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-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941
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 aa second-class matter at the Post Office at College
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March S, 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
Chick Hurst : Junior Sports Assistant
Circulation Staff
E. D. Wilmeth Circulation Manager
Photography Staff
Jack Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Thursday’s Staff
Lee Rogers Managing Editor
John Sleeper Advertising Assistant
Charles Babcock - Junior Editor
Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor
Mike Speer Junior Editor
Reportorial Staff
Calvin Brumley, Kenneth C. Bresnen, Arthur L. Cox; W. J.
Hamilton, Jr., N. W. Karbach, Jack Keith, Tom B. Jounneay,
Tom Leland, Charles P. McKnight, C. G. Scruggs, John May,
Douguass Lancaster
Lest We Forget
The Aggies learned a lesson Saturday. A les
son which unfortunately was learned at the
expense of one of A. & M.’s greatest friends,
■Texas Christian University.
A unfortunate occurance happened fol
lowing the close of the game—an incident
which we of A. & M. regret because it oc-
cured during a weekend when the people of
Fort Worth and the student body of T. C. U.
had extended to the cadet corps a brand of
hospitality which had never before been giv
en on any corps trip. To T. C. U. and Fort
Worth, we extend our appreciation for all
the hospitalities of the past weekend.
Already the corps has sent its apologies
to T. C. U., and they have graciously accepted
them. The incident is closed—our relatidns
with T. C. U. remain untarnished—but the
memory of this affair should teach Aggie-
land a very potent lesson. A lesson that every
Aggie because he wears a uniform, because
he represents a great college, should make
every effort to maintain the reputation of
A. & M. Because you wear that uniform,
you share in the glory of being an Aggie,
because you wear that uniform, you have
the responsibility of maintaining A. & M.’s
reputation.
Open Forum
:By Dr. T. F. Mayo:
anything valuable about farming. In many
cases, they may even fail to tell you anything
you don’t know already about rural life. But
after all, the usefulness of fiction is not in
instructing so much as in interpretation. A
good novel can make you see quite familiar
facts and types of people in an entirely new
light, and can thus change your whole at
titude toward your own day-to-day life. It
can make you find interest and dignity and
perhaps drama in a common cycle of events
which have heretofore simply bored you. By
showing you familiar people from the inside,
it can make you see them ever after as pa
thetic or humprous or heroic, never again as
merely drab.
The following short list of “farm novels”
is selected at random from the recent litera
ture of half a dozen nations. If you become at
all interested, why not go into the field se
riously and make this sort of thing your
chief literary recreation? If, coming from
the farm to an agricultural course, you know
country life and people already, these novels
will help you to understand what you know.
“Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers,” as
old Tennyson remarked. If, on the other
hand, you are a city-slicker or a small town
sport and are headed into engineering, good
farm novels have still more to teach you.
Anyhow, here is a selected list of farm
fiction:
Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsum. In
my opinion, the biggest of the lot. A Nor
wegian epic of the farmer’s battle with grim
nature.
0 Pioneers! and My Antonia, by Willa
Gather. The opening of our Middle West.
Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell. Can
such things be? Worn-out soil producing de
generate culture.
The World Turns On
:By A. F. Chalki
TO THE BATTALION:
This is about the flag episode in Fort Worth.
The T.C.U. student body had given up
its usual mid-field seats to our boys and
the Denton girls, in order to be good hosts,
and had accepted goal line seats in their
place. Their beloved Frogs had been knocked
out of the championship race and they were
in the gloom of defeat. Their hopes of future
victories, even, had been dashed by the injury
of their star. You Aggies remember how you
felt last Thanksgiving. T.C.U. felt that way
Saturday evening.
Then came the flag incident rubbing
salt into their wounds. A flag is no ordinary
emblem. It is no Steer, nor Mustang, nor
Owl. It shares space with Old Glory and the
Lone Star banner, and is due similar rever
ence. T. C. U. reverences it flag.
Nor is it very brave or sportsmanlike
for a group from some 5,000 students to start
a melee with a group which had every T. C. U.
boy been present would have numbered only
one tenth their number. For our eleven best
to beat their eleven best is all right. But a
ten to one affair bears a somewhat yellowish
hue, and we rather put ourselves in the to
mato throwing class.
As an Aggie alumnus, my ears burned
and my face stayed red for the half hour I
was in Jarvis Hall after the game, hearing
the cold fury vented and the repeated vows
that the Aggie cadet corps would not again
be welcomed on that campus. For this to
come to my ears from the students of one
of the cleanest school in the country, hurt
and still hurts.
Certainly no more than a small percent
age of our cadet corps condoned this most
thoughtless insult to our defeated hosts. Sure
ly, the vast majority of our students are
zealous defenders of Aggieland’s great rep
utation, and will not rest until they know
a welcome awaits them again on the T. C. U.
campus.
It is my hope that literally hundreds of
letters will reach T. C. U. from Aggie cadets,
expressing regrets and apologies for this re
grettable action by a thoughtless few.
Jas. W. Williams
Class of 1919
Former Editor of The Battalion
Something to Read
Farm Fiction
Considering how few farmers become writ
ers, a surprising number of novels have been
written about the farm, good ones too, many
of them. It would seem to be a good idea
for you Aggies who are chiefly agricultural
in your interests to look at rural life through
the highly imaginative eyes of the novelists.
Not that these story-tellers will teach you
COVERING
campus disttacitts
WITH
TOM WINDY
“Ugh; You got a reservation for me?”
BY
Charlie Babcock
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Matters could be worse, though.
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The Daily Grind . . . Laurie Oliver
has been on the receiving line of
a lot of Texas U. publicity re-
cently. Latest to be received in -LWO--b>lt 1 ip
the way of Longhorn correspond
ence was the envelope containing
two pictures—one
of Doss and his
memorable
T h a n k s g i ving
Our government is now concerning itself
with the problem of controlling a rising price
level. Thus far the “moral suasion” of Leon
Henderson has had very limited success, and
it is obvious even to the uninformed that
some comprehensive legislation is needed to
remedy the situation. It is our purpose here
to ' mention some of the measures which
might be adopted as a means of checking the
present trend of prices.
It is difficult to classify scientifically
the different techniques which can be used
as a means of avoiding inflation. In the inter
est of simplicity, however, we might classify
all price-control procedures as either direct
or indirect. The indirect methods attempt to
solve the problem by adjusting the supply
of and demand for consumer goods. The di
rect methods involve the attempted control
of prices by governmental decrees, et cetera.
Some group is usually given authority to es
tablish maximum prices by decree and any
violation of the law is considered a criminal
act.
As suggested above, the indirect pro
cedures usually constitute an effort to correct
maladjustments of both the demand for and
the supply of consumer goods. At present
the supply of such goods is decreasing while
the net income of consumers is increasing.
Both these factors tend to cause prices to
rise, and the indirect controls which are in
stituted should attack both sides of the
probem if they are to be reasonably satisfac
tory. Whereever feasible the supply of con
sumer goods must be increased and consumer
incomes must be decreased.
The following are some of the methods
which have been suggested as a means of
alleviating the supply problem: (1) Impor
tation of as many consumer goods as possible
with the available shipping space, (2) Stim
ulation of production of consumer goods
when the production of such goods would
not require labor and machinery vital to
national defense, (3) Drastic restriction of
the production of certain comfort and luxury
goods which compete with rearmament in
dustries. Examples would be automobiles, re
frigerators, new housing of certain types,
etc. Many such goods are so durable that a
temporary decline in their production would
not constitute a great inconveniece. (4) Re
organization of distribution machinery to
permit lower costs and retain lower prices,
and (5) Increasing working hours of wage-
earners to permit increased aggregate pro
ductivity on the part of labor. In connection
with this, it has been suggested that some
legislation of recent years should be suspend
ed for the duration of the emergency.
The techniques for controlling demand
are not so varied as in the case with the sup
ply side of the problem. In general, it may be
said that extremely high taxation and in
creased sales of government bonds to indi
viduals are the two methods which have re
ceived most widespread attention. In addi
tion to high excise and personal income tax
es, the use of an excess profits tax approach
ing 100% would appear to be desirable. Not
only would it decrease consumer income
through smaller dividends, but it also would
take away one of the arguments used by
labor in demanding higher wages. Profits
and wages will probably have to be controlled
rigidly in the interest of national welfare.
Space will not permit discussion of the
direct methods of controlling prices. It should
be remembered, however, that the efficiency
of such methods depends primarily upon the
efficiency of the governmental agencies
charged with the administration of the law.
Controls must be very extensive, and penal
ties for evasion have to be extremely strin
gent in order for the laws to be effective.
These factors would probbably make any
widespread use of direct controls particularly
unpalatable to Americans. Direct price con
trol could be used to advantage in a restricted
number of cases, but indirect methods would
no doubt be more satisfactory for the pur
poses of general price control.
Second lieutenants and former
Aggies, Jimmie Giles and Earle
Shields, were lunching in the
Milam Cafeteria in Fort Worth.
Giles spied a couple of beauties
catch, the other a table across the room. Trying
of Layden going strike up an acquaintance, he
over against the 8' av e the waitress twenty-five cents
Aggies for the deliver a note to them,
fatal seven points Lieutenants’ laces became crim-
—all with the son when the waitress gave the
line, “No explana- girls the note and the two-bits!
Babcock tion necessary”
. .. Unconcerned was the attitude ■
of about ten Aggies when Fletcher
Asbury and his date walked into
the date’s hotel room in Fort
Worth and found the cadets sleep
ing on the bed and floor . . . Fea
ture of current attractions at the
Campus Theater is a couple of sur- i:
prise slides. A somber audience The latest hiJlbilly tune to make
changes to one of laughter as the ,, , . .. . „
r . ... the big time is Sweetheai'ts Or
following slides are flashed on the
screen to the accompaniment of a Strangers,” and no less than four
funeral march—“This theater will Different recordings of it have
be closed until 6:30 p. m. Satur- been made. The best two of the
Musical
Meanderings
;By Murray Evans:
day”—“So that the staff may at
tend the funeral of the
lot are sung by Dick Todd and
„ . , , , B a Jd° r (j onn j e Boswell. Other current
Bears! ... it would have been ,. ^
recordings of the same ilk are
impossible to match Jack Hering s <Tn Keep 0n Loving You> „ by Con _
Somewhat better than his past
performances are Hugh Herbert’s
Lany actions in “HELLO, SUCK
ER,” playing at the Campus to
day. Others in the cast are Tom
Brown and Peggy Moran.
Utter nonsense is the sum total
of the show. Naturally it is enter
taining. Nothing could help but be
that with “Woo-Woo” Hugh any
where around. The main improve
ment that “Hello, Sucker” has is
that a lid of sorts has been put
on Herbert so that he doesn’t make
his presence too obnoxious. The
usual romantic complications are
present.
A new star is rising on the
Hollywood horizon. This one is
named Anna Lee, famed British
actress. She is co-starred with
Ronald Colman in “MY LIFE
WITH CAROLINE” which is to be
at Guion Hall today and tomor
row.
A tolerant husband who under
stands his fluttery wife is the idea
of the show. Anna Lee reminds
us of the humming bird hovering
over a flower-bed, undecided from
which to take the nectar.
Anna just can’t make up her
mind whether she likes Gilbert Ro
land, Reginald Gardiner, or Ronald
Colman, her husband, best. Some
how just when Anna is about to
decide on one of the others, Ron
ald walks in and spoils everything
for the other fellow.
“My Life with Caroline” is a
most sophisticated comedy. It has
a bit of English touch mixed in that
makes everything fine. One of
the better comedies of the year,
we think. Colman has taken ad
vantage of the opportunity to put
his best foot forward in this light
bit of nothing for which he is so
capable.
At the Campus tomorrow and
Saturday is “ADAM HAD FOUR
SONS.” Ingrid Bergman and
Warner Baxter are the leading
players in the picture.
Warner Baxter is a Wall Street
broker with a family on an estate
in Connecticut. He loses every
thing in the panic of 1907. Ingrid
Bergman, the French governess,
has to be sent home. The family
starts to disintegrate.
In spite of its heaviness, “Adam
Had Four Sons” is a good picture.
Adam’s growing love for the gov
erness on her return after his wife’s
death, the young, radiant love of
Adam’s son for his wife. Susan
Yayward, the disillusionment con
cerning Susan, all are magnificent
ly portrayed in the show.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “HELLO,
SUCKER,” starring Hugh
Herbert, Tom Brown, and
Peggy Moran.
Friday, Saturday —
“ADAM HAD FOUR
SONS,” with Ingrid Berg
man, Warner Baxter, and
Susan Hayward.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday — “MY
LIFE WITH CAROLINE,”
featuring Ronald Colman and
Susan Hayward.
Applications For
Dances Due Nov 1
November 1 is the deadline for
making application for dates for
organization dances. These appli
cations must be in so that the so
cial calender for the year may be
arranged. Permit cards can be
secured in the Student Activities
office in Room 126 of the Adminis
tration Building.
Organization dances will start
with the Freshman Dance shortly
after mid-term. This dance will be
followed by the Sophomore dance
the next week-end.
The discovery at A. & M. that
Texas cattle fever was transmitted
by an insect has been responsible
for one of the greatest advances
ever made in medicine.
embarrassment Saturday night in
Fort Worth when he and his date
climbed into the wrong automobile
and went for a ride. Hering, a
nie Boswell, and “You Are My
Sunshine,” by Bing Crosby.
John Kirby, whose swell musi
cal combination made him one of
field artillery senior, was suppos- the most talked about bandleaders
ed to go by a certain parking lot in the countl . y) has returned to the
and use his room mates car^ Duffy , s Tavern program which is
Through mistaken identity, the , . . , ,,
, & , , , being aired once weekly over a
couple used an unknown party s network of 60 stations _ Kirby wiU
vehicle and didn t return it until , , j ^ i.- i j-j
, . , be remembered tor his plendid or-
they discovered their error about , . .. , , ,,
^ chestrations and popularity on the
Rhythm”
an hour later.
• • •
Roses in October
Texas is getting ready to
to the Rose Bowl!
It is
orange lights on the Administra-
“Flow Gently Sweet
CBS series last year.
Aggies will remember the Gene
Krupa short feature which played
the local theaters not long ago, in
tradition in Austin that which Howard Da Lan y san g “ Cal1
Of the Canyon. Du Lany has
tion’BuildTng tower’are* turned on ^ cen the featured vocalist with
the night after every game in
which the Longhorns are victor
ious
Krupa for several years and has
built up quite a following. But
just two weeks ago Uncle Sam
Speaking of lighting effects for called ’ and now Howard is wea1 ’-
special occasions, Carl Eckhardt, khaki at Cam P Dix > New Jer ‘
superintendent of the university i ns tead of diilling and
utilities, states: “There probably shouldering a rifle, he is vocalist
won’t be any more additions to the wlth the cam P orchest ra.
color scheme unless the Steers go Ginn y Simms > Ka y K y ser ’ s for -
to the Rose Bowl, and then any mer maia stay, recently signed a
thing is likely to happen. starrin ^ contract with a Hollywood
Better take a second look, “Men ?tudl °- But there is no stopping
of Forty Acres.” You’ve got to l er ’ for she has j ust si ^ ned
play a ball game Thanksgiving star on a commercial radio pro-
Day, and it so happens that " ram ema ^ing from Hollywood.
Thanksgiving comes before New Gmny has a million dollar smile
Y earg and a voice as clear as a bell.
Then too, it is rumored that
Pete Layden must take his selec
tive service physical examination
today. That means that induction
orders will be forthcoming in about
a month or six weeks.
“ARMY”
IT’S BAYLOR NEXT
We Will See You At The Game
Following our custom of several years the store will
be closed during the game. Meet your friends before
or after the game where the “Aggies” meet—
Lipscomb Pharmacy
(Jampus
Principles of War
Applied to Plowing
Reversing the modern trend of
changing from a peace to a war
time economy, Professor A. W.
Clyde of Pennsylvania State col
lege has used an instrument of
war to aid the farmer in the peace
ful task of plowing.
Adopting the principles used in
the recoil mechanism of artillery,
Professor Clyde has developed a
satisfactory automatic release
hitch for use on tractors when
plowing in rocky ground.
After the plow hits a solid rock,
the tractor is stopped in 8 to 10
inches and is gently pulled back
and recoupled to the plow. Ail
plowman must do is to back away
or otherwise release his implement
from the stone and go on with his
work.
4-1181
TODAY ONLY
“HELLO SUCKER”
With
Peggy Hugh
Moran Herbert
Plus
“SWING WITH BING”
Starring
Bing Crosby
MICKEY MOUSE
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
PiW INGRID WARNtKfl
§ JERGMAN«
\dD.fim Hw
Pom Sons
...M with
Susan Hayward • Fay Wray
: Richard Denning. Rob’t Shaw
Plus
Com. Sing—Cartoon—News
GUION HALL
THURSDAY — FRIDAY
3:30 & 7:30
Introducing ANNA LEE with
CHARLES WINNINGER and
REGINALD GARDINER • GILBERT ROLAND
KATHERINE LESLIE » HUGH O’CONNELL
Produced and Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE • A United Producers Production
WILLIAM HAWKS, Executive Producer ♦ Screen Play by John Van Draten and Arnold Belgard
SPORTS — NEWS — COMEDY
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