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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, $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-S444. Bob Nisbet Keith Hubbard George Fu«r<r:anK 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 SATURDAY’S STAFF Earle A. Shields, Jr. Managing Editor T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager Junior Editors W. 0. Brimberry R. B. Pearce W. C. Carter Sports Staff Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor Jack Hoilimon Junior Sports Editor W. F. Oxford - Sports Assistant Reportorial Staff Bill Amis, Charles Babcock, Don Corley, W. F. Keith, Z. A. McReynolds, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison. Why Men Die WHY DO MEN DIE? That’s a question. Before answering the question, let’s see if you recall hearing the one about there being good in everything. Well, one exception to the rule, if found, would disprove it. And the fellow that raised the question of death thought he had found that ex ception. But listen to this. All the progress made by man on this earth was due indirectly to the institution of death. Indi rectly, because knowledge of certain death creates the inspiration or desire that motivates his deeds. If man knew that his days on earth were to be endless, all incentive to bestir himself would be lost. There would be no desire to better himself or those around him. There would be no burning am bition to leave his mark for posterity to remember him after he is dead. Knowledge of endless life would destroy life. Life would become a thing stagnant, monotonous, and unspeakably burdensome. Music War a Blessing THE FIGHT BETWEEN A.S.C.A.P. and B.M.I. may be a blessing after all, one student was heard to say the other day. For the first time in years the public has a chance to hear some good music. He claims that inspiration and writing were at a low ebb when such as “Beat Me Daddy” and “Scrub Me Mamma” contaminated the air waves. Now for the first time in months music from Stephen Foster and also from the more classic Bach, Beeth oven and Brahms are being played. The moral is this: no matter what happens there is always someone who will be pleased. Just Sign Here, England (Editor’s note—The following editorial does not represent the opinion of The Battalion, but is merely a reprint showing the line of thought of newspapers in colleges in other parts of the nation.) FROM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC for the second time within the past quarter century Britain prof fers an empty pocketbook to support pleas for fi nancial aid from gullible Uncle Sam. It seems that noble-hearted England is always willing to adopt a cause and jump willingly into the fracas just as long as someone can and will foot the bill. The primary checks to such loans is of course the Johnson Act, which prevents the extension of credit to any nation still financially indebted to the United States from the 11 billion dollar spending spree of 1917. Or do you remember our money and our men that made such a “safe democratic world?” Naturally, the late Lothian’s mission to Washing ton was to deal with the legal technicalities that must be overcome before our financial hands can again be clasped. All indications point to the Duke of Windsor’s similar motive. Britain is in dire need of money; we can supply her with that which she needs. But is the investment one that will pay? In the financial realm, on the secretary of trea sury’s report is a five and one-half billion dollar debit marked against Great Britain. Only a negli gible amount has been repaid by England in the past twenty years. This pittance payment has been one made by victorious John Bull! Are we to toss cool cash after a bad debt only to have England, should she win again, libel us as Uncle Shylock when we begin to request pay? On the other hand, if we turn over Fort Knox to Great Britain only to see her go down in defeat, our cause and our cash as well would be lost. If England is sincere in her desire to make solvent her credit, let’s make a trade. To clear Morgenthau’s books let’s cancel the five and one half billion debt for a hundred years lease on Canada and Bermuda. For further financial assistance let England turn over to us the Honduras and Guiana, the islands of Barbados, Grenada, Montserrat and Martinique, so vital to Caribbean defense, “for the duration” and until her obligations to us are cleared. If we must lend money to Britain, let’s make no bones about plucking from the English empire all of the crown jewels that can be of service to us in the Western Hemisphere. There could be no more appropriate or opportune time to do some of the renowned Yankee trading, than in 1941. —Tennessee Collegian, ACP The Collegiate Review New York university has received a $50,000 gift from Bernard Baruch for establishment of a pro fessorship in therapeutics. Girls of Bowling Green (Ohio) State univer sity pay 16 cents for a full dinner, boys pay 19 cents. Northwestern university's first five football teams were coached by their captains and the first salaried Wildcat coach was a player. Hunter college is offering a program of free public lectures on problems in economics and political sience. Architecture department at the University of Nebraska is replacing the standard German color chart with one using American pigments. Iowa State Teachers college campanile, which each morning bongs out a musical greeting to 8 o’clock class-goers, is made up of 21,625 pounds of copper and tin. Dr. Thomas D. Howe of Duquesne university is experimenting with improvement of peas by appli cation of X-rays. Connecticut college recently observed its twen ty-fifth anniversary. FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say IT IS ENCOURAGING to see the number of argu ments about religion that turn up in our “bull ses sions” around the campus. One of the big questions that arises not only in these discussioOs, but in any discussion of the sort is the literal truth of the Bible. There are very few people who are careful analysts who will still maintain that every word in the Bible is absolutely and literally true. As a matter of fact one can very easily find contradic tions in it if he follows a literal interpretation only. The great danger in the whole thing is that many of us are inclined to belittle the entire teaching there because of small details which our modem minds tell us cannot be true. The Bible was written to put over to the world a great philosophy. The primary objective of the writers was to sell this philosophy to a simple people. In order to convince this type of thinker, a particular approach was needed. This thinker was totally different in his en vironment, habits, and beliefs from the thinker which our modern society fosters; consequently the “sales men” of Christianity went about reaching him in a manner which fails to produce the same effect on the modern man. Those people were more sentimen tal than sophisticated, more superstitious than scien tific, and more gullible than skeptical. Hence the ap proach was to sentiment, superstition, and gullibil ity. We find much of the supernatural, the miracu lous, the awe-inspiring; we find little pure philoso phy or scientific theology. The result is that unless we approach the Bible in the right way, it loses much of its worth for us. We must not let ourselves be misled by petty details to which we cannot agree, when the important thing is the principle to be found there. Do not make the mistake of getting lost in the fringes of the question and overlooking completely the heart of the whole matter—namely, the truths of love, honesty, uprightness, and clean living which are the crux of the deathless philosophy in your Bible. OPEN FORUM IT IS LATE, perhaps, to be bringing up New Year’s resolutions, but it is to be hoped that many of us will remember and keep one resolution that we made for this year. This resolution is to attend church regularly. A great many of us make that resolution very year and then gradually drift away from the keeping of it. It is certainly regarded by every one as a good habit. Very few on this campus when asked to come to church will not make some remark about this in vain, “Well, I know I ought to go more often, but—” So why not go? Get up and make breakfast on Sunday morning and get ready and go on to church. The fellowship with others there will be worth the time spent even if the preach er does not preach the sermon you want to hear. Why not let’s go to church this next Sunday and the one after that if it is possible. Both you and your church will be benefitted by your attendance. Inter-Church Council As the World Turns... BY DR. AL. B. NELSON THE ADMINISTRATION IS HIDING expenditures for “New Deal” peacetime projects in the new de fense budgets, according to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. If this is true (and the Senator quotes figures and specific instances) it constitutes a de liberate attempt to fool the public and a misuse of funds earmarked for defense. The Greeks have just taken another important Italian base in Albania, the town of Kleisura, and their naval vessels raided into the Adriatic Sea and bombarded the Albanian seaport of Valona. The Italian navy has sunk mighty low in efficiency when the small Greek fleet can raid into Italy’s own sea and get away with it. The British have invaded the Italian town of Tobruk in North Africa and have pushed miles be yond the town already. This town is about seventy miles from the recently captured town of Bardia. The Ethiopian subjects of Emperor Haile Selasse have just captured one of their border towns from the Italian army of occupation. The Germans are known to have executed forty- nine spies in Germany during the last year and have already captured and executed another one this year. The United States Navy has called off its year ly maneuvers this year for the first time since the World War. This has been done with the evident intention of maintaining the concentration of the fleet near Hawaii to prevent the Japanese from carrying out a sudden raid on the Dutch East In dies or some of the British possessions in the Pa cific. The navy is building additional bases, or is plan ning to build them, between Hawaii and the great British base at Singapore. This evidently based upon a complete, if unwritten, agreement with the British naval high command. THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1941 A Guide to Peace Students From Latin America Can Now Get CAA Flight Training Course '(Mow& 1 By Tom Gillis These “LUCKY PARTNERS” may be pretty lucky nut they are pretty wacky too. Ginger Rogers and Ronald Coleman have some grand adventures together but it is just because they are lucky. Some of the shenanigans that Gin ger’s boy friend seems to think is all right would have a pretty hard time convincing most boy friends that his girl was still on the up and up. For example, Ginger and Friend Ronald Coleman have his permission to go on sort of a brother-sister honeymoon before she returns to settle down and mar. ry the poor sap. The money for this pleasure jaunt comes from a sweepstakes ticket jointly held by Ginger and Coleman because they think they are lucky for each oth er. “Lucky Partners” is another at tempt at sophisticated comedy but it is not as good as. most of the others which have come out of Hollywood lately. Ronald Coleman is plenty nice looking and an actor of the old school but comedy is not in his best line. Ginger Rogers plays her role with a conservative sort of manner as always, which shows herself personally first and the character she is portraying second. Several of the incidents in the story are beyond the usual run of ordinary life but you can stretch your imagination to believe them if you try. Robert Montgomery and Con stance Cummings takes a sort of busman’s holiday in “HAUNTED HONEYMOON”. Montgomery is an upper class Britisher who dab bles in amateur detective work and marries Constance, a writer of mystery novels. On their honey moon trying to get away from it all they run into some low grade mysteries. Montgomery is the only Amer ican in this film and the sound of British accents finally gets on your nerves. Constance Cummings isn’t good looking enough to distract your attention from it. The action drags heavily and everyone is fa miliar with the ‘mystery formula’ which Hollywood uses—pointing suspicion at everyone except the guilty party and then having the amateur effortlessly unravel the murder under the nose of the po lice. This show follows it closely. Incidentally, on account of hav ing Monday classes Saturday af ternoon, the Assembly Hall show scheduled for 12:45 will be shown at 10:30 Saturday night, after the second showing of the regular Sat urday night feature. WRAPS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday 6:45 & 8:30— “LUCKY PARTNERS,’’ featuring Ronald Coleman and Ginger Rogers. Saturday 10:30 p. m.— “DANCING ON A DIME,” with Grace McDonald, Rob ert Paige, Virginia Dale and William Frawley. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday—“THE MARK OF ZORRO,” starring Ty rone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sonder- gaard and Eugene Pallette. Saturday midnight, Sun day, Monday—“THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH,” with George Brent and Virginia Bruce. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration is offering flight scholar ships to citizens of Latin American countries who are bona fide stu dents in colleges already partici pating in the Civil Pilot Training Program, according to information received by H. W. Barlow, Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering. The scholarships offered are similar to those given L. S. citizens in the Civil Pilot Training Program of the CAA. Twenty such scholar ships are going to be given in the coming spring term and will be distributed to training centers throughout the United States. Any citizens of Latin American coun tries who are now at the A. & M. College of Texas are eligible to apply for these scholarships, pro vided they can meet the following requirements: a. They shall have attained their 19th but not their 26th birthday on February 1, 1941; b. If under 21 years of age, they must obtain the consent of their parents or guardian for this training. (Air Mail or Cable, if necessary, is sug gested.); c. They must be fully matriculated candidates for de grees, and, by February 1, 1941, must have satisfactorily completed at least one full year of college work acceptable to the institution; d. After selection they must pass a physical examination for a Stu dent Pilot Certificate, with a Com mercial CPT rating, as well as a special eye examination, including refraction, administered by a desig nated Civil Aeronautical medical examiner; e. They must agree, if selected, to complete the ground and flight course unless disquali fied by the college, the flight op erator, or the Civil Aeronautics Administration previous to its Heating Magazine Contains Information on A&M The American Society of Heat ing and Ventilating Engineers bro chure on National Defense con tains a picture of the A. & M. Pet roleum building and lists reports of ten investigation and research reports conducted by Texas A. & M. scientists. The brochure was ed ited by A. E. Stacey, Jr., of the committee on research and is be ing sent to engineers and technic ians who are now coordinating the national effort through the num erous channels of the government defense program. The brochurte will assist them in quickly locating technical data and research in formation on various phases of heating, ventilating and air con ditioning. conclusion; f. They must further agree, if selected to abide by all the rules and regulations as pro mulgated by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in connection with the training; g. They need not sign a pledge for flight training in the Army or Navy of the United Staes. Candidates are to apply at the Aeronautical Engineering Depart ment in the old Laundry Building before Monday, January 13th. United Science Clubs To Sponsor Spring Essay Contest An essay contest to be spon sored by the United Science Clubs of A. & M. will be held this spring in preparation for the statewide contest of the Texas Academy of Sciences to be held next fall in Dallas. Winners from the A. & M. con test will be given places on the contest program of the Texas Academy meeting next fall. The members of the United Science Clubs of A. & M. are eligible to enter the contest, the following clubs being members; Biology, pre- Med, Entomology, Fish and Game, Kream and Kow, Junior Collegiate F. F. A., Student Chapter American Society of Agronomy, and Student Chapter American Veterinary Med icine Association. Any member of these clubs is also a member of the United Science Club. A copy of the contest rules may be obtained from Dr. Doak, head of the Biology Department. Mrs. J. W. Marshall To Speak Here Sunday Mrs. J. W. (Bill) Marshall, wife of the Baptist Student Secretary of Texas, will speak at the College Station Baptist Church Sunday during the morning worship service beginning at 10:50. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall returned this fall from an extended tour of Japan and China where they studied student conditions and spoke to many stu dent groups. At 2:15 Sunday after noon Mrs. Marshall will conduct a conference on student problems. NORWOOD’S Cleaning & Pressing Sale 2 Suits C & P 65*? 2 Slacks C & P 35*? 1 Suit C & P 350 1 Slack C & P 200 Cash and Carry Bryan, Texas Sixty One Percent of the World’s Oil Production Is Within United States Assembly Hall TODAY — 6:45 and 8:30 GINGER ROGERS - RONALD COLEMAN in “Lucky Partners” Also Mickey Mouse — “Pluto’s Dream House” SPECIAL TONIGHT — 10:30 P. M. By Dr. W. M. Potts Professor of Biochemistry In a recent address, Gustav Eg- loff of the Universal Oil Products Company pointed out that 61 per cent of the world’s oil production was within the United States. The Americas control more than one and a half billion barrels of the 2 billion yearly oil production. The United States produces almost all of the 100-octane and higher avia tion gasoline. This is of utmost im portance, since such a gasoline in creases very greatly the perform ance of an airplane. Another sig nificant fact is that all of the 100- octane gasoline produced outside of this country i s produced by American processes and is concen trated almost entirely within the British Empire. There is more than enough nat ural gas and crude oil within our borders to satisfy ©nr own needs for gasoline, of any type, motor fuels, and lubricating oils. Further, the American Petroleum industry could produce over 200,000,000,000 pounds of synthetic rubber and 85,000,000,000 pounds of explosives T.N.T., pictric acid, an d tri nitro xylenes annually. In comparison, Germany’s crude oil and substituti fuels represent less than 2.5 per cent of the world’s annual production. The production in Austria, Hungary, Poland, France, Rumania, and Czecho-Slo- vakia amounts to 3 per cent of the total. Russia produces about 10 per cent, Japan’s production is about 0.1 per cent, while 3.5 per cent is produced in the Dutch East Indies. England has access to 15 per cent of the world’s production over and above the 61 per cent produced within the United States. The ingenuity of American chem ists is an important factor in de veloping the processes by which the United States has achieved this commanding position with respect to petroleum. The surface has not been scratched in the development of petroleum as a raw material for synthetic organic chemistry. The development of a vast chemical in dustry based on petroleum is bound to come within the near future. University of Texas Engineers announce invention of a new fruit and vegetable freezer to help farm ers preserve produce for an all- year market. The machine uses ice crystals which heretofore clog ged freezing apparatus of the im mersion type of refrigeration. ■ * 3anceal],e? R 0,IJ a//cejA/ e , I & Wgm' . V fk A; •>; J;-'■> ' V'V ; < fio'iM'wm f * $\\ have you in \\te aisles! A Paramount Picture witli ♦grace McDonald* * ROBERT PAIGE * * VIRGINIA DALE * ^WILLIAM FRAWLEY* * PETER HAYES * «LILLIAN CORNELL^ . DIRECTED BY JOSEPH SAHTLET > **-******* Due to the change in class schedule this picture will play at 10:30 in stead of 12:45 as originally scheduled. The college authorities have granted permission to students to at tend this show.