Attend the Colorful
Victory Banquet In
Sbisa Hall Tonight!
Student Tri-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College
Official Newspaper of the City of College Station
See The Presentation
Of the Sugar Bowl At
Guion Hall At 5 P. M,!
VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 27, 1940 Z725 NO. 45
Football Awards Will Be Presented At Affairs Today
250 New
Students
Expected
Fiscal Office
Will Receive
Fees Thursday
According to the latest reports
from the Registrar’s Office, be
tween 5,500 and 5,600 students are
expected to enroll in A. & M. for
the second semester. The enroll
ment for the first semester totaled
6,083, showing an increase of a-
bout 480 students in the first term
enrollment over those expected in
the second term enrollment.
Among the 5,500 or more stu
dents signing up for the second
semester, around 250 will be sign
ing up for the first time this year.
Around 125 of these will be old
students returning and 125 will be
new students just entering.
The first days registration, Feb
ruary 9, is expected to take care
of around 4,100 students and a-
bout 1,200 are expected to regis
ter the second day. After the sec
ond day around 250 students are
expected to register between then
and February 12.
The fees for the second semes
ter may be paid starting Thurs
day morning, February 1, and must
be paid before a student can regis
ter for the second semester. Feb
ruary 12 is the last date on which
fees can be paid by old students
without being charged the late
registration penalty of $2.00 Fees
(Continued on page 4)
COLD WEATHER
HOLDS UP WORK
ON NEW THEATER
Six Students Will Be
Employed by ‘The Campus’
Due to unfavorable weather con
ditions the new theater at the
North Gate will not be opened by
February 1 as it had been previous
ly announced, according to Vernon
Walker, who will manage the thea
ter. If the weather permits the
work should be finished and the
theater will be ready for its open
ing by February 20.
The carpenter work will be fin
ished by the first of next week
and equipment will be installed im
mediately afterward.
The theater will employ about
six students. Applications for the
jobs have already been made.. It
has been impossible to interview
some of the applicants, but that
will be taken care of near the open
ing date.
The theater is to be known as
the “Campus.”
ENGINEERS URGED
TO APPLY FOR
CIVIL SERVICE
All engineering students who are
interested in taking the Civil Ser
vice examination for junior engi
neers will meet Tuesday, January
30, in the Mechanical Engineering
lecture room, Dean Gibb Gilchrist
of the School of Engineering an
nounced Friday afternoon.
Applications must be in Wash
ington, D. C., not later than Feb
ruary 5.
O. E. Teague, local secretary ^
the Civil Service Commission,
assist each student in filling
the application forms which he will
have on hand at the meeting.
The starting salary for this par
ticular position is $2,000. “In ad
dition,” Dean Gilchrist stated, “it
is felt that such positions offer a
great deal of opportunity for the
young engineer, and it is hoped
that a large number of engineer
ing seniors will apply for and
take the examination.”
‘CADET PLAYERS’
ORGANIZE NEW
DRAMATIC GROUP
Club Will Produce One-
And Three-Act Plays
Temporarily named the Cadet
Players, the organization of A. &
M.’s first dramatic society in re
cent years became an accomplish
ed fact Thursday night as 23 stu
dents met in the Cushing Memoi’-
ial Library. Chairmaned by for
mer Battalion editor R. L. Doss,
organization plans were made, of
ficers were elected, and necessary
committees were appointed.
Elected to serve temporarily
during the club’s organization, the
officers include Bill Murray, pres
ident; Ford B. Rackley, vice-presi
dent; and George Fuermann, secre
tary-treasurer. Advisers include
C. O. Spriggs, J. J. Woolket, and
John Rosser.
Two committees were appointed,
one to formulate plans for organ
ization and the other to serve as a
program committee. The five mem
bers of the organization commit
tee are A. J. Robinson, chairman;
Stuart H. Cooper, J. A. Jensen, B.
C. Diedrick, and R. L. Heitkamp
Those on the program committee
include C. O. Spriggs, J. J. Woolket,
D. R. Calvert, D. M. Yoakum,
James M. Piester, and J. N. Jones.
The primary purposes of the new
organization are the production of
one- and three-act plays, to stimu
late interest in dramatics on the
campus, and to provide an organ
ization wherein students may gain
dramatic experience and knowl
edge. At the organization’s next
meeting, which will be held the
night of February 15 in the Agri
cultural Engineering Building lec
ture room, it is expected that many
new members will be added to the
campus’ youngest club.
The 23 students comprising the
charter membership of the organ
ization include R. L. Doss, T. R.
Harrison, Joe Johnson, D. M.
Yoakum, F, B. Rackley, Glenn Mat
tox, Tom Reiner, Rod Gambrell,
Irvin Thompson, C. A. Montgom
ery, David R. Calvert, Brice Died-
rick, Bill Murray, J. N. Jones, J.
A. Jensen, Dewey Duncan, Shelby
Howell, R. L. Heitkamp, Stuart H
Cooper, A. J. Dobinson, J. M
Piester, A. L. Murray, and George
Fuermann.
KGKO To Carry
Campus News Each
Tuesday Evening
Radio Station KGKO, located in
Fort Worth, has begun a new ser
ies of programs designed for stu
dent listeners of Texas colleges
and universities. The name of the
program is The Campus Editor
and is broadcast at 10:30 p. m.
each Tuesday on the frequency of
570 kilocycles.
The program consists of the
reading of items from college news
paper by the Campus Editor, with
the acknowledgment of the paper
and the college or university.
The Battalion has received a let
ter from Milton Atchison, the
KGKO Campus Editor, requesting
that the Aggies join up with the
eleven or more school papers al
ready represented on the program
As this program should prove
quite interesting to everyone here
at Aggieland as well as the folks
at home, the station has been put
on The Battalion’s mailing list.
CLUB RESERVATIONS
FOR LONftwru?TVT ™tj ST
etidraBO ARY 1
xiui.nic/uon n1 has been given that
the dead-line for reservations for
club sections in the 1940 A. & M.
annual, the Longhorn, will be the
first of February. Student clubs,
home-town clubs, church groups,
and other societies are notified that
their reservations must be made by
that date.
Reservations must be made with
D. H. Watson in Dormitory Num
ber 10 at once.
‘Humanity Above All’ Is Motto Of
International Group of Students
By George Fuermann
Mike Rodriquez, president of the
Cosmopolitan Club.
SENIOR CLASS TO
MAKE AWARDS TO
SENIOR GRIDMEN
Ten Graduating Seniors To
Receive Gold Footballs
A. & M.’s ten graduating foot
ball players will be presented with
gold footballs by the senior class,
it was announced today by senior
class president, Max McCullar.
The presentations will be held as
soon as the order for the gold foot
balls arrive.
The graduating football players
are Frank Wood, Gus Bates, Hugh
Boyd, Joe Parish, Joe White, Bill
Duncan, “Cotton” Price, Herbert
Smith, “Rock” Audish, and Joe
Boyd. A football will also be pre
sented to Coach Homer Norton.
The footballs are made of 10
karat gold. On one side is an
enameled maroon “T” surrounded
by the figures of the number, 1939,
over the words, “National Cham
pions.” On the opposite side is
engraved the players name with
the presentation by the senior
class.
The presentation of the gold
footballs, which is the continua
tion of a custom begun several
years ago by the senior class, is
expected to take place about the
middle of next week at some sen
ior class function.
DR. GIESECKE ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF A.S.H.V.E.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 24—F. E.
Giesceke, Texas A. & M. College
professor emeritus, Tuesday was
elected president of the American
Society of Heating and Ventilat
ing Engineers in convention here.
Editor’s note: This is the first
of two articles relating to the A.
& M. Cosmopolitan Club. The sec.
ond will appear in an early issue.
•
“Humanity above all”—that’s
the motto of one of the campus’
most unusual and interesting or
ganizations, the Cosmopolitan
Club. And that’s not all, because
if there is any organization which
truly lives up to its name, the Cos
mopolitan Club fills the bill. Its
present membership includes stu
dents from Puerto Rico, Mexico
Cuba, Panama, Columbia, Brazil.
Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Persia,
Hawaii, Palestine, China, Poland
and India—as well as the United
States.
With almost a hundred members
the organization meets twice each
month in the Y. M. C. A. and its
sponsors include the “Y’s” general
secretary, M. L. Cashion, and V. K
Sugareff of the history depart
ment.
From the Aggie point of view
Cosmopolitan Club meetings can
not be overlooked because, not
only are refreshments served at
each meeting, but College Station
and Bryan girls are among the vis
itors at each meeting.
Aim of the organization is to
draw together in a common bond
of friendship A. & M. students from
the United States and all other
lands in the world.
President of the Cosmopolitan
Club is Miguei'*Angel Rodriquez,
better known as ‘Mike.’ Hailing
from Puerto Rico, Mike also serves
as president of the Puerto Rico
A. & M. Club. The organization’s
other officers include Paul Stach.
vice-president; Albert Yee, secre
tary; and B. F. Eubank, treasurer.
SIX AGGIES ARE
SELECTED FOR
HIGHWAY JOBS
M. B. Hodges, maintenance engi
neer of the State Highway De
partment, after interviewing A. &
M. students last week has announc
ed those selected to fill the Cour
tesy Station Attendant vacancies.
The students from A. & M. are
Felix Frazier, Scarborough Cope
land, Curtis Hancock, James Isbell,
Bud Allredge, and Alfred Swinney.
The men will report at Austin,
February 8 and will be given an
intensive two day training pro
gram, after which they will be as
signed to duty at one of the fol
lowing stations: Orange, Texar
kana, Wichita Falls, Shamrock,
Gren Rio, El Paso, and Laredo.
5,000 Trees and Shrubs
Planted Around New Dorms
Almost 5,000 trees and shrubs,-f
including hedges, have been plant
ed in the new dormitory area, F.
W. Hensel, head of the Landscape
Arts Department, stated this week.
Included in these trees were 65
four-inch live oaks weighing 1,500
pounds each, 70 elms, and 8 large
willow oaks which were planted
in the courts. The elms were plant
ed in between the live oaks due
to the fact that they are much
faster growing and will furnish
shade until the slower-growing live
oaks mature. The elms will event
ually be removed as the live oaks
become large enough to take their
place.
At a recent meeting of the Board
of Directors of the college, funds
were authorized for the moving
of the frame buildings just adja
cent to the new dormitory area to
provide proper space for the unit
and to allow the building of cement
walks. The Wool Scouring Plant
building is to be tom down and
the machinery installed on the sec
ond floor of the Textile Engineer
ing Building.
The area between hall 12 and
the A. A. A. Buildings which is
now used for entomology test plots,
is to be landscaped as a park,
and graveled walks are to be built
through it to Kyle Field and the
project houses.
W. P. A. workers have already
moved several thousand cubic yards
of dirt to fill in the ravine north
of halls 1 and 3, and will continue
to fill in the gully with dirt, from
the new drill ground south of the
dormitories until the entire north
ern side of the dormitory area is
landscaped into a gentle slope.
Graveled walks will be laid across
this area to the Agriculture and
Administration buildings.
The playing field north of the
dormitories has been arranged so
that at least four baseball dia
monds can be laid out in this area,
to provide plenty of facilities for
intramural contests.
Winning Judger
Harold Mogford of Menard, Tex
as, freshman in animal husbandry
of Company I Infantry, was the
winner of the recently-held annual
Freshman Livestock Judging Con
test, over a field of 106 contest
ants, with a score of 537 out of a
possible 600.
Government Will
Employ About 1,800
Men Next Summer
A notice of the probable em
ployment of some 1,800 men this
summer at $2,000 per year as a
result of the Junior Professional
Assistant exams to be given in the
near future has been received by
Dean E. J. Kyle from Roy Hen
drickson, Director of Personnel of
the Civil Service Commission.
So far, according to O. E. Teague
of the United States Post Office,
applications have not been as
numerous as they were last year
when more than 350 men took this
examination. This year less than
200 have filled out form eight
which must be mailed in time to
reach Washington by February 5th.
It is true that only a limited num
ber were chosen from the exam
last spring, but more will probab
ly be selected before summer.
According to Dr. L. G. Jones,
member of the College Civil Ser
vice Commission, students in any
branch of Agriculture are urged
to examine Form Ten, U. S. Civil
Service Examination, and decide
to try for one of the twenty-eight
branches. These examinations of
fer inducements not only to in the
School of Agriculture, but also to
students in the School of Engi
neering.
“Students are urged to take ad
vantage of this opportunity. The
experience is good and the added
inducement of a permanent posi
tion should be considered,” said Dr.
Jones.
RURAL SOCIOLOGY
CLASS CONSIDERS
SOCIAL HYGIENE
Would you marry a girl you
knew had been promiscuous ? To
this question the Aggies in Dan
Russell’s Rural Sociology 315 class
answered 33 yes and 142 no.
This Family Relations group al
so considered other problems of
common interest such as marrying
a widow or divorcee. The conclu
sion to this particular one was
favorable by a 109 to 70 vote. One
hundred and forty-two opposed the
idea of parents supporting a young
couple for the first few years of
their married life, but 33 were
for it. Concerning the proper age
of matrimony, the great majority
of the class believed a person
should be at least 22 years old, or,
as they put it, have a late mar
riage.
The question that received the
most nearly unanimous opinion was
“would you favor a venerial test
for boys and girls marrying”. The
answer was 177 to one for it.
Nations Number
One Squad Will
Be Paid Tribute
Sugar Bowl To ~
Be Presented
Aggies Today
Celebrations and acclamations!
relative to the Aggies’ victorious
football season will reach a formal
finality here today with the Sugar
Bowl presentation. Continental-
ly recognized as America’s No. 1
team of the past football season,
the Aggie squad will join with
fans and supporters in a culminat
ing celebration.
As previously scheduled, the
awarding of the Sugar Bowl was to
have been made on Kyle Field. Be
cause of the cold weather the
scene of the presentation has been
shifted to Guion Hall at 5 p. m.
this afternoon, from where it will
be broadcast over the state by the
Texas Quality Network.
The program in Guion Hall will
be as follows: As an opening the
210-piece Aggie Band will play the
Aggie “Wildcat” which will be
followed by one or two yells by
the corps. Another selection of
the Band will precede a welcom
ing address by Colonel Ike Ashburn
to the visitors and the Sugar Bowl
officials. The members of the
New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports
Association will then present the
original Sugar Bowl. “The Spirit
of Aggieland” will be played by
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Banquet To Be
Held In Sbisa
Hall Tonight
A true warriors’ victory feast
will be enacted tonight in Sbisa
Hall as the Aggie team, friends
and supporters, and Sugar Bowl
officials banquet in honor of Amer
ica’s best football team. The ban
quet will begin at 6:45 p. m., and
some 800 people will attend. The
affair will not only be blessed with
choice food, but choice speeches
and numerous presentations as
well. It promises to be one of the
largest and most pompous affairs
of such nature to be held on the
campus for the year. Many dis
tinguished people will be on hand
for this occasion, including Sugar
Bowl officials, the Athletic Coun
cil, the football teams and friends,
and leading newspapermen of the
state.
The A. & M. Glee Club and the
Aggieland Orchestra will combine
to supply musical entertainment
for the affair. The principal speak
er will be F. M. Law, president
of the Board of Directors. There
will be an introduction of guests
of the football players—their par
ents, friends, and sweethearts.
There will also be an introduction
of the Sugar Bowl committee^ and
the newspapermen. Following the
(Continued on page 4)
Numerous Awards To Be
Presented Athletes Today
1. Sugar Bowl trophy, presented-
to Texas A. & M. College by of
ficials of the New Orleans Mid-
Winter Sports Association.
2. Sugar Bowl footballs for play
ers, coaches and others, presented
by the Association.
“ 10. Most-valuable-player-award, a
pen and pencil desk set, presented
by the Aggieland Pharmacy to
John Kimbrough.
11. Traveling bags for the squad.
Athletic Council, and coaches, from
the college.
3. Medals and bars to T letter-
men, presented by the Athletic
Council.
4. Fleece jackets (instead of
sweaters as formerly) to T letter-
men, presented by the Council.
5. Gold, diamond-inset footballs
to T men, presented by the Coun
cil and the college.
6. Silver spur tie clasps, pre
sented by Chase Holland of San
Angelo to the squad and coaches.
7. All-American awards present
ed John Kimbrough and Joe Boyd
by the Athletic Council.
8. Two Bert Pfaff trophies, pre
sented to the best blockers.
9. Captains’ awards of pen and
pencil sets for Smith, Boyd, and
Price, presented by the Aggieland
Pharmacy.
12. Paul B. Williamson All-Ame
rican awards for John Kimbrough
and Joe Boyd, presented by Andy
Anderson, sports editor of the
Houston Press.
13. Francis Miller’s original chart
graph of the Sugar Bowl game,
presented Coach Norton by Ander
son.
14. A special surprise gift to each
of the T men by Jesse H. Jones.
15. Elaborate scrapbooks present
ed to the entire squad by the sopho
more and junior classes.
16. Awards to the squadmen who
did not letter, engraved leather
billfolds presented by the Lipscomb
Pharmacy.
17. Awards to the freshmen let-
termen, presented by the Campus
Grocery.
Guion Hall Program, Saturday, 5 p. m.
Program of Presentation
Band: “Goodby to Texas.”
Band: “Wildcat.”
Speech on behalf of the
; Corps: Yells.
Band: Selection.
student body: D. B. Varner’.
Welcoming address: Col.
Band: “The Spirit of Ag-
Ashburn.
gieland.”
Presentation of Sugar
Presentation of gold Sugar
Bowl.
Bowl footballs to players.
Banquet Program, Saturday, 6:45 p. m.
Program, of Banquet
Presentation of tie clasps ;
; Selections of the Aggieland
by Chase Holland.
Orchestra and Glee Club.
Presentation of Williamson
Introduction of the guests
System trophy to John Kim-
of the football players.
brough and Joe Boyd by ;
Introduction of Sugar Bowl
Ralph Anderson.
■ committee and sports writers.
Presentation to freshmen
Address by F. M. Law.
squad by Campus Grocery.
! Presentation of varsity let-
Presentation of award to
ters by Homer Norton.
most valuable player by Ag-
Presentation of All-Amer-
gieland Pharmacy.
icans by Joe Utay.
Presentation of billfolds to
Council awards by Norton
squadmen who did not letter
&nd Howell.
by Lipscomb’s Pharmacy.
Presentation to best block-
Address by Walemon “Cot-
er by Bert Pfaff.
ton” Price.