Only One More Game
To Win That Pennant
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Official Newspaper of the City of College Station
VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 21, 1939
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NO. 26
Additional Day Granted For Thanksgiving Holidays
Walton
Tells Of
Extra Day
Request Made For More Reserve Contracts
Land Grant
Colleges Asl
Finals Start On
i Feb. 2, Exemptions
■Km. Will Rnmin Qotnrk
Pay Increase
Plans Made For
R.O.T.C. Future
At Washington Meet
The annual convention of the
Association of Land Grant Colleges
and Universities, which met in
Washington, D. C., November 15,
16, and 17, was attended by Pres
ident Walton, Dean Gilchrist of
the School of Engineering, Dean
Brooks of the School of Arts and
Sciences and the Graduate School,
H. H. Williamson, director of the
Texas A. & M. Extension Service,
A. B. Conner, director of the Agri
cultural Experiment Station, and
Reese Spence, assistant director of
the Engineering Experiment Sta
tion.
President Walton announced yes
terday that the executive commit
tee of the association, of which he
is chairman, passed a resolution
requesting the War Department
to approve a request to the Con
gress of the United States for an
appropriation large enough to pro
vide advanced contracts for all stu
dents taking advanced courses in
military science who passed their
basic course satisfactorily, thus
enabling any student who com
pletes four years of military
(Continued on page 4)
Will Remain Same
Final examinations for the fix’st
semester will be held February 2
to February 8, inclusive, in ten
different examination periods, ac
cording to the Registrars depart
ment.
Candidates for baccalaureate de
grees at the end of the first semes
ter are exempt from final exami
nations, their daily grades through
February 1 counting as final
grades.
The exemption system for other
students first used during the
spring semester last year will be
used again. This allows the ex
emption from final examinations
of the highest 25 per cent of an
instructor’s classes in each course,
provided that those persons have a
grade of A or B. However, those
persons who are exempt may take
the examination if they wish to do
so.
1939-40 Student Welfare Committee
“DAD” ELLIOT
TALKS IN GUION
HALL TONIGHT
Dr. A. J. “Dad” Elliott arrived
here Saturday and made his first
appearance at the Baptist Church
Sunday where he held the morn
ing service. He spoke to a full
house on “The Roots of the Chris
tian Religion.”
Tonight you will be able to hear
him at Guion Hall at 7 p. m. on
the topic of “Men and Women.”
Dr. Elliott is the oldest active
Y. M. C. A. worker today. He un
derstands life and youth as they
really are and gives you a view
of things his audience can’t help
see clearly.
He comes here from South
eastern Teachers College of Du
rant, Oklahoma. On this trip he
has visited Princeton, South Da
kota Agricultural College, Univer
sity of Oklahoma, University of
Illinois, Oklahoma A. & M., Uni
versity of Iowa, and Teachers Col
lege of Durant, Oklahoma.
New Books Suggested
For College Library
Following are suggestions made
by Dr. Thomas F. Mayo, for ad
ditions to the A. & M. College Li
brary. Aggies desirous of having
these books purchased by the li
brary are asked to submit their
requests to Dr. Mayo. Here is the
list he suggests:
Duranty—I Write As I Please
(a journalist’s personal observa
tions in Russia); Capek, Travels
in the North (brief sketches of
life in Norway, Denmark, and
Sweden); Adams, Log of a Cow
boy (frontier life in the West);
Beasley, How to Play Tennis;
Smith, The Democratic Way of
Life; Meiklejohn, What Does
America Mean?; Hecht, Seven
Miracles (short stories); Lake,
Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall;
Adler, Understanding Human Na
ture; Carr, South American
Primer; Edihan, Four Ways of
Philosophy.
Shelley, Frankenstein; Manaker,
How Smart Are You?; Stefansson,
Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic;
Huxley, If I Were Dictator; Fear
ing, Dead Reckoning (poems);
Lanham, The Stricklands (novel of
Oklahoma tenant farmers by a
Texan); Carter, How to Sail a
Boat; Odum, American Social
Problems; Page, Tree of Liberty (a
historical novel).
Cook, Lane of Llano (story of
Jim Lane, Faurot, Art of
Whittling; Hylander, The World
of Plant Life (has good indexes to
scientific names).
New Queen Theatre Is Modern
In AH Respects; Opens Tonight
Revolving Queen’s Crown Is Feature Of Remodeled
Show; Front Is Made Entirely Of Structural^Glass
Bryan’s new Queen Theater,
which opens tonight, is “the most
modern theater between Dallas and
Houston,” according to Mrs. Mor
ris Schulman, its owner.
The entire front of the build
ing is made of structural glass,
and a revolving queen’s crown on
the top adds to the attractiveness
of the place. The theater is air-
conditioned throughout, using re
frigerated air. All the latest type
equipment which could be obtain
ed has been installod. Complete
modern conveniences, including a
smoking parlor, are provided for
the benefit ox the audience. . The
lighting fixtures are of the indi
rect type.
Although the improvements were
made at a total cost of $75,000,
Mrs. Schulman stated that there
would be no change in the price
of admission.
Part of the Aggie Band will
play for the grand opening.
Reserve Officers To
Meet Tonight; Will
Discuss “Big Bertha”
The third November meeting of
the Brazos County Chapter of the
Reserve Officers .Association will
be held tonight at 7:30 p. m. in the
Petroleum Engineering Lecture
Room. In addition to the discus
sion of “Supply and Transport,”
as scheduled by the Eighth Corps
Area Program, there will be a
talk on “Big Bertha,” the gun that
shelled Paris. Junior members
are cordially invited to attend, as
are all reserve officers.
The chapter met three times in
October and meets three times in
November, but meets twice month
ly the rest of the year.
The Student Welfare Committee
for 1939-40 met last Tuesday night
in Sbisa Hall for their first meet
ing of the session. The faculty-
student group, organized a num
ber of years ago for work towaj'd
solutions for problems of the school
and student body, is shown above
at its banquet preceeding the bus
iness meeting.
Members of the committee in
clude the following:
Faculty: Dean F. C. Bolton, vice-
president of the college; F. W.
Hensel, head of the Landscape Art
Department; M. L. Cashion, gen
eral secretary of the College Y. JVI.
C. A.; Ernest Langford, head of
the Architecture Department; E. E.
McQuillen, secretary of the Former
Student Association; Col. Ike Ash-
-burn, executive assistant to Pres
ident Walton; C. W. Crawford,
head of the Mechanical Engineering
Department; Daniel Russell, head
of the Rural Sociology Depart
ment; Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the
Biology Department; E. J. Howell,
Registrar of the college; Harold
Vance, head of the Petroleum En
gineering Department; O. W. Sil-
vey, head of the Physics Depart
ment; Major R. E. Hill, professor
of the Military Science Depart
ment; J. T. L. McNew, professor of
the Civil Engineering Department
and a member of the College Sta
tion City Council; P. W. Burns,
head of the Veterinary Physiology
Department; J. C. Hotard, man
ager of subsistence; and D. W. Wil
liams, head of the Animal Hus-
-bandry Department.
Students: Durward B. “Woody”
Varner, cadet colonel; F. M. “Max”
McCullar, senior class president;
Bill Murray, editor-in-chief of The
Battalion; Rudolph E. Michalka,
representative of the Aggie Band;
F. M. Pool, Jack Lippard, Jack
Bibbs, J. E. Copeland Jr., I. Q.
Mayhew, Lawrence Edens, Fred
Sandlin, W. H. Dyer, R. D. Evans,
E. C. Parker, J. B. White, D. L.
Colbath, E. F. Fullwood, and J.
C. Brown, senior class representa
tives; W. L. Mayfield, J. P. “Pat”
Ledbetter, and A. V. Hamilton,
junior representatives; D. S. Shel
ton and J. E. Ball, sophomore rep
resentatives; and R. L. Rix, repre
sentative of the freshman class. ..
Second Corps Trip Was AH That It Should Have Been
For The Aggies; They Came; They Saw; They Conquered
As Reveille sounded at 6 a. m.-f-
Saturday morning, all of the Aggies
that were going by train to Hous
ton rolled out of their beds, dress
ed quickly and walked to the mess
hall to eat. After breakfast, each
unit marched to the depot and
boarded the train.
The first train left at 7:30 a.
m. and the second one left before
the first one was out of sight.
Everyone on the trains was look
ing forward to a gala time in
Houston. At 9:10 a. m. the first
train stopped at the Houston de
pot and the Cadets detrained. The
second special, close behind arriv
ed at 9:15 a. m.
All the Aggies in Houston, in
cluding those who came by thumb
and by cars, formed in the park
ing space in front of the Southern
Pacific Depot with eight in a row.
Precisely at 10:00 a. m. the pa
rade began. The order of the
march was as follows: Corps Com
mander and Staff, Band, Infantry
Regiment, Field Artillery Regi
ment, Cavalry Regiment, Engineer
Regiment, and Coast Artillery Reg
iment.
The cadets marched at close in
terval up Congress Street to Main
Street, turned right on Main Street
to Lamar Street, turned right again
on Lamar Street to the
area.
The reviewing stand was locat
ed on Main Street, directly in front
of the Rice Hotel. More than a
hundred prominent men of Hous
ton and College Station were on
it.
The Aggies kept the telephone
wires hot Saturday afternoon and
night trying to get dates for the
night. Many succeeded in getting
dates but Houston just couldn’t
supply all of the Aggies with the
opposite sex.
After eating a hearty dinner the
Aggies proceeded to take over Rice
Stadium. The Houston Electric
Co. placed extra busses on the
“South End” line, which went out
to the stadium, to carry all of the
Aggies to the game.
The A. & M. side of the stadium
was not large enough to hold all
of the cadets and many had to sit
in the end zones. At the half, the
Aggie Band turned in another ex
cellent performance by forming a
large owl on the field. Their
marching was also very much
superior to that of the Rice Band.
The second half ended with the
score 19-0 in favor of A. & M.
To be on the large end of the score
was all that the Aggies wanted
dismissal+to make the Corps a successful
Busses were waiting at the exits
of the stadium to take the cadets
back to town after the game.
Having won the game, the Ag
gies were now thinking about
where to have some fun that night.
The official A. & M.-Rice Dance
was held at the Arabia Temple.
This proved to be a popular spot
for the Aggies, as there was a
large crowd present. The Aggie-
land Orchestra provided the music.
All of the night spots of the
city were filled to capacity by the
cadets. One of the most popular
being the “High Hat.”
Around 3:00 a. m. many Aggies
could be seen in the lobby of the
Rice Hotel asleep in the chairs.
In some of the rooms there were
as many as twenty Aggies, most
of them on the floor.
THE ENTOMOLOGY CLUB
met last Thursday in the Science
Hall. After a brief business meet
ing Dr. F. L. Thomas, state ento
mologist and guest speaker of the
evening, gave an interesting talk
on “Trends in Entomology” in
which he enumerated the various
jobs available in the field.
Santone To New York A Breeze As Aggie
Hitch-Hiker Preps For Cross-Country Trip
By George Fuermann
Editor’s note: This is the first
in Fuermann’s series of four arti
cles relating the adventures and
happenings of Keyes Carson on his
record - breaking cross - country
hitch-hiking tour this past sum
mer. Although metropolitan news
papers from New York to San
Francisco carried feature articles
on Carson’s trip. The Battalion is
the first newspaper to publish a
complete record of the trip.
•
Columbus went to Queen Isabella
■♦•when he wanted to visit America ;-f-College-University
good German Nazis go to Adolph
regardless of where they want to
go; but apparently Aggie Keyes
Carson isn’t so particular.
“Thumb fun” from coast to coast
. . . New York to San Francisco
in four days ... a whirlwind hitch
hiking tour of the United States
in sixteen days . . . and so it went
as the amazing 23-year-old Cuero
senior out-sped train and bus
schedules via the “highwaying
route to prove the worth of his
new organization. The National
Travel Club.
“The night I was planning to
leave, I was so nervous and ex
cited I couldn’t sleep, “Keyes said.
Getting up in the middle of the
night, he finished packing and step
ped out onto the dark highway to
begin the first leg of his long
journey. The day was Saturday,
June 24th; the time was 4:30 a.
m. Exactly 47 hours later Keyes
was standing in New York’s famed
Times Square.
His first ride, a fast one from
(Continued on page 4)
Aggie Dies
Of Injuries
In Houston
Frank Masterson
Of G Infantry Is
Victim Of Accident
Silver Taps was played for the
third time this year Sunday night
for Frank C. Masterson of Laredo,
who was a junior in G Infantry.
The car in which he was riding
struck the rear of another car on
the Old Spanish Trail in Houston
early Saturday morning and over-
turned into a ditch. Masterson
was taken to the Methodist hospi
tal in Houston, where he died a few
hours later, apparently of a brok
en neck. With him in the car was
S. A. Morse of Houston, whose
injuries were not serious.
A large number of the members
of Masterson’s company attend
ed the funeral, which was held in
Laredo Monday. He is survived
by his parents, a sister, and a
brother.
First Don Cossack
Group Did Not Fare
So Hot; Only Aggies
In Hall Were Ushers
Not a single Aggie attended the
concert given by the Don Cossack
Choir in the Assembly Hall last
week.
Such a notice might have ap
peared in the Battalion in one of
the 1927-28 issues, for during that
year a similar musical unit to the
one which got such enthusiastic re
ception here Thursday night was
brought to the campus under the
sponsorship of the Y.M.C.A., and
the only students who heard the
concert were the ushers.
That is an indication of how
the musical taste of the student
body here has changed in a decade.
One of the largest crowds in the
history of the Entertainment Ser
ies, or the Town Hall, as it is now
called, attended the concert of the
Don Cossacks Thursday night in
Guion Hall, and though a great
number of these were residents of
Bryan or College Station, two-
thirds of them were Aggies.
M. L. Cashion, secretary of the
Y.M.C.A., attributes the change in
the general attitude of the students
toward entertainments of this na
ture to the radio. He believes that
it has done much to give the aver
age person a greater appreciation
of the finer arts.
New Dorms And Mess
Hall Will Be Dedicated
On Thanksgiving Morning’
An additional day has been add
ed to the regular Thanksgiving
holidays, according to an announce
ment made yesterday by President
Walton. School will begin after
the recess on Tuesday, Dec. 5, in
stead of Monday, Dec. 4, as the
regular schedule calls for.
This extra holiday has been giv
en the students by the faculty and
administrative officers of the col
lege in recognition of the unani
mous and hearty support the stu
dent body has given the football
team thus far and will continue
to give it during the Thanksgiving
game, and for the very efficient
and earnest work of the team.
The game on Thanksgiving Day,
when the latest eleven dormitories
and the new mess hall will be
dedicated, is to be dedicated to
Jesse H. Jones of Houston, presi
dent of the Relief Finance Cor
poration, whose efforts were large
ly responsible for the construction
of these buildings.
Included on the program be
sides Jones are Governor W. Lee
O’Daniel, President Walton, Dr.
Homer P. Rainey, president of the
University of Texas, and the past
and present members of the Board
of Directors of Texas A. & M. Col
lege, as well as the members of
the Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of Texas.
An elaborate printed program
is being prepared for the dedica
tion and the A. & M.-Texas Uni
versity football game. This will
include pictures of the partakers in
the dedication ceremony and of the
various stages in the construction
of the new dormitories.
PAT NEFF OF BAYLOR
HAS WORLD’S LARGEST
CLASS—CHAPEL SERVICE
Waco, Texas.—President Pat M.
Neff of Baylor University possi
bly can boast of the largest class
in any college or university in the
world.
His “class” has 2350 students
who come without fail four days
a week through each school year.
It is the Baylor chapel service.
At 9:55 o’clock each morning,
one is able to stand on a front
step of Waco hall and see the stu
dents ply their way toward the
hall from all sections of the cam
pus—a thick mass of young'
vibrant humanity moving toward a
central spot, the 10 o’clock chapel.
President Neff presides at the
sessions. His “lessons” to the
students may come in many forms,
for speakers, singers, artistic per
formers of a dozen classifications,
ministers and dramatic presenta
tions go to make up the fare.
Livestock Judging Team Takes Off For
Chicago Today, To Enter Important Meet
Two teams which will represent-^
A. & M. College and the Saddle
and Sirloin Club at Chicago at
the International Livestock Expo
sition this year were honor guests
at a barbecue staged for them in
the Animal Industries Building
Monday night. The barbecue was
given by junior members of the
club, who put on the Aggie Rodeo
November 10.
The Senior Livestock Judging
Team will leave today at noon
and will compete in Chicago on
Saturday, December 2. The team
will be gone two weeks and will
visit numerous well-known live
stock farms and other points of
interest during the trip. Members
of the team were introduced at the
barbecue by Larry Miller, coach,
| and include James Grote of Mason,
Walton Lehmberg of Mason, Wil
son Buster of Junction, R. S. Hud
dle of Lamesa, Frank Corder of
Rocksprings and James Gallant of
Medina. Each member was given
a check for $100 by Graham Pur
cell, secretary of the club, in behalf
of the Juniors who staged the
Rodeo to earn funds for the trip.
The Senior Meats Judging Team
was introduced by Charles Murphy,
coach, and includes Roy Martin of
Cotulla, Robert Dittmar of Fred
ericksburg, L. H. Mead of College
Station and C. M. Wilkinson of
Menard. The meats team will
leave Thanksgiving day following
the football game and will judge
in Chicago on Tuesday, December
5. This will be the first time the
Meats Judging Team has ever
judged in Chicago. The team will
be gone ten days.
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