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
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 11, 1941
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NUMBER 28
Highlights of Weekend Activites on Campus
A weekend full of many colorful events was viewed by thousands of visitors to the A. & M. campus
who came to see the Aggie-S.M.U. football game and the Aggie Rodeo presented by the Saddle and
Sirloin Club. The top scene was taken during a thrilling moment at the rodeo Friday night as one of
the Rodeo contestants takes on a tough Brahma bull. Main attraction of the weekend was the foot
ball game which the Aggies won 21-10. Derace Moser, speedy A. & M. back, is seen dashing around
his own right end for six yards. Richardson of A. & M. is about to block Wright of S.M.U. The other
S.M.U. player is Goss. At the bottom is the Aggie “T” as formed by the cadet corps during the half.
—Rodeo photo by Ralph Stenzel, others by Jack Jones
Ball Game, “T” Formation, and Rodeo are Highlights
During Full Weekend of Activities on Aggie Campus
Armistice Ceremonies Held at Noon To
Honor Aggies Who Died in World War I
Ashton to Give Illustrated Talk To
Sociology Students Wednesday Night
Corps Goes
To Houston
On Saturday
Parade Will Form
On Congress Avenue
At Ten am Saturday
Houston will receive the Aggie
cadet corps Saturday morning
when they make their second corps
trip of the year to see the Aggie-
Rice football game.
Special trains will leave College
at 7:20 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Satur
day and arrive in time for the Ca
dets to detrain and form for the
parade which will begin at 10:j00
a.m. The parade will form on Cong
ress and continue up Congress to
Main, turning onto Main and con
tinuing up Main to Lamar where
the parade will stop. The review
ing stand will be in front of the
Rice Hotel and with Colonel Mau
rice D. Welty, commandant, will
stand Mayor Neal Pickett, mayor
of Houston.
Cadet headquarters will be at the
City Auditorium which will serve
as a meeting place and a place
for the corps to rest and clean up
after the game. Buses will run
from the City Auditorium to the
Rice Field carrying students to the
game.
Train tickets can be bought at the
Southern Pacific Station now for
$1.52 and the company is asking
students to buy their tickets as
early as possible so that they can
estimate the amount of equipment
necessary to carry the students to
the game. Trains will return to Col
lege Station at 11:30 and 12:30
Saturday night. Another train will
run at 8 a.m. Sunday morning.
Football tickets are now on sale
at the “Y” desk for $1.10 with cou
pon number 34. These tickets will
be on sale until 4:00 p.m. Friday
afternoon. The Aggie section will
begin with section U on the 50 yard
line and extend around the stadium
into the end zone taking care of as
many seats as the corps demands.
Date tickets will be sold for $1.65
and the buyer need not have a cou
pon book to secure one of these
tickets.
Anyone wanting a general ad
mission ticket can get it at the Ath
letic Office for the regular price
of $2.50, E. W. Hooker, superin
tendent of ticket sales, stated.
Library Reading
Fund Receives 85
Dollars From Clubs
Dr. Thomas F. Mayo has received
contributions for the amount of
85 dollars for the library general
reading fund. The contributions
were made by the A. & M. Mothers
clubs of Dallas, San Antonio and
Amarillo. The Dallas A. & M. Mo
thers Club contributed $50; the San
Antonio Mothers Club contributed
$25; and the A. & M. Mothers Club
of Sonora, Texas gave $10. These
contributions give a combined to
tal of 195 dollars.
The general library reading fund
is used by the library for the pur
chase of books and various classi
cal records for the library. These
books and records are purchased
after being recommended by the
student library committee which is
composed of a group of Aggies.
This fund has been receiving con
tributions from various mothers’
clubs all over the state for the past
four years.
Student Welfare
Committee Selected
To Consider Problems
Pedestrian traffic in streets of
the campus, danger connected with
the use of chains in blocking off
streets, danger of freshmen rush
ing out on the football field at the
conclusion of the game, and signs
on the campus before football
games were the things discussed
at a banquet and meeting of the
Student Welfare Committee held
in Sbisa Hall Tuesday night.
A committee which consisted of
E. L.. Angell, chairman, E. E. Mc-
Quillen, J. B. Hervey, Tom Gillis,
and R. J. Tilton was appointed to
further investigate the problems.
By Jack Decker
It was a week-end of activities
at Aggieland—a week end that
was climaxed by a thrilling foot
ball game and the twenty-third
presentation of the annual Aggie
rodeo.
The rodeo was presented Friday
and Saturday in the Animal Hus
bandry Pavillion and proved to be
one of the best planned and best
executed shows ever to be put on
here.
Cowgirls from all over Texas
came to take part in the special
ladies event, with Miss Annabelie
Edwards of Big Spring acting as
queen of the rodeo. Miss Edwards
accompanied Shorty Fuller, who
acted as king of the rodeo as well
as the director of last year’s show.
Jim Tom Day was selected as
the winner of the rodeo with the
title of the best all around cowboy
who competed in the contests.
The different contests staged
during the three performances were
a mule riding race, calf roping,
bare bronc riding, bull riding, wild
cow milking, and the ladies bal
loon race, with Duke Harrison pro
viding the laughs as cowboy clown.
The Aggie Rodeo is sponsored
each year by the Saddle and Sirloin
club and was directed this year by
Caddo Wright.
Beginning Friday and continuing
with ever increasing volume, the
12,000 visitors who jammed the
campus over the week-end came for
a thrill and got it.
Besides the ball game that was
more than enough for anyone’s
money in one weekend, the visitors
were able to witness the famous “T”
formation put on by the entire
student body of A. & M. This was
the first time that the formation
had been put on this year.
The Aggies lined up and marched
on the field in the form of a huge
“T” that extended from side
line to side line and longwise from
the 30 yard line to the 30 yard line,
with everyone packed altogether as
closely as possible. In this position,
several yells were given. After the
completion of the yells and at a
Noted Folk Lore
Author Frank Dobie
Will Speak in Bryan
J. Frank Dobie, famous author on
Texas folk lore, will be the guest
speaker of the Evening Study
Club, which will meet in Stephen F.
Austin high school in Bryan next
Thursday night at 7:30.
J. Frank Dobie is the author of
“Coronado’s Children,” “The Long
horns,” “Vaquero of the Brush
Country,” “On the Open Range,”
and many other well-known west
ern, stories. Since Dobie was born
and raised in Texas, his stories
come from first hand information
of the life in the west.
Members of the Evening Study
Club are urged to be present and
anyone interested in hearing this
speaker is cordially invited to at
tend.
given signal the entire formation
broke and ran for the stands.
A more perfect setup for a foot
ball game could not have been ask
ed with perfect football weather
and a perfect outcome in more
games than one and with the larger
part of the crowd observing that
if only Hitler were defeated, it
would be a perfect world.
Adriance and Jones
Inspect Valley Citrus
Dr. G 1 . W. Adriance of the Horti
culture department and A. J. Jones
of the Agronomy department are
leaving this morning for the Rio
Grande Valley, where they will in
spect a 4,000 acre block of citrus
orchards for the Farm Security
Administration.
They willl be assisted by W. A.
Bownds and N. D. Bryant, grad
uate students in horticulture. The
government is planning to use this
acreage for a resettlement project
in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
Senior Meats Team
Practices in Ft Worth
Members of the senior meats
judging team went to Fort Worth
Monday for a practice judging trip.
The students making the trip were
J. B. Pumphrey, C Infantry; J. D.
Jordan, H Infantry; Worth Park
er, A Cavalry, and Hicks Canon,
Bill Hanpton and J. J. Harden, all
of D Cavalry.
Basis of Lecture 1
Will Be Experiences
As Exchange Professor
Dr. John Ashton will give an il
lustrated lecture on Nicaragua and
Central America under the aus
pices of the Rural Sociology Club
in the lecture room of the Chem
istry building Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Dr. Ashton has recently return
ed from Central America after a
year's duty as Exchange Profess
or to Nicaragua under the Con
vention for the-Promotion of In
ter-American Cultural Relations.
Dean E. J. Kyle, having also re
cently returned from South Am
erica, will introduce Dr. Ashton.
Two reels of film, “Picturesque
Guatemala,” will be shown also.
These sound pictures, lent specially
for this occasion by the Pan Am
erican Union, are descriptive of the
Mayan Indian civilization that in
habits the western highlands of the
Guatemalan mountains.
Eustace Talks
This Morning To
Marketing Seniors
Harry J. Eustace, vice president
of Agricultural Trade Relations,
Incorporated, will address the sen
iors majoring in Marketing and Fi
nance at 10 o’clock this morning in
room 207 of the Agricultural build
ing.
The Agricultural Trade Relations
Inc. strives to promote economic re
search in matters relating to ag
riculture and to facilitate arrange
ments for the purchase and dis
tribution by chain stores of sur
plus foodstuffs held by cooperative
organizations.
Eustace is a graduate of Michi
gan State Central College and Cor
nell University, and for a number
of years he was professor at Mich
igan, later being connected with
the Country Gentleman before as
suming his present position.
Defense Subject
Of ASME Meeting
National defense was the chief
topic of discussion at the meeting
of the A. S. M. E. last Thursday
night. Harold Ramsden told the
meeting of a new type of cargo
carrier which is being built at Or
ange, Texas, which has been called
the “engineer’s answer to a world
crisis.” The ship called the “Sea Ot
ter” was developed to relieve the
present shortage of shipping fa
cilities. Using gasoline engines for
power, it has retractable screws
at the center of the hull. This new
carrier can be constructed much
more cheaply and quickly than the
conventional kind. The British gov
ernment is reported to have order
ed several hundred of these new
ships.
“Wright Builds for Air Emergen
cies,” a film produced by the
Wright Corporation, was shown.
This movie showed in detail the
steps in the construction of the
giant Wright aircraft engines.
Louis Byrd announced that any
one who wishes a date from Hunts
ville for the A.S.M.E. dance in
December should see him or Mr.
Crawford’s secretary before Tues
day.
Cryptographers Hold
Call Meeting Tonight
The A. & M. Cryptography club
will hold a called meeting tonight
in room 310 academic building. The
meeting will be the last one attend
ed by E. K. Elmquist, organizer
and faculty sponsor of the club.
Plans for the future of the club
will be made tonight.
At previous meetings of the club,
talks have been made by Captain
W. S. McCulley and H. L. Kidd of
the English department. Elmquist,
who has been called to Washington,
D. C., by the war department as
cryptography adviser, will speak
at tonights meeting. The meeting
will begin immediately after yell
practice.
Texas U Now Has
‘Twelfth Man’ - - At
Least 82 in Strength
Texas university now calls its
football fans the “Twelfth Man.”
According to the Saturday issue
of the Daily Texan, student news
paper of the university, the Twelftn
Man “at least eighty-two strong,
quote the Daily Texan, “rode the
train to Waco last week with the
team.”
Could it be that our neighbors on
the “Forty Acres” are envious of
that Aggie spirit which they have
so often ridiculed? Or could it be
that they anticipated Saturday's
upset and figured that they would
need twelve men to beat that “good
old Baylor line?” Eighty-two out
of a student body of ten thousand
are not many to support a fine
football team! Although the Ag
gie Twelfth man is no longer un
ique we still have 6000 loyal sup
porters who are 1000 per cent be
hind the number one team in the
conference and the nation. Perhaps
the next thing in order is for the
Aggies to get some cheer leaders,
a pep squad, and a couple hundred
cowbells!
Home Town Clubs
To Reserve Rooms
Before Each Meet
In a memorandum to the corps,
Tom Gillis, Cadet Colonel, an
nounced today that no permanent
room assignments will be made for
home town or county club meeting.
“This is done because all clubs do
not meet every Tuesday and we
cannot hold all the rooms open ev
ery week,” Gillis said.
The president of each club who
desires to hold a meeting on any
Tuesday night will have to make
arrangements for a room for his
club with Sergeant W. T. Dunbar
in the commandant’s office. An
nouncements that are to be made
in the mess hall relative to the
club’s meeting should also be turn
ed in at this time. Duplicate copies
must be turned in.
Each club president will be res
ponsible to the college business
manager and to the head of the
department that uses the room in
which the club meets for closing the
windows and doors and for the
condition of all furniture and equip
ment in the room.
Note: This is the first of a series of
articles designed to clarify the prob
lems of Pan-Americanism and to show
the opportunities open to North
Americans in the southern hemisphere.
By Ken Bresnen
During present stressed world
relations, the possibility of a closer
relation between the two Americas
is coming into prominence as a
subject for political and economic
discussion. It seems that it is im
perative to defend the Western
World from forces which are work
ing to efface the American way
of life. For many years our
South American neighbors strug
gled to free themselves from
European domination; for a like
number of years the United States
has tried to help them, but in so
doing we have aroused a feeling
of distrust and resentment.
First of all, this has been be
cause we have tried to wield the
“big stick” in the Western Hemis
phere and force our methods on the
Latin Americans without under
standing their way of life. In
order for the “good neighbor pol
icy” to work satisfactorily it will
be necessary to understand the
reasons why they do things their
way. The two Americas • must
j first achieve a mutual understand-
A & M Corps Staff
Will Place Wreath
On Aggie Monument
Today being Armistice Day the
cadet corps and all members of
the community will pause brief
ly to honor those men of A. & M.
who lost their lives in the first
World War in a ceremony at noon.
Members of the corps staff
will gather at the memorial monu
ment at the west gate where they
will place a wreath at the foot
of the monument which bears the
names of those men who died for
their country during the first
World War.
Mess call will be sounded at
12:05 p. m. followed by Assembly
at 12:08 p. m. Following the
sounding of Assembly the entire
corps, by organization, will be
brought to the position of “Pa
rade Rest.” A brief pause will
ensue and an announcement will
be read over the amplifying sys
tem.
The announcement is as follows:
“The corps of cadets is assembled
at this time in accordance with our
custom on this day to pay respect
ful tribute to the A. & M. men
who paid with their lives in the
! service of their country to help
bring this day into being.”
This announcement will be fol
lowed by the reading of the roster
of the men who lost their lives in
the service of their country dur
ing the first World War. After
each name is pronounced, a short
roll will be sounded by the drum
mers detailed for the ceremony.
After the reading of the last
name “Attention” will be sounded
and the corps will be brought to
the position by organization. As
soon as the corps has come to “At
tention,” “Silver Taps” will be
sounded over the amplifying sys
tem. At the first note of “Taps,”
all uniformed -cadets in and out
of ranks will “Salute” and remain
(See ARMISTICE, Page 4)
Batdorf to Teach
In Vacancy Left By
Professor Elmquist
Franklin Batdorf will replace
professor K. E. Elmquist of the
English department who has been
called to active duty with the army
as a cryptographer. Batdorf has
been a part time instructor at Cor
nell university for the past four
years. Previous to his work at Cor
nell, he was an instructor at the
University of Missouri, of which
state he is a native.
Batdorf completed the require
ments for the Ph. D. degree at
Cornell in September of 1941, but
the degree will not be conferred
until the end of the current sem
ester at that school in February
of 1942. His dissertation for the
degree was “A Study of George
Crabbe’s Tales.”
ing of each others philosophy of
life.
Another reason for the failure
of our attempts at establishing
friendly trade relations is that we
have not always upheld our full
share of the burden. At present
Latin America supplies us with
36 per cent of its refined copper
asking in return only six per cent
of the U. S. supply. A similar
story is told of zinc and lead.
Of these vital defense materials.
South America gets about one fifth
of its needs. Because of the red
tape involved, no aluminum, anti
mony, tungsten, or mercury is
shipped to Latin America in the
form of manufactured products al
though it supplies us with the
raw materials.
Fortunately, officials in the U. S.
State Department are working day
and night to remove the difficul
ty in obtaining priorities for south
bound commerce. There are
forces at work in both quarters for
the betterment of diplomatic rela
tions and trade agreements be
tween the two hemispheres. Our
government has adopted a policy
of defending the western hemis
phere from European domination.
L«t us begin by understanding
those with whom we are to work!
Pan-American Relations Are
Important Factor in Crisis