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1 PAGE 4 THE BATtJlION Y\ / f- Official Notices SCHEDULE OF EVENTS May 23 & 24—Fish & Game Club and Poultry Science Club benefit show, As- sembly Hall, 7 p. m. May 27—"Harvest Picnic", 5:30 p. m. Monday in the Formal Garden at the Administration Building. For graduating students and faculty. May 30—Junior Prom May 31—Commencement Services, Guion Hall, 10:30 ail, 10:30 a. m. May 31—Final Ball BANQUET HONORING PROF. REID Prof. D. H. Reid, head of the Poultry Husbandry Department, will be honored for his services to the Texas Poultry industry at a banquet Saturday night. May 25, at 7 p. m. This banquet will be held in Sbisa Hall. Anyone interested may make re servations by contacting Alex G. War ren in the Poultry Husbandry Depart ment. There will be a large crowd of visitin men s an to attend. poultryme students : ind faculty members are invited PLACEMENT BUREAU The Placement Bureau has received all for some graduating can take dictation and t; in the capacity of male i All seniors who have these requirements and are interested, please contact the Placement Bureau immediately. LUCIAN M. MORGAN Association of Former Students GRADUATING SENIORS Having been approved by the Executive Committee of the College, the following is published for the information and guid ance of all concerned: 1. Any candidate for a degree at this college who at the end of the current semester has accumulated demerits in excess of the authorized limit will not be graduated until he shall have appeared before the Discipline Committee of the College. 2. Any undergraduate student who at the end of the current semester has ac cumulated demerits in excess of the authorized limit will not be allowed to again register in the College until he shall have appeared before the Discipline Committee of the College. 3. The proceedings of the Discipline Committee in each case considered must ent of the •oceedings committee m eacn case consul have the approval of the presidi college and a copy of the procee will be made a part of the students per manent record in the Registrar’s Office. COL. GEO. F. MOORE, Commandant FELLOWSHIP LUNCHEON The weekly Fellowship Luncheon will be held every Thursday noon through May CITY TAXES AH taxpayers of the city of College Station will render their taxes for the year 1940 beginning April 15th at the City Office. FOR Eye Examination And Glasses Consult J. W. PAYNE DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY Masonic Bldg. Bryan, Tex. Next to Palace Theater ^■1 w, 'TvVjgy'V GIFTS for GRADUATES Make our two stores your headquarters for Graduation Gifts . . . . You’ll find a splendid as sortment of Gifts that will be certain to please. • Hickok Jewelry Hickok Belt Sets Manhattan Sport Shirts Manhattan Shirts Manhattan Pajamas Catalina Swim Trunks Hinson and Belber Lug-gage Fitted Traveling Kits Ag’gie Jewelry Aggie Belt Buckles Meeker Bill Folds Palm Beach Ties Beau Brummel Ties Lounging Robes Evans Slippers • We will be pleased to gift wrap each Gradua tion Gift for you at no additional charge. fllaldrop&ja “Two Convenient Stores” College Station - Bryan COMMENCEMENT INVITATIONS The Commencement Committee has on hand a number of "Invitations to the 64th. Annual Commencement Exercises.” These will be given out to seniors as long as they last. Please call in person at my office, 304 Animal Industries Build ing, any afternoon beginning Monday, May 20. E. P. HUMBERT, Chairman Commencement Committee RENT HOUSES LISTED Those residents of College Station who wish to rent their house for the summer, please list it with the Commandant’s Office. PLACEMENT BUREAU The Placement Bureau is in receipt of an inquiry from a nationally known manu facturer and installer of home heating and air-conditioning systems advising that they are interested in college gradu ates for sales jobs. They further state that this is more than a straight sales job as it entails engineering and mechani- it entails engineering cal combinations that should appeal to the studen should :omni technical student. All seniors interested in this should contact the Placement Bureau at once. The Placement Bureau has received an inquiry from a large phosphate and chemi cal company advising that they would be interested in receiving appications from seniors interested in sales work. Ad ditional information on this may be se cured from the Placement Bureau. LUCIAN M. MORGAN, Asociation of Former Students CHANGE OF ADDRESS The Post Office Department requests that all students who do not plan to be here for the summer session, turn in their forwarding addresses NOW, dated the day they are to become effective. It is highly important that the forwarding address cards be filled out completely. It is urgent ly requested that those students who re ceive newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals notify the publisher at least four weeks in advance of change of ad dress. By doing this you will not miss any editions of your publications and greatly help the post office by eliminating this congestion of the mails. Convenient form nge .rds for windows, of the Main Office this ff med in before yoi immer in order to recen purpose cai at the windows, free of charge. Patr e are keys must be turned in before enu be rge. .Patron: ed that bo: >u leave for the summer in order to receive your refund. To those students who will remain for the summer session: Box rent is due June 1 and by paying it before that date you will receive uninterrupted, effi cient service. ANNA V. SMITH, Postmaster. Organizations I. E. CLUB The Industrial Education Club will hold the election of next year’s club officers tonight at 7 p. m. in room 101 M. E. Shops. All I. E. students are urged to attend and select the men to direct club next year. your RURAL SOCIOLOGY CLUB There will be a meeting of the Rural Sociology Club in room 203 of the Agri- 7:15 p. m., T irpose of elect: cers for next year. Cigars will be served. Class Reunions— (Continued from page 1) unions this year are the classes of ’00, ’05, ’10, ’25, and ’30. Arrange ments have been made to house the younger classes in the gymn and the older groups in the college hos pital. Sleeping accomodations will be provided for all men visitors, but warning has been issued by the Former Students’ office that ac commodations are not being ar ranged for ladies. C. P. Dodson, ’ll, Decatur, pres ident of the Association, has under consideration the appointment of committees to serve St the annual meeting in order to facilitate the transaction of the association’s business. Returning former students will find a much larger campus that it was when any of them left it. The new dormitories are functioning at their first commencement and many other college improvements have been planned and completed since some of the exes have had a chance to return to their alma mater. Even since the time of the youngest class that is holding its specific reunion this year, the college has completely turned around to face the new Houston highway instead of the railroad tracks and the old highway. Friday evening, May 31, Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Walton will hold a re ception for the returning ex-stu dents, graduating seniors, their parents and friends. The Final Ball will be held that night. The final review Saturday morning will be the final review of the class of ’40, but will bring back many memor ies of years long gone by to the former students. ’A Brazos County Red Cross War Relief Goal Set at $900; Contributions Asked _:y ( culture Building at 7:15 p. m., Thursday, May 22, for the purpose of electing offi- F. F. A. The Junior Collegiate F. F. A. will meet Thursday night in tl lecture room. the Ag Engineering HORTICULTURE SOCIETY There will be a meeting of the Horti culture Society Thursday evening, May 23, at 7:00, in 103 Agriculture Building. CAMERA CLUB The Camera Club will hold its last meetihg of the year in the Physics Build ing next Thursday at 7 p. m. Pictures of the moon will be taken through the fifteen-inch telescope. HILLEL CLUB The meeting for the election of offi cers for the coming year will be held Sun day evening, May 26, at 6:45 in the lounge room of Sbisa Hall annex, pro ceeding the open meeting at 7:45 at which Dr. Lefkowitz will be the guest speaker. All boys are urged to attend. Classified • Summer Press Club key, bearing name and identification on back. Finder please return to Bill Murray at 206 hall 11 for liberal reward. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished apartment, hot-water heater, electr: box, built-in kitchen cabinet priced; on 1011 East 2, ox, built-in kitchen cabinet; reasonably riced; on paved street; available June 3; 5th Street, Phone 806-J, Bryan. FOR RENT—Five-room yurnished house, to rent for three months. College Hills. Call College 607. Visiting Profs— (Continued from page 1) in the class of ’10, designed and installed the lighting system for the San Francisco Fair last year. He has been addressing junior and senior students in electrical engineering, civil engineering, and architects. His subjects were “Street Lighting” and “Modern Il lumination”. Slides and actual equipment were used to illustrate his lectures and problems in il lumination. Scouring Plant— (Continued from page 1) breeding program designed to systematically improve the weight and quality of Texas wools, Since Texas wools are sold on an estimated clean yield (scoured) ba sis, it is important that producers should be in a position to gain rather accurate knowledge of the grades and shrinkages of their clips. The plant, established 20 years ago at A. & M. College was the result of the undivided sup port of the sheep and goat raisers of Texas as an educational step and has resulted in providing defi nite information on wool grades and shrinkages which Texas wool producers have been generous enough to credit for material ben efits which have accrued to the in dustry as a result of the lowering by several points of the estimated shrinkage of Texas wools. When the wool scouring plant was estab- SURE WE CAN and AT MODERATE PRICES Call For STUDENT CO-OP REPAIR North Gate Summer Battalion— (Continued from page 1) within ten days and will be priced at twenty-five cents for each semester. The newspaper will be mailed to the various R.O.T.C. camps without extra charge. Like last summer, 1940’s Sum mer Battalion will he a weekly publication. Thus far the date of the initial publication has not been announced, but it is expected that the paper will come out on Thurs days. Not only will The Summer Bat talion serve the 2,000 summer school students and the City of College Station as its official news paper, but it will serve the thous ands of short course visitors who will be on the campus this summer. It is likely that The Summer Press Club will hold picnics and parties and sponsor dances as was done last summer. Said Fuermann: “I invite and welcome the services of any man who is interested in doing any sort of newspaper work, and will ap preciate any suggestions students may have to make in respect to improving reader-interest in The Summer Battalion.” George Washington received an honorary degree from Brown Uni versity in 1790. Courses on marriage and t family are being taught at more than 300 colleges and universities. lished in 1919, the annual wool production in Texas was about 15 million pounds as compared with a production estimated at around 80 million pounds at the present time. This increase in production has made necessary the enlarged and remodeled plant, which will make possible more thorough and ex haustive study in this field of re search, and consequently a wider and more efficient range of service to producers than was possible with the limited facilities hereto fore available. Twenty-five years ago, Texas range wools were predominantly fine wools; consequently, the prob lem of the development of a re liable method of sampling at the shearing pens was comparatively simple, due to the general uniform ity in the type of sheep produced. With the advent of new breeds, the sampling problem becomes more important. Accordingly, an impor tant feature of the service to be rendered by the plant as well as the research in fibers is a method of selecting representative sam ples. The Brazos county goal in the- Red Cross war relief fund cam paign has been set at $800, M. L. Cashion, A. & M. Y. M. C. A. sec retary and chairman of the Brazos County Red Cross, announced Wed nesday. The need for Red Cross war re lief contributions, has been vividly described in a telegram from Nor man Davis, National Chairman of the American Red Cross, by Mr. Cashion. M. L. Cashion, Chairman, Brazos County Chapter, American Red Cross. With several million men locked in mortal combat on French and Belgian soil the relief needs of Belgian and French people are reaching staggering proportions. Already five million pitiful refu gees are clogging every road into central and southern France try ing to escape bombing and straf ing from airplanes. Our represen tatives in France report thousands dying by roadsides of wounds, fright, and hunger. American Red Cross must rush relief of every kind if these innocent people are to be saved. We are expediting millions of dollars in money and supplies but we need more and big ger contributions to carry on. Cannot urge upon you too strong ly of the need for prompt action if we are to befriend these sorely tried victims of brutal warfare. We count upon you to reach and oversubscribe your goal within shortest possible time, every day’s delay means hundreds may die be cause we have not brought them aid in this, their saddest hour. Norman Davis, National Chairman, American Red Cross. In the nation-wide war relief campaign individual subscriptions ranging from $10,000 down to a day’s profit of a newsboy have been reported from mid-west chapters. Wm. M. Baxter, Jr., St. Louis, Man ager of the agency’s Midwestern Area, described early reports from all sections of the midwest as “ex tremely encouraging in chapters where personal solicitation is under way.” A minimum of $10,000,000 is being sought by the Red Cross to lessen distress among sufferers of Europe’s war-torn countries. He added that several gifts of $10,000 each already have been reported. On the other hand, contributions of very small amounts were being re ceived with equal gratitude. “All contributions should be made through the local chapter,” Baxter explained. “The American people are being asked to give in accord ance with their individual ability. Whatever the sum may be a person may wish to subscribe, it will be accepted and applied to the miti gation of human misery in Europe’s present catastrophe.” Meanwhile, the Red Cross has placed orders for huge quantities of ambulances, field hospitals and aux iliary hospital trucks, as well as surgical supplies. Surgical dress ings and garments already are be ing distributed by the hundreds of thousands among refugees whose homelands have been invaded. This week an additional 400,000 surgical dressings were hurried to the docks at New York for shipment over seas in the first outbound boat, the Red Cross Officials pointed out. Since Belgium and Holland were struck such devastating blows the American Red Cross has cabled a total of $250,000 to Europe for purchase of desperately needed sup plies for these countries, Baxter said. Such funds are being routed through the British. Red Cross to insure delivery and proper handl ing. Patrick, Robinson, And Blume Win In Short-Story Contest Richard L. Patrick, senior of Bat tery F Coast Artillery; Walter Blume, senior of Company A En gineers; and Morton Robinson, ju nior of First Combat Train Field Artillery, have been judged win ners of the short-story contest re cently conducted by The Battalion Magazine. Patrick receives a $5 cash prize for his murder mystery, “Invisible Defense”. Blume’s story, “Women Are Crazy People”, earns him a $3 award; and Robinson gets $2 for his story, “We Went Some where”, dealing with Aggies high- wayers’. Receiving honorable mention are Glenn (Arson) Mattox, for his stories “On Our Campus” and “Fortunes and Misfortunes”; Lee Rogers for his narrative “College to Navasota On Nothing”; Donald Christi for “The Silent Voice”; and Jim Storm for “Auf Wiedersehen”. Judges of the contest were Bill Murray, Paul Ketelsen, and Charles Montgomery. ^ Before the war spread to the low countries the American Red Cross had spent $1,300,000 to les sen the horrors experienced in European countries over-run since last last September, Baxter said. This does not include, he explained, sweaters, socks, bedding, layettes and surgical dressings shipped to Europe’s war destitute from Red Cross chapter volunteers in this country. Particularly has Red Cross relief from the United States been extended to war civilians in Poland and Finland. Through an inquiry and infor mation service maintained by the International Red Cross thousands of requests regarding the welfare of persons living in war zones have been handled through chapters in America. LA SALLE HOTEL BRYAN, TEXAS 100 Rooms - 100 Baths Fire Proof R. W. HOWELL, Mgr. Class ’97 Fred Waring, Glenn Miller College Pets Among the programs liked best by college students today, are Fred Waring’s “Chesterfield Pleasure Time” and Glenn Miller’s “Moon light Serenade.” Each offers specialties to please the college generation. Fred Waring’s idea of writing new school songs to order was in response to petitions signed by thousands of students from nearly every American college for an original Waring song. One song each week is dedicated over the air on “Pleasure Time” broadcast —selected as the best quarter hour on the air by the radio editors of the United States and Canada. The Miller program, voted Amer ica’s foremost dance hand, has an average age under 25- years—in cluding Glenn Miller and Larry Bruff, its announcer. Miller’s pop ularity with swing devotees every where is shown by the fact that he is probably America’s busiest band leader today. He has just one day open in the next six months, and that day a Sunday. The Fred Waring “Pleasure Time” broadcast comes over NBC station 5 nights weekly, from Monday through Friday, and Glenn Miller is heard over CBS on Tues day, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings. Dr. Rodriguez To Serve as Exchange Professor at A&M. Dr. Samuel L. Rodrigues of the University of Puerto Rico will serve as an exchange professor in the Department of Agricultural Eco nomics of A. & M. College dui’ing the Summer Session, according to an announcement by J. Wheeler Barger, head of the department. Arrangements have been com pleted by Dr. Rodriguez to ex change positions with Dr. G. W Schlesselman for a six weeks sum mer term. Dr. Schlesselman will sail from Galveston at the close of the present semester. Dr. Rodrigues is a native of Puerto Rico, but received part of his graduate work in universities in the United States. He has had extensive contacts with agricul tural and business relations in the West Indies and the Latin-Amer ican countries, serving for a time as treasurer of a firm of commis sion merchants in Rio Piedras. World’s Fair Will Feature Bureau For Visiting Collegians Of interest to college students who plan to attend the New York World’s Fair this summer is the announcement of a unique project, a College Student Visitors Bureau, to be conducted at the Fair. The Bureau is inaugurated by the House Plan, the faculty and extra-curri cular organization of the College of the City of New York. Headquarters for the bureau will be 138 Lexington Avenue, where visiting students of both sexes will will be welcomed and the services of the bureau made available to them without charge. The facilities of the bureau in clude complete information on ho tels, transportation, theaters, and points of interest. Guided tours with other students and faculty members will be conducted to in dustrial, civic, and educational cen ters in New York. General World’s Fair information will be available, and an excellent opportunity is afforded for students to meet and mingle socially with students from all parts of the United States and Canada. , Brazos County Has Numerous Libraries Brazos County boasts two public libraries and a number of school libraries, all of the latter being available to the general public under certain conditions. The older of the two public libraries is the Carnegie, in Bryan with approximately 8,000 volumes, including reference bool^s and with a considerable list of magazines. The other is the Brazos County Rural School library, with about 7,000 volumes. A hookwagon is operated in connection, making reg ular trips to various communities throughout the county. The largest library, of course, is that at Texas A. & M. College, wich boasts approximately 70,000 volumes, covering a wide range. Included are many files of state and federal documents, for which the library is a designated deposi tory. Allen Military Academy has a library of about 5,000 volumes; Stephen F. Austin Hhigh School and Lamar Junior High have some thing more than 5,000 volumes, with about 4,500 in the new high school. The library of the Consol idated high school at Texas A. & M. College contains about 2,200 volumes. Brooks Elected President Of Architecture Society The members of the Architec ture Society elected LaVere Brooks of Somerville, Texas, their presi dent for next year. He defeated Preston Bolton after a three day heated election. Sidney Lord, San Antonio, resigned from the race for president in order to be elect ed vice-president. Other officers elected at the meeting were Terry Thrift, San Antonio, treasury; Gordon C. McCutchan, secretary; and Moffat Adams, San Antonio, as sergeant-at-arms. It is notable that the Architec ture Society was one of the first three club organizations to be founded on this campus. The University of Kansas gives a course in movie appreciation. Used Car BARGAINS Thoroughly Reconditioned 2—“38” Fords $525 “35” Fords “35” Ford Deluxe Coupe — A Bargain 1—Model A - 31 (tudor) 1—“35” Chev. 1—“31” Chev. Deluxe, Practically new rubber. About $60. 1—“36” Ford pickup Rebuilt motor & new tires. Some repossessed cars selling for balance due. RIVERS MOTOR COMPANY Location of Old Bryan Eagle Main - Bryan, Texas -THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940 AG ECO TRAVEL COURSE COVERS 7,000 MILES The third annual summer travel course of the Department of Ag ricultural Economics, involving 7,- 000 miles of travel through twelve states, will be conducted from July 22 to August 31, according to J. Wheeler Barger, head of the de partment. The itinerary includes the Mid dle West, the Rocky Mountain Area, the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Coast, and the Southwest. The group will again be in charge of Professor L. S. Paine, and will make first-hand observations and studies of agricultural and busi ness problems in the regions vis ited. Governmental agencies, uni versities a|nd business concerns are operating in arranging con ferences and inspections for the students on the trip. Incidental points of interest on the itinerary are Yellowstone Park, the redwood forests, the San Fran cisco Fair, Hollywood movie in-- dustry, and Catalina Island. Students are regularly enrolled for six credit hours of college work, and keep notes and upon their re turn write comprehensive reports on their observations and collat eral readings. STOP! Why worry about a place to keep your car next year. Before you leave, stop by and reserve a garage with . . . aop coison Humble Sta. - E. Gate RECORDS “April Played the Fiddle” “I Haven’t Time to Be A Millionaire” Glenn Miller and his Orchestra “You Think of Every thing” “Eleanor, I Adore You” Abe Lyman and his Californians “Midnight Stroll”. * “Fine and Mellow” Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra “Down by the O-Hi-O” “Sh! The Baby’s Asleep” The Smoothies (Babs, Charlie, and Little) with Orchestra “Clear Out of This World” “It Wouldn’t Be Love” Gray Gordon and his Tic-Toc Rhythm “Meet The Sun Half-Way” “The Pessimistic Char acter (with the Crab- apple Face)” Mitchell Ayers and his Fashion in Music “I’ll Pray For You” “Wait Till I Catch You In My Dreams” Music of yesterday and today - styled the Blue Barron Way. HASWELL’S Bryan, Texas r v I . i ■