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The Battal on
TTw Battalion published by the Bladen « of
A. A M. Collet® each Tuesday and Fr lay <
the school year from September to J—
each Friday during June, July, and
Entered ae aecood-claaa matter at the
at College Station, Texas, under the Act
of March S, 18TB.
Office in Room 122, Administration Budding- Tele
phone College 8.
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THE SUMMER BATTALION
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 18, 1939
Lf
BILL MURRAY „
DON BURK
George Fuermarm
J. C. Diet* v
E. C. “Jeep
Bob Nisbet
ADVERTISIN
Oates
Edith Thomas
STAFF
Margaret Bollingabead. Safa Allen
Taubenhaua, Margaret Ann Wiliams,
Winkler, Ross Earl Cox, Jimmy X
Yentaen.
Assistaat Advertising Mi
Charles Ballowe Albert W. Clay
tor
Manager
■nlMr
ovie Editor
iJUsistant
delay '•■ere enough to drive a would 1h> enrol lee to
distraction. And by rotating the order of ijhe groui^
from year to year, the s*me groups will not always
he <dther last or tint i H i [j !
The Battalion urges that the old fM^ots study
the instructions far registration and follow them as
closely aa possible, to eliminate as fod ilh possible
^11 misunderstanding and inconvenience te them
selves and others.
The Battalion has Mag had a warm *i>o' la Ha
heart for registration by correspondence. Registrar
Howell states that this would he possible here, were
dot the students to make so many course changes
after they once sign up. Because of this, such n
enhamc would not be practical hers, as Hm'expense
and trouble would bo prohibitive.
This being the rase, we believe that the beet
possible plan haa been arranged And once again,
we congratulate those responsible for arranging it.
Open Forum
Li!'
E. Crain
It Won’t Be Long
r
the work U
t an end.
summer*
tt timnaJ.
hard. But
•tperiencea,
M *s first
successful
the sum-
if its kind,
isture
and tennis
ch interest;
liaisons of
Well, it wont be long now, ’till
over and the summer school of 1989
All in aH, it’s been a pretty
•chodl. Perhaps it’s seemed pretty
and maybe the work haa seemed
then,, we’ve all had.our fun, our new
and have added a few hours and a little knowledge
to oat record.
A good many -precedents were established this
summer. The Sommer Battalion, A.
summer publication, was inaugurated;
Twilight League offered diversion du:
mer; the Sum me* Press Clul* first
• 'Carried on many iKial activities and
entire school recreation et e Summer
each semester; a ^>ig twimmiag mee
tournament were held and attracted
corps organisation changes and new
a*sweeping nature were announced.
The nerf buildings are progressing rapidly and
. seem certain to be completed m time jW[the fast-
approaching regular session. New projects of many
, kinds hate bees under way. The Coild^e Beard of
Directors meets harr tomorrow to consider s large
agenda and is expected to settle a m mber of inp-
portent questions. | X- pN | . T*
But in just a fe# short days—no ^te of which
may seem pretty long because of t bs« dreaded
-finai exams—the whole campus will I L practically
_ deserted, until the regular session beg ^is aguin
Those who are departing form {three main
* groups: those who will return soon fo 1 the regular
session; those who will return next kieaner; jgnd
those who will never return. W# hi | goodby to |
all, and wish you much good iuck. We < nsR you who
will be back for the long term * goa | vacatic n so
that you stay all be bark alert and re Lly for what 4
we hope will be the most successful >. iiioni A M.
- Vill yet have had.
We hope that you readyr* have *eD>oye<l our
publication, and are glad to has’e had th | opjH»rtumt>
to serve in this way.
—Bill Murray for The Summer Bit tali on staff
(Editor's note: The letter below is reprinted
lost as received by President Walton from Fred R.
Davies of Charlestown, Indiana, who traveled on
the same boat to Europe at the start of pie summer
with the three gradeatea of ’89 making the aanual
Cotton Study Tour with Profeaaor J. S. Mogford of
the Agronomy Department.)
[ ^ 1 [ Charlestown, Indiana
August 4. :!*.*
The President,
1 i Texas A. A M. College. i i I - .
College Station, Te^s.
Bear Sir:
Have Just returned from England. The
outward-bound voyage was made very pleas
ant by the association with three of your boys l
under the guidance of Prof. Mogford,
Your represents lives were fine fellows
and bespeak well foi^ your artxml and the fine
program which scads such outstanding indi
viduals as the three young men. And I learned
I » lot from Mr. Mogford, too.
However I have a sad tale to unfold.
He-men from Texas—Oh my; Oh Me! *TeR it
1 net in the halls of T. C. U.; whisper it not
among the cohorts of S. M. U.” (Apologies to
the. Good Book). The sissies! Fancy stalwart
Texana drinking TEA, afternoons. They had
some difficulty getting the right curl to their
little fingers as they lifted the cup, hut I’m
afraid to say they did not.
Persiflage apart I enjoyed them all.
With the best of good wishes,
! Sincerely. !
> FRED R. DA
BACKWASH
h
faxa hicnMnn
Backwashhi’ around—for the But final exams bring another
l4st time this summer . . rMany thought to mind because, with
ppople swear off/ but Henry Hert- them, they bring the realisation
ner’s claim that that ‘auf wiederoehen’ will soon be
“I’ve given up rig- in order as far as the 1939 summer
arettes for
pops” is a
lolli-
ditional
a lot of
late for
do girls
*1 think theie electric breakfasts are
you
*r
by bob tMm*
Three more shows left in this taking
semester of ismmer school, and no Hi *
more until regular session begins ol1 ^
_ . _ that
anew. “Sash,
'Back Door to
but
trie
“back door to heaven.”
in high school was the
who understood th* fact
was not really a criminal •d wu . sjr.
Heaven,” and “Boy Friend” am all
that is left of the summer’s enter
tainment. Picking the best was
simple; “Zasa” wins hands down.
The other two are just fair. with
“Zasa” w Saturday's show. . j^n
Claudette Colbert and Herbert ^the
Marshall have the leading roles,
The story: two entertainers at the Wlth
Alcazar musk hall match their cr is „
talents to see who can first at- UBk
tract the attention of an elegant ef j t
gentleman of the upper data, Du- the
fresne. Zasa wins, and soon he
session U concerned.' \ f
And the current session hasn’t
twist to an oM b ** n without itB unprecedented
Et.. Af^D. tL'n rrmU ’ ’ ^ Battalion
shich cmrae into »*i*tance . . . Two high*
• T ly successful Pasture Proms were
ing Day a week h * w for ^ • tu<tent ^ • • •
ahead of Ute tra * an,ro * r •P° rt » h,t • high,
b going to cause and ,uranH * r • cho ° 1 ^^itiee took
to arrive a week °“ * "* w rawinm * with U* osgani.
s country turkey. “ tion of # * Ywr * 1 ««P»»s ciube
Harris wonders “What Wkieh ^ ^ lkU *“
about hi their bull- ,arnrT ^ r tKho °' » ]on * “*
sessions”* . . . Another sign of m ** P , i
progsasg b the installation of di^i 30 * uf ^"-hen' H b, but
phones throughout the campus ^ ®* ^9 soon be back in the
tST JnSSbly start being **"****• “ the nation’s
used as such on September U ... and “"Hrersitk. begin
From an economic, claw comes th * ,r ^ S*Pt*«ber.
one student’s definition of an hoir:
“An heir b when anybody v dies you
get what It left.
Petersoa claims “My ear has more
rattles than a nursery!” A _
. By T, F. Mayo, Libruriou
'The five Aggies, who rented a ‘‘The Yearling.” by Rawlings. An
small Bryan home during the sum- honest, warm-hearted story of
mer session, sent their curtains to Florida' crackers by the author of
the laundry wgek before last. The “South Moon Under,” which, by
second day that i the house stood the way, b also good,
thusly unveiled the boys received ^ “My America,” by Adamic. A
s note ffotn two A.A.A. girls Csecko-Slovak immigrant’s frank,
rooming next door: but affectionate picture Of this
# • - . . „ [. fplH country aa aeon through the eyv
•f circumatuntos. He « Umy eugge.t that you se- of a hopeful and intelligent new- I
to die in the elec- fUrt . curtains for windows. We do eomer. P
but he planned a Airacu- |,p t eare f or a course in anatomy. ’ “Thirty-five Thousand Days in
from death to attend The chap who left hu shaving Texas.” by Acheson. Aa entertain
1 dear, but I don’t tee
jundoiph Summer Reading
of his class and a visit to read the note came back with: ing history of the Dallas News and
old teacher. “Dear Girb: its forebears.
Withers comes fbrth in ' “The dour sc b optional.” “Labor’s New Millio^i,” by Verse
_* ^ ** '{' Just what everybody wants (o know
She gets mixed up Heard at last Friday night’s the C IO the A P «r f
police, because her broth- Pasture Prom ... Nancy Willis ’ ^ L ”
cop. Assigned to the “1 can
picture. This tbam
Obrih ffisi UIesi Sobth.
, .... . . the meaning behind all the
Ife a gold oigger when I koadlin— ^ t
breaking up a locaj gang dant toT ^ . ’Red’ Hander: “Am , ow ^ ^ ^ ' 7 * 1
hw brotw Mm B ™tllir M tM m, th.ll- - ' ' br tl» nr. wuh Mt enough ie-
wlthout tdIM fjn'.f 'P-Tt- Etmn.: -IW .n> onl, tn h.r t.
V. Jane, heartbroken things wrong with his dancing— -t-mIIu, ind / ~ hl . Wi .
* M Imt broth,, U- hU (Mt*.. . Prr.toD Dohira.: "I , Ub Sh.k«nr, (o( iil Lpta!)
very good-looking
TT
New Registration S
istemt
X
* The Registrar’s Office and the
* ties are Uf be congratulated. Th* B«|t
* the new system of registration ef <(ld Students
coming term, just announced in tHisRssue of
paper. ^
No longer should there be wq hues
thousand or more waiting wearily an
line to get- through with the ordei
should there be the crowded conditio
sion. the unnecessary delays that hav
the past.
In the fegbtration of old studen
ly. we feel that the moat orderly sad Efficient ays
tom possible has been adopted. (Iiouju of approxi
mately 500 will meet on the hour, aosrding to the
letter group they fhll in, (determined Iky 'the initial
of their last name), in the Asaembld Hall, where
assignment cards and instnictk>Ds will be issued
to all in the group; and another grasp will start
when the former line of registrants b Hi tuned down.
The usual “two per cent” will not be kbit to forge
ahead of the root by pushing and si pvfeg. or by
ingenious tricks—and if they did, it wouldn’t do
eg* authon
ion feels, on
issue of the
a
•ndlessjy in
in' Unger
, the conful
prevailed in
Ijalfhabetiaal-
them any good, because the aaaignr
will i
to register wpn’t be issue j fbnr until
in»dk .they
| minutes be-
h fugiMermg
more even, noise and congestion red
heads of the agricultural and
menu to other buildings will allow
the Administration Building where
b. _
We like the uniformity, the
dency of this system. We believe
fair and impartial. It’s what we’ve
for some time, with the vast increase
here of late years. We believe it will
and hope it will succeed m It M
Of course, there will be “gripe*,
about almost any change in
even when the old custom has not
good as the new one. Seniors will not
in registration as heretofore,
won’t be very great, whereas the
venience of registering will bo
plan b the moat practicable as well
nearly fab Hm college authorities
There will still be a few
so many as during previous
crowding and shoving and noise and
be sent
the scheduled time. The curds won’t
to the Assembly Hall until about fiv minutes be
fore this time. Smaller crowds will
simultaneously, as a result, and traffi! will be kept
Moving the
<Mp«rt-t
room in
main crowd
4-
By Dr. R. P. Lodlum
* B*ndtor Burke of Nevada, who
'* opposed to the New Deal, agrees
that there should be S new political
alignment. He thinks tbs new di
vision should be, roughly, the “New
Dealers'’ in one party, and the con
servative Democrats and Republicans
in the other. I think he is right, but
what particularly interests me at the
■NMBtj is the way it) which he
describes the two proposed ]wrti.-s. Into the party
of the New Dealers, he says, “will be gathered ail
the groups of -encore people who belimre that gov
ernment can bring prosperity and well being to the
people, the people who believe in Security, in pen
sions, th* right of every man to a job—whether he
works, at it or not—people in general who believe
that governmMl muuM take charge of everything.
On the other side will be those who b«] ieve in indi
vidual initiative, in free enterprise, who believe
that capitalism as we know it 4u> succeed with
only reasonable regulation.”
1 1 • ■ Of I if ! ■ • • • L 11 i 1
n I am particularly liaAunMtod ih tlHitlutlMMt
in th# light of the editorial in The battalion of last
week. This listed various propaganda devices,
among them the name-calling device and the card-
stacking device. Of course. Senator Burke’s com-
parison of th* two new parties is so worded aa
to incline the reader toward the conservative party
(or so the Senator hopes). Consider now. the oppo
site effort tp be achieved through Wording the com
parison in another way, like this:
‘Into the cm* party will il)u gathered those who
think that in a government of the people, by the
jx-ople, and for the people, the people’* government
moat act affirmatively and courageously for the
benefit ef all th* people;. .t|kMe [who think that,
especially in an ora of technologiua) unemploym. nt
, which throws industrious men out of Work through
no fault of their own, the government must see to
it that every able-bodied man who wants to work
shall have an oppertuaity to work, in Mvermment
| employ if private enterprise do«i not -offer jobs;
and those who think that a fair ayatem of old age
pensions an.! unemployment insurance, to which
the employee contributes, is the most just way of
avoiding two fearful hazards of tho poorly paid
workmgman. In the other party will be thoeo self-
seekers who ear* only for their own profit*, no
matter how much misery and destitution among
- others is entailed ia making them ; those who cheer
soon ne
falls madly in love with her. For- B __
r“‘W toming • ero,k, fei*. « '(MMt «•<**,' «.' I cm. Ty™.'’”!* 1
JEl" «‘ ta « **— It, M,d wiU Um Mdke . •> T. S. C. W - . . . lh 7
...a. of retarninx to Paris. All of btt|. broth., of .nothrr rookie Locille Holland: -Har date had af- h ,
.htch woold hav. bw lovely, hot CT, mU out to ^ u ^ fertian.te .yM-they .l».y. look- " —» * ~««~IM1
Z.M'. .tec parteer trite bar tea, ^ own »„ Z. « « -t*
Dufresne is a married man and has ... . nirir _ n( thi . to.., _ . • • ! A *** %or,d f “• • r wo-
u aix-year-old daughter Zasa im- t i 9^ iota of people Bke it. "Modified to “Crosier. Ctoaley,
mediately goe .to Pari, to find out “ ° ‘ P who’s got the Oo.ley ?” .k. r>M 1 ^ ‘ but which the
. the old
button atgiom took a real meaning ^*F** c b* r i*b. ®b*k*«P*are^«lls
k\rv Qlj _ to Jack Rudy lust Friday night. ^ prim i pic of c
Wxlnt S Snowing’ Jack. Florence Heli»ng«hM|d»
hf— — ♦ r. Tsui Dillon, and Dorothy Thong.* ^
T THE
iturday-
Vk
J»*
for herself. She does, and ho is.
The climax is the decision Zaza
has to make—whether she should
marry the man she loves hnd who
she know, loves her, or whether AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
she should send him, back to hia Saturday “Zasa.” with Claud- P rom in the vest’pocket edition ol
wife snd daughter. ett « Colbert, Herbert MuralteO. tb « BuWpu -Austin—a t>ariey
“Back Door to Heaven” is a Bert l>hr. and Holes Westley. automobile, were perturbed no end hkh by righto ought to
sazall-time melodrama, h a r d I y i iPoor to Hear- wh * n ,eft Sbiaa St the hagin-
nine of the fitet intermissKm only
truth.
■rfL Rise af American 011.“ by
The mechanical midget was fi- Fanalng. All you need to know
Words* by
son, who attended the Pasture ol “ ri ^ Ch *-^ al-
Prom in the vest ^pocket edition of "*** clarifie. and illuminates,
shows in this little book bow<
••■*9.
teortk'te Uto 'ZTXiiZ' T* Waited Port”p."r?c'te nlng of ih. fitet intermi.,ion orl, fteqoaoUy to atewr. th.
story deals With the life of a kid Ellis, and Stuart Erwin. to d '» cot ‘‘ r th ® Cro8l, > r , °* t ’
by the name of Frankie who was Thursday—“Boy Friead.” with ®^!_ or
kicked around life snd wound up Jane Withers add Arisen Whelan.
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AROUND THE CAMPUS
nally fop (id hiding behind a near- aboud the story of our moot son-
by chim|> of pushes and everyone aotional industry.
lived happily ever after. “Rod Star Over China.” by Snow.
g X * An eminent reporter shows what
‘ imagine, if you can, a combine- ^ und * T ^ ,arf *« ot
V \.|R ; I : j Y J - ! j 3 ~ f i * 1 lotion of liabv Snooks, an alley cat, ^n.Chinase war. China is ap-
•'9Bp|!?4 A- Yeutaeu m 1 -In hia doctorate work at the and thrM alligutors harmonising PowwUy developiug, in the back
The wedding hells w4l ring for Univefalty of Mhyneeota. i at the iForth Pol* at 6:85 a. m.. country, a new variant of Com-
with Dr. W. P. Taylor of
Wallace Taber, graduate student,
on September 12th at which time Val.
he will marry Miss Helen Mae Lin- ogist
iger. The ceremony will take place and
in Denver, Colorado, at the home on I
of the brkte-elect. ] oeaf*!
* * * the widiiie (BSEiMprr
Dr. Walter P. Taylor left Mon- • • •
day for t vacation trip which will 1 Driest Langford, head of the
include a visit to the (lolden Gate Architecture Department, left last
Exposition, j 10a September 4th be Saturday for Georgetown
will attend the convention of the his
National .Mdankthm ef Pedtral
and you - >ave a fair parallel of «nuulrm-
W. Lahmann, ficl.l I i >i lh< con i n.-rl choral efforts of “P9Wur: A New Serial iRmlyete."
or the Texas Game. Fiah «S|M"lSrd'» Dan Sharp, and by Bertrand Russell. Three kmda of
’•ter Commission, arrived «Dub” Clayj I power make history: nakad power,
canipus this past arUek la 1 ~
his mother
Langibrd a
Employees which will Re held iti town. |
San Frmneiaco, California. On the
trip home he will stop at Tucson,
Arizona, to confer with Charles
Voorhees. .
a 4 *!z i
Dr. R. C. Dunn, of the Veterinary urda
Department, returned last TVurs-
day from Clevelami. Ohio, where
he has been attending the World’s
Poultry Congress.
will fap buried in Gcorge-
here at last!
but groan
every blind
world
delay
the most
»uTd devise.
I A not nearly
)na when th*
mfusion and
at every scientific and industrial
at every progressive social
reactionary who ia living in
of the past.”
a • «
' Is the second statement any more weighted
on the one side than the first statement is on the
other? The little moral to be drama [fNpi this ia
to beware of the cannily drawn control which gives
one alternative an unfair advantage over Mm other.
Or,'*a Stuart Chaae succinctly puts it ia connection
with a terser form of propaganda, “Wheti you see
a slogan, duck!”
rj’’ -j! i * |i'
Prof. J. f. rUttlinc of Southern California
Junior College ia going to be healthy for some time
to totm, if the old proverb haa any truth hi K.
Favor seeking Rodents juat before U reeUWt «mm.
ieposit.-d on his desk ao less thaa SI appN-s, four
bansnaa, four oranges, and a cactus apple.
The museum has received two
new table e*aes and one tall wall
case. These hew cases will be used
for .toodnl displays luring the
coming semauter. i
e * *
Roger Jack sen, employee of the
College station Post Office, ha* re
turned from a Vacstlot which he
spent in th* Rib Grande valley and
Mexico. Jackson ia u graduate of
the class of ’88.
Dr. F. M. Baumgartner of Okla
homa A. A M. waa hem this past
week to stady the organisation of
the Wildlife Department and its
RMHIMteh j ' {
see
Gabriel Cazell and E L. Buie the
are the two candidates for master’s
degrees in Economics who will ink*
the final oral examinations next
week CaseQ. who is a graduate aa-
sistant in Hm Fconomiea Depart- al
ment, will leave for Minnesota fol- V.
lowing his examination where be tion
rzT ft<1 f i j If! F ■ • *1
According to Jim Dhitnore (who P° w - Prof*«»»da pew-
had to listen to the stuff from * r holder of any one of theae.
Dallas to College Station), tho in ■*' overwhelming degree, will
male trio hav* developed a man- ver >' Bkoly acquire the other two.
ner of singing peculiar to them- “Strange Interlude.” by Eugene
asleuB—Jrerv peculiar indeed, “Din- O^fdill. O’NoUl's. masterpiece, and
•* «<h. the masterpiece e|f Ameri-
^ can drama >o one man thinks,
The beginning of the end—it’s anyh,,w * A »omnn’a love for a
consists of fqur aiateonts:
Cook and Herman , Even the combined terror, of fLdm* 'Ta
representative* of the the plague, the aero hour, the day P *; * n< mo TkerR
F,.k and Oyster of dkoning, and kisa-proof Up-
V were here ia*t Sat- stick become insignificant in the {or * "^nnage. The
to eonfer with the Wildlife light uj/our impending crisis. ^ lov * J* him
ent concerning a Colony of Bnekmaph la pot given to making P * e ^ f# ° th * T ;
which they had l b, rated itaelf ah obituary column, nor yet “Tf**?* ^ ^
County, laat Friday, one of tvil and tragic forebodings with dramatic coaaequeacaa,
visitor to the W
during the past
Jackson of
who is doing
white-neck raven.
e Do- but, alack and alaa, only a few
waa more days hence th* heartily un-
desired and (from a student view-
work point) thoroughly unnecessary fi
nal exa ntaatiotis will be ours for
• • • the taking—or vice-versa.
Roes of the Agricultural “V r '"T / ! rm,r ;
Department left Mon- Soil Ceesrrvation meeting at Mad-
a two weeks’ vacatkm. Fol- (sonville, Tesao, laat Tuesday,
a few days in Amarillo, ha* • • • •
for Colorado where he The students of the Wildlife Ex-
the remainder of his va* potion will return to the campus
will return to the cam- nut Friday. The geologists will
first of September. also return from their trip to Col-
* * * ! I orado.
card Was received from the • • •
Fi Hen
i on the architecture tour yf
effect that they had left ur al
Pennsylvania, foe Cm- ) c ft f or i
Ohio. While to Ponnsyl- vacation
they were special visitors on -
Queen Mary. The stu-
i the tour will return to
next Saturday.
* • * * | . '
Sherrill of the Agricultur-
n Department and L.
Agricultural Educa-
at Bryan, attended •
of the Agricult-
Department has
Arkansas for a two w*ska’
“lox’U Like It
Be&r”,
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Bach 9 Monika an Yaur
Bryaa 985
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