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-TUESDAY, NOV. 28, 1939
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 8, 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
1939 Member 1940
Associated Golle&iate Press
STAFF
BILL MURRAY
LARRY WEHRLE L-
James Critz
E. C. (Jeep) Oates
EL G. Howard
“Hub" Johnson
Philip Golman
John J. Moseley
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
Jimmie Cokinos Jimmy James
Junior Advertising Solicitors
L. J. Nelson - A. J. Hendrick
Reportorial Staff
D. K. Andrews. Alfred Fischer. H. S. Hutchina, W. D. C. Jones.
J. C. Rominger, Sidney Smith, E. A. Sterling, W. P Walker.
R. J. Warren, L. B. Williams. G. W. Williams. BUI Fitch
Jerry Rolnick, J. L. Morgan, Joe Leach
Welcome, Exes
The Battalion, together with the faculty and
students, extends a hearty welcome to the “exes”,
as A. & M. approaches its annual Thanksgiving
when thousands of graduates of this institution will
be on the campus.
This Thanksgiving will climax one of the most
successful and spectacular football seasons iri all
of A. & M.’s history. In view of this fact, we,
the students, invite the alumni to join with us in a
proper spirit of celebration to show out appreciation
to those who made it possible.
Courtesy to Visitors
Thousands of visitors will be on the A. & M.
campus Wednesday and Thursday.
During that time more than any other let’s
be on our guard so as not to give offense in any
way that will create a bad impression of A. & M.
in the minds of these visitors.
It is up to us to see that the visitors are
treated with all the hospitality and courtesy due
them. If they are not, A. & M.’s reputation else
where will be lowered as a result. Such a thing
should not happen.
If we show true sportsmanship at all times,
if we are helpful to and considerate of our guests,
if in our “highwaying” we remember to show
courtesy and appreciation to those who give us
rides, then A. & M. will retain undiminished that
high reputation it has long held throughout the
state.
True Thanksgiving
As this nation’s traditional Thanksgiving Day
approaches, a more reverent love of our country
and a spirit of peacefulness should be in the heart
of every American. Of course, most of us are
planning to rest up and enjoy the holidays, a per
fectly normal thing. However, during our brief
period of relaxation, we should also remember and
be thankful for the many blessings with which
this country has been endowed. Our friends, our
loved ones, and this fair land are the richest blessings
any people can attain. Headlines scream the disast
ers of another war in Europe. Thank God our
youth are not on the field of battle; and may
our country continue to remain at peace with the
world.
We are grateful for our homes, for parents
whose devotion and love help strengthen and guide
us through the years. May our lives be richer,
through the friends we love and personal ideals
we hold.
The leaders of our nation we salute—not only
the seemingly more important, but everyone who
has a part in directing the lives of others.
We should be thankful for the opportunity
to go to school to receive, not only a thorough educa
tion in some particular field, but also a well-round
er knowledge of the art of living successfully and
in harmony with our fellow man. Our opportunities
are indeed golden. Surely we are thankful.
‘ ‘ T icket-S calping 9 9
Tip to all Thanksgiving visitors: Beware of un
official football ticket salesmen. A few forged
tickets were peddled for the S. M. U.-A. & M. game
here.
Of course, it would be a difficult matter to
eliminate “ticket-scalping” altogether. A concen
trated effort is being made to do so for the Thanks
giving game. But still there may be some. «
Several complaints were received at the S. M.
U. game from people who had bought tickets they
later found to be counterfeit, from a person they
alleged was in uniform. His name could not be
traced or his identity established as an Aggie.
Therefore, beware of ticket-scalpers.
Aggies, Ask Yourselves—
It’s a wise thing indeed for students to guard
the bonfire against those who might prematurely
set it afire; but is it necessary to stop cars and
hold up traffic on the adjoining streets to do it?
Sportsmanship
True sportsmanship consists of many things.
Just one of these is the ability to accept both vic
tory and defeat with a smile.
We have seen both poor winners and poor
losers. Both of them are poor sportsmen.
While the Aggie team seems heading for a
sure victory over the University Longhorns Thanks
giving Day, and while all the students of A. & M.
are more or less confident of our winning the
Southwest Conference championship undefeated
and untied this year—still, defeat is at all times
possible.
Though we are not trying to “wet-blanket”
the issue, the fact remains that a defeat is barely
possible. If such a calamity, unexpected as it is,
should occur, let’s all try to be sportsmanlike a-
bout it. And to reduce the possibility of such a
thing’s happening and the natural diappointment
ensuing, let’s not be over-optimistic or over-confi
dent of victory until it’s actually “in the bag”. In
other words, let’s not “count our chickens before
they’re hatched”.
A man who is clever enough to be boss in the
home is also wise enough not to brag about it.
In Pittsburgh a motorcycle exploded without
hurting anyone. The perfect accident.
Care on the Highways
During this week and the next, thousands of
A. & M. students will be coming and going on the
highways.
The Battalion expresses the hope that “Silver
Taps” will not prove necessary after the Thanks
giving holidays are over.
More than one Aggie has died on the highways,
in the past. Greater care than usual, on the more-
than-usually crowded highways at this time, should
prevent a repetition 6f such tragedies.
In your driving, in your “highwaying”, exer
cise due caution, particularly at this season of the
year. Remember, it’s better to lose a minute than
to lose a life; and it’s only a short step from
the present into eternity.
Falling in love is being taught as an art. Pre
sumably the purpose is to avoid the inartistic
business of falling out.
With the Kaiser, it was “Me and Gott.” Hitler
is going to the other extreme in making it “Me
and Stalin.”
As the World Turns...
By DR. R. W. STEEN
The war goes on its way with few new develop
ments, but with varying degrees of emphasis on old
developments. The submarine seems to have been
subjected to fairly complete control, but the mine
has taken its place as a destroyer of commerce.
The use of free mines is not new, but is, on the
other hand, contrary to all prin
ciples of international law. Ger
many, as well as other powers, has
signed treaties in recent years
pledging herself not to make use of
such mines. These treaties seem to
have little effect. This is unfor-
J’liligllgjg tunately true of most treaties.
fllk By strewing the shipping lanes
with free mines, Germany has in
effect declared war upon the ship
ping of all nations. A mine gives
Steen no warning. Nor can it distinguish
between neutral and belligerent vessels. Moreover,
it can make no provision for the care of occupants
of the vessels. More serious still is the fact that
the mine, once released, goes its own way and
may show up at any time and any place. It is
entirely possible that vessels will be destroyed by
some of these mines years after peace has been
restored.
The mines have taken a heavy toll in the last
week, but shipping losses do not yet begin to com
pare with the average weekly losses during the
first months of unrestricted submarine warfare
in the conflict of 1914-1918. Meanwhile, the same
science that found a way to combat the sub
marine will doubtless find a way to combat the
free mines.
The proposal of Representative Bailey Ragsdale
that Governor O’Daniel be suspended for a short
time while the Legislature provided funds for the
old age pension fund was doubtless made more in
jest than in seriousness. A governor can be sus
pended only by impeachment charges, and Mr. Rags
dale admits that the governor has been guilty of
neither high crimes nor misdemeanors. Lacking
these charges it is most difficult to see how the
governor could be suspended. Mr. Ragsdale thinks
that a special session should be called. The governor
has refused to call a session. A law passed about
twenty years ago states that the Legislature can
meet in special session for the purpose of impeach
ment without a call from the governor. This law
is of very doubtful constitutionality, and has never
yet been tested in the courts. A session called
under this law would very probably accomplish
nothing, and even if it did would probably have its
work nullified by the courts.
If the threatened strike of motion picture em
ployees develops, the great mass of Americans who
depend upon the corner theater for recreation will be
greatly inconvenienced. Literally millions of people
in this country have almost no other form of amuse
ment, and if suddenly deprived of the movies, if
only for a limited time, would find time heavy on
their hands. The Lone Ranger has become an in
stitution comparable to Santa Claus in importance,
while the antics of motion picture royalty—to say
nothing of Mickey Mouse, Porky Pig, and Donald
Duck—occupy places of essential importance in
American life.
It wouldn’t be so bad to be poor if we could only
keep the distressing fact a secret.
A Kentuckian shot a neighbor who called him a
common liar. No one likes to be called common.
THE BATTALION
Collegiate Kaleidoscope
BACKWASH
By
George Fuermann
"Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster.
The way of things . . . All hotels
and tourist camps within a fifty-
mile radius of college have been
sold out for over two months as
A. & M. awaits its largest crowd
in history . . . Hal Ewing is the
first Aggie whom
your columnist has
seen wearing the
new collar insignia
“C. H. Q.” which
replaces the more
conventional cross
guns, cross-sabers,
etc. for those stud
ents who make up
Fuermann the newly formed
Corps Headquarters
organization. Jack Clark and Clay
ton Bird are chiefly responsible for
securing the new insignia. . . Fresh-
mfen from the campu^ project!
houses and the old Army Barracks
are doing their part in helping
build the great bonfire stack on
the drill field. . . One might, with
out much straining of the imagina
tion, calk this Thanksgiving Day
one where the barnyard really
comes into its own—what with
turkey and pigskin; and more es
pecially with two celebrations on
hand this year. . . Winner of Back
wash’s dog-naming contest will be
announced after the holidays.
Judges Bill Guy, Bob Kissinger,
and “Hymie” Focke met last night
for final consideration.
•
From Texas U. comes this slap-
happy suggestion as to how the
annual Turkey Day classic might
have been played:
“AUSTIN, (date undecided).
Latest reports from official sour
ces here today indicated that the
first half of the traditional Texas-
A. & M. game will be played on
November 23, Thanksgiving II, and
the second on November 30,
Thanksgiving I, with the seven
days in between consisting the
half. This arrangement, said
Coach Darn Biblical, will enable
spectators to obtain a bit between
halves, make possible last-minute
recruiting for the two teams, and
should please both the Pilgrim
Fathers and the Federal Govern
ment.”
•
The latest banner on The Daily
Texan reads, “Thanksgiving Din
ner . . . Soup to Nuts, With Ag
gies For Dessert.” But the much-
cussed Aggies (by The Daily Tex
an) have been “eating” Steers for
breakfast, dinner, and supper since
before the Rice game. If you care
to visit the team’s equipment and
training room in the gym, you’ll
find pictures of all the Texas
players, action shots from pre
vious games which Texas has play
ed this year, and statistics on the
Texas team, all displayed on the
walls and held there by large pieces
of adhesive tape. One headline, in
particular, is taped on the wall
which continually reminds the
team that Thursday’s game will be
plenty rough. It reads: “Frog Vic
tory and Spirit of ’23 Prepare
Longhorns for Aggie Upset.” The
game incidentally, will be decided
Thursday afternoon on Kyle Field
between 2 and 5 o’clock; not in
the headlines of The Daily Texan!
•
Three false alarms—in as many
days:
The first one occurred Thursday
night when Dan Russell, head of
the Rural Sociology Department,
drove through the campus rather
late. Driving in the vicinity of the
bonfire stack, which freshmen were
carefully guarding against a “tea-
sipper” raid, Prof Russell was
halted by a group of over-anxious
first-year men and was asked to
identify himself. Not wanting to
pass up a perfect opportunity to
pull a “fast one” on the freshmen,
Dr. Russell explained that he was
a professor from the University of
Texas who had brought some of
T. U.’s students to Aggieland for
the purpose of burning the Aggie
bonfire. The freshmen immediately
proceded to sound the siren and
awoke the entire campus before
it was realized that no Texas stu
dents were in evidence.
“In the future,” Dr. Russell
pointed out, “I’ll be more careful
what I say at a time like that.”
•
Second in order was the Friday
night occurrence:
B Troop Cavalry’s Phil Meyer
received a phone call from some
one who identified herself as a
“Bryan girl” wanting to warn the
Aggies that fifteen or twenty car
loads of Texas University students
had just passed through Bryan
bound for College. At about the
same time, Curtis Kizer of D Bat
ter Coast Artillery received a simi
lar call. The result, of course, was
to once again arouse the campus
with no resulting appearance of
Texas U. students.
Third in the series of false a-
larms occurred early Saturday af
ternoon when the legitimate fire-
siren was sounded to send the
Fire Department to a grass fire
near the railroad tracks.
Chas. S. Osborn, 79, former Mich
igan governor, always shaves in
the dark, standing on one leg. He
claims this will “maintain the
equilibrium of youth.”
“The eyes of the
WORLD
are upon you”
SO LICK TEXAS!
Keep to your right at North Gate
AGGIELAND PHARMACY
Collegiate Review
The average Williams College
student sees three movies per week.
Beer consumes 36 per cent of all
fraternity rushing expenses on the
Dartmouth College campus.
Fordham University next year
will celebrate the centenary of its
founding.
Gus Dorais, University of Detroit
football coach, has been elected
a member of Detroit’s city coun
cil.
Cornell University has a fresh
man student who represents the
fourth generation of her family
to enroll at that institution.
A Northwestern University scien
tific survey revealed that 44 per
cent of the student body has hali
tosis.
The Dies committee will soon
begin an investigation of com
munistic influences in U. S. col
leges and universities.
Vassar College has received spe
cial funds to finance a study of
child behavior and normal per
sonality development.
Hunter College is doing special
research on the study habits of
its undergraduates.
A new course in the study of war
causes has been instituted by the
College of New Rochelle.
Williams College students have
voted to retain hazing as part of
the college’s fraternity program.
.Yale University has more en
dowment per student than any
other U. S. college or university.
On the Central Missouri State
Teachers College campus, corner
stones of all but one campus build
ing bear the Masonic emblem.
On the Ohio University campus,
only 17 per cent of the students
have no dates during an average
month.
Rollins College this year has
an equal number of men and wo
men students.
“MENU” NOVEMBER 30th, 1939
THANKSGIVING DAY
LONGHORN STEER — PREPARED AGGIE STYLE
The following, being consumed by the Aggies,
will not be served again until the fall of 1940—
“Frog Legs”—a la T. C. U.
“Bear Meat”—a la Baylor
“Fresh Pork”—Arkansas Style
“S. M. U.”—Sloppy Weather Special
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