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■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.
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Station, Texas, [under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1878.
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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.
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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-
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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
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