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THE SUMMER BATTALION
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1939
BATTALION
Tk« Battal un published bp the students of Tctts
a. & M. Colldjrt each Tuesday sad Ffidsy dorinc
th school year from September to Jo^s; pabtishad
each >Phday durinf June, July, aad
Entered as second-class matter at the'Feet Office
at College Station. Texas, wider the Act of # C<mgresa
of March 3, 1179.
t ifice in Room 122, Administration Building. Tele
phone College 8.
Advertising Rates upon
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national A<i>ertcung service,
sao maowom mc« yowl M. r.
BILL MURRAY™
DON BURK
George Fuermann
J. C. Diets
Hub Johnson
Bob Nisbet
Edith Thomas
AD
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Margaret Hollingshead, Sara
Taobenhaus, Margaret Ann Wil
Winkler, Ross Earl Cox, Jimmy
Yentxen. . i
Assist aat
Charles Ballowe
Advertising Mi
Albert W. Clay
Steady A
if i pen ding
, aad then
Some business cohcems tike the
a lot of money all at once on adve
i they retire from public view, end makg i*> effort to
reach the public for a long time
A big splurge in advertising once
out a lot. But the most effective kind
is the regular kind that fans some
to the public every few days. When a
the public that it ia doing business m
awake, it has accomplished the fii
advertising.
If a concern does some advertising regularly,
even if it is not Very much, the public
College Editors Have Their
Say About Hitler
Collegians continue their vigorous denunciation
of Hitler and his continued drive against the weaker
nations of eastern Europe. Many urge one plan or
another for the formation of a stop-Sitler movement
—a movement that most believe is paramount to
the continued life of the democratic nations.
Tj The Oberljn College Review stated the current
position of the colloire newspaper editorial writers
in this way. "We cannot censure too severely the
wenk-kaeed bowing and scraping and thg, magnani
mous sacrifices of other peoples which the French
and English governments have made. So long as
the desire for ponce and our own souirHy is upper
most in our mh>ds, we can hardly hope that more
will coma out of the rumored four-power conference
to stop Hitler than more guarantees."
Many collegians predict that the latest moves of
Der Fuehrer art steps in the direction of his down
fall. The University of Baltimore B doo states this
position ia this way: “For the firet time since the
beginning of the Third Reich Germany has seised
foreigners and not Germans. Germany now has a
- strong, emaodingty brave minority within its own
borders. Any further advance will brmg out more
foreigners. The first step toward 'ftmWxj’i down
fall has keen taken, but watch the future."
Of the many plans proposed to step Hitler, the
Duke University Chronicle proposed one of the most
comprehensive Its main points ere: 1. Replace
Neville Chamberlain with Anthony Edsti no Britain’s
minister; 2. promote British sad French cooperation
with Russia to give that country military leaders
that would make Stalin's army valuable to himself
and to a new three-power ring around Hitlerland;
8. immediate abandonment of all 'dilatory measures';
and 4. raise tariffs in all countries against import
snd expert Of German goods.
But, ss most collegians believe, only time will
tell the future of Europe—end of democracy through
out the world!
BACKWASH
Bt
feoroc fucnMno
Backwaahin' around
Wagaet! will do the I
i ,V. !
. “Chili”
rs when
the Battaliea
starts its new ae
ries of weekly
broadcast# next
Monday night . I .
Roth Parkpr’s
papers from New York to
Ffanciaoo, and his recent
hitch-hiking Jaunt
was further highlighted by a radio
interview in New York City.
. £ynn Atkins idea of a REAL
coed b one who “can get four
nickname of ♦Pap- hours sleep the previous night, go
py” will soon lose to eight classes, spend four hours
its flavor wbeu at the hairdressers’, study, dress,
hau begins to bios- m i t ^ then spend six hours
•aom on hb near- dancing and still be abb to say
hM&Radh claims he has B- ‘good night’ to the doorman whan
bumped into a door
my wriit."
bald
nelly learned the capse and cure .w* leaves
of the COrse , . .'ffven during the _
MunmcU session It seems as though - o nmm-r .
"R<T-.IHk* Bn ^
lack caretakers. This time it’s A.
J. Wittenbech end Harold Mikola.
. . r . Although po one will deny
that T. S. C. W. is strictly a girl’s
college, pictures of several Aggies
M orth^tr, tk.. will
of UK Duiteliwi, n: 8. C. W. «n- ^ mu .^ u, n t dw
By Bob Nisbet
Included in the list are sum
mer-school siud.-nU Clyde WalteM
snd Byron Bostick.„ . . Althouirh
thb b|he first year ia A. A M.’s
history that The Summer Battal
ion has been published, the Jong
session Battalion has been ia exbt-
enee since 1894.
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a me cummer cress Club b in
receipt of a letter signed “A Oam-
pos Girt” wherein the plea b asade
to '‘Let us have an honest-to-good-
ness Pasture Prom.” A sincere and
interesting letter, H pointed out
that The Press Club should ob-
puy
type
-1! tea”
a while helps
advertising
new to say
teminds
ip alert aad
purpose of
Summer Reading
F\
reminded of its service, and that concern is
to get business.
There b much talk about the
but there’s no power equal to that
in changing our habile. While there
pooh-pooh its effect, advertising goes right on per
forming its miracles.
If advertising can put over these tm<un cup
and-saacer hats women wear and prevail upon them
to paint their fingernails scarlet end wear shoes with
holes in their toes, advertising ought tq hMpl any
body sell anything.
■1 A, v . ^5^ il i-i
HORIU tflSI UlfSl $1)11111
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By DR. ■
wonder whether
. P. LUDLUK
it contributes
muck to the
discussion of Mr. Gamer’s presidential availability
to call him the greatest American of all time, as
.Raprssjntative West did recently7
The Atiericao public is accustomed '
to extaevmgant terms ia lb adver
tising campaigns, whether the pro
duct advertised be toothpaste, gaso
line, \ MMtlnvaah, pnefidrntial pros
pect, or what not. Bat perhaps by
now it rejects such obviously false
cbims as Mr. West!#. So far ss
the deeper significanee of Mr. Gar
ners’ mention for the presidency for#, it may be
wise tb ask whether he it not beihg
only to be withdrawn at t}>e last moment is favor
of someone else whom H is not convenient to put
in the limelight just now—say, Senator Wheeler?
Did you know that . . . Great $Huin is cur
rently spending 13,850,00(^000 a year for national
defense? This b comparable to an f' !>• n.liture by
the United States of about $1(U"m).!>imi,O0Q a year.
< Actually, the United State# b spending *1,783.000.-
000.) The British outlay b at the raid of $10,000,000
daily; it was only 824,000^)00 daily fc the midst of
the World War. . . . Thhihea milUM ef the thirty-
five million children under 15 year#: of age iri the
United StAtrs are ia familH-.- with iiromes of’ lee#
than 8800 e year, er on relief" . . Out of the
twenty-seven million American families, twelve mil
lion, or 42%, had*incomes less than Ilf**) a year?
Thirty-six thousand families, or l 1%, ebeh hav
ing incomes of .ever 875,mh). received tkh Mme total
By DR. T. F. MAYO. UbraHaa
TEN GREAT STORIES
L "Tern Jones’’, by Fielding. (Tom b Just a
good old boy, with all the weaknesses aad tempta
tions of the type. He b opposed by a smooth rascal.
The story follows them through 18th century high
way life, from one wayside inn to another, all full
of jood things to eat snd drink. Sapposed to be one
of the preen; j of the three perfect plots in English firtion.) ,1 |
^ **BesurrecUou” by Tolstoi (The story of a
these vrbo } assn who got very low indeed hex who came alive
and made a life.)
j *• “OH Gork»t", by Zalxac (The most scathing j
exhibition in any language of the cruelty that snob
bishness can inflict.)
4. “Moby Dick”, by MelriUe (Perhaps the
greatest American novel The story of a lifelong
feud between aa implacable old sea captain and
a killer whale.)
“Pride aad Prejudice”, by Jane Austen (The
word for this author, I think, b “keen". She never
misses e single shade of subtlety in depicting the
innumerable ways that people have discovered of
making thesolvv* ridiculous. And yet she never
raises her voice above e controverwationa! tone. As
a pby, thb story made a tremendous hit on Broad
way two or three years ago.)
6. “Of Human Bondage”, hv Somerset Maug
ham. (Probably the very best analysis of the modern
young man, hfrl. Conflicts, his problems.)
7. “The Brothers KaramaMv", by Dostoevsky.
(The father, a subhuman beast; three sons; Dmitri,
• good-hearted slave to hb impulses; Ivan, an intel
lectual who tortue# himself with his own doubts end
worries; Alyosha, what men may rise to be some day.
And yet all four are equally human. taken
ell together, they represent man aa he has been,
he is today, aad as be may some day become
if he’s toekyt)
8. Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo (The
.Wpic of man against nature, including the famous
“fight with the octopus”.) i ' J .
9. “Point Counterpoint”, by AMous Huxley (A
ruthless picture #f practically every kind of human
weakness snd baseness, with s strong undertone of
love and hope for man.)
IA “PirlrnAelr t>„”
)
The throe shows for the week—
“Within the Law”, “Young Mr.
Lincoln”, and “Artists snd Medela
Abroad”. “Young Mr. Lincoln”
rates this week’s top call, by a
wide margin. It b being acclaimed
as one of the best pictures of the
season
“Within the Lew” b Saturday’*
show. It b another story of men
against the b w > only in thb case
the “men" b a woman. Beautiful
Mary Turner b railroaded to pris
on by the head of a large depart
ment store where she has been
working. While in prison she stud
ies bw snd becomes expert in its
practice. At the end of her .term
she joins a gang of smart crim
inals. Through her knowledge of
the detaib of criminal bw, she b
able to take thousand# of dollars
from Gilder, the department store
owner, aad still stay within the
letter of the bw. Th further her
revenge she marries hb son, and
then she has everything including
hb name. The only complication
to arise b the discovery that she
love* him.
A really fine picture b “Young
Mr. Lincoln”. It b the story of
hb life at the beginning of his
career ia the field of bw, and
' deals in particubr with hb first
case. A murder b committed, and
circumstontbl evidence points its
bony finger at the head of a young
husband. Because the family b
poor and because they remind him
of his own family when he was a
boy, he offers hb services as
jpaed with which summer
lawyer. Employing the type of dry school CourSeq. are covered b well
wit in whose use Lincoln was a illustraged by Harry SpringfMUTs
master, he stalls the case until remark that "I dropped
he dan find a flaw in the evidence and now I’m a chapter' behind!”
against the boy. Nothing’ more And Harold Hausman, Frank
thjm a simple qlbanac furnishes Daagh4|rt& end Mika O’Hhara
th# aaadad Acts for the boy’s re* were hoard agreeing that “Af A
M. b S place where women are
of dance. Such music should in
clude achettisches, hillbilly pieces,
etc., instead of modern numbers.
Ws ca)i dance to that kind of
music any time.”
. Mqakjaaah \nvite* any opinions
which you may have regarding
thb because your opinion may be
a help to the committee.
The sign hanging beneath the
stalls the ease until remark that “I dropped my book r ' fiW sto P signal at MuUth Gate has
apparently raneod considerabl«
comment. Someone pointed out that
the sign, which reads "Stop—Then
Proceed,” might flatter motorists
even further by reading “Pray,
come to a halt—thereafter you
may continue.” . :\
leaae.
The third show b "Artists and
Model* Abroad” starring Jack
Benny. Buck Boswell takes hb
theatrical troupe abroad and gets
at landed in Paris. He signs up a
giH for the show, but he doesn’t
know that she b the daughter of
a millionaire. He even takes her tough about
father into the show out of “pity”, the city’s nc
pven during eum-
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only a tnemory-
mer school.”
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The ' student deputies, tempora
rily employed by College Station,
are occasionally running into some
one who wants to get a little
the enforcement of
r traffic ordinances.
On the whob, however, they re
port that people ere cooperstim:
splendidly.
Finding jewels in the old man’#
rooms, Buck comes to the con-
clasion that the man is a thief.
Then he sticks his nose into things
snd causes an important contract fdblicity on a national scale is
to fall through. His blunder works the record of Aggie Keyes Catson.l
out for the best, however,-and Bos- organiser of the National College hb chosen field; he has money in
well marries a million dollars.
Really more than that, because the
gift b Joan Bennett
It happened almost a month ago
but it’s still worth mentioning^
Lynn Landrum, Dallas Morning
New# columnist, recently devoted
an entire column In Steve Sakach.
Aggie, who graduated last month.
Steve came to A! A M. four
years ago with 20 cents in cash, s
pocketknife, some shears for trim-1
ming hedges, and an ambition to
become a landscape architect. To
day he b e college graduate i"
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Travel Club. Pictures snd feature the bank, and the respect of all
tones have appeared In metro pel- who know him. >
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Mars Nearest in 15 Years; First
Color Pictures Prove Life There
What’s Showing
AT THE ASSEMBLY HAL
Saturday—“Within the Law",
with Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, and
P4l MeOy. .
Tuesday—“Young Mr. Lincoln”, . ^ ^ ^
with Henry Fonda, Attee B ™uly. ttar j a>1 m Chicago. Others put the miles deep, though scarcer than on
“What's that bright star ia the
south.'ti'*tern sky in.the early even
ings?” Many persons telephone to
ask that question of Miss Maude
Bennot, who directs the Adler Plan-
Men, which appear to establish
the presence of plant life there—
spring-like growth over aa area
as large as the United States. The
new pictures show atmosphere 60
1111
W..„r, .nd ArlM> Whe. iBqu , a „ ^ c T ElwJ „
j . j •_ tronomer in ckarg# of McDonald
Th»«i,y-“Artl.u .nd Model, ob^rr.totj on Mount Locke, in
o t>>,ne4-, *«1> B*""*. J»*" th , loin. Bi( Bond. Sckmtuu
a Bennett, and Mar> Boland everywhere—and newspaper offic-
' _L i__ es—have been besieged with like
inquiries, j -
AROUND THE CAMPUS
lehetn* returned, and its reddish
■ ■'< -M*- ■ ■ii.!.»,.»! ■ ... ' - color is not a portent of war,either.
WITH EDITH THOMAS I! * 14 ln opposition—
i and that occurs every 780 day#,
temoon with a po’lR party to when the earth and Mars are on
which several friei u.v-R IS invited, the same side of the sun. Every 15
I H «!•••• to 17 years the two plsneta are
earth.
« Thus, animal life may sxbt on
Mars, too; even intelligent beings
—end possibly, as the late Dr. Per-
cival Lowell* stoutly insisted, a
race of canal-builders.
However that may be, doubtless
there are no Martians like H. G.
Wells imagined and Orson Welles
depicted in hb hair-raising radio
drama last fall.
for each
mber of days
¥ 178 days,
school dur-
s. some a* few
mqney to 1
■I;
keep
as the lowest 42%—ten billion i
group. . . . The national average
during which children attend
hut one school child out of four at
ing far fewer days than the ai
as 90 days? TTlis b due to bek
the schools running.
Keep an eye upon what b happeabfc'in France.
Premier Debdier, using his fxtr*ordfcmry decree’
powers, has extended the terms of the members of
Parliament fbr two years, so ’that them will be no
elections in that interval Thb is dOnq.ibstensilly,
so that the country may not bb Aqtrectod by in
ternal quarrels, during one of which the Faacbt
blbc might perpetrate farther aggression Prance
seems to choose to fight Faacfrtn with Fascist
methods. It migjht be well to kc. p[ tato to mind if
we decide to aid the “democratic” nations in a
Eurot ~ n ""ffe
The Hatch till, prahjbitin, all
«es except those who hold poliey-
from engaging ia- political petivi
the President, Snd probably he
original Civil Service legbletion.
fifty yearftago, was intended to
branch by jtaking.it out of politics,
one unexpected result, however: it
the political parties more dependent
campaign contribution®, iq place ofi
received from Office-holders. I
Hatch bill may have
employ-
portions
lias gone to
4ign It The
more than
<N'
to
to 1 make
Corporate
formerly
the
effects?
time for Dickena to come back into fashion. If snd
when he does,, thb rollickingLMufcrpbee will
probably come firet)
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Oddities in the News ■'
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I Lately scientists have gone into chaos and pat
it ia order. To expbin: the International Congress
for Applied Mechanics recently announced that there
b now a mathematical definition of chaos which
will enable us to control the heretofore uncentroli
able.
This definition b a new form ef calcuhm. By
sosae process clear only to mathematicians vsr.ou*"
forms of chaos are tabulated ss<l card indexed, snd
then you come along with your own favorite little
chaos snd compare H with the specimens already
defined. For example, air turbulence which endang
ers airplane flight* b a sort of confusion which can
'•OW be accurately predicted; er even bettor, the
steps of a drunken person. As you may have heard,
one stop of a drunk 1ms no relation to the next one;
but these scientists, (prith their unholy calculus, can
tell you how far the drunk will go ia a given thae.
For the individualist there b no wtoiiii t of hope;
he can so longer escape into chan® because that
alluring nowhere has been surveyed end landscaped.
—Augustus Harden
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Benjamin Becklin. Harvard CJalversity freak-
man. has a new teay of dealing with hb competitors
in affairs of the heart. When one suitor after hb
girl-friend’s heart became a bit too aggressive,
Ateklin got aggressive himself, placed Samuel
Worthen in handcuffs, threw the key that would
open them under a subway train.
Not only did he throw away the key, he made
the rounds and “fixed" all of toe Cambridge lock
smiths so they wouldn’t help Worthen escape from
bondage. When last heard from. Worthen promised
to giro Buck 1 in a different kind of cuffing—after
be escaped from the prisoner*’ bracelets.
Mrs J. J. Taubenhaus and daugh
ter Ruth left Sunday, July 30 for
Colorado where they will spend
the month of August. Ruth had
been working on The Summer Bat
talion, and her departure was a
loss to tb* staff.
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H. J. Reinhard of the Division of
Entomology, Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, returned Wed
nesday after spending hb annual
leave with rebtives ia Ohio.
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Helen Thomas sad Elisabeth Mc-
New returned Sunday after a two
weeks' vacation in Camp El Teaoro
out of Fort Worth. Mr*. MeNew,
who took them there and back, re
turned from a visit in Mineral
Welb with her family.
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Major Raymond Orr and family
left Sunday for Ft. Leavenworth,
Kansas, hb new poet of duty. Ma
jor Orr had been a familiar figure
on the A. A M. campus not only
to the students but to the Acuity
as well, as Major of the Infantry
for the past six yean.
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R. E. Karper and hb two sons,
Bob and Ed, left Monday to join
Mrs. Karper In the Colorado moun
tains where they will spend the
month of August.
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Dale Martin, class of ’39, Rich
ard Eads, class of ’39, and George
Menxies, class of '46, have been
employed during the summer
months in cotton insect investiga
tions work for the Division ai En
tomology of the Experiment Sta
tion.
Official Notices
feott. Wr.nn left Mond.y to «■«*“>" *”» »«>♦' t~~ ' ^
return to Graham where he has Jul * 21 • IUr * wm * A11 new •tudents registered in
Tib teaching, after spending the ** 38 miUion n,iU " A A U {or ^ firrt tim «
summer at the home of hb parents, TYmt b Maro* n^rot.pproach here in Sep-
Dr and Mr* F L Thomas A 0 **** 1 25 ’ 1 ®2<. M (ember, should come to the Regb-
S || ••• was Sttlfc million miles distant. The trar’s Office and secure a new
be. Frod Smith of the Geology P Unel '• * tal0 » t “ *>"*** “ * entrance card.
Department is spending the sum- 15 y ear8 a 8 ,w * loT « , T »ickt All old studento who were not
mer in Toa^ New Mexico, work- th * ** lb v»H was s In atteadance at A. A M. at the
ing on a fellowship from Harm*] m treat for ^ “bonomer*. who end of the 1938-39 session, snd
, . . have better instruments—particu- who expect to re-register in Sep-
. I .. ,, brly for picture mak , L’ ' 4 moro u mber should report to the Rcgis-
5 ‘refinsri methods of using-them, trar’s Office and secure re-en-
— Club Wto honopwi -nU, . ^ ^ bad lb rton roUm«,t p,rmiu^E J. H, n ll.
Dr. Earl C. Slipher, working at Registrar.
B1 >. mfonteia (South Afriea), has - -
made the first color pictures of All applicants for
— ,],. gr ,. €1 as ^11 as. advanced de-
JIMORS DESIRING TO TAKE ** conferred Angost 26,
advanced R.O.T.C. during the com- 1W * mu9t their application In
ing regular session will take their th * Registrar’s Office not later
physical examination, which they than Monday, August 7.-E. J.
must pass to be allowed to take Nowell, Registrar.
Mbk;;C.
honored with
n party given by Dr. and
■ H. Winkler snd their
daughter Betty Jane, a member of
the Summer Battalion staff. The
party ended with a songfest. The
watermelon was pronounced deli
rious aad the party a groat suc
cess, by all who attended. <
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Dr. mad Mrs. C. R < ampbell.
Peggy and Sonny Campbell, left
yesterday for a several weeks’
tour of Max ice Peggy has been a
member of The Summer Battalion
staff aad was co-chairman of the
dance committee which planned the
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the advanced course, during the
second week after school ! Stotts
again, according to plans being
made by Captain Cbude Burbach
It b possible but not probable that
the Regular Army officer* who
fir.. Rammer P..tor, Prma U«
semester.
date.
ECHO TEAROOM
Special Ratos for August
Until Sept. 16th .
1 uach aad Supper 25*
Breakfast 86*
N. E. Corner College Campus
Highway 6
Honoring her bouse guest, Mrs.
Mear of Austin, Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist
entertained informally Friday af-
D. B. Gofer of the Englbh De
partment, and Brooks Gofer are
leaving today for Elisabethtown,
Keatutky, to speAd the month of
AaUi
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Jl V- Mitchell, Mrs. Mitchell,
and Caroline are spending thb
month, to Washington, D. C.
jQltotorest to friends on the cam
pus ia the approaching Marriage
of Miss Jo Guidera, who has been
i 1 f"
here.
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