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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 ’COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 6, 1941 Z275 NUMBER 37 40 Seniors Are To Be Re-checked Seniors Who Failed Physical Get Another Chance Seniors who passed the physical at camp last summer on waiver will be given another chance next month. Two medical officers will come to College Station and give the physical examination on Jan uary 13-14. There will be approximately forty seniors taking the examination who were allowed to continue their con tracts because only a small defect, such as being overweight or under weight kept them from passing when the exam was given at camp. It is not known at the present time from where the officers will be sent, only that they will be here at this time. Giesecke Wins F Paul Anderson Engineering Award Dr. F. E. Giesecke, professor emeritus of A. & M. will be award ed the F. Paul Anderson medal in recognition of work done and services performed in the field of heating, ventilating or air condi tioning at the meeting of the Amer ican Society of Heating and Venti lating Engineers at Philadelphia in January. Dr. Giesecke is a former presi dent of the A.S.H.V.E. and the med al was first awarded in 1932 to Dr. W. H. Carrier, chairman of the board of the Carrier Corpora tion. It was established by Thorn ton Lewis in 1930 in honor of Dean Anderson of the School of Engi neering of the University of Ken tucky. Since his retirement at A. & M. Dr. Giesecke has spent a great portion of his time traveling over the country in the interest of the A.S.H.V.E. Student Welfare Meeting Postponed Dean Bolton’s office today an nounced the postponment of the regular December 10 Student Wel fare Committee meeting to Decem ber 17. The student welfare committee, made up on one senior from each battalion on the campus and one representative from each of the three other classes, will meet with the faculty to discuss campus problems and solve these prob lems. Dr L G Jones Shows Movies For Agronomy Students Sound movies loaned by the Soil Conservation Service were shown last Wednesday night in the Ag ricultural building to a group of Agronomy and soil conservation students, by Dr. L. G. Jones of the agronomy department. The films shown by Dr. Jones were “Rain in the Plains;” “Ter races in the Northeast,” and “Roads in Erosion.” Also shown at this meeting were colored moving pictures of the Ken tucky Derby. Fray and Braggiotti Town Hall Presents Team Fray, Braggiotti Swing, Classical Pleases Audiences Their Record Shows Dr. John Ashton, professor in the Rural Sociology Department, lec tured last Thursday morning in the Agricultural Building to a group of 70 Agronomy majors on Nica raguan agriculture and its soils. He described soils, climate, peo ple, social customs and opportuni ties for young men in Nicaragua. Dr. Ashton said that the chief agricultural products of Nicaragua are coffee and bananas although it ranks fifth in the production of coffee and first in per acre out put. He also read a poem translated into the native language and adopted by the Nicaraguan peo ple. Dr. Ashton spent one year in •Nicaragua as an official repre sentative of A. & M. Jacques Fray and Mario Brag giotti, outstanding piano duo, will be preesnted to the corps by Town Hall Tuesday night at 7 p.m. This pair of artists has pleased thous ands throughout the country with their concerts of “dressed-up swing” and light classical select ions, their record acclaims. The versatility of Fray and Brag- gnotti enables them to suit the tastes of any type of audience they may appear before. They are apt at playing the works of the mas ters such as Bach and Wagner, as well as the works of contemporary composers. The team caters to the audience. The listeners select the pieces they desire by their genuine applause. If the audience leans to the light er side of music, Fray and Brag giotti present selections in a light er vein. Two of the inevitable pieces de manded of the duo on any pro gram are “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin, and Ravel’s “Bo lero.” It is not to be understood that Fray and Braggiotti are strict musicians. Indeed, one of their best numbers is a “Yankee Doodle” bur lesque as it would have been play ed by Debussy, Chopin, and the oth er masters. Surely such a variety of enter tainment on the key boards could not fail to entertain every member of the audience, regardless of the taste, age, or temperament of the listener. Fray has stated that they enjoy playing at colleges because the audiences are so warm and enthus iastic. Fray and Braggiotti should find the Aggie reception unequalled in appreciation and applause. Texans Are Honest— Texas Librarian Says Frank L. Winship, director of the drama loan library of the Tex as university, is convinced that Texans are honest. Last year the library mailea out 26,235 plays,' having a total value of $13,000, to readers ail over the state with only their word as security. Less than $50 worth of the plays failed to return. The largest play-leading library in the world, the drama loan li brary contains more than 30,000 titles, including all major plays. Plays from its shelves are avail able to anybody in Texas who is willing to pay the postage—which usually amounts to six cents. John Ashton Speaks Before Agronomy Meeting Nicaraguan Soils Feature in Talk By A & M Representative Baptist Give One-Act Play Several A. & M. students have parts in the one-act play, “Out post,” which will be presented at the First Bapitst Church, College Station, Sunday night at 8:00. The play is based on actual inci dents on the mission field of north ern India, depicting experiences in the life of a young missionary doc tor. The play begins in a humorous vein and comes to a climax when Doctor Ellison arrives just in time to prevent a Hindu boy from stab bing a blood-feud rival from the hill country. Mrs. Harvey Hatcher, who studi ed dramatics at Alabama Univer sity and the Southwestern Semi nary of Fort Worth, will direct the production. L. M. Haupt, Jr., of the Electrical Engineering faculty has charge of the lighting. Those in the cast are: Charles M. Barnes, Oran D. Jones, James Ken nedy, John Artie Browning, Miss Doris Gorbet, Miss Louise Perritte, Miss Arrenia Haupt, and Harvey Hatcher. Hatcher is a member of Alpha Psi Omega, national dramat ics fraternity, and has experience in dramatic work at the University of Missouri, Stephens College, and the Southwestern Seminary of Fort Worth. Tickets on Sale Until Holidays For January 1 Cotton Bowl Game Fish Visit Mary Hardin Baylor for Reception Today Dorothe Sullivan Fish Class Leader Sends Letter Here Louis Bracy, president of the A. & M. freshman class, has received a letter from Miss Dorothe Sulli- freshmen class president at van, Mary Hardin Baylor, extending an invitation to all the Aggie fresh men to attend a reception to be given in their honor Saturday, Dec ember 5th, at 8 p.m. Lieut. Joe E. Davis stated that any freshmen desiring to go to Belton for the reception must fill out an individual pass and turn it in to the commandant’s office be fore noon Saturday. The number one uniform will be worn. Busses for the trip will be char tered. They will leave from the Ag- gieland Inn at two o’clock Satur day afternoon and return to the college immediately after the re ception. Time will be allowed for the freshmen to escort their dates home. Beautiful and charming girls, who are abundant at Mary Hardin Baylor, will be on hand to meet the Aggie busses when they arrive, Miss Sullivan stated in her letter. Immediately upon arrival, dates will be arranged for everyone for the reception. Bracy expressed the desire that at least one hundred and fifty freshmen make the trip. The jour ney is made once a year for every freshman class. This year promis es to be one of the largest recep tions ever held due to the enormous freshman enrollment. Miss Sullivan and the Mary Har din Baylor freshman class deserve a vote of thanks from the Aggie freshmen for the gracious invita tion and hope the trip will contin ue annually. Saturday should be an enjoyable day and a memorable one for all who make the trip. Cosmopolitan Club To Hear Kyle About South American Experiences Dean E. J. Kyle will tell of his experiences on his recent trip in Central and South America before the Cosmopolitan Club Sunday at 3 p.m. in the parlor of the old Y. The lecture will be illustrated by Colored motion pictures which are a part of the twenty-five reels'f Huntsville Girls Are Guests Of ASME for Party and Dance By Jack Keith An afternoon party, a dance to the music of Toppy Pearce and the company of over 50 girls from Huntsville—all of these are on to day’s entertainment program for members of the A.S.M.E. The girls, students of Sam Hous ton State Teachers College at Huntsville, will arrive by charter ed bus about noon. Nearly all of them have been provided with blind dates, but there are a few who as yet do not have dates. Any ME or Aero student interested in taking one of these girls to the dance should go by and make arrange ments with Leland Ellis, H-4 Hart, this morning. Members of the ASME are in vited to the Bryan Country Club this afternoon from 2 to 5. Re freshments and a juke box will be furnished by the ASME and there will be no admission charge. Highlight of the day will be the dance tongiht at Sbisa Hall. Ad mission to the dance is not limited to members of the ASME as all mechanical and aeronautical engi neers can go. Music will be furnish ed by the Aggieland orchestra and the price of admission is $1.10. This is the first dance ever sponsored by the ASME on the A. & M. cam pus. taken during the trip. This will be the first time the pictures have been available to the student body. Dean Kyle made the trip as a good will ambassador sent by Nel son Rockefeller, commissioner of inter-American affairs. The trip was made possible through the co operation of the Standard Oil Co. and the Anderson Clayton Co. During his stay, Dean Kyle vis ited almost every country and ma jor city in Latin America while studying their economic problems in order to make recommendations for the improvement of pan-Ameri can relations. There will be several Latin Am erican musical numbers on the pro gram. Refreshments will be serv ed at the meeting. The Cosmopolitan club which is sponsoring the talk is composed of most of the Latin American stu dents attending A. & M. and many of the American students. The ob ject of the club is to bring about a better understanding between the young people of the Americas. FIRST SERGEANTS Any first sergeant who fail ed to call for his organiza tion’s copies of the October and November issues of the Engi neer Magazine should come by the Student Activities Office and receive said copies. The same applies to any individ ual subscriber. Dallas Engineer Speaks For ASCE In his talk Thursday night, H. O. Cook, consulting engineer, from Dallas had a message of great im portance not only for the assem bled C.E.’s, but for the members of all the clubs of a similar nature*. While his talk had no definite title, it brought out what the ideal goal of every student chapter should be, “To Develop the per sonality and speaking ability of every member of the chapter.” Cook was very strong that a stu dent chapter was not the object but was only the means to an end. He advocated relegating guest speak- WSC GAME STARTS AT 4 O’CLOCK The A. & M.-Washington State football game will be broadcast over the Texas Qual ity Network beginning at 4 p. m. Central Standard time. If the broadcast has not been completed in time for the 6:10 p. m. meal formation, the re mainder of the game will be transmitted over the loud speaker systems in both mess halls so the cadets will not miss hearing any of the game, Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis stat ed yesterday. Advanced Military Pay Available In Purchasing of Tickets by Notes Rumors of Early Holidays Squelched Rumors that the Christmas vacation has been moved forward to the 17th have no foundation No information is available from President Walton’s office concern ing the matter. Unless the execu tive committee meets to take ac tion on the proposed change, the holiday will begin on December 20 at noon as originally scheduled in the college catalogue. Classes will be resumed on January 5. The suggestion that the vaca tion be moved up was made to per mit more cadets to attend the Cot ton Bowl classic in Dallas on New Year’s Day. If the holidays remain as originally scheduled, students who travel great distancees to see the game will have three days after the game to spend in Dallas. The time will be too short for most boys to go home again. If the dates were changed, it would allow more boys to spend some time at home and still see the game. Clothes Needed For Bundles For Britain A new shipment of used cloth ing for Bundles for Britain is be ing prepared for shipment next week. Clean, mended, woolen gar ments are desired. The need is very great for warm clothing for men, women, and children. Anyone having any clothing to donate is asked to call Mrs. C. B. Campbell, 4-6574 ox Mrs. D. W. Williams, 4-6654 or bundles may be brought directly to the Red Cross Center, Dean Puryear’s old home. Tickets for the Cotton Bowl game may be purchased at the YMCA until the Christmas holidays. Since only 3000 tickets are available at the price of $1.65, date tickets may not be bought until December 17 at that price. This restric tion is necessary so that as many members of the student body as desire may obtain tickets. Junior and senior military students who desire a get tickets by drawing on their January checks may do so by signing a promissory note for thef" amount of the tickets. These notes must be obtained from the senior instructor of the student concern ed, who will certify that the cadet has a contract. All students must present their coupon books when buying then- own tickets and date tickets will not be sold except to purchasers of student tickets. A limit of one stu dent ticket and one date ticket and two parent’s tickets will be sold to each person. Parents’ admission prices are $2.50, $4.40, and $6.50. Tom Gillis, cadet colonel, announ ced that the military science checks will arrive in January and will all be distributed in Ross Hall instead of by the senior instructors as pre viously announced. A representa tive of the fiscal office will be pres ent to cash the checks and allow the student to pay his promissory note to a representative of the athletic council. Gillis expressed the thanks of the junior and senior classes to W. H. Holzman, college comptroller, E. W. Hooker, athletic department, E. J. Kyle, chairman athletic commit tee and Major A. J. Bennett, adju tant, for making it possible for ad vanced military students to obtain cotton bowl tickets in this way. United Science Clubs Will Hold Meeting Dec 16 Many Science Clubs Affected By Organization Meet YMCA Circulates Christmas Carols For Freshman Use Following a custom inaugurated last year by J. G. Gay, associate secretary of the Y. M. C. A., the Y is giving out mimeographed Christmas songs for use of the Freshmen in their nightly caroling. Eight songs are included in the group. They were chosen by Gay after consultation with a cross sec tion of cadets. 2,000 copies of the songs have been made and are available to the freshmen of every outfit. They may be obtained from Gay at the old Y. M. C. A. Voorhies To Speak At Chem Club Meet Alexis Voorhies, Jr., associate director of the Esso laboratories cf the Standard Oil Company, will address the A. & M. section of the American Chemical Society at the seventeenth meeting to be held Friday, December 12, 1941. The meeting will be held in the chemistry lecture room at 8 p. m. The United Science club will hold its regular meeting for the semes ter Tuesday, December 16, at 7 p. m. Members are asked to watch for announcement of the place and the speaker. The program of sending dele gates to the Dallas meetings will be settled at this time. Since this is based upon active member ship, secretaries of member clubs are requested to bring their rolls to the meeting or send them in advance to W. D. C. Jones, Box B, Faculty Exchange, Campus. Members of the following clubs are automatically members of the U. S. C. of A. & M.: Biology, Pre- Med, Entomology, Fish and Game, Kream and Kow, Junior Collegiate F. F. A. Student Chapter American Society of Agronomy, Student Chapter American Veterinary Med icine Association, and Geology. Officers of member clubs are urged to see that their clubs are well represented. No attendance effort will be made except through these officers. Any member of a science club is invited to attend the meeting. Further information about the U. S. C. of A. & M. may be ob tained at the Science Building, room 32, telephone 4-5664. Church of Christ Mexican Missionary Will Speak Next Week John Wolfe, experienced and tra veled missionary, who has been working in Mexico for twelve years, will speak at the A. & M. Church of Christ Monday and Tuesday evenings Devember 8 and 9. Wolfe formerly worked among the Mex icans in El Paso, but several years ago he went into northern Mex ico to establish churches. Chihua hua and Torreon were chosen as the sites for some of these church- Servces will begin at seven p.m. Visitors will be welcome. Jarrin’ John Outshines Cast; Kimbrough Fans Pack Houston Theatre for Premier Showing By Charlie Babcock John Kimbrough fans packed the Kirby Theater in Houston Thurs day night to capacity to watch the ers to a secondary position in pro- performance of their former All gram determination and allowing all members of the chapter to de velop their speaking ability and poise by the delivery of short in formal papers, with perhaps three prepared discussions on each paper. College Campuses Are Birthplaces for Music College campuses are the birth place of more outstanding musical organizations than any other insti tution in the United States, accord ing to Herbie Kay, orchestra lead er. Kay speaks from experience, be cause he got his start at North western university. He is'credited with discovery cf such now-prominent stars as Dor othy Lamour, his former wife, Shirley Ross, and Jeanne Carroll. American hero in the world prem ier of his first motion picture. Hu manity poured through the doors until officials were forced to hang out the “standing room only” sign. Unusual but not unexpected was the fact that a great number of the members of the audience were boys and girls of grade school age. However, the audience was com posed mainly of sports addicts. For four years the nation’s sports pages have been filled with numerous tales of the one football player to come out the Southwest Conference to take his place among the ail- time greats of the gridiron. So it was that his football fans wanted to see Kimbrough perform as a cow boy turned Texas ranger in Zane Grey’s “The Lone Star Ranger,” Those same fans gave “Big John” a big hand when he made his per sonal appearance on the stage be fore the show started. Proof of John’s ability to act was offered when he took over the master cf ceremony duties when that gentle man fumbled his lines. But back to the cinema attrac tion—The picture is “corny” from the standpoint of the script from which Kimbrough had to work. Glaring technical errors are notice able throughout the story, such as: the conflicting of time element and the use of modern inventions; a scene in which John and his lead ing lady, Sheila Ryan, are thrown into a river and both emerge soak ing wet, only to have Kimbrough appear in a dry, freshly pressed out fit about a minute later; and there are other technicalities. But with all those handicaps in cluding a weak cast to support him, Kimbrough does give a creditable performance. True, he gives some of his lines as though he was reading them to a six-year old child, but there are flashes of act ing ability which seem to indicate that better treatment in later por- ductions will erase the amateurish taste of his first epic. The bar room fight scene packs the same punch and is just as thrill ing as ever. Then, there are scenes of the dashing fullback rescuing the runaway stagecoach or pulling the villain from a galloping horse, but somehow, in all those shots, the face of the hero is not clearly visible to the movie-goer, which may mean that it is not Kimbrough who is the “accomplished rider” mentioned in press notices. Better photography would have helped the picture, for there are many sequences in which heavy shadows cover John’s face. Kimbrough fans who attend the local showing of the horse opera should enter the theater in a toler ant mood, for although the acting is not down-right professional, it is not nearly as bad as the advertise ments have indicated. Bear in mind that the Aggie All-American has not been used to posing before cameras. His job has been on the gridiron, so give the boy a solid round of applause for a great try. j‘—" MM •earl “at but rt. the jrce 3y a bor, ipal pair ate- )lled utly lind 4 of bled full o be t at res- his hief [> be bat: 7 7