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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1944
The Battalion
STUDENT BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Texas A. & M. College
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By Renyard
W. Canis
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.”—Webster.
Thirty-two Missions
Flown By Ex-Aggie
F
Rival Defends RivaL.Texas u. Upholds A&M
Although A, & M. and Texas university are traditional
rivals, especially on Thanksgiving Day, the Daily Texan
quickly came to the defense of the Aggies concerning Horace
H. Shelton’s letter.
Certainly A. & M. appreciates this. To Texas university
A, & M. says thanks for the following editorial:
“Texas Aggies and University students have a state
wide reputation of rivalry, but even rivals are not blind to
each other’s good points,
A recent letter written to the Dallas Morning News
from a Horace H, Shelton in Austin criticizing the Aggies
in their Thanksgiving Day parade down Congress Avenue,
has raised a howl of protest from A. & M. students—a jus
tifiable howl of protest.
“Mr. Shelton wrote:
“To me, it seems particularly out of place that these
young men, clothed in the uniform of their country, are
parading to a football game instead of to the battlefronts,
when eleven million other young men are fighting gloriously
for their country.
“The press here reported many fist fights Wednesday
and Thursday nights between students of A. & M. and The
University of Texas, but do not report any volunteers for
overseas duty.”
“The Aggies were quick to supply answers to the
queries of Mr. Shelton.
“They pointed out that of the 1,993 students enrolled,
I, 056 are not even within the draft age. “If Mr. Shelton
had tride to volunteer for overseas duty lately, he would
discover that it can’t be done. One doesn’t need to»volunteer
for overseas duty. The Armed Forces have a peculiar habit
of sending their men when and where they need them,” one
Aggie replied.
“Others pointed out that A. &, M. has furnished more
officers and men to the Armed Forces than any other mil
itary school, that boys have been requested to stay in school
as long as possible, that Aggies wear uniforms because they
receive scholastic training in military preparation for their
entrance into the armed services, that underclassmen’s ages
range from 15 up to 19, most seniors are discharged veterans,
and those above 18 leave school daily for the Armed Forces.
“Such a record hardly merits the petty insinuations that
have been charged. The Aggies and University students
usually indulge in a bit of tradition when in this city. The
parade of well-trained, able Aggies is more something to
take pride in than criticize.
“As guests of the city and the school the Aggies de
serve to be treated with as much courtesy as would be shown
a convention of out-of-uniform civilians.
“There is a line that can sometimes be drawn between
a slacker and a patriot, but it seems, some fail to find the
correct place to draw that line.”
Seven Weeks of Class . . . Graduation
February 3 seems a long way off but a bit of reflection
will show that there are only seven weeks of school lefj; for
underclassmen and only a few more days than six weeks
left for graduating seniors.
Seniors who are making plans for jobs after graduation
are in one of the most critical periods of their college ca
reers. It is very easy to lose sight of the immediate goal,
graduation, when thinking of the long range goal of a life
time of work at the chosen job. This mistake is easily fallen
into and unless carefully guarded against can postpone grad
uation for another semester or maybe permanently.
It is not too late now to make those last few grade
points that will raise the college average a few notches
higher and possibly mean extra dollars in the graduate’s
pocket when he does begin looking for that job. It can be
disastrous to overlook the importance of these last few
weeks on the permanent record.
Undergraduate students have other semesters ahead of
them but they too cannot afford to cease working because
for them there still is the chance to get all the knowledge
that so many seniors have missed. Do each day’s job com
pletely and thoroughly and the accumulation will take care
of itself.
Magazines Disppear . . . Esquire Too
Colleges and Universities provide primarily four things
which when combined provide cultural, technological benefits
for the national society. These 4 things are: Students, teach
ers, research, and libraries. Only in combination can either
or all of these function properly.
Perhaps the last mentioned, libraries, is the most im
portant for there all the information,'knowledge, and learning
is written down, chronicled, and catalogued in a manner
so that it is easily accessable to those seeking information.
Libraries contain many types of publications not the
least of which are magazines and periodicals. In these is
the latest information about new discoveries and new de
velopments in every field of learning and human activity.
Cushing Memorial Library of Texas A. & M. is not the
largest library in the world nor is it the most complete but
despite its shortcomings it is and can be of invaluable aid
to the scholar. Many assignments require work in the library
and very few assignments are there that would not benefit
from library preparation.
Cushing Library receives every issue of hundreds of
periodicals and places them in the Periodical room within
easy access to anyone desiring to use them. Because of the
shortage of paper the library is unable to obtain more than
one copy of each issue.
Each of the magazines received by the library is bound
after it is taken from the Periodical Room and placed on
permanent file. These bound volumes are of inestimatable
value to the library in successfully serving its patrons.
Recently the library has lost some issues of magazines
which they cannot replace because of the shortage of paper.
The periodicals have very little value to the average user
after he has read them but to the library they retain their
value and become more valuable as time passes. Magazines
that disappear, as they cannot be replaced, leave a gap in
the bound volumes that may be just the place where some
Aggie will be looking for information to complete his as
signment.
ootball season is gone again.
This year wasn’t the most success
ful of all Aggie years as far as
f he win and loss column stacks up,
but it has been an outstanding
social season.
Usually there are more home
o-ames and more corps balls in
Sbisa but who can kick about that
this year. Always an Aggie would
rather go out of town and have
the pick of the place rather than
be tied down with one girl in Ag-
gieland all weekend.
Remember the trip to San Anto
nio for the Texas Tech game ? That
was where the Aggies had the
trouble at mid-night yell practice
for blocking the street and causing
one of the flighty boys to miss
something or the other a couple of
blocks down the street.
Then there was the Aggie Dance
given by the San Antonio A. & M.
Club and the early morning trips
by starlight out to the only place
that was open for a late snack of
chili and tochas.
The next big trip was to Dallas
for the S. M. U. victory and the
Aggie Sweetheart presentation.
Sweet Vicki Moran was given two
dozen red sweetheart roses and
then every Aggie got an idea. Why
not have a sweetheart of his own?
They all had them Saturday night.
Many is the toe that is still sore
from the tromping out on Green
ville Avenue as the Aggies cele
brated.
In quick order came the jaunt
down across the rice fields to
Houston and the owl plucking. The
feathers flew, the wind blew, then
the rains came. Blind date after
blind date and they were all too
tall. For instance the big blonde.
Long lithsome and lovely.
Nothing could have been more
fun than the Aggie gathering in
the dark way out on Main Street.
People are still wondering if the
lights went out or some amorous
Aggie swiped the fuses. No candles
either. A guy could always say
that he couldn’t find his way back
to the table after dancing off with
some other guy’s date. Bird dog
ging was prime.
Then came the trip to teahound
land. The less said the better.
Summing It Up
T wo hundred dollars short, 25
grade points gone, 2 good sheets
hardly slept on at all, 1 pair badly
battered senior boots, 1 handsome
bag under each eye, a worn out
suitcase, a bloody thumb, a few
black eyes, blondes and brunettes
and a few red heads in several
towns (How can an Aggie see
them all often enough to convince
each that he loves her and only
her?), a good time.
15TH AAF IN ITALY—1st. Lt.
John A. Whitacre, son of Dr. and
Mrs. J. A. Whitacre, 695 West
Washington St., Stephenville, Tex-
ors came breezing in from Hunts- | as, pilot on a B-24 Liberator, re-
ville and Sam Houston school al- cently flew on his 32nd combat
most for girls. Those guys were mission.
happy with the light in their eyes. Since arriving overseas last July,
A. & M. can’t afford to let that he has participated in attacks on
happen. such important objectives as rail
Huntsville homes, the Aggies yards, harbor installations, air
love you dearly. Don’t be lonely, fields, and industrial centers in
Don’t be blue. We’ll be over in | Germany, France, Rumania, Hun
gary, and Austria.
The former football star of Ste
phenville high school, has been
awarded the Air Medal and two
Oak Leaf Clusters for “meritorious
achievement in aerial flight.”
“When you get ready to take off
. . ,, -m , | on a mission, it’s like waiting for
to join the navy, Frank swears ,, , . , - b „
j.,. x ; , . the kick-off m a football game,”
force to chase away the blue.
Spooks and Things
F rank GeUach and his spook
have been going around and round.
Since Frank’s roommate left school
is the way he puts it. “And when
that a spook has been sleeping or
something in the lower bunk. , , , , .
Window shades have been foll J bombs droppmg on the
ing, water faucets turn themselves tarSi ; t ' ovcr w,th the
, . , . , . winning touchdown.”
on, closet doors swing and squeak 1
even if there is no breeze, his door
locks itself, drawers are left open,
Lt. Whitacre entered the service
in March 1943, and received his
i wings and commission at Ellington
and a few other things happen con- . T , T t
.. ^ Field, Texas m January 1944. He
cerning unmentionables. . u
Prank isn’t worried however. He ‘ S , a 8 . ra , ° f o/„ P v,T It fa
calls the spook Grover and is calm- “““V 1 ?" 0 ' 194 "’ ^ att<mded
ly waiting for him to flunk out Tetcas A. & M for two years prior
» , , to entering the Army. His wife,
Mrs. Louise Whitacre, resides at
the above address. He has one
brother, James, also in the Air
Corps, at Langley Field, Va.
Of Dove Hunting
A,
nd we don’t mean turtle doves
although one turtle did loose his
he ™ ^ ^ I Army Jeep Adaptable
This isn’t particularly about dove x-i -i-x
hunting but about some of the | For Farm Purposes
Brazos County country over along
Adaptability of the army jeep
, . ^ .ito Texas farming and ranching
dents pronounce it Navasot, the , , ,, ,, , j
, . , , ■, « chores will be thoroughly explored
the Navasota River. (Old resi-
sot pronounced as in drunkard. A
further corruption'is “Nasty-sot).
during the coming year and re-
If Texans think that the swampy I ^ ^iifVe^L"”
land is confined to Louisiana they . , . ,, ,.
,. , ,, . , . , * who plan to use the little machine
are slightly mistaken. Not over 10 .. ,
ox x- after the war, it was announced
15 miles from College Station , A t. ^ j- x * xi
A. j I by A. B. Conner, director of the
Texas A. & M. Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
A factory-reconditioned army
jeep was delivered to the A. & M.
there are places full of trees and
water where the grass ought to be.
Moss hangs from trees or maybe
the moss props the trees up. It’s
impossible to tell
The Lowdown On
£ampus ‘Distractions
By Dick Osterholm
Showing on the bill at the Cam
pus tonight and Wednesday is the
gangster picture of all time.
“Roger Toughy, Gangsters” with
Preston Foster and Victor Mc-
Laglin. Here is the true to life
story of the notorious “Toughy
Gang” that terrorized the state of
Illinois and suroUnding territory.
It has the unknown facts behind
the case, the thrilling jail-break
and the life of the gang when they
were free.
The Lowdown: A pretty good pic
ture and full of action. It proves
that crime does not pay.
Thursday and Friday at the
Campus gives us “Make Your Own
Bed” with Jack Carson and Jane
Wyman. One hilarious comedy
with all the trimmings. Jack Car-
son, husband, finds himself in quite
Marine Artillery
Officer Is Aggie
QUANTICO, VA.,—Marine Sec
ond Lieutenant James Philip Mil
ler, son of Edward D. Miller of
2003 W. Oak Street, Denton, Texas,
has been graduated at the Reserve
Officers Class, Marine Corps
School here. He has since com
pleted the artillery course and
has been assigned to duty with a
combat organization.
Second Lieutenant Miller at
tended Texas A. & M. and North
Texas State Teachers College where
he majored in Economics. He holds
a B. A. degree.
mess when wifey, Jane Wyman,
sees him the victim of circum
stances and we mean other wom
en. There intimate situations and
spies and everything to make a
picture crazy.
The Lowdown: Just the thing to
take away our troubles and your
quizes. Try it if you have the
time, it’s good.
Tonight at the Guion theater is
Robert Casadesus, in person. For
the Wednesday and Thursday bill,
No Time for Love” with Claudette
Colbert and Fred MacMurray. A
girl photographer, smart set soph
isticate, falls in love with a sand-
hog, who knows all about fisticuffs
and femmes. Cupid takes a hand
and things happen.
The Lowdown: It’s a good show
with good comedy and acting.
Still showing at the Palace in
Bryan is ‘Double Indemnity”, a
murder drama. Starting Wednesday
and showing through Saturday, is
the much talked of picture “Janie”
with Joyce Reynolds and Robert
Hutton with a fine supporting cast.
This is the story of anyone’s sis
ter, at about that age. Janie gets
soldier struck and turns her Dad’s
home into a small USO for the
soldiers. There’s fun a minute,
laughs a minute and fine acting.
The Lowdown: Just the kind of
picture about someone that will
make you enjoy it. Could be you,
that makes it a grand picture.
It’s lonely there too. Ask Harlan L C ° llege eai ' ly thi . S * aC '
Bullock how it feels to spend the tory representative of the Willys-
night sitting on the base of a tree
surrounded by water all because his
buddies couldn’t find him.
to doVe hunting but was encounter
ed on same.
Aggie Fashions
F ish stripes on the left cuff
of first year cadets .... The be
wildered expressions on faces of
same .... Boys from the west
Warning! Aggies
S unday night a big bunch
(some big and some small) of sail-
Overland company, and turned
over to H. P. Smith, agricultural
engineering division head. The com-
This doesn’t particularly pertain I pany wil1 make periodic checks on
the condition of the machine, and
will supply all replacement parts
necessitated by the strenuous test
ing program outlined for the sturdy
little war-buggy.
Through an arrangement made
by the United States Department
of Agriculture various tests of
the jeep will be made in the states
of Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
that wear cowboy boots constantly I Maryland, New York, Mississippi,
Boys that wear cowboy boots Arizona and Washington,
until their feet give out .... Cas- In Texas the tests will be con-
sanova who wears senior boots con- cerned with what farm implements
stantly Juniors afraid to the jeep-will pull successfully, oper-
take off dark green shirts .... ating costs in comparison with
Daily non-regs .... Those who other sources of farm power and
go to the North Gate for coffee transportation; and its general all-
in pajamas .... The pool shark around adaptability to use in the
spotted with cue chalk .... dry land and irrigated sections,
Non-shavers (Ed. note—It has been principally in rice harvesting oper-
too cold lately to shave) . . . . ations; and on the cattle and
Bareheaded Johnnies with caps in sheep ranches of the state, Mr.
Former A&M Man
Now Tail Gunner
15TH AAF IN ITALY—Sergeant
James A. Gordon, 19, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Gordon, 1409 West
Ave., Austin, Texas, has arrived
overseas and has started combat
flying as tail gunner on a B-24
bomber.
Among the missions that Gordon
has participated in are those to
Vienna, Graz and Linz, in Austria,
where railyards, refineries and
factories were blasted. His rough
est sortie was over Graz, where
his plane was punctured with 11
flak holes.
A graduate of the Gilmer High
School, Gordon attended Texas A.
& M. College. He was employed
by the Sheffield Steel Corp., in
Houston before enlisting in July
1942.
their hands.
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As The World Turns
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By Dr. Al B. Nelson
The United States now has
$25,000,000,000 (billions) of cur
rency in circulation which is some
five times as much as in the high-,
ly prosperous period around 1929.
At that time the
paper money of
the United States
was backed by
gold and was
worth its face
value, now the
money is backed
only by the prom
ise of a govern
ment which is in
debt more than
nine times as
much as in 1929.
Your dollar is now worth only as
much as the credit of the govern
ment which places a tremendous
responsibility upon the wisdom of
our representatives in the execu
tive and legislative branches of
the government.
Albert B. Fall, sent to prison
during the famous “Teapot Dome”
oil scandals for accepting a $100,-
000 bribe (though the man who
bribed him was never convicted)
while he was Secretary of the
Smith announced.
Glowing accounts of the per
formance ability of the jeep for
wartime purposes have given the
impression that it will solve all of
the farmer’s and rancher’s prob
lems in the postwar period”, Mr.
Smith declared. “We sincerely hope
it will do all the things that are
Ft. Worth Club Meets
Wednesday To Make
Christmas Party Plans
All Fort Worth Aggies are ask.
ed to be present at the Fort
Worth Club meeting that is to be
held Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
a room reserved in the Academic
Bldg. It is necessary that the
president of the club know in ad
vance how many members will be
present as plans will be made con
cerning the Christmas party. Pres
ent plans call for the party to be
held in the Oak and Alamo rooms
at the Texas Hotel on December
27th.
Nelson
Interior under President Harding, claimed for it, but we intend to
died in El Paso November 30, at fi n d ou t f or ourselves just how
the age of 83. f ar }t w in so lve the problem, and
Errol Flynn, movie actor, pays at what cost,
his ex-wife $18,000 a year alimony, “We have outlined a pretty busy
and the court just ruled that he year for our jeep in Texas, and it
must reimburse her for the $11,000 will be used in different parts of
in income taxes she paid on that the state in the course of our ex
amount in the last two years. A periments. The manufacturer has
costly ex-wife. agreed that in its rebuilt condition
March of Time film C0V e ri ng wil1 do the job of a new machine ’
Texas, Brazil, Canada, and Portu- and the company is as interested in
gal will be shown in the Physics U 8 Po^bihties and its limitations
Lecture Room Wednesday evening as we could possibly be
from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. This film A , s so ° n as we obtam su f flcient
is brought to the campus by the gasoline fox our tests, we will tetart
Department of History, Dr. S. R. tbe experiments. They will take us
Gammon, Department Head. t0 West Texas where ranchers
want to know what the jeep will
The Russians are in the outskirts I do. It will be taken to the coastal
of Budapest and are pushing on rice fields, and to other sections
toward the borders of old Austria, of Texas to determine the jeep’s
They are spending their time and adaptability to farm and ranch
energies cleaning up the Baltic chores.
States and the Balkans for their “When our experiments are com
own private benefit which allows pleted we will have data available
the Germans to concentrate their for anybody in Texas who wants
strength against the American and to know just what the jeep will do,
British forces on the Western and how much it will cost to oper-
front. I ate on the various tasks assigned
to it.”
The primeval forests were our
heritage. Will coming generations
be proud of the forest heritage we
are leaving them?
’41 Ex Serving As
Navigator Overseas
15TH AAF IN ITALY—Second
Lieutenant Henry T. Donohoe. 19,
2028 Park St., Houston, Texas,
has arrived overseas and has been
assigned to duty as a navigator in
a B-24 Liberator group commanded
by Col. Philip R. Hawes, Pearl
River, N. Y.
Donohoe entered the AAF July
12, 1943, and received his second
"rrlyI Major McFarland Is
Marcos, Texas. Prior to his entry MOVCCI to GrGCnSDOrO
in the army, he was studying at A ,
Texas A. & M. College. He is a M aJ° r Archie 'M. McFarland, son
graduate of Lamar high school, of Mrs - A - Garland, 137 W
Houston, Texas, class of ’41. FreTlch PL ’ San Ant ° nio > Tex as, has
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. been transferred from the Carls-
Donohoe, live at the Houston ad- bad Arm y A ^ r Field, Carlsbad, New
Mexico, to Greensboro, N. C.
He is a former student of Texas
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Town Hall Presents
Robert Casadesus
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
Also Cartoon and News
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Double Feature
Also
Community Sing—Cartoon
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
'Mole VWbwn
With w — %
Alan HAIE«George TOBIAS*Robert SHAYNE
Directed by PETER GODFREY
Plus
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LUISE ARTURO
Rainer • de Cordova
WILLIAM PAUL
Bendix • Lukas
with Katina Paxinou
Oscar '■
Mnctrt bn FRANK IUTTIE. Screen Pliy by tester Cole
mt freeb butler ■ From the Korei by Stelie Heyw
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