The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 25, 1941, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 25, 1941, Image 2

Newspaper Page Text■WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1941 Page 2- THE BATTALION The Battalion ■» 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 upon request. Represented nationall Inc,, at New York City, San Francisco. y by Chic oy National Advertising Service, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1940 Member 1941 Associated GoIle6iate Press V. A. Yentzen ... Orville Allen Jack Decker Mike Haiken ........ Dorothy B. Trant Editor-in-Chief Advertising Manager Managing Editor Sports Editor Sports Assistant Reportorial Staff Laetitia Frances Gofer, Clyde C. Franklin, Ralph W. Stenzel, Alfred Zabludosky, Herbert S. Jacobson, Loraine Devin, Lucille Thornton, Jerrell Cate, Elizabeth McNew, Ben Taylor, T. R. Vannoy, Student Conscription THE GALLUP POLL sponsored by the Coronet Magazine has taken the issue, Should college stu dents be permitted to finish their present college courses before being drafted into the army? as the question for a vote by public opinion in May. A reply of 69 percent for “Yes” and 31 percent for “No” was recorded. A comment on the opinion will appear in the July issue and is quoted in part. “The question of drafting college students is a lively issue not only among the colleges, who face declining enrollments next year if their students are put into the army, but also among draft boards from coast to coast. “The issue, in its simplest terms, is just this— is there any reason why college men should not be granted privileges of exemption not granted to other men of the same age? The public has strong feelings pro and con about this issue. Only one person in seventeen in the survey had no opinion— an unusually small proportion. “The majority of the voters think college boys should be deferred from the draft because they say the country needs college trained men for further leadership, or, as a number of voters in the survey put it: “ ‘We need trained brains as well as trained bodies/ “Other arguments of a similar nature are put forward. Many voters say: ‘They will be more of an asset with a college course. Let them finish college and then go into training. This is a war of brains as well as fighting soldiers.’ “Still others argue that there are enough men to fill the draft without taking, college trained men. “But the people on the other side of the argu ment—the thirty-one percent who oppose special exemption for college boys—have equally strong feelings against what they consider ‘unfair dis crimination.’ “They insist that it isn’t cricket to excuse a man from the draft just because he’s lucky enough to be in college. “Their viewpoint is neatly summarized by one voted in the survey who said: “ ‘Why should there be any discrimination ? College boys aren’t any better than anyone else— plenty of people have to give up good jobs to go into the army. Why shouldn’t the college boys give ■up something too?’ “There are others who believe that college men <could always go back and finish their education. In fact, one voter said emphatically: “ ‘From what I’ve seen of college boys, a year Jn the army would do ’em a whale of a lot of good.’ “The Selective Service ruling at present is that 'college men may finish their current academic year. If the public had the power to decide, it would ex pend the exemption to cover the entire college course. However, if the United States does go to war, senti ment might change.” Development of Personality IN A RECENT SURVEY conducted by the Eco nomics department among firms concerning the qualifications they demanded in a prospective em ployee, personality led the list in necessary qual ifications. Extra-curricular activities was rated sec ond, followed by a close third with grades. In fourth place came the amount of college expenses earned. It is interesting to note that personality, which is allowed to develop willy-nilly on the campus, is of major importance. One begins to wonder if he has ignored the development of personality in his pursuit of academic work. It certainly becomes im portant to consider just what sort of an individual you are when your personality will influence the bread and butter you earn. The development of a good personality requires thought and effort. Those intangible qualities you wish to add to your personality require perseverance and some thought, but you can do it. There are a number of good books in the library on the de velopment of personality. Check one out and read it. It might give you some ideas. Quotable Quotes “Freedom of thought and of action is threaten ed in our world, and if we are to preserve the free dom which has been won for us at great cost, it is imperative that universities, and university men and women, be alive to the issues and alert in play ing their part.” Queens University’s Dr. R. C. Wal lace tells today’s collegians to take their place in the world of affairs. “I would have those with the most immediate responsibility force our institutions of higher edu cation to cease to strive for self-aggrandizement and to become in spirit and in very truth places ‘of light, liberty and of learning’.” University of Mich igan’s Pres. A. G. Ruthven asks that institutions of higher learning cease their battle among themselves for glory and fame. “When opinion gets confused—living opinion— the colleges can always fall back on the opinion of the dead. If living men can’t think, let’s have a cat alogue of all that dead men ever thought, and the students can learn that. In fact, economics can be all dosed up with history, as doctors dose a patient with iron. And statistics. If we don’t understand the industrial wmrld, at least let us have statistics. The continental area of the United States is 3,026,780 square miles and the number of spindles in Lowell, Mass., is 201,608 (or is it?) That’s the stuff. Make a four-year course and give a degree in it—a D. F.” Teacher, humorist Stephen Leacock thinks that facts, like food, heed to be digested before they can give any nourishment. WTAW PROGRAM 1150 kc. — 267.7 meters Via Texas Quality Network (Not carried on WTAW) Thursday, June 26, 1941 6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Program— Jennie Camp, Extension Specialist in Home Pro duction Planning. 11:25 a. m.—The Regular Army Is On the Air (U. S. Army) 11:40 a. m.—Serenade in Tangotime. 11:55 a. m. Community Bulletin Board. 12:00 noon—Sign-Off. Friday, June 27, 1941 6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Pro gram—N. N. Newman, Farm Security Administra tion; A. L. Darnell, Dairy Husbandry Department. 11:25 a. m.—Federal Music Program (Works Projects Administration). 11:40 a. m.—Popular Music. 11:55 a. m.—Community Bulletin Board. 12:00 noon—Sign-Off. 4:30-5:30 p. m.—The Aggie Clambake. Saturday, June 28, 1941 6:15-6:30 a.' m.—Texas Farm and Home Pro gram—H. H. Williamson, Director Of The Exten sion Service. 11:25 a. m.—Lest We Forget (Institute of Oral and Visual Education). 11:40 a. m.—Popular Music. 11:55 a. m.—Community Bulletin Board. 12:00 noon—Sign-Off. Sunday, June 29, 1941 8:30 a. m.—Roans Chapel Singers. 8:45 a. m.—Sings of Your Heart. 9:15 a. m.—Gilbert & Sullivan. 9:30 a. m.—Sign-Off. Something to Read BY DR. T. F. MAYO Gates to Music THOUGH THE BEST way to discover music is to listen to it, the musically untaught man (and that means about any one of us) can add greatly to his listening pleasure by a little light reading about music and musicians. The two or three hundred books which are shelved in the Music Room include plenty of this kind of reading, most of it specially suited to people who want simply to learn how to extract greater enjoyment from music. Here are a few: A Musical Pilgrim’s Progress, by J. D. M. Rorke. How a non-musician progressed in his enjoy ment of music from Chopin’s Funeral March to the richness and depth of the Last Quartets of Beethoven, by Grace. A brief and extremely “human” account of Beethoven’s life, and a common-sense analysis of his greatest compositions. Particularly recommend ed to those who are tired of hearing great com posers' rave about and represented as super-human beings. (By the way, listen to the slow movement of Beethoven’s Quartet in F. Major..) A Guide to Music, by Daniel Gregory Mason. Beginning with chapter on “What Music is Made Of,” and “Rhythm,” this useful book provides you (painlessly) with enough knowledge to double or treble your interest in the next good music you listen to. Mozart, by Erik Blom. A new book about my favorite composer. Though nobody has asked me, may I say that I like Mozart’s music best because it conveys the impression of great strength under perfect and most graceful control. (If you don’t believe me, play his Quartet in G Minor, especially the first and fourth move ments.) Chopin, by Maine. Another new biography of the greatest of all composers for the piano. (Play the Nocturnes and Ballades of Chopin in our collection. A Book of Operas and A Second Book of Opears, by Krehbiel. Personally, I don’t care much for operas (except Gluck’s Orfeo, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde). But these books will make operas mean much more to you. Tchaikovsky, by Evans. For some reason, this highly sentimental Rus sian is the favorite of our Aggie customers, and I must confess that his Fifth Symphony, is grand stuff in spots. But the gentleman does throw himself about—unlike Mozart! Music for Everybody The Common Sense of Music, by Sigmund Spaeth This well-known “Tune Detective” of radio fame has in these books done an excellent job of making music accessible to anybody who isn’t tone- deaf-and-dumb! The board of Ottawa Collegiate institute is try ing to solve a mystery of 1913, revealed in a letter from an honor student of that year. Miss Sybil Stewart complained that the “gold” medal presented to her in recognition of her scholastic standing has turned out to be nothing but gilded bronze. Hamilton college has one English composition student who goes in^for realism. He wrote on “My Roommate Gives Me a Haircut.” Clinging to the theme paper which he turned in to David H. Bettle, instructor, were several small, closely clipped hairs. **1 promised my girl friend I'd carry her love letters next to mv heart.” Migrations and Meditations By Ben Taylor E. L. Elkins, associate profes sor in the Economics department, was recently called into active duty at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and has advanced to a captaincy in the tank corps there. P. A. Nutter, associate profes sor of Economics, is at home in Belzoni, Mississippi. J. Matt Carr of the Municipal and Sanitary Enginering depart ment is working in El Paso as a sanitary engineer in the City- County Health Unit. J. M. Rowlett, instructor in the Architecture department is working in Austin, teaching N.Y.A. stu dents. C. J. Finney, professor in the Architecture department, is sched uled to leave July 1, to attend a course in city and regional plan ning at M. I. T. in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. C. S. Bacon of the Geology department is vacationing at Riverside, California, this summer. F. A. Burt of the Geology de partment is spending his leisure time in Bennington, Vermont. Dr. C. H. Konnell of the Mu nicipal and Sanitary engineex*ing department is a first lieutenant in the sanitary corps at Camp Wal lace, for a year’s service. P. W. Kimball of the Agricul tural Economics department is now at home in Nauvoo, Illinois. W. F. Vendley of the Agricul tural Economics department is now at home in Nauvoo, Illinois. W. F. Vendley of the Agricul tural department is taking in the sights of Chicago this summer. S. I. Scheldrup of thet Econom ics department is going to school again at the University of Wis consin for work on a doctor’s de gree. J. B. Osborn of the Civil Engi neering department is teaching a defense course at Texas A. & I. at Kingsville this summer. G. C. Thompson of the Econom ics department is making an eco nomic survey of land conditions of the Gulf coast for the Land Divi sion of Farm and Ranch Economics of the Experiment Station. He is now in Wharton, Texas. E. R. Glover of the Agricultural Economics department is now work, ing in Dallas and vicinity for the duration of the summer. R. M. Denhart of the Agricul tural Economics department is now working as the secretary of the American Quarter Horse Associa tion in Fort Worth, and in the near future will attend the University of California for work on his Doc tors’ degree. ( M. E. Cravens of the same de partment is now completing work on his doctors degree. J. T. L. McNew of the Civil Engineering department traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, last Fri day to work on Engineering De fense Training at the Society for the Promotion of Electrical Engi neers meeting there. J. J. Richey of the Civil Engi neering department has moved to Escondido, California, for the sum mer. I. G. Adams of the Economics department is summer resorting in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and is scheduled to work on his doctors degree at the Universitiy of Michi gan, at Ann Arbor for a short time. Dr. A. A. Jakkula of the Civil Engineering department is now attending the meeting of the So ciety for the Promotion of Elec trical Engineers in An Arbor, Michigan. F. R. Jones, head of the depart ment of Agricultural Engineering, left Sunday to attend the National A.S.A.E. Convention and to visit friends in Atlanta, Georgia, and Pensacola, Florida. After the con vention, Jones will then proceed to Hauston, Wisconsin, and spend a few days there returning here about July 10. The other two members who are attending the A.S.A.E. meeting are Donald Christy, assistant professor of Agricultural Engineering and P. T. Montfort, research associate in Agricultural Engineering. Dr. J. Fred Smith, geologist, is doing geological research in North ern New Mexico for the summer. Dr. Lyman Toulmin, geologist, is at home in Mobile, Alabama. Wedding bells have rung for Price Hobgood, instructor of Agri cultural Enginering, as he was married Tuesday night week ago to Miss Merle Plummer of Dallas, Texas, in the City Temple Presby terian Church in Dallas. Prof. Reid, E. B. Parnell, Geo. H. Draper and Alec G. Warren of the Poultry Husbandry department will attend the silver pubilee con vention of the International Baby Chick Association to be held in Kansas City, Mo., from July 22 through July 25th. G. H. Soulen assistant in the Fish and Game department will go to San Antonio soon to take a physical examination for active duty, he will go to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to do special work under Dr. Carl Hubbs who is an outstanding authority on Texas fishes. Paul V. Jones, formerly of the Fish and Game department, has been made a sergeant with the med ical detachment at Ft. Bliss. Horton To Attend Home Economics Meet Miss Mildred Horton, vice-direc tor and state home demonstration agent of Texas A. & M. College Extension Service, is in Chicago attending the 34th annual meeting of the American Home Economics Association which will be held June 22-26. Miss Horton is vice-presi dent of the association. According to Washington head quarters of the association, there will be addresses and group disi- cussions by several government officials, teachers, rural leaders, research experts, and homemakers. The American Home Economics Association was founded in 1908 and now has more than 12,000 mem bers. There are 51 home econom ics associations in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and about 1,700 home economics students’ clubs in colleges and high schools affiliated with the organ ization. Dorothy St. Clair Will Assume Duties As Symphony Director Dorothy St. Clair will take over the duties of Col. R. J. Dunn as director of the College Symphony orchestra while Col. Dunn is re cuperating from an illness. The orchestra will meet every Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the Musical room at A. & M. Consolidated high school and is open to any musician in the College Station area. Plans are being formulated now for a concert to be given late in the sum mer. By Tom Vannoy If you have intentions of going to the juke-box prom this Sat urday night and then going to the midnight show at the Campus, everything is fixed up. The mid night show has been delayed to start a few minutes after the dance is over so that you won’t have to miss any of either one. O. Henry’s character, the Cisco Kid, continues on his reckless way, guns blazing, in “RIDE ON VAQUERO” at the Campus Fri day and Saturday. Cesar Romero is the Cisco Kid once more. His pal, Gordito, is Chris-pin Martin, and Mary Beth Hughes is cast once more as the leading feminine character. Undoubtedly, the Cisco Kid has wandered from the original idea that O. Henry had when he first developed the character. Conse quently the story has just about played out. In “Ride on Vaquero” Romero is a western “Robin Hood” who steals only to help the poor. He fights a gang who kidnaped his best friend and gets him and the ransom money back safely. It can be classed as just another show that takes up a couple of extra hours. Nothing extraordinary. “PENNY SERENADE” is a pic ture that is filled with marvelous acting by Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, scheduled for showing at the Campus Saturday midnight and Sunday and Monday. It is really worthwhile taking time to see. Comedy is forgotten in “Penny Serenade” as it concerns the story of a couple who adopt a child. The tale that accompanies the idea is remarkably homey and true to life. We class it as an outstanding feature. Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith play the lead parts in “SECOND CHORUS” at the Assembly Hall Thursday evening. It is tops in the enter tainment line. Filled with music by Artie Shaw and his orchestra and dancing by Astaire and God dard from beginning to the end. Astaire and Meredith feud throughout the show for the tup- per hand in the romance with Paulette Goddard. Who wouldn’t? “KNOCKOUT” will be shown at the Assembly Hall Saturday night at 7:30. Arthur Kennedy and Olympe Bradna are starred. Emory university was the first college for men in Georgia to of fer training for journalism. A California Institute of Tech nology professor estimates there are 1,000,000 earthquakes a year, including 200 strong jolts and 10,- 000 slight ones. Oldest university in South Amer ica is the University of San Mar cos, in Lima, Peru, founded in 1551. Correctly Air-Conditioned by Frigidaire Box Office Open 1:30 to 3:30 and 7:00 to 9:30 during the week. Go in any time between these hours and see a complete show. Open continuously af ter 1:30 p. m. Saturdays and Sundays 15^ Matinee — 200 Night TODAY & TOMORROW A Double Helping of Enter tainment “DOUBLE DATE” with Peggy Moran, Edmund Lowe Una Merkel FRIDAY & SATURDAY WHATS SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Tha Ceesco Keed Rides Again “RIDE ON VAQUERO” Wednesday, Thursday — “DOUBLE DATE,” featuring Peggy Moran, Edmund Lowe, and Una Merkel. Friday ,Saturday—“RIDE ON VAQUERO,” with Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, and Lynn Roberts. Saturday prevue, Sunday, Monday—“PENNY SERE NADE,” starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Tuesday — “QUEEN OF THE YUKON,” featuring Charles Bickford and Irene Rich. AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Thursday 7:30—SECOND CHORUS,” with Fred As taire, Paulette Goddard, and Artie Shaw and his orches tra. Saturday 7:30—“KNOCK OUT,” starring Arthur Ken nedy and Olympe Bradna. with Cesar Romero, Cris-Pin Mar tin, Mary Beth Hughes PREVUE SAT. NIGHT SUNDAY — MONDAY Excitingly reunited! On Saturday night Feature will start a few minutes after midnight — after the Juke Box Prom. TUESDAY ONLY “QUEEN OF THE YUKON” Jack London’s Thrill-Epic of the Gold Rush Days with Charles Bickford, Irene Rich Assembly Hall Thursday — 7:30 Only Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard Music by Artie Shaw and his Band in “SECOND CHORUS” Saturday — 7:30 Only Ringside Romance! “KNOCKOUT” Featuring Arthur Kennedy and Olympe Bradna

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 25, 1941, Image 2

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