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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1945
The Battalion
STUDENT BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
■— Texas A. & M. College
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas and the City of College Station is published twice weekly, and circulated on
Tuesday and Friday afternoon.
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Subscription rate $3.00 per school year. Advertising rates upon request.
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at New York City,
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Associated Collegiate Press
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
Calvin Brumley Editor
Djck Goad Managing Editor
Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor
S. L. Inzer Sports Editor
Renyard W. Canis Backwash Editor
R. L. Bynes Intramural Reporter
Teddy Bernstein Amusement Editor
Reporters: Eli Barker, B. J. Blankenship, S. K. Adler, R. L. Bynes, L. H. Calla
han, James Dillworth, Ernest Berry, Teddy Bernstein.
Student Reporters: Henry Ash, Louie Clarke, W. M. Cornelius, Edwin Mayer, John
Mizell, Harold Phillips, Damon Tassos, J. C. Long.
Coach Norton ... Hats Off
Tonight A. & M. awarded letters and membership in the
T Association to those Aggies who carried the maroon and
white to glory during last fall and this winter. Each one of
these men received one of the T medals which they can keep
for a lifetime and which will always open the gates to them
at any athletic contest held on Kyle Field. These boys get
lots of publicity and many honors but the greatest honor of
which any of them can boast is wearing the Aggie colors onto
the athletic field. They are Aggies and provide one of the
most potent and solidifying unifying factors of Aggieland.
They deserve the praise and respect of every Aggie.
A, & M. has turned out some great athletic teams during
the past few years and the chances are that every year they
will field a battling team of men that do not know the mean
ing of the word quit. One of the men primarily responsible
for the fine sports record made oy A. & M. during the last
six years is Coach Homer Norton. Coach Norton, or Coacher
as he is known to the athletes, is one of the brainyest and one
Of the great football psychologist of the last decade.
In 1939 he piloted A. & M. to an undefeated football sea
son and a national championship. He nearly did it again in
1940. He has taken the Aggie football team to the Sugar
Bowl once, to the Cotton Bowl twice, and to the Orange
Bowl once. A. & M. has been powerful enough to play four
bowl games since 1939. Can any other college in the entire
country equal that record? Coach Norton did a good job.
When the fall of 1943 rolled around he did not have a
returning letterman. Coacher had a field full of seventeen
year old high school footballers anxious to play for A. & M.
and he took that group of fuzzy-faced youngsters and de
veloped the “Whiz Kids” who lost only one game in regular
season play. Always he has relied on Aggies for athletic tal
ent and not once has an army or naval trainee played for an
A. & M. team since the war started in 1941. Coach Homer
Norton has done a good job.
One thing about Norton stands out above all the rest
of his talents. A. & M.’s footballers always play clean, sports
manlike football. He teaches sportsmanship first and victory
second. He also demands that any boy that wears the maroon
and white of A. & M. be an Aggie. He recognizes the value of
the Aggie Spirit and he does his share in instilling it in the
boys under his tutorage.
Coach Norton also recognizes the immeasurable aid that
the corps gives to the athletic teams. More than once he has
called on the Twelfth Man for help and never once has he
been disappointed.
Coach Norton has just signed a new contract as head
coach and director of athletics at A. & M. If his past record
can speak at all it speaks well for the Aggie football teams of
future years.
Loupot’s Aggie Quiz
This Week’s Questions
1. What is the value of the physical plant of Texas A. & M.?
2. How many Schools are there at A. & M. and what is the name
of each?
3. When did A. & M. win its first basketball championship?
4. Who is the only woman to graduate from Texas A. & M.?
5. When and where did the famous Aggie tradition of the
“Twelfth Man” originate?
6. Who is the only man to be honored by having his statue placed
on the A. & M. campus ? What honorary drill organization is named
for him ?
7. How many seats are there on the 50 yard line of Kyle Field?
8. When did each of the deans of the schools at A. & M. take of
fice ? How many deans did each school have before the present dean
assumed tire deanship ?
9. Under what act of Congress was A. & M. established? Why is
A. & M. considered a branch of Texas university?
10. How many dormitories for students does A. & M. maintain?
Last Week’s Answers
F Battery, Field Artillery, Dorm 15 won the first contest spon
sored by Loupot. The correct answers as turned in by “F” Battery are
as follows:
1. The college first opened on September 17, 1876 (formally Oct.
4, 1876). Six; students reported on the first day.
The first permanent building was Gathright Hall.
2. Texas A. & M. first played Texas university in 1894 at Austin.
We beat T. u. the first time in 1902.
3. Jefferson Davis was offered the first presidency of A. & M.
4. Bernard Sbisa was the first Supervisor of Subsistence. (The
first mess hall manager.) Sbisa Hall was named after him.
5. The stones at the base of the live oaks bordering the drill field
are for the 52 Aggies killed in World War I.
6. Jesse Easterwood was an Aggie who was killed in World War
I. He was a Lt. in the Air Corps. The field was in his memory.
7. Ina Ray Hutton and her band dedicated the Grove.
8. Uncle Ed’s is on the old Houston Highway. It is the Ed Hrd-
lioka place, south of the college about one mile.
9. “The Spirit of Aggieland” is by Col. Dunn and Mr. Nimms.
“The Aggie War Hymn” is by T. K. Wilson.
“The Twelfth Man” is by Mrs. Ford Munnerylns.
10. The first College Annual was named ‘Olio” and was published
in 1895.
SPANISH LESSONS OVER WTAW at 7:15 a. m., MON., WED., FRL
CACKWAJH
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.”—Webster.
Merchants serve as a
constant reminder of the seasons
of the year, coming holidays, and
anything else that will make them
a sale. Heart shaped boxes of
candy are the pi’imary decoration
in every window now and lucky
indeed is the fellow that doesn’t
succumb.
When an Aggie starts buying
hearts to give away on Valentine’s
Renyard
day he begins to ruin his financial
standing. Nearly every town of
any size in Texas harbors one of
the Aggie’s one-and-onlies. Yes,
he says, as he rubs his nose.
Aggies are as free with their
hearts as the American people have
been with blood for the blood
banks.
In the Window
One OF THE LOCAL flower
and heart motiff in their display
window. Something they probably
didn’t count on though was a cat
prowling around sniffing at the
hearts. Cat in this instance means
a feline.
Seen Towards Bryan
C ARS coming by and not stop
ping to take the Aggie to the big
city. . . . Finally one stops and
picks up the Aggie hitchhiker but
gets passed by the bus on the way
in. . . . Two little (about 15 or 16)
grinning and giggling on the cor
ner waiting for a bus, presumably
. . . Thfe long, tall, eagle-faced
sailor waiting for a bus first on
one foot then another. . . . The
sailor finally giving up and sub
stituting a cup of coffee. . . .
Three lads playing keep-away in
the middle of the street. ... On
the way to Bryan on Sunday af
ternoon one sees Aggies with go
ing places caps on coming deject
edly back to College.
Watching- the Latins
G US CARLSON, a Peruvian
from Lima, provides the merri
ment between and during classes
in the Ag Building. Gus, blonde
head and all, says that in Peru
they call him an artist but here
they call him something else. What
is it Gus ?
Also on the campus this week
end, practically alone, were a few
of the boys from south of the bor
der with their gal friends. Every
body is wondering how they do it.
An Epicemic
Saturday afternoon at supper
mess formation one Aggie came
out in a suit, yes a complete suit.
Saturday night several more blos
somed out and by Sunday the cam
pus looked like the Forty Acres
had suddenly broken loose. It’s
reaching emidemic proportions.
Nothing like good Dr. De Bull to
cure that though.
Letter to Backwash
Dear Canis,
“Having been reading your col
umn for sometime, don’t ask me
why because I really don’t know,
but even with all your sum total
lack of knowledge you might be
able to help me with a little prob
lem that has been bothering me.
Well, its been bothering me some
but it has been a pleasant bother.
The problem is how am I going to
get rid of this bother without
hurting it. What I really mean is
that I’m going to be leaving A.
& M. in about a semester and while
here I don’t won’t to give up this
bother but after I leave I would
like to be sure that this little
bother, wow! ,what a bother, will
be happy and will have someone
else to bother after I leave.
Sure, there are plenty of guys
around here it could bother but I
don’t want it bothering just any
body yet I want it to bother some
body that it will enjoy bothering.
What am I going to do.
Bewildered.
Bewildered, you are quite be
wildered. Furthermore you have
Backwash bewildered, confused,
mixed-up, going in circles, butting
its head against the wall, and
playing a tune on its lips besides
Backwash is confounded, mysti
fied, and perplexed. Best thing for
you to do is to take some of Old
Doctor Wixem’s Cure-All.
Paintbrushes & Paint
0 NE BY ONE, slowly yet sure
ly, every organization is getting
its sign on the water tower. Lat
est edition was the one by F Com
pany Infantry. Think someone call
ed in a parachute division to as
sist in the operations.
Scissors Section
Women’s clothes should
be like a speech or an editorial—
long enough to cover the subject
but short enough to sustain inter
est. . . . That finishes my tail said
the cat as he backed into the lawn
mower. . . . Remember the remark
of the lightning bug when he back
ed into the lown mower. He said,
“Delighted no-end.” . . . Befoi-e
they were married she called him
:: As The World Turns ::
By Dr. A1 B. Nelson
Jesse Jones out and Henry Wal
lace in as Secretary of Commerce,
Franklin D. Roosevelt demanded
tlie resignation of Jesse Jones of
Houston as Secretary of Com
merce in order that he might re
ward the faithful
political support
of Wallace. As
you may recall
Wallace wanted
to remain in the
Vice Presidency
but was kicked
off the ticket by
his “boss” be
cause of the tre
mendous opposi
tion throughout
Nelson the nation. How
ever, Henry has the support of
the C.I.O. and will now run the
Commerce Department and the Re
construction Finance Corporation
which still has control of the lend
ing of billions of dollars and is thus
one of the most powerful political
weapons in the nation. Jesse Jones
is a Texan and as such may be
safely kicked in the teeth now that
the election is over.
Dog’s secret friend is sought.
The great question which has been
asked in newspaper headlines all
over the natioh is, who gave Col.
Elliot Roosevelt’s DOG an “A”
priority for travel by plane. The
dog’s crate took three seats and
caused three soldiers to be kicked
off the plane. The dog was on the
way to Col. Roosevelt’s new wife
(the third in his marital line-up)
the former “Miss” Faye Emerson
(who is giving marriage a second
trial with the President’s marry
ing second son. Elliot Roosevelt
quickly denied responsibility for
the priority, Steve Early, White
House secretary officially denied
that the President had anything to
do with it, the Army completely
denied all responsibility, and no
one can be found who will admit
having anything to do with the pri
ority. Even the dog has kept his
mouth shut about the whole af
fair. Maybe the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
is responsible for the mixup.
The Bonehead Club of Dallas has
nrotested against the discrimina
tion against Dallas dogs and has
asked for “A” priorities for two
hundred and sixty-six inhabitants
of the Dallas dog pound in order
that they may take a tour of the
nation by plane.
The highly advertised great Rus
sian offensive on the eastern front
is obviously being played up for
morale and political reasons de
spite the fact that it is obviously
a strategic retreat by the Ger
mans to a line within their own
borders which can be more easily
defended. No great battles have
been fought or are being fought
so far. Look for the Russians to
be held up and forced to fight
every inch of the way as soon as
they reach their shortened line of
defense, probably along the Oder
River where the Germans will be
fighting on their own soil. There
the Russians will probably encoun
ter the same type of fighting as
that faced by the Americans and
English on Germany’s western bor
der.
Books Received By
College Library
General Reading:
Hear, Hear! an informal guide
to public speaking, by William
Freeman.
This Modern Music, by John T.
Howard.
Arena; an adventure in the
American theatre, by Hallie Flan
agan.
Our Contemporary Composers;
American music in the twentieth
century, by John T. Howard.
Boston Adventure, by Jean Staf
ford.
America, by Stephen V. Benet.
Writing Magazine Fiction, by
Walter S. Campbell.
The Astors; the story of the
amazing family whose name has
become a symbol for wealth and
aristocracy in America, by Har
vey O’Connor.
Left Hand, Right Hand! by Sir
Osbert Sitwell.
Doctor in Arabia, by Paul W.
Harrison.
Shakespeare in Harlem; a new
volume of poems, by Langston
Hughes.
Wings for Words; the story of
Johann Gutenberg and his inven
tion of printing, by Douglas C.
McMurtrie.
How to Carve Meat, Game and
Poultry, by M. O. Cullen.
Dostoevski; the making of a
novelist, by Ernest J. Simmons.
Conversational Spanish, by S.
Lipp and H. V. Besso.
You’re the Doctor, by Victor
Heiser.
Safe Deliverance, by Fredierick
C. Irving.
Cloudless May, by Storm Jame
son.
Sound and Fury; an informal
history of broadcasting, by Fran
cis Chase, Jr.
Civilization Against Cancer, by
Clarence C. Little.
Man’s First Million Years, by
Jannette M. Lucas.
Photographic Occupations; choos
ing your career in photography,
by Captain Burr Leyson.
The Feminine Fifties, by Fred
L. Pattee.
Rebellion in the Backlands; Bra
zil’s greatest classic, by Euclides
da Cunha.
The Artist’s Handbook, by Ralph
Mayer.
Social Sciences:
Russia and the, Peace, by Ber
nard Pares.
Race and Rumors of Race, by
Howard W. Odum.
Woodrow Wilson; as the cam
era saw him then and as we begin
to see him today, by Gerald W.
Johnson.
U. S. War Aims, by Walter Lipp-
man.
Pan America Progress, by Phil
lip L. Green.
The News and how to Under
stand it, by Quincy Howe.
The Rubber Workers; labor or
ganization and collective bargain
ing in the rubber industry, by
Harold S. Roberts.
Our Southern Highlanders, by
Horace Kephart.
The Indian States and Indian
Federation, by Sir Geoffrey De
Montmorency.
Ante-Bellum North Carolina, by
Guion G. Johnson.
Mexico Speaxs, by Guido Rosa.
The Making of Modern China,
by Owen and Eleanor Lattimore.
Studies in National Income,
edited by A. L. Bowley.
Victory Without Peace; present
ing with the drama and reality of
a newsreel the clash of forces here
and abroad, by Roger Burlingame
and Alden Stevens.
Winning the Peace in the Pa-
the light of her life. Now the light
goes out every night—for a bottle
of brew. . . . There are no rounds
of drinks on the ladder of success.
. . . Who wants to be a success ?
Busted Rib to Music
C AROLYN O’CONNELL, yes
that’s the name of the little jitter-
bugging fushia sweater at the
corps ball January 13. Also Back
wash must apologize to everyone
concerned for the “Fish” wasn’t a
fish but a frog from “C” Company.
The series of contortions result
ed in a broken rib for the lass. But
they say that she is only waiting
for the rib to heal so that she can
come from Houston to Aggieland
again to get some of that good
Aggie swinging.
The Lowdown On
Campus ‘Distractions
• By Teddy Bernstein
GUION—Playing Tuesday for
the last time is Lady in the Dark,
with Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland,
Jon Hall, Warner Baxter, and oth
ers. Ginger Rogers, a woman editor
of a swank style magazine, goes to
to psychiatrist and has her dreams
interpreted. She is slowly going
mad from the strain of her work
and what is worse she is having
difficulties in her love life trying
to decide whether she loves her
husband or her advertising man
ager or a famous movie star. She
ends up by turning her job over
to her advertising manager and
also her hand in marriage. The
picture of her dream at the psy
chiatrist is photographed and since
the picture is in technicolor is very
pretty.
Lowdown: A very good show
and if you like pretty women
you’ll like this picture.
Wednesday and Thursday is
“You Can’t Ration Love” with Bet
ty Rhodes, Johnnie Johnston, Bill
Edwards and Marjorie Weaver. The
war has brought on a shortage of
men in a certain coed college and
the girls undertake a venture to
ration the remaining men. The
girls naturally start cheating on
each other and getting more than
their share and so many funny
complications arise. \
Lowdown: A typical midweek
show.
Friday and Saturday is a double
feature. First on the bill is “Higher
and Higher” with Frankie Sinatra,
Michele Morgan, Jack Haley and
Leon Errol. A man, unable to pay
his servants, forms a corporation
with them, and together in hila
rious fashion, work out a financial
plan. A picture with a plot that a
jack-rabbit couldn’t stand for two
hours.
Lowdown: A perfectly swell pic
ture for a moron.
Second on the list, like wise on
anybodies list, is “The Unknown
Guest” with Victor Jory and Pa
mela Blake. The plot of this pic-
cific; a Chinese view of the East
ern postwar plans and require
ments for a stable security system
in the Pacific, by S. R. Chow.
The Great Decision, by James
T. Shotwell.
U. S. S. R.; the story of Soviet
Russia, by Walter Duranty.
The Great Century in Northern
Africa and in Asia; volume 6 in a
history of the Expansion of Christ
ianity, by Kenneth S. Latourette.
The Long Balkan Night, by
Leigh White.
Voiceless India, by Gertrude
Emerson.
The Constitution and World Or
ganization, by Edward S. Corwin.
Freedom’s Ferment; phases of
American social history to 1860, by
Alice F. Tyler.
Bureaucracy Runs Amuck, by
Lawrence Sullivan.
Tailor’s Progress; the story of
a famous union and the men who
made it, by Benjamin Stolberg.
Germany; the last phase, by
Gunnar Pihl.
Engineering and its Sciences:
Fightin’ Oil; the inside story of
the relationship between our pe
troleum supply and the state of
global war, by Harold L. Ickes.
Principles of Modern Industrial
Organization, by Walter Rauten-
strauch.
Fields and Waves in Modern Ra
dio; for modern radio and electron-
(See BOOKS, Page 4)
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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
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TOGETHER AGAIN
COBURN
Plus Three Stooges
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Also Comedy and Fox News
ture is that a girl is in love with
a man who is branded a criminal.
A murder mystery without a mur
der.
Lowdown: It is simply too, too
thrilling.
CAMPUS—Showing Tuesd a y
and Wednesday will be “Together
Again” with Irene Dunne, Charles
Boyer, Charles Colburn, and oth
ers. This is a comedy about a
woman mayor of a small Vermont
town who by the influence of her
impish father-in-law is tricked in
to a trip to New York, where she
buys a gay, new hat. In Greenwich
Village, she meets a sculptor, Char
les Boyer—and romance follows.
Lowdown: If your technique
needs improving, see this.
Thursday and Friday is “Are
These Our Parents” with Helen
Vinson. Lyle Talbot, and Ivan Le-
bedeff. War plant workers for
parents brings trouble to this fami
ly and their daughter becomes one
of “those” girls. A returning war
veteran turns the tide and reme
dies the situation.
Lowdown: Nothing extra.
PALACE—Playing Tuesday in
Bryan is “Till We Meet Again”
with Ray Milland, Barbara Brit
ton, and Walter Slezak. A story
of an American flyer who para
chutes into France and also into
love with a girl whose only am
bition is to be a Nun. The result
is that she falls for him like a ton
of bricks and since she knows she
can’t be a Nun and love this Amer
ican she quits the Convent and
helps the flyer to escape. The re
sult is she gets killed.
Lowdown: A very good show.
Playing Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday is “Impatient
Years” with Jean Arthur, Lee Bow
man, Charles Colburn, and Edgar
Buchanan. A soldier returning
from war finds that his wife
whom he met and married in a very
few days no longer loves him. The
judge’s advise to this married cou
ple is to go through their court
ship and try to find again their
love for one another. This plan
succeeds and the result, a rock
bound war marriage is saved.
Lowdown: A picture with a lot
of very good acting.
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LAST DAY
“LADY IN THE
DARK”
— with —
Ray Milland
Ginger Rogers
in Technicolor
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
Laugks,! Cirls!
Music! Love!
The tuneful love-
and-lough hit
from Paramount jiwl&M **
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Double Feature
— and —
“THE UNKNOWN
GUEST”
— with —
Victor Jory
Pamela Blake
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