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FT * k ! c i. -y % # TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1940.. At Last—As Answer to a Burning Question: Collegians Vote Lucky Strike Most Popular Cigarette, in Poll Student Opinion Surveys of America As a group, college students are giving tobacco growers their busi ness for over half of them report that they are smokers. Less than a third, however, smoke habitual ly, and half of the women who at tend the nation’s colleges and uni versities say they never indulge in cigarettes. Sending out its scores of inter viewers to talk to students of all types, the Student Opinion Sur veys of America has compiled sta tistics that show the tobacco habits of collegians. “What is your favorite brand of cigarette?” a scientific cross- section of the collegians were asked. And this is what they ans wered : Lucky Strike 12.1% Camel 10.5% Phillip Morris 8.0% Chesterfield 6.9% Old Gold 2.9% Pall Mall 2.3% All others 2.9% No particular choice 9.8% Smoke pipe, cigars only 3.4% Don’t smoke 41.3% Both men and women in greater percentages prefer Luckies over any other brand (14.1 men, 8.8 women). But the girls placed Phil- AGGIES! Let Us Clean and Block your Hat during the Holidays • We block them to your individual measurement. STANDARD HAT WORKS North Gate ■flip Morris second with 7.6 per cent, 7.1 percent selecting Camels. The preferences of men run in ex actly the same order as those for all students above. Any caricature of the typical college woman as a habitual smok er appears to be erroneous, for only 21.6 percent declare that they smoke regularly. Men use cigar ettes, pipes, and cigars out of habit to quite a larger extent than the coeds. The complete tabulations follow, statistically representing the entire U. S. college and univer sity enrollment: Smoke regularly: men, 34.3%; women, 21.6%; both, 29.5%. Smoke sometimes: men, 30.0%; women, 29.0%; both, 29.2%. Never smoke: men, 35.7%; wo men, 50.4%; both, 41.3%. Interesting differences in cigar ette preferences were noticed in looking over the U. S. map—per haps due to the influence of ad vertising in different sections. More students in the West-Central, Southern, and Far Western states say Luckies are their choice. But as one goes North and East one finds Camels forging ahead as the favorite of the largest number in these sections. Phillip Morris, third nationally, showed its greatest strength in the West. Although there is the possibility that a few students may have wished to with hold the correct answer to the question, “Do you smoke regularly, sometimes, or never?” no inter viewer detected any apparent de sire to conceal information about smoking. The first book purchased by the University of Texas library was a concordance of the Bible. Women’s College of University of North Carolina annually spon sors a summer art colony in an Atlantic seacoast town. Drake University has a new course in “The Administration of Community Organization for Leis ure.” Michael Supa, a blind Colgate University student, has been elect ed to Phi Beta Kappa. FOR SALE ’29 MODEL “A” FORD CHEAP See L. B. Thompson at Bryan P.O. THE SUIT Of Perfect Color Harmony FOR EASTER “Swing Duet” Tailored Rhythm A Sensational New Idea in College Clothes $18.50 Extra Slacks $4.00 BULLOCK & AKIN Bryan This Might Happen To You-Subscribe! A man who was too stingy to subscribe for his home town paper sent his little boy to borrow the cony taken by a neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a $4 stand of bees and in ten minutes look ed like a warty summer squash. His father ran to his as sistance and, failing to notice the barbed wire fence, ran into that, ruining a $5 pair of trousers. The old cow took advant age of the gap in, the fence, got into the corn field and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket his wife ran out, upset a four-gallon churn of cream into a basket of little chickens, drowning the entire batch. In her haste she dropped a $35 set of false teeth. The baby having been left alone, crawled through the cream into the parlor, ruining a brand new $25 carpet. During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man, the dog broke up 11 setting hens and the calves got out and chew ed the tails off four fine shirts on the clothes line. Moral: Don’t borrow your neighbor’s paper. It’s too risky. Former Aggie From India Is U. T. Teacher From a story recently printed in The Daily Texan is gleaned the fol lowing information about a former student of A. & M.: No turban is worn by Matiram Rijhumal Thadani, holder of two A. & M. master of science degrees and now an instructor at the Uni versity of Texas, although he does come from India and also holds two degrees from Indian universi ties. Thadani is thoroughly American ized, and has even said that he would like to see Vivien Leigh nominated as the actress of the year. Well-dressed and lively, Mr. Thadani calls Hirabad, India, his home, but he came to the Western Hemisphere to take advanced work in economics and agriculture, lead ing to a doctorate in agricultural economics. Mr. Thadani’s work at A. & M. was in the line of advanced agri cultural economics, and the Regis trar’s Office has his enviable rec ord in this field. He took 66 hours of work while here and made ten A’s and five B’s. The degree of master of science in economics was conferred on him in February. Last June he received his other degree from A. & M., the master of science in agricultural econom ics. His two Indian degrees are from the Universities of Bombay and Agra. Thadani points out that the main difference between Indian and American Universities is a difference in scope. The Indian universities do not offer as great an opportunity to specialize in subjects as is offered here. Al though students in India may train for law or medicine, the general tendency is to emphasize the class ical courses. The grading system in India is based on sixty as being perfect and thirty-nine as neces sary to pass. Further contrasting Indian and American Universities, Mr. Thadani said that basketball there is played only by women. A great difference in the athletic schedule results from the differences in the organizations of the universities. An Indian college is merely a col legiate board of control which di rects the activities of several branch colleges. Where we play inter-conference and inter-section al games, Indian teams play inter college and international games. The inter-college games could be compared to a game between the School of Engineering and the School of Agriculture here at A. & M. Radios are not the form of en tertainment in India that they are in America. Thadani says the All- India Radio, Ltd., has only nine government - controlled stations. These have no call letters, no net work, and broadcast no dance mu sic or friendly skits that are so common here. Announcements are rather stereotyped and lack the pleasantness of our programs. Thadani says that “After cen turies, India is gradually chang ing over from East to West, from Classic outlook to Industrial out look.” THE BATTALION Soil Conservation Chief To Lecture Here on The Effect of Soil Erosion The School of Agriculture, through Dean E. J. Kyle, announc ed today that it is bringing to Col lege Station one of the world’s foremost authorities on man’s age- old struggle with soil erosion to present an illustrated discussion of “Soil Erosion and Civilization.” The speaker is Dr. W. C. Lowder- milk, Washington, D. C., assistant chief of the Soil Conservation Ser vice. The address, open to the public, will be held at 7:30 p. m. March 29, in Guion Hall. “We are very fortunate to ob tain Dr. Lowdermilk for an ad dress here,” said Dean Kyle. “He has just completed a-15 months’ survey in the Old World for the United States Department of Agri culture. His discussion and the 100 colored slides he will present are based on his findings in this survey, which dealt with the use of the land as it relates to soil erosion, soil and water conserva tion,, and torrential flood control. What Dr. Lowdermilk has found in the older countries will be of great help in solving our own soil and land use problems.” Dr. Lowdermilk’s survey took him to England, Scotland, Holland, France, Italy, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia, Trans-Jordan, Pal estine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. He previously bad made five agri cultural explorations into North west China, and his education and long experience had further pre pared him for this survey. A native of North Carolina, Dr. Lowdermilk studied at Park Col lege, Missouri, the University of Arkansas, at Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar, and at the University of California, where he received the Ph. D. de gree. He has served as a forest ran ger, district research officer, and research project leader for the United States Forest Service and as a research professor in the University of Nanking, China. In 1933, Dr. Lowdermilk was named vice-director of the Soil Erosion Service of the United States De partment of the Interior, and when that organization was renamed the Soil Conservation Service and be came a part of the United States Department of Agriculture, in 1935, he remained as associate chief, lat er to be appointed head of the re search division. A man highly trained in his profession, Dr. Lowdermilk writes often and proficiently on soil ero sion subjects. His special inter est has been to determine scientifi cally the effects of human occupa tion upon erosional processes as they affect the sustained use of land. PAGE 3 Walton To Address Cotton Association Convention Soon L. T. Murray, Secretary and General Manager of the Texas Cotton Association, announced re cently that Dr. T. O. Walton would deliver an address before the an nual convention of the Associa tion in Galveston on March 29-30. Murray said that Dr. Walton, with Dr. Henry F. Grady of Wash ington, D. C., Assistant Secretary of State, would deliver the two principal addresses at the conven tion. The annual address of the president, R. O. Beach of Hous ton, will also be a feature of the meeting. Burris C. Jackson of Hillsboro, immediate past presi dent of the association, will report on the broad program of new uses, staple qualty, and better ginning. “Dr. Walton has a vast knowl edge of Texas agriculture,” Mur ray said, “and the Galveston con vention promises to be one of the most constructive in the history of the Association, which is one of the oldest cotton organizations in the United States.” Leaders from all over Texas and the South will be in attendance at the convention, including growers, ginners, warehousemen, crushers, JACK BIBBS IS WINNER OF AIEE THEME CONTEST Jack C. Bibbs, senior Electrical Engineering student, recently won the first prize of $15 offered by the Houston section of the AIEE in the competition for the A. & M. and Rice Institute Branches. His paper was on “Diesel Buses and Electric Drive.” Arthur, Wimer, also a senior in Electrical Engi neering, won the $5 third prize with a paper on “Problems in the Operation of High Power A. C. Power Amplifiers.” Second prize was won by Pullen of Rice. shippers, educational instructors, chambers of commerce, and both state and federal agencies. C. M. WRIGHT Underwood Elliott-Fisher Co. Agent TYPEWRITERS ADDING MACHINES SUPPLIES Sales — Service 209 E. 33rd St. — Phone B-7 Bryan, Texas NOTICE R. V.’s For Quick, Dependable SERVICE Let Us Clean Your Uniforms During Your Holidays. MODEL CLEANERS BRYAN $75050 IN CASH PRIZES for "Confucius” sayings! ►For complete details, ask this news paper for the Contest Pamphlet, or write to Prof. Charles E. Bellatty, Head of the Department of Advertis ing, Boston University, 685 Common wealth Avenue, Boston, Mass Your entry may win the $100 first prize, and there are 166 other cash prizes. I WAS A PRISONER ON A SUBMARINE. Lights winked out of the blackness. Someone said, "Submarine!” And within minutes, eight dumb founded passengers were hustled off their America-bound liner and into the sub. The writer tells what he saw, and what happened during his ten days as an underwater war prisoner. Read the strange document in this week’s Post, by HUGO BLEIBERG. FOOL FOR A WIFE. She was too pretty for a farm wife, they said. And too silly. Photographing flowers, while the dinner burned. Strolling in the woods, while her husband plowed ... Then something happened to make neighbors wonder who the real fool was. A short story, Perley Thinks I’m Silly, by DAVID LAMSON. “WE’LL BEAT THE YANKS!” "Last season we batted .291 to the Yanks’ .288, beat them 11 games to 8. Break up the Yanks? I say build up the Yanks! We want to win the pennant by a knockout, not a foul!” The Red Sox Manager this week tells you the fine points of his team, his recruits and his "farm” prospects. Told, with George Kirksey, by JOE CRONIN. FRESH-WATER MERMAID. When a man makes a fool of himself over a woman, everybody knows it—except the man himself. Lydia, with her wide blue eyes and her taking ways, had Des hooked plenty and was reeling him in. His fishing partner just had to invent some way to shake loose that hook! A new big game fishing story by PHILIP WYLIE. He “IF I SQUEAL I END UP IN A BARREL OF CEMENT.” ... No two-bit Michigan sheriff was tough enough to make a canary out of Joe. Let them guess who burned his truck and slugged him ... Here’s the story of a young hoodlum in the apple country who was softened up with the one treatment a make-believe bad man can’t stand... Apple Knocker, by HAROLD TITUS.