- THE BATTALION
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■WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1941
Make Room For Art
TOWERING HIGH over the A. & M. campus
is the “Aggie Art Gallery.” Officially it is
simply known as the water tower. It has
long been famous for the many signs which
members of each year’s fish class annually
paint on its sides. Every organization on the
campus seems to be represented on its sides
with a painted insignia.
Visitors to the campus have often specu
lated as to how the signs manage to appear
so high. The old tower still remains as a
thing of amazement, but unfortunately the
Aggie fish have beens so zealous in at
tempting to display their artistic ability, that
little room remains on the tower for future
A. & M. classes. It may be time for the old
tower to receive another coat of paint. Tra
dition-minded Aggies need not think that a
new paint job would destroy the beauty
of an Aggie landmark. The ingenuity of
next year’s freshman class will soon see that
Aggieland is provided with additional ex
amples of artistic endeavor.
The class of ’45, which has not yet
arrived on the campus, could be intrusted
with their first job, that of adequately re
decorating the tower. As it is now the tower
is so loaded with signs of the past several
year that room for more exhibits of Aggie
art does not exist. A freshly painted water
tower would be an inspiration for the class
of ’45.
"V"
Today while planes of the R.A.F. are
flying in ever greater numbers over the
greater part of Nazi-dominated Europe and
the battle on the Eastern Front between
Russia and Germany is growing more in
tensive, an effective type of warfare is be
ing developed by World War II.
This new type of warfare is not founded
on modern military precepts. It employs
no tanks, no guns, no bombers. And yet
this new warfare has developed a weapon
which may prove to be just as potent as
planes and tanks. It is employed by an army
of people who have no unified command; yet
it is successfully coping with the most high
ly organized group of experts in Germany,
the Gestapo.
The new weapon is simply the one let
ter, “V”. Behind this symbol of “victory,”
the peoples of conquered Europe are rally
ing in their determination to ultimately de
feat Hitler and his Germany. In every
corner of Europe which is held by Germany,
the letter “V” is appearing painted on
houses, cars, and other conspicuous places.
The creed of three dots and a dash, which
represents the letter “V,” is showing Ger
many that while she may hold land by arm
ed force, she can not break the solid deter
mination of those people to free themselves.
The military strategy of Germany was
originally to fight a one-front war. With
the entrance of Russia into the conflict, Ger
many was forced to fight on two fronts.
Now Germany may have another fighting
front, a “V” column is invading from within.
The ultimate end of Nazi Germany will de
pend upon the military prowess of the Al
lied forces, but the conclusion to this war
may be hastened by the new-born opposi
tion from within to Hitler and his regime.
The victory “V” stands as a dynamic chal
lenge of a democratic society in its effort to
maintain a decent world.
Something to Read
BY DR. T. F. MAYO
A check of the circulation of the books which
the College Library keeps on display has just fur
nished an interesting list of Aggie “best sellers.”
Here are the titles of some of the outstanding
■claimants to popularity among the Aggies. All of
them have been checked out, voluntarily, more than
ten times during the last few months.
1. Allen: The Microscope
(Everything you need to know about the
primary tool of the research worker.)
2. Will Durant (Editor): On the Meaning of Life
(An attempt to teach us to recognize propa
ganda when it hits us.)
,3. Doob: Propaganda
(Our education is importing lots of knowledge.
But is it teaching us to make it worth hav
ing?)
The Battalion
STUDENT SUMMER-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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'Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station,
is published three tinaes weekly from September to June, is
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Station, Texas, under the Act. of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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1940 Member 1941
Associated Gol!e6«afe Press
Tom Gillis Editor
Don Gabriel Associate Editor
Orville Allen Advertising Manager
V. A. Yentzen Managing Editor
W. F. Oxford Sports Editor
Jack Jones, Bob Crane, R. W. Stenzel Photographers
C. L. Babcock, L. B. Tennison, J. L. Decker Junior Editors
Reportorial Staff
Florence Hollingshead, Douglas Lancaster, Clyde C. Frank
lin, Lucille Thornton, Jean Elwood, D. B. Cofer, Jerry Gleason,
John Ma>.
5. Belfrage: Away from It all
(One of the most entertaining and thought-
provoking of all travel books.)
6. Adler: What Life Should Mean to You
(A sane philosophy of life worked out by a
famous psychologist.)
7. Mead: Coming of Age in Samoa
8. Sex and Temperament
(Light on our own problems of social moral
ity through interesting studies of the young
South Sea Islanders.)
9. Lerner: Ideas Are Weapons
(Short observations on all sorts of men and
theories in many periods and countries—all
proving the practical power of ideas.)
10. Eliot: The Ramparts We Watch
(The best book yet about American defense.)
11. Havlock Ellis: My Life
(The greatest authority on the psychology
of sex tells how he developed his theories
and his own philosophy.)
12. Manly: Aviation from the Ground Up
(A well-recommended popular survey of the
subject.)
13. Stuart Chase: Idle Money, Idle Men
(The latest book of the most popular writer
on economic subjects.)
14. Zinsser: As I Remember Him
(Autobiography of a bacteriologist which
shows you what “science” means.)
15. Ferguson: Venezuela
(Why don’t the Aggies read more about Latin
America ?)
16. Tolischus: They Wanted War
(Makes you understand Hitler’s hold on his
people.)
17. Stefansson: Unsolved Mysteries of the Artie
(The most intelligent of explorers.)
18. Clyne: Engineering Opportunities
19. Van Loon: The Story of the Bible
1,0. Dobie: Coronado’s Children
(G'ood old Texas stuff.)
As the World Turns
BY R. W. STEEN
The war boom is looked upon with pleasure by
those persons who hope soon to see an industrial
ized Texas. Industry has been making its way into
the state at a fairly rapid pace for a number of
years. King Cotton has long since been supplanted
by King Oil. In fact the products of the oil fields
in Texas exceed in value the products of all of the
farms and ranches in the state. The value added
to goods by manufacture in Teaxs plants greatly
exceeds the value of the products of all of the farms
and ranches of the state. Yet not even the Cham
ber of Commerce calls Texas an industrial state.
The boom resulting from defense contracts has
speeded up the process of industrialization. Dur
ing the last fiscal year defense contracts of about
$600,000,000 were awarded in Texas. This means
of course that old industries are expanding and
that new ones are being established. This fact is
a source of pleasure to those persons who have not
been content to think in terms of cotton and leather
and peanuts, but who have preferred to think in
terms of shirts and shoes and peanut butter. New
factories are pleasing indeed to those who have
seen the vision of smokestacks challenging the
clouds.
The national defense program will aid the revival
of the iron industry in East Texas. A consider
able amount of low grade iron ore is to be found in
several East Texas counties. Attempts have been
made in the past to develop this resource, but all
attempts failed due to the lack of a proper fuel
for operating smelters. A new company has re
cently been organized which plans to use a new
ly developed process by which the smelting can be
done by using natural gas as a fuel. The com
pany might have prospered without a national de
fense program, but that program will do much to
guarantee the success of the company. Once on
its feet it should be able to stand alone after the
defense program has run its course. Many other
industries which will profit from the defense pro
gram will doubtless remain after the crisis has
passed. This is probably true of shipbuilding yards
and airplane plants, and may be true of many
other industries as well.
Texas is now in a period of transition... It is per
haps too soon to call it an industrial state, but
it can no longer be accurately described as an agri
cultural state.
Quotable Quotes
“ASTROLOGY IS NOW trying once more to gain
recognition as a science by the use of methods
that are strangely reminiscent of those used with
success during the Middle Ages. By offering the
public the horoscope as a substitute for honest and
sustained thinking, astrologers have been guilty of
playing upon the human tendency to take easy
rather than difficult paths.” A report of the Bos
ton and Cambridge branch of the American Asso
ciation of Scientific Workers warns the public
against unscientific “magical practice.”
Especially-adapted for high temperatures is a
new lubricating oil which does its work, then van
ishes without a trace. Researchers say it goes far
toward solding the problems of lubrication in kiln
cars, glass-making machinery, ceramics and glass
molds, annealing and baking ovens, working parts
of die-casting machines and various hot parts of
machines in the metal industries.
One of New York’s leading interior decorators
and custom furniture craftsman is using carrier
pigeons for communication between job and shop.
Leaving the shop to survey a new project, frequent
ly on an estate 30 miles away he carries several
carrier pigeons. Measurements made and needs in
the way of materials ascertained, the data are at
tached to the pigeon and shortly are delivered at
the shop. Recently, on a job 35 miles out, the
needed materials were delivered within an hour after
the pigeon had been dispatched.
BACKWASH
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action
By
Charlie Babcock
or occurrence.”—Webster
Hot Weather Reports. . . . With
military affairs becoming a defi
nite scheme of things, Aggieland’s
1941-42 population should set an
in the race. Local members of the
organization include the owner and
manager of the Campus Theater,
Ben Ferguson and Charlie Tigner.
An entrance fee of $10 will re-
all-time record, states the Regis- turn more than $2)000 to the lucky
By Jack Decker
Again we are faced with a week
the new dormi- interested “ in taking an interest in ful1 of nothing but books—as al-
trar . . . Official
word has it that
owners of winning turtles. And
incidentally, those of you who are
tones will prob- the derby contact Tignei ,
ably be ready for wan t s to sell nine shares in one
ways, the last resort—and some
movies, good, bad, and mediocre,
Babcock
occupancy by the
beginning of the
second semester
of the long ses
sion. ... In an
swer to many re-
c e n t inquiries
of the turtles at a dollar a throw, P ass ^ me - A®
usual the “juke box” claims the
retaining a ten per cent investment
for himself.
• • •
main spot.
Easily the best show scheduled
^ • for this week is “The Devil and
ocl VlCc Miss Jones,” showing at the mid-
Through the courtesy of the night prevue Saturday night which,
concerning the whereabouts of Rev- ACP, a story is told of the plight incidentally, does not start until
eille, the information is that she a Dartmouth College junior who everyone has had a chance to get
is still roaming the campus as hap- sa ^ last row in one of his away from the prom and to the
py and carefree as ever . . . How ^ ec ^ ures reading a story in a daily show.
many of you know that E. E. Me- P a P er which began on the first Jean Arthur, taking the lead in
Quillen, secretary of the A. & M. P a & e an( ^ was continued on page “The Devil and Miss Jones,” puts
Former Students Association, was ei §' ht - He couldn’t lift the paper 0 ut with a performance sprinkled
one of the foremost radio sports to turn the P a S es for fear the with plenty of laughs and good
announcers in Texas about ten P ro: f essor would see it, and he didn’t acting; this is just the right type
years ago? . . . Mothers and Dads ^ ave room to turn them if he kept of light comedy for her style of
are still number one in the eyes the dail y down out °f sight. actin g-
of most Aggies. Texas A. & M. ^ i-here for five minutes The story concerns the mess the
students spent $78,438.99 for gifts tr y in g to turn th e pages slowly reportedly richest man in the world
for their parents during the past so D^t they wouldn’t crackle and Charles Coburn, gets into when
year, while girl friends on the oth- was j ust about to ^ve a P in dis- he decides to go among his em-
er hand caused a dent of $58,741.10 S ust when th e man sitting directly ployes incognito as a commoner to
in the corps’ pocketbook . . . Sug- in front of him turned and gave determine those responsible for
him a paper which was already ar- unrest and agitation
ranged at page eight. “Thought ment store, one of his lesser enter- g leg and ^ ife come along and ^
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Wednesday, Thursday —
‘NO TIME FOR COMEDY,”
starring James Stewart and
Rosalind Russell. Also “FOUR
MOTHERS,” featuring The
Lane sisters, Jeffry Lynn,
and Frank McHugh.
Friday, Saturday—“EAST
OF THE RIVER,” starring
John Garfield, Brenda Mar
shall. Also “RIDIN’ ON A
RAINBOW,” with Gene Aut-
ey.
Saturday night prevue,
Sunday, Monday — “THE
DEVIL AND MISS JONES,”
starring Jean Arthur and
Robert Cummings.
Tuesday only — “FOR
BEAUTY’S SAKE,” with
Marjorie Weaver and Ned
Sparks.
phisticated wom'an-about-town—
becomes his wife and everything
A depait- g. oeg a ] on g. we jj un ti] Charlie Rug-
rious play. As is expected, it is a
Conscript, Yard-bird, Joan of Arc,
and Destroyer. ... In answer to
the rumor that the boulevard ex
tending from the Administration
building to the East Gate is a
as a highway.
a spy to a savior through the kind- fl and through a serieg of mis _
ness, consideration and love of his understandings Stewart and wife
are separated. Things inevitably
work out though, and everyone is
happy. A good show.
The show in doubt is “East of the
gestions have poured in as names
ior A. Sz M.’s famous filly coik - -- - - . ••li.j.ff -i-- => =>
Among the more prominent sub- y° u mi S ht be having trouble,” he Pnses is selected for his mvestiga- Jimmy into trying to write a ge _
mitted were—Blitzkrieg, Draftee, « aid - “I bad # a ^ myself.” How be 18 transformed from
Mess Hclll Hits fellow workers; the unfair petty
Favorite jukebox selections took tyrannies of his managers furnish-
a whipping at Saturday night’s e s the plot.
prom . . <. meaning that only one pjj s run _i ns w jth the store spies
state highway, the reply is no. The recording of the preceding week’s wbo accuse hj m 0 f chewing gum, River ” the lead being taken by
street was built by the state de- “big three’ retained its high rank- his accidental sitting in on a meet- j 0 hn Garfield and the ton acting
partment but was not designated ing. in g of his employees who are plan- hon o rs received by Marjorie Ram
Requests for numbers were more ning ways and means to strike beau who plays an Italian mother,
evenly divided over the field, caus- for better working conditions, his The camera focuses on the teem
ing the winners again to be close- conversion to a labor sympathizer, j ng . c jty 0 f New York, and when
ly bunched. The repeat tune was and his Jean Arthur’s mastication it is all over, the audience should
“Yes Indeed” in first place for of a list of union members are a depart having once again gone
odds, its your own pick from Hedy the second consecutive time with few of the funnier sequences. Don’t over a familiar series of emotional
Lamarr to Clark Gable . . . which nine votes. Replacing the former miss this if you enjoy good light a nd dramatic hurdles,
means that the Second Annual favorites in second and third comedy. John Garfield plays his stereo-
places were “Until Tomorrow” Out of the assorted list of screen typed role—gangster, hard buy,
with eight requests and “Blue entertainments (?) that make up know-it-all, and the entire show
Champagne” with seven. the rest of the bill for the week adds upto a show of medium pro-
Notable among the hits fast there are one, perhaps two, shows gram caliber, if not worse,
ity as a purpose, practically every climbing in popularity were “Inter- that may be classed as something
top-ranking cinema star in Holly- mezzo,” “Daddy,” “I Understand,” to see.
• •
Turtle Derby
With entrants racing
at even
National Turtle Derby will be held
in Dallas on Labor Day.
Sponsored by the Variety Club
of Texas with contributions to char-
wood has entered a speedy terrapin and “Yours.”
Pickin’ Up Plates
By Jeanne Elwood
At last the great event has oc
curred—A. S. C. A. P. has finally
agreed to come to B. M. I.’s terms.
The effect on the record business
will be felt in a couple of months.
But at the preesnt, “You and I”
er.” Bob Crosby’s “Do You Care”
is rising swiftly in popular favor. ta ken by two people who are good
For those who especially crave comedians and actors in their own
plenty of rhythm, Bob Chester hight, and when cast together,
recently made “Clap Your Hands
on the After Beat.” “ ’Til Rev-
Assault and battery cases are
The first, “No Time for Comedy,” most numerous on days of low hu-
starring Jimmy Stewart and Ros- midity according to Dr. Oliver H.
alin Russell is a good piece of en- Ohmann, a Cleveland phycholo-
tertainment which is an adaptation gist.
of the Broadway play of the same
name which ran for some time;
the adaptation however, is rather
far fetched. Nevertheless, it’s good
entertainment with the two leads
make a?' good comedy team.
The “No Time For Comedy” plot
deals with a country hick coming
eille,” a beautiful ballad which to the city and producing success-
backed up by “The Angels Came is reminiscent of army life, has been ful comedies. The star of his shows,
Thru” is the best seller. Locally,
the same orchestra’s recording of
“Boulder Buff’ and “The Booglie being the best of the three.
Wooglie Piggy” is by far the most
popular disc. Both sides are ex
cellent for dancing. If you want
really good rhythm, try “Yes In
deed” by Tommy Dorsey; he really
recorded by Tony Pastor, Bing played by Rosalind Russell—a so-
Crosby, and Kay Kyser—the latter
“Love
Me As I Am” from the picture
“Caught in the Draft” and done
by Tommy Dorsey and Vaughn
Monroe is what music critics call
a “natural.” It has everything
does a grand job on this one. Main- necessary for summer hitdom.
ly for youngsters and older people
is “Be Honest with Me” and “Good
bye Little Darling,” two Gene for all their fans.
Autry songs, done by Bing Cros- From It All” by
by-
Jimmy Dorsey’s “Blue Cham
“Aurora” and “Music Makers” by
the Andrews Sisters is a “must”
“Let’s Get Away
Gene Krupa got
off to a slow start but has finally
started going. Again Tommy
pagne” is still up there on top and Dorsey has appeared with an ex
will probably remain there a good
while, for it has the makings of
cellent twelve-inch disc. On one
side of it is “For You” and on the
a real hit. “Adios” by Glenn Miller other is that famous swing class
ic, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”
To Kay Kyser’s long list of hit
added “The Cow-
reveals the best its recorder has to
offer and that’s saying plenty. A
coming hit—“Under Blue Canadian releases can be
Skies” is the backer-upper. Still boy Serenade.
going at a strong pace are Jim- It seems as though the popular
my Dorsey’s “Green Eyes” and songs of a few years ago are com-
“Yours,” and Glenn Miller’s ing back into popularity. At the
“Sweeter Than the Sweetest.” The last few juke boxes,. “Sunrise Ser-
latter has a haunting melody that enade” by Glenn Miller has been
lingers for hours in one’s head, played a good deal. Could we by
There are a number of records any chance be tiring of today’s
popular music ? Who knows—
“The Band Played On” may yet
to keep an eye on. Some are list
ed below. A great novelty hit is
Sammy Kaye’s “The Reluctant lead the hit parade!
Dragon.” Oddly enough, the part
of the dragon is sung by the or- Fifty-five U. S. medical schools
chestra’s road manager; this will have devised 336 different titles for
be his one, and only, vocal. Frank their 2,418 professors.
Sinatra is at his best in Tommy
Dorsey’s recording of “This Love —
of Mine.” It is backed up by
“Neiani,” sung slowly and sweet
ly as only the Pied Pipers can
sing. Victor has given this record
a great build-up. Alvino Rey has a
prospective hit in his disc, “A Ro
mantic Guy, I.” Art Jarrett, who
recently took over the late Hal
Kemp’s orchestra—complete with
arrangers, book of arrangements,
and the Smoothies—has done
“Loveliness and Love” and “You
Started Something.” Keep an eye
on the orchestra as well as the
record. Art Jarrett is one of
those vocalists with strong femin
ine appeal. Vaughn Monroe, who
has of late become one of the top
notch bands in the country, has
done well by “A Rose and A Pray-
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