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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1939)
* f; I ! • ' • f *• | i < ! i 1 f_ 4 ' 4 ■ "5* ‘ ilj'. ; [ • s 1 I ’ F! RI n r f; \ | > k N TS* AND SI PKRVISOHS ( ONFEK BNCB MONDAT-THURS- \ DAT • •• L i •• TEXAS SCHOOL ADMINIS TRATION (ONKKKKNth TURSDAY-PRIDAT V ’ .14# • >L. 1 * iPhone COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. FRIDAY AFTERNOON,'JUNE 2S, 1939 SIK NO. S ! *■ Supervisors Hold 16th Annual Meet Inprovemcat of Kara] School Program la Theme The *ixte« ruh annuel conference of count? superintendents and county supervisors will be held at A. A M. next Monday through Wednesday. } The purpooe of thia conference is to study methods for improving the of the rural school pro- l**™- . i ' Many outstanding speakers and lecturers will be here for the con ference. Prominent among thes« will be Dr. Mycie Southall, Profes aor of Elementary Education at George Peabody College. Nashville, Ihnneaeee. The theme of her lector- «• will be fThe Improvement of the School' Program." Other -p- akers include Dean T. D. Brooks of Texas A. A M., Preaidant S. H. Whitley of East Texas State Teach ers College, President C. E. Evans of Southwest Texas State Teachers College, President A. W. Bird well of Stephen P. Austin State Teach ers College, President C. B. Wilcox of A. A M., president of the State Teachers Association; and Dr. L. -jL Woods. State Superintendent. • All lectures will be in the Y. M. C. A. Chapel. Monday meetings will be held at 9 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the imeetings will he at 8:30 a. m. and 1:80 p. m. ( Wednesday evening at 6:89 the i Ammal banquet wil be held in the Aoilege mens hall, which functions pill officially close the conference. Plans for Farmers' Short Course Made 1. . A preview of the program for the annual Texaa A.- A M. College Farmers’ Short Coarse plus the Interest expressed by farm and ranch families, has led H. H. Wil liarason, director of the Texas Ex tension Service, to predict that the 1939 session will be one of the meet successful in recent years. As in 1988. the current -g Will he divided mte two ■ittins one on July K 6, and 7 far 4-H Club boys and gtria, sad a second An* ee July IX. It and 4 for adults. flMvtaioa of We Short Course al lows the Institution to provide suf- for the To Speak for Special Course Shewn a here are speakers for the special lecture course in Agricaltaral Rcsasmirs 4X3 being conduct ed at 19 a. at. daily daring the first summer semester by the Ag Ere Department, sad spea te slL The coarse deals with "Oar National Resources sad Their Coneervatisa." and is the same an that being pre sented by tea other colleges aad universities of the Southwest. Paul A. Caayas (left), sssociste Office, speaks this ateraiag (Friday) Conservation.’' agronomist for the U. S. Soil Ceuocrvation Service. Tyler Area hi the subject “Pasture sad Range Management In Soil and Water S. Forest Service. Washington. D. C, will Dr. H. N. -Wheeler (center), chief lecturer for th? U tomorrow on “The Dare of the Forest." Tuesday, W. R. Horsley (right), assistant forester of the Texas Forest Service, College Station, will lecture on "Texaa Forests sad Fseentry.**' u •‘dnewday, P. F. W. 1’rater, forgst supervisor of the U. 8. Forest Service, will speak oa “The Natieaal Forests in Texas." Aad Thnraday. W. R. Webb, state mamager of the Prairie State Forestry Project of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture, will lecture oa rofsieataHsm. \ L. Elmore Company ^ Cancels Program Here The Lucile Elmore Company, which was scheduled te present a program of songs* dances, mimicry and ventriloquism July 5 for the Summer Entertainment Series, is now playing in California and will be unable to m>pu*r here at that time. Dr. C. H. Winkler, director of the Summer Session, has an nounced. The program has there fore been ranoeUed, and the next one will be Tuesday, July 11, when Salom Risk trill present bis out standing lea iiatiea of mi 1 The 4-H Chib program trill con sist of selection of outstanding dub member*, talks by representative , to the recent National 4-H Club Encampment at Washington, D. C* and aoeial activities, and will be [■Unsaved by the colorful ceremony of the gold star swards to the 190 boys and 100 girls selected for this honor. { ' The theme of the adult program wil he land use planning, with farm people taking the major part. Guest speaksru wil be headlined by A. F. Lever of South Carolina, ? former congressman who was joint author of the Smith-Lever bill on which extension Work la baa Walter Jenkins of Houston will * again lead the group singing. D. W. Williams, heed of the A. H Department, is making an extended ! tour of Europe this summer. New Rule Affects Graduate Students The A. A M. graduate school, which is even more important dur ing the summer session than during the long asaaion, will enroll more than 300 students during the two mooters of tho current summer scbodl. This figure represents a con-ulerable increase over the en rollment last summer and Is a aew attendaace record for the graduate school. A. & M. Credit Union Makes Rapid Progress Dr. G. W. Schlesselman, in* true - | tor in the Agricultural Economics Department, who was one of the founders of the local Credit Union, has released the following informa tion relative to the Union: The Texas A. A M. College Fed eral Credit Union eras recently or ganised. for the purpose of assist ing employees of A A M. and their families to save money. Saving can be accomplished in two ways: by steady deposits in share holdings, and by being able to borrow money at cheaper rates of interest th One of tho principal roaaona for | from loan agencies whore there are 104 Attend Last Week's Cottonseed Short Course With a record registration of 104 tho eleventh annual short course for cotton seed oil mill operators opened at A. Jk M- College Monday In addition to those from Texas, ere were saperintendenta from mills in the Republic 0 ( Mexico, Arkansas, Alabama, Ok la hoc Louisiana, and California present. The jragististlun this year more than doubled £he session held in 1987 when 46 man attends! None eras bald in lisS. Cooperallng^lh A A M. in pre senting the abort course were the Texaa Cotonseed Crushers’ A*»o elation and the National Cotton seed Oil Mill Superintendents’ As sociation. College members of the advisory board include Doan 1^. C. Bolton. Dean Gibb Gilchrist and Dr. C. C. Hedges. Tbs course was held under direction of F. F Bishop, profemor of chemistry and obamiml OUgiUMeing,' in the Chem- istry Building; ] Summer Trino Club msoti will be held next Monday night be ginning at 7:80. this hscrsnssd attendance is a rqle recently passed by the faculty which vitally affects graduate stu dents. The rule states that all credits obtained more than six yuan previous to wosrk toward a graduate degree may not ho ap plied to tho degree after Septem- ber 1. 1989. For this reason K is. expected that many persons will do graduate work during the pres ent summer session in order to got under the deadline provided in the faculty ruling. Among tbe other important na ns for tho increased summer school attendance of graduate stu dents is the fact that many teach- ty agents take this opportunity to do work toward their graduate degree during their summer vacation. Despite the fact that A A M. does not confer degrees on woman, several women an also enrolled In the summer graduate school. Most of them, however, intend to use tho credits obtained at A. A M. at some other coBege which does coni degrees on women. Hand of the gradeate school Dean T. D. Brooks, who is si Dean of tbe School of Arts a handling charges. Under both these ns a person can save by being able to buy at a discount by paying cash for purchases. Afirgie* Vincent White, Wins $100 First Priae In National Contest Vincent White of Amarillo, this past term a junior ut A A M. in Petroleum engineering, of Battery F Field Artillery, who is now at tending the R. O. T. C. summer camp. Camp Bullis near San Anto nio, has just been notified by the Goods 11 Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, manufacturers of Palm Beach suits, that his letter sent in as an try in tho company's intercol legiate prise contest baa won first plsee and a cash prise of floo Stu dents from spproximstely 260 col leges and universities of the « try competed* | Here’s the letter White entered In the contest: "Playboy or grind— one thing a. college man baa to have la clotbao sense. And what could better fill his need* than Palm Bench 7 It fits hiss, bis pocket book, aad the weather ” Yon can spot an edneated man he’s wear ing Palm Beach.* Administrators i To Meet Here ! lUa 9 v • yjfef' ' v Dean T. D. Brooks la Conference Secretary Administration of safety odnea- tioo and cooperation with industry in industrial education w91 he prin cipal topics at theMlxth Annual Texas School Administration Cote' fermce to ^e hold nt the Agricul tural and Mechanical College of Texas next Tuesday through Fri day, June 27-80, arrotding to Dean It. D. Brooks, head of the School I of Arts and Sciences and the Grad uate School, conference secretary. P. E. Wallace of Mt Pleasant fa general chairman, and others in cluding Dr. Brooks who are mem bers of the executive committee are H. W. Adams at Caldwell; K K. Barden, of Sugarland; W. C. Blankenship, of Big Spring; 8. V. Burks, of T. G A. A I., Kingsville; G. O. Clough, of S. M. U.. Dulles; S. B. Greham, of Galveston; John H. Gregory, of MgAllna; Ft L. Moffett, of Center; L. C. Proctor, of Temple; Henry StftlwelL, of Tex arkana; E. O. Tanner, of San Mar cos, and L. A. Woods, State’ Super intendent of Publfa Instruct Km, Austin. The. conference, initiated by school superintendents themselves, has held five himRy; successful meetings. Dr. Brooks said. “The problems dealt with In the Confer ence are of concern not only to city and county superintendents, but to all school executives and all stu dents of school administration, and all such sire welcome to the oon- nMRpnJl* r iS" l '•tT’fil Those in attendance will be as signed quarters in one of the new er dormitories at A. A M. at a nominal fee, and meal* will be available at a number of conven ient establishments. There is po registration fee or other charge for attendance. Prof. George B. Wilcox of the A. A M. Department of Education, and president of tho Texas .State Teachers Association, will load a discussion of, "What State Aid is Necessary’’ each day of tho throe- day session. “The plans ef the Southern Association of Callages and Secondary Schools for Evalu ating and Accrediting High Schools" will bo discussed by T. Q. Srygiey, assistant superintendent of Port Arthur. Supt. W. C. Davis of Memphis will lead s discussion on "Interpreting the Present Dey School Program to the Public" in (Continued on page 4) Ranchmen’s Round- Up Is Postponed Due to the recurrence of infan tile paralysis in tbe general vi cinity'of the Sonora ranch sob-sta tion of the Texas Agricultural Ex periment Station whose hesdquar-* ten am A. A M.. R has bam de cided by Superintendent W. H. Dameron of. the Sonora station that posti«>nement to a later date fa advisable for tbe Tenth Ranch men’s Round-Up hold annually by that station far ranchers aad farm ers of the state, at which results of the expert wbents of the past year are shown each year. Tbe Rouad-Up, originally sched uled fer June 27 sad tS will prob ably be held early in tbe falL