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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.