VMI Cadet. March 27, 1950

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VOLUME XL T H E V.M.L CADET, L E X I N G T O N , V I R G I N I A , MARCH 27, 1950
Third Industrial Conference
Meeting Held Here March 24
Five Talks Are
Highlights Of
VMA Meeting
Last Friday, March 24, the VMI
played host to the third meeting
of the Virginia Industrial Manage-ment
Conference, annually pre-sented
and sponsored by the Vir-ginia
Manufacturers Association.
The site of the meetings, held
between 9:30 and 6:30 Saturday,
was in the VMI's Jackson Memorial
Hall, plus the Hotel Natural Bridge,
which housed the final banquet and
social portion of the Conference.
At 9:30 Friday morning, the meet-ing-
discussion opened with a wel-come
address delivered by Major
General Richard J. Marshall, Su-perintendent
of VMI. Between the
hours of 10:00 and 12:00, the meet-ing
was given to talks by well
known state and national industrial
leaders with alternate periods of
time devoted to panel and general
discussion problems and topics pre-sented
by the previous speaker
Highlights of the talks were;
"Waste Control of Men, Materials,
and Machines," delivered by Mr.
Carl M. Lynge, personnel manager
of the General Electric division in
Bridgeport, Conn., and that given
by General Donald Armstrong,
"Example of Company Mobiliza-tion
Planning." General Armstrong
is the president of the United States
Pipe and Foundry Company of
Burlington, N.J.
After lunch in the VMI mess hall,
the meeting was resumed, and two
more speeches with alternate dis-cussion
periods occupied the after-noon's
business. Mr. John Harden,
Vice-President of Burlington Mills,
delivered an address on "Basic
Suggestions for Small Plant Public
Relations," which was followed by
"Communications Clinic,' delivered
by Mr. Leo Teplow, Associate Di-rector
for NAM. After viewing thc
Cadet regimental parade at 4:00,
the delegates adjourned to the
Hotel Natural Bridge for a "social
hour."
The banquet which was held in
the main dining room of the Natural
Bridge Hotel Friday night was
highlighted by a talk by the editor
of the Richmond Times-Dispatch,
Mr. Virginius Dabney. He spoke
on " The Political Trends in Virginia
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Southern Sem,
VMI Glee Clubs
Sing On Easter
BY J. A. MONCRIEF
Easter Sunday, the ninth of
April, the combined Glee Clubs of
the Southern Seminary and the
Virginia Military Institute will pre-sent
another concert at Natural
Bridge, Virginia.
Last year the combined clubs of
both schools presented a concert
at Natural Bridge which was very
impressive. The sermon was con-ducted
by the Rev. Robert M. Laps-ley
of the Presbyterian church of
Roanoke. As yet, no announce-ment
as to who will conduct this
years sermon has been made. Col.
Dillard of VMI will conduct the
concert, as he did last year.
The cadets participating in the
sunrise service will leave the VMI
barracks early Easter morning.
Transportation will be provided by
the Natural Bridge Association.
Both clubs are to arrive by six
o'clock Easter morning.
Over a thousand people are pres-ent
each year to observe this
service. As they did last year, the
glee clubs will stand on the hill-side
and the audience will be situ-ated
in the amphitheater.
After tfhe concert a breakfast will
be served by the Natural Bridge
Association for the Seminites and
Cadets, in the hotel. After the
conclusion of the services and
breakfast, the oadets will return
to Lexington for the church ser-vices
in Lexington. Approximately
one-half of the returning members
of the club will sing in the morn
ing service of the Presbyterian
church of Lexington.
Erwing Short
Addressed IRC
On Formosa
Last Thursday night Mr. Erwing
R. Short, formerly a captain in the
infantry, spoke to the International
Relations Club and its visitors on
the conditions and positions of Na-tionalist
China. Mr. Short, who has
just returned from one of hs many
visits to China and Formosa, was
introduced by Carroll Davis, presi-dent
of the International Relations
Club.
Mr. Short discussed the need of
aid for China by showing the possi-bilities
of how Nationalist China
will retake her lost territory. The
new army, trained on Formosa by
General Sun Lee Yen, a VMI grad-uate,
is the most formidable army
in that part of the world, he says,
excluding the American army in
Japan and the Chinese Communist
Army. Only half of the Communist
army is equipped. The Nationalist
army has been trained better and
has been successful so far in all
its commando campaigns. The Na-tionalist
forces will retake the
Communist held territory because
of an inevitable economic collapse
and the dissatisfaction of the
Chinese people under the Commun-ist
regime.
Mr. Short criticized our gov-ernment
for its lack of aid to
China. The amount given is neg-ligible.
He pointed out that we
are fighting for our lives in a
cold war against Russia, and that, by
aiding Nationalist China in her-fight
with the Chinese Commun-ists,
we are striking at Russia.
Mr. Short restated a statement of
an American diplomat who said that
if Nationalist China falls, the United
State will fall in the next ten
years.
Mr. Short said that the Nationalist
cause had been suppressed by the
United States. He said, of thc aid
we did give them, only a little was
received because of its being de-toured
and blocked. We have not
placed China on the same level
of importance as we have the minor
nations of Europe. We have dis-criminated
against her in that we
have charged her more for sur-plus
war equipment than the other
anti-Communist nations.
Mr. Short explained that the
Chinese look down on the British;
they hold the United States in
the highest esteem. The fact that
we support them, even if only mor-ally,
gives them personal moral
support. We have given only one
percent of our foreign aid to China
who is certainly doing more than
one per cent of the flght against
communism. Mr. Short is con-vinced
that if we increase our
loans to China and if we see to
it that she receives them, National-ist
China will be able to retake
the communist held territory in
a time shorter than the two years,
estimated without the aid.
Animal Show
Will Be Open
To All Cadets
Major Tutwiler has announced
that on Saturday May 13, the
local SPCA will sponsor the first
animal show ever held in Rock-bridge
County. All local organi-zations
such as Kiwanis, Cham-ber
of Commerce and the Rotary
will participate. In thc morning
there will be a parade up Main
Street led by the school band,
and the show in the afternoon
on the High School football field.
There will be classes for all
types of dogs (and other animals)
and several out of town judges
will be present. Any cadets who
have had experience with horse
or dog shows and who would
like to participate, please get in
touch with Major Tutwiler. It
is hoped that Mike Brown and
his menagerie will participate in
the parade, which is primarily
for those people having animals.
Air Force
Has Openings
For Officers
Captain Patton, instructor in Air
Force ROTC, recently released a
letter which he received from the
chief of Air Weather Service. The
letter contained the basic offers
of the Air Force for anyone in-terested
in entering the field of
meteorology. It is to be under-stood,
that these offers are made
to all Air Force ROTC students.
There presently exists in the
USAF vacancies for a number of
officers with qualifications as mete-orologists.
It has been decided that
the most suitable way to fill these
vacancies is to train recent Air
ROTC graduates who possess the
proper educational background and
qualifications. The necessary edu-cational
requirements are a college
degree with major in the physical
sciences, such as chemistry, physics,
mathematics and engineering, or a
college degree with courses
mathematics through integral cal-culus
and two years of physical
sciences. The planned program
will permit graduate study at one
of the civilian educational institu-tions
in the country which offer a
meteorology curriculum, such
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology,
New York University, Uni-versity
of Chicago, and University
of California at Los Angeles. The
first class will enter in September,
1950.
If selected you will be sent to
graduate school at government ex-pense
in the commissioned status
of a second lieutenant. Full pay
allowances will be paid while train-ing.
As a second lieutenant you will
draw $315.75 per month if single,
and $330.75 per month if married.
Officers called to extended active
duty for their first tour are paid
a uniform allowance of $250.00.
You will attend school in civilian
clothes; it will therefore, not be
necessary to immediately purchase
an Air Force uniform. Upon com-pletion
of eighteen months of ac-tive
duty service you will be eli-gible
for promotion to flrst lieu-tenant.
Training will be for a period of
the calendar year. Upon gradua-tion
each participant will be re-quired
to serve with the Air
Weather Service for a minimum
period of three years. During this
time you may compete for a reg-ular
USAF commission. Upon com-pletion
of the three year tour with
the Air Weather Service you may
apply to remain on duty with the
Air Weather Service, be assigned
to flying school if eligible, other
USAF activity, or return to civilian
life.
A quota of one hundred (100)
has been established for the class
which will commence in Septem-ber
1950. The time element in-volved
in entering you in school
this September is critical. If you
are qualified for and desire this
training, submit an official tran-script
or photostatic copy of your
college credits to date and two (2)
copies of Air Force Form 125, "Ap-plication
for Extended Active Duty
with the United States Air Force,"
to your Professor of Air Science
and Tactics for indorsement to the
Chief, Air Weather Service, Wash-ington
25, D. C. Transcripts and
Air Force Form 125 must be re-ceived
by Chief, Air Weather Ser-vice
not later than 15 April, 1950.
In the remarks section of your
Air Force Form 125 you should
indicate that you are an applicant
for graduate training in meteor-ology,
your date of graduation, and
whether you wish to be called to
active duty in the event you are
not selected for meteorology train-ing.
In the event you are selected,
your flrst station assignment will
be on or about the flrst day of
September 1950. This will provide
i you with time to attend summer
camp if you have not already done
so. Your call to active duty will be
contingent upon your graduation
from college and receipt of com-mission.
Full Schedule
Planned For
June Finals
June 10-13, 1950
Saturday, June 10.1950
Corps of Cadets Day
2:00 p.m. Formal Guard Mounting.
2:30 p.m. Meeting of Executive
Committee, General Alumni Asso-ciation.
Nichols Engineering Hall.
3:30 p.m. Annual Meeting, Mem-bership
of the VMI Foundation,
Inc., Nichols Engineering Hall.
5:00 p.m. Review and presentation
of prizes and awards, Parade.
9:00 p.m. Final German, William
H. Cocke ('94) Hall.
Sunday, June 11, 1950
Alumni Day
9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning In-spection
of Barracks; Alumni and
Parents invited.
10:30 a.m. Baccalaureate Sermon.
Jackson Memorial Hall, the Rev.
James G. Patton, D. D„ Executive
Secretary of the General Council,
Presbyterian Church of the United
States, Decatur, Georgia.
11:45 a.m. Unveiling of Tablets
in Memorial Garden.'
• 12:00 m. Review for Alumni,
Parade Ground.
2:00 p.m. Annual meeting of
General Alumni Association. Jack-son
Memorial Hall, with meeting
of Executive Committee immedi
ately following.
8:00 p.m. Alumni Reception,
Preston Library.
9:00 p.m. Glee Club Recital.
Memorial Garden (J. M. Hall in
event of rain.)
Monday, June 12, 1950
Patron's Day
10:30 a.m. Review for Boarid
of Visitors, Parade Ground.
12:00 a.m. Regimental Band Con-cert,
old tennist courts (J. M. Hall
in event of rain.)
2:00 p.m. Open House in aca-demic
buildings, with guided tours
as follows;
2:00 p.m.'- Nichols Engineer-ing
Hall.
3:00 p.m. - Scott Shipp and
Maury-Brooke Halls.
4:00 p.m. - ROTC Building.
5:00 p.m. Graduation Parade,
Parade Ground.
9:00 p.m. Superintendent's Re-ception.
11:00 p.m. Final Ball, William H.
Cocke C94) Hall.
Government Inspection To Be
Held On Thursday May 4th.
Blasting Over
On Hill. Mud
Handicaps Job
BY H. L. RAWLINS
The new VMI faculty houses be-low
the hospital are well on their
way to completion despite the
rainy and snowy weather we have
been having. The mud has been a
real handicap. Since the houses
are being built "on a hill, the
trucks are having a difficult time
getting material down to them.
Most everyone has observed,
overheard anyway, the blasting.
Well, that part is about over. In
blasting away the side of the hill,
over twenty-five cases of dyna-mite
have been used.
Of the five houses being built,
one has the bricks started, one
has the foundation completed, and
the rest of them have their foun-dations
near the completion stage.
All of the houses will be in use
when the next term begins,
September.
Everyone of the houses will be
equipped with a garage. The road
leading to the houses will be on
the lower side, near the highway.
It has already been started.
The houses will be nearly identi-cal
to one another. They will not
all face one way, however. They
will be arranged side ways so that
they will be face to lace and back
to back. Each one will have about
j six or seven rooms.
It is hoped that the weather will
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Will Entertain For KOIC Will Not
College Meeting Be Inspected
Perhaps the most distinguished
group of people that has ever as-sembled
in Buena Vista will be
there on Monday, March 27, when
Southern Seminary and Junior
College is host at dinner to the
American Association of Junior
Colleges.
This group is holding its annual
convention at Hotel Roanoke, Roa-noke,
and will come by chartered
buses to Lexington, where" they
will visit the campuses of Wash-ington
and Lee University and Vir-ginia
Military Institute, reaching
the Seminary at 6:30. Following the
dinner at the Seminary they will
be entertained by a special pro-gram
at Natural Bridge after which
they will return to Roanoke.
There will be more than 300 del-
The annual government inspection
of all branches of the Ground and
Air Force ROTC Units at VMI
will take place on Thursday, May
the fourth. A board of officers
from the Second Army Headquar-ters
at Fort Meade, Md., will in-spect
the Ground Forces Unit, while
a board appointed by the head-quarters
of the Ninth Air Force
will view the Air ROTC unit.
The inspection will include ob-servations
of instructional methods
employed by the Army and Air
Force officers attached to the Insti-tute
as well as the comprehension
of Military Science courses by
ROTC students. Questions will be
asked students concerning any topic
covered thus far in the 1949-1950
egates, representing all of the states | session.
in the union. The national conven-tion
was held in Califorina last
year, and the entertainment com-mittee,
of which Mrs. H Russell
Robey, president of the Seminary,
is a member, feels that Virginia's
reputation for hospitality is at stake
since the delegates were so elab-orately
entertained on the West
Coast. An extra day of vacation was
given the students of the Seminary
so that the faculty might attend the
convention in a body on Tuesday.
The program is an excellent one.
The speakers include Dr. Douglas
Southall Freeman, Dr. Robert B.
The inspectors will be present
at the regularly scheduled period of
close order drill in order to ascer-tain
the quality of appearance,
discipline, and performance of RO-TC
students. In order to demonstrate
the leadership ability of all men,
regardless of their rank in the
cadet corps, it is expected that
cadets of all classes will be called
upon to command individual units.
A further inspection will be made
of Army and Air Force personnel
attached to the Institute as well
as a review of the general status
of thc ROTC unit here, including
House, Chancellor of the Univer- the administrative system and the
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Tuesday, June 13, 1950
Graduation Day
11:00 a.m. Graduation Exercises,
place to be announced.
1. Invocation
2. Valedictory Address
3. Announcment of Honors
4. Address to the Graduating
Class by General of the Army,
George C. Marshall, '01.
5. Presentation of Diplomas
6. Presentation of Reserve Com-missions.
7. Benediction
8. Final Formation on the Hill.
Philadelphia
Is Scene Of
ACS Meeting
A group of first and second class
members of the VMI Chapter of
the American Chemical Society
will attend the 117th ACS National
meeting in Philadelphia. They will
be accompanied by Col. German.
The group (eleven First Classmen
and twelve second classmen) will
leave Saturday, April 8, after DRC.
They will have to be in Philadel-phia
and registered for the meet-ing
by 6:00 PM Sunday. They will
wear their uniforms to all the
meetings and lectures they attend.
The opening function will be a
general meeting held on Monday
evening, April 10, in the Grand
Ballroom of the Bellevue-Strat-ford
Hotel. Immediately following
this there will be a general mixer
or get-to-gether in the Grand Ball-room.
On the following days the
group will attend divisional meet-ings
(lectures, awards, etc.) lunch-eons,
and dinners, and other social
activities. The last meeting will be
at 2:00 PM, Thursday, April 13.
The group will return by SRC
Friday night.
The registration fee will be paid
for the VMI Chapter of the ACS,
but the other expenses will be paid
by the cadets attending.
up the work. They are actually
ahead of schedule now, but more j Frederick Zook, President of the
bad weather can put them behind. American Council on Education.
Clubs Stress Religion As
Essential Part Of Education
Methodist Club
Among the religious clubs in
barracks is the Methodist Club
which holds its weekly meeting on
Tuesday night. They also hold a
Youth Fellowship supper, and
worship service on Sunday night
at 6:00 p.m. in the Methodist
Church in Lexington.
Some of this organization's ac-tivities
are centered in the many
conferences held in this vicinity.
Thc club will be sending delegates
to the religious conference held
on April 22nd at Randolph-Macon
College in Lynchburg, and also to
the Annual State Students Con-ference
at Natural Bridge from
May 13th to 14th. Just before the
Corps went home on the Christmas
furlough, the Rev. Harvey W. Ash-by,
pastor of the Methodist Church
here in town, entertained members
of the club at 'his home. About
once a month, the club leads the
worship service in the Church.
The president, Guy Agnor, ex-tends
an invitation to all Methodist
cadets to come to the meetings.
Newman Club
At 7:30 p.m. on the first and
third Mondays of each month, the
Newman Club holds its meeting in
the engineering building. On the
weekend of February 25 and 26,
this Catholic group held a Com-munion
breakfast at the Virginia
Cafe, and is now planning a ban-quet,
in the spring, to be held at
the Mayflower Hotel. The tenative
date for the banquet, an annual
affair, is set as May 6. Dr. F. P.
Gaines, president of W and L Uni-versity
will be present, and Mon-seignor
Shee'hy will speak. The
banquet will include a dance and
an orchestra and a price of ap-proximately
$2.50 is to be the ad-mission
fee. An invitation has been
extended to Longwood, Radford,
and Madison girls' colleges also to
be present.
The meetings fconsist of a short
business meeting followed by a
discussion. Recently, the club had
a debate on the principle of "mercy
killing."
The Newman Club is based on
social and religious ideals and
urges all Catholics to attend. It is
an international federation, and
plans have been made for a New-man
Club Pilgrimage to Europe for
this summer. Details about this
trip can be gotten in room 246.
Baptist Club
The Baptist Club now meets on
Monday night at 7:10 in the aca-demic
building, instead of on Tues-day
nights. The meeting consists
of a business meeting followed by
a discussion group, discussing the
religious side to the questions of
everyday life. The meetings are
supplemented occasionally by guest
speakers.
The club plans to send some
delegates to the Richmond religious
conference.
The Baptist Club's idea is to
bring the aspect of religion into
barracks life.
Presbyterian Club
The Presbyterian Club is mainly
incorporated in the Westminister
Fellowship of the Presbyterian
Church, whose meetings are held
at the Church every Sunday night.
There is a supper every Sunday
night along with guest speakers
and student discussions. This Fel-lowship
is headed by a Student
Council and is for college-age
students.
This organization sends members
to various religious conferences
and plans to send some of its mem-bers
to the Richmond Conference
of March 24, 25, and 26. Starting
the 25th of this month, the club
is going to start a discussion of
Christianity in the universities of
the country. Previous recent dis-cussion
topics were, "Was Christ
Divine and Does His Death Hold
a Meaning for Us?" and "What
Part Does Christianity Play in
Choosing a Job."
A subject of commendation to
the group is the job that their
W&L and cadet members are do-ing
in East Lexington. There, these
members are teaching Sunday
School in the Breechenbrook Sun-day
School. The boys would ap-preciate
any help on this project.
If anyone is interested, contact
Charlie Dorsey in room 333.
Canterbury Club
Contrary to wide opinion, the
Canterbury Club, though sponsored
by the Episcopal Church, is an or-ganization
for the benefit of ;»11
students. In this club there are
both VMI and W&L members.
The meetings are held on Sun-day
morning at 10:00 in the Stu-dent
Union Building opposite the
Church. On February 11th and
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'ernment equipment in order to de-termine
the overall rating which
may be either 'Satisfactory' or
'Unsatisfactory.'
The inspection will be made with
as little interference with the nor-mal
academic schedule as possible.
All cadets not enrolled in the
Reserve Officers Training Corps will
be excused from attendance in
Military Science classes as well as
drill and parade on that day.
Damage Done
To W&L Press
Set At $25,000
Daily Athenaeum Published by
the students of West Virginia Uni-versity.
March 15—March 16-18
were the dates of the run of the
student musical production Amazon
at W.Va. U. Nearly a year of
work was necessary to ready the
production for presentation.
The Yellow Jacket, Randolph Ma-con
College, Ashland. Va., March
10— Randolph-Macon College cele-brated
the inauguration of the
Pan-Hell week by magnanimous
dances held Friday and Saturday,
the tenth and eleventh of March.
Music was supplied by the orches-tras
of Herb Stone and Johnny
Long playing Friday and Saturday
nights respectively.
The Lexington Gazette, Lexington,
Va., March 15—An estimated $25,-
00 damage was done at the Journa-lism
Laboratory Press at the Wash-ington
and Lee University. A fire
which broke out Saturday morn-ing
the eleventh, damaged the roof
of the one-story building only, but
the water used to put out the flames
caused considerable damage to the
press. Students from Washington
and Lee were able to save some
of the material from damage.
The Breeze, Madison College, Har-risonburg,
Va., March 10—Miss June
McCorkal Moore, a senior from
Lexington at Madison College, was
elected by the student body to
represent Madison in the 23rd Ap-ple
Blossom Festival which is to
be held in Winchester April 27 and
28th.
University Signal, Atlanta Divi-sion,
University of Georgia, March
8—This year at the annual carnival
of the University of Georgia, the
carnival superlations will be known
as Mr. and Mrs. Carnival rather
than king and queen. Instead of the
usual choosing of individuals for
the honors, Mr. and Mrs. Carnival
will be selected on a couple basis.
The carnival will be held on Aj,ril 8.
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