The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 16, 1941, Image 2

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    -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.
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