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Page 2- THE BATTALION -TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1941 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 pf 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, 4-6444. Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone Bob Nisbet Keith Hubbard George Fuei-<nar.n Hub Johnson Tommy Henderson Phil Golman Pete Tumlinson J. B. Pierce T. R. Vannoy Bill Clarkson Jack Hendrick Lee Rogers Bob Myers Jack Hollimon Editor-in-Chief ... Advertising Manager Associate Editor Sports Editor Circulation Manager Staff Photographer Staff Artist Editorial Assistant Editorial Assistant TUESDAY STAFF Managing Editor Assistant Advertising Manager Junior Editors E. M. Rosenthal Sports Staff Assistant Sports Editor Junior Sports Editor Reportorial Staff Jack Aycock, Don Corley, J. M. Ruling, Ralph Inglefield, Tom Leland, W. A. Moore, J. M. Speer, Jack Decker. Stop and Look Around THERE IS A MAN who feels perfectly at home when he is pecking a typewriter with one hand, hold ing a phone in the other, talking to a friend and munching a sandwich all at the same time. He likes to impress his fellow man with the fact that he is busy. That fellow is the typical American, Now isn’t it a fact that we of today go so fast and so constantly that we are passing life by in a whirl? We are getting the full benefit of none of our activities. What makes us think we can study, shoot the bull with half a dozen in the room, pat our feet in time to the music on the radio, and read the paper all at the same time? The same efficiency expert must have started the barber business where the customer gets a man icure, a shave, a haircut, and a funny story all at the same time. He touched the filling-station busi ness, too. We live but once is the theory, and we are trying to do everything in that time. Look at the course of normal activity of the average college student: 18 to 20 hours academic work, home-town club, National Institute of This or That, Glee Club if he’s musical, newspaper or annual, honor societies, etc. Where is the time for recreation? Where is his time for stopping to catch his breath? Must the American life resemble a three-ring circus ? Don Herold in Your Life said, “I’d like a chance to do one thing at a time some of the time.” Think for instance how much better our man could have done his jobs if he had put down his sandwich, told his friend to wait a minute, stopped pecking his typewriter, and finished his phone conversation. Then he could do them singly and in order. His friend would not have to repeat; his sandwich would not have impaired his telephone conversa tion by filling his mouth while he was talking; and his taking more pains with the letter and his having more regard for his eyesight. Our man has a false sense of economy. He would be surprised at the net saving between the two methods—including his precious time. The same applies to campus activities. The stu dent who succeeds and rises to the top is not the fellow who dabbles in everything and does nothing well. The boy who drags in fame and glory picks out one activiity and devotes all his time and energy to that end. But the modern student heeds not the warning. He burns his candle at both ends and in the mid dle. The thing to do to remedy the situation is to forget our modern fear of voids. Plan trips by yourself; go to a show alone; take a day off and get acquainted with yourself. Traveling by yourself can be such fun. You never have to consider any one else’s wishes about where to go, what to eat, when to stop, who to see. A week’s work can be saved sometimes by stop ping for an hour to review the situation and plan the course. together, the other skilled workers. One repre sents the proletariat of labor, the other the aris tocracy. But although the difficulties are extensive, they cannot be as important to fight OVER as labor’s cause in general is important to fight FOR.” The Dartmouth refers to labor in general in a discussion of production bottlenecks involving labor disputes, and contends that these bottlenecks are two-sided. “The talk” says the Dartmouth, “is all about eliminating the right to strike. There is not enough talk about eliminating the abuses that cause strikes. Obviously it would speed defense prepara tion if strikes were made fewer. Just as obviously, it takes two disputants to make a strike. If America is sincere in seeking to stop strikes in order to de fend democracy, she would do well to look just as sharply to the practices of the manufacturer as to those of the laborer.” General benefits to come from labor’s turning its back on the “reds” are envisioned by the Daily Kansan. “President Roosevelt,” says the Kansan, “would like a united, well controlled, anti-Commun- ist labor front to work with him in courting busi ness.” Sidney Hillman (labor co-ordinator of the rearmament program) would like to free labor from the restraint of the Sherman anti-trust law. If he could unite the CIO and AFL in an alliance ac ceptable to the president, he might get what he wants and probably would co-operate with the ad ministration. If Hillman can get the co-operation he wishes, Roosevelt may get the ‘red’ purge he wishes within labor ranks. If the ‘reds’ are purged, business may work with the administration with greater harmony. This is Roosevelt’s answer to Mr. Willkie’s ‘loyal opposition’; either way, business can’t lose. —Associate Collegiate Press. ^'/Fold's" L d -ZV. ■A A •SjUr. ‘ ,v 'GOLD'S d 1 . By Tom Gillis •‘You’ll stay right there, Mr. Hart, until you pay your billl" BACKWASH "Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action B« George Fuermoim or occurrence."—Webster. The Collegiate World Students who fail to speak French in the French house at Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pa., are fined. University of Michigan extension service film library has 560 instructional motional pictures avail able for public use. A Bird’s Eye View . . . Watch for cerning the whereabouts of God. a complete and unbiased discus- A teacher of the third grade sion of the current ASCAP-BMI students in a certain high school fued in an early issue of The Bat- had just asked young Johnny where talion . . . Freshman Frank Gunn, God could be located, a lad from Dumas, Texas, is one Q u i c k as a flash, the lad came Aggie who still be- back with, “Home in our bath- lieves in Santa room.” Claus. During the holidays he won a Possibly the only existing accurate portrait of William Barrett Travis, commander of the ill-fated Alamo, is housed in the University of Texas library. Harvard University ornithologists are chasing seagulls by airplane in an effort to learn something of the amazing “homing instinct” of the birds. “Why Johnny,” the teacher ex claimed, “What makes you say 1941 Ford automo- that?” “Because I saw daddy standing in front of the bathroom door this Probably no Notre Dame stu dent will ever read this but let it be said that if their school and the men are as they are shown in “KNUTE ROCKNE—ALL AM ERICAN,” they produced a great man in the best sense of the word. Throughout this entire show the audience is never allowed to for get for a minute that Rockne and Notre Dame go together but the school is only allowed to stand in the honored shadow of the man. Hollywood selected Pat O’Brien to play the role of this sports im mortal, and as well as can be re membered from pictures, the re semblance is a reasonable fac simile. It is easily noticeable that the broadened nose and blond hair are false but the total resemb lance is good. But that is only part of what makes the picture worthwhile. It is the moving life of a man who not only influenced football and Notre Dame to a de gree which is still apparent today but set such an example for forth right living and sincerity that ev en the movie of it will make an outstanding impression on those who see it. The show brings the kid Rockne from Norway and shows how he grows up in American playing sand lot football and working to go to college. While at college his many accomplishments land him in a senior year as both the cap tain of the football team and the valedictorian too—quite a strange combination. As is well known, his struggle to decide between his love of chemistry and love of football ended in his decision to coach. Brought out in the show is some thing that many of us probably didn’t know—that Rockne “invent ed’ the forward pass in football, and while he was playing his se nior year too, not after becoming a coach. The rest of his life brings in his victorious teams, the Four Horsemen, Joe Gipp, and wife Bon nie. Throughout this show “O’Brien brings out Rockne as a man of character who never slips. He plays the part with a charm, stoicism, friendliness and inner goodness that wont quit. This show is worth a little extra effort to see. bile in a raffle Don J. Maclver of The Dallas News, gets off the best morning aod say,‘God, are you still m there’! Of South Dakota State college’s 1940 graduates who sought teaching positions, 91 per cent have found jobs. Pig Is Pig Proving that pig is where you Fourteen-year-old Pamela Harvard Williams, war refugee from Wales, who is a guest of Prof. William Chase of Harvard, is a descendant of John Harvard, founder of the university. As the World Turns., R. W. Steep Labor AMERICA’S COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS saw little hope late last spring for union of the American Fed eration of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Or ganizations. But swift-moving events have changed the view. The concensus of undergraduate writers now is not only that prospects are good for ending factionalism, but that a truce in the near future is imperative. Commenting on the resignation of CIO presi dent John L. Lewis, the Cornell Daily Sun says that “the next move necessary to the unreserved cooperation of the nation in the preparedness pro gram is the unqualified unification of the forces of labor. With the workers of the nation split info two camps, it is impossible that the program can go forward with the best operation.” In the opinion of the Michigan Daily, President Roosevelt’s victory and John L. Lewis’ defeat gave rise to one of the brightest hopes for labor unity in the last years. The mass of both organizations have common interests and are desirous of uniting them. In many cities there are joint labor councils, joint journals and joint strikes when necessary. Con sciously and unconsciously the workers in both or ganizations have been united in political action. That the CIO and AFL are not joined in an effective union today is an indictment of the democratic pro cesses within the organizations that allow the leaders to block the will of the members.” The Amherst Student joins in the view that “any move toward union could not appear at a better time. Yet opportune as a combination now of the opposing camps might be and ridiculous as their struggle seems, there is more concerned in their continued separation than the mere personalities of Lewis and Green. The whole organizations of the two unions differ; one has herded unskilled workers BY DR. R. W. STEEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE to Con gress on the State of the Union, was more nearly a message on the State of the World. His mes sage was cheered at frequent intervals, and if the reception can be taken as a guide his requests will be granted by Congress. He devoted most of the address to a discussion of America’s rela tion to the present war, justifying this by the statement that never before has American security been so seriously threatened from with out as now. He declared that the country was simply following an American policy in opposing en forced isolation for ourselves or any part of the Americas. The president declared that the Dem ocratic way of life was being threatened in every part of the globe by either arms or propaganda, and that America must do what she can to aid the forces of democracy. The president strengthened his point by de claring that nothing good for America could be expected from a dictated peace. On the theory that America could expect a direct attack if the dic tators won, he announced a national policy involv ing the following three points: (1) Full national defense preparations. (2) Full support to all people fighting the dictators and so aiding in keeping the war away from America. (3) Morality will never permit America to accept a peace dictated by ag gressors and sponsored by appeasers. American aid will be given, if the president has his way, by lend ing war supplies to the enemies of the Axis, and permitting them to repay after peace is restored in similar goods, or in other goods which they can produce and which America needs. This proposal was greeted by enthusiastic and prolonged ap plause. German and Italian newspapers have intimated that increased American aid might be considered an act of war. The president declared that such aid did not constitute an act of war, and insisted that when the Axis powers were ready to fight- the United States they would not wait for us to commit an act of war. America, Mr. Roosevelt declared, looks forward to a world marked by freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. With this ideal there can be no compromise, “there can -be no end to save victory.” The speech was not startling in its proposals. The plan to lend war supplies to the enemies of the Axis was mentioned some time ago, and the presi dent did not mention other plans for aiding that are now floating around Washington. Among the proposals apparently being considered, but not mentioned in this address are these: A plan to have American ships take over all British shipping routes in the Pacific, thus relating British ships for use in the Atlantic, and nullifying the effective ness of German raiders in the Pacific. A plan for American ships to transport goods to Ireland, which is neutral. Finally, a plan for American warships to convoy supply ships half way across the Atlantic, thus relieving the strain of the British navy. crack of the week with, “Instead of Fuermann a]1 aid short of war> let’s make it all aid to shorten the war.” . . . It’s getting to the place where even telephone opera- find it and that the shortest way tors have to be up on their come- to a lady’s heart is via the gift backs. Witness, for example, the of a live, infant swine (cost $2), one who recently rang four num- an Aggie-ex who is a second lieu- bers for a campus shiek. Finding tenant on active duty at the college nobody at home four times in a recently brought the house down row, she disgustedly asked, “Well— when he presented his sweetheart have ya got any MORE numbers on with a five-day-old porker. (A your list?” . . Howard Wilson and Christmas present of the unique Virgil Cordero claim some kind of sort—just in case you hadn’t al- a record where long distance tele- ready guessed.) phone calls are concerned. Christ- The animal quickly won the love- mas day the two called their fath- i y one’s heart and all went its er—Lt. Col. F. H. Wilson—who is merry way until the belle’s par- now stationed at the Plattsburg e nts showed up. The mother shriek- Barracks, 3400-miles-distant. Cost e( j w hile the father bellowed “Get —$4.45. Quoth Howard: “We don’t that damn animal out of here in do that sort of thing every day!” a hurry!” . . . Les Carpenter, associate This complicated things a little amusements editor of The Daily but, undaunted, the lieutenant re- Texan, recently picked the seven turned the grunting mammel to worst pictures of the year. In his bis hotel room. Morning came and opinion Strange Cargo, Down Ar- brought with it three alternatives, gentine Way, All This and Heaven To wit: (1) sausage for breakfast, Too, Ramparts We Watch, Lillian (2) turn the thing loose in the big Russell, New Moon and When the c it y 0 r (3) take the beast back to Dalton’s Rode get the nod. Back- college. As for the first alternative, wash—and probably most Aggies the officer decided he wasn’t hun- —doesn’t agree with Les’ nomina- gry ) the second was too cruel and, tions, but his quip concerning Don anyway, maybe the poor thing Ameche is worth reprinting. To WO uld like a little higher educa- wit: “The world’s worst actor over tion. fifteen years of age.” . . . G. B. The animal is now receiving all Winstead, A. & M. publicity direct- callers at George Blackburn’s room or, was recently initiated into the j n Milner dorm. Sigma Delto Chi professional jour- nalism fraternity. A high honor in the world of journalism, the honor Texas is fifth in the manufac- went to Winstead for his “out- ture of cheese and eighth in the standing achievements in journal- total income from the sale of ism.” ... A Houston taxi driver, milk, as a female-driven automobile Now is the time to gas up your car. The place is our convenient location. Our price will meet your pocket book. Aggie Service Station One Block East of North Gate MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT HRDLICKA’S . . . the very place to bripg your date for real fun. Come out tonight and try our drinks and food. HRDLICKA’S Old College Road — WISHES darted out in front of his cab: “That’s okeh, lady; Columbus took a chance and look what he dis- The price paid farmers for milk is geared to its butter fat con tent. Legal butter fat minimums covered. If you do that again, though for milk ugually range from 3 to all you’ll discover will be a nurse!” • 9 • 3.5 per cent. $ad The early dismissal last Dec. 14 at the behest of an influenza epi demic threw a wicked and un precedented curve in the general direction of College Station bus iness men. The financial loss, in roost cases, was terrific. All in all, Backwash estimates that merchants, barbers and cafe owners saw approximate ly $12,000 (which would have been spent locally under normal condi tions) go to more than a hundred home towns throughout the state and nation. Barbers lost about $50 each, local drug, clothing and variety stores, which had stocked-up on Christmas gifts, took a $10,000 sp a pking, and the rest of the non-speeding was divided between cafes, filling sta tions and other miscell an eous bus inesses. • • • Tops The year 1940 is no-tf part of history, but certain of jts jokes— like its billions of other constitu ents—were better than others. Tops, Backwash believes, i n this particular field is the story con- Fm headed for George’s where they really know how to make soft drinks. You can’t go wrong there. GEORGE’S Confectionery In New “Y” A New Year always brings with it the promise of many hopes fulfilled, wishes grant ed, and all manner of good fortune. A New Year is be ginning now, and we sincere ly hope it will bring you every thing worthwhile. We appreciated your patronage during 1940, and hope to continue serving you during 1941. THE EXCHANGE STORE AN AGGIE INSTITUTION v * * * » J A < & l /