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?HURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1942-
THE BATTALION
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Highlights of the Nation to Be Inspected
3y Ag Eco Students on Two Summer Trips
By Tom Journeay
How would you like to stand at
he foot of the Empire State
luilding, the tallest man-made
difice in the world and look up
,t the sun glistening down on the
tainless steel and concrete? How
vould you like to visit Abe Lin-
loln’s final resting place; the
jreat lakes; the red river valley;
;he Yellowstone National Park; or
■nany of the other wonders that
jo to make up this America cf
3urs? No 1 , this is not all a pipe
iream. It’s simply a few of the
points on the itinerary of the two
travel courses that will be offered
by the department of Agricultural
Economics this summer. The cour
ses will last for six weeks each,
starting May 18 and July 6.
The purpose of the two courses
is to observe first hand and study
' America as a whole—its complexi
ties and its simplicities—to visit
with the farmer in the Dakotas,
and the manufacturer in the busy
industrial districts of the North-
East, to study local and central
markets, private and co-operative
business establishments and edu
cational institutions.
A large bus, used expressly for
these tours, will leave, the college
Monday morning, May 18, with
Professor L. S. Paine of the De
partment of Agricultural Econom
ics and a bus load of Aggies. The
bus will head first for Shreveport
to allow the class to study East
Texas land use problems and
Northern Louisiana agriculture.
Then on a bend northward, a study
of Mississippi land use problems
and a study of the black belt of
Alabama will' be tackled. From
there the aggregation will swing
up through historic old Chatta
nooga in the bend of the Tennessee
River, and up through the Great
4-Ppallachian Valley. While in that
vicinity a study will be made of
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
and Norris Dam. Into the land of
tobacco, Raleigh, the capital of
North Carolina, and up into our
nation’s capitol the special Aggie
bus will take the “Fightin’ Ag
gies.”
In Washington, such points of
interest as the Washington Me
morial, Lincoln’s Tomb, the U. S.
D. A. and Congress will be visited.
Three days will be spent in “The
Big City,” New York, for visits
to the stock exchange and whole
sale fruit and vegetable markets
as well as plenty of sightseeing
of course. While up in that part
of the country, colleges such as
Yale and Dartmouth will play host
to the Aggies and show them what
college life is like in the old New
England universities.
Up through the heart of New
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May 10
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England and across the border to
our neighbor of the North, Canada,
the Aggies will go. French Cana
dian farming and culture will be
observed first hand there as guests
of the people of Canada. After a
circuit in Canada back to the
States via the mighty Niagra
Falls the Texans will travel, to
settle this time in East Lansing to
view the industrial plants that
abound in that locale. A day will
then be spent at the Board of
Trade and the Field Museum at
Chicago. The class will leave the
windy city on Tuesday, June 23,
swinging southward through the
Ozarks and then home again on
June 27.
The second summer travel tour
will start on July 6 and head west
ward. First they will visit the
Kansas State college, then the
University of Nebraska, followed
by the Red River Valley of the
North near Fargo. During this
stretch the corn belt farming and
great plains agricultural develop
ments will be watched.
The busload of Aggies will find
themselves next at the Yellow
stone National Park on July 18.
Headed toward California the Ag
gies next will pay a visit to the
Morman State to study the Mor
mon methods of agriculture, and
Mormon customs. The Aggies will
look into Reno with all its glamour
and the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
before arriving at Sacramento on
July 26. A liberal look at Califor
nia with such points as Los An-
glees, Hollywood and Fresno on
the docket will be followed by a
jaunt to Las Cruces on August 10
and a study of range improve
ment. The Aggies from there will
travel through Van Horn, Marfa,
and Uvalde back to College Sta
tion, arriving home on August 14.
Upon the completion of this
course including a summary, sev
en credit hours will be given. The
summary will not be due until
September 20.
The cost? Only $142! That’s
only $15 more than a resident
course of the same duration would
cost, and as well as learning many
facts about the workings of Am
erica, lots of fun is there: for the
asking.
The courses will be of special
value to the students who need
only a few more hours to grad
uate. All requests for information
about the courses should be pre
sented to Professor L. S. Paine of
the Department of Agricultural
Economics.
Annual Firemen’s
Training School
Will Be Held
The thirteenth annual session of
the Fireman’s Training school is
scheduled to be held on the campus
from May 17 to 22. This is one
of the many short courses which
the college sponsors that will not
be called off due to the speed-up
educational program.
The theme of this year’s school
will naturally be that of civilian
defense. Heretofore the primary
purpose of the five day meeting
of Texas firemen has been to teach
new methods of combating fire.
But C. C. Hedges, acting director
of the school, has announced that
General Civilian Defense courses
and Red Cross first aid courses
will constitute the subjects to be
taught the firemen who attend the
school this year.
In American history the year
1942 will go down as the period
of intensive National Defense ef
fort. This effort is aimed riot at
aggression but at the total de
fense of our population. For these
reasons the Advisory Committee
of the Firemen’s school has decid
ed that a program of training the
Texas firemen on the fundament
als of Civilian National Defense
should be the main purpose of the
school. This program of training
was taken from the British Fire
Service, which had much to do with
the saving of Britain.
Winstead Attends
Publicity Meeting
At Ohio State U
G. B. Winstead, director of in
formation for A. & M. will at
tend the silver anniversary con
vention of the American College
Publicity Association, - to be held
May 7, 8, and 9 in Columbus at
the invitation of Ohio State Uni
versity.
For its anniversary the associ
ation is returning to the city of
its birth.
High point of the birthday ob
servance will be the banquet on
May 8, at which the principal
speaker will be Governor John W.
Bricker of Ohio.
At other sessions during the
three days the publicity directors
and public relations workers will
be devoting their time to the seri
ous subject of the role of the col
leges in the war, and the particu
lar responsibilities of the publicity
staff.
Among the “headline” speakers
are Dr. Benjamin Fine, education
editor of the New York Times;
Raymond B. Howard, president of
National Editorial Association;
Presidents H. T. Heald of Illinois
Institute of Technology, Howard
L. Bevis of Ohio State university,
and Timothy Lehmann of Elm
hurst College; Bland L. Stradley,
past president of the North Cen
tral Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools; Kenneth C.
Ray, director of education for
Ohio; Grove Patterson, editor of
Toledo Blade; and numerous oth
ers.
In* addition to these addresses
at general sessions, the 200 con
vention attendants will have many
round-table and discussion groups.
Naval Cadet
Enlistments
Set Record
New Level Of Air
Cadets Leads Naval
Expansion Program
Procurement of naval aviation
cadets in Texas and Oklahoma hit
a new high, setting a record in
the number of enlistments for any
month in the history of the Naval
Aviation Cadet Selection Board,
Allen Building, Dallas, Lieut.
Comdr. Barry Bolton, senior mem
ber of the board, announced today
at the close of the month of April.
Although wartime censorship
forbids the publishing of exact fig
ures of the number of enlistments,
Mr. Holton said that enlistments
for the month totalled well over
100. ^
He pointed out that the new pro
gram, under which high school
graduates and 18-year-olds may
be enlisted, was largely respon
sible for the banner enlistment
month even though the new pro
gram opened just a week before
the end of the month.
The commander said that al
though enlistments were at a new
level, the expanding program of
the navy will continue to demand
more pilots for planes of the fleet
air arm.
All applications from young men
in Texas and Oklahoma are hand
led through the Dallas ‘flight
board, but applicants may apply
at their nearest recruiting office
for navy flight training.
At Indiana university, Forrest
Shields is known as the campus
“blind man.” But he can see as
well as anyone, and it’s his job to
keep others from seeing.
He works for the buildings and
grounds department, and he’s per
formed as many as 400 “blind”
operations a week. He cares for
all the ailing and decrepit window
blinds in every building on the
campus.
VoxPop-From Sidewalk Pitch
To Big Time Radio Production
Ten years ago the station staff
at KTRH, Houston, Texas, had an
idea and worked fast. Out of the
window went a microphone line,
foot after foot until it reached the
sidewalk. An engineer connected a
mike. Curious passers-by stopped
to watch. The KTRH people,
among them Parks Johnson, grab
bed likely ones from the crowd
and before they quite realized
what was happening, questions
were popping and John Q. Public
was getting his first chance to say
something over the air.
Vox Pop, they called it; short
for vox populi, Latin for “the voice
of the people.”
Since that day early in Novem
ber 1932 many thousands of aver
age citizens have voiced opinions
and answered questions on Vox
Pop and the countless other radio
interview and quiz shows which
mushroomed all over the dial. On
Vox Pop alone more than 5,000
persons have been interviewed in
SJdFtT WAy
TAX
PHONE 2-1400
approximately 800 broadcasts.
It was a very simple matter to
do a Vox Pop program in those
early Houston days. The Vox Pop
crew placed a microphone on _a
busy street corner and had their
pick of the large crowd that never
failed to assemble. It was still
a simple procedure when the show
came to New York in the sum
mer of 1935 for the first net
work coast-to-coast broadcast of
this new kind of radio entertain
ment. A roving talent scout for an
advertising agency had discovered
Vox Pop’s phenomenal success on
the local Texas air, and lured the
program to Manhattan with a fat
contract to broadcast for an im
portant national account.
Parks Johnson says they were
plenty nervous preparing for their
initial New York show at Colum
bus Circle. It’s odd they picked
this spot, famous for windy soap
box orators with all sorts of
screwy messages. Here gathers
nightly one of the world’s greatest
collection of crackpots. While the
agency and network men real
ized the dangers and sought to
protect the program with a sprink-
(See VOX POP, Page 6)
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WHEN YOU’RE FLYING the big bombers across, you don’t want jangled
nerves. These veterans at the right are Camel smokers. (Names censored by
Bomber Ferry Command.) The capta.in(nearest camera),aTennessea.n, says:
*T smoke a lot in this job. Camels are extra mild with plenty of flavor.”
you want STEADY NERVES
to fly Uncle Sam’s
bombers across the ocean
CPT Will Be Offered
Again Next Semester
Civilian Pilot Training Element
ary and Secondary Flight and
Ground School course will be of
fered again during next semester
according to H. W. Barlow, head
of the Aeronautical Engineering
department. Any student who is
interested in such flight training
can meet in the Petroleum Engi
neering lecture room Thursday
night at 7:00 and discuss the
course with Mr. Barlow.
First priority will be given to
those students who can meet the
requirements for appointment as
aviation cadets in the U. S. Army.
If additional facilities are avail
able they will be used to train stu
dents who can qualify as instruct
ors after an advanced course. All
trainees will have to agree in writ
ing to contribute to future effort
in the field of aeronautics, and
some will serve in the Army Air
Corps after completion of the pre
scribed course.
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WITH THESE MEN WHO FLY BOMBERS, it’s Camels. The co-pilot of
this crew (name censored), (second from left in photograph at the left) says:
"I found Camels a milder, better smoke for me in every way.”
The smoke of
slow-burning
CAMELS
contains LESS NICOTINE
than that of the four other largest-selling brands
tested — less than any of them — according to
independent scientific tests of the smoke itself!
B. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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FIRST IN THE SERVICE-
The favorite cigarette with men in the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the
Coast Guard is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges,
Sales Commissaries, Ship’s Service Stores, Ship’s Stores, and Canteens.)
-AND THE FAVORITE AT HOME!
IN MV NEW
DEFENSE JOB, I
APPRECIATE CAMELS
MORE THAN EVER.
thev're extra
MILD WITH A GRAND
FLAVOR
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