Let’s (Jo To The
Sugar Bowl, Army!
Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College
Official Newspaper of the City of College Station
Let’s Go To The
Sugar Bowl, Army!
VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 16, 1939
Z725 NO.34
1150 Student
Tickets Are
Left On Sale
Accommodations In
New Orleans For
Students Arranged
Eleven thousand tickets have
been sold to the coming’ Sugar
Bowl football game, according to
a statement issued from the Athle
tic office Friday afternon. About
1,500 of these tickets sold were
student tickets- 1,150 student tic
kets are left for sale, it was said.
The student tickets for sale are
priced at $1.75 when obtained with
coupon number 32, and must be
presented with the coupon book to
gain admittance to the Sugar Bowl
game. It is absolutely necessary
that the coupon book be presented
at the Sugar Bowl Gate.
Arrangements for lodging for
cadets are being made by the
city of New Orleans, according to
Max McCullar, senior class presi
dent. Bedding will be placed in
the municipal auditorium. Hot and
cold showers are obtainable and
towels will be furnished. The
charge per person will be $1.50
per night with the service provided
Sunday and Monday nights of
December 31st, 1939, and January
1st, 1940. Persons intending to ob
tain lodging in this manner should
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Prize Offered For
History of South
To encourage research in the his
tory of the South, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy
have announced the Mrs. Simon
Baruch University Prize of $1,000
to be awarded biennially.
The prize will be given for an
unpublished essay in Southern his
tory, preferably regarding the Con
federacy or bearing on the causes
of the Civil War.
Competition is limited to under
graduates and graduates of the
colleges and universities in the
United States, and those who have
enrolled in such institutions * with
in the last three calendar years.
Essays must be scholarly and
be based upon source materials.
Footnotes and a bibliography
should accompany the manuscript.
Ten thousand words will be the
minimum length.
The prize will be paid in two
installments of $500 each. The
first at the time of the award,
and the second when the manu
script shall be suitably printed.
The contest closes the first of
May, 1940. The winner will be
announced the following Novem
ber.
Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler
520 West 114th Street, New York
City, is in charge of the entries
and all correspondence should be
addressed to her.
Dinner
Planned
For Xmas
There will be plenty of Christ
mas dinner for all Monday night
—and then some. In fact, the
preparaitons appear to be enough
for an army, and true enough “ole
army” will be there to devour it.
Under suitable Christmas deco
rations in both Duncan and Sbisa
Halls and to the music of Christ
mas Carols, perhaps by the Glee
Club, if the public address facili
ties can be arranged, the 4,500 Ag
gies dining in college mess halls
will be served two and one-half
tons of prime young turkey hens
with dressing made from over two
hundred pounds of corn meal. The
rest of the dinner will include:
candied yams—2,200 lbs.
green peas—162 gallons
tomatoes—810 lbs.
mixed nuts—900 lbs.
apples—eight boxes
bananas—600 lbs.
oranges^—eight boxes
cranberries—350 lbs.
coffee—200 gallons
sugar for coffee—150 lbs.
milk—7,750 half-pints
Christmas Cantata
To Be Presented
The College Presbyterian Choir
under the direction of Irving M.
Deitz and accompanied by Miss
Caroline Hill, of the A. & M. Pres
byterian Church, will give the
Christmas Cantata, “Prepare Him
Room” by Rosemary Hadler at the
eleven o’clock worship Sunday
morning, December 17th, in the
Y. M .C. A. chapel.
This cantata is new, copyrighted
only last year, and is an exception
ally attractive arrangement of the
popular and long loved Christmas
carols. Miss Cynthia Lancaster
will add to the beauty of the serv
ice by playing an offertory on
the harp.
This special Christmas service is
scheduled early so that the stu
dents and other residents of Col
lege Station may attend.
CAMPUS PICTURES
TO BE MADE
A motion picture cameraman for
the National Youth Administration
will be on the campus Monday tak
ing colored pictures of local N. Y.
A. projects and work groups.
The N. Y. A. is sponsoring an
educational film pertaining to its
activities over the entire country.
A. & M. has been selected to fur
nish the background for the agri
cultural scenes. Shots will be tak
en of the Landscape Art nurseries
near Scoates Lake, the Horticul
ture farm, and some of the show
cattle and horses belonging to the
Animal Husbandry department.
Coach Norton Reviews Aggie Football
Season at Marketing and Finance Meet
At the regular meeting of the
Marketing and Finance Club Wed
nesday night. Coach Homer Nor
ton reviewed the football season
and told the club of many interest
ing facts behind the scene of
events. It was the Marketing and
Finance football program and the
football players who were mem
bers of the club were honored
and presented gifts from the club.
In his talk Coach Norton paid
tribute to the players and empha
sized the fact that our number
one football position is due largely
to the fine spirit and attitude of
the players, and the fact that we
played only one game at the time.
He said that even after the Thanks
giving game that not one player
mentioned a bowl game.
Coach Norton told the
several telegrams he had
recently, among them being —
from Grantland Rice and one from
Bill Stern. Bill Stem told Coach
Norton that he had been assigned
to cover the Sugar Bowl game
his opinion that the outstanding
and expressed his pleasure at be
ing able to cover another A. & M.
game. Grantland Rice said that in
game of the nation would be the
Sugar Bowl game, and intimated
that he might break all precedent
and attend the Sugar Bowl game.
Among other things of interest
that were told the club by Coach
Norton was that there is a great
possibility that the team would go
to California next year via air
plane. He had just returned from
California by plane and- said the
speed and comfort by which the
team could travel would be an im
portant part in keeping them in
condition.
Looking forward to the New
Drleans game. Coach Norton said
players were rea-
sncfor^ - lld be at his
Joach Norton
endea ■* chanking the
Aggies for their support through
out the year and urged everyone
to be at New Orleans to keep up
the old spirit.
As the Aggies Go On the Air
A. & M. went on the air for the people of Texas last Saturday morning, in a half-hour program
relayed from college radio station WTAW over station WBAP of Dallas. In the top photo Battalion
sports editor E. C. “Jeep” Oates (in the sweater) is seen interviewing Aggie football star Joe Boyd. Below
are shown the A. & M. Glee Club, led by Dr. J. J. Wooiket, and Tommie Littlejohn's Aggieland Orchestra,
both of which were featured. WTAW managing director John Rosser supervised and announced the pro
gram.
Sugar Bowl Gets Name From
Great Sugar Producing Area
A. & M. To Receive
Better Water From
New Source Soon
U.S.G.S. Says Water To
Be Supplied A. & M. Soon
“Unbelievably Pure”
Within the next two or three
weeks the A. & M. students and
residents of College Station will
be introduced to a “new” water
resulting from a new water sys
tem which is now nearing comple
tion.
In a recent interview of Mr.
Williams of the City Engineer’s
office in Bryan, it was learned
that all connections are to be com
pleted within the next two or
three weeks. The system is now
98% complete.
There are one or two pumps to
be installed and an altitude valve
for the elevated tank has yet to
be connected. The wells and pump
ing stations are located some three
miles north of Bryan near High
way No. 6. This unit of the
project is now finished and the
electric line from Bryan to this
location was just recently com
pleted.
The entire project is said to be
the finest in the state. The ma
chines, pumps, and piping are re
ported to be of the latest type.
The engineering plans and methods
are to be commended highly. The
water to be furnished by this new
system has ben analyzed by the
United States Geological Survey,
and it has been pronounced “un
believably pure.” It is an, enor
mous improvement over the water
now in use which contains a very
high percentage of mineral matter.
Past records have shown that
College Station and A. & M. con
sumes an average of 750,000 gal
lons per day. This figure is some
what above usual consumption, and
the new system is designed to sup
ply even a far greater amount.
However, the old system will not
be discarded entirely. It will be
held in reserve in the event an
unforeseen fault appears in the
new system.
When the public was invited in
1934 to suggest an appropriate
name for the sport’s classic to be
held in New Orleans each New
Year’s, the majority indicated the
popularity of tying in the name
“Sugar” due to the fact that New
Orleans is located in the great
sugar producing section of the na
tion.
The winner of the game is pre
sented with a beautiful solid silver
“Sugar Bowl” which was made in
London, England, in the year 1830
during the reign of King George
IV and bears the hall mark of the
period. This bowl is retained by
the winning team throughout the
following year and is then return
ed to be given to the winner of
the next contest. As a permanent
memento, a beautiful replica of the
bowl with suitable engraving, is
presented to the winning team.
The New Orleans Mid-Winter
Sports Association, which sponsors
the Sugar Bowl football game, is
entirely civic in character and is
not controlled by or connected with
any commercial interest. The char
ter provides that there shall be no
private profit and that any profits
above the corporation’s debts and
guarantee funds must be devoted
to charitable, religious or educa-
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Cadets Officially
Invited to Sugar
Bowl Festivities
Yesterday afternoon, Tulane Uni
versity officially extended an invi
tation for the A. & M. Cadet Corps
to attend the Sugar Bowl festivi
ties in New Orleans January 1st.
The invitation was given by
Commodore Lewis, commandant of
the recently installed naval R. O.
T. C. unit at Tulane, who arrived
here yesterday afternoon with wife
and five Tulane students.
Corporation Court of College Station
Has Had Only Four Cases To Rule On
Among the other established de
partments of the city of College
Station is that of the Corporation
Court.
Shortly after the incorporation of
the city the court was organized
and the Judge was sworn in office
on the 21st day of September,
1939.
Charles Gorzycki of this city
is the judge of the court, being
sworn in as “Recorder of the
Corporation Court of College Sta
tion.” Clerk of the Court is Mrs.
Sneed, who is also employed as
the assistant secretary of the city.
R. H. Lee is the City Marshall.
These three people comprise the
personnel of the new court which
holds its sessions in the “City
Hall.” The City Hall is a small
one-room office located above the
Aggieland Studios at the North
Gate.
The court has no regular sched
ule and meets only on those occa
sions as necessity demands. To
date there have been only four
cases to come before the court.
These four cases were brought
against owners of taxi-cabs with
charges of overloading. The
charges were filed in the court by
the city marshal, and on last Wed
nesday morning the four owners
appeared before the court, waivered
a trial by jury, pleaded guilty to
the charges, and were fined $5 for
violation of the regulation and $4
for the cost of court. There have
been no cases involving charges pf
speeding as yet, which is a bit un
usual. However, the city officials
intend to enforce all traffic regu
lations to the letter.
According to the Court Clerk the
Corporation Court conforms as
nearly as possible to the customs
and procedure of an ordinary court.
True, a few of the formalities and
incidents that are common to other
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Second Annual Christmas
Program Plans Announced
Five Men Who Have
Passed 25 Years Of
Service Honored
All Members Of College
Staff and Wives Are
Invited To Attend ^
Tuesday night at seven o’clock
five A. & M. men will be honored
at a Christmas Banquet to be
given by President and Mrs. T. O.
Walton in the Sbisa Hall Banquet
room for their having served a
quarter of a century as members
of the A. & M. College Staff.
The five men to be honored are
F. W. Hensel, who is head of the
Landscape Department of A. & M.;
D. T. Killough, who is an Agron
omist in Cotton Breeding for the
Experiment Station at College
Station; J. M. Jones, who is the
head of the Range Animal Hus
bandry Division in the Extension
Service; S. D. Pearce, with the
Feed Control Service in the Ex
periment Station; and D. F. Eaton,
who is County Agent for Wise
County and is stationed at Decatur,
Texas.
The practice of honoring mem
bers of the official family of A.
& M. College as they reach the
twenty-five year mark of service
began year before last and this
year marks the third of such pro
ceedings, which will be continued
each year.
All members of the College Staff
and their wives have been invited
to attend this large banquet.
Gilchrist Elected
To Texas Society
Election of Gibb Gilchrist, dean
of the school of engineering at A.
& M. to membership in The Phil
osophical Society of Texas has
been announced by President G. B.
Dealey. Active membership, lim
ited to one hundred persons “who
reside in were born in, or have re
sided in, the geographical boun
daries of the late Republic of Tex
as,” is conferred by invitation on
ly.
Audience To Play
Principal Role In
Afternoon Program
Glee Club, Concert
Band, and Short Talks
Also On Program Schedule
Sunday afternoon at four o’clock
in Guion Hall will be held the sec
ond annual Cadet Corps Com
munity Sing with a large audience
of Aggies, campus residents, and
people of Bryan attending. The
program will last one hour.
The program will be an all-
Christmas one with most of the
singing, to the accompaniment of
the organ in Guion Hall, done by
the cadet corps and audience.
Special numbers will be given by
the Glee Club under the direction
of Dr. J. J. Woolket and the Aggie
Concert Band. Bill Oswalt, repre
senting the corps, and Max Mc
Cullar, president of the senior
class, will make short speeches.
Last year’s entertainment, the
first of its kind in the history of
Aggieland, was apparently highly
enjoyed by all that attended, and
every one left filled to the brim
with Christmas spirit. As a re
sult of this success, this year’s
program is being presented.
The program for the community
sing is as follows:
Welcome from the senior class
by Max McCullar, president of the
senior class; singing of “Jingle
Bells” and “O, Come, All Ye
Faithful” by the corps; “We Three
Kings of Orient,” by the Glee
Club; “Faith Eternal” by the
Band; “It Came Upon A Midnight
Clear” by the corps; “Christmas
Address” by Bill Oswalt; “Oh Lit
tle Town of Bethlehem” by the
corps; “Stouthearted Men” and
“Christmas Song” by the Glee
Club; “Christmas Fantasy” by the
Band; “Joy To the World” by the
corps; “Hark the Herald Angels
Sing” and “Silent Night” by the
corps; “God Bless America” by the
Band, Glee Club and corps. The
program will be concluded by the
corps singing the Spirit of Aggie
land.
First officers of the Society,
elected Dec. 5, 1937, were Gen.
Mirabeau of Lamar, Dr. Ashbel
Smith, Dr. R. A. Irion, Dr. Anson
Jones, Dr. Joseph Rowe, D. S.
Kaufman, Wm. Fairfax Gray, Da
vid G. Burnet, A. C. Allen, and
John Birdsell. Charter members
included every president of the
Republic of Texas, ten cabinet of
ficers, five diplomats, the first
three chief justices of the supreme
court and the first three command
ing generals of the Texas army.
Since its revival in 1935, Dr. I.
K. Stephens of Dallas, Dean C. S.
Potts of Dallas, Dr. Edgar Odell
Lovett of Houston, and Mr. Dealey
have served as president of the
Philosophical Soceity of Texas.
At the annual meeting Wednes
day in the Hall of State, Dallas,
former President Robert Ernest
Vinson of the University of Texas
was the principal speaker. The
date is the one hundred and sec
ond anniversary of the founding
of the original Society.
Farm Meats Class
Makes Inspection
Trip To Houston
C. E. Murphey, instructor in the
Animal Husbandry Department,
and his Farm Meats class of 40
boys were in Houston Thursday
on their term inspection trip.
A. & M. Geologists
To Attend National
Meet in Minneapolis
The Geology Department of A.
& M. will be represented this year
at the annual meeting of the
Geological Society of America in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, from De
cember 28-30. The meeting is a
joint session of the Paleontological
Society, the Mineralogical Society,
the Society of Economics Geolo
gists, and the Geological Society of
America.
Those men representing the Geol
ogy Department will be Curtis J.
Hesse, assistant curator of the
College Museum of Natural His
tory, Dr. F. E. Turner, Dr. F. J.
Smith Jr., Dr. S. S. Goldich, and
Ernest Tisdale, graduate assist
ant.
Dr. Smith and Dr. C. C. Albrit
ton of Southern Methodist Univer
sity will present a paper on “Solu
tion Effects on Limestone as a
Function of Slope” at the meeting.
Dr. Turner will present a paper
on “Two Texas Paleozoic Arthro
pods.” Dr. Goldich will present
a paper with Dr. Sandell of the
University of Minnesota on “Rarer
Metallic Constituents of Some
American Igneous Rocks.”
They were conducted on a half
day trip through the Houston
Packing Company. The students
viewed the entire process of the
meat-packing industry. Killing,
dressing, chilling, processing, meat
cuts, pickling, smoking, curing, etc.,
were explained to the students
making the trip.
The students made an estimate
of the volume of business, and ob
served the incoming stock manage
ment and dressed meat shipments.
SENIOR RING DANCE
DATE OMITTED BY BAT
In the Thursday issue of The
Battalion the dates for the Senior
Ring Dance were omitted in the
dance schedule for the second
semester due to a typographical er
ror.
The Senior Ring Dance will be
held on Friday, May 10, the week
end of Mother’s Day.