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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 < i \ 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 5, 1942 Z275 NUMBER 54 Draft Registration Will Be Held in Ad Bldg Students Need Not Leave Campus Feb 16 to Sign Up Fish Hold Annual Ball Friday Night Ag’gieland Plays For Affair; Corps Dance Saturday at 9 Highlighting the freshman soc ial season this year is the annual Freshman Ball to be held tomor row night in Sibsa Hall from 9 till 12. Following this occasion a Corps Dance will be held on Satur day night. The Aggieland Orchestra under the leadership of Toppy Pearce will furnish the music for both Two rest rooms have been add ed to the equipment in Sbisa hall for the convenience of dance goers this year. The men’s room opens onto the vestibule leading to the lounge in the annex. The ladies room opens into the lounge itself. These two rooms are com plete and will be open for the Fish Ball Friday night. dances while Norma Jean Jahn will furnish the lyrics. Over 250 girls from T.S.C.W. will arrive Friday afternoon on special busses as dates and will be lodged in Puryear Hall. Freshmen may obtain permission from their company commanders for late passes. Those freshmen without dates will be expected to be in within an hour after the dance is over. The committee for the dance ap pointed by Freshman Class Prexy Louis Bracy, and Vice-President Ed Boeder, include: Ticket sales, S. S. Williams; dates, T. W. Laney; finance, L. G. Manousas; accom modations, C. G. Yoacum; orches tra, M. C. McDonald; invitations, N. E. Whitaker; and dance floor, G. L. Van Fleet. Ticket sales for the dance are booming as already more than $250 worth of tickets have been sold and more than 1,500 Aggies and their dates are expected to be present. Tickets are $1.10 per couple or per stag. Tickets may be obtained before Friday at 5 p.m. in the new area from Room 108, Dorm 4 and in thei old area from G-8, Walton. Other than freshmen, seniors will be the only Aggies allowed to attend as guests of the freshman class. Gabriel Goes On Active Duty With CAC at Camp Wallace Don Gabriel, former editor of The Battalion who graduated in January, has been called to active duty with the Coast Artillery Corps at Camp Wallace near Hous ton. Gabriel, an economics major, was editor of the Battalion the first semester of this term, a major in the Coast Artillery, and a mem ber of the Scholarship Honor So ciety. Featured in Saturday Night Program ter These beauties from the sister school of the Aggies at Denton will display their musical ability this week end in College Station when they play for the Saturday night entertainment at the Assembly Hall. The All Girl Orchestra of TSCW is one of the best in the dance band business today. Swing You Sinners; TSCW Rivals of Phil Spitalny Girls to Set Corps Jumping Saturday By Clyde C. Franklin TSCW’s all-girl swing orchestra will be swinging for the first time here Saturday night at seven on the stage of the Assembly Hall. These gals will appear as the at traction at the free show at that time. Alden Cathey, social secre tary of the senior class, states that they will also appear at intermis sion at the corps dance Saturday. Miss Mary Elizabeth Armstrong, director of the 14 piece orchestra will present the orchestra’s “Sweet Swing” music, and they will ac company vocalists, a violin trio, and a dancer. A vocal trio, the “Three Tones,” composed of Miss Betty Tieman, Miss Joan Gurley, and Miss Jerry Smith will sing novelty tunes, and Miss Dorothy Colquitt will sing “White Cliffs of Dover.” Miss Pa tricia Hackett will present a tap and an acrobatic dance. A novelty arrangement of “This Is No Laugh ing Matter” will be played by the violin trio. Members of the trio are Miss Hazel Powers, Miss Ro berta von Gremp, and Miss Arm strong. Judge Ware Speaks To Brazos Aggies Judge A. S. Ware, county co ordinator for the Citizens Defense Corps will be the principal speaker at the regular membership meeting of the Brazos County A. & M. club at 7:30 p. m. Thursday at the Country Club, it was announced today by P. L. Downs, president. Judge Ware will speak on train ing courses for civilian protection, air raids and first aid. The usual attendance prize will be given and reports will be heard from the membership committee chairman, J. E. Roberts, and from the ath letic committee chairman Doc Lip scomb, and others. Sophomores Can Get Deferrment By Signing for Navy V-5 Air Commissions NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 4.—Many youths now sophomores in college will be permitted to enlist in Class V-5, U. S. Naval Reserve, for aviation training to begin after the close of the current school year, Eighth Naval District headquarters announced today. The minimum age limit at which Barlow Addresses ME, Aero Meet Tonite Howard Barlow, of the Aeronau tical Engineering department, will speak tonight at 7:00 o’clock in the Chemistry lecture room before a joint meeting of the ASME and the Aero club. His talk, which will be accom panied and illustrated by slides, will have as a subject “Modern American Military Aircraft.” Bar- low plans to discuss such topics as firepower, armor protection and other engineering aspects of vari ous types of planes. All mechanical and aeronautical engineering students are invited to attend the meeting. enlistment for naval aviation train ing can be made was dropped re cently from 20 to 19. Men so en listed will not be subject to selec tive service and will be permitted to stay in school to complete the two year college requirement for admission to the Naval Aviation Cadet status. Upon successful completion of their training, they will be com missioned as Ensign, U. S. Naval Reserve. Cadets must remain unmarried until appointed as commissioned officers, but may marry at any time after acceptance of commis sion. Miss Sally Maxwell, 10-year-old mascot of the orchestra, will sing “Elmer’s Tune.” Miss Maxwell, sis ter of the string bass player, Miss Elizabeth Maxwell, is a blond sixth-grade student from Denton. Miss Maxwell is the first mascot the Serenaders have had; she has been singing with the orchestra since October. TSCW’s serenaders now close each program with “The Star - along Military Walk With Ken Bresnen Opinion is the queen of the world.—Pascal Question of the week: If the pres ent paper shortage causes the pub lication of magazines to be limited to three, what three would you prefer to continue publication? Tom Sparks, F Field Art. — American, Collier’s and Life. Life is the best picture magazine pub lished, and I think that picture magazines have a definite place. Short stories and fiction always provide relaxation and entertain ment which are needed in war time. Collier’s provides the most enjoy able reading to be found in this field. American should be permitted to continue publication because it contains a diversified periodical of interesting features, a picture sec tion, notes on interesting people and events and also short stories and novels. Bob Moore, A Cavalry—Cosmo politan, Life and Time. Life is a new photographic field, and al though its pictures are somewhat exaggerated and extreme, they usually convey the story very well. Time is a reliable news periodical which contains items on cinema, opera, news, politics and other top ics of current interest. It is recog nized as being authoritative, and it is a different field from Life or Cosmo. I pick Cosmopolitan because it prints good fiction and not riff raff. Its authors are generally the most popular American writers. This magazine covers a wider field of fiction than any other magazine, and reports world events in an in teresting, narrative form. Willie White, E Field Art.—In limiting magazine publicatiop to three, it would be wise to select one containing novels and light fic tion, another of a more serious na ture telling of world events, and a third in the scientific field. Ameri can would fill the bill on a high class fiction magazine, because the stories which appear between its covers are carefully selected on the basis of style and content. Time is an excellent, conservative news “mag” which does not sensation alize. A magazine in the scientific field which holds much prominence is the National Geographic. Spangled Banner.” They open their appearances with their theme song “Campus Shadows” which was written for them by Miss Lois Pin son in 1939. The orchestra wears blue crepe dresses at all appear ances. Under the direction of Miles A. Dresskell, faculty supervisor, the group has programs scheduled in cities surrounding Denton for the remainder of the school year. Members of the orchestra are Miss Armstrong, Miss Maxwell, Miss Joy Johnson, Miss Josephine Arnold, Miss Mary Nell McKitch- en, Miss Arlyne Haggard, Miss Mary Jo Pierce, Miss George Goss Smith, Miss Dorothy Headlee, Miss Julia Harlan, Miss Jeanne Arnold, Miss Elizabeth Maxwell, Miss Jan ice Jolley and Miss Maxine Holt. Richard Jenkins, director of the program series, asserted that the audience participation feature of the Saturday programs would be come a regular feature of the pro grams. This will be in addition to the regularly scheduled stunts each evening. Hiway Short Course Scheduled for April 7 The annual Highway Short Course will be held at A. & M. college April 7-9, 1942, according to an anouncement made here this week by E. L. Angell, as sistant to the president of the col lege. Professor J. T. L. McNew, head of the department of civil engi neering at the college, will be in charge of the course which is ex pected to attract approximately 200 highway engineers. Which Way Does It Go, George? Battalion Errs In Stating Time Change It’s human to err. Please accept The Battalion’s apologies for a vital mistake appearing in the last issue concerning the new central war time. Forget everything that has been said before—here the official information and instructions: At midnight next Sunday night, America, as well as College Sta tion, will set its clocks up one hour, so that time will automatically become 1 a.m., thereby losing an hour. The only variation at College Station is that A. & M., tempor arily, will also move up its entire schedule of activities one hour, so that reveille will be at 7:15 a. m., breakfast at 8 a.m., lunch at 1 p.m. Sophs Choose Dates From Pics; Urged to Sign Now Sophomores who want dates for the Sophomore Ball Friday, Feb ruary 20 are requested by Class President Bob Phillips to sign up with a representative of the dance committee as soon as possible in order to facilitate the arrange ments for obtaining the dates from T.S.C.W. Representatives in the old area who should be contacted are H. Q. Haile, D-6 Walton; Vance Carring ton, 8-31 Puryear, and Gus Boesch, G-8 Hart. New area sophomores should sign up either in Room 313, Dormitory 8 or in Room 326 Dorm itory 7. Contrary to first reports, the Aggies will choose their dates from descriptions of the girls which are expected to arrive this week. Or iginally it was planned to let the Denton girls decide with whom they wished to attend the dance. Soph omores may select their dates la ter, but must sign up now, Phillips emphasized. Saturday Named Add, Drop Deadline Students who intend to add or drop courses should notice that the last day for making changes in current semester schedules is Saturday. It was previously an nounced as Monday. Any courses dropped after this date will be turned in as bearing the grade of F. However, courses may be drop ped before this date with no grade. Officials have stated that no courses may be added to sched ules, because the semester’s work is so well under way in most clas ses that it would be futile to at tempt to catch up with the work and there would be little chance of passing the course. Seniors Call Meet Again Tonight For Deciding on Dates After sixty minutes of debate last night the senior class, dead locked in an effort to set a def inite date for the Senior . Ring dance, decided to continue the dis cussion at another meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Hall. Less than 150 seniors attended the meeting which fought to a standstill on every suggestion made. Several date changes were proposed to take precedence over the dance date chosen by unani mous vote at a similar meeting two months ago. Originally the ring dance was scheduled for May 8. The January 16 decision reset the date to Thursday, May 14. The lat ter date stands unless the meeting tonight, changes it. A deadlock resulted from the mo tion of Band Major Bob Russell who proposed that the date be set for Friday, April 3. This plan had the best reception of any one ad vanced. Chief disadvantage of the April 3 date, which was brought forth by several of the seniors, is that it falls on Good Friday and as a result many of the students and many of their dates would be unable to attend the dance be cause of religious beliefs. Anoth er objection raised to the date was that it would add an extra expense to the seniors as they would prob ably want their dates and family down at graduation, also. Suggestions that the dance be held on other dates were carried over until tonight’s meeting in or der to determine what conflicts in the present schedule they would cause. An example of these con flicts is one which would be brought about if the date were changed to April 10 as was suggested. In this case the former students’ home coming, which will be held April 11, 12 and 13 and will utilize all the accomodations in the vicinity, would nullify the seniors’ plan. Cadet Officers In Charge; Men With Contracts Exempt Official word came from the registrar’s office yester day that students will not have to leave the campus to register for the draft Febru ary 16. Those men who have reached the age of 21 since the last registration day or those who are now eligible un der the new draft law will be able to sign up at the Ad ministration building. The procedure for the registra tion will be handled in a fashion similar to that held last year. Sen ior cadet officers will be in charge with employees of the Registrar’s office assisting. Must Sign During Off Period The registration will start at 8 a.m. and continue through the day. Students will not be allowed to cut class to sign up but must do so on one of their off periods. Those men who do not have an off period may make other arrangements, H. L. Heaton said. Employees of the college and other residents of College Station will register with A. Mitchell, re tired head of the engineering drawing department. Contract Students Exempt As was the case last year, stud ents with advanced military con tracts are exempt from the regis tration. This draft calls for the regis tration of all male citizens who were born before December 31, 1921, and who will not be over 45 years old on February 16. Those officers who are to act as registrar’s will be given instruc tions in registration at a meeting to. be held in the faculty room of the Administration building at 4 p.m. February 13. Other instruc tions concerning the draft will be carried in The Battalion soon. Around 1,727 students are ex pected to register in the registrar’s office records show. About 505 of these were 21 years old after the last registration and 1,222 are 20 years old. Ten Dollar Prize Lures Names For WhatchamacallitProgram “Aggiezapoppin” or “Jenk’s New Kinks” may be the name of the free shows given in the Assem bly Hall on Saturday nights. These two names were submitted the first day as prospective titles by Billy Davis and Keith Kirk. This contest is sponsored by the Exciting Adventure Tales to Be Told At Special Assembly of Juniors, Seniors War Speaker Excused Absences Given to Students Who Miss Classes Breath-taking tales of life in European prison camps and the educational progress being accom plished there will be the subject of an address by Roland Elliott, exe cutive secretary of the national student’s committee of the YMCA, in Guion hall Friday morning at 11 o’clock. Seniors and juniors who attend the program will be given excus ed absences from their classes at that hour. Elliott, an international figure of some importance, arrived in the United States by Clipper ship from Europe Saturday, January 24, af ter a two-month visit to the con tinental war zone, particularly war prison camps. Local YMCA officials heard of Elliott’s proposed lecture tour af ter his arrival and decided to ROLAND ELLIOTT schedule him on his trip through Texas. He will arrive at College Station at 9:53 a.m. Friday from Houston and will be a guest of M. Speaker Returned From European War Zone Two Weeks Ago L. Cushion, general secretary of the local YMCA, that night at ti party at Cushion Cabins, continu ing his lecture jaunt on Saturday morning by proceeding to Prairie View State college. Sponsors of Elliott’s European “invasion” are the World Student Service Fund and the World’s Student Christian Federation, who jointly pooled their resources to send him as their ambassador. As the ambassador, he visited Swiss, French and Spanish internment camps, talked with religious and political leaders, observed the lives of people, spoke with individuals and authorities in refugee camps and consulted certain leaders about prisoner-of-war aid A. & M. stands as one stopover on Elliott’s 60-day tour of forty American colleges and universit ies. Student Activities office and a $10 prize will be given to the Aggie naming the show. Rules of the contest are: (1) the contest is open only to Aggies; (2) only one name may be submit ted by each contestant; (3) entry forms must be left in the Student Activities office or given to Rich ard W. Jenkins, director of the shows, not later than 5 p. m., Feb. 10. The programs are audience par ticipation programs coupled with stunts, music, and novelties by lo cal talent. It is suggested that con testants visit the programs before sending in names. Daily Texan Announces Winners Of Cactus Vanity Fair The Daily Texan, daily news paper of TU, announced that King Vidor, Hollywood director, has fin ally chosen the ten most beauti ful girls to be included in the Van ity Fair section of the Cactus, TU’s year book. The winners are Kay Abernathy of Dallas, Rocky Alexander of Wa co, Margaret Neil Carlisle of Wax- ahachie, Connie Eversburg of Hous ton, Nell Jack of Dallas, Lillian Schwartzenburg of Austin, Mary Frances Seago of Brownsville, Sid ney Stifft of Little Rock, Ark., Gloria Jane Warner of Austin, and Florence Woodfin of Houston .