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, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1942
2275
NUMBER 27
Rope Stops
Onlookers At
Slab Dances
Sophs Must Bring
Dates to Juke Proms;
Ring Dance Is Jan 15
A resolution to place a rope a-
round the new outdoor dance floor
approximately 50 feet from the
fence beyond which no one who is
not attending the dance will be al
lowed to pass was passed by a
large majority at a meeting of the
senior class last night. The pur
pose of this resolution was to keep
“hangers on” away from the im
mediate vicinity of the dance to pre
vent disturbing noise and rowdi
ness and also to admit more fresh
air to the floor. It was pointed out
that if the outdoor dances are
not successful, they will have to
be moved back into Sbisa Hall.
Keeping excess crowds from the
area in which the pavilion is lo
cated will also facilitate traffic
and parking accommodations and
thus allow more dancers to park
near the slab. Guards will be on
duty during the dances to enforce
this resolution, it was decided.
Sophomores will no longer be
allowed to attend Juke Box Proms
without' dates as a result of action
taken to relieve the overwhelming
number of stags who have attended
these dances in the past. However,
they will be allowed to attend all
corps dances without dates if they
so desire. Freshmen as in the
past must have dates to attend
dances.
January 15 has been set as the
tentative' date for the Senior Ring
Dance. This dance will fall one
week before the graduation exer
cises. Since there will be no class
es for seniors the last week of
school, holding the Ring Dance on
the proposed night will mean that
the seniors may leave after the
dance and return a week later for
the Final Ball and Final Review.
Other action taken at the meet
ing concerned the wearing of the
eagle belt buckle. The class voted
the wearing of this buckle a sen
ior privilege, and underclassmen
are warned not to wear this buckle,
as the rule will be enforced ac
cordingly.
Saddle, Sirloin Club Will Sponsor *
24th Rodeo in Bryan August 14,15
Plans are progressing on the
24th Annual Texas Aggie Rodeo
to be held in Bryan at the Ameri
can Legion Park August 14 and 15.
The only one of its kind in the
world, the rodeo is sponsored by
the Saddle and Sirloin Club, one
of the largest clubs on the campus,
which has grown from a handful
to a number now more than 200
active mdbabers. The rodeo is held
each year to send A. & M.’s Inter
national Livestock Judging team
to the annual Chicago livestock
show and judging contests, in
which the Aggies generally place
high. No person promoting the ro-
Norman Raine To
Speak to Future
Writers Tonight
Lecture Will Begin At
8:00 in Physics Lecture
Room; Press Club Invited
Norman Reilly Raine, Hollywood
scenarist, will address students in
terested in writing and journalism
tonight at 8:00 o’clock in
the Physics lecture room under
the sponsorship of the A. & M.
Press Club, the English depart
ment, an dthe English 331 (journa
lism) class. ,
Raine’s talk will be addressed to
students who hope to make radio,
the screen, or writing their voca
tion, and will be in the form of a
short talk followed by questions
from the students.
Brooks Gofer, Battalion editor,
will be in charge of the meeting,
and will introduce G. Byron Win
stead, director of college publicity
who will introduce Raine,
Students enrolled in journalism,
radio, or other English courses,
members of the English depart
ment staff, members of the Press
Club, and any other students
especially interested in fiction
writing, radio or screen work are
ui’ged to be present.
Raine’s wide experience in these
fields and his experiences as a
world traveller, soldier, and noted
author well qualify him as an ex
pert in hig field.
He will be bn the campus until
the latter part of this week gather
ing material on which to base
forthcoming screen story, “Ameri
can Youth Has Never Been Lick
ed.”
DANCE SLAB CONTEST FORM
Name for Dance Slab..._ ,
Your Name
Organization P. O. Box
deo profits by it financially, the
promoters being a group of boys
interested in livestock and major
ing in animal husbandry.
The president of the Saddle and
Sirloin club each year is named
King of the rodeo and he in turn
selects his Queen. This year’s pres
ident is Horace Brown, captain of
H Company, Infantry.
The rodeo is truly a western af
fair; the entrants, chiefly boys
from Texas ranches, are as non
professional as the promoters, but
still experienced rodeo hands. The
tough stock will offer plenty of
thrills and wild entertainment. The
show will include a Wild Mule
Race, Calf Roping, Bareback and
Saddle Bronc Riding, a wild Brah
ma steer, Ribbon Roping, and Wild
Bull Riding. Friday night’s show
will also include a children’s riding
class, while Saturday night’s per
formance will feature a “cowhorse”
contest.
Busses have been secured to run
from the College to the Legion
Park in Bryan. As in the past ,the
proceeds will go to help send the
Livestock judging teams to the
various judging contests through
out the United States.
YMCA Parlors
Near Completion;
Furniture Arrives
Gay Urges Anyone Who Is
Interested in Decorating
To Offer Plans for Lobby
YMCA downstairs parlors are
nearly completely furnished with
the exception of the main lobby,
states J. Gordon Gay, associate sec
retary of the YMCA.
There are a few items of fur
niture that have not as yet arriv
ed from the firm that is supply
ing all the new fixtures. Among
the items not yet received, but or
dered, are four wicker chairs for
the parents’ lounge, a bridge ta
ble and five chairs to match, also
four other lounge chairs to go in
the Ex-Students’ lounge, and a
large unique furnishing for the
reading room that features a dou
ble divan with table in between and
folding chairs on either end that
may be made into an end table at
will.
To go around this centerpiece in
the reading room will be four ot
tomans that arrived recently at
the YMCA.
Several plans for decorating and
furnishing the main lobby of the
YMCA are under consideration and
Gay urged that any students that
may be interested in interior dec
orating as an art or hobby get
in touch with him and go over the
plans.
The entire furnishings and dec
orations are exepcted to be in
and arranged in a definite scheme
(See YMCA, Page 4)
Saturday
Prom to Be
Semi - formal
Cadets Allowed To
* WearSummerTuxes
If They Desire To
Because of many requests from
girls all ovey Texas, the Ina Ray
Hutton dance Saturday night, Aug
ust 8, will be a semi-formal dance.
Girls will wear evening dresses
if they so desire, and boys, re
gardless of class or classification,
may wear tuxes if they want to.
However, khakis will still be reg
ulation uniform.
Said one girl in a letter to Bobby
Stephens, social secretary of the
senior class, “We are all very dis
appointed. Two hundred miles is
an awfully long way to come to
attend an informal dance. Since
it’s to be the biggest dance of the
summer, we certainly all agree
that it should be formal.”
That seems to express the feel
ing among all girls in general, so
the previously announced informal
ruling has been changed to semi-
formal.
Stephens feels that this will suit
the girls better, and will lessen
their embarrassment if they show
up in either street or evening dres
ses.
Friday night, the new, energetic,
and enthusiastic Aggieland, under
the able direction of bull-fiddler
Curley Brient, will open the new
as-yet-unnamed dance slab. Fea
tured with the orchestra is Ade-
lene Koffman, sensational new
comer to the Aggieland, and Fish
Sullivan, who will lend his vocal
talents toward the evenings en
tertainment. The band will also
put on a floor show during the
intermission.
Scrip Friday and Saturday nights
will be $1.10.
Parts Of Disney Film
Heard on WTAW
Wilt Disney, originator of Mick
ey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Re
luctant Dragon and a score of
other equally loveable and fan
tastic creatures, introduced the
newest member of his inkwell men
agerie, when he presents dramatic
and musical highlights from his
full-length motion picture “Bambi”
on the Treasury Star Parade”
Broacast which airs over Station
WTAW on Tuesday at 11:30 a. m.
Bambi the deer, Thumper the
rabbit and the other newcomers
who make their debut in this pic
ture will add their voices to the
broadcast, in which David Briek-
man’s orchestra and the soloists
Jimmy Cash, Lee Sweetland, and
Sally Miller presents tunes from
the film’s score.
A Cavalry Starts
Series of Tactical
Overnight Marches
Hikes Made to Give
Cadets Experience In
Making Camp Maneuvers
Last Saturday Troop A Cav
alry inaugurated a series of over
night marches. Each week during
August and September one of the
six troops will carry out one of
these week end tactical marches.
These marches have been under
taken to afford the cadets some
practical experience in preparation
for the camp they will attend at
Ft. Riley, Kansas upon gradua
tion, revealed Lt. A. P. Uter-
back, Jr., senior Cavalry instruc
tor. Members of the regiment ex
pressed a desire to conduct such
maneuvers so that they might gain
some field experience before going
to duty.
Plans for the marches are made
by the regimental staff, and the
cadet officers of each troop are
detailed for such special duties as
mess officer, supply officer, or
stable officer. Arrangements are
made ahead of time with the mess
hall for food and mess equipment.
Since no bedding rolls are avail
able, each cadet is held responsible
for his own personal equipment
which must include certain speci
fied items.
Upon arriving in bivouac, picket
lines are established and a for
mal stables is conducted. After the
horses have been watered, fed and
properly groomed, the men are fed
and are then at liberty until 11
p. m. when taps is sounded.
At six in the morning reveille
is sounded and the horses are fed
again. After breakfast, the Ijorses
are watered, camp is broken and
the return march begins.
Security is maintained at all
times on the march and during the
night in bivouac. Sentinels are
posted on all sides of the encamp
ment to preserve order and report
any irregularities. A guard detail
maintains watch on the picket line
to prevent disturbances which
might result in injury to the horses
or the escape of some of the ani
mals.
Throug^ such marches, the men
are able to see just how the Cav
alry operates and what is expected
of a Cavalryman in the field.
Slab Naming Contest
Ends Tomorrow at 3
Names for the new Aggie Dance
Slab must be turned in to the Stu
dent Activities Office or placed in
the Longhorn picture contest boxes
in the YMCAs before 3 p. m. Wed
nesday, August 5.
“No real good names have been
turned in. Some original, catchy
name will be necessary to win
the honor of being selected and
taking its place in Aggie tradi
tions,” says Bobby Stephens, so
cial secretary of the senior class
and one of the contest judges.
Yell Practice to Be Held
For Raine at Kyle Field
College’s Purpose in Days Gone By Considerably Altered from Todays Aim
fr .. .a Refuge for Rough, Unprincipled Boys, Whose
Parents Were Ashamed of Them.. .”-’95 Yearbook
United Science
Starts Scientific
Paper Competition
Entries Should Be Not
Over 15 Minutes Long
And Turned in to Dr Doak
At a recent meeting of the
presidents of 15 A. & M. science
clubs it was decided that the
spring contest of the United
Science Club will be held on Thurs
day evening August 20.
Any undergraduate member is
eligible to take part in the con
test. Papers can be on any scientif
ic subject and should not exceed 15
minutes in length. Clearness, log
ical arrangement, extent of mas
tery of the subject and delivery
will be considered when the paper
is read.
A copy of all manuscripts must
be in the hdnds of the sponsor at
least one week prior to the meet
ing. Either mail them to Box B,
EE, or leave them with the sec
retary in room 26 Biology Building
by August 13. The club sponsor,
Dr. C. C. Doak, will be glad to
interview prospective contestants
at any time.
The following clubs either belong
or have declared intention of be
coming metabers of the United
Science Club; Biology, Pre-Med,
Entomology, Fish & Game, Kream
& Kow, Collegiate Chapter F. F.
A., Agronomy Society, Junior
Chapter, A. V. M. A., Geology,
Student Affiliate American Chem
istry Society, Horticulture Society,
Rural Sociology, Poultry Science,
Radio Club, and Institute of Aero
nautical Sciences.
Editor’s Note: This article in
augurates a series of feature
stories by John Holman on the
origins of the cadet corps and
its traditions and the activit
ies associated with the college.
By John Holman
. a refuge for rough, un-
principjed boys, whose parents
were ashamed of them. . .” —1895
Olio, First Yearkbook.
Today, Texas A. and M. sprawls
out over forty-five hundred of
Brazos County’s acres, and has
every facility available to make
this one of the finest educational
institutions in the country.
But in 1895, the date Aggieland
saw its first year-book published,
there wasn’t much material with
which to fill its one hundred fifty
small pages. A. & M. was here,
though, and the “Olio” was pub
lished.
There was eight editors for the
first yearbook, presided over by a
“board of executives” consisting of
F. M. Law, Jr. (now chairman of
the board of directors). P. P. Mills,
and H. B. Martin.
The title “Olio” was picked after
denomination, politics, and choicest
much argument and discussion, and
is the Italian word for “hash”.
Lover’s Retreat
“It is rumored that there will be
a re-arrangement of some of the
College buildings, forming a long
street which will run in front of
Assembly and Ross Halls, and par
allel to the “Line”, affording space
for the new Mess Hall, and for any
professor’s houses which may be
built in the near future.”
“The “new” Mess Hall is Sbisa,
completed in 1912. The “Line” was
the main road, and is today the
esplanade running from the rail
road stations to the Academic
buildings. Just past where the
tracks are was a lake, the College
Lake, and according to the ‘95 Olio,
“A more delightfully picturesque
spot could not be imagined.”
“Many’s the time some love-sick
soldier boy, in light canoe, on this
placid lake, has made rash vows to
his dulcinea while the breezes wist
fully sighed among the drooping
willows, and the moon discreetly
hid behind some passing cloud.”
“Behind the great dam of the
lake, cozily nestling in a corner of
the wide ravine, is Lover’s Re
treat. This charming grotto, car-
peled with green Bermuda and
shut in by intertwining branches
and clambering vines, affords a
safe retreat for lovers where iyme
may see or hear except the curiotis
fays and peeping wood-nymph.”
But the Olio didn’t say where
they got their girls!
Twenty-seven Profs
“This school was at one time a
refuge for rough, unprincipled and
uncultivated boys, whose parents
were ashamed of them and sent
them to this College, hoping that
strict military discipline might al
ter their dispostion and make them
useful men . . . But all that has
changed.” And that was in 1895!
At that time there were twenty-
seven professors and instructors
here, and the military staff con
sisted of four lieutenants, one of
whom, Lt. G. T. Bartlett, Third Ar
tillery, U. S. A., was Commandant.
Thirty-two senors graduated that
I year, and one page of the Olio was
devoted to listing their religious
quality found in women. Purity,
sweetness, and gentleness ranked
one, two, and three in their choice.
The “mighty” Aggie band con
sisted of eleven players and a lead
er, and the college was as large as
the band.
“Sully” Ross was fifty-seven
years old and president of the Col
lege. Throughout the Olio are fre
quent tributes to this great man.
The college consisted of five
buildings a row of tents and a few
houses in which the profs lived.
However, the Legislature had just
approiated $174,000 for new build
ings and equipment. The original
appropriation made April 17, 1871,
of $187,000 put the school into op
eration.
225 Men in Corps
The corps of about 225 students
was divided into four companies,
all infantry, with each outfit or
ganized about as it is today.
On the campus in ‘95 was a
Red-Headed Club, the Ross Volun
teers, a football, and baseball team.
Charles Puryear was manager of
the eleven, and the four subs were
frankly listed as “substitutes”.
Games played, College vs Varsity,
34-0; College vs Galvestin, 24-6.
The baseball team played four
games, one with Navasota, who
they beat 16-1. The nine lost the
first game with Galveston, 3-4.
In the back section were adver
tisements for men’s fine shoes, seed,
baking powder, extracts and cider,
Remington standard typewriters,
bicycles, and a college with exten
sive addition to dormitory (tents)
and called the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas.
It boasted “a stand-pipe, ice plant,
laundry and electric light plant,
which makes the college modern
in every detail.”
Toward the back of the 1895
“Olio” was this little poem, as true
today as it was then,
If a cadet of this college would
be in luck.
Upon matriculation he must
learn how to “suck”.
The way to success can be told
in a word—
He must “suck, suck, suck,” till
he catches the bird!
Good Health Is
Vital Factor In ,
Nation’s Drive
“Not steel, money, rubber, sugar,
gasoline, nor any other material
equipment can win this war with
out manpower,” declared Dr. Geo.
W. Cox, State Health Officer.
The backbone of the entire civi
lian war program is the health
and physical stamina of the men
and women who stand behind the
machines, who mold the steel, who
conserve the rationed articles, who
volunteer for defense activities,
who earn the money that buys the
war bonds, who work the farms
and ranches that feed the fighters
and who look after the homes and
families that the military men are
fighting for.
There can be no doubt that the
protection and promotion of the
health of these people, then, is as
important to the outcome of the
war as it is to the lives and peace
time welfare of the people them
selves.
It is the State and local health
departments’ duty to help them
choose foods necessary for build
ing strong bones and strudy re
sistance to disease, to tell them
about immunization against cer
tain diseases, to urge periodic
health check-ups, protect water
and milk supplies, and tell them
how to prevent illness and acci
dents.
T D Brooks Discusses
Problem of Pre-Med
Students at Meeting
General problems confronting
the average pre-medical student
were discussed by Dean T. D.
Brooks, dean of the school of
Arts and Sciences, at a meeting of
the Pre-Medical Society Thursday
evening.
Dean Brooks stressed the neces
sity of maintaining a high scholas
tic average in order to be admit
ted to any medical school. He
went on to point out that if a
student could not complete his
training after completing prepra-
tory work at Texas A. & M. he has
the choice of entering either teach
ing, health work and sanitatidn, or
medical tehcnology.
The U. S. Army intends to sup
ply one doctor for every sixty
men in the armed services, thus
leaving only one doctor for every
1800 civilians, stated Brooks.
Yell Leaders To
Form Corps in “T”;
Band Will Perform
Immediately after supper to
night the entire corps will gather
en masse at Kyle Field to put on
a yell practice, band drill forma
tions, and form the Aggie “T” as
it is done during the half at foot
ball games.
The corps will be led by the
yell leaders in a regular yell prac
tice, going through the yells that
are heard at the Aggie football
games, from “Military” to “Liz
zie”. This will be the first yell
practice for the new senior assist
ant yell leader, Bob Hanby, who
replaces Ted O’Leary, former as
sistant to Chuck Chalmers, head
yell leader. The two junior yell
leaders are Bernard “Shorty” Booth
and Bijl McKenzie, who also will
get their first experience at stand
ing on the cinder track and lead
ing the corps in yells.
Following the yell practice, the
band will play “The Aggie War
Hymn”, “The Spirit of Aggieland”
while the band is going through
the regular formations that it
makes during the half on the foot
ball field at home and out of town
games.
Topping off the Kyle Field ac
tivities will be the formation of
the Aggie “T” by the members of
the entire cadet corps. The corps
will line up with an eight-man
front in front of the east side of
the stadium, with the seniors first,
followed by the juniors, sopho
mores, and freshmen in that or
der. The seniors will lead the
corps out on the field, with every
man holding on to the shoulders
of the man in front of him. The
corps will then- form the “T” un
der the direction of Chuck Chalm
ers, and the yell leaders. When the
“T” has been formed, the corps
will give the regular “T” forma
tion yells—skyrocket and locomo
tive. The corps then breaks the
formation and runs back into the
stands.
These traditional Aggie doings
are for the benefit of Norman
Reilly Raine, who is gathering ma
terial for the movie to be made
of Aggieland. Raine was looking
for football spirit for the movie,
and these are things that should
not be left out, said G. B. Win
stead, head of the publicity de
partment.
Company, troop, and battery
commanders are requested by
Winstead to see that their respec
tive organizations cooperate to the
fullest extent by having their en
tire organizations down at Kyle
Field immediately after supper to
night.
Deficiency List
To Be Published
There will be a deficiency list
posted, which will include the name
of all those students who failed
to pass the required ten hours,
it was announced yesterday from
the office of the registrar.
“It is certain that there will be a
deficiency list, but as to the exact
date of the appearance of the list,
it is yet unknown,” H. L. Heaton,
aiting registrar said.
“The Executive Committee will
probably meet some time this week
to decide the' details of the list,”
said Heaton.
Heaton went on to say that the
required number of hours to be
passed in order to stay in school
is ten, however, the number will
possibly vary in the different
schools of the college. This will be
up to the deans of the various
schools, and their judgment in
each case of a student’s deficiency.
Last Payment Due
On Maintenance
Thursday, August 6, is the last
day students may pay the last
maintenence installment of this
semester without having to pay the
$1 additional fee for being late. The
amount is $42.10.
On Thursday only, for the con
venience of students paying their
fees on that day, the Fiscal office
will remain open until 5 o’clock.