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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. Wilmeth Circulation Manager
Photography Staff
Jack Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Tuesday’s Staff
Lee Rogers Managing Editor
W. A. Goforth— Assistant Advertising Manager
Tom Vannoy Junior Editor
Jack Decker Junior Editor
Clyde Franklin 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
Arkansas Next-Armg!
A great and fiery Aggie team rose up to all
its glory this past Saturday afternoon to
crush everything but the spirit of a valiant
Baylor team and astounded even the most
optimistic cadet partisan. According to the
sports experts and sports announcers all
over the country, it was the greatest Aggie
team that they have seen. In fact they are
almost ready to concede the “Battle of
Tranksgiving” and the conference champion
ship to the Aggies.
All this is great and fine. It’s great to
feel that we have a powerful ball club. It’s
great to look forward to the victor’s spoils,
and it’s even greater to think that we have
a chance to stop Texas’ powerful Longhorns.
Yes sir, it’s all swell, but after all is said and
done, aren’t we looking ahead a bit? Seems
that such a thing happened just a year ago
and our “dream castle” was shattered and
torn to the ground. We had that “bowl”
fever, and instead of plucking a rose we
plucked a weed.
Today, after a five-game winning streak,
a similar situation exists. An Aggie team
that was called a “darkhorse” entry at the
start of the season has found itself and
seems to be headed for glory. The first four
games kept the experts guessing, but that
one Saturday afternoon convinced them all.
However, they’re all not pursuing the
policy that the Aggies did in 1939—that is,
taking each game one at a time. Coach
Homer Norton, a long advocate of that
theory, has been pounding the “one-at-a-
time” policy to the players ever since he has
been coaching at A. & M. He succeeded
splendidly in 1939, but in 1940, the team got
ahead on its schedule, and everyone knows
what happened.
What we’re trying to put over is that
our next game is against Arkansas and not
against Texas. After Arkansas, don’t forget
there’s still S. M. U., a tough opponent if
ever there was one, Rice, and then, finally,
Texas. We’ve still got a long way to climb
to that cherished crown, and if we desire any
chance of securing that wish, the only way
that we can even attempt to get it, is by
playing our games as they come.
So on to Arkansas, Army. Let’s support
our great team, now that they have found
themselves. Many cadets on the campus be
lieve that the Arkansas game is going to be
just a pushover, but it’s not. Those Razor-
backs have a funny knack for using that good
old upset rule, and, if we don’t take them
seriously we might get disappointed. Let’s
not think about S. M. U., Rice, or Texas in
that game. It’s Arkansas and Arkansas Only.
That’s the only way we will win that game.
Those of you who can possibly make the
trip, make it because that team will need all
the support they can receive. Not that they
aren’t capable of taking care of themselves,
but it just gives a team the “go ahead”
sign everytime someone yells for them. So
Arkansas it’ll be this next Saturday after
noon! What do you say, army? M. H.
Open Forum
Editor’s note: Saturday’s Battalion carried an Open
Forum article from T.S.C.W. in which the corps
was the target of the satirical jibes of one of
T.S.C.W.’s student body. Here is the other viewpoint
as presented to the editors of The Battalion in a
letter received Saturday.
TO THE BATTALION:
From all corners of the T.S.C.W. campus come
approving remarks about the weekend of
your corps trip.
Since we all enjoyed it to such a great
extent, I thought you, the staff, and the
student body might like to know the good
news, because the corps is largely responsible
for its success.
In regard to the “Aggie Spirit,” there
is really nothing this side of heaven to com
pare with it!! No other college pulls for
their team as strongly and enthusiastically
as do the A. & M. cadets. The football squad-
men should hang their heads in shame if
they ever,lost a game with such a strong
“twelfth man” rooting for them!
The new song “Twelfth Man” is a great
song! When the corps sings it, chills of joy
play hide and seek along the spinal columns
THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1941
of many an Ex-Aggie, T.S.C.W.ite, and wit
ness.
The band played our Alma Mater the
way it is supposed to be played. No one can
play it that way except the Aggie Band.
Another grand act of Aggie spirit is the
way the entire football squad rises to greet
a fellow player coming home from the game.
Keep it up, Aggies, it’s wonderful! We ad
mire you for it! All of T.S.C.W. will be root
ing for you every weekend!!
We hope to see the same Aggie spirit
when we truck down that direction November
8. Good luck to you all! Let there be a “ ”
victory Ball!
Sincerely,
One of 2,500 T.S.C.W. gals
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood - ■■
Hats off when you pass a girl or woman or
a much older man you know.
When a man with you speaks to a wom
an acquaintance.
When a girl or woman with you speaks
to an acquaintance.
When you meet a girl or woman or when
you part from her.
When you have any occasion to speak to
a woman, if it be nothing more than “Madam,
is this your package?” or when a woman
speaks to you, even though it is just to thank
you for a small favor.
Because an elevator in a hotel, club or
apartment house is looked upon as a room,
you remove your hat there also. Elevators
in office buildings and stores are regarded
as a continuation of the foyers or halls, and
hats may stay on.
Civilties to women in public.
Stand back for a woman, stranger or not,
to precede you through a doorway. When
there is a crowd to pass into a bus or elevator,
this is not practicable.
A gentleman picks up anything dropped
by a woman near him.
When a girl you know is about to take
the same bus you are, it is not necessary for
you to pay her fare; you may offer, if you
like, but she will likely refuse.
If^you should meet a girl friend on the
street,‘and she is carrying packages, you
should offer to carry them for her, but it
is understood that a man in military uniform
does not carry packages.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence
than speech. —Martin Tapper
Quotable Quotes
“World social integration has progressed far
enough for mutual interdependence but not
far enough to avoid destructive competition,
so that we find ourselves in a transitional
phase of human evolution in which the colos
sal mistakes of our politicians are matched
only by our colossal ignorance of basic social
mechanisms. One wonders whether blopd,
tears, and sweat are the only price to be paid.
Social wars within the same species of an
insect society are practically non-existent.”
Dr. Alfred E. Emerson, University of Chi
cago zoologist, elaborates on a favorite poser:
Bugs get along with their own kind. Why
can’t people learn?
I am seeking only to face realities and to
face them nvithout soft concealment.
—Woodrow Wilson
The World Turns On
- By Dr. J. H. Quisenberry '
For some time now many people have
been asking the question, how can a demo
cratic nation fight a modern war and still
stay free? We are convinced that democracy
is the only satisfactory way of life, yet we
feel that its defenses in time of peril are
wholly inadequate.
The extremely slow progress in the pro
duction of defense material has been a source
of alarm, and much discussion, for the av
erage citizen. During World War No. I we
blamed many of the strikes and production
troubles on the I. W. W. emanating from
Red Russia. Now that we are committed to
aid for Russia we are free from that particu
lar source of trouble. Yet the strikes and la
bor lockouts continue, and our draftees train
with wooden guns.
Obviously the whole trouble is not with
foreign agents in this country. Neither is
the trouble with democracy as such, for I
believe we can wage a war and still remain
a true democracy, provided that war is in
defense of democratic ideals. This, of course,
does not mean that such a war must be mil-
itaristically a purely defensive war. In most
any scrap the fellow who gets in the first
sound blow finds his necessary defense eas
ier.
Democracy as a system of government is
unique in the amount of emphasis placed
upon the individual. Our present trouble lies
with the individual and his selfish motives:
the desire for personal gain,, often unknow
ingly, at the risk of national security.
In answer to the question “can this coun
try wage a war and remain free?” James B.
Conant, President of Harvard University,
says, “We can do so only if each individual
is willing through self-imposed discipline to
make sacrifices for the ideals he worships.
A democracy preserves itself not by mob
hysteria nor by governmental regimentation,
but by a voluntary closing of the ranks.” The
motivation for defense of democracy comes
from within, not upon, the individual.
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis j
“He was up in a tree throwing bricks, Major. Will you please
explain to him that these battles are only make believe?”
BACKWASH Charlie Babcock
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster
The Ball Started Rolling in 1876 . . . Since that time, many
thousands of men have passed through the portals of Aggie-
land—entering as eager, young freshmen, then leaving as
men!
But the story doesn’t end there! Books don’t tell of the
toil and sweat of those Aggie pioneers in their early attempts
for recognition of their beloved alma mater.
It can only be found in the hearts of former
Aggies.
A relentless task was theirs. A task of
molding and shaping the principles to which
Aggies should adhere ... A task of estab
lishing worthy traditions ... A task of
creating a doctrine—a democratic doctrine.
A. & M. has reached the heights, main
ly through the pioneering efforts of those
early Aggies. Aggieland has attained her
Babcock share of the glory and recognition. AG
GIES ARE AT THE TOP—IN EVERY FIELD!
The point is this: We should stop “crowing” about the
fact that we are Aggies and we’re the best.
Certainly we are the best. When thousands of boys stand
at attention for half an hour in reverence of their school
song—they believe in their school. When thousands of boys
stand at attention while several of the fellow classmates
pass out from exhaustion—they’ve got a spirit that won’t
be beat!
The fact is that we have reached the top. We like Aggie
land better than all the others.
But let’s stop bragging about it—ESPECIALLY TO
EACH OTHER—AND FOR SUCH LONG PERIODS OF
TIME!
• • •
Gorgeous feminity scattered and a mayor’s convention got to in
everywhere. Yes, and just heaps trying to outsmart each other. We
and heaps of it. That is “A were just a little let down when
NIGHT AT EARL CARROL’S”
showing at the Campus today and
tomorrow as part of the double
feature attraction.
Earl Carroll’s motto, “Through
these doors pass the most beauti
ful girls in the world,” is most
appropriate in this picture. The
whole story takes place in Car-
roll’s restaurant in Hollywood. The
plot is thin, but the stage num
bers almost make up for it. It
concerns the ends that criminals
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday, Wednesday—“A
NIGHT AT EARL CAR
ROLL’S,” with Ken Murray
and Rose Robart. Also
“CRACKED NUTS,” featur
ing Stuart Erwin, Una Me?’-
kel, and Mischa Auer.
AT GUION HALL
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“THE BIG STORE,” star
ring the Marx Brothers and
Tony Martin.
USE MAGNOLIA
On Your Trip To See
The Aggies Beat
Arkansas
AGGIELAND
Service Station
East Gate
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
Learn To Dance
ALL TYPES
Of
DANCING
WED. AND THURS. OF
EACH WEEK
Rovello Dancing
School
Back Lewis Shoe Store
4-1181
TODAY & TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
NO. 1
“CRACKED NUTS”
With
Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel
Mischa Auer
SHOWS AT:
1:00—3:24—5:48—8:12—10:46
NO. 2
With
Ken Murray
Brenda & Cobina
And
Most Beautiful Girls In The
World
SHOWS AT:
2:21 — 4:45 — 7:09 — 9:33
Showing all this week . . .
The 1941 A & M-TCU
Game
82 Cents
Station at the East Gate. After
filling the automobile tank with
John Woolford, coast artillery gasoline, the attendant asked Wool-
senior, has found a bit more faith ford to. step into the office,
in humanity. , Woolford complied and was
It was Friday night that Wool- promptly given a sum of 82 cents,
ford drove into Grant’s Service (See BACKWASH, Page 4)
KODAK ROLLS
DEV. AND PRINTED
19c
per roll
35 MM-36 EXP.
DEV. AND KODA-PRINTED
75c
6 or 8 Exp.
FILM IN TODAY OUT TOMORROW
AGCO
PHOTOGRAPHIC
LABORATORIES
College Station Headquarters—Campus Studio
GUION HALL
TUES.-WED., OCT. 28-29
3:30 & 6:45
MEMORIES OF EUROPE
and
AERONAUTICS
PALACE
DON’T MISS THIS SENSATION
4 BIG DAYS—Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat.
TVROIIE POWER
't
BETTY GRABLE
JOHN SUTTON REGINALD GARDINER
PRODUCED BY
DARRYL F. ZANUCK
DIRECTED BY
HENRY KING
Associate Producer low Edelman
Screen Play by Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg
A 20TH CENTURY-FOX PICTUR1
PREVIEW 11P. M. SAT. NIGHT, SUN., MON.
JAMES STEWART
In
“NAVY BLUE AND GOLD”