DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
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VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1941
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NO. 64
Student Aid
Fund Show Has
Premier Monday
Approximately 100
Students in Attendance
For First Showing
The Student Aid Fund benefit
show had its premier at 4:10 yes
terday afternoon as approximately
100 students paid ten cents apiece
to witness the 105 minute program
of selected short subjects. The
regular show schedule at the Cam
pus theater was suspended for the
showing and was continued again
at 5:55 p.m., at which time the
benefit show ended.
The facilities of the Campus
Theater have been donated to the
Student Aid Fund for this benefit
show which will be shown once
daily, beginning at 4:10 and ending
at 5:55 p.m. for a ten day period.
Motion picture shows have coop
erated in helping the committee
raise funds by charging no film
rental for the ten day period. Ev
ery dime that is used in purch
asing tickets for the show will go
to the Student Aid Fund to be used
in assisting worthy' Aggies who
need medical care.
“Anyone who purchases a ticket
to this show will be both helping
the Aggies and entertaining him
self,” Dan Russel, executive-secret
ary of the Student Aid Fund Com
mittee stated. “Every bit of the
money taken in will go to help Ag
gies who need medical aid. The
comedies will provide a pleasant
show and is being run over the
ten day period so that everyone
may see them. The committee hopes
that every student and faculty
member and all connected with or
interested in the college will feel
that they can help the Aggies
by purchasing tickets.”
The short subjects which make
up the 105 minute program are
entirely comedies and musicals.
The six were selected to give a
variety of entertainment. The
shorts which make up the program
are: a Donald Duck Comedy, “The
Hockey Champ; a Merrie Melody
comedy, “Ceiling Hero”; Warner
Brothers 2-reel technicolor musi
cal, “Swingtime in the Movies”;
the Three Stooges in “Three Sappy
People”; Universal 2-reel musical
“Rhumbaland Music”; and a musi
cal “I Dream of Jeanie With the
Light Brown Hair.”
Skeen Staley, chairman of the
ticket distribution committee, is be
ing assisted by J. H. Focke and
Tom Gillis. Tickets for the show
ings may be obtained by dormitory
students from their first sergeants
and by project house students
from their house managers. The
faculty may obtain tickets from
the heads of departments, and oth
ers are available at Lipscomb’s
Pharmacy, the YMCA desk in both
areas and at the box office.
The boxoffice of the Campus
Theater is being turned over to
the members of the committee each
afternoon at 4 p. m. for 10 days.
The regular show which is playing
the theater on these days will be
suspended and the series of come
dies and shorts will be shown from
4:10 to 5:55 p.m.
On Thursday’s Town Hall Program
Second Encore for Houston Symphony
Town Hall
Presents Concert in
Guion Hall, 8 o’clock
The Houston Symphony Orches
tra, which will make its annual
appearance at A. & M. Thursday
night at 8 o’clock on the Town Hall
program, brings with it the finest
collection of musicians in the
Southwest. In all of its appearanc
es this year the orchestra has
broken all previous attendance rec
ords and has received unlimited
praise from music critics who ac
claim this years Houston symphony
as the finest in its 28 years of ex
istence.
An estimate made by the noted
conductor of the orchestra, Ernst
Hoffman, is that the instruments
alone of the orchestra are worth
over $50,000. The total value of 4
violins alone is around $20,000,
while the two beautiful harps of
the orchestra are valued at $4,000.
Always a favorite at Texas A.
& M. the coming of the symphony
is looked forward to each year
with added anticipation. Probably
one reason why the orchestra is
so popular at A. & M. is because
of the fact that Hoffman and in
deed the entire orchestra seem al
ways to enjoy so very much play
ing for the Aggies. The tremendous
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Repair Shop
Superintendent
Jobs Announced
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces open com
petitive examinations for the posi
tions of Repair Shop Superintend
ent, Class A, $2900 a year; Class
B, $2600 a Year; and Class C,
$3200 a Year. These examinations
are announced for filling vacancies
in the Quartermaster Corps, War
Department, Camps Claiborne and
Livingston, Alexandria, Louisiana
and Camp Bowie, Brownwood, Tex
as. The duties of these positions
will include the supervision of em
ployees in all operations carried on
in the repair depot, such as repair
of clothing, bedding, canvas equip
ment, footwear, and other related
materials.
These examinations are open to
men between the ages of 25 and
55. All applicants must show that
they have had a total of four
years of general experience in the
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Boyd Raeburn’s Orchestra Here
Friday Night for Composite Dance
The Composite Ball, to be held'
Friday night, will feature Boyd
Raeburn and his orchestra. The
orchestra had planned to present
Mary Jane Howard as vocalist, but
she was stricken ill recently and
will be unable to sing. In her place
the orchestra is presenting Nova
Cogan, who will render the vocal
music at the dance.
“Rhythms by Raeburn” has be
come a popular slogan in hotels,
clubs and ballrooms throughout the
middle west. Raeburn is a South
Dakota boy who won letters in four
sports, was graduated from high
school as valedictorian with the
hihest rades ever received in the
school, and won several scholar
ships, one to the University of
Chicago, where he completed his
education.
He began athletic activity in
college, but injured a finger play
ing on the varsity baseball team
and began to concentrate on music.
He began studying piano at the age
of six, and later learned to play
saxophone and clarinet and form
ed his orchestra while still at soph
omore at the university. He began
to receive such interesting com
mercial offers that he became a
professional band leader. He has
played at the Congress in Chica
go, the Nicollet in Minneapolis, the
Peabody in Memphis, the Muehle-
bach in Kansas City, the Jefferson
in St. Louis, and the St. Paul in the
city of that name.
War Dept Stresses
Importance of Training:
Orders from the War Depart
ment in Washington Friday stated
that it was desirable, in view of
the fact that most of the seniors
will go on active duty shortly after
graduation, that as much emphasis
as practicable for the remainder
of the school year be placed on
practical training.
This is to include methods of in
struction, which will enhance the
ability of the prospective graduate
to handle men and exercise the func
tions of a platoon leader.
Scholarship Honor Society
Selects New Members at Last Meet
Senior Membership
Increased to 77, and
56 New Juniors Admitted
The Scholarship Honor Society
admitted 56 junior members and
brought its number of senior mem
bers to 77 at a regular meeting
last Sunday night.
These new members were se
lected on their scholastic standing
at the beginning of the first se
mester in their respective schools.
The selection represented the high
est four per cent of the juniors and
the highest eight per cent of the
seniors in the schools of agricul
ture, engineering and arts and
sciences and the highest eight per
cent of the seniors in the school of
veterinary medicine. The eligible
veterinary medicine juniors have
not yet been determined.
Other than being in the top per
cent of their schools these new
members were also not allowed to
have made any “F’s” since they
entered college.
The grade point requirements
for membership for the School of
Agriculture were: 213 for seniors
and 162 for juniors. Engineering
seniors were required to have 260
and engineering juniors 181. In the
school of arts and sciences seniors
needed 213 and juniors 185. Vet
erinary medicine seniors were re
quired to have 249. Since the new
members admitted did not quite
fill the four and eight per cent
quotas any student who has met
the eligibility requirements should
see either Gabe Anderson, president
of the society, or George Taylor,
the organization’s secretary-treas
urer, immediately.
At the meeting a committee com
posed of James R. Puckett, chair
man, E. M. Rosenthal and Jack L.
Lamberson was appointed to de
termine those three men who shall
be the winners of the wards for
having made the highest grade
point average in the freshman,
sophomore, and junior classes.
The program committee for the
rest of the semester was also an
nounced at the meeting. It is com
posed of Roy Chappell, chairman,
Tom Gillis and Jack Taylor.
The new junior members accord
ing to their respective schools are
as follows:
The school of agriculture, J. W.
Autry, A. R. Boemer, L. C. Calla
way, J. M. Carpenter, W. K. Clark,
S. J. Copeland, M. F. Evans, J. W.
Gibson, J. E. Golden, J. M. Hefley,
R. W. Henslee, C. W. Hull, R. F.
Keller, J. S. Robinson, E. M. Rosen-
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GE Presents
World’s Fair Show
At Guion Hall Friday
Arrangements have been made
to bring the General Motors “Pre
views of Progress,” the hit show
of the New York World’s Fair, to
Guion Hall on Friday, March 21,
at which time there will be two
performances give—one at 4 o’clock
and the other at 7 o’clock in the
evening. The “Previews of Prog
ress” is a non-commercial scientific
educational entertainment design
ed to show what industry and re
search are doing in the laboratories
to develop new products and new
jobs. It is not a motion picture,
but an actual stage demonstration,
bringing to College Station the
same equipment and exhibits, man
ned by the same technicians and
science commentators that made
the “Preview of Progress’ the sen
sation that it was at the World’s
Fair. The show is absolutely free
of charge.
Sutherland Will
Speak at Arts and
Sciences Meeting
The feature of the meeting of
the faculty of the School of Arts
and Sciences to be held today, will
be an address by Dr. Robert L.
Sutherland, director of the Hogg
foundation.
This foundation, created by a be
quest of the late Will C. Hogg, is
located at Austin and administered
by the regeants of the University
of Texas. It is an agency devoted
to service to the entire state, and
cooperates closely with the insti
tutions of higher learning in Texas.
The interests of Director Suther
land are perhaps indicated by the
fact that the inaugural conference
of the Foundation, held a few
weeks ago in Austin, was devoted
to a study of mental hygiene.
Dr. Sutherland, before accepting
his present position, was with the
American Youth Commission, and
before that taught at Bucknell
college and at Cornell university.
He will speak to the faculty of the
school of Arts and Sciences on stu
dent guidance.
Arrangements will be made for
him to speak to a group of students
on Wednesday. Professor Daniel
Russell will be in charge of ar
rangements for this and his other
conferences.
Special Machine
Shop Course to Be
Offered by ME Dept.
The mechanical engineering de
partment in cooperation with the
State Department of Industrial Ed
ucation will offer a special course
in machine shop for young men
who want to prepare themselves
for jobs in National Defense In
dustries.
The federal government through
the industrial education services of
the states has made available
funds for training of school youth
for occupations in industries which
have contracts for national defense
materials. The mechanical engi
neering department of A. & M. has
one of the largest and most com
plete machine shops of any school
in the South for training men for
industry and has offered this ser
vice. The federal government
through the State Department of
Industrial Education will pay the
complete cost of the training and
has specified requirements for
those who enroll.
This particular class will be for
any young men who are not now
in school who have reached the age
of 17 but not the age of 25. They
must have completed the common
schools and should have had some
high school work. They must be
mentally able to learn the compu
tations, calculations and blue print
reading required in a machine shop
and physically able to do the work.
Any young men interested in learn
ing this work should register at
once with the Texas State Employ
ment service in the new Eagle
Printing Company Building at 120
East 26th Street, Bryan, Texas. It
will be the responsibility of this
office to try to find enployment
for the young men as soon as they
are employable.
The class will start as soon as
25 qualified young men have regis
tered. It will run from 3:00 to
10:00 p. m., five days each week
until July 1.
Committee Chosen
For Investigation
Traffic Conditions
Junior Engineers May Skip
Vacation to Graduate Early
McNew, Davis,
Hensel, Becker,
And Gillis Selected
Traffic conditions on the campus
have resulted in the appointment
:>f a committee by Dr. T. O. Wal
ton to relieve the situation. Mem
bers of the committee are J. T. L.
McNew of the civil engineering
department as chairman, Lieut
Joe E. Davis, Professor F. W. Hen
sel, Cadet Colonel W. A. Becker
and Tom Gillis.
The committee had its first
meeting scheduled for Monday
night and at that time they were
to organize the procedure for in
vestigating the traffic and park
ing condition on the campus.
Upon the completion of the in
vestigation the committee will pre
pare a report on the conditions and
make recommendations for neces
sary changes. The report will be
presented to the Board of Directors
of the college at their next meet
ing.
A&M Pre-Meds
To Attend State
Banquet in Austin
Around 20 A. & M. pre-medical
students are planning to attend
the Seventh Annual State Pre-
Med Banquet which will be held
Friday night in Austin. This ban
quet is open to all pre-meds and
anyone else interested in medicine
throughout the state.
Speakers at the banquet will be
Lt. Col. Beck and Lt. Col. Dibble
of Fort Sam Houston’s medical
corps, who will discuss the recent
advances made in military sur
gery. Entertainment at the banquet
will include a ventriloquist and an
orchestra to furnish music for the
occasion. The program will also
include two motion pictures about
medicine and surgery which will be
shown on Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
and Friday at 4:00 p. m. in the
geology lecture room at the Uni
versity of Texas. Other celebraties
at the meeting will include Dr.
Homer Rainey, president of the
University of Texas, Dr. John W\
Spies, Dean of the Galveston Med
ical School, Dean Moursund of the
Baylor Medical School, General J.
Watt Page and many others.
Tickets for the banquet may be
purchased for $1.00 from the Alpha
Epsilion Delta or the Tau Delta
Alpha medical fraternities, from the
Texas Union Office or from the
desk in front of the Zoology Build
ing at the University of Texas on
Thursday and Friday.
Champion Steer
Brings $2 Per Pound
At Fort Worth Show
The Pabst Brewery Company of
Chicago was the highest bidder
for Thickset Lad III, one of the
steers entered by A. & M. in the
Fort Worth Fat Stock show and
Grand Champion of all breeds and
classes. The company had to out
bid Amon Carter and the Texas Ho
tel of Fort Worth paid $2 per pound
for the animal.
The steer weighed 1014 pounds
and the price paid was the record
for the year. The meat will be do
nated to St. Teresa’s Home, All
Church Home, Lena Pope Home and
the Girls Service League for their
Easter dinners.
Among the other animals entered
were five steers and three bulls.
The W. K. Stripling Company of
Fort Worth bought two of the
steers and three of the Aberdeen
Angus Bulls were sold at an aver
age of $300 at the Texas Aberdeen
Angus Association.
In the swine division A. & M.
placed first in Hampshire barrows.
The A. & M. Livestock Judging
Team was the first place winner
in competing with twenty teams
from sixteen states. The team plac
ed first in each of the various jud
ging classes and was the top win
ner of all classes. Members of the
team are G. H. Grote, T. E. Stu
art, Jack Cleveland, Victor Loeff-
ler, and Newton Craig.
Texas Twins
To Convene in
Waco April 25, 26
Eight or ten sets of twins from
A. & M will attend the annual twin
convention to be held at Baylor
University, April 25 and 26, Viron
Higgins, co-president of the Texas
College Twin Convention, an
nounced yesterday.
Lois and Louise Bailey, Baylor
identical twins, will act as host
esses at the convention.
Letters have gone out to govern
ors of the 48 states asking the ex
ecutives to send a set of twins as
official delegates from their com
monwealth. Ten governors sent
twin representatives last year.
A hundred sets of twins, triplets,
and quadruplets are expected at
this year’s convention, the Baileys
said. The convention is known as
the Texas College Twin Convention
and has its own set of officers,
headed by Byron and Viron Higgins
of A. & M.
Nation’s First
Woman Diplomat
Here Next Week
Ruth Bryan Owen Rhode, Amer
ica’s first woman diplomat, will
speak at Guion Hall Monday night,
March 24, at 8 o’clock under the
auspices of the Girl Scout Council
of College Station and Bryan.
Mrs. Rhode will discuss her work
in Denmark and Greenland under
the title “The Business of Being a
Diplomat.” Tickets may be obtain
ed at College Station at the cam
pus Y.M.C.A., Lipscomb’s Phar
macy, Luke’s Grocery, Wilson’s
Beauty Shop and the Consolidated
School. Special price has been ar
ranged for students.
As Minister to Denmark, Mrs.
Rhode had to opportunity to study
intimately not only Denmark, but
also the Scandinavian people as a
whole, and she brings an interest
ing and vivid picture of how they
live, their economic situation, their
sports and other things pertaining
to their daily life.
Following her discussion. Mrs.
Rhode will answer questions from
members of the audience.
AAUP and Students
Meet in Sbisa Hall
To Discuss Problems
A group of student leaders and
members of the American Associ
ation of University Professors met
in the Reception Room of Sbisa
Hall last night at 7:30 o’clock to
hold a discussion of the problems
that confront the college student
and instructor.
A round table discussion of the
problem of cooperation between the
student and professor was held by
the group.
Students present included the
class presidents, club presidents,
and the president of the Scholar
ship Honor Society.
Engineer Shortage
Given as Reason for
Proposed Acceleration
Engineering education should be
accelerated and summer courses
added in order that next year’s
seniors (present juniors) may grad
uate early in the year was the rec
ommendation of a committee from
the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education in response
to a request for the study from
the Advisory Committee on Engi
neering Defense Training of the
United States Office of Educat
ion.
It is estimated in Washington
that the demand for graduate en
gineers for governmental and in
dustrial positions will reach 40,000
or 50,000 this year. Engineering
colleges will graduate about 12,000
in June. It is this expected short
age which has prompted the re
quest from the Advisory committee.
In making response to the request,
the S. P. E. E. sent 135 ques
tionnaires to engineering schools
in the nation.
To answer this questionnaire for
Texas A. & M., Dean Gibb Gil
christ submitted the form to a
committee composed of the heads
of Engineering Departments. This
committee included C. W. Craw
ford, Harold Vance, M. C. Hughes,
and Dr. J. D. Lindsay. His reason
for forming this committee was
stated in the letter to these men
as follows: “I am taking this ac
tion because of the fact that I serve
as a member of the Advisory Com
mittee that will receive the re
port and it is my desire that the De
partment Heads act on the request
The S.P.E.E. report was based
on a summary of these forms from
the 135 engineering schools. Their
conclusions were drawn up into
seven points.
1. Any accelerated program a-
dopted should not reduce nor mat
erially change the content of the
engineering curricula.
2. Most engineering colleges can
graduate the class of 1942 early
in that year by utilizing the sum
mer vacation of 1941 for regular
curriculum instruction. This ac
tion will advance the date of grad
uation several months for approx
imately 12,000 young engineers
and make them available at about
the time of the peak demand of the
defense program.
3. Institutions would find it dif
ficult to operate both accelerated
and normal programs simultan
eously.
4. The added cost of an acceler
ated program should be borne by
the Federal government, and the
allotments to institutions engaged
therein should cover both the acual
additional costs imposed by sum
mer sessions and the losses of
income caused by early graduation
resulting from the accelerated pro
gram. The total cost of such a
program for the summer of 1941
would cost the Federal government
approximately $5,000,000.
5. If the accelerated plan is to
be put into effect for the coming
summer it will be necessary to
come to a decision to that effect
and to announce the program
promptly in order that students
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Singing Cadets Return From
Successful Tour of South Texas
The Singing Cadets, accompanied-f estimated
by their director, J. J. Woolket,
returned Saturday from a three
day concert tour to Conroe, Hous
ton, Beaumont and Port Arthur.
Sixty-five cadets made the trip
in three chartered busses. Leaving
at 7 o’clock Wednesday morning,
the first stop was made at Conroe
for a concert at the high school at
10 o’clock. Continuing on to Hous
ton, a stop was made there for
lunch. Lodging for the night in
each town was provided by the A.
& M. Mothers’ Club.
In Port Arthur, a concert was
given in the Methodist Temple and
in the high school.
A concert in Beaumont was given
in the high school Thursday after
noon, and one in the Municipal
Auditorium Thursday evening with
twenty-five hundred
present.
The Singing Cadets attracted so
much interest in Beaumont that
five tickets to the concert in the
Municipal Auditorium were listed
among stolen articles reported to
the Beaumont police last week.
While they were in Beaumont
the Rainbow Girls gave a dance in
their honor, the A. & M. Mothers’
club entertained with a picnic sup
per on the banks of the Neches
River, and the A. & M. Ex-students
club provided the boys with dates
and cars after the evening con
cert.
Friday the Singing Cadets re
turned to Houston to give concerts
at John Reagan High School, the
A. & M. Mothers’ Club, and Fri-
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