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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.