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THE BATTALION
■TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 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
Itatiea, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Subscription rate, 83 a school year. Advertising rates upon
request.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.,
at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Aageles, and San
Franciaoo.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief
Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager
George Fuermann Associate Editor
Hub Johnson Sports Editor
Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager
Phil Golman Staff Photographer
Pete Tumlinson Staff Artist
J. B. Pierce Editorial Assistant
T. R. Yannoy Editorial Assistant
Tuesday Staff
Bill Clarkson Managing Editor
Jack Hendrick Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Lee Sogers E. M. Rosenthal
Sports Staff
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hollimoa Junior Sports Editor
Reportorial Staff
Jack Ay cock, Don Corley, J. M. Huling, Ralph Inglefield, Tom
Leland. W. A. Moore, J. M. Speer, Jack Decker.
Using the Open Forum
SEVERAL OPEN FORUM articles have been turn
ed ia lately, and we are greatly pleased on this
account. The members of the student body do have
opinions and they can write them. We would en
courage even more of this expression.
Remember the Open Forum is a column for and
by students—professors, too, if they so desire. It
will be just what you and you and you make of it.
It can be a grievance column if you like—we print
any statement this is signed and that contains no
vulgarity. But we would encourage articles on pop
ular topics of the day, your opinions on politics,
campus or national; religion, no matter your de
nomination; or any other topic you might select.
The statement still hold: “If you fail to use the
Open Forum, then you must suffer in silence.”
Words-Use and Misuse
LISTENING TO a current campaign speech is a
reminder of one principle many times voiced but well
to remember. Words like other things can be used
to the greatest advantage when the user desires,
but they can also be used to destroy and mislead as
well.
The favorite trick of politicians is to adopt a
slogan for the campaign, and many times a slogan,
alone, wins the race. Perhaps it is the thought
behind the slogan that influences the voters, but
we rather think it is the slogan alone—the able
use of words to one end or another. A catchy phrase
can mean more than an hour of logical reasoning.
Words can also be made to sound big and im
portant, when if they are investigated closely, they
will be found to seem that way only because they
were grouped in a particular way or because they
appealed to the ego or the sympathy of the lis
teners or because oftimes they appealed to the pa
triotic emotions of the audience.
The best illustration of big-sounding words with
out meaning is to be found in a recent political
speech where the candidate boomed forth, “Let’s re
build America out of steel and concrete and the
^lesh and blood of men.” The audience cheered and
applauded for such a statement.
But let’s examine the statement. What has he
said that really means something? Nothing! He has
neither solved any problems pertaining to govern
ment, nor has he advanced any theories. When he
said “rebuild”, did he imply that we had built in the
wrong direction ? Does he intend to use WPA ? There
is nothing there that can be pinned down to any
-real meaning.
AU that can be found in that speech is a dra
matic play of words. He has combined a play on pa
triotic emotions with an appeal to a sense of ego.
Many speeches can be run down in the same
manner if they are thoroughly investigated. Our
advice is, “Weigh the words on a milligram balance
before falling into step and marching off behind a
stirring strain of music and a catchy campaign
slogan.”
Intercollegiate Broadcasting
RADIO-MINDED students in a dozen eastern col
leges and universities worked overtime to bring a-
bout an initial interchange of programs over the
Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, first under
graduate network of its kind.
The system was organized at an Intercollegiate
conference sponsored by the Brown Network at
Brown University, which brings daily programs to
dormitories and fraternity houses by lowpowered
short wave over a 30,000-foot webb of transmission
lines. The Brown Network, pioneer in campus broad
casting, is headquarters for the new intercollegiate
organization.
Charter members of the “IBS,” as its organi
zers call it, include Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Holy
Cross, Pembroke, Rhode Island State, St. Lawrence,
University of Connecticut, Wesleyan and Williams.
Fifteen other colleges and universities extending as
far west as Colorado either have campus stations
under construction or projected.
The first intercollegiate broadcast was sched
uled for April 15. At least five eastern colleges, in
cluding some of the charter members, were linked
together by a combination of telephone lines or
short wave.
Now the Brown Network staff is busy cooperat
ing with other member colleges and with prospective
new members, helping them with their operation
and program plans. Non-member local systems are
already at Antioch, Dartmouth and Kent State Col
lege in Kent, Ohio. Harvard, Columbia, Holy Cross,
Rhode Island State and Colorado College are build
ing their stations.
Associated Collegiate Press
Scientists at Kansas State College are raising
cattle on a diet that substitutes powdered limestone
for alfalfa.
OPEN FORUM
An old Aggie hitchiking tradition hit the slumps
Sunday when an Aggie junior track man, accom
panied by another junior and two fish, accepted
payment for driving a prominent Houston physi
cian’s car from Marlin to College Station. To make
the situation even worse, not content with a ride
to the East Gate, the junior track man asked the
physician to drive him to Hall No. 12. It’s a sorry
state of affairs when a man must pay an Aggie to
drive his car for him. A few tricks such as this and
the number of cars stopping to pick up Aggies will
greatly decrease, and the decrease will be entirely
justified. Such conduct is hardly excusable in a
green freshman, but a downright insult to the school
for a junior to be quilty of it. Let’s all be thankful
of the rides we get on the highway and be more
than glad to help the driver by driving his car for
him. After all, he is the one who’s doing the favor,
not you. WALTER LASLEY, ’42.
Man, Your Manners
BY I. SHERWOOD
Good table manners are based on a knowledge
of table etiquette, which includes how and where to
sit at the table, the proper use of the tableware and
how to eat. This knowledge not only spares us any
embarassment which might be caused by our errors,
but makes us pleasant and acceptable table com
panions.
The Etiquette of the Table
When and How to sit—At dinner, if there are
no place cards, the hostess will indicate where you
are to sit. All remain standing until she is seated
by the gentleman at her left. Immediately every man
holds out the chair for the lady at his right, then
seats himself. The lady of honor is always at the
host’s right, and the gentleman of honor on the
right of the hostess, but he does not seat her.
At a small dinner wait until the hostess starts
to eat, at a large dinner wait until those beside you
have been served.
When the dinner is over and the hostess starts
to rise, the gentlemen draw out the chairs for the
ladies on their right.
The Napkin—Unless a napkin is small, do not
unfold it all the way—leave it folder once through
the middle; if you turn the two edges toward you,
you will have the top half to wipe your fingers and
lips, and the bottom half to protect your clothing.
Never fold your napkin at the end of a meal,
unless it is a family dinner, then do as your hostess
does; in a public dining room or formal dinner you
lay it neatly but unfolded at the left of your plate.
Use of Tableware—If a table is properly set,
you should never be confused over which silver to
use first. The forks (except cocktail fork) are placed
at the left of the plate in order of their use, the one
farthest from the plate to be used first, and continue
toward the plate, in their order. The knives, spoons,
and cocktail fork are placed at the right of the plate,
used in their order, starting with the outside imple
ment.
To the left above the forks will be placed a
butter knife, across the bread and butter plate; it
is used to spread butter on bread, but never spread
more than a small portion at a time.
All foods will be passed to your left, and some,
from which you will be expected to serve yourself,
will have two implements, a large fork and spoon.
The fork should be held in the left hand, prongs
down, to steady the food, the large spoon or server
in the right to cut and lift with.
When cutting meat, hold the fork in the left
hand, prongs down, the knife in the right. Cut only
one piece, then eat, holding the fork in the left hand,
prongs down, or lay knife on plate and transfer
fork to right hand, prongs up. The fork prongs
should be up for vegetables. The rule, prongs down
to cut meat, prongs up for vegetables, is a good one
to remember. When you have finished with the
knife and fork, lay them across your plate, side by
side, fork nearest you, and knife cutting edge toward
you, the handles resting on the right edge of plate,
with blade and prongs across center.
As the World Turns...
BY DR. R. W. STEEN
At least two generations of Americans have
talked of the Yellow Peril. On several occasions re
lations between the United States and Japan have
been strained to a degree, but not until 1940 did
a Yellow Peril actually exist. A war between the
two powers is certainly not beyond the bounds of
possibility just now, but it is not
unavoidable. Japan will not alone
declare war on the United States,
and there is ample reason to believe
that Japan is being used as a cat’s
paw by Germany and Italy. After
the passing of a full week, it seems
that the Axis-Japanese alliance is in
a measure an expansion of the psy
chology of “terror” that has been
used so generally in the conduct of
this war. If Gerrtiany and Italy can
develop in America a case of the
our own rearmament program, then
that American aid to Britain will be
a matter of little moment.
It seems, however, that the plan has a good
chance of backfiring. Germany and Italy have some
unfinished business to attend to with the British
Empire, and the United States is something less
than terrorized at the possibility of Japan’s anger.
Indications are that the alliance will result in in
creased rather than decreased aid to Britain.
The conference between Hitler and Mussolini
was a clear indication that the conquest of Britain
was not going forward as smoothly as they had
hoped. What plans they made are as yet secret,
but Italian and German papers are talking much
of a great surprise in store for Britain. Perhaps the
Italian fleet will come out and fight!
Willkie continues to campaign with much vigor,
but most news reports indicate that he is gaining
few votes. Roosevelt is still making “non-political”
speeches, but seem to be using them as a rather
successful form of campaign strategy. Incidentally
Willkie is in favor of more aid to Britain. So is
Roosevelt, so apparently Britain is to be aided, re
gardless of the outcome of the election.
R. W. Steer
“jitters” over
it is probable
BACKWASH
“Backwash: Am affitatien rearnttimc treat eat
Bij
George Fuermann
ar aaearraaea.**—Wahatar.
A bird’s eye view . . .UCLA’s
loss of two games in as many
starts this season will cause the
evaporation of almost a third of
the formerly ex
pected 90,000 fans
in the Coliseum
next Saturday
cided to “keep fit” with the re
mainder of the team.
Riding to San Antonio with Dr.
S. E. Lipscomb last Saturday,
George wouldn’t say a word about
the Aggies’ chances at a national
title, “We’re playin’ ’em one at a
time this year and we’ll worry a-
Best of the current bout ’em in that order.”
football signs—al
most all of which
are excellent—is
“A” Battery Coast
Artillery’s original
translation of
Fuermann UCLA; “You Can’t
Lick the Aggies!” . . . Mike Rod
riguez, A. & M. graduate last June
and now living in Puerto Rico, con
cludes a recent letter with, “I’ll
never be able to get those beauti
ful Texas girls off my mind. Boy,
oh boy!” . . . Methuselah has a ri
val: History Department head Dr.
S. R. Gammon, in a recent class dis
cussion: “One of my favorite ques
tions when I was teaching this
course in 1770 was The
wife of A. & M.’s popular line
coach, “Uncle Bill” James, was re
cently discussing the tax situation
with a friend in the Aggieland
Inn. After giving things a
thorough once-over, Mrs. James
concluded with, “Well, Uncle Bill
pays enough taxes for every fresh
man at A. & M. . . .Statistics: The
all-time high of 62 per cent of the
student body purchasing the $11
Student Activities fee last year
was soundly thrashed this Septem
ber when 76 per cent of the corps
subscribed to the fee. Incidentally,
that’s what’s behind the delay in
the October issue of The Battalion
Magazine. The total number of
purchasers was so far ahead of ex-
He hobbies with sports, hunting,
fishing, beautiful women, and hor
ses—by his own admission.
•
Tradition.
It’s a new one, and even has the
enthusiastic backing of Head Yell
Leader E. R. (Buster) Keeton him
self. Meaning the new tradition
started after the A. & I. game
which dictates that the head yell
leader be dipped in the shower af
ter every A. & M. victory. Quoth
Buster: “Here’s one Aggie that
hopes I receive a ride to the show
er every week end.” He’s hard to
catch, though, and if you saw the
Aggie-Tulsa U. fracas last Satur
day you’ll remember that fresh
men finally caught him with fly
ing tackles—no bones broken!
•
A Parallel
The George Stidham Fund drive
last spring has brought to light
many parallels of Aggie Spirit in
action. One in particular concerns
a “fish” Hoffman in the famous—
and later purged—“Black I” Com
pany, Infantry. It was the begin
ning of the second semester, Feb
ruary, 1927, and, being without
that which is customarily accept
ed as a medium of exchange, Hoff
man was unable to register. A
sophomore in the organization, now
Captain Clyde R. Nichols, U. S. A.,
pectations that the cover order asked the freshman what he would
was 600 less than needed. Covers
must be contracted for two months
in advance because, of national
cigarette advertising. As a result,
600 of the October magazines will
be without the tobacco ads—the
same which will be replaced with
comic cartoons.
•
George Blackburn.
He’s A. & M.'s “All-American”
water boy—and there’s more to be
ing a water boy than readily meets
the eye. A dining hall doorman,
George’s nickname is “Monoplane”
and It’s easy to see where the name
came from if you’ve ever seen him
run out on the field with his wa
ter. He’s the envy of any self-
respecting track man and after
last week’s Tulsa game he de-
do if the men in the company
raised his registration money.
Hoffman replied that he would ac
cept it if there would be no hard
ship worked on the men.
Whereupon Nichols, and the
company commander, Webb C.
Townsend, opened the pot with $5
each, the remaining 116 members
of the company chipped in a dollar
each and the necessary $125 was
given to Hoffman.
And so it goes . . . The same old
story . . .“True to each other as
Aggies can be” are words famous
to any Aggie or anyone familiar
with “The Spirit of Aggieland.”
Those words have a real kick in
them and they’re more than just
words . . . They’re the heart of the
Aggie way of doing things.
By Tom Gillis
Although not a feature product- best of the gangster-comedies,
ion, a nevertheless more interest- “ 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN” is
ing part of the program than any a ra ther weird story of a pact be-
feature is soon to make its ap- tween two people approaching
pearance at the Campus theater. death George Brent is a condemn-
This is referring to the Aggietone ed cr i m j na i being taken by boat to
News, a newsreel program pro- bis death. Merle Oberon is a beau-
duced by, with, and for the Aggies, tiful young girl slowly dying of an
Many shots for the first release incurable disease. Neither admits
have already been filmed. This bis impending fate to the other
first Aggietone News is to cover aa they try to enjoy each minute
the San Antonio corp trip and the of t h e ir friendship. The title to the
Tulsa game, and many of the Ag- picture comes from an agreement
gies at the game will make their they make when they part that
movie debut when the reels are they will meet at a certain bar on
run off. Watch for the announce- Christmas night. Each hopes to be
ment of the opening date. a ble to keep the pact in his earthly
“BROTHER ORCHID” brings in form, but the clever ending of the
a comedy on celluloid that runs picture leads the audience to be-
through all the rackets of the un- lieve that their spirits did meet at
derworld and finally tries to put the appointed time and place,
a racket in religion. Edward G. This picture is a little weird be-
Robinson as the gangster has never cause of the constant threat of
thought of the Golden Rule in his death which overshadows the corn-
life except as something valuable pi e te life of both the characters,
he could swipe. Then after a bitter p a t O’Brien and Binnie Barnes do
session of gang warfare, a Flora- w hat they can to dispell this
cian monastery nurses him and in- gloomy feeling and they are able to
vites him to be a brother. Truly help a little,
comical is the bedside scene as the
wounded gangster awakens in
peace and quite surrounded by
monks. His opening remark is “I
made it; I'm in heaven.” As a
novice being initiated into the
monastic order, Robinson performs
miracles by applying his under
world techniques to the simple re
ligious life.
Religious subjects are usually
taboo to Hollywood producers, but
in this picture it is so skillfully
handled that it will give offense
to no one. The spiritual regenera
tion of Robinson is actually a story
with a moral, and that moral will
probably reach more people that
really need it in this comedy show
than coming from some religious
source. Ann Sothern is grand as
the dumb blond who gets there
just the same. Humphrey Bobart
and Ralph Belamy also help the
situation along. The picture ends
with a dead serious note quite out
of keeping with the humorous con
tinuity, but the show is one of the
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45 —
“’TILL WE MEET AGAIN,”
featuring Merle Oberon,
George Brent, Pat O’Brien,
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie
Barnes, and Frank McHugh.
Wednesday, Thursday 3:30
& 6:45—“BROTHER OR
CHID,” with Edward G. Rob
inson, Ann Sothern, Humph-
ery Bogart, and Ralph Bel
amy.
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday — “RANCHO
GRANDE,” with Gene Autry
and Smily Burnette.
Wednesday, Thursday —
“SANDY IS A LADY,” fea
turing Baby Sandy, Mischa
Auer, Nan Grey, Tom Brown,
and Eugene Pallette.
Dairy Judging
Team On Trip To
Harrisburg Show
The Texas A. & M. College
dairy judging team left here Fri
day morning enroute to Harris
burg, Pa., where they will compete
in the National Dairy Show on Oct.
12, however they will make several
stops on the way to judge cattle
shows, Prof. A. L. Darnell, team
coach, announced before leaving.
The team this year will be com
posed of J. K. Adams, Tulia; C. F.
Baird, Carleton; B. B. Fowler,
Rockwood; and N. B. Yarling; Ros
enberg, all seniors majoring in the
study of dairy husbandry at the
college.
First stop will be at LaGrange
where they judge a show Oct. 4;
then to Sugarland to judge Sar-
tartia ^and Jersey cattle in the
Anderson, Clayton herd.
They will Judge Holsteins and
Guernseys at the Fred Mar farm
near St. Louis, Mo.; and those
same breeds as well as Brown Swiss
and Ayreshires at the University
of Illinois, Urbana, 111. Last year
they took first place at the Na
tional Show in judging the Brown
Swiss cattle, a breed not common in
Texas.
They are also scheduled to stop
at the University of Ohio, Colum
bus, Ohio, where they have been
invited to class the college herd of
Holsteins and Ayreshires.
Returning from Harrisburg they
will stop over for one day in Wash
ington, D. C., and pay a visit to
the United States Department of
Agriculture offices.
The Horse and Mule Association
of America has set the dates for
its annual horse pulling contest to
fall with the National Dairy Show
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Oct
ober 12 to 19.
OnWTAW
1120 kc. — 2677 meters
Tuesday, October 8, 1940
6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and
Home Program—Miss Mae Belle
Smith, Extension Service; Dr. L.
G. Jones, Department of Agron
omy; Tyrus R. Timm, Extension
Service.
11:25 a. m.—Sign-On; Weather,
News.
11:30 a. m.—Popular Music.
11:45 a. m.—Musical Moments.
12:00 noon—Sign-Off.
Wednesday, October 9, 1940
6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and
Home Program—D. H. Reid, Head,
Poultry Husbandry Department;
Dr. R. P. Marstellar, Dean, Vet
erinary Medicine.
11:25 a. m.—Sign-On; Weather,
News.
11:30 a. m.—George E. Sokolsky,
Commentator (National Association
of Manufacturers).
11:45 a. m.—Popular Music.
12:00 noon—Sign-Off.
BRAIN TWISTER
BY. R. R. LYLE
Take your age, double it, add
three, multiply by five, add the
number (less than ten) of your
living brothers, multiply by ten,
add the number (less than ten)
of your living sisters, subtract one
hundred fifty from the result. The
right hand figure will be the
number of living sisters, the middle
figure is the number of living
brothers and the figures at the
left will show your age. Why?
(Answer found on page 4)
The late Dr. Francis H. Herrick,
professor emeritus of biology at
Western Reserve Universty, was
widely known for his study of
American eagles.
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