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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1940)
PAGE t W^Battallon BOOKS YOU'LL ENJOY THE BATTALION A. * H. < W al tte Nm OMw « <M- IktlM. Tww. wUm tte Am On—p— «f Itenkj». tm. M«Mbrf 1M0 PttMXided Colcfide PNvu •m* a MiMM j M« M tf«r « ' r*# ^ WHAM O M*xv« CmwvmMmi (■OW* IMfiM I- FTiSwAiT . ^ AuM—M pxu. *g ■MHMK., MUM W 0 eep.-ium.- D C J«MA k*aMw4i ■V l Ml MM, Jark D C. TtMnM* COLUMN MTS Or t r Dr Al ■ “Fifth Columnists” AMBMCA LIKED IT m »*tl that it \mk thr UttU word to ito hoaom and hugrad it to daath Ail in a fro wooka, too Whon it tmrat on th* American conaciouanoaa, “Fifth Cotomniat" wm uaod in iU original aon**-: That of Um Franco gcnoral who raf^-rod to the four rohoi column* converging on Madrid and added that they anpoctod groat help from the “fifth col umn’' wtthin the city, conaiating of Franco *ympo thiaora who hy apying, aabotagv. and active fighting would aid the attacker* So wo etartod •praying the new word around with accuracy invoraaly proportioned to enthuaia*m Jehovah a Witnooa. Lindbergh. Social tala without a arrap of international connection, perfectly patriotic ompioyea on atnke againat them. Troukyitoa. even the Preotdent himaelf, have all had the term flung •t them hy the thoughtle** So today the perfectly good, prectao word "Fifth Cwlnmniat" ha* come to mean little more than “a guy I don't Hhe ’*- Ban Angelo Staniiard Thirty Pieces of Copper— Our Price FINNEY PINOHINtJ h«. not a I way* been the paltoy of thia old A AM College, hut with the •eweont dacieion hy the Hoard of Directone t« lay a flat charge of XOe for viaitor'* meol* in the dining hafia it look* on awful lot like giving the old copper* the equeeae For yeara Una college ha* been an object of admiration from outaider* and ei atudente for the hoepitoiity and friendly feeling »hown by thia col lege and Ita atudent* Many have evpreeaed ju*t •och an apinion Fart of the "plan" for makiag vta- itora enjoy their atay on the campu* ha* been to take them into the me** hall and let them be “awe of the boya" That ha* especially applied to a mail brother* who grow up to become Aggie*, themoelve*. aomeday Who could feel like one of the *tudcnt* when he la required to “kick over" 30e for hia meal ? Trying to charge the viaitor juat plain nnn* the paychology of the whole affair The college ha* not suffered financially in the paat nor will it Buffer in the future by allowing thia ewatom to he continued Thia i* evidenced by the dacwiofi at the tame meeting of a proposal to spend UOO.UOU for new dormitories la our good will not worth more than 30c? Who Won’t Go? j; “8UEE. I’LL GO TO WAR In fact 1 wall he the firat man aero** bebiad the firot ( oagressmao to eailet ' Statement* hke the above saying in effect “I wont gu to war" sound typical of a amall-Uaae co-ed school orator, probably in some Youth move moat That any aane person should aay such tilings seriously la so abourd it ta funny We grant that these semi-communiaU are some what justified In their pessimistic observance that those who make wars never fight them and that paittimaas and munition-makers waa fat at the .•■pens# of tho so Idler-boy* A* far a* that gu»* User* aceor waa any oaruae for rstorting to war, Tho (not romains that as long as human fating* roam this good asrtfa thoro will be wars. Another fact remain* that such small fry afajartors will bo moot surprised to find their big faaM boasts about not lighting answered simply and gutontly fay on# word "(onacription' Tiler# will fa* a* argument or debating over the cfaotaa Army or Laama worth As far hack as lMO this country learned from • lean toll fcawh? individual that “a botn* divided against Itself cannot atand'*, and it •tand« unfahang •d today Kowevsr, a* time* change so do methods With the speed of modern warfare there to no long •r any time for km to launch a propaganda cam pair* • call for volunteers ( onacription la the •aly one war With that la mind those rkiidiah oratorical ' Youth morora sound even mors fsolisk What wa Aggtoa aay to thorn la “la tho *ar learn to make pretty speeches If you like W srs la Mara la flgllL , ' By DR T. F MATO TNI FIFTH BEST UF* OF C HRIST Tito foar boot, af murs*. are tho fear Geepata— and I honestly deal believe that this estimate is duo altogether to a Pruabytcnan roaring. (By the way, did you avar road the four Gsepeia In Maffat’a mod . am Engiiah translation? You might like to try thorn. If you can, rood oach Goo pel at a sitting, to got It as a connected story ) But “The NaaaraaaP, by Sholem Aach, would certainly seem to ha vs an oxceHent claim to the next place, at any rate over those lives of Christ which thia reviewer knows George Moor* * “The Book Oortth” la an absorbing novel; Paptni’a “Life of Christ” la a good mystical interpretation, Renau * “Lift of Christ”, though somewhat ovor-aentimantal for modern test#, io a faaaatiful book; Bruce Bar . ton • “The Man Nobody Knows” is, in my humble j opinion, not only the worst life of Christ, but the very worst book of any kind whatsoever in a world full of bad books Those arc tho only liveo of Chriet that your correspondent has load he hasn’t gotten round yet to the recent effort of Emil Ludwig (which is pro bably terrible). Above all thee*, in aanity, breadth and warmth of imagmAtivc sympathy, In keenness of matfht, in rich no## and glow and sparkle of aet ting, in subtle simplicity of stylo, atands "The Nas- arone” Since such a thumb-pai I sort of review as this can touch only the very highest points of an im portant book like "The Noaarene". I had batter aay at once what seems to me the moat interesting thing about it: It exproooo* an Intelligent and sym pathetic Jewish opinion aa to the personality, the carter, and the historical and spiritual significance of the founder of Christianity I have no right, of courae, to call “The Naaarene" the Jewish interpre tation of Christ, the official one, *o to apeak But it la Jewish, and it w, emphatically, intelligent and •ympathetic The Rabbi Nrodemus (the one who came to Jeau* “by night", you remember l is made, bi this novel, the type of the best that is in Judaism, and the spokesman of the author At the thrilling cli max of the atory, Nicodemu* explains to hia di* trarted ex-pupil, Judas lacanot. that the function of Jesus is to gather together and crystallise all the best that is in the Jewish tradition and to make it available to non-Jewish races This interpretation, it seem* to me, very beau tifuliy pay* rsspect to both the austere grandeui of the Jewish faith and the more gentle and ex pensive beauty of the religion founded by Jesu* Otto thing i* certain We should all be the happier in a world of Jaw* ami Christian* who wen- enlightened and a* *ympathetn about aach other » religion a* Sholem Aach in "The Natartne’ Hunter College* new skyacraper building in New York will have a modem broadcasting ami public address system A new society ha* cropped out among disgrunt led Harvard men who are appalled by the prospect of starramg in line ami paying high price* to see "(•on# With the Wind” Its name is, The Study Group For Those Who Flan To Avoid Gone With The Wind At I.*a*t Until l¥4l A novel clause of the group’s constitution provides that any memlwr who abrogate* the agreement ami *ee# GWTW shall be required to crowl under a rug without leaving a bump. As the World Turns... i i i . * .Tv ;1l 1 ION am — THUMDAY. AUGUST ft. 1940 I BACKWASH L.— ' i • .. um -Mam Bill Aggie • at few y ft 'Don’t worry After a white your hood will thopt itraH to H to date Ami* 1 last Saturday aight'a Juke Baa year Mm bow bead yell Be Prom, “What he does know 1*111 bay Bov’s blanket After . . worth knowing ” ., the famous lady for a A ftrl-diucourmgod Um blanket faoccmaa the aravraM. Aggie Women are property of Mm foil laadar Head Ilk* chocolate aa* yatl leader Buster Kao ton has aid* da*' they're nice, ered the blanket for Um ItAO aaa- but you can take son and H will soon fa* doemmUng 'km or Ipave 'em!” Um canine mascot in Um gbia# of j . . Fitto in ro* her new fall dotfaea viow: A. A M ’■ gut there's quite a story ta Rev Former Students horoolf , . . She a Um only female — Association now a tud«nt at Aggioland , . . Has no haa more than 164,- f buses to make, no maintenance to 000 loaned to cadets—a figure pay, and a lifetime felloorthip . . . which represents many college *4- ghe’a Um object of every Aggie * orations which wooMat otherwise affection and Um commander of ha possible . . , Life's minor traf^ the corps' protection—-not that she edma—No I: One of the Bryan so- ha* ever been in a spot where nalites dithered and dated for the eouldnt take car* of horoelf. thro* days last week preparing for , . . almost ten years old, • luncheon to be held at the Aggie- coming to the campus ta 1M1 aa land Inn which allegedly was to a pup Takoa her nmala in Brain Twisters have been attended fay blaculted . tt her of the two meaa hall* and By W. H. Mr (alley Molly O’Daniel ('-am* luncheon time and also earn# the approx! mately 26 other invited guests— College and Bryan lovellee all; but no Molly , . . And what about the sleeps in any room on the campus that ah* desires . , "Goodbye to Texas’’ fas* as much meaning to b*r as to the Aggies . . Her favorite sport is heckling Je* College and Peruna, Baylor and S. M U. maa- A amall boy waa aent to the pAst stamps altogether, and that the Collage Station belle who ups each office by hia mother to buy some number of one-cent atempa waa to morning via the urging of four cx»u"7T She rate# a full aaat on oU#-c#nt •tamp*, some two-cent ^ number of B term clocks aet fifteen minutes t |,# train on corn* trips , la very thrw-ent '*“?"* “7* V" r?'"" •'- r, “ *V *• V“ k >» "‘"f mootr u. ,th w Jo,.... N. m.k.. 7 ^ V” 11 '“ r * U U, “ U* loor .'..rm., -If. . ,,|) pr^tlc, .nd „ ro.p^M formation, and, after a moment a IWW || »y.t*m and really work*, but k y ^erv Texaa Aituu I* a many of each kind *he wanted, and calculation, gave kirn the correct n take* too damn much time wind gave him the money, but, aa is number of ewch denomination of m g the things” There'# i typical of amall boya, who he got stamp College Station eatery that'# bias* ta the post office, he hnd forgotten IF YOU WERE THE POST- ^ wi th « truly original rompoai A* he stood m front of the wmdew, MASTER, HOW WOULD YOU turn on iu juke box A* a matter atempa. and son •tamp* His mother told him how queen in her own right Once an Aggie . . . ■'Rotary grams. ’ weakly bulletin scratching hia hear, he wa* finally DEDUCE THE CORREST NUM of fBft th . t - Vfn l—„ of ^ Beaumont Rotary Club, rv * * . .... * .. — WI ‘ V, ' r 1 r rtaaev k I «r s^.aaAmiaa^d ♦ k- # II able to tell the postaiastrr that BER OP EACH KIND OF STAMP there wa* to be no change out FROM THE FOREGOING INFOR of the fifty cent* h* had brought, NATION? that there were to be nineteen (Answer on page 3i (JioyijL tfewar' Hy Betty Shelton a screen biography relating the achievements of Thomas A Edison in his mature inventive years snd portraying the intenaely human side of his nature Hia early strug gles to find a frrothold for his genius, hi* romance and married life, and the peaks and valleys of hi* career are all tenderly and iu«>v mgly recounted The role of the inventor's life is excellent, and Spencer Tracy'* character inter pretation will surely receive ser ious consideration from those who vote the Oscars of 1240 nr# going Note; Guetevus Adolphus Col- Ugo men have handed down tfais order to their feminine onttraguee “Don’t appdar to be a heipleos and fragile creature The ‘dinging vow* typo wont Bv “loom” V. K. Sl GARKFF WHEN THE PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ended its session about two week* ago in Havana, Cuba, a no* inter-American i Monroe) doctrine wa* proclaimed to cope with the newly created emer gencies of the present war The twenty-on*- repub lic* of this hemisphere, through their ih-legates, approved "the ac< #f Havana”, which prohibit* a non-American power from transferring its Amen can possession* to another non American power A provisional ad ministration is provided fug, should it become necessary to take over any or all of the European po*» aasions in this hemisphere This conference, also, decided upon an elaborate system for eco nomic cooperation among the Arne ncan republics They agreed to create a consultative inter-A met lean committee on economical ami V E. Baesrsff financial matters at Washington D C. Detailed plan* were worked out to maintain the preaent economic links among the American na tions; to improve the method* of distribution of sur plus product*; to increase the interchange of pro ducta; and to deviae an inter-American "rradit, ami other aids, relating to finance*, momentary ami foreign axchang* matter* " Tbea* two agreement* c<m*titute an Important •top In Inter-Amnrtran relation* They are to go into affart when ”14 #f the II government* shall have konetltuttenaJly approved them ” Getting the approval may not b* an easy problem The Nasi powers will d« everything poeaifal*. legal and aub v*r*lvs, to defeat surfa large eeale and important agreements among the American nation* And, even If the agreements are approved fay the ffiqutred number of Amor toon nations, enforring them la yet to be realised Here are no Inter Ameflean military and naval agraomente as yet The lack ef such agreement* puts a heavy burden on us in an emergency Our national doftna* program takes in to aeount aach an t mar gene y It may fa* that out of the preaent crista there will »marge a new United States ef A marten* “Mud•slinging' has already started In the pre sent presidential campaign Some politic tan* are calling attention to the fact Mint Mr Wtllki# is only on# or two generations removed from German misonahip The implication is that Mr, Wlllkie would sympathise with Germany and that he might even become a “fifth-eotonanist” la the U. ft. Hard ty any pottttaal campaign is free from such under banded tortks. Such lo to be deplored. At thr- Aaiwmbly Hall Saturday i* “Fiorina' with Rotiert Y->ung arid Helen Gilbert, * *Ur of the Hsllet Hu***- Thr fall i>f thr Au* tnan Empire is thr baikgnnind fot ihi* lovr *lory of s boy, s girl, uftd w horse The fste of thr two lover * in wst, revolution, and re ronstiurlion i« traced through the eye* of a magnificent Lippitan ■tallloii which i» the property of Emperor Freni J-iseph The girl, u duchess, and the boy, s groom in the Imperial stable*, are separated by wide social difference* which ate swept sway by the dramatic happening* thunigh which they pass 'Monday snd Tuesday at the A# M-mbly Hall «* “Tjohjam". s South Sea romance and adventure in Technicolor Beside* Dorothy I* mour, weanng s new poatumr mll- ed a lava lava" which i* even •< antier than a sarong, you can see jungle beast* stampede ahead of a for**t fire, a whole island leveled by a typhoon with tidal wav*- after tidal wave in it* wake, and the thrill* of a submarine hunt for black pearls At the Assembly Hall Wednesday and Thursday is "KdiatHi the Maa", Allen Academy’s Fiftv-Sixth Year 9 Opens on Sept. 18 The A Ben Academy at Bryan, bogin* ita fifty-sixth year Sept lb It is the oldest academy for boys b *'' d irMlHlra work. Y M C. la Texas lu cadet* have entered A • ^ athletic*. Many improve moit than 150 of the leading Amor- ^ ln f "»•<*« •« ^a prea- ican univeraitiet. where they have tl,n * ,B l b* equipment of the gone in many instancoa with ad- UM| D t '*G on H haa Ibb acres in vamed college .tending campua. play grounds. athletic The authorities of the school recreaUonal point with pride to the scholarahipa, H h** ** building# mclud- fellowships, and honor* gained by m f l ‘ br * r y- l*faoratorma, hoapitol. gymnasium, swimming pool and meets all requirements for an ideal school for young men. WHATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday "Kiorian'* with With Rolreit Young and Helen Gilbert Monday and Tuesday— Ivphoon" with Dorothy tu mour, Robert Preston. Lynne Overman, and ('arrol Naiah Wednesday and Thursday— “Edison the Man" with Spencet Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, and Charles Coburn written yet. But there the title is, plainly printed where all may see, “('harming Little Ftaker"... In case you’ve wondered: The strange case of the bare feet, which were evidenced 24 hours at a time by Jimmy Riley and Max Melcher laat week, came about as the result of a bet the two mad* m respect to who could go the longest without wearing shoes Max lolt • Join the U.W.tt. and ape America firat: Some of tfae tales befaig told by the R.O.T.C. camp-returning Ag gies have smacked a bit of the Munchauaenic raves of lack Pearl, but those coming from the Chem ical Warfare Set vice ^deta and John Carson, W D “Rkd" McMil lan. and Harold Hausntan in par ticular- poaaeas the added spice of almost always being according to fact It was nothin) unusual, for example, for the meh at the Edge wood Amenal, Maryland camp to weekend in either New York City, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Wash ington, or Baltimqr* and. to the Aggie* at least, the attractions of the eastern “metropoli" wen- many (Juoth one reminiscing cadet, "In Atlantic City tfae restaurants and liars were open all night and on one occasion we went bowling at 6 a. m But those Damnyankee girls can't compare with the Texaa femme* They’re too atiff and 'I don't give a dammah’.’’ • The I^cfarimator: Another distinction af the C W S. camp was its publication of the only camp annual kt the various R O T C. camp# Titled "The Lachnma tor” (which means “eyewash, freely tianalgted no relation to Backwash), the publication'* edi tor in-chief wa* Aggie C. H. Qd- gm; who, incidentally, wa* the only Aggie on the staff An excellent cently contained the folloering well- grooved editorial comment which •ny Aggie know* to be a truism without denial: “We live and learn. If w# don’t learn, we donY live Very long or very well At any rate, we have learned that there ia no auch thing as an ex Aggie, One may be an ex-student of Texas A. A M College; per haps on* might even though It's doubtful -be an Aggie Ex. But an ex Aggie? Never! When the ohi rocking chair bps got them, and their back* are bent with the weight of yeara, when the joints creek and pop so loudly that It aounds like infantry ftr* when they move -nay, when they’re laid In their grave* and covered with the good rich earth of Texaa, they'll still be Aggite And more power to 'em That's the spifit that ha* made the school what it Is today And that spirit of loyaltiy carries them a* real ettisens of whom we may be proud " V J Two hamburger shops on the University of Minnesota campus servad up 642,000 hamburgers last year. matches for the Eighth Corps area. The school has much government equipment and a uniform issue is made to its cadets by the war de partment. During the 56 years of its hi*- ..... tor,. Ik. KkMl h.. (OM* nation,! puW '*'“'‘ " “f 1 "*' rwnffnition In rmj ph.* of ,U "T* 7" other features usually associated work, scholarship, military training. with a good annual—although, naturally, the book isn’t as large as most annual publications. • "Rev geta a new blanket: When next the famous Aggie mascot. Reveille, trots out on the gridiron aba'll be wearing her new A 4 M blanket One of the newer its graduates in West Point, An napolis, Harvard. Pennsylvania. Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and many other similar tnatitution# It is the only Texaa school with the privilege of appointment of Ita The Daily Cardinal, University of Wtseansin publieation, recently jadete to the United Stetes mflltory not * * Snd naval academies at Weal Point * 1 1 end Anna polls, and has bean re- Furnace* at Bouth Dakota re quester to fill vocanrlea at both In- quire «,I00 tons ef eoal during the ■Muttons from ita 1H0-4I radet heating sat Ben corps ■' ■■■■" —■ » ■ 1 The course* offered by the taetl- tot km range from the sixth grade of the public school through four years ef academy coureae and one year of college work. The faculty of the school meets the ton lor eel- lege er university faculty require ments and Um student teacher ratto is kept at 16 to 1 to insure personal contact between teacher and cadet The academy ia an honor military school The rifte team* af the school woe national championships In 1966 and have repeatedly woe some ef the three poaathle places in the an nual William Randolph Hearet rifle Here’s Good Food! If You fUquire You Nrud Thru Now— To peetponi the ereartag af glaaeos beaauee of groundless prejudice ia to taka risks with your eyes. Isn't the matter worth your taveatigutien ? Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Next lie hUL Pfc. Hr 35 to Ptlacu Theatre Whokautne and Uaty food in bif hulpinfi at prices that are always the lowent for auch a combination of quality and quantity, CHEF JOHN’S 0* Hifkwsr No. t Clearance SALE : Summer SPORTSWEAR Our entire stock of Men'a Hummer Sport* wear . Slack SuiU and Shirta now an HALE ... REDUCED PRICEM ON ALL ... 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