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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1944
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 87
Stevenson To Visit College; Post Review On Thursday
Texas Governor Speaks on “Jobs Ahead
In Engineering” Over WTAW Thursday
Class of ’45 Plans Senior Ring
Dance for Friday, January 28th
Avery Announces Senior Class Meeting
Held In Assembly Hall, Wednesday at 7
A meeting of the Senior Class will be held in the Assem
bly Hall Wednesday night at 7:00 to discuss plans for a ring
dance according to Hank Avery, chairman of the Senior Ring
Dance Committee.
A tentative date has been set for the traditional ring
dance and banquet to be held, announced Avery. That date
is Friday, January 28. -♦
Preliminary arrangements have
been made for the banquet to be
held in the Annex of Sbisa Hall,
followed immediately by the usual
ring ceremony and dance, but many
details must be worked out, such
as obtaining an orchestra, Avery
stated.
Further details of the meeting
and proposed plans for the Senior
affair, will be announced in Tues
day’s edition of the Battalion.
WTAWfeatures “Music
By Master Composers”
Sunday Mornings at 10
“Music by Master Composers”
again comes to radio station
WTAW tomorrow morning, but
this program will come at a new
time, 10 o’clock. It was formerly
heard at 10:30, lasting until 11:30;
it will now be over at 11:00. Louis
Hauer of the Depa^haent of Eng
lish will again have charge of the
program.
Schumann’s Manfred Overture
will be the first piece to be heard.
This overture is from the setting
of Byron’s poetic drama about a
man who committed an unpardon
able, unnamed sin by which he lost
his life expiating it. The music
itself is dramatic and is intended
to represent the moods of the hero
within it.
One of the best of Hayden’s 84
quartet’s will make up the second
portion of the program with his
Quartet in F-minor, op. 20, No. 5.
This was written after Hayden
had experimented with the farm
and decided what profession he
wanted to follow. To the listener,
it is a pleasant type of music to
hear, but it has only a small
amount of substance usually asso
ciated with Hayden’s music.
Finally, Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 8 in F-major will complete the
hour’s program. This was written
after he had completed his great
3rd, 5th, and 7th Symphonies and
he decided to write a symphony
reminiscent of Hayden and Mozart.
It is the second movement, the al
legretto, familiar on concert pro
grams.
Economics Girls of
Consolidated Begin
Waste Fat Drive
Collection on Third
Week of Each Month;
Save Waste Fats
Save your waste fats; That is
the slogan of the Home Economics
girls of the A. and M. Consolidated
High School. This group of girls
will collect the fats every third
week of each month. The Home
Economics Club is sponsoring this
drive to collect more waste fats
for use in explosives, gun powder,
and shells for our fighting men
and women. Our government needs
this waste product badly.
The girls are asking that you
strain the waste fat into tin con
tainers and keep them in a cool
place until the collection days.
It does not matter how little
you have. Save it! You may help
save the life of a fighting man
or woman. Remember, one table
spoon supplies enough glycerine to
fire fifty machine gun bullets!
Four Names Added to
List of Graduates
To Receive Degrees
The list of men who will receive
degrees at the end of the current
semester has been augmented by
the addition of four more men.
Two of the men are stationed here
in the ASTP; Harold Alvin Borde
lon and Jacob E. Gandler, both
men receiving degrees in ME. The
other two men are Aggies, Charles
A. Thompson receiving a BS de
gree in Agriculture and Fredrico
Alberto Landulpho Belluso receiv
ing an MS in Muncipal and Sani
tary Engineering.
FEATURED ON WTAW
Defeat at Gettysburg. In Gettys
burg, Pa., Fannie Eager tried &
tried to fill out a ration-applica
tion blank, finally hanged herself.
Registration
Scheduled On
February 5th
First Installment of
Maintenance is 70.25
H. L. Heaton, college registrar,
has announced that classes for the
current semester will cease Fri
day, January 28th at 5:00 p.m.
Registration for the following se
mester will begin Saturday, Febru
ary 5th and regular classes will be
resumed on the following Mon
day, February 7th.
The schedule of classes booklet
will be available on registration
day, but for the benefit of students
who wish to draw up a tentative
schedule before they leave college
the Battalion will print a schedule
of classes either the 25th or 27th
of this month.
Expenses for next semester will
total $158.44, it has been announc
ed by the fiscal office. The first
installment amounts to $70.25
which must be paid before regis
tration February 4th and 5th.
Board, room rent, and laundry fees
will fall due twice more during the
semester. The second payment
totals $37.10 and the third install
ment will be $51.20.
First installment includes mat
riculation fee, medical fee, room
rent, board, laundry, and a student
activities fee which is optional.
Home Economics la
Girls Learn How To
Make Many Cereals
The Home Economics la girls
demonstrated the making of cer
eals on Monday, December 14,
1943. Every girl, together with a
partner, each prepared a different
cereal. When all the cereals were
finished, the girls explained to the
class how they made that particu
lar cereal.
In this way the girls learned to
make many different types of
cereal; those who already knew
how to make the cereals learned
how to improve their techniques.
This discussion and demonstration
proved to be very interesting and
worthwhile.
Hillel Presents 3rd
In Series Of Open
Forum Reviews
O. C. Spriggs to Review
“Let the People Know”
At Meeting on Sunday
Causes of war will be the topic
of discussion in the third of a
series of Open Forums Sunday,
January 9th at 7 p.m. when the
Hillel Club meets in the lounge
of Sbisa Hall.
O. C. Spriggs, professor of
public speaking, will review Sir
Norman Angell’s book, “Let the
People Know,” and lead a discus
sion on the subject of war and its
causes discussed in the book.
This current book is a crusade
for public enlightenment concern
ing the causes of war with partic
ular emphasis placed on the causes
underlying Wo*ld War I and the
present conflict. Angell treats the
treaty of Versailles and other
treaties in the light of causing
World War II and the problems
that must be faced by the United
Nations in making a peace for
civilized people.
Corps Dance Slated
For Aggies Jan. 15
A Corps dance for Aggie and
Aggie-Exes is scheduled for Sat
urday, January 15th, according to
the Student Activities office yes
terday afternoon. This will be the
last dance of the semester and
promises to be a good one. The
dance, like all others, will be held
in the main dining room at Sbisa
and will be from 9 until 12. The
affair will be semi-formal.
Plans are being made to have a
dormitory vacated but as yet there
is no information as to which it
will be. The usual admission charge
of $1.10 will be required.
Two Aggie Graduate
From Tank OCS Class
Colleges, unversities and military
schools furnished the greater por
tion of the members of the 51st
Officer Candidate class of the
Tank Destroyer School, members
of which were commissioned at
Camp Hood recently.
Twelve different schools were
listed, including A. & M. College
with two men, Thomas L. Aber
nathy, Jr., ar.d John P. Baber,.
A/lus/ca/ Varieties Will
Be All-Service Show
The weekly All-Service Show
which will go on the air waves by
radio station WTAW direct from
the stage of the Guion Hall thea
tre will be heard on Sunday after
noon, January 8, at 3:30 o’clock.
The entire program is dedicated
to the Aggie Corps, and all mem
bers are urged to attend in order
to sing Aggie songs en masse.
The Aggie Band, under the direc
tion of Col. Richard J. Dunn, will
be present and will play the songs
of the various armed services as
well as those of the Aggies.
Snafu” are due for a surprise as
he will be portrayed by a differ
ent member of the staff this week.
As usual, the All-Service show
will be sponsored by the mythical
manufacturers of Snappier Snipe
Cigarettes.
The weekly programs are pro
duced, and presented through the
cooperation of the managements
of Guion Hall Theatre, WTAW
radio staff, the post special service
officers, and the Student Activities
Office. Script for the show is
written by John Holman and pro-
The Navy will furnish their I duced by Richard Gottlieb of the
share of the afternoon’s entertain
ment in the appearance of the
Navy Instrumental Sexette and
Navy trainee Joe Guinaw, a sing
er, has appeared on previous serv
ice shows and has been well re
ceived by the audience on each
occasion.
Followers of ‘Joe-I’m innocent-
WTAW Brings Operatic Songbird to Mike ...
“Lucia di Lammermoor” From
Metis Saturday’s Music Feature
This afernoon at one o’clock 1 a story of treachery and unrequit-
"Fun Valley” the BLUE Net
work’s new Sunday program, is
a solid round of fun for all the
family. Al Pearce leads the high
Jinks, with Arlene Harris, Earle
Hodgins, Ivan Dittmars’ orches
tra, and Martha Wears, vocalist,
rounding out one of the best
comedy shows on the air.
WTAW will present Donizetti’s
opera, “Lucia di Lammermoor,”
with Lily Ponds in the title role.
A Blue Network program, the
opera will be presented direct from
the stage of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, with
the broadcast sponsored by the
Texas Company.
The Metropolitan Opera perfor
mances have been broadcast for
over a decade. This afternoon’s
performance marks the second
opera to be broadcast over WTAW
since the station joined the Blue
Network, the first having been
Massenet’s, “Manon,” which was
aired on Christmas day. WTAW
ed love. Lucy Ashton has fallen
in love with the melancholy Edgar
of Ravenswood. Lucy’s brother
Henry has gotten into financial
difficulty and in order to clear
himself must get Lucy to marry
the rich and influential Lord Ar-
thus Bucklaw. By means of a
forged letter, Henry convinces
Lucy that Edgar has been faithless
and has deserted her, and Lucy
consents to the wedding.
Just following the wedding, Ed
gar bursts into the room and
proves himself innocent of Henry’s
attack. Edgar tears up the wed
ding papers and flings them in
Lucy’s face just as he rushes from
will present other operas on sue- the room. Lucy goes mad, and on
ceeding Saturdays, until the Met-1 her wedding night kills her hus-
ropolitan’s season ends in the band. Edgar, realizing his mis-
spring. I take, kills himself.
“Lucia di Lammermoor” unfolds | Lily Pons, the star of today’s
performance, made her Metropoli
tan debut in this same opera al
most exactly thirteen years ago—
on January 3, 1931, to be exact.
At the end of this performance the
new star took sixteen curtain calls,
a sure sign that the audience ap
preciated her in the role of Lucia.
She has had three flowers, a South
American race horse, a restaurant,
a locomotive, and a train named
after her—thus proving her popu
larity.
During the first intermission of
the opera at 1:46, an “Opera
Forum Quiz” will be presented.
Participants will be Olin Downes,
Dr. Sigmund Staeth, Robert Bag-,
WTAW staff. Announcers for the
program are Tom Journeay and
Harry Dillingham.
All those who plan to attend
the program should note that the
time of this week’s program will
be 3:30 o’clock instead of 3:00
o’clock as they have been in the
past. The change was due to the
addition of the Blue Network to
the daily program of WTAW. There
is no additional price to the reg
ular admission of the show to
Guion Hall.
ar, and Huntington Watts. These
men are on the board of musical
experts. The second intermission
will feature Wendell Willkie speak
ing on the subject: “Road to Last
ing Peace.”
AAUP To Meet Next
Tuesday in Lounge
A discussion of, “The part the
College will play in education after
the war”, is the subject of a dis
cussion to be held at eight o’clock
next Tuesday evening in the lounge
of Sbisa Hall, the January meeting
of the local chapter of the A. A.
U. P. The subject will be intro
duced by Dr. John L. Hays, asso
ciate professor of English, who is
chairman of a committee appoint
ed by the local chapter to study
“Proposed Changes in Higher Ed
ucation After the War.”
The Chapter has invited a com
mittee of the Academic Council
engaged in the study of a similar
subject to take part in the discus
sion. Professor G. B. Wilcox,
Director of Student Personnel, who
Post Review Scheduled With All Units and
Aggies Participating; Held on Drill Field
Governor Coke^R. Stevenson will be present on the cam
pus Thursday, January 13, to open a series of talks on “Jobs
Ahead In Engineering,” over WTAW at 11:15 a.m., it was
announced by Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the School of Engi
neering.
Sponsored by the A. & M. College of Texas, this series
•♦•will include sixteen consecutive
weekly broadcasts to young Texans
and is designed to unfold to them
a story of the vast natural re
sources of our great State.
It will describe the opportnuities
that are knocking now and will
continue to knock with increasing
tempo for profitable occupations
and professions—all needed to de
velop the natural advantages so
abundant.
The magic story of the resources,
advantages and opportunities of
Texas and their relation to “Jobs
Ahead” will deal not only with en
gineering and the highly technical
phases of progressive development,
but also with each related activity,
involving actual performance and
things to be done. This big job
will require planners, designers,
contractors, technicians, skilled
workers, and all kinds of highly
trained professional men and
women.
In the first three programs it
shall be the purpose to give the
listeners a broad general outline
of Texas resources, vast opportun
ities for development, and the
available and potential personnel.
After that the remainder of the
programs will deal in specific
terms with definite resources and
opportunities.
Thursday afternoon there will
be a review given at Kyle Field in
honor of the Governor by all units
of students and servicemen on the
campus. The exact time and the
uniform to be worn will be an
nounced Tuesday.
Governor Stevenson will address
the annual meeting of the Bryan
and Brazos County Chamber of
Commerce that evening at 8:00 in
the Maggie Parker Dining Room,
in Bryan.
Press Club Plans
To Entertain Lasso
Staff on Week-end
Publication of Batt,
Picnic, Dance, and
Show Form Schedule
Last Wednesday night at a spec
ial meeting of the A. & M. Press
Club, plans were made to enter
tain about 20 girl journalists from
TSCW who put out the school
paper, the “Lass-O.”
The idea is several months old,
but with the cooperation of the
Student Activities Office, the idea
was realized. The girls will arrive
on the weekend of the 14th, prob
ably on the noon train Friday. The
members of the Press Club will en
tertain the girls during their stay
at college. Friday afternoon the
Lass-0 staff will put out the regu
lar Saturday issue of the Battalion.
That night a picture show will be
seen by the two staffs with the
compliment of the Student Activi
ties Office. Saturday night the
girls will attend the Corps Ball,
and church services will be held
for the group Sunday morning.
The girls have not accepted the
invitation of the Batt staff as yet,
but they are expected to arrive
here as planned unless something
comes up that will make their trip
to Aggieland impossible. This will
be the second time in a good while
that the Lass-0 staff has been in
vited to the campus, and it is the
intentions of the Press Club that
these trips be continued as a per
manent tradition of the two or
ganizations.
Ag; ie-ex Among First To
Bring Bougainvile Bombs
In the middle of a dense jungle
at the base of the fuming volcano.
Mount Bagana, a 6500-foot air
field for light and medium bomb
ers is now in operation in the
Northern Solomon Islands.
When ten big C-47 transport
planes roared in over the field for
the first time with a load of bombs
Lt. Zedler is a former Aggie. He
has been serving in the Army Air
Forces overseas for the past six
months, having been commissioned
at Brooks Field in November of
1942. Lt. Zedler, aged 22, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Zedler,
2301 McClendon, of Houston. He
pilots the ship “Sally Ann.”
The Bougainville Air Base is
from the Solomon base, Marine 1 within less than 250 miles of Ra-
Col. William K. Pottinger, of Hills
boro, commander of the Bougain
ville air operations, called, “Thanks
for the bombs, boys.’’
Pilots who made the initial land-
baul and only 850 miles of Japan’s
strong naval base of Truk. Called
Piva Field after a nearby river
village of that name, it was built
with disregard of danger from
ings included Lieutenants Donald enemy bombing and ground patrol,
Zedler, James W. Smith, and Ur-1 and dedicated on Christmas Day.
ban Couvillion, all of Houston, and ! News has come from Lt. Zedler
Orion G. Wood, Lubbock, and recently from boys who are now
Kenneth Kidd of Mason, Texas. | on leave that he is fine and almost
Of this group of pilots, First as dark as a native from the sun.
Complete Class. At the Universi
ty of Texas, the opening class in
an English literature .course was
attended by 30 girls, two boys
named Love and Loveless.
No Help. In Salinas, Calif., the
principal and faculty of Washing
ton Junior High School had to do
the sweeping. At Sweet Briar Col
lege, Va., the President and fac
ulty jerked sodas at the local foun
tain.
Soberer Sue. In Pailadelphia,
when her boy friend was*charged
with evading the draft, Susan Cole,
once billed by carnivals as Sober
Sue, the Mirthless Marvey ($100
if you can make her laugh) mut
tered: ‘The way I feel ... I could
raise the ante to $500.”
The brave are born from the
brave.—Horace.
Explanation. In Los Angeles, the
Rev. Joe Jeffers’ ex-wife charged!
heads this group, will set forth j that he had failed to keep up his
matters under consideration by i alimony and had explained that
the group, pose questions, and in- Yahweh had told him to cut it
vite suggestions. I 0 ut.
Who combats bravely is not
therefore brave:
He dreads a death-bed like the
meanest slave.
Bravery never goes out of fash
ion.—Thackeray.