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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1942
Official Notices
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FOR RENT—Until September, to respon
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Announcements
FIRST AID CLASS—Prof. R. E. Scruggs
of the Chemistry department will teach a
class in Firs tAid. The first meeting will
be held next Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. in
p:
Boyi
the Agricultural Engineering
hone M. L. Cashion, 4-1112,
just report
invited.
4-5294,
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2, or Harry
iort at the first
RED CROSS—The schedule for the Col
lege Red Cross Sewing Rooms for the week
beginning June 22, is as follows:
Monday—A.M., Volunteers ; P.M., Volun
teers.
Tuesday—A.M., Army and Presbyterians ;
P.M., Army.
Wednesday—A.M., Extension Service ;
P.M., Church of Christ and Baptist
Sewing Circle.
Thursday—A.M., Experiment Station and
Methodists ; P.M., Experiment Station,
Church of Christ, Lutherans, and
Project House Mothers.
Friday—A.M., Volunteers.
LAUNDRY SERVICE-
that we are having to use
-Due to the fact
use so many in
experienced employees the laundry has
been delayed; however we are working
sixteen hours per day and will be on reg
ular schedule with all laundry on or be
fore July 15.—G. P. Ayers, Manager, A. &
M. Laundry.
DEANS, HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS
OF INSTRUCTION—July 4 is one of the
holidays designated for the clerical staff,
but, under our speed-up program, it is
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Departments should arrange to keep the
offices open although it may be necessary
to dispense with the services of part or
all of the clerical staff.
Please bring this to the attention of
the teachers in your department also.
F. C. Bolton, Dean.
Meetings
SPANISH CLUB—The Spanish Club will
meet Wednesday, June 24, 1942, at 7:00
in room 124 Academic Building.
FORT WORTH A. & M. CLUB—The
Fort Worth A. & M. club will meet tonight
in the Y Chapel at 7 b'clock. Chocolate
milk will be served to all members at
tending.
CHESS CLUB—The Chess club will meet
tonight at 7 o’clock in the new Y.
ACCOUNTING SOCIETY—There will be
an important meeting of the Accountir
Society Tuesday, June 23 at 7 p. m. i
the A. & I. lecture room. All accountir
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM—Wednesday,
me 24 at 4 p. m. in Room 39 of the
June 24 at
bui
ey. Subje
Demagnetization.
Physics building. Speaker: Professor E.
E. Vezey. Subject: Cooling by Adiabatic
HANDICRAFT GROUP—The Handicraft
Group of the College Women’s Socfal club
will meet Wednesday, June 24, 9:3,0 a.m.,
at the home of Mrs. W. P. Taylbr, 113
Lee, South Oakwood. Plans for the year
will be discussed and materials ordered.
—Mrs. A. L. Schipper, general chairman.
CRYPTOGRAPHY CLUB—will meet in
Room 310, Academic building at 7:15
night.
RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB—The
Rio Grande Valuey Club will meet tonight
in Room 123, Academf
o’clock. Officers Jor th
ed, and plans made for
imic buildi
year w
thi
ng.
ng, tt 7 :00
pill lie elect-
e year.
Cleaning Improved
By Shaking Out Bag
Of Vacuum CleaJner
A clean dust bag gives a vacuum
cleaner its greatest efficien >y, ac-
cordin gto Bernice Claytoi, spe
cialist in home improvem snt of
the A. & M. College Extension
Service. This was establishei by a
demonstration with two mi chines
of the same make, one haring a
clean bag and the other s dirty
one.
Used on alternate strips; of the
same rug, the machine w th the
clean bag removed 12 til nes as
much dirt as the other. Bu t when
the bag was emptied and I irushed
clean, and the machine ru n over
the surface it had covered pre
viously, the amount of dirt re
moved was considerably increased.
The study demonstrated fhat ma
chines clean best if the / bag is
emptied after using, and ‘^rushed
inside and out once or /twice a
month. But washing the \bag is
not advised because this! would
spoil the finish which h< Ips to
make it dust-proof.
A speed of slightly moi e than
a foot a second was founc to be
more effective in removh g dirt
than moving the cleaner me re rip-
idly over a rug. A cleaner which
does a good job on one kind of
rug may be expected to dc it on
other kinds, Mrs. Claytor says,
adding that the wear a ru £ gets
from vacuum cleaning is very
slight compared to the wea • from
actual use.
“The war may last for
definite time or it may, tl
economic exhaustion, come
end earlier than many antic
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U S Needs 300,000
Engineers In Year
CHICAGO, ILL. (AGP)—The
United States needs 300,000 more
engineers and technicians within
the next year and it is up to the
colleges of the country to help
remedy that deficiency, says Dr.
Henry T. Heald, president of the
Illinois Institute of Technology.
War production efforts and gov
ernment service needs will dhmand
use of almost 2,000,000 engineers
and technicians by June, 1943, Dr.
Heald predicts. Actual figures
show there are only 300,000 fully
'trained engineers in the country
and possibly another 1,000,000
with training to act as technicians,
inspectors, draftsmen and the like.
Admitting that colleges cannot
meet all actual needs now, Heald
suggests four ways in which they
can help. The speedup program of
graduation is an important con
tribution, he says, making avail
able some 14,000 engineers at least
a month sooner.
Other college contributions,
Heald points out, would be to
bring back into active work those
engineering graduates now en
gaged in other work; to encourage
every qualified high school grad
uate to enter engineering at once;
and installation of defense train
ing courses as short time refresh
ers.
Women, the educator says, will
also play an important part in the
engineering field. There are many
minor jobs—draftsmen, inspectors,
chemists—that can be filled by
women and that may have to be
filled by women because of scar
city of qualified men, Heald feels.
Trend of Population
Away From Cities
The anti-social effect of city liv
ing is beginning to drive people
farther and farther away from the
big centers of population .
Dr. Ernest W. Burgess of the
University of Chicago declares* the
effect of living too close together is
a “subversive” influence on society
because people act like turtles, draw
their heads within their shells, be
come anti-social and adopt a cyni
cal attitude toward their neighbors
and life in general.
Dr. Burgess believes that to some
degree the environment of city liv
ing is undermining the spirit of the
American people.
Wheat Farmers Paid
Insurance for Wheat
Lost by Crop Failure
Insured wheat farmers are off
setting crop failures by collecting
insurance on this year’s crop.
Already, 342,000 bushels of in
demnity wheat have been paid on
1,917 claims with majority of
wheat placed under government
loan. Present loan rate is approx
imately 15 cents per bushel more
than, market price.
All claims paid represent 100
per cent crop failure and none have
been paid to producers who have
harvested any wheat, E. R. Duke,
state wheat insurance supervisor,
announced.
Under the 1942 wheat insurance
program, production on approxi
mately 11,451 Texas wheat farms
was insured. Wheat insurance pro
vided 50 and 75 per cent coverage,
with a majority of farmers signing
for 75 per cent coverage, Duke
said.
Topeka Takes
Over Control
Washburn College
TOPEKA, KAN. (AGP)—When
the citizens of Topeka voted re
cently to make Washburn college
a municipal university, they began
a new chapter in the history of a
school founded 75 years ago at the
close of the Civil war.
Washburn is not only one of the
oldest schools in Kansas but it is
the last of Congregational origin.
During all its 76 years it has ex
isted through the generosity of
philanthropists and alumni, and
now the city of Topeka is taking
Washburn under its wing just
when the school has reached the
end of its endowments.
Washburn, first known as Lin
coln college, now bears the name
of one of its earlier benefactors,
Ichabod Washburn, whose timely
donation made it possible for the
college to survive the lean years
following the Civil war.
In 1903 a philanthropist gave
Washburn college a $50,000 ob
servatory, equipped with one of
the best telescopes in the country
at the time.
But the gift that Dr. P. P. Wom-
er, president of Washburn from
1915 to 1931, likes to tell about is
the $100,000 that created the de
partment of American citizenship,
believed to be the first of its kind
in the United States. Dr. Womer’s
story began many years ago while
he was visiting in the east. It was
a stormy night, and he sought
refuge in a strange house. It
wasn’t long before Dr. Womer and
the man of the house were fast
friends. Both were highly interest
ed in education, and both were
concerned over the effect the
World War and the social upheaval
which followed would have on Am
erican citizenship.
The outcome of Dr. Womer’s
chance conversation Was an out
right gift by his new friend of
$100,000 for the founding of the
American citizenship department
at Washburn college. The donor
requested that his name be with
held until his death. So it wasn’t
until 1926 that he became known
as George I. Alden, of Worcester,
Mass. Dr, Womer resigned as
president of Washburn soon after
Alden’s gift was received and de
voted his time solely to the Am
erican citizenship department. He
was succeeded by Dr. Philip C.
King, president of Washburn now.
* * *
TOPEKA, KAN. (AGP)—Wash
burn college’s changeover to a
municipal institution ended the
long prerogative of the John
Ritchie family to attend without
paying tuition.
Back in 1858 Col. John Ritchie
gave the school $2,400, part of
which was used to purchase the
college site. The grateful trustees
extended the free tuition privilege
to his descendants.
Miss Jane Ritchie was about to
claim the right, but entered as a
paying student after the change.
Bolton in Toronto
For Rotary Meeting
F. C. Bolton, dean of the college,
left Saturday for Toronto, Can
ada, to attend the Rotary Inter
national Convention. Dean Bolton
is expected back around July 1.
Kitchen Fats May
Be Conserved By
Straining, Closing
Conserving kitchen fats and
oils is a wartime “must” for ev
ery housewife, says Hazel Phipps,
specialist in food preparation of
the A. and M. College Extension
Service. “Don’t waste fats and
spoil foods cooked in fats with too
much heat.”
When fat starts to smoke it
starts to break down chemically.
Food cooked in smoking fat will
be harder to digest and may be ir
ritating to the digestive tract.
Once fat reaches the smoking
stage it gets rancid more quick
ly if saved for future use. Many
fats may be saved and reused.
For example, fat used for deep
fat frying may be saved and used
several times afterward if it is
strained each time before being
put away. For this purpose several
thicknesses of cheese-cloth or othei
clean white cloth are suitable.
Miss Phipps advises using fats
while fresh. But she cautions
against adding fat on top of fat
continuously and letting that
poured up first (on the bottom
of the can) get rancid.
“Every bit of surplus fat, unless
it is too strong in flavor or has
been scorched, may be used for
cooking,” Miss Phipps says. “Fats
which have objectionable odors,
tastes and colors easily may • be
clarified at home. To do this, melt
the fat with an equal volume of
water, heating at a moderate tem
perature for a short time, stirring
occasionally, and then cooling un
til congealed. The fat then can
be lifted from the water surface.”
All fats should be stored in
closely covered containers in a
’ dark place and away ’from strong-
flavored foods. Table fats should
be kept very cool, in a refriger
ator if possible.
Among several causes of alfalfa
yellowing are the lack of potash
and boron in the soil, alfalfa wilt
and leaf hopper injury.
Spinach debunkers of recent
years may soon learn that the time
for their own debunking is at
hand.
In answer to the question,' “Do
you make any of your own cloth
es?” 28 per cent of co-eds in a
recent survey ansv/ered yes.
The tradition of Homecoming
was started at the University of
Illinois in May, 1910.
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Chemical Engineer
Working in Liberia
CINCINNATI, OHIO (AGP)
Less than a year out of the Uni’
versity of Cincinnati, John A. |Mc-
Cardle, Jr., is now chemical
gineer in charge of 300 nstive
workmen in a Liberian plants tion
factory producing rubber for the
American war effort.
University authorities have vord
that McCardle has been at his post
since Christmas eve.
After being graduated last June
from the university’s five-yeaj co
operative course in chemical en
gineering, McCardle took a special
training program with Firestone
Tire and Rubber company- fo^ his
present work.
Black Spot On
Roses Killed By
Use of Sulphur Dust
Black spot on rose bushes is
just what the name signifies.
Small blac kspots form and grow
larger, and leaves turn yellow and
fall off. If a great many leaves
are lost, says Sadie Hatfield, spe
cialist in landscape gardening of
the A. &M. College Extension
Service, the branches one by one
begin dying at the top and con
tinue dying down into the roots.
The lesson in this is that garden
ers who wish to preserve the
health of their roses should keep
leaves on them. Leaves are the
medium for supplying food for
growth and blooms.
Black spot can be controlled by
dusting finely ground sulphur on
the leaves once a week until new
healthy leaves have formed. The
dust should be applied when the
wind is not blowing. This pest at
tacks roses during the cool days of
fall and spring. Shade and mois
ture encourage its spread. Hot
dry weather fends to kill it. Some
varieties of roses are more suscep
tible than others. When leaves are
destroye dthe plant becomes weak
and unattractive.
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