Editorial
Fmiff* Policy
The Battalion
The Weather
VOL. 38 PHONE 8
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 21, 1939
1726 NO. 61
WEEK LONG DORMITORY STRIKE ENDED MONDAY
Thanksgiving Game To Be Blue-Boys Hop a* Bardo PUiys, Ahns Sing
Dedicated to Jesse Jones
New Dormitories
May Be Dedicated
On the Same Daw
Athletic Committee Of
Board of Directors To
Make Plans for Event
The annual Thankaclving foot
ball came between Texaa A. A It.
and the University of Texas to be
held at A. AM. next November
will be dedicated to Jesse Joi
of Honeton, chairman of the Re
construction 'Finanoe Corporation,
the Board of Directors announced
Monday. In all probability the (in
dication of the twelve new dormi
lories and meas hall will be helc
on the aame day, Dr. Walton said.
Dr. Jones, who in November of
1036 received the second honorary
doctor of laws degree ever award
ed by A. A M . baa shown much
interest in tMs institution. He was
instrumental, in obtaining a lean
of $2,000,000 from the RFC, gov
ernmental agency, for the Con
struction program of the new dor
mitories and mess ball now in pro
gress at A. A M.
The athletic committee of the
Board of-Directors will be in charge
of arrangements of the program
for the day. Members of the
committee are Dr. Walton; Joe U-
tay, chairman; A. H. Demke and
Walter Lacy.
Dr. Jonaa possesses a long list
of outstanding achievements both
for Texas and the nation. He starv
ed under President Wilson doting
and after the war es > delegate
to Red Cross meetings in Geneva
and Pmia. Ha helped in organising
the League of Red Croes Societies
M the world.
Since 1932, when he was made a
member of the RFC by Pres ideal
Hoover, he has been in the nation
al spotlight, tnor.- so when He Was
made chairman of the corporation
in 1933. Since that time he
worked untiringly at his job.
He has long been a leader and
well known figure' in the lumber,
banking, and newspaper business
in Texas. He was given a regency
in the field of finance in 193S by
the Association of Arte and
I Sciences. '|T 1.
Kokemot
Is \Named
Director
i
Governor W. Lee O’Daniel Sat
urday appointed Herbert Lee Kok
•mot Jr., a rancher-stockman of
Jeff Davis County, to succeed El
liott Roosevelt, son of the Pres
ident, as a member of the A. A M.
Board of Directors.
Mr. Kokemot attended A. A M.
duMng the session of UM3-19. He
was an agriculture student enrolled
in the Student Army Training
Corpe and, at that time, was liv
ing in San Antonio.
Mr. Kokemot is President of the
Alpine National Bank and is also
in charge of the extensive ranch
operations and properties owned
by he and his father. The proper
ties owned by the Kokernots are
second in site in Texas only to the
great King Ranch in tbs southern
part of the state.
Mr. Kokemot’* ancle was a mem
ber of the A. A M. Board of Di
rectors about thirty years ago, and
his father has been n member of
the Baylor Board of Trustees.
In accepting Roosevelt's resigns
tion, O'Danicl wrote as follows:
“It is with regret that I receive
and accept your
1 have great faith in A. A M. It
certainly offers wonderful- oppor
tunities for the boys of our state
in fitting them to carry on the
great biduatrial and agricultural
development of Texas which now is
getting under way in grand styla
and which no doubt will eventually
make of beautiful Texas the great-
est industrial and agricultural em
pire in the world.”
Director of Wesley
Hi hie Chair of Austin
Speaks Here Sunday
Top, a groap of Infantry students
and their dates crowd aroand Bill
Bardo's hand at the Infantry Ball
last Friday ia the meas kail. Bot
tom. Bardo beams as the fear Aha
Sisters sing.
Two More
Announce
Entrance
Two candidates for student of
fices—Charlie Wilkinson for Bat
talion editor-in-chief and Mick
Williams for senior representative
on the Student Publications Board
—announced their candidacy ]
terdny.
Wilkinson was the third person
to announce for the Battalion posi
tion. James “Hymie” Grits
nounced last Tuesday and Bill Mur
ray announced Friday.
Williams is the first student to
announce for the Publications
Board position. A candidate for
junior representative and another
for senior' representative are ex
pected to announce aeon.
Wilkinson is s junior editor of
The Battalion and served as a re
porter last year. Grits served as a
reporter last year and was ap
pointed managing editor > when
school opened this year. Murray
was a junior editor the first term,
ahd was named managing editor
at mid-term to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Bill
Payne.
Work Will
. |
Be Dotie on
50-50
Around
Back M
Constmath
tialiy com]
lories was
TEXAS HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT TO
HELP AT COURSE
Stephens Collegre
Girls Write Back
With Their Opinions
Of Aggieland Stay
DAIRY HUSBANDRY
STUDENTS WORK
AT WORLD’S FAIR
Tex at A. A M. will be joined
by the Texas Highway Department
April 6, 6, and 7 in offering the
fifteenth annual short course in
Highway Engineering, it was an
nounced by J. T. L. McNew, pro
fessor of highway engineering.
Under direction of the A. A M
department of civil engineering, the
SattAday Sight at 7:15, at the * three-day session is ekpected to
A. A M. Mettacxiist Church, Dr. C. draw the attendance of several
W. HsSl will begin a series of lec- hundred engineers, contractors, of-
tures on ‘Marriage and Home fleiala and others interested in
Making”
Dr. Ball -is the Director
of the ;Wssley Bible Chair of Aus
tin and toadies religious education
in the University of Tsxas.
4 k — —
street and highway problems
Tsxasi
Various phases of highway con-
< Continued on page 4)
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Bill Bardo and Orchestra Offered
Pleasing Dance Tunes Here Last Week
BT WALTER SULLIVAN <
Truly great entertainment was
presealed this last weekend by BiU
Bardo. his hand, and the Ahn Sis
ters; kfa was as versatile a troupe
as A. Il M. students have had the
pleasure' of dancing to. Th^ band
was capable ot playing any type
of music known to modern dance
audiences, the numbers offered by
“The Barrel House Boys” and “The
Hillbilly Quartet” were a delight
ful combination of novelty and
originality, sum! the singing of the
. Ahn Sisters was supreme. In short,
the entire group was tops.
The Bardo “family,” as they call
themselves, is composed of Mr.
and Mrs. Bardo, little Lynn Bardo,
the Ahn girts and the fourteen fel
lows IA the band, aU of whom have
nothing but praise for the South
and its people, and it’s about the
most compact unit in the business.
Dissension Is never in their midst,
and at all times they are the best
ef friends. To add to this,
sonality is their middle name.
Abeut 22 years ago a young lady
was bom to s Reverend end Mrs.
Ahn way up in Ohio; they wanted
a son and had previously decided
to name the child “John,” but
when the "son” tamed out to be
a daughter, they gave her the name
“Jean” Which is French for “John’’
After the birth of the first daugh
tor, the couple decided that the
rest of their children, should they
be blessed with more, would be
givtn biblical names. And s*.
have “Miriam," who was born two
years later.
Following Miriam by two years,
arrived a third daughter who was
named “Virginia” after the state
of Virginia, for toe paOvudA had
riscarded the idea Of giving their
(Continued on page 4)
10th Annual Engineer’s Ball
Friday To Feature Henry King
Friday night the Engineer’s Regiment will present their tenth
annual Engineer’s Ball. As the Engineers were the first to prswent
an organisation dance, it is believed their’s will be one of the best
of the season. Even though it is restricted to members of the Engi
neer Regiment, this dance will be a highlight on the social calendar,
the engineers being “noted” for the large number of beautiful
girls that are always present. <
Music will be furnished by Hen
ry King and his Regal Rhythm
orchestra. King comes here from
the Royal Hawiian Room in the
Roosevelt Hotel at New Orleans,
fee will play' for both the Engi-
tieer’s Ball and Corps Dance the
following night.
During the past two years Hen
by King has played at the Coco-
E i Grove ia Los Angeles, Beverly
1 shire in Hollywood, the Falr-
nt Hotel in San Francisco, and
Uie Baker Hotel in Dallas.
I Decorations will follow the same
general scheme as was followed
for the Engineer's Ball last year;
t giant castle, like the one worn
ts collar ornaments, will be erected
across one end of the annex. The
xnd will be located ia the
of this castle. Red and
trhite will be need as the color
scheme, using indirect lighting to
Create the proper effect.
Ail plans and arrangements hove
wn made by a committee of
sophomores in the regiment, the
dance being given for juniors sad
seniors by sophomores and fresh
The Engineers will present
their girls with favors of a pin
inscribed with the letters A. M, C.
and a bracelet having a small cas
tle.
Demonstration Of
Home Lighting To
Be Held Friday
A home lighting demonstration
will be given in the lecture room
of the electrical engineering build
ing at A. A M. Friday evening,
at 7 o’clock, by Miss Ethclec Hud
son. home lighting specialist of
the Dallas Power A Light Co.
282 STUDENTS
DISTINGUISHED
FIRST SEMESTER
282 Students were listed as dis
tinguished students for the fall
semester of ’38-’39 in the report
i ecently issued by Registrar How
ell. This was an increase of twenty
students over the distinguished
students ef the T7-’38 term.
Of the 282 students, there were
seventeen with a straight “A” av
erage or 3.00 grade points
semester hour, as compared frith
fourteen with a straight A average
the year before.
I Those who made 8.00 grade
points per semester hour were W.
R. Cowley, fourth year A. E. stu
dent; R. S. Crawford, freshmaa ia
Liberal Arts; K. W. Dahl, sopho
more M. E.; J. E. Evans, senior
in A. A.; G." D. Gabnel. freshman
in liberal arts; T. S. Gillis, soph
omore in chemical engineering; R.
L. Gulley, freshman taking liberal
arts; B. Hard is III, freshman in
mechanical engineering; T. D. Har
ris, third year vet. mod.; M. Hel-
fand, sophomore vet. mod. student;
J. M. Holliday, freshman in ’a>e-
chanieal engineering; B. J. MiKer,
junior pet. engineering student; J.
E. Minnock, sophomore mechanical
engineering student; J. W Moore,
senior in agronomy; R. B.
freshman mechanical engineer; F.
A. Smitham, freshman ehem. engi
neer; R. S. Urdaneta, freshman
agronomy student.
According to various letters re
ceived by escorts of the 325 Ste
phens College girls who were here
last Tuesday,'A. A M. and its stu
dent* made a very favorable im
pression on the students from the
Columbia, Missouri, school.
Many of the girls have been cor
responding with their Aggie dates
and have offered their opinions of
the eventful stay at College Sta
tion. Some jof these opinions are
as follows:
. .. “You all were se much fun and
just like home that I certainly en
joyed everything.
Your lines were right.
BwaMpaaR., i
And I wouldn't .have missed it
for anythin*”—The Racehorse from
Kentucky. -
. . . “We won’t forget the supper-
time at A. A M.—-a really swell
place.”—A Coloradan.
. . . “Simply heavenly!! Ail the
boys wer* perfect!”—A Georgia
Peach.
. . . “A. A M. is tops with me all
around.”—Speaking for Oregon.
. . . “Leaves West Point and An
napolis completely out in the sold.”
-Illinois. -
.. . “The best dance ever! The boys
are plenty smooth and have per
sonally plus.”—Connecticut.
. . . “A. A M. is simply swell and
hope to go back, if asked.”—Mich
igan.
. .. “Being from New York I might
add that your school has it a if over
Weet Point—Orchids to you.”
. . . “Your hospitality made the
eastern schools look sick.”—A West
Virginia Hill-billy.
... “A. A M. is the thing!! I’d like
to come back.”—New Mexico.
‘A swell school to have fun
aad such a large campus with those
beautiful buildings was a surprise
to us all."—South Dakota.
. . . "The real Southern way to
show us a good time is found at A.
A M.”—Illinois.
. . . “You really treated us swall
and So B 11 Stephens hopes
you will pay us a visit."—A Mis
souri Show Mo.
» . . “Ws don’t know who they art
or where they came from—But
they’re plenty snappy!.’'—A Ken
tuckian.
>, . . ‘The best dance during the
whole trip!”—Illinois.
A R. Mandeen,
rintendent tor the
Company, tha
ected by a corn
el n the par-
A M. dormi-
ued today as the
ended Monday
morning.
According
construction i
Bellows i <
settlement
promise betwe
steel workers thereby the setting
at the steel window frames would
be done on a fifty-fifty basis, half
of the work beiijg done by tad car
penters aad the remaining half
being done by the steel worker*.
The argument which caused the
strike centered about the fitting of
steel window fra mss by car
penters. As the frames wars mads
of steel, the a (eel workers union
went on strike Claiming that aoch
work rightfully! belonged to them
and not to the carpenter*.
Mr. Mandeen pointed oat that
approximately $00 men had been
put hack to woilc Monday morning
as the week-kin* delay made it im
possible to put (he masons hack to
work until certain preparatory
work had been completed. How
ever, he said that tha full fore* of
450 men woak( be back to work
within
Nick Nance of Loeneta and Du
ane Hobin of Turnsrsville, dairy
husbandry majors, will work in
the Borden Company exhibition at
the New York World's Fair start
ing in April and will continue there
until December, A. L. DarkeH,
dairy husbandry instructor, an
nounced Monday.
The various breed associations
throughout the United Staten were
asked to select and send dairy cows
to the exhibition the Borden Com
pany will have and in this way will
promote familiarity with the vari
ous breeds where people at the
fair will see these cows being milk
ed at the dairy parlor.
At the same time, various schools
were asked to recommend students
to work at this exhibition. Nance
and Hobin were selected from Tex
as A. A M. These students quit
school te he able to taka advantage
of this opportunity. They will work
in the milking parlor, feeding and
milking the cows, and proceasir g
the milk products. The sale of
milk and other dairy products will
be handled by these students also
LAST NIGHT THE SCIENCE
Seminar had as Ha guest speaker
Dr. A E. Lockenvitz of the Univer
sity of Texas. His subject wai
"Some Recent Developments in
the Production and Measurement
of High Vacuum.’’
STATE’S
FAMILY
TO
RST
VITED
SHOW
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel -and his
family have been invited to attend
the Cotton Pageant to be held «n
April $1. Since the state’s first
family will be In Houston fa> con
nection with the commemoration
of San Jacinto Bay, H ia likely that
they will be ab|e to attend. Molly
O'Daniel has been asked to attend
as a dueheas.
the ball hee beau
committee te
sed to make her
it was learn-
tionally famous
111 will furnish
for the queen,
will be presented
by Foley Bros, of Houston who wM
present as a feature the dress te
be worn by the quean of Ttoglend
on her visit to the United Staten
this spring.
This years pqgent will have ap
proximately IA i couples including .
the <
80 duchesses. TV theme at the af
fair win be
in e formal garden.
The queen
selected but
charge has
name public,
ed that the i
designer Sch
a “special
The style
Spinach Carnival and
Rodeo
To Be Held in Crystal City
roan the toll
J «*t togeths
tech Festival l
them Friday,
Down in the Winter Garden Die-- •
trict of this state—not ter from
the spot on which 8ant-> Anna and
Us followers camped on their march
to the Alamo, steads a statue-
net the statue of some famous
General, neither ia it the statu-
of 'any of the famous outlaws or
Indians who long years ago roam
ad across this land—it’s a statue of
Popeye, the Sailor Man, a
strip character mad* famous by
the late E. C. Segar. This charact
er is known from Alaska to Al
bania, fkom Maine to Mam
in fhet in every country on the
globe the children, as well as the
grown-ups, follows the doings of
Popeye and his gang.
Popeye gives credit for his mar
velous feats of strength to the
enormous quantity of spinach he
consumes. In honor of this grand
folks around
together tor the
Saturday
old sailor
Crystal City
annual Spinach {!
to be held
and Sunday.
On Friday morning the Spinach
Capita] will start out ths.Feetivul's .
three days of Feature*, Fun. aad
Frolics with au immense parade te
which nothing in the way of money,
time, and enerfy has been spared
to make the lo ts pertar the boat
in the history ef the Festival ‘it*
big International Rod So will bp
overflowing with stars of the rep*
and saddle, competing far assay
prises offered to the events of thto
colorful westeih Jamboree.
The crowning at Mias Billy. Ruth
Thompaon. queen of the festival, in
the midst at bet magnifk-ient Court
is one of the inoat beautiful cetu-
monics ot this [festival.