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Page 4- -THE BATTALION- -TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1942 Official Notices Classified * LOST—Stetson Campaign Hat, Thurs day night at yell practice. Size 6%, Chem Warfare hatcord. Return to Frog Blume, room 405, Dorm 3. Reward. FOR SALE—1932 Chevrolet 2-door se dan. Good motor and tires, with spare. See Moore or Rountree. H-8 Hart. LOST—Brown leather billfold contain ing valuable personal papers, etc. $3.00 .reward. If found please return to Jack Carter, 218 No. 7. FOUND—Near Dorm 16 of Field Ar tillery on Sunday morning a black and whtie terrier with a broken leg. Will the owner please either go to the Veterinary Hospital or come. up to 426 No. 15 by Wednesday noon. LOST In Waco at Roosevelt Hotel— Chocolate brown bag containing two serge shirts, jackets, and other valuables. No tify rooms 216 or 216, No. 14. LOST—One khaki jacket with bright red lining. Was left in Room 119 Aca demic Building Oct. 22, 1942. Large reward. D. R. Woods, Walton-U-11, Phone 4-4024. LEFT in brown suit case at East Gate Saturday, Oct. 10. $15 reward. Notify L. R. Kainer, American Legion Hall. LOST—A Kodak camera at East Gate Oct. 9. Please return to Project House No. 12, or phone 4-4479. Five dollars re ward. LOST—Log Log Decitrig slide rule, name F. D. Sharpe no case. Return to Sharpe, Room 119, No. 14. Reward. LOST—Brown striped Schaefer pen. Please notify E. T. Page if found. No. 11—311. Phone 4-4534. Reward. FOR RENT—Large bedroom connecting irage. Quiet. Available October 25th. lone E 9 and 1. gar Phi one Dr. Hennessee, 4-6374 bewteen All students who wish to make appli cations for positions as tutors should ap ply at the Registrar’s Office. H. L. Heaton, Acting Registrar. Announcements NOTICE, NEW STUDENTS, School of Engineering—All engineering students who t time in Sep- •ith their igmeermg—All engineering studi tered A.&M. for the first time er, 1942, are urged to meet with their selor Wednesday evening, October 28, at 7:45 p.m. in the same room in which you met during Freshman Week. tembi counse Men who registered late or did not meet Engineering. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES—Candi dates who are applying for degrees un der the special action as recently taken by the Faculty should call by this office and fill out special forms for this pur pose at once. These forms are in addition to the regular application card. R. G. Per ryman, Assistant Registrar. THE FOLLOWING football program salesmen will meet in room 5, Adm. Bldg., Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 8:30: Evans, Bill Parker, G. W. Frederick, H. M. Pickard, A. M. Fritsch, Jake Sessums, T. R. Graham, Clyde Titsworth, R. M. Harrell, J. S. King, Steve Kiser, Carroll Banks, W. F. Longley, Joe Dan Nelson, Roy Nickolson, K. J. Hutchinson, D. C. I am in receipt of the announcement of 1943 fellowships offered by the Julius Rosenwald Fund to white Southerners who wish to work on some problem dis- js must be eligible to graduate study, and from 24 to 35 years of age. The grants are available not only to stu dents of the natural and social sciences and the humanites, but to those inter ested in the fine arts, journalism, edu cation, agriculture, business, or public service. Further information may be had REGULATION SHIRTS Here you’ll find an outstanding assortment of Regulation Shirts. Fine fabrics that were tailored by famous shirt makers . . . each shirt is form-fitted and smartly made. “At Ease” Broadcloth $2.00 Van Heusen Broadcloth i_ 2.50 Shirtcraft “Airman” 2.95 Waldrop & Co. Poplin 3.25 Pools’ Poplin 3.25 Regulation Army Twill „ 7 3.75 “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan —KYLE FIELD— (Continued From Pate 3) 24 aerials for a total of 271 yards . . . Two of those went for scores, one in the LSU game and another against Corpus Christi . . . Just before game time, Coach Norton indicated that the Aggies were never more ready to win a football game than they were against Bay lor Saturday . . . But as luck would have it, it just wasn’t meant for the Cadets to win that one . . . One good explanation for the current Aggie losses came from John Sid ney Smith, popular sports editor of the Bryan Daily Eagle who said, “For three years now, Lady Luck has been on the A&M side, but it just seems that the law of averages has finally caught up with the boys ... As you may remember, the Cadets received all the breaks last year, so it just wasn’t in the books to gamer them this year.” . . . Everyone of us knows that the Ags have the material and power to win games but it just seems that they haven’t utilized that advan tage yet . . . the Aggie Rifle team is preparing for a big week-end at TSCW the day before the SMU- A&M gridiron game . . . they have a shoulder-to-shoulder match with the femmes besides enjoying a pic nic and a dance that same night . . . Both teams have split in their matches the past two years and this one will be the deciding game. Kiin....etaoinetaoshrdlushr<ilshrdlue STAR OF THE WEEK DE PARTMENT . . . Wayne (Red) Shaw, sophomore tailback of SMU, who spiked a hitherto listless Mustang eleven to a 21-6 upset victory over the Corpus Christi Comets. by calling my office. T. D. Brooks, Dean, The Graduate School. Meetings CATHOLIC BOYS—DonTforget the Hal lowe’en party on Wednesday night. Oc tober 28, in the K. of C. Hall in Bryan. Every Catholic boy is invited. Begins at 8 o’clock. DENTON COUNTY CLUB—There will be a picture made of the Denton County Club tonight at 6 :15 on the steps of Guion Hall. No. 2 khaki will be worn. Seniors will wear boots. TEXARKANA CLUB—There will be a meeting of the Texarkana Club, Tuesday night, 7:30 (after yell practice), on the second floor. Academic Bldg. AMARILLO CLUB—There will be an Amarillo Club meeting Tuesday, October 27, in Room 215 Academic Building at 8:00 p.m. All members are urged to be present as Longhorn pictures ane the Christmas party will be discussed. WACO CLUB—There will be a Waco A.&M. Club meeting Tuesday, October 27, in the Academic Building at 8:00 p.m. Pictures for the Longhorn will be discuss ed. TRI-CITIES CLUB—There will be an important meeting of the Tri-Cities Club Tuesday night immediately after yell prac tice in Room 206 of the Academic build ing. Plans for a holiday dance will te discussed. LAREDO CLUB—The Laredo A.&M. Club will hold a very important meeting tonight at 8:00 in first floor of the Academic Building. CAMERA CLUB—The College Camera Club will have its picture taken in the chapel of the old Y.M.C.A. Tuesday, Oc tober 26, immediately folowing yell prac tice. Freshmen and Sophomores will wear No. 2 uniform with cotton shirts and wool slacks. Juniors will wear serge slacks and shirts. Seniors will wear boots with ice cream breeches. RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB—The Rio Grande Valley Club will have an im portant meeting tonight after yell prac tice in room 216, Academic Building. All boys from the Rio Grande Valley are re quested to be present to discuss making the Longhorn picture. RURAL SOCIOLOGY CLUB pictures will be made at 1:46 p.m. Wednesday, October 28, on the steps of Guion Hall. All members are urged to be there. THE DALLAS COUNTY A.&M. CLUB will have its picture taken Wednesday afternoon at 6:00 o’clock on the Chem istry Building steps. The uniform will be khaki slacks and shirts. Seniors are urged to wear boots. After the picture a short business meeting will be held, and the fall activities will be discussed. It is very important that all Dallas Frogs and Fres- man attend this meeting. THE EXCHANGE STORE I yCUR STCCt OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE COLLEGE UNIFORMS HATS SHOES S. B BELTS REGULATION SHIRTS INSIGNIA DRAWING EQUIPMENT SCHOOL SUPPLIES AN AGGIE INSTITUTION KlUiiH 280227Z Army’s Way to Say 2:2 TAM Greenwich, 28 of Month By Tom Journeay “General will arrive 280227Z”. Sounds like Greek or at least a Little Orphan Annie encoded mess age with secret special code device! But really it’s a typical army op erations message, similar to the millions of messages transmitted daily by the Signal Corps in per forming one of the oldest and most important tasks of fighting a war, “getting the message through.” July 1 the army followed suit with the navy and inaugurated the four numeral time system. The workings of this time system are of vital importance to all signal corps officers and men especially and must be thoroughly understood by every soldier from a buck pri vate to a four star general for the successful operation of all the componants of the armed for ces. An article recently appeared in the October issue of the Informa tion Letter, official monthly mag azine published by the Signal Corps, clarifying and explaining the new time system with respect to its importance to all the army. War Fought All Around Globe This war is being fought all around the globe and all around the clock. One can imagine the con fusion that could result from a sergeant barking into a phone over several hundred miles of wire, “Bomb hill 734 next Wednesday at 2:24 p.m.” Was that time Easteim War Time, Zanzibar Mean time, or any of the other 24 different time zones around the face of the globe ? —MEANDERINGS— (Continued From Page 2) is one of the most underrated bands in the country, as all music-mind- but the Baylor Highpockets said that' they “just had to have Hast.” T got sucked under myself . . . Something new in the way of dances is due to break around the itieth of November when the Composite Regiment and the En gineers BOTH have their annual balls. The Composite Ball will be held in Duncan Hall while the Bridge-Builders hold forth in Deah Ole Sbisa. This marks the first time that any dance has been held in the new mess hall, and also the first time two balls have occurred on the same night. The Corps Dance on the following night should be the largest of the year, sjnce both organizations are merging in to the one dance and only one orchestra. To set a real precedent why not have a battle dance be- /een the two bands on Saturday? Since Glenn Miller broke up, the Modernaires and Tex Beneke are sticking together as a unit, and waiting for the highest bidder to pick them up. The Aggies are still wondering about the Baylor Band last Satur day. The band brought out to the game, a bass violin, a cello, two vio lins, a sock cymbal and other out rageous instruments. Those in struments are all right for the concert hall, but for the football field they are strictly taboo. Speak ing of bands, the Aggie Band real ly showed the spirit when they turned out for the game, but the thing that won’t make the head lines is the fact that our fellow Aggie, Ole Army Loupot paid out of his own pocket the sum nec essary to send the band instru ments up on a truck. That’s one guy that will always symbolize the true Aggie spirit. The record of the week: “Mas sachusetts”—a new ditty along the lines of Chatanooga Choo-Choo which you will catch yourself whisting before long. Congratulations to Johnny Law rence on his swell work not only in bringing the best entertainment to the campus in the history of Town Hall, but also in being able to sell out all seats in Guion Hall. By the way, if you want a seat Saturday night you had better be there early, since there will only be around a hundred seats left when the doors swing open. Since it looks as though the Aggies are due to beat Texas and everyone seems to be saving their money for this game, Curley Brient has been trying to get a dance the night before the game in Austin (Nov. 25), but it seems that Coach Bible won’t permit a dance to be held on the campus that night, because he’s afraid some of his team will sneak out and go. Curley has decided that a mere football coach can’t stop the Ag- gieland, so he is now trying to get the dance at a downtown hotel. The transmitting of that additional information plus the p.m. or a.m., caused signal corps personnel many extra hours of work and added a certain inaccurateness to a mess age that definitely was not char acteristic of theexacting operations of the army. From that situation, and from the success that the navy has had in the past with the new system, the Army decided to adopt the four numeral time system also, thereby greatly reducing the possi bility of any slip up in joint army- navy operations. Time System Greatly Simplified Although the new system may involve some changes in one’s ideas about the clock, it will greatly simplify matters in the long run since it elminates the possibility of confusion in matters out of the local time zone in different thea tres of war. Here’s how it works: From 1 a.m. until noon the num bers are the same in both time systems. But the hour after noon becomes “13” instead of 1 p.m. The time therefore, designated as 1:45 p.m. on the 12-hour clock be comes simply “1345” on the 24-hour clock. The numbers proceed in this way until 2400 which is midnight. One minute after midnight is writ ten as 0001, beginning a new 24- hour day. f Miputes are indicated simply by the last two letters without any punctuation. If any figure is less than two digits, a zero is used to fill out the empty places. Thus 9:05 a.m. would be written “0905”. Day of Month Prefixed The next step is to prefix the day of the month. Thus 2:35 p.m. of October 16 would be written “161435.” Such a time designation as “161435” is still ambiguous, however, unless we say what time zone standard we mean. With air planes winging their way through several time zones on missions, it is imperative that the zero-hour be immediately understood by all persons concerned at a glance, chosen for this purpose by the War Department is Greenwich Civil Time. This is the time mea sured by astronomers for the mer idian that runs through Green wich, a borough of London. After heated debate for several years, Greenwich was finally de cided on as the place on which to base all time indications since it was at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich that many important observations and calculations were made along those lines. Appended for Greenwich Time To indicate concisely that Green wich Civil Time is meant in a message, the letter “Z” is appended to the six figures. The letter “Z” should not be added to figures in dicating any other time zone. It should be added only after the time has been converted to Greenwich time. For example Eastern War Time that is used in the Philadel phia Signal Depot, is exactly four hours earlier than Greenwich Civil Time. Therefore, 1435 E. W. T. is equivalent to 1835Z. The moment the conversion is made to Greenwich Civil Time the letter “Z” is added and the time is no longer a local matter but is applicable all over the world, morn ing, noon or night. Local Time Converted As an example, let’s say a gen eral officer is due to arrive at a pacific coast city at 7:27 p.m. September 27. The hour given by the railroad timetable naturally being in the time zone observed in that locale, Pacific War Time. The first step is to convert to the 24-hour clock making it 1927. We may then add the day of the month making it 271927 P. W. T. To convert this to Greenwich Civil Time, it is necessary to add the time difference between Cali fornia and Greenwich. This is seven hours, which gives us 272627 —but the “26” for the hours in dicates that we have entered an other calandar day. Since we don’t want to use anything higher than “24” in the hours section, we subtract 24 hours from the figure and add one day simultaneously. This gives the correct figure of 280227, and we can now add the “Z”. So, providing the general’s train is not late, he’ll arrive at his destination at 280227Z. In the Future Scientists Will Use Electronic Microscopes for Research Some day in the near future hun dreds of physicians and research workers will use electron micro scopes daily in their work, Dr. Si mon Ramo of General Electric’s Electronics Laboratory predicted in a G-E Science Forum address at Schenectady. “This tool will render visible things which are more than ten times too small to be seen with the aid of the best light microscopes,” Dr. Ramo said, speaking on the subject of ‘Extending Man’s Vision.’ “Even now, this new technique, electron microscopy, is making it self felt in many research labora tories. “The thirst and need for research workers, for instance, for glimpses into the minute details of micro scopic organisms is being satisfied by the electron microscope.” Research workers will probably come to look upon electron micro scopes as a natural extension of their sight into the range too small for normal vision, Dr. Ramo point ed out. “In an electron microscope, the reproduction is thousands of times larger than the real thing—which may be a tiny particle of dust less than one-ten-thousandth of an inch in size,” he said. Dr. Ramo described the under- lying principles of the electron microscope. “The image produced is created by electrons striking a plate cov ered by fluorescent material—ma terial which has the characteristic of emitting light when bombarded by fast-moving electrons,” he ex plained. “The more electrons strik ing the plate, the brighter the light produced. So the problem is to cre ate a pattern of electrons hitting the target that will reproduce, in the excited fluorescence, a replica of the lights and shades of the original scene. All of this takes place in an evacuated electronic tube. We observe the image through the glass wall of the tube. “The scheme of investigating very tiny particles, and the creation of highly magnified images by electrons, involves certain basic principles that classify light, radio waves, and electrons all as mard- festations of one single phenome non—which we might call electro magnetic waves. “Where light waves would be too big in wavelength to get down into, and to retain, the minute details of tiny substances which have dimen sions smaller than the wavelength, electrons are able to retain that small detail. “In the electron microscope the electrons themselves act as ‘go-be tweens’ from the specimen directly to the fluorescent screen where the image is shown.” ‘Blind flying’ is another example of the extension of man’s vision— this time in aviation, Dr. Ramo said: “There are altimeters which tell the pilot of a plane his distance from the ground — electronically generated radio beams that the pi lot picks up as directives or guides. All of these are means for extend ing that pilot’s vision. Without these aids he has, in effect, no eyes with which to do the necessary pi loting. But with electronic develop ments he can hold his course by the substitution of man-made elec tronic guides for the natural guid ance that the ability to see his surroundings in normal fogless daylight would automatically give him.” Dr. Ramo also mentioned the photoelectric spectrophotometer, an electronic device which is used to improve the accuracy of human vision. It is an instrument capable of discerning minute color differ ences. The photoelectric eye in the spectrophotometer is extremely sensitive to different colors, and light from the samples being tested is received by it. Thus the color content in materials to be matched is compared with an accuracy far beyond the human eye. Gifts totaling nearly $100,000 were received by the board of re gents of the University of Minn esota at a recent meeting. LISTEN TO WTAW 1I5A KC Tuesday, October 27 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Treasury Star Parade (U. S. Treasury). 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—News Behind the News in Agri culture—C. A. Price. 11:55 a.m.—The Town Crier—R. E. Gottlieb. 12 noon—Sign-off. Wednesday, October 28 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Man Your Battle Sta tions (U. S. Navy). 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—County Agent. 11:55 a.m.—The Town Crier. 12:00 noon—Sign-off. M W Curtis Becomes Naval Aviation Cadet Maury Wetzel Curtis of St Louis, Mo., has been selected for train ing as a Naval Aviation cadet and will be ordered to active duty shortly. Curtis graduated from Highland Park High School, Dallas in 1938, and is now attending A. & M., majoring in Petroleum Engineer ing. When ordered to active duty, he will report to the U. S. Navy Pre- Flight School, University of Georgia for three months of phy sical conditioning, instruction in naval essentials, military drill and ground school subjects. After completing this course, he will be sent to one o fthe Navy’s num erous reserve bases for primary flight training. —PISTOL TEAM— (Continued From Page 3) get in touch with him. All fresh man should be interested in the pistol team for the advantage of firing with the team are many, Cook said. Besides getting an in tramural credit, awards for high season average and trips to state meets the squad members will re- cieve very valuable training which will more than likely benfift them greatly in their probable careers of the future, Cook continued. A group of graduate and under graduate students has formed a historical society at the University of Wisconsin. LILLEY AMES UNIFORMS were received Friday Noon. Two more ship ments are expected shortly. All men wanting uni forms for Christmas de livery must have them cut immediately! Other men who desire Lilley Ames Uniforms must place orders while we can still obtain cloth. MEN—WHY NOT BUY THE BEST ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE LOUPOT Get the Kind of Haircut You Want and Be Ready for the INFANTRY BALL Aggieland Barber Shop NORTH GATE