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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1939
Official Notices
All notices should be sent to
The Battalion Office, typewritten
and double-spaced. The deadline for
them is 4 p. nt. prior to the day
of issue.
SCHEDULE OP EVENTS
November 23—Meats Judging Team be
nefit show—Assembly Hall—7 :30 p. m.
November 24—Faculty dance—Mess Hs
—9 p. m. to 12 midnight
November 24—Meats Judging Team be
nefit show—Assembly Hall—7 :30 p. m.
November 29—Bonfire Dance—Sbisa Hall,
9 p. m. to 12 midnight.
November 30—Thanksgiving Day foot
ball game—A. & M. vs. Texas
—Kyle Field.
Day foot-
University
BATTALION STAFF MEMBERS
All students desiring to become mem
bers of The Battalion staff as well as
all old staff, members are requested to
attend a short business meeting in The
Battalion office, 122 Administration Build-
ice,
ing Friday night immediately after yell
practice. Any A.
for membership.
& M. student is eligible
PUBLIC HEARING BY CITY COUNCIL
A public hearing will be held by the
City Council of College Station, Monday,
Decembep 8, at 7 p. m. in the Physics
lecture room concerning the report of
the zoning commission to the City Coun
cil. This meeting is to provide an op
portunity for the citizens of College Sta
tion and others interested to be heard
relative to the zoning ordinance recom
mended by the commission, prior to the
adoption of a zoning ordinance by the
City Council.
DR. J. H. BINNEY, MAYOR
NEWS STAND
Starting with the next issue, the New-
will receive thre
' nes
will be able to supply the demand.
stand will receive three times the num
ber of Life Magazines than before and
LONGHORN SOPHOMORE PICTURES
Sophomores of the Field Artillery Regi
ment must have their class' section pic
tures for the Longhorn made before
Thursday, November 23, in order to get
their pictures in their section. No pic
tures will be accepted after that date.
LONGHORN CLUB PICTURES
Space for club pictures in the 1940
Longhorn may now be reserved. See Wat
son in room 203, dormitory 12.
of 18 and 35 who are physically fit and
who desire to enlist in the United States
Army, come to room 207, hall 6, at any
time.
Organizations
FISH AND GAME CLUB
All freshmen majoring or minoring in
Wild Game are extended a cordial in
vitation to join the Fish and Game Club
which meets every Monday night in room
112, Animal Industries Building. Eligi
ble students may join the club by attend
ing the meetings and by paying the club
ble students may join the club
attend-
dues, which amount to 50c per semester.
MARKETING AND FINANCE CLUB
The Marketing and Finance Club will
meet Wednesday night at 6:45 in the
Y. M. C. A. parlor. All members are
asked to be present and bring their club
dues.
D. B. VARNER, CLUB PRESIDENT
ACCOUNTING SOCIETY
The Accounting Society will meet at
7:30 tonight in the Chemistry Lecture
Room. The speaker will be Dr. J. V. Pen
nington, works manager and vice-president
of the Reed Roller Bit Company of Hous
ton. Dr. Pennington is president of the
Houston Chapter of the American Statis
tical Association. His subject will be “the
use or statistics in .Business. ne win
be accompanied by Mr. J. L. Block, certi-
countant of Houston,
is open to all students in-
ipa
fied public accountant of Houston.
The meeting is open to all studeni
terested in hearing Dr. Pennington.
PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY
Dr. C. C. Doak will address the Pre-
Medical Society Tuesday in the Biology
lecture room at 7:30. It is important that
all members be there.
GRADUATE CLUB
The second meeting of the Graduate
Club will be held Wednesday night at
7 p. m. in the lounge of the old mess
hall.
Dr. S. R. Gammon, professor of his
tory, will be the guest speaker and has
chosen the topic “The European Situation”.
Refreshments will be served, and all
graduate students are urged to attend.
ABILENE CLUB
There will be a meeting of the Abilene
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men from surrounding territory
are interested in the Christmas dance.
A. & M. Club Wdenesday at 7:30 p. m.
in room 308, Academic Building. All
members are urged to be present as well
m from surrounding territory who
resent as well
Definite announcements will be made.
FINAL EXAMINATIONS
Final examinations for the first semes
ter will be held from February 2nd to
8th, inclusive. The week will be divided
into ten examination periods as outlined
on page six of the “Schedule of Classes.”
As provided in Paragraph 24 - 2, College
Regulations, candidates for baccalaureate
degrees at the end of the first semester
are exempted from final examinations.
Their daily grades through February 1
are to count as their final grades.
REGISTRAR E. J. HOWELL
IN CHARGE OF FUSES
The following men are in charge of
fuses in the dormitories.
Milner, Legett, Walton, and P. G.—V.
W. Laney, 85 Milner.
Mitchell, Law, Puryear, and Ross—
Price Hubbard, 14 Ross.
Hart, Goodwin, and Bizzell—Fred John
son, 154 Bizzell.
Halls 1, 2, 3, and 4—H. R. Lanford, 103
Bizzell.
Halls 5, 6, 7, and 8—J. N. Wallace,
327 hall 5.
Halls 9, 10, 11, and 12—F. R. Higgin
botham, 103 hall 9.
CAMPUS STUDY CLUB
The art handicraft hobby group of the
Campus Study Club will meet each Tues
day and Thursday from now until the
beginning of Christmas vacation, with
the exception of days on which regular
(meetings are held and Thanksgiving
Day. Until Christmas all meetings will be
held at the home of Mrs. A. L. Schipper
at 2106 South Echols Street in Bryan,
from 2 to 5 p. m.
Lost and Found
The freshman or sophomore who ex
changed his cap for a junior cap at the
pie Saturday night can get
same by coming to room 227, dormitory 3.
Houston on Shepard
ton Aven
ARMY APPLICANTS
All unmarried citizens between the ages
>—
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Rms. 18 & 19 Commerce Bldg.
Phone 160 Bryan, Texas
We Invite You To
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November 22nd
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Araban Tern;
LOST: A campaign hat in the As
sembly Hall last Friday night. If found
return to room 111, dorm 6. Reward 1
LOST: A tan leather jacket, left, in
>pard Drive and Washing-
Sunday afternoon. Will the
ton Avenue Sunday afternoon. Will the
Aggie who brought it back to college please
return it to room 211, dorm 4?
Pay Increase—
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science to receive a reserve offi
cer’s commission. The association
further requested the War Depart
ment that in case it does not ap
prove the recommendations made,
to make a clear-cut statement of
its plans and policies for the future
development of the R.O.T.C. units
in land grant colleges. It petition
ed the War Department to increase
the daily commutation for advanc
ed R.O.T.C. students from 25 to
40 cents a day, and instructed its
executive committee, in coopera
tion with its committee on mili
tary affairs, to press the War De
partment for an early decision on
these questions.
President Walton was re-elected
chairman of the executive com
mittee for the third consecutive
year. He is also a member of the
committee on military affairs.
The Association of Land Grant
Colleges and Universities, which
brings together the greatest agri
cultural and engineering scientists
in the nation, is said to be the larg
est and most influential education
al organization in the United
States.
By Jimmie Cokinos
With only the University of
Texas standing in the path of the
“unaccustomed-to-it-all Aggies,”
the Cadets started a ten-day prac
tice period Monday that will be
packed with work, work, and more
work. They know that the Univer
sity of Texas team will be no
pushover as they present one of
the conference’s outstanding backs
in Jack “Cowboy” Crain.
The Aggie players in their “fin
al” practice grid will not only
concentrate on how to stop Crain,
but on stopping a Texas team that
rises to incredible heights on such
occasions. This game should be a
battle between the “rabbit-back”
Crain and the “plugingest” full
back in the nation, “Big John”
Kimbrough.
The Texas Aggies are rated by
the Associated Press sports writ
ers’ poll as the No. 1 team of the
nation on defense. Let’s take this
powerful grid machine apart and
see why they rate this spot, and
also why the Aggies have allowed
their opponents just 742 yards in
nine games.
In Joe Boyd and Ernie Pannell
you have two of the best tackles
in the South. They are backed by
“Poppa” Wesson, Martin Ruby,
capable sophs, and “Chip Routt,
junior letterman.
At the guards you can find all
that a coach could wish for in Mar
shall Robnett and Charley Henke.
This pair is making the Aggie rail-
birds forget about Routt and Jones.-f-the
former Aggie greats. They are
closely followed by Leon Rahn,
Roy Bucek, and Bubba Reeves.
Rahn, by the way, is the most
improved player on the Aggie
squad.
For the- ends, it would be hard
to name the two best players for
that position, since there are six
candidates to choose from. But
leading the list would be “Herb”
Smith, the best pound-for-pound
player in the nation, according to
end coach Dough Rollins. Bill
Buchanan, James Sterling, Bill
Duncan, Joe White, and Harold
Cowley are the other wingmen who
are giving Norton the best end
play he has ever received while
at Aggieland.
Tommy Vaughn is playing a
heads-up game at center and has
several times come up with some
nice playing to put the Cadets in
a scoring position. Odell Herman
and Henry Hauser are the other
boys pushing Vaughn for his start
ing job.
In the backfield we find that
team is spilling over with good
talent. For the quarterback job,
Norton has “Cotton” Price, Mar-
land Jeffrey, and Marion Pugh.
Any one of these three is capable
of holding down the signal-calling
position. At the halves we find
two of the sweetest running backs
in the conference in Derace Moser
and Bill Conatser. James Thoma
son is holding down the blocking
back assignment. Not too much
can be said about this back since
he has already proved himself as
the Aggies’ most valuable man.
He has played more 60-minute
games than any Aggie player this
season. John Kimbrough is the
spearhead of the Aggie running at
tack. In nine games he has car
ried the ball 125 times for 461
yards, giving him an average of
4.07 per try. In doing so he has
lost only 14 yards so far.
This, dear readers, is what the
opposing team has had to face
whenever it played the Texas Ag
gies of 1939. The success of the
Cadets lies in reserve strength.
“The Jeep”-Born on the Trinity, He’s
“Been Around” from Coast to Coast—
HOMECOMING QUEEN
OF BAYLOR ANNOUNCED
Miss Betty Burkhart, brunette
from Alamo, Texas, was selected
Homecoming queen of Baylor uni
versity in the annual ceremonies
last week. She was a nominee of
the senior class and rode that or
ganization’s float in the home
coming parade.
Other nominees, all of whom
rode in the parade, and their or
ganization were Ladye Riter, Ter
rell, Dap club; Bonnie Ruth Slaw-
son, Corsicana, sophomore class;
Jo Blair, Waldo, Ark., Peer club;
Dorothy Shands, Cleveland, Miss.
Beta Pi Theta; Gwen Allen, Dewey-
ville, Southeast Texas club; Mar
jory Knott, Dallas, Athenian club;
Bernadet Breedlove, Houston.
Varsity B club; Allene Coor, Mart.
Delta Sigma Pi; Marjorie Pitt
man, Tyler, Esquire club; Lois and
Louise Bailey, Waco twins, Urban
ite club; Dorothy Kelly, Newgulf
Classical club; Johnnie Nelson.
Winnsboro, freshman class; and
Marilyn Reese, Floresville, junior
class.
Education Council
Preparing Tests For
Would-Be Educators
Philadelphia, Pa.—For the first
time in history, college graduates
who anticipate entering the teach
ing profession are facing a bat
tery of comprehensive examinations
that will test their fitness as edu
cators.
The American Council on Educa
tion has a new teacher testing-
project that leaders of the organ
ization believe will be the next
great step in the improvement of
education in the U. S. First use of
the new examinations will be next
spring in certain cities in the East
and Midwest.
It is the purpose of the special
committee devising the tests to
develop a three-fold service. First,
a battery of carefully constructed
tests will be prepared and made
available to the cities cooperating
in the experiment.
“Second, the committee will give
all possible assistance to the co
operating schools in the study and
exchange of ideas directed toward
the improvement of all other means
of selecting candidates, including
investigation of the so-called ‘im
ponderables.’
“A third aspect of the service is
that data will be made available
for research in teacher education.”
Cross-Country—
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San Antonio to Dallas, came after
fifteen minutes’ waiting. “And
it was an interesting ride, too,”
Keyes pointed out. “We talked
politics for 200 miles and the driv
er seemed to know the subject
thoroughly.” Arriving in Dallas,
Keyes was let out near the city
limits where he caught a bus
which took him to the opposite side
of town.
From a masculine point of view,
his second ride proved to be even
luckier than the first, three at
tractive girls driving him fifty
miles further toward his goal.
Greenville was as far as the ride
went, but succeeding rides pre
sented an equally varying group
of drivers. First an army doctor,
then a salesman, and finally a ride
(from the Texas border to Dayton.
Ohio, with a miner.
Texarkana at 4:30 in the after
noon; Littlerock, Arkansas, at 8:45
that night; and so passed one of
the luckiest rides of the trip—non
stop, except for eating and refuel
ing, from Texas to Ohio. “Almost
without exception,” Keyes said,
“the various drivers were wonder
ful to me.” Arriving in Dayton,
the miner invited Keyes to come to
his home and clean up, which he
did, after which the Ohioan took
him to the edge of town where
Keyes could once again continue
his journey.
From Dayton to New York
Keyes’ good luck held true to form.
His next ride was with an air
plane test pilot; then with a truck
driver to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
and finally a series of short rides
into New York City.
Texas to New York in less than
two days! A record-breaking trip
which still hasn’t been equalled by
any hitch-hiker and which was
made possible by Keyes’ reflecting
town and city indicators and his
reflecting suitcase sign which read.
“Texas A. & M. College.”
•
Next time: New York to San
Francisco in four days—after the
usually correct New York Times
declared that the trip couldn’t be
made in two weeks via “thumb.”
(Editor’s note: This is the first
in a series of four articles con
cerning The Battalion’s student
columnists. The next three will
include Hub Johnson, intramural
columnist; Bob Nisbet, movie col
umnist; and George Fuermann,
Backwash columnist. In previous
issues this year The Battalion pub
lished articles on the newspaper’s
three faculty columnists.)
-major sports and intramurals.
Since that time he has been sports
editor, first under editor R. L.
Doss and now in his second year
working with Bill Murray.
Jeep’s home is now at College
Station but he formerly hailed
from Houston where he graduated
from John Reagan High School in
the spring of 1935. A Civil Engi
neering major, Jeep’s a Field Artil
leryman in Second Headquarters
Battery.
Besides being Battalion sports
editor. Jeep is also assistant South
west Conference statistician, a
former vice-president of the A. &
M. Club, and sports editor of A.
& M.’s first Summer Battalion
last summer.
“Jeep” Oates
He was born on a boat tied to
the banks of the Trinity River on
the morning of August 29, 1915;
has been everywhere and done a
little of everything from coast to
coast; and is now in his second
consecutive year as Battalion
sports editor—that’s E. C. “Jeep”
Oates.
But his list of distinctions don’t
stop there. Jeep is also the old
est member on The Battalion
staff, having worked sports for
A. & M.’s student publication for
more than four and a half years.
During his first year and a half
on the staff, Jeep worked on in
tramurals and minor sports. Then
until the fall of 1938 he covered
MEN’S FEET, TOO, ARE -
“ON THE UP AND UP”
Amherst, Mass.—Plenty of evi
dence has been brought out to
prove that the size of women’s
feet has increased a full size in
two generations. Now comes an
indication that men’s feet are on
the up and up.
When the R.O.T.C. supply de
partment at Massachusetts State
College came to uniforming the
freshmen, they found that all the
larger sizes of shoes were quickly
exhausted and 50 freshmen couldn’t
be shod.
This doesn’t mean, the supply
department points out, that the
freshmen have unusually large
feet—merely that more of them
wear the larger sizes than is usual.
Shoes are furnished the military-
department in a range of sizes
presumed to outfit an average
group of men. But these men
aren’t average.
Trailers and station wagons
especially equipped to treat in
juries and ailments cruise from
camp to camp in the wake of
California’s migratory farm work-
DYERS HATTERS
AM EM CAN- S TEAM
DRY - - C LEANERS
PHONE 585 BRYAN
Patronize Your Agent in Your Organization
WORLD'S RECORD
I will attempt to break the
WORLD’S RECORD
For One Day’s
Life Production Nov. 28th, 1939. Con
tests will be staged in other schools later.
I want to set a record for A. & M.
that others can’t surpass. Help me do it
fellows.
S. J. (Joe) Marek
Special Agent
VICTORY LIFE INSURANCE CO.
University Frats
Won’t Have To Pay
New Employment Tax
Definite word that the Social
Security Act passages which forc
ed college fraternal organization
to pay the special employment
taxes had been cancelled by a spe
cial act of Congress has been re
ported to the executive committee
Conference.
The new amendment goes into
effect on January 1, 1940, and pro
vides that “domestic service in a
private home, local college club,
or local chapter of a college fra
ternity or sorority” be excepted
after that date.
The measure also excepts from
the jurisdiction of the Social Se
curity Act any service that does
not provide a renumeration that
exceeds $45 and service that is
“performed by a student who is
enrolled and is regularly attend
ing classes at a school, college, or
university.”
To clear up some points that
are not specifically covered by
the amending act, the law com
mittee of the National Interfra
ternity Conference has submitted
an application to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue “requesting re
gulations concerning the inter
pretation of these amendments.”
Specifically, advice is requested
as to the status of “(1) a chapter
treasurer who keeps books of a
local chapter; (2) a student, either
a member of the chapter or a non
member, who serves as a writer
in a fraternity house; (3) a stu
dent, either a member of the fra
ternity or a non-member, who per
forms janitorial services.
“Bat” Columnist
Dr. A1 B. Nelson, of the A. & M.
Department of History, is the writ
er of the Saturday installment of
the editorial news column “As the
World Turns”. His is the unique
distinction of having gone through
college and gained three degrees,
with never a day of high school
attendance.
Saxet
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