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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1939)
A PAGE 2 EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE BATTALION RUDAY, FEB. 17, 1939 ARMY'S NEW RIFLE Lk»yd Georre. and many other thinkar*—including a. m wtu - Ik. (.mou. h... [,1..^ PREVIEWS and REVIEWS Tka >nn r ku • rifb. tk> Garud >a™>- , ' c , * ir - **“ aatabUahad and UraU,- ~ iLTiZiZ sfirx Zm, I t ^ ^ tw 5L on. K^dSTL^Tpo^ of fiaa m.n .ith •>«»" W~«< » ““ "»««■ »*» *» W “ U ™ ,nit V«« “IT think ,o. u. . M- WMB. K«~n* Dapann^at ta. Ik. old., typ. SprinrfnJd rtfU. • , *“• “ <‘"^“7 f “• U, . Cri-lnirTw^lm Brolh hy *" ’ 0, *“ (,, *' Rob ^' *^ ut ‘ h «^~ ""7 “« "CoUHj a-plo^d fWd Nnn of tha rifk haa bMn wldaly drc^ntad “*°^T ’JT,, '“*1“’ dir.'d^t^bih. “l^d •" P*««™ <»~tad b, Bo*, B.,k *~f OWHn DkkM) add inkablud h *J r° ' rto ~ Job I. to n«k. •k^rbiK.. to. «~toj*r ^C^Jz STto^S JT rlZZt: ^ ?“* “■* Ki ^” ^ «P“’ £ ^ --T. of Ik. -wa. in tk. ««». occur ban, in all ita f.roclt, and, poaaibl,. wttk Ida L”” « 1, P lh * u *' r • n '' ^ P 1 ” 1 “ G>« f.lows, who, wild Ban, otbara, ““ «f T<a*. Tka, anppl, man, “ P»‘ k» ■>»■»«» md, ba found la tha Taxaa Coafar- - r ~ ~ I Ik.' m^ml r — other criminal drunutp bat the -.u,. wildlife R«to‘*r.h lin«ei,m . . L^T^T John Garfield thing that lift, the picture from . ^ m * nw# of ^ °^ r - Gime ^ The Dead End Kid., re-run to a beet picture of the _ wn .. 1# FiU Commmion, eontnbqte maay Dt tectiv.- Phelan Gaude Rain, month ia the eivid acUng «rf John D Th . C 00 !*^ « WQdlif» Gold!.' Ann Slmridan G^fiald. .ho i. th, onl, toin. on. Ita “* rch organization, but lAn_ - ... a.^ a a. »_ ^ J • • mmmj Mwaapwaa «M *w Ml MIC RlCMirv MSU HI MvM of the arm. will be poaalble. Altogether 2545 gaujrrs. It cheered people who knew too well that army man power was greatly reduced. They believed, or per- hapo only hoped, that the new rifle might compen sate for the shrinkage in number, of trained per sonnel. It ia disappointing then to learn that only pane conclusion. Such a lack of intereot on th.i part of the atu- donts has given some substantiation of the argu- menu of critics who say derisively that this iartitu- IOjOOO of the new rifles'' are available sad it wlU U ^ *■ • #cbo01 m,te ^ •* * **»° ] ^ WWK ... month* or perhaps years before masa production higher education. They.say that th,- school attracts (;rinujmH will t» nnulhld. AlteMthar 2JUK Oauees. tho “ T‘ >un f m * a ©"Ij *» becewm ecooom- Beulah Marie Diz. Cast of characters: Johnnie “* rb,Btpictara”aiirlkaa tha madluia ab^ Urn dump.. This situation la only one of many in the de fense situation of tha country. It becomes most im portant when considered la the light of Pfcsid rit Roosevelt'* sUtement to Coogrees that “next time we cannot guarantee a long period free from attack. In which we could prepare.*’ . Future leaders? Phooey! Future automaton* in a fascist economy. CHARLES MONROE JOHNSON February 14, 1989. Mr. R. L Doss, —EXCHANGE Edltor * The Battalion. , V ■ A. A M. College, College Station, Taxaa. THE STUDENT FORUM *~ I '£ op ^, ^ you for Clarence La Roc be and myself for the swell time you. Jeep Oates, and the entire Aggie student body showed us last Saturday night We rosily item. aUo Tha graduate students ti».i, „•»*»• wad cam. D.p«tm«,t m Gloria Di.k,4 •-Urt i» tbi. fal. to lift P^- -f «»« d«^pta« ZZlnlZZ'JZ ,, antKjua out at th. dump. ?* Ur »“‘ mu *” n ' 0, IU “ d ‘ »« n.,T R.m. r ”.rTT^# KU in the *ut«. Although only two The museum al^.trades specimens Claude Rams turns in one of hts „ .v - ” ^ with other mu*c«ms, univermtiea, 1479 and private col lectors. birds catalogued, with numerous The specimen, are takoa ia other specimens remaining to be chargi at the museum on arrival worked for so long by all of the v—« ....... W u« uv ... . major studios in trying to produce best performances in the support-- , Z? muiM “ u *J ^* a crime picture that has a good Ing role of the detective who mcri- ^ ° f 769 ind 1 romance but no sentiment in any fices a career to give Johnnie an- phase of the stonr* Jcha Garfield, other chance, but other than these _ _ Warner*. nm.«t find. pra^. that t*. nwhin, aim b pajbto i. th, , ”; , " 1k - , '' , 11 AI * 0 m , b ’ U P ’ un ^ «l» <• tk. » h. I. *> fiaah-ia-the-pan b, pleura arm, IhowhTtoriW- tha I *^11 ZT" ^ bis brilliant performance as a light- ‘ Dead End Kid." sad Ana Sheri- **■* S m * 1 ‘’ B E Ludeman, aasis- TO THE BATTALION: , It'seems that at last someone has *, «‘n fit to axprest a sentimeat which behooves men of college weight prisefighter who is framed dan, both falling far shert of ex on a murder charge, betrayed by peetstions. COLLEGIATE REVIEW . , - - ~ ^ '-TT ■ age. We are referrhig to the timtly protest, of Masrs. 'Reagan, Neale, Thomas, Golson, Roger*, and Owens, in which they suggest that tha Battalion If yoa see fit, please pass ear thanks on to the rest of the Aggie* If. a long u* allbar ala* or “An, unriarait, rtkk vbka. to Bruo. Coiit,; b. im. b, -.tor from Ohio to Nan Tori to da IU .ham tor th. prt.Ua -ri- ^ H -w.n Btortoap. Bra- Although but an inftmt, tha mu tant curator in charge of turd* setim has many itemg in the col- They are disinfected, < . a .d and lection that are very unusual. Dr. ataffad with cotton. Then they are W. B. Davit, of tha" Wild Game ideutified and catalogued, and plar Department, and ( uraU)r of the hi cases slang with their skulls. Museum, has identified and det- No praaarvativea are used, bat th* cribed a new species of th* pocket »?«*•*“ frafuentiy fumigat- i Pher. Because he fimt found tHis »»**» dimllld*. sbitnin fr.im their childiah banter with tha The “tea-sipping” incident was one of th* most ****•’ ^ *PP*«®tly it wasn’t too fare toast have a torong faculty utu i s w i 7^ museuaaa* tha only »r that I have seen in a long tim«v We con- lon,f ^ or * acarpions of education with the mm* degree co iiection of this species. It also *. grata late you and Oates for the idea, and thank BeTer * 1 hundred million years old. of profeeeional feeling aa exists ^ ^ collection in the A 1 of u-< have rncoivod very up icit instructions the band for the dedication “Tea for Two.” ^BlaitoWw* if Oktokmati in other professional faculties.’ wct i ( j 0 j the Atwater pmirie as freshmen as to what our attitude toward Texas ^ ^ mm4 V)Tn< , whtt CO t> 0 **d. but it U n,MW,n * r din * ^ H * n * r(1 U»‘^^ty’a Free. J. B. ckk . ken fu, bird is Im- University should ba, and a friendly rivalry i* a ^ tra ^. ^ MTera ] w bicb the Texan and •* 1 “* t fir * ot ancient crus* < onant urges a “concerted attack” • a . nro . . good thing. However, it is only logic that taken aa ^ ^ thia ^ ^ ^ ^ taceans and fragments of many on the problem, and procedures of BX ™^ for \ A whole, tha atadeat bod, of T. U. la equal in man, to tha athletic aplrit hare—uartfertarl, in "k'o* of otbara In a rock P 'blie aduentMi. Ma^m ~" , ~ u to onr o-to Bo»h Inatitution, bar. Mr ^ A d M.-Umn onrihing rtieh bu Uto U f" " <>“•'• Magiortl, lrt«. . ... Wa Specialise la RADIO RKPAIR H061JCK RADIO SHOP Next to Variety Store PALACE 1*lack sheep” which detract from an outsider’. in ^ ay ^ Morl^^o^ltodelRs wting Adama colnty.’ ' In addition to bringing out all h ^7 T estimation of the whole sthool. Personally, we think 4^^ mamhste are calling me dafly to toll me thU Wh * i wh ^ interest of Cin- of the learning ingenuity of cram- ^ ^ ‘ t"™*™** ^ Aggie-Iaong- ^ both pa^rs for L which ^ this d.^overy minded collegia examination Texl. U mT coX horn basketball game was the “tops m good sports- ^ to be developing. You may take this as u th * t 11 Won** to a species new time seems to whet the brains of - .. . n T“ ‘T¥# Adventures of HueUu* manship. It leaves us wondering If oar own “Jeep” ^ liment from Teiu faM . to science, and to a geaua hither- fact-finding students who should “ * r ‘ K *^5 V bwr y Finn ’' Oato. ^Id b.™ dm,, to wall, although hr la TXu.d J^ „ y .^ 0 ^ .bm, uu, •• unltao.p h. Oh,o or. tor Urn. b. rp^tag marr dm. on thal, Z'Z*** ltr£ ri without a doubt as much the sportsman as URoche. ^ 7^ itudenU here ^ it _ ind matter, not clearly known on this »tudtos. . *" oltW * *,l * tta T ^ T T P r ^ > }*’ tl ^ f ^^ t ^ k . 1 boti, c b I , .7 ld a I>0 r B •»' fcf ii I could tell Saturday night, the majority «>ntin«t outside of a small area For example, an ov*r-*mbitious University of TsxaC student baa figured out that Longhorn stu are uni. Wring to aatinf, what the, to lirr. to be ^ ^ w in New York, tk. true desire, of th. »rt»rit, of th. Aggwn^, ^ „ m , tUlde „ u „„ ^ c , InpaM , ^ CMn0 , Let us hope that they are misUken, and Will ^ « fpirit of fun .. ^ the “fight," but I know Shure, the Oiriah are a'ceraM’ <*«"*■ (10,108 of them) used 20,000 •ndt-avor to talas for editorial page above tpit frim those with a sense of humor must see that there ia b* c k Ihto the football picture at P*ncila to write approximately 18,* Of a high school Sean monthly R. K. Andrews, '4S|; ‘; and 22 other.. ■ r l. rT| . ■ • ) v ^ t ''1 t TO THE BATTALION: * Recently I have conducted a poll among twenty seniors, selected at random, on their knowledge of a current conflict Altho the result may be as worthless and as anreliable as that *f the political poll taken by the Literary Digest in 1986~Hmd I ah otter, which la protected over the United States- Tha mu seum has a very fine hide of the River Otter, which was taken in Hast Texas. There ia also a speci men of the Rosetta Spoonbill, an almost extinct species. Many specimens ara found in LAST DAY - SAT. Iveutu burry PREVIEW - 11 P. M. SAT. behind our “bitter struggla" only a spirit of friendly the University of Detroit 000.000 wort* a day during the re school spirit and rivalry. On the present freshman squad c, ‘ nt 10-day mid-term examination __ . Again, may I tell you that I think you have * r * "*»■« than two dosen boys of period. They studied 130,000 books , rTf . a swell bunch of guys attending A. * M. and we Irish extraction and a good per- for 200,000 hour* in preparation ™ 7 Wght to be like them a lot. Sincerely, PAT DANIEL*, Daily Texan Editor, U. ofX, Atotin. — cenUge of them look like future for ex*mination* varsity material There are Brennans and O’Con nors. and McLaughlins, and Good- riches, and Burkes, and Callahans, and Cooleys, and Gleasons, and What’s Showing found only in the northern states, was discovered in Texas by exam ining the regurgitations of owla. The owla were found to. be feed ing extensively on the* animals, and collectors immediately tfhp- Asaembly Hall, Friday 6:80, fx-d several for the museum. v , ^ ^ , g_A a .. . • . j I , Faihire in classroom studies and financial diffi- Sbannahans. and Moores, and all hop. thU b frito—H I. hukwd dwtarbing .aJ revert. y,, two prinrtn ,, Kud ,„„ .h.4» of the nanw. Ito. have „ ... a deplorable eo«i|tjon. ^ dropping out of Ohio colleges before the eompletion brought fame to the sons of the *P J The subject was the Spanish Civil War (or, of ^ four . year program., a study reported at the “Auld Sod." l**<*xr bettor, R« be-llion), which, aad to relate, seems to be University of Cincinnati reveals. For yean the Irish dominated fai ite last stages and, if it is terminated in favor of ^ The two-year cooperative survey reveals that the Titan squad but of lat*' years the Rebels, will chain the country in the blackest pit fj Te otker factor, which contribute to college attend- then have been few of them. of faacism. Of the twenty senior most of whom ance “mortality" among Ohio student* are these in ' | i, , I did not know-three avowed that the the approximate order of their decrewring freqpencr. At least 47 colleges throughout ,, subject was absolutely alien to their minds. Six- Lack, of interest in continuing their college the country have made plan, for ^ ‘‘Spawn of the North," with Henry The museum gets its specimens JOHN GARFIELD tat DEAD END KIDS RT MUM • GLORIA DICKSON Shown Sun. • Mon. —•^••'4 NEW DIXIE SUN. - MON. - TUBS. Assembly Hall, Satiirdaj, 12:46 p. m., “Say It la French,” with Ray Milland and Otympe Bkadna. Assembly Hall, Saturday flight, 6:30-8:80, “Garten of ; the Moon," Pat (XBritn, Jbhn Payne, teen exhibited a paor-to-fair knowledge of tha situ*- WO rk, illness disciplinary action on th.i part of the providing scholarships nnd livin - Marr * i * t Lindsay, and Jimmie Fid tion, while on* w«a unusually well-informed and college*, a need for the students’ preeenc- st home. ( Xw .naes for the com.mr academic ,er would fill the qualificatims of an educated person and death in the students’ families insofar as this affair was concerned. One senior, his beoto as proudly as Field-Marshal term to European refugee students it has been announced here by the newly formed Inter.-..’.1, nate 1 mi mittee to Aid Student Refugees, a non-sectarian organization to ex- Palace, Friday and. Saturday, "Radmtovfy ) Finn.” starring Mickey Rooney and Walter Con nolly. Palace, Saturday night preview. tend and coordinate refugee work Sunday and Monday, “They Made on the campuses. Me a Criminal" with Joha Gar in most instances college ad- field, Ann Sheridan, May Robeon, wearing Goering and who, same way, had heart of thejStno- Yin X’llf mml A ffjlira Nipponese struggle, said emphatically, -thy, they V7lt rXlIOIlOM ain’t no yr*f I* Spain. You've. got the Spanishf ■/" American War mixed up with the Chinese tar." FRANCO — SPAIN’S FUTURE If the poll had been taken among grammar BY DM R. P. LL'DLUM achool student, of the lower grades, the results General FrancUco F.anco is leader of the mini-trJltlonB ^re waived tuition Gloria Dickson, Claude.. Rains, and would not be so depressing. However, bow any Spanish revolt and of the rebel government by ac- feM whfle , tudont . fllculty tbe “Dead End Kida".! literate person, much leas a college senior, could Another man was scheduled to be the leader ^ harf ni9 ^ fandj| fm foom , msnifqst auch abysmal Ignorance of such a War * of ^ government, and yet another man was to ^ and i iTing frpen8ea rj . nn - . nffp . indeed almost incredible. While hundred, of thou- have been the military leader of the revolt. But the 7^ i r , ( , col legiatoj seek, to ConnLte* o3La stud, nu ^a sands of worker, intellectuals, and studente have ,£* 7Z U ^ C ° Untry course C.1M “rivic art", opposed, with laudable courage but with a pii icity killed in an airplane aiudent. Franco ti>ok over of great ability whose ackl«WMMl||ttH of modern weaporus The terrible march of a^gra^ hao** 1 * he was an able Man in a good strategic posi- and personality put them on a level sive fascism, th* enemies of the people have had *°« 1 - He has led the revolt ever since it was a few with Rhode* scholars. Selections unlimited supplies of artillery, planes, tanks, ms- °* < L * n< I 1,0 doubt he will head the government are then-fore based on exceptions! thine guns, and many tixAisands of troops of the 40 he established, now that the revolt ia successful, academic records, well rounded In- regular Italian and German armies. Dr. Ludlum, Franco himself is a soldier, of a family whose terest in non-academic subjects, lo in his column last week and in previous issues of m * ,e member*, have been soldiers for generation*, ^ther with testimonials of excel- * j .. . the Battalion, has given a dear, brief, and accurate Hf ia a creature of his caste, of his background, tent character. Ckimto, towering marker account of the conflicting forces and ideologies of 3 »** *» the narrowness and politic^ ignonmee The commlie has called an to- OB ^ of A3 * Um ' the intarnecina ^ Mou.1, unequal atrunl, too often ..eocated -ith th. prut^nal .ol.ll*, toKollqriata contoron. to b. bold P “ U °" W ' While auch people aa Btuatoiu, Dorothj Parker. **• >»lto»aa ha la doin, -hat to beat for Spain, hut to Oereland. Pebruory 17 and 1». *»" °U"ut«« the wishes of Spain itself do not count with him in determining what is best for her. Ha ance said be 7^ Drake University student had supported the Republic aa long as the Republic newsoaner ia having a lot of fun S A X E T “GOOD” ICE CREAM Bryan Dairy Store 199 E. 26th I Bryan „ 1 , i.i-lTl zzz: To graduate from Hiram Col lege, a student must take two years of athletics, pass skill teste in many sports. The Battalion represented the national will. He was asked whether with H* new “Foundation for Ab- the elections, then just past, which had gone eon- Profeeeer*.” Qoalifi- R. L DGSS ...EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ^ ^ world’s J^lt re^bl^you have W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING .MANAGER ^ tk .. n.tl. jH. « ^ ^ask, as I Interpret eon- James CriU. BUI Murray Managing Editors ^ 7 7 . P * F^Ld Britein^ d,tlon! ' M 40 m George Fulton. B. C. Knetaar ..„..-.AaA Ad^ NUrs. constitute* a dire danger to France and Britern. the broken q{ ^ thakter#d E. C. <Jsep) oaf. . .. nt ^;;* : | ^ p Inte ^’ S f‘"/‘i ^ tWHaation; and you have to bring Tom Darrow -—Aaaiatont Sporw Bditor Franco bebeves in all the individual slogans of • Bob Oliver, Wayne Stark a,«f7°pv,*otxrr*nher Faaciam and all their implications, although he may ggj ^ influenea of leamina and IZZZTaTOtotfon^EIJgtr d«»y * n T attachment to Fascism as a whole. He will Kbolarship." UnlversitT^ Ala- Ross Howard, H. G. Howard _Cim»Ution Assistants stamp out every vestige of liberalism he can reach, Dr. Georg,- Lang chart* a C. F DsVilbiaa - - Editorial Assistant executing all the Mterals necessary to the process, count of responsibilKor today’s TUESDAY STAFF 1 Th * UysUst leaders who are nof able collegians. Pav Treadwell J^ ior Witor to reach the unhappy safety of exile «iU be shot, •‘Youth must make up Rs mind UM Thompson ...Junior Editor and th* rank-and-file Loyalist adherents will be shot to participate in public Ufa, to pori- Bob Nisbct, A. J. Robinson, J. S. OConrror, or otherwise suppressed, as each ease seems to fy smd dignify public office and !L G o B pVrJt RtehTrt LitiV W IS N Tolrlinin' 40 -J,J. pablTaMtistration. It cannot art B. G. Brady, 7 ’. is ' Otherwise, the course of event* in Spain will afford to bo cynical and aloof ia M. G. Fermann, T. N. Stu follow the familiar Fascist pattern. It ia tragic this puncture of our dvilitation.N FRIDAY STAFF enough to think of. And it la well to remember that Too much depends on intelligont Wilkinson 1 ..... ^^.^J an i o r Ed iter the United SUtea contributed to Franco's victory, cooperation and good will." Proa. C. M. O /u’p-.'Tr MHl»rr. T J»^TConctou. h.*ln, ocoodoB to Pr-kl.ot BWWW Oarkaim, L.’A Newman, Jr, Max Parkins, Alfred spocial request that it enact aa smbsrgo upon ship- consin, urges youth to taks its Ptocher, jams* Eppls», D. K. Hill. j ‘ P»ta to Spain. j part in public Ufa. . 1 % I * ■ H 1 ■ - i -1 hAdtt RootoTolfi C. A. Dykstru, Uhtoonltj of Wto. I .THE WATCH us help selection. 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