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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 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 tinaes 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
4-5444.
Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief
Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager
George Puermann 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
THURSDAY STAFF
George Fuermann Acting Managing Editor
George Woodman Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Tom Gillis D. C. Thurman
Sports Staff
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hollimon Junior Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Sports Assistant
Reportorial Staff
Z. A. McReynolds, L. B. Tennison, J. M. Speer
Bleed on Monday
NEVER LET IT BE SAID that student leaders on
the campus of A. & M. interfere with underclass
men holding any religious belief they choose. Nor
should it be possible that any cadet officer have
the power or desire to prevent any cadets under
his guidance and direction from attending any
function of the church.
Lately it has been brought to the attention of
The Battalion that certain cadet captains are re-
uiring freshmen to attend “bleed sessions” on Sun
day night when church leagues and unions are go
ing on, thereby forcing these freshmen to miss this
part of the evening services. This is indeed a sad
state of affairs.
Church leagues and unions are as much a part
of the evening service as is the sermon itself, and
the students gain no little benefit from these meet
ings.
Certainly it is hard for the churches and those
concerned to create the interest that should be shown
even when conditions are favorable. Students be
come forgetful and negligent in their church duties,
it seems, when they get away from home and go to
school. Those who do take an interest and an active
part in the church should definitely not be hindered
or discouraged in their activities, but should be
urged by cadet officers to take as much part as they
will. It might not be a bad idea if the cadet officers
in question should lead the way into the church,
themselves. But. in no case should they stand in the
the way of those who do wish to go.
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy
work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the
Lord, thy God; in it thou shall do no work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man
servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,
nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
For in six days the Lord made Heaven and
■earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the
sabbath day and hallowed it.” Exodous 20:8-11.
And on the seventh day God ended his work
which He had made; and .He rested on the
seventh day from all His work which He had
made.
And God blessed the seventh day and sanc
tified it; because that in it He had rested from
all his work which God created and made. Gene
sis 2:2-3.
When “bleed meetings” become so important
that they require freshmen to miss church league,
then something ought to be changed, and The Bat
talion is not of i the opinion that the church is the
less worthy of the two entei’prises.
The students who will take advantage of the
privilege of being absent after Call to Quarters on
Sunday night for the purpose of attending church
league are few in number compared to the number
who earnestly desire the time for worship. Certainly
the good the ones in earnest will obtain from their
church attendance will far offset the bad that the
few taking advantage of the ruling, will create by
being absent from dormitory activities.
When there are six other days in the week be
sides Sunday it is questionable that there is a
necessity for even holding bleed meetings on
day night much less during church services.
must abolish the breeding places of crime.” Dr. 0.
Myking Mehus, president of Winona (Minn.) State
Teachers college cites ineffectiveness of the prison
system and calls for a new approach to the crime
problem.
—Associated Collegiate Press
Something To Read
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
What One Jew Thinks About Jesus:
“The Nazarene”, by Sholem Asch
DID IT EVER occur to you how few non-Jews know
just what the average intelligent Jew thinks about
the founder of the Christian religion? “The Naza
rene”, which this column has already recommended
to those of you who were here last summer, presents,
in a sumptuous historical novel, the estimate of
Jesus held by at least one modern Jew. Furthermore,
the book tells a good story, full of color and move
ment and passionate drama, lighting up by fine
flashes of insight, some of the dark and puzzling
ways of human feeling and the human mind.
Beginning in modern Poland, the story intro
duces a reincarnation of the Roman officer Corne
lius, who presided over the Crucifixion, and who re
lates from his sophisticated Roman point of view
the vents of the first years of the mission of Jesus.
Cornelius, a cosmopolitan aristocrat and pagan, is
first idly interested, then fascinated, and finally al
most swept away by the disturbing personality of
“Yeshua of Nazareth”. The second part of the story
is told by none other than Judas Iscariot, who is
represented as a deeply religious man, betraying
his master from no such sordid motive as is usually
attributed to him. The finale, from the magnificent
entry into Jerusalem through the Crucifixion, is
related by a young disciple of the Rabbi Nicodemus,
the same rabbi who “came to Jesus by night”. It is
through the wise and gentle Nicodemus, by the way,
that the author seems to express his own interpre
tation of the character and significance of Jesus.
The point of the book, of course, is in the dra
matic story of Jesus and his impact upon Roman
imperialism and Jewish society and culture. But of
almost equal interest is the wonderfully vivid set
ting, by turns glittering and somber, turbulent with
restless energy, horrible and rich. The familiar
events of the life of Christ are seen in this excellent
book from an angle new to most of us, against the
background of the most convincing and exciting
recreation of an ancient society that this reviewer
has ever seen.
BACKWASH
By
George fuermann
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
Fuermann
Chimpanzee couples differ little from human
beings in their domestic relationships.
The Vatican has charged that Germany is
violating the 1933 concordat by discouraging the
Catholic colleges.
As the World Turns...
A Bird’s Eye View . . . Favorite
quip of one of the history profes
sors: “The dictipating constipators
of the totalitarian states!” . . .
Backwash predicts—and may be
wrong—that Longhorn Editor Ele
Baggett will ask
spectacle director
Cecile B. DeMille to
Judge the 1941
Vanity Fair belles.
Chances are that
DeMille will accept
as other beauty
pickers have done
in the past. Inci
dentally, the 1941
annual is progress
ing fast and behind-the-scenes ev
idences indicate that the publica
tion will be the best in A. & M.’s
64-year history . . . Today the na
tion celebrates one of several
Thanksgivings it will celebrate un
der the new rules, but for the Tex
as Aggies Turkey Day gets a seven,
day postponement. Most other
American colleges and universities
are taking their holidays this week
end—which means that they’ll be
back in session when the Aggies
are eating turkey, dressing, cran
berry sauce and the rest of the
trimmings . . . From one of the
College Hospital’s nurses: “The
things the cadets make the poor
freshmen do is simply amazing.”’
. . . Many cadets are still talking
about the excellent arrangement of
“The Aggie War Hymn’^which was
aired coast-to-coast via NBC’s net
work last Sunday night on the
weekly Pet Milk program . . . Last
Saturday’s Backwash editorialized
in respect to one of the rottenest
rackets on the campus—football
pools. Two days later the pool-
makers took the bettors for an
other ride on the Cornell-Dart-
mouth mix-up. They paid—or rath
er, DIDN’T pay—on the basis that
Cornell had won the game. The
fact that the game had been award
ed to Dartmouth because of an il
legal fifth down didn’t make any
difference to the pool-makers.
Which brings things back to where
we started—if you’ve got to bet on
pools, don’t; but if you still do,
make certain that the agent will be
around to pay a winner if there is
one.
Sun-
Quotable Quotes
“MANY STATEMENTS have been made that the
college freshman has a vocabulary of 100,000 words,
but it is my opinion that the average college new
comer knows very little about tbe English language.
Even if he has 100,000-word vocabulary I doubt
very much whether he uses more than 1,000 in
everyday life. Although they might know most of
the words, they are not available when the student
has a pen or pencil in hand.” Isadore Colodny, Eng
lish instructor at Los Angeles City college, sees
room for improvement in college linquistic ability.
“TODAY THREE PATHS lie open to the scholar.
He can retire with his knowledge to some bomb
proof shelter and wait patiently for the storm to
pass. Many believe the present emergency so great
that scholarship must be abandoned, at least for a
time, in favor of the immediate, practical issue of
making world safe for scholars. To me the third and
middle course seems the only justifiable one today:
to take one’s knowledge with one into the danger
zone; to learn from all the world as it is, and to use
one’s knowledge.” Prof. Mabel Newcomer, chair
man of the department of economics at Vassar col
lege, advises the Phi Beta Kappa chapter against
looking for the easy way out.
“THERE IS NO PHRASE in the Bill of Rights
that says that anybody, at any time has the right
to speak at a public college.” Harry D. Gideonse,
president of Brooklyn college, warns against abuse
of educational privileges by persons wearing “ideolo
gical blinders.”
“ONE OF THE GREAT problems facing our coun
try is how to secure respect for law and order. We
BY “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF
NO STARTLING news came from Berlin as a result
of Premier Molotoff’s visit. No demands were made
for the “New Order” in Europe and the Far East.
Molotoff left Berlin with the most formal words of
appreciation for the Nazi hospitality and let it go
at that. Unless something unforeseen takes place in
the near future, it may safely be
concluded that Molotoff’s visit
dealt with future military plans of
the Nazi in the Near East. Hitler
wanted to know what Russia’s at
titude would be if he decided to
help Italy by attacking Greece
through Bulgaria. The fact that
Rumanian, Hungarian, and Slovak
ian officials have been called for a
conference with Hitler strengthens
the suspicion that Hitler and Molo-
v. K. Sugareff toff conferred on military matters
more than a “New Order” for Europe and the Far
East. Turkey and Yugoslavia are not included in the
current Balkan conference. Turkey has already an
nounced that she will fight if Greece is attacked
thi’ough Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia will fight if her
independence is threatened.
Premier Ramon Suner of Spain is also in Ger
many for conferences with Hitler and von Ribben-
trop. It appears that Hitler is planning a military
offensive in the Mediterranean regions of Gibraltar,
Salonika, and the Dardanelles. Gibraltar is well
fortified and will not fall without inflicting heavy
losses. A campaign for Salonika, if it is undertaken
by the Italians, would be a far more easier campaign
through Yugoslavia than the present campaign from
Koritza-Phlorina to Salonika which has proved
costly to the Italians. There is an improved road
(the old Apian Way) fi’om the Albanian border via
Bitolj, Yugoslavia to Salonika. Should the Italians
decide to take this road, they would encounter strong
opposition from the Yugoslavs. The Germans and
the Bulgarians, if the latter joins the Axis, would
have to defeat the Turkish army in Thrace before
they could reach the Dardanelles. There too a strong
fortifications would have to be destroyed. Moreover,
military operations in the Balkans during the win
ter months are bound to be very slow. The roads are
not adequate for large scale military operations,
hardly any facilities for lodging a large army, and
food supplies can not be easily obtained. Probably
Hitler is planning such operations for late spring
and summer of 1941.
National Defense Progress—71 per cent of the
national defense orders have been placed with var
ious firms. More than ten billions of the sixteen
billions appropriated have been obligated. The army
has contracted for 6,000 new tanks. Aircraft com
panies have orders for 18,641 army combat and
training planes. The navy has placed orders for
7,000 planes of different types. Uniforms and blank
ets have been ordered for 2,000,000 men. ‘All but ten
per cent of the barracks and other housing facilities
will be ready by the end of this year. This progress
is being slowed down somewhat by strikes f 0 r high
er wages, sabotage, and demands for high profits.
Measures are under consideration to minimize these
negative aspects of our national defense program,
but we will probably continue to have some of these
troubles as long as living depends upon eating.
On Flem Hall.
The morning mail brought a let
ter from the Fort Worth Star-Tel
egram sports editor, Flem Hall,
and freshman Darwin Boesch, also
of Fort Worth. Boesch,said, in part,
“I am enclosing Flem Hall’s col
umn of last Wednesday. My father
is an Aggie-ex and quite naturally
wanted me to see this fine boost
for the corps. I feel that it is one
of the finest things said about the
corps this year and think that it
should be passed on to the entire
corps.”
The column in discussion, which
was read by too few Aggies as it
appeared in the afternoon edition
of the Star-Telegram which is not
mailed to college, is here reprinted
in part.
“In the two games played since
Yell Leader E. R. Keeton an
nounced a change in policy, the
Texas A. & M. Cadet Corps has
kept its bargain—it hasn’t let
out so much as a single cheer
while either team called signals
and launched (heir plays.
“For that sporting gesture the
Cadets have won the official
thanks of two schools—the
University of Arkansas and
S. M. U. Coaches Fred Thom
sen and Matty Bell publicly ex
pressed their appreciation.
“By their self-restraint the
students won the respect and ad
miration of thousands of fans.
“A continuation of thq new
policy will in time win untold
numbers of friends for the col
lege and its men.
“But cheer and band leaders of
other schools are going to have
to show equal restraint to keep
the co-operation of the Aggies.
“S. M. U.’s band was not letter
perfect in observation of the
agreement Saturday. Twice the
game was delayed while the S.
M. U. section of the students’
stands were shushed.
“That was taking foolish liber
ties with a force that could have
drowned out the loudest efforts
of the Mustang supporters. By
comparison to A. & M.’s full-
throated cry, S. M. U.’s best
would have been puny.
“It is a credit to Keeton and
the Aggies that they resisted the
natural impulse to challenge the
misguided Methodists.
“Time will be required for the
A. & M. rivals to recognize and
appreciate the corps’ sacrifice of
what it has long considered its
traditional right, but we believe
that within a reasonable period
leaders in other colleges will be
wise enough to meet the Cadets
half way.
“Everyone who has attended an
A. & M. game at College Station,
Waco, Houston, Fort Worth or
Dallas is fully aware of the fact
that the corps is the greatest
rooting section in the world. In
its 6,200 membership it has
greater numerical strength than
most schools, but that is not its
principal strength. Its real power
is in its burning spirit which has
been thoroughly organized and
trained.
“During all the years the Ag
gie football fortune sagged the
corps’ spirit kept burning bright
ly and fiercely. It went to games
in the same solid ranks that it
goes today, it stood through all
kinds of weather and cheered its
throat raw for losing teams. It
wasn’t so large then as it is now
but the spirit is the same. Man
for man the corps ' cheers no
louder now than it did for less
successful teams.
“No one could blame the corps
if it overwhelmed any opponent
who was so foolish as to disdain
its generous offer, but, on the
other hand, the corps could af
ford to make an even stronger
bid for public good will by ig
noring such puny yapping.
“Only a student body with an
unquestioned reputation such as
A. & M. could afford to refuse to
meet a cheering challenge. In
other places the silence might be
mistaken for apathy, but not at
A. & M. There it would be recog
nized for what it would really
be—an unmatched display of
sportsmanship; the self-imposed
restraint of a superior force.
“That’s NOT saying the corps
should never cheer. Holycow, No!
“At all other times; during
every second when the teams on
the field aren’t actually calling
signals (and that’s less than
one-third of the time) the Ca
dets, bless ’em, should cheer the
stadium walls down, if they can.
“Only thing being suggested is
that the corps cling to its present
popular policy no matter what
other* and lesser cheering sections
do. The corps can, because it is
the best, make the rules and
lead the way.”
— By Tom Gillis
Imagine all the beauty and this feature as quite a personality,
tempting charm of Betty Grable in Her rhumba rhythms and gay
technicolor and you have a good
idea of “DOWN AGENTINE
WAY.” The girl is glamorous
enough in black and white films
but now technicolor adds the in
finite touch to what is reputed to
be the best figure in Hollywood.
She dances and sings and other
wise cavorts throughout the show
with Don Ameche, who looks good
as the South American Caballero.
The plot, which romps from New
York to Argentine, deals with the
younger members of the two fam
ilies which have been race-track
enemies for years. Don’s father is
a wealthy Argentine land owner
who has been fueding with Betty’s
family over some race horse trage
dies. Naturally the families don’t
want these two youngsters to break
up a good family feud by being-
good friends but when one of Don’s
horses wins out over unreasonable
odds, there is nothing left to do
but kiss and make up.
Hollywood is sort of climbing 1 on
Uncle Sam’s bandwagon in his
campaign for South American good
will and this show ought to help a
lot. Carmen Miranda, the so-called
Brazilian bombshell who has been
singing catchy Latin American
songs on Broadway for the past few
months, makes her movie debut in
little tunes arc pleasant and lik
able. Betty Grable and Don Ame
che, however, are the main attract
ions in this South American tech
nicolor musical.
Pretty Linda Darnell strives to
cover herself with “STAR DUST”
in her picture by that name coming
as a benefit show Friday. Linda,
which means ‘pretty’ in Spanish, is
a 17 year old Dallas girl whom the
movies stumbled on and started in
a single year. The story is some
what biographical for Linda be
cause she too was alternately en
couraged and discouraged about
going to Hollywood before she dis
tinctly became a star.
As a little small town girl, Linda
has a yen for being in the movies
and pulls some clever stunts to get
herself recommended by talent
scout Roland Young. When she
gets their movie moguls
breathe first hot and then cold
on her would-be career, and it
takes some clever left handed work
to get her screen test approved.
This screen test, a scene be
tween Napoleon and Josephine, is
the best piece of acting in the fea
ture.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday, Friday, Satur
day—“DOWN ARGENTINE
WAY,” starring Betty Gra
ble, Don Ameche, Carmen Mi
randa, and Charlotte Green
wood.
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Thursday 3:30 & 7:30—
“THE SEA HAWK,” featur
ing Errol Flynn, Brenda Mar
shall, Claude Rains, Donald
Crisp, Flora Robson, and
Alan Hale.
Friday 3:30 & 7:30—
“STARDUST”, featuring.
Linda Darnell, John Payne,
Roland Young, Charlotte
Greenwood, and William Gar-
gan. Benefit show.
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CALDWELL’S
The Letter from Flem.
Flem’s letter to your corres- !
pondent read in part, “The yelling
section was as magnificent
as the football team at the Rice
game and that is saying . a great
deal. If the Rice officials do not
express their thanks as did Coaches
Fred Thomsen of Arkansas and
Matty Bell of S. M. U., then it will
probably be only because the coach
es there are new and don’t have
the proper appreciation of the
corp’s sacrifices.”
Thus comes the end of a contro
versy that began , a year ago in
Lloyd Gregory’s Houston Post Col
umn, “Looking ’Em Over,” was
taken up by Flem after the Aggie-
Baylor game, and reached its cli
max with the corps’ decision to
keep quiet when opponents were
in huddle.
The corps’ decision has netted its
untold good will from Texans
throughout the state and the de
cision is typical of the Aggies.
Hollyhocks are in order all
around—to the corps, the yell
leaders, to Flem and to Lloyd.
CAMPUS
150 to 5 p. m. — 200 After
Today - Friday - Saturday
V 'irf TECHNICOLOR! N
with
DON AMECHE
BETTY GRABLE
CARMEN MIRANDA
in her sensational screen debut!
CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD
Also Cartoon - Latest News
Prevue Saturday - Sunday - Monday
“Howards Of Virginia”
Also Special Short Subject—“London Can Take It”
ECENT
ECORD
ELEASES
26794 ADIOS—Rumba
GREEN EYES—Rumba
Xavier Cugat and His
Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
North America’s appreciation of
Latin American rhythms is stead
ily increasing. Cugat’s release here
presents two popular and familiar
rumbas: “Green Eyes” (flute in
rumbas: “Green Eyes” (flute intro-
strings, marimbas and clarinet sub
tone) and “Adios“ (rumba trump
et, unison clarinets on counter me
lody and full band rhythm). This
is a trend we’re much in favor of.
B-10913 MAKE BELIEVE BALL
ROOM TIME—F. T.
OLD BLACK JOE
Glenn Miller and
his Orchestra
Glenn Miller offers “Make Be
lieve Ballroom Time”, and a dis
tinctive instrumental arrangement
of “Old Black Joe”. The first is
medium jump tempo with plenty
of kick from the brass and a new
outfit, The Four Modernaires,
swing-singing the vocal.
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