DIAL 4-5444
DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOU 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1941
NUMBER 86
Councils Will
Pick Editors
At Next Meet
Moore, Davis, Bing
And Rice Declared
Eligible By Board
Election of the editors for the
Engineer and Agriculturist will
be held at the next meeting
of the Student Engineering Coun
cil and Student Agricultural Coun
cil it was stated by E. L. Angell,
head of the Student Publications
Board.
The Agriculturist and Engi
neer are specialized student maga
zines that evolved by dividing the
Scientific Review into two fields.
The two students who announced
their intentions of running for edi
tor of the Engineer' are Billy
Davis, H Infantry from Hillsboro,
and Tommy Moore, G Infantry
from Longview. All candidates
were approved by the Student Pub
lications Board.
Lee Rice, A Cavalry, from San
Antonio, and Roland Bing B In
fantry from Oakwood, are com
peting for editorship of the agri
cultural publication.
No definite date has been set
for the elections to the positions,
but they are not expected to be
made before May 21. It will be
impossible for the Student Engi
neering Council to meet before
that date since Dean Gibb Gil
christ will not return from Wash
ington, D. C., before that time,
according to Benton Elliot, pres
ident of the Student Engineering
Council.
World Traveler
Brady Scheduled
For Two Lectures
In order that all may hear Dar
rell L. Brady, one of the best speak
ers of the younger generation,
juniors and seniors will be excused
from classes at 11 o’clock Monday
and all those unable to hear him at
that time can do so at 7:30 that
night, Paul Haines, manager of the
Town Hall program has said.
Brady’s theme will be “How to
Start a Business on an Idea and
Make it Pay and Have Fun Doing
it.” He will also speak of his
childhood and how he educated him
self although practically penniless.
Though Brady is still a young
man, he has traveled in 27 foreign
countries and studied in six of the
world’s greatest universities. He
spent three years in Europe where
he worked for the scout movement.
Some time was spent in Africa
where he ran into Arab revolts in
Palestine; and on another trip to
Europe he obtained a job taking
commercial motion pictures. He be
came president of Brady Enter
prises at the age of twenty-five,
and at the present is speaking to
youth all over America under the
Auspices of Rotary International.
Future Middies
Examined Today
A naval recruiting party will ex
amine those seniors who are inter
ested in applying for commissions
as Midshipmen in the U. S. Naval
Reserve in room 37 Ross hall from
eight to five o’clock today.
To qualify for a commission the
applicant must be a native-born,
unmaiTied, male citizen of the
United States, and between the
ages of 20 and 28. He must meet
certain physical requirments and
possess at least two, one-semester
courses in college mathematics in
cluding plane trigonometry. He
must be of good repute in his com
munity and agree not to marry
prior to completion of his reserve
midshipman training.
Those seniors who are not eli
gible for commissions as Second
Lieutenants in the Army Reserve
and who are interested in a Naval
Commission should apply.
As Aggieland Participates in Weekend
Left to right, top: Cadet A.
S. Kahn and beautiful Doris
Rothstein stop to take care of
the ring situation and then fin
ish the ring ceremony with the
traditional kiss each senior gave
his date. Center, Johnny Ban
nister of F Company Infantry
assisting Lilly Rose Dew in pin
ning on flowers during Mother’s
Day. Next, a shot of Cadet
Jim Thomason putting the shot
for about forty-seven feet dur
ing the Southwest Conference
meet at Austin last Saturday.
The cadets go marching by on
their way to the drill field for
their review.
Center row, Frank Young in
the M. E. shop dose a little
acetylene welding or could
Frank be testing out a new type
of gas-proof mask?
Bottom, left to right: Dave
Angell, Battery F Coast Artil
lery first lieutenant, presenting
Captain Bob Little a watch from
the battery for his service this
year. Next, Duke Roddy looks
over a model oil-drilling rig in
the Department of Petroleum
Engineering during Engineer’s
Day.
Pictures by staff photographers
Phil Golman, Jack Jones, and
Bob Crane.
Beethoven, Bach Challenge
Authors for Space at Library
The faint strains of
Foster’s “Jeanie With the Light
Brown Hair”, Beethovan’s “Fifth
Symphony”, Paul Robeson singing
“Ballads for Americans” or Bach’s
“Air For a G String” may be
heard by students in the Cushing
Memorial Library at anytime from
eight o’clock in the morning un
til ten at night. Should these stu
dents track down the source of
this music they would be led to
what was formerly the graduate
reading room but what is now the
music I’oom on the third floor of
the library.
Once in the room these explor
ing Aggies would discover part
of the library’s proudest posses
sion, the gift of the Carnegie Cor
poration of New York, made up
of a large model electric victrola,
more than 1000 records and a col
lection of 450 books of music.
The recordings in the set are of
music both old and new. Some of
the music is that of the ancient
Egyptians, Chinese, Hindus and
Hebrews while other is modern
American and foreign pieces.
The types of music on the re
cords are also widely varied. Con
certos, symphonies, tone poems,
Stephen-fsonnattas
A H Sophs Judge
In Contests at Ten
, string quartets and sev
eral complete operas may all be
found in the collection. Besides
this practically every instrument
known is featured on at least one
of the records.
The original set came with 945
recordings and still in tact as the
result of replacement of all break
ages and worn out records. Many
new records have been added since
the set was received in 1936, and
most of these additions have been
the requests of students. Only this
past week a shipment of approxi
mately 100 new records was re
ceived, and all of them were ask
ed for by Aggies.
The money for such additions
comes from the student general
reading fund of the library that is
donated by the various mothers’
clubs each year. Five per cent of
the fund is used for this purpose.
Four indices help students select
the records they wish. The recoi'ds
are gi’ouped by composers, titles,
types (Symphonies, etc.), and me
diums (piano, orchestra, vocal,
etc.).
During the day, from eight a.
m. until seven p. m. the music
room is open to everyone. At night,
from seven until ten o’clock, the
room is reseiwed by individual stu
dents for one hour periods. These
reservations are taken on Monday
for the entire week.
Special Meeting
Of Student Fund
Committee Planned
Committee Holds Last
Scheduled Meeting and
Reviews Year’s Business
The Student Aid Fund held its
last regular meeting of the year
yesterday and laid plans for a
special meeting and banquet to be
held May 27.
President Walton and Col. Ike
Ashbum have been invited as
guests, George Fuermann, Chair
man of the fund announced at the
meeting. Tom Gillis, B Battery
Coast Artillery junior and Skeen
Staley, junior yell leader, were
named as members of a special
committee to plan for the banquet.
The work of the Aid Fund dur
ing the year was reviewed and a
financial statement for the year’s
activities was presented to the
members.
Dr. Russell, head of the rural
sociology department, requested
that all students who have borrow
ed money from the fund and who
have not signed notes to come by
his office in the Agriculture build
ing and sign the notes now. These
notes are non-interest bearing with
a statement that payment is con
tingent upon ability to pay and
may be paid at a time convenient
to the maker.
Rigsby Wins Second
Prize in Arc Welding
H. P. Rigsby, welding instructor
in the mechanical engineering de
partment, has been announced as
winner of the second prize of $50
in a contest in arc welding spon
sored by the Hobart Brothers Com
pany of Troy, Ohio.
The Hobart Company, an estab
lishment for the manufacture of
welding equipment, sponsors a con
test each week with prizes for
the best paper submitted on some
new development or process in
welding.
The annual sophomore livestock
judging contest will be held Sat
urday morning, beginning at ten
o’clock in the animal husbandry
pavilion.
Nine classes, including cattle,
hogs, horses, and sheep, will be
judged with one set of reasons on
each breed given.
Any student taking A. H. 202 or
that has already completed this
course but that has not had any
advanced judging is eligible to
compete in the contest. Those at
tending the contest will be excused
from 10 and 11 o’clock classes.
The records are kept in the re
serve book room and are checked
out on call slips. The books on
music that go with the set, how
ever, are kept on open shelves in
the music room and may be circu
lated for two week periods.
During the months of March
and April the record circulation
was 2364 with Tschaikowsky and
Beethovan as the favorite com
posers. The works of these two
artists accounted for about 20 per
cent of the recordings checked out.
In all 88 composers were repre
sented on those records played by
students.
Junior Prom
Favors Must Be
Ordered By May 20
All juniors who wish to obtain
favors for the Junior Banquet
and Prom must turn in money for
them before 5 p. m. Tuesday, May
20, it was announced by Alden
Cathey, president of the junior
class.
The favors will cost $1.50 each
and will be available thi’ough the
first sergeants of each organiza
tion who will collect the money
and turn it over to the prom
finance committee in total.
Arrangements for the occasion
thus far have included the ap
pointment of chairman of the var
ious committees. The chairman of
the committees are Fred Smitham,
favors; Melville Phillips, dance
committee; B. C. Brady, decora
tions committee; Gene Perry, fi
nance committee; and Ranson Ken
ny and Billy Bolton as co-chair
men of the banquet committee.
Tickets for the dance and ban-
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Agronomists Plan
Inspection Trip
All freshmen majoring in agri
culture will have the opportunity
to enter ( a crops judging contest
this afternoon sponsored by the
Student Agronomy Society, J. S.
Mogford announced yesterday.
The contest will be held in two
sections, the first from one to
three p. m. and the second from
three to five p. m., in the Agri
cultural Engineering building. Sev
enty-five plants will be identified,
and six classes of crops will be
judged. The five highest men will
be awarded gold medals, which
have been donated by A. M. Wal
drop and Company, Luke’s Groc-
cery, Aggie Cleaners, Casey’s Con
fectionery, and The Exchange
Store.
Seniors Are Assigned To
Permanent Military Posts
Dr. Patterson
Climaxes Tuesday
Evening Conference
“Good Neighbor Policy
Should Continue Beyond
Crisis” Speaker States
As a climax to Tuesday even
ing’s activities of the Latin Amer
ican Conference Dr. John C. Pat
terson spoke to some 300 people
in Guion Hall on the “Special
Phases of Latin American Life;
Today and Past.” Dr. Patterson is
from Washington, D. C. and is a
specialist in inter-American Rela
tions.
Dr. Patterson said that one of
the chief things that should be
done in Texas today is to place
more emphasis on the teaching of
Spanish in the college and univer
sities. He pointed out that in our
own college there are approxi
mately 7,000 students and of these
only 200 are taking Spanish.
Dr. Patterson told some of the
history of the Indians of Mexico
and the other Latin American
countries, stressing the fact that
until recently they have had no
other position in life than that of
pack animals or beasts of burden
for their better educated breth
ren, the descendants of Europeans.
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71 Enthusiasts
Enter Planes In
Saturday Contest
Houston Aggies Win
All But One of Twelve
Top Model Flight Awards
Airplanes in miniature and 71
enthusiastic model airplane entries
met in close competition on the
mounted Field Artillery drill field
last Saturday for the third annual
model airplane contest in the his
tory of A. & M. Initial tryouts and
warmings up were held all day
Saturday followed by the compet
itive meet on Sunday. The first
four places in all classes were won
by Houston entries with the ex
ception of Tommy Gibbons, entry,
Graham, who won first place in
class A.
The meet was held under the di-
ulty of the aeronautical engineer-
neering department and the stu
dent branch of the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences. Jack Holt
was general chairman in charge
of all arrangements, and the fac
ulty of the Aeronautical Engineer
ing department acted as official
judges and timers.
Arthur Vhay, executive director
of the Air Youth of America, act
ed as one of the advisors of the
meet and acted as chief judge. W.
A. Bergdorf, Houston, was also a
major advisor of the meet and was
chairman of the registration com
mittee.
In each of the three classes, A,
B, and C, the first four contest
ants were given cash awards while
the first ten in each class receiv
ed blue ribbons. A special prize
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Coast Artillerymen
Must Report To Fort
Monroe, Va. on June 7
Permanent military assignments
for graduating seniors who will
receive reserve commissions have
been received from Eighth Corps
Area headquarters, according to an
announcement by Capt. R. P. Live
ly, adjutant.
Coast Artillery seniors have re
ceived orders to report on June 7
to the Coast Artillery School, Fort
Monroe, Virginia, to take a re
fresher course in antiaircraft artil
lery. Upon completion of this spec
ial course, each senior will report
to active duty at Camp Hulen, Tex
as or Fort Bliss, Texas. “Special
arrangements will be made con
cerning Coast Artillery seniors who
are scheduled to graduate,” Dean
Bolton said. Further information
regarding plans for Coast Artillery
seniors will be announced later.
Field Artillery seniors have also
received orders concerning active
I duty with the Army. A limited
number of Field Artillery seniors
will attend the Field Artillery
school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Se
niors who are being sent to the
school will attend classes for three
months and then will be sent to
active duty with troops for nine
months.
An order concerning other Field
Artillery seniors who will not go
to the school, was received from
Eighth Corps Headquarters and
read as follows, “It is planned to
order the remainder of the R.O.T.
C. graduates to the Field Artillery
replacement centers for duty as
junior officers in the units and the
troop units in such proportions as
it is deemed expedient. Instructions
regarding these assignments will
be issued at an early date.”
Members of the Chemical War
fare Service reserve will be sent
to Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland
at the Chemical Warfare replace
ment center there.
Eighteen A. & M. seniors have
received notification of the trans-
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A V M A Holds
Dance Friday Night
The American Veterinary Medi
cal Association of A. & M. col
lege will hold its second annual
dance in the annex of Sbisa Hall
next Friday night from nine to
one. Ed Gerlach and his Hous
tonians will supply the orchestra
tions for the occasion.
Plans for the dance have been
made and can-ied out by a com
mittee of four veterinary students
headed by W. C. Banks, president
of the committee; Ray Garrett,
chairman; Vernon Isaac, secretary
and treasurer; and H. E. Carver,
in charge of decorations.
Invitations have been printed
and sent to approximately 225
active members of the organiza
tion. Additional invitations have
been sent to approximately 75
past members of the A. V. M. A.
and members of the veterinary
faculty and their wives. About
300 couples or more are expected
to attend the dance.
Marine Recruiting Officer
Turns Aggies to Leather-necks
By Benton Taylor
If any one had accidentally
dropped into corps headquarters
yesterday afternoon he would have
been surprised to find a gentleman
wearing a bright uniform rarely
seen around A. & M. After an
introduction in good Aggie style,
you would have found that he was
Lieutenant R. F. Meldrum of the
Marine Corps.
Lt. Meldrum, liason officer here
at A. & M., was here for his third
visit and has found that A. &
M. is a fertile field for recruit
ing Marines. He stated that the
recruits from A. & M. would do
credit to their school, citing as
examples the many Marine offi
cers who originated here at A. &
M.
With headquarters in Dallas, Lt.
-fMeldrum circulates over the state
to the various schools in search
of prospective leather-rack ma
terial. He has visited S.M.U.,
T.C.U., Rice, and A. & M. and
is scheduled to be at Texas Uni
versity today.
Born and raised in Los Angeles,
California, Meldrum attended the
University of Southern Califor
nia, graduating last June with an
Infantry Reserve Officers commis
sion as a second lieutenant. He
was assigned for duty at Fort Ben
ning, Georgia, where after a month
he was offered a commission as a
second lieutenant in the Marine
Corps.
Accepting the offer,, he was
sent to the Navy Yard, Philadel
phia, and underwent a grueling
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