Make Reservations Now for the Jan. 27 Football Banquet The Battalion

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VOL. 89 PHONE 4-6444 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 23, 1940 Z725 NO. 43

Civil Service Applicants To Get Advice

Applications Should Be In by February 1

O. E. Teague of the U. S. Civil Service Department will meet all students who wish to apply for the position of junior professional as­sistant with the Civil Service in the Animal Industries lecture room at 7:00 p. m. Wednesday, when he will sign the notary blanks and certifications of residence which must accompany the applications. The closing date for these applica­tions to leave College Station should be February 1.

Optional subjects under the rat­ing of junior professional assist­ant are as follows: junior adminis­tration technician, junior agricul­tural economist, junior agronomist, junior animal breeder, junior ach- aeologist, junior archivist, junior biologist (wildlife), junior chemist, junior engineer, junior forester, junior geographer, junior informa­tion assistant, junior legal assist­ant, junior librarian, junior metal-

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Talbot Asked To Pick Champ Showman Here

Chief of Ft. Worth Exposition Stock Show May Serve as Head JudgeD. G. Talbot, general superin­

tendent of the livestock division of the Southwest Exposition and Fat Stock Show, has been sent an invitation by James Grote, man­ager of the Little Southwestern, to act as judge of the grand cham­pion fitter and showman here Feb­ruary 19. Mr. Talbot will make the final placings between the champions of the cattle, horse, sheep and hog classes. Winner of this final round will receive a pair of Texas Aggie cowboy boots made by the Central Boot Com­pany of San Antonio.

Jack Turner, manager of the Ellison Estates of Fort Worth, has been asked to act as cattle judge. Placings will be made on the way the animal has been fitted and on the way it is shown, rather than on the merits of the individual animal.

Rufus Peeples of Tehuacana has been asked to judge the horse classes. He is well known for the excellence of his horses and gen­eral farm plan. M. G. Perkins, county agent at Caldwell, will serve as judge of hog showmen. P. T. Underwood of Denton and J. P. Heath of Argyle has been ask­ed to collaborate on placings in the sheep division.

Talbot, Turner, Peeples and Perkins are all ex-students of A. & M. It is not known as yet how many of those who have been in- ivted will be able to serve as judges, but answers are expected early this week.

Plans for the Little Southwest­ern, the first show of its kind to be held in the Southwest, have advanced considerably in the last two weks. Committees have been appointed to handle specific duties in connection with the show, and a great deal of interest has been taken in the fitting of animals by those who have entered the com­petition.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES FOR SECOND SEMESTER TO BE AVAILABLE SOON

E. J. Howell, Registrar, annoui ed today that the schedule of cla: es and registration procedure i the spring session wn,l1jjn&ure3 able s of th

All ouuuenrs are advised that t fees for registration will be stated in the 1940 bulletin of j formation, and that all payhu of fees and procedure through tl Commandant's Office may be cor pleted beginning February 1.

Brooks Announces List of Mid-Term Degrees of M. S.

T. D. Brooks, dean of the grad­uate school, announced today the complete list of all candidates for M. S. degrees in February. The candidates, and their courses are as follows:

P. L. Chism, Education; George Clyburn, Agriculture Economics; Bennett Coulson, Municipal and Sanitary Engineering; Owen Hugh Graham, Entomology; Walter Scott McGregor, Entomology; D. B. Mejias, Municipal and Sanitary Engineering; Lawrence A. Miller, Animal Husbandry; A. K. F. Mir, Horticulture; L. L. Smyth, Indus­trial Education; Thomas Henry Terrell, Municipal and Sanitary Engineering; Wallas Taber, Fish and Game; M. R. Thadaui, Econom­ics; and S. B. Woolard, Electrical Engineering.

In addition, J. C. Shoults of Grapeland, Texas, majoring ' in Agronomy, has completed the re­quired work for his advanced de­gree but has requested that the conferring of his degree be with­held until June at which time his son, James C. Shoults Jr., will re­ceive his B. A. degree.

Six Members of Staff Here Speak To Seed Breeders

When the Texas Seed Breeders Association held its two-day meet­ing in Dallas, January 19-20, six members of the Texas A. & M. staff were among those appear­ing on the program, according to an announcement made by Dr. E. P. Humbert, head of the A. & M. Genetics Department and secre­tary of the association.

One of the main subjects dis­cussed was the work being done on pink bollworm control in South Texas. This was discussed by R. E. McDonald of the United States Department of Agriculture, San Antonio, who was in charge of the federal work in combating this new cotton pest.

O. S. Fisher, also of the U. S.D. A., Washington, D. C., spoke on the new federal seed law which becomes effective next February 5. He outlined the provisions and dis­cussed the law with association members in round-table session.

Members of the college staff appearing on the program includ­ed Dr. Humbert, Dr. P. C. Mangels- dorf, assistant director of the Tex­as Agricultural Experiment Sta­tion; D. C. Killough, agronomist, and specialist in cotton breeding;E. S. McFadden, assistant agrono­mist; all of the Experiment Sta­tion; and Prof. J. S. Mogford, of the Agronomy Department.

Victor Schoffelmayer, agricul­tural editor of the Dallas Morn­ing News, also appeared on the program.

Fish Stock Judging Won By H. Mogford

Menard County A. H. Freshman Wins Contest With 537 of Possible 600Harold Magford of Menard, ani­

mal husbandry student of I Infan­try, Saturday won the annual Freshman Livestock Judging Con­test, over a field of 106 contest­ants, with a score of 537 out of a possible 600. In addition to be­ing the high individual of the con­test, Mogford, who was a mem­ber of the 4-H Club team which won first place in the Interna­tional Exposition at Chicago in 1938, was fifth high in horse judg­ing, and ranked high in each de­partment.

In second place was W. O. Fil- lingham, with a score of 535, who was followed by J. B. Miller with 531. Others in the first ten in­dividuals were Kenneth Garvin, fourth; B. D. Rice, fifth; E. B. Mayer and J. T. Cate, tie for sixth; John A. Powell, eighth; J. R. Fuller, ninth, and L. A. Bridges, tenth.

In horse judging, L. H. McMil­lan was first with 143 out of 150, followed in order by J. B. Miller, J. R. Fritsch, J. B. Pumphreys and Harold Mogford, E. W. Fuller and E. B. Mayor, tied for fifth.

Horace Brown was high in the judging of sheep with 141, follow­ed by Zero Hemphill, Billy Kidd, J. B. Miller, and J. T. Cate.

In the cattle department, John H. Holt was first with 145, George Roberts, Howard Hahn and J. C. Wallace tied for second, with J. B. Pumphrey fifth.

B. B. Crozier and J. T. Cate tied for first in hog judging, B. D. Rice and F. R. Craig tied for third, and L. A. Bridges was fifth.

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STUDENTS WITH JOBS MUST PASS 10 HOURS WORK

All student labor employees are reminded by O. R. Simpson, head of the Student Labor Committee, that their mid-term report must show a total of 10 hours passed with a grade of “D” or bettter, or they will be automatically drop­ped from the student labor payroll without notice. The grade of “E” is considered as failure.

Any student employee thus dis­missed is ineligible for student labor until he has completed a se­mester of work and passed at least 10 hours. Eligibility is secured by satisfactorily completing 10 semes­ter hours, but it does not insure the re-instatement of the student, as preference is given to those stu­dents of the same need who have the greatest number of hours pass­ed and grade points earned. In view of past applicants' record, stu­dent labor jobs are not offered to students passing less than 14 hours the previous semester.

J. M. Jones Is Veteran Ranch Expert, Sheep and Goat Judge

J. M. Jones of College Station- is a veteran who has been doing things in a big way in the live­stock realm since he walked out of the University of Wyoming with a proverbial “sheepskin” diploma in 1907.

Strange to say, his first degree

J. M. Jones

■was in mechanical engineering but he quickly switched to animal hus­bandry, receiving a degree in agri­culture in 1911 from the University of Wyoming and another in animal breeding in 1912 from the Univer­sity of Missouri.

Now Jones is chief of the divi­sion of range animal husbandry in the Agricultural Experiment Sta­tion at Texas A. & M. College. He has been superintendent of the sheep and Angora goat depart­ment of the Southwestern Exposi­tion and Fat Stock Show since 1917.

You could count the exhibitors on the fingers of one hand when Jones took over the sheep and goat department 23 years ago. Today the department has developed into one of the largest of its kind in the nation.

Jones was born on a cattle ranch at Laramie, Wyoming, May 26, 1886. He rounded out his educa­tion on scholarships at the Uni­versity of Wyoming and the Uni­versity of Missouri before he took

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Walsh Will Give FSA Exams Here January 24,25

Sugar Bowl Victors Will CoMect Their Spoils at Victory Banquet January 27

W. V. Walsh, assistant regional personnel advisor of the Farm Se­curity Administration from Dallas, will be at College Station January 24 and 25 to give examinations to men near graduation who would like to qualify for possible em­ployment with the Farm Security Administration.

Mr. Walsh’s schedule for Janu­ary 24 will clear through Prof. T. M. Leland’s Department of Ac­counting and Statistics, the exami­nation being for accountants and statisticians.

The schedule for the 25th is in charge of the Department of Ag­ronomy, and arrangements are be­ing made for all other students wishing to take this examination to have an opportunity to do so. Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the De­partment, states that as far as Mr. Walsh has informed him, it is not necessary for students to have filed a formal application to take this exam. Mr. Walsh indicated special interest in mid-term gradu­ates, but it is likely that he will allow men who will not graduate until June to take the exam, in order to be available for possible employment after graduation.

All students other than account­ing and statistics students inter­ested in taking this examination on January 25 should leave their names at the office of the Agro­nomy Department, in order that they might know what size room to arrange for the exam. It will be necessary for those students to find out exactly when the exam will be held, Wednesday afternoon, or early Thursday morning.

CONTEST FOR SNOW PHOTOS WILL BE HELD

The Aggieland Studio will con­duct a contest of pictures portray­ing any snow scene on the A. & M. campus, Joe Sosolik, owner, announced today.

First prize will be a Junior Brownie camera, second prize will be a Baby Brownie camera, and the third prize will be the book, “How to Make Better Pictures.” All entries must be of a minimum size of 2% by 3% inches, and all will be returned. The winning pic­ture will be published in The Batta­lion.

The contest ends January 30, and all entries should be turned in to Phil Golman, 37 Legett, before that time.

Judges will be Phil Golman, Bat­talion staff photographer, Bill Murray, editor, and Don Andrews, junior editor.

Entries will be judged for ori­ginality and clarity.

“BAT” STAFF,NEW MEMBERS, MEET TONIGHT

An important meeting of the entire editorial staff of The Battalion will be held at 7:15 p. m. tonight in room 110, Academic Building. All editors, junior edi­tors and reporters are especially requested to be present.

All students who wish to be­come members of the Battalion staff are invited to attend. No newspaper experience is neces­sary, though ability to typewrite and the knowledge of the essen­tials of reporting are valuable. A number of reporters are need­ed for the second semester, and students who enjoy writing will be able to pick up a great deal of practical experience in news­paper work by joining the re- portial staff of The Battalion.

Battalion and Scientific Review Soon To Come Out

The January issue of the Batta­lion magazine will be ready for distribution by Wednesday, Paul Ketelson, managing editor, announ­ced today.

This month’s issue of the Scien­tific Review will be distributed January 31, according to editors Woody Varner and Ernie Meynard.

rrOle King Cotton” Trophies, Awards To Be Presented Team at Dinner

Sugar Bowl Committee To Present Dean Kyle With Original BowlTo the victors belong the spoils,

and the Texas Aggie football team will be presented with all of their mementoes of a victorious season that left them the nation’s un­disputed No. 1 football team, at the banquet here January 27.

Trophies of the Sugar Bowl game, the coveted gold footballs that forever will mark them as members of the nation’s No. 1 football team for 1939, will be presented to the Texas Aggies by President Herbert Benson of the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association, on Kyle Field at 5 p. m. January 27.

The presentation will be made by President Benson and his com­mittee in person, and the entire Texas A. & Mi student body will be assembled in the great horse­shoe of Kyle Field to witness the presentation.

In addition to the gold foot­balls for the squad and coaches,

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Edgar Wesley Seay, president of the Agronomy Society and cap­tain of B Field Artillery, has been elected by the Society to serve as King of the annual Cotton Ball, Pageant and Floor Show to be held here April 19. This affair is one of the most colorful and widely re­nowned of all A. & M. social events.

Gladys Swarthout, Radio Star, To Appear at Guion Hall February 23

Famous Mezzo-Soprano of Metropolitan Opera Now on the Most Intensive Tour of Her Career

Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-sopra-' no of the Metropolitan Opera Com­pany, and singing star of concert, screen and radio, who will give a concert at Guion Hall on Thursday evening, February 23, is now on the most intensive tour of her ca-

DEAN BOLTON ATTENDS MEETING OF A. I. E. E.

F. C. Bolton, vice president and dean of the college, left Friday to attend a board of directors meet­ing of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York City. He will remain there until the latter part of the week.

Dean Bolton is vice president of the seventh district of the Ameri­can Institute of Electrical Engi­neers.

-reer. Her program had been sche­duled originally for the 15th, but has just been changed to the 23rd. In addition to singing in more than 50 leading cities throughout the United States and Canada, she will return to the Metropolitan Opera in March after an absence of two years, necessitated by radio, screen and concert commitments.

Preceding her Metropolitan Opera appearances, Miss Swarthout fill­ed opera engagements with the Chicago Opera Company in Novem­ber, singing the title role in “Mig- non” and creating the role of “Car­men” in Bizet’s opera of the same name, for the first time in any opera house to the acclaim of press and public alike.

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College Students In Favor Of U. S. Loan to Finland

Although college students have" often shown an emphatic desire to keep the United States neutral, a nation-wide poll completed last week reveals that sympathy for Finland is great enough for a ma­jority of them to approve of Amer­ican loans to the only nation that has kept up its war debt payments.

Specifically, 62 per cent of the collegians answered “yes” to the questions, “Should Congress allow Finland to draw on her latest World War payments to the United States?” This study of sentiment in the American college world is one of the weekly polls conducted for The Battalion and scores of other undergraduate newspapers that form the Student Opinion Sur­veys of America. A carefully-de­rived sample of the students is used by the interviewers in meas­uring opinions of the nearly one and a half million U. S. collegians.

Favorable sentiment was found in all parts of the country on this

■proposal that President Roosevelt made recently, and controversy over the type of aid this country should give Finland has already flared in Congress. New England students are the most in favor, more than seven out of' every ten' approving, while those in the far west are the least in favor. An interesting fact brought out by the surveys in this and many other polls on international questions has been that people in colleges on the eastern coast are usually more in­terested in the part the U. S. should play in the solution of Eu­rope’s troubles. As one goes west interest wanes, as these results of the present poll show:

New England ...Yes

.... 72%No

28%Middle Atlantic ..... 62 38East Central __ .... 60 40West Central .... .... 64 36South ................... .....64 36Far West ......... .... 54 46U. S. Total ....... 62 38

Placement Bureau Orders Cuts of Seniors

Deadline For Ordering Leaflets Is February 10Cuts of the pictures for the

leaflets of those seniors who have paid their $4.00 fee and filled out their personnel record sheet have been ordered by the Placement and Personhel Division of the Associa­tion of Former Students, Lucian Morgan, director, announced to­day. It was also announced that the formal announcements of the formation of the Placement and Personnel Division were in the hands of the printer and would be ready for mailing to approximate­ly 1,500 employers this month. These announcements are in the form of a four-page brochure set­ting forth the aims and qualifi­cations of the bureau.

Senior candidates for degrees in 1940 are reminded that the actual cost of the leaflets printed com­plete with picture is $4.00, and that the dead line for payment is Feb­ruary 10. All seniors whose pic­tures are in the 1940 Longhorn do not have to furnish a photograph. Those who do not have their pic­ture in this year’s Longhorn should furnish a small glossy print with their order for the printed leaf­lets.

A complete personnel record of all graduating seniors has not been secured as yet, and those seniors who have not turned in this record are urged to do so at once.

AGRONOMY SOCIETY TO HEAR CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE MAN TONIGHT,

The Agronomy Society will have as its guest speaker tonight at 7:30 in the chemistry lecture room, Mr. Clarence Henry, educational direc­tor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Henry will talk on “Effects of the European Conflict on the Marketing of Grain in the United States.” He is a man widely trav­eled, and thoroughly familiar with the grain situation.

The members Of the Economics Club and the Marketing and Fi­nance Club have a special invita­tion to be present as guests at this meeting, as the subject on which Mr. Henry will speak should be of interest to these students.

Mr. Henry is host to the various crops teams from the different agricultural schols which compete in the international contests held in Chicago each year, while visit­ing the trading floor of the Chica­go Board of Trade.