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DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1940 CIRCULATION 5,500 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Z725 NO. 77 JUNIOR PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD MONDAY Seniors Will Vote Monday For Position Valedictorian Will Be Selected From Ten Candidates In order that the Southern En graving Company of Houston, de signers and manufacturers of this year’s commercial invitations, may hasten delivery, the name of the 1940 valedictorian, which is on the invitation, must be announc ed as soon as possible. For this reason the election has been moved up from Wednesday, April 24, to Monday, April 22. The election is to be held in the rotunda of the Academic Build ing from 8 a. m. to 5:30 p. m., Monday, and the counting of the ballots will be done that night by a committee of seniors. Results will be announced in a following Battalion. In order to vote, a senior ring or other identification that the voter is a classified sen ior, will be required. The following boys are listed ac cording to their grade point aver age for their entire college work through the first semester of this year: H. A. Jones, Electrical Engineering: D. B. Varner, Agricul tural Administration; A. T. Hingle, Chemical Engineering; H. H. Liebhofsky, Liberal Arts; T. P. Higgins, Electrical Engineering; D. F. Herzing, Electrical Engineer ing; Roy Caldwell, ‘Liberal Arts; F. C. Brown, Chemical Engineer ing; C. L. Mason, Agriculture; W. T. Guy, Mechanical Engineering. It was earnestly requested by Max McCullar, senior class presi dent, that all seniors turn out to vote in order that the election may be truly representative of the class in contrast with the meager vote that was received last year. English Prof From John Hopkins To Lecture at A. & M. Professor Kemp Malone of the John Hopkins University will give a lecture on American English at 7:30 Wednesday, April 24, in the Chemistry lecture room. Malone is a leading authority on the history and the present state of our language. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and took additional graduate work at Princeton, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Iceland. Professor Malone was the found er (with Louise Pound) of “Amer ican Speech,” and he remained its managing editor from 1925 to 1932. He goes from College Station April 26 to Austin to conduct a linguistic conference at the Uni versity of Texas; then to George town to make the principal ad dress at the annual meeting of the Conference of College Teachers of English, which will be attended by several professors from A. & M. Special Band Concert Will Be Held Sunday As an added attraction for the weekend festivities the Aggie Band will give a concert in Guion Hall at 3:30 Sunday afternoon. Playing a program of classical and semi-classical music, some 80 members selected from both the Field Artillery and Infantry Divi sions of the Aggie Band, direct ed by Col. R. J. Dunn, have ar ranged the program for visitors on the campus attending the Cot ton Ball and for citizens of Bryan and College Station. A special feature on the pro gram will be a baritone trio, Trip let, written by C. H. Leonard. Joe Bledsoe, Goode Weir and Jimmie Toland are the cadets performing on the baritones. Smith-Hughes Day To Attract3000 School Boys To Give Program Sunday Marcille McRae, featured soloist with the girls’ string ensemble of Mary Hardin-Baylor College, appearing in a program at the First Baptist Church of College Station Sunday evening. Above are shown Dr. Gordon G. Singleton, president of Mary Hardin-Baylor College for girls at Belton, and Mrs. Singleton, who are visiting Aggieland this weekend to appear on the church program Sunday evening. MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR PRESIDENT, STUDENTS TO PRESENT PROGRAM Dr. Doug G. Singleton, president-f of Mary Hardin-Baylor College at Belton, and his wife, pictured a- bove' will visit A. & M. this week end, bringing with them a group of attractive Hardin-Baylor girls to perform here for the Texas Aggies. Dr. and Mrs. Singleton will ap pear on a program Sunday even ing at 7:40 at the First Baptist Church of College Station, Rev. R. L. Brown has announced. The string ensemble of Mary Hardin-Baylor, directed by Pro fessor Henry Wenzel of the col lege’s music department, will fur nish music on the program. It consists of the following girls: Marcille McRae, Virginia Meador, and Mary Vivian Doyle, all of Houston; Zelia Belle Lloyd of Col lege Station; Marjorie Graham, of Schulenberg; Mildred Barge, of Belton, and Hilda Beth Gray, ac companist, of Houston. Marcille McRae, shown above, is the featured soloist of the ensem ble. The public is cordially invited to attend what is assured to be an enjoyable program. Remember —the First Baptist Church, Sun day evening at 7:40. Senior Banquet, Ring Dance Tickets Go On Sale Sunday The tickets for the Senior Ban--ftheir dates. quet and Ring Dance will be in the hands of the organization com manders by Sunday night, as an nounced today by Max McCullar, president of the senior class. For the ticket price of $3.50, the seniors will receive the new favor—the face of the senior ring struck from 1/20 carat rose fin ished, gold filled stock with chain- attached ’40 guard—together with the white leather bound banquet menu, the maroon, leather bound dance program, and also an en graved invitation in double en velopes that seniors may send to The ticket price in cludes all of these to say noth ing of the banquet, the dance, and the popular music of Russ Morgan. Tommy Richards, chairman of the committee for programs and favors, and Max McCullar urge that all seniors purchase their tickets early this coming week in order to insure delivery of an ad ditional order of favors. Any senior desiring extra fav ors may have them by placing his order with his organization commander as soon as possible. Extra favors may be had at the list price of $1.85. 500 Schools Crowns King Cotton Participate In 10 Events Event Is Highlight Of FFA School Year All parts of Texas will be rep resented at A. & M. next Monday when approximately 3,000 Future Farmers of America will gather here for the 23rd annual Smith- Hughes Judging Contests. Better known as Smith-Hughes Day, the meet is in reality the annual state judging contests for students of vocational agriculture, and is the highlight of the school year for those students known as the Future Farmers of America. Over 500 schools will participate in the judging events, which will begin at 7 o’clock Monday morn ing and will be finished in time for the winners to be announced and the prizes awarded at the Col lege Assembly Hall the same eve ning. The F. F. A. boys will eat in the college dining hall and for those arriving ahead of time, camp space has been set aside at Kyle Field Stadium and the area just south of the stadium. A series of ten judging con tests, covering the fields of dairy cattle, livestock, poultry and eggs, field crops, soil conservation, horticulture, entomology, cotton classing, wild life, and farm shop work, will be covered. In the var ious events the dairy contest leads with 126 schools participating; livestock is second with 115 (Continued on page 4) SENIORS MAY ORDER INVITATIONS NEXT THURSDAY & FRIDAY For those seniors who were unable to place their order for commencement invitations this week, orders will be tak en on Thursday and Friday afternoons of next week, sen ior class officials announced today. Orders have been taken Thursday and Friday of this week. Four U. S. Army Officers Will Be Transferred Here Oscar M. Johnson, president of the National Cotton Council of America and the world’s largest cotton producers, crowned Agronomy Society president Wesley Seay King of the ninth annual Cotton Ball, Pageant, and Style Show, and delivered the address of the evening, last night at the Pageant inaugurating the festivities, funds from which will defray the expenses of the European summer study tour awarded winners of the yearly cotton contest. Judson Neff, ’28, Heads New Dept. Industrial Engineering Judson Neff, ex-Aggie of' the class of ’28, has been named head of the newly established De partment of Industrial Engineering at A. & M. Announcement of his appointment was made by Dean of Engineering Gibb Gilchrist fol lowing authorization by the Board of Directors. Neff has offices on the campus and has offices in the Petroleum Building. After graduating in mechanical engineering in 1928, Neff was em- employed by the Southern Ice and Utilities Company at Dallas. He also served as chief engineer of the Merchants Ice and Cold Stor age Company at Louisville, Ken tucky. He later attended Harvard University where he received his master’s degree in business ad ministration in 1936. For the past three years, he has been head of the Timestudy and Rate Depart ments in the Stainless Steel Divis ion of the Edward G. Budd Manu facturing Company at Philadelphia. He is the son of A. J. Neff, ’03, of Laredo, and a brother of Henry G. Judson Neff, ’28 Neff accumulated an outstanding record as a student at A. & M. bejng on the distinguished schol arship list for four years and lead- Neff, ’32, also of Laredo. (Continued on page 4) Dairy Husbandry Department, Kream And Kow Klub, To Hold Show Today Capt. Enslow, F.A., To Be Transferred This Year Notice has been given the Mili tary Department that four U. S. Army officers, now on the retired list, are to be transferred here for active duty on May 15. It is not known to what branches they will be connected. The addition of these officers to the present com plement will bring the total num ber of officers on active duty at A. & M. to twenty-two. The new officers and their pres ent station are Major G. Everett Hill Jr., Denver, Colorado; Major James B. Wise Jr., San Antonio, Texas; Major John F. Stevens, Santa Barbara, California; and Captain Ernest A. Elwood, San Antonio, Texas. The Military Science Department also announced that Captain P. H. Enslow, F. A., U. S. A., will con clude his duties at A. & M. this spring. Although he has not re ceived definite orders, it is ex pected that he will attend the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. As an instructor in the Military Department, he has charge of the juniors and their gunnery prob lems. Captain Enslow has been instru mental in the success of the Aggie Pistol team. On his arrival here (Continued on page 4) All residents and students of Col lege Station, A. & M., and the sur rounding area have been extend ed a cordial invitation to attend the Eighth Annual Dairy Show which will be held on the A. & M. campus today starting at one o’clock in the Dairy Barn area. The show is being presented again this year, as in the past, under the joint sponsorship of the Dairy Husbandry Department and the Kream and Kow Klub, an organization of students majoring in dairy husbandry. Joe W. Brad ley, high point individual on the 1937 international championship leave his present position as a: sistant county agriculture agent g Conroe to come to A. & M. an serve as judge for today’s cor tests. A. L. Darnell, professor of dair husbandry, announced that the str dents winning today’s contesl who are members of the junio class will probably compose th personnel of the Aggie dairy judg ing team which will compel against international competitio in the Livestock Show at Harris burg, Pa., next October. A.& M. Proud in Turning Out Complete Men, Dean Tells Houston Accountants The Agricultural and Mechani--f- cal College of Texas is proud that it is turning out good citizens and ‘complete men’, Dean F. C. Bolton told members of the Hous ton chapter of the American So ciety of Cost Accountants, at a banquet honoring the visitors in Sbisa Hall Wednesday evening. The A. & M. Accounting So ciety was host to the Houstonians who came to College Station in a chartered bus to hold their first regular meeting away from Hous ton. In welcoming the visitors to the campus, Dean Bolton characterized them as stockholders in the col lege, and stated his gratification that A. & M. differs with Presi dent Robert Hutchins of Chicago University in that the policy of the institution is not limited to the belief that “the function of education is the dissemination of knowledge”. Cadet William H. Reeder of Hughes Springs acted as toast master for the meeting and intro- (Continued on page 4) Important Positions To Be Voted On Sophs Cast Votes For Junior Yell Leaders Same Day The primary election to fill the posts of Longhorn editor, senior social secretary, manager of Town Hall, and junior yell leaders for the coming 1940-41 session has .been set by the Student Election Committee for Monday. The run off, if one is required, will be held Thursday, April 25. This year, for the first time, re quirements as to the qualifications of the candidates for each office were drawn up and adopted by the Student Election Committee. The closing date for the filing of can didacy was Monday, April 15, and the Election Committee met Tues day afternoon to pass upon the el igibility of the candidates for the respective offices. The procedure for the election of Longhorn editor, social secretary, (Continued on page 4) PIONEER TEXAS ENTOMOLOGIST HONORED TODAY Honoring the memory of Gustaf W. Belfrage, pioneer Texas natur alist, representative of three Tex as colleges will participate in the erection today of a stone marker in the cemetery of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church at Norse, Tex as. Members of the Biology Club of Southern Methodist University, the Entomology Club of Texas A. & M., and the Beta Tau chapter of Beta Beta Beta of Baylor Uni versity will take part in the ser vice. Belfrage, who came to Texas in 1867 and operated chiefly in Mc Lennan and Bosque counties, dis covered nearly 250 new insect species and assembled a large in sect collection now in the United States National Museum. Museums in Stockholm, Brussels, Cambridge and St. Petersburg also possess Belfrage collections, as well as the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem and the Boston Society of Natural History. The Gustaf W. Belfrage Memo rial Service to be held at Norse will be presided over by Houston Burk, president of Baylor’s Beta Tau chapter of Beta Beta Beta. Dr. S. W. Bilsing, head of the Department of Entomology of A. & M., will deliver the principal address on “Gustaf W. Belfrage, the Pioneer Naturalist”. James E. Gillaspy, president of the Entomo logy Club of A. & M. will discuss the wasps, ants, and bees of Bel- frage’s collections. Students of Baylor and S. M. U. will give other addresses, following which the marker will be unveiled and a benediction pronounced. Smith Names Becker Longhorn Jr. Editor W. A. (Bill) Becker, C Field artillery junior, has been named junior editor of the 1940 Long horn by editor George Smith. The choice was made from the group of juniors who had been working as junior assistants. It is customary for the Longhorn editor each spring to make his choice of the assistant he thinks most deserving to be junior editor. Said Smith: “I am naming Bill Becker Junior Editor of the Long horn because it is my belief that, among the juniors who have work ed with me this year, Becker is the best qualified to be editor of the book in 1941. He has worked on the Longhorn staff since his fresh man year, and has shown a great deal of interest in the publication. He has proved his ability to do all work which is required of a yearbook editor, and I do not hesitate to recommend him to the class of 1941.”