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THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1941
The Battalion
■TUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Bachanical 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
weakly 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
rrancisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
t-*444.
Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief
George Puermann Associate Editor
Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager
Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager
Pete Tumlinson Staff Artist
P. B. Pierce, Phil Levine Proof Readers
Photography Department
Phil Golman Photographic Editor
Jack Jones, T. J. Burnett, G. W. Brown,
Joe Golman, John Blair Assistant Photographers
Sports Department
Hub Johnson Sports Editor
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hollimon Junior Sports Editor
Mike Haikin, W. F. Oxford Sports Assistants
TUESDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
Bill Clarkson Managing Editor
lack Hendricks Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Lee Rogers E. M. Rosenthal
Reportorial Staff
Jack Aycock, Jack Decker, Walter Hall, Ralph Inglefield,
Tom Leiand, Beverly Miller, W. A. Moore, Mike Speer, Dow
Wynn.
Who Knows?
WHY STUDY? What difference does it all make
anyhow? We’ll all soon be in the army, either in war
or in training conscripts. Why worry about grades
in Chemistry or Accounting with military service
staring us in the face? All the soldier will need to
know is how to shoot a rifle or perhaps a mortar.
Even if we get out in June and not called into active
service, who will hire us with probable unannounced
call to service hanging over our heads? And if we
do get a job, how much future is there in it?
The above set of questions are being asked not
just every day but every hour by some 500 seniors
with advanced contracts.
The above set of questions should be answered
immediately because this same set of seniors are
fast developing a “I don’t care” attitude that will
work havoc with next semester’s grades.
But who knows the answers?
So far as can be told—no one.
President Walton said, “We hope to know def
initely soon.” That is some consolation. Lt. Col.
Watson has promised a discussion of the matter
Wednesday. We await in anticipation.
But the president did pass out some excellent
advice that is hereby repeated:
“In the meantime my suggestion to you would
be to go ahead with your interest in and application
to those basic industries with which, without the
imminence of war, you are prepared by desire and
training to serve ....
It is imperative that we go ahead and com
plete the design and pattern for your living with
full faith and confidence that after this stupid
eruption of armed conflict all around us eventually
come out of chaos and that our serious concern
again will be fruitful and purposeful living.”
FRANK LOVING PRESENTS:
I Heard the Preacher Say
BY REV. KURT HARTMANN
Pastor of American Lutheran Congregation
“WIST YE NOT that I must be about my Father’s
business ?”
This is a Christian watchword. It puts aside
forever the mistaken and perverse notion that the
work of the Church, or that Christianity, the Christ
ian life and all that pertains to godliness is for age
and not for youth.
Jesus was only twelve years old. The word,
quoted above, which He gave in answer to the
question of Joseph and His mother Mary, shows
He could not be concerned about anything as much
as about His Father’s business. It seemed strange
to Him that anyone should wonder about His being
in the temple of God, or that one should be vexed
at Him for studying the Word and Will of God, be
cause that was His business: To be about His Fa
ther’s business.
As Jesus, the Savior, was always about His
Father’s business, even in early youth, so the Christ
ian must be about the Savior’s business about his
heavenly Father’s business, be he old or young,
rich or poor, in school or out in the workaday
world. That must be the chief aim of his entire life.
All other affairs of life must be second to this one.
Life, for the Christian, is not a matter of making
a living, of gaining possessions, of pleasure or of
ease, but he spends his life in the interest of the
Father's business.
The Christian is in this world, but of another
world, or other-worldly. As for me, says the Christ
ian, I am about the Father’s business, about His
Word, His will, His work. I can serve those about
me in no better way than by doing the Father’s
will. They are being laughed at by God who are
constantly crying about what they are doing for
others, for the children of this generation and for
the childrens children, yet all the while are aiming
at nothing but getting earthly prestige and power
and weath, by fair means or foul, rejecting God
and the Christ.
The Christian is and strives to remain in God’s
eyesight. Him I love, serve and obey. I have no
time to fool away with the vain, the sinful, the
fleshly, the worldly, the vulgar. “He that soweth
to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but
he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap
life everlasting.”
I have no time to eat, drink and be merry, as
that is commonly understood and applied. I am not
“here today, gone tomorrow.” I am not riding on
the sea of life in a boat which has no goal. I am
here today, to do the Father’s will. Tomorrow takes
care of itself. “For to me to live is Christ, and to
die is gain.” I live but once, here, but not to squand-
, er, abuse and misuse health, strength, mind, time
and talents. I live to lose my life in Christ, with
Christ and for Christ. I live to be about my Father’s
business, in whatever station of life He places me.
I am here to bear witness of the Christ, who is the
way, the truth, the life. There are many roads
which lead away from Paradise, but only one back
to it. It is my business to walk that road by the
help of God, and to show that road to others.
To do the Father’s will, to strive to please Him
at all times, to serve Him in and with my life, my
thought, words and deeds—this is the Christian’s
business. He who is not about this business is not
Christian. “He that findeth his life shall lose it;
and he that loseth his life FOR MY SAKE shall find
it.”
Man, Your Manners
BY I. SHERWOOD
From now on until the end of the school year,
every week-end will have its “important” dance.
For the benefit of the cadet who is about to purchase
his first Tuxedo the following general rules may be
helpful.
The Tuxedo: Is a very practical suit for a man to
have; it may be worn almost any place after six
o’clock in the evening.
The Coat: Dull-faced worsted in black or mid
night blue. Single-breasted with silk or satin lapels,
but no other trimmings. (White dinner coat for
summer.)
Trousers: Same material as coat, with narrow
silk bands at sides. No cuffs.
Waist Coat or Vest: White pique when Tuxedo
substituted for full dress; otherwise black is proper.
(Never colored).
Shirt and Collar: White, stiff-bosomed, pique or
linen, wing collar or turned down. (In hot weather
soft shirt and collar permitted.)
Tie: Black satin or silk bow with square or pointed
end. Never white with the tuxedo.
Boutonniere: (Button-hole bouquet) White car
nation. Red is permissible and an artificial one is
accepted.
Socks and Shoes: Plain black silk socks. Plain
black oxfords. (Permissible).
Gloves: Worn only with an overcoat—may be of
gray or white.
Hat: Felt. (Derby in some places.)
The Double Breasted Tuxedo: Is more informal
than the single-breasted type; it is of the same
material and the trousers are identical; it requires
the same accessories, but no vest.
There is an important rule which any young
man should remember, that no matter how new his
outfit may be, he will not be well dressed unless he
has given proper attention to being well groomed.
His shoes should be kept shined, his linen should be
spotless, his suit cleaned and pressed.
The old adage that “clothes makes the gentle
man” goes a bit too far; what it really means is
that clothes a gentlemen ought to wear do make a
gentleman look the way he should look!
It is well for a young man to cultivate the air
that he is unconscious of the appearance of being
well dressed. (Women like a man to have an air
of casualness about him.)
As the World Turns...
R. W. Steep
By DR. R. W. STEEN
YESTERDAY FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT began his
third term as President of the United States. Today
W. Lee O’Daniel begins his second term as Govern
or of Texas. The national problems are so well
known that there is little justification for march
ing them across this page again just because of the
inauguration, but the state prob
lems are not so well known.
For the past fifteen years the
state has been struggling with a
constantly growing deficit. Every
session of the legislature since
1927 has studied and debated the
problem, but no session has been
willing to take more than half
measures to deal with it. The re
sult is that the deficit is now
larger than ever.
In his budget message Gover
nor O’Daniel asked for $50,000,000
per year in new taxes. He intends to use the addition
al funds for retiring the deficit, for increased pay
ments to the aged, for meeting the state’s part of
the teacher retirement fund, and for replacing the
income from certain taxes which he hopes the legis
lature will abolish. He hopes to obtain this revenue
from a tax which he describes as a transactions tax
of 1.6 per cent. The proposal is very similar to the
one made two years ago, but there is one important
difference.
Two years ago he asked for a constitutional
amendment, this year he asks only for a law. His
proposal two years ago received 94 votes in the
House of Representatives, but got no farther as
it takes 100 votes for a proposed amendment to pass
the House. It takes only twenty-six votes, assuming
that all members are present, for an ordinary bill
to pass the house. By casting aside the matter of
constitutionality the Governor has greatly increased
the chance of getting his measure passed.
Governor O’Daniel had limited success in deal
ing with the legislature in 1939. At that time, how
ever, he was an amateur. Now, with two years of
experience as head of the state behind him, he must
doubtless be classed as a professional. That being
true he may be able to deal with the legislature on
more equal terms.
In 1939 the legislature remained in session for
about five months. That set a record as the body
usually adjourns at the end of four months. The
constitution definitely encourages them to adjourn
after four months. The members receive $10 per day
for the first 120 days of a session, and after that
only $5 per day. They receive $10 per day in special
session. For economic reasons that are obvious it
is customary for the body to adjourn at the end of
120 days, and then let the Governor call them back
in special session in case there are other matters in
desperate need of consideration.
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George FueriMn
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster.
The present war has put such are not the type that makes the up-
an emphasis on flash news that grade honestly. With them it is
Warner Brothers tried to pull a only good.
smart deal with “DISPATCH
FROM REUTER’S.” It tells of the
founding of the English news agen
cy by that name which is still
functioning. Many people may have
noticed that these dispatches are
quoted as the authority for some
statements in the American ver
sions of the English news.
Edward G. Robinson, who stars
in the film as Reuter, is adding to
his reputation as a cinema bio
grapher in something besides gang
ster shows. He puts up a pretty
tough fight to prove that pigeons
can carry news faster than over
land stage coach. When his pigeons
become outmoded by the telegraph,
he again tightens his belt to take
up the fight again. Wife Edna Best
convinces him that his moral ob
ligations to the public for obtaining
We do not think Americans will be happy un
der the Townsend plan until it is required to spend
at least three month’s pension in advance.
rapid and accurate news should
guide him above all else.
Down Military Walk . . . The fast- bage.” Just as a show, “Dispatch From
nearing social season will see the That’s just a sample of what Reuter’s” hasn’t got anything par-
beginning of Backwash’s second happens at every meal. Fourteen ticularly on the ball. It is inter
annual Aggie Hit Parade and a comments—one from each head esting from the standpoint of show
weekly poll indicating the corps’ waiter—follow every meal and get ing the origin of a great news sys-
rating of the various orchestras and a thorough working-over by mess tern which plays an important part
in what we read every day. It is
a decent biography and the story
of a man’s struggle for something
he believed in.
“CITY FOR CONQUEST” is an
attack on the old philosophy that
the world owes someone a living.
It is a story of the big city of New
Fuermann
feminine vocalists that will appear hall managers and chefs.
on the campus dur- • • •
ing the second se-
mester. Social sec- I. ciC t
retary Jack Nelson — — . ,, , , . ,
. , Meaning the student who recent-
will head a com- , , , ,, ,. * ± on
, . , ... ly phoned one of his profs at 1:30
mittee which will . ,, , , ,
, , a. m. After the phone had rung
<eep a wee y ^ two or t jj ree m j nu t e s, the prof ...
finger on the Ag- .... ... . ^ . j ^ j York which just sits there waiting
. , , . . finally stirred out of bed, turned „ J .
gies dancing pulse. , , . .. for someone man eonugh to come
rTYt • xu on the hght, put on his slippers , , •. T
. . . The big three , . , . along and conquer it. In a moving
-exu xu- i a and staggered sleepily down the , . . ...
of the mythical Ag- , x xu u and fast action presentation, it
• tt-x j i x hall to answer the phone. , , ,, ’
gie Hit Parade last ,,™ . . - x j x • shows how three different people
“This is one of your students m , f. ,,
year included Tux- a tj m jd voice at s ^ ar ^ as s t ree t ; urchins and finally
edo Junction in first place; All ' * " ’ , . ,, .. . end near the top. James Cagney
mu mu- -tr A the other end of the line. “Are we .,
The Things You Are came m sec- • x u /-< x conquers it with his fist, Ann Sher-
, , ° , ,, going to have quiz C tomorrow?” ., M , .. ... , ’ . ,
ond; and Russ Morgan’s theme song u xu u idan does it with her dancing, and
(after maestro Morgan had played , 6 n °’ e j 0 ™ V ^ ry Arthur Kennedy does it with con-
-e xu O • T>- \ tV awake prof roared, “and who in . J ,
for the Senior Ring Dance), Does . g ^is?” cer ^ music ‘ Throughout the show
Your Heart Beat For Me, showing ’ Frank Craven, as a tramp and
third. Tuxedo Junction, by the way, TVi ■ • f L tk • °l d timer that knows all the plays
hit the No. 1 spot for 13 consecutive ^ ^n^to^discover the culprit’s anc * s ^ glia ^ s & rea t ac ^ s
weeks—the entire social season . . . •, x-x xu u • • , . as a commentator and calls the
Where last year’s orchestras were 1 ^ 1 f <lvJ j, 1 eC ° gai ^ mt, - 1 ^ plays with a hometown philosophy
concerned, Berme Cummins and , ■ „ xt ^ -j • x x and human interest m the lives ot
. ’ . , , . , - him,” the prof said, “I just want ,. .
Anson Weeks neck-and-necked for , ... , . the people.
first place. Right behind the rhy- 01 im -^ ^ ^ With anybody but Cagney and
thms of Bernie and Anson were Sheridan, this picture would be
the rhumbacations of the No. 2 A o'p’ip TYTl'nifltllPP great, but no one with the screen
orchestras, Russ and his “Music reputation that they’ve got can por-
in the Morgan Manner” and the A fella kinda picks up the real tray the fight of honest people on
“Ripplin’ Rhythms” of Shep Fields, meaning of the term “A Texas their way to the top. They look
In third place was Lawrence Welk Aggie” when he gets around to like the kind that comes from the
and his “Champagne Music;” the thinking about Ossie Milliard Wea- New York Slums all right but they
“Candid Camera” music of Del ver—that is, if he ever gets around
Courtney waltzed in at No. 4; A1 to thinking about Ossie at all. the shows in which they took part.
Kavelin (who made a tremendous The truth is, there aren’t many Of that total, 4,505 were beef calv-
hit with the Ross Volunteers for Aggies who could tell you much es which weighed 2,£79,149 pounds
whose dances he played) rode the about Ossie. He had a little tough and sold for $286,732.43 plus an-
No. 5 spot; and George Hamilton— luck, but he didn’t say a whole lot other $15,797.46 in prize money,
too sophisticated for the corps— about it. The 3,430 sheep shown included
and his “Music Box” orchestra He was a mechanical engineer- much breeding stock and all were
came in last. George Hall, who ing senior from Bonham living in not sold. However, 241,684 pounds
maestroed the Junior Prom and dorm No. 4 until last Oct. That was of mutton were sold for $29,172.50
Final Ball, came too late to be before he was stricken with in- plus $4,157.48 in prizes. Sales plus
included in the poll . . . Briefly, fantile paralysis. premiums of dairy cattle sold
the corps ranked the vocalists in He’s in a Dallas hospital now, amounted to $7,007.95. Sale of
the following order: Connie Bar- and if a will-to-win can get a man swine added another $46,010.04, in-
leau (Bernie Cummins) and Claire -well, then here’s ten that’ll get you eluding prizes, to the money earned
Nunn (Shep Fields) tied for first; one that Ossie is back at Aggie- by the boys in 4-H work.
Eunice Clarke (Anson Weeks), land before many more month go The total sales of all livestock
second; Jayne Walton (Lawrence by. and poultry for 1940 reached $391,-
Welk), third; Patty Morgan (A1 He’s been in that bed 16 weeks, 132.60 bettering the 1939 record by
Kavelin), fourth; and Carolyn a nd he’s still as cheerful as a $105,125.00.
Clarke (Russ Morgan), last. southern darkey who just won $10
® ® ® in a crap game. Marshall Robnett
was. in the bed next to Ossie when
he was recovering from the knee
injury received in the Cotton Bowl
game, and Rob can tell you a pretty
straight story about Ossie’s spirit.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday—“POP ALWAYS
PAYS,” with Leon Errol,
Dennis O’Keefe, Adele Pearce
and Walter Catlett.
Wednesday, Thursday —
“DIAMOND FRONTIER,”
with Victor McLaglen, Ann
Nagel and Phillip Dorn.
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45 —
“DISPATCH FROM REUT
ER’S,” starring Edward G.
Robinson, Eddie Albert, Al
bert Besserman, Gene Lock
hart and Otto Kruger.
Wednesday, Thursday 3:30
& 6:45—“CITY FOR CON
QUEST,” starring James
Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank
Craven, Frank McHugh and
Donald Crisp.
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Wednes. - Thurs.
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Comments
An unpublicized and little-known
function of the mess hall’s 14 head
waiters are the “comment sheets”
which are made after each meal.
The 14 head waiters, incidentally,
are R. G. (Bob) Tonkin, Joe F.
Bourn, Henry Haltom, W. J. Owen,
George Bingham and Clarence Hall
at Sbisa Hall; C. W. Heitkamp,
Jack Dixon, John Link, R. T. Caper-
ton, Jack Bailey, Jack Williams,
Jimmy Lane and John Ragland at
Duncan Hall.
After each meal these men turn
in the cadet-comment on the var-
rious foods served at the meal.
Thus, the mess hall managers are
enabled to get a line on the corps’
likes and dislikes and, in most
cases, when a food is obviously un
popular it gets the ax. Here’s a
few samples from the comment
sheet on Jan. 16:
Dinner: “A good meal of which
spaghetti and meat balls were
standard dishes.”
“Spaghetti and meat balls were
OK. Pear salad went well.”
“Pear salad was good. Spaghetti
and meat balls are always popu
lar.”
Supper: “Creamed cabbage was
slow on all tables.”
“Only a fair meal. Creamed cab
bage very slow. No seconds on
this.”
“This meal was OK except the
men didn’t like the creamed cab-
Call time-out sometime soon and
write Ossie a letter. He’s as loyal
an Aggie as any in the corps and
a good “bull session”—even if via
mail—will go a long way toward
making him feel at home in a hos
pital.
4-H Club
Work in Texas
Is a Big Business
The 4-H Club work in Texas is
a big business, according to the
annual report of J. W. Potts, as
sistant state boy’s club agent, Tex
as A. & M. College Extension Ser
vice.
Potts’ report reveals that 33,617
boys took part in 4-H Club work
last year as compared to 31,528
the year before.
Looking at boys’ 4-H Club work
in Texas from the standpoint of
demonstrations and income, it can
be readily seen that these boys
conduct a very sizable business. In
1940 there were held 190 local
shows or fairs in which the 4-H
boys participated. They exhibited
16,522 head of livestock at all of
Assembly Hall
Last Day
“Dispatch From Reuters”
with
Edward G. Robinson
Orchestra - News - Comedy
3:30 and 6:45
Wednesday and Thursday
James Cagney - Ann Sheridan
—in—
"Cihj For Conquest"
3:30 and 6:45 Each Day
Selected Shorts — Comedy
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