TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1940-
THE BATTALION
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I thanli God for America
The land the Pilgrims trod,'
i Where man is neither jailed
nor bled
For worshipping his God.
I thank God for America
The land of Freedom’s birth
That gave a home to homeless man
On a tyranGcaptured Earth.
Copyright, 1940. Appreciate America
I thank God for America
The land that knew to melt
.Race and color, region and
clime—
Goth and Jew and Celt.
I thank God for America—
And may its bliss endure—
Where human dignity Is prized
And human life—secure.
I thank God for America
Its mission and its fate:
Where man had built a dam to stem
The poisoned stream of hate.
1 thank God for America
Where freedom dwells and reigns:
Where mind 1s strength and word
is free,
And thought—not kept in chains.
This poem written exclusively for '‘Appreciate Amen
ica Inc." by the eminent poet, Philip M. Raskin'
I thank God for America—
Its oceans and its soil.
Where man is free to move, and sa
And trade, and till, and toil.
I thank God for America
Pillared by Justice and Right:
Where wisdom rules, where trutl
prevails,
And darkness yields to light..
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Last Year’s Bonfire Encores Tonight
Use of Chemical Products Serves
As Indicator of Business Conditions
Watson and Fox
Present At Graduate
Club Meet Wednesday
By Dr. F. M. Smith
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Especially marked since World
War 1 has been the growth of an
industry which makes products
which are loosely grouped under
the name of Chemicals. This in
dustry is one of the two or three
largest in the United States, em
ploying several million workers and
manufacturing a host of products,
some few of which are so widely
used that the quantity sold serves
as a fairly accurate barometer of
business conditions.
Chemical products may be classi
fied as inorganic or organic, the
latter consisting of all those sub
stances which contain carbon, and
is the more numerous of the two
classes. The organic chemical in
dustry may take naturally occur
ring things such as plants, animals,
coal or petroleum and process them
to get salable products such as
gasoline from petroleum or alcohol
from grain. More spectacularly,
the organic chemist may start
with simple substances and synthe
size his products, for instance,
starting with coal, air, and water
to get Nylon, or varying his pro
cess somewhat to get wood alcohol.
Some familiar organic products
are Prestone, Polaroid, TNT, cello
phane, rayon, bakelite, vitamin con
taining fish oils, turpentine and
many others. Most of our drugs
are prepared by the organic chemist
from the almost miraculous sul
fanilamide or sulfapyridine to co-
'■ caine or castor oil. The versatile
organic chemical manufacturer pro
vides us with materials to paint
houses, rubber to carry our automo
biles, soaps to wash our faces,
foods to fatten us, medicines to
preserve our health, poisons to kill
us slowly or rapidly, and explosives
to blow us apart.
At the present time those or
ganic chemicals known as explo
sives are vitally interesting to all
of us. Smokeless powder (cellulose
nitrate) also known as guncotton,
fires our big guns and our little
ones. The mines and bombs are
usually filled with dynamite or
TNT, our most powerful explo
sives at the present time, though
intensive research is being carried
on to discover still more deadly
substances. Mercuric fulminate,
which explodes on being slightly
jarred, is used to set off the large
charge of powder or explosive.
Chemists or engineers usually
have control of the actual man
ufacture of the products. The dis
covery and small scale preparation
of new products is primarily the
responsibility of the research chem
ist, who turns over his findings to
an engineer for development of
large scale manufacture. The need
of skilled workers required for re
search, development, and control
of these many chemical processes
offer opportunity to thousands of
college trained chemists and engi
neers. Wages paid in this industry
are high; no expense is spared in
providing Mr. Doe with Nylon
stockings and Mr. Doe with trans
parent suspenders.
Colonel James A. Watson and
Major Tom Fox of the Military
Department were present at the
last meeting of the Graduate Club
Wednesday night. Due to another
engagement, Colonel Watson stayed
only long enough to meet the mem
bers of the club. Later, Major Fox
gave an interesting talk on the
famous “Lost Battalion” and inci
dents relative to its separation
from the main force and its final
rescue after unbelievable resis
tance to the enemy for six days.
Although this incident happened
in the World War, it was not until
many years afterwards that the
complete story was pieced together
in what is believed to be its true
form. Major Fox, while assigned
to the historical research division
at Fort Benning, Georgia, came in
contact with an officer who was at
tached to the “Lost Battalion”.
Barnhill Appoints
Committee for Annual
Houston County Dance
The Houston County A. & M.
Club met Monday night and made
plans for a Christmas party to be
held at the Crockett Country Club
December 23. A dance committee
composed of G. D. McClain, R. M.
Knox, J. B. Best, Gerald Easterly
and Glendon Jones was appointed
by R. P. Barnhill, president of the
club.
The club, which has heretofore
held an annual Christmas dance,
decided to make the party a private
affair with the members of the
crockett Ex-Aggie Club as guests.
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