THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1940 THE BATTALION PAGE 3
Banquet Honoring Farley April 4 To Be Largest In College History
Fish and Game Department To Hold Its
First Annual Short Course April 12-13
Signalizing its first graduating
class of students in the Depart
ment of Fish and Game, A. & M.
will sponsor its first annual wild
life short course here on April 12
and 13 in cooperation with the
Texas Wildlife Federation, the
Texas Nature Federation, Texas
Game Fish and Oyster Commis
sion.
A handful of students will be
graduated in June from the A. &
M. Department of Fish and Game
after four years of intensive study.
One transfer student received his
degree last summer and is now
employed by the state; but the
June graduates will be the first
who have taken the full four-year
course at A. & M.
The program for the wildlife
short course will be as practical as
is possible to make it, with repre
sentatives of all the cooperating
agencies contributing their part.
A feature of the short course
will be a series of conferences help
ful to county agents, game war
dens, teachers of vocational agri
culture, ranchmen, farmers and
sportsmen, in dealing with the
problems of wildlife conservation.
Special Features
Special features in connection
with the program will be exhibits
of wildlife photographs, displays
of game foods and exhibits of the
bird, animal and fish life of Texas.
The most important foods of the
bobwhite quail which will, be grow
ing luxuriantly at the time of the
short course, will be on display.
There will be a banquet Friday
night, April 12, at Sbisa Hall with
Col. Ike Ashburn, executive assist
ant to President T. O. Walton of
A. & M., as toastmaster, Principal
speaker will be William J. Tucker,
executive secretary of the Texas
Game, Fish and Oyster Commis
sion. Mr. Tucker will exhibit mo
tion picture films taken by the
game commission. A special ex
hibit of wildlife photographs will
be prepared and placed on dis
play by Ray Osborne, director of
education of the Texas Game, Fish
and Oyster Commission.
Are On Program
Among those on the college
staff taking part in the program
are President Walton, Dean E. J.
Kyle of the School of Agriculture,
Director A. B. Connor of the Tex
as Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Director H. H. Williamson of
the Texas Extension Service, and
Director E. 0. Siecke of the Texas
Forest Service.
Preparations for the short course
are in charge of a committee in
cluding R. E. Callender, game
management specialist of the Ex
tension Service; Dr. Luther G.
Jones of the Department of Ag
ronomy; and Dr. Walter P. Taylor,
head of the Department of Fish
and Game, chairman.
Short conferences are being plan
ned on practical problems of wild
life restoration and increase, in
cluding bobwhite quail, deer and
wild turkey, game management,
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wildlife diseases, farmer-sports
men cooperation, wildlife and the
agricultural adjustment adminis
tration, the Soil Conservation and
wildlife, Extension work in wild
life conservation, the place of wild
life in vocational agriculture, wild
life and scouting conservation in
the 4-H Club program, pond and
stream improvement, and wildlife
conservation in the public schools.
Registration will start at 8:00
a. m., Friday morning, April 12,
in the lobby of the Animal Indus
tries Building.
Dr. Trotter Named
Consulting Editor
Of Agronomy Paper
An honor was recently accorded
the Department of Agronomy here
by appointment of its head, Dr.
Ide P. Trotter, as one of the Con
sulting Editors of the Journal of
the American Society of Agron
omy.
The large increase in member
ship in the society and the volume
of material submitted for its pub
lication necessitated a reorganiza
tion of the editorial board follow
ing the annual meeting recently
in New Orleans.
Each consulting editor repre
sents a special field of agronomic
work and a special agricultural
region in the United States. Ma
terial submitted to the Journal fall
ing within that field or applicable
to that region must be submitted
to the area consulting editor and
he has it revised and approved by
a competent agronomist within the
area to determine its value for
publication and its usefulness to
workers in that field.
The A. S. A. membership has
a membership of 2130, scattered
not only over the United States,
but in practically all civilized coun
tries of the world. In membership
Texas is second only to the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Law, Morris ‘Fish’,
Sophomore English
Contests Posted
Dr. George Summey, Jr., head
of the English Department, has
announced that plans are now be
ing made for conducting the 1940
English contests for freshman and
sophomore students. In the past
years interest in the contests has
shown that the purpose of encour
aging superior English work has
been effectively carried out. The
prizes in each contest are being
offered by friends of the college
who appreciate the value of good
English in life.
Dr. F. M. Law, President of the
Board of Directors of the college,
has offered two cash prizes of
$20 and $5 to the winners of the
freshman contest. The prizes are
to be awarded on the basis of a
competitive examination which will
be held late in April or early in
May. To be eligible to enter the
contest, the students must have:
grade A in English 103 and Dis
tinguished Student rating for first
semester; grade A or B in English
104 to April 1, and satisfactory
oral work in the same course to
April 15.
To encourage superior work in
sophomore English courses, Will
iam Morriss of Dallas is offering
similar prizes to the sophomore
student who is declared winner
of a similar competitive examina
tion. The conditions for eligibility
in this contest are: a grade of A
in English 203 or 231 and Distin
guished Student rating for the first
semester; a grade of A or B in
English 207, 210, or 232 to April
1 of the current semester, and
grade A on any course paper or
book review that may be required
in the sophomore course the stu
dent concerned is now taking. If
a student is otherwise eligible but
did not take an English course
the first semester of this year, the
grade of the last previous col
lege English course will be count
ed. Students who were allowed to
substitute English 328 or other
courses for the usual sophomore
courses may count the elective
course as an equivalent so far as
the English contest is concerned.
English students who are so far
eligible to participate in either con
test are asked to give their names
promptly to their instructors in
order that projects for required
papers may be approved.
Lee O’Daniel,
Other Notables
To Be Present
Seniors in Full Dress
Are To Be Admitted Free
Plans for probably the big
gest banquet in the history of
A. & M. College are being com
pleted this week for the en
tertainment of United States
Postmaster-General James A.
Farley on Thursday, April 4.
The banquet, which will be
attended by Governor W. Lee
O’Daniel and numerous other
industrial and political lead
ers of the state, will break all
former banquet precedence
by being held in the entire
main room of Sbisa Hall.
In addition to many state
wide men of note, numerous
Bryan and College Station no
tables and a large number of
A. & M. seniors will be on
hand to pay tribute to an out
standing member of the Pres
ident’s Cabinet.
As has been previously announc
ed, seniors will be admitted free
to the banquet provided they wear
number one uniform. All seniors
desiring to go should turn their
names into their company com-
canders so that an accurate count
can be secured of the number ex
pected at the banquet. All com
pany commanders will turn in the
number of seniors planning to at
tend the banquet to the Command
ant’s office so that the chceck can
be made.
The banquet is open to the pub
lic. Tickets are $1.00 per person
and tickets and reservations may
be secured at the office of Colonel
Ike Ashburn, general chairman of
the banquet. All dinner reserva
tions must be made before March
30, the closing day of ticket sale.
Tickets for the banquet may also
be secured at the Aggieland Phar
macy and Lipscomb Pharmacy.
Although General Farley will
spend only five hours here, the
visitors from all over this section
of the state will find a complete
program awaiting them from noon
until evening. The Texas Aggie
baseball team will play a South
west Conference game with Texas
Christian University starting at
2 p. m. Burris Jackson of Hills
boro will bring the Farley party
to the campus at 4:30 and the mil
itary review will begin at 5 p. m.
The dinner honoring the Post
master-General will begin at 7
p. m. and the party will leave at
9 p. m. for Tyler.
Plans have been made to ac
commodate upwards of 1000 per
sons at the banquet with Pres
ident Walton presiding.
Telephone Rate
Increase Vetoed
A raise in the telephone rates
in Bryan and College Station has
been refused the Southwest Tele
phone Company by the Bryan City
Commission for the present.
A report from the special com
mittee appointed to investigate the
company’s request for a raise has
reported to the effect that no
basis was found for granting the
telephone company any adjustment.
On the committee to investigate
the matter were Bryan city man
ager W. W. Scott, county attor
ney F. L. Henderson, and city
commissioner Mills P. Walker. The
matter will be considered further
later when officials of the com
pany are in Bryan.
The Grouch Club names Secre
tary Ickes as “Grouch of the Year
1939.” So that title was all he was
after, huh?
Poise is an attitude which is ac
quired by feeling that you’re a su
perior person and not giving a
darn how many persons fail to
agree with you.
If your wife laughs at your
jokes, you may be sure you have
some good ones—or else you have
a mighty good wife.
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A. & M. Freshman
Will Attend 4-H
Club Encampment
Texas’ 68,685 4-H Club mem
bers will be represented at the
National 4-H Club Encampment
at Washington, D. C., by Ouida
Johnston, Eskota, Fisher County;
Lezette Lewis, Midlothian, Ellis
County; Kenneth Garvin, a Texas
Aggie, also of Midlothian; and
Donald Olsen, Amarillo, who lives
in Randall County.
The encampment will be held
June 12 to 19th. As usual, the
tents will be pitched along the
Tidal Basin near the foot of the
Washington Monument.
Each state and territory will
send four delegates—two boys and
two girls.
The awards, announced by Onah
Jacks and L. L. Johnson, state
club agents of the Texas A. and
Students Opposed
To N.Y.A. Slash
Although other polls of the Stu
dent Opinion Surveys of America
have shown that collegians favor
cuts in governmental expenditures,
in the latest an overwhelming ma
jority is opposed to the recom
mended 32 per cent reduction of
N.Y.A. positions for college stu
dents.
What is even more significant
is that at least 12 per cent—ap
proximately one-eighth—of the stu
dents, favored a reduction. Some of
these declared that if the jobs
were given only to students who
were in absolute need of them,
expenses could be cut.
As was perhaps to be expected,
students who now hold these jobs
were emphatically in favor of con
tinuing the program, a good many
telling the Surveys interviewers
that the number should even be
increased. The poll, points out, how
ever, that students who are not
N.Y.A. employees are of the same
M. Extension Service, were made
on the basis of outstanding work
in club demonstrations during 1939.
Kenneth Garvin, 19, has been in
4-H work since 1935, with cotton,
corn, poultry, turkeys, swine and
dairying his principal lines. His
demonstrations brought him a total
income of $1,965, plus a start
toward a herd of registered Jer
seys. He was a leader in cotton
improvement work and a member
of the Ellis County dairy judging
team which won the state contest
at the Farmers’ Short Course in
1938. He is a freshman at A. & M.,
in K Infantry.
opinion by almost identical per
centages.
President Roosevelt’s recom
mendation calls for an appropria
tion of $85,000,000 (millions) for
the 1940-41 fiscal year to go to
the National Youth Administra
tion, $9,500,000 to be spent on col
lege and graduate aid, the rest on
other projects away from the cam
pus. This would mean a college
employment of 89,000 persons, as
compared with 130,000 this year.
A STRIP TEASE . . .
Over in England the following
army command has been issued:
“Members of the women’s aux
iliary of the tei’ritorial service will
show their pink forms whenever
called upon to do so.”
The pink forms referred to are
leave permits which are printed on
pink paper.
St. Joseph’s College has discon
tinued football as an intercollegi
ate sport. . 1
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