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NEWSPAPER OF 1
TEXAS A. & M. COLI EGE
The Battalion
CIRCULATION 5,500
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1940
NO. 74
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AGGIE HORSE SHOW TODAY TO MAKE HISTORY
Flying Board To Examine
Applicants April 15-17
First Flying Class
Begins May 17;th;
Second, June 29th
A board of officers of the U.
S. Army Air Corps, from Barks
dale Field, La., will on the
campus Monday through. Wednes
day, April 15th-17th, fp;r the pur
pose of examining applicants for
appointment as Flying Cadets in
the U. S. Army Air [Corps. The
examinations will be held in the
basement of the college hospital.
Students may be/ examined re
gardless of whether they have
made previous applications for ex
amination. Those passing the ex
amination may be able to enter
the first class of flight instru-
tion which begins May 17th, 1940,
or in the next Class beginning June
29th, 1940. ,
Lieutenant A. C. Agan, Air
Corps, is now on the campus as
advance agent for this examining
board. He is anxious to meet any
students interested in this course
of training and to answer any
questions concerning the flying
program. Those interested may
call on him at the Aggieland Inn
at any time between Saturday and
Sunday.
The Air Corps offers a year of
training to young men of college
age who desire to make aviation
their career. Applicants who suc
cessfully meet the physical and
mental requirements are enrolled
as Flying Cadets. They receive
three months’ preliminary training
at a selected civilian flying school,
and then are sent to the Air Corps
Training Center at Randolph and
Kelly Fields, Texas, for six months’
basic training with the Air Corps.
Upon completion of this basic
course they receive a commission
as a Second Lieutenant, Air Corps
Reserve, and immediately receive
three months further training as
a member of a tactical squadron.
After concluding this nine
months’ course of training, these
young reserve officers are assign
ed to active duty with units of the
Air Corps.
During the preliminary nine-
months’ course of instruction stu
dents receive the pay and allow
ances of a Flying Cadet, U. S.
Army. As a Second Lieutenant,
Air Corps Reserve, their pay and
allowance are those of the same
rank in the regular army.
Subsistence Payments To
Be Made Last of April
The payroll for the Subsistence
payment to members of the first
and second year advanced R.O.T.C.
courses will be completed the lat
ter part of this week or the first
part of next week according to an
announcement made Friday by the
Military Department. The payroll
will be sent to corps headquarters
immediately after completion.
Payments will probably be made
during the last part of April,
members of the department stated.
Portrait of Walton
Painted by Noted
Artist; Picture To
Be Unveiled Soon
The recently finished oil portrait
of Dr. T. O. Walton, which was
painted by Seymour M. Stone of
New York, has been received at the
President’s Office and is ready to
be hung. The unveiling ceremony
will take place some time in the
latter part of May and the portrait
will be hung in the A. & M. library.
The portrait was sponsored by
the Former Students Association,
and was made possible by contri
butions of that association and
friends of Dr. Walton.
Stone came to College Station
from his studios in New York City
and made a charcoal sketch from
which the painting was done.
Stone was born in the part of
Poland that now belongs to Russia,
and studied under Sargent in Eng
land, and under Zorn in Sweden.
He was made Knight Commandry
of Merit Konstantinian Order of
St. George in Italy in the year 1921.
His works include such celebrated
paintings as “Parsifal”. He has also
done portraits of Theodore Roose
velt, Calvin Coolidge, Admiral
Byrd, Franklin Roosevelt, Gen.
John J. Pershing, as well as por
traits of several of the royal fami
lies of Europe.
Arc Welding Short
Course To Be Held
Here April 15-19
The Department of Mechanical
Engineering is making extensive
plans for a short course in arc
welding design and practice to be
held here April 15, 16, 17, 18, and
19. This will be the first such
course held here, and E. W. P.
Smith, internationally known weld
ing engineer and foremost author
ity on the subject, has been secur
ed as the principal lecturer. Mr.
Smith is a member of the A. M. M.
E., The American Metal Society,
and other national engineering so
cieties.
The program for the course in
cludes several motion pictures and
lectures each day during the course
on subjects of interest to designers,
production executives, welding sup
ervisors, and engineers in all in
dustries. To publicize the course,
some six thousand leaflets describ
ing the program were mailed to
all registered engineers in Texas.
Admittance to any or all lectures
or demonstrations or consultations
may be obtained by registration at
the Mechanical Engineering office
and the payment of the registra
tion fee.
All students will be admitted
free to the lecture as the depart
ment feels that the course will
serve as valuable instruction to in
terested students.
Like A King, Sugar Bowl Now
Rules In Aggie Trophy Case
By George Fuermann
It wasn’t gathering dust in one
of those places that advertize them
selves with three gold balls; it
wasn’t stolen; and it wasn’t melted
and and sold for old silver, either.
The famed Sugar Bowl—the Ag
gies’ Sugar Bowl, suh—was in safe
keeping.
But the cadet corps—and their
feminine guests in particular—were
fast getting very curious about the
appearance of the revered trophy.
So, Chairman of the Athletic
Council, Dean E. J. Kyle and mem
bers E. J. Howell and E. W. Hook
er went into a huddle and decided
to bring the trophy out of its
place of safe keeping, the Athletic
Department’s vault.
And yesterday, for the first time,
hundreds of wide-eyed cadets peer
ed into the trophy case in the Aca
demic Building where, almost king-
like, the Sugar Bowl is now dis
played on its own glass shelf at
the top of all the other trophies.
But as usual, with important
things, it won’t be available at just
any old time. The Sugar Bowl
Trophy and the proverbial banker
have a lot in common in respect to
working hours—it’s on display
from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. on week
days, but on Saturdays it returns
to its vault at noon.
There’s a good reason, too—be
cause it would be a first-rate
number one embarrassment for
Texas A. & M. College if the tro
phy turned up missing some morn
ing. And it would be almost im
possible to station an all-night
guard each night.
As far as value goes, you couldn’t
very well place a price on the head
of the Sugar Bowl—not in dollars
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Glamorous “oomph gal” of Hollywood films, Miss Ann Sheridan,
hailing from Denton, Texas, recently started a beautiful friendship
with the boys of Texas A. & M. College with her telegraphed congratu
lations to the Aggie Rifle Team on their gallantry in arranging a
special 40-point handicap match with the T.S.C.W. girls’ rifle team,
which the girls were able to win after having been defeated in the
official match.
Miss Sheridan paid a tribute to the A. & M. football team in
offering to be in the Aggie yelling section when A. & M. plays U.C.L.A.
in Los Angeles next October.
As a return tribute the Aggie team is going to present a white
football autographed by the entire squad to the “oomph girl” when
she is in Dallas next week.
It is planned that the Aggie team will invite Miss Sheridan to
be their official sponsor and hostess on the West Coast, and it is
believed that she will accept. Such an event would provide much
national publicity as well as pleasure for the Aggies.
And it has been suggested that Miss Sheridan might present
the world premiere of her new show “College Widow” on the A. & M.
campus, attending in person along with others of the cast.
Tonight Is The "Acid
Test”, Army..Can You
Resist The Temptation?
AN EDITORIAL EXPRESSION
Army, tonight’s the “acid test” in our “economic isolation”
movement.
It is said that the Bryan theatrical management expects
tonight to be the breaking point in our united front to support
the local theater, in our campaign to secure first-run, first-
date, date-to-date moving pictures with Bryan.
Because tonight is the usually good Saturday-night preview,
certain persons have expressed the belief that the Aggies will
flock to the show almost as usual.
Anyone harboring any such belief doesn’t begin to com
prehend the true Aggie spirit—eh, Army?
Can the student body count on the same support from each
and every member that up to now has been given ?
Remember that a small leak may be the beginning of a big
hole.
We don’t believe that will happen. We believe, as the cadet
colonel has stated, that the true Aggie spirit will hold out as
long as necessary to achieve our objective.
Cadet Colonel D. B. “Woody” Varner stated yesterday that
he feels confident that we are going to gain our objectives fairly
soon—that we are going to get first-rate shows on an equal
basis with Bryan.
One student attended the Bryan theaters the third day of the
campaign . . . and he was “non-reg” not only in uniform.
The fourth day the score was again:
Texas Aggies 6,000
Bryan theaters 0 000
Don’t take it for granted that “just one little quarter” that
you might spend will not make any difference. Once one boy
gets that idea, many others are sure to follow. And there are
so many other and better ways in which you might utilize that
quarter.
We’re going to win a fight with those “little quarters” you’re
saving.
The Aggies’ “economic isolation” movement has aroused
a greater amount of discussion than any other subject in recent
years at Aggieland.
Not only 6,000 students but several thousand faculty and
staff members of the college and other citizens of both College
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7 Cadets
File For
Positions
Monday Evening
Set As Deadline
For Announcing
Seven candidates have already
filed to run for the senior positions
of Town Hall manager, social sec
retary, and Longhorn editor, and
the two junior yell-leaderships in
the primary elections announced in
the last issue of The Battalion.
Four of these are candidates for
social secretary. In the order of
filing, they are: Jack Nelson, In
fantry Band junior majoring in
science; James P. Giles, junior in
chemical engineering of A Field
Artillery; A. V. Hamilton, junior
in chem engineering of A Chemical
Warfare Service; and Bob Little,
mechanical engineering junior of
F Coast Artillery.
W. A. (Bill) Becker, junior in
agricultural administration of C
Field Artillery, is the only candi
date as yet to file for editor of
the Longhorn.
Paul Haines, also a junior in ag
ricultural administration, of D Cav
alry, is likewise the only candidate
so far to file for Town Hall man
ager.
And S. S. (Skeen) Staley Jr.,
sophomore in petroleum engineer
ing of E Engineers, is the first to
turn in a petition signed by 100
students and announce his inten
tions of running for one of the two
junior yell-leaderships.
But many more' boys are ex
pected to announce before the dead
line for filing, which is 5 p. m.
Monday, April 15, one week before
the primary.
The junior class primary for the
three senior class offices is Mon
day, April 22, and the sophomore
class meets that same night to
select six candidates capable of
filling the two junior yell-leader
ships.
The runoff election for the senior
offices will be Thursday, April 25,
if one proves necessary. That night
the junior and sophomore classes
will meet to select from the top six
candidates for junior yell leader
the two who will serve next term.
Rules for the eligibility of candi
dates for Longhorn editor, social
secretary, and Town Hall manager
were published in full in the last
issue of The Battalion.
T.S.C.W. Director
Tells Facts Back
Of Picture Prints
Miss Mary Marshall, director of
the Department of Fine Arts at
T. S. C. W., spoke before the Archi
tectural Society and faculty memb
ers in the Architectural Library
Thursday night. Miss Marshall’s
lecture, entitled “Illustrating
Prints” was a discussion of prints
and the processes used to produce
them.
She opened by saying that the
artist is a human being just as any
other person. “We all express our
selves in some way and the fact
that he is gifted in expressing
himself with a brush or a pencil
makes him no less human,” she
stated.
After giving a description of the
(jjfferent print making processes,
t he discussed the “Isms” in art,
e specially Impressions, Post Im-
r essions, the Expressionist, and
gurrealism.
^ “Every artist approaches a prob
lem differently, putting into that
or k his own impressions and his
oV vm character. For this reason it
• wrong to make a copy of an
listing work. For the same reason
6 true portraiture cannot be paint
ed-”
Recording to Miss Marshall, the
rtraiture will reflect the artist
Id not the character of the person
pointed.
jler talk was illustrated with the
points on exhibit in the Architect-
uf al Library as well as other prints.
Largest Show In History
Opens at Ten This Morning
Courtship Via The
Airwaves—Newest
Twist To T.S.C.W.,
A. & M. Missiles
True to the Aggie tradition of
originality, which is growing more
famous daily, is Jack Hines, jun
ior in “B” Company Signal Corps,
who until recently has been serv
ing as Cupid’s messenger on his
short-wave radio set by broadcast
ing and receiving messages from
T. S. C. W. At the other end of
the airwaves is Travis Tittle, who
operates on the call number of
W5AAN. Tittle’s much envied job
is that of receiving and sending
messages for the T.S.C.W.-ites.
Hines said that up until the time
that the broadcasts stopped for
the change that is being made in
the operating frequency of the
radio station at College Station,
he was receiving and sending ap
proximately fifty messages a week
for the students who believe in
carrying on their courtship via the
airwaves.
Hines and Travers started their
communications the first of the
school year and have been receiv
ing nation wide publicity ever
since. They have been featured
in the rotogravure sections of sev
eral state newspapers, and recent
ly have been featured in the “Col
legiate Digest”, which has a na
tion-wide circulation.
The operators hope that after the
new station is built here at Col
lege Station the messages may be
transmitted over microphones rath
er than by telegraphy.
Plans Completed
For Annual, Gay
Barnyard Frolic
The annual Barnyard Dance held
by the American Society of Agri
cultural Engineers will soon be
here again bringing the gay aban-
dom that accompanies a hayloft
prom. Arrangements are well under
way for the presentation of the
dance which will be held Friday
night April 26, in the Agricultural
Engineering Building.
Dance music will be furnished by
the Aggieland Orchestra. The dance
will feature a costume contest with
a prize of $5.00 for the most
uniquely dressed couple. It will be
open to the public provided all
persons attending wear some sort
of barnyard clothes. Tickets may
be obtained from members of the
society for one dollar, or may be
obtained at the dance.
The dance will also feature a
one hour radio broadcast over sta
tion W.T.A.W. which will include
descriptions of the various costum
es and the presentation of the $5.00
prize to the winning couple.
Many girls are coming from T.
S. C. W. to attend the dance. A
“barnyard” atmosphere will be fur
nished the prom by the use of
bales of hay and farm implements.
Noted Equestrians,
Cadets, and Others
Listed in Contests
Noted equestrians from all over
the state, numerous A. & M. ca
dets, girls of the Bit and Spur
Club of the University of Texas,
and many other contestants will
compete today at Aggieland in the
biggest horse show in the history
of A. & M.
The show will start at 10:00
o’clock this morning at the horse
show arena located on the north
ern extremity of the campus just
off Highway 6 and adjacent to
Scoates Lake.
The show, directed by Major
W. R. Irvin and chairmaned by
Col. George F. Moore, will feature
at least 22 classes with the possi
bility of more classes being form
ed today. Other officers of the
show are Lt. Col. R. L. Christian,
treasurer; Cadet J. F. Lyons, sec
retary; Captain C. F. Burbach,
ring master; Major E. M. Burnett
and Captain Philip Enslow, pad-
dock masters; Cadet Pat Propps,
student manager; Cadet W. H.
Oswalt, course clerk; and Major
L. S. Stickney, announcer.
Judges for the show will be
Theodore Heady of Dallas, Saddle
and Harness Events; Colonel
Stanley Koch, Military and Polo
Events; D. W. Williams, Cow Pony
Class; and Major A. G. Wing, Lt.
Col. H. Carrice, Lt. Col. J. P.
Williams and Major E. G. Gajeska,
all of the 311th Cavalry, will judge
the Rescue Race and other events.
Noted horses that have taken
prizes in shows throughout the
nation are entered in the classes
open to outside competition while
other classes are limited to student
competition. Only the Bit and Spur
Club will compete in a closed can
ter class.
The show will start promptly at
10 o’clock with the model polo
pony class. Other classes to be
held this morning will follow in
the following order: model three
gaited saddle horse class, model
colt class, model five gaited sad
dle horse class, model draft class,
model stock horse class, and hunt
team.
The afternoon show will start
at 1:30 with the R. O. T. C. horse
manship class, and will be follow
ed by the children’s three gaited
class, rescue race, three gaited
saddle class, reserve officers’
charger class, fine harness class,
jumping class, R. O. T. C. jumping
class, R. O. T. C. charger class,
cow horse reining class, ladies
three gaited seat and hands class,
five gaited saddle class, children’s
three gaited class, Bit and Spur
Club class, polo pony race, and
the plantation class.
Many of the outsiders attend
ing the show today are expected to
remain on the campus tonight for
the cavalry corps dance featur
ing Anson Weeks and his orches
tra.
Dancin’ With Anson To Be Mode
For Cavalry Corps Dance Tonight
By E. M. Rosenthal
“Let’s go dancin’ with Anson.”
And that is just what the Cavalry
Regiment did last night at what
some called the greatest of the
Cavalry balls to date and what
scores of Aggies are planning to
do tonight at the big Saturday
night frolic in Sbisa Hall from
nine till twelve. As usual the scrip
will be $1.
Anson Weeks’ orchestra, which
has given rise to such outstanding
personalities as Bob Crosby, the
famous “Bob-cat”; Xavier Cugat,
the “tango and rhumba king”; and
Griff Williams will be accompanied
by its featured vocalist, the charm
ing Eunice Clark who Weeks also
hopes to coach to stardom. Wes
Hite and Bud Prentis are two oth
er prominent artists who will help
bring to the corps the music for
which Anson Weeks and his orches
tra are so well liked among college
groups.
Other than the great numbers of
Aggies who will be at the corps
dance tonight will be many of the
spectators and performers in the
horse show tomorrow. Among these
will be a number of well known
horsemen and horsewomen from all
over Texas.
Decorations for tonight’s dance
will be the same as those used by
the Cavalry Regiment at their
dance last night. The troop guideons
will be in their regular place next
to the bandstand and the Cavalry
lances will completely surround the
back board. The lances give a dis
tinct touch and also add color and
beauty to the bandstand.
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