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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 f COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1942 2275 NO. 78. Runoff Is Necessary for Social Secretary Oldest Student Activity Was Formed as Crack Drill Group Ugliest of All Uglies Awaits Ring oj Silver Aggies Meet Sailors First TimeTuesday Bluejackets Saw World Crisis Grow; New Color Added A bo’sun’s pipe, the smoking' lamp, bulkheads and upper-deck aft may have been in Mr. Web ster’s big book for a long time, but Aggies got their first intro duction to the salty phraseology of Uncle Sam’s seagoing men Tuesday when they “moved in.” Boys from the South Plains country of Texas where a ten-inch annual rainfall spells a successful crop and plenty of water for the range cattle welcomed U. S. Navy men who have seen with their own eyes the 40-inch cloudbursts of New Guinea, the declaration of war on China by Japan, men who helped to capture Sandino in Nica- In regard to the practice re view staged Tuesday after noon Colonel M. D. Welty, commandant, had the follow ing to say: “I wish to compli ment the cadet officers and all the cadets who participated in this review which on a whole was the best military exhibition I have ever wit nessed. I want the corps to know that I am proud of them. They performed like veter ans.” rague—history will relate it was the Marines, but the Aggie sailors assure you it was navy men with their white uniforms stained with coffee. Arrival of the first contingent of navy men who will study radio courses at Texas A. & M. College marks the first time in the history of this college that the duffle-bag and hammock have been a part of the military equipment of the stu dents. A. & -M. always has been an “army school.” Strict military dis cipline always has been the order of the day, and few A. & M. grad uates have served in the navy, while the army records show two Major Generals and five Brigadier Generals on active duty today—all of whom received their first train ing at A. & M. Twenty-five Ag. journalists and 15 members of the Student Pub lications staff plan to go to Dal las April 9, 10, and 11 to the fif teenth annual Southwestern Jour nalism Congress. A. & M. has been named as host to this organi zation next year. Registration will begin, at 7 p. m. in the Baker hotel and the vis iting students who will come from 17 schools and colleges in four states will be the guests of S.M.U. at a dance to be given on Peacock Terrace. Many prominent journalists will appear on the program. Notable among these are Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo Blade and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, George Dealey, chairman of the Board of the Dallas Morning News, E. M. (Ted) Dealy, president of the Dallas Morning News, R. T. Craig, for 25 years editor of the Athens Review, and Dr. John Ash Longhorn organization pic tures must be paid for by April 3 at the Student Ac tivities office. Room 126 Ad ministration building. Robinson Reigns Over Three Days Of Dances, Drills The Ross Volunteers Company will hold its annual spring festivi ties Friday, Saturday, and Sun day, April 3, 4, and 5. This year for the first time in its history the crack drill unit will hold its festivities during the regular school session instead of having special holidays set aside for them. The festivities will begin Fri day night at 8 p. m. with the Cap tain’s dinner dance at which mem bers of the company, their dates, the company’s sponsors in the Mil itary Department, and their wives will attend. At 10:30 the King’s Ball will be held. Saturday after noon the Queen’s Tea Dance and Buffet Lunch will be given at the Maggie Parker Tea Room in Bry an at 2:30. A private party will be held Saturday night at Frank lin’s Terrace for the company and their dates beginning at 9 p. m. Sunday’s activities will include the presentation of a memorial wreath at the Lawrence Sullivan Ross sta tue to take place at three in the afternoon, an exhibition drill and the captain’s presentation at 3:15 p. m. on the drill field followed by a competitive drill at which the members of the company will com pete for the best drilled Ross Vol unteer award. The elaborate festivities will be headed by King Bill Robinson and Queen Billie Shive, assisted by Prince Lewis Kercheville and Princess Patricia Roche. Dukes and duchesses are: Tom Gillis and Anna Ruth Ashe, Charles Hag gard and Catharine Parker, David Fitch and Ann Rife, Craddock Ul mer and Lelois Daigle, John Har ris and Bettey Mae Wyatt, Frank King and Jean Barnard, Fritz Kallina and Opal Allen, Louis Byrd and Frankie Adams, Luke Moore and Ann Howell, Gerald King and Bonnie Jean Titley, Dick Titley and Margaret Neal Carlisle, and Max Jordan and Margaret Ann Moore. The honor guard to their Maj esties, the King, and Queen, will be Austin Nance, Jimmy Cunning ham, Henry King, Frank Litterst, Kenneth Edwards, Moffatt Adams, Jack Conger, Goldie Miller, Walter Cardwell, and Errol Jonsson. The Aggieland Orchestra under the leadership of Toppy Pearce will furnish the music for the R. V. dances and will also play at the corps dance Saturday night from 9 until 12 p. m. ton, professor of agriculture jour nalism of A. & M. Friday’s program will start with the address of welcome by R. C. Knickerbocker, director of pub licity of S.M.U. and the response by Dr. Ashton. Papers will follow on “Military Forces and the Press,” “The Civilian Defense Pro gram and the Press,” “The Agri cultural Editor and the War,” “The War and the Editorial Page,” and “The Metropolitan Editor and the War.” Lunch Friday will be served in The Texas Room of the Baker Hotel with The Dallas Morning News as host. At this luncheon Ted Dealey will speak on “Con temporary Problems of Newspa pers.” The students will hold their meeting that afternoon in the lounge of the Baker and will dis cuss “The Effect of the War Up on Journalism Students.” Talks will be made by students from each school represented telling what each school’s graduates are do ing in the present war effort. At 3:30 p. m. the congress will be guests at a baseball game be tween Texas university and S.M.U. at the same hour a tennis meet be tween A. & M. and S.M.U. will be in progress. The history of the Ross Voluh- teer Company dates back to 1887 when it was organized as the Scott Volunteers in honor of Colonel T. M. Scott who was business man ager of A. & M. at that time. The R. V. Company is the oldest or ganized student activity on the campus with its purpose being to band together the most proficient military men in school into a crack drill company. In 1891 when ex-Governor Law rence Sullivan Ross became presi dent of the college, the name of the company was changed to Ross Volunteers in his honor. Follow ing the death of President Ross in 1898, the name of the organiza- Free Cigars Given To All Who Attend Mother’s Day Kapers Free cigars will be given out at the entrance to Kadet Kapers this week-end. The cigars are do nated by Madeley’s Pharmacy and Luke’s Grocery. One hundred extra cigars will be given out at vari ous intervals so that you cannot place yourself to receive some of them. This Saturday’s program will be dedicated to the mothers and fathers of the cadets who are vis iting on the campus this week-end. A large crowd is expected so come early. The program this week-end will be one of the best this year, R. W. Jenkins promised yesterday. Featured will be the singing and dancing of Marylin Cornelius, Ves ta Odell, and Jean Farley, all of Amarillo. Cecil Hunter, former All-American from Oklahoma A. & M., will also be present and will give a short talk. QMC Senior Officer Takes Over Duties Captain Lester Hanks arrived here yesterday afternoon to take over his duties as senior instructor in the newly organized Quarter master Corps. Captain Hanks is coming here from the Quarter master Corps of Camp Lee, Vir ginia. He graduated here in 1930 receiving a degree in Agricultural Administration. tion was changed to Foster Guards, again honoring the new president of the college, L. L. Foster, who had succeeded President Ross. Houston Rifles was the name se lected during President Houston’s administration. In 1902, H. H. Tarrington, son-in-law of Govern or Ross became president, and a movement was started to name the company the Harrington Rifles. However, at the request of Presi dent Harrington, the company again assumed the name of Ross Volunteers. Originally the plan of the or ganization was to change its name in honor of each succeeding presi dent of the college. During Presi dent Harrington’s administration this idea was dropped, and the name Ross Volunteers retained as permanent. At the time of organization the membership was restricted to for ty cadets chosen from the Junior and Senior classes. New members were accepted into the company by an election held early each scholastic year. The basis of ac ceptance was military ability and popularity. After the war some non-military students were elect ed, but in 19231 the company de- (See VOLUNTEERS, Page 4) By Ed Kingery Starting out in a blaze of glory, many of the contestants in the an nual race for King of the Uglies were not able to hold the pace, and only six of the original 12 con testants are still in the running. The following men (? ?) make up the select group of A. & M.’s most gruesome cadets: “Dracula Quasi modo” Drake, “Butch” Tennison, “Super Ugly” Fish Kemnitz, “Dog face” Burke, R. C. Loomis and George “Soup” Ogdee. Votes in the Ugly Boy contest will be cast on the ballot form printed in this issue of The Bat talion. They will be turned in to organization first sergeants, who will turn the ballots in to corps headquarters office before 6 p. m. Friday. Count of the votes will be made by Ed Clark, C Engineers, and J. C. McDuffie, B Coast Ar tillery. Candidates will be interviewed on the Aggie Clambake Friday afternoon, and announcement of the winner will be made at the Slipstick Follies Saturday night at Guion Hall. The King of the Uglies will be awarded a prize of 10 sil ver dollars. Probable reason for the with drawal of many of the contestants is the fact that the above entrants are perhaps the most gruesome specimens of the human race ever assembled at one institution. Ac cording to reliable persons who have been frightened by the can didates, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Frankenstein would run a poor sixth and seventh in this contest. Freckles, the corps bulldog, al though passing the I. Q. test and other stringent requirements for entry in the competition, was ruled ineligible because he was not a member of the human race. It is City to Sponsor Clean-up Campaign The city of College Station will have a truck ready to pick up trash of all kinds from College Station residents beginning April 1 and continuing throughout the remainder of that week if neces sary, Mayor F. G. Anderson said. Governor Coke Stevenson has designated March 29 to April 4 as Civilian Defense Clean-up Week. The annual clean-up drive will serve several purposes. It will promote conditions beneficial to public health, eliminate fire haz ards in the home and business concerns and provide an oppor tunity for groups or organizations collecting scrap and waste ma- teiral for war effort to give an added emphasis to such activities. conceded that he didn’t have a chance anyway, and Freckles has accepted his disqualification in good grace. Residents of College Station and vicinity who have any children 25 years of age or under are asked not to allow such children out of their homes for any reason until the contest is over Friday, as the college will assume no responsibil ity for the scaring of anydne out of 10 years’ growth or so. At the contest’s close the “horrors” will be returned to hiding, and streets will be safe' until this time next year. Ag Day Is April 4; Departments Hold Demonstrations Mothers, Dads Invited To Visit Exhibits of All Agricultural Departments The second annual Agriculture Day will be held Saturday, April 4. On this day all of the agricul tural departments will be open for inspection by the mothers and fathers of the cadets. On the program of department exhibits and demonstrations are as follows: in the Accounting and Statistics department a demon stration of tabulating machjne equipment for handling agricul tural statistics; in the Agricultural Economics department movies will be shown showing activities of F. F. A. boys; in the Agricultural Engineering department farm and power machine display, land re clamation and irrigation, farm buildings and equipment, and the farm shop exhibit will be seen; in the Agronomy department the fol lowing displays will be seen for age crops for Texas, how to pro duce good seed, seed standards, marketing and grading grain, na tive grasses of Texas, cotton pro duction, soil regions and conserva tion, soil testing and soil fertility experiments. In the Animal Husbandry de partment swine, cattle, horses, sheep, wool and the meats labora tory are on display. The Dairy Husbandry department has the cheese exhibit, exhibit of the get of the main sires in the College Dairy herd, and the dairy cattle show. The Entomology depart ment has demonstrations of bee keeping equipment, insects, insec ticides, economic pests, and the life history of these insects. Ex hibits of mounted birds and mam mals, food plants, fish fossils and general exhibits as well as wild life movies will be shown by the Fish and Game department. Lawrence Is New Town Hall Manager Longley Receives Longhorn Editorship; Reballot Held Today Victorious in the recent Junior election were John Law rence, who was elected to the office of Town Hall manager, and John Longley, Longhorn editor-to-be, announced Tom Gillis, chairman of the Stu dent Elections committee. A run-off election will be held today for the office of Social Secretary of the senior class between Bobby Stevens and T. K. “Tommy” Pierce, as neither of these men received a majority vote. Tabulation of election votes is as follows: for Town Hall mana ger, Lawrence, 171; W. M. Adkis- son, 78; W. F. Dreiss, 23; Dwain Treadwell, 67. For Longhorn edi tor, Longley, 260; H. O. Kunkel, 74. For Social Secretary, Stevens, 118; Pierce, 101; Harvey Bright, 40; Jack Miller, 85. Today’s run-off balloting will be held in the rotunda of the Academic building. Votes may be cast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Classified jun iors and six semester men are eligible to vote, and the February registration receipt must > be pre sented. Count of the ballots will be made immediately after the close of the polls in corps head quarters office. Election of men to the offices of Head Yell Leader, Battalion Editor, and Junior and Senior Representatives on the Student Activities committee will be held on April 14. Candidates will be introduced to the corps at a spec ial yell practice Monday night, April 13, and the general election will be held the next day. Runoffs will be held Thursday, April 16. Elected candidated for all of fices will take office at the start of the next semester, and will hold office for two consecutive semesters. Although aspirants to office are allowed to use not more than 50 yards of cheese cloth for signs, none have yet made use of this, method of campaigning. Credits Given For Nutritions Courses Authorization has been received to give Red Cross credit for at tendance at the next nine meetings of the College Defense Council course in nutrition, it was an nounced by Dr. G. W. Adriance, chairman. More than 50 were in attendance at the first meeting of the group in Consolidated school’s home economics laboratory, and all remaining meetings will be held at the same place. The next meeting of the group will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, and the programs have been ar ranged by Dr. Jessie Whitacre and Mrs. L. P. Gabbard. Members of the Brazos county unit of Home Economists are participating in the course as a part of the Food for Victory program. The lessons on food utilization have been planned to be of interest to men as well as women, and those not wishing to attend all of the lectures and demonstrations are welcome to attend those in which they have a particular in terest. No Red Cross credit will be given, however, unless all nine lec tures and demonstration meetings are attended, it was explained. Bull Text Checks Arrive; Paid Today Contract juniors and seniors may get their military pay from their senior instructor at 9 a. m. this morning. This money will total $23,432 and will be paid out in checks amounting to about $22.50. Irregular students who returned to school and took up their contracts may get their checks in Room 19, Ross hall. Irregular checks will amount to $260. Ain’t They Horrible! Above are shown the contestants for the title of “Ugliest Boy on the Campus.” From left to right they are George Kemnitz, R. P. Burke, Kyje Drake, L. B. Tennison and R. C. Loomis. Photo by Phil Crown (See NAVY, Page 4) Large A & M Delegation to Attend Inter-collegiate Journalism Congress