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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.
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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
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BACKWASH
By
George Puermann
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
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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.
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“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
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