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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 14, 1940 Z725 NO. 26 Missing Freshman Is Located in California Carnes, Missing Since Baylor Game, Is Found by Father Webb Carnes Jr., A. & M. Field Artillery Freshman of San An tonio, feared kidnapped when he was last seen entering an automo bile in Waco after the Baylor-A. & M. game, has been located by a letter received by his father, W. W. Carnes, 1133 West Agarita Avenue, San Antonio, postmarked Los An geles, California. Carnes, in his letter to his fath er, said that the- reason for his mysterious disappearance was that after receiving a ride from Waco to Austin he was unable to obtain a ride to San Antonio so went into a hamburger establishment near a railroad and while there saw a freight train leaving for San An tonio. He boarded a box car of the train occupied by two foreigners, Carnes said, who began conversing with him as the train neared San Antonio. One of the two grabbed Carnes and the other slugged him, he said. When Carnes recovered from the shock he said he was lying in a railroad yard near Peco about 36 hours later. He was taken to a hospital at Carlsbad, N. M. and remained there for about ten days. After his release he went on to Los Angeles instead of returning home. A state wide search was begun for young Carnes when he failed to arrive at his home after com panions had seen him entering an automobile at Waco. Carnes’ father, immediately af ter receiving his son’s air-mail special delivery letter, notified pa trolman N. R. McRea, who had been investigating the disappear ance of the 18-year-old boy, that he had gotten a letter from young Carnes who said he was “safe and well.” Preparations were being made Tuesday to return Carnes to his parents in San Antonio. Just how soon he will be returned is not yet known. Quarterback Club Meets Tonight In Guion Hall at 7:30 The Quarterback Club, a faculty and student organization, will meet tonight at 7:30 in Guion Hall. Mov ing pictures of both the A. & M.- Arkansas and the A. & M.-S. M. U. games will be shown at this time. The purpose of the Quarterback Club is to review and discuss foot ball games played by the Aggie team. Coaches and members of the faculty will be present to lead the discussion and answer questions. The show is free, and all students and faculty members are invited to attend. Levey Will Address Chem Group Tonight Harold L. Levey, president of the American Products Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, will de liver an illustrated lecture to the A. & M. faction of the American Chemical Society Thursday night at 8 o’clock in the main lecture room in the Chemistry building. The lecture which is entitled “New Synthetic and Molded Plastics” will include a large number of lantern slides and charts to illustrate the various processes discussed. A full selection of various plastic mater ial will also be on display. The American Chemical Society is a national society composed of units in the various colleges in the United States. The Society at A. & M. is composed chiefly of mem bers of the faculty and experiment station staffs, but also includes students. The meeting Thursday night will be open to any person interested in plastics. In the near future the society will present Dr. William Lloyd Evans, president of the American Chemical Society and D. B. Keyes, head of division of Chemical Engi neering, University of Illinois, on features programs. Bolton Addresses Local Chapter Of Association of University Professors Dean F. C. Bolton addressed the- local chapter of the American As sociation of University Professors in the Reception Room of Sbisa Hall, Monday night, November 11. Dean Bolton spoke on the sub ject, “A Valuation of Faculty Ser vices at Texas A. & M. College.” He pointed out some of the char acteristics and qualifications of a good teacher. Dean Bolton pointed out the ten dency of colleges and universities to realize that ability as a research worker does not necessarily entail ability as a teacher, and vice versa; consequently, in a teaching insti tution the major emphasis would be placed on ability as a teacher. Dean Bolton also pointed out the difficulty of evaluating the relative worth of practical experience and advanced study in improving the professional ability of the individ ual. In measuring professional ad vancement, Dean Bolton pointed out that advanced study can be eval uated rather critically in terms of degrees whereas it is difficult to put a critical value on practical experience. As a result, in rating institutions, the degrees held by the faculty become an important item, and therefore provide one means of evaluating faculty services. After Dean Bolton’s address, there was a brief period for ques tions and discussions which was continued in the social period fol lowing the meeting. The American Association of University Professors is a profes sional organization consisting of a membership of about 14,000, with chapters on the campuses of ap proximately 500 colleges and uni versities of the United States. It serves the teaching profession in somewhat the same capacity as the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association serve the legal and medical pro fessions respectively. The local chapter holds monthly ■meetings at which studies of local problems are reported by commit tees. At times the group is address ed by local members of the Col lege faculty or by men from other institutions. The officers of tfce local chapter for this year are Dr. Charle La- Motte, president; Dr. J. H. Quisen- berry, vice-president, and Dr. Ralph Steen, secretary-treasurer. Volkenberg to Address Entomology Club Tonight Dr. H. L. Von Volkenberg, pro fessor in the Veterinary Parasi tology department will be the fea ture speaker on the Entomology Club program which will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Science hall. The text of the lecture will be the relation of the orthropods in the transmission of parasitic diseases. All members have been urged to attend and all persons interested are cordially invited. Baggett Tells Of Arrangements For Vanity Fair All seniors who wish to have their girl friend’s picture placed in the Senior Favorite section of the Longhorn or who wish to have them placed in the Vanity Fair Section should contact Joe Paul Jones in room 101 Dorm 5 immed iately, Longhorn Editor Ele Bag gett announced yesterday. The senior favorite pictures should be 5 x 7 inches in size and printed with a glossy finish. Pic tures of other sizes or finish will not be accepted. This year two pictures of the Vanity Fair candidates will be required, both being 8x10 inches. One must be taken in sitting pos ture in evening clothes and the other will be in a standing position in street or sport clothes. Prints of the poses required may be secured from Jones. The cost of having the senior favorites placed in the Longhorn is $1.50. The cost of entering a candidate for Vanity Fair is $3.00, but the pictures of those who do win will also be placed in the sen ior favorite section at no additional cost. Warner to Represent Agronomists as Local Candidate for Office Howard C. Warner, junior of Col lege Station, was elected to repre sent A. & M. as the candidate for office in the national student sec tion of the American Society of Agronomy at the Agronomy meet ing Tuesday night. This is the first attempt by the club to install a national officer since the suc cessful election of Jeff Horn as national president of the student section in 1936. A new type of club program sim ilar to radio questionaire pro grams was introduced at the meet ing and proved a success. Tilden Easley, associate professor in the Agronomy department, presid ed as “Prof. Askum” and kept the members entertained by mixing questions of agricultural fields with those of a humorous nature. Gene Wilmeth, junior of Ebony, won the grand prize by answering five successive technical questions on soil science. The prize for ans wering a question in the shortest time was won by W. M. Nakayama, a graduate student in Agronomy. Brock to Address AVMA Friday Night Dr. W. G. Brock, prominent Tex as veterinary practicioner, will ad dress the junior chapter of the Am erican Veterinary Medical Soc iety Friday night. His subject will be “How Organized Veterinary Medicine Assists the Livestock Industry.” The A.V.M.A. will meet to hear this lecture at 7:30 in the veterinary medicine lecture room. F. H. Stallheim, president of the A.V.M.A. will preside at the meet ing. Dr. Brock is the father of G. A. (Sonny) Brock who was drum major of the Aggie Band in ’38. Walton Appoints Student-Faculty Committee To Study Current Campus Traffic Conditions Complete Social Calender for 1940-41 Session Announced; All Organization Dances Now Scheduled Jack Nelson, Social Secretary of- the Senior Class, has announced the dates for dances to be held during the remainder of the term. The dates have been approved by the Student Activities Committee from the applications for the dance dates which were turned in to the Student Activities Office. The dates selected for the reg imental balls are: Friday, February 28—Field Ar tillery Dance. Friday, March 7—Coast Artillery Dance. Friday, March 21—Composite Regiment Dance. Friday, March 28—Engineer Dance. Friday, April 4—Cavalry Dance. Friday, April 25—Infantry Dance The dates for dances other than the regimental balls which have ■been approved are: Friday, December 6—A. S. C. E. Ball. Friday, February 14—Architec ture Ball. Friday, February 21—Sophomore Ball. Friday, March 14—“T” Club Dance. Saturday, March 29—Hillel Club Thursday, April 10—Ross Vol unteer Dance. Friday, April 11—Ross Volun teer Dance. Saturday, April 12—Ross Volun teer Dance. Friday, April 18—Barnyard Fro lic. Friday, May 2—Cotton Ball. Friday, May 9—Senior Ring Dance. Friday, May 29—Junior Prom. Saturday, May 30—Final Ball. Is the Corps Ready? AN EDITORIAL EXPRESSION By George Fuermann • As the Battalion goes to press for the next to last time before the impending Aggie-Rice game Saturday, a time-out is in order to let the Twelfth Man take stock; not in a routine manner, but in a manner that smacks of something important to sixty-five hun dred Texas Aggies, twenty-two thousand Aggie-exes and a few million friends and supporters of the college throughout the world. A. & M.’s mighty grid machine has won eighteen consecutive games; last year it was the nation’s number one team and won the mythical national championship; and this year it may repeat as the nation’s number one team. • It can be done—as far as the football team is concerned it WILL be done, but those men who make-up the A. & M. football team can’t do it by themselves. They need the cooperation of the Twelfth Man. The football team has always had that cooperation, but many there are who think since Saturday’s victory over S. M. U. that the Twelfth Man has become over-confident. Many there are who have pointed out in the past few days that the Twelfth Man is slipping where Aggie Spirit is concerned. Even the coaches have noticed the fact that the Twelfth Man seems to feel that the team is “over the hump.” But remember these things: That there are still two games left on the schedule; that either one—or both—of these teams could ...defeat the Aggies; that either one—or both—of these teams could tie the Aggies. • As far as the Twelfth Man is concerned, the Aggie football team doesn’t have to be champions of anything to be the nation’s number one team. Win or lose, Aggie Spirit is staunch behind the team. But now, as never before, that Aggie Spirit is being called upon for double-duty. Now, as never before, that Aggie Spirit must get behind the team and “talk it up.” Rice Institute is entirely capable of beating A. & M. next Sat urday. They have a new coach whose method of football is still un sampled by A. & M. They’ve got a fast line and, more than any thing else, they’re fired-up and ready to go against the Aggies— they’ve got everything to gain and not a thing to lose. So get behind the team . . . talk it up . . . Whenever you see a football player, pat him on the back, “bull” him a little, and let him know that the Twelfth Man is more than ever behind the team. It can be done ... It WILL be done! Wanna Work Fer the Guvment? The United States Civil Servicef Commission has announced open competitive examinations to fill the positions listed below. Applica tions must be on file with the Com mission’s Washington office not later than the closing dates given in each case. Two closing dates are given for some of the examinations. The first governs receipt of appli cations from persons in States east of Colorado; the second, from Col orado and States westward. The salaries are subject to a retirement deduction of 3% percent. Artistic lithographer, $1,800 a year; also junior $1,440 a year; assistant, $1,620 a year; senior $2,000 a year. Negative cutter, $1,800 a year. Junior copper plate map engraver, $1,440 a year. Ap- (Continued on Page 4) Further arrangements for all of the dances are left to the group of students concerned who will have to complete their plans in co operation with Nelson and the Stu dent Activities Committee. J. L. Rice Leads Livestock Team To 4th Place Honors Texas A. & M. won fourth place in livestock judging at Kansas City last week. There were 20 teams in the contest; these teams were from the southern and central parts of the United States. The first five teams were, Iowa, Nebraska, Okla homa A. & M., Texas A. & M., and Texas Tech in that order. J. L. Rice was second high man in the contest with a score of 955, only two points behind the winner, Kenneth Dyer of Iowa with a score of 957. Texas ,A. & M. won first in hors es, fourth in cattle, 12th in hogs, and 17th in sheep. J. L. Rice tied for second in the cattle judging. M. R. Calliham won third in horse judging, L. E. Brendes and J. L. Rice tied for seventh place, and L. J. Gentry was tenth in the horse judging. J. L. Rice also won fifth place in the sheep judging. The members of the judging team are J. L. Rice, L. J. Gentry, M. R. Calliham, R. T. Foster, L. E. Bren des, M. B. Inman, and H. E. Sha- han. Shahan and Inman are alter nates. The team is coached by R. J. Von Roeder. They will leave late this month for the internation al exposition at Chicago. 19 Texas 4-H Club Members Will Attend Chicago Exposition The International Livestock Ex position and Horse Show will cel ebrate its 41st anniversary this fall from November 30 to Decem ber 7 in the ampitheatre at the Chicago Stock Yards. The Santa Fe railroad, Houston Rotary Club, and Dallas, Ellis, Sterling and Lamar counties have made it possible for Texas 4-H clubs to be well repre sented in Chicago for this show. Nineteen leading 4-H Club stu dents have been elected by the Ex tension Service here to represent each of nineteen counties in Texas which are served by the Santa Fe railroad. The railroad pays all of the necessary expenses for the trip. Sterling County will send the top ranking 4-H livestock judging team; Ellis County, the top poultry team; Lamar County the state’s number 1 crops judging team; and Dallas County will be represented by the top ranking 4-H club meat identification team. The Houston Rotary Club will send the three leading 4-H club boys from Harris County. This group, a total of 34 boys, will travel as a body with their sponsors by rail. Board Announced to Supervise Conscription ^e appointment of college offic-- 1 ials to assist draft registrants in filling out their questionaires has been announced by J. Wheeler Barger, head of the Agricultur al Economics Department and mem ber of the Brazos county Advisory Committee. District Judge W. S. Barron is chairman of the District Advisory Committee. Those members of the college faculty who have been appointed to assist the registrants are: Lt. Col. F. V. M. Dyer, Infan try. Capt. W. J. Faulk, Field Artillery Reserve. Lt. Preston Utterback, Caval ry Reserve Lt. E. B. Sale, Field Artillery Reserve Lt. P. C. Schoenfeld, Engine erf- Reserve Lt. H. K. Jackson, C. W. S. Re serve. B. D. Marburger, Superintendent of Buildings and College Utilities. J. C. Hotard, Supervisor of Sub- sistance. M. L. Cashion, Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. E. L. Angell, Manager of Stu dent Publications. Joe E. Davis, Assistant Comman dant. Harold Vance, Head of Petroleum Engineering Department. S. R. Gammon, Head of History and Government R. W. Steen, Associate Professor of History and Government A. B. Nelson, Instructor of His-' < tory and Government M. F. Nelson, Instructor of His tory and Government W. L. Penberthy, Professor of Physical Education. Wendell Horsley, Assistant Pro fessor of Landscape Art Preston W. Kimball, Instructor in Agricultural Economics Frank G. Anderson, Professor of Physical Education. T. A. Munson, Professor of Civ il Engineering. G. B. Wilcox, Professor of Edu cation. J. T. L. McNew, Head of Civil Engineering Department. F. B. Clark, Head of Economics Department Tv»o Cl A rlaty>c ‘P-nri-foccrrvr n'f TVTntll- ematics H G. B. Cofer, Professor of English C. O. Spriggs, Professor of Pub lic Speaking. M. C. Hughes, Head of Elec trical Engineering Department. C. C. Hedges, Head of Chem istry Department. Stoney Stubbs, Assistant Profes sor of Accounting. These appointments have been recommended by Judge Barron to the Governor to be deputies in Brazos county to assist any regis trant in filling out his question aire and in assisting him in any way as to the interpretation or ap plication of the Conscription Act. They will receive forms and cer tificates of appointment at a later date but will begin to function im- Committee’s Study Will Be Used as A Basis for Changes By V. A. Yentzen A student-faculty committee that will consider the pedestrian and automotive traffic control on the campus has been appointed by Pres ident T. O. Walton, Colonel Ike Ashburn announced today. E. R. Keeton, head yell leader; George Fuermann, battalion associate ed itor; Tom B. Richey, president of the senior class; J. H. Focke Jr., band senior and W. S. Montgom ery, lieutenant colonel commanding the Infantry are the students ap pointed. The faculty members are Chairman J. T. L. McNew, profes sor in the highway engineering department; Lieutenant Joe E. Davis, assistant commandant; Dr. L. P. Gabbard, farm and ranch -ijtadxg; jo uoisiAip soiuiouooa ment Station, Dr. P. L. Gettys, professor of business law and Tom Rattan, executive assistant of the local AAA. Congestion on sidewalks between classes and during the noon hour has driven students to use the roads with the resultant slowing of auto motive traffic. The disputation of the right-of-way between the pe destrians and automobiles has be come so serious that a group of students have presented what they consider to be a serious problem to President Walton. By his direction the student-faculty Traffic Study Committee was appointed to de velop a cooperative attitude in this matter which will forestall the possibility of serious accidents as well as expedite the flow of traffic through the campus. Thurmund Leaves For Yea^s Absence; Will Be State Supervisor M. F. Thurmond, associate pro fessor of agricultural engineering, left Tuesday on a year’s leave-of- absence from the college to take the position of state supervisor of the national defense program with the Texas department of vocational agriculture. The purpose of this program is to train rural boys between the ages of 17 and 24 in the depart ment of agriculture. Ten million dollars has been set aside by the federal government for this pro gram. Replacing Thurmond is R. N. Craig, a graduate of A. & M. in 1937. Craig has been a resident of Pampa, where he has been employ ed as manager of the McConneS Implement Company. mediately. Registrants under the act have already received their questionaires. Travis Bryan of Bryan, Texas, is chairman of the local Advisory Committee. In filling out their questionaires advanced students should be cer tain to state uijder requests for exemption that they are students in a military school and state the time when they will graduate. Mem bers of the advanced course R.O.T. C. should so state the fact and that they will graduate with a reserve commission in their branch of the army. This information will be important to their local boards in selecting candidates for immediate service or placing them in some de- | ferred classification. November Magazine To Be Issued Nov, 20 Battalion magazine editor A. J. Robinson announced today that the November issue of the maga zine will be distributed Wednes day, November 20. This issue will feature an unusually large number of cartoons. “War” is the theme of this month’s Battalion, with stories by Walter Blume, D. C. Thurmon and L. B. Tennison. Hlustrations have been drawn, by Philip Crown, Frank Knowlan, George Bentinek, Bob Miller, and Jerry Rolnick. Another high light of this issue will be the football panorama by Phil Golman. This will include pictures of the games and unusual sights seen on corps trips with suitable descriptions. The “War” theme will be car ried out on the cover, also. Heart of Texas Club Elects Officers for Year In a meeting held last week, 70 members of the Heart O’ Texas and Mountaineers’ Club elected Bob Langford of Brady president, Seth Martin of Mason vice-Pres- ident, and Jack Wolfe of Brady secretary and treasurer for the year 1940-1941. Plans were discussed for the an nual Christmas dance usually held at Menard and the barbecue held each spring for club members. Meetings are to be held twice a month on Sunday night.