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Seniors! Act Tonight
Members of this year’s Senior Class will make
one of their most important decisions of the
year tonight.
The class of ’42 will meet in Guion Hall
to elect its class officers for the ensuing
year. Important changes have been made at
A. & M. this year. No doubt, more changes
will be made. The Senior Class must have a
set of officers who will see that the interests
of the Senior Class are guarded.
A capable group of class officers can
maintain the prestige and power of the Se
nior Class. The president of the class should
also have a set of efficient officers to aid
and assist him. This may be an important
year for A. & M.; the seniors must have men
who can be depended upon to do the right
thing.
Seniors, if the officers are to have these
responsibilities, then they must have the
support of the entire class. The class must
turn out to a man for the election. Last year,
the class proved that it could act as was seen
by the vote on boots. Be at the meeting to
night !
Aid Fund for Aggies
The Texas A. & M. Student Aid Fund, the
only fund of its kind in a Southwestern col
lege, is again in operation helping Aggies
and is now requesting members of the corps
to donate 15 cents per man so that its as
sistance to other Aggies may be increased.
It is the only fund of its kind because
this is the only student body where students
take any interest in the welfare of their fel
lows. Only in such a closely united and loyal
group would there be any incentive for some
students to help others in their college life,
but the loyalty and spirit which has so char
acterized A. & M. for 65 years resulted last
year in the formation of the Student Aid
Fund, a fund to provide needed medical at
tention to worthy Aggies.
Old students need no further explanation
of the good of the fund in providing this aid.
Although in operation only an initial half-
year, the fund provided direct aid to Aggies,
buying them glasses, paying for dental work,
hospital bills, operations, and examinations
which were essential to the Aggies continued
well-being but which he could not afford.
The fund also pays for the sending of floral
wreaths to the families of Aggies which have
suffered a death. With its continued and en
larged operation this year that assistance
will be extended to an ever larger group of
Aggies.
It is too, a revolving fund for the as
sistance of fellow Aggies that the corps is
being asked to give 15 cents per man. All
the money will be used as honor loans to
Aggies in need of medical attention to con
tinue their schooling, and the honor loans
will be returned after several years for
further use by Aggies. Fifteen cents is a
small amount and it is asked for a worthy
purpose.
Things Worth Reading
— By Dr. T. F. Mayo-m: =
Berlin Diary: The Season’s Disappointment
No book about “inside Germany” is a good
book, to the present reviewer at least, unless
it answers this question: “What sound and
wholesome benefit is Hitler giving the Ger
man people to retain the approval and loyal
cooperation of millions of intelligent and de
cent Germans?” William L. Schirer’s Berlin
Diary does not answer this question. To me,
therefore, despite its wealth of entertaining
and gossipy information, it is a disappoint
ment.
Mr. Schirer has apparently been a news-
gatherer so long that he has completely fail
ed to form the habit of looking underneath
the welter and glitter of day-by-day events
deep and powerful currents from which these
in order to distinguish and contemplate the
events are merely the foam and spray. If you
trust this book as an explanation of con
temporary Germany, then the whole pheno
menon is the work, mysterious if not mag
ical, of one neurotic genius, brought about
by a sort of mass hypnosis. Moreover, Mr.
Schirer thinks that the German people are
not like other people. The (who have con
tributed as much to our common Western
civilization as any one group) are only super
ficially civilized, he says, subject to periodic
upheavals of their essential barbarism, which
burst the thin crust of their assumed decency
and intelligence.
Now I submit that neither of these ideas
make sense. Of course we all have uncivilized
streaks in us, and of course we are all sub
ject at times to the wiles of the spell-binder.
(Even the Aggies have been known to give
way to mass hysteria—and not a hundred
years ago, either!) But everybody knows,
when he’s not all hot and bothered, that there
must be millions of Germans just as decent
and just as smart as the millions of ordinary
Americans like you and me. And the extra
ordinary achievements of Germany just be
fore and during this War would seem to prove
that these decent and intelligent millions are
whole-heartedly in favor of the set-up that
Hitler has given them. What then are the
solid benefits of this set-up? This, it seems
to me, is the really interesting question about
Hitler’s Germany. v
Of course, having won this popular sup
port, Hitler has used it for the most outrag
eous world aims. He has also supplemented
it with wealth and support gained through
his barbarious and unpardonable treatment
of Jews and Liberals. Like Napoleon, he is
great in his mastery of means, but contmpt-
ible in his choice of ends. Both rascals knew
how to get what they wanted, but, being ras
cals, didn’t know what to want. And since
Hitler’s aims are abhorrent to us we are,
rightly I think, supporting those who are
trying to frustrate him.
I for one, however, don’t believe that
the best way to beat a set-up is to underrate
either its power or the modicum of soundness
and goodness upon which the power of any
set-up is always bsed. No matter how crazily
cruel Hitler may be, if he’s “got something,”
I for one want to know what it is.
So this column does not recommend
Schirer’s Berlin Diary except as a fast-mov
ing and exciting movie of vast and dramatic
events. When you get through it, I can’t
see that you will be a bit more intelligent
about the War than you were before. A far
better book, though perhaps not so entertain
ing, is Freda Utley’s The Dream We Lost,
especially (about Germany) the last chap
ter, “Can National Socialism Be Tamed?”.
Or you might try Henry C. Wolfe’s The
German Octopus, or They Wanted War, by
Tolischus.
But whatever you read in your search
for enlightenment, demand of its author that
he answer for you the question: “What has
Hitler’s Set-up got (socially, psychologically)
that we haven’t got?” That’s the only way
to do what every wise man tries to do: Learn
from our enemies.
The best liar is he who makes the
smallest amount of lying go the long
est way—ivho husbands it too careful
ly to ivaste it where it can be dispensed
with. —Samuel Butler.
The World Turns On
Bv A. F. Chalk -
Some groups in our country have suggested
that the U. S. could, if necessary, engage
successfully in an economic war for foreign
markets in the event Germany should win
the war. This is the second of three alterna
tive foreign trade policies mentioned by the
writer in a previous article. It is being pro
posed by many so-called isolationists who
maintain that our resources are so great we
have little to fear from authoritarian Europe
organized as a single, well-integrated eco
nomic unit.
If economic conflict should occur, the
issue probably would not be that of “active”
economic war, but rather that of whether or
not any kind of trade should continue in the
major markets. It can be safely assumed that
if we should become involved in an economic
struggle with Germany, the European mar
kets would be the first to be lost. Germany
would merely force its conquered countries
to cease all trade relations with us, and it
must be born in mind that this would in
volve a loss of about two-thirds of our total
world trade. Trade would cease and there
would be no active and continuous competitive
bidding for European markets. In all prob
ability Germany and other European powers
would achieve complete control over the re
sources of Africa, and for all practical pur
poses our trade with that continent would
stop. The same situation would obtain in the
East if Japan should continue to coordinate
her national policies with those of Germany.
Europe, Asia and Africa would become
more or less self-sufficient economically. This
would leave us two alternatives, either of
which would involve great difficulties. The
first alternative would be that of using mil
itary force to open closed markets. Such a
policy is outside the field of present discus
sion. The second would be that of attempt
ing to monopolize the Latin American mar
ket as an offset against the totalitarian con
trol of European and Asiatic resources.
The Latin-American countries need in
dustrial products such as those we produce,
but at the same time they have to dispose of
their agricultural production, which is much
more than we can use at a reasonable price.
We could purchase this excess agricultural
production as a means of monopolizing the
markets of this hemisphere, but the economic
burden would be tremendous. In fact, such a
procedure could be justified only on the
grounds of national defense. In any case, the
cost of losing our trade with Europe and
Asia, added to the cost of purchasing large
amounts of Latin-American agricultural pro
ducts, would vitally effect our economy.
THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
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BACKWASH
By
Charlie Babcock
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Aggie Bull Session ... A recent
survey taken at Texas U. reveals
that six out of every ten uni
versity students will speak if
spoken to first while passing on
the campus . . . Conversation shifts
to the story of
the wrestling
coach who pati
ently tried to ex
plain the funda
mentals of the
grunt and groan
art to his only
mildly interested
pupils. None
seemed to under-
Babcock stand, and the
light of learning burned low. Fin
ally in sheer desperation he wrote
in bold white letters across the
gym ceiling: “If you can read
this, you’re in the wrongs posi
tion.” ... A word of commenda
tion should be extended to those
freshmen having the “unfortun
ate opportunity” of living in corps
headquarter dormitories. Most of
them are on their way to becom
ing real Aggies, despite the fact
thst they can’t live with military
organizations. Reports have been
to the effect that when some of
the Leggett fish were informed that
they couldn’t clean up rooms, they
refused to do so, stating that they
didn’t want to handicap themselves
by not going through a freshman
year!
• • •
What About Twins?
AGP reports the following from
last year’s collegiate world:
Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Potts
In 1881 an act was passed in the
state legislature providing that
three boys were to be picked from
each senatorial district to attend
A. & M. free of charge—with one-
half of the boys taking agricul
tural work and one-half taking me
chanical work.
PALACE
THURSDAY — FRIDAY — SATURDAY
Preview 11 P. M. Sat. Night — Sun.—Mon. Tues.
“KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE ,,
COVERING
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had a double problem on their
hands—attending classes at Baylor
university and taking care of their
year-and-a-half-old daughter.
They arranged their class sched
ules so one could be with the
baby at all times, but it happen
ed that each took alternate hours
so the baby-to-class and class-to-
baby rush came every hour from
8 a. m. to 2:40 p. m.
And, as bad luck would have
it, they found that there was no
house available near the campus
to permit them time for the baby-
to-class and class-to-baby sprints.
So, they worked it out like this:
Rev. Potts went to his eight
o’clock class, leaving Mrs. Potts
with the baby. A 8:55 he hurried
toward home. On the way he met
his wife, carrying the child in her
arms. She handed him the baby
and hurried on to school. He took
the little girl home again.
The exchange occurred from
father to mother at 10 a. m., from
mother to father at 11:40 a. m.
and so on throughout the day.
Of course, the baby got plenty
of airing and when one of her
parents was a little late she
changed hands with the mother and
father almost on the run.
Here is another musical show
that is very enjoyable. It is “POT
O’ GOLD showing at the Assem
bly Hall today and tomorrow.
James Stewart, Paulette God
dard, and Horace Heidt and his
orchestra are the stars. It marks
the debut of James Roosevelt, son
of the President, as a movie pro
ducer, and it is a nicely done job.
The title of the film is taken from
the radio show of the same name,
and the only connection is that
Horace Heidt plays for both.
Jimmy arrives in the city, penni
less, and takes up with Paulette
Goddard, and Heidt’s orchestra.
They practice across the street
from the office of Stewart’s mil
lionaire uncle who objects to the
music. So the uncle and the musi
cians tangle and guess who wins,
Jimmy and Paulette, of course.
The comedy as provided by
Stewart and Goddard is superb.
And we must not neglect to men
tion Horace Heidt’s Musical
Knights for they have done as good
a job as always.
“ACCENT ON LOVE” is to be
shown at the Campus for the last
time today. George Montgom
ery is trying to work out his fam-
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200 All Day Sunday
LAST DAY
ily and social problems. He gives
up his good white-collar job and
goes to digging ditches, and does
not rest until the wrinkles in his
life have been ironed out.
WHATS SHOWING
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Thursday, Friday—“POT
O’ GOLD,” starring James
Stewart, Paulette Goddard,
and Horace Heidt.
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday—“ACCENT ON
LOVE,” with George Mont
gomery, Cobina Wright, Jr.,
and Carrol Naish.
Friday, Saturday—“WILD
GEESE CALLING,” featur
ing Henry Fonda and Joan
Bennett.
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“Blue Danube Waltz”
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Major”—Pederewski
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Minor”
“Emperor Waltz” — Boston
“Pops” Orchestra
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