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ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1943
2275 NUMBER 111
Jose Iturbi To Be Presented By Town Hall Tomorrow
Adjustments In
Profs Salaries
Made By Directors
Greater Living Costs
And Teaching Loads To
Influence Adjustments
At the last meeting of the A.
& M. Board of Directors, held
at Prairie View College a motion
was passed to make adjustment in
the annual salary of members of
the faculty. This action was taken
after a petition, signed by F. C.
Bolton, Dean of the College, E. N.
Holmgreen, Business Manager,
and E. L. Angell, Executive As
sistant to the President, was pre
sented to the Board suggesting
that some adjustment be made in
view of the higher costs of living
and heavier teaching loads carried
by the faculty. The change will
become effective April 1.
This adjustment will effect all
members of the faculty whose
salary is between 1700 dollars and
3000 dollars. Those with a yearly
income of from $1700 to $2000 will
receive a 15% increase. Salaries
from $2001 to $2300 will be up
ped 12.5% and and those receiving
between $2301 and $2700 will be
increased 10%. A 7.5% increase in
salaries of $2701 to $3000 com
pletes the changes.
The heavier teaching load, which
brought about this adjustment, has
been caused by reduction in the
staff and added teaching respon
sibilities due to the Army train
ing programs.
YMCA Receives
Thanks For Help
To War Prisoners
M. L. Cushion, Secretary of the
YMCA, has received thanks re
cently from War Prisoner’s Aid
for the books and money contri
buted by Aggies and the Faculty
for the use of prisoners and in
ternees of war. Cushion states that
the YMCA “hais, shipped more
than 800 pounds of books, and the
Aggies and Faculty contributed
$463 to War Prisoner’s Aid.”
Those books are sent to War
Prisoner’s Aid headquarters in
New York where they are reshipp
ed to prisoners in Germany, Italy,
Canada, the United States and other
countries. They provide invaluable
recreational and education to the
men in the.prison camps.
Some idea of the welcome which
the books receive in the prison
camps may be gained from the
letters of thanks which come to
War Prisoner’s Aid from the in
ternees.
From a South African Prisoner in
Italy
“I acknowledge with thanks the
receipt of your letter and books.
I am deeply indebted to you for
the trouble you have taken. I am
entering upon my seventh month
of imprisonment and yours is the
(See PRISONERS, page 4)
Revival of the weekly Kadet Ka-
pers program began last Saturday
night in the Assembly Hall when
Richard Jenkins, Kadet Kapers di
rector, presented to a large audi
ence, a talent filled group of danc
ing girls and singing Aggies.
Highlight of the program was
a contest between a team of eight
Aggies and another team of eight
Air Corps boys, in which the boys
tried to pass along a little white
ring from one man to the next by
means of a toothpick held between
the teeth of each boy. The Air
Speaker
Final Rotary
Club Lecturer
To Speak Today
Lecture To Be Held In
Assembly Hall at 3 P M;
Aggies and Profs Invited
Last of the series of lectures to
appear under the Institute of In
ternational Understanding, spon
sored by the Bryan Rotary Club,
Dr. Hew Roberts of Iowa City,
Iowa, will speak in the Assembly
Hall at 3 p. m. this afternoon and
at 8 p. m. at Bryan High School.
Dr. Roberts’ address will be on
“Nations Cooperating in War
Time.”
A native of Australia, Roberts
received his early education in
Australia, New Zealand, and Ox
ford University, England, and has
made extensive tours of Europe.
Through the invitation of the Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace, he made his first trip to
America, where he remained to be
come a professor at Iowa State
University. His special field is in
ternational affairs.
Rosters, Snapshots,
And Club Photographs
Due NowforLonghorn
Marvin McMillan, Longhorn edi
tor, warned that all organization
snopshots, rosters of the organiza
tions, and club pictures must be
in this week if they are to appear
in the Longhorn.
The deadline for the organiza
tion snaps is aSturday. From five
to seven photographs from each
organization will be accepted.
First Sergeants must turn in
the organization rosters by Fri
day if it is to be in the Longhorn.
Samples of these forms are being
sent to the 1st Sergeants, Mc
Millan said, and he stressed the
importance of making them out
correctly.
The club pictures should also
be made this week. Clubs failing
to do so will forfeit their reserva
tions for space in the Longhorn.
Corps boys were victorious after a
thrill-packed race.
Five pretty ■ Houston girls filled
up the dancing section of the pro
gram with everything from tap
dances to congas, and the “Men of
Note,” Aggie quartet, concluded
the program with several selec
tions, including a special arrange
ment of the “Spirit of Aggieland.”
Jenkins said that plans for next
week’s program were underway
and that a bigger and better than
ever Kadet Kapers could be ex
pected.
Candidates For
Graduation Must
File Applications
Applications Must Be
, Made At Registrar’s
Office by March 20th
Saturday, March 20, Is the dead
line for filing applications for de
grees to be conferred at the end
of the current semester. This
deadline applies to both graduate
and under graduate students. Those
candidates who have not already
done so should make formal appli
cation in the Registrar’s Office im
mediately said R. G. Perryman,
Assistant Registrar.
New Play Writing
Contest Opened
To A&M Students
Plays Must Be Concerned
With “Human Drama Behind
The Purchase of War Bonds”
Students interested in writing
plays are eligible to enter a new
play-writing contest now being
sponsored by the Women’s Section
of the Treasury’s Defense Savings
Staff. Open to all college students,
the plays must concern the human
drama behind the purchase of War
Bonds and Stamps and the closing
date for entries is April 1, all en
tries reaching the judges before
April 10.
Winners will receive the Treas
ury Special Award of Mprit for
distinguished service to the War
Savings Programs. Entries from
A.&M. students should be written
on plain white paper, typewritten,
double-spaced, any suitable length
but preferrably not too long, and
should be turned in at either the
Student Activities Office, base
ment of the Administration build
ing; Room 318, Dorm 11; or mailed
to the Battalion office unfolded
(rolled lightly is satisfactory).
A.&M. entries will be judged by
Dr. Stewart S. Morgan of the
English department, and the local
winner will then be sent to the
national board of judges. Heading
the panel of four national judges
is Margo Jones, of the drama de
partment of Texas University.
Other members are Mrs. Henry
Morgenthau, Hallie Flanagan Da
vis of Smith College, and Brarett
H. Clark of Dramatists Play Serv
ice.
The winning scripts will be made
available to non-commercial thea
tre groups on request.
Campus to Feature
News Reel of Final
Review During Week
Beginning at the Saturday night
prevue, a Universal Newsreel show
ing the January graduating class
at A. & M. will be shown for one
week at the Campus theater,
Charlie Tigner, manager of the
theater, said today.
“Although the reel itself is out
of date as far as news is concerned,
I think all Aggies will enjoy see
ing this camera’s eye-view of the
Final Review this past January,”
said Tigner.
Lt Kimbrough Raised
To Rank of Captain
Lieutenant Jack Kimbrough, in
structor of military science and
tactics of the Infantry Branch here,
was promoted to a captain, accord
ing to Sergeant Malcolm Thomas,
sergeant major. Captain Kim
brough’s promotion was effective
on March 11.
Accounting Society
Meet Held Tomorrow
There will be an important meet
ing of the Accounting Society to-,
morrow, March 17, at 7:00, in
Aoom 405 of the Ag building.
Plans for a banquet will be dis
cussed and those who have not paid
their dues are asked to pay them
at this time.
LONGHORN NOTICES
Chib. Pictures—Deadline, March 20.
Aggieland Snapshots—April 1.
Company Rosters—Deadline, March 15.
Aggies, Service Men Enjoy
Revival of Kapers Saturday
Town Hall Pianist
Teasipper Writes
Own Words for Aggies’
Swinging Theme Son
Art Exhibit On
Display Today In
g Architecture Dept
News from the forty acres via
“The Daily Texan,” gives this little
perversion, by Texas U poet Roy
Brown, to the Aggieland Orches
tra’s theme, “I’d Rather Be a Texas
Aggie”:
RATHER BE A TEA-SIPPER
I’d rather be a tea-sipper
A floatin’ in wealth
Than be a Texas Aggie
In abundance of health.
I’d rather ride to school each morn
In a Buick or V-8
Than walk to school in Aggieland
And always be late.
Hooray for the colors of
Orange and White
The colors that make the
Aggies have to fight!
I’d rather love the Texas Women,
Hold ’em close and tight
Than be a Texas Aggie
And be lonely each night.
The Texas Fine Art Association
will open its traveling exhibit of
paintings to the public today in the
Architecture Department’s library,
according to Gene H. Brock, cam
pus member representative. The
exhibit will . continue on display
through March 24. The student
body and the residents of Bryan
and College Station are urged to
see this exhibition of fine paint
ings.
Tuesday afternoon, March 16,
from 3 to 5 o’clock, will be desig
nated as special visiting hours for
Bryan and College Station resi
dents. Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist, Mrs. W.
E. Street, and Mrs. E. Langford
will act as hostesses for these
hours.
Ernest Langford, head of the
Architecture Department, has an
nounced that the elevator will be
available during the 3 to 5 o’clock
period Tuesday.
Elections For
School Trustees
Set for April 3
Officers Make Vacancies
Which Must Now Be Filled
Expiring Terms of Two
An election by the A. & M. Con
solidated Independent School Dis
trict will be held April 3, for the
purpose of electing two school trus
tees. Polling places for the elec
tion, will be at the Masonic Hall in
Wellborn, Bond’s Filling Station
in Rock Prairie, and the A. & M.
Consolidated High School building
here. Judges appointed for the elec
tion are: Miss Laura Eidson at
Wellborn, Mrs. Ross Bond at Rock
Prairie, and C. W. Crawford here
at College Station.
At the present time the school
board is composed of Major J. E.
Breland, president, representing
the College Hill Area; Dr. Luther
G. Jones, secretary, representing
the district at large; Dr. L. P.
Gabbard, representing the College
Park Area; E. E. Brown, repre
senting the North Gate Area; J.
T. Carroll, representing Rock Pra-
rie; and Charles Allen and B. T.
Yager, representing Wellborn. The
terms of Major J. E. Breland and
Dr. Luther G. Jones will expire in
April.
Nominations for the reelection
of these men or for the election
of new candidates should be filed
with W. D. Bunting, superinten
dent of the schools, by March 29,
1943. These nominations have to
be made by petitions and signed
by at least five qualified voters
of the district.
For further information concern
ing the election call the A. & M.
Consolidated school. According to
a statement made by W. D. Bunt
ing, superintendent, every voter
should manifest his interest in the
school by becoming interested in
this election and a good vote will
give confidence to your board
members.
El Paso Club Holds
Meet Tomorrow Night
The El Paso Club will hold its
first meeting of the present se
mester in order to nominate of
ficers. This is an important meet
ing and all members or prospec
tive members are urged to be
present. The meeting will be held
tomorrow night at 7:30 in room
206 Academic building.
Concert In
Guion Hail
At 8 O’Clock
Arrangements Made
To Give Passes From
CQ to Ags Present
Jose Iturbi, conductor and
pianist, who appears in con
certs at Guion Hall tomor
row, March 17, at 8 o’clock,
is expected by the Town Hall
Manager John Lindsey to
draw in the record attend
ance of the current season.
His program is sched
uled to consist, of as an
opening number, “Air with Var
iations” from the “Harmonious
Blacksmith” by Handel. He will
continue with the Sonata in F
Major (K 332) by Mozart, and
“Etudes Symphoniques” by Schu
mann.
After intermission, lutrbi will
resume his concert with two ma
zurkas and “Scherzo in B flat
minor” by Chopin. In a more
modern vein, will be the “Three
Preludes” by Gershwin. To con
clude his program the artist will
play two numbers typical of his
Spanish 'heritage, Plaintes, on “La
Maja et le Rossignol” by Grandos,
and the “Ritual Fire Dance” by
DeFalla.
The punched Town Hall ticket
will serve as a CQ pass on its pre
senting to any CQ officer. For those
who have no season Town Hall
cards, the ticket stub will serve as
a pass.
Popularity of Hymn
Singing Services On
Sunday Grows
Third in the new Sunday Sing
programs was held Sunday evening
after supper in the Assembly Hall
with Richard Jenkins, Singing Ca
dets director, leading the boys in
the hymn-singing. This hymn
sing is held every Sunday night
for boys who like to sing hymns
but don’t go to church on Sunday
nights.
Jenkins said that he was very
pleased with the way the boys were
taking to the new program and he
hoped that more Aggies would turn,
out in the future.
Jose Iturbi Reveals How He Feels
About Different Types of Audiences
Editor’s Note: Here Jose Iturbi ex
plains how he feels about audiences,
whether in Spanish, French or English.
His reaction to crowds is like that of
a boy to a large St. Bernard dog he has
known from his first steps. Iturbi’s
successes as a pianist have in recent
years been duplicated as a conductor.
But his feeling of personal contact with
audiences does not diminish as crowds
increase. An enthusiastic audience in
Valencia made possible the musical ed
ucation of a boy of 7, the son of a
piano tuner. Iturbi does not forget that.
Audiences have always liked him. He
always likes audiences. He puts on no
airs with them. He expects them to be
honest with him.
By Jose Iturbi
Audiences are like friends. If
they take you uncritically and all
of a sudden, you can be pretty
sure that it isn’t going to last.
You do not trust people who think
you are marvelous, or say they
think so, before they know you.
So how can audiences suddenly
know that musician is wonderful?
He may have a blinding personality
that dazzles them for a little time
into thinking he is fine, but when
they hear him again and again the
shine wears off and in the end
they say he is no good or he plays
some things all right and other
things he plays like a pig. It would
have been better if they had be
gun by thinking he was bad and
gradually got to know him by his
good work.
Tlfce best audiences are those
that go to concerts all the time.
They hear the same things played
by different artists, and the same
orchestras conducted by different
men. They can tell the good from
the bad. How can you tell if a
book is good if it is the first book
you have read? Without musical
background there can be no evalu
ation of a performance. The audi
ence may like what it hears but it
cannot know whether it was an
honest performance or not. I have
heard the Eroica played with twelve
horns. Beethoven wrote it for
three.
Honest work is everything. When
people leave a concert at which I
have played or conducted I do not
want them to go out of the hall
saying: “He was marvelous to
night. Did you notice how he waved
his arms? I was thrilled to death.”
I want them to thrill to the music,
not to me. All my life I have dis
liked the personal thrill in music.
I wish that they should forget me
and think only of the music. When
they leave the hall saying: “Isn’t
the Eroica grand music?” I am
content.
Because my mind is on what I
am going to do, because I have
something that I want terribly to
accomplish each time I give a con
cert, my inward thought is on that
thing and not on the audience. It
isn’t on the men in the orchestra
either, if I am conducting. It is
only on the thing I want to do.
People sometimes think that a con
ductor must be a great commander
of men. I do not think that is true.
I have never commanded my men.
Up to now they have always been
awfully kind to me. They help me
to accomplish the music I feel I
must give in the way I think is
honest and sincere, not as I, Jose
Iturbi feel I would like the com
poser to have meant it, or as I
think the audience wants to hear it.
When an artist starts thinking
about what the audience would
like to hear he is washed up.
For me, after the first few min
utes of a concert the audience does
not exist at all. I never feel that I
am on a stage playing to people.
I work very hard. I try to do the
very best I can every time. If I
didn’t I would know that I was
slipping. Each performance of an
honest artist or conductor is a
debut. The other performances he
has given do not matter. Only this
one. Once when I was appearing
in Philadelphia the manager came
to me and said: “We would like you
to play Beethoven’s Second Sym
phony at the next concert because
two hundred girl students from a
convent school will be in the audi
ence and all winter they have been
studying the work. Will you do
this for us?”
I said of course I would but the
thought of two hundred students
made me restudy each movement
until I felt I could do it the very
best I ever did. People said I was
crazy to work that way for a hand
ful of school girls. I didn’t do it
for them. It was because some
thing was driving me. Each time I
come before an audience it is to
accomplish a goal I have set for
myself and not to do something I
think they expect me to do. I hope
to do better than before. Some
times I do worse—but I try. A
runner can’t always beat, or even
equal, his own record.
People sometimes ask if an aud
ience ever comes between me and
the music. This happened to me
only once and that was a long
time ago in Brazil when there was
a misunderstanding over a business
matter and a critic who had not
even heard my concert, wrote a
nasty piece that prejudiced people
against me. The audience wasn’t
listening to the music. I felt they
were just thinking untrue things.
It spoiled everything. But that is
the only time that ever happened
to me.
Some audiences are more inspir
ing than others. Yes. It is the
audience with the best background
(See ITURBI, page 4) •