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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?
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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
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. ICECREAM
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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. Williams through a letter writ
ten to hia family and mailed from
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