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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 18, 1941
Z725 NO. 42
Sunday Is Date For First A&M Charity Football Game
Reserve Officers To Have st , aff „.
n i Members to Help
lhanceto Become Kegulars Draft Registrants
Under authority of the Thomason
Act, the War Department will
not have to request authority
from Congress to call any reserve
officer to active duty, according to
a recent bulletin from the Adju
tant General’s office in Washington.
Approximately 100 of the Res
erve officers now receiving active
duty training under the provis
ions of the Thomason Act will be
commissioned in the Regular Army
on July 1, 1941, or shortly there
after.
Insofar as the Fiscal Year 1942
is concerned, the War Department
plans to afford to all eligible
Reserve Officers, who are on duty
with the Regular Army or with
the National Guard in Federal
Service, the opportunity to compete
for vacancies in the Regular Army
which will be available after the
commissioning of the United States
Military Academy Class and a
limited number of honor graduates.
A policy will be announced in
the near future with respect to ac
tive duty for Reserve Officers’
Training Corps graduates who ac
cept Reserve Commissions upon j
graduation in the summer of 1941.
The above announcements were
dispatched by order of the Sec
retary of War to all Commanding
Generals of all Armies and all
Commanding Officers of all Corps
Areas. Three similar orders were
sent to Texas A. & M. College.
$50,000 WPA
Project Here Is
Given Approval
Approval of a project for various
improvements at Texas A. & M.
has been given by the Works Pro
jects Administration, according to
word from San Antonio. The agen
cy will supply $35,200, and A. & M.
will furnish $10,268. Approximately
100 workers will be employed.
The improvements include con
struction of two units to a sewage
disposal plant, 500 lineal feet of
sanitary sewer; six tennis courts,
and razing of five brick and 10
frame buildings.
The location of the tennis courts
has not been decided and the build
ings to be demolished have not
been determined. Work will begin
when plans are complete.
Prairie View
Students To Give
Program on WTAW
*
The negro’s relation to national
defense will be discussed Sunday
during a half-hour program pre
sented by students and faculty
members of Prairie View State
Normal over WTAW, beginning at
9 a. m.
The speaker will be C. A. Har
rison, advisor of the sophomore N.
F. A. chapter at Prairie View,
which is sponsoring the broadcast.
In addition to the brief talk by
Harrison, the student quartet will
sing a group of four favorite Negro
spirituals and four traditional
hymns.
Because of the special program
by the visiting group, the regular
Sunday program by the Roan’s
Chapel Singers will be postponed.
In its place, from 8:30 to 9:00 a.
m., WTAW will present a program
of transcribed symphonic music
under the direction of Howard Bar-
low, the well known Columbia
Broadcasting System conductor.
Smallest Aggie
Wins a Prize For
Bagging Largest Deer
Claude “Squeaky” Wallace, ‘H’
Infantry sophomore, reputed to be
the smallest student on the campus,
makes up for his size with his
straight shooting.
Wallace, although only four feet
eight inches in height and weighing
only ninety pounds, is credited with
bagging the largest deer in Mason
County for the current hunting sea
son.
He went out with the intention
of getting the largest deer since
the Mason County Chamber of
Commerce was offering a new
250-3000 Savage rifle as the prize
to the person bagging the largest
deer.
The deer with which “Squeaky”
won his prize had a twenty-one
inch spread of horns and fourteen
points, which compared favorably
with the largest ones bagged
i n previous hunting seasons.
Thirty members of the college
staff are now qualified to assist
draft registrants in filling out
questionnaires, according to J.
Wheeler Barger, Head, Department
of Agricultural Economics, and a
member of the Brazos County Ad
visory Board for Registrants.
All attorneys at law in the county
are members of the Advisory Board
of which District Judge W. S. Bar
ron is chairman. These include two
members of the college staff who
are licensed as lawyers, Barger
and Dr. P. L. Gettys of the Eco
nomics Department.
Other staff members who have
been approved and sworn in as
Associate Members of this Board,
and are thus eligible to assist reg
istrants are as follows:
Lt. Col. F. V. M. Dyer, Infantry;
Lt. E. B. Sale, Field Artillery Re
serve; Lt. Preston Utterback, Cav
alry Reserve; Lt. P. C. Schoenfeld,
Engineer Reserve; Lt. H. K. Jack-
son, C. W. S., Reserve; B. D. Mar-
burger, Superintendent of Build
ing and College Utilities; W. J.
Butler, Assistant in Subsistence
Department; M. L. Cushion, Sec
retary of the Y. M. C. A.; E. L.
Angell, Manager of Student Pub
lications; Joe E. Davis, Assistant
Commandant; Harold Vance, Head
of Petroleum Engineering Depart
ment; S. R. Gammon, Head of His
tory and Government Department;
R. W. Steen, Associate Professor
of History and Government; M. F.
Nelson, Instructor in History and
Government; A. B. Nelson, In
structor in History and Govern
ment; W. L. Penberthy, Professor
of Physical Education; Wendell
Horsley, Assistant Professor of
Landscape Art; Preston W. Kim
ball, Instructor in Agricultural Eco-
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The President’s Message
BY DR. T. O. WALTON
President, Texas A. & M. College
Confusion and disorder plague the world today and I
know that you young men who are to complete your work for
your degrees here this spring face a difficult task in charting
your program for the future.
We are trying to ascertain, if not actually help to suggest,
the policies which the War Department will follow with ref
erence to your services. Whether you who are to be commis
sioned as reserve officers can expect an immediate call to
active duty, I cannot say. We hope to know definitely soon.
In the meantime my suggestion to you would be to go
ahead with your interest in and application to those basic
industries with which, without the imminence of war, you are
prepared by desire and training to serve. If it develops later
that your service is immediate these industries are in cadence
with the patriotic response of the nation and no prejudice would
attend the withdrawal of your name from their records.
On the other hand, should the War Department have reach
ed the saturation point in junior officers and your services not
be needed in June, then you would have employment with the
prospect of a leave of absence for service at such time as
you would be called.
It is imperative that we go ahead and complete the design
and pattern for our living with full faith and confidence that
after this stupid eruption of armed conflict all around us
eventually come out of chaos and that our serious concern again
will be fruitful and purposeful living.
Vanity Fair Candidates To Be Judged
By Cecil B. deMille, Famed Director
Annual Freshman Judging Contest
Takes Place Today in the AH Pavilion
The annual Freshmen Livestock-
Judging Contest will be today in
the Animal Husbandry Pavilion.
Judging will take place this morn
ing and a discussion will be held
this afternoon.
Eight classes of livestock will
be judged and the placements of
the freshmen will be judged by
comparing their results to those
of the members of the Senior Judg
ing Team. It is important that all
freshmen who plan to enter the
contest be at the Animal Hus
bandry Pavilion not later than
8 a.m. this morning.
The officials in charge of the
various divisions are: tabulation of
records, J. C. Alexander, R. T.
Caperton, Walter Cardwell and
Jack Miller; Timekeeper, Mac
Jones; card collector, Fred Home-
yer and Jack Taylor; section lead
ers, A. W. Maddox, Tom Waddel,
Dick Brotherton, H. J. Richards,
J. H. Crouch and John Steel; jud
ges of beef cattle, Jimmy Rice and
O. F. Brewster; judge of hogs,
Buster Gentry and Leslie Brandes;
judges of horses, M. B. Inman and
M. R. Callihan; judges of sheep,
Harold Shahan and Tom Foster.
All sophomores majoring in
A.H. that can be there, should be
at the Pavilion at 7:45 a.m. this
morning to act as holders for the
livestock.
Economics Club
Hears Lecture By
Rossman of Houston
H. J. Rossman, Houston Agency
Manager of the Equitable Life
Assurance Company, spoke to the
members of the Economics club
in the petroleum lecture room
January 17. This subject was “The
Advantages of the Present Dis
tribution Method of Life Insur
ance.” Paul Lowry, president of
the club introduced the speaker.
Rossman has been connected
with the life insurance business
since 1920 when he was first em
ployed by the Equitable company
to work in Chicago. For the next
eight years he followed various
assignments of writing, teaching,
and supervising in that city. In
1929 he was transferred to the
New York office with the position
of assistant to the agency vice-
president. Two years later he was
sent to south headquarters at At
lanta where he functioned as
superintendant of agencies.
In 1931 Rossman was changed to
a similar position in the Greater
New York department which com
prises 33 agencies with an annual
Research on X-Ray
Mutations Is Being
Done by Genetics Dept
The Genetics Department has
been making extensive experiments
in the field of X-ray mutations of
plants and animals.
This work has been made pos
sible by the cooperation of the ge
netics department, and the agron
omy division of the experiment sta
tion. These departments purchased
an X-ray machine that produces a
maximum of 200 kilovolts.
A special room lined with lead
shields is used to house the ma
chine. The operator’s room is equip
ped in a similar manner in order
to protect the operator from com
ing in contact with the rays.
Many interesting mutations have
been produced by the machine.
Cecil B. deMille, Hollywood’s
famed spectacle director, will judge
candidates entered for inclusion in
1941’s Vanity Fair section of The
Longhorn, managing editor Mor
ton Robinson announced Friday
afternoon.
The pictures will be sent to de
Mille Jan. 24, and from all indica
tions there will be more pictures
submitted than ever before, Rob
inson stated.
As noon as the selections are
made the names will be released in
The Battalion, Robinson said.
The Vanity Fair section will be
different from that of preceding
years in that two pictures will be
shown of each girl.
Robinson urged that those who
wished to submit pictures should
see Joe Jones, room 101 Dormitory
number 10, as soon as possible as
all pictures must be in before Jan.
20.
Parnell to Head Poultry
Division of Houston Show
E. D. Parnell, Associate Profes
sor of Poultry Husbandry, will
serve as superintendent of the
poultry division of the Houston
Fat Stock Show which is to be
held February 5 to 12, according
to an announcement of W. O. Cox,
secretary-manager of the Houston
Show.
It is expected that students of
the poultry husbandry department
will exhibit a number of head of
poultry in the Houston Show.
Symphony Orchestra
To Hold Second Meet
The community symphony or
chestra of College Station and
Bryan, directed by Col. R. J. Dunn,
will hold its second meeting on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in
the music room of the A. & M. Con
solidated High School. All students,
faculty members, or any other peo
ple who are interested are invited
to attend.
Last Sunday the orchestra held
a very successful rehearsal with
about 42 players present. As Dr.
W. G. Huey of the Chemistry De
partment, who is supervising the
organization of the orchestra, has
appointed several committees to as
sist him in obtaining new members,
an even larger number of players
are expected for this rehearsal.
The orchestra has started a mu
sic library which will include the
music of the A. & M. Consolidated
Little Symphony orchestra and
many additional pieces which have
recently been added. Last Sunday
the orchestra enjoyed working on
Hayden’s Military Symphony and
Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony.
The orchestra still has need for
a great many more members who
play string instruments. Any per
son who plays violin and has no in
strument will be loaned one for the
rehearsal and is especially invited
to attend.
Student Aid Fund, Bundles
For Britain to Get Proceeds
Next Library
Concert To Be
Presented Monday
The second in a series of anno
tated record concerts will be con
ducted Monday evening, Jan. 20,
at 7:15 p.m. in the Carnegie music
room of the Cushing Memorial Li
brary.
The program will be presented
by Dr. Samuel E. Asbury and his
subject will be “The Origin of
Negro Spirituals,” a subject which
Dr. Asbury has investigated for
many years and a field in which
he is well versed.
The records which he will use
have been collected with great
trouble and expense, some of them
being now out of print and un
obtainable. He will give a descrip
tion of each one of the selections
played.
All students, faculty members,
and anyone else interested are
cordially invited to attend the con
cert.
These programs are conducted
by Dr. T. F. Mayo, college librar
ian. Each program is confined to
the music which is included in the
Carnegie Endowment set which is
a part of the library.
Tickets Are
Ready for Football
Feed Friday, Jan 24
General public tickets to the an
nual Aggie football banquet may be
secured at Col. Ike Ashburn’s of
fice, Campus Grocery, Aggieland
Pharmacy, Lipscomb’s Pharmacy,
or Casey’s Confectionary, accord
ing to an announcement from the
general arrangements committeee
Friday. The date for the banquet
has been set for 7 p.m. Friday,
January 24 in the banquet room of
Sbisa Hall.
General tickets will also be on
sale in Bryan at the Bryan Cham
ber of Commerce and at Canady’s
Pharamacy. Only seniors will be
allowed to purchase student tic
kets at 50 cents, which are on sale
at the local YMCA desk. Football
players and yell leaders will call
at the athletic office for their tic
kets.
“Dough” Rollins, varsity end
coach, will act as toastmaster.
The banquet is the final affair
celebrating the successful Aggie
football season of 1940, and it
shouuld be prove to be a gala finale
to A. & M. football activities for
the current school year.
It was swell when it started, but look at it now.
AS CAP vs. B MI - You Decide
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a-fvate club which has gained control-f-much wanted (and still wants) AS
series of three articles which will appear
consecutively in The Battalion concern-
p 0r tant group of American song
writers.
ingr the current Vadio ban of songs writ
ten by members of the American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
The articles will attempt to analyze the
situation in such a manner that The Bat
talion’s readers may come to their own
decision in respect to where the guilt
should fall—with ASCAP or its radio-
owned rival, Broadcast Music Inc.
Broadcasting studios are being
asked what is behind the rumor that
an organization called ASCAP in
tends to bar from the air some of
the popular music you have been
listening to—unless radio agrees
to pay $9,000,000 a year for its
use.
Whether or not this threat mater
ializes, radio listeners are entit
led to the facts in the case.
ASCAP (short for American
Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers) is technically a “copy
right pool”. Ostensibly it is a pro
tective organization whose function
is to prevent the unauthorized com
mercial use of music without roy-
new business premium volume of alty payment to the author or ly-
$200,000,000. jric writer. In reality, it is a pri-
When, in the early 1920’s, radio
emerged from wireless telegraphy,
a vast new field for music was op
ened up. Broadcasting then, as
always, wanted to buy the best it
could get of all kinds of music—
“popular” as well as “classical”
music.
ASCAP, even at that time, con
trolled much of the popular music
of the day—the music America lik
ed to whistle, hum and sing.
Of course there are thousands
of copyrighted songs which ASCAP
did not control then and does not
control now. And there is always a
vast body of music which belongs
to everybody, since after a per
iod of years, all music becomes
“public domain” music. No one, for
example, could seize copyright con
trol of the great symphonies of
Beethoven, Brahms, or Tschaikow-
sky—of the songs of Stephen Fos
ter.
But in 1923 broadcasting very
CAP’s music. It included then (and
still includes) the works of some of
Broadway’s best-loved song-writers
In order to buy ASCAP’s music,
radio stations had to agree to a
“blanket” contract.
Under a “blanket” contract a ra
dio station cannot buy and pay just
for the music it wants to use, but
must pay for all the music ASCAP
controls.
The end of the “toll-road” which
broadcasting was forced to take
then was not foreseen. The effect of
the “blanket” contracts was to
create a monopoly. Having bought
and paid for ASCAP’s supply of
music, broadcasting stations could
buy very little other music too.
That would have meant paying
twice for music—and radio sta
tions could not afford that luxury.
So almost the only “popular”
music played over the radio was
ASCAP music. And the more pop
ular ASCAP music became (thanks
to the tremendous popularizing
force of radio) the more money
ASCAP demanded.
' Then, in 1932, ASCAP invent
ed a new device. It demanded that
broadcasting pay, not in proportion
to its use of music or of ASCAP
music, but in proportion to radio’s
total income. ASCAP wanted a
percentage of broadcasting’s in
come from ALL programs—even
programs using no music at all.
Radio broadcasting was not pre
pared for this sudden holdup. It
had to yield once more to ASCAP’s
threat to pull its music off the
air.
ASCAP, meanwhile, had grown
rich through its monopoly. Dur
ing the 17 years between 1923 and
1940, ASCAP had collected $47,-
000,000, of which $26,000,000 was
paid by broadcasting. In one year
broadcasting paid ASCAP more
than $4,000,000.
Now, in 1940, ASCAP again sky
rockets its demands. This time it
says that if radio stations want
to play any ASCAP - controlled
music during 1941 they must pay
approximately $9,000,000!
Ever since it was organized, AS
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Game Will Be
First in US To Be
Played by New Rules
Tomorrow afternoon on Kyle
Field A. & M.’s first charity foot
ball game will be played. Not only
will it be the first charity game
but it will also be the first game
ever to be played in the U. S.
following the revised rules.
Speed, deception and power will
be the general picture of the game
with passes sailing through the
air at the hands of both squads.
Word has escaped from some
“grapevine” that the Stanford
Rocker T might even be used by
one team.
Coaches Charlie DeWare and
Virgil Jones have been working
hard with their small squads and
are ready to give the fans their
money’s worth.
Origination
The plans for the game were
made by Jake Wilk and Tom Richey
in behalf of the senior class.
Proceeds from the game will
go towards the Student Aid Fund
recently established fund for the
benefit of underprivileged students
and the Bundles for Britain.
Broadcast
Yesterday afternoon a radio ed
ition of “On Kyle Field” was
broadcast over radio station WTAW
Guests on the program were
Coaches Charlie DeWare and Dr.
Virgil Jones, John Scoggin, John
Roberts, and Bill Beck.
Dr. Walton and Colonel Watson
were surprise guests of the pro
gram and endorsed the idea with
great praises.
Game time has been set for 2:30
p.m. Price of admission is 25
cents.
Major Fox
To Represent A&M
At SPEE Meeting
Major Tom Fox, Infantry, has
been selected to represent A. & M.
at the fourthcoming meeting of the
Texas section of the National So
ciety for the Promotion of Engi
neering Education. The meeting
will be held at Rice Institute, April
11-12, as one of the principal speak
ers on the national defense pro
gram.
Major Fox will speak on a sub
ject of vital importance to college
graduates and what methods the
teachers and instructors of the va
rious colleges and universities
should employ to improve gener
ally the college graduates’ useful
ness to the Army.
H. C. Dillingham, Secretary of
the southwest district of the or
ganization recently requested Col.
Watson to select someone to rep
resent A. & M. at the forthcoming
SPEE meeting and Major Fox was
selected because of his outstanding
military record. He is a graduate
of West Point, has a distinguished
war record, is a graduate of the
Infantry School, and of the Com
mand and General Staff School,
has twice been an instructor at
West Point and at the Infantry
School, was P. M. S. & T. at the
University of Wisconsin.
Meeting of Senior ROTC
Students Is on Monday
A meeting of those members of
the senior class who have applied
for commissions in the Reserve
Corps of the Army has been an
nounced by Lt. Col. James A. Wat
son, Commandant. At this time he
will discuss the immediate war
crisis situation, and the opportun
ities now at hand for Reserve
Officers to get into active duty.
All those who are interested
and those who have questions to
ask concerning this issue are ask
ed to be present in Guion Hall Mon
day afternoon at 5:00 P.M.