<•> CIRCULATION 5,500 r lF“Tj T*' i. £ ? * LISTEN IN . . . & % OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Ihe Battalion ON FRIDAY’S “AGGIE CLAMBAKE”, BATTALION NEWSCAST, 4:30-5:30 VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1940 Z725 NO. 82 Junior Yell-Leaders For 1940-41 To Be Named Tonight Juniors And New Campus Theater Opens Tonight New Plan Would Distribute u p. , , Student Jobs More Evenly Sophomores Has Finest A - & ^ Newest Theater - Opens Tonight „ _ ndations which havetSocial Secretary , VntPQ # — Wn nnnrnvpH hv t.hp Ac- Advertising Manager, Battalion 8 V'ClkJ L f U LCkJ Equipment Obtainable ‘Buddy’ Walker Is Manager of Newest Civic Enterprise By A. J. Robinson At last! After long waiting, Aggieland will tonight see the opening of the grand and new sixty-five-thousand-dollar modern air-conditioned theater, the Cam pus. Originally scheduled to open at the beginning of the year, the Campus has found difficulty in securing film, but will open to night with a newly-released pic ture entitled “Son of the Navy,” starring James Dunn and Jean Parker. Although the show is a first- run picture, it is not an assurance of first-run pictures In the fu ture. It was not obtained by a contract, but was secured on a “spotting” basis, that is, the book ing of only one picture at a time, Manager V. A. (Buddy) Walker stated. Although the movie is not rated as being of first class, we are informed that the Campus Theater management is trying desperately to secure first-run, first-class pictures for College Sta tion. The doors of the Campus will open tonight at 7:15, the first show beginning at 7:30 and the second at 9:15. The same picture will be run also Friday and Sat urday with a new show presented at the midnight show to be held Saturday night. The Campus Theater will operate from 1:00 p. m. until 11:00 o’clock p. m. daily, with prices of 10 cents for chil dren and 25 cents for adults. According to the management the opening will not be accom- (Continued on page 4) PRESSMEN HOLD AMUAL BANQUET AND CONFERENCE Tuesday night the Press Club, composed of members of the staffs on The Battalion, the Longhorn, and the Scientific Review, were given a banquet by the Student Publica tions Board, and following the feast, the club elected Jeff Mont gomery, Bill Becker, and A.. J. Robinson as club officers for the coming year. Montgomery will be president; Becker will be vice-pres ident^ and Robinson will be secre tary. . Following a repast of sirloin steak with trimmings, toastmaster George Smith introduced George Wilcox, professor in the Education Department and member of the Publications Board, who made the address of the evening. Mr. Wil cox spoke in the absence of Pres ident Walton, who was scheduled to address the group but who was ill. Dr. F. C. Bolton, Dean of the College and chairman of the Pub lications Board, presented awards to. various members of the staffs for outstanding service to their respective publications. Bronze keys, silver keys, and gold keys were given to men of one, two, and three years’ service. Senior editors of the publications Bill Murray, George Smith, James Critz, J. C. Schultz, Larry Wehrle, and Doug Watson, received gold Elgin pocket or wrist watches. An award was made by the students on tfye staff to E. L. Angell, known to the staff as “Chief” and who is manager of Student Pub lications, in expression of their appreciation for his able and steady assistance to them in their various tasks. Bronze keys were given to the following: W. C. Davis, Ed Doug- (Continued on page 4) Above is pictured the Campus Theater, College Station’s new motion picture house, a $65,000 structure newly completed and opening for its first audience tonight at 7:30. Manager of the theater is V. A. (Buddy) Walker, now of College Station, originally of Norman, Okla homa. Partners with Walker in the local enterprise are L. M. Threet and Sam Hyman, both of Lufkin. The owners declare that without any exaggeration the Campus is the finest and best equipped theater between Dallas and Houston. Engineers and Architects To Hear Distinguished Lecturers Here In May In line with the policy of bring-- ing distinguished engineers and architects to the campus for lec tures, the School of Engineering of the A. & M. College has plan ned an extremely busy month of May. On May 3 L. A. Hawkins, Ex ecutive Engineer of the Research Laboratories of the General Elec tric Company, will lecture on “Re search Versus Engineering” to an audience composed of all junior and senior engineering students, members of the engineering staff, and others who might be interest ed. On May 6 Colonel Willard Chevalier will begin a busy week on the campus during which he will deliver three lectures as fol lows: “A Young Engineer Sizes Up His Outlook,” “The Engineer as a Community Servant,” and “The Engineer’s New Place in Indus try.” He brings in his lectures that part of an engineer’s train ing, education, and experience that might be termed “non-techni- cal.” Colonel Chevalier is a dis tinguished civil engineer, a World War veteran, and at present is the publisher of “Business Week.” He is a typical American and while he resides in New York City, his travels each year carry him over the United States. He was Com mencement speaker at Texas A. & M. last June and has appeared on the campus a number of times.-fulty are expected to attend. To Each spring a dinner is given in honor of the students in the School of Engineering who have merited a place for themselves on the Dis tinguished Student Register. The dinner this spring is scheduled for the evening of May 8 and the group will be addressed by Colonel Chevalier. Aside from the distinguished engineer plan, Engineers’ Day is observed annually at Texas A. & M. On this occasion students in all departments of the School of Engineering co-ordinate their activ ities to present their Engineers’ Show and Open House. The Elev enth Annual Engineers’ Day is scheduled this year for May 11. Beginning May 15 A. F. Dick erson, Manager of the Lighting Division of the General Electric Company, will begin a week of lectures on the campus. Mr. Dick erson is an A. & M. graduate and has made a distinguished record with the General Electric Com pany. He will deliver three lec tures in addition to sitting in on a Low-Cost Housing Conference sponsored by the Department of Architecture. Mr. Dickerson’s principal lecture will be on the “Illumination of the Golden Gate Exposition.” This lecture will be accompanied by the showing of natural-colored slides. Some 2,500 students and members of the fac- smaller groups, Mr. Dickerson will lecture on “Modern Illuminants” and “Street Lighting.” The Department of Architecture will hold a conference on Low- Cost Housing on May 17 and 18. The principal lecturer will be Richard J. Neutra, one of the out standing leaders in the architec tural profession. Mr. Neutra is not only a designer and planner of high repute, but he is also an (Continued on page 4) been approved by the Student Ac tivities Committee are approved by the faculty, students next year and thereafter will be limited as to the number of student offices and other activities in which they may participate. According to the recommenda tions of a committee of seniors, which have been passed on by the Student Activities Committee, the various student jobs and activ ities will be distributed among as many students as possible, and at the same time prevent any one student from having more to do than time will permit. The basis for the limitation is a point sys tem; points are determined by the amount of work required for a position and the importance it car ries; and no student may be per mitted to carry more than 10 points. The points as recommended by the committee for the various offices are: Cadet Colonel 10 Editor, Battalion 10 Editor, Longhorn 10 Advertising Manager, Battalion 8 Advertising Manager, Longhorn 8 President Senior Class 8 Editor, Scientific Review 6 President Junior Class 6 President Sophomore Class 6 President Freshman Class 6 Town Hall Manager 6 Associate Editor, Longhorn 6 Associate Editor, Battalion 6 Senior Yell-Leaders 6 President of Student Club 4 Managing Editor, Battalion 4 Junior Yell-Leader 4 Vice-President of Student Clubs 2 Secretary-Treasurer of Student Clubs 2 To go into effect, the system must be passed by the faculty. It will come before the Student Wel fare Committee for consideration at its monthly meeting tonight. Other routine matters were discuss ed at the meeting of the Student Activities Committee, of which D. W. Williams is chairman. The committee also announced that the price of Town Hall tick ets for next year will be $2.00 for students and $4.00 for reserved seats. WTAW Featuring Weekly Series On Nation’s Wool-Growing Industry The story of how sheep first-fwoolies were brought from Old came to America, the early de velopment of the wool-growing in dustry in the range and farm flock States, and the rise of farmers’ wool marketing associations is dra matically told in a series of Farm Credit Administration radio pro grams which is being presented by Radio Station WTAW every Tues day at 11:45 a. m. The series, which is in 12 epi sodes, is called The Story of Wool and is set to music with “Home on the Range” as the theme song. Contrasting with the usual East- to-West movement in American history, The Story of Wool de velops the romantic West-to-East saga of sheep; tells how the first Mexico to California by the Span ish conquistadores more than 300 years ago and gradually spread through the Western, Central, and Eastern States. Today on the western mountain ranges and in the farm flocks of the Central and Eastern States there are more than 50,000,000 sheep, producing nearly half a bil lion pounds of wool each year. Ful ly as interesting as the saga of sheep is the story of the rise of farmer’s wool marketing associa tions, which for 30 years have set the pace in the wool industry, form ing a vital link between the iso lated wool producers and the east- (Continued from page 1) Six Candidates Will Make Speeches A joint meeting of the Sopho more and Junior classes will be held tonight at 7:00 in Guion Hall for the purpose of selecting the two Junior yell-leaders for next year’s “twelfth man”. At a previous meeting of the sophomores, held last week, twelve candidates submitted their names for consideration for the job by their classmates. Six of that num ber were eliminated. Those boys left are Skeen Staley, Bill Beck, James Borden, Ed Allen, J. O. Alexander, and Bill Davis. Woody Varner, cadet colonel of the corps and chairman of the student elections committee, will be in charge of the meeting and will introduce the candidates. Each prospective yell leader will make a speech to the two-class audience using his most persuasive facili ties for vote-getting. Following the speeches, printed ballots will be passed out to all in attendance. Each voter will mark one ballot scratching all but the names of the two men of his selection, and each voter will sign his name at the bottom of the ballot. Class officers request that every one who plans to attend the meet ing be on time in order that can didates will have an equal chance to talk to as many boys as possi ble and that the man who speaks first will not be slighted. Rules of elections state that bal lots shall be marked by scratching through all but the names of the voter’s choice. Votes that are cir cled, checked, or cut, will not be counted. Also votes for candidates other than those listed will not be accepted, and ballots should not be folded. NEW STAFF EDITS BATTALION TODAY Beginning with this issue and continuing to the end of the term, the new staff is putting out The Battalion newspaper. Headed by editor-elect Bob Nis- bet and with each of the junior editors serving in succession as managing editors, the junior staff is being allowed to do the actual work of editing so that it may gain some of the experience needed to publish next year’s Battalion. Ju nior editor George Fuermann man aged today’s issue. The present editors are serving from now on mainly as supervisors and guides. But the editorial col umns, the policies, and the proof reading of the paper still remain in their hands. They’ll Sing Here Friday Night Many Army Men Will Be On Campus for R.O.A. Day May 22; Outstanding Cadet Officer To Get Saber; Plan Smoker Of particular interest to all-ffit of all senior R.O.T.C. students.-fular over the country that he has graduating seniors, as well as to anyone interested in the work of the Reserve Corps, will be the Re serve Day program which has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 22. This annual event is sponsored under the organized effort of the State Department and the Brazos County Chapter of the Reserve Of ficers Association. In the past this program has been held on Saturday or Sunday and consequently conflicted with the events of the spring social cal endar, but this year it has been changed to a week night in an ef fort to prevent any conflict with any scheduled activity. This new date was established as a means of creating more interest within the senior class, for after all the program is presented for the bene- The primary purpose of the af fair is to stimulate considerable in terest and encourage cadets to take up regular Reserve work after graduation from A. & M. There will be over 100 visiting Reserve Officers and Regular Army Officers on the campus on the day of the event. They will arrive shortly after lunch in time to witness the scheduled drill of the various units that afternoon. That afternoon the officers will be guests of designated cadet offi cers. At seven o’clock the entire group will meet in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall for an informal smoker. Stanley Foran, an advertising ex ecutive from Dallas, will deliver the only speech that has been scheduled. Mr. Foran’s speech, “Americanism,” has proved so pop- repeated it more than 150 times in the past year. The State Department of Re serve Officers will, as is custom ary, present a beautifully engraved saber to the outstanding A. & M. cadet officer for the year. After these brief ceremonies, the attending seniors will be requested to meet with the instructors of the Reserve units to which they will be assigned upon graduation. There will be no admission charged for the smoker, and it will not last longer than two hours. No particular uniform will be re quired for the informal gathering. Anyone who is interested in this type of work may attend, but sen ior cadets are especially urged to attend this party which is given solely for their pleasure and en joyment. The sixty-five lovely members of the University of Texas Girls’ Glee Club above will present a concert of familiar and popular songs here Friday night in the Assembly Hall at the benefit show of the Saddle and Sirloin and Kream and Kow Clubs. U. T. Girls To Serenade Before Friday’s 'Cowhand’ Festivities Sixty-five lovely feminine mem-fcompanied by Frances Stripling, -fthe day’s work of a cow-puncher bers of the University of Texas Girls’ Glee Club will open week end festivities for The Saddle and Sirloin and Kream and Kow Clubs when they present their annual A. & M. concert Friday night at 6:30 in the Assembly Hall. The club is one of the most outstand ing of its kind, and programs at A. & M. in the past have been very well received. The glee club will sing a num ber of familiar and popular songs and in addition will offer novelty arrangements and numbers. Songs by the Glee Club Sextet and the Glee Club Trio will also be on the program as well as several solos. Members of the trio are Carlie Barnes, Roberta Struss, and Mary Sue Ries. They will be ac- The program will also consist of a show, “Jamaica Inn”, with Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara, and selected short sub jects. The concert by the Univer sity Glee Club will be staged im mediately after the film shorts and will be followed by the main film. At 9:00 p. m. the glee club will be guests of honor at the annual Cattleman’s Ball in Sbisa Hall when Aggie “cowhands” celebrate to the music of the Aggieland Or chestra. Only members of the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Kream and Kow Klub and their guests will be allowed to attend the dance. Decorations for the dance will carry out the traditional cowboy theme in such a way as to depict in all its glamour and hardship. In keeping with the name and decorations, regulation attire for the members of the two clubs will be white slacks, bright, flashy rodeo shirts, white shoes, and a colorful Spanish vaquero sash. All students attending the dance will be clothed in this colorful rodeo costume. The dance, which is given in hon or of the graduating seniors of the two clubs, will also honor the members of the senior livestock judging team and other winning teams of the two clubs. During the intermission of the dance med als will be awarded to members of the teams and winners in live stock and dairy judging contests held at the college throughout the year.