VMI Cadet. November 30, 1942

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of
The Virginia Military Institute
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CORPS OF CADETS
NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
Following the custom of the past, the next Issue of The Cadet,
which will go to press a week f r om today, will be an eight page
Issue p a r t i c u l a r l y f e a t u r i n g the Ring Figure Hops held this past
week-end. Outstanding will be the full page of pictures which
w e r e taken throughout the week-end In an effort to r a p t u r e the
s p i r i t and gaiety of what is probably the o u t s t a n d i n g remembrance
of a VMI man f r om within his cadetship.
Also f e a t u r e d at this time will be more and more news of
VMI men who now serve in every corner of the world with the
armed forces. The past few weeks have seen these men taking
active and important parts in the news of the day which will be
t h e history of tomorrow.
VOLUME XXXVI—Z-778 LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 30, 1942 NUMBER 11
Thanksgiving Week-end Comes and Goes
600 Cadets
Attended
VPI Game
Truck Company
To Visit Institute
During Next Week
Roster
B r i a n Bowen, editor of t he
"Bomb," said Thursday night that
t h e "Bomb's" roster of the Corps
has bee ncompleted and will prob-a
b l y be out within t h r e e days. The
r o s t e r will be similar to the rosters
of the past, and will contain the
names an daddresses of all cadets
a r r a n g e d according to classes. The
compiling and typing were done by
Wyatt, J. R., Estes, L. L„ Byers,
W. F„ and P i c k e r a l , G. L. The p r i n t -
ing w o r k is b e i n g done by the Stone
P r i n t i n g Company of Roanoke.
New Calendar
Completed By
Second Class
The Second Class Finance Com-m
i t t e e has completed its prepara-t
i o n of t h e Keydet Calendar for the
f o r t h c o m i n g year. In addition to an
e n t i r e l y new calendar t h e r e will be
s u p p l e m e n t a r y fillers for the old
calendars. Harry Ratrie has been
responsible for the compilation of
t h e n ew calendar. The cover design
b y Eddie Wahlert p i c t u r e s a mount-ed
cadet t a k i n g a jump. The cover
which is made of w h i t e l e a t h e r has
a n excellent a p p e a r a n c e both as to
q u a l i t y and style. The a r t work of
t h e filler contains sketches by Ed-d
i e Wahlert, Eddie Young, W. A.
Munroe, W. H. Taylor, and J. I.
Cofer. These designs f r om all pre-views
should prove very entertain-ing
and r e p r e s e n t a t i v e of cadet life.
The price of these calendars will
be the same as last year, $1.00.
As t h e custom in past years Xmas
cards will be available to t h e Corps.
The cards this y e a r picture a snow
scene of the west side of barracks
t a k e n f r om a position on the walk
n e a r the N i c h o l s Engineering
Building. The cost of these cards
will be a half-dozen for one dollar.
Committee
Publishes New
Statement
SECOND
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
OF THE 1943
HOP COMMITTEE
J u n e 2, 1942 to October 27, 1942
Receipts
Music $2,171.40
T r a n s f e r 2,328.74
L u x u r y tax 4.70
Change 175.00
Loan 987.50
E x p e n d i t u r es
Music -
Decorations
Flowers
Labor .
P u n c h Bowl
Police
I n v i t a t i o ns
S t e n o g r a p h ic
I n c i d e n t a ls
C h a p e r o n e supper
T r a n s f e r
I n t e r e s t on Notes
Hop Cards and Tickets
Ladies Room
L u x u r y tax
Change —
$5,665.34
$2,693.64
307.15
175.00
150.15
71.60
156.00
362.72
26.13
109.98
12.40
123.20
12.50
3150
0.35
315.61
325.00
$4,872.93
Balance on hand less checks
o u t s t a n d i n g October 29,
1942 792.41
$5,65.34
Assets
Accounts Receivable - $ 349.85
•I Balance on hand less checks
o u t s t a n d i n g October 29,
\ 1942 r. 792.41
officii $1,142.26
school-
(\
Tentative Plan
Is Announced
By Commandant
On the night of December 5 a
company of some 50 army trucks
and cars will visit t h e I n s t i t u t e for
t h e purpose of giving instruction
in the handling, maintenance and
o r g a n i z a t i o n of motorized equip-ment
now in use in the army. The
company will be composed of many
v a r i o u s types of vehicles, includ-i
n g the large six wheel 2 1-2 ton
t r u c k and the popular reconnais-sance
car, the "jeep".
T h e r e will be some 140 men act-ing
as instructors. Around a hun-d
r e d of these will be second lieu-tenants,
the m a j o r i t y of which are
r e c e n t graduates of the Officers'
Candidate School at Camp Lee. The
r e m a i n i n g personnel will be com-posed
of enlisted men.
No definite schedule has been
made but the following is probable
schedule:
December 7th and December 8th
will be devoted to the instruction
of the first class.
December 9th will be devoted to
t h e Second Class, and;
December 10th will be devoted to
t h e t h i r d class.
The classes receiving instruction
will be excused f r om academic du-ties.
I n a recent interview, Colonel
F r a y stressed the fact that a very
p r a c t i c a l plan of instruction would
be followed. There will be no lec-t
u r e s or b l a c k b o a r d discussions. All
cadets will take p a r t and thus learn
by actual experience.
The company, which will be un-der
the command of Captain Kirk-land,
will bring the latest mess
units, including a complete fleld
kitchen. The mess will be attended
by various cadet officers during
t h e visit.
In case of inclement w e a t h e r sev-e
r a l t r a i n i n g films will be shown
on various phases of motorized or-ganization
of the army.
The Thanksgiving Game
VMTS MATTHEWS GETS LOOSE FOR 23 YARDS—Hardly had the
VPI-VMI game gotten u n d e r w a y when J. J. Matthews, a senior from
Hampton, got loose for 28 y a r d s around his own l e f t side of the line and
was in t h e clear until he was knocked out of bounds at midfleld by Cap-t
a i n Billy James. Hurdling the line in the center is J o e Maskas, (56)
Tech's big A l l - S t a t e tackle, and on the l e f t C. H. Marks (74), VMI tackle,
is about to block Jack Gallagher (69), Tech back. (Times Staff Photo).
Colonel Alcio Souto9 Brazil
Military Academy Head
Gives VMI Corps Brief Talk
The T u r n - O u t which appeared on
F r i d a y was the finest issue ever
published by the staff in the few
short years of its existence. At the
same time the editors have a right
to point with p r i d e to the magazine
t h a t has sought to b r i n g the activ-ities
of the Corps into closer rela-t
i o n s h i p with the Alumni, patrons,
and friends of the Institute. The
magazine has been enlarged both
in the size of its pages and content.
Never before has the c i r c u l a t i o n of
t h e magazine been so wide. Over
1700 copies have been printed for
t h i s p a r t i c u l a r issue.
VMI Glee Club
Entertains
At Ring Figure
The VMI Glee Club made its
first appearance before t h e corps of
cadets during their Ring Figure
Dance, F r i d a y night.
This group, directed by Cadet
Andy Cavanaiigh, sang a series
of five martial songs in its brief
p r o g r am which was given direct-ly
before the intermission of the
dance. The selections in this group
were "Stout Hearted Men," "The
Song of the Army Air Corps," "The
Marine Hymn," "Army Blue," and
t h e club's own arrangement of
"Over There."
About fifty-five cadets are en-r
o l l e d as members of the club this
year. Major Horne is f a c u l t y ad-visor
for the group and Cadet Bill
Drewry is accompanist.
The following speech was made
to the Corps of Cadets on Satur-day,
November 21, by Colonel Alcio
Souto, Commandant of the Military
Academy of Brazil, who visited V.
M. I. on November 20 and 21:
Cadets,
I am sorry t h a t I can't speak Eng-lish
correctly, but I have the nerve
to say a f ew words to you in your
own language because, as we say
in Brazil, it is the duty of every
person to speak his own language
correctly; and this gives him the
right to speak all other languages
incorrectly.
As commandant of the Brazilian
cadets I congratulate you and I
have the p l e a s u r e of expressing my
g r a t i t u d e for the manner with
which I have been received here at
V. M. I. and my administration for
t h e excellent demonstration of your
m i l i t a r y instruction. The review
yesterda y left a wonderful impres-sion,
I compliment you and your in-s
t r u c t o r s and your fine superintend-ent.
T h a n k you.
Colonel Joseph B. Phillips
Was With Jimmy Doolittle
When Nazis Attacked Plane
Civils And
Chemists Will
Hear Lecture
The first and second class Chem-i
s t ry sections and the second class
Civil sections will attend a lecture
on Wednesday, December 2, f r om
10:00 to 11:00 a. m., by Mr. Bradley
H. Booth, metallurgist of the Jack-son.
Iron and Steel Company.
The subject of Mr. Booth's talk
will be "The M a n u f a c t u r e and Uses
of Silvery Pig Iron."
The first class Chemistry sections
will be excused from Industrial
Chemistry on W e d n e s d a y and
Thursday. The second class sections
will be excused from Quantitative
Analysis L a b o r a t o r y on Wednesday,
and the second class Civil sections
will be excused f r om Materials of
Construction on Wednesday and
Thursday.
General John Arthur Lejeune
THE GENERAL ORDER
With deep sorrow the Superin-tendent
announces the death, at the
Union Memorial Hospital, Balti-more,
Maryland, at 9:45 A. M„ No-vember
20, 1942, of his distinguished
predecessor, Lieutenant General
J o h n Archer Lejeune. United States
Marine Corps, Retired, and Super-i
n t e n d e n t Emeritus of the Virginia
Military Institute.
General Lejeune was born in
Louisiana, J u n e 10, 1867, the son of
a f o r m e r Confederate officer. He at-tended
the Louisiana State Univer-sity
and f r om that institution was
appointed to the United States Na-val
Academy. He completed the
course at the Academy in 1888.
F r om the time of his g r a d u a t i o n his
life was active to an unusual de-gree.
As a midshipman he was
aboard one of the American ships
wrecked in the disastrous hurri-cane
in Samoa in 1889. In the Span-ish
War he commanded the Marine
detachment on the U. S. Gunboat
Cincinnati. He commanded a Ma-rine
b a t t a l i o n of the American force
in Panama in 1903, served in Cuba
d u r i n g a threatened uprising, and
commanded a brigade of Marines
in the e x p e d i t i o n a r y force t h a t cap-t
u r e d Vera Cruz In April, 1914.
During the first two years of
World War One, he served as Com-mandant,
Marine Corps Training
S t a t i o n at Quantico, Virginia, and
as Assistant to the Major General
Commandant of the Corps. He went
to France in 1918 and served suc-cessively
with the 35th Division,
t h e 64th Brigade, 32nd Division, and
t h e 4th (Marine) Brigade, 2nd Divi-sion,
commanding the last two.
During the active campaign, as
Major General, he succeeded Gcn-
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(Copied 11-16-42 f r om clipping on
file in Col. Couper's office—Editor's
Note).
Allied Force Headquarters in
North Africa, Nov. 11 (AP)—Be-cause
a Flying Fortress proved
more than a match for f o u r German
pilots who did not know what big
game they were stalking. Brigadier
General James H. Doolittle, chief of
t h e 12th Air Force, is c o n t i n u i n g to
direct the United States air attack
against the Axis instead of lying
dead.
General Doolittle and twelve staff
officers were attacked by four ene-my
planes. The co-pilot was wound-ed
in a running gun battle, and
Doolittle took his place in the fight-ing
ship.
This is the story of how the short-handed
young f o r t r e s s crew, led by
pilot L i e u t e n a n t John C. Summers,
of Lexington, Tenn., saved Doo-l
i t t l e and his staff officers, some of
whom did not know they had been
in a fight until the co-pilot fell to
t h e floor covered with blood f r om
a machine-gun bullet in his shoul-der.
Among the officers on the f o r t -
ress was L i e u t e n a n t Colonel Joseph
B. Phillips, of New York.
(A United Press correspondent,
operating under a m i l i t a r y pool ar-rangement
which made his reports
available to other services, said
Phillips, who graduated f r om VMI
in the class of 1921, t h e n was editor
of "Newsweek.")
The f o r t r e s s flew a f ew feet above
w a t e r most of the time, and it was
s h o r t - h a n d e d because of the large
number of officers aboard.
When the f o u r enemy planes were
sighted the crew jumped to their
posts. Most of the staff officers in
the bomb bay were u n a w a r e of the
approach of the planes. The pilot
t u r n e d and the enemy gave chase.
Just skimming the waves, the
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The long anticipated Thanksgiv-ing-
Ring Figure week-end has once
again come and gone. VMI's foot-ball
season is over for a n o t h e r year.
The first class has taken its last
corps trip. Second classmen are
now w e a r i n g their class rings, and
t h e 1942 Thanksgiving dances have
been added to the list of successful
VMI hops.
The Roanoke Trip
By nine o'clock Thursday morn-ing
most of the corps had arrived
in Roanoke. Many went in private
cars, many by bus and some by
t r a i n . Over six hundred cadets
made the trip.
The first and final formation of
T h u r s d a y ' s t r i p took place at 11:50
a. m. in f r o n t of the P a t r i c k Henry
Hotel, when the corps formed to
march to the game. The VPI Corps
followed VMI's Cadets on the foot-ball
field, and the dedication of
Roanoke's new stadium took place.
VPI's Victory
The kick-off came at 2:30, a n d the
Big Red Team got off to an early
lead when it scored but missed the
e x t r a point in the first quarter.
Billy Clark, left end for VMI, was
p r e s e n t e d a gold wrist watch by
a Roanoke jewelry company for
being the first man to score in the
1942-game of the annual VMI-VPI
g r i d i r o n clash in Roanoke on
Thanksgiving. C l a r k received a pass
t h r o w n by Dick DeShazo over the
goal line d u r i n g the first q u a r t e r of
t h e game.
VMI lost its lead in the second
q u a r t e r , and the half ended 7-6.
During the last two q u a r t e r s the
Gobblers proved too much for the
Big Reds, and "the final score was
VPI 20, VMI 6.
Dance Thursday Night
A dance f o r both the VMI and the
VPI Cadets was held at the Hotel
Roanoke ball room at 9:00 Thurs-day
night. Many of the men mak-ing
the trip attended this annual
social event.
Unlike previous years, cadets had
until noon Friday to r e t u r n f r om
t h e trip. Classes w e r e h e l d as usual
on Friday afternoon, followed by a
g a r r i s o n parade for many visitors,
i n c l u d i n g hop dates who had ar-r
i v e d e a r l i e r during the day.
Ring Figure
The r i n g figure was held at 10:00
F r i d a y evening, and some one hun-
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Comments on the Asphalt Lecture by Mr. Dent
[ E d i t o r ' s Note: The following
a r t i c l e constitutes a continuation
of the notes taken by M. M.
B r a n t l e y at a series of four lec-t
u r e s on asphalt given by Mr.
Dent to the first class Civil Sec-tions
last week.l
As has been proved recently, the
most important part of a road or
runway, whether of cement or as-phalt,
is the foundation. A runway
may be paved with six inches of
asphalt or cement, or with six feet,
and it will still fail under load if
it does not have a foundation. The
obvious solution to this is that the
s u b - g r a d e must be "engineered,"
t h a t is planned in a logical and
sound manner. One of the major
reasons for the formation of the
Asphalt Institute is the need for
t h e teaching of the proper placing
of asphalt pavement.
Asphalt has two sources. One
type is the product of the refining
of petroleum, and the other is f r om
n a t u r a l deposits generally r e f e r r ed
to as lakes. Asphalt f r om p e t r o l e um
is refined off at three stages, and
upon this stage depend its prop-erties,
and the substance which is
used as a c u t t i n g agent. The three
types are classified by t h e ir setting
q u a l i t i e s as slow, medium, and rapid
curing. In general, the heaviest
will allow is used.
During the lectures Mr. Dent de-scribed
and showed slides of the
v a r i o u s tests used to d e t e r m i n e the
p r o p e r t i e s of asphalts. Upon these
p r o p e r t i e s depend the use to which
a certain asphalt is put, and the
method of application.
Regardless of the type of asphalt
to be used, or the use to which it
is to be put, the general principles
of sub-grade construction are the
same. Any pavement t h a t is to stand
up under loads must have, a solid
foundation. This means that the
material used fo r a f o u n d a t i o n must
be imported if the native soil is
not satisfactory. In the case that
t h e original soil is u n s u i t a b l e it is
g e n e r a l l y possible to obtain mate-r
i a l nearby that will do the job.
Several .of our large airports are
f a i l i n g today because the engineers
in charge of construction did not
pay enough attentio nto the sub-grade.
No pavement whether of as-phalt
or Portland cement has
enough strength of its own to sup-port
the loads to which it is sub-jected.
All roads depend on the
f o u n d a t i o n for their strength.
Classifications
Given in the rising order of their
d e s i r a b i l i t y are the four major
classifications of asphalt applica-tion:
surface treatment, road mix,
penetration, and plant mixes. The
type used depends upon the avail-a
b i l i ty of the materials, and the
potential value of the road. All that
is said about roads is also appli-cable
to airports in general.
S u r f a c e treatment is by far the
cheapest form of asphalt applica-tion.
In this method, a f t e r the foun-dation
is prepared, the asphalt is
applied, and about half an inch of
sand or stone chips are rolled into
t h e bitumen. This gives a quite sat-isfactory
road for light traffic, and
it has the advantage that it does
not have to be d i s t u r b e d in order
to apply a different type of finish.
This method gives a pavement
about one and a half inches thick.
The next method is the road mix,
so called because the materials are
dumped individually, a n d then
mixed in place by the use of blade
scrapers. This type of road is put
down in either one or two courses
depending on the thickness of pave-ment
desired, but it is very seldom
made more than six inches thick.
To make penetration macadam
t h e gravel is placed on the road, and
t h e n compacted before the asphalt
is applied. This pavement can be
made as thick as is desired, but no
layer should be more than four
inches thick.
P l a n t Mixed Method
The best type of road is produced
by the p l a n t mixed method. In this
method the asphalt, stone, sand, and
clay are mixed in a special plant,
t h e n hauled to the road site and
put in place by the use of some
type of spreader. The chief draw-back
to this method is that unless
it is a very large job there is gen-e
r a l l y no m i x i n g plant in the vicin-ity.
Two steps t h a t a r e comman to all
types of a s p h a l t paving a r e the last
two. One is t h e r o l l i n g of the pave-ment,
and the other is the applica-tion
of a final weather proofing
coat of asphalt and sand. The pave-ment
must be able to protect the
road foundation, and in order to
do that it must keep w a t e r f r om en-t
e r i n g .
In the c o n s t r u c t i o n of airport run-ways
by any of these methods one
of the m a j o r difficulties encountered
is that of d r a i n a g e because of the
great increase in width over that
of a road.
Airfields
Over seventy-five per cent of the
airfields in this country today that
a r e paved at all are paved with
asphalt, and a large majority of
our roads are surfaced with the
same material. This speaks well for
asphalt, and it will speak well for
itself, if the e n g i n e e r s will remem-ber
that no pavement is stronger
t h a n its foundation.
Handy Portrait
Unveiled On
Saturday %
A portrait of George Ben John-ston
Handy, Class of 1940, was un-veiled
at a simple ceremony in
P r e s t o n L i b r a r y at 12:20 p. m., No-vember
28. It now hangs on the wall
beside that of Colonel John Quincy
Marr, Class of 1846, the first VMI
alumni to be killed in action dur-ing
the War Between the States.
In a brief address, Lieutenant
Barksdaie, a classmate of Handy,
r e c i t e d how the latter had died
fighting in the B a t t l e of Bataan and
told something of him as a cadet.
The portrait was then unveiled by
Miss Helen Handy, sister of our
f o r m e r comrade.
L i e u t e n a n t Goolrick, Class of
1937, p r e s e n t e d the p o r t r a i t at the
request of the donors, and also com-mented
on the p o r t r a i t s of other
distinguished soldiers and states-men
in the same room. General Kil-b
o u r n e accepted the p o r t r a i t for the
I n s t i t u t e .
Mr. and Mrs. Boiling Handy, Miss
Helen Handy, Mrs. Jones, who with
h e r husband, Charles Hill Jones,
Class of 1917, jointly arranged for
t h e painting of the portrait and
gave it to VMI, and Mr. David Sil-vette,
who painted the portrait,
were present at the ceremony as
were many cadets and visitors.
An excellent photograph of the
p o r t r a i t has been filed with Cadet
Handy's permanent record.