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EVERY A. & M. STUDENT IS ENTITLED TO A VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION IN THE ACADEMIC BUILDING MONDAY
BRING YOUR 2ND TERM FISCAL RECEIPT TO THE POLLING BOOTH; WITHOUT IT, YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO VOTE
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CIRCULATION 5,200 Student Semi-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College CIRCULATION 5,200
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, nUDAY AFTBRNOON, APML 14, 1939
3|BT~n°^®2
CE FOR EDIT
Candidates Speak
\
To Address
Aggie Corps
From Y Steps
Yell Practice After
Supper Will Feature
Talks of Fif teeu Men
FifUm prospective candidates
(or (our of the most important po
sitions on the campus will
their final plena to the stadent
body tonight nt roil practice
the steps ot the Y. M. C. A.
These are the contestants (or
Chief YOU Leader. Battalion Edi
tor, and Senior and Junior Repre
sen tatirea on the Student Publi
cations Board. Hub Aston, this
year’s Yell Leader, will have
charge o( the speeches and will
introduce each candidate in turn.
He general election, at which
time the votes will be cast (or
these offices, is to bt held in the
rotunda of the Academic Building
on next Monday from 7;S0 to 1:90.
In case run-offs are necessary in
any at the races, the second elec
tion will be held under the same
conditions on Monday, thb\S4th.
Following is a sample baflet, the
arranged according to <)m
of drawings for places betS. ^ detests. This group, the largest
TTnraday afternoon in The Bat-fy ^ hiftory of ^ ^
be composed of the top ten percent
•f the 23.IXK) students of Vocation'
ue^ai wen ton ^^“ ^1 Agriculture in Texas.
different contests will be en
in on Mdoday—livestock
animals, poultry, crops, wik
tame. cotton classing, soil coneer
vatKin, entomology and hortkuL
Winners of the livestock,
ry and poultry contests will bt
state champions and will bt
t to the American Royal Live*
lock Show at Kansas City neri
to bar.
The Cadet Corps will state 4
ted review hi honor of the
tors and of the Chemical War-
are Service Monday afternoon,
id entertainments to be offered
m will be 4 free show k th<
taken offidm
SAMI'! E BALLOT
General gsrtian
For Editor of The hsttalion.
L Thompson
James Crita
C. M. Wilkinson
B01 Murray
For Chief Yell Leader:
Bodie Pierce
Bert Burns
For Senior Rep . -« ntative on
Publications Hoard
Mick WiUiama
. Jimmy Cokinos
Ray Treadwell
For Junior Representative on
1‘ublirations Board:
Boh Nisbet
George Fuermann
C. r DeVtlbisa
Paul Haines
Hub Johnson
Sarlc Shields
ittalioo Is
lamed Official
lity. Newspaper
I-arire ( irculation
Of Collete Paper
Taken Into Account
On Vadaesdayl April 12, Tha
ttalion was selected, according
Mr. J. Wheeler Barger, ehy et-
•rney, as the official newspaper
the newly incorporated city
College Station, Texas.
During the regular meeting of
city council at which the new
rs took the oaths of office,
id an ordinance stating-
nimum number of issues the of-!
paper could have. Then
il, after taking into account
large riitulation of The Bat
passed another
ting that The Battalion
the city's official newspaper.
Theater Assured
A movie theater for College Sta
tion was assured today by N. E.
Bough ton, Developer of College
Hills Estates, city residestial and
business addition.
“We will have a picture show
erected here in time for use next
fall,’’ Mr. Bbughton said. He did
not go into details.
Cellega Hills Estates to now mi-
lag the Bryan Amusement Comp
any fbr $26,000 damages and can
cellation of a deed to a tract of
land in College Hills for failuro to
erect a building as they allege the
Bryan concern should have done.
The Bryan Amusement Company
hits not yet filed defendant's peti
tion in answer to the one filed in
District Court by College HiUe..
Hamner Gets Social Post;
" Head Series
’Quiet Election j}
Chooses Officers *
H2SCHOOLS IN
CONTEST MONDAY
1-
2738 students of Vocational Agri
attorn, tupratoaMag 342 schools
ver the state, will bs here Monday
k>r the 22rx1 annual Smith-Hughes
the
thal
Political Jockeying on Publications
Killed in Wednesday Board Meeting
Pubtications Body Will Appaitot Managing Editors; Final
Action To Make Battalion Tri-Weekly Taken; Magazine
W1B Be Separated From Newspaper Under New Plan
The Battalion will be issued three time* weekly next year, the
newspaper and magaxine will bo separated and operated by separate
staffs, and all managing editors of The Battalion and The Scientific
Review will be appointed by a new system designed to take politics out
of publications appointments.
These and other pressing publications problems were discussed and
passed by tha Student Publicstions"
Board in a meeting held Wednes
day afternoon in the office of Dean
Bolton, Board chairman, which also
all Candida Us for office de
clared eligible.
E. L. Angell, manager of student
publications, reported to the board
that the financial condition of stu
dent publications is good and that
no groat loos possibly none at
all—will, in his opinion, bo felt
by increasing the number of issues
of The Battalion. /
The motion to increase the num-
b. r‘of issues next year was made
by R- L. Dots, Battalion editor,
and seconded by B. P. Mend Ml
Scientific Review co-editor, and
was passed unanimously.
Other changes in the organixa
Lon of Student Publications pro
posed by the Battalion editor
the appointment of all managing
editors of The Battalion and the
by the Student Publics
tions Board with the advice of the
of student publications,
the outgoing Battalion editor and
the incoming editor. Mandell
amended the motion to have man
aging sditors of the Scientific Re
view appointed in the same manner
Members expressed the belief that
gym Sunday night
■ Vocational agriculture
will accompany the boys
|will hold a meeting on Monda;
morning at which Dean Kyle
A, Manire, sUte director f<
nal agriculture, will
v;!! be another conference
the teachers-trainers on Tuea-
J - ' j 1 -i
The Agricultural Education Do-
Ipurtmeat, which has charge of
;tabulating U^e results of the cory
hopes to ha able to announce
winners and award banners b)
p. m. Monday night ^
work otit a poanible solution to the
Mtkm of standardising awards
to publications staff members. Al
so to sprve on that group are A. G.
Beckmann, Longhorn business
manager and senior representative
the Publications Board, Sam
Harris, eo-oditor of the Scientific
Review, Mandell and Doss.
The Board decided to award
watches to the following seniors:
Barton; Beckmann; H. F. Bock-
horn, Longhorn sports editor; J.
F. Hollingsworth, Longhorn sxno-
riate editor; P. A. Anderson, Long
horn assistant; J. Wayne Stark,
Longhorn assistant; Doss; W. H.
Smith, Battalion advertising man
ager; J. C. Diets, Battalion circu
lation manager; B. C. Knetaar and
George Pulton, Battalion assistant
advertising managers, Mandell and
Harris.
Eleven Entrants
In Race for Next
Junior Yell Leaders
Eleven sophomores have already
put in petitions signed by a bun
dled boys to run for Junior Yell
toMMlj for next year and one or
two more may yet enter. The dead
line for petitions has bon set at
April 16th.
The preliminary election will be
held by the sopbomorea at 7:90 on
April 18th. Each man will vote for
two candidates and the run off will
be held in about a week at a joint
meeting of the junior and sopho
more dasses. The first election will
be tabulated by members of the
Junior class.
The sophomore class will have a
meeting immediately before the
voting, and the candidates will be
given an opportunity to display
their 6 bih ties. Voting will be by
ballot and the highest six men will
be in the finals
Thote now in the race are John
Ball, Engineers; C. J. "Foots”
Bland, Field Artillery; H. O. “Hub”
Johnson, Field Artillery; R. L.;
Daslnfer, Field Artillery; E. R
“Busttr" Keeton, Signal Corps;
Grover Mushaway, Field Artillery;
L. J. “Jack” Nelson, Infantry Band;
Graham B. Parcel!, Cavalry; J. M.
.Sedberry, Field Artillery; Teddy
Saba, Field Artillery; and Frank
"Pancho" Thompson, Coast Artil
lery. ♦
GEORGE
SMITH
Houston Mothers
Will Give
Dinner Sunday
The Houston A. 01 M. Mothers
Gub will honor thd Houston and
Harris county boys frith a chicken
dinner held in bargquet room of
Sbisa ball Sunday at 1 p. m.
The dinner to ont of the many
social events given Mifconor of the
boys by the Mothers Gub each
year. Earlier in the spring the boys
were given a cookie shower and
entertainment Thor mothers also
aid the boys each ydsr in prepara
tion for their holidsjf dance. Tickets
for the dinner can he had hi room
86 Milner or from plub President
Jack C^aig.
George Smith of the Band was
elected Editor of the 1M0 Ixin*
horn with a dear majority over
Sid Gottlieb and Jimmy Kouts in
the primary election yesterday. He .
rectohfcd 189 votes to 71 for Fouls
and 61 for Gottlieb.
Waiter “Sully" Sullivan of A
Engineers won over Henry Herder
of F Field Artillery in the run-off
for Manager of the Entertainment
Series for 1940. His vote was 147
to 86 for Herder. -SuBhrmn also lad
in the primary polling 96 votes, fol
lowed by Harder with 87, BUI Guy
with' 78 and Henry Hertner of D
Coast Artillery with 49
Charlie Hamner of B Infantry
was ejected Social Secretary of the
Senior Clam in the run-off election
against Johnny Seville of H In
fantry. Hamner led the seven can
didates in the primary election
with 116 votes, followed by Be-
vUle with 66, Guy Garrett of the
Band with 46, Red Austin of 2nd*
Hq. Field Artillery with S0i Bill
Dwytr of E Engineers with 29, ( ai!
Hill of D Cavalry with 20 and Carl
Martbi of H Infantry with 17.
mhly Hall Monday night and political “trading" of publications
Xing and wrestlihg exhibitions i*{potions is effectively stopped by
00 Rice Girls
Giesecke Addresses
U. T. Science Club
“Air Conditioaing for Humat
Comfort and Calculations Relating
Thereto” was the subject of s talli
by F. E. Giesecke, of the Engineer,
ing Expriment Station, to the Unii
versity of Texas Science (Tub re.
coolly.
Mr. Giesecke began by tracing
the history of air conditioning. Tht
first application of air tonditioot
ing was used in s printing plant of
the magaxine “Judge”. The object
was not to increw human comfort; t\Y T nn4xtol no HofAu
but to facilitate the reprodu— M ^ai68
of colored illustrations. With
beginning, however, air
ing for human comfort has made
rapid advancement and has become
a very important science and in
dustry. > . 1
Air conditioning involves five
steps: purifying the air, adjusting
the’ temperature, adjusting the
humidity, bringing shout effective
motion of the air, and effective rsf
diation of the heat. Purifying
air of dust, germs, odors, snd
fcative gases is first done by
ing and filtering. After this
d- ne, the other four steps may
taken.
! the change
An editor of the comic magaxine
wUl be appointed this year by the
Stodent Publications Board, and if
the separation of the two publica
tions proves satisfactory, the of
fice will be made elactive next year.
Separate staffs for the two or
ganisations will be set up.
Effective this year, as were all
other items in the list of important
changes, will bo an arrangement
whereby press key awards will be
given by the Publications Board
instead of the Prom Gub. Warren
Barton, Longhorn editor, was
named chairman of a committee to
For Houston Dance
About one hundred Rice
art wanttd as dates far
from Texsi, A. A M. and other
leges at the principal
ment of the Student mte
Convention of the American
tute of Electrical Engineers,
dance at 9 p. m. April 18 in
main ballroom of the Rice
Girts may obtain application
for tto^tiptea from Dorothy Zaps,
president of the Woman's Councg.
These slips must bt tuturned fag
next Wednesday. l ” iJF
CHEM WARFARE
TO RECEIVE
COLORS MONDAY
4 s'
The Chemical Warfare Battalion
will be presented with their Batte-
^ I j. ■ » S’ ~
lion colors in a review Monday
afternoon. The review to to be in
honor of the Chemical Warfare
Batte lien and the Smith-Hughes
boys.
The Chemical Warfare Service
was the last branch of military
training to be established at A. A
M. It was organised four years a-
go, with one company. The next
year there were two companies and
this year a third company was or
ganism!, giving a complete batta
lion. The Chemical Warfare Ser
vlet. which to open ouly to chemi
cal engineers and chemistry maj
ors, contains practically all of the
chemical engineers at A. A M.
Cost Accountants
Discuss Budgeting:
At Recent Meet Here
to Hear
East Texas
Of (ommer
Madaras at
"Iron Ore Reduction With East
Texas Gaa” will be'the subject on
which Julius b. Mgdaiad,
engineer of Detroit,;Michigan, will
address the toriv,-ntv>n of .the East
Texas Chamber of. Commerce at
Beaumont April 2< it haa been
announced by HnUvt M Harn.sop
vice president and, general man
ager of the regionnj charaher
Mr. Harrison stetpd that accord
ing to letters frpm promfaneriti
metallurgists on id.M-idarss and
his process, prosi-u.-, f„r the de
velopment of iron orp in East Texas
Tha report
Budget Control for the A. A M.
Oil Company was the topic of «
round-table discussion at the meet
ing of the Houston Chapter of the
National Association of Coat Ac*
countants and the Accounting So- ver y encouragijte
eiety of A. A M. held here last “P 0 " ^ investigation of the best
Tuesday evening. information available on the sub-
Principal speakers at the meet. * iron or# d r elo P*»« ,t ^
ing were Dean Bolton, Dean Kyle, b * furnl,hed 10 M loctl *7°"''*
and J. W. Leland of A. A M. and Mr Ma ?* rt8 ^ «*
Mr. Ibwtai Heiaen, president of ^ hU P**" ot th «
the Aasociation. Ttoey were intro- I* 01 ?® 441 11 f lron rtianuf«cture by
-iucvd by Gifford Wendler, pres hi ‘ Dew process fortuso of natural
ident of the Accounting Society. *t the convuf ion m Beau-
Other members of the Association mont -
on the program, introduced by Mr. I Also appearing (gi tha Monday
Heinaa, were J. L Block, J. A. Coil- afternoon group ujoeting on In-
erain, of the Humble (Ml and Refin dustry and Government uJU he Jake
ing Company .and f. P. Jones, all Loy, Sherman, P^Mi jmt Texas
of Houston. j j Cofnty Judges
U. 8. Civil Service
Will Hold Two Exams
The United States Civil Betvtoi
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations for As
sistant Communications Operator -
<11.620 a year), and Undar Com
munications Operator (l.-W a
year). Information blanks and ad
ditional information may be ob-
I at the College Station Post
Office Applications muat be on
file not later than April 24, 19.19,
with the Manager, Tenth U. S.
Civil Service District, Customhouse
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Applicants for Assistant Com
munications Operator moat have
had at least two years’ experience
as radio operator, and have a re-
ceiving speed of 80 words a minute
on a typewriter. He must bt able
to write by touch system 96 words
• minute on teletypewriter or 60
words A minute on regular typ.
write*. Applicants for Under Com
munications Operator most be able
to write by touch system 31 words
a minute on teletypewriter or 60
words a minute on regular type
writer. The age liipit tor applic ant!,
for-both positions to that they must
be st least 18 years of age, and
not ever 60 years #f age, except
f "< those persons granted prefer
ence bn account of military or naval
tervto*.
Henry Halstead and His Top-Ranking Band Will
Play for Third Annual Cavalry Ball Here Toniglit
The Third Annual Cavalry
Ball will be held tonight’ in
the College Mess* Hall. The
dancs to being given by the fresh-
man, sophomores and juniors in
honor of the graduating seniors.
This method has been followed be
fore ami with good results.
The music will be furnished by
Henry Halstead, whose band to wall
known throughout the nation as a
top-ranking band. He has played
in many of the larger hotels, a-
mong them the St Frapeto in San
Francisco, the Park Central in
New York, the Jefferson in St
Louis, the Rice in Houston and the
Baker in Qsllas.
Th.- d.-.urstiona are getting the
fmnl touche and will be ready, as
will the Cavalry. They consist of
\ariou* phases of the Cavalry in
action and are built around a life-
sixe lorse and rider just beginning
to take a jump. The large horn-
will be set ip the center of tbe-'Jlro. T. 0. Wth 1,
stagq, behind thg bandstand shell
To Add to the attraction of the
danca, small but beautiful favors
will bo given the dates of the boyt.
They are small cross snber* hung
on a gold chain and on the otboi
end the seal of the College.
A banquet for the seniors and
their dates begins at 6:90. The
ptoets fbr thAditeter wUl include
Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Uw, Dr. and
Colonel and
Who is the
of the 311
naster tot
Uttcr-
Mrs. Homer E. C;
Regimental Comi
Cavalry^
the ceremonies will
bach, captain of C fi
The dance will
o'clock with a grai
Ed Brown, LL Col. 1
r . “IT"
Fish and Sophomore
English Contests to
Be Held Here May 4
The William Morrias. fcplfc
Contest for Sopbomorea and the
F. Marion Law English Contest tor
freshmen win be held on the night
of Thursday, May 4. from 7 to »
o’clock in the Library classroom.
All eligible freshmen and soph
omores who are going to enter the
contest should file their names
with their English teachers at the
earltost possible date Entries wiQ
not be accepted after noon, Friday,
April 21.
F. E. GIESECKE. OF THE BN-
girut-ring Experimeat Station, and
C. w. Crawford, of the Mechanical
Engineering Department, will at
tend the third conference on sir
oon^tJaning to be held m Austin
Apri 14 and 16. The program will
contest of talks by speakers from
various air conditioning compan
ies in Texas