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Page 2- THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 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., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. Bob Nisbet Keith Hubbard .. Georgre Fuermann Hub Johnson Tommy Henderson Phil Golman Pete Tumlinson .. J. B. Pierce T. R. Vannoy THURSDAY STAFF George Fuermann Acting Managing Editor George Woodman Assistant Advertising Manager Junior Editors Tom Gill is D. C. Thurman Sports Staff Bob Myers : Assistant Sports Editor Jack Hollimon Junior Sports Editor W. F. Oxford Sports Assistant Reportorial Staff Z. A. McReynolds, L. B. Tennison, J. M. Speer Editor-in-Chief Advertising Manager Associate Editor Sports Editor Circulation Manager Staff Photographer Staff Artist Editorial Assistant Editorial Assistant The New Point System The recently adopted point system—which limits the number of activities A. & M. students may par ticipate in—is the answer to a long-needed regula tion comes from the student body as well as from the faculty—the faculty passed on the ruling after it was recommended by a student committee. There’s nothing new about the system—Amer ican educational circles have been advocating it for more than twenty years, and many other American colleges and universities have similar rulings. Any institution, when it becomes as large as Texas A, & M. has become, has a definite need for this sort of regulation. One fact about this ruling that is frequently misunderstood is its underlying purpose. It isn’t intended as a method of honoring students—it’s a limitation, pure and simple. In too many instances it is true that the burden of student government falls on the shoulders of a few. Under the new point system this will be im possible. True enough, the weights given the various student executive positions may not be as accurate or fair as possible at the present time, but only experience and time can indicate this and the weights will be changed if it is found that any of them are out of proportion. OPEN FORUM Now that this institution has an enrollment numbering close to 7,000 and has almost adequate housing facilities, it seems to me that some further progressive changes are now in order. I believe I speak for the majority of the boys when I suggest that steps be taken to change the regulations gov erning the allowable wattage in each dormitory room. When will the military department get with us? I am sure that everyone who has made an effort to comply with the Blue Book and has tried to study with a 75 watt lamp in his I.E.S. lamp has discovered that 75 watts is decidedly not enough if he is to keep his vision unimpaired. Consequently, everyone keeps a 75 watt globe in the dresser drawer for an “inspection light” and only puts it into active service when he hears an inspection is in the wind. Now possibly the situation is not as bad as I represent it; however, it is certainly inconvenient and I know I for one am damn tired of changing globes two or three times a week to keep off the bull ring. As long as this situation is admitted to exist, I can’t see any logical reason why some con structive changes in the regulations can’t be made. How about it? Gene Copeland, Inf. Band Probably all of you have heard by this time about the results of the first test case of the year here at A. & M. It concerns the removal from the college of four C.W.S. sophomores. To the fellows of the company this is a great loss for these boys have shown themselves to us as being pretty swell all around fellows. They have been honest and respectful and have taken their share of the usual work as fish and sophomore up to this time and we can’t help but admire them for this. You can imagine the loss that you would feel if your or ganisation should happen to lose four such men. We feel that the case was not given enough con sideration or that there has been a mistake made somewhere. It happened last week that we had a wild eyed sort of fellow from Kansas City move in the company as a freshman. He was told what would be expected of him as a fish and was given a chance to adapt himself along with the rest. He didn’t desire to take things as the rest of the fish so he turned squealer and left a note with the college to the effect that four of the sophomores had made it impossible for him to remain at the college any longer. We know that he was treated the same as the rest of the campus fish and given the same opportunities. One sophomore was charged with duck-waddling, one with holding up the wall, and another with knee bends. These sophomores have been found guilty of a thing that the rest of the campus sophomores are guilty of and what all of us were guilty of as sophomores at one time so why should these four be denied the right to go to this college or any other college when they are no more guilty than the rest? The squealer could have put eight or ten or fifteen names on his note and the same number of confessions would have been received as were from the four. We wish that there was some way that the case could be recon sidered. F. R. Lewis, ’41 G. T. Japhet, '41 J. E. Cottle, ’41 Walter Pou, ’41 Delbert Whitaker, ’41 R. M. Davis, ’41 N. A. Ponthieux, ’41 H. P. Flynn, ’42 Something To Read BY DR. T. F. MAYO A Word for the Old Books I should like to see the Aggies read a few more OLD books—read them for pleasure, I mean. There are so many things that direct our at tention to “the latest books” that one is likely to overlook all the rest. There are at least two con siderations which apply here: (1) It is only the old books which have proven that they really have something fundamentally and permanently inter esting in them, (2) most of the suggestions to read “the latest books” come, directly or indirectly, from people who hope to make money out of them. Suppose you like novels: Have you read Tols toi’s “War and Peace”? I know of only two or three “modern” novels which can hold the attention as thoroughly and as long as this tale of the wars of Napoleon, told from the Russian point of view. Or what about “Joseph Andrews”, which Fielding began as a satire on Richardson’s sentimental story about a virtuous servant girl? Fielding made the other story ridiculous by writing about a virtuous servant boy, but Parson Adams, the fighting par son, ran away with the book, incidentally making a grand yarn of it. As for entertaining biography, one of the most popular types of “latest book”, have you tried Plu tarch’s Lives, a series of short life stories of fam ous Greeks and Romans, told by a Greek who lived under Roman dominion, and full of good yarns which Plutarch picked up from people who had known the heroes personally? It is far more enter taining than all but three or four “modern” biog raphies that I know of. Plays represent perhaps the most striking superiority of the old fellows over the writers of our own day. No “modem” has written any such gay and witty comedy as Congreve’s “The Way of the World”, in which a cagy man of the world and a “fatal woman” fall in love and fight it out. Sheri dan’s “The School for Scandal” is more amusing than anything Broadway has seen for these many moons. And don’t let Shakespeare’s mighty name frighten you off from such excellent reading as the duel be tween the woman-hating Benedict and the man-hat ing Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing.”. Of course voluntary reading is largely for fun, and so it should be. But don’t get the idea that all the fun, or even most of it, is confined to the slick newcomers which the publishers and the Book-Clubs and the book reviewers make their living by urging us to read on pain of being dumb or ignorant. (An extended list of readable old books, with en tertaining comments, can be found in Somerset Maugham’s “Books and You.”) As the World Turns... By “COUNT” Y. K. SUGAREFF Some monkey wrenches in the Nazi machinery. The calculations of the German high command that by August 15, 1940, German soldiers would be parading on the streets of London have completely missed the mark. In fact, German propaganda is now engaged in edu cating the German people on the possibility of a long war. The “Blitz krieg” has lost some of its “Blitz.” The R.A.F.’s destructive bomb ing of the German capital was not cn Germany’s menu. Hitler had promised the Berliners that the city would not be bombed. If the British reports are true, not only has Ber lin been bombed, but other vital parts of Germany have also had a taste of what the R.A.F. can do. V. K. Sugareff And for some strange reason, German propaganda has not boasted about how many British planes have been brought down on German soil. Last summer the American press informed us that the German industrialists were promising de liveries to Latin American merchants in Septem ber. German goods, however, have not been deliv ered. Rumor has it that German agents are buying American goods, substituting German trade names for the American, and selling them at a loss. All of these are indications that Hitler did not take into account the human element in making his plans. Hitler’s venture into Rumania may he an admis sion that the English are giving the German forces stiff resistance. Perhaps the German high command is looking for weaker points in the British empire. The presence of German troops in Rumania sug gests several movements. Certainly it means that Rumania is now under German domination. With Bulgaria more or less submissive to German plans, Jugoslavia and Greece are placed in untenable pos itions as independent states. Both of these coun tries might be asked to yield territory to Bulgaria. Then Germany and Italy can force Turkey to allow passage of their troops to Syria. There the Nazi powers will face the British army, stationed in the Near East. The Nazis will likely try to cap the Mozul oil fields in the Near East. If they are suc cessful in these ventures, they might then strike at Egypt, both from the north and the south, the Suez canal being the main goal, of course. Should all of these plans be carried out, the British Empire still would not be dismembered nor its naval strength crippled. Merchant ships can still make just as good time around the Cape of Good Hope as through the Suez canal. Should Russia remain passive to these activi ties of the Nazi powers in the Balkans and the Near East, the democracies should discard any hope of aid from her. Russia either condones Hitler’s scheme of things or else she has been rendered impotent. With Japan in the East and Germany in the West as active allies, Russia is placed between the ham mer and the anvil. Evidence that human beings witnessed forma tion of Crater Lake thousands of years ago is un der study by University of Oregon scientists. A helicopter whose rotor or propeller blade is driven by air is being developed at Georgia School of Technology. BACKWASH •' George Fuermann '‘Backwash: An agitation resulting: from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. Once Over Lightly ... An In- team adieu Tuesday afternoon as fantry senior—dressed in civilian the train pulled out and an hour Even those who did not see for their party while it is in big clothes—passed one of the regu- later was standing on the Aggie “Jesse James” will want to see timber is Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. lar Army majors without saluting corner in Bryan beginning a hitch- “THE RETURN OF FRANK He sees all, knows all, tells very recently. In short order the lad hiking jaunt to California where JAMES” at the Campus Friday little about the mysteries of the was summoned back and asked he’ll meet the team as they step and Saturday. Slow drawling Hen- jungle, but he captures the love of why he didn’t sal- off the train Friday morning at ry Fonda slows down all the ac- Madeline just the same, ute. “I didn’t think 7 a.m. Backwash predicts that he’ll tion, but technicolor helps to make : * I was supposed to do it—and with room to spare, it interesting, salute when I’m Keyes, by the way, isn’t the only This part II of the saga of the ‘non-reg’,” he ali- cadet highwaying to L. A. Coast James brothers begins with the bied. “Hell,” the Artillery senior Ike Jacobs is close death of Jesse, just where “Jesse major bombasted, on Keyes’ heels and hopes to ar- James” left off. At first Frank “You’re supposed rive Friday afternoon. has no inclination to avenge his to salute if you’re «C” Company Infantry leads the brother’s death, leaving things up buck-naked.” . . . organizations where mass move- to the courts like a law abiding cit- Fuermann Simile of the week: me nts are concerned. Nine of the izen - The ways of justice are well Henry McLemore’s organization’s members are Calif- oile(i with money, however, and the quip—via a recent Associated Press ornia-bound. They are Captain Jay men g° f 166 - Dissatisfied, Frank story—to the effect that, “And Dudley, Harold V. (Frog) Dun- an ^ a y° un g hero worshiper, Jackie the traffic was so congested that can, Jack Kyzar, Frank Sayner, Cooper take up the trail. But Frank before a gal could cross the street, Cecil Grissom, Peck Clark, Willard robs a railroad freight office and her dress was in danger of going Clark, Gene Perry, and Bill Me- the law catches him before he has out of style.” . . . Recently re- Bride. a chance to avenge brother Jesse, turned from Washington, D. C., • Climax of the production comes Col. Ike Ashburn is telling of his Blitzkreig. in the courtroom while Frank is on visit with the Aggies former foot- The Army bomber that flew over trial and this scene alone is worth ball great Dandy , Dick Todd. the college & few minutes before the time to see the show. Defended Now turned pro, Dick s still a foot- the team left for California Tues _ by a canny old lawyer, Frank is ball great m his new league He s day was pi]oted by an Aggie _ ex> dramatically freed after courtroom burmn em up as a fine broken- Lieutenant Thomas P> Collins who shenanigans which would give hints field runner, Col Ashburn said. « bombed » the coll witb a iece on procedure to the most able law- Playing^with the Washington Red of metal tQ which a note wag at _ ye r. This courtroom scene is undoubt- “Fight ’em Aggies! edly the best in the feature. The “I’ll be in there pitching for other parts of the show are clut- you next Saturday in L. A. I’m flying over in an airplane and I will drop this note hop ing someone finds it. I’m en- route to Washington, D. C. I’ll be at the game Saturday as I’m stationed at the Sacra mento Air Base, Sacramento, California and I’ll be back there Thursday afternoon. Give ’em hell Army.” Lieutenant Collins is a graduate bly Hall Friday is “SAFARI”. Be- of the class of ’39. ing a jungle picture, one would • hardly expect to find Madeline Backwash Errs. Carroll in it, but let it be said Tuesday’s column said that best that she graces the picture rather of the current crop of football well. Her perfectly fixed blond hair signs was the Coast Artillery ban- and natty clothes are very pretty ner interpretating U.C.L.A. as all right, but not exactly the things “You Can’t Lick the Aggies.” one would expect to find in dark- . Freshman George D. Boesch writes est Africa. The reason she does U.C.L.A. fracas reigns as the num- tbat crediting tbe sign to “ A ” Bat- fairly well is that not too much °. ne ., 1 ° “ ‘<*y Coast Artillery was a mis- footage shows her in the under- take—the banner having been brush and insects and pythons, etc., but most of it as the companion . . , , . . tery Coast Artillery. Backwash country jaunt is partly explained apologizea Skins, Dick made a 72 yard run te ch ‘ ed 7 It " read ': against the New York Giants two Sundays ago. In the same game he received an intestinal injury which still has him out of action. Quoth Dick: “Commending the Aggies’ fine team is the easiest thing I can do. Incidentally, I can say that I’m really hungry for A. & M. news.” . . .A little-known fact—at A. & M., at least—about the love ly Mollie McKellar, who’ll queen the A. & M. Rodeo October 18, is that she is one of the Southwest’s finest horsewomen. Mollie has a brother at Aggieland, Cavalryman Alden S. McKeller, and she’s one of the few Texas belles who have ridden in Madison Square Garden. • California, Here We Come. Between 200 and 250 cadets are now on their way to the land of alleged no-rain where the A. & M.- the nation next Saturday after- noon The unprecedented number “" e b ' y '' the 7 re 7 hmen '" of 'V^„ of Aggies to make the cross- WHATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Thursday, 3:30 & 6:45— “BROTHER ORCHID”, star ring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bo- gard, Donald Crisp, Ralph Belamy, and Allen Jenkins. Friday—“SAFARI”, featur ing Madeline Carroll, Doug las Fairbanks, Jr., and Tul- lio Carminati. AT THE CAMPUS Thursday—“SANDY IS A LADY”, with Baby Sandy, Mischa Auer, Nan Grey, Tom Brown, and Eugene Pallette. Friday, Saturday—“THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES”, starring Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, and Donald Meek. tered up with too many chases on horseback and too much childish ness on the part of Jackie Coo££r. John Carradine has the part of the assassin of Jesse who must be purged to keep the family name clean. This show is a little above the average, and if you like high grade westerners, this is one of the highest. The benefit show at the Assem- by the fact that the college ex tended excused absences to the ~~ travellers. And, incidentally, the DclllclS A&M CIllU fe“n C0 r y “L: S cZ e Gives Aggie Dance where modes of transportation are The Dallas A. & M. Mother’s concerned. Automobiles, trucks, Club would sponsor a dance for all trains, airplanes, and thumbs were Aggies and their friends on the enlisted to effect the 1500-mile Saturday night of the A. & M.- distance between College Station S.M.U. corps trip November 9. and Los Angeles’ Coliseum. The dance, which will be held • in the Adolphus Hotel, will cover Unique. two entire separate floors with an Aggieland’s self-styled “All- orchestra playing on each floor. American hitch-hiker,” Keyes Car- The dance will last from 9 until son, is proving the truth of the 1. The orchestras will be announ- claim once again. Keyes bid the ced at a later date. of a wealthy continental whose hobby is big game hunting. Guide COLLEGE STATION SHOE REPAIR The New Invisible Shoe Repair Method of Renewing Shoes New Machinery Come in and inspect them. Satisfaction Guaranteed D* Cangelosi, Owner portant is bacVinS ^ tbe \ffl® so •'* ' he P Ho Y our 15 c^orobeOersnoe searc money* Itllll g|i|S teiy v te L „n THEY HAD TO BE GOOD SHOES TO SELL 100 MILLION PAIRS "'tlaU* * e «>®- _ „ n d where ^ ^est- phooeto'*" ^etgenctfs a 4 jester 6 ., . e s to the ervi® 6 * 1 oWCOstoiy° u THOM McAN STORE Care of NORWOOD’S 102 South Main St. Bryan, Texas