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, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1941
NUMBER 85
Davis, Moore, Bing File
For Editorial Positions
Men to Staff
Agriculturist
And Engineer
Two cadets have announced for
editor of The Engineer and one
for editor of the Agriculturist
with the Student Elections Com
mittee as the deadline for filing
approaches at noon today.
Billy Davis, H Infantry junior
from Hillsboro, and Tommy
Moore, G Infantry, from Long
view, have filed for editorship of
the Engineer for 1941-42. Roland
Bing, B Infantry, from Oakwood,
has announced for editor of The
Agriculturist.
The final selection for the posts
will be announced on May 21 by
the Student Elections Committee
after conferring with the Student
Engineering Council.
In order to be eligible for se
lection as editor, the candidate
must have worked at least one
year in a position which will give
him training for the post of edi
tor; he must have a grade-point
average of 1.25, and have passed
at least 3/5 of a normal semes
ter’s work in the previous semes
ter.
All other positions on the two
magazines for next year will be
made by appointment after the
selection of the editors.
Brady Scheduled
To Speak at Town
Hall’s Tenth Meet
Program to Be
Presented Monday
Morning at 11 O’clock
Darrel L. Brady, one of the most
outstanding spokesmen of the
younger generation, will speak at
the tenth Town Hall presentation
of the year at 11 o’clock Monday
morning in Guion Hall, Paul Hain
es, Town Hall manager, said yes
terday.
Juniors and seniors will be ex
cused from classes at 11 a. m.
Monday so that they may attend
this lecture. Brady will speak a-
gain at. 7:30 p. m. Monday in
Guion Hall so that both the pub
lic and the remainder of the corps
may have the opportunity to hear
his lecture.
Although the Town Hall season
has been officially closed for the
season it has been extended so
that Brady may talk to the corps.
His theme will be “how to start a
business on an idea and make it
pay and have fun doing it.” Too,
he will tell of many of his exper
iences and travels in foreign
places; his life as a child and
how he educated himself although
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Mothers , Clubs
Adopt Standard Pin
The design for a standard pin
for the members of all A. & M.
mother’s clubs was accepted at the
meeting of the mother’s clubs ex
ecutive board meeting last Satur
day at Sbisa hall by over fifty del
egates.
The pin will have a design sim
ilar to that on the crest of the
senior rings and will be in the
form of a shield. The guard on
the end of chain which is at
tached to the pin will bear the
letters “MC” which stands for
Mother’s Club.
Besides being the regular pin
for all members of the various
clubs the emblem may also be a
past presidents award by having
either a diamond or ruby set in it,
the committee in charge of its de
sign decided.
The Southern Engraving Com
pany of Houston which designed
the pin will make both a ten karat
and a gold filled style. Orders
for both styles will be placed di
rectly with the Houston firm by
each of the fifteen mother’s clubs.
The members of the committee
who w^re in charge of the pins’
design are Mesmes. R. M. Sher
wood of College Station, chairman;
J. M. Ross, Amarillo; T. A. Hardy,
Sonora; and W. G. Corrin, Fort
Worth.
Mother’s Day
Activities Close
Eventful Weekend
Cadet Corps Holds
Open House Sunday
For Mothers and Dads
With an estimated 12,000 visitors
in attendance, the cadet corps held
open house in honor of mothers
and dads with its annual Mothers’
Day review and flower-pinning cer-
temonies Sunday. All dormitories
were open for inspection by the
parents from 1:30 to 3:30 o’clock
Sunday afternoon.
Events got under way with a
meeting Saturday morning of the
state association of A. & M. Moth
ers’ clubs. A tea was held in the
lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Saturday
afternoon honoring the cadets’ par
ents.
Saturday evening the Aggie band
entertained the visitors with a
concert on President T. O. Walton’s
lawn during an informal reception
given by the President.
Before the review at 9:30 o’clock
Sunday morning, the cadets in each
organization had flowers pinned on
their blouses while in formation in
front of the dormitories.
A number of awards were made
at the review Sunday morning to
outstanding cadets. A. V. Hamil
ton was awarded a saber by the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy; Hughes Seewald was given
the Caldwell trophy for the best
drilled cadet; L. L. Appelt was
given the Sons of the American
Revolution trophy; Lewis Kerche-
ville was awarded the Field Artil
lery medal, and Tom Gillis the
Coast Artillery medal. Scholarship
Honor Society awards were made
to Billy Dean Brundige, Tom Gillis,
and W. J. Galloway. The daugh
ters of the American Revolution
award of $200 was made to Tom
Gillis.
A picnic lunch was served to all
the visitors and cadets at Kyle
Field at noon Sunday.
The final event in the day’s pro
gram was a concert in Guion Hall
by the Aggie band.
Engineering Staff
To Give Banquet
The engineering department staff
will sponsor a banquet to be given
May 14 at 6:30 in Sbisa Hall, hon
oring A. & M.’s distinguished stu
dents.
Invitations have been sent to 277
students who were given disting
uished ratings this year and the
second semester of last year. A few
distinguished graduates of last
June have also been sent invita
tions.
The programs of the banquet
will include an address by J. B.
Thomas, class of 1910, president
and general manager of Texas
Public Service. Arrangements have
been made for several musical se
lections to be given at the ban
quet. The master of ceremonies
will be Mr. C. W. Crawford, Head
of the Mechanical Engineering De
partment here at A. & M.
Singing Cadets Plan
Party to Close Year
The Singing Cadets will hold
their last meeting of the year in
the form of their annual party to
be given on May 15 at the home of
Mr. J. J. Woolket, director of the
club.
For the past four years the club
has met for a party at Woolket’s
home for a banquet and informal
gathering where the boys play
games, sing their favorite songs
and hear farewell speeches by the
seniors in the club. After the ban
quet the club will elect the officers
for the next year and settle any
business remaining from the year’s
activities. A program from the
new year will be formed under the
direction of the newly elected of
ficers.
Summer School Faculty to Include
Distinguished Visiting Professors
The 1941 Summer Session at A.
& M. will bring to summer school
students a number of visiting pro
fessors, specialists who stand at the
top of their profession, who will
teach during the session. Definite
arrangements have been complet
ed for the following visiting pro
fessors this summer.
Dr. V. S. Asmundson will be a
new addition to the poultry, hus
bandry department. Dr. Asmund
son received his B.S.A. degree from
the University of Saskatchewan in
1918; M.S.A. degree from Cornell
university in 1920; and his doctor’s
degree from the University of Wis
consin in 1930. In 1933 he received
the annual award of the Poultry
Science Association for the best
contribution to poultry research
published in that year. He is a
member of the World’s Poultry As
sociation and has been devoting
much of his time during the last
few years to the study of inheri
tance in turkeys. He is recognized
as an outstanding authority on this
subject.
Mr. O. H. Benson, National Di
rector of Rural Scouting, Boy
Scouts of America, has for several
decades been an outstanding figure
in the development of scout lead-
■f-ership. He will be an addition to
the rural sociology department.
Prior to Benson’s ten years service
with the Federal Government as
director of 4-H Club Work, he
taught in the rural and city schools
in Iowa and served as director of
the “Junior Achievement Incorpo
rated” Eastern States League
which promotes leisure time edu
cation in business, industi’ial voca
tions, and jobs of industrial duties
of New England and the Eastern
States.
Another member of the rural so
ciology department will be Mr. V.
K. Brown, Director of Playgrounds
for the Chicago Park Board. He is
one of the outstanding recreational
leaders of the country and has di
rected playground activities for the
park boards of Chicago for more
than twenty years. While serving
in this capacity, he has made an
enviable reputation for the thor
ough and comprehensive program
of community recreation developed
to reach all age and interest groups.
He is considered one of the out
standing .authorities in the nation
on community recreational activi
ties and on advising recreational
programs.
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Ah. Ring Dance! ’Twas the
1st Kiss of a 5-Year Romance
By E. M. Rosenthal
The ring ceremony at the ring
dance Friday night demonstrated
the new techniques in the art of
osculation.
One senior, with a dull crimson
slowly creeping over his face, ad
mitted that the kiss he gave his
date as they went through the
ring was their first since they
started going together a short five
years ago.
Another senior made a similar
admission but slightly I’emedied
the situation. When his turn came
to go through one of the rings with
his date he did the traditional
thing, stopped for a brief moment
and kissed her, the first kiss of
their three years of going together.
To make up for lost time he then
proceeded to the opposite end of
Sbisa hall and went through an
other ring, and the custom again.
To his date the senior claimed that
the double ceremony was Aggie
tradition.
Perhaps the only person who
went through the rings more than
once with a different person each
time was Dee Keating, A1 Don
ahue’s vocalist, who obliged sev
eral of the dateless bird-dogs by
going through the ring with them.
Tommy Vaughn was the cause
of his date’s embarassment when
their engagement was announced
as they went through the ring. It
now turns out that Vaughn in a
definitely joking manner said to
several of his friends at lunch Fri
day that he would become engaged
that night. His friends took him
seriously and had the announce
ment made.
The committee that was in
Student Aid Fund
Committee To Meet
The last regularly scheduled
meeting of the A. & M. Student
Aid Fund Committee for the cur
rent college year will be held this
afternoon beginning at 3:15 o’
clock, Chairman George Fuermann
said yesterday.
As usual, the meeting will be
held in the Academic building
classroom which adjoins the of
fices of the department of edu
cation.
As today’s meeting falls too
early in the month to complete
the fund’s work for the 1940-41
long session, a special meeting
has been called Tuesday, May 27.
This special meeting will be held
in the form of an annual commit
tee supper at the Aggieland Inn.
Committeemen Tom Gillis and
Skeen Staley have been named to
handle the function.
At this last meeting all re
maining business will be handled,
the chairman’s annual report to
the Student Activities Committee
and President T. O. Walton will
be approved and officers will be
elected for the forthcoming long
session.
•charge of the ring dance said that
the unusually large number of en
gagements that were announced
Friday was doubtless the result of
their planning. The committee
claims that they saw to it that the
dance would be held during the
time of a full moon.
Topic of Land
Committee Is
Unified Program
Consideration of a unified ag
ricultural program for Texas was
the leading item on the program
of the State Land Use Planning
Committee, which began a session
at A. & M. College Thursday,
May 8. The program, prepared by
a sub-committee of which E. O.
Siecke, director of the Texas For
est Serive at the College, is
chairman, will be submitted to the
full committee for consideration
and adoption.
At the morning session Thurs
day, the chairman, Director H. H.
Williamson of the A. & M. Ex
tension Service, appointed a spe
cial committee to prepare rules
and regulations for conducting
meetings of the full committee,
voting, and the method of acting
upon resignations and filling va
cancies in the committee member
ship. The committee comprised
Mrs. lola Scott Middleton of Hills
boro, John B. Chambers, Jr., of
Raymondville, Tom Watson of
Groveton, Jack Shelton of the
Farm Credit Administration, and
C. Hohn, extension land use plan
ning project leader.
The resignations of J. B. Foga-
son of Wharton County and H. T.
Fletcher of Presidio were received
and accepted. Sixteen farmer
members and 13 agency represen
tatives were present, and eight
farm and eight agency represen
tatives absent.
Sub-committees on land tenure,
health and nutrition, education,
conservatibn and other subjects
met during the afternoon.
Agronomy Society
To Sponsor Contest
A freshman crop contest spon
sored by the Student Agx-onomy
Society will be held next Thurs
day afternoon in the Agricultural
Engineering Building in two sep
arate periods, the first from 1-3
p. m. and the second from 3-5 p.
m.
Five gold medals will be award
ed the five first place contestants.
They will be donated by A. M.
Waldrop and Company, Lukes’
Campus Grocery, Aggie Clean
ers, Casey’s Confectionery and the
Exchange Store.
The contest is open to all Fresh
men majoring in Agriculture.
Agriculture Dept to Plan Special
Courses for Latin American Students
Engineer’s Day
Attracts Record
Crowd of 12,000
All Seven Engineering
Departments Take Part
In Exhibits, Displays
The twelfth annual engineer’s
day drew 12,000 visitors to the
many exhibits of new scientific in
struments and latest developments
in the various fields of engineering.
The demonstrations were spon
sored by the Student Engineering
Council and the school of engineer
ing under Dean Gibb Gilchrist.
Each of the seven engineering de
partments gave an exhibit show
ing some phase of their work. The
newly-formed aeronautical engi
neering department, participating
in these activities for the first
time, had an exhibit showing air
plane construction, control, and
steps in designing.
The mechanical engineering de
partment gave an exhibition of
equipment in the mechanical engi
neering shops which featured metal
casting, welding, air conditioning,
fluid experiments, machines for
testing engines, and cut-away
models of various engines to show
their operation. The electrical en
gineering department in coopera
tion with the Signal Corps regi
ment demonstrated electrical
equipment. The civil engineering
department was responsible for a
demonstration of highway con
struction, structure models,
strength testing apparatus, and
surveying. The architecture depart
ment showed interesting home de
signs and models of latest type
homes, including a model of the
rehousing project of Bryan. A liquid
air show was the main demonstra
tion of the chemical engineers, al
though they also demonstrated
chemical reactions, the manufac
ture of synthetic materials, and
the application of chemical engi
neering to national defense. The
petroleum engineering department
gave an interesting exhibit of re
search methods in petroleum engi
neering and an actual display of
oil well operation and drilling.
The exhibits and demonstrations
were placed in charge of seven en
gineering students, one from each
of the various departments. These
students, one from each of the
of the various departments. These
students explained the exhibits to
the visitors in an interesting non
technical manner which could be
enjoyed by all the spectators.
Faires Revises
Engineering Text
V. M. Faires, A. & M. professor
of mechanical engineering, author
of many leading college textbooks,
recently has completed revision of
his “Design of Machine Elements”
which, since its original publication
six years ago, has won a place
among the leading books in its
line. Several noteworthy additions
have been made to the original
material, and the text has been
brought up to date in line with
latest developments in the field.
An accompanying manual, “Prob
lems on the Design of Machine El
ements,” also has been revised by
Professor Faires and R. M. Win-
gren, associate professor of mech
anical engineering at A. & M. More
than 1000 problems are given in
the manual, more than a third of
which are entirely new.
A special pamphlet,, “Notes on
Alloyed Irons and Steels,” prepar
ed by J. George H. Thompson, also
of A. & M.’s department of mech
anical engineering, consists of
questions and answers covering
troublesome design cases. It is giv
en to purchasers of the Faires text.
Professor Faires also is author
of texts on “Applied Thermody
namics” and “Elementary Thermo
dynamics,” published in 1938.
Senior Banquet
Menu Is Stumper
To Those Present
Many of the seniors and their
dates were still in doubt as to
what they would be served at the
senior ring banquet last Friday
night even after they had looked
at the menu in the program.
Those who had a knowledge of
French were able to interpret the
bill of fare as follows:
Hors d’ Oeuune, appetizer
Cocktail de Fruit, fruit cocktail
Assortie de Fruit, assorted fruits
Celeri en Branch et Olives, cel
ery and olives
Entree, chief course
Demi Poulet Saute Chasseur,
half chicken with Chesseur style
sauce
Pomme Novelle, new potatoes
Petit Pois au Beurre, peas with
butter sauce
Salade, salad
Coeur de Laitue, 1000 Isle, head
of lettuce with thousand island
dressing
Deserta, desert
Pastel Chocolat Chiffonade, choc
olate pastry
Te Frappe, iced tea
Cafe, coffee
Baylor University
Dean Will Address
Scientists May 15
United Science Clubs
Select Dean Jones as
Spring Meeting Guest
E. N. Jones, dean of Baylor Uni
versity, has been selected by the
United Science Clubs as the guest
speaker for the organization’s next
meeting, May 15, in the chemistry
lecture room.
The topic of Dean Jones’ talk
will be “The Relation Between the
Natural and Social Sciences.”
Dean Jones is described in the
book “Amei'ican Men of Science”
as an “outstanding scientist and
speaker.” Before he assumed his
position as dean of the university
he was head of the department
of biology at Baylor and before
that was a professor of eugenics.
The United Science Clubs is an
organization made up of eight dif
ferent clubs on the campus and
is a unit in the Texas Academy of
Science. The organizations which
compose the U.S.C. are the Biol
ogy Club, the Entomology Club,
the Pre-Med Club, the Fish and
Game Club, the Agronomy So
ciety, the Kream and Kow Klub,
the Student Chapter of the Amer
ican Veterinary Medicine Associa
tion and the local Collegiate Fu
ture Farmers of America Chapter.
Plan Announced at
Meeting of Texas
Women’s Clubs Here
Dean E. J. Kyle of the School of
Agriculture disclosed that plans
have been perfected for offering
of a four year course especially
designed for South American and
Central American students at the
conference on Latin-American re
lations for the Texas Federation
of Women’s club which opened here
yesterday.
This course would be primarily
to train students from those coun
tries in Agriculture and Agricul
tural Economics, Dean Kyle ex
plained.
“In four years at A. & M. we
will turn out graduates who can
go back to their own countries
and take the leadership in the
agricultural economy of their
homelands,” Dean Kyle announced.
“Texas boys who wish to take
the course may do so and go to
Latin American countries to assist
them in organizing their agri
cultural economy. Through such
an exchange, cultural relations
would be solidified and soon all
of those countries would look to
A. & M. for graduates to aid in
solving their many problems.”
In welcoming those in attend
ance at the corxference, Dr. T. O.
Walton, president of A. & M.
College, declared “the weakest
link in national defense is a lack
of unity of a nation’s citizenry”
and that “our second line of na
tional defense is the understand
ing and fx-iendship of our neighbors
in the Westem Hemisphere.”
Mrs. Ira D. Sykes of Houston,
president of the Fourth District
Texas Federation of Women’s
Clubs, declared that “vigilance is
the price of peace” and urged the
women of Texas to realize the
great importance of closer rela
tionships with Latin American
countries.
The meeting will continue
through Wednesday with Latin
American students of A. & M.
taking a prominent part in the
discussions and entertainment pro
gram.
The state of Texas and its citi
zens occupy a strategic position
which will enable them to take a
leading part in the promotion of
Inter-American relations, accord
ing to Dr. John C. Patterson,
specialist in Inter-American Edu
cational Relations, of the U. S.
Office of Education, Washington,
D. C.
Dr. Patterson declared the para
mount consideration in promotion
of better relations with the Latin
American republics is cultivation
of confidence and faith on a mu
tual basis.
“Ignorance and indifference,”
Dr. Patterson said, “must be re
placed by confidence and faith.
Let’s have truth both ways. Tell
the truth about the United States
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A Sc M Dames Club Is Now In
Its Fourth Year of Existence
Among the various clubs on thcfstudent wives met in the Y.M.C.A.
campus, the A. & M. Dames Club
is px-obably one of the most uni
que of the lot. Composed solely
of student wives, it has regular
officers and holds business meet
ings on the first and third Wed
nesdays of each month throughout
the scholastic year.
This club is not just a local one,
being a chapter of the National As
sociation of University Dames,
composed of more than 40 other
chapters thx-oughout the country.
There is no stationary national
headquarters, as the headquarters
of the association moves from uni
versity to university, taking in
one a year. The universities have
this privilege in the order in which
they joined the national associa
tion. The national headquarters
puts out a year book which in
cludes the reports of the various
colleges and universities, the treas
urer’s report and the constitution
of the association.
The organization first began on
November 15, 1936, when thirteen
under the direction of Mx-s. R.
M. Sherwood, then president of the
A. & M. Mothers Club. Officers
were elected at this meeting and
the group was named “Student
Wives Club.” At succeeding meet
ings the membership grew and
better programs came about. In
February, 1938, the Student Wives
Club joined the National Associa
tion of Univei’sity Dames and be
came known as the A. & M. Dames
Club.
Since that time the club has
grown to have a membership of
over 75. Its meetings and pro
grams consist of music, book re
views, parties, educational pic
tures, dances, lectures on travel
and music and homemaking. Pri
marily its fundamental pui*pose is
to provide a means whereby the
wives can have a friendly meeting
and discuss current topics of the
day.
Occasionally the husbands are in
vited to certain meetings and en-
tertainments of the club.