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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1939)
s Editorial Qn« of 796 VOU38 PHONE 8 COUE f ■■ The Weather PMttrCioudrV COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 24. 1939 i if r |M t! NO.. DISCUSS CADET Joint Committee Named Quick Solution Nationally Font Sophs Toss Known Band . Hll,s m lt ^ for Will Play Will Also Play For Corps Dance Tomorrow Ni^ht i'll! n v vi t si rf a » Chosen Cotton Show Queen Board Position DeVilbiHH, Fuermann, Haines, Nisbet WIU Seek Junior Board Pftat lii'J.t , .j ^ 1. ^ Four sophomore* have announc ed for the position of Junior Rep resentative oni Im Student PuWi- eations Board this week. Three candidates for Battalion Editor-in-Chief and one for Senior Representative have also announc ed. The two Junior yell leadera will both seek election to the position of Chief,Yell Leader. The annual election will be held April 17, with April 6 as the last dote to file intention to run. Can didates for editorship must pay a $2 filing fee before April 6 in order to have their names on the ballot. | April 12 has been tentatively set aa meeting date for the Student (Publications Board to determine eligibility pf candidates for editor- jship. Student* who have announces! their intention to seek student of- tflfean far are as follows (ar ranged alphabetically): FOR BATTALION EDITOR- IN-CHIEF: , JAMES AiMJE- CRITZ BILL MURRAY ' . ( HARUFi WILKINSON This evening at 9 p. n*. the En gineer Regiment of Texas A. & M. will present the tenth annual En- gineers’ Ball in Sbisa Hall Henry- King and his nationally famous orchestra, who have just complet ed a lengthy engagement at The Hawaiian Blue Room in New Or leans, will furnish the music for a crowd of approximately 600 people. He will also play for the corps dance tomorrow night Within the last two yean, King has play ed at the Coeoaut Grove in Los Angeles, Beverly Wilshire in Hol lywood, the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, and the Baker Hotel in' Dallas. His orchestra offers dis tinctive arrangements and unusual rhythms in superb style. Ten years ago the Engineers (then known as the Air Corps) put on the fint regimental ball in the history of the school and have bet tered the affair each year to such ‘an extent that it is, at present, re nowned, not only for the quality of the occasion, but for the beauty of the girls that attend. The ball ia given by the classes of ’41 and ’42 in honor of the classes of *39 and ’40, and, as the result of several new ideas and a lot of hard work, jit promises to be one of the best ’ of the year. The ball is arranged, financed, and managed by the sophomores and freshmen of the regiment, and this year they have done an es pecially fine job of it. Thoee on the actual operations committee, which ia composed of two sophomores from each of the six companies, are: Co. A, Bryan Brown and Bob Nall«|r; Co B, L D. Reed and Clarence Hall; Co. C, Miller Ham mons and E. G. Stanley; Co. D, C. O. Watts and H. L. Blessington; Co. E, Dan Storey and E. E. Byrd; III fl I Till) A V MEET Co. t, Leroy Johnston and Paul In IjAlUlUlAI fflULll FOR CHIEF YELL LEADER: BERT BURNS BO DIE PIERCE FOR SENIOR PUBLICATIONS BOARD REPRESENTATIVE: MICK WILLIAMS FOR JUNIOR PUBLICATIONS BOARD REPRESENTATIVE: I C. F. DeVILBISS GEORGB jFUBRMANN PAUL HilNH BOB NIHRET ■DOUGH DOESN'T SEE 110 CHANCE Directors Kill ‘Dead Week’ Idea In Wednesday Meet Bolton Says Too Much Emphasis Placed On ' Final Exams by Students Dead week officially “died” Wed nesday afternoon at a meeting of the Board of Directors, at which the Board decided that an institu tion such as dead week was un desirable at A. A M. Among the •Vila accredited to dead week waa the tendency of students to place too much importance upon final exams. Examinations are only a small part of college work, accord ing to Dean Bolton, and the Board feel* that it is unwarranted in setting aside a whole week of each semes ter for preparations for the finale. Several minor changes in the method of giving final exams are now under eonsideratton, however. The moat important of theae is the possibility of allowing exemptions to a certain per cent of tho higher ranking students in each course A committee from the Scholarship Honor Society may meet with the Board some time in the near future to argue the question of exemptions pro and con. Ex-Aggie Pleasant With Beau Stephens The Texas AggMl.flrtn’t the only ones who “did ill the good” with the Stephens dollege coeds who visited here recently! Harry Stefani, an jex-Aggie xf the class of ’34 whd'is a solicit ing agent for the Mallory steam ship line at its Houston headqusr- tera, stilt hasn’t come hack to earth since the Stephens girls passed through Houston on their way to A. A M. After (he Stephen* girls’ ship had docked, Harry canlied two bags from the ship to the train for one attractive student TJu- day was hot and the bags here heavy There were about 40 girls in the coach where he finally placed the two bags. Just before he wqs ready to leave, one of the girls thought it vety sweet of Harry to bring the bags all the way fnpn tho ship, and so she told him she was going Attorneys ivestigate tkaavelvts to of- and to take action« It both eitiea, the city council and ammisyon in joint ht appointed a cam- out a possible salu- lem of transport* two eitiea. affects A. A M than any other Mias Ruth Gordon of Bryan has been oetorte# to reign aa Queen over the Cotton Style Show end Pageant here April 21. BeaRHargrave is King of the eveat. CHEM WARFARE BOYS UNDERGO TEAR GAS TEST Ruth Gordon Chosen Queen of Cotton Bad Wright Each girl attending the ball will receive either a bracelet or a pin, , both of which will feature the in- sigma of the Engineer Regiment According to final plans, decora tions will be generally the same aa were last year’s. A huge castle measuring 20 by 30 by 8 feet will | cover one end of the annex. It will be white, trimmed ia red, in three After looking over the results of the track meet at Ft Worth ^st Saturday, “Dough’* Rollins is about ready to concede a victory to the University of Texas Long horns. whom they meet in a dual meet here tomorrow afternoon. I > uk! hits a right to reach for "crying towel,” although the The queen of the anneal Cottonf Style Show, Pageant and Ball, to be held April 21, has been selected by a vote of the Student Agronomy Society, it waa announced WeU- nesday. She is Miss Ruth Gordon, daughter of Mrs. J. M. Gordon of Bryan. Miss Gordon with Beal Har grove, selected as King, will reign uver Aggieland during the Cotton Pageant April 21. Mias Gordon, who graduated from Bryan High School in 1938, is a member of Kappa Kappa Gam ma aorority at Sophie Newcomb, a division of Tulane University where she ia enrolled aa a freshman. Beal Hargrove, who as Cotton King, will share honor* with Miss Gordon, ia from Troy, Texas and ia president of the Agronomy So ciety. The annual Cotton Style Show and Ball ia always on* of the out standing social events of the yfear. Proceeds from it will go to finance the trip of three outstanding agron omy students to Europ/for a study of all phases of the cotton industry. dimensions, and will feature an Aggira won’t finish aa badly as he effective indirect lighting system, The Steers have Gilly Graham, who will probably toes the javelin shout 818 feet tomorrow. He is as [good as you will find anywhere. Steen will take a fint in the jpole vault with Beef us Bryan going at’ something over 18 feet On SENIOR RING CONTRACT MADE I The A. A M. Ring Committee ^ . . . _ . . _ _ has awarded the senior ring con- thf 0<h ' r h * n ' !;l " 1 0>< ' , ‘ tract for the years 1940, ^ptewood, great spmt and hurdle and 1942 to the Josten Jewelry Co. I 8 ** r * ** * hle run of Owatonna, Minnesota, pending <* * 1 injury. This would submission of acceptable samples. The ring committee is made up of Registrar J. E. Howell, W. L. Penberthy, Col Ike Ashburn, and C. B. McQuillen. Students on the committee are David Thrift and Bob Adams, aenion; D. Varner and Tom Richards, juniors; Jack Bailey and Preston Bolton, sopho mores. Bidding for the ring contract were the Star Engraving Co. of Houston, the Chns. Elliott Co. of 'VMMfctpRia/tbe Hrrff Jones Co of Indianapolis, the Balfour Co. of MaMadMaalfk! and the Josten Jewelry Co. cf Minnesota. The lavt named firm gut the contract. The riagi jVftl be cheeper under the new contract price. leave the Aggies with first* in all ef these MNM.' steward b.ut "Red” Cecil in the dashes at Ft Worth last week, hut Cecil has been working under heat this week tad he may be in just the shape to Uke the Texas runner* tomottUW.I Hughes, also of Texas, may tos* the discus about 163 feet for * first, but the Cadets a»ay uke both aefond and third. Iita dual meet the Aggies have a good chance of winning because they are balanced. It ia the meets in which several schools are repre sented tha| hurts the Cadets. A team wilb a few speeialisU who are cinches for firsts is the one that wins the big meets. * - FAMOUS ART PRINTS SHOWN HERE YESTERDAY j' A hundred museum prints, re productions in color of famous paintings which hang in American and foreign galleries, was on dis play yesterday afternoon and even ing, on the fourth floor of the Academic building. Students, fac ulty members, and townspeople at tended the exhibit The prints are remarkable h their coloring, which closely re- aerabies that of the originals from which they were copied. The list of pa i nters. wprsssnted included such artists M Correggio. Da Vinci, Raphael, Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyek, Rembrandt Murillo, Velas ques, Corot Millet Pouaain, Wat- tesu, Gainsborough, Reynolds. Tut •eg, and many others. The pictures are mouated on white mats and are twelve by fifteen inches in site. At 7:30 a short lecture was giv- A. & M. MEN TO LEAD CONVENTION I OF MAMMALOGY The American Society of Mam malogiats, an international organi ration of persons interested in the study of mammals, will bold its twenty-first annual meeting at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 3-7. Dr. William B. Daria, Professor in the Department of Wild Game at A. A M. and the Corresponding How would you like to enter a tent filled with tear gas? Probably you wouldn’t But the boys of the Chemical Warfare Battalion are doing it deliberately during their nrut drill periods this week. The purpose of this test is to give each sophomore and fresh man confidence in his gas mask and the protection it affords him against tear gas or ehloreeetophe- none. The boys first enter the tent without their masks and remain ex posed as long as they can stand it; then they sling their masks and remain in the tent fer a while with them on to insure them that their mask is protecting them. Tear gas ia a non-toxic gas and ia harmless, but it is a.lisry im portant part of Chemical Warfare defense and offense. to reward him with: a good-bye kias. Now, one of Harry'b duties is to create good-will for Ipa company; so after S few seconds of silent meditation, he realised that there was no possible way he could gracefully get out of kissing the attractive brunet good-bye. By the time he had finished ikissing her, the other 39 girls decided that they had *lso better kiss Harry good bye. When Harry finally stumbled out of the coach, h?- face had enough rad on it to paint a circus wagon. But Harry wy all smiles He said that Shepens College ia a wonderful institution.' Mayoi Are to After pi feet ragula which will College gi the Bryan eit; session last ni mi tie* to worl tion to the pi tion between The prohlei students group. Mayors J. H Binney of College Station and EjE. Yeager of Bryan and City Attorneys J. Whedkr But* of College Sution and F L. Henderson of l}ry»n Were named on a committed to study the possibility of creating a transportation mon opoly in order to be able to regu late operations of the company! in the interest of the passengers. The cbmmittee is ho' report is a' second joint meeting in the near future. Appearing before the joint Ses sion in an effort to explain the viewpoint of A. A M. students and to point out the seriousness of the transportation problem now were R. L. Doss, Battalion editor-in- chief, and James “Hymie” Cfitx and Bill Murray, managing editsra. The stated that an insufficient number of taxicab* are now ope*qt* ing between the eitiea and that the cabs are not now regulated enough to'protect passenger*. Allowing too many passengers ia cabs and not checking the vehicles for rnodasn- ical defects were cited as bad fea ture* of the problem. Members of the governing bodies appeared very interested in the students’ viewpoint, it was re[K>rt dil.- Texas U. Prof Will Speak Here Tonight “Recent' Advimcemont* in Min eralogy and Crystallography” will be the subject of a lecture to be presented by Dr, Dupcmn McCon aril of the Department of Geology of the University qf Texas at A. A M. tonight at 7 JO in the lecture room of'the Petroleum Geology Building. Dr. McConnell is also scheduled to lecture Satur day morning to geoldgy students C. /. A. Girls To Be Here for Soph Ball 41 if plans were made for the 11 ball, which ia to be held at a meeting of the dais officers and rep- Tuesday night in the T. S. C. W. sophomores down for the ball; they _ arrive by bus Friday after- charge of the program, announces ^ ^ Bun ,, Q Oommittee, has that this meeting will be of par ticular interest to Texans. Dr. Walter P. Taylor, Leader of the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, and Vice-President of the Socieety, will act aa chair man of a symposium at which the animal life of Texas, Louisiana. Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Alabama will be discussed. Dr. Daris will discuss the problem of increasing the Texas bighorn, one of the rarest game animals in Texas. Mr. Dan W. Lay, a graduate of A. A M. who is game manager of Region I, with headquarters at Beaumont, Texas, will discuss the economic «n, and tea was served by the Cam- importance and management of pus Study Club, which secured the exhibit from the General Founda tion of Women’a Clubs, Waahing- m, D. C., Small donations were accepted at the tea to defray the shipping coets involved in bring ing the collection to College Sta- the opossum, the most important fur producing animal in Texas A feature of the program will be motion pictures of the big game animals of Canada, the rare ele phant seals which opeur akmg the west coast of Mexico, sad the aaisnal life of Labrador. Comparison of First Semester tirades Completed • In a comparison of the first se mester grades, the senior project house! ktudeata made the highest percentage of B average grades or better, according to an official ea* timats made in the'registrars of fice on March 10 The senior day student* placod second, and the junior day students place third. Among the freshmen, the dormi tory students took first place ia the highest percentage of grades. The day student* placed second and Oie project house students took third. The percentage of the sophomores ran the same as the freshmen. In the junior class, the day stu dent* were first, dormitory stu dents second, and the project house students third. a list of these girls in his room at 209 Bixsell Hall. Sophomores wish ing dates with thae girls can go there and arrange for one. The list of the girls contains their post office box number, their height, their weights and their complexion. Propositions for a tea dance the Saturday afternoon following the Gall were rejected by* the Student Activities Board; so \nere will be no tea dance. L All classified scrapr* are cor dially invited to thalball. If they wish, they can keep their dates in Leggett Hall, which itill be vacated for the dance. Preston Bolton, chuirman at the Decorations Cbmmitfce, armour*- ed that elaborate dpcorationa are being made for the 6all. The Ag fieland Swing Band'iwfll play for H-r f Woody Bell, former Aggie base ball star, has been 'sent to San Antonio of the Texaf^Leagut. Beau Bell, a brother of Wpody »nd formerly of A. A is'with fhe St. Louis Browns, r FENCERS LEAVE FOR FORT WORTH MEET TOMORROW ' The A. A M. Fencing Club will go to Fort Worth tomorrow to de fend the Southwest Fencing League Championship in the final meet of the year against the Moody Chib of Galveston. In preliminary meets both clubs have won twelve out of fifteen matches. Last year the club returned aa ''champions for the first time. This year the club has been outstanding in all meets including the lecter ns lions! Mardi Gras Meet at N*W Orleans. In this meet the meaajbera competed against many; Olympic and National Champions from the U. S. and countries of Europe and South America. Approximately 109 fencers from the Southwest will tw preaeaf for finals in tha. individual eontest* to be held Suhday in the lobby of the Texas Hotel. Teams to be Buy lor Unjver- T\ Los Verdegos, Club and also the affair. ~ Many prominent highway engmeerin|f will be authorities the A. A M. campus way Engineers Short Course to be hold here April 6, 6, and on for the High- 7. rtty, Dallas Si M. U. F. the Moody Club Cai will be with the A. also be in League ? H Goodstein in es, as Is' Jim match, team and A M. Club*. Alvin GoodRtein his last matches M Club and will a perfect record for the year, expected to back and sabre match- in the epee ixtriuipate in tehee in clude W. A. Franks, Don Rose, John Baird, Watty dements. Bill Swigert, and Le Roy Everett — Ex-Aggie Charles James Killed in Fall From Derrick Charles O. James of Houston, who attended j A. A M. until the -pnig term i ( 1938/man killed late Monday afternoon when he fell MM feet from the top of an oil derrick in HoUma, Louisiana. Jam- «*» the only son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. James of Houston, was a stn- deat in A. A M. from the fall term in 1936 until midterm of 1938 •'H; C 11r L nil