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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1939)
V I I TI ESDAT, APRIL 4.193* - THE BATTALION Highway Short Course,\ i Informally Opened Today The fifUenth annual abort aoaraa^ in Highway EngiMeiinf bad aa Informal opening tbia morning vbct tbe district engineers of the State highway department met here for a business meeting proceinling the formal opening of the course Wednesday. Formal opening of the course will take (dace at 9:30 when Col. Dee A-'I, burn. Executive Assistant to the President, will deliver an a4> dress of welcome to some 340 en gineers, contractors, officials, and others who are interested in the Stret and highway problems of wjKS | Thn abort course, which will last Wednesday, Thmrsday, and Friday, is expected to be the beet attend ed of any in the history of the course even though no dormitory rooms will be available for the visiting officials as has been the custom in the past Delegates for the course will stay in hotels and tourist camps both here and in Bryan, accocding to J. T. L. Mo- New, Professor of Highway Engi neering at A. ft M., who is director of this year’s meet. \ The purpose of the course of fered by A. ft M. is to bring to- gether the engineers, contractors, officials, end other interested par ties a~?b as manufacturers, in or der that they may not only hear various phases of the state and national reputation, but -also that they may have an opportunity to meet with each other end exchange ideas. In order to carry out this 4 the fullest extent e certain of tims has been set aside t i many pi the engt » of WQ problems * luring th ring each day’s meeting for tbs of carrying on a discus- of the topics presented during day as well as other subjects 'night be of interest Many prominent officials both engineering and construction ork will spank on vital coafrooting the highways the meet Included in the list of speakers will be A. E. t mraings, district manager of the ymord Concrete Pile Company Chicago, Illinois; Mites D. Cat- ton, of ths development depart ment of Portland Cement Associa tion, Chicago, Illinois; J. L Harri son, U. 8. Bureau of Public Honda, Washington, D. C.; and F. V. Rea- gel, Engineer of Materials, Mis souri State Highway Department Jefferson City, Mo. 1 The course will aid at noon Fri day with \a speech on taxation for public improvements by H. C. Bradshaw, Economist on Taxation, after which an adjournment of the meet will be called. V T Bluebonnet Belle Mis-statement A statement in The Battal ion ef last Tuesday to the ef fect that Jimmy Cobtaaa, can didate for Senior Representa tive, wfts not aa the staff ef any publication was incor rect. He fa with the advertis ing staff ef The Longhorn. ( lub Organized to Help Ride Catching College Students An organisation called the Na tional College-University Travul Club Is being formed for the pur poee of making ride-catching and safer than here-to-fore college and university students, an A. ft M. student The organisation proposes the ■ule ef reflecting emblems which can la obtained only by peopte who are college students and mem bers of the organisation. : This, it ip said, will enable stu dents to bo recognised by driven both by day and by night traveling and will insure drivers of aafu pick-ups, thereby increasing the number and classes of people who pick up riders. The plan was originated by Keyaa Canon of Cuero, so A. ft M. TO THE CLASS OF '40.. procun by which this bout it made to break where I I * 11 yog want it to break was developed by the LocdMse Boot Co. This detail it at ft X* important to yon at the material and workmanship. IlL Perfect Ankle-Break T ' 1 Boot hat all three: proper the beat material L - .ljiZ workmanship . AGGIELAND ORCHESTRA RECEIVES FINAL TOUCH WITH YOCAUST tnW A Mias Margaret Walker ef Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mills P. Walker, is a BMebonnet Belle it the University of Tuko» ’Hli year. The Belles are the aominees far Bluebonnet Beesttes in "The Coetwf," the euiveraity yearbook, the bees ties not being mad.- public uutil the book comes set late la the school year. Mias Walker, a member of Alpha Delta Pi aerelty, is a senior pre-medical student, though this is only hot third your in col lege.—Photo Court*-*) Bryan Kaglr CARER'S CHAHCES IN 1940 RIM DON’T LOOK BAD. SAYS COLUMNIST LDCCHESE BOOT LOtffANY M 101 Trtvi* Street San Antonio, Texas i 1 « Shoes of Appeal That Can Take It, j. For Real Aggies! •j Lot Na 11-1383 J * Ahead In Smartness! Men's Tan and White Oxfords U’frliET 2.98 Handsomely styled for the ennaervetfeo dreeeer — ia a color combination that’s topu ter summer! Tan perforated tips and hnei trimming with tea tier aotea. Goodyear welt. J. C. Penn “AGGIE ECO! I f' Vi Lot No. 11-1160 Young Men's Favorites! ,. j; Laced Oxfords 3.98 ; * J if i V Jr ^ ■; , J - Natural eater with tenther li ter tedaga! Comfortable and distinctive! ’ Rubber haute, leather eelee. Goodyear wait! Co. Inc., IMT CENTER" Texan BY CHARLES P. STEWART Maybe Elliott Roosevelt was right in his recent assertion that Vice President John N. Garner ia th. leading condidate for the next Democratic nomination as White House tenant. It's hard to believe that F. D. wants the Texan select ed “niey haven’t been overly har monious ih their respective rotes at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue and up on Capitol HHL However, F. D. himself perhaps reed some writing on the wad. Anyway, when his own son gambles on the Lone Star statesman it’s rather significant For teat matter, even Elliott didn’t j say that John N. was his prefer- ' ence either. He simply said that he believed the letter would get the nomination, which was quite dif ferent from saying that be hoped so. If Elliott was right, if Garner does get the nomination, it assured ly will go a long distance toward proving the truth of the old saying | that you can’t keep a good man litewte Notorious, if theft's a job in this country which forecloses its incum bent against promotion it’s the Vice Presidency. A couple of Vice Pree- ktonts (Thddy Roosevelt and Cal roolidgaj hawe graduated into tho jir.-'idcnry and then been presi- dentially nominated and elected, bat tor a vies president to ■ out his vice presidential term, and then to be pre.identklly nominat ed? That would be aaprecedented A mONG CANDIDATE All the seme, it’s easy to son why Cactus Jack should bo a strong csdidsto. There really are only two material counts against him: 1— He’s been vice president. Per haps he’s good enmifb to offset that. 2— He’s nearly TO—traditional ly too old to start in on an exsco- ayalwtoaion tenancy. Whether or not he can overcome that handicap is ptobtematfc. Gamer has peculiar qualifies - i tios. In the first place, strangely j enough, his geography is all right He’s a Texan, he should hold the Solid South together. Yet Texas doesn’t class as a southern stats as the southeastern group do. There fore he shouldn’t have much, if any, aecttona! opposition. Secondly, white conservative, he isn’t rampantly anti-liberal. Thirdly, the range of hie political experience is almost unlimted. Mori past vice pres Meats have been comparatively unskilled in party technicalities. Ha’s a past master at the game. Fourthly, he’s a marvelous wise- cracker Thing* aren't so bad for a con- greeaional party leader when be has a majority back of him. GOES ’WAY BACK v Bat Gamer was Democratic lead er of the House of Representatives whls his group eras to a hopeless minority. His minority was split, too. Ths ttemocrats always are. The late Speaker Joseph W. Byrne once explained this to me—from his standpoint. “Wo Democrats,” he said, “have honest convictions, bat we clash ia these eosvictions. The Republicans never dash in campaign time. All they wart to do te to break into of fice. They don’t care whether they climb ia through the cellar window or seals a drainpipe and enter by way of the attic. Once inmd. tm > may quarrel over the loot, but they’re a unit in committing bur- gterf. Our Democratic squabl.ling’s done in advance—which is why they beet us On eloction days Nevertheless, Gamer kept his split minority in pretty good order. In those days Gamer’* minority was a trifle too minus to be pi. ns ant Yet a majority, if overly prepon derant, has a tendency to divide it- aslf. Th# Republicans showed that trend. The talk was to the effect than an excessive majority was un- fteftHii |! As s newspaperman I dropped in an Loader Gamer to ask for infor mation. || He listened and then he said re- S "Do you know, Fd rather have a top heavy majority.'' He’s finny that way. REQUESTED BOOKS ARE RECEIVED BY A. & M. LIBRARY Aa order for BO requested bosks for tke library was sent off March 21. according to Dr. T. F. Mayo, Librarian. Out of this order, mide possible by gifts from students and Mother's Clubs, 18 have arrived. The rest will oome in slowly, Dr. Mayo said. When the hooks arrive, students who made the requests will be aoti- fied of arrival, and the books wfll be held so that these students may hsvs first chance. Another order will be sent off after the holidays. There is around $20 left in the fund end requests will be filled as long as the money holds out The books from tkia last order will probably be avail able around May 1. At present there are only five or six requests for additional b«K>ks turned in at foe library. Most of the books ordered were fiction, some were scientific one* About ISO has been spent for books with tong waiting fists. The books received am as fol lows: Anthony Adverse, by Alton; Ends of ths Earth, by Andrews; Ameri ca South by Beelt, The Citadel by Cronin, Rebacca by Du Maurier, The Count of Monte Cristo by Du mas, A World I Never Made by Farmll, A Peculiar Treasure by Kerber, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories by Hem ingway, Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitter, Aanriea’s 60 Families by Lundberg, Pm s Stranger Hem My self by Nash, Etiquette by Emily Post, Topper, a ribald adventure by Smith, Days of Our Yearn by Van Paaseeu, Divided We Stand, The Crisis of a Frontierless Demo, craey by Webb, Topper Takes a Trip by Smith, and Nothing but W ode house: Edited by Ogden Nash and by P. G. Wodehoune. The perfect added to A. ft l|.1i ACEUmmI Or chestra lately, in '.th. person of Dorothy Ttaftnee, charming brunet vocalist of Victoria. Dorothy, who is., only nineteen, has been singing fo many years, has already appeared with big name band*as Mick Stuart, 7 Bus**, Roger Pryor, and Ed- Fitxpatrick. Shf has beau of- contracts by both Stuart and but circun.-tan.-. H prevented rtHteul Her "tint eppearpnee with the was som# time ago, as Yllai&fteeasiont*] her becoming > regular "ihger with the in this capacity last Friday night for the annual Sophomore Ball She sang agate for-'tile ten dsnee the following afternoon, end the third time at the' Crips Dance that night She will teim at all three R. V. dances th s cqming week-end. Dorothy 1$ a veryCYerSatfl* ring er—she singe everything from op era to jass—but as s singer of swing tunas to the Bee Wain manner. 1 Her favorite tunes at the motn$nt am "Hold Tight,” the seafood song; Ziggy Elman’s "And ths Angels Sing* “Begin the Beguia^" end Artie Shaw’s swing arrangement of the • Indian Love Cali;* These and “Wght and Day," •Softly ns the Morning Sunrise," jArtte Shaw’s “Nightmare” add fM, (other Shaw AggteUnd touch has been 4 arrangements am, (fddsatafiy. few of the numbers is now featuring. Dorothy has lived long thne—all her HfA in fact but she’s traveled considafably. In er words, "she’s Many ef her summers n in romantic where, she says, “Dm sews, and little Dorpthy watches the boll fights. • Dorothy, in additten _ good-looking and a gM singer, te quite a good dancer. She tew, te addition, s number of other hob bies, pastimes, and talents, about which she is, however, extremely PAGE 6 In Victoria a b< an around."! iho spent Old Mexico, fishes. Mom to being And she quickly absorbed the spirit of A. ft M., aa well as the Aggie lingo. She surprised her mother et the dinner table, niter her first trip to Aggtetead (to which she is now commuting tor th* week-ends) by growling, "Hey, Maw, trow me a piece o’ da gun I waddin’l" Dorothy has already mad* quite a hit with th* Aggtea, who sale hoping that the will sing with ths Aggimand for a long time to come —which the Aggteland is hoping, too. STUDENTS RECEIVING funds through the National Youth Administration must sign affidarita stating they are U. S. citiseas. I H K kNCXENT AND ROYAL Order of Handshakers ia a student organisrtion on the Niagra Uni versity campus. S A X E T “GOOD” ICE CREAM Bryan Dairy Store lot K MUi tnm f; 1 1 . { . - AGGIES, LET US HEIJ> KEEU UP I YQI R APPEARANCE '' X iTaT J ' . , ■■ For The Holidays Y. MiC. A. BARBER SHOP Patronisn Our Agmt in Your Orgaitixnti*- DY ERS HAi t t.b % AMERICAN-STEAM IAUNDRY DRY * • C LEANERS BOS BRTAM - 1 V 1 i 1. 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