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Food Production To Be Aided By Use
Of Electricity Discussed At Meeting
Dean Bolton Speaker at Texas Committee on Relation
Of Electricity to Agriculture Held on Campus
Thursday; Electrification Program and Service Discussed
Plans for further aiding Texas farmers in meeting 1943
food production quotas by more efficient use of electric serv
ice were discussed here Thursday at a meeting of the Texas
Committee on the Relation of Electricity to Agriculture, con
ducted by F. C. Bolton, Chairman, and dean of Texas A. &
M. College.
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic for which it
stands — one nation indivisible with liberty and jus
tice for all. ,,
Walton Stresses Importance of Sports
Program in College At Banquet Here,
Needed
Summer Cotton School
Students Welcomed by
Dean Kyle Thursday
Magician and Sing
Song Features on
Kapers Sat. Night
The “Mysterious Howard,”
famed magician, will be the fea
ture attraction on the weekly
Kadet Kapers program this Sat
urday night at 6:15 in the As
sembly Hall.
This will mark the showman’s
third appearance on the campus.
Those who saw his other per
formances say he is one of the
best in the business, Howard’s
favorite tricks are those done
with cards and from all reports,
he is very dexterious with them.
Another feature on the program
will be the singing of “Der
' Fuehrer’s Face” by all present
and a special chorous by Ralph
Greenberg. Also a contest will be
held to determine the “Crabbiest
Man at A. & M.” An announce
ment of a new contest called the
“All Service Singaroo” will be
made and the details made known.
According to Richard Jenkins,
the show will be well worth while
and should entertain all. Every
one is invited to come and bring
his date.
Women Take Place
Of Men In Many
Engineering Phases
Majoring in such college sub
jects as dramatics and home eco
nomics or doing secretarial work
may have no connection with
electrical engineering, but women
with such backgrounds are now
assisting experienced engineers in
General Electric’s industrial en
gineering department.
Before the war, technical de
tails regarding the sales and
shipment of G-E electric equip
ment were handled entirely by
men who, following graduation
from engineering schools, were
given experience conducting prac
tical tests on Company industrial
apparatus. Because of the man
power shortage and the small
percentage of women graduating
from technical schools, women
with several years of secretarial
experience and girls with college
degrees in liberal arts are now
being trained to handle as much
of the technical work as pos
sible.
One girl studied fashion design
and worked with a movie con
cern previously. Another major
ed in dramatics in college and
was subsequently employed in a
hospital. A third studied home
economics and once worked as a
playground instructor. Others
majored in French and Italian,
English, psychology and social
sciences, with year courses in
math or physics thrown in, but
only two members of the group
majored in math. Secretarial
work is the background of the
remaining members of the group.
Former Aggie is
Commissioned Ensign,
Corpus Christi N. S.
James B. Eldridge has joined the
ranks of former Aggies now serv
ing as officers in the United States
Navy. He was graduated from the
Naval Air Training Center, Cor
pus Christi, on May 29, and was
commissioned an ensign in the U.
S. Naval Reserve.
He is the son of Mrs. Della A.
Eldridge of Fort Worth.
VISITS HERE
Dr. Blau of Houston spent
Thursday visiting on the Campus
of A. & M. College with friends.
The Texas CREA, which for
almost twenty years has been fos
tering rural electrification devel
opment in Texas and working on
rural electrification problems, is
composed of electric service com
pany executives, educators and
farmers from various parts of the
state. The Committee was formed
in 1925, by combining a Rural
Lines Committee, formed in 1921,
by the Southwestern Public Serv
ice Association, an organization of
the electric utility companies op
erating in Texas, and a similar
committee, appointed in 1923 at
A. & M. College of Texas to study
the problems of rural electrifica
tion.
At a meeting called in 1935, at
which Dr. Bolton was Chairman,
the scope of the committee’s activ
ities was widened and plans were
completed for more intensive co
operation in rural electrification
work.
It was pointed out by Dr. Bol
ton at College Station Thursday
that the Texas CREA occupies a
position in the front ranks of such
organizations of the entire coun
try. “It has done a great deal of
work,” he said, “in the application
of electrical equipment to farm
life. It has sponsored agricultural
research programs, has been help
ful in the development of low-cost
rural electric lines, and has at all
times been a center of support and
a correlating agency in those
movements which will further a
constructive program of broad
rural electrification. In view of the
pending food problems incident to
the war, the work of this Commit
tee has become of even greater im
portance than in the past.”
“In its wartime program, the
Texas Committee on the Relation
of Electricity to Agriculture has
three principal objectives,” pointed
out P. T. Montfort, rural electrifi
cation specialist of Texas A. & M.
College and project director for
the TCREA. “First of these is to
help the farmer keep present elec
trical equipment in operation; sec
ond, to develop new methods and
materials that have gone to war,
and third, to continue research de
velopment of new practices and
equipment to be available after
the war.”
Mr. Montfort, in reporting on
the activities of the Committee for
the past year, pointed out that
much homemade equipment had
been developed at A. & M. for use
in farming, such as poultry brood
ers, pig brooders, food dehydra
tors, egg cleaners, egg coolers,
and farm refrigeration equipment.
Plans for making and instructions
for using this equipment have been
furnished to county agents and
electric service companies. Many
of the electric companies have re
printed these plans and instruc
tions and circulated them widely
among farmers over the state.
CORRECTION
In Thursday’s issue of the Bat
talion, an announcement was car
ried stating that Henry Koontz,
Sheriff of Brazos county, and How
ard Lee, College Station Chief of
Police would be hosts to the FBI
conference held at A. & M. June
17. This statement, which was is
sued from the Houston office of
the FBI, and was in error since
Mr. Lee is not connected with the
College Station police force at the
present. The announcement should
have read that Mr. Henry Koontz,
Sheriff of Brazos county, and C.
N. Surber, Chief of Police of Col
lege Station, will be hosts to the
FBI meeting June 17.
LEAVES SATURDAY
Jack Beasley, son of Col. Beas
ley, former resident of College
Station, is leaving today to return
to West Point after having spent
his furlough visiting on the cam
pus. Young Beasley lived at Col
lege Station and attended the Con
solidated school.
Ex Reports for Duty
At Army Air Field
At Carlsbad, N. M.
First Lieutenant Price Hobgood
has reported for duty'at the Carls
bad 'Army Air Field, Carlsbad,
New Mexico.
He is the son of William H. Hob-
good, Iradell, Texas.
He is a graduate of Texas A. &
M. College, College Station, Tex
as, and was commissioned August
18, 1942, upon completion of O.
T. S.
HILLEL CLUB
The first meeting of the sum
mer semester of the Hillel Club
will be held Sunday evening, June
13, at 6:30 p. m. at the Lounge
Room of Sbisa Hall, it was an
nounced Friday afternoon by
Harold Bor of sky, president. Re
freshments will be served, it was
stated. All members and pros
pective members of the club are
urged to attend.
Nazi Prisoners
Loose In Texas
TEMPLE, Texas—Indwig Jung,
21, and Harold Stalleicjen, 22, Ger
man prisoners of war who escaped
from North Camp Hood Wednes
day morning, were still at large
Thursday. Two others, Adolph
Bodenberg and Rolf Zeischang,
both 22, were captured Wednesday
night.
Earlier, military police had re
ported the capture of the fifth es
capee, Hans Massoeur, 21, at Flat,
eight miles south of the intern
ment cantonment.
SIGNS TRADE PACT BILL
WASHINGTON. — P r e s i dent
Roosevelt Monday signed legisla
tion extending for two years his
authority to negotiate reciprocal
trade agreements with other coun
tries, and in doing so, raise or
lower existing tariff rates as much
as 50 per cent.
The Singing Cadets are
badly in need of a piano player
who can read music fairly well
and can spare the time that
is needed for practicing. The
position would be as assistant
pianist. The need is urgent so
anyone who thinks he would
like to join the Cadets is urged
to see Richard Jenkins at the
Student Activities Office at
once.
Grove To Be Scene
Of All-Service Men
Dance Tonight, 8:30
The Grove will be the scene of
a large ’rowd of dancers when
Saturday night rolls around and
all of the service men who are
stationed on the campus have |
their dates here. The dance will I
start at 8:30 and will last until)
11:30 at which time the Aggies
will have to leave for their dorms
so as not to be late at C.Q. A juke
box with records of all the na
tionally known bands will feature
the music which should be fast
and snappy for those who like it
and soothing waltzes as a change
in tempo.
Every Saturday night during the
summer session will have, weather
permitting, some sort of a dance
with music of records on most of
the nights but bands furnishing
the danceable rhythm on special
occasions. When a band is sched
uled for a dance and the weather
does not permit the holding of it
at the Grove, Sbisa Hall will be
used.
Everyone is urged to bring his
girl, wife, or just come stag and
have three hours of enjoyment
that would keep you from think
ing about home all during the
coming week. Jenkins who is in
charge of the dance is especially
anxious that the Grove be filled
to capacity with dancers.
At a banquet given for the
newly appointed athletic officers,
President T. O. Walton stressed
the importance of the athletic
program for the present semes
ter. Dr. Walton enumerated sev
eral letters he has received from
Aggies in O.C.S. and these let
ters show that in many cases the
Aggies are setting the pace for
their officers.
Mrs. W. L. Penberthy, head of
the athletic department outlined
the intramural program. There
are twenty-two different teams
from the respective companys. In
the case of tennis there are to
be two seven and one eight team
leagues. Baseball and volleyball
will be divided into two leagues
of eleven teams each. Elimina
tion will be by round dobin. Track
and Swimming meets are to be
scheduled later in the summer
and possibly other sports.
Participation in intramurals
will not be compulsory, but every
one who can is urged to attend.
Regular P. E. uniforms will be
reg for intramurals as well.
Batt Press Club
Officers Elected
Wednesday Night
Wednesday night in Battalion
Office, a Press Club Meeting was
held and officers for the present
semester were elected. Represen
tatives from the Navy, Air Corps,
and Engineers were present at
the gathering.
The officers elected were as fol
lows: President, Sylvester Boone;
Vice President, M. J. Kaff; Sec
retary Treasurer, W. R. Peters;
Parliamentarian, Robert Irving.
Boone and Irving are Aggies
while Kaff is with the Engineers
and Peters a member of the Air
Corps here.
The executive council is made
up of the afore named club of
ficers and Lt Albert Kelly, of
the Air Corps; Lt. T. Ricken-
backer, of the Navy; L. D. Boone,
Student Activities Head; and D.
W. May, Student Publications Ad-
vistor.
Brazos D. A. R. Urges
Flag Day Observation
by Displaying Flag
As a part of the Flag Day ob
servance Monday, June 14, the
Brazos County Chapter of the
D.A.R. is urging every one to
fly the United States Flag, ac
cording to announcement made
yesterday by Mrs. S. W. Bilsing,
regent of the Chapter.
Mrs. Bilsing expressed the
chapters wish that as many of
the flags of the Allied Nations
as well as that of the United
States, since all of these nations
are fighting for a common cause
—the liberation and freedom -of
all oppressed peoples every where
and for the preservation of free
dom in the lands where it is not
existing.
The week of June 14-20 has
been set aside as Flag Week,
Mrs. Bilsing pointed out, by spe
cial proclamation of Gov. Coke
Stevenson.
“A display of our flag will help
us to be flag conscious,” Mrs.
Bilsing stated. “Personally each
person can take for himself the
allegiance to the flag!”
Free Movies Sunday
At Assembly at 4;
Sponsored by 0CD
Free movies sponsored by the
Office of Civilian Defense will be
shown at the Assembly Hall at
four o’clock Sunday afternoon.
This week’s movie is The Nazis
Strike, the second in the excellent
series, Why We Fight.
Bismarck, speaking for the Ger
man nation said, “We will domi
nate the whole world.” Few will
deny that in 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm
had the same purpose, and Hitler
has expressed this to be his goal
in every utterance and ruthless
action §ince his coming to power.
The Nazis Strike reviews the well
calculated plans put into execution
within and without Germany to
bring about world conquest. Ger
many’s geo-politicians set up a
system of labor to produce war
materials and more war materials.
Experts and thousands of students
were sent into every country as
spies. Inside Germany all those
who were not in sympathy with
the plan of world conquest were
either put to death or imprisoned
in concentration camps.
At the same time Herr Hitler
was carrying on the most shame
ful diplomatic program in history.
Treaties were worthless scraps of
paper which he signed to carry
out his desires. In 1935, over the
dead body of the treaty of Ver
sailles, he declared national con
scription in Germany, and soon
every available man was goose
stepping over Germany with eyes
turned always outside her boun
daries.
How ironical and how madden
ing now to see news reels of Cham
berlain making the Munich Pact
and returning to London with the
self-destructive phrase, “Peace in
our Time.”
The most vivid, horrifying scenes
of The Nazis Strike are those
showing the German invasion of
Poland and the gallant fight the
Poles, outnumbered six to one in
every way, put up. No one can
doubt, watching the helpless anger
and unbearable grief which the
camera has caught on their faces
as German bombers scream and
roar above their riddled cities
strewn with bodies of dead chil
dren and women, that Poland will
one day strike back.
The movie ends with the en
trance of Great Britain into the
war and the heartening scene of
Churchill speaking iron words of
courage and vengeance to the
English Parliament.
Students attending the 34th
Summer Cotton School were of
ficially welcomed to the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of
Texas Thursday by E. J. Kyle,
dean of the School of Agricul
ture, and heard the first lecture
of the 1943 school Friday on “The
Plant Breeder’s Contribution to
Good Cotton,” by D. T. Killough,
agronomist, specializing in cotton
breeding for the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment tSation.
The 1943 school began May 31
and will continue until July 10.
It is being conducted under the
direction of Dr. Ide P. Trotter,
head of the Department of Agron
omy. Present takinge the course
are about 50 students from Texas,
Louisiana, Georgia, California,
Oklahoma, Mexico, Peru and Ecua
dor. Others have made reserva
tions to come in during the sec
ond and third two-weeks period.
For the first time women have
enrolled, present registration be
ing four, three students and one
listed as a visitor. Several author
ities have stated that they lookde
for women to help relieve the pres
ent acute shortage of experienced
cotton classers the same as they
have gone into other lines of bus
iness heretofore regarded as be
longing exclusively to men.
It was pointed out in Dean
Kyle’s talk that cotton is the most
important fiber grown, it should
be the cheapest to produce, and
he predicted that as a result of
the war many new uses for cot
ton will be found. Even in nor
mal times at least 50 per cent of
the people of the world have in
sufficient clothing. When the con
quered people of Europe and Asia
are freed from Nazi and Japa
nese bondage there should be a
great demand for cotton for cloth
ing and industry in those coun
tries, he said.
Dean Kyle predicted that the
United States will come out of
the war as the most powerful
country in the world has ever
known. Enumerating our air pow
er in particular, and our lack of
desire for territorial expansion he
declared this country would be
in a position to be of real serv
ice to mankind by making our
cargo planes and instruments of
commerce between the countries
of abundance and those in want.
In this respect Dean Kyle sug
gested that the nations of the
western hemisphere, least touch
ed by actual fighting on their
soils, should take unified action
in feeding and clothing the world.
Classes in the cotton school be
gan June 1. Lectures and recita
tions have been held daily from
8:30 to 9:15 a. m., and grading
and stapling from 9:30 a. m. un
til noon, and from 1:30 until 3:30
p. m.
It was pointed out by Dr. Trot
ter that it is the custom to let
the school get well under way be
fore having lectures to the group
by authorities on various phases
of the cotton business. Mr. Kil-
lough’s address was the first one
scheduled in keeping with this
practice. Later talks will be made
by Dr. E. P. Humbert, head of the
Department of Genetics; Dr. F. L.
Thomas, chief of the Division of
See SUMMER, Page 4
Aggie-ex Killed in
North African Action
Second Lieutenant Eugene D.
Wilmeth, 22, King of the Texas A.
& M. Cotton Ball in 1942 and Pres
ident of the Agronomy Society
during his senior year, was killed
in action in North Africa May 7.
Lieutenant Wilmeth, who was
schooled at Fort Benning and Fort
Knox after his graduation from
A. & M. a year ago, went to Eng
land last September and then to
North Africa two months later.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilmeth, of
Ebony, and other relatives.