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The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Hechanieal 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, $8 a school year. Advertising rates upon
niQuest.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc.,
at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San
Francisco.
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
i. B. Fierce 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
lack Hollimon Junior Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Sports Assistant
Reportorial Staff
Bill Amis, Charles Babcock, Don Corley, W. F. Keith,
2. A. McReynolds, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison
Straighten Your Tie
THE WACO CORPS TRIP brings up a point that
has been floating around for all this year. That
point concerns the proper wearing of the uniform
when away from the campus. Some of us have be
come careless of our appearance, and it reflects
both upon the wearer and upon the school.
Such practices as unbuttoning the collar, un
doing the knot in the tie and allowing it to drape
around the neck, unfastening the Sam Browne
belt, unbuttoning the blouse, and sometimes even
removing the blouse gives the student a sloppy
appearance. Frankly it looks like—well, it looks
like hell!
As a cadet in A. & M. each one of us is a part
of the school, and each one of us has the respon
sibility of conducting himself in a manner that will
bring credit and favor to the school and not only
because we feel it is morally right that we should,
but also because it is our duty that we should.
In these times of conscription and national pre
paredness, A. & M, and all military institutions oc
cupy a prominent place in public interest. The army
and its branches are “under the spotlight”, so to
speak. The eyes of the nation are on it and them.
As a part of the military system of the nation,
we, as cadets, cannot be too careful of our words,
actions, and general appearance.
Being slovenly and careless can become a dan
gerous habit. Once the sense of cleanliness is lost, it
is difficult to recultivate. It is not an easy task to
keep a neat and orderly appearance; in fact it takes
lots of time and patience. But one strong talking-
point for the army and military training is the fact
that it teaches trainee to be neat and orderly.
If we cadets go to out-of-town games and do
not conduct ourselves in a creditable manner, then
we are just plain not using our heads.
We think we have the finest school in the
world. Let’s prove it by looking the part!
‘Largest’ and ‘Only’
A. & M. IS FAMOUS for many things. Some bring
it more notoriety than others, but many facts about
the school cause its name to ne voiced in all the
four corners.
For instance, A. & M. is the largest R. O. T. C.
unit in the United States. It is also the nation’s
largest school for boys. The world’s largest school
of Agriculture is at A. & M. If we are not mistaken,
our petroleum department is the nation’s largest or
second largest.
For many years A. & M. enjoyed the presence
of the world’s largest dining hall, but last year it
built another just as large. Now it has the two
largest in the world. The only state-owned hotel in
the United States, the Aggieland Inn, belongs to
the state of Texas and is located at A. & M.
The largest college band in the nation is the
Aggie Band with 216 pieces. It performs at every
football game, and plays for meal formations and
reviews. The Singing Cadets, the glee club of Texas
A- & M., with a membership of 220 is thought to
be the largest college male chorus in the nation.
Each year it makes a state-wide tour, and this
year will make an appearance on the Town Hall
Programs.
These facts are just a few of the “only” and
“largest” items that could be pointed out. We feel
that these ought to be put out for public consump
tion, and therefore volunteer our services to satis
fy that need.
We would like for those who know more facts
of similar nature to call them to our attention that
we and the “people” can know them.
Land That We Love
“LAND OF THE FREE, home of the brave.” What
is it? A song? A phrase? A baritone bellowing in
the spotlight? A crowd rising mechanically to its
feet?—It’s an anthem, a rousing hymn for the rab
ble, written to be sung by packed throngs. A song
for America, land of crowds. Crowds not so brave
perhaps, but Free. Free to congregate, free to boo,
free to leave.
The crowd wasn’t singing it that day. Listless,
amusedly curious it jostled before the fervent,
hoarse young man exhorting it. Broad shouldered
men were crammed against slender men, and fat
men’s paunches softly preceded them through the
tp'owd. They laughed and they grumbled—“Quitcha
shovin’ “Git off my feet.”
The hoarse young man waved his hands in the
air, his shaggy head shook with his expostulation.
The rickety platformed thumped beneath his feet.
His style was simple; he had no dramatic pauses—■
he merely kept up one continuous scream. He
screamed into the heat. He screamed at the crowd.
He screamed above the noise of the traffic.
“America!” He screamed again and again. “Look
at it! Look at it! Overrun with Communists and
overrun with Jews. Look at ’em. Count ’em! Baruch!
THE BATTALION
•SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1940
Cantor! Frankfurter! President Rosenfeld!” The
Jews run everything; America!” he screamed again.
“Look at it. The richest land on earth, yet where
else can you find 25 million unemployed ? When will
something be done about it?”
The crowd didn’t believe him. It was there for
the show, not for the oratory. There was one old
man, at least, who didn’t look as if he believed him.
He was rather stooped, stock in a pleasant manner.
Threating his way through the crowd, he lowered
himself creakedly onto a park bench.
He fumbled in a worn canvas bag hanging at
his hip. From it emerged a loaf of gaudily-wrapped
bread and a small piece of sausage. Slowly he made
a sandwich. As he ate, the orator was still scream
ing in the distance. The other man on the bench
spat.
“Nut, ain’t he?” the old man nodded vigorous
ly-
“What do you think of this country, old
fella?”
The old man looked at the tall buildings, the
whizzing traffic, the paper-littered park. He cleared
his throat.
“This land, she is pretty good,” he said. The
crowd was breaking up. A crowd not so brave per
haps, but free. Free to congregate, free to boo, free
to leave.
—The DePaulia
FRANK LOVING PRESENTS:
/ Heard the Preacher Say
By REV. KURT HARTMANN,
Pastor of American Lutheran Congregation of
College Station, and Lutheran Student Pastor.
“THIS IS A FAITHFUL SAYING and worthy of
all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners.”
Yes, you heard correctly. It is not a dream. It is
not an outdated, outmoded, lifeless, powerless, un
dependable saying. It is the most modern of sayings.
It remains modern. Times change, conditions change,
changes are made, but this saying, this teaching is
as new today as it was when Paul, the great
apostle of Christ, first experienced its power on the
road to Damascus. This saying is the dynamite of
God to save every one that believeth.
The human heart needs today what it has al
ways needed, the power of God to salvation. We need
the power of God which saves, not for time alone,
but for eternity. We need the power of God which
saves from sin, from death, from the power of the
devil, from all the ills and sorrows and griefs which
invade the human heart and life. Man has no such
power to save.
Christ Jesus came to save sinners. We dare not
change this Christ. Let us leave Him as we find
Him in the New Testament. We dare not drag Him
down to a mere leader, or to a mere example, or
to a mere “sufferer to show us how to suffer.”
We dare not make Him a mere man. He is a man
and He is God. This God-man, Christ Jesus, came to
save you and me. He came to save sinners—men
who are not only sick, but sin-sick; men who are
lost, blind; men who are groping, striking hither
and yon for salvation, but who are falling from one
pit into another one which leads them deeper into
the slough of despair and condemnation.
Christ Jesus came to save sinners. Believe it!
You will know life in all its fulness and abundance
and blessedness with Him. Without Him life is
vanity, emptiness, and cursedness.
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sin
ners.” He suffered. He died, He arose again that
sinners might live. “I am the resurrection, and the
life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
As the World Turns...
By DR. AL B. NELSON
LATE NEWS REPORTS INDICATE that several
Texas Legislators have threatened to punish the
farmers of the state by cutting the appropriations
of the State Department of Agriculture because
Commissioner of Agriculture J. E. McDonald has
announced he will support Willkie for president.
A good way to settle this without
taking it out on the Texas farmer
will be to let the people of Texas
mete out their own punishment at
election time. They may, if they
so desire, refuse to elect McDonald
to office and may write in the
name of “Farmer Jim” Ferguson’s
brother who has already announced
for the office as an independent.
Ex-King Carol of Rumania has
been arrested in pro-Hitler Spain
soon after published reports that he would form a
pro-English government in exile for Rumania.
Production of war-planes in the United States
is about 20% behind schedule this month but Eng
land is supposed to get about 450 or 500 planes from
us, about half the total production this month. Last
month England only received about 275 planes from
the United States.
Thirty-nine workers on W.P.A. in Schenectady,
N. Y., have had their pay docked for one-half hour
each, and have been laid off for two days each. The
two-day lay off was for going to hear Wendell Will
kie speak and the half-hour pay cut was for the
time they were actually away listening to the
speech.
A Washington, D. C., clerk has been arrested
for “threatening” President Roosevelt. No details
had been given up to the time this was written.
President Roosevelt has at last gone on the
stump to offset the recent Republican trend. He has
accused his opponents of “deliberate falsification of
fact”. He had already spoken of those who opposed
his “new deal” plan as “copperheads” and of the
Senators who voted against his Supreme Court
bill as having been “purchased”. He has yet to make
several speeches before election day on November
5.
The waste-basket which was thrown by the lady
government employee who disliked Mr. Willkie so
intensely has been followed by several eggs and
tomatoes aimed more or less accurately at Mr. and
Mrs. Willkie. It is to be hoped that the recent trend
toward -null stop short of the use of bullets.
Nelson
MUSICAL MEANDERINGS
"Soup’s on, Harry!"
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By Tom GUlis
The smoldering beauty of Joan
Bennett is coming back to the As
sembly Hall screen Saturday in a
strange story of frustrated love.
“THE HOUSE ACROSS THE
BAY” is the prison where her hus
band George Raft gets sealed for
ten years, but the main point of
the feature is not so much the
beauty of Joan Bennett but her
faithfulness to Raft.
George Raft only appears in the
first part of the picture and then
he is sent up to ‘the House’ for in
come tax evasion. Joan is tricked
into betraying him to the govern
ment by another man that loves
her, Lloyd Nolan. Nolan Proceeds
to blackmail her and force his at
tentions upon her even though she
gives every sign of remaining true
to Raft. She meets another man,
Walter Pidgeon, who is attracted
by her beauty and falls in love
with her too. Nolan squeals to
Raft that the wife isn’t just wait
ing for him so he plans a break to
settle with her. The remainder is
the unusual part. Joan has her
choice of these three men and she
refuse^ to compromise her loyalty
to her husband even with her love
for another man.
Joan’s looks have been greatly
improved since she dyed her hair
black. Most movie fans will not
even remember that she was once
a baby faced blond because she
was not able to crash the really
big time star ring until after the
rise of glamorous Hedy Lamarr.
Then some wide awake publicity
man got her to change the color
of her hair and cash in on the
same type of beauty that led Hedy
upward. The dark hair strengthen
ed her chin which seemed so weak
and childlike as a blonde and now
as the raven-haired beauty, Joan
is rivaled only by Hedy herself.
The film version of “SATUR
DAY’S CHILDREN” was adopted
from the Pulitzer Prize play by
Maxwell Anderson but the film
will not reach the high honors that
the best seller did. The story con
cerns the struggles of a young mar
ried couple who make the worst of
living on $20 i per week. You have
to admire their intestinal fortitude
for trying but they too soon find
that two may be able to live as
cheaply as one but for only half
as long. A little philosophy from
Claude Rains gives them adiffer-
ent outlook and they regain their
happiness without their money.
This show is slow moving and
demonstrates a rather trite sit
uation. Anne Shirley and John
Garfield make up the struggling
young couple, and Garfield has
played this type so much that dust
will really be his destiny unless he
tries something else. Anne’s face
is new and refreshing and Claude
Rains makes a good worldly-wise
father.
By Murray Evans
“Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm”—
that’s what it’s called—and it does
precisely that, flows, and in a
smooth stream that is decidedly
pleasing to all and sundry. This
brilliant CBS feature, presented
each Sunday at 1:35 p. m. Central
Standard Time, is best heard over
KRLD or KTSA; however, other
Texas stations connected with this
chain carry it. The music of John
Kirby is spotlighted. With a small
combination of only six pieces this
band, nothing short of marvelous,
is rapidly becoming known as “The
biggest little band in America”.
The beautiful and unrivaled tone
colors achieved by such limited in
strumentation is almost unbeliev
able. A quiet, but compelling new
type of swing is used. Imagine
Lionel Hampton at the keyboard,
better his incomparable style a
few notches, and you have Kirby’s
pianist. There is a clarinetist on
hand who leaves no doubt that he
can out-Shaw Artie Shaw on all
week days and on Sundays. But
the other four men are equally as
good; you will marvel at one and
then listen all agape at another.
Each is too good, is much too ca
pable, to play in an ordinary top
notch orchestra, for each is a
star in his own right. And that
makes for six stars in a brilliant
type of combination which fits
them best.
The announcer for the band is
undoubtedly a musician, for his
quaint word usage in presenting
BRAIN TWISTER
By R. R. Lyle
The Fish of a certain outfit on
the campus are to make a sign
for the S. M. U. game. This sign or
banner is to be hung diagonally
across a rectangular portion of the
wall of the mess hall which meas
ures 10 by 15 ft. The banner is
rectangular and one and only one
of its corners is to touch each side
of the rectangular wall. (Give
answer to five significant figures.)
Answer 17.126 ft.
a number is typical. For instance,
his pleasant drawl will say, “Well,
that’s music for you. You think,
you play, and you feel your music
and pretty soon it gets right, with
the rhythm flowing, the reeds deep,
and the bass ’way back to let the
horns ride over. We felt good!
We felt solid! And we played it
the way we liked it—the way John
Kirby said.”
Remember the Negro girl who
made “Loch Lomond” famous—and
while so doing sang circles around
one Dorothy Lamour in the picture
“St. Louis Blues?” Yes, it’s Maxine
Sullivan, the compelling charm of
whose voice arrests your attention
and further adds to this program’s
success. The rich Kirby-styled
background is tailored to measure
Maxine’s velvety, easy way of
singing. Appropriately enough, a
few subdued bars of “Loch Lo
mond” precede her numbers, while
announcer Lee, in a way that he
has, rolls out some unique intro
duction, like: “Folks liked the way
Maxine sang—liked the way she
still sings right to you—the way
she makes you listen to her. Why,
she make you feel a tune. She sings
it for real.”
The layman may not be so im
pressed—or, to put it bluntly in
music palaver—get the ‘bang’ out
of this CBS novel presentation that
the musician will get. But nobody
can remain entirely unmoved at the
inspired genius and originality of
this unusual musical organization
which is becoming so popular.
W. J. Douglas, Jr.
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Pre-Med Society Holds First Meeting
Of Year; Plan To Have Many Speakers
At the initial meeting of the
Pre-Medical Society for the year
1940-41 plans for the following
year were discussed along with
other business. It was decided that
the meetings of the club should be
held on alternate Thursday nights.
The club plans to present a speak
er at every other meeting; the
other meetings for club business
only.
The custom has been for the
Pre-Medical students to make an
inspection trip to some medical
school each year, and since the
trip was made to the Baylor Medi
cal School in Dallas last year it
was suggested that the trip be
made to the University of Texas
Medical School in Galveston this
year. These inspection trips are of
special interest to those students
who plan to enter a medical school
the following fall. Several of the
medical students who are not
otherwise engaged take small
groups of the pre-medical students
and show them around the campus
and hospitals which are associated
with the medical school.
The Pre-Medical Society plans
to have a banquet in the near fu
ture and a picnic sometime during
the spring term. The banquets
have always been a great success
due to the fact that the speaker
is usually the dean of some medi
cal school or some other prominent
man in the medical field. The pro
fessors and doctors of the various
departments in which the pre
medical students do their work are
present, and a baseball game with
these professors and doctors parti
cipating is the main event of the
picnic.
For the first time in the history
of the society, arrangements have
been made to show moving pic
tures of interest to pre-medical
students. These “shows” will be
held in the Biology Lecture Room
and are due to be a great addition
to the activities of the society. The
society will also have a benefit
show at the Assembly Hall during
the fall term.
A large group of the members
of the Pre-Medical Society always
attend the state-wide Pre-Medical
Convention which is held in Austin
during the spring term. Pre-medi
cal students from all over the state
are treated to a banquet and the
best speakers available are usually
present. Moving pictures of actual
scenes in an operating room are
shown previous to the banquet. In
cidentally, this is an acid test for
pre-medical students. If a person
can sit through this show, he may
feel fairly safe in continuing his
pre-medical course.
From these plans and others
which are in the making it can be
seen that the Pre-Medical Society
is due to have a full, interesting,
and educational year.
Some of the boys who have had
calculus asked me, for a problem
involving calculus so here is one
involving Math 203.
A frustum of a cone has slant
height of twenty-four inches and
the diameter of the upper base is
six inches. What should be the dia
meter of the lower base to give a
maximum volumn to the fustrum.
Answer 18.814.
A nine-ribbed umbrella is strip
ped of its fabric covering so that
its ribs are straight even when
open. They are opened so that each
rib makes an angle of 15° 13’ with
the center stick. Find the angle
any rib makes with the one next
to it.
Answer 10° 18’
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Reid Completes
Eighteen Years In
Poultry Department
Profesor D. H. Ried, head of the
poultry department, looks baiok
this year on eighteen years of hard
work and progress in his depart
ment.
Professor Ried, affectionately
known as “Prof” to his friends and
associates, had much to Co with or
ganizing the department of poul
try in 1923 from a few houses, a
few hundred chickens and a branch
of the animal husbandry depart
ment who furnished an assistant
professor that taught poultry and
business law.
The poultry department, as it
is today, consists of one half of
the two top stories of the Animal
Industries building, a fifty-one
acre farm which has all of the
most popular breeds of chick
ens, facilities for wild game and
a large flock of turkeys.
“Prof” came to Texas A. & M.
in 1923 after teaching in the Uni
versity of California for five years
where he received his B.S. and M.S.
degrees in poultry husbandry. Since
this time Prof has attained the
reputation of a state and nation
wide authority on poultry.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Saturday 6:30 & 8:45—
“THE HOUSE ACROSS THE
BAY,” starring Joan Bennett,
George Raft, Lloyd Nolan,
Walter Pidgeon, and Gladys
George.
Monday, Tuesday, 3:30 &
7:30—“SATURDAY’S CHIL
DREN,” with Anne Shirley,
John Garfield, Claude Rains,
Roscoe Karns, and Lee Pat
rick.
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday—“GIRL FROM
AVENUE A,” with Jane
Withers, Kent Taylor, and
Katherine Aldridge.
Saturday midnight, Sun
day, Monday—“IN OLD MIS
SOURI,” featuring the Wea
ver Brothers and Elviry,
June Storey, and Thurston
Hall.
See our complete line of
Gas Circulartors and
Radiant Heaters.
For Natural or Butane
Gas.
McCulloch-Dansby
Company
“Complete Home
Furnishers"
CAMPUS
150 200
to 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
LAST DAY
Jane Withers
in
“Girl From
Avenue A”
Also
Late Football News
and Community Sing
x Prevue Tonight
Sunday and Monday
“In Old Missouri”
with
Weaver Bros, and Elviry
Also
Special News Reel on
A. & M. - T. C. U.
Football Game
and Disney Cartoon
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