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NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1940
Z725 NO. 58
‘Ugly Boy 9 Primary Ends Sunday Night
Utilities of Southside Development
Company Will Be Purchased By City
Mayor, Aldermen
Of City Will Be
Elected April 2nd
Consolidated School
Granted Permission For
Entrance Into City
At a meeting of the College
Station City Council Thursday
night it was definitely decided that
the city would purchase the utili
ties of the Southside Development
Company, developers of College
Park. Other business attended to
was the ordering of a general elec
tion on April 2, the approval of
garbage disposal plans, and the
granting of permission for the
entrance of the A. & M. Consoli
dated School into the city.
As agreed, the city will buy all
the electric, water, and sewer dis
posal utilities systems for a price
of $15,000 from C. W. Burchard,
representative of the development
company. The payments are to be
made in at least $120 monthly in
stallments for a period of ten years
at interests of 4% per annum. This
purchase which goes into effect
some time before May 1 will add to
the present utilities operations of
the city in the Oakwood Addition
and the area around the North
Gate.
The election is for the purpose of
electing a mayor to take the place
of Mayor J. H. Binney, who has
already handed in notice of his
resignation, and two aldermen to
succeed L. P. Gabbard and Luther
G. Jones. It will be held in the
Missouri Pacific Station from 7
a. m. to 7 p. m. on Tuesday, April
(Continued on page 4)
Exams for Cotton
Tour Fellowships
Begin March 11
Competition for the annual Cot
ton Tour Fellowship Awards, spon
sored by the A. & M. Agronomy
Society, will begin March 11, ac
cording to J. S. Mogford, profes
sor of Agronomy.
The contestants will begin the
competitive examinations accord
ing to the following schedule:
Monday, March 11—Botany of
the Cotton Plant.
Monday, March 18—Cotton Dis
eases.
Monday, April 1—Cotton Insects.
Monday, April 8—Cotton Ma
chinery.
Friday, April 12—Cotton Pro
duction.
Friday, April 16—Cotton Mar
keting.
Wednesday, May 1—Cotton
Genetics.
Monday, May 6—Cotton Textiles.
Wednesday or Thursday, May 8
or 9—Grading and Stapling.
All written examinations will
start at 7:00 p. m. The examina
tions on grading and stapling will
be held during an afternoon when
proper lighting will be available.
Do You Love Your
Gal $30 Worth?
CLEVELAND, Ohio.—How much
do you love your girl?
It seems that Morton Levy, jun
ior chemist at Case School of Ap
plied Science, loves his girl so
much that he just can’t get her off
his mind.
It seems that a large number of
desks in Case’s new chemistry
building have been decorated this
term with the letters “J. H. B.”
carved in their tops. Since there
is no “J. H. B.” in the department,
locating the carver was difficult.
However, one professor suspect
ed Levy. An inspection of Levy’s
notebook revealed a profuse spat
tering of more “J. H. B.’s” and
established him as the culprit.
To repair the loss, Levy, after
dismantling the mutilated desks
himself, must take them to the
workship of the custodian. He
then will have the privilege of
paying for resurfacing the tops at
a cost of one dollar each.
In commenting on his actions,
Levy said he was sorry. For thirty
bucks, who wouldn’t be?
Post Office Boxes
For New Dorms To
Be Installed Soon
The delay in the installation of
the mailboxes in the new south
post ofice is due to the failure
of the installation workers to ar
rive, although all boxes and other
necessary construction material
has been received, according to
a statement from Mrs. Anna V.
Smith, postmaster at College Sta
tion. The new post office boxes
will be installed this week-end and
will probably be ready for use by
the first of the week. Organiza
tion boxes will be continued until
the South Station boxes are install
ed.
All persons who have new boxes
are urged to advise their corre
spondents of their new addresses
in order to insure prompt and
correct delivery. Boxes are still
available and can be obtained at
the regular rate of 75c with two
room-mates allowed to each box.
The locks on the new boxes
are of late design and contain a
safety feature which automatical
ly snaps the combination setting
away from the opening numbers
when the door is opened. This
feature prevents the boxes from
being left unlocked.
As another safety measure in
preventing the loss of money re
ceived through the boxes, Mrs.
Anna V. Smith warns students
that they should not trust every
one with their lock combinations.
The new post office will open at
7:30 a. m. so that students may
obtain packages before class time.
‘Campus’ Theater
Will Be Finished
Middle Next Week
Construction on the “Campus,”
building, College Station’s new
theater, will be finished about the
middle of next week at an approx
imate cost of $30,000, according to
A. P. Boyett, who is in charge of
the construction. After the build
ing is completed, the installation of
seats, air-conditioning equipment,
sound equipment, screen, and light
ing facilities will be started. The
equipment that is to be used is
said to be the finest in this area,
and will be installed at a cost of
around $40,000.
The building is trimmed in the
Aggie colors of maroon and white,
and has smoking rooms and lounges
instead of a balcony. The theater
will have 700 cushioned seats
which will be spaced at intervals
of 32 inches, four inches more
space than is customarily left be
tween seats. On the exterior of
the building is a vertical sign with
the word “CAMPUS” enclosed in
a tower. This sign is to be light
ed with a spot-light at night.
The new theater will offer work
for six Aggies who have been
picked from those who made appli
cations for the jobs.
As yet no opening date has been
set.
Del Courtney
And Orchestra
Play Tonight
Tonight Del Courtney, who last
night played for the Field Artil
lery Ball, will exhibit his Candid
Camera Music to the entire corps
in a frolic in Sbisa Hall lasting
from 9 until 12 o’clock. Scrip will
be $1.
As an encore to last night’s high
ly successful Field Artillery Ball,
Courtney again offers his smart-,
ly-styled, sweetly-subdued rhythm
which has pleased dancing audi
ences from coast to coast and even
in Honolulu where he was booked
for six weeks and held over for
twenty-one.
Del Courtney is Irish, six feet
tall, twenty-seven years old, and
has been a band leader for more
than nine years, beginning with
campus proms at the University
of California, where he graduated
in 1932. He plays the piano and
composed his own theme song,
“After Thoughts.”
Courtney has played at Benny
Rubin’s and Bal Taberin in San
Francisco; Trianon and Club Vic
tor, Seattle; Janssen Beach, Port
land; Lake Tahoe; Winter Garden,
Reno; Saltair, Salt Lake City; and
The Alexander Young Hotel in
Honolulu. His band is a versatile
aggregation, with a Romeo in the
singing guitarist, Jimmy Turner.
Evolutionary Trends, from One-Celled Animals to The
Higher Forms of Life, Subject of Graduate Club Talk
The A. & M. Graduate Club was'fenvironment—that is, the species'
addressed Thursday night by Dr.
J. H. Quisenberry of the Genetics
Department, who discussed repro
duction processes of earlier types
of life, and showed the changes
due to evolution from the one-
celled animal up to the now high
ly developed —* 1 ' ^
Wtih reg
dies out due to natural hardships;
and second, a species becomes ex
tinct if it develops into a higher
form of life through natural
processes of evolution.
In the business part of the meet
ing a new constitution was pre
sented by John Pasco for the club’s
_ d. The club has so far been
mduiu;) £ o i ocate tfjg gjj cons titu-
himself the
form of life, ur. Quisenberry be
lieves that man will probably go
on developing for thousands of
years in the future. Dr. Quisen
berry stated that there are two
ways in which a species of life
can become extinct. First, by be
coming unable to adapt itself to its
_****$& ix one ever existed. Also new
officers were elected for the sec
ond semester. John Green replac
ed Miller Clarkson as president of
the club. And as the new consti
tution called for two vice-presi
dents John Pasco and Arthur Prich
ard were chosen to succeed Lane
Fletcher who was vice-president
-flast semester. Fletcher must have
been a busy man, since two men
are required to take his job.
George Van Etten replaced John
Green as secretary and treasurer,
and Vincent Johnson replaced R.
L. Doss as club reporter.
One of the highlights of the so
cial season will be a dance and so
cial get-together of the Graduate
Club Friday, March 8. All gradu
ate students are urged to come to
the dance as well as the regular
meetings. Dr. Quisenberry’s open
ing remark in his talk was the
comment that the graduates are
fortunate in having a club where
graduate students from the various
specialized fields can get together
and exchange ideas.
Del Courtney’s Band—Plays Here Again Tonight
Above is Del Courtney’s nationally-known orchestra whose “Candid Camera” music was featured
at the Field Artillery Ball last night and which will again entertain the Aggie and their dates at the
big corps dance tonight. Inset are three featured vocalists and instrumentalists with the band: Sherman
Hayes, Dick Dildine, and Joe Martin.
Texas Declaration of Independence Signed
March 2, 1836, Just 104 Years Ago Today
Popular Senior
Contest Deadline
Being Postponed
Few Seniors Turn In
Ballots; Deadline Will
Probably Be Next Week
Because of the fact that by noon
Friday only seventy seniors out
of a class of about 900 had cast
their ballots in the election of
the five most popular seniors of
the class of 1940, the deadline of
the election is being postponed to
a day of next week as yet unde
cided, George Smith, editor of the
Longhorn, announced yesterday.
The election is an annual one for
members of the senior class only.
Those chosen are given a full page
•each in the annual.
The ballot will be printed again,
in the Tuesday issue of The Batta
lion.
Leader in Lutheran
Student Group Speaks
Here Sunday at 7:15
Rev. Frederick A. Schiotz, of
Chicago, will be special speaker
Sunday evening at 7:15 for the
A. & M. Lutheran Student Asso
ciation in the Y.M.C.A. parlors.
Rev. Schiotz is secretary of the
Student Service Department of the
American Lutheran Conference,
this conference consisting of five
Lutheran bodies in America.
Rev. Schiotz is visiting various
campuses in the United States in
the interest of Lutheran Student
organizations.
There are six Lutheran Student
Associations in Texas, which form
the Texas Lutheran Student Asso
ciation or the Gulf Region of the
Lutheran Student Association of
America. The Gulf Region group
will meet at Austin, with the Uni
versity of Texas group as sponsor,
March 9 and 10, at which meeting
Rev. Schiotz will be the principal
speaker.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB TO
PRESENT PROGRAM ON
SOUTH AMERICA SUNDAY
The Cosmopolitan Club will pre
sent a program about South Amer
ica Sunday afternoon in the “Y”
Parlor at 3 p. m. The program
includes short talks about each
country and musical numbers of
each country will be played.
The speakers are as follows: X.
F. Fernandez, Peru; E. J. Pye,
Chile; R. M. Paiva, Brazil; P.
Chacon, Columbia; and someone
from Venezuela.
- Today, March 2nd, marks the'
one-hundred and fourth anniver
sary of the signing of the Texas
Declaration of Independence. The
occasion is to be celebrated at
Old Washington on-the-Brazos
State Park, honoring General
Thomas Jefferson Rusk, sign
er of the Texas Declara
tion of Independence, Sec
retary of War of the Republic,
lawyer, and Chief Justice of the
first State Supreme Court.
The celebration at Old Washing
ton is the central celebration of
the week in honor of the signing
of the Texas Declaration of In
dependence. It was in Old Wash
ington that the Declaration was
signed and it was also the first
capitol.
A. & M. will be represented by
the Aggie Band and Company C
Infantry, winner of the Howell
Trophy last year. C Company will
act as Guard of Honor to Gover
nor W. Lee O’Daniel and his staff.
The Band will give a concert dur
ing the afternoon. Paul J. Lemm,
of Brenham, is captain of C Com
pany.
The program for the day, which
is sponsored by the Brenham Ame
rican Legion Post, starts at 9:45
a. m. The principal speakers of
the day are Governor W. Lee O’
Daniel, Dr. Homer P. Rainey, presi
dent of the University of Texas,
and Associate Justice John H.
Sharp, Supreme Court of Texas.
At noon a barbecue, prepared
served on the grounds in tradi
tional Washington County style,
will be served.
Aggies Engage In
Battle Of Words
With T.S.C.W.-ites
First Time In Many Years
Aggies Have Engaged In
A Battle of the Sexes
A. & M. emerged the winner
after a battle of words with the
feminine debaters from the Texas
State College for Women Friday
night in the Physics lecture room.
The subject of the debate was,
Resolved: That the U.S. should
follow a policy of strict economic
and military isolation toward all
nations outside the western hemi
sphere engaged in armed civil or
international coflict. A. & M. was
for the affirmative and the girls
defended the negative side.
This is the first time in many
years that students from both
schools have engaged in a battle
of the sexes. The Aggie debaters
will invade the T.S.C.W. campus
March 15th for a return engage
ment.
Morgan To Address
Accounting Society
Mr. Lucian Morgan, director of
the A. & M. Placement and Per
sonnel Division of the Association
of Former Students, will be the
guest speaker of the A. & M. Ac
counting Society Monday evening,
7:30 in the chemistry lecture room.
BEHIND ‘STOP-CLOCK’ FACES,
CANDIDATES ARE REALLY HUMAN
By George Fuermann
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
was no Garbo; and the girl doesn’t
live who would use Leap Year as
an excuse to date Mr. Frankenstein.
But who can say that all the his
tory’s uglies didn’t have some re
deeming factors? The Ugly
Duckling turned 5 out to be a hero
. . . The wisest of Greeks, one
Socrates, was said to be the ugliest
man in the nation.
The same is true at Aggieland.
Behind their masks of horror, un
derneath their “scare-baby,” “stop-
clock” faces, the ugly boy candi
dates are really human. You
wouldn’t believe it, though, if
you’ve advertised themselves as
grotesque beings—the kind that
could roam the campus only at
night.
Roy Chappell’s literature claims
that he is the “Frankenstein of Ag
gieland,” “The only hairless baboon
in captivity.” In a recent soap
box address, Eddie Hall claimed
.that, “Ringling Brothers wanted
me, but the Army wouldn’t let me
go.” S. D. “Red” Martin’s back
ers claim that “He is positively the
ugliest man alive.” Jack Fugate’s
nomer is “Gas Mask,” and his sup
porters claim he really deserves
the title.
And also it goes . . . But don’t
be fooled by the political propa
ganda. They’re not half as ugly
as they claim; they’re neither de
formed nor Dracula-like—but they
definitely are candidates in Aggie-
land’s first and unique “Ugly Boy”
contest; a contest, incidentally,
which everyone has entered into
with the right spirit.
Distinguished Speaker At
College Baptist Church
Dr. E. P. Allredge, statistician
for the Sunday School Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention,
will speak at the First Baptist
Church of College Station Sunday
morning.
Returns Show Hall
And Martin Leading
In Primary Voting
Chappell, Fugate,
Hankamer, Others
Are Also In Race
Early reports in the balloting
on Backwash’s current Ugly Boy
contest show Robert C. “Eddie”
Hall, senior agricultural adminis
tration student from Electra, and
S. D. “Red” Martin, mechanical
engineering senior from Christine,
leading in the primaries.
Following the two leaders are
nearly twenty others including
Roy J. Chappell, Band junior from
Kaufman; Jack Fugate, Houston
Field Artillery senior; Phil C.
Hankamer, petroleum engineering
senior from Sour Lake; and others
with less thatn 25 votes each.
The Battalion announces that
more than 700 cadets voted the
first day of the contest. It is es
timated that the total vote will be
over 2,500 before the primary
closes Sunday night at mid-night.
The first time such a unique
contest has ever been sponsored at
A. & M., it has enlivened the cam
pus and aroused excitement and
enthusiasm in the corps almost
without precedent. Prominently
displayed political banners and
placards, hillbilly bands, campaign
speeches, flashing photographers’
bulbs, rallies, and other highlights
have featured the contest. Yes
terday noon over a thousand cadets
gathered in front of Duncan Hall
as candidates addressed their sup
porters.
Students may vote twice as an
other ballot appears in today’s
Battalion. The five high candi
dates in the first primary will be
in the runoff to be held next Fri
day, Saturday, and Sunday unless
one of the candidates receives a
clear majority in the first primary.
At a future date a special yell
practice will be called and the win
ner will be crowned “King of the
Uglies” with fitting ceremonies.
He will also be presented with the
honorary degree of “B. U.” (Bach
elor of Uglies) and his picture will
appear in The Battalion and pos
sibly in the T. S. C. W. Lass-O.
To facilitate the running of the
contest and to insure fairness
throughout, Battalion editor Bill
Murry and Fuermann appointed a
committee of forty-one members
who have functioned excellently.
Don Peterson, Engineer senior
from Fort Worth, is general chair
man of the committee. Assisting
Peterson are Bodie Pierce, Jack
Bibbs, Dick Pitts, Gat Garrison, A.
D. Toland, Morris Pettit, Leonard
Glaser, Jimmy Radford, George
Mueller, Graham Purcell, Joe Snow,
and Max Melcher.
Ballots which appear in another
part of today’s Battalion, should
be turned in to the various dormi
tory representatives. These men,
and their room numbers, are as
follows: dormitory one, Mac Dun
can, room 201; two, Harold Haus-
man, 320; three, Ed Robnet, 324;
four, Mac Oliver, 228; five, Alden
Cathey, 108; six, Tom Richards,
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Freshman Engineers
Get Special Classes
Freshman engineering students
who were deficient in their studies
the first semester are being offered
special class work on the subjects
of “How to Study,” “How to Bud
get One’s Time,” and “The Method
of Taking an Exam,” according to
W. S. McCulley, instructor in the
Mathematics Department, who has
made an extensive study of these
topics. Mr. McCulley is conducting
the classes.
Special notices were sent fresh
men able to attend these lectures.
Two of the sessions have been
scheduled, one yesterday afternoon
from 4 p. m. to 5 p. m., and an
other next Friday at the same time.
Lectures are being held in room
120 Academic building.
Mr. McCulley is making these
subjects as interesting as possible
for the freshmen and believes they
will be of benefit to those students
attending. He asks that the fresh
men bring their personal problems
to the sessions.