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From the Halls.. .
During halftime Saturday, when we’re midway through
beating the SMU Mustangs, the Aggie Band will march onto
the field and form the letters U S M C in honor of the na
tion’s most unique and colorful uniformed service on their
171st birthday. Then, as the whole student body stands,
and sings, our band will play the spirited and impressive
“Marine Hymn” through one chorus.
Marines, too, have their “Twelfth Man” spirit. Their
incomparable esprit de corps has given them the edge in
many battles where the outcome would otherwise have been
most grim. Saturday afternoon the student body and the
football team alike will have the benefit of the Marine spirit
that drove the American Forces through the islands of the
Pacific to the gates of Tokyo. Two of the Aggies’ stellar
guards, Odell Stautzenberger and Herb Turley, teamed to
gether in the Okinawa invasion. Bob Tulis, who’s in at
tackle when Dickey is out, was also in the Pacific theater.
Mann “Goober” Scott, ace backfield pass-snatcher, was with
the El Toro Marines, and Bob Gary, center, was a Leather
neck corporal until discharge right before football season.
Besides these who carry on the fighting Aggie and
Marine traditions on the gridiron, a large number of ex-
Marines will be in the stands yelling for the invasion of
Mustang territory.
Sure, we’ll stand up and sing the “Marine Hymn”. It’s
a fine tribute to a great organization. Furthermore, we’ll
be singing it for our own Gyrenes, real Marines and real
Aggies!
Comedy of Errors. ..
Tuesday’s edition of The Batt, first under the new twice-
a-week schedule, contained a record crop of typographical
errors. The paper was sent to press hurriedly, after last-
minute arrangements had been made for such an issue. Not
even all of the staff knew about the new schedule. In the
excitement nobody missed the proof-reader, and not until
the paper was printed and distributed did the editors discover
that no one had checked the paper for misprints!
The staff has now been reorganized, and proofreaders
duly appointed. We can’t promise that we will keep out
ALL errors—what newspaper does?—but we hope to avoid
any such “comedy of errors” in the future.
A Good Step...
The “wall of Jericho” between the School of Agriculture
and the Agricultural Experiment station came tumbling
down last week, when the new plans were announced for
coordinating teaching, research and extension activities. No
longer will there be fences separating the work of one ex
pert—in agronomy for instance—from that of another expert
working in the same field but on another part of the campus.
Such an integration of activities cannot fail to help
every department involved. We feel sure that in the future
the Agricultural School and the Experiment Station will be
able to outdo their past fine achievements.
Watch The Team...
There is a good show down on Kyle Field every after
noon from 4:30 to dark: the Aggie football team is working
out. It’s free, go down there any afternoon. The boys don’t
mind an audience (unless Coach Norton calls for a secret
practice) and even then the Bee’s are watchable.
The team is going places now—let’s get out there and
watch them work!
Way o f the World. . .
As this page went to press, it appeared that the Re
publican party had won a great victory . . . the biggest po
litical change since the Democrats took over the House of
Representatives in 1930, two years before Roosevelt became
president. . . . Texas Sam Rayburn will probably trade places
with Joe Martin of Massachusetts. ... as Martin becomes
Speaker of the House, Rayburn will probably become minor
ity leader. . . ' But Democrats still get elected in a lot of
places, including Texas.
While some of the northeastern and middle western
states were switching to Republicans, the gubernatorial nom
inee of that party in Texas wrote the whole thing off in ad
vance. ... He conceded Jester’s election before the polls ever
opened.
Every so often some one suggests a two-party system
for Texas and the Deep South. . . . We may not have two
parties in the Democrat-Republican sense, but during the
primaries there seemed little doubt but that there are two
parties in Texas, both called Democrats. . . . It’s like a foot
ball game with both teams wearing maroon jerseys and white
helmets.
This week Russia suggested that the United Nations
move into the vacant League of Nations buildings in Geneva.
. . . those noble marble halls were barely completed before
World War II put the League out of commission . . . Pre
viously Russia has taten the position that Geneva should
be avoided, as a place of sad memories. . . . but they are not
too keen about UN settling down for good in New York or
San Francisco.
Under a miscellaneous for sale in the Madison (Wis.) Capital
Times, the following appeared recently: “Maid for one of newer
fraternities on campus. Easy to clean, modern construction through
out.” Call Mr
NEW AREA COULD USE MORE OF THIS TYPE FEMALE
An ad appearing in a recent edition of the Salt Lake City Tri
bune stated, “Sheer stockings designed for dressy wear, BUT SO
SERVICEABLE THAT LOTS OF WOMEN WEAR NOTHING
ELSE!”
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Letters
ONE-MAN DOG
November 6, 1946
Dear Editor:
I was talking to “Rusty” the
other day; you see, I can under
stand her, because I was her mas
ter. She told me that she would
sure like to go back out to Bryan
Field and be my dog again. She
said that she had nothing against
A. & M. but that she was strictly
a one-man dog.
She’s not a thoroughbred or even
very smart, but she is a good dog,
and now that Aggieland has a real
performer that wants the job of
being mascot, Rusty told me con
fidentially that she would happily
resign and let Freckles be mascot
without any contest.
Rusty is crowd-shy and band-
shy and would rather lay around
the house all day than run all over
the huge campus of this great
school.
My little boy and I have missed
Rusty, too. When I saw the fris
ky cocker spaniel at the game last
Saturday, I thought'that it would
make a much better mascot.
So, Freckles, here’s good luck
to you; I hope you have a good
time in Dallas and from now on.
Yours truly,
Tom H. Westbrook III, ’45
Editor’s Note: Many thanks.
NO MILK!
Dear Mr. Editor,
This letter is written to ask a
simple straight forward question.
I hope that there in turn, shall
come a plausible explanation. Why
does Sbisa Hall have a shortage of
milk? Or, when there is milk
why must it be rationed to one
bottle? There is plenty of A. &
M. Creamery milk at the North
Gate or the East gate at lOtf per
half-pint.
Would whoever is in charge ex
plain why the students of A. & M.
College should be the first to suf
fer from this artificial shortage?
A. E. Hudeck
Editor's Note: The Batt inter
viewed Mt. A. V. Moore, head of
the College Creamery and got the
following explanation.
Primarily there are four causes
for a milk shortage in this region:
an increase of students and citi
zens; low milk production annual
ly between May and January; low
dairy production; and Houston
dairies’ reaching out in this direc
tion to ease up on their problem.
The creamery obtains its milk
supply from local farmers. Accord
ing to a directive of the Board of
Directors, all milk used in the mess
halls must come from the Cream
ery. Recombined milk is not per
mitted by the A. & M. Health
Board.
Regarding the presence of A. &
M. Creamery milk at the Gates,
Mr. Moore stated that it is sold
to these concerns as an accommo
dation to married vets for use in
their homes and to these stores
which have been buying Creamery
products for a long period even
when other sources were available.
This is not being done at any ap
preciable loss to students since the
percentage of all other sales to
those amounted to only 11%.
WAILING WALL
Dear Editor,
I read a letter in last week’s
Batt (Oct. 31) which seems to
have been written by one of the
180 2%-ers on this campus. That
first sentence started off with
“Concerning the midnight yell
practice you spoke of, I was not
present at this event, so—”. Bill
Rosser said something significant
at that yell practice about the 2%
not present.
No, 6000 veterans are not mar
ried to this school, and neither are
3000 cadets. We all, of our own
free will and accord, chose A. &
M. as the school to get an educa
tion. No one was forced into it,
so instead of quibbling, why don’t
we stick to the simple rule, “Do
Right!”, and settle down to school-
work — instead of beating our
heads against the proverbial wail
ing wall, “Letters to the Editor”.
As to the old line military aris
tocracy, remember that most ca
dets come here because of the mil
itary life, NOT in spite of it. And
only the 2% within the cadets who
are not conscientious will try to go
non-reg. The other 98% think too
much of our school.
/ Yours truly,
William M. Menger, ’49
and 26 others
Whatfs Cooking
Monday, November 11
6:30 p. m. Badminton Club
plays, DeWare Field House.
7:00 r p. m. Reunion Former
Members “I” Btry. F.A., Room
114, Dorm 15.
7:30 p. m. Style and Fashion
Group, Sbisa Lounge. Election of
new chairman.
Veterans Administration Office
in Hart Hall closed (civil service
holiday).
Tuesday, November 12
7:30 p. m. Jr. FFA, Ag. Eng.
Lecture Room.
7:30 p. m. Pre-Law Club, or
ganizational meeting, Academic
Building.
7:00 p. m. Class of '45, Assem
bly Hall.
7:30 p. m. Institute of Aero.
Sciences, Petroleum Lecture Room,
Speaker, Penn E. Mullowney; Top
ic “The Possibilities and Poten
tialities of Air Freight”.
Note: Texas A. & M. Business
Society will meet Tuesday Novem
ber 19 in the EE Lecture Room
instead of Tuesday November 12.
Only one meeting in November.
Thursday, November 14
7:30 p. m. Houston County A.
& M. Club, Room 305, Academic
Bldg.
"The Roosevelt . . .
Roosevelt, Crime, and An Egg
Not Related, But Good Reading
“The Roosevelt I Knew”, writ
ten by Frances Perkins, close
friend and political associate of
the late President, is probably the
best biography yet to be written
on F. D. R. Miss Perkins has
made clear the spirit of the Roose
velt Administration, which served
through one of the stormiest eras
in the history of the U. S., in a
critical and unbiased manner. Such
statements by Miss Perkins as
“the President’s thinking had some
blind spots”, and “he grew from
a supercilious young aristocrat in
to a truly great humanitarian”,
are significant of this swiftly mov
ing story of our last president.
(The Viking Press, $3.75)
A good book for mystery ad
dicts is “The Complete Murder
Sampler”, an anthology which con
tains a wide variety of crime stor
ies suitable for practically any
taste. Thrills and chills are fur
nished by such authors as^ W.
Somerset Maughm, R. Austin
Freeman, John Buchan, Mary Ro
berts Rhinehart and Raymond
Chandler. Readers not committed
to one school of gooseflesh should
enjoy skipping from one gruesome
tale to another in this encyclope
dia of murder. (The Crime Club,
$2.50)
Ole Army, if the quizzes are
getting you down, try glimpsing
through Betty McDonald’s “The
Egg and I”; an hilarious story of
two city-bred young people who
undertake to operate a chicken
farm located in a veritable wilder
ness. Their experiences with un
ruly hens, borrowing neighbors,
forest fires, and winter weather
are compiled in a story of clever
wit and humor. Published by Lip-
pincott, this laugh riot has been at
the top of the non-fiction best
seller lists for months, and has
sold over a million copies. (Lip-
pincott, $2.75)
Whittemore And Lowe Prove
Sensational At Town Hall
By Ferd English
Town Hall presentation of the
duo-pianists Arthur Whittemore
and Jack Lowe proved to be one
of the finest pieces of entertain
ment ever offered at Guion Hall.
The homogeneous pair showed
such dexterity and were so close
ly united throughout the whole re
cital that it seemed phenominal
that two talents could be so close
ly paralleled.
From their performance one
would think that there was some
type of telepathic communication
between their fingers. The au
dience was so pleased with them
that they were asked to play four
encores.
Whittemore and Lowe first met
at the Eastman School of Music,
in Rochester, New York, where
Mr. Whittemore was director of
the chorus and Mr. Lowe was his
assistant. Their complete know
ledge of music, along with some
very hard work, won the chorus
national recognition.
In 1942 the pair entered the na
vy and during the next four years
played before one million service
personnel. They were discharged
the first part of this year and
were immediately put under con
tract by Victor Recording Artists
for whom they have made both
black seal (modern) and red seal
(classical) records. They are the
only artists on the Victor lists
who are making both types of re
cords at this time.
Their bid for fame and fortune
has not come suddenly. They have
been accepted by audiences made
up not only of the proletariat, but
also of the people who recognize
and appreciate good music. In the
future they plan to try to get
away from popular music and play
only the classics. The reason for
this is that during their entire
tour of service they were asked
to play popular music relatively
few times in comparison with the
flood of requests that they receiv
ed for classical numbers.
The team Whittemore and Lowe
should be well remembered. We,
here on the A. & M. campus have
seen them at the beginning of
their careers. Their future is
bright. They have hitched their
wagon to a musical star and they
will soon be the most popular clas
sical piano team in history.
VA HOLIDAY NOY. 11
The Veterans Administration
office in Hart Hall will be clos
ed Monday, November 11, Ar
mistice Day, which is a civil
service holiday, according to W.
H. Bailey.
PENNY’S SERENADE
By W. L. Fenberthy
Wednesday night I had the
pleasure of attending the concert
given by Arthur Whittemore and
Jack Lowe, duo-pianists on the
Town Hall program. After the
concert I heard two very interest
ing remarks, one by a lady who
knows music, the other by a man
who might not have known music
but could appreciate the technique.
The lady said, “They started to
gether, played together, and fin
ished together.” The man said
“If Coach Norton had a couple of
backs with the timing of those
two musicians, we would be world-
beaters.”
Timing is of primary importance
in a great many things. There is
no telling how many hours of prac
tice Whittemore and Lowe put in,
perfecting their timing so that
they would be absolutely synchron
ized at all times. We have all
watched our coaching staff work
long hours perfecting a certain
play so that each and every play
er would not only be doing the
right thing, but doing it at exact
ly the right time. We have all
seen plays fail to work, not be
cause a player failed to carry out
his assignment, but because he
carried it out too soon or too late.
A Worrieless Club-
Incredible but True
“Les Messieurs San Souci” (The
Gentlemen Without Worries), first
French Club in A. & M. history,
made its auspicious debut at 7:30
p. m., October 29. President-elect
of A. & M.’s only trouble-free
group is E. L. Sargent; W. B. Nor
ris was elected vice-president; sec
retary is J. M. Huddleston; and A.
Van Arcken was elected to serve
as treasurer.
French atmosphere was created
by Marlene Dietrich’s interpreta
tion of “Symphonie”, Lily Pons’
spirited rendition of “The Marseil
laise”, and by The Toreador Song
from “Carmen”. Truett Book,
French instructor, spoke on the
life of Vincent Van Gogh.
French movies, a field trip to
New Orleans, and occasional lec
tures by some of France’s out
standing authors are all part of
“Les Messieurs San Souci” Club’s
tentative program schedule.
Although present membership
consists solely of students enrolled
in French classes, all other Aggies
who feel a particular need for
spiritual rejuvenation, who yearn
to sing out gaily again, “Bon
Soir!”, are cordially invited to vis
it the newly organized French
club.
During the early stages of the
war our army was being criticized
for its lack of timing in the state
ment “Too little too late.” In our
daily lives many of us are prone
to be a little out of time. We do
the job, but in most cases I don’t
imagine we are guilty of doing it
too soon, but too late. The habit
of doing the thing that is to be
done at the right time is a fine
one to acquire. As well as giving
us a lot of confidence in ourselves,
it gives others confidence in us.
It is a fine feeling to know that
you can deliver when and where
it will be most effective.
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Low-Cost Sulfamic Acid Was Result
of Newly Discovered Process
Once obscure laboratory
chemical now finding
wide use in industry
Sulfamic acid, which for
years was merely another
obscure laboratory chemical,
is today being produced in .
carload quantities for a con
stantly growing list of uses
because of a discovery
made by a Du Pont chemist.
Believing that urea could
be sulfonated to give a prod
uct which might have com
mercial utility, the chemist
treated ufea with fuming
sulfuric acid. The reaction
was exceedingly violent, and
it appeared that decomposi
tion had taken place to give ordi
nary ammonium sulfate. However,
the chemist noted that the white
precipitate which had formed did
not dissolve rapidly in water as am
monium sulfate should, and further
investigation proved that he had
obtained sulfamic acid. »
NH 2 CONH 2 + SO a + h 2 so 4
urea
> 2NH 2 S0 2 OH + CO.
sulfamic acid
Thus the way was pointed to an
inexpensive method of making this
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scarcely known chemical, and an in
tensive study of its chemical and
physical properties has led to its
development for a wide variety of
industrial uses.
First industrial Applications
The salts of sulfamic acid are being
used extensively as flame-proofing
agents. Highly compatible with cellu
lose, ammonium sulfamate is unique
among fire retardants in that it does
not cause stiffening or otherwise ad
versely affect the hand or feel of
textiles and paper.
Another outstanding use for am
monium sulfamate is as a weed killer
for the control of poison ivy, rag
weed, and a variety of noxious an
nuals. Its effect on poison ivy is un
matched by any other product.
One of the most important indus
trial appheations for sulfamic acid is
based on the fact that it reacts quan
titatively and very rapidly with ni
trous acid. This has led to its wide
use in eliminating the excess nitrite
employed in diazotization reactions
for dye and colored pigment
manufacture.
Soluble in Water and
Non-hygroscopic
Sulfamic acid is a strong acid,
and despite the fact that it
is exceedingly soluble in wa
ter, it is a solid non-hygro
scopic, non-volatile material
which has found application
as a laboratory titrimetric
standard. Additional infor
mation will be found in the
bulletin "Sulfamic Acid and
Its Salts.” Write to 2521 Ne
mours Bldg., Wilmington,
Delaware.
Understandably, men of
Du Pont are proud that their work
in the laboratory has created and
developed many products like this
"chemical curiosity” to help make
life safer, more pleasant and com
fortable for all Americans.
Questions College Men ask
about working with Du Pont
IS THERE A FUTURE
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Every effort is made to initially select
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Men are advanced as rapidly as their
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The broad research program and the
ever expanding development of new
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of old established products offer ample
opportunities for the technical graduate
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