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 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1942
2275
NUMBER 20
Social Calendar Released
After Commanders Meeting
Two Plans Considered for Deciding Who
Would Get Week-ends of Football Games
At a meeting- of the regimental commanders and Bobby
Stephens, social secretary of the senior class, Thursday af
ternoon, dates were set for the various regimental balls. The
meeting was necessary to decide which organizations would
be given the week-ends with, football games since there
will be only three home games this sason much discussion
had arisen as to which balls would be held on these week-ends.
There were two plans whereby
Commando Drilling
Required of All
Military Classes
Lieutenant Colonel Caphton
Put in Charge of Program
Working With Art Dept
Students taking military science
courses will be required to take
the commando training course as
part of their regular drill periods,
Lt. Col. C. L. Caphton, senior in
structor in the Infantry, said yes
terday.
Army officers turned out by A.
& M. from now on will be well
grounded not only in basic mili
tary tactics but in training as com
mandos as well. Plans are now
under way to train men in com
mando practices, stated Col. Maur
ice D. Welty, Inf., U.S.A., profes
sor of military science and tactics
and commandant of the college.
Lt. Col. Caphton has been placed
in charge of the commando train
ing and, with the cooperation of
the landscape art department, has
designed a cross country course
that will fit a soldier for most any
hazard he might find in combat.
Log hurdles, 10-foot high fences
to be scaled, barbed wire entangle
ments, natural obstacles such as
trees and thick underbrush, ascen-
tion bars, and water hazards go
into the make up of the course
that those training for the com
mandos will have to take.
Work is to begin on the course
soon and it is expected that it will
be in operation before the end of
this semester.
Major Hartley Gets
Orders to Report To
Pensacola, Florida
Major Burton Hartley, senior in
structor in the Coast Artillery unit
here, has received orders to report
immediately for duty with a harbor
defense coast artillery regiment at
Pensacola, Florida.
He has been at A. & M. since
May, 1941, at which time he re
placed Col. F. A. Hollinshed as
director of training for the Coast
Artillery Regiment. He served
overseas in the first World War.
the dates for the balls could be
determined. One was to draw for
date choices with each organiza
tion having an equal chance. The
other method, and the one used,
was to determine choices by the
size of the regiments. The toss of
a coin decided which method would
be used. Ray Terrell represented
the larger regiments while George
Driskill represented the smaller.
AH dates chosen are definite ex
cept for the Engineer’s ball which
will come some week-end in
September. The tentative date for
this dance, however, is September
11. Also after each ball on Friday
night a corps dance will follow on
Saturday with the band which
played for the regimental ball play
ing if possible.
Other dates for the social cal
endar will be published as soon
as they can be determined.
Campus Club Lists
Office Supplement
Receives Addition
To supplement the previous lists
that have been published of the
men who have been elected to hold
office in the various clubs on the
campus, are added the names of
men that have been turned in to
the Student Activities Office re
cently.
I. E. Club
President: L. D. Loggins
Vice-Pres: P. P. Swearingen
Secretary: E. C. McLarty
Southwest Texas Home Town Club
President: Hap Russel
Vice-Pres: Pete Brown
Secretary: John Mullins
Reporter: Marvin Stone
Social Committee: John Pesek,
Dean Darr, Dick Hinnant, Overton
Williams.
Accounting Society
President: Jack E. Carter
Vice-Pres: Mike J. Arisco
Sec.-Treas.: Ray, L. Boyles
Reporter: Leon Weiner
Rural Sociology Club
President: George W. Driskill
, Vice-Pres: Hawyord M. Fried
rich.
Secretary: Van T. George
Social Calendar
Engineers September 11
Coast Artillery - October 2
Cavalry October 9
Field Artillery — October 16
Infantry October 30
Composite Regiment December 11
Similated Air Raid
Featured Mon By
Protection School Duty with Forces
An invitation was issued yester
day to all civilians of Bryan and
College Station to attend the night
demonstration and simulated air
raid bombing which will be held
in the Field Artillery Drill Field
adjoining the tower of Radio Sta
tion WTAW at 8:30 p.m. Monday
night. The invitation was issued by
Col. H. R. Brayton, C. W. S., di
rector of the War Department
Civilian Protection School at A. &
M.
Because of the explosions that
have been heard here in the last
two weeks, many inquiries have
been received asking what they
were. Col. Brayton has offered this
chance to all who may be interest
ed to come and see what they are
doing.
The demonstration requires the
destruction of several buildings by
bombs and is climaxed by an in
cendiary fire in a frame apartment
house—these demonstrations are
accompanied by a two hour lecture
that explains the things that are
going on at the time they are
happening. All of the buildings
used in the demonstration have
been erected for that purpose by
enlisted men of Col. Brayton’s de
tachment.
The students at the Protection
school will get a taste of an actual
gas attack Tuesday afternoon,
weather permitting, when planes
from Randolph Field fly over the
drill field and let go a large am
ount of tear gas. All of the men
will be equipped with gas masks,
but will not know which of the
planes carries the gas or when
the spray will be released. This
feature has been added to the
course and the students will be
graded on the way they react to
the test.
Postage Required
Unless on Active
LONGHORN SCHEDULE
July 14 to 20, Coast Artil
lery Seniors.
July 21 to 27, Composite
Regiment Seniors.
Graduate Class of 1895 Comes
Back to Finish College Career
Students are reminded that even
though they have advance con
tracts and have enlisted in the re
serve corps of the army they are
not entitled to free use of the
mails, according to Mrs. Anna V.
Smith, postmaster at the local of
fice.
Officials at the post office have
noticed that a number of letters
have been placed in the mails
marked as “free.” Only those men
who are on active duty with the
armed forces are entitled to this
free postage, and students taking
the advance course in military
science are not regarded as on
active duty with the army. Also
any men enlisted in the reserve
component of the army such as
the air corps or otherwise are not
privileged to this free use of the
mails.
Students are asked to abide by
this regulation as it is a federal
offense should one be caught using
the mails without paying the re
quired postage.
24th Annual Rodeo
Held in Bryan On
August 14 - 15th
The twenty-fourth annual Aggie
rodeo bringing to “Aggieland” the
pasttime of the “west” will be
held Friday and Saturday, August
14, and 15 at the American Legion
Fair grounds in Bryan.
Featuring all of the usual events
plus some added stunts, the rodeo
which is sponsored by the Saddle
and Sirloin Club is scheduled to
be put on at the Fair grounds be
cause all the Fair grounds rodeo
equipment is ready to use and the
grounds will provide a cooler place
than the Animal Husbandry pavil
ion in which all other aggie rodeos
have been held.
By Charles Kaplan
Smiling and reminiscing how he
used to jump out of the second
story window of Ross hall way
back in 1895 in order not to be
late to formations, Stansell Tenny
son Brogdon, class of ’98, is an
Aggie again.
Brogdon was born January 27,
1877, in Bosque. He is very proud
of this fact as- he is' one of the
very few native born Texans of
Bosque left. Beginning in the
sophomore class at A. & M., he
attended here from 1895-98 grad
uating with a B.S. degree in the
course now called Mechanical En
gineering.
While a senior at A. & M., the
beloved President Lawrence Sulli
van Ross, better known to the stu
dents then as “Governor” Ross,
died and Brogdon had the privilege
of being one of the honor guards
at the funeral. He thought that
“Governor” Ross was the greatest
man in the world because he was
the first man to call Brogdon
“Mr.” The first morning that
Brogdon attended A. & M., he was
brought here by a neighbor named
Gentry, who was a good friend of
Ross. Gentry introduced Brogdon
to Ross and several weeks later,
when Brogdon found out that it
was necessary for him to become
a day student in order to cut down
expenses he went to see Ross.
That is when Brogdon was called
“Mr.” and the remarkable part is
that Ross had met Br6gdon only
once before, that being three weeks
previous. In the class of 1898, there
were twenty-three graduates and
at the time of graduation, there
were about ten buildings on the
campus, Ross hall being the new
est.
Brogdon did not receive a com
mission as day students were not
eligible for military training. He
'volunteered for service in the
Army during the Spanish-Amer-
ican War, but before he could be
shipped abroad, peace was declar
ed. In 1909 he won a scholarship
to Moody Bible Institute at Chi
cago, and in 1910-11, he attended
Vanderbilt University on another
scholarship which he won. Several
years later he taught school at
Irene, Texas, and during the World
War he organized a company of
forty-four men from Irene, which
later saw service in France. He
could not receive a commission
then as he was physically handi
capped by the loss of two fingers
on his left hand in a saw mill ac
cident several years before. After
the war he taught school in Fort
Worth until he became a super
visor of building construction.
Although Brogdon did not go
abroad during war time, he did go
to Palestine in 1930-31 to make
a survey of the outlet of the Jor
dan River at the Sea of Galilee.
While traveling, he purchased cop
ies of Codex Alej;andrinus, a book
written about 1600 years ago and
containing the New Testament, and
Codex Bezae, a book which con
tains only part of the New Testa
ment and is about 1500 years old.
In 1938 he ran for the Governor
ship of the State of Texas. His
platform was the annexation of
Mexico to the United States and
he believed that Texas should lead
the movement.
At the present he is taking
courses in Education under W. L.
Hughes of the Department of Ed
ucation. Brogdon wants to renew
his certificate so as to be able to
teach again in the public schools.
He is unable to fulfill his job of
supervisor of building construction
because of his age. He wants to
teach either mathematics or his
tory after he finishes his courses
here.
Steering Committee
Of UnitedScienceClub
Plans Academy Meet
Members of the Steering Com
mittee of the United Science Club
met Wednesday night for the pur
pose of setting a meeting date for
the annual inter-club contest in
which scientific papers are present
ed, and to make some alterations
on the club constitution due to the
new three semester school plan.
Plans were also made concerning
the Texas Aqademy of Science
meeting which will be held at A.
& M. this year early in November.
Some fifteen colleges will partici
pate in the meeting at that time.
August 20 was set as the date
for the inter-club contest with pa
pers being due not later than one
week prior to the contest.
Presidents of the variorus mem
ber clubs in attendance Wednes
day night were Harold Holdeman,
Winstead Arranges
Picture Details In
New Film Produc
Senior Yell Leader Filing
t Date Extended to Tuesday
Title Change Asked
Specifying One With Less
Gridiron Spirit Offered
G. Byron Winstead, college pub
licity director, will return from
Hollywood today where he has
been conferring with film producer
Walter Wanger and officials of
Universal Pictures on the produc
tion of a film tentatively titled
“American Youth Has Never Been
Licked” to cover in a full-length
motion picture the dramatic his
tory of A. & M. and its role in
the military, engineering and agri
cultural scheme of the state of
Texas and the nation.
Approval for the $750,000 pro
duction which will feature an all-
star cast has been obtained from
the board of directors and the fac
ulty.
Winstead expressed a hope that
the title of the picture will be
changed, contending the present
title sounds too much like football.
“But this is more than a football
picture, so maybe our football
enemies will understand,” Win
stead said.
Norman Reilly Raine, ace Holly
wood script writer, will arrive on
the campus in a few days to begin
work on the scenario.
Junior Class Make
Boots Optional--
Decide Ring Date
The Junior class voted to make
boots optional for next year and
could reach no decision about the
date to be on its class ring in its
third meeting in the Assembly hall
Wednesday night.
The class was originally the
class of ’44, but since it will now
graduate in September, ’43, the
problem of what date to put on
the class ring was presented by
Sid Smith, president of the class.
No definite agreement was reach
ed on that issue.
Men Completing Camp
ApplyforCommissions
Applications for commissions
will be filed by four cadets who
will complete their R.O.T.C. train
ing at the end of this semester
and have already attended a sum
mer camp.
Those who will make out this
application are John B. Porter,
F.A.; William H. Byrd, C.A.C.;
Jack W. Brown, Eng.; and George
P. Caudill, Q.M.C.
Applications should be made in
room 18 in Ross hall immediately.
Ex-Aggie Reports
As Communications
Officer In Air Force
Second Lieutenant William E.
Riley, Jr., son of William E. Riley,
Sr., 2545 Hazel street, Beaumont,
Texas, reported July 6 to this
United States Army Air Force
bombardment base for duty as a
squadron communications officer.
Only Two Men File for Position With One
Declared Ineligible by Elections Group
Deadline for the filing of petitions for Senior Assistant
Yell Leader have been extended by the Student Election
Committee to July 21, Cadet Colonel Walter Cardwell, chair
man of the committee, announced after the committee’s
meeting held yesterday to investigate the eligibility of those
who had already filed their petitions.
At the meeting the petition of Ed T. Rafferty was the
only one accepted. The only other petition submitted, that
of James O’Conner, was not accepted because of the failure
to meet the 1.25 grade point ratio necessary for eligibility
to the yell leader post.
“The committee feels that it
should not go ahead and declare
Rafferty the senior assistant yell
leader without first having some
reaction from the Corps. A yell
leader needs a vote of confidence
from the corps in order that he
may perform at his best and to
make a declaration of a yell lead
er when only one petition was ac
cepted would be unfair to that yell
leader,” Cardwell said in an inter
view after the meeting.
Cardwell added that in case no
petitions are filed in this extend
ed time the committee will con
sider this an ample vote of confi
dence from the corps and declare
Rafferty the senior assistant yell
leader.
This is one of the most import
ant posts of leadership on the cam
pus as the person elected will rep
resent the corps on many occasions
and will be called upon to lead the
corps often especially in the com
ing semester with football season,
Cardwell pointed out.
Those who make up the Student
Election Committee are L. D.
Boone, student activities manager;
H. L. Heaton, registrar; Walter
Cardwell, cadet colonel; Dan R.
Sutherland, president of the sen
ior class; Bill Andrews, vice-presi
dent of the junior class; G. B.
Wyrick, vice-president of the
sophomore class; C. E. McWilliams,
vice-president of the freshman
class; and Gus Link, vice-president
of the senior class who is also
secretary of the committee.
Petitions must be filed in the
student activities office before
July 21. To be eligible for the posi
tion, a student must meet the
following ' requirements as set up
by the committee.
He must have been at A. & M.
for six continuous semesters, and
at the time of his candidacy be
in the attendance of his seventh
continuous semester.
He must be a classified senior
with a grade point average of
I. 25.
He must have passed at least
three-fifths of a normal semester’s
work during the semester immed
iately preceding his candidacy.
In order to get his name on the
ballot, the candidate must have a
petition of candidacy signed by at
least 25 seniors, in the Student
Activities office by July 21. At
this time he will be required to
pay a fee of 50- cents to cover
the cost of the ballots.
The Senior Class will meet in
the Assembly Hall next Wednes
day night at seven to vote on the
candidates for the senior assistant
yell leader.
Freshmen
Sophomores
Issued Caps
Beginning Monday
Basic Students Will
Be Issued (Tsea Cap
Freshmen and sophomores will
wear the overseas caps as part of
the regulation uniform after next
week. This was given in an order
by Col. Maurice D. Welty, com
mandant, Thursday.
The caps will be issued from the
Exchange Store from 8 a.m. Mon
day morning through Friday, July
24.
Freshmen and sophomores will
report to the Exchange Store dur
ing their vacant periods in the
following alphabetical order on the
dates indicated:
Monday, July 20 A to E
Tuesday, July 21 F to J
Wednesday, July 22 K to O
Thursday, July 23 P to T
Friday, July 24 U to Z
and all others not able to re
port as scheduled.
A yard of black piping will be
issued with the cap which is to be
put on the cap as soon as possi
ble. The black band is the regula
tion ROTC cord that is to be worn
on the overseas caps by freshmen
and sophomores.
Accounting Society
Elects Jack Carter
New Club President
Jack E. Carter, H Infantry, was
elected president of the Account
ing Society at the first meeting
of the semester. Other officers
elected and appointed are: Mike J.
Arisco, vice-president; Ray L.
Boyles, secretary-treasurer; and
Leon Weiner, reporter.
Captain Lester Hanks, Senior
((Instructor of the Q.M.C. unit, was
guest speaker at the second meet
ing. He spoke on “A comparison
of accounting systems used in the
Quartermaster Corps with those
used in civilian business.”
A picnic is now being arranged.
Final plans for the picnic will be
made at a regular meeting Tues
day night.
Vigorous Amusement Calls for Maneuver And
Strategem Bringing Culture to Aggie Environ
“I’ve been rooked!”, “Fork him
with your knight,” “Queen that
pawn!” These and similar expres
sions are commonly heard at the
, regular chess club meetings every
Biology club; Fred Kolle, Pre-Med; j m ,
Tr . i , „. . ^ ’ T , Tuesday night m the chess room
Keith Kirk, Entomology; John ^ ®
Roming, Kream and Kow; Phil| 0 ^ t ^ le new Y.M.C.A. It is here
Alford, Collegiate Chapter F.F.A.; j that old feuds are renewed, scores
D. W. James, Agronomy Society;
W. D. Dumert, Junior Chapter A.
V. M. A.; James Clutter, repre
senting the Student Affiliate Am
erican Chemistry Society; Leo Bai-
ly, Horticulture Society; R. J.
Loofbourrow, Radio Club, and W.
G. Gill, Geology Club.
Fish and Game Club
Will Be Shown Motion
Pictures Mon Night
Two reels of motion pictures
will be shown at the second meet
ing of the Fish and Game Club at
7:30 Monday night, announced
Otheil Erlund, president of the
club.
are settled, and mind clashes
against mind in a game of maneu
ver and strategem.
Chess is the oldest game in ex
istence. It was invented by the
Hindus fifty centuries ago, was in
troduced into the west, and is now
played in every corner of the
world. Played by young and old, it
is termed by the Encyclopedia
Brittanica as “ . . . the most cos
mopolitan of , all games ...”
Chess is primarily a game of
mind against mind. “The most in
tellectual of all games of skill,”’
according to the New International
Encyclopedia, chess is characteriz
ed by strategem, maneuver, will,
subterfuge and finesse. The play
ers are the generals and the men
and pieces on the chess board are
the opposing armies, ready to fol
low any order and attack the en
emy singly or in force or ready to
withdraw slowly or with all possi
ble speed, according to the dictates
of the player. The average length
of a game played at a meeting of
the chess club is about one hour,
and the average intercollegiate
tournament or match game lasts
from two and one half to five
hours. Some closely matched op
ponents may play for days or
weeks on one game, while games
have been played in which one
player was decisively beaten in
three moves, or about five minutes.
It has often been said that chess
is in many respects similar to
the game of checkers. In actuality,
the only resemblance is the board
on which the game is played. Chess
men occupy both black and white
squares of the board, and take the
square of the man they -are jump
ing rather than taking the oppo
site adjacent square, as in check
ers. In checkers there are only two
classes of pieces, that is, men and
kings, while in chess there are six
classes of pieces, i. e., kings,
queens, rooks, bishops, knight^ and
pawns. The most powerful man in
checkers has a maximum of four
possible moves to make in each
turn to play, whereas the most
powerful piece in chess has a
maximum of twenty-seven possi
ble moves to make in each turn to
play.
There are many different classes
of players, rated solely according
to ability. At the A. & M. chess
club there are four classes, i. e.,
beginners, intermediates; squad
and team, the five highest on the
squad forming the team. Beginning
this Tuesday night a round robin
will be held between all chess play
ers of A. & M. for purposes of
classification of all men who play
chess or who - would like to leam
to play. Once a player has been
classified, he may raise his classi
fication by defeating any member
in the class above his.