a magazine, 18 magazines per
year per student That may seem
good many; but $16,000 is not
such a great amount to spend for
cultural item, especially when
we take into account the fact that
we spend practically
for hair oil alone, and about six
tinea as much for cigarets.
GIFTS
Girl frieads rate high indeed with
the Aggies, it b true—but mother
still cornea ahead in the matter of
gifts.
.Wording to the recent student
expenditures survey made by The
Battalion advertising staff, Aggies
spend about $40,500 s year on gifts
for their girl friends; but they
spend more than $66,000 on gifts
for their parents.
TOTAL EXPENSES
The total expenditures of the
Jitterbug-itis
Said to Have No' ■
Lasting Results
HACKENSACK, N, J, March 4.
—The disease of the jitterbug has
at last been diagnosed by s college
biologist and has been declared
“‘spectacular but not fatal” and
a definite detriment to learning
After considerable research on
the, “disease,’* Clifford H. Cole*
of Bergen Junior College here, has
issued the following report:
“The poison may cause a sudden
reaction in the body, in which case
the individual, without any warn-
jing symptoms, is thrown abrubtly
into the throw of the diease, or
the reaction may slowly baild up
to full vigor, requiring a month or
more completely te possess the
I victim.
“The poison apparently b carried
U> all parts of the body by the
bloodstream and seems to affect
I certain pari of the endocrine
I glands, notably the adrenal ami
J parathyroid.
I :“The agonising contortions and
I unintelligible exclamations, the lat
ter being evidently secondary ef
fects, product a heart-rendering
effect upon the victim’s parents
and ridwjw relatives."
Lovely Nias Eaamar Mac Dour
aid of Now York aad Freeport,
L. L, was veted the “perfect artists’
Profs Little Red
Austin Causes Him
Endless Confusion,
Embarrassment
It seems that he can’t keep the
model" and ton a trip te Palm A * sr “‘* from with her .. .
mSk aa a prize. She thinks she’s ^ Uk! He w * u,da, t r ** ll F mind -
lorkv. and the local lads think I they wouldn’t do her
lucky, aad the
that much I they’re lucky,' tee.
Max Brauer :
To Speak Here
At Assembly Hall
so much harm.
I The “he" in thb little story b
William Street Ransom, instruc-
j tor in the English deportment, and
{“she" is "Bruenhilda”-—a little rad
j Austin (a rate species of the genus
jautomobUb) which b Mr. Ran-
•om’s means of getting to and from
wherever he wants to go.
Aa said before, Mr. Ransom b
an instructor in our fair iratita
tion, but tho campus “sarges” re
fuse to believe thb on the grounds
that no self-respecting prof, be he
Max Brauer, who is to speak in
the Assembly Hall Monday nigbtj
at 7 o’clock on "ToUlitarisnbm:
Cause, Cura and Prevention,” has | eccentric or Otherwise, would drive
had a long career as s public ser
rant. At the age of 21 he became "
more than 5,000 Aggies for board ** official in one of the greatest
and for education in one year must consumer*’ cooperatives in Ger-
tetal at least $1,500,000. many, the internationally famous
The Aggies spend about a mil “P*d a kt»on” in Hamburg, and
lion dollar, more for all other pur- ^ u ^ ^
poses -clothes, personal comforte- . ... T
and luxuries. Altogether we .pend d,recU,r * ** organ.ration, which
about $2,;,00,000 a year—an aver- ®mploys« a staff of 5,000
age of about $480 a student
a little red Austin. Now Mr. Ran
som b not a map without a sense
(Continued on page 6)
Races, Football
Formations, Films
Also To Be Liven
BY WALTER SULLIVAN
Saturday b Sports Day.. .which
means that it will be one of the
biggest of the year for the Ag
gies and a large number of out
sider*, for then, A. A M. men of
grid and diamond will perform for
visitora and the student body.
Starting thf day will be a base
ball game, scheduled at 2 f.
which will take pbee b* twees two
teems picked from the squad at
large. Thb game should prove
interesting tq tppryone, for it’s
the first of the year, aad nil are
interested in seeing what the Ag-t
gb baaeball payers have in store
for thb season. i[ ,
Shortly after 3 o’clock the foot- j
ball squad and the entire coach
ing staff will be introdoesd. Thb
be followed by intra-equad
foot meet in order to determina,
not only the fastest man, but the
fastest position os the team. Fol
lowing the races. Coach Homer
Norton will exhibit hb best and
blest in kicking and paaaing drill,
fundamentals, and formations to
be used next season. Ending the
“daylight" part of the athletic
program will be a game which will
be played between the winner of
the spring training aeries and a
team picked from, the other thm-
At 7 p m. moving pictures of
the A. A M.-Sasta Clara game,
the A. A M -Texas game, and pos
sibly the A. 4 M.-Rice game, will
be shown in the gymnasium.
The general admission price for
the performance b 50 cents. Stu
dent tickets may; be had far ten
centa. Tickets may be purchased
from any ‘T” nhus. ■,
All proceeds from the exhibition
go to the “T** Association aad will
be used for the fT* dance which
will take place Friday, March 10,
from nine until oi* o’clock. Present
at |hb occasion will be all athletes
and guests of the major “T’ men.
Sports Day Schedule
■ Place: Kyle Field
Time: 1 p. m. Saturday
Price: 60e ticket adfhita to afternoon program and show at
night. 104 ticket admits students to afternoon program and show
at night
1 p. m.—Registration at North Gate of Kyle Field
1:45 p. m.-—Demonstration of baseball plays under the direction
of Coach Marty Karow.
2 p. m.—Intra-squad baaeball game.
3 p. m —Introduction of football player, and coaches.
50-yard dash:
• Guards
Tackles •
Ends i \ V
Centers
I ' L #***
50-yard dash:
Winners of shove races.
Kicking Drill r '
Passing Drill •
I vmor -tration of Football Fundamentals
Demonstration of formations to be used next fall and ex
planation of one or two plays
Intra-squad football game.
7p. m^—Shew at Gymnasium of movies of University of Texas,
Santa Clara and possibly the Rice Institute games.
A1 proceeds go to the “T” Association
5 Most Popular Seniors
Will Be Selected Th
Senior' Class
men and women. Late in 1918 be
was elected assistant mayor of Al
tana, a city of 280,000 inhabitants,
and thus begin a political career I
of unusual success The five most popular Aggbf
Mr. Brauer was bter elected j seniors will b< selected by tM
mayor-in-chief of Altona. During members of the ebsa of ’89 by
hb tin umbMyj he octablbhed or I meang 0 f K poll under the auspices
enlarged many city institution*: . ^
««!». modern m.t«nlty P U, '
hospitals, a ndw municipal hospital, * € ' n * >r * *** • k>wed Tot *’
homes for workers, foe invalids, balloting w® dose Saturday at
for children, for the aged, and the Loon.
vast new electrical power plant b.Upts are on a sports
supplies the'
new
“Unter-Elba”
entire
stein with
ponsnt of
Brauer wss
many with
Schleswig-Hol-
t and vigorous op-
Nasi Party. Mr.
orced to leave Ger-
family after that
Party came iifto power Hb proper
ty was confiscated, his home loot
ed, and hb library destroyed
Thereupon "he came to America
and has given extra-curricula lec
tures on city administration, muni
cipal power plants, and kindred
subjects, end has sssde innumer
*ble public addresses on the Ger-
-nan *itnation, both from the secu
lar And the religious point of view.
page of thb edition. Seniors are
requested to write down the names
of the iira seniors who they think
are the meet popular on the cam
pus, and turn the ballot in to the
first sergeant The first sergeants
are to have the ballots collected
and turned in to The Battalion
office. Room 122 Adminbtration
building, by noon Saturday. ,
The bAllot b based on the opir.
ion that th* seniors who have bedn
together for four years end know
each other very well, are beat
qualified to pick the ben that de
serve the honors. Out of a class of
seven hundred, being choeen one of
the five moat pepubr b quite an
honor.
In the past, thy contest has been
very close. Tb. ni b usually a very »
slight margin between the first
five and the next ten or so higheat
Last year over fifty men received
one or more votes, and the nee
thb year will probably be foBj
as dose.
Usually the opinion of the sen
iors as to tho five most popular
men eloedy parallels the opinion of
the entire student body. Hib b
shown by the fact that tho ipen
chosen hive received various other
honors st A. J; M., both from th*
faculty and thO student body, (hir
ing their school life here.
The Weather
Fuir gad Warmer.