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The Ret.ttQ.lion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 3, 1942 2275 NUMBER 63 Sophs Not Responding To Enlistment in Reserves War Department Sets Deadline For Year “Not enough Sophomores have come down to enlist in the Enlisted Reserves Corps to indicate that all second year students will be signed up by the deadline set by the War Department,” stated Lt. Col., L. W. Marshall recruiting officer to day. Colonel Marshall emphasized the statement that after the first of Janurary there posivitely will not be any more Sophomores enlisted in the ERG, that after that date Freshmen only will be signed up, according to official instructions received here from the War De partment at Washington, D. C. Sophomores are urged not to wait until they receive draft notices to come around to sign up in the ERC for then it probably will be too late stated Colonel Marshall. Freshmen are urged to wait un til later, probably after January 1 before completing their enlist ments in the ERC. The fact that all students taking advanced military science must have fully completed their en listment in the ERC before they will be permitted to accept a con tract, was also emphasized by the recruiting officer with the admoni tion that there are still many more men taking advanced military hop ing for contracts than there are contracts to be given out. More Red Cross Workers Needed An appeal for more workers has been issued by the local Red Cross chapter to make surgical dressings for the army, states the local chap ter’s officers. The Red Cross workers assemble each day Monday through Friday from 9 until 12 in the morning and from 2 until 5 in the afternoon in the surgical dressings work room in the old Dean Puryear home at College Station. As yet, no one has reported for work on Monday afternoon, and the following vacancies exist on other days: 18 in the morning and ten in the afternoon on Tuesday; three in the morning and seven in the afternoon Thursday; and 17 in the morning and 20 in the after noon Friday. Those volunteers that have not already had instructions on mak ing the dressings will join a begin ners class when they first report to learn the proper procedure and then will fall right along in line with the other workers later in preparing the dressings. Fish Officers Move Up to Fill Vacancy All present officers of the fresh man class are to be promoted to the office just above them, in or- .der to fill the recently vacated of fice of the President of the Fish class, according to word received from the Student Election Commit tee. This move will leave the of fice of Freshman Student Welfare Representative open, and the Com mittee has decided that an election will be held at 8 o’clock Wednesday night in the Assembly Hall to fill that post. All nominees for this office must be members of the present fresh man class which entered in June, 1942, although the frogs will be al lowed to vote for the nominated candidates. The committee also decided that the general election for all officers of all classes will be held early in December. FA Instructors To Move to Fort Sill Recently ordered to Field Art illery Replacement Training Cen ter at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, are Captain C. G’. Sary, Lieutenants U. M. Alexander and E. M. White, Jr., instructors of Field Artillery military science, according to Ser geant Malcolm E. Thomas, ser geant major. Lieutenants Alexander and White will be replaced by Captain Atwell. L. Batjar, formerly stationed with the Second Division, Fort Sam Houston; and Captain William 0. Reeves, formerly with the First Cavalry Division, Fort Bliss, who will arrive here about November 20. Captain Roberts S. Hopkins, Jr., formerly at Camp Claiborne, Lou- isanna, also has been assigned here and will arrive about Saturday noon for duty with the Infantry de partment as instructor, states Ser geant Thomas. Spanish Club to Have Annual Picture Taken Members of the Spanish Club have been asked to be at Guion Hall at 1:30 o’clock today by Harry Cordua, club president to make the club picture for the Longhorn. Seniors and Juniors are asked to wear serge and underclassmen khakis. Students’ Status Is Same Regarding Draft Decisions to Be Made After Passage of 18-19 Yr Draft Reign at Dallas Game Aggie Sweetheart Ruth Tilley, a TSCW junior from Shamrock, is shown, above with Cadet Colonel Walter W. Cardwell who will escort her into the football field at the half period at the SMU-A&M game in Dallas, Saturday, November 7. Miss Tilley was chosen from 16 nominees at Denton last week by a group of members of the senior class of A&M. Thursday Last Day To Pay Maintenance Thursday, November 6, is the last day for payment of $29.95 maintenance fees for November, it has been announced by the Fiscal Department. Offices in that depart ment will be open until 6 o’clock that day and until 2:30 Tuesday and Wednesday, November 4 and 5. Students are reminded that if payments are not made on time the student will receive unauthor ized cuts in all classes from No vember 6 until the payment is made. All in All,.Aggie Judges. Had Great Time Picking Sweetheart Well, Ole Army, the recent trip to TSCW of 16 Aggies to select the 1942 Aggies Day Sweetheart only goes to prove an old adage—that the Aggies and TSCW get along swell. From a few leaks in Den ton it has been heard that the girls enjoyed <the visit of the Aggies so much that they are stepping all over each other getting ready for the A. & M.—S. M. U. corp trip— Kaltenborn Advises Cadets to Remain In School As Need for Officers Is Stronger By Tom Journedy “Every student that leaves school before he is called to join some branch of the armed services is making a serious mistake.” That’s the opinion expressed by H. V. Kaltenborn, noted news analyst, in his lecture to packed-to-capacity Guion Hall at Town Hall Saturday night. “This country needs officers many times more than it needs en listed men. Secretary of War Stimson made a mistake when he made the statement that many college men might be taken out of college soon to supplement the nation’s need for men in the armed services,” Kaltenborn replied in answer to many inquiries at the end of his lecture. “Carry on as long as possible with your college work, and you will perform the best service to your country—that of an officer to lead the enlisted men in battle.” The ace NBC news commentator who has interviewed such figures as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, prefaced his address with a few remarks on the victory on the foot ball field that afternoon over Ark ansas, saying that if all our armed forces has as much fight in them as the Aggie football eleven, we’d be mightly nearly invincible. We Have Stopped Losing Getting into the body of his talk Kaltenborn said that democratic method of government had its bad points as wells as good points. “I can’t say that we are winning the war, but I can say that we have stopped losing it.” This statement was greeted by a round of applause from the packed hall. It was the main information given out by the news analyst with regard to the actual progress of the fighting on all the fronts at a glance. “I think that Hitler’s legions will capitulate during the winter between 1944 and 1945; it is fool ish and dangerous to make allu sions to the war’s ending in 1944 —it can’t possibly,” was the news paperman’s prediction with regard to the ending date of the war. “It will probably take us another two years to beat Japan, though.” At the rate we went in the Solomons, however, Kaltenborn added, we won’t ever win the war. We must have a unified command. We saw the results when in the Solomons’ struggle our command was divid ed. Let this be a lesson to all fu ture military strategists. Supplies Needed in China “My opinion is that the next step should be one of supply to China. We should give them all available equipment, supplement it with the proper amount of air power, and drive the Japs to the sea. From that point it would be a simple matter to bomb the Japs completely out of China with air bases established in Russia and Free Chinese territory,” served as the NBC commentator’s idea of the next step. The statement was made that there are probably more Commun ists right here in America than there are in all of Russia. The speaker lauded highly the work by the Marine Corps on Guadal canal. He said that the below re ceived by the United States in the raid on Pearl Harbor was the greatest blow ever delivered on a country in this World War. Kaltenborn emphasized over and over that the one most important element in the war so far has been, and is, time. Time is the one factor that will decide whether or not the United Nations are vic torious in this fight. Just now are we even beginning to get our many factories converted to where they can turn out the tools of war as fast as they turned out the im plements of peace before the out break of hostilities. The war is mainly one of production, Kalten born seemed to think. “It is ^ the side than can produce the most munitions the fastest that will eventually come out victorious. Aircraft Will See Improvement “The famous Grumman Wildcat plane is nothing compared to the plane that we will see in a few weeks.” That was one of the most important statement the lecturer made with regard to our actual plans for the future insofar as new types of armaments are con cerned. “We’ve already lost one half of all our shipping to Murmansk— that is, out of every two ships that set out for Russia, only one has arrived there with its cargo. I think Russia will stand. The odds are terrible, though. We must con tinue to send all the aid to Russia that we can.” These were the opin ions of the progress and the future of the Russian struggle. “Hitler will fail because of one factor mainly, his selfishness. In my in terviews with the German fuehrer, he struck me as a man who cannot reason at all. He can only rant and shout on a subject. It is im possible for him to settle down and (See KALTENBORN, Page 4) unofficial of course. All the gals who were candid ates for the coveted title of Aggie Day Sweetheart admitted that the Aggies really showed them a good time and the Lasso reports that about the middle of the week the school is going to start moving en masse for Dallas. When the Aggies get there—oh, boy what a mix ture that’s gonna make. Several of the Aggie judges said that the contest was so close and the girls so pretty that they were afraid to make a choice for fear of bringing the well-known fe- minie wrath down upon them. How ever, they finally made the choice and our Aggies allowed to leave without even getting murdered or scalped. Miss Tilley and her troupe were brought along on the return trip to A. & M. and Miss Tilley’s selection as Aggie sweetheart was announced at the Infantry Ball. Miss Tilley is a sociology' major at TSCW of the class of ’44. In her freshman year she was selected a campus Beauty Queen and last summer she represented TSCW in the “parade of beauties” in the Interstate show, “College Capers of 1942”. She is to be presented be tween the halves of the A. & M.— S. M. U. football game by Walter Cardwell, Corps commander, and will reign as queen throughout the remainder of the week-end festivit ies. J E McCrary Training At Pensacola Station John E. McCrary, son of Mrs. J. W. McCrary, Jr., Commerce, Texas, was recently appointed a Naval Aviation Cadet and was transferred to the Naval Air Station at Pen sacola, Fla., according to an an nouncement from the public rela tions office of that station. McCrary formerly was an in structor in the Chemistry Depart ment. Juniors Planning To Go to Denton For TSCW Party Details Not Settled; Class Gets Excuses For Friday Afternoon, Saturday At a meeting of the Junior class held in the Assembly Hall last night, class president Sid Smith announced that members of the junior class would be given authori zed absences starting Friday at noon for the annual joint party for the juniors of T. S. C. W. and A. & M. All of the details of the party have not as yet been arranged as Smith was placing a long distance call to the dean of domen in Den ton at the time the meeting was held. Names of all juniors were taken as well as the heights of those who had ont dates in order that some sort of date bureau could function. A tactical officer will be in Denton to check the attendance at the dance of all students who signed up for the trip. Plans are also "oeing made to take the Aggie Band to Dallas for the game Saturday, Ben Schleider head drummajor said. Heasked that anyone with a vacancy take a band- man to Dallas. Walton Advises Cadets to Remain In School Until Announcement Is Made Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the college, returned yes terday from the meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges in Chicago, where discussions have been underway to determine the status of the students of the land grant colleges under the present Selective Service act. At the Chicago meeting, no further light was cast on the standing of college students. This was caused, Dr. Wal ton stated, by the delay in Congress of the bill to draft 18 year-olds due to the amendment which requires at least one year of training before the draftee can be sent over-seas. A final decision on the fate of college students will await pas sage of the bill, Walton stated. ► The meeting did, however, ap point a committee of three to con tinue conferences with the War De partment in regard to this matter. The committee consists of C. R. Hodges, chairman of military af fairs for the Association of Land Grant colleges and Universities; E. E. Day, president of Cornell Uni versity; and Dr. T. O. Walton. Day has been holding conferences with the war department concerning colleges students during the past week. In any event, Dr. Walton urged, students should by all means stay in school and take no further steps until their status has been com pletely determined. He added that students would almost certainly be given a chance to demonstrate their potential ability to serve as officers—probably through the Enlisted Reserve Corps. The A.. & M. delegation to the meeting consisted of President Walton; Dean Gibb Gilchrist; Dean E. J. Kyle; T. R. Spence, director of the Texas Engineering Experi ment Station; J. T. L. McNew, head of the civil engineering department; JH. H. Williamson, director of the Extension Service; George Adams- and Miss Mildred Horton, both from the Extension Service; and A. B. Conner and O. H. McDowell! from the Experiment Station,. Dean Kyle spoke before the as sembly on “The Mission of the Land Grant College in Promoting Our Good Neighbor Policies Among Latin American Republics.” He also delivered an address on “Our Relations to Agricultural Economy of Latin American Countries and What it Means to Proper World Stabilization at the Close of World War II.” The Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities is one of the most influencial education al organizations in the country and recommendations coming from the annual meetings usually have marked influence on the policies followed by American Colleges and universities. Applications Taken For QMC Contracts Applications for advanced course contracts in the Quartermaster Unit are being accepted at room 36 Ross hall starting today, states Captain Lester Hanks, senior in structor of the Quartermaster unit. All students who will complete their basic military training at the close of this semester and who de sire to obtain training toward an officer’s commission in the Quar termaster Corps Reserve, should make their application immediate ly, Captain Hanks said. El Paso Club Will Meet; Discuss Dance The El Paso Club will meet to night at 8:15 p.m. in room 206 Academic building. Everyone is urged to be present. The assess ment for the Longhorn picture will be collected and plans for the Christmas dance will be discussed. Commanders Banquet Will Be Held Today Monthly banquet for regimental battalion, and organization com manders will be held in the ban quet room of Sibsa Hall at 7:30 o’clock tonight, Cadet Colonel Cardwell announced Monday. Plans for the corps trip to Dallas will be discussed, Cardwell said. Notice, Ole Armij! Here's a Chance to Help the Corps ' and to Pick Up Some Corps Trip Moneij So that it will be possible for the corps to be in number 1 uniform for the corps trip to Dallas this week end, it will be necessary for the Exchange Store to have at least thirty men working today so that the uni forms can be issued Wednesday morning. All Aggies who would like to work, and wdio have vacant periods, are asked to report at 9:00 this morn ing at the Exchange Store. Standard student labor wages of 30 cents an hour will be paid. Cadet Colonel Walter Cardwell urgently asks all Aggies who have vacant periods today to help so that the wool uniforms can be issued to the basic students, and the corps will be in number 1 uniform for the trip. It’s up to you, ole Army, do you or don’t you want the number 1 uniform, which has been a characteristic of all corps trips in the past?