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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION ■THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1939 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OP 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 t-6444. 1939 Member 1940 Associated Goile&iate Press BILL MURRAY LARRY WEHRLE James Critz E. C. (Jeep) Oates H. 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 THURSDAY STAFF Ray Treadwell : Managing Editor J. W. Jenkins Asst. Advertising Manager Don McChesney Asst. Circulation Manager Phil Levine - Editorial Assistant Junior Editors Bob Nisbet Billy Clarkson Senior Sports Assistants Jimmie Cokinos - Jimmy James Junior Advertising Solicitors K. W. Hubbard - J- D. Smith Reportorial Staff Jack Aycock, H. D. Borgfeld, P. H. Brown, R. A. Doak, Jim Dooley, Walter Goodman, Guy Kane, R. R. Mattox, R. B. Pearce, R. G. Powell. Walter Sullivan, Delberf Whitaker. D. C. Thurman, Murray Evans, Dow Wynn, Joe Taylor Thanks, Legionnaires! Following is a letter received by Colonel Ike Ashburn, executive assistant to the president, from the Eighth District Commander of the American Legion of the state. Quoted is the resolution passed by the Eighth District of the Legion following the Aggie corps trip to Houston. Dear Colonel Ashburn: The people of Houston were honored with the presence of the cadets from your wonder ful institution, and the reaction has been so favorable that we of the American Legion, in this District, wish to express our appreciation through the medium of a resolution. This res olution was presented at the Eighth District Convention and was endorsed unamimously: “Whereas, the cadet corps of Texas A. & M. College, honored our city with their ap pearance on the down-town streets of Houston, in a military pafade, and; Whereas, these same cadets, presented themselves in such a manly way, exhibiting the appearance of military discipline and caus ing the people of this community to feel more secure in the safety of our Constitution and country by their timely appearance; Therefore, be it resolved by the Eighth District Convention of the American Legion- Depai'tment of Texas, assembled in West Uni versity Place on Sunday, November 19th, 1939, go on record as expressing our appreciation and compliments to the faculty and cadets of Texas A. & M. College, for their military appearance and gentlemanly conduct." Allow me to add my personal appreciation and thoughts and say we hope for an early return of the boys from our own A. & M. College, at their convenience. Your sincerely, Sam D. Forman, Jr. 8th District Commander 516 South Pac. Build. Houston, Texas. Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel Editor’s note: The following was written by Carleton D. Speed Jr., class of ’26, former football star and present oil man and geologist of Houston. It was recently published in The Texas Aggie, former students’ publication. So timely is the mes sage and so pertinent is its content that The Bat talion reprints it as an editorial. The fine performance of this year’s A. & M. football team should warm the heart of every true fighting Texas Aggie. Many an Aggie can feel proud that during the lean years he helped in more than one way to land one or more of the present stars that are running the opposition dizzy. After the 1940 season there will be no John Kimbrough, Thomason, Pannell, Herbie Smith, Conatser, Herman, Pugh, Jeffrey, Robnett, nor Vaughn, not to mention Joe Boyd, Audish, and Price and others who will no longer wear the maroon and white after the present 1939 season. Just the thought of losing the above-named men brings a sinking feeling. All other schools will be ex tremely glad these “rock ’em and sock ’em” regu lars are gone and are secretly hoping that they will turn up with some “rock ’em and sock ’em” men on their own teams that will enable them to once more beat the Aggies. You might ask, “What can I do about it, even if I do want A. & M. to regain its athletic prowess and be good year after year?” Here is what you can do about it. Begin this week to scout high school seniors and report regularly by mail to Homer Norton and his staff whom you consider an outstanding broken field runner, kicker, passer or lineman. Don’t forget that a fierce charging line can make its own backfield look great and the opposing backfield look terrible on the same day. Build foundations for the season of 1941, 1942 and 1943 by scouting the high school players now. Be sure to get the kind of men that will play for A. & M. the way you want them to play against Army in 1943 when they are seniors. Remember there may be another scout stand ing beside you hoping he can get the same man to his school to later whip you. We must compete with the Bible plan in 1939 to compete with Texas in 1941, 1942, 1943. If the A. & M. coaching staff gets fifteen outstanding high school players per year enough other men will enroll of their own accord to keep A. & M. among the leaders. If A. & M. coaches are notified in time they will arrange to see your prospect play. Remem ber that choosing fifteen or twenty boys out of the Texas Interscholastic League is one of the hardest jobs facing the coaching staff. They want every good boy but they have definite replacements in mind and only a limited number can be taken care of. It may be they have thi-ee good sophomore fullbacks and have secured two additional A-l high school fullbacks who are fast and rugged and who weigh 210 pounds apiece. Don’t be discouraged or criticize the officials if they decline to give your 180-pound fullback a job “down at school.” The coaching staff knows now the positions that will in all probability need bolstering in September, 1941, and that means they must scout the high school games of 1939 in order to get the prospect enrolled in September, 1940 to be eligible in Septem ber 1941. And so I say again to you who are reaping a rich harvest from your work of two or three years ago, “Let’s keep the Aggies at the top by seeing that our coaching staff' continues to get ‘the cream of the crop’.” We might well imitate a certain tobac co company by adopting the slogan, “By independ ent football experts who know football best, It’s the Aggies 2 to 1.” Become acquainted with the members of the coaching staff. Keep them posted on the progress of the high school gridders you are scouting. Don’t become over enthusiastic about some boy who is a relative; but remember that it’s your job to help pick and help sell A. & M. to fifteen of the best players in the state. Don’t forget that if the boy is good enough you will have to compete with scouts outside of the Southwest Conference. It will pay dividends to concentrate on the kind of boy that likes A. & M. and who really wants a college edu cation. We have great future potential possibilities with our present sophomore and junior team of this year, backed by outstanding freshmen who will be available next fall. The spirit of the team and of the staff is the best in the Southwest Con ference at present and our team will be definitely stronger during the campaign of 1940. , It is the replacements for 1941 that concern us now. Remember, too, that a sophomore team rarely wins a Southwest Conference Championship. It is usually a junior or senior team with ex perience and adequate reserves that wins. t In s V uting high school teams this fall and helping the coaching staff and A. & M.’s athletic record let us remember, “Man to Man let’s be a Helping Aggie Fan.” Don’t delay, start scouting and selling the boy today. Let’s have every A. & M. shoulder pushing at the wheel! CARLETON D. SPEED, ’26. Man, Your Manners— “Nowhere, excepting in a religious service, is greater dignity of manner required of ladies and gentlemen than when they occupy seats in a theater.” QUESTION: When going down the aisle at the theater, does the gentleman precede the lady? ANSWER: At the movies or where there are no reserved seats, the lady may go first. Where there are reserved seats, the usher goes first, the lady follows him, the gentleman follows her. If there is no usher, the gentleman goes first, the lady follows; but if the aisle is wide, they may go together. QUESTION: In passing people already seated in a theater, should a man face the occupants of the seats or the stage? ANSWER: He should face the stage; he is less likely to bump the knees of those sitting. He should say in passing down the row, “I am sorry” or “Thank you”; or he may say “I beg your pardon.” The latter expression is better form for having brushed into them. As the World Turns... By “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF That the invasion of Finland is not justified admits of no argument. Russia merely trumped up a pretense of attack on Soviet territory by Fin land’s army. The Finns are fighting against tre mendous odds in defense of their independence, but barring other complications, the result is obvious. Finland, a small country, cannot wage a successful war against Russia. However, the invasion of Fin land has provoked a good deal of speculation on Russia’s ultimate foreign activities. From an ad vocate of non-aggression Stalin has suddenly become an aggressor of the old Czarist variety. Are Sweden and Norway next on the schedule of territorial expansion in th<T north? Does Russia, cooperating with Ger many, plan to establish a submarine and aviation base on the eastern coast of the North Sea? Of course, this question presupposes that there is an understanding between Germany and Russia. No such an information has leaked out as yet. Still, a glimpse of an understanding between these two powers comes from responsible Turkish officials. They fear that within a few weeks Russia and Germany will attack Asia Minor and the Balkans. Russia aspires to control Constantinople and the Persian Gulf and thus aid India to get her com plete independence from England. Germany is anx ious to cap the raw materials from the Balkan states and dominate Salonica and Piraeus, two important ports of Greece. That is, perhaps, the cause of Mussolini’s concern over the Russian in vasion of Finland. It might well be the beginning of a well-planned program for Russia and Germany to cut the life-lines of the British Empire as well as attack the mother country from the North Sea. But Mussolini would have to do much more than just encourage student protest parades against the invasion of Finland if he is to check the future foreign activities of Russia and Germany. BACKWASH Bu George Fuermann “Backwash: An agritation resultinsr from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. How ’bout a corps trip to the tory last Saturday. The principal Sugar Bowl? . . . Back in the pro- bone of contention, it seems, is that verbial saddle once again, what few other colleges and universities with December first in the back- have cheering sections that can ground and final compare with A. & M.’s. examinations to • come . . . Harley They were breaking the Kyle Reavis, while stadium jinx!! watching a dex- f our members of the Texas terous toothpick University Band who were sprink- artist, “He’s pick- ]j n g on Kyle Field previous to ing coffee ^ out of ^g beginning of last Thursday’s his teeth. . . . Turkey Day classic were sprinkling Band freshman, t ul f brought from their own Me- ticular. The newsreel picture will be shown in Bryan late this week, it was announced by Fred Du- Bridge of the Paramount Corpora tion. Cameraman Frank Morany pointed out that a short-subject feature would probably be made on A. & M. in the near future. A German warship is called a “pocket battleship.” The Allies hope to put a hole in it. The propaganda staffs of the warring nations need not fear for their future. After the war, they can always turn their talents to fairy stories. Emil Hattert of Holeyton, 111., has contructed a bass violin out of a bull’s hide with hair on it; a flute out of a pig’s windpipe, a violin out of cow horns, and a man dolin out of a gourd—all playable. Faermann answering dormi- mor i a ] Stadium. They only brought f tory eleven’s tele phone, sound off with, “Number eleven—best on the campus.” . . . While Woody Varner and Ray Treadwell were recently half enough—failing to anticipate the last two quarters. Selections recently made by a , , national newspaper syndicate list with one of Aggieland s graduate . .. T e - -c j-t, , , ^ Anita Jo Simmons as one of the students, Woody mentioned that he lived in dormitory number twelve. Illogically enough, the five-year-man queried, “Oh, so you’re non-military too?” . . . And witness, as the height of some- A T • j-j. j- .n. m , . ’ , , , . , . Anita Jo is now attending the Tex- thmg or other, the Infantry senior _ n ,, 0 nation’s “All - American Girl.” She’s John Kimbrough’s sweet heart and formerly attended Hardin-Simmons University where she was chosen freshman favorite. jOf R AY WO O D!! af/ who calls the mess hall before each meal to find out what’s on the menu. “Caution,” he points out, “is my byword!” as College of Mines in El Paso. Civil engineering prof. A. A. L esg Jakkula recently pointed out to cautious, however, was the Aggie one of his classes that the students observed in afternoon. the library yesterday Frantically going shouldn’t consider the course as a game between themselves and the through several voluminous books. Professor. Rightfully enough, he he pointed out that, “I’ve written went on to sa y that students should my term theme; now I’ve gotta consider their courses as games be- find some references.” . . . From tween themselves and knowledge San Antonio comes a statistical considering professors as the ref- item on cookies. Mrs. Edwin Aid- erees - No sooner said than a P 68 ’ ridge, president, and Mrs. M. D. simist in the rear of the class gave Oliver of the San Antonio A. & forth with ’ “ Yeah ’ but did y° u ever M. Mothers Club, have estimated heai ’ of “ Rats ” Watson?” that 100,000 cookies were prepar ed to feed the Alamo City’s Aggie population at a Thanksgiving party given for them. graduate of the University of Tex as: Backwashin’ around . . . To list the names of TSCW-ites who trekked to Aggieland for the _ Turkey Day classic would be a , JL , • . partial review of the student di- Lloyd Gregory, by the way.jis a Two of the girlB> in particular, spent a never-to-be- forgotten weekend. Paramount The Houston Post columnist who ]sj eW s, on the campus for a four- writes ‘ Looking ’Em Over” has jay session of photographing stu- been working over-time lately in d en t life, filmed considerable foot- maintaining that the Aggies are a g e w jth the two girls as principal poor sports in respect to our tra- subjects . . . The pre-game bonfire ditional yelling section. Last Sun- wa g ^be largest in the 49-year his- c ■ \ , , day he devoted half »f his column tory of the event and was attended to a vigorous gi ipe on that behalf by 8,000 persons . . . According to to you) to get it, what with the War and and many Aggies have since writ- Aggie Charlie Montgomery, “If all ’ ' ^ ' c ten polite, but contradictory, let- the time Aggies spend dreaming ters to Lloyd. Harry Hughes and about Dentonland were devoted to Leslie Willrich were two of the cutting out paper dolls, the re- first and their letter was partially 8U i t ing mess, if laid end-to-end, reprinted in yesterday morning’s wou ld reach around the globe Ros ^* three times.” . . . Gene Stockey said Lloyd still maintains, however, it at the Thanksgiving dance. “He that our system is unfair. Evi- never says anything unless he’s dently he hasn’t considered Texas by himself or with someone.” U.’s ever-present cow bells and, O more particularly, the recent at- Before and after the A. & M.- tempt on the part of Rice students Texas U. game Paramount News to rattle Baylor’s kicker in his cameramen spent four days on the successful attempt to kick the field campus photographing the college goal which resulted in Baylor’s vie- in general and student life in par- FLAME-GRAIN BRIAR iat/A 'jAji/AopfetA MEERSCHAUM *1250 Well, there’s quite a buzz about this one in the clubs and tap-rooms—fellows who like their Kaywoodies plain want to know what the Meerschaum does to this pipe— we certainly wouldn't go to the trouble everything, if it weren’t the finest ma terial in the world in which to smoke to bacco. Protects the flavor. Keeps it mel low. The smooth mild smoke of this top-flight Kaywoodie will boost anybody’s I.Q. And for well, the smart crowd’s all gone for it. Shown above. 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