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I jPftffe 2 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. Sintered 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 <-5444. 1941 Member 1942 Associated Collegiate Press Don Gabriel .... E. M. Rosenthal Ralph Criswell .. Editor Associate Editor 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 Gene Wilmeth Bill Hanger F. D. Asbury Bill Huber, Joe Stale up Photography Jack Jones Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Circulation Manager Senior Circulation Assistant Junior Assistant Circulation Assistants Staff Staff Photographer Assistant Photographers Saturday’s Staff D. C. Thurman Managing Editor Charlie Babcock Junior Editor Jack Lamberson Assistant Advertising Manager Reportorial Staff Calvin Brumley, Kenneth C. Bresnen, Arthur L. Cox, W. J. Hamilton, Jr., N. W. Karbach, Jack Keith, Tom B. Jouhneay, Tom Leland, Charles P. McKnight, C. G. Scruggs, John May, Douguass Lancaster The Pedestrian Aggie The Texas Aggies are all set for a battle with old man winter, and from all indications the Aggies are going to be thrown for a loss. Winter at Aggieland means rain, and rain means that once again students go to classes in the mud and in the streets because of a lack of sidewalks. What sidewalks the college does possess are usually covered with an inch or so of water after each downpour. The drainage system at A. & M. seems to be non existent. So what of the poor Aggie? He is faced with a perplexing dilemma. The sidewalks aren’t sufficient to handle the between-class traffic problem, so he takes to the street and hopes that he won’t be run down by some onrushing automobile, or of course he can walk in the mud to his class. From time immemorial, ever since the lowly Aggie and the high speed automobile both came together on the same campus, there has been an eternal conflict between the two forces. Time and time again, The Battalion has been asked why do Aggies walk in the street. The answer is quite simple—usually that is the only dry spot to walk in wet weather when the sidewalks are crowded to capacity. We suggest that those citizens of College Station, who so often wonder why the Aggie goes in the street, instigate a movement to provide more sidewalk space for the pedes trian Aggie. As an engineering school, A. & M. offers a first class example of what poor drainage is. Wider sidewalks and more of them would certainly be in order and would be of great utility for many years to come. College Youth Bewildered ? That familiar picture of a gloomy, bewildered college youth is headed for the museum wall, if results of a survey of co-ed opinion at the University of Texas may be believed. The poll, questioning a representative group of 400 from dormitories, sorority hous es, co-operatives, and campus offices employ ing students, showed Texas co-eds to be poss essors of definite opinions on everything from politics to hair-ribbons. Careers are all right in their place, they say, but the place is immediately after grad uation. More than half of the women stu dents want a job the first year out of col leges, but, looking 10 years ahead, they’re practically unanimous in voting for a home and family. Incidentally, that family will probably be one of from three to seven child ren. Statistics may show that the average American couple has only one child, but Tex as girls choose three as the best number. The draft is changing the plans of many university students, but Texas girls aren’t opposed to it. They aren’t especially enthu siastic, either, but they mark themselves as being resigned—recognizing the necessity for military training. They want to do their part in defense, too, but they’d prefer it in the medical or nursing service and in home defense units. But while they are conscious of national problems, they aren’t too preoccupied to take account of clothes and appearance and in terior decoration. They shout down the pop ular notion that co-ed dormitory rooms are a nightmare of party favors, college pen nants, and unmade beds. The style in room decoration, the poll declares, is distinctly utilitarian. Bureau drawers, an impressive number say, are organized on a system. There is, however, a shameless minority which ad mits living in a room that is a “scramble.” Even in this modern age, “mother knows best.” At least 75 per cent of Texas girls declare that they discuss most of their prob lems—dates, careers, love, religion—with their mothers. But they want to bring the subject up; no “prying” allowed. Believe it or not, if a choice were forced upon them, they’d take a good mind over good looks—two-to-one! But they’re willing to work on their looks—even if they do say that the motive behind their campus clothes is comfort, not a desire to impress anyone. The average yearly clothes budget is about $300. That takes care of those saddle oxfords, socks, skirt and sweater for campus, as well as something fancier for dates. In the “glamour game,” they’ll take perfume, tailored clothes, a startling coiffure, and a good conversational “line.” , Sixty-three per cent think the morals of college students are about as good as those of young people at home. Fifty-three per cent "attend church occasionally, 35 per cent regularly. —AGP They Sag r=A. C. Pavne— — - “Clever men like to emphasize the differences which separate them from their fellowmen; wise men choose to emphasize what all of us have in common.” Richard Henry Tauney who is quoted above, realized the dangers of group dis unity. Judging by the present trend toward mental and moral dissension, most of us seem to prefer the distinction of cleverness to that of increasing wisdom! Rather than investigate the merits of an individual’s point of view, we find it much easier to brand hysterically as “un-American” anyone who disagrees with out solid status quo. This applies to religion as well as poli tics. Those who proudly boast of tolerance and ‘broadmindedness’ take peculiar interest in contrasting the various faiths, enthusiast ically listing the few outstanding differences of creed and organization. While recogniz ing the importance of “personal variety in the human flower garden,” we list below the things in common which our outstanding re ligious bodies in America all profess. 1. Each group believes in God. 2. Each believes that ethical elements are essential in religion. 3. Each believes in the “Golden Rule.” 4. Each believes in the capacity of human nature to grow and develop. 5. Each group believes in the general sacredness of human life and per sonality. 6. Each believes in the necessity of worship. 7. Each recognizes the need of religious education. 8. All have programs of social service which emphasize factors of political and economic justice in a secular world. 9. All believe in the privacy of religion and spiritual life. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never re gain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; hut you can’t fool all of the people all the time. —Abraham Lincoln The World Turns On - ~ By Dr. R. W. Stepn More than a year ago President Roosevelt de clared that “Convoys mean shooting and shooting means war.” In his Navy Day ad dress on Monday he stated that “The shoot ing has started.” The two statements taken together would seem to indicate that the country is at war. Congress has not declared war, and no American army has been plac ed in position to engage an enemy. On the other hand the American navy has been placed in position to engage the naval vessels of other powers, and has engaged them. Perhaps, at the mo ment, we are engaged in an undeclared naval war. There is precedent for such a course. In the last years of the eight eenth century we engaged in such a conflict with France, and during the first years of the nineteenth century we engaged in a sim ilar conflict with England. In a short time, however, the conflict with England blossomed into a full scale war. Perhaps the best way to answer the ques tion as to whether or not America is at war is to ask another question. If, in the next few weeks, England and Russia should both collapse and sue for peace, would Hitler and his military leaders be willing to consider the United States as a neutral. If they would be willing to say that the United States had had no part in the war, and was a neutral then the United States is at peace. If, on the other hand, Hitler should insist that the United States was an ally of Eng land and Russia, then the United States is involved in the war. Hitler certainly would not consider this country a friend, and there is little reason to believe that he would con sider it a neutral. If the country is at war, or on the verge of war, there is no time for disputes between capital and labor. Capital undoubtedly has rights which need to be respected. Labor undoubtedly has rights which need to be pro tected. But the right to interfere with de fense production is not one of them. The welfare of the country should not be used as a plaything by either capitalists or labor leaders. The government can prohibit strik es in defense industries, and there is reason to think that it should do so. By the same token, no group of operators should be per mitted to close a defense plant. The govern ment is larger than the United States Steel Corporation and it is larger than Mr. Lewis. It can, and must, provide means for the com pulsory arbitration of disputes between cap ital and labor, and it can, and must, see to it that production continues while the dis putes are being settled. Whether we are in the war or out we have got to win now. Steen THE BATTALION -SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1941 ] , PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis COVERING AEMY CARBlEe-PXS-EOMS Copr. 1941, King Features Syndicate. Inc. World rights reserve' ©-I8 cam diffractions WITH I TOM VANNOY *We use the peacock to deliver the General’s love notes!” BY Charlie Babcock “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster Today marks another milestone for C. A. Price, the acting Assist ant Editor of the Extension Ser vice News. It was exactly one year ago today that he retired from the Associated Press and came to Ag gieland. But there is ■ nothing unusual in such events for Mr. Price. He has been watching the milestones for many years. It was in the year, 1985, that he, as a lad of 19, Babcock started out on his first job for the AP. And it would probably require a summer vaca tion to sit down and listen to all of the amusing anecdotes tucked back in his cranium. With a life as interesting and lively as that of brother Hitler in an English concentration camp, Mr. Price has experienced enough to be called an expert on news papers and news gathering. He is definitely pro-AP and pro- Aggie. Commenting on student publications, Mr. Price states, “Col lege humor usually surpasses the professional variety, for it is more natural and doesn’t have to be developed.” • • • Football Signs Designed to instill a bit of ini tiative and develop some friendly competitive spirit among the va rious military organizations, J. E. Loupot, local merchant and former Aggie, announces a new contest for the best football signs each week. The weekly prize will be $2.50, given to the organization posting the best all-around sign. At the end of the season, $10 will be giv en for the best sign of the year. Although the contest activity won’t begin until Monday morning, a staff of judges is being appoint ed at the present to make the weekly selection. Signs will be judged on original- ity, appropriateness, artistic abil ity, and neatness. Winners will be announced in this column every Saturday morning. • • • Wallets If it’s your pocketbook you’re looking for, you can stop worry ing. Call by the Campus Theater,, and it is even money that you will find your missing purse. During the past week, four wal lets containing from $5 to $45 were found in the building and turned over to the office of Owner Ben Ferguson. Although these four wallets have been claimed, there is still a tall stack of un claimed articles. • • 0 Brickbats Excerpt from a letter received recently by an Aggie from a fe male admirer ... “Roses are red, Violets are blue, If I had a brick, I would throw it at you. WHY IN THE HELL DON’T YOU WRITE?” The Aggie replied . . . not with a letter but by sending a brick wrapped in pink tissue paper. A test-pilot story that is filled with excitement in spite of its shortness is “POWER DIVE” showing at Guion Hall tonight. Al though it is not in a class with the more pretentious air dramas, it has a climax that will end things just right. Richard Arlen and Jean Parker are the most prominent names in the cast. Highlights of the film are a number of scenes of a test pilot putting a plane through its paces. “AFFECTIONATELY YOURS,” starring Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, and Rita Hayworth will be at Guion Hall Monday. This start ed out to be a top-rate comedy, but didn’t quite make it. Everyone has done an excellent job of muff ing his chance to make the picture a pleasure. Dennis is an ace foreign corre spondent in Lisbon entertaining his fellow-tradeswoman, Rita Hay worth. When he learns that his wife, Merle Oberon, has divorced him in New York, he returns feigning injury to arouse sympathy for himself. On his arrival, Mor gan finds competition in the form of Ralph Bellamy who is practic ally as good as married to Merle. The battle between the two riv als starts and continues all the way through the film. Each tries to get ahead of the other and nei ther does any good. It all comes out the way it should and appar ently everyone is happy, that is ex cept the customer who feels that he might as well have stayed at home. All Glenn Miller fans sit up and take notice. “SUN VALLEY SERENADE” will be shown at the Campus tomorrow and Monday. Sonja Henie and John Payne are the acting stars. This story combines rather well the skating feet on Sonja, acting ability of John Payne, and the music of Glenn Miller. You will like it immensely if you care for Glenn Miller’s style of music. Sonja’s skating acts have been woven into the sport setting very neatly. She makes her return to the screen in this picture and it isn’t at all bad. The setting of America’s winter playground has been used to a good advantage ah (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) WHAT’S SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Saturday—“ADVENTURE IN WASHINGTON,” featur ing Herbert Marshall, Vir ginia Bruce, and Gene Rey nolds. Saturday prevue, Sunday, Monday — “SUN VALLEY SERENADE,” with Sonja Henie, John Payne, and Glenn Miller and his orchestra. AT GUION HALL Saturday — “POWER DIVE,” with Richard Arlen and Jean Parker. Monday — “ A F F E C- TIONATELY YOURS,” star ring Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, and Rita Hayworth. This Collegiate World =ACP: The pioneer plainsman who could take one last look at the heaven ly bodies before he closed his eyes each night in his open-air bedroom had nothing on residents of Mc- Tyerie hall at Emory University. They too gaze at “heavenly bodies” as a prelude to sleep. Faced with an edict banning the tacking of the work of such mas ters as Petty, Hurrell and Varga— not to mention that portrait of the One and Only—to the walls, they evolved the even more satisfactory idea of fastening said art master pieces to the ceilings. Now the McTyerie lullaby is “Look Up, Look Up.” 0 0 0 The men have been waiting for a statement like this for a long time, but they never believed it would be made. When a man was reported to have entered a University of Penn sylvania women’s dormitory, that institution’s dean of women allay ed the fears of gals and cops with the following: “The man had more to fear than the girls—because 150 women are their own protection.” 0 0 0 Long known for their two-bit words and ominous sounding phrases, the medical professors of our institutions of higher learn ing have' come in for a bit of rib bing because of them. Western Reserve university’s Dr. Frederick C. Waite made a special survey and recently found that 55 U. S. medical schools have devised S36 different kinds of titles for their 2,418 professors. Here are a couple of stumpers from his list: “professor of cardi- ovascularrenal diseases” and “pro fessor of otorinolarynegeology.” 0 0 0 Fishing, to Alice McGrain, art student at Miami university, is duck soup. Vacationing in Indi ana, she cast her baited hook into Big Indian Creek. Abruptly, 3 13 inch bass leaped out of the water and landed with a thud in the bottom of the boat. 4-1181 LAST DAY “ADVENTURE IN WASHINGTON ,, With Virginia Herbert GUION HALL SATURDAY 6:45 & 8:30 “Dive Bomber' MICKEY MOUSE “A GOOD TIME FOR A DIME” COMING MONDAY “Affectionately Yours MERLE OBERON & DENNIS MORGAN Bruce Marshall PREVUE TONIGHT SUNDAY, MONDAY Also 2 CARTOONS NEWS Take Those Hogs! Ole Army EATS — DRINKS — SMOKES — George's Confectionerg In New “Y”