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1 PACKS FINAL EXAMS A wtulr from today grado point* will bo mad* and loot furiously by the MOO A. AM. ■bidrut* The oauoe of it all will b* final examinations, which begin Friday afternoon and continue through the next aevea school daya. At this time of year all students become worried orer the standing* a* of now and aa of the «)d 'of this term. This in itself la a healthful sign; worry ing about grades can lead to only one logical con- KDITORIAL PAGE OF THE BATTALION FRIDAY. JAN. 20, 1939 too. If you use this plan, call an me for my share.) But t leave the ways and means to you sad your cteasmstee You may think the whole idea is terrible. I Just thought Td mention it. ; Cordially yours, ROBERT P. LUDLUM On National Affairs AMD NOW, THE OUST BOWL CLASSIC! Adolf Hitler Ageie elusion—that more studying wiH help m*h* them By DR. R. P. LUDLUM hotter. ' ^ Last week I sketched the career of Adolf Hit- • This should be the moat serious time of the [W. It is all vary well to outline his rise to power e^i 1 term, and it is. Back work must be made up. *“»> • summary But a Hitler (or a Busy Long) term reporta are due. and major quisles are popping <loes not gala power through sheer charm or the every day. (Of course. Dead Week would twlisva Possession of a loud vole*. Forceful men may alter much of the tension of the next week by prevent- circumstances somewhat, but they can only mold tng some of tH— practices, but we cannot expdK circumstance*, already in exiistenoe, that are favor it before next term.) We should all do our part in raising the scho lastic average of the student body; December 1 showed it hi a bad light. ’able to their purpose. What underlying forces ex isted in Germany, favorable to a personality and a program like Hitler’s T There were severed. First, a great inflation had ruined the lower middle class A subsequent deflation had hit the upper giiddly class. Both groups were looking for a savior. Sacond, Hitler was supported by the wealthy industrialists. B\(t they did not originate his movement and set TO THK BATTALION: | ] up as • “front man"; they backed him after they Our attention has fallen upoa a gUtteeW rr h “ ,tr * n « th Third - “**■ rapuNic was week, postulation that appeared in your issue of January Demagoguery flourished in the republic, and its IT under the aegis of Dr. X. F. Mayo, Oxon. Thb , ' wn officials did not support it wholebearterBy. gentleman waxes a little more than eloquent* a little Fourth, there were the personalities of Hitler and leuo ****** volugiinous, shout the same as—the su- men with whom he had to deal especially, per. prem, nred.csUon is found in these words: h *P*» ^ •cm>‘*y of Hindenburg. Unless these eon- ^T^Ltc of the moon or ™~Htion. similarly suspicious for Hit. H ter, had existed, he arould not have become Leader THE STUDENT FORUM Steeps in the plain aggs of the nightingale." This potential omelet per as and of itself should ™ l "'’ bo garnished with the Tennysonian solipsism (after ore Kant) .1 “Flower in the crannied wall I pluck you out of the cramies. ■ I hold you hare, root and all, in my hand, Litis flower -but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, 1 should know what God and man in." of the German nation. (There’s a lesson for America sties as COLLEGIATE REVIEW That large numbers Of college ranking colleges made scores stud, ate have leas academic ability wWeh were superior to thooo hi Mm than the youth of their graduation ‘"^-ranking institutioaa by a mar who havo become machinists and unskilled workers to disclosed In a pamphlet. How Good Are Our Col- comments, “k the kind of leges?’ just released by the Public l*****- measured by thsaa tbs object of a college education, then it is about twice aa svps—l’te in time (and pn bably KNOW YOUR COLLEGE What are Hitter’s charac He baa no imagination, except a political one, no BY BILL MUKBAY culture, no learning, and no poise. HU private con versation U in the form of oratory, and ha is ap- set if anyone interrupts him. He has no close friends now, and ha never has had more than one The meaning of this ovarian end product of larger than any other college of Did you know that Texas A. A thU type. M. is now the largest strictly mill- |„ ot hcr words Texas A. A M. tary school in thcworidT Well, * ^ ^ ^ living together in ortwk He to not loyal te hi. clo ~ ^ we a^Uwter^r^ni^J dor " it ° riM ' w ~ rin * deed, he has had many of them murdered when they tkm of ^ M _ c „ lmmm #3dsUnt otMerritig military dtecipline than Affairs Committee. * The pamphl, t summarises^ the results of the ten-year study plan to g* to th. tons <ffhls.it instil of higher education in Pennsylvan ia made by tho-Carnegie Founds- tion for the Advancement of Teach ing. Only about half of the youth of outstanding ability are getting in to college, the pamphlet dec Ip res. while at least one-fourth of the college students are below th* av erage out-of-school youth in Abil ity. Colleges are shown to (pfer widely in the capacity of Rmfr students. In one extreme easy alt of the students in the sophaaaore class of one college ranked Ujerer in an intelligence test than.’ thu dullest student in the sophogior.. class of a superior institution. Nor do these differences appear to be due entirely to aelunlion. Thirty-four students out of; 106 high school graduates whose test scores were close to average went to colleges which ranked ia ’the upper half of Pennsylvania col leges. The remaining 77 wont to collages in the lower half. When tested again after four years,' the students who attended the top- , kid. hind-pick . Dsd Iw IvmI TtMMLL. . . m Jody •d swtegi HI o* . Listen . , , . , dared to differ with him. But he is not brave. He asetepbyaical lucubration U to be found in the region lto . wwuple. He does not exaretoe. He don of tht ‘ not drink, he does no smoke, he cares nothing for “pinnacle dim oik the intense inane.** money, he cares nothin at for clothes* he cares no- —— —”— * t- j—• ^ » * _ ■ > -Bricht effluence of bright essence thii^ for women (but he is not homosexual). He chM #f ***** h* 1 ** the OC and where wilHary science is taught U. S. G. Sa Expert lucre*te” (and inchosteJ J " w .w_ c ^ -■ Colleges maintaining unite of the * ny *>ther school in the World. Plaiiitv ji I irlo Knr *rve Officer. Training Corps There are . few not strictly o * --* r lirvuled into several tlssssi, military colleges and universities A,WIU I CUTS, ABSCTT8 For further information refe was reared a Roman Catholic, but he pays no at- •I *>• tention now to religion as a personal matter. th* M*C. A class M-C college or as to the C-C class described shove. BARTHOLOMEW IDY GARLAND university to one which grants de- that are somewhat larger than A. Within the confines of the United I Mrn made to the stiehomithyic principles of ABsehylus. This much does not describe an admirable awn, * Te “* »*»«toato* students at an A M. stone But the latest Army States an resources ample u. <up Onomatopoeia, the recapitulation of phytogeny by *r one likely to make a mark in the World. Where n • Ter »» e aga of not less than 21 and Navy Survey indudas in the pi y geeoline to American motorist* ontogeny (er vice Versa), may also be involved Hkler's strength, then? It lies in hto perfect single- W«*** ra^trea all students to pur- enrollment of those taking null- for rare than 2,000 years, accord per as and of itself in th* explication of these gas- mimiecbieas, in the kind of stemina which results *°* “^Hary training throughout t*ry seteaes here the eomperativrly ^ to Hugh D. Miser, chief of the sous globules. from devotion to a fixed purpose, in hto acute poll- the 'ours* and to be habitually in smMl R- O. T. C enrollments of .action of fuels of th. U. 8. Oeo- Yours in Hegelian ometetude, ticdl aanae, and in his ability somehow to bind men umform - maintama mil- N. T. A. C. jand John Tarteton logical Survey. The Boys in Academic 326 to him and to give them faith in him and in his ' t * r7 <ttocipline, and has as ohjse- College. Theae^are branch ^eollsgea Pointing out that Aarteg th* past ED’S NOTH; And there used to be rumor destiny. Perhaps a man apparently so unattractive lives th. development of the stu- of Texas A. A M„ and counting 20 years new discoveries of _________ __ ^ jiies of potro- that the A. A M. English Department attempted should not be able to attach^ men to him, but Hitler d ® ot m ** n * ot military training their number of military stuisnte teum have balanced consumption, te teach dear, aatural language. does. And he has a strong grip on the mass of the the r ** ul » tion ^ l - * comtoct we have about 6.400, which to sev- lf r . Ktosr says that th* extent of ' * German people. This grip come* from the final * n ‘' nr<1 “" JtoripHaary eralhundrod larger than any other ^ nation’s petroleum reeetvee AM OPEN LETTER TO MR R. M. ADAMS .ource of his strength, his ability as aa orator. It P rinci l ,1 ~- “ok Colleges having military school of any Mam. Batow net Urgely “with th* geologiA to Mr. R. M. Adams, is curious, but true, that although Hitler is a poor ^ O. T. C. units merely require this number Illinois University, a continue to aid la th* increasingly President of the Class of 1232. speaker, he caa manage a crowd aa you and I con- “** w *» rin F of uniform and the C-C class Institution, comes next, difficult problem of discovery; gtth My dear Mr. Adams, trot the movements of our fingers. observance of military discipAnu Hut although er* are a big mil- the engineer to Improve drilling You may say it to none of my business to make Lot us turn from Hitler tbs man to Hitter the ** **** c ' M,r » * nd drill* in mililasy itary college, our R. O. T. p. counts technique to such a suggestion as I am about to offer. You mpy Leader What are his policies? The core sf his whole be right., I comfort myself by thinking that you policy, to to develop a mighty nation, with himself l,chool » “ J u » l can always dispose of the idea simply by disregard- , t the head of it. Thi* requires several leseer poll- “ totegral part ing It. ^ ** “* **“ * Not long ago The Battalion had Bill Murray about the College Library it appears, could do wonders with $200 m year, un uiw mrwm* wtxvrw wnt-ni may oe growii ana it wi 4 spent for the purchase of “th* good popular fiction oi may be found, and he may p.. -.s the question Y, gwdj M to conaidora ly .wience in and non-fiction books”. That figure of $200 has of obtaining colonies for Germany before long. . stuck hi my head ever since I first read It. It aeema It requires the weakening or th* destruction *f all T J T> IT T V ¥ FTS'aTfV BO small, sad therefore so comparatively easy to th* enemies of Germany, present and potential. Hit- 1 la.V i C, W O SiTICl XvJCi V ll!i YY O by. 1*4 has weakened France, perhaps fatally. Re is is taught in these not only in quantity but to quality BD d with the ch~-tea te rontinm es -a* attested by the fast that Teas* ^provemente in refining practice of A. A M. to on* of the few fawtitu- Li part, it rests on the pries that Sat, Jan. 21 12:30 Only' oil rests *a conservation and 60V- ciency in th* discovery, <iav4*p meet and production of our future all ftokla.- j ^ Then I'thmicht of you, and of the Mass you constantly watching Russia, winning away her aDies. by FAUL represent. You sad your classmates have been four throttling what trade she has, depriving her of ••Valley of th* Giants” directed years at A. A M- The College has come to IMM mttitary advantage, when he cam. Everyone knew, ^ Wilttem Keighley Screen play something to yo*. It has done a lot for you, and whot has happened to the smaller countries. It re- by Seton L Miller and Michael ' h H 1 drive Bickfordrs up of a hug* dam. there to a ter- »*» n-todto* the orgaateatlon and s^. _ rrs::-;—izrx: perhaps you have wanted to do something for the quire* a unified nation, or so Hitler thinks. p r ,,n- r Prom novel by College. What better could you do, I wondered, than Hence the concept of an Aryan race, superiee to all b. Kyne. to make it possible for the Library to buy the others, and of course not including the Jews. The books it so badly needs, and that it could get for “Aryans” could be united in bounding sad beat- only $200 a year? ^ ing the Jew*—not to mention fat appropriating their I hash beard of this plan. The senior Mass of a property. The Jewish question is convenient pohtv- eoltoge, wishing to do something for the testiag cally, too, because it can be trotted out and a great benefit of the college, arranges to buy some sort of Stir asade over it whenever Hitler waate to take Insurance policy, the proceeds to go to the college far the minds of the people off of other and perhaps the purpose the class has in mind. Perhaps you more dangerous issues. could use that plan. But it would taka several thou- How long will Hitter remain in power? I have Tn* sand dollars to produce an income of $200 a year, an idea it may be longer than we like to thank. „ . and it may b* you’d not want to undertake to raise Da tatoiships are no brief; Mussolini is approaching 1* such a sum. (It has been done, I think; I’m told the his twentieth year in power. Of course, Hitter may . . f • trophy case in the Academic Building eras the gift be assiasinatod, but dictators take precautions a- , . _ , , . 7“." of a senior class.) Alternatively, you might begin gainst such a possibility, and Hitter to more careful ~ , j_ tk4 ® ay get tired of him. Ever, .mui-ia. u. picture is a good forces out of the valley. Mato er faduru income. ; XJ The above courses will ha tadlgbt by De. J. S. Lund *< the Agrieul- Ctete sf Chaeact-r. NEW AG ECO Bill Cardigan _ . Wayna Mcaris TWCIT'G 'I’f’2 Lee Reberte Claire Trevor '-/LfUIViSlliO ILF “Fingers” MsCarthy Frank BE OFFERED McHugh “Ou” Smith Alan Hale Aady Stone ^ Donald Crisp Charles Bickford Jack La Rue John Li tel Moth time eouM be spent in wnenv. fht next ae- hin Hi if by Interest ia instruction far farm what I should hop* would develop into a custom. You than moot. The people might raise th* $200 needed for the year 19:(9 1940, year that passes, though, enable# the Nazis to eda- '' . . . .. . i_ Department that it has been i -J * 3* ..e. Am — 1 Aea Aealleewas uws.m «w **m txv we n me m vwJ wtrtmea YhsWtYhlm t Vlxxi V* VBT W er cvF ^ .... meeter, which wiU be Dr. Fred Arnold, la Economies 432. This course wit b* » study of world trade in foreign I affairs. It will survey foreign management and farm records has trad* a*sd emphasize international ted to the repetition of l^iicul tariff* aad trade and total Economics 321, a study of jwvbtom* te relation to farm raeordsand coat aaatyte^ tor Beat awtastar. to th* desire of the United States This to th* first time te tho hto- Department of Agrtoultaie to tev* tor, of the Agricultural Ecoeeadca oa 11 ages amphsstoi tea* with Mex ico and the Latte-American esun- Amerjcaa i to to ba SaL, Jan. 21 6:30 and 8:30 aad leave it up to future classes to follow your eeltont example. After all, there are about 600 cate more and more of the people to their way of thinking. Hitter may make an unsuccessful venture technical crew or th* actors. ***7 to repeat this course to asrve Th# picture toll* of aa Eastern ,tad * n t need*. The repetition, says your Classmates, and $200 to be raised by equal m foreign policy, and his people may riae vengefully . . ... mt — tm J. W. Barger, head of the A*ri- a.—va at - — — Am 1«*1a V Was. PWa vsF m aVwJ rvmut Wise* Cl 1V Anar onm f Vl 1 * wnna iViilsftmm vevsaw ■^**"^* contributions comes to litis more than the coat of a and cast him out. Any one of the possibilities may movie, per maa. (This to my fourth year at A. A M, lie far in the future. by Chartos Bickford, who comas cultural Economics Department, to California to defraud th* home, ffrows out of th* importance that steadsrs of their redwood tirabar termer* aal farm agencies place Hires, through a kw$ technicality “Pt* 1 keeping of adequate tana he has discovered He enlists the >«*ord% as gn influencing factor te aid Of Claire Trevor, a gambling «*• cho4 c* af subjects by students 'I ,. ,:TT palace proprietor, to help him rob Another course to be ottered Office in Room 122, Administration Building. Entered as second class matter at the post office Wayne Morris, an independent mill D ** t semester to Agricultural Eeo- Tslephone Collage A Office open from U a. m. »t Collage Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of hto hold mgs but instead “omic* 432. a atudy of TmBATTALlON until 4 p. m. daily. Represented for national advertising by Na tional Advertising Service, tec, 420 Madison Ave, New York City. It L. DOSS W. H. 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