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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, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 19, 1940
Z725 NO. 28
College Community Chest
Goal of $6,000 Is Reached
Budget Is An
Increase of $1,000
Over Last Year’s Goal
By Mike Speer
This year’s College Community
Chest goal of $6,000 has been at
tained as a result of a final drive
made by the Community Chest Com
mittee, Dr. C. H. Winkler, head of
the psychology department, an
nounced late yesterday afternoon.
The College Community Chest
anually sets a sum, which in their
estimation will cover the various
expenditures incurred by them and
then sets a date for the beginning
and end of a drive to obtain this
sum. The date set for the drive
this year was from Nov. 1 to
Nov. 14. This drive is made for
the purpose of collecting funds for
the different organizations of Col
lege Station and Brazos County in
order to keep them from soliciting
haphazardly throughout the year.
President Walton was chairman
of the drive and the vice chairmen
are Deans F. C. Bolton, E. J. Kyle,
T. D. Brooks, R. P. Marsteller,
Gibb Gilchrist and Directors A. B.
Conner, H. H. Williamson, and
E. O. Siecke. Solicitors for the
College are the heads of all the
college departments and superin
tendents of college divsions and
of local business houses.
Contributions are made to cover
the many needs that arise during
the year, and the organization re
ceiving 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 fund, county-wide
hospitalization and various other
organizations.
This year’s budget of $6,000 is
an increase of $1,000 over last year.
However, the community chest last
year incurred a deficit of $1,807.76.
In contributing, each employee
of the college is asked to give the
amount equalling one day’s pay.
Aggie Junior
Injured In Car
Wreck On November 8
Sam E. Hilburn, junior petroleum
engineering student here, is in a
hospital in Wichita Falls due to
serious injuries received in a car
wreck twelve miles this side of
Jacksboro, the night of Nov. 8,
as he was hitch-hiking his way
home.
Hilburn suffered a compound
fracture of the left fore arm, a
broken elbow, and his arm was bad
ly lacerated and bruised. He will
not return to A. & M. this school
year.
Soph Longhorn
Picture Schedule
Announced Today
Sophomores’ pictures are now
due, announced Longhorn editor Ele
Baggett in giving the final sched
ule for picture-taking for the class
section of the Longhorn.
The sophomores have the re
mainder of the time before Thanks
giving and the week iminediately
following for 'heir pictures and the
freshmen have from then until
Christmas to complete their sec
tion. There will be no class pictures
made after Christmas.
Campus snapshots are also due at
this time and should be turned in
to Jack Kyzar in room 428, No. 9.
Seniors who have senior favorites
or candidates for Vanity Fair
should contact Joe Jones, Room 101,
No. 6, as soon as possible.
Red Cross First
Aid Group Operates
During Home Contest
A Red Cross first aid tent spon
sored by the Y.M.C.A. has been
operated during the T.C.U., Ark
ansas, and Rice football games on
Kyle Field.
The tent was furnished by Mr.
C. L. Baker of the geology de
partment and was located on the
front lawn of the home of Mr. E.
J. Howell. The tent operated from
12 o’clock Saturday morning until
the close of the game. It was sup
ervised by Mrs. J. W. Hamilton,
a trained nurse from Bryan, and
K. T. Blakely, a graduate of a red
cross first aid training course.
The first aid tent has treated a
great many medical cases among
the football crowds. A man suffer
ing from a badly lacerated face re
sulting from a fall, a person with
a broken finger and a boy whose
hand had been badly cut by a brok
en soda water bottle were all suc
cessfully treated in the first aid
tent. In addition to this, several
cases of fainting and sore throat
received medical care. During the
Arkansas game a member of the
Bengal Guards was treated for
concussion of the brain. The girl
received the injury before arriving
at A. & M. but fell unconscious
during the game. Another sick
person who was brought to the
first aid tent was examined and
found to have appendecitis and was
rushed to the hospital.
Date of Bonfire Dance Changed to
Night Before Texas University Game
The annual A. & M. Bonfire - "
Dance, proclaiming the end of foot
ball festivities on A. & M. campus
for the 1940 football season, will be
held in Sbisa Hall Wed. night, Nov.
27, from 10 to 1 o’clock, follow
ing the burning of the bonfire for
the Texas University game. Ed
Minnock and his Aggieland orch
estra will furnish a varied type of
dance tunes, playing all of the cur
rent hits and featuring the many
A. & M. school songs.
This will be the last official
corps dance until after the Christ
mas holidays. For that reason,
freshmen desiring to attend the
traditional ritual may go with or
without dates.
This dance, entitled the Bonfire
Dance, is as traditional as the burn
ing of the bonfire before every
A. & M.-Texas game. Heretofore,
it has been the policy of the dance
committee to hold the dance two
nights preceding the date of the
game, so that students desiring to
observe another A. & M. tradition
by leaving early for a corps trip,
may attend the dance. However, in
this particular instance, this is not
the case.
Social Secretary Jack Nelson
said that more girls woud be avail
able on Wednesday night than upon
Tuesday night as before.
The script for this dance will be
the same as for all the preceding
ones, $1.10.
Secretary Of
Industrial Peace
Association Speaks
Hugh Wallace, the acting secre
tary of the Harris County Asso
ciation for Industrial Peace, will
speak to the Economics Club in
the Physics Lecture Room at 7:30
Thursday night. Wallace was for
merly in the postal inspection ser
vice but has been associated with
the Harris County Association for
the past several months.
Wallace will speak on the need
for such a labor peace organization
in Houston and the work it is do
ing in the Houston area. The As
sociation for Industrial Peace is
interested in improving the rela
tions of labor and management,
ond with this objective in mind
have conducted investigations and
taken steps to prevent labor diffi
culties.
At the last meeting of the Eco
nomics Club, Arthur J. Mandell,
Houston labor lawyer, addressed
the club on the legal problems of
labor and their leaders in their
fight for equal treatment in pro
duction. The club is now bringing
Wallace to speak to the members to
present management’s side of the
problem.
And Again . . .
“Jarrin’ Jawn” carries the ball during the second quarter against the Rice Owls. In this game
John carried the ball 19 times for 108 yards. Charlie Henke, number 38, shown above, played one of
the best games of his career. Staff Photo by Phil Golman
First Books
Of Reading Fund
Are Now On Display
The first group of books that
have been purchased by the Stu
dent General Reading Fund, a fund
established and maintained by the
A. & M. Mothers clubs from all
over the state, are now on display
in the Browsing room of the lib
rary with the exception of those
books reserved for students that
requested them, Mrs. W. D. Thom
as, loan librarian, announced to
day.
The list includes the following:
Adler Understanding Human
Nature
-i Allen Venezuela
Bates The Fields of Paradise
—a novel.
Cato, pseud. Guilty Men
Chase Idle Money, Idle Men
Fleming The Flying Visit
Fuller Decisive Battles
Harris- Labor’s Civil War
Hemingway For Whom the
Bells’ Toll
Hoellering The Defenders — a
novel
Laski The American Presiden
cy
Maltz The Underground Stream
Mann——this War
Maurois The Art of Living
Mencken Happy Days
O’Brien Your Federal Civil Ser
vice
Panneton Thirty Acres—a novel
Roberts- The Caribbean
Roothaert Dutch Vet—a novel
Sherwood There Shall Be No
Night—a novel
Thomas Raiders of the Deep
Tolisechus They Wanted War
Tressler The Horse and Buggy
Daze
Tunis -Choosing a College
Utley -The Dream We Lost
Wallace The American Choice
Williams Airpower
Wolfe You Can’t Go Home —
a novel.
Press Club Holds
First Meeting Of Year
The A. & M. Press Club will
have its first meeting of the year
tonight in room 109 of the aca
demic building.
The membership of the club is
composed of those students work
ing on the student publications, the
Battalion newspaper, the Battalion
magazine, the Agriculturist, the
Engineer, and the Longhorn. i
The aim of the club is to cons
tantly increase the quality of stu
dent publications, which are in im
mediate competition with student
publications of other schools; and
to further a greater development of
friendship among students engaged
in journalistic work.
The last meeting of the Press
Club was held on April 30, 1940 of
last semester, for the purpose of
giving the annual Press Club ban
quet and the election of officers,
who held a short meeting after
wards and discussed plans for the
1940-41 session.
Those officers elected were Jeff
Montgomery, president; Bill Beck
er, vice-president; and A. J. Rob
inson, secretary.
Demonstration of
Frozen Food Locker
To Be Field Tonight
Tonight at 7:30 the Animal Hus
bandry Department will proudly
present to the public an open house
of its new frozen Foods Locker
Plant. At that time a short pro
gram will be given in the Animal
Industries Lecture Room featuring
short talks on the way to select
and handle meat, poultry, fruits and
vegetables, and dairy products for
locker freezing. Following the pro
gram, a tour will be conducted
through the plant itself and the
method of operation will be ex
plained fully.
On the program C. E. Murphy,
who is the head of all the meat
operations in the Animal Husband
ry Department, and W. W. Bailey,
brought to A. & M. for the specif
ic purpose of being in charge of
the locker plant, will discuss the
meat situation. E. D. Parnell plans
to talk on the handling of dressed
poultry; fruits and yegetables
will be discussed by Dr. G. W. Ad-
riance, head of the horticulture
department; and W. V. Maddox,
dairy manufacturing specialist with
the extension service, will speak on
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Competitive Exams
For Communications
Operators Announced
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an open
competitive examination for Junior
Communications Operator, $1440 a
year, for employment in the Fourth
Region, Bureau of Federal Airways,
Civil Aeronautics Authority, which
has headquarters at Fort Worth,
Texas. Vacancies in the position of
Under Communications Operator,
$1260 a year will also be filled
from the register resulting from
this examination.
The Fourth Region comprises
the States of Arkansas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
Applications may be filed with
the Manager, Tenth U. S. Civil
Service District, Customhouse, New
Orleans, Louisiana, until further
notice. Applicants will be assembled
for examination at intervals, until
a date has been fixed for the close
of receipt of applications.
Applicants must have possessed
a license issued by the Federal
Communications Commission of the
kind described in the examination
announcement; in addition, they
must be able to operate a teletype
writer at a minimum speed of 35
words a minute by touch system,
or regular typewriter at a mini
mum speed of 50 words a minute.
They must have reached their 18th
birthday but must not have passed
their 50th birthday, except the
age limits are waived for persons
granted preference on account of
military or naval service.
Additional information and appli
cation blanks may be obtained from
the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil
Service Examiners, Post Office,
College Station, Texas and Bryan,
or from the Manager, Tenth U. S.
Civil Service District, Custom
house, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Traffic Study
Committee Holds
Initial Meeting
The new student-faculty traffic
Study Committee that was appoint
ed by President T. O. Walton Nov.
14 held its initial meeting Monday
'night at 7:30 in the office of Chair
man J. T. L. McNew in the Civil
Engineering building.
At the meeting the committee
made plans to determine the prob
lems confronting them and what
can be done to satisfy the needs of
both students and faculty so that
these two groups can cooperate in
solving the increasing traffic prob
lem at A. & M. Any preconceived
ideas that any of the members had
before the meeting were discussed.
The dispute between the ped
estrians and automobiles as to who
has the right-of-way in the conges-
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Only Student
Tickets Left For
Texas-A & M Game
The only remaining tickets avail
able at A. & M. for the Texas-A.
& M. game are student tickets. Stu
dents only will be admitted on
these tickets. They may gain ad
mission at gate No. 1 in the north
stands. Dates “will not” be ad
mitted on student tickets.
Students not in uniform wilh-be
asked for their coupon book or
yellow registration slip for ident
ification as students.
Bleacher seats in the open end of
the field will be on sale at Memor
ial Stadium, Austin, to the gen
eral public immediately preceding
the game. These tickets are avail
able for two dollars each but do
not entitle their holders to reserv
ed seats. The first ones there will
be the first to obtain the tickets
and no general admissions will be
sold beyond the capacity of the
bleachers.
Graduate Club
Holds First Dance
On Eve of Rice Game
One of the more prominent social
functions of the year occured last
Friday night on the eve of the Rice-
A. & M game. The Graduate Club
held its first dance of the year
at the Maggie Parker Tea Room in
Bryan. As a special feature, Miss
Betty Houston of Houston gave
three special dances. Miss Houston,
who conducts weekly classes in
dancing at the Knights of Colum
bus Hall in Bryan, was accom
panied at the piano by Miss Kath
leen Stuart of Bryan.
The next meeting of the Graduate
Club will be Wednesday night at
7:00 in the Lecture Room of the
Old Science Hall. Colonel James
A. Watson, Commandant and P. M.
S. & T. and Major Tom Fox of the
Military Department, will be pres
ent. A very interesting program
has been arranged and every grad
uate student is urged to attend this
important meeting.
Work Starts On New
Dorms West Of Hospital
Engineers
Lead Students
In Deficiency List
Leading the list in number of de
ficient students who are passing
less than ten hours is the school of
engineering with 590, a total of 19
percent of the 3132 enrolled in
the school, according to figures
compiled by the registrar’s office
yesterday.
Next highest was the school of
arts and sciences with 124 not pas
sing ten hours of 689 enrolled, a
total of 18 percent. Third was the
school of veterinary medicine with
58, 15 percent of 389 enrollment.
Last was the school of agriculture
with only 267 out of 2143 enrolled,
12 percent.
According to the grades posted
Saturday 16.4 percent of the entire
undergraduate enrollment was
not passing ten hours. Last year
the December 1 grades showed that
20.1 percent of the students were
deficient. This year’s record is the
next to the lowest in the last five
years. In 1937 the percentage of de
ficiencies was 16.2. In 1938, 18
and in 1936, 19.2. Enrollment in
1936 was 4020, while this year, the
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Minimum Home
Needs Discussed
By TSCW Students
Ten students from T.S.C.W. ar
rived on the campus yesterday to
meet with ten seniors in A. & M.’s
architectural department to study
the designing of an ideal home for
an average family of four mem
bers with about a $1000 income.
The gh’ls are majoring in home
economics and fine arts in Denton.
The home economics students stud
ied the family needs and determined
their minimum living costs, and
the fine arts students planned the
interior decorating and decided
upon the necessary household
equipment. Each of the A. & M.
students designed a home which
was discussed at the meeting. The
plans of these homes will be taken
back to Denton for further study
by T. S. C. W. architectural stu
dents.
The T. S. C. W. girls, the A. &
M. students, and six professors of
the architecture department met
last night at the home of C. J.
Finney of the architectural depart
ment where they enjoyed an infor
mal party. The girls also had lunch
at the mess hall today after the
discussions.
Finn, Bellows
Are In Charge Of
Plans, Construction
By' E. M. Rosenthal
Work on the six new dormitories
to be built west of the college hos
pital started yesterday when the
first loads of materials were de
livered.
These new dorms, planned and
under the construction of the same
firms that built the twelve other
new dorms last year will go up
under the direction of Alfred C.
Finn, Houston architect, and the
W. S. Bellows Company, contract
ors from Houston. Martyn Brothers
of Dallas have the plumbing con
tract and Eugene Ash of Houston
will handle the electrical installa
tion.
The plans call for construction
very similar to that of the other
new dormitories. In fact reports
are that there will be little dif
ference in the appearance of the
two groups of buildings.
Each one of the dorms will have
112 rooms and will increase the
capacity of all the project houses
and other 21 dormitories to over
6,100 students. However, even with
this increase in rooms there will
be a necessity for some day stu
dents next year.
Nine hundred thousand dollars
was allotted for the cost of these
reinforced concrete and brick build
ings, which is very close to the fig
ure allowed per dormitory last
year. The contract calls for com
pletion by September 15, 1941.
So far no names have been se
lected by the Board of Directors
for the dorms, and the Command
ants office has not announced
which organizations will occupy
them. But it is believed that the
band will be divided into its com
ponent parts as the Infantry and
Field Artillery Bands and that one
of them will be located in the new
section.
Newspaper Of
Former Students
To Undergo Changes
The Texas Aggie, the newspaper
of the Former Students’ Associa
tion, will be enlarged to seven
columns, and a new column will be
added to the editorial page, E. E.
McQuillen, secretary of the Asso
ciation announced yesterday.
The new column will be entitled
“From the Reviewing Stand” and
will replace the editorial column.
It will contain anything of interest
to ex-students.
The Texas Aggie is printed twice
a month and distributed by the
Former Students’ Association to its
members.
Several other minor changes will
also be made, McQuillen announc
ed.
Barry Franks, Ex-Student Of ’41
Class, Receives Air Corps Commission
Barry C. Franks of Brady, who-f-immediately
was a junior Civil Engineering
major last year, is the latest A. &
M. ex-student to become a second
lieutenant in Uncle Sam’s Air
Corps following completion of the
advanced flying school training
course at Kelly Field.
Franks was one of the two hun
dred and twenty one flying cadets
who graduated from the school at
Kelly Field on November 15 and
took his place as a
pilot in our ever increasing na
tional defense. This is the seventh
class of like size to graduate since
the first of 1940.
After graduation all of these
new officers began active duty with
the regular army air corps. One
hundred of these men were as
signed to the air corps training
center as flying instructors for the
continually increasing classes of
student pilots for the army. The
balance of this class was assigned
to the many fighting units of the
army air corps which are now lo
cated throughout the United Stat
es, Panama, Hawaii and the Phil
ippines.
These new officers, as flying ca
dets, at first reported at one of
the nine civilian primary schools,
located in various parts of the
country where they received ele
mentary training in the arts of be
ing a soldier and 65 hours of dual
and solo flying in primary training
planes. Upon successfully passing
the primary training, they were
sent to the basic training school at
Randolph Field, Texas, where in ad
dition to receiving ground instruct
ion in the technical aspects of fly-
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