VMI Cadet. March 7, 1938

              Hep Committee To
Poll Barricks On
Swing
W. & L., V. M. I., U. of
Va., H.-S. C. Dance
Dates Conflict
VOLUME XXXI No. 2778 LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1938. NUMBER 19
Underdog Grapplers Capture Southern Conference Crown
Legislature To Appropriate Funds For
New Library, Centennial Celebration;
J. W. Johns To Raise Additional Money
Increase Seen for
General Operation,
Academic Equip.
Library Plans Altered
To Meet New Estimate
By ALEX MORRISON
In a recent interview the super-intendent
stated that the appro-priations
committee af the General
Assembly has approved the in-creased
appropriation tor "general
operations" at VMI. The budget
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1938 includes an increase of ap-proximately
$11,000 under this item.
Academic Equipment Included
For the purchase of additional
equipment for the academic de-partments
the proposed appropria-tion
is $27,000 for the next two
years. This allotment represents
an increase of about $10,000 over
the last two years.
Library Plans Changed
The amount allowed for the new
library is about three-fifths of the
original estimate, and in order to
come within this allowance the
size of the library will necessarily
be reduced. The original plans
called for a building 211 feet in
length, but the reduced appropria-tion
will require a corresponding
alteration in length to 180 feet. The
arrangements have been retained,
and the original seating capacity of
240 will not be changed. The base-ment
floor will perhaps have to
be left partly unfinished, and it
will be necessary to borrow money
to make up the $100,000 not carried
out in the appropriations bill.
Committee's Attitude Encouraging
"A most encouraging sign," said
General Kilbourne, "is the evidence
of friendliness to our school by
Delegates and Senators. There was
not a dissenting vote in the com-mittee
on the proposal to increase
certain appropriations and# to grant
$10,000 towards expenses of the
Centennial celebration in 1939. This
is the first time the state has ever
appropriated funds for a college
centennial."
Mr. Jay Winston Johns, Chair-man
of the Centennial Committee,
has said that he can raise any ad-ditional
money over the appropria-tion
necessary to meet the expenses
of the many phases of the cele-bration.
The following tentative plans
have been submitted by the Board
of Visitors as a basis for the prep-aration
of estimates:
"The VMI WiU be Heard From—"
New Market Day, May 15, 1939,
is to be devoted to the memory of
the services to the Confederacy of
the Cadet Corps and the former
Cadets of the Institute. The plan
contemplates the re-enactment
the morning, of the departure of
the Corps, under Major T. J. Jack
son for Richmond for the purpose
of acting as drill instructors to the
hastily assembling volunteers. This
will include also a pageant partici-pated
in by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy and the Con-federate
Veterans, who in appro-priate
costumes will represent the
patriotic citizens of Lexington, Va.,
assembled to witness the departure
of the Corp6 and cheer the cadets
on their way.
Appropriate ceremonies at the
resting place of Generals Lee and
Jackson also are contemplated.
In the afternoon, following a
luncheon in the mess hall for guests
it is planned to reenact so much
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Col. Bates9 Classes
See Insulin Shock
At Insanity Clinic
Pre-Meds And Liberal
Artists Visit Staunton
Hospital
March 5—The First and Second
Class pre-medical and liberal arts
sections and a few of the chemistry
students Journeyed to Staunton on
Saturday afternoon to attend the
clinic sponsored by Dr. DeJarnette,
superintendent of the Western
State hospital for the insane. Col-onel
Robert L. Bates, professor of
philosophy • and psychology, and
Major Robert P. Carroll, assistant
professor of biology, who accomp-anied
the sections, were in charge
of the trip.
Clinic Is Annual Affair
The clinic is held once a year
to show the students of state col-leges
various examples of insanity
existing among the 2,400 patients
in the Staunton institution. Several
of the types of insanity that were
shown were paresis, incomplete
paralysis, dementia praecox, a form
of insanity developing usually in
late adolescence, and characterized
by loss of interest in people and
things and incoherence of thought
and action, paranoia, a chronic
mental disorder characterized by
systematized delusions of persecu-tion
and of one's own greatness,
and mental depressive psycosis.
Two Patients Given Insulin
The clinic opened with the intro-duction
of insulin into two patients
who were in a coma when the in
sulin was injected into their bodies.
The effect of the sugar upon them,
in the weakened condition that
they were, caused such a severe
shock that their minds were clear
ed. Insulin has been discovered
only recently as a medicine for in-sanity.
One unusual case that the stud-ents
were shown was that of a
young man of 24 who lost his
memory on Feb. 3, and who can-not
remember a single thing that
ever happened to him up until
that day. Dr. DeJarnette, who is
one of the outstanding authorities
on insanity in the state, said that
out of 21,000 cases which he has
attended, this loss of memory is
the first that he has encountered.
Among other schools sending
students to the clinic were Wash-ington
and Lee, the University of
Virginia, Madison College and
Mary Baldwin. Doctors and pro-fessors
from each of these schools
also attended.
Ramey Heads
New Publicity
Department
Boyer Supervises NYA
Men In New Set-Up;
Office To Be In '94 Hall
March 7—Major Medford G.
Ramey has been named by the
Superintendent to handle all pub-licity
relating to the Institute with
the exception of Colonel Read's in-tercollegiate
athletic publicity.
Captain Dayhuff Former Head
The new organization under Ma-jor
Ramey will assume essentially
the same duties formerly carried on
by Captain Charles E. Dayhuff,
who left the Institute in 1936, and
will expand its scope to include
every department possible.
Offices In Gymnasium
With the financial support of the
Alumni Association the new agen-cy
is establishing its headquarters
in the gymnasium, where an here-tofore
inaccessible room will be
utilized through the construction of
a catwalk from the Intramural of-fices.
The office will be equipped
to provide ample f a c i l i t i es
for the work of a staff of report-ers
and typists.
D. P. Boyer Is Cadet Supervisor
The personnel of the publicity
bureau will consist of cadets from
the National Youth Administration
rolls, and will be directed by Ca-det
Donald P. Boyer, Jr. Harry
Dunton of the second class will be
chief typist. Reporters have been
assigned to cover the fields in
which they are especially interest-ed
and qualified to cover, and in-clude:
W. S. McMann, D. G. Van
Horn, R. H. Barnes, P. B. Coldiron,
J. E. Hensley and J. L. Meem. Col.
Hunley of the Liberal Arts Depart-ment
will approve all copy before
release to the newspapers.
To Contact Entire Southeastern US
Not only newspapers in the state,
but also those throughout the en-tire
South and East will come
within the range of contact, and
a determined attempt will be made
to obtain for VMI the same notice
secured by other schools and col-leges
through the medium of the
news press.
Second Classmen
To Begin Bomb
Sittings April 5
Andre Of Lexington
Official Photographer
For '39's Publication
By J. G. HUNDLEY
March 5—Billy McCarthy, editor
of the Thirty-nine Bomb, revealed
today that sittings for portraits of
Second Classmen will begin April
5, in the Alumni Hall. The photo-graphs
will be made in the con-ventional
mess jackets.
Andre Official Photographer
The tentative plans for the pub-lication
of next year's annual have
been formulated by McCarthy, al-though
no staff has been chosen to
assist the publication.
The contracts for the printing,
engraving, and photography have
already been awarded. As usual,
the printing and engraving will be
done by the Benson Printing Co.
of Nashville, Tenn., and the Lynch-burg
Engraving Co., of Lynchburg,
Va., respectively. But for the '39
Bomb, Andre Studios of Lexing-ton,
a newcomer to the profession-al
staff of this book, but for many
years the photographer for W&L's
Calyx, will be in charge of the
photography. Andre is replacing
Zamsky Studios of Philadelphia,
Pa., to whom this contract has
been let for the last few years.
"We made this change," McCar-thy
stated today, "primarily be-cause
Zamsky is unpopular with
the cadets and because his work
has not been entirely satisfactory.
Then, too, Andre is very conveni-ent.
We will be able to present
the real VMI pictorially. Real
snapshots, such as erf shirt-tail pa-rades,
torchlight parades, cheer
rallies, and the teams' leaving on
athletic furloughs, will be used.
Pictures of such subjects as these
will be appreciated by the Corps
and have not been used before.
Centennial Is Theme
The layout and scheme of the
book will be planned this summer
in Washington when McCarthy
will meet with the engraver and
printer during the former's week-end
furloughs from summer camp.
"It is not definite, but the theme
of the 100th Anniversary will be
followed to some extent," McCar-thy
disclosed. "Of course, the de-tails
will be worked out next
summer."
Aside from the work on the
Bomb, the Bullet, more commonly
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Conference Fails
In Hop Set Clash;
Contracts Signed
Cottrell Anticipates 'Most
Successful' Hops Yet;
Students May Boycott
March 7—It has become apparent
that due to unfortunate circum-stances,
there is a conflict in Spring
Hop dates, the 22nd and 23rd of
April, which were finally decided
upon by the dance committees of
Virginia Military Institute, Wash-ington
and Lee University. Univer-sity
of Virgnia and Hampden-Syd-ney
College.
Committee Oversight
The conflict arose when the Hop; made
committee, in voting for Guy Lom-, in the
VMI 32, WL 29;
Cadets Take
Four Titles
bardo and his orchestra to play in
'94 Hall, unintentionally overlook-ed
the fact that Washington and
Lee had scheduled their dances for
the only week end that Lombardo
was available. The Committee re-mained
uncorrected in their over-sight
until the Easter Hop contract
had been signed.
Compromise Impossible
Foust, Martin, Reeves,
Steidtmann Win Titles
By SNAKE SCARBURGH
The VMI wrestlers won the
sixth annual Southern Conference
wrestling tournament, held at VPI
in Blacksburg, Friday and Satur-day.
The final tally was VMI 32,
Washington and Lee 29, North
Carolina 7, Davidson 7, VPI 5, and
Duke 1.
Washington and Lee, the only
threat to the top-headed Keydets,
strong bid for the erowr
consolation matches after
Sam Barnes' protegees piled up an
early 25 to 15 lead as a result of
the i n d i v i d u a l championship
matches. VMI came through the
finals with four title holders, W&L
two, NCU one and Davidson one.
The Generals came back strong
in the consolation matches for sec-ond
and third places and at the end
of four matches held a one-poinit
When the matter was eventually j lead of 29-28. Halsey Hill put VMI
called to the attention of the Hop [back in front by taking the 155-lb.
Committee, a conference was held1 class and then Al Fiedler clinched
with representatives of W&L in an the championship for VMI by tak-effort
to clarify the situation. How- ing the measure of W&L's Charlie
ever, since both schools had con-'. Lykes in the runner-up match oi
tracted their orchestras, the meet-. toe unlimited class,
ing ended in a deadlock. ! Strate Victim Of Foul
Cottrell Unconcerned j George Strate started off the
Hop Committee President, Stu- I championship bouts for VMI in the
art Cotrell, when questioned about 1118"lb- and w a s matched with
the conflict answered, "The situa-tion
is unfortunate and uninten-
Bob Kemp of W&L.
cleaning up the mat
Strate was
with Kemp
tional, but really not very signifi- a n d w a s o n t h c way to a victory
cant." j when he slammed the General 118-
In regard to a question concern-1 P ° U n d e r t o t h e m a t i n a n e « o r t to
ing the prospective student boycott
of VMI dances, Cottrell merely
smiled unconcernedly and answer-ed,
"We look forward to the Easter
Hops as being the most successful
set of dances we have held in
quite a time."
Ellerson Finally Announces Entire
Cast of Spring Second Class Show
By J. S. McCRACKEN
March 3—Watt Ellerson, manager
of the Second Class Show, today
announced the final cast for "Cap-tain
Applejack." Several Second
Classmen have leading roles
the play with third and fourth
classmen coming in for their share
of the honors.
The feminine roles, which re-quire
considerable acting ability,
will be played by M. B. McKin-non,
who will portray "Poppy
Faire," L. S. Cooper, who will in-terpret
the part of "Anna Valeska",
W. B. Reynolds who will portray
"Mrs. Whitecombe," and J. W. Bow-man
who will portray the part of
"Mrs. Pengard." The remainder of
the cast includes Jimmy Bailey as
"Ambrose Applejohn," J. L. Mac-
Rae as "Lush," Kenny Slaughter as
'^Pengard," Hank Bernstein as
"Borolsky," Jimmy Hughes as
"Dennett" wid Misha Kadick as
"Johnny Jason."
up to the present
time have been on the first and
second acts and as these are now
in the final stages it is expected
that practice will begin on the
third and final act about the mid-dle
of this month. The final prac
tices in April will deal with polish-ing
up the play for presentation
and it is hoped that three prac-tices
can be held each week dur-ing
that time.
Approximately Two Hour Show
The time required for present-ing
the play had caused some con-cern
during the early practices, but
it has been found now that the
second and third acts are shorter
than the first, and the entire play
can be shown in approximately
two hours which is the desired
amount of time. The VMI Com-manders
will play before the rais-ing
of the curtain. It is hoped
that the services of the Glee Club
can be engaged to entertain the
audience between acts. This, how-ever,
has not definitely been ar-ranged.
Hop Committee
Seeks Opinions
Question! Question! Is "swing
music" on the wane? What is
your "pet" definition of "swing"
music? What type of music do
you prefer? What is your favor-ite
orchestra and why?
There are a few of the ques-tions
every Cadet in barracks
will have the opportunity to
answer for himself, and within
the coming week.
It is becoming more and more
a moot question among orches-tra
leaders and band booking
agencies whether or not "swing"
music continues to rule supreme
on the college campus. As a
result, the CADET, at the re-quest
of the Hep Committee,
will undertake to canvass bar-racks
this week with a ques-tionnaire,
the results of which
will be published in an early is-sue
of the CADET.
The cooperation of the Corps
is requested in order to deter-mine
the under-current of popu-lar
opinion prevalent in bar-racks
today.
break a leg hold and the referee
ruled a foul on the Keydet. The
match was given to W&L. Jimmy
Foust proceeded to avenge Strate's
defeat and pinned Pittman of
Tech in the 126-lb. class. Then
'Reeves declsloned Craver from
Davidson in the 135-lb. class to put
VMI well out in front.
Leonard Martin Wins
W&L dropped the 145-lb. class
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'22 "Bull Stander"
Talks to Engineers
March 4.—Mr. W. W. Archer of
the Virginia Electric Power Com-pany
today addressed members of
the first class Electrical and Civil
sections and second class Electrical
sections. Mr. Archer stated that he
was the "bull ranking" man in his
class at graduation in 1922, and
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Faculty Club
Hears Swan
Chemistry Dept. Head
Discusses 'Chemurgy'
The VMI Faculty Club met jn
Crozet Hall for its monthly meet-ing
on Wednesday, February 23, at
7 p. m. Forty-eight members were
present, among them two of
the club's three new members,
Capt. Leary, Major Grove's re-cently
appointed assistant, and Russ
Cohen, new member of the football
coaching staff, who were intro-duced
to the club. Major Ellis, the
newly detailed infantry officer, was
unable to be present.
Chemistry Department Conducts
Program
The program for the evening was
given over to the Chemistry De-partment.
Colonel W. O. Swan was
the speaker of the evening; his sub-ject
was the "Farm Chemurgic
Council."
Rehabilitation of Idle Farm Land
The Council was founded for the
purpose of introducing more agri-cultural
products as raw materials
in industrial processes. It was Gar-van's
problem to find some uses to
which all this idle land could be
put.
Great strides have been made to-ward
the founder's goal. One group
of the Council has developed a pro-cess
for making pure alcohol from
corn to be used in blending gaso-
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