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THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 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
4-6444.
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. Wihneth 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
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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
Japanese Graduates
American-born college graduates of Japanese
parentage have greater vocational opportu
nities outside the Japanese communities than
they had ten years ago, enjoying better than
a 50-50 chance of breaking into local Amer
ican business and industry.
That is the conclusion based on a survey
by the Japanese Business Students club at
the University of California.
More than 800 American-born Japanese
are now enrolled in California colleges and
universities, but approximately 2,500 grad
uates have yet to find employment in fields
for which they have been trained.
The survey covered 70 firms in southern
California. In answer to the question: “Are
any nisei (American-born children of Jap
anese parentage) employed in your firm to
day?” more than half of those replied an
swered in the affirmative.
More than half of the firms that answer
ed indicated they “might employ nisei to
day” if business warranted additional help
and if competent nisei presented themselves.
The research effort is one of a series
undertaken as a means of helping nisei grad
uates find employment in technical fields for
which they have prepared themselves in col
lege.
Open Forum
The Conceit of Aggies
Editor’s note: The following letter has been re
ceived from Box 3226, T.S.C.W. in which the anony
mous writer gives an answer to the article, “So
Kimbrough Was A Poet” which appeared in the
October issue of the Battalion magazine.
TO THE BATTALION:
TSCW girls sing loud and long the praises of
their brother school, Texas Ass and Mule
College, while the creatures that abound in
and around a place called College Station
give no thought to their best supporters.
Aggieland was never a paradise until
the Denton girls proclaimed it such! Who
had heard of TAMC until these three thous
and feminine tongues had spread it through
out the land? Olive drab uniforms hold no
appeal around Sing Sing on the Brazos. It
is only the optimistic sister school that sees
beauty in army regulation.
Who is it that covers the campus of
TSCW every weekend, from early Friday
morning ’til curfew Sunday night ? A group
of lowly khaki-klads gasping for the sight
of a well-shaped gam. And what thanks do
the girls get? They are called “an isolation
home for cast-off harem beauties.”
Who stands through four quarters of
football games in spike-heeled shoes cheer
ing their hearts out for dear old army? (It
ain’t Vassar!) Why is there a market for
those foolish Aggie pennants? Because we
females use them on the walls of our rooms!
Who sits with a smiling face while her A&M
date guzzles beer until it runs from his
ears? Who receives and sees through the
“Aggie line” strung over pages and pages of
stationery with a sweet “Thanks for your
lovely letter?” Who bothers to have any
thing to do with the most conceited morons
on the face of the earth? It’s that “old
maids’ home located a few miles from the
college.”
If we don’t get a quick and clever apol
ogy it will be “C’mon Texas” November 27
at College Station. And that’s a woman’s
intuition!!!!
Extremely Anonymous.
Box 3226
T. S. C. W.
TO THE BATTALION:
For the past three years we have noticed that
out of the thirty thousand seats available in
our stadium for the A. & M.-Texas university
football game, only a very few have been
made available for the parents of the stu
dents of this college, and these few seats
were in the end zone. Since the students
make up the major portion of the college
proper and consequently support it, we can
not see why we should not have priority on
a bloc of choice seats for our parents for
this game.
The opportunity to have such a bloc
for this year’s game is gone, but in the in
terest of the classes following ours, we think
steps should be taken to correct this situa
tion.
Louis Byrd ’42
J. N. Yetter ’42
Gordon Siegel ’42
Richard Titley ’42
Maury W. Curtis ’42
N. B. Fowler ’42
C. B. Marsh ’42
J. E. Melancon ’42
Harris Brin ’42
R. M. Frost ’42
L. Ellis ’42
H. A. Riesing ’42
Thei] Sag
:A. C. Payne;
By Dr. R. W. Steen:
For the first time since the beginning of the
European conflict there has appeared in Con
gress something that can be described as a
national policy. Until now most of the pres
ident’s proposals on foreign policy have been
opposed by the Republicans as a party. There
have, of course, been Republi
can votes for practically all of
the proposals, but the party
has opposed them. The contin
ued sinking of American ships
has changed this, and now Re
publicans are taking the lead
j in a movement calling for com-
(plete repeal of the Neutrality
? Act. Such a move would not
only Permit the arming of
itmM:.American merchant ships, but
steen would permit the ships to enter
the ports of warring nations.
The second lend-lease bill was passed by
the Senate on Thursday. The House has al
ready approved the measure, but will have
to agree to a few minor amendments made
by the Senate before the bill becomes law.
The bill makes an appropriation of $6,000,-
000,000. When this money is spent America
will have contributed $13,000,000,000 to the
cause of defeating Hitler. Forty-three Dem
ocrats, fifteen Republicans, and one Inde
pendent voted for the bill. Three Democrats,
nine Republicans and one Progressive voted
against it.
This development of a national policy is
due largely to the sinking of American ships
on the high seas. Ten American merchant
vessels have been sunk. Six of the vessels
(the Charles Pratt, the Sessa, the Montana,
the Pink Star, the I. C. White, and the Bold
Venture) were flying the flag of Panama
when attacked. The others (the City of Ray-
ville, the Robin Moor, the Steel Seafarer,
and the Leheigh) were flying the American
flag.
In addition, one American destroyer, the
Kearney, has been damaged by a torpedo.
Eleven Americans lost their lives in this at
tack, and ten others were injured. The ship
was able to make port in Iceland under its
own power, but was severaly* damaged. At
least one other American destroyer, the
Greer, has had torpedoes shot at it. Fortu
nately, they missed their mark. The Greer
was built during the first world war, and has
a thin skin. Had one of the torpedoes launch
ed at it found its mark the Greer would
doubtless have been sunk. The Kearney is
new, has a much thicker skin than the Greer,
and is also divided into water tight compart
ments. Incidently,' the Greer was the first
vessel to reach the Kearney after it was
torpedoed. Both the Kearney and the Greer
were on duty that must be described a§ war
duty.
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
COVERING
What attitude should a Christian take toward
war? This question is being debated by va
rious individuals and groups, known and un
known by their religion or their lack of it.
Several positions have been rather clearly
stated, and we list the following to indicate
the present confusion in our thinking about
an individual’s participation is the present
war.
We shall eliminate the assumption that
“War is a good thing.” Mussolini is welcome
to his own opinion, but fortunately, few
agree that wars now accomplish any uni
versal good for man. How, then, do people
justify their attitude toward it?
1. “War is a national affair, and the indi
vidual is relieved of all responsibility.”
This group forgets that Uncle Sam is
only “you and me and the other fellow.”
2. “The Christian is justified in fighting a
war that he considers a righteous or just
war.”
3. “The Christian is justified in fighting
only in a defensive war.” This should be
redefined in the light of military strat
egy. It is usually agreed that a good of
fense is the best defense!
4. “War is not in accord with God’s ulti
mate purpose for the world, but partici
pation in it would be approved by him at
the present stage of civilization.” In
other words, it is Christian to fight now,
although in the future it may not be.
5. “War is not Christian, but as long as we
live in an evil world we must accommo
date to some extent our ideals to the
realities of life.” This suggestion of com
promise isn’t as hypocritical as it sounds.
6. “War is absolutely wrong and the Chris
tian should have no part in it.”
This is the position of the conscientious
objector. It represents an ideal that we are
working toward, and the truly “‘conscien
tious” objector should be defended, particu
larly in a land that encourages freedom of
religion and whose strength is paradoxically
found in its differences of opinion.
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“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
The Baylor Hurdle ... A game
that means a lot to both schools
in the way of. conference cham
pionships. It will be the making
or breaking points for two teams.
We like to think of the Aggies
in the former role
. . . Letter from
Bill Clarkson,
managing editor
of The Battalion
in 1940-41, bears
the information
that there are
, five other former
Aggies besides
himself who are
Babcock enrolled in the
Texas University Medical School
at Galveston as freshmen. Includ
ed in the group are W. C. Gauntt,
Leroy Callahan, Charles H. Cox,
Phil Williams, and Bob White. . . .
Taken from The Newsweek of one
week ago: “The Teaxs A. & M.
Mustangs cantered into New York
and kicked N. Y. U. into a cocked
hat 49-7.” What of S. M. U.! . . .
Looking for a laugh? Find a copy
of Wednesday’s Daily Texan.
Screaming in an orange-colored
banner headline on page one is
the slogan, ONE AT A TIME.
Naturally, reference is made to the
way the Longhorns should take
their football season. Comment
under the headline carried a few
words which bear thoughtful
meaning between the line?: Rice,
S.M.U., Baylor, T.C.U.—we’ll win
them all . . . one at a time. No
mention of the Aggies at any point
throughout the entire story.
will write and give complete
details, I will be happy to re
turn it to him.
Sincerely,
Katherine Allred
2705 Simondale Drive
Fort Worth, Texas
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Post Cards
There are headaches to this bus-'
in ess of running one of Uncle
Sam’s post offices, brother!
People who write letters usual
ly have a tendency to forget to
attach a return address, to over
lap stamps, to ehclose written
material in second class packages,
(See BACKWASH, Page 4)
In the spotlight this week-end is
the corps dance in Sbisa Hall to
night from 9 till 12. The Aggie-
land orchestra will be there fur
nishing all the necessary entertain
ment for the merry-making Aggies
and their dates. Don’t foirget
“music as you like it” tonight aft
er the game.
For a full evening there is the
current feature at the Campus,
“ADAM HAD FOUR SONS.” This
i§ the tragedy-filled story of an
American family during the years
previous to and during the first
World War. Head of the house is
Warner Baxter; the French gover
ness is Ingrid Bergman, the Swed
ish star in her second American
picture. The show is a little slow
and draggy, but you will like it
nevertheless.
Over at Guion Hall, you can drop
in tonight and see “THE BRIDE
CAME C. O. D.” with James Cag
ney and Bette Davis. It is an ex
tremely light comedy that is cal
culated to relieve you of all the
worries of the world for a couple
of hours at least.
Bette actually turns herself
loose in this role and shows that
she can be a comedian as well
as a dramatic star. The way she
plops into those prickly pear beds
is a caution. Then Sir James
has to come to her resuce and re
move the thorns from her poster
ior end. Yes, indeed. Neither one
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WHAT’S SHOWING
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Saturday —“THE BRIDE
CAME C. O. D.,” starring
James Cagney and Bette
Davis.
Monday —“CHEERS FOR
MISS BISHOP,” with Mar-
that Scott and William Gar-
gan.
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday — “ADAM HAD
FOUR SONS,” with Ingrid
Bergman and Warner Bax
ter.
Saturday prevue, Sunday,
Monday — “HOLD THAT
GHOST,” featuring Bud Ab
bott and Lou Costello, the
Andrews Sisters, and Ted
Lewis Orchestra.
There is a limit of 100 Aggies
who make answer the following
letter:
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