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THE BATTALION
-WEDNESDAY, JULY 9,1941
The Battalion Something to Read
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-
tiree
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 Golle6iate Press
V. A. Yentzen Editor-in-Chief
Orville Allen Advertising Manager
Jack Decker Managing Editor
Mike Haiken Sports Editor
Dorothy B. Trant 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, Jean Bllwood, Florence Hollingshead.
The Writing On The Wall
A FRIEND WAS often wont to say that plumbing
was a great invention because it had taken most of
the writing on the walls of the outhouses and put it
on the pages of certain modern novels.
It is unfortunate that plumbing has not pre
vented the writing on the wall here at college. It
is unfortunate that this writing on the wall should
plague the college and require continual wall-wash
ing to prevent visitors from assuming that the
students are so debased that their thinking goes no
higher than their belts.
True, any society will house a few persons who
delight in obscene writings and drawings, hut these
persons can not he considered objectionable until
they attempt to inflict their “creative abilities” on an
unwilling public.
If that student thinks that his humor or draw
ings are so meritous that they are worthy to be
read, then let him try legitimate publishing fields.
There, if he continues to search, he may find an
appreciative audience in the type of people who
search for such stuff. At the very least, it will per
mit the rest of us the opportunity to decide whether
or not we wish to be entertained in such a manner.
This Is America!
WHY SHOULDN’T SOME men gain more than
others? You might ask. You could argue that the
law of the survival of the fittest would justify the
accumulation of power in the hands of those most
gifted in this respect. Yet, for the happiness of a
large number of people, the natural tendency of
wealth, power, and freedom to attain success to
become concentrated in the hands of a favored few
should be immediately curtailed.
This is America. The land where men are born
free and equal for the pursuit of happiness. That
is the greatest gift we can preserve for antiquity.
Not riches, not power, not pleasure—you could
dole them to future generations, but what satisfac
tion does a man gain when he possesses any or all
of these, if the bars that cage him are not of his
own making.
WT AW PROGRAM
1150 kc. — 267.7 meters
Wednesday, July 9, 1941
6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Pro
gram—D. H. Reid, Head, Poultry Husbandry De
partment, Dr. V. H. Melass, Animal Husbandry
Department.
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
11:25 a. m.—Eye-Opener (Institute of Better
Vision)
11:40 a. m.—Diminutive Classics
11:55 a. m.—Community Bulletin Board
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
Thursday, July 10, 1941
6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Pro
gram—Mae Belle Smith, District Home Demonstra
tion Agent and R. G. Burwell, District Agent, Ex
tension Service
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
11:25 a. m.—The Regular Army Is On The Air
(U. S. Army)
11:40 a. m.—Pied Piper, Jr., Presents
11:55—a. m.—Community Bulletin Board.
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
Friday, July 11, 1941
6:1516:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Pro
gram—N. N. Newman, Farm Security Administra
tion; C. N. Shepardson, Head, Dairy Husbandry De
partment
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
11:25 a. m.—^Federal Music Program (Works
Projects Administration)
11:40 a. m.—Pied Piper, Jr., Presents
11:55 a. m. Community Bulletin Board
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
4:30-5:30 p. m.—THE AGGIE CLAMBAKE
Saturday, July 12, 1941
6:15-6:30 a. m.—Texas Farm and Home Pro
gram—M. C. Jaynes, Cotton Work Specialist, Ex
tension Service
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
11:25 a. m.—I Am An American (Department
of Justice)
11:40 a. m.—Popular Music
11:55 a. m.—Community Bulletin Board
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
Sunday, July 13, 1941
8:30 a. m.—Roan’s Chapel Singers
8:45 a. m.—Songs of Your Heart
9:15 a. m.—Masterpieces of Literature (National
Council of English Teachers)
9:30 a .m.—Sign-Off
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
The Hemingway Hero: An Evolution
ERNEST HEMINGWAY HAS in each of his four
novels been primarily interested in portraying the
heroic in human nature. It is interesting to note how
his conception of what a hero is has changed with
each story.
The “hero” of The Sun Also Rises (1926) is a
woman, Lady Brett. Her heroism, according to Hem
ingway’s portrayal, consists in her ability to dis
pense with all illusions and still to hold on to a
fundamental decency. She has no hopes of a better
world here or hereafter. She believes in nothing and
recognizes no moral authority. Yet, faced by a great
temptation, she denies herself a major satisfaction
because “Not to be a bitch—is what some of us
have in place of God.” Thus, when he created the
character of Lady Brett, Hemingway’s conception
of heroism was a sort of “unyielding despair” (to
use a phrase of Bertrand Russell’s.).
In A Farefell to Arms (1929) the “hero” con
ception changes. Lieutenant Henry, the hero of this
best of American love stories, is “heroic” in the
completeness with which he lives out his overpower
ing love for the English nurse. Henry ruthlessly
pitches overboard every other consideration. Military
duty, legality, social respectability, physical safety,
ordinary prudence, future hopes—all are swept away
by the torrent of this one great emotion. Obviously,
at this period, Hemingway’s conception of the “hero”
was of a man who was capable of experiencing a
tremendous emotion and who was brave enough to
act it out at any cost. This conception, by the way,
is in the romantic tradition: that the'good life is
that of the man who trusts and follows his emotions
rather than his reason.
Hemingway’s third novel To Have and Have Not
presents stil lanother conception of the “hero”: the
man who bears up unflinchingly though hopelessly
under the pressures of social and economic inequali
ties. The least successful of this author’s novels,
To Have and Have Not is nevertheless significant as
showing Hemingway’s first glimmers of concern
about these social and economic inequalities.
This social consciousness appears fully develop
ed in the hero of For Whom the Bell Tolls. This
young American crusader for A Social Square Deal
combines in his character Lady Brett’s freedom from
illusion and Lieutenant Henry’s courage in acting
out his emotion. But these traits are subordinated to
a deep and burning concern for Social Justice which
is not at all despairing (as in To Have and Have
Not), but resolute and aggressive.
In For Whom the Bell Tolls, therefore, Heming
way’s latest and greatest, we find that this author’s
conception of what constitutes a hero has at last
become adult. About all his other “heroes,” likeable
as they were, there has been something immature
and boyish. After all, we don’t like to see a grown
man despairing (however bravely) like Lady Brett
and the hero of To Have and Have Not. Nor could
we altogether respect an adult who, like Lieutenant
Henry, devotes his life to “lu-uve.” But the heroism
of this latest hero is not only magnificently com
plete. It consists of self-sacrificing devotion to an
ideal which is thoroughly worthy of the loyalty of
a grown man: Social Justice.
‘‘I gave Mm the air. He wanted me to ride in the rumble-seat."
Migrations and Meditations
By Tom Vannoy
The Assembly Hall will not show
any more pictures until the sec
ond semester of summer school be
cause of inability to schedule
enough with the distributors for
this month.
Results of the clearance dispute
have been announced and leave
something to be desired as far as
the original demands of the cadet
corps are concerned. However, it
appears that since the dispute was
settled by an arbitrator who con
sidered all the elements of the case
before making a decision there is
little use to continue to try to ob
tain day-to-day showings with Bry
an. The 45-day clearance between
Bryan and College Station has been
reduced to 30 for the Palace, and
to 14 for the Queen and Dixie
theaters. That is the whole story
in a nutshell, so to speak.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Wednesday, Thursday —
“LONE WOLF TAKES A
CHANCE,” featuring War
ren William and June Storey.
Also “CITY FOR CON
QUEST,” with James Cag
ney and Ann Sheridan.
Friday, Saturday—“HOR
ROR ISLAND,” with Dock
Foran, Peggy Moran, and
Leo Carillo. Also “HIGH
SIERRA,” starring Humph
rey Bogart, Ida Lupina, and
Arthur Kennedy.
Tuesday—“The Arkansas
Judge,” with Weaver Broth
ers and Elviry and Roy Rog
ers.
Warren William overdoes the de- leased showing how the Nazi Ges-
more in “THE LONE WOLF TAK- tapo is functioning in America,
to get the middle aged people ES A CHANCE” at the Campus George is an Austrian noble much
back to work. (Wonderful). today and tomorrow as part of the wanted by the German govern-
2. This “Mann” is the man (mean- double bill. “CITY FOR CON- mental agents. He offers to give
ing me) for Governor. QUEST” is the remainder of the himself up in return for the release
3. Subversive interests should be kill. of seven of his friends who are in
prosecuted to the fullest extent Warren William oderdoes the de- concentration camps in Germany,
in Texas. tective angle in “The Lone Wolf Much of the story takes place an
By Benton Taylor
Here I go meditating again, be
lieve it or not. My meditatin’ of
last week seemed to get me no
where fast because I now have the
managing editor poking a gun in
my ribs and looking over my shoul
der to see that I don’t write any 4. I will be everybody’s “Yes” man Takes A Chance”, from one esca- a trans-atlantic ship. The tempo
more subversive stuff (I slipped the (like I am the Editor’s). pade right into another he gets of the picture is slow and does not
last column past him when he 5. I shall be the best quack doctor through the story like a comic strip hold your interest as well as might
in the State. hero. be expected.
I will use as much radio time as yy e ra ther like James Cagney Humphrey Bogart is a typical
I can and preferably at night so and Ann Sheridan in “City for gangster in “HIGH SIERRA”
that my listeners will be relieved Conquest” with its story of a prize- showing Friday and Saturday at
from the monotony of listening fighter, Cagney, and a dancer, the Campus. On parole from the
to the major radio programs. Sheridan, and her struggle for sue- penitentiary, Humphrey starts back
(Heh, heh). cess an d their love for each other, on the trail of crime, robbing and
I will advocate wild life to the “THEY DARE NOT LOVE,” killing. He plays one of the most
fullest extent. This means wild s t a rring George Brent and Martha characteristic gangster roles ever
night life as well as wild day Scott is another of the films re- seen on the screen.
wasn’t looking).
People on reading my column 6.
have asked me all sorts of ques
tions. They seemed to want to
know the personal history of my
personal history, as to whether I
am an atheist, a non-conformist,
a Red, a reporter, a spy, a tea- ?•
sipper, a screwball (they’re right
on that), a hillbilly with great
political ambitions, an individualist,
or just a plain old Aggie.
Of course I’m an Aggie and i
do have confirmed political ambi- 8.
tions but I don’t lay claim to the
other things they try to pin on
me.
I though that since someone
brought it up, that I would review
my political philosophy and may
be gain a few votes at this early
date and time for my coming cam
paigns
life. My stay at A. & M. should
give me much valuable exper
ience in both types.
The Oil and Sulphur Corpora
tions in Texas should be con
trolled and their products con
served. I believe that everyone
will agree that Sulphur smells
and should be left under ground
c Pickin’ Up Tlates
iness is a burning question of
today.
Quotable Quotes
“AT A TIME of great emotional appeal such as
that which now prevails, one will do well to con
centrate upon one’s work more than ever and to be
unswayed by speculations of vague commentaries
filled with foreboding for the future.”—Pres. Thomas
S. Gates of the University of Pennsylvania cautions
against false prophets.
“THERE IS NO GREATER menace at the moment
than the danger that sensitiveness to evil should
become numb by reason of constant familiarity with
evil. We shall not save out way of life through de
nunciation of the wrong; salvation can only be
achieved by active practice of the right.”—Pres.
Charles Seymour of Yale university calls for an
alert creed in which right excludes all wrong.
“OUR LATIN AMERICAN youth have never be
come compromising, pampered and soft, and have
been ever ready for great sacrifices. That, I believe,
is the heart, the most inspiring feature, in our Latin
American life.”—Mrs. Concha Romero James, chief
of the Pan American Union’s division of intellectual
co-operation, Washington, D. C., hands a laurel to
young Latin Americans.
“THE MODERN university in a democracy must
be thought of as a true lighthouse which illumines
the path of those who may travel in any land. An
outstanding tragedy of the years through which we
are now living is the disappearance of the true
university in countries where it has long been of
most distinguished and well-recognized competence.”
Columbia University’s President Nicholas Murray
Butler mourns the loss of academic freedom abroad.
“Viewed in the large, research in the social
sciences has become of transcendent importance if
we are to know how to guide society into safer ways.
History must come first so that we know how we have
behaved’ and perhaps why.” President Ray Lyman
Wilbur of Stanford University asks historians to
chart our past life as a guide to our future activities.
“We hold that in the battle against the super
state, against state control of thought and political
control of education, it is valuable to have alongside
the state universities a system of colleges not be
holden, not subsidized, not so quickly amendable to
political interference. The day will come when the
sturdy independence of endowed colleges may help
to save the others from political strangulation.”
President Ralph C. Hutchison of Washington and
Jefferson College points to the nation’s need for
strong endowed colleges.
By Jeanne Elwood Harry James has made a record
Variety is the spice of life and called “Trumpet Rhapsody.” “Au-
anyway and that the Oil bus- p rove the truth of that state- rora” by the Andrew Sisters and
ment a different orchestra has been Sammp Kaye is an almost certain
putting out most of the best sell- success. One of Glenn Miller’s lat-
Thus has my politiking been i n g records during the past week, est, a necessity for certain types
In the first place I entered A. brought to light to be marveled at While Sammy Kaye’s “Daddy” is of collections, is a tune that suits
& M. with a definite purpose in by every human being. of course the number one hit its name—“The Spirit Is Willing.”
mind. I believe that e degree in my Some migrations come to mind, around here, Jimmy Dorsey’s crew One of his really good slow ones,
line of work, which is Fish and Norman G. Schuessler of the has turned out some excellent re- “I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the
Game, will render me very fitting animal husbandry department is cordings of “Green Eyes,” “The Rest,” has Ray Eberle and the
to adorn the governor’s mansion working on a ranch near Llano, Things I Love,” and “I Under- Modernaires doing a swell job on
of Texas. Texas this summer. stand.” Last but not least, we find the vocal. Shep Fields’ contribu-
I am in a very serious mood Jim Grey of the same department his biggest hit since “Amapola,” tion is “I Found a Million Dollar
about being governor and have is visiting the various colleges and the exotic “Yours.” The latter, a Baby.” A sweet one—“Don’t Cry,
planned an extensive campaign for sheep ranches in Colorado and South American tune that goes un- Cherie”—by Gene Krupa may be-
the year 1952 (Year I will prob- Wyoming at the present time. der the.Spanish name of “Quiereme come a hit in the future,
ably graduate. Yes, I’m a sopho- L. M. Thompson of the agronomy Mucho,” is reminiscent of gauchos, Records to watch—“Flamingo”
more here now). department returned from the Ag- guitars, and Carmen Miranda. Ben- by Will Bradley has gotten off to
Here are my plans for the cam- ronomy Cotton Tour last Wednes- ny Goodman’s recording of it fea- a swell start. Tommy Dorsey’s
paign. day. tures a clarinet solo by the maes- “Love Me as I” is one of his best.
Step No. 1. As soon as I finish J. S. Mogford of the agronomy tro. And too, there’s Jimmy Dorsey’s
college I will organize my original department is in Austin for the Freddy Martin’s “The Hut-Sut excellent recordings of “Blue
“Fur-Trapper and Fish Line Quar- summer as a federal worker in Song” is rapidly forging ahead. It Champagne.” The song, as well as
tet.” Upon doing so, I will tour cotton classing. affords swell accompaniment for the record, is sure to go far. The
the country in good side show and S. M. Stubbs of the accounting dancing as well as good listening Charlies Barnett and Spivak have
country style. Intended to sooth and statistics department is work- material. “Just a Little Bit South done themselves proud with their
the voter into sweet unwatchful- ing in the Houston office of the of North Carolina,” another up- “When the Sun Comes Out.” For
ness, the folk and cowboy music Humble Oil and Refining Company and-coming record best done by those who like Noise and Swing,
featured will shoot me to great this summer. Gene Krupa, has a very catchy the Andrew Sisters have made
fame in the election drive. N. D. Durst of the same depart- rhythem. “Booglie Woogie Bugle Boy” back-
Step No. 2. My flag or banner ment is working on public account- If you can’t get enough of your up by “Bounce Me Brother with a
will be the squirrel skin. Long may ing for the firm of Fraser and Tor- favorites, try some of the albums. Solid Four.” Still tops is the beau-
it wave over Texas. Instead of the butt in Houston, Texas. Five Dorsey, Shaw, or Miller rec- tiful “Without a Song” by Tommy
conventional flour sack I shall A. W. Berry of the accounting ords at a time should please any Dorsey. Frank Sinatra, recently
ride into office on the top of a and statistics department is in of their fans. A tune very appro- voted the most outstanding male
Razor-back hog. Canton, Mississippi waiting to be priate for the times is “I’ll Be Back vocalist with an orchestra, does the
Step No. 3. My platform should called for duty in the Naval Re- in a Year.” It is best done by vocal. No collection would be com-
please everybody. Made of old sec- serve. Horace Heidt in his own inimitable plete without this twelve-inch re-
ond-hand planks, the platform is W. A. Newman of the department manner. For those fans who es- ord.
a crazy quilt of reform. Here are of accounting and statistics is va- pecially care for trumpet solos,
some of the sounder planks: cationing at his home in Duluth,
1. All old age pensions should be- Minn. are a constant abode for activity
gin when all students graduate Dr. Roy L. Donahue of the gron- with frequent drills and classes. In
Hereford Breeders
gm wnen an smuents graduate ur. jtvoy ju. uonanue oi tne gron- IIT*!! ¥¥
from college and end when the omy department is working at the Edition there are sessions after yY||| £|0J*0
students reach the age of 50. Texas State Forestry Nursery near duty hours and on Saturday mom- __ _
This would relieve the unem- Nacogdoches and is running ex- ^ a * ur< ^ ay afternoons and TlPpva
ployed problem greatly and tend periments in soils testing there.
Sunday mornings the horses are
reserved for pleasure rides by Ag- The Mid-South Texas Hereford
gies with mounted passes. Breeders’ Association which in-
There are a few horses that eludes Brazos, Grimes, Leon, Mi-
nearly everyone knows at the two i am) Madison, Robertson, Washing-
stables. Miss Denny, Dan, and Hit- ton and Walker Counties will hold
Fifteen hundred plastics and a new one appear
ing every week! Latest are the “impact resistant”
phenolics, which will stand the wear and tear of
moving machinery parts. Manufacturers are using
them for agitators in washing machines, parts man
ufactured formerly from aluminum. Phenaloc plas
tics can also be used to replace brass in instrument
housings, thus saving tin.
Even The Horses Are Beginning
T n Sriv Vo/ In The* Armw * er ’ W ^° ^ as a mus ^ ac ^ e j us ^ a luncheon Tuesday noon, July 15
I I \JU IKS III I I IKS AAi Illy I WW kis namesake’s, are a few of the a t 12:15 in Sbisa Hall. There will
better known horses in the Cavalry be a charge of 50tf per plate.
Do you like to ride a horse? Well, the newspapers are filled with the Stable. Beauty, Ten Artilllery, Sun- Three new directors of the asso-
a lot of Aggies have had that de- success of motor vehicles over in ny, Thunderbolt, Daddy, and Socks ciation will be elected, plans for
sire. Take a trip across the rail- Europe, Cavalry regiments did their —the horse for beginners—are the a tour of the Hereford breeders of
road tracks and see the Cavalry share of the work. Remember those horses of the other. nine counties included in the asso-
and Field Artillery Stables. The pictures of the Germans occupying Twenty-two remounts are being ciation will be considered, and pre-
first has seventy-four animals, of Paris with their horse-drawn Ar- sent from Fort Reno, Oklahoma, liminary plans for an auction sale
which about thirty-five were used tillery? Who says the horse is go- some time this summer. Part of to be held at College Station some-
for polo last year. Taking into ing out of use? this group will be used for polo; time this coming winter will be
consideration the fact that only The Field Artillery Stables hous- part, for jumping; and part, for made.
sixteen were suitable for the game, es sixty-eight horses—the major- ordinary riding. Dr. J. L. Jenkins of Galveston,
the team had a fairly successful ity being a little sturdier than The Cavalry and the Field Ar- a Hereford breeder at Normangee,
season. those of the Cavalry. They are tillery compete in many events in is president of the association and
In polo the horse is more import- chiefly used for draft—in other the Spring Horse Show. Some of Wade Morring, a Hereford breed-
ant than the rider; therefore, a words for pulling guns and cais- these are jumping, hunt teams, er at Bryan, is secretary.
good team calls for good horses, sons. This type of horse does not rescue races, stick and ball, and
The majority of the Cavalry horses - give one an enjoyable ride, but good hands classes. Many months Two-thirds of the families in
are of the thoroughbred type—the there are a few horses in the Ar- are spent in preparation for this the United States live on less than
most suitable breed the Cavalry tillery stables that are suitable show. Every Aggie likes this com- $1,500 per year and are dressing
has found for its work which re- for ordinary riding purposes. petitive spirit. Give one of them their families on less than $160 per
quired speed and stamina. Although During the winter, the stables a horse and watch him go! year, or $40 per person.