,1
’ 4
# h
* c
I, f
k ’- s V
DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 25, 1941
Z725
NO. 55
Faculty Meeting Thursday Decides Fate of Final Review
Brotherhood
Week To Be
Observed
Four Speakers
Will Be On Hand
For the Occasion
National Brotherhood Week,
which is being observed this week
at A. & M., and in 2,000 other com
munities throughout the country,
will feature Dr. Raphael Gold, Rab
bi of Congregation, Shearith Israel,
Dallas, the Very Reverend James
M. Kirwin, pastor, Saint James
Church, Port Arthur, Texas, Dr.
Jasper Manton, Pastor, Trinity
Presbyterian Church, Dallas, and
Dr. Hastings Harrison, Chairman
and Southwestern Director of the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews. These men will speak
on the theme “National Unity” on
Thursday, February 27, in Guion
Hall. The program will also in
clude the Singing Cadets, and an
informal open forum after the
speeches. There is no admission
charge and all persons are invited
to attend.
Behind the National Brotherhood
Movement stands the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
an organization supported by 25,000
outstanding Protestant, Catholic,
and Jewish laymen and clergymen
in every state of the union. This
National Conference was founded
thirteen years ago, in 1928, by three
distinguished Americans, Newton
D. Baker, formerly Secretary of
War; Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, one
of America’s eminent clergymen;
and Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes. Justice Hughes is the only
living founder.
Before 1928 the movement for
better understanding among all
faiths centered in a committee of
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America. But the limi
tations of the committee as -.n
agency of the Federal Council,
made up wholly of Protestants,
was realized, and the movement
was widened to include Catholics
and Jews through the formation of
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews.
The establishment of the Nation
al Conference ushered in a new
method of creating better under
standing by the seif itific method,
which utilizes the findings of soc
ial scientists, psychologists, educa
tors, and religionists in creating
cooperation and goodwill.
One of the principal techniques
employed by the organization to
break down prejudice and create
goodwill is the trio team, com
posed of a Protestant, Catholic,
and Jewish clergyman or layman.
This team travels together, lives
together, eats together, and ap
pears on platforms together. The
speakers come before large aud
iences and converse together in
formally, answering questions a-
bout each other’s faith and clear
ing up misconceptions. Both speak
ers and audiences leave with a
better understanding and appre
ciation of each group than when
they came. During the past twelve
years these trio teams have spoken
before more than 40,000 meetings.
The National Brotherhood Week
is honoring Chief Justice Hughes,
who has been interested all his life
in the problems of religious tol
erance and liberty and is one of
(Continued on Page 4)
Brotherhood Speakers
Dr. Raphael Gold, Rabbi of
Congregation Shearith Israel,
Dallas, and Professor in Neuro-
Psychiatry at Baylor Universi
ty College of Medicine.
The Reverend James M. Kir
win, pastor, Saint James Church,
Port Arthur, Texas.
Dr. Jasper Manton, Pastor,
Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Dallas.
Ur. Hastings Harrison, Chair
man and Southwestern Direct
or of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
Composite Regiment Will Have
Boyd Raeburn’s Orchestra for Ball
Making his initial appearance" ‘
at College Station on March 21 will
be Boyd Raeburn who will play
for the Composite Regiment Ball
and the corps dance following.
Raeburn will bring , an orchestra
of thirteen musicians and Mary
Jane Howard as the vocalist for
band.
Boyd Raeburn has gained fame
for having one of the smooth
est dance bands in the West and
Middle West. He has played in
such key cities as Chicago, St.
Louis, Memphis, Kansas City, Den
ver, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul
and other leading cities through
out those regions.
The band is reputed to be as en
tertaining as it is danceable. Be
sides the girl vocalist and Chet Le-
Roy the romantic balladeer, com
edy is furnished by Hopeless Hom-
(Continued on Page 4)
Work Advances
Through Drive for
Bundles for Britain
House at 234 Lamar
Street to Be Used As
Chapter Headquarters
The recently organized Bundles
for Britain Chapter of College Sta
tion received as its initial funds
$316.61 from the receipts of the
charity football game that was
played by A. & M. students. The
check for the amount was present
ed by President T. O. Walton dur
ing a meeting at which the players
were presented their awards for
participating in the game.
The chapter will further its act
ivities next week when the house
which is to be used for headquar
ters at 234 Lamar Street will be.
opened. A hostess will be at the
house at all times between 9 and
12 a. m. and 2 until 5 p. m. on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays
and Fridays in order that people
may go there to make garments
and prepare materials for ship
ment to Britain.
A committee has been appointed
to gather all bundles that are
ready to be turned in on Wednes
day and Thursday. Persons having
bundles to be donated are request
ed to hang a white cloth in front
of the house in order to save time
in collecting. If the bundles are not
ready to be turned in on these dat
es they will have to be taken to
the organization headquarters.
Mrs. C. B. Campbell, chairman
of the local chapter, stated that
woolen garments and materials are
the most necessary. All clothes
that are turned in should be clean
ed, mended and have the buttons
sewn on, but if this is impossible
they may be turned in anyway.
Persons who are unable to work
on garments are requested to do
nate either money or material for
baby layettes and hospital gar
ments.
The activities of this group will
not be confined to College Station
residents. Students who are profi
cient in mending and repairing such
articles as chairs and shades are
requested to phone Mrs. Camp
bell (Phone 4-6574).
Any one having any of the fol
lowing items and desires to lend
them to the committee may do so
by phoning Mrs. D. B. Gofer
(4-6544): Sewing Machines, 4;
floor lamps, 2; gas heaters, 4;
light globes, 12. Also any one who
wants to volunteer for hostess duty
should call Mrs. Gofer.
Persons who have the time and
wish to do so may phone Mrs. R.
P. Marsteller (4-6554) or Mrs. D.
W. Williams (4-6654) and arrange
to assist in gathering clothing.
Those interested in sewing baby
layettes should contact Mrs. E. E.
McQuillen (4-7214), or to sew hos
pital garments phone Mrs. Gibb
Gilchrist (4-6174).
Mrs. Frank Anderson is in charge
(Continued on Page 4)
Around 6000
Visitors Expected
In Heated Pavilion
Cattlemen with an eye to ob
taining some first class Hereford
cattle will vie with each other in
the Texas A. & M. college Animal
Husbandry Pavillion this afternoon
when they bid for the stock which
will go under the hammer at the
first auction of registered Here-
fords, sponsored by the Mid-South
Texas Hereford Association.
The sale will get under way at
one o’clock with Col. Earl Gartin
of Greensburg, Ind., nationally
known auctioneer, handling the
sale. In the ring assisting Gartin
will be Pete Peterson of The Cat
tleman magazine; Frank Farley of
the American Hereford Journal;
Ralph Cooper of The Coastal Cat
tleman; Frank Reeves of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram; and Walter
Britten and Merle Saxe, both of
College Station.
Beef Cattle Production students
of the college spent Monday after
noon preparing the auction ring in
the pavillion. The pavillion will be
heated and accommodations are be
ing made to handle over 6000 vis
itors at the sale.
Breeders consigning cattle to the
auction include Texas A. & M. col
lege; Fred M. Allison Jr. and Edens
and Edens of Corsicana; S. R.
Baldridge and A. W. Butts, Rock-
(Continued on Page 4)
Republic Steel
Metallurgist Talks
To ASME Thursday
Harry W. McQuaid, metallurgist
of the Republic Steel Corporation
and a national authority on treat
ment of steel, will speak to mem
bers of the Student Branch of the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers in the Physics Building
lecture room on the Texas A. & M.
college campus, Thursday evening
at 7 o’clock, Prof. C. W. Crawford,
head of the college mechanical en
gineering department, has announc
ed.
Mr. McQuaid developed the Mc-
Quaid-Ein grain test, which is gen
erally used to determine the grain
size of metals. His work in this
field led to the new austempering
process, which is a double-quench
ing process that produces a tough
er steel when a hardened surface is
desired.
The general, public is invited to
hear this famed speaker. No ad
mission will be charged.
Russ Morgan Returns to Campus
To Play Field Artillery Ball Friday
“Music in the Morgan Manner”
will be heard at A. & M. for the
second time within a year Friday
night when Russ Morgan takes the
downbeat on “Does Your Heart
Beat for Me” at the Field Artillery
Ball.
The slow sweet music of Mor
gan’s orchestra was rated second
in the Aggie poll which was con
ducted last spring during the dance
season. As most students will re
member, Morgan was here for the
Senior Ring Dance and a corps
dance following it last May.
Russ Morgan will present a band
composed of 18 musicians and fea
turing Maxine Conrad as the vo
calist. Other attractions of the
orchestra are Johnny May, the
drummer and the Morganairs.
Morgan’s band, which is ranked
as one of the outstanding orches
tra’s of the nation, is the result
of a musical career that started
when he was 14 years of age. Mor
gan’s father was an ex-vaudevil-
lian who found himself a mine
•f-foreman. But he still hung on to
his music, playing a drum in a lo
cal band. His mother had been a
pianist in vaudeville with his fa
ther. Both his parents aspired for
him to have a musical career and
so it was that started by playing
a piano for a small band in Scran
ton, Pa.
It was during this time that
Russ Morgan took up the trombone
upon which he now specializes. At
the age of 20 Morgan was arranger
for two of the greatest American
composers, John Philip Sousa and
Victor Herbert.
Since that time Morgan has play
ed at the outstanding dance spots
in leading cities from coast to
coast. Some of his recent engage
ments have been the “Chez Paree”,
Chicago; Rice Hotel, Houston; Casa
Manana, Fort Worth; Claridge
Hotel, Memphis; Paramount Thea
tre, New York City; the Inter
national Casino, New York City;
and the French Casino of New
York City.
Economists and
Engineers Here for
5-Day Conference
Meeting Conducted
By Engineering School,
Highway Research Board
Highway engineers and econo
mists got together at Texas A. &
M. college Monday morning to op
en a five-day conference for the
study of problems of highway en
gineering from the economic as
pect.
The meeting is being conducted
by the School of Engineering at
the college in cooperation with the
Highway Research Board of the
Division of Engineering and In
dustrial Research, National Re
search Council.
Co-directors of the conference
are Dean Gibb Gilchrist, of the
School of Engineering at Texas
A. & M., and Roy W. Crum, of
Washington, D. C., director of the
Highway Research Board.
A similar course was held at
Iowa State College, Ames, la., last
year and met with such widespread
approval that the present meeting
was arranged to study the prob-
(Continued on Page 4)
Aggie Band
Plays For Music
Festival in Victoria
Continuing its series of spring
concerts, the Aggie band went to
Victoria, Texas, Saturday, to play
for the annual music festival held
there.
The band made the trip via char
tered busses and returned to Col
lege Station yesterday. Members
were quartered for the night in the
homes of Victoria citizens and the
Victoria Hotel. Lieutenant L. J.
Lefkofsky, Coast Artillery Corps,
accompanied the band as tactical
officer in charge of the students.
Fifty other bands attended the
music festival, held as a contest
for the Class B high school bands
in the South Texas Region each
year.
Two concerts were given in the
Victoria Junior College Auditorium
Saturday afternoon and night. The
band also paraded in downtown
Victoria Saturday morning.
The afternoon program con
sisted of the march, “The Stars
and Stripes Forever,” by Sousa;
“Norsemen,” overture by Hayward;
trio for baritone; “Triolet,” by Leo
nard, played by Joe Bledsoe, Goode
Weir, and Fred Moser; “Jeannie
with the Light Brown Hair,” by
Foster-Caillet; First Movement,
symphony in C Minor, and the Na
tional Anthem. A number of en
cores and extra selections were
played also.
AH Students
Receive Instruction
On Cold Storage Food
Students faking animal hus
bandry are receiving a great deal
of practical experience in the com
mercial preserving and preparation
of vegetables, fruits, meats and
other foods.
The animal husbandry depart
ment is maintaining 214 food lock
ers which are rented to various
customers for the purpose of stor
ing foods. The foods are bought
wholesale in large quantities and
kept in the lockers and the stu
dents are learning how to keep the
food in refrigeration without des
troying its quality. All the foods
are placed in a large room at a
temperature of twenty degrees be
low zero, farenheit. Foods are
quickly frozen in this room and
are then placed in the lockers
where they are kept at zero de
grees, farenheit. Anyone interest
ed in renting one of the lockers can
obtain such information from the
animal husbandry department.
About 120 of the lockers have
been rented. Beef, pork, lamb, goat,
chicken, turkey, fruits, vegetables,
cheese, butter, fish and many other
kinds of foods can be stored for
long periods in the lockers.
Senior Class Petition for
Us
Date Change to be Decided
Don't Throw Tinfoil
Away- It Is Essential
To British Hospitals
By Lee Rogers
It doesn’t weigh very much—
that little wrapper of tinfoil on
your cigarette package. In fact
it only weighs a fraction of an
ounce, but fractions grow into
ounces and ounces develop into
pounds which in the course of a
year grow into thousands of pounds.
These pounds appear to us only
in terms of weight and monetary
value, but to the war-hounded
English this tinfoil is becoming
dearer each day. To them it is
an essential material in preparing
for the day when they must stave
off the long expected invasion at
tempt. British hospitals and med
ical men welcome these tiny layers
of metal because they are used
in the preparation of special band
ages that are used on infantile
paralysis victims and on persons
suffering from severe wounds.
Within the next few days boxes
wil be placed in the dormitories,
cafes and recreational spots throu
ghout the campus for the purpose
of collecting tinfoil to be turned
over to the British needy.
So the next time you take out
your last cigarette or peel the
wrapper from a stick of gum don’t
crumple the tinfoil and throw it
away. Instead, save it and place
it in one of the boxes—pounds ac
cumulate rapidly.
Assistant Dean of
Harvard Grad School
To Interview Students
Thomas H. Carroll, assistant
dean of the graduate school of
Business Administration at Har
vard University, will visit the Col
lege Monday, March 3, for the
purpose of interviewing students
interested in admission to the Har
vard graduate school or students
who are interested in one of twenty
scholarships that will enable young
men to take graduate work in bus
iness administration at the Har
vard Business School. These schol
arships are being awarded to stu
dents entering in September, 1941.
Announcements concerning schol
arships will be found in room 408,
Agricultural building. Students
may obtain information concern
ing the school and make arrange
ments for interviews through T.
W. Leland, head of the department
of accounting and statistics.
Judson Neff, head of the depart
ment of industrial engineering, a
graduate of Harvard’s graduate
school, will be available for con
ferences with any student who de
sires to learn about graduate work,
generally, at Harvard.
Juniors, Sophs and
Fish Follow Seniors
In Approving Request
A mee’ting of the academic coun
cil of the general faculty will vote
this Thursday upon a petition of
the senior class requesting that
the date of the final review be
changed from May 31, as it is
now scheduled, to June 7. As it
stands, final review will come be
fore final exams ;the senior class
petition would hold the review af
ter final exams are completed.
The petition to change the date
was unanimously approved at a
meeting of the senior class last
Thursday night, and a committee
of four men was appointed to pres
ent the case at the faculty meet
ing. This committee is composed
of Cadet Colonel Bill Becker, Field
Artillery Band Captain Roy Chap
pell, Battalion Editor Bob Nisbet,
and Senior Class President Tom
Richey.
At a meeting of the freshman
clas yesterday at 5 p.m. the ques
tion of changing the date for the
review was discussed, presenting
to the class both sides of the issue.
Their vote on the matter was un
animously in favor of making the
change and reverting to the prac
tice of former years.
Yesterday at 7:45 p.m. at a joint
meeting of the sophomore and
junior classes, a vote on the subject
was taken. The same results—a
unanimous vote in favor of the
change—was recorded.
These votes were taken at the re
quest of faculty members at an
earlier meeting before which sen
ior class representatives appeared
to discuss the matter. At this meet
ing, it was decided to hold vote
on the subject until votes of these
classes could be taken and more
evidence could be gathered.
Dean of Baylor
Med School Speaks
To Pre-Meds March 4
Dr. Walter Moursund, dean of
the Baylor Medical School in Dal
las, will address the A. & M. Pre-
Medical Society, Tuesday, March 4 r
at the annual pre-med banquet to-
be held in Sbisa Hall.
On the afternoon of March 4 r
Dr. Moursund will hold private 15
minute conferences with each pre-
med student who intends to enter
a medical school within the next
two years. He will answer any ques
tions concerning the work and life
at these schools and will also ad
vise the courses that should be
taken as pre-med students.
All pre-medical students who
wish to talk with Moursund must
sign their name and the tme they
wish the appointment with Dr.
Moursund on a slip of paper placed
on the first floor of the Science
Building.
Next Year’s Team Rated Third by
Norman Sper After Viewing Players
By E. M. Rosenthal
A. & M. will place third in the
Southwest Conference football race
next season! This was the pre
diction of Norman Sper, well
known football analyst and statis
tician, after he had watched Homer
Norton’s squad work out for
spring training last Saturday.
“Texas, as a result of its tre
mendous speed, will probably fin
ish out in front,” Sper said, “and
Rice will follow close behind be
cause it has so much power in the
line.” The Aggies will be better
than most people now expect, Sper
believes, even though next season
will open with only two of the
year’s regulars starting.
Sper was on the campus to
take motion pictures of the foot
ball team for a new series of short
features that he is producing. Each
short will have as its subject one
of the leading conferences and will
show all the schools of that con
ference at spring training. Some
of the fundamental plays of each
school will be shown in both
slow motion and at regular speed.
Sper feels that the pictures will
be entertaining to the football ex
pert and also educational to the
casual spectator. His plan for sim
plicity to make the plays easy to
follow was carried out while he
was filming the team. The back-
field was given numbers from one
to four and the jersies of the line
numbered on up to eleven. Plays
were first run before a slow mo
tion camera and then again be
fore a regular speed camera. When
the films are shown on the screen
Sper will give comments and ex
plain the action.
Of the schools Sper has visited
to date, including all the South
west conference other than Ar
kansas, he feels that A. & M. and
Texas University show the most
(Continued on Page 4)