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i Page 2- THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the city of College Station, is published three times weekly from September to June, issued Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; also it is published weekly from June through August. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San at Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief Keith Hubbard , Advertising Manage George Fuermann 1 Associate Edito ts Edit Manag Hub Johnson .; Sports Editor Tommy Henderson Circulation Phil Golman Staff Photographer Staff Artist Pete Tumlinson J. B. Pierce .. T. R. Vannoy Editorial Assistant Editorial Assistant SATURDAY’S STAFF Earl© A. Shields, Jr Managing Editor T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager Junior Editors W. O. Brimberry R. B. Pearce W. C. Carter Sports Staff Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor lack Hollimon : Junior Sports Editor W. F. Oxford Sports Assistant Reportorial Staff Bill Amis, Charles Babcock, Don Corley, W. F. Keith, Z. A. McReynolds, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison Where Everybody Can See That part of the Aggie section of the Kyle Field Football Stadium between the North 26-yard line and the 50-yard line and down to the aisle including the 24th row from the top, is the section that will be devoted to seniors and their guests only. (See cut below). Juniors will be seated in the top rows between the north goal and the 25-yard line. The designating of these sections was done last year by a committee appointed for the purpose. It is a just division and should be observed by all un derclassmen. In separating the classes, the purpose was to give cadets a chance to see well at least one year while they are in school. If the sections were not marked and students might sit as they found room, the more selfish, and non-thinking would crowd into the choice seats whereas the timid or conscientious would see all the games from a poor seat. By designating the seats, the chance to see is awarded to all in a more even proportion. We think that the idea of a senior section is the logical solution to the problem. The Senior Class thinks the idea is a good one, and they .agreed at the class meeting Wednesday night that such reg ulations would be enforced. The various sections have been marked off in paint, and it would be wise for underclassmen to ob serve these arrangements. Crack Your Own We heard the story of the tender-hearted house wife who couldn’t bear to see the hard work her pet squirrel had to do to crack his nuts and thoughtfully cracked them for him. For a while the squirrel en joyed the luxury that came with having his food pre pared, but eventually the squirrel’s teeth became so long that he couldn’t eat at all and he died of star vation. The work of cracking the nuts kept the squir rel’s teeth sharp and the right length; the work of constructive and regular thinking keeps our minds sharp, fit to tackle and solve our problems. Most of us hesitate to indulge in anything that will tax our thinking capacities to any great extent. After prolonged mental idleness, we become partially or totally paralyzed in that sense. We become in tellectual inert, starving mentally because our learn ing to has become unsuitable for use. Soft living— physical or mental—is pleasant for awhile, but fatal eventually. —The Wichitan FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say BY REV. R. B. SWEET Pastor Church of Christ The "Aggie Spirit’’ is famous far and near. The principle that a fellow shall be loyal to his school and to his fellow-students is a fine thing. But what is the typical Aggie, that one should be so proud to be a Texas Aggie? Out of a number of things which might be named I imagine that most would agree that the typical Aggie is a real fellow. He is one you can de pend upon, as least his fellow-students can depend upon him. In a word, he is genuine. There is no sham about him; he is not just front. To be sure a lot of A. & M. students may fail to measure up to this, but we like to believe that the typical Aggie has that characteristic. What is foundational to a fellow’s being gen uine? He must be right in his motives; in having a genuine desire to be helpful to those who may need his help. Any real man should be of that dis position whatever his school; even if he never has gone to college. Now a step further. How can one really be right through and through? To be sound as a new dollar; to be absolutely genuine, a man must recog nize that he has a responsibility to make the world better by his having passed through it. And he can fulfill that splendid aim, only as he recognizes the Sovereignty of his Creator. To keep the right atti tude toward God, and to fulfill one’s obligation to ward God in the absolute prerequisite to keeping right with one’s fellows. And to keep right with God, one must reverence Him. One of the first com mands ever given was, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in Vain.” That was given not so much because God is jealous but because it is a fundamental need of humanity; that we hold Divinity sacred, or nothing will be sacred to us. When we lose all sense of sacredness and holiness, then none of our fellows are safe from our designs upon them. Use God’s name only with reverence and only when necessary to do so in a dignified manner. To be profane destroys one of the foundation stones of genuine manhood. Certainly if you cannot con trol your thinking so that you will hold God as due all reverence and homage what on earth will be holy or worthy of respect? A little sign once seen in an office suggests one reason why men “cuss” and shows how silly it is; not to say sinful. The sign read: “Don’t Swear In Here If you Can Show your Importance without It." As the World Turns... BY. DR. AL B. NELSON Delay over sale of “Flying Fortresses” to Eng land still continues. There are only fifty of them in service here and there is DELAY IN GETTING MORE OF THEM. In the meantime, if England is fighting our battle, why the great delay in sending help, if she is not fighting our battle why were the destroyers sold? The failure of the English to press home their attack on the French African port of Dakar has not only resulted in great loss of prestige but also in actual military loss as reports show that the German officals and technicians are in actual control of the port and flying fields. Up to the present time the United States has failed to do more than Nelson protest against Japanese aggression in the Pacific area. We continue to furnish Japan with the greater part of the supplies which are ab solutely necessary to her in the campaigns she is conducting. Now Japan has made an attack on French Indo-China which endangers our interests seriously. We are being surrounded with enemies who grow stronger day by day and no move is made to prevent their growing in strength. The United States is engaged in feverish search for military and naval bases in both the Atlantic and Pacific areas, but the island of Guam, which would be a splendid Pacific base remains unimpro ved and unfortified because Congress has refused money and permission for fear of offending Japan. Japan has just signed a new pact with Italy and Germany providing for a defensive alliance be tween the three nations. There are two significant factors, one being that the terms are aimed at the United States, and the second being that Russia is not included in the agreement. Laurence W. Robert Jr. has just been forced to resign as Secretary of the Democratic National Com mittee. Mr. Robert is head of the engineering firm of Robert and Company of Atlanta. At the begin ning of the New Deal Mr. Robert was made Ass’t Secretary of the Treasury in charge of public works and was later given the thjob on the National Com mittee. While in these key positions his firm ob tained millions of dollars in government contracts. Publicity has just caused the resignation of Mr. Robert, but his firm at the present time has the greatest volume of government contracts in its his tory. First school of engineering in the United States was Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded at Troy, N. Y., by Stephen van Rensselaer in 1824. Dr. H. C. Byrd of the University of Maryland has announced plans for construction of a football Stadium to seat 25,000. Harvard’s $143,000,000 endowment makes it America’s righest educational institution. The Term “Americanism” is said to have been first used by John Witherspoon, president of Priceton University, in 1781. Yale College was originally located at Saybrook, Conn. Senior Section in Kyle Field Stadium L IV Brain Twisters By R. R. Lyle Enrollment Up to 6,488 win not be completed until October WJ 1 T -P-4- -4- "D * -4- 10th. The total assigned to the col- W eek -Leit to Kcgister lege dormitories was fiii ed three Registration for the 65th regular weeks before school started with a sess | on gtjji going on with the total of 4,600. The overflow of Three system players—each one my million. And what is more, I’ve present total now at 6,488 which students is partially being taken playing at the race track one day and com pared notes. a different system—met been playing my system as long outstrips all official and unofficial care of by the college project hous- as you two together have been p red i c ti onSt Thg final day for go- es which now have a total of about playing yours.” On hearing this sorrowful state- ing through the com P lete Procedure 1,000. Complete figures have not Said the first: “If I play my sys- rnent) fi rs t system player de- of registration will be on October yet been compiled as to the number tern for another year and gain at dded ’ to take hig profits and quit 3rd when on that date Registrar °f students living in Bryan. Those The second and third men contin- e. J. Howell predicts 6,500 students students livin g in Bryan live there ued to play the ponies for another 0wing to the fact that students ordy with the direct approval of six years during which time their , , , tlle Commandant. . , u . , have one more week m which to systems held up as previously. The third man pulled out of the ch 3 - 11 !? 6 * add » an d drop courses, com- Some cotton yarn is so fine that the same rate the system has re turned me during the time I’ve played it, I’d be a million dollars to the good.” Said the second: “At the rate my system has made returns, it would track with take another nineteen years to get and my million.” Said the third: “My system is a fortune of $600,000 plete classification of enrollment as 50 miles of it are needed to make the second man’s pile was $675,000. With this data, can you tell how to the various schools and classes one pound. conservative. I’d have to play it as much the first man had when he long as I have already been play- quit? Also how long had each man ing it and it would have to return played? me at the same rate, before I had (Answer on page 4) By Tom Gillis Another rollicking and hilarious accomplice in a jewel stealing ring, mystery story similar to “The Cat she lures the victims to be fleeced and the Canary” is coming to the by Erich Von Stronemi and Peter Assembly Hall Saturday night. And Lorre. She falls in love with one the same two characters have the of her victims, pretty boy Richard leading roles; Bob Hope is the Green, and quits the racket to wisecracking, pseudo-brave ghost marry him, but the other theives hunter and Paulette Goddard is think quitting should not be that their pretty, eye-filling victim. easy. Things finally straighten out “THE GHOST BREAKERS” as for their happiness.. a title is a little misleading be- “I Was An Adventuress” is not cause the ghosts are not completely exact a ‘must’ show on anybody’s broken and the mysteries, are not li s f> hut it will be a little better all entirely cleared up. Such minor than wasting time in a gab-fest. points are not to be quibbled over Zorina is very easy on the eyes and when Bob Hope starts putting out Richard Greene is just a little too his dry remarks, and surely no one pretty to be a good excuse for a would criticize Paulette. Part of man. the fun of the show is that it really is a mystery story and lots of ( Silverfish or fish moths can be ! , . controlled by dusting derris pov/der I things will still be mysterious after where they are feeding _ J you have seen it too. The main point of the plot is that it gives the two leading actors the best chances to play beauty in distress and humor to the rescue. 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