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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1939)
PAGE 2 THK SUMMER BATTALION FRIDAY, JULY 21. 1939 BATTALION Summer-monsion weakly nawspaper pubTisked each Friday by studeata of Texaa A. * M OolWtce. Publiahed aeiai-weckly from Septombei U> June; weekly from June to Auruat. Entered aa aeeond-daaa matter at the f'oai Office at Collate Station, Taxaa, under the Act if Contrapi of March S. 1*79. Office in Room 122, Adminlatration Buldiny. Tala- phone College 8. Advertiaing Ratea upon requea*. i Will There Be A War? ro« matpomav^ aovsmtimm mr National Advertising Service, Inc. «*o MAoteoM A«e. BILL MURRAY i EDI DON BURK - - ADVERT1SI! George Fncrmann —.V Hub Joh natal ~ J. c. Diet* ‘_J L —; Ctrei Bob Niabet Edith Thomaa Edit STAFF Margaret Hoilingahead, Sara, Campbell, Ruth Taubenhaua, “■ liama, Betty Jane. Winkler, Roaa Bari Jamea, Herman Spoede, Sunny Camy Yantaen. . ^ I Aaaiataat Advertiaing Mai Char lea Ballowe Albert W. Clay The atate of eonfuaion existing among the ex perts over the burning question of “Will there be a war soon ?" can be judged by two articles appear ing recently in leading serious magmsines. Both articles were written by men of imputation, with a fair claim to being authorities on events abroad. One was entitled “There Will Be No War." The other was entitled “Hitler Must FiRht." * One theory which Is eneourmgiag to the be leaguered democracies of Europe is that Hitler can not afford a war for the reason that it would bring with it an excellent chance of revolatioa ait home— and that Hitler knows this, even as he and other Nazi officials attempt to discredit R psdtdidy. Cer tainly an excellent argument can be made in sup port of the theory. The Nazi regime has outlawed labor unions. It has fought the churches, especially the Catholic. It has imprisoned untold thousands in concentration camps, and executed driven other thousands into exile. The persecuted people have families, friends, connections. Not much is heard from these dissenters— the iron heel of the Gestapo prevents that—but it is logical to believe that a substantial proportion of the German people hate the regime in power, and are waiting for the day when it may be doatroyed In the countries which Hitler has '■NgggB*pd— such as Austria and the Csech provinces—conditions are still worse from the Naxi point of view: Pro duction in factories has slowed down, a tremen- c4Cotric hbuiatr t By Bob Nixbwt JP BACKWASH h George PueniMon He very fast By Bob Xlshrt Durant (Walter Pidgeun) turns I have a tip for purchasers of from the practice Of civil law to “Y" cards for the first semester °f criminal law and his first of the next regular term. A Walt one i» that of Tony Gazotti. He Disney production will be shown *■ acquittal for Tony and every Saturday night unta Christ- »>"* Tony as a staunch friend. His mas or aftsr. That means a 1st l>Mt girl breaks their engagement of Donald Duck apd Mickey Mouse. w hen she learns he has turned r- of dissenters IN-CHltF has ACER Editor Editor Manager oyie Editor il i Assistant oler, Peggy Aim wn- lere on a parlor affair, but is the campus . . and exciting. “Woody’’ Varner, • noxt years pdokat- From the college hospital come ball captain asd last two items of lament, year’s juniog class , -<:iy»1, Barrow.” a pet coon be- pnxy, briefly visit- longing to one of the hospital jani- ed the campus last tors, died of strangulation last Tuesday . . j. Beal week. The entire hospital staff is Hargrove was also iri mourning as the coon had he- Now to get down to the business criminal lawyer Mot to be daunted here for"a few hoars last Tuesday, gome quit* a pet. rt hand. This week's these shows ho,r cvsr, Durant tackles n msrder who was King of the T9 Cut- And Walter Carmichael assistant pre -Tell No Tkles", “Society Law- C *“’ ^ iB d Ball, will dp grad- .tudestt technician, is lamenting yaar", |3 “Twelve Crowded n ** rri f h,r ’ mnd for uate work at North Carolina Uni- the fhet that he u on 24-hour P* u T,rrit ’ r ’ ’ Seewral Bryqp girls duty knd cant leave Urn hospital Richard Dix plays the lead in often ride bicycles from Hfran to for more than 15 and back again Bor the time. Paal Mar minutes at a and “Twelve Hours’’. Neale of this batch are much good, but you might enjoy Richard Dix plays the lead in ^ Melvyn Douglas in “Tell No Tales'. “TTwelve Crowded Hours”. Frankly college •Society Lawyer” is fair, but •* ® one of the poorest exhibitions purpose of reducing “Twelve Crowded' Hours" is not of acting Dix has put out to date. tlni first lieutenant in L Infantry even pretty good. Probably the less said the better. ^ y—r u nov , aMOciat ^ d wrtll H*wo fairiy attractive girls, fif- Saturday’s dhow. “Tell No thu. plot is a routine story of ^ Seaboard Life .Insurnnee Com- * nd twent y- on « of age. Tales", is a story about the manag * news paper reporter mixing blows pany . About ItOO Aggies are wer * lf,TlnK ^a Aggies competi- ing editor of the Evening Guardian W' th the numbens racket gang. registered in summer school t,on ‘highwaying” in front of the who w informed during the celebrs- J-- sftor living spent the last Ite eo,U ** ^ x, Jimmy doukly expensive policing job has become necessary, ij, VI A.' and'well supported accounts of sabotage are current. jw] E. Crain Why No Special Exams in Summt During the final exam week of the semester just past, no provision was students might if necessary take special examinations. This is a situation which!The Battal ion believes needs remedying. The prvxumption that there are no students what ever for whom it is impossible or highly imprac ticable to take, exams at the prescribed, stipulated hour is presuming father too broadly,! vis believe. There are those students whose position employ ment, or other engagements of importunes do make it completely or virtually impossible to take their exams at this certain time, and for whom it iy necessary to makd other arrangements/ I i The Battalion suggests that arradgerarnts be made for the exam week of this semebter.ao Hist those students may 'take conflict exahis at. tiimsie that will suit them, as during the regufcr session. Recently The Battalion suggesed in ap editorial that the library remain open during t to - facilitate the work of students. Thd suggestion was speedily answered by the library. It is to be hoped that the above suggestion in regard to the exam situation may meet the same happy fate, thereby facilitating the work hf still more students. These argument#, particularly to the economist. : art quite sound. However, Hitler and the Nasi forces are conUnuing to produce arms, to drill an ever increasing army, and to throw scares into other nations of the world by threats and movements towards smaller nations. . - Even with the possibility of revolution or of eco nomic chaos. Hitler, by previous actions, has com mitted himself towards eventual vnlr. We must face the fact that he may either find himself facing war or complete failure plus revolution. It is logical to thilik that such a person would prefer war and one last “hope’’ In preference to immediate loss of an entire program. —The Daily Texan tion of the paper's seventy-fifth anniversary that a rival paper had bought the paper and had suspend ed publication In order to cut down competition. Ax he cashes his last check, he is given a hundred-doHar bill which is identified as part of a ransom in a recent kidnap-mur- der case. He immediately orders everyone back to work, and acts out to trace the bill. From this point things get complicated, but he does get a scoop story for the paper. In "Society Lawyer" Christopher — weeks at one of the What’s Showing RO * c cm ™ , ~ TW * AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday—Tell No Tmlse“, with Melvyn Douglas and Louise Platt. ISiisday — “Hsciety Law yer", with Walter Pidgeon. Virginia Bruce, and Leo Car. rille. Thursday “Twelve Crowd ed Hoars", with Richard Dix and Lucille Ball various ^ ou ** on - the girls already had lust be trmTeir< * from Waco and claimed something about this college be- t *“ t ‘ he J r often the trip via cause all 6f them were anxious to the hitch-hiking route, get back -bn the campus. • , , ■ " • / The summer session's coed popu- r In a recent column I mentioned Ut,or * “ «■* In half this an unusual address written on s , " neat * r “ 43 mris are registered, letter received by the Registrar s M Compared with 89 last semester, office. Since that time severs] oth- • , er near-ridiculous addrestos have The City of College Station now been called to my attention. One has four student deputies to en- letter cqme addressed to the col--force the new taxi and traffic regu- lege in . the normal way except lotions recently passed by the city, that beneath the name “College council. G. C. Hill, Charles Bal-' AROUND THE CAMPOS On Library Attendance By Rath Tsubeahaes Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the De- jqyable stay in Wales and is now partment of Fish and Game, and a ^ p. nm , rk , Mr williams landed __ Sution. Texas” was writ! Mi these* “A place near Biyan.” Incidentally, it’s not at ell un- common for the college te receive mail addressed to the “University Wales that he has had a very en- of Texaa, College Station," lowe, G. W. Cunningham, and B. P. Burtner are the four men depu tised by City Marshal Sam Hopper. [joiiTH fflsr Ulfsi South Dr. T. F. Maye, librarian, has announced that on an average the summer students visit the library mere than the long-term students. ! During the last regular session, ending in June, there were on an average of 10,800 students per week entering the library from the stedent body of 6,907, and for the first summer' term 8,861 stu dents per week from the present study body of 1467. This is close to two visits a week from each long- weekends j .terra student, and three for each ssmmcr-tcrm stu dent. Could it be that the students visit the library more often during the summer in Rmting sway from the heat and noise of the dormitories.—or could it be that they really learn more than long session students, because reading is one of the greatest forms of increasing knowledge. Most summer school students have pointed out, however, that the summer school profs ere the cause of the increased library attendance—the work is extra “heavy." A new high in a staff member's interest in work on The Summer “ • Battalion was recorded early this group of six students registered in “ “T J- G. Gay. associate secretary of week when one of the reporters, F. B. 301, a course in field tech- Inland end since then has visit- the Y.M.C.A., returned from one visiting in another part of the niques. have returned to College •<> London. Norway, and Sweden. of U ' e “ Y ” «uf mer camp* recently rtatei even went to the expense of Station after spending several In London he was) joined by Dr. wit * • n * w Ite'nr which it proving «> ndihg a telegram to a co-worker weeks studying the fauna of the of Ames, lows, formerly m »* r T popular at A. * M. The to le« it be known that she couldn’t Guadalupe Mountains, at Trans- profeaaor at A. A M., with whom he IT»me, called box hockey, js almost be here to do her usual assign- Pecos, Texas. The group collected attended and Animal Husbandry! T* ' f j 1 1 - 1 »efr*f- . 160 specimens of girds, mammals. Convention. From Wales, Mr. Wil- Brentxel was a member of the staff • and amphibians for the Texas Co- Hants will go to Germany, and of the State Teachers College of The Summer Battalion Staff wfQ operative Research Museum and <rom there to Zurich, where he will Wisconsin for three years and at* hold their banquet tonight in the many botanical specimens for the he ■ delegate to the Animal Hum- Lebanon, Illinois, for throe yean, mess hall. Hub Johnson will act A. A M. College Herbarium. The bsndry Convention from August He receivml his first degree from as master of ceremonies, and Col. rtudents accompanying Dr. Davis IBh to 12th. At the end of August the University at Missouri and his Ik, A ah bam’ will make a short were H. O. Borgfeld. Milo Cox, he will attend a Genetics Congress Master of Science degree from A- talk. Gavin Garrett, Charles Lehmann. £ Edinburg, and he will probably A M. in 1930. His eon, H. R. Brant- m Gilbert Trisch, and Eugene Walker, arrive home around the firat at xel Jr, ia a student in the Bngi- • • • • September. neering Department here. With Delbert Whitaker as chaff* K. Bonham, instructor in the Dc- * . .... ■....' man, the banquet committee in- partment of FUh and Game, ac- Tyru» Timm of the Extension Dr. S. S. Goldich of tbs Geology c * u< ** k# Marffaret Hollingshead, Sara companied by six students, baa left Service Department left Monday Department left Saturday for Min- A1 'en Cofer, Edith Thomas, and for Kerrville, Texas to present a f° r Ames, Iowa, where he will neapolls, wtyere he will study at the u ** Johnson, who have done a By DR. R. P. Ll’DLUM TIME reports that figures ba.vd qn official statistics of the Reich Department of Health show Germany ia becoming a nation in bad Laaltji. They show the number of caseh of each of fw fallowing diseases to have increased as shown (fiJuilM inMeate the number of cases in 1933 and in 1938|; dfehtfeeria, from 77440 to 149,42*; scarlet fever, feote 79480 to 114448; contagious Or refaro-spinal mvrengitl*. from 617 to 1426; infantile paralysis, from il.3!8 to X 6,767; contagious dysentery, from 2AS*i te (466; • trichinosis, from 2 to 21. The reasons given for the country’s poor health are poor ijutrition, (un hygienic crowding among young people, fewer /ktetdn, fewer midwives, fewer me(t inspectors and consequent use of bad meat, scantier public distribution of medicines, and overwork. Time says “Germany's state of public health i* like that' of e country in the last throes of i war of at* trition,” I wonder whether Germany,; then, should start a genuine war? It is bsart-rending to rend of l(e arrival of Jewish refngse children in London. EdcR one (p tfc i be adopted by a “guarantor.” In the a^oquHt ( XauL two things struck me particalariy. <U jMI Umt each child wore a label. The firat thiqg each guar antor invariably did was to remove He label from its place about the child’s neck, and tprarw it away. The other point was that the children were ell im- mafelately dressed, in new or carefully mended clothes. Cant you imagine the parents, almost cer tain never to see their children again, iweparing them for a journey at the end of which they would be cared for by etegagen, making t every eBfert to present themselves and their children as beat they could through the mute medium of carefMlyi- arrnnged clothes? I am heartily tired of the argument that IT a great war comes, the United State* cannot t ay out of it. If no great nation can avoul participat on in a general-war, then why nil the bargaining ie- tween Russia and England? Russia appears to pet directly upon the conviction that aniens terms suitable to her are made in advance, she need oat enter any future war. Chamberlain'! appears to share the conviction. Otherwise, It not be necessary to bargain. Chamberiafri coaid upon Russian participation, terms or I o terms, and he’d not need to go through all the present nego tiations. It must be disappointing to those who had sup posed the American Federation of Lab ir was ultra- conservative to see how strongly th > Federation supported the WPA strikes. The repson for the support, I suppose, is that the WPj has on its rolls a Urge number of AFL members, especially workers. In the building trades. The AFL does not want the prevailing wage seeds to go down in WPA, because thereafter it may be to ced down In private industry. Summer Reading By Dr. T. F. Mavo “Men. Bread, and Destiny.” by Furnas. A new and interesting sUnt on history. “Rad Star Ovtg China,” by Sijow. An eminent reporter shows what is going on under the surface ef the Chinese war. China U apparently developing, in (hr back country, a new variant of Communism. “Rawer: A New Social Analyias.” by Bertrand Russell. Three kinds of power make history: naked power, economic power, propaganda power. The holder of nay one ef these, in an dverwheimlng de gree, will very likely acquire the other two. ( “Strange Interlude." by Eugene O’Neill. O’Neill’s masterpiece, and aa such, the masterpiece of Ameri can drama— *<> me man thinks, anyhow. A woman’s love for a man consists of four eiemoMa: passion, daughterly love, wifely or partnership feeling, and motherliness. Nina, O'N'eili’a heroine, loses her true love before marriage The four element* of her love for him therefore split off from each other, each attaching itself to n different man. With dramatic six weeks' field course in Wild spend the remainder of the sum- University of Minnesota.; <• Th* students arrnmnanv- mer Studying.' • - * ' • •; • • • *1 Dr. F. E. Gieaecke, director of H. R. Brentxel, who has been the Engineering Experipnent Sta- traching in the Poultry Department tion, has returned from. Mackinac of the State Teachers College at Island, Michigan, where he attend- Huntsville for the past nineteen ed a three-day meeting of the years, is a member at the teach- American Society of Heating and ing staff of the Poultry Husbandry Ventilating Engineers. On his re- Drpartment at A. A M. this second turn trip. Dr. Gieecckc stopperT in Chicago to visit a School of Heat- special course ing. Ventilating, and Air Condition- fine job organizing the affair. 1- 4?, New Records Punch and Jody, famed old English pepta, have coma to life agein at th Fair. I doww Paul Whiteman’s concert version of Drop Par- pie is exactly what you would expect Paul White man’s c. v. of D. P. to be: ten inches of interesting but ordinary theme and variations stuff. Park Ave nue Fantasy, on the reverse, hasn’t enough tune to hold interest all the way. Th# All-Star Bend, a recording aggregation In cluding such roustabouts aa Benny Goodman. Tom my Dorsey, Binny Belgian, and more—is good but it could bs better. Ths Bines ia a’showoff number in which the backhig falls to pieces because every body wants to be the next soloist Bine Lea also suf fers from an I-wanna be best complex. But the solo« on both are somep’n. A platterful of contrast; Mildred Bailey singe- petes on Tain't What You Do. and croons on 81am- bertime Along the Srwaaro. You’re bound to like OIM or the other. Gene Krupe, the boy who likes to bang on things, has got himself a nice band out there ia the hin terlands. The Madam'Onlaga UTextures—no. you're wrong—a part piano. Quiet and Rail 'Em has a lot more Krupe, but still no drum solos. Forgive ns, Gene—we can’t help our suspicious nature. Red Nicola, he of way back when used to pitch his Fits Pennies around so often, identification was pretty nearly impossible. But Urn Vocation people tell us that the reissue of Dinah and Indiana has Tea- garden, Basin, Goodman, Krupe. and Kress—an im posing array. The tune-treatment is that heavy- footed variety at swing we don't get enough of nowadays, what with streamlining civilising the ing Professor Bonham are J. M. Arendale. H. S. Coleman, Virgil Klump. S. W. Lane, J. B. Davis, and L. E. Ulbrich. • • * • * Dr. Chprlas LaMotte of the Biol ogy Department, who has been a visiting profeaaor at Cornell Uni versity during the last semester, summer semester, has returned to bis home in College He will teach Station. lor Vocational Agricultural Teach- ing, and also several, industrial * * * • era and a. graduate course in ad- plants which manufacture equip Weldon Brewster of the Biol- vsnoed incubation and brooding, ment for heating, ventilating, and ogy Department will spend the re- Before coming to Huntsville, Mr. air conditioning. mainder of the summer in Holly- " ' ~* f . i . ' ] _ | » 1 > wood. New Mexiso. Dr. T. W. Brets, also of the Department of Biology, ia traveling to San Diego. California, stopping at scenic plac es en route. sc '■ e- • • Dean R. P. Marsteller is leaving Tuesday noon to go to H. H. Mor rison’s “Anacacho” Ranch near Spofford. Texas. Dr. Marsteller is making a professional visit in re sponse to a phone call from Mr. Morrison, who is in California. ‘ease Dr. J. L. Dodson of the History Department has returned to Col lege Station after spending the last six weeks traveling in coun tries of continental Europe. Dr. Dodson visited France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Gar. collecting material to pro to his classes concerning the situation in Europe. S A X E T * L “GOOD” . ICECREAM Bryan Dairy Store 109 E/ 26th Bryan agnt to hia < present-day • * * * Mr>C B. God bey, of tha Genetics Department, has returned from a month’s visit at Middle burg, Ken- tucky. Baron A. Husbandry ing hia vacation i H. L. Volkenberg of Veterinary Medicine ed from a visit to the World's Fair and other New York State. Dr. H. L Ott of th* School Veterinary Medicine wea recently at Porto Rico at a reunion of the Reserve Officers. On - hia return trip. Dr. Ott also visited the World’s Fair. • • • • News has been received from D. W. 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