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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 25, 1942 2275 NUMBER 36 11 Students From Brazil Will Study Courses Here Brazilians Take Special Courses For Two Years at A&M Eleven students from the state of Bahia, Brazil, arrived here on the campus yesterday and were welcomed by an interview with Dean E. J. Kyle. These students have been train ed by the Brazilian government for four years and are to com plete their education by two years of special work here at A. & M. They were sent by the governor of the state of Bahia, Randolfho Al ves, a former Aggie. Dean Kyle has been asked by J. R. Medeiros, secretary of agri culture of the state of Bahia, Bra zil, to plan a course of study with the students. The students who arrived are all from the same state. This fact makes A. & M. the only school in the country to have that many stu dents from the same foreign state, Dean Kyle said. The Brazilians are Geraldo Car-, los Pereira Pinto, formerly an in structor at the Department of Botany, Bahia Agricultural Col lege; Augusto Chaves Batista, specialist in plant diseases and microbiology at Bahia Agricultural College; Jose Vasconcelos Sam- paio, a former instructor of organ ic chemistry and technology at Bahia State College; Nelson Mar tins de Almeida, wqrker on Brazil ian government livestock farms and major in animal husbandry and animal judging; Fernando Martins Cordozo, major in farm manage ment; Felisbertino Sa Oliviera, for mer farm manager taking courses on horticulture; Ivan Delia Celia Lirio, major in swine production; Milton Batista de Souza Leite, four years head of the government orange farm who will study things related to citrus fruits; Abelardo Pereira Palm, engaged by the Bra zilian government in poultry pro duction and is to study nutri tion here at A. & M.; Gay Marzues Porto, appointed to study the di seases of tobacco; and Viradal Sena, employed by the Brazilian government as a manager of agri cultural machinery for the state college and has been assigned to courses related to agricultural machines. Yell Practice Will Begin Next Week For Football Games Approval Expected To Be Given for Permission For Nightly Practices Starting next Monday or Tues day night, yell practices will be conducted on the steps of Good win Hall twice a week for the first two weeks and four times a week for the two following weeks till football season starts, “Chuck” Chalmers, head yell leader, an nounced. Final approval has not been giv en as yet, but it is certain of com ing through as soon as Mr. Angell, assistant to the president, and Col. M. D. Welty, Commandant, sign the letter giving the authority for these yell practices to be held, Chalmers said. It is thought that by having yell practices at this time, the fresh men will learn the yells and acquire some of that spirit the Aggies are so well known for. 140 Students To Receive Degrees Degrees for the 140 students who have their applications in will be conferred on the night of Sep tember 19, the official date for the closing of the present semester, R. G. Perryman, assistant registrar, stated Monday. Thirty-nine degrees will be con ferred on graduate students of the various schools, while the number of degrees in the School of Agri culture number 57. The engineer ing school will confer 26 degrees, while Jhe School of Arts and Sci ences is to confer 15 degrees. The School of Veteninary Medicine will hand out three degrees. Of these 140 candidates for de grees, there is a possibility that all of these will not be conferred, since there may be a few who will not fully qualify by that time. Events Calendar for Year Fri. Aug. 28—Press Club Dance Sat. Aug. 29—Juke Box Prom Fri. Sept. 4—Sophomore Ball Sat. Sept. 5—Barnyard Frolic Corps Dance Fri. Sept. 11—Open Fri. Sept. 18—R. V. Dance Sat. Sept. 19 R. V. Dance; First Semester ends Fri. Sept. 25—New Semester registration; Open Sat. Sept. 26—Football Game—L. S. U. at Baton Rouge Fri. Oct. 2—Coast Artillery Ball Sat. Oct. 3—Texas Tech game here; Corps Dance Fri. Oct. 9—Cavalry Ball Sat. Oct. 10—Naval Air Station Game, Corpus Christi Fri. Oct. 16—Field Artillery Ball Sat. Oct. 17—T. C. U. game here; Corps Dance; Hillel Club Dance Fri. Oct. 24—Baylor game, Waco Fri. Oct. 30—Infantry Ball Sat. Oct. 31—Arkansas game here; Corps Dance Fri. Nov. 6—Open • Sat. Nov. 7—Corps trip to Dallas; S. M. U. game Fri. Nov 13—Open Sat. Nov. 14—Corps trip to Houston; Rice game Fri. Nov. 20—Engineer’s Ball Thurs. Nov. 26—Texas Game at Austin; Thanksgiving Holiday Fri. Nov. 27—Open Sat. Nov. 28—Open Fri. Dec. 4—Open Sat. Dec. 5—Washington State game; San Antonio Fri. Dec. 11—Composite Regiment Ball Sat. Dec. 12—Corps Dance Fri. Dec. 18—Open Sat. Dec. 19—Christmas Holidays begin at noon. Thurs. Dec. 31—New Year’s Eve Party Fri. Jan. 1—Combined Architect and Engineering Society’s Dance Sat. Jan. 2—Parents Day Fri. Jan. 8—Cattleman’s Ball Sat. Jan. 9—Fish Ball Fri. Jan. 15—Senior Ring Dance and Banquet Sat. Jan. 16—Corps Dance Thurs. Jan. 21—Junior Prom and Banquet Fri. Jan. 22—Final Ball and Commencement Sat. Jan. 23—Final Review I-B Registrants to Be Reclassified To Either Class I-A or Class IV-F Pursuant to a direction from National Headquarters Thursday, General J. Watt Page, State Se lective Service Director, announced the elimination of Class I-B re gistrants. This designation in the past has been applied to registrants con sidered fit for limited military ser vice only. Hereafter, all regis trants who are not totally disqual ified will be reclassified in Class I-A and the Army will decide, after induction, on their individual as signment to full or limited mili tary service, General Page point ed out. Instructing local boards on the reclassification of service men who had been placed in Class I-B, which will be started throughout the Surburban Life Enjoyed by Those Who Choose Apartments in Goodwin; True in ’16 and ’42 By John Holman “This the center of the college world, abode of the powers that be, where the Discipline Commit tee meets and where all students begin and many end their college life”—and so said the 1916 Long horn of the old Main Building. In Ross Hall were “rods pierc ing this noble structure through, end to end, side to side, yet it still stands the test of numberless ‘live loads,” and Foster Hall, dear old Foster, was famous as the home of the students of German descent and was known as the German Embassy. With the United States nearer war with Germany .each day in 1916, the boys of Foster became surrounded with rumors of mystery and intrigue—mostly in fun, of course. Not kidding was that ancient Longhorn when it said that “Sur- urban life is enjoyed by those who choose apartments in old Good win,” but that didn’t seem to both er Aggieland’s Prexy W. B. Biz- zell or a John Wesley Rollins, ^graduating from A. & ' M. that year. John Wesley Rollins, better known as “Dough”, came to A. & Students Asked To Turn in Names For Dallas SAE Meeting All students that are going on the trip to Dallas Wednesday, August 26, to attend the State Meeting of,the Society of Automo tive Engineers are reminded by C. R. Ursell, chairman, to turn in their names to the Aero, officers before 10 o’clock today. In order to get excused absences for the time that these students are gone they must have their names in at the offices by this time. M. in 1912 “weighing 120 pounds and lacking four years shaving.” He left “a mighty plunging half back, the Warrior bold who goes forth as the mainstay of our team and the main hoodoo of the oppon ents team." Also a senior that year was Andrew Davis Bruce, now Brig. Gen. Bruce, commander of Camp Hood near Temple. Bruce, a lieu tenant during the first World Mess was the most decorated man in the United States Army, and now leads America’s number one tank destroyer school. Prominent in the Class of ’16’s history was their participation in the campus-wide strike of 1913, when 466 cadets of the junior, sophomore and freshman classes suspended academic duties. The trouble then was hazing, and the strike precipitated when the facul ty turned down the preemptory demand of underclassmen for re instatement of twenty-seven cad ets dismissed for hazing. As the Longhorn of 1916 put it, “there was administered the bitterest of doses of constituted authority.” James R. Hill, second Lieut. Cavalry, U. S. A., was command ant, and the corps consisted of twelve companies, and an entire page was devoted to the then fam ous, now infamous, Discipline Com mittee—the men who had to hand le the strike of 1913. In athletics that year the Aggie gridsters ran up 196 points against their opponents 34, and a 13-0 victory over Texas U., made boys hereabout quite happy. The basket ball team sank goals totaling near ly 400 points against their oppo sition’s combined 100. Rice Insti tute downed the Aggies in 1916 both on the gridiron and in the field house. The school calendar for the year contained these notes: September 24 — College Night October 27 — Much pro-German sentiment shown. November 3 — Prexq lays “wet blankets” carefully over all plans for a trip to Houston. November 8—Prexy talks to sen ior class; Senior class talks to Prexy. December 10—To please the Bull, Senior privates talks up military sketching. February 20 — “Birth of a Na tion” shown in Bryan. March 29—After proper “arbi tration,” Senior privates of the band gracefully resumes duties as Harmony Experts. June 5-11—To those who passed: a week of sleep and visits; to those who were unlucky: a week spent in grinding for “specials.” In a special section of the Long horn, prepared as a satire on the Battalion, was this classic, still applicable, little editorial on stud ent opinion. “Something should be done to make it more clear to the author ities of the College that the prac tice of confining the dairy cows to pastures should be ended. The lonesomelike atmosphere here (See SURBURBAN, page 4) City Unable to G£t Priority for Truck City of College Station will not be able to purchase a new garbage truck as previously planned, Mayor G. B. Wilco announced Monday. The priority board has not given permission for the purchase of such a vehicle'. Plans are under way to purchase a second hand truck for the pur pose of giving adequate garbage collection. country on September 1, the State Director stressed that not to ex ceed one-fourth of the present Class I-B men in each local board area may be reclassified each month. The Director expressed the hope that the reclassification might be completed by January 1. In the reclassification of Class I-B registrants, where the indivi dual is not deferred for reasons other than physical, he will be re examined by the local board exam ining physician to determine whe ther he has any obviously dis qualifying defects which would prevent him from rendering any military service. If he has none he will be sent to the Army induc tion station on the appropriate call. Reclassification procedure re quires that local boards place re gistrants not believed totally dis qualified for military service in Class I-A pending examination at Army induction stations. Those men who are obviously physically disqualified will be given the Class IV-F Classification, as will those who are rejected by the army. The Selective Service action fol lowed closely the recent decision of the War Department to induct men with minor physical defects. Future calls for selectees will be for Class I-A men only. Men, hav ing minor, but not disqualifying defects, will be forwarded to Army induction stations along with those having no known defects. The in ducted men will be assigned by the Army to general or limited mili tary service according to their physical qualifications. Conscientious objectors who here tofore had been classified in Class I-B-O, if fit for limited service in noncombatant units, or in Class IV-E-LS, if fit for limited service in civilian work camps, now will be classified Class I-A-0 if fit for noncombatant military service, or in Class IV-E if fit for induc tion into work camps. Those phys ically unfit will be classified in Class IV-F. Instructing local boards to re classify limited service 1'egistrants, State Headquarters cautioned that full consideration must be given to Selective Service policies govern ing deferments for dependency, family relationship, and occupation, which might have changed since their previous limited service class ification. Richards Will Be Commissioned 1st Lt Technical Sgt. Hilton Richards, an assistant instructor in the In fantry, has been appointed a First Lieutenant in the hrmy and will be reassigned to duty here according to orders received from Washing ton, D. C. by the Military depart ment. Stephens Releases Calendar Dances to Be Held In Grove Until Fall; Mess Hall Used Then This issue of the Battalion car ries the complete Social Calander as released yesterday by Bobby Stephens, social secretary of the senior class, and the Student Ac tivities Office. All dances will be held in The Grove until the weather becomes too cold for outdoor dancing. After that the mess hall will again be used. In the calander are several open dates, and Stephens says that clubs and organizations already signed for dances may change their dates if necessary. So that freshmen coming in in September may attend the Fresh man Ball, that dance will be held late in the season. This is neces sary because of the crowded ac tivities program. Clubs and organizations desir ing .to have dances can have them if they will plan them to fit the open dates in this calander, and will fill out the required form in the Student Activities office. A Juke-Box prom will be held Saturday night in The Grove, Ste phens said. The usual prices and uniform will prevail. Navy Establishes New Officer Class For College Men A new enlisted class designed to procure and train reserve officer candidates has been established in the United States Naval Reserve and is designated by the Navy as Class V-ll. This class will enable the Naval Officer Procurement Service to select men for officer training with fewer qualifications as far as their physical and edu cational fitness is concerned. The class also allows the defer ment of enlisted candidates on an inactive status for a period not exceeding 90 days during which time the applications for commis sions will be completed and proc essed. In this status the candidates cannot be drafted by selective service in the 90 day period. Among the qualifications for V-ll enlistment are those requir ing the applicants to be male citi zens of the United States, under 39 years of age and able to meet physical regulations which, as in the case of men entering special service, may be waived in certain instances. If the candidate is under 30 years of age he must possess a degree from an accredited univer sity plus at least one year’s busi ness or professional expedience or graduate work in college. If 30 years of age or over he must have credit for two years of college work in addition to suc cessful business or professional ex perience since then. Upon the presentation of the re quired evidence of birth and citi zenship to any headquarters or branch of the Office of Naval Of ficer Procurement, the candidate may, if considered good officer ma terial, be enlisted apprentice sea man, Class V-ll. His application will then be processed and consid ered while he is on a 90 day inac tive status. • Should the investigation made indicate the candidate is not ac ceptable in the Navy he will be discharged and is then subject to call by the Army. If found acceptable the candi date will be ordered to a school of indoctrination for 30 days of intensive training in an enlisted status. After completing the indoctrina tion, the candidates not recom mended for commissions will be discharged, or, at their own re quest, transferred to an enlisted status in the Naval Reserve. If satisfactory ability is shown the candidates will receive probation ary commissions as recommended by the staff of the indoctrination school. Further intensive training will follow this commissioning. (See NAVY, page 4) Walter Wanger Selected As Judge for Vanity Fair Oxford and Kelsey Win First Prizes In USC Contests First Awards Gold Keys; Second Place, 3 Dollars; Third Prize, One Dollar W. F. Oxford, Jr. and Joe Kel sey were winners in the annual contest of the United Science Club held last Thursday night, it was announced yesterday by Dr. C. C. Doak, sponsor of the club. They were winners in the research and essay divisions respectively. Other place winners in the re search group were E. H. Williams, second, and John A. Roming, third. In the essay division, Leo L. Bailey placed second, and Martin Howard placed third. Oxford’s paper was entitled, The Rubber Content of Opuntia humi- fusa. This plant is the ordinary cactus of Brazos county. Oxford’s work showed that there was too small an amount of rubber found in this specie to be of any com mercial value. Titled, The Volume of Cream and the Distribution of Fat in Glass and Paper Containers, Kelsey’s paper revealed that a higher per centage of cream is found In glass over paper containers. Prizes awared were as follows: first place, a gold club key; second place, three dollars; and third place, one dollar. All entrants in the contest were given member ships in the collegiate division of the Texas Academy of Science. Awards were the same in both essay and research groups. Judges for the contest were C. J. Hesse, assistant curator of the college museum; E. R. Alexander, head of the agricultural education department; and C. O. Spriggs, professor of English. All participants were invited to enter their papers in the state con test to be held in the fall. Examinations For School Children Urged Before Sept The State Health Department urges all parents to have their children undergo a thorough phys ical examination before entering school next month. The importance of such examin ations can not be over-emphasized according to Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer, who declares that the health of a child has a di rect bearing on his progress in school. “It is advisable to have school children examined several days or even weeks before school begins,” Dr. Cox asserted, “so that minor ailments can be corrected and any possible serious ones placed under treatment.” Dr. Cox also advised parents to take their children to a dentist for a thorough dental check-up and cautioned that an examination of the eyes be not neglected. “In the old days it was consider ed only necessary to have school children provided with necessary books and some new fall clothing,” Dr. Cox said, “but today we recog nize that it is more important to be sure that his health has been pro perly safeguarded.” Advanced Contract Students Asked To Write Draft Boards Military Science Department has requested that all students enrol led under contract in the Advanced Military Science courses come by Room 18 in Ross Hall to have a form letter mailed to their draft boards. These students are entitled to reclassification to ^lass IV-B and should notify their boards at the earliest convenience to pre vent some trouble that has arisen in the past when students with contracts were ordered to report for physical examinations. To fill out these letters requires only a few minutes and all who haven’t done this should do so soon, the military department said. Noted Producer Will Make Choice While Visiting on Campus Walter Wanger, noted independ ent movie producer and director, will judge the Vanity Fair pic tures for the 1943 Longhorn, Edi tor John Longley announced Mom day. Wanger will arrive about the middle of September to ifegin the production of the film “We’ve Never Been Licked”, and will judge the pictures of the bauties turned in by the seniors for the Vanity Fair section of the Long horn during his stay here at Col lege Station. The deadline for the Vanity Fair pictures has been set for Septem ber 15, and all pictures, including the Senior Favorite pictures, must be in by that time, according to Longley, and all seniors are re quested to get their pictures in as early as possible. For the Vanity Fair section, a full length 8 by 10 evening gown picture will be required, as well as a 5 by 7 full length street dress picture, and a 5 by 7 close-up. Prices for the Vanity Fair seqtion section are listed at $3, which also includes a free picture for the Sen ior Favorite section, which is to be a 5 by 7 with a glossy finish. Any close-up will serve for the Senior Favorite section, with the price on this one at $1.50. Reservations for all club pic tures have to be made by October 1, Longley stated, and all juniors are again reminded that August 30 is the absolute deadline for pic tures for the junior section of the Longhorn, so as not to cause a huge congestion the last few days before the deadline. Erosion in Texas Being Overcome By Use of Legumes The saboteur on the farm front will take a licking in Texas this year. “This saboteur’s name is erosion and he’s been costing us thousands of dollars but we’re beating him to the draw this year,” says George Slaughter, chairman, Texas AAA committee. Long recognized as among the farmers’ worst enemies, erosion is being beaten through terraces, sum mer legumes and cover crops, and conservation farming under the AAA program, he said and explain ed that later on “He’ll get another set-back when winter legumes are planted.” 1 Already, orders are being placed and winter legume seeds are be ing received in county AAA of fices where they will be distributed to cooperating farmers who may obtain the seeds and have costs de ducted from future AAA payments. Farmers who plant winter le gumes will be converting their farms into nitrogen factories, Slaughter said. He added that wint er legumes, which take nitrogen from the air to their roots and transfer it to the soil when plowed under in the spring, provide the most practical way to off-set the shortage of nitrogenous fertilizer. Deductions for the various le gume seed will be at the follow ing rate per hundredweight: hairy vetch, $11.78; Willamette vetch, $8.18; and Austrian winter pease and common vetch, $6.68. Through the shifting of AAA payments from basic crops, such as cotton and wheat, to soil-build ing payments, Texas farmers have from two to three times more mon ey with which to buy an interest in their soils than they did in 1942, the AAA afficial said. Press Club to Have Dance Friday Night On Grove Pavilion “Plans are being made for the Press Club dance to be held this Friday night at The Grove,” ac cording to Flash Gordon, presi dent of the club. All members of any staff of the student publications are entitled to come. Each should, however, con tact the editor of his respective publication for final and definite arrangements concerning the dance, Gordon said.