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
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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.