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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
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—in—
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—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.
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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
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requested to have them ready
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