"The Shanghai Gesture"
This romantic scene, involving Victor Mature and Gene Tierney,
colors the tense drama of Arnold Pressburger’s “The Shanghai
Gesture,” which is the current attraction at the Campus Theatre
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, through United Artists release.
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THE BATTALION
Work of Experiment Station
Proves of Aid in War Effort
-THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1942
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NOTICES
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FOR RENT—3-room furnished apart
ment, practically new. Available August
8. Bills paid. S. V. Perritte. Phone 4-8794.
LOST—One brown Sheaffer fountain
en. Name John Holman stamped in gold,
teward. Room 103, No. 9.
ROOM FOR RENT—229 Milner, College
Hills. Twin beds. Mrs. Franklin, office
telephone 4-4344.
LOST—In vicinity of North Gate, Lomb
Ray-Ban glasses in brown leather case.
Gold frames and lens ground to pre
scription. Reward of $10.00 for return
to 48 Law Hall.
FLIERS—Have won a 10 hr. $75.00
course at Bryan airport. Will sell for
$50.00. R. L. Echnoz, Bldg. 6, Room 212.
Naval Training School, College Station.
FOR RENT—One three room garage
apartment furnished and bills paid. Call
S. V. Perritte, Phone 4-8794.
LOST—A thin yellow gold Elgin pocket
watch. Reward. Call Mrs. Rogers, 4-7294.
Meetings
LANDSCAPE ART CLUB—Landscape
Art Club meeting Thursday at 7:15, Room
100, Francis Hall.
CRYPTOGRAPHY CLUB—The Cryp
tography Club will meet at 7:15 tonight
in Room 310 Academic building.
MODEL AIRPLANE CLUB—There will
be a meeting of the Aggie Model Airplane
Club in the laboratory of the Aero build
ing, Monday night at 7:0O p. m. All
interested are especially invited.
A. S. A. E.—There will be an A. S. A.
E. meeting tonight at 7:15 in the Agri
cultural Engineering lecture room. All
Agricultural Engineering majors are urged
to be present.
Announcements
C. E. STUDENTS—All Civil Engineer
ing students are invited to a watermelon
feast to be held tonight at Hensel Park
by the A. S. C. E. Transportation will
be furnished and will leave the C. E.
building at 6:30. Freshmen are urged
to attend.
A. S. C. E.—The A. S. C. E. will hold
a watermelon feed tonight at Hensel
Park. Transportation will leave the C. E.
building at 6:30.
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11:25—Popular Music
11:30 Neighborhood Call
11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and
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11:55—Town Crier
12:00—Sign Off
Friday, August 7, 1942
11:25—Popular Music
11:30—You Can’t Do Business with
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11:55—Town Crier
12:00—Sign Off
I. Ae. S. and A. S. M. E.—There will
be a joint meeting of the I. Ae. S. and
the A. S. M. E. tonight at 7:00 o’clock
in the E. E. lecture room. Mr. R. T.
Shields of the Dallas branch of the Gen
eral Electric Company will speak and
present a film.
SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGI
NEERS—All men who filled out applica
tion forms for the S.A.E. are requested
to see Mr. Truettner of the M.E. depart
ment about payment of their dues. Any
one interested in joining the S.A.E. should
see Mr. Truettner immediately in order
that the work of the society may get un
der way.
Raine Gives Advice
To Hopeful Authors
Immediately after the yell ses
sion on Kyle Field Tuesday night,
Norman Reilly Raine gave an in-
farmal address in the Physics lec
ture room to members of the Eng
lish department faculty, the Press
Club, the Battalion, Engineer,
Longhorn, and Agriculturist staffs,
and other students interested in
fiction writing.
Introduced by Brooks Gofer, ed
itor of the Battalion, Raine dis
cussed the various problems con
fronting aspiring authors and told
what he could of the forthcoming
Walter Wanger production, “We’
ve Never Been Licked.”
Drawing upon his own vast ex
periences as a soldier, world tra
veller and author, he presented the
problems of amatuers confronted
with writing and selling their first
stories, and offered advice which
he thought would be most help
ful to young writers.
Raine discussed magazine and
screenplay writing, and offered
practical information about Hol
lywood and what it has to offer
the modern fiction writer.
He talked only a short while,
but freely answered questions put
before him by his audience.
When asked about the cast of the
Aggie film, someone asked (jok
ingly), “Why don’t they use Ag
gies?” Raine replied, “You make
joke about it, but that is exactly
what we are planning on doing.”
He said that studios had found it
not only practical, but more ef
fective to use the real thing when
possible, and suggested that many
Aggies will have an opportunity to
do some real acting, complete with
dialogue. He said only common
sense was necessary for these
parts, which would be small, un
important bits scattered through
out the picture.
Previously reported to be un
der the tentative title, “American
Youth Has Never Been Licked”,
the picture officially known as it
stands today as “We’ve Never
Been Licked.” This centers the
picture more solidly on A. & M.
—TWILIGHT—
(Continued From Page 3)
runs in the first innings and push
ed single tallies across the plate
in the fourth and fifth innings) in
winning over Madeley’s Pharmacy.
Madeley’s Pharmacy scored once
in the first inning and twice in
the fourth stanza. Roberts led
Lipscomb’s hitters with a single
and double in three times at bat.
The Faculty played another of
its tie games with the Aggies
Cleaners. This season three ties
have been played in the league
and the “profs” have been in each
one. This is the second tie game
between the Faculty and the Ag
gie Cleaners this season.
Brooks Attends
Rotary International
Meet At Port Arthur
Dean T. D. Brooks of the school
of arts and sciences returned Tues
day evening from a trip to Port
Arthur where he attended an as
sembly of the Rotary Internation
al. He was accompanied by Busi
ness Manager E. N. Holmgreen.
They left together for Port Arthur
early Sunday morning.
While there, Dean Brooks at
tended a school of instruction for
presidents, chairmen and commit
tee members of the Rotary Inter
national. Dean Brooks is the for
mer governor of this Rotary dis
trict.
By BILL JAPHET
What is the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station doing to help
the war effort? To answer that
question is difficult. Difficult be
cause of the nature of the experi
ment station’s work. To find the
answer one must realize that the
research carried on by the experi
ment station was begun, for the
most part at least, long before
the war emergency existed.
There are, however, a number
of activities carried on by the ex
periment station that do, directly
or indirectly, help in the war ef
fort. Naturally these activities
have to do with the growth and
improvement of food and food
products, cattle and other live
stock, and soil and water resources.
In the experiments conducted in
the studies of vitamins a number
of interesting facts have been dis
covered. For example, in experi
ments conducted with chicks and
laying hens it was found that the
Vitamin A potency found in the
form of carotene is of definite
value in producing larger growth
REMINISCENCES -
(Continued From Page 1)
(two beers & a pretzel); a G’.F.R.
club, whose aim was to give rams
“prolificly” under the motto, “ram
as you have been rammed,”; a
Veterans of the Lost Cause Club;
a Farmer Club; a Short Man Club
for the dusties and a Big Eight
Club whose yell was,
Ram, ram, ram,
Eight, eight, eight
Late, late, late,
RAM!
Completing the club section was
an organization similar to the Klu
Klux Klan known as the S. T. B.,
and a couple of literary societies
who published a monthly journal
known as “Battalion.”
Statistics for the year showed
the average cadet to be 18 years
old, weigh 140 pounds, 5ft. 8 inches
high, wear a size 6y 2 shoe, no. 8
glove, and no. 7 hat. Students rose
on an average at 6 a. m., and the
average bedtime for fish was 8
p. m. with midnight the hour for
seniors. Seventy-five per cent wex'e
in love, and sixty-nine per cent
had been true to the girls back
home. Ninety-five per cent were
Democrats; fifty per cent smok
ed; thirty-five per cent “chewed”;
only two cadets did not endorse
college atheletics; sixty per cent
said they were happy here; and
sixty-eight per cent liked Sbisa’s
“cush”, about which more will be
said in a moment.
There were eight or ten buildings
making up the college plant at
that time, but most students still
lived in tents.
The old mess hall, called Sbisa
House (the present Sbisa was com
pleted in 1912) had “a concoction
of soggy pastry and nutritious (?)
compounds patented by Sbisa
House” which was served several
times a week as dessert. It was
quite popular with the corps and
was dubbed “cush”. Since that
time. the name has come to apply
to any kind of sweet dessert.
Near the back of that first Long
horn was the first printed Aggie
vocabulary. “Axle-grease” was a
butter substitute used by the
kitchen for cooking purposes, but
also as lubrication for the college’s
wagons. “Bull-tics” was the course
in military science, “all vence” was
the corps’ pet oath; “extra” meant
a spin on the bull-ring; a “gim”
was a hospital military; “fox”
was applied to industrious stu
dents; “punk” was a biscuit cooked
by Sbisa House; a “pony” was a
complete set of notes written on
tiny cards and used to “assist”
students on quizes; “regulator”
was “Sbisa’s imitation of extract
of sugarcane”; and “sawdust” was
“Sbisa’s refined ( ?) sugar”.
Four railroads had advertise
ments in the back section, and also
found therein were advertisements
concerning Lilley uniforms, a lun-
dry in Houston which claimed to
“have the state guessing”, the
Bryan Eagle, Tuggles Electric
generators, the Holmes Oyster
Parlor in Bryan, and Chase and
Sanborn’s coffee.
An old stage station completed
the 1903 Aggie campus, and the
Longhorn was off to the start of
a glorious career.
The Iowa State college civilian
pilot training program has grad
uated 54 men to the armed serv
ices of the nation.
LOUPOT’S
AN AGGIE
TRADITION
and lower mortality in chicks and
longer and larger production of
eggs in laying hens. It was also
found that there was a larger per
centage of hatchable eggs and that
fewer defective chicks were hatch
ed.
At this point it may be well to
mention the work of G. S. Fraps,
A. R. Kemmerer and S. M. Green
berg in developing a simple meth
od of purifying crue carotene solu
tion. In the method developed, the
impurities were absorbed by the
use of lycopene reagent. This re
agent was compared with a re
agent previously developed and it
was found that in the majority of
cases the lycopene reagent was
superior.
Work on vitamins has not been
limited to vitamin A. A. R. Kem
merer > reported on the methods of
determining the quantity of ribo
flavin or Vitamin B-2. In tests,'
the riboflavin content of samples
of dried skim milk and dried yeast
was determined by a colorimetric
method and other methods. The
results showed that fluorometric
methods, were better for the de
termination of riboflavin than any
of the other methods tested. Other
work has been done on the de
termination of Vitamins A. C.
and D.
Other work done by the Exper
iment Station include analysis of
the chemical composition of for
age grasses of the East Texas
timber country, comducted under
the leadership of G. S. Fraps; wat
er and soil conservation experi
ments at Spur, Texas; the values
of various protein fods for grow
ing chicks, under R. M. Sherwood;
work on the value and qualities of
commercial and certain natural
feeds; and studies in the control
and eradication of many danger
ous and troublesome plan diseases
and pests.
—THE GROVE—
(Continued from Page 1)
Scrip for both dances will be
$1.10, Stephens said.
ML L. Cashion, secretary of the
YMCA announced that Kiest
Lounge will, be open for the
dances. The lounge will be open
from 2 o’clock Friday afternoon
until Sunday evening after supper
and all visitors are welcome.
—KYLE FIELD—
(Continued from Page 3)
ed for any team. . . The fella’s
name is William Heston, who used
to carry the mail for Michigan
way back 1901-02-03-04. . . In his
four year career he scored 93
touchdowns, 465 points, and played
on a Michigan team that did not
lose a game out of 44. . . Here’s
the rest the team: Hinkey (Yale)
and Muller (Cal. U.), ends; Co
wan (Princeton) and Henry
(Wash.* & Jeff.), tackles; Heffel-
finger (Yale) and Hare (Penn)
guards;; Schutltz (Michigan), cen
ter; Eckersall (Chicago), Thorpe
(Carlisle), Grange (Illinois), and
Heston (Michigan), backs. . . Red
Grange, the famous galloping
“ghost” is the youngest of all. . .
He played in 1923-24-25, and ac
cording to the Helms Foundation,
there hasn’t been a player in the
past 17 years to equarl the exploits
of the 11 mentioned. . . Maybe so,
but it’s gona take a lot of proof to
convince may of the fans, sports
writers and critics. . .
Europeans try to escape atroci
ties, but American women wear
’em on their heads.
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