BOOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1944 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 97
Master Mind Makes Appearance On Town Hall Stage
Registration Reveals 1460 Men
Now Enrolled In Student Bodg
Several Courses Added to Freshman
Curricula to Adjust New Students
Registration for the new sem
ester had reached a total of 1461
new and old-returning students at
1:30 Monday afternoon, according
to H. L. Heaton, Registrar. This
showed a drop of some five hun
dred from last semester’s total.
The decrease can probably be cred
ited to the small number of new
students entering A. & M. and to
tightening draft regulations.
Old returning students, totaling
1253, were mostly engineering ma
jors, premedical students, and vet
erinary medicine trainees. Only
about fifteen were enrolled in the
graduate school.
The number of new students
signing in Friday, though exceed
ing expectations, was but 208. Of
these about 10%, an unusually
large proportion, were Latin Am
erican men. Also entering were
quite a number of men with hon
orary discharges from the armed
forces.
All new students this term found
a new course on their schedules,
Freshman Orientation. This
course meets every Saturday /
morning at 10 o’clock in the Y.
M. C. A. chapel. Sponsored by the
Student Personnel department to
assist the new men in adjusting
themselves to new events, the
course will carry no credit hours.
Local Credit Union
Elects Officers;
Declares Dividends
The stated annual meeting of
the Texas A. & M. College Federal
Credit Union was held in Room
(See CREDIT, Page 3)
Semester for Aggies
Begins in Usual Way
Of “Never Die Spirit”
By Jim Gabbard
Boxes and lamps shuttling from
room to room, a scattered few
dazed frogs, shorter registration
lines and many an Aggie hand
clasp rang in the new semester
Saturday as A. & M. started: work
again after a week’s rest. Most of
us returned with resolutions of
harder work and more grade points
in the new semester, prompted by
a week near enough to the local
draft board to feel their breath on
our heels.
Most of the last semester resi
dents of Walton were swapping
stories of the week or out getting
a head start selling books, as they
were spared the trouble of moving.
But customers for freshmen
books were amazingly scarce and
hard to get to, as hardl ytwo hun
dred new frogs were on the cam
pus. High-pressure tyales lines
were evident in every transaction,
where salesmen were usually five-
to-every customer.
Saturday’s registrants were sur
prised to find the waiting lines in
the Administration building short
er than ever before. Many were
remembering block-long lines they
had waited through n years past.
Many an Agge of last semester
was mssed on the campus, eitrer
graduated or gone into a bigger
game.
But in spite of the changes Ag-
gieland was much the same. Old
friends hailed each other; the Ag
gie hand clasp was just as con
vincing as ever, and there were
a few new Aggies to put on the
line. A. & M. was alive again.
Wesley Foundation
Honored Officers
At Dinner on 26th
Rev. C. W. Lokey of
Bryan Delivered Talk
Of Evening at Inn
A. and M. Wesley Foundation,
student organization of the Meth
odist Church, paid tribute to past
and present, officers Wednesday
night, Jan. 26, at a dinner at the
Aggieland Inn. Members of the
Foundation, which is now com
posed of both Aggies and service
men trainees at A. and M., attend
ed, so that in addition to Texas
the states of Michigan, Kansas,
California, and Illinois were rep
resented. The Rev. Walton B.
Gardner, Pastor of the A. and M.
Methodist Church and Director of
the Wesley Foundation, pronounc
ed the invocation.
Rev. C. W. Lokey, Bryan Dis
trict Superintendent of the Meth
odist Church, delivered the ad
dress of the evening. The fact
that he is of a line whose men
have nobly supported and fought
for liberty, that he was an officer
in the A. E. F. in France, and that
his son is now in the armed forc
es of the country, plus his deep
conviction, lent great weight to
his encouraging message. He said
that the term Christian soldier is
really not a contradiction. Des
truction for the present is un
avoidable and due to the faults and
mistakes of men inescapable. The
Christian with faith in God as re
vealed in the person of Jesus
Christ can so conduct himself, and
must, that not only is he a sold
ier in the army of the United Na
tions, but a Soldier of the Cross
as well, uniting with the great
redemptive forces of Christ to
build and rebuild the world now
in its agony of destruction. “If the
Son shall make you free,” said
Jesus, “ye shall be free indeed.”
This was Rev. Lokey’s emphatic
point. Only in alliance with
Christ can this present suffering
yield gain, and only through Him
is there true freedom.
Meetings of AH
Students Will Be
Held At 11 o’Clock
Convocations of all students will
be held Wednesday at 11 a. m. All
new freshmen and transfer stu
dents in Engineering will meet
Dean Gilchrist in the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel... All new freshmen and
transfer students in Veterinary
Medicine will meet Dean Marstel-
ler in the lecture room in Francis
Hall. AH new freshmen and
transfer students in Agriculture,
Agricultural Administration, and
Agricultural Engineering will meet
Dean Kyle in the lecture room of
the Agricultural Engineering Build
ing... AH new freshmen students
and transfer students in Arts and
Sciences will meet Dean Brooks in
Room 123 Academic Building.
All other students will meet
Dean Bolton in Guion Hall. Mat
ters of deferment will be consid
ered at all meetings.
Attention Sleepers:
Here Is a Course
Composed of Movies
New Specialist Is
Named By College
Extension Service
Miss Martin Names Head
Of Home Dairy Division;
Newly Created Department
Appointment *of Miss Gladys
Martin as home dairy specialist,
a newly created position on the
headquarters staff of the A. & M.
College Extension Service, was
announced today by Acting Direc
tor James D. Prewit. Miss Mar
tin, currently county home dem
onstration agent for Eastland
County, will take up her new du
ties about February 15.
According to Mildred Horton,
vice director and state home dem
onstration agent who will super
vise her activities, Miss Martin
will work with the 220 county
home demonstration agents in the
state in assisting farm and ranch
families to produce good quality
milk in sufficient quantity to meet
See SPECIALIST Page 3)
THE MASTER MENTALIST—Joseph Dunninger, Mystic and Psy
chic, who will appear on Town Tall tonight as its fifth feature of
the season. The program which this master-reader appears in begins
at 8 p.m. on the stage of Guion Hall.
Localities Notice; Scouts
Take Over City Thursday
In the upholding of National
Boy Scout Week, the local scout
troops will hold their annual elec
tion to choose the boys for the
positions they^ will fill^when the
organist, J " " the city
government . Station
next Thursday! r " t " ^
The offices of mayor, city man
ager, fire chief, marshall engineer,
and others will be held all day by
memt>ers of Boy Scout troops 102
and 411 and Cub Pack 102. Bal
lots will be had for the voters to
designate their choice from the
two parties, Reds and Blues.
The heated election will take
place at the Consolidated School
to elect the following men to their
offices of the day. Local residents
are reminded to watch their P s
and Q’s during the day if they
wish to stay out of trouble.
Red Ticket: Mayor, Bobby
Wright; Councilmen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and 6, Dickie Yarnell and James
Prewit, Van Adamson and Homer
LaMotte, David Haines and Allan
Davit, Harry Snapp and Rowland
Jones, Billy Mogford and George
Johnson, George Bond and Dan
Williams.
Fire Chief, Curtis Burns and
Donald R. Whitmore; Fire Mar
shall, Knox Walker and Ide Trot
ter; City Manager, John Lambert;
Foreman, George Rodgers and Mil
ford Beans; Electrician, David
Guthrie; Plumber, Clifford Lli-
Motte; Health and Sanitation, John
Grant and Bob Smith; City En
gineer, Richard Buevens; City At
torney, Luther Jones, Jr.; Dog
Catcher, Billy Hale and Francis
Pfrimmer; City Marshall, Elvin
Street and Delbert Myers.
Blue Ticket: May Curt Weinke;
Councilmen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Wally
Anderson and G. Klipple, Billy
Brukhalter and P. Dickerson, Jim
my Milliff and Royce Rogers, Bob
Marshall and J. H. Stockton,
George Stephens and Dickey Dow
ell, Bill Munnerlyn and Jason Ma
gee.
Fire Chief, Johnny Lancaster
and Bill Williams; Fire Marshall,
Neal Alexander and Donald R.
Brogdon; City Manager, Jerry
Bonnen; Foreman, John Parnell
and Bob Barlow; Electrician,
Ralph Smith; Plumber, John Gay;
Health & Sanitation, Aden McGee
and Jerry Spiker; City Engineer,
Dan Davit; City Attorney, Graham
Horsley; Dog Catcher, Gene Potts
and Edward Branchi; City Mar
shall, Thomas Long and Lloyd
Gay.
Dreams Of A. & M. In Future May
Become Reality After The War
For any student that would like
to catch up on some needed sleep
in classroom there is being given
a course that will perfectly suit his
needs. This course offers ideal con
ditions to put a student in restful
slumber. The room will be dark
and there will be soft music which
will put one at ease. It also has
the advantage of not having an
instructor give any lectures.
The course is Agronomy 415
which has as a subject Soil Semi
nar. It will consist entirely of mo
tion pictures and will be given on
Thursday from 7:15 to 8:15 in the
evening. It is a one hour course.
New Spanish Course
Offered in Evening
Due to such a great demand for
a course in Spanish presented in a
conversational style by college em
ployees and members of their fam
ilies, an evening class is being plan
ned for them. The first meeting
will be held in room 124, Academic
Building, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb.
10. The course will be conducted
by Professor Joe Woolket.
By J. C. Tanner
Immediately after the war,
plans for a huge expansion pro
gram will go into effect for Texas
A. & M. College.
Under the new expansion pro
gram, new buildings will be erect
ed, present ones repaired and re
modeled. New courses and sched
ules will be made, new classes in
troduced.
Probably the most prominent of
the new buildings to be erected on
the A. & M. campus will be in
cluded in the Memorial Student
Activity Center. These buildings
will be located approximately
where the basketball, tennis, vol
ley ball courts are now situated
between Kyle Field and the drill
field. The Center will include a
hotel, lounger, recreation rooms,
swimming pool, and recreational
grounds. All this will cost 1,-
000,000 or more.
A chapel will be among the new
buildings* This promises to be
a great asset to the beauty of the
campus. The location has not
been determined as yet.
According to Dr. Bolton, acting
president of A. & M., another
building may even surpass the
Social Center. This will be the
new auditorium. It will be com
prised of a huge auditorium en
tirely sun-ounded by numerous
classrooms. Thousands of people
will be able to obtain seats at one
time in the main auditorium. A
large amount of floor space will
be available, and a modernistic
stage will complete the arrange
ment. Not only will this building
provide a beautiful place of enter
tainment, but the many rooms will
do away with the present-day
over-burdening of classrooms. The
enormous sum of $2,000,000 will be
expended on this gigantic erection.
A new aeronautical engineering
building will add to the future
building on the campus. Ample
room will be provided and the
building will do much toward the
betterment of educational possibil
ities of aero engineering students.
Short courses will be included in
post-war A. & M.’s curriculum.
Most of them will pertain to voca
tions, offering a working knowl
edge to the average citizen. The
courses will vary from two to four
months in length. The length of
the other semesters have not been
decided upon. There is a possibil
ity that A. & M. will remain on
the year-round schedule which is
in operation at the present.
Ex-servicemen will promote
the post-war A. & M. student body
considerably. Plans for giving
these men a chance to attend
school at the expense of the gov
ernment are being decided upon
by Congress now. If the plans
go through, all servicemen will be
entitled to at least a year’s free
schooling. This promises to be a
fitting tribute in acknowledge of
our thanks for the soldiers who
have offered their lives so that
schools like A. & M. may exist in
the United States. Fifteen thous
and students may compose the
student body.
The financing of the building
on the campus will be aided great
ly by the Development Fund. This
fund contains many thousands of
dollars contributed by Aggie-exes
the world over.
All the above-mentioned plans
and programs are only in the blue
print stage at the present, but, as
Dr. Bolton says, “the future of
Aggieland is indeed bright.”
Dunninger Reads Minds Of
Audience Tonight At 8 p.m.
Demonstrations on Radio Program Prove
Abilities of Mentalist in Mystic Feats
Turn in Ration Books
Ration books which were taken
out of the mess hall office dur
ing mid-term vacation should be
submitted immediately to this
office. New students who have
not turned in ration books, should
also do so at once.
Lumber Needs of
War Require That
Forests Be Saved
Drain On Wood of Post
War Construction Will
Consume Large Tracts
The present “world outlook ac
centuates America’s need for an
effective forest program,” Lyle
F. Watts, new Chief of the U. S.
Forest Service told Agricultural
Secretary Claude R. Wickard in
his first annual report recently
made public by the Secretary.
The situation in the war-torn
countries, where entire cities have
been devastated and normal
economies throughly disrupted,
coupled with the inevitable de
pleted condition of much of the
commercial forest of our own
country after the war, Watts said,
makes it of utmost importance
that “the United States take
stock of its present and potential
forest productivity.”
The Chief estimated that in
post-war Europe the “timber de
ficit will probably be greater than
the anticipated surplus of all the
rest of the world.”
Watts predicted post-war use of
the new moulded plywood and
paperbase plastics in automobiles,
furniture and other articles, and
said that the post-war “outlook
offer slarge incentive to farmers
to manage their woodlands for
maximum sustained yield, either
by their own efforts or with the
help of cooperative organization.”
Indicating that the present
“pinch” on civilian use of forest
products in this country would be
come even more acute before the
end of the war, the Chief Forester
reported that “purchases for dir
ect war use in the first six months
of 1943 were greater than in the
preceding six months, whereas es
timates of total cut for 1943 fall
some ten billion feet below 1942
consumption.” He added that in
ventories of retail yards declined
“by more than one-third in the
first half of 1943, leaving them
some 60 percent below the Pearl
Harbor levels.”
In pointing out the need of tim
ber management for maximum
sustained yield, Watts said that at
the present time the growth of
trees suitable for lumber in the
United States “is currently not
much more than half of anticipat
ed post-war requirements,” and
(See LUMBER Page 3)
Press Club Holds
First Meet Wednesday
The A. & M. Press Club will
hold its first meeting of this
semester in the Lounge Room of
Sbisa Hall immediately following
supper Wednesday night. The
purpose of this meeting is to make
plans for the coming semester and
all students interested in journal
ism and the school paper, the Bat
talion, are urged to attend.
New freshmen are especially
urged to attend if they are inter
ested in working on the Battalion.
There is a great need for new
staff members on this semesters
staff. It is educational, interest
ing and a good pastime. The
time again, 7:00 p. m., Wednesday
February 9, in the Sbisa Hall
Lounge Room.
► There is perhaps no one other
entertainer in the United States
whose remarkable accomplish
ments have won so much “page
one” recognition as Dunninger,
“The Master Mind”, who will pre
sent a mystifying demonstration
of telepathy and mind reading
when he appears at Guion Hall
tonight at 8 p. m. under the aus
pices of Town Hall.
Dunninger has exposed fraudu
lent mediums whose claims for
communication with departed souls
.have cheated many misguided in
dividuals seeking “word from be
yond.” His work in this field has
won important recognition, for by
such exposes he has saved vic
tims the thousands of dollars an
nually poured into the coffers of
these so-called “mystics”. His
amazing m experiments in thought
transmission which have been per
formed for large audiences in
many sections of the country have
baffled the nation’s greatest psy
chologists. His seemingly super
human accomplishments with the
human mind have gained him an
international reputation.
In recent months he has proven
his abilities to be more astonish
ing than ever before because he
has developed astounding powers
of ‘long distance’ mind reading.
In Philadelphia on March 5, 1943,
he presented the first demonstra
tion of such telepathy as a radio
feature when without personal
contact he read the mind of a
newspaper editor seated at the
city desk of the Philadelphia
Record, two miles away from the
studio, and broadcast the exact
working of the “banner” headline
of the newspaper even before it
was set up in type.
Dunninger had no means of
knowing just how many words
the editor had written, nor had he
any information as to what the
biggest news of the next edition
was to have been, but he checked
the editor’s mind word for word
as the latter concentrated on each
item of the headline, and when
the fifth word was reached Dun
ninger announced: “Stop there, I
think I have it” . . . and he was
entirely correct! Imagine the
surprise of the editor when he
was told his mind had been read
over a distance of two miles by
a man he had never seen or spoken
to!
This is only one of a series of
amazing demonstrations of men-
talism that Dunninger has effect
ed. There are apparently no doors
locked against this master men-
(See DUNNINGER, Page 2)
Friend Of Aggies
Sends Regrets Of
Reveille’s Death
(EDITOR’S NOTE: In a letter to W. R.
Horsley, of the Student Placement office,
R. L. Auten of Passaic, Nek Jersey ex-
essed feelings typical of many people
out the country on the death of A. &
M.’s beloved mascot. Reveille. Auten is a
supervisor with the Curtis-Wright Corpo
ration.)
January 20, 1944.
Dear Mr. Horsley:
I was sorry to read in last night’s
paper of the death of Reveille.
She had made herself a very
definite part of the campus life
and I looked forward to seeing her
again on my all too few visits to
Texas. I know that she will be
missed by faculty and students
alike and that a definite warm spot
in many hearts is gone.
May I extend from the Corpora
tion and myself sincere sympathy
to you and the other members of
the campus group with whom Rev
eille has so closely allied her life
during the past years.
Very truly yours,
R L. AUTIN.