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, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1942
2275
NUMBER 79
Largest Week-end of Years Activities Opens Today
Buxom Beauties
Above we see some of thp entertainers who will present their
fanciest acts at the “Slipstick Follies” in Guion Hall tonight. As a
part of the Engineering clubs’ annual show they are presenting
an hour of riot-raising laugh-provoking entertainment.
"Cadets in Blue" Like Agland
Opening Interview Points Out
Huge Crowd Expected For
Two Full Days Festivites
Educational Exhibits Today; Review,
Flower Pinning, Parents’ Day Sunday
Largest combination of spring holiday activities ever
held on the A. & M. campus begins today with Engineers’
Day at 9 o’clock and Agricultural Day at 2, and continues
through the week-end with Parents’ Day tomorrow. Special
exhibits of the engineer and the agriculture students plus
the review and Parents’ Day program Sunday, honoring
moms and dads, will bring hundreds of people to A. & M. to
participate in the mass gatherings.
Engineers
Expect Many
Visitors Here
All Departments
Have Open House
From 9 to 6 Today
Some 8,000 visitors are expected
to be on the campus today to wit
ness the 13th annual Engineer’s
Day program, one of the high
lights of the school year.
The program, sponsored by the
members of the various engineer
ing societies on the campus, con
sists of displays and demonstra
tions in each department of the
school of engineering. The visitor
will be conducted to the various
buildings in such a manner that
he will see the exhibits of the Me
chanical Engineering department
—the steam laboratory, the metal
lography laboratory, the design
shop, foundries, and other of its
various laboratories. The Civil En
gineering department is sponsor
ing exhibits of structural engineer
ing, hydraulics, strength of ma
terials, design of highways, soils,
surveying. Of special interest to
the visitor will be the Aeronauti
cal Engineering exhibit in which
a model wind tunnel and several
parts of actual airplanes will be
on display.
Of vital interest in these days
of modern warfare will be the
Chemical Engineering depart
ment’s display of chemical warfare
equipment. A drilling rig will be
in operation behind the petroleum
building as well as several model
rigs which will be housed in the
building proper. Undoubtedly the
visitor will notice the huge En
gineer’s Day sign on top of the
Electrical Engineering building
which also houses several interest
ing exhibits. An interesting dis
play of the work being done by
the students of the Architecture
department will be shown on the
third floor of the Academic Build
ing.
At 7:15 in Onion Hall a rollick
ing bit of entertainment will be
shown to visitors which is entitled
“Slipstick Follies.” Each depart
ment will furnish a ten minute
portion of the program and as
usual the program is expected to
have the ^audience rolling in the
aisles. Ransom Kelly is in charge
of the “Slipstick Follies” and has
really produced an entertaining
show.
Boy Scouts Aid
Paper Collecting
The local Defense Council of
College Station and the city gov
ernment have been charged with
the responsibility of collecting
waste paper and they in turn have
designated the Boy Scout organ
ization of this community as the
official collecting agency, accord
ing to Dr. C. C. Hedges of the
local Defense Council and Mayor
Frank Anderson.
Through the cooperation of city
officials, plans have been complet
ed for the city-wide collection of
this waste paper on the first Sat
urday of each month. Since the
Scout organization is comparative
ly small, and the available trans
portation facilities limited, the job
can be done only with the full co-
orperation of all citizens and busi
ness men. For these reasons, it is
requested that:
(1) All paper that is put out
for collection shall be bundled or
tied in such a way that the Scouts
can handle it easily and quickly.
(2) If possible please separate
newspapers, magazines, wrapping
paper and cardboard boxes to fa
cilitate handling according to kind.
(3) Under this plan, it will be
impossible for the Scouts to han
dle loose paper, trash or garbage
of any kind.
(4) Place all bundled paper in a
conspicuous place on your front
step or curbing before 9 a.m. on
the first Saturday of each month.
(5) Only that paper which is
placed as requested and bundled
properly can be handled.
Portrait of Aggie
Hero, George Moore
Will Hang in Library
A portrait of General George F.
Moore, former A. & M. comman
dant who is now in the Philippines,
is to be on exhibition Monday in
the Cushing Memorial Library, ac
cording to T. F. Mayo, librarian.
Peter Cantu, 2 CHQ, drew the
picture which he has given to the
library, where it will hang per
manently.
Mothers’ Clubs
Will Hold Two
Meetings Today
Business Meeting Will
Be at 11 This Morning;
Social Function at 2
Two meetings for the A. & M.
Mother’s Clubs have been planned
during the Parents Day program
this week-end, stated Mrs. T. 0.
Walton, the state president.
One of the meetings will be of
a purely business nature, and the
other will be a social function.
Both meetings will be held in the
Y.M.C.A.
At 11:00 a. m. today, the busi
ness meeting will open. Reports
from the twenty organized clubs
will be heard at this time. The
mothers will also discuss the con
struction and payment for the
ladies’ lounge in the Y.M.C.A.
A tea will be given honoring the
visiting clubs by the Brazos Coun
ty Mothers’ Club at 2:00 p. m.
Saturday. The tea has been set
aside as the time for minging be
tween the various clubs in order
that they might become better ac
quainted.
Seniors Guests
At Annual Dinner
The Senior class will be guests
of the Association of Former Stu
dents at the joint faculty-former
student luncheon at Sbisa Hall,
April 12. The luncheon is an an
nual feature of the ex-students’
homecoming which will be cele
brated this year, April 11-12.
Tyree L. Bell, Dallas, ex-stu
dent president, said, in extending
the invitation, “within a few weeks
you, too, will be an A. & M. ex
student. We want to honor you as
guests at this luncheon in order
'that we may become better ac
quainted with you and you with
us.” Dick Hervey, president of the
1942 class, has appointed the fol
lowing committee to assist in the
distribution of tickets:
Jack Forman (Signal Corps);
Harvey Lynn (Chem. War.); Ed
die Junge (Field Art.); Ralph Cris
well (Band); Charley Bode (Inf.);
Guy Johnson (Cav.); Henry Rol
lins (Coast Art.); A1 Jenkins
(Eng.); Dick Hervey, Gerald
King, Roland Bing, and Bugs Tate.
Ag School
Holds Second
Annual Show
Thirty-First Anniversary
Of A. & M. Agricultural
School Sponsors Big Show
All agriculture departments will
be open today for the showing of
the second annual Agriculture Day
exhibits. Main displays will be
shown in the Ag Building, the Ag
Engineering Building and the Ani
mal Industries Building. The horse
barn, poultry farm, creamery,
sheep barns and all other build
ings of the department will also
be open to visitors.
Ag Day originated last year in
celebration of the thirtieth anni
versary of the school of agricul
ture. Through the sponsorship of
Dean E. J. Kyle, dean of the
school throughout its thirty years,
the affair has become an annual
event.
The following departments will
have displays for visitors:
Accounting and Statistics De
partment—room 109, Agriculture
Building.
Agriculture Education Depart
ment—Movie of F.F.A. boys,
ground floor, Agriculture Engi
neering Building.
Genetics Department, Saddle and
Sirloin Club, Fish and Game Club,
Poultry Department and Ex 4-H
Club—Animal Industries building.
These exhibits will include mounted
birds and animals, fish exhibit,
meats research laboratory and a
continuous showing of wild life
movies in room 115.
Agriculture Engineering depart
ment—Exhibits of power machin
ery, irrigation, farm buildings and
farm shop.
Agronomy Department — Seed,
grain, cotton production, soil con
servation displays in Agriculture
building. Soil fertility experiments
in agronomy greenhouse.
Dairy Husbandry Department —
Dairy cattle show at 2:30 p.m. at
dairy barn. Creamery will also be
(See AG DAY, Page 6)
Naval Officers
Due Salutes, Aggies
As Military Courtesy
Reminding cadets that Naval of
ficers are due the same salutes and
military courtesies as officers of
the army, the corps headquarters
office issued an official notice yes
terday to help cadets recognize
these officers.
Naval officers may be distin
guished from enlisted men by the
presence of gold braided stripes
and a gold braided star on each
cuff of the coat. They also wear
a gold braided chin strap above
the bill of their caps. The orna
ment on the cap consists of a sil
ver braided eagle on crossed shield
and anchors.
By Ed Kingery
“We haven’t been here long en
ough to form an opinion, but what
we’ve seen of the college looks
mighty good.” Thus one of A. &
M.’s newest students, a “cadet in
blue,” expressed his first impres
sion of the school. He spoke for
most of the other sailors, who
make up the contingent of naval
trainees sent here recently. Their
first few days have been spent in
getting settled and off to a good
start in their courses, and there
has been no .time for sight-seeing.
These gobs are going through a
period of great adjustment. Not
Cadet Commissions
Presented Sunday
Cadet commissions will be pre
sented Sunday morning between
8 and 9 a. m. when the organiza
tions are formed in their company
area for their flower pinning cere
monies, according to Cadet Colonel
Tom Gillis.
In each regiment the cadet com
missions will be awarded by the
senior instructor or his assistants.
If the cadet has been promoted
the cadet commission will be that
of the highest rank held this year.
Colonel M. D. Welty will present
cadet commissions to the corps
staff at 9:10 a. m. at the review-
only are they in a strange place
and a new environment, but they
have a job to do, and a hard one.
The sailors must get back into the
habit of studying and at the same
time master a difficult course in
a short time.
Long hours of classes each day
for most of the week is the lot of
these men. Then immediately after
supper each night it’s more study
until lights out and later. Gone are
the night liberties; only week-end
liberties may be taken. And a good
share of these will be spent at a
desk by many a gob.,
Living in a room and from a
closet is just one of the new ex
periences of the naval trainees.
For quite some time they have
lived from a sea bag, which is the
seaman’s carryall. Being able to
hang clothes up at night is an in
novation. Springs and mattresses
have likewise taken the place of
the well-known hammocks.
Rooms occupied by the trainees
are kept spotlessly clean. “Swab
bing the deck” is a daily before
breakfast duty; every room is
thoroughly mopped. The sailors
are not allowed to leave blankets
on their beds made up during the
day. Instead they are neatly fold
ed and laid on the beds.
The day begins for the gobs
with reveille at 6:15. Breakfast is
at 7:00, and between reveille and
breakfast the men dress and put
their rooms in order. Classes start
at 8:00, and continue throughout
the day. Recreation and free time
(See NAVY, Page 6)
Engineers Plan
Military Exhibit
In collaboration with the annual
Engineer’s day exhibits the Engi
neer Regiment will display differ
ent phases of their duties as a
unit of the army. The exhibit will
be located in the Mechanical Engi
neering shops and on the vacant
lot to the north of this building.
In the shops the exhibit consists
of models of field fortifications,
military rigging, and pontoon
bridges. Also there will be maps,
stereoscopic photographs, and de
molition equipment as used by the
Corps of Engineers in the regular
army.
Outside visitors will be shown
through a regulation “Type A”
fire trench, which is the type now
being used on Bataan Peninsula.
Tank barriers, barbed wire en
tanglements, a mine field, and a
camouflauged machine gun em
placement are included in this part
of the exhibit.
Sunday’s festivities will begin
with the traditional flower pin
ning ceremony for the cadets in
their regular assembly areas. Flow
ers will be pinned on the corps
staff by Mrs. T. O. Walton. The
Y. M. C. A. will furnish all the
flowers for the ceremonies.
At 9:35 the corps will begin to
march on the drill field and the
presentation of 15 awards will be
made. Following the presentation
of awards the corps will pass in
review and march to Kyle Field
for the Parents’ Day program.
Singing of “The Spirit of Ag-
gieland” will begin the program,
after which Fred Smithem will of
fer the benediction. The Singing
Cadets will sing “Stout Hearted
Men” for the visiting fathers and
“For My Mother” for the mothers.
Main speaker for the event will
be President T. O. Walton who
will deliver the principal address.
Howard Bryant will present a short
speech for the mothers and Brad
ford Hardie will talk for the fath
ers.
There will be special Easter
services at the College Station
churches at 12 o’clock for all who
desire to attend.
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 the
Ross Volunteers will begin their
program as they pay their respects
to the statue of Lawrence Sullivan
Ross. This will be followed by an
exhibition drill performance.
Tonight, President and Mrs. T.
O. Walton will hold a reception for
all visiting parents. The band will
supply the music for the occasion.
Arrangements have been made
by the commandant for reserva
tions in dormitories to accommo
date visiting parents. All cars are
to be cleared from the drill field
beginning today, and will be parked
in the area west of Puryear and
Law halls.
All of the dormitories will be
open for inspection by the visitors
with the exception of part of Hart
Hall and all of Dormitory No. 4,
from 2:30 to 4:30 Sunday.
Churches Time
Easter Services for
Sunday Program
At a meeting of the Inter
church Council, it was decided to
hold Easter Sunday church ser
vices at 12:00 o’clock noon in oi’der
to fit the schedule of events for
the week-end.
Churches of all denominations
agreed to this change in time which
will enable the students and their
visitors to be dismissed from ser
vices in sufficient time before
lunch.
By W. J. Hamilton
Toppy Pearce and the Aggi eland
Band is Aggieland’s favorite dance
band. That’s the verdict of the
cadet corps as shown by their
turnout for the dances this year.
Competing with such “big name”
bands as those of Jimmie Lunce-
ford, Andy Kirk, and Tony De
Pardi, the Aggieland has made an
enviable record. Three times since
the record-breaking bonfire dance
last fall Toppy and his boys have
played for dances that drew a
larger crowd than either Lunceford
or Kirk and twice as many as De
Pardi.
And it is not unusual that the
Aggieland should be so popular on
the campus. The band is made up
Fifteen Awards
Will Be Presented
At Sunday’s Review
Leadership In
Military, Studies
Are Qualifications
Fifteen awards will be present
ed to eleven cadets when the corps
is formed for review Sunday, Ca
det Colonel Tom Gillis says. The
awards go to students for various
qualifications such as leadership,
military proficiency, and scholar
ship.
Presentation speeches will be
read over the loud speaker system
for the benefit of the corps and
visitors.
The presentation will be a color
ful ceremony. After the corps has
formed on the field all who are to
receive awards and all regimental
colors form in two lines in front
of the corps staff. They will then
be marched to the reviewing stand
where they will receive the awards.
The Albert Sidney Johnston sa
ber, presented by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy for
military proficiency, will be
awarded to Cadet Major C. B.
Marsh, C CAC. Mrs. I. B. McFar
land, president of the Texas divi
sion of the U.D.C., will make the
presentation. x
Cadet First-sergeant Spencer
Baen, C CAC, has won the Coast
Artillery Medal which is given to
a junior in that regiment for gen
eral military proficiency. The
presentation will be made by Mrs.
Burton Hartley.
The Caldwell Trophy, presented
by the Caldwell Jewelers, Bryan,
for proficiency in military drill
will be presented to Cadet First-
sergeant Harold Dickerson, 2 HQ
FA, J. O. Chance will make the
presentation.
Cadet Master-sergeant Bill Gal
loway will receive the Daughters
of the American Revolution Award
for honor man of the Junior class.
Scholarship, leadership, character,
and military proficiency are con
sidered in making this award
which will be presented by Mrs. E.
S. Lammers.
Galloway will also receive from
Mrs. J. K. Boles the Field Artillery
Medal which goes to a Field Ar
tillery junior for general military
proficiency.
Sons of the American Revolu
tion Awards that are presented to
one senior in each regiment for
leadership, soldierly bearing, and
general excellence will be present
ed to the following cadets by E. L.
Angell: Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis,
(See AWARDS, Page 6)
of Aggies, plays primarily for Ag
gies, and caters to the desires of
the cadet corps—if the corps wants
swing, it gets it; if it wants sweet
music, the Aggieland supplies it.
Toppy and the band are always
on the alert for new tunes which
appeal to A. & M. cadets and their
dates.
In addition, with good arrange
ments and hard work, they form
one of the best, if not the best
Aggieland band in the history of
the school.
Among the several new arrange
ments which they have been work
ing on for the corps dance tonight
are Benny Goodman’s “Jersey
Bounce” and “Sing Sing Sing” and
two new ballads, “Tangerine” and
“Dear Mom.”
Navy Gets Acquainted
Above we see the Navy unit in the Aggie Mess hall as they prepare to take their first meal in their
new home and become acquainted with the ways the Aggies eat. At lower left some of the white-
capped sailors read The Battalion to find out what the Aggies thirk of them.
Pearce Band Is Aggie Favorite
Corps Dance Turnouts Reveal