idcufb £djdtcto£UA. WuAtanqA filaif. Benefit To All <% §tmi-Wttk\# ® At Fat Stock Show 1915-1916 • The Silver Anniversary Year • 1939-1940 >L.25 Z727 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, DALLAS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940 No. 41 oburn To Open Second Day Of Commerce Festivities Debate Teams Contest To Name Speaks Today Graduates Of Photo Contests Dean C. W. Thompson Starts Win In Meet Mechanical Man S.M.U. Live In For Engineers Is Announced Many States Annual Activity Tuesday At Waxahachie By JIMMY WILSON The annual contest for naming The graduates of the S. M. U. Is Announced the Engineering School's mechani­ Commerce School are scattered far Arthur Coburn, vice-president of the Southwestern Life Clymer, Ramey, Daniels and cal man for the Engineers show and wide over the United States Only Regularly Enrolled En­ Insurance Company, will open the second day of festivities Branson Capture Honors was announced Tuesday by Jerry and many are already well on their gineers Eligible, States in the annual Commerce School celebration with a speech to Last Week Stover, publicity chairman for the way to success in the business Dean E. H. Flath students and faculty of the Commerce School in Arden Hall event. world. at 11 a. m. today. All Commerce School classes will be dis­ Anne Clymer- and Ben Ramey Two photoplay contests, open missed at that time. The contest will be open to all Dudley W. Curry, '36, and only to engineering students, in won individual honors and Morris S. M. U. students except engineer­ Charles Anthony, '38, have both • The celebration will be brought Daniels and Robert Branson cap­ which a total of $20 in prizes will rtf • MM • 1 to a close this afternoon with a ing upperclassmen and will close earned a master's degree at North­ be awarded, were announced Tues­ tured team honors in a debate held Monday, March 18, he said. A box western University and are now Maiden Commerce All-School Dance in the in Waxahachie, Tex., Friday and day by E. H. Flath, dean of the bkippy brick gymnasium from 5 till 7:30 will be placed in the Co-op and instructors in the S.M.U. Com­ School of Engineering. Saturday, March 8 and 9. Three each student may put as many merce School. p. m. George Underwood and his teams represented S. M. U. In the first contest, first prize Will Direct T 16-piece orchestra will play for the 1>0LLY TICKS names in the box as he wishes. Charley Abbott, '34, is with Roy of $5, second prize of $2 and three Anne Clymer placed second in dance and admission will be 50 "Clanko" was the winning name H. King Company, income tax ac­ prizes of $1.00 each will be given Progressives swung out on the women's extemporaneous cents for stag or couple. last year and will not be accepted countants with offices in the First for the best photographs of engi­ Meeting Program :.nglc Monday. Prexy Tom speech competition and Ben Ramey The celebration was officially this year. First prize will be four National Bank Building and is go­ neering students in laboratory, ,ns proved his publicity-wise took first place honors in the opened at 11 a. m. Tuesday by tickets to the Mural Room; second ing to law school on the side. class room, drafting room, survey­ A variety program, with Skippy 1;/ endorsing a plan where- men's extemporary speech and sec­ Dean C. W. Thompson of the Uni­ prize, four tickets to the Majestic Charles Armentrout, '36, is now ing practice or any other activity Maiden as mistress of ceremonies, i C.racie Allen "presidential ond in the men's radio contest versity of Illinois Commerce School, Theater, and third prize, four tick­ the head of the accounting depart­ carried on by the engineers on the is planned for the Sophomore "Y" -.tiuii" should be held in Dal- which was held over WFAA at who addressed the faculty and stu­ ets to the Varsity Theater. ment of Station WFAA, "Radio campus. meeting at 1 p.m. today in the - --ti'iMcd by the P. P. Maybe 4 p. m. Saturday. Service of The Dallas Morning dents of the Commerce School in ARTHUR COBURN In the second contest, prizes will Mustang Corral, according to Bob .tiliely scatter-brained Miss In debate Ben Ramey and Percy The winner will be announced Arden Hall. News." be the same and will be awarded Bryan. •.•.ill make a good sponsor for Williams, who made up one team, one week from today. Following Dean Thompson's Jimmie Collins, '37, earned his for the best shots of engineering The services of Seven-Golly the ,-•!;,• if the story is not for- and Anne Clymer and Silky Rags- speech, a banquet was held in his Student Council Elects master's degree at Northwestern students on co-operative work, or Magician, alias Jack Harkey, have , i;. this time—which it prob- dale, who made up another team, honor in Virginia Hall by the mem­ and then returned to Dallas to go of projects on which engineering been secured. Others on the pro­ Simmons, however, would were eliminated in the prelimi­ S.C.R.A. Program Three New Members bers of the S.M.U. chapter of Al­ into the insurance business. That students are employed. gram are: James Morgan, pianist; .•rvsting to observe as bud- naries, but Morris Daniels and At Monday Meeting did not keep him busy enough so pha Kappa Psi. Dean Hawk, vice- Will Be Restudied Only regularly enrolled students Jean Smith, mistress of the ma­ ,. • rire Burns, one of the most Robert Branson pushed into the Jimmie is now also vice-president president of S.M.U., was the prin­ At Thursday Meet of the School of Engineering are rimba; and Professor Bramble- i,- fnil-stooges in the busi- semi-finals where they were de­ Mark Vaught, Paul Griffith, and and general manager of Station twich, also known as Paul Minton, cipal speaker and Dr. W. F. Hau- eligible. Contest closes June 15, and hart, Director of the S.M.U. Com­ feated by a team from T. C. U. A restudy of the entire S. C. R. Hammond Coffman were elected XEAW, a 100,000-watt station will lecture on "Trees." Vott Independently each engineer may submit as many merce School, acted as master of Student Council representatives just across the Texas border at A "sing-song," lead by Bob .luitusl Student Council's A. program will be made at the entries as he wishes. ceremonies. from the schools of Theology, Com­ Reynosa. Bryan will follow the program. Monday to foster an council meeting at 4 p.m. Thurs­ All entries become the property m>' merce, and Arts and Sciences re­ Willy Armentrout, '35, is with At 2 p. m. Tuesday a commer­ rim.nt whereby The Semi- Columbia Prof Will day at the Highland Park Metho­ of the School of Engineering and spectively, at the last meeting of the Oil Well Supply Company in cial field trip was held through the Cam pus editor's salary dist Church, Paul Deats, president, will be used in publications or in Discuss Education, the Council, Vincent Baker, presi­ Dallas and spends his spare time Federal Reserve Bank with Charles •»' shaved effective next announced. the historical record of the school. Father of Buddy il Democracy Sunday dent announced. studying engineering and working Galvin of the local Alpha Kappa i. cither a grand-stand play This meeting Thursday will re­ Judges will be Professor Sophus Foster Dies In Psi chapter in charge. Mark is a member of the Senior on his country estate. tudent sympathy in the mat- place the regular weekly one sched­ Thompson, Ronald Knickerbocker, "Can Education Sustain a Demo­ Arden Club and the Altar Players. Angus Bailey, '37, who is with China Springs nl tutting appropriations and uled for Friday. and Dean Flath. cratic Society?" will be discussed Paul is vice-president of his fra­ the Atlantic Refining Company, taut activity fees or an III— The council will discuss the dep­ Rufus Porter Will by Dr. George A. Counts, profes­ ternity, Alpha Tau Omega. Ham­ has recently become an aviation W. N. Foster, father of W. F. I attempt to gain new po- utation aspect of the program, Prexy Kappa Alpha sor at Columbia University, at 3 mond is president of Alpha Phi (Continued on Page 4) l.S.A. Views Scenes (Buddy) Foster, physical educa­ friends for certain elements. which is under the supervision of p.m. Sunday in the Hall of State Omega, service fraternity, vice- tion instructor at S.M.U., died Sun­ N'lirme is assuredly not based Jordan Mann. Next year the S. C. Of S.M.U. At Meet Rufus (Buddy) Porter has been in Fair Park, in the second of a president of the Students' Publish­ day evening at his home in China ,<n-ihlc tabulations as to the R. A. plans to meet at least two Mary Ann Potts Is elected president of the Kappa series of lectures on democracy ing Co., and a Phi Delta Theta. Technicolor moving pictures of Springs, Texas. Mr. Foster had >f a newspaper editor. hours every week so that they can Alpha social fraternity of S. M. U. h sponsored by the Dallas Historical Awarded Scholarship the S. M. U. campus were shown been in ill health for some time. Vote IndependtnUr give more careful consideration to Other officers elected are: Billy Society and the Public Lectures at 1 p. m. Tuesday to the largest Funeral services were held Tues­ Vaught's ascendancy to the the meetings and functions of this To Columbia School Handley, vice-president; "Doc" Committee of S.M.U.