The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 16, 1941, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 16, 1941, Image 2

Newspaper Page TextPage 2- THE BATTALION -THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Hechanical 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 Aet of Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon -equest. Kepresented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., 4t New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Office, Room 122. Administration Building. Telephone 4-S444. Editor-in-Chief Advertising Manager Associate Editor Sob Nisbet Keith Hubbard George F uere-.ann Hub Johnson Sports Editor Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager Phil Golman Staff Photographer Pete Tumlinson Staff Artist J. B. Pierce Editorial Assistant TL 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 Friendly Rivalry TODAY’S ISSUE OF The Battalion was edited by the editors of The Daily Texan of the University of Texas. The editors of The Battalion will edit the University of Texas daily on February 3. Nothing better could be done to make these students realize how many things they have in common. They have found out that one another are human beings, no fooling. About the only times that the Aggies and the U. T. students visit one another in very great num bers are in times of stress and in periods of great rivalry. It would be a great thing if every U. T. student could visit the Aggie campus on just an ordinary day and see what a welcome he would get. Under normal conditions and without the stress of excitement, the students of both schools will find that, whether singly or in pairs, they are very much alike, have the same virtues and shortcomings. It would be a great thing if each student of U. T. could see Aggieland and experience its welcome and if each Aggie could catch the spirit of Texas in like manner. They can do that by visiting one another when they have the chance. For the Texas Steer the pastures of Aggieland (1400 acres) are rich. And for the Aggies—every one of them—the “Forty Acres” are fertile with welcome. —Boyd Sinclair is full, moreover, of other interesting and likeable people, definitely headed by the gypsy woman. This old girl, in fact, for mellow raciness, earthborn strength, and weatherbeaten wisdom, is a worthy partner of Steinbeck’s Ma Joad. For “characters” in recent American fiction who are worthy to stand beside these old gals, we must explore Thomas Wolf’s first two novels, Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. To one who has followed Hemingway from book to book since he emerged in the 1920’s with The Sun Also Rises, an interesting quality—perhaps the most interesting quality—of For Whom the Bell Tolls is its concern with social justice. Hemingway’s books used to be devoted exclusively to the personal relations and emotions of his characters: His hard- boiled youngsters turned their backs pointedly on public affairs and yearned violently at each other. (It’s barely possible, of course, that this has been the secret of his appeal to your generation. We hope not!). In To Have and Have Not a year or two ago, however, were confused indications of the author’s beginning to suspect that individual lives are largely determined by social forces. He seemed also in this novel to be feeling, dimly and gropingly, as yet, that now that most adults (and I mean adults) have grasped this fact, there is something unsatisfying in a yarn which fails to take these social forces into account. In short, just a few years ago Mr. Hemingway began apparently to find bull-fighting, tarpon fishing, African big-game hunting, and plain and fancy drinking and love-making, just a shade on the juvenile side. He followed the Spanish War closely, on the ground, and he followed it not as an adventure, an extension of big-game hunting, but as a straggle, ending tragically, for economic freedom and social justice. Now at last, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hem ingway has made a book with all his powers and faculties, old and new. Its dialogue has the non chalant but crisp and beautifully precise “Ping” of The Sun Also Rises. Its love story, though sub ordinated to the class conflict, is as “right” as the one which ran away with A Farewell to Arms. In its middle distance glitter the splendid, grotesque, or pitiful bull-fighters of Death in the Afternoon. Its plot is as cunningly dramatic and suspensive as the plots of his best short stories. But in addition to all this, or rather underlying, pervading, and brooding over all this, is the author’s newly awaken ed concern that everybody shall get a square deal from society—his sense of social right and wrong. It is in this last quality that For Whom the Bell Tolls marks Hemingway’s coming of age. If you feel and like this quality, you too must have come of age. If not .... "Stop counting those sheep. Their boa-booing is keeping me awake!” BACKWASH By Boyd Sinclair Editor, The Daily Texan “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. Freshman as Defined thee awhile, By a Sophomore Merganser bird, meseems, of plu- A chlorophyl or slime is the low- mage rare, est form of animal life known to Thou has a temper little short of he letThis people' gerinto trouble science. It is found in laige numbers vile, when he goes' overboard for the on all collogo campi. It is often a That would, without Will Hays, first white girl he has ever seen, victim of hallucinations and often cause thee to swear. Any white girl but the kind por- imagines itself gy na ^ ure thou of water -art ac- trayed by Frances Farmer would quent, be all right but you can imagine her But thou, I ween, couldst swim in as being the only woman tough lakes of fire, enough to make the voyage with TX n . ,, ,, , . a boatload of men. This show has t 4- i „ When thou m wrath upon the world 1 a , , . the typical Dorothy Lamour set ae to clutter art Dent, tin but 'without Dorothy. That cptinnl An-nn Destruction-bound and full of ven. b , scnooi danc- he]ps mak( ,. ^ a good show. This is the first column under “DOWN ARGENTINE WAY” is the new head of CAMPUS DIS- back at the Campus again. It was TRACTIONS, which replaced the such a hit the first time that the Battalion’s Movie Review. It will management decided to bring it now cover not only movies but any back. Carmen Miranda Is one of form of organized entertainment the standouts as she sings her piq- on the campus. In a word, it will uant Portuguese songs. Not one cover anything which distracts the Aggie out of the hunch can under reader from studying. stand her ling when she sings but _ _ _ _ she makes you wish you could from “SOUTH OF PAGO PAGO”, the the wa ^ she rolls her and benefit show for the Entomology moves her jeweled arms. If you go Club Friday, is the old story of back the second time P arts of this how the white man’s greed can Mature be rather stale, but play havoc, in a South Sea para- if y° u haven’t seen it, it will dis- dise. Victor McLaglen’s greed for ^ lac t y° u a good deal, pearls makes him lead an expe- With reference to the two editors dition to exploit the natives, and from the Daily Texan who are the way native chieftain John Hall putting out this issue of the Bat- falls for Frances Farmer almost talion, it may be said that the allows him to succeed. McLaglen Texan’s Movie Editor selected has the role of a toughie who brow. “Down Argentine- Way” as one of beats the natives into bringing up the worst 10 pictures of 1940 be- his pearls and this bully role is cause it was the first time that certainly down his alley. Betty Grable had shown her stom- His appearance in this show is ac b i n technicolor. Don Ameche the first Jon Hall has made since was also described as the worst “The Hurricane.” For a young na- male singer on the screen over 15 tive chief he is pretty good, but y ears of age. <£<KHBEfr(>«afr(>- worth of consid erations, and in severe cases, equal to a soph omore. prone to clutter UP a- es, sorority geance dire. houses and dor- P r ident duck, meseems that i and deliver us $30 a month, and Sinclair and the glory. 6. Forever. Amen. Quotable Quotes Grads and Defense THERE IS A LOT OF TALK going around about what the college graduate’s place in the national defense program is. At colleges other than those offering military training the boys of that certain age hear rumors that college graduates will find easy berths at the conscription camps. What is the true picture? Military authorities and press officers qualified to speak say this: College graduates will go through the same channels as high school graduates, grammar school graduates, and graduates of nothing at all. After a two-weeks probationary period at Camp Bowie the draftee will be put in the work he is most capable of doing. This will be done easily enough, since the U. S. is not now at war and there is time for a placement period. Because college graduates are capable of doing technical and special work, these men will probably draw assignments of the ■better nature. And why not, for they have been especially trained for four or more years for the jobs. The main point is that the selection of per sonnel for the better jobs comes after selection and not before. We will assume that graduates of this particular college will become reserve officers upon graduation and will find their way into the service as officers. The U. S. has spent a great deal of money on its senior R. O. T. C. training plan and has a right to expect officers, and good officers, for the expense. Therefore students at A. & M. college may find it a little difficult to consider the position of the draftee in the national defense program. To most officers, soldiers are just another damn object. As I see it, the problem is not the immediate one of officers and draftees and conscription, but what of the long-run plan of national defense and the place of the college student of today? The struggle for national existence will not be based on tanks, guns, and planes. These are an outward measure of power and the most immediate line of defense. What a country fights with is its peoples and it has been ever thus. Our struggle is and will continue to be based on our definite and inconquerable belief in democracy and in ourselves. Our place in national defense today is to learn so well what we may be taught that we may spread the teaching to all the country. History teaches that we cannot put our faith in an army alone; we must put it in ourselves. —Jack Dolph “MANY OF US ARE convinced that democracy cannot be saved by arms alone. Even if we are not drawn into the war, even though England may a- void defeat, the, causes that destroyed the demo cracies of Europe will still be at work. Totalitarian ism, as it exists today, is the outcome of the pro longed unemployment, the economic hopelessness, the perverted training, and the sense of insecurity of the great masses of adult youth.” Donald Du- Shane, president of the National Education associa tion, looks behind the threat to democracy. —Associated Collegiate Press As the World Turns... CAMPUS 15? to 5 p.m.—20c after Last Day Tomorrow - Sat. | Suftareff Something To Read BY DR. T. F. MAYO Aggies’ Delight: Hemingway’s New Novel FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, Ernest Heming way’s new novel, is already so popular on the Campus that this reviewer, though he hangs around the Library most of the time, had to borrow a copy from a wealthy student of his who actually bought the thing. Not for the first time, the reviewer finds himself in hearty agreement with the Aggies about a book. This is a swell story. The young American radical who got leave of absence from a teaching job in Montana to fight as a dynamiter against the Spanish Fascists for worldwide social justice is by far the most interest ing and likeable of Hemingway’s heroes. The book BY “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF THE HOUSE of Representatives Bill which, if^ passed, will give the president more extensive pow ers than any former president has had in time of peace, bears the historically significant number of 1776. The bill especifieally provides that the pres ident will have the right to “sell, transfer, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of” any “defense articles” to a friendly pow er. It is rumored on Capitol Hill at Washington that bill No. 1776 will pass both houses of congress, how ever, some opposition from the House Republicans and the non interventionists in the Senate has already developed. In the House, Congressman Kenneth F. Simpson has presented a bill limiting the president’s powers as stated in bill No. 1776 to two years. Seantor Bur ton K. Wheeler of Montana has an nounced that he will try to defeat the bill. The in dications now are that congress will pass the bill, authorizing the president to hurry aid to friendly nations. Somebody is telling the country bed-time stories. We are told that our industry is now" operating on a 135% basis as compared with 1935, but we still have some eight millions unemployed. Insiders say that the auto industry is utilizing only about 50% of its capacity. The small industries are operating on less than 50% capacity and in some instances are dis charging some of their employees. Government of ficials say that contracts are given to companies on the basis of 5% to 7% profit, but the aviation in dustry demands 18% profit, the amount which they get from British orders. During the month of last November the average American pocketbook should have swollen considerably because there was more money in circulation in the United States than ever before—€ight billion and three hundred million dol lars. Still there were many sections in the United States in which business v r as far below normal. We had millions on relief and the WPA rolls. The appointment of Sidney Hillman to the new Office of Production Management was a friendly gesture to organized labor. Mr. Hillman has equal powers with Mr. Knudsen. Both of these men are responsible for speeding up our rearmament pro gram, and they have extensive powers for granting contracts a nd demanding priorities from industries. This agency has not had time to prove itself, but at present the difficulties of the task to which they have been assigned appear insurmountable. It is to be hoped that these two men can reconcile the dif ferences between the employers and the employees and bring about a realization of our national defense program. Industry and labor are the keys to our successful rearmament. riifories mak- there had been ing itself gen- flaming insult to thy kind and thine is governorship, t ie om, Feeds on ice sex ’ erally obnoxious. * think they master hath been in cream, peanuts, hot dogs, steaks, a s P* n and Haig and Haig. Excellent me- Thy status (male or female?) is dium on which to exercise good complex; right arm and as a test of the j ^- nd ^ for one think there is some flexibility of a paddle. Inclined to mistake be very susceptible, especially dur- Thou, Donald, art no duck, thou ing first semester, and has on oc- ar ^ a drake, casions been known to lend money. @ © @ One of the necessary evils all good Aggie Weather sophomores must tolerate. Very F or a Week little intelligence, but in most cases The weather today: Lightning, harmless. Probably thunder. © © © The weather tomorrow: Rain, Freshman as Defined Probably wet. By the College Widow The weather Saturday: Sunshine. Secret of success. Very suscept- Probably warm, ible to ‘lines.” Has money, ambi- The weather Sunday: Cloudy, tion (collegiately speaking), and Probably shady, willingness. Is the means of attend- The weather Monday: Unsettled, ing all social functions when noth- Probably anything will happen, ing better turns up. Attends all The weather Tuesday: Sleet, ice, dances. Dances badly, but maks up an d snow. Probably cold, for minimum ability in maximum The weather Wednesday: Hur- energy expanded. To be cultivated ricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, sij- intensively and dropped immediate- moon s, monsoons, and typhoons, ly when it shows signs of intel- Probably wind, ligence. Generally outlives its use- The weather a week from today: fulness near close of spring term. ^ make my weekly weather re- © ® @ port at that time. Probably more Freshman as Defined vind. By Himself • ® • The most important unit of cam- Psalm to Pappy pus life. A superior but misunder- For the New Year stood and mistreated individual. l. Our Pappy who art in office, The reason school dances are sue- hollered by thy name, cessful. Very probably the future 2. Thy pensions come or thou football captain or president of w ilt be done in flour as it is in the student body. Considers bid to office. Sigma Nu or Chi Omega more im- 3. Give us this year a very portant than a Phi Beta Kappa good session (of the Legislature) key. Very nice fellow in general, that we may pay our bills. ® • • 4. And give us something on Sonnet To our debts, so that we may give to Donald Duck our debtors. Bad-tempered fowl, I’ll writ of 5- Lead us not into Louisiana THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF W. S. D.’s REMODELING SALE Come in this week and take advantage of these | SALE PRICES on- i I ! ! I I ! I Men’s Fine Suits, Topcoats, Slacks, Leather Jackets, Gantner Sweaters, Marlboro Shirts, Robes, Mufflers, and Neckwear. JOELMcCREA BRENDA V; : marshall Also Cartoon and News All Ladies’ Bags, Belts, Gloves and Scarfs Vz Price y t t T"v WIMBERUEY STONE DANSSt w:xD7iy CXOCKIERS College and Bryan MAKE YOUR CAMERA PAY WIN $5.00 IN OUR PICTURE OF THE MONTH CONTEST. CAMPUS STUDIO North Gate MID - WINTER SPECIALTIES Jackets Sweaters Pajamas Scarfs Crosby Square Shoes The Exchange Store “An Aggie Institution”

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