VMI Cadet. March 19, 1940

              Glee Club Concert
The Glee Club begins
three day performance
ton, D. C.
VOLUME
MesMge to Byrd
VMI Will broadcast message to
B f f i Expedition at South Pole Ml
Marc* 88.
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XXXIII LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MARCH 19, 1940 NUMBER 22
Sen. Hunsdon Cary,
Institute Graduate,
To Run for Governor
Henrico Senator^
Class of 1892,
Telegraphs Cadet
Hunsdon Cary, '82, state senator
front' the county of Henrico, an-nounced
himself last week as a can*
didate for governor of Virginia. This
candidacy Is subject to the Demo-cratic
primary in August of 1941.
The Cadet sent Senator Cary its
congratulations on behalf of the
cadet corps, anjJ in wiring his reply
Senator Cary said:
"Thank you for your gracious
telegram wishing me success & my
gubernatorial campaign. It was typi-cal
of the Spirit of VMI. To you,
to the corps, and to the alumni 1
can only say I hope that lofty spirit
will always watch over me, and
that I may prove worthy of a great
trust if the people of Virginia see
fit to confer it upon me."
Senator Cary attended the Vir
ginia Military Institute in the class
of 1892, completing the four year
science requirements in three years,
He took elevnth stand in his class,
In his statement to the press an-nouncing
his intentions, the guber-natorial
candidate said: "I announce
that I shall b e a candidate for Gov-ernor
of. Virginia, subject to the
Democratic primary in 1941.
"From time to time I shall an-nounce
the principles upon which
I shall base my campaign, but the
only one to which I wish to refer
at this time is my trst love, the
youth of Virginia. The three point
program .of education shall come
first in my consldertlton and will
be included in the budget."
Mr. Cary did not elaborate on this
statement b u i said he would do
so later when he returns from a
trip to Ashvllle, N. C„ which wUl
keep him out of the-city for several
days.
Senator Cary hag been a member
of the State Senate since 1936 and
has manifested a deep interest in
the public school system for a num-ber
of years. He has been particu-larly
active in urging vocational
educational courses in the schools
of the counties he represents, and
for the last two years he served on
a special commission studying the
State school curriculum to deter-mine
especially the need-tor more
vocational training. He was also
chairman of the labor relation*
study commission whtch reported to
the recent General Assembly.
Born in Richmond, Mr. Cary was
educated at Pantops Academy, VMI,
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy,
and the University of Virginia,
from which he received his law de-gree.
He is a lawyer by profession
and has his offices ln Richmond.
There have been About a dozen
other possible candidates for the
governorship, but Mr. Cary ha* got
the jump on the entire field by
being the first to declare his can-didacy.
It Is not certain which of
the other possible candidates, If
any, will announce tor the attic*
or at which time they will do so.
Senator Cary is the ffait graduate
of the Virginia Military Institute to
announce for this porttlan in mm
years.
Texas Club Holds
Regular Banquet
Last Saturday evening the Texas
club held a dinner at the Robert E.
Lee hotel. About 15 members of the
club and their dates attended. Col.
and Mrs. J. D. P. Fuller were the
guests of the club at the dinner.
Although not a native Texan, Col.
Fuller taught at Texas A. & M. for
eight years.
After the informal dinner, every-one
present attended the First Class
hop. The Texas club, headed by
Don Matter, is one of the most ac-tive
sectional organizations in the
school.
State AIEE Convention
To be Held in Roanoke
The annual state convention of
Student chapters of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
will be held this Friday afternoon
ln Roanoke. The VMI delegates
have not been chosen, but it was
learned here today that Dan Flow-ers
may read a paper at the confer-
HUNSDON CARY
urn-Out'
To Appear
On April 1
Douglas McMillin, the editor of
The Turn-Out, has announced that
the spring issue of the magazine
will-be placed on sale and distrib-uted
m u n i barracks on Apr!' 1,
This issue will be four pages larger
than any previous one and will con-tain
several new features.
The most significant of the new
features is that dealing with the
distinctions of various individuals
I who weTe chosen for their achieve-ments.
These chosen people involve
a cadet, a girl, an instructor, and an
alumnus. They are being featured
with regard to something outstand-ing
they have done since the last
Issue of The Turn-Out.
The .entire issue will reflect the
spirit of spring. Herb Wills and
Charlie Gompf collaborated in de-signing
the cover, which will con-sist
of spring scenes. Work on the
magazine is ahead of schedule, Mc-
Millin said. Practically all of the
engraving work is at the engravers
with the printed matter being com-pleted
satisfactorily.
The sports section will consist of
resumes of all the winter and spring
sports. There will also be an article
contributed which will pertain to
the alumni. The magazine will go to
press on March 22, at which date all
written and engraved matter will
be concluded.
Second Class
To Broadcast
Annual Show
Preview of Minstrel
To be Presented
Over Station WDBJ
For the first time in the history
of the Institute, the annual Second
Class Show will be previewed in a
radio broadcast. Nine members of
the staff of the 1940 presentation
will broadcast over station WDBJ
of Roanoke, Va., on Sunday, April
7, at 6:45 p. m. The program, which
will last 15 minutes, will include
many features of the coming show.
The program was arranged by Bill
MeCauley, director of publicity, in
conjunction with officials of WDBJ.
Tentative arrangements for the
program include solos by Keith
Willis and Bud Oakey, a quartet
composed of Bill Rennolds, Clark
Goolsby, Willis and Oakey. Fred
Blackmon and Goolsby will act as
end men for the broadcast.
Rennolds, director of the1 produc
tion, said today that work is pro
grossing satisfactorily and that re
cent practices have been more than
satisfactory. He added that he be-lieves
that work on this show has
been more thorough and more
pleasing than any in recent years.
Officials of the Second Class
Show have stated that, according
to all advance predictions," the
quality of this production will more
than equal that of any show in the
past. The staff expects and is pre-paring
for a capacity-filled house.
Rennolds has announced the ad-dition
of R. C. Horne, of the third
class, to be assistant electrician.
The program committee, compos-ed
of Charley Moore, Bill MeCau-ley
and Kinloch Goolrick, has com-pleted
plans for publication and
has secured the necessary adver-tising.
The group intends to send
the program to press in about two
weeks.
Planes Used
In Mapping
By Engineers
The progress of the Army engin-eers
has advanced steadily since
they have been stationed at the In-stitute
in mid-February. By the use
of photographs taken by a private
picture company, they have report-ed
the successful mapping of sev-eral
projected dam sites. Under the
direction of th* Army, air photo-graphs
were taken from private
airplanes, Ibeae pictures were used
to make MmettOM CMS MdfUag
maps by MMHjl ot eOBftpMrfiiB,
The ptvpoaa of the engineering
work is flood eontroi. l a oedtr tp
prevent flood* the b i m at t » liv-er*
and streams in th* vtointty must
be inveatigried and iwipei,'. Tbt
work is progressing satisfactorily
with the preliminary mapping at
streams for th* 3mm$, .Smith, «a4
Meherrin rivers in the process ot
completion.
Maury dam site area, CMMfM
dam site area and Smith mountain
dam site area have already been in-vestigated
and mapped, and the
Roundabout dam site is not quite
completed.
This particular division is com-posed
of 32 men, and is a part of
the Norfolk office of the War De-partnfcnt.
The office is located in
the old library building, and is the
field control point for the seven
field parties which consist of four
men each. The reports from the
field parties are received by the
men stationed at the office and then
transmitted to Norfolk.
Twenty-four more days until Eas-ter
hops.
VMI To Broadcast
Message to Byrd
On the next broadcast to the Byrd
Antartic expedition which will be
sent over a nation-wide hook-up
on March 28, one minute of the
speaking time on this program will
be allotted to the Virginia Military
Institute to send its greetings to
the alumnus-explorer, A d m i r al
Richard Evelyn Byrd, and to his
expedition now conducting a re-search
expedition at the South Pole.
The Superintendent announced
that, while plans have not been
completed for this broadcast, it is
probable that the announcement will
be made on behalf of VMI by John
C. Hagan, Jr., '21,-chairman of the
VMI Foundation, Inc., and a past
president of the General Alumni
association.
General Kilbourne said that Mr.
Hagan would probably be asked to
make this announcement because of
his many prominent activities as an
alumnus. Mr. Hagan is a resident
of Richmond, Va., and is near the
facilities of radio station WRVA in
Richmond, which is on a national
hook-up.
More complete details ot this
broadcast will be announced later.
VAS to Hold
Meeting Here
In Early May
Program Committee
Release Plans
For Conference
The announcement that the .Vir-ginia
Academy of Science will hold
its eighteenth annual convention at
VMI May 2-4, instead of In Lynch-burg,
was officially confirmed. The
last time this body met In Lexing-ton
was in 1936. It had been planned
to have the meeting this year under
the auspices of Randolph-Macon and
Lynchburg colleges, but as this
would interfere with May Day cele-bration?
in Lynchburg, the plans
had to be changed.
A schedule of the three day pro-gram
will be released in the near
future. Although the plans are ten-tative,
excursions have been planned
to Natural Bridge, Goshen Pass, Lee
Chapel, and Other places of interest
in the county, A tea at W&L and a
banquet in Crozet hall were also in-cluded
in the plans. Preparations
are being made to accommodate over
500 people.
Brig. Gen. J. A. Anderson is chair-man
of the local committee on ar-ranging
the program, with Col. Ed-ward
Steidtman and Lieut. Col.
Robert P. Carroll acting as sub-chairmen.
Others on the committee
are: Col, H. M. Read, publicity;
Col. W. H. Byrne and Major J.
Carter Hanes, registration; Major
Herbert E. Ritchey and Miss Nellie
Gibbs, exhibits; Lieut. Col. S. Mur-ray
Heflin, astronomy, mathematics,
and physics; Colonel Carroll^biol-ogy;
Col. William Swan, chemistry;
Lieut. Col. Whiting F. Young, edu-cation;
Major Walter Lowry, engin-eering;
Colonfl Steidtman, geology;
Major Brooke Mallory, medicine;
and Col. Robert L. Bates, psychology.
Alvln Meyer, second class, and
Colonel Steidtman have completed
several papers on pertinent subjects
to be discussed at the meeting. Es-pecially
Interesting developments in
the field of medicine are also ex-pected.
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Schedule of Lecture*
Hie schedule of discussions to be given by Dr. Tyler
Dennett for the remainder of the week is as follows:
TOMORROW
12 noon—First class, 1st section, Liberal Arts course.
Room 38 in Scott Shipp hall. Discussion of the
Pittman Resolution regarding Japan.
7:15 p. m.—Faculty club in Crozet hall. Round table
discussion of the Future of Higher Education in
a Democracy.
THURSDAY
11 a. m.—First class, 2nd section, Liberal Arts course.
Room 38 in Scott Shipp hall. Discussion of the
Pittman Resolution regarding Japan.
7:80 p. m.—First and second class Liberal Arts sections
in Nichols Engineering building. Topic: "Cen-tralized
Government in Democracy."
FRIDAY
8 a. m.—The cadet corps in Jackson Memorial hall.
Topic: "The Dilemma in the American Foreign Policy."
Pennsylvania Singers
Stop Here for Picture
The University of Pennsylvania
Glee club, numbering nearly one
hundred, stopped In Lexington ear-ly
yesterday morning on its extend-ed
Southern tour.
The club, traveling by special
bus, stopped " on the post and had
its picture taken on the parade
ground with the Superintendent's
quarters in the background.
Cadet Meeting Changed
Until 9 p. ni. Tonight
The meeting of the editorial board
of The Cadet, regularly scheduled
for 8 p.m. tonight, has been post-poned
until 9 p. m. so as not to in-terfere
with the Lectern club meet-ing
at 7:30 to hear Dr. Tyler Den-nett.
The meeting will be held in the
Cadet room as usual. All associate
editors are urged to be present on
time.
Hoover, Cheek
WiU Attend
D. C. Meeting
Frank W. Hoover, of Bethesda,
Md., and James H. Cheek, of Char-lottesville,
were the two first class-men
selected yesterday to represent
VMI at the 1940 Institute of Gov-ernment
which is being held in
Washington under the auspices of
the United States Office of Educa-tion
and the National Institute of
Public Affairs.
The five-day meeting is scheduled
from Monday, March 25, through
Friday, March 29, for the benefit
of not more than 75 senior students
of American colleges who are in-terested
in participating in a pro
gram which will include visits to
sessions of CongressT to hearings of
Congressional committees and Ex-ecutive
committees, and to the Su-preme
Court, as well as Informal
round table discussion with leading
government officials, legislators,
and publicists.
A number of first classmen sub-mitted
permits requesting that they
be considered in the selection of
VMI's delegates. Hoover and Cheek
were chosen on a competitive basis
inasmuch as their selection was
based on their academic records.
Last year's delegates from VMI
were Jack Love and Phil Baldwin.
During this year's meeting, the
relation of the domestic and for-eign
policy of the country will be
discussed. There will also be a joint
meeting with the Pan-American
Union. The invitation to this meet-ing
having been accepted, a state-ment
was sent to the 1940 Institute
of Government that the two cadets
attending would take advantage of
every opportunity that is afforded
them.
Glee Club Will Give Professional Performance
At Earle Theatre in Washington on April 18-20
Performing professionally for the
first time, the Glee club will leave
for Washington, D. C„ on April 18
for a three-day mm§ammi at the
Earl* theatre, It was learned toiay.
The oiuh has held an amateur stand-ing
in the pact, appearing h e lm
midiaMM of Interested friend* and
alumni in various parts ot the state.
It is not, however, the first time
that m i group Mm entered the f M i
of commercial entertainment
This trip was orijftaaOy planned
in November, but beeause ot tt»
Christmas JbriMitfi and otter eon.
flfcte, It wm poatpoMd. TIM pre-
Christmas announcement that the
trip would be made March 1-3 was
also postponed because satisfactory
arrangements could not be made.
While in Washington, the mem-bers
of the club will stop at the
Harrington hotel, which is but a few
blocks from the theatre and the
down-town section of Washington.
Major M. G. Ramey, faculty ad-viser
of the Glee club, arranged the
three-day engagement. The group
will du four concerts a day, and
each concert will consist of five se-lections.
The entire program will
last about 20 minutes. The club will
have ou hand two complete pro-grams,
two to be used alternately at
MAJOR M. O. RAMEY
every other concert. The repertoire
will consist of "Pilgrim's Chorus,"
by Wagner; "The Sleigh," by
Kountz; "Finlandia," by Sibelius;
"Stout Hearted Men," by Romberg;
"On the Road to Mandalay," by
Speaks; "I Dream of Jennie With
the Light Brown Hair," by Foster;
"Winter Song," by Kern; and
"Drink to Me Only With Thine
Eyes," an old English air arranged
by Pasternak.
This is the second of the annual
trips that are allowed the Glee club
by the Institute. Last year, the club
received much applause from the
MRS. M G. RAMEY
crowds at the Apple Blossom Festi-val,
where it performed for two
days.
The group will leave for Wash-ington
by chartered bus on April
18. On the first morning in Wash-ington.
the Glee club will assemble
at the theatre for a rehearsal with
the Earle theatre orchestra, which
will accompany the group m s&v»
I eral of its selections.
Major and Mrs. Ramey, faculty
adviser and director of the Glee
club, respectively, will accompany
the organization on the Washington
trip.
Deadline Set
For May 1st
On Bomb Copy
All copy for the 1940 Bomb will
go to press on May 1, Editor' Me-
Cluer Gilliam announced tonight.
The page borders and opening sec-tion
are already in the hands of the
printers, and work on the other re-maining
sections is rapidly being
drawn to a close. All of the work is
ahead of schedule, and this issue is
expected to be completed earlier
than other Bombs in recent years.
Bob Shiverts, photography editor,
said tonight that over three-fourths
of the photographic work has al-ready
been completed. Special at-tention
is now being paid to the
pictorial history of the classes, ana
Shiverts expressed his desire for
any snapshots that anyone might
bring to him.
There will be a great number of
improvements in this year's Bomb
including a larger and better Out-rage
section as well as a greater va-riety
of all types of pictures. There
will only be a limited number of
extra copies made, and so ail cadets
are urged to put in their orders be-fore
The Bomb goes to press,
Gilliam said, when interviewed,
that the deadline for the first class
biographies is midnight tonight. AU
biographies which have not been
turned in by that time will be writ-ten
by the biographical editor, and
will not be subject to the approval
of the cadets about whom they are
written.
First Class Hop
Huge Success;
Band Praised
Enjoying the rare treat of the
music of the Commanders, the corps
turned out in unusually large num-bers
for the March First Class hop
held in Cocke hall last Saturday
night. The dance, lasting for the
regular Saturday period of three
hours, has been acclaimed by a great
many cadets as one of the best
dances that they have attended at
VMI,
Although there was a very good
stag line, there was a surprising
number of girls present for a First
C1&88 hop. Thssc figures sr© even
more surprising in that Glenn Mil-ler
will play for the coming Easter
dances.
The music of the Commanders
was up to its usual excellent stand-ard.
The orchestra received tra-mfflieloiM
ovations at the conclusion
of its various presentations, and
seemed to have received a warmer
reception than a great many large
bands thai have played at the In-stitute
In the past.
The gymnasium, cut to its usual
proportions for a First Class hop,
was gaily decorated in strips of red,
white, yellow, brown and green
crepe paper.
The dancers were especially
pleased with the performances of
Eu Hensley, director of the orches-tra,
who played the saxophone, and
of II. K. Hauver, who handled the
bass fiddle. One of the most loudly
applauded renditions was that <4
the entire orchestra's participation
in "The Man That Comes to Our
House."
Asiatic Relations
Subject of Talks
To Cadet Groups
The members of the Lectem club
wUl assemble to the auditorium of
the Engineering building at 7:30 to-night
to hear a lecture by Dr. Ty-ler
Dennett, president of Williams
college, and eminent Far eastern
expert who is making a lecture tour
of Southern colleges under the aus-pices
of the Carnegie nstitute. Dr.
Dennett will be at VMI through
this Friday giving a series of lec-tures.
At noon yesterday, the entire
corps assembled in Jackson Me-morial
hall for the opening address
by Dr. Dennett. During the week
he will speak to small groups, of
cadets similar to the Lectern club.
Again on Friday he will address
the entire corps in J. M. Hall.
General Kilbourne, in introduc-ing
the speaker yesterday, stressed
the importance of the study of gov-ernmental
changes and develop-ment
on the present generation and
indicated how vitally connected
cadets are with foreign affairs.
Dr. Dennett, whose subject was
"A Political Travelogue," stated at
the beginning of his talk that no de-finite
conclusion could be drawn,
since his subject could not be ade-quately
covered in one brief period,
and therefore he confined himself
to outstanding events of political
significance.
In Japan, where Dr. Dennett be-gan
his recent circuit, the change
that has taken place in attitude
within the past generation first be-came
noticeable. There was a feel-ing
of dormant hostility on the part
of the military authorities upon en-tering
Japan that was soon replac-ed
by a sense of restraint upon con-versation
and freedom when one
had entered the country.
In China, the next country visit-ed
by Dr. Dennett, the control by
the Japanese seems but imperfect
at best, and there is a strong feel-ing
of nationalism on the part of
the Chinese. Dr, Dennett hazarded
the opinion that even had not the
present war in China intervened, it
is very unlikely that foreign inter-ests
would have enjoyed their for-mer
prosperity in China, because of
the growth of nationalistic feeling
in that country.
In the Philippines at the present
time, Dr. Dennett said, there is a
division of attitude toward the out-come
of Philippine independence
which is scheduled to come into ef-fect
in 1046. Several responsible
Filipinos privately expressed their
opinions to Dr. Dennett that the
impending independence Is not to
be desired, but the majority of the
populace seems to look forward to
independence with a great deal of
eagerness. This attitude of the ma-jority
is probably the result of na-tive
politicians' efforts to influence
opinion, Dr. Dennett explained.
An explanation of the situation to
Australia concluded Dr, Dennett's
speech, which went far to explain a
complicated problem facing the
world today. Of especial significance
throughout the speech was the fact
that the Far East no longer wel-comes
outside Interests, as was for-merly
the case. Foreign Interests
have degenerated greatly in the past
generation and it Is doubtful If these
Interests will ever attain their for-mer
status.
Captain McCone Return*
After Brief Ulne*
After mom than thro wette
cottftaemwt to the Walter Read
General Hospital to Waahingtom,
D. C., Captain A. T. McCone. WM&
Artillery iwrttuctor, baa ratunMd to
Lexington.
When an impacted wisdom tooth
became infected, the local dentists
recommended that he go to the
Walter Reed Hospital to have it re-moved.
The splitting and pulling of
the tooth was a difficult operation
which could only have been per-formed
safely at a well equipped
dental center. The tooth was suc-cessfully
removed and Capt. Mc-
Cone has resumed classes.
The Hunt club, of which Captain
McCone is Master, is expecting
mure hunts during the coming
spring now that Captain McCone
has returned to take active charge
of the club's aelMttea.