The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 16, 1941, Image 2
-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1941 Page 2 THE BATTALION 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 4-5444. Don Gabriel Editor E. M. Rosenthal Associate Editor Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager Sports Staff Mike Haikin Sports Editor W. F. Oxford .’. 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 Mike Speer Junior Editor D. C. Thurman Managing Editor Reportorial Staff Tom Leland, Benton Taylor, W. J. Hamilton, Calvin Brum- ley, Charles McKnight, C. G. Scruggs, John May, Douglass Lancaster, Gordon Sullivan, Herman Phillipson, Tom Journeay. Cadets in Cowtown The A. & M. cadet corps has the opportunity this weekend to show the people of Fort Worth and North Texas that there is a fun damental difference between Aggies and stu dents of other colleges—a difference based upon school spirit and loyalty which can be found in no other place. Corps trip time is definitely here—a great majority of the corps is ready to move on to Fort Worth and take on T.C.U. Satur day. A corps trip, however, carries with it a grave responsibility for the corps, that is to see that no action takes place which might discredit A. & M. The corps always appears in uniform and because of that it is easily recognizable to any outsider. The actions of a few men could ruin the reputation of the entire college—since you are in uniform make every effort to see that you do not disgrace it. The corps should make its best appearance while away from home, at the parade, at the game, and after the game. To a great many people not closely ac quainted with A. & M., the cadet corps is misunderstood and often criticized. Show by example that A. & M. is fully qualified in every respect. With the present emphasis on national defense, many people realize that A. & M. is a prime source of officer material for the army. Our actions while away from college can show the public that the corps is capable of becoming future officers. Go to Fort Worth—get in there behind the team Saturday—have a good time, but see that your actions are always such that they bring credit to A. & M. The actions of one man could do much to destroy the good will which 5,000 other cadets create. In the days to come, as through all time that is past, man will lord it over his „ felloiv, and earth will he stained red From veins of young and old. That Sweet and sounding name of Patria becomes an illusion and a curse. —George Gissing Inventions and War Civilization has come far in the various fields of art since the days of the caveman, but in one field it has leaped beyond the bounds of human imagination. Advancements in the art of death have raced far beyond the average man’s under standing. Only masterminds in technical skill can adequately comprehend some of the lat est war devices. For instance: A new device has been perfected by the British for night aerial com bat called the “A-eye,” consisting of a view- plate which by reflecting the infra red radia tions of the enemy’s motor, casts a complete image of the ship. When the enemy plane comes into view, the pilot merely presses the electric machine gun trigger and eight vi brating barrels spout hot death. On the other side of the channel, the Nazis have worked out a scheme for directing their night bombers to the targets by follow ing radio beams. After calculating the loca tion of the target two radio beams are sent out from different stations on the French coast. The point at which they intersect is directly over the spot where the bombs are to be dropped. Raiders need only to follow the beam until they reach the point of inter section. Here the complete salvo of “eggs” is unloaded. Evidencing the resourcefulness of the British, is the fact that they have success fully worked out a way to combat this meth od of bombing. They merely send a beam of the same frequency as the German’s and have it intersect the other some place out to sea when the bombs can do no harm. A new method of blackout is now being considered by the U. S. army as well as the British. A blackout in reverse. The idea is to have every light in the city turn on to full capacity and augment these tremendous batteries of high powered searchlights scat tered throughout the area. The glare of lights is supposed to blind the pilots so that they cannot distinguish the targets and at the same time facilitate anti-aircraft opera tions. We wonder what great things could be made to improve life if ingenious war invent ors could concentrate on construction instead of destruction.—Los Angeles Collegian. Something to Read - Hy Dr. T. F. Mayo- :: A Personal Favorite (IV) (This is not named as one of the “greatest books,” but simply as one of those which the reviewer likes best. The three already dis cussed in this series have been Fielding’s Tom Jones, a novel; Bertrand Russell’s Poli tical Ideals, social philosophy; Congreve’s The Way of the World, a comedy.) The Dance of Life, by Havelock Ellis. This is a book about human nature and human life by the man whom H. L. Mencken, who isn’t given to compliments, called “the most civilized man in England.” By profes sion a psychologist of sex, Havelock Ellis wrote The Dance of Life in his full, rich ma turity as an informal statement of his per sonal philosophy. The thesis of The Dance of Life is that is an art—not a profit-making business, nor a game, nor a battle, as we are told every where incessantly and wearisomely—but an art. Since an art is a process of shaping raw materials in such a way as to express the artist’s personality, it follows that the shape and color of each man’s life ought to be an expression of his own character, therefore of his ideals, which are the most deeply gen uine product of one’s character. If then you live simply to stay alive, or in order to get a lot, or to rise above others, you never live at all in any genuine sense. “Living,” as Ellis sees it, is the process of trying to shape your circumstances and experiences in such a way that both the details and the sum total of your existence will be as you think such things ought to be. This, I submit,»is the most satisfactory and the most stimulating way of viewing life. The man who accepts this point of view is logically bound to be actively creative rather than fatalistically passive. He is also bound to be tolerant of lives very differ ent from his own: since every personality is unique, no two lives ought to be lived alike. Finally, I believe that the artist in living has the best chance for happiness, since there is no place in his philosophy for competitive envy or jealousy, those greatest of all ene mies to happiness. He can never consistently measure his life against another man’s, any more than you can logically say that an egg is better than an apple or vice versa. Thus, according to Havelock Ellis’ philo sophy, the wise man devotes his energies to the practice of the art of living and tries, out of the available ray materials (his talents and his circumstances) to create a life that expresses his real self, as the Ninth Sym phony expresses Beethoven or, let us say as For Whom the Bell Tolls expresses Ernest Hemingway. (I make no apology for thus bracketing, in this connection, a sincere piece of modern self-expression with the work of one of the giants.) The World Turns On ■ Rv A. F. Chalk The upward swing of prices in this country is continuing, and there is an increasing de mand on the part of the public for legisla tion which will remedy the condition. This increasing public awareness of the gravity of the situation is one of the few hopeful aspect of the problem. It is to be hoped that our national legislators will respond by en acting some laws which should already have been passed. It can be safely said that no serious ef fort has yet been made to effectively control the recent rising price level. In fact, it seems that we are to be burdened for some time in the future with petty politics when the country is sorely in need of some enlightened statesmanship. Many congressmen are ap parently willing that the prices of all com modities be controlled except those produced by their constituents. The leaders of the present administration are now demanding the immediate passage of stringent legisla tion to check the rise in prices, because they are aware of the importance of the time fac tor. The higher the spiral of inflation is permitted to go, the more difficult is be comes to reestablish some semblance of equi librium. It is a matter of common knowledge that certain groups of prices do not rise as rapid ly as the general level of prices. This fact accounts for many of the hardships which result from an inflationary rise in prices. One of these groups which usually lags be hind the others is that of wages. This is responsible for much of the increased activity of labor organization during periods such as the present one. Labor usually makes a concerted effort to keep its wage scale ris ing with other prices. The threatening inflaction of prices has been primarily a result of the process of in creasing the money incomes of consumers in the face of a declining production of con sumer goods. The situation will no doubt become worse in the near future, for present plans contemplate an annual armaments ex penditure of about 30 billions during the next few years. This will still further re strict production of consumer goods, and prices will inevitably rise of measures are not instituted soon to correct the situation. The simple and hard fact is that our standard of living (whatever, if anything, that term means) is to be lowered precipi tately, and the sooner we become reconciled to it the better for all concerned. There are, however, several methods which can and should be used in any effort to combat an in flation of prices. Some of these methods which have received widespread attention by economists will be briefly summarized in our next article. Kollegiate Kaleidoscope GREATEST COLLEGE ATHLETE- Of all the immortals colleger HAVE PRODUCED ^INCE THE TURK! OF THE CENTURY.ONE, AM INDIAN,STANDS HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE 7HE-REST. THORPE ENTER ED CARLISLE INDIAN SCH®L IN 1906 AND SOON BECAME THE TERROR OF EASTERN GRIDIRONS. HE WAS AN ALL-AMERICAN HALFBACK IN 1911 AND 1912. FROM FOOT BALL, JIM TURNED TO TRACK AND WON THE PENTATHLON AND DECATHLON IN THE 1912 OLYMPICS. HE WAS ALSO A STAR IN BASEBALL, BREAKING INTO THE MAJOR. LEAGUE WITH THE NEW YORK GIANTS. "POP" WARNER v NOW ASS'T. COACH AT SAN JOSE STATE s WAS THE RED TERROR'S MENTOR AT • • v CARLISLE • « - As A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE THORPE EARNED MORE THAN *100,000 BUT HE DID NOT PROVIDE FOR THE FUTURE- HE IS NOW LIVING IN LOS ANGELES EARNING WHAT HE CAN AS A MOVIE • • • EXTRA• • • • COVERING caips dismoNs WITH I TOM VANNOY “THEY MET IN ARGENTINA” will be shown at Guion Hall to day and tomorrow. This is another in a series of motion pictures that i<5 supposed to help the friendly relations between the United States and the Latin American republics. But it appears that this one might have been overlooked, and rela tions would have been just as good as they were before. . If we would believe what the studios tell us about South Amer ica, it is a land of horse races and good times. No one ever has to work. They live in the lap of luxury*. The two pictures that have been made about Argentina in the last year have been very similar in plot and ending. Maureen O’Hara and James El lison are the leading actors in “They Met In Argentina.” The story is built up so that it is ex citing, but after it is finished leaves a feeling that something is missing. Another Michael Shayne detec tive story will be at the Campus today. This one is entitled “DRESSED TO KILL.” Lloyd Lolan is Michael Shayne once more. Others in the cast are Mary Beth Hughes, a blonde burlesque enter tainer, and Sheila Ryan. This time Shayne is trying to get married and solve a double murder at the same time. Thera is a little romance mixed in throughout the show to keep the thing from dying too soon. A touch of a past master is evident in “A GIRL, A GUY, AND A GOB.” Harold Lloyd is the pro ducer of this picture and it is a side-splitter deluxe. Lloyd has imparted to the film an air that you are bound to enjoy. The girl is Lucille Ball; the guy is Ed mond O’Brien; and the gob is George Murphy. The legendary tri angle creeps in again, but this time you won’t mind. In fact, you will be glad that it did. WHAT’S SHOWING BACKWASH Charlie Babcock “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster To the Point . . . Sammy Baugh, the All-American footballer, was passing out the cigars in Sweet water this week. Proud of being a proud father, Sammy named his first son Gary Todd—Gary for hts maternal grand father and Todd for that rampag ing Aggie grid great, Dick Todd ... Proposed page filler for The Daily Texan: Seating capacity of Pasadena’s far- famed Rose Bowl, Babcock long in dispute, is now official. A city auditor announces that it is 90,439 . . . Edi tor Rusty Heitkamp is going to make the 1942 Longhorn one of the best ever. Among the many new features will be a revision of the military section, placing a few ac tion shots of each organization on each page . . . Eyes of Gotham will he on Kimbrough and Harmon when they make their pro bow with the New York Americans this Sunday. Wishful thinking brings around the hope that Big Jawn will outshine the Michigan flash . . . Between 50 and 100 Aggies hitch hiked to New York and tried to crash the gate at the NYU game. Although the gate crashing idea proved to he a flop, several former A. & M. stu dents came to their rescue and paid for the tickets. • • • Classified This is a want ad. We are try ing to locate the Aggie who exerted a bit of initiative this past week in getting a date for the TCU corps trip. The story goes like this: Some A. & M. student (and there are others just like him) wanted a date with an automobile for Sat urday night in Fort Worth. It was not unusual that he should place a classified ad in one of the Cow- town papers advertising for the above, but it was out of the ordi nary when within a couple of days after the publication of the adver tisement he received six or seven replies, all answering in the affirm ative. To top it all, the editor of the paper found out about the success of his classified section and decided that he would allow Aggies, hero- after, to place free ads in his news paper, asking for dates and auto mobiles. • • • Bull Ring- Those who had to walk tour duty Saturday witnessed another of fate’s ironical tricks. The walking area had been moved to. the lawn in front of the Aca demic building, so that the walkers might be able to hear the broad cast of the New York game. The officer in charge was check., ing the roll of seniors. Although often interrupted, by the blare of the broadcasting loudspeaker, the offi cer proceeded to call the roll until he got to Derace Moser. Sounding as one voice, the offi cer called Moser, and the radio an nouncer came through with, “And Moser went 90 yards for a touch down.” The suggestion was made that Moser be given credit as being pres- sent. . . at least in spirit. In World War I 2,200 Aggies served their country. They are honored by the service flag hang ing overhead in the rotunda of the Academic Building. There are no “male” cedar trees on the A. & M._ campus as it is known that these cedars give off pollen which cause hay fever. AT THE CAMPUS Thursday—“DRESSED TO KILL,” starring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, and Sheila Ryan. Friday, Saturday — “A GIRL, A GUY, AND A GOB,” with George Murphy, Lucille Ball, and Edmund O’Brien. AT GUION HALL Thursday, Friday—“THEY MET IN ARGENTINA,” fea turing Maureen O’Hara and James Ellison. Also Porky Pig Cartoon Picture People — Short FRIDAY & SATURDAY SHOWING ALL THIS WEEK 1940 A. & M. vs. T. C. U. Conference Football Game Research by University of Cali fornia physicians indicates a con nection between high blood pres sure and excessive activity of the adrenal glands. Men , s Leather Cossack Jackets 7.90 You’ll, keep warm and com fortable in these good-look ing, rayon-lined leather jack ets! 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