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age 2 THE BATTALION SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1941 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and 4eehanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, -< published three times weekly from September to June, is- led Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; and is pub- shed 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 pon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, nc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and 'an Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone -6444. 1941 Member 1942 Associated GotIe6iate Press >on Gabriel Editor M. Rosenthal Associate Editor <alph Oriswell Advertising Manager Sports Staff •like Haikin Sports Editor V, F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor vlike 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 F. D. Asbury Junior Assistant Bill Huber, Joe Stalcup Circulation Assistants Photography Staff 'aek Jones Staff Photographer Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel ^Assistant Photographers emergency confronted most of America, an emergency that still prevails in many sections of our country. No country or no govern ment is safe when men are unemployed. A major question is this: Could the same re sults for education have been attained had the money for public education expended by the several agencies been allocated to the state and thence to communities for the de velopment of the community program? If there is no confidence in state departments of education or in the state as an adminis trative agency, is it not time that this fact be made public and that steps be taken to correct the difficulties that prevail? Wise educators will support the idea that there must be national planning; that there must be financial aid to provide the equal educa tional opportunity. This should not mean, however, that outright administration of educational programs should accompany either the planning or the financial assist ance. The security of democracy is con tingent upon the use of our states and our communities.”—Alonzo G. Grace, Connecti cut commissioner of education, sounds a warning against broadening federal control. Theij Sag Saturday’s Staff '). C. Thurman Managing Editor Tack Lamberson Assistant Advertising Manager Charlie Babcock Junior Editor Ken Bresnen Junior Editor Reportorial Staff Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Selig Frank, W. J. Hamilton, Tr., 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 Taylor. The Twelfth Man in Action Today the Aggie football team battles to a win, lose or draw with the Owls of Rice In stitute. Today the Aggie Corps makes its second corps trip of the year, this time to the thriving metropolis of Houston. It has become Aggie tradition to win and not to be good losers for good losers didn’t put out everything they had. Good losers are the kind who didn’t get in there and fight with every ounce of energy in body and soul; good losers are the kind who halfV heartedly yell or cheer, who are willing to bet against their own team and who will give up in the middle of the fourth quarter. Ag gies aren’t that kind! Aggies are winners! Why? Because they fight to win and it hurts to lose. Aggies are the kind that come back in the second half with 6000 fiendish yells from 6000 hoarse throats, ready to beat down a 10-7 score and support a fighting Aggie team that’s ready to put out everything they’ve got for a fighting Aggie corps. Hospitality in all things is the Aggie tradition when Aggies have guests at Kyle Field. And a correct reception to hospitality is what the Aggies are able to give when they are visitors on other fields and other campuses. This is because they are Aggies, proud of the uniform they wear and the traditions they uphold. Sometimes events occur which seem to throw discredit on the Cadet Corps and their supporters. These incidents are not indicative of the True Aggie Spirit or of the true spirit of sportsmanship. The boys that participate in such affairs as bring discredit to the corps and the Aggie uniform are the kind that don’t last in Aggieland. —D. C. T. College Frats Improving? • Fraternities are on the comeback trail, ac cording to Harry Schuck, instructor in com merce and chairman of the interfraternity councillors group at Wisconsin university. The days of the raccoon-coated, gin drinking, scatter-brained fraternity men be long to the turbulent twenties when the en tire country seemed to be a little off balance, but the pendulum has swung back today, Mr. Schuck says. The 1,214 men who are members of the 36 local fraternities on the Wisconsin cam pus today make up about 21.6 per cent of the men students in the university, and exempli fy a new type of fraternity man to whom im proved finances and scholarship mean as much as social activities, according to Mr. Schuck, who said he finds the new fraternity man “with his feet on firmer ground than those of his predecessor, his head held a little higher, his purpose and goal a little more clearly defined.” During the last year Wisconsin fratern ities have taken a new lease on life. Their membership is climbing. They have adopted a house councillor plan which has aided them in many ways. Their program of activities is on a much sounder footing. Grades and fi nances are vastly improved. Contrary to the popular notion, the fra ternity men acquit themselves very well in the matter of grades, Mr. Schuck reveals. The all-university average for men last semester was 1.5 and the all-fraternity average was 1.4, he says. —AGP Quotable Quotes “We have not, as yet, faced courageously the issue as to whether or not certain federal agencies are essential either in aiding the development of the educational program or in providing educational opportunities not now existing in our respective communities. I refer here particularly to the National Youth Administration, the Civilian Conserva tion corps, the Work Projects administration and other agencies. All of these agencies were created at a time when another kind of = A.. C. Pavnc “For most of us, religion has been completely unimportant—that is, religion of any real significance. We have given lip-service to creeds and prayers; we have sung hymns when it was not too embarassing; and on oc casions we have found the church a use ful institution for marriages, funerals, and for_ those Sunday conscience-saving outlets which release our energies in basket-giving at Thanksgiving and Christmas time. But where is the creed of Christ finding a living witness on our campus? Where are the men and women who are going the second mile, who turn the other cheek, who love their enemies, who do good to them that despite- fully use them? Where are these “foolish” ones who take seriously the “impossible” idealism of Jesus?” So challenges the hard-hitting student magazine Motive, and so, no doubt, wonder a lot of bewildered individuals who live in a so ciety surrounded by war, economic injustice and all types of hatred and selfishness. “Where are the consecrate few; who can stand .up and say to all the world that this way—through the ethics, morality, and way of life of Jesus, taken seriously and lived in reality—is the only way, and that alone will it have anything to offer as a substitute for the ideologies and the methods of living exemplified in other countries?” These questions are valid ones in an age that has lost its rudder as well as its brakes. Christian students everywhere owe it to themselves and to the rest of the world to ponder the problem and to give their ans wer. The World Turns On ========: By Dr. R. W. Steen ========: America has just finished celebrating the twenty-third aniversary of the armistice which brought fighting to a close in the first World War. At the same time that we were celebrating Armistice Day we were busily engaged in preparing for a new war. The ideals which this country is pledged to protect now are very similar to those for which it fought in 1917 and 1918. This fact indicates that victory in the first World War failed to achieve all of the ends victory was suposed to gain. The reason, or at least one reason, is that countries usually believe themselves to be fighting for ideals. These ideals could in most cases be realized only by making far reaching changes in human nature, and wars can not do that. The week which ended with Armistice Day saw two developments which are almost startling in nature. German propagandists have usually talked to the German people in terms of quick and easy and mere or less painless victories. They have suddenly begun talking of a long war which will require many sacrifices. More than that, they are warning the people that to lose the war would be fa tal. Allied spokesmen have also changed their tones. Churchill, who usually warns the English people of the great task ahead, spoke in a most optimistic manner. Stalin made one of his few addresses to the Russian people and, like Churchill, appeared quite optimis tic. He gave Hitler only one more year be fore being crushed in the collapse of his New Order. For the first time since the war be gan the straws in the wind are beginning to lean toward the Allies. Activity in the Mediterranean has again reached a high point, and may presage a new campaign in North Africa. The best season for fighting in Africa is now approaching and it may be that the war will be renewed on that front. In the past few days, the British have sunk three destroyers and six teen troop and supply ships in the Mediter ranean. The opening of a front in the west would be of vastly more aid to Russia than a new campaign in North Africa. A new front seems out of the question at the moment, however, and an African campaign will doubtless be of some value to the Russians Meanwhile the British are doing what they can by conducting large scale bombing raids against German industrial centers. Steen PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis “The army is real proud of your scoring two bull’s-eyes, Private Buck, but there’s one little drawback—they’re on the wrong targe*t!” A super-thriller is the feature of the supporting actors such as scheduled for tomorrow and Mon- Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, and day at the Campus, “ONLY AN- Eve Arden. They all help to make GELS HAVE WINGS.” The stars it an entertaining story, in the cast are Cary Grant, Jean That old game of cops and rob- Arthur, and Rita Hayworth. It k ers j^g ij een preserved in the is a saga of aviation that ranks story of « THE GET-AWAY” among the best flying picture ever s h ow ing at Guion Hall Monday, made. This is one of the stopping- Robert Sterling, a G-man, is sent stones in the climb that has made j. 0 prison to establish contact with Rita Hayworth into a star. a gang that has been terrorizing Edward G. Robinson, Marlene the Middle West defense indus- Dietrich, and George Raft are the tries. He and another prisoner es- big names in “MANPOWER’ - cape and go into hiding. They showing at Guion Hall tonight. It start on a trail of crime. Event- is an action picture that will please ually everyone gets his just de- everyone. Raft and Robinson are serts, and the audience is fully re power-line repairmen in love with paid for the time they have spent Marlene. There is that old trian- watching the show, gle once more. This time it has ^ the Campus tonight is been put to a good advantage, and “BACHELOR DADDY” starring a most excellent show is the re- Baby Sandy and Edward Everett suit. Horton. Baby Sandy is so much All the stars have done a fine j n foreground during the en- job in their parts and deserve tire show that it becomes rather not a little credit. The film has a sickening. As the show prog- bangup climax that sets it off resseS) it becomes practically un- wonderfully. Don’t overlook some bearable. The whole story misses fire completely. BACKWASH BY Charlie Babcock “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster Houston Corps Trip Time ... One AlHiapolis Aggie enterprising junior, remembering the Houston parade of ,his fresh- Recent formation received here by Dr. P. A. Woodward concerns his nephew and former Aggie, This Collegiate World man year, made the authoritative statement that each Aggie will take =ACP: Babcock . . . Best of the customary corps trip stories Joseph J. Romeda, an instructor about 2,000 steps Keith HilL HiU has been announ - in the school of education at Syra- from the begin- ce 4 at the United States Militaiy cuse university, wasn’t very busy ning to the end Academy as the top-ranking stu- the other day. So he sat down, of the review . .. dent of the second class at An- reached for his sharpest mathemat- Aggies are re- napolis—A class that numbers i ca l pencil and came up with these mined of the 813—which means that such rank staggering observations about the Shrine Circus at is quite an honor. draft lottery: the Sam Houston Hill left A. & M. at the end of “The 9,000 different serial num- Coliseum tonight, his sophomore year in 1940 after bers might have been drawn in Cadets in uniform he had received an appointment to billions and billions of different will be admitted the navy school. While here, he combinations. The approximate for only 25 cents was a member of the coast artil- number of possible combinations WHAT’S SHOWING AT GUION HALL Saturday — “MANPOW ER,” starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft. Monday — “THE GET AWAY,” with Robert Ster ling, Charles Winninger, and Dona Reed. AT THE CAMPUS Saturday — “BACHELOR DADDY,” with Baby Sandy and Edward Everett Horton. Saturday prevue, Sunday, Monday — “ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS,” featuring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Rita Hayworth. J Signal corps junior, Carlton Brush, supplies us with the fol- . , , . ., , . ' . , , , . per m order to get the figure writ- lowing editorial comment taken , m, . , , , , TQ-n I n n -r +1 r*»nt-imn I ri Kn o K/-\n pre- lery regiment, concerns the O • • plight of the Cavalry freshman who Y^llOSG TrctditiOH? had been detailed every night at supper to stand in his chair and hoot like an owl. Climax of the detail came two nights ago short ly after midnight when the fish in question jumped up in the middle of his bunk and yelled at the top of his voice. The resulting effect on his room mate was quite ser ious, for he, too, sprang up when h eheard the scream and knocked himself out on the springs of the bunk above .... Several field artillery freshmen (plus some jun iors and seniors) brought back vis ible evidence from the Rice Insti tute campus Thursday morning that they had attempted to set off the institute bon fire the night before.. One fish showed his shaved head to “Dub” Sibley and explained that Rice’s second string center, Billy Blackburn, had sup- phrase: “ . . . one of the few plied the barbering effects. Fur- traditions that we can claim as ther, Blackburn boasted that a our own.” The Citadel can claim shaved head was just a little of the tradition of standing, but we what Sibley would get Saturday will disagree where the point of afternoon. Our bank roll is on who originated the tradition is Sibley to come out on top. concerned. is something like 33 followed by 31,680 zeros. “If your handwriting is such that you write about six numbers to an inch, you would need to lay down a twelfth of a mile of pa- from the Bull Dog, student news paper at The Citadel college of South Carolina) The corps of cadets have expressed their opinion on the question of whether or not we should stand as a body at our football games. No matter what decision we, as a group, make, there will always be a controversy on this subject. The Bull Dog believes that the corps should stand. By standing we are not only sup porting our team, but we are exercising one of the few traditions that we can claim ten. That figure would be about . . T .. once and a half as long as a foot- (militaiy balllield ,, • • • One co-ed problem has been elim inated at the University of South Carolina. The girls had been winning places on the school’s golf, tennis and swimming teams. So the athletic committee ruled that co-eds couldn’t engage in a sports event in which men students predomi- rate. as our own. —GRADES— (Continued from page 1) passed and marks the total on the NowTwe'wm contest that last copy Then a secretary prepares the delinquency list from these, and the list is sent to the organization commanders. Within one day, statistics which are vital to every Aggie are com piled, assimilated, and recorded and, shortly afterwards a few hundred little yellow tickets for that one way corps trip are sent out by the deans. Famous for Quality Gentry Pajamas 1.65 • Bright New Patterns! • Fast Color Broadcloth! • Coat or Slipover Models! A grand gift in every way! Fine quality broadcloth, well- tailored and full cut—they’re comfortable! Drawstring or elastic waist band—whichever you prefer! fzmsyJ? if*. •. ****** «*..r«auM Bryan, Texas “Aggie Economy Center” Musical Meanderings By Murray Evans It must be the war reaction, this current public preference for sweet music. In a recent poll the ballad type tune placed first with plenty to spare. Right here on our campus, for instance, seventy per cent of requests are for the slower popular ballads. But when wars are over, the pendulum swings the other way, and Joe Public wants swing in large helpings. Re member the Jazz Age after World War 1? More about Tommy Dorsey and Shep Field’s Dance Caravan: the caravan will actually be a huge traveling dance floor of 30,000 square feet, and will be on the motif of a large South American night club, complete with palm trees, a real waterfall sparkling with multi-colored lights, and at tractive terraces. Victor Record ing Company is sponsoring the caravan which gets under way in Detroit November 3rd with a pa rade and civic reception. The car avan will play at least a dozen of the larger cities in the south and mid-west. Norma Jean Jahn, Aggieland orchestra’s vocalist, is building quite a following for herself, if she plaudits of the corps means popularity. When she begins a vocal it’s due sign for most Ag gies around the bandstand to stop dancing and drink in every melodic word she sings. Tommie Nelson and Norma Jean do a very fine duet on “Time Was,” and it’s al ways good for applause. Incidentally, have you ever notic ed the similarity between “Time Was” and Russ Morgan’s hit of yesteryear, “So Long” ? Or the very sameness of “Green Eyes” and “Amapola” ? Or . the striking re semblance of Jimmy Dorsey to movie actor William G'argan ? Then of course there are the voices of Bing Crosby and Dick Todd that leave you puzzled sometimes. But getting close to home, extremely close in fact, there are those who stoutly maintain, assert, and af firm that this writer’s fiancee is a dead ringer for Alice Faye, a pic ture person. Whether or no, I think I’ll not trade. Anyway, Phil Harris wouldn’t like it. Husbands are funny that way. The Women’s Glee club at Syra cuse university is in its thirty- second year. Buildings and campus of Millsaps college, Jackson, Miss., have been renovated in a $12,500 repair pro gram. GUION HALL SATURDAY — 6:45 & 8:30 Manpower with Edward G. Robinson & Marlene Dietrich • • COMING MONDAY The Get-Away