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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1941
‘If Called to Duty Full Credit Will be Given’-Welty
OFFICIAL
NOTICES
OFFICIAL
The Academic Council w’ll meet at 8
p. m. today.—F. C. BOLTON, Dean.
FEBRUARY GRADUATES
for Baccalaureate and Ad
vanced Degrees to be conferred in Feb
ruary should now make application for
degrees in the Registrar’s Office. Decem
ber 15 is the latest date for applying for
*uch degrees.—H. L. HEATON, Acting
Registrar.
Commanders Pledge Corps Speculation Runs Rampant As
Loyalty to Nation in Crisis Aggies Hear First War Reports
v v It was a dramatic moment m of. “Let’s take a corns
FACULTY DANCE CLUB
The next Faculty dance will be held
on the evening December 12, Friday, from
9 to 12 in the Annex 'of Sbisa Hall.
EASTERN PANHANDLE CLUB
The Ea-.tem Panhandle club will meet
Tuesday night after Yell Practice to dis
cuss final plans for the Christmas Dance.
All members are urged to attend.
WILLIAMSON COUNTY CLUB
There will be a meeting of the William
son County A. & M. club in Room 208,
Academic Building tomorrow night im
mediately after yell practice. It is urgent
that all members interested in the Xmas
Dance be present.
CALIFORNIA CLUB
There will be a California A. & M. Club
meeting at 7 o’clock Tuesday night in
Room 217 Academic building. All those
who are from or interested in California
are cordially invited to attend.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CLUB
The^e will be an important meeting of
the Mississippi Valley A. & M. Club
Tuesday night at 7:15 in Room 310 Aca
demic building. Everyone please be there.
PERMIAN BASIN CLUB
Permian Basin Club meeting in Room
120 Academic building Tuesday night at
7 o’clock.
BEAUMONT CLUB
The Beaumont A. & M. Club will hold
a very important meeting tonight after
yell practice in Room 206, Academic
Building. It is imperative that all mem
bers be present, for membership cards and
dance tickets will be distributed.
HEY,
HEADING FOR HOME?
Start right and easy! Send your
luggage round-trip by trusty, low-
cost Railway Express, and take
your train with peace of mind.We
pick-up and deliver, remember,
at no extra charge within our reg
ular vehicle limits in all cities and
principal towns. You merely phone
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agency i NC .
NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR SERVICE
Commandant Pleas for Students To
Stay in School as Long as Possible
Climaxing the day’s tense events, the organization com
manders held their, first meeting with Colonel M. D. Welty,
commandant, last night in Sbisa hall and adopted a resolution
of loyalty and fidelity after Colonel Welty made the im
portant statement that he would see that some arrangements
were made “to have the men receive credit for their college
work if drafted or called to active duty before the end of the
semester.”
Leave early, no credit
Colonel Welty qualified his
statement, however, by go
ing on to say that such cred
it would be received only if
“the men stay in college as
long as they possibly can. If
any student receives his pa
pers to report on April 1, he
should not quit school now but
continue on with his studies
until the time for him to re
port for duty. This is the
only way any arrangements
can be made to see that full
credit is given.
BELL COUNTY CLUB
There will be an important meeting of
the Bel] County A. & M. club tonight
immediately after yell practice in the
Academic building. The room number will
be announced in the mess halls.
SPANISH CLUB MEETING
The Spanish club will meet Wednesday
night after supper in Room 122 Academic
building. All students
Spanish or who are interested in Lat:
America are urged to attend.
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COLLLIN COUNTY CLUB
The Collin County Club will meet to
night at 7:30 in Room 107 Academic bldg.
INVITATION FROM OPTIMISTS
Any officer of the College caring to
attend a luncheon given by the Optimist
Club of Dallas at noon on December 31
preceding the Cotton Bowl game on Jan
uary 1. p'ease notify my office at once.—
E. J. KYLE, Dean, School of Agriculture.
EAST TEXAS MEN
There will be a meeting of the East
Texas A. & M. club Tuesday, immediately
after yell practice in Room 120 Academic
Bldg. All members are urged to attend
to make final plans for the Christmas
dance. Cigars will be served.
LITERARY GROUP
The literary group of the College Wom
en Social club will meet with Mrs. C. E.
Potter. 102 Jersey Street, College Park,
Friday at 3 P. M. Mrs. N. E. Rigler will
review “Elizabeth and Essex” by Stra-
chey.
Classified
WANTEH: Aggie student for part-time
work soliciting ads. Country weekly. Ad
dress Xzy, Care Battalion.
LOST—Black Konson
lighter combined,
Thanksgiving game. Left on table at Col
lege Coffee Shop. Return to Bannister,
217 No. 7 for reward.
n cigarette case and
Wednesday before
tabli
LOST—A Gruen wrist watch with frag
ment of blue “glass” band attached, some
where between Foster Hall and North Gate
Thursday night. Finder please see Oxford,
Room 13, Foster Hall, for reward.
PLEASE 1 Will whoever has an un
claimed brown spiral Horse & Mule Pro
duction Notebook please bring to 60
Legett for usual reward. I. N. Hickman.
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“Should the seniors be called be
fore June steps will be taken to
see that they are graduated.”
The seniors at the meeting were
urged by Colonel Welty to keep a
cocl head and stress to the under
classmen the value of staying in
school and not leaving the college
without authority in order to vol
unteer for duty. “The last thing
the War Department wants them
to do is for undergraduates lo
leave and join up. The War De
partment wants them to stay and
receive their degrees.”
Keep Cool Head
After Colonel Welty’s message a
resolution was presented by Ca
det Colonel Tom Gillis. The reso
lution was one that backed up
the previously made statement of
the faculty pledging the loyalty
of the cadet corps in this time of
national emergency.
Resolution Passes Unanimously
By a unanimous vote the reso
lution passed and was agreed that
a copy should be sent by wire to
the President of the United States.
The resolution read as follows:
Headquarters, Corps of Cadets
8 December, 1941
Only a few short hours ago
the United States through no
fault of its own was forced
into actual combat with the
imperial forces of Japan.
As students of an institu
tion which has as one of its
primary purposes the train
ing of young men in military
training, we stand prepared
to join with other graduates
of A. & M. college in the com
mon defense of our country.
Realizing the grave respon
sibility which the present war
places upon its members, the
Cadet Corps of Texas A. & M.
College stand together with our
president in this time of great
national emergency.
A. & M. has had a great rec
ord of service to its country
both in times of war as well as
of peace. During the past war
Texas A. & M. furnished more
officers for the army than did
any other college. Today, 4,-
842 young Americans enrolled
in A. & M. are undergoing mil
itary training. But service by
A. & M. does not stop there-—
A. & M. men are technicians,
skilled in the production of
those items so necessary to na
tional defense.
The Cadet Corps of Texas A.
& M., therefore, extends to the
President of the United States
its services whether as mem
bers of military forces or of
civilian defenses. We stand
ready to carry out the polic
ies of governmental agencies
in whatever respect we can
render the most effective ser
vice.
Tom Gillis
Cadet Colonel
Corps Commander
At the end of Colonel Welty’s
message, he summed up the past
two day’s events by saying, “The
U. S. was struck an unfair blow,
but we will gather up steam and re
taliate in such a fashion that ev
erything will be all right in the
end, and we will emerge victor
ious.”
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Tuesday’s Programs
11:25 a. m. — Excursions in
Science
11:40 a. m.—Popular Music.
11:55 a. m.—The Town Crier and
Battalion Newscast.
12:00 noon—Sign-off.
Wednesday’s Programs
11:25 a. m.—Life for Wildlife
(U. S. Department of Interior
ll:40 v a. m.—Dimunitive Class
ics
11:55 a. m.—The Town Crier and
Battalion Newscast.
12:00 noon—Sign-off.
It was a dramatic moment ui
the picture, a war picture, “A Yank
in the R. A. F.,” when the film
snapped. Cat calls, hoorahs, and
rowdy applause shook the walls
of the Campus theater as the Ag
gies in the audience disgustedly
waited for the repairs.
“We’ll be ready in a minute, fel
lows,” a voice drifted in from back
of the screen, “and if you would
care to know Japanese planes have
just bombed Pearl Harbor.”
This was a mental bomb to the
Aggies. First a deathly but ex
ceedingly short silence then loud
and uncoordinated yells.
Someone yelled, “Beat the hell
out of Japan.”
Across the room came the cry
STUDENT SURVEY
(Continued from Pajre 1)
end of the semeste. But, I think
that the seniors are so tired of all
of this war scare they are hoping
they will be taken.”
Bill Delaney, M, Inf., Sophomore
“I feel that the war was inevit
able and now that it has come we
can only hope for the best. Above
all cooperate with those men who 7^
are capable of leading our country
to our ultimate victory which we
all pray will come.
N. Kokles, E, F. A., Freshman
“In view of present circumstanc
es I am definitely in favor of war
with Japan. But, if the age limit
were lowered I would not volun
teer. In the event I should be call
ed however, I would be ready to
fight.
The concensus of opinion among
the student body is that war, no
matter who with, was inevitable,
and now that it has finally come
all are willing, some even eager,
to take an actual part in it. None
of them really want it of course,
but all feel that part of the re
sponsibility even though a very
small part, will fall upon their
shoulders and all are willing to
bear up under it.
The question now foremost in
the minds of every Aggie is “what
is to become of us as a military
body and how soon will it occur?”
The answer to that question may
best be found in the statement
made by Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis.
“Our class has long expected that
it would have to use its military
training, and we are actually fac
ed with it. All we can do now is
accept the practical side of our
training and wait for a definite
statement from the government.”
of, “Let’s take a corps trip to
Tokio.”
“Japan, then Alabama” was
heard followed by “Let’s take ’em
one at a time. Japan next.”
For the time the picture was
forgotten. Aggies were realizing
that “it” had finally happened.
What would it mean for them?
Early graduation ? A bull text
major? An Aggie Expeditionary
force? All kinds of speculations
were being cast.
Then the management started
playing “Goodbye to Texas” and
the Aggies sang with a force which
made a person’s blood travel
through his veins like a stream
lined train. The Aggies were unit
ed in thought, and surely their
fight song punctuated their feel
ings.
Charlie Tiegner, who made the
startling announcement to his pack
ed theater, acted with sheepish
modesty when thanked by mem
bers of the corps for telling them
what had happened.
Having been asked his story of
why and “how come” he did it,
Tiegner told a brief but interest-
“Well, my wife called right after
she heard the news over the radio,
and I was just itching to tell some
one. Course there were those Ag
gies in the audience for me to tell,
but they were on the edge of their
seats watchin’ the show. What was
I to do?
“Really I was hoping the film
would break or something, and
about that time I stop—, I mean
the film snapped, yeah, that’s it|
The film snapped.” In his voice
you could hear one story but by
close observing you might wonder
something else. Did Tiegner stop
the projector himself so that he
could tell the Aggies something
that so vitally concerned them?
Brazos Aggies Meet
Tomorrow Night, 7:30
The regular monthly meeting cf
the Brazos County A. & M. club
will be held at the Bryan Country
Club tomorrow night at 7:30.
A program and smokes will be
furnished, and H. L. Heaton, sec-
retary-terasurer of the college, urg
ed each member to attempt to bring
a new member.
Fenn college home economics
students have a new six-room lab
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Now Open Under Class V - 7 Training
Houston, Texas, Dec. 8.—The | Upon completion of the prelimi-
State of Texas, which already has nary course, those candidates rec-
more than 12,000 officers and men ommended for appointment as Mid
serving with the United States shipmen, U. S. Naval Reserve, will
Navy, was called upon today to be given additional three months’
provide even more deck and engi- training. After being appointed a
neering officers for the rapidly ex- : Reserve Midshipman and during
panding two-ocean fleet. the period under instruction each
One hundred vacancies now exist reserve midshipman will be entitled
in the eighth naval district’s deck to receive the same pay and al-
quota under the Class V-7 reserve lowance as midshipmen of the
officers’ training program, while J regular Navy, namely $780 a year
the engineering quota has been and daily ration,
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charge of the Naval Reserve re- Reserve Midshipman for a commis-
cruiting stations at Houston and s i° n as Ensign in the Naval Re-
Dallas.
To be accepted for enlistment
in Class V-7, an applicant must
have reached his 20th birthday
but not yet passed his 28th birth-
of arts, a bachelor of science or
engineering degree from an accred
ited university or college.
However, in the case of engineer
ing students interested in appoint
ment in Class V-7, those who are their P laces with the officers of
working toward their degree and | Regular Navy,
who have completed four years cf
serve. He may request active duty
in the Fleet and, if ordered to
such duty, he will be entitled to
full pay and allowance.
Naval Reserve Midshipmen are
officers in a qualified sense and
take precedence after Aviation
Cadets of the Naval Reserve. Lat
er, upon being commissioned as
Ensigns in the Reserve, they take
college, including
mathematics and
two years
course
Added emphasis on home eco
nomics training is expected to
physics and chemistry, will be ac-j loost enrollment of women stu-
cepted, provided they meet the
other requirements. •
Applicants for enlistment in
Class V-7 may be made at any
U. S. Navy recruiting station, or
at the Naval Reserve Recruiting
Stations at Dallas and Houston.
Applicants for enlistment in
Class V-7 will be entitled to no
pay, but when ordered to active
training duty they will be furnish
ed commercial transportation and
necessary expenses en route. Upon
arrival at their designated station
they will be furnished at govern
ment expense their initial outfit of
uniform, clothing and equipment.
dents at the University of Cali-
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