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The Battalion Something to Read
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 Colie
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates upon
request.
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Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
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1940 Member 1941
Pbsocioted Golleftide Press
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Associate Editor
Advertising Manager
. Editorial Assistant
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Sports Department
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Circulation Department
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Photography Department
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THURSDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
Hoorga Fuermann Acting Managing Editor
Boorgc Woodman Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Com Gill is D. C. Thurman V. A. Yentzen
Reportorial Staff
Inmar Haines, John May, Z. A. McReynoIds, J. D. Mehe-
pan, L. B. Tennison, Mike Speer, James F. Wright.
Our ? 41 Longhorn
THE 1941 LONGHORN IS READY FOR DISTRI
BUTION.
After participating in Aggie events all year,
it is only natural that cadets anticipate with
pleasure the recording of such events in our school’s
annual. For here is found the only tangible evidence
of our school year’s work. We all have our memories
and now-vivid recollections, but years will dim those
memories until they fade beyond recognition. And
now familiar faces will loose their features like' a
microscope out of focus. But in our 1941 Longhorn
where the story is written and pictured in detail,
our reminisces can be corrected and entirely forgotten
faces brightened by looking backward.
The theme of the Longhorn this year is one
which is most pertinent in view of the foreign sit
uation and the status of the college. It is National
Defense. National defense has been the building in
fluence of A. & M. since its foundation. And its
training in military science and the instruct
ion of its students in what are now branded defense
industries has helped our nation in times of peace
and war. The dedication of our yearbook to this
purpose calls it more vividly to mind at a time when
the subject has assumed the greatest importance
to all our people.
The excellence of this year’s Longhorn speaks
well for the efforts of Editor Morton Robinson and
Managing Editor Loyfelle Kilpatrick. Since the
publication is issued only once yearly, many cadets
do not realize the hours of effort which have been
spent in planning, designing, and compiling the
book. To cover the events of the full year and at
this institution is a man’s size job, and the Long
horn staff completed it after surmounting obstacles
which took away two previous editors. The beauty
and completeness of the book speak for them in
demonstrating the efficiency and excellence of their
efforts. To the staff are due hearty congratulations.
But as beautiful and useful as the Longhorn
of ’41 is now, it is not in its position of greatest
usefulness nor greatest meaning. At the present
time our recollections of this year are clear and
strong, our classmates names and faces clear. But
time will soon begin to erase those memories until
they are restored by a glance through the ’41 Long
horn. It will become more valuable through the
years, and the efforts of the staff will become
still more appreciated.
Eastenvood Airport
A. & M. IS GETTING AN AIRPORT TODAY, in a
manner of speaking. It has been in existence and
efficient service for two years, but it is today
being dedicated to a former Aggie who proved his
usefulness to his country. Jesse L. Easterwood, the
Aggie being honored by having his name placed on
the airfield, was one of this institution’s most out
standing men who served during the World War.
During his military air service, Easterwood saw
service in three foreign countries and participated in
numerous successful air raids against the enemy.
He received a citation for bravery, and was killed
in an airplane accident in the Panama Canal Zone
in May, 1919. His name is emblazoned on the granite
War Memorial at the western entrance to the cam
pus, and one of the gold stars in the huge flag
in the rotunda of the Academic Building commemo
rates the service which he gave.
It is entirely proper that our A. & M. airport
be dedicated to such a man. He brought credit to
himself, his institution, and his country through his
actions. And an airport named for him will be of
service to other Aggies and perhaps to future air
men of the United States if the occasion again rises.
With the proposed enlargement of the airport’s
facilities, this service will be proportionately increas
ed. The airport is now being used not only by Aggies
in their Civilian Pilot Training courses but as a
stopping point for cross country flights of military
planes. The selection of A. & M. as the place for an
airport was a strategic choice. With the wealth
of young manpower enrolled in school here, the
situation is ideal. Further the men here are trained
as engineers and have all the facilities available for
technical training in related fields.
The dedication of the airport today makes an
other step in the progress of this school toward
keeping in tune with modern education. If Jesse
Easterwood could look back to see the number of
Aggie pilots who will receive their training here and
perhaps brings credit to the military air service as
he did, he would be proud that the field should bear
his name.
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
Social Consciousness Hits Broadway
No longer can the serious dramatist, aware of
current major issues in life, utilize his art as an
escape into some sphere of abstract romanticism.
He cannot run away from reality and its problems
to seek comfort in optimistic daydreams.
This is part of a ringing introduction to a new
book of “The Best Short Plays of the Social Thea
tre.” It is in harmony with what people are saying
about the novel and the short story: That nowadays
nothing in literature is worthy the attention of an
adult mind which fails to show that its author is
aware of the pressing importance of questions of
social and economic organization.
The collection contains a good deal that is worth
reading. Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty was the
first “radical” play to win much attention. Bury the
Dream, by Irwin Shaw, is an anti-war play which
has disturbed many a college campus. Paul Green,
author of Hymn to the Rising Sun, is undoubtedly
the best Southern dramatist. The Dog Beneath the
Skin, by the Englishmen, Auden and Isherwood, con
tains an extraordinary scene in a lunatic asylum.
Most of the plays are definitely radical. I sup
pose that is only natural, since the first thing we
do when we become strongly conscious of anything
is to criticize it. The plays are all sincere and earn
est, not to say violent. Their authors are desperately
anxious not to turn aside from any bit of truth
about human nature, no matter how unpalatable it
may be. (In fact, there are occasional faint indi
cations that the more unpalatable a bit of fact hap
pens to be, the more indubitably true it seems to
these authors.)
And yet, this reviewer must confess that to
him there is an air of unreality about the people in
most plays of “social consciousness.” I think that
fiddling while Rome burns is a contemptible thing
to do. I think, too, that in the long run, what these
socially conscious writers are doing for the drama
will turn out to have been good for it. But it seems
to me that they are forerunners of good drama
rather than producers of it. Their heads are all so
full of theories about human nature and the social
forces which influence it that they don’t seem to be
able to “realize” individual people vividly.
On the other hand, however, I must admit that
after reading red-hot, earnest stuff life this, I find
the mere story-teller rather trivial. Perhaps the
finest literature just doesn’t appear in times of
crisis like our own. Maybe all literature, like poetry
in Wordsworth’s definition, should be “the spontan-
tranquillity.” Meanwhile, these social consciousness
ecus overflow of powerful emotion recollected in
fellows are honest, intelligent, and useful. On the
whole, they are the best we’ve got in the 1940’s.
As the World Turns..
BY “COUNT” Y. K. SUGAREFF
Nazi threat to Latin America is a challenge to
the United States. The French-German collaboration
has focused the interest of our experts on several
strategic points which might prove dangerous to us.
The extent of this collaboration has not been an
nounced. If it is limited to Syria and the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, it might be of
small consequence. But our experts
figure that the French-German Col
laboration will ultimately include
Dakar, the southwestern port in Af
rica. Dakar, as a Nazi naval and air
base, constitutes a real danger for
the democracies. Nazi sea raiders,
submarines, and planes can operate
and prey effectively on English and
American shipping. Should the Nazi
control Dakar, the Atlantic shipping
lanes, from Greenland to Natal, Bra
zil, would be within range of Nazi
sea raiding crafts. From Dakar to Natal, Brazil is
only 1,860 miles. The Germans can easily establish
contact with that port and support revolutionary
movements in the South American countries with
out great losses to themselves. A German controlled
Brazil, Columbia, Chile, and Argentina is not an
impossible accomplishment. Our naval and military
experts anticipated such German inroads in South
America when they suggested that we occupy
Azores, Canary and Cape Verde Islands. While we
, are in the talking stage of occupying these islands,
the Germans might make it a reality.
The Germans then would be in a position to
strike either from Dakar or Cape Verde Islands at
Latin America. A hemisphere defense thus becomes
a vital problem for us. We are confronted with sev
eral disadvantages in the defense of Latin America:
These countries ai’e not prepared to make war. The
United States must aid them to maintain their in
dependence and keep Nazism from controlling Latin
America. Distance is another handicap for us. There
are large blocks of Germans, Italians, Spaniards
and Japanese in the Latin American countries. Many
of these colonies have been organized into Bunds or
other types of group action for such purposes as
they were used in the European countries which the
Germans have occupied; and there is the possibility
of Nazi controlled governments in - Latin America.
The United States is, though, preparing to meet
such an emergency in several ways: Goodwill plans
are now* aggressively carried out. We are negotiating
for air and naval bases in the South American coun-
thies and their governments have expressed willing
ness to cooperate with us. German controlled air
lines are being liquidated and replaced by American
lines. Many of the ^atin American countries are co
operating on joint defense plans; and as long as
Britain holds out, there is slight chance for an in
vasion of this hemisphere.
I he Saturday Evening Post changes its policy
of isolation. Mr. Walter D. Fuller, the president of
the National Association of Manufacturers, and of
the Curtis Publishing company said on the 16th of
this month—“I have been consistantly an isolation
ist. So has the Saturday Evening Post. Although
that policy will change next week. But we are in
war now. We are like a man who has just jumped
off a springboard and has not yet touched the water.
He isn t wet, but he hasn’t a chance of getting back
on the springboard again.”
Busareff
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"Backwash: An agitation resulting: from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Here Are the Highlights . . . With
the 1940 All-Staters, Ed Dusek and
Harold Attaway of Temple, sig
nifying their intentions of enter
ing A. & M. next fall, Coach Homer
Norton appears to be gaining the
jump on the rest of the conference.
No small bit of credit is due to
P. L. Downs, Jr. of Bryan for the
part he played in persuading the
boys to come to Aggieland . . . The
Aggies’ Queen Cotton, Connie Lind-
ley of TSCW, was honored again
last week by her own classmates
when she was selected to preside
at the “Cavalcade of Cotton,” the
Denton school’s own style show . . .
“Riding tanks is a bit different
from teaching school,” accoi’ding
to a recent letter from Lieutenant
R. L. “Satch” Elkins received here
by E. E. Me Quillen. Lieutenant
Elkins, formerly an instructor in
the department of economics, is
now stationed in the armored divis
ion of the Cavalry at Fort Knox,
Kentucky . . . J. R. Badgett, Ag
gie graduate of ’36, will leave July
24 for the Fort Sam Houston hos
pital and from there will report to
Fort Deldoir, Virginia, to attend
the Instructors’ Training school.
An instructor in the local Consoli
dated High School, Badgett will be
commissioned as a first lieutenant.
His brother, W. H. Badgett, ’29, is
now stationed as a captain in the
Infantry Instructors’ office at
Houston.
• • •
True American
“Sure I like Texas,” stated Dar
rel L. Brady.
And it’s a good thing, for he will
probably be back here at San An
tonio within a month to serve in
Uncle Sam’s air corps.
Brady said that he would like to
have attended Texas A. & M. for
at least one year. Why? Because in
the few hours that he was on the
campus he had recognized a sort
of hospitality and vigorous activity
that represented everything in
which he believed . . . Americanism.
And after answering several
questions relative to the present
world crisis, he was off to Galves
ton with an attractive belle from
the port city and thence to New
York to enter the service . . . and
he is a volunteer. The Rotary or
ganization suggested that Brady
be exempt from armed service so
that he might continue his lecture
tour, but he chose to serve with
the rest of the men.
Hats off to you, Darrel Brady,
you will always be welcome at Ag
gieland.
• • •
Looking Back
Way back to year of 1907-09 . . .
when John Warden was cadet cap
tain and George F. Moore was ca
det first lieutenant of Company
B, Infantry at A. & M.
Today both men are Brigadier
Generals.
Then there was another senior in
that company, A. B. Whittet, who
is now the Chief Ordinance Design
er of the army
However, today we honor a junior
of that organization, Jesse Easter
wood, who was the second United
States naval aviator to volunteer
for service in the first world war.
Easterwood was killed in action.
To his memory will will go a
corps review and the airport ded
ication this afternoon.
Early Bird
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Thursday 3:30 & 6:45—
“LITTLE MEN,” starring
Kay Francis, Jack Oakie,
George Bancroft, and “Elsie”
the Cow.
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “SO YOU
WON’T TALY?” featuring
Rosalind Russell, Melvyn
Douglas, Binnie Barnes, Al-
lyn Joslyn, and Gloria Dick
son.
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By Tom Vannoy
Joe E. Brown is in another one
of those hilariously funny things
known as motion pictures. This one
is titled “SO YOU WON’T TALK?”
and is being shown at the Campus
for the last time today. The mere
mention of Joe E. Brown in con
nection with a picture is enough
to insure its laughability, but not
its dramatic achievements.
“LITTLE MEN” is showing for
the last time today at the Assembly
Hall. Starring Kay Francis and
Jack Ooakie, it is an adapted ver
sion of Louisa May Alcott’s famed
novel. There is not much of the
original Alcott idea left after the
script writers have done their job.
They must have been trying to do
it like Glenn Miller has done the
“Anvil Chorus.” But they did not
have as good luck.
Judging from the popularity of
the novel, it should be one of the
best pictures of the month, but it
is only mediocre.
Kay Francis is “Aunt Jo” who
runs the boarding school to which
Jimmy Lyndon, the adopted son of
George Bancroft, is sent after liv
ing a rather carefree life wander
ing from town to town. Jack Oak
ie is the recipient of the most of
the laughs in the film. He is cast
as a crook with reward on his head.
There is no benefit show at the
Assembly Hall for Friday. An er
ror occured in the bookings, and
the one originally scheduled had to
be cancelled.
Rosalind Russell and Melvyn
Douglas com6 forth in “THIS
THING CALLED LOVE” as the
Campus Friday and Saturday. Bin
nie Barnes, Melvyn’s secretary,
makes up the eternal triangle. For
something to pass away a couple
of otherwise good hours, this mak
es an excellent excuse. It’s funny.
It’s ecstatic. It’s sexy.
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—Also—
“WACKEY WILD LIFE’
3 STOOGES
MICKEY MOUSE
and COMMUNITY SING
The early bird got the Longhorn.
. . . mean that senior Jack M. Simp
son of Fort Worth was the first
Aggie to receive the 1941 Texas
A. & M. annual.
And waiting in line for that book
was worth the trouble. Generallly
recognized as the finest Longhorn
yet, many were impressed by the
color plates preceding each divis
ion, depicting the various phases of
A. & M. military life.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
“THIS THING
CALLED LOVE”
Rosalind Russell
Melvyn Douglas
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