two vet meetings
Business Tonight
Pleasure Monday
Texas A«M
The B
College
alion
SLATED FOR MAY 10
“A-E Day”
“Sports Day”
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1947
^ Number 65
‘■The Yankee’, Prise Winning
Stallion, Donated to College
The Animal Husbandry Department has announced ac
quisition of the American Saddle Stallion, The Yankee No.
10265, donated by the late Mrs. R. L. Wheelock of Corsicana,
Texas.
This stallion represents some of the very best in Amer-
fican Saddle breeding, according to
F. I. Dahlberg of the Animal Hus
Watch Them On May 10
Texas in the Money . . .
No, VA Check
Scare Doesn’t
Affect Aggies
Veteran students over the
state received a scare Tues
day when an announcement
was made by the Veterans Ad
ministration that it would be un
able to send out the monthly checks
due on Wednesday, since the funds
that Congress had appropriated
for that purpose had exhausted.
Many Aggies who made the
morning trip to the post office on
Wednesday were pleasantly sur
prised to find subsistence checks
in their mail boxes. They had gone
there with the philosophy “Blessed
is he who expects nothing, for he
shall not be disappointed” upper
most in their minds.
Explanation for A. & M. students
receiving their Veterans’ subsis
tence checks was that the National
Veterans Administration Office
was out of money, but the Texas
Office still had unused funds on
hand which were u£ed to make pay
ments.
Announcement of the shortage
of funds threw College Officials
into a temporary dither. Comp
troller W. H. Holzmann made ten
tative plans to sell veteran students
books of meal tickets on credit
and the deadline for payments of
rental fees was to be extended un
til such time as the Veterans Ad
ministration did make payments.
Those arrangements will be un
necessary as nearly all Texas A. &
M,. students have received their
checks.
Although Texas students received
their payments on Wednesday there
were many states in which veter
ans failed to get the monthly check.
“The delay is expected to be of
short duration since additional
funds for this purpose are carried
in the deficiency appropriation bill
currently before Congress and
should be available within a few
days,” the announcement added.
The payments have been averag
ing $260,000,000 or more a month.
The agency said that 1,120,000
veterans now are receiving read
justment allowances while they
are unemployed or self-employed.
About 1,660,000 men and women in
school or taking on-job-training
are getting subsistence allowances.
Metal Caps
Replace
Cellophane
By Walter B. Little
The familiar paper plug
caps and red cellophane hoods
which have long characterized
bottles of milk coming from
the Texas A. & M. College Cream
ery have been recently replaced
by new metal caps. These new
covers, first of their kind to ap
pear in College Station or Bryan,
are made of pure aluminum and
are crimped down over the bottle’s
pouring lip to shield the entire
top of the bottle against outside
contamination.
A. V. Moore, professor of Dairy
Manufactures and head of the A.
& M. College Creamery, states
that there are several advantages
of this new cover. It requires no
paper plug cap. takes only one
operation for capping, is easily re
moved, and may be used again and
again by the housewife to recover
partially emptied bottles. Its use
is not detrimental to milk in any
way as it affects neither flavor
nor causes any chemical changes
in the milk itself. The pure alum
inum of which the covers are made
is sterile and sanitary. Like the
glass bottle itself, it is impervious
to moisture, dust or other con
tamination.
The Standard Milk Ordinance,
under which the State of Texas op
erates, requires that all Grade A
bottled milk have the pouring lip
protected. The paper plug caps
and cellophane hoods formerly used
by the A. & M. Creamery satisfied
this requirement, but had to be ap
plied by two separate operations.
The new aluminum covers meet
the strictest requirements of the
Standard Milk Ordinance. They
are manufactured, packaged, and
applied to milk bottles without be
ing touched by human hands.
These new covers are purchased
from the manufacturer with the
legend already stamped on. This
departure from another method of
identifying the creamery, by which
bandry Department. He is sired
by American Born and carries the
blood of Rex Peavine on his dam’s
side.
The Yankee stood 20th among
550 entries in the recent national
rating of American Saddle horse
sires. Miss Atomic, sired by The
Yankee, rated 26th among the
hundreds of horses exhibited at
the leading shows in the U. S. dur
ing 1946: Sweet Rhythm, the 3rd
high rating mare shown in 1946,
is a granddaughter of this great
sire.
The addition of The Yankee
makes a quartet of outstanding
American Saddle stallions avail
able at Texas A. & M. College for
breeding purposes to the horsemen
of the state. These stallions carry
the blood of all of the outstanding
families in the breed today. The
College feels that it and the horse
men of the state are most fortun
ate to have such an outstanding
stallion available for public use.
Collegians
Buy More Than
Other Groups
In a recent survey made by the
National Advertising Service, it
was found that the United States
now has 2,500,000 college students
enrolled in her colleges and uni
versities. The survey found that
there is an enormous amount of
money spent by this portion of our
population each year.
In a comparison between men
and women, it was found that men
spent $113,778,000 for suits, where
as women spent $30,621,405 for
shoes; men spent $43,173,900 for
sports coats, and women spent
$24,053,700 for sweaters. In this
survey it was also found that
college men have 4,725,000 suits,
3.150.000 sports coats. It was also
found that college women owned
8.325.000 pairs of shoes, 8,325,000
sweaters. The next three articles
which men buy more of in the way
of clothing are shirts, raincoats,
and sweaters. Now, in the wom
en’s department it is a different
story, because the next three ar
ticles which they spend more mon
ey on are slips, raincoats, and
stockings.
The survey also disclosed that
the college stuaents of America
buy approximately 203,500,000 gal
Ions of gasoline, just to go to and
from school. Music fans which are
now enrolled in college buy 50.-
310.000 records per year.
According to this survey, 157,-
500 students intend to buy auto
mobiles, 512,500 intend to buy
phonographs, 462,500 intend to
buy radios, 455,000 intend to buy
fountain pens.
So, it can be said that the col
lege student market is considerably
higher than the public market.
Installation of World’s
Largest Calculator Begun
The world’s largest electrical network calculator board
which can simulate the electrical set-up for all Texas is now
being installed in the Electrical Engineering Building ac
cording to Dr. Arne A. Jakkula, executive director of the A.
& M. Research Foundation. A - ” -
$100,000 gift to the research foun-
Barney Welch, speedy back, Odell Stautzenberper, (the rock), Jimmie Flowers, center converted
to tackle, and Big Jim Winkler, hefty guard from last year moved over to bolster the weak tackle po
sition, will probably furnish a lion’s share of the footb* ~
football to be played on Sport’s Day, May 10.
Investigators
May Come To
A&M Campus
The joint legislative com
mittee investigating A. & M.
met in secret session on Tues
day to discuss the future
course of the investigation and ad
journed without setting a date for
the next session.
Senator George Moffett of Chil-
licothe who introduced the resolu
tion establishing the committee
said members of the group were
in disagreement as to what wit
nesses should be called next.
“I think there will be at least
two more meetings” of the investi
gation committee, Moffett said,
“and I believe we’ll go to A.&M.
before it is all over.”
Moffett said he did not think
there would be another session this
week.
Up until press time Chairman
Fred Harris made no announce
ment of the next meeting.
Last witnesses to appear before
the committee were Track Coach,
Frank Anderson, Dean J. W. Rol
lins and Col. G. S. Meloy, Jr., Com
mandant.
Announcement of the witnesses
to appear before the committee at
the next hearing are expected by
the end of the week.
Houston Professors
To Speak at Modern
Language Banquet
Jules Verne and Lewis Kesten-
berg, French and German profes
sors from the University of Hous
ton, will appear as speakers on the
program of the Modern Language
Clubs’ banquet Saturday night at
7:30.
Verne, editor of the French lan
guage newspaper, “Le Bayou” and
not the author of “Twenty Thous
and Leagues Under the Sea”, does
imitations of people in a compara
tive way, showing how different
celebrities do the same act.
W. B. Norris, vice-president of
the French Club and program
chaiorman, announced that the
banquet will be held in Parker
Dining Hall in Bryan. Tickets for
the banquet and the dance to fol
low are on sale in Room 124 Aca
demic Building.
Eastland, Stephens County
Club Meeting Tonight
The Eastland and Stephens
County A. & M. Club meeting will
be held at 7:30 this evening in
Room 206, Academic Building.
each hood is cut from a roll of
plain sheet aluminum and the leg
end automatically stamped on at
the time of bottling. At the A. &
M. Creamery, the aluminum covers
are applied mechanically at the
rate of 60 per minute.
The cost of the new covers, ac
cording to Moore, is about 3 times
that of the plain paper plug caps
formerly used, but is slightly less
than other styles which also com
pletely cover the lip of the bottle.
Navy Reserve
Provides All
TypeTraining
Mankind has not yet come to
that stage in civilization where
survival of the fittest, elimination
of the helpless, is not a ruling
force. Twice within thirty years,
because we tried to live among the
family of nations, we were ruth
lessly attacked.
The New Naval Reserve has the
facilities, the material and exper
ience to establish within the civil
ian body of people the protection
we need. An adequate Naval Re
serve does not create a threat to
peace. Rather^ it becomes an in
surance for that peace.
The Naval Reserve needs men on
its rolls who are, and want to re
main civilians, but who want to
keep in touch with the Navy, and
to take advantages of the educa
tional and social opportunities that
it presents.
The New Naval Reserve offers
training in almost every trade and
skill. Members may either in
crease their learning and improve
their technique in the trade they
practice or they may learn new
trades. All educational facilities
are free to members. In addition,
members of the Reserve who live
in rural areas, or are unable to at
tend classes and training periods
in person, can take home study
courses.
Membership in the Reserve of
fers many other apportunities. All
time spent in the reserve is count
ed for longevity, and there is op
portunity for advancement in rank.
Those who may enroll in the Na
val Reserve are:
A. Navy, Coast Guard and Mar
ine Corps veterans of World War
II of any age, who served honor
ably for more than six months.
B. Veterans of any other U. S.
military service between 17 and 39
years inclusive.
C. Non-veterans, in the age
group 17 - 39 years, and 17 - 39
years inclusive, since expiration of
the Selective Service Act on March
31.
Class of ’46 Picnic
Planned for May 5
The Class of ’46 is planning a
picnic at Hensel park the Satur
day of the Senior Ring Dance if
enough interest is shown. If you
plan to attend, it is necessary for
you to see one of the following men
before May 5: Manley, Leggett;
Hurst, Leggett; Forman, Walton;
Boddie, Dorm 16; Stripling, Leg
gett; Trig, Law; or Terrell, Dorm
14.
Joe Skiles
Skiles Takes
Over Student
Activities
Joe Skiles resumed his duties
as manager of student activities
today. Skiles has been on a leave
of absence from the college since
last January 13 in order to serve
as executive assistant to the at
torney general of the state of Tex
as, Price Daniel. Skiles has man
aged student activities since his
appointment in 1941, with the ex
ception of time servied in the ar
my from 1942 to 1945. During his
leave of absence Grady Elms
served as acting manager.
Prior to his appointment as dir
ector of Student Activities here at
A. & M., Skiles practiced law in
Denton for eight years. He served
in the Texas legislature as repre
sentative from Denton County. It
was during his term in the legis
lature that Skiles became a friend
of Daniel, the new state attorney-
general.
Ex-Students 1
Meet Here
On Saturday
The annual spring meeting of
the Association of Former Stu
dents Council will be held Satur
day night at 7:30 p.m. in the
YMCA Chapel and the Association
session Sunday morning at 9:30
in Sbisa Hall, according to E. E.
McQuillen, executive secretary.
The Council elected in full for
the first time under new by-laws
adopted last spring numbers 176
men, who are representatives elec
ted by A. & M. clubs and classes.
It includes one representative from
each state senatorial district and
ten elected at-large.
The by-laws state “The Council
has- a double responsibility. It
shall be the governing body of the
Association and shall be respon
sible for its management, policies,
and program. It shall further be
the representative of the Associa
tion among the clubs, classes, dis
tricts and groups from which its
members are drawn. The Coun
cil shall endeavor to assist the Col
lege and the Association in every
possible manner and through its
members secure the interest and
cooperation of other members of
the Association and of friends of
the College”.
The election of new officers will
be held at this meeting. President
C. M. Gaines, Sr. of San Antonio,
father of C. M. Gaines, Jr. who
graduates this spring, will preside
until new officers are elected.
Paint Contractor
Goes Into Detail
On Biblical Work
The other day we heard about
a painting contractor who had
renovated several Biblical
paintings in a church. He was
refused payment on his bill un
less he itemized it. According
ly he submitted this statement:
By correcting the Ten Com
mandments, $5.12; Embellish-
in Pontius Pilate and p u t-
ting new ribbons on his bonnet,
$3.02; Putting a new tail on the
rooster of St. Peter and mend
ing his comb, $2.20; Repluming
and gilding the left wing of the
Guardian Angel, $5.18; Washing
the servant of the high priest
and putting carmine on his
cheeks, $5.02; Renewing Heav
en, adjusting the stars and
cleaning up the moon, $7.14;
Touching up Purgatory and re
storing lost souls, $3.06; Rebor
dering the robes of Herod and
adjusting his wig, $4.00; Tak
ing the spots off the sun of To
bias, $1.30; Putting earrings in
Isaiah’s ears, $1.71; Putting a
new stone in David’s sling, en
larging the head of Goliath, and
extending Saul’s legs, $6.18;
Decorating Noah’s Ark and put
ting a head on Shem, $3.31;
Mending the shirt of the Prodi
gal Son and cleaning his ears,
$2.31; Brightening up the flames
of hell, putting a new tail on the
devil and doing odd jobs for
the damned, $7.14; Total—$56.69.
dation by 10 utility companies in
Texas and Louisiana, the calcula
tor is expected to make its formal
debut to the public during the lat
ter part of the month.
The board can analyze the elec
trical problems of any situation in
an area as big as Texas, within
a room 40 by 18 feet. Load con
ditions, short circuit conditions, and
even the effect of a stroke of light
ning on the electrical system of a
city can be accurately determined.
First section of the calculator is
now being installed by the local
office of the Westinghouse firm.
The second half will arrive from
the Pittsburgh factory of the Wes
tinghouse Electric Corporation
within the next few days.
Analysis of wing structures of
planes and steel springs are possi
ble on the same board, according to
R. S. Kersh, Westinghouse engi
neer affiliated with the p r o-
ject. Any problem dealing with
resonant conditions can be handled
by the board. Electrical responses
replace mathematical calculations,
making calculated problems simple.
In addition to solving simple
problems, the board will be used by
advanced students attempting to
master actual problems of indus
trial firms in the area. One sec
tion of the calculator may be used
to solve student problems while the
other is simulating an actual in
dustrial dilemma.
Dr. Jakkula believes the cal
culator will be a boon to all en
gineering students, especially
electrical engineers.
The machinery looks like a set
of filing cabinets with dials on the
front. Inside the two sections, 18
feet square overall, are electrical
lines and generator circuits.
Other boards are in the posses
sion of Georgia Institute of Tech
nology, the Armour Institute of
Chicago, Commonwealth Edison
Company of Chicago, the Los An
geles Board of Water Control, and
the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Cor
poration.
To build the board, which is the
largest and most complete in the
world, would cost about $140,000 at
present prices, Kersh said.
VSA To Hold
Two Meetings
In Four Days
To avoid mixing business
with pleasure, the Veteran
Students Association will hold
two meetings during the early
days of May.
A special called business meet
ing will begin in the Assembly
Hall tonight at 7:3Q. Topic for
discussion is the present legislative
investigation, which was in part
precipitated by action of the as
sociation at its last meeting, when
the group voted “no confidence” in
the college administration.
The meeting tonight will be
closed to all except bona-fide vet
eran students at A. & M.
The regular monthly meeting
will be held at the Assembly Hall
Monday night at 7:30 p.m. After
a brief routine business session,
the veterans will hear a jam ses
sion by the Prairie View Swing-
sters, negro jazz orchestra which
played for the Veterans Ball last
week.
The Swingsters feature a vo
calist who doubles at the piano, in
a trio with a steel-guitarist and
bull-fiddle thumper. The full or
chestra includes, besides the trio, a
chorus of trombones and saxes.
The group has been booked for
this occasion because of their suc
cess here last week, according to
Bob Poison, vice-president of the
VSA and entertainment chairman.
‘Study of Texas Population’
Conference to Be Held May 1-2
A conference to aid in maturing plans and techniques
for conducting a study of the Texas population has been
called here May 1 and 2 by R. D. Lewis, director of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The conference will be held un--f
der the sponsorship of the Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics
and Sociology of Texas A. & M.
College and the Department of So
ciology of the University of Texas.
Carl M. Rosenquist of the Univer
sity of Texas is general chairman
of the conference, and Joe R. Moth-
eral of the Texas A. & M. College
is secretary. Daniel Russell of the
Texas A. & M. College is chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments.
Speakers before the two-day con
ference include Rupert, R. Vance,
Kenan professor of sociology, Uni
versity of North Carolina; Lorin A.
Thompson, director of population
and economic research, University
of Virginia; T. Lynn Smith, head
of rural sociology, and W. F. Og-
burn and Homer L. Hitt, professors
of sociology, all of Louisiana State
University; C. Horace Hamilton,
head of rural sociology, North
Carolina State College; C. F. Sarle,
head of special farm statistics, and
Margaret Jarman Hagood, social
scientist, both of U. S. Bureau of
Agricultural Economics; Henry S.
Shyrock, populatien division, U. S.
Bureau of the Census; H. Gifford
Till, director of industrial research
and development, MK&T railway;
E. L. Kurth, president of the An
gelina County Lumber Co.; repre
sentatives of the State Depart
ments of Education and Health.
San Angelo Club
Barbecue Saturday
An all-afternoon barbecue will
be held by the San Angelo home
town A. & M. Club Saturday, May
3, beginning at 12 noon, according
to Jene Moore, reporter for the
club. Rides from the YMCA to
Shiloh Club will be available at
12 noon and 1 p.m.
Close Order Drill
Held Friday For
Caldwell Trophy
Lt. Col. Max H. Cooler, com
mandant and PMS & T at Allen
Academy in Bryan, will be chief
judge of the Caldwell Trophy
close order drill competition Fri
day afternoon on the main drill
field.
Thirty-one nominees for the
Caldwell Trophy, an annual a-
ward given by Caldwell Jewelers
in Bryan, will drill with rifles
to determine their military pro
ficiency. Individual leadership,
scholarship, and student activi
ties are also factors in the selec
tion.
The public is invited to the
competition, which begins at 5.
Ministerial Groups
Sponsor Marital
Series Over WTAW
In observance of National Fam
ily Week, the Ministerial Associa
tions of Bryan and College Station
are sponsoring over WTAW a se
ries of eight 15 minute radio pro
grams, “So You Want to Get Mar
ried”, written and produced by
Carlton E. Morse author of “One
Man’s Family” which has been
heard continuously since 1932.
These programs will be heard over
WTAW at 6 p.m. on Sunday and
Tuesday, and at 5:30 p.m. on the
remaining week-days.
Veteran Activity
Fees to Be Paid By
Vet Administration
Veterans attending A. & M. and
other state educational institutions
will no longer have to pay for
their student activities fees, if the
Veteran’s Administration holds
valid as a law, Senate Bill 228
which has passed both houses of
the legislature, and has been signed
by Governor Jester.
The fees are not to exceed $15
a semester and will finance such
items as hospital service, student
publications, season athletic tick
ets, and other items now in the
voluntary activities fee of the col
lege.
There is a possibility that the
Veteran’s Administration will re
imburse institutions that assumed
the responsibility of payment of
veteran student’s activity fees in
the belief that the contract exist
ing between the Veteran’s Admin
istration provided for the payment
of such a fee. However, this will
be the only case of retroactive ef
fect the bill might have.
Legislators Robert Proffer,
George Nokes, and Peppy Blount
were backers of the bill.
trampling out
the vintage ...
By Mack T. Nolen
The dictionary was dusty. A
pall of dust. Dust on the binding.
Dust on the pages. Choking dust.
Asphyxiating dust. Dust.
I was tired. Tired of Stein
beck. I wanted to scream. Of
fice full of people though. What
would they think if I_ screamed?
What would I care what they
thought if I screamed? Nothing.
Lotsa people. But they’d never
amount to nothing. Just like a-
corns around an oak tree, they
could grow up to something, but
they’d probably rot where they
lay. Worthless. Rotten.
A little dog came trotting into
the office. Dirty white dog with
spots of brown. He stared at a
hatrack, uncomprehending. What
does a dog know about a hatrack?
He has no hat. Has no money.
Wouldn’t buy a hat even if he had
the money. He sat down and
scratched a flea. Plenty of fleaq.
no money.
This sort of rot could go on for
ever. Maybe you recognized the
style as that of John Steinbeck,
America’s greatest hypnotist — he
hypnotized people into thinking
him a writer.
In the rolling Ozarks of Arkan
sas and Missouri there are thous
ands of potential Steinbecks. The
only difference between them and
the real article is that John can
write. The subject matter of these
ridge-runners is as shady, the sen
tences as disjointed, the style as
repulsive as John’s, but they get
not a farthing for what he gets
thousands of dollars.
By next election time Dos Passes
will probably be obsolete. How
ever, we still have Steinbeck. If
you know of some candidate, per
sonally obnoxious to you, that you
would like to see defeated, just let
the news get around that he en
dorses some of Steinbeck’s stuff,
and, by all that’s decent and chaste,
he won’t be elected.
Legionnaires To
Attend Model Plane
Conference May 9-11
Half a hundred American Le
gionnaires, will attend a three-day
model airplane short course here
May 9-11.
The Legionnaires will undergo
intensive training in methods of
building model aircraft and con
ducting competitions, after which
they will return to their districts
and pass along their knowledge to
youngsters in their communities.
The course will close May 11
with a local model contest, which
will be conducted by the Legion
naires under supervision of the
Texas A&M Industrial Education
department, sponsor of the course
in cooperation with the Bryan, Tex
as, Legion Post.