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CIRCULATION 5,400 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE VOL. 39 PHONE 4-5444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 17, 1940 Z725 NO. 52 Gladys Swarthout Fourth Member On Town Hall’s Entertainment Program Gladys Swarthout, member of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, and one of the big names' in opera today, will make her first visit to A. & M. next Friday night when she appears on Town Hall. Season tickets are good for the program, tickets for non-season ticket holders will be $1.00 for students and $2.00 for others. Horse, Jack, and Mule Breeders Of Texas Will Meet at A. & M. Next Week Banquet and Student Livestock Show Will Climax Association’s Annual Short Course and Convention First Big-Time Opera Star Ever To Visit A. & M. Town Hall Season Tickets Will Be Good for Program Gladys Swarthout, popular mez zo-soprano of the grand opera, radio and screen, is being present ed next Friday evening by Town Hall as the fourth number on their list of entertainment for the school ( year. This is the first time in the history of A. & M. that a noted opera star has been brought to the campus. The concert is being presented in Guion Hall next Fri day evening. Prices for the con cert will be $1.00 for A. & M. and high school students, $2.00 for re served seats, and $1.50 for all ex tra reserved seats, which may be purchased by those holding the Town Hall season tickets, all sea son tickets are good as usual. Contrary to the phrase “there is no royal road to fortune,” Miss Swarthout has disproved this idea thoroughly. At the tender age of 13, she embarked on her musical career with a Kansas City church choir. Nine years later she became a well known opera star at an age when most opera singers are just beginning their careers. Although “luck” had a lot to do with Miss Swarthouts success, as she modest ly admits, intelligence and hard work played an equally important role. In her advice to those who wish to embark on a singing career she advises that those who hope for lucky breaks should be ready for them. One should get ready for his chance by having a definite plan. She says to think out what you want to do and then go after it by preparing yourself and then you will find that you will make your own chance. On Miss Swarthout’s program here at College will be a group of songs from the opera Auvergne She sang them for the first time in America at a recital in Peoria Illinois, and describes them as simple songs of the soil sung in dialect which is a strange combi nation of French and Spanish but whose final pronunciation is not unlike Italian. These fascinating old airs of Southern France were collected and arranged especially for Miss Swarthout by Jean Jos eph Canteloube, a contemporary French composer and pupil of Vincent dTndy. Among some of the songs in the group which she will sing are “Bailero,” “Passo pel prat,” “L’Aio de Rotzo,” and “L’Antoueno.” “Bailero” is a traditional shep herd’s song. “Passo pel prat” is a peasant’s song in rhythmic ac cord with the plodding lurch of the oxen who drew the plow “L’Aio de Rotzo” is a rippling song of maternal advice from a mother to her child to the effect that it is fatal to drink water from a spring and that the way to live to a ripe old age is to drink only wine A gay carnival mood is prevalent in “L’Antoueno,” which is the Auvergne equivalent of the old English “Heigh-Ho, Come to the Fair.” Plans have been arranged for the annual Horse, Jack, and Mule Breeders Short Course to be held at A. & M. Monday and Tuesday. February 19-20, according to an announcement made by D. W. Williams, head of the Animal Hus bandry Department. At the same time the Texas Horse, Jack and Mule Breeders Association will hold their annual meeting. H. O. Cox of San Angelo, author ity on breeding Palaminos, and J W. Shepherd of Plano, jack specialist, are among the outstand ing members of the association who will appear as lecturers on the short-course program. Judging and the development of breeds of horses suitable for the various sections of Texas will be one of the featured talks on the program. “There is much interest in Western types of horses at pre sent,” Prof. Williams said, “and we intend to go into that subject in tensively.” Other points scheduled for dis cussion will include nutritional diseases, unsoundness, means of ""producing larger colt crops, collec tive horseshoeing, parasites, train ing and breeding of polo ponies and other types of horses, horse-show classifications, and other points which may arise during round table discussions. / The annual banquet will be held in the college banquet hall Monday evening, following which there will be a livestock show staged by students of the Animal Hus bandry Department. COOKIE-CANDY SHOWER FOR HOUSTON BOYS TO BE GIVEN TOMORROW Final plans were released today for the cookie-candy shower spon sored each year by the Houston A. & M. Mothers’ Club, according to Dow Mims, president of the Houston A. & M. Club. A program, accompanied with the serving of refreshments will take place in Sbisa Hall Sunday from 3 to 5 p. m. All Houston and Harris County boys at A. & M. have been given a cordial invitation to attend. Aggies’ Own Fat Stock Show Will Be Staged Monday Outstanding Livestock Men of Texas To Be Judges At First Aggie Affair Junior and senior students in the division of animal husbandry of A. & M. will stage the first an nual Little Southwestern Livestock Show in the college pavilion at 8 p. m. this coming Monday. The purpose of the show is to enable interested students to get first hand experience in one of the more important phases of the livestock industry, the show ring. Judging in the show will be on the basis of grooming according the animal on exhibit, and not the animal’s individual characteristics. All classes, of which there will be 26 including 65 animals, will be placed on the grooming which the animal has received and the man ner in which the student shows his animal in the ring. All livestock used in the show will be from the A. & M. animal husdandry department. Many of them will be shown later in the more important shows throughout the United States. Included in the show will be classes of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine. Some of the outstanding livestock men of Texas will judge the show including J. W. Sheppard of Plano, horses; Jack Turner of Sil ver Creek Farms at Fort Worth, cattle; M. G. Perkins of Caldwell, hogs; J. P. Heath of Argyle, sheep Rufus Peeples of Tehaucana will select the grand champion show man and fitter of the show, who will receive a pair of hand-made cowboy boots as his prize. Medals will be awarded winners and rib bons will go to those who place in the various classes. Admission to the Little South western is free. The public is in vited, and urged to come. Inas much as this is the first event of its kind ever to take place in the Southwest, the Saddle and Sir loin Club believes it will be inter esting as well as enlightening. Biology Club To Have Vet Meds, Pre-Meds As Guests Monday The Biology Club will have as their guests Monday night at 7:30 p. m., in the Chemistry lecture room, the Veterinary Medicine Club and the Pre-Medical Club. There has been much talk of joint or consolidated club meeting but to date there has been no act ive movmeent to bring this about. The program for the evening will consist of a lecture by a represen tative of the State Health De partment from Austin, sent thru the cooperation of Dr. Geo. W. Cox, M.D. and head of the State Department of Health in Austin. In al probability, films will be shown with Biology Club sound projector in connection with the speaker’s talk. The program is for the benefit of the members and prospective members of the Biology Club, the Veterinary Medicine Club, and the Pre-Med Club, and members of the faculty and their families. Besides College Work, D. W. Williams Finds Time To Manage a 3,000-Acre Ranch Tryouts for Places In Cadet Players’ Stage Shows Held Monday Tryouts for parts in the plays “Drums of Oude” and “A Matter of Principle,” which will be put on by the Cadet Players, will be held in room 316 Academic Building Monday from 4:00 p. m. till 6:00 p. m. The Cadet Players is a newly organized dramatic group on the campus whose purpose is the pro duction of one-and-three act plays This cl ’ to stin gnduiB^ at A. < itiBjqrj gamzal .On »»v.*.. ouuuv...vw ^ gain dramatic experience and knowledge. This club is the first of its kind on the A. & M. campus and is open to all students who wish to join. Previously the Aggies have not had a chance to show their acting ability on the stage. If there ever was a college pro--f school until he was a junior in-*-degree at the University of Illinois fessor able to convert theories in to practice, he is D. V. Williams, head of the Animal Husbandry De. partment of Texas A. & M. Col lege. Between lectures to college stu dents, Williams operates a 3,000- acre personal ranch, which he finds is a “wonderful place to bust up cockeyed ideas.” Williams is superintendent of the horse show which will be held at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show, March 8-17. A varied career has been follow- ’ by Williams since he was bom a stock farm at Venedocia. o. His father was a farmer ...^.rchant, local stock and wool buyer, and later a commission merchant on the Cleveland and To ledo yards. Williams received his early edu cation in a one-room country school, presided over by a hard- boiled man teacher. In fact, he didn’t know that women taught high school. After graduating in agriculture from Ohio State University in 1915, Williams took his master’s on a scholarship in 1916. He spent a time farming and then went to Washington as extension animal husbandman and was assigned to Southeastern states. He served in the World War and then returned to his chosen profession with live stock work. When he came to Texas A. & M. in 1919, Williams was placed in charge of hog work and was made head of the Department of Animal Husbandry in 1923. He has been connected with the fat stock show in Fort Worth since 1920, when he became superintend ent of the swine department. He held that connection until 1928, but began working with the horse show in 1927. Williams is a former president of teh American Society of Animal Production and represented that society last year as a delegate to the international congress on ani mal breeding at Zurich, Switzer land. Mayor Binney Resigns As An Official of College Station A. & M. B.S.U. Exchanging Religious Programs With Baylor This Spring Cadets Took Charge Of First Exchange Program In Waco Hall Wednesday To Speak Here Oakwood Utilities Transfer Complete After Council Meet Garbage Regulations For City Being Arranged A. & M. Baptist Student Union members gave the entire Baylor Religious Hour program in Wacc hall at Baylor University Wednes day evening. Jim Behrman, president of the Aggie B. S. U., presided. Four visiting Aggie speakers included Behrman, state B. S. U. president Bill Kent, E. L. Dysart, and H W. Monzingo. Special music was provided by a quartet composed of cadets. This spring A. & M. is exchang ing programs with Baylor. Baylor students will give a special pro gram at College Station some Sunday during the spring term Royce Thompson, Baylor B. S. U. president, has announced. Plans are also under considera tion for exchanging programs with Mary Hardin-Baylor College. Kent succeeded Charles Myers as state B. S. U. president last fall. “Both Behrman and Kent are likable fellows and outstanding Christian students at A. & M.,” Thompson declared in his prefatory address. Sophs Make Plans For Annual Prom Arrangements for the Sopho more ball have been completed ac cording to an announcement from Williard Clark, sophomore class president. Next Saturday night is the date set for the event which will feature the music of the Ag- gieland Orchestra. Tickets are now on sale at $1.00 each and may be secured from representatives in each organiaztion. This year’s ball, if it corresponds to the size of the sophomore class., will be the biggest event the sophomores have ever put on. The present sophomore class, made up of some 2,100 members, is the largest second year class in the history of the school and also out numbers any other class enrolled this year. But members alone will not be the biggest attraction at the ball for it is definitely known that there will be many representatives many other out-of-town visitors, many other out of town visitors. Clark urges that those who in tend to buy tickets do so right away if possible, for it is neces sary that a certain number be sold iij the near future in order to in sure the services of the Aggieland Dodson To Speak At Seminar Meeting The Social Science Seminar meets at 7:30 Monday night in room 303 Academic Building to hear Dr. J. L. Dodsdn, of the His tory Department, speak on “Back ground of War, 1914 and 1918.” Dr. Dodson is particularly inter ested in European affairs and has traveled in Europe extensively. He visited Western Europe last sum mer, shortly before the present war broke out. Above is shown Rev. Eugene Slater, pastor of the First Metho dist Church of Ozona, Texas, who will speak at the A. & M. Metho dist Church Sunday through Fri day, February 18-23, at 7 p. m. each evening. Rev. Slater is known as a very interesting speaker. The public is invited to attend this program se ries, which is being sponsored by the local Methodist Student Coun cil. Artillerymen To Have Courtney’s Band For Dance The first organization ball of the school year will take place on the night of March 1st when the Field Artillery presents Its annual prom with Del Courtney and his nation ally known orchestra furnishing the music. Courtney and his band enjoy national recognition and are well known to students here, having played for the senior ring dance last year. Since eight years ago. when they were on'ry a college band at St. Mary’s University in Cali fornia, the orchestra has found a place in the heart of all good dance music lovers. They will play both for the ball and the corps dance the following night. Joe Cain and J. P. Giles, rank ing Field Artillery juniors, are in charge of the ball and are taking care of the entertainment and ac commodations for guests. The decoration committee is composed of R. M. Magee, chairman; Joe Spiller; and Raymond Parrish Preston Bolton is in charge of fav ors, invitations, and programs. Favors for the affair are gold- plated book lockets with A. & M and a pair of cross guns superim posed on them. New Section In Administration Announced . Dean Bolton has announced the opening of a new section in Ad ministration 402. It will be sec tion 501K, taught by Dr. T. O Walton, and meets Friday at 11:00 a. m. College Station’s Mayor J. H. Binney handed in his resignation Thursday night. At a regular meeting of the City Council presided over by mayor pro tern L. P. Gabbard, in Dr. Binney’s absence, a letter was read to the Council from Mayor Binney in which he expressed his appreciation of the help given him by his fellow officers and the honor done him by the people of the city in electing him to the of fice of mayor last spring, but declared that after much delibera tion and hesitation he had at last been forced to announce his resig nation, because of lack of time and the press of other duties. The Council, to whom this move came as a complete surprise, ex pressed regret over Mayor Binney’s announcement, but finally accepted his resignation on the condition that he would at least serve until the time of the regular city elec tion which comes early in April of this year, at which time two aldermen, to succeed aldermen L. P. Gabbard and Luther G. Jones, will be elected along with a new major. Mayor Binney was elected at the time the government of the city of College Station was first or ganized, in the spring of 1939. His tenure of office was till April. 1941. At the same meeting Thursday night of the City Council, attend ed by aldermen Jones, Gabbard, J. A. Orr, and S. A. (Doc) Lipscomb. City Attorney J. Wheeler Barger, and acting City Secretary Mrs. Marvin Snead, the transfer of utilities in Oakwood Addition from the Oakwood Realty Company to the city was formally completed. Various minor technicalities hav ing been settled, the Council ap proved the ordinance and deed of trust effecting the transfer, and Friday afternoon Mayor Binney and the city secretary affixed their signatures to these documents, terminating the transaction. By the terms agreed on, the city is paying the Oakwood Realty Company with a note for $8,500, to be paid at the rate of $60 month- (Continued on page 4) AGGIELAND’S NEW VOCALIST WILL APPEAR TONIGHT The Aggieland Orchestra will present their charming new bru net vocalist, Dorothy Thames of Victoria, at the Corps Dance to night from 9 till 12 in Sbisa Hall. Miss Thames has been singing with Nick Stuart’s orchestra and was popular with the public. How ever, when the band recently went to the West Coast, Dorothy, being a home-loving girl, decided to stay behind. In reference to the organiza tion affairs coming up three orch estras have been definitely sign ed. Del Courtney with his candid camera music will play for the Field Artillery Ball, the Engineers will have Al Kavelin and his or chestra, and the champagne music of Lawrence Welk will be here for the Coast Artillery Ball. To prevent each organization from going to the expense of building their own lavish band stand for their respective affairs, the Architecture Department is de signing a stand to be used by all. It will be built in sections in order to be taken to and from the mess hall and will bo linanced by each regiment. To distinguish the different or ganizations the emblems of each will be hung from above the or chestra and illuminated by spot lights. Guidons and regimental pla ques will serve as the bandstand’s background. Architects’ Costume Ball First of 29 School Dances By George Fuermann It happened last night! From Don Quixote to Patrick Henry, from Honest Abe to the notorious Confucius—they were all there as the annual Architects’ Ball colorfully opened A. & M.’s an nual swing-fest. With a costume ball to climax all costume balls the Architects presented the first of twenty-nine organization and corps dances. -fsome of the State’s most colorful and traditional balls will have been held. The annual Ross Volunteer dances date back to 1887, and— most brilliant of all of Aggieland’s historic proms—the Final Ball is almost as old a function as the college itself. And so it is . . . But before Ag gieland’s six thousand—and their dates—listen to the fading fare well notes of the memory-awaken ing Taps at the intermission of the Final Ball, there’ll be twenty- And, at the same time, the belles of Texas began their annual Ag- j gieland trek; and several thousand j nine gay, festive, and never-to-be- strong they’ll be ere 1940’s dance! forgotten functions, season blends into history. J Collectively, they’re known as But before it becomes history ' A. & M.’s social season.