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THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1941
TTie 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.
1941 Member 1942
Plssodated Gotle6iate Press
Don Gabriel Editor
E. M. Rosenthal Associate Editor
Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager
Sports Staff
Mike Haikln 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
Gene Wilmeth .- Circulation Manager
Bill Hanger Senior Circulation Assistant
F. D. Asbury Junior Assistant
Bill Huber, Joe Stalcup Circulation Assistants
Photography Staff
'Jack Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Thursday’s Staff
E. M. Rosenthal Acting Managing Editor
John Sleeper ; Advertising Assistant
Charles Babcock Junior Editor
Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor
Mike Speer Junior Editor
Rcportorial 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
Abolish Excess Cuts
A college which functions as part of a dem
ocratic society should be able to impart to
its graduates a degree of training which will
enable them to act intelligently in a modern
world. It should strive to turn out a man
who can make his own decisions and assume
some of the responsibilities which are de
manded of him.
But does A. & M. do this ? We hear much .
talk of A. & M. graduating men fully capable
of a man’s responsibilities. And yet this
college stumbles along with an archaic policy
of penalizing students for excess cuts. Pos
sibly freshmen and sophomores should have
some form of compulsory classroom attend
ance. But juniors and seniors are shackled
under the present regulations regarding ex
cess cuts.
One of the modern conceptions of edu
cation is educational freedom. As democracy
stands threatened throughout the world, it
is of prime importance that this college
should be turning out men who have develop
ed traits of responsibility. If this college is
charged with the task of training men, then
it must do that while they are here in college.
The A. & M. graduate is no superman; he
will not change overnight when granted a
diploma and assume new responsibilities un
less he has received the proper training here.
Certainly a junior or senior could be
charged with the responsibility of obtaining
his education here and utilizing to the great
est extent the facilities of the college. To
deny him the right to exercise some respon
sibility would seem to indicate a fundamen
tal weakness of a college education.
If this college is training men, then it
should allow them some academic freedom
during the years when they are taking ad
vanced work. The abolition of penalties for
excess cuts or the extension of the definition
of excess cuts would be a forward step for
A. & M.
By the time a man has gone to college
two years, he should be capable of exercis
ing the right of going to classes if and when
he wants to. Basically such a plan would be
no different from the present one. If a stu
dent misses class or misses a quiz, he alone
suffers for his lack of attendance and should
fully expect to see his scholastic standing
fall if he continues to miss class. What mag
ic number is there in allowing a student three
cuts in a three hour course? Who can draw
such a fine line of distinction and say a
student should be allowed only three cuts.
If classes are worthy of attendance, a
student will take very few cuts. The logical
answer to this problem lies in a policy of
educational freedom which makes a man want
his education, not one which sets arbitrary
rules and regulations forcing class attend
ance.
Open Forum
TO THE BATTALION:
We learn the true spirit of one unloyal T. S.
C. W.ite via an embarrassing channel. Em
barrassing because it reflects upon the rest
of us who in no way share her opinion. The
supposed anonymous letter writer contra
dicts herself in her strange publicity-craving
way. She says that the Aggies give no
thought to their best supporters and then
says that our campus is covered with khaki-
klads. Is that proof enough that we have
some place in Aggie minds and hearts? If
not, why would they travel the 220 miles to
see us for so short a time?
The author was probably some disap
pointed girl who did not secure a date for
the corps trip and thereby decided to get an
atom of revenge by writing a letter to pro-
jnote ill-feeling (heaven forbid) between the
two schools.
Perhaps we do stand for four quarters
of a game cheering the A. & M. football
team; maybe we do buy Aggie pennants; it
might be that we sit by while our Aggie
guzzles beer. All of this is true but why
shouldn’t it be? We’re from T. S. C. W. The
team we’re cheering for is the ,Aggies. Their
loss is our loss. Their victory is our victory.
Their fame is our fame.
So as a true Aggie fan and loyal T. S. C.
W.ite, down with the Longhorns, and keep
up that Aggie line whether it be on paper
or on the football field.”
Extremely disgusted with Box 3226,
A T.S.C.W.ite
(A loyal one).
Something to Read
-By Dr. T. F. Mayo:
:By A. F. Chalki
Kollegiate Kaleidoscope
COVERING
Our Next Frontier
The future of this country seems to be inex
tricably entangled with that of Latin Amer
ica. The tone of that future, its harmony or
discord, its success or disaster, will depend
largely upon the degree of intelligence which
North Americans display through our nation
al policies. We Texans, because of our geo
graphical position and because of the size of
our Latin American population, ought to be
easily the most intelligent people in the
United States about our neighbors to the
south.
Well, are we thus intelligent?
It seems to me that as a group we dis
play for Latin American people and achieve
ments the sort of lack of respect which can
always be traced to ignorance. As individuals
we may think of the sister republics as a
frontier where opportunity awaits the right
men. And so, I understand, they are. But
success on this new frontier, it seems to me,
demands an entirely different set of quali
ties from the traditional “frontier virtues”.
In Latin America we face cultures older and
in many respects richer than our own. We
face peoples who are just as proud (and
justly so) as we are.
The United States has much, it would
seem, that Little America needs. Certainly
we ourselves need desperately, in a danger
ous world, the favor and cooperation of our
neighbors. But we shall never play our part
in bringing about this useful solidarity of
the Americas until we inform ourselves bet
ter about the people who have built lordly
cities, developed beautiful manners, and writ
ten fine books and music from Monterrey to
Buenos Aires—whose ancestors, as a matter
of fact, were already doing these things when
ours were still (with great credit, no doubt,
to themselves and benefit to us) killing off
Indians, ripping up a continent for gold and
iron and oil, and relaxing elegantly at spit
ting contests in frontier barrooms.
The College Library would like to do
its part in promoting enlightened apprecia
tion of Mexico and the others. As far as its
scanty funds for general reading will allow,
it buys books about Latin America. A move
ment is also on foot on the campus to hold a
series of meetings for the discussion of Latin
American affairs. There are, moreover, doz
ens of Latin American students among us,
each one a source of knowledge about some
country—and of the best sort of knowledge
that one can have about a country.
The World Turns On
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FIRST
FRATERNITY LODGE IN AMERICA-
BUILT AT KENYON COLLEGE (OHIO)
BY DELTA KAPPA EPSILON -1652 /
CREW RACES
STARTED THE FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE
RIVALRIES. IN 1852 THE LONG SERIES
BETWEEN HARVARD AMD YALE BEGAN/
LUCKY
Colgate university
WAS FOUNDED BY 13
MEN WITH 13 DOLLARS
AND 13 PRAYERS!
BACKWASH
BY
Charlie Babcock
Here is a motion picture with
its sole claim to greatness being
the great variety of stars in the
cast. It is called “TIME OUT FOR
RHYTHM” and is showing at the
Campus today only.
In the cast are the famed names,
such as Ann Miller, Rosemary
Lane, Rudy Valee, Allen Jenkins,
vocalist; Glen Gray and his Casa
Loma Orchestra, the Six Hits and
a Miss, the Three Stooges, Brenda
and Cobina, and Eddie Durant’s
rhumba orchestra.
With a cast such as this, there
can’t be much room left for any
thing resembling closely a plot.
But one of sorts has been woven
around these varied characters and
their acts.
Rudy Vallee does only one song
in the picture and that is a duet.
Truly a shame.
An apealing story in “BLOS
SOMS IN THE DUST” at Guiou
Hall today and tomorrow. Greer
Garson and Walter Pidgeon have
been given the dramatic leads in
this monument to the life-long
struggle of Mrs. Edna Gladney of
Fort Worth, who was superintend
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
It has been alleged by many political com
mentators and congressmen that organized
minorities are obstructing the defense effort.
Certain groups representing labor and bus
iness have presumably used their power ruth
lessly in order to maintain a dominant posi
tion in their respective fields of interest.
Some of these alleged abuses of entrenched
power are now being investigated by con
gressional committees, and the results to
date have indicated that the government will
have to adopt a more vigorous policy toward
these minorities if our defense effort is not
to be seriously impaired.
One of the most recent controversies in
the field of labor revolved around the re
jected bid of the Currier Lumber Company.
This lumber company was low bidder (to the
extent of $200,000) on a government defense
housing project, but its bid was refused by
Sidney Hillman, Associate Director of the
Office of Production Management. The lum
ber company was to build pre-fabricated
houses and it had a labor contract with a
C. I. O. organization. Mr. Hillman, in ac
cepting responsibility for the decision not
to accept the low bid, said he did so because
he was afraid of labor warfare which might
result between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O.
The O. P. M. has follewed the practice of let
ting contracts for building projects to con
cerns employing A. F. of L. labor. This has
been done because a vast majority of the
building trades workmen are members of the
A. F. of L.
Hillman’s explanation to Senator Tru
man, Chairman of the Committee Investi
gating Defense Contracts, was to the effect
that the interests of national defense took
precedence over the interests of any company
bidding on a defense project. He said that
labor wars would have caused a loss greater
than the $200,000 the government lost by
accepting a high bid on the construction
project. This statement by Mr. Hillman con
cerning labor warfare and its effects may
be ever so true, but the whole affair none
theless assumes a rather sinister aspect if
our national emergency is as great as the
administration maintains it is.
Monopolistic practices by both business
and labor are hampering our defense efforts
at a critical time. Our rearmament program
is bringing into focus some of the more
dramatic illustrations of the effects on our
economy of permitting too much power to
be vested in organized minority groups.
The Ticker Tape . . . College de
grees are conferred at many ages,
but the University of New Mexico
can well be proud of her young
est Ph. D., Willis Jacobs, who
is only 27 . . .
Charles Phillips
and Tom Sterling
were Aggie fresh
men in 1919-20.
They will probab
ly remember this
typical freshman
prank, although it
happene dover 20
years ago. Fish
Babcock Phillips and Fish
Sterling were trying to secure
the good favor of their upper
classmen. Outlined along that line
was a program for the seniors,
juniors, and sophomores—consist
ing mainly of the playing of sev
eral phonograph records. Tragedy
hit the program producers an hour
before curtain time, when some un
thinking individual swept the
choice cylinders of song. Phillips
and Sterling prevented the smash
ing of the axiom, “The Show Must
Go On,” by substituting the real
McCoy for the stolen records—
Phillips hid in the closet and sup-
I lied the vocal efforts while Ster
ling turned the phonograph crank.
Needless to say, the upperclass
men appreciated the performance.
• • e>
Meet Miss Bearkat
It’s Miss Bunnie Beatkat, fellas,
This
Collegiate
World
the snooper of the Sam Houston
campus, who will correspond with
this columnist at 2 or 3 week in
tervals and let us have the low
down on the men that wear the
Aggie khaki.
So it is the Bunnie gal who
will be doing the spying on you
while you are in Huntsville—when
you arrive, how long you stay,
what you do while there.
Keep your eyes on the lookout
for this anonymous female, gents,
and keep your name out of scan
dal.
Date for the publication of Bun-
nie’s initial effort is a problemati
cal matter. Actually it will start
when the men of the Aggie khaki
start going to Huntsville.
Even Bunnie has her worries . , .
her last note contained the fol
lowing closing phrase; “Now our
only worry is will the Aggies co
operate and keep coming over.”
9 • •
Coker Brothers
Infantry freshman, Frank Coker,
•was a lucky man Tuesday when
he won the Arkansas train ticket
purchased by his organization.
But there was nothing unusual
in that fact. Military organiza
tions all over the campus were
buying tickets for some represent
ative in their outfit to go to
Arkansas. It just happened that
Fish Coker was hitting it lucky
in having his name drawn out of
the hat.
Fate wrote another chapter that
night when young Coker’s older
brother, Bill Coker, field artillery
senior, hit the jackpot as he won
his own organization’s ticket.
Add to that the fact that the
older Coker was the one who was
drawing the names.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—“BLOS
SOMS IN THE DUST,”
starring Greer Garson and
Walter Pidgeon.
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “TIME OUT
FOR RHYTHM,” with Rose
mary Lane, Rudy Vallee, and
Glen Gray and his orchestra.
Friday, Saturday — “AD
VENTURE IN WASHING
TON,” featuring Herbert
Marshall, Virginia Bruce, and
Gene Reynolds.
ent of the Texas Children’s Home
and Aid Society.
Miss Garson has done one of the
year’s best performances in the pic
ture. All her natural beauty is
revealed in this technicolor film
as never before.
The affection that Mrs. Glad
ney had for adopted children and
orphans and her struggles to make
the world a better place for them
to live in has been put into “Blos
soms in the Dust.” It is a deeply
touching picture.
Somewhat on the patriotic side
is “ADVENTURE IN WASHING
TON” to be shown at the Cam
pus tomorrow and Saturday. This
is the sort of story that is sup
posed to make one feel glad that
he is an American.
Herbert Marshall, Virginia
Bruce, and Gene Reynolds are the
leading players. Herbert, with
his pronounced English accent, is
east as a United States senator;
Gene is a young boy from across
the tracks who has been taken to
Washington and made a page boy
m the Senate. Virginia is used
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
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TODAY ONLY
A Whirl oi Mirth
'and Melody!
OtfffiS
THIS WEEK’S
BARGAINS
3 LEATHER
JACKETS
LOUPOT’S
TRADING POST
NORTH GATE
Starring
3 STOOGES
Ann Miller, Rosemary Lane,
Glenn Gray and his Orchestra
Also
MARCH OF TIME
“THUMBS UP
TEXAS”
FRIDAY & SATURDAY^
“ADVENTURE IN
WASHINGTON”
With
Virginia Herbert
Bruce
Marshall
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Two Kent, State ‘Ohio’ univers
ity men were ejected from their
rooming house by an irate house
mother one night recently. Unable
to contact the dean of men or the
dean of women, they phoned Pres
ident K. C. Leebrick of the uni
versity as a last resort.
They spent the night as guests
of the president.
• • •
In Monson, Mass., 19-year old
Robert S. Fay thoroughly disliked
uhe job of tending the coal hopper
on the family’s stoker-fed steam
boiler. He perfected an elevator to
do it for him.
So what happened? He won the
Yankee ingenuity scholarship of
$500 at Worcester Polytechnic Ins
titute.
Fay made his machine from an
abandoned ensilage feeder and
parts of an old grist mill. For
power he harnessed an idle gaso
line lawn mower motor.
• • •
“SWEEDE BOY COMING
WITH GUITAR”
That was the telegram Poet Carl
Sandburg sent ahead to Prof. Jos
eph W. Beach, chairman of the
English department at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, last time he
planned to visit the educator in
Minneapolis.
The message was perfectly clear
to Beach, close friend of the poet
for the last 25 years. It meant
sitting up all night listening to
Sandburg sing American ballads
to the accompaniment of his own
strumming.
J. W. “Dough” Rollins, present
track coach at A. & M., was cap
tain of the 1916 football team.
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Located in Lauterstein’s
FREE
Come In For The Facts
GENUINE
All Leather
FRIEDMAN SHELBY
SHOES
$3.50 to
$6.00
W
Sizes
5 to 14
LEWIS SHOE
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Located in Lautersteins
GUION HALL
THURS., FRI. - OCT. 30-31
3:30 & 6:45
The stars of "Pride and
Prejudice" and "Flight
Command" in a towering
emotional triumph!
eatest love
LOSSOMS
IN THE DUST
starring
GREER GARSON
JVALTER PIDGEO:
Selected Shorts
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