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The Battalion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF • COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 3, 1942 2275 NUMBER 74 Statement By Walton, Welty Squelches Rumors Status of Those in Enlisted Reserve Corps Has Not Been Modified in Any Way To counteract the numerous wild rumors about the corps getting drafted and the like, Colonel M. D. Welty and Dr. T. 0. Walton have formed a joint statement for the Battalion. The statement is intended to prevent students from making hasty decisions and joining other branches of the service because they think they will get drafted anyway. College Students are definitely needed for intelligent direction of America’s future and should seriously co'nsider remaining in Calvin Interviews Pre-Med Students On Friday Morning Registrar of Texas U Medical School Advises Concerning Later Schooling At the invitation of the Pre- Med Society, Dr. D. Baily Calvin, registrar of the University of Tex as School of Medicine, will inter view pre-med students concerning entrance to medical school in the lounge of the YMCA Friday morn ing, December 4, from 9 to 11:30. Dr. Calvin will speak before a meeting of the Pre-Med Society tonight in the lounge of Sbisa Hall. The subject of his talk will be “How Present Conditions Affect Entrance into Medical School.” Dr. Calvin will arrive on the campus today at 5:45 p.m. He will be the guest of the Pre-Med Society and all pre-med students will eat supper tonight with him in Sbisa Hall. All students desiring a per sonal interview with him may see him in the lounge of the YMCA Friday morning. Dr. George Potter, pre-med sponsor, urged that as many pre- med students as possible attend to night’s meeting “because Dr. Cal- vixl will discuss a subject of im portance to all students planning to enter medical school. It is es pecially important that all fresh men and sophomores attend.” Downing Injured In Car Wreck Monday Richard Downing, I Coast Artil lery, was injured in a car wreck Monday night at 7 o’clock. The Occident occurred at the circle near Brenham. college. The joint letter to the corps reads: Military students in colleges throughout the country have been given the opportunity of enlisting in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. The plan was launched primarily to al low deserving students to continue college courses and at the same time hold them more readily avail able for call if and when in the opinion of the Secretary of War such a call should become neces sary. So far no such call has been made; and no enlisted Reservist has been called out of college be cause he was an Enlisted Reserv ist. At the earliest, it is expected that some Enlisted Reservist may be called at the end of the present semester. Meanwhile, enlistments of col lege men, particularly sophomores and freshmen, are continuing. En listments have been made a pre requisite of the granting of con tracts or acceptance of students to continue the advanced course. Since regulations stipulate that none other than Freshman will be per mitted to enlist after December 31, 1942, it is absolutely necessary that all Sophomores should complete their enlistments prior to that date. The Recruiting Office staff has been augmented ot the extent that it is believed that all Basic Mili tary students, freshmen as well as sophomores, may be enlisted in the alloted time. All sophomores and freshmen are urged to report to the Recruiting Office on the third floor of Ross Hall without de lay to complete their enlistments in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. T. O. Walton, President of the College M. D. Welty, Colonel, Infantry, U. S. Army Commandant. WTAW Completes Plans For Second Of Movie Series Gwynne, O’Driscoll To Be Interviewed on Program Tomorrow At Four Thirty Plans are being completed for the second in the series of WTAW special broadcasts about the shoot ing of “We’ve Never Been Licked” to the broadcast on the Aggie Clambake tomorrow at 4:30, ac cording to the college radio sta tion’s special features department. Anne Gwynne and Martha O’Driscoll will be interviewed by Tom Journeay of the WTAW an nouncing staff either from the act ual scene of shooting, if technical facilities can be arranged, or from the main studios in the second floor of the YMCA. Also on the broadcast will be, if Universal shooting schedules per mit, Bill Fox, head of the sound crew, and Milt Krasner, chief cameraman. Hall Predicts Increase of Fire Losses This Year Marvin Hall, State Fire Insur ance Commissioner, today predict ed that Texas will suffer from in creased fire dangers on the home front during the coming winter. He fears the nationwide gasoline rationing, scheduled for late No vember will contribute indirectly to more fires at home. “Because we will be stay-at- home folks this year instead of go ing out in the evening,” he said, “a greater number of fire hazards may result because of our careless habits at home. “A common fire hazard is frayed, broken or loose electric connec tions, wires, plugs and appliances. If we are at home there will be more electric appliances in use, and more extension cords connect ed. “By carefully checking all our electric connections, plugs and ex tensions we can eliminate many fire hazards now. This should be done today! Delay increases dan ger. Remove all extension cords from under rugs, chairs or other places where they, can become dam aged and create a short circuit that will start a fire. At Last Aggieland Knows What Film Is to be About Synopsis of “We’ve Never Been Licked” Reveals Unusual Story By Bill Jamagin Tid-bits and loose parts of “We* ve Never Been Licked” have been floating around the campus for weeks, but no one seems to know the entire story. Since Aggieland will have a fair idea of the story by the end of the filming any way, we are going to print a synop sis of the script, released by Dr. T. O. Walton. The scene opens on the campus of Texas A. & M. College with the faculty, student body and many dignitaries participating in a broadcast of the Army Hour honor ing the six thousand graduates now serving in the armed forces as officers. As the name of Brad Craig is reached for posthumous award of the Congressional Medal of Honor, time turns backward. . . Richard Quine, as Brad Craig, arrives at A. & M. from Japan, where he has lived many years with his father. Col. Craig, an A. & M. graduate. Enroute, Quine becomes acquainted with Nina, (Anne Gw ynne), daughter of Professor “Pop” Lambert. From the start, Quine becomes unpopular with all his classmates except Cyanide Jenkins (Noah Berry, Jr.). Quine is prevented from keeping his first date with college chemical department has been working on something highly Nina because infracting rules. Con tinual hazing by his classmates further irks Quine, and he decides Jo return to his father in the Orient. Meanwhile, he has become very chummy with two Jap stu dents at the college, Kubo and Matsui, end the Jap gardner, Nishikawa, played by Edgar Bar rier. To Miss Gwynne’s father, “Pop” Lambert (Harry Daven port) Quine confides that his am bition is to help the Philippines grow by educating the Filipino farmers in tropical agriculture by radio programs. “Pop” talks him out of it and he agrees to continue his studies. Later, while on the road fdr artillery drill, Quine performs a heroic deed that saves many of his classmates from serious injury and begins to win the respect of many of them. Quine becomes a college radio news announcer and is taught to fly by Beery. Quine continues to defend the actions of the Japs in Asia, and during one of the bull sessions, Kubo and Matsui overhear him. As Quine’s studies progress, the confidential and important to nat ional defense. One night Quine is appointed watchdog over it. It is a night of a big pre-football game bonfire rally, and there is much activity on the campus. As Quine sits in the darkness in the lab, he is slugged and knocked out, but he saves the real formula from theft and leaves a fake one. From concealment, he sees Kubo and Matsui steal the false formula. Quine follows the two Japs to the Maintenance Fees Due by Next Monday December 7 is the deadline for payment of maintenance fees tot aling $36.45. The Fiscal Depart ment announced that anyone fail ing to pay fees by that time will be dropped from the rolls of the College. gardener’s cottage. Quine breaks in on the secret meeting, convinces them he is a Jap sympathizer and offers to sell the right formula to them. In the meanwhile, the lab has caught fire, and Quine is sus pected as a traitor. With the Japs, Quine is disgracefully dismissed from A. & M. Only Beery has faith in Quine, believing he (Quine) has a good reason for accepting suspicion as a traitor. Quine drops out of sight, and America is plunged into war with Japan. Rumors reach news men that a young American is working hand-in-hand with the Jap Intelligence Service and broadcast ing and writing anti-Allied pro- poganda from Tokyo, This “trai tor” turns out to be Quine. Through his friends, Kubo and Matsui, now Jap officers, Quine gets permiss ion to broadcast a blow-by-blow sea battle from a Jap plane. The pilot is Kubo. By radio, Quine re cognizes Beery’s voice as one cf the American pilots seeking the Jap fleet. Aloft, Quine knocks out Kubo, takes over the plane. He radios Beery, and his squadrons, where the Jap fleet is. They rush in for the-kill. Below, a Jap air craft carrier is cluttered with Jap planes. In his own Jap plane, Quine dives for it. He is killed but de stroys the enemy carrier as the American air squadrons close in on the Jap fleet. Time advances to the present, to the Army Hour broadcast on the campus. . . With high government and army officials and 7,000 cadets paying tribute to heroic fiction of Quine and awarding him posthum ously the Congressional Medal of Honor. Church Week! To Present Leaders reshmen Urged To Join E. R. C. Along With Sophs Applicants Must Start Enrollment Early; Only Fifty May Sign Each Day Dates Set For Electing Future Student Leaders All Petitions Must Be Filed in Student Activities Office by 2 PM December 7th L W Moore Will Relate Experiences As Missionary Religious emphasis week, Sun day, December 6 thru 11 will be observed on the campus by talks of several well known religious leaders the most out-standing fea ture of which will be the relation by L. W. Moore of some of his ex periences as a missionary to. Japan. Methodist, Baptists, Lutheran, Christian, Church of Christ, and Jewish denominations will attend. Reverend Paul W. Quillion, pastor of First Methodist Church of Hous ton, Reverend Harold Rea, pastor of the First Christian Church of Port Worth, Reverend O. F. Ding ier, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Moore Church of Beaumont, Reverend Cecil E. Hill, pastor of the Novhill Church of Christ in Houston, the Reverend Kurt Hartmann, of the Lutheran Church here, Rabbi New ton J. Freidman, University of Texas, Rabbi Sammuel Soskin, of Fort Worth, and Reverend Walter Rabb Willis, pastor First Methodist Church of Henedrson, Fred Miller secretary of Y. M. C. A., Southwest Region; St. Louis, Missouri will also speak. According to Dwain Treadwell, president of the church coun cil, personal interviews may be aiTanged by Aggies with these men by calling at the Interview Desk in the Y. M. C. A. by seeing the members of the Inter National Church Council or by seeing the individaul leaders. The morning programs will be 10 o’clock on Monday and Tuesday; and at 11 o’clock on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The com plete schedule wil be in the Sat urday Battalion, stated J. Gordon Gay of the Y. M. C. A. here. L. W. Moore, recently returned missionary of Japan, will tell some of his experiences while interned after being called back aboard a Japanese vessel, 15 days out of port. Civil Service Exams Announced by Local Civil Service Sec’y Civil service examinations for zone deputy collector, $2000 a year, employment in the Bureau of In ternal Revenue collection districts whose headquarters are located at Austin and Dallas, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, have been an nounced by the Tenth Civil Service Region, according to College Sta tion local civil service secretary. Persons desiring to apply for the position must be at least 18 years of age and may secure application forms from any first or second class post office. These should be filed immediately with the direc tor, Tenth Civil Service, Custom house, New Orleans, Louisiana. Persons engaged in war work of equal skill need not apply. Athletic Office Has Washington Tickets Tickets for the Washington State game will be on sale until 5 p.m. Thursday. The tickets may be obtained at the Athletic office, instead of the ‘Y” desk . Tickets may be obtained by presenting your coupon book with one dollar and twenty-three cents. Definite dates have been set for the election of editors, yell leaders, and managers at a recent meeting of the Stu dent Elections Committee, announced Walter Cardwell yes terday. It was decided in that meeting that all petitions must be filed with the Student Activities Office by 2 p.m. Mon day, December 7, in order for candidates to be eligible for the elections. Not only sophomores, but every one in the ROTC, especially fresh men, are urgently requested to en list in the ERC as soon as possible, stated Colonel L. W. Marshall to the press yesterday.* He pointed out that many students are plan ning to wait until the last day before coming up to the recruiting office, but they will only be dis appointed, for approximately one week is required for complete en listment and the College can only take care of a maximum of fifty boys a day. The new military laws concern ing the selective service system positively state that NO more soph omores will be enlisted in the ERC after December 31, the end of this month. Therefore, urged Colonel Marshall, all boys who have papers out and those who are eligible for the ERC should act immediately to complete their enlistment. * As for the undecided students, Colonel Marshall advises them to continue in their respective organi zations and not join other branches of the service—where they will have to start from scratch again. He also mentioned the fact that boys should not have the “what’s the use?” attitude because of the possibility of being drafted soon, for at least there is more chance of getting to complete college in the ERC. The general directions concern ing enlisting in the ERC are: 1. Go to Lt. Col. L. W. Mar shall’s office and obtain ERC pa pers and draft release blank. 2. Fill out ERC papers, send them home for signatures. 3. Obtain physical examination blanks in Sergeant Thomas’s of fice and take them to hospital for your physical. 4. Bring all papers to Col. Mar shall and arrange a date to be sworn in. Aviation Examining Board Here Tuesday Members of the Aviation Cadet Examining Board will return to the campus Tuesday, December 8 at 10 p.m. The mental test will be given at 2 p.m. in room 119 Acad emic building on that date. Those who have already qualified but have not taken the physical, will take the physical examination at 11 a.m. at the hospital. By W. F. Gammon DPNQB OZTVS SPVOE FETFO EIFMO. No, this isn’t a letter from a shell shocked message center chief. It’s a cryptogram from a surrounded company requesting help. Maybe some day it might be your company, and would you be glad to get it through! Just anoth er reason all you embryo officers should know a little about crypto graphy. Perhaps most of us have done a little “secret writing”, to use a two cent instead of a two bit word. Do you remember the time in the 4th grade you slipped a note to Joe, written backwards so the teacher wouldn’t know what it was? Well, you were a crypto grapher then, believe it or not, even if the not had no more military importance than a discussion of the latest neighborhood gang war. So it’s not really as complicated as you might think. What is a cryptogram anyway? It’s just a way of telling your friends something without telling your enemies. Many military mes sages of importance must be sent by radio, which is about as secret as telling your girl that you heard Sally dyes her hair. So the mes sage must be sent in a form that the enemy can’t understand when he copies them down. Even import ant telephone messages must be sent in a secret test, because Mr. Togo might not respect the Fed eral law against wire tapping. So cryptography is necessary even if it takes a little extra time. In the last war someone had a The following Monday night, af-'f ter the committee has had time to check on eligibility of candidates, those who are eligible will be in troduced to the corps at yell prac tice and will make their campaign speeches. Candidates for Battalion editor, head yell leader, and junior representative on the Student Act ivities Committee will be introduc ed at that time. That night after yell practice the Junior Class will hold a meet ing in the Assembly Hall to intro duce to the junior class the candi dates for Longhorn editor, Social secretary of the Senior class, and Town Hall manager. Tuesday, December 15 the gener al election will be held from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., with ballot boxes in the rotunda of the Academic Building. One ballot box will be for the general elections in which the whole corps votes, while the other will be for the Juniors to cast their ballots. Tuesday, December 15 in the Assembly hall the Sophomore class will hold a meeting at which time six candidates for junior yell lead er will be picked. In Thursday’s Battalion the com plete results of Tuesday’s primary election including any ties that might have to be run off will be announced. Those run-offs will be held Thurs day and all the final results will be made public in the Saturday’s Bat talion, announced election officials. In order to keep the elections as democratic as possible, the use of all handbills, cards, or posters has been outlawed by the committee, however, signs may be used sim ilar to football signs, for the pur pose of announcing candidacy. Not more than a total of 50 lineal yards of cloth three feet wide may be used by any one can didate in his campaign signs, with the penalty for violation of any of the rules being disqualification. All candidates may have a rea sonable amount of space in the columns of the Battalion for the purpose of making announcements concerning the race. brain storm. He thought of a way to get around making up crypto grams. So several Cherokee Ind ians were brought over to France to be used as telephone orderlies and were the German wire tappers going to get a shock when they heard Cherokee language! But the Indians, alas, had no words in their language for “barrage, high explosive,” etc., so the noble ex periment was a failure, and cry ptography remains essential, if troublesome. And how do you learn a little cryptography without overheating your brain cells? Simple. The M. S. department is offering two courses, basic and advanced, in cryptography in the coming sem ester. Are they hard? Well, they are about as hard as most all Bull Text! Nuff said! Agronomy Society Holds Initiation For New Members Thurs Initiation of recently enrolled members of the Agronomy Society will take place tonight at the reg ular meeting of the society at 8:30 o’clock in the meats laboratory of the Animal Industries building, ac cording to Delwood James, presi dent of the club. All freshmen and frogs who have not yet been initi ated are especially urged to be present at the meeting. James also urged that all old members be present at the meet ing as only a few old club members were present at the last initiation. Hillel Club Plans Special Services For Religious Week A. & M. Hillel Club members will open Religious Emphasis Week to morrow at 8 p. m. in the YMCA Chapel with a combined religious and musical program for the Sab bath and Hanukah services. The program will be in charge of stu dent leaders and the music will be rendered by two well known Jew ish artists, Susie Michael, pianist narrator, and Maurice Friedman, baritone. Both artists have previ ously appeared at Guion Hall as Town Hall entertainers. This program, as part of Reli gious Emphasis Week, will be strictly religious in nature, and is arranged to acquaint non-Jewish students with Jewish traditional re ligious services. It will be open to Sunday school groups, religious or ganizations, and to all others in terested in a Jewish religious and musical program. Farmers Saluted At College Meeting Congratulations to the farmery of America on their magnificent achievement in food production during 1942 were expressed re cently by Dr. Edmund Ezra Day, President of Cornell University,, and newly elected President of the Association of Land-Grant Col leges and Universities, and by President T. O. Walton of Texas A. and M. College and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Association, following a meeting of the organization in Chicago. At the same time, they voiced their concern over the difficult problems confronting agriculture for 1943 and pledged the full co operation of the Land-Grant Col leges in meeting these problems. . Dr. Day and Dr. Walton pointed out that the production of food crops and livestock products in 1942 was the largest in the history of American farming and that agri culture had met its obligations to the war effort fully and complete ly, adding: “For this success much credit must be given not only to men who often worked 70 or 80 hours per week but also to farm boys and girls and to the farm wives who labored long hours in the fields and barns in addition to car ing for the homes and the famil ies.” At the same time, both em phasized the difficulties in main taining farm production in 1943 with a greatly increased shortage of labor, the threat of shortages in farm equipment, and the ever pre sent possibility of droughts and other unfavorable weather. Looking to the next crop year, they said, “It becomes the mission of Land-Grant Colleges in their research and through their Exten sion Services to work more close ly with practical farmers than ever before.” Today Is Deadline For Longhorn Pics Of Military Life All company commanders and first sergeants are reminded that today is positively the last day that snapshots will be accepted for the military page of the Longhorn, ac cording to John Longley, Longhorn editor. Many pictures, states Longley, are still needed to make the mili tary section as interesting as it has been in past years, so it is im perative that the pictures be turned in immediately. Cryptography a Wartime Must On Any Officer’s Study Sheet