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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
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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.
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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.
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“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
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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
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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—
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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.
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Brazos County Red Cross War Relief
Goal Set at $900; Contributions Asked
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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—
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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—
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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—
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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.
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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
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