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Hitler Is a Louse:
Graduates Claim They’re
Ready for Whatever Comes
By George Fuermann
Memorial Day, 1941; a day set
aside to honor the nation’s World
War dead.
Friday was the date for the
current edition of the annual com-
emoration, and with President
Roosevelt’s week-old three-point
declaration and the present world
crisis as a background, the day
took on a significant meaning un
known in its previous history.
And on that day 121 Texas Ag
gies took part in an unprecedent
ed early graduation, receiving at
the same time commissions as sec
ond lieutenants in the U. S. Army.
Those men had been called for ac
tive duty June 4.
Friday 450 other cadets will
graduate and receive commis
sions at the regular schedul
ed commencement exercises,
the largest contingent of Ar
my officers to leave the col
lege in its 67-year history—
the same institution which
furnished the nation’s armed
forces with more officers than
any other American college or
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► university in the last world
war.
In less than 30 days these men
will be in active command of troops
throughout the nation, thus be
coming a vital link in the nation’s
national defense set-up. Within a
month these men will be an essen
tial part of America’s fast-expand
ing war machine.
What do they think and say
about their future? What is their
opinion concerning the situation as
it exists today and the possibility
of the nation’s early-entrance into
the war? What is their mental at
titude and their outlook on the
current world conflict?
In a word, they are all-the-
way anxious to dig-in and
start fighting, they don’t be
lieve the Axis powers have a
chance if the United States
enters the arena and they want
to get in and out of the thing
as soon as possible.
Throughout the vast A. & M.
campus Friday night the atmos
phere' was electric. In all of the
college’s 24 dormitories men were
packing, preparing to leave the
college early Saturday morning.
Over a bottle of beer, a cup of
coffee or anywhere you went that
night, the subject of conversation
was the same—what’s to come?
And the opinions of all of the
new “second louies” and the
“shave-tails-to-be” tonight were
well-grooved.
At one of the campus night
spots more than 60 of the men
were gathered in Aggie-traditional
“bull session.”
“You can’t tell me,” one of the
seniors declared with vigor, “that
a bunch of men who have lived
like we have for the past four
years—eating plenty of good food,
sleeping and playing as much as
we cared to and getting an educa
tion at the same time — can be
whipped by a louse like Hitler!”
“We’re ready for whatever is to
come,” another pointed out, “and
the sooner the better.”
The “sooner the better” at
titude was a general sentiment.
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We have enjoyed serving
you this year and we hope we
have helped you.
To the seniors, may happi
ness and success follow you the
rest of your life.
Next fall your old reliable
EXCHANGE STORE will be
ready to serve you again.
THE EXCHANGE STORE
“AN AGGIE INSTITUTION’'
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THE BATTALION
Edit Next Year’s Battalion...
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor Advertising Mgr.
Tom Gillis
Managing Editor
Don Gabriel
Managing Editor
Ralph Criswell
Sports Staff
D. C. Thurman
E. M. Rosenthal
W. F. Oxford
Gillis Recommends Staff Positions
For Next Year’s Newspaper, Magazine
Plans for The Summer Battalion Released;
Yentzen, Gillis Edit Respective Semesters
Don Gabriel Associate Editor
E. M. Rosenthal ' Managing Editor
D. C. Therman Managing Editor
W. F. Oxford, Mike Haikin, Jack Hollimon Sports Staff
Pete Tumlinson Magazine Editor
V. A. Yentzen Magazine Editorial Manager
Gene Wilmeth Circulation Manager
Sid Lord Art Editor
Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager
Alden McKellar, John Sleeper, Jack Lamberson....Advertising Assistants
Charlie Babcock, Tom Vannoy, Jack Decker, Carl Van Hook,
Mike Speer, L. B. Tennison Junior Editors
These recommendations were
made to E. L. Angell, manager of
Student Publications, for approval
by the Student Publications Board.
V. A. Yentzen will edit the sum
mer Battalion during the first se
mester, and Gillis will return from
military camp to edit the second
semester’s Battalions. The staff
for these summer publications are
now being formed, as are plans for
next year’s newspaper.
Some of the objectives of next
year’s staff will be a more com
plete organization, an enlarged
staff, more efficient circulation, a
more complete news coverage to
include all departments and phases
of student activity, and an editor
ial policy which will aggressively
seek worthwhile improvements for
the corps and the college.
An enlarged staff and one which
will be more intimately acquainted
with newspaper work has been
greatly facilitated by the two cours
es in journalism which were taught
at the college this year under W.
C. Stone. The continuation of these
courses and the addition of others
in the same field will give more
students the opportunity to learn
journalism and apply it in working
on the publications.
Steps have already been taken
to improve the efficiency of the
circulation. Only students who have
applied for student labor through
the Student Labor office will be
allowed to distribute The Battalion
in the dormitories. Since these dis
tributors will be under the student
labor department, greater prompt
ness and dependability will result.
A more complete news coverage
will be obtained by the cooperation
of the faculty of the various de
partments and the designation of
contact men among the students.
Through these channels news from
all sources will reach the columns
of the paper and provide up to date
complete coverage of campus and
College Station news.
The editorial policy of the paper
will be to both reflect and guide
student opinion. The welfare of the
cadet corps and the college will be
the primary consideration, and in
vestigations and editorials toward
a better in formed student body
will lead to campus improvements.
Effective Screwworm
Remedy Is Announced
An effective remedy for screw-
worm, the most destructive insect
pest to livestock known, is an
nounced.
Cameron Siddall, extension ento
mologist, says the remedy is rela
tively inexpensive and consists of
a correct compounding of the two
principal materials—diphenylamine
and benzol—at present advocated
by the Department of Agriculture
for the treatment and prevention
of screwworm cases.
When applied to infested wounds,
the compound is efficient in rapid
ly killing all screwworms in a
wound. At "the same time the rem
edy gives a good protection, or
better, to all wounds against sub
sequent attack as materials here
tofore recommended for this pur
pose, Siddall says.
Civil Service Wants
Landscape Architects
Landscape architects are needed
now in connection with national
defense housing and other Gov
ernment projects. The U. S. Civil
Service Commission has just an
nounced an examination to fill
these positions paying from $2,000
to $5,600 a year. Applications must
be filed with the Commission’s
Washington office not later than
June 26, 1941.
Preparation of landscape de
velopment programs, inspection of
areas with a view to acquisition
of land and selection of sites for
development are some of the du
ties of the positions. Landscape
architects will also prepare archi
tectural drawings and assist in the
preparation and development of
plans and reports for different
types of landscape architectural
projects.
Applicants for junior landscape
architect positions must have com
pleted either a 4-year college
course with major study in land
scape architecture, engineering or
design; or a 4-year college course
and in addition, the work leading
to an advanced degree in land
scape architecture, design, or en
gineering, or city planning. Un
der certain conditions, applications
will be accepted from senior or
graduate students. Applicants for
the other landscape architect po
sitions must have completed a 4-
year course with major study in
landscape architecture, engineer
ing, or design. They must also
have had professional experience
in landscape architecture. For all
We hope to see some of you again
this fall.
Good Luck this summer and in
the Years to come.
CONGRATULATIONS AND
AGGIE ECONOMY CENTER’
Bryan, Texas
■Thursday, june 5, 1941
Education in
Mosquito Control
Saves Many Lives
“A marked saving in human lives
and improved health conditions may
be obtained in large measure by an
educational program for the con
trol of the mosquito,” suggests Dr.
Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer.
“Malaria is transmitted to hu
mans,” he said, “by the bite of the
Anopheles mosquito. This mosquito
acquires the malaria parasites by
biting a person who has these
parasites in his blood. She (it is
the female who transmits this dis
ease) then bites a well person. The
parasites enter the blood, grow,
and multiply there. Poisons are
formed and carried in the blood
stream to all parts of the body.
The person bitten by the carrier
mosquito begins to shiver with
chills, burn with fever, and to have
a headache.
“Prevention of malaria should
start with the protection of hu
mans from the bite of the infected
mosquito and continue through to
the elimination of the mosquito.
“The protection of humans may
be accomplished by screening all
houses to prevent the entrance of
mosquitoes. A 16-mesh wire screen
should be placed over all openings.
Be sure that all chimneys, cracks,
and other openings are covered.
“The malaria mosquito breeds in
still water and the pools and gras
sy edges of running water, as well
as in many places where water is
allowed to collect or stand. The fe
male mosquito then lays her eggs
on the surface of the water, where
they float, and in a few days hatch
into ‘wiggle-tails.’ These live in the
water and require twelve to four-
but the junior position, technical
experience may be substituted
year for year for the educational
requirement; and appropriate grad
uate study in landscape architec
ture, engineering, or design may
be used to fill a part—or for
some positions, all—of the exper
ience requirement.
THANKS
AGGIES
for your
Patronage
We’ll be open all summer
and it’s
Cool Inside.
THEATER
f-H Clubs Founder
To Give Short Course
Oscar H. Benson, known through
out the nation as the founder of
the 4-H Clubs, author of numerous
books and national director of ru
ral scouting with the Boy Scouts
of America, will conduct the first
section of a short course in rural
youth leadership at Texas A. &
M. College this summer.
The noted educator and organiz
er who has cooperated at various
times with the agricultural colleges
of 34 states, will begin lectures at
Texas A. & M. June 9. The course
lasts three weeks. He will lecture
at all of the class meetings the
first week and will work with Prof.
Daniel Russell, head of the de
partment of rural sociology at* A.
& M. during the second week. V.
K. Brown, director of recreation in
the Chicago parks will direct the
course the third week.
teen days in summer to complete
the cycle.
“In order to prevent the malaria
mosquito from breeding, destroy
their shelters by removing all
brush and weels; and drain or
otherwise control their breeding
places in water by spraying the
surface with oil putting top-feed
ing minnows in waters where oil
or drainage cannot be used. Such
a campaign will be waged around
all military areas in Texas.”
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happiest vacation ever.
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