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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1941-
Watson, Burkes
Appointed Texas
FSA Regional Jobs
THE BATTALION
New Jobs Will Be
Aiding Small Farmers
To Raise Living Standard
Appointments of C. T. Watson
as state director for the Farm
Security Adminstration in Texas
and W. M. Burkes as assistant
state director have been announc
ed by Eegional Director C. M.
Evans.
Watson has been serving as act
ing state FSA director since last
April, succeeding V. R. Smitham,
who resigned to become acting city
manager of Dallas. For six years
previous to this time, Watson was
assistant state director. He is also
a former county agricultural agent
of Dawson County, Texas.
He holds a degree from East
Texas Teachers College, Commerce,
with a major in agriculture, and
has done gradute work at Texas
A. & M. college, Texas university,
and Northwestern university,
Evanson, 111.
Burke was advanced to his po
sition from that of F.S.A. dis
trict rural supervisor which he has
held for four years, serving prin
cipally in Central Texas. From
1929 to 1935' he was county agri
cultural agent in Upshur County
and during the previous six years
taught vocational agriculture in
rural schools in Polk, Lamar and
Red River counties. He holds a
degree in agriculture from Texas
A. & M. college.
In their new position, Watson
and Burkes will direct the Farm
Security Administration’s program
in Texas for helping small farm
ers and stockmen to remain on the
land and make a better living.
NOW,
OLE ARMY,
Let’s Take Those
Longhorns
LOUPOT’S
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11:40 a. m.—Music From Many
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11:55 a. m.—The Town Crier and
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11:40 a. m.—Music From Many
Lands
11:55 a. m.—The Town Crier
12:00 a. m.—Sign-off.
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11:40 a. m.—Interlude
11:50 a. m.—A Moment for Re
flection (Bryan and College Sta
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12:00 noon—Sign-off.
Sunday’s Programs
8:30 a. m.—Roans Chapel Sing
ers
8:45 a. m.—Classical Music
9:30 a. m.—Sign-off.
Town Hall To
Present Albert
Spalding on Dec 3
Famed Violinist Has
Appeared Throughout The
Wolrd in His Performances
In its third presentation of the
year, Town Hall will bring Albert
Spalding, noted violinist, to the
A. & M. campus for a program
Wednesday night, December 3.
Spalding’s name is synonymous
with great violin playing. In the
course of a brilliant career, he has
made a name for himself as a
foremost concert violinist. There
is scarcely a musical center of the
universe where he has not ap
peared, and by his masterful per
formances refuted once and for
all the American credo that no
Violinist
‘Tune the Car’
Motorists Advised
In Order to Save Gas
“Tune the car and trim the
consumption” is becoming a popu
lar slogan as American motorists
seek to save gasoline to serve
defense. However, the motorist
himself has to be attuned to the
idea of using a little less gasoline
during the emergency.
Pumping the tires every week
to the recommended pressure, ad
justing the brakes to eliminate
dragging, tuning the motor to
greatest efficiency, and greasing
every moving part every 1,000
miles are obvious means to the
mechanical end of defense saving.
'Rev’ Celebrates Her Tenth Anniversary as Aggielands’ One
Female Student and Has Place in Hearts of 6,500 Students
Albert Spalding
native artist can compete with the
foreign artist.
Spalding made his debut in Paris
at the age of 16. In the course
of his career he has played before
royalty, was decorated by the Ital
ian government and by France with
the rosette of the Legion of Hon
or.
There is scarcely a musical cen
ter of the world where he has
not appeared and been accepted
as a master of the violin. It is
said of him in some of his critic
isms that his playing is as fine
as the violin he uses; he has been
called by some “the aristocrat of
the violin.”
By Charlie Babcock
She’s just a black and white non-
pedigreed dog, and she’s not as
young as she used to be, but there
are 7,000 Texas Aggies who would
fight if so much as a hair of- her
body were harmed.
Reveille is her name, and she
is the only female at Aggieland
who is enrolled as a student. But
she doesn’t take any classroom
work and can never receive her de
gree. Perhaps her main claim to
fame is that she is the official mas
cot of A. & M. and has been for
ten years.
Reveille came to the Aggie
campus back in 1931 when some
Aggies were on their way home
from Navasota late one night in
their Model T. Halfway home, the
cadets ran over a small puppy,
and stopping the jalopy, they
went to see if they had killed it.
However, the little pup stood on
its feet and wagged its tail, so
the Aggies put it in the car and
brought it back to their dormi
tory.
That night, the group decided
to keep the dog as a pet. When
it was discovered that their new
pet was a female, the boys assum
ed a more kindly attitude and be
gan searching for a suitable name.
The search was ended the next
morning as the reveille bugle
sounded, for the new pet set up
a howl that emphasized that she,
too, disliked that call—so her fin
ders promptly dubbed her “Rev
eille.”
She made mess formation that
morning with her guardians and
had the run of the mess hall. One
of the waiters spied her filling
her stomach and tried to throw her
out when her four foster par
ents rose up and nearly threw
the waiter out instead. From then
on, Reveille made all meal for
mations and had the right to go
and come as she pleased in the
mess hall.
She was an instant hit when
she made the first formation on
Kyle Field with the Aggie Band
and capered in front of the drum
major as though the whole show
was staged for her own benefit.
That set her up as the official
mascot and won for her the first
annual Reveille blanket.
Reveille eats where and when
she feels like it. When sleep
overtakes her, she wanders into
any dormitory and hunts an open
door. Once located, she calmly
walks in and jumps into the lower
bunk. Tradition has ruled that
to spend the night there, the own
er shall sleep on the floor or else
where.
The Aggies won’t forget Rev
eille . . . they love her . . . and
the owner of the' bunk shall not besides, she is the Aggies’ No. 1
dislodge her, and if she chooses girl student.
Eyes Tested
Glasses Fitted
Dr. John S. Caldwell
Bryan, Texas
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