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Page 2 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, $8 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. Offioo., Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. Bob Nisbet Keith Hubbard .. George Fuermann Hub Johnson Tommy Henderson Phil Golman Pete Tumlinson „ J. B. Fierce T. R. Vannoy Editor-in-Chief Advertising Manager Associate Editor Sports Editor Circulation Manager Staff Photographer Staff Artist Editorial Assistant Editorial Assistant SATURDAY’S STAFF Earle A. Shields, Jr Managing Editor T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager Junior Editors W. O. Brimberry Bob Myers lack Hoilimon ...., W. F. Oxford R. B. Pearce W. C. Carter , Sports Staff Assistant Sports Editor Junior Sports Editor Sports Assistant Reportorial Staff Bill Amis, Charles Babcock, Don Corley, W. F. Keith, Z. A. McReynoIds, Jack Nelson, L. B, Tennison Our Sympathy SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS a mother—the mother of an Aggie—waits anxiously for the return of her sdh. For a week now she has been waiting in vain ever hoping. A sound on the front steps—she starts. Maybe it is Webb come home at last. She rushes to the window for the hundredth time in the day. But it is only the paper boy. She sighs and turns away, the spirit of doom weighing heavily on her mind, and her heart burdened with sorrow. Last Saturday after the Baylor game Webb Carnes, an A. & M. freshman left to surprise his folks and have Sunday dinner at his home in San Antonio. But somehow Carnes didn’t get home. Nor did he get back to school. No one has seen or heard of him since. Webb Carnes was not the type of boy to cause his family such heartbreak intentionally, and he would know to call collect if he could get to a tele phone. Police are baffled; college authorities haven’t the faintest idea what could have happened. A reward of $500 has been offered, but neither the family nor the college officials believe him to be kidnapped. There is not enough information even to speculate. But in the meantime a mother waits hardly daring to hope—yet watching, waiting, anxiously despairing. To Mrs. Carnes The Battalion extends its deepest sympathy. We wish there was something that we could do to lead to the discovery of his lo cation. United We Stand; Divided-? LIKE THE CHAIN a senior class is only as strong as its weakest and most non-interested member. The attendance at Wednesday’s class meeting indicates that very few of the class of ’41 are interested at all. Had Wednesday’s attendance been doubled, there still wouldn’t have been enough of the members present to constitute a quorum to do business. Lately a great “howl” has been raised that the faculty is taking all the authority from the students. This is not so and the class officers will admit it. The fact is that Hie class cannot get together and the class officers hesitate to act without the consent or approval of the students they represent. Certain issues need immediate action as all class ■members know, but until the senior class gets in terested enough in these matters nothing will be tlone. It is not the faculty taking away any author ity, it is the lack of assumption of said authority by the very ones who are objecting to faculty in tervention. To each man who missed Wednesday’s class meeting we plead: Seniors, this is your year. This is your class. Let’s make it a big year and a class that gets things done. The officers cannot accomplish much alone. They need your confidence and your support. They need your ideas. They need your help. Youth “THE YOUTH MOVEMENT,” quips a paragrapher in the University of Texas Daily Texan, “is most active when someone wants the lawn mowed.” To some degree, American youth is on the de fensive. Not a few persons in high places have been outspoken in their criticism. “Recently,” observes the Los Angeles Collegian, “we, the youth of the United States, have been the victims of a campaign calling us ‘a bunch of cowards ... a disgrace to the old families of trail-blazers’.” The Collegian con tinues that youth has “no desire to go oveT to Europe and be involved in another one of Europe’s muddles. We are afraid of having to fight someone else’s fight . . . But we ARE NOT afraid to fight our OWN FIGHT.” The Creighton university Creightonian notes that “Mr. Arnold Whitridge, in an open letter to American undergraduates, charged that students are not only un-American and pro-Nazis but down right immoral because they don’t grab a gun and charter the first, boat to England.” The Creightonian replies that “the reason undergraduates are opposed to intervention is not because we are too sluggish to defend our ideals, but because we believe that allying with England is not the way to defend them.” Citing the rush of youth to volunteer for service in the armed forces, the Louisiana State university Reveille notes that “very often American youth is condemned for talking intelligently and thinking shallowly. “We wonder” asks the Reveille, “if these ‘condemners’ would take the time to sit and con sider the action of America’s youth, with the world and his life before him, who sets aside his personal plans and ideas in order that he may serve his country—would they so hastily shout ‘shallow’?” Defense of youth has come also from faculty sources, among them Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard college, who declares the charges are ex aggerated, and Lehigh university pres. C. C. Wil liams, who holds it is not the young people, but the elders of the land, especially the statesmen, who have lost their hardiness. A challenge to youth is voiced by the Santa Clara, publication at the University of Santa Clara, Calif. “Recently,” it says, “in a letter to a national magazine, a woman accused American young men of doing nothing but ‘living off their parents and the government, riding around in jalopies, and exercis ing an immoral attitude toward women’.” The Santa Clara believes “the immediate reaction of the sub jects of such attacks is laughter or contempt. It is an unfortunate truth, however, that the last person to recognize a fault is the subject of that fault. It is the duty of college men to exhibit in themselves such industry, patriotism and adherence to Christian principles that in times of national crises scurri lous attacks upon ‘American Youth’ will be made impossible.” If the college press of the land is an indicator, youth recognizes its shortcomings, resents the unfairness of some critics, and is resolved to dis prove all charges of weakness. Associated Collegiate Press OPEN FORUM WHERE IS THE SONG that means so much to every “Aggie?” What has. happened to “The Spirit of Aggieland?” As the juniors and seniors will re member, it has been the custom for the “Twelfth man” to sing “The Spirit of Aggieland,” at the end of the band’s formations during the half at the football games. On October 26, 1940 in Waco, one verse of the song was played. We would like to see this old custom revived. Can’t something be done about this ? We are proud to be Aggies and we surely are proud of “The Spirit of Aggieland” and would like to hear it played in its entirety during the half at every football game. Signed, W. E. Smith, ’41 H. Shanger, ’42 M. B. Inman Jr., ’41 W. E. Frost, ’42 C. L. Walker, ’42 R. J. Carroll, ’41 J. M. Vivian, ’42 L. H. Mead, ’41 H. E. Ritcher, ’42 V. W. Michaels, ’41 Orville Hamilton, ’41 Hub Johnson, ’41 George L. Mueller, ’41 Travis V. Hodges, ’41 Walter Blume, ’40 George Barron, ’41 C. F. Thompson, ’42 H. E. Haltom, ’40 W J.. Owen, ’41 Don Earley, ’42 I. B. Stitt, ’41 I. F. Lewis, ’41 J. A. Clay Jr., ’41 J. C. Foster J. U. Bailey, ’40 H. A. Derrick, ’41 C. A. Gochicoa, ’41 EVERY GROUP has its two percents and the Ag gies had theirs in Waco last week end. There were a few things done then that are not in keeping with the feelings of most of the Aggies. One of the most notable of these was the wearing of diamonds by unclassified seniors. These men stick out like sore thumbs in the eyes of the students, and they are not appreciated by anyone. This is a deplorable state of affairs when all a man has to do when he wants to become a cadet officer is to just buy his buttons or diamonds and put them on. This isn’t fair to the men that have earned them. We sincerely hope that the same incident does not occur in Dallas next week. T. M. Hagood Carlos L. Dodd Tom Stovell A. R. Newman Bob Little Joe Slicker C. J. Keese A. L. Bullard Clint Kennemer Thos. D. Hill Glenn H. Reynolds As the World Turns... BY DR. AL B. NELSON THE JAPANESE HAVE ABANDONED the Chi nese city of Nanking, which makes it the first Chi nese provincial capitol to be regained by the fight ing Chinese. Since its re-occupation by the Chinese armies they have also forced the Japanese to aban don several other strategic points in the same province. We continue to appease Japan. The administration has made the gen eral announcement that aviation gas may not be sold to Japan, but in real- ily this affects only the highest grades and the ordinarly used grades are still available for export. The sale of scrap iron has been forbidden but this forced the Japanese to buy high grade processed steel, and iron, from the big companies. This does not hurt Japan in the slightest, but does INCREASE THE PROFITS of the big steel corporations and competes with our own re-armament program. President Roosevelt recently appointed a negro to the rank of brig, general in the army which reminds us that the only negro in the U. S. Con gress is a member of the Democratic Party, elect ed from the State of Illinois. This particular mem ber of the dominant political party in the South made a trip through certain southern states some time back and refused to obey the law requiring whites and negroes to ride in different compart ments on the train. A late news report states that Neville Cham berlain, appeasement-minded former prime minis ter is on his way from England to California. Evi dently he has lost confidence in the efficiency of his umbrella as a shelter from Nazi bombs. General Hugh Johnson has a very informative article on the progress and efficiency of the arm ament program in the United States in the Decem ber number of COSMOPOLITAN, which is now on the news stands. One interesting item of general interest is his statement that the naval air force is now weaker in combat strength than it was five months ago when the government suddenly awaken ed to the national danger. A Question? Why is it considered needful to keep the American people in ignorance of the de tailed progress, or lack of progress, in the arma ment program. The usual answer is to keep the in formation from the hands of enemies, but so far the Germans seem to experience no difficulty in g-etting the details of our most important secrets, such as the much touted bomb-sight. The only ones who are left in ignorance are the American people who must pay for the program and whose safety is at stake. Nelson THE BATTALION BACKWASH Bu George fuermam SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1940 all—down the main street of know that our hearts are still with Toronto the other night and I and always will be with the fightin’ “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. Once Over Lightly . . . Philoso phy: From the bulletin board of The Houston Post, “What gaineth a man if he keepeth his pride and turneth down an offer of a short beer?” ... A truism hard to deny was the recent quip of J. C. Hotard’s secretary, Jane Grey, A cadet walked into Jane’s office and—making conversation— ask ed her if anything unusual had hap pened lately. “Uh- huh,” she replied Fuermann pointing to a stack of departmental salary checks, “that’s unusual—only happens 12 times a year!” . . . And still an other aftermath of the Aggie- Uclan game is the letter received by Aggie Ira Lewis from his broth er Forrest who is now attending aeronautical school in Galifornia. The chief concern of the letter was the Aggies’ victory yell, “Lizzie.” “Send me that yell that A. & M. used when they talked so sissy and kinda whistled like a few thous and ghosts and said something about cherry phosphates.”—which is a new high in description for Lizzie. The yell, incidentally, is Galifornia-bound . . . All of the high school girls you’ll see on the campus today aren’t part of Luther Stark’s famed Bengal Guards. Col lege Station’s Consolidated High School girls will be selling football souvenirs in the guise of a small maroon and white doll. The girls— and their mothers—worked for a week making the dolls, the pro ceeds from which will go to their athletic fund for the purpose of buying much-needed sweaters for the players. • Robert (Tex) Flynn. With Frank Buck for eight months, training lions and tigers for three months, and nurse maid to 20-foot long snakes for five months—briefly, that’s the rocking chair story of Bob Flynn’s life during the early part of 1936. Bob worked with the famed bring-’em-back-alive artist on Buck’s Long Island farm land is probably the only Aggie who has done so. During the first three months Bob “managed” 45 lions and tigers. This proved to be a little tame so he switched to the snake house. Here he assisted in caring for the pythons, boas, and the deadly Indian cobras. The py thons, of which there were five, were all longer than 23 feet—the longest being 28 feet. Where the sniakes were concern ed his job was force-feeding. This consisted of running a two inch rubber tube down their throats for a distance of two feet. The tube was attached to a long funnel through which was “poured” a mixture of 10 pounds of raw beef, four skinned rabbits, six chickens, and a pint mixture of cod liver oil and olive oil. • The R. C. A. F. Meaning the Royal Canadian Air Force which is already plus-pop ulated with Texas Aggies. Latest addition to the A. & M. contingent is Bentley Clements who left col lege just a month ago. Other recent additions are James Bassett and Bob Groulx who supplemented Jack Garner, Bill Tyler, Bill Gibb, Jerry Jones, and Allen Lindsey. The Aggies are receiving a big play in the Canadian press and reports from the former cadets in dicate that the citizenry of the maple leaf country are treating them like royalty. One article ap pearing in The Windsor Sun says, “The Texans are. (already well known here and will be long and favorably remembered in Windsor.” Most of the Aggies are stationed in Toronto at No. 1 Manning Pool. Besides the Aggies, there are more than 150 other Texans now in train ing for the R. C. A. F. as well as in the field artillery and tank units of the Canadian army. One Aggie writes, “I wore my number one uniform—boots and seriously doubt whether Ann Sher idan in the nude could have caused any more commotion.” He contin ues, “In Canada everything is either ‘bloody’ or ‘blimy’—like ‘a bloody night’ or ‘a blimy good time.’ We stay in the Y. M. C. A. free of charge and the R. C. A. F. pays 75 cents each for our meals land gets gypped on all but a dime of it: We rejoice at every A. & M. football victory and want you to Aggies.’ Good FRIED CHICKEN at SOUTHERN CHICKEN GRILL Highway 6 - Bryan Stomach Comfort Why suffer with Indi gestion, Gas, Gall Blad der Pains or High Blood Pressure? 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Pity is the react ion which most members of the Chaney Jr. has his first major role in this feature as a big bruiser audience will have. This is one of those shows which Hollywood turns with too much brawn arid no brains out only so often in which there is and Burgess Meredith who acts no real class A star but which is somewhat as his guardian or keep- a good show without needing any. er. The combination of ox-like “ strength and childish mentality con stantly get the pair into difficult ies, and Meredith is constantly afraid that real tragedy may befall him. In the story, Chaney follows Mer edith as a dog does its master and obeys him with the same unquest ioned faith. His main weakness is a moronic pleasure in stroking soft objects suefi as small animals or fur. To evade a posse in one place, the pair flee to a California ranch and get jobs as migratory work ers. The only woman in the show is Betty Field, the cheap and lonely wife of another worker. She flirts with everyone and Chaney is brought under her spell when he strokes her soft hair. Here the tragedy falls because his strength is so much greater than his judg ment, and his guardian is not near. The end of the show gives about the only solution to such a poor individual’s bull-in-a-china shop problem of too much power and not enough reason to control it. This story is taken from the best selling novel by John Steinbeck, who also wrote “Grapes of Wrath.” —- After The Game —New Thrills Here After the football game, review its thrills and get new ones by dining with us . . . HARRY’S CAFE Hwy. No. 6 - At Y Roads $1.10 S c R I P $1.10 CORPS DANCE SATURDAY RITE, ROVEMRER 2 MUSIC BY ED MINNOCK and his AGGIELAND mm BAND 9 ’til 12 Mess Hall “NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR BIRD BOGS” LAST DAY 5 &tie OCT. 30-31 NOV. 1-2 WED • THUR • FRI • SAT • Aggieland Pharmacy “Keep to the right at the North Gate” Let "Ross" Dress "You" For S. A/I. U. 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