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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1944
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 105
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ASTP 2nd Compan
Plan Formal Dance
Sat. Nite, March 4
Thirteen Man Band
From Local School Unit
Will Furnish Music
A formal dance will be held by
the 2nd A.S.T.P. company in the
Banquet Room of Sbisa Hall from
8 p.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday,
March 4. Admission will be limited
to members of the 2nd company
and to their guests.
J. E. Krakoff, C. L. Boyd, R. C.
Mallet and W. E. Riley, members
of the dance committee, announced
today that the popular A.S.T.P.
orchestra will furnish the music
for the dance. This orchestra, con
sisting of 13 pieces, displayed itself
to great advantage when it played
for the 4th company’s dance earlier
this year.
Col. Ike Ashburn
Talks On Future
Jobs For Youth
Former Commandant Is On
Jobs Ahead Program Over
Radio WTAW and Network
Though the present tempo of
construction cannot be maintained
in postwar years, there will always
be large scale shipbuilding activ
ities on the Texas coast worthy of
intense preparation for employ
ment by Texas boys, Col Ike Ash
burn, public relations director for
the Houston Shipbuilding Corpor
ation, declared in the Jobs Ahead
radio program, carried over the
Texas Quality- Network to Texas
high school boys and girls.
Col. Ashburn, formerly execu
tive assistant to the president of
Texas A. & M. discussed the var
ious aspects of the Texas shipbuild
ing indutry with Professor Chris
H. Groneman, acting head of the
Department of Industrial Educa
tion of the College.
Major shipbuilding companies,
where their yards are located and
the types of craft they build were
enumerated. There are between
80,000 and 90,000 persons emj-
ployed by this industry in Texas,
with an annual payroll of over
250,000,000, Col. Ashburn said.
The four major classifications of
employment are fiscal, engineer
ing and designing, production, and
management.
A ship, like an automobile, after
so much service and operation, re
quires a thorough overhaul to in
sure maximum performance effi
ciency, the speaker pointed out.
Therefore, the repair of ships has
equal importance with construc
tion.
Ship construction for the coun
try set a record in 1941. The total
tonnage of cargo ships construct
ed in 1942 was seven time the
figure for the preceding year, and
during 1943 the tonnage of con
struction was two and a half
times the 1942 record, being nearly
a quarter of a million tons more
than the goal set by President
Roosevelt.
In introducing Col. Ashburn,
Professor Groneman reviewed the
part that shipbuilding has con
tributed to the development of
the United States. He referred to
the fact that Texas is unique
among the states in that it had a
navy of its own in the days of the
Texas Republic.
This was the 19th of 27 broad
casts arranged by the Texas
School of the Air and presented
by the Texas A. & M. College in
cooperation with the State De
partment of Education to give Tex
as boys and girls an inkling of
employment opportunities await
ing them.
General manufacturing will be
the subject of the program to be
presented March 2.
y Few Aggies Leave
For DCS Thursday
Once again the 10th and the 11th
companies have gone to war.
Thursday night around 40 more
of the ROTC men marched to the
station singing “Goodbye to Texas
University” enroute to the train
taking them to the Armored Force
OCS. This was the fifth shipment
since December from these two
companies to such Candidate
Schools as Engineers, Cavalry,
Ordnance, Signal Corps, Infantry,/
Chemical Warfare, and a shipment
from the 2nd Co. of QMC.
This is part of a large scale plan
which is sending men through OCS
who enlisted while taking military
training at college. At its begin
ning on Jan. 1 only men with
ROTC training and men from over
seas units were eligible for com
missions from OCS. There were
some 8000 ROTC students just re
turned from basic training in vari
ous colleges at this time taking
modified ASTP courses while wait
ing to be sent to OCS. They are
now being sent to their respective
OCS’s at the rate of 1000 a month
which will deplete the program in
September.
When public office is just
looked on as a “plum”, democracy
is no longer a way of life. It is
nothing but a way to make a
living.
Freedom has not failed except
where we have.
Ninety-Six Men
Are Prospective
Baseball Players
Official Practices Will
Start On March 1st To
Train Varsity Team
Ninety-six Texas Aggie base
ball prospects, an even six per
cent of the student body, reported
Thursday to Coach Homer Norton
and heard plans for the 1944 sea
son at Texas A. & M. College.
Many of the boys reporting for
baseball are familiar from the
football and basketball teams. On
a poll, Norton found he had about
ten players who have had more
or less experience in each posi
tion, including nine boys with
high school pitching experience,
eight who swing from the right
and at least one port sider.
Official practice will not start
until March 1 and Coach Norton
will not meet again with the team
until that time. Each afternoon
however the boys will practice
among themselves, beginning at
3:00 p. m.
Texas A. & M. was co-champion
in 1943 with the University of
Texas. Rice, Texas and A. & M.
are the three Southwest Confer
ence teams which definitely will
play baseball. A. & M. will play
two games with each at College
Station and two games with each
at Houston and Austin respective
ly. About 12 other games are
planned with service nines.
“We will not beat everybody,
but we will beat somebody,” Nor
ton declared, “and we all will have
a lot of fun.”
Hundreds of Men
Attend Dance and
Bryan Open House
Another Affair To Be
Held By KC Lodge This
Week-end; Men Invited
Over 2300 servicemen used the
facilities of the Knights of Colum
bus Hall in Bryan over the past
week end it was reported this
week by members of that organi
zation. It is the custom of the
order to hold a dance every Sat
urday night and have open house
on Sunday afternoon for men in
all branches of the service, the
members of the lodge and their
ladies being the hosts and hostess
for the occasions.
Tonight a Juke Box dance will
be held in the K. C. Hall it was
announced and all men in the
service are invited and urged to
attend.
Tomorrow afternoon an open
house, with refreshments, will be
held and the same invitation is
open. Navy, Marine Corps, Air
Corps and Army men are invited
to attend these two functions spon
sored by the K. C. Lodge.
The Hall is located across the
street south from the U. S. Post-
office in Bryan.
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Consolidated High
Annual Football
Banquet Is Held
The annual football banquet for
A. & M. Consolidated High School
was held Tuesday night in the
study hall of the school.
W. L. Penberthy was speaker of
the. evening. £Ie .spoke on s.p.qj^s«.
manship and the qualities and re
quirements of a champion.
W. D. Bunting was toastmaster
for the evening and gave a brief
history of the team, reviewed the
games of the past year and gave
reasons why the team had met
with such success this year
In addition to squad and yell
leader members, parents and letter-
men, members of the A. & M. Con
solidated Mother’s Club Athletic
Award Committee, and members
of the School Board’s Athletic
Committee and their wives were
also present for the\ ceremony.
First string lettermen to receive
their jackets were Jimmie Cashion
co-captain), John Hollingshead,
(co-captain), John L. Davis, Mac
McCullough, Carlisle Spiker, Bob
by Carroll, Donald Carroll, Bud
Williams, Robert Dowling, Ray
Hart, Antone'' Dobrovolny, Edsel
Jones, John Marshall, Horace
Schaffer,, Bob Wright, Jerry Bon-
nen, Melvin Sheffield, Charles Wil
son and Mason Lee Cashion man
ager).
Reserve sweaters go to Robert
Lee Hunt, Charlie Carlson, Wind
sor Farmer, Jennings Hagler, Bill
(See CONSOLIDATED Page 3)
Dean E. J. Kyle
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Foreign Students
Asked To Meet Dr.
Elliott Monday
Problems of Out-of-
Country Students To Be
Discussed By Expert
Dr. A. Randle Elliott of the
Chief Council and Guidance Cen
ter Institute of International Edu
cation in New York City will be
on the campus of A. & M. Mon
day February 28, according to an
announcement made here this
week by Dr. John Ashton.
Dr. Elliott is particularly de
sirous of meeting Latin-American
students and students from other
foreign countries who may have
specific problems concerning which
Dr. Elliott may lend assistance.
All foreign students are cor
dially invited to attend the meet
ing called for 4 p. m., Room 208
Agricultural Building, on Mon
day, February 28, for the pur
pose of meeting Dr. Elliott.
Petitions For Freshmen
Officers Must Be Filed
President, Vice-President From Fish
Class; Sec.-Treas., Historian From Frogs
^ , Transfer of Head
Kyle Speaks In Department Is
About Farm
Work In War
Tells Achievements
Of Texas Farmers
Over TQ.N In Austin
Texas maintains many “firsts”
in the war effort, E. J. Kyle, dean
of the Texas A. & M. College
School of Agriculture, ’declared in
-s-pesking nvar'Vbe. TON~£rom Jwe* t&S ■ ran k
tin Friday night in reviewing the
achievements of Texas farm peo
ple, as part of the ceremonies ob
serving the Texas Farm and
School Victory Day, proclaimed
for Feb. 25 by Governor Coke
Stevenson.
Our rural people, in spite of
sending a larger percent of their
sons to the fighting fronts than
any other state, in spite of ser
ious shortages of labor and the
tools of agriculture, have contri
buted magnificently in the pro
duction of food, feed and raiment
for the commercial markets of the
world, Dean Kyle said. Texas
stands first in the production of
beef cattle, sheep, goats, cotton,
grain sorghums, and is close to
the top in many other lines of
farm and ranch produce.
Particular credit was given by
Dean Kyle to the extra efforts
put forth by tens of thousands of
boys and girls in FFA' and 4-H
clubs to increase the supply of
food and feed for a famine strick
en world.
Also appearing on the broadcast
were Governor Stevenson and
President Homer P. Rainey of the
University of Texas.
Announced Locally
Jaynes Succeeds Ray In
Post at Extension Dept.;
Ray Enters Navy Service
Transfer of M. C. Jaynes, pres
ent cotton work specialist, to the
position of organization and co
operative marketing specialist on
the staff of the Texas A. & M.
College Extension Service, was an
nounced today by Acting Direc
tor James D. Prewit. He replaces
C. B. Ray who has entered the
United States naval service with
of lieutenant, junior
grade.
Jaynes, a Kentuckian by birth,
entered the Extension Service as
county agricultural agent in Re
fugio County in 1917. Three years
later he transferred to a similar
position in Nueces County where
he began the cotton improvement
work in which he has been active
in recent years. He withdrew
from the service to engage in pri
vate business but returned in 1935
as Harrison County agricultural
Food Expert To Be
At Consolidated
School Tuesday
College Social Club Is
Sponsor of Nationally
Known Expert on Cooking
Announcement has been made
that Miss Anna Bines, of Chicago,
home economist sponsored by the
National Live Stock and Meat
Board, will conduct a program on
“Pointers on Stretching the Meat
Points” here Tuesday February
29 at the Home Economics De
partment of the A. & M. Consol
idated School. Miss Bines is be
ing presented under the auspices
of the Food Group of the College
Social Club.
The lecturer is a nationally
recognized expert on meet cook
ery and is in a position to give
valuable information in regard to
this subject. Miss Bines will also
conduct a practical demonstration
of the subject of her lecture, which
will prove to be very interesting
to the housewives of this com
munity as well as to the students
of the Home Economics depart
ment of the school.
agent. In September, 1939, he
was appointed cotton work special
ist at headquarters, College Sta
tion.
As a result of his work the num
ber of one variety cotton areas in
Texas have trebled in five years.
For the past two years he has
taken a leading part in the pro
gram of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture to promote the pro
duction and maintenance of good
cotton seed through payments of
subsidies.
Let’s back America by living
like Americans. Americans are
honest, unselfish, neighborly^
clean, free and united. Are we?
All of the time?
C. N. Shepardson Is
New President Of
Texas Dairy Group
C. N. Shepardson of College,
head of the dairy husbandry staff
of Texas A. & M. College, has been
chosen president of the Texas
Dairy Products Association. Shep
ardson was elected in balloting held
at three Texas cities—Lubbock, Ft.
Worth, and San Antonio.
In commenting on the organiza
tion’s program and the wartime
tasks confronting it, Shepardson
quoted figures showing that Texas
was eighth in the United States in
the amount of milk produced. Pro
duction of milk products in the
United States, which last year was
118,000,000 pounds, will have to be
raised if the estimated need of 140
million pounds is to be met. The
goal Thought possible of attain
ment in 1944 is 122,000,000 pounds.
The culling of herds and more care
in the manufacture of milk prod
ucts are two means suggested for
helping the situation.
We must live democracy, as well
as believe in it, in order to have it.
Mme.J|Francescatti Gossips About Activities
Intimate Life Of Zino Francescatti Given By Wife
Of Celebrated Violinist Who Appears On Town Hall
By Mme. Zino Francescatti
NOTE: The wife of the great French
violinist Zino Francescatti who plays
aristocratic family she appeared as
soloist with some of the foremost orches
tras of Faris under her maiden name of
Yolande Potel de la Briere. When she
married the most famous of contempor
ary French violinists she gave up her
own career to further his. This followed
a precedent in Francescatti’s own family:
his mother, preparing for a concert
career, studied violin under his father
ihe decided to marry her teacher
until shi
instead!
In America I hear much talk
among women about the question
of marriage versus a career and
I am often asked how I felt about
giving up my own career for that
of my husband. For I was a con
cert violinist myself, you know,
and before my marriage appeared
as soloist with such well-known
Parisian orchestras as the Pasde-
loup and the Poulet.
Just a month before my wed
ding I was rehearsing a perform
ance of his second sonata with
Albert Roussel, the French com
poser. When I told him I was
going to be married he smiled and
said jokingly, “I’m afraid, dear
Mademoiselle, that this is the last
time we shall play my sonata to
gether.” I protested vigorously
at the time but I know now that
he was much wiser than I,
I soon saw that if I pursued my
own career I couldn’t give the
proper kind of help to my hus
band. Then I realized that, after
all, what I sought as a musician
was perfection in violin playing,
and there was no question but
that my husband was better equip
ped to attain that end than I. To
have a share in his achievement
was a more glorious “career” than
I could carve out for myself. As
it is now we have one career to
gether.
A good part of our life is spent
I always carry with me photo
graphs of family and friends,
people who are dear to us. Then
I have some splendid pieces of old
lace which I use as table covers.
Then there are our dogs—made
of plush! I adore dogs and as a
promise of the time when we can
have real ones my husband brought
these home to me one day in
Switzerland shortly after our
marriage. Now they are as much
a part of our household as his
violins. All these small objects
spell “home” and intimacy for my
husband whe nhe is resting be
tween concert dates.
As we travel and visit the homes
of American friends I am always
on the watch for details which I
can use when we have our own
permanent home in America. Am
erican women are wonderfully
in hotel rooms but there are ways imaginative in getting the most
of making these seem like “home”.' out of a room. Particularly I
Zino Francescatti
★ ★ ★
admire the way they use plants—
small plants, cactuses and flow
ers, arranged with such taste and
bringing a note of country fresh
ness into the four walls of a city
apartment.
My American home is a New
York apartment with a small
terrace overlooking Central Park.
We are happy there though oc
casionally we think wistfully back
to our little apartment in Auteuil,
a suburb of Paris. When we
locked the door for the last time
we had no idea that the Germans
would be in Paris within a few
days. We thought we would be
back in several weeks and left
everything but a few clothes, some
music, and my husband’s violin.
Since then we haven’t even had a
word about our things. They in
cluded a collection of modern
paintings which my husband had
(See ZINO Page 3)
Petitions for candidates for the
offices of president, vice-president,
secretary-treasurer, and historian
of the freshman class must be filed
at the Commandant’s office not
later than 5 p.m. Wednesday,
March 1. In order for a man to be
entered as a candidate, it is neces
sary that at least 50 signatures be
obtained in his support.
The elections will be held in the
Assembly Hall on the evening of
March 1. The freshmen should be
gin now to consider which men
will be the most suitable for these
positions.
Setting a precedent, the presi
dent and vice-president are to be
elected from the members of the
second semester freshmen. Their
election will take place at the meet
ing on the first. The secretary-
treasurer and historian will be
elected from the first semester
freshmen. Their election will take
place at a later date which has
not been set as yet.
Freshmen are urged to elect
those men who will be best able to
represent their class in the various
activities on the campus. Cam
paigning for these offices should
begin at once. In order for the
best showing to be made, it is rec
ommended that each company
should sponsor at least one man
for some office.
WTAW Features “Music
By Master Composers”
On Saturday Afternoons
This afternoon at one o’clock
WTAW will broadcast Jacques Of
fenbach’s tuneful opera, “The Tales
of Hoffman.” The broadcast, which
■is a Blue Network program spon
sored by the Texas Company,
comes from the stage of the Metro
politan Opera House, and will also
include a discussion of current af
fairs as one of the intermission
features.
Offenbach, German born but
French by citizenship, did not live
to see the first performance of the
work, which took place in 1881*
four months after the composer’s:
death. But the work has been pop
ular ever since it was first pro
duced, though it is not one of the
stand-bys of the operatic reper
toire.
An opera in three acts, with pro
logue and epilogue, “The Tales of
Hoffman” is the story of the three
toagic love affairs of the poet
Hoffman. In the prologue we see
the melancholy poet musing in a
tavern among a merry group of
students. He rouses to sing a gay
song, but falls to dreaming before
he completes it. The students begin
to brag about their love affairs,
and Hoffman interrupts to tell
about his three loves. The first
was with Olympia, a mechanical
doll whom Hoffman believes to be
alive and with whom he falls in
love. But when the spell is broken,
he sees only a shattered doll, and
realizes he has been cruelly im
posed upon by her creator, the
evil Spalanzani.
His second love affair is with
Giulietta, a Venetian Courtesan.
Her real lover, the malignant Dap-
ertutto the counterpart of Spalan
zani in Act I and of Dr. Miracle in
Act III) involves the poet in a
tragic duel with one Schlemil,
whom Hoffman kills. Giulietta and
Dapertutto flee, and Hoffman is
once more disillusioned.
His third beloved is the consump
tive Antonia, who is under the in
fluence of Dr. Miracle. He forces
her to sing for Hoffman, and the
weakened girl expires after her
song. Thus ends his third romance.
In the epilogue, back in the tav
ern, after he has told of his three
loves, Hoffman finishes the gay
song of the prologue, and then
falls into a drunken sleep. The
students leave, and Stella enters.
She sees him asleep, and departs
(See WTAW Page 3)