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