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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,
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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
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Jerry Gleason, D. B. Gofer Junior Sports Editors
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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