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Page 2 THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11,1941 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 8, 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-M44. Don Gabriel Editor E. M. Rosenthal Associate Editor Ralph Oris well Advertising Manager Sports Staff Mike Hatkin l 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 Saturday’s Staff Charlie Babcock Junior Editor Jack Lamberson Assistant Advertising Manager Lee Rogers :. Managing Editor Reportorial Staff Tom Leland, W. J. Hamilton, Calvin Brumley, Charles McKnight, C. G. Scruggs, John May, Douglass Lancaster. Strict Enforcement Important moves destined to enlarg the auth ority of the Senior Class were adopted at the last meeting' of the organization command ers. Keynote of the meeting was to restore the authority and power of the seniors. A. & M. is extremely fortunate in that it offers real opportunities for leadership in the affairs of the college. Because of the military organization here, many details of college life which are normally handled by the administrative heads of a college are given to the senior cadet officers. This seemed to be the keynote of the organization commanders meeting—to see that the Senior Class takes full advantage of the opportunities offered it in the way of constructive leadership. In an effort to main tain the prestige of the class, the organiza tion commanders agreed to the more strict enforcement of regulations which directly af fect the corps. Complete enforcement of uniform reg ulations met with the approval of the group. In the past there has been some laxity in re gard to the proper wearing of the uniform, but not this year. The privilege of wearing civilian suits to dances will be strictly a se nior privilege and will be enforced. The wear ing of the uniform for underclassmen has been extended so that all underclassmen will appear in the official uniform while at col lege or in the vicinity of the college. This includes Bryan and other entertainment centers within a 15 mile radius of the cam pus. Indicative of the emphasis on the proper wearing of the correct uniform is shown by making the violators of any of these rules subject to disciplinary action by the Senior Court. The opportunity exists for the Senior Class to make a better A. & M. by the en forcement of these rules. of horses and buggies, to silence all radios, to abolish all chain stores, or to tear up all concrete highways.” Orville T. Bright, pres ident, Illinois Education association, says that every teacher must be convincingly articu late in interpreting the modern aims of edu cation. PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis COVERING Theij Sag :A. C. Payne ; “Youth,” said a well-known humorist, “is a wonderful thing. It’s too bad that we have to waste it on young people!” This comment is a symptom of man’s desire to combine youth and experience. How often do we hear the wishful wail: “If I were still a kid, and knew what I know now, . . .”! It reminds one of the similarity be tween human beings and a crop of garden peas: For a considerable period they’re too young to pick, and then, almost overnight, they’re too old to eat! It’s very easy to blame a lack of accom plishment upon our teachers, or “the system,” or our young and tender age. History, how ever, has some encouraging records for us in light of the latter’s use as scape goat. Let’s look at a few of them—even if they are considered remarkable exceptions by the unsung “average fellow.” At 17, Alexander Hamilton was a sig nificant figure in colonial government. At 18, Charles Spurgeon was already recognized as a powerful preacher. At 19, George Washington was a major, Bach was a famous organist, and Bryant had written, the classic “Thanatopsis.” At 22, King Alfred was ruler of Eng land; and at 26 Roger Williams had sown the seed of religious freedom in the New World. These names are from history, it’s true, but time hasn’t minimized their contribu tions. Nor are the gates of possibility for youth now closed. President Roosevelt is sur rounded by national leaders who are char acterized by their young appearance as well as their fresh ideas. And—in the realm of education—Robert Hutchins was only 30 when he became President of the University of Chicago. These are human symbols of the poten tiality of college youth. How old are you? CAMP CALL AM caips dimflONs WITH GopT^19^hJCin^FerUuiT^^|ndicAte^nc^\Vm4djjightsrc^jrvcd! Listen, Buck, Either get that pack up where it belongs or go over to the parachutists where you’ll look natural!” BY Charlie Babcock “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster I TOM VANNOY Another distraction of the week- thrill you right down to the toes end is “I WANTED WINGS” at and make you glad that you are Guion Hall tonight. This is one an American, of the pictures that can be ranked The midnight prevue at the Cam. among the top few of the year, pus will start a few minutes after It undoubtedly will remain as one the juke-box prom tonight to al- of the best aviation films of all low those at the dance to attend time. the show if they wish. In the cast are such stars as The main distraction for tonight Ray Milland, William Holden, is the juke bdX prom in Sbisa Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Hall from 9 till 12. Records of Constance Moore, and Veronica all the present hits will be played Lake. The whole story is marked and admission prices reduced to with its marvelous acting and 25 cents per couple. This promises photography. to be an economical evening’s en- A portion of the story was film- tertainment for everyone who at- ed at Randolph and Kelly Fields tends ’ So dro P around the raess in San Antonio, the primary and haI1 tonight and turn loose with advanced training schools of the overything you have for about Air Corps. A flying fortress is three hours, used in some of the shots taken At the Campus tomorrow and during a blackout raid on an Monday Rita Hayworth and Tony American city. Martin are starred in “MUSIC Veronica has the role of a gold- ^ MY HEART.” Although this digging night club singer who falls P^ture was made some time before in love with Ray Milland, and La Hayworth attained such fame causes him to be court-martialed. the movie world, it is one of She is like a siren that has al- her best - The plot doesn’t need to most reached the peak of its wail. i n terfere when Hayworth is on You will either like her role a t be stage. If you like Rita, you lot, or you will never want to (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) or see her again. Don’t decide to She does her job The Way of Things . . . Oriental officials ... a survey' designed to } )as tiiy j though, was the atmosphere of a letter re- calculate a cross section of what splendidly ceived recently by Engineer Dean and how much the members of the Gibb Gilchrist from Tientsin Uni- ca( 4et coips P a y ^ a ^h jcai foi a ^ m erican war planes in action will The 1S ^ common articles. •=]QE The goodly number of scenes of Patient endurance of sufferings, bold resistance of power, forgiveness of in juries, hard-tried and faithful friend ship, and self-sacrificing love, are seen in beautiful relief over the flat uni formity of life, or stand out in steady and bright grandeur in the midst of the dark deeds of men. —Richard Dana Experience is the name everybody gives to his mistakes. —Oscar Wilde The World Turns On By Dr. R. W. Steen : Football Signs Evidence of the ever increasing' enthusiasm of the corps-over the football team is found in the rapidity with which the fish manage to get up the signs for next week’s game as soon as a game is over. That Aggie spirit is not on the down grade is readily apparent from these signs. However, some of the signs are straying away from their original purpose. The signs are football signs; their purpose is to boost the morale of the team and of the corps. Some of the present day signs com pletely ignore the fact that the main event on Saturday afternoons is a football game. The signs are all right from an artistic standpoint as well as content. The corps should fully understand that since these signs are representative of Aggieland, they should be free from any objectionable fea tures. The signs so far have been for the most part worth of display on the campus, but too many of them just don’t mention football. No matter how good a sign is, how ar tistic it is, or how clever its theme is, some thing is lacking if it fails as a football poster. After all, the primary purpose of these signs is football. Make it that way Army! Empha size the game in the posters—that’s the point in having signs. Quotable Quotes “Few teachers or administrators who have been at work during the decade just ended need be told that public education is under fire. In every community there are many sincere people who turn back in their think ing to more peaceful and happy days of yore. Not knowing that thus they are only mak ing an effort to escape reality, they regard the old days as golden, happy, peaceful days—a vertitable golden age. Everything that existed in those old days is touched with a roseate glamour that makes them seem ideal. Thus, when the problem of supporting the school arises, there are, in every com munity, a substantial number of middle-aged people who are quite ready to turn against modern school practices and who bring forth many arguments to show that the ways qf. teaching in their youth were much superior to those of the present. Yet seriously to at tempt to impose the kind of teaching that was done in 1911 on 1941 were as futile as to attempt to abolish automobiles in favor For a good many months American mag azines have been filled with articles attempt ing to answer the question: When will Amer ica go to war? Some of them are now carry ing articles attempting to answer the ques tion: When did America go to war? Offi- ciallv. the only thing that can take the country into a war is an act of Congress. The Pres ident, however, is commander- in-chief of the army and navy, and as such can certainly bring about a state of war. It is dif ficult to say whether or not America is at war. No Amer ican army has been engaged with an enemy, but the Amer ican navy is patrolling the seas steen with orders to shoot on sight vessels of certain countries. American fac tories are producing great quantities of war supplies which are being sent to Britain and which are to be sent to Russia. It is perhaps not correct to say that America is at war.. On the other hand it is not entirely correct to say that America is at peace. In 1942 the average American will be gin to realize fully that the world, and per haps America^ enjoys no peace. New taxes and the war effort have already caused major price increases. By next year people will again be talking of the dread HCL—high cost of living—which was so often a topic for conversation during the last war. Auto mobile production is to be greatly curtained, and the government has just announced that the construction of buildings not essential to defense will be greatly curtailed. This order will apply to new homes as well as to business buildings. Taxes will be higher. Life will be less free than in the good old days before Hitler set out to endow the world with a New Order. About four months ago Germany set out to conquer Russia in thirty days. The sched ule has gone badly astray, and Germany is now engaged in an all-out offensive to try and defeat Russia before winter sets in. There can be no doubt that Russia and Ger many are now engaged in a life and death struggle. If Russia fights off this drive she may be able to hold her capital and neigh boring outposts during the winter, and may be in position to put up a better fight next spring. If she does not stop this drive then she will be faced with the alternative of making peace on Hitler’s terms, or sacrific ing western Russia, and attempting to carry on a war far in the interior. Hitler’s legions have made great progress in the last few days, b,ut they are still many miles from Moscow. It is still too soon to accept at face value the German claim that “It’s all up with Russia.” versity in Tientsin, China, correspondence carried the request Running true to popular opinion, that A & M. ex- ca( let cigarette consumption ran changes engineer tbe highest bill at $114,575. One publications with of the unbelievable marks was the Far East ^ ba ^ °f ^he magazine total at $19,- school . . . Aggie 75L34. representatives to Over on the necessity side of TSCW this week the page we find that'wearing ap- to select a corps parel put a dent of $740,181.41 in trip sweetheart Aggieland’s pocketbook. bring back the Gifts and entertainment totaled good news that a a figure of $632,406.33, but the out- Babcock time was had by standing point was that shows, all. In between yoo-hoos at their dances, and cleaning and pressing senior boots, the Aggies were costs comprised nearly half of the over-worked with posing for pic- total amount, tures with the Denton institution’s fair ladies. Present plans are to . . . complete the series of snapshots vJpLlITllStlC in College Station today and to morrow and then attempt to sell the layout to some national pic- to the following tale that came ture magazine ... In answer to up from San Antonio: many queries: Red Nichols and “The Cadets sound 0. K. to me. Company have returned to Hous- Please let me know when I can ton today. Red had to keep an come to Randolph Field for a prac- engagement in that city tonight, tice flight. If I like it I will sign and although he would liked to up for the course. Keep ’em fly- have visited the campus another ing until I get there.” day, such a plan was impossible. So wrote a youth frora the • 60 Mid West to Randolph Field of- cpr c\r\f\ nnn T\/r l l ficials. Now they are wondering if>0,UUU,UUU MarKet how to break the news to the boy Many interesting figurative that there are no practice flights facts were brought to light as a ... or rather they are all prac- result of a recent survey by local tice flights. • • • Orchids of the month should WHATS SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Saturday — “DAN C E HALL,” with Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. Saturday prevue, Sunday, Monday—“MUSIC IN MY HEART,” featuring Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth. AT GUION HALL Saturday — “I WANTED WINGS,” starring Ray Mil- land, William Holden, Con stance Moore, and Veronica Lake. Monday, Tuesday—“MEET JOHN DOE,” with Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward Arnold. Eyes Tested Glasses Fitted Dr. John S. Caldwell Bryan, Texas .-Ilr-ll ■■■•3E1HEH 0 Don’t Let A Cold 1 Get You Down Aggies Colds Are Dangerous So Why Take Chances Try our Special COLD CAPSULES At The First Sign Of A Cold Guaranteed Satisfactory Only 35c YOU ARE THE JUDGE AGGIELAND (PHARMACY 3 Keep To The Right At The S North Gate □ #E3l3[i=][ American tankships to British service imposes temporary short age of certain petroleum products on the Atlantic Seaboard, but be hind the scenes the American pe- Georgia Draft Boards Defer Collegians— Georgia selective service head quarters has recommended that college students be deferred from troleum industry has been busy military training as long as they strengthening and extending the “maintain a standard of academic arteries of defense for mechanized work which is satisfactory to the warfare. Within a few months the college and to the local board.” United States will have a petro- Major Charles J. Brockman, state leum service unequalled in the occupational deferment director, world, although the expansion will said the new deferment recommen- c ost the industry more than $300,- dation will include all college stu- 000,000 this year alone. dents not yet placed in classifica- tion 1-A. Local boards already had been authorized to defer students tak ing “essential courses’^ such as medicine, dentistry, chemistry, engineering, biology, geology, physics and mining, but the state headquarters wants the grades looked into first. A WORD TO THE FRESHMEN Your Mother, Sister, or Sweetheart had rather have a picture of you more than anything else you can give her. Let The Official Longhorn Photographer Make Your Pictures AGGIELAND STUDIO C. E. GRIESSER ANYTHING ELECTRICAL FRIGID AIRE Bryan Dial 2-1423 (pampas LAST DAY Also AICHE Hears Talks at Opening Meeting Of This Year The first meeting of the Student Chapter of the A.I.Ch.E. was held Tuesday evening, October 2, in the Community Sing, Latest News Petroleum lecture room. The new “Scrub Me Mama” — Cartoon officers for the forthcoming year . ~—— —— ; ~ are: president, William Damas- reyU 1 f /r ^^.T , i^^[ a v chke; vice-president, Jasper Bar- SUNDAY —.MONDAY rett; secretary-treasurer, William Show starts immediately after Juke Swain; reporter, Lawrence Wilson. ® ox ^ >rom - After the introduction of the new officers, a series of short talks were given by various members of the chemical engineering de partment. Then a short business meeting was held to decide the aims and policies of the club for the year. Starring RITA HAYWORTH With Andre Kostelonetz Orchestra Service station curfews and gas- Information Please — News oline rationing have been getting Dona , d pj” Carto()n the publicity as the diversion of American Petroleum Strengthens Defense GUION HALL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 6:45 & 8:30 '/mfmpwfMS" Rav MILLAND • William HOLDEN Wayne MORRIS • Brian DONLEVY Constance MOORE * Veronica LAKE <-A Paramount Picture^ Selected Shorts COMING MONDAY Barbara Stanwyck "oAnnie Oakley