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How (tong ? .. How Urn* «•« tbo I’niUd SUUo
■Uy out of Um e»rr««t Buropooii conflict? . .. How
long until Amort— rttiaona nro Uking ni netio*
part in tbo nmmft eombot ogiirwt Gormnny mnd
fomfonj ? , . , How long onUl wo Amortomw will
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boo tnbon n *imUor notion And both oHlcloo nr*
bnood on tbo unw Ummo not on* tbot mob** for
lb* training of onldtor*. but on* tbot mokoo for tbo
braining of »km*d lobor in tbg tMfbnkol ond **nvi
tacbniral fioki'
Loot wook'o llattolion rditorwl quot'd Prone*’*
Ifton-prommr Pool Roynoud oa my mg. "Wo wont
U. 8 Hororpoorer not monpowei. wo need her Help
but in th* form of motomrd equipment, plane*,
ond otb*r product* of her trontendou* indu»trul
orgnniiouon: oil »ho ron pomibiy offer n* ” Mr.
Reynoud, not by hi* own choir*. » no longer with
na in on officiol copority, but hi* 'totement Btill
hoki* water
At any rat*, hi* 'totement well expreoae' the
Aggie way of thinking about thi* <itJu*tioo, and
Aggie opinion in thi* matter is important Tetoa A.
A M College i* the largest military college in the
world In tbo ia»t World War tbe College supplied
th* armies of tbe United State* with more officer'
than any other American collage or university. In
tbe event that tbe nation enter* another World W*f,
tbe College will probably be called upon to dp again
what h did in 19t«
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At the present time 443 A A M seniors to-be
are attending various R 0. T C. camp# as s part
of their advanced military science course TV *a»t
majority of tbe ItZ.OOO men who have been Texa»
Aggies have all had at least two year* of military
acienc* Many have had the full four-year course
and have thus been commissioned at reserve offtetr*
in tV United Stale' Army These men are all
vitally concerned with Um course of events in Europe
and, moi* particularly, with tbe course of action
that the United States has taken in respect to
thane events
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Ope thing, however, appear' to b* *ff-#olor in
Um pfaneat setup Why aheuid 0. C. C enrol)*** he
SBsnnpItrl from military training? A recent act of
Oangrm ban mad* tb*m exempt from military
training n*w, bat baa provided for their training in
aan military, technical werk which would eumnpt
thorn from fighting oorvWo* in tbe event of war
TV*e men have been eupported and trained
It the expense of the United Slat** government
Urn tax payors have carried the burden ef their
eappert On the ether band. Texas Aggie* who
have worked their way through college at their ewn
eapense will be called upon fer actual fighting
oervtr**
W hy nel the 0. C. C.T
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And •* it is . . . “And Mill Um war." On every
hand the main topic of conversation is Um European
conflict Tbe blow by-blew description ef th* events
acioss the ocean art oasy to follow via the radio
and metropolitan newspapers Thus far it has been
a string of knockouts for HiUer and associate*.
Britain in bis next fight
TV Battalion hopes that the total extent of the
United States' participation in the conflict will be
porely economic Aggie* are ready and willing to
fight if there is rm ether alternative What Texas
Aggies did in th* firot WerM W ar they can da agaia
and they wiH if railed open'
In The Literary Limelight
By Dea A Heaaeeeee
Bang' Bang! Let’s go West! It's oasy to re-1 hr*
Um days of Um old West ia TINTYPES OP COLD
by Joseph Henry Jackson Poor groat dbtperado*
roam at will through Um page* of Jhie vigoroas
woatarn Ini* -a story with all tbe fir* of a Zane
Grey wetarn story, plus good style and abtbaftllR.
lasbgi swnl Just a* tbs stage coach robber* wore
IBs symbsl of * period af Western history an tbe
old Palace Hatol- M B*naaaa lim ' wa# tbs symbol
of all that was glamorans to aM San Prannaco
Oacnr Lew is. wba baa • reputation far making Um
Want lira, baa givea kb* render, to BONANZA INN.
Um sto
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ml Ha saprsmary as Mm
i tbs slgbiiaa and niasttoa. Yap wi
fonarala, astraosw (yea. Lillian
and erooka to BONANZA INN
Prom 8nn Pranstoee H 1a
, airplans rids to Um giaamur
Hollywood Raws fan soar
Hallywaod
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til h'lr * * R t
'af intsrtotomanl try raadtog Wl
HOLLYWOOD SAGA toe Um answer As tong aa
you're to Hollywood—wbar* craay thingo bappoa
you might just as wall get acquainted with tbe moot
clever book of tbs year. Not awny month* ago tbs
naam ef Oscar Levant was known only to a few who
lietofmd to good music; today be 1a known to mil-
tioas for hi* participation on Um radio program "ln-
formatma PUase" At Um moment be is fast be
soming known to more millions by bis witticisms to
A SMATTERING OP IGNORANCE to whieb V
toils “air about composer* and mosMians as well
as explaining music and Harpo Marx to tbe waiting
world
People never quit* catch oa to science or arioa-
Ufk facts until a good publicity man discovers that
aomethig is the largest sc meet expensive of its
kind—then they are plagued with information of all
carta—much of it contradictory. One af the greatest
'and moot expensive scientific item* to receive pub
licity recently Is the new MO inch telescope to be
located on Mt Palo mar ia .Souther* California—
everyone knows that it cast many millions, that It
will bring th* moon right into your bedroom, and
that you could read the time on a man’s wrist watch
as be walked along Broadway, but many do not know
the real significance of this new giant of the tel
escope world D. 0. Woodbury in THE GLASS
GIANT OP PALOMAR gives the authentic facts
shout this now telescope He tracts Its background,
tbe developments which made H possible, and does
H all la a highly sntortalng way. This is a serious
boob, but one which is as thrilling a* a good detective
story v
All banks mentioned in thin column are to bo
found in the Aabury Browning Rqom of the college
library. If in cbsulation they may bo reserved at
the main loan (took on Um second floor
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Friday Jaw II. I ft*
11:11 A m. BlguOui Weather.
News
UM a m.—federal Mask Pro
gram (Works Prejsst Admin
istration) i
11:41 a an—Texas Pans A Horn*
Pragram (Ta WOAI)
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farm Security Admmistva-
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Drive For Stidham
Fund Now At |l,o.'U. u
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weeks ag*. baa reached |1jN8.4S
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co ebairman Gsurge Puermann
ysstoriay. Bsvsral doaaMaaa pra-
cm t wrad Bn fe^m 1» m ifd ^^ ,4
mimrxj nnww jw% aw i ▼t'ti nltu
it is hoped that several hundred
mors dollar* may be added before
the drive Is cloaad
*^Wra A *** arm Wrara —. — si — -
i law uriTW VUMi rWRrWI vWu vrUUiCW
throughout the nation, aad dona-
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A. D. Jack
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11:00 noon—Sigwoff
4 30 . 1:10—THE AGGIE CLAM
BAKE
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Hatarday Jam* tt 1040
11:26 a. m Sign-On; Weather,
Newt
11:10 A m Morning Musicals
11:46 a. m.—Texas Farm A Home
Program (T* WOAI)
Mrs. P. L. Thomas, farm A
Home Book Reviewer
Agricultural Educate De
partment Repraaentatl *aul
Waaler, State Ceoij tor,
Soil Conservation
12:00 noon—Signoff
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Tombstone, Arisons, the wicked The host has just received a note Sunday. June 2A 1040
est town of the old West, is th# from “Th# Gorilla" threatening 6 M a. m Sign-On; Musical Mo
ssttmg of “Froatmr Marshall", him with murder at midnight Into moats
which will bo at Th* Campus Pri- this scon# wander the thru* half- 0 46 a. m —Roan’s Chapel Singer*
day and Saturday Randolph wits turned detective, and from 0 00 a. m — Mastorwurks
(Movlc tfewur'
By Betty She (tea
friends af Mm college in various
parts of the stats a* writ as A
A M. Mwther* dabs, fastoty mem
bers, local and Bryua buatnsonmn
and th* student body
Pwormaaa pointed out that do
nations arc still being aeesptod at
tbs Fiscal Office.
Besides chairmen Buster Kseton
and Pusrmaan, committeeman in
clude Bill Murray. E. W. Pannull,
Graham Purcell. Allan Elkrbes.
faculty rspssssnUtiv* V. K. Sag
areff, and businsaamaa Dr. ft. E.
Lipscomb
Summer Reading
By Hr T. P. May*
Odets: Barbel ta tbe Mwoe I radical dram*)
(“for years I sat horui taking things for gfant
ed . . . Then just for an hour my life w*«
j in a spotlight ... I saw myself clearly, real
ised who and what I was lent that s begin
ning? Isn't it?")
Gill: Wasted Manpower
("Although thrift ia a virtue for the individual,
it is a virtue for the general economy only a*
the economic system ha* use for saving'. When
Mvrnga botome excessive, thi' private virtue
tthrift) become* s public vice.")
Overstreet let Me Thiak.
("We have our lives to live. Through all the
ages men and women have been trying to dis
cover how to live them They have passed on
to us some of their wisdom We are not wholly
ignorant of what should make life the w*y life
should be Nor ire we by any mean* helpless
in our tdiort to shape ourselves according to
that knowledge ")
Bern helm Medicine at the < roesreada
(“For doctor* have developed a cunoaly fixed
habit of mind They are timid, hcaitant. and
never like to take a definite stand (La., about
socialised medicine) lest it affect them harm
fully in tome way")
As the World Turns...
Scott bring* in tow at th* end of then on everything happens
bis six-gun and stays alive bs- Rita Brother* arc ably aided
muse n* one enn beat him to Um Anita l/>uia* and Patoy Kelly
draw Nancy Kelly 1* tbe bsauti- The Rumstoad* will be back at
ful. brave, unflinching girl who tbs Assembly Hail Thuraday in
follow* ib* man she love*, played "Blondi* Take* a Vasa lion" Pro
by loanr Roman.. to this bontor nay Ring I* ton la again featured as
land town Rinnt* Barns* baa tbs the slightly balmy "Blondi#", with
ml* of tbe dans* bail queen, who Arthur Uk* as Um harassed Dug
violently represents the Intrusion wood, Urry Rims as th# miachle
of the hometown sweetheart. Th* mu* Baby Dumpling, and Itolay,
rivalry between the two women the Bumstead dog The n#w film
lake# them out of their home
where they managed to find trou
ble enough, and into the great open
spaces and even more trouble
from sltogethei different world*
helps motivate th* exciting screen
play •
“Young Tom Edison” will be at
tbe Assembly Hall Tuesday with
Mickey Rooney, the screen's top
ranking box office star as the fa
mous Inventor. Tom looks for esua
e# rather than effects, and his ex
periments get Kim into many ^ ASSEMBLY HALL
scrapes. Fay Bainter is unusually Saturday—‘The Return of Dr. X"
with Humphrey Bogart. Wayne
Morns, and Roeemary lane
Tuesday—“Teuui Tom Elisou"
The ® a. m.—Signoff
by . •
Monday. Jan* Si IMS
1126 a. m -Sign-On; Weather,
News
11 *0 a. "Hop»o« Or The Und"
(Farm Credit AdndRtatra-
Oea)
11 46 a. m.- Texas Farm A Horn*
Program (To WOAI)
Dr. Kelsbaw Bonham, Assist
ant Professor of Ptshsrlsa,
Fish ft Gam# Department
H B Apple, l>*partm*nt of
Hortieultur*
12 00 noon—Signoft’
Proper Servicing
Saves You Money
— Wgahing
—- Grftftainf
— Gonerftl Repairs
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Wt I anus K ft H
Grwn Stamps
AGGIKLAND
Service Station
I’Hons College 123
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What's Shotcinp
good us the mother whose stauneh
faith in her son curries him over
many rough times George Ban
croft doe* convincing work as the
•tern father who finally relents
and becomes proud of the boy.
Mickey Rooney show* that he can
handle serious, dramatic moments
as well a* he doe* hi* popular com
edy role*
Wcdneoday and Thursday the
Riti Brother* will cavort at The
Campus in "The Gorilla". The ac
tion takes place in a house that
witb Mickey Rooney, Fay Bain
ter, and George Bancroft
Thursday- "Blondi* Take* a Vs-
fation" with Penny Singleton and
Arthur Lake.
AT THE CAMPUS
Friday amd Saturday-"Frontier
Marshall' with Randolph Scott,
Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, and
Bmme Barnet.
is a mate of sliding panels. The Sunday and Monday "Second Fid
time is cioe* to midnight in the die" with Sonjn Heme, Tyrone
midst of a raging thunderstorm. Power, and Rudy Valle*
• story of n
.only that, but the story of
BY DR. AL H NELSON
French Ash Peace The new French Cabinet of
Marshall Petom has asked Hitler give honorable
terms of peace Tbe French arnftr, supposed to be
the finest ia the world until the present debacle, has
been broken into fragments and
nearly half of France has already
been conquered by the German forc
es
Tbe reason* are twofold first,
tbe French attempted to fight a
completely mechanised modern army
witb equipment end tactics of tbe
World War typo, socond. political
leaders who placed their own poli
tical fortune* above common sense
n•*••# and th* good of their country Ws
have plenty of thooe In this nation,
•ten who will spend billiona of dollar* of public
funds to buy votes and weep tears over down trodden
humanity; but let men and women of the world be
bombed and murdered without acting, simply be
cause those being destroyed cannot vote in U. 8.
elections.
Tbe fate of tbe French fleet is of tremendous
importance in the present crisis. If the Ormans
aan force the French to surrender their fleet it
Will mean that the British will no longer he supreme
for the French, Italian, and German fleets combined
•r* as large or larger than the English navy Under
taoae conditions England could no loiter maintain
• blockade of the enemy Then, if Japan were to
join the combination against them, England's navy
would b# greatly outnumbered Is fact, under those
condition*, the combined fleets of the dtotator pow
er* would nearly equal th* combined power of th#
English and American navies
Admiral Stark. Chief of U. 8. Naval Operitieaa.
kas officially requested an increase of two hundred
Ship in tW U. S. fighting force, and H ia very
likely that eongreas, in Ha proarot state of alarm,
will authorise the increase, BUT P1YE YEABS OR
MORE WOULD ELAPSE BEFORE THE SHIPS
COULD BE BUILT.
Barosveh has intimated he will ask fur conacript.
l«n ef man power in order to build up Mm Amy.
knd tbs House of Representatives has passed u bill
6# increase the army te four hundred thousand man.
Ragland boa officially saaonneed that they will
fight to the end, whatever happens Winston Church-
kill pointed out yesterday, in a Speech broadcast la
the United States, that Puanss Wade a
with England sot to make a separata p«
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GROUND THE CAMPUS
By Betty Jane Hinkler ( am pus blackout . . . The biita-
WRh "A" quitie* already part the three negro shoe-shin*
of th* first semester'* history and by officials of tbo Comman
"B" quisles in lb* offing, the rorlior this woek
Tueedsv. June Ift. IM6
11:25 a m Sign-On; Heather,
Newt
11:30 a m.—"The Story of Wool"
(Farm Credit Admmistra-
Uen)
11:46 a. m —Texas Farm ft Home
Program (To WOAI)
County Superintendents', Con
ference
W L. Hughes. Head. Educa
tion I>epartment
12 00 noon—Signoff
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Wednesday. June 2*. 1M0
1126 a. m -Sign On; Weather,
News
1130 a. m -George F-. Sokolsky,
Commentator (National As
sociation of Manufacturer*)
11:46 a. m.—Texas Farm ft Home
Program (To WOAI)
D. H. Reid, Head, ‘Poultry
Husbandry Department
R- J. Von Roeder, Animal
Husbandry Department
12 00 noon—Stgnofl
•°‘*d from tbe musical production
is taken at s medium tempo and
main topic of rampua ronvereatioft P rov * - definitely tket It can hap-
final chorus add an autMentic tang
is last Saturday night's "Jubs P*ft fc*"! It that th* three
Sox Prom " Student opinion eeom* darkios wore plying thoir trad* a
to be well grooved in respect to anxiously and. as a ra
th* unique danoe* which have re- «»H. » campus "large" purged the
placed th* more conventional long Ethiopian delegatee to the great
*ro#i»n regimental ami corps danc American shoe-shining Induatry
e# Definitely ro Ik* ebeb aide"
la the sentiment , . . Plus a de- ~
mand for mere of 'em; which will
probably result In the proms be
coming a weekly go rather than
the originally announced twice a
month So it’s congratulations to
summer recreation director Luke
Harrison and intramural director
W. L Probertby for inaugurating
a flne new frotura of A ft M. sum
mer sessions.
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ECORD
ELEASES
to the entire n|Rq| YOU
CANT BRUSH ME OPP is a rby-
thmic song taken at a faster dip
Janet Blair graces the microphone
while the sates swirl and the muted
brass bites Hr • final chorus ef
unique Hal Ksmp fare
The Brother* Kenny in collab
oration with Will Groas seem to
have bit tbo musical jackpot again
with MAKE-BELIEVE ISLAND
„ . Hat* in an exceptionally melodious
f.ret Juke Box Prom r*r*- »ra b rar1 narked for
Barber Shop
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Bryan 1
In tbe line ef rag geet tone-from
these fewer Aggie-typical “bird
dogs; at least one Congo; loss Star
Dust and Sehottiach; and a law
banning th* wearing of coats at
these functions. Moot oft-asked
hitftofe. It
that Mitrhel
a roeohitng
goes without saying
1 Ayres baa created
that ia in sympathy
with this seiectioa as well as
complimentary to Its character
queetio* at last Saturday night's ?OOR B ALL*IINA ia a similar
prom eras, “Will there be a barn num b*r althourh nlaved at a
dance this aemetoer?" slightly faster tempo
* Earl Hinas' Boogie-Woogie ar-
Afgto disappointment af the rang.mrot of the famous ST.
week’s beginning urns maestro Ber LOUIS BLUBS ha* been the kit
ni* Cummiae' failure to play an ef hla atage show* during th* poet
Aggie song on his aerond Pitch several months. Um novel arrange-
Bandwagon appsnranee Sunday rmbI M bandsomoly portrayed with
night Cummins had previously flinty of "itarn*phero" from the
promised to do “I'd Rather Be A hand as wuQ as exciting piano
Texas Aggie" er "The Aggie War week from "Father” Hines The
Hymn" aad th* reason for th* M0- companion ptoee. NUMBER 1ft, la
ur* ia not known. He did, hew- a fast eurtag tone eruditad to the
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