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THE BATTALION
The Battalion Something to Read
STUDENT SUMMER-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ‘
OP 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
Pbsocioted Golleftote 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.
On The Strike
IT HAS OFTEN been said that the proof of an
educated man is his ability to see both sides of a
question clearly and to make decisions only after
the facts are carefully weighed. Naturally, in view
ing the strike which is being attempted on the
dormitory construction, a person is inclined to take
a prejudiced stand, because the completion of the
dormitories seems of vital concern to the student
body.
But the strike is of no physical affair to the
student body, because the dormitories are under pri
vate contract. Consequently, no negotiations should
involve the student body, and the students should
keep their hands out of the situation.
There is no half-way stand on a labor problem
because there are two points of view which cannot
be compromised. You will either see the problem
from the employer’s point of view or from the
employee’s point of view, and argument or physical
violence will not readily swing either outlook.
In this matter of strike, it is unfortunate that
the individual who is striking is hazy as to his
purpose. Persons who attempt to live up to and
defend a principal should have definite and clear-cut
reasons. One cannot logically be quided by his emo
tions. If a person cannot be so sure of himself
that he is hazy as to his opinions, let him inves
tigate. There’s a possibility he’s being played for
a sucker.
Quiet, Please!
THIS IS WRITTEN for the student who isn’t going
to study for those last quizzes and finals, either be
cause it will be unnecessary or too late.
It’s going to be easy this week to forget and
turn up the radio too loud, or otherwise disturb stu
dents who are seriously in need of study.
During the week, see how much noise you can
prevent. There’s someone who will be grateful for
that quietness. It might mean the difference be
tween passing or busting a course.
WTAW PROGRAM
1150 kc. — 267.7 meters
Wednesday, July 16, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
D. H. Reid, Head Poultry Husbandry Depart
ment
F. W. Peikert, Agricultural Engineering De
partment
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
o
Thursday, July 17, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
4-H Club Boys and Girls
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
o
Friday, July 18, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
N. N. Nowman, Farm Security Administration
4-H Trip Winners
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
11:25 a.m.—Federal Music Program (Works Pro
jects 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
o
Saturday, July 19, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
Sadie Hatfield, Specialist in Landscape, Exten
sion 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
o
Sunday, July 20, 1941
8:30 a.m.—Roan’s Chapel Singers
8:45 a.m.—Popular Concert Music
9:15 a.m.—Masterpieces of Literature (National
Council of English Teachers)
9:30 a.m.—Sign-Off
Good Books For The Poor Man
IF YOU WANT TO accumulate gradually, on very
little a year, a good small library of books that
will stay with you, I recommend the “Modern Li
brary” edition, for (1) the best recent books and
(2) those of the “best books of all time” which have
a special appeal to moderns.
First of all, however, don’t buy your books fas
ter than you can read them. The best library is that
which reflects the intellectual experiences of the
owner. Don’t, for heaven’s sake, get hold of a list
of “books that everyone should own”, and buy a
lot of them at once. The chances are that they will
stand packed on your shelves in such discouraging
solidity that you will never get around to reading
them. And don’t, above all things, buy sets of books.
The Harvard Classics, for example, is as good a set
as any, but hundreds of people have bought this
“five foot shelf” of books to every one person who
has read more than two or three of its volumes.
It seems to me that the best procedure would
be:
(1) Write to the following addresses for
their complete lists.
(2) Look over them and check a few titles
that you think you would like.
(3) Get some bookish friend—your librar
ian, if you can trust his judgment, or
one of your teachers—to go over these
lists with you, giving you some notion
of what the various books are like.
(4) Buy a few old books and a few recent
books—perhaps one of each—at a
time.
(5) Read all of them before you buy any
more.
Here are a few good editions to investigate:
The Modern Library
20 East 57th St., New York
Modern Age Books
432, 4th Avenue, New York
Everyman’s Library
(E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.)
300 4th Ave., New York
Quotable Quotes
“WITHIN THE LAST DECADE the world has
been given a brilliant demonstration of what can be
done by regimented education. The totalitarian pow
ers have taught us what can happen when school,
press and radio are all focused on the inculcation of
one series of ideas. It has been with them an amaz
ingly efficient task. I have had some apprehension
lest, as the emergency sharpens, we might be tempt
ed to emulate them. The necessity for the defense
and the presenvation of democracy is so compelling
that it is to some people an attractive idea that it
might be saved by drawing up a series of formulas
which could be driven into the minds of school and
college students every day between eleven and
twelve. Such attempts, it would seem to me, miss
the whole point at issue: namely, that there can
be no single definition of democracy, that it is es
sential that people who live under it differ in their
ideas and their opinions, and that the aim of edu
cation in a democracy is to open people’s minds, not
to seal them hermetically once and for all.” Harry
oodburn Chase, chancellor of New York university,
cautions against the easy r9ad to totalitarianism.
* * * *
“CIVILIZATION MUST FIND a refuge in America;
the abolition, except as training schools, of the uni
versities of totalitarian states; the tendency of re
cent educational pronouncements in France; the dis
persion and bombing of universities in England
mean that nowhere else in the world, except in
this country, can the standard of freedom, truth
and justice be raised. The American universities are
the last resource of a world plunging to destruction.”
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University
of Chicago, sees the American college as the hope
of the world.
* * * *
“DURING THE LAST CENTURY we had the feel
ing that change was always progress. But in the
twentieth century we have come to the conclusion
that change is not always progress but may be a
step sideways, backwards, or even downwards . . .
Today it is a question of whether the rest of the
countries will leave us alone. We boast that we are
better, richer and freer. Those countries less rich
may feel the urge to share in our wealth—even if
they must use force to do so. That situation nearly
came to us during the World war. What we really
got out of that war was a temporary respite for
a generation from being caught between the pinch
ers of the German empire on the east and the
Japanese empire on the west.” Herbert Heaton, in
structor of European economic history at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, cautions that economic and
political changes are inevitable.
* * * *
“HITLER HAS LITTLE REASON to be friendly
toward the United States. And it can be taken for
granted that he will lose no change to reduce the
power and influence of the one remaining exponent
of the kind of world he has sworn to destroy.” Dr.
Thomas H. Robinson, professor of economics at Col
gate university, views the German chancellor as a
very present enemy.
* * * *
“THE REASON FOR our lawlessness is that at
present we are just changing over from authori
tative control to internal control. The former, as
employed by parents of the old days, has been re
leased without the establishment of good internal
control by modern day fathers and mothers. Our
schools are placing increased emphasis on charac
ter development and through the study of music,
art, literature and science are providing an ‘educa
tion for leisure,’ so that our future citizens will
not spend their time in unprofitable and frivolous
pursuits.” George Melcher, 72-year-old superinten
dent of Kansas City schools and a teacher since he
was 16, makes the point that education has not
failed, declaring that increasing lawlessness is not
the fault of the education system.
Machinery parts and innumerable small gadgets,
formerly made from tin, zinc and antimony are
now being fabricated from the phenolics and from
cellulose acetate. Vinyl resins, now being used as
linings for food and beverage containers, will release
large amounts of tin in the canning field, it is be
lieved.
‘'Better keep your hat on, Herbert. The picture may come out
a little dark.**
Migrations and Meditations
By Benton Taylor performances were well worth
while for every student. The
This columnist after reviewing Swiss Yodelors were especially
his political ambitions last week
went down to Galveston Sunday
and is not over the effects of the
trip yet. Boy, am I hot. With
skin looking like the color of a
boiled lobster and feeling hotter
than blazes, I have decided to
go into the advertising business
for a salve company so that I can
obtain some free samples to sooth
by blistered epidermis. Getting
sunburned on a cloudy day! It
isn’t legal.
Just to say something about the
tournabout weekend just held. Be
ing luckily dated for a show and
the dance, I had a swell time while
the girls held sway, or rather
were supposed to hold sway. Of
course, there are some things that
cropped up here and there but on
the whole it was a very nice week
end. The concensus of opinion
(among the boys) is that we
ought to have another tournabout
in the near future. If the dance
is free every time we have one,
I vote we hold tournabout week
end every weekend.
I think that some of the best
events during -the summer school
are the entertainments shown free
before the student body each se
mester. The entertainments dur
ing this first term have been
topnotch. Although there wera
only two events this semester, the
first of which was the rendition
given by the Deep River Planta
tion Singers and the second being
the Swiss Family Yodelors, the two
The short course being held
here now and attended by people
from all portions of the state gives
us an insight into what A. & M.
College is doing for the people
of Texas. No other college that
I know of in the United States
gives such service to the people
of their state as A. & M. does
through its short courses. The
farmers short course being held
at this time is only one out of
numerous courses held throughout
the year in which the college gives
free instruction and advice to all
who take advantage of the courses.
It can’t be said that A. & M. isn’t
doing its part in the general edu
cation of the people of Texas.
A little meditating on the
weather is in order. During the
last spring and extending to the
present that old phrase that only
fools and strangers predict the
weather of Texas has practically
become obsolete. All a person has
to do now is say “rain” and he
will be right nine times out of ten.
It appears that we are well on the
way of establishing a new record
for rain in College Station.
Almost every time, well, every
other time, I get up in the morn
ing, the house seems to have been
surrounded by water during the
night and there is a lake where
our lawn originally was. We
thought we might trade our house
in for a houseboat but have not
done so yet.
Pickin’ Up Plates
By Jeanne Elwood place their bets on this young
Among all the present world- man.
wide strife, musical recordings are As for those to watch, there
a great relief. During the past are many. Glenn Miller’s “Cradle
week the old continued to out sell Song”, backed up by “Peekaboo
the new popular songs. Best of to You” has the same appeal which
the newer ones is still “Green makes all Miller records such
Eyes” by Jimmy Dorsey and Tony good sellers. Those who especial-
Pastor. “The Things I Love” by ly care for oddities had best rush
Gene Krupa and “Yours” by Jim- for “Slap-Slap” by Charlie Spivak.
my Dorsey and Alvino Rey are Dinah Shore has recently made two
still tops in the field. Judging by topnotche^ in “Mocking Bird
the frequency with which it was Lament”)and “I’m Through With
played at the last juke box, one Love/ig “Be Fair” by Jimmy
would think that Jimmy Dorsey’s Dorsey is too slow for most people,
“Blue Champagne” head the local but some mly like it. “Kiss the
popularity list. Alvino Rey brings Boys TroocHye” from the picture
forth his recording of “Nighty of the same name and done by
Night” as his latest contribution. Tommy Dorsey is up to the usual
“Til Reville”, a tune especially de- Dorsey standard. “Moon Over
signed for soldiers, has a special Miami”, a picture that is sure
appead to a certain type of person, to be a great success, will prob-
It is well taken care of by Tony ably produce a number of good
Pastor and Kay Kyser. tunes. Rogers and Rainger col-
How about a good book of rec- laborated on these songs. “Loveli-
ords? For those who like it ness and Love” and “You Started
“hot”, there is a swell book of Something” have already been
Boogie Woogie tunes made by recorded by Larry Clinton. For
Columbia. It contains four rec- the lovers of semi-classic music,
ords with Harry James and Count there is “A Rhapsody in Blue” by
Basie doing specialties... Eddy the Boston “Pop” Orchestra. Artie
Duchin has made a second book; Shaw has recently made “Why
this one contains eight of George Shouldn’t I,” a “must” for all
Gershwin’s inimitateable tunes, in- Shaw fans. The King Sisters do
eluding such famous ones as “sum- their bit in “Love Me a Little
mertime”, “Love Walked In”, and Little” and “Sand in My Shoes.”
“Embraceable You.” A new 1 intro- Keep an eye on “Sleepy Serenade”
duction to the field of music is by Sammy Kaye and “Boulder
the book by Alec Wilder. His Buff” by Glenn Miller. Two others
orchestra is an eight man outfit to watch out fo rare “The Reluc-
containing a bassoon, clarinet, tant Dragon” by Sammy Kaye and
flute, oboe, bass fiddle, bass clari- “A Romantic Guy, I” by Alvino
net, harpsichord, and drums. Those Rey. The latter is something to
interested in something new should remember—title and all.
Record made at cotton-insect
laboratories of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate that
more boll weevils emerged from
hibernation last spring than dur
ing any recent year.
House flies fill up on air soon
after hatching.
A grasshopper of Guiana wears
large glaring eye spots on the
thorax to scare off enemy birds.
-WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1941
By Tom Vannoy
Those riots of the comic strips,
the Bumsteads, will be seen in
“BLONDIE GOES LATIN” at the
Campus today and tomorrow, as
part of the double feature attrac
tion. Penny Singleton, Arthur
Lake, and Larry Sims play the
Bumstead family again. In addi
tion to the antics of the Bomsteads,
there is Tito Guizar who gives
some excellent renditions of Latin-
American musical numbers. Blondie
Goes Latin” is excellent entertain
ment if you have no final exam
inations scheduled soon.
George Brent and Brenda Mar
shall are starred in “SOUTH OF
SUEZ” at the Campus today and
tomorrow.
A picture with a historical note
is “LADY FROM CHEYENNE”
at the Campus Sunday and Mon
day. The stdry concerns the fight
in Wyoming during the 1860’s foe
women’s suffrage. Loretta Young
is the leader of the women’s side.
Undoubtedly the true facts of his
tory have suffered no end at the
hands of the script writers. The
picture has all the way through a
light, comical vein. There is a
serious theme struck away in the
background somewhere, but it is
practically obscured.
Two new stars appear on the
horizon in “THE COWBOY AND
THE BLONDE” at the Campus
next Tuesday. George Mont
gomery and Mary Beth Hughes are
featured. The story of the cowboy
who won’t heed the blonde’s
charms is the old, old story with
a slightly different twist. So she
really falls for him and things
progress rapidly from there. Just
mediocre. George and Mary Beth
show promise of improvement.
AT THE CAMPUS
Wednesday, Thursday -r- v
“SOUTH OF SUEZ”, featur
ing George Brent and Brenda
Marshall. Also “BLONDE
GOES LATIN”, with Penny,.
Singleton, Arthur Lake and
Tito Guizar.
Friday, Saturday—“HON
EYMOON FOR THREE”,
with George Brent and Ann
Sheridan. Also “CAROLINA
MOON”, starring Gene Autry -
and Smiley Burnette.
Saturday prevue, Sunday, ^
Monday — “LADY FROM
CHEYENNE”, featuring Lo- J
retta Young, Robert Preston,
and Edward Arnold. ;
Tuesday—“COWBOY AND
THE BLONDE”, Mary Beth
Hughes and George Mont
gomery. ^ S ;
Swiss Yodelers
Present Unusually
Colorful Program
Dressed in colorful Swiss cos
tumes, the 'Swiss Family Yodelers
presented a very interesting pro
gram for the summer students in
the Assembly Hall on Thursday,
July 10. Many Swiss yodeling songs
as well as modern songs were
sung and played, with the bleating
of goats and the tinkling of cow
bells providing an authentic back
ground.
Bradshaw Awarded
General Education
Board Fellowship
H. C. Bradshaw, Economist in
Farm Taxation, Division of Farm
and Ranch Economics, has been
awarded a General Education Board
Fellowship to do a year’s work
toward the Ph.D. degree. He has
been granted leave of absence from
station duty and will take up his
studies in September at the Grad
uate School of Public Administra
tion of Harvard University, which
is perhaps the outstanding school
of public administration in the
United States.
The organization of the Grad
uate School of Public Administra
tion was made possible by a gift
of $2,000,000 by Lucius N. Littauer
in 1935. The enrollment is limited
to a small number of students of
promise and the faculty is drawn
from the various graduate schools
and departments of Harvard Uni
versity, mainly from economics,
government, law, and business ad
ministration.
The seminar method of instruct
ion is used, and in addition to the
regular faculty, outstanding offi
cials of the local, state, and nation
al governments are invited to par
ticipate in the seminars.
Bradshaw received his bachelor’s
and master’s degree at the Uni
versity of Missouri and is a grad
uate of the two-year course in
training for public service offered
by the University of Cincinnati.
A dog cannot acquire lice from
a cat.
A father, two daughters, and a
son made up the family. Several of
the selections had been composed
by the father, who is employed by
Hollywood movie producers as a
Swiss consultant.
On Wednesday, July 23, at 10:10
a.m., the Studer brothers will pre
sent a program in the Assembly
Hall, and on July 24 the Deep
River singers (not to be confused
with the Deep River Plantation
singers) will be featured.
It’s Time To
Change Oil
Come by for a complete
check-up before that
weekend trip.
GRANT’S
Service Station
We call for and deliver.
Phone 4-1120
Highway 6
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ON THE
ONLY OPEN AIR TERRACE
BETWEEN WACO and HOUSTON
First-class floors and music for dancing, on the
terrace and inside.
The best of food—steak and chicken dinners—
Mexican food—seafoods in season—sandwiches and
other good things—all at reasonable prices.
Special attention given to dinner parties, with ad
vance reservations recommended.
We urge that you spend one evening on the Ter
race, and we know you’ll come back.
FRANKLIN’S
On Airport Road Dial 4-1146