It’s Town Hall Wednesday
The Master Mentalist
VOLUME 46 \
Texas A*M
The B
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1947
Swimming Team Begins
With OU Thursday
Number 26
Town Hall Presents Hypnotist-Telepathist Tomorrow
Registration Scheduled for January 23-24
Will Issue Assignment Cards
To Regular Students in Sbisa
Registration procedure for the Spring Semester to take
place Thursday and Friday, January 23 and 24 for currently
enrolled students was announced by H. L. Heaton, Registrar.
Old returning students, meaning those students who were
not enrolled during the fall semester or did not complete the
fall semester, will not register until Monday, January 27.
As in the last semester assignment cards will be given
out in east main of Sbisa Hall. A schedule of the times for
each letter to receive cards will be"
found on this page. This is the
first time that the size of the stu
dent body has warranted two days
for a registration period.
The various offices of housing,
fiscal, deans, and departments will
again be set up in Sbisa for the
purpose of facilitating registra
tion. A veteran advisor’s and regis
trar’s desks are to be located in
Sbisa Annex.
Veterans will then secure their
book requisitions. All students
must turn in their assignment
cards upon leaving. The deans’
desks, the Veteran’s desk, and the
registrar’s desk will all be located
in Sbisa Annex.
“Regular students should fol
low a common section number
when they register”, said Heaton.”
For instance, a student registering
for first semester chemical engin
eering subjects, should register for
either section 260, 261, or 262 in
all classes required for that
course”.
Any course may be withdrawn
from the spring semester offerings
in case the number of people
signed up is too small to justify
offering the course. All return
ing students must complete their
registering by 6 p. m. of their day
or pay an additional matriculation
fee of $2.00.
Students who are taking less
than 12 semester hours will report
to the registrar’s table for an ex
amination of their statement of
charges before they begin regis
tering. All juniors and seniors
in the schools of Agriculture and
Arts and Sciences must have their
heads of departments initial their
course before presenting it to their
dean.
A list of classrooms will be post
ed on the bulletin board in the Ac
ademic building as soon as it is
available. The schedule of classes
will be published on January 17.
Second Free Movie
In Guion Hall Sat.
Saturday morning, January 18
at 10 a. m. in Guion Hall, theatre
goers may see the second in a
series of three free movies—“A
Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The
picture, one of a group of 28 sel
ected as the best classical movies
in the past ten years, is based
on a story of Shakespeare and
employs an extremely large cast.
A very large crowd came to
see the showing of the first of
this series—“Green Pastures”, on
December 14, and in anticipation
of another large attendance Tom
Putty, manager of the Guion, has
arranged for a second showing of
“A Mid-summer Night’s Dream” at
3 p. m. on the afternoon of Jan
uary 18.
Training Program
For Air Reserve
Ready for Action
Ellington Field has notified the
Brazos County Chapter of the Re
serve Officers Association that
plans are now complete for the
training of A & M Air Reserve
personnel.
The plans provide for flying one
day out of each week and one
Sunday out of each month. It is
suggested that if possible all air
reserve personnel leave W e d n e s-
day free for this training.
Forty pilots from the group
taking their flight training here
at the college have been notified
to report to Ellington Field on Jan
uary 19 for their advanced train
ing.
File Applications
For Student Jobs
All student employees who
wish to continue working dur
ing the spring semester are ur
ged by L. R. Hickman to file
application renewals with the
Student Labor Office immedi
ately. Those students desiring
employment who have not al
ready filed applications are re
quested to do so at their earliest
convience. Renewals and appli
cations will be accepted begin
ning Wednesday, January 15.
$14,000 Electron
Microscope Here
From GE Company
A new-type electron microscope,
valued at $14,000, has been received
by the A. & M. Research Founda
tion for further development and
research use from the General
Electric company, it was an
nounced recently by Dr. A. A.
Jakkula, executive director of the
Foundation.
The Foundation will turn the in
strument over to the electrical en
gineering department. for prelim
inary installation, Dr. Jakkula
indicated. He said there is a con
siderable amount of machine work
to be done on the microscope be
fore it can be put into working
condition, once it is operating, its
tremendous magnification abilities
will be made available to eager
scientists, such as biologists, chem
ists and dairy-researchers, through
out the college.
Magnification with the elec
tron microscope itself, employing
an electron stream focused by an
external electrostatic field in
stead of using light rays as in
ordinary microscopes, ranges
from 300 to 1000 diameters, it
is claimed.
The image of the object being
viewed is focused sharply on a
fluorescent screen. Optical acces
sories, such as an eyepiece or a
camera, increase the magnification
range to the neighborhood of 30,
000 diameters.
This magnification brings the
internal structure of bacteria with
in range, and it is said scientists
hope someday to be able to view
even molecules of matter by its
aid.
The General Electric instru
ment is mounted compactly on a
desk-type base, and has a built-
in power supply furnishing
35,000 volts to accelerate the
electron stream, Dr. Jakkula
said. Its overall dimensions are
only 52 inches in height, with a
base two feet by three feet.
Veterans Can Reinstate
Policies Until Feb. 1
Veterans have until February 1,
under existing regulations, to re
instate lapsed National Life In
surance without physical examin
ation. The Veterans Administra
tion reminded veterans that all or
part of a policy might be renewed
by two monthly premiums on the
amount to be reinstated.
Proper forms for reinstating poli
cies may be secured at the campus
Veterans Advisor’s Office.
Over 1000 John Smiths Confuse FA,
So Be Explicit, Give Middle Name
Veterans can speed up the serv
ice from the Veterans Administra
tion by taking extra care to iden
tify themselves in their corres
pondence with that agency, Jef
ferson E. Kidd, Director of Con
tact and Administrative Services
in the VA’s branch office at Dal
las, reports.
Kidd advises all veterans to give
their full name and the identify
ing VA file number when writing
to the VA about their insurance,
pension claims, or other GI bene
fits.
“If the veteran does not have
his file number, he will get a more
prompt reply from us if he gives
his date of birth, his service serial
number, his date of enlistment or
discharge from the service, or
some other information to help us
identify his file,” the VA official
said. “There are more than 1,000
John Smiths in the VA files of
this area, so you can see how im
portant it is that we have a man’s
middle name and as much other
information as possible to help us
identify him.”
Line Up, Boys . . .
FOR STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED
Thursday, January 23, 1947
8:00 to 9:00—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V.
9:00 to 10:00—All whose surnames begin with W, X, Y, Z.
10:00 to 11:00—All whose surnames begin with L, Me.
1:00 to 2:00—All whose surnames begin with M, N, O.
2:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R.
3:00 to 4:00—All whose surnames begin with S.
Friday, January 24, 1947
8:00 to 9:00—All whose surnames begin with F, G.
9:00 to 10:00—All whose surnames begin with H, I.
10:00 to 11:00—All whose surnames begin with J, K.
1:00 to 2:00—All whose surnames begin with D, E.
2:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with Br, C.
3:00 to 4:00—All whose surnames begin with A, Bq.
FOR OLD RETURNING STUDENTS
Monday, January 27, 1947
8:00 to 9:00—All whose surnames begin with S, T, U, V,
W, X, Y, Z.
9:00 to 10:00—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N, O,
P, Q, R.
10:00 to 11:00—All whose surnames begin with E, F, G, H,
I, J, K.
1:00 to 2:00—All whose surnames begin with A, B, C, D.
Advance ROTC Contracts
Offered in Ten Branches
Applications From Students Must
Be in Adjutant’s Office by Jan. 15
Colonel G. S. Meloy, Jr., Professor of Military Science
and Tactics, has announced that advanced ROTC contracts
are available to students desiring to enroll in advanced
Military Science courses in the following branches: Infantry,
Field Artillery, Cavalry, Signal Corps, Coast Artillery, Corps
of Engineers, Chemical Corps, Ordnance, Quartermaster
and Army Air Forces.
In order to qualify for an advaheed contract students
^must be classified in the Regis
trar’s Office as Juniors in their
Directors Decide
Against Increase
Of WTAW Schedule
Refuse Request to
Move Corpsmen From
Annex to Campus
At a regular meeting of the
Board of Directors Saturday af
ternoon, January 11, plans for the
night operation of the college sta
tion WTAW were discussed. The
group found that the $78,000 neces
sary to set up such a schedule pro
hibitive. A decision was reached
by the Board, however, to continue
plans for the establishment of a
.FM broadcasting station here with
both day and night operation.
Acting on a request presented to
them by Cadet Colonel Ed. Brandt
and Cadet Major John Cochran
that all members of the Corps at
the Annex be moved to the cam
pus next semester, the Directors
refused to permit such action.
Their statement concerning the de
cision was “. . . the arrangements
were made for the best interests
of the students and the college.
An appropriation of $25,090 was
approved for the construction of
a military property warehouse on
the campus. This is to house
equipment of this department
which has grown considerably
since the advent of the war, it was
announced.
Also approved at the meeting
was a fund of $3,000 to prepare
plans for a warehouse and repair
shop to be used by the Building
and College Utilities Department.
In this structure workers will ren
ovate all furniture in need of re
pair throughout the college and
store all excess stock for reissue,
it was said.
The Board of Directors, acknow
ledged three gifts to the college;
$15,000 from Swift and Company
to further pasture research, $6,000
from John F. Heil of Milwaukee
for two fellowships to establish re
search on mechanical dehydration
of grass, and $5,000 from John W.
Carpenter of Dallas for the sup-
p o r t of artificial insemination
studies.
Supplement to Film
On Trees Available
At Forest Service
“Trees and the Bible,” a new
sixteen-page booklet containing
quotations from the Holy Bible
about trees, is now available free
to anyone who is interested in
understanding this relationship,
W. E. White, director of the Texas
Forest Service, announced. This
booklet was published as a supple
ment and study guide to the 16 mm.
sound and color movie, “Which
He Hath Planted,” produced by
the Texas Forest Service.
Larry J. Fisher, visual aids spe
cialist of the Texas Forest Ser
vice, compiled the booklet and also
directed the filming of “Which
He Hath Planted.” The quotations
are illustrated on every page with
original drawings by Joe Clark,
of A & M. In addition, the book
let contains numerous other bibli
cal references to trees.
“Trees and the Bible” is avail
able without cost to churches,
schools, civic groups, or indivi
duals by sending a request to the
Texas Forest Service, A & M Col
lege, and stating the number of
booklets desired.
Veterans’ Checks
Not Taxed, Says VA
Veterans whose income during
1946 consisted only of subsistence
and pension checks will not be re
quired to file an income tax re
turn for the year stated. The
Veteran’s Administration, after
consulting with the Internal Re
venue Department. This money is
considered a gift and is not taxable.
This applies also to those mak
ing a return on income from other
sources. They should not include
the amount of these subsistence
or pension checks in their total
of income received.
Gordon T. Hill Rejoins
Civil Engineering Staff
Gordon T. Hill has rejoined the
civil engineering faculty at A. &
M. with the rank of assistant pro
fessor, it was announced today by
Dr. S. R. Wright, department head.
Hill is a 1935 graduate who was
an instructor here in 1943-45. He
returns after a year’s service as
city manager of Lamesa, Texas. .
Exchange Store
To Offer Profits
To Students
Pro Rata Dividends
Must Be Approved By
Board of Directors
Subject to final approval by the
Board of Directors, the Exchange
Store will pay 10% dividend to
students on purchases for the fis
cal year of 1946 in accordance
with the present profit sharing
plan.
This was decided upon by the
Exchange Store Advisitory Com
mittee in a meeting last Thursday
evening. It means that each stu
dent who had bbught supplies at
the Exchange Store and have sign
ed their receipts and placed them
in the boxes set aside for this pur
pose, will receive 10 cents on
every dollars worth purchased.
The profit sharing plan has been
in affect since October 1945. Every
student is a member and will take
an active part in the profits if he
has signed his cash receipts and
placed them in boxes provided in
the store.
The total amount set aside to
pay the pro rata dividends by the
committee is $35,609. Students who
desire that tbeir refunds pass to
the Student Welfare Fund can
automatically arrange this by not
claiming their refunds. All sales
refunds from other persons other
than students will also be placed
in the welfare fund.
The committee was presided over
by E. N. Holmgree, business mana
ger of the college. Faculty mem
bers present were J. W. Rollins,
W. H. Holzmann, F. W. Hensel, E.
N. Langford, and J. J. Woolket.
Student committee members at
the meeting were Josept Mueller,
Marvin Lebmen, George Knox, and
Arthur Matula. Final action on
the profits to be offered rests
with the board of directors.
Houston Symphony
On Town Hall
The Student Activities Office has
announced the addition of a pro
gram by the Houston Symphony
Orchestra to its list of Town Hall
attractions. This will bring the
number of events under the aus
pices of this department to twelve.
Following the practice of the
last several years of bringing this
organization to the campus, it is
now scheduled for performance on
April 22. Previous programs by the
Houston Symphony have been well
received by Town Hall patrons and
their appearance on this season’s
schedule will probably be welcom
ed.
respective schools or by attending
summer school will be within four
semesters of successfully complet
ing four years of college. Veteran’s
an advanced Contract without basic
ROTC training must prove so by
exhibiting a copy of their dis
charge papers that they have ser
ved 12 months in the Armed forces
in order to obtain eligibility for
Non-veteran students in order to
be eligible to sign a contract
must have completed the elemen
tary course in military science.
Application blanks for regist
ering are available at the Adju
tant’s Office in Ross Hall, the
Office of the Dean of Men, and
the Veteran Advisor’s Office. Col.
Meloy stated that it is impera
tive that all students, including
students now enrolled in the ROTC,
fill in this application blank since
the information requested thereon
is necessary for the completion of
class rolls. These application blanks
are to be returned to the Adju
tant’s Office in Ross Hall prior
to January 15. All new advanced
contract students will be required
to take a physical examination.
An Army Medical Examining
Board will be in attendance at the
college hospital on January 23,
24, and 27 to conduct these physi
cal examinations. Students will re
port to this examining board and
receive a medical clearance prior
to presenting themselves to the
registration for Military Science.
Fish to Meet,
Plan for Ball
Plans for the annual Freshman
Ball will be discussed at a meet
ing of the Fish class scheduled for
Wednesday night at 7 p. m. in the
Assembly Hall. The announced
date of the dance is February 21.
Decisions on the music, admission
and decorations are on the list of
topics for the meeting. All Fresh
men, both Veterans and Corpsmen
are urged to attend by the presi
dent.
Vets Report Study
Change by Jan. 17
All veterans who are making or
contemplating a change in their
course of study for the next sem
ester should report this fact to the
V eteran’s Administration before
January 17. This information must
be recorded before the beginning of
next semester in order that sub
sistence allowances will not be dis
continued on veterans who are
making changes.
It is necessary to have approval
from the Veteran’s Administra
tion before the change is made.
Franz Polgar Makes Return
Performance at Guion Hall
No ‘Hokum’, No ‘Stooges’ Attached to
Educational Program, Says Dr. Polgar
There is hardly any idea which has been surrounded
with so much misconception as hypnosis. Mention of the
word brings to the mind a stage hypnotist in full dress suit
who puts the poor subject into laugh-provoking situations.
But this conception of a hypnotist is steadily fading out
in the mind of science. The one man who has done more to
♦ shed the true light on hypnotism
is Dr. Franz J. Polgar. Acclaimed
throughout the country and Eur
ope, Dr. Polgar will bring to Ag
gieland a genuine demonstration of
hypnotism as it is known to science
on the night of January 15 in Guion
Hall. He will present a single
hour performance under the spon
sorship of Town Hall, beginning at
8 o’clock.
Hypnotic demonstrations p r e-
sented on the stage in the last few
years have usually been branded
as “h o k u m”, with the use of
trained stoogers. In the last 20
years Dr. Polgar has hypnotized
more than 60,000 persons — as
science would have it done.
It is incredible what a person
will do under a hypnotic spell. Not
so long ago Dr. Polgar tried an
odd experiment on a young man.
He told him he was seven years
old, whereupon the man began act
ing accordingly—crying upon sug
gestion and playing with imagin
ary toys. When Polgar asked him
to write his name, he did so in
crude, unformed letterings of a
boy of seven. When he was told
to write like a twenty-five year
old, which he was, the young man
did so normally.
Franz Polgar
Emphasis Is
On Religion
Week ofFeb.10
Arrangements for the 5th an
nual Religious Emphasis Week to
be held on the A. & M. campus
February 10-15, are now being
made according to M. L. Cashion
of the YMCA. The main speaker
for the five-day period is Dr. W.
H. Alexander, pastor of the First
Christian Church of Oklahoma
City.
Dr. Alexander has drawn over
flow crowds at his lectures held
at TCU and other colleges and
here to address various groups
meeting during that week.
Frank Camp is the Student
Chairman of the Religious Empha
sis Week Committee, assisted by
Glenn Bell and David Fort who
compose the Executive Commit
tee. Each church supports two
members of the student body who
organize the general committees
which see that a suitable program
is carried out. The pastors of the
various denominations will act as
advisors for the committees.
English Dept. To
Publish Magazine
Of Freshman Items
The English Department has an
nounced that it plans to publish
a magazine to be composed of the
best ten or twelve freshman Eng
lish papers submitted each semes
ter. According to Emil Hubka,
of the department, each English
instructor will submit the papers
that he considers to be the best
from his classes, and from these
a committee of the English De
partment will select the papers
for publication.
The magazine will have a title,
such as “The Fish Bowl” or “Fish
Boners”, and will be used as a
model for classroom discussion.
The English instructors feel that
this would be a good, method of
constructive criticism that is al
most impossible to find in articles
written by professional writers.
Dr. Polgar has hypnotized such
persons as Beatrice Lillie, of
American and British film fame,
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst,
and Henry A. Wallace. He has
performed at Illinois Wesleyan
University, New York University,
and Mississippi State College.
From California to New York he
has hypnotized subjects. He has
left skeptics and scoffers baffled
everywhere. The greatest in this
country have confronted him and
each stood by to marvel and ex
claim.
Basically scientific in character,
Polgar’s program is designed both
for education and entertainment.
With the ease of an expert show
man, he now holds his audience
in a fever of suspense and then
plunggs them into howls of laugh
ter with his wit and unexpected
pranks.
Town Hall guarantees that it
knows this man Polgar, knows his
reputation, knows the throngs he
has drawn everywhere he has ap
peared. Due to the response of
last year’s performance, Dr. Franz
Polgar is making a return engage
ment.
First Entomology
Booklet Since ’42
Will Be Published
The “Texas Aggie Entomolo
gist”, a yearly publication, will be
published during the latter part of
the spring for the first time since
1942.
This publication is written by
students currently enrolled in the
department and is sent to all Tex
as A & M Entomology alumni
and students who are at present
attending school.
It contains information dealing
with current happenings and dis
coveries in the field of Entomol
ogy. Also appearing in the book
are names and addresses of all
alumni and present day students,
as well as members of the depart
ments.
The object of the “Texas Aggie
Entomologist” is not only to fur
nish interesting and up-to-date in
formation, but it enables “exes”
to keep up with old friends and
learn the names of new men en
tering their field.
Skiles Receives Parker Fountain Pen,
While Bing Wears Unmatched Socks
That’s a sock of a different
color . . .
While Mrs. Tom Tighe presen
ted Joe Skiles with a fountain
pen, and while Grady Elms, Bill
Dominy, R. L. “Rusty” Heitk&mp,
Bill Louderback, and Mrs. Bill
Hooper watched, Roland Bing
stood with unmatched socks.
The fountain pen gesture was
given to Skiles on the part of the
Student Activities office force up
on his taking 6-month leave to
Austin. Skiles left yesterday,
having accepted appointment as
executive assistant to Price Dan
iel, attorney general of Texas.
But getting back to Bing, one
dark brown sock with stripes and
one khaki-colored sock showed
marked contrast. “Were the lights
out in the ‘Y’ when you got up
this morning?” asked Mrs. Hoop
er. “Is that something new in
color combination ? ” questioned
Mrs. Tighe.
In his statement to the press,
Bing stated, “You know, I just
didn’t have another pair of socks
when I got up this morning.”
Grady Elms, successor to Skiles,
stated that his 1947 agenda would
be to increase Bing’s salary to in
clude one pair of socks each month.