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1 **** 1- THE BATTALION -TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1941 The Battalion Man > Your Manners 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 request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-4444. 1940 Member 1941 Associated Collegiate Press Bob Wiebet George Fuennann Keith Hubbard Ton* Yannoy Pate Ta col in son J. B. Pierce, Phil Levine Sports Department Sports Editor .... Assistant Sports Editor Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Advertising Manager ... Editorial Assistant Staff Artist Proof Readers Hub Johnson Bob Myers __ Hike Haikin, Jack Holliman W. P. Oxford Junior Sports Editor Circulation Department Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager V. G. Hangar, E. D. Wflmeth Assistant Circulation Manager T. D. Asbury, E. S. Henard Circulation Assistants Photography Department Phfl Golman Photographic Editor James Carpenter, Bob Crane, Jack Jones, Jac& 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. Four Year Degrees THE RECOMMENDATION of the executive com mittee to the academic council that fourth year stu dents in five year courses be awarded special bache lor of science degrees is a deserved and practical step. Such a move may keep many students from having to leave the institution after four years of work without any degree. The reasons behind the move are that the for eign situation will prevent those students from fin ishing their normal course, but they have already completed work sufficient for a bachelor’s degree. Because of the present national emergency, they have been called to active army duty and will be unable to complete the regular work called for in their curricula. The fault is not theirs, for they have done all the work the average bachelor of science has done. The college is following a wise, just, and far-sighted policy in making special pro visions for these students. Changed College Calendar A CHANGE IN THE COLLEGE CALENDAR has already been announced for next year that will make the 1941-1942 session a more agreeable one from the standpoint of time. Next year’s long session will begin September 10, one week earlier than it has begun in the past two years. This advances the year’s work so that the college’s schedule will coincide with those of most other schools. Aggies will not be remaining at home for a week after friends in other schools have gone, and will be out of school a week earlier, on May 30. This will give military juniors an earlier start toward camp and will also make our summer school sessions coincide with those of every other school. Heretofore it was almost impossible to at tend one summer session here if the student attend ed the other at another place. There was a week overlap of time. But next year college will begin a week earlier and end a week earlier, for the better ment of all concerned. Attending Summer School MORE AND MORE STUDENTS each year are com ing to summer school here at A. & M. to take ad vantage of the opportunities for taking extra work. Almost the entire facilities of the college are open during the time and the teaching staff is composed of the regular college professors. Although summer school was formerly regarded as extra education work only for students who had failed to make up the work, it is now regarded as a valuable part of the school year for any student who wishes to get advanced hours or lighten his reg ular load in the long session. Some courses are taught during the summer session which are un available during the long terms and other courses are presented under more advantageous conditions. This year there are six distinguished professors and instructors who are being brought here only during the summer sessions, to teach special courses in agricultural fields. The way the summer school is organized allows a student to take 6 semester hours of working dur ing each of the two 6-week sessions of the term. And 12 hours of work (during both sessions) is an excellent addition to anyone’s course, either helping him catch up with his schedule or putting him far ther ahead so it won’t be necessary to take as much during the regular session. Summer school is also a pleasant relaxation from the regular run of the long session. There are no uniform regulations, and coeds are allowed to attend. Classes are much smaller than usual and an informal atmosphere prevails that doesn’^ make the heat seem bad. The economy of the summer session is another point in its favor. Courses taken during these ses sions cost the student about $5 per hour taken, while during the long term the student’s expenses usually average about $10 per hour for an average 18 hour course. The increasing popularity of the summer ses sions has shown that greater numbers of students each year have been taking advantage of the op portunities. Last year over 2,000 were enrolled and this summer the number will be still greater. Major F. E. Bunaway, army officer in charge of the LoHiisiana State university co-ed rifle team, states women are as good marksmen as men when given the same training. Quotable Quotes BY I. SHERWOOD Social Customs are pretty much the same where- ever we go, but it is well to inquire about local customs when moving into a new community; great care should be exercised in selecting an authorita tive source for this information. Letters of Introduction: Letters of introduction may be used when going into a new community, but they are in effect, a demand upon the person to whom addressed, to extend hospitality and social courtesies to the person by whom presented; they place a definite responsibility upon the recipient and therefore such letters should be given discre tion; they should never be given to any but close friends, and they should be addressed only to close or intimate friends. Correct Deportment: A gentleman, no matter where he may be, always adheres to the view that women deserve especial attention and consideration. The society of ladies and gentlemen is predicated upon individual dignity and mutual respect and nothing stamps the presence or absence of good breeding in a man as his behavior toward women. Assisting Strangers: It is proper for a man to offer assistance to a woman when it is needed, even though she is unknown to him. He should not take advantage of her acceptance. For example, having assisted her across the street, he should lift his hat and leave at once. Punctuality: Women should never be kept wait ing, especially when the meeting place is public. (Women should be equally as considerate of men.) K WOMAN COLLEGE GRAD IN THE U-5. IS MRS. RUFUS U. BERQLEHAUS, 96 v WHO GRAD UATED FROM IOWA WESLEYAN IN 1865/ ^ WE’RE PASSING THE HAT N BOYS/ MHE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO ONCE RAISED AN ENDOWMENT FUND OF FIVE MILUON DOLLARS IN OUST TEN DAYS/ Coac STEWART A. FERGUSON OF ARKANSAS A.& M. HAS A STIP ULATION IN HIS AGREEMENT THAT STATES HE DOESNT HAVE TO WIN A SINGLE GAME IN THREE YEARS/ “AT COLLEGE, if you have lived right, you have found enough learning to make you humble, enough friendship to make your hearts large and warm, enough culture to teach you the refinement of sim plicity, enough wisdom to keep you sweet in pov erty and temperate in wealth. Here you have learn ed to see great and small in their true relation, to look at both sides of a question, to respect the point of view of every honest man or woman, and to recognize the point of view that differs most widely from your own. Here you have found the democracy that excludes neither rich nor poor, and the quick sympathy that listens to all, and helps by the very listening. Here too, it may be at the end of a long struggle you have seen if only in transient glimpses — that after doubt comes rev erence, after anxiety peace, after faintness cour age, and that out of weakness we are made strong. Suffer these glimpses to become an abiding vision and you have the supreme joy of life.” LeBaron Russel Briggs, long-time professor at Harvard. BACKWASH mike Speer ‘Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster “THE IDEALS OF DEMOCRACY, of self-govern ment, of fair play, of personal liberty can be pre served only if we organize ourselves to give prac tical expression to the fundamental human urge to work and create. We educators can do remarkable things with the educational machinery we have built up if we can set before the community the ideal of creation and release it from the stultifying fear of surpluses. If democratic leadership cannot say to youth under peacetime conditions as well as in wartime crises: “You are needed; prepare well; the way to the top is open,” -democracy cannot in my judgment survive the challenge of modern dicta torship. Genuine loyalty to the democratic ideal cannot ultimately be induced merely by indictrinat- ing you with academic arguments in favor of the free society.” John W. Studebaker, United States commissioner of education. —AGP As the World Turns.. BY R. W. STEEN President Roosevelt is to address the American people tonight. There is no way of knowing in ad vance what he will say, but it can be presumed that he will report on the progress of the defense pro gram and give some information as to the inten tions of the United States. To say the least his ad dress is being eagerly awaited by the American people, and just as eagerly awaited in London, Berlin, Vichy, and other capitals. It is evident that the United States is steadily increasing the aid to Britain. It may be that Mr. Roosevelt will make a statement as to the next steps in this program of aid, but it is more likely that he will make general statements and then act as conditions dictate. A number of Americans, including some mem bers of Congress, are urging that the United States immediately oc cupy the French islands in the Caribbean area and occupy Da kar in Africa. Support for such a move is increasing as Vichey becomes more closely tied to Ber lin. The French have obviously gone far beyond the requirements made of them in the armistice, and there is little doubt but that they will go farther still. That the French are in a difficult position, all will admit. Few will concede that they are living up to the traditions of France. The destruction of The Hood is a great blow to the British and gives the Germans an opportunity to boast about the prowess of the German navy. They are probably too optimistic, however, in seeing German control of the seas as a result of the vic tory. Germany has two battleships, Britain has fifteen. Moreover the victory, while a great one, can hardly be classed as epic. The Hood was lightly armored and classed as a battle cruiser. She sacri ficed armor for speed, and lost. According to the British admiralty the battle is still under way, and losses may be increased before the German squad ron returns to its base. There can be no doubt that the British will do all in their power to avenge the Hood. The German admiralty has taken the victory over the Hood as an opporuntity to warn the United States that it would be most unwise to permit any of its ships to come within range of German guns. It is a nice warning, but has been issued before. Besides the United States has no ships comparable to the Hood. The warning will have little effect, but may cause some revisions of the president’s speech. Here and There A deluge of welcomes were un suspectingly sprayed on Jug New ton, John Scoggins and Melville Phillips from the third story win dow of dorms 5 last Saturday night when they returned from the Ag- gie-Baylor baseball game played in Waco. The “witchy” san-tone suit worn by Phillips fairly wilted under the storm. Diplomatic is- only a fitting description of the A. & M. Fish who was sent to J Co Inf.,. Room 300, to borrow a book from a fictitious individual and then returned with it—a nice .guy to have around . . . The inevi table end of school is evidenced by the numerous drowning outs that seem to be an annual fad here at A. & M. Results may be seen hanging out of many of the dormi tory windows ... In a recent mathematics contest sponsored by the Math Department, J. J. Keith and J. A. Baird, added a touch of prestige to their mutual outfit, B. Co. Signal Corps, by taking top honors in the Freshman and Sopho more classes. Could it have been a frame-up? Dead Stick “S-O-S. Student out of gaso line. Somewhere in the wilds of the Brazos bottoms. Come and get m*e.” Having received this message via telephone Friday afternoon, CAA instructors Smith, Parkman and Foults took off from Easterwood Airport in search of a somewhat bewildered but unharmed Paul Stach, senior in the advanced CAA pilot training course. Stach had flown some distance from the airport early Friday afternoon to get in some stunting practice. On his return trip home, the Myers Trainer in which he was flying, suddenly ran out of gas, sputtered and died. At the time he was flying over a broad open, level field on which a landing would have been fairly simple but not having sufficient altitude to turn and land into the wind he had to make an emergency dead stick landing in a small cotton patch that was the nearest thing handy. He was forced down on the W. H. Oliver Farm near the old, wash ed-out Pitts Bridge across the Brazos river on the Caldwell high way. He walked to the nearest farm house and called the airport for help. When help came, fol lowing difficult instructions only giving directions and approximate distance, Stach’s plane was refuel ed enabling him to take to the air once more and return safely home. Either Stach had been living right or he was born under luck iest sign known to man. Finale With the Aggie social season ringing down the curtain on June 5-6, Lou Breese, new comer to the national orchestra notables, prom ises a colorful finale when he plays here for the Junior Prom and Final Ball. Breese and his orches tra have skyrocketed to national fame in a remarkable short time; have played in many of the fam ous night spots the country over and was recently engaged to play on alternate nights for three weeks over NBC. He played an engagement at Frank Daley’s Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, which, inci dentally, features only top-notch bands. If records and statistics have any bearing on the matter Breese stands an excellent chance of be ing voted top band of the social season here at A. & M. By Tom Yannoy The cinematic offerings for this week are nothing to get excited about. Since circumstances are what they are, the local theaters have had trouble booking some good shows for the rest of the year. Showing at the Assembly Hall for the last times today is “PEN ALTY”, starring Edward Arnold and Lionel Barrymore. It has some good actors, but the story lacks something necessary to make it really a good show. Lionel is per haps the most noted member of the cast. He has been in the en tertainment business for the bet ter part of the twentieth century and is still regarded as one of the outstanding actors today. . Something on the lighter side at the Assembly Hall for Wednes day and Thursday is “BROAD WAY MELODY OF 1940”. Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell keep right on with their amazing dance numbers and musical productions. Remember “Second Chorus”? It is regarded as pure entertainment and there is nothing regarding drama or that sort of thing con nected with the picture. In addi tion, it will recall some of the tunes that were popular last year when the film was first released. Being primarily a musical show, the plot does not help toward mak ing it a success. For music, danc ing, and an eyeful of lovely cos tumes, then “Broadway Melody of 1940” is right here for you to see. Another one of the Campus’ dou ble feature days in on hand to day and tomorrow with “TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME” and “MEET THE CHUMP.” The.first one features Cesar Romero; the second, Hugh Herbert and Jeanne Kelly. Fun with a Chicago gunman with new twist to the old, old idea is about all there is to “Tall Dark and Handsome.” Cesar is a gangster who doesn’t have the heart to shoot anyone. Naturally, in order to be a motion picture, he has to fall in love with some girl. So he decides on Virginia Gilmore. Enough said? Hugh Herbert is enough to in sure laughs and some more laughs in “Meet the Chump.” Nuttier than a nickel bag of peanuts, it gets crazier as the show progres ses. Hugh swindles his nephew out of $5,000,000, and then has him self declared insane in order to avoid any explanations. That’s on ly the beginning. In fact it is so ridiculous even to be legitimately funny. The title, “Grand Duke of Yuca tan” was conferred on Dr. E. K. Turnreer, professor of Latin at Emory university, 36 years ago by descendant of Maximillian. To provide students a method of “democratic student control,” West minster college has set up a week ly “open forum” chapel period. Dial 4-1182 for QUICK DELIVERY BLACK’S PHARMACY East Gate White-and-Tan Wins the Summer Style Poll! Men’s Smart TWO-TONES 3.98 Styled by Towncraft*! Aristocratically designed for handsome summer dress! They’re straight tip ox fords in buffed white and antiqued tan, with leather soles and heels. *Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. TZwrsx? “Aggie Economy Center” Bryan, Texas Assembly Hall LAST DAY JUNIORS NOTICE . . . BOOT BREECHES made the Aggies’ Favorite Styles ANY STYLE PEB — ANY COLOR BUCKSKIN WANTED The finest breeches on the campus at no extra cost, with all latest improvements . . . ORDER NOW! ZUBIK and SONS UNIFORM SPECIALISTS 1896 — 45 Years of Tailoring — 1941 “THE PENALTY" Edward Arnold — Lionel Barrymore 3:30 — 6:45 News Shorts NOTICE OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED MAY 28 - 29 - 30 in order to take our annual inventory accurately. We regret this inconvenience to you, but by doing so we will be able to render better service. We will be open for business Saturday, May 31 PARKER-ASTIN HARDWARE COMPANY Phone 2-1541 — Bryan, Texas WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY “Broadway Melody 1940” with Fred Astaire — Eleanor Powell 3:30 and 6:45 Comedy • 1 # i * : #. U I V ♦ » ft «