DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
m ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1942
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NUMBER 89
Federal Inspection ROIC Facilities Held Tomorrow
Tickets For
Senior Ring
Dance onSale
Classified Seniors,
8-Semester Men May
Attend Occasions
Tickets for the Senior Ring
Dance and Banquet to be held May
14 in Sbisa Hall are on sale
through the organization comman
ders, Dick Hervey, president of
the senior class announced. Tic
kets for the dance and banquet
will cost $2.30. Favors will cost
$1.71, of which 50 cents has al
ready been paid on the down pay
ment.
All classified seniors and eight
semester men are eligible to at
tend the dance and banquet, and
organization commanders are re
sponsible for seeing that only
those eligible to attend are allow
ed to purchase tickets.
Hervey said that it is urgent
that all seniors pay for their tic
kets now in order that more def
inite plans for the banquet may be
made.
For those seniors not living with
an organization, tickets may be
purchased at the Corps Headquar
ters office in Ross Hall tomorrow
afternoon from 1 until 5 o’clock.
Organization commancTers have
been asked to turn in the money
that they have collected for tickets
and favors to the office at the
same time. The deadline for the
purchase of tickets will be set for
sometime next week, Hervey add
ed.
Colonel Rice Promoted
At Edgewood Arsenal
Colonel James Wilson Rice,
whose home is at Edgewood Ar
senal, has been promoted from
lieutenant colonel to colonel in the
chemical Warfare Service.
Formerly stationed with the Re
serve Officers’ Training Corps at
Texas A. & M., Colonel Rice re
ported here in June of 1939 and
was assigned, to the Chemical War
fare Board. He attended the Uni
versity of Nevada and the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
and has since been with the United
States Regular Army nearly 25
years.
Marines Land, Enjoy Mess Hall;
Puzzled by Uniforms, Customs l
The Marines have landed! Not
content in having only the army,
navy, and C.P.T. flying course,
A. & M. now has the fighting Ma
rines on the campus.
In an interview with four of the
Marine boys, it is found that they
already think A. & M. is tops in
every respect. The boys remarked
over and over about how the peo
ple they saw spoke to them on the
campus. One said, “It’s not like
Chicago, where I didn’t even know
the people living four doors down
the street from me.”
Still confused about how to dis
tinguish regular officers from ca
det officers, one marine was won
dering just how he was going to
tell who was who around here.
Most of the boys shipped in
here have had one or more years
of college training. Such questions
as “How are the profs here,” and
“Do you get good show like this
here all the time?” were asked.
“I can’t understand it. You get
music with your food, and the food
just slides right down with it.”
Compared with the show they had
been getting out of their mess-
kits (that is not what they called
them) at “boot camp,” this food
is tops, they agreed.
The “boot camp” is the basic
training station where they learn
how to shoot a rifle and pistol and
all the drill and the field work
that a marine goes through to
make him the “outfightingest, out-
thinkingest critter on two legs.”
Now what about the girls? “I
haven’t seen a girl in two months,”
one of the men muttered. “How
can one go about getting acquaint
ed with these girls around here?”
Boy did they put us through the
mill at “boot camp”! Why we were
human pin cushions by the time
the doctors got through punching
us for tetanus, typhoid, smallpox,
and an extra jab or two just for
good measure. When the supply
sergeant issued them their rifles
he said something like this, “This
is your mother.” Then he gave
them a bayonet to put on the rifle
and said, “This is your brother.
Take care of ’em.” And the ma
rines did take care of that rifle
right. “When you hit the bull’s eye
at 500 yards you have to know
that old rifle pretty well.” And
when an air raid alarm was given
each marine took his place in the
trenches ready to kill any invader.
National defense marches on at
double time with the many
branches of Uncle Sam’s fighting
machine here at A. & M. Each
branch of course, has its own char
acteristics and attitudes; each
branch being the only branch to
get in, but every last man, even
to his last »breath is ready to give
the Axis a walloping of such a
nature that they will stay wal
loped.
Singing Cadets Judge Sweater-Girl
Contest on Northern Concert Tour
Ag Ed Seniors Hold
Outing at Cashion
Cabin at 5 Tomorrow
The annual informal get-togeth
er of Agricultural Education ma
jors and their professors will be
held tomorrow afternoon from 5
till 8:30 at Cashion Cabin.
John Pesek, chairman of the
athletic committee, has planned a
softball game between the stu
dents and the professors to take
place before the meal.
Buddy White, chairman of the
program committee, has planned
the program for the get-together.
Members of the Singing Cadets
will appear on the program.
Three dances and judging a
sweater-girl contest are at least
four things that will last in the
memory of the members of the
Singing Cadets who went on what
was probably the most elaborate
excursion ever undertaken by this
group. In addition to these events-,
members enjoyed the hospitality
of nine towns at which they sang.
The towns visited were Waco,
Hillsboro, Itasca, Fort Worth, Dal
las, Denton, Ennis and Marlin, at
each of which they were enter
tained and sang between the time
they left, just after breakfast
Wednesday morning, and the time
they returned, at 6:30 Friday
night.
Wednesday, the cadets sang at
Waco High School, at the Itasca
high school and the Presbyterian
orphans’ home, and at the Hills
boro high school and junior col
lege. From there they went to Fort
Worth, where they sang for the
Fort Worth A. & M. Mother’s
Club at a banquet at Simpson’s
Dining Room Wednesday night.
From the banquet they went to
the Lake Worth Casino, where
they judged the sweater girl con
test, electing Ruth Rushing the
winner. She then became hostess
for the rest of the evening and
the dance. Members of the cadets
spent the night at homes of mem
bers of the Mothers’ Club.
Thursday morning they sang at
North Side High School in Fort
Worth, from where they went to
Dallas, and had lunch at the Ha
waiian Century Room. Here they
also enjoyed a floor show on ice,
and danced with a group of thirty
girls from the American Airlines
to the music of Legon Smith’s or
chestra. After lunch they sang at
Highland Park High School.
From Dallas they went to Den
ton, where they gave a concert
Thursday night. After the concert,
they attended a dance at the Col
lege Club, with the girls doing the
tagging.
Friday morning they left Den
ton, for Ennis and Marlin and pre
sented programs. Sandwiches and
drinks were served in Marlin, and
a dance was given later.
From here they returned to
College Station, arriving at 6:30
Friday night, and having present
ed ten different programs.
ASCE Banquet To
Be Tonight; Col
hevalier Speaker
Awards For Outstanding
Junior and Senior Of
Year to Be Made Also
The American Society of Civil
Engineers will hold its final ban
quet of the year tonight at 7 in
Sbisa Hall, Jesse Teague, presi
dent, stated.
Officers for the coming year and
Junior Engineer’s Council repre
sentative will be elected. An award
of $5 each to the outstanding jun
ior and the outstanding senior in
the society will also be presented.
Colonel Willard Chevalier, prom
inent engineer, will speak at the
banquet. The doors will be opened
at 8:15 in order that the general
public may hear Colonel Cheva
lier’s address.
Colonel Chevalier is vice-presi
dent of McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company, and will be remembered
by many as the speaker of a series
of letures held here last year.
Registration for Men
45-65 Held Yesterday
“Between 365 and 370 men have
registered in the Selective Service
registration for men between the
ages of 45 and 65,’’ Alva Mitchell,
who was in charge of the registra
tion, declared late yesterday, be
fore the booths had closed on the
ground floor of the Administration
building.
He stated that the registration
had gone smoothly, with the reg
istrants coming in regularly, so
that there was no rush at any
time.
Agronomy Society
Elects James Next
Year’s President
Morrison, Barton, Mills
Brown, Lancaster Chosen
As Other Club Officials
At the regular meeting of the
Agronomy Society last Thursday
night, the officers for the coming
year were elected. The officers
elected are Durwood James, Sul
phur Springs, president; Dorward
Morrison, Greenville, vice-presi
dent; Jack Barton, Kaufman, sec
retary-treasurer; Alanson Brown,
Houston, parliamentarian; Jim
Frank Mills, Winnsboro, sergeant-
at-arms; Doug Lancaster, College
Station, reporter; and faculty ad
visor for the club, A. W. Crain,
instructor in agronomy.
During the remainder of the
meeting plans for the decorations,
tickets for the Cotton Pageant
and Ball, the ushers and their du
ties were discussed.
The Cotton Pageant will take
place in Guion Hall this year in
stead of the DeWare Field House,
were it has always been held in
the preceding years. Sbisa Hall
was discussed as a place for the
Cotton Pageant, but it was de
cided that the floor could not be
cleared in time for the ball, which
will be held in Sbisa as it was for-
| merly announced.
Khaki Shirts to Be Worn
With Blouses at Review
Campaign Hats Are to Be Worn At All
Times While Inspection Is Under Way
Federal inspectors will arrive on the campus tonight to
begin the annual two day inspection of the military training
facilities of the college tomorrow and Thursday.
Highlight of the inspection will be a mounted review of
the corps in Number 1 uniform at 1 p.m. Thursday. Classes
will be suspended Thursday afternoon from 1 until 4 to per
mit cadets to attend the review. For the first time in the his
tory of the school khajri shirts have been prescribed for wear
with the Number 1 uniform at a review. The purpose of hold
ing the review in woolens is to permit the inspecting officers
-fto see the government uniforms
English Teachers
Hold Annual Meet
In YMCA Saturday
Dr S S Morgan Elected
Vice-President of Group;
Dr Summey Delivers Paper
Dr. Robert A. Law of the Uni-
versit yof Texas was elected pres
ident and Dr. L. N. Wright was
re-elected secretary-treasurer at
the tenth annual meeting of the
Texas Conference of College
Teachers of English held here in
the Y.M.C.A. Saturday. Dr. S. S.
Morgan of A. & M. was elected
vice-president.
The morning session was de
voted to a discussion of general
teaching problems, including a dis
cussion of a laboratory course in
English where students would
write their exercises under the
supervision of an instructor, and
their efforts would be graded and
discussed during the laboratory
session.
Dr. George Summey, Jr., head
of the English department deliver
ed a paper on The Teaching of
English in Wartime, ii) which he
stated that the process is essen
tially the same, except in wartime
the teaching must be improved to
be of benefit. The teaching must
be more vital because it is more
difficult to get the students’ at
tention, and to get them to real
ize the importance of the subject.
The afternoon session was de
voted to research papers and the
principal address of the meeting—
“Humanism versus Education for
Death,” by Dr. Alwin Thaler of
the University of Tennessee, a
noted authority on Shakespeare
Dr. Thaler declared “we must
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Maids of Honor for the Cotton Pageant
Freshmen Predominate in Maids Chosen from TSCW for Court
Marjorie Ann Monaghan
Dorothy Middleton
Jerry Heim
Margaret Kerby
Dorothy Dillingham
By Clyde C. Franklin 1 ridge. Her escort is Robin Romin-\ Hutchens, junior at TSCW, is pic-1 No tickets for the Cotton Ball
ger. Dorothy Middleton from Or-1 tured at the lower right. She is I be sold except at the door of
an and ^ ueare e Pre- ange is a senior atTSC W and willfrom Fort Worth and will be es-L bisa H all immediately preceding
dominating order of the day here 1 be escorted by Leslie McCarty. \ corted by Zolus Motley. I v. a i ■ \
at A. & M. but this week-end 1 Miss Jerry Heim, sophomore, from! These maids will enter first inU e ance - ^ was P revious Y an
promises to show a change with!Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be escorted! the pageant and will be seated 1 nounced that these could be bought
Jean Harris
Louise Williford
the Cotton Pageant and Ball
ahead. The 160-odd duchesses and
their escorts will bring to the cam
pus the first showing of spring
styles and for the most part the
corps will be wearing white suits
and gala sports coats.
Pictured above and to each side
are the pictures of the eight maids
of honor to the queen of the elev
enth annual Cotton Pageant and
Ball. Reading across the top are
Miss Majorie Ann Monaghan a
TSCW freshman from Brecken-
by Jewel Ramage.
Miss Magaret Kerby, also a
freshman, will be escorted by Lon
nie Sears. She is from McKinney.
Dorothy Dillingham, freshman,
will be escorted by Bugs Tate;
she is from Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Miss Jean Harris, sophomore of
Wichita Falls, will be escorted-by
Julio Trigo.
Miss Mary Louise Williford, bot
tom left, freshman, comes from
Corpus Christi and will be escort
ed by Louis Brenner. Miss Lillian
with their escorts on the stage
about the throne of the king and
queen.
The maids will enter down the
left aisle of Guion Hall and the
escorts down the right aisle.
Duchesses will enter down the
right aisle, mount the stage and
display their dress and meet their
escort at the foot of the stage.
After meeting her escort the
duchess will exit down the left
aisle and proceed to the balcony
to be seated.
in the Agronomy Office. Only tic
kets to the pageant can be bought
at that office.
Miss Ernestine Ashe was chosen
queen of the pageant at the same
time the maids were chosen. She
will be queen to the king, Gene
Wilmeth. These girls were chosen
to be the most beautiful in a group
of 100 of the prettiest girls on the
TSCW campus at the recent Red
bud festival held there. The girls
were chosen by the social commit
tee of the Cotton Pageant.
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which are issued to cadets enrolled
in the basic military course.
Tomorrow morning the officers
will be guests of the corps in Sbisa
Hall for breakfast. At 8 a.m. all
senior officers of the Military de
partment will meet with the in
specting officers in the office of
the commandant and from there
will proceed with the inspection as
follows.
Hosts to the inspectors at a
luncheon in Duncan Hall tomorrow
will be the senior cadet officer of
each unit. Col. E. A. Keyes, senior
officer of the inspecting party,
will be the guest of Cadet Colonel
Tom Gillis.
Late in the afternoon, the visit
ing officers will call upon the
president, T. O. Walton, Executive
Assistant E. L. Angell and Dean
T. D. Brooks.-
The commandant has announced
his desire that each student keep
his personal appearance, conduct
and quarters in irreproachable
condition during this week espe
cially, so that the inspecting offi
cers may be well impressed by the
corps.
Cotton uniforms have been pre
scribed for wear from reveille un
til retreat on April 29 and 30.
Campaign hats will be worn by all
cadets whenever they are out-of-
doors during the two days of the
inspection. Major A. J. Bennett
has announced that any cadet who
does not wear the campaign hat
will be considered out of uniform
and awarded demerits according
ly. The regulation fatigue uniform
with hat must be worn to all
laboratories.
Members of the inspecting party
and their respective units are as
follows Col. E. A. Keyos, Cav. r
civilian components officer; Col.
C. L. Mitchell, Inf.; Col. Wm. J.
Calvert, Q.M.C.; Col. John Per
kins, C.A.C.; Lt. Col. O. C. Mc
Intyre, F.A.; Lt. Col. B. F. Chad
wick, Eng.; Lt. Col. R. A. Eads,
C.W.S.; Maj. J. B. Wise, Jr., Cav.;
Capt. G. T. Turner, Sig. C.; and
Lt. D. C. Cutter, Ord. Dept.
Colonel Chevalier
To Deliver Series
Of Speeches Here
Col. Willard Chevalier, publish
er of Business Week, and an ex
ecutive of McGraw-Hill Publish
ing Company, will give his fourth
annual series of lectures to A. &
M. students and all others inter
ested this week.
Col. Chevalier’s first lecture
open to the public will be at Sbisa
hall at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday. An
other open meeting will be at 8
p. m. Thursday in the chemistry
lecture room. He will speak at all
engineering students at 11 a. m.
Friday at Guion Hall. The public
is cordially invited to attend Tues
day and Thursday evening meet
ings, according to Dean Gibb Gil
christ of the School of Engineer
ing.
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Lillian Hutchens
Civilian Defense
First Aid Starts.
First aid classes for enlisted
personnel of the War Department
Civilian Defense Training School
were started last night in the Ag
ricultural Engineering lecture
room by R. E. Snuggs. The ma
terial covered will "be standard
first aid instruction. Classes will
meet on Monday and Wednesday
nights at 7:30.