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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 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 Aageles, and San
Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-6444.
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. Vannoy Editorial Assistant
Tuesday Staff
Bill Clarkson Managing Editor
Jack Hendrick ^Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Lee Rogers E. M. Rosenthal
Bob Myers
Jack Hollimon ...
Sports Staff
Assistant Sports Editor
Junior Sports Editor
names, even though we may never go to church. Fel
low Aggies, if the judgement day were to come to
morrow, if it were to come now, would you like for
Christ to appear while you were painting a vulgar
sign or telling some kind of dirty joke ? Would you ?
All right, we challenge you to put up the clean
est, best sign next week on the game and we chal
lenge those of you who have similar beliefs to have
the courage of your convictions and speak out.
Tom Richey, ’41
E. W. Seay, '40
LeRoy Brown, ’42
The B.S.U. Council
Frank A. Loving
Frank Camp, ’42
J. J. Walker, ’41
Tom Gillis, ’42
Doc Watley, ’42
Roy J. Chappell, Jr., ’41
A.&M. Interchurch Council
John Coffman, ’42
W. E. (Bill) Kent, '39
Paul G. Haines, ’41
Reportorial Staff
Jack Aycook, Don Corley, J. M. Huling, Ralph Inglefield, Tom
Leland, W. A. Moore, J. M. Speer, Jack Decker.
TSCWSymphony Orchestra
ALL-GIRL symphony orchestras are few and far
between, but there is one in Texas at the Texas
State College for Women. You will have to travel
a long way from Texas to find another such organi
zation. The 1940 T. S. C. W. symphony will be the
largest in the history of the school with between
eighty and ninety members. It is also expected to
be of the best quality.
It's instruments include thirty violins, six
violas, eight cellos, eight string bass clarinets,
three bassoons, one English horn, five French horns,
six trumpets, three tenor tromboes, one bass trom
bone, one tuba, one tympani, one snare drum, one
bass drum, one chimes, one bells and one cymbal.
The orchestra features as its more outstanding
presentations Ceasar Franck’s D Minor Symphony,
The Procession to the Grail from Parasafal, by
Wagner, and special arrangement by Damrosch of A
Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Bach.
Director of the symphony is W. Gibson Walters,
a graduate of the American Conservatory of Music
in Chicago. Walters is a skilled violinist, and has
played first violin in the Chicago Civic Orchestra.
Again this year the orchestra will trans
cribe the national music competition festivals for
study by high school orchestras, ensembles and solo
ists.
We hear the symphony is planning a tour for
the spring term, to tour the major cities of Texas.
But we think it would be a good idea if the orchestra
could make a trip to present a program at A. & M.
The invitation is extended. What about it, girls ?
OPEN FORUM
Have you ever passed by a small creek and
seen a Mexican woman rubbing rocks on her clothes
in an earnest effort to cleanse them? Well you
have surely seen some of the effects of her ef
forts, in the tattered clothes.
It has come to pass that we wonder’ if our col
lege laundry doesn’t throw rocks in their washing
machines. We now no longer worry about our clothes
coming back tattered and torn, we just wonder how
bad the rips, and the tears are going to be. We
realize that the college laundry employs quite a few
people, some few whose sole duty is to pick up the
half button off the floor, the other half which is
your receipt for a laundry job for that week.
We are wondering what system they have of
marking clothes. Perhaps all of you think you have
a laundry mark, which is stamped on all of your
clothes, while in reality the system seems to be a
punching of holes. Two holes in the heel is Roberts,
while a rip and a hole is Newman. Now the laun
dry is quite good about sewing up their identification
marks, sure, gather it up, sew it around abd around
and cut out the top.
It is a sad state of affairs when you can’t send
a dress shirt to the laundry without it coming back
with a nice embroidered design, hand stitched down
the front. New? Perhaps, but I bought the plain
kind as this is a conservative age, with no frill or
designs as yet. The laundry feels they do you
every justice. “Well perhaps they did tear it, but
then they patched it didn’t they?”
Have you ever received your laundry on the
right day? Have you ever sent back over for your
laundry, the following day to have them charge you
for not calling on your laundry on the right day.
Quite a system—our laundry.
Ben Roberts, ’41
A. R. Newman, ’41
Man, Your Manners
DINING OUT
In all public dining rooms, such as, restaurants,
hotels and clubs, there are many rules to be obeyed,
aside from the all important table manners.
Hats and Coats—A man checks his hat at the
check room, if there is one, as soon as he enters.
If there is not, he puts it any place provided for
him. A woman may wear her wrap to the table, if
she wishes, where the waiter or her escort will
place it over her chair as she is seated.
Entrance—If there is a head waiter, he leads
the way to the table, if not the gentleman leads
the way.
Seating—A woman is usually seated facing the
doorway or the dance floor. If a man accompanies
two women, he should sit between them; a woman
between two men. In the case of two couples the
women face each other; and when there are more
than two couples, it is customary to sit “man,
woman, man, etc.” If there is a wall seat, the
woman takes it, the man sits opposite in a chair. In
a booth the woman sits next to the wall, the man
beside her or opposite as he prefers.
Ordering—A woman dining with a man usually
permits him to give her order to the waiter, having
told him what she wants after accepting any sug
gestion he may have made. If she is considerate of
his purse, she will observe the price accordingly. A
table d’hote dinner includes a number of courses for
one price; while ordering a la carte necessitates
paying for each dish separately.
General Conduct—Avoid lengthy conversations
with friends at other tables. A greeting is suffi
cient, but if you stop, stay only a moment.
If a woman pauses at your table, the gentlemen
rise and remain standing until she departs. A man
does not rise for another man unless he is being
introduced. It is not necessary to introduce anyone
who stops to exchange a greeting, but if the visitor
sits down for a moment, he or she is introduced.
If you are with a large party, introduce only those
nearest you. Under no condition should anyone eat
while the visitor remains standing.
Tipping—In the average restaurant the tip is
at least ten per cent of the bill; five or ten cents
more in a high class place. If the ten per cent is
an uneven sum, leave the nearest larger amount.
For example, if the check is $1.65, leave twenty
cents instead of fifteen or sixteen.
Fifteen cents is the minimum in a restaurant,
but in lunch and tea rooms five cents is enough for
a check under forty cents. At a lunch counter it is
not necessary to tip, but it is courteous.
Tip the check room attendant ten cents when
wraps are retrieved, except in an exclusive place,
more would be in keeping. A head waiter is tipped
if he has given special attention.
The University of Minnesota law school has de
cided to continue its three year course for students
who enter with a B.A.
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Every year about this time our fish are busily
engaged in painting signs of various descriptions
and calibres for the purpose of creating school spir
it and for the purpose of a sort of “pepper upper”
for the ball team. The spirit of the thing is fine.
It develops friendly rivalry between companies,
troops and batteries, does in a measure create a
little spirit, and it brings out some latent talent in
our boys. But, it is necessary for our signs to have
so many evident and outstanding double meanings;
is it necessary for them to be dirty in order to be
effective? Would you want your mother or your
sister to see some of them? Most of us can think
of someone other than our mothers and sisters and
sweethearts who means much to us, some older
friend who has helped us many times. Would we
want them to see some of these signs?
Organization A, being blessed with a particu
larly good artist who has some good ideas, puts up
a sign that is really good. It amuses us, attracts
us, and we appreciate it as a work of art. Organiza
tion B, lacking such talent, may, in order to get at
tention, put up another type of sign. It will get our
attention and we will too often laugh at it, but af
ter all, do we appreciate it as much as we do the
other kind of sign?
Last of all—most of us believe in a God and in a
Christ, even though we may never mention their
Professor J. C. Holbert of Iowa State College
is secretary of the Iowa Hereford Breeders associa
tion.
As the World Turns...
BY DR. R. W. STEEN
Rumania has been occupied by German troops,
and the Axis members are happy to announce that
the first step in the Balkan campaign was taken
without bloodshed. They hope, of course, that other
steps can be taken in this easy fashion. It is pos
sible that Yugoslavia and Bulgaria can be taken in
this way, since neither of them could
oppose the Axis, and in all probabili
ty they will not be able to come to
terms for a joint opposition.
The most likely spots for trouble
are Greece and Turkey. Greece is pro
claiming that she will offer resis
tance, and Turkey is also prepared to
Ira*- ! resist an invasion. Germany and Italy
need portions of the Greek coast for
their projected campaign into Africa,
and matters would be somewhat sim-
r. w. steep plified if they could also gain control
of portions of Turkey.
Russia is now massing troops and supplies on
the Rumanian frontier. Russia can play an impor
tant role in the developments of the next few weeks.
The Axis would certainly go slow in the Balkans if
Russia made it clear that she would oppose their
moves with military force. On the other hand Tur
key and Greece might be forced to back down if
Russia pledged herself to stand idly by in case they
were attacked. If Russia joined hands in the attack
on Turkey and Greece they would be entirely at the
mercy of the attackers. The mind of Stalin being as
it is, it is not possible to make an intelligent guess
as to the course Russia will pursue.
Wednesday, October 16, will mark the first
peacetime registration in American history. There
will doubtless be isolated instances of opposition,
but most Americans will register without protest.
Most of those who register will hope that they are
not called, but will be willing to go if they are cal
led. America is traditionally opposed to a large
standing army in time of peace, and American tradi
tion is also opposed to conscription. Both of these
traditions are having to bow before a new condition.
In the world of 1940 a nations ability to defend it
self seems to be the only positive guarantee of peace.
The time has passed when a country can enter a
war and then get ready to fight.
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"Backwash: An aritation raanJUnr fl-MB
■« actian *r aecurrenea."—Wofcater.
Backwashin’ Around . . . The ca
det corps realizes better than any
that a gridiron defeat, or two, or
three is altogether too much within
the realm of possibility . . . Even
something that many are expecting
with every game.
But there’s one
thing that the
corps does not real
ize—and that’s the
effect that this de-
feat, if it comes,
will have on the
PL ^ llll student body. Nev-
liffilJftjflH er was there a bet
ter chance to ob-
Fuermann serve this than
during the broadcast of last Sat
urday’s A. & M.-U. C. L. A. game
in Los Angeles’ Coliseum. True
enough, a great Texas Aggie team
clearly outplayed a hustling U. C.
L. A. eleven, but many was the
time when a few thousand cadets
hearing the game via radio were
feeling low enough to reach up
and touch bottom . . . Many was
the time last Saturday afternoon
when national title hopes were al
most bid adieu . . . Hundreds of
cadets remained in the mess halls
long after supper to hear the
broadcast—afraid to go to their
rooms and miss hearing a single
play. A few hundred more didn’t
even make mess that night—they
too didn’t want to miss a single
play. And then, when the final gun
sounded, the resulting roar that
came from the two mess halls
and almost every room on the cam
pus was like a tremendous roll of
thunder. A great cheer swept the
entire campus and the tenseness
of the past two hours was replaced
by an electric excitement which is
hard to define. There’s no ques
tion—and there never has been, not
for 64 years—about the corps’
staunchness behind the team. The
Aggie eleven doesn’t have to be
champions of anything to be the
nation’s number one team where
the cadet corps is concerned.
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Mike Speer.
He’s one Texas Aggie whom you
may have read about late this
past summer in metropolitan Texas
newspapers. Via cowboy boots, a
ten gallon hat, and the rest of the
fabled western cowhand’s attire,
Mike and a companion hitch-hiked
to Elwood, Indiana to hear the
GOP’s presidential aspirant, W.
Willkie, “accept” the nomination.
The pair were a grade A attract
ion wherever they went and the
Republican National Committee
spared no horses in publicizing the
cross-country jaunt. In Oklahoma
City they made several radio ap
pearances as they did in other
cities along their route. Best anec
dote of the trip concerns a reporter
for the Tulsa World. Interviewing
Mike, he asked why he favored
Willkie. “Well,” Mike replied,
“there’s only been one war during
the administration of a Republican
president.” The reporter, believing
that he had unearthed history, re
turned to his desk and wrote a
feature article based on Mike’s
statement—^without crediting the
statement to its owner. The joke,
though, was on the reporter; an
hour after the paper was off the
press his managing editor called
him in for a severe tongue-chastis
ing. The point being: there were
three wars during the administra
tions of GOP presidents.
“I’m not really a Republican,”
Mike claimed yesterday. “It was
just a swell opportunity to get an
all-expense trip and meet some
congressmen. The brass collar
Demos in my home town raised
plenty of hell, though, he concluded.
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Buster Keeton.
A special delivery letter from
Head Yell Leader E. R. (Buster)
Keeton reads, in part:
“Visited the Fox studios be
fore the game and almost went
crazy. Met a Miss Cummins
who is Betty Grable’s stand-in
and here’s one Aggie who’s
ready to admit that a stand-in
is a good go for short dough.
“Best part of the visit,
though, was having a picture
taken with Betty herself. Got
to hold her close for about
seventy seconds. Don’t know
whether to come back to Col
lege Station now or not.
“This is really the land of
beautiful women. Even Back
wash would have a chance
out here!”
By Tom Gillis
Leland Sponsors
Radio Broadcasts
“Facing 1 the Facts”
A series of thirteen radio pro
grams to be called “Facing the
Facts” originating at Station
KNOW in Austin will be car
ried over the Texas State Network
every Thursday evening from
7:15 to 7:30 under the sponsor
ship of T. W. Leland of the depart
ment of Accounting and Statistics.
The programs began October 10 and
continues every Thursday there
after for thirteen weeks.
These radio programs present
dramatized stories dealing with
the history, purposes and services
of the profession of accountancy.
The program will be of primary in
terest to persons interested in the
services of certified public accoun
tants and will have considerable
value to A. & M. students taking
acounting courses and who are ac
counting majors.
A truly moving and timely drama
is at the Assembly Hall. It is
“THE MORTAL STORM” and
storm is the well known master
piece of understatement. Nonethe
less, the storm is strong enough
to unforgetably impress all who
see it. The story concerns the
growth of the Nazi party in the
Germany of 1933.
Frank Morgan is masterful as
the non-Ayran professor and head
of his quiet continental family. He
is persecuted not only for his re
ligion but because he has developed
a blood theory that is contrary to
Nazi principles. The daughter, Mar
garet Sullivan, is in love with
Robert Young. Young’s transfor
mation from the windy and ami
able youngster into the hardened
and expert instrument of Nazi hat
red is somewhat awesome to Amer
icans. Gradually the way of life
to which they have been accustomed
begins to waver and the outlines
of their lives begin to get hazy.
With the complete dissolution of
their happiness, a new life begins
to take shape but the shape is
definitely that of the Nazi swas
tika. Before the end the family
and friends are completely broken
up and only one of the main char
acters alive and free from the party
influence. The one is James Stew
art who manages to escape alone
to Austria.
This picture is characterized
throughout by excellent acting.
Margaret Sullivan could not have
been better cast. Robert Young
shows how easily a promising
young lad can be used for the
party’s purpose and how the politi
cal party may become the dominat
ing factor in the lives of the whole
family. This picture will make you
sit up and take notice of what we
have been getting along without
here in America. It will make you
want to keep on getting' along with
out it too.
OPEN YOUR SOCIAL
SEASON WITH A
BANG!
Let us help you look
your best. Come in for
Aggieland’s finest bar
ber service.
Y. M. C. A.
Barber Shop
In Old “Y”
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday 7:30—World Pre
miere of Aggietone News,
“GANGS OF CHICAGO,”
with Lloyd Nolan, B'arton
McLane, Lola Lane, and Roy
Middleton.
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45 —
“THE MORTAL STORM,”
starring Margaret Sullivan,
James Stewart, Robert
Young, Frank Morgan, Bo
nita Granville, Irene Rich,
and Maria Ouspenskaya.
Wednesday, Thursday, 3:30
& 6:45—“GOLD RUSH MAI-
SIE,” featuring Ann Sothern,
Slim Summerville, Lee Bow
man, and Virginia Waedler.
Open your social season
with good food.
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Visit us after the dance
for quality food at
reasonable prices.
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CAFE
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Place”
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Tailored in Arrow’s fa
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likes to wear. You’ll find
these smart shirts at
both our College and
Bryan stores in all sizes
and sleeve lengths.
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for. Try our reasonably
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end.
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Bryan
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