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• * DIAL 4-5444 DIAL 4-5444 , 1 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Ihe Hattahon STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, NOV 7, 1940 Z725 NO. 23 * I * t * t Aggie-SMU Game Tickets On Sale Till 5 P.M. Today Student tickets for the S. M. U.- A. & M. football game will be on sale only until 5:00 p. m. Thurs day, it was announced by E. W. Hooker, secretary of the Athletic Council. Approximately 600 of these tickets were still on hand when the “Y” desk closed at 5 p. m. Wednesday, and they may be ob tained throughout the day Thurs day for $1.10 and student activities coupon No. 33. After 5 o’clock Thursday the only tickets which will be on sale here will be $2.20 and $2.50 seats. These tickets will be sold one per per son. The difference between the tickets is that the $2.20 seats are in some temporary bleachers which have been erected in a corner of the stadium. The $2.50 tickets are in the permanent stadium. These tickets may be obtained at the “Y” desk from R. D. Lowery. Cosmopolitans Elect Cadena, Wahl and Collins The Cosmopolitan Club met Sun day in the Y parlor and elected Porfirio Cadena of Saltillo, Mex ico, president for the coming term. David Phillips, Mexico City, was elected vice-president; Clifford Wahl of San Juan, Puerto Rico, secretary; and Clayton Collins, Cor sicana, treasurer. V. K. Sugareff, professor of his tory, who is himself of foreign birth, addressed the group on the method of conducting national elections in this country. He ex plained the workings of the elect oral college and party functions to give the boys from foreign coun tries some idea of how our dem ocracy works. The Cosmopolitan Club is com posed of both foreign and Amer ican students and has as its pur pose the creation of good will and a better understanding among dif ferent nationalities. The club is part of an international organiza tion of similar clubs. At least 50 per cent of the members are Amer ican students so that the foreigners may have the maximum opportu nity to mingle with natives of our country. The organization on the campus is sponsored by a committee of the Y cabinet which is composed of Vincent Hagan, Paul Stache, Charl es W. Brown, Albert D. White, Rob ert Powell, Clayton Collins, and Bob Nisbet. The members of the club include representatives from 13 foreign countries. Approximately 75 students were present at the meeting. Special Meeting Of Board Set Saturday The Board of Directors of Texas A. & M. College will meet in Dallas Saturday prior to attending the A. & M.-S. M. U. football game. The most important business to come up before the meeting is the building program now in progress and proposed for the campus. The members of the Board are F. M. Law, Houston, president; Walter G. Lacy, Waco, vice-pres ident; Joe Utay, Dallas; Henry Schuhmacher, Houston (deceased); H. L. Kokernot Jr., Alpine; G. R. White, Brady; Edwin J. Kiest, Dal las; R. W. Briggs, Pharr; and A. H. Demke, Stephenville. Jones Addresses Saddle-Sirloin Club J. H. Jones, chief of the Sheep and Goat Investigation division of the Experiment Station, was the feature speaker at the Saddle and Sirloin Club meeting Monday night. Jones discussed the type of work carried on by the various branch experiment stations throughout the state. This talk is one of a series which the Saddle and Sirloin Club is sponsoring on alternate Mon day nights. Each speaker is con nected with commercial agriculture and discusses from a practical side of agriculture the various prob lems which the student will find in the field. A & M’s Who’s Who in Colleges and Universities rT: s s' ' S3 WM Pictured above are the 21 Texas Aggies who will be listed in the 1941 edition of “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.” Reading from left to right, top row: Joe Slicker, captain, Ross Volunteers, captain D Battery CAC; Tom Hagood, Lt. Col. CAC; Tom B. Richey, senior class president, Lt. Col. Cavalry; E. R. Keeton, head yell leader; Tom Gillis, Sgt. Major Corps Staff, junior class vice-pres ident; A. V. Hamilton, Lt. Col. Composite Regiment; W. A. Becker, Cadet Colonel. Second row: E. R. Wehner, major of the band; L. L. Appelt, Lt. Col. Engineer Corps; Paul Haines, Lt. Col. Corps Staff, Town Hall manager; L. J. Nelson, social secretary senior class; Bob Nisbet, editor of Battalion, Major corps staff; Howard Shelton, senior class vice-president, varsity football player; G. D. Anderson, Scholarship Honor Society president. Third row: George Fuermann, Battalion associate editor, director of Aggietone News; James Thomason, all-conference halfback, major corps staff; W. J. Montgomery, Lt. Col. Infantry, editor A. &M. Engineer; J. P. Giles, Lt. Col. Field Artillery, tennis team captain; John A. Kimbrough, All-American fullback; B. H. Elliott, Engineering Council president; Ele B. Baggett, editor Longhorn, president Junior class 1940. Six Aggies - and Twelve TSCW-ites W _ — " s <'• ..inrn :r _ : . . . . ..'.1 (< . , ■ I liiiiiiiiii f ;.. .. , : f -• .-:'3 —I mlm %■: > - I if v t mmm ./-j -1 i ■ * ■1 [ • s t ' • ’ yX- v ' <. V3 1 iptigith ! a. Upper left is Mary Margaret McCarthy, selected Monday night by six A. & M. student leaders to be the Aggie Day Sweet heart during the week-end’s Ag gie-SMU game festivities. The six cadets journeyed to the Ag gie’s Denton sister school where Miss McCarthy was selected from a group of 12 candidates Upper right, part of the T. S.C.W.-ians and Aggies at the banquet Monday night. Reading left to right: Jayne Ott, Anna Ruth Asche, George Fuermann, Anne Andrews, E. R. Keeton, Jean Singleton, E. L. Wehner, Christine Maddox, Mary McCar thy, and, nearest the camera, dean of women, Mattie Lloyd Wooten. Lower left: Margaret Greene, Bob Nisbet, Sara Gillett, Betty Bowman, Dr. F. L. McDonald, Edith Rosenquist, Bill Becker, Claudine Shoemaker, Tom Richey, and Dava Robinson. Official Aggie-SMU Corps Dance Will Be at Adolphus Hotel The official Aggie dance after the A. & M.-S. M. U. football game will be held in the Adolphus Hotel Saturday night. Music, furnished by two orchestras playing in two different ball rooms, will start at 9:30 and last till 12:30. The Adol phus Hotel, the largest in Dallas, is located in the center of the down-town business section on the comer of Commerce and Akard ’Streets, just opposite the Magnolia' Building and the Baker Hotel. Aggieland orchestra, directed by Ed Minnock, will play in one of the ball rooms, and a Dallas or chestra will furnish music for the other. The Dallas A. & M. Mothers Club, which is sponsoring the dance, has arranged with S. M. U. to make the dance official for both ’schools. For this reason, two ball rooms will be used and one ticket will admit the bearer to both floors. Contrary to recent advertising, this is the only official dance sponsored by an A. & M. organization. The usual admission price, $1.10, is for both dances, since the S. M. U. students will be at this dance also. Single Grade Report, Rather Than Two As Before, Out Nov. 16 A single deficient grade list will be made on November 15 this year instead of one on November 1 and one on December 1, Regis trar E. J. Howell said yesterday. The college executive committee decided to experiment with one re port because they thought it unnecessary to send out two re ports just one month apart. They said if a cadet is failing a subject the November 16 grade will give him plenty of time to get to work on it, and if he thinks he is too far gone, it won’t be too late to drop it. The change from the two lists to just one and the date is all that has been changed. The regulation that says if a cadet is passing less than 10 hours he is subject to be dropped from the college rolls for lack of scholastic standing, still stands. Williams Judges Two Horse Shows During Past Weekend D. W. Williams, head of the Ani mal Husbandry Department, judg ed the San Antonio Horse Show which was held in that city Sun day. The show featured Kentucky saddle horses and is a semi-annual affair. Saturday night Williams judged the large horse show which was held in connection with the rodeo at Kingsville. This show was out standing because the group of Quarter horses shown was the largest to be shown in America. Quarterback Club Meeting Postponed The regular Thursday meeting of the Quarterback Club will not be held tonight. Cancellation was felt necessary because so many students are leaving for Dallas this afternoon and tonight. The Quarterback Club is organiz ed to make the student body and civilians better acquainted with the rudiments of football. At the week ly meetings the pictures of the preceding week’s game are shown, followed by a discussion period. The meetings are held in Guion Hall and students are invited to attend. Juniors Leave Tomorrow For Pre-Corps Trip Dance Seniors Will Receive Military Science Pay Today The checks for subsistence for students enrolled in the second year advance military science course will be distributed Thurs day evening beginning at 3 o’clock, Major J. B. Wise, adjutant, an nounced today. Seniors will report to their senior instructors at that time because checks will be issued in separate organization units. Up on receipt of his draft from the se nior instructors, the student will report to the fiscal office where he will be paid in cash. Should any person who feels he is entitled to pay find that he is not on the regular list, he will report to the absence office, Major Wise said. Here an irregular list has been prepared to facilitate dis tribution. The payroll was received yes terday from Fort Sam Houston. It was taken to Fort Sam Houston Friday by Captain W. C. McCulley acting under orders from Colonel J. A. Watson. T. H. MacDonald Will Lecture Here November 11 to 16 During the week of November 11-16, A. & M.’s School of Engi neering will have as a visiting lecturer Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner, Public Roads Ad ministration, Federal Works Ag ency. MacDonald is the outstanding highway engineer of the United States and his work has been rec ognized and appreciated in all countries where highway develop ment has progressed to any extent. MacDonald was Chief Engineer of the Iowa Highway Department from 1904 to 1919. Since that time he has been the head of the Bureau of Public Roads and its successor, the Public Roads Administration. For more .than twenty years he has cooperated with the highway of ficials of Texas in the planning and construction of the Texas highway system. He is familiar with our State’s problems and has given much personal attention to our de velopment. On Wednesday evening, Novem ber 13, a dinner will be held at the College honoring Dewitt C. Greer, State Highway Engineer of Texas. Greer, who is a graduate of A. & M. college, assumed this position last July and the dinner was plan ned for him at that time to be given during the week when Mac Donald would be on the campus. Many officials and engineers of the State Highway Department will attend the dinner and will be on hand for MacDonald’s principal lectures on November 13 and 14. In addition to these lectures, Mac Donald will meet a number of stu dent groups during the week and will confer with members of the staff and students interested in highway administration and engi neering. Poultry Science Club Will Edit National Publication The Poultry Science Club has been named by the National Poultry Science Club to edit the Poultry Science News for the month of November. The officials of the poultry club will for the staff with Frew Price, senior from Cleburn, as editor. The November edition of the Poultry Science News will be the first edition that the Texas chapter has published. The Poultry Science News is the official publication of the affiliation of 24 clubs which form the National Poultry Science club, and contains activities of va rious clubs and articles by various members of the club. The edition will also feature articles by the various heads of the animal de partments. Capt. W. S. McCulley Selected By Class As Sponsor for Trip The Junior Class goes to Denton tomorrow for the annual pre-corps trip dinner and dance given them by the Junior Class of T.S.C.W. For the past five years the class in T.S.C.W. has been hostess to the Junior Class from A. & M. in this manner and these two classes get an early start on the festivities for the corps trip. Alden Cathey, Aggie Junior Class president, has been in almost con stant communication with Ruby Jim Slaughter, president of the T.S.C.W. junior class, while mak ing arrangements and plans for the mass meeting of the two class es of the brother and sister schools. The juniors who are planning to make the trip must turn in their passes to the Commandant’s office by Thursday. The passes will not be returned however, until af ter the return to school. To ob tain authorized passes for Friday afternoon classes the juniors must give their name to Capt. W. S. McCulley as they enter the door of the T. S. C. W. dance. Capt. McCulley who was selected by the class to sponsor their trip, will bring the list of names back to the college and passes for those men will be returned to the person con cerned Monday to be used as an authorized absence. The Southern Pacific is running a special train for the occasion which will leave the College at 12:45 Friday afternoon. The train will arrive in Dallas at 4:35. From there special busses will meet the train and go immediately to Den ton. The return trip to Dallas will leave Denton at 8 a.m. so as to arrive in Dallas in time for the corps parade. Juniors who use some other methods of transportation must be in Dallas in time etaoni be in Dallas by 9:00 for the par ade. Aggies who have signed up for blind dates will meet them at the date desk in Brackenridge Hall, the junior girls’ dormitory on the cam pus. Betsy Ross is the junior girl in charge of the date bureau. The time for steak fry in Lowry Woods which is near the campus is 6 o’ clock and no one will be served af ter 7. Following the meal, the Ag gies will put on a program for the two classes. Skeen Staley, jun ior yell leader, is in charge of this program which will include yell practice. The juniors who are mem bers of the Singing Cadets will sing “Aggie Sweethearts”, a T. S.C.W. song which is written to the tune of “Beer Barrel Polka.” An informal dance will be held from 9 until 12 in the gymnasium. At its last meeting the Aggies vot- (Continued on Page 4) Limited Number Of Students Will Be Allowed In Film Club Only a limited number of stu dents will be permitted to join the Film Club this year, S. B. Zisman, president of the club, stated today. This is the first year students have been permitted to join and as yet arrangements have not been made to accommodate a large number. The first program of the year is expected to be held next week, of ficers of the club announced as soon as plans for the picture, subscrip tions and theatre arrangements can be completed. “Harvest” and “The Baker’s Wife” are two of the pic tures the club is trying to obtain. Most of the pictures will be of Spanish, Mexican and French ori gin, some even in the language of the country from which they will be obtained. Students who have an interest in this type of film and are plan ning to join the film club should contact Zisman at the Architecture department or S. O. Brown at the Biology department. Announce ments for the first meeting will be made this week and mimeographed programs will be sent to the fac ulty members. Subscription will probably be about $1, Zisman stated, and those interested should send applications to Faculty Exchange box 32. Money should not be included.