DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 12, 1940
DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
Z725 NO. 35
Christmas Holidays Begin Thursday Is Faculty Ruling
Advanced ROTC Men May Get Tickets
For Cotton Bowl Without Cash Outlay
Watson Pushes
Unprecedented
Plan for Corps
Advanced students enrolled in
the R.O.T.C. under contract may
purchase as many as five tickets
for the Cotton Bowl game between
Texas A. & M. and Fordham in
Dallas January 1 without any cash
outlay by signing a deduction slip
against their regular commutation
checks due shortly after New
Year’s, it was announced today by
Colonel James A. Watson, Com
mandant.
In arranging for the R.O.T.C.
contract group to obtain their tick
et by signing for them, Colonel
Watson and college authorities set
a limit of $11.00 for the advance
possible to any one student. The
student with a cqupon book will
receive his ticket for $1.65, and
the $11.00 limit will enable him
to buy four additional $2.20 tick
ets for his date, parents or friends.
An R.O.T.C. contract student who
does not have a coupon book may
purchase a limit of five of the
$2.20 tickets.
Students and their dates will
occupy Sections 14 and 15; while
additional tickets for parents and
friends will be in sections 11 and
12, Colonel Watson announced.
Major J. B. Wise, adjutant, will
be in charge of issuing the tickets
to R.O.T.C. contract holders, and
the northeast corner of the Y.M.C.
A. chapel will be used, he an
nounced. It will be absolutely
necessary for each student to ap
pear in person to obtain tickets
under this arrangement, because
each receipt must bear the stu
dent’s signature exactly as it ap
pears on the rolls at the Com
mandant’s office.
The tickets will be available at
the Y.M.C.A. from 8 a. m. to 12
noon and from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m.
daily, beginning Monday, December
16, Major Wise announced, and all
R.O.T.C. students with advanced
contracts are urged to get their
tickets as soon as possible. Since
there are about 950 advanced con
tract students, it is expected that
the entire group can be handled in
three or four days, and it is likely
that the office will be closed by
Thursday, December 19. This offer
cannot be kept open after the hol
idays begin, and'all R.O.T.C. con
tract holders are urged to get
their tickets as soon as possible.
Dec. 16 Is Deadline
For Degree Applicants
In order to be on the list of grad
uating students at the end of the
first semester, all aplicants must
have their applications for degrees
at the Registrar’s Office by Dec
ember 16, Registrar E. J. Howell
said today. Those intending to ob
tain either masters or bachelors
degrees should fill out these forms
at the registrar’s office imme
diately.
In regard to taking examinations
those undergraduates seeking de
grees will be exempt from exami
nations unless they wish to take
the test in a hope of raising low
grades. This does not apply to
graduate students seeking masters’
degrees.
Horning Will Address
AVMA Friday Night
Dr. J. Gilbert Horning, Houston
veterinary practitioner will lecture
at the regular meeting of the Jr.
A. V. M. A. Friday, December 13,
at 7:00 p. m. in the veterinary hos
pital lecture room. The subject of
the lecture is “Veterinary Educa
tion and Veterinary Schools in
Europe.”
This is to be the final regular
meeting of 1940 and will conclude
the clubs activities until 1941.
A. & M. Board
Of Directors to
Meet December 18
The board of directors of A. &
M. college will hold their next reg
ular meeting on December 18 to
hear a report from a committee
headed by Dean E. J. Kyle, ap
pointed to investigate agricultural
practices of the state penitentiary
and other state institutions. The
committee consists of Dean Kyle;
J. Wheeler Barger, head of the ag
ricultural economics department;
Jack Shelton, vice-director of the
Extension Service; and L. P. Gab
bard, also of the Extension Ser
vice.
The committee’s purpose is to
suggest methods for placing the
agricultural practices of these in
stitutions on a self-sustaining ba
sis, as well as to report on exist
ing conditions.
Judson Neff, head of the recent
ly established industrial engineer
ing department, was appointed to
prepare a similar report on the
industrial phases of state institu
tions.
On December 19 the reports will
be turned over to Governor W. Lee
O’Daniel for further action.
Cotton Bowl
Local AAUP Meet Filled With Activity Tickets On
Sale Monday
LaMotte Appoints
Committee to Work
With Texas School
Davis, Cadena
Make Preliminary
Trip to Mexico City
Dr. William B. Davis, profes
sor and acting head of the Fish
and Game department, accompan
ied by Porfirio Cadena, A. & M.
sophomore and a native of Mexico,
will journey to Mexico City during
the Christmas holidays to make
arrangements for a six-week field
trip for those students taking the
Fish and Game Field Course 300s
being offered the first semester of
the summer session of 1941.
Main purpose of the field trip is
to make a study of the wild life
of Mexico (plants, birds and mam
mals) and if possible obtain a speci
men of each kind so that a com
parison can be made and the re
lationship can be determined be
tween them and the plants, birds
and mammals of this state.
J)r. Davis will leave Colleve Sta
tion on Dec. 21 and if the Fish and
Game Commission will grant him
permission to conduct the field
trip, he will spend the entire hol
iday period in Mexico, interview
ing the large ranch owners of the
states Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas,
Coahuila, San Luis Potosi and Zac-
atecaz. These states have been se
lected by Dr. Davis since they of
fer the most suitable conditions
for the study of wildlife in Mexico.
The local chapter of The Amer
ican Association of University
Professors met Monday night in
the reception room of Sbisa Hall.
The president, Dr. Charles La
Motte, was authorized by the chap
ter to appoint a committee of five
to confer with a similar committee
from the University of Texas to
consider the problem of securing
Sabbatical leaves for members of
the staffs of Texas A. & M. college
and the University of Texas. The
committees will have a dinner
meeting in Austin Saturday even
ing, December 14, 1940.
Dr. S. H. Hopkins, chairman of
the committee appointed by the lo
cal chapter to study teaching loads
at A. & M. reported the informa
tion secured by the committee.
This committee, working in colla
boration with a committee of the
Arts and Science minor faculty,
found that the average total teach
ing load in terms of hours spent
in class and in preparation for
classes, grading papers, etc., was
approximately the same for those
departments having laboratory and
theory courses. The average teach
ing load for each of the various
departments within these two
groups varied considerably. The
total time per week per instruc
tor spent in teaching and duties
connected with actual classroom
teaching was approximately 47
hours, exclusive of library reading
and professional improvement. The
report included returns from 27 de
partments of instruction.
Professor E. H. Gibbons report
ed as a committee of one on his
findings as to why military drill
is scheduled from 1 to 3 o’clock.
To enable boys who are working
to arrange their work schedules
more conveniently and to avoid
conflict with the athletic programs
were the chief reasons cited.
IVEr. Roy C. Green reported the
bases on which student cadet of
ficers are appointed and Dr. G.
J. Samuelson reported on local
facilities for faculty recreation.
The aims of the American Asso
ciation of University Professors
are “To bring about more effective
cooperation among members of the
profession in the discharge of their
special responsibilities as custo
dians of the interests of higher
education and research in America;
to promote a more general and
methodical discussion of problems
relating to education in higher
institutions of learning; to create
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Horticulture Seniors Leave On
Annual Inspection Trip to Florida
Nine graduating seniors of the-f
Horticulture department will leave
early Saturday morning for Flor
ida on their annual departmental
inspection trip, G. W. Adriance,
head of the department has an
nounced. This will be the first
group of seniors this year to leave
on their annual inspection tour.
S. B. Apple, professor of horti
culture, will supervise the trip
which will be made by the follow
ing seniors: Carroll Counts, L. C.
Walker, Lloyd Garner, C. B. Wil
liams, E. L. Pewitt, Herman Jen
kins, G. J. Motz, Ty Kobayshi, and
James (Monk) Vance.
In Florida the students will in
spect tropical and subtropical
fruits, vegetables, tung oil orch
ards, state and federal experiment
stations, and citrus groves in the
central part of the state. Pecan
orchards and nurseries will be visit
ed in the coast states along the
route. While in Florida their route
will take them through the cities
of Gainesville, Pensacola, Tampa,
Lakeland, and Miami.
On their return trip the students
will stop over for a day in New
Orleans and return to Colleges
Station December 23. The trip will
be made in two automobiles. The
tour is being made at the present
time because this is the height of
the citrus growing season in that
region. Oranges, grapefruits, and
other winter vegetables are ripen
ing and will provide material for
the seniors to study. In former
years the inspection trip of the
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Benson, Crawford
Attend AIME Meet
Walter R. Benson, senior me
chanical engineering student and a
member of the A. & M. chapter of
the American Society of Mechan
ical Engineers, has returned from
New York City where he attended
the organization’s annual national
meeting. Benson attended the meet
ing as a representative of the local
chapter.
Accompanying Benson was pro
fessor C. W. Crawford, head of the
mechanical engineering department,
who was the group delegate for
this area.
Many of the nation’s outstand
ing mechanical engineers were
present at the four-day meeting
at which time they lectured on va
rious phases of the field.
Flood Lights Atop
Mess Halls Will Be
Installed In 2 Weeks
Because of an unannounced de
lay in securing the lights to be in
stalled on top of the two college
mess halls, work has been pro
longed on this project, Colonel
Watson said yesterday. However,
the lights will be installed within
the next two weeks.
The lights are to enable the
band to play during the early twi
light hours at retreat every after
noon.
When the lights are installed the
band will split into two sections
and one section will play for mess
formation at the evening meal
every week day, while the other
section plays at the other mess
hall.
Ruling Contradicts
Request of Senior Class
10,000 Seats Set
Aside for A. & M,
Corps and Dates
Weekend of Deer
And Bird Hunting
Precedes Practice
The Texas Aggie seniors will
take the weekend to do a bit of
deer and bird hunting near Kerr-
ville before returning to their
football labors Monday, Dec. 16,
when Coach Homer Norton has
issued the call for them to report
for practice to start preparation
for the Cotton Bowl game with
Fordham in Dallas Jan. 1. All of
the players are in good physical
shape, including Marion Pugh, and
Norton figures it will not take
long to get them in prime con
dition.
Not too much is known here
about the Fordham team except
that it has a very impressive rec
ord and consistently has fine
teams. This year it dropped its
traditional game to St. Mary’s
of California 9-6, just as the Ag
gies dropped their feud game to
the Longhorns.
Some idea of the strength of
team may be gathered from the
fact that the Rams defeated the
Arkansas Razorbacks 27-7 and
that is the same team which out-
gained the Aggies on Kyle Field,
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Tickets for the New Year’s Day
Cotton Bowl game in Dallas be
tween the Texas Aggies and Ford
ham will go on sale Monday at the
desk of the old YMCA, E. W.
Hooker, athletic secretary, an
nounced today. Ten thousand seats
have been set aside for the Aggie
section in the bowl.
Student tickets for this game
may be obtained beginning Monday
for $1.65 and student activities
coupon No. 32. Non-student tickets
for Aggie dates and friends may
be obtained at the same time for
$2.20. This convenience of having
the tickets available here eliminat
es the additional expense and
trouble for a non-student one. The
Aggie band will have its section
reserved within the Aggie sections.
The block of seats reserved for
the corps is in the north end zone
of the Cotton Bowl. This selection
was chosen after considering the
price range of the tickets to the
game and the visibility of the field
from parts of the stadium. The
prices for the game range from
$2.20 to $5.50 and this selection
will permit the maximum number
of students to attend. The size and
construction of the bowl offers a
better view of the field from this
position than do smaller stadiums.
jChanges Made To
Increase Attendance
At Cotton Bowl Game
Christmas holidays have been
changed by faculty ruling from
the original holidays to turn out
school after last classes on Thurs
day, December 19, to return at re
treat, January 2. This decision
was passed by a meeting of the
Academic Council Wednesday.
Originally the holidays were
scheduled to run from Saturday,
December 21, through Sunday,
January 5. This was a holiday of
15 days.
At a called meeting of the Sen
ior class in Guion Hall Tuesday,
it was proposed that the holidays
be changed to begin Wednesday,
December 18, thus allowing 15 days
as was originally announced in the
catalog. The change, however,
would have meant losing a week
day rather than a week-end day.
After discussing the issue, the
faculty council decided that the
school was dangerously close to
the limit on teaching days, and they
deemed it inadvisable to take
Thursday as a holiday.
Cause for the change in the
first place is the New Year’s
day football game against Ford
ham in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas.
Ending the holidays on the sixth
would handicap the boys from West
and South Texas, requiring two
long trips instead of one.
Late Wednesday afternoon it had
not been decided whether the sen
ior class would hold another meet
ing to consider the ruling and a
re-petition.
Another decision rendered by
the Academe Council at the same
meeting involved the Texas Ag
gie football team. The Council
ruled that the holidays would be
extended to the football team un
til Monday morning.
A & M Men Attending Anniversary
Meeting of Sheep and Goat Association
Dr. J. C. Miller, professor of"f consist of various samples of long
animal husbandry specializing in
sheep and goat production, and J.
A. Gray, professor of animal hus
bandry specializing in wool and
mohair, left for San Angelo yes
terday to represent the college at
the silver anniversary convention
meeting of the Texas Sheep and
Goat Raisers’ Association on Dec.
12 and 13.
J. M. Jones, chief of sheep and
goat investigations, and S. P. Da
vis, head of wool and mohair in
vestigations, as representatives of
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, are also attending the con
vention.
Davis left on Monday, instead of
on Wednesday with Miller, Gray
and Jones, to make preparations
and set up an exhibit on Texas
wool and mohair. The exhibit will
College Hospital Taxed to Capacity as Bad Weather Causes
Hundreds of Flu Cases; “Epidemic Is Not Unusual,” Marsh Says
With every available space util-'
ized for emergency beds, the hos
pital today enters its fifth con
secutive day with more than two
hundred patients on the rolls of
the sick list. Rain and wet weath
er indicate the possibility of in
creases in the number of cases of
influenza that are now filling the
hospital beyond normal capacity
and beyond the maximum.
Using waiting rooms, halls and
aisles the hospital is taking care of
all patients and at the last count
still had some spare room for oth
ers who might appear. Plans are
being made, however, to utilize
Post Graduate hall in case the
number of cases increases abnor
mally.
Tuesday night there was record
ed on the hospital rolls 233 cadets,
and with as many entering the
record for Wednesday, the toll'
amounted to five days in a row
with more than two hundred.
“There is nothing unusual about
the epidemic,” Dr. J. E. Marsh,
college doctor said. “Each year
about this time there is a flury of
sickness due to flu. But with rain
at this time there might be furth
er developments.”
It was estimated that the hos
pital could safely carry 250 pa
tients, but more than that number
would mean that P. G. hall would
have to be vacated for use.
Men who are sick and have writ
ten permission from home are giv
en excuses to leave school to be
treated at home. More than fifty
of these have been issued to date.
Since the chief danger of the
situation is the chance of spread
ing the diseases, those boys who
have no fever and who are not'f'
definitely known to have the flu
are not allowed to stay in the hos
pital and run the risk of catching
it.
For those men who are just get
ting out of the hospital to make
room for others sicker than them
selves and for those men on the
campus who are not feeling well
but are not sick enough to warrant
hospital care, Dr. Marsh has issued
the following precautions:
Take part in no exercise and
keep from getting hot.
Keep feet and head dry by wear
ing hat and shoes at all times
when exposed to the rain.
Do not sit around in wet clothes.
Do not wash head at night or go
to bed with the head wet.
Avoid eating heavy indigestible
foods such as hamburgers, chili.
Drink lots of liquids such as"
water, milk and fruit juices.
Eat soft foods.
Do not let drafts blow across the
bed.
Avoid crowds and crowded plac
es, such as the theater, “bull ses
sions,” meetings, etc.
Stay away from people with
coughs.
During the cold and rain, it has
been arranged with W. L. Pen-
berthy, director of intramural ath
letics, that any boy who feels bad
ly, should report to the hospital to
get excused from participating in
strenuous athletics.
Discussed as a possible reason
for turning school out early for
the Christmas holidays, the epi
demic of flu has created a buzz of
rumor over the campus. In con
nection with the holiday proposi
tion, Dr. Marsh stated that there
was no reason for becoming alarm
ed or even disturbed over the sit
uation and that there would cer
tainly not be any need for dismiss
ing school on this account. For the
time of the year the number of
cases is not at all unusual, and
besides that, those boys whose par
ents deem it necessary can go home
for treatment upon request.
Bad colds usually lead to other
illnesses and this time of the year
that illness is usually the flu. Ben
jamin Franklin’s rule for warding
off bad colds and sore throats was
to “keep the head cool, the feet
warm, and the bowels open.” To
this rule should be added the im
portant items of sleeping and
working in fresh air, and avoiding
becoming chilled by wearing suf
ficient clothing.
wools, fine wools and , mohair
(scoured and unscoured), samples
of official grades of wool and mo
hair, a feature of wool plant man
agement (as it is carried on in the
college scouring plant), examples
resulting from fine Texas wool
uses, a feature of how wool is
being used in the manufacture of
felt hats and various samples of
wool forms that occur from the
various scouring processes, as
tested by the college scouring plant.
The Texas Sheep and Goat Rais
ers’ Association is meeting, not
only to celebrate its 25th anniver
sary, but to acknowledge the ex
cellent condition of the organization
financially and the strength of its
membership.
A. M. Mackey, Secretary of the
Texas Sheep and Goat Raiser’s As
sociation and former professor of
animal husbandry for the Aggies,
worked hard in getting the nation
ally known speakers for the pro
gram of the convention.
The speakers and the order that
they appear on the program:
F. R. Marshall, Secretary of the
National Wool Growers Associa
tion, Salt Lake City, Utah.
F. Eugene Ackqrman, Wool Pro
motion Counsel, New York City.
Dr. A. G. Black, Governor Farm
Credit Administration, Washing
ton, D. C.
Fred Rennels, Range Supervisor,
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration, College Station.
E. C. Cushing, Senior Entomol
ogist, Bureau of Entomology, Me
nard.
Dr. I. B. Boughton, Veterinarian,
Ranch Experiment Station, Sonora.
Col. E. N. Wentworth, Public
Relations, Armour & Co., Chicago,
111.
Jay Taylor, President, Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’
Association, Amarillo.
Grover Hill, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.