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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 57
Brazilian Soprano Appears on Town Hall Tonight
Bidu Sayao Sings on Guion
Hall Stage to Open Season
Senior Class Election Held;
Cox, Layton, Morvant In
Class Sections For Football Games Are
Set Up; Class ’45 Invited to Section
At a meeting of the Senior class held Wednesday even
ing at 7:00 o’clock in the Lounge of Sbisa Hall, Robert C. Cox
of Dallas was elected president.
J. H. Morvant of Sulfur, Louisiana, was elected vice-
president of his class and Robert' 1
E. Layton of Waco was elected to
the position of secretary-treasur
er. Hank Avery, ex-sports editor
of the Battalion who was given
a medical discharge from the Army
and who is now at school to fin
ish his degree, was elected histor
ian of the class of ’45.
At the meeting the Senior Class
made arrangements for the current
semester. Art Graf presided at the
meeting until the president was
elected. The Senior class is com
posed of all seniors on the campus,
as there are not enough members
of the Class of ’45 alone to be a
sufficient representative body from
that class.
Those members of the Class of
’45 who are in the service at the
College cannot act officially at any
event, although they may attend
by invitation any function spon
sored by the Senior class.
It was decided that the same
class sections would be used at
football games as used during
previous years. A lay-out of the
sections will be published in a
later issue of the Battalion. Ac
tivated seniors are naturally in
vited to sit in the senior section
at all football games.
Organized Labor Is
Viewed By College
DETROIT, Michigan—A labor
education program, new to De
troit, has been started by Wayne
University developed in coopera
tion with representatives of or
ganized labor in the Detroit area.
The labor program represents
the first attempt on the part of
university authorities to set up an
extensive series of studies designed
to primarily fit the needs of the
working man.
The bulletin describing the pro
gram lists 77 different courses in
a dozen different fields, including
accounting, art, economics, English,
government, history, home econo
mics, law, shop mathematics, mu
sic, recreation, sociology and
speech.
“The sponsors of this venture
are convinced that the worker
needs university courses which
deal specifically with his problems
and which are streamlined and
stripped of tedious non-essenti
als,” Dr. Harrison B. Fagan, as
sociate professor of economics at
Wayne and co-ordinator of the
labor program.
Dr. Fagan stressed the fact that
a number of courses had been intro
duced which are of interest prima
rily to women. He laid particular
emphasis on personality clinic
which will be directed by Myrtle
Labbitt, local radio lecturer whose
programs have a wide following.
Student Employees
Wanted At Once
A number of jobs are available
for students who desire work ac
cording to W. R. Horsely, director
of Student Employment . There
are jobs in the mess hall, the Ex
tension Service, Montgomery Ward,
and other places around the cam
pus. Thirty-five or forty student
employees are needed.
The Student Employment office
is open all day long. Anyone in
terested may see Mr. Horsely in
Room 33 of the basement of the
Administration Building.
Chemists Training
Being Speeded Up
ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The supply
of chemists and chemical engineers
is drying up at the source, and
within a year or two there will be
no more fully trained graduates
in these fields, says a report of
the committee on the profession
al training of chemist of the
American Chemical Society. Pro
fessor W. Albert Noyes, Jr., of the
University of Rochester is chair-
“The maximum time now allow
ed by Selective Service for defer
ment of students of chemistry and
of other fields of technology is 24
months, ” it is explained. “It is
the opinion of the committee that
the present requirements cannot
be met in less than two and two-
thirds calendar years which would
include eight semesters in an ac
celerated tri-semester schedule.”
“At present freshmen and sopho
mores become eighteen years of
age before they are within 24
months of graduation and cannot
be feferred. The stream of tech
nical students is therefore drying
up at the source; already enroll
ment is down to about one-third
of normal. Unless some provision
is made for a longer period of de
ferment for chemists and engineers,
within one or two more years, there
will be no filly trained graduates
in these technical fields.” The com
mittee urged men already in ser
vice to plan to return to college
later to complete the standard re
quirements for complete training.
Aggie Sweetheart
Is Presented At
Saturday’s Game
Hunter Escorts Queen;
Cox Presents Bouquet;
Band Plays Dedication
Miss Lena Marie Adams, the
Aggie Sweetheart, was officially
crowned during the half of the
T. C. U. game. Sumner Hunter,
president of the junior class, es
corted Lena Marie and Robert
Cox, president of the senior class
presented the bouquet from the
corps.
Just before thp coronation the
90-piece Aggie Band played “Let
Me Call You Swettheart” in dedi
cation to the sweetheart school, T.
S. C. W. Immediately after the
ceremony Col. R. J. Dunn led the
band playing Tessie-land’s alma
mater.
The entire Aggie section, com
posed of 2,000 Aggies and approx
imately 500 Tessie-W-ites stood
while alma maters of A. & M., T.
S. C. W., and T. C. U. were play
ed. The T. C. U. band came on the
field immediately after the Aggie
display. Theirs was a a display of
twirling and marching in their
purple and white uniforms. Their
rendition of the “Aggie War
Hymn” was especially welcomed in
the Aggie section.
Friday night before the game
a dance had been given for the
Aggies by the T. S. C. W. girls in
the Union Building. The Campus
Serenaders played for this dance
while the N. T. A. C. orchestra
played for a similar occasion in the
T. C. U. gymnasium that same
night.
The two missing links in pro
fessor A. A. Applegate’s journa
lism clhss at Michigan State report
ed late but in unison recently.
When calling the roll, no reply
came to the names of Eileen Fink
and Marilyn Zink.
A few seconds later the two
missing class members entered. To
Applegate’s query, “What are your
names?’’ the two replied, “Fink
and Zink.”
Hitch-hiking Is Still
Aggie Method of Travel
By Ed Katten
Hitchhiking has always been one
of the greatest traditions of Aggie-
land. People have heard of the Ag
gies’ prowess at “thumbing” all
over the country. Nearly every boy
that made the L.S.U. game thumbed
his way there and back at least as
far as Houston.
The one thing that makes Ag
gies the greatest hitchhikers in the
country is the traditions they have
set down for hitch-hiking. In the
“Old School,” one of the first
things that every freshman was
taught was how to hitchhike and
its traditions. Today a freshman
has to learn these things for him
self.
The first man in line does the
thumbing for the whole group who
stand away from the road a good
distance. When a car stops, the
man doing the thumbing asks the
driver where he is going and the
number of boys he can take. The
men that ride in the car should im
mediately introduce themselves to
the driver—“Jones is my name” to
men, and “My name is John Jones”
to women. Never smoke without
first getting the driver’s permis
sion. These are but a few of the
traditions that make the Aggies
the world’s greatest thumbers.
As said before, the Aggies at
L.S.U. nearly all thumbed their
way. The few that didn’t either
had cars or rides with boys who did
have cars. Some of their experi
ences make better conversation
than can be heard in most bull
sessions in other schools. Most of
the rides had to L.S.U. were in
trucks. One group of boys rode in
the back of a truck on top of some
chicken crates filled with chickens.
However, one boy was much luck
ier than that. He got one through
ride from Houston all the way to
Baton Rouge. On the way back one
group of boys rode in a truck from
Baton Rouge to Lafayette. It was
early in the morning and mighty
cold. There was nothing in the
truck but a bunch of burlap sacks.
They took the sacks and covered
themselves up and went to sleep.
The driver had to wake them up
in Lafayette.
Probably there are some better
stories from the Fort Worth Corps
trip. Some of the boys didn’t leave
until 3 Friday afternoon and still
made Fort Worth by 9 Friday
night. But everyone didn’t have
this type of luck. One boy trav
eled 720 miles getting up there
and back. Then there was one
group that had to ride in the back
of a hog truck and push the hogs
out of the way in order to stand
up.
On the whole the Aggies are
still the hitchhikingest people in
the world. Thumbing is getting
harder and harder due to the ra
tioning of gas and tires, but there
will still be some Aggies on the
road for a long time to come. If we
keep up the traditions there will
still be hitchhiking and it won’t
get too bad.
SINGER—Lovely Bidu Sayao, Metropolitan Opera soprano, will
open the Town Hall season here tonight with a concert on the stage
of Guion Hall. Miss Sayao will sing a concert divided into three
parts, and will be accompanied by Milna Charnley at the piano.
100 Kyle Field
Ushers Needed
For This Season
Approximately 100 men are
needed to usher for the remain
der of the football season for all
home games, according to Coach
Art Adamson. There will be no
pay for the work done; however,
each usher will be allowed to see
the game free of charge.
All men interested are request
ed to meet woth Coach Adamson
this evening at 6:10 p. m., in the
swimming pool stands.
Army Announce
New Women’s
Recruitment Plan
Eligible Women To
Choose Job They Wish
To Be Assigned
Service with the Army Air For
ces in the job of their choice was
made available to women today
under a new Women Army Corps
recruitment plan announced by the
War Department.
The campaign of tre Army Air
Forces to fill its quota of enlistees
will be inaugurated on a nation
wide basis today, (Oct. 19.) Similar
campaigns are planned by the
Army Ground Forces and Army
Service Forces.
During the Army Air Forces re
cruiting campaign all eligible wo
men will be permitted to choose
the type of job for which they wish
to be recommended for assignment.
A list has been compiled of eighteen
occupational fields, representing
more than 100 Army Air Forces
positions, which volunteers will be
allowed to uge as a guide in select
ing the job for which they are
fitted, and in which they are most
interested.
The War Department announce
ment indicated that at least half
of the specialized jobs for which
qualified women are sought are
clerical; however many will also
be assigned as link trainer opera
tors, radio operators, weather ob
servers and control tower opera
tors.
The Army Air Forces job choice
list open to women who enlist in
the WACs during the present cam
paign was said to be the out-
gfowth of a close study of the ef
fectiveness of women in certain
positions in contact with men in
the same work. An increase in the
efficiency of Army Air Forces
posts is therefore anticipated as
a result of filling many of these
jobs with qualified women.
Women interestd in joining the
WACs for service with the Army
Air Forces will be given an oppor
tunity to visit air bases and ob
serve just how jobs in occupation
al fields for which they would
volunteer are being handled, thus
(See ARMY, Page 3)
Camera Club Will
Have Meeting Wed.
The A. & M. Camera Club will
hold their regular meeting Wed
nesday night at 7:30 in the tower
of the Petroleum building, it was
announced here today by Tom Pud-
dy, sponsor of the organization.
Items of interest to camera fans
will be discussed as well as prac
tical dark-room demonstrations
given in the technique and art of
picture developing. A discussion
will be held on the lighting effects
necessary to bring out the best
qualities of the subject, it was
stated.
Servicemen on the campus who
are interested in camera work and
picture taking are urged to be
present at this meeting and to
become members of the club.
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Also, it was stated, Freshmen
and other members of the corps
are urged to be present at this
meeting if they are camera fans
or have an interest in photography.
BUT THAT EXTRA WAR BOND TODAY
Eight Performances Make Season Best Ever
To Appear on Campus; Full House Indicated
Bidu Sayao, the enchanting Brazilian soprano, will ap
pear on the stage of Guion Hall tonight at 8 p.m. Miss Sayao
is the main attraction of the Town Hall program. The lovely
singer was introduced into this country by Toscanini, who
•chose the radiant prima donna for
his soloist in Debussy’s “Blessed
Damozel.” She sang with the Phil
harmonic-Symphony Orchestra in
Apirl, 1936, and received high
praise from critics.
The very next season, Bidu Sayao
was engaged by the Metropolitan
Opera and has starred there ever
since. She has played the title
roles of Mimi in “Boheme,” Rosina
in “Barber of Seville,” Violetta in
“Traviata,” Zerlina in “Don Gio-
vanna,” Norina in “Don Pasquale,”
Susanna in “Marriage of Figaro,”
and Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet.”
Slim, petite, dark-eyed with
shining reddish brown hair and a
very charming manner, Bidu Sayao
is pretty by every international
standard, being typically Latin in
looks, She speaks Portugese, Spa
nish, French, and Italian fluently
and her “American” is progressing
rapidly. Meanwhile a lively smile
and extraordinary person magne
tism atone for minor conversation
al gaps.
“I was bom in Rio de Janeiro,”
states Miss Sayao. “As a little girl
I was mad about the theatre. Un
til I was fourteen I did not think
of music very much. My family
made me study piano and I must
say, I had a little talent.”
“But I always liked to sing and
suddenly the idea came to me that
I might become a singer. It was a
happy idea and it didn’t frighten me
at all. And so, unknown to my
family I went to a noted voice
teacher in Rio, Mme. Theodorini.”
To make a long story short, her
(See Brazilian, page 4)
Freshmen Needed
To Sell At Game
Salesmen are needed for the
concession at Kyle Field, it was
stated this morning by Ben
Waidhofer, manager, who urges
all students, especially the Fresh
men, that want to make money
at the home games to take part
in this activity.
“It has long been the custom
for Freshmen to help in this work
and receive a commission on their
sales. This year they are need
ed worse than ever,” Waidhofer
stated. “I would like to have as
many report to me as possibly
can.”
Waidhofer also pointed out
that any upper classmen wishing
to make money during the home
games, also report to him for
service at the NTAC game here
next Saturday.
Instructions will be published
in the Battalion Thursday Waid
hofer stated.
Here's That Absent
Minded Prof Again
The alarm clock situation in the
nation is admittedly bad these
days, but at Gustavus Adolphus
College in St. Peter, Minn., is was
more than critical for one coed.
B. J. Lundquist’s alarm clock
simply refused to run and so she
toted it down to the local jeweler.
Imagine her embarressment
when the jeweler asked her if she
had ever tried winding it, and,
with a twist of the wrist, the time
piece started in ticking again.
BUY THAT SLICE OF VICTO
RY TODAY!!!
College Officials and Aggies
Give Opinions on New Time
By Max Mohnke
Comments have been flying fast
and furious about the new time
system which started Monday
morning. Everyone appreciated
sleeping an extra hour yesterday
morning, but as far as keeping
this new routine—Well, that’s ano
ther question. Opinions have been
expressed pro and con in regard to
moving the clock back an hour, and
the Battalion has endeavored to
gather a cross-section of the view
points of a few of the people who
are effected by it.
Dean T. D. Brooks, dean of the
school of Arts and Sciences, has
this to say about it: “It’s necessary
for all the Aggies and soldiers who
live in the dormitories to recog
nize this time, as it gives them the
opportunity to more favorably
space their activities. It is incon
venient, however, for those people
who have to come from Bryan for
their day’s work. It’s unfortunate
that the nation as a whole could
not recognize the changes of time
which each season produces.’’
L. O. Schaper, a five-year man
in the school of Veterinary Med
icine, says, “I guess it’s all right,
but I’m married, and I don’t es
pecially like to have to wait until
six o’clock to get home. I can uti
lize my studying time quite a bit
better under the new management”
Mrs. Shepherd, an employee in
the Former Students Association,
thinks that it is not up to her to
say. “What has to be just has to
be, I guess,” she added.
A. M. Prescott, a Pre-Med So
phomore, doesn’t relish the idea in
the least. He added, “that extra
hour’s sleep the other night was
heavenly. It would be O. K., with
me to be able to get that hour’s
sleep every night, but I just don’t
care to go to bed in the wee small
hours of the morning.”
Dr. Dan Russell, head of the So
ciology Department, is very much
against the idea. Dr. Russell said,
“It doesn’t harmonize at all with
the train schedules which have to
be taken into consideration when
changing the clock in any way. It
doesn’t give me time to work in my
garden. It wouldn’t be bad at all
if the rest of the nation would go
on the same schedule, but it is
going to work a hardship on some
people the way it is now.”
R. E. James, a Sophomore En
gineer, isn't too happy about mis
sing that 12:19 train to Houston.
“There’s going to be quite a few
boys who are going to miss that
train, as they won’t get out of
class until one o’clock the way it
is run now,” he commented.
W. R. Horsley, head of the Place
ment Office says this: “I’m agin’
it. I have no particular reason for
University Has
Census Collection
GREENCASTLE, Ind.—The re
markable growth of the United
States census from 1790 to 1940,
can be traced in the census collect
ions at DePauw University.
The DePauw collection, housed in
the library, is one of the most
complete of its kind in the nation.
The library has recently purchased
facsimiles of the 1790 and 1800
censuses, and already owns ori
ginal copies of the censuses from
1840 to the present.
The first census occupies only
one tiny volume, and the informa
tion given consists merely of
counting noses, and dividing the
people into classes according to
sex, race and condition of servi
tude.
By 1840, the census bureau began
to branch out o little in its mate
rial. Deaf, dumb, blind and insane
persons were tabulated.
(Incidentally, Greencastle, home
of DePauw, is certainly no boom
town. In the census of 1840 its
population was 2,258, and in 103
years it has grown only about
2500.)
The census continued to expand,
and the 1930 census is composed of
28 volumes including population,
agricultural statistics, industry,
distribution of population, tally of
unemployment, state of the lands
in the country and countless other
topics. The 1940 census is even
larger.
The Honorable C. J. Hambro,
president of the Norwegian Par-
disliking it unless it is because IJ liament and of the League of Na
tions assembly, is the headline
speaker scheduled for the sixty-
eighth annual session of the South
east Missouri Teachers association.
Every man enrolled in the V-5
unit of Illinois Wesleyan pur
chased a war bond in the third loan
drive.
will miss a few games of tennis
every week.
W. B. Hardy, A Frog taking A-
griculture, thinks it’s fine. “The
only thing wrong with it is that I
can’t get those week-end passes
until an hour later,” he added.