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THE BATTALION
-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1941
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STUDENT SUMMER-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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Plssodoted Gollefticrte 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
Let’s Have No Regrets
THE GREAT EMPHASIS placed upon grade points
has so often confused the student that he begins,
to feel certain practices which he used to secure
good grades are justifiable. The practice of sur
reptitiously using notes during quizzes has become
widespread because the student body as a whole has
not frowned upon the practice. On the contrary, the
successful student is often congratulated upon his
cleverness in fooling his instructor.
Ignor the ethical side of the problem for a mo
ment and consider the practical side of the question.
Just what value to you is a grade which you dis
honestly gained? True, it looks good now on paper,
but just what value is it as an index of knowledge.
That grade is no better than a forged recommenda
tion.
You have never really wanted to carry those
little notes with you; your early training warned
you that it was unfair. It takes a great deal of
courage to sweat out answers to pass a quizz,
knowing that the odds are against you, while a
neighbor is blindly referring to sources of informa
tion. It takes a lot of fortitude to stomach a “D”
or a “C” when final grades are posted and the same
neighbor averages a grade higher. You needn’t envy
him, because he paid for it. He bought it with a
piece of his self-respect.
Twenty years from now the world will have
forgotten -whether you were an honor student or
just had enough grade points to graduate. You will
be judged entirely upon your ethics and abilities.
Today, while you are at school, you’re laying the
foundation for that future reckoning.
On that day, let’s not have any past regrets
that during our college days we undermined our
character by resorting to cribbing to pass exams.
When that grade will be posted at the end of the
first six weeks, let’s be able to say that the final
grade was honestly earned. Ignore the mad scramble
for grade points if you are tempted to win them
unfairly. Good grades can be made by a little
study. Why not do it ? Make every recommendation
authentic.
As the World Turns..
BY “COUNT” V. K. SUGAREFF
THE WAR IS APPROACHING A CRUCIAL stage.
After all is said and done the ultimate issue of the
war is who will make the rules for international re
lations; United States and the British Empire or
Hitler? The sinking of the merchant ship, Robin
Moor, merely accentuates the broader and more
important question of international
trade, exchange and world domina
tion. President Roosevelt lost no
time in retaliating the unwarranted
sinking of the Robin Moor in a
neutral zone.
The German (and Italian) funds
were frozen by an executive order.
The German consulates and other
purely German organizations in the
United States have been ordere to
close and the officials connected
with them must leave the United
States by July the 10th. Whether
the Germans will recognize or not the violation of
the principle of the freedom of the seas and our
treaty of 1930 with them, the fact remains that we
will not concede, as we did not in the last world war,
to any power the right to destroy American prop
erty at will.
Our demands on Germany for the loss of the
Robin Moor have not been made but indications are
that the president will not mince words in his repre
sentations to Hitler.
The English take the initiative in the Mediterraneon
zons. The victory over the rebels in Iraq is an ac
complished fact, and the current battle over Syria
with prospects for an early defeat of the loyal
French forces, the English colonial troops have been
encouraged to take initiative in Eastern Libya. The
Germans have been comparatively inactive in the
Near East. Reports persist that the Germans have
been moving their troops from the Balkans to the
Russian border. It is possible that while the Germans
are concentrating their troops elsewhere, the Eng
lish will take an advantage to entrench themselves
in the Near East and recapture Libya.
Soviet-Nazi disput again makes the headlines. The
often reported clash between Russia and Germany
has been rumored during the last several days as
brewing again. However, judging from past ex
periences the English and the Americans should not
put too much confidence on such rumors. Russia
has consented to German attacks on nearly all her
neighbors and even has recognized the non-existance
of nearly all occupied countries by Germany. More
over, Russia has given material aid to Germany so
far during the war. Any rumors, reports or even
hints that Hitler and Stalin are about to come to
blows should not be accepted without reservations.
In the Far East “Events are moving faster and
faster.” The Japanese demands on the Dutch East
Indies for special economic privileges have been
flatly denied. The Dutch, encouraged by British-
American interests, took this stand against the
Sngareff
Japanese. It is up to Japan now to take the matter
in her own hands and force the Dutch East Indies
to yield to superior force. But the Dutch are not
alone in the Far East. The Australians, English,
and American forces are prepared to accept Japan’s
challenge. It might be that we will strike at Japan
first, should she decide to invade the Dutch East
Indies.
The President’s full emergency powers are bearing
some fruits. The using of Federal troops to open the
North American plant plant at Los Angeles is a
warning to labor leaders who are delaying the ex
ecution of our national defense program. The leaders
of the strike in the North American plane plant were
young men in the late twenties or early thirties.
Hardly any one of them had been a member of the
union for more than two yers. Some of them had
joined the union only six months before the strike.
This act on the part of the President does not mean
that he will make an extensive use of Federal
troops against all strikes. It is merely a reminder of
what might be expected, should a strike cur or
delay our preparation for war.
The President’s vast powers have also been
applied on other interests. Last week five auto
makers were informed to withdraw their price in
creases, from $15 to $53.00, immediately, Twenty
percent reduction in auto production has been order
ed as of the first of this coming August. The War
Department asked for fifty percent, and it might
be enforced before the year is over. Steel shortage
has become serious and the government has ordered
a plant expansion, mounting to 10-million dollars.
Due to shortages in many other materials, plans are
under way for standardization of models in clothing,
household goods ,and other consumer goods. We are
yet to feel the limitations which the war will impose
on us.
Something to Read
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
Islands of Adventure, by Karl Baarslag
ONE OF THE NEW type of travel books which
sharpens your “social consciousness”—makes you
aware of the working of economic and biological
forces—while it entertains you. Another of the same
general type is The Enchanted Vagabonds, by Dana
Lamb and June Cleveland, which takes you through
Mexico and Central America with two intelligent,
humorous, and socially conscious guides.
A consciousness of the importance of social
forces in shaping our lives and points of view is
probably the most clearly distinguishing feature
of “modern” writers, even fiction writers. The
Grapes of Wrath, of course, and For Whom the Bell
Tolls are the best-known “socially conscious” novels.
But the stories of Halper also show this feature,
particularly The Foundry and The Chute.
A good new novel by a good old novelist is
Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life, which, by the way,
concentrates more on individual psychology and the
clash of temperament than on the action of social
forces.-
If you are tired of mulling over vexatious human
affairs, read a little in A Gathering of Birds, into
which Daniell Culross Peattie has collected all the
best things that have been written about birds,
^hey^are charming critters to read about. Julian
Huxley, I remember, remarks somewhere that a bird
is conscious of neither past nor future—only of the
tiny immediate present. As he puts it:
“The birds in an eternal present fly.”
But this week’s prize offering in a new book,
Fables for Our Time, by that prize idiot of our
time, James Thurber. About half the book consists
of this thoroughly haywire gentleman’s pictures,
illustrating the sort of animal fables that Aesop
might have dashed off in a marijuana trance. Here
are some of the more wholesome morals:
“It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as
it used to be.”
“It is better to have loafed and lost than never
to have loafed at all.” (My students seem to have
taken this one to heart.)
“You can fool too many of the people too much
of the time.”
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male
healthy and wealthy and dead.”
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11:25 a. m.—Eye-Opener (Institute of Better Vis
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11:40 a. m.—Popular Music.
11:55 a. m.—Community Bulletin Board.
12:00 a. m.—Sign-Off.
Five fourteen-year-old boys have been admitted
to City College of New York as freshmen.
Of 4,500 students at the University of Kansas,
Methodists lead with an enrollment of 1,432.
Because of the rearmament program, the ex
perimental towing tank laboratory at Stevens Insti
tute of Technology is virtually on a war footing.
Botany students at South Dakota State College
will attend summer camp in the Black Hills.
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Migration and Meditations
By Ben Taylor
The American Petroleum Insti
tute has pointed out that domestic
manufacture, and cheaply too, of
hydrogen peroxide—the bleaching
agent which makes textiles whiter
and transforms brunettes into
blondes—is one of the by-products
of the current war.
Well, at least the brunettes are
going to get something out of
this war.
It seems that the Biology depart
ment has gone on a vacation for
only five of their staff of 21 are
teaching during the summer.
The Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station has obtained the
services of Dr. R. G. Reeves and
Dr. Paul .1. Talley of the Biology
department for the summer.
Dr. A. L. Shipper, biologist, is
at present a temporary Ranger
Naturalist in Mount Ranier Na
tional Park.
Weldon Brewster of the Biology
department is going to spend his
summer vacation in Ruidoso, New
Mexico, and in nearby mountains.
Dr. S. H. Hopkins has gone to
Virginia to work for the Bureau
of Fisheries where he will do re
search with crabs.
The marines got J. H. Ellis of
the Biology department and he is
now a leatherneck lieutenant sta
tioned at San Diego, California.
J. D. Bellamy has gone to his
home in Arlington, Texas.
B. P. Glass of the Biology de
partment has obtained a job with
the Supply Department of Marine
Biological Supply Company, Wood-
shole, Mass.
Durward Timmons of the Biol
ogy department is stationed in the
Alpine Laboratory, Manitou, Col
orado.
D. W. Rosberg is in New York
City as an instructor of fruits in
transit on the railroads there.
Dr. W. B. Davis of the Fish and
Game department is on his way to
Mexico with a party of students
for a five weeks survey and study
in Mexico.
C. N. Shepardson, head of the
dairy husbandry department, will
attend the American Dairy Science
Association at Burlington, Ver
mont.
Dr. J. D. Lindsay of the chemi
cal engineering department, will
leave Friday for Ann Arbor, Mich
igan, to address the Society for
the Promotion of Engineering Edu
cation on the subject of “Instru
ments and Automatic Control of
Processes.”
C. F. Goodhart of the Electri
cal Engineering department is re
turning here this week from New
York City where he was best man
at a wedding.
By Tom Vannoy
Summer school offers a limited
number of distractions to us still
striving for an education. Of
course there are the juke box
proms that show promise of being
well-attended again this year, but
they come just once a week.
Then at various times during
the session the summer entertain
ment series will present an offer
ing for the pleasure of the sum
mer enrollment. Motion pictures
complete the distractions offered
during summer school.
“MISSING TEN DAYS” with
Rex Harrison and Karen Verne is
showing at the Campus today and
tomorrow. Taken from the book
by Bruce Graeme “The Disappear
ance of Roger Tremayne,” it deals
with espionage and counter-espion
age during the period preceding the
beginning of the present European
conflict. The title is taken from
the fact that Harrison, an English
man, cannot remember the past
ten days just before the story
opens because of America.
In this show, Karen Verne makes
her American motion picture de
but. She has had some experi
ence in European theaters previous
to coming to this country. This
can be classed as strictly mediocre
production.
Mike Shayne, the super-detec
tive, returns again in “SLEEPERS
WEST” at the Campus next Tues
day. This is the second in this
series. It is not especially out
standing. The main addition to
this show is the fast train around
which the story is centered. An
other fair job.
“FLIGHT FROM DESTINY” is
one of the outstanding surprises of
the year. It started out as just
another picture, but it has ended
up with the record of one of the
best shows of the year.
It concerns the tale of a profes
sor, Thomas Mitchell,' who has
been given six months to live by
his doctor. He sets out to do one
last philanthropic deed for the bet
terment of the world. He decides
to rid the world completely of one
undesirable person. He selects the
woman who has broken up the hap
py marriage of Jeffrey Lynn and
Geraldine Fitzgerald. After car
rying out his mission, he discov
ers that he has set a horrible ex
ample for the rest of the world
to follow. “Flight from Destiny”
is a truly remarkable picture.
Frank Morgan in all of his blus
tery boastfulness is at his prime
in “THE WILD MAN OF
BORNEO” at the Assembly Hall
next Tuesday. Mary Howard,
Billie Burke, and Donald Meek are
also in the cast.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Wednesday, Thursday—
“MISSING TEN DAYS,”
' starring Rex Harrison, Karen
Verne and C. V. France.
Friday, Saturday—“MEET
BOSTON BLACKIE,” with
Chester Morris and Rochelle
Hudson.
Saturday prevue, Sunday,
Monday — “THE DEVIL
COMMANDS,” with Richard
Fiske and Amanda Duff.
Tuesday — “SLEEPERS
WEST,” featuring Lloyd No
lan, Lynn Bari, and Mary
Beth Hughes.
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Thursday 7:30—“FLIGHT
FROM DESTINY,” starring
Thomas Mitchell, Geraldine
Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn,
Saturday 7:30 — “THE
CASE OF THE BLACK
PARROT,” with William
Paul Cavanaugh.
Tuesday 7:30 — “WILD
MAN FROM BORNEO,” fea
turing Frank Morgan, Billie
Burke, Donald Meek,
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Box Office Open 1:30 to 3:30
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“The Devil Com-
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Feature Starts After
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TUESDAY ONLY
“Sleepers West”
Lloyd Nolan Lynn Bari
Mary Beth Hughes
ASSEMBLY HALL
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“FLIGHT from DESTINY”
with
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“BLACK PARROT”
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