-TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1941
Page 2-
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical 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, 1879.
Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon
reauest.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service,
Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-5444.
1940 Member 1941
Plssociofed Go!le6iate Press
Bob Nlsbet
George Fuermann
Keith Hubbard
Tom. Yannoy —
Pete Tomlinson
J. B. Pierce, Phil Levine
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Advertising Manager
.. Editorial Assistant
Staff Artist
Proof Readers
Sports Department
Hub Johnson Sports Editor
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Haikin, Jack Hollimon
W. F. Oxford Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Department
Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager
W. Gb Hanger, E. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Manager
F. D. Asbury, E. S. Henard Circulation Assistants
Photography Department
Phil Gtpiznan 7..... 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.
Press Responsibilities
THE STUDENT PUBLICATION STAFFS will
mark the close of another year’s efforts tonight at
the annual Press Club banquet, the fulfillment of
another year’s responsibilities to the corps of ca
dets. The responsibility of these publications is
direct and of the greatest importance.
The proper discharge of that responsibility is
the most important function of student publications
such as The Battalion. If they properly serve the
A. & M. college, The Battalion has more than ac
complished its purpose. If it has helped the college,
either internally by dealing with the students and
faculty, or externally by the impression left with
the general public, then The Battalion has justi
fied its existence.
Another important function of a college publi
cation is to give practical training to the students
who are interested and engaged in editing it. Such
students learn the practical part of one of our so
ciety’s most important functions, one mentioned
specifically in our constitution, the power of the
press, and the responsibility not to abuse it. Cadets
who work on these publications receive invaluable
experience in their work which may lead to a
I'esponsible position after graduation. Those who
do not look toward making a journalistic career
obtain the experience of learning to express their
ideas on paper. Because they have to find out in
getting material for the publication’s columns, the
students learn more about the college and the way
it operates than the average student has the op
portunity or the occasion to learn.
In so finding and reporting the events for
the remainder of the cadet corps the real responsi
bility of a publication rests. There is no other
source through which all the cadets can obtain the
same information at the same time, and it is there
fore the publication’s duty that the information so
disseminated be correct.
Besides the important reporting of the events
which occur, a publication owes another responsi
bility through its editorial columns to reflect and
guide student opinion. Reflecting opinions is im
portant so that outsiders may receive the correct
impression of the college. And it is also neces
sary that the editorial columns should seek to
:guide student opinion for the benefit of all. Ideas,
ideals, and improvements can be commended or
started through the editorials expressed in a stu
dent newspaper. Through an interested student
opinion, many improvements can be initiated for
the good of all, and the editorial function is the
oldest responsibility of any newspaper.
So the banquet tonight closes another year in
which the student publications have faithfully dis
charged their duties. With the separation of the
Scientific Review into the two magazines of the
Engineer and Agriculturist, progress was made.
And The Battalion newspaper received the rating
of Excellent by the Associated Collegiate Press,
hut the faithful completion of responsibilities to
this cadet corps is the most important meaning of
the Press Club meeting tonight.
As Colleges View Strikes
IT WOULD APPEAR TO THE unthinking reader,
declares the University of Wisconsin Cardinal,
“that labor has become the bogey man of the de
fense program, and that unless drastic measures are
taken to curb the apparent wantonness of strikes,
this country will meet the fate of France.”
However, the Cardinal continues, “in a time of
quick industrial recovery after long periods of de
pression, numerous strikes of one sort or another
are almost inevitable. According to Dr. Lloyd G.
Reynolds of Johns Hopkins university, strikes occur
in times like these because the price of consumer
goods rises out of proportion to wage increases,
because labor demands a larger share in the bigger
industrial profits, because of organizational drives
by the unions, because of AFL-CIO rivalry, and be
cause of pressure for increased production. In times
like these, there is immenent danger that the hard-
won social and economic gains of the last eight yeai-s
will be scrapped. On the other hand, there is also
danger that industrial haggling will so impede the
defense program that it will endanger the security
of the country. No labor dispute has arisen in the
last few months that hasn’t been settled by an
American technique evolved during the first painful
years of the New Deal, and there are no labor dis
putes likely to appear in the future which can’t be
resolved by the same technique: co-operation.”
The Tulane Hullabaloo likewise feels “it is only
just and fair that the spirit of mediation should pre
vail, that the defense worker should share equally
in the benefits of the huge money spending pro
gram, that the rights of labor should be preserved,
and that the worker should act wisely in not taking
advantage of his privileges in times like these.”
The Daily Iowan fears that the disinterested
reader of newspapers may gain a distorted impres
sion of the strike situation. Says the Iowan: “There
have always been strikes in this country, it seems.
There are strikes now in England. Preventative
action in the form of legislation at this time, nation
al crisis though it may be, would be to shear labor
of its only effective method of reaching the ears of
certain heedless and often shortsighted industrialists.
Very likely, of course, labor on its own side has
occasionally been too hasty in pressing its demands
whenever a sudden new opportunity offered. On its
own stand, however, labor is anxious to publicize
the fact that industry at the present moment is
reaping unprecedented rewards from the defense
boom.”
The Ohio State Lantern declares that “most of
defense labor’s strikes have been short-lived. The
speedy settlement of these strikes indicates that they
have been justified, and any legislation that con
gress shapes to govern strikes must be based on the
recognition that workers have the privilege of
striking if their legitimate grievances still remain
when the arbitration period ends. Otherwise, Amer
ican labor will be working under the same kind of
totalitarian regimentation that our government is
siding with Britain to destroy.”
—Associated Collegiate Press
Man, Your Manners
BY I. SHERWOOD
Acknowledging Courtesies
STUDENTS AT A. & M. have very little oppor
tunity to return social courtesies extended them by
faculty members, but the essential requirement of
them is a sense of appreciation so sincere and so
responsive as to make it impossible for them to
permit any generous act to go unrecognized; no
student should ever be guilty of accepting an invi
tation and then fail to appear, such behavior would
be considered very rude.
A gentleman should render appropriate ac
knowledgement of every courtesy extended him. As
to just what form the acknowledgment should take
depends on all related circumstances. As a general
rule social obligations accepted by students may be
satisfied by personal thanks, by calling, by writing
a letter of thanks, by sending a gift or by offering
in return a similar courtesy. Social Correspond
ence: Invitations are either formal or informal.
An informal one is usually in the form of a per
sonal note and should be answered in kind.
Invitations extended by telephone may be re-
guarded as informal. However, due to the ever in
creasing use of the telephone, invitations to dinner
and other strictly formal affairs are not infre
quently given in this formal way.
Social Calls: Social calls should not last longer than
twenty minutes and should never be made at meal
time. Call within a few days after you have been
entertained at dinner. Should you arrive during a
party or realize that the time is otherwise unsuit
able, leave in a few moments.
As the World Turns..
BY DR. R. W. STEEN
THE STRANGE ODESSY of Rudolph Hess has
claimed a large share of the headlines for the past
week, and well it might for it is not often that
the number three man of a country at war drops
in to become a prisoner of the enemy. Explana
tions galore have been offered, and there is as yet
no way of telling why he made the flight. A sur
vey of Nazi party history would
indicate, however, that he fled for
his life. It is possible that he had
some hope of making peace; it is
also possible that his flight is a
part of a gigantic Trojan Horse,
or Trojan Hess as the British say,
scheme, but the most likely ans
wer is that he and Hitler quarrel
ed and Hess fled in order to save
his life.
The three men most closely
associated with Hitler in the ear
ly days of the Nazi party were
Roehm, Strasser and Hess. Stras-
ser was liquidated long ago. Roehm was murdered in
the blood purge of [1034, andjnow Hess is a prisoner in
England. If Hess did quarrel with Hitler, then Eng
land is probably the only country in the world where
he could hopelfor safety. German secret agents would
have been more than apt to murder him in any of
the neutral countries, but it can be assumed that
these agents are not very active in England. Re
gardless of the reason for the flight the British
gained an excellent weapon in the propaganda war,
and from all indications they are making the most
of it.
News from Washington is that Mr. Roosevelt
is engaged in making some “momentous” decisions.
It is generally agreed also that the decisions, what
ever they are, will link this country more closely
to the war. American leaders have come to the
conclusion that Germany must be defeated, and it
is only natural that they take all steps within
their power to achieve that purpose. The new de
cisions will obviously involve greater American
aid to Britain, but the form of that aid has not
yet been announced. It may be aid in the form of
convoys, it may be aid in the occupation of French
possessions in various parts of the world, or it may
be aid involving the use of American forces more
directly against Germany.
To the average American our production of
war supplies has been most disappointing. It is
usual to think of America as the land of mass
production, and to overlook the fact that months
of preparation must be made before the assembly
line begins to move. It is evident, howeve^ that
much of the preparation has now been made, and
the assembly lines are moving in many war indus
tries. Production is, in fact, ahead of schedule, and
there is every reason to believe that American
production will be one of the decisive factors in
the outcome of the war.
Steen
THE BATTALION
BACKWASH
By
Charles Babcock
covering
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
From Here to There . . . and Back
Again . . . The trials, tribulations,
and traditions of the largest men’s
school in the world were discussed
in a lengthy travel note in the
Sabetha, Kansas Herald recently
by one of the paper’s editors who
was impressed by the friendliness
of two Aggie freshmen, W. W.
Porre of Port Arthur and C. J.
Smith of Dallas. The Kansas jour
nalist was traveling through the
state and stopped to give the uni
formed cadets a ride. According
to the article, the Aggies must
have been a couple of high-powered
salesmen, for the mid-western man
now knows of the greatest school
in the West . . . Developing into a
fine college ball player as a soph
omore shortstop for the Texas U.
nine, Grady Hatton stated after
the second Aggie triumph Satur
day, “Naw, the band didn’t worry
me, but those cadet batters sure
did.” . . . and roundtrip rides to
Austin were cheaper than a “dime
a dozen” Monday noon. When the
corps marched into the mess halls,
many were asking a dollar per,
but the fare soon dwindled to grat
is. .. . The fish issue of The Bat
talion Magazine promises to be
bigger and better next September,
with the entire staff jumping the
gun and starting to work this sum-
Popular
Correspondent
Circumstances often repeat them
selves. Even war. . . and Aggie
columns!
The Battalion of 1917-18 had a
Backwash-like column named “A
Squalom Of Cod by Knick.” Author,
ed by H. R. Knickerbocker, the
famous foreign correspondent of
World War II, as an index of
Aggie thought and action of that
period, the comparison with today
is interesting.
From the standpoint of menu
and money, World War II has not
become so realistic to Aggies as
yet .... but it was a different
story then, for Knick’s column of
October 24, 1917 concerned itself
with both of these.
“It is said that after the war
Sbisa intends to stock up and feed
the cadets on the remains of a
conquered Deutschland,” he said.
“Buy a Liberty Loan Bond and
keep meat on the tables and ribs
on the A. & M. Patriots.”
Knickerbocker only attended A.
& M. for one year .... and at
that he was a graduate student.
But he was an all-the-way Aggie.
.... Even after the army called
him and carried him to Europe.
Crain Assists In
Food Locker Meet
Robert F. Cain of the Horticul
ture Department attended the
opening of the Quitman Frozen
Food Locker at Quitman, Texas,
on May 14 to 17.
The plant was built in coopera
tion with the R.E.A. and has a
capacity of 250 frozen food lock
ers. The locker room is held at a
temperature of zero Fahrenheit.
The sharp freezer is held at 25
degrees F. while other rooms for
chilling meats and holding fresh
vegetables are held at 35 degrees
F.
While at the plant, Mr. Cain
assisted in starting the processing
of a pack of strawberries. Plans
are now under way at the plant
to process at least two carloads of
strawberries.
From disdain to favor .... how
times have changed.
To be specific .... If a cadet
had expressed a desire to join the
Aggie Glee club five years ago,
no less than one dozen rotten eggs
and a couple of crates of over
ripe tomatoes would have been
hurled at the distinct approximity
of his body and face.
No fooling .... A. & M. vocal
affairs were in a mess. So, in
stepped J. J. Woolket, professor
in the modern language depart
ment, as the leader of the group.
He changed the organization name
to “The Singing Cadets,” and under
his guidance, membership jumped
from 25 to 125. By harmonizing
more masculine songs, the singing
boys increased their popularity
with the former fruit-throwers one
thousand fold.
And they didn’t appear to be
slouches with the residents of Col
lege Park last Thursday night at
their farewell dinner on Woolket’s
lawn.
The boys began the evening by
producing some musical strains.
. . . and it wasn’t long before every
able-bodied College Park citizen
who had paid his telephone bill
was calling in and requesting just
a few more numbers.
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Industrious
Hard work is the secret.
Anyone that has enough of what
ever it takes to sit under Sol’s hec
tic rays on a Sunday afternoon and
reproduce the lines of a building
upon a sheet of paper while oth
ers are lolling comfortably in the
air-conditioned atmosphere of the
same structure, surely deserve
some small bit of recognition for
their efforts.
That’s exactly what J. B. Piei’ce,
an Engineer Junior from Denton,
and Doil Hammons, an Infantry
junior from Knox City, were do
ing . . . making water color
sketches of the Campus Theatre
for a certain junior Architecture
course.
By Tom Vannoy
Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Berg
man, and George Sanders have
done their part in turning out an
other Hollywood mystery thriller
in “RAGE IN HEAVEN,” show
ing at the Assembly Hall for the
last time today.
Montgomery is a wealthy English
steel-mill owner who marries In
grid, only to discover that his chief
engineer, George Sanders, would
like to do the same. Montgomery
turns out to be a psychopathic
case, and Hollywood has injected
just the right amount of that
something-or-another that makes
you sit on the edge of your seat
until it is all over. However, “Rage
in Heaven” is nothing to get ex
cited about. There’s been many
another one similar in past years.
“MR. AND MRS. SMITH” will
show at the Campus today. Imag
ines discovering after being mar
ried for a number of years that
your marriage was not legal. That’s
the situation that Mr. (Robert
Montgomery) and Mrs. (Carole
Lombard) Smith find themselves.
How they go about remedying the
siutation with the help of Gene
Raymond to make up the eternal
triangle that has been so terribly
overworked is just about all there
is to “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Nev
ertheless it is full of gobs and gobs
of laughs.
Contrary to the usual procedure
of the studio world of issuing a
picture after an actor’s death, “SO
YOU WON’T TALK?” with the
one and only Joe E. Brown will be
at the Campus Wednesday and
Thursday. It is a scream from the
beginning to the end, if Joe E.
Brown has anything to do with it,
and that is about all that can be
said. There is a plot of some sort,
but it does not interfere much.
Louisa May Alcott’s “LITTLE
MEN” is to be screened at the As
sembly Hall Wednesday and Thurs
day. There is a real surprise await
ing in “Little Men.” If you hap
pen to have read it once upon a
time, you probably remember
something about the story. Well,
Hollywood has gotten busy, and
the filmed version is nothing that
even approaches the novel. In
stead of the nineteenth century
touch, it has been modernized and
most of the story is comedy di
rected at Jack Oakie, a crowd who
is supposedly dead.
Kay Francis is cast as “Aunt
Jo” who runs the boarding school.
Jimmy Lydon is “Dan” who is left
at the hoarding school after travel
ing around the country. Kay works
on him until he decides that the
boarding school is not such a bad
place after all.
There are a few tragic spots
when Jimmy’s step-father is sent
enced to two years in the peni
tentiary for forging a check, but
on the whole, “Little Men” is not
as much as could be expected from
a book as famous as it is.
Highest rating ever scored by a
candidate for Ph.D. degree at the
University of California on writ
ten examinations was made by Dr.
Mose L. Harvey, assistant profes
sor of history at Emory univer
sity, in 1936.
The Winter Haven substation of
the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station has bred several new
strawberries, including Alamo and
Ranger, which are being grown
successfully under irrigation in
South Texas.
PALACE
WEDNES. - THURS.
FRI. - SAT.
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Assembly Hall
“Rage In Heaven’
Robert Montgomery . I ngrid Bergman
3:30 and 6:45
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PREYUE 11 P. M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Wallace Beery
—in—
“THE BAD MAN”
Shown Sun. - Mon.
The Latin-American collection of
the University of Texas library,
with more than 40,000 volumes
and almost 500,000 original manus
cript documents, is the most ex
tensive such collection in the
United States.
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(Jam/jf/i
15? to 5 p.m. — 20^ After
TODAY ONLY
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday 3:30 & 6:45—
“RAGE IN HEAVEN,” star
ring Robert Montgomery, In
grid Bergman, George Sand
ers, Lucile Watson, and Os
car Homolka.
Wednesday and Thursday
3:30 & 6:45 — “LITTLE
MEN,” with Kay Francis,
Jack Oakie, George Bancroft,
and “Elsie” the cow.
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday—“MR. AND MRS.
SMITH,” featuring Carole
Lombard, Robert Montgom
ery, Gene Raymond, and Jack
Carson.
Wednesday & Thursday—
“SO YOU WON’T TALK?”
with Joe E. Brown.
(It’s a Panic!
Alt ON THE SCREEN!
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UM CARSON . PHIUP MERIVALE • LUCILE WATSON
WE DNESDAY & THURS.
DOUBLE J0ES1
DOUBLE FUN!
—Also
WABBIT TWACKS
—in—
“WACKEY WILD LIFE”
3 STOOGES
MICKEY MOUSE
and COMMUNITY SING
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iouisa may alcott's novel
—with—
KAY FRANCIS
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George BANCROFT
JIMMY LYDON
ANN GILLIS
CHARLES ESMOND
RKO RADIO Picture
Directed by NORMAN Z. McLEOD. Produced by GENE TOWNE and
GRAHAM BAKER. Screen Play by Mark Kelly and Arthur Caesar.
Wednesday and Thursday
3:30 and 6:45
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