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I 1 t i i 1 • / PAGE 2 THE BATTALION EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939 UPSTREAMING /S NOT AGGIE WA Y • * On* bad ■itoation which th« student body has an °PI»rt«nity to correct without appeal to any outside person or orfaniiation t the practice wherein hitch-hikers .ution them at points before the usual hitch h king cen ter cm the outskirts of a city. 1 1 Many objections hare been voiced to upstream ing this year, not only by the student body and The Battalion but by former students. The practice is becoming so common now that the Aggie system of hitch-hiking—taking one's proper turn when it cornea—is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. In one large Texas city this weekend. Aggies war* upstreaming from the middle of the city clear out to the usual hitch-hiking point FV>r many years the usual hitch-hiking center has been where the highway goes under state maintenance and out of the city's jurisdiction Every student should work to revive the sys tem of decency in hitch-hiking which has operated heretofore through observing the simple rule of refusing to upstream. • T- LATE \ The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told recently by Bainbndge Colby, secretary ef state under President Wilson, that American mi- j trance in the World War was a mistake. That struck us as being about the most out standing paragraph to date hi the long list ef “late’* truths. . ! Far we now hare, some 21 years after the •Maghter of thousands of Americana and the ruination of billions in |A)m^iean goods, the ac mission of a man who was In a high position in KMIT that what we did was wrong In the name of all that’s good, what sort of a maas have we allowed ours«lv,*t to get into when we dedde, some 21 yean too late, that we shouldn't have gotten into a war? 1 «. la that what ia going u> happen againt Are we to let anyone who will carry us into another war only to decide 21 jshn Inter that we were wrong”? Obviously, that ia exactly what will happen. The press each day biases forth in huge black type the belief that If Mnseolmi sprained a fingat yes terday or Hitler lost a Hair out of his moustache, time two events happeuded only as indications of their attack oir the democracies One news service. International News (Meant), even has gone so far as to report that Hitler plans to conquer the Western continent eventufQy. Shall we be suckers, or shall we analyse ia aobar thought just what is behind the propaganda which is our daily bread? TYPICAL , It h as true of on* as it is the other. It Mat Wf-Urncrs who keep the Wild West wild, any'more than it is the collegians who keep college collugiate Native westerners naturally turn toward the urbanity and refinement of the East. But it's the castem-is who come out here with all aborts of “waste, n” ideas gleaned from travel pamphlets, pulp fiction, and the movie*. Tourists come dressed in all manner of out landish garb—ten-gallon hats, beaded belts,: blue di-nims. and moccasins. Fat men drive in in short pants, loud shirts, and smoked glasses. Littlq boys wear chaps and top six-guns. They doa western bets and broad leather' belts and spend their hours riding horses and buying Indian jewelry made in Brooklyn. By about 1940 r we expect them out her* with burros and tin pans | expecting to prospect for gold in the Sand las. The New Mexican town we bail from was one of the most modern little cities In the world until someone discovered the Carlsbad Caverns. Then tourists started coming in expecting to see the Wild ^ West, end now the citisenry ail rid.* horses and wear ten gallon hats and shrieking shirts. I And so it is with college. The outsider would be surprised to know that the typical collegian is e quiet, semi-eober tort of chap, if But the movies are controlling public concep tions. Consequently college is thought of as a 'ociety of crooners, athletes, and song-end-gag men who do nothing but make jokes over gin, play foot ball and saxapbones, aad sleep through lecture*- with their more serious thoughts turning to inter collegiate athletics. jil'Any night you can see an example of the FRANCE cv* »/w *.r/v|r 't rncts-CH f, OU't?DS % Heoirerrnr, r*c<l TrtKi rot. I ALGERIA FRCNCM L I B YA italih n Ready for what diplomats term "eventualities,*’ the fleets of the four greatest displays of naval n.s »r Eun.petn powers are massed m the Mediterranean m one of tbs i poaseasnma thee* ships guar^in the "great " Mag shows the p redone The AGGIE CAMPUS ROUNDUP ★ Goings On previews and reviews I clubs 'n Things SCHEDULE OF EVENTS May 10—T.C.U. va. A. popular picture over at the Pig. Bellhops, U-suty Basebell, Kyle Field, parlor operators, and stenographers from all over town come in determined to pretend they’re in (-ollege. Sc they crowd the booths to overflowing. make funny remarks in a loud voice, and laugh 1“ Senior Ring 4 M.. BY BOB NI8BET actually set loose upon ‘THE HOUND OF THE BAS- » I**"* hoend for the KERV1LLES" Dm , t» d by Sidney pose of killing Sir Henry. May 12—Eniomolomr Club Bene- ^ An ^ e ' d ' pro<lu€ed b F Darryl F. ode peculiar only to [_ ■ay ii—entomology Uufi Bene- ganuek of Twentieth Century-Fox M a**~hJ* - fit Show, Assembly Hall. T p. m. o... ’ x **, the detective exposes J- Studio*, and adapted to the screen (ferer and hie motive, by Ernest Pascal, ■toiling Tuea-jl Mess Hall, 2 p.m. until 1 a. m. day and Wednesday at the Palace. moor Agronomy Society meeting to- ^ night at T:16 p. m. in Room S12 Agr. Bldg. Dr. Geib wiU talk. fBotns- ■ , or- The next Fellowship Luncheen will be Thursday, May II; none this What’s Showing uproariously. , And nearly all freshmen have the "college” N** 18—Corpai Dance, Mess The Cast: idea of a university. That’s why they call them Ball, 9 p. m. to midnight g ir u enrv Baskerville IMUhrL. * May IS -A. 4 X. vs. Texas Uni- , Greene ' Well, it takes all kinds to make a college. But v.-rsity, Baseball, Kyle Field Sherlock Holmes _ Basil fclhhmto ASSEMBLY HAlX. Ife a good thing we hare loU of romanticafly-to- May 16-A A M. vs. Texas Uni- Beryl Stapleton-. Wendy Barrie dined outsiders to keep us typical. * j versity, Baseball Kyle Field. Dr. Watson Nigel Bruce Go** NEW MEXICO tOBO ^ 1& _ Blolog y ^ James Mortimer, M. D. ) I ■ ' tional picture she* Assembly Hall Lk> “« 1 AtwiI1 6:45 p The Ex 4-H Club Members As sociation will have election of of ficers for next year, Thursday at Parade of Opinion Tuesday and Wednesday -"There 7;li ^ room 110 Academic Bldg, res My Heart" with Fipderick XU members please be present. March and Virginia Braca.il ; jii ' • . j. Thursday and Friday—“^he Ad- Here is a show that follows the of Bares Polo” jarring The regular meeting of the Pre- May 21—Reserve Officer.' As- original story cloeer than ndfsinee Gery Coeper. t La* Club will be held Thursday nocistion Senior Luncheon, 12 noon the “Perfect Specimen”. Lovers of PALACE T. .dull pl.tfonn-«pMk«n. Mclal .orkem .„d •' 3h<,rl “ k M editorial writers in all sections of the U. S^ today's youth to the major problem for all thinking A men- —M aw *• cans. Oountiesa are the solutions of this problem 1 lW tUlttUllOH effered up in the public press and from the public pisiform, with not one of them seeming to “ring the S JL XI T £ S bellf to end the fight for the welfare of youth and .Hi I T " < night in room 208 of the Academic Building beginning at 7:20. A. F. |ko»ld n»k. K .jxdM t0-Klku ^ ^ B **" - ii1 * ^ „ d.u.ti.. .u,^, ,„d “1 ^ . . tur . “ *» “» — »» Sherlock H.lm H| WSJfUuc th. StowJt , >nd HeC^TV closest of Conan Doyle’s Mr. W. B. Risdon, accountant for the Comeron Iron Works, will ad- “LARGEST 99 the ruling generation of the future. _ _ . , ,, . .. .. , But. tays the University DaUy Trojan theM THE GLEE CW®, which dea- ^s, and; probably the closest adults are so concerned with the r once tit ion of pit# '** ** ia * on ® the most un- are the French police, who SBCRBTARY OF COMMKK< E drees the Accounting Soiety Tuea- ynuth as a problem that they fail “to realise * upporUd c * m P us riuba, still 1s tor F* ar * ^ av * u * ed theM Harry L. Hopkins has been ap- day evcaing, May 9th, at 7:15 p. thoroughly that they constitute just as math of one that doe8 liunc * “» * b »t *»?• “ ^* de * T tb<,r n,0,t ef p ci *nt pointed a member of the board of m. in the Asbury Room of the . pruhwn, «. ,„u,h .. youth roo.U,uU. th ra . ur OTUM. ^ ^ ^ 4^ -.l ' *&">} -wjfee It need to be a common crack in Europe that Americans were always bragging about how 'the United States always had the biggest] of every thing. They used to tell about the tourist who glanc ed at Rome’s Colosseum and sniffed "Huh! Not near as big as the Yale Bowl!” Of course all such pride ia mere ^Im »» ob. noxious, for a little more. For instance, -most of the students ait the university expect to be trying soon to find em ployment of some sort, to be voting ia elections, and to be assuming positions of importance in their IT communities. * rKUr “Stepping out of the university to as an active Clement of society, they face the : pros- CLUB, for Importing the beauties »P to toe fine reputation he alma mater, of the University of Texas’ Girl*’ ** f® r himself in “Submarine Pa- Glee Club for a song program and tool”, and “Kentucky*’,; hut what to grace the Cattlemen’s BaU last Greea lacks is made up by Nigel Blue* as Dr. Wateon. BHX SMALL, who hi addition The setting for the story is taken to being the campus magician and in the waste lands of Dtvonshue, a u a. Au. Ui* t * high-ranking cheat engineer, re- England, at the ancestral home of *** 0f • • tnfr ' t ° rn ™ d th * t “ T k!T P took third prise of $60 for an old E.glisVfamily, the Basker- ronmn (pression, at cannot c oose Mn ^ p^ter oa petroleum production vilts. According to an old legend. But it would seem that we may l^ave reason J* . l*" cw "' , | 1u n 1 *^1 ’ ‘ n toe! intercollegiate contest at the the family^ haunted by a ghost J. glow of pride in our latest ’largest”. ^ t l ^ 0iI Wo,W hound for . crime committed by We haven’t the Unrest army nor even the “T. ^ * *T* rn ™« t • AND THE OFFICERS AND one of their ancestor Sh. l -. K «..♦ ... ... i;u— * * , ° r,d 1 controHed Jy persons who. themw>lv*A can- JUNI0R PRO m COMMITTEE- Holme, ii introduced into th. story not get along with each other, are not tolerant, MEN 0F THE junior CLASS, when the young heir to the estate !*»• !'<' iwrtooilar sense of integrity. for arranging what bids fair to be arrives from Canada and finds a There is need for s realisation among thoarJum mo.-t elaborate Junior Bauqurt message vsun.iug Ure to stay MMy who run the world, that although youth may be aBd Prom #Ter ^ to ^ ^ fre* the moor. Disregarding all tiuly a problem, there is a bettor way to solve that , j , . thrMts. be goes to Baskerv.lle Hall problem than by workiny qn youth directly. That TOTAL JUNIOR COLLBGE EN- and falls in love with a neighbor largest navy. But we have the largest library Leas than 100 years ago the Library of ( on greaa was negligible. Today having just opened its new 28,000,000 annex, it ||.the largest in the world. The annex has shelf n*om for 10,000,000 hooka, twice as many as the main library now contains. • * Thus the United States to prepared to gather together in even greater completeness, the thing* mdn have learned and thought in the past. Such glory m this distinguishes man from the brute world, will live on here, and not in the “achieve- menta” in which he made himself one with the tiger and the hyena. —San Angelo Morning Time* The Battalion STUDENT SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. AM. COLLEGE Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at College Sution, Texas, under the Act of Con- jl frees of March 8, ’» Subscription rates, 12 a year. Advertising rates upon request. Office in Room 122 Administration buOdiag. Telephone College 8. Night phone College 099. Represented for national advertising by Nation al Advertising Service, In .420 Madison Ave., New > York City. R. L. DOSS i.. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. H. SMITH MDVBKTISIMQ MANAGER lames Crits, Bill Murrajl-a Managing Editors E. a (Jeep) OetoU i Sports Editor George Fulton, B. CLKietear Asst. A4v. Mgrs. Bob Olhrur, Wayne Stork Coasts Editors PhiUp Golman L Ataff Photopapbex I. a Dietx 4 OwulatkujMamgur Rose Howard, H. G. Howard Circulation Assistonte C. F- DeVUbiss Editorial Assistant TUESDAY STAFF Tread well —-J 1 way is to work on the economic, political and social ro n mel , u | n the United States arc girl. In the meantime Holmes dto- systrm into which youth steps as it reaches adult- ^ter this year than ever before, covers that a murderous fiend has Editor Editor ’Connor, How- Thompson ..j - Boh Nisbet, A. J. Roh.nson, J. S. D. G. Burk, J. A. Stanaell. Foster Wise, trd, B. G. Grady, Richard Liteey, W. N. George Fuermana, T. N. Studer, Lewie Hub Johnson Sperto Assistant ) FRIDAlY STAFF 'C. M. Wilkinson Jwlor Editor Frank Phelan, H. 3. Tolbot, E. A Shields, 0. A. Lopes, J. P. McGsrr, Jack Hsudfrion, BiUy Clarkson, I* A. Newmad, Jr., Max Ptrkiis. Alfred Fischer, Jems. ERphrU K. Hill. W. WlUfren, M. L. Howard, MaX McCtiltor, Tommy McCord. advertibing soucitors Tuesday Staff: Friday Staff: * aAiuna, &. L. BuHl D. 0. Jiqvenport, S. P. ’ J « k r'f Hanby, J. L. Wehrie, L* 4- hood, and remove Mme of the causes of the prob torn. Until such time as this to done, there will be a constant recurrence of the ‘problem of youth' with each new succeeding generation.” “Ga ronomical exhibitionism." “Infantile be havior.” “Digestive suicide." These are just a few • * the epithets hurled at the currevit goldfish-gulp- Uig crare by the college press. And along with the name-calling, they’re * prtoenting opinions of ‘eminent medical authorities” that participants can expert serious ailments to follow their reversion to •iIImIhu. ' The Wilson College Billboard neatly summarised the viewpoint of the editorialists in this faphian: “Wouldn't it be profitable to develop % kindred interest and enthusiasm for events and tendencies of•$ more vital importance?” Just a bit satirical, the Macslexter College Weekly pokes fun at the movement: “If a little speculation to pertntosable, we envision thq time when a broad program of intercollegiate 'goldfish ’ Wallowing’ contest* will be the order of thf day. Even nyw we can hear th* cheering, srntttping Ahou-an is of spectators' urging the team from Wboons College on to the swallowing of ond more slippery little fish in order to y win the eonljtreace title.” To aid in stamping out the crate, the tornell University Sun has rlox.d its eoluanna to all mention of'the contests which the Washington University ]L4fs calls "more appropriate to alley felinep than college students.” / I Gcnenhiing on the subject of collegiate ex hibitionism, the Oregon State College Baronu-i. r delivered i sound lecture to all who anticipate par ticipating: l tdicity that to bordering oa th* ridiculous and die insane ia not for any institution, individual or orgaMtation. It to not in the power of any organisation to check the afore-mentioned—where there to « will there to a way. The purpose and the only purpose of writing to to ask anyone inters*ted in the sensational to look upon himself as other* who read and see pictures evaluate what they read and see. Everyone to judged by what others think and not upon their own personal opinion Things are done because they are conventional. Think before you act, if you are convention#!; If you are not, don’t act, RememK. r, if people think you areia fool, then you are • fod! 1 * LEST WE FORGET! Sunday, May 14 — Mother's Day See Our Selection of MOTHER’S DAY CARDS CAMPUS VARIETY' STORE * f LIFE) INSURANCE WILL NEVER BE ANY CHEAPER THAN IT IS TODAY!, \ Invest Your Money'in One of the Largest Financial Institution, in the United States MORE THAN OfE BILLION OF INSURANCE | IN FORCE I NATIONAL LIFE [RANGE CO. Wayne. Indiana • it HERB PEAVY HO7-9 Shell Bldf. — Phone P-1416 i HOUSTON, TEXAS-: Will Be on the Campus Bach TuMd <> From Now Udtll Final Review . r i ■ ^ ^ r *J ,1 —— T'" MADE’BY MEHDl & HOBNAK fi 20 W “lot B!J MU! HOI fl S1B01 fOR DISICIIOn BOD. Of It is not too ediliito start thinking of next UHIFODMneeds. - -OrderNOW! OHiy A ML KNOT KQUIKD MIHDl I tiotm t » 4*