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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Texas AiM The B College alion BI-WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. DEEP IN AGGIELAND VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1945 NUMBER 55 Hundred Dairy Fieldmen Register For College’s Dairy Short Course Shepardson, Moore, Speak at 2 Day Meet Nearly 100 dairy fieldmen repre senting 1 Texas dairy products man ufacturers, creameries and cheese plants had registered at the open ing of the second wartime Dairy Fieldmen’s Short Course which was held at the Texas A. & M. Col lege yesterday and today. The short course was explained by A. V. Moore, professor of Dairy Husbandry and director of the meeting, as being built around the program adopted by the Dairy In dustries Committee to bring about larger and better dairy production to meet war needs, demands of lend-lease and keep the civilian population supplied with essential foods. It, and the first similar short course, staged in September 1944, are being held by the Dairy Department and other agricultural agencies of the Texas A. & M. College' at the request of dairy plants to give their fieldmen the benefit of the latest information available in the production of milk and milk products. Demand for milk and milk prod ucts has increased each of the war years and production has kept pace, Moore said. For 1945, though production figures in the past year were the highest of record, the dairymen of the country have been asked by the United States government to produce two billion pounds more milk. A gloomy picture for dairy oper ators was painted by Chas. N. Shepardson, in view of the labor situation, with more inroads by military services in the limited number of agricultural workers with which the industry kept go ing last year. He said, however, that the dairymen were like the soldiers on the battle fronts who have stood their ground and done their jobs with less material than humans thought previously could be done. Dean Shepardson called for more efficiency of operation, not only to best meet the current crisis, but to keep the industry in the best possible shape to meet the challenges of the postwar era. The dean was confident that dairymen would meet and pass the goals set for 1945 the same as they had other years. Care of the Land was the sub ject for an address by Dr. L. P. Jones, head of the Department of Agronomy, along with the show ing of a sound film, “Save the Soil,” produced by the American Potash Institute and the American Fertilizer Association, with the cooperation of various agricul tural colleges and agencies. The theme of Dr. Jones’ talk was that dairy production involved four (See SHORT COURSE, Page 3) Local Kiwanis To Receive Charter In Ceremony Tonight Between 225 and 250 Kiwanians and their guests will hear an ad dress my District Kiwanis Gover nor Merrill E. Audrey of Dallas in Sbisa Hall, tonight when the charter for the newly organized College Station civic club will be delivered to President James E. Breland. When the charter membership rolls closed a total of 110 men had made application as charter mem bers, it was announced by Secre tary John Quisenberry. When a small group at College Station discussed formation of the Kiwanis Club, it was believed that about thirty or fourty members could be obtained for such an organization, but the immediate interest gene rated caused the membership roll to jump by leaps and bounds to the well over 100 figure. . The first luncheon meeting was held at the Aggieland Inn a week before the Christmas holidays, and immediately arrangements had to be made to move the meeting place to larger quarters in Sbisa Hall. The banquet tonight will begin at 7:30 p. m., and an hour and a half has been set as the limit for the entire proceedings. Victor Randel, Huntsville, retiring lieut enant governor of this district will also be on hand to take part in the charter presentation meeting. Rev. R. C. Terry will deliver the invo cation. ilill lilfiH mwr) i ■ v ; a i p§ . FORTY-SEVEN YEARS ago this picture was taken in a Veterinary class conducted by Dr. Mark Francis, first Dean of the School of Veteri nary Medicine at A&M. The building located north of the Anatomy Building and some of the equipment are still in use. Dean Emeritus E. J. Kyle has identified the men as follows: Front row, left to right, Dr. Mark Francis, dead, Dean, School of Veteri nary Medicine; William A. Harrison, dead; Dr. E. J. Kyle, Frank Dwy- wSStSl'er, dead; S. E. Barnes, tsd&H Corpus Christi; Dr. Leon- * -ti ar( j Bland, physician, Dallas. Back row, Walter |pv| H. Whisenant, San An- XM tonio; and Ralph J. Poul- .. ter, dead. Dr. Steen Returns From Chicago Meet History in the future will be written for the public and not for historians, according to Dr. Ralph W. Steen, of the A. & M. College history department who has just returned from the American His torical Association meeting in Chicago. Dr. Steen was the only Texan present at the meeting, and was enthusiastic over the new agreement among historians that the chronicling of events of the past long has been done with the end in view of pleasing scholars, and with no thought for the en joyment of the public. The new thinking on an old subject was quite refreshing to the A. & M. professor who long has had advanced ideas about his fav orite subject of history. Smith to Attend 3-Day Army Jeep Session In Ohio H. P. Smith, chief of the division of Agricultural Engineering, Tex as Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, will attend a three-day meet ing in Toledo, Ohio, of agricultural engineers conducting tests on the adaptability of the Army jeep for agricultural purposes. The meeting has been called by the Willy-Overland Company for January 17, 18 and 19 at their Toledo plant so that mechanical features of the jeep will be more fully understood by the agricultural engineers conducting these experi ments, and some modifications ex plained and demonstrated together with a resume of company ex perience with the jeep during the past year. Mr. Smith said that the Willys- Overland people have designed a special type jeep with attachments for farm and ranch chores. He has been told that the first such jeep available will be, sent to the Texas station and expects its arrival sometime this month. Here it will be tested alongside the regular Army jeep delivered about a month ago. Mr. Smith refers to the first machine as “the jeep’ and to the special job as “the aggie jeep,” but he would not predict that it will come to be known as “the Texas Aggie jeep.” Attending the Toledo meeting will be agricultural engineers from seven other states where the effi ciency of the jeep for various agricultural tasks is being put on the spot. These states are Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Mississippi, Arizona and Washington, in addition to Texas Engineering Experiment Station Completes 30th Year of Service The Texas Engineering Experi ment Station of Texas A. & M. College has just finished thirty years of service to the citizens and to the industries of Texas. As it starts on its fourth decade of serv ice it anticipates, welcomes, and solicits a greater demand upon its research facilities than ever before, because its growth will parallel that of the growing industries of the growing industries of the state, according to Dr. A. A. Jakkula, acting vice-director. The station was established in 1914 as a department in the School of Engineering “to aid the indus trial development of Texas by in vestigating engineering and indus trial problems independently and in cooperation with others and to disseminate information relating to such problems.” After thirty years the objectives of the station remain as originally stated. While the objectives and policies of the station have remained con stant, its administration has changed several times. From 1914 until 1917, D. W. Spence was Dean of Engineering and the first direc tor of the station. Upon his death, the duties of dean and director were taken over by J. C. Nagle, who continued in that dual capacity until 1922. Upon the resignation of Mr. Nagle, F. C. Bolton became Dean and E. J. Fermier became director; thus, for the first time the two offices were separated. Mr. Fermier continued as director until 1925. For the next two years Dr. Bolton served both as dean and director. In 1928 F. E. Giesecke was made director, with the offices again sepax^ated. Dr. Giesecke con tinued as director until he reached retirement age in 1939. In that year the office of vice-director was cre ated and T. R. Spence filled that post. Gibb Gilchrist, who became dean in the fall of 1937, also became director, of the station. It is inter esting to note that T. R. Spence is the son of the first director, D. W. Spense; it might be said that at that time the station had served one generation of Texans. Al though there was a change in title, there was none in duties. Mr. Spence was the active administra tive head of the station as his predecessors had been, even though (See ENGINEERING, Page 4) D. B. Cofer, English Prof., Has Two Daughters, And Son, All Aggie Exes By Eli Barker Being a professor of English may seem very uninteresting to most Aggies, but this is hardly the case when David Brooks Cofer is considered. Although he did not attend A. & M. himself, he has three children who are members of the Ex-Students Association; only one of which is a boy. Yes, that’s true. His two daughters at tended summer sessions before the war started and they are as sociate members. One can readily see where Aggies stand in estimation. Having been born in Elizabeth town, Kentucky, on January 20, 1886, he decided to go to a col lege in his home state. Centre col lege was chosen, and he was grad uated from there in 1907 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin. Magna cum laude was only one of the distinctions which he received while there. From there he went to Arkansas College for a year as an instructor and to Southwestern Baptist Col lege for another year. Then Cofer proceeded to the University of Chicago where he got his master’s degree in English. While he was there, he became a member of Acacia. In 1810 he came to the Agricul tural and Mechanical College of Texas as an instructor of English and has been here ever since. At that time there were a number of young bachelors who were pro fessors. They all lived together in the bachelor quarters where Walton Hall is now located. Need less to say, they were the elite group of the campus. One of his most interesting ex periences during his bachelor days was his venture into the Illyrians, a little theatre group. “The Twelfth their Night” was produced with Cofer playing the part of Sebastian, who was one of the twins. It met with so much local success that the play was taken to Houston and a per formance was given at the Prince Theatre on Saint Patrick’s 1911. During his spare time he has done much research work in an effort to tie up present day events with literature which is being stud ied in the class room. Having ac cumulated a large collection of Carlyle’s works, he wrote a book entitled Saint Simonism in the Radicalism of Thomas Carlyle in 1931, because of his interest in that subject. After the work was published, he received a letter from the only living relative of Carlyle complimenting him on his work. Two of his other works are Noble English in 1929 and The English Wordbook in 1930. Advancement came rapidly here at A. & M. and four years after he arrived, he was made an assist ant pi'ofessor. Associate professor followed in 1919, and three years later he became a full professor and also acting head of the Eng lish Department. At the present his farm in Ken tucky is one of his main interests. Having just recently returned from a trip there, Cofer is very enthus iastic about his plans to raise to bacco. An interesting feature of his farm is the fact that is only a short distance from Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace. For quite some day, time now he has been gardening at home and is particularly fond of the pears which he raises. D. B. Cofer, Jr., who is a grad uate of A. & M., class of ’43, was an editor of The Battalion in his senior year. He studied Pre-Law while here and graduated with a commission in the Coast Artillery. An extraordinary thing about Gofer’s family is that all three of his children wrote for the Batt. His son wrote during the regular ses sions and his daughters wrote dur ing the summer sessions. This is truly an Aggie family. Former Employee Awarded Medal For Meritorious Service First Lieutenant Alfred C. Payne, former assistant secretary of the A. & M. College Young Men’s Christian Association has been awarded the Bronze Star for service in action, according to word received by M. L. Cashion, Y. M. C. A. Secretary. The citation accompanying the award follows: First Lieutenant Alfred C. Payne, 0370322, Infantry, 41 Re placement Battalion, United States Army . For meritorious service in connection with military operations against an armed army from July 29, 1944 to October 3, 1944, in France, Belgium and Luxemburg. First Lieutenant Payne, on de tached service with Headquarters, V Corps, was given the mission of assisting in the maintenance of liaison between that headquarters and various units under its con trol from July 29, 1944 until Oct. 3, 1944 under V. Corps control at various times. First Lieutenant Payne performed his duties in a superior manner. Ub tge fast- moving situation from the time of the St. Lo breakthrough, throughout Corps operations in the vicinity of Paris, and during the following rapid drive to the Ger man border, First Lieutenant Payne frequently worked far ahead of regimental battalion command posts, was often under enemy fire, in danger of ambush, and found it necessary to operate over long periods of time with little rest; yet, he constantly maintained a high degree of efficiency as he sub mitted accurate and timely reports concerning troops dispositions, enemy activities, and the presence of enemy obstructions in the route of advance. The personal courage, intelligent and aggressive execu tion of orders, and the devotion to duty of First Lieutenant Payne re flect great credit upon himself, and upon the Military Service. Entered military service from College Sta tion, Texas. Staff Veterinary On Leave In China Y-FORCE OPERATIONS STAFF, SOUTHWEST CHINA— Major Harold M. Spangler,'31, on leave from duties as veterinary on the staff of Texas A. & M. College, College Station, Texas, says that from his experience of more than a year of Army duty in the field in China he has learned to appreciate the good points of the primitive pack saddle still used by the Chinese Army and civilians alike. He is one of the several U. S. Army veterinarians, including several college profes sors, on duty with Y-Force Oper ations Staff, America’s largest military mission. Y-Force, headed by Brigadier General Frank Dorn, is the Amer ican liaison group which assists the Chinese Armies in southwest ern China. This group trained and supplied the Chinese Expeditionary Force for their current Salween Campaign to drive the Japanese from west, of the Salween River and reopen the Burma Road in China. Y-Force continues to train units and furnish supplies and ad vice, and also sends small medical, veterinary and technical liaison teams into the combat zone with (See VETERINARY, Page 4) Walton Hall Reserved For Ring Dance And Corps Rail Favors for Dance Go On Sale Wed. Morn. Doug-h Rollins to Speak at Banquet Harry Boyer announced today that new arrangements had been made as to the system that is going to be used in housing the Aggie dates this week-end. He said that the school is going to furnish complete bedding, wash rags and towels, and light bulbs for each room, at a cost of $1.00 per person, per day. Walton Hall is the dormitory to be used. Seniors are asked to sign up for rooms Thursday morn- -fing, while underclassmen must wait until Friday morning before Gilchrist To Speak At Banquet This Thursday Night Thursday night at 7:15 in the Lounge of Sbisa Mess Hall the Bryan Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Membership and Banquet Meeting, at which time an accredited report of the past year’s work will be given. President Gibb Gilchrist, the main speaker of the evening, will be introduced by District Judge W. S. Barron. At the meeting Fred Hale, new President of the Chamber of Com merce, and the eight new directors will be introduced. Entertainment for the evening will be furnished by the A Capella Choir of Bryan, under the direc tion of Professor Porter. Tickets for the banquet are $1.00, and should be bought not later than Tuesday. Advanced Students in Geology to Attend Houston Society Meet Thursday, January 10, the Hous ton Geological Society will have its regular monthly meeting in the Houston Public Library. Principal speaker for the evening will be Dr. Charles E. Weaver, former Professor of Geology at the Uni versity of Washington, who has been with the Standard Oil Com pany for the past few years. While with Standard, Dr. Weaver sur veyed the possibilities of the oc currence of petroleum in Argen tina, and published his work there. While in South America, Dr. Weaver also investigated the out cropping of the Cretaceous in Ar gentina, and published his work after he had taken the fossils to Germany to have them drawn by the expei'ts on the Cretaceous per iod there. Dr. Weaver’s topic will be “The Geology of Washington and Ore gon and It’s Relation to the Pos sible Occurrence of Oil and Gas.” His lecture will also cover data on the Stratigraphy of the Terti ary Period, which is one of the foremost oil bearing horizons in Texas. Only advanced Geology students of A. and M. will attend the meet- (See CONFERENCE, Page 4) making room reservations. The dormitory will open at 4 p.m. Friday, and must be vacated by 11:30 a.m. Sunday, January 14. Favors for the dance go on sale Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock at the Student Activities Office. They have been priced at $2.50 each. Charles Haenisch, Social Secre tary, and Harold Borofsky, Pro gram Chairman of the Senior Class, announced that final ar rangements had been made as to the program for the Senior Ban quet which is to be held Friday night in the Lounge of Sbisa Hall. It was announced that Dough Rol lins will be the principal speaker, and Jimmy Oates will play a few selections on the piano. The Dance will follow the Ban quet, and the Aggieland Orches tra is to play for the affair. Ex tra entertainment on the program will be provided by the Singing Cadets. Men eligible to go to the dance are those who came to the Cam pus in or before the month of September 1942. Any transfer student who has his ring and who has been on the campus at least two semester may also attend. Tickets are now on sale in each dormitory, and they are urged to buy their tickets as soon as possi ble, as a report must be made on the number of persons who are to attend the banquet by today, January 9th. Tickets for the Ban quet are $1.25 per plate, and tick ets for the dance are $1.50, couple or stag. Saturday night, January 13, there will be a Corps Ball held in Sbisa Hall, and all cadets have been urged to be present so that the affair will be a success. Tick ets for the Corps Ball may be pur chased upon entrance to the dance, and will cost $1.20, couple or stag. The dance will be informal. Architecture Dept. To Show Art Exhibit The Department of Architecture has announced a showing of the annual Traveling Exhibition of the Texas Fine Arts Association in the departmental library, room 400 r Academic Building. The exhibition will be open to the public at 1:00 p. m. Thursday, January 11, and daily thereafter from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., except Saturday after noon and Sunday morning through January 18. Leonard Warren, Brilliant Baritone, To Appear On Town Hall Jan. 26 Dr. Pearson Named To Animal Science Journalism Board Dr. P. B. Pearson, nutritionist for the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station has been appointed a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Animal Science by the executive committee of the American Society of Animal Pro duction. He will represent the field of nutrition on the board, and will review and pass on all manuscripts pertaining to various phases of nutrition that are submitted for publication in the trade paper. By Eli Barker On January 26th the committee on Student Activities will present Leonard Warren, a brilliant young American baritone, at Guion Hall at 8:00 p. m. He began his career on the “sidewalks of New York” as he was born in that city and educated in its public schools and at Columbia University. Warren was headed straight for a business career until his vibrant voice, a “natural” if ever there was one, compelled him to become a singer by profession. He has been singing as long as he can remem ber—for the fun of it—at house gatherings, at summer hotels, at parties and wherever young people gathered to join in song without benefit of musical scores or even a rudimentary knowledge of musi cal notation. The rough-and-ready school of singing was Warren’s only preparation for a glee club engagement at the Radio City Music Hall, which lasted for three years and served to awaken his interest in the more serious as pects of music. By his own admission, Warren’s knowledge of music was only “passing fair” when he astounded the judges with the tremendous magnificent voice of his, to win the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air competition in 1938. Then he really buckled down to it. During six months in Milan, Italy, as a protege of fhe Metropolitan Opera Association, the young baritone mastered seven operatic roles. War ren returned to this country from Italy to make his Metropolitan Opera debut in a minor role in “Simon Boccanegra,” on Friday, the 13th of January, 1939. This season at the Metropolitan Opera, Leonard Warren has been heard in leading roles exclusively. He attracted nation-wide attention almost at the start of the opera season when, on a few hours’ no tice, he stepped into the title role of “Rigoletto” for a broadcast per formance in place of Lawrence Tibbett, who had become suddenly ill. The Town Hall program which featured H. R. Knickerbocker and was supposed to be presented the latter part of this month has been cancelled and he will appear April 17.