■SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19,1940
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THE BATTALION
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, 93 a school year. Advertising rates upon
request.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.,
at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San
Vranciseo.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-9444.
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
SATURDAY’S STAFF
Earle A. Shields, Jr Managing Editor
T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
W. O. Brimberry R. B. Pearce W. C. Carter
Sports Staff
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hoilimon Junior Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Sports Assistant
Reportorial Staff
Bill Amis, Charles Babcock, Don Corley, W. F. Keith,
Z. A. McReynolds, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison
Winning Is Fine, But. . .
CHAMPIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST and the
nation’s No. 1 football team. That’s the cry from far
and near. Honor, glory and fame are ours. The
toast of the nation! It doesn’t sound bad to our ears.
This afternoon at the T.C.U. football game Dean
Kyle and President Walton will raise flags bearing
inscriptions reading “Southwest Conference Champ
ions” and “Nation’s No. 1 Team ’39”. A fine gesture.
We have the title, and acknowleging the fact is no
act of conceit.
But keep this fact in mind. Anyone can yell for
a winning team. The true test of the Aggie Spirit
will come if and when we lose a game.
The bigger we build ourselves while we are
winning the farther and harder we will fall if we
lose.
Winning is fine, very fine. In fact it puts that
extra snap into the step; it raises the chin level; it
straightens the shoulders; it sends a chill up the
spine.
Losing is no disgrace.
Texas A. & M. and the Aggies were known for
their fine school spirit long before they produced
a world champion team. Maybe the spirit had some
thing to do with the production. At any rate the
spirit has been in the school for ages.
No other student body stands and yells through
out the entire game. No other team greets every
substituted player leaving the field regardless of the
success his efforts have had. No other school has all
the fine traditions that A. & M. has.
No other student body yells “just a little bit
harder” when the team is in a hole or is losing the
game. We are proud of our spirit.
But still let’s remember that backing a winner
is an easy proposition and the nation knows that
fact. We are going to have to yell louder than usual
to convince anyone that we’re the best.
Our championship is history! Playing our games
one-by-one is our technique. Let’s swell with pride
as those flags go up, but let’s deflate before the
game starts. Our purpose on Kyle Field today is to
beat T. C. U.
OPEN FORUM
October 16, 1940
Dear Batt,
To many of those who saw it, the recently cur
rent attraction at the Assembly Hall, “The Mortal
Storm” will soon be only a hazy memory of an un
pleasant dream.
But to those who take life seriously, and think
of “justice” not simply as a rather boring term to
be used only by judges and “patriotic” political as
pirants, but who sees it as a flaming symbol of the
only means by which men may learn to live together
in this world with complete harmony—to those,
that picture will live on in memories seared by the
injustice, the coldly calculated inhumanity it so
vividly portrays.
May we let it be at once a soothing relief and
an ominous warning. In EVERY instance where
force is used; where men are compelled to do (if not
think) as others do, or as some others want them to
do, there will be injustice—there will be tragedy!
R. W. McDonald, ’41
FRANK LOVING PRESENTS:
/ Heard the Preacher Say
By Rev. James Carlin
Pastor, First Methodist Church
“WHAT WOULD you say,” Mr. Carlin, “to a young
man who has come to A. & M. and has turned cyni
cal about everything and everybody?” An Aggie
asked the question—about whom, I do not know.
A lack of knowledge of the problems which
brought about this attitude in this particular Aggie
would largely keep any would-be counselor from giv
ing any real help to him. However, it helps any of
us to see ourselves from another’s viewpoint. The
Cynic is no exception.
On the positive side, let’s observe that a Cynic
is usually an Idealist,- and something has gone
wrong. Someone (perhaps himself) has failed those
ideals—and the reaction is cynicism. It helps if
the Cynic realizes that he is a “self-made” man.
It is his state of mind, his personal reaction to the
world, that produces HIS cynicism. Everyone faces
the same world. Yes, the world does treat people
differently, but the wide differences we observe in
people’s attitudes are not always traceable directly
and exactly to external circumstances. People liv
ing under nearly the same external circumstances
react very differently. One person under stress
of poverty will work harder, hold to hope more
tenaciously; another steals; still another becomes
discouraged and turns to his work like a slave,
hating it.
One man comes to A. & M. with all the fresh
exuberance of youth, hears cynical and pessimistic
statements by fellow students and faculty men,
charges it up to experience, and keeps his confidence
that the world is on his side. Another observes in
consistent behavior on the part of leaders whom he
is expected to follow and he becomes cynical, in
sisting “the place is filled with hypocrites”. The
place is filled with the same folk for both men, yet
each man’s reaction is his own.
Cynicism is an attitude resulting from personal
inadequacy in coping with the world as it is. Cyna-
cism is “defense mechanism”, a running away from
dealing adequately and positively with unpleasing
facts and people by resorting to an attitude of
condemnation of “the other fellow”.
The Cynic presupposes the superiority of the
Cynic; he sits in judgment of his fellow men, finds
them disappointing, and makes himself unhappy in
the bargain. “Judge not lest ye be judged. For with
what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” Jesus
was not saying that a person must not make eval
uations of human conduct but that he must remem
ber that his standards of judgment will be used by
others in judging him. That remembrance will make
a more tolerant man.
Is cynacism a necessary reaction when a man
comes hard up against the world?
It isn’t to keep trying to realize our best aims
and to live up to our ideals. It is right and
proper that during a man’s college career he re
peatedly re-think his aims, and it is not too much
to say that the ideals with which he came to college
must be re-thought. If they are to prove of value
they must become principles. Ideals must stand
examination in the light of experience and be ham
mered “on the anvil of experience” into life prin
ciples—from the clouds into foundations, from
vague “good intentions” into worthy goals.
Finding ways and means of turning our good
intentions into realities is the most difficult task
confronting every man. That’s a sweeping state
ment. But, look at it. Sam Jones, a colored Ameri
can preacher two or three generations back said,
“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Our reach always exceeds our grasp. Our ideals
outrun our actions. Our intentions are the best but
the difficulties of every-day living are very real.
That “spread” or gap between the ideal and
the achievement produces cynicism in some men as
they fail to bridge it or see other men fail; to
others it is a life-time challenge, a challenge which
is the secret of zest in living, of the “why” of hard
work, the source of large happiness and achievement.
Men don’t grow old and pessimistic and cynical who
have “practical ideals,” the kind it takes a life-time
to realize, and are worth a life-time to realize.
As the World Turns...
By Dr. Al. B. Nelson
THE “SECRET Bomb-sight” of the U. S. Army is
to be released to the British according to late re
ports. U. S. intelligence reports indicate that Ger
many already has it and that the only thing we
can do now is to equalize matters by allowing the
British to use it on their planes. If the report is
true it shows plainly the extent of German espion
age in this country when our most valuable aviation
secret cannot be guarded from the enemy.
The last of the fifty destroyers traded to the
British have been delivered. Two hundred and twen
ty-nine old tanks have been traded to Canada for
training purposes. They are two slow for modern
military use.
The English Cruiser Ajax, one of the ships which
fought the Admiral von Spee nearly a year ago, has
once more covered itself with glory by sinking three
Italian destroyers in an engagement with superior
enemy forces.
In a political speech delivered in Rhode Island
Wendell Willkie called for an embargo against Jap
anese goods coming into this country. It is interest
ing to note that Japan has had what amounts to
an embargo on imports from the United States,
except supplies needed by their army, for a long
time.
The latest Gallup Poll records a reversal of the
recent political trend toward Roosevelt and shows a
gain of four states for Willkie, plus an increase in
sentiment for him in states which still have a ma
jority for Roosevelt. The democrats are now begin
ning to question the value of polls.
The German tolerated French Government has
just restored the Grand Cross of the Legion of Hon
or to King Leopold of Belgium. It had been taken
from him at the time he betrayed the armies which
had come to his assistance.
Semi-official statements from Turkey have warn
ed the Axis powers to keep out of Greece and nq£.
to encroach upon Turkish interests in the Black
Sea. Russia is also reported to be massing troops
to threaten the flank of the new German invasion of
the Balkans. Britain is also said to be sending
Anthony Eden to Turkey to talk over the threaten
ing situation in the Near East.
The former King Carol of Rumania is busily
engaged in attempting to set up a Rumanian Gov
ernment in exile to be backed by the British. The
doubtful part of the procedure is as, to whether
he can gain British backing. Carol is noted for his
attempt to ride more than one political horse at a
time in the not too distant past. The English govern
ment may not trust him again.
Under the new congressional legislation permit
ting Home Guard units, many states are already at
work upon such a program. They will be composed
of men ineligible for the army and will be useful
in guarding bridges, factories, etc., from sabotage
by agents of hostile countries.
They’re guffawing about a new one by Wis
consin’s Coach Harry Stuhldreher, rated as the best
collegiate story-teller in his weight class. Seems a
couple of idiots were out duck hunting together.
A flock of mallards zoomed overhead and one of the
idiots aimed carefully and dropped a duck. “You nin
ny!” bellowed the other. “What did you waste a
shell for? The fall would have killed him!”
We were really beginning to worry about the
plight of the University of Michigan, where the only
key to the lost and found office was lost, when we
were jolted by a report on some eye tests at the
University of Washington, where it was learned
one-fourth of the co-eds are incapable of winking.
BACKWASH
By
George tamann
‘Backwash: Aa a citation rssnltlnr frsm sea* action or oecnrrsnec."—Wanatac.
Once Over Lightly
Carson, who made
, . . Keyes were overtaken by the remainder
13,000-mile of the party in the now-repaired
The main and ever present char- this from “I Married a Nazi” and
hitch-hiking jaunt this past sum- Chrysler. Then things really began acter of “REBECCA” never ap- this first title would have more
mer, says that the Aggies’ All- to happen—first, the thing caught pears in the show but her domina- perfectly described it. The honor
American back, John Kimbrough, fire, then the distributor failed, tion of the entire feature and the G f t h e N az } doctrine in the show
is equally ag well known in Canada and finally the fuel pump broke. In actions of every single character j s SO mewhat lightened by humor.
as in the U. S. “Al- the world of statistics—the car can not be forgotten for a minute. The main attraction that this
most every Cana- car travelled 3,800 miles, used 380 It is well that she does not appear fi] m offers over other propaganda
dian who gave me gallons of gas, 46 quarts of oil, because such a perfect and charm- fji ms j s that it tries to show Hit-
a ride asked about and four tires. mg woman as she is made out to be jgr’s Germany through the eyes of
Big John and were ® would be hard to find. Every scene a typical American girl, Joan Ben-
curious to know Water Comes High. refers to this marvelous woman in ne tt. Francis Lederer is the in-
whether or not he Then there . s the story concern _ some way and the way this single stniment of the party who turns
was really the : • Ae-gieR and dates who tllread of intcrest running through- sour on everything, moulding Joan,
•great bone crush- trekked into one of California . s the whole feature is one of the and she finally waIks out on him .
er’ ‘hat they had swankiest night spotSi La Oonga . outstanding points m making this Catch line of the show is the one
read him to be,” j t wag jj m cj a y ) Clarence Hall, W a ' :op no ‘ ;ctl P r °duction. shown in the teaser advertising the
Fuermann Keyes said . . . q Carter, Guy Crawford John Joan Fontaine is perfect as the picture—Joan Bennett’s farewell
Unique: Meaning Tommy Vaughn’s s earcy) an d Lew Ness and,'at the young, shy, second wife of Laurence speech to Lederer, “Heil, Heel!”
introduction of another varsity conclus ’ ion of t he night’s’ dining 01iver - Rebecca was wife No. 1,
footballer to an escortee of a an d dancing, the six were presented and Joan enters an existence con-
few evenings ago—“Meet John Doe, with a c h e ck totaling $12. Some- stantl y overshadowed by the per-
a graduate of Daniel Boone ju- what taken aback> they a pp roac h- sonality of this woman. Her over-
nior college at North Bedias Creek ed the mana g erj explained to him eager and half-apologetic attempts
where he lettered in trapping, trail tbat they were j ust poor boys try _ to live up to the reputation of Re
blazing, tap dancing, and open- ing to get a i on g ) were no t inter- be cca carry on until the latter part
hearth cooking!” . . . Best of the ested in buyin g an interest in La of the show - Laurence Oliver is
current stories concerning local Conga or even a small portion t* 16 sur ly> reserved member of Eng-
golfers is the one about the prof thereof, and would he, the manager bang’s landed gentry and he returns
who was in a sand trap and, after please do something about the sky- r\ew wife to his country
three futile attempts to get out of b jg b prices. A good natured fellow, mansion, abandoned since the death
the thing, decided to call it a putt ^ be manager finally brought the Efibecca.
and conceded it to himself! . . . p r i ce down to $4.28—including tax Telling the story of such a mov-
Sidelight of the day’s T.C.U. game — and £ be s j x managed to leave mg picture could not do justice to
is the fact that the Fort Worth -without washing dishes. Joke of the fine direction and camera work
college is generally considered to the evening, though, was John who which help to make it so outstand-
be A. & M.’s most friendly inter- hadn’t ordered as much as a five- mg, but the combination of drama,
collegiate rival. Illogical enough cen t drink. One full glass of water photography, and excellent direct-
the reverse-reason seems to be the -was his share of the evening’s win- ion are all brought out in the scene
fact that the Horned Frogs have i ng an d dining—but his, like the giving Oliver’s eight minute mon-
defeated the Aggies often and con- j-est, was a 50 cent cover charge, ologue explaining the death of Re-
sistantly since 1924. Between that beca. In an abandoned boathouse,
he tells Joan of the real life of the
woman who now casts a shadow ov-
er her happiness. This picture is a
year and 1936 the cadets failed to r\ . _ . ,
ring the bell a single time, although Dr3in I WISlGT
Rann College.
God Bless Somebody.
Once every week
through the mail a
W. J. Douglas, Jr.
INSURANCE AGENCY
General Insurance
Commerce Bldg
Phone Bryan 160
the Frogs were tied twice. The all-
time record favors the Aggies 19 Heye ig a method suggested for <must ’ on everybody’s list,
to 11 with four games split even. boys j n ^01 and 102 who can mul- At the Campus is another anti-
The first Aggie-T.C.U. game was tip]y and divide by two and add but Nazi film> “ THE MAN I MAR-
played in 1897 when the Chiistians wbo can do no other arithmetic RIED.” The title was changed to
were located in Waco as the Add opera tion
Suppose you wish to multiply
two numbers together. Proceed as
follows.
there comes Make two columns by dividing
timely little the first number by two, disregard-
document titled “Facts in Review”. j n g fractions, putting the result
Published by the German Library down i n the first column. Multiply
of Information, it’s a propaganda the second number by two and put
organ pure and simple and is a this result in the second column,
half-way proof of one of two Next divide the number you placed
things: Either that the current j n the first column by two, disre-
order of things in the U. S. is garding fractions, placing the re
freedom of the press rather than sult i n the first column again,
the alleged “fleedom” of the press Multiply the number in the sec-
or else—and what’s probably clos- ond co i umn by two and place in
er to the truth there’s too much the second column. Repeat the
laxity on the part of the usually above process until you obtain the
efficient F. B. I. where this grade number one j n the first column.
“A” fifth column organization is Now s t rike out a ll the numbers
concerned. j n the second column which are
About fifty issues of the publi- opposite an even number in the
cation are received each week at fi rs t column and then add the re-
A. & M., but not through the wish ma j n i n g numbers in the second
column. The sum is the desired re
sult of the multiplication. See ex.-
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Saturday 6:45 & 8:30—
“TORRID ZONE,” featuring
James Cagney, Pat O’Brien,
Ann Sheridan, and Andy De-
vine.
Monday, Tuesday, 3:30 &
6:45—“REBECCA,” starring
Joan Fontaine, Laurence Ol
iver, and Judith Anderson.
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday—“THE MAN I
MARRIED,” with Joan Ben
nett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd
Nolan, Anna Sten, and Marie
Ouspenskaya.
Saturday midnight, Sun
day, Monday—“DARK COM
MAND,” starring Claire
Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, John
Wayne, Porter Hall, and Mar
jorie Main.
of the recipients. The Library of
Information sends the paper to
addresses of prominent persons in amp i e
every locality in the nation. A typ
ical example of the articles included
is one in the latest issued titled
“How Lies Are Manufactured”, and
that’s one thing the German Li
brary of Information should know
plenty about—they’ve manufact- Lnd of No. 1.
ured a few themselves in the past
few years. Here is a nice little problem in
Incidentally, there actually are division on which to s P end a little
time.
Beat T.C.U.
We’re With You
Aggies
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a few instances of the so-called
fifth column and Trojan Horse act
ivities on the campus but thus far
they’ve been effectively hushed. One
recent investigation in a non-mil-
AN J EASY
ONE
Each letter represents a digit.
, . No two letters represent the same
itary dormitory came to naught digit and nQ letter repreaents tw0
but there’s a case in another dor
mitory—in the old area—that’s
fast bearing fruit. Watch for a
break in this connection within the
next 30 days.
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Westward Ho!
Stories now going the rounds
concerning the recent cross-coun
try jaunt of a quarter - thousand
Aggies to watch the A. & M.-
U. C. L. A. game are as many as
the Aggies who made the trip, but
there are two in particular that
rate public-hearing. The first, as
told by Jack Fuller, concerns the
adventures of Jim Rominger, Tom
Houston, Joe Stokes, Kay Cox,
John Kenagy, and George Bentinck
who made the College Station-to-
Los Angeles trip via a tempera
mental Chrysler dated 1933. All
went well until the crew neared
San Angelo where the car turned
over—no bones broken. Continu
ing, things really began to get
rough when the car windows had
to be kept down in sub-zero weath
er because of exhaust fumes from
a broken muffler. Finally, after
65 hours of day-and-night driving,
they arrived in L. A. two hours be
fore game time.
The return trip wasn’t much
better. A broken axle delayed them
24 hours in Westmorland, Califor
nia, but Kay had a job and needed
to get back to college as soon as
possible. The result: He and John
began the cross-country highway-
ing jaunt. Back in the Lone Star
State once again, Kay and John
digits.
(Answer on page 4)
Love is the spark that lights the
brightest fires of service.
The Bryan Banks will close at one
o’clock Saturday afternoon, October 19,
1940 for A. & M. - T.C.U. Football game.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CITY NATIONAL BANK
FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO.
Fun
For
All
Bird
Dogs
Allowed
SATURDAY NITE, OCTOBER, 19
CORPS DANCE
Music By
Aggieland Orchestra
ADMISSION $1.00—Tax .10—Total Admission $1.10
‘DON’T MISS THE FORMAL OPENING OF
THE SOCIAL SEASON”
SBISA HALL
9-12 P.M.