r M U l PAGE S THE BATTALION -THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940 The Battalion to tW CLY tto TKXAt 4. * ~ impIm 4om Um «r tto Mm count far met Thooc who holp it tai ork moy to (urr that what they ftoa hi tha .pint W the GoMm Bab —Now York Thaao Brain Twisters ■f W. i MaCdbf h . ^eofoc fuenMi tfc» A«t 4 ■> « i. im ra? caSLM >T1 toM<«‘ 1M. k*mtm****m B.OWi. TMotoo* At War With Ourselves OPEN SEASON for carohaa podootmaa b .tiU ia fall awia*. Th. drtvm' IteaaMa divbtoa. Thiaa State Hick way Patrol, roporta that conctaatM froai tta aaalyaia of (ha traffli analSaat raaard tor fWo con- A yacht, the hart aaparatod tote two a talk part wo. waa aailmc Sooth Baaa oat of roach a»rhad forty Th. way of thtoffa . . . From §4 I waa fowA !>. aavtcator, rhythm.non. of -111 An Mlar tha woothar, aaU ft Novor Saiib Afaia” to tha howac- coat ito flo.ud aahora! Another »f flboadoi of tha “Johaiaon ana. aim MW * JTDRI oo now. d«# impaifn ia tha hy aa A*rb m T. parted II par of tha I US Member 1940 Phtocritd CnloMo Preu A».| aaroaTtaa w. o. Am Wtl l> r a**a ida-r ('•Itto*. leek I twom* 7 roLtHNwra D« T r Oer- wo. w a Meo«a Dr A) B This Is AH—Ain’t No More THIS IS THE LAST taaue of TV BotUfton that will be published during the current eummer Mmsion SoatothiAf of a rumor to that effort has been float ing around, hut from this moment on it t. no longer a rumor but a cold, cbmmy. poaitive fact The next maue of The Battalion will be publish od on the opening day of the next long seaaion- Septemher 16 Lo, the Poor Day Student FAMILIES IN BRYAN, through the (liamber of Commerce protested about th? inconvenience rausod them hy the rollege ruling that dormitory »poee must be filled before day-student registration may bog'” But the ruling was not at college source |t seems thM when the school borrowed U.000,000 from the Reconm ruction Finance Corporation, they agreeti to an arrongemnit of this Mind It ia just another h.4 situation that no one can remedy However, they need have no fear about not being able to stay at home or in project hmises, a record enrollment for next year is expected, and the dormitory space was filled last year It will mean this that dormitory space certahv ly artll not be filled before registration begins pn the Iftth of September, ami those who detire to register as day students will have to wait to the fml nf the line to sign for courses They will have trouble with full sections and the like, but It look* as though they will just have to make the best of it. white walking The pedeetrtea fatality Hat carried lift paw 7 par om* more than far the like par ted in IMS. Aa for eome yours poet, (he record showed more pereoaa kilted while walking on eoun try made than white rmateng city streete; and IT par coat of the victims war* struck down at night The moat haaardoua way to go places dill was shown to ho walking In the rural road travel-lane after dark Whan a person finds ft noraaaary to go on the highway afoot at night, the Divfctea advisee, “Wear light-ooterad clothing, carry a flashlight or uae some other means to make ears that the motorist can see you The report fumther chows that Saturday is the most haaardoua day far pedestrians. Almost twice as many are kilted then as on n*Sor days Though the walker problem usually ia associated with children, only tl of the Kl kitted during the five months were of school ~ge That relatively favorable showing suggests that the safety drills and daaaroom instruction, together with the school safety patrols, are increasingly effectiee in keeping down aceidtnu However. 10 children not yet four years old were kilted while playing on the streets. One-fourth of the pedestrians killed were over 66 years old. Evidently the street, are not for the very old or the very young.- San Antonio Expreaa. Assistant Lame Warden Mike Morellt of Santa Crus, California, assisted two frail women who were in diatross about a Ml gallon drum of oil He just picked it up and pat It in their car. He blushed when they expressed admiration for his strength, but he blushed more a half hour later when an oil com pany reported the loss of a So gallon drum of oil which had disappeared from the highway with in credible swiftness of the group, hy the exercise of a Japanese Navy. Qua even tag. after little iagMaltj, diaieTrred that if the navigator had looked tea toag the stone was cat faeto faur pteaaa- on tha wme when It was rod, ha far- of different steas, and those ptores got to watch whore the ship was combined to various way* on the two going, sad the yacht waa wrecked sides of the Mateo, it would ho on s desert island The yacht had possible to weigh any amount in been well stocked with fend, tea. integral pounds (teak up “integral •a the two parties had plenty to If yea want to knaw) from one oat. They found aa accurate Mates pound to forty pounds, which hod been toaaed ep hy the Assuming that a method for waves, hut they had no standard cutting tha etone was available, weights The two partise definitely WHAT DO TOC DETERMINE Rag”, Juke Box i'i visiting in Austin while the can- era have paiga was at its height WattgR the an- iato a Mater Mata, ho naked Mr onga in • guitar ctriag The surprised the order they eterk came lack with, “My God. to (want them to this ia Texas — dont you know form the mytki- thero'e aa etertica going aei?" ,.. cal Aggw Hit Fa- A now flO.oo* night dob wtl aaae rads for the cum- be built on the Airport toad Ex mer of 1M0 The P«tod * bo finished hy October number aim, two U eomo of He unique foaterw will and three spots iariadc n bar for stags only, • go to the “Smite" dining room tor couples only, did not trust oarh other, and some THE WEIGHT OF BACH PIECE , onf , Rum Morgan’e “Don Your n baa or stags where dancing is way had la he found to divide the OF THE QEINDSTONB TO BET Heart Boat For Met-, and Penn- coneonxod There will he on open food equitably, * A newer ea page «> eylvaaia • WOT “Six Laeeone air terrace for dancing la (he r ' ' - ■ " ■ ■ 1 to fourth, ■priag and •ammor, and the place Boag-lt“ rides the number five prohaWy bo named "Prank- '(Moim, tfewtittr' By Betty Shelton spot, “The Breeae and 1“ Uito“ . . Optimist Summer tntoa- comes la for Math place honor* mural manager Luke Harrison pc- “•terra Boo" to seventh, “Fools •P"** O (he intramural Rush la- to eighth, “Dot4 May entry box to the lobby of the Care- rotes ninth, and “Jahnaon Y H- C A to take aut the late Rag” trails la tenth place. Sack ohtlreo. hut among the entrtoe In Its screen form than It was on "»*h compiled the statiatics thru ™ • r,x,n ' recervatton card with Broadway Joan Crawford's dra the requests made each week at ■ fbcek for sit dollars attached, matic promise roochee its culmi- the eummer proms Incidentally, • nation as the self-centered Susan tha poll’s results are aurpcialngly m. fll t«ff w and flat ftftica: who adopts a new social movement cloee to the latest national hit pa That’s the order of thiaga as as a fad and makes a complete rade sponsored by a major cigar- f )na j a nrmr and IP40’t summer aaa- botch of the lives of her friends site manufacturer *0 becomes history Probably the and of herself by her meddling As Individual choices were equally grealett eummer school in the pix- Brent and Mias Miranda put the the inebriate huaband who finally groove* Mavanee Warner, Adine ty-fbur ywar history of the college. At the Assembly Hall Saturday to "Adventere ia INamoads" co sterring George Brent and Iso Mi rdnda Aa the MBe indicates R to an adventure story, but the dia logue. the fast-paced romance, the eetting of gay Cape Town, and the unconventional behavior of picture definitely in the comedy wine the battle with himself snd The president ef Harvard University has pro posed a seven or eight Year course of education for the professional man He says it is an attempt to get away from the “pre professional’’ idea in col lege. Forewarned Is torearmed IF THE UNITED STATES is in as rwat danver today as France was one year sgo. ss Ambosaadoi Bullitt declared in his Philadelphia address, then ft is logical to conclude that, one year from today, our country may be under the heel of Hitler It is hard for Amenrone, schooled from infancy to the feeling of security behind Atlantic and Pacific waters, to accept the Ambassador's statement at its litoral value Yet it was failure to grasp the portent of Hitler's gigantic military preparations that brought France to tragedy and Great Britain to its present crisis which may end in tragedy Let Americans not forget that It to trwe that the Atlanta is much wider than . the English Channel, at soBe argue, but it is also true that France had the greatest army in the world and England the greatest navy, at the baginning of the Hitler drive. In smashing the French Army. Hitler just es thoroughly smashed accepted theory of military defense. Th# Maginot Line could not he penetrated or flanked on France's greatest military authorities thought Yet. it was as a house built on sand before th# hurricane of Hitter’s mechanised hordes that swirled around and , over ft. Will the theory of the impregnability of the Atlantic stand bettgi than that of the Maginot Lina? Physically, it w undoubtedly a greater bar nor, but we have a very small Army We have a first class Navy, but it must guard two oceans Possibly Ambassador Bullitt is overstating the menace, possibly there is a political moUeo be twd^a the lines of his speech, as some will un doubtedly contend, yet two things are undeniable: First he ought hy reason ef his position to know mort than any other man in America today > what want on ia France; eocondly. even if he m only half right in hie litoral statemonta, this conntry faces the greatest cnsie in its history. Amenta is not yet awake to the short and long range implications military end economic, of what to gwing on in Europe today Dallas News Only Army On the Offense IN THE (YTHEK GREAT WAR one anay which wont everywhere, suffered casualties without fight ing battles, and made its uniform loeod and re spected in many tends was that first mohiliaed hy General Wthtom Booth two goaerotloaa ago. Amor- toaa soldiers eaeowntored ft iu France ia 1917 and lilt, la thta war, as current reports show, ft to marehlng again It has mintatoyhd to wounded Bus- •tea Midlers ui Finnish hodpitais, to French and British troops under every fire ia France, to ref- ugoes from Enrobe to the Spanish frontier, to aal- dtere guarding Britain from attack. It has suffered teaoaa. aaoag the* a woman officer kilted hy the Russian air force ia Vasa and aaathat, also a wo man, kilted hy the Naxi hembere i The Salvnttea Army has no polities, ad Nasi would have as kindly care at ito the wounded Britisher or starvtag refugee But ft When naked “If it were s matter of choice, would you rather have your husiand imprisoned for conarieattou'* objection or hiked in Europe!", the girls in Smith College preferred s dead hero to a live coward Texas produces an average of l.SOO.OUt) tons of sulphur annually, which Is twenty four per cent pi the total world's production Work* of distinguished contemporary poet* are being recorded hy the poet* themselve* for the phonographic library at City College, New York class. The picture starts when an officer in England’* Royal Air Force meets a beautiful lady crook who is attempting to loot the fabl ed diamond hoard of Kimberley "My Favorite toife." which will be at the Assembly Hall Monday and Tuesday with Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Gail Patrick, and Randolph Scott, is a solid 88 min utos of entertainment The original story was comedy throughout, and the screen »• Queasier wrote his father explaining that ton Lehmberg were married in Ma he had enlisted in the Cavalry end ***»' 10 ' * R - v ** needed 112b to buv a horse. The f “ lk ‘’ f th * S P nn * Av * Bue Meth " gullible father sent the money and <1 " ,rch ,n ,h * h<,m J oi two week* later received another bnefen.se Texes A A M. College, the na tion's largest all men's military letter from his eon which Cskod for tlO h week to feed the animal which wa* regularly sent through out the year. The payoff, though, came during the last week nf school when the father wrote end asked the led how the lad intend ed to get the horse home The son came back with an obituary explaining that the horae had stuck his foot in e chuck hole, broken his leg a* • result, and had to be kilted The letter contained a Lieut James Randle Ketchersid, Veterinary ( <»rp» Reserve, ha* re ceived order* to r«|*ort to active duty August ly e* Fort Bli*» I t Ketchersid ha* been an in structoi in the depat tmvnt of Vet eiinatv Medicine and Surgeiy at Texas A A M ('allege until now Dr R P Marstolbr, dean of the postscript which read "By the way. School of Veterinary Medicine, said 1 need |15 to bury the thing that Dr. KuMhersid is leaving his * teaching dutie4 far a career as en Thi, ti B ,. and twice more: officer in thA army Veterinary Believe it-«r-not item of th# training college, it destined to play Corps It has fi>t been decided who the story being told by a major role in the forthcoming will take the pla«w on the teaching j gg “Woody" Walker and L. G. national defense piogron* More staff of the officer Texas A A M g aduates.hold com- Graduate* of the school* of Vet missions e* reserve officers than ennary Medicine, whether ROTO any other school in the country, in- graduates or not, may apply for a eluding West Point and Annapolis, commiseion in the corps Many of according to all available figures the A A M students take veten- In World War No. 1 the school nary medicine and some branch of an<1 ^ mjt , Aggie fan, gsve 2.200 men to the service and ROTT work and take their com WM ^ help the cadets the vast majority of them were of- mieeione as first lieutenants in the ^ Bn a ||. t | le . wa y n d* In short order a car with a Hraxos County “Pinky" Deany. The two Aggies were “highwaying” out of Dallas recently end received a ride front one of the county's deputy sher iffs The deputy, however, wee only going as far as Corsicana fwer*. some ranking as high as Veterinary Corpa in place of the colonels Since the end of the war, second lieutenant* commission in approximately 4.8tK) have been their branch of the service commissioned upon graduation All * of the 4.800 fell within r o r C limits of 21 to 48. and many of Pj. A. INOrlOn, O. V.. o. the 2,200 who were in the last war To Speak on Federal are still under 48. or have kept their commissions active, so that the age limit does not enter into their chances of being called < All student# at the college ere required to take a 2-year Reaerve Officers Training Corpa basic course in military science and toe- NEED A PICK UP? TRY And State Relations E. A Norton, Chief, Physical Surveys Division. Soil Conserve tion Service, Washington, D. C. and visiting professor ia the Depart ment at Agronomy this summer, will spank on Fodernl and State tics, but as juniors and seniors the u^i atK>ni | n an Action program license passed the sheriff at e much more than legal rate of speed The sheriff went to work and caught up with the speeding car, stopped it, and amated the driver by letting him go -on one condition —that he give the two Aggies a 1 through ride to College Station. • Backwaahin around . Bruce Edmonds, to his escort#* of a few nights back, "My grandmother lived to be 80 years old, and fif teen days after she died th* look- IC E CREAM CREAMLAND Nortk Gat« Bryan State College for Women after fin ishing Mason High School, and the bridegroom received his degree from A. 4 M this spring of Mr and Mrs Walter (.ehntbrrg nf Mason, he m *ith a cotton oil hull in San Antonio. The couple left for a trip to the Gulf Coast, and will later reside in Han Antonio. course is elective However, those upper-classaien electing to take the course, if approved by the Mil itary Department af the Collage, will receive contracts with th# War Department which pay them ap proximately MM yearly and earn them their commissions upon com in the Aaimal Industries Lecture Room Thareday at 8 o'clock The masting is being sponsored by the Agricultural forum and the Agron omy Department and ia to the **- penal toterost to tboee person* connected with the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station and the pletion of the course and their final e**,,,*. 8,rvic. who am inter- graduation from College. M ud ft, the Land Use Planning Last June 180 of the graduating p r , lgrtm flies received comm lesions in the ■ Officers Reserve Corpa, hut many of thee* have applied far and al- About l ooo.ooo persons were ready have been granted active token eff th# unemployment list* service ftt the various branches af laot year aceording to an eatimato the United State* armed fere*. by tha federal rooerv# board Reflecting a stortag* of ekilled Th# Tmtas Dairy Products ease- workers ia th* fast-growing air- ctattoa has gathered information croft manufacturing Industry, a that a* rows art kept oa 1*8,000 California aircraft company now Texas farms and 78,800 farms are conducts aa apprenticeship train- without a single chicken Statistics lag program Young men are paid gathered hy Taxes A. A M. 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