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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1939)
PAGE 4 YOU CANT LOSE |[ H If you have heard the on* about kon^ty bemic the beat policy, don't atop ua. We h^u* a caae to plead. It all hia(oa around the recent: picture mad? by W. C. Pie Ida, “You Can’t Choaa An Hoaoat/ Man.” Thia title isn’t nearly aa funny aa it Burprfeinfly enough the thing haa a| ‘ Ml Honeaty, if you will forgive-.the Remember the bright lad who fire machine, guaranteed to roll Oi the thouaanda ? He ran screaming to shortly after, hollering that he had He, an honest man, had Seen taken crooks. Then there was a in which a prominent politician crown jewels of Russia. Natural a deep, dark secret, inasmuch aelling the jewels had stolen scrutinised the baubles, and declare! them to b+ paste, the politician swept into demanding that the crook who had ; sold apprehended . So H is in cast after cose. When you read pf someone being cheated, you are H was the person’s streak of him to the point where he became joasy fleecing. | It is a by-word among professional thieves that no one is aa ripe for the plucking as amateur crooks Strict honesty has never gotten anyone into trouble Paltering honesty has very often cost maapjpoop^ their shirts, figuratively and litemlly.i Now bare is the idea. All thia bonesty-is«the- best-policy business which we have our skulls day after day, in one Wy or I is not the hokum which our peeudo.cymcal minds imagine it to be. There lies a wealth of experience behind those dull honesty-pay* platitudes which we hoar it the classrooms. Principles such as these have basis for fad Keep to the straight and aar- row. You’ll never loee a thing by it -THf DEPAULIA ■ i 1.1 U-. ' ' 4-+- Parade of Opinion f ifw 1 , B EDITORIAL PAGE THE BATTALION - — " jounNprs w>? PREVIEWS When you read ol pretty certain that larceny which led Always college eusly the proponed would require a nat c^a ration of a war our own hemisphere aggression, vided on the measure. For the “proa”, (Wis.) Teachers is a reasonable eitisens and is ligations of Certainly it should American to have a! of lives and blood." !•, Por the “epos”, the Upiveraity of Michigan Daily says: “To weaken President Roosevelt is far more the aim of the senators than any philan thropic extension of the democratic process. . . is no guarantee that a vote of the people insure s sane and cool-headed consideration in questions of war and today are debating vigor- amendment which referendum for the de- would be fought outside which would be a war of is about evenly di- Spectator of Eau Claire aayji: ’This amendment on the part of American with the rights and ob- aad responsible citisenship. be though foolish or un- referendum on the upt-ndm*' BY RAY TREADWELL “The Citadel, produced in England by unit with King Vidor Victor Saville in chan duction and from an novel of the same name jjH Wednesday at the CAST: Andrew dbciatlae 4 Denny Owen ... Rosalin! U T Emlyn TUESDAY . MARCH 28. 1939 id REVIEWS inflMK, of U, wifo, RoMltad Ra> sell, following a faulty operation on his best friend. The picture does produce some pro- highly emotional scenes and aa t (merican wh * le a vtr T entertainment 11 r Dr. A. but ^ is so very similar to many Cronin. Showing Tuc#* and ot % V"**™ ** entertahuneat Hall sometimes becomes hard to find. \'J, / 4- Roix 11 Donat Ruaaell Ralph R| bardaon What’s Showing Williams There would of war.' honesty-is-th S'r.a ' Loudly though they condemned Hitler’a grab of Caeehoaiovakia, collegians throughout tha U. S. during the past week have been more concerned over the future than they hate been over the latest step in Der Fuehrer’s march to the east. “ !Along with their eondamhMhNu of the mote, they RepreSflltativf H were qukk to point out that fesir predictions of the Oratorical Contest which will be held at the San ig,. This picture presents of aa international aspetf R is a British film ma 11 American company fron j laid in Wales, written by In Amer lean doctor with a cast«I jagllth and Americas stars in tty prodoc tion end of the deal. Hv trary to it's name sad appearance it does not deal with wor 11 polities but with the medical prof 1 as ton in stead. : The picture is chaia of highly drama concerning the medical that have been turned last two years since Light* and a couple ASSEMBLY HAUi lucMlay sad Wedn.viny, *M. S:M-’The < itsdcl." aa M-G-M picture atarring Robert Donat Sad lt.>H B |ind Ruaaell. Thursday and Friday, «:S0—“The Great Walts," aa M-G-M pktar* •tarring Fernand {Cravat, Rainer and Mitisa Rerjaa. PALACE I ut -day and Wedneeday—The Young in Heart" starring Janet ** Gaynor, Douglas Fhlrhnnha Jr, long and Paalette ares' Thursday, Frida* sad Satarday 'eaaion -The Co*hot ami the Lady* in the with Gary Ceepbr and Merle » Tle (Green O’RrhiAJv/ of oi mr af ‘ aimi- - Pedro Play House next month dur ing the Battle of Flowqrs Festival in San Antonio. pictures started thij fad. It . •MBU that the present be|pf is that Gl6€ Clllb tO Present Lijfht Opera in May you can’t make unless its the height Consolidated School PROBLEM OBSCURED Mueh of the argument for and against large ralief appropriation.^ Hpixai* irrelevant and time- wasting when the fundamental problem, unemploy ment, U restored to its proper place of emphasis, aa suggested by such comments as recently were made by the London Obeerrur: “It la difficult to no# debates on unemploy ment without irritation at their defect* of spirit and outlook,” said the British newapaLar. “If popu lar aalf-government can not evdtve a constructive power sufficient U> put willing worker* u> wait ing work and to heal the canker of an enforced parasitism, Ha repute as a political: system must be rapidly on the wane. We may hate to overhaul our financial philosophy to uproot thig scandal. The of national defense are driving ua to a new, futility of the “peace" of MHk had come true. « A & M Selected Th. Pr.M could no, ,, too mu* fin., to, ■"'T*' . j TV .ptodb,. nr, of . to rtnuto mul ton, .11 dtomuU, p^r« appeasement iK.I.ces of the de race race. Sboultz band junior, and duratk)n ^ mugt ^ with toj)k# ^ ^ ^ kut g (k)etor 11 The following quotation* neatly aummarise the Thompson, ceaat artillery stated to the early history of .Tex- to supply the plot In brief, thie. A Gilbert and Sullivan light : collegiate attitude on the Hitler coup: , sophomore were aelecu-,1 Friday aa. picture is another out oflke tame opera will be presented by the A. This new aggvandisemdnt of Maxi territory nirht ^ present A. A M. in the ' old mold. ^ 1 A M. Glee Club 4™ n <l the first points the finger of condemnation at the ‘peace by Rattle of Flowers Oratorical Con- ^ airmai nonoou ^ * tory of * 4^*9 I>h> of May with boys Maying all parts, agreement’ policies qf France and England, makes teat to be held in San Antonio on JOHN ASHTON, PROFE8- workinr in the welsh <*wl aceondine to nlanal annne them seem more short-eighted and futile than ever. Pretty soon it may be too -fete for democracy to take a firm stand." —University of Wisconsin Daily Cardinal pete with representatives from oth- Poetry Digest Annual Anthology the social set He la brairtu to his production if it mheta with favor ‘The staonger and more ducceaaful the dictator ships become, the more they are likely to want and demand. Therefore, if the policies of the demo cracies and dictatorships are carried to their logical conclusions, a world war In the near fature seems inevitable."-University of lows Daily. What will Hitler’s next move beT That is the question that, moat are seeding to anawer. The majority of the collegian* believe that he is headed for the Ukraine and its vast wealth of raw materials of one kind or another. And hi that move they see may complications: ! It willj certately rf. , ^ ,Dore th * n merf “ pnMtJgr DR. JOIN ASHTON, PROFB8- g^ian working in the IVtIsh coal according to plans'announced this April 21, ancording to an announce- »or of Agricultural Journalism was mines who after nurruige gives week by the club. \\ ment made today by C. 0. Spriggs notified yesterday that hit poem, up his high ideals with ahich he J. J. Woolket, director of the of the English depai tment ’This Day In Bethlehem Was started out and moves int i the dty Glee Club, stated that the dub Shoults and Thompson will com- Born,” is to be published in the and develops a paying pikctke in will make thia coacert an annual if R mpete < t*r college* in the final contest of Verae, 19:w Edition. and a come-back by the by the students of the college. ■H-i— — 1 aettine for the common life. .. quire us to discard old shibboleths and move upoh ,i on hi> ^ •■fc* ^ fresh lines of thought if we are to dxpel the evik that economic pedantry haa engendered in the body social ’Youth on the dole’ la a parasitic dibits ment The eveil must cease and the teoik must !*• found.”] The London paper’)* comment was, of course, directed at the unemployment sitaapm-tH] tyrat Britain. It might as well have been pointed'at the United States, where jockeying for political ad van tag* aa well as economic pedantry, gnawing Un bone of relief coats, push into the backgroand the major problem of joblessness. -FORT WORTH 8TAK TKI K< 1 kA M The name of Oohimbia College in Dubuque, lowfe i haa been changed to Loras College iu honor of the pioneer bishop and founder of Cathode higher edu cation in the northwest. Eighty par cent of the Harvard University student body claims affiliation with some religious organisa tion. T UL J ■ ■ 1 11 2 Li-' 1 1 when Carnegie Tech played Penn State iu baakethnU—in fact there wasn’t any krowd. This moat unusual of conference basketball till* •tea crowd-leas because Carnegie Tech official* barred aH spectators to prevent further spread of a recent flue outbreak. Only players, scorers, floor officials and reporters were admitted. The Battalion r 4 the postoffICr Act of Con building Entered aa second class matter •t College Station, Taxaa, under gross of March S, 187*. Subscription rates, 82 a year. Advertising rates upon request Office in Room 122 Admini Telephone College A Night phone Represented for national advei el Advertising Service, Inc., 420 ‘ York CMg. R. L DOSS _4- EDItOR-IN-CHIBF W. H. SMITH ?4 ADVERTISING MANAGER James Crite, BUI Murray Mahaging Editor. B. C. Knetaar sitting up on its legs and barking at the master is very likely to find t-. 1: slapped dowp for it imper tinence.” —University of Michigan D*Uy- | “Hitler has proved himself a strategist superior even to Napoleon, fw|* has already conquered 16,- 000,000 people without firing a shot. The rest of Europe still lies before him, with freedom of speech and press, the guns of liberty? being spiked aa he advances. Can Hitler become another Napoleon?" —Cornell University Sun. Meanwhile the University of Chicago has become the center of the movement which protests the death of Caocho-Slovakia, for on iu campus as a visiting lecturer is Dr. Eduard Bene*, former president of the war-born republic. Just what Dr. Benea' plans are have not been announced, but rumor haa it that he will fora a strong organisation to fight for the re-birth of his country. The victory in New York of famed raeket- b us ter Thomas E. Dewey in the spectacular trial of James J. Hinas, Tammany Hall politician, has made the former the number one candidate of Re publican collegians for the G. 0. P. hMuinatton for the presidency ia 1940. While congratulating Mr. Dewey for gaining anothar victory in bis long ffebt far clean govern ment in what was once one qf the most crims Md- j den cities in the U $ . college commentators pre dicted that he would add gteat strength to any tirket the Republican' could devise to head the smash-Rooseveit drive. Typical of the comment by collegians ia this statement from the University .of Minnesota "Daily": “This last conviction seems to have won him almost complete support*)! the New York Republicans and likely has added many new backers in Republican ranks throughout the nation. If the Republican party ( is convinced that New York.ia the key state for 1940 k' Will protiahly, Halted that the best way to wta it would be to nominate Mr. Dew«*. With out doubt, he will be given increasing consideration for the nomination." ‘ , Sate They developed a supersensitive WWO-CAMUm [ ROMAHCt T He farmer who runs the ^ ] riMf! Kl .tserf 3.5. She snapped him. him snapping her. It made abeauti ful picture—ti*^ 1 *P hoto * raphCr * ■gpodel stepped in- A short stocy. Photo Finish by DOUG WELCH D O YOU KNO* ^ hJPt f tUnC * behind these headlines? ■muaant sennaf* •• C ** ,T * .. UNDSCteteC 6 W4,,0l ****t*'- u the tall. Behind such news stsaa» K ^, ou . H*r, Mocn***. to,*i.(.Uktoto<«“» li —e -“Oad, 1 had him IsughtecJ What h M 0 cten t ha“' 1 ' t * joes be handle hi* Job? y on the nation • money masw. o/ Three A/fictaa. E.C. Wayne Stark. Boh Philip Rom HwranL H^ G. Howard G F. DeVUbias TUESDAY STAFF Ray Treadwell L E. Thempsoa Bob Nisbn. D. 0. lurk, J. A. ard, B i'. George Photographer A. J. Robinson, J, S. Steaseil. Poster Rkhard Liteey, W, T. N. Studer, Lewis STAFF The recent announcement that Phi Beta Kap pa, oldest and most prominent of the honorary fraternities, has organised a campaign for th* preservation of intellectual freedom drew nothing* but praise from U, S. collegium.' Many aaw in this program of most worthwhile activity a suggestion to other honorary groups, traditionally inactive, to join in a movement that promises to be a most potent force ia public thought and action Said the University of Pittsburg “News" in this respect: “We're glad to see the honorable Urbfsi, FRIDAY C. M. Wilkinson Prank Phelan, H. G TolboV 0. A. lope*, J. F. McGarr, Jack CUrkae^ L A. Newman, Jr, Max Pubtes, Fischer, Jamee Epplar, D. K. Hill, M. L Heward. Max MeOuDar, Tuan ADVERTISING SOLICITORS Tusaday Staff: Friday Sts Adams, EL. HmHl Davanport 8. P. Jenkin Hanby, J. L 1 ‘ - Wehrle. members of this orarios brancRl ties to seme thing other well awake from Phi Beta Kappa dom"-*tewciaUy —about which worried and al worry. honorable of American hon- from their key-swinging activi- lly vital. It seems to us that irmant honorary group* might lethargy and pitch m to help “defanhe of intellectual free- k>m on our college campuses Bate Kappa seems to be moet which H certainly has a right to - How ridicuktesl h«« Riplo. ^ BOOTH m«KI»« T0N ODDEST OUT ••• good team—tw* w0n SSwnstBobCoossame who keep* rabbits in better thaohi*o^V r thini Torrid ^ HOUND V*. STSS. black bear, * RUrk Mountains, SSoUfeavendS-i hacino ho«ses He slumped with $ , test year for the Tdi-pl*** the eccentric baUpteyW Wl room, hkea rival WJ they Need MeSomd- to page IS. 500 pounds of SlbtMt the best bear dog in U r in an renting animal W by rouii fiod »t qo l6 - M abremi-«eibutterbuMn«*to‘ week’s Pott for ncwi — an T« CUT UP? Color photo- WHEHE DO ^ around’’St Pete," fVx- 8^^ c^TTum to Sitting in the fun. Today’s college youth, aetive searchers for a better world in which to live, see in the election of Pope Phis XII the creation of a new force for good in • universe that is strife-tern ami war weary. THE SATVItpHY EVENING POST Q