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DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION YOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1941 Z725 NO. 62 4 Evening Seminars to BeginMar.31 Gammon Will Give First Lecture in Pan American Series A series of four evening seminars concerning the South and Central American nations will be inaugu rated March 31, Dean T. D. Brooks of the School of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday afternoon. The first lecture will be given by Dr. S. R. Gammon, head of the history department, March 31, in the main Chemistry lecture room at 7:30. “The present Latin American situation justifies an effort on our part,” Dean Brooks said, “because of the emphasis placed by the fed eral government on the common problems of defense and economics shared by North and South Amer- Aggieland’s Aid to Britain ica.” The group of seminar programs will offer information about our southern neighbors and will be op en to both faculty members and students. Should interest justify continuation of the programs, they will be continued next year, he added. The four evening seminars have been tentatively scheduled as fol lows: March 31: “Why Latin Amer ica?” which will be the title of Dr. Gammon’s lecture, will give in formation of the historical back ground and political organization of Latin America, plus diplomatic activities of recent years. April 15: Dr. C. L. Baker, head of the geology department, will conduct the second program of the series. The wealth of natural resources and their under-develop ment will be discussed. Much of the information will be from origi nal observation gained by Dr. Bak er from explorations in South America. April 28: South American com merce and trade will be discussed by G. W. Schlesselman, professor in the agricultural economics de partment who teaches a course in foreign trade. May 12: J. J. Woolket, professor in the modern language depart ment will deliver the last lecture of the series. Woolket will discuss the cultural features of South American life. Local Girl Wins Honors at Arizona U. Mary Ann Gibney, daughter of Lieut. Col. Gibney here at A. & M., won senior honors at the Univers ity of Arizona where she is a stu dent. She was one of eight to re ceive these honors. Miss Gibney, who attended the Pennsylvania College for Women before going to the University of Arizona, is an active member of several clubs at the University. Lee Rogers, Bishop, Field Artillery junior and a member of the local Bundles for Britain com mittee, is seen beside a pile of old clothes which the committee is repairing to send to England. The vast work of the committee includes, besides the collection of old clothes, endeavors in several other fields. —Staff Photo by Phil Golman Fifth Campus Film Club Show Tonight Fish and Game Department Maps Travelling Summer School Courses Students interested in fish and game conservation will have a chance to pursue that study in the field this coming summer, accord ing to an announcement made this week by Dr. W. P. Taylor, head of the A. & M. fish and game de partment. Dr. Taylor’s department is offer ing a six-week traveling course during the first six weeks of the summer session, starting June 9 and will cover field trips in Mex ico where the students will make a survey of birds, mammals and plants of selected sections of that country. The basic idea is to instruct the students in methods of collecting field data and gathering informa tion on wildlife conditions in an area where overhunting and over- grazing has permitted nearly pri meval conditions to exist. Reservations for this course must be received by Dr. Taylor by April 15 as permits must be obtained from the Mexican Government for all members of the party. Dr. W. B. Davis, professor of fish and game, will be in charge of the group. Another course offered during the same period will cover a sur vey of the Colorado River from the Gulf of Mexico to its head waters with the object of learning the present status of fish and fish foods, and the physical properties of the river. This course will be in Dr. Arthur H. Compton Will Speak To Combined Junior and Senior Classes Dr. Arthur H. Compton, ex-- 1 plorer of the atom and national protestant co-chairman of the Nat ional Conference of Christians and Jews, will speak to the combined junior and senior classes and to interested faculty members and local citizens in Guion Hall at 11 a.m. Saturday. Dr. Compton is on a tour of the southern states speaking to many institutions and organizations on “Science, Religion and a Stable So ciety.” He is brought to A. & M. by the engineering council under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Tues day he lectured to the students at the University of Texas; Friday he goes to New Orleans to speak at Tulane; he comes to A. & M. from New Orleans that night to appear Saturday morning. A Nobel prize winner and the Charles H. Swift distinguished professor of Physics at the Uni versity of Chicago, Dr. Compton is considered one of the world’s foremost experimentalists in the field of radiantenergy. Dr. Compton has lectured in In dia, England and Germany and is an honorary member of eight scientific societies in the United States and foreign countries. He has published many scientific articles and has been editor of a Arthur H. Compton number of scientific periodicals. His lectures are of such a nature that they may be understood by men in fields other than those in which he speaks. charge of Dr. Kelsaw Bonham, pro fessor of fish and game. During the second term of the Summer session, starting July 21, Dr. Davis will conduct another class in a survey of wildlife con ditions in Trans-Pecos, Texas, a survey he began three years ago. Work in this class will center around the collecting of data on the status of both game and non game animals, and the vegetation in Presidio county in the Big Bend region. Also during the second term, Dr. Taylor will be in charge of a course covering wildlife, manage ment and restoration. Students will spend about one week in each of the areas in Texas where game management is now in operation. The studies will cover work being done with deer, wild turkeys, quail, waterfowl, fur bearers and other species of animals. AH of the courses offered will carry full college credit ranging from four to seven hours as well as giving wildlife enthusiasts a chance to study in the field rather than in class rooms. On many oc casions the students will live in camps while studying wildlife in the open, Dr. Taylor pointed out. Carlsen to Play Engineers Ball Bill Carlsen and his nationally famed orchestra, which is rated as one of the best orchestras in the Chicago area, will play for the annual Engineers’ Regimental Ball March 28, L. D. Housewright, chairman of the dance committee for the event, announced yesterday. Carlsen will also play for the corps dance on March 29. During the last three years Carl sen has had numerous engagements at the Aragon and the Tianon ballrooms and the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Carlsen has made only one other trip to Texas, at which time he played at the Adolphus Hotel and the Plantation in Dallas. Glee Club Leaves On Three-Day Tour Yesterday morning at 6:30 the A. & M. Glee Club left in three chartered busses for a three day singing tour of southeastern Texas J. J. Woolket, director of the Glee Club, announced. The Glee Club will visit the high schools and A. & M. mothers’ clubs of Conroe, Port Arthur, Beau mont, and Houston. They will also appear before the Southeastern division of the Texas State Teach ers’ Association. > “The Harvest,” French Production, Begins at 9 P.M. “Harvest,” the fifth foreign pic ture shown by the Campus Film club, will be shown at the Campus Theater tonight at 8:50 and 10:20, Sam B. Zisman, chairman of the executive committee of the club, announced. The picture was made in France but has the dialogue printed in English on the film. It was voted the best foreign-produced picture during 1939. The picture ran into trouble with the Censor and De cency League in this country but is is now being shown in its origi nal form. The story takes place in a peas ant village in southern France. The action shows the peasant folk mov ing from that section to the larger cities until only one peasant is left, living the life of a hermit. Through the area comes an itin- ei’ant knife grinder with his wom- an-of-all-work helper. She meets the peasant, and leaves the knife grinder to set up her home with him. Then there follows the picture of the revival of life in the de serted area. Borrowing seed and farm equipment from distant but friendly farmers, the man is re warded with a successful harvest of wheat. But in the midst of this new harmony reappears the com ical figure of the knife grinder who claims his former helper. A somewhat tragi-comic arrangement is made, however, and the man and the woman go ahead into the future. “The picture is tenderly done with effective photography, and is a moving portrayal of a moving story,” Zisman said. Members of the Campus Film club will be admitted to the thea ter at 8:50. Others who wish to witness the showing will be ad mitted at 9 p. m. Parking Lot Added To New Dorm Area A new parking lot is under con struction behind dormitory num ber 11 and is scheduled to be com pleted by the end of the week, F. W. Hensel, head of the landscape art department, stated yesterday. The addition of this new park ing area will relieve congestion at the present parking lots and will make available to the students in that area a more convenient lo cation for parking their cars. Hensel stated that he believes one additional parking lot will be adequate and that, as far as he knows, there have been no plans for the building of other parking areas. 10-Day Aid Fund Benefit Picture Show at Campus Theater Begins Monday Student Election Committee Meets This Afternoon Decisions regarding this spring’s general election of student offi cers for next year will be made in a meeting today at 4 p.m. of the student election committee. Among points to be discussed are the date of the general election, the method of selecting a senior yell leader to fill the vacancy left by Bill Beck who went to Randolph Field, the method of identifying qualified voters, and the determin ation of limitation of voters for the various offices. It has also been proposed that the senior election of Longhorn Editor and Senior Social Secretary be included on this date. This question will also be decided this afternoon. Members of the election com mittee include Cadet Colonel Bill Becker, Senior President Tom Richey, the vice presidents of the four classes, Howard Shelton, Tom Gillis and Jack Miller; registrar E. J. Howell; and the manager of student publications, E. L. Angell. Greenberg Will Conduct Eighth Annotated Concert The record concert in the music room of the Cushing Library Mon day at 7:15 p. m. will be conducted by Sam M. Greenberg of the engi neering experiment station. This is the eighth in the series of annotated musical concerts which are given every Monday night by faculty members and stu dents who are interested in music. The selections are limited to the records in the Carnegie endowment collection. The program Monday night will consist of: (1) Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, played by Joseph Szigeti, with Bruno Walter conducting the symphony orches tra; and (2) Ballads for Amer icans, music vy Earl Robinson, words by John Latouche, sung by Paul Robeson. Voder on Display Tomorrow Night Dr. J. O. Perrine of New York City, assistant vice-president of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company, will present Pedro the Voder, the machine that talks like a man, in a lecture-demon stration Friday night at 8 o’clock in Guion Hall. The program is being sponsored by the student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers of the engineering school. Dr. Perrine’s subject will be “The Artificial Creation of Speech.” During the lecture he will explain how Pedro operates and will dis cuss the basic elements of sound. Miss Anna Mae Swenson of Brooklyn, New York, will demon strate with the Voder how these elements are combined to make words and sentences. Miss Swen son makes the Voder talk, laugh or sing by operating a set of keys and other controls. Rural Sociologists To Hear Speakers Carl Basland, head of the Bureau of Records and Identification if the Texas Prison System, and W. E. Robertson, Chief Probation Of ficer of Harris County, will speak tonight at 7:15 in room 203 of the agricultural building to the Rural Sociology club. Basland is the present president of the Texas Probation Association, and the analysis of all convicts made by him are studied by Gov ernor W. Lee O’Daniel in grant ing pardons. King Cotton Above is J. T. Anderson, Mesquite, president of the Agronomy Society, who was el ected King Cotton to preside at the 1941 Cotton Pageant and Ball. A1 Donahue to Play for Annual Senior Ring Dance A1 Donahue and his orchestra will play for the annual Senior Ring Dance Friday, May 9, Bob Langford, chairman of the orches tra committee announced late Wed nesday afternoon. The committee has been work ing to sign an orchestra for sev eral weeks and Wednesday after noon, through a long distance tele phone confix-mation from Donahue’s booking agent, final negotiations were made. Although Donahue and his na tionally famed orchestra have nev er before played at A. & M.; most Aggies are familiar with his music through his frequent broadcasts via national radio networks. Following his performance here at the Ring Banquet and Dance Friday, he will play for the corps dance Saturday night. Longhorn Covers to Be Brown and Grey The Longhorn covers are now being printed by the Gulf Publish ing Company, Houston, and ap proximately 4,500 copies are being run off, L. L. Kirkpatrick, manag ing editor of The Longhorn said yesterday. For the first time in several years the background color will be brown. Situated prominently on this back ground, an imposing grey eagle, symbolizing the national defense theme of The Longhorn, is shown as it is just about to strike its prey. Directly under the eagle the name Longhorn spans the cover in gold and red letters. k Six Short Subjects Make-up Show; Time Is 4:10 Each Day By Tom Gillis One hour and forty-five minutes of comedies and short subjects will be shown at the Campus Theater each day for ten days beginning Monday, March 17, for the benefit of the Student Aid Fund, George Fuermann, chairman of the Student Aid Fund committee announced. Tickets for the showings will be 10 cents each and will go on sale Friday morning. The showings will begin at 4:10 p. m. on each day and will be run only once each day. The facilities of the Campus Theater have been donated to the Student Aid Fund for this benefit show and the motion picture com panies have cooperated in helping the committee raise funds by charging no film rental for the ten day period. Every dime that is used in purchasing tickets to the show will go to the Student Aid Fund to be used in assisting worthy Aggies who need medical care. Skeen Staley, chairman of the ticket dirstribution committee, is being assisted by J. H. Focke and Tom Gillis. Tickets for the show ings may be obtained by dormi tory students from their first- sergeants and by project house students from their house man agers. The faculty may obtain tick ets frcm the heads of departments, and others are available at Lip scomb’s Pharmacy, the YMCA desk in both areas, and the box office of the Campus Theater. “This is the first money rais ing activity of the Student Aid Fund committee,” Dan Russell, ex ecutive secretary of the committee, said. “Every cent used in purchas ing the 10-cent tickets will go to the Student Aid Fund and used to help some Aggie who really needs the help. I hope that every student and faculty member and all who are connected with or interested in the college will feel that they can help some Aggie by purchasing tickets.” The short subjects which will make up the 105-minute program are; Donald Duck comedy—“The Hockey Champ”; Merrie Melody comedy—“Ceiling Hero”; Warner Brothers 2-reel technicolor musical “Swingtime in the Movies”; The Three Stooges in “Three Sappy People”; Universal 2-reel musical “Rhumbaland Music”; and a musi cal “I Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair.” The boxoffice of the Campus Theater will be turned over to the members of the committee at 4 p. m. each day for 10 days. The regular show which is playing the theater on these days will be sus pended and the series of comedies and shorts will be shown for the period from 4:10 to 5:56. This time for the showings was selected so that more students could attend some day during the 10-day run of the shorts. The show will be completed in time for cadets to make supper formation. Plans Being Pushed for Presentation Of Annual Cotton Pageant and Ball A committee from Sanger Bro-"'cotton belt. thers of Dallas, the firm which will present the style show at the Cot ton Pageant May 2, was on the campus Tuesday afternoon to discuss with Cotton Pageant and Ball officials plans for the presen tation. The committee was made up of Mrs. Gladys Gilbert, stylist for Sanger Brothers; Mrs. E. G. Wen dell, the firm’s publicity director; and R. E. Moriarty, director for the company. They informed the Cotton Pageant officials that there would be ten professional models in the style show and that a complete line of all the latest fashions in cotton would be shown. After considering several plans, Moriarity, J. S. Mogford of the ag ronomy department; Mrs. Manning Smith, local director of the Cotton Pageant; and J. W. Pinson, social secretary of the event, decided that the general design for the back ground of King Cotton’s Court would be an elaborate map of the The background, instead of being designed by a student as has been the custom in the past, will be planned and constructed under the supervision of the agronomy de partment. Plans for the styling of the King and Queen’s court were also dis cussed. Annual Methodist Meeting- Held Here The third annual Marlin district Methodist youth rally was held in Guion Hall at 7 p. m. Tuesday with an attendance of more than 1,000 young people from 10 east- central Texas counties. The program consisted of a con cert by the Singing Cadets; the in vocation by Rev. James Carlin, pastor of the A. & M. Methodist Church; the welcoming address by Dr. T. O. Walton, speeches by lead ing men of the district; and con gregational singing.