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
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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.
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