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
VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1940
Z725 NUMBER 15
1,445 Aggies Register
For Selective Service
Draft Registration
Progressed Smoothly
And Without Delay
There were 1445 Aggies between
the age of 21 and 36 who were not
specifically exempt from the reg
istration Wednesday. They were
registered by 42 fellow classmates
from the junior and senior classes
who were specifically' deputized
for the duty. Supervision and man
agement of the registration under
the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription
Act was by the Registrar’s office
under the direction of E. J. Howell.
The 14 hour registration went
off without a hitch as everyone
was.quickly registered and account
ed for. The affair surprised every
one out of their usual conception of
a registration day at A. & M. Mr.
Howell and Assistant Registrar
Heaton answered all questions aris
ing. The most asked question con
cerned the registration of aliens. All
aliens and citizens from the prov
inces were required to register un
der the provisions of the act.
All of the completely filled out
cards were sent to County Clerk
Frank Worsham of Bryan who will
sort them out and send them to the
respective county boards given as
the home of the draftees. Everyone
who registered is warned that they
should notify their local county
board immediately in case of a
change of address.
The first step that will be taken
by the army under the Conscription
Act will be the calling to the colors
on Nov. 18th some 800,000 draftees.
In the 8th corps area, which includ
es Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
and Colorado, the induction center
will be at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and
Ft. Bliss, Texas.
Various questions that have been
going around are still going un
answered because as yet there is
no one that knows definitely the
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Work Finished
On New Fountain
Work has been completed on the
floodlights and running water has
at last been turned on in the
fountain given to A. & M. college
by the class of ’38. The fountain,
located in the triangle just west of
Sbisa hall where the band formerly
played, is a classic design made of
cast stone and consists of a re
flecting pool approximately 18 feet
in diameter. In the middle of the
pool is superimposed a bowl and
pedestal, with a spray of water
flowing two or three feet in the
air.
Although it is complete and ready
to go, the fountain has not as yet
been turned over to the Landscape
Art Department. The many colored
lights which will give a special ef
fect will probably be turned on to
night for the first time. There is
some speculation yet as to whether
they will be allowed to burn every
night or just on special occasions.
Construction work on the foun
tain was completed over a month
ago, but due to a delay in shipping
materials for the lights, running
water was not turned on until
today. Although the formal open
ing of the fountain with submarine
lights and running water is tonight,
it is still in the experimental stage
to some extent. Mr. F. W. Hensel,
head of the Landscape Art De
partment, reports that the small
stream is not entirely satisfactory.
Plans for the construction of the
fountain were formulated by a
committee of the class of ’38 head
ed by John Bone, president of that
graduating class. The firms of At
kinson and Sanders, architects,
were designers of the fountain; and
A. Boniface and Sons were model
ers.
Student Engineering Council Holds
Meeting; Elliott Elected President
B. H. Elliott of Childress was'
elected president of the Engineer
ing Student Council which held its
first meeting at a dinner in Sbisa
hall Wednesday night. J. P. Giles,
Okmulgee, Okla., was elected sec
retary-treasurer, and J. F. Bourne,
Dallas, was named chairman of
the ’40-’41 Engineering show.
The annual $25 which is offered
by Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the
school of Engineering, for the en
gineering school that has the best
combination of class attendance and
and speakers during the past year
was won by the school of Petro
leum Engineering. The award was
accepted by Jeff Montgomery, pres
ident of the Petroleum Engineer
ing Society.
The Engineering Student Coun
cil was organized two years ago by
Dean Gilchrist after it was felt
that the student activities in the
various departments might be bet
ter co-ordinated by the creation of
a council of junior and senior engi
neering students.
The organization consists of
eighteen students, three each from
the departments of Architecture,
Chemical Engineering, Civil Engi
neering and Petroleuip Engineer
ing. The president of the recog
nized student chapter in each de
partment automatically becomes a
ASAE Seniors Return
From Inspection Trip
The agricultural engineering se
niors returned Friday night from
an inspection trip which took them
to Dallas for the State Fair and to
Mesquite, Texas, to inspect a soil
conservation project.
The group left College Station
Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
Thursday they inspected the ex
hibits of different manufacturers
of farm machinery at the State
Fair. Friday morning they went
through the John Deere offices and
branch house in Dallas.
Friday afternoon they went to
Mesquite to see the conservation
project. From there they returned
to College Station.
While in Dallas the students
made their headquarters at the
Jefferson Hotel.
•member. One other senior in each
department is selected by Dean
Gilchrist, and the student chapter
or technical group in each depart
ment elects one junior each year
for membership.
The students who will form the
council for this year are Lavere
Brooks, J. F. Bourne, Eugene Nob-
litt, A. V. Hamilton, J. P. Giles,
Fred Smitham, H. E. Drumwright,
E. F. DeVilbiss, Mark G. Goode,
T. E. Duce, F. K. Nichols, Monroe
A. Miller, John J. Walker, T. M.
Hagood, Ed Clarke, Jeff Mont
gomery, B. H. Elliott, and J. C.
McDuffie.
^O-^l CAA Training
Will Begin October 21
Flight and ground school training
will begin for both primary and
advanced C.A.A. students here
Monday, October 21.
The ground school will be held
at night and upon completion of
the courses the students will be
given three hours college credit for
the primary and five hours for the
advanced.
The actual flight training in the
primary course will be given in 65
h. p. Taylorcrafts and the advanced,
flying will be given in Meyers
trainers with 125 h. p. motors.
These are open cockpit biplanes
with a cruising speed of 125 mph.
For students to be eligible for
the primary training they must
have had one year of college work
and pass a physical examination by
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Kiest Lounge Will
Be Open This Week End
For Visitors’ Convenience
For the comfort and convenience
of those visiting the campus this
week-end, the Kiest Lounge, locat
ed in Kiest Hall (Dorm 2), will be
open from 10 o’clock Saturday
morning until 8 o’clock Sunday
evening. The lounge, put in the
new dormitory area for the use of
student’s dates, parents and other
visitors, contains a ladies’ rest
room, many comfortable chairs
and magazines. Maid service is fur
nished.
Large Crowd
Here For First
Conference Game
This afternoon, the yelling Texas
Aggies will show the season’s lar
gest crowd that they are the All-
American “Twelfth-Man” when the
first conference game for the ca
dets gets under way.
College authorities have made
plans to care for some fifteen
thousand visitors expected here
to witness the beginnning of the
Aggies’ struggle to be the first
team to win the Southwest Confer
ence title in successive years.
With three games tucked away
and the “Aggie Spirit” among
the corps hitting a new high, the
“Twelfth man” is ready to show
the world that they are behind the
team, win, lose, or draw. A. & M.’s
216 piece band will be on hand to
greet the visitors and show them
their part in the “Aggie way of do
ing things.”
All hotel and tourist camp accom
modations have been booked and the
college dining halls have made
preparations to take care of the ex
tra crowd at the usual meal hours
and at the regular guest prices.
Free parking facilities will be
available on the drill grounds about
the campus. Signs have been erect
ed about the campus directing vis
itors to rest rooms, parking lots,
Red Cross stations, dining halls,
and to the stadium where the game
will start at 2:30. Military police
will be on hand to direct the traffic.
Free parking space for several
hundred cars will be available at
the south gate of the stadium and
fans may enter the South gate,
which will be opened for this game.
Student Directory
To Be On Sale Monday
This year’s issue of the Student
Directory will go on sale after
next Monday, October 21, accord
ing to an announcement today
made by E. L. Angell, manager of
student publications.
The directory wil be much the
same as last year’s as few changes
have been made in the style. It
will contain names and addresses
of heads of departmens and pro
fessors, and names, classification,
coureses, home addresses and
school addresses of students. In ad
dition, it will also carry a direc
tory of the Extension Service, the
Agriculture Experiment Station,
and the Engineering Experiment
Station.
This yeai-’s directory is being pub
lished much later than expected,
due to delays in the printing of
fice and to the many changes made
in dormitory arrangements which
necessitated changes in the direct
ory.
Copies will be distributed through
W. L. Wolfe, student concession-
ier. The price will be 25 cents
as it has been in former years.
Ossie M. Weaver, senior in Third
Headquarters Field Artillery from
Bonham, Texas, is now in a Dal
las hospital recovering from an
attack of infantile paralysis suf
fered early this month. It is re
ported by his physician, Dr. Wil
liam Beal Carrell, that his condit
ion will improve rapidly.
Weaver reported to the College
Hospital early Monday morning
October 6, claiming to have a touch
of flu or grippe which he had
treated for a week, to no avail.
Upon examination by Dr. J. E.
Marsh, the diagnosis was still flu
as the only apparent sign of sick
ness was a slight fever. However,
Weaver casually made the remark
“My leg feels like it’s not thpre,
and I stumble when I try to walk.”
Immediately Dr. Marsh examined
Weaver’s reflex actions and came
to the conclusion that the hospit
al had an infantile paralysis vic
tim.
In order to prevent further
spread of the disease, Weaver’s
room was fumigated and he was
placed in a special ward until he
could be moved to Dallas. Sim
ilar precautions were taken in his
hospital roofn after he left.
Ashton Tells
Of Colorful
Trip To Cuba
Dr. John Ashton, former pro
fessor at A. & M., having been
sent to Nicaragua, sends this first
article on his trip dealing with his
stop in Havana, special to the Bat
talion.)
On my trip to Nicaragua one of
the stops was at the harbor of
Havana, where the “Tolva” de
barked many passengers. Those
destined for Port Limon and Chris-
toval profited by going ashore at
Havana. As we slowly steamed to
the United Fruit Company’s wharf
we passed close to the “America”,
the largest passenger vessel ever
built in the shipyards of the United
States. She was on a cruise, and
all her passengers appeared to
be ashore. We also met another
large vessel, the Kungsholm, Swed
ish, likewise on a cruise, just as
we were entering the harbor. The
scene was entrancing,—the Cen
turies-old Morro Castle, of sinister
memories, on our left, the Malecon
on our right, a blue sea and a cloud
less sky, and all the plastic shades
of the rainbow exemplified on the
exteriors of the buildings, making
entrancing contrasts with the vivid
greenness of the royal palms and
other evergreens.
In the distance, a few miles from
the center of Havana, we could see
distinctly through field glasses, the
noble group of buildings which
house the University of Havana.
It is something akin to running
the gauntlet in getting away from
the dockside. One shakes off one
importunate taxi driver only to be
confronted by another. At last, in
sheer self-defense, as the torets
swarm around us and obstruct-our
path, we are obliged to jump into
any sort of a vehicle to put a stop
to .rival claims fo? our patronage.
Of course, everybody hies to the
principal square in the center of
the city. There one can afford to
stretch his legs and visit some of
the fine shops in San Rafael,
O’Reilly, or other famous streets
nearby. Just as one gets weary of
walking around, the same taxi-
driver who drove us to the square,
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Several Changes
Made at Library
A reserve book and required
reading room has been establishd
in th old music room and in Dr.
Mayo’s old class room in the south
west corner on the third floor of
the library. A loan desk has been
placed in the new reading room
for the convenience of the students
who wish to check out reserve books
to read in the library as well as
needles and records for the phono
graph in the new music room.
The music room has been moved
to the northeast corner room on
I third floor, and Dr. Mayo's class
room will have as its new loca-
I tion the hall of the front basement.
Fifteen per cent of the student’s
general fund contributed by the A.
& M. Mothers’ Club last year has
been made available at the direc
tion of the library committee to
be spent for the replacement of
broken records of the Carnegie set
and for records of permanent value
requested by students.
Dr. Mayo stated in connec
tion with the records that a box
wil be placed outside of the music
room for students to drop record
requests for music of permanent
value. In the past, Tchikovski’s
Fifth Symphony and the Album of
Victor Herbert’s Music have been
the most popular with students.
Horticulture Society
Members To Make Trip
Several members of the A. & M.
Horticulture Society will leave next
week-end for the Rio Grande Val
ley to make arrangements with the
valley farmers and the canneries
to supply exhibits of vegetables,
citrus fruits, and canned products
for the annual Horticulture Show
to be held here November 25 and
26.
Boys who will make the trip are
E. L. Pewitt, Carrol Counts, T. C.
Lambert, Hal P. McCorkle, Mac
McLeach, and Ty Kobayashi. They
will leave early Friday afternoon.
Paralysis Victim
Is At Dallas Hospital |
Faculty Rules Waco
Corps Trip As Unofficial
Kyle Field Flagpole
Will Sport Two New
Flags This Afternoon
This afternoon the Texas Ag
gies will be out to win the first
one-sixth of another Conference
Championship banner to fly by
the one that will be raised this
afternoon just before game time.
At 2:10 p.m., Governor W. Lee
O’Daniel and party will enter
the north end of the stadium. The
band will sound “Ruffles and
Flourishes” and the audience will
salute. The governor’s party will
then proceed to the scoreboard
where the American flag will be
raised on the new flag pole by
the governor while the band plays
the “Star Spangled Banner.”
President T. O. Walton will
raise the flag which reads “Nations
No.l Team” and Dean E. J. Kyle
will raise the pennant reading
“Southwest Conference Champions
for 1939.” The latter two flags will
be raised to the tune of the “Spir
it of Aggieland” at the ends of
the score board.
Following the flag raising the
band will play “God Bless America”
and the audience will join in the
singing, led by the Singing Cadets.
Book Written by A&M
Men Adopted by State
“In a Democracy,” written by
E. L. Angell, Manager of A. & M.
Student Publications, and Prof. G.
B. Wilcox, professor of Educa
tion at A. & M. and also the for
mer president of the State Teach
er’s Ass’n., was adopted by the
State Board of Education yester
day for use in the eighth grades of
all Texas Public Schools.
The book will be used in the
Social Science Departments (of
the school system, since it deals
with the modern social problems
of our own state and nation.
The book is illustrated with
pictuers dealing with safety, agri
culture, crime detection, and also
includes pictures of several build
ings from the campus of A. & M.
Mothers’ Clubs
Make Contribution
The Dallas A. & M. Mothers’
Club and the Temple A. & M. Mo
thers’ Club in keeping with their
past policies, recently made do
nations to the Library General
Reading fund. They contributed
$15 and $5 respectively.
These contributions and others
received throughout the year will
be spent for good fiction and non
fiction books to be selected by a
committee of students. Many val
uable additions to the library have
been made from this fund in the
past two years.
The Library General Reading
Fund was started by The Battalion
in 1938 to supplement the limited
amount of money appropriated by
the legislature for this type of
books. Since that time, a large num
ber of mothers’ clubs and students
have made donations.
President
President of the Sheep and
Goat Raisers Association is Ed
win Mayer. His home town is
San Angelo.
Singing Cadets To
Begin 2nd Trials Soon
Midnight Lights
For Sophomores
Also Ruled On
Juniors and seniors wil have their
second authorized corps trip of the
year next- week-end to Waco to
witness the A. & M. - Baylor game
which will be played in the Waco
stadium next Saturday afternoon.
In the faculty meeting held Wed
nesday night the faculty decided
to allow all juniors and seniors
who wish to make the trip to have
authorized absences from classes.
Sophomores and freshmen who
make the trip will not be given au
thorized absences from classes.
It is homecoming next Satur
day for the Baylor Bears and the
Athletic office was only able to-
obtain 2830 student tickets. Tic
kets for the Aggies and their dates
go on sale at the Y.M.C.A. desk
on Monday at 8 a.m. The tickets
are all in a block from the 50-yard
line to the end zone on the east
side of the field. Only Aggies and
their dates will be allowed to en
ter the stadium on student tic
kets.
This year a concert group has
been organized by the Singing Ca
dets. The group consists of a small
number of boys who can read mu
sic and sing well, and they will
sing at functions where a large
group is not needed. There will be
several quartets and octets* chosen
from the entire club.
Already the Singing Cadets have
made several public appearances
this year. They sang last week for
a meeting of the Bryan Woman’s
Club and were called for three en
cores on each number. They also
sang for the members of the Sheep
and Goat Raiser’s Association
which met on the campus last week
end.
The new song “Texas A.M.C.”
(War Song) which was written for
and presented to The Singing Ca
dets by the late George E. Perfect,
organist of Dallas and which was
first introduced on the spring tour
of the Singing Cadets last year
through North Texas is to be in
troduced to the Corps this fall.
Something new at A. & M. this
year will be the appearance of sev
eral other Collegiate musical or
ganizations to be sponsored by the
Singing Cadets.
Couch, Miller To Be Here
For Wildlife Conference
Leo. K. Couch, assistant chief of
the Division of Wildlife Research
and J. Paul Miller, new secretary
of the American Wildlife Inti-
tute will arrive here from Wash
ington, D.C. on October 28 to con
fer with Walter P. Taylor, head
of the Wildlife department. During
their visit here they will inspect the
McCullough Ranch. Taylor will
acompany them to Austin and
Houston where they will inspect
various game preserves. Couch
and McCullough will continue to!
New Orleans so that they may vis- !
it the Sabine Refuge near Lake
Charles, Louisiana, en route.
A trial adopted resolution of the
meeting also allows Sophomores
to keep their lights on after taps.
It is hoped by the faculty that the
Sophomores will use this new priv
ilege to their benefit, since it is
felt by the faculty that sophomores
need more time devoted to study.
Close observation will be made of
the results of this new ruling in
order to determine if it is bene
ficial.
The subject of maximum lamp
wattage for study lamps also came
before the meeting, but owing to
the fact that the power plant fa
cilities were not increased when
the new dormitories were built,
the power plant is now operating
at capacity load. Action cannot be
taken on this subject until the
power plant has more increased
capacity, which is expected in the
near future.
Wool, Mohair Plant
Open for Inspection
The recently completed wool and
mohair scouring plant, located in
the Textile Engineering building,
was opened for general inspection
Thursday. It has been open this
week because of the Sheep and
Goat Raisers meeting here. This
new plant, valued at around $30,000
is one of the best and most com
pletely equipped plants for research
purposes at any college in the
United States. The new unit is
equipped to scour up to 2,500-
pounds of wool (grease basis). Un
der the present new program the
daily output is ten times that of
the old plant.
The principal objective of this
experimental plant is for the de
velopment of information that will
be helpful to growers, warehouses,
and buyers in the determination of
the correct grades and shrinkages
of representative samples of wool
and mohair.
Since Texas wools are sold on an
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RS 311 Class Establishes
Honor System for Quizzes
The honor system for quizzes
was established in the 11 o’clock
class of Rural Sociology, Social
Psychology, Friday morning upon
the suggestion of Lambert Moly-
neaux, class instructor.
The class voted to adopt the
system, and a committee was ap
pointed to work out the details. Ed
A. Felder was named chairman of
the committee, and R. M. Hender
son, Marvin Lee, Thomas B. Miller
and James M. Williams were nam
ed to work with him.
“Students cheat because cheating
has just been accepted as part of
the system, and this system will be
an experiment in social psychology
in attempting to overcome that at
titude. Boys in A. & M. are funda
mentally no worse than in other
schools, and other schools have
made the honor system work,”
Molyneaux said.
Becker And Ritchey Cool Their Heels
In New Office Created in Ross Hall
A stroll through Ross Hall, A.-fPresident Tom Richey and Staff
& M.’s remodeled military build
ing, brought to light many in
teresting innovations yesterday.
Perhaps the most interesting was
a little cardboard sign above an
office on the first floor of the
east wing. Figuratively speaking,
the sign was not uncommon of any
other sign, but it attracted atten
tion, for it bore the names of two
students.
Upon further investigation, it
was determined that the room
marked by the little sign was the
new office of Cadet Colonel Bill
Becker. This in itself was not
exactly remarkable, unless it is con
sidered that A. & M.’s cadet col
onel has never possessed an of
fice before. ThenJ - too, the office
will be shared by Senior Class
Executive Paul Haines. These three
students will form what will com
monly be known as the Corps Head
quarters for the Corps Staff.
This is an entirely new idea of
creating a student office for the
cadet colonel. Although it has
never been attempted before, it is
hoped that this innovation will
bring about a closer contact be
tween the Commandant and the
Corps Staff.
It will be the purpose of the of
fice to keep a complete set of files
and data on all senior class and or
ganization meetings. In future
years these three important cadet
positions will be made easier for
their new occupants for the dut
ies of all will be outlined and plan-
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