The Battalion Something to Read
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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weekly from June through August.
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1940 Member 1941
Associated Golle6iate Press
Bab Nisbet
Qaorge Fuermann
Keith Hubbard
▼annoy
Tomlin
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Advertising Manager
Editorial Assistant
Pete Tomlinson Staff Artist
J. B. Pierce, Phil Levine Proof Readers
Sports Department
Hub J(dmson Sports Editor
Bob Myers Assistant Sports Editor
Hike Haikin, Jack Hollimon
W. P. Oxford Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Department
Tommy Henderson Circulation Manager
W. O. Hauger, E. D. Wilmeth Assistant Circulation Manager
W. D. Anbury, E. S. Henard Circulation Assistants
Photography Department
PbS Golman Photographic Editor
James Carpenter, Bob Crane, Jack Jones,
Jack Siegal Assistant Photographers
THURSDAY’S EDITORIAL STAFF
IBeorge Fuermann Acting Managing Editor
fiaorge Woodman Assistant Advertising Manager
Junior Editors
Bom Gill is D. C. Thurman V. A. Yentzen
Reportorial Staff
Lamar Haines, John May, Z. A. McReynolds, J. D. Mehe-
goat, L. B. Tennison, Mike Speer, James F. Wright.
Student Leaders’ Views
THE OPINIONS OF STUDENT leaders over the
nation present some interesting information as to
beliefs and possible future trends of national
thought, for the students who are now receiving
leadership training in college will be guiding the
nation within a not too distant period. To obtain
the opinions of what may be called student lead
ers, questionnaires were sent to the 6292 students
from 610 colleges who were selected as Who’s Who
Among Students from their campus. Their com
piled opinions bring to light some interesting facts
and are good indications of possible future public
opinion.
As to the purposes for which these leaders
came to college, most made some reference to their
preparation for latter life or to learn to think
intelligently. The increased opportunities which are
open to college graduates and their increased pow
ers to live up to these opportunities seem to have
inspired many. One answer to the questionnaire
from a University of Texas student stated a two
fold purpose for attending college “to prepare for
later life and to enjoy it now.” But all the varied
answers had a serious note of moulding themselves
for the future, looking forward to the time when
they must play the game for keeps.
The musical opinions of the college leaders runs
fairly heavily toward the classical music of Bee
thoven and Wagner rather than to the modern
music. Forty per cent of the students indicated their
preference for the cultured music of the masters,
while 26 per cent favor modern. Among the various
designations of what might be called popular mu
sic, more said they enjoyed sweet swing than any
other type, with comparatively few favoring jit
terbug jive.
Our first third term president brought a 62
per cent approval from the students questioned,
but scorching criticism was voiced by those who op
posed him. The points in his favor considered his
tadt and judgment, sincerity and courage. However,
a Notre Dame student declared that “any presi
dent who brings us close to war is a failure in his
office.” The president’s wife received a general ap
proval of 72 per cent, and even those who criticize
admit that she is a woman of great ability. Her
successes were attributed by one to her possession
of “the common touch”, but others thought she
was capitalizing on her position as first lady.
The approval of the president is further echoed
by the group by his selection as the most popular
individual in the world today, by a vote of 80
per cent. A weak second of 11 per cent is given to
England’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull was third. Somewhat
startling are their opinions on outstanding persons
in past history. Our American Civil War president
Abe Lincoln took top place, being selected by 30
per cent of the student leaders. Second was Jesus
Christ with approximately 26 per cent, then George
Washington and Napoleon.
Today’s college leaders do not believe in subsi
dized football, but only by the slim majority of 52
per cent. Statements on the condition showed that
it was accepted by some as a necessary evil, or
some indorsed the practice when done indirectly as
through bona fide (jobs or reductions in board and
tuition charges. A student from Stetson University
in Florida stated that football participants lost
the spirit of friendly competition when they are paid
for their efforts.
Greater economic equality among nations was
considered by a majority of the college leaders as
a factor which would do more toward establishing
world peace than greater world religion. But even
with the emphasis on the need for economic sound
ness, the importance of religion is recognized. Some
students declared that the establishment of a great
er economic security would automatically lead to
an increase in the amount of religion. Another
student made the distinction of not needing more
» religion but more everyday application of the re
ligion we have.
True dramatic ability was recognized by the
college leaders for Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis
were selected by wide majorities as movie favorites.
Ronald Coleman and James Stewart were also se
lected as male favorites, with Helen Hayes, Myrna
Loy, and Jeanette MacDonald chosen as leading
ladies. Donald Duck was frankly preferred by a
University of Tampa boy, and not without reason.
Many of the opinions of these students will
probably change with advancing maturity and more
varied contacts with life, but many serious thoughts
are indicated. The general outlook of the students is
optimistic, which speaks well for the courage of
the younger generation. All that the young lead
ers ask is an opportunity and the chance to apply
what they have learned.
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
A Proposition to Underclassmen
BELOW ARE LISTED FIVE MODERN BOOKS
for you to read this summer. If you will read each
one carefully, making notes on it; if you will dis
cuss each book with at least five intelligent people—
then you are promised that you will be a definitely
different person next Fall from what you are now.
It is assumed, of course, that you do want to
change yourself. After all, isn’t education, as dis
tinguished from training, the process of changing a
man’s self for the better? (Training is teaching the
man to do something. Dogs and monkeys, also, may
be highly trained, I believe). You owe your educa
tion, of course, not merely or even principally to
classroom work, but to all the influences that act
upon you: your roommates, your girls, your family
life, etc. It is as such an influence that the reading,
thinking over, and discussion of these five books are
offered to you for this summer. Here they are. You
needn’t agree with them. Just understand them, give
them a chance, and discuss them:
1. Man and His Universe, by John Langdon-
Davies—A comparison of the universe as seen by
modern science with the world-pictures accepted,
respectively by savages, medieval men, and us.
2. Man Stands Alone, by Julian Huxley—Short
talks by a modern biologist on many subjects, biolog
ical and otherwise.
3. Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset-Maug-
ham—The finest novel dealing with the modern
young man’s search for a philosophy.
4. I Believe, edited by Clifton Fadiman—Twenty
famous moderns state briefly their general attitudes.
5. Technics and Civilization, by Lewis Mum-
ford—How ways of gettings things done have in
fluenced ways of living and thinking; with recom
mendations.
Quotable Quotes
“1 HAVE NEVER BEEN MUCH IN SYMPATHY
with those who would restrict higher education to a
small number of handpicked individuals. There are,
to be sure, colleges and universities which do so
restrict it. But the picture of higher education in
America as a whole is not that. We have made a
more serious attempt than any other nation has
ever made to carry forward to higher levels the
education of great numbers of our young people.
We have done it because on the whole we have be
lieved that was the democratic thing to do. We have
believed in it not only because it benefits the indi
vidual but because we have held it of great social
importance that a democracy of the type we are
trying to operate should be made up of people who
have some understanding of the kind of world in
which we live.” Harry Woodburn Chase.
As the World Turns.
Sugaraff
BY “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF
THE UNITED STATES is now on a War Basis.
President Roosevelt, speaking before the Pan-
American Union, night before last, declared an
“Unlimited National Emergency.” Our new status
in regard to the war clearly indicates that the war
is now a part of our national life. Events abroad
and at home convinced the President
that if we are to keep the war from
this hemisphere, there must be a
centralized effort to aid Britain.
Britain is being slowly driven out
from the eastern Mediterranean
zone, and the loss of ships together
Mi with their cargoes has been also
increasing. At home, nearly a year
has passed and we still have about
19-billion dollars of defense contracts
to be let. Plant expansion has been
too slow to cope with the greatly
increased production demands. The
big manufacturers have not been willing to “farm
out” orders so that production would meet the de
fense demands and provide jobs for many unem
ployed. And even the dollar-a-year men have been
criticized for delaying our defense program. More
over, there has been too much wrangling between
“capital and capital, labor and labor, and capital
and labor.” All these led the President to take the
necessary steps to bring an immediate aid to
Britain. The best way to do it is to put us on “Un
limited National Emergency.” The President now
is in a position to utilize his powers, short of decla
ration of war, to meet the emergency.
Mayor La Guardia gets a new honor. Last week
President Roosevelt appointed Mayor La Guardia
of New York “Director” of the Office of Civilian
Defense. This new office is an ambitious one. Mayor
La Guardia will be in charge of “coordinating Fed
eral, state, and local civilian programs. He will de
vise means to protect life and property and train
civilians for such duties as fire fighting, bomb pro
tection and guarding of key industries.” It is a task
of great importance to the nation. Besides being a
mayor of our largest city, La Guardia is now a
chairman of the United States conference of mayors
and co-chairman of the Canadian-American perma
nent defense board. All of these positions require
a good deal of the mayor’s time and energy. As the
head of the office of civilian defense he assumes
another great responsibility—a task which might
become too burdensome for Mr. La Guardia should
we finally enter the war actively. With the “un
limited National Emergency” now in force, it might
be necessary to appoint someone else who must
devote his full time to the job at hand.
Maj. Gen. James Henry Burns heads a newly
created agency—Division of defense aid reports.
General Burns will be in charge of keeping straight
“the record, reports and applications” in the Lend-
lease office of which Harry Hopkins is the director.
The expediting of business in aiding Britain and
other democracies has become so dilatory that the
new agency, headed by a military man, is to supply
the needed speed and efficiency. General Burns
is also to play an important part in deciding the
kind and amount of arms we should send to Britaia
THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941
By Tom Vannoy
Calculated to be something more
than a glorified “horse opera,”
“ARIZONA” at the Campus for
three days starting today is really
a whole lot of worthwhile motion
picture. Jean Arthur is the first
American woman to settle in Ari
zona. William Holden is cast in
the co-starring role.
Holden got his start several years
“Laddie” is nothing to get excited
about and worry about not being
able to see because of pressing fi
nal examinations. If there is noth
ing else especially important at
the moment, then “Laddie” will
help to pass away a couple of oth
erwise empty hours. It’s just an
other picture that is pure enter
tainment.
In case you haven’t read the
ago in the cinema world in the film book, it concerns the love affair of
“Golden Boy.” After a rather weak an Indiana farm boy and an Eng-
COAST & COAST
IN ELEVEN DAYS /
THE TRAVELING SCHEDULE FOR BRADLEY
Colleges braves recently called for
THEM TO PLAY BASKETBALL GAMES IN NEW YORK
AND LOS ANGELES WITHIN ELEVEN CAYS/
BACKWASH
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action
By
(ail Van Hook
or occurrence.”—Webster
The Way of Things
for. When John gets those pile-
driving legs of his working, they
are just about as destructive as any
caterpillar tractor or army tank.
Whatever John has to do, wheth
er it be the army or football, the
cadet corps and everyone else are
backing him all the way.
• • •
This concerns a rookie (name
unknown) at Camp Wolters near
Mineral Wells. The story goes
that he was just sauntering along
one day and passed an officer and,
by a breach of army etiquette, fail
ed to salute him. At this, the of
ficer stopped the rookie and said, TootllDicks
“Don’t you see this uniform?” and
the rookie replied, “Yeah, but just All those who have eaten in the
look at the one they gave me!” new mess hall have probably won-
Some members of the opposite dered how those toothpick bot-
sex from over “forty acre way” ties are filled and why a bottle of
have been sending personal bleeds such shape is used. J. G. Penis-
to their “only ones” here at A. ton, the commissary steward, said
& M. about the way some of the that the bottles are much more
Aggies conducted themselves at sanitary than the open containers
the ball game in Austin. Where like the ones used in Sbisa hall,
do they get the grounds on which but the small neck bottles are no
to bleed? After all, the Aggies more economical than the open
didn’t throw tomatoes at them . . . containers.
The nocturnal water blitzkreigs The filling
beginning, he has come up in pop
ularity and ability. For his per
formance in “Arizona,” he can take
his place among the very best of
the young actors. Incidentally, Jean
Arthur does not do such a bad
job for herself, either.
In order to make it a story of
Arizona, the producers just couldn’t
resist the temptation to put in a
bit of a cattle stampede to wind
things up in the proper way.
“BROADWAY MELODY OF
1940” is showing at the Assembly
Hall today. Co-starring Fred As
taire and Eleanor Powell, it is a
musical extravaganza with lots of
those popular song and dance num
bers that the team of Astaire and
Powell can do. There isn’t much
drama connected with the picture.
It is practically all music, more
music, and, oh yes, lavish costumes.
Gene Stratton-Porter’s novel,
“LADDIE,” in its third filmed ver
sion will be shown at the Assembly
Hall Friday.
Tim Holt and Virginia Gilmore
play the leading roles in the show.
College freshmen know less and
less about the “King’s English”
with each successive year, accord
ing to a diagnosis made by Theo
dore J. Gates, head of the depart
ment of English composition at
Pennsylvania State College.
lish girl, who has just come to this
country. Naturally, they finally ov
ercome all obstacles and get mar
ried before the film runs out.
(Janipm
15^ to 5 p.m. — 200 After
Today - Friday
Saturday
ADVENTURE!
IR0MIMCE!
SPECTACLE!
THRILLS!
in one great
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JEAN ARTHUR
WILLIAM HOLDEN
WARREN WILLIAM • PORTER HALL
And A Cost Of Thousands i 1
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THREE STOOGES
COAST ARTILLERY
AGGIETONE NEWS
are progressing very nicely and
everyone seems to be getting his
share of the free water. When a
raider starts on a party, class dis
tinction makes no difference to
him. In fact, some of the “fish” used to fill the bottles,
(the naughty things) have been picks are poured into
of the bottles has
been made very simple by a Mexi
can employee of Duncan hall.
Leonard Treveno proved his effi
ciency by making a small gadget
which looks like a funnel and is
The tooth-
the device
drowning out seniors and five-year and they pass through the open-
men. Some of the boys who have ing, one at a time, into the bottle,
been in the habit of sleeping be- It takes about one minute to fill
hind locked doors have been un- a bottle and each bottle holds ap-
able to do so lately because some proximately one box of toothpicks,
free-hearted person just wants to • • •
make sure.
• • •
Jarrin’ Jawn
Buckskin
Buckskin, Aggieland’s mascot No.
2, knows exactly what kind of
It seems that John Kimbrough breakfast cereal she wants every
is in the same rut as most of this morning. If you toss her a box
year’s graduates—it’s into the of the wrong kind of cereal, she
army. He went to New York a will immediately refuse it and wait
few weeks ago to put the finish- for the right brand. When she
ing touches on his pro-football con- receives the correct brand (good
tract and to straighten out other advertisement for some cereal
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Thursday 3:30 & 6:45—
“BROADWAY MELODY OF
1940,” featuring Fred As
taire, Eleanor Powell, George
Murphy, and Frank Morgan.
Friday 3:30 & 6:45—“LAD
DIE,” with Tim Holt, Vir
ginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll,
and Spring Byington.
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday, Friday & Sat
urday — “ARIZONA,” star
ring Jean Arthur, William
Holden, Warren William, and
Porter Hall.
PALACE
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
SATURDAY
BING CROSBY
BOB HOPE
DOROTHY LAM0UR
20/10 TO
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A ParomourtI : P»cture
incidentals, but no sooner had he
done this until the man wearing
the long- white beard and stripped
pants stepped in and nipped it in
the bud.
“Big Jawn” asked for a defer
ment, but it could not be granted
unless he was going to work at
something concerning national de-
some
company), she will take it between
her front paws and, with the aid
of her molars, tear the top off
the box and eat the cereal with
out sugar and ci’eam right out of
the box. And it has to be the prop
er kind of cereal before she will
eat it. Try it and see!
Incidentally, Buckskin is the
fense. From what we have seen property of the football team, and
of him on the gridiron, profootball she accompanies the team on all
for him could be just about as its trips, providing they are not
good a form of national defense too long, and keeps watch over
that the government could ask the flock by night.
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SATURDAY NIGHT
Loretta Young
—in—
“Lady From
Cheyenne ,,
with Robert Preston
Shown Sunday - Monday
Assembly Hall
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^ Hamilton, Elgin, Gruen, Longines
Watches
• Sheaffer Pen and Pencil Sets and
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FRIDAY
Ten Times the Heart-Thrill on the
SCREEN!
k)ne oOre six best-sellers ‘
of all time . . . now one.
of your ten best pictures.
GENE STRATTON-PORTER'S
LADDIE
with*
im HOLT • VIRGINIA
GILMORE - JOAN CARROLL
* - SPRING BYINGTON
Produced by CLIFF REID. Directed by JACK HIVELY Screen play
by Bert Granet and Jerry Cady.
also
SELECTED SHORTS
3:30 and 6:45
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