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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1939)
. 1 : Editorial | J i'l V< KMF.VI HI KKM Thu The Weather PAIR THROUGH THI KSDAY VOL. 38 PHONE 8 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 7,1939 Z725 NO. 51 EXES MAY ESTABLISH PL ENT BUREAU HERE t Popular Aggie Seniors Selected Less Than 20' BLUEBONN Percent of Class Votes UEEN Rogers, Adams, Hargrove, Todd, ^ Aston Selected A. 4 M/s senior dnu named Slick Roren, Bob -Adams, Boal Harfrore, Dick Todd and Hub Aston tke most popular members of the elaae of ’39 in balloting held Saturday by The Battalion and itie Longhorn. One hundred and one ballots were cast, representing less than 20 per cent of the class. Closely following the leaden were Andy Rollins and Dave Thrift Votes east for the fint five were as follows Owens “Slick'’ Roger*, captain of the football team, 71. Bob Adorns, president of the senior class, 62. , Boal Hargrove, cotton king and Entertainment Series manager, 44 Dick Todd, All-Southwest half back. 46. Hob Aston, chief yell leader, S8. Full-page pictures of eeeh of the five will appear in The I^ong hern. Rolliw, Scholarship Honor So ciety bead, .polled 31 votes and Thrift cadet colonel, 24* . Votes for around, 40 senion oth- . er than thoes who placed were re- Voting was lighter than it has beRtja. several yean. ■■■■■ '%>> J ) If i 3 ' ; 4m Miss Melly ODsniel. daughter of Geverner aad Mrs. W. Lee O’DaaieL. will officiate as Blse Bonnet Qeeen ef Texas at tke first snnual Bine Bonnet Festival to be held in Navaseta April 14, 16. and It. She will be attended by nnmerens state dnebesnes representing the fortynevea other states in a catorfnl celebration to be staged St Brnle Ktsdium the opening evening of the fiesta. Sweetheart of A. & M. Selected for Texas Roundup Madeline Campbell, A Vanity Fair Beauty, Is JTo Represent A. & M. ine Camfpbell, Vani ty and a junior at ’or Women, has been selected by the senior class offken and the'hatfet colonel to repreeent A. 4 M. at ratal Texas Round-Up at | University as “The Sweetheart A. 4 M.“. Miss Campbell is one of the outstanding beauties selected for the Vanity Fair section of the Longhorn and ia from Longtiew, Texas. Her escort will be R. 3. McKenna, senior in the coast artil lery. Due to the short time in which to select n representative from A. 4 M. the senior class officer* selected a representative them selves instead of putting it up to a committee from the class as has been the custom in former years. Sweethearts from all of the large colleges of Texas are selected to form the court for the Queen of the Round-Up who will be chosen at a later date. The Round-Up will be held this year on March 31, and April 1 and 2 in Austin. United Daughters Of Confederacy Will Annual Award To Military Senior DANCER person to which it Ross Volunteers To Accompany Molly O'Daniel at Bluebonnet Festival ■ The Ross Volunteers of A. 4 M> seem to have la regular job with state’s first family—at least in appgaring in different functions with theilK^or they will eecort Molly O’Dsm. i -w^> will offunete as Blue Bonnet QuAm of Texas at the Blue Bonnet FestivXk V be held in Nsvasota April 14, 16 16. The Rosa Volunteers will i have the job oa their hands to escort 100 dughessee which are in the queen’s royal party. The coronation program will be- fhrj as pages to the blue bonnet garden enter. These will be follow ed by the Parade ot the State Flowers in which the state flowers of the forty-seven other states will be represented. Following this will BOOKS SI BY STUDENTS WI1 BE ORDERED New books for the library will be ordered in the very near future, pending action of a student com mittee which meets Wednesday, Dr. Mayo, librarian said. Requests have come in for about |50 worth of hooka. Dr/ Mayo has requested that each class president select one rep resentative to meet with him W. consider selection and other de tails involved in ordering the books. Since the fund was donated by the students. Dr. Mayo thinks it best that a committee representing toe students take charge of spending the student’s money. The'meeting will be held Wednesday, and the ^ the “Planting of the Human order will be made shortly there Wo * Bo "»* Ficld ” *Wch will see aftor providing arrangements an the participation of one hundred satisfactory to everyone concerned. w ‘ h<, ° 1 children and which will be accompanied by W. Lee O’Daniel’s “Beautiful Texas." Then-MoUy O'Daniel, offic.atmg as Blue Bonnot Queen of Texas, and her company of one hundred ssms will enter accompanied by the white dad members of the Ross Volunteers. The celebration will be con cluded 4 the American Flag and the Texas Flag pass the corona tion stand to the accompaniment of the National Anthem. MM. TO BE REPRESENTED AT FAT STOCK SROW Mrs. F, D. Roosevelt Probably Will Not Visit A. & M. Campus The possibility that Mrs. Frank*! <*•*• {or preemitotom learned today that the n of the United of the Confederacy has and created an annual award to be given to an outstand* inf senior taking military science at A. 4 M. This award will be * dress sabre and will be known as the Albert Sidney Johnston Sabre. It is to remain in permanent pos session of the pei awaritfd A detter to Col. Moore requested that spOcpficstion* be set up to pick the recipient of the mbre eeeh ye*r. ReaNqing that no fair method could be de^iefd to pick the outstanding man froni whole military body of the senior claga, Col. Mod re in conjunction wittNb* senior instructor* iu the mil science department, grant the award by letting one giment each year have the honor of choosing one of its seniors as suitable to receive the sabre. The order in which the regi ments will receive the sabre each year was determined by lot The next seven year* will see the choice falling to the individual regiment in the following order: Engineers; Signal Corp; Chemical Warfare; Coast jArtilti j; Cavalry; Field Artillery; Infantry. At the end the seven years the sward will be repeated in the same order srd so on aa long as tha sabre is awarded. Mother * Day has been suggested as an ideal Sk ‘ “It wn a great surprise to re ceive Mr. Hitler's request comment ef Marlon Daniels, Cal ifornia dancer, who was flown Cannes, France, to Monich to dance performance which the Fuehrer recently. She ia an acrobatic dancer. ir-tpe „ 41 1 * ^ IU charmetkj an aeroentjc di MM. TO WATER FROM SOURCE SOON The new water wells five miles north of Bryan will soon be sup plying the residents of College The library fund totals $166. Money ooDected through the “dime impnign” amounted to $60, a do nation from the San Antonio A. 4 M. Mothers’ Club amounted to 6100, and-Dean Marstcller donated 66. Requests for boofe* have been submitted to Dr. Mayo through th. box in the lobby of the Ytocary. These will be ordered as soon as possible and put on reserve for the student requesting the book. ■TT AGGIES’ DINNER AND DANCE FOR STEPHENS COLLEGE GIRLS WILL" ROUND OUT NUMBER OP AFFAIRS The dinner and dance to be giv en at A. 4 M. next Tuesday even ing for 800 Stephens college girls will round out a program for the Columbia, Mlsuouri, college stu dents which indudes such affair* as a party by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a dance at West Point, a dance at Annapolis, and dances at various other leading colleges in the East and the South. Aggies want to make this a* snnual affair during the girls tom through to* south, and every at tempt possible will be made to show them the beet time of their entire trip The presidents of both schools will be among the notables present at the dinner and dance. The Aggies having dates with th* girls will meet the train in number one uniform. The train will arrive at five o’clock and the In troductions will immediately fol low. The girts will then be shown around the campus until seven o’ clock at which time they will be taken to dinner in toe mees i Seniors who do net have dates are invited to attend the ban quet and both seniors and juniors (Continued on page 4) A. A M. will be well represented two judging teems and approx- ly 76 head of blue-blood, prise at the annual Fort Worth FaiBlock Show, according to an annourirement made today by the Animal Husbandry Depart ment. N. G. Schuessler coach today with the livestock squad for Fort Worth where the students will spend the remainder ef the week in practice for the contest which will take place Sat urday. Included on the squad are W. R. Lehmberg, P. W. Jacoby,* J. F. Crete, J. E. Epperson, F. H. Cotti er, W. B. Buster, J. A. Gallant, and R. S. Huddle. The meets judging squad which will leave Friday for the show and will also spend the time before their contest on next Tuesday in practice work is composed of H. C Bates, O. D. Butler, E. 8. Brown, R. 0. DRtmar, R. G. Martin, L H. Mead, J. M. Warner, C. C. Watter- C. M. Wilkinson, and a E. Smith. Both teams won first place in their contest against teams from al over the United States at the Mme show last year and hope to repeat this year. Outstanding among the livestock to be shown at the show is some thirteen head of horses which will be shown in both the draft and saddle horse classes. Chief among these horses are Ruth’s Liberty Eagle and Centen nial Eagle, both registered A men can Saddle Horses which have been entered in the five gaited class at the shotr. Other animals entered in the show include some 80 head of sheep, 25 heed ef hogs and 15 head t '. ’ ' line Delano Roosevelt might visit the A. 4 M. campus during her forthcoming trip to Texas seems to now be' practically negligible. A letter was recently sent to El liot Roosevelt by President Walton requesting her presence here, and shortly thereafter a reply was re ceived from Mr. Roosevelt’s secre- j tary to the effect that Mrs. Roose velt’s time schedule was so fuB that she would not have any avail able time to pay a visit here. It was hoped that she might be obtained to make an address to the student body. mony, but that date has not yet been made definitely certain. MANY STUDENTS ANSWER CALL FUR 81 Percent of Senior lass Order Rings According to the registrar’s of fice, 513 senior rings have b.-en sold to date. This is about 81% of the present senior class, although some ring* have been sold to ex- students. In order to be eligible for a ring the person must be either a classi fied senior in school or any«li> graduate. One ring this year was aold to R. E. Schaefer of the 1906 class and others of older classes have ordered them. THERE WILL BE A MEETING of the Reserve Officers Associa tion tonight. Major Drinkwster of the Engineers will talk on the acti vities of the Engineers and their relationship to ether anas. In answer to an appeal announc ed in the mesa hall last week for anyone wishing to sell blood for the aid of a fellow student to re port to the college hospital, ap proximately some 200 Aggies re ported to have their blood typed in an effort to aid Lai H. Wadwani, a student of A. 4 M. from Hydera bad, India, suffering from strep tococcus viridan*. a blood stream infection. From among toe students in cluding most of the members of the football smiad. reporting for typ ing of their blood Nick Owen, a senior majoring in Ag. Ed. from Jaf-knitoro. was selected after be ing found to have type four blood, the sate* as Wadwani’s, and do nated some 300 ec. for the trans fusion which took* place immedi ately. Statknv and the buildings of col lege with excellent water, free of practically all mineral coateuL. According to Jimmy Aston, city manager of Bryan, four of the new wells have been drilled already and have proven they can supply Bryan and Collage Station with two hundred and twenty-two mil lion gallons of the best water every year. With the need pf more water, more wells may be drilled which would take care of the increased demand. The piping has already* been laid past the intersection of the old and new, highways south of Bryan and pipes have been placed all alopf toe route out to college. The Auto matic Sprinkling Company of Dal las, which has the piping contract, is using the newest type of piping which is made of concrete and as bestos. These pipes will be jointed together with s rubber washer and a concrete and asbestos joint which fits over the two section!* College authorities propose to discontinue the use pf the college water system altogether, keeping it in working order to use only in 4**e the new water system i* out qf order temporarily. Soon College Station will be re- oeiving its daily quota of five hun dred thousand gallons of pure Plans Talked At Saturday Board Meet Bureau Would Aid ; Deans, Departments In Search for Jobs Establishment of a placement bureau to aid stadents and exes in securing jobs may be made by the foraier Students Association, it was learned at the conclusion of the Saturday meeting of the board of directors of the assodatien. "The general plan, as visioned .! now, is for the bureau to be of every passible lid and assistance in placement and personnel work be ing done by the various depart ment* and deans ef the college,* . •aid E. E. McQuillen, *20. secre tary of the association. C L. Babcock, 18, president of the association, will appoint a local committee to aid in develop ing plaas in the near future, it was learned. Th. bureso, according to tem porary plana, would be financed itirely by the association and woold be handled by the ansocis tion. Its services would be offered free to both students and ex-stu dent* of A. 4 M.‘ Final decision on the action will be made at the summer meeting of the board. > Mr. McQuillen will be seat to mid-west and eastern colleges this summer by the board in ora*! to secure information on the opera tion of placement bureaus. ,' . Present plena would call ter the addition of at least one and pos sibly more employees to the asso ciation office at College Station. ' Members of the board of drrec- • tore are Mr. Babcock, 0. P. Dod son, '11, vice preaidant; Mr. Mc- Quillen; L. B. Locke, '18, assistant secretary; Dr. R. L. Lewis, *06; H. K. Denson. ’16; M. H. Bivins, •07; Add G. Wilson, '12; Dr .M B.. Starnes, *27; Col. 0. A. Seward, Jr., •07; J. R. Saunders, *27; Victor Barraco. ’15; G. Graham BUI, 18; T. M. Smith, ’01; A. C U>v«. 19; J. B. Snider. 14; P. L Downs, Jr., •08; Louis P. Merrill, 16; *. W. Harrison, 18; E. A. H inman, •'25; Charies E. Richter, Jr., ’30; B. Y. Spence, 11; R. T. Shells, 19; Guy C. Me Swain, 10; Joe W. Jana mg*, 11; Major E. E. Aldndge, 16; Penrose B. Metcalfe, 16; f. D. Perkins, *97; Paul G. Haines, 17; and Roy D. Colston, *08. Another World War Soon to Come Predicts Max Brauer, German Refugee, During Lecture Here Monday Night Brauer Declares His Faith in the Great Democracies as U. 8. BY HILL MURRAY , “I do not venture to predict how soon the next world war will break out—but it is sure to come,” de clared Max Brauer during the course of his lecture last night ia the Assembly Hall on “Totalitar ianism: Causes, Cure, and Proven* Man". Brauer is a German refugee of high class. He was formerly dim tor of one of the largest con.-urn ere’ cooperatives in Germany, and for 14 yean was mayor of the city of AHona, a city of 280,000 in tha north German province of Schles- wig-Holstein. Following Hitler's dramatic seisure of power, Brauer had to floe to this country with his family. Ho has made seven crossings of the Atlantic, having Says That the Dictators Cannot Keep Deluding Their People Forever I MAX BRAUER tom given receptions, the first time to visited the United States, by (tom) Mayor Jimmie Walker of Now., York and “Big Bill Thompson of Chicago. For a tin* to acted as an advisor to the Chinese government until Hitler forced China to give up his ter vices. “It seems as if a new world con flict is iaevitablo. The dictators cannot keep deluding their nations forever, and they cannot stand still la their course; they must move forward, and they appear to be heading only to war. But I believe that as soon pa Germany begins war with any other nation, dvil war will break out in Germany revolt that will crush Hitler end hie party." [I Bhealrtng in his strongly marked German aeo—V Brauer, an up standing man of sanguine eoun- (Continued on page 4) / APPLICATIONS FOR DEGREES ^ REACH 616 MAR. 1 Some r>!r> applications for de grees were turned in to the regis trar’s office before March 1, th* deadline fog application*, accord mg to an announcement made to day by H. L. Heaton, aaststant registrar. Includ.-d ia this Baas- tor of i c.|uesU for dsgrsse are ap plications for all degrees to to awarded by the college daring the June commencement This list ef graduating students, which is the largest number to the history of the school and which exceeds last year's group by ap proximately fifty applicationa. will to chocked by the registrar’s of fice and will then to put oa file for the use of the toads of the various departments and the deans of the different school*, both for reference and the aecurement ef positions for the seniors. In addition the list trill to mailed to a nambor of business firms that have already requested copies ami to any otter firms or individual* that r. quest copies from the eoL lege.