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to; Page 2 THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1941 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Hlechanical 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, $3 a school year. 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. Don Gabriel Editor E. M. Rosenthal .'. Associate Editor Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager Sports Staff Mike Haikin 1 Sports Editor W. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant Jerry Gleason, D. B. Gofer Junior Sports Editors Circulation Staff E. D. Wilmeth Circulation Manager Saturday’s Staff D. C. Thurman Managing Editor Jack Lamberson Assistant Advertising Manager Charlie Babcock Junior Editor Mike Speer Junior Editor Reporters: Benton Taylor, W. J. Hamilton, Jr., Douglass Lancaster OH to a Great Start The Aggie year of 1941-42 is off to a great beginning. Such an excellent start demands that the cadet corps continue the good work. Registration has been completed in a manner that does credit to the registrar’s office and to the administrative officers of the college. The plan of the registrar’s office to permit classified seniors and first ser geants to register on Tuesday was a success ful innovation. This plan should be continued in future years. On the first day of regis tration 555 classified seniors and first ser geants took advantage of the early registra tion date. Thursday night, the freshmen had their first introduction to A. & M. as the entire student body joined in the traditional Col lege Night activities. The spirit and en- thusiam that were shown at the first yell practice seem to be indicative of a success ful college session this year. Aggieland seems to be alive with every one back in unform, but it’s the same old A. & M. The corps must see that it stays that way. Changes will be made this year, but it is the responsibility of the corps to see that any changes made are for the bene fit of the corps. The big job which lies ahead is to see that we take advantage of the educational op portunities which A. & M. offers. A. & M. is fundamentaly an educational institution. The first duty that an Aggie has at A. & M. is to see that full advantage is taken of the educational facilities of A. & M. This is the sixty-fifth year of the col lege’s existence. With the cooperation of every Aggie, it can be the best. Your college is giving you an opportunity to educate your self; make the most of it. Classes have started again, the football season is once more here with A. & M. Every indication points to a successful college year. Do your part this year to improve yourself and your school. Open Foram Editor’s Note: The following Open Forum article was carried in The Summer Battalion this year. It aptly expresses a need for a Union Building at A. & M. The Battalion would appreciate further comments from the student body on the subject of a Union Building. TO THE BATTALION; From an Old Aggie to Those not so old: When I went to A. & M.—We didn’t know much or expect very much either. We sawed our wood and carried it up to the top of Ross Hall, or stole in from the more ener getic fish. We pumped our water out of cisterns and used the good old No. 3 round type of tub, and dumped it on the “Bull” or down on stoop No. 1 when we were finished with it. The “Sink” was located where the “Old Chem building” was built; there were lots of good quarter men in those days, speed was essential. We walked to Bryan and we walked back, after “Taps”—We thought we were hell raisers, and I guess we were. Mamas didn’t let their little daughters roam around College Station in those days. But times have changed—now the Ag gies, have everything, but one thing, that any other school in the land can boast of. WHY is it that the BEST SCHOOL in the big state of Texas has no UNION BUILD ING? Why is it that when you go down to visit the place, you have to sit on a bench in the sun, or climb a mile of stairs to find a rest room for your old wife or mother? Why is it that a visitor has to drive a hundred miles to find a place to stay all night if he wants to witness the Final Review the next morning? I have been asked these questions by dozens of people who have been there. I haven’t the answer. A school the size of Texas A. & M. without a Union building or any place for a stranger to rest or stay over night in com fort is as out of date as it was during the days I spent there. A. & M. is a college now, and ranks with the High Brow schools in the country, but to a stranger visiting it who does not know the tradition behind it, it looks like an institu tion. It’s up to you young fellows to bring the old school up to date, you know that I’m right in what I say about it; if I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t give a damn about it. An old Aggie, who wouldn’t climb that filght of stairs at the “Y” to shake hands with John Kimbrough. I’ll take that back, I’ll get up there somehow, for that privilege. Slayton W. Hamner, ’04 Healdton, Okla. The World Turns On :3y Dr. R. W. Steen: Education and Work In speaking of American colleges, Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, stated recently, “We must have schblarships, arid scholarships large enough so that the student can spend most of his time studying. . .” There is a definite need for more schol arships to encourage the pursuit of scholastic enlightment, but today’s college students are getting misguided attitudes concerning what their colleges or the government owes them to keep them in school. Certain students are kept in coke and cigaret money by N.Y.A. jobs, but this is a minority of the total group. N.Y.A. is a worthy policy and should be extended to in clude as many members of the student body as possible who actually need the aid to further their education. But mental labor is more strenuous than physical labor. Getting an education is an 8-hour day, full time job. There is little time for other work. Students who stay up work ing all night to stay in school the next day are completely off the right track. And those who use the college jobs or N.Y.A. as mere fronts to say “I’m helping pay my way through college” when they really don’t need the money and should be studying instead, are equally misdirecting the purpose of stu dent financial aid. This is not to advocate doing away with student employment at all. Many students are enabled to attend school by working who would not be able to otherwise. And from actual records, students who are employed make better average grades than the un employed group. But this idea of “the world owes me a living because I’m a college student” is det rimental to character moulding. Viewed with the other group who are sacrificing grades, social activities, and health and everything on the altar of education, it shows that an ever growing section of students are finding learning secondary to attending college, and drawing the check first. The answer lies not in awarding scholar ships or abolishing student employment, but in using discrimination concerning student’s jobs and remembering that college is a place to promote learning and not financial schemes. —The East Texan, E. T. S. T. C. Steen Kollegiate Kaleidoscope COVERIWG Although he ha? been BUMP -SINCE EARLY BOYHOOD TJ.ASH%N> I? THE SUCCESSFUL BAND DIRECTOR OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE/ campus disMONS Sr WITH |?|™VANN0Y & ife w • BUCK5HOT- the Senior Walk at the UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS HA? THE NAMES OF ALL GRAD UATES (OVER 4000) ENGRAVED ON IT/ ** . BACKWASH W BUTLER IN THE LAMBDA BM CHI HOUSE AT ALABAMA HAS NAMED THREE OF MIS’ OFFSPRING LAMBDA, CHI AND ALPHA / By Charlie Babcock A little something on the lighter, musical side is “THERE’S MUSIC IN ROMANCE” at the Assembly Hall today with Allan Jones, Su sanna Foster, and Margaret Lind say playing the leading roles. It is better than average story with that wonderful voice of Allan’s to help out. “WASHINGTON MELO DRAMA” is to be shown at the Assembly Hall Monday. In spite of the fact that Frank Morgan is starred, it is really a disappoint ment as far as entertainment is concerned. It is an old story that has been revived and given a mod ern angle or two, but it just fails to have that certain punch that is needed to make it a real show. If the blues have already gotten a good hold on you, then take time to go see “IN THE NAVY” at the Campus today. Abbott and Costello and Dick Powell are the stars, and then, of course, there are the Andrews sisters. “In the Navy” is the sailors’ version of “Buck Pri vates” and there is a marked sim ilarity between the two. And of course the Andrews Sis ters harmonizing is among the best. The antics that Abbott and Cosetello can think up are bound to keep you laughing from the first frame to the last. W1IATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Saturday—“THERE’S MA GIC IN MUSIC,” with Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, and Margaret Lindsay. Monday—“WASHINGTON MELODRAMA,” starring Frank Morgan, and Ann Rutherford. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday—“IN THE NA VY,” with Abbott and Costel lo, Dick Powell, and the An drews Sisiters. Saturday prevue, Sunday, Monday—“THE KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS,” featuring Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone. — "Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster Freedom of the seas is by no means a new principle of American foreign policy but a principle of which little has been said since 1939. For more than ten years before 1812 the United States quarreled with Britain and France over the rights of neutral vessels on the high seas. Finally the Unit- ed States was drawn into a war H by a series of events involving ||| chiefly the capture of Amer- | ican vessels at sea. ggp Freedom of the seas and I* isolation are in fact contradic- I Lory policies. The one insists | that the seas belong to all na- i tions in war as well as in peace. | It implies that trade is essen tial to the economic welfare, and perhaps even to the life, of any given country. The oth er insists that a country should live at home if need be and that it should renounce its rights on the seas if war places its ships in danger. American foreign policy has followed roughly a more or less, uniform pattern. Iso lation has been the rule during most of our history, but in practically every instance the policy has been abandoned when put to a severe test. Prior to the war of 1812 Pres ident Jefferson placed an embargo on ship ments from American ports, but the policy was soon abandoned, and in 1812 President Madison could find no course other than war. The condition prior to the first World War was similar. There was no embargo, but Americans at first said little about freedom of the seas. Finally, however, President Wil son and the American people came to resent the “Verboten” sign which Germany had posted in the Atlantic, and war was the re sult. President Roosevelt in his address on Thursday evening clearly indicated a shift in policy since 1939. In that year American ships were practically ordered off the seas. Recently they have been permitted to sail to numerous ports, and now President Roose velt has ordered American naval vessels to fire at Axis raiders in American waters on sight. He has not demanded as yet freedom of all the seas for American vessels but has demanded freedom of American seas for American vessels, and his definition of Amer ican seas is not a modest one. Moreover he is attempting to close American seas to Axis war vessels. This is another and an import ant step in the American program of aid to Britain. It may lead to an undeclared naval war. It may lead to an all out declared war. Only 73 Days Until Christmas . . . But Santa Claus comes to Aggie land when Texas plays here Tur key Day . . . Out of the ordinary is the case of a 1940-41 freshman who hadn’t pur chased a coupon hook and not hav ing enough money to pay the regu lar $5 fee for a Longhorn, asked permission from officials that he might have one of the extra Babcock Longhorns a t cost. The fish’ hopes were high when he was granted the request. However the cash register rang NO SALE when the prospecitve buyer was informed that the actu al cost of a Longhorn is $6.50 . . . Professor J. G. H. Thompson of the M. E. department is still looking for the energetic Aggie who sent a card to him this summer asking about his M. E. 212 grade. Thomp son was willing to respond, but there was no name for return ad dress attached to the correspond ence. ... It won’t be long. The first issue of the Battalion Maga zine will hit the street within a few days . . . Field Artillery fresh man, Winfred Bean, assumed ma jor proportions of transportation this summer when he flew by air liner from Los Angeles, Califor nia, to Houston, Texas, in less than nine hours . . . The Agricul turalist and The Engineer are prog ressing this year with a boost to eight issues for the long session instead of the usual four . . . Per taining to the Y.M.C.A. picture show set-up for this year, it can be said that the Y privilege cards- will be good for the usual Satur day show or may be used the fol lowing Monday in lieu of the Sat urday feature . . .Tom Power, 1940-41 Editor of the Agricultural ist, was the first person to send in his subscription for The Bat talion and The Agriculturalist. “Jawn” Gives Ring “The Lone Star Ranger” stopped cow-punching long enough this week to give his “lady-fair” a dia mond ring as a token of love and engagement to marry. Certainly, it was the Aggie full back, John Kimbrough, who halt ed his cinema duties on the sound (Continued on Page 3) WELCOME AGGIES! Come To THE AGGIELAND BARBER SHOP For Better Haircuts — Shaves — Shampoos Across from Post Office at North Gate Qampm Correctly Air-Conditioned by Frigidaire 15? L) 5 P. M. — 20? After 70? All Day Sunday LAST DAY “IN THE NAVY” With BUD ABBOTT and LEW COSTELLO Plus Cartoon — News PREVUE TONIGHT 11 P. M. SUNDAY — MONDAY Go in 9:00 P. M. — See Both Shows Hilariously romantic! SHI KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS JOAN starring FRANCHOT ’ k COLUMBIA PICTURE Plus “WABBIT TWACKS” Short — News FREEMANS WOULDN’T WANT YOU TO MISS... jja ysi, ★ Hand Stained Winter-weight Leathers. 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