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■TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940 PAGE 2 THE BATTALION The Battalion OPEN FORUM BACKWASH STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE By George Fuermenn xas lekly Th« 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 Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-8444. 1939 Member 1940 Associated Golle&iate Press BILL MURRAY _ LARRY WEHRLE James Critr E. C. (Jeep) Oates H. G. Howard Tommy Henderson •Hub’ Johnson EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ADVERTISING MANAGER Associate Editor Sports Editor Circulation Manager Asst. Circulation Mans Asst. Sports Ed Staff Photographer mge idito Philip Golman James Carpenter Assistant Photographe John J. Moseley Staff Artist Junior Editors Billy Clarkson George Fuermann Bob Nisbet A. J. Robinson Earle A. Shields TUESDAY STAFF Charlie Wilkinson j.... Managing Editor Sam Davenport Asst. Advertising Manager C. A. Montgomery Editorial Assistant R. V. (Red) Myers Jr. Sports Assistant Senior Sports Assistant Jimmie Cokinos Jimmy James Junior Advertising Solicitors K. W. Hubbard J. D. Smith Reportorial Staff Bill Fitch, H. S. Hutchins, W. D. C. Jones, Joe Leach, J. L. Morgan, Jerry Rolnick, J. C. Rominger, E. A. Sterling, W. P. Walker, R. J. Warren Student Loan Fund Rules and Policies Many students of A. & M. are vitally interested in the policies and rules under which the loan funds of the Association of Former Students are admin istered. This article is written to clarify loan fund matters in the minds of the student body and as a guide to students desiring financial assistance through the loan funds. The loan funds of the Association of Former Students have been accumulated from many sources. These funds are administered by the Association of fice in the Administration Building on the campus. They are regarded by the loan fund trustees and officers of the Association as trust funds, to be so handled that they shall remain intact to be used over and over again by A. & M. students. Bearing in mind the determination that the loan fund shall not be dissipated or lost, it is obvious that certain rules and regulations are necessary. Without such rules the funds would be gone in a few years—and any future benefits to students lost. It is the hope of the officers of the Ex-Students Association that students will realize the rules and regulations are set up to protect the loan funds and not to deprive any student of their benefit. Briefly, to be eligible for a loan a student must have a grade-point ratio of 1.5, only slightly above the minimum requirement for graduation, and he must have completed three semesters of work at A. & M. He must not owe money to another source and must show that he both needs the loan and that such a loan is not merely a temporary relief. Loans are made only at registration for fall and spring terms, except when otherwise arranged in advance. Applications for loans should be made thirty days before the above registration periods. That the loan funds are functioning to assist many students is evidenced by the fact that loans will be made during this school year to over 400 students. Since 1923 the Ex-Students Association has loaned to A. & M. students approximately one million dollars. Practically every rule governing the adminis tration of these funds has been established by the experience of the Association office and the neces sity of protecting the loan funds. For example, until a few years ago emergency loans were made during the spring of 1937, when each month from 100 to 200 students claimed such “emergency” needs. Ob viously, this could not continue, and since there was no way to determine who actually had to have the money, all spring loans had to be discontinued. In similar experiences it has been found that loan repayments are more difficult to secure from students with poor scholastic records. It is the ex perience of the Association office that loans made to students who obviously cannot repay are actually harmful to such students. Where it is evident a students must remain out of school a term or a year to recoup his finances, it is far better that he stay out before he goes into debt. The usual attitude of the student seeking a loan is that repayment will be an easy and simple matter. His actual experience, and of course the loan fund’s experience, is just the opposite. No student should attempt to borrow unless absolutely necessary for him to do so. The student loan trustees are not unmindful that any regulation or rule will pinch someone, per haps unfairly. Yet, if the loan funds are to continue their usefulness beyond a few years, such rules are absolutely necessary. It should likewise be remem bered that in many cases the difficulties of students have arisen because of their own carelessness and failure to look ahead. Students needing loans in September should make application to the Association of Former Stu dents between August 1 ind August 15 this summer. If applicants cannot qua ,:F v they should not request exceptions, which, if granted, would break down the entire loan fund structure. This very brief and incomplete picture of the student loan fund situation is given so that the student body may better understand how and why the funds are so administered. The loan funds have been accumulated to be of assistance to students really needing financial aid. They should not be regarded as a source of mere “convenience” loans. Nor should it be felt that any and every student has a right or a claim to a loan upon request. Ex-students, A. & M. Mothers’ Clubs, and other friends and donors have put up the money. They will render financial assistance this vear to some 400 boys. It has never been their thought that loan funds should be available for everyone wishing to borrow. There isn’t that much money. ABUSE OF CUFFS AND FISH STRIPES It used to be that Junior slacks were looked up to and somewhat respected. Now, due to the growth of the college and unorganized units on and off the campus, cuffs have come to mean little. Practically anyone who has enough money to purchase slacks can do so without any interference from anyone. Freshmen and sophomores living in the un organized dormitories find it very desirable to wear the slacks. If this custom or regulation of the corps continues to be downtrodden, cuffs will later come to mean nothing. Action should be taken to enforce the privilege of wearing cuffs. They should be limit ed to those who have earned the privilege of wear ing them. The custom of wearing fish stripes has also been infringed on. It should likewise be enforced more strictly. Students who refuse to live by the college rules are not an asset to A. & M., and necessary steps should be taken to abolish these abuses. Sincerely, J. F. BENNINGTON, ’42 BILL ANDERSON, ’42 W. E. HEARN, ’42 NO PERSONAL AFFRONT We wish to make clear that the issues which have arisen as a result of both letters which appear ed in The Battalion of Saturday, May 18, were not intended as a personal affront to anyone. Signed: BILL OSWALT GEORGE SMITH Abolish the 'Blue Law’! Several issues back there appeared in The Bat talion the editorial “Local ‘Blue Law’ ” inveighing against the practice of the College Station constabul ary force of requiring that all the recreation clubs close each night by twelve o’clock, particularly Sat urday nights, and forbidding their opening for play Sunday afternoons. Since the appearance of that editorial we have heard innumerable comments along the same vein. Local opinion as far as we can tell is nearly 100 percent favorable to the recreation clubs’ being al lowed to remain open for some time after midnight and Sunday afternoons. Once again we’d like to ask the question, to which no one as yet has made answer: If it’s okay for students and townspeople of this town (and other towns) to play checkers, dominos, bridge, tennis, baseball, or any other game late at night or on Sunday afternoons; to attend a Saturday night dance or Saturday nidnight picture show; to hang around a beer joint all night if they so desire; or to keep open a cafe or drugstore on Sunday—then what is conceivably wrong with keeping open a recreation club for the playing of the innocent, clean, and scientific games of pool and billiards, at the same hours, for the benefit of those many stu dents and townspeople who like the game and furthermore may not have the opportunity to enjoy them at any other time? Mr. City Marshal, we’d like to ask this question: By whose authorization, by what city ordinance, by what law, are you enforcing this practice ? There’s none we’ve been able to find out about. This is not in the slightest a personal issue, and we’re not going out of our way to find fault with the administration of civic affairs. But we are speaking in behalf of literally hundreds of students and townspeople, against a situation that is man ifestly inconsistent with prevailing opinion and practices. As we said before, this practice, or com munity regulation, or whatever it be, is a “blue law” and ought to be abolished immediately. The mystery about mystery stories is how one plot can yield so many. R. W. Steen "Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. The way of things . . . Believe- sell-out stuff and definitely on the it-or-not item of the past week up-and-up side. One side of the concerns the two cadets in the Col- record features the Band and the By TOM GILLIS up and hairdo for a girl’s beauty is shown in the transformation of Betty Field from the homely type (Continued on page 4) Ernst Lubitsch, director of “Ni- date, but Margaret just thinks that lege Hospital who'wanted some hot Glee Club doing '“The”Aggi7War notbhka,” has turned out another James is there by accident, and it chocolate so bad that they lowered Hymn” and “The Spirit of Aggie- romantic comedy-drama which con- never occurs to her that he is the a cuspidor in a land.” The disc is backed with tains his master touch with human man who makes love thr ough the sheet to a waiting Aggieland’s playing of “I’d Rather emotions. It is “THE SHOP courtesy of the post office depart- freshman with in- Be A Texas Aggie.” The com- AROUND THE CORNER.” Lubit- ment. This situation leads to some structions to clean mercial pressings will be on sale sck kas am ple opportunity to dis- good exploitation of the emotions the thing out and within two weeks to the general P la y his touch when working with of the cast before the inevitable return it full of public and will go on sale first wistful Margaret Sullivan, the low ending. The whole story is rather the desired bever- here at the college. voiced star of “ Three Comrades” heart-warming and unpretentious age Prof PA. • and “Next Time We Love.” James comedy romance that will be gen- wk "E'-kfa Nutter,’to Taxation if i t ever comes to court’ Stewart is her bashful, timid swain, erally interesting. It deals with no and Public Finance The old controversy between the M °7f" is fj 1 cxcel » ent p v r °- “ iI1 “ ,,ai 5 es “ r J 0 ^- bu ‘ two class: -Yes, both cadct corps and the Thornton W. pr ‘ e ^ r . ol ‘ be ° ld povelt) ' ^ Slmple shop Clerks "j 10 s , c f llap - Italy and Germany Allen Music Company (who “owns” wb,< ; h glvPS the . sh ° w lts ” am f- The P Tt m ‘ helr ^eryday hfe. have what is known as a bachelor the “ Aggi e War Hymn”) almost " hol f cast 13 ^L" 3 * one b,g bappy ^tae Cooter ought to be get- tax-and it may be worth it at flared anew again „ hcn it was tamdy the employees of the Buda- ting a little old to play such k,d that!” ... The newspaper-dubbed th „ ught that there might be some pest flrm 0WMd by Morgan ' roleS aS * hcy continually force “ A il- A merican Hitch-Hiker," Ag- difficulty securing permission to ' l!lll| cs Stewart and Margaret "J™' ' 1 ™ 1 ’ '’“'j hl: '' latest is gie Keyes Carson, will soon try it re cord the song. As it turned Sullivan mix pleasure with business, A LIFE. <-ooper is tne again—probably late this week, out, however, arrangements have but each is in love with an unknown fall guy at the local high school This time it’ll be “thumb fun” been satisfactorily completed and P art y with wh om he is correspond- that ^ always getting into trouble to New York City and return in the publishing company will re- ln - Through their letters they ap- without half trying. And something four days . . . Candle light was ce ive the usual ASCAP fee of P oint a rendezvous to make their that wdl cleail y demonstrate to the order of things at Hrdlicka’s two cents a record. presence known to each other, each us men the P° w er of a little _make- “Tabernacle” one night last week However, the fact still remains havin g n ° w fallen in love with the when the electric power fizzled. In- that the occasion MAY arise when un known lover. They both keep the cidentally, “No Name Jive Num- Allen may be a fly in Aggie ' ber Two”, is by far the most oft- soup. Composer “Pinky” Wilson You’ve heard it at the beginning played selection on Ed’s “juke sold the song two years ago for a an d ending of all Aggieland-play- box.” . . . Backwash has its own reportedly low figure. But the e d dances. nomination for the number one rec- question that might some day be Backwash would like to make a ord after the recently made Aggie asked is, did Wilson have the right motion — that the orchestra and recordings hit the nickelodeons ... to sell the song? True enough, he the equally capable Singing Cadets Proving that Aggies can do just wrote it—but by the time he sold get together on the production of any old thing you might think of, it Aggies had taken it to their a special glee club arrangement of Bill Moore, R. J. Murray, Bill hearts and made it their own. Cer- the popular “I’d Rather Be A Tex- Blessing, and Fred Kielman ex- tainly he had the right to sell pub- as Aggie” that Jack has made. A perimented with a human fly act lishing rights—but it does not ap- very effective arrangement, it is on the side of the Y.M.C.A. last pear to your correspondent that considerably like the Fred Waring Tuesday night. Bill and Fred he could morally sell performing arrangements of various college managed to scale the entire height rights. The song was the corps’ songs and is impressive to hear, of the building via the “fly route.” before Wilson sold it, and Back- All-American Joe Boyd, who grad- wash believes that if this ever uated at mid-term, was on the cam- comes to court the ruling will be pus this past weekend. Now work- in favor of the Aggies where per- ing in Galveston, Joe’s gravest con- forming rights are concerned— cern was the 1940 Longhorn which both on the basis of common law labeled a picture of Joe and an and public policy, escortee, “Joe and the future Mrs.” ® Quoth he: “It hasn’t happened Bob Murray’s hobby: yet!” . . . Sister school T.S.C.W. rp 0 ra i s ing fighting cocks will graduate 341 on June third j s more than a hobby—it’s a bus- about twenty of whom will short- iness _ The only Aggie the writer ly thereafter take up life part- b nows 0 f who raises these birds, nerships with A. & M. graduates, b as almost 500 of them on his farm located near Pineland. Some of the stories he tells about cock fighting are thrillers of the first water. The best of them center around a place known as the • “Splendid—a tremendous suc cess!” That’s what “Bunny” Biggs of the sound recording studios in Dallas told John Rosser in re- G roves —about three miles from spect to the recent recording of Orange across the Texas line in Aggie songs. So it’s congratula- Louisiana . The betting runs high tions all around—to WTAW di on these fights and if a patron rector Rosser, the concert unit of wins ?5)000 or more he is escort _ the Aggie Band, the Singing Ca- ed back to his hotel with an armed dets, and the Aggieland Oichestia guard supplied with the compli- —for the fine cooperation and work ments of the Groves . Owners done in making the first profes- must pay $50 to fight a bird and sional recording of A. & M. songs. S p ectators chip in $2 . 25 a h ead to “The Aggieland Orchestra is the watch the eventg Fighting cocks? finest college dance band I have Hke boxerS; g . et intensive training ever heard,” Biggs said. He fur- before they eng . age in actual com _ ther indicated that an attempt bat wbich ig a f ig h t-to-death af fair. The verb “to run” isn’t in their vocabulary and there’s plenty WRAPS SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Tuesday — “TIME OUT FOR MURDER,” with Mich ael Whalen and Gloria Stew art. Wednesday, Thursday —- “GATEWAY,” featuring Ar- leen Whalen, Don Ameche, Binnie Barnes, and Lyle Tal bot. AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45 — “WHAT A LIFE,” with Jack ie Cooper, Betty Field, Lionel Stander. Wednesday 3:30 & 6:45— “THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER,” starring Mar garet Sullavan, James Stew art, Frank Morgan, and Wil liam Tracy. FREE!! Your hat will be stored absolutely free during the Summer months if you have it cleaned and blocked. So why go to the trouble of carrying it around in your trunk when you can store it where it will be free from dust and moths. Cleaning & Blocking $1.00 Pay Next Fall © STANDARD HAT WORKS North Gate would probably be made to make another recording of the Aggie land with the hope that Colum bia would buy it for commercial distribution. Your correspondent heard the “second dub” from the master and it’s no exaggeration to say that the recording is really As the World Turns... By DR. R. W. STEEN This is a war of speed. Motorized equipment has made possible speedier advances that were possible in earlier wars. The result is that the German forces are moving forward much faster than was the case in 1914, and other items have been speeded up to keep pace with the distance covered. Losses are prob ably infinitely greater than they were after one week or ten days of fighting in the first World War. Probably more airplanes have been shot down than were used in the last war. This will all result in a far greater strain on the countries involved, and due to that fact the decision should come much earlier than it did in the struggle lasting from 1914 to 1918. In keeping with the tempo of the actual fighting, American opin ion is far ahead of where it was in the first war after eight months. In that conflict America did not turn attention to preparedness until 1916, and did not begin seriously to prepare until late in that year. This time we are excited after eight months. The great question at present is: Can the Allied line hold? There is no way to answer that at pres ent. The Allied governments and military staffs have undergone some shuffling, and at present the German advance has been greatly slowed, but it has not been stopped. Neutral observers are more hope ful now than they were several days ago, and the task of Germany becomes constantly greater as her supply lines increase in length. The German reserves of oil must have suffered greatly in the last ten days. Thousands of planes have been kept in the air and thousands of tanks on the move. Airplanes and tanks take plenty of gas. One of the hopes of the allies is that the drain on the German oil supply becomes so great that their mechanized forces ■will have to be curtained. Radio Station WTAW 1120 kc.—267.7 meters Tuesday, May 21, 1940 of action in any cock fight. © On Jack Littlejohn: The Aggie maestro is usually good for a news item, but this time he comes through with a sack full. To begin with, efforts are now under way to get the Aggie land Orchestra on the Fitch “Sum mer Band Wagon” and the pros pects are more than fair. Jack, incidentally, may have a new tune ready for publication in a few weeks. The theme hit him in class last week and he has titled it, “It’s 11:25 a. m.—Sign On; Weather, Written All Over Your Face.” A News. little-known fact about the orches- 11:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and tra is its theme song. It’s nam- Home Program (TQN); Sadie ed “Living My Life” and is an- Hatfield, Extension Landscape other ace-high Littlejohn number. Gardening Specialist. Dr. H. E. Golden, Agricultural Economics Department. 11:45 a. m.—The Story of Wool (Farm Credit Administration). 12:00 noon—Signoff. • Wednesday, May 22, 1940 11:25—Sign-On; Weather, News. 11:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Program (TQN),D. H. Reid, Poultry Husbandry Department; F. E. Hanson, Dairy Division, Experi ment Station; M. F. Thurmond, Agricultural Engineering Depart ment. 11:45 a. m.—George E. Sokolsky, commentator (National Association of Manufacturers). 12:00 noon—Signoff. \ y THE DELUXE CAFE ... for Service and Quality ... THE BEST IN BRYAN CORSAGES See us for Immediate Delivery. 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