■TUESDAY, NOV. 14, 1939
PAGE 2
THE BATTALION
The Battalion
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.
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1939 Member 1940
Associated Golle&iate Press
STAFF
BILL MURRAY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
LARRY WEHRLE ADVERTISING MANAGER
James Critz Associate Editor
E. C. (Jeep) Oates Sports Editor
H. G. Howard Circulation Manager
“Hub” Johnson Intramural Editor
Philip Golman Staff Photographer
John J. Moseley 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
Jimmie Cokinos Jimmy James
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. L. Morgan, Joe Leach
Keeping a Clean Campus
We don’t think there should be any reason
for writing this editorial. Every college man
should consider it his duty to keep his school’s
campus clean and attractive. Every thinking Aggie
does.
However, there are still men on the campus
who consider any particular spot they happen to
be standing on a suitable discharging place for
old papers, lunch bags, and like refuse. The re
sult of such an attitude is the creation of a very
bad impression on the thousands of visitors to the
college.
We realize that there is a scarcity of refuse
receptacles on the campus, but that still affords no
excuse for littering lawns and walks. A littered
campus is but a poor advdStisement for the school
that occupies it. An Aggie should have sufficient
pride in his school to preserve the beauty of its
setting without being reminded by anyone.
‘The Art of Self-Defense’
At last boxing is making a comeback at A. &
M. This sport has been comparatively dormant
here, though it has long existed in an organized
form at many other schools and colleges of Amer
ica.
It is especially sad that our boxing hasn’t
grown, since the students enjoy it greatly, as evi
denced by the enthusiastic participation in the
yearly intramural tournament and by the large
crowds it draws to these matches. No, the Aggies
have plenty of fighting blood and enjoy the sport.
Why, then, is boxing as undeveloped in our
college as it is ? There seem to be two handicaps:
one is lack of money and equipment; the other,
lack of organized effort. These two things have
kept this sport from becoming the colorful, excit-
^ing game it can and should be.
The A. & M. Boxing Club, red-blooded Aggies
who like to box, are as earnest in this effort as
they ever are in the ring, and are really striving
to secure added local recognition of the game
by thoughtful planning and strong cooperation. They
intend to overcome these two handicaps, and
sincerely hope the student body and the faculty are
behind them in this fight, since they want boxing
here because they honestly believe it will please
everyone.
The Battalion wishes them all success. Boxing
is indeed a fine sport, and the art of self-defense
is important for everyone to possess.
Marks of an Educated Man
Monday evening after yell practice in the
chapel of the College Y. M. C. A. Ernest Lang
ford, head of the Architecture Department, address
ed the Freshman Service Club of the Y on “The
Marks of An Educated Man.”
Every student comes to college for the pri
mary purpose of obtaining an education. Why ?
Because the educated man has something the other
fellow doesn’t have. His language is superior. He
has ideas of his own. He can express himself and
be understood. He has a sense of values and recog
nizes the legitimate rights of others. He assumes
responsibility and does his part in promoting the
well-being of the country and its people.
Milton says, “I will call therefore a complete
and generoqs education that which fits a man to
perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all
the offices both private and public, of peace and
war.”
Every educational institution is faced with
these questions.
(1) How close do we come to producing the
educated man?
(2) Where do we fall short?.
Is there education here for us, and do we
just dodge it; or do we by some of our traditions and
customs hinder a man in his educational develop
ment? It seems there is some of both, and our job
is to keep an educated man in mind and then build
a program which produces one.
As we sit down and analyze A. & M., can
we find things which do not leave the marks of
an educated man ? Can we find things in our
own lives which keep us from really receiving an
education ? If our hearts are with our school,
we’ll not be satisfied until we have found them
and have put something in their place which does
make an educated man.
Respite its present low standing, the University
of Chicago grid team has won more Big Ten cham
pionships than any other team.
OF>EIV FOREIVI
FACULTY TENNIS CLUB
AGREES WITH THE BATTALION
I am glad to see an item in the Battalion call
ing attention to our lack of tennis courts.
Long-range planning is evidenced by the
recent campus eviction order and I am hoping
these plans contains provisions for some “good”
tennis courts. Tennis is one of the few college sports
a student can indulge in after graduation, and a
healthy opportunity should be given them to learn
the game.
Then too, the faculty may not be overlooked
in the provisions. At the least, students would
have enough courts of their own, and would not
have to resort to the following practice:
One afternoon four Aggies were noticed playing
on the freshly-rolled faculty courts with the rubber
lawn hose strung between the posts. This seemed
necessary as their own four courts were full and
more waiting. However, they could not get suffi
cient tension on the rubber hose to make it high
enough at the center of the court, so they
thoughtfully took a wooden sign from the fence
to bolster the sagging “net”.
The sign read:
FACULTY COURTS
FOR MEMBERS
ONLY
Very truly yours,
T. H. Terrell, President
Faculty Tennis Club
(Editor’s note: By all means, we need more
tennis courts—not to mention more handball courts.
And a practice like that described above should be
discontinued.)
THANKSGIVING BONFIRE
TO THE BATTALION:
If you have not already planned to do so, please
mention in the next issue of The Battalion that it
is time for the upperclassmen to start getting
the fish to work on the Thanksgiving game bonfire
—if we’re going to have one! Personally I think
we’re pretty late getting started. What do you
think ?
A Cavalry Junior
(Editor’s note: We think your intention is
good, but we’ve just talked with head yell-leader
“Bodie” Pierce who informs us that he has to
talk the matter over with the Commandant before
the'fish start building. Said Bodie in answer to
our questioning: “I think we’ll have time enough
after the Rice game. We have plenty of scrap
material saved up over the campus, and we don’t
want to start thinking about the Texas game be
fore we even play Rice.”
We agree the bonfire should be begun at the
earliest date possible; but don’t worry, we have
plenty of time and plenty of material).
Telephone technicians report Brown University
has the best college communications system in the
country.
Trinity College has a history class conducted
by a blind instructor.
The Intercollegiate Peace Association was . or
ganized at Egrlham College in 1906.
West Virginia University professors have de
veloped a new spray that will make apples red.
As the World Turns...
By DR. R. W. STEEN
Little things play a great part in world affairs.
The political situation in Germany would be vastly
different today had the bomb in the Munich beer
hall exploded fifteen minutes earlier last week.
Hitler usually makes long speeches. Last week he
made a short one, with the result that the leaders
of the Nazi party were on their
way back to Berlin when the ex
plosion occurred.
An enormous reward has been
offered, and secret police seem to
be arresting everyone in sight in
their efforts to locate the culprit
—or hero, depending on the point
of view. A German official spokes
man reached the height of some
thing or other by declaring Britain
to be at least psychologically re
sponsible for the explosion.
The American flag is being kept out of the
war zone by the provisions of the neutrality act,
but it seems that American ships will continue to
visit the parts of the warring powers. Unless pre
sent plans are changed, they will sail under the
flag of Panama, and will be manned by non-Ameri
can crews. Since Panama falls so clearly within
the scope of American influence, it will be inter
esting to note the popular reaction when the first
of these American ships flying the flag of Panama
falls a victim to a torpedo.
Orders for war supplies are now being placed
in America by Britain and France. It is estimated
that these orders will total at least two billion
dollars during the next twelve months. This great
increase in our export trade will doubtless im
prove economic conditions at home—and the know
ledge that our prosperity is tied to England and
France will of course tend to make the average
American even more interested in the success of the
allied cause.
British propaganda has so far been greatly
superior to that of Germany. The Germans insist
upon using the language of a barroom—or perhaps
beerhall—bully, while British releases have been
made devastating by their very politeness. About
the strongest term so far credited to the British
was used by Churchill in a Sunday address, in which
he spoke of Hitler as a “cornered maniac”.
Republican leaders have announced that their
party will wage a short campaign—not over eight
or nine weeks—for the presidency in 1940. In view
of the results in 1936 it will doubtless be wise for
the Republicans to change their tactics. However,
a six-month campaign won them only two states
in 1936, so it is a bit difficult to see what they
hope to carry with an eight-week campaign. After
all, electoral votes do not come in fractions.
Off the Record
BACKWASH
By
George Fuermann
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from soma action or occurrence.”—Webster.
v 'Tm the inquiring reporter. What are you doing tonight?”
“THE WIZARD OF OZ” was
reviewed in this year’s first issue
of magazine, but now that it has
arrived at tht Assembly Hall, an
other glance might be worth while.
Every child has read the stories
of the land of Oz in his growing
up. Even the most critical fault
finders can’t say that M-G-M
hasn’t, done a faithful reproduc
tion of this classis old story.
The cast is a hand-picked lot
and is as follows:
Dorothy J udy Garland
Professor Marvel, Frank Morgan
Scarecrow Ray Bolger
Cowardly Lion Bert Lahr
Tin Man Jack Haley
Glinda Billie Burke
One thing that improves the pic
ture ten-fold is the technicolor
scenes of Munchkin land. Another
asset was the music in the picture.
Several of the songs gained nation
wide popularity, and all of them
are rhythmic enough to make you
pat your foot.
As the story goes, Dorothy was
a small girl living on a farm in
Kansas. One of the twisters for
which Kansas is famous blew up
and caught Dorothy out of the
house. In the storm she received
a blow oil the head that rendered
her unconscious. Her dreaming
took her to a land beyond the sun
and sky amidst the fairjes and
elves. All the people she knew in
Kansas played a part in her dream.
She met a queer set of people in
this far away land. There was a
live scarecrow who talked, but was
stuffed with straw. Another man
was made out of tin and rusted
when he cried. Then there was the
cowardly lion who was afraid of
his own shadow.
“IN NAME ONLY” will be
shown again today at the Palace,
and “HOLLYWOOD CAVAL
CADE” will finish out the week.
We’ll get to the cavalcade Thurs
day.
The way of things . . . Field
Artillery’s Captain Joe Celia came
out of the usual groove recently
when he passed out cigars—ten
cent ones at that — to the mem
bers of his var
ious classes. Rea
son enough, too
—Captain Celia
now has a son . . .
Keyes Carson’s
record - breaking
cross country
hitch-hiking jaunt
will be pictured
Fuermann by Life Magazine
in a future issue
... The best imitator of Walt
Disney’s Donald Duck which your
columnist has yet run across is
Aggie Adrian Malsburger. Tops
in Adrian’s imitations is the cur
rent song hit “Well All Right!”
. . . One of the S. M. U. cheer
leaders on the campus this past
weekend, Gene Holstein, is a for
mer A. & M. student. Before go
ing to S. M. U. Gene spent two
years at Aggieland.
•
Although he wants no claims to
A. & M.’s mythical poet laureate-
ship, Jim Tom Anderson sends this
bit of verse to Backwash with the
notation “From one who knows!”
I’m always blue
When maintenance is due.
But worst of all
Is the notice “last call.”
•
Here’s one that happened in an
Eco Class last week:
The prof in question was busily
engaged in explaining the rights
of payment to the members of
his class. “When you enter a mov
ing picture threater after having
paid admission,” he said, “you have
every legal right to hiss the act
ing if you do not feel that you
are receiving your money’s worth.”
From somewhere in the rear of
the room a long hiss thereupon
sounded forth; but not the least
perturbed, the prof came back with
“Those of you who have paid your
matriculation fees are still within
your rights.”
•
How about this. Aggies?
T. S. C. W.-ite Hester Lea Grif
fin writes a Coast Artillery sen
ior that she has a canary in her
room which only sings when it
hears A. & M. songs being played
or sung.
And while we’re on the subject
of Aggie patriotism, it was Jim
Word who recently pointed out a
notable truism which many cadets
must have noticed lately. It’s as
tounding,” Jim pointed out, “how
many requests an Aggie receives
from home-town friends for A. &
M. stickers when our football team
is winning. When we’re losing they
don’t give a darn!”
•
Jack Littlejohn’s latest song,
“I’d Rather Be a Texas Aggie,”
has been mentioned in Backwash
before but the outstanding success
and popularity which the song has
been enjoying — and especially,
since being played at last Satur
day night’s corps dance—rates
special mention.
Jack should publish the song... It
has real potentialities, as everyone
who has heard the song agrees.
^ Musical Meanderings ^
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday and Wednesday—
“THE WIZARD OF OZ,” with
Judy Garland, Frank Mor
gan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr,
Jack Haley, and Billie Burke.
AT THE PALACE
Tuesday—“IN NAME ON
LY,” with Cary Grant, Carole
Lombard, and Kay Francis.
Wednesday, Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday—“HOL
LYWOOD CAVALCADE,”
with Don Ameche and Alice
Faye.
New Recordings
“Gulliver’s Travels, has been for
many years a highly interesting
story for both young and old. Para
mount’s feature-length technicol
or cartoon based on the interest
ing experiences of Gulliver gives
promise of being this season's
“Snow White.” Leo Robin and
Ralph Rainger prepared the musi
cal score. It boasts at least four
selections of hit calibre from which
Glenn Miller has selected the two
appearing on his latest Bluebird
record. FAITHFUL FOREVER
is a slow balled while BLUE
BIRDS IN THE MOONLIGHT is
a medium fast swing song. Ray
Eberle and Marion Hutton divide
the vocals.
Hal Kemp’s two vocal soloists,
Bob Allen and Nan Wynn, split
Working Students Of
Conn. State Restricted
New London, Conn.—If you are
a working student at Connecticut
State College, you can’t earn all
the money you want to—in fact,
the college’s administration has
a definite set of working rules for
all undergraduates.
The new rules were drawn up
to prevent students from overwork
that might lead to health and
scholarship difficulties. All work
is done under college supervision.
the chores on a coupling of prom
ising songs. LAST NIGHT is al
ready well established as another
Nick and Charles Kenny hit. MANY
DREAMS AGO, written by A1
Stillman and Fred Ahletr, is like
wise on the up swing. Both tunes
are afforded the medium slow in
terpretation the Kemp organiza
tion features so delightfully.
By Murray Evans
Recently a gentleman in a South
ern night club requested “Please
Don’t Talk About Me When I’m
Gone” of the orchestra. When the
number was finished, however, the
“gentleman” flourished a revolver,
robbed the cashier and hostess, and
fled. After the excitement had
subsided somewhat the piano play
er found a note on top his piano
which read “Thanks For Every
thing!” Who was it who said
bandits have no sense of humor!
In response to numerous re
quests for the words of Jack Lit
tlejohn’s new composition, “I’d
Rather Be A Texas Aggie,” the
Battalion prints them in full. To
become familiar with the tune it
is suggested that one listen to the
Aggieland Orchestra, the vocal be
ing done by Jack himself. (All
accusations of “plugging” are
hereby respectfully ignored.)
The words:
I’d Rather Be A Texas Aggie
I’d rather be a Texas Aggie,
Just a mean old so-and-so,
Than to be from Rice or Texas
And be rolling in dough.
I’d rather be out on the highway
A-thumbing a ride
Than to have Miss Greta Garbo
For my blushing bride.
For I am true to the colors of
Maroon and White,
If they win or lose, or if they’re
wrong or right;
But if they lose, old pal, you’ll al
ways hear me say,
“Let’s go out to ‘Ed’s’ and drink
our cares away!”
I’d rather be out on a corp trip,
No dime to my name,
Than to have my whole life history
In the Hall of Fame.
Just rather be a plain ole Aggie,
No shirt or no tie,
Glad I’ll always be an Aggie
’Til the day I die!
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