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Ift a boalUiy craod. and a tiaapU mm. 1V Mm
boinf A candidate nooda more tbaa >*t party
affUiation to vtn aataa, tocaaM tto ratine paMk
Is c»ttin* to to • carton lot RapocMlIy tbooc »ot*n
wbo bora raconUy (radaatod from ono af Um aa-
Uoa'i mIIobm Of aalaoroltiM Da-v >. o.| f! f l ninf to
aok oaaBtioM. A candtdato * (tualtfn attoa* arc anta
important than ttoy aaod to to A randidaU a past
porfarmanro if nay—la lutaaibg bn take prooo
doaeo ovar bio party affttiatma. *
And. M nMatMMMd a bar*, this to • healthy eiato
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National Defense
NOVEMBKI 11, lilR—Um end of Um Pint World
War;
Nine millMO men had born killed m battle or
bad dmd of tbotr voundo — more men than there
are people hi Um State of Teiaa
Twenty two million had been wwtadofl *- a
naaiber equal to one bIbUi of the United State*’
population today
An unknown number of civilian* died a* a re
mit of the war — at least enoufh to populate a
treat city,
-fwo hundred million dollars a day was spent
to promote the war| * total investment of three
hundred and fifty trillion dollars — enouph money
to build twanty-Uiiee thousand thret hundred and
thirty-throe TeiM A. 4 M Collefe* . . . Enough
to build an entire nation, replete with cities, edo
rational institution*, hospital*, parks snd other units
of our so called cilvtliaed world
And fifty seven Texas Aggie* died in the wot.
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July II, I MB- the Second World War well under
way
The very rloaeneaa of the cut nnl crisis cause*
farts and statistirs in tespyct to it to he vagge and
not altogether reliable, but some of them are cre
dible
Two and a htlf million men have alteady been
killed in the second edition of the Great W ar
Eight million have been wounded — many of
whom will die as a result of their wounds
Ctvilians, in far greater numbet than during
the first conflict, are being killed and | wounded
eeory minute despite European issued statement*
to the contrary,
Incredible snd astounding a* It may seem, the
post of the present struggle ta even exceeding that
of the UU-li conflict
And the Second World War it jutt getting
started
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The win Id gave nine million men to the first
Gruat Wsr , Teas* A 4 M College gave fifty-
■even So no matter how you l«Ntk at it. these war*
certainly take care of any over population problem*
which may arias.
But moralising, aatirirally or otherwtae, in re
spect to the why's of men going to war |* Hot The
Battalion’s purpose in this edkorwl Even the
world’s great metropolitan dailies haven’t been sue
ewaaful in that attempt Most people, too. are fa
■iliat with the facta in review stated ahuve.
Twice already this summer The Battalion ha*
made editorial advocations in respect U* the cur
rent conflict ond from the viewpoint of Texas Ag
gw* Twice this summei The Battalion's editorial
columns hove voiced the hope that our nation's par
tirtpation in World War Number Two would be
purely economic Twice this rammer The Battalion
has pointed out that should armed < <>mhut become
inevitable fo* the United States. Texas A. 4 M would
repeat its performance of 1911 when the college
furnished the Allied armies with more officers than
any other American college or university
•
And now. in behalf of six thousand Texas
Aggies and twenty-two thounnnd former students.
Tto Battalion asks one thing else something which
la already being done and something which The
Battalion believe* should be pushed to the limit of
raaaon—adequate national defence
Wetotqr's Collegiate Ihrtnmary defines “ade
quate" as “Equal to or sufficient for some specific
requirement’ And in this case the spocgic require
merit is national defense
Adequate national defen* mear* two thing*
First of all, tt'e an maaraace -a protection
If tto aation Is invaded, as certainly K may he.
M should to prepared ta repel the lavaetoi 1111*
much is ebvlou*
Secondly a nation protwted is lose of a temp
tation te a prospective mvndor A nation anprotort-
tnvttatioe to possible Invaders
Even la timM af world
pane* adequate national defense is important—and
la 1446 it has became aitouatk that • nation which
toe Mt prepared la peeeo Um somsi la ox lot as
• aatkm
There's evidence by the basket full that this
creed ta fast catching ho hi threagbogt the
un If you want to sm It, take a leak around
you wherever you are.
Here on the campus ef tto Texas A A If
A mAfunaaBim smwmaLed k-- —*■ — M —k-a
■ •■rpRH wt/U Ml QVTtlWM' m PVUvwvi OWrU^VIl
Hundreds of Aggie hand's six thousand art voters
Amasingly few ef them, considering that Toms has
long boon a Democratic stringHolri. discuaa tto can
dido toe for State sad national offteoe on the basis
of party affiliation Tto conversationo are usually
arguments in respect to what a particular esndt
date has or hat not done in the past Uko a thor
oughbred race horse, a candidate l pact performance
is at leMt partly indicative of what My be eg-
peeled of him hi the future.
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So-Ament a changes , . . And for the better
It didn’t come overnight, the transition isn't
complete yet Nor cun A ho mud that pasty nffilia-
ttoi MilPdHr become a thing of the past It’e an
important part of our American trey of things The
Battalion's point is merely this; Party affUiation
has been stressed too much in the past But
America is getting wise—the nation's voting public
is striking a balance between party affUiation and
candidates qualifications.
AT THE CAMPUS
Friday and Saturday—“DniM
By Rotorl L Dow
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Today tto Dams crate are achs- ideas. Is reaffirm their liberal prin-
duied ta five Roosevelt the third ciplea, he call fee an extension and
nad hi M many ceuveuttom. (At Mt a retrnettoi of litoral legi*
towt A seemed so Tueaday when lation, then we My know that J '
Mr Fuanuaaa wanted this column.) tto party la still la touch with AT 1®B A MEM BIT MALL
Siuce A’s a prftty safe tot. tow tto people Bsturady- “toue“ with Richard
tree, well just assume teat Room Above is a parenthetical remark Dtx and Gail Patrick,
volt ie tto Democratic candtdnte. te the effect that ideas meet com Monday and T«eoday-“Prim-
Ttore’s a fMid reason for that from tto eandidateo, net the plat roe# Path" with Ginger Rogers and
Jim Farley said tto ether day that forme TWe ta Mid because plat- Joel McCraa.
this election is M Mach far tto forme aren't worth the paper ttoy Wedneeday and Thursday—-"Caa-
Demoerata, aad Mr Farley Km are writ hen on tie on tto Hadden" with John Gar-
boon uncanny m his predictions in Remember the Democratic plat field. Ann Sheridan, and Pat O’-
hie prediction* it days gout bf. form of IMt? Well, it doesn’t Briea
Tto recognition by Mr Parley of stand alone, for Wendell Willkie
tto fact that the Democrats can't served notice on tto GOP that
merely say "Leak at tto last eight to wouldn't follow the convention
years" and • sport tto rates ta platform. His words were to the
roM rolling ta is important effect that there he stands ready
Tm often political partim. af- and eager to fight for the dear
tar being in power for a Um. be- old GOP—tot that to stood before
com satisfied with themselves and them without • single pledge or
Iom their vision. Often tto groat- promise or political debt That
cot eaoet tto oppMttion has had meant more than tto absence of
has toon tto fact that a party has “dMls"; it meant that Willkie will
been In power for such a kmc P*r say what the people want to hear
iod that A has become out-of- when they want to hear It, not
toueh with tto people what a convention tails him to
Has the Democratic Party done say
that? Nobody know* yet Bine# Rooogralt can and probably will
platforms are composed largely of defeat Willkie. He has a record
trite nothings, we will be in no which Met people like. He has
poaAiqp to answer the question a wonderful personality, e sense
until after the campaign has be- of the dramatic And he "sounds
gun in tamest If tto Democrats good ”
are unable to offtr o constructive ' With Willkie against an ordi-
program through their candidate, aary everyday Democrat. Novem-
not their platform then we may ber would just be a month with an
safely assume that the donkey is eld-fsshioned, unfelt Thanksgiving
adrift in wasteland and without for the Damos; with Willkie against
knowledge of the location of gress however, the U. S may
If, on the other hand, Roose- be celebraUng Thanksgiving a
veil et al are able to produce some week early this fall.
and Claudette Coltort
Prevue Saturday nAe. Sunday
Monday—"Tto Rates Cum"
with Tjrroua Power and Myrna
Mfr •
Lteer" with
um River" with Den
Jeleen. and Andrea Leeds
Al
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GIVING BIRTH TO s city is no painless task The
problems'Which a newly organised city government
is faced with appear to be almost insurmountable
They’re a rentable nightmare of financial, utility,
public improvement, taxation, aanitttion, ami a
mase of other panles
And, to make the job even toughei, the eVer-
ready and double-sharp knife of public cntkiam is
constantly cutting a swath of undoing which only
serve* to make the already difficult task* even more
exacting
But since that day in Octoljrr, 193H, when the
ritisen* of College Station almost unanimously voted
to incotpormte and later, in November, when they
elected their first city offu-mls the birth snd early
childhood of the City has been capably managed
and competently guided by these men in whose
hands the responsibility of aiimRiisteiing city gov
eminent has fallen
I tilitie* are being tmtalled in the various sur
rounding addition* as ispidly ss possible . The
key rate of fire insurance ha* been i educed from
one dollar to thirty-two cent* , . Improvements
in sanitation facilities spr bring made as speedily
a* possible The tax rate „f thr City i* Mill lower
than that of other loealitte* of mneaponding Msr
despite the tremendous financial burden of a newly
incorporated municipality Add so The Ruttalton
«*y», “the birth end childhood of the City ha* been
capably managed and competently guided by those
men in whose hand* the responsibility of aibniniater
mg city government ha* fallen *
The Mayor of the (’Ay of College tBatinn and the
members of U* City Council sre deserving of a great
deal of prai»e fur the fine work which they hove
don* . . , For the patience *rvi tvt which they
have used in handling the innunifaUe ptohlemt that
have come in-fore them hi the past year and a half..
For devoting a considerable part of their time- -ami
unrate'Wd. at that- to the performance of their
iespective civic duties.
The foundation of a successful city government
at College Station has now been laid What's to
come is a matter of aperulatioii. but one thing in
partirulmr everyone realises that the life struggles
of the new city aren't yet at an end; that there
are many problems to be faced In the future
But so long as Collage Station is Messed with
officials such as it now has. a successful future for
the city ia assured
offmrie /farceur'
By Betty Shelton
Saturady at the Assembly Hall a hamburger stand, she undoes her
is "Rea#" w*ith Richard Dix. Gail pigtails, changes her tomboy cloth
I'atnek ond Anita Louise As the es, and pursues him desperately
title indicates, the setting of the Not until after he monies her
story is in the famous Nevada city, does he learn the ugly truth about
and it is a combination of two her parents and her home from
inlerestiiag stones In parallel and which she had tried to escape,
intertwined fashion, it tells of the Wednesday and Thursday at the
progress of Reno from a stormy Assembly Hall is "Castle on the
mining community to a “ghost Hud*on a turbulent love story of
town" and from that to the huat a young couple who risk death to
ling city that it is today, and of be togethei John Garfield por-
the career of a young attorney who tray* an egotistical young gang*
wants to pile up a fortune find ter, who is confident that his lurk
and then enjoy himself 4 will hold His one weakness is his
Tnmrowe I'ath". which ia at the lov* for Ann Sheridan, the queen
Assembly Hall Monday ami Tuea- of the underworld He cornea to her
day with Ginger Rogers and Joel when she needs him moat, ami she,
McCrea. U a sympathetic story of in return, murders anothei man to
s light giH fiom the wrong part save his Ilfs. Together, Garfield
of town When she falls in love snd Miss Sheridan make a dynamic
with a young man who operates screen team
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As the World Turns...
Hi DR AL H NRLMON
The Duke ef Windsor former
King of England will not b* shot
fiw desertion, a* would any other
man in his position At the worst
•f the ensis in
France he desert-
post a*
of the British Isles, at the time but
three years later Napoleon was a
defeated prisonrt and England
was stronger than ever?Wj.
The United States has been sup
porting millions of men in the
W.P A and C.C C. organisations
the last few year* and now is
tetten te • pro*peril
•d teJwteMlm an
America Changes
IN THR UNFTRRAMUMED pute tosM# era of tto
early part of tea iwiatldHi watery My from I960
te If Aten Imi rater*, ter tto mM part, ware
pound if Tlftoiy drawn pmiuroi uat in imi twoftty*
year period. If a rater’s father eras a Deawrrat,
then tto rater wm ate* i Democrat As • puaaral
rate, 9 • rater Brad la tto Buath to was • Dsm
•rat, b—aaai tto Bouth to* toea near-on* hundred
paratat Democratic atere tto IMTa
It wm jate tto thi^ te 4a. FaHtteal tted die-
The New Editor
BEGINNING WITH THE next iseu* of The Bat
talion a new editor take* over until June. 1941
Elected by the cadet corps to head tto staff af
Texas A. 4 M’a student newspaper during the
coming 1946 41 long session, he * Bob Niabet, Field
Artillery Band senior from nearby Bryan
A long time member of TV* Battalion staff,
his rateas*Ion ta the editorship trill probably toteg
Tto Battalion to a new high as an A. A M news
paper But sqrally important to tto succeae ef
any newspaper are tto ether members ef ite edi
torial staff, and Nletot’e immediate assistant* are
all mm who tor* long served on Tto Battalion staff
•ad who have become experienced ta thdlr respective
NeMa
Managing editors BUI narksod. Earle A Shields,
and A. J. RehteMa are men who are thoroughly
ra sable af doine their toha Hunrti editor Huh Jnhn
ww wvgrae* v” ^raioMwv waxwos mmAgWa
am has mars than two year* af servta* behind him
•a tto eporta staff aad, m each, la fhBy qualified
te darry «a tto mitetaadteg work af Tto Battaltea's
eutgoteg apart* edtter, E. C. Oates. Tto present
editor af Tto Rettettoa will aerra a* associate
editor la tto fwtare
' la a aew editor toglas Ma work next waak. aad
wMl Mm la hetega a ateff af editor
*d his
contact officer having trouble getting enlistment*
between thr Brit- for ,h * * rn »y- •' v »n
ish and French * rM>u * h ™rn to fill up the rank* to
armic* and ran ^ v *‘ r T ,ow •uthonxed strength
away to Spain to Yhat is the reason ( ongres* is be
ing forced to consider s compul
sory service bill.
The Demerratic ( auveatioa is
mate friends and r>ow meeting m Chicago and is ex
pected to "draft" Franklin D Roo#
evelt for a third term on the
theory that the men of the nation
have so degenerated that he ia the
join hi* wife for
a “vacation’'. Ev
en his most inti
followers are reported to have giv
en him up in disgust and the Eng
hah government has made him gov
of a little group of islands
off the American coast to get him onl ? on * w,tk *«» l * to be
out of the way
Ruglaad. 121 years sga. was at
war with the entire continent of
Europe, which had beer conquered
by Napoleon, and was also at war
with the United States, which had
jumped on England's back in an
attempt te take Canada from tor.
Napoleoa was planning an tevaateu
president in a cnaia. George Wash
ington refused a third term tho
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