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El BRIAR Y 4£ricuftufgi & Menha/iicaf Colls?? gf Tn Cnlfpar !f 3IC A. & M. DOWNS T. C. U. 20 TO 6 The Battalion Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College Official Newspaper of the City of College Station Baylor Bears Next On List Library Campus VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1939 Z752 NO. 14 Telephone Installation Under Way Phones Already In Old Dorms, 40 Ordered In All Telephone installation is well underway in both the new and the old dormitories with the Tele phone Co. rushing work to com plete the 40 orders received to date, according t’b information re ceived yesterday. Nearly all of the telephones or dered for the old dorms have been installed. This was a fairly simple job for the buildings were wired last year, and all that had to be done was to connect the telephones up and check the wiring. At the new dormitories, cable and conduit construction has been completed, and all that is neces sary to be done now to make the telephone installation complete is for the organizations to tell the Telephone Company where they want their telephones. As soon as this is done, lines will be run to the buildings from the conduit outlets and telephones will be hooked up. Orders have been coming in every day for telephones and many more are expected from the new dormitories as soon as a few telephones have been installed and the st. dents are convinced that the phones are working in good order. Orders for phones are to be made through the Commandant’s Office by the organization com manders. All units desiring phones should put their applications through as soon as possible so work will not be delayed. Cost for the telephones is $1.50 for installation and a flat rate of $2.50 per month thereafter. Glenn Now Assisting Advisory Committee Apprentice Training E. W. Glenn of the Department of Industrial Education is now as sisting the Joint Advisory Com mittees on Apprentice Training for plumbing, machinist, carpen try, painting and decorating, elec trical, sheet metal, and other ap prentices in Houston, Galveston, and San Antonio. His work with these committees includes the development of indus trial outlines, work books, and references, and the selection of tradesmen to become instructors of the apprentices. Mr. Glenn will work in Houston and Galveston with the building trades apprentices during the week of October 23, after attending a dinner of the delegates of the As sociated Journeymen Plumbers of the United Association, on Octo ber 22, to which he was invited by the Joint Advisory Committee on Apprentice Training of the Houston Vocational School. At this dinner, he discussed plans for the establishment of a standard course of training for plumbers’ apprentices in the State of Texas. The Federal Committee on Ap prentice Training will be represent ed at this discussion by Fred Erhard, who received his B. S. degree in industrial education from A. & M. in 1928, and his B. S. de gree in mechanical engineering from A. & M. in 1933. LADIE’S QUARTER BACK CLUB TO BE ORGANIZED The first ladies’ quarterback club in the Southwest will be form ed tonight in the Chemistry lecture room, it was announced yesterday. At the last meeting of the local men’s quarterback club, it was de cided that they would sponsor a similar organization for the ladies in order that they might see the game pictures as the students and men do. The meeting has been scheduled for 7:30 p. m. with the pictures of the A. & M.-Villanova game to be shown. CADET 0. D. DRISDALE DIES OF PERITONITIS Funeral services will be held in San Antonio today for Oscar D. Drisdale, 17, freshman student of Battery A Coast Artillery, who passed away Sunday night. Death was due to an infection of the peritoneum caused by a rup tured appendix. Drisdale entered the college hospital on the morn ing of Friday, October 13, after having had several abdominal pains for a few days previous. He was operated on the following Sat urday night after a consultation had been held of the college physi cians and two other doctors. Dur ing the past week he had showed some improvement, but passed away early Sunday night. I. O. Mayhew and Charles Miller, cadet officers of Battery A. Coast Artillery, accompanied the body to San Antonio. Survivors include both parents and a brother and sister. Last Order Of Senior Rings Arrive; Total Now Stands At 421 The last order of senior rings, which was not due until Nov. 1st, arrived early Monday morning via airmail from the Josten Jewelry Co. of Owatoona, Minnesota. The 26 rings which arrived brought the total up to 421, and completed all of the senior ring orders except for six rings which were sent back for adjustment and havd not yet been returned. Seniors may get their rings at the Registrar’s office. Hamilton Is Author Of Article On Wool Prices Due To War" Professor T. R. Hamilton of the Accounting and Statistics Depart ment is the writer of an article on American wool production which appeared in the Semi-Weekly Farm News, Friday, October 6. Profes sor Hamilton dealt with the pros pective increased demand for wool as a result of the European war and the ability of the American producers to meet this demand. It was noted that 1939 wool prices are approximately £ifty per cent above the 1938 prices, even though 1939 production exceeds 1938 pro duction by about 4,000,000 pounds. Professor Hamilton states that Texas .as well as the United States is in a better position now than it has been in some time to make up for the expected deficit in wool imports as a result of Britain hav ing bought the entire crop of Australia before it was shorn. Prize Offered For Best Essay Dealing With Confederacy A prize of $1,000, to be awarded to the college student or one who has graduated within the three preceding years, who writes the best essay or monograph on South ern history, has been announced by the United Daughters of the Confederacy^' The iannounctement stated that essays concerning the Confederacy or the causes of the Civil War are preferred. All essays must comprise not less than ten thousand words, must be scholarly in form, and must be based, partly at least, upon the use of source materials. All im portant statements should be ac companied with citations of the source from which the data have been drawn, and a bibliography should be appended. All essays must be in the hands of Mrs. Liv ingston Rowe Schuyler, 520 West 114th Street, New York, N. Y., by May 1, 1940. THE STUDENT DIRECTORY of Texas A. & M. will go on sale at the campus news stand and the Aggieland Inn beginning Wed nesday, it was announced from the office of Director of Student Publications today. The directories will be on sale for 25 cents. As Frogs Bow To Aggies, 20 to 6 Walemon Price, Aggie back and captain of the A. & M. forces in T. C. U. stadium Saturday, is shown in the upper picture taking the ball through right tackle dur ing the second quarter for a 12 yard gain and a first down. A good example of the perfect block ing the cadet team was making is shown in the picture. In the lower picture Big John Kimbrough, ace back fielder for the Aggies, drags three Frogs a- long with him for a five yard gain during the third period. Filling the stands in the back ground are a few of the 5,000 cadets who shed their blouses early in the day due to a sweltering sun. Aggies Traveled To Cowtownln Airplanes, Trucks and Trains, But Important Thing Was, They Went By George Fuermann The Greeks have a word for it; and so do the Texas Aggies—they came, the say, they conquered! Fifty-five hundred strong, they came, and were supplemented by 2,000 of T.S.C.W.’s lovely coeds and half a thousand exes. For two days, and two whole nights, all roads led to Fort Worth as far as A. & M.’s cadet corps was concerned. Three special trains carried them, but hundreds didn’t wait for Saturday morning’s “special.” They “highwayed” in every kind of conveyance from new 1940 models to the back end of a fertilizer truck. They went by bus, they went in their own cars, two even went by airplane, but the important thing was—they went; the largest number of Tex as Aggies ever to make a corps trip in the college’s 67-year his tory. And when they arrived and form ed for their annual corps-trip parade, the area surrounding the Fort Worth Union Terminal re sembled a super-mob scene in a Hollywood spectacle. An hour after the parade a person not ac quainted with the circumstances might well have concluded that Fort Worth was under martial law. The old saying that female hearts beat faster at the sight of a uniform still bore fruit as the 2,000-odd T.S.C.W.-ites and sev eral hundred T.C.U. coeds greet ed the Aggies at the station and after the parade. Even the parade was unusual. Witnessed by thousands who jam med downtown streets, it was the Aggies’' first public presentation -f-of the new “streamlined” drill.-f And so it was . . . It’s history Miniature paper snowstorms fell on the cadets as the parade passed Fort Worth’s downtown office buildings and hotels. After the parade there was a barbecue awaiting the Aggies and their dates in the T.C.U. gymnas ium. After the barbeque there was a football game—and what a game it was!—especially from the Aggie viewpoint. Twenty-five thousand people jammed every avaliable nook of T.C.U.’s stadium, and the tradition ally great Aggie spirit was at an all-time high. A New Yorker, vis iting Texas for the first time, was overheard saying “I’ve seen foot ball games from coast.to coast; I believe I’ve seen every major American college and university play at least one game; but I’ve never before seen a cheering sec tion or a school spirit like the one these Texas Aggies have shown today.” “Rev,” the famous Aggie mascot, sported her new blanket during the parade and at the game; T.S.C.W.’s Aggie Day sweetheart, Edna Clarke, was presented at the half; but best of all of the game’s sidelights was the great Aggie Band. Even the corps, accustom ed as it is to the band’s fine per formances, was amazed at the be- tween-the-halves demonstration. And after the game, several hours afterward, there were two dances—one on the T.C.U. gym and one in the Texas Hotel. At the latter dance Tommy Little john’s famous Aggieland Orches tra was featured and a tremendous crowd attended both functions. now, but in the minds of those who took part in 1939’s Fort Worth corps trip, it was a never-to-be- forgotten weekend—and a histor ic one for Aggieland’s great foot ball teams. Walton Compliments Corps On Conduct, Parade, Game Result “I want to compliment the whole Aggie corps and all others who helped to make the Ft. Worth corps trip such a tremendous suc cess,” stated President T. O. Walton Monday afternoon. The President went on to say that this corps trip was probably the best in the history of A. & M. because of the excellent parade, the outcome of the game, and the generally good conduct of the Ag gies. THE NEXT FACULTY DANCE, which is to be held in Sbisa Hall Annex Tuesday, October 31, will be a costume ball. The date corre sponds with that of Halloween and appropriate dressing will be observed. All members of the college staff are invited to attend the affair, in costume if ^possible, or in regu lar attire, the dance chairman has announced. Sam Houston College Professor Here As Students Are Gone Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the Biology Department, announced today that he had received a visit from Dr. S. R. Warner of Sam Houston State Teachers’ College who said that his visit was made possible because the student body had taken a holiday to celebrate their football victory over Rice. Dr. Warner’s visit was in the in terest of the biology section of the Texas Academy of Science, which will hold its convention this year at the University of Texas November 9 through November 11. Dr. Doak stated that several mem bers of the Biology Department would attend the convention. Hot Water Will Be In By Saturday Equipment Here And Ready To Be Installed Soon If everything goes off according to schedule the Aggies will have hot water by Saturday, according to word received Monday by Guy M. Hines, chief engineer of the power plant. The final pieces of equipment, a heat exchanger has arrived in Houston and will get here sometime this morning. Work will be started immediately and the installation should be complet ed by Saturday. The head exchanger was shipped direct from the Sims Manufactur ing Co. of Erie, Pennsylvania. Ac cording to this company the delay in the manufacture of the equip ment was due to the extensive manufacture of war materials which caused a shortage of the type of copper and steel needed to make the heat exchanger. The new equipment was needed because the whole power plant system has been changed to pro vide the heat and power needed for the new dormitories. The heat exchanger will provide the final link in the new system. It is a tank something similar to a boiler, and is composed of a steel shell with a copper lining inside of which is a maze of copper tubes in which. the water is heated. SECOND CORPS DANCE OF YEAR _ SATURDAY NIGHT The second corps dance of the year, the Baylor-A. & M. dance, will be held Saturday night in Sbisa Hall according to Charles Hamner, social secretary of the senior class. A special train from Baylor will arrive Saturday morning. On the train will be a group of lovely coeds who will remain for the dance after the game. The Aggieland Orchestra, who claim the finest band they have had in years, will furnish the mu sic for the affair. Tickets are $1.00. The whole corps, including freshmen, is invited to the dance. Dairy Products Team Judges In California The A. & M. Dairy Products Judging Team competed yesterday in the National Dairy Show in San Francisco, California, for the first time in the history of the college. Members of the Dairy Cattle Judging Team were in the nation al competition in their field at the? same time, but for their twentieth* consecutive year. Three dairy research fellowships^, together with silver cups and golcE and silver medals, were offered! as awards to winning teams and individuals. Results of the contest will be announced this week. SECOND LARGE CASH GIFT TO LIBRARY IN RECENT YEARS MADE BY SONORA MOTHER’S CLUB A lump sum contribution' amounting to $110 has been voted to the A. & M. Library by the Sonora A. & M. Mothers’ Club, Dr. Thomas F. Mayo, Librarian, announced today. The following letter signed by Mrs. W. T. Hardy, Secretary-Treasurer, accompanied the contribution from this organi zation : Dr. T. F. Mayo, College Station, Texas. Dear Dr. Mayo: At the last meeting of our A. & M. Mothers’ Club we voted to send our contribution to the A. & M. Library in a lump sum and not in partial payments. This check for one hundred and ten dol lars includes ten dollars for sub scriptions to the magazines For tune and Esquire, as well as one hundred dollars for the general fund or for what ever use you see fit. Our club is especially interested in the work and efforts of the A. & M. Library and we wish you the best of success. Sincerely yours, Mrs. W. T. Hardy, Sec.-Treas. A. & M. Mothers’ Club. This is the second outstanding gift presented by the Sonora A. & M. Mothers’ Club to the A. & M. Library within recent years. The previous one consisted of five- year subscriptions to the Esquire and Fortune magazines, several maps, and plate glass sections for use in the lounge.