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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION .-THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940 t I ■ / battalion THI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF *■ Tia-wai-At A. & M. COLLEGE '^Aitalion, offieial newspaper of the AgrieuJtara) and College of Texas and the City of College Station, is ttrfbS'fU three times weekly from September to June, issued S^J&oy, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; and is ] F&kly from June through August. published S Entered as second-olass matter at the Poet Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate, $8 a school year. Advertising rates upon reemest. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angslee, and San Offio*. Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-8444. 1939 Member 1940 Plssociofed GolJe&iate Press RILL MURRAY _ LARRY WEHRLE James Crits K. O. (Jeep) Oates H. G. Howard Tommy Henderson *Hub’ Johnson Philip Golman James John J. Moseley EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ADVERTISING MANAGER Associate Editor Spoi Circulation Manager Circulation Manager Asst. Sports Editor ’hotographer Photographer Staff Artist Asst. Circulation Manai Junior Editors sorts Editor Photographer Carpenter Assistant Photographe Staff One of the Year’s Best Jobs There have been Glee Clubs at A. & M. for many years—some bad and some good. This year’s club, under the new name of “Singing Cadets” and under the direction of Professor J. J. Woolket, of the Department of Modern Languages, has hit a new high in singing performance by A. & M. students. The Battalion again extends to the Singing Cadets and their director hearty congratulations. When it is remembered that Director Woolket carries on these singing operations in his spare time and with no remuneration, his good work is all the more appreciated. With a student body of 6,000 men, the Singing Cadets should be one of the top singing organizations of the Southwest. If the group continues to improve as it has the past year there will be no question of its rank in singing cir cles. In the opinion of The Battalion, Prof. Woolket and the Singing Cadets turned in one of the out standing jobs of the year, for their own pleasure, for the pleasure of their listeners, and for the benefit and glory of A. & M. College. Billy Clarkson George Fuermann Bob Nisbet A. J. Robinson Earl« A. Shields THURSDAY STAFF Homecoming Ray Treadwell J. W. Jenkins Managing I ertising Mai Editor Asst. Advertising Manager Don McChesney v Asst. Circulation Mana Phil Levine Editorial Assistant R. V. (Red) Myers Jr. Sports Assistant Senior Sports Assistants Jimmie Cokinos , Jimmy James Junior Advertising Solicitors L. J. Nelson A. J. Hendrick Reportorial Staff Jack Aycock, Jim Dooley, Walter Sullivan, D. C. Thurman, Murray Evans, Joe Taylor, Thomas Gillis, Don Corley, Bill Amis. . BATTALION RADIO STAFF George Fuermann Battalion Announcer Charles A. Montgomery Associate Ed Robnett, R. M. Shuffler l Assistants We Need Y Facilities; WE COULD HAVETHEM We understand that the building com mittee of the college Board of Directors is considering a request from the Y.M.C.A. Committee to use the old Consolidated High School building on the campus for supple mentary Y.M.C.A. facilities until such time as the new $300,000 Y.M.C.A. which is planned for the college may be realized. That’s a highly practical request. The Battalion, for the student body, wishes to urge that it be granted. For a sum of only $500, the high school building, not now in use, can be repaired, ■furnished with pool tables and equipment for office, reading, assembly and club meet ing rooms—all of which are sorely needed. The new dormitories as yet are serviced with no such facilities nearby. The College Y.M.C.A. is always overcrowded. Student dubs lack good meeting places. The old school building is not in bad condition, except su perficially; it is situated in a fine location ■on the campus, near the new dormitories. Furthermore, materialistically speaking it appears that the $300,000 needed for the contemplated new “Y” building will not very soon be forthcoming. If the old Consolidated High School is torn down it is more than probable that nothing can or will be put in its place—at least not for some years. So why tear it down? Why not put it to some real, needed, practical use such as the Y.M.C.A. Committee has suggested. At the extremely low cost the committee has fig ured it is more than desirable that this step be taken. Once again The Battalion wishes to ask, for the student body of A. & M., that the Board building committee favorably consider this request. The Annual Meeting of the Association of For mer Students scheduled this year at commencement, May 21 - June ly is a real home coming for A. & M. men. The Battalion believes a trip to the cam pus will prove a fine tonic to any A. & M. man. There will be impressive graduation exercises. There will be dancing for those inclined. There will be the same old spine-tingling thrills at final review. There will be high tribute paid to Presi dent T. O. Walton, who has headed the institution longer than any other man. Best of all there will be heart warming re unions of old friends. There will be many a day and event lived over again in memory. There will be both old and new campus scenes to visit. All of it adds up to a grand occasion and The Battalion hopes A. & M. men will literally swamp the campus on commencement weekend, May 31 - June 1. OPEN FORUM A letter from Mr. F. M. Law, president of the First National Bank of Houston and president of the Board of Directors of A. & M. College: • Mr. Bill Murray, Editor-in-Chief, The Battalion Dear Bill: Have just received my copy of the May 16th Battalion. Hearty congratulations! This issue is just about the best newspaper I have ever seen issued by A. and M. or by any other college in the entire country. Cordially yours, F. M. LAW SECRETARIES OVER-ACTIVE? Nobody can deny that reception women some times learn too well the lesson that the man in the inner office must not be bothered and that their own mission is to keep people out unless they pass through the portals in the approved, orderly way, which sometimes is strewn with ‘red tape’ and delay. It seems as if some super-sense of formal order affects these secretaries. (Name withheld on request). Remember Your Classmates A.S the Wovld Tuvns,.. There are more rules of the A. & M. College Library that are broken than are kept. These viola tions range from talking in the study room to keep ing books out overtime. This latter violation is one of prime impor tance at this time of the school year. It is absolute ly essential that the rules concerning the use of the books be kept faithfully if all students have a chance to do their required work. Are you a violator of such rules? There may be others who want to use that book you tossed aside a few weeks ago. Of course the fine will be slight if any at all, yet you owe it to your class mates to turn in the library books on or before time. h Don’t Be a Sheep . Some persons spend 15 years of their lives ■dug to school and learning to parrot what the li Wekher tells them, only to find that it would be tk,., helpful if they had a mind of their own which a > y ’ function. be.v swim° rtain courses are predominantly fac- ha leaving little opportunity for originality faili^P^fhough. But in other courses, where many Stations are purely matters of opinion, the make aplcnt sh ald be allowed to have an opinion dents bet’. ; s own and not he required to adopt the If applicaiKS ’s idea in ortT to pass the course, exceptions, which, or to the professor’s opinions and entire loan fund str ck to him on tests is a good This very brief way under some teachers— student loan fund sit But it tikes all the initiative student body may betWOSL 1 he finds that he is un- the funds are so administei on anything, and must The loan funds have be assistance to students really Vj dumbly is all right They should not be regarded ai- supposedly designed “convenience” loans. Nor should u hinking individual, and every student has a right or a o says only his upon request. Ex-students, A. & M. ft, id; but no more and other friends and donors have put 3 who have no They will render financial assistance Home 0 ne else some 400 boys. It has never been their thot r m ; ; ids on loan funds should be available for everyone t> to borrow. There isn’t that much money. By “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF “Oil will win the war”, according to Mr. James A. Moffett, formerly purchasing agent of fuel oil and gasoline for the Allies during 1917-1918, and now chairman of the board of the California-Texas Oil Company. Germany’s minimum annual require ment of oil is 7,600,000 tons. Germany can secure 6,162,000 tons of oil from domestic and foreign sources. It is estimat ed that Germany has captured 4,- 000,000 tons of oil. Estimating sev en barrels to the ton, that gives Germany several months of oil supply. If the Allies can “stabilize” the present situation, short of de feat, and prolong the war, Ger many will be in dire need of oil. So far Germany has carried out her campaigns with surprising V. K. Sugareff precision according to plans made beforehand. Any “If” regarding the scarcity of oil and food supplies in Germany may be merely wish ful thinking. The Germans have not given out any vital statistics about their war plans, finances, or materials. The democracies have been delivering parliamentary speeches in which they conveyed much valuable information to the enemy. To think < that Germany has plunged into this war without calculating every possibility would be equivalent to imagining an engineer starting a job without tak ing measurements. There is, however, a hope that the engineer has miscalculated. Organized labor shows lobbying power. Two weeks ago Congress decided to take minor changes in the Wages and Hours and Wagner Acts (labor acts). Seventy-five labor leaders, representing va rious labor bodies, went to Washington. These men held 1,000 interviews with the 435 members of the House of Representatives. These Congressmen were informed that these labor leaders have the support of 10,000,000 American families and control 25,000>' 000 votes in the many sections of this country. That is enough votes to swing the national election in favor of any party. The House decided to recommit the matter to its labor committee for further study BACKWASH By Georye Fuermann “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence/’—Webster. of jdie quei / stions involved in the acts. Fuermann A bird’s-eye view . . . (Cosmopol itan Club prexy Mike Rodriguez goes down in Aggie history as the first cadet to buy a copy of John O. Pasco’s recently published “Fish Sergeant.” The inscription in front of Mike’s bonk reads, “First book sold, May 21, 1940, ten minutes till seven o’clock in front of Guion Hall, Texas A. & M.” The* book is better - than - aver age and shwjld be a sure-fire Dum ber with Aggies, and especially freshmen . . . Said a Puerto Rico sen ior, when a Dallasite mentioned that he had recently been late-dat ed by his escortee: “To hell with these American women!” .... Politics run in the family: Senior class president Max McCullar re cently learned that the male half of his parents, G. F. McCullar, was elected president of the State Tax Collectors Association. His fath er is Tax Assessor and Collector of Kleberg County . . . Monday night’s yell practice showed that the new junior yell-leaders-to-be are okeh, but they’ll have their hands full keeping up with Buster and “Foots.” . . . And speaking of yell-leaders, Backwash hopes that the fine gesture the Athletic Council made in giving head yell- leaders Bodie Pierce and Bert Burns watches will be continued each year. It’s equally as hard to be a yell-leader when we’re not national champions as when we’re on top . . . An unusual problem to graduating seniors and the Post Office Department that came up last week concerned the amount of postage necessary to mail gradu ation invitations via the first-class route. Although all of the invita tions are supposedly the same, many of them did not weigh the same, some of them requiring six cents postage and others nine cents. • An Aggie needs help: The front page editorial con cerning George Stidham deserves the attention and consideration of every Aggie. The original impetus was given by head yell-leader-elect Buster Keeton. Buster asked for volunteers from his own organi zation to help push the plan, and seniors Jim McKenzie and W. P. Smith, junior Ted Duce, and sopho mores Jim King and G. W. Haltom offered to give assistance. Since that time, however, the thing has become so big that Buster has ap pointed a committee to represent the corps, local business men, and professors in the undertaking. The committee includes Graham Pur cell, Ernie Pannell, Bill Murray, Dr. S. E. Lipscomb, “Count” V. K. Sugareff, Buster, and your cor respondent. So come on out Ag gies—let’s do our part to help a more-than-deserving Aggie. Ah-h-h, poetry: From College Station’s Consoli dated School come a few more poetry efforts on the part of Ag gies and T.S.C.W.-ians-to-be of the class of ’51. Here’s the lead-off, titled “Ag- gieland”: This is Aggie Land. We say to each other, “Hello my fine friend.” We won the 1939 championship, So to the Sugar Bowl we took a trip. The Tulane team rolled in a green . wave, Trying to defeat the Aggies brave. When the score was in favor of Tulane, The Aggies scored and won the game. And not to be overlooked is this gem—in the rough: The Aggies are the fellows who really know how to fight, And when it comes to football that is really a delight. At football games they holler till their voices are nearly gone. They really should be given a crown for hollering so loud and long, The Aggies are the fellows who really know how to talk, For when it comes to talking that really is just their sort. When talking they do often forget about their lessons, The next day the Prof takes off a point, And their grade that does lessen. And so we see the Aggies have other things to do, And sometimes to their lessons they just say a great big BOO! 9 Chewing gum and mints: Maybe you’ve wondered who the genial Aggie is that continually makes the round of the many dor mitories giving away free pack ages of Beech-Nut chewing gum and mints. He’s Wallace Keller, a former ‘G’ Company Infantryman from San Antonio. His facts and figures are interesting and won- derfying. His room-to-room can vass takes about five weeks—then he starts all over again. It takes about 5,000' packages of chewing gum to cover the dormitories—a total of 25,000 sticks of gum, which, translated into chews, would make a figure with several zeros! In a few cases (but very few) ca dets have refused to take his gratis gum and candy, believing that they thusly became obligated, but the vast majority of Aggies wel come him and look forward to his every-five-week visit. By TOM ClLLIS RADIO STATION WTAW 1120 kc—267.7 meters Thursday, May 23, 1940 11:25 a. m.—Sign-On; Weather, News. 11:30 a. m.—Texas Farm & Home Program (TQN); Campus visit—P. G. Haines, Extension Ser vice. 11:45 a. m. — “Pleasantdale Folks” (Social Security Adminis tration). 12:00 noon—Signoff. Friday, May 24, 1940 4:35-5:30 p. m.—THE AGGIE CLAMBAKE, featuring student musical talent, “The Dope Ring” (Faculty vs. Student Quiz Pro gram), Campus news and perso nalities. There are two plenty good shows playing here the latter part of this week, 1 and you won’t be wasting your time seeing either of them. “THEODORA GOES WILD” at the Campus is a good comedy, and “THE LIGHT THAT FAILED”, benefit show at the Assembly Hall, is a well-acted version of Rudyard Kipling’s famous novel. Irene Dunn has her first genuine comedy role in “THEODORA GOES WILD,” and she does right by it. Melvyn Douglas is just the sly, wicked type to play opposite her in such a role too. Between the two of them, they thoroughly shock the old, stiff-pecked New England town of Lyrinfield, named for the upstanding and straight-laced Lynn family whose descendants still run the little hick town. Irene Dunn bears the stigma of being a Lynn and bound to uphold the family name, but she gets a “wild hair” and tries to act human by at least writing a book on what she thinks life should be like. As the author of the book, which turns out to be a best-seller, she has to go to New York, where she goes wild in the funniest sense of the word. Melvyn Douglas enters the picture and fol lows her home again, and the fun really begins. Such a pretty actress as Irene Dunn cutting capers is worth seeing. “THE LIGHT THAT FAILED” is a very worthy show with fine acting and the best of plots. It does not lack stars either, for Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Mariel Angelus, Ida Lupino, and Dudley Digges all give great per formances. The combination of art and war, the roughest and the gent lest of sciences, makes Colman’s part a standout. As a newspaper artist with the British troops in Sudan, Ronald Colman receives a spear cut above his eye while saving his fellow correspondent, Dudley Digges. His war sketches are a huge success in London and he returns to capitalize upon his fame as an artist. He be comes too much interested in the capital involved instead of the art work itself though, and friend Dig ges warns him to paint true art. For the love of a childhood sweet heart whom he still loves, Cole man tries to paint his masterpiece, a picture of a melancholy girl. For a model he uses the mean little spitfire guttersnipe, Ida Lupino. Warned by a doctor that he is go ing blind, Colman whips himself into a drunken fury and drives the model night and day to complete the work. After he is totally blind, the vengeful model utterly ruins his canvas. With his great work des-royed, his sight gone, his child- hooil love unreturned, and his life worthless, Colman returns to war and the Sudan, to die gloriously as he formerly lived, in battle. This picture is unreservedly recommend ed to everyone; it has so many in terest. /^angles that everyone is sure (S'’' some of them. It is of a ir' tarts out with a great flivery line of his en deavor is thwarted in some way. 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