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THE BATTALION
Official Notices
All notices should be sent in
typewritten, double-spaced, neatly
and correctly. The deadline for
them is 5 p. m. the afternoon be
fore the day the paper is issued.
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SUNDAY BREAKFAST
1. Breakfast will be served to
students who enter the mess halls
between 7:30 a. m. and 7:50 a. m.
on Sundays.
2. In order that all concerned
may take advantage of this privi
lege, there will be no breakfast
formation on Sundays.' s
3. All students who are not ex
empt from wearing the uniform
will be required to wear No. 2
uniform for breakfast on Sunday
mornings. Students out of uniform
will not be allowed to enter the
mess halls during the breakfast
period.
GEO. F| MOORE
Colonel, U. S. Army
Commandant
LONGHORN PICTURES
Senior class section pictures for
the 1940 Longhorn for Coast Ar
tillery and Composite Regiment
Seniors may be made during the
week of Oct. 16-21, with Saturday,
Oct. 21 a positive deadline for those
units.
UNIFORM REGULATION
1. The attention of all concern
ed is invited to Paragraph 6, Sec
tion III, of the College Uniform
Regulations which reads in part as
follows:
“Cap. The wire will not be re
moved from the crown or bent in
any unusual shape.”
2. In order that the corps and
individual cadets may present a
creditable appearance on the corps
trip and at other times, organiza
tion commanders will make an in
spection of caps belonging to mem
bers of their organizations and
take measures where necessary to
insure the proper appearance of
all caps belonging to members of
their organizations. The corps, re
gimental and battalion comman
ders will make this inspection,
and take any corrective measures
necessary for the respective staffs.
Colonel George F. Moore
Commandant
RADIOS
Paragraph 2, Circular No. 11,
Headquarters Corps of Cadets, A.
& M. College, dated September 28,
1939, which directs that all radios
will be turned off at 11:00 p. m.,
does not apply to seniors.
Colonel Geo. F. Moore
Commandant
GENERAL ORDER NO. 4
1. Certain provisions of General
Order No. 1, Headquarters Corps
of Cadets, A. & M. College, dated
September 19,1939, are revoked
and amended as indicated below.
a. So much of Paragraph 11,-5,
as directs the tactical officer of
the day to exercise general super
vision over reports of cadet offi
cers in charge of quarters to ca
det officers of the day is revoked.
b. Paragraph III, 4, is revoked.
c. Paragraph IV, 1, is changed
to read as follows.
“A cadet officer
quarters for each
will be detailed daily by each com
pany, troop, and battery comman
der from the seniors living in his
dormitory. The tour of duty will
extend from reveille to reveille.”
d. Paragraph IV, 10, is changed
to read as follows:
“He will turn in to the organi
zation commander upon completion
of his tour a report of any viola
tions of regulations that may have
occurred while he was on duty.”
Colonel Geo. F. Moore, Com
mandant.
in charge of
organization
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(1% lbs.) are a whole week’s meat ration under the new ration-card system. Other dietary restrictions
illustrated in actual quantity above, left to right are: sugar (10 ozs.), a week’s supply; tea (% oz.), a
month’s supply; cereal (oatmeal, 5 ozs.), a week’s supply; marmalade (4 ozs.), a week’s supply; cheese (2
ozs.) daily; coffee (2 ozs.), a week; milk (^ pint), a day.
all old and new members are
urged to attend.
Organizations
LONGHORN PICTURES
All who have camp pictures they
wish to get in the Longhorn are
asked to turn them in to Doug
Miller in room 217, hall 12, as soon
as possible.
APPROVED STUDENT
TUTORING
Students who desire approval as
tutors for the 1939-40 session may
secure application forms in the
Registrar’s Office. Student tutors
approved last year should have
their applications transferred to
the current file.—The Registrar.
FENCING TEAM
The Fencing Team will meet
in Room 110 Academic Building
Tuesday night after yell practice.
All persons interested in fencing
are invited to attend.
ECONOMICS CLUB
The Economics Club will meet
Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the Pet
roleum Geology lecture room. Col.
Ike Ashburn will speak. Since this
is the first meeting of the year
LET'S ALL GO
FUTURE FARMERS
The Junior Collegiate Chapter of
the Future Farmers of America
will meet Thursday night in the
Ag. Engineering lecture room.
RESERVE OFFICERS
ASSOCIATION
The regular meeting of the Re
serve Officers Association will be
held at 7:30 p. m. October 17, in
the Petroleum Engineering lecture
room. Colonel Ashburn will give
short talk concerning the Five-
Year Plan for Troop Schools. This
talk will be followed by a discus
sion of the European situation giv
en by Dr. Gammon. All Reserve
Officers are urged to be present,
and members of the Military De
partment are cordially invited to
attend.
BELL COUNTY CLUB
There will be a meeting of the
Bell County Club Wednesday night
at 7:00 o’clock on the first floor
of the Academic Building. Fresh
men are especially invited.
VICTORIA A. & M. CLUB
There will be a very important
meeting of the Victoria A. & M.
club at 7:30 Wednesday night in
room 208 M. E. Bldg. All old and
new members are requested to be
present as election of new officers
will be held.
Naval Aviation
Board Meets At
Dallas In Nov.
Candidates for U. S. Navy avia
tion training will be examined by
a Board of Naval Officers headed
by Lieutenant A. Laverents and
meeting in the Adolphus Hotel in
Dallas for about ten days com
mencing November 13, it was
learned today.
Lieutenant Laverents, a war
time aviator, states that all can
didates will be given a personal
interview and a flight physical ex-
smination. No mental examina
tions will be given as candidates
will be judged on their scholastic
records.
To Ft. Worth For The Corps Trip
You will want to look your best for the Corps Trip . ..
Check over your regulation uniform needs. See us
for regulation uniforms and equipment that you will
need.
Junior Blouses
Junior Caps
Junior Sam Browne Belts
Gabardine Trench Coats
Fish Slacks
Fish Caps
Fish Sam Browne Belts
Regulation Ties
White Shirts
Regulation Socks
Zipper Week-End Bags
GEOLOGY CLUB
There will be a meeting of the
Biology Club tonight after yell
practice in the Geology Lecture
Room. Important that all members
be there.
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER
ING SOCIETY
There will be a meeting of the
Aeronautical Engineering Society
this evening at seven thirty in the
M. E. lecture rom. Plans will be
discussed for the formation of a
glider club, and election of officers
will be held.
YOUNG COUNTY CLUB
There will be a meeting of all
Young County boys in the base
ment of dormitory No. 3 tonight
immediately after yell practice. It
is very important that all Young
County boys be present as impor
tant business will be attended to.
Take An Extra Set Of Metal Insignia With You
For The “Gals”
We Carry a Complete Line Of Pennants, College
Jewelry And Felt Novelty Items
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“TWO CONVENIENT STORES’
A. S. C. E.
The student chapter of the Ame
rican Society of Civil Engineers
will meet this evening at the C. E.
building between 5 and 5:15 p. m.
A social has been planned. All
Civil Engineering students invited
BOXING CLUB
There will be a meeting of all
boys interested in forming a box
ing club Tuesday night at 7:30 in
Room 251 Bizzell Hall. All boys
interested in boxing and forming
a college boxing team are invited
to attend.
CAMPUS STUDY CLUB
The Camptis Study Club will
meet at 3 p. m. in the “Y” parlors
The program of a panel discussion
on “American Standards of Liv
ing” under the leadership of Mes-
dames Sidney O. Brown, L. L.
Fouraker, and A. L. Schipper.
FELLOWSHIP LUNCHEON
A Fellowship Luncheon will be
held Thursday, October 19, in Sbisa
Hall.
FOUR STATES CLUB
There will be a meeting of all
boys from Texarkana and the
Four States Area Wednesday night
in room 118, Dormitory No. 1 at
seven o’clock for the purpose of
reorganizing a “home town club”
for that section. All boys from
Bowie, Cass, and Miller Counties
are urged to attend.
How Big Should a State
Road System Be, Is Query
Raised by Highway Surveys
How big should a state highway
system be?
That is a question that is be
ing raised by facts developed in
some of the highway surveys now
being conducted by the highway
departments of 46 states in coop
eration with the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads.
Preliminary reports indicate that
the inclusion of many hundreds
of miles of road, for political or
other reasons, in the primary high
way systems has not been justi
fied by the traffic on the roads.
In one state the survey shows that
1,832 miles of road in the primary
system properly should be trans
ferred to the secondary system.
Present traffic on that mileave av
erages only 141 motor vehicles
per day, and produces an average
annual tax revenue of only $235
per mile. If this road mileage were
built to primary road standards,
the total cost would be $47,754,000.
Since the maintenace costs on the
primary road system of the state
in question average $500 per mile,
the facts indicate that the present
or expected traffic on the 1,832
miles of little-traveled road would
develop revenue insufficient to pay
even upkeep costs on expensive
pavements, and that the $47,754,-
000 of investment costs would have
to be produced from tax revenue
from motor vehicles operating on
other highways.
Wide variations in the highway
planning policies of various states
are being disclosed. Of the 3,068,-
921 miles of road in the United
States, 533,144 miles, or 17.3 per
cent, have been made part of the
state highway systems. The per
centage of roads included in a
state system runs anywhere from
eight to 100. Most of the surveys
indicate that the bulk of the traf
fic is carried by a relatively small
part of a state’s highway mileage.
For example, the survey in one
state shows that traffic on 25 per
cent of the roads outside the pri
mary system averages less than
10 vehicles a day, and that only
three per cent of the non-primary
roads of the state carries as many
as 200 vehicles per day.
Because of such facts being de
veloped by the highway surveys
in the 46 states, indicating to what
extent road expenditures on any
particular stretch of highway are
justified by present or expected
traffic, many states for the first
time will be provided with com
plete factual material that will en
able them to plan long-range high
way programs whereby the motor
ists’ tax dollars can be spent more
economically and effectively than
heretofore has been possible.
THE FICKLE FOURTH ESTATE
(This is how the Paris, France,
newspapers he*llined day-to-day
progress in reporting Napoleon’s
return from Elba.)
•
March 9—
The Anthropophag-us
Has Quitted His Den
March 10—
The Corsican Ogre
Has Landed at
Cape Juan
•
March 11—
The Tiger Has
Arrived at Cap
March 12—
The Monster Slept
At Grenoble
March 13—-
The Tyrant Has
Passed Through
Lyons
•
March 14—
The Usurper Is Direct
ing His Steps Toward
Dijon
•
March 18—
Bonaparte Is Only
Sixty Leagues From
The Capital
•
March 19—
Bonaparte Is Advanc
ing With Rapid Steps,
But He Will Never
Enter Paris
•
March 20—
Napoleon Tomorrow
Will Be Under Our
Ramparts
•
March 21—
The Emperor Is At
Fountainbleau
•
March 22—
HIS IMPERIAL AND
ROYAL MAJESTY
Arrived Yesterday
Evening at the Tui-
leries Amid the Joy
And Acclamation
Of All His Subjects
Lost and Found
LOST: A tan leather jacket left
in room 109 M. E. Bldg. Wednes
day about 11 o’clock. Please return
to room 120 Dormitory 6 for re
ward.
Successful candidates will be
sent to Miami, Florida, for one
month’s preliminary training, aft
er which they will go to the Pen
sacola Naval Air Station for the
prescribed Naval Aviation Course.
Upon completion of this training
period the student is commissioned
as ensign, U. S. N. R., and sent
to duty'with the aviaition units of
the fleet. After three year’s
service, the aviator is promoted to
lieutenant (junior grade) with the
option of four more year’s service.
The actual flight training cov
ers all types of sea and land planes,
single apd multi-engined. The
ground training consists of a
thorough course in navigation,
radio, engines, and airplane struc
tures.
To be eligible for this training
candidates must meet the follow
ing requirements: be American
citizens between the ages of 20
and 27; be unmarried; be at least
5 feet, 6 inches tall, and weigh
between 132 and 200 pounds; be
in sound physical condition; have
at least two years of college edu
cation.
Pennsylvania State College is
considering establishing a special
training course for truck drivers.
■TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 193S
Banker Williams Of
Houston Shows Fine
Movie for Ag Society
The Agronomy Society held its
first called meeting recently and
started this year’s work off with
a bang. Highlight of the meeting
was a movie presented by A. C.
Williams, president of the Federal
Land Bank of Houston ajjd a pho
tographer in his own right. Mr.
Williams compiled a movie this
summer while traveling with the
group which made up the annual
A. & M. Cotton Study Tour. The
group was made up of H. F. Good-
loe, J. D. Aughtry, R. V. McNiece,
top-ranking agronomy students of
1939, Prof. J. S. Mogford of the
Agronomy Department, and Mr.
Williams.
Mr. Williams was one of the
most enthusiastic members of the
party and even took along two
cameras in order to record the
things he couldn’t describe in
words. Since his party covered a
large part of the U. S. and four
foreign countries, Mr. Williams
had plenty of subjects to photo
graph. He put his trusted camera to
work before the party had left the
campus and gave it very little rest
until they returned.
The chief subjects for his camera
were various phases of agriculture,
especially those phases dealing with
cotton. The party first visited all
the leading cities of the South,
then stopped a while at Washing
ton, D. C., and even took in the
World’s Fair at New York. Just
before sailing the party made a
tour of some of the outstanding
cotton shipping ports of the At
lantic seaboard.
The voyage across the Atlantic
was uneventful but very interest
ing. It was found and proved by
Mr. Williams’ pictures that these
agronomy students are very cap
able in fields other than agronomy,
such as cultivating the interest of
the fair sex on board ship.
After arriving in Europe the
party visited four countries includ
ing England, Norway, Denmark
and Sweden. They made inspection
tours of the most important cotton
and industrial centers including
Manchester, and Liverpool, Eng
land, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
The visit to Copenhagen was made
especially interesting because of
the fair in progress there. Mr.
Williams made many pictures while
attending the fair but they weren’t
included in the movie because the
film was lost in transport to the
United States.
After nearly two months abroad
in which time they covered ISjSOO'
miles, the travelers returned to the
U. S. A. and finally back to College
Station on July 29. Immediately
upon returning Mr. Williams as
sembled his movie and has shown:
it several times with increasing:
popularity. Mr. Williams has long-
been interested in young people,
and never misses a chance to lend
them a helping hand.
When arrested on a minor
charge in Buffalo, Jane Gillen was
found to be wearing three pairs of
men’s trousers.
After winning $20,000 at Monte
Carlo, Karl Rettinch was robbed
of the entire amount by bandits
the same night.
An 8-year-old boy admitted to
police in Syracue, N. Y., that he
had turned in a false fire alarm
just to see the engines run.
Anthony Ogsodfchik of Albany,
N. Y., had his surname tattooed on
his arm, which he shows to any
one who asks him how to spell it.
Forty-one foreign nations were
represented in the student body of
Columbia University’s summer
session.
AGGIES...
Let’s Go To Fort Worth
In Style
AGGIE CLEANERS
North Gate
Pedro, the Voder, speaks
...and HOW/
THE VODER, nicknamed Pedro, is an amazing elec
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in the world to do that!
By pressing keys, singly or in combination, a skilled
operator can make Pedro talk in almost human fash
ion—with varying inflections and in either a man’s or
a woman’s voice.
The Voder is an outgrowth of fundamental research.
in speech sounds, articulation and voice reproduction
being carried on at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Such
studies have led — and will lead—to constantly im
proving telephone service for you.
A telephone call home would be appre
ciated. Rates to most points are lowest
any time after 7 P. M. and all day Sunday.