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Pftffe 2 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. 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 Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building, Telephone 4-8444. 1940 Member 1941 Pbsocided Col!e6iate Press Bob Nisbef 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 i 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. S. Henard Circulation Assistants Photography Department Phil Golman 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 Junior Editors Will O. Brimberry W. C. Carter Don Gabriel Reportorial Staff Charles Babcock, Herbert Haile, Paul Haines, Carl Van Hook, J. J. Keith, Z. A. McReynoIds, Beverly Miller, Ehrhard Mittendorf, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison. Required Study ONE HUNDRED men enter Texas A. & M. college as freshmen seeking a bachelor’s degree. Of that number 33 or 34 stand a chance of graduating. In no other industry or enterprise could such waste of raw material be justified; no other industry or enterprise could survive. Such a condition cannot exist in this institution of higher learning if it is to Iona: survive. For 66% of the students to fall by the way- side is not right, else the college is failing in its basic purpose and its very reason for existence. Texas A. & M. and other state schools were estab lished by the taxpayers in order that the youth of the state might be raised to.a higher level and enter into life better equipped to meet its pitfalls. When two men of three who enter are allowed to leave uneducated, then the school is failing in its duty of educating the youth of the state. Regardless of other matters the portion of the citizens of our state who are well educated will continue to be small until something is done. True, the men are given equal opportunity to get the work put before them. Some apply themselves; some do not. Some want it; some do not. But, want it or not, it is to the benefit of the state that they get it. When a man is turned away from the doors of this in stitution it is the state’s loss as well as his. For a remedy, The Battalion does not suggest that the standards of the college be lowered in order for all men who enter to pass through. For then we would have all men with a poor education which would not be much better than a few with a fine education. And The Battalion strongly de nounces the idea of charging students money for re peating courses. Figures indicate that the majority of the stu dents leave school while in the sophomore or fresh man years. It seems that if students get through the two first years, they stick it out until they .graduate. A proposal has been made on the basis of this finding that required study sections for freshmen and sophomores who are failing work be insti tuted to be held at designated periods and under the direct supervision of an instructor of the de partment. The Battalion endorses this movement with all the enthusiasm it can muster. If something is to be done about the situation, then the way to effect a cure is to hit at the seat of the trouble. Undoubtedly the trouble is not with the instructors nor the man ner in which the work is presented. We will not be lieve that the students are incapable of digesting the material. The root of the trouble lies in the failure to put in an adequate amount of time in prepara tion of the daily assignments. There are various reasons for this failure to study enough. Some have claimed that in the case of the freshmen it is too many details. Others say that dormitory life is not conducive to study. We believe neither of these theories. Indivi dual procrastination is the cause for not studying. On the matter of too many details for the freshmen, almost all organization commanders have perfected suitable schemes for allowing freshmen time to study and to the best of their ability are insisting that they do study. But these captains cannot give the instruction that one of the members of the faculty might. And these captains cannot check every man in the organization at all times during the day to insure his studying. With required attendance of failing students to help sections, The Battalion believes the failures in A. & M. will drop to a minimum. The proposal will come up at the next regular meeting of the fac ulty. It should be adopted. This Collegiate World Two freshmen at Eastern New Mexico college are going to class daily, thanks to friends they brought to the campus with them. The friends are two cows, Betsy, property of Glen Radcliff, and Clarice, property of Tommie Fay Slocum, a co-ed. Glen sold Betsy to a nearby farmer and thus paid his college fees. Tommie has rented Clarice to her landlord, who gives Tommie her board in return for Clarice’s milk. But don’t get the idea that ENMC is a cow college — it has its horsey angles, too. It’s one of the new colleges still boasting a hitching-post, and every morning two students tether their ponies just off the campus and scamper in to class. Both live on ranches a short distance across the plains. Men about Duquesne university’s campus who think they know a lot about women have been challenged. Deciding there was plenty the MADUC could learn on the subject, the Duquesne library has provided a ten-volume encyclopedia on women— women of all races and nationalities, their psychol ogy and temperament. Incidentally, a book that hasn’t left the Du quesne library for two years is “College and Life.” The students apparently have been too busy mak ing college life to bother reading about it. —Associated Collegiate Press. The Collegiate Review The chances of a boy or girl going to high school are one in two now, compared with one in 25 in 1890. Alma Gluck Aimbalist, former opera star, re cently bequeathed $10,000 to Barnard college, for establishment of a political economics scholarship. Ten thousand day and evening students attend classes in Hunter college’s new sky-scraper in New York. Scholarships totaling $128,000 have been award, ed 247 students at Vassar college for the current year. Freshman and sophomore classes are largei this year at North Dakota Agricultural college, but junior and senior classes are slightly smaller. Texas College of mines and Metallurgy paleon tologists have removed dinosaur bones from the Texas Big Bend area. FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say IF OUR FAITH teaches us anything, it teaches us tolerance. Regardless of creed, denomination or sect or even if one lives merely according to a philoso phy, tolerance and open mindedness should be logi cal parts of our thinking if we consider ourselves educated or even civilized. As a part of the program of Brotherhood Week, which is to be celebrated nationally next week, Feb ruary 16 to 22, the A. & M. Interchurch Council is sponsoring a program in Guion Hall on Thurs day night which is designed tQ further a spirit of co operation within the ranks of tomorrow’s lead ers. The speakers on this program will be a Cath olic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a protestant min ister. Their subjects will be of wide interest and will give all of us food for thought. Whatever your individual convictions may be regarding beliefs other than your own, it is only fair that you at least see what the men specializing in these various fields have to offer. If you have any prejudices in the matter of varying faiths, it might bring a ques tion to your mind to notice that a meeting of this kind might be held .It all; and it is far from an un usual thing. Many groups have met with student assemblies all over the nation. Most of us consider the conditions present in the world today to be of sufficient gravity to be called national emergency. Now as never before we need a unity of thought, purpose, and action in our national life. In this country of ours whose theme is liberty, justice, freedom—in other words toler ance, it seems that we not only should give those working for this end not only our attention, but our active support. As the World Turns... By DR. AL B. NELSON THE WAR SCARE IN THE PACIFIC has sub sided in some degree since last week but condi tions are still critical. Wives and children of hun dreds of officers in the Philippines have been or dered home, Dutch shipping was ordered into neu tral ports and all armed forces of the British, Americans, and Dutch were on watch for an expect ed Japanese attack. Heavily armed Australian troops, many thousands of them, have ar rived in the British stronghold at Singapore, additional squadrons of bombing planes have been sent in by the British. American Under secretary of State Sumner Welles pointedly advised the Japanese that we judged their desire for peace by their actions rather than their words. American military and naval se crets are still being betrayed by Congressmen who obtain informa tion in “secret” committee ses sions and then pass it along to newspapermen in order to obtain a little publicity. The House of Representatives has finally awak ened sufficiently to approve appropriations to per mit preparations to use Guam and our Samoan bases for defense. Bill for the improvement of the har bors of these two vital outposts had been defeated twice in the last two years. . If the Germans attempt the invasion of England in the near future look for the first stroke to be against neutral Ireland which, like the American “isolationists”, still tries to fool itself into believing that the desire for peace will save it from invasion. Americans in Shanghai and Japan have again been advised to leave because of the “uncertain situation” in Asia. One hundred thousand dollars per year could be saved by the government merely by printing Air- Mail stamps in one color instead of the two-color red and blue stamps now used. The Eagle Squadron of the British Royal Air Force is composed entirely of American volunteers. The other day the Eagle squadron went into action for the first time and suffered their first battle casualty. Edwin Ezell Orbison, of Sacramento, Cali fornia, was killed while in pursuit of a German plane. THE BATTAL* 0 ** -SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 194 Extension Service Survey Shows Texas Farmers Lost $131,706,000 Last Year \ lIke first college y.m.ca BUILDING ERECTED IN AMERICA IS CTILL IN USE/ IT WAS BUILT IN I8B^» AT HANOVER COLLEGE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR FROM AUSTRALIA TRAVELED 12,000 MILES TO ATTEND THE EMPIRE UNIVERSITIES CONGRESS AT LONDON, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE WAS A YEAR AHEAD OF TIME / THE MISUNDERSTANDING WA? CAUSED BY A TYPIST'S ERROR/ For an extremely colorful film, go to see “CHAD HANNA,” the midnight show at the Campus. It is filmed in technicolor against the background of circus life and noth ing could provide a more color ful place for that kind of photo graphy. The result is that the photographic part of the picture is beautiful, more so than most re cent shows. The circus mentioned has slow, drawling Henry Fonda as a roust about working his way up to ring master. Linda Darnell, the young Dallas lassie, is certainly beautiful in color and she is rapidly ap proaching mature acting standards although she isn’t quite dry be hind the ears. And Dorothy La- mour is in it too. She is the high rider in the circus with question able morals whose attraction for Fonda almost throws a monkey wrench in his romance with Dar nell. You’ll wonder how some of the things she does got by the Hays office but they did, and in technicolor. Grouchy Guy Kibbee makes a pretty good old-time cir cus owner. “Chad Hanna” puts its players through a color paradise and they perform well within it but their plot is a little weak. Therq is a parade of incidents beautifully filmed but not building up to any special climax. Even so it is far above the average in movie en tertainment and worth seeing. “DANCE, GIRL, DANCE” goes to prove in a pleasant sort of way that there are more than one kind of girl and more than one kind of dancing. Two room-mates in New York, well-turned Lucile Ball and idealistic Maureen O’Hara, have ambitions to reach the top in danc ing and both do, but in their own kind of dancing and in their own way. Lucile starts as a successful burlesque queen and ends draped in furs and sparkling jewels but with doubtful virtue. Maureen goes hushfully through the burlesque stage too but it leads to a job in the American Ballet for her. Ralph Belamy and a conceited, Millionaire playboy, Louis Hay ward are the male interests but Hayward’s first wife 'comes to claim him in the end so neither of the girls can have him. WHATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday 12:45—“DANCE, GIRL, DANCE,” featuring Lucile Ball, Maureen O’Hara, Louis Heyward, Virginia Field and Ralph Belamy. Saturday 6:45 & 8:30— “CHRISTMAS IN JULY,” with Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn and Er nest Truex. Monday 3:30 & 6:45— “MEN AGAINST THE SKY” with Richard Dix, Kent Tay lor, Edmund Lowe and Wendy Barrie. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday—“THE GOLDEN FLEECING,” with Lew Ay res, Rita Johnson, Lloyd No lan, Virginia Grey and Nat Pendleton. Saturday midnight, Sun day, Monday—“CHAD HAN NA,” starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Dorothy La- mour, Guy Kibbee and John Carradine. Data gathered at responsible sources show that Texas farmers and livestock men lost $131,706,000 in 1940. This was due to damage by insects upon growing and stor ed crops, and livestock and live stock products. Approximately 50 percent of the loss was preventable, says Cam eron Siddall, Extension Service en tomologist for A. & M. college. Prevention was possible through application of effective control measures at the disposal of the Extension Service, which had de veloped from experiments pursued by the federal and state experi ment stations. Although this por tion of the loss could have been prevented, it was not practical to conduct a program against each insect contributing to it, Siddall says. Therefore, only a few of the outstanding problems were attack ed. The entomologist, regarding the cotton insects as the paramount project, says that emphasis was placed on the importance of ap plying insecticides only when need ed and at times when most profit able to do so. Meetings were held in 51 counties in 10 of the 12 Ex tension districts for discussion and demonstration of proper types of dusting machinery, and of the cor rect insecticides and proper time of application. When the 1940 cotton season opened, conditions indicated severe infestations of flea hopper, boll weevil, bollworm and, later, leaf- worm. But as the season advanced infestations expected in many parts of the state did not develop. Not withstanding, 114 field demonstra tions were held in 20 counties. Although no figures were avail able at the end of 1940 as to the degree of pink boll worm infesta tion, Siddall says, the percent in festation was appreciably lowered and the insect did not spread to any county outside of the affected zone which comprises a radius of 125 miles north of Brownsville. In Ward, Reeves, Pecos, Huds peth and El Paso counties a new menace to cotton production de veloped. It took the form of heavy infestation of insects, all of the order of hemiptera, which hereto fore had not attacked cotton in Texas. “There is no way of determining the increase in cotton production, the amount the cost of production was lowered, or the amount of im provement in the grade and staple which can be attributed to cotton insect control in 1940”, the ento mologist says, “but 27,777 cotton farmers in 147 counties followed insect control recommendations given them by their county agri cultural agents.” Late in 1940, the Extension Ser vice, with the assistance of other organizations, assumed the respon sibility for carrying to farmers and ranchmen a program of “ranch management for screwworm pre vention and eradication in Texas.” In the time remaining until the end of the year, ground work was (Continued on Page 4) CAMPUS 15c to 5 p.m. — 20c after LAST DAY Lew Ayers - Rita Johnson —in— “Golden Fleecing” —also— World News and Cartoon \ Buy Prevue Tickets at 9:00 p. m. and see both shows. PREVUE SATURDAY NITE SUNDAY and MONDAY HENRY DOROTHY UNDA FONDA-LAMOUR-DARNELL mo IN TECHNICOLOR —also— Late News and Cartoon BERBERT WALL, Baritone, former baritone, New York Opera As sociation, Director of University Light Opera Company, announces opening of a Studio. For information call 2-7340. J MUSICAL MEAN DERINGS By Murray Evans That brilliant trumpeting you heard in the Aggieland’s brass sec tion during the recent Fish Ball was one Raymond Toland, secre tary of the American Federation of Musicians, Waco local. Toland has been a professional musician for a number of years, and has a trumpet technique that is seldom equalled. After you have heard him render “Stardust” and “Basin Street,” you are much bet ter able to appreciate his work. He hangs his hat on high “C” and goes to work from there. Have you ever noticed the typ ical take-off trumpet man, how he strains and turns red-faced and seems about to burst? Then you will enjoy Toland’s ease of ex ecution, the minimum of effort he employs all the more. And here is the good news: He will be playing with the Aggieland on practically all of their jobs un til June. There is no doubt that he will be a spark-plug in the brass section, an asset to the band as a whole, and a joy to every Aggie who appreciates an exceptional trumpet man. The fight of organized musi cians against the mushrooming nickelodeon business still rages. There have been efforts made to tax the “tin can music” out of existence. A year or so ago ex tensive advertisements were run in all the magazines denouncing the evils of canned music. Certain it is that hundreds of good mu sicians are unemployed because of these “thud” machines, and more generally, because of the record ing industry boom itself. Whether this situation tends to foster fewer and better bands, or whether it is unhealthy because it narrows the field and eliminates good talent and originality, is a matter of speculation. Petrillo, president of the Amer ican Federation of Musicians, has added much to the credit side of his organization, however. Through his efforts the directors of a large railroad company recently decided not to install record machines in their lounge cars. In and around Chicago employers are forced to hire musicians of the Chicago lo cal to play the records; the idea being, of course, to make recorded music as expensive as possible. To the economist, this is sheer waste, but to the musician out of work, it is a God-send. It depends on which side of the fence you are. Assembly Hall BURLESQUE HOT STEPPER Vs. BALLET HOPEFUL m the romantic battle ^ of the CPntnrv I arr ^J*»^. Ym I , " L| \\\l' O’Vl k^o!v\\ [ -RICO RADIO Picturei 12:45 Only Selected Shorts ^ J ...and nothing to do but spend it! Paramount presents [JCSTO* fjut 61 * gives you an even funnier hit than ‘The Great McGinty! Dick Powell Ellen Drew^ Written and Directed by Preston Slwrge* BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN Persons having bundles for Bundles for Britain Chapter are requested to have them ready by Wednesday of Thursday and indicate it by hanging a white cloth in front of the house. 6:45 and 8:30 Selected Shorts Mickey in “Goofy’s Glider” * 4' % * ■ * 1 1' - , • V * y S w ( . t-' J I f * U] Ft gi< ga tie 34 D< to thi he an th fn an po ni : sh in B th oi f? 1