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DIAL 4-5444 r B T f ^ fj ^ J--L ^ 1 B ^ ^ LISTEN IN . . . STUDENT TRI WEEKLY ON FRIDAY’S “AGGIE NEWSPAPER OF B MB BS ! B m Mb B B Mm B B m b M B CLAMBAKE”, BATTALION TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE JL JL Is Jl J Ms Ms \jL Ms M M M/ NEWSCAST, 4:30-5:30 VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14,1940 NO. 63 Hal Moseley To Design Cotton Ball Cotton Ball Queen And Court To Be Selected Saturday Hal Moseley was awarded the $15 prize for the best-designed background and setting for this year’s Cotton Pageant, Style Show, and Ball. He is one of the 13 men of the fifth-year class in Architecture who recently made the trip to Houston to witness a sample style show put on by the ladies’ store in charge of the Style Show, The Fashion. Moseley, a Dallas boy, was awarded the prize as his sketch seemed to come closer to representing the patriotic theme that the Agronomy Society has decided to use. According to Mr. Mogford, general chairman and faculty advisor, any of the drawings submitted could have been used and all were good. Members of the committee that selected the design included Mrs. L. L. Fouraker, director of the Cot ton Pageant; J. S. Mogford of the Agronomy Department; Edward J. Perrault, representative from The Fashion; and Byron Bing, student business manager of the Cotton Ball. Now that the design for the setting has been selected, plans are being made for actual construction which will begin soon. Another important part of the plans for the Cotton Ball is the selection of the queen, which ac tion will be taken this weekend when 10 members of the Cotton Ball staff will journey to Denton to make the selection from a group of handpicked “beauties”. Each class at T.S.C.W. has se lected the two most beautiful girls from among their number, and the committee will make their selec tion from that group. The eight girls selected will pass before the judges sometime after noon Satur day. One of that number will be named queen, and the other seven will attend as queen’s maids. Members of the committee select ed by the Agronomy Society Tues day night that will make the trip include the following: Byron Bing, Wesley Seay, Percy Bennett, W. M. Kimbrough, Bob Stone, Johnny Rice, E. W. McElwrath, R. C. Stevenson, and Harry Forbes. Bob Nisbet will attend as Battalion re presentative. James Cashen Mentioned By Life Magazine Agfgie in Houston Hospital Sees Sivils’ Drive-in Stand (In the following letter to the editors of “Life” Magazine, Fran cis “Nig” Miller, photographer for the Houston Press, reveals an in teresting incident in which James Cashen, a student of A. & M., re cently took part.) Sirs: After seeing your layout (of my pictures) and reading the story concerning Sivils’ beautiful car hops (LIFE, Feb. 26), two Hous-' ton men who were patients in Houston’s Memorial Hospital couldn’t wait until they got well to see the girls; they called am bulances, had themselves hauled to the drive-in stand and investi gated the story in person. James Cashen, a student of A. & M. College, who got a serious back injury in an automobile ac cident recently, and W. C. Robin son, likewise a patient for 18 months at the hospital as a result of a car wreck, occupy rooms side by side at the hospital. Saturday they saw a copy of LIFE, read (Continued on page 6) Engineers Take Over Campus For Regimental Ball and Social Weekend Features r Music Box Revue” George Hamilton and his orchestra featuring “Music Box Music” will entertain members of the Engineer Regiment Friday night at their annual organization prom. The orchestra, which has just come from an engagement at the Beverly Wilshire in Hollywood, California, will also play for the corps dance Saturday night. Gilchrist Td Discuss Aggie Graduates at A.A. U.P. Meet Dean Gibb Gilchrist will address the A. & M. College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors at their March meeting being held tonight at 7:30 in the reception room at Sbisa Hall. He will discuss in an informal way some of his experiences as an em ployer of A. & M. graduates. As chief Highway Engineer for the State of Texas in 1924 and resigned in 1937 to become Dean of the School of Engineering at A. & M. Dean Gilchrist was in posi tion to employ large numbers of A. & M. graduates and did employ many. From 1925 to 1927 he was an independent consulting engineer in Dallas. This gave him the opportunity or seeing A. & M. College graduates in action along with graduates of other engineer ing schools and a chance to watch many of them become prominent engineers and highly influential citizens. In some instances, men under his supervision failed utter ly, while in other instances they proved themselves highly capable not only in their own special fields but also in others for which they had little special training. These experiences as a large scale employer of both college graduates and other types of workers, together with his more recent duties as Dean of the sec ond largest School of Engineering in the United States made Dean Gilchrist peculiarly capable of dis cussing with the staff of A. & M. College the broad type of training we should offer our students in order for them to become both serviceable and successful in their chosen fields of work. His obser vations and comments should be of value to all schools in the col lege. Few men in Texas have had Easter Holidays, R. V.’s, Spring Recess—All The Same And One Spring recess, as listed in the college catalogue, will include Fri day, Saturday, Sunday, and Mon day, March 22-25, E. J. Howell, Registrar and secretary of the fa culty, stated yesterday when queri ed whether or not the faculty had changed any of the dates set for “R. V.” or spring holidays. These are the last and only holidays scheduled for students for the remainder of the term, Mr. Howell said. The only changes which the faculty has made this year are the following: Baccalau reate ceremonies will be held the morning of Friday, May 31, and Commencement ceremonies will be held at twilight that evening. Fol lowing the Commencement cere monies the Final Ball will be stag ed. The Final Review and presen tation of commissions as Re serve Officers will be held the fol lowing morning, Saturday, June 1. These exercises were previously scheduled for June 7-8. As previ ously announced, no examinations for underclassmen will be held June 1. George Hamilton To Furnish Music For Annual Prom Decorations To Carry Out Military Theme In Red And Blue Colors Aggieland’s Engineer Corps will dance to the famed music of George Hamilton, the “Music Box Musi cian” at the Annual Engineers’ Ball, Friday night, which promises to be one of the highlights of the current social season at Ag- gieland. The dance begins at nine and lasts until one o’clock as the sliderule-wielders and their dates swing out to their favorite tunes. George Hamilton and his orchestra will also play for a corps dance Saturday night. The decorations for the ball will be carried out in blue. The back stand consists of a large blue back ground and is made of several sec tions with the center projecting before the others. The Engineers’ insignia will be painted in red metallic frosting on the five-foot circular background which will project outward from the blue center section of the stand and will be surrounded with a circle of light. Carrying out the blue scheme all the lights will be blue. Above the center section of the stand will appear the United States flag while on the sides of the band stand the guidons of the Engineer companies will be placed. Walton Hall will be vacated from D to I ramps by one o’clock Fri day for the accommodation of guests, who may obtain entrance to the dormitory at three o’clock. Reservations may be obtained at the Commandant’s Office. Two types of favors for the dance will be used. The first con sists of white mother of pearl lockets shaped in a heart with the Engineers castle in the center. The other type is a gold pin with a small castle at one end of a chain and an A. M. C. at the other. In charge of the dance is Albert E. Anderson. The decoration com mittee, favors committee, and in vitation committee consists of Phil Lovelady, Gene Noblitt, Pete Frost, Bob Morris and Don Early. Helping with arrangements is Math Wilson, Bob Skaggs and Adrian Evans. Treasurer for the dance is Tom Ford. Garden Club Beautifies Highway By Planting Trees Group leaders of the Garden Club, assisted by president Mrs. C. B. Campbell, the highway de partment, and F. W. Hensel, head of the A. & M. Landscape Art De partment, have planted 117 retama, huisache, and youpon trees - on highway 6 between College Station and Bryan. The group leaders were Mrs. Albert Stevens, Mrs. J. S. Doane, Mrs. Calvin Moore, and Mrs. S. H. Yarnell. Stops Here on Southern Trip Postmaster-General James A. Farley will pay an unofficial visit to the nation’s number one Land Grant College April 4. General Farley will be entertained at A. & M. by President T. O. Walton, Governor W. Lee O’Daniel, F. M. Law, president of the A. & M. Board of Directors, and the students and staff of Texas A. & M. Hitch-Hiking and Ethics An Editorial Expression • In the life of a Texas Aggie, bitch-hiking always plays an important part, but the situation is even more accented with the event of the coming spring holidays. Hitch-hiking at A. & M. is no unorganized affair—it’s as traditional as the college’s famed mascot, “Reveille,” and is bound by rules set up by the Aggies themselves. Hitch-hiking at A. & M., in its present well-ordered form, didn’t begin last week, last month, or even last year. It was more than twenty-five years ago that the system was born. The numerous advantages of hitch-hiking to Aggies and other college students are obvious. Most Aggies find it nip-and-tuck “making ends meet,” and hitch-hiking, therefore, becomes their only means of transportation to and from college. But there’s the other side of the case too. Motorists, in their own turn, can profit by picking up Aggies. In the first place, most people today derive a great deal of personal satis faction from the thought that they have helped someone to ac complish a worthy end—and that is exactly what a motorist does when he “gives a lift” to an Aggie. The main objection which most motorists offer when the subject of hitch-hiking is brought up is that students are too often careless about their language and personal conduct in an automobile driven by someone thoughtful and courteous enough to offer them a ride. Unfortunately, this is sometimes true, because in any group as large as the American collegiate world there are certainly going to be some “lemons.” But there are ethics to hitch-hiking, and most Aggies know them and abide by them. Most Aggies are courteous; most Ag gies will ask the driver’s permission before smoking a cigaret in his car; most Aggies will refrain from any sort of abusive language, regardless of what the circumstance, when riding with a benefactor; most Aggies are eager to do their part in helping a benefactor whenever any trouble occurs with his automobile such as a flat tire; most Aggies, in other words, are anxious to do their part in cooperating with the driver and to show the driver how much they appreciate his thoughtfulness and assistance in giving them a ride. One point about Aggie hitch-hiking that sometimes causes a motorist to pass by when he would otherwise stop is the fact that there may be a great many students waiting on one corner. Aggies should do their part in informing motorists that a large group of cadets does not mean that the driver’s car will be “swamped,” but rather that the cadets “number off” and only as many students come forward as the driver indicates he has room for. What the Texas Aggies try to do is to make motorists conscious of their aims, and thus make the Texas public anxious and willing to help “a hitch-hiking Aggie.” such wide experience with engi neering graduates of Texas insti tutions and few, therefore, could be in better position to offer construc tive criticism of the training being given by Texas schools of engineer ing. The meeting is open. All mem bers of the college staff and oth ers interested are cordially invited to attend. J. C. Hyland, retired master sergeant in the U. S. Army who was on duty at A. & M. for about 18 years, leaving here in 1932, died recently at his home in San Antonio. He was remembered by many of the present staff. Debate Team To Compete With Baylor, T.S.C.W. The A. & M. Debate team left Thursday for Waco and Denton to meet competing teams from Baylor and T. S. C. W. Mayo Thompson and Don Gabriel, debaters, com pose the team making the trip which is sponsored by the English Department. Thursday night Thompson and Gabriel will meet the Baylor team at Waco in debating the question: Resolved that the United States should follow a policy of strict military and economic isolation to ward all nations outside the West ern hemisphere engaged in armed civil or international conflict. Fri day they will continue to Denton. New Antenna, Equipment, lore Time And Power Are Planned For WTAW By Thomas Gillis WTAW, college radio station, is now making plans to adopt it self to the addition of a new anten(na and other new equip ment. An order for the expendi ture of $6,000 has already been ap proved by the college Board of Directors for the erection of one vertical, self-supporting radiator not less than 220 feet in height "and for the construction of a new transmitter housing. John Rosser, manager of WTAW, said the vertical radiator is to cost $3,030, and the plans for it are to be drawn in the Architec tural Department of the college. The permit for the tower says the construction must begin before April 10 and be completed before October 10, but of course comple tion will be as rapid as possible. ♦■In addition to the new radiator, an expenditure of $2,958 has been authorized for the purchase and construction of other associated equipment necessary for the com pletion and operation of the tower, j This money will be used for moving and remodeling the transmitter structure to a new location on the northeast comer of the college property and in making the neces- (Continued on page 6) A. & M. WOI Stage Review And Banquet Many of State’s Leaders Invited To Attend Affair Every) facility at hand with which to welcome a distinguished visitor will be brought into play at Texas A. & M. April 4, when Postmaster-General James A. Far ley pays a five-hour visit to the nation’s number one Land-Grant College for men. Military honors befitting a mem ber of the President’s Cabinet will be accorded, and hundreds of the leading citizens of the Lone Star State will be on hand to greet General Farley. Upon arrival at the main en trance to the 4,500-acre campus, the Farley caravan will be met by a Cavalry escort. A nineteen-gun salute will signalize the Postmas ter-General’s arrival, and he will be escorted immediately to the drill field where a formal review of the entire cadet corps of 5,500 will be staged in his honor. At the reviewing stand General Farley will be greeted by Presi dent T. O. Walton, Governor W. Lee O’Daniel and F. M. Law, pres ident of the A. & M. Board of Di rectors. Col. George F. Moore, Command ant, and General Farley then will take their places in front of the reviewing stand, and the cadet corps with mounted units will pass in review. After passing in re view the corps and regimental staffs will report to the reviewing stand in order to give General Far ley an opportunity to meet some of the students. Following the review, scheduled for 5 p. m.. General Farley will retire to the parlors of the A. & M. Board of Directors for a rest until 7 p. m. when he will be honored at a banquet. The party will leave at 9 p. m. for Tyler, at the conclusion of the banquet. Burris C. Jackson of Hillsboro, a self-described “close friend” of Farley, and chairman of the con vention committee of the Texas Postmasters’ Association, was in strumental in getting General Far ley to visit A. & M. Invitations were being mailed today to several hundred leaders in the business, professional and po litical life of Texas, to attend the (Continued on page 6) E. C. Oates A nnounces For College Mayor In an announcement made to The Battalion yesterday, Eugene C. Oates, 25, stated that he had filed his candidacy with the city secretary for the position of Mayor of the City of College Station. In announcing for the office, Oates, who has been connected with athletics at A. & M. College for several years, stated that he believed he was fully qualified to serve in the capacity of Mayor. He has made a study of city govern ment during the several years that he has been a resident of College Station, and has seen the function ing of city governments all over the United States. Oates believes in the continued development of the city, yet in keeping the cost of the improve ments within the financial means. He is a staunch advocate of a sound economic policy. THE A. & M. MEATS JUDG- ing Team placed second at the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show, according to a telegram received from the team. The Texas A. & M. team was defeated by two points by a team from Oklahoma A. & M.