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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.
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Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Associated GoIle6iate Press
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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
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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.
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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