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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1943 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 39. A&M STARTS 4-SEMESTER YEAR PROGRAM IN 1944 Aggies to Have Christmas And Thanksgiving Hohdays Intramural Swimming Meet Finals Are Held On Sunday Third Company Winner; First Company Second; All Say Races Very Close Sunday afternoon at the Downs Natatorium the finals in the Intramural Swimming Meet were held with 3rd. Co. emerging victorious. In the met th final results were as follows: 400 ft relay—3rd Co.-Albright, 4 Butchofsky, Clevenger, Scott. 1st. Co., 2nd. Hdq. Co., Vtes, 7th Co., 8th Co. 100 ft. back stroke—McLellan, 2nd. Hdq. Co., Scott, 3rd Co., Mose ley, Vets, Milyler, 1st Co., Klein- man, 7th Co., Ehrlinger, A Co. 100 ft. free style—Scott, 3rd Co., Clevenger, 3rd. Co., Burch, 1st Co., Kaufer, 7th Co., Butchofsky 3rd Co., Caldwell, A Co. Diving—Flams, Vets, Cowie, D Co. 200 ft. military swim—Burch, 1st Co., Fortson, 1st Co., Cleven ger 3rd Co., Miller, 1st. Co., New- haus, 2nd Hdq. 400 ft. military swim—Vets,- Palms, Fredrickson, Stoddard Buie 2nd. Hdq. Co., 7th Co. The winners in each event will receive an intramural medal. As a whole the meet was one of the most successful ever to be held here according to most all the spectators. In the Preliminaries some of the heats were remark ably close and in the finals the winning times were considered ve ry good. First Company placed 2nd in the meet and the Vet Company 3rd. The other places were respectively, 2nd. Hdq. Co., 7th Co., and 8th Co. AGGIES at c^fcjcjLztancL JACK JACKSON Jack Jackson, a Fish who is vice-president of that class, comes from Farmersville, Texas where he graduated from the Farmersville High School. He lettered in both softball and bas ketball while at tending high school. “H” In fantry was his outfit last se mester, but he had to move to dorm 14, room 220 this semes ter because of the change i n o r g a n i zation plans. Hoyt E. Jackson of Dallas is the father of Fish Jackson, but he has lived with his grandpa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jackson of Farmersville, for the past few years. ROBERT ORRICK Robert Orrick who is Intramur al Sports Editor of the Battalion graduated from Malakoff High School where he lettered two years in football, was editor of the an nual, Vice-pres ident of the Stu- d e n t Council, Secretary of the sophomore class, and president of h i s freshman, junior, and sen ior classes. He was also vale dictorian of his Senior class. Or rick is a Fish, living in dorm 14, room 119. His outfit last semester was that of “A” Signal Corps. Orrick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Orrick, Sr., of Malakoff, Texas. HARVEY BUCK Harvey Buck, vice-president of he second semester sophomore (Eee AGGIES, page 2) Guion Hall Has All Girl Show Tuesday And Wednesday Girls From Houston On Stage This Week Tuesday and Wednesday A. & M. will see an all girl revue at Guion Hall. Shows will be put on at 2:45 p. m. and 5:00 p. m., and one at night after supper. The same schedule will hold for Wed nesday also. Some of the outstanding girls on the program are: Patsy Willi ams who does some singing and dancing. Only recently she was seen on the show at the Empire Room of the Rice Hotel in Hous ton. Some fine acrobatics will be demonstrated by Jackie Lee who has just finished work out in Hol lywood. Lory Lane will do quite a bit for the shw with her singing. Accrding to Miss McCardell she is really good. For those of us who like to see those Spanish dances and their bouncing around, Guion is bringing Marti Kaye who spe cializes in this. There will be five girls in the show which will last about twenty five minutes. The prices will be the same for the revue as they are regularly. Instructors Sent by College To Teach Throughout State Eleven itinerant instructors of the Industrial Extension Service of Texas A. & M. College today began reorganizing their course content and instructional material and planning methods of teaching in their respective fields of work. The conference will continue for two weeks. James R. D. Eddy, State Direct or for Vocational Education, to day began work with these men explaining the national regulation and policies regarding expendi ture of Smith-Hughes and George Deen funds and State Vocational funds from which A. & M. College is reimbursed for this service. V. L. Engberg and W. D. Beas ley organize and conduct courses for industrial plant protection of ficers and municipal police. Ed Nauert, C. L. Pierce and E. S. Reynolds each cover an area of the State instructing electric line crews employed by REA Coopera tives in proper and safe methods of constructing and maintaining electric lines. Between these three men each cooperative in Texas is visited once each month. J. R. Dobson sets up training programs for industrial and muni- (See INSTRUCTORS, Page 4) Hillel Club Held Meeting Sunday The A. and M. Hillel Club met Sunday night at 6:30 in the Loung ing Room of Sbisa Hall. The pro gram was the radio discussion on the ‘‘Arab-Jewish Question.” Cri ticisms were made and taken of both sides of the question. Dr. J. Q. Hays of the English depart ment made a short talk on “Radio Speaking.” . At the meeting it was announced that Dr. Ettlinger of Austin will conduct the Jewish High Holiday services this year for Aggies and servicemen in the YMCA chapel. OPERA—A scene from one of the productions of the Philadelphia Opera Company which will be presented here on Town Hall February 21. This opera company is unique in that it combines modern language and modern dress with the beauty of the music of the classics. * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Philadelphia Opera To Be Presented On Town Hall Just Like Stalking Game, Says Texas Marine Of Japs SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.—“It was just like stalk ing game in my native Texas,” Marine FIRST LT. FRANK R. ANDERWALD OF BANDERA, TEXAS, said as he displayed a captured Jap .31 caliber machine gun brought back from Viru Har bor, New Georgia. “Only the game shoots back,” he added. “There wasn’t a man in my platoon who showed fear or slack ed off in spite of the fact that this was the first time they were see ing action,” Lieutenant Anderwald continued. “We kept contact with each oth er by calling. “When we crawled up to the machine gun nest I found that I had lost my pistol, some of my grenades, all my carbine maga zines except the one in the carbine (See STALKING, Page 4) The Philadelphia Opera Compa ny, with three seasons of revolu tionary success behind it, will come to A. & M. Town Hall on February 21. This aggregation of young A- merican actor-singers, who have introduced Philadelphia audiences averaging 3000 at a performance, to a new and invigorating kind of opera, have been credited with ma king operatic history by Boston and New York critics. Averaging twenty-seven years of age, and with not one overstuf fed waistline among them, they are led by the dynamic young conductor Sylvan Levin who was assistant to Dr. Leopold Stokows ki for ten years and executed no table conducting assignments on his own, among them the famous Robin Hood Dell opera seasons in Philadelphia. The company comes here in the course of its first tour. Under the veteran guidance of S. Hurok, New York impresario, they will visit some twenty cities, mean while conducting a complete opera season at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Aggies Retain A&M Spirit at Camp Sibert Pvt. Chester Alan Gash In Camp Sibert News About half of the trainees in the current diminutive M Co. 1st Regt. consist of a group of advanc ed SWC ROTC students recently transported from the campus of The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. These erstwhile students of chemical warfare, fot- ball, and the technologies have al ready had over two years of CWS training and are now completing their Army basic in preparation for an eventual career as CWS officers. During the first few months of intensive training at Sibert these Aggies were but a small numeri cal portion of the trainees of Co. ‘MM” and while they could be in dividually recognized by the big A. and M. ring on their engagement ring finger, and by their general proficiency in the gadegtry of war, they were not outstandingly distinguishable from the other soldiers whose college never won a fotball championship. Hold The Ground But during the past two weeks the Aggies have come into their own. A great portion of their brother trainees have left the com pany and since all of them re main, they now constitute a form idable portion of the soldier body. They have renamed the few barracks in which are quartered “Leggett Hall”, the company street is now referred to as “Mili tary Walk” the parade grounds has become the campus, and the orderly room is now called the “Bull’s Office.” Even the officers refer to them as “You Aggies.” Own Language It is, however, in the mess hall that the advantage of their high er education becomes most evi dent. A strange and colorful vo cabulary replaces the pedestrain nomenclature for food to which we ignorant Harvard and Prince ton men are acustomed. One hears exotic phrases, such as, “shoot the stud, Bud”, or “Deal (See AGGIE, Page 4) Freshman Failures Percentage isBelow Previous Years Wilcox Reports On Freshman Class According to G. B. Wilcox, only 38% of the first semester fresh men were failing their subjects at mid-semester. This compares favorably with the rate of 42% failing at mid-semester of last se mester and the average of 45% of all the previous freshman classes. Of the 800 new freshmen who en tered in May, around 260 were on the deficiency list. Many of these were on the dividing line and are expected to bring their work up by September 18. Giesecke Discusses Work In Article It is difficult to balance a hot water heating system when both radiators and convectors are used in the same curcuit, states Dr. F. E. Giesecke, professor emeritus of heating, ventilating and air con ditioning at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The heat emission of a radiator varies with the temperature dif ference between water and air according to one power and the heat amission of a convector va ries in accordance with a different power, he explains. These observations are made in a paper, “How to Size Radiators and Convectors When Used in the Same Hot Water Heating Sys tem,” which is carried in the Au gust or current issue of the maga zine, “Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning,” of which he is a consulting and contributing edi tor. In his article, Giesecke uses a chart and explains the problem of balance, discussing two examples of it. He suggests sizing the radiators and convectors so that they will be in balance when the outdoor temperature is slightly below the mean outdoor temperature for the heating system. Thus, the heat emission of the convector will be somewhat high during colder wea ther and somewhat low during warmer weather. A native Texan and graduate of the Texas A. & M College in 1886, Giesecke spent 42 years on the A. & M. faculty and 15 years at the University of Texas prior to his retirement at College Sta tion three years ago. Holder of four engineering degrees and many awards and honors in his pro fession, he designed and super vised the construction of many of the dormitories and other buildings on the A. & M. campus while ser ving as college architect. Since his retirement, Giesecke divides his time between College Station and New Braunfels where he owns a summer camp. A. & M. Teacher Improves Charts The August issue of the General Company’s “Climateer”, gives evi dence that the new G-E Psychro- metric Chart is continuing to get a good reception. The chart looks like a spider web and is used by engineers in designing air condi tioning installations. The improve ment referred to was suggested by E. G. Smith, an Aggie Physics Professor since 1924, and consisted in lightly shading the space adja cent to certain important lines. The article was headed “Improv ed Psychrometric Chart Brings Bouquet and Suggestion.” The last paragraph contained some humor ous suggestions for using a G-E flourescent lamp and a medicine dropper to aid the designer. The text of the article is given in the following paragraphs. “Chet Williams of General Air (See A. & Page 4) Freshman Ball Turns Out To Be Success As Planned A. & M. To Change Program To Fit In With Army ASTP Schedules Next Year The college is planning to go on a quarterly term basis at the end of the next semester which begins on September 28. President Bolton confirmed the statement that the school would not receive three weeks vacation at the end of the ■f present semester. Since the college is planning to coincide its program with that of the ASTP next February, the Corps will receive the usual week vaca tion at mid semester, four days at Thanksgiving and a week and a half at Christmas. This will place the college in a position to have four' semesters a year the begin ning of 1944. President Bolton also said that the college had planned to inaugu rate this program at the end of the present semester to coincide with the Army’s plans, but that could not be aranged. The Army will start a new ASTP course on November 8 and the College had planned to begin it one month earlier. For the coming semester the following announcements are be ing made: Sept. 24, 1943 Registration of new students. Sept. 25, 1943 Registration of old students. Sept. 27, 1943 Classes begin. Nov. 25-28, 1943 Thanksgiving holidays. Dec. 18, 1943 Christmas holidays begin at noon Dec. 28, 1943 Christmas holidays end at 6 p.m. Jan. 29, 1944 End of semester. The third semester is scheduled to begin on February 7 of 1944. Registration will take place on the 4 and 5 of February. Fish and Frogs Show Appreciation Through the kind consideration and cooperation of everyone in gen eral, the Freshman Ball was a huge success. By success we mean both financially and spiritually. We hesitae to begin to thank in dividuals; since everyone has co operated so well, we are afraid that someone may be missed. However we do want to give SPECIAL THANKS TO THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. Mr. Boone has given us an over-share of his time and has worked untiringly for us. His ef forts are largely responsible for the success. MR. HENSEL and the landscape department who so generously fur nished the shrubbery and palms to decorate the orchestra stand.. MR. HALL and the Printing Office for preparing tickets and programs with only a few hours notice due to our negligence. THE COMMANDANT’S OF FICE AND THE MILITARY STAFF. Col. Welty made arrange ments for transportation of the orchestra from Bryan Field to the grove. Other officers came with their wives who made swell cha perones. Major Davis and Major Lerner were especially beneficial in clearing Dorm 14 and helping the class in general. Lt. John Griffin of the Air Corps contri buted by sponsoring a solid or chestra and flying down. THE SENIOR CLASS for com ing and. bringing dates. Also the other class officers, yell leaders and guests. THE BATTALION STAFF for giving us plenty of publicity. We appreciate it! MR. JENKINS and MARVIN BROWN for selling drinks and providing entertainment Saturday night at Kadet Kapers. THOSE CUTE GIRLS who came down, making the poor Aggie dates (and bird-dogs) exceedingly happy. With a considerable nest-egg left in the freshman fund and the memory of a swell week-end fresh on our mind, we can now get down to work again for final quizzes. Things like this make us realize what a fine place Aggieland real ly is. —The Freshman Class, “Fish” I C. R. West, President. Aggie Appointed Naval Flyer Cadet C. E. Moses, Jr., 21, son of Mr. C. E. Moses of Rockdale, was re cently appointed a Naval Aviation Cadet and was transferred to the Naval Air Training Center, Pen sacola, Fla., for intermediate flight training. Prior to entering the Naval ser vice, he attended Texas A. & M. for two years. Upon completion of the inten sive course at the “Annapolis of the Air.” Cadet Moses will receive his Navy “Wings of Gold” with the designation of Naval Aviator, and will be commissioned an En sign in the Naval Reserve or a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve. LISTEN TO WTAW Tuesday, August 31 6:02 a. m. Texas Farm and Home Program . . . TQN, Extension— R. R. Lancaster; USD A War | Board. 111:20 a. m. Musical Moment 11:25 a. m. Today’s Summary on the Home Front 11:30 a. m. Current Economic Problems 11:40 a. m. Dramatized News Event 11:45 a. m. Chats to Texas Home makers 11:55 a. m. News-Interviews 12:00 a. m. Sign-Off Wednesday, September 1 6:02 a. m. Texas Fahm and Home Program . . . TQN, Poultry Husbandry—D. H. Reid; Triple A 11:20 a. m. Musical Moment 11:25 a. m. Today’s Summary on the Home Front Texas Agricultural Workers Will Hold Meeting Tuesday The summer meeting of the Texas Agricultural Workers Asso ciation will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Aggieland Inn on the campus of Texas A. & M. Col lege. D. T. Simons, president, will preside at the luncheon meeting, and a special program will be pre sented. Mr. Simon?, of Fort Worth, is Texas field man for the American Jersey Cattle Club, and also will 11:30 a. m. Treasury Star Parade preside at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Texas Agri cultural Workers Association fol lowing the luncheon meeting. 11:45 a. m. Extension Program— Ruby Mashburn 11:55 a. m. Air Corps News 12:00 a. m. Sign-Off