College
alion
Volume 45
-College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, February 8, 1946
Number 20
Vets Can Earn Commission In Two Years
T. S. C. If . Choir Here Tonight
Advanced R.O.T.C. Reactivated by
War Dep’t. Col. Welty Announces
37 Girls to Sing On *
Town Hall Program
Second musical treat of the
week is promised for A. & M.
Town Hall tonight, when the
Texas State College for Women
Choir will be heard.
Appealing to a wide range of
musical tastes, selections presented
by the Modern Choir are chosen
for general audiences over Texas.
^ The repertoire of the group in
cludes compositions from classic to
modern music, as well as arrange
ments from musical comedies and
light operas.
Further diversity is given to the
program through the intersper-
sion of vocal and instrumental
solos, duets and trios. A violin
quartet composed of Misses Hazel
Powers, Gladys Mack, Miriam Mar-
ston and Mary Oden also appear
with the group.
Miss Betty Jo Cook, senior
^ speech major from Bryan, acts as
commentator, giving continuity to
the program.
Early in the school year Dr. W.
V E. Jones, director of the depart
ment of music and conductor of the
Choir, held personal auditions to
select membership for the group.
Choice of the membership of 37
was made on the basis of individ
ual tone quality and smoothness.
The Modern Choir is composed
chiefly of advanced music stu
dents, and includes girls from
(See CHOIR, Page 4)
5 Zoller Heads New
Dramatic Club
Billy Zoller, a junior in Archi
tecture, was elected president of
the Texas A. & M. Dramatic Club
when that group met Tuesday
night. Zoller had previous experi
ence in theatricals as president of
the dramatic club in the high
school at New London, Texas, his
home town.
Hal Dugan was elected vice-pres-
^ ident and Mrs. Nancy Tucker sec
retary.
Sixty-four persons were enrolled
as charter members, the list in-
* eluding those present at the or
ganization meeting and at the ses
sion this week.
Dr. T. F. Mayo, head of the
English department, discussed con
flict as a necessary element of
drama, giving examples from the
works of Eugene O’Neil and John
Galsworthy.
The cast and stage crews have
already been selected and have be-
-jgun work on the first major play
of the season, to be presented some
time in March.
Next meeting of the club will
r be February 19.
NOTICE
All men interested in tutor
ing are requested to get in touch
with R. H. Hughes at the
Athletic Office immediately.
THE ATHLETIC OFFICE
Latest Figures
Show That 4199
Are Registered
Registration figures are still
coming in, but more slowly than
at the first of this week. Figures
released by the Registrar’s of
fice, up until ten this morning,
show that there are 1849 regular
students from last semester with
assignment cards in.
New students at A. & M. now
number 1236. The term “new
students” indicates both these men
who have had no college work,
and those that are entering A. &
M. for the first time, with an ad
vanced standing record.
Old returning students, both
those that have not been in serv
ice and those who have, are 1114.
The total, up to press time, was
4199.
The Registrar’s office estimated
that about 85% of the new stu
dents are veterans, and approxi
mately 95% of the old returning
students are in the same category.
Water-Sanitary
Short Course Will
Start On Monday
The Municipal and Sanitary De
partment of A. & M. College, un
der Professor S. R. Wright, work
ing in conjunction with the State
Board of Health, will hold its
twenty-eighth annual short course
on Water and Sewage Plant oper
ation from Monday, Feb. 11, thru
Wednesday.
The course will take the form of
an informal discussion rather than
a convention. An enrollment of
about 400 is expected.
Registration begins Sunday at
3:00 p. m. in the lobby of the
Y. M. C. A., where an information
desk will be maintained for the
duration of the course.
The session will open with a
welcoming address by Gibb Gil
christ, president of the college. W.
W. Joiner, president of the Texas
Water Works and Sewerage Short
School, will preside as chairman.
Russ Morgan Will
Play for Veterans
Russ Morgan and his 23 piece
band and entertainers have been
booked for the Ex-Servicemen’s
dance on February 22 and for a
Corps Dance on the following
night, it was announced by the of
fice of Student Activities today.
The date of the Servicemen’s Af
fair was changed from March 8 in
order to get this outstanding or
chestra on the campus. The band
was booked at popular prices be
cause of the fact it will be en route
from Mexico to a hotel engagement
in the East. Price of both dances
will be $1.50 only.
While essentially a “sweet mus
ic” band, Morgan holds a unique
place in popularity in the dance
world. He has appeared once before
on the A. & M. Campus, in 1941.
In addition to his 17 piece band,
Morgan has girl vocalists, male
vocalist and several novelty com
binations. As part of his dance en
gagement he gives a jam-up floor
show.
Morgan’s band will be the first
“name” band since Sonny Dunham
played the Final Ball last summer
and it is expected that it will be
one of the big dance week-ends of
the entire semester. Dormitory
rooms will be cleared for dates, it
was announced.
Class In Spanish
Is Offered Free
To Community
A community class in Spanish,
with emphasis on pronunciation
and conversational phrases, will
be offered on the campus of the
College, starting Wednesday night,
February 13, at 7:30. It is planned
to have the class meet once a
week, every Thursday night, for
one hour and a half (7:30-9:00),
and it will be open to both men and
women. No class credit will be
given. The purpoose is to give some
conversational knowledge of the
language to those who may have
been exposed to Spanish some time
ago and to those who have had no
previous Spanish instruction.
Membership to the class will be
free of charge, the only expense
being the price of the book which
is seventy-five cents. All those
who are interested in such a class
at this time are requested to
please send a card to Prof. J. J.
Woolket, c/o Faculty Exchange,
College Station. This information
is necessary in order to make pro
vision for a lecture room large
enough to accommodate the group,
and to inform the members where
the class will meet.
Reactivation of the advanced R.O.T.C. at Texas A. &
M. College by the War Department will put the course in
military science back on the footing it held before the war,
Col. M. D. Welty, professor of military science and tactics
and head of the School of Military Science at the college,
announced Thursday.
Students who have completed
the basic military science -courses
and students who have served in
the armed forces one year or more
will be eligible to receive contracts
with the War Department if they
enroll for the advanced courses in
military science.
As in the past, selection will be
made on the basis of leadership,
scholastic attainment and the ap-
Record Number of
Student Cars Makes
Traffic Problem
“Do Not Drive to Class;
Register Your Auto”;
Hickman Requests
“The greatest traffic problem in
the history of A. & M. College con
fronts us this semester,” Fred
Hickman, Chief of Campus Securi
ty, stated yesterday.
Mr. Hickman said further, “With
the large increase in the enroll
ment of Veterans and the result
ant increase in the number of ve
hicles, it will be necessary for
every student to cooperate to the
fullest in order to maintain good
driving and parking conditions on
the campus. If we can have the
whole-hearted cooperation of every
student owning an automobile, then
restrictions may be kept to a mini
mum.
“We feel that each of you will
help in this problem and we can
assure you that we are anxious
to work with you in any way that
will make driving conditions bet
ter. Here are a few simple rules
that, if followed, will work to the
advantage of the entire student
body.”
Register your car with the
Chief of Campus Security,
Room 107, Goodwin Hall.
Park your car in the author
ized parking areas which are
listed in an official bulletin in
this edition of The Battalion.
Do not drive your car to
classes.
Drive carefully on the camp
us. Remember that many Ag
gies walk in the streets.
If you have a physical dis
ability that would make walk
ing a hardship, you may get
special permission to use your
automobile by making appli
cation to the Office of Camp
us Security, Room 107, Good
win Hall.
-proval of the college officials.
Those receiving contracts will be
paid subsistence at the rate of six
ty-six cents daily amounting to
more than $150.00 for two semes
ters. They will also be paid a uni
form allowance or be issued uni-
forms in kind by the War Depart
ment. In case of issue, the uniforms
will be standard officers’ uniforms.
At the end of the junior year, a
tour of camp duty will be required.
Col. Welty stated that the camp
scheduled for 1946 has been post
poned until the spring of 1947.
Upon completion of the second
year of the advanced course, those
with satisfactory work will be
awarded commissions as second
lieutenants in the Officers Reserve
Corps in their respective arms or
services.
At this time, Col. Welty has ap
proximately 250 contracts for the
present juniors and ex-servicemen
with more than one year of serv
ice. Additional contracts will be
available at the time that the pres
ent sophomores become juniors and
are eligible to receive such con
tracts.
It was under such a plan that
the War Department built up a
strong officer reserve in the past.
This plan made Texas A. & M.
College the leader among all col
leges and universities in producing
(See R.O.T.C., Page 4)
Exchange Store Has
Nightmare When
Invaded By Gl’s
The Exchange Store, usually
thought of by Aggies as a serene
place where they could purchase
supplies in a setting of dignity and
peace, became a bedlam this week
when hundreds of book-hungry
Gl’s descended upon it, armed with
requisition slips from Uncle Sam.
There is much paper-work con
nected with filling book and supply
slips which are to be charged to
the Veterans Administration, which
makes book-getting a slow process.
As a result, a line of ex-service
men stretched from the Exchange
Store clear back to Bolton Hall,
every working hour of the week.
Inside, the store looked as though
it had been raided by commandos..
However, it is expected that by
Monday of next week, all Gl’s will ;
have been taken care of, and the i
Exchange Store can get back to
normal, much to the relief of the
staff.