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Ft. Worth Corps Trip
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Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College
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Official Newspaper of the City of College Station
VOL. 39
PHONE 4-5444
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 17, 1939
Z752
NO. 11
Juniors Will
Ride Special
To Denton
Deposit Must Be
Made By Wednesday
To Insure Special
A Southern Pacific special will
be run to Denton for the annual
Junior dance, leaving at 12:15
Friday afternoon, providing 200
per^skms deposit one dollar with
Jack Bailey in room 426, dormi
tory 4 by noon Wednesday. Bailey,
who is in charge of train connec
tions, is especially desirous of im
pressing the fact that reservations
are not for juniors exclusively but
may be made by anyone wishing
to leave Friday afternoon.
There are two round trip rates.
For $4.50 a student may leave
College Station and arrive in Dal
las at 3:45, in time to take the
bus for Denton, which leaves at
3:50 p. m. and arrives at 5 p. m.
The bus leaves Denton at 8 a. m.
Saturday morning and arrives at
Ft. Worth at 9:15 a. m. The sec
ond rate of $3.65 is for the regu
lar round trip from College Sta
tion to Dallas. A special feature
is that the return trip to Col
lege Station may be made from
either Dallas or Ft. Worth on any
regular Southern Pacific train.
A meeting of first-sergeants is
to be held tonight to discuss final
plans.
STERLING EVANS
TO GIVE TALK ON
SOUTH AMERICA
At 7:30 tonight in the Animal
Industry Lecture Room, Ster
ling C. Evans, a prominent ex
student and president of the Bank
of Cooperatives, Houston, Texas,
will give the faculty and student
body of A. & M. his observa
tions on an extended tour of South
America last summer. All facul
ty and staff members and inter
ested students are cordially invit
ed to attend this meeting which is
sponsored by the Student Agron
omy Society.
There will be two reels of mov
ing pictures, showing varied and
interesting phases of Brazilian life
and agriculture. Students inter
ested in Animal Husbandry and
Economics will find particularly
valuable some of the observations
and pictures taken by Mr. Evans.
Houston Chamber
Of Commerce Here
On Good Will Visit
Col. Ash burn, Varner,
Mims Will Conduct An
Inspection of Campus
A party of 30 men comprising
the Board of Directors and other
members of the Houston Chamber
of Commerce will visit here today
for the purpose of making an in
spection of the college.
The Houstonians will be headed
by President Wright Morrow and
General Manager Bill Blanton. H.
C. Schuhmacher of Houston, a
member of the Board of Directors
of A. & M. College, will also be
present.
The group will be shown the en
tire college by a reception com
mittee headed by Col. Ike Ashburn,
executive assistant to President T.
O. Walton, will watch the corps
march into the new mess hall at
Dinner, and then will eat lunch
in the old mess hall.
Wood Varner, cadet colonel, and
C. D. Mims, president of the Hous
ton A. & M. Club, will accompany
the group.
The party will arrive by bus at
11:15 a. m. and will depart around
3 p. m. this afternoon.
Corps Trip Date Bureau
Plans Being Completed
LIVESTOCK TEAM
WINS NINTH PLACE
AT KANSAS ROYAL
The livestock judging team from
A. & M. won ninth place in the
livestock judging contest at the
American Royal Livestock Show
at Kansas City Saturday. This
contest, in which some 20 col
lege teams from all over the Unit
ed States entered, was the same
contest in which the Aggies won
third place last year.
According to information receiv
ed from L. A. Miller, coach of the
team, the team won first place in
the sheep judging division of the
contest and fourth place in the
horse judging division.
High-point man for the Aggie
team was James Grote of Mason
who took fifth place in individual
standing in the show out of a total
of more than 100 students compet
ing in the contests.
The team left Wednesday for'
the contest and enroute visited
Oklahoma A. & M. and other points
of interest before arriving in Kan
sas City Friday where they judg
ed Saturday. According to plans
announced on their departure they
are due back at A. & M. Tuesday
night.
Those making the trip besides
Coach Miller are James Grote, W.
R. Lehmberg, W. B. Buster, Lewis
Brown, F. H. Corder, J. E. Epper
son, J. A. Gallant, R. S. Huddle,
and Pete Jacoby.
Old Ordinance Forbids Wild
Horse Breaking In Bryan
Included in the city ordinances
of our neighboring city of Bryan
are some that have outlived their
usefulness, as well as others that
are not enforced even if they are
desirable. Some of the ordinances
are as follows:
It is against the order and dig
nity of Bryan to break wild horses
or any other wild animals, for
that matter, in the streets of the
city.
Another ordinance fixes the
speed limit for automobile vehicles
on Main street at 15 miles per
hour.
Another states that no car shall
be parked within 25 feet of any
danger, arterial highway or boule
vard stop sign, or within 15 feet
of the projecting property line of
any street or alley intersection.
Another traffic regulation is
that when approaching schools or
hospitals, cars shall be under con
trol and shall not proceed in the
zone at a speed of more than ten
miles per hour.
Due consideration is given “to
bacco chawers” by an ordinance
that stipulates that all hospitals,
hotels, boarding houses, restau
rants, eating houses, lunch stands,
lodging houses, and even those
where rooms are let • temporarily
“for pay, shall be equipped with
proper cuspidors.
Meat markets, fish markets,
and butcher shops or stalls shall
be completely screened, according
to another regulation.
Possibly to protect Bryanites
against wet feet, an ordinance stip
ulates that it shall be unlawful to
sprinkle the foot crossings along
or across any street or alley in
Bryan.
That we have progressed far
beyond horse and buggy days is
evidenced in an ordinance which
makes it unlawful to discharge a
firearm to give an alarm of fire.
Evidence that a clean city is
sought is found in an ordinance
which makes it unlawful for any
person, firm, or association to cast
any paper, advertisement or hand
bill in any private yard.
Among nuisances are spitting
upon the sidewalk, or the dropping
of any remnant of a cigar or ciga
rette, which might bring a $25
fine.
It is unlawful for any person to
ride, drive, or lead any horse on
any sidewalk in Bryan.
These are some of the ordinances
riow in effect in Bryan. Some of
them are outmoded by progress,
and others are not enforced and
apparently never will be.
Things are getting underWay
nicely with the “date bureau”
for the Aggies and T.S.C.W. girls
at Ft. Worth which is sponsored by
Fair Department Store. Thelma
Barse Hendricks, fashion co-ordi
nator for the Fair and in charge
of the “date bureau” has written
Max McCullar, president of the
senior class, another letter, and
expressed her appreciation of the
cooperation A. & M. was giving
and telling how well the “date
bureau” was functioning.
She also said that Mr. Pegues,
superintendent of the Fair, is mak
ing arrangements for a loudspeak
er system to be set up at the rail
road station for the Aggies to
use to conduct yells, organize the
parade, or make necessary an
nouncements.
Date registration blanks will
be found in the Saturday’s Bat
talion. Students wanting dates
should fill them out as soon as
possible and deposit them in the
box in the rotunda of the Academ
ic Building. They will be sent to
Fort Worth by McCullar.
Formal Dedication
Of American Legion
House October 28
The new American Legion dorm
itory at A. & M. will be dedicated
formally to use of sons of Amer
ican World War Veterans in cere
monies October 28, it was an
nounced by Col. Ike Ashburn, ex
ecutive assistant to President Wal
ton.
Ray Kelly, national commander
of the Legion, from Detroit, will
be present along with Fred Young,
state adjutant, Austin; Jay Rossi-
ter, chairman of the dormitory
board of trustees, Houston; and
Ernest Goens of Tyier, past com
mander, will be in charge of the
dedicatory ceremonies.
The dormitory is in charge of
student managers Monty Mitchell
of Wellington and J. D. Skipper of
Stephenville. Mrs. Earnie Harkins,
widow of a World War Veteran,
is house mother and 78 boys rep
resenting 53 Texas counties reside
in the new brick building con
structed by the Legion on the A.
& M. campus.
NOVEMBER 1 IS
DEADLINE FOR
SWIFT CONTEST
Closing dates for the student
essay contest sponsored by Swift
and Company of Chicago have
been changed from October 25 to
November, 1 according to an an
nouncement made Monday by D.
W. Williams, head of the animal
husbandry department.
The contest which is an annual
feature of Swift and Company is
open to all juniors and seniors in
the school of agriculture and of
fers a free trip to the Internation
al Livestock Exposition held in
Chicago during the latter part of
November. In this contest a free
trip is given for the best essay
on some phase of agriculture from
each major agriculture college in
the United States.
Rules of the contest have been
posted on the animal husbandry
bulletin board on the second floor
of the Animal Industries building.
T.S.C.W. Picks
Ag-Day Sweetheart
The T.S.C.W. student body is
holding an assembly today for the
purpose of electing an Aggie-Day
Sweetheart. Any student may
sponsor a candidate by turning
in to the editor of the T.S.C.W.
Lass-0 a petition bearing fifty
signatures in behalf of that per
son.
The winner receives, in addition
to the title of Aggie-Day Sweet
heart, a free railroad ticket to Ft.
Worth and a free pass to the A.
& M.-T.C.U. football game, where
she will be presented in a brief
ceremony at the half.
Board Acts On
Several Projects
In Saturday Meet
Parking Lot Discussed;
Aggieland Inn, Creamery
To Be Remodeled Soon
At a meeting of the Board of
Directors Saturday morning sev
eral decisions were made which
Aggies will be interested.
First, it was decided that work
should be started soon on a park
ing lot for students with cars
who live in the new dormitories.
The exact location of the parking
lot is not known yet, but it will
be in the near vicinity of the new
dorms.
Orders were given for the Ag-
gieland Inn to be repaired inside.
The walls will be replastered and
the building given a general re
modeling.
Due to the increased enrollment
this year plans were made for
the enlarging of the A. & M.
creamery. This will be done in
the near future.
J. H. Sikes of the Entomology
Department was promoted to the
position of associate professor, to
take the place of H. G. Johnston,
who is working in an experiment
station in Arizona.
President TCU
Student Body
To Speak Here
Prize Offered For
Best Murder Mystery;
Characters, Setting
Must Be On Campus
Three prizes are being offered
by the management of the annual
Aggie play—this year it’s “The Ag
gies of 1940”—for the best murder
mysteries written by A. & M. stu
dents. The prizes are $25, $10 and
$5.
Requisites for the mysteries are
that the murder or murders must
take place on the campus and the
victim or victims are to be stu
dents or officials of the college.
The story, however, may be sub
mitted in either narrative or dra
matic form.
No prizes will be awarded un
less the judges decide that the best
stories are worthy of production.
Also the management reserves the
right to make use of the material
from any manuscript turned in
and to make any alterations in the
story which is selected for produc
tion.
All entries must be turned in
to R. L. Elkins of the Economics
Department by Jan. 5, 1940.
Thursday night at yell practice
the student body of A. & M. will be
officially invited to the T.C.U.
game by William Chappell, presi
dent of the T.C.U. student body.
According to a letter received
from Chappell by Max McCullar,
president of the senior class, Chap
pell will drive down Thursday to
talk to the student body.
His letter also states that the
cadets will be given their usual
free barbecue at noon Saturday.
If this barbecue holds up to the
standards set by its predecessors
it should be very enjoyable.
Chappell also wrote that all
dormitories at T.C.U. will be open
to both A. & M. students and the
girls from T.S.C.W. and should
they desire they may use the girls’
dormitory to change clothes for
the dance Saturday night.
Golden, Jensen Are
New Ag Eco Teachers
Dr. Howard E. Golden and Frank
O. Jensen are new members of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics staff this year, J. Wheeler
Barger, department head, has an
nounced. Both men have combined
training and experience in agri
cultural economics and business ad
ministration.
Dr. Golden’s home is West Tex
as, and he first attended the state
teachers college at Canyon. Fol
lowing this, he went to the Uni
versity of Missouri, where he re
ceived the degree of doctor of philo
sophy in agricultural economics-and
business administration. He did
part-time teaching while at the
University of Missouri, and later
served for two years as professor
of business administration in the
West Texas and North Texas State
Teachers Colleges. He also spent
four years as economist with the
Farm Credit Administration at
Washington, D. C.
Mr. Jensen received his B. A.
degree in business administration
at the University of Utah, and the
M. S. degree in agricultural eco
nomics at the Utah Agricultural
College. He then took an additional
year of graduate work at the Uni
versity of California. His exper
ience includes two years as an econ
omist with the Federal Land Bank
in Berkeley, California, a year with
the Land Utilization Division of
the Resettlement Administration,
and three years in commercial work
with large business organizations.
Town Hall Tickets
May Be Purchased
In Organizations
Information has reached the Bat
talion Office that many students
desiring tickets for Town Hall do
not know where they may be pur
chased. All organization com
manders on the campus now have
tickets in their possession, and
purchases may be made from them,
according to an announcement
made by the manager.
Town Hall will meet for the first
time on Monday, October 30. Its
first guest will be Phil La Follette,
governor of Wisconsin, who will
speak on public affairs, the cur
rent European situation, and
American, reactions to that situa
tion. All members of Town Hall
are urged to have in mind all
questions concerning his subject,
or relative to it, that they would
like to have answered, for an open
forum will be held immediately
after his formal program is over.
A. & M. Approved By
CAA As Training Center
Transformer
Burns In E. E.
Laboratory
About 6:15 Sunday evening stu
dents living in the vicinity of the
Electrical Engineering Building
thought the whole building was go
ing to burn down because of the
clouds of smoke rolling from the
windows.
All the excitement, however, was
caused by a transformer in room
111 which had become too hot
and started flaming. This caused
the tremendous amount of smoke.
The transformer burned to a crisp
but did not damage the building
beyond blacking the walls of the
room. Damage amounted to around
$50.
L. L. Grandi, instructor in the
electrical engineering department,
discovered the burning transform
er about 6:15 and immediately
called the fire department who re
sponded promptly and put the fire
out.
Evidently the transformer had
been smouldering all afternoon,
and was not noticed by anyone.
Cause of the fire was the fact
that the transformer was left in
the circuit all afternoon.
Student Tickets
For T.C.U. Game
Now On Sale
According to an announcement
by E. W. Hooker, Secretary of the
Athletic Council, student tickets
for the T. C. U. game will be on
sale until Thursday afternoon at
five o’clock. This will be the dead
line for the purchasing of student
tickets which will cost $1.10 ac
companied by -coupon number 33.
The sale of adult tickets will also
close at this time, as the remain
der of the tickets must be sent
back to Ft. Worth early Friday
morning. There wil be no student
tickets sold at the gate in Ft.
Worth.
The Aggies will be assigned ap
proximately four thousand seats
in the east section of the Horned
Frog’s stadium. The students of
T. C. U. will be seated on the
same side as the Aggies, but will
occupy seats from the twenty yard
line to the goal line. The Aggies
will take that section of seats
from the same twenty yard line
to the far goal line. A. & M.’s two
hundred and fourteen piece band
will take seats provided for them
on the track of the stadium.
SENIOR CLASS
MEETS TONIGHT
The Senior Class will hold its
first business meeting of the year
tonight in Guion Hall, immediate
ly after yell practice.
The topics discussed will prob
ably be the newly inaugurated
Senior Court, the need for a more
presentable orchestra stand for all
Sbisa Hall dances, the need for
a new papier mache ring for the
Ring Dance next spring and the
most appropriate gift the Class of
’40 can leave the school as a part
ing gift.
Josten Company
Unable to Deliver
Rings on Schedule
Part of the 218 senior rings
ordered October 1 were received
by the registrar’s office Monday
according to an announcement by
E. J. Howell, registrar. Due to the
large size of the order the Josten
Engraving Company of Owatoona,
Minnesota, makers of the rings,
were unable to fill the order com
pletely and were able to deliver
only 121 rings of the October or
der. However, all rings in this
order were expected this week so
that they would be delivered to
the seniors before the Ft. Worth
corps trip, Saturday.
In a telephone conversation with
the Josten Company Monday, Mr.
Howell informed the company that
only 121 rings had been received
and was told that all rings of this
order would be finished this week
and sent air express special de
livery to A. & M. Mr. Howell
stated that if this procedure is
carried out, he felt confident the
rings would be here before Satur
day. The company stated that
due to the large order coming at
the busiest part of the engrav
ing year that they were unable to
completely fill the order for the
time specified.
The second of October order of
senior rings was sent off Satur
day to bring the total October or
der to 245 rings and the total
number ordered this year to 421.
The rings ordered Saturday will
be delivered on the first of No
vember which is also the date
for the next order to be sent to the
company.
Today Deadline To
Make Application
Work Begins Soon On
Airport West of Campus
A. & M. has been approved by
the Civil Aeronautics Authority
for participation in the pilot train
ing program conducted by the C.
A. A., according to Dean Gilchrist
who was notified yesterday.
Deadline on applications for this
training is 5 o’clock this after
noon. Applicants must be at least
18 years of age and not over 25;
they must be citizens of the Unit
ed States and must have had no
previous solo flight experience.
Acceptance of students for the fly
ing course will depend largely on
the passing of a rigid physical ex
amination. Applicants who are
rejected because of physical de
fects will be allowed to take the
ground school course as an elec
tive.
Forty-eight other institutions,
including ten Texas colleges, were
also approved at this time. This
makes a total of 404 approved
schools over the nation. Accord
ing to the C.A.A. these schools
should qualify about 10,000 stu
dents for flying licenses by next
June 30.
Work on the combined Bryan-
College Station airport, to be lo
cated about two miles west of the
campus, is being held up pend
ing the receipt of an operator’s
license from the C. A. A. The
new field will be ready for use by
the time flight training is begun.
College Stock
Wins At Dallas
Livestock from the college ht
here took several high prizes
the Dallas Annual State Stock
Show this week.
In the Shorthorns division.
Ambitious Collynie Dale, a Short
horn bull, took first place in the
junior yearling bull class. Am
bitious Gloster took third place in
the senior heifer calf class. Am
bitious Clara, III, won her class
of summer yearling heifers. In
pairs. Ambitious Collynie Dale anc
Ambitious Clare, III, took seconc
place as a pair of yearlings, whil<
Ambitious Clara III and Ambitious
Goster took third as a pair ol
females.
Another Shorthorn entry, “Am
bitious Villager, was judged th
best senior bull calf and was sob
to C. M. Caraway and son, of Dc
Leon.
In the Angus cattle class, Rev<
mer’s Pride, VIII, won as gran
champion female. Revemere’i
Wheatland was grand champion,
bull. Prizemere’s Pride, II, took-
senior champion female.
Livestock entries also included^
hogs, which have not yet been»
reported.
The Annual State Fair of Dal-'
las started October 7 and will con
tinue until October 21. All of the
animals entered will remain in
Dallas for show purposes until the
j Fair is over.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION SHORT
COURSE TO BE HELD ON A. & M.
CAMPUS OCTOBER 26 THROUGH 28
The Rural Electrification Short-f
Course to be held at College Sta
tion October 26, 27 and 28, is de
signed primarily for rural service
representatives of the electric com
panies, superintendents of electric
cooperatives, county agents, voca
tional teachers, representatives of
electrical equipment manufactur
ers, dealers and other leaders who
may be called upon the assist the
farmer with his electric utiliza
tion problems. The program is
sponsored by the agricultural engi
neering department in cooperation
with the Texas Committee on the
Relation of Electricity to Agricul
ture.
Classes will begin Thursday
morning, October 26, and end Sat
urday noon. A variety of subjects
will be covered including wiring
and lighting for the farm, equip
ment for the home, water sys
tems, poultry equipment, dairy
equipment, feed processing, and
soil heating and sterilizing. In
addition to the regular class and
laboratory work an informal ban
quet will be given on Friday night,
October 27. A feature of the ban
quet will be an address by George
W. Kable, of New York City, edi
tor of Electricity on the Farm.
Inquiries concerning registration
for the course should be addressed
to P. T. Montfort, Agricultural
Engineering Department, A. & M.
College, College Station, Texas.