THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE
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Kechanical College of Texas and the city of College Station, is
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weekly from June through August.
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Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
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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
Mike Haikin, W. P. Oxford Sports Assistants
SATURDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
Earle A. Shields Managing Editor
T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Will 0. Brimberry W. C. Carter Don Gabriel
Reportorial Staff
Charles Babcock, Herbert Haile, Paul Haines, Carl Van
Hook, J. J. Keith, Z. A. McReynolds, Beverly Miller, Ehrhard
Mittendorf, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison.
What’s Happened?
WHAT'S HAPPENED to the Aggie spirit, the
sense of fair play and of fine sportsmanship ? Some
thing radical is wrong when Aggies at a basketball
game are guilty of booing an opponent making a
good play or creating a disturbance while an op
ponent makes a free shot or, in particular, throwing
an apple core onto the court.
The chief talking point and most publicized
asset of the cadet corps is the spirit. What sort of
spirit do these stunts represent?
Isn’t it obvious that this is wrong—terribly
wrong?
A player crouches for a shot—someone yells
and he misses. What’s his loss is our gain. Oh yeah!
Think that one over. What about our reputation
and how will that yell affect our reputation? You
figure that one out.
All But the Shouting
WITH FINAL EXAMS the semester will be ended.
Most students will pass, but some will fail. That
some will fail is sad but inevitable.
But failing a course is not disastrous. Naturally
no one enjoys failing, but if the best effort has been
expended, there is no crime attached.
So you failed a course. So what? You did the
best you could under the circumstances and that is
that. It is too late after the exam to cry or to spend
time worrying about having failed.
Buck up, forget the past, sign up for the course
for next semester, tighten your belt, put a grin on
your face, laugh, and then get to work.
Epitaph
“I’LL MISS HIM,” says the old man of a classmate
just passed on.
For what a multitude of good citizens that
simple phrase has been an adequate epitaph.
No, our friend had not lived Tor himself alone.
He had unselfishly helped others, had helped in
social life, the religious life, the rural organiza
tions of the community—and so with his passing he
will be missed. And then we got to wondering
whether it might not be well perhaps for all of us
to ask ourselves a question—the question as to
whether when our own time or passing comes,
asomebody will use that good old country phrase so
suggestive of the fragrance of a well-spent life,
“He will be missed.”
Or will somebody merely remark, “Yep, knowed
pretty well how to make and save money; left the
family pretty well fixed.”
Mexico
IN THE UNITED STATES, says the Manitou Mes
senger at St. Olaf college,, an egg thrown at a pres
idential condidate rates the headlines in all news
papers. In Mexico the incident probably would have
been dismissed immediately because of the thrower’s
inaccui’acy.
Which is by way of introducing a collegiate dis
cussion of United States relations with the neighbor
to the south. With few exceptions, the view of under
graduate editorialists is skeptical, resembling in tone
the recent observation of the Daily Nebraskan:
“Mexico, long suspected of being a hotbed of fascist
sentiment and fifth column activity, evidences WHAT
SEEMS TO BE a sincere desire to rid herself of
anti-American elements. AT LEAST OFFICIAL
MEXICO ANNOUNCES SUCH A POLICY. The
Mexican declaration of fact and policy is hearten
ing. A large country, and one so close to our own,
Mexico would be a powder-horn of revolt against
western world peace if its government became in
timidated to fascist influence.”
Another midwestem publication, the Daily
Kansan, is similarly far from convinced. “Mexican
politics being what they are,” observes the Kansan,
“it is somewhat difficult to swallow the recent ex
planation by President Cadenas that refusal to
grant concessions to the Japanese was based on
“continental solidarity’.”
“Many veteran observers,” the Daily Iowan
joins in, “recall with no pleasure a Mexican action
which foreclosed on property held by American oil
companies in Mexico.” It would be well, for the
furtherance of good relations, says the Iowan, “to
establish some kind of solidarity on this score, pre
ferably a just one for the oil companies.”
More willing to accept Mexico’s declaration of
good faith is the Indiana Daily Student, which feels
that Mexico has “answered her critics in a way to
stifle even the most bitter. Her action is a com
mendable example of attempts by South and Central
American countries to mold the Western Hemisphere
into a ‘united front’ against all interlopers.”
A Michigan Daily writer notes that “the United
States is making strained efforts to treat Mexico
with the same respect accorded Canada. Now plans
are being made for an elaborate defense ‘understand
ing.’ Reports indicate the United States intends
giving Mexico funds for improvement of naval bases
which could be used as stations for United States
ships; that Mexica air bases might be enlarged and
made available for United States planes defending
the Canal Zone and the Gulf of Mexico. Included
in the proposed plan are possible transfer of four
United States destroyers to Mexico, mechanization
of the Mexican army with United States financial
aid, and exchange of naval, air and army officers.
“Why the United States sliould transfer four
destroyers to Mexico instead of using them itself
to patrol Mexican waters is not clear. It is obvious
who will profit by the exchange of officers. And the
United States should think several times before
mechanizing the army of a country whose imme
diately history is saturated with blood violently
shed. In fact, “the University of Michigan editorial
ist believes,” great care should be taken in planning
the whole general co-operation with Mexico. Mex
ico has had a particularly turbulent history, and one
can only speculate on her future course. Not that
Mexico is likely to turn totalitarian or be especially
dangerous if she did; but the United States does
not have surplus funds and war materials to give
to nations of fluctuating political positions.”
This Collegiate World
The player’s chance of being delt a straight
flush in a poker game is only one in 64,974 times
(if the deck ain’t stacked).
And the chance of getting 13 spades in one
hand in bridge is but one in 700 trillion times, how
ever many that is.
So figures an Eastern New Mexico college Ph.
D., professor in mathematics, following a Dart
mouth professor’s use in his class of chances in a
crap-shooting session.
Intrigued by the utilization of homely happen
ings in higher mathematics, the ENMC professor
fascinated his students with problems dealing with
bridge, poker, and slot machines, with the slot
machines for once coming out at the losing end.
For students found that the slot machine offers
a sure chance to lose money.
Slot machines usually afford one chance in
eight of winning on any given play, but because
human beings like to gamble and ordinarily con
tinue to play their winnings back, they apparently
have only one chance in 100 of coming out ahead,
said the professor.
There are 84,480,000,000,000 possible com
binations in a regular 52-card deck, the goggle-
eyed students learned.
In poker there is but one chance in 4,165 deals
of getting four of a kind, one in 694 of getting a
full house, one in 509 of getting a flush, one in 47
of getting three of a kind.
What started it all was the Dartmouth pro
fessor’s problem in crap-shooting: The caster rolls
two dice and wins if (a) the sum be 7 or 11; (b) if
the sum be 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 and if this same sum
reappears before seven is ever seen. To obviate the
odds against the caster, a dishonest caster employs
two dice, one true and the other loaded so that a
certain number always appears at the top. What
should this number be in order to give him the
maximum advantage ?
—Associated Collegiate Press
FRANK LOVING PRESENTS:
/ Heard the Preacher Say
HERE IS A MAN who was born in an obscure vil
lage, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in
another obscure village. He worked as a carpenter
until he was thirty; then for three years he was
an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He
never held an office. He never owned a home. He
never had a family. He never went to college. He
never set his foot inside a big city. He never travel
ed two hundred miles from the place where he was
born.
He never did one of the things that usually ac
company greatness. He had no credentials but him
self. He had no special training for his work in the
world; he had only the naked power of his divine
manhood. While he was still a young man the tide
of popular opinion turned against him. His friends
ran away. One denied him. He went through the
mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross be
tween two thieves, and while he was dying, his exe-
cutioneers gambled for the only piece of property
he had—his coat. When he was dead, he was taken
down and laid in a grave borrowed from a pitying
friend.
Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone
and today he is the central figure of the human
race and the leader of the column of progress.
I am far within the mark when I say that all
the armies that ever marched, and all the navies
that ever were built, and all the parliaments that
ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, all put
together, have not affected the life of man upon
this earth as powerfully as that one solitary life.
—Anonymous
The Collegiate Review
Cadets at the Citadel, South Carolina military
college, come from 33 v states, three territories, the
District of Columbia and one foreign country.
Middlesex university has completed construct
ion of the three-story brick building of its school of
veterinary medicine at a cost of $200,000.
Willard Hayden, president of Charles Hayden
foundation, recently awarded a $10,000 grant to
Tufts college medical school to establish scholar
ships.
Associated Students of the University of Idaho
last year spent $107,031 and finished the year
$1,080 in the black.
Mankato (Minn.) State Teachers college has
recently finished a student lounge which will serve
as an all-purpose room.
—Associated Collegiate Press
“That is not too large. My husband is a big manl"
“TIN PAN ALLEY” is the story
of just that place in New York be
fore the days of jazz. It has some
of the old familiar pre-war love
songs in it like “Good-bye Broad
way, Hello France,” “The Sheik
of Araby,” “Honeysuckle Rose,”
and “K-K-K-Katy.” These are in
cluded to sort of stir the heart and
create atmosphere, which they do
well.
There was bound to be some pro
fessional jealousy when two major
stars like Alice Faye and Betty
Grable are put in the same film as
sisters and with such nearly paral
lel roles. The competition does
them both good because they have
to put out their best efforts.
Twentieth Century-Fox tried to
take advantage of both their vocal
and visual attractions by having
them sing together and putting on
cellophane harem costumes. Alice
Faye’s more mature voice wins out
with most of the songs but young
Betty Grable wins most of the vis
ual attraction.
Jack Oakie and John Payne play
BRAIN TWISTER
By R. R. Lyle
The Game of NIM
In this game two players play
alternately with a number of pen
nies. The challenger being very
polite always insists that he would
pick up the first penny or pen
nies. The rules are that each play
er must pick up at least one penny
and may pick up as many as five.
The player who picks up the last
penny loses the game. Suppose they
play with 21 pennies, how can
the challenger win?
(Answer: The chhllenger men
tally divides the pennies into groups
of 1, 6, 6, and 2. Since he plays
first, he picks up 2 pennies. Then,
however many his oppenent picks,
the challenger picks up the com
plement of 6. For example, if the
opponent picks up one, the chal
lenger takes 5; if the opponent
takes two, the challenger takes
four, and so on. Each of the three
groups of six is thus exhausted
and the opponent is left with the
last penny and the challenger wins.
Summer Ag
Course Receives
National Recognition
The 1940 summer course offered
by the Agronomy Department of
A. & M. received national recogni
tion from the Soil Conservation
Service of the United States De
partment of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C.
The article “Agronomic Instruct
ion for Midern Agriculture” writ
ten by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of
the Agronomy Department, was
published in the January 1941 is
sue of “Soil Conservation.” Dr.
Trotten has also received several
complimentary letters about the
courses his department offered last
summer and the article he has
written about them. One of the
letters came from N. P. Stephen
son, head of the Regional Training
Section, and another letter from
the State Coordinator, P. H. Wal-
ser.
The words received from Stephen
son were, “We appreciate the fine
work the Agronomy Department
has been doing under your leader
ship, and I am particularly pleased
to see the work so ably presented
to the readers of ‘Soil Conserva
tion’.”
the parts of ambitious young song
writers of the pre-war era. Alice
falls for Payne and plugs them
with her singing until the war gets
both the writers. Betty casts off
from the team and does not occupy
such a prominent spot before the
camera. This show well brings back
the spirit of the days before the
war as it has been painted to us.
This is a good musical, not so light
as to be frivilous nor so heavy as
to be operatic.
“BITTER SWEET” at the As
sembly Hall is another chapter in
the singing story of Nelson Eddy
and Jeanette MacDonald. It is in
Technicolor, and if this picture is
an example of the latest develop
ments in the film, it is definitely
improving with better color repro
duction.
The main story portrays them as
a poor but happily married couple
living in Vienna. Husband Eddy
tries to get an operetta published
and wife MacDonald attracts the
unwelcome attentions of George
Sanders. Eddy gets killed in a duel
with Sanders, who is an Austrian
cavalry officer and as good a vil
lain as ever. Due to the common
setting of a Vienna cafe, the trill
ings of the two singers does not
have all the heavy operatic quali
ties which usually accompany their
performances. If you like Nelson
Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald,
you’ll like this one.
What’s Showing
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Saturday 6:45 & 8:30—“DREAM
ING OUT LOUD,” with Lum and
Abner, Frances Langford, Frank
Craven, Phil Harris and Bobs Wat.
son.
Monday, Tuesday 6:45—“BIT
TER SWEET,” starring Nelson
Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, George
Sanders, Ian Hunter and Felix
Bressart.
Wednesday, Thursday 6:45—
“DULCY,” featuring Ann Sothern,
Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Billie
Burke and Lynn Carver.
Friday 3:30 & 6:45—“MEXICAN
SPITFIRE OUT WEST,” with
Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald
Woods and- Cecil Kellaway.
Saturday 6:45 & 8:30—“RIVER’S
END,” With Dennis Morgan and
George Tobias.
Monday, Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45—
“FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT,”
featuring Joel McCrea, Loraine
Day, Herbert Marshall, George
Sanders and Robert Benchley.
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday — “THE LADY IN
QUESTION,” featuring Rita Hay
worth, Brian Aherne, Glen Ford
and Irene Rich.
Saturday midnight, Sunday,
Monday—“TIN PAN ALLEY,”
starring Alice Faye, Bettye Gra
ble, Jack Oakie, John Payne and
Allen Jenkins.
Tuesday—“MELODY IN THE
MOONLIGHT,” with Johnny
Downs, Barbara Allen (Vera Va
gue), Jerry Collona and Jane Fra-
zee.
Wednesday, Thursday—“THE 39
STEPS,” featuring Robert Donat
and Madelaine Carroll.
Friday, Saturday—“NIGHT IN
THE TROPICS,” starring Alan
Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott
and Robert Cummings.
Saturday midnight, Sunday, Mon
day—“BLACK MIDNIGHT,” with
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stan
ley Ridges and Anne Gwynne.
Dairy Husbandry Department Has
Progressed Steadily in 39 Years
Thirty-nine years of progress.
That’s the record set by the Dairy
Husbandry department since it’s
beginning in 1902.
Located in the old Agricultural
Building, which is now the Science
Hall, the Dairy Husbandry depart,
ment at that time was under the
supervision of the Animal Hus
bandry department. The depart
ment became independent in 1912,
with J. L. Thomas, now with the
Extension Service, in charge.
Since that time the Dairy Hus
bandry department has grown to
be one of the largest departments
on the campus. With a staff of
four professors and eight graduate
student assistants, it boasts a rec
ord enrollment of ten graduate stu
dents, 150 under-graduates and
over 150 short course students.
The activities of the department
are not confined to the policy of
instructing students for the de
partment has three principal func-
graduate, undergraduate, and short
course students in the several
branches of the dairy industry;
(2) providing dairy products for
the college dining hall; (3) assist
ing, through the cooperation with
Experiment Station and Extension
Service, in the development of
dairying in the state.
For instruction and commer
cial purposes, the department op
erates a dairy farm of approxi
mately 500 acres and a herd of
about 300 head of registered Jer
seys and Holsteins. This herd, in
cluding 150 milking cows produces
over 150,000 gallons of milk an
nually, most of which is used at
the college dining halls. The av
erage mature equivalent production
record of all cows in the herd is
well over 500 pounds of butterfat
per year. For the purposes of in
struction as well as to provide stu
dent employment, most of the work
with the herd and in the creamery
is done by student labor. At pres
ent over 40 students are employed
on the farm.
Operated also as a class labora
tory and as a commercial unit, the
creamery last year handled over
2% million pounds of milk, most of
which went to the dining hall in
the form of bottled milk. With
the increased enrollment this year,
the dining halls have used from
15 to 17 thousand half pints of
milk daily. In addition, the cream
ery puts out ice cream, butter,
cheese and a small amount of plain
condensed skim milk as well as
buttermilk, chocolate milk and
cream. All of this is handled in a
modem, well equipped plant.
(Continued on Page 6)
Courses Submitted by Departments
for the 1941 Summer Session
FIRST TERM
A. & S.—201, 202, 401, 310, 409, 416, 502
Aero.—201, 211, 212, 311, 312
Ag. Ec.—571 or 572, 502, 429, 301, 423, 514, 438, 312, 314
Ag. Ed.—501, 502, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 515
Ag. Eng.—305, 322, 511, 514, 517
Agr.—105, 301, 314, 413, 417, 418, 505, 509, 511
A. H.—107, 202, 203, 303, 307, 416, 505b, 505c, 505d, 511, 512, 575
Arch.—109, 111, 205, 455
Biol.—101, 206, 503, 513, 521, 523
Chem.—101, 103, 102, 206, 207, 212, 214, 216
C. E.—300s, 305, 206
C. M.—107, 108
D. H.—420, 501
Econ.—203, 311, 315, 316, 317, 318, 403, 416, 507 or 501
Educ.—121, 321, 426, 427, 508, 510, 511, 512
E. E.—208, 517
E. D.—Ill, 112, 124
Engl.—103, 203, 231, 401, 415
7nto.—201, 507 or 508
F. G.—400s
Gen.—301
Geol.—299s
Hist—105, 306, 322, 424
Hort—317, 501, 503, 507
I. Ed.—406, 419, 510, 518, 520b, 520c, 521, 507b, 508, 524
Land.—415
Math.—101, 102, 103, 104, 203, 204, 409, 507
M. E.—102, 201, 212, 309, 310
Lang. 101, 201 (or 205)
M. S. E.—None
Pet. E.—327s
P. E.—207, 405
Phys.—201, 203
P. H.—303, 501, 503
Psy.—301
'R. S.—415, 416, 315, 501
V. A.—Ill, 213
V. H.—493
V. M. S.—351, 361, 371, 471
V. P.—481
V. P. B.—341
V. P. P.—121, 333
SECOND TERM
A. & S.—202, 301, 303, 503
Aera.—211, 212, 311, 312
Ag. Ec.—305, 516, 400s, 426, 425, 312, 314
Ag. Ed.—501, 505, 508
Ag. Eng.—201, 424, 413, 503, 509
Agr.—105, 301, 308, 318, 413, 417
A. H.—409, 418, 424, 431, 505a, 571
Arch.—418s, 419s
Biol.—107, 504, 522, 524
Chem.—102, 104, 400s
C. E.—305, 311, 315, 336, 201
C. M.—None
D. H.—202, 508
E co n.—204, 316, 403, 408, 420, 502, 506
Educ.—321, 322, 504, 515, 516
E . E.—305, 431, 510, 512
E. D.—HI, H2, 124
E n gl.—104, 210, 232, 401, 416
Ento.—None
F. G.—300s.
Gen.—505, 515, 517
Geol.—300s, 400s, 509
Hist.—106, 306, 316, 318
Hort—318, 502, 504, 508
I. Ed.—507a, 514, 520e, 522
-None ...
-101 102, 103, 104, 203, 204, 305, 410, 511
-102, 212, 309, 310, 313, 320, 338, 403, 404, 517
im 9f>1 for 205)
P. E.—314, 406
Phys.—202, 204
P. H.—201, 401
Psy.—None
R. S.—201, 407, 311, 511
V. A.—112
V. H.—None
V. M. S.—352, 362, 372s, 472
V. P.—482
V. P. B.—341
V. P. P.—122, 334
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