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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, OCT. 24, 1939
The Battalion Collegiate Review
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER G ?
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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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.
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Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Circulation Manager
Intramural Editor
Staff Photographer
Staff Artist
TUESDAY STAFF
Charlie Wilkinson Managing Editor
Sam Davenport Asst. Advertising Manager
C. A. Montgomery Editorial Assistant
Junior Editors
George Fuermann Earle Shields
Senior Sports Assistants
Marshall Kennady ; Jimmie Cokinos
Reportorial Staff
D. K. Andrews, Alfred Fischer, H. S. Hutchins, W. D. C. Jones,
J. C. Rominger, Sidney Smith, E. A. Sterling, W. P Walker,
R. J. Warren, L. B. Williams, G. W. Williams, Bill Fitch
Jerry Rolnick, J. T. Morgan
Glamorous Students?
We’ve all thought for a long time that some
thing ought to be done about it—this business of
making the life of today’s collegian glamorous and
carefree—and at last the Daily Dartmouth of Dart
mouth College has done it, the Associated Collegiate
Press reports. We believe you’ll give a rousing
second to this editorial.
“It’s about time somebody tried once and for
all to dispel the myth of the carefree college boy.
The college boy, people who are out of college, or
have never been there, will tell you, lives a life
which runs the gamut from pure joy to the ultimate
in rhapsodic existence, and the Sunday magazine
sections picture him with glass in hand, his lips
creased in a gay smile, while a number of beauti
ful women parade past him like so much beef on
the hoof. The motion pictures are doing their level
best to prolong the life of this popular fiction, and
thousands of young girls who stand on their feet
all day behind the counters from Worcester to Osh
kosh find their own particular heaven in watching
some clean-cut god of the Tom Brown species cavort
through a land overflowing with evening clothes and
exciting football finishes, strewing his fraternity
pins behind him.
“The college boy may seem that way at times,
and particularly when he begins to reminisce for
the benefit of the homefolks during vacation periods,
but that is because he is learning that the only way
to please is to give people what they expect, and
tT^t no one will believe, much less listen to him, if
he tries to tell the crowd that he is doing a serious
job of going to college, and that he has a lot of
things on his mind.
“The fact is that college boys work hard, take
a Saturday night off for relaxation, like to sit by
the fire and read the newspaper, are ugly or good
looking as the case may be, have their domestic
troubles with their roommates, get broke, argue
with the traffic cop, do or do not like their eggs
flopped over, and call Mr. Roosevelt names, even
as any average citizen who lives uphill and goes to
work on Main Street. To be sure, college boys are
young, and they do these things with more spirit,
and harder than they will twenty years from now,
but the point is that this is what they do, and it’s
peculiar that nobody wants to believe it.
“Just the same, we hope the day will come when
some stranger will tell us that he’s working in such
and such a place, and we can reply that we’re
going to college, without catching that ‘oh, college
boy’ look in his eye.”
Da Vinci 9 s Wheelbarrow
Leonardo da Vinci, born in 1452, the illegiti
mate son of a Florentine lawyer, is considered by
many to have been the most universal genius the
world has ever produced. His activities embraced
all the fields of art and science in his day.
While he is best known as the painter of Mona
Lisa and The Last Supper, he was also accomplished
beyond his contemporaries as sculptor, musician,
military engineer, astronomer, botanist, anatomist,
geologist and what not.
But great as were his contributions to art and
science, the most lasting benefits which he conferred
upon mankind were probably in the line of mechani
cal invention, although many of his conceptions were
not developed practically until centuries later. It is
said that he invented a flying machine which would
have been a success with a modern motor, for which
the world had to wait another 400 years.
One of his inventions was the wheelbarrow,
which, simple as it appears to us, has been one of
the greatest labor-savers ever devised through the
application of pure mechanics. It seems strange to
us that so many centuries elapsed between the in
vention of the wheel and that of the wheelbarrow.
Why Die In Europe’s War
Old men make wars that the young men fight.
That is the history of every conflict, that will be the
history of this one if the United States gets in.
The youth of this country doesn’t want to
fight in Europe. Why should he ? For the first
time he is face to face with a struggle whose only
spectacle is horror, whose only passion is cruelty.
Recent statistics show that in the United
States there are 26,000,000 men between the ages
of 18 and 45. Presumably, by simple arithmetic
then, there are at least 13,000,000 between the ages
of 18 and 32.
Young men’s blood has always paid for old
men’s blunders.
It shouldn’t be so this time. We can pray that
it won’t—and continue living, instead of dying.
—Dispatch-J ournal.
How do students rate students of other colleges?
In a survey, undergraduates at five eastern institu
tions rated the Dartmouth man as an “outdoor man,
college-loyal, a hard drinker, athletic and rah-rah;”
the Harvard man is “blase, snobbish, conceited,
intellectual and socialite;” the Princeton youth is
“style-setting, gentlemanly, smooth, college-loyal,
socialite,” and the Yale student is “college-loyal,
athletic, typical college, hard-drinking, socialite.”
What do you think?
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Smart-cracking funnyman Robert Charles
Benchley of the bounding broomstick fame, current
networks and screen comedy favorite, believes that
college is as good a place as any to start a life of
fun and fiction—and he points to his undergraduate
career at said Harvard to prove it.
Smartest come-back and shortest exam answer
we’ve come across in a long time came from the
collection of Benchleyisms that still keeps
wearers of the Crimson in stitches: During an Eng
lish literature examination he was asked, “Which of
Shakespeare’s plays would you rather see enacted,
‘Hamlet’ or ‘Macbeth’?” Here’s Bob’s answer: “I
would rather see ‘Hamlet,’ because I’ve already seen
‘Macbeth’.”
^ ^
Can an A grade be unwelcome? Paul W. Sum
mers, mid-year graduate of the University of Hawaii,
says it can, and cites his own experience to prove it.
Summers entered the current year lacking nine
credits for graduation. He enrolled as a special
student, paying $5 for each credit or a total of $45.
When he returned for a transcript of his record yes
terday, he was informed that he had been granted
an additional credit with an A grade for his per
formance in the guild play, “The First Legion.” This
made him a regular student, and subject to $14
ASUH fees, $10 registration fee, and other charges.
“Why couldn’t I get A’s when I wanted them?”
he wails. “I like A’s, but not at about $28 each!”
He firmly refused the additional credit, announcing
that he was auditing dramatics.
PIGS: Luther College has a new endowment
building stunt that we think is something that de
mands a place in our little book of collegiate oddities.
To gather funds for the erection of a new women’s
dorm, it is asking farmer friends to donate a pig to
the college in the spring, feed it during the summer,
and present the full-grown hog or its equivalent in
cash to the college next fall. Yes, the college is
located in the tall corn state!
Harvard man Conrad Budny claims the unoffi
cial milk-drinking championship of the world; he
drinks seven glasses of milk per meal and has done
so ever since he was a babe in arms. No sissy, he
exercises with 50-pound weights, using a 200-pound
weight for “special occasions.”
NUDE NOGGIN: Latest money-making freak
stunt to supplement the goldfish and phonograph-
record eating contests of collegians comes from Ohio
State. Ernest R. Tennenbaum, a sophomore, had his
hair clipped off neatly and smoothly for a $5 bill
donated by his Tau Epsilon Phi brethren if he’d go
through with the dare. Hair tonic manufacturers will
prosper as never before if this idea goes the way
of the fish gulping contests.
As the World Turns...
By DR. R. W. STEEN
The inability of the Republican Party to present
even the shadow of a foreign policy is definitely
encouraging the talk of a third term for Roosevelt.
Garner, whose boom for the presidency is still
under way, is being mentioned as
a candidate for a third term in the
vice-presidential chair. It appears
now that the anti-Garner manager
in Texas will be Railroad Commis
sioner Sadler. Recent developments
have made Mayor Maverick of San
Antonio less valuable than formerly
as a Roosevelt leader.
Radio station WBAP did not
carry the Sunday morning broadcast
of Governor O’Daniel. A statement
Steen issued by the station declares that
it is made available to the governor without charge
for the Sunday addresses, but that its services can
be had only in case a manuscript is submitted in
advance. WBAP contends that the matters discussed
by the governor are controversial in character, and
that a manuscript is therefore essential.
The proposed special session of the legislature
remains no more than a probability. The governor
is asking that members commit themselves in ad
vance to follow a generally outlined program. A
number of the members have as yet failed to make
the necessary pledge. Austin opinion is that there
will be a special session, but the matter of when is
far from clear. The governor is still advocating a
tax on goods sold as the best means of financing
the security program. Railroad Commissioner E. O.
Thompson advocates increased taxes on natural re
sources as the best means of financing the program.
His proposal has been reduced to a slogan: “A
nickle for grandma.” In ordinary language this
means a tax of five cents per barrel on crude oil.
It seems that Hitler has been badly outplayed
in the game of international chess by Stalin. The
Russian dictator not only gained a large portion of
Poland without the necessity of firing a shot, but
has greatly improved the Russian position as regards
the Baltic. Now, it is announced, that he has pos
itively refused to aid Germany in the war on Britain
and France, and that Russia will supply only those
military supplies for which Germany can pay.
Some reporters are convinced that Germany
intends to make a mass attack on the western front
within the next few weeks, and that in this attack
the neutrality of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland
will be violated. It is said that HitleT is taking this
move not on the advice of his generals, but the
secret police are said to have told Hitler that to
delay a large scale victory will be a sure way to
invite revolution.
The Allies seem content to depend upon time
and the blockade. Hitler must decide whether to
take aggressive steps, or whether to continue the
war of nerve through the winter.
BACKWASH
By
George Fuermann
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
By Bob Nisbet
“GOODBYE MR. CHIPS,” one
of the best shows of the year, is
showing at the Palace Tuesday and
Wednesday. The book, as writ
ten by James Hilton a few years
ago, was just a short novel and
therefore not overly crowded with
details. Of course, to make a
show, details are essential, and
since the book lacked them the
studio had to supply them. Never
was more justice done to a book
in carrying out the general theme
and atmosphere than was done in
“Goodbye Mr. Chips.” Robert
Donat and Greer Carson are the
stars.
The life of an English school
master in the little Brookfield
School for Boys is the story.
Brookfield is not an aristocratic
school; it doesn’t cater to the rich
classes, but it is an old school filled
with many traditions and mem
ories. Sons follow in their fathers’
footsteps at Brookfield; in fact.
Chips himself could remember the
grandfathers of some of his last
class of boys, and he could call
every boys’ name.
When Chips arrives at the school
as a young master, he isn’t the
type to push himself. His timid
ity leads to unruly conduct
among his pupils, which incidence
almost costs him his job. Chips
is no miracle man; if it had not
have been for his wife there is
strong doubt that he would have
ever risen from the rank of an
instructor.
On a vacation with a close friend
and fellow teacher. Chips goes
alone on a mountain climb. Here
on the crags of an alp in the
thickest of fogs he meets her.
Such a strange courtship. The
most timid man in the world, and
middle-aged, falling in love with
a charming young girl. Her love,
however, is the spark that fires
Chips’ ambitions. Earnestly set
ting to work, he gets the promo
tions that he has so long deserved.
As an old man with his many
memories, Chips reflects over his
term as head master, over his
wife’s life cut short by childbirth,
over the many faces that have
daily passed before him. He dies
as a man long to be remembered
for his kindness and his sincerity.
For the honest portrayal of a
truly good book, I rate “Goodbye
Mr. Chips” three grade points.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE PALACE
Tuesday and Wednesday—
“Here Am I A Stranger,”
with Richard Greene, Rich
ard Dix, and Brenda Joyce.
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday and Wednesday—
“Goodbye Mr. Chips,” with
Robert Donat and Greer Car-
“Mag-azine Vitamins” Tasteless, Odorless,
Colorless, and Useless, Writer Reveals
From “The Campus Chat”
“Losing your schoolgirl complex
ion ? Is your weight normal ? How’s
the appetite, is it poor ? Ingrown
nails, housemaid’s knee, water on
the brain, halitosis, B. O., pink
tooth brush, or anything else wrong
with you ?
“If so, you need vitamins—vita
mins A, B, C, D, E, F, G,—and
maybe X, Y, Z—and you need them
in concentrated form. A pellet that
melts on your tongue and is color
less, odorless, tasteless, (and use
less). Every product of Swindle,
Cheatum and Company is guaran
teed to contain every known vita
min or your money back. If you
don’t get vitamins, look out. There
will be a doctor’s bill to pay. Look
for the big green figures and our
guarantee on every cellophone-
wrapped package.”
To some people this may sound
like the stream-lined version of
the snake-oil seller’s ballyhoo, but
exhortations like it greet the mod
ern consumer almost everywhere—
from the air, in magazines, news
papers, from bill boards, and in
packages. The consumer is told
that he can get his vitamins in the
standard or the de luxe model,
but he must have one or the other.
The standard may come in the
form of lusive Effervescent Evap
orated Eggnoodles, Flossy’s Fac
titious Flakes, Paula’s Puffed Pea
Soup, or Sofia’s Society Soap (with
a vitamin content that soaks
through the skin), but regardless
of how it comes, the consumer is
constantly aware that he is able
to get it.
The deluxe model comes in the
form of concentrates to be taken
after each meal, morning, noon,
and night, not to mention 10:30,
2:30 and 4:30, in addition to the
midnig-ht hotdog. Some of the con
centrates are advertised as a cure
for everything from a hangnail to
phlebitis, and if the consumer will
only consume enough, his worries
about socialized medicine will be
over.
According to the Consumer’s
Guide, May 1, 1939, a publication
of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, the business in
vitamins has reached the $100,000,
000-a-year mark. When the people
of a nation spend that much an
nually for a thing, it is probably
time that they were asking if it
is worth it.
Williams Invited To
Address San Antonio
Teacher’s Association
The San Antonio Industrial Arts
and Vocational Teachers Club
invited E. L. Williams to speak at
a breakfast on Saturday, October
21, at the Gunter Hotel. The mem
bership of this club is made up
of the Industrial Arts teachers
from all of the junior and senior
high schools and the teachers of
industrial arts from the Lanier,
Burbank, and Technical High Vo
cational Schools.
Mr. Williams will speak to the
Mr. Williams spoke to the
club on “Guidance Through Indus
trial Education.”
Seven vitamins have been recog
nized by scientists. Their composi
tion, chemical and physical proper
ties, some of their functions, and
their sources are known, and can
be found in almost any book or
pamphlet on chemistry, biology,
physical education, or foo^s. Work
in this field has reached the point
where some of the vitamins have
been prepared synthetically, and
in the laboratory, but that is no
reason that everybody should buy
and take them.
Quail, Antelope,
Wild Turkey, Deer,
Placed In Areas
To keep Texas’ fields and streams
first in the thoughts of hunters
and fishermen, both in the State
and out, the Texas Game, Fish
and Oyster Commission during the
past twelve months increased its
restocking program and promoted
interest in wildlife through a state
wide game management project, it
was pointed out today in the Com
mission’s Annual Report for the
fiscal year ending August 31,
1939.
A total of 20,000 bobwhite quail
were distributed to sportsmen and
landowners. The commission dis
tributed the birds on a cooperative
basis, a quail being given free to
each purchaser of one.
In addition, 533 wild turkeys
and 194 white-tailed deer were dis
tributed to depleted areas over the
state. During the preceding year
no turkeys were distributed be
cause the crop would not justify
it.
Successful live trapping of ante
lopes in West Texas was reported.
It was the first antelope trapping
program ever attempted in Texas.
Thirty-three of the wiry animals
were trapped, placed in padded
crates and transported to areas
in West Texas. The program, to
be resumed within a few weeks,
ultimately will result in the estab
lishment of about 15 seed herds
in West Texas, the report says.
Production at nine state fish
hatcheries was stepped up 20.7 per
cent during the year, and construc
tion of a tenth hatchery at Natalia,
in Medina County, was virtually
completed. Six months after work
on the Natalia hatchery was started
fish were being produced in 13
ponds. When completed the hatch
ery will consist of 42 ponds.
The season’s half over and we’re
still undefeated . . . Don’t be dis
appointed if we lose one, though,
because any team can have an “off
day” and there may be a South
west Conference
team better than
the Aggies . . Ag
gies 106, oppon
ents 16. . . Num
ber one calamity
of Saturday’s pa-
rade was Don Mc-
Mi Chesney losing
—— his shoe as his
Fuermann company passed
the reviewing
stand . . . Colonel Christian, while
waiting for the special to return
to College Station: “This is the
day I’ve been waiting for.” . . .
Funniest of all were the four elder
ly persons trying to give the
comical Aggie yell “Lizzie” in the
lobby of the Texas Hotel follow
ing the game . . . Sophomore A.
S. Richards’ harmonica playing on
the first special kept a hundred
cadets entertained for over an
hour Saturday morning.
•
Jimmy Cokinos brings Backwash
this one about “Big Jawn:”
A few hours after last Satur
day’s game, John Kimbrough was
riding the elevator in the Texas
Hotel where the team was stay
ing. It was a crowded elevator,
like all Fort Worth elevators this
past weekend, and among its pas
sengers were two middle-aged
gentlemen not at all affected by
the hub-hub of the game. Each
of the gentlemen, in his own turn,
carefully scrutinized John, one of
them even touching his broad
shoulder and feeling of his arm
muscles. All this without a word
from either of them. Finally, how
ever, one of them let go with
words of real wisdom: “Son, you
should play football.”
Rosenwald Fund
Fellowships For
1940-41 Now Open
The Julius Rosenwald Fund has
announced its offer of fellowships
for 1940-41 “to white southerners
who wish to work on some problem
distinctive to the South and who
expect to make their careers in the
Soifth,” according to Dean T. D.
Brooks, Dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences and Graduate
School.
The fellowships are not restrict
ed to any special subject or activ
ity. While they usually contem
plate advanced university work,
they are open also to those who
“plan to go into the fine arts,
creative writing or journalism, edu
cation, agriculture, business or
public service.”
Although very exceptional cases
will be considered on their merits,
candidates are expected to be be
tween 22 and 35 years of age. The
amount of the grant will be de
termined individually in each case
but they are expected to average
$1,500. These grants are normally
for one year.
Dean Brooks expressed the hope
that the fellowships would be of
interest to some members of the
College Staff. Any eligible per
son who is interested in the fel
lowship can obtain further infor
mation and forms at Dean Brooks’
office. The applications must be
filed in completed form before
January 5, 1940.
One week from tonight at 9:30.
Next Tuesday night over a
coast-to-coast network “The Ag
gie War Hymn” will be included
in a medley of college songs on
the Brown and Williamson Tobacco
Company’s weekly broadcast,
“Uncle Walter’s Dog House.”
•
J. J. Casey, manager of one of
the college’s confectioneries, has a
sense of humor, but like all things,
it has its limits. Early last week
a woman telephoned and asked to
talk to Casey’s wife—Casey who
is very unmarried! At first Casey
was amused, but the woman was
so persistant that he began to re
alize that the whole thing was no
laughing matter. No amount of
persuasion on Casey’s part could
convince the woman that he had
no wife; she insisted that he did
have one and wouldn’t take no for
an answer.
•
$10 Cash to the winner:
Backwash and the Y.M.C.A’s as
sociate secretary, J. Gordon Gay,
offer a $10 cash prize to any Ag
gie who can work Gay’s puzzle
which can be found in his office.
It can be done and the contest
doesn’t close until November 7,
so try your luck.
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