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Page 2 1x1 JU ±>A11 ALdUJN P 1 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 Colie Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription upon request. rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. youth and democracy, he asserts that “we do not have an educational setup that gives us the inherent strength to meet the forces of evil—the forces of evil revolution, rolling back toward barbarism, now abroad in the f world. We are hot equipping our youth to take their part in the defense of civilization. They foolishly think that there are short cuts to happiness.” Thus on various fronts education is looking forward both through practical preparation for concrete tasks and through redefinition of ideals without which nothing is practical in the long run.—W. A. McDonald in the New York Times, —AGP Kollegiate Kaleidoscope -IxlUKoJJAl, UUTUtfmt y, COVERING Office 4-6UA. Room 122, Administration Building, i Telephone Associate Editor ..Advertising Manager ..Editor Don Gabriel V E. M. Roeenthal ' Ralph Criswell Sports Staff Mike Hatkin Sports Editor W. F. Oxford i Assistant Sports Editor Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant Jerry Gleason, D. B. Gofer 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 E. M. Rosenthal .’. Acting Managing Editor Charles Babcock Junior Editor Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor Mike Speer Junior Editor Reportorial Staff Tom Leland, W. J. Hamilton, Calvin Brumley,' Charles McKnight, C. G. Scruggs, John May, Douglass Lancaster. Open Forum Facsimile Seniors The class of ’41 reached what it considered a momentous decision at its last junior class meeting. The class'members passed the rule that any six semester man could wear boots and a gold hat cord. This was an unprece dented move, for previous to that time only classified seniors had such a privilege; even eight semester men who were unclassified were denied senior identification marks. This year’s seniors felt that there was no need to go back to the old rule and by an absence of action accepted the six semester ruling: only classified seniors or six semester men were to wear boots and gold hat cords. On the campus today a number of fac simile seniors are abusing the rule. These facsimile seniors are those who started with the class of ’42 but who have been away from A. & M. for one or more semesters and who lack sufficient hours and grade points to be classified as seniors in the Registrar’s of fice. But, even though they know their posi tion, these men proceed to wear gold hat cords and take a privilege that does not be long to them. Most of the true seniors realize what is happening but feel that it is not their right to reprimand those students who stood in the same freshman registration lines with them. Nevertheless, classified seniors and other six semester men resent those students who are abusing the six semester rule. Two roads are open for the senior class to take. It should either make it legal for these facsimile seniors to wear senior iden tification marks, or it should take definite steps to stop the abuse of the six semester rule. What About the Peace? Education seems to be developing an in creasing interest in concrete plans for the world after the war, even though peace is not in sight. At the New School for Social Research scholars of the University in Exile have for months worked on a “blueprint for peace,” and now the state has granted to the New School a charter for a graduate school which in the words of Dr, Alvin John son “has been placed in a position to set up what is virtually an international school of political and social science closely knit to the practical economic, social and political problems of the times.” Other distinguished scholars continue to urge the colleges to take a long look ahead to the time of reconstruction. President Bow man of the Johns Hopkins is one of these. The colleges themselves are presenting au thorities in various political and economic fields to their students. And now President Wriston of Brown University, who is always to be heard with respect, has urged the es tablishment of a new government division to study the problems of peace on the same plane that the problems of war are studied in the army and navy war colleges. Dr. Wriston would set up the proposed new division as an arm of the department of state to act as an agency for the professional training of diplomats and other foreign ser vice men on a level not possible in any of the existing schools of diplomacy and foreign relations. “The only chance that the fruits of vic tory may be less bitter than gall,” he con tinues in his book, “Prepare for Peace,” pub lished by Harper & Brothers, “is through foresight, through careful attention to the shape of things to come. To insist that thought must wait until the war’s end is to deny any meaning to the war at all. “The entire technical section of the American delegation to the coming peace conference should be organized in skeleton outline at once.” Dr. Wriston points out that if the task of the special devision is well done there would be full assurance that the pleni potentiaries to the future conference would be well advised. “There would be available to the commissions and committees not only experts but men experienced in diplomatic protocol and the exigencies of negotiation. It would not be necessary to transform scholars overnight into negotiators and drafting officers, as at Paris after the last war.” This is all part of the growing appre ciation of the importance of the tasks lying ahead of education. Dr. Johnson has a word to say from a somewhat different point of view in the Journal of Adult Education. Dealing with Editor’s note: It is against Battalion policy to print letters in the Open For um that bear either fictitious signatures or no signatures at all. However, the following article, though sarcastically written, presents a point of view held by many of the residents of College Sta tion, and for that reason The Battalion is publishing it. TO THE BATTALION: ESCALATORS TO THE RESCUE! Aggies Cannot Climb Curb, Indicates Peregrine’s Poll. Occasionally I must tread or otherwise tra verse the lonesome pavements of the cam pus. As I go from building to building, along the majestic solitudes of the sidewalks, wist fully I gaze at the frolicsome Aggies greet ing each other as they joyfully wander back and forth and hither and yon over the road ways. Trucks, ambulances, and fire-engines tootle in vain; ordinary passenger cars grad ually fade into a sad coma; but naught daunts the fun-loving and ever-courteous Aggies in their blithe progress down the middle of the street. Frequently I have thought, “How pleas ant it would be if some of these young men would travel also on the sidewalk. I might sometime meet them as I walk there! I would feel less as if intruding on the cathe dral-like quiet.” But all was in vain, until an inspiration struck my mind. “How would it be,” I thought, “to find out why Aggies classified themselves as motor-driven vehicles rather than pedes trians? Perhaps an answer to this question would be of interest also to others who live or have business on the A. & M. campus. No sooner said than done. I prepared the small questionnaire which Aggies have been filling in for the past few days. Cun ningly concealed among the 37,624 main headings were a few significant ones, de vised to furnish completely unbiased infor mation on this, the real object of my injuiry. The main fact involved did not show at first. Many Aggies suggested that con gestion on the roadways is due to student hazing rules, which require freshmen to keep off sidewalks and in the street. And of course by the end of the freshman year, “jaywalking” down the road is a habit. Yet in reading our faithful Battalion I have never seen mention of such an obviously idiotic rule, although I have perused many a sincere letter begging for more sidewalks so that students would not need to preempt the road. Therefore I saw that it would be ab surd to accept such a simple explanation for the peculiar phenomenon that I was in vestigating. With further study of the tons of an swers, it soon became clear that an engineer ing problem was involved. To walk on the sidewalk, the Aggies must be able to elevate himself to it after each street-crossing, and to lower himself again at the next crossing. Such an undertaking requires serious ex penditure of energy, and is not lightly to be undertaken. And so, after consultation with my advisory experts, I have decided that the problem must be attacked boldly and direct ly. Let us at once request a special rush priority from O.P.M. and its related bureaus for an order of escalators. Let these be in stalled at each side of each street-crossing. Then as he homeward wends his way the weary Aggie can ride the moving sidewalk up and down the curb, and vehicular traffic will once again be able to hurtle across the camps at 19.9 m.p.h. Wishing you “Escalator!” I remain, Your walking correspondent, Peregrine P. Perambulator. Johnny MICHIGAW'S GREATEST PLUWGIMG FUimCK, GAINED 350 YARDS AGAINST HARVARD IN 1913 WITHOUT SCORING Each time he took / THE BALL TO THE CRJM L SON GOAL LINE THE l ^ QUARTERBACK CALLED V SOME OTHER BACK TO CARRY THE BALL OVER. ALL FAILED AND HARVARD SCORED A 7 TO O VICTORY/ campus dmctm WITH i TOM VANNOY IS TITHE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER. CELEBRATES ADAM -%> EVE DAY IW JANUARY. EACH STUD ENT RECEIVES AN APPLE FR°M THE' CHANCELLOR./ O TRIO OF LOCAL GAMBLERS *** SECURED THE LAND FOR THE FIRST BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY * • * OF ARIZONA * • * Primary among distractions on the docket for this week is the corps dance with music furnished by Red Nichols and his orches tra in Sbisa Hall after the Town Hall program Friday night. This is the first time that a big-name orchestra has appeared on the herself disappear at will after she is murdered. With Roland Young as Mr. Topper, and Rochester as the chauffeur, the three track dpwn the murderer. It is just loads and loads of fun. “DANCE HALL,” the story of a honky-tonk couple, will be shown at the Campus tomorrow and Sat- BY Charlie Babcock “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster BACKWASH Typewriter Ribbons . . . Several suggestions have been made to this department that freshmen in the new area be detailed to use only the rear door of the post office in entering or leaving the building. A fine means of relieving congest ed traffic through the front door at rush hours . . . & M. Louis former A. student, Lenz, has never missed a Texas Babcock University- Aggie game since he was a freshman at Aggieland in 1903. He will see one of the best of the long series this Thanksgiving Day . . . Head Yell Leader Skeen Staley encoun tered a bit of bad luck in San Antonio last Saturday. The Gun ter Hotel was the scene of Skeen's loss of a high school graduation gift, an Elgin wrist watch . . . Members of the cadet corps are reminded by local taxi cab com panies that they are forbidden by a College Station city charter to stop and pick up customers where on Houston street with the exception of the North Gate corner, Aggieland Inn, and the Y. M. C. A. However, taxis may stop at any point on any other campus street. . . . Cadets are urged to turn out Friday afternoon and watch the battle between the Fish and Var sity “B” squads. • • e Our secret opera- g am Houston Ire tor reports that a The information has come up from Huntsville that coeds of the here Sam Houston Teachers College are up in arms over a letter printed in this space one week ago today. It seems that a small group of future female teachers author ed the bit of correspondence, and as a result, the larger group of coeds who resented being adver tised have become quite angry. Several members of the anti advertise party have even taken such steps as to post the letter as reproduced in this column on their dormitory bulletin board. However, that “four to one ra tio” which the S. H. coeds spoke (See BACKWASH, Page 4) campus during the fall semester and promises to be an outstanding urday. The plot has a'number of event in the fall social calendar. interesting twists and some musi- In addition there is the juke- cal numbers to keep it in the true box prom Saturday night in Sbisa ve ^n. In the leads are Cesar Hall. This type of entertainment Romero and Carole Landis, was introduced during the summer school session two years ago and In the American army in France met with immediate success. This during the World War there were should offer an opportunity to three institutions frequently men- catch up on some of this sort of tioned, as giving the American distraction which we have been army some of its able leaders—A. missing since school started. & M., West Point, and Yale. At the Campus today is “BE FORE I HANG,” In the adven ture class, it stars Boris Karloff and Evelyn Keyes. Karloff is not ed for his ability to present an excellent murder mystery on the screen. This picture is about the same as all the rest of Karloff’s roles. If you are acquainted with Karloff, then you know what to expect. If not, then don’t worry too' much about it. For a side-splitting couple of any- hours, we recommend “TOPPER RETURNS” at Guion Hall, today and tomorrow. There is a bit of mystery mixed throughout in or der to make it more enjoyable, and the way it is finished left it just right. The mansion where most of the story takes place is filled with secret passages, trap doors, and people with knives ready to kill anyorie that gets in the way. The same quality that makes all “Topper” shows is continued when Joan Blondell makes F. M. Law has been on the Board of Directors since 1917. The first sentence of the Tex as Declaration of Independence contains 293 words. (Jdmbui LAST DAY “BEFORE I HANG” With Boris Karloff MICKEY MOUSE — 3 STOOGES FRIDAY & SATURDAY WHATS SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Thursday — “BEFORE I HANG,” with Boris Karloff and Evelyn Keyes. Fri., Saturday— “DANCE HALL,” featuring Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. AT GUION HALL Thursday, Friday—^‘TOP PER RETURNS,” starring Joan Blondell, Roland Young and Rochester. A 20th Cenfury-Fo* Picture Also COMMUNITY-SING CARTOON — “SCRUB ME MAMA” — LATE NEWS HOUCK CLEANERS BEN YOUNGBLOOD, Mgr. More Recognized Each Year For Finer CLEANING & PRESSING Alterations SPECIAL Leather heel guards — saves your slacks. Agents in most halls—If not send your work to North Gate. Be sure it’s HOLICK’S ■* GUION HALL A & M's New Theatre The quest for righteousness is Oriental, the quest for knowledge, Occidental. —Sir William Osier Something to Read :By Dr. T. F. Mayo: Democracy and Sport, by Tunis. Our best philosopher of sport presents his plea for making athletics democratic; above all he wants you to play, not watch. Up at the Villa, by Somerset-Maugham. This cunning weaver of tales turns out another good yarn. A Faith to Fight For, by John Strachey. The most civilized of radicals shows what Democrats and Reds have in common today. The Forgotten Village, by John Steinbeck. One of the best American novelists studies a tiny Mexican community. Squadrons Up, by Monks. The first book about the men of the R. A. F. Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, by Gamow. Little Mr. Tompkins goes to three lec tures on modern physics and consequently has three uproarious but highly enlightening dreams. NEW BUS SERVICE THRU BUS SERVICE TO AUSTIN WITH CLOSE CONNECTIONS TO SAN ANTONIO 3 Schedules Daily ! THURSDAY - FRIDAY — OCT. 9-10 i 7 P. M. 'liflillllll I ii College Station Austin Austin San Antonio — 8:50 a. m. 12:00 noon 12:50 p. m. . 2:50 p.m. 1:00 p. m. 4:10 p. m. 4:45 p. m. 6:55 p. m. Fare to Austin $2.10 or Fare to San Antonio .$3.00 or 5:45 p. m. 9:00 p. m. 9:55 p.m. 11:55 p. m. $3.80 Rt. $5.00 Rt. Buses Stop At THE AGGIELAND INN KERRVILLE BBS CO., 1N( Friendly Service -\ (• s '' ^ 1 3> Oi o SELECTED SHORTS NEWS