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V Page 2- -THE BATTALION- The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER The Battalion, official Texas A. & M. COLLEGE paper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Carlton Power- Joe Stalcup... Bill Trodlier Clyde C. Franklin.. John Holman Douglas Lancaster.. Saturday’s Staff -Managing Editor Junior Managing Editor ..Junior Editor Post-War Experts Health, foundation of the nation, will de mand the most trained experts after the war, asserts E. E. Crabb, president of In vestors Syndicate, in reporting on predic tions of 346 American colleges, technical schools and universities. “Nearly one of every three predictions by American educators on post-war demands for trained experts, perhaps reflecting the maxim, ‘health alone is victory,’ forecast health or allied activities,” reports Crabb. “Over a fifth of the replies mentioned bus iness or associated fields. Natural sciences received 18.4 per cent, other professions 13.2 per cent, social work 6.4 per cent, miscellan eous experts 3.6 per cent, and government specialists 3.4 per cent of the total mentions. “Ten occupations accounted for 72.36 per cent of the total mentions in the list of 65 specific types of experts. The number of times such experts were mentioned and their percentages to the total follow: doctors 118, or 11.6 per cent; engineers 104, or 10.2 per cent; foreign trade specialists 99, or 9.7 per cent; teachers 98, or 9.7 per cent; nutrition ists and social workers 54, or 5.3 per cent; occupational therapists 46, or 4.5 per cent; dentists 37, or 3.5 per cent; economists 33, or 3.2 per cent; and business administrators 31, or 3 per cent.” A summary of predictions on demands for trained experts, after victory and peace, with co-educational, men’s, and women’s schools combined, by groups, follows: Group Mentions % To Total Health 334 32.8 Business 228 22.4 Natural Sciences 188 18.4 Other professions 132 13.0 Social Workers .. 65 6.4 Miscellaneous .... 36 3.6 Government 34 3.4 Total Mentions . 1,017 “What trained experts will be most demand after the war?” the nation’s high er educational institutions were asked. Three hundred forty-six schools—261 co-education al, 54 women’s and 31 men’s—replied, many of them mentioning more than one type of experts in their aggregate of 1,071 mentions. Doctors led the list in both co-educa- tional and men’s colleges, teachers headed the list in women’s schools. Engineers came second in both co-educational and men’s uni versities, while nutritionists held that place in women’s institutions. Foreign trade rank ed third in both co-educational and men’s faculties, though sixth in women’s colleges. Medical technologists took third place in schools exclusively for women. Doctors received 15, or 16.1 per cent of the 93 mentions predicted by exclusively men’s schools.—AGP. From Capital to Campus ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington FOR TEEN AGERS Right now the lid is down tight on informa tion concerning the army’s plan for sending drafted ’teen age men back to college. Of ficials and educators here say it soon will be spelled out in detail. However, it is a virtual certainty that all 18 and 19 year olds who are drafted— whether or not they’re college men—will be eligible to take tests to determine whether they shall be assigned to colleges and uni versities for technical scientific training. They probably will be selected on the basis of education, as well as for “qualities of lead ership, military ability and aptitude for more education.” It is unlikely the ’teen age plan will re semble the current “contract” arangement both the army and navy already have with some colleges. Under the contract plan, men already in the services are assigned to col leges for short periods of training, usually three months. It appears that ’teen age men will get longer periods of training of a highly specialized and intensive character. The back-to-college plan, or whatever it arts. No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother's affair.—Mar garet Turnbull. Open Forum is published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rates $3 per school year. Advertising rates □pon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1941 Member 1942 Associated Go!!e6iate Press Brooks Gofer Editor-in-Chief Ken Bresnen .Associate Editor thil Crown Staff Photographer Sports Staff Mike Haikin Sports Editor Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor Chick Hurst — Senior Sports Assistant Advertising Staff Reggie Smith - - Advertising Manager Jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Louis A. Bridges Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Jay Pumphrey —Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff Bill Huber Circulation Manager H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant ...Senior Assistant ...Junior Assistant lier Assistant The Battalion sports staff is at the present made up entirely of seniors. At the end of this semester someone must take over Mike Haikin’s job, and there is no one to do it. If you would like a stab at it, and really think you are interested enough in sports and newspaper work, we can teach you the necessary technical knowledge to put out a good sports page. The job pays $20 per month, and the time required is about three hours each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon. Naturally, you will have all the help possi ble. If you think you want the job, drop around to the Battalion office some Monday, Wednesday, or Friday afternoon, or see Haikin, myself, Gofer, Franklin, Vannoy, or Bresnen. John Holman, Editor-Elect. This Collegiate World I ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS! BACKWASH A new service to the business man is pro vided in a recent published world atlas which pictures economic changes produced by Axis conquests and furnishes answers to hun dreds of vital questions on the flow of goods all over the globe. Business men looking forward to form ulation of export policies after the war will find in this comprehensive volume, repre senting an entirely new approach in atlas making, hundreds of tables and maps pre pared by Dr. G. Donald Hudson, professor -jyj- of geography at Northwestern University, MOrDialty . . . which are especially adapted to supply in- After goi th h this mak(! _ formation on foreign trade. shift final rcvjew for the fourth SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1942 Library Films Comprehensive Stories of Texas’ War Problems ’'Buck fainted. Sir. Just as he stabbed the dummy, somebody screamed!” Bu Jack Hood "Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster By Clyde C. Franklin San Antonio. The ceremony will probably be in that city as it is also his home. It is to be the twen ty-first. Jack Gray and Miss Verna Beav er will be wed on the twenty-sec- Dr. Hudson and a staff of nine research time this week someone dug up the workers spent more than a year in organiz- 0 ld joke about the country under- ond - Miss ® eaver is froni Mission. \ng into convenient form the exhaustive taker. i t seems as though he was oth ® r details of the wedding are geographical summaries of 190 countries ne w in the undertaking business lackm s- presented in the atlas; This information, and set himself up with a rebuilt Chester Huff joins Miss Marion gathered from about 600 books and other funeral home and a second-hand Yeager in matrimony on the twen- catalogued materials in many languages, is hearse. The lure of lots of gasoline ty-second. Miss Yeager of Heb- set forth ready for split-second reference by and new tires probably motivated bronville is a student at Texas uni- means of such devices as converting all cur- the whole thing. At his first funer- versity. rent values to United States dollars and all a i he failed to close the door to Not to be left out entirely is weights and measures to terms commonly the hearse securely and when he Reggie Smith, esteemed advertis- employed in the United States. hit the first bump the casket slid ing man of The Batt staff, who A revolutionary innovation in the atlas out on the ground. The unlucky will be standing at the mouth of is a selection by Dr. Hudson on world spheres man stopped and he and his assist- the fireplace with the minister to of influence, showing the areas that contrib- ant went around to the rear of the capture Santa Claus for his blush- ute their strength to various central na- vehicle and turned to his assistant ing bride on Christmas morning, tions. Tables and maps in this section are in- and said “I guess we had better Santa Claus comes from the North dispensable for measuring the significance rehearse this thing.” That seems Pole and went to school at the of gains and losses on world battlefronts. to be the order of the day until at South Pole. Reggie if this turns out * * * long last someone shouts roll ’em OK let us know and we will all Under administration of President W. H. and after they have rolled a few be waiting for a chance at the Cowley, himself an educational research times the whole thing is over. Easter bunny, specialist, Hamilton College is making a con- Always a little late with what- scious effort to preserve a complete record ^atLon . . . ever he doeg . g Gal]ie Bogel He of Hamilton’s year-by-year development. Generally The Battalion doesn’t won’t have time to be married dur- To this end, complete phon6graphic re- carry a society page and it still ing the Yule season but will be cordings are made Of significant college doesn’t but this is too good to hitched two days before gradua- events, and the resulting records are kept wait. The traditional June wedding tion. He will marry Miss Ann Roats on file for use whenever they may be need- in now taboo and everyone is get- of Houston. ed. One recent addition to the collection ting married at Christmas time. Tom Ellito, B Ordnance, and covers a special war convocation held in the Of course this will make it easier Miss Helen Oliver will be married chapel three days after Pearl Harbor. Com- to remember the wedding anniver- about the twenty-sixth. If we had mencement exercises, important lectures, sary and the economy of giving received an invitation to this af- special musical and dramatic events are sim- one gift for the two holidays will fair probably we would know more ilarly preserved. a i s0 be recognized as a good point, definitely. Miss Oliver is from Ft. Eventually the college plans to prepare Since no one on The Batt staff Worth and attended T. C. U. yearly a newsreel which will put together knows the alphabet we will list ? on a single roll the events of each college the social functions according to NOW Yoar S Party . year. War Interpretations the dates on which they will occur as we can follow the calendar when we have our glasses on. Not to be outdone else in school, John Longley, this year’s Longhorn editor, Had to get married first. Don’t let the faculty know that he is leaving early for . . . And now for the first time in history Aggies will be confined to College Station come next Jan- ^ uary 1; and the holiday spirit will be in full swing with nothing to do. The calendar has a party? or a dance ? scheduled, but nothing definite has been settled or done. There is a manpower problem in Germany „ with tragic overtones. Preparations are re- kollda y s but he and Idlss Ve . re Now is the time to start talking may be called, is likely to hit small arts placke s f and before the . ™ ni f' about a gigantic corps party on colleges hard. The army and navy will prob- ter sbor ^ y f :3 ° in Gl< !u New Year’s Eve—a mass get-to- ably take over the physical facilities of many m £ s on the 18th day of this mon h gether and p i enty 0 f dancing and of them to train men in technical subjects. ,n nineteen hundred and forty- fml for eTerybody . The art of war leaves little room for other =“°" d f a , r ° f Lord. M.s s ported under way for professional military placke h8 ‘ ls f ™\ V’s 01 "’J exas ' Sweepings . . . training for boys 14 and 15 years old. and recently attended San Marc ° 9 JOBS State Teachers College. Lieut. George Fuerman, origina- heels t° r of this column, stopped by the The U. S. Office of Education is represented Following closely on the & f yesterday on a government committee studying job °f this couple wil come the middle afternoon of courge he can , t tell possibilities fOT the phy^cally handuiap^ed Mike Battalion w hat he is doing now but accord- of jobs 3 s ^S s ji^wo^ ed^y^he^handkappjtd^ Altogether, the surl - yey revealed 1,300 diffeient kinds of work of gan Antonio Mike declares that commissions. After spending four that might be done by such persons. thege weddings will teke place on y ears dow n here 13 weeks at $50 Objectives of the continuing study are the 19th but he ig go darn excited per month doesn’t seem very ex- two-fold : to help solve our war manpower that yQu can , t put much gtock in citing . . . If you are planning on problem, and to gain experience for use rn anyt bing he says . going out to Franklin’s this week placement of disabled veterans and industrial Also Qn the Nineteenth is the end don’t let the Dames Club party workers after the war. nuptial affair of Bob Ward and scar e you off because Franklin Hard of hearing and deaf persons make J^j sg Vaneta Moore. She is from Simon, owner of the business, up the major pool of handicapped manpower ji ous ton. states that the floor has not been Hany persons with defective vision also . R1 , reserved by any special party for could do effective work in important jobs 0 'f “ P c “ ? a ‘- day "W- Editors of the In one large plant, approximately 90 per cent taks a wife on the twentieth . The Longhorn find that there are no of the positions might be filled by persons , . , ... , . R , longer 7,000 students in school but who are blind in one eye but have good vision Aghe Fort Worth lasg who hag that there are only 5,275 men left for herself at T. S. down here on this big black Brazos bottom bog. Every Saturday night in the College Library, war films pre pared by the government and War ner Brothers are shown free to everyone. Shows begin at 7:45 and 8:45. Our Nation at war has a dy namic story to tell its people— why and how we are fighting the war; of construction of airplanes, tanks, ships; of battles on the seas and on the land in far away places; of Inter-American friendship and cooperation; of the work on the home front. This extra-ordinary story, which every American should know, can not be told in full by the ordinary media—the written and spoken word. To give its full mean ing, its stupendous and heroic pro portions, this story must be told with the most potent method we know—the sound motion picture. This is precisely what our Gov ernment is doing. The Office of War Information, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Af fairs, the Office of Civilian De fense, the Army and the Navy, and many other agencies of our nation al government are now using the powerful motion picture medium as it has never been used before to aid in telling Americans the story of America at war. The importance of the non-theatrical audience—the audience to be reached by the 16 MM motion picture— has been rec ognized by the government. A com prehensive plan for the production, distribution and utilization of 16 MM informational war films and films relating to the over-all war effort, has been developed and is now being put into operation. These government agencies have already produced many outstanding films, and will produce more. The films are of high quality, and they re flect the basic “truth” policy of our government, which, as stated in Elmer Davis’ words, is that “We stick to the truth for we believe the truth is on our side.” Now that these excellent films have been produced, the important problem is to distribute them to the non-theatrical audience in the United States, the audience which can be served only by the 16 MM motion picture. There are today more than 15,000 16 MM projectors in the schools of the United States. Of this number, approximately 1,000 are in Texas schools. In ad dition, many individuals and busi ness concerns own 16 MM projec tors. Only a fractional part of the projection potentialities of these machines is being used. Our gov ernment is now seeking to utilize these existing 16 MM projectors to present war films—the story of America at war—to all the people of the United States. Texas, already distinguished in the nation’s war, has been singled out to do a special war time job. Foreign Students Asked to Supply Vital Information All foreign students, whether their homes are in United States territory or otherwise, are request ed by the registrar’s office to come by as soon as possible to supply information demanded by the Co ordinator of Inter-American Af fairs’ office. There are 97 foreign students in A&M who must fill out cards con cerning their field of study, clas sification, souce of finance, and religion—all of which will be kept in confidential files. The office of Inter-American Affairs also de mands that such students show their type of visa on which they are in the United States, said the registrar’s office. The State Department of Educa tion has been asked by the Office of War Information and the Office of Inter-American Affairs to co operate with them in setting up here in Texas a basic organization for state-wide distribution of gov ernment films. The Texas plan will be used in the other forty-seven states. Thus, Texas has the oppor tunity to set an example—to lead the way. The administrative re sponsibility for this government film has been placed in the Depart ment of Radio and Visual Educa tion, State Department of Educa tion. The Texas plan provides for the distribution of selected government films to the other schools, local Civilian Defense committees, Par ent-Teacher organizations, wom en’s clubs, Service clubs, chambers of commerce, American Legion posts, and other adult organiza tions. The actual distribution and servicing of the government films will be done by war film library centers, one for each Deputy Dis trict. Films to be distributed under the Texas plan include subjects from the best produced by the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Af fairs, Office of War Information, Office of Civilian Defense, the Army and Navy, Treasury Depart ment, United States Public Health Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and British, Cana dian and Australian governments. The availability of such excellent films to the schools and to adults presents an unusual opportunity which we can not afford to ignore. Our government wants every Tex an to see these films. Qampiu Telephone 4-1181 Box Office Opens 2 p.m. LAST DAY PREVIEW TONIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY -donlevy He's Rouqh! VER0N1CK A ^jL. IAKE 1ADD She's Dynamite! HesTou ^ h ' Go In at 10:00 and See Both Shows Newsreel FIRST FULL AND COMPLETE STORY OF PEARL HARBOR! w in the other. Aggie Cryptogram made a name C. W. Norman Strange and Miss Mary Joan Shepps will be joined in holy matrimony on this date plain-text into eroi groups The Texas Legislature consists also. Miss Shepps comes from Dal- a Senate of 31 members, elected (The following cryptogram was enciphered by taking a las and the couple formerly attend- four-year terms, and a House ed N.T.A.C. together. of Representatives which may not iphabeticaHy.) John Pepper of G Infantry and exceed 150 members, elected for Miss Henri Elizabeth Brown of two-year terms. Today’s Aggie Cryptogram: Sweetwater will be married in the . EHIST GGINN ACDET AERSS GUNN Sweetwater Methodist church also The State Constitution of Texas S aInt! Sp E Rex Sd i E r?r r the ‘' ventieth ' MiSS ^ is * ia a!T r OKb I ALA IX b.—Rex Lanford, F CAC. Sweetwater girl and a graduate of Federal Constitution Thursday’s Solution: Texas Tech. J APS TH B E EwilE ES SL A A R t ?T R |YE D S Y ^ ^ “““ ^ -bhad a poker vows with Evelyn Haegelin of game and the winners lost heavily. Gulf Coast Exes Make Dance Plans The Ex-Aggies of Corpus Christi are making plans for the annual Gulf Coast Club Christmas dance Arrangements have been made for an orchestra and the dance is scheduled to be held on Dec. 21, at the Plaza Hotel Deck. There will be no paid admission to the dance but it will be necessary for all Aggies who attend to wear num ber one uniform. The Gulf Coast Club includes the Aggie§ from Corpus Christi and within a fifty-mile radius of there. All students who are from this area are invited to attend the club meetings and the dance. There will be a meeting of the club next week to discuss further plans for the dance. The date of the meeting will be announced later. New Weekday Schedule Box Office Opens 2 P.M. Closes 10 P. M. SAT. ONLY B0MANTIC ADVENTURE THE H.A.F.I Produai by DAVID HEMPSTEAD Dmcttd by ROBERT STEVENSON Somo Pl«r by Ghutea Baocett and BUla St, Joaetfk Plus “Army Mascot”—Pluto Cartoon Community Singing & ♦ » i * > * ¥