Gridiron Greats of the Air
Among the college graduates now enrolled as flying cadets at Ran
dolph Field, “the West Point of the Air”, at San Antonio, is Pelly Ditt-
man, Aggie football star of last year, shown above in the backfield.
Aggie Among Former Football
Stars Now at Randolph Field
“Time out” from flying airplanes-
to run through a few plays for
Coach Field “Hurry-up” Yost, of
Michigan, who visited Randolph
Field, Texas, the Air Corps “West
Point of the Air” recently.
The galaxy of former college
football stars, now flying cadets
and future pilots for Uncle Sam’s
Air Corps, brought a sparkle to
the veteran coach’s eyes.
Left to right in the forward
wall are: Ed Huntington, former
pass receiver at the University of
Arizona; L. E. Behling, all-con
ference tackle at the University
of Utah; Claude F. Evans, tackle
at University of California when
they defeated Alabama in the 1938
Rose Bowl classic; Paul E. Grein
er, guard from Montana State Col
lege; Ed Cobb Jr., who under-
studied the mighty Ki Aldrich at
■T. C. U., in the center; Francis T.
Brady, who played lots of foot
ball for Niagara University be
fore deciding on military aviation
as a career is next; and at end
is Clarence L. Abercrombie, former
Wofford College letterman.
In the backfield, left to right
is Stafford L. Morton, one of Yale’s
iron men of a few years ago, who
scored the winning touchdowns
against Penn in a 14-6 victory, and
Dartmouth in a 7-2 win; Linnon T.
Blackmon, fullback at T. C. U. for
three years, and member of the
victorious Sugar Bowl team of
1936; Fred E. Hild, high-point
scorer for Coe College and All-
American mention; and finally,
Henry Dittman of Goose Creek,
Texas, in 1937-38 at Texas A. & M.
Coach Yost is looking on approv
ingly.
Deaf Mute Travels From Detroit To
Houston On Bicycle To Ride Airplane
Edward Chatham of
Michigan, arrived in Bryan last
Wednesday night at 8:30 o’clock via
bicycle and passed through Col
lege Station. Chatham said he
had ridden the entire 3,828 miles
en route from that northern city
and is headed for Houston, where
he expects to get relief from his
affliction as a deaf mute.
Doctors have told Chatham he
might get relief at the sea-side
atmospheric level and the contrast
ing atmospheric pressure he would
get by soaring in an airplane to
great height into rarer air, zoom
ing suddenly to sea level. Chatham
wants to hear and to take the air
plane treatment at sea level. Being
minus ample finances, he conceiv
ed the idea of riding from Detroit
to Houston on a ibcycle and “mak
ing his way” selling First-Aid
Detro it,-f Bandages.
He sold a few in Bryan
last week and then struck out for
Houston, final lap of his tour.
“I left Detroit three and a half
months ago and have ridden my
bicycle 3,828 miles to Bryan,” Chat
ham wrote. “I hope to hear some
day, then learn how to talk to
other people like thoke I met along
the way. I’m not in a hurry—I
just take my time on the road.
Now I only have a short 100 miles
to Houston from here and feel bet
ter from far away north.”
Chatham is a youth, apparently
about 22. He carries such bag
gage and supplies as needed strap
ped to the rear of the bicycle seat.
His bicycle was “fully equipped”
with headlights, tail lights, siren,
even a foglight lamp. Aside from
his admitted defective hearing he
appeared to be in good health.
Noted A. & M. Graduate To Help Dallas
Solve Its City Garbage Disposal Issue
A native Texan who applied him--
self at school and then went out in
to the world to put his ideas and
training to practical usage in some
of the largest cities of the country
now is helping Dallas solve its
garbage disposal problem. And H.
E. Burns, ’06, the engineer and
expert, hopes his plans will pro
vide a permanent solution.
Mr. Burns, has made garbage
collection and disposal surveys for
many cities. Topping his list of
achievements so far were surveys
and the designing of incinerators
for Cincinnati, Chicago and New
York City.
Four years ago Mr. Burns de
signed two incinerators for New
York City that are disposing of
1,000 tons of garbage daily. One
of these plants is within a block
of fashionable Riverside Drive and
so efficiently does it operate 1 that
the nearby residents hardly know
what it is.
“Incinerators are like anything
else,” Mr. Burns said Saturday.
“They can be efficient or they
can be like the ones in Dallas that
simply are burning pits that do a
poor job. Where they are built
properly, incinerators are the ideal
answer to a garbage disposal prob
lem.”
Dallas officials have agreed that
■Dallas dumps.
Exhaustive studies on the collec
tion and disposal system here are
being made by a party of field men
under supervision of Mr. Burns.
As a result of their work, the city
expects to put rock surfacing on
many key alleys to speed up the
distribution, show officials where
the service can be improved and
economies can be ordered without
impairing results.
An outstanding fact uncovered
by the survey so far is the lack
of cooperation by citizens and the
lack of consideration for ordinances
requiring proper containers for
garbage, Mr. Burns said. Many
homes do not have proper recept
acles for the refuse and in many
cases the field men are finding
makeshift containers that spill
garbage over alleys or large cans
and boxes that endanger health of
the men having to handle them.
Two Hindu Students
To Graduate Here
Among the candidates for mas
ter’s degrees at A. & M. at mid
term are two students from In
dia. Allahbachayo Kahn Fateh-
khan Mir will receive his master’s
degree in horticulture, and
an incinerator costing from 8200.- I Mortiram R. Thadani will receive
000 to $300,0i :’s degree in economics,
pose of all tl AminirT from Sind, India,
tentative local 1 ^ Boyd, Dallas, .All-Amer-
be made as soon as possible. Then,
perhaps, funds can be found to
erect the structure and eliminate
much of the problem that arises
here because of long hauls and
most of all because of the smoke
and odor that arises from the
present North Dallas and South
ican football tackle, is another who
will graduate on February 8, with
a degree of bachelor of science in
agricultural administration. Boyd
is graduating ahead of his class
contrary to the supposition that
athletes are usually behind the
class in their studies.
LIBRARY
Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas
Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College
Official Newspaper of the City of College Station >
VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 25, 1940 Z725 NO. 44
Friday, February 9 Set
As Re-Registration Date
DRAMATIC CLUB
TO BE FORMED
HERE TONIGHT
NEW PHONE SYSTEM TO
RE INSTALLED HERE
Registration To
Be Finished On
Monday, Feb. 12
Class Schedules To Be
Issued By Registrar’s
Office Friday Afternoon
Friday, February 9 has been def
initely set as the official regis
tration date for the second semes
ter, according to an announcement
made Wednesday by E. J. Howell,
registrar. At this time all under
graduate students now enrolled at
A. & M. and not included on the
December 1st deficient list are due
to register.
Class schedules for the second
semester will be issued by the Reg
istrar’s Office' beginning Friday
afternoon.
On Monday, February 12, all
graduate students, new students,
and students who were included
on the December deficient list
and who have been given permis
sion to reregister by their deans
will register for the second semes
ter.
Estimates of the enrollment in
dicate that the total enrollment for
the full year is expected to ex
ceed 6,300 with 4,100 enrolling the
first day of second semester reg
istration.
Formal class work for the first
semester closes Thursday after
noon, February 1 at 5 p. m. and
final examinations start Friday
morning at 8 a. m. and last
through Thursday afternoon, Feb
ruary 8. All grades are to be
reported to the Registrar’s Office
before noon Friday, February 9
in order that grades may be rec
orded in the Registrar’s Office and
(Continued on page 4)
National Flower
Show Tickets Put
On Sale at A. & M.
Tickets for the National Flower
Show in Houston went on sale Wed
nesday, January 24, at a reduced
price of 45 cents, it has been an
nounced by Mrs. L. L. Fouraker,
chairman of the local flower show
committee.
It was explained that the price
of 45 cents will remain in effect
only so long as a limited number
of advance-sale \tickets lasts. After
that, the regular gate price of
75 cents will go into effect.
The flower show will be held
February 28 through March 6. Ad
vance ticket sales are being handled
by organizations throughout Texas
under the direction of Mrs. O. H.
Carlisle, chairman of the woman’s
division of the flower show, with
headquarters in the Lamar Hotel
in Houston.
C. Oliver Hoopes, landscape
architect and installation chairman,
announced that more than $1,000,-
000 worth of flowers and flowering
plans and trees will blanket a floor
space of 72,000 square feet in the
main auditorium of the Sam Hous
ton Coliseum. A Holland-Dutch
garden, replete with cottage, wind
mill and Dutch maids will form
the central theme, with 25,000
tulips and hyacinths brought from
Holland to give authenticity to the
scene.
Mr. Hoopes said that it is too
early to give a comprehensive de
scription of what the show will
contain, but that early entries,
which are reaching Houston from
all over the country, include about
1,000 square feet of hydrangeas;
a similar exhibit of cinerarias;
about 500 square feet'of gardenias;
1,000 square feet of roses of many
kinds, including Polyantha and tea
roses; 1,000 square feet of azalesas
and camellias and several hundred
square feet of orchids. Among
other entries are an exotic Japa
nese tea garden and an elaborate
rock garden.
Extensive preparations are being
made in Houston to welcome thous
ands of flower lovers and amateur
gardeners from throughout the na
tion.
Baylor Twin Club
Again To Be Host
To Texas College
Twins Convention
The Baylor University Twin
Club is sponsoring again this year
the Texas College Twins Conven
tion, according to Lois and Louise
Bailey, Baylor-coeds and presidents
of the club. The twins are try
ing to get in touch with all twins
attending A. & M. and are invit
ing them to attend the conven
tion on the Baylor University cam
pus April 5 and 6. A similar con
vention was held last year.
“Baylor’s host club this year is
considerably larger than last year,
and in the light of last year’s con
vention experience, we look for
ward to a bigger and greater af
fair for 1940,” the twins said. “We
already are working on our pro
gram plans, and should be able to
announce some definite things soon.
Arrangements for meals and rooms
for all twins attending have been
made,” they included in invit
ing all twins from A. & M. to at
tend.
All twins attending A. & M.
are requested by the twins to write
the Baylor Twin Club as soon as
possible, letting them know if they
are interested in attending the af
fair this year.
U. S. Coast Guard
Officer To Visit
Here Feb. 13-14
M. A. Whalen, Ensign, U. S.
Coast Guard, will arrive in Col
lege Station, on a tour through
the colleges of the United States,
in behalf of the U. S. Coast Guard,
Tuesday night, February 13.
He will present a movie and
lecture on the Coast Guard, with
particular reference to the Coast
Guard Academy and the examina
tion for entry, in the Assembly
Hall on February 14.
This examination is open to
young men between the ages of
seventeen and twenty-two years.
The mental requirements are, in
general, those necessary for ad
mission to engineering colleges.
The Coast Guard Academy is lo
cated at New London, Connecticut,
where both an education and a
career are offered to those who
meet its high standards. The
course of instruction is basically
scientific and engineering in char
acter. Annual cruises aboard mod
ern cutters to European and South
American ports give an opportu
nity to check classroom theories by
practical seagoing experience.
Anyone wishing further infor
mation regarding the Coast Guard
Academy may secure it at room
101, Academy Building.
Club Will Present Two
Plays Second Semester
All students interested in the
formation of a student dramatic
club at A. & M. for the produc
tion of around two plays during
the second semester are being
invited to meet tonight at 7:15 p.
m. on the second floor of the li
brary in the office of Dr. T. F.
Mayo, librarian.
The movement for the beginning
of the club has been started by
students alone, and Dr. Mayo of
fered his office as a meeting place
after it was learned that no other
library room would be available
at that time.
It is planned by those who are
interested in the club’s formation
to have the activities directed by
students and to invite faculty mem
bers and campus residents who
are interested in dramatics to aid
in the productions. All matters
pertaining to organization, con
trol, plays to be produced, and so
on are to be in the hands of the
students.
A. & M. has been without a dra
matic group here for several years,
the last attempt being the College
Little Theater, which was compos
ed in large part of faculty mem
bers, and which merged with the
Bryan Little Theater a few years
ago.
Professor C. O. Spriggs of the
Department of English and
Professor J. J. Woolkett of the
Department of Modern Languages
have been invited to attend to
night’s meeting.
While it is not expected that
any serious work can be done un
til after the beginning of the sec
ond semester, tonight’s meeting is
expected to indicate the interest
the student body has in restoring
dramatic activities to the A. &
M. campus.
NEW COURSE IN
FISH AND GAME
TO BE OFFERED
The Department of Fish and
Game will offer a course in Pond
and Stream Improvement this
spring term, Dr. W. P. Taylor, de
partment head, has announced. It
is the purpose of the course to
study plants and animals that
have a bearing on the production
of -fish in farm ponds, tanks, and
small recreational lakes.
Methods of conducting stream
surveys will be studied and put in
to practice. There will be a con
tinuation of the cooperation of
this department with the Texas
Game, Fish and Oyster Commis
sion on the stream survey work in
Kerr County so that members of
the class may acquire actual exr
perience in biological stream sur
vey work.
A rowboat and other equipment
for studying aquatic life, recently
acquired by the department, will
facilitate class study of ponds in
the vicinity of College Station.
City Council Acts
On Zoning Plan At
Special Session
The City Council met Monday
night in a special called session
to act on the zoning ordinance and
other items of business. Among
other things accomplished at the
meeting was the adoption of the
ordinance recommended by the
Zoning Commission in regard to
the zoning of College Station with
such changes as noted on the map
and the wording of the ordinance.
The purpose of the ordinance is
to regulate and restrict the density
of population, use of buildings,
industry, and to promote the gen
eral welfare of College Station.
Those making up the Zoning Com
mission are E. W. Steel, chair
man; Ernest Langford, W. R.
Horsley, V. M. Faires, and Guy
Boyett. The council also let the
contract for the city garbage col
lection for this year. Beginning
shortly garbage will be collected
twice each week by city employees.
Rhodes Elected
Biology Club Head
J. C. Rhodes, veterinary medicine
student from Kilgore, was elected
president of the Biology Club
Monday night. He succeeds
R. M. Colquitt Jr., president of
the club last year.
Other officers elected were Rob
ert S. Crawford, vice-president; G.
D. Mackenzie, treasurer; and D.
C. Thurman Jr., secretary. Out
going officers are: Bill Murray,
vice-president; A. W. Erck, treas
urer; and Preston Dobyne, secre
tary. Dr. Charles LaMotte re
mains as counselor and Dr. C. C.
Doak as advisor.
The club has expressed pride on
its record during the past year
in which it bought and has com
pleted payments on a sound motion
picture projector. The club was
able to earn money for buying the
projecter by presenting educational
pictures at the Assembly Hall with
the help of E. L. Angell, head of
student activities.
The projector will be rented to
other clubs and departments on the
campus and a member of the
Biology Club will operate it.
MILITARY CHECKS TO
BE ISSUED NEXT WEEK
Military commutation of subsist-
ance payments for members of the
first and second year advanced
Reserve Officers Training Corps at
A. & M. will, in all probability, be
made during the early part of next
week, according to an announce
ment made Wednesday by Colonel
George F. Moore, Commandant
and P. M. S. & T.
“I’d Rather Be A Texas Aggie” Tops Aggie
Hit Parade; Published in Sheet Music Form
By George Fuermann
You’ve been waiting for it—now
it’s here: Jack Littlejohn’s already
popular song, “I’d Rather Be A
Texas Aggie,” has been published
and is now on sale locally and
will soon be available throughout
the state.
But it wasn’t as simple as all
that. There’s an interesting story
to relate in respect to the birth
of Jack’s latest song. The seed
was planted last summer when
Jack was hitch-hiking to Denver,
Colorado. One of the men who
gave him a ride was a former stu
dent and, before long, the conver
sation naturally turned to A. & M.
“I’d rather be a Texas Aggie than
a student of any other college in
the world,” the ‘ex’ declared—and
his words ‘stuck’ in Jack’s mem
ory.
The seed sprouted late in August
when Jack had returned to his
home in Tulia. It was while Jack
was miscellaneously improvising
at his piano one afternoon that the-
tune came into being. “I just ran
into the tune accidentally,” he
said, “but it seemed to have pos
sibilities so I put it on paper and
then forgot about it.”
And he almost forgot about the
song permanently too, but just be
fore last October’s Aggie-Baylor
game, the Aggieland Orchestra de
cided to pay a musical tribute to
A. & M.’s team at the corps dance
that night. Jack was called upon
to write the song and, as a result,
out of the dust came the yet-un-
titled song which he had “run into
accidentally” a few months earlier.
And there’s a story in itself
about the writing of the words.
While riding the bus to Fort
Worth for the T. C. U. game Jack
wrote the words on a paper napkin
and several Aggies tried singing
it. The arrangement written for
the song’s first playing at the Bay
lor corps dance was dedicated to
•the A. & M. football team and,
since that first playing, “I’d Rather
Be A Texas Aggie” has been an
almost unparalleled favorite with
Aggies everywhere.
So words and lyrics by Jack
Littlejohn “I’d Rather Be a Tex
as Aggie” takes its rightful place
among Aggieland’s already well
established songs: “The Spirit of
Aggieland,” “The Aggie War
Hymn,” and “There Shall Be No
Regrets.” ,
And here are the words to the
chorus:
I’d rather be a Texas Aggie,
A mean so and so.
Than be from any other school.
And rolling in dough.
I’d rather be out on the high
way,
A-thumbin’ a ride.
Than have Miss Greta Garbo,
For my blushing bride.
(Continued on page 4)
New $200,000 Dial
System To Connect
Bryan And College
Intercepting Board To
Be Installed; Work Will
Be Finished Here June 1
Dial telephones will be installed
at College Station and Bryan this
year, according to an announce
ment made by M. C. Atkins, man
ager of the Southwest Telephone
Company with district headquar
ters in Bryan. Work will be com
plete at College Station about June
1, Mr. Atkins said, and the sys
tem will be cut over about June
15. Work in Bryan will begin
between July 15 and August 1 and
the system here will be cut over
about October 1. The cost of the
new dial system will be approxi
mately $40,000 at College Station
and $160,00 in Bryan.
At present there are forty dial
telephones at College Station. In
all there will be about 2,500 tele
phones to be changed in both
places. The cost will run approx
imately $30 for each. At pres
ent there are twenty trunk lines
between Bryan and College Sta
tion. There will be twenty more
built. Trunk lines will be built
to serve College Hills Estates, Col
lege Park, Beverly Estates and
North Oakwood Addition.
All equipment is being purchased
from the Automatic Electric Com
pany, originators of the automatic
system. Kellogg quiet dial tele
phones will be used.
(Continued on page 4)
Film on “Money At
Work” Shown Here
More than three hundred peo
ple came away from the lecture
room in the Chemistry Building at
A. & M. recently with a better un
derstanding of banking and the
gathering of news because of hav
ing seen the film, “Money at Work”
and the talk of Henry Oliver, vice-
president of the State National
Bank of Houston. This film was
sponsored by the Economics Club
of the college.
Roy Caldwell, president of the
Economics Club, introduced John
M. Lawrence Jr., vice-president
and cashier of the City National
Bank, of Bryan, who introduced
the bank officers and employees
and the speaker, Mr. Oliver.
“Money at Work” is built
around the newspaper business
because it was found that the news
paper field presented the desired
parallel because of the close
kinship between the gathering and
disseminating of news and the
bringing together and investment
of funds by the bank for the best
interests of the community. .
The film opens in the New
York office of the Associated
Press in the Rockefeller Center
and takes its audience through
the scores of departments and fa
cilities of the vast cooperative
and non-profit organization with
all of its world-wide ramifications
in gathering and distributing news
to the office of the treasurer.
Here the audience is told in mov
ing picture the story of how pay
ments by banks are made, one by
(Continued on page 4)
$200,000 Dormitory
To Start at Baylor
WACO—President Pat M. Neff
of Baylor University has announc
ed that construction will begin im
mediately on a $200,000 dormitory
for women, the nucleus of which
sum is the gift of friends of the
university.
The new structure will be four
stories high and will accommodate
168 girls. The $30,000 site was
given to Baylor by the people of
Waco.
The building will be third girls’
dormitory on the campus. Some
125 girls were refused admission
to the dormitories last fall because
of lack of space.