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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, APRIL 19, 1941
NUMBER 75
R. L. Heitkamp Is Elected 194142 Longhorn Editor
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W. J. Montgomery Chosen Valedictorian of Senior Class
Ten Highest
Ranking Seniors
Were Candidates
Total Votes
Under 200 Mark;
Montgomery Receives 98
W. J. (Jeff) Montgomery of
Mason, Texas, regimental conn
mander of the Infantry Regiment,
polled more votes than his nine
opponents together Friday in
winning the honor of being valedic
torian of the senior class.
The candidates for the valedic
torian election were the ten high
est ranking men in the senior
class. It so happened that Mont
gomery actually was the highest,
having a grade point average of
2.945 for a four year period.
The election was held in the ro
tunda of the Academic Building
from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The votes were cast as follows:
W. J. Montgomery 98
Ernest L. Wehner 20
Tom D. Harris 17
Charles W. Brown Jr 11
Leslie L. Appelt 6
Robert A. Lynch 5
Jack E. Minnock 3
Joe W. McCrary 2
Jack M. Simpson 2
Buck Joe Miller 1
Montgomery received 98 votes
as compared to 67 votes received
by the other nine men.
Limouze to
Conduct Concert
The weekly record concert will
be conducted in the music room of
the Cushing Memorial Library
Monday, April 21, at 7:15.
The program will be conducted
by A. S. Limouze of the English
department and will consist of the
religious music of the 12th to the
19th centuries.
This is another in a series of
annotated programs given every
Monday night by faculty members
and students who are interested in
music.
Mr. Limouze will play the fol
lowing selections and comment on
them as they are played: “Hymn
in Honor of St. John”, “Mira Lege”,
“Ave Verum” by Depres; “Hodie,
Christus Natrus Est” (Today,
Christ is Born) by Palestrina,
“Super Flumina” (Over the Wat
ers of Babylon), by Palestrina;
“O Magnum Mysterium” by Vit-
toria: “Justorum Animae” by
Byrd, “Nolo Mortem Peccatoris”
by Morley, “Hodie, Christus Natus
Est” by Sweelink; “O Thou in
Hate Surrounded” (from The Pas
sion of St. Matthew) by Bach, “Be
hold the Lamb of God” (from The
Messiah) by Handel; “Ave Verum”
by Mozart, “Stabat Mater” by Ros
sini.
Valedictorian
m.
W. J. Montgomery
Stearman Aircraft
Issues Call for
Junior Inspectors
Men with an engineering school
background who can qualify as ju
nior inspectors are needed by the
Stearman Aircraft division of the
Boeing Airplane company accord
ing to George Trombold, personnel
director of the company.
Requirements for work of this
kind include an ability to read and
interpret blue prints and a know
ledge of inspection problems, es
pecially those applied to machined
and sheet metal.
The starting rate for men who
can qualify is 60 cents an hour
which amounts to $120 to $125 a
month, and the wages will be in
creased as soon as the employee’s
ability warrants it.
The junior inspectors will have
to own micrometers and other pre
cision instruments, Trombold stat
ed.
Application blanks may be ob
tained in the office of Gibb Gil
christ, dean of the School of En
gineering.
Thompson Witt Be Honor
Guest at Federal Inspection
Interest Rises
In General Campus
Election Tuesday
Candidates to Address
Corps at Political
Yell Practice Monday
By The Battalion Political Editor
With the junior primary elec
tions now history, the fast-near
ing general campus elections sched
uled Tuesday are the pivot-point of
cadet interest.
With less ballyhoo than any
general campus balloting in recent
A. & M. history and minus the
usual race for head yell leader,
the races will see two posts filled
if runoffs are not necessary.
Three candidates for Battalion
editor-in-chief and four for jun
ior representative on the Student
Publications’ Board make-up the
race.
Junior Yell Leader Skeen Staley,
Wichita Falls, was declared head
yell leader by the Student Elec
tions Committee because of the
absence of Bill Beck, former junior
yell leader, who resigned from
A. & M. in January to enter the
U. S. Air Corps.
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Dr. D. B. Klein to
Speak Here Sunday
“Democracy as a psychologist
sees it”, will b'e the topic for dis
cussion at the open forum meeting
of the Texas A. & M. Hillel Club
Sunday, April 20, at 7:15 p. m. at
the Lounge Room of Sbisa Hall.
Dr. D. B. Klein, professor of psy
chology of the University of Tex
as, will be the guest speaker.
Dr. Klein is very active in Jewish
communal affairs. He is chairman
of the cultural committee of the
National Hillel Foundation of Tex
as.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic and a cordial invitation is ex
tended.
Band to
Leave Tuesday
Eighty members of the A. & M.
band will leave Tuesday, April
22 about eight o’clock in the morn
ing for Corsicana where they will
appear in the annual convention of
the East Texas Chamber of Com
merce.
The boys will make the trip by
a special train returning that night
about nine o’colck. The Aggie
band will take part in a celebration
parade in Corsicana that afternoon
and will be guests of the convention
while there. N
Bands from Bryan High School,
Allen Academy and Lamar Junior
High School of Bryan will also
make the trip. Mrs. L. J. Rountree,
managing editor of the Bryan Daily
Eagle, is the promoter of the ex
cursion of the four school bands
to the convention. It was her idea
that Brazos county should be rep
resented at the meeting as a county
of schools.
To aid in the financing of the
trip, a concert was held last night
at Forrest Field in Bryan at which
time the local bands furnished
entertainment for the evening.
Annual
Inspection Date
Is April 30, May 1
The A. & M. cadet corps will
undergo its annual Federal Inspect
ion April 30 and May 1, Capt. R.
P. Lively, adjutant, announced re
cently. The amount of funds and
equipment to be alloted to the
college for the next school year
will be determined by the condi
tion of the corps as shown through
this inspection tour, he added.
BULLETIN
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson,
chairman of the Texas Railroad
Commission and now on active
duty with the U. S. Army, will
be honor guest and receive the
review of the cadet corps Thurs
day afternoon, May 1, Lieut. Col.
James A. Watson, commandant,
announced late yesterday after
noon.
Both President T. O. Walton
and Colonel Watson joined in ex
tending the invitation to Colonel
Thompson who wired his accept
ance yesterday. The wire read,
“Am greatly honored and delight
ed to receive invitation to receive
^review.”
While on the campus Colonel
Thompson will stay at Colonel
and Mrs. Watson’s residence.
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Col. E. A. Keyes, Cavalry, Eighth
Corps Area, will head the staff of
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Youth Leadership
Course to Be Held
Here This Summer
3 Weeks Training
Is to Benefit
Texas 4-H Club Leaders
Texas 4-H Club leaders and pros
pective ones as well are invited to
attend a three weeks’ intensive
youth leadership training course
which will be held for the first
time this summer at Texas A. Sr
M. College. Dates for the special
course have been set for June 9-23.
When the new plan was announc
ed recently by Daniel Russell, head
of the college department of rural
sociology, L. L. Johnson and Onah
Jacks, state 4-H Club agents for
the Extension Service, said they
hoped large numbers of men and
women interested in 4-H Club work
could attend.
During the first week, O. H.
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Wehner, Harris
Also Selected for
Army Commissions
4 of 6 Principals
From Eighth Corps
Area Are From A. & M.
Ernest Wehner of Del Rio and
Tom Harris of Dallas have been
added to the list of those chosen
as principals for permanent com
missions in the regular army from
the Eighth Corps Area according
to word received Friday by Lieut.
Col. James A. Watson, command
ant.
Originally W. A. Becker, H. W.
Gillespie, and Howard Shelton
were selected as principals with
Wehner, Harris, Joe McCrary, and
Lynn Grasshoff as alternates.
Since the time of the first an
nouncement, however, Shelton was
declared ineligible because of a
physical disqualification and Weh
ner and Harris were moved up
from alternates to principals.
The four A. & M. men chosen
will report to Ft. Sam Houston
Monday morning at 9 o’clock for
their final physical examination.
Upon passing this examination and
satisfactorily completing their
R.O.T.C. course of study they will
be offered permanent commissions
as regular officers in the United
States Army.
If for any reason any of these
men fail to qualify the vacancies
will be filled by the alternates.
Altogether there were 55 appli
cants for commissions from the
Eighth Corps Area. Of these 30
A. & M. honor graduates made ap
plication and seven were chosen
as possible candidates for the com
missions.
Only six commissions are to be
given for the whole area and of
these A. & M. has four, an out
standing record for the college.
Kercheville, Cathey In
Social Secretary Runoff
Speaker
Willard Chevalier
Ezell Accepted by
Vanderbilt Med School
Announcement has just been
made by Dr. W. S. Leathers, Dean
of the Vanderbilt School of Med
icine that Harry Eugene Ezell of
Corsicana, Texas, is one of the
limited number of students accept
ed into the Medical School for the
session beginning next September.
There were a total of approxi
mately 800 applications for en
trance into the School this year.
Only fifty-two students are ac
cepted into the freshman class each
year.
Chevalier
To Give Three
Lectures at A&M
Williard Chevalier, vice-president
of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
and publisher-editor of “Business
Week”, will be here the week of
April 21st to give a series of three
lectures, Sid Loveless, city secre
tary and first lieutenant in the
Cavalry reserve, announced yes
terday.
He will also speak at the Re
serve Officers meeting Wednesday
night at 7:30 in the Petroleum lec
ture room. This meeting will be
open to the general public and a
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Dr. Louderback
To Lecture Here
Dr. George D. Louderback, dean
of letters and science and senior
professor of geology at the Uni
versity of California, has been ob
tained to give a series <tf lectures
on geology and on engineering
applications of geology at A. &
M. college May 7-10, it was an
nounced Friday by Dr. C. L. Baker,
head of the local geology depart
ment.
Dr. Louderback will present four
lectures while he is here. On the
night of Saturday, May 10, the
final day that he will be here,'
Dr. Louderback will speak at a ban
quet meeting in Sbisa Hall. All
lectures will be open to the public;
however, geology and petroleum
students are urged to attend.
Plan Submitted to Faculty Would Abolish Excess Cut Penalties
By Don Gabriel
A plan submitted by the Stu
dent Engineer’s Council which will
eliminate all penalties for excess
cuts was approved in a modified
form by the Engineering faculty
Thursday. It is planned to sub
mit the report of this meeting to
the faculty council for final ap
proval.
The Student Engineer’s Council
composed of a representative num
ber of engineering juniors and
seniors from each engineering de
partment unanimously adopted
a report which was given to the
engineering faculty at their meet
ing Thursday.
The purpose of this move by
the. students was to remove all
penalties connected with the pres
ent system of excess cuts. The
proposed plan provided that grade
points would not be subtracted
from a student’s permanent rec
ord. Benton Elliott, president of
•“•the council said, “We believe that'f
the student is penalized suffic
iently if he cuts the class.”
Under the present system,
there is a definite limit on allow
able cuts. It was the belief of the
Student Engineering Council that
it is impossible to place a limit on
cuts. Students high in scholastic
standing might well be able to
take an excess number of cuts,
while the poorer students might
not be justified in taking any cuts
at all.
The proposals which the coun
cil made were presented to the Fac
ulty of the School of Engineering.
The text of the px-oposal read as
follows:
“The Student Engineer’s Coun
cil respectfully proposes that Col
lege Regulation 17 (2) be amend
ed to read as follows:
“Each instructor in charge of
a class or section shall keep a
record of the work and atten
dance of its members and shall
report as a point of honor the
total number of absences, the num
ber unexcused and a measure of
tardiness when he reports the
grade in the subject.
“It is our belief that the pres
ent system of reducing a student’s
total number of grade points for
having taken cuts in excess of the
allowed number of one per cred
it hour is not accomplishing the
purpose for which it was propos
ed. There are times when a stu
dent is justified in taking more
cuts than allowed by the present
regulations.
“The student penalized himself
sufficiently when he cuts the class
in which he must woi'k harder to
leaxn the material which was pres
ented in class when he was absent,
“The present system has cx-eat-
ed an impression that all students
regardless of scholastic status, are
allowed or entitled to one cut per
-tcredit hour. This is undesirablct"
because it cx-eates a false limit
for the student high in scholastic
standing and certainly a student
failing in any coux-ses should attend
all scheduled classes x-egularly
and unexcused absences, in any
number, are not justified.
“The regulation under which a
complete record of absences in
every class is turned into the
Registrar’s office should be more
strictly adhered to than it is at the"
present time and made a point of
honor by all teachers so that the
Dean may accurately correlate a
student’s grade in a course with
the number of cuts he has in the
course. . . .The very fact that a
student’s class attendance x-ecord
will be on his report card, sent to
pax-ents and to the Dean’s office,
will be a warning. Such • reports
will also enable the College Auth
orities to find out quickly when
any student is not attending class.
Present college regulations con--'
cerning class attendance read as
follows:
“Each instructor in charge of a
class or section shall keep a record
of the work and attendance of its
members and shall report the num
ber of unexcused absences when
he reports the gx-ade in a subject.
“The Registrar shall reduce the
total number of grade points earn
ed by a student in any semester
by one grade point for each two
unexcused absences in excess of
the credit value of the course.”
The plan of the student coun
cil was presented to the engineer
ing faculty by T. E. Duce, senior
electrical engineering student and
Fred Smitham, junior in Chemical
Engineering from Dallas.
The plan as adopted by the Fac
ulty of the School of Engineering
has exactly the same effect as the
plan proposed the students. Ins
tead of adopting the student’s
plan as presented above, the en
gineering faculty voted to stidke
out the second paragraph coxx-
cerning the penalty for excess
cuts.
This accomplishes the same pur
poses which the council sought in
its proposal. The penalty for ex
cess cuts would be removed. This
proposal of the engineexdng fac
ulty will be presented to the fac
ulty council at its next meeting.
Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the School
of Engineering, pointed out that
the recommendations of the stu
dents in contx-asting a more rig
id check-up on absences could be
accomplished easily by the Deans
of the various schools.
“I am heartily in favor of this
plan,” Dean Gilchrist said in dis
cussing the proposed change. This
plan if adopted would apply to the
entire school and not only to the
I school of engineering.”
Smitham, Bolton
In Runoff Monday
For Town Hall Head
R. L. (Rusty) Heitkamp, junior
of A Field Artillery, was elected
by the junior class to be editor of
the 1941-1942 Longhorn in the
special election held Thursday. His
opponent in the election was Ben
nie Hancock, junior in G Field
Artillery from Corpus Christi.
Heitkamp was named junior ed
itor of The Longhorn earlier in the
month by Morton Robinson, present
editor of the Longhorn. Heitkamp,
who is from New Braunfels, is
majoring in Agricultural Adminis
tration.
A runoff election will be neces
sary in the races for Social Secre
tary of the senior class and Town
Hall manager as no candidate for
these positions had a majority in
the first election. Alden Cathey,
Fold Worth, and Lewis Kerche
ville, San Antonio, will be in the
run off for Social Secretary. Fred
Smitham, Dallas, and Billy Bolton,
Social Sceretary. Fi’ed Smitham,
Dallas, and Billy Bolton, Sulphur
Springs, led in a field of five cand
idates for Town Hall manager and
will be opponents in the runoff.
The x*un off election for these
two positions will be held Monday
in the Academic Building Rotunda
from 7:45 a. m. until 5:30 p. m. '
These elections are open only to
members of the junior class.
Official results of the election
as announced by the Student Elec
tion Committee ai’e:
LONGHORN EDITOR
R. L. (Rusty) Heitkamp....171
J. Bennie Hancock 121
SOCIAL SECRETARY
Alden Cathey 141
Lewis Kercheville 88
W. E. (Pete) Fx’ost 62
TOWN HALL MANAGER
Fred Smitham 101
Billy Bolton 71
G. W. (Buddy) Ramsel 62
Jack Holliman 32
J. F. Stephenson 27
Smith-Hughes Day
Set for April 21
The campus at Texas A. & M.
College will swarm with Future
Fax-mers of America boys on Mon
day, April 21, as that is the date
of the twenty-fourth annual Smith-
Hughes Day this yeai’.
E. R. Alexander, head of the
department of agricultural educa
tion at the college, has estimated
that between 1000 and 1300 rural
boys will visit the college on that
date to take pai’t in the annual
judging contest on all phases of
farm life and farm px-oduction and
maintenance. The boys will come
fx-om all sections of the state and
will be accompanied by their teach
ers of vocational agriculture.
Smith-Hughes Day, considered
the highlight of the boys’ Future
Farmer training, grew put of an
invention made by Dean E. J.
Kyle, dean of the School of Agri
culture at the college, to the 750
teachers of vocational agriculture
throughout Texas to bring their
35,000 students to the campus to
compete in agricultural judging
contests. The day was named in
honor of Senator Smith and Rep
resentative Hughes, co-sponsors of
the Act of Congress which provid
ed Fedex-al aid for teaching of vo
cational agricultux-e in secondary
schools of the nation.
Last year approximately 2,500
Futui'e Farmers attended the con
tests but owing to added restrict
ions, only a selected number will
be allowed to participate in this
year’s events.