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i Aggies Play Santa Clara Friday i-'T CIBRARY — Agricultural & Mechanical P^isge of Texas C^legeStafun, The Battalion Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College Official Newspaper of the City of College Station snduiBO c T-Ricnri Aggies Play Santa Clara Friday VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 5, 1939 Z725 NO. 6 Glee Club To Broadcast Over WBAP E. E. McQuillen To Talk on Aggie Placement Bureau The Glee Club will make it’s first formal appearance of the year Saturday morning at 9 a.m in a radio broadcast through sta tion WBAP, Ft. Worth. E. E. Mc Quillen of the Former Students As sociation will talk on the new place ment bureau established here. A similar program is to be put on each month for the rest of the year in connection with a regular series featured by this station. “The Spirit of Aggieland,” sung by the glee club will open the pro gram and other numbers by the glee club will be “Stout Hearted Men”, “God Bless America”, and “When the Drive Goes Down’. Closed as it began, the glee club will wind up the program with “The Spirit of Aggieland”. Other engagements the glee club has in mind for the year will include these monthly broad casts, an appearance at a downtown theater in Houston after the A. & M.-Pice football game, two or pos sibly three college night broad casts after football games under the sponsorship of a national ad vertiser, an appearance before the Houston A. & M. Mothers Club in March, and the usual Christmas program including the caroling on the campus. More members are needed yet, and a request is made for boys in the old dormitories to try out. Nearly all the present club is made up of boys in the new dormitories. Colds and Sore Throats Lead List Of Patients of College Hospital Dr. Marsh Believes Lack Of Heat Is Serious Issue In a recent questioning of a few members of the college hospital staff, The Battalion gleaned the following bit of information: To date there are twenty patients confined to wards, and an uncount ed number of sick-call patients. The majority of cases in both in stances are receiving treatment for colds and sore throats. The num ber of persons treated is some what in advance of the number treated for similar ailments at this time last year. That colds and sore throats are the dominating illnesses instantly catches every Aggie’s ear and is thereupon associated with the fact that hot water is not available for the dormitories. He begins to shiv er when he thinks further that there will be no hot water avail able until November 5. In a conference with Dr. Marsh, college physician, it was learned that, pending cold weather, the ab sence of steam and hot water in the halls could become serious. He expressed his regrets that con- viences have not as yet been in stalled and that he and the hospi tal staff could only hope for favor able weather. According to Dr. Marsh the lack of steam heat will be of more danger to the general health of the student body than the lack of warm water in the shower rooms. A student could avoid the cold showers, but he cannot escape the cold temperature of the rooms in which he must sleep and study. In the performance of the latter, cold room is a decided impediment Albion in the Air m \ - A Contest Winner To Receive Free Trip to Chicago Annually Swift and Company of Chicago sponsors an essay contest in which all junior and senior stu dents in the School of Agriculture are eligible to participate. There will be one lucky Aggie selected to represent Texas from A. & M. in a marketing school which is held in Chicago as an award for winning the Swift and Company essay. Last year the interest shown was not symbolic of the Aggies. There should be more participants as this is a very educational trip. Also you become acquainted with one of the largest meat packing concerns of the United States and you be come educated as to how they oper ate on such a large scale. In ad dition to all these opportunities, this school is held during the Great International Livestock Show. To the winner of this contest, Swift and Company mails a check which more than covers all ex penses there and back. Those interested in this contest are requested to read the A. H. bulletin board in the Animal Indus tries Building. It is advisable to do this immediately because the essays are to be submitted to the A. H. Department not later than October 25. Upon addressing Mr. F. M. Simpson, Swift and Com pany, Chicago, Illinois, he will send you references for Swift and Com pany Essay Contest. GALVESTON LOAN FUNDS AVAILABLE Loan funds are now available for the aid of Galveston students in this institution who are in need of financial assistance, according to an announcement made Tues day by T- D. Brooks, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. These loans are being made pos sible by the Galveston Rotary Club which is making them available for the use of Galveston students in need of financial aid at this college. Applications for such loans would be made to Dr. John W. Spies, of Texas University, the Student Loan Committee of the club stated for the information of interested stu dents. Dr. Spies is Dean of the School of Medicine of the faculty of the University of Texas. Expert on Gas-Lift Production Methods To Address Meeting A Gas-Lift Conference sponsor ed by the Petroleum Engineering Department will be held during the week of November 6-11. A series of lectures will be given by S. F. Shaw, well-known writer of articles dealing with gas-lift production methods. Programs and invitations are be ing mailed to the principal con cerns engaged in manufacturing and the use of gas-lift equipment. Several of these concerns have in dicated that they will be represent ed by exhibits. Langford Announces Addition of Two Men To Architecture Dept. Earnest Langford, head of the Architecture Department, has an nounced the addition of two members to the staff of his de partment. Thomas B. Thompson has been appointed as assistant professor of architecture. Thompson graduated from A. & M. with the class of ’30 and since that time has been in partnership with Olin Boese in Austin. While in practice Thomp son designed a number of impor tant buildings, among which are the school buildings at Kyle, Lean- der, and Marble Falls. Mr. Thomp son will have work in intermediate design. William W. Ceaudill has come as an instructor of architecture. Ceaudill received his bachelor of architecture degree from Okla homa A. & M. in 1937, and his master of architecture degree from M. I. T. in 1939. He has had about two years of office work with the supervising architect at Oklahoma A. & M. Last fall Mr. Ceaudill won the $1,000 first prize in the Southwest division of “The Productive Home Competition.” He also won the second prize in the same competition and all of his contest drawings were published in national magazines. Mr. Ceau dill reported to the college Oct ober 1 and has charge of the work in second year design and free hand drawing. British airmen now carrying the war to Germany are equipped like the aviator above, pictured before takeoff on a flight from London. Dressed in heavy uniforms, they can cope with the cold weather of high altitudes. They carry machine guns of the latest type, parachutes and oxygen masks. Southwest Texas A. & M. Club Starts Off Year Students from LaSalle, Dimmit, Maverick, Zavalla, Frio, Kinney, Atascosa, Medina, Uvalde, Real, and Bandera counties met last Tuesday night, and»reorganized the Southwest Texas A. & M. Club. Roy Martin of Cotulla was elect ed president of the club. Ted Wey- dell was elected vice-president, S. L. White secretary-treasurer, and Buddy White reporter. The purposes and the alms of the club were discussed, and plans for the year were formulated. A membership drive was launched, and all boys from the above-nam ed counties were extended an in vitation to join. The next meeting date was set for Monday the 16th, and is to be held in H ramp, Hart Hall. Air Course WiM Start November 1 Course To Be Held At New College Field It is expected that flight instruc tion will begin about November 1 at the new airport to be located just west of Lake Shinola, accord ing to information released through the office of the Dean of Engi neering Wednesday. Lake Shinola is about two miles west of the campus. The physical examination con ducted by a flight surgeon desig nated by Civil Aeronautics Authori ties will be very rigid. Those re jected because of physical disabili ties may be permitted to take ground courses covering history of aviation, civil air regulations, na vigation, meteorology, and para chutes. Accepted applicants will receive a minimum of 35 hours and a maximum of 50 hours flight instruction in addition to 72 hours’ class work. Although courses have not been established and credit hours de cided upon, it is understood that ground courses will be instituted as electives for those who are in terested. With these basic courses as a start it is hoped that more and fuller aeronautical studies will develop during the second semes ter. As much enthusiasm for aero nautical training has been shown, the Y. M. C. A. and several other distribution places for training blanks exhausted their supply of applications. App'roximafely 106 sheets have been turned in, and many more are expected. Those in terested may still obtain forms at Dean Gibb Gilchrist’s office for a limited time. Excavation Work Completed for New School Building Building to be Finished Before End of This Term Work on the new College Station elementary and high school build ing is well on its way Dr. E. E. Vezey, President of the College Station School Board, announced Wednesday. Dr. Vezey stated that excavation for the foundation of the building has already been com pleted and that classes from the grade school were expected to be moved into the new building by January. Plans for disposal of the old school buildings have not been learned as the buildings are own ed by the college and are in the hands of the college officials. Removal of the buildings will probably be effected as soon as possible after their evacuation to relieve congestion created by the erection of the new dormitories. Junior Class To Elect Officers for New Year Aggie Spirit Still Alive According to Houston Post No one even knew the fellow’s identity when he came tumbling off the field. He hadn’t scored a touchdown. Frankly, he hadn’t even been no ticed. But he was listed there in the program—a third string guard. Coach Homer Norton hurried on to the turf of historic Kyle Field, threw his arms around him. Forty- five reserves rose off the bench and engulfed the third stringer, Coach Norton and all. They tousled his hair and whacked his back. “Nice work out there Joe! You looked great!” The third stringer wiggled out of the backslapping and sought out the bench. Two minutes later lum bering John Kimbrough, the great Texas Aggie fullback who had scored the two winning touch downs against Centenary, came limping out of the game. He got the same reception as the third stringer—the fellow who had literally been lost at the bottom of the scrimmage pileups. Not a man emerges from the game without that mass reception. The old spirit has been revived at Aggieland—and they’ve got a football team to back it up. Over on the other side of the field 6000 cadets, standing always, keep up a steady droning. Sounds like a giant beehive. It breaks into a solid scream that echoes through the Brazos river bottoms when the Aggies start moving. The buzzing of a year ago that the old Aggie spirit was sagging has been drowned. Old grads started a rumbling for action along the football front. The discontent reached its peak when a University of Texas team that had dropped eight straight games whipped the Aggies in the big Thanksgiving day classic. Coach Homer Norton, a mild, kindly fellow, weathered the storm. He set about molding a new spirit on his boys. It’s a brotherhood business now. Wherever there is a school, a football team and a coach there are constant cries of “give us a winner.” The Aggies hadn’t been winning too heavily. The whispers got loud er. Not loud enough, however, to dislodge Coach Norton. He gave them their answer by moving in closer to his boys, ignit ing a spark that, true enough, had been smouldering. The Aggies are playing for the fun of the game now. They may not win the Southwest conference championship—that’s a huge order for any team—but they will come close. On the technical side, they have some kickers now. Not one, but three or four. Since Coach Norton took over has has been lean on kickers, an item that cost them many ball games. —Houston Post. 215 Senior Rings Ordered Monday Heavier Rings Favored By Majority of the ’40 Class Over 215 senior rings were in cluded Monday in the first ring order to be sent off this semester according to a report from the Registrar’s office this week. Sur prisingly enough the majority of the rings ordered this year are in the 16 and 18 pennyweight class when in previous years the 12 and 14 weight rings were by far the most popular with the seniors. Average prices are seventy five cents cheaper than those of last year. Rings of 12 pennyweight which were $19.20' and now $18.50 and rings of 18 pennyweight which were $24.30 are now $23.60. Other weight rings average in between these prices. Orders are taken at the Regis trar’s office between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. during week days and are sent off on the first and fifteenth of each month. Jostens of Owa- toona, Minnesota, makers of the rings, require about ten days for the process so that rings can be delivered two weeks after the order date. Graduate Club Hunts Constitution—Starts Off Well Otherwise Lost: One constitution, said to be in good condition. Return to Graduate Club, Texas A. & M. No monetary reward offered; but the Club will consider its return a big social service. After electing officers for the year in the Biology lecture room in the Science Hall Monday night, A. & M.’s Graduate Club started a search for the organization’s con stitution to solve parliamentary procedure problems. Without it the problems remain unsolved, be cause no one knows the provisions the constitution makes on that score. Miller Clarkson, student in math ematics, was elected to head the group at the meeting attended by some 40 graduate students. Around 60 are expected to be in the club by the time of its next meeting, Oc tober 16. Other officials include Lane Fletcher, student in dairy husband ry, vice-president; Johnny Green, another dairy husbandry student, secretary-treasurer; and R. L. Doss, student in economics, report er. The club decided to invite Col. Ike Ashburn, executive assistant to President T. O. Walton, to be its first speaker of the year. Plans for semi-monthly meetings were discussed. The October 16 meeting will be held in the Biology lecture room at 7 p. m. FACULTY DANCE SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY NIGHT The Faculty Club will present its first dance of the year Satur day night, October 7, from 9 to 12 p. m. The dance will be held in the Sbisa Hall annex, as has been the custom for several years past. The Aggieland Orchestra, directed by Tommy Littlejohn, will furnish the music. All staff members of the college (including Graduate Assistants), the various experiment stations, and the Extension Service, are being cordially invited to attend. It is hoped that all faculty mem bers, both new and old, that enjoy the pleasant associations which go with such an evening will find it possible to be present. Admission will be one dollar per couple; or season tickets—good for nine dances—may be secured at six dollars. Season tickets are a- vailable through representatives in most departments, or they may be secured at the floor prior to the first dance. Lund of Ag Eco Dept. Writes Work on Farm & Ranch Management A book on principles of farm and ranch management written by Dr. J. Thomsen Lund, assistant professor of agricultural econo mics at A. & M., has recently been published by Edwards Brothers Publishing Company. The new book is a combined syllabus for guidance in the study of principles and a guide for use in the laboratory and field. The exercises were developed especially for use in Texas, and are based upon conditions and problems of farm and ranch opera tions in this area. The author joined the staff of Texas A. & M. a year ago after receiving his doctor of philosophy degree at Cornell University. Pre vious to that he was employed by the Farm Credit Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Prizes in Faculty Tennis Club Contest Are Announced Prizes to be donated by local merchants have been announced for the winners of the faculty tennis tournament. According to T. H. Terrell of the Engineering Draw ing Department, these prizes are offered to create more interest in tennis among members of the faculty. Luke’s Grocery offers the first prize of an order of groceries. Also in order are a leather belt from Holick’s, a shaving set from the Aggieland Pharmacy, a cleaning and pressing job steins, a set of tennis balls from the Exchange Store, a shaving set from Lipscomb’s Pharmacy, and a set of tennis balls from Waldrop’s. Entries may be made as late as 2 p. m. Friday afternoon. Pre liminary matches will be played Saturday afternoon, and finals will come the following week-end. The bracket will be posted in the Sat urday Battalion, with the time slated for each individual match. Players are warned that these time schedules must be met or the match will be forfeited. To be eligible for the tournament the entrant must be listed with the college faculty, must be a mem ber of the faculty tennis club, and must have paid his annual dues. Secret Ballot To Be Used in Runoff Election Tonight Offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary, And Historian To Be Filled The contest between Joe Slicker of the Coast Artillery, and Eli Baggett, Infantryman, for junior class president will be decided to night in the final election in Guion Hall. Slicker had nearly twice as many votes as Baggett in the pri mary in which the other candi dates, Jack Nelson, Paul Haines, Jack Bailey, Bill Becker, W. B. Simms, Joe Cain, and Frank Thompson were eliminated. In the vice-presidential election Jeff Montgomery, Infantry, oppos es Tom Richey, Cavalry. Practi cally tied in the primary, they eli minated “Pete” Wehner, George Trotter, Preston Bolton, Tom Sto- vell, “Rudy” Rutherford and D. A. Dashey. I. B. Stitt, Coast Artillery will run against Thomas Duce, Signal Corps, for secretary-treasurer. Roy Roberts, Tom Power, Boyd Ed mondson, Jimmy Riley, and Bill Potts were left in the primary election. The three members of the Stu dent Welfare Committee elected in the primary election were “Pat” Ledbetter, Field Artillery Band, Lloyd Mayfield, Field Artillery, and A. V. Hamilton, Chemical War fare Service. Jeff Clark and H. W. Shea eliminated Ben Rol Herbert Stucke and “Slick” thews in the primaries for histor ian. Because both Guion Hall and the Assembly Hall were in use, the meeting which was scheduled for Wednesday night was post poned until tonight. TEXAS FEED MEN TO HOLD FALL MEETING HERE The fall meeting of the Texas Feed Manufacturers Association will convene here Thursday and Friday with approximately 40 from Lauter- members expected to attend. W. R. Archer, South Texas Feed Com pany, Houston, president of the association, will be in charge. As in the past, session will be held in the Research Administra tion Building and will be conduct ed by Dr. F. D. Fuller, Chief, Divi sion of Feed Control. Among others-' the speakers will include: Dr. G.. S. Fraps, Division of Chemistry,. Agricultural Experiment Station,, who will speak regarding “Feed> Topics”; Dr. P. B. Pearson, Pro fessor of Animal Husbandry, whose topic is “The Importance of Vita min B Complex in Livestock Nu trition. There will be an informal din ner at Sbisa Hall, Thursday at 7:0Q p. m. Williams Speaks For Agronomy Society The Student Agronomy Society at its first meeting in the Chem istry Lecture Room at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday evening had A. C. Wil liams, President of the Federal Land Bank of Houston to show and explain the 1939 Foreign Cotton Study Tour moving pictures. Mr. Williams is an amateur moving pic ture photographer of quite a bit of experience and traveled with the Cotton Study Tour group in order to note their study and gather gen eral agricultural information for the Federal Land Bank. The pictures are in color and show the various activities of the student group and many scenes of foreign agriculture. Dairy Husbandry Department To Sponsor Two Teams at Frisco Show For the first time in the historyf-Davis, Don Boyce, W. B. Wilson, of the Dairy Husbandry Depart ment it will sponsor two judging teams, dairy products and cattle, in the national contest to be held in San Francisco October 20-25. Heretofore, only the cattle team has been sent to the national con test but due to a most successful year by the Kream and Kow Klub, financial sponsors of the team, both a products and a cattle team are being sent to the contest this year. Both teams have been training since last February at which time they were entered as junior teams in the tri-state contest held in Ft. Worth. At this contest the pro ducts team was composed of Ben and Melvin Millard. In addition to these men, Jim Riddlehuber will make the trip with the products team. The group will have pre scheduled stops along the route to visit large organizations and score their various dairy products, there by familiarizing themselves with flavor changes as related to the geographic conditions prevailing and doing a service for the said company. The cattle team will also judge several shows enroute to San Fran cisco, including El Paso and Phoe nix. They recently have been judg ing shows over various parts of the state including the show at (Continued on Page 4)