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THE BATTALION
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1941
The Battalion
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Sports Staff
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V, F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor
vlike Mann Senior Sports Assistant
-rry Gleason, D. B. Gofer Junior Sports Editors
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Circulation Staff
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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.
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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