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Ir- Page 4 THE BATTALION Official Notices SUMMER PRESS CLUB The regular meeting of the A. & M. Press Club will be held at the Administration building at 5:45 Wednesday afternoon. Jack Decker Club President. Defense Needs Cause Increase In Dairy Products Progress in the program to in crease dairy and poultry products in the United States in order to provide an adequate supply of these foods for domestic needs and to feed Great Britain during the war crisis, was discussed Monday with the headquarters staff of the Texas Extension Service by two Extension Service officials from Washington on the campus of A. &. M. W. E. Wintermeyer, senior dairy man, and C. A. Sheffield, field agent for the Extension Service, U. S. D. A. in IB Southern States gave some details of the set up of the British food mission in this country and the response to the request of the Secretary of Agri culture for an increase in dairy and poultry products. Texas has increased her milk production 17 percent over last year, mainly through better feeding. It is esti mated that there will be approxi mately 12 percent more laying hens in the state this fall than at the corresponding time in 1940. Sheffield said that in normal times Great Britain imported 65,- 000,000 shipping tons of agricul tural products, and the minimum requirement under war conditions would be 22,000,000 tons. Britain had fixed her needs for cheese in the next year at 250,000,000 pounds and powdered milk at 200,000,000 Student Directory Distributed The student directory for the second semester of the summer session is being dis tributed with this issue. The directory includes the list of the faculty and students who are on the campus during this semester. More than one-tenth of all the people in the United States depend directly on cotton for their liv ing. / y / \ (jAimpui Correctly Air-Conditioned by Frigidaire Continuous Showing sched ule Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 15^ Matinee — 200 Night TODAY & TOMORROW Double Feature “No Time For Comedy ,, With JAMES STEWART ROSALIND RUSSELL Shows At 1:30 — 4:44 — 7:58 — 10:57 2nd Feature “Four Mothers” With THE LANE SISTERS, JEFFRY LYNN, FRANK McHUGH Shows At 3:03 — 6:17 — 9:31 FRIDAY & SATURDAY Double Feature No. 1 “East Of The River” With JOHN GARFIELD BRENDA MARSHALL Shows At 1:56 — 4:42 — 7:42 — 10:42 No. 2 “Ridin , On A Rainbow” With GENE AUTRY Shows At 3:09 —5:55 — 8:55 Plus CARTOON & LATE NEWS PREVUE — SAT. NIGHT At Midnight SUNDAY, MONDAY Go In 9 O’Clock Saturday—See THREE Shows For The Price Of One “The Devil And Miss Jones” With JEAN ARTHUR, ROBERT CUMMINGS Also LARRY CLINTON ORCHESTRA MERRIE MELODIE, NEWS On Saturday Night, Feature will start a few minutes after midnight —after the Juke Box Prom. TUESDAY ONLY “For Beauty’s Sake” With MARJORIE WEAVER, NED SPARKS pounds. The output of cheese in the United States in 1940 w 650,000,000 pounds. Wintermeyer pointed out that milk production in the United States in 1942 may reach a peak of 120,000,000,000 pounds, but he did not see any surplus in sight. Apart from British needs, he said, domestic consumers could use 140,- 000,000,000 pounds if the full po tentialities of the home market were used. Moreover, Europe will have to be fed after the war, and, he added, it is likely seed stock will have to be furnished to dairy ing countries like Denmark and Holland, whose herds have been greatly depleted during the past year. The Extension Service officials are making a tour of Southern states. HUT-SUT SONG- (Continued from Page 1) nicely in a modest-unknown sort of way, but McMichael was hitting on all cylinders in the radio world. Now, all three of them are basking in the light of Dame Fortune. Leo has become the “piece de resist ance” of the town of Sacramento, where he lives. He’s a lawyer of the Sacramento State Legislature, and they’re so proud of him they accept his word as law—which helps his political position no end. Not that he needs help. He’s a good lawyer. How the boys got the song pub lished is one of those things. Jack took it to two publishers who turn ed it down for the very legitimate reason that it was “a silly song.” Then Jack took it to Alan Ross, Music contact man in Los Angeles; Alan too it to Walter Schumann, music contact man in Los Angeles. Walter Schumann got bitten by the ‘Hut Sut’ bug and considered going into the music publishing business on the strength of this one song. He did, and has never regretted it. The boys took the song over to Freddie Martin, who became Hut Sut conscious and introduced the song on his broadcasts from the Cocoanut Grove. Freddie hasn’t re gretted it either. Neither has Ted McMichael. About the only people who regret it are those who sart singing it and can’t for the life of them get the cotchy tun and garbled words out of their minds. As for the phases being Swedish, about the only resemblance they have to the Swedish is this —the “rillerah” is a stream that runs through some Swedish colony in a town in the middle west—the boy thinks it’s Minnesota. From there on, the gibberish is on its own— and doing right well. Aggies Now Flying for Uncle Sam H - - n < 5. David L. Silverman, ’39, Longview, Texas Herbert A. Underwood, ’40 Amarillo, Texas Frank M. Wood, Jr., ’40, San Angelo, Texas Harvey P. Robinson, ’42, Jayton, Texas * * * * Texas A. & M. continues to add trained personnel to the armed forces of the United States. Pictured above are four more Aggies who have recently received commissions as second lieutenants in the United States Army Air Corps. They are left to right, David L. Silver- man, ’39, Longview, Texas; Herbert A. Underwood, ’40, Amarillo, Texas; Frank M. Wood, Jr., ’40, San Angelo, Texas; and Harvey P. Robinson, ’42, Jayton, Texas. -WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1941 Complete List Of Texas Newspapers Published by WPA Publication of the most complete list of Texas newspapers ever com piled was announced today by Mrs. M. K. Taylor, state director of community service programs for WPA in Texas. Names, dates and location of publication, and current filing lo cation of every newspaper publish ed in Texas between 1813 and 1939 are included in the 293-page vol ume which was published under the sponsorship of the San Jacinto Museum of History Association. Copies of the book have been de posited in 300 of the nation’s out standing libraries and a limited number of copies are available for further distribution to public insti tutions by Ike Moore, director of the San Jacinto Museum, who rep resented the sponsoring agency in arranging for publication of the volume. LOCAL ALUMNI- (Continued from Page 1) third vice-president, C. H. Mc Dowell; and each man present voted his choice for ten directors for the club. The results of this election had not been tabulated to day, but officers promised an an nouncement when the count is com pleted. The directors will write the constitution and by-laws of the organization, and a program will be launched at once to secure membership applications from the entire 500 men who live in Brazos county who either have graduated or attended Texas A. & M. Col lege. In a spirited election contest Caesar (Dutch) Hohn defeated Herschell Burgess for sergeant-at- arms in a photo-finish. LeVity for the occasion was furnished by C. H. McDowell who made pointed reference to actions of Pink Downs in Temple, former home of both men. And Mr. Downs came right back with an exhibit of a prize watermelon grown by Mr. Mc Dowell at the Blacklands experi ment station at Temple. The mel on was “just what the doctor or dered” except for size. As soon as the membership of the Board of Directors is ascertain ed by the vote count, a meeting will be held and plans will be laid for the Brazos County A. & M. Club to assist in entertainment of members of the boards of the for mer students association and the college directors on the A. & M. campus on August 30 and 31, when a joint meeting is scheduled. It was the intention of the founders of the club to have the largest and livest A. & M. Club in the state—and Monday’s organiza tion meeting indicated that the goal soon will be attained. A California scientist says inex pensive substitutes for novaeain, antiseptics, and possibly sulfani lamide and its derivatives may soon be made from corncobs, oat hulls, and other farm waste materials. United States farmers using electricity doubled during the dec ade 1930-1940. NYA Experience Helps 310,000 Men, Women Obtain Industrial Employment More the 310,000 young men and-fending May 1, ’41, 401 were hired young women who got their prac tical experience on NYA projects will have obtained jobs in private industry during the current fiscal year which ended June 30, accord ing to estimates made public to day by Aubrey Williams, Admin istrator of the National Youth Ad ministration. Williams said these estimates were based on reports which show ed that 151,949 NYA youth got jobs in private industry during the 5 months period December 1, 1940, to May 1, 1941. Many of the place ments were in national defense in dustries. “The record Youth such a high percentage of young people from its work projects in private employment is a clear in dication that our program is gear ed to provide youth with the kind of practical experience that private industry, especially the defense in dustries, want. At the same time this record is a testimonial to the efficient functioning of the state employment services through whose cooperaion many of the jobs for our NYA youth were obtained,” Williams said. Williams revealed that of the 151,949 young people who are known to have obtained private jobs during the 5 month period if. of the National Administration in placing by manufacturing industries; and 58,956 were hired by unspecified industries. “Part of the credit for the place ment of such a high number of NYA youth in private employment must go to the public vocational school systems, many of whom have cooperated with the National Youth Administration by provid ing related classroom training to our project workers. It is the aim of the National Youth Administra tion to give each young man and young woman employed on its out- of-school work program the oppor tunity to acquire sufficient basic manual work experience to be able to do a definite job in private in dustry and thus contribute im mediately to the increased product ion that the national defense calls for,” Williams said. More than 2,000,000 trees were planted this spring by farmers and ranchers in the Southern Great Plains area. 150 to 200 million pounds honey are produced annually bees in the United States. The Gonglylus Mantis of India resembles a flower so much in color and shape that other insects alight on it and are captured. NYA Program For National Defense Experience Begins New Operation A new national defense work-fexisting in shipbuilding, aviation, experience program of the Na- and machine tools, by preparing tional Youth Administration, de- young people to do specific jobs signed to fit young people for jobs in those industries. In the near in defense industries, was put in operation July 1, NYA Adminis trator Aubrey Williams, announc ed. The new defense program for which Congress appropriated near ly $60,000,000 will be carried out jointly by the National Youth Ad ministration, the State Employ ment Services, and the Public Vo cational School Systems. This new effort, the “Youth Work Defense Program,” for which the Congress appropriated $60,- 000,000, will supplement the regu lar out-of-school work program of the National Youth Administration. The immediate objective of the Young Work Defense program, which is headed up in the Federal Security Agency by Colonel Frank J. McSherry, is to prepare ap proximately 368,000 different young people for jobs in vital in dustries during the fiscal year starting July 1 and ending June 30, 1942. In addition, under the regular out-of-school work program of the National Youth Administration it is expected that a monthly aver age employment of 200,000 youth will be maintained during the year. The primary purpose of the regu lar out-of-school work program will continue to be to provide young people with practical experience which will fit them for jobs in private employment. Under the new defense program all NYA workers will register with the Bureau of Employment Se curity, through its state employ ment services, which will help to determine their qualifications for the work to be done. Youth who make application to the employ ment service for defense jobs, who are in need of work but who lack the experience and training re quired for defense industry em ployment, will be referred to the National Youth Administration. Work on the regular out-of school program will also be gear ed to the needs of national de fense but will include a broader category of operations and types of work than will be undertaken under the specialized defense pro gram. Related training and classroom instruction carried on in connec tion with both the new defense program and the regular out-of school work program will be pro vided by the Public Vocational School Systems. Related train ing on the regular program will in clude instruction in subjects such as blueprint reading and shop mathematics which have a direct bearing on the occupation for which the youth is preparing. The related training on the defense program will be more highly specialized, in terms of the specific field involved. The function of the National Youth Administration under both the new defense program and the regular out-of-school work pro gram is to provide young people with practical experience in specif ic manual and mechanical opera tions by giving them actual pro duction work under conditions similar to those of private in dustry. At the outset, under the new defense program, the practical ex perience provided by the NYA and the related training provided by the vocational schools will be aim ed at alleviating the bottlenecks future, according to Colonel Mc Sherry, there will be a demand for operatives to do the work in small arms and munitions plants and preparation of workers for jobs in these industries will be included in the new program. At the present time the Na tional Youth Administration is operating approximately 5,500 workshop production units which contain more than 90,000 work sta tions. Of these, several thousand workshops, comprising 33,000 work stations, will be devoted to the new defense program. In cluded in the work stations being made available immediately by the National Youth Administration for use in the new defense program will be more than 9,000 providing experience in machine shop work, more than 8,000 in sheet metal work, more than 4,000 in welding, more than 1,900 in pattern mak ing, 1,100 in electrical work, and 1,000 in radio. Other types of work stations to be used under the new defense program are those in aviation mechanics, forge, foun dry, and industrial sewing. The remaining 57,000 work stations and NYA workshops will be utilized in connection with the regular out- of-school work program. 304 Distinguish Second Semester A total of 304 students of Texas A. & M. College earned the rat ing of Distinguished Students dur ing the second semester of the past school year by having no grade below a C and making a grade point ratio of 2.25, Acting Regis trar H. L. Heaton announced this week. A total of 14 of that select group came through with perfect records of 3.00 by making A grades in all their work. Included in the straight A group were: Joe W. Autry, Stephenville, junior in agri cultural education; Robert L. Free land, San Antonio, sophomore, in liberal arts; Don Gabriel, Fort Worth, junior in liberal arts; W. J. Galloway, Thorockmorton, sopho more in mechanical engineering; Sam R. Gammon, College Station, freshman in liberal arts; Thomas S. Gdllis, Fort Worth, junior in liberal arts; Herbert S. Jacobson, San Antonio, freshman in chemi cal engineering; Robert F. Keller, Bryan, junior in agriculture; Angus McSwain, Bryan, freshman in civil enginering; William J. Mortgom- ery, Mason, senior in petroleum engineering; George S. Sumner, Fort Worth, junior in electrical engineering; George R. Thenn, Jr., Dallas, sophomore in civil engineer ing; R. M. Warren, Frisco, junior in agricultural administration; and Robert B. White, Ennis, junibr in science. DR. WALTON- (Continued from Page 1) nvestigations in the utilization and marketing of cotton and cot ton by-products. The committee agreed that it is essential to em ploy the best man that can be found for the important post and indicated that extreme caution would be observed in the selection of such an individual. It was made clear that the position would seek the man who finally is appointed. SURVEY OF FACILITIES After the selection is made, the cotton expert will be designated as director of the project and will be charged with the responsibilities of making a thorough survey of all existing facilities in the institu tions of higher learning in Texas, as well as the personnel; and that these facilities and personnel will be utilized to the fullest possible degree in carrying on research projects under provisions of the bill. The bill was introduced into the Texas Senate by George Mof- fatt of Chillicothe and passed by the legislature. ADVISORY COMMITTEE PLANNED The committee agreed to co ordinate projects set up by it with those now under way or in im mediate contemplation at the sev eral state institutions and other agencies engaged in research work in the field. An advisory committee will be organized at the earliest prac ticable time, it was decided, and the committee of college presidents will confer with representatives of the State-Wide Cotton Committee of Texas in selecting the person nel of this advisory group. Dr. Walton was instructed to begin a search immediately for the special ist who will direct the program, and to organize the advisory com mittee at the earliest practicable time. \ T \eVoV $\ue\»v Aftecoi Chattanooga Choo Choo Glenn Miller Good Bye Dear, I’ll Be Back in a Year Mitchell Ayres You and I Dinah Shore I Guess I’ll Have to Dream The Rest Tommy Dorsey The Cowboy Serenade Barry Wood Adios Glenn Miller Aslt about the new RCA Victor Long Life Needle HASWELLS Bryan SPOT NEWS Just one little spot on your clothes is enough to ruin your entire appearance and make everything you have on look shabby. Send us your clothes for expert cleaning, press 5 ing and repairing. SENIOR RINGS- (Continued from Page 1) n before August 1 and also Aug- ist 15 will be received in time for lelivery on the night of registra tion day. A representative of the manufac- urer of the rings will be in the ■egistrar’s office every morning to help select the rings and make he orders. Senior rings will be available in three types of fin- shes—light Russian, dark Russian, and antique green. The rings come n a complete selection of weights ranging from 12 to 18 penny weight. Prices for the rings ac cording to weights are: 12, $18.50; 13, $19.35; 14, $20.20; 15, $21.05, 16, 21.90; 17, $22.75; 18, $23.60. A three dollar deposit is required to make the order. REGISTRANTS- (Continued from Page 1) tively low order numbers would be classified sooner than those who had received the higher numbers. “I’d like to stress the fact again,” General Page said, “that there isn’t any difference between the treatment of the new registrans and the old registrants in any re spect whatsoever. They are treated exactly alike. The same rules of deferment apply to both. Both have he same right of appeal. The in- -terests of both are protected by the government in the same man ner. And each case is considered individually when the registrant’s order number comes up, regardless of whether he registered July 1 or previously.” MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE Our Bryan Store is now open for business . . . altho our remodeling has not been completed, we will continue our Mid- Summer Clearance until the remodeling work is finished. Take advantage of this opportunity to save on quality merchan dise at our College or Bryan store. Men’s Summer Suits All Palm Beach Suits Men’s Slack Suits Boy’s Slack Suits Men’s Sport Shirt Kaynee Boy’s Wear Manhattan Shirts Manhattan Pajamas Shirtcraft Shirts Shirtcraft Pajamas Nunn-Bush Sport Shoes Edgerton Sport Shoes Fortune Sport Shoes Hood Canvas Sport Shoes Dobbs Straw Hats Hopkins Straw Hats CAMPUS CLEANERS Above Exchange Store ^^^^on^nient Stores” College Station Bryan ^ I i 1 W ■ 4 1 w B * ■