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941 TU, A&M LEADERS SIGN PACT HERE Goodwill Mission Results In Furtherance of Friendship Kyle Urges Texas’ Leading Schools Have Rivalry on Field, But Always be Sportsmen Student leaders from Texas University and A. & M. met yesterday in College Station with the directors of the athletic councils of the two schools to draw up plans for the fur therance of friendly relations and the promotion of higher standards of sportsmanship between the two leading educa tional institutions in Texas. After luncheon in the committee room of Sbisa hall. Dean E. J. Kyle, chairman of the A. & M. Athletic Council opened the discussion with this remark, “Let us have the keenest possible rivalry on the field, but let’s be true sports men at all times.” It was the consensus of opinion that Texas University and A. & M. should at all times demonstrate a spirit of true sportsmanship and friendliness. True, each student body is loyal to its own team, but “ . . . settle the issue on the field,” said Dr. J. C. Dolley, head of the athletic council of Texas. Kyle prepared a basic statement of the proposals which he submitted to the meeting for ratification. This proposal was accepted with modifications and set up as a criterion for the two schools. Often there is a small minority within large schools wdiich strives to cause friction with rival institutions. Using mob psychology as their tool, this element often takes ad vantage of a moment of excitement to start trouble, it was concluded. The purpose of yesterday’s meeting was to avoid such action because of the possibility of serious injury to spectators. Texas university representatives at the luncheon were Fred Nieman, president of the student body; John Seaman, foreman of the Cowboys, a boys’ service and pep group; James Newman, president of the Longhorn band; Jack Howard, editor of the Daily Texan; Richard Winn, assistant cheer leader, and Dr. Dolley. A. & M. was represented by Kyle, Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis, Battalion Editor Don Gabriel, Band Major Bob Russel, Senior Class President Dick Hervey, Head Yell Leader Skeen Staley, and Cadet Lieut. Colonel “Toppy” Pearce. All those present signed the following resolution in behalf of the students whom they represented. SPORTSMANSHIP AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS November 17, 1941 College Station, Texas The University of Texas and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in order to promote a higher standard of sportsman ship between the two institutions, arranged a conference between the Faculty Chairman of the respective Athletic Councils and certain leaders of the two student bodies, at which the following action was unanimously taken: 1. The faculty and student representatives of the University of Texas and of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas recog nize the fact that we are state-supported institutions of higher learning and definitely believe that we should not only set the standard for higher sportsmanship in our own Conference, but we hope to lead the nation in close and friendly relations with each other. 2. We realize that in order to accomplish this we must have the full cooperation and support of the student bodies and of the former students of the two institutions. We therefore call on every member of these organizations and also citizens who might be partisans of either to render every possible assistance toward maintaining better and closer relations. 3. We pledge ourselves to be charitable and friendly in statements made in our student publications, and we ask that the same attitude be shown in our ex-student publications. We also pledge ourselves to use our influence in having our local press assume a friendly attitude at all times. 4. We realize that there is always the danger that a few individ uals may lose their heads during moments of great excitement. We therefore urge everyone to refrain from unsportsmanlike action at all times and to use his influence in seeing that all others do likewise. 5. We ask that the responsible members of the two student bodies, especially upper classmen, pledge themselves to prevent and correct all acts of poor sportsmanship coming to their attention. 6. Athletic contests should be settled by the keenest possible competition between the teams on the field and not by persons in the bleachers or on the street corners. 7. We hope and trust that this agreement will serve on in definitely to improve athletic relations between the two institutions. U S Can Serve as Arsenal For Economic War on Axis Nations By Ken Bresnen President Roosevelt has declar ed the United States to be the “Ars enal of Democracy.” The national policy is that we shall arm all forces of the world that will op pose the axis powers. Undoubted ly then the United States is in a diplomatic and economic war against Hitler and all that he stands for. Yet while we are op posing Nazism, a small but power ful minority is working night and day in South and Central America to further the cause of the axis powers. Until recently Pan-American un ity was taken as a mater for arm chair discussion and theorizing. Nazi diplomats are constantly mak ing efforts to sabotage every de vice of inter—American solidarity. Hitler seems to consider American unity a primary danger to his plan for world supremacy. Why don’t we take his tip, and use Pan- Americansim as a weapon in our undeclared war on dictatorships? In the past South American prosperity was measured in terms of exports, but although the bal ance of trade was perennially “fav orable,” living conditions among the working classes did not im prove. This was due in part to ownership of enterprises by Euro pean capitalists who reaped the profits. The working classes re mained underpaid, and South Amer ican currency was highly inflated. Latin America is no longer satis fied with a status of colonial econ omy. Through educational ad- (See U. S. SERVES, Page 4) The Battalion 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 18, 1941 Z275 NUMBER 21 Aggies Cinch Tie for SW Conference Championship in Packed Rice Stadium Series of Employment Programs Now Being Presented To Juniors and Seniors Under Auspices of Former Students Shelton Presented As Initial Speaker On Monday Program A group of Texas’ outstanding personnel men and employees are presenting a series of lectures on the campus this week to which jun ior and senior students are invited. The program is sponsored by the Placement Office of the Associa tion of Former Students. The first lecture in the series was offered last night in the chemistry lecture room for men in terested in agriculture. Dean E. J. Kyle introduced the first speaker, Jack Shelton, who is General Agent for the Farm Credit Administra tion in Houston. The second man to speak on the program was James E. Renolds, personnel man ager of the Soil Conservation Ser vice in Fort Worth. The next program will be held Ex-Aggies to See Films of Rice And SMU Games Tonight Movies of the Aggie-S.M.U. game and probably of the Aggie- Rice game played last Saturday will be shown tonight at 7:30 in the chemistry lecture room under the sponsorship of the Brazos county A. & M. club and football fans of the county are invited to attend. The S. M. U. game films are al ready here, and Manning Smith, who is in charge of the pictures, said that the pictures of the Rice game in Houston will also be here by that time. These showings are given by ar rangement of the othletic commit tee of the Brazos County Club of which S. A. (Doc) Lipscomb is chairman. The date of the meet ings has been changed from Mon day night to Tuesday night this week. Water Works Short Course Scheduled For February 9 Through 13 The annual water works and sewage short course will be held at A. & M. February 9-13, 1942, according to an announcement made here this week by E. L. Angell, executive assistant to the president. Professor E. W. Steel, head of the college department of munici pal and sanitary engineering, will be chairman of the five-day course which is expected to attract ap proximately 250 municipal engi neers. tonight at 7:30 in the chemistry lecture room with J. Wheeler Bar ger as acting chairman. The first lecture will be “How To Make Yourself A Better Prospect For Employment,” by A. Y. Wilson, branch manager for the Burroughs Adding Machine Company in Hous ton. “What An Employer Looks For In An Applicant,” is the sub ject of W. N. Blanton, Vice Presi dent of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. Ashton to Give Illustrated Talk On Nicaragua Life Dr. John Ashton will lecture Wednesday night in the Chemistry lecture room on “Nicaragua and To Lecture Dr. John Ashton Central America.” Ashton’s lecture will be illustrated with a two-reel motion picture sound film, “Pic turesque Guatemala,” showing some of the strange and wonderful scenes connected with the life of the Mayan Indian. This picture is a portrayal of the characteristic Guatemalan rural life, customs, and economy. Dean E. J. Kyle, who has just returned from an extensive tour of Latin America, will introduce Ashton. For the past year, Ash ton has been in Nicaragua as an exchange professor under a pro gram instituted by the Convention for the Promotion of Inter-Ameri can relations. The meeting is open to the pub lic and faculty members are invited to bring their families. Lectures Designed To Attract Students From Various Schools An Engineering Personnel Lec ture will be given Wednesday, No vember 19, in the Assembly hall. R. T. Shiels of General Electric Company, Dallas, and R. N. Dyer, personnel supervisor of the Hum ble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, will speak to men inter ested in engineering fields. The final lecture of the series will be held at the chemistry lec ture room Thursday evening for men interested in the general lib eral arts and teaching fields. L. V. Stockard, assistant superintend ent of the Dallas school system and James R. D. Eddy, chairman, division of vocational education of Austin, will be the visiting lec turers. Tate Chosen To Represent Ex-4H At National Meet “Bugs” Tate, D Infantry senior from Waxahachie, will represent the Ex 4H Club at the National 4H Club Congress at Chicago. He was selected by members of the club at a special meeting Thurs day night. Tate, who is president of the college club, was very active in 4H club work before entering A. & M. and has been a leader in the club’s work here for the past three years. His expenses will be paid with money received from the Stu dent Activities committee. The National Congress is held in connection with the International Livestock Show. Tate will make the trip to Chicago with several other representtatives from Texas 4H clubs. Erode is Guest Speaker at Yearly Meet of Chem Society Outstanding chemists from Am erican colleges gathered in Col lege Station last night for the six teenth meeting of the Texas A. & M. section of the American Chem ical Society. Dr. W. R. Erode of Ohio State University, the chief speaker of the evening, delivered an address on “Spectrometric An alysis.” Dr. and Mrs. Erode were guests at an informal dinner at the Aggieland Inn. Plans have been made for future meetings of the society to be held this year. On December 12, Alexis Voorhies, Associate Director, Esso Laboratories, Standard Oil Com pany, will be the guest speaker. Twice-Beaten Texas Christian Team Shatters Rose Bowl Dreams of Texas By Mike Haikin Battalion Sports Editor Swamping the Rice Institute Owls, 19-6, before 30,000 screaming fans in Houston Saturday afternoon, Coach Homer Norton’s Texas Aggies clinched at least a tie for the conference flag and remained one of the four undefeated, untied major teams in the nation. The Cadet’s win over the Owls went a long way toward clinching their third consecutive title, but Coach Dutch Meyer’s surprising Horned Frogs must be credited with a big" assist. For the second straight week the once mighty Texas Long horns bit the dust when an insur gent Horned Frog team found themselves to take away a 14-7 victory. The battle now is between the Aggies and the Frogs. T. C. U. still has a chance to tie for the title if they can win their remain ing games with Rice and S. M. U. and if Texas beats the Aggies. Should the Frogs lose or tie a. game, the Cadets receive the title outright. Ags Prep for T. U. However, Coach Homer Norton’s Aggies are not thinking of any conference championships or bowl bids. They’re concentrating all their attention on the Texas Longhorns whom they meet here Thanksgiv ing. It was a defeat by these same Steers last year that prevented the Cadets from winning their second consecutive crown and receiving a certain Rose Bowl bid. The Aggies were rewarded with an off day yesterday but it’s back to work today. Derace Moser, Leo Daniels, Willie Zapalac, Dub Sib ley, Jim Sterling, Martin Ruby, and Marshall Spivey all suffered slight injuries against the Owls, but are expected to be in the peak of con dition by Thanksgiving. Coach Homer Norton and his aides certainly are not taking the Texas game lightly. “Texas still has a great team and certainly should not be underrated,” Coach Norton said. Norton also plans extensive drills for his gridsters on running, passing, and blocking. Played Since 1894 The Aggies and Longhorns have The Aggies and Longhorns have been playing each other since 1894 and have met twice in some years. There was a gap after 1894 to 1898 and from the 1911 game until the 1915 tilt, when the relations were resumed. In the years that Texas and A. and M. have played each other many interesting and thrill ing contests have been reeled off. It was many a year that an underdog Aggie team bowled over great Longhorn elevens, and vice versa. However, neither has beaten the other on its home field since 1923. Texas A. & M. has won three games in Austin, racking up wins in 1902, 1909, and in 1922 in the modern series of home and home schedules. The Longhorns won at (See CHAMPIONS, Page 4) Brazos Exes To Honor Kyle With Banquet on Friday Like a Surging Wave of Water They Rolled On Riot Squads and Tear Gas Fail to Break up Aggie Formations as Cadet Corps Moves Into Houston to Beat Rice and Celebrate Defeat of Texas University By Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant “They beat our team; kick us a- round; steal our girls; and take our town—BAH! Such was the general expression of the Rice In stitute Owls after the Texas Ag gies returned to Aggieland from a victorious corps trip to Houston. And 6,500-strong the Aggie cadet corps moved into the Bayou City all day Friday and Saturday morn ing. A large number of cadets up held the tradition of leaving early for the corps trips and some few entered Houston as early as Wed nesday morning. Friday night found all nite spots, honky tonks and drive ins filled to capacity with Aggies and their dates. Many popular amusement centers were forced to turn away customers by the dozens because of the overflow crowds. The high-point of the pre-game festivities was the customary mid night yell practice held Friday night at the Rice Hotel in down town Houston. Shortly before mid night thousands of Aggies, their dates, and followers, gathered in the street in front of the hotel. The streets were filled and all traffic was blocked, causing the local po lice to call out all available reserves and squad cars. The lawmen asser ted they misinterpreted the Aggie meeting for a riot of no small consequence, claiming that they knew nothing of the yell practice. With the arrival of the riot squads, the Aggie resentment at the interference arose and tem pers were at a high pitch. The police set off at least six tear gas bombs at intervals along the sides of the street. A number of cadets suffered from the effects of the gas and a mother of a Houston Ag gie suffered minor eye injuries from the gas. One of the policemen kicked a gas bomb in the midst of the mass ed Aggies. A freshman retaliated by picking up the missle and tossing it back at the officer. An ex-Aggie who was present at the fracas phoned Police Chief Ash worth who arose from bed and came down town to give the police men present instructions that the Aggies were not to be further mo lested. The yell practice proceeded with out further interruption under the direction of yell leaders Skeen Sta ley, J. O. Alexander, Chuck Chalm ers, and -Jack Nagle. After the conclusion of the session, the Ag gies retired from the downtown streets to resume the festivities they had temporarily abandoned for yell practice. Saturday morning the Cadet Corps paraded the Houston streets in a full-dress parade. The side walks were crammed with specta tors who turned out to watch the corps pass in parade, marching to the stirring, pulse-quickening mu sic of the famed Aggie bands. The corps was reviewed by Colonel Maurice D. Welty, A. & M. com mandant, and Mayor Neal Pickett, standing in the reviewing stand at in front of the Rice Hotel. Later in the day, the Aggie “Twelfth Man” proceeded out South Main to Rice Stadium for the main event of the corps trip. The Cadet section was filled an hour before game time and from across the field one could see a large mass of white—the heat having forced the Aggies to shed their blouses. The corps was in top condition and were “all out” in their aid to their team on the gridiron. From the time the Aggie gridsters entered the stadium for the pre-game warmup until af ter the game was over, the corps (See TEAR GAS, Page 4) The Brazos County Texas A. & M. club will sponsor a testimonial banquet Friday night at 7 o’clock in Sbisa Hall for Dean E. J. Kyle, who has recently returned from a 20,000 mile air inspection tour of South and Central America, Club President P. L. Downs, Jr., has announced. The banquet will be open to the general public including men and women. Banquet Chairman George A. Long announced that tickets will be made available in Bryan and College Station. No tickets will be sold at the door so advance re servations will be necessary, Long said. Dean Kyle took over 2,500 feet of colored film on his trip and these pictures will be shown at the banquet. Kyle is a graduate of A. & M. of the class of ’99. He has been dean of the School of Agriculture since 1911 and a member of the faculty since 1902. This past fall he left on the tour for the purpose of studying agriculture and agricultural edu cation methods in the several coun tries visited. The trip was made under the sponsorship of Nelson Rockfeller, coordinator of the Coun cil of National Defense, the Stand ard Oil Co., and the Anderson- Clayton Co. of Houston. While away, he visited Mexico, Guatemala, Coasta Rica, Canal Zone, Venezuela, Trinidad, Brazil, Argentina, Chili, Peru, and Colum bia. While there, he visited all of the major colleges and large ranches in each of those countries. He gathered a wealth of material for his report to his sponsors and will relate some of his experiences at the testimonial to be held in Sbisa hall. Symphony Group To Rehearse Tomorrow The College Station Community Symphony Orchestra will hold an other of its regular rehearsals to morrow night at 7:00 in the music room of the A. & M. Consolidated School. Students living in the old area are invited to meet at the bugle stand where there will be cars to take them to the rehearsal and back. String instrument players are still the greatest need of the orch estra. The system of furnishing rides to rehearsals has been start ed to boost the attendance of students or any other persons who have no way to attend the rehears al. ROA Meeting Will Be Tonight at 7:30 The Brazos county Reserve Of ficers Association will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Petroleum lec ture room. The map problem hand ed out at the last meeting will be discussed. Captain W. S. McCulley, presi dent of the Brazos county Reserve Officers Association, especially asks that all Reserve Officers be present. An invitation is also ex tended to all seniors to attend the meeting. \V I ’earl “at but rt. the o*rce y a bo: s r, ipal pair te- lled utly I ■ ind IL Of bled full o be t at res- his hief ) be bat: !/