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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1939)
i MOST POPULAR SENIORS o\s fas ROGERS BOB ADAMS f L h The T . 'i VOL. 38 PHONE 8 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 10, 1939 Z725 NO. 62 T Club Stages Annual Ball Tonight HUB ASTON BEAL HARGROVE Thr fiT# Most Uttem r«Mi(ly by »»»or claM arc tkt potHilar Maiora ■Mbubera af the ■holm above. 8IM Rofera was captain at this year’a football team. • Boh Adana ia pr.-Mri, nt of the aenior claaa. Dick Tadd waa named All-Saath- weat halfback for two jreara. Beal Hargrote will aerve aa King of the cotton ball. Hab Aatoa ia chief yell lander. The annual ballotuglndetermin- the moat popular •.emor-. «aa con duct..1 Jointly by The Battalion and the Longhorn. Full-length photographa of the Winnera will be placed in The rlMfhMb • The winner* DICK TODD omI; Tadd third; and finiahd In thia Hrat; Adama, aec- Hargrove, tied in 315 Co-eds Are To Be Entertained Dinner, Dance Planned to Fete Stephens Girls > The moat glamorous social event of the year, the dinner and dance in honor of the SIS girls from Stephan College who will viait hare, ; will take place Tuesday evening. The girls will arrive here on the train ijit S o’clock, and will leave the train in formal evening dreas- ea- They will be met by their es corts for the night, seniors and juniors who will be attired in full dress uniform. They will be shown around the campus until 7 o’clock, when the dinner in the mesa hall will begin. The dance in Sbisa Hall will be gin at 8 o’clock, and will continue until 11:80, at which time the dance will have to end in order to give the girls >ime to leave on the train at 12, The dinner and dance at A. A M. is part of a program for the Step- bans girls which includes a party givan them by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and dances at West Point and Annapolis. Seniors who do not have dates are invited to attend the banquet, aad both juniors and seniors are invited to attend the dance which folows. Those attending either ev ent must be in number one uni form. Aggie Band Started by Class of ’95 Has Undergone Many Changes Aggie Major LettermenTo “Swing Out”' Aggieland Plays For T Club Dance And C orps Dance Above ia shown the Aggie Band of 18t7, the cat reproduced from a ph.>io K raph belonging to C. J. Gar- bado af Shiaer, Texaa. aa A. ft M. ex. Lai "Frog” Wadhwani, Long III, a Real Aggie A. & M. MEN HOLD TEACHERS* CONFERENCE Approximately one hundred andj sixty men of the College faculty; the Extension Service, and the Ex tension Station attended a teach er’s conference in the mess hall Thursday. They had dinner, follow ed by an informal diacussion of the subjact “The Teacher’s Responsi bility to the Student”. Many of the men took different attitudes and various opinions were expressed. The subject mw! still being debated among the men when the meeting adjourned. It eras more successful than the first meeting a month ago. Two more meetings are to bs held be» fore the end of school. A. & M. MEN AT MEET OF LUL1NG FARM TRUSTEES 300,000 Visitors Now Attending Ft. Worth Stock Show By WALTER SULLIVAN Not all of us have heard, but Lai H. Wadhwani la seriously ill in the hospital; he’a the friendly little fellow from India we know •s “Frog”, and he’s crazy altout that name, too. From the time he was a little boy back home he has been trou bled with a bad heart, and last November it began to give him • littlb more than the usual pain; $o he went to see “Mom” Cleghorn at the college hospital. She lis tened to his story and puf 'hha to bed with what outwardly resembl ed an extreme ease of rheumatism; however laboratory reports showed that “Frog” had a streptococcus infection of the blood stream, a very furious disease. ,• [j ! . "IKl u l "Vi told everyone that his name was “Frog” Wadhwani, i maphadWhg the “Frog” part, and that that’s w^at he wanted to be called.” Some of the nurses tease him for being Mom’s “baby” 4 she drops in on him from time to time during the day and never fails to atop by bislroom for a talk at irightl, but that doesn't phase, him in the faet< he always has a to make. likes beat, of the things been given him, a small tree that Waa given him by the local A. ft s c)ub. Except for the pie, he’s had it with leafti in comehac! I' 4m that ha Christ) last Ch M. Mo trip to According to Mom, the Wudh- him all the time and says he will wani fellow la one of the most in- loeep it always. ■Mgthg mi MglMWfttoi yqoug men she knows. . . and that's say ing a lot, for Mom knows a lot of boys. When asked ai po what he EveryoitU agrees that “Frog" is a fine fellow, and he has never failed to return a "hello”. At times he has made facet at the was known aa in the hospital, she nickname that was placed before said “we caU him “Wadhwani. but 1 His name when he first came to want you to know that everyone A. 'ft M., but only in fun. Right else otlls him “Frog", or he knows now, it’s impossible to get in the ths reason why. Now you take the hospital to see him because of the time when he was driven to Temple in order to have Cultures takes at the clinic there. Upon arrival he large number of flu caees, but it is possible to have a message aent in and he’d like that. RAPIDLY -GROWING COLLEGE HILL ADDITION INC ORPORATED INTO NEW CITY BY COUNCIL Dean and Mrs. E. J. Kyle, Mr. and Mn. Inch Shelton and F. W. Hensel left today to attend at Luling, Texas, the annual meeting of the trustees of the Luling Foun dation which was organized aa a mult of a gift of $1,000,000 from Edgar B. Davis who discovered and developed the Luling oil Held. The Foundation aa It exiata to day Is perhaps the most complete dhrendfied farm in the United States. It offqrs practical work ih boef cattle, sheep, hogs, dairy ing, and poultry including turkeys. This >1,200 acre farm has produced each year about 2,000 turkeys of the “baby beef” type—a new breed that ia superior to others. The farm is principally operat ed dor the benefit of the three ad joining counties: Caldwell, Guad alupe, and Gonsalos. j j the faiyn employs SO high school boy* f»)tn these three counties and two boys from the state at large- she champion 4-H. Club boy and the boy who is champion Is dbcational agriculture. They work for one year, at the end of which time they are offered a scholarship to A. ft M. Five of these boys are enrolled at A. ft M. at the present time. Dean Kyle and Jack Shelton, who are trustees of the Foundation, will be accompanied by F. W, Hensel fBY BILL MURRAY 4 “We take the opportunity here to assure our readers that this ia not a mixed school, as the spirited drawing of the band by Mr. Munro would seem to indicate; the member of the band whose com plexion ia. of such a dusky hue ia one of our flaxen-haired Germans who has become permanently black ia the face by reason of blowing his instrument while our cartoon ist waa trying to stadkr-” The above ia quoted from the preface of the “Olio”, ’first an nual ever Issued by Texaa ft M„ and refers to s cartoon of the Band in that book, which was published by the Senior class of 1895. Our college was just in Its nineteenth year then; but even that early it had a band, and has had ever since. The first genuine Aggie band was organised by the same Senior class at put out the first annual. Te continue with our quoting from the “OB©”:— “But jolors and caricatures a- side, we are all proud of our band And we have reason to be; for though as yet not one year old, the organization is one which will reflect credit on the college aay- where; and its members may rest assured that their earnest efforts are fully appreciated, both by the Cbrpa and the Campus.’ This latter statement, more seri ous then the first, ia, it Is felt and hoped,'still true. The first music for the Corps was furnished by two Aggies, Fritz Hoffipan and Ed Gruene, who from 1885 to "BT provided on their “fid- dap” the music for the Corps dunces and other occasions, some times even playing to lead the Corpa of 125 boys to meals in the old mesa hall. The next step then' in the musi- cad progress of A. ft.II Fort Worth hung s welcome sign for more than 300,000 visitors with the formal opening of the forty- third annual Southwestern Expo sition and Fat Stock Show at 4 o’clock today. A. ft M. is being reproaented by teams in most of the tvents. , Gates swung wide on the ex position simultaneously with the staging of a stock show parade through the busineas district of Fort Worth. Heading the column of marchers were Paul Whiteman, Amon Carter and others who Unt a rodeo atmosphere with their organisation of tha first real Southwestern attire. military band, in 1895. It conaiated Rhythm filled the air along the * M s^ent member*, the pro- two-mOe route of the parade down fe** or of music—P. B. Bittle—who Main pnd up Houston Streets. Fifty ^ tuba, and the “spon- bands of Fort Worth and other • or "* MISS. Anna Banka. The next Texas cities participated in thc|*P on * ar *•* Hiss Rit* Sbisa. ■Hjlk I I ? J , 1 '. Occupying a float in the parade BAYLOR U. ASKS AGGIE TWINS TO COLLEGE TWIN CONVENTION The Baylor Twin Club, organiz ed by the twins attdnding Baylor University, hat sent a letter to the Battalion anneum in? the first an nual Texas Twin Convention. II is to be held in Waco March 24 and 25. The twin preM.ients of the club, Irene and Florence Rushing, have requested A. ft M. twins to com municate with them as soon as possible so as to make reservation* if they with to come. Every college in Texas is expected to be repre sented. The eonveation will open In Waco Hall on the Baylor campus at 10 o’clock Friday morning, March 24, and ths visiting twins will be hon ored guests of the Baylor Unhrer sity chapel service with President Pat M. Neff presiding. A Texaa State Network radio broadcast will be one of the events of the day and a banquet will be held Friday night. Between 75 and 100 sets of dou bles are exported to attend the convention among which will in clude the Key quadruplets of Okla homa and tho Perricone quadrup lets of Boaumont. The athletic groats of Aggielaod will swing oK'in Sbisa Hall to night from 9 111 1 as members of the T Club stage their annual dance. Tommy Littlejohn and his band will furbish the musk for the occasion, which will take place in the main dining room of Sbisa Hall. Only letter men and vanity squudmen of tfee four major sports, football, basketball, baseball, and track, besidoa a. few limited jury- tors and seniors who have been given bids will be allowed to at tend. The danre will be chaperon ed by raembeto of the Athletic de partment and other department Slick Rogers, Korky Steffins and Bruno Sckroeder an in charge of arrange mw»t* for the dance, with JoJo White and Eli Hashing in charge of decorations. The dec orations will be unique, according to Rushing. On Saturday afternoon the T- Qub will ha ye its picnic, which will be attended by all vanity > ■quadmen and their dates. A Corps Dance, open to every one, will be held from 9 ’tfl 12 Saturday nigHt A. C. S. Meets Tonight To Hear Reports, Talks was Paul Whiteman’s All American Band, which added fiddles, guitars, and a piano to tha rodeo rhythm when the world championship rodeo opened at 8 o'clock this morning. Cnrtain time for the rodeo and hone show found every detail ar ranged. Five Minutes to Midnight, king of bucking horses, made hik initial appearance at the opening rodeo performance. Broac riders considered it an honor to draw the name of this outlaw. I In 1896 the bMid had 16 mem ber*. in W it had 18, and in '!)* it tad 24. It has grown by leaps, and bounds since then, till during the • 4Continued on page 4) 1 The forty-fourth meeting of the College Station and Bryan mem hers of the American Chemical So ciety will be held tonight at eight was the o'clock in lecture room No. 9 of tho Chemistry building. There wi]l be a talk on the rd- duction of air pollption caused by sulphur dioxide and also a report on the formation of the local A. 0. S. Sectimki . / All interested are invited to at tend. Those wbo have a paper they wish to present at the next meet ing should communicate with F. W. Jensen, chairman of the program esanaittea, I At a meeting of the College Sta-, y tion City CoQpcil last night, the rems fling 160 acres of the 200- acre College Hills addition wa* petitioned to be incorporated into tho new City of College Station. The first two blocks, 40 acres, of the Collage Hills community was orU ginally included as part of the city. | The now addition, located across the highway from College, wa* •tartod in April of last year. The K first house waa built in July andfV*- M| others have bgat! built since then, i The construction[ of a grocery store was started this week and IMW week a beauty shop, barber Shop, and a ladies’ ready-to-wear shop will bs itartod. A drug store will he Started sometime ia June. The site for a new theater has been selected, but it ia not certain kow sooa the construction will be- Howard Williams who will art as an advisor on land-1 Recovering From Unusual Operation BMpt* pssMHai 105 Aggies In Hospital, Most With “Flu” Miaabanow well are at present being requested to stay away from the College Hospital in order to avert the possibility of an iafuenza epidemic * At present there are 106 patients kK the hospital. The majority of thee* are victims of influensa. The wav# started last week and has not shown any signs of declining. Two foet of intestine were re moved from Aggie Howard Wil liams in a major operation per formed successfully on him nt the C'Ottefe Hospital last Tuesday to remove an intestinal obstruction. Tho operating was performed by Dr. J. E. Marsh of the hospital and Dr. L. O. Wilkerson of Bryan. An adhesion from an appendi- citus operation of eight months a go made the second operation neces sary. Williams spent two and one- half hours on the > rating table. Newly-Formed Engineering Council Makes Plans For Engineers Day The first meeting of the newly-f formed Engineering < ounef ] wa* told Wednesday night, Marsh 1, in the Director* Dining Room of Sbisa Hall. Organisation and elec tion of officer* was completed at this time, and plans for Engineers Day were made. Ed Hagan was chosen to be the first president, of the organi sation. E. C. French was elected secretary, and W. C. Morris Jr. will be chairman for the Engineers Day shoei. There are 18 charter member* of the Council, including the pres Went of each engineering society on the campus, and one extra se nior and junior from each of the six societies. The extra senior from each organisation will be in dhargr of that department'* display for Engineer* Day. Members of the Council include E. C French, Hal (Continued op page 4) PUBUC ATTITUDE OP MVERNKENT HELP DISCUSSED S. B. Me AI ister, professor of government dnd director of re search at North Texas State Teach ers College, will discuss the “At titude of the Public Toward State and Federal Help” at tha meeting Monday night *of the Social Science Seminar in Ihe Physics Lecture. Room at 7: 36 |p. m. Dr. McAlister will discuss thu increasing dependence of tfcf in dividual upon* the state with the effort of thifl| dependence on (he size and natunr of the government, the psychological effect upon the ' masses, and the changing emphasis on our systeni of lay. “A government tor a socialistic society must of necessity be dif ferent from a government operat ing a laiases-fairo system,” Dr. McAlister has said, and during the course of hii discussion will en deavor to dittinguish these dif ferences and what they mean to the individual and to the entire democratic processes of govern ment' Dr. lieAliater received his for- mal education at the University of Texas and at Harvard University. He has been connected with the Government Department at N. T. S. T. 0. since 1926 with the ex ception of one year spent in Wash ington as Research Technician fofj the National Resources Commis sion and one yc.ir spent in Austin as Firrt Assistant State Superb)* tendent of fjblic Instruction. He has published one book, “ThitP Government ftnd Law of ths Texas* Public School System," and is co author of “(Ada«| mocracy." «aMp> in Our Da- ED HAGAN THE A. ft M. BOARD OF Di rectors Will meet in the faculty room of the Admini*tiation Build ing. Saturday morning, according to an announcement • made by th« Preaidant’s Mdea. \ —4, irr,—•- - • , * The Weather Partly ctojidr. with mad tempemta*aj*»<! little change.
