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THE SI MMER BATTALION
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939
Polish Guarantee
The importance of Neville ChamberUtn’e Mon
day speech to Parliament most bo "t'ornijed in
Berlin, Rome and Warsaw alike. On the question
M ■■•Bic. the Prime Minister burned every bridge
behind John Boll and ranged Great Britain squarely
beside the Polish Republic in any fight necessary
to assume the exclusion of the Reich from Dsnxig
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Father Progress
With this issue of The Summer Battglion, the
paper is increased in site to that of the long-session
Battalion, seven columns, instead of the five-column
tabloid-size paper it has been during the paft five
weeks.
With the beginning of the current summer ses
sion a summer-school newspaper was published for
the first time in the 63 year history of Texas A. k M.
' This new experiment has been tried and has
proved successful. Its success !hhs warranted this
increase in site to seven columns, which will be
maintained during the coming summer semester.
The Summer Battalion staff extends iU sincere
and hearty thanks to the student body for its fine
support of the paper, and to the advertisers of
College Station and Bryan for their support of a
new publication. V
left for Nazi euphemism to take over Danzig without
■ fight
The Chamberlain speech was necesmtpted by in-
• l ! .«• •cunt.- from Berlin of what Britain would
do to let B*e Reich take the Free City. Drunk with
the Munich triumph, the Nazis have beea assuring
Danzigers that the British gusrsnteet to Poland
mean nothing, that Britain would be glad of any
excuse to save face and not back Warsaw. On this
assumption the growing immigrant Free Corps la
Danzig could start an internal revolution and as
pect to oust the Polish control.
Certainly the Chamberlain forthright speech
dismisses that possibility. The Reich ik But on no
tice that any attempt to take over Danzig from
within or without will be regarded an violative of
Polish rights and that England expects to carry out
its pledges with arms if need he. The language Is
too clear and concise to let doubt exist.
Under the circumstances the issue
Hitler is no longer one of conquest
He knows beyond the permdventure
he must fight if he..geU Danzig. The
war or peace has now been placed up to
The Dallas Mtn ing News
Headed by Peggy Campbell and
capably aaaiatod by Delbert Whit-
| aker and Charles BaUowe, the 18
members of the Summer Pasture
did a fine job
One of lift’s minor tragedies al
most happened recently when sev
eral at the summer school k-.ys and! This week marks the
girls attended the dance given for semester of summer
the 2>0») 4-11 ( lub members who «nd of the beginning.
Oy Boh Nu/be+
utCU/
producing s da ace which was thor-
were on the campus last week. Get j The Assembly Hall signs! off the
ting into the dance was compare- first semester with **The Arizona
oughly enjoyed by nearly everyone tively easy, but getting out al- Wildcat," "Confessions oft a Nazi
and which was enough of a succeas mo,t provod to he im,>o*s,ble. The!Spy," at d “Cafe Society."fw.thout
to warrant another prom neat se- *** t Aai everyone who at- taxh* my imagination gny, I'd
mester. HM j t h< d “ ric « *upf*>«*d to my -Cafe Society" beats fiere all 3
• be a 4-H Club member aad. when j aB€ Withers plays the; lend in
• Jimmy Jsmes was wondering the ^ "" ****’ ** • nd "The Anions Wildcat."
other day why it U that telephone ^ ,0 b, ‘ march#d 10 Hke Jane Withers, this
operators insist on pronouncing rw, P^ t,v * dorm, lories-but sep- ^ mtmry i,
“nine" as though the *ord were * rmU,iy At » ny raU after "*»•»»- West, where Jane lends
spelled “niyen* On calling one up in * gt th * <la * e * f tew ™‘nutes. band and geta iaA^lots
and questioning her we leamod that * nt ^ ** v eriil others <l«- l^*o Carrillo keeps the
the number is often confused with to ltmv * ** alrao ‘ t could ' nl being very bad, but still
Department
One University of Missouri coed is accompanied
IS classes by a pet mouse ... A Harvard freshman
claims the unofficial milk-guxsling
seven glasaas per meal . , . Salem CoUegs students
recently held a Chinese checkers
Severs I Prince to mans caused a traffic jam when they
Ml-a life-like, catsup-splattered doll lying on a
highway . . . Swarthmore pranksters locked their
schoolmate* in the campus eatary,
- Pointed Paragraphs
Puzzled because whenever his men
burlesque house the girls were always fully dressed.
Inspector Edward Handley-of the San Francisco
police force sneakod in thpougt) an alley bnd{ night
and found the dancers nude. He learned that form
erly the cashier had pressed a buzzer each time
the raiders entered and that dresses, suspended from
the ceiling, had dropped over the girls. -Fhthfinder.
A scarecrow installed in a fruit orchard at the
agricultural station xt East Lansing, Mich., holds
a small "gun" operated by carbide gas, which ex
plodes automatically every few minutes. Birds that
jeer at old-fashioned scarecrows keep well away
from this one.—Country H,ome Magazine.
HomH East.lUfsi South
Summer Reading
e
the numeral five unless the pronun
ciation is exaggerated—which in
formation la passed on to you for
what it’s worth*'
convince the ms Irons on
outlaw
trouble.
from
is “just
• another show.'
main ili.-r that they wm not mem. i ^ |how „„
ban of a 4-B Club \,.uah«ta* Q f , Nuj
long two or three hour stay at #how ^ ^ sobject
the dance, the girt, almost re^wted wh „ n ^
to strong-arm tact*, to persuade in BrTM) ^ ^ wjnt ^ bu( ^
ried, finds out what happened and
ducks Mian Carroll In ■ “wee bit"
I of the Atlantic Ocean. Then he
es her jealous by running
around with Shirley Rosa. Then he I
convinces her his way is beet, so
everything turns out for the beat.
It's a pretty good show.
FOUR AGGIES—-COKER MOSS.
S. A- O’Rtar, and John Arendale,
students taking technical journal
ism here, and Bill Murray, Bat-
[iMmi adEar—BMKle a journalism
field trip to Houston last Monday.
They visited and [inspected the
Houston Post, Houston Chronicle,
iagd Oul^. Publishing Company
plants.
{their would-be “jailors’* that they
were students of the college.
Incidentally, it was a fine dance
and. accordin' to *»», at th. ~m-| tSe H itl«.
pus people Who have been here for: (o uke a()vanUrt ,
my opinion it doesn’t
{ bad things said about
put out this show, not
merit a
it mall]
a long time, the crowd
the
shied at a dance
By
DR. AL a NELSON
Abandoned, one
umbrella, by Drime Minister Neville
Chamberlain of England. In answer
to a question in the House of Com
mons, Chamberlain “burned his
bridges behind him” and came out
with the blunt announcement that
pny grab at Danzig, without Poland's
free consent, would mean wag. Eng-
' land and France then undertook to
provide money in aiding Poland to maintain her
army in readiness for war. The man who won the!
Munich booby prise is now standing out ia'tht open,
daring the W*r-Goda of Europe to “let li rain.”
Someone must have been fading the maq raw meat
lately,^he isn't acting in character at all
will his backbone be aa stiff in the fegotiatiena with
Japan which were scheduled to begin at Tokio on
Thursday of this week ?
By Dr. T. F. Mayo
"The Yearling." by Rawlings. An honest, warm
rted story of Florida crackers by the author of
South Moon Under," which by the way, is also good.
“My Aaserica." by Adamic. A Czecho-$k>vak im-
iglgpant’s - frank but affectionate picture of this
country as seen through the eyes of a hopeful and
intelligent newcomer.
“Thirty-five Thousand Days in Texas." by Ache-
son. An entertaining history of the Dallas News
aad its forebears.
“Libor's New Millions." by Torse Just what
everybody wants to know about the C.l.O, the A.F.
of L, and the meaning behind all the headlines about
’^iit-downs," “ydlow dogs," and so on.
' “Tsoilas aad Creaaida." by William Shake
speare (of all people!) A sorry female, very good-
looking by the Way, with just enough decency about
her to wish occasionally, feebly and ineffectually,
that she were nut such a congenital two-timer. Also
contains the fiaest defense in the World of the
aristocratic principle of society—which 1 don’t be
lieve in, )>ut which the Aggies cherish, Shakespeare
ohlls H the principle of “degree." Ulysaes speaks the
■■amt *
^ The Tyranny of Words," by Stuart Chase. Mr.
Chase, who alwnyh clarifies and illuminates, shows
in this little book how words, which by rights ought
to create understanding, are actually more fre
quently used to obscure the truth.
"The Rise of American Oil." by Fanning All
you need to know about the story of nur most sen-
t national industry.
Here’s a picture of the Battalion
mascot. Backwash Charlie, whom
I mentioned in last week’s column
and who is the personal property
of the editor.
•
"I A statistical item which is prob
ably of interest to the college
gentry is the decline in the popu
lation of C ramp Walton which
tht new semester will witness.
Four of the present 14 inhabitants
will return and three new girls
will move in to bring the total to
seven.
largest ever i
in the Mess Hall
•
Notes taken at the Summer Pas
ture Prom . ; . Troy -Wakefield
was overheard saying “this dance
is the barniest. corniest, and one
of the best I have ever attended”
. . . hare fact were much in evi
dence and so was “jitterbuggin”. .
. . . Jack Calhoun and his date
arrived in true bam dance style
by coming in the college milk
wagon * . . senior president of the
class of *3T, W. A. “Doc" Ruh-
mann was on the campus for a
few hours and attended the dance
. . . the orchestra arrived on time
only to find that no piano was in
evidence and the resulting hurry
ing and scurrying would have made
a champion track man blush with
|axvy. |
•
From the T. 8. C. W. campus
comes the news that Juaaita Talia
ferro of Denton has been named the
most beautiful girl attending that
college’s summer session. Evalie
Rushing of Lott was elected most
popqlhfj
topic of discussion to mahh * little
' money. If you have eVer
of the “hooded men,"
that this is just the
j branded with a Nazi s
ward 0. Robinson was
picture to help make it
I ter. 1
“Cafe Society" involve^ Mi
line Carroll, Fred MacMumay,
ss ift a story of
bright lights of New York M<
line Carroll plays a society-m
ed debutante who aaitM a ship
reporter just for the fublietty.
Fred MacMurray, who g^t* mar-
THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS
have already completed all require
ments for the master of science de
gree, since the June Commence-
utt: D. H. Bhawnani, majoring
hi agronomy; T. L Edmonson, al
so majoring in agronomy; and A.
J. T. Toombs, majoring in chemi
cal engineering.
ENCTNAL, IN THE 1 LAREDO
and South Texas arm, was the hot
test spot in the state Sunday -with
a temperature of 114 degreea.
Uvalde and Hondo reported 112.
Six other towns recorded 110, with
a score or more cities reporting
11 or ahosre.
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What’s Showing
AT THE ASSEMBLY
Saturday— The
Wildmt,” with Jane
and Leo Carillo.
Tuesday— “Confess i0 iis 0 f
a Nasi Spi," with Edw*d G.
Kobinson.
Thu I-d« •. '(aft- s.ci.ty,"
With Madeleine Carrol^Fred
MndMurrsy. and Shirley
Rosa.
r
Eyes Examined—
- Glhmaa fitted
DR. J. W. PAYNE
OPTOMETRIST
Masonic Bldg., Bryaa, Texas
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AROUND THE CAMPUS **
EM U<
V. B. Woods, assistant in the
Sociology iKpsrtment, who has
been in charge at all the pro
ject houses, will leave Saturday
to acept a position with the N.Y.A.
Administration out of Houston.
COLLEGIATE REVIEW
As an indication of success which !
may come to students who are
willing and able to take sound
fundamental, and prepa r a t i v e
courses to equip themselves for
graduate work, it is interesting to
cite the experience of J. D. Augh-
try, Jrj who graduated here with
s major in agronomy in the class
of ’39. I ' /l
After preparing himself for tech
nical work in soils,Aughtry applied
Dr. John Ashton, Sociology pro- for graduate fellowships at three
feasor teaching Agricultural Jour- of the highest ran^gig agricul-
u
Chap pel Young, who started
working with the Sociology De
partment last year, is now work
ing with the Old Age Assistance
Commission
For Fast Service
✓ and
QUALITY CLEANING
Call College 304
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Aggie Cleaners
EIGHT INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS INDI-
viduals are listed on the 1939-40 Drama-Lecture-
Music course of Baylor University, being inaugurat
ed next fall to replace two other civic entertainment
groups in which the university had interest. The
course program was announced recently by a faculty
committee headed by Dr. A. J. Armstrong. Students
will be admitted free.
L 1 Listed are Boake Carter, radio news commenta
tor; Herbert Agar, Pulitzer prize winner in journal-
I ism and editor of the Louisville, Ky.. < ourier Jour-
[ nal; Frank W. Asper, organist at the Mormon
1 Tabernacle in Salt Lake City; Helen Jepeon, popular
; singer; Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic
CordeU Hull has wasted another sheet of paper j Monthly; Eva LeGalliene, actress, i* t|a play “L’
Aiglon;" Rollo Walter Brown, author and lecturer;
and Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor in
President Roosevelt’s cabinet
nal ism, will -pond the latter part
of the summer iq Austin studying
records in the State and University
Libraries on early live stock indus
tries in Texas in connection with
a history that he ia writing on the
derveiopment of cattle industry in
the Southwest
• p * •
C. N. Shtpardson, head of the
tural colleges in the ri States:
Cornell Uhiversit/T^E State
Univeraity, and Ohio State Col
lege. Meanwhile Aughtry showed
profidenc# in the field of cotton
by earning a position on the
eighth annual Foreign Cottoa
Study Tour sponsored by tbs
Agronomy Department.
Before this group sailed for]
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WELCOME, SUMMER SCHOQ
wru DENTS
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!Hak£ Our Plate Your Headquarters At The
North Gate
AGGIELiAND PHARMACY
STETLER, Mgr.
I .
Dairy Husbandry Department, has Europ€ on w Mr Aughtry
just returned from a trip to Pull- ^ and a
man, Washington, where he at- terinf feijo^jp tt CorndU Uni-
tended the annual meeting of the ve „ lt y t reject ^ one from Ohio
Dairy Science^Amociation. Suu and whi , e ** wmi J
^ „ * * * Europe he reccivt-d a third offer
The Foreign Cotton Study Tour| for , fellowship, this one being f
ia sending one more “strongly worded” protest to
Japan over violation of our righU iu China (they
are only slamming our “open-door" in our face).
Question No. two—will the United States back
this protest with the .tame sort of tariff penalties
she has recently applied against Germany and Italy ?
If the U. S. does, it will have more effect than all
the polite notes, she can think of.
A combination of some standpat, isolationist Re
publicans (Borah of Idaho and Johnson of Califor-
-nia, et al) who were largely responsible for the re
jection of the liCague of Nations by the U. S„ and
who must therefore assume a large share of the
blame for the present mess ih Europe, with a few
of the Democratic Senators who survived the at
tempted Roosevelt purge have managed to block
the President’s neutrality law revision. * Question
for thought—Is it possible, or profitable, for a
nation to he neutral when iu own interests and
sympathies are at stake?
The Governor of Texas just exercised hie eon-1 • • •
stitutional preragative by vetoing a greet ma*y| “THE OUTSTANDING DEFECT OF THE
items in the current appropriation hill. Some four curriculum of the present day American college is
or five million dollars will be saved. iMere fetal ft* lack of spiritual drive. It does not bfed together
forty thousand dollars for lab equipment and ne- the teachers and students and grad sates of a col*
LOOK TO YOUR LAURELS, YOU YOUNG
mud pie makers! A corps of Texas studett engineers
have called in science to beet you et your own game.
{ In the shops of the university's college of
engineering, these potential “mud" engineers can
whip up in a jiffy a mud pie—neat and round, as
gooey aa you want H, and any color under the
sua. The rraulU of their pie making is at vital
concern to the great oil industries, university en
gineering heads declare. ^
For where the amateurs leave off. there young
engineers are just beginning. Their finished mud
pie has to be analysed ia university Is ho rate rife, to
determine whether R will solve the drilling problems
in the wells of .east Texas or those of the gulf
coast sn-a
search assistance at A. k M. College same under
the knife. The Governor also sign.-d a bill giving
away half of the state ad valorem Ufees to the
counties. This will almost equal the amount saved
by hta pruning knife. . ]
tefo into a single unified community dominated by
the emotional attitude of a single enterprise.” Edu
cator Alexander Meikeljohn gives Dartmouth College
undergraduates his analysis at educational dilemma
feeing U. S. educators.
group will srriv« in England the
latter part of this week after hav
ing been to Norway, Sweden, and
Denmark. They will spend three
days in England visiting points of
intsreat around London, Rothon-
stsd Experiment Station, Harpsn-
England. This ia the oldest
agricultural experiment station ia
the world. It was founded by Sir
John Lowes in 1843.
On the boat going to Europe,
Texas was represented not only
by three honor students—H. F.
Goodloe, R V. Me Niece, and J. D.
Aughtry, Jr.—but also by Profes
sor J. S. Mogford as conductor of
the tour, and by M. A. C. Williams,
president of the Federal Land Bank
of Houston, who ia accompanying
the Foreign Cotton Study Tour and
taking moving pictures of the tour
for later use here ia Texas. At the
last minute Mr. D. W. Williams,
head of the Department at Animal
Husbandry, changed his plans and
aaied with fee party, on the
U. S. S. American Importer.
On July 14th the group sailed
for London on fee U. 8. S. Ameri
can Merchant, and will not return
to College Station until fee last
part of July.
from Ohio State University. | J
That gave him * 100** batting
average—having received an offer
from every institution to which be;
applied.
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The fact thft graduates of agri-
* 'i n* colleges are much sought
after In professional fields is indi
cated by the following item:
On July Uth Mr. Morgan Walk
er,ia representative of the Standard
Oil Company at New Jersey, visit- j
ed the campus for the purpose of
interviewing men with regard to
a position they have for an agrono
mist to work on their property
ia Venezuela, South America.
Mr. WUker specified that he
wanted mm trained in analysis and
classification of soils and’feat he
would be expected to direct the
company's activities in production
of truck crops, feed crops, and cot
ton. -
He interviewed some six can
didates far work in fee office of
tbs Agronomy Department and the
man finally selected for this work
will ha vs a most attractive profes
sional opportunity. This man will
have to stay two years at the least.
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