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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1939)
WE BURN (N SHAME t -Editorial Page of THE BATTAUON- Ertrj now and then aome colossal busts Made in The Battalion, just as they are in • ether newspaper. The busts are eery rarely due Incorrect reporting of fact, often due to our neeen* •arily hasty proof-readiac* ' , j ‘ In our last Friday issue, however, we set a new record. From two souires one from- Students, one from a faculty member—^re have learned that no fewer than 17 errors found tbnr way into print Before we allow oar readers to believe anything tee bad about us, we hasten to explain that the ehief raison was that since the Christmas holiday* we have beea working short-handed. Never again, we hope, wll s similar issee get That is why this business of Keyor Hague and tfco U. & Court is Worth a second gHaepj . As aa Individual, Hague is unimportant—Just one more of the ell u>o-femflier Municipal bosses ■ f Arm. lean political history. Whet matters is the fact that the kind of rule he has stood for is a blow at the ( veVy roots of our American ayatem. Now that the court has spoken, ws may at least hope that that rule will be subotantipAy modified—a!- though the about it. mayor does not seem to be in sny burry _HOWIO IMPROVE OUt RELATIONS WITH LAflN AMERICA |l§ -Tuesday. Jaa—iy; 10. 1939 1 1 MBAICAH CttlLI COV4 CARrit : , t || But uhleaa we clearly realite the danger, the rt ruling will not do milch good In the long , our democracy won’t bo saved by court rulings any more than by battleships sad airplanes. Only an alert, active awareness oa our part ef what the essence of democrsry Is can be a reliable safeguard. -SHAMROCK TEXAN w*T w.fc* TO I ^ I In * «§-i \tur>r>in« -SSIT PREVIEWS and REVIEWS — a. & m:s part Am the oldest state-supported college in Texan, A. A M. will play her roll In the inauguration! of tho •Hillbilly" Governor, W. Lee O’Daniel in Austin Jan. 17. The A. A M. Band, totaling over 200 mem ben and the beat known band in the south, will V* on hand to serve its part aa a new governor is in ducted into office. With the Band will be the whife •lad members of the Roes Volunteers Company ft A. A M., who will form the guard of hon»i foi Governor-elect O’Darnel. » This is not the tint timo that the two orinmuti toon* have been-so honored. Being wkk^f.cnow i throughout the state for many yean, the Bead bio played at several inaugurations of Texas governors, but for the members of the present Band, it will be a new experience and accomplishment REARMAMENT PLAN As President Roosevelt was asking in to Congves for s larger and greater d« country, be was forming plans whk As President Roosevelt was asking in his larger and greater defense for this country, he was forming plans which an to be put in offset if his wishes are granted. President Roosevelt's plans are to build s defense great enough to protect the entire Western Hemisphere. Along with this program ig the plan to train pilots in the different univereitles and colleges throughout the nation, ^b* youth of three schools will build up a force fat the background which will strengthen our national defense to e much higher degree. But whether students ef this nation's colleges and universities approve of such S plan remains «s yet to l** s®®n. Possibly what little they might have Assembly Hall Tuesday and Wednesday . “Held That ( o-Ed.* Dieted by George Marshal. Serosa flay oy Kart Tun berg. Origtmij Story by Kart Tunbarg and Don E^tlinger. Musis and Lyrics by (iordon sad Marshall, tha That Co-Ed". The picture “Yi With You" will is a truly great I •Hold director <tf *1 Cant Take It attention, it n* K**'. bANMMMfom lUOTfOOHMV BAHAMA* \ AtHTTEK C#glpU»UA* COfTEl HKSHT MlfcP.HOtMD* aVSSHaVVIILY ittle The Roes Volunteer Company formed the guard to say concerning the proixisition would have little ef honor at the first inauguration of (iovernor brerm? on the plans, but K is thro.igh their actions James V. Allred in 19S&. • j 1 ghat the plan will go forward to be made a success. As recognition comes again to these two case-; ■ it has been learned that the Students Opinion pus organisations, they are busily completing plain to play their parts in the inauguration ceremonies. COLLEGIATE REVIEW DEMOCRACY While are are talking about defending Am. « democracy against the rest of the totalitarian states. It would be a fine thing for us to spend a little time Surveys will seek to make a coast to coast survey of college students on the subject of whether or not they favor the experiment of training civilian aviators in the Asaerican colleges.' Whatever is the outcome of (h** question, it shoull be one intereet- iag to bear watching. -rf !Dr. T. F. Mayo’s Column 77m court’s ruling itself is familiar unfortunately, is Mayor Hague’s habit of out of town all speakers, organisers, or leaders ^tly cdleeted from s number of distinguished men. Perhaps their new slogan is “Don't buy an orchid and miss s meal.” Anyway, students at Wil liam and Mary have banned the wearing of corsagee to week-end dancee. And another school to pass a similar rule is Washington State. What? No one to come up in de fense of "My it with floweret” MM**.*LMSwnL . INMlMj - [ Cast of Charadtare ' Governor 1.. John Barrymo c Rusty —4 George Murphy Marjorie r X. Marjorie Weaver Lisaie Olsen Jodi Davis WIMr ^adh Haley Breckenridge George Barbier Idds — Rutl Terry Dean Fletcher .._U. Donald Meeks Dink f— JoAtad^tosMU ■dMT —4 Paul Hurst Mike 1. Guinn Willisms Just what the writer of “Hold That Co-Ed” had in mind vhile he was writing the story |» hard to tell, but out of this story there emerges some of the most hilarious scenes ever shown. They artj some what silly and without Me but after once* entering the rpuit of the picture, you will forget the silliness and laugh, too. As the Governor of a * State, John Barrymore does more than give that honored position the 'work'. He is good and this shows him to be the vereatile actoi^on the screen. His antics steal tho show tX)L- ML the student who studies until the wee hours of fee morn, then drops from the so-Chlled Comedians and off to sloop and misaes that "stud- thmt *« dien< * ied-for" quiz. But imagine the dis appointment of this class in Grin- neD Vniversiy. A prof has assign- disturbance a^d keep tbeh- pUce to class meets, the comedy world. . in «ach a is fully awanp that he is doing it. Jock Haley ami Joan Davis do their hit to treating a laughable ed a quiz. When the When he gets an ;l ‘The Now Republic (my favorite sheet) has re- whooe ideas don’t happen to look American to h*n. fcoota whkh, to theirrtp^lWe oWntoLi Wh^t^S SHOWillg But the relationship between the sort of thing whfcb ^ “oontributed something nfw to AnmriaW j *» >■ - j | the court bMIB^l »nd the overseas variety of diets- thinking—i» ©u*,- words, the books which changed Palace, Tuesday and Wednesday, tonhip is sosMthing that cannot too often be ex- our minds . •. * ] j i “The Girl Downstairs", with Fkaa- 1 It may interest you Aggie* y. look at the list cikaa Gael and Franchot Tone, t- -i—- titles compiled by the ’New Republic on Assembly HaO, Tuesday and if everyone has studied. U "‘•F totere*ing to affirmative re- ^ #f that this picture had the h»4p of a Everyone has hoard the story of ***• ^ ,UUa th * t ^ffitosae. there former A. A M» student, hit name -■ » no need of giving one. So he iB Gen* Bryant, remember#He is doesn’t What a life. acting aa the assistant to Georgs ■I We make a great mistake if that takes uniformed storm troops, egomaniac spellbind^ srs, apd an involved, hysterical ideology to make a dictatorship. A rising dictatorship acquires n o things along the way, of course, but R starts with aoarething much simpler. ^ That something is little more than the ides that society can best protect itself by granting a hearing only to those people *r organisations who say «4uf| the great majority wants to bear. Bometim.-s th. idea sounds pretty reasonable. Every tociewwMM to protect itself; cracking down on dissenters and trouble maker* eften looks like the best wap.’ But all the rest follows from that. Shut up tho unimportant soap-boxer, aad the next step is to aim* sp the man who really voices a grievance that deserves to be listened to. Shut him up, and the next step is to silence everyone who disagrees with the ing majority. And when you have done that, the teg majority may cease to be s majority without to rula—and you have a dictatorship The thing to remember is, democracy dtes at the bottom, act at the top. Pressure from the outside i» Mt one-tenth as dangerous as decay from within. A navy and an air fleet, if they are strong enough will take care of the msacle men from overseas; nothing on earth will tare democracy at home ex cept a dear realisation of the vital importance of preaerving the freedom of even the least important members of society. the basis of all the lists which* Were sent to h. Wednesday, "Hold That Co-Ed", All these boeka, I beheve, are in oer College Library, with John Barrymore. George Mur Beginning with thin week’a issue,‘I understand that phy, MarM*t| Waavtr, Joan Da- the New Republic will publish s| discussion of one via and Jack Haley (Reviewed to- of these books each wedi . j I i ! d * jr ^ Here is the list; the brief comments in purer.- Palace, Tbunday, Friday aad these are mine; I ft ! Saturday, "You Can’t Take It 1 1. Spangler’s The Decline of the West" With You”, with Lionel Barrymore, (Vast and learned interpretation of world hia- Mischa Auer, tory by a great and gloomy Getmau? fcholar who ' ~ believes that civilisations live and die hi rhythmical - - - - — cycles, and that Western (Xvftoation has now reached the stage which precede' dissolution). ” % Freud’s "The Intw-preSatioCi of Drenma” (On* of the key books of iigmund Freud’s psy choanalytic school of psychology, which is based on the idea (among others) that we are conscious of owy s small part of our owni thoughts, desires, and emotion* ) 1 Patronize the Shop* - ' Where You Are Always Assured Of / \ Quality and Satisfaction Campus Barber f “In the Y” S. Charles Beard’s "An Economtevlhtarpcuta- THE BATTALION I tion of the Constitution" (This column has already . disetofap Beard's economic interpretation of hiatity. This book ap plies ssch an interpretation to th*' most Important and *a<M(l of all American doeuto<’nts, and presents each section of th* Constitution as the product, not ef the various groups of Americans who combined to frame K.) 4. John Dewey’s work in general, with special atteation to “Studie* to Logics! Theory". (Sbrry, but I haven't read*this book of John Dewey 1 *. I have a feeling, however, that for “the man «t the street”—on nly own'.street, at any rate, ••-“Human Nature and Conduct 1 would be both an a better book to i read for Dewey’s ' Entered as second class matter at the pqst office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress ^ - M T I *•**’> L I J B . Subscription rate*, $2.00 per y^r j, > k Boas’ “The Mind of Primitive Man” ’ ~ .. r * t ** •F° # J i Cfbia is a grand book, easily «> • •-'■*ihle to any- t'ffice in Room 12J. Administretion Building body. It dRdsrtakes to prove, IjremsmMy, (among Telephone Collegu tv Qffioe open from 11 a. m. other things,) that the “superioj- race” idea is rot, sntil 4 p. m. daily. \ J ' . if you mean superior in blood jAccording to Boas, ' J, R^P^nfrd foe 1 national advertising by Na- «>*. races have simply lived inimore advantegeous tk-nal Advertising Service, toe, 420 Madison Ave, ^ .timulaling environment* then others. I L New York CHy. L. DOSS. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 1 l hou«bt” W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING MiNiOCt i j I (Though I more stimulating environment 6. Farrington’s “Main Cujren ts in American have read only (wo volume* of this Bill Payne, James Grits Managing Editors George Fulton, B. C. Knetaar Assistant Advertising MauRg^ii . 1 Bob Oliver, Wayne Stark Associate Editors t. C. (Jaap) Oates h— Sport* Philip Gutottn. staff Photographer J. C Diets Circulation Manager Don McChoeney, H. G. Howard Circulation Assistant* a F. DoVUbiss Proof TUESDAY STAFF Torn Darrow...: Spevta Assistant Bill Murray—L. ljutbr Editor A.'G. Warren wdrk, I agree that it is a ftoe history of ideas in this country. The parts ah<>ut John Marshall and about DaMiel Webster and the original sanctification of the Supreme Court; John Calhoun; and itorticulariy good. It if you really want h treats.) of Literary Crit- f-reader about Emerson struck me as is aot at all hard to read, to know about the matters of 7. Rfcfcai*’fTht icism” Pretty tough going, if you, ask me. But it hai had a lot of influeace on teach .o s of English liters tare, and is probably dentmed to have still more.)] 8. Turner’s "The Frontier to American His tory’’ (A good book for aay good reading, too. Now that _ peered from American Histofy read, and old free and ‘rugged r beginning to F. « G. tU ‘ ” ^ * *»“'• «• <*■“ *« Lewis Cbevaillier, E. A. Shields, J. A. Stansell, t- H. Ingisfteld, Fo^ Wis^ A. J. Robinson, & P. Davenport, J. W. Jenkins, L J. Wehrl* Aaaistants FRIDAY STAFF 0. W. Wilkinson Hay Treadwell Paul Kttolatn. Frank Phelan, J. F. 1 individualism’ 1 noratc matters was perhaps woAable only while tto frontier was still out there waiting to take up tie alack.) i | 9. “The Education of Henry Adams" (The autobiography of perhaps the most civ L. A. Scholl. Mason Jonas, G. W. DeA L A. Newman, R. W. Burchfield, Jack «. W. Gerlich, W. C. logan, R. L Advertising Assistants Junior Editor UiSed man that this country has yet produced. Not* Junior .Editor that it was his whole life to whkh he applied the Junior Editor name of "education"?) Junior Editor .JO Sumner's “Folkways” (e eUaakel study of Billy Clarkson, primitive customs whuh throws much light Jr- of \ our own.) U Veblen’* "Theonrj (Haven’t read it For engineers, Veblcn’s "Engineers and the ihice Enterprise recommend 4 DEADLINES.... % l JOHN GEORGE MUR MARJORIE WEA JOAN DAVIS,MCE Tues. & WedJ Jan. 10th & 11th / I / FOR THE ^ .1 r 1' a VANITY S EMI0 R FAIR 1 FAVORITES CLUBS, I SOCIETIES, n f f» CLUB . .FEB. LONGHORN WANTS TO USE YOUR SNAPSHOTS! Reserve*pour copy of your school annual at room 126, Administration Building (if yon did not pay th* student activity fee). I 4 U \ - X rtf • •1