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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1942)
> % 4-5444 !< APtt mow A - DM 0 K / A NBWBPAPKK ' CITY OP STATION COLLEGE 2 )RNING, When I Ms Are Checked Registration Exc Old Dormitories ration The Office of the rommaijd^nt announced that the crowded room situation wifl be cleai ad op aa soon as possible —probably m ^bout a week’s tinje. The number of students for the summer semester exceeded all estimates oy more than a thousand. For thi i reason, many students were given rtjoms without! regard *to military organization *■ ^. I f- ♦ i«<t ^<i that ihfy could have a Willin '' ' " lies May f Do Farm Labor As i Hands Are Scarce Then- are many rooms eontain- ing three studenta and there have be*n jrases where as mshy as six stijdtjits were assifriuii to a single Harry Boyer’s office has for the* part few dajrs *with boys trying to get their roin^ situatxin straightened out. ' room, been ^ swamped _ . v Pt | 1 | roena aituatYun straightene I^ahor I'lans Have Approval Kvery effort i» being made to re- Of War Board and Student l '’ v *' th<? situation at -o.on as pos- I^ibor Committee’s Office sib ^|t>ut it will take time, the Committes’8 Office • ® I Student farm labor i* now cogupandant’s office stated. < ' 1 +4 ^6,_I942 2275 _ • <* a and Sway the Aggie Way ¥ A NUMBERS. Ik mney Dan R. “Rockey” ineers, from Winnsbor class of '43 at the I summer semester. H< ry, from College Static [arrison Secretary id Smith Historian I ir - ® m mf / • 'U * • n. ^ M Yell Pract V commandant’s office e^-> reality in tha new plan sponsored< the hope that students will “by the collegiate chapter of the ** P ? tient be ° ,,UM! th ^ «• Worl ‘- Future f’wnnera of America due to begin • sometime next week if possible accord^ig to Phillip Al ford, president of the F. F. 'A. Chapter. W F 1 1 1 An unusual amount of interest has been shnwh in this scheme ! '"4 Pt top speed to relieve the situation. Tl^e college had planned to reno- vatej.Milner, Legett, Foster, Good win ,)uid Bixxell Halls during the The top two floors of Mi|i*r are now being recondition ed. R light registration was ex pected for the summer semester 2** •^T' »' «>“ *nJ finer th, rwrditionh, work ^ jt^rir fohao werk I," .ktwily undrr w.y, student, Ihr. *d a, wrll at five employm«nt to •tudenta. The unusual absence of farm workers due to the war has made it imperative that some help •be found somewhere, so this plan has the approval of the Brasoa County War Board and the Stu dent Labor CoUMhittee. * j Transportation to and from the farms and mealg will be provided for all those who sign up for this employment. Yon will be doing four country a favor as well as- earning money at a good, healthy job if you tako. advantage of this offer. Application blanks and ftnv ther information may be obtained from Alford, t FA, or Worn the Agricultural Education Office, Room 106, Agricultural Engineer ing Building ing hi these halls will'intely under go Jdtiine inconvenience, : T - - .t i Aeronautical Club Nominates Officers Al the first meeting of the year, the institute of Aeronautical Sci- enodi nominated officers for the coming year last Thursday. Steve Kaflarp O Eng. acted as chairman of |he meeting. Attended by ap proximately 150 menfbers and po tential members, nominations for the offices of chairman, vice chair- ma)| secretary-treasurer, and sen ior <and junior representative of the t Student Council. Sophomore » jSee AERO CLUE Page 4) For the first time the eatire cadet corps will be able to eaj during a summer semester when all of the student body is first Juke Box Prom of a series will be held under the dire an evening of informal entertainment the campus to enjby it. Tonight the »n of Hobby Stepheni, social secretary. ’land, 'Captain of E Company was elected president of tho it meeting of the Senior class defeated Jack Mfller of C Troop in the run-off. Miller was last yt-ars pre»id.-nt of the junior class. Sutherland, who promises new hopes for the clas|i will be assisted by Gun Link, vicetprvsidentt Bland, Harrison; secretary. J. C. Denney, treasurer and John W. Smith, his- tsriaa. The meeting whs conducted by ] the cadet colonel, Walter Cardwell Jh, and was tjie most irderly meeting ever held by the class, members asserted. Cardwell per- Wplrnmsi r I\v nlitt * d ^ nominations to be made O 1 from ** noor ’ rrest I resnnu II Alddu t»y number of candidates from which Walton, Kyle; Wel^y > 10 choo ’ e , ; Coach Homer Norton, head m n- f tl i j tor of the Texas Aggies, was h n- i^ltOVCr SU^cU* At ored at the annual College NiAt * - f 0 __ : Breakfast Is Used ^sz:' ^ * nd , ‘ n4u - In Lunchtime Tea Welcome speeches were made to the ftashman class Ijy Dr. TF First of Social Events Scheduled For Nine O’clock Tonight in Old Mess Hall Summer social activities will get underway tonight at 9 o'clock, in the Annex of Bbisa Hall, states Bobby Stephens, social secretary of the senior claaa. This will be the first Juke Box Prom of the new semester, with favorite tunes by the nation's beat dance bands. These Proms- originated during the summer session of 1840. The idea was conceived by George former Battalion eol- aad carried into effect by the; intramural department, under the .direction of W. L. Penberthy. The increasing numbers attending thege dances give proof of their popUarHy. juniors will be allowed to wear civic* at this evening’s affair, while the rest of the Corps will at tend in No. 2 uniform, states Ste- pbatis. The number of stags who attend futAre proms may have to be limit edhowever, for the present there wilj be no limiution. Drawing Course To Be Offered In Training Series A course of evening study in ad vanced engineering drawing will be offered by Texas A. A M. Col lege on or before June 22, it was announced today by W. E. Street, head of ‘ fhe department of en gineering drawing. The course, under the sponsor ship of national Engineering, Sci ence and Management Defense Training, will be tuition-free, but only applicants with necessary qualifications will be accepted. Street said. Prerequisites are graduation from high school with two years of mathematics and one of draw ing; or sufficient indbstrial draw ing experience; or completion of a previously-offered ESAMDT draw ing course. If enough applicants appear at a preliminary meeting, which will be held in Room S3 of the Civil Engineering building here at 8 p.m. June 15, two sections may be created, possibly one at Bryan and one here. Times and places of section meetings will be decided at the registration session June 15, Street said. The course, to run 16 weeks, calls for six hours of practice each week. Loving Instruction: Featured Attractii Of Kadet Kapers at 7 He Thinks It’s Great; in H In National Need instruction on lovuj mak ing? You can get it withouj pay ing a cent for it along witl^ a lot of fun and super entertainment at Kadet Kapers tonight at Ufe As sembly Hall at seven when HKchard W. Jenkins presents the f^rst in the new series of Aggie Entertain ment shows. All the new Fish as well ^s the Navy and Marine personpei *re especially invited to atte There will be several contests the winners of whieh will gst won derful prises to say nothing of a swell time. Special instruction will also be given to those fish ioming to Aggieland for the first tjme on the manly art of love makjlg. Baptist Church Holds Young People Service The First Baptist Church of Bryan will conduct s special serv ice for all Aggies, old anil new, as well ss all other students and young people. The service ig to be gin at 6:30, this Sunday evening. / Dr. William H. Andrei* will preach at the service, to w^lch all vacationing students in Brjian end Naval Cadets srei invite<j. Pete Adams, Aggie '42, will sin^ a spe cial number. Student Activities Officials Approve Contracts, Editor Meeting for the first time, the new Student Activities Committee yesterday afternoon approved con tracts for the 1943 Longhorn and the appointment of Mike Haikin M sports editor of the Battalion newspaper, ? The engraving contract for the Longhorn wfs awarded to the Wallace Engraving Company of, Austin and the printing contract to the Gulf Printing Company of Houeton. Mike Haiktn was approved as sports editor pf the newspaper for the eoming year. At the same time a committee was appointed by Deaa Bolton - to investigate and recommend standards to be used in appointing staffs in the future. E. L. Angell; L. D. Boone, John Lonfley and fj Brooks Cofer were appointed to Serve on this commit tee, and to report to the committee at its next rqrettag. is . .. > Walton, president of - the coll E. J. {Kyle, dean of the School of Agriculture; Col. Madrice D. VI >1- ty, commandant of the corps of R*ticm Books Are Not Used To Obtain Sugar Supplic. But Are m Safe Keeping What remains of the bowl of •ugar that m on the breakfast cadet*; Coach Norton; and •»-; ell table is Used tq sweeten the tea I '* leader* Jack (Big Foot) Nagai nd J. O. Alexander. ' An engraved desk set was ] re sented to Coach Norton by he corps on behalf of hit splei lid work in producing rruyiy fin* f ot- ball teams. The presentation rus made by Mike Haikin, Bati^ion sports editor. Eleventh Annual m > The eleventh annuafl cotton * sdy tour ms completed last Fri lay, May 29, by Professor R. C. P (Us, F. G. Collard and!A; B. Wa< die, who went to New Oceans, B#ton Rouge, Memphis and Dalla* In Mexico they visited Saltillo/; for- reon. ParTas and Mexico * pity studying cotton conditions, t ©. Wilmeth and G. C. MeGourik 1 font on the first part at Uie trip h| the >t w3re unahl t to lexico m United Slates but make the trip to Me they had to duty M*y 17. V MCA Continues Picture Calendar In Summer Months Aiding Student dr A* part of ita extensive training and entertaining program on the A. At M. campus, the Young Men’s Christian Association, popularly —-A l . . Ik' ' L By Clyde C. Franklin Many things have been mid about A. A M It all began hack when Coach Hopier Norton started conference wIn- prod uc mg ning Aggie foo that a new A. * M. is * < f of publicity th Latest of the Quentin Reynol issue of Coll getting teams but nhw is in Ms at the aatien. *ls by in thw May 30 In this article, the featured ar ticle of th* isa^e.'h* was talking about Aggies found college - no students I tent on hi they would be and could get; Walked < ' That 1 when he got ti j! tide be really take College- > a got to be Texas. During !*▼* worked in Europ* And • but n#**r in J •4 he said. “I its studying taa saw Study, ln- the day wtyen eninmisBion* i to active set-nee. 4 LaagMng little WU into tha nr looa* with, “N >w >n, Texas. I’ve when I talk ahyit past ten ye^rs every country ;m everywhere, I just came T**! . I 1 «l- i I ‘ las Lauds Aggie’s Training Program Weekly Magazine Article About College fnpn spending two weeks there Khi; I walked out of the state l*4pthing. I was laughing at Hit ler, and Hirohito aad a* the defeat- !•* and enemies within our own border*. I was laughing at their g that they our country, effects you like that Texas dilnTt wait to be subbed in the bark During the pest two yeaua. I’ve met kids from Texas on Brit ish destroyers in the Channel and Uue North Atlantic; flying with RAF bomber groups and with our oi^nf magnificent Eagle Squadron, N|. 71, the first to go into com- b*t; flying Curtiss-Wright P-40’s btLibya, and I met them all places od the sorely be!.-h*ured island oflfalU in the Mediterranean. I’d been in Texas before but I’d l| Texans all right _ „ a song down there, i Eyes of Texas are Upon You. putting forth her hundred- ♦cent war effort intelligently, with hatred in her heart those who would snap Un- has her eye* of us. If we lag in our ittl war efforts, Texas is liable to get mad and fight the war alone. Tex as is like that. When I die I want to go to Texas. Norton Praises Team : *L*t’s go back to College SU- tion, Texas. You probably never heard of the place unless you're a football fan. There’s nothing there but a college. College SUtion is the home of Texas A. A M., the great Texas Aggies. I doubt wheth er they’ll have much of a football team there next fall. Those 4,500 atudenU are too inUrested in learning ways and means of kill ing Japs and Germans to bother with football. They were just wind ing up spring football practice when I was there and Coach Nor ton was mighty pleased. “They’ll make great soldiers,’ he gloated, watching hi* tall, lean boys run to the showers. ‘Maybe football will help them a little.’ ** ‘What kind of a team will you have next year?’ I asked him. "‘There’s only on* team that counts now,* he said a little re proachfully. That’s America. A lot of our boys will have qualified for service by fall. They ful boys and they'll soldiers.’ * If; Aggiee Have Fun, Too “I sat up late with a those cadets at Texas They are all cadeta at T« M. Every one of thou* 4, will be in one service or within a short tima. I sat them and tanked and list them and it was exciting, the generation that is win the war for ps. It’s generation. They’ve had tkoir lit tle fun with girls and with juke boxes and with a little }wer on the side and with footb il|, and with junior proaos. But th *y were just killing time doing t iat and now they’re Amertbans, a uj their country has said, *We nee^ f little help, boys,’ and they Ye qaife wil ling and very anxious a id soon will be technically trainei . in th* various ways of taniifrt the brains out of those silly fimmans and Japs. ' , j || “When yon return from tone, you got asked an ^rful lot of fool questions. Peonla iak you. ‘What is the truth about the Hess case?’ They ask (as though two million Russians hadn’t already proved It), ‘Can we trust the Rus sians?' They ask, ’Are the British on* hundred p<-r cent behind their war effort?’ <As though thousands of British civilians hadn’t proved that too.) Bpt those men from Texas A.-A M. didn’t ask questions like that. We sat for many hours and they ask*d, ‘What weapon do the British'Commandos use? How do they sneak hi places and kill Germans without rousing the whole German army?’ I knew tha answer to that and when I told them of the knives and the beau tifully effective methods used by the Commandos, their eye* glisten ed and their young hands clenched and you knew everything was all right with young America.’’ Reynolds continues his article and he states that he finds condi tions just as good for the defeat of th* enemy all over the United States aa he does in the words printed above in praise of Texas and A. A M. Reynold* appeared hi the past Town Hall aeries here. day known as th* “Y," trill to operate Jts daily) n Guion Hall this sutnm er aa { done in the past. According Gordon Gay, associate of the Y and man^gorl shows, • |bis season's shows represent the best thaft can tained ill the movie; world, states. Besidea. the regular week shows in. the aftemoqn and supper, the Y also brih*» to Hall a free show each Sunday aft ernoon. These shows, are fix the benefit of the corps and visits v on the campus Due to grange! ont* with the producers which ms le it possible to show these films fc no cost to tbs audience, it is ira| pasi- ble to advertise them as othei mo vies are advertised and hence they are more in less sight-and-ui pen The caAst corps regularly a Area in the prafita from the Y abfcws. Twenty percent of th* pro put into the student activiti so that say campus organishtion, dub or satiety which is in Used of funds far a worthy projeef apply to the student mittee and the amount be given to them. This the benefit shows that were acred in juev.ous year* by vdriou* campus groups in cooperation with the YMCA. Until last October, the Y Ucws were regularly given in thh As sembly Hall At that) time Juion Hall was adopted aa the theatre by purchasing a new scree* and curtain* for the windows. The change was made fa order to gain the added asatii comfort of Guion msii at noon and there is no more after that supply is gone. With the ex eepttonally small amount of sugar that the mesa kali is allowed, it cannot give ua^ any more than twenty ounces a day for every twenty-four me*. This means ten ounces per Xable a day—all of which ia put one for breakfast as that ia our hefeviest sugar eon suming meal, a<,u J. C. H supervisor of subsists nee. By a little figuring, you will see that each student gets about twelve ounces of sugar every four teen days instead of the'sixteen that Ije is allowed. Thi* aad state of affairs is caused by Uncle Sam The Ifw has cut thi mess hall’s xupply t« 60 percent of its regular •upply, using March ua th* for the ^mount that we get now. Contrary to the general opinion, the ration books' that the students turned in are not used to buy our Wfeur. Th* books were taken up ao that the students could not use them elsewhere. Th* mesa hall is allowed just so much sugar and the ration, books are stored for safe Keeping. Hotard said that if the ideas hall could replenish its ■upply on the basis of the ration books, they would have ample sug ar to meet the real needs of the a tudenta but until »oinethii« t» t ter comes along* we srill have to he satisfied witl( what w* have. Fish & Game Gass Studies in Mexico A contingent of Texas A. A If. College agricultural students, spe- rialixing in fiah and game service, > en route to Mexico for a sum mer of field studies deep id the heart of.th* neighboring rwpubtie. Headed by Dr.^W. B. Davit, act ing head of instauction in the fiah and gam* service department of the college, the group making the field trip is traveling fa. two bu**s and a station wagon. The itinerary calls for storm m the vicinities of Montemorelia^ Tamazunchale, Puebla, Chilpan- cfago and Oaxaca, the laat-namad citjr—about 200 miles south of Mexico City-A^arking the south ernmost point of the field trip. Students majfeg the trip, whieh will end upon their return to Col lege Station September 15, will re ceive 18 credit hour*—four hours in ornfthology and seven each fa Gald studies and practical fiah culture. Among the students making the trip are Edward W. Bonn, Alton, m.;; D. Homer Buck, Houston Harry L. GiRmti Jr., Moat Bel- vie%, Texas; J. W- McKamy, Cur- rollton, Texas; (meat H. Powell ■nd R. R. Ruschtg both of San An- toafa; Edmond M Talk, Ingleeide, TaKas; H. D. Tuitior, Port Arthur; AM. Vajdos, Hohaon, Texaa; Sam Whatiar, Houston;' and Matt H. Whiaenhunt, Idabel, Okla. L ;; t - 1 i /