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I PAGE 2 THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 1939 The Bclttctlion Parade Of Opinion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the city of College Station, is published three times weekly from September to June, issued Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings: and is published weekly from June through August. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 1-6444. STAFF BILL MURRAY ... EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LARRY WEHRLE ... ADVERTISING MANAGER lames Critz ' Associate Editor E C. (Jeep) Oates ... Sports Editor H. G. Howard .... Circulation Manager 'Hub” Johnson Intramural Editor Philip Golman Staff Photographer <ohn J. Moseley ...... Staff Artist SATURDAY STAFF Tames Critz Acting Managing Editor Don Burk Asst. Advertising Manager Ross Howard Asst. Circulation Manager W. C. Carter Editorial Assistant Junior Editors A. J. Robinson Don K. Hill Cecil DeVilbiss Senior Sports Assistants W. F. (Chick) Denny Jimmy James Reportorial Staff J. W. Amyx, W. G. Bohning, P. H. Brown, G. M. Green, M. L. Howard. W. A. Moore, Jack McGarr, Leslie Newman. J. A. Shelton, Earl Vezey, Alden S. McKellar, E. M. Rosenthal. Hospital Substation Increasingly Needed In an earlier editorial, The Battalion pointed out the need for a hospital substation at the new dormitories. We wish.'’to re-emphasize that need. Around 2,600 students—more than half of the student body residing on the campus—are now living in the new halls. They need medical service which is easily and quickly available. A hospital fifteen minutes’ walk away isn’t. As we said before, if a boy is very sick, he won’t be able to walk that distance. If he isn’t, he won’t anyhow, just to get simple treatment for a cold or cough. The first part of that statement was borne out last weekend, when a boy living in dormitory 7 be came so ill that a taxi had to be employed to get him to the hospital-—no ambulance or other con veyance being kept by the hospital. Colds, coughs, and similar ailments are frequent among the student body at any time during the winter—and they are especialy so now while we are having to wait for heat and hot water in the halls. Colds and coughs easily develop into seri ous illnesses. And unfortunate though it may be, most boys simply won’t traverse a long distance just to get a cold or cough treated. Frequently they haven’t time to. If they can’t or won’t go to the hospital for treatment when it is so far away, TfTTen the treatment should be made more easily ac cessible to them. We have a fine hospital, true enough. The Bat talion thinks very highly of the college medical staff. The equipment is excellent. All that we’ve ad mitted before. But that shouldn’t becloud the issue, which is that we need medical treatment for the commonest ailments—mainly those of the eye, ear, nose, and throat—more easily available than it is now. The new dormitories are served by a confec tionery, a barber shop, a post office substation which will soon be open, and other facilities nearby. Taxis come up to the new dorms, and practically every kind of service except medical service is available— or soon will be—right at the new dorms. And rightly so. By the same token, we need a medical substation nearby. The argument may be put up that such would involve too great trouble or expense. We don’t be lieve that it would cost much or take much trouble— and what it would involve is certainly justified. We feel sure that the authorities of the college can have it done if they will. We urge, as strongly as it is possible for us to urge anything, that they attend to this need as quickly as possible. 1 V V. , , v : • ' ... / ' NEUTRALITY: U. S. college students—some 1,400,000-strong—returned to classrooms and cam puses last month amid a loud chorus of warnings and implorings. They were warned by the press and the presidents to maintain an open and think ing attitude on the present European war. They were implored to use their every influence to keep the U. S. out of the war and to bend every energy to a sincere study of the world’s problems and how they can be met. From the surveys that have appeared to date, it appears that the average collegian has heeded these warnings and these commands. He maintains that he does no want to go to war, that he wants the U. S. to remain neutral. But he seems to have no objection to the U. S. selling goods of all kinds to the warring nations, so long as it is on a cash-and- carry basis. First real objection to the President’s proposed neutrality act changes was made at St. John’s University, where 650 students signed a let ter to the Chief Executive protesting “a new parti san neutrality act without first consulting the people through the medium of a referendum.” This move ment has not yet gained much headway. College newspaper editorial opinion, though a- bout evenly divided, seems leaning toward the Presi dent’s proposal that the neutrality act be changed to provide for sale of materials to belligerents that can pay for it and transport it from our shores. The arguments of those who oppose the change are neatly summarized by the St. John’s University Record: “If the embargo were lifted business would undoubtedly flourish in America—for a while, that is as long as Britain and France could pay cash. Britain and France, because Germany would never be allowed to purchase here. After England and France could not pay cash, our loans to the demo cracies would almost inevitably begin again. And there is the danger! That is how we started last time.” For the affirmative, the University of Iowa Daily Iowan states the case: “Congress has two facts to go by. (1) We want peace. (2) We’d fight —or a substantial minority of us would—if defeat began for the democracies. The logical conclusion to this line of reasoning is lifting the arms embargo now.” Whatever their position, most editorialists im plore the issue to be divorced of politics, and ask that the legislators think calmly and sanely on the issue that may decide the future of our democracy. Most strongly do all editorials affirm the fact that U. S. collegians do not want to fight on a foreign soil, but they will bear arms if our land is threatened. Just how strongly entrenched this belief is will be determined in the dark days of propaganda that lie ahead. COLLEGIATE REVIEW (By Associated Collegiate Press) Salaries of Barnard College graduates and un dergraduates who were given positions through the college occupation bureau last year totaled $173,443. The University of Illlinois is contructing new campus buildings at a cost of $3,400,000. Portuguese has been added to the long list of foreign languages taught at the University of Texas. The Ohio University football team was unde feated in a home game from 1927 to 1937. A special course in the Russian language and. literature has been added to the Cornell University curriculum. As the World Turns.. By DR. AL B. NELSON British soldiers in France now number over 150,000 men, almost fully mechanized. Their fire power is several times that of the same number of men in the 1914 army. The late news broadcasts make a further significant announcement to the effect that their posts in the Mediterranean and the Near r/ / pis il us 4 /• BACKWASH By George Puermann “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. “Dad, will you sign my report card now?' 1 ' .CyirtfMT By Bob Ni/bef “CAPTAIN FURY,” showing Saturday night at the Assembly Hall, is by for the best picture playing this weekend. The cast isn’t packed full with names too billed before the title, but several good players are in it. They read as follows: Captain Fury Brian Aherne Blackie Victor McLaglen Francois Dupre Paul Lukas Jeanette Dupre June Lang Coughy John Carradine The best part of this show is the swiftness with which the plot moves. Captain Fury is brought to Australia as a convict to be sold to some plantation owner who pays the highest price. A ruthless tyrant of the brush country in the vicinity of Sydney purchases Fury’s services, but Fury almost immediately escapes. Learning of the oppression of nearby settlers, Fury bargains for their help in releasing his comrades from the plantation prison, and in turn of fers to lead them in protecting themselves from the raids upon their homesteads. His little band makes plenty of trouble for the tyrant Tryst, Rnd the news reaches the ears of the Governor. This all-wise man soon gets to the seat of the trouble, but not before lots of things happen. The show was good all the way through, but the best part of all was Victor McLaglen bringing the village-bad-woman to a community get-together. A balanced show is the ideal. This one has everything except swing music, but maybe that is to its credit. For those who like fast action, this show is filled with it. For the more romantic type, there’s a little smattering of that. Two other pictures are showing this week-end. “ESPIONAGE AGENT,” a story of the foreign secret service, is showing Sunday and Monday at the Palace theater. Joel McCrea and Brenda Marshall, a newcomer, have the leading parts. The story involves Brenda Marshall as a homeless wanderer in Europe who meets and marries a member of the U. S. diplomatic service on her way home. Together they are assigned to a job of tracking down information in Europe, and they get what they go after. “CALLING DR. KILDARE” is the second of the Dr. Kildare series. It is showing at noon Sat urday at the Assembly Hall. Dr. Gillespie and Jimmy are still battling in the operating room. Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres hold down the leads. WHATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday, 12:45—“Calling Dr. Kildare,” with Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres. Saturday 6:30 and 8:30— “Captain Fury,” with Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, and June Lang. AT THE PALACE Saturday night preview, Sunday and Monday—“Es pionage Agent,” with Joel McCrea and Brenda Marshall. Musical Meanderings German Science Has a “Black-Out” It is well known that Germany has made some of the most valuable contributions to modern science in many fields, but under the Hitler regime it is fast losing this respect, according to a recent report by an American scientific association. The report states that German universities have lost more than half their students in the last five years. In a year since the German occupation of Austria the University of Vienna lost 48 percent of its teaching staff, including some of its most eminent educators. It is asserted that about 1,500 scientific work ers ity universities in “greater” Germany have been forced ‘from their positions because they were Jewish, or otherwise came under the displeasure of the. Nazi party. What is even more important to the world at large is the fact that the findings of German research workers no longer inspire confidence, being con sidered unreliable because of governmental propa ganda pervading everything that comes out of that country. This is but another phase of the degradation be ing suffered by the people of Germany under the rule of the mad-man of Europe, Adolph Hitler. SAYS A FAMED LONDON PHYSICIAN, “Only the anticipation of the joys of summer keeps mankind going through the winter.” And don’t for get vice versa, doc. Aggies, Ask Yourselves— Would Lawrence Sullivan Ross be proud of being an Aggie if he could hear some of the language coming from around his statues these Sunday even ings ? i.-YWA- • By Murray Evans school was almost over at the This column goes in for “sweet time, so little attention was given bands”. And for the layman again it. The new War Song, Mr. Perfect it will be well to explain that such explained, is in no way intended to orchestras, both as to their instru- replace “Goodbye To Texas”, but ments used and to the type of merely to supplement it. Some of . „ v music played, emphasizes harmony, the “bridge” and “turn-around” East have been greatly reinforced finesse> ( j looked it up> s0 why sequences are certain iy admirably is is no ou m recogni ion o can ’^ you?) tone effects, slower suited to the A. & M. military rhf» nrir»^vrmnT\7 rvt -t-ho cni-na-Hz-wi , . , . . , , , . ,, _£*/?, rhythms, and sweet ballad tunes band, and especially, those affect- of the day. Such organizations are jug the bass and trumpet sections, better suited to play the better The. march has a fine martial lift the uncertainty of the situation with regard to Italy and Turkey. The National Labor Relations Board issued an order back m Sep- ^ otels and co ff ee shops because and zest which is instantly contag- NvIhoti tember, requiring that the Waum- their music is goft and soothing, ious. Frankly, this author was bec Mllls ’ ° f . Manchester, New eS p ecially to the middle-aged group “sold” on the tune and hopes that Hampshire, put two men on their payroll with two which frequents tlie se places. In the band will see fit to use it; in years back pay because the firm had refused to hire musical parlance S of t , sweet music every one of its passages it seems e men - . is called “creamy” because of the to have literally captured the foot- The Army and Navy require many manufactur- f act that all bands which play in ball spirit. It certainly has all the ers filling their orders to guard against foreign coffee shops must tone down and earmarks of a decided asset for a spies and sabotage. However, the N.L.R.B. refuses play very softly. Coffee—cream — band such as ours, to allow them to hire detectives on the ground that get it? Sweet bands seem to please Here is a good closing thought it is an unfair labor practice. Of course Hitler and more people, more often, in more for the day: Remember the Wbrld Communists in the C.I.O. thoroughly agree with ways than the razz-ma-tazz swing War tune that was so popular call- them. type. (And I don’t like those boos ed “Goodbye Broadway, Hello South American orders are coming to the U. S. from the gallery. Bet they are jit- France!” Let’s all hope that cir- at an increasing rate now. Brazil has just ordered terbugs.) Soft,- slow ballads are cumstances in our country won’t about $12,000,000 worth of ships and railroad equip- more pleasing to the ear, easier to lead up to this “farewell-to Amer- ment here, has placed a $500,000 order for tank dance, and more conducive to re- ica” ditty making the Hit Parade!! cars from Argentina, and a loan to Bolivia is in the miniscing than the average type making to be repaid with Bolivian tin. (According of swing tune which always seems QiOEJ 000 T rtHTIPfl F5f»V^ to recent dispatches Bolivia is now going demo- to call for buck-and-wing, swing 9 'L 17' 04- ^ 4- crtic, the fictator idea having recently lost favor in your-lady style of footwork. What’s '.I. TirOll^’ll X^X^otllClGIltS South America). the use of having a special girl Two hundred and forty-seven Finland is the only European country which ha^s back home, after all, if you can’t boys were extended a helping hand kept up its debt payments to the U. S., and now listen to popular tunes (and they in financing their way through the. U. S. has made a vigorous protest to Russia are nearly always the sweet, bal- A. & M. this fall through the loan against any attempt at aggression against the lad type) that you and she have funds of the Former Students As- Finns. The Finns are a vigorous, progressive nation- shared together, and get just a sociation. When the smoke cleared ality and deserve every support we can give them. great big kick out of thinking of away after the registration, nearly England is now manufacturing six times as the circumstances and setting in $25,000 had been advanced to these many munitions than she was at the height of the which you and she heard them last! boys. World War of 1914-18, according to the Associated This writer had the pleasure of Under present student loan rules Press. visiting in Mr. George Perfect’s all of these boys compiled satis- Hitler scornfully refused to even answer some studio in Dallas recently. (Mr. Per- factory scholastic records during of President Roosevelt’s pleas for peace and allow- feet is a well-known music teach- their previous years at A. & M. ed his newspapers to publish insulting remarks a- er, and is perhaps Dallas’ foremost Approximately one half of the bout the U. S. President. Now Hitler wants peace pipe organist.) While I was there, loans made were to seniors who to prevent having to give up his loot, so he is ex- he played his new Aggie War will receive their degrees next ceedingly anxious for our President to pull his Song, his own composition, and ex- spring. chestnuts out of the fire for him. It only remains plained to me its different passag- No further loans will be made for the Germans to nominate Hitler for the Nobel es. Many Aggies will remember the until second-term registration in Peace Prize—or for Hitler to niminate himself! tune being introduced last year, but February. Ramblin’ ... A tandem bicycle with a sidecar on each side is the goal of Woody Varner, Doug Mill er, and Tommy McCord. This, so they can make classes on schedule without leaving dormitory twelve be fore class time . . . Colonel Moore points out that he learned more about daughter Annie’s recent Euro pean tour by reading Fuermann th® Battalion than from Anne herself . . .An “all-right” fellow is Cap tain Phil Enslow if you listen to the story his M. S. juniors are telling. A special class meeting of Field Artillery of military juniors who regularly meet class on Sat urday was called Thursday night to permit the cadets to attend to day’s Aggie-Villanova game. But midway in the period a thirty- minute time-out was called—to listen to Baby Snooks . . . Orchids to the A. & M. Amateur Radio Club. Via their local station, W5AQY, they’re sending free mes sages for Aggies to T.S.C.W. or any part of the world. • “Rev” has a new blanket. When next you see the famous Aggie mascot trot out on the grid iron, you’ll also see her new Aggie blanket. One of the newer A. & M. traditions, started about three years ago, dictates that each year the new head yell-leader buy Rev’s blanket; at the end of the year the yell leader keeps it for a souvenir. The new one was de livered to Bodie Pierce Thursday night and is practically the same as last year’s blanket. • There is no single group of peo ple who are finer to the Texas Aggies than Fort Worth people. Those who made the last Fort Worth corps trip in ’37 well re member how much they did to make our stay there an enjoyable one. And now, once again, they are doing all in their power to provide a., never-to-be-f or gotten day in the lives of those Aggies making next Saturday’s corps trip. Responsible, for the most part, are two outstanding A. & M. organ izations: the Fort Worth Former Students Association and a splen did Fort Worth Mothers’ Club. Men of A. & S. Dept. Attend Convention At the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants held in San Antonio, October 7, T. W. Leland, head of the Accounting and Statistics Department, was re elected secretary and treasurer of the Texas Society. At the same convention H. A. Dulan, professor in Accounting and Statistics De partment, was elected secretary and treasurer of the Texas Asso ciation of University Instructors. T. W. Leland was in charge of the program. A. & M. was well represented at the convention. Those attending were W. M. Simpson, C. P. A.; O. A. Weinke, S. N. Stubbs, H. A. Dulan, and T. W. Leland, C. P. A. Simpson and Leland are members of the Texas Society. The instructors’ meeting, in which A. & M. participated, was given over to a discussion of ac counting curricula offered at var ious colleges and universities. Highlighting the football team's recent trip to San Francisco: The team stopped off in Los Angeles and visited the world famous Trocadero and Earl Carroll’s Restaurant . . . While in the Troc the Cadets saw Delores Del Rio and Orsen Welles in person . . . More than 300 exes were on hand to witness the game . . After the victory the Aggies visited the beautiful Sky Room atop San Francisco’s Empire Hotel . . The next day the gang saw the World Fair from one end to the other . . . The entire group seemed to have a wonderful time, but were glad to be back at Aggieland. • Now that women are again wear ing suits, Harold Hausman has re minded us of an incident concern ing a masculinish University of Texas girl who entered one of Aus tin’s fashionable clothing stores to buy a suit. The clerk asked what style the up-to-date young co-ed wanted. Blushingly, she answered, “Double-breasted, of course.” Taylor Addresses Fish and Game Club At Year’s First Meet Dr. Walter P. Taylor, head of the Department of Fish and Game addressed the Fish and Gapie Club of A.& M. at its first meeting of the 1939-40 session. While European nations are en gaged in struggle on bloody battle fields, people in the United States interested in conservation must wage a battle to bring to the attention of the Ameri can public the sad plight cf our rapidly -vanishing natural resources, and must lead this pub lic to ask for proper legislation to aid in conserving and replenishing these valuable national assets for our present and future generations of American citizenry. Men who have prepared themselves in the scholarly usage of the natural sci ences, Dr. Taylor pointed out, will be best fitted to carry on the lead ership in this battle. He emphasiz ed the need for men of high stand ards in the field of wildlife conser vation and said that those men who attain good records in school will find little difficulty in finding places for themselves when finish ed with college. Too great an em phasis, he said, can hardly be plac ed on the need for high grades in the courses taken at A. and M., for although grades may be of ques tionable value on which to base a student’s ability, they are often all that the college has to recommend its students to prospective employ ers. The Fish and Game Club is en tering its second year at A. and M. Membership is restricted to stu dents majoring or minoring in Fish and Games. The Club meets each Monday night between 7:15 and 8:15 in Room 117 of the Animal Industries Building. Visitors are welcomed. Over 156,000 square feet of 20- year bonded roofing was used for A. & M.’s 13 new buildings. Dixie Roofs, Incorporated, of Houston had the contract for the roofing. The same company has the con tract for the waterproofing of the tunnels which carry the utility services to the new halls. These tunnels are 4,200 feet long and six feet square and are considerably larger than most of this type. SUNDAY SPECIAL 400 Fresh Shrimp Cocktail Choice of , Fried Spring Chicken Breaded Veal Cutlets with Tomato Sauce Roast Pork Ham with Glazed Pineapple Roast Sirloin of Beef with Brown’s Sauce Pear and Cheese Salad Stuffed Baked Potatoes Fresh Garden Peas Whole Kernel Golden Bantam Corn Banana Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream Coffee Tea Milk COLLEGE INN North Gate