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    The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITT OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 13, 1942
2275 « NUMBER 54
Representatives from 12
Schools to Come for Meet
Congress Will Open +
At Banquet in Sbisa
Thursday Evening
Journalism schools and student
publications from twelve colleges
in the Southwest will be represent
ed at the sixteenth annual meeting
of the Southwestern Journalism
Congress and the Southwestern
Students’ Press Club to be held
here Thursday, Friday, and Satur
day, October 15, 16, and 17.
“At no time before has A. & M.
played host to so many visitors
from various campuses in the
Southwest as will be present for
this conference,” stated Dr. John
Ashton of the rural sociology de
partment. Estimates indicate that
more than 250 representatives will
be present.
Members of the A. & M. Press
Club and Rural Sociology 416 stu
dents will be eligible to take part
in the activities on payment of a
$1 registration fee. Nothing is yet
known definitely but it is hoped
that students will be able to obtain
authorized absences in order to
participate in the conference.
Officially opening the congress
Dr HB Ward Will
Speak for Texas
Science Meeting
Scientist Has Served As
President Of Numerous
Natural Life Societies
Word has been received here
from the secretary of the Texas
Academy of Science that Professor
Henry B. Ward, a world-renowned
zoologist who for many years be
fore his retirement was head of
the Department of Zoology at the
University of Illinois, will be one
of the outstanding scientists to de
liver an address here during the an
nual meetings of the Academy to
be held here in November. Dr. Ward
will address the annual banquet
audience on the evening of Friday,
November 13. His subject will be
“Utilization and Conservation of
our Biological Resources.”
Dr. Ward became professor of
Zoology at the University of Illi
nois in 1909 and before his retire
ment in 1933 hS had made it one
of the most outstandig zoological
will be a banquet in Sbisa Hall [ departments in the country. He
Thursday night at 8:15 o’clock.
Dr. Ashton will deliver the opening
address while Dr. T. O. Walton
will present the address of wel
come. The keynote address, “News
papers and the War,” will be pre
sented by Major James E. Crown,
editor of the New Orleans States.
Entertainment is to be furnished
by the Singing Cadets.
Friday morning and afternoon
will be devoted to discussion group
meetings. At noon, student visitors
will be guests of the A. & M. Press
Club at a luncheon in the Mess
Hall while visiting faculty mem
bers will hold a luncheon in the
directors’ room of Sbisa Hall. A
barbecue will be held Friday night
at the Bryan Country Club fol
lowed by a juke box prom at the
Grove.
Election of new officers will be
held Saturday morning in Guion
Hall. The farewell address, “After
25 Years,” will be delivered by
Silas B. Ragsdale, managing ed
itor of the Galveston News and
Tribune.
Visiting students and faculty
members will be guests of the col
lege at the A. & M.-T.C.U. football
game. They will be entertained Sat
urday night at the corps dance.
Students from Baylor, Hardin-
Simmons, LSU, Mary Hardin-Bay-
lor, Oklahoma A. & M., SMU, Tex
as A. & M., TCU, TSCW, Texas
Tech, Oklahoma University, and
Texas University will attend the
conference.
has served on the U. S. Fisheries
Commission in surveying the mig
ration of salmon in West Coast
waters, and has been associated
with a number of other important
surveys in this country and abroad.
He has been president of The
American Society of Zoologists, of
The American Fisheries Society,
of the Association of American
Medical Colleges, of the American
Society of Parasitologists, and of
The Icaac Walton League of Amer
ica. In addition, he has held many
other high offices in these and a
number of other national ad in
tranational organizations.
From 1933 to 1937 he served as
permanent secretary of the Amer
ican Association for the Advance
ment of Sciences—a full-time job
—without giving up many of his
other activities. He is author of
books and periodical publications
on fresh-water biology, parasites
of human eye, spread of the fish
tapeworm, relations of animals to
disease and on many other topics.
He founded the Journal of Para
sitology and was for many years
its chief editor.
The Academy will hold its annual
meetings at A. & M. this year for
the first time since 1935. The dates
of the meetings are November 12,
13, and 14. Dr. G. E. Potter of the
Department of Biology is chair
man of the committee in charge of
local arrangements. Several hun
dred scientists from over the state
and from elsewhere ai’e expected
here.
Cavalry Horse Show Directors
Held as Climax To
Weekend Activities
Eight Events Featured
Cadet Riders Exclusively;
Major Mann Was Judge
Appropriate
WTAWFunds
Fine weather was in the offing
for the Twelfth Annual Cavalry
Horse Show held on Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the
horse show arena on the cavalry
drill field, before a representative
crowd of cavalrymen, army offi
cers, college personnel and week
end guests on the campus.
The horse show served as the
climax to the weekend of activities
for the Cavalry regiment.
Winners of the trophies were as
follows:
Hunt course. First place—Clyde
Raley, Mg. Cav.; Bill Braid, Mg.
Cav.; J. M. Plyler, Hq. Cav. Second
place—Jack Irving, D. Cav.; Shorty
Fuller, D Cav.; Vance Carrington,
C Cav.
Freshmen seat and hands class.
(Placed in the order listed): D. R.
Blakelock, Hq. Cav.; C. A. Rags
dale, C Cav.; Marvin Rice, A Cav.;
and G. G. Randell, B Cav.
Sophomore seat and hands class.
R. S. Harding, D Cav.; Jene Moore,
A Cav.; Charles Elwood, A Cav.;
and C. 0. Irving, D Cav.
Senior Jump. Worth Parker, A
Cav.; Hap Goodman, F FA; Dyke
Gillan, C Cav.; and J. M. Plyler,
Hq. Cav.
Junior Jump. E. A. Dwyer, 2nd
Hq. F. A.; Bob Shaw, C F. A.; J.
R. Bradley, Mg. Cav.; and R. .C.
Cox, D Cav.
Studios Will Move
To A** Building- When
B^uipment Comes
Most important business trans
acted in the October meeting of
the board of directors Saturday
was the appropriation'of $4130 for
building new studios for WTAW
on the third floor of the Admin
istration building, states the office
of the president of the college.
Purchase of new studio equip
ment including microphones, turn
tables, recording equipment, con
trol boards and the like was author
ized at a previous meeting. That
equipment has arrived and will be
installed in the new studio loca
tion as soon as the extensive re
modeling soon to be started is com
pleted.
With the move into the new lo
cation, WTAW, the college radio
station, will have one of the most
modern radio plants in the country,
John Rosser, director of WTAW,
stated.
Dick Hervey, President
Of Class of ’42, Has
Been Made Army Capt
Open Jump. Dyke Gillan, C Cav.;
Harold Goatly, C F. A.; Lee Woods,
B Cav.; and Ken Bresnen, A Cav.
Pop Race. John Scott, A Cav.;
Morris, Cav.; Jack Trees, C Cav.;
and C. O. Irving, D Cav.
Musical Chair. John Scott, A
Cav.; Jack Miller, C Cav.; Fred
Pochyla, C Cav.; and Archer Parr,
Mg. Cav.
The horse show this year was an
all-military affair with no.civilian
events scheduled as there has been
in past years. Each troop entered
an equal number of cadets in the
meet and they received credit for
their entry.
Major J. A. Mann from San
Antonio was judge for the show
and managers for the show were
Captain A. P. Utterback and Lieu
tenant W. G. North, Cavalry in-
strqctors.
M H Brown to Speak
For AIEE Meeting
Student chapter of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
will have an important meeting
tonight immediately after yell prac
tice in the EE lecture room, ac
cording to the chapter president.
Feature of the program will be
a talk oh transmission lines by M.
H. Brown of the electrical engi
neering department.
J. B. “Dick” Hervey, president
of the class of ’42, has been pro
moted from the rank of second
lieutenant to captain in the short
time of a little over four months.
In his last year at A. & M. he
was captain of K company, infan
try. Now in the air corps, Captain
Hervey is stationed at Gowen Field,
Idaho.
Juniors May Get
Copies of Cadence
At Ross Hall Today
Issuing of the Cadence, new
freshman handbook, is reported to
be proceeding at a fast rate at the
corps headquarters office in Ross
Hall. Over 5000 copies of the guide
to the customs and traditions of
Aggieland have been printed, and
the supply left on hand is running
low.
Seniors, fish, and frogs have al
ready received their copies, which
may be gotten free upon presenta
tion of the yellow registration re
ceipt at corps headquarters.
Juniors* may receive their copies
today, according to Walter Card-
well, cadet colonel, and if there are
any copies left after today, sopho
mores may obtain them during the
latter part of the week.
Texas Had Wonder Team of Year, But They Tied With Aggies!
1922 Longhorn Was Dedicated to Dana X,
Who Produced Three Southwest Champs
“September came and with it
came our hopes for a winning team.
None dared to hope for too much.
Plainly there was not the wealth
of experienced players that had
characterized former Aggie teams
. . . It is when we consider this
meager number of experienced
men that we can admire the most
the spirit of fight and determina
tion that, along with Coach Dana
X. Bible’s coaching, did such won
ders for Texas A. & M.” . . . And
so went the 1922 Longhorn.
On the first page of that classic
annual was a full-color portrait of
Head Coach Dana Bible of the
Texas Aggies—dedication of the
Longhorn to the man who won the
1922 Southwest conference for Ag-
gieland’s fighting farmers.
In that, the third football season
since World War I had ended, the
Aggies lost for the first time in
seven years to the L. S. U. Tigers
by a score of 6-0—the only defeat
of the season. The rest of the sea
son looked like the Aggies meant
business, with no other defeat dark
ening our doorway: Howard Payne
lost to us 14-7; Baylor 12-3; Ari
zona, 17-13; S. M. U. 10-0; Rice
7-7; Oklahoma U. 23-7; and the
praying colonels of Center in a
three-inch snow, 22-14. The tea-
sippers had the “wonder team of
the year” and were stopped in their
tracks by the Aggies under Bible
who held them to a scoreless tie
on Kyle Field.
Won Basketball Championship
But football wasn’t the only thing
that was in the headlines around
Aggieland that memorable year.
The basketball team, again under
Dana X., won its third consecutive
basketball championship, and for
the first time Aggieland won the
Southwest track crown. The dia
mond nine scared the hell out of
Texas and her baseball blue ribbon.
Nowadays we don’t have a wrest
ling team, but in 1922 the Aggie
grappling squad took its second
consecutive state championship and
second in the entire Southwest.
Those boys that graduated in ’22
came to A. & M. while it was still
a training center for the army,
but with the Armistice in Novem
ber, 1918, “We, the long Neglected
Fish, began to become familiar with
cushless days and fishkillers, and
many other implements that would
make a freshman dream of a love
lier spot back home . . ..of our
sophomore year, we say this, ‘We
did not fail!’ ”
Class Produced Rhodes Scholar
Proud of their record as student
leaders and scholars, the class of
’22 produced the first Aggie ever
to win the coveted Rhodes Scholar
ship to Oxford University, C. W.
Thomas. Dr. Bizzell was president
of the college, and the class’s gift
to the school was a three-quarter
life-sized painting of Dr. Bizzell.
During its fish year, the first fish
class to make a gift to the college,
it built the baseball stadium be
side Kyle Field.
Famous that year was the very
bold attempt by the fish to put
an abrupt end to the Junior Ban
quet. Naturally, after all of the
fire simmered down, the fish were
found about 20 miles from college
—just as “aired out” as they could
possibly have been. And the juniors
in 1922 boasted thusly, “The fish
our sophomore year were brought
up in true A. & M. style until a
certain investigating committee
stamped the heavy foot of disap
proval on our training methods.”
Hart Was President Directors
L. J. Hart was president of the
board of directors. Other members
were Mrs. J. C. George, R. L.
Young, F. M. Law (now president
of the board), Charles E. Marsh and
W. S. Rowland.
And believe it or not, we had
“shock troops” on the campus.
Crack drill companies, from which
Dear Adolf possibly and probably
got the idea for his infamous blitz
boys.
Twelve Outfits in Corps
Twelve outfits made up the corps
of cadets, one of which was an air
corps company. The Field Artillery,
now the largest regiment on the
campus, then had but two bat
teries, and the Cavalry boys barely
filled two troops. Naturally, the
Ross Volunteers were always on
hand and added much color to re
views and ceremonious drill.
The Signal Corps was another
one of the outfits to spring from
the war, and in 1922 it had three
complete organizations, equipped
with regulation army communica
tion rigs.
Ashburn Was Commandant
Commandant, and a civilian at
the time, was Colonel Ike Ashburn,
with Major L. R. Dougherty, F. A.,
U. S. A., serving as P. M. S. & T.
(See LONGHORN, Page 4)
Entries still Open \y £ white Appointed New
forWangerEssay „ . n . p.. .
Contest on Picture t orest Service Director
Winner Will Receive $50
War Savings Bond Plus
Meeting Anne Gwynne
The essay contest sponsored by
Walter Wanger, producer for the
forthcoming picturetf'We’ve Never
Been Licked”, is now underway
with four entries already turned in
to the publicity office. All entries
should be submittted before Octo
ber 14, but entries will be accepted
after that time.
G. Byron Winstead, college di
rector of publicity, who is assist
ing the production staff of the
picture, has urged as many Aggies
as possible enter the contest. The
best essay on the meaning of the
Spirit of Aggieland will net its
writer one $50 war bond and an
introduction to Anne Gwynne, fem
inine star of the Aggie picture.
Second prize will be a $25 war
bond.
All those entering the contest
should also submit a title for the
picture, since the name “We’ve
Never Been Licked” was selected
only for use until a better one
could be found.
The entries will be judged on
content only not on grammar. No
limit has been set to the length
of the articles. Judges will be E.
E. McQuillen, secretary of the
Foi'mer Students Association; Wal
ter Wanger; Jack Rawlins, director
of the picture; and E. N. Holm-
green, business manager of the
college.
The article is to draw a picture
of just what the writer thinks a
Texas Aggie is. This may be done
by pictures, jokes, or in any way
appropriate.
Jaft Garber to Give
War Stamp Swing
Session in Sbisa
Orchestra Leader Gives
Services for Extra Hour
Free to Cadet Corps
Jan Garber, idol of the airlanes,
and his orchestra will present an
hour War-Stamp Swing Session in
the mess hall Saturday night in the
interest of the national war effort.
Admission will be the purchase of
a twenty-five cent war stamp at
the door, the Student Activities of
fice announced Monday.
Previous’ Stamp Sessions have
been played by Anson Weeks and
Herbie Kay, both of which have
been included in their contracts.
Garber, however, is donating the
services of his band free, as his
contract calls only for the Field!
Artillery Ball and the Victory
Corps Dance.
“Jan Garber is not bound by his
contract to play for the War-Stamp
Session,” said Richard Jenkins, di
rector of the Singing Cadets, “but
when we were feeling his manage
ment out about the concert, they
were immediately agreeable and en
thusiastic, and gladly offered to
play the extra hour free of charge.”
“Garber’s band is a big name
outfit, and usually is paid, and paid
well for an hour’^ music. If they
are willing and glad to help our
war stamps sales that much, then
the least the Aggies can do is to
come on out and fill Sbisa to ca
pacity next Saturday night,” con
cluded Jenkins.
Featured with the Garber ag
gregation, which has been a top-
notch name band for twenty years,’
are men like Jack Swift, romantic
tenor, Fidtz Heilbron, ace come
dian, and Johnny Drake, swinging
singing saxophonist.
Prizes for Football
Signs to Be Awarded
Prizes totaling $50 will again be
awarded for the best freshman
football sign by J. E. Loupot, class
of ’32. Each week $2.50 will be
awarded for the best sign, and $25
will be awarded for the best sign
of the season. Cadet Colonel Walter
Cardwell and the ^ lieutenant-col
onels of each regiment will be the
judges for the contest.
Because no awards have been
made for the first two games, $5
will be given for the best sign of
the TCU and Arkansas games. The
winner for this week will be se
lected today or Wednesday and
announced Thursday, Loupot said.
Neiv Director
W. E. White
Retiring Director
Teachers Will Not
Meet This Year;
Due to Rationing
Committees Scheduled *
To Meet to Map Out Work
For Association for 1943
Dean Pittenger of the University
of Texas, and President of the
State Teachers Association has an
nounced that the main meeting of
the Texas State Teachers Associ
ation has been cancelled due to
the threat of gasoline rationing
and the general chaotic condition.
The meeting this year was sched
uled to take place in Dallas, No
vember 26-28. This convention usu
ally drew from 10,000 to 15,000
teachers.
. In lieu of the main meeting, Pit
tenger plans to call only the ma
jor committees for a conference at
some date before Thanksgiving. At
this conference the Executive Com
mittee and the State House of
Delegates will transact the Asso
ciation’s business and determine its
policies for the ensuing year. Elec
tion of officers for 1943 will also
take place.
The committee members will be
notified of the time and place as,
soon as the results of a vote of
the Executive Committee has been
completed.
Several of the faculty of A. &
M. are concerned with these an
nouncements since they are mem
bers on various of the major com
mittees of the Texas State Teach
ers’ Association.
\rmv Makes Scallion
Available for Use
Here at Horse Barns
U. S. Army remount stallion,
Prince Barton—293836, has been
turned over to the Animal Hus
bandry department by the Quar
termaster Corps South Central Re
mount Area in San Angelo.
Made available by Col. C. A.
Wilkinson, (Cavalry) Q.M.C-, who
is in charge of the San Angelo re
mount area, Prince Barton will
stand for public service at the
Horse Bara for the benefit of all
horse-breeders in the Bryan and
College Station area.
Foaled April 7, 1929, the horse
is a sorrel with a large tar and
short stripe on his face, and is
the offspring of Sire Sir Barton
and Dam Madras Gingham-
Siecke Resigns
After Being Head
Service Since 1918
W. E. White of Lufkin was ap
pointed director of the Texas For
est Service by the board of direc
tors of A. & M. College Saturday,
following the resignation of E. O.
Siecke, director for the past 24
years. Siecke said that the illness
of his wife, who physicians have
directed to Omaha, Nebraska for
prolonged treatments, necessitated
his decision to withdraw from state
forestry work.
White, associated with the Texas
Forest Service since 1927, has
served as chief of the division of
forest fire protection. In 1940 he
was also appointed vice-director.
Previously he was employed by
the U. S. Forest Service in Ore
gon, Washington and Arkansas, ;
and did private forestry work in
Florida for a number of years.
’ He received his technical for
estry training at Michigan Agri
cultural College in 1910. During the
last World War he served with
the forestry regiment of the Tenth
Army Engineers overseas.
Action on Siecke’s resignation
and White’s appointment was taken
at Dallas, Saturday during a reg
ular meeting of the board of di
rectors of A. & M. College. F. M.
Law of Houston, board chairman,
expressed regret over Siecke’s
leaving and the board passed a
resolution citing the director for
his “faithful and meritorious serv
ice.”
Siecke came to Texas A. & M.
College to take charge of state
forestry activities in March, 1918.
He had previously been associated
in forestry work since .1905 in
Iowa, Washington and Oregon.
His 37 years experience in for
estry work has been equalled by
only few other men in the United
States and only one other state
forester has served longer than
the 24 years that he directed for
estry activities in Texas, Dr. Wal
ton revealed.
Under Siecke’s leadership, the
Texas Forest Service has made
steady progress and it is recognized
as one of the outstanding organi
zations in the country, according
to officials of the federal govern
ment with whom he has been asso
ciated in administering certain co
operative forestry funds.
In 1926 the board of directors
designated the state forestry de
partment as the Texas Forest Serv
ice, made it one of the four main
(See W. E. WHITE, Page 4)
Cadets Yrged To
Have Blood Typed
Blood-type tests are again being
made at the college hospital, sslys
Dr. George E. Potter, chairman of
the local Blood Service Committee.
Field Artillery cadets are urged
to report to the hospital between
the hours of 10 and 3 o’clock. Dr.
Potter urges all students reporting
to do so in the hours specified, as
the hospital has about all it can
do at other times.
Shortly, a schedule will be ar
ranged whereby cadets can report
on certain days and hours set aside
for members of his battery, and
Field Artillerymen are asked by
Dr. Potter to consult their battery
commander about their outfit’s
time.
In case of emergency, local de
fense officials will know just who
from and where to get specific
blood types for transfusions.
McElroy Sells Story
To Esquire Magazine
An article entitled “The Fightin’
Texas Aggies Fight On” has been
purchased from H. B. McElroy of
the College Publicity department
by ' Esquire magazine.
The story traces the careers of
some 750 Aggie lettermen after
they left A. & M. Using the 1939
teams as criteria, McElroy has
pointed out that an unusual num
ber of those who have been prom
inent in college sports have carried
their fighting spirit from the ath
letic field to the field of battle in
Uncle Sam’s armed services.
The article will probably appear
in the next issue of Esquire.