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■WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1941
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 nationally by National Advertising Service,
Inc,, at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-5444.
1940 Member 1941
(Associated Gol!e6iate 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 Youth Movement
A CURRENTLY PROMINENT POLITICAL fig
ure is flashed across the screen in a newsreel
at the theater of just any town. He gestures wild
ly and orates stirring phrases destined to bring
down the house. What happens ? Only a half
hearted ripple of applause is forthcoming and that
mainly from the older folks.
This same lack of enthusiasm has greeted
all attempts to popularize the current war effort
in the minds of the nation’s youth. Too large a
number of college students crowd “Youth” organ
izations whose tactics and national patriotism are
questionable. What is wrong with the young peo
ple; are they unpatriotic or disloyal?
That anyone born and raised in America could
knowingly commit any disloyal deeds it not feasable.
—^particularly when that someone has been through
the public schools. The answer to the question,
“Why doesn’t American Youth show more enthus
iasm for the ‘defense’ project?” lies not in the
field of disloyalty but in the field of confused
thinking. Last year's Battalion labeled the mem
bers of these youth organizations “misguided
youths.” That nomer fits here. American Youth
has undergone an educational program in the past
twenty years that contradicts itself.
They have been taught that “War is Hell.”
The twenties and thirties were filled with books,
dime novels and motion pictures depicting the hor
rors of modern warfare. “All Quiet on the West
ern Front” rode the crest of the wave.
Schools and churches presented these plastic
minds with undeniable facts proving that the Amer
ican people were duped into fighting the last
war. They pointed out that Wall Street and a
few munition makers engineered the last war for
their own profit. They laughed and derided “Save
the World for Democracy.”
They took our American Youth behind the
scenes of the war fervor of 1918 and presented
the high feeling as “the greatest farce in history.”
They lectured that the public was aroused by
lies and march music and flag waving.
And now our American youth has been educat
ed to hate war and ridicule public exhibits of pa
triotism. Can he be expected to discard his life
time of teaching overnight and wave a flag? Of
course not.
The churches and schools still have not been
able to present the American Youth with undeni
able proof that this isn’t a war for Wall Street
and the munition makers. And now that they
exposed their own weakness in falling for the war-
spirit gag in 1917 do they expect the American
Youth to fall for the same gag?
How can they expect American Youth to fall
in line when his very teachers haven’t evidenced
much of the true spirit of national unity that is
needed for the country’s best welfare. How do
they explain the defense-industry strikes ? How
do they dispel the rumor that moneyed interests
are holding up defense projects by quibbling over
profits. And how do they explain the fights be
tween cities in all parts of the country for de
fense profits through contracts and camp loca
tions ?
For a man expected to fight a war, our Amer-
can Youth has had a poor build-up.
Efforts to stir the American Youth out of his
shell by waving the red flag of war under his
nose have failed. Therefore the problem of pre
paring him mentally for all eventualities is still
before the nation. And it is important that he
be prepared because no man wins a battle he en
ters halfheartedly. The problem will require attack
from a different angle.
It is time to cease offending his intelligence by
offering him junk that is obviously smeared with
propaganda. He must be offered something tangi
ble. Our American Youth has had the best educa
tion that could be devised; it can be assumed that
he has had enough training to face hard facts square
ly. Then why not present him with facts?
Every generation since the country was founded
has fought a war—a war brought on and engineered
by the generation before it. Also every generation
has tried to prevent its following generation from
having to go through with such an ordeal. They
have failed.
Why don’t our leaders admit to our Youth
that they ,too, have failed. Tell them the truth
about the mess they made of the peace treaty
for the last war and international politics since
then.
Explain to the American Youth that he has
inherited this war and he must fight it to pre
serve the country and those things for which it
stands. Show him that the older and wiser genera
tion must still engineer this war. The time for
our American Youth is to use his splendid education
is after this war in the prevention of another such
occurrence. Our American Youth’s duty is to his
followers and he must begin observing and plan
ning now, taking advantage of the mistakes his
elders are making now so he will avoid them later.
His job now is to cease gathering in scared
buRches of “Youth” movements and perform the
task that is his at present. His time to decide
the policies of the country are to come later. He
will have his try then—not now.
The country is in peril! It matters not now
how it got there or who was responsible for it.
The youth of the country does not have the job
of directing its course. His immediate task is to
prepare himself to fight to defend it.
But no stream of propaganda such as was evi
denced in 1917 will make him aware of what he
is expected to do. Every citizen must contribute
a share to national defense. Our American Youth
will do his bit in the armed forces of the nation.
It’s as simple as that.
Show our American Youth the task he must
perform, give him something tangible to hang his
coat on while he rolls up his sleeves, and show him
the ultimate goal. Give him credit for having
a little sense and cease using tactics meant for
rabble-rousing. Then he will dispel the clouds
of disloyalty with which he is engulfed. He will
produce the goods.
WTAW PROGRAM
1150 kc. — 267.7 meters
Wednesday, July 23, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
D. H. Reid, Head, Poultry Husbandry Depart
ment
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)*
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11:25 a.m.—Eye-Openers (Institute of Better Vision)
11:40 a.m.—Diminutive Classics
11:55 a.m.—Community Bulletin Board
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
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Thursday, July 24, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
Jessie Camp, Extension Specialist in Home
Production Planning
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
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11:25 a.m.—The Regular Army Is On The Air (U.
S. Army)
11:40 a.m.—A Hunting We’ll Go—Hudson Myers,
Local Game Warden
11:55 a.m.—Community Bulletin Board
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
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Friday, July 25, 1941
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
Dr. W. S. Arbuckle, Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment
N. N. Newman, Farm Security Administration
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
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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
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Saturday, July 26, 1941
T. R. Timm, Extension Economist in Farm Man
agement
6:15-6:30 a.m.—Texas Farm and Home Program
via Texas Quality Network
(not carried on WTAW)
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11:25 a.m.—I Am An American (Department of
Justice)
11:40 a.m.—Pied Piper, Jr. Presents
11:55 a.m.—Community Bulletin Board
12:00 noon—Sign-Off
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Sunday, July 27, 1941
8:30 a.m.—Roan’s Chapel Singers
8:45 a.m.—Songs of Your Heart
9:15 a.m.—Light Classics
9:30 a.m.—Sign-Off
Quotable Quotes
(By Associated Collegiate Pross)
“TEACHING THE YOUNG people that the time
has come for them to serve the country which they
love. The time has come when they will have
an opportunity to give much, for in the years that
lie ahead there will be sacrifice for all of us. Times
are not going to be easy. They’re going to be
hard, but they’re going to be worthwhile—much
more challenging, much more stimulating, much
more bracing in every way than these fat and easy
and lazy and soft days that lie behind us. We
can meet this challenge.” H. V. Keltenborn, radio
commentator, calls for a toughening of American
fibre.
“PERHAPS THERE NEVER was a day when
there was greater need for going to college. Life
as we know it is undergoing more significant
changes and more rapidly than ever in the history
of modern civilization.” President Paul Klapper of
Queens college stresses the need for education in a
changing democracy.
“ENTERING COLLEGE MAY be compared to
joining a wagon train to the Gold Rush. The Forty-
niner paid for his passage, as the freshman pays
his tuition fees. Yet the emigrant had to walk on
his own two feet and even put his shoulder to a
creeking wagon-wheel upon occasion. What he
paid for was the companionship of his fellows on
the long trail and the guidance of men who had
traveled that way before.” Dr. Robert C. Whit-
ford, director of students at Long Island university,
likens new students to pioneers.
“WE TALK ENDLESSLY about defense. Most
of us realize that defense is not merely a matter
of mechanical supplies but that it is a matter of
maintaining free institutions. But surely we need
do more than merely defend democracy. We need
to understand it, we need to promote it, we need
to build it into something that is finer and better.
I assert, therefoer ,that universities have a duty
to civilization just as a civilization has a duty to
ward them. They cannot be indifferent to the
promotion of those ideals and those objetcives which
build a better civilization and a better world.”
“Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York
university calls upon universities to bulwark Amer
ican defense.
- THE BATTALION
Can you remember back when this type of pumper was the thrill of
every fire alarm? Here is one of the old-timers which is now the prop
erty of the Brenham fire department to be on display and in use at
the Fireman’s Training School which will begin July 20. As near as can
be ascertained, this museum piece was built in 1854, although a plate
reading “Rebuilt in 1901”, can be found on it’s side. Legend says it
was rebuilt because the fire house was blown down on it once in a
storm. Captain Johnny O’Brien, Ft. Worth fire department, an in
structor in the 1940, is shown at the driver’s seat, a job he says he held
when he first joined the department. L. A. Lee, fireman from Coleman,
is the engineer on the run, but the smoke partially obscures him from
view.
Museum Collection Also Includes
Figurenes Of Goddess Ishtar Of Warka
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in the temple of the Goddess Ish
tar, which he built in the royal
residence of his kingdom.” The
date of this king, and cone is about
2100 B. C.
At Senkereh, the ruin of the
Biblical Elassar mentioned in Gen
esis 14:1 was found a very rare
and unusually perfect sun dried
writing exercise tablet used in the
temple schools by boys in learning
to write. These tablets are always
of this shape and the writing on
them consists of meaningless words
or signs. The date on the tablet
is about 2200 B. C. or from the
time of Hammurabi, King of Baby
lon, who was contemporary of the
Biblical Abraham.
A butcher’s bill, in the shape of
a tablet, was found at Tello, the
ruin of the ancient of Lagash. The
bill is for one ram and one sheep,
killed for market and delivered. It
is dated about 2200 B. C.
At Bablyon a late or Neobaby-
lonian of the usual shape and size,
but unusually perfect, was found.
It is dated in the last three lines
on the rounded side as follows:
The month She, the day 23, the
year 4 of Nabonidus, King of Baby
lon. Nabonidus ruled from 555 to
639 B. C. He was the last Semitic
King of Babylon, and the father of
the Biblical Belschazzar who is
said to have seen the writing of
the hand on the wall. It is dated
551 B. C.
The museum collection contains
a record of the receipt of one cow
to be sacrified to the God Bel, and
of one cow to be sacrificed to the
Goddess Belit, which goes to prove
that the ancients were business
like. On one edge of the tablet is
the numeral 2, the total number
of animals received. The tablet is
dated about 2350 B. C. or early
in the Ur dynasty of kings.
Not all of the collection consist
of tablets. Three small figurenes
are included in the display. One
figure is of the Goddess Ishtar,
and is a beautifully formed nude
holding a vase in her hands. It
dates from the Ur dynasty be
tween 2300 and 2100 B. C. This is
one of the finest known examples
of the small gods. It was found in
the ruins of the temple of Ishtar,
in Warka, the biblical city of
Erech. (Genesis 10:10).
A figurene of the Goddess Ishtar
with an elaborate headdress was
found at Warka. The figurene is
dressed in the costume of the
middle Babylonian Empire per
iod. In her left arm she is holding
The Titan beetle of Brazil grows
as large as a human hand, but
specimens have never been cap
tured alive.
The taste organs of butterflies
are on the legs.
The New England gypsy moths
spread to Cleveland, Ohio, by lay
ing their eggs on building stone
which was later shipped to that
city.
West Park Barber
Shop
Harry Gorzycki, Prop.
WEST PARK CENTER
Across From Project Houses
a monkey. Frequently statuettes
of monkeys have been found,
which seem to have been used as
gods; or rather, the Babylonians
sometimes ^bought of their gods
in the form of monkeys. This fig
ure is dated about 1700 B. C.
A third‘statuette of the Goddess
Ishtar, in a reclining position,
shows traces of the earliest Greek
influence in Babylonia. She is hold
ing a cup in her hand and is dress
ed as the gods were in the late
period. It dates about 700 to 600
B. C. and was found in the ruins
of the temple of Ishtar.
These gods were made by the
temple priests and sold to the
people who placed them in the
niches of the walls of their houses
where they worshipped. A small
altar stood before them where sac
rifices were made. They were sup
posed to keep all evil from the
house and drive disease away so
that the family remained in good
health. They were so sacred that
to steal one was a crime punish
able with death, according to the
code of Hammurabi. They are
identical with the Gods stolen by
Rachel, according to the biblical
story.
Rosser Reports Long
Distance Reception
From New Zealand Fan
The waves of Radio Station
WTAW, the Texas A. & M. College
owned radio station here (1150kc),
reach “away down under” accord
ing to a report received by John
Rosser, manager of the station.
During a recent test broadcast,
the program sent out by WTAW
was heard distinctly in Dunedin,
N. 2, New Zealand, and the re
port received from Albert L.
Stanton, the listener, correctly
identified the full fifteen-minute
broadcast. He reported that only
in the last minute did it fade to
the point where he could not identi
fy the last musical selection. He
also said that the only interference
came from an Australian station.
In Sweden it is considered an ill
omen for the world if more than
five mourning-cloak butterflies are
seen together.
It took two and one-half times
the farm labor to produce a bushel
of wheat during the first world war
than it does today.
NOTICE !
I would like to corres
pond with someone in or
near College Station who
needs a piano and could
pay as much as $1.50
per week. To such a per
son I have a beautiful,
small size spinet piano,
latest model now stored
in your vicinity, that I
will sell at a great sac
rifice in price rather than
haul it back to San An
tonio. For full informa
tion as to where piano
may be seen, write or
wire L. R. Keesee, Credit
Manager, San Antonio
Music Company, 316 W.
Commerce St., San An
tonio, Texas.
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With the second session of sum
mer school slowly, but surely, get
ting into gear, there are several
features of interest that should
catch everyones extracurricula at
tention, the foremost of which is
the first-of the summer entertain
ment series which will feature the
Swiss music and yodeling of the
Studer Brothers, to be presented
Wednesday morning. The second
is a program to be presented
AT THE CAMPUS
Wednesday, Thursday —
‘STRAWBERRY BLONDE,’
starring James Cagney, Oliv
ia de Havilland and Rita
Hayworth.
Also “ELLERY QUEEN’S
PENTHOUSE MYSTERY”,
with Ralph Bellemy and Mar
garet Lindsey.
Friday, Saturday—“MOD
EL WIFE”, featuring Dick
Powell and Joan Blondell. Al
so “COLORADO”, with Roy
Rogers.
Saturday night, Sunday,
Monday — “BLOOD AND
SAND”, starring Tyrone
Power, Linda Darnell, and
Rita Hayworth.
NOTICE
AGGIES
Come over and let us
show you the new
Officers
Dress Uniforms
Tailored by
Hart-Schaffner
& Marx
You still have time to
get yours.
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fOR MEN. AMD BOYS
Thursday evening by the Deep
River Singers, a negro quartet
who are not to be confused with
The Deep River Plantation Sing
ers who appeared on a summer
program several weeks ago.
Perhaps the main thing on the
list is the weekly juke box prom
slated for this Saturday night.
For those of us who have attended
these there is little use in tell
ing about it because the proms
are considered the highlight of the
week. But for those of you who
are new, it is a chance to get ac
quainted with everyone in an in
formal way.
Taken all in all, the movie en
tertainment for the week seems
to be a little better than average
(See DISTRACTIONS Page 4)
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