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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEB.26, 1942 Z275 NO. 63 Brings Ballet to Town Hall To Help Draft Board Fill Quota Agnes de Mille Splits Up Team Modern Wartime Camouflage Exhibited By Architecture Dept for Natl Defense Doctor Truett Answers Questions of All tato™* ciubf Non-Believers in Second Church Meeting By Clyde C. Franklin Miss Agnes de Mille and her dance theatre will appear on Town Hall March 5, at 8:30 p. m. Indi vidually and with her troupe of four assisting artists she has ap peared before many appreciative Nine Exes Are Graduated Into Army Air Corps Nine ex-Aggies were graduated from the Air Corps advanced flying school at Brooks Field, Texas, re ceiving their silver wings and gold bars of a United States Army Pi lot Officer, according to Lieut. Col. Stanton T. Smith, Brooks Field Commandant. Those nine graduates are Lieu tenants Richard G. Hill, Mart, Tex as; Donald W. Corley, Pittsfield, Mass.; Franklin D. Lown, Jr., Bren- ham, Texas; Herschel B. Ellis, Om aha, Texas; Godfrey. Engel, Jr., Al bany, Texas; Charles C. Hal tom, Bryan, Texas; Robert S. English, Crockett, Texas; James B. Blake- more, Greenville, Texas; and How ard N. Sturlie, Glistine, Texas. By Lonnie Riley The farmers and their gals will swing out with some fancy turkey trottin’ this Saturday night at their annual Barnyard Frolic being held in the Agricultural Engineering building starting at 9 o’clock; so pick up those old coveralls that have been hanging in the comer of your closet floor, straighten out that straw hat, shine up those fan cy shoes and join them in the fun. The Ag Engineering building will be cleared of all the machines so there will be plenty of room for the whole corps and the entire faculty to have their fling in doing some fancy rural rug cutting and tur key trots; if you can’t do a tur key trot or a mule bam stomp, don’t let that keep you from all the fun—remember, you learn to swim best in deep water. A prize will be given to the couple most appropriately dressed for the occa sion; so forget all about conven tions concerning material and color combinations and come dressed for comfort. If you have an old pair of coveralls full of patches and holes, drag ’em out—this may be your last chance to wear them; and even though it’s a little cool, your straw hat will be the thing to wear. (Shoes are optional). The interior of the Agricultural building will be decorated so as to resemble the insides of any old bam audiences from coast to coast and the program she offers this year is one of the most versatile and finished she has yet presented. Joseph Anthony, who has been Miss de Mille’s dancing partner, was called to Hollywood where he did two pictures, the last of which was opposite Miss Myrna Loy and William Powell in “The Shadow of the Thin Man.” In case you saw the picture Anthony did the part of the gangster. Miss de Mille, through Holly wood influence, secured Joseph Anthony’s release from Hollywood for the present tour. Everything seemed to be set when Anthony was caught by the draft. That up set all the calculations and the troupe was somewhat worried. Miss de Mille went before the draft board, explaining the situ ation and secured Anthony’s de ferment for the period of this tour. She stated “The draft board nearly didn’t release Joe. He goes away so quickly after the last concert that I wouldn’t be surprised if he turns up at the barracks in his red tights.” It was somewhat a relief to the bookers to know that the team would not have to use another dancing partner. where the country dances are week ly occasions. Bales of hay will be stacked around the walls of the building; lanterns will be hung on the sides and a pitch fork will be found in one or two places—if you’re not careful where you sit down. This dance is a corps dance, sponsored by the Agricultural En gineering department and your presence is requested; so brush up on the barnyard trots and all the stomps and get in on the fun at the frolic this Saturday night. Magazine Digest Will Give College Big Play The Magazine Digest, a Can adian magazine, has recently asked for information concerning A. & M. in order to ran a story in their publication. The magazine asked specifically for information showing that there is a college which is teaching sub jects beyond military needs and at the same time producing more officers than the definitely mili tary colleges. “It is a college that little is known of and there must be an exciting story in the founda tion, struggles, and successes since its inception 66 years ago” said Ada Siegel of the editorial de partment of the Magazine Digest. Bryan A Cappella Choir Sings Before Large Guion Crowd At the second service of Relig ious Emphasis Week Tuesday at noon in Guion hall, Dr. G. W. Tru ett brought a powerful, stirring message on the primary consid eration and question of all life, “What Think Ye of Christ?” With his inimitable force, Dr. Truett answered the questions of agnos tics, skeptics and atheists, pro claiming Christ “the way, the truth, the life,” the hope and the salvation of needy men. He used Fire Prevention Sand Distribution Will Begin Tuesday Beginning at Nine Trucks Will Start In College View Addition • Sand for the control of incindi- ary bombs will be distributed free of charge to residents of the City of College Station by the college. Distribution will begin Thursday morning, March 3 at 9 o’clock. The truck will start at College View and work west to the railroad tracks. From there it will visit all the campus residences the same day. People who want this sand are asked by the Police and Air Raid Warden Committee to place con tainers such as metal buckets on their back porches. It is import ant that the sand be kept dry, since if any moisture comes in contact with incendiaries, explos ions will result, according to the authorities in charge of air raid precautions. Sand may easily be dried by placing it near a fire. Morale Work Is Function of New Defense Committee Morale work and helping citizens to understand why they should have a blackout room in their homes instead of merely turning out the light during an air raid are included in the work of the Womens’ Police and Air Raid War den Auxiliary which is a branch of the Police and Air Raid Warden committee. Mrs. D. B. Gofer, chairman of the group, has set up in her home a blackout room demonstrating meth ods of blacking out. This room will be open for inspection at any time. The women of the auxiliary will also go to anyone’s home to advise and help blackout a room. One auxiliary member has been designated for each zone. In Col lege Park, Mrs. E. Langford is the advisor. Mrs. R. G'. Reeves, Mrs. C. A. Greer and Mrs. E. M. White are the committee members in Col lege Hills. South Oakwood and the district north of the campus are being handled by Mrs. C. B. Camp bell and Mrs. W. D. Lloyd, res pectively. Mrs. D. T. Killough is instructing in the area west of the railroad tracks, and on the campus proper, Mrs. E. E. McQuillen is in charge. A1 Donahue Cancelled For C A C Dance A1 Donahue, originally sched uled to play for the Coast Artil lery Ball March 20, has notified Joe Skiles, manager of student ac tivities, that his orchestra will be unable to fulfill the contract agreed upon last month. Skiles said that a band just as good if not better will be engaged to play for the affair. the words of Christ, His works, His gospel, and the experiences of men to bring out this central prin ciple of Christianity. He conclud ed his sermon emphatically urg ing those present to be sure of Christ. Preceding the sermon, the A Capella Choir of the Stephen F. Episcopal Speaker Rev. J. Thomas Bagby Rat Raids Rats In Colony Being Used Experimentally Who was the rat that stole the rats? Recently someone broke into the rat colony of the Agricultural Experiment station and stole a number of rats. About a week later the rat house was again broken into and more rats were taken. According to W. W. Meinke, who has charge of the rat colony, these rats were valuable because they were a part of an experiment on vitamins which is being carried on by the Chemistry division of the Experiment station. The rats could not be of any value to anyone else, avered Meinke, but they were very important in the experiment on vitamins for which they were used. He asked the cooperation of the students in this matter. Architecture Society Views Prefabrication To provide architectural stud ents the opportunity to view at first-hand the operations of a mill- work plant, the William Cameron company of Waco has arranged a trip to Waco for members of the Architectural society on Saturday, March 7. With Joe Bourn, fifth year student in architecture, as medi ator, the company contacted the society and made arrangements to provide a bus for the inspection, as well as meals. (Editor’s Note: The following letter re ceived last Thursday by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Beck, is self-explanatory and is re printed from the Pecos Enterprise be cause of its interest to many Aggies.) Mr. Will Beck, Pecos, Texas. Dear Mr. Beck: You are probably curious as to who I am and why this letter is being written to you. My hus band and I landed in San Fran cisco Jan. 30 from a seven months stay in Australia, where he was on a traveling scholarship in journalism from Columbia Uni versity. We were in the city of Brisbane for 10 days and at that time met your son, Bill. Mrs Walton Gives Tea for Visiting Clergymen Tues Austin High school of Bryan, con ducted by Ewell Porter, sang sev eral sacred numbers. Tuesday afternoon President and Mrs. T. 0. Walton gave a tea at their home for the visiting relig ious leaders. Piano music was furn ished by Marion Lyles. The Wednesday morning serv ice in Guion Hall was well-attend ed with Don Burrus presiding, Terry Thrift leading in prayer, and Burton Coffman of Houston lead ing the singing. Rev. Caradine R. Hooton of Dallas sang a solo, ac companied by Marion Lyles, pre ceding Doctor Truett’s message. Doctor Truett urged those present to think on, discuss, and tell others about the all-important subject of religion. He discussed the reasons for unbelief and concluded the ser vice by asking all who believed in Christ to stand for the benediction. The coffee hour in the Y.M.C.A. parlor Wednesday from 5 to 6 was well attended. Coffee and cook ies were served by Mesdames Cashion, Lowry and Gay. There will be another coffee hour Thurs day afternoon at the same time. All students are invited to attend and become better acquainted with the religious leaders of the cam pus and the visiting speakers. The Leaders’ Breakfasts have been attended by a large number of students and campus leaders as well as the ministers. These break fasts will continue through Friday at 8 at the Aggieland Inn. Evening services were held in the following churches Tuesday and Wednesday at 8: College Station Baptist Church, Church of Christ, A. &M .Methodist Church and St. Mary’s Chapel. The Christian Church group met Tuesday night (See TRUETT, Page 4) Ag Journalists Get Pay in First Attempt Three agricultural journalism students, Norman G. Duren, Archie J. Boyd, Jr., and Edward M. Schuyler, had stories published in the January issue of the Farm and Ranch, the farm paper of the Southwest. None of the boys had written for publication previously, but each received a check thus break ing into the professional field upon their initial effort. Duren wrote ‘To College with a Cow” which described his ex periences with a cow with the re sult that the money the cow’s milk earned for him sent him to school., “Pullorum—Baby Chick’s Great Enemy” was written by Boyd and is a discussion of this disease. An article on eggs and how they should be produced was written by Schuyler under the title “Consum ers Are Particular.” We were in the postoffice send ing cables home when the place became crowded with American service men trying to cable home news of their arrival. They had landed on the previous day but this was the first time they were given shore leaves. All were anx ious to send word home. The convoy was four days out of Honolulu when news of Dec. 7 came over the radio. They said all during the announcement of the news, the commentator would interject sentences like “This is not a drill” to impress upon them the fact that the Japs really had struck. Bill was looking fine and he Cooperate in Show Modern wartime camouflage methods will be demonstrated through realistic exhibitions dis played in the basement of the Aca demic building March 3 through 23, according to C. J. Finney, pro fessor of architecture. The exhibit which arrives from Philadelphia this week is circulated by the Mus eum of Modern Art, New York City, and was a feature of the New York Worlds Fair. Initiated by the Architectural society and the Landscape Club, the plan to bring the Museum’s camouflage exhibit to A. & M. was made a reality by the city commis sion of Bryan, the city council of College Station and other peo ple from both communities. At a meeting of committeemen and co-workers made up of archi tectural and landscape students, a calendar of showings was origina ted. The schedule has been arrang ed as follows: daily, Monday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 2 to 6 p.m.; nights, Monday Wednesday, and Friday, 8:30 to 10 p.m. The schedule will include dates for special showings to Bryan, College Station and college clubs, organizations and classes, and to other students and inter ested civilians. Incorporated in the exhibit are drawings, photographs, lighting, and models. Paneled and in the glass cases, the material covered includes “Camouflage in Nature,” “Wire and Wood Construction Il lustrating Camouflage in Nature,” “Color Distinction,” “Countershad ing,” and a model illustrating aer ial attack and anti-aircraft de fense. Chinese Consul At Open Meet Of Hillel Club Sunday Tsin Lon Ouang (Yong Poo), the vice consul for the Republic of China in Houston will be the guest speaker at the open forum meeting of the A. & M. Hillel Club, March 1st. Ouang will discuss the vital im portance of China in the Far East battle. Ouang graduated from the Un iversity of China in Peking in 1923, and has served on many interna tional political commissions; he has been foreign correspondent for many journals and has served as vice consul in Mexico City. After rendering these services, he re turned to China to serve in the In telligence and publicity department of the Ministry of Foreign Af fairs. Ouang has been serving as vice consul in this area for many years and is a well known figure both on and off the speaking plat form, according to club members. The meeting will be held in the lounge room of Sbisa hall, and will be open to everyone. The members of the Cosmopolitan Club will be the special guests. and one of his best friends, Pat Armstrong, Jr., from Luling and San Antonio were lots of fun the two days we spent with them. I spotted them as Texans when I saw Bill’s Texas Aggie belt buckle. Being a 1941 graduate of Uni versity of Texas, I couldn’t resist asking him the score of the Thanksgiving game. He thought I was kidding and already knew that A & M had lost but was try ing to kid him about it. That night the four of us went to a dance in the hotel and the next night both the boys got dates and we were together for diVmer and later. The city was wide open to the American boys, they were so glad to have them. And the Ameri- Excellence Roster Lists 305 Cadets 14 Have Straight A Average; Total Decreases This Time An official report from the reg istrar’s office yesterday afternoon showed that 305 students had dis tinguished grades made the first semester of the 1941-42 session. These students had no grade below that of “C” and had made a grade point average of not less than 2.25 per credit hour. This shows a decrease of 32 students since the distinguished students report made of the first semester of the 1940-41 session, there having been 337 students distinguishing that semester. There were 14 students of the 305 who made straight “A” aver ages. Those making straight “A” averages.were: Beard, J. C., junior in liberal arts; Jlrown, Jack, jun ior in science; Brown, R. L., soph omore in veterinary medicine; Doughty, E. G., senior in electrical engineering; Elmendorf, H. F., sophomore in science; Galloway, W J., junior in mechanical engineer ing; Gammon, S. R., sophomore in liberal arts; G'illis, T. S., senior in liberal arts; Johnson, D. F., sophomore in veterinary medicine; Kunkel, H. O., junior in agricul ture; Robertson, J. M., freshman in chemical engineering; Sumner, G. C., senior in electrical engineer ing; Wolfe, P. J., senior in chem ical engineering; and Woods, P. D., freshman in agriculture. Of the 303 distinguished stud ents listed, 142, or nearly 47% are students who have part-time jobs on the campus, according to re ports from Wendell R. Horsley, chairman o fthe Student Labor Committee. Lecture Series .Continued Tonight There will be one of an impor tant series of discussions of civil ian defense in the Chemistry lec ture room at 8 p.m. tonight under the direction of Dr. C. C. Hedges,, chairman of the College Civilian Defense committee. Major H. R. Brayton and Captain V. E. McGuckin of the War Depart ment Civilian Defense school will present discussions of incendiary bombs, war gases, and other phas es of air raid warning technique. This includes blackout recommen dations, first aid, and emergency rescue work. Speakers and those in charge of the discussions are giving the pub lic an opportunity to leam and profit by the experience of others. cans were glad to be off the trans ports and enjoying it all. They were all mad as everything at the Japs and wanting to get a crack at them and were hoping to be sent to Manila. Their destina tion was unknown but they had an idea they were to be stationed somewhere in Australia. I know your city pretty well as last spring I taught journalism and sponsored student publica tions at Grandfalls, Texas. I knew Edna Johnson from Pecos, the li brarian in the school at Grandfalls. I was LaVerne Bryson then and grew up in Bastrop, Texas. Sincerely, La Verne Holt. Farmers Take Fling at Swing With Plenty of Stomp and Jive Teasipper Meets Bill Beck "Down Under"; Hears Turkey Day News Two Months Late