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THE BATTALION
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEnEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station,
m published three times weekly from September to June, is
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Uhed weekly from June through August.
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1941 Member 1942
Pbsocioted GoUe6icjte Press
on Gabriel Editor
M. Rosenthal Associate Editor
<alph Criswell Advertising Manager
Sports Staff
*like Haikin Sports Editor
■V. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant
-rry Gleason, D. B. Gofer Junior Sports Editors
Chick Hurst Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Staff
-ene Wilmeth ^....Circulation Manager
Bill Hauger .Senior Circulation Assistant
P. D. Asbury™ Junior Assistant
Bill Huber, Joe Stalcup - Circulation Assistants
Photography Staff
ack Jones Staff Photographer
tob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Thursday’s Staff
E. M. Rosenthal Acting Managing Editor
lohn Sleeper Advertising Assistant
Charles Babcock — Junior Editor
Clyde C. Franklin ...Junior Editor
Mike Speer Junior Editor
Reportoiial Staff
Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Selig Frank, W. J. Hamilton,
lr., N. W. Karbach, Jack Keith, Tom B. Journeay, Douglass
Lancaster, Tom Leland, Charles P. McKnight, W. B. Morehouse,
Richard F. Quinn, Gordon Sullivan, C. G. Scruggs, Benton
layler.
CorpsITrip Tim? A]iin ]
It’s on to Houston, Aggies—yes the Bayou
city is in for an invasion this weekend as
the cadet corps travels south for the second
corps trip of the year. Starting Friday
hundreds of Aggies will descend upon Hous
ton for the game with Rice. By Satur
day College Station will be deserted; the
corps will have moved enmasse to Houston.
Corps trip time always means much to
the Aggies as they put the tradition of the
twelfth man into action at a game away
from the college. No other college can boast
of such a following to follow a team into ac
tion.
While a corps trip has its fun, it also
has a few responsibilities to demand of the
cadets. On a corps trip the corps appears
in uniform and because of that fact any
action by any member of the corps brings
either credit or discredit upon the rest of
the corps. Isolated incidents have occur
red at other corps trips which were not in
dicative of the true spirit of sportsmanship
which the Aggies possess. Every Aggie
should guard against such occurrences.
Abstinence Arguments
Teetotalers are happier and more optimistic
than drinkers of alcoholic beverages, says
Dr. Theodore F. Lentz, director of the char
acter research institute at Washington uni
versity, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Lentz made his report after study
ing personality traits of 780 young persons,
95 per cent of whom were between ages of
17 and 30 and all of whom had at least
a high school education.
His investigation was based on responses
to a “youth expressionaire” which gave them
opportunity to express themselves on about
3,000 statements and questions of opinion,
attitude, interest, preference and practice.
On the basis of their replies and his
comparisons, Dr. Lentz concluded not only
that the drinkers are less happy than the
non-drinkers but that those who indulge
in alcoholic drugs are:
“More inclined to smoke and to drink
coffee; apparently more liberal, except with
respect to the participation of women in af
fairs outside the home; more maladjusted
socially and emotionally; more tolerant of
breaches, of generally accepted moral con
duct ; more international, except with respect
to race prejudice; more materialistic; more
selfish; more impulsive and affectionate, ac
cording to their own admission; more inter
ested in the opposite sex; more interested
in adventures and recreational activities than
in prosaic pursuits; less favorably inclined
toward churches.”
In making these comparisons, Dr. Lentz
eliminated those who said they drink only
rarely, comparing 200 teetotalers—70 males
and 130 females—with 100 drinkers, 50 males
and 50 females who said they drink occa
sionally, moderately, or heavily. Only one
in the drinker group, however, admitted
“heavy drinking.”
One indicated implication, Dr. Lentz
said, is that “those who did not go to col
lege took to drinking more than those who
did go, contrary to a quite prevalent notion
that collegiate life fosters elbow-bending.”
—AGP.
Something to Read
Ry Dr. T. F. IWayn
Some New Books About Latin America
(Acquired by the College Library since 1935)
General Survey
Aikman, D.—The All-American Front
(Foreign relations).
Anuario estadistico interamericano (In
ter-American statistical yearbook) Each
year, from 1940.
Beals, Carleton—America South (All
sorts of information).
Beals, Carleton—The Coming Struggle
for Latin America
Beals, Carleton—Pan America (a pro
gram for the western hemisphere).
Bidwell, P. W.—Economic Defense of
Latin America.
California, University of—The Civiliza
tion of the Americas (Authoritative lectures
on Latin American culture, economics, pol
itics, and prospects.)
Carr, R.—South American Primer.
Duggan, Stephen P. H.—Little America.
(Geography, history, society, politcis, eco
nomics, the future).
Ford, Guy S. (ed.)—Dictatorship in the
Modern World (Contains “Dictatorship in
Spanish America”).
Goetz. D.—The Good Neighbors; the
story of the Two Americas.
Harvard University—The Economic Lit
erature of Latin America (a tentative biblio
graphy) .
Herring, H. C.—Good Neighbors; Argen
tina, Brazil, Chile, and seventeen other coun
tries.
Matschat, C.—Seven Grass Huts (an en
gineer’s wife in Central and South America).
Pan American Union—American City
Series (19 volumes, each on a Latin-Amer
ican city.)
Rauschenbush, J.—Look at Latin America
(Excellent maps and graphic charts).
Roosevelt, Nicholas — Wanted: good
neighbors; the need for closer ties with Latin
America.
Survey Graphic—The Americas: South
and North (A special number of Survey
Graphic, articles on many aspects by many
authorities).
U. S. Tariff Commission — Reference
Manual of Latin American Commercial
Treaties.
Whitaker, J. T.—Americas to the South.
Whitbeck, R. H.—Economic Geography
of South America.
Who’s Who in Latin America; a biogra
phical dictionary of the outstanding living
men and women of Spanish America and Bra
zil.
Young, E.—South American Excursion.
The Caribbean Basin and Central America
Beals, Carleton—The Crime of Cuba.
Franck, H. A.—The Pan-American High
way from the Rio Grande to the Canal Zone.
Jones, C. L.—The Caribbean since 1900.
Jones, C. L.—Guatemala, past and pres
ent.
Kepner, C. D.—The Banana Empire; a
case study of economic imperialism.
The World Turns On
By A. F. Chalk -
The people of this country should begin to
think about some of the post-war economic
problems with which we will very probably
be confronted after military victory has been
achieved. If our economic system does not
function in a reasonably efficient manner,
we will be inviting the appearance in the U.
S. of some form of vicious collectivism like
that which rose in Germany in 1933. We
may well find ourselves in the position of
having won a battle and lost a war.
The economic dislocations which will in
evitably follow the present war will be a far
more challenging problem than was the case
in the early twenties. Some of the more im
portant reasons for this fact should be made
clear to the people if we are to prepare
adequately for the problem of post-war read
justment. One reason is that a larger por
tion of the nation’s productive capacity will
likely have to be used for the production of
armaments than was the case in the last
war. We will spend about 16 per cent of
the national income for armaments during
the current year, and our defense program
is just beginning to gain momentum. It is
estimated that rearmament expenditures will
take one-third of our national income next
year, and in 1943 approximtaely one-half of
our income will be devoted to armament pro
duction.
It is also probable that our defense ef
fort will be extended over a much longer
period of time than was the case in 1917-1918.
Most students of military affairs believe this
war will not be won for many years, and
the cumulative effect on our economy will
probably be much greater than is common
ly appreciated by the public. It now seems
probable that many thousands of small busi
ness firms will disappear because of their
inability to get certain materials on the
priorities list. If these small firms cannot
get defense contracts shortly, they will be
forced to stop operations. This tendency
of the small business firm to disappear is
merely one illustration of how a protracted
war may affect the character of our econ
omy.
In addition to the problems mentioned
above, we must also bear in mind that the
economies of the European nations will be
far more adversely affected by the war than
will our own economy. Not only will ex
tensive bombing destroy a great amount of
productive capacity, but the problem of con
verting plants from military to consumer
goods production will be particularly acute
on the European conitnent. With the Euro
pean countries sorely in need of both agri
cultural and industrial products, it is likely
that .we will attempt to help them by in
creasing our own production.
This immediate post-war aid we may
give Europe will become less necessary as
the European countries succeed in reorgan
izing their economices. As the European
market for our unusually large volume of ex
ports begins to diminish, we may again find
ourselves with a badly unbalanced economic
system. What is certain is that we in the
U. S. will have to do some careful planning
if we are to prevent the recurrence of the
many economic maladjustments which fol
lowed our participation in the first World
War.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941
Kollegiate Kaleidoscope
COVERING
Prof. Isaac M.
cochpan
OF CARLETON COLLEGE
ENTERTAINS BY -SOLO-
ACTING SCORES OF
yUAKETPEAREAN AND
MODERN PLAYS. HE
HAS’ MEMORIZED OVER
1,000,000 words/
^\LE UNIVERSITY
HAS THE ADDRESSES
OF ALL BUT 80 OF
ITS 31.003 GRADS/
campus distractiONs
WITH
[|i)T0MVANN0Y ||)
Prof, oxhran uses no
MAKEUP AND BY INTON
ATIONS AND ACTIONS LETS
HIS AUDIENCE RECOGNIZE
• • - THE CHARACTERS
Capitalizing on the success oi
“Boys Town,” MGM has produc
ed as a sequel “MEN OF BOYS
TOWN” which is to be shown at
Guion Hall today and tomorrom.
Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, and
Bobs Watson are the outstanding
actors in the show. This is the
same team that made “Boys
Town.”
The chain of events that made
the first picture so good is con
tinued in this one. Mickey, the
mayor of Boys Town, is adopted
by a family who has lost their son.
He is not happy with them and
wants to go back to Boys Town
where he can be with Father Flan
agan and his friends. There is
more to the story and to really
enjoy it, you must see it.
At OHIO STATE U. A
TREE IS PLANTED ON
THE CAMPUS IN HONOR
OF EACH STUDENT
NAMED ON AN ALL-
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
TEAM/
POKIER HOUSE
TAVERN,
A FAVORITE
| WITH HARVARD
STUDENTS'
IN THE EARLY
l&OO'S, WAS
FAMOUS FOR
ITT .DRINKS
AND STEAKS-
HENCE PORTER
HOUSE STEAKS/
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday—“I WAS A
PRISONER ON DEVIL IS
LAND,” with Donald Wood
and Sally Eilers.
Friday, Saturday—“BACH
ELOR DADDY,” featuring
Baby Sandy and Edward
Everett Horton.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—“MEN
OF BOYS TOWN,” starring
Spencer Tracy and Mickey
Rooney.
Central college, Fayette, Mo., has
a college chorus of 80 voices.
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Giarlie Babcock
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Dear Editor .... We have a con
fession to make. During the past
few days we’ve been slipping off
over to the library and reading the
Daily Texan.
It all started Sunday when we
gave up our favorite comic section
for a 30-minute
interlude with the
Texas university
paper. But if Sun
day’s edition pro
vided good read
ing material, then
Tuesday’s couy
deserves a book
full of suprela-
Babcock tiveS.
We have known for some time
that the university lads and lass
ies were not a bit original. Proof
along that line was furnished with
their duplication of our “twelfth
man.”
But a survey of the aforemen
tioned Texans reveals that the tea-
sippers can’t take it. That’s right,
they were worse in defeat than in
victory, and brother, that’s hitting
the bottom.
To be specific, Sunday’s Texan
carried stories on the front page
which blamed the team, the coach
es, the cheer leaders, the band, and
the student body for the “tie.” Per
haps such unsportsmanlike atti
tudes could be over-looked, since
the stories were written at the peak
of frustration and despair of being
knocked out of the leading role.
But, after the period of reflection
and recovery, the Tuesday issue
came out with several open letters
from the general student body that
voiced the same attitude as ex
pressed by the Texan editors.
After paragraphs of “bleeds” to
everybody in Austin and placing the
blame on each of them, Johnnie
Monaghan, university student, sug
gested the following plan which
would have been sage advice back
in September.
“We must get in there and
make the entire sports world
know that the students of the
University of Texas are behind
their team, that we will not be
held down because of a tie with
a school such as Baylor, that
we are out for blood—the blood
PALACE
Thurs. - Fri. - Sat.
YOUR ACADEMY-AWARD STAR
in her firs!
picture since
"Kitty
Foyle"!
of T. C. U., A. & M., Oregon,
and, I believe, some bowl vic
tim!”
• • •
Football Banner
The Aggie football banner con
test entered its second week with
the cash prize of $2.50 given by
J. E. Loupot being handed over to
the Band.
Members of the winning organ
ization will be presented with their
prize at noon meal formation today,
with Senior Class President Dick
Hervey, who is also one of the
judges, doing the honors.
Judges announced that the order
of signs was improving. The Band
sign was a colorful and clever
affair, carrying the slogan: “Make
those foul Owls howl.”
PREVIEW 11 P. M.
Saturday Night
fiOSAUND DON
RUSSELL-AMECHE
kav FRANCIS
^FEMININE
TOUCH'
SHOWN SUN, & MON.
GUION HALL
3:30 and After Yell Practice
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
in
MEN OF BOYS TOWN
NEWS — CARTOON — COMEDY
—COMING—
“MANPOWER”
SATURDAY 6:45 & 8:30
Robertson — Dietrich
Crypt-0-Quiz
Quiz Conscious? Then try your
skill at solving this coded
message. The solution will
appear in the next issue of
The Battalion.
• • •
“ZFFHDR QTRG HM VGDQD
ENNKR EDZQ SN SQSZC” .
Solution to the Crypt-O-Quiz
found in the last issue of The Bat
talion—“Keep not ill men company
lest you become one of them.”
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Rider college, Trenton, N. J., has
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AGGIES BEAT
RICE!
Let’s all go on the Corps
Trip to Houston . . . and
back our grand team to
the limit—WE’RE BE
HIND YOU, TEAM!
You’ll want to look your best
for the week-end in Houston.
So Stop in today and select
your needs.
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