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Page 4- -THE BATTALION- SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1943 OFFICIAL NOTICES Classified LOST—New khaki woolen gloves. Re ward. Artis Duty, Room 112, No. 15. LOST—Four-month-old female, black Cocker Spaniel puppy, “Smokey.” Reward. 4-8244. Jerry pup Ode LOST—Slide rule marked “E. W. Duty” on case. Anyone knowing where hte rule tier, Artis Duty, Room 112, ise. Anyone is notify brothe 15. Dorm Meals, family style at Perritte’s Din ing Room four blocks north of College post office. One, two, or three meals to suit your convenience. For rates phone 4-8794. LOST—A pair of rimless glasses at Hrdlicka’s Saturday night. It is very important to owner that they be return ed. Finder please notify Billy Owens, No. 17—118, F. O. Box 2189. WANTED—Someone to help drive to San Diego, California. Leaving about Feb. 23. Write Mrs. F. A. Vaughn, C. E. Dept., or come by 300 Bolton, College Hills. LOST—Central wrist watch with blue crystal and name “Pete Pratt” scratched on back. Reward. Return to G-13 Walton. V. P. Kelly. ce, oi fountain pen. Probably left by a student the early part of this week Would own er please come by and identify same ? Commandant’s Office CIRCULAR NO. 7 In compliance with the request of the committee in charge of the DANCE this weekend, RAMP C of HART HALL trill be ■ opened in order to provide accommodations for guests attending the guests attending ae DANCE, SATURDAY, FEBRU ARY 13. 2. Cadets having guests will be assessed a charge of 500 per guest to cover the cost of matron, maid service, and other incidental expenses. 3. Guests will be admitted in the dorm itory at 3:30 p.m., SATURDAY, FEB RUARY 13. The dormitory will be closed at 3:30 p.m., SUNDAY, FEB RUARY 14, by which time guests must be out of the dormitory. 4. Guests staying in the dormitory must be in not later than 12 :00 o’clock SAT URDAY night. Guests must check in with the matron upon their rteurn to the dormitory after the dance. When reservations have been made for guests, they will not be permitted to check out until departure for their homes. This will be done with the matron. Escorts will be held strictly account able for compliance with these in structions. 6. Guests will not be permitted to oc cupy rooms unless they are equipped with shades. Cadets must furnish their own sheets, pillow slips, towels, light globes, soap, and other articles that will be needed by the guests, since this space is not now occupied by anyone. / 6. This RAMP will be open from 2:30 un til 3:30 p.m., SATURDAY, for the convenience of cadets to fix the rooms. 7. Reservations may be made by cadets commencing at 8 a.m., FRIDAY, FEB RUARY 12. By order of Colonel WELTY: JOE E. DAVIS, Major, Infantry, Assistant Commandant. Announcements THE WOMAN’S AUXILIARY of the College Presbyterian Church will meet Monday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m. in the home of Mrs. R. R. Lancaster with Mrs. O. E. Weinke as co-hostess. Mrs. L. S. Paine will have charge of the program. There will be an election of officers and a full attendance is urged. BRAZORIA COUNTY BOYS—There will be a meeting of all County in Room 212 esday n: business will be self. . I rsuxo—x nere win boys from Brazoria ! Academic Building me Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Important transacted. Bring your- the college has been advised that P're-medical students and junior En gineering students who are not' members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps may, if called by their draft boards during this semester, be granted the opportunity to complete the current semester. This ap plies only to those called through the draft boards. Any student taking the courses listed above who may be called during the semester should see me about the matter. F. C. Bolton, Dean. ALL NEW STUDENTS who wish to attend are invited to a Valentine Social at the First Baptist Church at the North Gate, Saturday evening, February 13, at 7 :00. Church Notices THE CHURCH OF CHRIST R. B. Sweet, Minister Sunday: 9:45 a.m.—The Bible Classes 10 :45 a.m.—Morning Worship 6:00 p.m.—After-supper Discussion 7:00 p.m.—Evening Worship Sewn esday: 7 :00 p.m.—Prayer Meeting Everyone is invited to attend all these services. You will be most welcome. ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH South Gate Rev. J. Hugh R. Farrell, Priest-in-Charge Sunday Services: Holy Communion—8:30 a.m. Coffee Club—10 :00 a.m. Morning Prayer—11:00 a.m. Junior Church School—11:00 a.m. The eleven o’clock service will be at tended by the Boy Scouts, Cubs and Scout- e> 11 C54--, 4-i r T , -v./-vy-w\ xxri 11 irty-Fourth Birthday of Scouting. The Vestry will hold a short meeting immediately after the eleven o’clock serv ice. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH College Station R. L. Brown, Pastor Sunday: 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 10 :50 a.m.—Morning Worship. 3 :00 p.m.—Council Meeting 4 :00 p.m.—Choir Rehersal 6:15 p.m.—Training Union 7 :15 p.m.—Evening Worship The pastor will bring messages at both worship services. Roger Bell will be in charge of the music. A cordial welcome is extended to all students who desire to worship in our Church. Buy War Bonds and Stamps, ,nd don’t fail to see the Jap sub i’ebruary 15. Remember, Texas U. •ought $107,000 worth of War Sonds and Stamps to see it. See LAUTERSTEIN’S for ALTERATIONS —SHORT COURSE- (Continued From Page 1) chief speaker. Presentation of awards will be made by Dr. G. W. Cox, state health officer. Main theme of the entire school will be sanitary engineering during war time with emphasis on wartime sanitary projects, army sanitary projects* and effects of priorities. A’. & M. College is the headquar ters for the water supply and sew erage disposal of the Texas area, and the short course is handled annually by the college municipal sanitary engineering department. AGGIE SHOE RATIONING In order to purchase shoes AGGIES who take their meals in the Mess Halls may now secure “cer tificate of authorization” and “stamp number 17” from their War Ration Book, at the main office down stairs in the old Mess Hall. Please bring this certificate with Ration Stamp No. 17 attached—to either our College Station or Bryan store where we now have ample stocks of military and civilian shoes to take care of your needs. Our fine quality and properly fitted Nunn-Bush . . . Edgerton and Fortune Shoes will last you longer and serve you better. SHOTS FOR MEN Edgerton — $6.50 to $7.95 Nunn-Bush — „$10 to $11 Fortune $4.95 Red-Wing — $4.95 to $5.50 r ilaldrop g(3. “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan 4-H Boys Get Results With Hybrid Corn Production This Year Is Higher Feed supplies which Texas farm ers grow in 1943 will be decisive in attaining the state’s production goals for beef, pork and lamb in 1944. Stocks appear to be suffi cient for the animals in prospect for the 1943 production, but grow ers may be more dependent upon home grown feed crops in 1944 than is the case this year. Texas livestock production this spring in cludes a 30 per cent increase in pig farrowing over the same pe riod last year. As comparable in creases are likely in states which normally have surplus feed, ship ments to states which have a short age probably will be reduced. Larger production of feed this year, however, is forecast in the report of a demonstration with No. 12 hybrid corn by 29 Milam Coun ty 4-H Club boys in 1942. Accord ing to County Agricultural Agent J. W. Stufflebeme, Jr., each boy was given without cost enough of the seed corn by the Chamber of Commerce and a bank at Cameron, sponsors of the program, to plant one acre. The hybrid was paralleled by an acre of standard corn which was used as a check plot. When the corn was harvested the production of 22 demonstrators was weighed, and the yield from seven demonstrations was estimat- was estimated at 34.3 bushels an average of 51.8 bushels of hy brid compared to 34.4 bushels an acre of standard variety, or an increase of 25.5 per cent. On the remaining demonstrations, the yield was estimated at 34.3 bu s hels against 26.7 bushels of the stan dard, or an increase of 20.3 per cent. Average yield for the 29 demon strations was 47.8 bushels com pared to 35.7 for standard corn. The Cameron Chamber of Com merce will furnish $65 worth of seed corn for demonstrations in 1943. Record books turned in by 28 of the demonstrators showed a net profit of $921.96 for the club boys, Stufflebeme reports. —AIR CORPS— (Continued from Page 3) suffered a big blow to their sports when eight athletes were called up. The call included Wenzell Gandy, regular football end. The baseball squad was hurt the most with the loss of ace pitchers Howard Wafer and Manuel Gar cia, and Jakie Rector, second base- man. Co-Captainn Bill Hailey and Sophomore Frankie Roberts will leave the basketball team Saturday night after the Baylor—T.C.U. game. The football squad is also losing Buck Garrett, reserve tack le, and Bill Burke, reserve back. S.M.U. Milton Painter, junior forward on the basketball team, Joe Bailey Scott, senior end of the football team, and Sophomore blocking back Bill Reece were the only losses reported by Southern Meth odist University. Rice The Rice Institute Owls have lost Ed Cain, brilliant punter, and Lindsay Bowen, regular end, from the football squad. Two outstand ing netters were lost from the tennis team when Ray Gladman, junior, and Ted Norpoth, fresh man, were also called, along with Miles Mclnnis, hurdler and bas ketball manager. This leaves only T.C.U. and Ar kansas lightly touched by the call, and as a result their squads are at comparatively top strength. —INTRAMURALS— (Continaed From Page S) ral Office at once, because play will start Monday afternoon at four o’clock. Organizations with games scheduled for Monday should have their teams on hand ready to play at the hour when their games are scheduled. “We will go to town with our Intramural program this semester, for we really need it,” Penberthy said. JONES BARBER SHOP Bryan and College WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS Frolicking At The Campus Tonight This is a scene from the picture “A Night to Remember,” starring Brian Aherne and Loretta Young, showing at the Campus Theater Saturday midnight, Sunday and Monday. Manpower Chairman McNutt Explains Necessity of Calling Out Students Until recently it would never have occured to college students to think of themselves in terms of manpower, War Manpower Com mission Chairman McNutt told the mid-winter graduating class of Ha- verford, January 30—but, he said, they were like the man who was speaking prose and didn’t realize his accomplishment. A digest of Mr. McNutt’s speach follows: “Until recently it would never have occurred to college students to regard themselves in terms of manpower. The term is more frequently as sociated with the masses of work ers employed by large-scale indus try than with the fortunate minor ity of carefully educated indivi duals whom the colleges induct into professional and managerial life. So when you were registered for the national service you may have experienced something of the surprise of that character in Mo- liere’s play who discovered that he had been talking prose without recognizing his accomplishment. Your government regards you as important, whether you are leaving college for the military or for other forms of national ser vice, because of the exceptional training opportunities which you have had. It is very important that popu lar faith in the value of our col leges, and in the quality of their students, should be sustained. For in the grim days that lie ahead there will be no place in our so ciety for institutions which fail to render national service, and con sequently no place for students who give the lie to that proud des ignation, by wasting the borrowed time provisionally placed at their disposal. From now on the colleges must, while maintaining standards, in creasingly accommodate them selves to the pressures of total war. The larger educational institu tions, with facilities for housing, feeding and teaching large num bers are naturally and properly being called upon more largely than others, although by no means exclusively, to accommodate the specialized training units which the Army and Navy are setting up. A number of the smaller col leges, because of special facilities or exceptional standards, have been selected for particular forms of service lying outside the gen eral Army and Navy plan. Haver- ford, I know, will in a few days start the training of a unit of pre-meteorological students, des tined to become weather officers in the Army Air Force,, But what about those colleges, with stan dards no less admirable than your own, which are outside the general Army and Navy plan and are also overlooked in special training plans? Is their/ place in the war effort to be confined to yielding their students to the draft and restricting their services to the education of the handful who are under 18, or physically unfit? In cases where the college is a virile institution, serving its com munity as well and alertly admin istered, I feel sure the answer to that question will be in the nega tive. Some private colleges, like some private business organiza tions, may have to close their doors for the duration, reopening- afterwards if there is the effec tive demand for their services which is the acid test of whether or not these services are needed. Such war casualties, however, should be few in number if the col leges themselves show the initia tive which is one test of'the valid ity of their claim to survival. Washington is not Berlin and we do not propose to regiment our colleges to any standardized pro gram of State-directed service. Washington will not dictate a uni form plan of action to the col leges. But I can assure you that both the War Manpower Commis sion and the United States Office of Education, which also comes under my jurisdiction as Federal Security Administrator, are keenly interested in all efforts which the colleges, individually or collective ly, make in their own interests. I recall that Dr. John W. Studeba- ker, the Commissioner of Educa tion, said: “We must have a spe cial concern lest the liberal arts colleges of America be jettisoned.” I would like to go on record as sharing that concern. Basic Trainer Circles Randolph Selective Service System Aids In War Production The Texas Selective Service Sys tem will give full cooperation to the recent action of the War Man power Commission to increase the urgently needed war production of copper, critical non-ferrous metals and lumber within this State, Gen eral J. Watt Page, State Director of Selective Service, announced to day. He said: “The War Manpower Commission has called for uninterrupted pro duction and maintenance opera tions in all non-ferrous metal min ing, milling, smelting, and refin ings, and all logging and lumber ing activities carried on within the states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Califor nia,-Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Texas. “Pursuant to a directive received from National Selective Service Headquarters in support of this objective, Texas local boards have been instructed to reclassify out of Class II-A or Class II-B into a class immediately available for service, or out of Class III-B into Class III-A, subject to the usual rights of appeal, any registrant who leaves a production or main tenance occupation in any of these activities without presenting satis factory evidence to his local board that his separation did not adverse ly affect the war effort.” This order, General Page point ed out, permits a worker to change jobs so long as that change, in the opinion of the registrant’s local board, does not adversely affect the war effort and that by changing he can increase production. General Page emphasized in this connection that no classification is permanent and that the Selective Service regulations make it man datory that each classified regis trant report to his local board in writing, within ten days, any change in his occupational status. Pre-Med Club Hears Dean Brooks The A.&M. Pre-Med Club held its first meeting of the new semes ter Wednesday night with Dean T. D. Brooks as the speaker. Dean Brooks spoke about the War Man power and Selective Service regu lations regarding pre-medical stu dents. He pointed out that the pre medical course will be “one of the very few not drastically affected” by the Army and Navy training plans, but he stressed the fact that standards would be high and students could not fall behind in subjects required for medical school. A short business meeting fol lowed the talk and a program committee was selected to prepare the important pre-med meetings. Officers for the new year are: John E. Green, president; J. W. Robertson, vice-president; P. S. Garner, secretary-treasurer; and J. G. Gabbard, reporter. E L Dysart, ’41, Entering DCS E. L. Sysart, class of ’41, a mem ber of the Naval Construction Bat talion and now in port at San Francisco, just has written a let ter to Dr. Ide P. Trotter, Head of the Rural Sociology Department, requesting a letter of recommen dation which he will use in trying to get into O.C.S. Dysart enlisted in the Naval Construction Battalion soon after his graduation and was called to active duty on June 18, 1942. He spent less than three months in the states and has been on foreign water or soil since that time, most ly in South West Pacific. Accord ing to Dysart’t letter, he has many things to tell about when he gets home. A&M Horticulturist Advises on Vegetables That May Be Planted According to J. F. Rosborough, horticulturist for the A. & M. Ex tension Service, there are a num ber of vegetables which can be planted now in home gardens. Among these are cabbage, English peas, and onion plants. Good varieties of cabbage include Charleston Wakefield and Copen hagen. Little Marvel, Knott’s Ex celsior and Thomas Laxton are good varieties of peas. Beets and carrots may be planted now, too, the better varieties of quick-ma turing carrots including Chantenay Saturday, February 13, 1943 11:25—Today’s Summary on the Home Front 11:30—Treasury Star Parade (U. S. Treasury) 11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program —- Extension Releases 11:55—Town Crier—Richard Gott lieb. 12:00—Sign-Off Sunday, February 14, 1943 8:30—Classical Music 9:15—Roans Chapel Singers 9:30—Sign-Off (jHD^ EiM Book Presented To College By Advertisers League The A. & M. College library is the recipient of a copy of Neil H. Borden’s book, “The Economic Ef fects of Advertising,” as the result of the Dallas Advertising League’s annual Better Copy Contest, Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the Col lege, has been informed by Presi dent Robert L. Johnson of the Dal las organization. The book is part of an.award pre sented by the Daily Times Herald and won by Safeway Stores, for the best sales advertising copy pro-' duced in Dallas during 1942. Stu dents in the Journalism class of Southern Methodist University were the judges. The volume bears a book plate describing the award and giving the name of the donor of the prize, the winner, and the president of the Dallas League. Heretofore, silver loving cups have been given to winners, but metal has gone to war this year, and the books were substituted with the idea that their presence on the shelves of college and uni versity libraries throughout the state would help to improve ad vertising in Texas. Each winner in five classifications of advertising received certificates of the award and two volumes of Borden’s book. Winners kept the certificates, and the ten books were presented to colleges and universities in the state. The book is regarded in advertis ing circles as the most authorita tive and complete work of its kind, and is an important contribution to the advertising profession. —DR. RUSSELL— (Continued from page 1) (3) . In the two, three, or four years that the husband would be away, would he change? Being in different environments, would the husband and wife grow away from each other? (4) . What about financing the family after the war? For the duration the husbands would be in the pay of the U. S. Army. Would there be enough jobs to go around when, after the war, this vast store of manpower was sud denly dumped upon the nation? Especially were the girls embit tered against the married men in the army camps who, under the pretense of being single, kept com pany with young girls. Of course, none of the girls who were mar ried thought their husbands were guilty of that. “All in all,’-’ Dr. Russell declared, “the girls have very healthful atti tudes, thinking seriously and thor oughly. T.S.C.W. is all the Aggies claim it to be.” Naturally, he would think so, because on the sly, your reporter was told that the girls were so reluctant to let him go that he almost missed his train on the return trip. By the way, the girls have been invited here to put on a similar program in the near future. and Danver’s Half Long. White potatoes and sweet corn may be planted early in March, said Mr. Rosborough. The plot for the garden should have good drainage if rainfall is heavy, and should be away from trees and large shrubs whose roots would take the moisture away from the plants. Sod and grass should be removed and the earth pulver ized. A small garden should have about one pound of rotted stable manure per square foot, and two or three wagon loads for a half acre. Buy War Bonds and Stamps, and don’t fail to see the Jap sub February 15. Remember, Texas U. bought $107,000 worth of War Bonds and Stamps to see it.