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* - • c 4 * * « ^ 2- ; •* t A f i 1 V *J - \J V t . (■ ). # 4 /* A t THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941- THE BATTALION -Page 3 Schmidt Addresses Fish and Game Club Karl P. Schmidt, head curator of zoology, Field Museum of Natur al History, Chicago, Illinois, with his son and Mr. Barber of Hot Springs, Arkansas, were recent visitors on the campus of A. and M. College. Schmidt is an internationally known authority in the field of reptile study having done extended field work in Central and South America as well as the United States. Monday afternoon he addressed a meeting of the graduate-senior seminar in fish and game, and in the evening the regular meeting of the Fish and Game club. Extended conferences were held with members of the fish and game department, with special ref erence to plans for the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Chicago in June. University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, is the oldest university in the new world. Get Ready For The INFANTRY BALL Jones Barber Shop North Gate — ' ^ OK, It’s a Date! AND IT WILL ALWAYS BE A DATE ... if you’ll bring her here for dinner or a snack. She will also enjoy learning the game of pocket billiards. We’re open practically all the time. COLLEGE INN CAFE AND AMUSEMENT CLUB Over Lipscomb’s Pharmacy \=======f NEW Victor and Bluebird Records Turkey Raisers’ Course Scheduled Here This Summer Texas turkey raisers will soon be talking turkey—as well as eat ing it—for three weeks of turkey talk is scheduled for July 21 to August 9 when Dr. V. S. Asmund- son, noted turkey authority of the University of California, begins the first intensive course in turkey production ever held at A. & M. Members of the teaching, re search and extension divisions of the college will assist Dr. Asmund- son in teaching the course and a number of special lectures will like ly be included. Prof. D. H. Reid, poultry husbandry department head, has said. The course will include lectures on feeding, breeding, marketing and on general management. Prac tice periods will consist of work in breed identification, selection of the breeding stock, grading market turkeys, processing turkeys for market, visits to successful breed ing farms and demonstrations of improved methods of care and management with modern equip ment. Eight hours a day will be devoted to lectures and to practice periods. College credit will be giv en to all but poultry majors. A small fee will be charged those en rolling for the course. The facilities of the poultry di vision of the Experiment Station are being made available to those taking the course, R. M. Sherwood, chief, has said. In addition, Mr. Sherwood and his assistants will deliver a number of lectures dur ing the three weeks course. All Texas turkey breeders and agricultural workers who have a part in bringing to market more than three million turkeys yearly are urged to attend part or all of this school. Those interested should write the college poultry department for further details. Need $3,200? Here’s Another Civil Service Quiz An examination for positions as automotive spare parts expert, pay ing $3,200 a year, has been an nounced by the United States Civil Service Commission. Employment will be in the War Department un der the Office of the Quartermaster General. Qualified persons are urg ed to file their applications at once, although applications will be rated as received at the Commission’s Washington office until further notice. Seven years of responsible ex perience in the automotive industry are required. Not more than 3 years of this experience may have been in the capacity of mechanic; and at least 3 years of the exper ience must have been in both the control and the management of spare parts for a major manufact urer of automotive equipment. Un der certain condition, college study in engineering may be substituted for part of the general experience. The maximum age limit for appli cants is 55 years. Appointees will requisition stocks of spare parts for corps areas and depots and will instruct regarding the reclamation or repair of parts, units, and accessories. They will also review complaints and make remedial recommendations, as well as performing other duties relat ing to stocks, inventories, and mor tality tables. \ Full information as to the re quirements for this examination and application forms may be ob tained at the post office in this city. Let’s Get Away From It All Tommy Dorsey Friendly Tavern Polka Sammy Kaye Amapola Alvino Rey G’bye Now Vaughn Monroe The Things I Love Teddy Powell Sun Valley Jump Glenn Miller Harmony Haven Charlie Barnet R.C.A. VICTOR RECORD PLAYER $4.95 HASWELL’S BRYAN Reid Named Texas Fair Vice-President D. H. Reid, head of the poultry husbandry department, has been named honorary vice-president of the State Fair of Texas for the tenth year, according to an an nouncement just received from Harry L. Seay, State Fair Presi dent. Professor Reid has actively par ticipated in the state fair activities each year and during the Texas Centennial he directed all the poul try work and was responsible for the introduction of egg laying con tests and other displays. The poultry department displays a large number of birds at the state fair each year. The Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station has begun five re search projects on the utilization of commercial feeds in growing, I fattening, and finishing livestock | and poultry for the market, ac- j cording to a Texas magazine. A & M’s Veterinary Medicine School is Largest on Continent School Is Only One of Its Kind In the Southwest A Battalion Feature Largest of North America’s 12 schools of veterinary medicine is that of Texas A. & M. The only school of its kind in the southwest, a current enroll ment of 376 students from 34 states and nations, and a contribut ing factor in national defense, the school is headed by Dean R. P. Marsteller, graduate of Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Today, as in the past world war, veterinary medicine is of prime im portance to the various branches of the armed service. A unit of the Surgeon General’s division of the Army, the work of the Veterinary Corps today in cludes the inspection of meats and dairy products, laboratory work and general animal activity both in war and in peace time. Previous to 1938, graduates from the nation’s schools of veterinary medicine were commissioned as first lieutenants in the Medical Ad ministrative Reserve Corps. Although this is no longer the case, many of A. & M.’s graduates become reserve officers through the channel of advanced military science. Since the A. & M. school of vet erinary medicine was organized in 1916 by the famed Dr. .Mark Fran cis, 240 men have graduated from the school, 73 will graduate this June and, of that number, more than 200 have reserve commissions. Outstanding in the school’s work —aside from the education of slang-phrased “boss doctors”—is the vast service to Texas stock- men and horse breeders. The college’s veterinary clinic handles more than 7,000 cases a year treating livestock and small animals. Although the principal purpose here is to provide actual cases for classroom demonstration, this also acts as an important ser vice for statewide assistance to diseased farm animals including poultry. “In this way,” Dr. Marsteller pointed out, “A. & M.’s school of veterinary medicine has an oppor tunity to assist in the improvement of public health.” “ In the field of research, too, the' school is an important factor. Greatest contribution in this field was Dr. Francis’ development of a method to immunize cattle from tick fever by innoculation. One west Texas cattleman put it this way: “Dr. Francis’ work in solving the tick fever problem was the greatest single factor in sav ing the Texas livestock industry.” Six departments make up the school, including veterinary anato my, hygiene, medicine and sur gery, parasitology, pathology and bacteriology, and physiology and pharmacology. Leading to the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), the five-year course consists of a year of preparatory work and four years of veterinary study. The so-called “society trade,” consisting of the pet animal trade, although one of the most lucrative branches of the veterinary prac tice, is actually only a small part of the trade’s service to the state and nation. A. & M. graduates in veterinary College Veterinary Clinic Treats 7,000 Sick Animals Yearly medicine begin work in such widely varying fields as meat, milk and food inspection—an important fac tor in public health; research work; commercial production of curative and preventative biologies; service in the Veterinary Corps of the Army; work in and for boards of public health, state and federal bu reaus of animal industry and med ical centers; and foundation train ing for other fields of biology. During recent years the A. & M. veterinary medicine school has in vestigated and diagnosed the dis eases of wild life and particularly those of game animals, birds and fish. The economic significance of the sport and the industry associated with the field of wild game and fish is tremendous. Millions of dol lars are spent each year for the sports of hunting and fishing. Ev en further, some diseases of the % TO THE CLASS OF ’42— We wish to invite you to in vestigate among fellow stu dents, to determine your boot purchase. You will find it is not advisable to delay. ORDER NOW We offer you the finest boots, plus fast and convenient ser vice attention. Holick's Boot Shop “A. & M.’s Oldest Firm” - - Estab. 1891 Eco Professor At TU to Be Guest Of United Science Club The United Science Club is mak ing plans for a meeting to be held on May 12th or 13th and has in vited Dr. R. H. Montgomery of the department of economics at the University of Texas to give a talk on “The Relation Between Natural and Social Sciences.” The United Science Club is a composite club consisting of mem bers of the following science clubs at A. & M.: Biology, Pre-Med, Entomology, Fish and Game, game animals and fish are of im portance where public health is concerned. Housed in a $150,000 plant and capably staffed, A. & M.’s school of veterinary medicine is fast be coming one of the outstanding in stitutions of its kind in the world. Kream and Kow, Junior Collegiate F. F. A., Student Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy and the Student Chapter of the American Vet-Med Ass’n; and has a total membership of over 400 students who are interested in the contests sponsored by the Colleg iate Division of the Texas Academy of Science. These contests consist of research papers which are read at the meetings of the Academy and prizes which are awarded to the best ones. The United Science Club at A. & M. is for the pur pose of giving students a chance to practice preparing and present ing these papers by holding com petitions among themselves. The Club is also considering an invitation from the East Texas State Teachers College at Com merce, Texas, asking the A. & M. club to attend the regional meet ing of the Texas Academy being held there on April 25-26 to pre sent research papers and be the guests of the College. I ■ I TJV VALUE..! m wms tThis is Detroit de livered price an din cludes ell Federal taxes end all stand ard equipment. Fran sportation, state and local taxes (ifany), extra. Fluid Drive $25 extra. Prices subject to change without notice. DROP in and drive the brilliant new Dodge. See how it feels to shift gears or not, just as you wish! And that’s only one of the thrills you get when you Fluid Drive with Dodge. And this great advancement costs so very little... FLUID DRIVE ONLY *2S EXTRA HALSELL MOTOR CO., INC. Main at 23rd St. - - Bryan, Texas PALMER MOTOR COMPANY Normangee, Texas STANDLEY MOTORS Madisonville, Texas HALSELL MOTOR CO., INC. Caldwell, Texas I AAD ought to know. Look at the wall behind him—personal military JLo/ history. Photo of the troop. Dad by himself, very proud in his old-style choker-collar blouse. And his decorations—the Order of the Purple Heart, Victory Medal, Croix de Guerre with palm. “You savvy quick, soldier,” he says to his son as that chip off the old block in the new uniform proffers Camels. "These were practically ’regulation’ cigarettes with the army men I knew. Lots.of other things have changed, but not a soldier’s ’smokin’s.’ ” Right! Today/ and for more than 20 years, reports from Army Post Exchanges show that Camels are the favorite. And in Navy canteens, too. Camels are preferred. • • • Just seems that Camels click with more people than any other cigarette — whether they’re wearing O.D., blues, or civvies. You’ll savvy, too—and quick —with your first puff of a slower-burning Camel with its extra mildness, extra coolness, and extra flavor, why it’s the "front-line” cigarette! The Smoke of Slower-Burning Camels gives you EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR and 28% Less Nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested—less than any of them—according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina # What cigarette are you smoking now? The odds are that it’s one of those included in the famous "nicotine-in-the-smoke” labora tory test. Camels, and four other largest-sell ing brands, were analyzed and compared... over and over again ... for nicotine content in the smoke itself! And when all is said and done, the thing that interests you in a ciga rette is the smoke. YES, SIR, THE SMOKE’S THE THING! SMOKE CAMELS! CAMEL THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS