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Page 2- THE BATTALION i -SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1941 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. — 1 " — • '■ - - 1 —i Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate, $8 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 4-5444. 1940 Member 1941 F\ssocided Golle6iate Press Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief George Fuermann Associate Editor Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager Tom Vannoy Editorial Assistant Pete Tumlinson , Staff Artist J. B. Pierce, Phil Levine Proof Readers Sports Department Hub Johnson Sports Editor Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor Mike Haikin, Jack Hollimon, W. F. Oxford Junior Sports Editors Circulation Department Tommy Henderson ,. Circulation Manager W. G. Hauger, E. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Managers F. D. Asbury, E. 8. Henard Circulation Assistants Photography Department Phil Golman r Photographic Editor G. W. Brown, John Carpenter, Joe Golman, Jack Jones Assistant Photographers SATURDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF Earle A. Shields Managing Editor T. R. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager Jnnior Editors Will 0. Brim berry 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. Tennbon. Don’t Go Without a Date! SENIORS, do you remember our freshman dance in the spring of ’381 Seems a long time ago, doesn’t it. Do you remember the night of the dance—the small invitations with the big round fish on the front—how good it felt to have permission to stay out past 12 o’clock—the fine time we had with our dates? This year’s freshman class is about to enjoy the same sensation tonight at their class dance. But do you remember how many seniors at tended our dance back in 1938—how crowded the floor was—and didn’t you wish, like the rest of us, that we could have gotten by without inviting them in? This year’s freshman class is also about to enjoy this same sensation and wish the same of us to night unless we do something about it. This year’s freshman class is larger than any freshman class before it. This senior class is larger than any before it also. But the mess hall is still just the same size it was in 1938. The proposal submitted to remedy the situation follows as a natural consequence. Seniors are being asked not to come unless they have dates. This idea is not revolutionary; it is just good plain common sense. After all, this dance is paid for and is primarily for the benefit of the freshmen. There is such a thing as having consideration even for a freshman. The request did not originate with the freshmen class alone. Rather it comes from a large block of seniors in our class. It has the blessing of the senior class president, Tom Richey, and the other class officers. Undoubtedly the same old argument will oppose this idea as opposes any change that is made. “The seniors went to our class dance, and the seniors went last year.” Sure, that’s true. They did go. But the fact that they went did not make it right for them to go, nor does it make it right for us, as seniors, to go this year. The class of '41 would like to have a model class and an ideal year, and this event would be a long step in the right direction. Our attending the junior prom will be all right, and the sophomore dance will not be so bad, but the size of the freshman class makes it ex tremely undesirable for us to attend their dance tonight without dates. It has been said that if all the changes were made by the seniors that they thought about changing when they were freshmen, A. & M. would be a far better school. There are some things a fellow doesn’t understand as a freshman that clears up with time, but the idea has some possibilities. sible to the people or to the Congress. The only re maining function Congress will have in national de fense or foreign policy will be limited to appropriat ing funds to carry out the provisions of the law, and so far reaching are the vague provisions of the law that the President is authorized to wage un declared war and to establish authoritarian rule.” To read this statement is further indication of the fact that some foreign influence must be the inspiration, directly or indirectly, for the entire movement. Their attitude is that of distrust and of condemnation for the officials of the government. The creating of such an attitude is the first and most logical and most effective step taken by the fifth column in destroying the morale of any coun try. Trying to reconvert these silly youths would be a hopeless task. Our only solution to the prob lem is to simply ignore them in their ravings. Who ever is cramming them with falsehoods and egging them on will quit as soon as their effectiveness becomes nil. Then perhaps someday when they have time to sit down alone and think things through for themselves, they will see the light. FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say WE AS COLLEGE STUDENTS are often faced with the necessity of altering our faith to suit new experiences. Sometimes the problems that arise are enough to even change or- destroy that faith. I should like to pass on to you some things written by Dr. T. A. Wharton in 1931 which may help answer the questions of our faith. “Why should He, the maker and master of the human spirit, use the clumsy method of speech when He can make His appeal directly to the soul of a man ? Why should the sun in the heavens speak to convince us of its light and heat? He is not de pendent upon the slow method of human communi cation. He knocks directly upon the door of the human heart .... My children, do not heed the changing opinions of men concerning the inspiration of the Scriptures. Suppose they be not written as our fathers thought. They assumed that God spoke their every word directly into the ear of the Holy men of old. They assumed that God ought to have done so and there fore it is that sort of a book. The theory of mechanical inspiration had to go. The Bible does not teach any of the sciences—there was no need to reveal that which men could find out for themselves. It only teaches ‘what man is to believe concerning God and what duty God re quires of man.’ Let opinion shift as it may concerning this or that detail of the old Book—amid all the yeasty seas of controvei'sy over the non-essential, the ‘Rock of Ages’ rises sheer and unchanging, the one and only refuge of mankind .... You cannot reach Him on His throne with your mind alone, you cannot reach Him with your heart alone, but whenever you seek Him with all your mind and all your heart and all your soul, you shall find Him.” Youth Misguided A RELEASE from New York explains that the Youth Committee Against War has mobilized again, this time against the Lease-Lend Bill. The communique provides for delegations of misguided youths to arrive in Washington where they will register at the National Council for Pre vention of War, where they will receive instructions for lobbying. All day the groups from the various states will visit their Senators and Representatives to register their opposition to the bill. Frankly and without hesitation, The Battalion condemns this organization for being non-patriotic and a detriment to the general welfare of the coun try. They are a smear on the reputation and stand ing of the straight-thinking youths of our land. The first act of this vile organization was to oppose the draft bill. Though this, too, was opposed to our point of view, it was a stand that had a direct bearing on their welfare. But in recent weeks this Youth Committee has opposed every move of the president and his administration on matters in which they are not directly concerned. This begins to smell of something more vital, and we ask who is behind this organization. No or ganization of true Americans, youth or aged, could intentionally throw a stumbling block into the path of national defense as this committee is so obviously attempting to do. They say, “The Youth Committee Against War opposes unconditionally the ‘Lease-Lend Bill’ now under consideration by the Senate Foreign Rela tions committee. This proposal is an affront to a free people represented by a democratically elected Congress. The Presideht, in this bill, asks for such Nelson r CAKPIlStlmTIONS ^ /xTTnN with m with JTOMGfLLlS: 1 ■i PERPETUAL. .STUDENT W«. CULLEN BRYANT KEMP ATTENDED CLASTET AT COLUMBIA U. FOR OVER 20 YEARS. AFTER WS FRESHMAN YEAR IN 1668. THERE WAS AN INTERLUDE IN HIS EDUCATION x at which Time he acquiesced to his FATHERS WISHES AND ENTERED BUSINESSv BUT ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH HE RETURNED To HIS STUDIES. HIS LAST REGISTRATION WAS IN 1922/ n BUCKSHOrr CORNELL U. CLAIMS TO BE THE FIRST TRULY NON-SECTARIAN UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD/ BACKWASH " ’’Backwash: Am adtattM tnm George Fuermann actlaa ar accnrrmea.**—Wabater. arbitrary power as to make him no longer respon-Greek battlefront. Thirty-three University of North Dakota en gineering college seniors have completed mine res cue and first aid courses given by the United States bureau of mines. Rockefeller foundation has given $25,000 for maintenance in the coming year of the teaching and research program of the University of Helsinki, Finland. As the World Turns. BY DR. AL B. NELSON COMMUNIST LEADER EARL BROWDER was convicted and sentenced by a federal court to four years in the Federal penitentiary. The conviction took place a year ago but Browder is still at liberty, holding communist meetings, and ran for president in the recent election. The delay has been obtained by appealing to high er federal courts. No one could deny his right of appeal but there is something wrong with a court sys tem which allows so much time to elapse before a final decision is made. While the courts delay, a con victed criminal is permitted to run wild and attack our constitutional system. Wendell L. Willkie has returned from England and testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Will kie supported the present plans for increased aid to England and went a step farther, advocating the sale or gift of additional destroyers to the British. Many New Deal projects, some of which have been turned down by congress in the past, are scheduled for revival or expansion as defense pro jects. These include revival of the St. Lawrence sea-way (canal), expansion of W.P.A., the good roads program, etc., all to be paid for out of defense money. The Dept, of Justice is to hold a hearing for Harry Bridges, the west coast alien labor leader, to finally determine whether or not he is communist. If he is or was a communist he can be deported. Madam Secretary Perkins, of the Dept, of Labor, says that he is not a communist and has refused to take action, BUT, the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion affirms that he is a communist. German commerce and travel in this country have practically ceased but there has been a tremen dous increase in the personnel of German consulates and travel agencies. There is also a tremendous in crease in the number of German news correspond ents in spite of the fact that German papers are not permitted to print actual news from this country. These agents are permitted to travel freely about the country. There is no wonder that the German government knows more about the U.S. state of military unpreparedness than even the best inform ed people in our own nation. Two Battalions of Polish soldiers, armed by the British, are now fighting against the Italians on the A Bird’s Eye View . . . 1941’s social season started with a kick and a bang last night with the annual architects’ ball which was a top- notch affair if there ever was one. Watch for the current social season, piloted by Social Secretary Jack Nelson, to be tops in A. & M. history. As usual, more so- called “name” or chestras will play here this year than at any other col lege in the South. . . . Arts and Sci- Fuermann ences Dean T. D. Brooks was once asked what it took to make a Texas Aggie. “That’s easy,” he replied. “Bull sessions and intramural athletics!” . . . Watch A. & M. publicity and pics in an early edition of News Week. The article, written by the publicity department's H. B. Mc- Elroy, concerns A. & M. as an agency of national defense and particularly the college’s part in National Defense Week celebra tion next week. . . . Incidentally, articles are now being written on A. & M. for the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers, but there is not yet any assurance that either will be published. . . . The ASCAP-BMI warfare is just about at an end and, as most observers predicted, AS- CAP is taking a much-deserved thrashing. Uncle Sam has stepped into the picture and within another 60 days the affair should be en tirely straightened out. • • • Orders One of the regular army officers attached to the college—an In fantry lieutenant colonel—was re cently inspecting one of the dor mitories in his charge. He was nearly at the end of his rounds and all had thus far gone well, when he entered a room wherein an Aggie junior was bus ily writing a letter. “Greetings, Colonel,” the unruf fled cadet said as he nodded to the astounded officer. “Isn’t it your custom to stand at attention when an army officer enters your room?” the officer queried, still a little amazed at the casualness of the whole thing. The comeback was effortless and from a still-sitting cadet. “Oh yes sir,” he replied, “but when you were in here two weeks ago you told me to be at ease. That’s what I’m doing, you know.” • • • State Fair last fall. Only Aggie’s name mentioned is senior Warner Brundrett. T.S.C.W.-ians mentioned and pictured are Betty Phipps and Julia Fitzhugh. Betty gets the best play of all—her attractive legs ap pearing in six of the seven pics. (College Humor, you know, is strictly a “leg” publication.) A glaring mistake in the article— to Texas, at least—is the large- type reference to the Aggies’ sis ter school as “T.S.C.” • • • A Letter Wayne Long, professor of me chanical engineering, recently re ceived a letter from D. A. Brown of Houston. The letter read: . “Last evening as I was return ing to Houston from Dallas there were quite a number of A. & M. men on the train, and one of them overlooked his cap which I am re turning to you under separate cov er.” The name in the hat is E. H. Sullivan, B Company Signal Corps, but no such name appears in the student directory. The writer has the insured mail receipt for the cap which is in the post office and the cadet who owns the cap can get the receipt by calling for it at The Battalion office. Mr. Brown, whoever he is, is certainly a grade ‘A’ fellow. It only cost him 15 cents to mail and insure the cap, but the fact that he went to this trouble and expense to aid someone with whom he was not even acquainted is an in dication of something or other. You name it. The Tennessee program com pleted 72,818 cotton mattresses in 1940. Angelina County home demon stration women bought 100 dozen pineapples cooperatively in 1940. In 1915, 82,000,000 acres were required to feed workstock, but now it takes less than 40,000,000. Publicity The current issue of College Hu mor contains a picture-article con cerning A. & M. and its sister school, T.S.C.W. although the pic tures are credited to an eastern photography agency, Laury Lewis- Monkemeyer, they were actually taken by one Maurice L. Levy, an Aggie junior. Levy, like all cameramen who are reasonably good, is a little zealous in his work and more-than- a-little unusual personally, but for all that, many of his pictures on A. & M. have been published of late, including a page in The Dal las Morning News roto section a few Sundays ago. The two-page spread, just in case you haven’t seen it, includes seven pics concerning the activities of Aggies and T.S.C.W.-jtes at the More than half of the 3.200 frozen food locker plants in the United States are owned by indi viduals. Commercial corporations own 22 percent, partnerships own 16 percent, and cooperatives 14 per cent. CAMPUS 15c to 5 p.m. — 20c after LAST DAY “HUDSON BAY” is sort of a revised edition of “Northwest Pas sage” in that it deals with the great Canadian north woods in the days of their development. How ever here the comparison ceases because it does not have the action and color that “Northwest Pas sage” had. “Hudson Bay” is con siderably more passive and gentle so it tries to make up for it with good acting by academy award win ner Paul Muni. Muni’s role is that of an inspired Frenchman who seeks to overcome the difficulties of the fur trading business in Canada’s youth. He is badly in need of a shave but he speaks his lines with such a real istic French accent that it is al most unintelligible. His words and many others go to make up the main part of the show because there is lots more talk than action. Such action as there is is pro vided by husky Laird Gregor, a newcomer to the screen. While “TOO MANY GIRLS” is not literally true, it at least is an indication the large number of people in the cast. The players seem to be a collection of the little known but plenty talented stars that Hollywood has an abundance of. There are seven of these minor starlets who sing and laugh and play football for Pottawatomie College. Snappy-eyed Lucile Ball is one of the cast who does her bit sing ing “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” and a new number, “Yoo’re nearer.” Radio songstress Frances Langford croons out “Love Never Went To College” and the up-and- coming new brunette dancing star Ann Miller twirls all around the place. Richard Carlson, perhaps the best known of all the players, is the football hero but there still leaves comedian Eddie Bracken, Spanish lover Desi Arnaz, and dancing Hal LeRoy to fill out the bill. None of these have a name big enough to be a drawing car in it self but each has enough individ ually unrecognized talent to add up collectively to impressionable pro- Dough Rollins Recently Appointed To NCAA Committee Most recent A. & M. coach to be appointed to a National Col legiate Athletic Association rules committee is J. W. “Dough” Rol- line, head track coach as well as varsity end coach and business manager of athletics, who has re ceived notice of his appointment to the N.C.A.A. Track and Field Rules Committee. At present Coach Homer Nor ton is on a football committee; H. R. “Hub” McQuillan on a bas ketball committee; and Art Adam son on swimming and water rules committees, so with the appoint ment of Rollins, there now are four Aggie mentors serving as committeemen. “Dough” received notice of his appointment from K. L. Wilson, director of physical education, Northwestern University, Evan ston, HI., this week and promptly sent his acceptance. He will attend the National Collegiate Track Meet at which time certain rule changes will come up for discussion. portions. Their varied parts are woven into a story of females and football which is the making of their obscure southern college. It all amounts to a musical comedy which is pretty pleasing and keeps up the pace of a jack rabbit as it changes atmosphere to allow each player to show his specialty. Raymond Ruppert, journalism freshman at Washington State, is making profitable use of several letters written in the 1870’s by the Hudson’s Bay company to the Ca nadian police. Approximately 400 bugle calls are sounded every week at the Citadel, South Carolina military college. Williams college plans to grad uate 58 men this year with honor degrees gained through independ ent study. WHAVS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday 12:45 — “TOO MANY GIRLS,” featuring Lucile Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Desi Ar naz and Hal LeRoy. Saturday 6:45 & 8:30— “KIT CARSON,” starring Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews and Harold Huber. Monday, Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45—“SOUTH OF SUEZ,” starring George Brent, Bren- day Marshall, George Tobias, Lee Patrick and Eric Blore. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday — “HUDSON BAY,” starring Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, and Laird Cregar. Saturday midnight, Sun day, Monday—“HIT PA RADE OF 1941,” with Patsy Kelly, Hugh Herbert and Kenny Baker. Wake Up and Live! You wont have a care in the world—when you let yourself go to the popular music we have. Also you will feel re freshed after tasty drinks. HRDLICKA’S On Old College Road PAUL MUNI HUDSONS m A 20th Century-Fox Picture —also— World News & Short Sat. Nite Prevue - also Sun. and Mon. —also— Latest News and Short Second Semester Books Compare prices for you might be able to save money in buying your books with us. We sell new and used books. Don’t overlook your second semester needs, for they are important. We have the school supplies you need. BAKER ’ LANGFORD • HERB STUDENT CO-OP North Gate | « ♦ ^ r S t y * > i > * / ► L ♦/ .> V £ t 9 > * (* <*, f- ** > 4 <» * < * & ♦