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.