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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, wider the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon
request.
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at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San
Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-6444.
1940 Member 1941
Plssodoted Cblle6iate Press
Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief
George Fuermann Associate Editor
Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager
Tom Vannoy Editorial Assistant
Pete Tumlinson Staff Artist
1. 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, El 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
THURSDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
George Fuermann Acting Managing Editor
George Woodman Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Tom Gillis D. C. Thurman V. A. Yentzen
Reportorial Staff
Lamar Haines, John May, Z. A. McReynolds, J. D. Mehe-
gan, L. B. Tennison, Mike Speer, James F. Wright.
No “Sentimental Fap”
THIS AFTERNOON at 2:30 the academic council
of the faculty will meet with a four-man cadet com
mittee to discuss the proposed change of the final
review date. To the Texas Aggies this is an impor
tant consideration.
The four classes have met, have discussed the
issue and have unanimously voted for its acceptance.
It is the will of the entire student body that the
date of final review be moved so that the tradi
tional function comes after final examinations.
The Battalion feels certain that the faculty, in
considering the case at hand, .will be fair and open-
minded. There has never been any fear on that
point.
What The Battalion does fear, however, is that
the faculty will not realize the importance of this
issue to the cadet corps.
“The whole thing is merely sentimental fap,”
one faculty member publicly expressed himself
Wednesday morning.
No “sentimental fap” this; The corps is sincere
and serious in its belief that the change is in the
best interests of the college and its student body.
There is no need to advance in The Battalion’s
editorial columns the reasons for the proposed
change. This has been done once.
Today, as the faculty prepares to meet and
vote on the issue, The Battalion only wants to do
one thing: To point out to the members of the
academic council that where the corps is concerned
the issue is no two-for-a-nickel affair—on the con
trary, it’s a Gibraltar-like issue and one in which
every Aggie has a vital vested interest.
OPEN FORUM "
THE WRITER would like, if it is possible, to have
a few questions answered by a member of the hos
pital staff or someone who is well acquainted with
the affairs of the hospital. An answer in the Open
Forum would be of interest to all of the students
because certain incidents which take place there
do not add to the hospital’s popularity although
possibly the hospital is itself seldom at fault.
An increase of only a few cents per student of
the medical fee could add many improvements
which are so obviously needed. If it is money that
causes a lot of the following questions to arise, why
doesn’t someone who knows do something instead
of letting the same things happen year after year.
What does the medical fee cover? If it does
not cover any kind of medicine that is needed, then
why isn’t it raised to include any or all medicines?
If there are not sufficient doctors to diagnose
every case that comes to the hospital’s attention,
then why are not more employed ?
Why isn’t there a fund set aside to purchase
braces and crutches that a student might have them
available without putting up a “stiff’ deposit?
Would it be possible to purchase, even a second
hand one would suffice, an ambulance of some
kind because it is possible for a student some dis
tance from the hospital to be seriously injured;
and is it not true that some deaths have been caused
(not here but,elsewhere) by improper handling of
a seriously injured person although such handling
■was done with the best of intentions?
It is always necessary for a person, irregardless
of what ails him, to lose weight to a noticeable ex
tent when entering the hospital?
The writer would appreciate having the above
questions answered in the Open Forum with the
hope that the students, the faculty, or any other
interested group might remedy some of the mis
understandings which continuously exist in the
minds of the students.
C. V. Milburn ’41
Something To Read
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
Invitation—Or. Insult ?
TO A BAND of intellectual seekers like the Aggies,
an invitation to explore the College library may
seem heavily ironical. But if you’ve never deliberate
ly gone there to spend an hour or two in ambling
about, you may be surprised at what you can find.
On your right as you enter there are the cur
rent periodicals. Perhaps you hadn’t realized that
we subscribe to nearly nine hundred of them, and
that you can look, without even asking for them,
at the latest articles on public affairs (PM, New
Republic, Harper’s Fortune, Time, etc.) and on
First men’s college to buy an ambulance for the
British-American Ambulance corps, Amherst college
has received a permit for ambulance number 394.
Volney H. Jones, University of Michigan anthro
pologist, is studying refuse at an old New Mexican
mission to lear what early Spaniards ate.
Sister Maria Giannino, SDC, a third cousin of
Pope Pius XII, has enrolled for the spring semes
ter at Mount Mary college, Milwaukee.
THE BATTALION
every conceivable aspect of agriculture, veterinary
medicine', engineering, biology, chemistry, the social
sciences, and this-and-that (referring to Esquire!).
The walls of the entrance hall are covered every
week or so with a fresh lot of “blurbs’ for the most
entertaining of the new books that come in. In
cidentally, the box for student requests for the pur
chase of books is also in the entrance hall. Twenty
odd newspapers, Texas and national, are available
in the room on your left, and a selection of the
lighter kinds of books.
The big Reference Room contains, of course,
handy books oft most subjects under the sun. It also
contains the keys to the tons of richly varied mater
ials which are locked up in thousands of volumes
of bound bulletins and magazines, some of the files
going back to 1850, 1800, and 1750. You’ll find
several millions of interesting and unusual maga
zine stories indexed in the Reader’s Guide, the
Agricultural Index, the Engineering Index, the In
dustrial Arts Index, the Index Medicus, and the
Index to the New York Times. The Reference Room,
by the way, is inhabited in the daytime by a Ref
erence Librarian who apparently derives a morbid
pleasure from finding answers to hard questions—
intelligent and otherwise.
The third floor includes, besides the Required
Reading Rooms, the Asbury Browsing Room, with
all our fiction, most of our light books, and some
good leather furniture, and the Music Room where
you can play classical music, old and new, and
where, by the way, you can listen every Monday
evening to an hour of music and comment on “The
Music I Like and Why I Like It”, presented by
some teacher or student.
One thing that the Library confesses to have
neglected in the past, we are planning to supply
very soon: A sizeable “browsing collection” of re
cent technical and scientific books. This will be an
nounced and described later. Meanwhile, Mr. Hen-
nessee keeps a pet display case filled with 75 such
books in the Browsing Room. Rather to the surprise
of the rest of us, they circulate well—largely to
sophomores and juniors, which signifies something
or other, I suppose.
If you would like a tour of the book stacks
(five floors of them), ask Mr. Hennessee or Mrs.
Thomas, at the Loan Desk. This isn’t the easiest
way to find a book by any means, but it may in
terest you to look at 90,000 books all at once.
As the World Turns...
BY “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF
SEA POWER is one of the chief issues of the cur
rent war. Hitler indicated the importance of sea
power when he declared in his recent speech that
he would strike at Britain’s sea power in order to
bring her to his own peace terms. Hitler’s plans
call for an all-out attack in the Mediterranean
basin, in the north Atlantic and the
Pacific Oceans. Japan is being
groomed for an attack at Singapore
to open the way to the Indian
Ocean. At all these strategic points
the English are well fortified and
prepared for a long struggle.
The Eastern Mediterranean is the
most vulnerable point. Here Hitler
might be able to strike a deadly
blow, through Greece, and reach the
Suez Canal. But his victory here
Sugareff will not cut England’s ability to get
around the Cape of Good Hope. At Gibraltar the
English have made vast preparations for a long
battle. The fortifications have been strengthened;
ammunitions and food supplies have been stored
up; and the repair shops have been improved for
the coming trial. All the women and the children
of the garrison have been taken away from the
danger zone.
The Germans can do a great deal of damage
to British shipping in the north Atlantic area. The
English claim that they have a new weapon to cope
v/ith the German sea menace. Of course, the United
States and the Canadian aid would be an advantage
to the English. The Germans, like in 1917, might
force the United States to declare war on Germany,
or just join the British, should they insist on neu
tral shipping to keep out of the danger zone. Our
government has warned Germany that she would
be held accountable for any damage to American
interests. Regardless of Hitler’s threats, our aid to
England would go on just the same.
The problem in the Far East is not particularly
favorable to the Axis. Japan has had to explain
twice in the last several weeks her peaceful in
tentions in bringing about the “New Order” in the
Orient. Upon a show of firmness by Britain and
the United States, the Japanese have been assured
the Democracies that all differences could be settled
amicably. Should Japan join the Axis actively,
England and the United States could easily make
of Japan a second Italy. British and American ship
ping could do an immense harm to Japan. An em
bargo on Japanese exports and boycott on her im
ports by our government would strangle Japan’s
economic structure. Our fleet in the Pacific is
larger than the Japanese. Our ships are superior in
all-around efficiency to those of Japan. Our Pacific
Fleet has the strongest air arm of any fleet in the
world; it is a full war strength fleet; it*has a suf
ficient auxiliary craft; and it has a well trained
personnel. Moreover, one should not discount the
British military and naval strength as well as that
of the Dutch East Indies, Australia and New Zea
land. All these combined, together with China still
at war with Japan, present a formidable array of
military and naval power which the Japanese must
be able to overcome before they can hope to realize
their “New Order” in the Far East.
BACKWASH
By
George Fuermann
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941
Appropriation Bill— the liturgy of the Syrian 0rtfao -
“Backwash: An agitation reuniting from aome action or occurrence.’’—Webster.
Fuermann
season’s No.
A Bird’s Eye View . . . The select
ion of Boyd Raeburn and his or
chestra for the annual Composite
Regiment Ball has caused a little
grumbling in the Signal Corps and
Chemical Warfare Service units,
but the men concerned might take
a tip from last
^ ^ y ear - When Bernie
Cummins was se
lected to play for
1940’s function
there was even
even more fidget
ing than is eviden
ced this year. Yet
Bernie was later
voted into a tie
for the social
1 orchestra . . .
Varsity footballer Henry Hauser
was the first cadet to pay the
five-cent pass tax now current at
the Campus Theater. All passes to
the local theater are taxed a nickel,
the money then being turned over
to the A. & M. Student Aid Fund.
. . . Adolph, God bless him, sticks
out his neck: The Mighty Corporal
and his unwary aids asked that
Feb. 7 for suggestions on how the
German radio broadcasts to the
U. S. might be improved. “Just
file your suggestion in 25 words
or less with RCA,” they prompted,
“and charge it up to Ameradio,
Berlin.” Well, the boys got a ter
rific earful. As The Newspaper PM
said Feb. 21, “They got an indig
nant, whimsical, long pent-up Bronx
cheer, 25,000 strong, and it cost
the Nazi war chest upwards of
$50,000 in good, hard American
bucks.” Whatever Hitler and stoog
es were looking for, they evident
ly didn’t find it because they called
a halt to the whole thing last Sat
urday night. But not before the
total cost had exceeded $100,000
and such messages had been sent
as, “Please give reading of pacts
signed by Hitler followed by dates
on which they were broken,” and
“Just ate milk, butter, eggs, meat,
fruit, vegetables, and coffee in this
decadent democracy. Please broad
cast superior German menus.” But
then, it takes all kinds!
• • O
Oui Oui
One of the Aggies who is now
in the throes of second-year French
has made a habit of using the
language whenever and wherever
possible, thus—his prof assures
him—enabling himself to get a
better grasp of the subject.
The practice has led him into
a half dozen unusual predicaments
of late, and 1 many a tale hangs
thereby. Best of the lot, though,
concerns his visit to one of Hous
ton’s down-town theaters during
the recent mid-term holiday per
iod.
Stepping into the theater, he
was approached by an usher who
asked, “Close to the front, sir?”
“Oui, oui, monsieur; oui, oui,”
the cadet replied unthinkingly.
“Excuse me,” the usher apologiz
ed. “Mezzinine floor, first door to
your left!”
• • •
Kelly Is Irish
The picture below is one you
may see in Life magazine within
the next 30 days—that is, if you
see anything concerning A. & M.
in the mag. She’s the Houston love
ly who dazzled Life’s representativ
es to such an extent that they
named her a sort of mythical
“queen” of last Friday night’s
Sophomore Ball.
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to properly service the new units
will be secured.
The new units will be financed
by the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration in similar manner to the
financing of the last group of
dormitories.
The legislative committee of the
A. & M. board of directors met
last week to complete plans so
that work could be resumed at
once. This committee includes A.
H. Demke from Stephenville; R.
W. Briggs from Pharr; E. J,.
Kiest and Joe Utay from Dallas.
dox church into English.
Translating services of Hooker
scientific library at Central college,
Fayette, Mo., one of the most com
prehensive in the world, have sub
scribers in 17 countries.
iil
Dr. Hollis R. Upson of Duquesne
university is one of four persons
in the world working to translate
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Here’s Maestro Russ batonning the orchestra at last year’s
Senior Ring dance. He’s fronted by one of his featured soloists.
Dr. Jackson Davis
Here for Conference
Dr. Jackson Davis, representa
tive of the Rockefeller Foundation,
was at A. & M. Wednesday after
noon to confer with Dean E. J.
Kyle, Dean T. D. Brooks, Dr. L.
P. Gabbard, and Dr. J. W. Barger.
The purpose of this conference
is to study the possibilities of es
tablishment of graduate fellow-
University of Minnesota students and faculty
members are plannig their first joint hobby show.
For that good “Neat” appearance
during the
Spring Dance Season
Get Your Haircuts at the
AGGIELAND BARBER SHOP
North Gate Across From P. O.
Escorted that night by L. P.
Bassinger, she’s Ethel Marie Kelly,
all-the-way Irish, brown eyes and
is the belle who’s dancing with Ca
det Colonel Bill Becker in the shot
which has a cover chance.
O • •
On Russ Morgan
The Field Artillery lassoed
one of the best orchestras in the
business for their annual ball.
Maestro Morgan and company of 18
assistants are near-tops nation
ally in the business of music-mak
ing and were a definite success at
last year’s Senior Ring dance.
Here’s what appeared in Back
wash last May 14 following his
A. & M. appearance a few nights
earlier for the Ring dance and a
corps dance.
“Songstress Carolyn Clarke broke
the date-request record when she
‘noed’ 104 Aggie hopefuls Sat
urday night. Lovely Claire Nunn
and lovlier Eunice Clark formerly
shared the record with 93 re
quests each. . , .For the first time
in 1940 Tuxedo Junction’ is not
the Aggie hit parade leader. Step
ping aside to make way for Russ’
theme song, ‘Does Your Heart
Beat For Me?’ the twelve-week
leader in most oft-requested songs
went into second place and the old
American folk song, ‘Stardust,’
hit the list of Aggie favorites in
third place. . . .‘If I couldn’t talk
very well at the corps dance,’ Russ
said, ‘it’s because I did so much
yelling at the Aggie-Baylor base
ball game this afternoon.’ His on
ly regret was that he didn’t get
a chance to swim in the Aggie
pool.”
Carolyn Clark is no longer with
Russ. Now itV Maxine Conrad.
shops in agricultural economics
here at A. & M.
“We are also to discuss with
him about the possibilities of get
ting the Foundation to finance an
educational program here to foster
closer educational relations with
the Latin-American countries,”
Dean Kyle also stated.
The University of Buffalo school
of medicine is in its ninetieth year.
“Shaw Hamburgers are
the Best” (nuff said)
Place
CAMPUS SANDWICH
SHOP
Back of Leggett Hall
As Long As Our Present
Supply of Goods Lasts,
•
Ice Cream Slacks
$13.50
(with zippers)
O
When we buy more
goods the price MUST
advance. Buy now and
save the difference.
ROSS TAILORS
Bryan - Dial 2-7559
Take a load off your
mind and let Grant’s Ser
vice Station service your
car. They will give you a
complete check-up.
GRANT’S
Service Station
Highway 6
Phone 4-1120
HERBERT 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.
—
Are You Ready?
for the
Field Artillery Ball and
Corps Dance Saturday
We Have
Corsages and Boutonnieres
STUDENT FLORIST
Agents In Every Hall
(Trade with your fellow students.)
CHARM BRACELETS - HEARTS
(with or without seal)
0—
Let Us Clean and Repair
Your Watch.
Crystals While You Wait.
C. W. VARNER, Jeweler
North Gate
WHEN THERE IS A DANCE...
Naturally you will think of your Clothes looking nice.
That Would Mean
HOUCK CLEANERS
BEN YOUNGBLOOD, Manager
North Gate
We have a new VACUUM ELECTRIC WHISK
BRUSH which removes every single speck of dust or
lint from Suits and Tuxedos.
We are the Official Cleaners for all the costly
Evening Dresses of the girls down for the week-end
dances — so you see our work has to be good!
Send your clothes to us where you’ll get work
manship and service.
North Gate
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