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The Battalion To
Carry Results Of
Student Surveys
The national gollegiate polls of
the Student Opinion Surveys of
America will be published in The
Battalion throughout the year, it
was assured here today when ar
rangements were completed for
carrying this feature for the sec
ond year.
The Battalion is one of the many
leading college and university
newspapers cooperating with the
surveys, which have headquarters
at the University of Texas and
now count over two years of pub
lic opinion research behind them.
Staff interviewers will receive
ballots at regular intervals here
and at other schools from coast to
coast. Completed results will be
mailed to Austin for national tabu
lations. Summaries of what the
American collegian is thinking and
talking about will then be sent to
members for publication.
“The surveys offer to the college
press what Dr. George Gallup of
fers to the U. S. press—a fourth
dimension in journalism,” editors
of the polls remark. “This is the
only such college poll that uses
personal interviews to gather opin
ions, not trusting to luck with
haphazardly distributed or printed-
i n-t h e-p a p e r ballots. This
way a mathematical cross-section
is established just like the Gallup
and Fortune polls, and the opin
ions of the entire million and a half
college students are measured ac
curately.”
The project, which received wide
national recognition last year, is
concerned only with disclosing
facts about student sentiment. It
does not seek to influence public
opinion, it was announced. Pres
sure groups or student movements
have no part in the surveys.
A proportional sample of col
lege students is the basis for the
surveys, determined from figures
of the U. S. Office of Education.
Ballots are carefully distributed ac
cording to geographical sections,
sex, age, and class in college po
litical affiliation, whether the
students work or not, and type of
school.
THE BATTALION
ARKANSAS TAKES
EARLY LEAD IN
S. W. CONFERENCE
Arkansas took a quick lead Sat
urday in the Southwest Conference
by nosing out the T. C. U. Horn-
frogs 14 to 13 at Fayetteville. Even
though the Frogs outnumbered
the Razorbacks in first downs by
two, and totaled 302 yards to their
opponents 234, the Ozark boys set
their passes, averaging 37.4 yards
on punts and 60 yards on kickoffs.
The stars for the Arkansas team
were Eakin and Lyon, with the
trio composed of Clark, Eakin,
and Odle leading the Ft. Worth
team.
The University of Texas remain
ed undefeated this week by stop
ping the Big Ten team, Wiscon
sin, with a score of 17 to 7. The
Longhorns forced two safeties on
their opponents and ran up the
larger amount of their score in
the last quarter. The Wisconsin
team totaled 205 yards to the
Texans’ 180.
S.M.U. met mox-e opposition than
was expected but still held their
opponents to a 16 to 0 score. The
North Texas Teachers marked up
six first downs to the Mustangs
nine and completed seven out of
18 passes while S. M. U. counted
for only 2 of 16.
Rice scored a 13 to 0 victory
over the Centenary Gents but
could have bettered this score by
two touchdowns, at Houston Satur
day night. The Rice Owls looked
weak on their offense but held the
Gents away from paying ground.
Baylor stopped at 13 to 0 in the
game at Stillwater with the Soon
er Aggies as Witt, a junior half
back for the Bears, accounted for
both tallies. In the first quarter,
Witt passed to Barnes for the
first touchdown and ran the sec
ond over in the third quarter after
Barnes had put the ball in scoring
position on his pass.
The Hardin-Simmons Cowboys
were blessed with rain and luck
in their game against the Texas
School of Mines. The score was a
wet-weather one, with both scores
being made on running plays and
neither tries for extra points be
ing successful. The game ended
12 to 0.
This week Arkansas plays an
other game for the record against
the Baylor Bears at Waco. The
Rice Owls travel to the swamp
lands to meet L. S. U., while S.
M.U. journeys to South Bend to
match its skill against the mighty
Keeping Up With The New CampusStlSrA
This aerial view, the latest and
most complete made to date, of
the new campus of Texas A. & M.
College, is shown above to enable
all A. & M. men, old and new, to
locate in their minds the new dor
mitory group and other recent
buildings.
The driveway enters from the
main highway running east of the
campus, with the old road and the
railroads running on the west and
in the background of the picture.
The lower center building is
the new Administration Building
which houses the administrative of
ficials of the institution, the Fiscal
and Registrar’s office, the * Publi
city Department, the State Forest
ry Service, the Soil Conservation
Office, the Student Labor Office,
the A. & M. Former Students As
sociation, Student Publications, the
College Print Shop, part of the
Extension Service, and others.
At the upper left is the new dor
mitory group of twelve dormitor
ies, housing 2,636 students. At the
left-hand' end of the group is the
new mess hall, nestled in between
the last two dormitories of the
group. Old “Quality Row”, res
idence street, is hidden in the trees
but runs parallel to the long axis
of the dormitory group nearby.
The only new dorm named is Kiest
Hall, honoring Mr. E. J. Kiest, vet
eran member of the Board of Di
rectors.
In the upper center can be seen
Kyle Field, with its stadium and
the Memorial Gymnasium. Upper
right shows the drill field, looking
much smaller than it seems to
drilling students. Just below the
drill field can be seen the Academic
(Old Main) Building, with its
copper dome.
That the new dormitories are as
close to classrooms as most of the
old ones can be seen from the pic
ture. Other buildings shown clear
ly in the immediate center group
include (left to right) the Animal
Industries Building, the Animal
Husbandry Pavilion, the Agricul
tural Building, and the Agricultural
Engineering Building.
The large group of white build
ings in the upper left are the 16
cooperative project houses located
on the campus. Smaller buildings
in that area are residences in Col
lege Park.
National Commander
Of American Legion
To Dedicate House
National Commander Raymond
J. Kelly of the American Legion
will be here October 18 to dedi
cate the new American Legion
project house.
The recently elected comman
der will fly here from Chicago, ac
cording to word received from Dr.
Dan Russell. The project house is
rapidly nearing completion and is
expected to be quite a credit to
the campus as a whole.
Minor Sports
Practice Begun
With the hustle and bustle of the
football season at hand, there is
little attention paid to the minor
sports that are coming into exist
ence.
Notable, at the present, is the
beginning of cross-country running
as done by those lads who refuse
to take pages of glory and have
their pictures taken at every turn.
Coach Frank Anderson called his
thinly-clad athletes to order late
ly for the first jaunt through the
suburbs. Within the group will be
veterans, something that the team
has lacked for years. Such proven
men as Mickey Hogan, last year’s
only letter man, and George Smith
who lettered in 1938 but was out of
school last year, will add to the
team’s strength.
These men will be hard pushed
for berths by such stahdout soph
omores as Laney, Walker and Wil-
muth.
The schedule for the year has not
been completed but meets with the
University of San Antonio, Uni
versity of Texas, Rice Institute,
Abilene Christian College, John
Tarleton and Southern Methodist
are tentatively planned.
In an interview with Coach An
derson, he said, “We do not know
the real strength of our team, but
the outlook is very pleasing, and
barring injuries, we should give
Texas a fight for the Conference
title.”
Irish from Notbe Dame. Texas
plays Oklahoma in the fair game
at Dallas, T. C. U. meets Temple
at Philadelphia, Centenary stands
against Ole Miss at Shreveport,
and the Aggies of course play in
the Rose Festival at Tyler again
st the Villanova Wildcats.
A. & M.’s Town Hall, Managed by Sullivan, Offers
Outstanding Program of Celebrities Here This Year
Succeeding the old Bryan-Col-
lege Entertainment Series, the
Texas A. & M. Town Hall, headed
by student manager W. W. “Sully”
Sullivan during 1939-40, is bring
ing entertainment of unusual value
to Aggieland during the present
school year. An aggregation of cel
ebrities in many fields will visit
the campus.
Town Hall opens the _ program
schedule by presenting on October
30, the well-known politician and
speaker Phil La Follette, who is
regarded as an authority on pub
lic affairs and an excellent enter
tainer.
As the second feature of the
schedule the original Don Cossack
Russian choir led by Serge Jaroff
will be presented on November 16.
The greatly publicized chorus in
terprets with facility moods from
boisterous to deeply sentimental.
The Houston Symphony Orches
tra, already known and appreciat
ed by the Aggies due to its fine
performance here last spring, will
be featured on a return engage
ment December 12.
On January 9, 1940, the A. & M.
Town Hall will present the Graff
Ballet, an emotional dance directed
by Grace and Kurt Graff who have
danced in London, Berlin, Hamburg,
Budapest, and Paris, and before
such famous people as the prince
of Wales, the king of Sweden, and
the king of Siam.
On February 15 Town Hall will
present the lovely soprano Gladys
Swarthout, who is a member of
Pen Company To Give
Prize Radio in Contest
Want to win a radio free?
The Shaeffer Pen Company will
give a radio to the A. & M. stu
dent who best completes the fol
lowing sentence in 20 words or
less.
“Sheaffer’s Fineline pencil is
best for classrom work because — ”
The radio is a portable G. E.
carryabout which has no aerial, no
ground and no plug-in. The con
test closes before November 1. The
only rules to the contest are that
each contestant enclose with the
sentence a retail store sales slip
showing a 10-cent or more pur
chase of some Sheaffer produce—
ink, pencils, lead, adhesives, or
pens. Entries should be sent to W.
A. Sheaffer Pen Co., Fort Mad
ison, Iowa. For further details con
sult your campus dealer.
the Metropolitan Opera Association
and who has been starred in four
Paramount films including “Rose
of The Rancho,” “Give Us This
Night,” “Champagne Waltz,” and
“Romance, In the Dairk'.’T Miss
Swarthout also has engaged in
many other activities which add
to her fame, including radio series.
On March 28, Town Hall will
have as its entertainer the famed
lecturer and undersea adventurer
Max Gene Nohl, who will speak
about his thrilling underwater ex
periences, which will be illustrated
by films furnishing proof of the
stories given.
The Town Hall program sched
ule will also include one popular
dance band at a date in April
which will be announced later.
A student season ticket for all
seven numbers costs one dollar
and a half, while admission prices
for each number vary from one
to three dollars.
Judging Team
Goes to Kansas
The A. & M. Livestock Judging
Team left for Kansas City
Wednesday to enter the annual
American Royal Livestock Show
judging contests. The team will
compete with twenty teams repre
senting the outstanding agricul
tural colleges in America. At last
year’s show the A. & M. team fin
ished third behind Nebraska and
Kansas.
The team consists of five
members to be chosen from the
nine boys making the trip. Those
making the trip are Lewis Brown,
W. B. Buster, F. H. Corder, J. E.
Epperson, J. A. Gallant, J. F.
Grote, R. S. Huddle, Pete Jacoby,
W. R. Lehmberg and Prof. Larry
Miller, coach, who will be in charge
of the team. These boys competed
as the junior team in the Ft. Worth
show last year and in a field of
fifteen teams finished second.
Prof. Miller would make no
comment as to the team’s chances,
but he did express the fact that
he held high hopes.
Charging that her husband
“pinched her almost constantly
when he was home,” Mrs. Edna
Morris of Defiance, O., recently
filed suit for divorce.
ANNUAL DAIRY
SHORT COURSE
STARTS DEC. 3
In announcing that the annual
Dairymen’s Short Course will be
held at Texas A. & M. College, De
cember 4-7, C. N. Shepardson, head
of the Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment, called attention of dairymen
to the fact that the general condi
tion of the country and the world
at large makes it imperative that
they improve the efficiency of their
operations.
He pointed out that the dairy
business is sound at any time, but
improved dairy conditions now
should make them all the more anx
ious to do all they can to improve
their plants and herds.
No formal program has been for
mulated for the short course, but
in keeping with past courses the
speakers will be selected from lead
ers in the dairy field.
Three Ex-Aggies
Receive New Jobs
According to information receiv
ed recently from the Extension
Service, three former A. & M.
students received appoint
ments effective October 1, as as
sistant county agricultural agents.
H. H. Weatherby, class of ’29,
has been transferred from the
position of assistant county agent
of McClennan County to assistant
poultry husbandryman, with head
quarters at College Station. Wea
therby was a member of “C” Com
pany Infantry, and was a member
of the International Livestock
Judging Team. He is succeeded by
George Albert Logan, Jr., ’35. Lo
gan’s headquarters will be at Waco.
Bill N. Rector, ’38, was appoint
ed assistant county agricultural
agent for Wilbarger County with
headquarters at Vernon. Rector
majored in dairy husbandry while
attending A. & M.
Must Enter At
Least 3 Events
That the best all-round Aggie
cowboy will have to enter at least
three events in the annual rodeo
was the decision reached this week
by a business meeting of the Saddle
and Sirloin Club. The club decided
that all contestants for the title
will have to enter at least two rop
ing events and one riding event, or
two riding events and one roping
event, before they will be eligible
for the title of best all-round Aggie
cowboy of the annual A. & M.
Rodeo which is to be held Novem
ber 10, the day before the A. & M.-
S. M. U. football game.
The club also decided on a $1
entrance fee for each event in the
rodeo for either the matinee or
night performance. Admission fee
for the afternoon performance will
be 25$ for cadets and 50$ for
adults.
Included in the list of probable
events for the show is a palamino
horse exhibit, and a business men’s
goat-roping contest featuring Bry
an talent.
Major W. R. Irwin, Cavalry in
structor, has donated the use of
the Cavalry mounts for the rodeo.
As many of the horses in the Cav
alry stables come from the western
part of Texas, they are seasoned
cowponies.
History Department
Offers Grading Jobs
The History Department has re
cently found places for a few
students in their department. The
demand, caused by heavy enroll
ment, is for students in the school
of Arts and Sciences having jun
ior classification and having fin
ished history courses 105, 106, and
306, and possessing a “B” average,
a well established reputation, and
preferably a major in history.
Those men chosen will in general
be selected from students that have
been in the above classes last
year.
The jobs will be classed as regu
lar student employment and will
pay the usual amount of thirty
cents an hour. The majority of the
work will be grading papers and
doing odd jobs.
Charles Wattis of Columbus, O..
arrested for clubbing and attempt
ing to steal a duck in Franklin
Park, claimed that the bird had
attacked him and the club was
wielded in self-defense.
We Specialize In
WASHING AND
GREASING
Called For And
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Aggieland Service
Station
-THURSDAY, OCT. 12, 1939
W.P.A. TO SERVE
NEEDY CHILDREN
Approval of a W. P. A. project
to continue the preparation and
serving of hot lunches to under
nourished children in Texas schools
during the current year has been
announced by Mrs. M. K. Taylor,
state director of professional and
service projects, at San Antonio.
Allocation of $1,216,430 to carry
on the project which operated in
226 Texas schools during the past
academic year has been approved
by Washington W. P. A. officials,
Mrs. Taylor stated.
Foodstuffs made available
through the Federal Surplus Com
modities Corporation, supplement
ed by local assistance, is expected
to be sufficient to supply daily hot
lunches for 238,000 Texas children
from underprivileged homes dur
ing this school year, Mrs. Taylor
said.
The school lunch program gave
employment to an average of 500
W. P. A. workers in Texas from
January of this year through June
when the program was suspended
with the end of the school year.
During that period the average
number of lunches served daily
ranged from 6,500 to 12,900.
In most localities where the
school lunch project has been ope
rated, city, county or board of ed
ucation officials have sponsored
the activity, Mrs. Taylor said. Us
ually such private agencies as par
ent-teacher groups have assisted
as cooperating sponsors. Sponsors
provide all food, other than sur
plus commodities, she explained, as
W. P. A. funds are utilized for
supervision and labor.
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Judge William Hall of Tucson,
Ariz., will hold no court on No
vember 30, Thanksgiving or not,
he announces. He plans to attend a
football game.
Unquestionably American com
munists, seeking to explain Mos
cow’s newly found affinity for
Germany, are red in the face.
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