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Texas A*M REGIMENTAL BALL The B College alion X FRIDAY NIGHT PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1947 Number 48 Cafeteria Survey Places A&M Second On Price Ladder University Prices Low From the price listing of the American Veterans Com mittee’s food price survey, sample menus for breakfast, dinner, and supper were selected- at random to illustrate the ex penditures for food alone for a month. The size of a serving at any school cannot be estimated. BREAKFAST Bacon Eggs Bread Butter Coffee At the University of Oklahoma the price would be 41 cents; at Texas Christian University, 29 cents; at A&M, 33 cents; and at the University of Texas, 31 cents. DINNER Roast Beef Whipped Potatoes Spinach Egg Salad Pie Milk Bread Butter At OU, 75 cents; at TCU, 73 cents; at A&M, 71 cents; aud at TU, 45 cents. SUPPER Stew Carrots Lima Beans Cottage Cheese Ice Cream Milk Bread Butter For this evening meal at OU, students would pay 62 cents; at TCU, 64 cents; at A&M, 55 cents; and at TU, 40 cents. By this comparison, A&M is shown to have a moderately low price range; however, the size and the quality at other schools can not be estimated to compare with the quality and size here. Considering these meals to be the fare for an average day, the monthly expense for food alone at A&M amounts to about $50. By strict budgeting, a person can see a picture show a month or buy a pair of socks with what is left of his $65. It is true that cafeteria prices are lower than those of cafes, but they are nevertheless too high for a man making only $65 per month. A married man must have assis tance from other sources to make ends meet; $90 will not provide ad equate food for two. If a man and his wife eat out, they will go in the hole about $10 a month on food alone. Either food prices or the sub sistence allowance must be altered, Savings accumulated in the past are rapidly disappearing, and at the present rate it will not be long till many veterans will be forced to drop out of school because of their inability to continue in the face of the rising cost of living. This survey was never intended to cast a bad light on the cafeteria at A&M, and has, in fact, proved that higher prices exist elsewhere. The survey merely reports current prices for the information of the student body, so that its position in relation to others may be under stood. Engineers, Agriculturists Get Together! by Charlie Murray Another big event, renewed this year for the first time since 1943, is the joint En gineer-Agriculture Day pro gram, slated for Saturday, May 10. Not exclusively an Engineer Day as in the past, the Student Councils of the Schools of Agriculture and Engineering have united to present to the public a pro gram far excelling those of by-gone days. Engineer Day, as the ex hibition was formerly called, has always attracted thou sands of visitors. Spectators have always been impressed with the tremendous facilities available for the instruction of future engineers. Each year the college has enjoyed an increase in pres tige as a direct result of the programs, and the ’47 all-day affair will incorporate more modern devices and improve ments brought about by the war. Official of Largest Texas Union to Speak Tomorrow T. M. McCormick, secretary-treasurer of the largest union in Texas, the International Oil Field Worker’s Union, will address the Economics Club Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Chemistry Lecture Room. McCormick, who was born in Saratoga, Texas, belonged to a family of oil field followers. T. M. McCormick The secretary-treasurer of the International Oil Field Worker’s Union will address the Economics Club tomorrow evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Chemistry Lecture Room. Houston Harvester Officials Address ASAE Tonight at 7 The monthly meeting of the student chapter of the Ameri can Society of Agricultural Engineers this evening at 7 p.m. will be sponsored by the Houston branch of the Interna tional Harvester Company. The meeting will take place in the Ag ricultural Engineering Lecture Room. Representing the Houston branch will be J. P. Payne and John R. Baker, manager and assistant man ager, respectively; C. T. Helin and P. C. Johnson, manager and as sistant manager, respectively, of Motor Truck Sales; and O. O. Lyle, credit manager. International Harvester is the largest farm equipment manufac turing company in the United States, providing a complete line of trucks, tractors, refrigeration sup plies, and other equipment. The Houston managers will familiarize the agricultural engineers this eve ning with the manner in which the company merchandises its pro ducts. All students interested are invi ted to attend. When oil was discovered in Cali fornia, the McCormick family head west to San Joaquin. Most of his childhood was spent in Taft, California. He began working for the Rich field Oil Company, and then turn ed to the Oil Field Worker’s union. In 1940 he began work with the with the International Union, with which he served as representative of the Oklahoma-Kansas area un til 1942. Leaving the union, he worked as CIO representative with the War Labor Board, Dallas. In the fall of 1943, he returned to the worker’s union, becoming first vice-president for one year. In 1944 he went to Texas City and was elected president of the larg est union in that city. In 1946 he was elected to his present position as secretary-trea surer of the International Oil Field Worker’s Union. Bill Turner Two Districts Name Agents Silver Whitsett, county agricul tural agent for Guadalupe County since 1926, and Samuel L. Neal, Rusk County agricultural agent since 1936, have been appointed district agents for the Extension Service, J. D. Prewit, vice-director and state agent, anhounced. Whitsett was graduated from A & M in 1924 in animal hus bandry; in his senior year he was a member of the International Livestock Judging Team. Upon graduation he was named county agricultural agent for Llano Coun ty, and in 1926 was transferred to Guadalupe County with headquar ters in Seguin, where he was sta tioned for the 21 years prior to his new appointment. In 1946 Whitsett toured the Brit ish Isles with a group of agricul tural educators and scientists as the guests of the British Govern ment, in appreciation of the help received from American agricul ture by Great Britain during the war. Neal is a graduate of East State Teachers College. He was named county agricultural agent for Hop kins County in 1933, where he served until his transfer to Rusk County. His experience includes teaching school and stock farming during the period 1927-33. Whitsett and Neal have not yet been assigned to specific districts. ‘Student Problems’ Is Austin NS A Meet Topic By Claude Buntyn An opportunity for students to better understand the problems confronting them will be the state convention of the National Stu dent’s Association, which will be held in Austin March 21-22. At a World Youth Congress held in London in the fall of 1945, a group of British students recom mended that an International Stu dent Congress be held. In 1946, this meeting took place, with stu dents from all over the world par ticipating. The returning delega tes from the United States de cided to form a branch in this country, and during the Christmas holidays the first such organiza tion was held in Chicago. Early this month the Executive Committee of the NSA met in Chicago to draft a constitution for this embryonic organization and to prepare a Constitutional Con vention to be held some time this summer. The United States organization was conceived in the m Ln d s of students at the University of Chi cago last year. From that humble beginning has come what is practi cally an all-embracing nation-wide machine composed of representa tives from about 300 colleges and universities in the United States. Those students probably real ized and wanted to correct the dis crepancies and the lack of unity which exists in our nation today— socially, politically, economically, and otherwise. The primary purpose of the NSA would be to raise the standards of higher education in the United States. It was evident that pro blems common to all students could be handled and solved in a demo cratic, representative, and non partisan manner. The organization could handle these points: EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS between schools within the United States, and between the United States and foreign countries; AN INFORMATION BUREAU to disseminate information perti nent to common problems to grad uate and advanced students; STUDENT GOVERNMENTS on all campuses to support local, state, and national legislation designed to improve the standards of educa tion; and EQUALIZE the opportunities of all students, regardless of color, race, or creed. It is this organization which will meet in Austin on Friday and Saturday of this week—the Na tional Student Association. VA Establishes 7 Paraplegic Centers Seven paraplegic centers in hos pitals strategically located from coast to coast have been establish ed to treat veterans who are para lyzed from the waist down because of spinal injuries, Dr. Lee D. Cady, Dallas Branch Medical Director, announced Saturday. Veterans Administration person nel skilled in the treatment of par aplegics have been assembled in the centers, Dr. Cady said. This will permit veterans to re ceive the proper treatment needed for their rehabilitation and at the same time to be as close to their homes as possible. BILL TURNER, above, will direct the Singing Cadets this evening on a Town Hall program beginning at 8 o’clock. Singing Cadets On Town Hall Tonight at 8 AH Types of Music On Guion Hall Performance Under the direction of Bill Turner, Aggieland’s Singing Cadets will present a program of popular, choral, classical, and semi-classical music this evening on Town Hall at 8:00. Leading off on the Guion Hall performance will be Jason Moore of the architecture department; he will sing the tenor solos in “Mead- owland” and “The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful.” Solos in “The Lost Chord” will be sung by Leonard Perkins, baritone, of Fort Worth. “W e 1 c h Choral” will feature Richard Alves, San Antonio senior, who sings tenor, and Tommy Hol comb of Bryan will sing the tenor solos in “Red River Valley” and “Dark Eyes”. One of the special attraction on the program is a piano teams “Stormy Weather” and “The Har monica Player”. Another added feature is a Barber Shop quar tet. A program at A. & M. would not be complete without the tra ditional Aggie songs, and Turner saved these Ken Darby Arrange ments until the last group. Trips for the Singing Cadets this semester are planned for the Beaumont A. & M. Mothers’ Club and John Tarleton Agricultural College. The chorus already has performed at TSCW this term. Eugene Field Jr. Eugene Field Jr. Killed In Auto Accident Near Austin Silver Taps was held last night for Eugene Field, Jr., veteran senior, who was fatally injured Saturday night near Austin when his car overturned. A University of Texas student with whom he was riding suffered only minor in juries in the accident. Field died in an Austin hospital an hour and a half after the accident. Gene Field, was business man ager of the Engineer magazine. A senior in mechanical engineering, he would have graduated this June. The funeral was held Monday at 2 o’clock in Calvert, with eight A. & M. fellow-students as pall bearers. They Were Clarence Hes ter, Bob Criswell, Peyton M c- Knight, Stewart Cartwright, Bland Woofter, Ned Broun, Sidney Smith, and Tom Inglis. Field first came to A. & M. in September, 1940, when he be came a member of the Infantry Band. He was drum major of the band during his last semester at A. & M. In January, 1943, he en tered the Army and spent 23 of his 33 months in service overseas in the Pacific Theater. He took part in the Philippine campaign, and was a first lieutenant when re leased from active duty in August, 1946. In September of last year he re-entered college. Survivors include his father, Eu gene Field, Sr., his mother, a sis ter, Mrs. Milton Eliot, and a niece, Anne Eliot, all of Calvert. Field was born in that community on November 7, 1922. In high school he took part in football, basketball, and extempor aneous speaking. He graduated in the first quarter of his senior class in May, 1940. Eppes Awarded $100 Burpee Scholarship Harmen E. Eppes, junior veteran student, has been awarded the Burpee Scholar ship in Horticulture for 1947, Professor F. R. Brison of that department announced Thursday. The Burpee Scholarship of $100 is awarded annually to a junior stu dent in horticulture with an out standing scholastic record. Junior classification with credit and good grades in Vegetable Crops, Horti culture 309 and Genetics 301, are required to be eligible for the scholarship. Eppes had, at the beginning of the current term, 85 credit hours toward his degree in horticulture. For the past two years he has been employed by the department of horticulture and at present is re sponsible for the care and main tenance of the departmental green house and the related work of plant propagation. He is 24 years old and a married student. His home is San Augus tine, Texas. Commerce Department Ready To Assist Small Enterprises by Walter Lowe Jr. Are you interested in establish ing and operating a small busi ness? If so, the expanded field service of the United States Department of Commerce is ready to offer you valuable assistance and counsel, according to Lucian M. Morgan, assistant director of placement. In the department there is an abundance of information which can be most useful to the business community—particular!^ to the small businessmen. It has no regu- la .ory powers and does not propose to tell a person how to run his business. Rather, it is the duty of the Department, through the sev eral divisions of the decentralized and expanded field services, to give support and advice upon re quest. It tells what a person should know, particularly as a small man, to compete more effectively in a competitive market. General objectives of the Small Business Division are to provide veterans and others who desire to go into busL.'-ss with information and services dealing with problems ordinarily encountered in the pro cess of establishing and operating a business enterprise. Another aim is to help solve management pro blems, including those relating to purchasing, production, and mar keting, as well as advertising, in ventories, deliveries, research, per sonnel, and public relations. If you should be faced with pro blems arising from monopilistic practices in violation of federal, state, or local laws and regula tions, the Department will render individual assistance. If you have a government priority, their field service aids in obtaining scarce materials, machinery, and facilities. This service also helps one to pur chase surplus property, secure gov ernment and other contracts, and otherwise assists you in produc tion and distribution operations. To further aid the small busi nessmen, the department has re cently issued a series of booklets on the establishment and operation of certain types of businesses. These can be purchased from the district office in Houston at prices ranging from ten to fifty-five cents per copy. Those of you who are mem bers of student clubs should be interested to know that the department has available busi- Yeteran senior and business manager of The Engineer mag azine, Eugene Field Jr., was killed Saturday night in an auto mobile accident near Austin. Alexander Elected Vice-President Of Insurance Company E. R. Alexander of College Station was elected vice-presi dent of the National Farm Life Insurance Company, Ft. Worth at the company’s an nual meeting in Fort Worth March 11, Lallah Wright, secretary-treas urer, announced Saturday. He has served the past year as director, chairman of the advisory boards, and member of the executive com mittee of management, and is one of the original founders of the company which was chartered on an old line legal reserve basis last March to provide participating life insurance exclusively to farmers, ranchers, and others identified with agriculture in Texas, accord ing to information from the Fort Worth office. Other officers and directors e- lected are: Donald L. Jones, Lub bock, president; Dr. Noel R. Bailey, Fort Worth, vice-president; La llah Wright, Fort Worth, secre tary-treasurer; W. L. Stangel, Lubbock, chairman of the Board of Directors; William C. Young, Fort Worth, general manager and agency director; R. M. Boswell, Kenedy; David Lemon, Sulphur Springs; Elmer Bizzell, Midland; Guy Richards, Abilene; Raymond Pfluger, Eden; Will Steiner, Gon zales; A. A. Spacek, Granger; Tho mas J. Boyd, Hereford, and V. F. Young, Lubbock. After the meeting the dir ectors and guests and many of the district managers of the company were honored at a luncheon at the Worth Hotel, and production prizes were awarded to contest winners. The group were guests at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in the evening. ness specialists, who would be glad of the opportunity to speak to various organizations. Further information concerning the small-business program can be obtained by contacting Mr. Mor gan, whose office is in the Ad ministration Building. Veterans At Annex Prove That A’s Can Be Quadrupled By R. C. Childs—English Dept. Faculty members are working overtime passing out A’s at the Bryan Field Annex. In fact, it seems as though a vet can’t bust a course for making an A in it. Twenty-two percent of the grades earned by veteran students at the Annex proved to he the old symbol of approached perfection. Under normal conditions, the A’s handed out would be only about five percent, but this fall’s crop has sprung up four-fold. Whereas the B’s under normal conditions would be only about twenty percent of the total grades, the veterans at the Annex have run the percentage up to 30.5. Subsequently, fewer C’s and D’s were made than per usual. The following table illustrates the grades by percentages earned by veteran students at Bryan Field Annex. SCHOOL AGRICULTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES ENGINEERING VETERINARY MEDICINE Average All in all, it is agreed that the vets are making a showing hard to equal. A B C D F 17.8 35.9 24.5 8.7 13.1 20.3 29.1 26.6 9.3 14.7 24.5 26.7 21.2 10.8 16.8 24.9 34.4 20.7 12.1 7.9 22.2 30.5 22.8 10.1 14.4 A&M, Texas Side by Side To show food prices in dif ferent school-operated cafe terias in this area, the A.&M. chapter of the American Vet erans Committee questioned other colleges of Texas and Oklahoma. Comparisons with the University of Oklahoma and TCU were print ed in the last issue of the Battal ion, and listings from the Univer sity of Texas have since arrived. A.&M. was shown to have com paratively low average cost range. Below, TU's prices are compared with those of A.&M. The subsist ence director at TU hesitated to give his listings, and did so with the stipulation that the size of the serving be withheld. It may or may not be smaller than servings elsewhere, MEAT TU Roast Beef 10 Roast Pork 10-15 Ham 18 Bacon (2 slices) .... 8 Stew 8 Chili 12 Fried Fish 20 Steak (T-bone) .... 20 VEGETABLES Potatoes, Fried .... 6 Potatoes, Whipped 3 Carrots 3-5 String Beans 3-5 Spinach 5 Lima Beans 3-8 Pinto Beans 3-8 Beets 3-5-7 SALADS Combination 3 Potato .'. 5 Egg 8 Slaw 5 Cottage Cheese .... 8 MISCELLANEOUS Pie 7-8-15 Cake 5 Ice Cream ’.... 5 Jello 8 Milk 7 Coffee 5 Bread (2) 2 Butter (1) 2 Eggs (2) 14 "In the case of the University’s listings on beets, lima beans, and pinto beans, 'the smaller price indicates dried vegetables, and the larger fresh. Though there is no indication of the size of individual servings, it is to be expected that one person will buy only one serving. On this basis TU presents a considerably lower-priced meal. The quality of the food is also unknown. trampling out the vintage . . . By Mack T. Nolen A&M 26 33 12 22 20 25 10 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 10 7 10 10 8 7 7 7 4 2 2 15 Nearly every newspaper you pick up has at least one column devoted to some nonsense that would not be printed if the author were not the brother-in-law of the publisher. In the Battalion there is no such family relation ship, but to keep up with the Joneses, such a column now rears its ugly head. During the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, from which we have slyly lifted the title of this opus. It is here for better or worse; take your choice. There is a little Robinson Crusoe in all of us. When the weight of the world presses on our shoulders and the cares of life chafe us, we all dream of a free, unrestricted existence on a desert island. The real estate people who traf- fick in desert islands have a word of caution, however, for those who let their imaginations run amuck. There’s more to it than meets the eye. First, let us consider the price. Islands are no longer free for the taking. Poverty usually motivates our island planning, but from $2,000 to $50,000 is required for the land alone. Still interested? Your contentment is inversely proportional to the distance from the nearest Walgreen’s, and island- life makes that almost nil. Every thing must be imported from food to what-have-you. Still intres- ted? Desert islands have a nasty hab it of situating themselves in the hurricane belt, but that lasts only a few months a year. And native population of the islands usually resembles Hattie McDaniel more than Dorothy La- mour. Still interested? Let us remember the swimming is good (sharks and barracuda), the sunsets breath-taking (chig- gers and ants), and the climate balmy (death and transfiguration). Well, you talked me into it. Let’s get packed!