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The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
Hia Bettallon, official newspaper of the AKrieultural and
Meahnnlrnl College of Texas and the city of College Station, is
mibUsfced three times weekly from September to June, issued
■Deodar, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; also it is published
Weeldy from Jane through August.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College
gtetfon, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
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1940 Member 1941
Associated Go!Ie6iate Press
Bob Nisbet
George Fuermann
Keith Hubbard _
Tom Vanm
_ Editor-In-Chief
Associate Editor
Advertising Manager
noy 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, E. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Managers
P. D. Asbury, E. S. Henard Circulation Assistants
Photography Department
Pfafl Gohnsn Photographic Editor
James Carpenter, Bob Crane, Jack Jones,
Jack Siepal Assistant Photographers
SATURDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
Barle A. Shields Managing Editor
r. B. Harrison Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Will O. Brimberry W. C. Carter Don Gabriel
Reportorlal Staff
Charles Babcock, Herbert Haile, Paul Haines, Carl Van
Hook, J. J. Keith, Z. A. McReynolds, Beverly Miller, Ehrhard
Mlttendorf, Jack Nelson, L, B. Tennison,
Hitch-Hiking Is Okay!
It’s Either That or No Trips
A BILL in the legislature would make it unlawful
for a motorist to pick up any hitch-hiker with whom
he is not personally acquainted.
Thursday Keyes Carson, Aggieland’s nation
ally famed and self-acclaimed champion college
hitch-hiker tripped to Austin to oppose this meas
ure. The bill, he claimed, would prevent thousands
of college students from going home for weekends
and holidays.
Keyes is absolutely right is his assertation and
The Battalion and the corps backs him to the
man. Such a proposal as this bill hopes to make is
a throw back from the dark ages when only des
titute persons of questionable character used hitch
hiking for means of transportation. In those days
when hi-jacking was prevalent such a bill might
have been justified.
But times have changed since 1925. Going to the
movies on Sunday was unheard of in those days, but
common sense and a broader outlook has made the
practice acceptable. The same has applied to hitch
hiking—at least as far as college students are con
cerned.
There is no longer any disgrace attached to
“highwaying” as college students know it. At A. &
M. in particular students are generally not wealthy
enough to afford many trips home or otherwise for
visits. With this law in effect, many few students of
A. & M. and other schools, too, would seldom be able
to get home for more visits than perhaps the Christ
mas holidays.
Pat Dwyer, Representative from San Antonio,
introduced the bill in the House of Representatives
sometime last week.
We have never seen Mr. Dwyer, but we’ll bet he
has a beard, wears long-handled underwear and car
ries an umbrella. God bless him, because the Aggies
can’t!
OPEN FORUM
ILLOGICAL as it may seem improper uniforms and
lack of pride in the uniforms worn have been more
pronounced during the present school year than has
been the case in the past. It would seem that with
the added emphasis being placed upon military bear
ing, the reverse of this would be true; but to see
that this is not so just look about you.
Any items of civilian clothing worn with the uni
form is first, non-regulation by College Regulations;
second, it shows lack of pride in the uniform; and
last, it looks like hell. Outstanding examples of this
are the many-colored headgear and the “Ranger”
belts worn without discretion on and off the campus.
Equally conspicuous are those cadets who do not
mix civilian clothing with the uniform but who go
about with collars unbuttoned, trousers unpressed,
and with the uniform generally sloppy.
A regulation that is not enforced is worse than
no regulation at all; it fosters a feeling that rules
are made to be broken, and this is not the attitude
to be taken in any military organization. This atti
tude is propagated by some juniors and seniors in the
manner which they wear their own uniforms. In this
way they pave the path for the underclassmen to
follow.
If this is to be the world’s largest military col
lege then let us accentuate the word military by
wearing the uniform as it should be worn.
D. B. Yarbrough, ’41
J. C. Bloodworth, ’41
C. F. DeVilbis, ’41
L. L. Appelt, ’41
J. P. Giles, Jr., ’41
R. M. Magee, ’41
IT IS THE general concensus of opinion throughout
the campus that as a student returns here to school
year after year he becomes more capable of mak
ing his own decisions and that his privileges
should increase proportionately.
This brings about several questions to the minds
of the juniors of the Field Artillery regiment con
cerning the recent order requiring them to make
breakfast formation each day.
The privilege of sleeping through breakfast
has heretofore been one of the most coveted rights
that come with wearing cuffs. For years it has
been assumed that by the time a student is in his
third year of school he can arrange his hours of
retiring and arising without being forced to do so.
Classes have been made regularly, scholastic stand
ings have been kept up and rooms have been in an
iBIl
Face of the tower clock at Stout Institute
Menomonie, Wis., is 111^ feet high.
THE BATTALION
orderly condition regardless of whether or not the
juniors made breakfast.
Another factor that was evidently not taken
into consideration when the order was issued is that
a majority of the juniors study after taps quite reg
ularly and this extra hour of sleep in the morning
has become a matter of necessity with them.
After considering these factors the question
in the minds of the students affected is “What is
the object of making the ruling?”
Another point that is difficult to understand is
that the juniors of the Field Artillery Regiment
are the only ones who are being required to make
these daily formations.
Is it that these boys do not need the extra
amount of sleep as badly as those of the Cavalry,
Coast Artillery, Engineers or any of the other regi
ments ?
Do their courses not require the same amount
of late studying as those in other organizations?
Are they not as capable of preparing their rooms
for inspections as those who have been juniors of
the classes that have gone before them?
It is not the policy of this writer, or the policy
of the students in general to doubt the judge
ment of the Military Department, but there are a
great number of us who fail to see the feasibility
or advantage of the new ruling.
Name withheld by request
FRANK LOVING PRESENTS;
/ Heard the Preacher Say
ALL OF US are confronted constantly with ques
tions to which we need answers. It may be on that
A quiz or it may be something in our mind that our
best friend would never suspect was there. If it is
the quiz we usually fall back on the prof or our
roommate who is supposedly good in the stuff;
if it is something more abstract, we need advice of a
different sort. Experts in this other field exist all
right, and our poets are some of the best. Here I
present a few of their thoughts which may hit one
of your problems with a new slant.
Oh, do not pray for easy lives; pray to be
stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray
for powers equal to ybur tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle
but you shall be a miracle.
Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at
the richness of life which has come to you
by the grace of God.
Phillips Brooks
Flower in the crannied wall
I pluck you out of the crannies.
I hold you here root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all
I should know what God and man is.
Tennyson
God, give me sympathy and sense
And help me keep my courage high;
God, give me calm and confidence,
And—please—a twinkle in my eye.
Margaret Bailey
If radio’s slim fingers
Can pluck a melody
From night, and toss it over
A continent or sea;
If the petaled white notes
Of a violin
Are blown across a mountain
Or a city’s din;
If songs, like crimson roses,
Are culled from thin, blue air,
Why should mortals wonder
If God hears prayer?
Ethel Romig Fuller
As the World Turns...
BY DR. AL B. NELSON
THE FOUR SONS OF FDR have commissions now.
James Roosevelt is a captain in the Devil Dogs
(Leathernecks or Marines, as you prefer) with pure
ly non-combatant work, Elliot has a captain’s com
mission in the air corps (also doing paper work),
Franklin, Jr., and John Roosevelt are ensigns in the
navy.
A strike has held up work at Wright Field for
nearly two weeks over whether a
few C. I. 0. electrical workers
shall be allowed to work alongside
A. F. of L. unionists. The dispute
is purely jurisdictional and this un
warranted delay at such an impor
tant air field is likely to do tre
mendous harm to the cause of or
ganized labor.
The President has appointed
an eleven man mediation board to
NeIson aid in the solution of labor dis
agreements. The board is too large for effective ac
tion and has absolutely no power to enforce any
decision it may render. Even under these circum
stances the C. I. O. leaders condemned the board
plan in advance, but accepted membership when it
was created.
Two squadrons of the U. S. Navy are in far
eastern waters at the moment. Two cruisers and
four destroyers are in Australian waters and two
cruisers and five destroyers are in New Zealand.
The visits were seemingly timed to ruin the effect
of the Japanese foreign minister’s visit to Berlin.
Also the combined forces would be in strategic pos
ition should Japan attack the Dutch East Indies.
The Military Academy at West Point was created
by an act of congress, March 16, 1802. Its birthday
is celebrated this w’eek.
Two American born women are members of the
British parliament. Mrs. Beatrice Clough Rath-
borne, widow of a British officer killed in action,
and Lady Astor.
BACKWASH
By
George fuermann
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Backwashin’ Around One of
the history profs, at a recent
class meeting, “Mr. Hitler could
n’t tell the truth if his life de
pended upon it—no, not even if
he swore the truth on a stack of
“Mein Kampfs” as high as his
head!”. . . . AU-
male .college? Joe
Routh is telling
the story about a
recent occasion
when he was stop
ped by a Canadian
visiting on the
campus who asked
where the boy’s
dormitory could be
located Uni-
Fuermann que is Henry Suth
erland, Houston Post photographer
who plays in the more-than-out-
standing Houston Symphony Or
chestra. On the campus with the
orchestra Thursday night, he was
as busy as the proverbial one-armed
paper hanger with the hives. His
was the job of taking pix for the
Post before the concert, dressing
for the event, playing the viola
throughout the concert and then
reverting to his original role of
photographer to take more shots at
the midnight luncheon held in Sbisa
Hall for the orchestra members fol
lowing the concert. And his work
wasn’t done then, either, because
he still had to phone in a review
of the event for his paper. ....
1941’s Longhorn, fast nearing com
pletion, will be far and wide A. &
M.’s best annual publication in his
tory. Editor Morton Robinson and
Managing Editor Lovell Kilpatrick
are doing an outstanding job and
the color plates are unusually ex
cellent.
• • •
On Motion Pictures
The senior class committee, ap
pointed to investigate the why’s
behind Bryan’s 45-day motion pic
ture clearance over College Sta
tion, accomplished much more than
it had dared to hope for on its
trip to Dallas Tuesday.
Composed of Bill Becker, Ben
Elliott and the writer, the commit
tee interviewed Col. A. H. Cole,
president of Allied Theaters of Am
erica, and other theater executives
who preferred to talk “off-the-rec
ord.”
Col. Cole, who represents 75 per
cent of the nation’s independent
theaters, and one other theater ex
ecutive, were the two men who gave
the committee the down-to-earth
facts which it was seeking.
You can look for action of the
quiet kind within the next 30 days.
Although the committee is honor-
bound not to release all of the in
formation which it picked up in
Dallas, most of it is purely rou
tine anyway and nothing startling
was unearthed.
One thing the committee prom
ises: That there is definitely a
chance to win the desired end with
in 60 or 90 days, and things will be
hard-pushed in that direction. Key
to the situation is the government
Consent Decrees passed last fall
in Washington.
• • •
Early Tables
Head waiters, employees of the
magazine stands, officers of the
day and other cadet workers are
the men who eat on the early tables
in both Sbisa and Duncan mess
halls. Early tables are set 45 min
utes before the corps regularly eats
and make it possible for men to
fill jobs which require them to
work while the corps id eating.
Thirty minutes after the corps
eats comes the late table which
takes care of nearly a hundred stu
dent janitors.
Although the early and late ta
bles are nothing new, many stu
dents are unaware of their exis
tence.
Only drawback: Special permis
sion from the Commandant’s office
is necessary to eat on the early
or late tables.
This weeks corps dance is com
ing to the tune of Boyd Raebunr’s
orchestra, a newcomer to A. & M.
and not too familiar in this part
of the country. He has been riding
circuit up in Illinois, Wisconsin,
Missouri, Dakota, and the upper
states of the middle west, and this
is one of his first ventures be
yond the field. With the catch slo
gan “Rhythms by Raeburn” and
good music, he ought to make a
name for himself.
The mess hall will be consid
erably dressed up by decorations,
too, to make a good atmosphere
for dancing. The Composite Regi
ment boys have designed a spher
ical mirror to hang from the ceil
ing and reflect small spots of light
all over the dance floor. The mir
rors and band stand are to be
trickily lighted with colored spot
lights. Raeburn has had a great
deal of experience in playing for
college crowds and puts out with
the kind of music they want to
hear.
Smooth and sophisticated Fran-
chot Tone does a most undignified
bit of acting in “THE TRAIL OF
THE VIGILANTES” at the Cam
pus Sunday and Monday. As a
newspaper reporter he goes out
west and gets involved in all sorts
of riotous business. He has to con
tend with a beautiful but boy-crazy
young thing, Peggy Moran, and
not many fellows would make even
his efforts to get away.
Bird-legged and nitwitted Mis-
cha Auer is in this show alternate
ly as a cowboy, a medicine-show
Indian, and a Mexican Matador;
his talents definitely run to com
edy in such situations. Andy De-
vine, Warren William, and Brod
erick Crawford help to keep this
show moving rapidly. It is a super
westerner which mixes sophisticat
ed actors and sage brush and com
es out with some fast action.
“VICTORY,” at the Assembly
Hall tonight, is the movie version
of one of Joseph Conrad’s novels.
It has a weird and somewhat neu
rotic touch which may be depress
ing, but it has got good acting.
Frederick March, an actor of long
and good reputation, has the lead
ing role. Betty Field, his heroine,
is a newcomer but a good one.
March loses his faith in human
nature and decides to become a r3-
cluse on an East Indian island, but
on his last trip to civilization, he
runs into trouble. Betty is the shy
and oppressed piano player of a
footloose Orchestra which he meets
in town. He takes her back to his
island and the rest of a cutthroat
company follows, lured either by
the girl or supposed riches there.
Some psycopathic quirks in this
show give it a strange atmosphere
which hangs heavily. It is an actors
show.
W. J. Douglas, Jr.
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Here’s another good shot by the Houston Post’s ace photographer,
Jimmie Mundell. It was taken in Sbisa hall and the men in the pic, in
the usual order, are Henry Haltom, Bob Tonkin, Roland Laney, Joe
Bourn, Sam McIntosh, B. B. Thompson, W. J. Owen, Charles Wolfer,
George (Monoplane) Blackburn, L. S. Thompson, Jake Crouch, Graham
Purcell, Clarence Hall and Charles Walker.
Most of the men are either head waiters or mess hall doormen.
The two Thompsons (brothers) work at the magazine stand, Jake and
Graham were officers of the day and Walker does his chores in Sbisa’s
sound booth.
Sam works in the A. & M. press room and is the man who printed
this paper. Charles Wolfer just happened to be among those present
that night.
A quarter of a million record New students at New York’s
sheets are required to record the Union Theological Seminary rep-
, „ ,, , , , resent 54 universities and colleges,
grades of all students who have
ever attended the University of
Minnesota.
STILL ALIVE”
Mrs. C. J. Haase, a 1936 graduate of Stout
institute, Menomonie, Wis., is keeping record of
activities of all members of her class.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Saturday 12:45 — “I’M
STILL ALIVE,” with Kent
Taylor and Linda Hayes.
Saturday 6:45 & 8:30 —
“VICTORY,” featuring Fred
eric March, Betty Field, Sir
Cedric Hardwicke, Sig Ru-
mann and Jerome Cowan.
Monday, Tuesday 3:30 &
6:45 — “HULLABALOO,”
with Frank Morgan, Virginia
Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie
Burke, Donald Meek and Reg
inald Owen.
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday — “ROMANCE
ON THE RIO GRANDE,”
with Cesar Romero, Patricia
Morison, Lynne Roberts and
Ricardo Cortez.
Saturday midnight, Sun-
dayy, Monday—“TRAIL OF
THE VIGILANTES,” star
ring Franchot Tone, Warren
William, Broderick Crawford,
Peggy Moran, Andy Devine,
Mischa Auer and Porter Hall.
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