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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION Official Notices MAY GRADUATES A complete analysis of the records of all May graduates has been made. The seniors are requested to check with this office not later than Saturday, April 27, to see that we are in agreement as to the remaining degree requirements. H. L. HEATON, Assistant Registrar JOBS FOR TYPISTS office has several opening This office has several openings qualified typists. Interested students are eligible for student employment for who and who can type 40 words per minute or more are requested to report at their first opportunity. ORMOND R. SIMPSON, Chairman Student Labor Committee LECTURE ON AMERICAN ENGLISH Students, College Station and Bryan residents interested in hearing a discus sion of American English by a first-rate authority are invited to hear Professor " pkii be no admission charge. After teaching one year in the Atlanta (Georgia) Technical High School, Mr. Malone held a two-year Carnegie Founda tion appointment as exchange teacher in Prussia. Since then he has taught at Cornell, the University of Minnesota, and His is evidenced by the fact that he was one of the founders of American Speech and its managing editor from 1926 to 1932, and that he i editorial board. litor is still a member of GEO. SUMMEY, JR. STAFF INVITED TO LECTURE The Department of English has invited the staff of The Battalion to attend the lecture on “American English” to be given by Professor Kent Malone of Johns Hopkins University at 7:30 Wednesday in the Chemistry lecture room. There will be no admission charge. Every member of the staff is asked to attend if possible. THE EDITOR CONCESSIONS No concession has been or will be grant ed for civilian clothing, uniforms, uniform equipment, or boots. All concerned are advised that no business firm or private individual, civilian or student, will be al- mer- or pro ject houses. ORMOND R. SIMPSON, Chairman Student Labor Committee individual, civilian or student, will 1 lowed to sell the above-mentioned chandise in the college dormitories or NOTICE TO WATER USERS All consumers of water on the north side of the Campus, in College Park and Oakwood are to have water meters i^hth in Oakwood are t installed during the month of Ma ly, after dered in ood are ing the which all water bills will be rem accordance with the amount of water used. To finance cost of meters, meter boxes, fittings, installation costs, and cut-offs, each property owner receiving services is requested to call by the City Hall in the Sosolik Building and make applica tion for his choice in method of meeting HOLICK’S BOOTS North Gate the 1. tap fees ; to-wit: payment of $15.00 per meter, or 2. Payment of $1.60 per month in addi tion to water bill for a period of 12 months; all property owners electing to in cash should make such payment May 1, 1940, as after that ater H P sh s on or before May date only the deferred payment plan may be elected. pay plan CITY TAXES All taxpayers of the city of College Station will render their taxes for the year 1940 beginning April 15th at the City Office. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT FOR NEXT TERM All applicants for student employment who expect to be employed during the expect to be empioyea curing :hool year 1940-41 must renew their ap is at the Oi t prior to tl erm in June. This notice applii ons at the Office of Student Em- school plicatii ployment prior to the end of the present school J 1_ T applies to both employed and unemployed applicants for student employment. ORMOND R. SIMPSON, Chairman Student Labor Committee ENGLISH CONTEST For the encouragement of superior work President of in English, Dr. F. M. Law, President of the Board of Directors, is again offer ing two cash prizes ($20 and $5), to be rded on the basis of a competitive ex nation to be given late in April or May. Conditions of eligibility are s: grade A in English 103 and Distinguished Student rating, first semes ter ; grade A or B in English 104 to April 1, and satisfactory oral work in the same course to April 15. Mr. William Morriss of Dallas, an alumnus who knows the value of good English, is once more offering cash prizes ($20 and $5) for the purpose of encour aging good work in our sophomore courses. Conditions of eligibility are as follows: grade A in English 203 or 231 and Dis tinguished Student rating, first semester; grade 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 re view that may be required in the Sopho more course the student concerned is now taking. If a student otherwise eligible awa: aminati- early in as follows: ege Students who were allowed to substitute English 328 or other courses for the work usually required may count the elective course as an equivalent so far as the English Contest is concerned. Students r eligible are asked to give their names promptly to their teachers in order that projects for required papers be promptly approved. GEO. SUMMEY, JR. GRADUATION UNIFORM The following rule Is published for the Information of candidates for degress at the June Commencement: “Advanced Course R.O.T.C. students who are awarded degrees at the June Com mencement are required to attend the graduation exercises in Uniform No. 1, and non-R.O.T.C. students are required to attend in appropriate academic costume. Students who do not provide themselves with appropriate costume will not be eligibe . to participate in the graduation exercises. The Exchange Store can arrange to get caps and gowns to be rented for the oc- i casion, provided orders are placed not later than noon SATURDAY, APRIL 27. There is no assurance that orders placed after that date will arrive for Commence ment. The Exchange Store does not re quire a deposit at this time. F. C. BOLTON, Dean CAA Program— (Continued from page 1) gineering seniors under the direct ion of Professor J. T. L. McNew, are testing the soil so that it might be oil stabilized when funds permit. When this is done it will make the field an “all weather” airport. The Kadet Aviation Co. under the direction of T. H. Coffelt, pres ident, has employed five expert instructors as follows: Robert Putz, Jim Laudeman, Arthur Anderson, Douglas Beers, and 0. H. Cook, an ex-Aggie of A Battery, Coast Artillery. Robert B. Trimble is mechanic and J. A. Colson is ground man. To take the flying course a stu dent must be at least eighteen and not more than 25 years of age. He must have completed his freshman year and must pass a rigid phy sical examination. The ground school is under the supervision of W. I. Truettner, pro fessor of mechanical engineering, and meets at night, twice a week in the M. E. building. The course covers the history of flying, rules and regulations, navigation, meteor ology and parachutes. Under the rules of the C. A. A., only forty students may take the flying course and these students were selected from more than 250 applicants. They receive a minimum of 35 hours and a maximum of 50 hours flight instruction in addition to 72 hours class work. It is the hopes of college author ities and students that a perma nent air corps may be established here. Organizations AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY There will be a meeting of the A. & ronautical Society this evening at o’clock in the basement of the M. Aeronautical Society seven o’clock in the 1 M. E. Shops. Plans for the contest on ’ Day will be arranged and all to be Mothers' participants are requested to be pre All students who are interested in as sisting with the contest are cordially in vited. SCHOLARSHIP HONOR SOCIETY There will be a very important meet ing of the Scholarship Honor Society Wed nesday evening at 7:00 in the Civil Engi neering lecture room. All members are asked to be present. Classified -A student lately purchased the window of the FOUND some stamps at the window of the College Station Post Office at the North Gate, and then left the stamps and a sum of money lying on the desk. We would like for that boy to come by, identify himself, and claim his property. MRS. ANNA V. SMITH, Postmaster LOST—A rhinestone evening bag trim- led in gold, lost at the Cotton Ball. Re- med ... „ ward for return to 81 Law. WANTED—Passengers for Dallas. J ing noon Saturday, in ’30 Studebake: E. Crawford, 77 Milner, College Leav- C. 116.’ STYLED with distinction / SHIRTCRAFT SHIRTS There is true distinction in every inch of their superb fabrics, in every stitch of their careful tailoring. Come in and see the smart new-season styles and colorings just received. $1.65 and $1.95 Lllaldrop&(8. “Two Convenient Stores” College Station — Bryan Sodagalese— (Continued from page 1) But what about the soda sheets? Do they like the work? “Some do and some don’t,” was Flash’s enigmatic reply. The man who relieves Flash in the day time, Stanford Gregg, was a little more pointed. “It’s harder work than most people think,” Stan said. “More than that, we soda sheets get bawled out for the most trivial things—but most people are a pleasure to wait on.” Flash and Stan, by the way, do their soda jerking at Lipscomb’s Pharmacy and both claim that the only important drawback to their job is “getting used to standing all day and half the night.” Actu ally, the boys work about ten hours a day—and every day. But there’s more soda sheets at College Station than those men tioned above, and they all have their troubles. Others at Lipscomb’s are E. R. Pratka, Ted Grote, and Paul Lowry—who says he’s work ed up in the soda sheetin’ business. At Casey’s Confectionery there’s Jack Moore, Pete Blaylock, Nor man Felty, Ted Rie, and Frank Scanlin. George’s Confectionery has Morris Walker, Elyzie Henry, and Carl Tritchett. The crew at Aggie- land Pharmacy includes W. R. Scott, C, G. Wilson, and Oscar Moffatt. Fish-Game Dept.— (Continued from page 1) Davis, in charge of the depart ment of instruction, will have charge of a field course which will center in Culberson County in Trans-Peco, Texas. Students will participate in such projects as (1) cover mapping the county, (2) determining the nature and distri bution of the birds and mammals of the area, (3) preparation of study specimens, and (4) life-his tory studies of selected animals. This course, 300S, carries seven semester hours of credit and will cost the student approximately $72.50, including registration fee, board, lodging, and transportation to and from College Station. Both of these courses presuppose a working knowledge of plants and animals, equivalent at least to in formation gained in basic courses in Biology. Students interested in signing up for one or both of theses courses should contact Dr. Davis as soon as convenient as the enrollment is limited to 8 in each course. Plane-Makers Need More Air Engineers LOS ANGELES, April 21.—Jobs are open here for aeronautical engi neers. “We now have 790 engineers on the payroll, and we must raise that figure to 900 by July 1,” Hall L. Hibbard, chief engineer for the Lockheed Aircraft corporation, said Sunday. He indicated a similar sit uation exists at other factories in this area. Hibbard insisted that this is not due altogether to war orders, point ing out that Engineer Harold J. Geder, for instance, is working on design for a 32-passenger plane that may fly tail-first in 1945. King Cotton May Become A Drugstore Commodity Aha! A new use for cotton—ice cream! “What to do with the suplus cotton?” has been an increasingly serious problem to the farmers of the South of recent years. Many solutions—some practical, some “screwy”—have been suggested—by scientists, highway engineers, Army and Navy inventors—and now a Dallas chef comes along and suggests something unheard of before and seemingly the screwiest of the lot; but actually his idea is working with notable success. Following is a feature from the-f Sunday, April 21 issue of The American Weekly, nationally syn dicated news-magazine Sunday newspaper section, which should be of especial interest to the stu dents and faculty of A. & M., not only because of its unusual story, but because it relates to work be ing done right here and now by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at A. & M., and also quotes one of A. & M.’s best-known ex students, Burrus C. Jackson, Hills boro postmaster. • Cotton has been cultivated in the Southern States since pre- Revolutionary days for its fibers, which are woven into at least part of the clothing we wear, used—in the form of gun cotton—in ex plosive shells, and rolled under the surface of some of our finest high ways. And now a 43-year-old pastry chef has found a new use for cotton—ice cream! His name is Prosper Ingels. This summer thousands of Amer icans are .likely to taste this un usual dish for the first time, at the New York and San Francisco World’s Fairs. They will find that it is golden in color, smooth and rich, and has a flavor vaguely like butterscotch or walnut. This ice cream contains about 15 per cent butterfat and is un usually rich in vitamins B-l and B-2, which makes it an excellent health food. One of its principal ingredients is cottonseed flour. The flour, made by grinding up the brown seeds which are mixed with the cotton fibers when they are removed from the boll, has been analyzed as containing 54 per cent protein and eight per cent moisture. Ingels, who is now employed by a Dallas hotel, combines this flour with milk and sugar in a secret formula. Then he adds a flavor ing which is also made from the cotton plant. A year and a half of experi menting was spent on this formu la. It was first served to the public a few weeks ago at a ban quet during the convention of the Texas State Restaurant Associa tion at Dallas. More than a thousand restaurant men who tast ed it gave it their overwhelming approval. Cotton ice cream may have far- reaching economic implications. For years the South has struggled under the handicap of producing more cotton than can be sold at a worthwhile price to farmers. Sev eral organizations have offered cash prizes to any one who de velops a plan for using up some of this surplus. And though Prosper Ingel’s discovery will not signifi cantly reduce the thousands of bales holding back the South’s prosperity, it may lead to greater things. Perhaps, like the magical soy bean, the cotton-seed has locked within it possibilities almost as wonderful. Burrus Jackson of Hillsboro, president of the Texas Cotton Council, says: “The ice cream may demonstrate the practicability of cotton products for use in food stuffs and induce manufacturers and producers of all kinds of food preparations to use some extract from the cotton plant. “The only chance for economic stabilization of the South and a profitable return to cotton plant ers is the discovery of new uses for cotton in industry. Cotton ice cream is a step in the right di rection.” Several agricultural laboratories, including the Experiment Stations of the Texas Agricultural and Me chanical College, are engaged in extensive cultivation of the plant’s many varieties in an effort to pro duce a cotton plant without cot ton. It is believed that there may be a greater future in growing cotton for its seeds, rather than the fuzzy strands which means “cotton” to the average man and woman. -TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940 Barnyard Hop— (Continued from page 1) ting old Bessie in the elevator and a few other complications. This dance is considered by most one of the best and most unique of all the dances each year. Any one who attended the dance last year will confirm this statement. The time will be 9:00 till 1, and the place will be in the old hayloft, on the third floor of the Agricultural Engineering Building. Scrip will be $1.00. Tickets may be obtained from members of the Agricultural Engineering Society or at the dance. Only 20 years old, Mariana Scott is the University of Cincinnati’s youngest candidate for a Ph.D. degree. Missouri Valley College has had a 40 percent increase in enroll ment in the last five years. “Pee-Wee” football is now a part of the intramural program at Mississippi State College. Dean C. E. Edmondson of Indiana University is national faculty bil liard champion. Come In And See Ole Loupot He buys what you have to sell and sells what you want to buy. Come in and meet him. EXPERT RADIO REPAIRS LOUPOT’S Trading Post Class ’32 - North Gate A hurricane was raging on the Florida Keys. The ship Jubilee was in the grip of the deadly reefs. A whole town echoed to the cry, “Wreck a-sho-o-re!” And aboard was one man destined to play a strange part in the life of Loxi Claiborne ... Here is a novel seething with drama and danger and the romance of Loxi, whose flashing charm brought to her feet two men from opposite ends of the world. First of six installments this week. A tuw novel ef wrcckcrs and romance on ,lu fW '' ^ ^5^,. ty THELMA STRABEL tyint m tkit mets fbst toi wm wim I SAW POLAND PLUNDERED. Families snatched from their beds in the dead of night. Driven off without their be longings. Herded into freight cars, concentration camps...A Polish high official describes the greatest human upheaval in history, the deportation of more than 1,200,000 men, women and children to give the Nazis lebensraum, “room to live.” Read Woe to the Vanquished, by Stefan De Ropp. WHAT DOES A PRIZE FIGHTER THINK ABOUT? “I never kissed a pretty girl until I was thirty-two. Wonder what Margie sees in me. Margie won’t be at the fight tonight. But Joe —the Brown Bomber —is here. Stabbing me with that left. Getting my brains messed up”...A drama of a fighter’s thoughts in the sweat of battle. “Hello, Joe,” by William Fay. ^ !| ALEXANDER BOTTS JOINS THE LIARS CLUB. When Botts modestly reported he had rescued an Earthworm Tractor that had fallen into the Grand Canyon—in the dark of night, single-handed -w-e-1-1, the President wanted more explanation ... Read Grand Canyon Brain Storm, by William Hazlett Upson. On page 14 of your Post today. HOW THEY ARE LICKING UNEMPLOYMENT. Here s "V ankee ingenuity! Jobs for 4,000 unemployed pro duced in one town of only 50,000. In another, WPA rolls cut nearly in half! Read the reports of this spreading move ment in... They Build Men Into Jobs, by Stanley High. I. A. R. WYLIE . .. brings you the story of a family that tried to li\e on hate in “Land s Sake.” Also a new yarn by M. G. Chute, Pony-Express Roy...Last chapters in Philip Wylie’s Hollywood novel. Salt Water Daffy.. .Short stories, articles, editorials, cartoons, poems and Post Scripts. All in this week’s Saturday Evening Post—now on sale. THE SHTUEPJIY EVENING POST Ch