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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 The Battalion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1943 2275 NUMBER 86 Freshman Ball Assured After Brief Uncertainty Tux or Number 1 Uniform Will Be Reg; Seniors To Be Guests of Freshman Class Enough tickets have been sold to assure the financial success of the annual freshman ball to be held tonight in Sbisa hall, states Charles McWilliams, president of the fresh man class. The time has been changed to 8:30 p.m. instead of 8 as was previously announced. Ticket sales in the dormitories ended last night but tickets will be available at the door for all those who failed to secure theirs previously. Regulation uniform for the event will be the number one uniform with khaki shirts and black ties. Tuxedos may be worn if desired instead of the-f : uniform. Dormitory 15 is being va cated for the visiting girls and the commandant’s office stated that the first two floors were fill- terday at noon. Curly Brient’s Aggieland Or chestra will furnish music for the ball tonight. Seniors will be the guests of the freshman class. Freshmen managing the dance are W. L. Moore and Cliff White- head co-chairman of the advisory committee; W. L. Terrell and Al bert R. Orssinger, general ticket sales; McWilliams, chairman of the finance committee and M. A. Coul ter and J. K. Oliver, decorations committee. Agronomy Society Elects Officers For Next Semester In the last business meeting of the current semester, the Agrono my Society met last Thursday night in the Agriculture building to elect new officers for the com ing year. Since there were only a few of the members of the society present at the meeting, only two of the officers were elected; there were Jack Barton, president, and Lacy Wheeler, vice-president. The re mainder of the offices that will be left vacant by the graduating seniors in the club will be filled in an election which will be held at the first meeting of the next semester. Other business included in the meeting was the showing of two motion pictures; the first of these were moving pictures taken of the Cotton Ball held last May 2. The second picture included scenes of the winners of the last cotton con test in their tour of Mexico. Win ners of this trip were F. G. Col- lard, E. D. Wilmeth, B .A. Waddle, and G. C. McGxmirk. R. C. Potts, instructor in the agronomy de partment, was also a member of the party. Seniors Set For Monday January 11 Graduating seniors and those who will complete their military science this semester, must take their final physical, examinations before they leave January 16, stated Lt. Col. A. J. Bennett, ad jutant. Monday, January 11, the exam ining officers will be here and be gin examinations. Seniors must report to their' military instructor to get the exact date and hour for their physical, since it will be impossible to get all the examina tions completed without a definite schedule, stated Col. Bennett. Physicals must be completed by the 577 seniors who expect to go to camp upon graduation, added Bennett. Library Movies Review Life Of Peter the Great Tonight at 8 At seven and nine tonight in the Ashbury Browsing Room of the Library those who are interested are priviledged to see what has been called by some critics the best historical movie ever made. Concerning the Russian movie, Peter the great, it is only fair to say that there have been differ ences of opinion. One reviewer called it “raw, rude, crude, vulgar, obvious”, but even he admitted that other had found it something more. That the story of boisterous, lusty, dynamic Peter, the First of Russia, is interesting no one can deny. The movie, which runs to ninety-five minutes in length, be gins with that period of Peter’s life when he was making ruthless war with Sweden and instituting his weeping reforms; it ends with the birth of his son. Peter the Great was bom into a wild, uncivilized country in a wild, uncivilized age. In child hood he witnessed the savage mur ders of his kinsmen and everyday cruelties which left lasting effects upon his mind. He was subject to the kind of personal insecurity which produced bizarre actions and limitations. In the movie we see him dining on cucumbers and, after his European travels, in which he encountered such amazements as people eating meat and not throw ing the bones on the floor, he re turned to Russia to force all his people to drink coffee and all his men to shave their beards. In one scene he performs whole sale beard cutting upon a gathering of boyars. With his roaring, outrageous personal actions went always his ambition for Russia. He built Petersburg or Leningrad; he made wars and melted church bells to make the cannon which success fully conducted the war^; he pushed an outlet to the sea and built a navy. Navigation and seamanship fascinated him from childhood, and he worked as a common seaman with his men, showing them the advantages of learning from the bottom up. He was so set upon a Russia to be governed by Russians that he began and finished in his life time the training of enough of his countrymen to fill every important position in the Russian govern ment. His scandalous personal life, w’hich echoes down the centuries, reached its peak in his appropria tion and man-iage of Catherine, the daughter of a Luthuanian pea sant She was a quite illiterate but shrewd woman, and she be came Peter’s constant companion in his campaigns. She was re ceived into the Russian Orthodox Church and crowned empress- consort. At Peter’s death she be came Empress of Russia. Besides Peter and Catherine, the characters of the movie are Men shikov, the Mad Tsarevitch, Alexei, Peter’s son, and numerous boyars, merchants, soldiers, and serfs. There are thrilling scenes of the halls of the boyars and merchants, of balls, battles, floods, revels, and wild rides. The time, the begin ning of the eighteenth century, becomes stirringly alive in all its misery an dbarbarity. Completing tonight’s program will be The Man Without a Coun try and Three in a Shell Hole. Election of New Officers Held At Press Club Meetin Engineering g Groups Hear Boesch, Keith, and Longely Elected To Positions At Meeting Following Banquet Col Chevalier Walter Jenkins Guest Artist With Cadets on TownHal Bill Galloway Elected As ii Senior Class Valedictorian Singing Cadets to Present New Rendition of “Spirit Of Aggieland” Tuesday Winner Receives 92 of 209 Votes Cast Also Has Most Perfect Grade Point Ratio Gus Boesch, A Coast Artillery, and junior advertising assistant on the Battalion staff, was elected president of the 1943 Press Club in a business session held after the annual banquet Thursday night in Sbisa Hall. Jack Kieth, A Sig nal Corps, was elected vice-presi dent, and Joe Dan Longley, H In fantry sophomore, was elected sec retary-treasurer. Boesch will succeed Edwin Gor don, G Infantry and editor of the Engineer for the past year. The Press Club is made up of all active members of any A. & M. student publication’s staff. During the past year, the club played host to the Southwestern Journalism Congress. Walton, Other State Officials Confer in Capital Texas Secretary of State Law- son, Senator W. Lee O’Daniel, Dl\ T. 0. Walton, Dean F. C. Bolton, and Dean E. J. Kyle have been confering this week with the war manpower board in Washington. O’Daniel and Lawson stated that the Manpower Commission’s pres ent plan is to abolish the R.O.T.C. set-up at A&M and substitute a more direct military training here; however, O’Daniel declares he is strongly oppossed to such a change and has pointed out A&M’s effic ient supply of Army officers in the past. Dean Kyle, now in Washington to confer with manpower officials concerning draft regulations for agricultural majors, is expected to return Monday with other offic ials. Engineering School Dismissed at 12 For Address Wednesday Colonel Willard Chevalier, vice-president of McGraw- Hill Publishing company and editor of Business Week, open ed a series of talks to engi neering students last night at the joint meeting of the A. S. C. E. and Aeronautical Science clubs. On Monday night at 7 p.m. he will speak to the Student Engineering Council in an in formal meeting. The attend ance at this meeting will be restricted to the members of that council. Wednesday at 12 a.m. the stu dents in the school of engineering will be dismissed from classes to attend the lecture by Colonel Chev alier in Guion hall. The subject of this address will be “What Price Victory in War and Peace.” This talk will be giv> n to guide the stu dents in what will be expected of them after the war and to guide present seniors while they are on active duty after graduation Col onel Chevalier stated in a letter to Dean Gibb Gilchrist. All engineering clubs on the campus will meet together in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 8 p.m. Thursday when he will again speak to those men who are in terested in what he will be able to tell them of engineering in general and its application in the present war. Colonel Chevalier’s visit is spon sored by the Student Engineeiing Council and has become an annual event in the program of engineer ing students each year. Walter R. Jenkins, International ly known song leader and baritone, will be guest artist with the Sing ing Cadets when they appear on Town Hall next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. He will be accompanied by Herbert Rohloff, Houston pi anist. Jenkins has appeared before the corps before, leading the singing at Guion Hall assemblies. He is the father of Richard Jenkins, di rector of the Singing Cadets. Musical director of the First Methodist Church in Houston, his reputation, according to Houston critics, has spread with his ability to direct choirs and glee clubs, and make arrangements for them. His presentation to a Town Hall audience with the Singing Cadets marks the first time in the history of the Singing Cadets—Town Hall series that a guest artist has appeared with them. „ Jenkins’ program will include Handel’s “Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves”, an d“Land of Hope and Glory”, by Elgar. This selection by Elgar is the vocal arrangement of the British coronation “Pomp and Circumstances” march. Feature of the Singing Cadets’ program will be an entirely new arrangement of the “Spirit of Ag gieland” by Ken Darby, musical director of Universal Pictures, made for the picture. Seeger Promoted To Master Sergeant Technical Sergeant E. Seeger, of the cavalry department recently re ceived a promotion to master ser geant. Master Sergeant Seeger has been actively engaged in the Cavalry instructional work here Woels Us! Girls AreWriting For Batt Again! Run for Your Life! Ed. Note—The following plan for the preservation of Aggie trad itions seems to be the most beau tiful yet offered, and at the same time, offered by yet the most beautiful—five Randolph - Macon Womens College girls. Randolph- Macon is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, has but a few hundred selected student. At long last the Texas Aggies have discovered their sponsor ing organization for the “duration” While the Victory Belles over the nation devote their Saturday even ings to chasing doughboys’ blues away; the U. S. 0. debutantes en tertain Uncle Sam’s gobs and “situation-well-in-hand-ers” (ot herwise known as the Marines), and the brave, brave WAACS and WAVES push overseas, the Texas Aggie, since gas rationing and the New Regime, has had only the inspiration of a box number at TSCW and local 400ers to carry him through. At exactly 3:33 yesterday after noon, a volunteer representation from R. M. W. C. (the “Run-Men- Women-Coming institution for young ladies in Lynchburg, Va.) appeared in the Battalion office to offer to relieve the present al most unbearable situation. They propose to take the Ag gie traditions which must neces sarily die if the Army takes over here, take them into the Shenan doah Valley of Virginia, and there pet them, mother them, and foster them until such time as Aggieland can once again call them home. So, in short, the Randolph-Macon girls just wan to “borrow” our customs until they can be of use to us again. The magnanimous offer was pre sented in a patriotic effort to lay loyal Aggies’ minds to rest dur ing the strenous days ahead in OCS and on the battle fronts of Fort Worth Mothers Contribute $10 To Reading Fund Fort Worth A&M Mother’s Club has recently donated $10 to the Student General Reading Fund, said Dr. T. F. Mayo, Librarian. Mayo said he wished to express his appreciation to the Mother’s club for their generous gift and by means of the Battalion notify the corps of their donation, which makes possible enlightening read ing material which the corps would otherwise be unable to obtain. the world. In short, it embodied a plan to accept and keep intact the pre-war ti’aditions of Aggieland and preserve them for the post duration classes. Our man-muscel environment left to the wiles of a tea-sipping Virginia school for young ladies?? (Don’t laugh boys, the Batt staff also threw up their hands in hoor!) But—(Battalion Scoop No. 135697)— The gals actually proved their “strength” to “take it” and keep it! Fifty years of college life based on a ti-adition known as Odd and Even Spirit (which involves nothing short of fire-ancl-water fighting, extensive “tree” manuevers a hell-week that apparently incor porates the best features of the old Aggie “bring those fish up right” program, and that fast-van ishing college precedent Senior preference are the qualifications Randolph-Macon girls have to offer. This delegations campaign pro vides for the establishing of cer tain non-hostess tables in each dining room to preserve the age- old Aggie mess-hall “shoot the sawdust; deal one; please sir, mis ter, may I have some cush sir,” Slanguage fast dying at Aggie- (See GIRLS, Page 4) New Junior Yell Leaders Elected Wednesda . Pictured here are the two sophomores who were elected junior yell leaders in a record fourteen-minute joint session of the sophomore and junior classes in the Assembly Hall Wednesday night- At the left is Dan Kuykendall, D Troop Cav alry, and on the right is Joe Pettit, A Infantry. J William J. (Bill) Galloway was chosen yesterday as valedictorian of the senior class receiving 92 out of a total of 209 votes cast in the election. William Adkisson received the second highest number of votes with 41, followed by Walter W. Cardwell 26 votes, William Bever, 14 votes, Spen cer Roe Baen, 9 votes. The ten seniors who have the highest grade point ratios in the class are as follows: Name Course G. P. Ratio William J. Galloway ME 2.9922 William Adkisson EE 2.7730 Earl C. Hartman EE 2.6715 Jean G. Goppert Aero 2.6667 William Bever ChE 2.6622 Walter W. Cardwell Agr 2.6160 John T. Pesek AgEd 2.5938 Adolph J. Specia CE 2.5615 Spencer Roe Baen Eng 2.5827 CE 2.5500 Awards Given By Boone at Annual Press Club Feast Press Club Hears Angell Talk On Past Twenty Years Of Student Publications Thursday night, the Texas A. & M. Press Club awarded watches and other awards to its members at the annual banquet held in Sbisa Hall. E. L. Angell delivered the address of the evening, speak ing on the place of student publi cations in a college community, and E. A. Gordon, president of the club, was toastmaster. Watches were awarded to Brooks Gofer, Battalion editor; Ken Bresnen, Battalion associate editor; Reggie Smith, Battalion ad vertising manager; John Longley, Longhorn editor; Harry Kunkel, Longhorn associate editor; Ray Terrell, Longhorn business mana ger; Ed Gordon, Engineer editor; and Jack Miller, Agriculturist edi tor. Awards were given by L. D. Boone, acting manager of Student Activities. Gold Keys were awarded to six staff members, men who have served three years on a publica tion staff; silver keys were given to 36 men for two years service; and first year keys were awarded to 46 men for one year’s active part on any student publication. Angell, speaking on student pub lications, told of the place and purpose of the student newspaper’, magazine, and annual on the cam pus. He pointed out that work on student publications were of definite value to the student, and an integral part of the college student’s life. He classified stu dents on publication staffs into three categories—the “eating” (at the annual banquet) variety, those interested merely as a pastime, and those interested in the work as a profession. A business session was held after the banquet, and Gus Boesch was elected 1943 president of the club; Jack Kieth, vice-president; and Joe Dan Longley, secretary-treas urer. Battalion Magazine Issued Next Week January Battalion maganzines will be out on time this month and will bp issued sometime next next week, announces John Holman magazine editor. The magazines will be issued from the mailing room in the basement of the admin istration building. Galloway, 20 years old, is a me chanical engineering major from Throckmorton and is a lieutenant colonel in A Field Artillery in the capacity of corps executive. Dur ing his college career he made one B which accounts for a 2.9922 grade point ratio instead' of the perfect 3.000. He is president of ihe Scholar ship Honor Society, member of the Engineering Council and Y. M. C. A. Cabinet. He has won the Field Artillery Medal, the D. A. R. Award and the Scholarship Honor Society Award in 1940 and 1941. Galloway was also valedic torian of his class in high school in 1939. He is one of 21 men se lected for this year’s Who’s Who in American Colleges and Univer sities. Howell Trophy Won By A Infantry; E Company Is Second The Howell Trophy, a flag of the state of Texas that was pre sented by Will S. Howell of Bry- on for the first time in 1903 to the best drilled infantry company was presented this year to A Infantry. Making A company the color com pany of the Infantry regiment for next year, stated Lieutenant Col onel L. W. Marshall, senior instru ctor. The trophy was first won by C Infantry back in 1903 and last (See TROPHY, Page 4) Senior Invitations DistributedMonday Invitations have arrived and will be issued graduating seniors from the Corps Headquarters Of fice in Ross hall all day Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday stated Dan R. Rocky Sutherland, presi dent of the Senior Class. The sale of invitations will be under the direction of Ed Gordon. Tickets for the Senior Ring dance may be bought at the same time. The tickets for the ban quet may also be bought at this time and sells for $1.00. The Ring Dance tickets costs $1.50 and if both these tickets are bought a corps dance ticket which would ordinarily cost $1.10 will be in cluded at no extra charge. Men who wish to attend the corps dance only may purchase the corps dance tickets for the regular price $1.10. Col Carrico, Former Senior Cavalry Instructor, Transfered By Tom Journeay A real cavalryman. That’s the finest compliment that could be bestowed on Lieutenant Colonel H. E. Carrico, past senior instructor of the Cavalry unit at A. & M. Colonel Carrico was formerly the commanding officer of the famous 311th cavalry the outfit that awards the horsemanship trophy yearly to the cavarly troop that shows most proficiency in horse manship. Incidently, Lieutenant Colonel Carrico was here in May 1941 to personally make the presentation of the 311th horsemanship trophy to the winning troop. He came here three months ago from Santa Fe, New Mexico, heading the Cavalry unit here. He was formerly Cavalry Ins tructor for the first military area and then in the recruiting service at Santa Fe prior to his service here. A graduate of the Cavalry school at Fort Reilly, Kansas, and the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Lieu tenant Colonel Carrico has had wide training and experience as a cavalry instructor. He is now stationed at Fort Bliss near El Paso, since leaving here this week.