Governor Stevenson Is Visitor For Today On Campus
Last Dance of Semester Is
Saturday Night, 9 to 12
Bergstrom Field Orchestra Will Furnish
Music; Admission Is $1.10, Stag or Drag
Sergeant Reams and his Bergstrom Field Orchestra will
furnish the music for the last dance of the semester Satur
day night in Sbisa Hall. The dance will last from 9 till 12.
Sergeant Reams has played here twice before and the
crowd enjoyed his music and - * ————-
novelties each time. Since there
will be no final ball this semester
this will be the last dance of the
semester and will be semi-formal.
Dormitory 17 will be vacated
for dates and the men living in
Dorm 17 will be allowed to re
serve rooms for their dates first.
The dorm will be vacated at 1
p.m. Saturday and the girls may
enter at about that time. The
dates have to be out of the dormi
tory 11:30 Sunday morning and the
men may return to their rooms
at noon.
With Sergeant Reams fine or
chestra supplying the music an en
joyable time is assured everyone.
If the men in the corps want
more dances in the future this
dance should be supported. Corps
dances in earlier times were look
ed forward to by all and this is
the chance many men in the corps
have been waiting for to show that
they will back dances of this type.
The price is $1.10 stag or with
dates and tickets may be obtained
in advance from the Student Ac
tivities Office.
Purple Heart Given
Former Aggie For
Wounds Received
Graduate of ’32 Dies
From Wounds; High
Honor Paid Him by U. S.
Friends on the A. & M. campus
have received word that Mrs. J.
O. Beasley of Carroll, Ohio, was
notified on the 8th of January that
the Purple Heart decoration has
been awarded the late Lieut. J. O.
Beasley “for military merit and
for founds received in action which
resulted in his death Sept. 12,
1943.”
Lieut. Beasley graduated from
A. & M. in 1932. He got his Mas
ter of Science degree in 1934 and
the Doctor's degree at Harvard in
1939. He was cytogeneticist with
the division of Agronomy of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Press Club Makes
Plans For Annual
Banquet on Jan. 19
Year’s Activities Are
Climaxed in Dinner For
Honorees and Guests
On Wednesday, January *19 at
6:30, A. & M. Press Club will hold
its annual Press Club Banquet. E.
E. McQuillen has been selected
and will be the principle speaker
for the night. The list of guest
members has already been made
out as well as the regular mem
bers of the Press Club including
the Battalion staff. The banquet
will take place in the Sbisa Hall
banquet room as it has heretofore.
Every year at the end of the
semester the Press Club has al
ways climaxed the closing semes
ter’s work with their annual ban
quet. The long awaited occasion
soon becomes a reality to new
members of the Batt staff who are
given awards at the end of their
semester’s time on the Batt. Now
all of the members of the Press
Club work on the Batt newspaper;
but in the past men who had done
work on the Longhorn or Battlion
magazine were included in the an
nual dinner. Since the latter have
been excluded for the duration the
Batt staff composes the entire
press club. The most outstanding
member of the staff every year is
given a reward for his work on the
paper. Keys are also given to men
who have completed a year or more
on the staff. With these facts in
mind the banquet is something
that is looked forward to by all of
the Aggies who devote their spare
time in putting out a paper for
the campus.
President Joseph A. Brandt of
the University of Oklahoma has
appointed a committee of seven
to form a “war rumor clinic.”
According to soil surveys cover
ing more than 60 per cent of the
Station from 1932 until he entered state, Texas has over 130 series of
military service in 1942, except for soils including more than 500 soil
the period of 1936 to 1939 when he
was at Harvard.
So far as is known Dr. Beasley
was the first scientist to use the
drug colchicine as a means of
doubling the number of chromo
somes in cotton, and by the use of
calchicine he obtained fertile hy
brids between many species, which
previously when crossed only pro
duced sterile hybrids. His discov
eries opened a new field of ap
proach in cotton breeding.
Finney Leaves for
Year at Columbia
Professor C. J. Finney of the
College Architecture Department
will go on a leave of absence to
attend Columbia University, locat
ed at New York, as visiting pro
fessor for a year. He will leave
the college at the end of the cur
rent semester.
At Columbia University he will
act as coordinating officer for the
Planning and Housing Division,
preparing and supervising short
courses, seminars, and institutes;
and he will teach the undergradu
ate courses in planning and hous
ing, as well as prepare other
courses in the division in the an
ticipation of offering them to stu
dents from army duties.
types.
Texas lumber industry produces
values between forty and fifty
million dollars annually.
Southwest Airways
Proposes to Build
20 Routes in South
Airlines To Include
Towns of Oklahoma,
Texas, and Arkansas
Area airline service, expected to
be the next major development in
America’s domestic air transpor
tation system, would serve College
Station and 309 other Southwest
cities and towns, under an appli
cation already filed with the Civil
Aernonautics Board by Southwest
Airways Company.
Radiating out from the present
major transcontinental air termi
nals, much as the spokes of a
wheel radiate from the hub, the
area airlines would serve com
munities ranging in population
from 500 up. All told, they would
bring the benefits of direct pas
senger, mail and express air serv
ice to more than one and a half
million Southwest residents not
presently receiving it.
A large map showing the 20
routes which Southwest Airways
proposes to establish in this area
has been received by the Chamber
of Commerce, and the company
advises that additional informative
material on area airlines will be
forthcoming. The routes would in
clude Texas, Oklahoma and Arkan
sas.
Southwest Airways already oper
ates a military area airline for
the Air Transport Command,
identified by the Army as being
“in the Southwest”, and also sev
eral large military pilot training
schools. The Civil Aeronautics
Board is expected to hold hearings
next summer on the feasibility of
establishing these routes.
Taxpayers Notice
Current City taxes should be
paid before January 31 to avoid
penalty and interest.
Claude W. Rodgers,
City Tax Collector
Hotard Replaced by
J. G. Peniston in
Subsistence Dept.
New Manager, 16 Years
With College, Begins
Duties Immediately
J. G. Peniston has been named
as successor to J. C. Hotard in the
position of manager of the Sub
sistence Depai’tment by action of
the Board of Directors, it was an
nounced by Dr. F. C. Bolton, acting
president of the college. It was
after several days of consideration
that the new promotion was made.
Coming here 16 years ago as
/Store Keeper, Peniston has risen
to this new position, manager of
Subsistence. Before he came here
to make his home, he was an en
gineer with the General Engi
neers. It was here that he worked
throughout the country as a con
struction engineer. During the 16
years of service to the college, Pen
iston has served as dining room
and commissary stewavt.
Peniston will take over duties
immediately, but he will have the
help of Hotard until the 1st of
March, the approximate date of
Hotard’s departure. The new man
ager’s duties will be primarily the
sme as Hotard’s, that of the job
of feeding the thousands of men
who eat in the two largest dining
halls in the country, Sbisa and
Duncan Halls.
Post-War pianninglReview Will Be Called Off
In Event of Bad Weather
Group Organize To
Answer Problems
A. A. U. P. Discussion
Results in Answering
Complex War Problems
Of the 259 institutions of higher
education in the United States, all
of them have post-war planning
committees and faculty members
all over the nation are striving for
an answer to the complex prob
lems that the wartime conditions
have imposed.
This was the consensus of opin
ion at the open forum discussion
of the problem held in Sbisa hall
lounge * Tuesday evening under
auspices of the A. & M. Chapter,
American Association of Univer
sity Professors.
Discussions were led by John
Q. Hays, chairman of the A. A.
U. P. post-war education planning
committee; and George B. Wilcox,
chairman of the A. & M. Academic
Council’s committee on the same
subject.
Admitting a state of confused
thinking on the subject. Hays de
clared that a reappraisal of col
lege education is in order; that
there will be no reversion to the
same practices and principles as
before the war, and that the war
time teaching requirements have
taught that changes in instruction
can be made quickly; that liberal
education will be restored to a
higher degree than before the war
and that returning soldiers and
displaced workers must be given
training to enable them to quickly
readjust themselves with minimum
delay.
One proposal of change has been
(See POST-WAR, Page 4)
Crooks’ Life Is Studded
With Spectacular Success
One of the great figures of
American music, Richard Crooks,
will appear on the Guion Hall
stage on Thursday, January 20,
through the cooperation of the
Student Activities office and Town
Hall committee, it was announced
recently. This program will be
presented by Town Hall, which
brings many outstanding figures
to the campus for entertainment.
Yearly, seventy or more cities
of the United States and Canada
hear him in concert and recital,
Metropolitan Opera audiences and
critics applaud his frequent ap
pearances; millions of radio listen
ers form one portion of his public.
His Victor Red Seal records are
among the standard best sellers
every-where. A superlative artist
at the top of his powers. Crooks’
interpretative gifts are as versa
tile as they are brilliant, the splen
dor of his voice lending itself uni
formly well to songs, opera, bal
lads, or religious music.
At the age of 10, Crooks was the
co-artist with Schumann-Heink in
a music festival, and at 17 he en
listed in an Aero Squadron during
the first World War. At the end
of the war he came to New York,
where he made his concert debut
with the New York Symphony Or
chestra, singing nine successive
performances.
Crooks toured Europe for con
cert and opera engagements, and
his tours of Australia and South
Africa established him as the
“greatest box office attraction”
ever to appear there. During the
/ (See CROOKS, Page 3)
Hillel To Present
4th Book Review
Next Sunday night at seven p.
m. the Hillel Club will present the
fourth in its series of open forum
book reviews. This Sunday’s guest
speaker will be Lieutenant A1 H.
Sakowitz of Kelly Field. Lieuten
ant Sakowitz will review Maurice
Samuel’s book “The World of
Sholom Aleichem.”
The book deals with the life
and times of the great Hebrew
philosopher and historian and is
valuable not only because it con
tains an accurate cross-section of
life in those times, but because
underneath the humor of the great
man is hidden the secrets of his
people’s persecution.
Regular Friday night services
for Jewish Aggies and servicemen
will be held Friday at 7:00 p. m.
in the Cabinet room of the Y. M.
C. A. The Sunday night meeting
will start promptly at 7:00.
“Jobs Ahead in Engineering” To Be Topic
Of Stevenson’s Speech at 11:15 Over WTAW
Governor Coke R. Stevenson will be on the campus as
planned today for the purpose of speaking to radio listeners
of WTAW at 11:15, it was announced today. To welcome
the governor, an all-post review has been scheduled with
■fAggies, Army, Air Corps, Navy,
and Marines participating, but
weather conditions are so that it
may have to be omitted. /
Late yesterday afternoon, the
Commandant’s office released in
formation relative to the fact that
an announcement wouild be made
this morning if the review is to be
held as planned. If the review is
held, all R.O.T.C. cadets will par
ticipate, wearing the number 1
uniform without the Sam Browne
belt. This uniform will then con
sist of the wool blouse, slacks, and
service cap. The place is to be
Kyle Field, time set for it is
3:30.
Governor Stevenson has been
selected as the first of sixteen
men who will address the people
of this area over radio station
WTAW, it was stated. His talk
will be on “Jobs Ahead in Engi
neering,” at 11:15 this morning.
For fifteen weeks following his
speech, there will be talks relative
to timely subjects.
“Jobs Ahead in Engineering” will
be a discussion of the opportunities
that are open for young men now
and will be after the war. Such
engineers as those who will be
able to cope with the problems of
getting our natural resources from
the ground will be needed. Other
matters will be discussed by the
governor in this talk.
In the first three programs, a
broad general outline of the nat
ural resources, opportunities for
development, and the available per
sonnel. The remainder of the talks
will deal in specific terms with
definite resources and opportunit
ies.
Following the talk he will make
over WTAW, Governor Stevenson
will address the Bryan and Brazos
County Chamber of Commerce at
their annual meeting which will be
held at 8 p.m. in the Maggie Par
ker Dining Room in Bryan.
Saturday Service
Shows Stop For
Temporary Time
Student Activities To
Present Three Shows
In Assembly Hall Sat.
A 16mm, full reel picture will
be shown in the Assembly Hall
Saturday, January 15th. starting
at 7 p. m. The show is given by
the full cooperation of the Student
Activities Offices.
Formerly the regular Saturday
Night Service Show under the
direction of ex-music director
Richard Jenkins was held each Sat
urday night; but with the loss of
Jenkins and other complications
the Service shows are no longer
held. With the help of the Stu
dent Activities Office the shows
are being put on for the enter
tainment of Aggies and Service
men on the campus early Saturday
evenings.
Saturday’s show will consist of
the following parts which are all
different. The first reel to be
shown will be, “How Movies Move
and Talk” followed by “Movies for
Millions”. Also on the program
will be a color cartoon titled “Little
Black Sambo.” The scheduled
program should prove good enter
tainment for all who wish to come.
Income Tax Service
Voted Popular by
Matagorda Sector
Service Is Available
For Farm Groups of
Locality on Request
Income tax service offered to
farmers recently on their Decem
ber “Declaration”, by the local
unit of a national farm organiza
tion in close cooperation with the
county Extension agents and In
ternal Revenue Service, was con
sidered highly successful in Mata
gorda County, says F. O. Mon
tague, county agricultural agent
Business in the county income
tax service office for the 1943
Declaration trebled the service
for 1942 returns, Montague has re-
((See INCOME, Page 2)
Student Activities Center Highlights Plans of College
Heads for Increasing Facilities inPost-War Development
Last year a golden dream of the
huge fraternity of A. & M. men
began to crystallize when over six
thousand Aggie-exes donated about
$60,000 in the form of war bonds
to the Development Fund which
has as its objective an elaborate
post-war Memorial Student Activ
ity Center.
The exact plans for this great
long range need of Texas A. & M.
have not been completed; however,
j J. P. Hamblen, ’27, president of
the Association of Former Stu-
! dents, has prepared a recent pam-
phlet explaining the purpose of
this Development Fund Drive and
presenting architectural sketches
of the proposed building.
Probable location of the Activity
Center will be between the Drill
Field and Kyle Field including the
area on which the basketball, ten
nis, and volley ball courts are now
situated. The breadth and extent
of this huge endeavor is difficult
to imagine—possibilities are al
most unlimited. Included in the
Center will be a modernistic grand
lounge, a hotel, large dining rooms,
student club and meeting rooms,
a small chapel and lots of space
and equipment for physical recre
ation.
The Social Center will revolve
around a first class hotel with ap
proximately 100 comfortable rooms.
huge lounge room which will pro
vide a suitable place to entertain
visitors and families. The most
popular rooms will probably be
the combination card room and
bowling alley. Magazines, current
newspapers and other publications
will furnish the guests and stu
dents with pleasurable literary
possibilities. Record players,
radios, pianos and the like will
provide relaxation for the musical
This development alone will re- ly minded. Any type of individual
lieve the acute shortage of lodging will be able to satisfy himself in
facilities which have long been a one of these various environments,
hindrance to the area surrounding The physical recreation facilities
College Station. The primary will be practically unlimited. A
purpose will be to furnish both large outdoor swimming pool is
service and pleasure to the student planned to accommodate several
body of A. & M. and, in normal hundred swimmers. Courts for
times, to its Ex-Students. j volley ball, tennis, basketball, and
There will be enough space al- other popular sports will be furn-
lotted to facilitate the meetings
of the Aggie Clubs. One of the
most elaborate features is the
ished also.
While considering the vast
material and pleasurable benefits
of this Student Activity Center,
we must not forget the memorial
feature of our “Golden Dream.”
This feature is difficult to sketch,
and even more difficult to discuss.
However, the aforementioned J. P.
Hamblen, president of the Asso
ciation of Former Students and
one of the main instigators of the
Development Fund, admirable ex
presses the ulterior motive in the
building of this memorial in the
following words:
“The contribution to the defense
of their country by the eleven
thousand A. & M. men in the arm
ed services today, by the twenty-
five hundred in 1917-18, and by
the similar heroes of other wars,
must never be forgotten. Their
record has built the greatest tradi
tion of Texas A. & M. Their
record has made Texas A. & M. a
national symbol of rugged patrio
tism. That record will be fitting
ly immortalized in the Memorial
Student Activities Center.”
So now that you know what is
behind this great endeavor—what
a future lies in these possibilities
for service and pleasure of Aggies,
present and past and future, and
that these Aggies will be you, your
friends, and your sons; you will
probably want to know how you
can help in the drive.
You can take your place in the
long line of Aggies who have con
tributed and who are now contri
buting to form a concrete basis
for making a dream come true, by
simply sending any amount of
money that you please in the form
of cash or check to the TEXAS A.
& M. DEVELOPMENT FUND. An
annual honor roll fund report will
list the name of every donor, but
not the amount of his gift. In
addition, each donor will receive
(See STUDENT, Page 3)
Factors of Raising
Hens During Winter
Stated by Service
Water, Laying Mash,
And Ventilation Are
Important Factors
Egg production during winter is
not difficult if poultrymen keep
the layers comfortable and well
fed.
According tc George P. Mc
Carthy, poultryman for the A. and
M. Colege Extension Service, con
sumption of water and feeding
mash, and ventilation of poultry
bouses are the important factors.
During cold weather, fresh, warm
water must be provided each morn
ing in order to maintain produc
tion. If higher production is to
(See FACTORS, Page 2)
Singing Cadets To
Meet to Plan Trio
There will be a very important
meeting of the Singing Cadets of
Aggieland Friday afternoon in the
Assembly Hall. The purpose of
this meeting will be to discuss a
three-day trip through either Tex
as or Louisiana during the vaca
tion between semesters. All mem
bers of the organization are urged
to attend this meeting so that
necessary steps may be taken as to
procurement of transportation
facilities and so that appearances
mow hp hooked in advance, if the