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“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...
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ION am — THUMDAY. AUGUST ft. 1940 I
BACKWASH L.— '
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• .. 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
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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
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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’.’’
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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 "
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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.
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"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
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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
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Summer
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Shirta now an HALE ...
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Sport Oxfords
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