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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
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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
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