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Page 2 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER 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, $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 4-3444. Don Gabriel Editor E. M. Rosenthal Associate Editoi Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager Sports Staff Mike Halkin Sports Editor W. F. Oxford ....'..Assistant Sports Editor Mike Mann i,..............Senior Sports Assistant Jerry Gleason, D. B. Cofer Junior Sports Editors Circulation Staff E. D. Wilmeth Circulation Manager Photography Staff Jack Jones..., Staff Photographer Bob .Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers Thursday’s Staff Lee Rogers Managing Editor Charles Babcock Junior Editor Clyde Franklin , ij..; Junior Editor Reportorial Staff Tom Leland, W. J. Hamilton, Calvin Brumley, Charles McKnight, C. G. Scruggs, John May, Douglass Lancaster. THE BATTALION On to San Antonio Aggieland moves westward Saturday. The ca det corps will descend upon San Antonio this weekend for the game with A. & I. The “twelfth man” should be on hand to support the team in its first appearance of the year away from home. Everyone should make a real effort to follow the team to the Alamo City. Though not an official corps trip, a large portion of the corps should be able to make the game. Since the game is to be play ed at night, most of the corps should have an opportunity to be there. Make up your mind now to follow the team! Excused ab sences will not be issued since an effort will be made to secure this privilege for the Ark ansas game in Little Rock. San Antonio showed the cadet corps a real time last fall when the maroon and white met Tulsa university there. Indicative of the fine spirit shown by the people of San Antonio is their payment of the ex penses of the Aggie band to this game. The way to San Antonio is open—the city has extended an invitation for all to come. The team needs our support. A special train will be arranged for the band and those Aggies who care to go on it. For others the traditional mode of transportation, the high way, should be sufficient to carry the cadets to the game. We’ll see you in San Antonio Saturday night, Army. Make it two victories for the Aggies then. there were four male graduates to one fe male. During the last decade, however, there were only three men to two-plus women. At this rate, parity of the sexes will be reached about 1955. College graduates are a fairly young group. Two-thirds of the male graduates and a little more than two-thirds of the women are under forty years of age. The median age of all college graduates is 35.9 years, while that of the whole adult population is 40. “A college degree is very likely to lead women to spinsterhood, but not to lead men to bachelorhood.” 29.1 per cent of the male graduates are single compared to 34.1 per cent of the total male population; of women graduates, 48.9 per cent are still spinsters, compared to 26.4 per cent of the total fe male population. College graduates, moreover, have small families—about three children compared to the four-plus contributed by the average American family. Hence the author draws an interesting conclusion: The increasing student population of the U. S. is coming largely from the homes of non-graduates. In a democracy this is very much as it should be. Now compare this purely factual study with John R. Tunis’s book, “Is College Worth While?” Mr. Tunis, the well-known reporter and philosopher of sport, examined all the surviving members of his own Harvard class, which graduated some twenty-five years ago. As an answer to the question “Was college worth while?”, he found that for his class, at any rate, going to college had not paid for itself financially. On the other hand, he pre- : sents irrefutable evidence that it had paid for itself, many times over, in making life worth living. Have you Aggies ever tried to figure out just what you are getting out of coming to A. & M. ? Of course, there’s the usual an swer about “learning how to get on with people,” and there’s the increase in earning power which you naturally expect. But are these all? If you are really interested in checking up on your four-year investment of time, money, and elbow-grease, read Mr. Tunis’s book. It will almost certainly suggest to you other ways of making college worth while. Kollegiate Kaleidoscope -THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941 COVERING DR, GEORGE W. ■m .v ' DISTINGUISHED NEGRO SCIENTIST, : ; HAS DIRECTED AGRICULTURAL 'T RESEARCH AT TUSKEGEE INSTI- " V . lUTt FOR MORE THAN 39 YEARS. HE IS ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE l ; MEN IN THE COUNTRY TODAY. FI AS MADE 255 USEFUL “ PRODUCTS FROM THE PEA NUT INCLUDING MILK, PICKLES, INK, SHAMPOO, DYES, COFFEE, LARD AND AXLE GREASE/ ALSO MADE 118 PRODUCTS FROM THE SWEET POTATO. caips disrais WITH 'TOM VANNOY 0N ACCOM PLISHED ARTIST. HAS EXHIBITED PAINTINGS ALL OVER WORLD/ HE MAKES HIS PAPER FROM PEANUT SHELLS, PAINTS' FROM CLAY AND FRAMES ARE MADE FROM CORN HUSKS' ’^Tuckjhot r ^ ©VER. 100 STUDENTS COMPRIZE THE STAFF OF THE MINNESOTA DAILY/ Skilled MUSICIAN - TOUR ED U.S. AS A CONCERT PIANIST/ ©XPERT COOK- RECIPES ORIGINATED BY DR. CARVER ARE USED IN LEADING HOTELS THROUGHOUT •■•THE COUNTRY ••• Since iszo, when the u.s. office OF EDUCATION BEGAN COLLECTING STATISTICAL INFORMATION,SOME 3 S 500x000 persons HAVE RECEIVED COLLEGE DEGREES/ BY (barlie Babcock “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster BACKWASH We are always doing something for Pos terity, hut I would fain see Posterity do something for us. —Joseph Addison The World Turns On Babcock will be many attendance at : By A. F. Chalk: Defense Training As the United States maintains its policy of extending all possible aid to those countries fighting Hitler and at the same time is building up our system of domestic defenses, a great need has arisen for menskilled in the production of vital defense materials. A. & M. has responded to the call for trained defense personnel and the facilities of the college are being utilized in the train ing of defense workers. Courses which start ed here this week include power and elec trical circuits, advanced engineering draw ing, camp sanitation, and materials inspect ion and testing. The efforts of the college are not limit ed, however, to courses which are being taught here. Service courses are being offer ed in Houston, Fort Worth, and Kilgore for men living in these areas. These courses are arranged so that they are taught at night and do not interfere with the normal work ing time of those enrolled in them. Courses which will be given in other cities in Texas are cost accounting, principles of chemical engineering, principles of petro leum engineering, fuel and lubrication test ing, structural design and strength of ma terials, and industrial safety. With the off ering of these courses A. & M. is attempting to train more men for jobs in national de fense industries. Something to Read :By Dr. T. F. Mayo: What Becomes of Joe College? (“The U. S. College Graduate”, by Time Inc., 1941) (“Is College Worth While?”, by John R. Tunis.) Time Magazine has recently sent us an in teresting little volume called The U. S. Col lege Graduate, described in the preface as “A statistical report on the status of living U. S. College alumni (and alumnae)—who they are, how and where they live, what they earn, and at what work—an economic ap proach to measuring the social dividends yielded by the liberal arts.” In the first place, we are told, there are 2,700,000 living college graduates in the United States, about two per cent of the population. Moreover, this percentage of col lege graduates is increasing. The anonymous author of the study thinks that the existence and growth of this vast body of college grad uates is “one of the most important factors in the preservation of the American way of life.” The little book is full of striking bits of information. Here are a few: Among col lege graduates, the men are two to one. But the women are moving up. Forty years ago, The economy of this country has undergone a transformation of very great magnitude during the past five or six decades. Many people are not fully aware of the extent and nature of this fundamental change that has taken place within a relatively short period of time. The decline of competition—in the traditional meaning of the term—has been one of the outstanding developments of re cent years, and it is this condition of declin ing competition which has been responsible for many of our modern economic problems. The present trend toward more extensive social control of our economy has to a great extent been occasioned by the effects of large-scale monopolistic practices. The history of our economy during the past 50 years has been marked by a sharp rise in the number of industrial combinations and a rapid increase in the size of the pro ductive business unit. These factors have in some cases been responsible for maladjust ments of a very serious character in our economic system. In many respects we are now in a period of transition. A basic change is seemingly inevitable, and the direction. that change will take in the future is some thing about which we could well afford to concern ourselves. Many writers believe that the trend tow ard concentration of control in business is a natural outgrowth of the capitalistic sys tem. It is argued by this group that modern technology is so advanced that the most ef ficient size of the business unit has of neces sity been expanded to such a point that ef fective competition is no longer possible. This group thinks that we should and will accept this increased size because of its technical efficiency. They add, however, that this acceptance of the large-size business unit must also involve greatly increased social control over the economy. Needless to say, there is widespread disagreement concern ing the technique to be used when this con trol is instituted, but the essential point is that in most cases any effort to retain com petition in the basic industries is considered futile. This group is reconciled to the perma nent disappearance of the traditional com petitive system. Another group thinks that we should make every effort to re-establish a reasonable de gree of competition. They insist that to a great extent the development of monopoly is not an irrevocable process but rather one which is the result of a failure to control combinations by legal means. It is argued that we have never made an enlightened ef fort to abolish concentrated economic power, and that a sincere effort in that direction would render unnecessary the increasing governmental control over our economic liv es. Regardless of the policy we may want to pursue as individuals, the fact remains that the trend toward increasing govern mental control of business is very pronounc ed. One has merely to look at present day conditions to realize that the entrenched power of organizing minorities is rapidly de stroying whatever hope we may have had for the maintenance of a competitive system. From Uncle Sam’s Post Office . . . Infantry senior Laurie Oliver was looking through his morning mail Tuesday and ran across an anony mous card from Texas U. Written on the card was a threat pertain ing to Saturday’s A. & I. game, as follows: “A Good Start, But Just You Wait Until Thank sgiving.” Now, we wonder . . . Good news comes from the East that there former students in the A. & M.-N. Y. U. game. Aggie headquarters in New York will be the Hotel New York . . . Bob Both, coast artil lery sophomore, tells us about a letter that he received from his girl, a Texas belle who attends UCLA. The gal says that the Aggies are quite popular on the coast in a rough sort of way. The Uclans still remember Kimbrough, Robnett, and Co. and often as not refer to students at Aggie land as “those mean old Aggies.” She states further that arguments are frequent in classrooms, her case being that she has to defend the Aggies to a white boy sitting on her right and a colored lad on her left! • • • Reward A recent radio quiz program for children in Beaumont produced the following: The announcer asked, “In what game do you play with agates?” The little boy, thinking it was Aggies instead of agates, answered “football.” Although the correct answer should have been marbles, the youngster’s “football” was allow ed, and he won the customary 10 cents plus a 25-cent bonus from a former A. & M. student who was listening to the program. • • • Men Wanted The Aggies certainly must have left an indelible impression on Sam Houston last Saturday. Now take the letter which we received in our Wednesday mail bag from the Huntsville school: We are desperate! ! ! At this noble institution we have four girls to every poor little old boy. These girls aren’t bad to look at either and this school isn’t half as far from A. & M. as T. S. C. W. is. Our rules aren’t as strict ei ther. So why don’t you boys take this hint and come over. Some of these girls haven’t had a date since school started. We’ll be expecting you all over. Signed: Some SHSTC Coeds. Okey, fellas, the line forms Galley 4 the right at the East Gate. And remember, you can go to Hunts ville either through Navasota Madisonville. • • • Gallon If you don’t drink a gallon of beer per month, you’re not getting your full share. For, figures from the Liquor Control Board show, the per capita consumption of beer in Texas has passed one gallon per month. To be exact, 1,064 gallons for the last month tabulated. As for wine, the per capita is .019 gallons, and of distilled spir its, the consumption amounted to .039 gallons per month. Private Schools Faced With Closing Dr. Rufus D. Smith, provost of New York university, says a “break-the-rich” taxation policy of the federal government may result in closing of private schools. The pending tax bill is an ap plication of the policy, he believes, and exemplifies the United States, “chaotic, political and haphazard approach to a total war economy. “LET’S MAKE MUSIC” will be shown at the Assembly Hall to night and tomorrow night. Bob Crosby, the orchestra leader, and Jean Rogers are cast in the roman tic leads. About the only real attraction that this picture offers is Crosby and his orchestra. They play for your listening pleasure several numbers that are fine. Outside of that there is not too much to say about the story. Crosby’s orchestra is playing at a swanky night spot in New York. While looking for a new hit from a group of songs just received, he discovers one written for a high school fight song. He takes the song makes a hit of it and brings the author to New York from her WHATS SHOWING AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL Thursday, Friday—“LET’S MAKE MUSIC,” starring Bob Crosby and his Bobcats hnd Jean Rogers AT THE CAMPUS Thursday — “SAN AN TONIO ROSE,” with Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, and Eve Arden. Friday, Saturday — “HIS GIRL FRIDAY,” with Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy. job of teaching school, to sing it for him. Being quite elderly, she brings her niece, Jean, with, her. For some reason that escapes us at the moment, Jean and Bob fall in love. This is the type of life as pictured in the motion pictures and is not accepted as representa tive of American ways. Another musical show is “SAN ANTONIO ROSE,” at the Campus today. The Merry Macs are the featured musicians in this film- usical. Jean Frazee and Robert Paige furnish the acting leads. You will like either of these two shows, according to your choice of mu sicians. (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) A. & M. is one of the two land- grant colleges in the United States that is not co-educational. JDNIORS. ... ATTENTION If you have not ordered your uniform yet now is the time to order. Come by today and let us have your measurements. Order now and get the uniform before the Ft. Worth Corps Trip MENDL & HORNAK UNIFORM TAILORS NORTH GATE Assembly Hall THURSDAY — FRIDAY BOB CROSBY and JEAN ROGERS in Make Music — NEWS — Selected Shorts COMING SATURDAY V <3 Lady Eve with BARBARA STANWYCK—HENRY FONDA