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THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940
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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-
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talk part wo. waa aailmc
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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
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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 <W* full justice to
every laugh possible All the cast
sre excellent in their parts, and
( ary Grant has never been more
smusing than he is in this picture.
Irene Dunne » foxy, subtle, and
polished a* Grant's shipwrecked
wife who shows up seven years
after hei disappearance to find that
he ha* married again that morning
Imagine Grant, just married snd
in s honeymoon hotel, seeing his
supposedly dead wife appear, and
you'll have some idea of the hi
larious opportunities offered by the
situation I can say with all truth
fulness that it is one of the fun
niest pictures I've ever seen
At the Assembly Hall Wsdne*
day snd Thursdsy is Sussn snd
(.od.” which is even s greater hit
Susan, Fredric March turns in s
matching performance and makes
a brilliant return to films
WHATS SHOWING
AT TIE ASSEMBLY HALL
Saturday—"Adventure in
Dismonds" with George Brent
and Isa Miranda.
Monday and Tuesday—“My
Favorite Wife" with Cary
Grant, Irene Dunne, Gail Pat
rick, and Randolph Scott.
Wednesday and Thursday -
“Susan and God” with Joan
Crawford and Fredric March
Womble, and Jimmy Joy gave the it’s principal entertainment fee
"Smile” song the nod. Joe Floyd ture has bean the Juke Box Proms
blessed “Sierra Sue” a* the num which debuted the firet semester
her one song Joan Brink and Wil- and which have been tremendously
me Hancock favored "The Near- popular So ”auf weidereehan" ft
ness of You”, even if it didn't make is, hut most of you will sooe be
the firet ten And the summer poll back in the collegiate saddle again
bnngs to mmd the past spring'* as the nation's colleges end uni-
social season when "Tuxedo June- vereities begin their long session*
in mid-September Here's the best
of everything to you all, and may
you Wave s gay two weeks before
you hit the scholastic groove again
J. R. Ketchersid
To Leave; Will Join
Army Vet Corps
tion” rode the number one spot
for thirteen consecutive weeks
•
"Touch" story of the year:
The forthcoming registration
bring* to mind the *tory of the (; rw | U ate in V\om of ’Ml
out-of-*tate freshman who enrolled JUgfrigg T. 8. C. W - (ilH
at A A M last September. Need-
iag . little extra money, the bov ”>»• 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 bn<k ** Mr * n ‘ l Un F J
Schueeater
Mr*. Lehmberg attended Texas
As the World Turns...
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Bv Dr R to STEEN
EUROPE SEEMS TO BE IN FOR A HARD
to'INTER. England is holding fa*t to the blockade
which is admitted tq^lA her best weapon, and in the
very logic of the situaftap cguld not be expected to
modify it in any uk|r Yat. a* a result of that block
ade many people oh the continent are going to be
hungry this winter Some doubtless will starve This
is a most tragic situation, but the
tragedy is one for which Germany
is primarily responsible According
to most experts there is probably
sufficient food in Europe to pre
vent starvation if it were properly
distributed Germany, however, is
taking the lion’s share for her own
use, and M leaving the people in
conquered territories with barely
e cruet She argues that the con
queror should not be expected to
B. w. sum provide food for the conquered.
The move to transfer fifty old American de
•trovers to Britain is gaiaiag momentum Various
agents of the Department of Justice are now en
gaged in trying to discover legal names for the
transfer There would .he no difficulty if Congress
coaid see fit to pass a resolution authorising their
•ale, but that would take a great deal of time due
to the fact that numerous isolationists, who still in-
•let that America's interests are not at stoke, would
have to spend eome days orating shout the matter
Therefore the search is on foy a means to effect
tha transfer without Congressional authorisation A
group of lawyers, with the indirect approach typical
df tha legal profession, has suggested that the
unvy transfer the destroyers to the army, that the
army then transfer them to some company as pay
ment for war oquipmant, that the company then
sail them to a neutral eoun try, and that tha neutral
then traaafer them to Britain It is difficult for one
not schooled in the wllaa of politics to aoe the point
made by eome Senators: that ft ia an set of war to
provide England with destroyer*, but net an act of
war to provide her wHh plans**
Th* United State* seems to be ea the verge ef
shtaiatag leases to aaval bases aa vartoaa BriUeh
psaesautoae eff ear reus to. The haeee are needed in
older I* make rosier the defense of th* Panama
Canal and other vital arena ia North America. This,
and th* proposed Joint defense agreement with Can
ada. should improve eanaiderahly the ability sf
America to withstand attack It is passible, however,
that that attack would net eome during the Uses ef
parsons now living If Aaerieu should aoe fit to give
England ample aid at th* present time.
Texas A. & M. To
Play Important Role
In National I>efen.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. College
about half th* prevailing wage rate shew a'^ptai of 848*000 persons
of trained workers for part-time ia Texas Are on diets lacking to
work between claeoee during a four- the fundamental imeatisle of good
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