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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 20, 1942
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NUMBER 57
No Changes Made in Calling Army Reserves
Wanger Announces Vanity Fair Selections
Oldest Members Go First;
Induction Order Uncertain
Journalism Conference Visitors
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Among the many visitors who regis
tered for the Southwestern Journal
ism Congress held here last Thurs
day, Friday, and Saturday were Ethel
Raney and Jane Lloyd from the Uni
versity of Texas shown in the picture
at the upper left being registered by
John Holman, seated and Ed Gordon
left and John M. Lawrence. Major J.
E. Crown, publisher of the New Or
leans States, is pictured at the upper
right at the opening banquet in Sbisa
Hall Thursday evening. Gene Galt,
Jack Miller, Mary Helen Smith, and
James McAllister are shown in the
lower picture.
YMCA Has Provided Morale
Building Recreation For 98 Yrs
All Enlisted Students Who Have Transferred
Here Asked to Sign Up With Col Marshall
No actual changes have been made as yet in the policies
of the army with regard to calling in men enrolled in the en
listed men’s reserve corps, states Lt. Col. L. W. Marshall, in
charge of all enlistments in different branches of the armed
services at A. & M.
“Enlisted Reservists 20, 19, and 18 years of age will
not be called until the completion of the present semester,”
declared Col. Marshall, “and at that time they will be called
in that order, oldest first.” It is the belief of local recruiting
officials that those students taking courses that prepare,
them for some specific service upon completion of their
studies, will be allowed to continue their schooling longer
Nominees Will Get
Full Page Picture
In 1943 Longhorn
Judge This Year Continues
Long Line of Celebrities
From Nation’s Entertainers
Walter Wanger, producer of the
forthcoming motion picture featur
ing A. & M., has completed selec
tion of eight girls to have their
pictures in the Vanity Fair section
of this year’s Longhorn, John
Longley, editor announced today.
The winners in the order listed
were:
Margery Brewer,
Jo An Nelson,
Jackie McKay,
Helen Oliver,
Nancy Harrison,
Martha Franza,
Viola Brewster,
Alice Sue Roman.
The entries were presented to
Wanger in two full length poses,
one in evening dress, and one in
street clothes. In addition to these
shots, there was a close up of each.
Every year an outstanding fig
ure in the entertainment world is
asked to make the selections ■ of
the eight Vanity Fair beauties.
Longhorns in the past have had
the Vanity Fair girls selected by
such celebrities as Kay Kyser, Ce
cil B. DeMille, and Earl Carrol.
The Vanity Fair section of the
Longhorn is chosen from the pic
tures submitted to the Senior Fa
vorites Section by the seniors ex
clusively.
All entries for Vanity Fair will
be returned to the student enter
ing them by calling at the Student
Activities office.
Dr W P Taylor To
Make Address For
Science Meeting
Student members of the Collegi
ate Division of the Texas Academy
of Science from fifteen colleges
and universities will be here No
vember 12-14 for the Academy’s
annual meeting, according to word
received from the Academy secre
tary, Dr. L. T. Murray of Baylor
University.
Two symposia of timely import
ance, one on “Utilization and Con
servation of Biological Resources”
under the direction of Dr. Walter
P. Taylor of the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and head of the
Department of Fish and Game Con
servation at A. & M. and the other
on “Utilization and Conservation
of Resources of Concern to Physi
cal Scientists and Geologists” un
der the leadership of Dr. L. W.
Blau of the Humble Oil and Refin
ing Company are to be held under
the auspices of the Academy.
In addition to these symposia
and the banquet address by Dr.
Henry B. Ward of the University
of Illinois, there will be a full pro
gram of speeches, lectures, and dis
cussions for each of the five sec
tions of the Academy during the
meetings.
The United Science Club’s fall
contest will also be held at that
time. Prizes will be awarded to
W. F. Oxford of the American
Chemical Society and Joe Kelsey,
of the Kream and Kow Club, win
ners in the United Science contests
held last August. Each is to be
presented with a gold key by his
respective sponsor at the next
meeting of his club.
Dr. C. C. Doak, room 26, Science
building, asks that all manuscrips
for the fall contest be submitted
to him before November 1.
Baylor Tickets Go
On Sale This Morning
Student tickets for the Baylor
game will be on sale in the front
office of the Y from 9 o’clock to
day until noon Friday.
Cost of the tickets is $1.23. The
coupon book must be presented in
order to purchase tickets for the
game.
By Tom Journeay
Ninety-eight years ago a young
Londoner was inspired with an idea
that created one of the greatest
youth movements the world has
ever known, one that has had a
tremendous influence on the lives
of millions of boys and young men.
This movement was the Young
Men’s Christian Association; the
man was George Williams.
Next Sunday at 1:50 o’clock in
Guion hall immediately before the
free show starts, the College Sta
tion YMCA will honor the memory
of the founder of this famous
youth movement, with thq unveil
ing of a portrait of Williams.
The portrait, a full-color repro
duction of an oil painting by Leo
S. Trimm, nationally known port
rait artist, shows Williams as he
appeared when a young man, about
the time he called together a small
group of companions in an upper
room of a London drygoods store to
outline his plan for an organiza
tion dedicated to promoting Chris-
ttian brotherhood and activity
among young men.
Instrumental in Entertainment
The local Y has been instrument
al in providing Aggies with enter
tainment of many types, when gas
and rubber rationing has kept the
thumbin’ Ags a little closer to
home.
Four bowling alleys in the base-
Annual Horticulture
Show to Be Held Here
December 15 and 16
December 15 and 16 has been set
as the tentative date for the annual
Horticulture Show, according to
Lee Bailey, president of the Horti
culture Society. This date, one
month later than usual, has been
set in order to make possible the
entry of more and higher quality
fruit.
Silver plaques will be awarded
to each of two producers showing
the best packed box of grapefruit
and oranges.
Further plans for the show will
be discussed by the Horticulture
Society members at their meeting
next Thursday night.
ment recreation room of the re
cently remodeled Y are constantly
busy, with hot competition afoot
to decide the champion of the al
leys. Statistics show that 61,000
The local Y has been instrument-
availed themselves of this pas
time last yeai\
At Guion hall, where since early
last fall the Y has been sponsoring
a picture show twice daily, 134,000
paid admissions prove that goin’ to
a show is fun.
Building Recently Remode^d
Extensive remodeling was com
pleted recently, making the lobby
and lounges of the Y one of the
most modern and best equipped
in the country. The lobby was div
ided into three large rooms, the
main lobby, the Mother’s club loun
ge, and the Ex-Student’s lounge.
All of these rooms have been, or
will soon be elaborately furnished
with facilities provided for every
conceivable type of gathering.
Nearly all the furnishings have ar-
Local Chapter Of
SAE to Get Charter
Combined meeting of the So
ciety of Automotive Engineers, the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and the Institute of the
Aeronautical Sciences for the pur
pose of presenting the charter to
the first student chapter of the
Society of Automotive Engineers
will be held tonight in the Qhem-
istry Lecture Room at 8 o’clock.
Hollister Moore of the New
York S. A. E., Allen Guiberson,
president of the Texas S. A. E.,
Fred L. Lockwood and W. E. Lind
of the Guiberson Diesel Corp. will
be speakers at the meeting and
will welcome the new S. A. E.
branch member to their ranks.
All members of the three so
cieties are requested to be present
and to bring with them other stu
dents interested in the work of
these organizations. Membership
will be taken in each of these
clubs, therefore all freshmen and
frogs are urged to attend and be
come familiar with these activities.
rived for the two side lounges, but
the main lobby still awaits several
pieces.
Two additional rooms were built
on the building, one each side of
the lobby in the form of solariums
which proved to be one of the most
popular places on the campus for
Aggies and their weekend dates at
dance intermissions and as a meet
ing place for friends.
80,000 Hours of Billiards Shot
Eighty thousand hours of bil
liards were shot on the tables in
the' old and new Y buildings to
gether, which, brother, is a lot o’
three cushion shots!
Ping, Pong, too, has had its place
in the Y sports program, with
about eighty thousand hours of
hot playing marked down in the
books for last year. Several champs
have been decided of the Y’s tables.
In February the YMCA went on
the record as sponsoring the Re
ligious Emphasis Week along with
the church denominations on the
campus. Dr. George W. Truitt of
Dallas, was the main speaker.
Sponsored Discussion Groups
During this past year, nearly
400 freshmen entered A. & M.
The YMCA carried out a prpgram
with them which actually included
about 400 of them in the cabinet
an deighty discussion groups which
were carried on by various mem
bers of the faculty for eight weeks
with a probable attendance of 30,
000.
Other activities included in the
Y’s extensive entertainment set-
and eighty discussion groups which
up are chess, checkers, dominoes,
(See YMCA, Page 4)
El Paso Club Will
Be Organized Tonight
All students from El Paso and
surrounding towns will meet in
Room 206 of the Academic build
ing tonight at 8:15 o’clock for the
purpose of forming an El Paso
Club. Officers will be elected.
Plans will be made at this meet
ing for putting the club picture
in the Longhorn and for the dance
to be held in El Paso during the
Christmas holidays.
150 Hour
Degree Is
Abolished
Student Allowed To
Graduate Lacking 6
Hrs Required Work
With the repeal of the “150 hour
degree” in a meeting of the Aca
demic Council Friday, a new sys
tem was set up whereby students
who are leaving college for milit
ary service may obtain their de
gree. Application for a degree un
der the new special provisions
should be filed with the office of
the registrar not later than October
31, 1942, Dean F. C. Bolton said
Monday.
Any student who is called to act
ive duty at the close of this semest
er, or near enough to the close of
this semester to receive credit for
the semester’s work under the rules
of the Academic Council and who
lacks not more than six credit
hours of meeting the requirements
for the Bachelor’s degree at the
close of this semester, may be
granted his degree provided he
meets certain requirements.
Hp must have credit for a
minimum of 136 hours and
not be more than six hours
short of the full requirement. This
deficiency cannot include any
course which is certified by the
head of the department in which he
is to receive his degree or any
course which is required by the
college for graduation.
The candidate must have regis
tered for the full number of hours
he is allowed to carry this semester
and he must pass all of them. He
must have met the full legal re
quirement for American govern
ment. Any shortage the candidate
might have must not be in a sub
ject which he fai*ed this semester
or in any subject in which he must
take a special examination in order
to pass.
He must have one grade point
per hour of the full major study
requirements. In the general grade
points the total shall not be less
than one grade point per hour of
the student’s full requirements plus
four grade points for each credit
hour of deficiency (not more than
six).
As an example: Total require
ment 155 hours, major study 60
hours. Passed 149 hours total, ma
jor hours passed 57. Grade point
minimum requirement major 60;
general 155 plus six times four
equal 179.
Major E L Hunter Is
Transferred To
Camp Walters
Orders from the War Depart
ment transferring Majqj E. L.
Hunter to Camp Wolters at Mineral
Wells, were received yesterday
morning at the adjutant’s office,
states Lt. Col. A. J. Bennett, ad
jutant.
An announcement of Major
Hunter’s leaving was made by a
Houston paper some time ago, but
until yesterday, nothing official
had reached the Military depart
ment here.
Major Hunter, replaced here by
Lt. Jack Kimbrough, will report on
October 26.
Dames Club Will Hold
Student Wives Tea
A tea for the wives of all stu
dents, and for the wives of the
Navy and Marine Corps men will
be held Thursday afternoon, Octo
ber 22, from 4:30 to 6:00 o’clock
at the home of Mrs. J. G. Gay, 201
Suffolk Drive in Oakwood.
Mrs. Gay and Mrs. M. L. Cashion,
sponsors of the Dames Club, urge
that all Dames Club members at
tend, and especially invite all the
new navy and students’ wives.
Neile Elected To
Head Southwestern
Student Press Club
Duncan of Baylor Chosen
Vice-President; Walker
Of Texas Named Secretary
Southwestern Journalism Con
gress, in its sixteenth annual meet
ing here last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, elected officers at the
final meeting in Guion Hall Sat
urday morning.
Glenn Neile from Hardin Sim
mons University was elected presi
dent of the organization; Bill Dun
can of Baylor received the office
of vice-president, and Anita Walk
er, sophomore journalism student
from the University of Texas was
elected secretary. As adult secre
tary, Willard Ridings of T. C. U.,
was re-elected by the convention.
The program opened Thursday
afternoon with registration in the
lobby of the Y.M.C.A. Thursday
night the conference resumed with
addresses by Dr. John Ashton o*|
the Rural Sociology Department, |
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the
college, and Major James E.
Crown, editor of the New Orleans
States, who gave the main address
on the topic, “Newspapers and the
War.”
On Friday the conference broke
up into separate discussions among
writers for yearbooks, newspapers,
and magazines, and > advertising
and business managers. Later that
day all the conference assembled in
Guion Hall for discussions with ed
itors of various publications in the
South.
By way of entertainment, the
group was given a barbecue at the
Bryan Country Club, a Juke Box
prom Friday night at the grove,
and attended the A. & M.-T.- C. U.
football game and the Corps Dance
Saturday night.
Dufton Emphasizes
Fact That Nations
Must Cooperate
That America and Great Britain
must move closer together than
they ever have been if they are
to win this war and make a last
ing peace was the crux of the talk
Major Leslie B. Dufton, British
Consul from Houston, made Sat
urday night at the war movie pro
gram.
Major Dufton spoke in the lec
ture room of the Chemistry build
ing at 8 o’clock to a receptive
audience made up of faculty mem
bers, sailors, and a good represen
tation of Aggies and their visitors.
The major, who has lived at inter
vals in Texas for the past twenty
years, showed a sympathetic un
derstanding of the problems which
exist in Anglo-American relations.
“We must overlook each other’s
faults,” he said, “and tve must
realize that old words have new
meanings.” British Imperialism,
which comes in for frequent at
tacks by American critics, presup
poses that Britain is the old Em
pire. Major Dufton pointed out
that since 1776 the British Empire
has been non-existent. She is now'
the Commonwealth of Nations.
In the peace that is to come aft
er the war, Major Dufton is sure
that America will be the economic
center of the world; it wall be our
(See DUFTON, Page 4)
than those taking a general course
of study. Nothing definite, how
ever, has yet been said about the
actual order of induction Vith re
gard to the course of study.
New form of application blanks
have been issued by the Joint
Army-Navy-Marine Corps - Coast
Guard Procurement Office that al
low Sophomores and Freshmen to
enlist in the Enlisted Reserve
Corps stating at the time of their
enlistment which branch of the
armed forces they had rather serve
with when called to duty.
Before the completion of the
sophomore year the student will
be discharged from the Army re
serve, if he decides he wants one
of the other branches, and immedi
ately enlisted in the branch that he
selected at the time of his enlist
ment.
Contrary to a rumor which had
students concerned in a frenzied
state the other day, no reservists
have been called in to the service,
or are about to be called from
present indication, states Col. Mar
shall. A rumor had it that all stu
dents that transferred from other
ROTC schools that had enlisted in
the Enlistde Reserve Corps; would
be called immediately. That is not.
true.
However, all ERC transfers that
enlisted at some other school—re
gardless of where or when—should
go by the Student Records Office
and see Miss Ada Duncan. As far
as the Eighth Corps service com
mand knows, those students left
school, thereby making them sub
ject to immediate call to duty.
Their transfer to this school, of
course, is the same as their re
maining in the school they en
listed in, provided the office of
student records here is properly
notified, states Col. Marshall. The
Student Records office is on the
second floor of Ross Hall.
“One of the main points to keep
uppermost in mind,” stated Col.
Marshall, “is the fact that all 'in
formed authorities—that’s from
the President on down—have urged
that all college students continue
with their education even more
carefully and diligently since a
trained man is of much more use
to his country than an untrained
one. Do not believe the hundreds
of rumors that are being circulat
ed with regard to students being
drafted and called up for duty.
You wrill be notified in plenty of
time through proper channels when
and if you are about to be called,”
concluded Col. Marshall.
Sandburg Featured
On WTAW Spot
Carl Sandburg, biographer of
Lincoln, poet and authority on
Americana, presents a tribute to
the memory of a great ship, and
joins with Conrad Thibault, bari
tone, Earl Rogers, tenor, and David
Brockman’s orchestra and chorus
in a group of American folk songs,
on the “Treasury Star Parade”
broadcast which airs today at 11:30
o’clock over Station WTAW.
“Weep Not for Me” is the title
of Sandburg’s poetic tribute to the
U.S.S. Lexington, which was lost
in the Battle of Midway. The poet
also picks up his guitar and joins
with the singers in a group of songs
from his “American Song Bag.”
Among the folk music to be heard
is: “Sweet Betsy from Pike,” sung
by Conrad Thibault; “When the
Curtains of Night Are tinned
Back,” sung by Earl Rogers; and
“Drivin’ Steel” and “The Great
Pacific Railway,” both featuring
the baritone voice of Thibault.