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The Battalion ETSI'riisrj: •tVMWT VM-WULY rnlmwrmrwm ^ ^ ^ ^ tfc “* <f * W n< * BATTAUON -THURSDAY, OCTOBER *, 1»40 OPEN FORUM JmIw Tkia bMn« » military Kfcooi it em— m tkoacti Um majority of Um CodoU would know whoa to •aluto Urn National Aathom But thu wa» not aa whoa TW Star Spaaffiod Ban nor wa« ptayod by tho riRittrif high oo^***** hands at tho football gamo iaot Saturday Or or 90% of tho Cadoto atood at attoa- tkm but roaioood thoir hats inatoad of rondo ring tho aaluto. Thu gar* a had improasiofi of tho arhool aa a whole bocauao many oonmonU wort board from ruitor* TV hi a me cannot bo plarod oa any ono poraoa or dopartamat but tho noat Um* a dtoatMO lib* that artooa roatombor that M when tn doubt aaluto" —L. B. Tonntaoa, 43 Something To Read '(M&WZ l‘) ) eAH£Ur''\ By Tom GMo — ^ Anyone caa toU that whoa Joe Friday and Saturda aotto MacDonald and Nolaon ®d* ®how to Th* ' ampu* dy got together that Um roault ia going to bo a muaical ia boom TK • i may of tho CAA pilot* te change thoir tune. “THE LEGION OF LOOT FLYEM- ghm* a strange sotting, almost any oot- r |t n pM of aomo of thoir work and ting by Broadway "NEW MOON" play ia tho amp. Aady Doetne, "Gaa, you mutt Kovo o tough time droggm' youre aroundT A Good Reception TOWN HALL open* its season tonight m (mimhi Hail preoauUag tho Marine Band. Thu band u play ing a tour throughout the nation giving perform anooa at many school» and quite a few in Texas l^*** fir* (aptain San tel mar n. their director, a re- erptioa he will remember above that of sll th* other oehoola Lot's give him a good reception By good reception we mean good in several wmya. Large attendance and loud applause are the find eaoeaUals af a good reception, but there are other factors to consider. Whistling and shouting do not ot any time make • ▼«y favorable impression on any performer, un- 1*** he lo a yell leader Captain Santelmann will not he acting ia the capacity of yell leader; he » a soldi era, and they, like we. have a toward "catting up". If we cut up at their Ihatr comment will undoubtedly be, "Soldtors are all yuat alike" We aren't like aol diora, we are training to be officers, so let's act Uha officers TWare ia supposed to be t law agatnot smoking la Gabon Hall. Cortaialy it has net been enforced ia tho paoi, bat eartemly it should in the future TV ventilating system does not seem to clsar the •moke no fhot no it ia created, and as a consequence, tho place looks like the inside of a volcano in little ar aa time. TV worst example of this nmokt was last year at the port or mane* given by Gladys Hwmrth out. Oigarstte sasoke was so thick she developed a sore throat after tho program Would it be asking too asoah to rnquoot that we do without i mo king for two hours ia order that the performers can give a hotter program, sad that wr may see more of the performers? A good recaption also include* absolute silence at certain Uassa Whan tho director bnngs hu baton inis thr air to bogtn a number hr should not have to wait for the aadiencr to become quiet befope be ■tarte. They should be quiet because they are s good audloncu Aiao when thr piece is finished, wait jnot a moment to make doubly sure they ar* com pint sly through with th* number before applauding Nothing is more disconcerting or confusing to a performer than to have the audience clap when he roach oa a peuoe in th* music Usually the ones who appiaed fool juat as silly Whoa w* go to Town Hall tonight, let's be a good nadtenei and fie* Director Han talma nr a good By IHt T. F. MAYO A Haadfal af the Latent and Beet The moat reasonable “Utopia" story that I ever rend ia Granville Hicks’ “The First to Awaken". The A man can hero is put to sleep in 1940 in such a manner as to wake np in 2040 We are then shown all the inner workings as welt aa the visible fare of the world that (Mr Hicks thinksi will exist just a century from now Socialism has by this time solved all economic problems, but in the process so cialism has become something very different from what we know by that name Great cities are defi nitely on the way out Decentralisation, both oconom ir and cultural, is very much the order of the day Surprisingly enough, sexual relations and the family in general are represented as having rhangsd very little in a hundred years, except for the abolition of a few absurdities, abuses, and mtoiorancea. As Oscar Wilde remarked many years ago. no map of the world is complete which does not locate Utopia It ia boneficial as wall as entertaining, it seems to me, to ait doom once in a while with an intelligent author, and clarify your viewa as to just what sort of world you would Uka for youre to grow into. You will find that your differences of opinion with Mr Hicks ar* fully as stimulating as your agreements with him Th* moot lively piece of biography that you will havt a chance at this year is probably Zinsser a "Aa I Remember Him". It ia, aa a matter of fact, this good biologist's own Itfe story, though be pre tends to be writing about one "R.S " It is full of good bits, not only about medicine, bacteriologies I re search, and science in general, but about colleges, women, politics, and what not William Faulkner has produced another novel, not quite so gnm as the terrific •Sanctuary "' but tough-mindod enough, in all conscience ‘The Ham let," hu latest, u (as usual) a story of poor whites in Mississippi It contains more humor than anything else that Faulkner has yet written It’s master stroke, however u its picture of the Hnopoe family, who emerge* from the clay hills and slimly oot* their way into wealth and local power You 11 probably find that you know them already. As the World Turns... BACKWASH h feofft Puermwn is no excoptioa This time the story gooa from Paris to New Orleans to an island Tho time ia immediately before th* French revglntioa in 1780. This mixture allow* for some lavish prop* and a variety of back grounds for the notes of these two smrtri. Nelson Eddy has the part of a French political prisoner being sent to New Orleans and sold as a stave. On the same ship is Jeanette Mac Donald. They meet and the usual embarrassing situations result when a man falls for s Yeoman shove hit social level Before their social level is equalised, the • tale goes through New Orleans, mutiny, escape, storm, and s grand scale version of Swim Family Robinson wrecked on an island Thu winding *tory is not with tV fat fellow with the eonerwte- mixer voice, and good looking Rich ard Arlan have th* Uajlinff roles Rackwanhia' •round . . . From TBCW’s student publication. The Laaa4>: The Denton school's reg istration U less than last year but college year in respect to the trials in solo*. duets’T smT'rW^. 1*1 . .#! ,nd tr ' bu,at,onB of » well known are “Lore Come potential date* for feant • | t concerns a Field Artil- Back to Me" and Aggie* on the sio- | e ry freshman who had been care ter school esmpu* f u j|y , n *tnjcted to remove all blan ture know* exactly what he is . Ono article 1,*^ frt>n , U ppen la**men'» bed* getting into, and if you like their point* out that a un | M8 “Blanketj." was blown by brand of music, this is your show typical T . ,he bugler .mmediately preceed.ng “THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GA- freshman u n Taps Not yet included in a buglers RIFS" reviewed year. old. was not roportoire. Blankets” f.iled Bill Woolford is telling one of out its libersl sprinkling of semi- th# best stones of the current classical and popular songs, sung ‘Stout Hearted Men.” Anyone going to this fea- murs showing at the assembly hall Thursday 180 A 8:4h— "NEW MOON," starring Nel son Eddy, Jeanette MacDon ald, Mary Boland, Georg* Zucco, and Grant Mitchell AT THE CAMPUS Thursday—‘THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES," fea turing George Handera, Mar garet Lindsay. Vincent Price, Nan Grey, and Dick Foran. Friday, Saturday — "LE GION OF LOST FLYERS," with Richard Arlen, Andy DEVINE, and Ann Nagel. in the Tuesda y .. >•« honor l . „ ^ u • t ‘ 11 ** Campus there ,i^ r * •k"*'*"" '""'"t t*. no Kumnr ot mv ,„ thl , JT, b " ,l " , bu * ture but ,.cll,nt .orb b, the hifb •rbool. i> ef I**,, u. the k.t, the poor (rethm.it .l.rrrtor ,„d . pl„, bowd on • reom New Englaad folktale combine to make it fin# entertainment. imtely intereating in impending got out of bed, walked from elections and conscription, end to mom, end after s doien vig chances are three to on# that she ..mus argument* removed sll Has a boy friend, casual or a one- blankets from the erring upper- and-only. who is enlisted in some classmen's shivering bodies branch of Uncle Ham's air or ma- q nne corps ... A recent student poll on the all gul c * m P u ' reveal* Hwteri Repeat* Itself that the conscription bill is favored The A A M Tulsa U. fracas by 70 per cent of the student body Saturday won't be the first time From Margaret Joe Cart- that the Aggie* have played in wnght's column, “Nibbling*": San Antonio It all got started back “With fall mines the dropping in 1K99 when Texas U defeated of Aggies and droves of th# first the cadet* 6 to 0; a year later khaki-clad collegians were seen on Texas spanktd A A M 17 to 0, and the campus this post weekend " the following year the two colleges Which brings to mind the TSCW- played a scoreless tio in San An ite who last yeor quipped. “Aggie# tonk) In 1917 the Aggies won When in Doubt About Your Even or (.latwen DR. J. W. PAYNE OpionetriMt Muonic Bldg. • Bryan AGGIES... We still have a lar^e supply of new frames. Come down and make your selection. AGGIELAND STUDIO North Gate Joe Sonolik and war are hell!" • Touch" and Touch Afaia The recent registration brings to mind the true story of the out-of state freshman who enrolled at A A M s year ago Digging for s little extra money, the boy wrote their first game in the Alamo City, defaatmg L S, U. 27 to 0. The last time the Aggies played in Han Antonio was in December, 1984 Michigan State's Spartans walked off with that one 26 to 18. Frank Taylor, captain Football ECHOING ANEW at aeorM of colleges as the 1940 feotboR aaasnn gets under way ia the white hot pro and eon argvsoeat about football: Is the Um varsity af OMaag* oo the right track in sharply df em yVoMng the apart, or should football as s big busi- asas V given even further impetus ? B—raa ot eollog* editors have spoken out on tho ■object loot term and this Many are ronvtaeod dwengo’s Praotdaot Robert M Hutchins has eour agnowty struct out against a national evil Many. Mrt not sB Ai tV University of lUinots. th# Daily Illini igprateff ephrton that “When President Hutchins MU tho world that subsidisation of athletes was a By “COUNT V k BUGABEFF Th* chances for a revolution in the totalitarian states are faat diminishing despite the fact that some people still hope for such development The present day means of mass domination, the highly race ban ised equipment, and the fifth columnists is the occu pied countries make revolution a very nsky under taking A machine gun mounted on a tank can easily keep at bay an unorganised mob on the streets or the public square, and a aquad roa of loyal airplanes ran quickly force a revolting city into suhmi* sion Revolution, either at home or in the occupied countries appears at present a remote possibility The only cbaace for ■ revolt in the totalitarian countries is s senes of military reverses or s widespread revolt within the ranks of their ▼. a a«e*r«ff armed force* No didtator has ever survived a lost war, and no dictator can ever remain in power when his chief support tV army -dis obeys him Our good will relations with latin America are h» father that he had enlisted in Vermont University grid squad, the Cavalry and needed $126 u> ^ other day buy a horse The gullible father had a date to get mar- sent the money and two weeks rtw] later received another letter asking for $10 a week ration money for the animal-—which was regularly Dr Anna Augusta von Heim- sent throughout the ye*. Our hero fUtim of the University of , 1 ITS mim Mki to gridiron glory, V crawled far out growing better (.eopold Stokowski has re a liaah TV Ulinou hoys atUl win football games to tV teughaet league la the nation, and tVy seem m Aa It without the aid of ths subsidies which Pres tdaat Hutchm* impited they received " TV Purdue Exponent, while "admitting sons* flub* and oommsrctaJ isaUon ia football," declared n has "n* dooire that Purdue should over follow CVrngo Fastball contributes a certain something te oolkafx Ufa which we would not want thrown | jnsiar It ia tV opinon of the Washington and JJTsraia Rad and Block, that "collegiate football M «f definite benefit to tV collage*, to students, and te auiarnriw other Interuote altkt If. aa Dr Hutch tea alleges football ia a major handicap to eduea Item, IV Rad and Block fool that th* Amortean ij !ti rr af higher learning needs more such bond) ith than# opinions are those of aov- trwl college publication* that believe teopa Hast bo fr-WMt te tetft roa*■am*In- Massachusetts last! tete af Twhaotegy’s Tech deciarva “the situatsou is m flagrantly non amateur ia both spirit and prac ttea that the etey logical thing to do Is to abandon tetereoUegiote footholl and declare it freak to as IV piafMiimiil occupation it is." IV Mk$ TVaaVr agreoa that “la anhaidiaa Daily Ma "it u just as vatt that ego saw flt to AndatCVcngo turned with kia All-Amencan Youth eirheetre from Latin America He reporU that th# orcVstra was received enthusiastically In th# citiee where It gave concerts TV orchestra gave four concerts at Rio d# Janeiro and two at Hao Paolo, Bresil eight at Buenos Aires and two at Roaario. Argentina; throe at Montevideo, Uruguay; on# at Port of Spain. Trtn idad. and on# at Dominica. Many of the program* wore broadcasted and recordings ware made of about 800 piece# of Latin American musk TV chiefs of staff of tV twenty ono Latin Amencan Amencan countries are now on aa in spection tour of our defense# as guests of our gov eminent TVy are to visit places of interest through out tV United State* with tV view of improving the defense* of their respective countries Contacts of this sort should go far to promote good will between our country and Latin Amenra Mr William B. Knwdaen. chairman of tV Na tional Defense Commission, told th# A me man Le fftoo last week at Boston. Massachusetts that our national defense program was makiag rapid pro gross regardless of the pruoa criticises to tV con trary Ho pointed out that asanufocturere, largo and small, wore doing everything i«>Mihle to oxpodita tV defense program. Soas* difficultite have arisen la tV manufacturing of airplanaa, teaks, field guns, macblae guns and pswdar but thee# diffi cultioa are chiefly due te task af plant facilities rather than te lack af reoparatton Thera to • scarc ity ot toolmakara tort unmrn Vva j-eo taken to train thaaa ■acVnlm After aU. w* are net at war, had a rearmament program caa not be canted out "to g jiffy- te h democracy was put on hia mettle, however, when he received a letter during the last week of the college year in which his father aaked how he intended to get the kora* home The way out was a masterpiece an obituary explaining that the horse had stuck bis foot in s chuck hole, broke hi* leg. and as a result, was killed The letter contained a postscript which read, “By the way, I'U need $16 to bury the thing!" • Aggieteae New*. Watch for tV first showing of A. A M ’a own newsreel Originally announced In Th# Battalion a»d the state press as October 9. th# opening date will probably b# de Isyed until th# 16th. Thooe who have bees Uheo V hind the ecewes in the production of the first newer eel have been eothneiastie about the idee tod Its see cone eeeme assured Not included in most new* stor ies concerning Aggie ton# Nows was th* name of tV financier He's Bon R Ferguson, Dallas and Col lege Station theater man Thus far th# venture baa coat more than $1,000 Th# film will V given to the college following each commer cial showing sad tentative plan# Include the showing of th# every - other-week newsreel la surround ing communities. It will *1*0 be made available to tV major news real organisations with the hope tVt portions of Aggtetooe News will occasionally V "lifted" for national distribution. A purposely limited staff done a thus far outstanding job to prodnrtog Aggie ton* N Staff member* include Ire F. Lam ia, Graham PuretlL George Moel ler, E. A. (Buster) Keaton, H. 0 (Hub) Johnson. Roland Uney Pete H Tumlineon, Bid Lard. Bab Myure, M. K. Minnesota English department to an authority on cute I CAMPDS ■l • 29c After THUR8. - LAST DAY ‘The House of Seven Gables" with Margaret Lindsay Nan Gray - Vincent Price Abo SPORT REEL - ACT FRI. and SAT. “Legion of Lost Flyers” with Richard Arien Andy Devine DISNEY CARTOON SPORT REEL LATE NEWS Coming Soon! AGCIETONE NEWS TWICX EVERY MONTH A I K HI Mfo 'V ' A * ^ Though it spreads across the entire nation, the Bell Telephone System to simple in structure. Yen can think of it aa a tree. BBANf The 24 associated operating companies ,.. which pro vide telephone aemoe in their respective territories. TBVNE The Amencan Telephone and Telegraph Company... which coordinates system activities, advisee on tele phone operation and aearchet for Improved methods. 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