The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 21, 1941, Image 1
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 YOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 21, 1941 Z725 NO. 43 McMillan High Man In Judging Martin, Parnell, Sterling, Cox, Other Students In First Five Marvin McMillan, freshman of H Company Infantry, took first place Saturday in the livestock judging contest at College which started at 8 a.m. and lasted near ly all day. McMillan out-pointed all the other freshmen, in the con test with a score of 555 out of a possible 600 points. He was high man in the entire contest, cattle, sheep and hogs. He is taking Ani mal Husbandry and hails from Ma son, Texas. Close behind McMillan came E. J. Martin, Odessa, Texas, with 551 points to place second in the contest and tie with McMillan and R. C. Cox of Las Cruces, New Mex ico, for first in cattle, second in sheep and third in hogs. The five high men in the con test were McMillan, 555 points, Martin, 551; C. E. Sterling, 541; G. C. Parnell, 540; and Cox, 539. These men will be awarded medals for their success. The highest five men in cattle judging division were McMillan, Martin, and Cox each with 144 points; Parnell, with 142 points; and R. M. Parker, 141 points. The highest men in the sheep judging contest were McMillan, 143 points; Martin, 141; C. L. Thaxton, 140 points; Cox, 136; and R. L. Haines, 136. The contestants who placed high est in the hog judging division were McMillan and Walter Hold en, 140 points; D. A. Schmidt, E. J. Martin, and W. O. Adams, each netting 139 points. The highest men in the horse judging contest were A. L. Hogge, 144 points; R. R. Halmark, 143; Parnell, 142; L. M. Martin, 141; Sterling and J. V. Hales, with 140 points. Civilian Defense Training Courses Begin February 10 Plans for beginning the new civilian defense training courses in National Defense Engineering are nearing completion and the courses will be started on February 10, ac cording to information received from Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the School of Engineering. These course will be offered by the School of Engineering in co operation with the United States office of Education for the purpose of providing engineering training for men with the necessary exper ience and fit them to hold positions that are vital to the present de fense program. The period of training in the various courses will cover twelve weeks, and there will be no tuition costs to the trainees as the ex penses of instruction, equipment and materials will be met by the United States Office of Education. They will, however, be required to furnish their own text books, note books and provide their own ac commodations for board and room. All courses to be offered are in fields of work where a shortage of trained men is acute and while neither the College nor the United States Office of Education guar antees employment, the trainees will be given training to suit the needs in definite industrial fields where shortage of trained men prevails. The various courses that will be offered and their minimum quali fications are: 1. Aeronautical Engineering. 3 years of specialized design and approved experience or B. S. degree in Civil Engineer ing or Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineer!ng from a recognized college. 2. Aircraft Inspection 3 years of college work in En gineering. 3. 3 years of College Engineer ing training. (Continued on Page 4) T U Editors In Aggieland SCENES OF ACTIVITY AS THE DAILY TEXAN’S EDITORS SERVED AS GUEST EDITORS OF THE BATTALION LAST THURSDAY: Top, left, in the usual order; Texan associate editor Jack Dolph, editor Boyd Sinclair and associate amusement editor Jeanne Douglas beginning the afternoon’s work. Top, right; Sinclair, Battalion make-up man, A. W. (Red) Guill, Battalion associate editor George Fuermann and Dolph discussing front page lay-out. Bottom, left: Battalion editor Bob Nisbet and Sinclair working at the editor’s desk. Bottom, right; Fuermann and Dolph completing edi torial page make-up. "Masters of Hospitality-” Say The Texas Editors From The Daily Texan YOUR TEXAN EDITORS have just returned from Aggieland, where they were invited by the editors of The Battalion, the student publication of A. & M., to edit one issue of that news paper. We went to visit the Aggies with several purposes in mind, but the main one was to find out what we thought was the best and most noteworthy feature about those students of Texas A. & M., the Aggies. We did. Yes, we kept our eyes open. And, incidentally, we had our eyes opened. The best and most noteworthy feature about each Aggie we met was the fact he was a master of hospitality. This ap plies to every man we met on that 1,400-acre campus. We will just have to break down and admit there can not be found on our campus a spirit as friendly as you will find in Aggieland. We do not mean by that that the students of the University are not as friendly as the Aggies. They are just not as quick as they at letting the fact be known. As an example of Aggie friendliness, our party was walk ing down an Aggie street when a gust of wind blew the hat from the head of a cadet. We picked it up for him. Before we could hand it to him he had stuck out his hand to every man in the party with the words, “I’m ‘Fish’ Swift,” in such a way that you wouldn’t ever be able to forget “Fish” Swift. That seems to be the spirit of each cadet. The welcome which the Aggies give you overwhelms you just a little bit, for it is a sincere and friendly interest in you, who you are, and what you are doing? To every member of our student body who has never visit ed Aggieland, we say, “Go sometime, if you can.” It would be a splendid thing if each student in both schools could visit one another as we did A. & M. There is one thing of which we are sure. No Texas student could return without having experienc ed one of the finest examples of friendliness he has ever exper ienced. Bob Nisbet, editor, and George Fuermann, associate editor, of The Battalion, will come to the Forty Acres February 3 to edit one issue of The Texan. We hope our welcome will out shine theirs. But we will be going some if it does. Aggies To March To Breakfast With Music Next Term Marching to breakfast to a ca dence set by the blare of bugles and the roll of drums will be a new experience for the Aggies soon af ter mid-term. At that time the two newly organized drum and bugle corps will start playing for breakfast and dinner meal for mations. Until the addition of the new dormitories the band furnished mar tial music once a day for the en tire cadet corps, but when the liv ing facilities were enlarged and the new mess hall built it was im possible for the whole corps to have music by the band. So a solution was arrived upon whereby all units would be able to have music for meal formations. And from this area came the or ganization of A. & M.’s first drum and bugles, four field drums and one base drum. Bob Harle and Ed Floore, Band seniors, will be in charge of train ing and conducting the corps. Both units will drill together until they are amply trained to play at meal formations. The initial practice was held Monday. The members of the corps have been chosen from the drum and bu gle corps of the band, with the sel ection based on their willingness and ability to play. Members of this organization will be paid for playing from a fund that has been created at the College for that purpose. English ‘Refugee’ Taken By Immigration Officials Was One of Six Deck Hands Who Jumped Ship From Galveston in October Sixteen Ex-Aggies Enrolled At Moffett Field as Flying Cadets Sixteen former students from Texas A. & M. are members of the new class of flying cadets at Mof fett Field, Army Air Corps Train ing Center, officials at the field announced recently. Out of 146 young men who are in their second stage of training at this school, 65 are from Texas. The University of Texas at Austin sup plied 13 former students to take sec- cond place in the list of schools and colleges from which the cadet grad uated. A score or more of other Texas schools were represented, as well as schools in every section of the country. Those men who formerly attend ed Texas A.&M. are J. P. Anderson, W. H. Ardis, C. D. Beck, L. H. Bowman, A. J. Buck, E. D. Easley, R. C. Hannah, O. Hillberg, P. P. Menzies, M. E. Moore, D. A. Rob inson, J. M. Rowland, R. D. Russell, R. E. Sherman, D. P. Simpson and D. A. Story. Band, RV’s Go to Austin This Morning Thousands of Texans To Attend Governor’s Inaugural Ceremonies The Aggie Band and the Ross Volunteers left for Austin this morning at 6:15 to help put on a real show for the thousands of Texans that will attend the inau guration of W. Lee O’Daniel, begin ning at 11:30. Upon their arii’val at 10:00 a.m., the band, followed by the R. V. Company, will parade up Congress Avenue to the Capitol, where the band will participate in a fifteen minute program to be given in front of the Capitol Building. The “R. V.’s” will proceed to the Governor’s office and will escort him to the inaugural stand, where they will form their famous “saber arch.” After the ceremony is over the traditional barbeque to be held in front of the Governor’s mansion will begin. After the barbeque the Aggies will be free to attend the reception and inaugural halls until 2 a.m. Wednesday morning when they will return to College Station. Tickets For Sophomore Ball Are Now On Sale Tickets for the Sophomore Ball are now on sale and may be obtain ed from Joe Maples, Room 106, dorm 11, for $1.10 each. Billy Bryant, class president, has requested that one sophomore from each organization get the amount of tickets he thinks can be sold in his outfit. An attempt is being made to ob tain some big name band, and all sophomores who plan to attend the Ball are urged to purchase their tickets as quickly as possible so that an approximation of the net intake can be made and some or chestra decided upon. Robinson Taken Away From Longhorn Job By Appendectomy Martin Robinson, managing edi tor of the Longhorn, is recovering rapidly from his appendicitis op eration of Saturday, January 18. Ten o’clock Friday night Robinson had an appendicitis attack and by one o’clock he was being operated on in the College hospital. He is expected to be up and around in about eight days. Robinson is the second of the Longhorn staff to be taken away (Continued on Page 4) A & M’s Student Employment Set-Up Is Among Most Extensive In Nation By George Fuermann Today, as in years past, student employment in the nation’s col leges and universities is a factor of tremendous importance to an estimated 27 per cent of American collegians. A recent survey made by student employment officials of Texas A. & M. college reveals that 27 per cent of the nation’s colle gians earn all or part of their col lege expenses through part-time student employment. At A. & M. the proportion is slightly higher. Of the college’s 6500-member student body, 29 per cent are employed on-a part-time basis. A. & M.’s 2011 employed cadets earn collectively during the nine- month long session more than a •quarter million dollars. To earn this money they serve as techni cians and announcers at the college radio station, serve as librarians, mechanics, gardeners, paper grad ers, taxidermists, auditors, printers, stenographers, airplane mechanics, janitors, experimental and research workers in the fields of science and agriculture, live stock handlers and fill a hundred other jobs in the main college, the Texas Extension Service and the Texas Experiment Station. Director of A. & M.’s student labor department is W. R. Horsley who recently succeeded Lieutenant O. R. Simpson when Simpson was called to active duty in the Marine corps November 5. A survey of the department’s ap- -fplications made by Simpson reveals-fremain in college and get their that applicants are almost evenly divided as to residence; 43 per cent of the applicants having indicated rural residence and 57 per cent indicating urban residence. Where family income was con cerned, 91 per cent of the appli cants indicated a total annual in come of less than $2000. Officials interpreted this figure to mean in come from all sources. Even furth er indicating the applicants’ need for jobs, 54 per cent of the men showed four or more dependents in the family. “These figures,” Horsley said, college education. Ninety per cent of these men would be forced to leave college tomorrow if their jobs were taken away from them.” He further stated that similar surveys at other institutions had shown parallel results. One of the salient factors of A. & M.’s student employment is the student janitor set-up. A. & M. is the only major American college or university which is entirely jan- itored by students. These men work three hours each day except Sun day. They’re on the job at 6 a. m. for an hour, and they do a two- Eversden and One More in Tulsa Only Ones Apprehended to Date; Four Still at Large By Lee Rogers Authorities put an end to one of the current attractions at College Station yesterday when they arrested James Eversden, self-allegedly an English refugee who had come to Texas in search of employment. In reality he was a deserter from an English merchant marine force that had sailed originally to New York and then to Galveston to aid in sailing a vessel back to Britain. When the boat docked in Galveston, Eversden and five other sea men sneaked ashore and vanished. He came to College Station during ■f’the Christmas holidays and con vinced a great many people that he was not needed for military service in England and for that reason had been allowed to come to the United States. Eversden secured a job at Ca sey’s Confectionery, but seemed to show no great desire to work. He was pathetic enough in his tale of the hardships of England that he had no trouble winning the sympathy of many people on the campus as well as residents of College Station and as a result had no difficulty in securing an ample wardrobe and a walking cane which became a permanent part of his dress. When it was learned that he had not registered as an alien in Amer ica J. F. Casey advised him to do so, but he seemed reluctant about doing so. It was then that he de cided to join the United States army and made several inquiries at the Military Department. Casey, becoming suspicious of the boy, reported him to the Alien Board in New York City, who in turn investigated and suspected him to be one of the missing sea men. The Board contacted authori ties in Houston and prompted a fur ther investigation. Authorities ar rived here yesterday afternoon with a picture of Eversden and made the arrest. Of the six seamen who deserted he is the second to be apprehend ed. Another was taken into cus tody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other four are yet unheard of. Eversden was taken to Houston, to await further orders for his re turn, but he was hesitant about o- beying without the ever-present walking cane which belonged to Casey. Jakkula Attends Engineering Meet Held In New York Professor A. A. Jakkula, of the civil engineering department, left for New York last Tuesday by plane, from Dallas, where he at tended meetings of the Internation al Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and the American Society of Civil Engi neers. Professor Jakkula who is a mem ber of the Applied Mechanics Com mittee of the American Society of Civil Engineers was one of five Texans attending the meetings. According to Jakkula, one of the interesting high-lights of the meet ing was the showing of moving pictures of the Tacoma Bridge fail ure taken by Professor F. B. Far- quharson of Washington Univer sity. Professor Farquharson also gave an eye-witness account of the failure along with the picture. While in New York, Professor Jakkula visited Columbia Univer sity and inspected the various civil engineering labs. He reports that there are only eight under-grad uates as compared to more than eight-hundred post graduates, most of whom are working on their doc tor’s degree. Professor Jakkula re turned by plane last Saturday. President Of American Chemical Society Visits A & M The president of the American Chemical Society, Dr. W. L. Evans, with Mrs. Evans, visited the Tex as A. & M. Section on Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. Evans were present at an informal dinner at the Ag gieland Inn at 6:30 p.m., at which time Dean Bolton, Dean Brooks, Dr. Bilsing, m embers of the sec tion and their wives were present. At the meeting of the Texas A. & M. Section at 8 P.M., Dr. Evans spoke on the Chemical Behavior of Reducing Sugars in Alkaline Solutions, discussing the chemical relations of sugar and the evidence for their structural formula. Dr. Evans exhibited samples of sugars and their compounds. Dr. Evans made the very important announce ment of the commercial produc tion of the sugar fructose from glucose, glucose being made from starch, and exhibited samples. Af ter the meeting, Dr. and Mrs. Evans were entertained at an in formal tea at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Jensen, chairman of the Texas A. & M. Section. At a business meeting, J. D. Lindsay was elected chairman-elect, G. S. Fraps, secretary-treasurer, and N. E. Rigler, councilor. “show conspicuously one factor, hour stretch from 5 to 7 p. m. One That is that a near-hundred per of the higher paying student jobs cent of A. & M.’s employed stu- I A. & M. in the state of Texas. Dur- dents depend upon their jobs to j (Continued on Page 4) G. C. White Called To Active Duty in Army Lt. Grover C. White of Bryan, a member of the Reserve Offi cer’s Corps, has been called to ac tive duty in the United States Army. After receiving his ap pointment Dec. 25, he came to A. & M. and is now serving as an ins tructor in the Military Science Department. Lt. White was graduated from A. & M. in 1930 with a degree in electrical engineering. He was cap tain of the Headquarters Company, Signal Corps, during his senior year. Milk Specialists Lecture At Dairy Short Course Here Highlighted by talks from Dr. Otto Hunziker, specialist in milk manufacturing, and Paul Froh- ring, president of the Biochemical Company, the short course in dairy specialization sponsored by the dairy husbandry department, has an attendance of over one hundred visiting dairymen from various parts of the state. The short course, held in the A. & M. creamery lecture room, was originated by the Dairy Hus bandry Department for the pur pose of helping different dairy manufacturers from all over the state who have been writing in to the college for advice. Hunziker, prominent book pub lisher from La Grange, Illinois, and also author of several text books used by the dairy husbandry department spoke on “Dairy pro ducts and their many uses” which is soon to be published in pamph let form. Frohring, chemist from Cha grin Falls, Ohio, demonstrated the use of vitamins in milk in prolong ing the existing energy, while also explaining the various crystal forms that vitamins can be found in. Attended by different manufac turers from several states, the short course is said to be one of the best of its kind ever held in the State of Texas and will be cli maxed tomorrow night by a ban quet in Sbisa Hall.