The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 8, 1942
2275
NUMBER 76
ERC Enlistments Stopped by Presidential Order
Sixteen Students Have Filed /
For Elections Next Week
Cadets’ Eligibility
To Be Decided Today
At Board Meetings
When filing closed at 2 p.m. yes
terday for a place in the general
student elections to be held next
Tuesday, only 16 men had officially
made known their intention to seek
student offices.
This afternoon the Student Act
ivities committee and the Student
election committee will decide upon
the qualifications of the candidates,
The Student Activities
Committee will meet in Dean
Bolton’s office at 2:30 this
afternoo-
The Student Election Com
mittee will meet at 4 this af
ternoon in Mr. Heaton’s off
ice.
and a complete list of all qualified
candidates wil appear in Thurs
day’s Battalion.
Those men who filed for offices
are as follows:
Battalion Editor:
John Holman
Douglas Lancastar
Nelson Karbach
Longhorn Editor
Marvin McMillan
H. W. Saunders
Social Secretary:
Bob Parker
Rodney Brauchle
Ray H. Darr
Town Hall Manager:
John L. Lindsey
W. P. Kincy
Edward Hiltpold
Junior Representative, Stu. Act.
Comm.
Joe Dan Longley
R. K. (Bob) Garrett
Junior Yell Leader:
Dan Kuykendall
Joe Pettit
Charles Pittard
Eligibility of these men will be
decided this afternoon, and they
will be voted on next Tuesday.
Mass Movie Scenes
Postponed Account
Inclement Weather
Cloudy weather which held up
work on the movie yesterday has
caused the mass shots originally
planned to be made in Kyle Field
today and tomorrow to be post
poned, said Dean F. C. Bolton yes
terday. The barbecue and chicken
dinners scheduled for those days
will also be postponed.
If the skies clear up Wednesday,
the mass shots will probably be
taken Thursday, but a definite
statement about the new schedule
will be made over the loud speaker
systems in the mess halls.
Present plans call for the com
pany to return to California about
December 20, but inclement weather
will possibly alter this. Some of the
workers will stay a while longer,
cleaning up odds and ends but after
that date the majority of the work
on the picture will be done on the
technical end in California studios.
TE Swigert to Address
Petroleum Club Thurs
T. E. Swigert, president of the
Shell Pipe Line Company, will
speak to the Petroleum Engineer
ing Club Thursday, December 10
at 8:15 o’clock. His subject will be
“Transportation of Crude Oil and
It’s Products,” according to Harold
Vance, head of Petroleum Engi
neering department.
This subject should be of interest
not only to the students taking pe
troleum engineering, but to the
cadet corps and the public in gen
eral.
All students taking petroleum
engineering, whether a member of
the Petroleum Engineering Club or
not, should attend this meeting, and
all interested persons are also in
vited to be present.
College Community
Chest Drive Nears
Successful Close
Goal of $8,025 Will Be
Easily Met; Half to Be
Spent in College Station
Coming to a successful close is
the 1942-43 College Community
Chest Drive, stated Dean C. H.
Winkler, chairman of the Commun
ity Chest committee. Most dona
tions are in and it appears that
this year’s goal of $8,025 will be
easily met, revealed Winkler.
This fund is collected from all
college employees who donate one
day’s pay. Almost half of the funds
are spent here in College Station
for community welfare and char
ity, money going to the Boy and
Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, Crip
pled Children’s Fund, Tubercular
Fund, and student welfare. The
other of the fund goes to war re
lief such as the American Red
Cross, U. S. O., United China Re
lief, United Navy Relief, and Greek
War Relief Fund.
This year 33 •% of the total funds
will be spent on community wel
fare, 15% on community charity,
and 52% on war relief. With the
coming of war, the burden cast on
the Community Chest has been al
most doubled. Last year a total of
7,048 was spent, but the Community
Chest was able to do this only be
cause it had built up a surplue
fund during previous years. Last
year, 31% of the money spent was
on community welfare, 22% on
community charity, and 47% on
war relief.
f's Election Time, So Beware/Enlistments Started May
Be Completed By Monday
Library Fund Is
Increased by Gift
From Dallas Club
Reading Fund Started
In 1938; Batt Editors
Have Managed Soliciting
The A. & M. Library recently re
ceived a $50 contribution from the
Dallas A. & M. Mother’s Club to
be used in the Student General
Reading Fund, and will be used to
purchase books and classical re
cords that have been requested by
the students here at A. & M. The
Dallas A. & M. Mother’s Club has
promised to send another 25 in the
near future, also to be used in this
cause. The Fund now totals $1,
454.40.
The San Antonio A. & M. Mot
her’s Club recently gave a $25 con
tribution, which will also be used
to buy requested books and class
ical records.
The Student General Reading
Fund was started by R. L. Doss,
who was the Battalion editor dur
ing the school year 1938-1939. The
Student General Reading Fund,
now In its fifth year, has always
been under the charge of the Bat
talion editors who have succeeded
Doss.
Under the rules set up by the
Student Library Committee, the
money will be divided into two
parts, one being a 10% cut to be
used for the purchase of classical
records that have been requested by
the students, and 90 % portion will
be used to buy books that students
have requested for the library.
The request box for the books is
located in the lobby of the main
floor of the library, while the re
quest box for classical records is
up on the third floor.
Bolton Says May Be
More V-l Enlistments
Dean F. C. Bolton announces that
anyone who has discussed plans
with him concerning joining the
Navy V-l or other Reserve may
yet be eligible for enlistment. Such
students are requested to see him
at once.
By John Holman
This next week the Aggie cam
pus will once again buzz to the old
hum of “Vote for Me—I’m the
Guy!” as the annual scudent elec
tions and their accompanying round
of slick-tongued, promise-filled
campaigners try to sway the bal
lots ar'und to their way of think
ing.
Well, it L".s been said that the
difference between a cold man and
a politician is that the cold man
has his hands in his own pocket,
but at least that is one part of the
political racket that the Aggies
don’t have to put up with. Also,
our campus-end of a landscape job
will go virtually untouched, as the
election committee fyas banned post
ers and handbills except for signs
similar to football signs and total
ing no more than 50 lineal feet
per candidate.
Someone just reminded us of the
immortal race of Sylvester Samuel
Surber in the August issue of the
Batt magazine. Willie is ineligible
for the coming elections, but if he
were, he’d probably give them the
usual good race—at 19% miles per
hour.
From now until Tuesday, there
will be enough beer, cigars and cig
arettes given away around here to
kill half of Brazos county, and
footing the bills will be a group
of about ten hopefuls—all conniv
ing and contriving to have that old
proverbial edge when the final tally
is taken.
And of course, if all of the hot
air that floats around here were
canned and given to the army, bar
rage balloons would be only a
matter of supplying the bags!
You’ve heard it said, there ain’t no
bull like that Army bull!
The old “vets” of this Aggie po
litical machine just sit around and
grin at the youngsters, and while
all the “boys” sit around and sweat
the student activities office hoping
no one else would file against
them, the vets just laugh and hope
for what they call a “tight race.”
(Mercenary dogs!)
All sorts of campaign platforms
will be erected around here this
next week. For instance, one can
didate will probably advocate the
fulfilling of that big tale which
ends up with a bunch of WAACs
on the campus. Another is pulling
for the conservation of power,
No ... He isn’t running again!
buildings, and sljoe-leather by mov
ing TSCW down here. Then there
is the loony goon that is in favor
of putting escalators in all of the
building so as to conserve our
strength for the army, and of build
ing little tram-cars along the side
walks for the same energy-saving
reason.
Perhaps the best offer of the
week will be the one that offers to
set up a letter-writing bureau and
assure every man on the campus
at least one letter and a postcard
per day—including a new tinted
photograph of a beautiful girl each
national holiday. (There aren’t but
15 per year.)
Then one could offer to work up
enough drag with the faculty to
assure everyone a passing average
in at least 18 hours per semester—
mox'e, if he is a worthy student
and makes a minimum of 3 g.p.s
the previous semester.
Personally, I’d vote for the man
that figures out the best plan for
converting the roof of the admin
istration building into an all-night
dance, spot with “—r” sold to mi
nors.
Whichever way things turn out,
though, next Tuesday let’s all come
out and vote for your candidates.
Before you start scratching names,
think about who you are voting
for. If you don’t know the candi
dates by the end of the week (im
possible, but perhaps) then ask
someone who does know them. Be
sure you are right, then go ahead,
and may the best man win!
Missionary Was on Jap Ship
When Pearl Harbor Attacked
ERC Is Still Contract Prerequisite;
Applicants Should Take Oath Promptly
Cessation of all enlistments in the Enlisted Reserve
Corps was ordered yesterday by Colonel E. A. Keyes, Civilian
Components Officer of the Eighth Service Command in
of ROTC in this area.
Cadets who have already started their enlistment, how
ever, will be allowed to complete procedings, stated Lieu
tenant Colonel L. W. Marshall, recruiting officer.
, There are approximately 500 applications for enlistment
being processed in the recruiting
office at the present time, and
every effort will be made to com
plete work on these applicants and
get them sworn in before the ab
solute deadline for sending the in
formation in to the War Depart
ment, December 14, further added
Colonel Marshall.
Eleventh Annual
Horticulture Show
December 14-15
Prizes Not Awarded This
Year; Silver Plaques Not
Available for Presentation
Monday and Tuesday, December
14-15, the eleventh annual Horti
culture show will be presented
from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. in the lob
by and room 203 o f the Agricul
ture building by the A. & M. Hor
ticulture club.
Feature exhibits this year will
include Rio Grande valley citrus
fruits, sub-tropical fruits from
Florida, dates from Arizona, ap
ples of different varieties from.
Washington, New York, Ohio, and
Maryland, and dehydrated fruits
and vegetables. Also on exhibit will
be dried peaches, raisins, apricots,
and prunes from California, as well
as a large fresh vegetable exhibit.
Pecans of all varieties will be on
exhibit and on sale both days. All
other exhibits will also be on sale,
both days. Proceeds above costs
will be donated to the Former Stu
dents Association Development
Fund for the construction of a
student activities center after the
war.
Previously, awards and prizes
were given for the best exhibits,
but as war has made it impossible
for the club to obtain the silver
plaques usually awarded, no prizes
will be given this year.
Professors assisting Horticulture
Club President Leo Bailey are Dr.
G. W. Adriance, head of the horti
culture department; F. R. Brison
and R. F. Cain.
ERC Still Contract Prerequisite
Enlistment in the ERC is still
definitely a prerequisite for taking
advanced military science and ac
cepting a government contract,
since no additional instructions
have been received from Washing
ton regarding that qualification.
“Those students who have start
ed their enlisting proceedings al
ready and have had, or will have
a definite date set for taking the
oath of enlistment, must report at
the time designated by the recruit
ing officer,” emphasized Marshall,
“sinc^ it will be impossible to pro
long, or set a new date for the
swearing in process.”
Complete Cooperation Needed
Complete enlistment forms must
be sent in to the War Department
on next Monday, December 14,
there all forms must be typed
completely, all enlistees must have
been sworn in, and the signed
applications in the mail to Wash
ington on that date. “To accomp
lish this,” Marshall declared, “we
must have the complete coopera
tion of all applicants.”
“For several months now infor
mation has been published in the
Battalion every issue urging soph
omores who wanted contracts to
expedite their enlisting process,”
concluded Marshall, “just in case
something of this sort took place.
We urged sophomores not to wait
until the last minute to enlist.
As far as our information goes,
those who are not signed up in
the ERC will not be eligible for
contracts the way things are at
present.”
By Douglas Lancaster
Missionary in Japan for 18 years
and then took a world cruise at
no personal expense—only it was
on Japan. ...
That’s the Reverend L. W. Moore
who talks tonight and tomorrow
night On the church and political
situation in Japan.
Reverend Moore was born in
Japan in 1898, and lived there until
1909, Moore’s father spent 47
years in Japan as a United States
missionary for the Presbyterian
Church. When young Moore was
11 years old, the family moved back
to the states, and settled in Sher
man, Texas.
In Sherman, Moore went to the
Austin College, a prep school. He
graduated from here in 1918, and
studied theology at the Union Sem
inary in Virginia. After complet
ing his work here, he preached two
years in Oklahoma. In 1924 Moore
was sent to Japan as a misisonary
of the Southern Presbytery, and
spent the next 18 years of his life
in missionary work in the Nippon
ese Empire.
In 1940, when the State Depart
ment called all the Americans back
to the United States, Rev. Moore’s
wife and boys came back and made
their home again in Sherman.
Moore decided to “stay a little
longer, and watch the situation”.
By the fall of 1941, all the mission
ary work seemed to be closed out,
so he decided to cross the puddle to
the states.
Boat Called Back
On December 2, he took a boat
shipped out on a Japanese ship
bound for San Francisco. Five days
out of Yokohama, that historical
date of December 7, the ship was
ordered to return to the port from
which it had left. On December
16 Moore’s ship docked, and he was
immediately put in interment in the
Yokohama Yatch Club House,
which the police had taken over.
The building itself was 32 feet
by 49 feet, and the yard enclos
ing it measured approximately 100
feet by 70 feet, the Club housed 35
people, who whiled away the hours
with some outdoor exercise, which
included softball mostly, and a
small library in the clubhouse,
which held books mostly in the
detective line. More books were
later obtained from friends on the
outside who were allowed to send
books, food, money, clothing and
charcoal. Rev. Moore stated that
they were not mistreated in any
way at all, except for the lack of
heat and food during the cold
months the group spent in the Yok-
ahama Yatch Club. He said they
were left entirely alone, since the
Japanese “had nothing against us,
and we did not take the rigid ex
amination given those who spent
long horrible days in the prison.
These were suspected of being pies,
and were treated much worse than
we.”
Interned in the Yatch Club were
nine Americans, two Greeks, one
Brazilian, and the rest of the 35
were English. Two of the number
were over 70 years of age; these
were released along with the Brazil
ian. Besides Rev. Moore, there were
three other missionaries—two other
Americans and an Irish one.
The Yokohama Yatch Club was
situated right rn the Yokohama
Bay, so there wt-s always a good,
refreshing breeze.
Left For East Africa
June 17, the internees were put
on a Jap ship; the boat left Yoko
hama, and touched at Hongkong,
Saigon, and Singapore. Here at
Singapore the Jap ship took com
pany with an Italian boat, which
also had some 600 refugees from
Hongkong, Korea, and Manchuko.
By this time the Japanese boat had
approximately 900 people. The two
boats sailed together for Lourenzo
Marques in Portugal East Africa.
Here the 1600 prisoners were ex
changed for an equal number of
Japanese who had been taken pri
soner. The Western Hemisphere in
habitants, made up mostly of dip
lomats, business men, missionaries
and newspapermen, were put a-
board the Grispholm; from East
Africa the Grispholm sailed for Rio,
South America, where some 200
Latin Americans disembarked, and
set foot again on their homeland.
And next stop was New York City,
where 1400 Americans gladly took
“shore leave” from a world cruise
they never expected. The month
was August.
During September, 1941, Rev.
Moore took a long needed rest, and
since then, in October and Novem
ber has been lecturing on the
church situation in Japan.
Rev. Moore stated that all the
time people in Japan are break
ing away from the national church
(See MISSIONARY, Page 4)
Dr Steen Publishes Grammar School
History, “Texas, a Story of Progress”
Now practically an old hand at
writing books, after he’s turned
out four of them, Ralph W. Steen,
of the A.&M. History department,
has received word that his newest
Texas History has been accepted
as the text for grammar schools
throughout the state of Texas. The
title of the book is “Texas, a Story
of Progress,” a story that took the
author six years to hard work and
research (between meeting classes)
to compile.
“Texas, a Story of Progress”
was printed in August of this year
and finally accepted by the State
Board of Education in October,
going into use in the hundreds of
grammar schools next September
as the official sixth grade text.
A previously written book by
the same author, “History of Tex
as,” is one of several accepted
books for use in high schools
throughout the state, over 500 Tex
as high schools choosing Steen’s
book over the others.
Air Force Recruiters
Here Today Last Time
Air Corps recruiting officers will
be on the campus today to complete
enlistment of all students who took
the mental tests last week. Under
a recent order from Washington,
they will not be able to enlist any
others at this time.
Dean F. C. Bolton says that all
those who started their enlistment
last week should report to the of
ficers at the Assembly Hall be
tween 10 and 11 a.m., as the offi
cers are expected to arrive about
then.
One of the contributing factors
that make this sixth grade text
book a little different from most
grammar school history books is
the over-abundance of illustrations.
There are a hundred-odd pages of
pictures, including a full-page il
lustration of the Petroleum En
gineering building on the A.&M.
campus, 50 or 60 of which were
taken by the author.
Activities at A.&M., with special
emphasis on the military theme
have been stressed in the book,
since in the author’s opinion, A.&M.
is definitely a shaping influence
in the activities of the state of
Texas and has a very definite
place in her history.
Dr. A. B. Nelson, also of the
history department, prepared all
;he maps in the book that illus
trate the vivid and colorful ac
count of the Lone Star State.
Rev J H Farrell Is
New Episcopal Rector
The Reverend J. Hugh Farrell
assumed his duties Thursday as
student chaplain of St. Thomas
Episcopal church, and conducted
the regular schedule of services
Sunday. Before coming here he was
rector of St. George Episcopal
church in Texas City.
St. Thomas Chapel has been
without a permanent rector since
the departure of the Rev. Roscoe
Hauser, Jr., who is now attending
the Army-Navy Chaplain school at
Harvard University.