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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-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.
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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.