DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Batta l io n
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOLUME 41
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 14, 1941
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NUMBER 16
Personnel Record Blanks
Now Available for Filing
Spring Graduates "
Requested to File
Employment Sheets
Personnel record blanks for grad
uating seniors, given by the Place
ment Bureau to each department
to be distributed, are now available
to all departments in the college in
order that seniors may acquire the
blanks and fill them out, Lucian M.
Morgan, director of the Bureau, an
nounced yesterday.
All students who plan to gradu
ating either next June or in the
summer are urged to fill out the
blanks and turn them in to the
placement and personnel division
of the Association of Former Stu
dents. There will be no charge for
filling out the questionaire as it
is done solely for the benefit of
graduates trying to get jobs.
The purpose of the personnel rec
ord is to make it possible for pros
pective employers to have a de
tailed account of the student con
sidered without necessarily having
to interview the graduate person
ally.
Besides the record, it is possible
to have personnel leaflets printed,
150 for $4.00, that will be good for
several years after graduation. Due
to the uncertainty many students
feel about their plans after grad
uation, some will feel there is no
need to try to contact employers
until after their service in the
army, but this is not the idea of
the plan.
Seniors, by the use of the per
sonnel record and leaflets, will be
able to contact prospective em
ployers and have their applica •
tions on file with them before grad
uation. Then afetr leaving the army
all that will be necessary will be
to contact the company and they
will only have to look up the leaf
let on their file.
If a company writes for infor
mation concerning a certain type
(See LEAFLETS, Page 4)
Activities Group
To Meet Thursday
Members of the student activi
ties committee will meet in the of
fice of Dean F. C. Bolton Thursday
at 2:30 p.m. At this time an alloca
tion of funds to the various org
anizations requesting funds will be
made. Thirty nine applications have
been received asking for a total
of $7300. At present there is only
$200 available to be distributed on
the basis already set forth in a
previous meeting.
In allocating these funds, pref
erence will be given to service
groups with minor sports coming
next. Funds will be provided for del
egates, speakers and approved
tours if sufficient.
Juniors Receive
Authorized Passes
Starting Friday 12
Final Plans Made at Meet
In Guion Hall Last Night;
Aggies Guests at Supper
Juniors who are planning to at
tend the Junior Prom at TSCW in
Denton Friday night before, the
TCU game will be given authorized
absences in order to allow them
to miss Friday afternoon classes.
Passes may be turned in to the
commandant’s office for the au
thorized absences before leaving
for Denton.
Each year the junior class at
TSCW invites the junior class of
A. & M. to the junior prom before
the first corps trip of the football
season. A steak fry is another of
the highlights of the evening’s
entertainment.
A meeting of the junior class
was held last night in the Assem
bly Hall to explain details of the
trip to all the members of the
class who intend to go.
Corps Will Leave
For Fort Worth On
Specials Saturday
First Parade of Year
Will be Held; Number One
Uniform Is Reg at Game
The Latest Thing-
Your Shoes Are Shined
While You Go to Class §
Two special trains will be run to
Ft. Worth for the corps trip and
game against T.C.U. Saturday, one
of which will leave Saturday at 4:10
a.m. and will arrive in Ft. Worth
at 9:35 a.m. The second will leave
at 4:35 a.m. and will pull in at 9:50
a.m.
The corps will form for the par
ade on the circus lot adjacent to the
Main street underpass ,and the
parade will proceed up Main street
to Houston, up Houston to Wea
therford where it will disband.
The reviewing stand will be lo
cated in front of the Texas Ho
tel.
All students that do not ride the
train are required to be at the cir •
cus lot at 9:30 a.m. to form with
their outfit.
Number one uniform will be reg •
ulation for the parade and game,
and number two will be regulation
for the rest of the time, and all
students not possessing a uniform
will attend the game in civilian
clothes.
Defense Taxes
Raise Prices Of
enior Class Rings
ASME Contest For
Members Is Started
E. H. Copeland and M. W. Curtis
are the two seniors leading in the
annual A. S. M. E. membership
contest for M. E. seniors. This
contest was progressing i rapidly
last week, and the indications are
that the A. S. M. E. membership
record of previous will be broken.
This contest offers a minimum
cash prize of twenty-five dollars
and the possibility of a trip to New
York for the winning senior. Those
in the contest should note that
over one thousand engineers are
registered in the M. E. department
and only a small percentage of
these have signed thus far.
Prospective members are given
a choice of either the one dollar
or the three dollar membership.
The one dollar membership gives
the member the right of partici
pation in the club’s activities,
while the three dollar membership
includes a gold A. S. M. E. pin and
a subscription to the “Mechanical
Engineer.” All those interested and
wishing to join up should contact
any M. E. senior in the contest.
Pictures Taken By
Cotton Group Shown
First Time Thursday
Motion pictures taken in techni
color on the tenth annual Cotton
Fellowship Tour were presented
for the first time in public last
Thursday night at the regular
meeting of the Agronomy society.
Those making the tour last sum
mer were Jimmie Robinson, E. R.
Butler, and Ralph Hartgraves with
the faculty representative, Louis
Thompson, acting as cameraman.
The tour is sponsored in connec
tion with the annual Cotton Ball
and pageant.
The party left College Station
last May 31 for Stoneville, Missis
sippi. From there to New Orleans
the group observed the practices
and customs in the vast Mississippi
valley. Enroute to Washington,
D. C., the party was privileged
to go via the Blue Ridge Parkway
and the Sky Line Drive.
From Washington the boys went
to New York where special em
phasis was given to Cotton-market
ing studies. The party came home
via the southeastern part of Cana
da and the corn belt .
After the showing of the pictures
“Bugs’” Tate, Sergeant-at-arms,
appointed Fred Coley, Louis Bren
ner, and Trigo Villamil to act as
a committee to direct the initia
tion ceremonies at the next meet
ing.
This day of modern convenience
at Texas A. & M! After the Wed
nesday opening of a shine parlor
by Jimmy Souris it will be possi
ble for the Aggies to send their
shoes out and have them shined
and delivered back the same day.
They will be picked up in every
aorm by student labor agents every
morning and returned at the usual
prices.
This new, all modern shine par
lor will be located over the Col
lege Inn and will be open until 10
or 11 every night. Jimmy Souris,
of Vernon, Texas, is the manager
of the shine parlor, which offers
additional student labor opportuni
ties for boys who will act as
agents in the various dorms.
Agents will pick up shoes in the 11) 1941
mornings and will return them at
night at the usual price being
charged and the delivery will be
thrown in free of charge so you
get a shine and delivery for the
usual prices.
Aggies Return
From Victorious
Jaunt to New York
The Aggie football team return
ing; from New York was met at
1:30 p.m. Monday in front of dorm
itory 12 by students who did not
have classes. The victorious team
was greeted by an impromptu yell
practice. The team left New York
immediately after the game and
came to Hearne on the train where
they changed to two chartered bus
es.
When the busses were sighted,
the band led off with “Recall”. Led
by J. O. Alexander, senior yell
leader, the corps cheered the team
and gave “Farmer’s Fight until to
night.”
First Meeting Of
Brazos Area Reserve
Officers Held Tonight
All Reserve Officers living in
the Brazos County Area are urged
to attend the first meeting of the
year, which will be held tonight
at 7:30 in the Petroleum Engi
neering Lecture Room. The pro
gram will consist of a confer
ence with Col. A. C. Burnett and
Col. J. C. Parks of the Houston
Military District with regard to the
new promotion plan for Reserve
Officers, the new method of ad
ministering correspondence, and
some conclusions to be drawn from
the recently concluded Third Army
maneuvers in Louisiana.
3000 Ex-Aggies
Are Now on Active
Duty With U S Army
More than 3,000 ex-Aggies. are
now with Uncle Sam on active duty
in the army, according to releas
es from the A. & M. publicity de
partment. Five hundred and thirty
five of these graduated with last
June’s class of 808 men, practically
all of whom are now officers on
duty with troops in the field.
During World War I over 2200
Aggies served with the A.E.F.
Five thousand commissions as sec
ond lieutenants have been issued
to graduates of A. & M. since that
time.
Orders in by October 1
Will Not be Affected By
Recent Increase in Prices
All senior rings purchased on
or after October October 1, 1941,
will be subject to a ten percent tax
which will be added to the price
of the ring, according to an an
nouncement made by H. L. Heaton,
acting registrar. This tax is un
der the provisions of the Federal
Tax Law which went into effect
on that date. Deposits made be
fore October 1 will not be subject
to the tax, but the balance will
be taxed. Heaton said that accord
ing to their information no tax
is to be added to the rings deliver
ed to the office prior to October
Tickets for TCU Game May
Be Purchased From Y Desk
Gilchrist Attends
Washington Meeting
Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the school
of engineering, attended a meet
ing of the advisory committee on
national defense courses offered
new officers for duty as instruc
The meeting lasted one and one
half days and was held in Washing
ton, D.C. and the committee dis
cussed routine matters and decid
ed on the ways in which the $17,-
500,000 appropriations for the year
would be spent.
Dean Gilchrist will attend an
other meeting to be held in Wash
ington on December 6, when other
business will be transacted.
A & M Dairy Team
Wins Second Place
In Memphis Contest
The dairy judging team took
second place in the annual dairy
cattle judging contests at the In
ternational Dairy Exposition, held
in Memphis, Tenn., this past week.
A total of 24 teams from cql-
leges all over North America com
peted and first place went to
Iowa State over Texas A. & M. by
s scant margin. Others in the first
ten teams included: Kansas, Ne
braska, Oklahoma A. & M., Geor
gia, Kentucky, Ohio State, Missi
ssippi State and Minnesota.
The Aggie team placed fifth in
Ayrshires and Brown Swiss, second
on Guernseys, third on Holsteins
and fourth on Jerseys.
H. B. Hales, Amarillo, took
fourth place on Ayrshires; seventn
on Guernseys; sixth in Brown
Swiss; and tenth in Jerseys, to
win fourth place in the contest
for individuals. J. C. Kay, Tyle",'
took sixth in Ayrshire^ to place
fifteenth in the contest; and D. L.
Ator, Lipan, with a second in Hol
steins, and a ninth in Guernseys,
placed twelfth in the affair.
On Oct. 20 the dairy products
team, A. V. Moore, of the dairy
husbandry department as coach,
will compete in the Dairy Indus
tries Exposition at Toronto, Cana
da. They will leave here the latter
part of this week so as to have a
day to spare before they start
work. Team members making the
trip include: Kenneth King, Whar
ton; A. B. Jeffries and M. K. So-
derquist, Hot Springs, Ark.; W. B.
Barron, College Station, and Prof.
Moore.
Texas May Be
Spot for USDA
Cork Experiment
Bids on Airport
Improvements Asked
Bids for earthwork on the East-
erwood airport will be received un
til October 16, announced Dean Gibb
Gilchrist. Earthwork on three run
ways is estimated to cost $60,000
Specifications and other informa
tion can be had from the dean’s
office.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture’s Forest Service is plan
ning a small experiment program
during the coming year on the
planting and cultivation of cork
oak, provided the necessary sup
ply of acorns can be received. Texas
may be chosen as the proving
ground to test the feasibility of
this experiment, because the cli
mate of parts of Texas is very simi
lar to that of the mountainous
portions of Spain, Portugal, and
North Africa, the natural habi
tat of the cork oak.
Although no cork producing trees
grow in Texas now, C. W. Sim
mons, farm forester of the A. &
M. Extension Service, says that
in view of the similarity of cli
mate together with the altitude
and wide choice of soils there seems
to be no biological reason why
it should not be grown successfully
in sections of Texas.
Several species of the oak are
grown in the state, and Simmons
is of the opinion that East Central
Texas, especially the upper end
of the live oak areas, might be best
suited for propagation of cork
oaks in the event the U.S.D.A.
Forest Service extends its pro
posed experiment to Texas. Th?.
bark is the portion of the tree pro
cessed for commercial cork pro
ducts.
The United States has been im
porting about $10,000,000 worth of
cork yearly from the Meditev-
lanean area. Growing shortages to
meet defense requirements has
raised the question about the possi
bility of growing a backlog of the
material in this country.
Two Officers
Transferred Here
On Military Staff
Col McIntyre and Major
Fox Relieved by Lt Col
Boles and Lt Col Caphton
Notice of the transfer of two
ne wofficers for duty as instruc
tors in the military science depart
ment has been received from the
War Department in Washington to
replace Lt. Col. O. C. McIntyre, sen
ior instructor, Field Artillery, and
Major Tom Fox, senior instructor,
Infantry.
Lt. Col. John L. Boles, Field Ar
tillery, will become senior instruc
tor in the Field Artillery unit
after Col. McIntyre leaves. Col.
Boles is now on duty with the
state headquarters of the Third
Army at Fort Sam Houston, Tex
as, in San Antonio.
Lt. Col. Carl L. Caphton, Infan
try, will become the senior ins
tructor in the Infantry unit soon
after Major Fox is transferred. Col.
Caphton is now transferred at
Camp Bowie in Brownwood.
No definite orders regarding the
transfers of these four officers
have been received from the War
Department as yet.
No further word has been re
ceived from Colonel Maurice D.
Welty, who is to report here as
commandant and professor of mili
tary science and tactics. Col. Welty
is stationed at present in New
foundland and is unable to report
here until he is replaced there. It
is expected that he will be here by
November 15.
No Word Received On
Subsistence Payment
No word has been received from
the corps area headquarters in
San Antonio regarding payment of
subsistence to seniors, according
to a statement issued by the mili
tary department yesterday.
The payment covers the period
from the end of camp until the be
ginning of school in September.
Water-Conscious Aggies Boost
Downs Natatorium Attendance
James, ASHVE Head,
Visits A & M Sunday
John James, technical secretary,
American Society of Heating and
Ventilating Engineers, paid a
visit to the Texas A&M College
campus this past week to inspect
thme facilities at the college
used in the teaching of the en
gineering courses in heating and
ventilating.
By H. F. Ball
The first record of the year to
go down in the W. P. L. Downs
Natatorium, A. & M.’s “old swim
ming hole,” is that of attendance.
Art Adamson, manager is dipping
some six hundred boys in the pool
every day.
Adamson said that he could give
no specific reason for the unpre
cedented interest in swimming, un-
less it could be because of the in
creasing interest in swimming as
a sport over the country.
A. & M. is well equipped to
handle the increasing crowds at the
pool. It is the largest indoor
pool in the Southwest, being sixty
by one hundred feet. The water
is carefully filtered so that the
entire content of the pool goes
through the filter in twenty-four
hours. During the filtration pro
cess the water is also warmed to
the temperature of the building,
which is kept at a constant eighty
degrees. The pool is marked off
into 7 foot regulation A. A. U.
lanes and may be used for A. A .U
competition.
Coach Adamson’s water polo
teams have established an enviable
record for A. & M., having lost on
ly four games in eight years of
competition. Two of these games
were lost to athletic clubs, The
team has won the State A. A. U.
championship every year, was run
ner-up in the Junior National A. A.
U. meet in 1938, and won it in
1939. Water polo games are play
ed every night and dual meets
between organizations are held.
Swimming hours for students are
from 4 to 5:30 on Monday, Tues
day, Thursday and Friday, and
from 3 to 5:30 on Wednesday, Sat
urday and Sunday. The only re
quirements for the use of the pool
are a regulation cotton strap and
a rubber cap. Life saving classes
dre held every Friday night for
those who are interested.
A&M Will Offer
Course in Welding
For National Defense
In an effort to help provide
qualified welders needed so badly
in the national defense programs,
A&M College through its mechan
ical engineering department, will
offer an eight-weeks course in
welding, starting Oct. 16, C. W.
Crawford, department head, has
announced.
The course will take three hours
a night for two nights each week
and will be taught by H. P. Rigs
by, one of the staff of the depart
ment and a noted authority on the
subject of welding.
The cost of the course will be
approximately $14 and the hours
are so arranged that employed
mechanics can take the course
without taking time off from their
regular work, Crawford pointed
out.
Shepardson On
Dairy Committee
C. N. Shepardson head of the
dairy husbandry department at
A. & M. and an internationally
known figure in dairying circles,
has received notice of his appoint
ment to the Inter-American Com
mittee for the Dairy Industry.
Shepardson explained that the
purpose of the committee is to in
crease the production and consump
tion of milk and milk products
in all countries in the Western
Hemisphere. Delegates from all
of the Americas will be present
when the committee meets at the
Dairy Industries Exposition in
Toronto, Canada, Octobfer 23. The
Exposition will be held October 19
25, but the committee plans to
meet only one day.
Shepardson, one of 14 U. S. ci
tizens appointed, is the only one
on the commitee from the South
or Southwest. He also is a mem
ber of the Board of Directors of
the American Jersey Cattle Club
and will attend a meeting of that
board in Memphis this week while
enroute to Canada.
Also at Toronto for the judging
contests will be the A. & M. Col
lege dairy products judging team
composed of Kenneth King, Whar
ton; W . B. Barron, College Sta
tion; A. B. Jeffries and M. K. So-
derquist, both of Hot Springs,
Ark.; and A. V. Moore, team
coach.
' Sale Will Continue
Through 5 Friday
Date Tickets-$2.50
Student tickets for the A. & M.-
T.C.U. footbal Igame to be played
in Fort Worth Saturday will be
available at the desk of the YMCA
with coupon number 33 for $1.10.
Regular tickets and date tickets
will also be available at the Y desk
for $2.50 as long as they last, E.
W. Hooker, superintendent of tic
ket sales announced.
Only A. & M. students will be ad •
mitted on the $1.10 tickets. Hook
er stated that he hoped to sell
all of the 5400 tickets which he has
on hand. Tickets will be available
until 5 p.m. Friday when they must
be turned in to the T.C.U. ticket
office in order to be sold at the gate
Saturday.
Lindholm Writes For
Texas Municipalities
Richard W. Lindholm, recent ad
dition to the economics staff, is
the author of an article, “Tax De
linquency in Texas Cities”, which
appeared in the August edition
of Texas Municipalities, official
publication of the cities in the
state.
The article deals with the amount
of delinquent taxes which remain
unpaid in various Texas cities and
with the methods used to collect
them.
Lindholm who came here this
year from Texas University is a
graduate of the University of
Minnesota.
Hedges Appointed To
Advisory Council On
Defense Committee
Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the
department of chemistry and direc
tor of the fireman’s training school,
has accepted an appointment on
the Advisory Council to the State
Fire Coordinator of the Civilian
National Defense. Hedges will be
on the board, with Honorable Mar
vin Hall, State Fire Insurance
Commissioner, of Austin, Texas.
For a number of years Hedges
has conducted the Firemen’s Short
Course and in his new position will
be able to contribute to the pro
tection of Texas in the planning
for Civilian Fire Defense. The com
mittee of which Hedges is a mem
ber will make rules and plans for
the Fire Defense of Texas in both
the civilian and municipal dis
tricts.
Collegiate Who’s
Who Lists Twenty
Aggies This Year
Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities for the 1941-42
session will contain the names of
twenty students at Texas A. & M.
whose names have not appeared
before. Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis’
biography will appear for the sec
ond time this year.
The collegiate version of Who’s
Who is published by the University
of Alabama under the editorship
of H. Pettus Randall. It contains
the biographies of the student
leaders in all the American col
leges and universities. These stu
dents are selected on the basis of
their leadership, scholarship, pop
ularity and participation in extra
curricular activities.
The basic list of thirty candi
dates for this honor was prepared
Monday evening by a committee of
regimental commanders presided
over by Tom Gillis. This basic list
will be submitted to the faculty
members of the Student Activity
Committee by Gillis at a meeting
Thursday afternoon. The commit
tee, composed of Dean F. C. Bolton,
E. L. Angell, Joe Skiles, G, B. Wil
cox and D. W. Williams, will make
the final selection of the students
whose biographies will be printed.
The names of the twenty selected
will be published in next Tuesday’s
Battalion.
College Livestock
Wins at State Fair
The animal husbandry depart
ment announced Monday that col
lege stock had won 8 firsts, one
second, two thirds and one fourth
place at the Annual Texas State
Fair held at Dallas recently.
Annabelle, a 3 year-old mare,
Laura Laet, a two-year old mare,
and Genavive, a yearling mare, con
tributed in no litle way, taking
a first place apiece in the three
classes of mares judged.
Another outstanding horse in
the judging was Cornelius, named
junior champion stallion and the
first place yearling stallion.
Aggies Compose
Largest Delegation
At AIEE Convention
Thirty-six Aggies and three
professors of the electrical engi
neering department who made up
the largest collegiate delegation at
th American Institute of Electrical
Engineers Convention last week,
returned to the campus early yes
terday. In addition to the conven
tion, their trip included numerous
inspection tours to points of in
terest around St. Louis.
PICTURE
DEADLINES
October 14 through Octo
ber 17—Coast Artillery
Vanity Fair and Senior
Favorite deadline—Decem
ber 20.
Club reservation deadline
—December 18.