DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 5, 1940
Z725 NO. 9
First College Station Reserve
Army Officers Called For Active Duty
A call to active duty was re- 11 ’
ceived by two College Station res
idents this week when Reserve Cap
tain W. H. Badgett, 360th Infantry,
and First Lieutenant O. E. Teague,
also of the 360th Infantry, were
ordered to report to their respect
ive headquarters.
Captain Budget was notified on
October 1st that he would be called
to active duty. He received his
orders yesterday to report Sunday
to the Chief of Staff of the 1st
Military Area, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas for extended active duty.
Badgett will be at Fort Sam Hous
ton for temporary duty then he
will report for permanent duty as
instructor to the Organized Re
serve Headquarters at Houston,
Texas. Captain Badgett’s family
will join him at Houston.
Lieutenant Teague was ordered
to report to Palacios for Military
Police duty at Camp Hulen, Texas.
He left College Station yesterday
to report first at Fort Sam Hous
ton then on to Camp Hulen.
Both Badgett and Teague are
ex-Aggies. Badgett was an Archi
tectural Engineer of the class of
’29, Cadet Captain of Co. A In
fantry, and a distinguished mili
tary student. Teague took a B. S.
in Agriculture in the class of ’32,
and was Captain of G Infantry, al
so a Ross Volunteer, and a mem
ber of the Saddle and Sirloin Club.
The two newly called officers
have been here at College Station
since their graduation. Badgett is
a Research Associate Engineer
with the Experiment Station. Prior
to graduation Teague was employ
ed by the Post Office and continued
as a clerk in the Postal Service
after graduating. Both men have
been very active in the Reserve
Officer’s Association. Badgett be
ing a former President of the
Brazos County Chapter of the Re
serve Officer’s Association. In
’38-’39 he was Secretary-Treasur
er of the Texas Department R. O.
A. and last year Vice-President of
the Texas Department of the R. O.
A. Teague was the first vice-pres
ident of the Brazos County Chap
ter, and has been on the active list
since receiving his reserve com
mission. Both men will be given
leaves of absence from their res
pective positions here at College.
2400 Thrilled By Excellent
Performance of US Marine Band
By George Fuermann -
“Excellent” is the word for the
United States Marine Band.
Twenty-four hundred Texas Ag
gies, professors, and civilians heard
this outstanding musical organiza
tion’s program Thursday night.
And the 50 members of the Marine
Band heard the capacity audience
give repeated ovations that “were
almost without parallel in the
Band’s history.”
Blessed with a brass section equal
to any in the world; composed of
50 talented and expert musicians;
playing a well balanced program
with a definite audience-appeal;
and using every sound effect in
the books, the Marine Band won
the enthusiastic and whole-hearted
approval of the largest audience
ever to witness a Texas A. & M.
Town Hall presentation.
Holding an audience’s undivided
attention for two and a half hours
is no easy thing to do. The United
States Marine Band did it, and
left the stage with a still music-
hungry audience clamoring for
more.
The regularly scheduled pro
gram consisted of eight numbers—
the encored program was half
again as long as the gracious con
ductor, Captain William F. San-
telmann, led the Band in twelve
extras.
Titled “A Program of American
Music,” the concert opened with
Burnet Tuthill’s “Symphonic Over
ture,” Opus 19. Probably the least
well-received number on the prro-
gram, it was followed by a stir
ring medly of military marches be
ginning with “The Marine Hymn.”
A tremendous ovation was follow
ed by the second number, the tone
poem “Skyward” by Nathaniel
Shilkret. Two encores followed.
The next number was a trombone
solo played by Robert Isele. Isele’s
playing of Arthur Pryor’s “Blue
Bells of Scotland” was a high point
in an evening full of high points,
and the audience felt the same way
about it. Isele played two encores
beginning with the currently pop-
College Residents
To Vote at MP Station
In order to cope with a future
problem the citizens of College
Station will vote today, Saturday,
October 5, on whether to control
all future real estate developments
or land sub-divisions within the
city limits.
All taxpayers are eligible to
vote and can cast their ballots at
the Missouri Pacific Station from
7 a. m. this morning until 7 p. m.
tonight.
The voting will be for or a-
gainst controlling “future deve
lopment on land divisons within
the City of College Station, Texas,
or within a radius of five miles
thereof, exclusive of the City of
Bryan, with regard to layout of
streets, alleys, and zoning restric
tions and require developers or
land dividers to obtain the appro
val of the city government in these
respects before placing any sub
division or units thereof for sale”.
-ular “When the Swallows Come
Back from Capistrano” and ending
with “Last Night I Lay Dreaming.”
In the “Capistrano” number, as
well as in the earlier-played “Ma-
mine Hymn,” the Band proved to
be an excellent choral organization
and in both numbers sang two vers
es of the respective choruses.
George Gershwin’s immortal
“Rhapsody In Blue” concluded the
first part of the program. A long
and extremely difficult piece—eith
er as a solo piano number or with
full orchestra—the Marine Band
proved its versatility in a special
arrangement made for symphonic
band by Ferde Grofe.
Following the ten-minute in
termission the program opened
with excerpts from Victor Her
bert’s popular opera, “Natoma.”
Included in the excerpts was the
glorious “Vanquero’s Song,” the
“Habanera,” and the intriguing
“Dagger Dance.”
At this point Captain Santel-
mann addressed the audience from
the conductor’s stand and praised
the fine work of A. & M.’s band
master, Colonel R. J. Dunn, and
concluded by inviting Colonel Dunn
to conduct the Marine Band—one
of the few times in the history of
the famed organization that a guest
conductor has led the Band.
The tremendous ovation that fol
lowed Captain Santelmann’s an
nouncement and Colonel Dunn’s
appearance on the stage was al
most unprecedented even in Guion
Hall’s historic past. Colonel Dunn
first conducted “The Field Artil
lery Song” and encored with a
medley of Southern songs.
With Captain Santelmann con
ducting again, the second solo por
tion of the program featured Charl
es Owen on the xylophone. Playing
George H. Green’s “Spanish Valse,”
Owen easily proved himself a more-
than-capable artist and encored
three times. Most unique number
on the program was Owen’s clever
arrangement of “Chopsticks.”
The andante from Howard Han
son’s “Nordic Symphony” was the
seventh number on the program
and, after three encores, was fol
lowed by Ernest Schelling’s pon
derous but striking work, “A Vic
tory Ball.”
The number ended with Taps,
first heard from the visible or
chestra on the stage and then
heard in the distance as a bugler
outside Guion Hall played the beau
tiful call again. A tremendously
awing conclusion to the program
the audience was so silent that a
pin dropped in a velvet hat could
have been heard in Guion Hall.
Immediately following Taps, the
Band began “The Star Spangled
Banner” as a thrilled audience rose
to its feet.
The night before its A. & M.
concert, the Marine Band played
at the North Texas State Teachers
College in Denton. Yesterday they
began a two-day stay in Tyler for
the annual Tyler Rose Festival.
Now on a six-week tour, they will
return to Washington October 27.
Total 1st Semester
Enrollment Is 6528
This year’s enrollment, which
has broken all previous records,
climbed to a new peak of 6,528 in
the final totals according to E. J.
Howell, Registrar. The final fig
ures for the first semester shows
a total of 462 increase over the
first semester enrollment last year.
Final registration figures show
ed an approximate percentage in
crease of 12 per cent over last year
which amounted to 6,066.
As yet, no tabulations have been
made on the number of students
enrolled in the various schools.
Thursday was the deadline on en
rollment and for dropping and add
ing courses.
Johnson and Golman
To Cover UCLA Game
In a meeting of the Athletic
Council held last Wednesday morn
ing it was decided to send two of
the Battalion staff members to
cover the U. C. L. A.-A. & M.
game which will be played in Los
Angeles next Saturday.
The two men, Hub Johnson,
sports editor, and Phil Golman,
staff photographer, will leave Tues
day morning via train and will
stop in Tucson, Arizona Tuesday
night.
Phil, who will be covering the
game for the Longhorn also stated
that “I won’t leave a single picture
out—I intend to cover it from all
angles”.
Graduate Club Holds
1st Meeting of Year
John Pasco, M. S., ’40, Texas
A. & M., was elected President of
the Graduate Club at its first
meeting- of the year held in the
lecture room of the Old Science
Hall Wednesday night.
Retiring President John Green,
B. S., ’39, L. S. U., opened the
meeting by outlining the objects
of the club. Mr. Green emphasized
the fact that all persons registered
in or graduates of the Graduate
School of A. & M. College of Tex
as are eligible for membership in
the Graduate Club. Each student
introduced himself, giving the de
partment in which he is doing his
graduate work and the school from
whch he received his undergraduate
degree.
Other officers elected were:
First Vice-President, Page Teich-
ert, BS., ’39, Utah State; Second
Vice-President, Vincent O. John
son, BS., ’36, University of Mis-
ouri; Club Reporter, David Ros-
berg, B.A., ’40, St. Olaf College;
and Secretary-Treasurer, Joe Clepp,
B.S., ’40, A. & M. College of Texas.
High School PTA
Will Sponsor Supper
The Parent-Teachers Association
of the Consolidated School of A. &
M. will sponsor their yearly Com
munity Supper at the High School
unit of the school Thursday even
ing, October 10, at 6:00 p. m.
The Association has promised
that the tables will be groaning
under the weight of the food from
barbecued chicken, and home made
cakes to hot dogs and soda pop.
This annual supper is put on by
the mothers and teachers in order
to raise money for school equip
ment and needs through this year,
and also give a chance to the com
munity to become better acquainted
with the teaching staff. There are
new teachers on the staff and the
people will have the opportunity
of getting acquainted with the new
instructors.
Baptist Church Will
Have Anniversary Social
Church-going Baptist Aggies and
members of the College Station
First Baptist Church will greet the
Reverend T. P. Lott, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Hunts
ville, Texas, who will make his
sermon delivery to the local Bap
tist church at 7:00 p.m. Saturday
night, October 5th.
Following the sermon there will
be an All-Church Anniversary so
cial on the church lawn which will
terminate Campus Church Week.
The general public is cordially in
vited and urged to attend this
church event.
Film Club
Now Open
To Students
Zisman Will Direct
Club as President
What was last year the Faculty
Film Club has been changed by
vote of the members to be called
the A.&M. Film Club and will open
its membership to students. The
club offers foreign, specialty, and
unusual pictures unavailable on the
commercial theatre calendar.
Plans are being made to get the
organization of the club under way
and it will be directed by S.
B. Zisman of the Architecture de
partment as president of the club
and chairman of the executive
committee. He will be assisted by
Dr. S. O. Brown, Biology Depart
ment, J. P. Abbott, English De
partment, and Dr. C. B. Campbell,
Head of the department of Mod
em Languages, and Clifford M.
Simmang, Mechanical Engineering
department.
Though the club was restricted
to faculty members last year, it
met with such hearty approval and
has been so eagerly sought by a
number of undergraduates that
there was a motion at the last meet
ing of the club that this restric
tion be removed in order to allow
those students who wished to join
the club to do so.
The pictures shown at the film
club will not be of the ordinary
movie type, but will each have some
particular significance, either age,
extraordinary photography, unusu
al plot or the fact that it was
made in a foreign country.
Mr. Zisman stressed the fact
that this year will probably be the
last in which the club will be able
to obtain some of the excellent
foreign films now in circulation.
After this, propaganda films in
which the club is not interested,
will probably be the only ones re
ceived in this country. If the club
does not obtain some of the for
eign films which are still being
run such as “Harvest”, a prize win
ning French film, and “The Human
Beast” from a story by Zola, the
great French novelist, these films
will go out of date and be difficult
to obtain.
Other films which the club is
considering are: “The Puritan”
dramatization of Lian-O’Flahar-
ty novel: “The Bakers Wife,” which
has played for the fifty-second
consective week on Broadway:
“The Wave,” a picture of Mexican
fisherfolk.
The executive committee stress-
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Special Tickets To Be
Good On All MP Trains
There will be two trains
leaving San Antonio after the
football game on which the
special round trip tickets will
be useable. One leaves early
Sunday morning and the
other leaves Sunday night.
The special train leaving
for College Station early Sun
day morning will be made up
at 11 p.m. and will leave at
2 a.m., arriving here at 7 a.
m. The regular train, on
which the special tickets will
be honored, will leave San
Antonio at 8:30 p.m. and
will arrive here at 3:06 Mon
day morning.
Sheep, Goat Raisers
To Hold Meeting Here
The Sheep and Goat Raiser’s As
sociation will hold its quarterly
meeting here on October 17th-19th.
This will be the first time the as
sociation has ever met here on the
campus. The meeting will be for
the purpose of discussing business
problems and enjoying social ac
tivities. The Animal Husbandry
Rodeo and the Aggie-T. C. U. game
will be the leading social events.
There will be between 175 and 200
members here who will have their
business headquarters in the library
of the Animal Industries . Build
ing.
Officers of the association are
Pres. E. S. Meyer of San Angelo,
and Secreatry A. K. Mackey, for
merly a member of the college fac
ulty.
G. D. Anderson To
Head Honor Society
G. D. Anderson will serve as
president of the Scholarship Honor
Juniors, Seniors Leave
En Masse For Corps Trip
Society for the coming year due
to the resignation of William J.
“Jeff” Montgomery, it was an
nounced Friday. Montgomery was
elected to this post before the close
of school last year when he was
also made president of the Petro
leum Engineering Club, editor of
the “Engineer,” a student publi
cation, and vice-president of the
senior class. According to a new
point system being put into effect
this year by the Student Activities
Committee, a student is limited in
the number of activities in which
he can participate. Having too
many of these points, he was forc
ed to resign one of his positions.
Anderson is in Battery C, Field
Artillery, and hails from Farwell,
Texas, while Montgomery is in
Company H, Infantry, and comes
from Mason, Texas.
Debate Club Changed
To Round Table Club
Holds Initial Meeting
The A. & M. Round Table Club,
which was last year known as the
Debate Club, inaugurated the cur
rent year at its initial meeting
this past week. The society will be
an organization created for the
purpose of intelligently discussing
problems of the day.
This type of club became pop
ular throughout the Midwest in
Universities and colleges in recent
years. Texas A. & M. has the dis
tinction of being the first South
west Conference member to adopt
this type of panel discussion club.
At the initial meeting of the lo
cal society this past week, Mayo
Thompson, senior of Coast Artil
lery, was elected to the presidency,
and G. C. Hardin, senior of the Cav
alry, was made secretary. Dr. G. E.
Summey C. O. Spriggs, and J. Q.
Hays were appointed as faculty ad
visors.
New Area Dorms Get
Bronze Nameplates
The freshman’s task of learn
ing and remembering the names
of the various buildings was made
no easier Thursday, when new
bronze name-plates were attached
to the dorms in the new area.
Quite likely the numbers will stick
for awhile but eventually it will be
the Freshman’s task to pick out
Byrd E. White Hall from G. Rollie
White Hall, these halls being nine
and ten respectively. To learn and
remember any particular hall and
its location among the $2,000,000
worth will probably cause no few
amount of headaches.
The halls, named officially last
Thanksgiving, were the largest
number of college buildings ever
to be dedicated at a single cere
mony in this country.
The Edwin J. Kiest Hall has had
a bronze plaque displaying a like
ness of the person it was named
after attached to the front of it
since the dorms were completed
because the north end of it is used
as a ladies lounge for visitors. The
new name plates are smaller and
have a green finish with only the
name of the hall on them. The re
spective numbers and names are
as follows:
No. 1, T. W. Spence, former
Dean of Engineering; No. 2, Ed
win J. Kiest, member of the Board
of Directors; No. 3, Charles P.
Fountain, former Head of the Eng
lish department; No. 4, Robert W.
Briggs, member of the Board of
Directors; No. 5, C. S. Gainer,
former state senator of Bryan; No.
6, Walter G. Lacy, member of the
Board of Directors; No. 7, L. L.
Mclnnis, former chairman of the
faculty; No. 8, Henry C. Schuh-
macher, former member of the
Board of Directors who died re
cently in Houston; No. 9, Byrd E.
White, former member of the
Board of Directors; No. 10, G. Rol
lie White, member of the Board of
Directors; No. 11, H. H. Harring
ton, former president; and No. 12,
Joe Utay, member of the Board of
Directors.
Robinson To Be
Managing Editor
Of 1941 Longhorn
Longhorn Editor Ele Baggett
15 Minute Concert
To Be Played by Band
By W. C. Carter, Jr.
By noon today approximately
fifteen hundred Aggies will be
organizing their forces and con
solidating their forces and posit
ions in preparation for the so-call
ed “Second Battle of the Alamo”.
has announced the following as
members of his staff for the com
ing year.
Sports and Managing Editor will
be Morton H. Robinson, who hails
from Houston and is in Battery A,
Field Artillery.
“Corps Trip” fever combined
with that extra dose of “Aggie
Spirit” obtained Thursday night
when the corps sent the team off,
has been the cause of the largest
number of passes to go through
the Commandant’s office in the his
tory of A. & M.
The Junior Assistants will be;
Harvey Lynn, B CWS, J. O. Alex
andre, C Cav.; R. L. Heitkamp, A
FA; and J. B. Hancock, 1st HQ
FA. The Sophomore assistant will
be R. S. Shults, H Inf., and the
freshman assistant will be Russell
Jones, A CWS. Snapshot editor will
-be E. B. Kyzar of C Inf., Vanity
Fair Editor will be J. P. Jones of
G Inf, and the Clubman will be
E. A. Fielder, of B Inf.
Ele also said that the final lay
out sketches had been submitted
by the artists and had been accept
ed, and the drawings would be fin
ished next week for this year’s
Longhorn.
Bill Becker was the original
Longhorn Editor for the year but
due to the new point system he
was forced to resign from the
job so that he could keep the posi
tion of Cadet Colonel.
City Council Passes
Ordinance Concerning
Moving of Buildings
An ordinance concerning the
moving of houses, garages, and
buildings across streets in the city
of College Station was passed by
Ticket sales through Wednesday
were around one-thousand, but
many students decided to go after
the tickets went off sale. Friday
evening saw hundreds of Aggies
leaving by all of the modes of
transportation familiar to the Ca
dets.
The San Antonio Chamber of
Commerce has made preparations
for the large crowd expected to
attend the first college game in
the new Alamo Memorial Stadium.
A. & M.’s last game in San Anton
io, in 1934, resulted in a 26-13 win
for Michigan State. Today the
Farmers are out to remove all
doubt as to how A. & M. games
should come out when played in
San Antonio.
To the seniors that encamped
there this summer, the trip will
give them the opportunity to re
sume any unfinished business they
might have and to also show the
Junior class around.
Only one hundred and fifty mem
bers of the band will make the
trip. As usual, the freshmen mem
bers of the band will not make
the initial away-from-college
trip. Upon its arrival at the Miss
ouri Pacific Station at 9:30 the
band will march east on Houston
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the City Council several days ago
and will go into effect Wednes
day, October 9. Following is the
new ruling.
No houses, garages, or other
buildings shall be moved across the
streets or along the streets of
the City of College Station, Texas,
unless there shall be a permit is
sued by said city for the moving.
Said permit will designate the
streets to be used and the time
which the moving will be done.
Before any permit will be issued,
a deposit of $100 shall be made with
the City Secretary. Such fee will
be held by the city until the struc
ture is completely moved, and then
such damage to the city streets,
bridges, or city utility lines will
be repaired by the city and the
costs charged to the deposit. The
balance of the deposit remaining
after repairs will then be refunded
to the owner.
Anyone violating the provisions
of this ordinance when found
guilty, shall be fined not more
than $100, and each day of viola
tion shall be deemed a separate of
fense.
Parnell Names
Four Cadets As
Poultry Judgers
E. D. Parnell, associate profes
sor of poultry husbandry, has re
cently released the names of the
students who have made the A. &
M. collegiate poultry judging team
for this year. The team is com
posed of Fred Price, Cleburne; M.
A. Ellis, Snyder; Donald Demke,
Stephenville; and Jim Wilkerson,
Ft. Worth. These men will judge
at a contest in Chicago on Nov
ember 30 in competition with teams
from the Midwest, Southwest
and Western areas.
During the two years that Par
nell has been coaching the team
the Texans have ranked fourth
high each year. Last year’s team
was high in the judging of market
poultry with the three Texas team
members Earl Roesnes, Fred Swal
low, and O. L. Davis each tied for
first with 185 out of a possible 200
points.
220 A & M Students Given Help
By Loan Funds of Former Students
Two hundred and twenty A. &
M. students were extended a help
ing hand on their financial prob
lems by A. & M. men through the
Association of Former Students at
the opening of school this year, E.
E. McQuillen, secretary of the As
sociation, has announced. A total
of over $25,000 was involved in the
loans. Included in the group of
boys were the winners of the
twenty-five Opportunity Awards,
established for the first time this
fall and expected to prove an im
portant addition to the student loan
fund program in the future.
Loans this fall were made under
new loan fund regulations formu
lated and approved last spring by
the Student Loan Trustees of the
Association. The new regulations
are more exacting in their scholas
tic requirements, the loan fund
trustees believing that loans were
made to too many boys whose poor
scholastic records caused them to
withdraw from school before grad
uation.
Student Loan Fund Trustees this
year are A. G. (Bert) Pfaff, ’25,
“Tyler, Association President; Allin
F. Mitchell, ’09, Corsicana; and As
sociation Secretary E. E. McQuil
len, ’20, College Station. The pres
ident and executive secretary are
ex-officio trustees, with the other
elected by the Board of Directors
of the Association, in accordance
with the by-laws of the Association.
Board of Directors
Meets In San Antonio
The Board of Directors will hold
a meeting in San Antonio Friday
to discuss problems of the school
year.
Those attending will be Dr. and
Mrs. T. O. Walton, Dr. F. M. Law,
President; Walter G. Lacy, Vice-
President; G. R. White, R. W.
Briggs, Edwin J. Kiest, Joseph U-
tay, A. H. Demke, and H. L. Ko-
kemot. Mrs. Melle Williamson,
secretary to the Board, will also
be present.
The Board will attend the A. &
M. - Tulsa game which will be play
ed there Saturday.