DIAL 4-5444OFFICIAL 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 ReachedBudget Is An Increase of $1,000 Over Last Year’s Goal

By Mike SpeerThis year’s College Community

Chest goal of $6,000 has been at­tained as a result of a final drive made by the Community Chest Com­mittee, Dr. C. H. Winkler, head of the psychology department, an­nounced 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 Col­lege 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 superin­tendents of college divsions and of local business houses.

Contributions are made to cover the many needs that arise during the year, and the organization re­ceiving 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, crip­pled 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 bad­ly 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 sched­ule for picture-taking for the class section of the Longhorn.

The sophomores have the re­mainder of the time before Thanks­giving and the week iminediately following for 'heir pictures and the freshmen have from then until Christmas to complete their sec­tion. 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 spon­sored by the Y.M.C.A. has been operated during the T.C.U., Ark­ansas, and Rice football games on Kyle Field.

The tent was furnished by Mr. C. L. Baker of the geology de­partment 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 sup­ervised by Mrs. J. W. Hamilton, a trained nurse from Bryan, andK. 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 suffer­ing from a badly lacerated face re­sulting from a fall, a person with a broken finger and a boy whose hand had been badly cut by a brok­en soda water bottle were all suc­cessfully 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 foot­ball 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, follow­ing the burning of the bonfire for the Texas University game. Ed Minnock and his Aggieland orch­estra will furnish a varied type of dance tunes, playing all of the cur­rent hits and featuring the many A. & M. school songs.

This will be the last official corps dance until after the Christ­mas 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 burn­ing 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 avail­able 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 secre­tary of the Harris County Asso­ciation for Industrial Peace, will speak to the Economics Club in the Physics Lecture Room at 7:30 Thursday night. Wallace was for­merly in the postal inspection ser­vice 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 do­ing in the Houston area. The As­sociation for Industrial Peace is interested in improving the rela­tions of labor and management, ond with this objective in mind have conducted investigations and taken steps to prevent labor diffi­culties.

At the last meeting of the Eco­nomics 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 pro­duction. 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 Stu­dent 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 lib­rary with the exception of those books reserved for students that requested them, Mrs. W. D. Thom­as, loan librarian, announced to­day.

The list includes the following:Adler----- Understanding Human

Nature-i Allen----VenezuelaBates-----The Fields of Paradise

—a novel.Cato, pseud.----- Guilty MenChase----- Idle Money, Idle MenFleming----- The Flying VisitFuller----- Decisive BattlesHarris-----Labor’s Civil WarHemingway----- For Whom the

Bells’ TollHoellering----- The Defenders — a

novelLaski-----The American Presiden­

cyMaltz----- The Underground StreamMann——this WarMaurois---- The Art of LivingMencken----Happy DaysO’Brien----- Your Federal Civil Ser­vicePanneton----- Thirty Acres—a novelRoberts------The CaribbeanRoothaert----- Dutch Vet—a novelSherwood----- There Shall Be No

Night—a novelThomas----- Raiders of the DeepTolisechus----- They Wanted WarTressler----- The Horse and Buggy

DazeTunis-----Choosing a CollegeUtley------The Dream We LostWallace----- The American ChoiceWilliams----- AirpowerWolfe-----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 aca­demic building.

The membership of the club is composed of those students work­ing 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 cons­tantly increase the quality of stu­dent publications, which are in im­mediate 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 ban­quet and the election of officers, who held a short meeting after­wards and discussed plans for the 1940-41 session.

Those officers elected were Jeff Montgomery, president; Bill Beck­er, vice-president; and A. J. Rob­inson, secretary.

Demonstration of Frozen Food Locker To Be Field Tonight

Tonight at 7:30 the Animal Hus­bandry Department will proudly present to the public an open house of its new frozen Foods Locker Plant. At that time a short pro­gram 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 pro­gram, a tour will be conducted through the plant itself and the method of operation will be ex­plained fully.

On the program C. E. Murphy, who is the head of all the meat operations in the Animal Husband­ry Department, and W. W. Bailey, brought to A. & M. for the specif­ic 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 teletype­writer at a minimum speed of 35 words a minute by touch system, or regular typewriter at a mini­mum 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 appli­cation 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, Custom­house, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Traffic Study Committee Holds Initial Meeting

The new student-faculty traffic Study Committee that was appoint­ed by President T. O. Walton Nov. 14 held its initial meeting Monday

'night at 7:30 in the office of Chair­man J. T. L. McNew in the Civil Engineering building.

At the meeting the committee made plans to determine the prob­lems 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 prob­lem at A. & M. Any preconceived ideas that any of the members had before the meeting were discussed.

The dispute between the ped­estrians 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 avail­able at A. & M. for the Texas-A. & M. game are student tickets. Stu­dents only will be admitted on these tickets. They may gain ad­mission at gate No. 1 in the north stands. Dates “will not” be ad­mitted on student tickets.

Students not in uniform wilh-be asked for their coupon book or yellow registration slip for ident­ification as students.

Bleacher seats in the open end of the field will be on sale at Memor­ial Stadium, Austin, to the gen­eral public immediately preceding the game. These tickets are avail­able for two dollars each but do not entitle their holders to reserv­ed 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 Colum­bus Hall in Bryan, was accom­panied at the piano by Miss Kath­leen 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 pres­ent. A very interesting program has been arranged and every grad­uate student is urged to attend this important meeting.

Work Starts On New Dorms West Of HospitalEngineers Lead Students In Deficiency List

Leading the list in number of de­ficient 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 pas­sing 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 de­ficiencies 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 HomeNeeds Discussed By TSCW Students

Ten students from T.S.C.W. ar­rived 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 mem­bers with about a $1000 income.

The gh’ls are majoring in home economics and fine arts in Denton. The home economics students stud­ied 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 stu­dents.

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 depart­ment where they enjoyed an infor­mal 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. RosenthalWork on the six new dormitories

to be built west of the college hos­pital started yesterday when the first loads of materials were de­livered.

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, contract­ors from Houston. Martyn Brothers of Dallas have the plumbing con­tract and Eugene Ash of Houston will handle the electrical installa­tion.

The plans call for construction very similar to that of the other new dormitories. In fact reports are that there will be little dif­ference 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 stu­dents next year.

Nine hundred thousand dollars was allotted for the cost of these reinforced concrete and brick build­ings, which is very close to the fig­ure allowed per dormitory last year. The contract calls for com­pletion by September 15, 1941.

So far no names have been se­lected by the Board of Directors for the dorms, and the Command­ants office has not announced which organizations will occupy them. But it is believed that the band will be divided into its com­ponent 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’ Associa­tion, will be enlarged to seven columns, and a new column will be added to the editorial page, E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the Asso­ciation 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 announc­ed.

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 hun­dred 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 na­tional 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 as­signed 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 lo­cated throughout the United Stat­es, Panama, Hawaii and the Phil­ippines.

These new officers, as flying ca­dets, at first reported at one of the nine civilian primary schools, located in various parts of the country where they received ele­mentary training in the arts of be­ing 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 ad­dition to receiving ground instruct­ion in the technical aspects of fly-

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