The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 07, 1940, Image 1

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
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STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, NOV 7, 1940
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.