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The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Heehanical College of Texas and the city of College Station, is
weekly from Jane through August.
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Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
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1940 Member 1941
Associated Go!Ie6iate Press
Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief
Qeorge Fuennann - 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 Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Haikin, Jack Hollimon
W. F. Oxford Junior Sports Editors
Circulation Department
Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager
W. O. Hauger, E. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Managers
I!. D. Asbury, B. S. Henard Circulation Assistants
Photography Department
PbQ Golman Photographic Editor
James Carpenter, Bob Crane, Jack Jones,
Jack Siegal Assistant Photographers
TUESDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
Bill Clarkson Managing Editor
Jack Hendricks Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Lee Rogers E. M. Rosenthal
Reportorial Staff
Jack Aycock, Jack Decker, Walter Hall, Ralph Inglefield,
Tom Leland, Beverly Miller, W. A. Moore, Mike Speer, Dow
Wynn.
Anti-Hitch-Hiking Bill
Would Be Aggie Waterloo
THE ANTI-HITCH-HIEING bill in the Legislature
comes up this week for consideration by the House
committee, and in that connection Keyes Carson,
Champion Aggie Hitch-Hiker and active combatant
of the measure will make the trip to Austin to
speak against it.
It seems that the idea behind the proposal of
the bill is the prevention of murder along the high
way. With all due respects to its authors, this bill
as worded at present, if passed, would be a head
ache to the state police and a nightmare for the
judiciary.
As presented, the bill would make it unlawful
for a motorist to pick up any hitch-hiker with whom
he is not personally acquainted.
On first glance countless loopholes can be
found in such a proposal. Closer inspection makes
it appear ridiculous. How could a strict legal defini
tion be placed upon the term “acquainted”. In the
case of the Aggies the process of getting acquainted
is the first thing on the schedule of getting a ride.
If the law should make it illegal for the hitch
hiker to stand on the road, the law would be more
enforceable, but such action would jeopardize boys
walking home from school or other pedestrians.
If preventing murder along the highway is the
purpose of the statute, then its authors are boxing
shadows. Murder has been against the law as long
as there has been law.
Strict enforcement of a law preventing hitch
hiking would be a calamity as far as students of
A. & M. are concerned. Every weekend hundreds of
Aggies depend on hitch-hiking for transportation
to their home or other points over the state.
Laws of the kind have been proposed before
and have always been defeated. However, it seems
that the Parent-Teacher Association has been in
strumental in forcing the issue. In theory such a
law might do wonders toward eliminating useless
taking of life along the highway, but in practice
such a law is preposterous.
The bill will in all probability not be returned
from the House committee.
Quotable Quotes
“NO ONE WILL DENY that the world today pre
sents a sorry spectacle of international turmoil and
domestic uncertainity. But to conclude that we who
believe in education and religion are victims of a
pleasant delusion, seems to me quite unwarranted.
Rather should I say that in the past neither educa
tion nor religion has had a fair chance to show
what it could accomplish for human welfare, and
that in the future we shall need more rather than
less of both. I say this because the disease from
which humanity is suffering seems to me to be one
which only education and religion can ever hope to
cure.” Dr. Franklin Bliss Snyder, President of
Northwestern University, doesn't believe that educa
tion’s future is entirely behind it.
“I hold with Archibald MacLeish in believing
that unless the lag between university scholarship,
research, and education, and their application to the
urgent and foreboding political and social problems
of cur democracy, is greatly shortened, we shall see
our democratic institutions seriously shaken, if not
destroyed. I believe that American education forces
as a whole owe something to American advertising
for having found out how to communicate swiftly,
graphically, wholesomely and stimulatingly to the
nations as a whole.” Macy executive Paul Hollister
doesn’t think the world is going to beat a patch to
education’s door.
Twenty-three different uniforms or combin
ations of uniforms are used at The Citadel.
“The chaos of modem civilization can scarcely
be attributed to acts of God. The structure of human
society is not rotten but sound. It is the defective
utilization of human culture that lies at the bottom
of our present trouble. The most exigent task in
education today is the appraisal of the biological
and consequent social capacity of the individual so
that his proper niche—if any—can be found and he
can be stuffed into it.” Harvard University’s an
thropologist, Dr. Ernest M. Hooten, presents his
own blueprint for Utopia.
“In Europe, even as in this country now, loyal
ties to family, region and church thinned out and
were replaced by one huge national loyalty. This
is one of the causes of Europe’s present state.”
Harry B. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn college,
sees the lack of private loyalties as a serious draw
back to the United States.
—Associated Collegiate Press
Man, Your Manners
BY I. SHERWOOD
Vitamins and Manners
Bad manners in eating certain foods will not
hinder our vitamin intake but if our manners are
bad they may make of us objectionable table com
panions.
Artichokes: With. the fingers remove and eat one
leaf at a time. Dip the soft end in the sauce or melt
ed butter, then bite off the lower part of the
leaf. Put the remainder at the side of the plate.
When you reach the choke, if it hasn’t been removed,
scrape out the prickly fuzz with a knife, and eat the
heart with a fork.
Asparagus: Is best eaten with the fork, starting
from the tip. Either stop when you reach the
tough, stringy part—or you may pick it up if you
do it gracefully.
Bacon: Never pick it up in the fingers. Use your
fork.
Bread: Take a roll, muffin, biscuit, cracker, slice of
bread or piece of toast with the fingers. Place
on butter plate if there is one; if not, on your place
plate. Break off approximately a mouthful, butter
it with the butter knife if there is one, or with the
main course knife if there isn’t. Hold the bread
on the edge of the plate while buttering it. Don’t
lay, a whole piece flat on the palm for buttering.
Butter: All breads, hot or cold, griddle cakes and
waffles, and corn on the cob are buttered with a
knife; vegetables such as potatoes, rice, cut com,
etc., with the fork.
Cake: Firm cake not having sticky icing may be
picked up and eaten in the fingers by breaking off
a small piece at a time. Soft and gooey cake is
eaten with a fork. Large cookies are broken into
smaller pieces and eaten with the fingers.
Canapes: These are appetizers consisting of squares
of toast, bread or crackers on which various mix
tures are spread. Those that are sticky or odorifer
ous are eaten with a fork; the dry, hard or odor
less ones picked up but not eaten in one bite.
Celery: Take celery with the fingers and place on
butter plate, if there is one, or on the place plate.
If the stalk is long, break it in half. Put salt on
butter or dinner plate, then dip celery in it. Never
dip it in salt dish or in salt on tablecloth.
As the World Turns...
BY DR. R. W. STEEN
THE JAPANESE MINISTER, MATSUOKA, is
visiting in Berlin. He arrived last week for the pur
pose of being convinced by Hitler and his associates
that the war is practically won, and that active in
tervention on the part of Japan would bring it to a
speedy conclusion. So far the luck of
the Axis has been terrible. Mat-
suoka arrived in Berlin in the midst
of a celebration acclaiming the sign
ing of an agreement with the Axis
by Yugoslavia. But before the ink
on the agreement was dry the Yugo
slav government was overthrown,
and a new regime set up. Now that
work must be done all over again,
and this time it may have to be
done with something other than
diplomacy. To make matters worse
for the Axis the Italians at Cheren abandoned that
post after holding out for seven weeks, and at the
same time the British won other victories in Africa.
Finally, the Italian fleet put to sea with the usual
result: Only a part of it got back. The fleet had the
misfortune to meet some British warships, and
when the smoke cleared away it was discovered that
three Italian cruisers and two destroyers had been
sunk. All of this should be quite encouraging to
Matsuoka and highly pleasing to Hitler and his
friend beyond the Alps.
The condition in Yugoslavia is serious. Germany
can hardly stand the loss of prestige that will come
if the little country withdraws from the Axis block,
yet there may be no way of forcing it back in with
out resorting to arms. An attack on Yugoslavia
would of course be the signal for a general Balkan
war, and that is something Germany has hoped to
avoid. The German lines of communication would
have to extend through several hundred miles of
hostile territory, and the mountains of Yugoslavia
would be far less suitable than France and the Low
Countries for the operation of tanks and other
motorized units. Then, there is always the enigma
of Russia. Stalin has made no announcements, but
there are rumors that a German invasion of Yugo
slavia would put the friendship of Russia and Ger
many to a severe strain.
The session of the legislature is about half
over, and as yet not much of importance has been
accomplished. A few acts have been passed, and of
course many others are making progress in the
committees. No means has yet been agreed upon
for raising the additional funds that are generally
agreed to be necessary for the proper operation
of the government and its numerous agencies. The
governor still works for the transactions tax, while
the House continues to favor the omnibus tax bill.
At present it seems that the governor’s plan has no
chance of passage. The House bill, perhaps in a
modified form, will doubtless be the means of pro
viding additional revenue.
Antelope milk is of better quality than cow’s
milk, according to Dr. J. B. Hagg, agricultural
chemist at Oregon State College.
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute is planning to
build an astronomical observatory.
Iowa State college holds the national dairy
products judging championship for the second year.
Sixty-seven per cent of University of Cincin
nati students come from Cincinnati homes.
Cadets at The Citadel, South Carolina military
college, daily consume 1,730 quarts of milk.
Beginning enrollment in Spanish is up 40 per
cent at the University of Vermont.
THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941
BACKWASH
By
George Fuermann
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Concerning Orchestras . . . The
first tabulation of Backwash’s 1941
orchestra poll will be released in
Thursday’s column. Committeemen,
including Carroll Cooper, Bob
Alexander, George Mueller, John
Kellis, Dan Grant, Joe Snow, R.
B. Pearce, and Howard Wilson,
met last night and
tabulated results
for the mid-point
of the social sea
son . . . Although
the committee met
after the column
went to press, the
writer feels that
B e r n i e Cummins
and Boyd Raeburn
Fuermann wil1 have a nip-
and-tuck race for the No. 1 spot,
that Bill Carlsen has a cinch for
third place leaving Maestro Russ
Morgan last place . . . Back of
Morgan’s failure to satisfy the
corps was the unfortunate accident
which put four of his men in the
hospital previous to his A. & M.
engagement and which destroyed
almost all of his instruments . . .
This is all speculation, of course,
and the findings of the committee
are the ones which will be listed as
the corps’ official rating of the
bands and singers—the list which
is picked-up at the end of the sea-
spn by the various musicians’ trade
magazines from all colleges—but
Thursday’s column will probably
show the singers rated something
like this: Nova Coggan at the top,
Jeri Sullivan second, Lois Lee in
the No. 3 spot and Phyllis Lynne
last—which is only a guess .. . The
final tabulation will be taken pre
vious to the Final Ball and, natural
ly, will not include the orchestra
contracted for that event.
• • •
W. G. Carlsen
A hundred-fold more popular
than George Hamilton’s band,
which maestroed last year’s Engi
neer's Ball, Bill Carlsen and com
pany satisfied the Engineers all
the way and was popular with ca
dets at Saturday night’s corps
dance.
The smallest name band to play
here this year (10 men, two vocal
ists and himself), Bill is little
known in Texas; is principally a
middle-western outfit; opened for
a two-week run at Fort Worth’s
Texas hotel last night; has a com
mercial pilot’s license and owns
his own Stinson plane, which, in
good weather, he flies from one en
gagement to another; is a versa
tile musician himself, alternating
on a clarinet, a tenor and an alto
sax when he’s not directing; was
far and away the most conserva
tive and quiet-spoken band leader
on the campus in many a day.
Now in its fifth week, the Aggie
Hit Parade saw the old American
folk song, Hoagy Carmichael’s
“Star Dust” return to the top
notch; “The Last Time I Saw
Paris” came on the mythical hit
parade for the first time this year
in the No. 2 place, and “Begin to
Beguine,” another newcomer, rode
third place in cadet requests.
• • •
The Palestine Girl
Regularly, Bill does not have a
girl vocalist, but bands playing at
A. & M. must agree to employ one
for this engagement when the con
tract is signed.
Blond Lois Lee, a Palestine girl,
was the result of this arrange
ment—and thereby hangs a story
hard to believe.
Although Lois sang with Bill’s
outfit for eight months last year,
she is now with Carol Lofner’s or
ganization, one of the better swing
bands in this part of the country.
The responsibility for getting
Bill the needed feminine vocalist
was with Norman Steppe, head of
M.C.A.’s Dallas branch. Norman,
however, was under the mistaken
impression that Carol’s band had a
two-night lay-off, and that’s why
Lois was drafted for the Friday-
Saturday night stand at A. & M.
All went well until Carol began
burning up the wires between Dal
las and College Station Saturday
morning trying to contact Lois.
The point being, Carol had pre
viously contracted to play Nava-
sota’s Bluebonnet Festival Satur
day night!
The problem wasn’t a pretty one.
If Lois deserted Bill to make the
Navasota engagement, she would
leave Bill in a tough spot trying
to explain to a thousand or so Ag-
(Continued on Page 4)
This Backwash photo, by The Battalion’s ace photographer Phil
Golman, shows Lois and Micky dueting with Maestro Bill standing by.
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Your chance to see an Academy
Award winner in action is in “THE
PHILADELPHIA STORY.” For
his foie in this show, James Stew
art got the precious little Oscar,
and the Academy doesn’t pass out
those little statues to many ham
actors. And the show contains not
only Stewart, but Katherine Hep
burn and Carry Grant.
Katherine’s role in this movie is
straight down her alley. The pro
ducers knew it and gave her a good
deal of say-so in how her picture
should be run, because she is the
mainspring of the story. To fit her
straight and logically minded wom
an role, Katherine acts as an in
human woman would. She figures
that mind and will power control
one’s actions, and hers are perfect.
Thus she refuses to tolerate faults
in anyone else; as described by her
father, she has everything to make
a lovely young woman except an
understanding heart.
As a smug society divorcee,
Katherine is about to marry her
The twenty-five percent of the
people in the United States living
on the land are furnished 50 per
cent of the increase in the coun
try’s population.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday & Wednesday—
“GIVE US WINGS,” featur
ing the Dead End Kids, the
Little Tough Guys, Billy Ha-
lop, Bobby Jordan and Wal
lace Ford.
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45—
“COMRADE X,” featuring
Hedy Lamarr, Clark Gable,
Oscar Homolka, Felix Bres-
sart and Eve Arden.
Wednesday, Thursday 3:30
& 6:45—“THE PHILADEL
PHIA STORY,” starring
Katherine Hepburn, James
Stewart, Cary Grant, Ruth
Hussey, John Howard, Rol
and Young and Virginia
Weidler.
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second husband when hubby No. 1,
Cary Grant, and a cheap-paper
magazine reporter, James Stewart,
appear on the scene. She has a
little too much champagne one
night and goes swimming with
Stewart. Husband-to-be thinks this
is awful; husband-who-was thinks
it is fine; and reporter Stewart
gets lots of good pictures and copy
on spoiled uppercrust society.
There is a treatise on high so
ciety in this picture and you can
see its effect by noting Stewart’s
attitude toward it when he enters
the picture and when he leaves it.
The reporter comes in grumbling
about the privileged class but
leaves thinking they are fine fel
lows. The human interest in the
well developed characters helps
put the show over, but it really
doesn’t need any help. It is plenty
good.
Dr. A. Benbow
DENTIST
Phone 375
Astin Building - Bryan
College Station
15^ to 5 p.m. — 20^ after
Today and Tomorrow
also
“Jitterbug No. 1”
“Film Fan”
Thurs. - Fri. - Sat.
also
Community Sing
“Snow Man” - News
Assembly Hall
3:30 and 6:45
Last Day
A KINS VIDOR production with Oscar HOMOLKA • Felix BRESSART • Eve ARDEN
Scr..n PUy by BEN HECHT and CHARLES LEDERER • Produced by Ooefri.d R.inhardk
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3:30 & 6:45 Each Day
Shorts - - Pete Smith in “Sea For Yourself”
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