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THE BATTALION
■TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940
Official Notices
Station
CITY TAXES
All taxpayers of the city of College
tation will render their taxes for the
year 1940 beginning April 15th at the
City Office.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
April 29, 30, and May 1—Milk Sanitation
Short Course.
May 2 and 3—Saddle & Sirloin Club
benefit show.
May 3—Cattleman’s Ball, Sbisa Hall, 9
p. m. to 1 a. m.
May 4—Corps Dance, Sbisa Hall.
May 4—S. M. U. vs. A. & M., Baseball,
Kyle Field.
May 6—Faculty Dance, Sbisa Hall
May 8—Little Symphony Orchestra,
May 9 & 10
May 9 & 10—Architectural
Guion Hall, 7:30 p.
I. E.
9 & 10-
ow, 7 p.
10—Senic
May
Baseball, Kyle Field.
Benefit show, 7 p.
Club be;
10— Senior King Dance, Sbisa Hall.
11— Baylor University vs. A. & M.,
lay
fit show, 7 p. m.
May 10—Senior Ring Dance, Sbisa Hall.
May 11—Corp Dance, Sbisa Hall.
DEADLINE FOR INVITATIONS
The positive deadline for seniors to
order Commencement invitations is Wed
nesday afternoon from 1 to 5 in the
rotunda of the Academic Building.
MAX McCULLAR, Senior President
UNIFORM WOOL O. D. SHIRTS
Attention of all concerned is invited to
Memorandum No. 17, this headquarters,
dated April 9, 1940, which directed that
all uniform O. D. woolen shirts be turned
in to the Exchange Store by the students
to whom they were issued by April 20,
1940.
Shirts not already returned must be
turned ih prior to April 27, 1940. The
price of replacement, $2.67 per shirt
will be charged against each student who
fails to return shirts issued to him by
May 2.—Col. Geo. F. Moore.
FINGERPRINTS OF FUTURE O.R.C.’s
In order to obtain fingerprints of all
students to be appointed in the Officers’
Reserve Corps at the end of this school
year, as required by Army Regulations
345-120, all students who have so applied,
except those who have yet to attend R.O.T.
C. Camp or who will be under 21 years of
age on May 31, 1940, will report in the
he Old Mess Hall, to be
rding to the following
age on May 31, 1940,
west basement of the Old Mei
fingerprinted, acco:
echedule:
From 3:00 to 5:45
,y 1, 1940—Infantry.
Thursday, May 2, 1940—Field Artillery.
Friday, May 3, 1940—Infantry and
' P-
Wednesday, May 1, 1940—Infantr
irsdi
lay,
Field Artillery.
Tuesday, May 7, 1940—Cavalry and En
gineers.
Wednesday, May 8, 1940—Coast Artillery,
Signal Corps, and Chemical Warfare.
Thursday, May 9, 1940—Cavalry, Engi
neers, Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, and
Chemical Warfare.
Col. Geo. F. Moore, Commandant.
Organizations
A. S. C. E.
The A.S.C.E. will meet tonight at 7:00
in the C. E. lecture room. There will be
reports from the delegates to the con
ventions. All civil engineers are invited.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING CLUB
Stuart E. Buckley, production research
engineer for Humble Oil Company, who
is from Houston, will address the Petro
leum Engineering Club Thursday evening
at 7:30. He will speak on “Current Re
search in Petroleum Production”. The
public is invited.
RURAL SOCIOLOGY CLUB
The Rural Sociology Club will meet
Tuesday, May 30, at 7 p. m. in room
203 of the Agricultural Building.
LANDSCAPE ART CLUB
The Landscape Art Club will have its
election of officers for next year tonight
at seven o’clock in the Landscape Art
drafting room.
All landscape art students, regardless
of membership, are urged to be present.
POULTRY SCIENCE CLUB
meeting of
room 115,
Wednesday
night at 7:30. All members and others
interested in poultry are urged to be
present.
DRESS UP
IN A SMART
NEW STRAW
Here’s tops in smart
comfort . . . new open
weaves ... informal lines
... wider brims .. . smart
new colors in a host of
casual, carefree styles
that will please every
man. We suggest that
you stop in to see our
fine assortment of Dobbs
and Hopkins straws.
$1.95 to $4.95
fllaldropfl(8
“Two Convenient Stores”
College Station - Bryan
KREAM AND KOW KLUB
There will be a Kream and Kow Klub
meeting Tuesday night at 7:15 in the
Creamery lecture room. Final plans for
the Cattleman’s Ball will be made.
BATTALION EDITORS
There will be a meeting of all manag
ing and junior editors of The Battalion
newspaper and magazine at The Batta'
lion Offii
ce at 5 p. m.
me
toda
A. & M. DAMES CLUB
The Dames Club will meet Wednesday
in the Y. M. C. A. instead of Kiest Hall
as previously announced.
MARKETING AND FINANCE CLUB
The Marketing and Finance Club Ban
quet will be held Tuesday, May 7, in the
Banquet room of the Mess Hall. The
banquet will be free to all members in
good standing, while other members will
be charged 75 cents. This will be the
last meeting of the year and officers
for next year will be elected.
All those planning to attend must sign
up with the secretary of the agricultural
economics department by noon, Monday,
May 6.
HORTICULTURE SOCIETY
There will be an important meeting
of the Horticulture Society Tuesday night
at 7:15 in room 103 of the Agriculture
Building.
Dr. Bretz, plant pathologist of the
Biology Department, will be guest speaker.
All horticulture majors are urged to at
tend. Plans for the annual club picnic
will also be made.
Classified
LOST—One pair of G. I. slacks
poi
one dollar for return to J. H. Graham
ocket. Rewa
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15,509 on inside right
one dollar for return „„ o.
7-410. Fellows, look at your slacks and
help me out.
FOR SALE—A junior-senior blouse, size
34, with Sam Browne belt and shoulder
strap, frog and saber chain. Good c
ly $10. Need cash. Write P. O.
•ap, frog
dition. Only
Box 67.
FOR SALES—Five-passenger summer
camp car (with no previous camp experi
ence). Has five good tires, clean uphol
stering, glasses intact, hydraulic brakes,
six new spark plugs, one new fan belt.
On new dorm parking lot. Price only
$60 cash.
Also for sale—One pair of senior boots
(new bottoms), $20; one pair of ice
cream breeches, $14; one serge shirt,
$5.50. See Cy Newman, at 401 Hall 5.
LOST
The articles listed below have been
turned in to the Mechanical Engineering
Office. Students who have lost articles
in that building please call at the office
and identify them.
1 drawing set—Name E. B. Dominy;
1 brown sweater; 1 raincoat (brown
tweed) ; 1 sweater (two-tone)—name W. A.
Beasley; 1 suede jacket—name Louis H.
Johnson ; 1 trench coat—name D. C. Wil
son ; 1 trench coat—name Park—1 brown
sweater (slip-over type) ; 1 navy jacket;
2 brown leather jackets; 1 tan suede
i; 1
eate:
:ackets ;
jacket; 1 Bausch & Lamb goggle case—
name Geo. Mortan; 2 prs. black leather
gloves; 1 pigskin glove (right hand) ;
1 trench coat belt; 1 large gray looseleaf
notebook—name G. C. Henderson ; 1 large
j>lue loose-leaf notebook (Chemistry notes) ;
1 large blue loose-leaf notebook—name
Fish Warner; 1 large blue loose-leaf note
book—name Richard Downing; 1 small blue
loose-leaf notebook; 1 small blue loose-
leaf notebook—name Fish McGaskill; 1
clip board—name W. Mohle; 1 clip board
■—initials, L. O. W. ; 5 spiral notebooks:
2 log log duplex sliderule manuals; 1
Dana’s Manual of Mineralogy—name
Charles Ramsel; 11 Engineering Prob
lems books; 1 Technical Drawing Book
for High Schools—name Herbert West;
1 Fundamentals of Petroleum Industry;
1 English Practice Book; 1 Answer Book
to Problems in Elements of Electrical
Engineering ; 1 Plane Trigonometry—name
Allen Laster; 2 French curves; 1 45 de
gree triangle; 3 60-30 degrees triangles;
4 Engineer’s scales; 1 Sliderule—name
Landua; 1 Sliderule—name J. M. Hamblin.
Lost Articles—
(Continued from page 1)
Mineralogy” is waiting for him
there also; C. B. Dominy may call
for his drawing set and Herbert
West for his "Technical Drawing
Book for High Schools.” Allen
Laster has a Plane Geometry
book in store; and J. M. Hamblin
and a student named Lantau may
obtain their sliderules by calling
at the office.
The list of unnamed articles in
clude 2 brown sweaters, 1 navy
jacket, 3 leather jackets, 3 pairs
of leather gloves, 1 trench coat
belt, 2 loose-leaf notebooks, 1 clip
board, 5 spiral notebooks, 2 log
log duplex sliderule manuals, 11
engineering problems books, 1
“Fundamentals of the Petroleum
Industry,” 1 "English Practice
Book,” 1 “Answer Book in Prob
lems of Electrical Engineering,” 2
French curves, 4 triangles, and 4
engineers’ scales.
The M. E. Department requests
that those students who own these
articles obtain them immediately
as the building is fast turning in
to a storeroom for lost and found
articles. But it is not alone—the
other departments probably have
equally as many lost articles and
are just as eager to get rid of
them!
Colonel Moore—
(Continued from page 1)
Colonel Moore was a distinguish
ed graduate of the Coast Artillery
School in 1927, the Command and
General Staff School in 1928 and
the Army War College in 1934.
His graduation from War College
not only completed his formal
Army schooling, but also auto
matically placed him on the list of
officers eligible for War Depart
ment General Staff duty.
On September 1, 1937, Colonel
Moore took over duties as Com
mandant of the college cadet corps
at A. & M. This position made
him the head man of all college mil
itary activities. He became the
first regular army officer in five
years to serve as Commandant at
A. & M. Reserve officers held
the post during the five years be
fore him and he was the first of
ficer other than an Infantryman
to hold the post in the past fifteen
j years.
Government Inspector
(Continued from page 1)
“The close tie-up of all the sub
stations with the Main Station and
the close cooperation between the
different substations is resulting,
it seems to me in unusually ef
fective service to the varied agri
cultural interests of your state.
“The problems of agriculture in
a State as large as Texas are many
and often difficult of solution
but the benefits of the aggres
sive attack by the Experiment
staff on these problems have been
evident throughout all sections of
the State I have visited.
“I have had occasion to study
experiment Station work in a large
majority of the states and I can
not refrain from expressing an ap
preciation of the manner in which
the workers in Texas are devoting
their scientific and technical knowl
edge and experience first and fore
most to laying a sound foundation
for the agricultural future of the
state. I know of no finer Spirit
of service anywhere. It is a very
important asset to Texas. This
sort of thing must have behind it
I'ather unusual Teadership.
“The friendly courtesy shown
me by the members of the Station
staff wherever I went made my
work in Texas very pleasant. I
shall hope for the privilege of
coming again.
Nation’s Best
Lois Mallon (top) of Waco and
Barbara Roberts of San Antonio,
Baylor University students, are
the nation’s best in women’s de
bate, voted judges at the national
Pi Kappa Delta tournament at
Knoxville, Tenn. Besides winning
first as a team in women’s de
bate, Miss Mallon individually won
first place in women’s extempor
aneous speaking.
Anderson Announces
(Continued from page 1)
been tendered to the city for the
location of the city’s tool house
which is already in service. It was
reported that the new city power
lines in the North Gate area is
nearing completion.
Mayor Anderson announced that
more rock asphalt has been secur
ed by the city for the purpose of
putting its streets in first-class
condition. He also reported that the
budget for 1940-41 is being pre
pared and will be presented at the
next regular meeting of the Coun
cil.
Child Expert
Says Kindness
Not Instinctive
Although it is necessary that ev
erything be done for a tiny baby,
as a child grows older it is import
ant that he be taught to do things
for himself and gradually learn
to enjoy doing things for others,
according to Dosca Hale, specialist
in parent education and child de
velopment for the Extension Ser
vice of Texas A. & M. College.
She points out that oftentimes
adults and older children enjoy
having others dependent upon them
and rob children of the opportunity
of learning to be thoughtful -and
considerate. Gradually these child
ren become more and more self-
centered and finally as adults they
care little or nothing for the wants
and feelings of family, neighbors,
and associates.
It helps for adults to be con
siderate and thoughtful as an ex
ample for the child, the specialist
explains, but the child needs to be
led wisely into the doing of concrete
acts that will give him the pleas
ure which comes from doing kind
CONGRATULATIONS!
“CONGRATULATIONS, ANN SHERIDAN!” “THANK YOU,
AUTHOR BROMFIELD!” For swell teamwork on the new picture
“It All Came True”.
Prehistoric Animals Once Roamed
Brazos River Bottoms; Evidences Of
Occupation of Primitive People Found
By Curtis J. Hesse, Assistant
Curator, College Museum
Brazos county has had a long
interesting history. Even before the
advent of white men, before the
Spanish and French, this area was
inhabited by Indians. Just what
these tribes were, how long they
had been here is yet to be worked
out, but evidences of occupation by
these primitive people are fairly
common. Even earlier residents of
our country were the early animals,
and many fine specimens of these
prehistoric forms are in the mu
seum of Texas A. & M.
Nearly everyone in the county re
members or has heard about Dr.
Mark Francis and his hobby of col
lecting fossils. In 1899 high water
on the Brazos washed out a huge
lower jaw of some extinct animal.
In some way this specimen was
brought to Francis, who immedi
ately took steps to have it pre
served. This jaw, that of the Amer
ican mastodon, is No. 1 in the col
lection of vertibrate fossils at the
College Museum. It gave Francis
the idea that other could be found
and from that time on until the
day before his death on June 28,
1936, his spare time was devoted to
collecting fossil animals. He collect
ed these for two reasons: First, he
wanted to save these scientific
specimens for the State of Texas
rather than see them go to outside
neighbors; and second, he thought
that they might throw some light
on the origin and domestication of
animals. For many years this task
must have been a discouraging one,
but about the time of the European
War, he began to receive some
recognition.
By this time his collection had
grown to considerable size, and the
task of caring for it was burden
some. He began an extensive cor
respondence with scientific men in
the east, exchanging photographs,
specimens, ideas, etc. The United
States National Museum published
reports based upon his collection,
and many eminent men of science
came to College Station to see his
material. During his lifetime, Dr.
Franiis discovered 36 animals that
were unknown before he began his
hobby.
In the graven banks below old
Pitts Bridge, he discovered the
huge elephant, and elephant-like
mastodon. From these same beds
came pieces of the saber-tooth cat,
and the fossil hole called Equus
Francisi. There also was found parts
of the Grant land turtle, called by
Dr. 0. P. Hay, of the U. S. National
Museum, Testudo Annae in honor
of Mrs. Francis. Buffalo, musk,
oxen, weird armadillo-like creatur
es, camels, sloths and a hose of
other now extinct animals were
collected in Brazos County.
Early in his work Francis was
joined by Dr. 0. M. Ball, then head
of the Department of Biology. This
enthusiastic co-worker did much to
ease the strain of the latter years
of work in this field.
Trained as a botanist, Dr. Ball’s
interest was in fossil plants, and
the two worked diligently at mass
ing a collection of plants from the
rocks of Texas. These fossil floras
were the basis of several reports
by the U. S. National Museum, and
Dr. Ball himself published two
large monographs on his collection.
Neither his plants nor Francis’ ver-
things for others. This training,
however, must begin very early,
and usually a suggestion or re
minder in normal situations is suf
ficient. Even adults appreciate be
ing reminded of little things they
can do to show their appreciation
of others.
tebrate collections were adequately
housed in fire-proof quarters, or so
placed that they could be easily
seen by visitors.
Upon the death of Dr. Francis in
1936, the college authorities felt
that some recognition should be
given all this work. A museum was
established in the old hog serum
laboratory across the street from
the Administration Building. The
Francis collection of animals, the
Ball collections of fossil plants,
and the S. M. Tracy collection of
recent plants were moved into new
quarters. Dr. O. M. Ball, retired as
head of the Department of Biology
was appointed curator of the new
museum. This was in September of
1937.
The S. M. Tracy Herbarium had
been in posession of the Experi
ment Station for some years, but
was never in such shape as to be
of use. The nucleus of this collec
tion were plants collected by Helgie
Ness and S. M. Tracy, although
others had added to it.
In its new quarters this collection
has rapidly expanded under the
guidance of H. B. Parks and V. L.
Corey. It now contains about 55,-
000 mounted specimens, and some
20,000 duplicate plants, in all prob
ability being the largest herbarium
in the South. The plants are most
ly from Texas, and are the material
upon which the above men have
published “A Catalog of the Flora
of Texas” and other botanical pa
pers. This collection of plants will
play an important part in the agri
culture of Texas.
Other Texas institutions have
museums, many started during the
recent centennial celebration. The
great Texas Memorial Museum at
Austin is one of this kind. These
museums are all aimed at the pre
servation of our history, arts and
natural history. There seems to be
little point to build another museum
of this kind at A. & M. since these
other places have a head start of
it and are doing a good job.
This is one of the largest agri
cultural and mechanical colleges
in the South; so we should have
some sort of a museum project in
keeping with our size and standing.
It would seem most logical to de-
develop such a project with agri
cultural and natural resources as
its central theme. It could be sim
ilar to the modern industrial mu
seums which has achieved such
widespread publicity.
Such a plant would be non-com
petitive with other established mu
seums of the state; it would be typ
ical of the school and would be
unique in the South if not in the
entire United States.
$25 Wardrobe For
Farm Women Planned
An attractive wardrobe costing
$25 a year!
That’s what advanced students
at the Texas State College for
Women, Denton, have planned for
the 1940 farm woman of Texas.
And not only planned, for they’ve
actually purchased accessories and
underwear, made inexpensive dress
es, and secured necessary cosmetics,
all within the slim $25 budget.
The work was done under the di-1
rection of Miss Gladys McGill, as-!
sociate professor of the department
of home economics.
More than a thousand home dem
onstration club women from North,
Central, and East Texas viewed |
articles in this phenomenal ward
robe during the recent home dem
onstration women’s short course
held on the T. S. C. W. campus in j
cooperation with the Extension Ser
vice of A. & M. College.
World’s Third Largest Cavern Lies
In Center of the Texas Hill Country
An underground adventure
awaits you at Texas Longhorn
Cavern, the third largest cave in
the worly. It is located almost in
the geographical center of Texas,
in the “Hill Country.” It is one of
nature’s studios where you may
view the masterful handiwork that
has always defied and always will
defy duplication by the hands of
man.
Longhorn Cavern is located on
the United States Highway No.
281, State Highway No. 66, and is
between Burnet and Marble Falls.
This is northwest of Austin, only
a short distance from Roy Inks
and Buchanan lakes.
Exploration trips through this
cave are under supervision of ex
pert guides, and evening trips and
private parties may be guided
through by special arrangements
in advance. The rates of excur
sion throughout the entire devel
oper portion of the cave vary. For
school children the price is 50
cents, but for adults it costs $1,
subject to a 10 percent federal tax.
However, special rates are made
for groups, clubs, organizations,
etc. There are free camp grounds
with plenty shade and water
available to campers and picnick
ers.
Longhorn Cavern was taken over
by the State of Texas and made a
state park in order that the beau
ties of the cave might be publicly
exhibited. As yet, eight miles of
the cave have been explored with
out reaching the end of it, and
throughout the cave are trails that
have been built to insure the saf
ety of those sight-seeing. Now
Longhorn Cavern has been exten
sively developed and is equipped
with intricate lighting systems.
The “Sam Bass” entrance to
Longhorn Cavern was so named
after the famous outlaw who, ac
cording to legend, used this en
trance to the cave to evade his
pursuers. In the interior of the
cave is the huge footprint, said to
be that of the outlaw. Rust-eaten
revolvers and flattened bullets
found in the cave indicate its use
as a rendezvous where many fights
were waged.
Leaving the Sam Bass entrance,
the trail winds through numerous
rooms and grottoes, each of dif
ferent formations.
‘Sully' Says C. E.'s Really Enjoyed
Inspection Trip--Especially the G.P.!
By Walter Sullivan
Last Wednesday morning thirty
senior Civil Engineering students,
with Professor T. L. McNew, left
cloudy College Station for the so-
called “sunny South”; however, we
found, upon arrival, that Houston
was wet, too.
The first stop was the Wyatt
Metal and Boiler Works, where
we were divided into groups and
taken on a thorough tour of the
shops in which many gigantic
projects were under construction.
It was here that the writer learned
that steel beams didn’t grow as
do cotton, corn, oats, etc.
Second on our schedule was the
Azrock Tile Company. Here we
saw cottonseed, clay and pigment
go into one end of a rather com
plicated mixing and compressing
system and come out at the other
end, finished squares of tile . . .
really, it was amazing.
Next we were taken through
Parker Brothers, Inc., whetfe we
saw what was in our estimation,
the most modern sand, gravel,
shell, and cement company in the
South; and we were not alone in
our opinion, for it is noted as
such by many eminent authorities.
After the inspection of the plant
proper, during which all questions
were answered by Mr. Sid Clark
(he couldn’t be stumped), we were
taken some miles up the channel
by boat as a combined pleasure
ride and inspection tour of their
wharves. After the boat ride,
we were taken to dinner as Cap
tain Bill Parker’s guests . . . in
cidentally, it was a swell dinner.
Upon leaving, we expressed a debt
of gratitude to The Parker Broth
ers, Sid Clark, “A1 Capone” Saw
yer, and many others.
The next morning at eight we
were admitted to the actual point
of construction of the New Esper-
son Building (now under construc
tion) where many of us saw steel
erection at close range for the
first time ... no casualties.
From there we went to Houston’s
brand new City Hall, where we
were allowed to visit their engi
neering, drafting, and project dem
onstration rooms; it was quite an
enlightening experience, for here
we saw the various city depart
ments “cooperating together with
each other” . . . naturally, we
were most interested in the engi
neering phase of it.
Our next stop was the Trinity
Portland Cement Company, where
•fwe learned the basic rudiments
involved in the manufacturing
processes employed by the com
pany.
From there we proceeded to
Houston’s really great sewage dis
posal plant, where we spent an
interesting hour and a half. As
we left, I heard Mr. Sol Wright
sigh with relief and say “thank
gosh no one fell in.”
Next we went through most of
the Hughes Tool Company Shops.
Grand Prize Brewers, both own
ed by the celebrated aviator
Howard Hughes. The brewery
held a most peculiar fascination
for us, but I never could fully un
derstand just what it was.
At Wellesley a student borrowed
a milkman’s suit and wore it for
study during exam week. Now the
girls can hardly study without their
overalls.
From Smith College also comes
the craze for red flannel shirts and
faded blue jeans. At Bryn Mawr
they cram for exams in dungarees
rolled to the knees and the wildest
plaid shirts they can find.
Whether it’s a special
occasion or just another
day, come in for—
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Come in often and let our experienced barbers cut
your hair.
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