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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1943 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 67 Aggies To Attend Rice Game; No Corps Trip Slated Navy-Marine Dance Played singing cadets By Powell Saturday Night In Houston Sunday W.N.B.L HAS BEEN TO PANAMA CANAL AND SEEN BY EXES Sailors, Leathernecks Hold Third Big Dance of Year in Duncan This Weekend Teddy Powell brings his modern swing orchestra to A. & M. this week end to play for the Navy-Marine Dance in Duncan Mess Hall this Saturday night at 8 o’clock. Powell brings his orchestra direct from New Orleans where he has been making appear- ♦ : :: —: _: ances at the St. Charles Theatre in that city. For the past summer and fall Powell has been playing to overflow audiences in Miami, Fla. He is nationally known for his style of music that is termed “hot but smooth.” He has been heard over the networks many times and his public appearances are numer ous. This is Powell’s first dance at Aggieland. This is the third dance that the Naval Training School has had this year with nationally known bands. George Olsen played for the sailors and marines early this sum mer. Jack Teagarden was the most recent band to swing out in Duncan for the boys in blue and forest green. The dance will begin at 8 in the evening and finish at 11:30. Tickets For Rice Game Now at Y Student tickets for the Rice- A. & M. game are on sale at the Y. M. C. A. All coupon book holders surrender coupon No. 33 and buy your tickets at $1.23. Date tickets are on sale there at the regular price of $2.50. Stu dents not holding coupon books buy your tickets at $2.50 at the Athletic Office. Can anyone guess what film has been shown where in what part of the world? The part of the world is Central American; the where is the Panama Canal Zone; the film is (Do you want another guess?) “We’ve Never Been Lick ed”. Because the picture was shown at an army post no yell practice was held. About thirty Aggie-exes saw the picture. According to Lar ry Nix, class of ’46, of E. Co. Signal Corps, who was there vis iting his parents, many of the exes ranged from the rang of gen eral to private. Before the picture was placed on the screen one of the heads of the Exes Club there in the zone (about 45 members) gave a brief talk on the background of the picture. Many of the exes were civilians working in the zone who had graduated many years before the first world war. They were surprised at the changes made on the Aggie campus. Everyone pres ent enjoyed the picture, especially the Aggies. That night many nos talgic memories must have pre- vaded their minds and the old Ag gie spirit manifested. That “ole spirit” stays with you. W.T.A.W. Gets New Director To Take Place of Woolket Ted HiU, Experienced Radio Producer, Fills Spot at Local Station Ted Hills, experienced radio pro fessional from Houston, is replacing J. J. Woolket of the Language Department a s Director o f WTAW, Aggieland’s own radio program. > For the past 18 years Hills has been active in radio management and production in Texas. While in Houston he was in charge of pro ductions of KPRC, manager of KTLC, and served as director of commercial productions and ac count executive of KTRH. Hills’s prime endeavor while he is attached to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas will be to “build a listening au dience for the college’s radio pro gram.” LISTEN TO WTAW 1150 K.c. Radio Calendar for Thursday, November 11, 1943 10:00—Musical Reveille 10:30—News 10:45—Morning Reverie* 11:00—Moments of Devotio* 11:15—Lean Back and Listen 11:30—Listen Ladies 11:45—Music 12:15—News 12:30—Farm Fair 12:45—Music 1:15—Between the Lines 1:30—Music 2:00—Treasury Transcription 2:15—News. 2:30—Music 2:45—Woman’s Program 3:00—Swing Music 4:15—Sports News 4:30—Something to Read 4:45—Music 6:00—Brazos Valley 5:15—Music 5:30—The Little Show 5:45—News 6:00—Sign-off Club Plans Two Appearances For Sunday Services Journeying to Houston this week-end, the Singing Cadets of Aggieland will make two appear ances in that city this next Sunday. They will sing first at the First Methodist Church for both morning services and their second perfor mance will be at Bethal Methodist Church for evening services Sun day night. This is the third trip taken by the Singing Cadets this fall. Trips have been taken to Nacogdoches and to Huntsville this semester. There is another trip planned by the club to Tyler and Henderson for the 20th of November, though arrangements have not been for mulated for it yet. Transportation for the club has been arranged and they will leave Saturday morning. Only accredit ed members may go on this trip. This is the second trip within a year to Houston for the Singing Cadets. Last December, they ap peared in that city with the Hous ton Symphony and at the First Methodist Church. They are re turning there this month through popular acclaim. Numbers featured in the pro gram this week-end will be “The Creation,” “The Lord’s Prayer,” and “Prayer Of Thanksgiving.” Included also will be a number of Christmas Carols. Nazis Punishment On Scandinavians Explained by Prof DETROIT, Michigan—The Na zis’ capricious treatment of the Scandinavians, fluctuating extreme cruelty and comparative leniency, was explained recently by Dr. George Lechler, assistant profes sor of history at Wayne Univer sity. Permeated with the doctrine of “Nordic supremacy” as expounded by Nazi anthropologists, followers of the party inevitably harbor a feeling of inferiority towards the Scandinavians, Dr. Lechler said, since the Danes, Swedes, and Nor wegians represent the purest Nor dic strain to be found anywhere in the world—purer, even the Nazis are forced to admit, than that of the Germans themselves. In the opening days of the war, he con tinued, the Germans fully expect ed their Norse “brothers” to wel come them with open arms. Their reaction, when faced with Norwe gian resistance, was one of be wilderment which found expression in alternating attempts to placate, and failing that, to beat into sub mission the Nordics who dared oppose them. Such use of force, the professor pointed out, is a con crete expression of the Nazi poli cy: “If you don’t accept me as your brother, I will smash your skull.” The history of the Scandinavians, Dr. Lechler explained, further ex plodes the Nazi “pure race” theo ry. “The Scandinavians,” he said, “never formed a race in the sense used by the Nazis. From the Stone Age on, they were a mixture of 'Primeval Finns’ and ‘Megalithic people’ who settled down together. (See NAZIS’, Page 3) Polo Game Between Ags, Servicemen Sun. The polo game between the Texas A. & M. Servicemen team and Major W. F. Long’s 17-goal Dallas quartet, which was called off last week because Major Long could not make the trip, will definitely be played this Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock on the Aggie Polo Field. Admission is free and the general public is invited to see this match, Team Captain Joe Mertz said yester day. On the following Sunday, the Aggie team will play the Dallas team in Dallas, provided the necessary passes can be secured. Passes Given From Last Gass Friday; Saturday, 10 Band Gets Authorized Absences; Rice Alumni To Put Wreath on Founder’s Grave This week-end most of the Aggies will leave the campus to attend the A. & M.-Rice football game at Houston to be held this Saturday. This game will be the eighth game for the Aggies this season, and since Rice is one of A. & M.’s _ r7~; ~ n . ^oldest rivals in the Southwest Con- .. . T> 4 > ference, the game should prove to Is Scheduled at 6:25 An unintentional mistake was made in last Tuesday’s Battalion when the present time schedule was printed. Retreat will be held at 6:25 in the evening instead of 6:00 o’clock as the Battalion an nounced. This minor change gives the student an extra half an hour in the afternoon for dressing af ter P. E., intramural sports, or studying. Old Glory in front of the Academic Building College Board Plans Now For Post-War Expansion Plans for expansion that will has a more loyal or more power- Cross Country Men Report To Gym All students who wish to try out for the Cross Country team should be at the De Ware Field House this afternoon at 5:46. Plans are being made so that team members may eat on late tables. It is important that all interest ed report this afternoon so that A. & M. may have a representa tion at the Southwest Conference track meet. equip the Agricultural and Mech anical College of Texas to handle ten thousand students after the war were announced here Tuesday night by F. M. Law of Houston, president of the board of directors, in an address to faculty members of the American Association of University Professors. Law revealed that plans already are past the formative stage for more classrooms, an auditorium to seat 10,000, adequate hotel facili ties, library expansion and greatly increased funds to be available for research by staff members. Post was plans also include an enlarged (and strengthened faculty, pay more commensurate with the du ties performed ,and a uniform system of sabbatical leave for faculty self-improvement, Law re vealed. Law paid high tribute to the cooperation being accorded the school by its former students, lauding the campaign now under way for a war memorial student activities and recreational center, the campaign being conducted by the alumni for each former stu dent to rermember the institution in his will and he declared no school ful body of ex-students than Tex as A. & M. College. “In my 26 years as a member of the college board of directors,” Law said, “I have never seen a group of men more interested in the institution. The present board is the hardest working group of men I ever have been privileged to associate with, and we are planning right now to do everything in our power to equip Texas A. & M Col lege with physical plant and a teaching staff that will enable this institution to advance further up the ranks of leading American institutions of higher learning in the post war period.” Dr. F. C. Bolton, acting pres ident, announced that the present enrollment of more than 7300 men is the greatest in the history of the college. Recent expansion of army specialized training program accounts for the record enrollment, Dr. Bolton said. General Reveille Changes Her Hdqs. Temporarily When the Military Department evacuated Milner Hall Tuesday for extermination, they neglected the welfare of an important personali ty, that being Reveille, Aggieland’s four-star General in the WAG’S- With quiet efficiency and no hard feelings toward Ross Hall, the General moved her headquarters to P. G. Hall when Milner moved out. Everyone figured she would be all right there and didn’t notice that she didn’t return from eve ning mess. An Aggie passing by Milner (he was coming back from the Library, no doubt) about 9:30 in the evening found her there waiting at the closed doors to get in for her night’s rest. By coaxing and whistling he persuaded her to fol low him over to “C” ramp Walton where she spent the night. Milner boys said she resumed her old headquarters Tuesday morn ing. be an exciting event. Those students who do not have Saturday classes can get passes after their last Friday class. Ag gies having Saturday classes will be permitted to get passes after the 9 o’clock class, and they will not be able to make up any work which they miss after that time. If students have any quizzes after 10 o’clock, it is better that they remain on the campus to meet those classes. Band members will be given authorized absences for Saturday morning, permitting them to leave after their last class on Friday. All passes will expire at reveille Monday morning. These orders concerning the Rice corps trip have been authorized by the Executive Committee. This game will be the annual homecoming for Rice Institute, at which time many former students will return. There will be an im pressive ceremony on Saturday morning before the game, and at that time a wreath of flowers will be placed on the statue of George Rice, the founder of Rice Institute. Regulation uniform for the game will consist of wool trousers with either wool or khaki shirts. The Band, however, will wear wool trousers with khaki shirts and blouses and white Sam Browne belts. The game will begin promptly at 2:30, and a large number of Ag gies are expected to be on hand to compose the Twelfth Man. The basement of the Mineral In dustries building, University of West Virginia, is divided into en tries which resemble a real coal mine. The mine replica is used for practical instruction. Armistice Day-November 11,1918 ... Nation Stops To Pay Tribute to World War I and IIDead Today By Sylvester Boone Twenty-five years ago today ended the war that was the “war to end all wars” for one this day, November 11, 1918, an armistice was signed whereby no countries would keep up their armies and be the aggressor on any other nation. Apparently the Japanese didn’t know about this or had forgotten it because on December 7, 1941, they made their savage attack on Pearl Harbor and killed many Americans who were peacefully minding their own business. This, indeed, was an action that the we can not excuse the Japs for. Many men were killed in the last war. Men from all ever the coun try in every walk of life, every kind of occupation, and every na tionality. Aggies who had just completed their college education in preparation for their life career had their life ended before they had barely become of legal age, that age which every American looks forward to when he can vote. These Aggies were looking shear just as the others who died with them in the same common cause were looking ahead for a more beautiful life free from all dicta tors. It was a beautiful sight; they would win this war and there would be no more wars in this world. They were wrong because scarcely had twenty years passed when the world was flung into another conflict. This time, they weren’t the ones to fight because they were a little old; it was there children who were to do most of the fighting. Today is the one day that is set aside to observe Armistice Day for this was the day of the signing of the peace treaty. Every man, wom an, and child sould pause just for a minute to think of the last war and those who died for the cause that they though was just. At the same time, these Americans should stop to think and pray for this war to come to an end and to pray that this will be the last war. There will not be any ceremonies at any time today to commerorate these men who died for their coun try; there is a far greater job to do and that is to make this war come to an end. As to the Aggies doing their job, this has already been made known by the deeds they have performed in line of duty. Traffic Officers Conclude Meeting The Traffic Officers’ Training School concluded their two-day meeting at A. & M. Wednesday aft ernoon. Twenty-four Texas traffic offi cers had been assembled since Tuesday to discuss accident pre vention, traffic control of safety, education, and allied subjects. This training is designed to provide in tensive study for the traffic police executives until November 20, at the completion of which they will be given a rigid examination. The meeting was conducted by the industrial extension service of the school of engineering and spon sored jointly by Texts Department of Public Safety and A. and M. Powell Plays For Service Show Teddy Powell and his nationally known dance band will play for the Saturday Service show this coming Saturday evening at 6:30 in the Assembly Hall. Powell is coming to the campus to play for the Navy-Marine dance Saturday night and has consented to play for the show. All servicemen are invited to at tend his performance as guests of the Naval Training School. This includes Aggies who could not make the Rice game. Taken from Files of THE BATTALION NOVEMBER 7, 1934—The Corp will leave on two “Aggie Special” trains Saturday at 5:45 and 6:00 a. m. from College Station for a Dallas Corps T#ip. They will parade down the street in platoon forma tion. The number of Cadets in the city are expected to reach 2100 by game time .... Guy Hutchison, Aggie-ex of the Class of ’33, is appointed to position of Assistant Chief Radio Engineer in the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Hutchison was one of the outstanding Elec trical Engineering students of the college . . . The Ag football team ties the Arkansas Razorbacks 7-7 and knock the Porkers of their co conference championship perch with the Rice Owls. NOVEMBER 10, 1937—The sec ond football Corp Trip of the sea son is to be for the Rice-Aggie game. Houston is to be the goal of 3500 Farmers this weekend . .. General Electric industrial sales manager was on the campus inter viewing Mechanical and Electrical Engineering students for employ ment in the company after gradu ation Agronomy Club initiates forty-two members in the basement of the Agriculture Build ing. Dr. L. G. Jones, professor of soils, was in charge of the meeting. One of the easiest things in the world to meet is expenses—you run into them every place you go. Radio Club Program Appears Sun. 2 P. M. • “The Third Angle,” a humorous love skit by Frances Ryerson, will be featured on the haff hour Radio Club program to be heard over WTAW Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Richard Gottlieb, club president, said last night after a meeting of the group. Outstanding musical numbers will complete the show.