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THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18,1941
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 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
Saturday’s Staff
D. C. Thurman : ., Managing Editor
Charlie Babcock Junior Editor
Jack Lamberson Assistant Advertising Manager
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.
Cowtown Corps Trip
Fort Worth, long- noted for its fine brand of
Texan hospitality, plays host to the cadet
corps today as the Aggies invade that city
for the first corps trip of the year.
The city where “the West begins” has
always been noted for the fine reception
which it gives the corps—this year is no
exception. I. N. McCrary, mayor of Fort
Worth has already extended to the corps a
hearty welcome in the name of his city. In
a letter of welcome addressed to the corps
the mayor Said, “as mayor of the City of
Fort Worth, it gives me a great deal of
pleasure to extend to you a hearty invitation
to visit our city on October 18 ... .
“The City of Fort Worth will be glad
to help you in any way we can when you
stage your annual parade here, and we will
be happy to cooperate on any thing else that
is requested of us.” The Chamber of Com
merce, the Police Chief, and the Student
body of T. C. U. have also extended a royal
invitation to the corps.
We of the cadet corps appreciate these
gestures made by the citizens of Fort Worth.
The biannual trip to Cowtown is always a
highspot in every Aggies’ career. The corps
will show these people today that Aggie
spirit is not dead. Throughout the weekend
while in Fort Worth, the corps will have an
opportunity to show that there is a funda
mental difference between Aggies and other
college students. The A. & M. cadet corps
is exhibit ‘A’ for national defense.
But the corps has but one purpose in
coming to Cowtown—that is to beat T. C. U.
this afternoon. The Twelfth Man is ready.
The Team is ready. The Aggie corps will
present an imposing sight as it occupies the
entire east side of the stadium—across
from the corps will be an impressive crowd of
spectators watching the Twelfth Man in
action.
Army—take those Horned Frogs today!
“Engineering, chemistry, teaching,
aeronautics, industrial arts, business adminis
tration, general physical sciences, secretarial,
and acombination of mathematics and science,
in order named, most frequently are men
tioned in increased demands for graduates.
Ranking next are commerce and home eco
nomics, tenth; and accounting and sales,
which are eleventh place.
“Many of our men graduates from the
liberal arts college,” said W. G. Leutner,
president, Western Reserve university, af
ter commenting that college men are placing
increasing emphasis on adequate training or
apprentice programs, “seek employment in
industrial centers where they go to work in
a production department and take their
chances on working their way up to a worth
while administrative position, contradictory
to the popular idea that college men are
afraid to get their hands dirty.”—AGP.
PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis j COVERING ““ ' \
1 caips distram
Democracy is based upon the conviction
that there are extraordinary possibilities
in ordinary people.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick
They Say
:A. C. Payncr
“Religion, you say, is old-fashioned.
How true! So is food; so is drink.
So are children, and firesides, and
neighbors,
And all things of value—0 think.”
Yes, religion is old-fashioned—when by
what you think of Puritans, Inquisitions, and
stubborn retreats from scientific truth. But
true religion has always transcended such
bigotry and blind intolerance. The faith that
students demand today is not so much an
emotional spree, but a valid way of life which
permeates every phase of his personal and
social relation ships.
Every institution should endeavor to
encourage the development of an ethical
perspective; religion might then become an
integrating factor, serving as a motive pow
er of progress and good-will within every
field of thought and action.
In the mind of some students, the reli
gious care is ahead of the proverbial horse.
Many still feel that “cuss” words, cigarettes,
dirty jokes and petty gambling are matters
of major morals. They have apparently
never weighed the human suffering and
moral waste caused by such universal evils as
political graft, economic competition, dry
and useless curricula, unwanted children,
international isolationism, racial prejudice,
and selfish acquisitiveness. It is slowly dawn
ing upon a lot of us that some of our “minor
vices,” although decidedly less than the best
within us, are mere symptoms of a rotten
attitude toward each other.
The medical axiom of finding the cause
before the cure might well apply within our
religious programs.
The more things a man is ashamed of,
the more respectable he is.
—George Bernard Shaw
Some great men owe most of their great
ness to the ability of detecting in those
they destine for their tools the exact
quality of strength that matters for
their work. —Joseph Conrad
The World Turns On
By Dr. R. W. Steen:
Jobs Go Beyyiny
American colleges, technical schools and uni
versities are unable to meet a third of the
demands being made on them for trained
workers, reports E. E. Crabb, president of
Investors Syndicate. “Although American
institutions of higher learning are meeting
two-thirds of the demands on them for train
ed workers,” explained Mr. Crabb, “they are
not satisfying requests from some industries,
and in some regions, by any such propor
tions.”
Defense and allied industries are making
the greatest increase in number of demands,
according to the company’s annual national
survey of college graduates’ job prospects.
Comments made by 501 institutions answer
ing the questionnairs stress willingness of
prospective employers to train liberal arts
and teachers’ college graduates in mechanical
arts and sciences, and retain engineering
graduates for new fields in which workers
are scarce. Beginning salaries offered are
the highest in years. Draft board policies of
calling technical graduates and students
have lessened available supplies of sought for
workers on campuses.
“One western Pennsylvania institution,
asked about the percentage of technically
trained graduates it was able to supply,
answered that ‘as early as last February
corporations recruiting on our campus de
manded 3,500 young engineering graduates,
though our June graduating class could not
exceed 235 graduates’, ” said Mr. Crabb. A
Connecticut liberal arts college replied, ‘em
ployment demand is the largest in our 60
year history.’ On an Iowa campus twice as
many engineers were sought this year as in
1938. From a Texas university came the de
claration, ‘ten times as many firms recruited
here this year as ever before.’ Typical of
California comment was the statement, ‘our
difficulty is to find enough candidates avail
able to recommend when job openings are
called to our attention.’
“While these specific instances do not
measure total actual scarcities in individual
fields, they do indicate trends. Inferentially
more details emerge from replies to another
question: ‘How much, and in what fields, has
demand for your technically trained grad
uates increased, or decreased, compared with
a year ago?’
The course Japan is following is very similar
to that followed by Italy a year and a half
ago. It will be recalled that Italy talked a
good war during the first months of the con
flict, but remained carefully on the side-
lines. Then, when France was
hopelessly beaten and it seem
ed that England’s army was
caught in the trap at Dun-
querque Mussolini bravely led
his people into a war thought
to be over. To his surprise and
I consternation Britain did not
;sue for peace. His people have
‘suffered greatly since that
time, and now Italy is probably
steen a liability rather than an asset
to Germany.
The Japanese signed an Axis pact some
months ago, but as yet have honored it only
by word of mouth. When the German armies
achieve victories the Japanese talk loudly of
their membership in the Axis, but when the
German armies encounter obstacles the
Japanese move cautiously and have much to
say about international friendship.
The Japanese were very quiet during
the weeks when the German armies were
practically stalled in Western Russia. Now
that the Nazi legions are moving again the
Tokyo front has come to life again, and every
day brings some new boast of Japan’s great
military and naval strength and of Japan’s
friendship with Germany. Many American
leaders now seem convinced that a Russian
collapse—which does not appear emminent—
would result almost immediately in an Amer
ican war with Japan.
Figures of the 1940 census, now being
released, indicate some interesting features
of the growth of Texas during the past de
cade. The total population increased about
10 per’cent. Negro population, however, in
creased only 8 per cent. One of the most
startling developments is found in the fact
that number of persons over 65 increased
almost 25 per cent. This is due in part to
the fact that medical science has given man
a longer life expectancy, and in part to the
fact that Texas is no longer a frontier state.
Frontier states have always belonged largely
to young people, and until 1920 Texas could
rightfully claim to be a frontier state. This
is the first time since American settlement
began in 1821 that the population of Texas
has increased only 10 per cent in a decade.
“I didn’t know vhat else to do. Major. There isn’t a horn
this thing anywhere!”
By
Charlie Babcock
"Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Down the Collegiate Highway . . . that will prove to be the breaking
Heartening news for struggling point for one of the two teams.
Aggies is the fact that the aver- We like to think that it will be the
age annual expenses of students turning point for the Aggies in the
at Yale university are estimated way of confidence,
to be $1,800 . . . Athletic Manager After the game, the cadet corps
E- W. Hooker an- interest will be varied. Hotels,
nounces that all night clubs, picture shows, dance
38,020 seats for halls, bowling alleys, and park
the Thanksgiving benches—they’ll all be so saturated
Day game have w ith Aggies tonight that a stranger
been sold, the j n town might well conclude that
first sell-out for
Kyle Field since
Turkey Day, 1939
now, but NYU
Babcock had only one
negro on the entire squad. And
at that, he was the only team
member from a southern state . . .
A. & M. can well be proud of her
own 1 gymnasium. The original
building of the University of North
Carolina’s physical plant, built in
1795, is still in daily use . . .
Residents of Washington, D. C.,
were amazed. They couldn’t un
derstand why an automobile kept
circling the Lincoln Memorial. Act
ually it was a group of Aggies on
their way back from New York
but who had become lost in the
capital city. To illustrate the
point, four hours was required to
travel from Baltimore to Wash
ington, a distance of 41 miles.
• • •
High Finance
Here’s one to pass your time
martial law has been declared.
At any rate, the Aggies are
ready as escorts, the TSCW-ites
^ S i as escortees, and Cowtown is will
ing to be the perfect host.
This
Collegiate
World
;ACP:
In these times of emphasis on
preparedness, we suppose it’s only
natural that more than usual at
tention should be given to the op
inions of the health experts. At
any rate, we were interested—and
relieved—the other day to read in
the public prints this statement by
Dr. Bernece Stone, head of the
health education department of San
Diego State college: “I think a cer-
while riding the train to Fort tain amount of necking is perfect-
Worth — and Jack Doyle will give U normal.”
you odds that not one in a thous
and can solve it
The Dartmouth graduate of to
day has an easy time preparing
Deposit $50 in bank; then— himself sartorically for the great
Draw out.... $20 Leaving ....$30 event of commencement compared
Draw out .... 15 Leaving .... 15 to seniors in the early days of the
Draw out .... 9 Leaving .... 6 college. Judah Dana, Dartmouth
Draw out .... 6 Leaving .... 0 1795, recorded that his Commence-
ment dress consisted of a “black
Total $50 Total 51 coat, waist coat and small clothes,
Now be cool and calm, count large silver shoe buckles, black
to ten, and relax. silk gloves and a black cocked hat,
If that doesn’t help, the room with my hair curled down with a
with the padded walls can be found black ribbon and my head and hair
in the baggage car.
• • •
No More Waiting
The day has arrived! The hour
for the first official 1941 corps
trip has struck!
The movement of the Aggie cam
pus to Fort Worth for the week
end is fast becoming a reality and
soon will be joined with the TSCW
campus.
Naturally, the spotlight will be on
this afternoon’s game ... a fracas
powdered as white as the driven
snow.” Woo-woo!
Texas A. & M. is the largest
non-co-educational school in the U.
S.
Dr. H. W. Hooper
Dentistry
College Hills
Phone 4-8704
This Big AGGIE is going to Ft. Worth
This Little AGGIE is going too,
And 6000 AGGIES are going to knock
The H - - - Out Of T. C. U.
FOR THE BEST
In Tailor-Made Uniforms
and
Civilian Clothes
COME TO THE
Aggie Militarg Shop
North Gate
Kappy Kaplan
For most of the cadet corps,
the main distraction on the docket
for this week-end is the corps trip
to Fort Worth for the T. C. U.
football game today. After the
game tonight, the Aggieland or
chestra will play from 9 to 1 at
the Texas Hotel. That famous
“Music As You Like It” as the
Aggieland plays it is just the right
thing to top off the day. This is
to be the official Aggie dance, and
except for the location will be the
same as if it were in Sbisa Hall.
Don’t forget the Texas Hotel to
night at 9. Everyone else is going
to be there. Will you?
There will be diversion for the
ones who cannot make the trip.
“REPENT AT LEISURE” is to be
shown at Guion Hall tonight. Neck
tie salesmen, Kent Taylor, meets
the boss’ daughter, Wendy Barrie,
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday—“A GIRL, A
GUY, AND A GOB,” star
ring Lucille Ball, Edmond
O’Brien, and George Mur
phy.
Saturday prevue, Sunday,
Monday — “LOST HORI
ZON,” with Ronald Colman,
Jane Wyatt, and Sam Jeffe.
AT GUION HALL
Saturday—“REPENT AT
LEISURE,” featuring Kent
Taylor and Wendy Barrie.
Monday — “I’LL WAIT
FOR YOU,” with Robert
Sterling, Marsha Hunt and
Paul Kelly.
AGGIES!
BEAT THOSE FROGS!
But it will also delight you
when you find what a swell
time you can have
at the
College Coffee Shop
East Gate
Phone 4-9664
TAKE THOSE
FROGS
OLE ARMY
DRINKS
EATS — SMOKES
Georges Confectionerg
New Y
GUION HALL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
7 P. M., Only One Show
WENDY
TAYLOR ' BARRIE
GEORGE BARBIER
Produced by CLIFF REID. Directed by FRANK
WOODRUFf. Screen play by Jerry Cady.
MONDAY — 3:30 & 6:45
”/’// Wait For You”
Selected Shorts