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e-io^ P a> ** oi T T a T a-.-T-" S.-^^TV'-n 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 27, 1941 NUMBER 91 « ifl 4 I * t I i> 4 67 Aggies Want Flying Cadet Course Physical Exams Given This Week At College Hospital Physical exams are being sched uled for 67 Aggies who have re quested that their applications be considered for the Flying Cadets training unit being organized by Lt. J. W. Williford ’38, A. C. and Lt. Lester R. Dudney, M. C. who are supervising the recruiting cam paign at A. & M.. The physical exams are being coordinated with the schedules of classes turned in by the students when they requested their names be placed on the list of applicants. The examinations are being given in the college hospital, approxi mately two hours being required for each examination. “The fact that 67 have already reported is encouraging” Lt." Willi ford stated and also said he hoped that several hundred applications might be turned in so that A. & M. might have 10 of the 20-man units. Headquarters for • the recruiting station is 37 Ross. Recruiting of ficers may also be found at the Aggieland Inn and physical exam inations will be going on at the college hospital until next Tues day. Six Colleges The campaign is to take place in six of Texas’ major universities including Texas University, Austin; Baylor University, Waco; Southern methodist University, Dallas; North Texas State Teachers’ Col lege, Denton; and Texas Techno logical College, Lubbock. As each college or university student is examined and approved for Cadet flight training, he will be issued an “Air Corps Pledge” pin, a small set of wings for lapel wear until he enters training. The Gulf Coast Training Center officials, who maintain headquar- (Continued on Page 4) Seventeen Aggies Receive Two Degrees Stark Taylor Gives Speech on Cotton Textiles At a combined meeting of the Agronomy, Marketing and Finance and Cotton Societies held last Thursday night, Stark Taylor, manager of M. Hohenberg and Company, Dallas, addressed the group on the subject of merchandis ing of cotton and how textile mer chants do business; the making of standards; and the prospects for business now and after the war. The text of his speech is as fol lows: “After the war is over there is going to be a great demand for young men in the cotton trade. The reason for the small number of young men entering the cotton bus iness now is that the present war scare makes the young man’s out look in the cotton trade none too bright. “After the present generation of cotton men have passed on there will be a shortage of younger men to replace them. It is true that as long as humanity exists that there will be a need for cotton in some form or fashion. In order to carry on the cotton trade, young men are going to have to enter it now. “Although the outlook for cotton is none to bright, the American cotton mills are at the present en joying the best year in their his tory. This year the mills will con sume some 10,000,000 bales of cot ton, with the leading mill centers being in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. “The reason for the extreme in crease in mill consumption is that the United States is exporting fin ished goods rather than raw cotton. England, which was formerly the seat of the cotton mills, can no longer use our raw cotton so the United States is manufacturing this cotton into finished goods and exporting it to the countries which are not blockaded. “Premiums are now being paid on cotton for the first time in sev- (Continued on page 4) A dozen of the 17 graduates at Texas A. & M. College who will receive two degrees at the an nual commencement exercises at the college Friday, June 6. Left to right, front row—H. H. Bodine, Colorado City; L. F. Beard, Rosenberg; J. B. Link, Fort Worth; J. M. Dixon, Frisco; K. H. Chandler, Thomdale; and H. E. Haltom, Crosbyton. Back row—S. T. Crews, Jr., Crowell; J. A. Rehkamper, Dallas; W. A. Becker, Kaufman; and J. A. Clay, Jr., Fort Worth. Inserts left and right—Roy L. Peden, Azle; and James R. Story, Alice, both of whom receive bachelor and master of science degrees. Absent when the picture was taken were: C. W. Brown, Jr., Beaumont; L. W. Davis, Jr., Hous ton; F. D. White, Jr., Fort Worth; W. R. Nathan, College Station; and C. R. Matchett, Portadown, Ireland. Lou Breese to Gose A&M Social Season Band Leader Lou Breese Longhorn Staff To Return Camp Photos Camp pictures that were turned in for the Camp Section of the 1941 Longhorn are ready to be re turned to their owners. It will not be possible to return those pictures that were used in the book. The unused pictures may be obtained from Cecil Grissom, Room 201 No. 9. ' By D. C. Thurman It’ll be breezing along with Lou Breese. “Breezing along” is the theme of Lou Breese who with “Skip” Morr, vocalist, Barry Warren and the Breezemakers is to close the A. & M. social season at the Junior Prom and the Final Ball, June 5 and 6. The “Breezy Rhythm” orchestra has the distinction of having scor ed the biggest individual success of any band in the East in the 1940 touring season. They took over New York in exactly four days. Breese is not content with merely waving a baton in front of his orchestra but is noted for pro ficiency as a solo instrumentalist. This goes double, for Lou is equal ly spectacular as a soloist on two wholly unrelated instruments, trum pet and banjo. Lou Breese and the Breezemak ers have appeared at the New York World’s Fair and at Chez Paree in Chicago. During the fairs, both in San Francisco and Chicago, Breese thought it would be timely to make an arrangement of the old English folk tune “Come to The Fair.” He featured it on his NBC broadcasts and made a Varsity record of it. The “Breezemakers” were fea tured by transcription at New ^His Vocalist r/- Skip Morr York’s fair with the tunes “Come to the Fair,” “How Can I Ever Be Alone” and “Tennessee Fish Fry.” The radio transcription, a fifteen minute program, was sent by the Fair to 550 radio stations in North and South America. A second transcription was made, featuring “How Can I Ever Be Alone,” “Bi cycle Girl,” and “American Jubi lee.” Work on Four New Dormitories To Begin Once More, Board Announces Banquet Tonight For Committee on Student Aid Fund Chairman’s Report Closes Year’s Activities At Last Business Meeting The annual Student Aid Fund banquet will be held tonight at 6:15 p. m. at the Aggieland Inn, Chairman George Fuerman said Monday. The fund’s last meeting of the current college year, a business meeting will be held following the banquet at which time all business of the 1940-41 long session will be completed and the chairman’s re port to the Student Activities com mittee and President T. O. Walton will be approved. Guests at the banquet will in clude President Walton, Dean F. C. Bolton and E. E. McQuillen, sec retary of the Former Students’ as sociation. The two senior members of the Student Aid Fund committee, Fuer- mann and J. H. Focke Jr., will at tend their last meeting as repre sentatives of the cadet corps. Oth er members of the committee who will attend the banquet include Secretary Tom Gillis; Skeen Sta ley; Executive Secretary Dan Rus sell, head of the rural socioloby department; George B. Wilcox of the education department and E. L. Angell, manager of student pub lications. The annual report of the Student Aid Fund will be published in an early edition of The Battalion, Fuermann indicated, and officers for the forthcoming long session will be elected at the fund’s first meeting next September. Commandant Lists Additional Awards For Military Work Field and Cavalry Trophies Given Cadets For Military Proficiency Additional cadet awards for the year 1940-41 have recently been announced by the Commandant’s office. The 311th Cavalry Trophy, giv en for proficiency in horseman ship, has been presented to Cadet Captain Robert G. Tonkin of Head quarters Cavalry. Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Thom as B. Richey, Cavalry, has been presented the Regimental Com mander’s Saber and the Cavalry Trophy. The Regimental Comman der’s Saber, given to the most military senior in the Cavalry, was presented to Richey by Lieuten ant Colonel Homer E. Carrico, (Continued on Page 4) Here's the Statistics-Read 'Em and Weep: Take Your Pocketbook Along With Your Commission When You Join The U. S. Army Bonds of $1,220,000 Sold For Dorms, Laundry, Power Plant, and Workers > Dorm Work on the four new dormitories will begin again in 30 days, it was announced by the college board of directors after $1,220,000 in bonds were sold to the low bidder at a special session held in Austin Saturday. Let at an interest rate of per cent, and $1,220,000 covers the four new dormitories and the power plant, plus the refunded bonds on on the laundry and the dormitory- 1 for the mess hall workers. Low bids on the bonds was a group of Texas bond houses who bid jointly. The companies are Moroney & Co. of Houston, Garret & Co. of Dallas, and DeWar, Rob ertson & Pancoast of San Antonio. The loan calls for a SV^ per cent rate of interest with a 30-year ma turity date. Since printing and signing of the bonds will take approximately thirty days, it will be about that length of time before work on the new dormitories can be resumed. No action was taken at the meet ing on the proposed new office building to house the AAA head quarters here. It was decided by consent of the board that vice-president Walter Lacy would sign all diplomas for this year’s graduates. The budget for the current sum mer session received the approval of the board of directors at the Saturday meeting. In connection with the $100,000 building project to include a stable and rifle range for the military de partment, the board of directors voted to expend $37,000 as the col lege’s part of the finances for the project. Dean Gilchrist was authorized to secure a man to head the newly founded department of marine en gineering and naval architecture. Dean Kyle was authorized to se cure a man to head a department of cotton, wool and other fibers. By Earle A. Shields, Jr. It looks like you boys who will receive your commissions soor who have been called to a duty in the army are going to have quite a nice time making ends meet, especially if you have a car and are making payments on it. This is according to the latest statistics from the War depart ment. The Infantry seniors al ready know about it for Mi Tom Fox gave the list out to them so they would have some in sight on what they were getting into. The War department compiled the information by sending out questionnaires to second lieutenants in the regular army who had grad uated from West Point. When the questionnaires were returned by the West Pointers the War de partment was able to make out a -ffairly accurate budget by which-* V5. Miscellaneous $6.00f young officers could go by. Charity Naturally, the budget represents Church a large cross section of the coun- Books and magazines try and, as such, could not be used Gifts (except Christmas) exactly at any one location. How- Barber and toilet articles ever, a pretty good estimate can 6. Entertainment $15.00 be made as to how much one will Hobbies and sports spend while on active duty. Theater and parties Here’s the list on a monthly Club basis. Read it and weep: 7. Irregular Expenditures $10.00 1. Housing Operation $8.00 Car insurance Servant Christmas gifts Laundry Leave Supplies Car license Small articles • Income tax 2. Food $33.00 8. Savings $47.00 3. Clothing $12.00 Life insurance New clothes Car payments Repairs Etc. Cleaning and Pressing 4. Transportation $12.00 TOTAL $143.00 Gas and oil Well, that’s it. Looks pretty Repairs tight don’t it? Probably won’t Garage rent be that bad though, unless you’re really a rounder. The first question you will prob ably ask is why the $143, and the answer is this. Base pay for a second lieutenant is $125 with an additional $40 for room and $18 for board. This comes to $183, but since most of you will be liv ing in tents furnished by dear old Uncle Sam the $40 will be de ducted, which leaves the $143. In looking over the budget some of the items seem a little big and some a little small. Don’t for get, though, that the figures rep resent the average second lieu tenants’ spendings for a month. Take the $33 for food, for ex ample. If you’re a great big wal loper you may eat way over that, but if you are just a little fellow you may be able to save lots of money. It can be plainly seen that many (Continued on page 4) Naval Air Corps Eliminates Math Requirement Candidates With Two Years’ Credits Eligible , Under New Requirements The mathematical requirements for candidates for Naval Aviation Cadets have been completely elim inated. Commander A. Laverents, Senior Member of the Naval Avia tion Cadet Selection Board, stated in a letter sent to the College re cently. Under the new; requirements any candidates who have two full years credits, regardless of what sub jects these credits cover, are qual ified in education. The old re quirements covered plane and solid geometry, plane trigonometry,- physics and college algebra. All of these have been eliminated from the educational requirements. All other requirements remain the same. Commander Laverents states that enlistments for Naval Avia tion training are proceeding at a brisk rate but also states that due to the large number to be trained many vacancies exist and all who qualify will undoubtedly be sent to duty soon. Full informa tion can be obtained from any Navy Recruiting Station, or from the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board, 523 Allen Building, Dallas, Texas. This will undoubtedly be of in terest to many who in the past have failed to qualify for this in teresting branch of service due to lack of credit for mathematical subjects in college, Commander Laverents said. First Commencement Scheduled For Friday Plans for the special graduation exercise to be held Friday for members of the Senior class who are being called to immediate ac tive duty with the United States- Army are being rushed to com pletion, F. C. Bolton, Dean of the college, said yesterday. Dr. E. P. Humbert, head of the Genetics Dept., is in charge of commencement plans and will an nounce final plans for the cere monies within the next few days. 810 Diplomas Will Be Given At Commencement This Year’s Class Will Be Largest In College History, Registrar Says The Registrar’s office announc ed that 810 seniors, the largest class in the history of A. & M. will receive diplomas at the com mencement exercises, Dr. E. P. Humbert in charge of commence ment stated that the committee is completing plans for the exer cises to be held next week. Non-military seniors will not wear caps and gowns for the com mencement exercises June 6, Dr. E. P. Humbert, chairman of the commencement committee, an nounced yesterday. This is the first year that non-military gradu ates have been allowed to wear a civilian suit to the exercises. Also this year’s seniors will be given commissions in the reserve corps whether or not they receive a diploma, he added. Previous to this year, seniors have not been given their commissions until they got a degree. Blaisdell to Speak Leonard T. Blaisdell, commer cial vice-president of the General Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, will deliver the commencement ad dress. Dr. Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist University will speak at the baccalaureate services at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning, June 6. Each graduating senior will be sent two tickets for the baccalau reate program. Holders of the tickets will be admitted to the pro gram in Guion Hall at 9:30 o’clock. After all who have tickets are admitted, the general public will be allowed to enter until all seats are taken. No tickets will be necessary for the evening cere monies in Kyle Field. In his address, Mr. Blaisdell will discuss the openings in industry and business for the college grad uate. The qualifications for ob- (Continued on page 4) Seventeen Grads Will Receive Two Degrees This Year Largest Number Ever To Receive Two Degrees For the first time in the his tory of Texas A. & M. College, the unheard of number of 17 students of the 809-man Class of 1941 will receive two degrees at the com mencement exercises, Friday, June 6, Registrar E. J. Howell announc ed. In past years as many as three or four have achieved this distinc tion but never has the total ap proached this year’s record. What makes the record more remarkable is that most of the double de grees have been earned in courses which are considered difficult. Two of the select group completed their work for bachelor of science de grees and for master of science de grees in the same year. Those who accomplished this feat include: R. L. Peden, Azle; and J. R. Story, Alice, the two receiving bachelor and master de grees; L. F. Beard, Rosenberg; William A. Becker, Kaufman; Ho mer F. Bodine, Colorado City; C. W. Brown, Jr., Beaumont; K. H. Chandler, Thorndale; J. A. Clay, Jr., Fort Worth; S. T. Crews, Jr. Crowell; L. W. Davis, Jr., Hous ton; J. M. Dixon, Frisco;' H. E. Haltom, Crosbyton; J. B. Link, Fort Worth; C. R. Matchett, Port adown, Ireland; W. R. Nathan, College Station; J. A. Rehkamper, Dallas; and F. D. White, Jr., Fort Worth.