•f
I Kina Cotton Crowns Queen
Wesley of the House of Seay, King of the ninth annual Cotton
Ball, Pageant and Style Show held last Friday, is shown crowning
his queen, Mamie of the House of Tramonte, of T. S. C. W.
Cotton Pageant Purpose
Praised by Johnston In
Crowning 9th Cotton King
Wesley of the House of Seay,-f
Waxahachie, was crowned King of
Cotton in the DeWare Field House
here Friday night by Oscar John
ston, president, National Cotton
Council, before a crowd of approx
imately 3,500 at the Annual Cotton
Pageant at Texas A. & M. College.
King Seay, in turn, crowned Miss
Mamie, of the House of Tramonte,
Galveston, his queen to rule with
him for the pageant and the ball
following.
In crowning King Seay, Mr.
Johnston told him that he was not
bestowing an empty honor upon
him but rather he was charged
with the sacred duty of assisting
in the recovery of the cotton in
dustry which has been seriously
ill for the past few years.
Praises Pageant Purpose
“Texas A. & M. College has
played a big part in the recovery
cotton has shown,” Mr. Johnston
said. “This annual pageant is an
admirable idea and I want you to
know that I believe it is a com
mendable act to stage it each year.
It has its utilitarian purpose in
bringing the use of cotton to the
attention of this vast audience
and all those who read or hear
about the pageant.
“It is a means of advertising
cotton, and the styles of the gowns,
all of them made from cotton, show
that it can regain its popularity
against its various competitors. Un
less we fight those competitors it
will anguish and perish.
“We must study the tastes and
desires of the world’s people who
use our cotton and try to give them
what they want,” he concluded, and
then placed the crown upon the
head of King Seay.
Royal Party Announced
After King Seay took his throne,
the Royal Party of 72 duchesses
and their escorts were announced.
As each duchess was introduced,
she crossed the dais, done in a
drum motif, and was then escorted
to a seat in the throne room.
When they all had entered and
been seated, the seven maids of
honor and their escorts preceded
the entrance of Queen Mamie.
All wore white pique gowns cut in
princess military style and trim
med with flat gold buttons. Each
wore a tall white drill cap trim
med with a red pompom. Each
carried a gold scepter entwined
with red roses. Their escorts wore
full military dress uniform.
Preceded by two crown bearers,
Queen Mamie entered wearing a
white pique gown, gold laced into
a close fitting basque waist with
a full flowing skirt. From her
shoulders fell a gold-line cape
forming a train. She wore military
cap similar to those worn by her
maids of honor but it was trimmed
with a white pompom and was
fastened beneath her chin with a
white kid chin strap.
Queen Is Crowned
King Wesley, after removing the
cap and passing it to a page, plac
ed the jeweled crown upon her
brow and escorted his queen to the
throne. From there they reviewed
the style show and floor show
which followed.
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Bars Do Not Confine Music
Of Huntsville Prison Inmates
The Battalion
VOL. 39
122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MORNING, APRIL 25, 1940
Z725
NO. 79
Runoff For Senior Social Post Today
Junior Yell
Leader Vote
To Be Held
Services To
Be Held For
L. K. TanzerFriday
By Paul Ketelsen
Every Wednesday night at exact
ly ten-thirty for the past two years
the WBAP radio audience has heard
four chimes, immediately follow
ing which the voice of Nelson Olm
sted opens the program “Thirty
Minutes Behind The Walls.”
It was the writer’s privilege to
attend a recent program and wit
ness what was taking place on this
program made up entirely of the
inmates of the state prison at
Huntsville, Texas. Music and talent
have no walls, no bars to confine
what happiness they can bring to
the countless lovers of both, and
from the number of letters receiv
ed by the station presenting this
program confinement will never af
fect either.
The program is precision itself.
Every participant knows just ex
actly what to do; nothing is out of
order. The singers come and go.
The prison announcer is as much
at ease as though it were a job he
had done all his life. In order to
reach such a high point of precis
ion the inmates that are to appear
on the program rehearse many
hours during the week, besides do
ing their regular chores in the
many shops that are within the
walls.
The participants are picked ac
cording to their talent and many
prisoners learn to play instruments
after they get there. Some of the
more talented musicians are se
lected to teach those who want to
learn and it is surprising how many
of them become proficient musi
cians before long. The instruments
used by the orchestra are bought
with the money obtained by pre
senting the Prison Rodeo, baseball
games and from the prison com
missary.
It is remarkable, the carefree at
titude and good sense of humor
that the boys have. Citing one in
stance, where after being told that
his voice sounded very much like
that of Rudy Vallee, the prison
inmate suggested that he sing “My
Time Is Your Time” and dedicate
it to the state. There were many
quips to be heard after the pro
gram, such as, “Well Joe, how
about going out for a beer?” and
“Say, how about riding down the
way with you?” It is easy to see
Chemistry Professor
Dies Wed. After
Very Brief Illness
Funeral services will be held at
2:00 o’clock this afternoon for Dr.
Lyle K. Tanzer, assistant profes
sor in the A. & M. Department of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineer
ing, who died suddenly at 11:55
a. m., Wednesday in the Wilker-
son Memorial Clinic of Bryan, fol
lowing a very brief illness.
His condition had not been con
sidered critical as 'he had met
all his classes Tuesday and did not
enter the hospital till 7:30 Wednes
day morning.
Dr. Tanzer was 33 years old,
born in Copenhagen, New York,
June 6, 1906. He attended the
University of Iowa where he at
tained his B. A., M. S., and Ph. D.
degrees in chemistry. While at
that institution he served as a
graduate assistant in both organic
and inorganic chemistry.
Dr. Tanzer came to A. & M. in
1936 as an instructor in the Chem
istry Department. His home is
(Continued from page 5)
Big Floral
Show Due
Prizes Offered In
Twelve Classes At
Flower Show
see a beautiful flower
. . Tomorrow’s your
R.O.T.C. Payments
To Be Made Today
And Friday At 3:00
Commutation of subsistence pay
ments to first and second year
members of the advanced R. O. T.
C. course will be made Thursday
and Friday afternoon, the Military
Department announced Wednesday.
Payments to students without
cuts will be $22.75 and covers the
three month period, January, Feb
ruary, and March. A 50 cent de
duction is made for each unauthor
ized absence from class and a $1.00
deduction is made for each absence
from drill.
Payments will be made from 3:00
to 5:00 p. m. on Thursday to mem
bers of the second advanced course
and at the same time Friday to
members of the first advanced
course. All payments will be made
in room 102 Academic Building.
Students who have 3:00 to 5:00
o’clock classes must report imme
diately after dismissal from class
es as payments will not be made
after 5:00.
Students who are going to be
absent from the campus with au
thority during Thursday and Fri
day should come in and sign the
payroll previous to leaving.
The next payment to advance
course members will be made dur
ing the last week of school and
will cover the period of April and
May. This payment will be the last
for seniors.
Want to
display ? .
chance.
The Third Annual Flower Show
of the A. & M. Garden Club will
be held in the rotunda of the Ad
ministration Building from 2:00
till 5:30 o’clock tomorrow (Friday)
afternoon.
There will be twelve classes of
flower arrangements, and prizes
will be awarded in each class to
the best array. At the previous
flower shows many beautiful spec
imens have been shown, and great
skill in arranging the flowers has
been exhibited by the entrants.
The membership in the A. & M.
Club has increased considerably
since last year, and a greater num
ber of entries than the 200 entered
last year are expected. Mrs. C.
B. Campbell is the president of
group, and Mrs. V. K. Sugareff is
secretary.
The public is invited, and the
Gai-den Club wishes to extend a
special invitation to all students
interested in attending. The show
promises to be well worth the
walk to the Administration Build
ing.
The classes for the entries of
flowers are as follows: miniature
arrangement, medium arrangement,
large arrangement, rose arrange
ment (also best specimen of rose
buds, and best single specimen of
open rose), arrangement of gar
den flowers, wildflowers, potted
plants, arrangements by men (al
so best single specimen exhibited
by a man), Japanese arrangement,
and special arrangement, such as
for a sick bed or breakfast table.
All the flowers used in the show
will be grown by the members ex
cept the wildflower class.
Two College Station
Coeds Will Attend
T.S.C.W. Senior Prom
Special to The Battalion
Denton, April 25.—Misses Anna
Frances Smith and Margaret Sco
field of College Station will attend
the occasion of occasions at Texas
State College for Women, the an
nual Senior Formal May 4 when
Russ Morgan and his band will
play. ^Morgan is also scheduled to
play for the Senior Ring Dance and
Banquet at Texas A. & M. May 10.
Only seniors and their guests
take part in the affair, considered
the outstanding social function of
the entire four years of college.
The dance will be held in the Col
lege Library, and the identity of
the 1939-40 class beauties will be
that the boys are really having a I revealed when the girls are pre
time and that the show is benefit"- sented for the first time,
ting them in many ways. Miss Smith is the daughter of
To appreciate the fine talent that Mrs. Anna V. Smith and is study-
is being presented once a week a ing business administration at T.
better idea of what is going on S. C. W. Miss Scofield is the
“behind the walls” can be obtained daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
by tuning in WBAP at Fort Worth Scofield, and is a speech major at
any Wednesday night at ten-thirty, i the college.
Dairy Contest To
Be Held Saturday
The annual sophomore student
dairy cattle judging contest will
be held Saturday morning at 8:00
o’clock, Professor A. L. Darnell of
the Dairy Husbandry Department
has announced. The contest is op
en to all sophomore students in
Agriculture who have taken or are
taking Dairy Husbandry 202.
Previous years contests have had
as many as eighty to one hundred
cadets competing for prizes and
medals given by Bryan and College
Station business men. All students
competing in the contest will be
excused from classes on Saturday
morning.
Professor Darnell stated that the
contest this year will consist of
six classes of dairy cattle, three of
which will be Jerseys and three
Holstein. Contestants will give oral
reasons on one class of each bi'eed.
Medals to be awarded the win
ners will be presented to them at
the intermission during the annual
Cattleman’s Ball which will be
held May 3.
Design for ’40 Invitations
Here’s the cover design for the senior invitations of the class of
’40. It shows a view of both sides of the senior ring.
Final Invitation Orders To Be Taken
In Rotunda on Thursday and Friday
Max McCullar, senior class pres
ident, has announced that orders
for invitations to the commence
ment exercises of the senior class
may be placed in the rotunda of
the Academic Building, Thursday
and Friday afternoon, April 25 and
26. The cards to be sent with
the invitations may be ordered at
the same time and placed through
Archie Gregg for the price of
$1.75 per hundred.
Seniors are reminded to order
their invitations early so that all
arrangements may be correctly
made. The invitations this year
are to have a particularly beau
tiful design; one that all Aggies
will be proud to see and have on
their invitations. The design was
drawn by “Hildy” Hildebrand of
Houston and embodies practical
ly all of the typical Aggie symbols
without appearing crowded. The
cover design is a composite of the
designs of the senior ring and
the name of the college. The
saber, cannon, rifle, Texas flag,
United States flag, inverted
Ring Dance Tickets
All seniors planning to at
tend the Senior Banquet and
Ring Dance should purchase
their tickets, price $3.50, as
soon as possible in order that
more detailed plans may be
made for the occasion.
For those seniors living in
the project houses. Bob Stone
at house 3, has tickets;
while Gene White of the Com
mandant’s Office has tickets
for those not connected with
any organization. All or
ganization commanders have
tickets for both the dance
and banquet and in a day or
two will have tickets or cards
calling for extra favors.
chevrons, and the star and wreath
seal of the state of Texas are all
included. The words ‘Texas A. &
M., 1940’ surround the decorative
cut, and the total impression is
one which every Aggie would want
as a souvenir, regardless of wheth
er or not he is a senior.
Inside the booklet invitations
will be the commencement an
nouncement and the classroll, with
handmade etchings of the Ad
ministration and Academic Build
ings and the new dormitory area.
The words of “The Spirt of Aggie-
land” will be engraved on a
shadowy “T” on another page.
This work is done by hand, and
therefore will be of much better
(Continued on page 5)
History Teachers
To Attend Meeting
Dr. R. W. Steen and Dr. A1 B.
Nelson, professors of the A. & M.
History Department, will attend the
annual meeting of the Texas State
Historical Association in Austin
Friday and Saturday.
Dr. Steen will address the as
semblage Friday morning at 9 on
the subject “Texas in the World
War.”
Dr. Nelson is the author of a
lengthy article and designer of a
map on the campaigns of “Juan de
Ugalde and Picax-Ande Ins-tinsle,”
in the latest issue of the South
western Historical Quarterly, pub
lished by the Texas Historical As
sociation.
Ugalde, Dr. Nelson explains, was
a commanding general of the
Spanish forces in Texas and the
northern Mexican provinces and is
the man for whom Uvalde, Texas,
was named. “Picax-Ande Ins-
tinsle” was a fierce old Apache
Indian chieftain of west Texas.
Nelson, Little In
Runoff; 12 Men In
Yell-Leader Race
Bob Little and Jack Nelson, A.
& M. juniors, are in the runoff to
day for the post of senior social
secretary for 1940-41, and all ju
niors are reminded to go to the
rotunda of the Academic Building
today and vote.
Voting will be carried on in the
usual manner, and every junior
wishing to vote should visit the
polls between 8 a. m. and 5:30 p.
m. and present his February reg
istration receipt from the fiscal
office. Bob Little, F Coast Ar
tillery, polled 58 votes in the Mon
day primary election, while Jack
Nelson, Infantry Band, polled 91.
Since Nelson’s vote was not a ma
jority of the 253 votes cast, the
runoff between the two highest
candidates is being held today. In
the primary Monday, Bill Becker
was elected Longhorn Editor for
next year over Ele Baggett, and
Paul Haines was the successful
candidate for Town Hall Manager,
defeating David Yarbrough.
The primary election to narrow
down the field of candidates for
junior yell leader will be held to
night in Guion Hall at 7:00 p. m.
when the sophomore class meets to
make their selections. The election
system used this year for this
post will be the same as that used
last your. Cadet Colonel Woody
Varner will be in charge of the
sophomore class meeting, and all
candidates are requested to be on
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Better Git Thru Them Chores Early-’Cause There’s
To Be a Hot Time in the Old Hay Loft Friday Nite!
Friday night’s the night to git
the milkin’ and feedin’ done ’fore
sundown ’cause they’re throwing
the ding bustedest shindig you ever
heered tell of down in the hayloft
of the Agricultural Engineering
Building. You can’t afford to miss
it ’cause nigh everybody in the
country is gonna be there having
all sorts of fun.
Ain’t got no fancy dress clothes ?
Shucks, don’t let that stap you
You want to git there early Fri--fCollege Station, Colonel F. G. An
derson.
You ain’t never broadcast over
one of them there wireless sets?
Shucks, Friday nite’s your chance
then ’cause they’re gonna broadcast
day nite too ’cause it starts nigh on
to nine o’clock and you don’t want
to miss any fun.
Yep, it’s the Fifth Annual Barn
yard Frolic, given by the - Agri
cultural Engineering Society, I a whole hour o’er station WTAW
which comes on Friday night, April from 10:00 ’till 11:00. The broad-
26 from nine ’till one o’clock. cast is gonna be kinda swell, too,
The fiddlin’s gonna be done by with a special orchestra arrange-
Longjack Littlejohn and his “Barn- ™ent and one of them there mas-
’cause you ain’t suppose to wear I yard Ramblers”, sometimes mis- ^ er s ceremonies,
them to that thar Barnyard Frolic takenly called the Aggieland Or- ‘An beauties; you ain’t never
they’re a havin’. Just polish up chestra. You don’t want to miss the | seen the like of them that’s goin’
those ole brogans and git out a | square dance either ’cause they’re | to be there. Why there’s a gonna
clean pair of overalls an’ yer all goin to have a full 15-minutes of | be a whole cramful busload of
set to go. it called by the high mogul of j (Continued on page 5)
COLOR MOVIE
AND TALK GIVEN
BY EBEN FINE
Pictures in Color Form
Background For Lecture
By Noted Coloradoan
Combining scientific color photo
graphy with artistic background
and historic setting, Eben G. Fine
of Boulder, Colorado, sponsored
by the Agronomy Society, present
ed a travelog starting with Texas
and running through Colorado,
Alaska, and the West, in the Phys
ics Auditorium Monday evening.
Mr. Fine’s lecture was an inspi
ration to amateur photographers.
He showed photochrome pictures
of forest fires in Colorado; the
five highest mountains in the Unit
ed States, Mt. McKinley in Alaska,
20,300 ft. elevation, highest in
North America; Mt. Whitney of
California, highest in the United
States; Mt. Elbert of Colorado,
second in the United States; and
Mt. Massive, third highest in the
United States. Showing untilted
paleozoic sandstone, in Boulder
Canyon; vertical reliefs of Algon
quin metamorphosed quartzites in
Big Thompson Canyon; in beau
tiful columnar formation cretaceous
cliffs of the Mess Verde Cliff
Dwellers. He combined the arche
ological data of Dr. Douglas tree
ring chronology with their geologic
background.
Mr. Fine, a Coloradoan, showed
Texas scenes from the Alamo to
the San Jacinto Battlefield,
Breckenridge Park, The Bluebon
nets Indian Blankets, and the Sam
Houston Memorial.
Although he showed color photo
graphy, he could be called an artist
since his pictures were not only
a marvelous photographic exhibit
but also a splendid depiction of
artistry and nature interpreta
tion.
His work is a hobby and he car
ries it on without remuneration.
He spoke six times in the Bryan
Schools on Monday before appear
ing in A. & M. in the evening.
His visit was his third to the
A. & M. College. He remarked
on the remarkable changes in the
college since his last visit here.