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, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1941
NUMBER 2
Sixty-Three Veterinary Registration
Students Receive Licenses iZ sZel
NYA Officials To Convene In Three Day Meeting
Designed To Clarify Official Operations and Functions
Annual Meeting Of H
Medical Association
Attracts 125 Members
The semi-annual meeting of the
Texas Veterinary Medical Asso
ciation of College, opened its
sessions Wednesday with ap
proximately 125 veterinarians in
attendance.
Dr. R. P. Marsteller, dean of
the School of Veterinary Medicine,
welcomed the visitors at the morn
ing session and pledged them the
cooperation of the college in their
aims. Dr. W. G. Brock, Dallas,
vice-president of the organization,
responded, after which the busi
ness sessions began.
The State Board of Veterinary
Medical Examiners completed
grading of the examination papers
for state veterinary licenses and
announced that all of the candi
dates had passed the tests which
were held Monday and Tuesday.
All but three of the successful can
didates are graduates of the col
lege, fifty-eight were members of
the class of 1941. Dr. Virgil
Jones, former football star and as
sistant coach of A. & M., was
among those granted license to
practice their profession in Texas.
Non-Texas A. & M. graduates
included: Dr. J. E. Spring, Corpus
Christi, Kansas State College; Dr.
W. 0. Tucker, Alice, Kansas City
Veterinary College; and Dr. F. S.
Molt, Houston, Indiana Veterinary
College.
The present class is the largest
ever to take the examinations in
Texas and, according to authori
ties, will help relieve the demand
for veterinarians all over the coun
try, particularly in connection with
th emilitary service.
Doctors of veterinary medicine
who were licensed to practice their
profession in Texas included: G.
B. Adams, Vernon; J. W. Allen,
College Station; W. C. Banks, Bry
an; H. T. Barron, Bryan; A. M.
Baumgarten, College Station; A. L.
Bernkrant, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Louis
Bernkrant, Bryan; Sidney Bogen,
College Station; M. H. Borer, Col
lege Station; M. M. Burrus, Byers.
H. E. Carver, Higginsville, Mo.;
M. W. Castleberry, San Benito;
K. M. Curts, College Station; R.
H. Davis, Jr., College Station; D.
D. Demke, Stephenville; E. A.
Droleskey, Queens Village, N. Y.;
R. W. Einhorn, College Station;
H. R. Faust, Comfort; T. E. Frank
lin, Amarillo; R. G. Garett, Ante
lope;
H. H. Greenlee, Comanche; F. W.
Groche, Jr., Bryan; A. J. Gutnecht,
College Station; T. D. Harris, Jr.,
Dallas; J. G. Hayward, College
Station; Max Helfand, Bryan; C.
H. Home, Decatur, Miss.; J. D.
Hugins, Omaha, Neb.
H. E. Ingram, College Station;
S. R. Kay, College Station; T. C.
Kirby, Simsboro, La.; V. B. Jones,
Sweetwater; W. W. Kirkham,
Elizabeth, Ind.; W. W. Larson,
New Britain, Conn.; George Levy,
College Station; A. L. Linn, College
Station; A. B. Logie, College Sta
tion; H. F. Lopp, Laconia, Ind.;
(Continued on page 4)
Angell Appointed
New Assistant To
President Monday
Will Continue as Director
Of Student Publications And
Collegiate Clubs Activities
Appointment of E. L. Angell as
executive assistant to the president
was announced Monday by Dr. T.
0. Walton, president of A. & M.
college. Angell, who also will con
tinue as director of student publi
cations, was appointed to assume
the duties formerly assigned to Col.
Ike Ashburn who resigned early
last week.
A graduate of North Texas
State Teachers College, Angell did
graduate work and took his mas
ter of science degree at Columbia
University. He came to A. & M.
college in 1936 from the State De
partment of Education where he
was district deputy state superin
tendent.
Dr. Walton explained the ap
pointment was an emergency meas
ure inasmuch as numerous short
courses and conferences with par
ents and prospective students are
important duties of the office.
“Angell, since coming to A. &
M. in 1936, has been very popu
lar with the students and will capa
bly fill his new assignment,” Dr.
Walton said.
Summey Will
Give Lectures To
Engineer’s Society
Morgan Will Assist
In Course Sponsored By
University Of Michigan
George Summey, Jr., head of the
English department, will entrain
for the University of Michigan this
month to take charge of the sec
ond week of the summer session
for teachers of English sponsored
by the English Committee of the
Society for the Promotion of Engi
neering Education.
Dr. S. S. Morgan, the only other
A. & M. man to lecture during the
course, will take part in the pro
gram during the second week.
The summer session will be held
for three weeks, June 30 to July
18, with a week devoted to litera
ture, composition, and speech divi
sions of English.
Dr. Summey will be in charge
of the program during the week
in which composition will be dis
cussed. The lecturers will be from
all parts of the nation and from
universities and colleges teaching
technical subjects.
Three lectures will be given by
Dr. Summey during his stay at the
University of Michigan. They are
Scholarship That Works, Normal
Writing Style Today, and Levels
of Good Language.
Decrease in Enrollment
Sixteen Percent Below Last
Year, But Equal To 1939
Registrar E. J. Howell has an
nounced a total enrollment of 1,269
students for the first period of the
1941 summer session. Leading in
the number registered are the
undergraduate men with a total of
990. In addition to the undergrad
uate men are 188 graduate men,
78 undergraduate women, three
graduate women, and ten men en
rolled in cotton classing. The to
tal enrollment for 1940 was 1,457
with 82 of these women and the
total for 1939 was 1,279.
An increase in the present en
rollment is expected for the sec
ond semester. Many long-session
students who are now attending
the various R.O.T.C. summer camps
will return at that time to con
tinue their work here.
Defense Vocational
Education Courses
Begun Last Monday
Three National Defense Voca
tional Education Courses were be
gun Monday in the mechanical
engineering department, C. W.
Crawford, head of the department
announced. The courses are being
taught by R. W. Downard, A. E.
Morong, J. S. Hopper, and E. E.
Bartlett. These men are being
assisted by Clyde Wilson, H. G.
Rust, Roy Gibson, C. H. Burkhalter,
D. K. Franklin, and T. I. Meiller.
The course meets two hours a
day in theory and six hours a day
in the machine shop. The col
lege is to be paid for the actual
expense of the course.
There are a total of 128 men en
rolled in this course which will last
until September. 6. Seventy-five
members of the class were secur
ed through the Texas State Em
ployment Service and this agency is
responsible for placing the trained
men in industry after completion of
the course. The remaining fifty-
three men will be sent from the
W.P.A. and will begin work the
latter part of this week or early
next week.
The purpose of the course is to
train men in tool operation for
industries with National Defense
Contracts. The courses are de
signed to give the men vocational
training rather than engineering
defense training.
Absentee Ballots Now
Available In County
Clerks’ Bryan Office
Absentee voting began Monday
for election of a senator to take
the place left vacant by the death
of Morris Sheppard. The deadline
for absentee voting is June 25,
because ballots must be in the
county clerk’s office three days be
fore the election.
Persons who will be out of town
on the election day may vote be
fore leaving.
A Yankee Lass Invades Aggieland To See What
She Can See, And She Says, She Sees Plenty Here
By A Campus Co-ed ■<
For years “tall tales from Texas
cow camps” have been drifting
across the Mississippi River and
breaking through the Appalachian
Mountains to Pennsylvania. After
my initiation into the wonders of
the Lone Star State I feel as if
I have a few original versions to
add to this collection. When I
boarded a plane for College Sta
tion in Washington two weeks ago
with a Cosmopolitan under one arm
and a raincoat over the other, lit
tle did I dream that I would use
the latter at least once a day dur
ing my first week’s visit and that
I would see the handsome Chester
field advertiser on the back of the
former face to face.
Commencement at Texas A. and
M. College is a tall tale to which
even the native Texans of my ac
quaintance have never given jus
tice. From the friendly, drawling
■conversation at the Junior Banquet-*
through the thrill of the Aggie
stag line at the Junior Prom and
Final Ball, dancing under a Texas
moon on not too far distant ter
race, the Commencement proces
sion, the glare of boots and brass
buttons at the awarding of com
missions, and until the last notes
of Taps have died away after
Final Review, Texas A. & M. Com
mencement is an impressive cere
mony. West Point and Annapolis
have never impressed upon me the
National Defense Program as
dramatically as did that line of
prospective lieutenants seeing their
juniors take over company com
mands at Final Review. Their sin
cere regret at leaving embodies an
Aggie spirit which newspaper pic
tures and other publicity of Aggie
land totally lack.
Collectively Aggies are breath
taking: individually they are
heartbreaking. That “old Aggie
•line” seems to flow as smoothly at
Juke Box Proms and on informal,
shirt-sleeve dates as it did under
the bright lights and excitement of
Commencement. It landed me in
the middle of summer school, with
my favorite booth at Casey’s al
ready picked out, a few cubic
inches of the Downs Natorium
reserved for me and this “110 in
the Shade” Texas weather, and
high hopes of becoming a 100 per
cent Texas Aggie.
I have even given up those won
derful Lancaster County Dutch
pretzels for Texas fritos, an occa
sional “you all” is peeping into
my vocabulary, notes of the Penn
sylvania Fight Song are harmoniz
ing into strains of the Aggie War
Hymn, and I have developed a
mania for cut-in dances. Yes, I
have truly fallen for that old Ag
gie line—and I should have known
better, for they warned me about
these southern men!
McNew Announces
Defense Student
Employment Lists
Students Will Occupy
Many Prominent Positions
In National Emergency Work
Three defense training courses
which were begun in May of this
year have been completed, J. T.
L. McNew, Institutional Represen
tative of Engineering Defense
Training, announced.
The course in Materials Testing
and Inspection had thirteen stu
dents to complete the course out
of an enrollment of sixteen. The
three who dropped left to accept
employment. Of those who com
pleted the course one man enlist
ed as a U. S. Naval Air Corps ca
det, three placed with the Texas
Highway Department, one placed
as an auto mechanic, one with the
U. S. Army Engineers at Galves
ton, one with the Corpus Christi
Naval Base, one with Stearman Air
Craft Corporation, three with the
Construction Quartermaster, and
one with the Pittsburg Testing
Laboratories.
A total of twenty-eight men were
enrolled in the course in Camp
Sanitation, but five dropped be
fore the completion of the course.
Graduates of the training course
were placed with the State Health
Department, with the health de
partment of Houston, with the
city of Bryan, with the city of Port
Arthur, with the city of San An
tonio, with the city of Conroe, with
Camp Walters, with Fort Sam
Houston, with Fort Clark, with
Fort Crockett, with Camp Bowie,
and with Fort Brown. The records
are not complete on the balance
of these men.
The Engineering Drawing course
had an opening enrollment of
twenty-six men, but ten withdrew
to accept employment. Of the men
who finished the course ten were
placed with the Consolidated Air
craft Corporation at San Diego,
California, one with Wyatt Metal
& Boiler Works at Houston, one
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Hedges Attends
Firemen’s Course
Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the
department of Chemistry and di
rector of the Firemen’s Training
School, left Saturday to attend a
conference in regard to the Na
tional Defense Program conducted
by the New York City Fire Col
lege.
A complete course of instructions
will be given on incendiary bombs
and other incendiary agents, pois
onous war gas, the protection of
civilian population and the main
tenance of cities’ water supplies in
times of war, and the practical
aspects of United States Army gas
masks with demonstrations in a
gas chamber.
The information gathered from
this conference will be available
in the Firemen’s Training School
work given by the college July 20-
25, as the program for the fire
men is built around the subject,
“What Firemen Can Contribute
Towards National Defense Dur
ing Emergencies.”
Students Complete
Machine Shop Course
In National Defense
Twenty-three students have just
completed a Vocational Education
National Defense Course in Ma
chine Shop Work. The course began
April first and lasted until June
14. The students were supplied by
the Texas State Employment Ser
vice and were under the instruc
tion of A. E. Morong. All of the
men who finished the course were
promised employment by the Tex
as State Employment Service.
A welding course will be offered
the later part of June for seven
teen men, twelve of whom come
from the Works Progress Admin
istration.
WARNING
Thar's Squirrels Loose
Around These Parts
The dark of the night prevented
the small ravine just west of the
new dormitory area from receiving
a shipment of squarrels which had
been sent to F. L. Hensel, head of
the landscape art, for release. Be
cause of the lateness of the hour
and the lack of student help at
the time of arrival the shipment
from the Texas Game, Fish and
Oyster Commission near Kerrville,
Texas, was released in Hensel
Park, a 75 acre tract of college
land northeast of the college prop
er.
During the past year Hensel has
been developing a plan to increase
the number of small game on the
campus. Another shipment of
squirrels is expected soon and will
be released west of the new dorm
itory area.
Much to the surprise of the re
ceiver, four babies were born on
the trip. They were placed in a
nesting box with their mother at
the time of release.
Decker Elected
President For
New Press Club
Second Weekly Meeting Of
Organization Scheduled For
Tonight In Battalion Office
Jack Decker, junior from Temple,
was elected president of the 1941
Summer Press Club at its initial
meeting Wednesday in the Student
Publications’ office in the Admin
istration building. Mike Haikin,
senior from Houston, was named
vice-president and Laetitia Frances
Gofer was made secretary-treas
urer.
At the club meeting it was de
cided not limit the membership
to the charter members, but to
keep membership in the club open
to any one interested in writing
for the summer Battalion. The
only requirement for membership
on the Battalion staff and
membership in the Press Club voted
is enrollment in the first summer
session.
Members of the Press Club are
Ella Laetitia Frances Gofer, Clyde
C. Franklin, Ralph W. Stenzel,
Alfred Zabludosky, Herbert S.
Jacobson, Loraine Devin, T. R.
Vannoy, Lucille Thorton, Mary Ann
Black, Milke Haikin, Jerrell Cate,
Orville Allan, Elizabeth McNew,
Jack Decker, Ben Taylor and V.
A. Yentzen.
Meetings will be held every
Wednesday night at 7:30 in Room
122, Administration building.
Kellan, Manning, Wagoner, Foster, And
Dickson To Lecture Before Eight Classes
What the National Youth Administration is and how it operates
to help the youth of Texas will be explained during the NYA informa
tion program which A. & M. College is sponsoring next Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday, in cooperation with the State NYA School Work
Council.
Designed to clarify the operation and functions of the NYA Stu
dent Work and Out-of-School Work Programs, the three-day meeting
-f-will include talks by N.Y.A. per
sonnel and Council members be
fore classes in secondary educa
tion and school administration, in
dividual conferences, and an open
forum.
The open forum, scheduled for
Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. in the biology
lecture room of the Science Hall,
will be presided over by W. R.
Horsley, chairman of the Student
Lavor committee.
The operation of the N.Y.A. pro
gram as a whole will be outlined
at the forum, which is open to
summer school students, faculty
members, the general public, and
school officials attending the Tex
as School Administration Confer
ence and the annual session of the
Texas Association of County Super
intendents.
State N.Y.A. Administrator J.
C. Kellam and School Work Coun
cil Chairman John P. Manning,
both of Austin; and Council Mem
bers A. F. Waggoner, Bell County
superintendent; H. L. Foster,
Longview superintendent, and
Bryan Dickson, San Angelo super
intendent, will discuss the N.Y.A.
program before eight summer
school classes.
Individual conferences with N.
Y. A. personnel and Council mem
bers will be held each afternoon in
Academic Building 105 from 2 to
4 p. m., at which time educators,
school officials and sponsors of N.
Y. A. work projects have been
urged to bring any problems or
questions about the N. Y. A. pro
gram as it applies to their school
or community.
Monday classes which will hear
the N.Y.A. speakers are Indus
trial Education 523, 8:50 a. m..
Academic Building 120; Ind. Ed.
521, 11:30 a. m., M. E. Shops 102;
and Industrial Arts and Educa
tion, a seminar course, 7 p. m., M.
E. Shops 104.
On Tuesday, the following classes
will be met by the speakers: Ag.
Ed. 501, 7:30 a. m., Ag. End.
Building 310, and Ag. Ed. 515, 8:50
a. m., Ag. Ed. Building 310.
Three Wednesday classes are due
to hear the N.Y.A. program out
lined: Education 510, 7:30 a. m..
Academic Building 117; Ed. 321,
8:50 a. m., Academic Building 123,
(Continued on Page 4)
Cottonseed Oil
Course Enrolls
Eighty Visitors
Bishop, Supervising Small
Scale Operation, Introduces
Oil Mill Practice Problems
The thirteenth annual short course
for cotton seed oil mill operators
opened Monday with 80 registrants
from Texas, Mexico, Arkansas, and
Tennessee.
Working under Professor F. F.
Bishop of the Chemistry depart
ment, the registrants are studying
problems of cotton oil mill opera
tion on a small scale during the
five day course.
The short course conducted by
the school of engineering is using
the complete cottonseed oil mill
and refining equipment of the
chemical engineering department
which is situated on the ground
floor of the Chemistry building.
H. E. Wilson, of the Peoples
Cotton Oil Company, Wharton, wel
comed the group to the first ses
sion Monday after which John
Leany, of the University of Ten
nessee, Nashville, spoke on the
aims of the present course and
mentioned the connection of the
operatoi’s to national defense plans.
The group then broke up into
smaller groups and began their re
search in the cotton oil mill and
laboratories in the Chemistry
building.
Thursday night a banquet will be
held in Sbisa hall. Speakers will
be Dr. T. O. Walton, president of
the college; G. A. Simmons of Lub
bock, Texas, and T. A. Hughston,
president of the Texas Cotton
seed Crushers’ Association, Dallas,
Texas.
On Friday G. C. Reed of Fort
Worth will talk on hulling and sep
arating. During the morning,
Harry Wilson, Jr., of Wharton,
Texas, will give a lecture on the
chemistry in the crude cottonseed
oil mill.
During the afternoon, a general
discussion on the week’s work will
conclude the short course.
Members Of College
Staff Will Speak At
Engineers’ Meet Mon.
Three members of the college
staff are among the discussion
leaders who will speak at the an
nual meeting of the American So
ciety of Agricultural Engineers
which will be held at the Univer
sity of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn,
June 23-26.
P. T. Montfort, research asso
ciate with the Agricultural Engi
neering department, will discuss
equipment for freezing and stor
ing foods on the farm at the June
25 session of the raral electric
division. On June 26 M. R. Bent-
ly, of the Extension Service, will
take a leading part in the one-
hour discussion on “Extension
Methods Which Have Clicked.”
Donald Christy, of the college agri
cultural engineering department,
who is serving as chairman of the
subcommittee on soil conservation,
will give the report of that com
mittee.
Several other members of the col
lege staff who are members of the
A.S.A.E. plan to attend the meet
ing.
Eighth Texas School Administration
Conference To Register 350 Visitors
The eighth annual Texas School-fthe Biology Lecture Room in the
Science Hall by the N.Y.A. group.
President T. O. Walton will
formally open the conference at
9 o’clock Monday morning. Super
intendent R. B. Fisher, Corpus
Christi, will deliver the response
to the address of President Walton.
Topics to be discussed on Mon
day are the in-service training
of teachers for guidance work, the
feasibility of a junior college, the
purposes to which the added year
in the 12-year program can be
used, and the training programs
for outof-school youth.
On Tuesday there will be a re
view of recent school legislation.
The provision of “try-out” oppor
tunities for guidance will be dis
cussed. Other topics for discus
sion will be the terminal curricula
on the junior colf^ge level, the
transition to the 12-grade program
and the determination for what oc
cupational tasks is training for de
fense.
Adequate physical and health
education programs, the organiza
tion of correlations of guidance
programs, occupational informa
tion and the state-wide uniformity
in adjustment to a 12-year pro
gram will be discussed on Wednes
day morning.
The conference will be concluded
Thursday morning with the elec
tion of officers for the coming
Administration Conference will be
held at the college Monday and
will last through Thursday after
noon, Dr. T. D. Brooks, dean of
the graduate school, announced
Monday. An estimated attendance
of 350 persons is expected in the
combined meeting of the Texas
School Administration Conference
and the Association of Country Su
perintendents.
“The annual Texas School Ad
ministration Conference, initiated
by Texas school superintendents
themselves, has now held seven
highly successful meetings,” Dean
Brooks said. “Its sessions are by
vote of the conference held each
year at the college. The problems
dealt with in the conference are
of concern not only to city and
county superintendents, but to all
school executives ^nd all students
of school administration, and all
such will be welcomed into the
conference.”
Director John Manning of the
Texas School Work Council, N.
Y. A., and the directing personnel
of the N.Y.A. of Texas will be
in attendance on the Texas School
Administration Conference, and the
school administrators present may
consult with them in Room 105,
Academic Building. At 2:30 p.
m., Tuesday, a forum on the N.Y.A.
program in Texas will be held ial year.