PAGE 2 THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1940 I Remember Next Wednesday., BACKWASH Aggies: Next Wednesday is your chance to say who will represent you next term as editor of this Battalion, as chief yell-leader, as your junior representative on the Student Pub lications Board. April 3 is the date that has been set for the annual general election by and for the student body, of the men who will re present it in these various position. Each and every thinking Aggie should consider it not only his duty but his privi lege, his opportunity to express his opinion by casting his ballot. Remember that your yellow slip—your receipt for payment of fees for the second semester—will be required at the time of voting. They must be presented in person, and will be stamped to prevent their use more than once. So dig out your yellow slips —and use them. Let’s make this a truly representative election. Bear in mind this important fact: in politics, you get what you vote for. If you don’t vote, and the election results are not as you would have had them, it’s your own hard luck—because you should have express ed your opinion, and the opportunity to do so will come but once. By that word “you” we are speaking of not just one student, but of the hundreds, possible thousands, who have not voted in past elections and will not this year if they follow past custom. If all of you vote, you cannot help but elect the men that the majority want elected. This year the arrangements for the election are being handled entirely by the impartial, impartially-selected Student Elec tion Committee headed by the cadet colo- Portrait Fund Is Aided By Students The student body of A. & M. has con tributed $40 toward the fund now being rais ed through voluntary contributions by the Former Students Association to commis sion Seymore Stone, an internationally fam ous portrait painter who has painted many of the “greats” in American public life, to paint a life-size portrait of President T. 0. Walton, as a tribute to Dr. Walton and a permanently valuable gift to the college. Senior president F. M. “Max” McCullar yesterday reported that, following a sug gestion made editorially by The Battalion, each of the four classes—freshman, sopho more, junior, senior—has contributed $10 from its class fund. The total of $40 contributed is equiva lent to a dime from each of 4,000 students —as good a showing as might be expected from any individual contribution campaign, and possibly better. At any rate, it was an easier and more efficient way than would have been a person-to-person canvass. The class leaders are to be commended on having effected this step, to express the student body’s esteem for President Walton. However, the fund needed for the pur pose is not yet completed. E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the Former Students Associa tion, states that any contribution which any student, faculty member, citizen of College Station, ex-Aggie or friend of the college may wish to make will be welcomed. Donors to the fund will have their names appended to a scroll which will be presented along with the completed portrait. Any person wishing to make any con tribution may do so at the Former Students Office in the Administration Building. • At the same time as his announcement of the class contributions to the portrait fund, McCullar declared that there is a strong possibility that a move may be accomplished to make a presentation to each of the four yell-leaders of some gift that will appropri- -ately commemorate and reward his work •during the Aggies’ most successful football reason, the national championship season just past. It is to be hoped that this gesture will he carried out, some time before the end of this history-making session at Aggieland. 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. 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 4-S444. 1939 Member 1940 Associated GoUe&iate Press UILL 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 Asst. Sports Editor Philip Golman Staff Photographer John J. Moseley Staff Artist Junior Editors Billy Clarkson George Fuermann Bob Nisbet A. J. Robinson Earle A. Shields SATURDAY STAFF James Critz Acting Managing Editor Don Burk Asst. Advertising Manager W. C. Carter Editorial Assistant V. R. (Red) Myers — J r . Sports Assistant Senior Sports Assistant Jimmie Cokinos Jimmy James Junior Advertising Solicitors J. M. Sedberry G . M. Woodman Rcportorial Staff E. M. Rosenthal, Lee Rogers, Glenn Mattox, W. A. Moore Bob Parker, L. B. Tennison nel. Any question or protest that may arise should be brought before it. Remember too, in making your choice for the various offices, that such factors as the military organization a candidate be longs to have no bearing on the kind of service he would give you if elected. Be wary of ballyhoo. Weigh carefully all political propaganda. Do not be misled by political personalities. Support the candi dates whom you think will serve best as stu dent body officers. But above all, remember to vote. With out your votes, the election will not be fully representative. And it should be, to express the will of the majority. Ba George fuermann “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webstar. Americanism Versus Racism Two recent incidents in the news bring into sharp relief the contrast between racial prejudice on the part of the white man and the cultural aspirations and potentialities of the colored people. The first demonstrates the attitude of many of the white people. When the motion picture, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” had its world premiere in Washington, D. C., negroes were not permitted to enter the theatre. Mrs. Roosevelt commented on the picket line of those protesting the discrimination, “I thing it is particularly tragic that the people whom Lincoln freed should not be allowed to see the show about him.” The other news item is an example of the culture and potentialities of the colored race. Two weeks after the premiere, on Lincoln’s birthday, Dr. George Washington Carver, a negro born into slavery and now one of the greatest agricultural chemists of our day, donated $33,000, his life’s savings, to a foundation to perpetuate research in chemistry. Dr. Carver is only one of numerous examples. Marion Anderson, who appeared on the local stage last year, was openly affronted by the D.A.R. There are several brilliant negro poets whose work is not recognized because of their color. When will Americanism extract such an unde sirable and undemocratic element in its purpose and principles? As the World Turns... By DR. AL B. NELSON Death sentence for chain stores is asked by Representative Wright Patman, Congressman from northeast Texas, whose sole reasons are that the chains are too economical and efficient and might become powerful enough to be a future menace. If the latter were reason enough for taxing the chains out of existence he could with equal reason ask for the death penalty for children of his enemies on the excuse that they might grow up to be murderers and traitors. The chains are as great an aid to the farmer as the Departments of Ag riculture and the A. A. A. com bined, through their ability to ac tually move his crops quickly and efficiently to the consumer. Nelson * * * Jimmie Cromwell (husband of Doris Duke) the new minister to Canada, caused a great uproar in Congress by saying that England is right and Germany and Russia are thieves and murderers. The members of Congress who objected to his speech forget that many of their speeches have been far more unneutral on both sides of the ques tion. England and France have strengthened their alliance by agreeing to continue their cooperation after the war and that neither will make peace with the enemy without the consent of the other. The news is now leaking out that Finland actu ally did refuse the offer of help from England and France on the grounds that it would have made Finland the battleground between the allies on one hand and Russia and Germany on the other. Many did not believe Chamberlain when he stated that fact to Parliament. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles is back from his trip to Europe but is not making public the results of his trip. The way of things Add. to tember.. Anyway—it’s one man’s history notes; Jefferson Davis was opinion. To Cut or Not To Cut One of the chief points of dispute between those who support traditional college practices and those who hope for the introduction of new-fangled ideas is the question of cuts. Should a student be allow ed no cuts or a limited number, or should he be per mitted to attend class as seldom as he pleases, pro vided always that he keeps abreast of requirements with his work? The answer seems to lie in the question of what goal the student and teacher are working toward. If their aim is merely to go through a mechanical process every day until the student either learns or dies of boredom, cuts should be limited or for bidden altogether. We are speaking, of course, only in regard to students not actively interested in their courses. If they are interested there is no need for worry—they’ll take care of themselves. Suppose, however, that a boy or girl is by nature indifferent to a certain type of study or for the moment blind to its possibilities. How is a teacher to arouse his interest and make him see what he might get by a little work? Certainly this problem is not going to be solved by compulsory attendance, which only antagonizes the victim. The civilized way is to let him come to class when and if he pleases. He won’t just stay away indefinitely. When he comes he will come because he wants to, and, once there and knowing that no one is railroading him into anything, he will begin to take interest of his own accord. The result will be real benefit for him. This isn’t cockeyed specu lation. It’s simple human nature, and there is no better guide than human nature in anything. —The Baylor Lariat. offered the first presidency of A. & M. and would have accepted had he not been in poor health . . . Battalion staff photograph er Phil Golman pic tured the Ross Vol unteer festivities, and 17 of the shots have been sent to a popular magazine of national circulation. . . . Long a popular Fuermann S p 0r t at Aggieland, bowling is even increasing in pop ularity as evidenced by the more- than-usual crowding of the Y. M. C. A.’s alleys in the past several months ... In a class by himself: Bryan’s night-shift minion of the law, C. W. Saxon, wears a badge which diligent investigation has revealed to be one without counter part in these several United States. Normal in nearly all respects, the official insignia takes on abnorm- alcy when one notices that Bryan is spelled “B-y-r-a-n.” His only comment; “I don’t know how the mistake was made, but no one has ever bothered to change it.” . . . “H.T.K.” is a journalism term meaning “headline to come.” Tex as U.’s journalism prof Warren C. Price got the following definitions for the term on a recent quiz: “H.T.K.—hard to kill, ” and “H.T.K. —home-town copy.” . . . Question of the week: Why is it that the us ually complete laundry slips make provision for all kinds of shirts except WHITE shirts? There’s provision made for sport, khaki, work, O. D. wool, polo, and sweat— but no white! Sophie Newcomb sophomore Alice Kinabrew, who re cently visited the campus, pointed out that Tulane students were more than satisfied with the results of the recent gubernatorial election. “The collegiate world in Louisi ana,” she declared, “was heartily opposed to Long.” 9 Band senior James Dinsmore has informed us that not four but five of the eight beauties selected by orchestra leader Kay Kyser for the 1940 Longhorn’s “Vanity Fair” are T.S.C.W.-ites. Miss Martha Per rin of Greenville is the fifth. The four T.S.C.W.-ites previously nam ed in The Battalion are Mary Lou ise Lewis of Waco, Hallie Beth Willingham of Sabinal, Daphne Jeanette Salois of Dallas, and Cath erine Pool of San Antonio. Connie Eversberg of Houston goes to the University of Texas, Doris Watson to Mary Hardin-Baylor College, and Gertrude La Voice lives in San Domingo, California. 9 It’s history now: Infantry freshman Roy Woody received the following letter from a University of Texas freshman soon after both had registered in their respective colleges last Sep- “My Dear Roy, (I should say ‘Sucker’): “Your nice letter of the 22nd has just reached me. Guess I’m too late to save you now from a fate worse than death, so I’ll congratulate you on going some where to college! “It was very disappointing, Roy, to learn that you’re to be an Aggie. As I told you over the phone that day, I’ve known several swell fellows who have gone there and let it ruin them. The lack of women, the hard military life, and other things tend to make the boys there hit the liquor pretty hard, ?md to see an Aggie at a football game without a half-pint on his hip is as rare a sight as a snowy day in August in Borneo. Please don’t let it get you down. “Aggieland and U. T. are very close, so I want you to coipe up to Austin the first time you have a week-end with nothing to do—and that will be often in College Station. Aggies hitch hike to the city limits of Austin, change their uniforms, which have come in handy for hitch hiking, into civilian clothes, or else they’ll be booed all over town. I’ll have you a place to stay, and a cute date, if you wish, although Aggies usually marry goons, so rare is femin ine pulchritude in the proximity of Aggieland. “Do they really have a course in Business Administration at A. & M.? I thought the only courses they had were the care of dumb animals, how to get a square peg in a round hole, the art of making hole-less doughnuts, etc. I do know U. T.’s School of Business Administra tion is famed throughout the South and is far superior to anything A. & M. could possibly have. “It was a shame that you didn’t come to Austin and U. T. while in this neck of the woods. Then you would have made up your mind in a different man ner—you would have chosen the best school instead of the worst. “I’ll probably be in College Station Turkey Day—^whenever that day is now, what with the Governor and President issuing daily changes—to witness the football classic of the Southwest Conference, which, as the dope- sters put it, ‘will determine which of the two teams will have strongest hold on the cellar position in the conference.’ Last year’s game was here and was a thriller, it being the only game we won—but the only one that mattered. Many an Aggie grin changed that day to a sorrow ful look. Sincerely, “John.” A. & M.’s Veterinary School Is No'w Largest in North America A. & M.’s School of Veterinary examinations before the purple Medicine received a full page in stamp of approval is placed on all the rotogravure section of the cu ts which find their way to the Sunday, March 24, issue of the butcher’s display case; (3) an oper- Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ati °n on a cow—giving it an in- A striking layout of pictures ac- j' ection of P^-killing medicine, companied by descriptive captions Surrounding the table are embryo depicted vividly the work of the D - V - M ; s who some day will be do- Aggie students of veterinary medi- ! n £ what the staff veter inari an c j ne is demonstrating; and (4) mans “feathered friends” come in for The Star-Telegram stated, ‘The their ghare of att e nt ion too. Here School of Veterinary Medicine, one the students study diseases of of the five schools of Texas Agri- poultry> under the eyes of Dr R cultural and Mechanical College, c> Dunn> D y M} head of the De _ was organized by the late Dr. partment of Veterinary Pathology. Mark Fiancis, D.V.M., in 1916, and gjapjjagig j s pi ace d on the diag- from its original enrollment of sev- nosig in thig clasg en students it has grown to 386 students registered in the 1939-40 school year. It now is the largest School of Veterinary Medicine on the North American continent, and , . ... c ,. . . ,• u i • history, growth, accomplishments, is one of the outstanding schools in ..S f ^ + In the news section of the same issue of the Star-Telegram was a complete writeup of the School of Veterinary Medicine, tracing its the world. . . . The pictures take you on a brief tour of the school.” First is shown a beautiful pic ture of the Veterinary Hospital, finished and opened in 1933. This building was erected at a cost of approximately $200,000, equip ped with the finest of modern equipment and facilities for all types of veterinary surgery, clinical research, and hospitaliza tion. Other pictures show (1) horses, mules, and cows which are brought to the clinic for treatments which are given under the supervision of staff D.V.M.’s; (2) students study ing carcasses of mutton killed and dressed in the meats laboratory. Before the students have a chance to do the study, doctors serving government inspectors give each animal ante- and post-mortem and the work of its students. Expert Radio Repair STUDENT CO-OP Phone No. 139 North Gate' For Saturday night at the As- to meet her husband who happens sembly Hall the show is “BROTH- to be an officer in the Legion. Also ER EAT AND A BABY”. This imagine, if you can, what happens show is definitely in the one grade- to the boys when the husband point class for several reasons, the learns of the relations between most outstanding of which is the Georgette and Ollie. Also make a low grade of humor that Wayne note of the trick ending that the Morris and Priscilla Lane call fun- show has. ny. Actually it is just too silly for Also shown Monday and Tues- words. day in connection with “The Flying Another so-called funny show is Ueuces” will be three reels of the on Monday afternoon and Tuesday, light between Louis and Godoy. $tan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are appearing in “THE FLYING DEU- A crime prevention club has been CES”, with Jean Parker in the formed by Canisius College stu- cast carrying a minor role. She, by dents, the way, has certainly come down in the film world the last two years or so. I can remember when she was given more outstanding parts than such as 4 this. The cast of players and their parts is as fol lows: U-TEi ASSI2AMILY HALL Stan Himself Ollie Himself Georgette... Jean Parker Francois .... Reginald Gardiner This show is also silly, but silly in a different sense of the word. It is pure slapstick, and is supposed to be silly. It is the kind that is so silly it is funny. “Brother Rat” is just silly enough to be disgust- < mg. Two American fish peddlers on a European jaunt arrive in Paris to see the sights. At the hotel, Ol lie falls hopelessly in love with Georgette, and when he finds she is married, he persuades Stan to commit suicide with him. Later they decide that joining the French Foreign Legion would make him forget just as efficiently / and cer tainly more painlessly. So the For eign Legion it is, and the two do very well until Georgette shows up FOR Eye Examination And Glasses Consult J. W. PAYNE DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY Masonic Bldg. Bryan, Tex. Next to Palace Theater IT’S LIKE LOOKING FOR A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK TO FIND ONE DULL MOMENT IN.MS. MERRY MYSTERY! fMELVYN DOUGLAS «g|fVHtGINIA ERODE Margaret LINDSAY Stanley RIDGES Sat. March 12:45 M f. l t' > v‘ - ^ * * * *