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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1940
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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,
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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.”