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OPEN FORUM
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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
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