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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 29, 1942
2275
NUMBER 38
Scrap Metal Committee Is
Named Aiding Drive Here
Over 110,000 Pounds of Scrap Have Already
Been Collected From Known Supply Sources
In an effort to collect all available scrap metal, Presi
dent T. 0. Walton has appointed a Salvage Committee, E. N.
Holmgreen announced Friday. The committee will immed
iately set in motion a salvage campaign designed to collect
every available pound of scrap metal.
The committee in charge of the program is composed
of Dean F. C. Bolton, Colonel M. D. Welty, and E. N. Holm-
green, President Walton announced. The program will begin
on September 4, the committee announced.
-■f The need for scrap metal is ur-
Dorm Obtained For
Sophomore Dates
Opens Friday PM
Sophs With Dates Should
Turn in Their Names To
Committee or Commandant
Ramps one, two, and three of
Puryear Hall will be vacated for
the girls down here for the Sopho
more prom Friday September 4,
stated Jack Orrick, Sophomore
class president.
Th# rooms will be vacated Fri
day afternoon, giving the dates
ample time to get settled prior to
the dance starting at 9 o’clock.
Price for the rooms as usual
been set at fifty cents for both
nights. The Barnyard Frolics will
be the feature attraction Satur
day night with the Aggieland
Orchestra featured, giving the
weekend a double entertainment
billing.
AH sophomores who are having
dates down for the ball and are
planning to have them stay in
the dormitory are reminded to turn
their names in to the represen
tative .on the dance committee or
to the Commandant’s office as
soon as possible stated Tom
Moore, head of the accommodations
committe.
Francis Beasley and her orches
tra has been signed for the dance
which will be held in the main
dining hall of Sbisa.
(See SOPHOMORE, Page 4)
gent, the committee said and all
department heads will be expected
to critically survey the premises
under their control and dispose of
all possible metal materials. There
should be a real, immediate need
for any metal retained, Holm-
green said.
A central “Scrap Pile” will be
started just north of the Petroleum
building and between the “Bull
Ring” and the Petroleum Engi
neering Field Laboratory’s fence.
Military department trucks will
gather scrap from residents on the
campus, Friday, September 4, be
ginning at 8 a. m. Scrap should
be placed on the curb before 8
a. m. on that day to be picked
up on the first round. Departments
with no means of transportation
should deposit their scrap on the
curb in front of the building and
notify the Commandant’s office
before 10 a.m., Friday, September
4.
Collection of scrap from resi
dences and business establishments
off the campus will begin at 10
a.m., Friday, September 4. The
Commandant’s Office should be
notified by 10 a.m. Friday, Sept.
4. The committee will announce
other days for collecting scrap if
it is necessary.
The college has already contri
buted more than 110,000 pounds
of scrap. This scrap included alum-
ium, tin, brass, steel, and cast iron.
The committee will be glad to re
ceive suggestions from students
and college employees regarding
sources of scrap metal. Suggestions
should be made to the Command
ant, the committee said.
Seniors End Classes at Noon Sept. 18
Freight Car Of
Needed Equipment
Ready for Prisons
A. & M. Adds Strength To
Effort to Send Additional
Educational Materials
An entire freight-car load of re
creational, educational and relig
ious equipment, valued at $36,000,
has been sent to a West Coast port
to be loaded aboard the S. S.
Kanangoora for shipment to
American and other United Na
tions fighting men held prisoner
in the Far East, according to
word received by M. L. Cashion,
secretary of the local YMCA.
The supplies are being sent Ty
the War Prisoners’ Aid Committee
of the World’s Alliance of Y. M.
C. A.s to help fill the needs of Al
lied soldiers, sailors and marines
who have been captured. The ship,
now at San Francisco, will sail as
soon as final assurances of safe
conduct are received from Allied
and Axis governments, Cashion
was advised. Negotiations for such
a guarantee have been underway
for some time between the Inter
national Red Cros, which has char
tered the Kanangoora, and the
governments.
The • campaign on the campus
is being handled through the or
ganization commanders, according
to Bob Cockrell, chairman of the
local student committee. Money can
be taken from the company fund,
but 'it is hoped that each organiza
tion commander will explain the
purpose of the fund to his organi
zation. Money can be turned in at
the Student Activities office. The
goal of the commitee is $500.
Although the Kanangoora’s car
go is complete for the first trip,
other shipments will be made dur
ing the next few months, either
aboard this ship or on other boats,
Cashion was informed by national
headquarters of the War Prison
ers’ Aid Committee. Materials to
(See WAR FUND, Page 4)
Singaroo Is
Added This
Semester
Intramural Office
Cooperates With A-M
Singing Program
Following the new advertising
slogan that something new has
been added, the atheletic office has
attached “The Aggie Singaroo” to
wind up this semester’s recreation
al program.
A competitive sing between or
ganizations, the “Singaroo” will be
in charge of Richard Jenkins who
offers to work and advise any who
desire help.
All organizations entering the
sing must be represented by at
least 15 men one third of these
being fish, one third shophomores,
and one third juniors or seniors.
Selecting any song approved by
Jenkins, - who may be reached
through the Student Activities Of
fice or at the Assembly Hall, the
entrees may use any type of ac
companiment in the preliminaries
but Jenkins will furnish piano ac
companiment in the finals.
One song will be sung by each
group with the preliminaries be
ing held during the week of Sep
tember 7, and the finals being held
Saturday September 12 as a future
on Kadet Kapers. The six best
groups will qualify for the finals.
As an added attraction, the win
ning organization will be treated
to an ice cream supper and a free
picture show.
All recreationdT’^officers have
been asked to assist in the organi
zation of the singing groups so
that the “Singaroo” can be made
an event which will afford much
pleasure to all students concerned.
Nothing Is Too Good for Huey’s “Baby”
Aggies Begin Grid Season on Only Campus
Of Its Kind Outside Hollywood Film Lots
By Clyde C. Franklin
Since the fighting Texas Aggies
will face L.S.U. in their first grid
iron epic of the coming season it
seems timely to bring the Aggies
a few of the outstanding high
lights of the history of Louisiana’s
State university. The factual ma
terial is taken from' “Louisiana
Hayride” by Harnett T. Kane a
graduate of Tulane university ’31
and who first started his news
paper career when The New Or
leans Item noticed a feature story
written by him in his sophomore
year.
Kingfish, the late Huey P. Long,
adopted L.S.U. as his own and
made it his baby. Nothing was too
good for “baby” once he had his
hands on it.. The change took place
about the year 1930, or more pro
perly speaking the change began
then for it was to last throughout
the reign of Long.
His plan for L.S.U. was, “every
student a king,” and among other
things L.S.U. was, as people of the
South say, nigger rich. It seems
highly unlikely that there will be
another college like it outside Hol
lywood’s sets.
Long had three main reasons
for an interest in L.S.U. which be
came phenomenal: sentimental,
practical, vindictive. He had always
wanted to go to the university, the
country boy’s dream. Now he was
on the campus, enjoying an enor
mous soul-soothing satisfaction as
he whizzed about and ran hings.
Too, he was using L.S.U. as a
showcase for his activities, a
sounding board for arguments and
demonstrations. Finally, he was
getting even with Tulane uni
versity in New Orleans, his alma
mata for a brief span.
Tulane had refused him an hon
orary degree. The Tulane borard
also included business men and
lawyers who opposed the Kingfish
and it overlapped his newspaper
enem,y the Times Picayune.
College for all the boys and
girls that want it: this was Long’s
plan. He made good on it at L.S.U.
Thousands showed up on the camp
us—many from outside the state—
take him up. They were given a
place. Wort; was found for them,
or made for them, if they did not
have the resources. New dormi
tories appeared, new play facilities.
An estimated $9,000,000 was spent
on constrution; operating expense
went from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000
a year. The school burst its seams.
The first thousands found living
space; the rest had to stay in town,
at boarding houses, any place they
could find.
Like all large universities L.S.U.
had a stadium. In a housing emer
gency Long took a good look and
noticed all the empty space be
tween the sloping seats and the
outer rim. Some universities use
Consolidated School
Holds Budget Hearing
Last Day This Month
Monday night, August 31, there
will be a meeting of the patrons
of the A. & M. Consolidated school
at 8:00 for the purpose of discus
sing the school budget for the
year 1942-43, W. D. Bunting, Su
perintendent of schools, announced
yesterday.
All members are asked to at
tend as there might be questions
that they want answered concern
ing the financial condition of the
school. It is the purpose of the
board to answer as many of these
questions as possible in order to
give first hand information on
questions of interest among the
patrons of the community. All pa-
trans and taxpayers are urged to
be present.
it for soft drink concessions, others the game, shouted encouragement,
to keep effete citizens who wish to
get out of the rain. L.S.U. used it
to house freshmen and sophomores.
Concrete, plaster and wood pro
duced narrow cubicles in each of
which four men were huddled,
with two-decker beds. As Don
Wharton phrased it, the stadium
“seats 45,000 and sleeps 2500.” He
also noted that four is the proper
number for a game of bridge.
A Huy P. Long Field House pop
ed up, costing about $1,000,000,
with drugstore, bookshop, club-
rooms, training rooms for athletes.
Long walked on the campus, and
word spread. Out of dormitories,
gymnasium, classrooms came a
throng. “Hi Ya, boys”; “Hi ya
cutie,” the Kingfish threw out
home greetings on the way. He
handed a bill to a friend who called
him aside. He joshed a professor,
while the boys and girls giggled.
Into the campus store he lead his
crowd. “Help yourself—on me.”
Candy, cigarettes, cold drinks, ci
gars. Long flashed a $50 bill, or
called on a contractor, or a friendly
heeler, or the president, whoever
was along, to shell.
Kingfish wanted a good football
team. He had to have it to beat
Tulane, and to reach national spot
light for his L.S.U. He got the
best material from every high
school. He coached the team per
sonally or hired men to do it and
added his advice. One night in a
Washington hotel, he sent down
for “twnty-two of them little gilt
chairs you got in the ballroom.”
He lined them up like too foot
ball teams, told his friend to “show
me that Notre Dame shift,” and
got to work to learn coaching.
He took L.S.U.’s football for
tunes with an intensity that alarm
ed some. He cried happy tears
when L.S.U. won. He wept when it
lost. He strode the sidelines during
beat the ground seized handfuls of
grass. Sometimes the crowds for
got the game and watched Long,
a better show.
He loved music, the jews’-harp,
hillbilly band, anything except them
high toned symphonies; he loved
his L.S.U. the same way; in music,
he was unhampered by conference
rules. He increased the band to 175,
to 200, to 210. “Music scholar
ships” were tossed about like a
football.
An important game with Vander
bilt was scheduled. “How many
kids going?” Huey asked. “Not
many. . .Can’t afford the train
fare.” “How many would like to
go?” “H—, everybody.” “Then
they’ll go.” Long summoned the
railroad officials, gave a few or
ders, emerged with what some
termed the scalps of the gentle
men. He talked to them and secured
the phenomenal price of $7 per
round trip, to Nashville and back.
“Whoever ain’t got seven dollars,
lemme know.” Huey turned his
hotel room into a distribution
point, giving out fives and ones
to all who filed past him, then
sticking out his hands and taking
from his friends. In return, he re
ceived lOUs, but Huey and his
student body never broke over these
little debts. In all 4,000 students
made the trip.
Long gave L.S.U. a music school
that was classified as a near won
der for the South: a myriad of
studio practice rooms,; 80 grand
painos. “Count ’em,” (begged the
kingfish when he showed guests
about.
Not least was a housing achieve-
men unique, the cage of Mike the
Tiger. The students bought Mike,
a full blooded circus Bengal, to
match their stickers. Leche said
he would do his part; and he built
(See L . S. U., Pa^e 4)
Jan Garber Signed
For Field Art Ball
And Corps Dance
Week End to be One Full
Of Activity With Home
Coming and Journalism
Jan Garber, one of the outstand
ing dance bands of the day, has
been engaged to play for the Field
Artillery Ball on October 16 and
for the Corps dance the next night,
said Travis Parker and Don Mc
Intyre, chairmen of the dance com
mittee.
Garber will play an engagement
at the Metropolitan theatre in
Houston the 15 and will come
direct to the College after that.
Upon completing his two day stand
here, he and his fourteen piece
dance band will go to Corpus
Christi to play a broadcast over
a National hookup for the Coca
Cola Co. on Tuesday the 20.
October 16 and 17 holds a lot in
store for those who want a good
time. The T. C. U. vs A. & M. game
is that week end, as well as the
home coming for all Ex-Aggies.
At this time the Southwest Journa
lism Congress will be meeting on
the campus, sponsored by the Press
Club.
This week end promises to be
one of the most outstanding that
A. & M. has had in some time.
There will be many people on the
campus and the dance should be
one to write home about and re
member for some time to come,
said Parker.
7 SAE Members
Visit Dallas Meet
Seven members of the A. & M.
Chapter of the Society of Auto
motive Engineers attended the
meeting of the Texas section of the
SAE in Dallas Wednesday night
August 26. This group included J.
M. Hoss. Owen Moore, S. Mon-
cada, Charles Ursell, David Kauf
man, Charles Ridenour, James
Hennessy, W. I. Truettner, and H.
W. Barlon.
Arch T. Colwell, of Thompson
Products Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio,
gave a speech on “Behind the
Scenes in War Engineering”. He
illustrated his talk with slides of
German and Japanese Airplanes
and motors. Colwell stated that the
part of the SAE at this time is
the standardization of engines, ma
terials, and propellers for airplanes.
He also stated that there are parts
of the SAE now working with the
Army and Navy as Ordnance and
Quartermaster units.
After the meeting a get-together
was held for the senior members
of the SAE and all of the Aggie
visitors.
B B Bailey Selected
For Navy Air Training
Bill Bostick Bailey, son of Mrs.
Zulene Bailey of 1602 Calif. Hous
ton, has been selected for training
as a Naval Aviation cadet and will
be ordered to active duty shortly.
He attended A. & M.
When ordered to active duty, he
will report to the U. S. Navy Pre-
Flight School, University of Geor
gia, Athens, Georgia, for three
months of physical conditioning,
instruction in naval essentials, mil
itary drill and ground school sub
jects. After completing this course,
he will be sent to one of the Navy’s
numerous bases for primary flight
training.
Adjustment Made by Academic Council
To Let Seniors Leave Early; Others at 5
In a regular meeting of the Academic Council yes
terday, the following regulations concerning the transfer
of courses and grades, registration, and men that are drafted
were passed on.
In order also that students may register before leaving
at the close of this semester, current semester classes for
seniors will be suspended at noon Friday, September 18, and
those for other students will be suspended at 5 p. m. the
same day.
Any student transfering from'
one school to another within the
College may not receive credit in
his new course either as an elec
tive or any substitution for requir
ed course for any course with a
grade lower than “C”. That is,
if he makes “D” in a course that
he would ordinarily get credit for
in another school, within the Col
lege, he cannot transfer that course
unless he has a grade of “C” or
better.
Any student called to active duty
between August 15 and 31 inclu
sive, will receive semester credit
for subjects in which their grades
are “A”, “B”, or “C”.
Any student who is called into
the service and wants credit for
his grades under this plan must
file a written petition with the
Dean of the College requesting
that the credit be allowed. Students
called after the mid-semester
grades are out may, upon their
return to college at a later date,
re-enter a course in which they
had a passing grade too low for
credit as indicated above, at r,r
prior to the corresponding time in
the semester when they left, pro
viding they obtain the approval of
the Head of the Department of
fering the course.
There will be no commencement
excercises at the end of this se
mester. Those Seniors who com
plete the degree requirements by
the end of this semester will re
ceive their diplomas through the
mail shortly after September 19.
They may leave College after com
pleting their classes on September
18.
Son of Commandant
Promoted to Captain
According to a cable reclived
Wednesday, Richard C. Welty, son
of Colonel and Mrs. M. D. Welty,
has been promoted to the rank of
Captain in the United States Army
Air Corps. Captain R. C. Welty
was graduated from Alabama Poly
tech, Auburn Alabama, in ’36. Upon
graduation he was commissioned in
the Field Artillery Resrves, and
in June 1940 he was called to ac
tive duty with the U. S. Air Corps.
When last heard from he was a
Squadron Adjutant stationed in
Australia.
Press Club Bids
Farewell to Stone
As Their Associate
Thursday night, the press club
gave W. C. Stone assistant director
of student publications, a going
away party.
Stone has held his position with
the Student Publications office for
two years, and proved himself more
than worthy the responsibility that
was given him. After everyone had
finished eating, Brooks Gofer, edi
tor of the Battalion newspaper,
made a short speech and presented
Stone with a watch given by the
Press Club. In accepting the watch,
Stone expressed his deep apprecia
tion for fhe cooperation that has
been given him by the various
editors and their staffs since he
has been here.
Those attending the supper were:
Jim McAllister, Brooks Gofer, Tan
ner Freeman, Clyde Franklin, Mike
Haikin, Jack Hood, Reggie Smith,
Flash Gordon, Chick Hurst, Bill
Japhet, John Sparger, Jay Hum
phrey, Dave Pinson, Tom Journey,
John Longley, Tom Vannoy and
Leroy Jenkins.
Petition Filed For
College Station
Health Unit
A petition to the proper admin
istrative officers of the State
Health Department in seeking the
establishment of a College Station
Health Unit has been made in the
name of the City of College Sta
tion by the City Council at its re
gular meeting last Thursday.
The present Bryan and Brazos
County Health Unit, organized and
operated in cooperation with the
State Health Department and:
maintained by prorated contribu
tions of Brazos County, Bryan,
College Station, and the State
Health Departmnt is expected to
cease all functions as a result of
the withdrawal of the support
which Bryan has been giving.
The College Station city Council
realizing that Brazos County and
College Station can ill afford to
dispense with the needed effective
services that are provided through
a Health Unit deemed it necessary
to ask for a College Station Health
Unit. College Station, at the pre
sent time, can not supply the range
of services that guarantee proper
safety and protection of the resi
dents of A. & M. College and the
City of College Station.
These facts should be a strong
factor in gaining the serious at
tention and immediate action of
local, County, and State health au
thorities on the matter the council
belives.
Sophomore Pictures
Made Beginning On
Monday, August 31
Sophomores may start having
their pictures made for the 1943
Longhorn beginning Monday, Au
gust 31, Longhorn Editor John
Longley announced today. There
are several blouses of various
sizes at the studio for the use of
sophomores, but each man must
furnish his own ornaments. No
deadline will be set for seperate
organizations but the pictures will
be taken of the class collectively
disregarding regeinental divisions.
Because of the small number 6f
sophomores who have had their
pictures made in the past their
deadline will be the last day of
the current semester.
Freshmen will begin having their
pictures made the first of the next
semester.
Baptist Freshmen
Give Fishing Party
All Baptist students are invited
to attend a fishing party given
by the freshman training union of
the First Baptist Church.
Those who want to go should
meet at the church this afternoon
at 4:00. The party plans to re
turn by midnight.
Cavalry Continue Experience
With Overnight Camps Now
By Tom Journeay
Flies in the soup, gnats in the
bull neck, and sand in the shoes
will be the order of the day when
D troop, Cavalry, goes on its over
night hike this week end.
The troop will go out the Bra
zos River just past Koppe’s bridge
on Alexander’s place, the usual site
for the encampment, and observe
all the regulations of setting up
camps, stated Lieut. W. G. North,
Cavalry instructor.
Departure time for the troop
from the campus has been set at
3:30 Saturday afternoon with the
troop slated to arrive at the camp
site around 6:30.
From that time until around 9:30
the many tasks that are incum-
bant to setting up a military over
night encampment will be carried
out by the Cavalry cadets.
Five sentry posts will be set up
with two hour shifts of two men
each gurding all the possible ap
proaches to the encampment.
Several sentries will be posted at
different points surrounding the
bridge, since the bridge consti
tutes a vital artery of approach
to the camp site.
Many interesting experiences al
ways occur at these overnight
hikes the Cavalry troops take,
states Lieut. North.
On a recent overnight hike at
(See CAVALRY, Page 4)