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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
4-5441.
Bob Nisbet
Keith Hubbard ....
George Fuermann
Hub Johnson
Tommy Henderson
Phil Golman
Pete Tumlinson ...
J. B. Pierce
T. R. Vannoy
Editor-in-Chief
Advertising Manager
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Circulation Manager
. Staff Photographer
Staff Artist
.... Editorial Assistant
... Editorial Assistant
Earle A. Shields,
T. R. Harrison .
SATURDAY’S STAFF
Jr Managing Editor
Assistant Advertising Manager
, Junior Editors
W. O. Brimberry R. B. Pearce W. C. Carter
Sports Staff
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hollimori : ; Junior Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Sports Assistant
Reportorial Staff
Bill Apiis, Charles Babcock, Don Corley, W. F. Keith,
Z. A. McReynolds, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison.
Top Much of a Good Thing
IT’S BEEN SAID that the chief difference between
French and American liquor drinking is that the
French khow when to quit. You never see a drunk
Frenchman. The same characteristic of intemper
ance applies to other phases of American life as
well as the drinking. For instance the “pranks” pul
led in Houston Wednesday night presumably by
Aggies illustrate the intemperance prevelant in
most Americans.
Reports say that gallons of red paint were
daubed over structures on the Rice Institute cam
pus, and most particularly over the statue of Wil
liam Marsh Rice, founder of the school. A flag
painted to read, “Texas A. & M. National Champ
ions”, was raised on the flagpole over the field-
house, the ropes cut, and the flagpole greased.
Everywhere “Texas Aggies” in permanent red paint
was in evidence. Authorities at Rice are justly in
dignant, :
Just what the significance between desecration
of the tomb of the founder of Rice has to do with
the coming football game, only the thoughtless who
did it can say. Certainly it doesn’t improve the spirit
of either side.
The raising of the flag over the fieldhouse of
Rice Stadiium would have been a good joke, and
would have been quite an accomplishment in itself.
But the old trait of not knowing when to quit crop
ped out and paint was daubed over buildings, paint
that cannot be removed, paint that will stand as a
blemish on the record of Texas A. & M. for years
to come.
Not even one per cent of the student body con
dones the desecrating of a tomb. That is not a joke;
it i^n’t, even decent. Of course it has not yet been
proved that an A. & M. student committed the act.
But circumstantial evidence strongly suggests—cir
cumstantial evidence has hanged many men—that
it was A. & M. students.
Now that the deed has been committed, let’s try
to make up for the misdeed and play the perfect
host to the people from Rice and Houston who at
tend the game today. Let’s follow an example set
by the .Aggie Band in treating visitors.
Each visiting band is met by the freshmen in
the band, their horns and bags carried to Harring
ton Hall, and the members allowed to wash and
change clothes. Nothing is too good for those boys
while they are the visitors of the band. That should
apply to the other students as well.
We’ve got no bone to pick with Rice other than
to beat them in today’s football game. Let’s show
them we’re the best sports and the best bunch of
good fellows to be found anywhere.
A Mighty Conflict
THE AFTERMATH of the recent political campaign
brings forth this contribution to The Battalion in
the form of a bit of levity.
. . . And Four Fat Years Followed
1. Now it came to pass that a famine fell upon
the land, and it was very grievous, and all the peo
ple were sorely afflicted.
2. And the people came and stood in long lines and
cried out to the rulers, saying, “Give us bread for
our wives and for our children, or we perish.”
3. But the rulers belong to the Republicans, and
they hardened their hearts, and heeded them not.
4. Wherefore the people rose up and cast them out.
5. And they chose a man from the Democrats and
set him up to rule over them. And this man went
about the land doing good, for he was a great Hu
manitarian.
6. And again the land was fruitful, and the people
cried out no more.
7. But the Republicans were discomfited, and they
biteth their nails.
8. And they gathered themselves together, and
called unto them the rich men of the land. And they
said unto them, “Look ye what this man doeth. He
taketh from thee, and giveth to the poor.
9. “Yea, verily, let us drive him from the seats- of
the mighty. And when we have cast him out, we will
choose one of our own number to rule.”
10. And they chose a man named Wendell, who came
from the middle provinces.
11. But the ruler of the land was told concerning
these doings.
12. And he called unto himself his chief captains,
who were mighty men of valor. And he commanded
them saying,
13. “Gather the Democrats together, and let them
speak to the people.”
14. And the Democrats and their high priests and
scribes went throughout the land, and spake to the
multitude, saying,
15. “Did not this man feed ye when ye hungered,
and did not he remember you, ye men who were
forgotten?”
16. And the people answered and said, “Surely he is
a righteous man.”
17. Wherefore they arose, and took each man his
ballot.
18. And they cast their ballots at Wendell so the
earth shook. And the land slid and covered him, and
put the Republicans to flight.
19. And for another four years, peace reigneth
throughout the land.
Exchanges-Why College
There has been thousands of words written on
why one should go to college. There have been as
many thousand words written on why one should not
go to college. Some people contend that college is
a bad influence—that it undermines the foundation^
and bases laid in the home—that the individual
turned out by our colleges is an egotist, expecting
the best in life to be handed to him on the proverbial
silver platter.
Perhaps this was true in previous years. But
the generation reared in the yeai’s of the depression
does not belong to this group. This generation, to
which we belong, is appreciative of the opportuni
ties and advantages which are offered in the chance
to attend a college.
In our day almost everyone has a college edu
cation. Lack of a degree is a strong detrimental
influence in the attempt to get a job. For in our day,
it is not hard to get an education if the driving ob
session—the unquenchable urge for knowledge—is
within the heart.
It may be true, as many argue, that the indi
vidual learns habits in college which he would not
otherwise have picked up. Habits which do not fur
ther his best interests in society. But how can we
be sure that this same individual would n,ot have
acquired these same habits once he was out in the
world ? Why blame all the bad" and unhelpful habits
on college?
Even if we should grant that this were true,
there would still be the indisputable fact that college
is a universal developer. The freshman learns that
his own is not the only right viewpoint. He learns
of the cultures and opinions of philosophers and
thinkers of ages past which infinitely surpass his
own. Thus he comes to realize the value of other
people—his contemporaries. He begins to learn
something of toleration.. The sophomore generally
is a carefree soul who learns the value of pleasure
and recreation. He is fully aware of his own poten
tialities. A junior in college is a grand .composite,
holding some of the sophomore characteristics and
promising some of the senior characteristics. These
seniors usually wake up during their last year in
college to the realization that their life will riot al
ways be one of pleasant undemanding associations.
They soon learn that there is work to be done in
the world and that they are the ones who must lead
in its accomplishment.
And these college seniors—these young men and
women who enter the world with four years exper
ience in associations with their own generation and
with the trained minds of their professors—enter the
utilitarian world of today unmeasureably better able
to cope with the problems which will beset them
than those men and women who do not have such an
education. The graduate will naturally have much
to which he must adjust himself; but his training
will enable him to accomplish this adjustment less
painfully and with deeper, more influential results,
than the knock-about training received by those who
never graduate from any college.
—T. C. U. Skiff
As the World Turns...
BY DR. AL B. NELSON
THE BRITISH NAVY has once again covered itself
with glory. The Jervis Bay, an old armed merchant
ship used for convoy duty, sailed out to certain de
struction at the hands of a modern German pocket
battleship in order to save the ships of the convoy
under its protection. Its astounding feat in holding
off the German raider for two hours
enabled most of the ships in the con
voy to escape. The German was a
sister ship of the Graf Spec which ran
from an inferior British force and
was scuttled by its crew off Monte
video, Uruguay.
The British air force may have
caused the bombing of Taranto, the
Italian naval base, to go down as one
of the decisive actions of the war if
its claim to have sunk or destroyed
three battleships and two cruisers is fully substan
tiated.
There are continued rumors of a shake-up with
in the ranks of the presidents trusted helpers. It is
said that Mayor La Guardia, of New York may en
ter the cabinet and there is great agitation for the
removal of Madam Secretary Perkins from the De
partment of Labor. Ambassador Kennedy, back from
his London post is said to be seeking a cabinet post
in return for his pro-Roosevelt campaign speech.
Ambassador Bullit, reluctant to return to France,
is credited with desiring an under-secretaryship in
the Department of State but late news reports in
dicate that Roosevelt is urging him to take Ken
nedy’s place in the London embassy.
Late reports indicate that England is so ap
prehensive of a German attempt at the conquest of
Iceland that eighty thousand troops have been sent
to prevent such a move. German planes based on
Iceland could do much to disrupt communications
between England and the American continent.
A queer turn in the news is the revelation that
Greece obtained much of her supplies of arms and
munitions from the Japanese who are now partners
of the axis powers. The tragic part of it all to us
will come when the Japanese begin shooting muni
tions made in America, and made from steel made
in America at our own soldiers and sailors.
Hawaii is once again asking for statehood and
a bill to make this possible is even now before Con
gress. If it is passed the Hawaiian Islands will be
come the forty ninth state, but the Army and Navy
oppose statehood on the ground that it would weaken
national defense. More than 150,000 persons in the
islands are of Japanese descent. It is said that a
majority of persons of American descent oppose
statehood on the ground that it would hand them
over to the rule of those of Japanese descent and
who are still Japanese at heart.
THE BATTALION
BACKWASH
By
George Puermonn
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
Once Over Lightly. . . .Houston
newspapers recently quoted the
Rice footballers as saying, “What’s
so tough about the Aggies? They
put their pants on one leg at a
time just as we do.” The Cadets’
All-American
guard, Marshall
Robnett, is right
back at the Rice
men with, “Yeah,
but they can’t run
with a football the
way we do after
they get their pants
on!” . . . Belive-it-
or-not story of the
Fuermann
week concerns
sophomore Robert E. (Bob) Burns
who recently wrote to his post of
fice box number at TSCW. Noth
ing unusual in itself, the thing
took on incredible properties when
the return letter was sighed by
one Martha Raye. Investigation
proved the signature to be a fact
rather than a gag; the belle in
question being an SMU junior
transfer, who, by her own ad
mission, is a “blonde with blue
eyes, weight 115 pounds, 5 feet 7%
inches tall and naturally curly hair”
. . . .Best definition of a corps
trip—from a TSCWian: “I have
eaten two horiest-to-goodness meals
in the past day and a half, slept
three hours, lost five pounds and
fallen in love!” .... Jerry Mann’s
escortee, Dallas coed Anne Mor
ris, said it at the close of last
Saturday’s Aggie-Mustang game:
“The Aggies are like Roosevelt—
they can’t be beat.” . . . .Football
pools, at best, are a rotten racket,
and even when run fairly, the odds
are tremndous against, the bettor.
But still worse are the pools that
fail to pay the winners—on the
rare occasion when there is a win
ner. In the past two weeks both
Houston and College Station have
seen run-outs by pool makers who
would have had to pay off big
winnings. Then, too, in most cases,
the bettor doesn’t know who the
pool maker is, the selling being
done by an agent who is working
for another agent and so on. The
moral being: If you’ve got to bet
on football pools, don’t. But if you
still do, then try to find out who
the pool maker is and make as cer
tain as possible that he’ll be around
in case you’re one in a million
and happen to win that week-end.
Ten Minutes is the Test:
Aggie-ex William S. (Bill) Hipp,
who graduated in 1926, is telling
one of the best of the current stor
ies going the rounds concerning
the “good ole days.” It was during
Bill’s freshman year that Dr. W.'
B. Bizzell was A. & M. president,
“Prexy Bizzell reigning from
1914 to 1925. Those were also the
days when the corps was required
to attend chapel service every
Sunday morning at which a local
minister would deliver a 30-min-
ute address—and therein lies the
tale. It seems that more than a few
of the cadets looked upon that
compulsory period as a. chance to
complete their Sunday morning
sleeping, regarding which Prexy
had only one thing to say: “You
men stay awake for the first ten
minutes—if the speaker doesn’t
interest you in that length of
time, it’s perfectly all right for
you to go to sleep.”
•
On Shining Boots
There’s more to the job of shin
ing officer’s boots than readily
meets the eye. Two darkeys who
shine more than their share of the
senior footwear are Eugene Center
and Ed Brown, both employed by
a local bootmaker. Over a nine-
month period they average 60 pairs
of boots a day and it takes about
five minutes to shine each pair. If
you figure the thing out, you’ll
find that they shine 12,960 pairs
of boots during a single long ses
sion; to shine that many boots
it takes them 1,080 hours, which
means that if two of them should
start shining boots this morning
and would shine continuously eight
hours at a stretch without taking
time-out for anything, it would
take them 67 days—until January
23, 1941—to shine the boots which
they normally shine in the nine-
month period—not that it makes
any difference.
Even shining boots has its trials
and tribulations. To wit: The recent
case of the two freshmen from dif
ferent military organizations who
came after boots for upperclass-
-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1940
men. Being in a hurry, they only
looked in one boot of each pair for
the owner’s name—but failed to
get the mate; thus mixing four
pairs of boots into a crazy tur
moil which took four days to
straighten out.
“We like shining boots fine,”
said both Ed and Gene. “The only
tough part is when we bump our
heads together too hard while
we’re both working at once!”
Good
FRIED CHICKEN
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Jimmie Lynch Again.
The item in Thursday’s column concerning the Death Dodgers and
sophomore Jimmie Lynch Jr. attracted enough comment to merit fur
ther discussion. The whole thing amounts to a two-hour show of con
tinued thrills. Some of the featured acts include jumping an automobile
through a burning board wall, then over the top of a truck parked 45
feet from the end of an inclining ramp leading up to it—the poor auto
mobile going off the end of that ramp and landing—just a little hard—
more than a hundred feet away after a flight through the air. Another
act that usually gets the crowd on its feet is to roll a car over from
wheel to wheel. The climax of the show comes when an old junk car
(usually a ’25 or’26 model) is jumped over the top of a truck and two
more cars, then into two other junk cars parked at the end of the ramp
—thus completely demolishing three old cars. “That’s one hell of a
trick to do, too,” Jimmie says. Jimmie has been driving for four years
and occasionally leaves the college on weekends to take part in a show.
Last season the Death Dodgers gave 3,000 performances at the New
York World’s Fair.
In the usual order, that’s John A. Scarborough, Aggie sophomore;
attractive Jacqueline (Bye-Bye) Bodie who does a little driving for the
Death Dodgers herself; and Jimmie as the three of them were doing
whatever people do in a New York hight club.
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