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