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The Battalion
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STUDENT SUMMER-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
OF 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, is
sued Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; and is pub
lished 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 3, 1879.
Subscription rate, $.50 the summer session. Advertising rates
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1940 Member 1941
Associated Gol!e6iate Press
V. A. Yentzen Editor-in-Chief
Orville Allen Advertising Manager
Jack Decker Managing Editor
Mike Haiken Sports Editor
Dorothy B. Trant Sports Assistant
F. D. Asbury Circulation Manager
Reportorial Staff
Ben Taylor, Jack Wolmsley, Jerrel Cate
To Colonel Ike Ashburn
There comes a time when all great men must
step into a higher niche so that their genius may-
have the fullest scope. Our loss has become Hous-
tons’ triumphant gain.
We thank you for the many delightful occa
sions when your wit and good cheer entertained
us. We thank you for your counsel, and advice. Ev
ery Aggie appreciates his privilege to bring to you
any problem for counsel or sympathy, assured that
he could see you whenever necessary. Because of
you many a personal problem which threatened to
wreck a student’s plans has been solved. We thank
you for your many intercessions in our behalf
whenever necessary. We thank you for your loyal
services in the many offices you have held.
We give you our greatest respect, and we wish
you the best of luck wherever you go—as a true
friend and a representative of this school and all
that it means. We extend our best wishes. We can
not convey all our appreciation of the service you
have given to the college and us. You will never be
replaced in our hearts.
So We Busted A Course?
So we busted a course and are making it up
this summer, aren’t we? Too bad, but sometimes
such a minor tragedy happens for the best, for when
steadily decreasing grade points end with the
resounding thump of “F”, it provides an opportun
ity to sit back and review the factors which might
have caused it.
Perhaps we devoted so much time to extra-cur
ricular activities that our schedule became top-hea
vy, instead of well-balanced. Perhaps we were, list
less and apathetic. Perhaps we hoped to pass with
one last desperate scramble. There can be logical
reasons other than “Didn’t I tell you that prof,
never did like me.”
High grades have never been made in one last
spurt. They require the persistency of the measles.
Let’s try studying a little for a change and see
what happens, Let’s start fighting the first day of
summer school to raise that grade point average.
Nothing To Do
Because all Americans dread to be alone and to
have nothing to do, one of the first queries one
may hear on the campus is “What can we do after
school hours?” Naturally, even the most persistent
student will want moments of relaxation, so the
question is representative for the school.
If you are one of those energetic persons, there
are tennis courts for recreation. Here’s a chance
to show that best girl just how good you are. She
would probably be delighted to have you teach
ker to bowl. You might try ping pong in the “Y”,
or horse-back riding, or bicycle riding, or baseball,
there’s dozens of sports to occupy those occasional
moments for leisure.
For those who want quieter hours, there’s the
swimming pool where you can be lazy and cool. Try
the Asbury Browsing Room, or the music room, or
the newspaper room, or the magazine room. They’re
all in the library. You might even go so far as to
do nothing but loaf.
Next to sleep, the best mental relaxation is to
do something foreign to your daily routine. It keeps
you from getting in a rut.
Something to Read
By T. F. MAYO
Invitation to the Library
This summer will, we hope, be a convenient oc
casion for you to spend more time in the College
Library than you could in the Long or Rah! Rah!
Session.
Drop in some evening and go systematically
over the shelves of current magazines (on your
right as you enter the building). No matter what
your special interest is, I believe that you will find
several magazines which specialize in it. Read an
article or two, and make a mental note of the mag
azines that you would like to dip into from month
to month. We have noticed in the Library that the
excellence of a specialist can be measured to a fair
degree of accuracy by his use of the magazines in
his field. You are becoming a specialist. Why not
form the habit?
The display cases which you see scattered about
the building contain our best new books. They are
worth watching, for their contents change contin
ually. You will find in them recent books about
the war, on both sides of the labor question, about
Latin America, on hobbies, on the arts, and, in
readable form, about all the sciences.
In the Asbury Browsing Room on the third
floor is shelved all of our fiction, including the
best novels of recent years. The display cases here
hold the books bought, by student request, with
the money supplied by the Mothers’ Clubs for
this purpose. (By the way, if you want us to buy
some good new book which does not appear in the
card catalogue, drop a signed request in the box
in the Entrance Hall. You will get first shot at
the book when it arrives.)
Also on the third floor, of course, is the Music
Room, containing a phonograph, a thousand classi
cal records, and several hundred books on music and
musicians. The room is free-for-all during the day;
you sign up for an hour’s private use at night. Nine
complete operas are there, with the words available
in translation. Dozens of symphonies, string quar
tets, songs, and concertos are also on tap.
We want you to use the Library, not only
for stern scholastic purposes, but also for the kinds
of pleasure—those of the mind—in the very en
joyment of which you make yourself capable of fur
ther and richer pleasures.
As the World Turns..
By DR. AL B. NELSON
AMERICAN STEAMER REPORTED SUNK by a
German submarine. The Robin Moor has been tor
pedoed according to a radiogram from a Brazilian
ship which reported it had rescued a portion of the
crew and passengers. An unconfirmed statement has
been made this week that a U. S. destroyer drop
ped depth bombs on a German sub
marine. The warship was in the
act of saving the crew from a tor
pedoed British merchant ship.
The strike at the plant of the
North American Aviation Corpora
tion at Inglewood, California, has
been broken up by troops and the
workers are flocking back to work.
As usual most of the men wanted
to work but were prevented from
doing so by a minority whose ac
tivities were evidently inspired by
communist leaders. The strike was
outlawed by the Union authorities but was support
ed by such leaders as Harry Bridges, the alien
labor leader on the Pacific coast.
The director of the draft has instructed local
draft boards to cancel the deferment of strikers who
refuse to return to work on defense projects. This
is a measure which should have been taken long
ago. v
A new strike has broken out at the plant of the
Aluminum Company of America with seven thous
and men holding up production in this very essen
tial industry.
Syria is being occupied by the British and
Free French armies in a lightning movement. The
latest report has it that the French are making
very little effort at resistance but that the Ger
mans are massing large forces to go to the assist
ance of the regular French troops.
A new Battleship has been launched, the North
Dakota, and is expected to be in service shortly after
the first of the year. This will be the eighteenth
battleship in the U. S. navy, three of them of the
newest and most modern type.
Kent State university dramatists have revived
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in a new streamlined version.
Dr. Charles B. Qualia, head professor of foreign
languages at Texas Technological college, believes
Spanish should be available to school children in
Texas, beginning with their first year.
An addition to the Dartmouth college library
is one of the finest collections of Herman Melville
first editions, presented by George Mathew Adams,
New York author and book collector.
Shirley Porter was graduated from the Univer
sity of Iowa with a B. A. degree and honors, al
though handicapped by blindness.
The Dartmouth college seal has been in Use
since 1773, when it was presented to the college
by George Jaffrey, a trustee.
After studying true chameleons, Dr. Sarah
Rogers Astatt, zoology professor at the University
of California, concludes they are a first cousin to
the horned toad.
A French Club Field day in which all activities
were in French was held at Southern Illinois Normal
university.
Nelson
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Tuesday, June 17, 1941
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6:15-6:30—Texas Farm and Home Program
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Onah Jacks, 4-H Club Girls Agent, Extension
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Wednesday, June 18, 1941
via Texas Quality Network
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6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
D. H. Reid, Head, Poultry Husbandry Depart
ment
F. R. Jones, Head, Agricultural Engineering
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11:40 a.m.—Popular Music
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THE BATTALION
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DURING THE 1940 ,
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION/
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TIMES AS MANY COMPLETE ILLITER
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For Music Room Popularity
When you feel an urge for mu
sic don’t head out for the nearest
“nite spot,” but start out for the
Cushing Memorial Library where
you can enjoy the wide and varied
selections of classical and semi-
classical music that is available
during library hours.
The large electric victrola, along
with the many records on file, are
open for use in the music room to
everyone until seven o’clock, after
which, the music room may be re
served for one hour periods. Any
of these reservations may be made
on Monday for any evening during
the week.
A wide selection may be made,
because the recordings run from
old Chinese and Egyptian music
to the latest American composi
tions, and the types of music in
cludes concertos, symphonies, tone
poems, sonatas, string quartets,
and several complete operas. Near
ly every known instrument is fea
tured in at least one of the selec
tions.
The original set of recordings
that was received with the victrola
is still entact as the result of re
placement of breakages and worn
out records.
A survey conducted during re
cent months show that Tschaikow-
sky and Beethoven compositions
have received the greatest circu
lation.
The money used to obtain the
additions to the collection is re-
Meats Specialist
Will Give Lectures
The animal husbandry depart
ment is presenting a special short
course in marketing livestock and
meats under the guidance of Ed.
N. Wentworth, director of the Live
stock Bureau of Armour and Com
pany.
Wentworth holds two degrees
from Iowa State College and has
studied at Cornell and Harvard
Universities, and has taught at
Iowa State College, Chicago Vet
erinary College and Kansas State
College.
The course will take up the
many different physical and eco
nomic problems related to the
marketing of livestock and meats.
Wentworth, who is internationally
recognized as an authority on live
stock marketing, has indicated that
the course will be of value to many
livestock producers and others, as
well as graduate and undergrad
uate work.
ceived from the student general
reading fund, five per cent being
allowed for this purpose. The fund
is composed of contributions made
to the library from the Mothers’
Clubs from all over the state.
The records are kept in the re
serve book room and may be check
ed out on call slips, but the books
on music that go with each set
are on open shelves and may be
circulated for two week periods.
MIGRATIONS
and
MEDITATION
R. E. Bayse, instructor in the
Mathematics Department is attend
ing the University of Michigan,
where Dr. George Summer, head
of the English department, will
later give a week’s program at the
English Conference sponsored by
the English commission of the S.
P. E. E.
B. W. Brewer, instructor in
Mathematics, will be visiting his
home in Wisconsin during the first
term. English instructor W. A. Hall
will be at his home in Bedias, Tex
as.
J. Q. Hays, English instructor, is
taking graduate work at the Uni
versity of California.
C. B. Godbey, professor of Ge
netics, is visiting his mother in
Georgia.
Dr. S. S. Morgan, English in
structor, has headed for Ohio to
visit kinspeople. F. W. Powell of
the same department is vacation
ing in Dallas.
R. E. Patterson of the Genetics
Department is working at the Fed
eral Western Sheep Breeding Sta
tion, Dubois, Idaho, during the
summer.
E. D. Parnell, professor in the
poultry husbandry department, has
gone to school at the University of
Texas this summer to continue
-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1941
— work on a Ph.D.
Dr. W. P. Taylor and Dr. W. B.
Davis, professors of Fish and Game
are attending a meeting of the
American Society of Mammalogists
in Chicago.
George H. Draper, State Poultry
Inspector stationed here, is visit
ing John Tarleton Junior College
at Stephenville, Texas, to conduct
a poultry short course.
J. R. Hillman, instructor, J. W.
Ross, pi’ofessor, and W. M. Jack-
son, instructor of the Mathematics
Department, are attending the Uni
versity of Texas for graduate
work.
Dr. J. Morgan, instructor of Phy
sics, is teaching at Denton, Texas,
and Dr. D. F. Weeks, of the same
department is headed for Roches
ter University, Rochester, New
York to work in the defense in
dustries there.
J. L. Dodson, J. H. Baff, and M.
F. Nelson, instructors of history
will be away visiting friends in
Colorado, Fort Worth, and Miss
issippi, respectively.
The many professors of the Eng
lish Department headed for grad
uate work at the University of
Texas are J. C. Watson, A. S. Lim-
ouze, and Spaulding.
G. D. Stephens, English instruct
or, is taking a jaunt down to Mex
ico City.
Fred E. Ekfelt, instructor of
English, is attending the Univer
sity of Iowa to finish work on his
Ph.D., and M. S. Howell, instructor
of English, and G. L. Cross, in
structor of mathematics, have fol
lowed his lead to that corn belt
state.
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Students working their way
through college on National Youth
Administration jobs generally re
ceive higher than average grades,
according to studies of scholarship
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day by NYA Administrator Aubrey
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