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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.
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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-
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