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Page 2-— The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and ■echanical 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, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1876. Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Trancisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-8444. 1940 Member 1941 Plssociofed Golle6iote Press Bob Nisbet Editor-in-Chief George Fuermann 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. G. Hanger, E. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Managers t. D. Asbury, E. S. Henard Circulation Assistants Photography Department Phil Golman i Photographic Editor James Carpenter. Bob Crane, Jack Jones, Jack Siegal Assistant Photographers SATURDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF Barle A. Shields Managing Editor V. R. 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. Combine Engineer’s Day With Ag Day; Add Other Schools and Have A&M Day AG DAY IS next week and Engineer’s Day is the week after that. It is admittedly a fine thing to exhibit the undertakings of these schools, but why not extend it to all the schools. Why not have an A. & M. Day in which each school and each de partment puts on a show for the day. The idea behind the present Engineer’s Day show is to present to campus visitors a show that will advertise the school of Engineering and also give the students something extra-curricular to work on and look forward to during the year. Engineering departments appoint special committees to super vise the work on these projects. The students take pride in these exhibitions and work with zest and vigor to make them a success. It is acknowledged that the idea is fine for the Engineers—in fact the school of Agriculture thought so much of the idea that they have adopted a day of the same nature, too. But why not combine the efforts of all schools for next year. Appoint a general chairman to handle the show. Pick a time, such as Parents’ Day, when a host of visitors will be on the campus and put the whole of A. & M. on exhibit. The new idea would be to find all the things that A. & M. can be proud of besides just the de partmental undertakings and dress them up into attractive exhibits. Each department could have an ■ exhibit and a special exhibit could be arranged to combine the departments into a school exhibit. Then the school exhibits could be combined into a special exhibit for the entire school. It could cover two days, beginning on Saturday and holding over Sunday. Such deal will take a great deal of work in co ordinating the efforts of the schools and depart ments, and it will take lots of push to get it started. For this year there isn’t time. Next year’s seniors will have to get behind the movement if it is to be carried out. Oysters: Raw ones are dipped into the cock tail sauce with the fork and eaten whole. Cooked ones may be cut with a fork. Pie: Is always eaten with a fork. A spoon is never used, nor is a knife. Potatoes: Never mash a boiled potato with the fork or cut it with your knife. Use the fork to break and butter it. A baked potato is broken in half with the fingers, butter applied to one half with the fork, and eaten from the skin. French fried potatoes are eaten with a fork; potatoe chips with the fingers. Salt: If there is a spoon with an open salt dish, use it. If not, use the top of a clean knife or fork. Salt may be pinched from individual salt cellars, but radishes and celery are never dipped in them or in salt that is put on tablecloth. Sandwiches: Break or cut a large sandwich if it is easier' to handle, and eat with fingers. A club sandwich if cut into smaller portions may be eaten with fork or fingers. Eat open sandwiches with the fork; cut with knife if necessary. FRANK LOVING PRESENTS: / Heard the Preacher Say “SINCE EVE RIBBED ADAM” as the saying goes, women have been a more or less constant source of problems which we men are faced with. I should say that this is even more true than normally here at Aggieland. The fairer sex is the cause of never- ending grief, joy, heartache, pleasure, and financial reverses on' this so called “womanless” campus. Those who call it that just don’t know! In addition to these superficial matters, we are all faced with more serious, and I think more important issues over our girl friends. I will be the last fellow to lecture to anyone on morals, but moral or immoral, we all have problems to face and decisions to make—the same is true of both youth and lady, and they both share blame when blame is to be meted out. A tremendous amount of our so called morals are merely figures of custom which society demands that we observe. For example, several primitive so cieties have been discovered in which custom and climatic environment led to complete nudity as the daily habit of existence. Among these people, nudity carried none of the implications which we associate it with in modern European or American minds. They were completely normal in other respects of their lives, and their lack of attire was of utterly no consequence to them. We find a parallel in the changes which we can observe in our own customs. It would have created a tremendous scandal at one time for a woman to be seen in a barber shop, but now barber shops even operate beauty parlors; the first Miss to go in bathing without stockings took her reputation rather lightly, liut now nothing can be taken much more lightly than a woman’s bathing garb. The point is that the right and wrong of what we do is largely a matter of custom. Now custom is obviously no judge of Christian principles or we would still be hanging witches, so we must find another basis on which to base our attitudes. In seeking this guide for the path which we are to follow, I have two suggestions which I think will indicate the best course to steer. The principles which Christ laid down for us to consider and fol low, I think, are those principles that demand first and always a consideration for the other person. If anything that I do could in any possible way work to the detriment of the other party involved, then I think it is a selfishly wrong thing to do, re gardless of what the others around me consider appropriate. Secondly, I believe one should look to the future and bear in mind the preservation of a permanent happiness which we all except and look forward to. As the World Turns... The Four Freedoms AS USUAL in times of alarm, it is difficult to discover what it is, in concrete terms, we must take up arms to obtain, retain, or destroy. The president has said that our aims are similar to the Four Freedoms: freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. If we engage in this war, we are endeavoring to establish these everywhere. However, this “man ifest destiny” of America needs clarification. If we go to war, and we do win the war will these four freedoms ring true with our allies as well as with our enemies ? If the English want our aid, shall we assume that we are to supply and perhaps fight the same war side by side for the same rea son? In the last war, India hoped that after the Armageddon she would gain an independence sim ilar to the one for which America fought. Is her fate to be repeated ? Are our allies already above the Four Freedoms? Man, Your Manners BY I. SHERWOOD Food Pointers CHEESE: Dairy cheese, cut in sections, is trans ferred to your plate with the fingers if no imple ment is passed. Roquefort and other strong cheese is served with a knife. If there are crackers, spread a little cheese on one with a knife and eat it with your fingers. Cheese served with salad or pie is eaten with fork. Corn: Kernels of corn served cut from the cob are eaten with the fork. Corn on the cob is taken from the serving plate with the fingers and placed on the dinner plate. Break a long ear in half; with the knife, spread butter on a small part of the ear; put salt on it; holding both ends eat neatly and quietly. Take a mouthful at a time instead of eating along the whole length of the ear. Eggs: Soft-boiled eggs are eaten with a spoon; all others with a fork. Fish: Always eaten with a fork. A knife is used only to aid in removing skin and large bone. Remove small bones from the mouth with your fingers. Fowl: Chicken, duck, squad, turkey, etc., should not be eaten with the fingers. Nelson By DR. AL B. NELSON BERLIN’S NAZI NEWSPAPERS have just given Charles Augustus Lindbergh their highest recom mendation as a true American. Other Americans will also recall that Mr. Lindbergh also holds one of the highest decorations within the gift of the Nazi government. He undoubtedly deserves both their commendation and their dec orations, as he has been of tre mendous service to the Germans in the last few years. Senator Harry Byrd, of Virginia, has vigorously demanded that the President ask the resignation of Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins and replace her with a “two- fisted” individual having the “in testinal fortitude” necessary to the proper discharge of the duties of that high office. Secretary Per kins has been accused of delaying certification of labor disputes to the National Medi ation Board in order to give labor time to win strikes before the Board could mediate. The British Army in Greece is being slowly driven back along the narrow neck of land leading to southern Greece. At this moment nothing is known as to whether the British and Greeks will attempt to hold the southern mainland of y the nation or evacuate this last foothold on the con tinent of Europe. At any event the Balkan cam paign has prevented the invasion of England this spring and has given the British that much ad ditional time in which to prepare. The occupation of these additional countries will also require the permanent location of many divisions of German troops. The great issue before the people of the United States now is whether the supplies we are manu facturing are to reach England where they can be used. United States merchant ships can still carry supplies manufactured in this country to Japan to aid the Japanese in their war on China, and can still carry vital supplies to Russian ports for trans-shipment to> Germany to aid her in the war on England, but our ships cannot carry goods to England to aid them in their defense. In view of these facts WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “AID TO ENGLAND”. Sophomores at Stratford college recently staged a fashion show to bolster class funds. the battalion -SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941 SX.WNlUeRS CDUBSE v KWANAfl®. WvOV.&NL VNO CMS SWks-ouygoh&do'nh Sue m other odjak OP. * REUNION • JS'OTi^^CaiGRESSCON- UftSKS ^-college rdom- MWLS RENEWED AN OLD ACQUAINT ANCE. CAREERS OF SEN.BURTON OF OHIO AND SEN. BREWSTER OF MAINE ARE PARALLEL. BOTH ATTENDED THE SAME COLLEGE BOTH ARE DEKE5 V BOTH WERE ELECTED TO THE US. SENATE ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET IN THE SAME ELECTION / s' / imagine MEETING you Tj; BACKWASH By (teorge fuermann ‘Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster The Way of Things . . . .Maestro Duke Ellington, who played for last night’s Infantry Ball and who’ll encore for the corps dance to- . night, is rated the nation’s No. 4 band by Esquire. Ahead of Duke is Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw’s new band in that or der. Where national rating is con cerned, Duke’s outfit is one of the biggest to hit the campus in several social seasons.. Metronome, nation ally significant musicicans mag, rated Duke’s recordings at the top of the list last year Facts in the news: Student Labor Secretary Wendell R. Horsley has announced that of the 807 cand idates for degrees to be conferred in June, 348 (more than 43 per cent) are student labor employees . . . .Thursday marked an all-time high for library circulation as 723 books—more than ever before in the history of the library—were checked out by cadet readers. . . . Best-gag-of-the-year, via Winch- ell’s column yesterday morn, con cerns what Mister Hitler’s parents said when he was born. Answer: They didn’t say anything—they just wagged their tails! Watch for student activities to hit a new high in the next five weeks. The coming Parents’ Day exercises (which will draw more than 10,000 persons to the campus), Ag Day, Engineers Day and at least a dozen other projects will keep the activities calendar double-packed between now and commencement time. • • • Colonel Chevalier One of the greatest men ever to visit the A. & M. campus—and one of the most versatile—is Bus iness Week’s publisher and vice- president of the important Mc- Gr aw-H ill Publishing Company, Colonel Willard Chevalier One cadet, trying to find an ef fective way to describe Col. Che valier’s speaking ability, pointed out, “Although I haven’t heard them all, if I were to list the na tion’s speakers in order of their all-around ability, I’d name Pres ident Roosevelt first and Col. Che valier right behind him.” Already a many time visitor to A. & M., he was commencement speaker two years ago. A New Yorker, his interests are many fold and, where TesJas history is concerned, his knowledge is con siderably greater than most na tive Texans. Monday, when Engineering Dean Gibb Gilchrist and Engineering Council Prexy Ben Elliott trekked to Houston to meet Col. Cheval ier, the three visited the famed San Jacinto Memorial located near Houston. “I’ve been there four times be fore,” the genial Colonel said, “hut I never come to Texas that I don’t manage to return to this historic spot.” Sidelight of his visit—he made three addresses in four days-—was the informal dinner held at Col. Ike Ashburn’s ranch by Dean Gilchrist and the Engineering Council. As usual, the talk got around to the war situation and the cadets evidenced that they believed we should get into the current con flict IF Great Britain was on the verge of losing the war and, if by so doing, our nation would take a back seat in world economic af fairs. Col. Chevalier agreed with this sentiment, and added that the en tire South seemed to feel much the same way. “Not so, in the East and North,” he said. “In that section of the nation Chicago, for example— there is a strong anti-war senti ment in any case.” Every cadet who talked with or heard Col. Chevalier is anxiously looking forward to the next time when he will encounter the man. • • • The Fledglings That’s the name of the ‘annual’ published by the flying cadets of class 41-E at San Angelo’s Air Corps basic flying school. A 40-page book that’s all-the-way okeh, pic tures of four Aggie-exes appear, including Harvey S. Trewitt from Dallas, class of ’37; J. A. Isbell, Haskell, ’39; W. R. Ross, Frank lin, ’40, and Carl E. Taylor from Denison, also of the class of ’40. Harvey, incidentally, is one of the class’ cadet officers, being flight lieutenant. Besides containing pix of every member of the graduating class and the instructors, the book in cludes snapshots and humor sec tions. Best of the latter section is the feature titled “Famous Last Lines.” For example: ““No, sir, we weren’t in fly ing formation. I didn’t even see that other plane until our wings hit each other!” “You see, it was like this . . . I thought he had the controls, and he thought I had ’em.” (This from a delirious patient in the hospital!) “Wait until we get to the Pan handle! Then we’ll have some real flying weather.” Student on night flight: “Can you tell me whether that is haze, Tonight is the corps’ night to dance to the music of Duke El lington and his reputation has long preceeded him. The Duke has been in the business for a long time and experts agree that he has done a great deal for the advancement of music itself, besides put out agree able dance music. He composed “Caravan” and “Mood Indigo.” He has made a greater reputation for himself on the campus prior to his corps dance than any other band because he has had the opportunity to play for many members of the corps at his Town Hall appearance last night. Someone in nearly ev ery organization has heard him in person, and his radia music is, of course, long familiar. Age turns most pictures stale, but great age on a good picture just allows it to mellow a little. That is about the condition of “IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT,” com ing to the Campus for the midnight show Saturday and Sunday. Ev eryone remembers the fame and honors it carried off several years back and the surprise it caused. It was produced on a small budget with no great hope of being any thing but a pleasant 90 minutes, and then it raked in all the honors for the year. The show stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Claudette is try ing to escape from her millionaire family by taking a cross country bus trip, and Clark barges in and recognizes her. Circumstances force them to stay together al though the agreement is mutually dust or ground I see?” “That is all I have to say, cap tain.” • • G unsatisfactory, but as usual, it grows to love before the trip is over. The show is light comedy of the first grade. The show is so old that camera technique and direction have improved some since, but it is not at all so noticeable as to spoil the film. The show is plenty good. A re-make of another old show will be at the Assembly Hall Mon day and Tuesday, “THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN.” The original of this was made before our time, however, so that doesn’t interfere. The moral situation has been tun ed up so to get by the Hayes of fice. Max-y Dugan is played by Lo- raine Day, the woman with a past who tries to go straight and lead a normal life. She does get inno cently involved in a murder and it takes her lawyer boyfriend Robert Young to get her out of it. He is fighting for love so he does a good job of it. The show is not the de tective melodrama that you might expect from the title. It is just an oi-dinary, solid movie although it drags in some places. In Passing The annual A. & M. flower show may not hold much interest for the average Aggie, but one ex hibit in pai'ticular in the so-called men’s division—exhibited by a math professor—was tops. It consisted of four small roses flanked by a hip-pocket shaped bottle Here’s a quote from a recent ag ronomy department release: “On hand: Four gilds—dancers—to go for the asking. No. 1, 5-feet 5 in ches—quiet, dignified and brun ette; No. 2, same height, peppy and blonde; No.3, same height, wild x'ed-head; No. 4, same height and plain vanilla blonde.” Which means that all of the Cotton Pageant mod els haven’t got dates. If interested —and who isn’t?—see Mrs. Es telle Johnson in the agronomy de partment office. WHATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday 12:45, 6:45 & 8:30 —“HONEYMOON FOR THREE,” featuring George Brent, Ann Sheridan, Charles Ruggles, Jane Wyman and Bill Orr. Monday, Tufesday 3:30 & 6:45 — “THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN,” featuring Lorain Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescoxd and Marsha Hunt. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday—“SIX LESSONS FROM MADAM LA ZON- GA,” with Lupe Valez, Leon Errol, Helen Parrish and Ed die Quillan. Saturday midnight, unday —“IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT,” starring Clark Ga ble, Claudette Colbert, Wal ter Connally and Roscoe .Karns. Monday, Tuesday—“SUB MARINE D-l,” with Pat O’Brien, George Brent, Way ne Morris, Frank McHugh and Dox-is Weston. Also “AR GENTINE NIGHTS,” with The Ritz Brothers; the An drews Sisters, Constance Moore, Geoi'ge Reeves and Peggy Moran. LOUPOT’S TRADING POST is offering a brand new bi-swing blouse along with Slacks and Sam Brown PRICED TO SELL If you have any part of a uniform to sell, let us sell them for you at a small commission. LOUPOrS TRADING POST Class ’32 North Gate Assembly Hall —Today— Matinee 12:45 — Evening 6:45 and 8:30 Honeymoon for Three with MOTHER'S DAY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER . . . Why not give Her something she will really appreciate a picture of yourself. MOTHERS DAY SPECIAL Your Choice of Our Regular $2.50 8 x 10 for $1.50 Complete with Glass Frame for $2.00 AGGIELAND STUDIO North Gate Ann Sheridan and George Brent Monday and Tuesday 3:30 and 6:45 P. M. -Mm BAYARD VEILLER With ROBT. YOUNG . LARAINE DAY Directed by HORMAN l. McLEOD m i > 4 V -f ¥ * A k > % T ' p '. i V v 1 f ■ f / > * 4 V 1 I F Rair Aggie- from ; It w Steers ishing depend Afte dolph Texas The A Todx be ou Acres 5 S.M.U. 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