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« TSCW Tingling Toes NINE DANCING CAPERETTES of TSCW, above, will keep step to Swanee River, Dinah, and a can-can at the Cotton Ball program on April 18. First row left to right are Cherrie Childress and Mary Louise Pecora; second row left to right, Rose Mary Dennison, Betty Bishop, and Marilyn McClure; third row is Jo Ann Rummel, president; fourth row left to right, Jeanne Kelly and Mary Mouton; and at the top is Shirley Smith. Tap-Tap Here-Tap-Tap There! Caperettes Tap at Cotton Ball Dancing Caperettes of TSCW will trip the light fantastic to Swanee River, Dinah, and a can-can at the Cotton Ball and Pageant on April 18, it was learned after nine Ag gie judges auditioned the group last week. It didn’t take much persuasion from the judges to en tice the ten TSCWites (there’s one not pictured) to visit Aggieland for the annual affair. Those who will make the trip are Jo Ann Rummel, Annette Bak er, Gloria Forester, Rose Mary Dennison, Mary Pecora, Joan Cok er, Mary Mouton, Marilynn Mc Clure, Doris Denton, and Shirley Smith. The Dancing Caparettes, with tingling toes and cheerful smiles, have won fame for themselves while dancing all over East Texas and Oklahoma. This tap dancing group was formed during the war years to dance on variety shows at army camps; each time they were called back for encores. Army camps and hospitals near Denton where the troupe has per formed include Sheppard Field, Camp Howze, McCloskey Hospital, Naval Hospitals at Fort Worth, Veteran Hospital in Dallas, and Ardmore Air Field. At nearby high schools they danced at Grande Prairie, Sanger, Tioga, Handley, and Sulphur Springs. For the last four years the dan cing organization has performed in the Kiwanis Minstrel at Denton and this year they presented a dance entitled “Cademy Caperettes of CIA”. Tapping in black velvet een shorts and aqua and dusty pink blouses with bowties and mortar board hats, they again displayed their excellent ability which has won them fame in the yearly min strels. It was at the North Texas stage show last Saturday that the Ag gies became aware of the tappers. Only once before has the group performed at A&M, and that was last year’s Mothers Day program. Jo Ann Rummell, a TSCW ju nior, has been president of the Caperettes for the past two years. She is the oldest member of the aggregation, having danced with the group three years. Navy Recruiters In Goodwin Hall Daily Navy representatives will be in Room 207, Goodwin Hall from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, through Friday, March 28, to enlist veterans of all branch es of service in the Naval Re serve. Most ex-army men are eligible to enlist with the eq uivalent rating which they held in the Army. Men interested in enlisting should bring with them the original or photostatic copy of their discharge and separ ation papers. A&M-UT Architect Students Vie For 36thMemorialRace Heads of the departments of architecture at A & M and the University of Texas pitted their students in competition for design of the 36th Division Memorial to be erected at the site of the Italian invasion. Plans for the competition were drawn up in Austin on March 21 at a conference between Lieut. Gen. Fred L. Walker, Texas Na tional Guard commander who took the 36th Division into the assault at Salerno Bay; Col. Carl L. Phin-> ney, Dallas, president of the 36th Division Association; and officials from both shcools. Representing the two schools were H. W. Barlow, dean of the A&M School of Engineering, and Ernest Langford, William W. Caudill, and John M. Rowlett of the architecture faculty, and Hugh L. McMath, head of the University Department of Architecture, and William McVey of the faculty. Also present was Col. Paul L. Wakefield, formerly of the State Selective Service. Students of the two schools will offer designs for the memorial, which will commemorate the land ing of the First American Divi sion on shores of the European continent in World War II. The memorial is to be erected at Paes- tum, Italy, where the division landed. Deadline for submission of en tries was set at November 17. A committee to be named by the president of the 36th Division As sociation will choose the winner, and final announcement made at the annual Thanksgiving Day football game next fall. Only advanced students of ar chitecture will be permitted to compete, and each will be allowed six weeks of credit for the work. Negro VA Hospital Granted by Truman Approval of a 200 bed hospital for Negro veterans at Mound Ba you, Mississippi, has been granted by President Truman and the Fed eral Board of Hospitalization, the Veterans Administration has an nounced. The proposed hospital site is in Bolivar County, near the heart of Mississippi’s Delta Section. Appro ximately 31,000 Negro veterans of World War II reside iiwthis sec tion, which is predominantly Neg ro in population. The hospital will be staffed en tirely by Negro doctors, nurses and other personnel. Change in Laundry Payment Fees For Non-Dorm Students Announced Effective April 1, laundry fees will not be collected from any student not living in the college dormitories, E. N. Holmgreen, business manager, announced Saturday. This measure has been initiated in order to give the married students “freedom of action to make any laundry arrangement they desire and to provide day student uniformity”. Day students who already have paid laundry fees for the full current semester may continue to use the laundry facilities under the advance fee arrangement, Holmgreen stated. After April 1 no additional advance fees will be accepted from day students. “This does not close the laundry to the day students and students living in college operated apartments who will no longer pay advance laundry fees. They may continue to use the laundry as and when they desire on the regular non-fee paying day student basis of 75 cents per bundle of 23 pieces, plus any charge for^ pieces in excess of that number.” Texas A*M The B College alion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947 Number 51 Veterans to Meet Thursday A special request meeting of all veterans now at tending A. & M. has been set for Thursday night, March 27, at 7:15 p. m. in the Assembly Hall. Officers of the Veteran Students Association stated that the meeting had been called in answer to requests from members, to consider matters previously broached at a special closed meeting of the representatives last week. ‘A’ Engineers Inactivated On Charge of New Hazing “A” Company Engineers was ordered inactivated yester day by order of Col. Guy S. Meloy, commandant, “in conse quence of known hazing session which went on in the com pany Saturday afternoon, 22 March, 1947.” All personnel of “A” company is being transferred to “B” and “C” companies of the En--f gineers. In other particulars, the dead lock in corps affairs continued, as the Battalion went to press this morning. Preparation was made by this newspaper to issue special bulletins on any important devel opments. No information was available as to what had happened in a meet ing of the Junior Class held last night. Reports that the juniors had voted to support the seniors were not confirmed. Only fifty cadet officers had ap peared in. Ross hall by 1 o’clock deadline yesterday, to state their position in regard to the “no con fidence” vote by the senior class on Ed Brandt and Jack Nelson. Tac tical officers went through the dormitories interviewing other sen iors after the deadline. No announcement has been made as yet as to acceptance by the mil itary department of the resigna tions of Ed Brandt as cadet colonel and Jack Nelson as lieutenant col onel commanding the Composite regiment. Special delivery letters were sent by the administration this week to parents of seniors, pointing out possible consequences of continuing disturbance in the corps. Civil Service Opens Chemist, Physicst, Engineer Positions An examination for filling chemist, physicist, and engin eer positions at the P-1 grade of $2,644 a year has been an nounced by the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners for Scien tific and Technical Personnel of the Potomac River Naval Command. The positions to be filled are in various naval establishments in the vicinity of Washington, D. C. Written tests are required for all • applicants. For physicist and chemist, applicants must have com pleted a 4-year college course which includes 24 semester hours in physics or 30 semester hours in chemistry, or they must have had such courses plus experience in the field to equal four years edu cation. Engineer applicants must have completed a standard college professional engineering curricu lum or have had four years of ex perience in technical engineering, or a time-equivalent combination. Application card Form 5000-AB should be filed with the Executive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners for Scientific Personnel of the Potomac River Naval Command, Building 8, Na val Research Laboratory, Washing ton 20, D. C. Full information and application forms may be secured from the College Station post of fice. ASHVE Plans Summer Jobs The Placement Committee of the Student Chapter of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers has announced that attempts are being made to place all junior, sophomore, and freshman mem bers in summer jobs pertaining to some phase of heating, refrigera tion, and air-conditioning. The jobs will include the manufacture, sales, installation, and mainten ance of equipment. Information from actual exper ience will place the student in a better position to decide if he is interested in this phase of engi neering as his future profession. After graduation, he may have a chance of working for the same concern with which he practiced. His experience gained from the summer work will command a bet ter starting salary and the grad uate will proceed immediately into a better position. Letters are now being sent to 85 different concerns, soliciting their cooperation in the employment of ASHVE members. It is highly probable that the committee will be able to place ^11 students who apply for jobs in or near their home towns. All members or non-members interested in this program should contact O. W. Schuchart, Phil Price, or Ed Rogers, committee members, or attend an ASHVE meeting. Freshmen and sopho mores are particularly urged to apply, as they will receive greater benefit from these jobs before graduation. Reid to Attend Feed Manufacturers Conference May-1-3 Professor Duncan H. Reid, for merly head of the Poultry Hus bandry Department, has been in vited to attend the annual nation al convention of the American Feed Manufacturers Association which will be held May 1, 2, and 3 in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Reid has attended three previous association meet ings during the time he has been associated with the A&M Col lege. At these meetings he has gathered and presented data con cerning trends of the poultry in dustry affecting feed consump tion. This year, Professor Reid is go ing to have the privilege of not bothering with the problems of the convention. In requesting Professor Reid’s attendance, Wal ter C. Berger, president of the association, expressed the desire that he feel free to enjoy himself while attending the convention instead of laboring over the prob lem of “Feed Supplies and Needs”. AT TSCW for the selection of a Cotton Queen and eight ladies - in - waiting, these nine Aggie Agronomy Society members are surrounded by eleven pretties from the four classes. STANDING, left to right: Betty Jane Ellis, Dallas; John P. Stanford, Linden; Alleen Williams, Temple; Herschel B. Ellis, Omaha, Texas; Lucy Davis, El Dorado, Arkansas; Bob L. Moore, Clarks ville; Roberta Hompton, Fort Worth; Bertis L. Richey, Abilene; Elizabeth Adamson, Little Rock, Arkansas; Andrew F. Moore, Jr., Bossier City, Louisiana; and Margaret Ann Browning, Sherman. CENTER ROW, left to right; Teresa Hiller, Victoria; Olan E. Anderson,. Waco; Cotton Queen Joann Dobbs, Menard; Cotton King, Eugene Vacek, Weimar; Patsy Jo Jones, Dallas; and Douglas S. Kuehn, Alice. BOTTOM ROW, left to right: Polly Carroll, Lamesa; Roy H. Anderson, Brookston; and Billie Walker, Midland. Legion, College Sponsor Model Aviation Meet A three-day short course on model aviation activities to train American Legion repre sentatives from Districts 6 and 7 will be held on the campus May 9-11 by the Industrial Edu cation department, C. H. Grone- man, departmental head, announc ed Saturday. The meet has been outlined to benefit 50 posts in the area. The course will be under the supervision of Groneman and Ro gers Barton, both of the Industrial Education department. Outstanding Model aviation figures will lead the conference and lecture session, Groneman stated, and demonstra tions of all models will be supple mented with movies of the hobby. Also, the annual A&M College Model Airplane Contest will pro vide ample opportunity for obser vation and practice for the post trainees. Many posts have already begun organization of model airplane clubs as a result of the recent nationwide resolution of the Am erican Legion to sponsor model aviation clubs and contests on the community level. One of the junior activities of the Legion’s national programs, it will be carried on over a five-year span; this is the first year of the program. Conferences between Legion and College officials indicate the desir ability of providing initial training for post youth leaders as a pre requisite for successful operation of community-wide model aviation programs. As a result, the Indus trial Education department out lined the three-day course to in clude lecture and discussion periods covering all phases of model club organization and contest activities. ‘American Thesaurus of Slang Reaches Cushing’s Shelves by H. Sylvester Boone One of the many books on the shelves of Cushing Memorial Lib rary is “The American Thesaurus of Slang”, a 1174-page compilation of slang terms written by Lester B. Berrey, of Los Angeles City College, and Melvin Van den Bark, assistant professor of English at A. & M. Begun in 1931, the “Thesaurus” was ten years in the making. Ber rey, while writing a novel, en countered the need for a reference book on slang; thus, the idea was originated. He ceased work on the novel, and devoted the next decade to his new task. Needing an assist ant, he acquired the services of Van den Bark, then with the de partment of English at the Univer sity of Nebraska. Together they selected several assistants to aid in research, land later to help in indexing and compiling the words, phrases, and slang expressions that had been collected. To accurately check each of the 100,000 terms which had been gath ered, experts from the various fields that had been used were consulted: Bing Crosby, for the music section; Walt Disney, for terms of cartoon motion pictures; John A. Leslie, of Ohio State Prison, for expressions of the un derworld; and many others. The book includes terms spoken in the picture world, radio, circus and carnival, stock market, swing mu sic, journalism, and religion. Based on the famous Roget’s International Thesourus, the Am erican book of “a slang and col loquial speech” is arranged so that expressions are placed in groups according to the principal or do minant idea they convey. There are two sections to the book—one dealing with General Relations, Space, Inanimate Existence, Per sonal Characteristics and Activi ties, and the other with special slang, ranging from the under world to sports and the profes sions. Upon completion of the manu script, Berrey and Van den Bark put it in a packing case and sent it to the publisher. Expecting enough copy to print a 500-page book, they were amazed to find more than 2300-pages of typewrit ten material weighing 85 pounds. The publishing company was over a year in printing this work. The 392-page index, complete with cross references, took several months to complete. The cost of arranging the index alone amount ed to $1,000. This volume caused much com ment upon its release, both in this country and in England. Dr. E. Clark Stillman of the International Auxiliary Language Association states, “Further examination con firmed my impression that ‘The American Thesourus of Slang’ is a great reference work, and com pares favorably with what I would consider to be one of the three or four greatest achievements in the field during the past twenty years in any of the languages with which I am familiar”. Time maga zine, in its review, wrote “That section alone (Special Slang) will probably help more third-rate nov elists look like second raters than any previous book in history.” Bryan "College Station Civic Orchestra to Present Concert Second subscription concert off the Bryan-College Station Civic Orchestra will be presented Thurs day night at 8:15 p.m. in the Steph en F. Austin High School Audi torium. Ticket sales for College Station are in charge of Mrs. ASCE Hears Talk On ‘The Engineer’ At Recent Meeting “What is an Engineer?—An engineer is a person who by rea son of knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry and astronomy takes from nature its resources and puts them to work without waste to society,” R. L. Sherman said at a recent meeting of the ASCE. A member of the class of ’24 and now an executive engineer and partner in the Central Texas Iron Works, he also said that En gineering was the act of applica tion of science. “The difference in science and engineering is that scientists deal in the unknown and the engineer then takes the dis coveries of the scientists and puts them ti use.” Sherman was editor of the Long horn while attending A&M and after graduation went to work for the Central Texas Iron Works. Since being with them he has work ed his way up to the executive en gineer position, and has become a partner in the firm. He also further stated to the large group of Ciyil Engineering students present for the meeting that you should always keep in front of yourself that you are an engineer—not just an engineer that the public has a tendency to think of—as a man behind the throttle of a locomotive—but as a professional engineer. As a pro fessional engineer you should be equipped to brush shoulders with men of other businesses. Partici pation in things that are not in the line of engineering should be of much concern to every engineer. “To be a successful engineer, get into work in which you are interested and don’t look at the money side of the picture first— even though it is hard not to do. Get qualified in one field and stick to it’.” San Antonio Club To Meet Wednesday The San Antonio A.&M. Club will have a meeting Wednesday night, March 26, at 7 p.m., in Room 205, Academic Building, according to Tommy John, president. The purpose of this meeting, stated John, will be to select dates for the party to be held in San Antonio on April 5 with the TSCW San An tonio Club. Merit System Is RS Meeting Topic Dr. Charles S. Gardner, director of the Texas Merit Council, will be guest speaker of the Sociology Club Thursday, March 27, at 7:15 p.m. in Room 203 of the Agricul ture Building. He will speak on job opportuni ties in state service under the Mer it System Council. Manning Smith and for Bryan, Mrs. P. G. Norton. Claude Guthrie, orchestra con ductor, has announced the follow ing program for the concert: Sym phony No. 5 in B Flat Major by Schubert; Second Hungarian Rhap sody by Liszt; Salut d’Amour by Elgar; Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite; and Dance of the Moorish Slaves from Verdi’s Aida. Mrs. Daniel Russell, member of the Civic Orchestra board of dir ectors, is in charge of the voice and piano talent contest sponsored by the orchestra. The contest is open to pupils of any voice or piano teacher in Bryan and Col lege Station. Contestants may sing or play their own selections. Auditions will be held Friday af ternoon at 4 o’clock in the Stephen F. Austin Auditorium. Teachers who have not been- contacted should call Mrs. Russell at 2-1497. Win ners will appear with the orchestra early in May. Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist and Mrs. Norton recently were elected to membership on the board of dir ectors. Others on the board are J. E. Bethancourt, president; S. H. Yarnell, vice-president; Mrs. G. B. Winstead, secretary; Pat Newton, treasurer; T. R. Spence, Mrs. H. H. Brians, and Mrs. Russell. trampling out the vintage .. . By Mack T. Nolen Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as the old saying has it. And indeed, each day sees some new device marketed to aid, dispose of, replace, or reduce the drudgery of some phase of daily life. Our Edisons, Bells, and Westing- houses are to be congratulated for the present comfort and simplicity of things, but there remains a vast field of endeavor. Some in ventions we would like to see are: 1. An attachment for an auto mobile which would tell the dir ection a woman will turn when she holds out her hand. 2. A cigarette lighter that works. 3. A phonographic lesson der vice equipped with ear-phones which would play records of daily assignments to our subcon scious minds while we sleep, then by acting on impulses, we would have all the answers. An invention we could well do without is the “singing commer cial.” What started all this inventing business many centuries ago was some unknown genius who decided that a round object would roll. Some really shrewd thinking was required to figure that out, but all things when solved seem simple. Civilizations have fallen for lack of the wheel, so maybe it’s best we have it. One distressing need that science has never overcome and which daily leers at us is the need for money. We’d like to see the boys get on the ball and do something about it.