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artenra aonraa. Tfeta nation nrrii* aair* trainod
offiaora now an norar bafora It'a not n enoa of
"tan Many R.OTC off kora," bat TOO rSW OF
new.
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The principal ran aaa advanrad by tba War
Dapnrtmant for I im I tiny the aambor of roo tract*
Kao boon inanffteient tanda Apparantiy, bownaar,
tbla ranaon no bngar bolda water With million*
being expended daily for national dafanaa parpoaaa,
H aaomo logical to aaonnw that a comparatively
•mall partian of thee# fund* oould bo oDanoted to
train R.O T.C. man no raoarv officer* If tear
there waa o time when fund* ahoald be proridod
to tbla and, that time io NOW.
It'a impossible to toll what an officer la worth,
bat It's anoy to know bow much on# costa the gov
eminent—$20,006 at Waat Point . . $400 at Tata*
A A M
At ronoidorabiy leoa expanse, equally aa ef
fkiently, and in for greater number, the college
atenda ready to do ite port in training officer* for
the nation'* army.
All that Teiaa A. A M Codege waste la the
word 'W!
Political Merry Go Round
# i'
Wilke Plus Third Party Threat
Will Give Democrats An Acid Test
By Rohan L Dmb
GROUND THE CAMPUS
By BETTY JAN! WINKLER
In tbe world of totepbone cm
and •
Summer Reading...
A. & M. Loses
FRONT PAGE ARTICLES in aereral Battel
ions daring the paat three month* have stated
that Colonel George P Moore will soon leaee
tbe college permanently. The article* Have also
painted out that for tba past three years Colonel
Moore baa served the collage aa Commandant and
Professor of Military Science and Tadics iltere
have been some other foci* in these articles Boo-
fads that are included m any good new* story -
hat there's a lot more to it than just that There'*
• Ipt that's been loft unsaid in these article*
•
To begin with, there'* been no mention made in
those atones to tbe affect that Colonel Moore takes
rank among the collage* free test commandants--and
that • a record to write home about because Trias
A A M College has been here for sixty four years
and many good men have served it as commandant
daring that time
Neither did the articles mention that Colonel
Moore served under conditions which few command
ante in the post have been faced with. Since the
fall of 1M7 the college has expanded tremendously —
in enrollment, physical property, and prestige
Nor did the articles point out that Colonel Moote
bad served in a double capacity - both ne Command-
and P M 8.AT In the past, a* a general rule, these
have been two separate posts headed by two me,n
rather than one
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But Blost important of all. he earned the respect
and admiration of every thinking Aggie The very
nature of a ommnndant's duties make* hi* p wition
one which is a targe* for cadet criticism The cam
mandsnt's job is to say “no" when he would rather
say ••yea"; to enforce discipline, to exwute military
orders regulating the conduct of the Onrpa'. ■ r 'd to
generally supervise all activities of A.|0t> men The
person doesn’t live who fould tackle that job and
satisfy everyone
But Colonel Moore did the job as well aa. and
probably better than, any of his predteeaaors Ag
giea, ex Aggies, college officials, and tacufty mem
hers alike are of one mind When Colonel Moore
goes. A A M loses
BY I»R T. F. MAYO
Cowley (editor): Books That Chaagod Our Miuds
This is a list (with an analysis of aach) of
twelve books which, in the opinion of a group of
important writers, consulted by the editors of the
New Republic, have moat largely shaped the modern
mtd^ The Library, we atmounsr with honest pride,
had every one of them Here they are. How many
of them have you read? That ia, how “modern" is
your mind? How about trying them out this sum
mjar V
Once Again
The follow lag editorial appeared *a the freat
page of last Tharaday s Battaliwa sad ia here re
printed at the reqaeet of many Battalion renders
who failed to obtain a ewpy ef last week's paper :
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“Tee maay R.OT.C. efflrera "
That has been the War Department's reply to
rapes tod pleas from AA M official* in respect to
aacunng more advanced military science contracts
aa that more student* could take the advanced
course and thus, upon graduation, receive reserve
commissions aa second lieutenants in the United
Bute* Army.
The Battalion believe* that even an times of
world peace such an answer is out of joint—and
ia 1M0 it has become axiomatic that a nation which
has ant pgr pared in pence time, cease* to agist as
a nation It has always boen true, and particularly
an new, that no nation can have too many trained
officer*
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A. A M 'a 1B40 graduating rlaaa numbered €77
—AM of this number received reserve romteiaaiona
or eertiflcatoa Twice that number (RIULP have
received reserve commission* The senior claae to-
be has appraiiaaately 1,110 members 463 of this
■amber have advanced uentracts With a few ai-
oaptions. every man of tbe I.IM took tbe two-year
bank anaree—only 463 have advanced contracts
Tbe number COULD BE W6!
A few years ag*. before the War Department
limited tbe number of advanced contracts, NINETY
MIGHT PERCENT of the junior* and eapiora had
advanced contracted NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT
of tba graduating senior* became second lieutenants
to tba ranarva corps The percentage today isn't
■taaty-eight- or even near that figure, t
Maay A. A M men who art qualified and
have a desire to take tbe advanced course are
dMiahle to Ube It because of tbe limitation of the 1
■amber of advanced contracts These man, too,
wwwM like to be reserve officers in their nation *
army . . . Then* men. too, would Make valuable
additions to their nation'* army
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Tba last taeae of The Battalion contained an
article which stated that Teiaa A. A M. College
bad offered all of ita facilites to President Roeee-
e«h and the War Department far national defease
■an. Not only aa tbs largeot military collage ia
1 Sigmund Freud latreductisa to Payeheaaalyai*
(About dreams, rompkies. the unconscious)
2 Charles Beard Economic Interpretation of the
Aamrkaa (onatitateo
(That economic motives largely shaped our gov
eminent; “The Father*" ware human too.)
S. Henry Adams The Fdaration »f Henry Adams
(The author’s own life story become* a bitter
indictment of our AmericaB way of life.)
6 Nikolai Lenin The State sad KewdaUen
(The radkal classic of our day.)
5 Oscar Spengkr The Decline of the Went
(A gigantic interpretation of history, maintaining
that our whole civiliiation is entering its ke-
and-iron age )
6 Frederick J Turner: The Frontier in tmerkan
History
(Tiat the presence of free land in the West de-
tei mined the rharacter of American history, and
that the diaappeaianre of tee land, since shout
HB0, has now rhanged this rharacter )
7. Frang Boa* The Mind of IVimitive Man
(That nations haw different histories more he
cause of environmental conditions than because
of " acial" traits )
H I A Richards Principle* of Literary Criticism
(Thst poetry, playa. novels, ran be evaluated
sen nt if kali y)
9 Tlo stein Vebten The Thaery of Bnsiness Bn
trrprise
I That, under the profit sy^em. the interests of
owners of induatry eonflirt with those of the
creator* in industry and of the consumers )
V L Painngton Maia Currents ia American
Tbmiglit
(That our literature ha* grown out of the eco
nomic and social conditions which prevailed
when it was produced )
William Graham Sumner Folkways
'That a stuy of tribal customs and standard*
P’Oves that everything i« relative, i.*., that
what is good in one place and time may be bad
in another )
John Dewey fttadies la l^gkal Thewry
(That “the use to which a proposition is put
determines what it meant, and that meaning de
termines what we are to think of it and do
about it.")
f Mtor's aato: Tba foHawtag
ewiaau la tbe flrat ia a aeries
la appear la The Bamamr Bat
uMaa ia ranpact to carraat state
and sat leas! politics Tba aatbar.
Robert L Dees, ia a farmer *4i
toc-ta-eblwf of Tba Ratulten
(IBM-to) and ia saw a grata
ate Baaiataat la tbs Irwaamfca
I lepart wienl
A ay aptalaaa rs pressed ia tbla
column are tba epiateaa af the
aatbar and are awt the opimen*
ef Tbe Battalion!
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Nobody aicept an individual
with a Hitlerian rompiei like*
to see a Big Somebody stomp a
Little Somebody, and for that
ranaon the Republican*’ nomina
tion of Wendell Willkie ia a
healthful thing Mr Willkk
will, in all probability, be a wry
tough candidate to defeat
But in the ointmont we find
the usual fly What doua Mr
Willkk belkve in? By hit own
word* he believes in the New
Dual eicept for ite attitude to
wards business At the same
time he support* the New Deni'*
“fundamental reforms." If he
supports ita fundamental re
forms, then he automatkally en
dorse* moot of ita attitude to
wards business, since said re
forms concern business directly,
for the meet part
A rose by any other name
would smell as sweet and a New
Dealer by any other part desig
nation would be the same Poe
•ibly, however the GOFs can
didate will change hi* ideas.
Landon did in IBM The Kansas
governor, you will remembber,
was an ardent New Dealer un
til he got the Republican nod.
So may it be with Willkie
It could be that the greatest
danger the Democrats face ia
not Mr Willkie. but the real
“dark bon*" ia tha _
campaign -a possible third party.’
TK# R»fHlh!irMftl |4$g4 n ft* aawawABm
* • *w|fihp! Ivans ciki iKF% writ*
B platform whkh differs greatly
fram tha New teal program
Maybe they war* afraid to. May-
ha they didn't haw any ideas
(to national defense the Rapah-
Ikana are “regular " So era they
"regular" in being cautious sot
to pledge to koep America out af
war,
Out of this point may tavslop
the third party; a grant deal af
Ulk has already boen heard on
that point from such men aa
Senator Whesler. who is a wry
done to John Lewis, CIO mogul
If the third party movement be
come* a reality, then we may at
P«ct the CIO's endorsement af
that party.
While Lewi* may not be able
to awing the CIO the way he
wants, he nevertheless has a
graat power in all laborii*
group* (Who mentioned the
AFL?). This labor group, along
with Green’s AFL, has been
trotting right down the line with
Rooeewlt for eight year*, and
plenty of votew and dollars have
com* therefrom.
If labor’s alfrgiaaai — and
along with it die allegiance of
the “progreatiw” voter* should
•witch to a third party, the
pinch would be felt lamgly by
the Democrat*, not the Repuh
tican* The GOP remain* just
about the same at all times, and
Willkie will certainly enlarge it.
In any event, it'a going to
take more than scathing words
and new poatoffkes for the Dem
ocrat* to come out on top even
with Roosevelt a* a candidate.
Firat they’ll have to gig Willkie.
then they'll probably have to set
their guns far whet may he the
strongest third party since 1912
group of aaoo
►ped tickets ea
trapped civilians fbr folk
fir* truck. Whs taM it
hart?
T
SODAS
Adding to tha stock af tafoi
ttoa that iaat Wacth vary muck
ara these Heretofore unrewaled
sad aetaaadtag farts ia wapset £«. L "Cashall" Dpaa ia t
to collegiate te* { t one arttoWf . If bewildered The fonaar editor
Tha College Station balk, for ei- ef Tbe Battalion, now turned orp-
ampk, wh« chipped off $16 her amaks instructor, has "a rata
flrat weak away from home-one thing" ia one of hie summer claaepa
call a km# tolling $$ Disease— -a girl who is "both bataMhl
btoUibkhaaui .. , limn there's the and Intelligent, the find I kata
Afgk who invested $14J6 ia * ever ween." Cueball potato out
College-to-Hellywood conversation And at A A M too
with rad beaked W C. Fields at 1
! a. m. one morning . , Tba favor
ite eiprweaiona of the young
"ladlee” answering the dormitory
phone* at Bophk Newcomb College
ara almost worth writing horn*
about. "It’s your nkM—Shoet!"
and “You called, start talking." era
two of tha gwnu But the one
that lays 'em in the aisle ia that
whkb a rendered in a tobacco
auctioneer chant, “Second floor,
waat wing, Josephine Louis* House,
H Sophie Newcomb Meiaortal Col
lage for Young White Women, in
chiding dining room, drawing room,
laundry room, parlor, cafeteria, in
firmary. son porch, and beds Thank
you. To whom do you Wkh to
speak ?"
•
The 1B40 Battle of the Seise-
where College Station is coneem-
ed-ia currently raging Sbiaa's
ceiling fans which are always fan
ning at the Juke Boi Proms. The
boya are all for them, but girls
•ay that this new form of Ian
dancing plays havoc with their
skirt*.
SLACK’S
Pharmacy
W. IMt.tr
Ul CM lit
A new twut to law rnforceatent
w** flipped at John Public the
other day in a nearby Tvia* town
when a fire truck roared into a
dead end street fdllowed by the
usual crop of fmr chasers A
•econd truck soon proceeded to
jierk acroa* the open end of the
OnWTAW
(/farce fPewtir'
By Betty Sheitoe
112* kr —2*7 7
lete's
Thursday, JuVy 4, 1B40
11 25 a. m.—Sign-On; Weather,
New*.
11 30 a m — "I’leasantdale
Folks” (Social Security Admmis-
How a synthetic divorce starts tainment world of Mike, who trntion) Ixical.
• train of marital complications ia wanted to make movies, and M illy, 11:45 a. m.—Teiaa Farm and
unfolded in "Mexican Spitfire." who wanted only* to be lovad by Home Progism (Ty W(JAI) Open
which will be at the Assembly Mika. The Mack Sennet bathing Forum
Hall Saturday with Lupe Velet, beauties, the Keystone Cops, cu*
Leon Errol, and Ihmald Wood* It tard pie comedy, ami Al Jolson
is a sequel to "The Girl from Me* singing “The Jaxx Singer" ate all
im," and is even funnier a* they here again,
try to make "a social whirlwind
of a Me i lean
12 i>0 noon -SlgnofL
Friday, July J. MM*
•.-►Sign-On; A’eatoer,
10
11
12
As the World Turns...
By DB. AL R NELSON
Lark of patrietiam and personal honor among
members of congrea* ia reported to be so common
that even eaaential military secret* cannot be kept.
Congreaaional committee* demand information from
army and navy officers, the information is given
in “secret" committee session, and within a few
hours ia available to anyone, Wen
enemies of the nation MORAL—the
people hark home shoe id he carefel
ia the rboeeing af their repreeewte-
tives.
Tbe IsoiatiMtists in congress are
fighting every bk of aid to England,
but after three peer* of fighting in
China the Japanese are still getting
almost all af their supplies from the
United State*, and their is NO PRO
N«iaM TEST from the laolalkmiate. Alan,
almost to a man, these taolqtioniste have aided
ia the concentration of dictatorial powers in the
hands of a small group Why?
Gaa. SmeAky D. Butler, retired, of the U. S.
Marine Corps, died last week Bark in 1M0. while
still on active service, Gun. Butler called Muauo
lini a “hit and ran driver" after ha waa con
corned in an auto accident Thr incident caused
international eomplkatieas aad nearly remitted in
a etart Martial for tha general He retired the
following year at tha early ag« of 4* Stare that
event tha Praaitant of tha United State* has called
Ibe Italian lander far wore* name* than Butler did.
0 Robert Meatgemery meek actor, ia new hack
ta the Ulitad Stetea after gaining much publicity
aa a result of FIFTEEN DATS of aurviet aa aa
ambulance driver ta Franc*. At leaat a fair part
af the fifteen days aaeusa Is hafe beta spent ia ka-
riIdeal " She visits
her husband's office while intoii
rated, ruins their chances ef re
reiving an important contract, has
a hair pulling battle with her
husband's ex fiancee, and throws
$40 worth of pastry at a wedding
reception.
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable,
who hive co-starred with success
many times, team again in "Strange
Carga." which will be at the As
sembly Hall Monday and Tuesday
The story ia of nine men and a
girl who make a getaway from a
South American penal colony and
strike through hitherto im passable
jungle Only four of the original
ten survive, but each one who
perishes meets a repentant death
through the influence of a myster
ious stranger with a Bible Clarke
Gable m a convict who balkvea im
plicitly ia bis own physical
strength, and Joan Cratoford ia a
cynical cafe entertainer^
Leo Carillo in “Tbe Girl and
tbe Gambler" will be at The Cam
pus Tuesday Carrillo plays the
part of a border bandit who
fancies himself as a Caaanovp.
When a disgruntled aide tells him
of a beautiful but cold dancing girl
in a resort town, he makes a
wager that he can win her affec
tion* He set* out to make good,
but the dancer ha* other ideas
H//4r.S SHOWISG
AT THE ASSEMBLY H ALL
Saturday "Mexican Spit
fire" with I^ipe Veles, Leon
Earl, kid Donald Woods.
Monday and Tuesday
'Strange Cargo" with Clark
Gable and Joan Crawford
Thursday — "Hollywood
Cavakafo" with Alice Faye
and Don Amec be
AT THE CAMPUS
Friday and Saturday—
‘Geaga Din" with Cary Grant
and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Preview Saturday night,
Sunday, and Monday —
'(.rapes ef Wrath" with Hen
ry Fonda, Jane Darwell,
Charley Grapewin, and Deris
Bowden
Tuesday -Leo Carillo in
“The Girl end the Gambler “
Wednesday and Thursday
Banjo On My Knee.’
11:26 a
New*.
11:30 a m —Federal Music Pro-
yam (Woikji Project Administra
tion).
11 4fi a. m.—Texas Farm and
Home Program (To WOAI) L A
Machemehl, Supervisor, Farm Se
curity Administration; A. D Jack
son, Kxpenmerrt Station; Tolbert
Patterson. Deputy State Superin
tendent
12:00 noon—vSignoff
4 30 6 30 p m.-THE AGGIE
( LAMBAKE
Satarday. July 4. \u*
11:25 a m—Sign-On; Weather,
News
11 30 a m.—“Drama of Food"
(Farm Credit Admimstrdtioti).
1145 a. aa,-Texas Farm and
Home Program (To WOAI); Mrs
T. L. Thomas, Farm and Home
Book Reviewer; T. W Potto, Ei-
tonaion Service. Agricultural Edu
cation Department Representative
12:00 nown—Signoff
Swaday. July 7, 1946
3 30 a. m.—Sign-On; Musical
Momenta.
8:45 a. m —Roans Chapel Sing-
era.
D 00 a. m -Masterworkers.
9:36 a. m —Signoff.
CAMPOS
Today • Sat.
“Gunjra Din”
with
Cary Grant
Doujrla* Fairbanks. Jr.
Victor McLaglen
I-«lr Newa - Cartoon
Pre. Sal. . Sun. • Mon.
“Grapes of
Wrath”
with
Henry Fonda
Jane Darwell
I-ateat Newa • ('artoon
Tueaday • I tar gum Day
Leo Carillo
in
“The Girl and
The Gambler”
Cartoon • Act
^ i
Wed. • Thura.
"Ran jo On
My Knee”
with
J<>el Mcfrea
Alao—>
Special March of Time
"Soldiers With WlafiT
(?
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EAT at
CHEF JOHN’S
Where The
Food ia Excellent and
Service ia Pronpt.
Air Cooled
CHEF JOHN’S
STEAK HOUSE
On Highway No. 6
Centennial Museum of the Uni
versity of Teiaa has a collection
The romance of Hollywood, from o1 d»nooaur material from tha Big
bathing beauties to world pro
mteres, k shown in Technicolor in
Darryl F Zanurk s protaction of
"Hollywood Cavakata." which will
he at the Assembly Hall Thursday
Aik* Fay*. Don A merit*, and
grant poraonallties of yesterday
tell the story of the men and
women who conquered the enter
Bend country.
Rutg*r« University will cel*
brat# the 171th anniversary of ite
founding in October,
The honors Uat at the University
of Michigan ranched 834 at a ro-
V
, WATCH REPAIRS
Don't gamble with your
witch. Take It to Var
ner’s where you are as
sured of expert work
maruhip and all work ia
VARNER'S JEWELRY STORE
Nerth Gate. Cottege -
Main Street,
T
- WE HAVE NO
WHITE KLEPHANTS
.. . . but w# de have JUMBO
V ALUE8 far thrifty buyers
kit HPORT8 APPAREL for a
-BANG UP- 4th ef July.
Mother. Dad, Children and
your College men may outfit
eompkte it PENNEY*. All
College Station invited to per
uke of tbe "Uke.”
J. C. PENNEY (XL
\1
‘Aggie
Kryan,
Center"
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