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Page 2- ■SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1941 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE Tha Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and ■achanleal College of Texas and the city of College Station, is gnbllehed three times weekly from September to Jane, issaed Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; also it is published Weekly from June through August. Entered as seeond-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, [under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1878. Subscription rate, $8 a school year. Advertising rates upon ■sanest. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Brunei soo. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 1940 Member 1941 Associated GoIIe6iate Press Rob Nisbet : Editor-In-Chief George Fuermann Associate Editor Keith Hubbard Advertising Manager Tom Vannoy Editorial Assistant Pete Tumlinson Staff Artist J. R. Pierce, Phil Levine Proof Readers Sports Department Hub Johnson Sports Editor Bob Myfcra Assistant Sports Editor Mike Haikin, Jack Hollimon W. F. Oxford Junior Sports Editors Circulation Department Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager V. G. Hauger, B. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Managers B. D. Anbury, B. S. Henard Circulation Assistants Photography Department PhD Oolman Photographic Editor James Carpenter, Bob Crane, Jack Jones, Jack Siegal 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 Reportorral Staff Charles Babcock, Herbert Haile, Paul Haines, Carl Van Hook, J. J. Keith, Z. A. McReynolds, Beverly Miller, Ehrhard Mittendorf, Jack Nelson, L. B. Tennison. Distinguished Service FIFTEEN YEARS of distinguished service to the school in the capacity of foster father to 6500 cadets is the reason behind the honorary banquet for M. L. Cashion Monday night. Dealing with men and their problems in spirit ual belief is no easy task, for in the course of his duty he has faced the problems of all denomina tions. It is a great credit to him that he has dealt with these problems in a manner that the men in volved obtained a reasonable solution or were aided in a way that they could themselves find the solu tion. Mr. Cashion came to A. & M. in 1926 and that year began his greatest contribution to the campus, the Y.M.C.A. cabinet in which youths interested in furthering the religious work on the campus might meet together for inspiration and for plan ning enterprises of benefit to welfare to the cadet corps. Through the Y.M.C.A. cabinet he has created the Cosmopolitan Club which brings the students of foreign lands into close contact that the ex perience of their relationship together in the field of entertainment and social activity might aid them in understanding the problems each faced. Foreign students on the campus are unbound in their praise for the Cosmopolitan Club in helping them orient themselves to the ways of the school and in helping them meet and get along with their newly-made American friends. He has seen the cabinet grow from an idea to an organization of 60 members and has had nearly 350 different boys under his direct spiritual guid ance and help since its beginning. His “Y” staff has been expanded from the days when he worked alone to a staff with four full-time employed officers. He has been a member of the Student Welfare committee since the day he arrived. For eight years he has been the chairman of the Brazos County Red Cross. Under his guidance the local Y.M.C.A. has grown and expanded both in service and in reputa tion. His has been both a credit and an inspiration to the school and to the community. Quotable Quotes “THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION any univer sity can make to the national defense pi’ogi’am is to do its regular job even better than it has done it before. It may adapt its program, curriculum and services to meet the special demands of the times, but this adaption should not throw the normal pro gram out of balance or adjustment.” Views of Wayne university’s Executive Vice President David D. Henry on the new duties of higher education. “There is no sound reason why young men of draft age as a group should be permitted to defer their military service simply because they happen to be students in an institution of higher education. Special provision for all college students as a group is contrary to sound public policy, and is contrary to the best interests of educational institutions in the long run.” The committee on military affairs of the National Association of State Universities advocated army duty for most collegians. —Associated Collegiate Press FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say BY REV. KURT HARTMANN Pastor of American Lutheran Congregation “WHAT THINK YE of Christ?” Very little im portance is attached to the question once asked of the Pharisees by the Christ himself. Some spend their lives trying to get an answer to some ques tion which, even if they find an answer, helps neither them nor anyone else. Some give all their energy and ability to delving into some scrap piece of knowledge, which has no meaning for them, nor for anyone else. Some dig up the earth in quest for some bit of proof that may or may not support a theory of their own. But what profiteth it them or any one else, especially if thereby they lose really good things or possibly even their souls? Yet when it comes to a question which concerns every man: WTiat think ye of Christ? they are not in terested. Sometimes the world in general cannot be totally blamed for its indifference to this matter, since it is a fact that even Christians (or at least, people who bear the name “Christian”) also are not interested in the truthful and correct answer to the question: “What think ye of Christ?” When one reads magazines which even bear the name “Christian”, put out by supposed-to-be Christians, and finds in them everything but the discussion of the Christ, even expressions which are nothing but ^n abomination to the name “Christ” or “Christian”, we are not surprised that men everywhere care little or nothing about Christ. If Christ is at all presented He is presented as a man, an example, a teacher, a guide, a leader, or a new law-giver. He who thinks only thus of Christ is far, far removed from Him. Or when we consider the indifference which churches show to the correct answer to the above question, we are not surprised that the question is almost dead instead of burningly alive. He who looks only for organization and unification and cooperation, disregarding the question of “What think ye of Christ?” is insulting the Christ and His Word. To speak about the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man and try to effect such a thing without the blood of the Son of God, the Prince of Life and Peace, the Way, the Truth and the Life, is like blowing up a balloon which soon bursts. It makes no difference who or what you are, whether Jew or Greek, wise or unwise, young or old, - rich or poor—you cannot be saved unless you know the Christ. A whole eternity of exist ence attaches itself to the seemingly insignificant question: What think ye of Christ? He who knows Him has life here and forever. That means, he has hope, peace, joy, contentment and all that is really good. The Christian as an individual can do grave injustice to his fellowman’s happiness by not stand ing up for the most important things in this world. The church can do wrong to men, and does wrong men, whenever and wherever it becomes as fickle and unstable as water and makes them believe that there is no bone to pick on the question: What think ye of Christ? You cannot be my brother, in the New Testament and Christian sense of the word, unless we both believe the right thing about the Christ. The answer to who Christ is is given solely and alone by the Word of God. I therefore do not believe in making others believe that es sentially I am believing the same thing they be lieve, and bringing them to this false belief by speaking of a unity or union in which the main issue—nay, principles and truths which are the foundation of Christianity are denied. I take my stand with Paul: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” What was his gospel? What did he think of Christ? “For I deteraiined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” As as John so we: “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellow ship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” As the World Turns... BY DR. AL B. NELSON THE PRESIDENT IS FISHING while the great strike crisis is coming to a head. F. D. R. seems to be doing one of two things, waiting until public opinion is at white heat before coming back and taking action, or he is planning to let others take the decisive action while he is away in order to avoid being held personally responsible by union leaders. The highly touted Mediation Board has no authority to settle any dispute unless both sides agree to arbitration. Even then its decision cannot be enforced if either side re fuses to abide by the decision. Every striker has a perfect right to quit work whenever he de sires and the law defends him in the exercise of the right, but most of the present strike conflicts are caused by the illegal attempt on the part of strikers to compel non strikers to cease work. Men who desire to work have the right to keep their jobs and must be pro tected against criminal attack even though the racketeers are members of a labor union. Another broken pledge by German foreign min ister Von Ribbentrop has been made public. He pledged himself never to speak English again but has been forced to break the pledge. He cannot speak Japanese and Matsuoka of Japan cannot speak German but both know English and 'have been forced to use the tongue of their common enemy in their recent conference. The Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill to outlaw violence in labor disputes. The bill has yet to pass the Texas Senate. The Yugoslav government which signed the re cent agreement with Germany has been overthrown and a pro-British government under the direct leadership of the seventeen year old King Peter. This is a great diplomatic and material victory for the British and the Greeks and is a corresponding setback for Hitler. The British have captured the great Italian stronghold of Cheren in Italian East Africa. The city of Harrar, second city of Ethopia, has also been captured. New York University has formed a separate department of higher education, which will train graduate students to teach in colleges and univer sities. Business administration and secretarial science have the heaviest freshman registration at West minister College. Fordham University, celebrating its centennial year, has initiated a centenary fund drive for $1,- 360,000. Athens College is chartered under the Univer sity of the State of New York and legalized in Greece by special decree of the Greek government. John A. Nietz, professor of education at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh, has more than 3,500 text books used in early American schools. THBBATTALiON BACKWASH By George Fuermann “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster Out of the Hospital. . . .Three days and nights in the College hospital brings one face to face with a few of life’s minor trage dies. Witness the case of John R. Platt, Engineer regiment fresh man. Confined to the hospital Mon day night with what he termed a minor injury, his was a high state o f indignation when he learned Friday morning that he would not be released untUf Fuermann Saturday or Sun day. His only comment—in dis gust: “I’ve got a date arriving for the Engineer Ball at 12:45 to day, and they won’t let me out be cause my blood doesn’t count right or something.” . . . .Not so minor is the case of Winston Irwin. A few days ago Winston was released from the hospital after a severe case of influenza. No sooner was he out of the hospital than his legs buckled from under him—his knee joints had hardened and he was unable to walk. Now faced with a long period of confinement, he’s all-the-way cheerful and evidences are that his condition will improve On the other side of the pic ture is the case of “Mom’s” (Mrs. Irene Claghorn—^assistant super intendent of the hospital) dog, Siam. Thursday night, Mom took the canine for a ride and, arriving at the East Gate area, let him out of the car so the animal could get some exercise. No sooner done than Siam proceeds to chase, catch and kill a skunk. You’ve never seen a sad looking dog until you’ve seen one that looks like Siam did an hour later when he was receiv ing the scrubbing of his life. . . . There you have just three examples of the humor, pathos and side lights of the life you can pick up at the hospital any day. • • • Cable and Dumas Two of the best darkies the writ er has run across are Cable Hen ry anl Elmo (Dumas) Boone, both employed by the hospital and both popular with the cadets. Cable has been with the place 25 years; Du mas 16 years. The stories concerning the two are as many as the days they have been working for the hospital, but here’s a couple to prove the point. Early in 1920 the college was plagued with one of the worst epi demics of mumps in its history. One morning—at 2 a.m.—when the epi demic was at its height Mom was awakened by much talking in one of the wards. Wondering what the commotion could be at that hour of the morn ing, she walked upstairs to investi gate and found a sight hard to be- jieve. Every cadet in the room was propped up on the rear of his bed, eyes popping out of their heads, watching a narrator in the center of the room. The narrator was Ca ble, straddling a chair and “bulling” the Aggies for all he was worth. “What’s going on here?” Mom asked, a little severely. “Well, ah-1-1 tell ya Mrs. Clag horn,” Cable replied. “These boys have got the mumps bad and they haven’t had any fun for nearly a week now. I was just entertain in’ ’em with some of my experi ences!” Dumas, Too Dumas can’t tell you very much about his nickname—“I just kinda picked it up when I was a little boy,” he tells you with a grin. The story Mom likes best to tell concerning this good-natured Darky centers around the time he had con sumed too many bottles of brew one summer night many years ago. Mom came home only to find that she didn’t have her key. No one was in the building so the only thing she could do was to have one of the boys open a window for her. Finding Dumas, she asked him to get a ladder and climb to a sec ond story window, crawl in and open the front door for her—all this without noticing that Dumas had recently taken on several bot tles of home brew. Willing to the last, though, he wobbled up the ladder and near the top did a back-flip which would have done credit to Johnny Weis muller. Miraculously he caught himself on a bottom rung of the thing, much as a monkey would have done. Mom couldn’t help but laugh and Dumas, coming out of the daze, managed to apologetically offer, “Yesm, Mrs. Claghorn, that’s okeh for you to laugh. I’m not hurt much—just my feelings.” • • • Carmichael & Co. Oldest—in point of service—of the hospital’s cadet employees is Walter Carmichael, Infantry sen ior who is assistant technician. With three other Aggies he lives at the hospital and is subject to call at any time. Curtis LeDoux, Field Artillery senior, is Dr. Woodward’s assis tant; Claude Emmons, Infantry senior, is Dr. Marsh’s assistant; and Jack Blankenfield, junior, also as sists the technician. A San Antonio cotton mill has been allotted 775,000 patterns for cotton bagging under a program sponsored by the Surplus Market ing Administration. The Texas company is one of four to which allocations have been made for 2,000,000 patterns to be included in this season’s program. Thirty-six whole farm and ranch demonstrator families in Texas re modeled their homes last year. WHATS SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Saturday — “DODGE CITY,” starring Errol Flynn, Olivia deHavilland, Bruce Cabot, Ann Sheridan and Alan Hale. Saturday midnight, Sun day, Monday — “21 DAYS TOGETHER,” featuring Vi vien Leigh, Laurence Oliver, Leslie Banks and Francis Sullivan. AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday 12:45 — “REM EDY FOR RICHES,” with Jean Hersholt. • Saturday 6:45 & 8:30 — “RAMPARTS WE WATCH,” full length picture made by the March of Time. Monday, Tuesday, 3:30 & 6:45 — “COMRADE X,” starring Hedy Lamarr, Clark Gable, Oscar Homolka, Fe lix Brassart and Eve Arden. LIFE INSURANCE GOOD IN EVENT OF MILITARY SERVICE Premiums guaranteed by United States Govern ment under Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of Oct. 17, 1940, on $5000 term, ordinary, limited pay or endowment Life Insurance Policy if policy has been in force and a premium paid 30 days or more before entry into military service. Approximate monthly premium for $5000, Age 22, 30 payment life esti mates to pay up in 22 years . . . $10.05 monthly. For exact rate and application fill in below . . . Inquiries invited. Name _____ WALTER H. PECK (Print) Life Insurance Broker Address 902 Dallas Nat’l. Bank Bldg., Dallas, Texaa (Print) Date of Birth 311 Shell Building (Print) Houston, Texas The much talked about and fre quently discussed “RAMPARTS WE WATCH” is coming to the Assembly Hall Saturday night. Don’t go expecting to see any of the familiar movie stars or char acters that have ever been on the screen before, because they aren’t there. The cast was picked up as rank amateurs by the March of Time and trained for their jobs. For such material, you’ll have to hand it to the March boys, but the main story isn’t in the characters anyhow. The trend of the times and the reflections on the present situa tion is what is important. The pic ture tries to interpret the situation of world affairs today in terms of what it was in 1920. The film is a ( ’a/npus LAST DAY Errol Flynn Olivia DeHavilland —in— “Dodge City” with Bruce Cabot, Ann Sheridan —also— “Knock, Knock” - News Prevue Tonite 11 P. M. Sunday - Monday Tickets on Sale at 7:30 P. M. “21 Days Together” with Vivien Leigh Laurence Olivier —also— “Donald Duck” - News “Information Please” sort of glorified newsreel with a good strong story behind it. The story could happen to anybody in war time, and that is the point, that it might happen again today. The people could be anyone in the United States. The film sequences shot here two years ago for the film are not in cluded. The whole plan of the film has been changed since then and the training pictures were no long er needed. This picture has a rath- (Continued on Page 4) Let’s Dance! I know the very place to go. It’s Hrdlicka’s for fun and good food. HRDLICKA’S On Old College Road Do You Want k Extra Grade Points? HAVE YOUR THEMES, ETC., NEATLY TYPED at LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Public Stenographer | J. E. Loupot, ’32 North Gate j Assembly Hall Today - - - 12:45 Jean Hersholt —in— "REMEDY FOR RICHES” Information Please and Sport Reel 6:45 and 8:30 - - - Comedy V t t* y a * f y (t ^ » « i a. - a * * i » ♦ <r * 1 « *