PAGE 2 ^U/TZ/TZ^Y. BATTALION jTT i■ ' . : *■ Sumnn.T ‘•••'-'k* Weekly Newepeper Published Each Friday by Students | .; of Texas A. & M. College. Deadline 10 a. m. Thursday. Watered ah second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, | , , Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. >ffice in Room 1±2, Administration Bu.Uimg. Telephone College 8. Advertising rates upon request. . >| BILL MURRAY . IK)M BURK C.eorge Fuermann 'bub Johnson J. a Diets Bob Nisbet National Advertitinf Service, lac. Cm* eao i ave. Mew Toes. M. V. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ADVERTISING MANAGER Managing Editor - ' j Sports Editor Circulation Manager Movie Kditor IJ Peggy Campbell I Earl Cox Jitamy James - I 1 I - '•* 1 i AIbert W. Clay STAFF Sara Allen Cofer Margaret Hollingshead Delbert Whitaker .Margaret Ann Williams Sylvia Smith Herman Spo«-d< nt Advertising Managers Charles Ball owe Paul Stach propaganda and Vacations ‘Winter follows autumn, spring follows winter, autumn follows summer, summer follows spring. It is tradition. This vicious equinoctial regularity assures us 4 four months of hot, sunny days, during which it would be well for students to re all these hooka they should have perused during the past winter. (This does not include their textbooks.) After a pear of college, the student ought to be able to do me than read a book, accepting its doctrine ns truth on the author's say-so H# should be able to see through the base of modern pro paganda. Everywhere—in street-car advertisements or in pamphlets defending democracy—the technique of propaganda is becoming art. In a good general library, magazines like ••Spain," a pro-Faacist publication by General Franco’s associates, and fee "Young Com munist Review" may rest on neighboring poles of opinion. Students should realise that one of the aims of propaganda Is to garner support for its ideas. It knows no law exospt the law of ef fact tv snses. A human being generally is not logical, and the purpose of pro paganda is not to make him think, but to cause him to react as it di MpMl 1 ,i-i I . He responds best to statements that have an emotional appeal— statements that are built around "positive" words like liberty, de mocracy, Americanism. He revolts against “negative” word- like Fascist, Red. atheist. For your summer reading, here are a few suggested rules to use in propaganda analysis. Ask yaagaatf: ' 1. Who publishes the magazines or book in which the article appears? What interests do they represent? 2. Who is the author? What are his affiliations? S. What is the purpoee of the article? What techniques are used to appeal to the emotions? Are “positive” er “negative” words used? Do the opinions presented check with those of reputable authorities? The way of least resistance is to accept all statements In reading matter as facts. Freedom, however, lies in the ability to analyse, to find truth in the welter of confusion. It is the only alternative to literate stupidity. : Snarly a million dippings from newspapers and liehed in 50 different languages, covering both hemispheres glob<>, have already been catalogued and filed by Preaa of the New York World's Fair. n _3L Ten null ion volts of artificial lightning are generated and dis charged at intervals in one of the exhibit buildings at tha New York Fair, probably to the consternation of visitors. FT r—j Boys who. snmM to learn football from "old laastora* j will have that opportunity in the Academy of Sports at the World’s Fair. Free ckiseei in «■% <1 y department of the game are to be taught during Pbpitonber add October ef next year by such expert coaches and R yers as Jim Crawley of Fordham. Mai Stevens of N. Y. U., "Pop" inker of Temple. Lou Little of Columbia. "Chick" Meehan, Benny Ftfedman ef C. C. Y., Larry Kelly of Peddle. Alexander Mojciecho- wtes of the Detroit Lions and Marshall Goldberg of, the University of fSMipnw i THE SUMMER BATTALION 1 CURRENT EVENTS By Dr. A1 B. Nrtaa The neutrality question has had the nation on the horns of a dilem ma, and we have found to our dis gust, that the horns are sharp. The old neutrality law forbade our selling munitions to say nation at war (this is the reason Japan has never declared war an China). No one is satisfied wife the old law, except Japan, and all our friends are disgusted wife us. Now the administration has decided this position is tob dangerous for os and wants to blindfold the old wild bull called neutrality, grab him by the tail, and sell to anyone who is willing to risk the horns to come and get it. However, there are some people in the nation who want to know why it would not be a good idea to strip off the blindfold, slip MM pridie, cinch a saddle on the critter and ride him, sell only to our friends and let the others root, hog, or die. The real question is which is the safest and the best s, before the horns, hanging to the tail, or in the saddle guiding the brute where we want him to go. Some nations are going to be dis- tisfied whatever we do, there fore it seems logical to choose di ones we would rather have dissatisfied. A joker has bean found In the so-called Fair Trade Bill just pass ed by the Texas Legislature. Our live-wire Attorney-General, Gerald Mann, Is the gentleman who brought H out into the light of day. Like an old football player would, he keeps his eye on the political or legislative hall, just as he did s few years ago on the old S. M. U. gridiron. It seems hard to fool him by Double Shifts and it la possible that he would even detect a Double Croas if anyone should ever try to put one over. The bill in tion would permit to set the price at which retailers should sell their goods. However, someone in the legislature wrote in a clause providing that any por tion of tha new bill which eon flicts with 1 the anti-trust laws would bo null and void. Jorry Mann Is of the opinion that the "Fair Trade Bill” conflicts with fee anti-trust laws. The question is, i someone dumb, too smart, just plain SMART? The Anglo-Rasaisn Treaty h not yet been signed, hut the Rus sian Boar certainly pulled the old British Lion out of a Japanese trap down at Tientsin this week by aching a concerted drive all along the Russo-Japanese fron tier. Not “war," yon understand^ hot just plain fighting in which each side claims the victory. Japan promptly reversed her earlier stand and agreed to negotiate her differences with England. Just a islan version of the Hitlerite ueeae play." FRIDAY, JUtSE 80, —Ht—^— 1939 hob Ntxbarf ! Evanston. 01.—Northwestern University awarded a degree Satur day to Elisabeth Wehner, its most persevering student. Miss Wehner, 28, is the first student to complete a full college course at Northwestern in the night school. It took 10 yearn Three nights a week for a decade she left her job as bookkeeping machine operator and journeyed to the campus. Three aighto were spent in study, one night she reserved for a date. To win the degree of bachelor of phikmophy, Miaa Wehner spent K400 hours in classrooms and at least 3.600 hours in study. Another week - three mere •hows. In order they are "Pacific Liner'’, “The Lady's From Ken tucky”. and “Tail Spin”. It looks like a pretty good week’s program. Picking the beat of fee lot would be a hard job, but ITl take “Tail Spin”. Saturday's picture, "Pacific Lin er” is a story of a conflict between a ship’s physician and the chief en gineer in trying to curb fee pro gress of an epidemic which has broken but in the boiler rooms be low dedk. The two men quarreled from their first meeting, and even fell in love wife the same girl. The dchdly tropical disease is kept in the fire rooms by rigfci quarantine by the ship’s doctor, 1)ut the men mutinyj To bring fee story to a happy ending requires fee able acting of aa old favorite Victor McLeglen, playing fee part of the roaring ball-jawed stokehold boes. Chester Morris is fee ship’s doctor, and the men fall in love wife Wendy Barrie. “The Lady's From Kentucky" is next on the list and while it is nothing extra. It is still a pretty good show. George Raft, Ellen Drew, Hugh Herbert, and Zaxu Pitts are fee featured player*. As you probably guessed the show in volves a race horse. Ellen Drew inherits an old estate in Kentucky and with it a very valuable race horse, but she learns feat a small- » gambler, George Raft, owns half interest through an old bet. They form a partnership and make plans for racing fee bone. Their partnership is a queer one, but not half as queer as Zaxu Pitts and Hugh Herbert. Lots of racing pictures have had better acting, but vary few have bad racing scenes quite so authentic. Might say I saved fee best for fee last. "Tail Spin” is a story of three girl aviaton who each had her own particular reason for fly ing. The girts an Alice Faye, Con stance Bennett, and Nancy Kelly. Alice Faye flies for fee money in it so she can help her kid bro ther. Constance Bennett flies be cause the man she loves flies. Nancy Kelly's husband is a tost pilot. The plot of fee story lies around the sir races in Cleveland and involves Alice Pay* and Con stance Bennett in a race called the Powder Puff Derby, for women only. You guess fee rest! t’8 AT ASSEMBLY - “Pacific i •r." wife Victor Chester Merris and ■‘■*1*111 j Tuesday - - -The Lady’s From Kentucky." wife ]Geo. Baft, Ellen Drew, Hugh hart, sad '.Zaxu Pitta. . , Thursdsf - - J "Tailsiin.” Wife Alice Faye. Constonce Bennett, and Nancy Kell •. Atfgie Killed, Another Badly Hurt, in Wfeck {Thomas L. Renshaw, an J i. A M. agricultural administration itodent in Company E Infantry, wa i killed in an automobile accidei t last Thursday night between Mount Pleasant and Pittsburg. T^cas. George Lilienstern, whe Shaw’s roommate here yeai before last, was Critically injured in fee wreck and is not expected. to live. (111 '7 Radio Repairing PARTS AND TUlfBS STUDENT COfOP Phone College 13 9 North Gate Aama ’N’ Andy, blackface cem- edy team, played the stellar roles in fee first experimental commer cial television 'program ever at tempted in fee United States when they appeared before fee Icono scope at thV New York World’s Fair. DAVID THRIFT OF BAN AN- tonio, graduate of ’39 in agricul tural administration and cadet colonel of fee Corps during fee past regular session, will be back at College Station next term to accept a position aa assistant sec retary of fee College Y. M. C. A., and will assist in formulating new plans of the Y. He haa been visit ing here fee past few day* I j FEATURING MRS. PARKHILL*S MEALS la LILLY i Ice Cream Store North (title COOL PLACE To Eat ECHO TEA ROOM North-East Come r of ( ampus oat Highway % Quality Cleaning’ _ £ ifn At The LOWEST PRICES > da r