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NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 29, 1940
Z725 N. 19
New System Of Selection
For College’s “Who’s Who”
Final Decision On
Candidates Will Be
Made This Afternoon
By Jack Hollimon
The “Who’s Who” of American
Colleges and Universities has a new
system at A. & M. that is to be used
in selecting nineteen outstanding
men for the next edition. This
system is to be the permanent
method used here at the College.
Two coordinated committees
have been chosen to represent the
student body and the faculty of
the college. The student committee
is made up of Cadet Colonel Bill
Becker, chairman, and the regi
mental commanders of the various
units on the campus. The other
committee is composed of members
of the Student Activities committee
with D. W. Williams as chairman.
In a meeting held Monday night,
the student committee selected their
choices for “Who’s Who”, and in
a meeting to be held this afternoon,
the Student Activities committee
will deliver the final decision on
the candidates.
In introducing this new method,
it is believed by those men in
charge that the use of a student
committee will win the approval
of everyone concerned. The stu
dents are in a position to judge
the merits of the candidates more
thoroughly than a non-student
group. Final judgment, however,
will come from the Student Activi
ties committee.
The Thursday edition of the Bat
talion will give a complete cov
erage of the announcements.
In the event that the student
committee is unable to narrow the
candidates down to the prescribed
nineteen, they will turn in twenty-
one names to the Student Activi
ties committee and there the final
choice will be made.
Becker said that only those men
who have been particularly out
standing and meritous in scholas
tic abiliity, military achievement,
and extra-curricular activity are
eligible for this honor and the men
taken from A. & M. will undoubted
ly be the best on the campus.
Nurserymen’s
Short Course Will
Begin Here Thursday
The Nurserymen’s Association of
Texas will open its first short
course here Thursday morning at
9 o’clock in the Animal Industries
building. Headed by Dr. Guy W.
Adriance, head of the department
of horticulture, the show will con
sist of a series of lectures begin
ning at 10 o’clock Thursday morn
ing and ending at noon Saturday.
Thursday morning will be de
voted to registration of the nur
serymen in the lobby of the Animal
Industries building at 9 o’clock and
a welcoming address by Dean E. J.
Kyle at 10 o’clock. Following this
will be a series of discussions on
soil and fertilizer problems.
The afternoon will be taken up
by discussions of soil reactions and
its effect on plants and soil dis
eases and their control.
Student Welfare
Committee Meets
Wednesday Night
The Student Welfare Committee
of A. & M. College will hold its
first meeting of the 1940-41 school
year in the Banquet Room of Sbisa
Hall Wednesday night.
The Student Welfare Committee
was organized a number of years
ago for the purpose of working
out solutions for the various prob
lems of the student body and form
ing a medium on which representa
tives of the student body and fa
culty might meet so as to create
a better understanding of needs
and wishes of the other group.
This student-faculty committee
is composed of those students
elected from the variious organiza
tions and by their respective class
es and those faculty members ap
pointed to that body by Dr. T. O.
Walton.
The representatives elected for
this year from the senior class
were W. A. Becker, Cadet Colonel,
R. E. Nisbet, Battalion editor, T.
B. Richey, president of the Senior
Class, F. A. Loving, R. T. Forster,
Jr., J. R. Button, J. H. Shelton,
E. E. Schott, W. L. Mayfield, K.
W. Dahl, Lee Campbell, J. D. Pin
son, J. A. Slicker, W. L. Hendon,
P. S. Potts, P. C. Wright, E. G.
Amundsen and L. H. Grasshoff.
Those of the junior class are W.
W. Clark, A. G. SoRelle, Jr. and
R. D. Kenny.
Those of the sophomore class
are Robert L. Bryant and B. H.
Bright.
The Freshman class has not yet
held their meeting for electing of
ficers.
Junior Infantry
Long-horn Pictures
Start Wednesday
Infantry juniors may start hav
ing their pictures made for the
class section of the Longhorn Wed
nesday, October 30, it was an
nounced today by Eli Baggett,
editor. Due to the necessity of
having the class section completed
as soon as possible, they must be
finished by Saturday, November 2.
Students who have camp and
campibs pictures and snapshots
which they wish placed in the
Longhorn should turn them in as
soon as possible to Jack Kyzar or
Cecil Grissom, 328, No. 9.
A schedule for the remainder of
the juniors is given below.
Field artillery juniors, Novem
ber 4, 5, 6.
Chem warfare and signal corps
juniors, 7, 8.
Calvary and engineer juniors,
11, 12, 13.
Coast artillery and non-military
juniors, 14, 15, and 16.
12 TSCW Girls Nominated For
Position of Aggie Day Sweetheart
The Aggie Day Sweetheart wilF
be chosen from one of twelve T.
S.C.W. nominees by six Aggie se
niors next week in Denton before
the Corps Trip on November 9.
Cadet Colonel Bill Becker; Tom
Richey, president of the senior
class; Pete Wehner, band command
er; Paul Haines, manager of Town
Hall, Battalion Editor Bob Nisbet,
and Head Yell Leader Buster Keet
on will be the official judges.
Three students from each class
have been elected at T. S. C. W.
and from these the Aggies will
choose one to represent T. S. C. W.
in Dallas. Meg Greene, Edith Ros-
enquest and Jean Singleton, have
been elected from the senior class.
Jayne Ott, Claudine Shoemaker
and Sara Gillet have been chosen
as junior representatives.
Sophomores elected Anne An
drews, Christine Maddox and Dava
Robison as their candidates. Chos
en by the freshmen were Betty
Bowman, Anna Ruth Ashe and
Mary Margaret McCarthy.
• Special trains will leave Denton
at 7:30 Saturday morning, Nov
ember 9, for Dallas and will re
turn Saturday night at 1 p. m.
Buses will meet the train at 9 a. m.
and take the girls to Sanger Bros,
where T. S. C. W. students will be
models in a style show and coffee.
From 10 to 12 o’clock W. A. Green
and Co. will hold open house with
T. S. C. W. girls as hostesses. All
students are invited.
“All tickets for the game have
been sold and no more are available
anywhere,” Dr. F. L. McDonald,
director of the T. S. C. W. excus-
sion, said, “but this is not expected
the keep the girls from going.
There are so many other attractions
besides the game we do not ex
pect any decrease in the number
of students making the trip.”
Students from T. S. C. W. who
intend to stay in a hotel at Dallas
will be required to have special
permission from their parents filed
in the dean of women’s office be
fore the trip.
Good Old Baylor Line Drops Six Points Behind
—Photo by Jack Jones
“Wild Willie” Conatser crashes over for the first touchdown in the early moments of the second quar
ter to put the Aggies in the lead, 6 to 0, as brothers Robert (62) and Travis Nelson (60) look helplessly on.
Mastodon Bones
To Be Preserved
By College Museum
By Y. A. Yentzen
It was bones, but not the little
square ones with symbols on them,
that lured a museum party into
the' field recently. C. L. Hesse, as
sistant curator in charge of the
museum, and R. L. Peterson, senior
of Roanoke, have collected one of
the most complete skeletons yet to
be found of a prehistoric elephant
and are now planning its restora
tion.
The skeleton was found by Frank
Glover on his farm which is 20
miles southwest of Childress and
about 5 miles west of Tell, Texas.
A Cave-in of the bank of a gully
300 yards from Glover’s home ex
posed a portion of the mastodon
skeleton, led to its discovery and
the notification of the museum.
When the party arrived the tibia,
fibula and calcaneum had already
been removed by V. E. Hafner,
county agent at Childress. Evacua
tion of more than four feet of
over-burden was found to be neces
sary before the bones could be
uncovered. Exposure of the bones
found them to be so fragile that
paster masks were necessary to
prevent their destruction. Rain and
hard-pan delayed the collecting and
two weeks were required before
complete removal.
The skeleton will be restored
during the next few months and
will be placed on display in the
college museum with the partial
skeletons of other mastodons which
have been creating interest on the
campus.
Howell, Heaton,
Perryman Attend
Registrar Convention
Registrar E. J. Howell, assistant
registrar H. L. Heaton and R. G.
Perryman represented the college
at the twentieth annual convention
of the Texas Association of Colle
giate Registrars which was held at
the Roosevelt Hotel in Waco last
Friday and Saturday.
As in the past the convention
program was quite diversified and
among other things included a
talk by Lynn W. Landrum of the
Dallas News, and an open forum
in which Mr. Howell participated,
and the annual commencement ex
ercises of the Add and Drop Col
leges of the World, the imaginary
school that is usually the amusing
spot of each registrars’ convention.
The purpose of the annual con
vention is to acquaint the attend
ing members with the problems of
one another. Ideas are also given
to the new registrars. Besides this
all mutual problems are generally
discussed.
At the dinner Friday night the
commencement exercises of the
Add and Drop College of the
World, whose motto is “they shall
not pass” constituted the main
part of the program. Howell, pres
ident of the college with a 3.2
degree, presented two LL.D. de
grees, one as Doctor of Lure and
one as Doctor of Loquacity. In the
college “Prexy Howell” also has
the position of head football coach,
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Fraps And
Kemmerer Attend
Chemist’s Meeting
Dr. G. S. Fraps, state chemist
at the A. & M. College of Texas
and chief of the Division of Chem
istry of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, and Dr. A. R.
Kemmerer, chemist, left for Wash
ington, D. C. Friday, October 25,
to consult with officials of the
United States Department of Agri
culture and officials of other states
regarding methods of analysis of
fertilizers, feeds and other agri
cultural products, the determina
tion of vitamins, and definitions
of fertilizers and feeds at the meet
ing of the Association of Official
Agricultural Chemists, October 28
to 30, and Association of American
Feed Control Officials, October 31
and November 1. Dr. Fraps will
preside as Chairman of the Section
on Fertilizers and Soils of the As
sociation of Official Agricultural
Chemists. He will also present a
report as referee on fertilizers and
an article entitled “Relation of
Analyses to Vitamin A potency of
Butter” by G. S. Fraps, A. R.
Kemmerer and W. W. Meinke.
He will also work with the Com
mittee on Definitions of Terms and
Interpretation of Results on Fer
tilizers of which he is a member.
Dr. Kemmerer will present a report
as associate referee on carotene and
another report as associate ref
eree on riboflavin. The reports
deal with methods of determining
these important vitamins. The As
sociation of Official Agricultural
Chemists through appropriate ref
erees studies methods for chemical
analyses for soils, fertilizers, foods,
feeding stuffs, drugs, insecticides,
paints and other materials and
adopts methods of analysis which
are accurate and which give the
same results in the hands of chem
ists in different parts of the coun
try. These methods are official for
the Department of Agriculture and
a number of states including Tex
as.
At the meeting of the Associa
tion of American Feed Control Of
ficials Dr. Fraps will present a re
port as investigator on mill feeds.
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Dean Marstellar
Judges Horse Show
Dr. R. P. Marsteller, dean of the
school of Veterinary Medicine,
served as judge of the first annual
Nacogdoches Horse Show held at
Nacogdoches last Saturday eve
ning. Marsteler is well known
throughout Texas for his outstand
ing ability in the judging of prac
tical horsemanship and fine horse
flesh.
The show, staged for the ben
efit of the High School band, is to
be offered to the public every year
in the future.
The presentation was viewed by
a capacity crowd, and all indica
tions are that it will become one of
the best in East Texas.
Highlight of the horse show
was the splendid performance turn
ed in by the children entrants.
Their general talent in handling
their mounts caused much comment
on the part of the spectators.
Corps Trip To
Waco A Success As
Aggies Beat Baylor
By Lee Rogers
“Waco please!” This was the
predominant by-word of some two
thousand Aggies as they began
their bi-annual pilgrimage to cen
tral Texas for the second unoffi
cial corps trip of the year. Like
swarms of locusts they took to the
highways and by-ways; each re
membering that rainy day two
years ago when the Baylor line
held the Aggies to a 6-6 tie. And
each, with a trench coat in readi
ness, had a grim determination in
his heart that the same thing
would not repeat itself. It was a
happy throng of cadets too, when
that final gun sounded and closed
the game with the Maroon and
White lads in a seven point lead.
It’s hats off to the Aggie who
was industrious enough to get on
the highway at 12 o’clock Thurs
day night in order to be number-
one in line.
Also in the line for compliments
is the boy who took up the col
lection for the truck driver who
cleared the highway in Bryan by
picking up 20 students.
The Waco riot squad anticipated
a little practice Friday night when
a few hundred Aggies held a yell
practice on the Baylor campus,
but the upholders of peace return
ed to their headquarters and every
thing remained quiet.
* One of the most amusing things
was to watch the faces of those
who made slurring remarks about
“Western Union” and have the Ag
gie reply, “Hello conscript”.
An incident which attracted
quite a bit of attention was the
mid-day yell practice headed by
Buster Keeton in the intersection
of a main thoroughfare in Waco.
It was difficult to tell which was
the loudest—the yelling or the
blaring of horns for blocks in each
direction.
Reliable sources say that Foots
Bland spent a little time looking at
the outside world from behind
bars. He should have an interest
ing story to tell. Anyway his in
carceration was not for long.
Worth the price of the corps
trip was seeing the forlorn look of
the fellow who stepped through
the iron grating of a storm sewer
and could not get his foot out. He
looked rather unhappy as he
watched the rain cloud blow up.
One of life’s little temptations
was succumbed to when an Aggie
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Grover Good To Address
Freshman Y Cabinet Tonight
Grover Good, State* Boy’s Work
Secretary, will address the Fresh
man YMCA group immediately af
ter yell practice tonight, in the
YMCA parlor. He is known to many
of the boys at A. & M. who have
attended the older boys conferences
throughout the state, which he
has directed for a number of years.
Good will be here for two days
following the meeting and asks
that all his old friends come to the
YMCA building to visit with him.
He travels over Texas, Oklahoma,
and Arkansas, with headquarters in
Dallas.
Saturday Declared As
“Military Day” On Campus
Bengal Guards
Will Perform At
Saturday’s Game
Bengal Guards from Orange,
Texas, will perform during the
between-halves period of the Ark-
ansas-A. & M. game Saturday at
Kyle Field, it was announced yes
terday.
The Bengal Guards are a group
of Orange school girls who have
been provided training by H. J.
Lutcher Stark, millionaire East
Texas business. The Guards are
well-known in all parts of the na
tion for their remarkable drills and
exhibitions of marching. They per
formed at the Sugar Bowl game
last New Year’s Day, and it was
this performance that caused them
to be brought here for Saturday’s
game.
Cadet Colonel W. A. Becker and
E. L. Wehner, major of the Aggie
Band, will go to Houston Friday
night to escort the Bengal Guards
here. They will perform at a foot
ball game in Beaumont Friday
night, then go to Houston and
spend the night there. They will
come to College Station Saturday
morning.
All of the between-halves period
will be used by the Guards in pre
senting their drill. The Aggie
Band will not drill at the game in
order to allow the girls plenty of
time.
The Bengal Guards are spon
sored by Mr. Stark, who provides
all the instruction, uniforms, trans
portation, and various expenses of
the organization.
Mr. Stark is a member of the
board of regents of the University
of Texas.
SMU Tickets
Sold Out Early
Monday Morning
Tickets to the S.M.U. - A. & M.
fracas sold like wildfire Monday
morning as the Aggies swamped
the Y.M.C.A. office to get tickets
to this outsanding game.
The first 55 men who got there
started coming in at twelve o’clock
Sunday night and remained all
night in order to be on hand at
the all-important opening of the
ticket office. The divans in the “Y”
lobby were converted into beds and
about twenty-five students spent
most of the night anticipating the
opening of the doors and the be
ginning of the ticket sales. Most
of the boys displayed some signs
of nervousness and some were so
nervous that they could scarcely
sign their names on the coupons.
The most unfortunate thing
about the ticket selling was that
there were not enough tickets to
go around and everyone knows six
hundred tickets cannot be distrib
uted equally among six thousand
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Weapons Will
Be Displayed For
Benefit Of Visitors
Texas A. & M. will have Military
Day Saturday to demonstrate to
the public the various instruments
and weapons which are now in
use at the college in training ca
dets to be reserve officers as an
nounced by Maj. J. B. Wise, Adju
tant. The students in the advanced
course of military science will be
selected by the senior instructor
of the branch concerned to demon
strate and explain the operation of
the material exhibited.
The weapons on display will be
on the east end of the old drill
field from 11:30 till 1:30 so that
visitors may see them before the
A. & M.-Arkansas game. The ex
hibits are expected to attract both
military and civilian visitors to
the campus and will afford an ex
cellent chance to display the mili
tary functions of the college to
those who have come to see the
game.
The infantry display will con
sist of a soldier in full field equip
ment, an automatic rifle, 37-mm
gun and a 3-inch Stokes Mortar
Two machine guns will be set up
for action and the method of pit
ching shelter tents and display of
equipment will be demonstrated.
The Cavalry will show three
horses, one in full field equipment,
one in parade equipment, and one in
flat saddle for conformation. All
troop guidons, regimental colors,
, caliber .30 machine guns and 12
caliber .30 rifles will be demonstrat
ed by student attendants.
The field artillery will have for
its exhibit a truck with R.L. 26
rriotor driven reel for laying wire,
a 155 mm Howitzer with a caisson
and dummy shell and dummy pow
der charge. In addition there will
be a 75 mm gun with its section
box, dummy shell and fuze setter.
Telephones, switchboards, fire con
trol instruments and sketching
boards will be laid out for a show
down inspection.
The coast artillery unit will put
on one 3-inch antiaircraft gun with
fire control instruments and have a
man there to explain the display.
The sixty-ninth coast artillery at
Fort Crockett will furnish a detach
ment of 25 or 30 men with a search
light and sound locator, a 3-inch
gun with director and four 50 cal.
machine guns.
The engineer unit plans to erect
a standing derrick (gin pole), a
double apron barbed wire fence
and a flat top camoflauge for a
machine gun emplacement.
The signal corps will put on its
display just prior to the football
game. It will consist of the dis
play, set up for operation, of the
three different types of field
radio sets, and the different types
of telephone switchboards, field
telegraph sets with which the unit
is equipped; together with qual
ified personnel to operate and ex
plain the equipment and its use.
As their exhibit, the chemical
warfare unit will have on dis
play a chemical mortar, portable
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College Station’s Annual Community
Chest Drive To Be Held November 1-4
The annual Community Chest-f
drive will be held November 1 to
4, at the request of President T.
O. Walton, Dr. C. H. Winkler, corn-
committee chairman announced re
cently.
This drive Is made each year
to collect funds for the different
organizations of College Station
and Brazos County in order to
keep them from soliciting hap
hazardly during the year. Res
ponse in past years has been grat
ifying, and it is hoped that this
year will show continued support
and cooperation, Dr. Winkler stat
ed.
President Walton is chairman
of the drive, and the vice chairmen
are Deans F. C. Bolton, E. J.
Kyle, T. D. Brooks, R. P. Mars
teller, Gibb Gilchrist, and Direc
tors A. B. Conner, H. H. William
son, and E. O. Siecke. Solicitors
for the College are the heads of
all the college departments and
superintendents of college divisions
and of local business houses, R. R.
Rapp.
Contributions are made to cov
er the many needs that arise dur
ing the year, and the organization
receiving benefits from this drive
are the Brazos County and Bryan
Chambers of Commerce, the Y.M.
C.A., P.T.A., Boy and Girl Scouts,
Salvation Army, Red Cross, crip
pled children’s fund, tubercular
fund, county-wide hospitalization,
and various other organizations.
This year’s budget is $6,000, an
increase of $1,000 over last year.
However, the commiwity chest
last year incurred a deficit of $1,-
807.76. All contributions may be
turned in to Dr. Winkler’s office,
room 112, Chemistry Buliding.
Checks given up to December 1 will
be considered cash. Post-dated
checks may be given up to May 1,
Dr. Winkler said.
In contributing, each employee
of the college is asked to give the
amount totalling one day’s pay.