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DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A«M
The B
College
alion
WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 45
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 27, 1945
NUMBER 1
A&M Begins 72nd Annual Session This Week
Aggie Leaders to
Pick Sweetheart
from TSCW Campus
All-Girl Swing Orchestra
Is Booked To Entertain
New Freshmen Tonight
Stage Show and Refreshments Will
Feature Joint Program Presented By
Business Men and Activities Office
More than a thousand strong and
growing in numbers by the minute,
the new freshmen of A & M will be
royally entertained tonight with
music, song and “eatin’s”, with Stu
dent Activities and the Business
men’s League of College Station
playing joint hosts for the even
ing and with the All-Girls Orches
tra from Sam Houston State Teach
ers taking the spotlight. The fun
begins promptly at 7:30 in Guion
Hall.
The Huntsville lassies will be
making their second appearance on
the Aggie stage, having appeared
last spring on the Reveille Show,
and having scored at that time a
big success. They have just comple
ted a week’s engagement at one of
the outstanding rodeos of the state.
Following the stage show, the
Businessmen’s League will take the
spotlight at The Grove, where ice
cream and cold drinks will be serv
ed and where rumors say a draw
ing will be held and some 25 prizes
awarded, including a first prize of
five dollars cash.
After the refreshments the fish
will return to Guion Hall for a
free motion picture.
General chairman of the Bus
iness League’s part of the program
will be Ed Garner, ’38. Business
firms participating include:
Loupot’s Trading Post, Student
Co-op Store-Ed Garner, Greyhound-
Kerrville, Bus Station and College
Station Taxi, Aggie Service Sta
tion and Garage, C. W. Varner
Jewelry, A. & M. Photo Shop, A.
& M. Alteration Shop, A. & M.
Grill, A. M. Waldrop & Company,
R. W. Ivey-Aggieland Barber
Shop, College Book Store-Bryan
Bobbitt, Aggieland Pharmacy, Uni
form Tailors, College Station Shoe
Repair, Holick Boot Shop, Nisbet’s
Cafeteria, Aggieland Studio, Aggie
Cleaners & Dyers-Curtis Eden,
Zubik & Sons Uniforms, Seaboard
Life-Ford Munnerlyn, Dist. Agent,
Ben Youngblood-Holick Cleariers,
Mrs. J. S. Blazik-Mrs. Charles
Rohloff-North Gate Alteration
Shop, J. P. Dobyne Jeweler, S. A.
Lipscomb Pharmacy, College Inn
Cafe, Charlie’s Food Market,
<jCreamland, Campus Theater, W. S.
D. Clothiers, J. B. Lauterstein, Cal
Graham’s Dairy, Dr. A. B. Cath-
cart, Ray Oden-Southside Food
Market, George’s, Roy Carpenter-
Missouri-Pacific Lines, Andres-
Holt Clinic, Madeley’s Pharmacy,
Gorzycki’s Barber Shop-South-
side, T. H. Black-Southern Pacific
Lines, McCall’s Humble Station,
J. C. Culpepper-Realtor, Dr. W. H.
Hooper-Dentist, Mais Grocery,
Burkhalter Grocery, Bravenac’s
Magnolia Service Station, Black’s
Pharmacy, Luke’s Grocery and
Grant’s Service Station.
JEWISH RELIGIOUS SERVICES
FRIDAY IN YMCA CHAPEL
Religious services for Jewish
freshmen will be held Friday even
ing September 28 at 7:00 p.m. in
the chapel of the YMCA. Services
will be over in time for fresh
men’s reception at the President’s
home that night. All Jewish fresh
men ^re urged to attend. The serv
ices will be held under the aus
pices of the Hillel Club on the
campus, of which Mark Halleck is
president and Harold Borofsky is
religious chairmen.
A 12-man judging team, repre
senting the leadership of the cam
pus, will leave next Thursday for
Tessieland where they will select
the annual sweetheart of the Ag-
gie-TSCW Corps trip to the Aggie-
TCU football game in Ft. Worth
on October 20.
Nominees for the honor, consider
ed one of the highest on the Tessie-
ite campus, will be named by the
various classes of the famous Ag
gie sweetheart institution.
The judges from the corps will
make the final selection of the
queen at an all-college dance to be
held next Friday in Tessieland’s
fine student union. Aggies are ex
tended an invitation to attend this
dance and a date bureau has been
set up for those wishing to attend.
Since Denton is en route to Nor
man, Oklahoma, where the fighting
Farmers take on OU Saturday,
October 6, the TSCW dance will
attract a good many khaki-clad
Aggies. No stags are allowed at
the Denton school dances but all
Aggies will be found dates if they
will call at the date bureau.
The sweetheart of the annual
corps trip, held each year on the
ocasion either of the TCU or SMU
game, will be presented at the half
and the cadet colonel of the cojjps
will present her with a bouquet
as the mighty Aggie band plays in
her honor, “Let Me Call You Sweet
heart.”
An outstanding feature of the
corps trip this year will be a big
dance at the Texas Hotel sponsored
by the Ft. Worth A&M Club with
Bill Turner and his Aggieland Or
chestra.
The judges to pick the sweetheart
will include the cadet colonel, the
president of the senior class, social
secretary of the senior class, the
editors of the Longhorn and Batta
lion, senior yell leaders and other
campus representatives. The names
of those making the trip will be an
nounced in next week’s BATT as
most of the positions named above
have not been filled.
Student Leaders Are Elected by Corps
Pictured below are the winners of a corps election held on September 14 to fill places of leadership
for the new semester. Also chosen at the September election, but not included below, is Orville Baker,
who was named Senior yell leader.
A Message From The President
For the first time in almost four years Texas A. & M. can enter
upon a regular session free of the holocaust of war. The world is at
peace everywhere on the face of the globe for the first time in many,
many years. This is an auspicious circumstances under which to begin
the 70th year of Texas A. & M.’s existence. Already we are beginning
to see many familiar faces—of our fine young men who laid aside
their books and slide-rules to answer the call of their country. The
thought of the sacrifices of these men, and of the even greater sacri
fices of those who will not return to Aggieland, should be a sobering
one. War has struck with savage force in the ranks of A. & M. The
price paid is terribly high. It can only be justified if the unfinished
tasks of our departed friends are eagerly accepted by every man who
loves his country and his school. The responsibility of accepting the
mantle of those who died and suffered that we might continue a na
tion of independent, democratic people is heavy. Accept it in the spirit
of unselfishness, with a willingness to work hard for the rewards that
lie ahead, and there is no limit to what you can achieve and no heights
to which Texas A. & M. can not go.
We extend you a hearty welcome to A: & M. and wish you every
success in the tasks that lie before you.
Cordially,
GIBB GILCHRIpT,
PRESIDENT
War’s End Does Not Minimize Need for
Military Training, Says Knickerbocker
Public sentiment in favor of some
policy of compulsory military
training for the youth of America
has taken a slump since the end of
the war and the development of
the atomic bomb, but the need for
the training of future service men
is just as great as ever, A. B.
Knickerbocker, Texas adjutant gen
eral, said Tuesday night.
General Knickerbocker was ad
dressing the September meeting of
the Brazos County A. & M. Club
held in the Chemistry lecture room.
A good cross-section of College
Station and Bryan residents was
in attendance. General Knicker
bocker was talking on postwar mil
itary training and how various
proposals which have been ad
vanced may affect the Texas A.
& M. College.
Most of his talk was pitched in
explanation of nine charts shown,
dealing with relative statistics on
how this and that policy will af
fect the 18-year olds, and the num
ber of enlisted men and officers
we may expect at given times un
der a plan drawn up by the State
Military Affairs Committee, a
group of seven men appointed by
FLASH!
That enrollment might exceed
the 2500 mark was the “unof
ficial” guess of Registrar Hea
ton at noon Thursday. 1108 ac
ceptances had been received up
that time for new Fish. Heaton
said, “maybe 2600—maybe as
high as 3000. Purely guessing
now.”
Governor Coke Stevenson.
There is sharp division of opin
ion between two main groups of
the country on our postwar mili
tary setup, the speaker said. One
group is represented by the pro
fessional Army and Navy men and
the other is the educational group,
representing non-military schools,
ROTC colleges and the military in
stitutions. Texas A. & M. College
comes in the third grouping, Knick
erbocker said.
The two groups were said to fav
or compulsory military training
for the good of the individual and
for the good of the country, but
differed radically in how and when
such training was to be given. The
military wanted to take all boys
immediately after their 18th birth
days and give them the whole
year’s training at one time, while
the educational group wanted to
allow several options to fit indiv
idual needs with as little interrup
tion in their high-school and col
lege education as possible. Each
detail of the latter plan was shown
on the charts, in some instances
the year’s training would be fin
ished after college graduation. The
educational group however ravored
four months of compulsory train
ing between the 18th birthday and
college entrance, with tentative
dates set from June 1 through
September 30.
General Knickerbocker favored
the operation of the latter plan
for several given reasons, one of
which was that the colleges would
retain control of its students tak
ing military training.
Freshmen T o Register
Saturday After Full
Week Of Orientation
Texas A.&M. College, gathering momentum for a postwar
program that is expected to carry the 70-year old institu
tion to new glory, next week will begin its 72nd annual ses
sion with an enrollment figure expected to reach the twenty
five hundred mark, more than forty percent of which will
becomposed of new students.
Freshmen, who have been on the
campus since Sunday under-going
the traditional orientation week,
will complete registration Saturday
with old students scheduled for
registration Monday. Classes will
get underway Tuesday.
It was almost to a day, on
October 4th to be exact, in 1876
that Texas A. & M. first opened
its doors for the first of an esti
mated 50,000 Aggies that have
Exchange Store
Announces Profit
Sharing System
A policy of student participa
tion in surplus profits from opera
tion of the A. & M. College Ex
change Store has been announced
by Cax-1 Birdwell, manager. Stud
ent rebates will be in proportion to
their purchases from the Exchange
Store, and all unclaimed refunds
accruing from sales other than to
students will be used for student
welfare purchases. Students who
wish to do so may assign their re
funds to the fund for student wel
fare, Birdwell pointed out.
“For some time the management
of the Exchange Store with the
approval and assistance of the ad
ministration of the College has
been studying various methods of
increasing the efficiency of operat
ing,” Birdwell said. “It is our de
sire to extend the 1'ange of service
and to devise some plan of equit
able distribution of the annual net
surplus out of profits from opera
tion, based on the policy of the
College to operate the Exchange
Store for the benefit of the student
body.
“The plan adopted is the coop
erative or profit-sharing plan of
operation which has proven satis
factory in many institutionaally
operated stores over the nation.
Under this plan excess profits will
be returned to the student purch
asers of supplies and other merch
andise.”
All bona fide regular students
of the College will be eligible,
without payment of any fees or
dues, and dated cash register re
ceipts will be given students as
they make their purchases.
come through its portals. Except
for the first few years enrollment
has shown a steady increase save
for two periods, the depression of
the early ’30’s and the war years
of 1943-4-5. This enrollment would
be Texas A. & M.’s 70th except
for the speed-up program inaugu
rated during wartime to provide
opportunity for as much schooling
as possible before being called ta
service.
Offering instruction in practi
cally every field of agricultural,
liberal arts, military science and
engineering and possessed of the
largest and perhaps the best Vet
School in the nation, the future of
Texas A. & M. never looked bright
er than on the eve of its 70th
birthday. With its sons of war,
heroes by the score, returning dail-
ly and with high school graduates
showing pre-war interest, there is
occasion for optimism by the en
tire A. &M. faculty, staff, stu
dents and exes.
Next fall is expected to see en
rollments in the various schools on
the campus reach the 5,000 mark.
This next year should see a re
sumption of many of the activities
curtailed or eliminated by war. Stu-
life generally seems charged with
a new tempo not seen since Pearl
Harbor plunged the nation and the
men of A. & M. into war.
Innovations over previous ses
sions include the full assumption
of the newly created Dean of Men
of the responsibility for student
welfare, housing and discipline; a
new campus security set-up with
primary emphasis on policing col
lege premises, regulating traffic,
street safety, fire control and less
gum-shoe; a new basic policy to
which all are expected to subscribe
allegiance and which embodies
principally a higher standard of
decent behavior, a code designed
by Ex-Aggies on the Board of
Directors.
For the first time in several ses
sions all students except year-men,
some veterans and foreign stu
dents will be housed in military or
ganizations. No change in the es
sential military character of Texas
A. & M. will follow the recent
changes in policy announced. On the
contrary, it is pointed out by ad
ministration spokesmen, A. & M.
expects to continue its leadership
in the field of military training.
What’s Cooking?
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
7:30 p.m.: Entertainment for Freshmen, sponsored by College
Station Business Men’s League and Student Activities Office,
featuring All-Girls’ Swing Orchestra from Sam Houston State
Teachers College at Guion Hall.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
7:30 p.m.: President’s Reception for New Students on lawn
of the President’s home.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
8:00 a.m.: Registration of New Students at Assembly Hall.
8:00 p.m.: Football, Texas Aggies vs. Texas Tech Red Raid
ers, at Alamo Stadium, San Antonio, Texas.
11:00 p.m.: Aggie Dance, music by Bill Turner and Aggie
land Orchestra, at Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas.
SUNDAY, SEPEMBER 30
Church Services at the church of your choice.
5:00 p.m.: Boy Scout Court of Honor at YMCA Chapel.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 •
8:00 a.m.: Registration of Old Students, at Assembly Hall.
7:15 p.m.: Yell practice.
8:00 p.m.: Women’s Society of Christian Service at home
of Mrs. J. W. Rollins.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
8:00 a.m.: Classes begin.
3:00 p.m.: Campus Study Club, tea at home of Mrs. Gibb
Gilchrist.
NOTE: New students, as well as faculty members and
other residents of College Station, are urged to advise “What’s
Cooking” at 4-5444 of arrangements for organization meetings,
etc.