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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