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THE BATTALION
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.
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
*-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Plssociofed Colle6icite Press
Don Gabriel Editor
E. M. Rosenthal Associate Editor
Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Mann ... Senior Sports Assistant
ferry Gleason, D. B. Gofer Junior Sports Editors
Chick Hurst Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Staff
Gene Wilmeth .......Circulation Manager
Bill Hauger Senior Circulation Assistant
F. D. Asbury Junior Assistant
Bill Huber, Joe Stalcup Circulation Assistants
Photography Staff
lack Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Tuesday’s Staff
Lee Rogers Managing Editor
W. A. Goforth Assistant Advertising Manager
Jack Decker , Junior Editor
Tom Vannoy Junior Editor
Clyde Franklin Junior Editor
Ken Bresnen Junior Editor
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Rcportorial Staff
Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Selig Frank, W. J. Hamilton,
Jr., 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.
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Aggies and Longhorns
The Greatest Rivalrij in Texas
In an effort to maintain the hardest, cleanest
athletic rivalry in the Southwest on the
highest possible plane, the chairmen of the
Athletic Councils of the University of Texas
and A. & M, met at College Station Monday
to draw up a code of sportsmanship between
the two great schools.
The finest athletic traditions of the
Southwest center around these two great
institutions. Leaders of education in Texas,
they also are leaders in the field of sports.
For many years the two schools have been
fighting it out, but always on the athletic
field. To insure that this friendly arrange
ment might continue for all time, the leaders
of the student bodies of the two institutions
met to maintain the record for sportsman
ship which both schools possess.
It is the ideal of every Aggie to see a
Longhorn team go down in defeat. Converse
ly they desire nothing better than to achieve
a Longhorn victory over the Aggies. When
Texas and A. & M. come together on any
field for an athletic contest, the spectators
can rest assured that they are seeing the
finest aggregation of manhood in action.
The rivalry between these two schools
is a tradition that belongs to all of Texas.
The entire states sees its manhood in action
on the athletic fields, and then after grad
uation sees the young men of these two
schools take their places as responsible
citizens of a great state.
The action taken Monday is in the best
tradition of both the University of Texas
and of A. & M. That rivalry has a definite
place on a football field. But there that
rivalry stops, both schools are representa
tives of the entire state of Texas.
A definite forward step has been taken
by A, & M. and the University in keeping
this spirited rivalry on the athletic fields.
tuition. It may not be much brighter for
those dependent on public appropriations, for
the non-defense tax dollar is shrinking. Edu
cationally the situation has its hopeful side.
Higher education, competing for youth in a
war market, may be forced to leave its ivory
tower and adapt itself more fully to the re
alities of our common life.” —A.C.P.
Quotable Quotes
“The boy who flunks chemistry shouldn’t be
barred from athletic competition any more
than the boy who fails in athletics should be
barred from taking chemistry. Now don’t
misunderstand me. At Kansas State we
consider athletes as essential part of the edu
cational program. This is contrasted with
some schools which apparently feel otherwise
and limit participation in athletics to a se
lect few. Isn’t it logical to believe that ath
letics are just as beneficial to the average
or poor student as the Phi Beta Kappa? We
want the boys to maintain high scholastic
averages, but we also want them to do just
as well in athletics as they do in chemistry.
Certainly health is more important than any
book work.” Jack Gardner, head basketball
coach at Kansas State College.
Man, Your Manners
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
: By I. Sherwood:
Good conversation should be the most pleas
ant form of communication, but there is no
best way to start a conversation, whether
you are among friends or strangers. If you
have just been introduced, the person who
made the introduction can be of great help
by suggesting, if possible, that you both are
interested in the same things; with friends
there are usually a great many topics of
mutual interest—avoid discussing differ
ences in politics and religion.
One of the best ways to get people to
open up a conversation is to offer them your
closest attention. To listen genuinely you
must not only pay attention to what is being
said to you, but give signs of responding
to it. Your comments and your questions re
veal your - listening ability and qualify you
as a good or bad conversationalist. Many
an excellent conversationalist says very lit
tle.
The young woman you meet in casual
conversation has the privilege of ending it
if and when she chooses. It may sound a
bit old-fashioned to say that the young man
should institute all telephone conversations,
and he may wait his own pleasure in doing
so.
Charming people are usually interested
in others and generally have little trouble
in getting others to have sincere interest
in them.
Lost, yesterday, someivhere betiveen
sunrise and sunset, two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes. No
reward is offered for they are gone for-
—Horace Mann
ever.
The World Turns On
By Dr. J. H. Quisenberry :
War Robs the Campus
Bright spots in a darkening picture that con
fronts American colleges and universities
are pointed out by editorialists of the New
York Times after a recent study of the na
tional situation. Despite enrollment de
creases caused by defense employment and
the draft, institutions of higher learning
have at least three times as many students
as they had 25 years ago. Further the
Times envisions a situation that may force
education “to leave its ivory tower and adapt
itself more fully to the realities of our com
mon life.”
Here is the Times’ analysis:
“Enrollments in American colleges and
universities, wihch rose to new levels as the
country began to come out of the depres
sion, are down again. President Raymond
Walters of the University of Cincinnati,
whose annual registration figures are the
last word in this field, reports that out of
573 approved higher institutions in all parts
of the United States, 125 have about the same
number and only 117 have more. There are
many variations within this general state
ment. Women’s colleges have lost less than
men’s colleges, public institutions less than
those under private control, independent col
leges of arts and sciences less than the uni
versities. The independent teachers’ colleges
have lost most heavily. Schools or colleges of
medicine, engineering and applied science
have gained.
“Some of the missing students are in
the army. Others are in defense jobs. If
World war experience is a guide in the pres
ent emergency, many of these will find their
way back to college when the crisis is over
—if it is over soon enough. The most dras
tic recession that can be expected this year
will still have left us with at least three
times the number of undergraduates regis
tered in American colleges and universities
25 years ago.
“Financially the outlook is not bright for
institutions dependent on endowments and
In spite of the more encouraging note in the
foreign news for the past two weeks, rela
tions in the Orient are rapidly moving to a
new crisis. The loss of foreign markets is
rapidly weakening Japan while America is
sending ever increasing amounts of lend-lease
material to her enemy, China. Many wish
ful thinkers are hoping China will be able
Jo fight our war with Japan while Russia
fights England’s war with Hitler. Both of
these countries are well supplied with man
power, but particularly the Chinese are not
trained in the use of modern war machines.
Both countries are desperately in need of
supplies. It apepars that the United States
has not only become the arsenal of democ
racy but of communism as well.
This is supposed to be a fight between
the democracies and the totalitarian nations,
but the democracies have done surprisingly
little real fighting yet. The communist party
in this country has announced that if Russia
is defeated they will begin a program of
sabotage and labor troubles such as these
United States have never known. Perhaps
it would not be wise to take them too much
into the confidences of our defense program.
England seems to be waiting for the United
States to say the word before she joins “in
the hour.” If Congress can now get our
labor strikes under control it is beginning
to appear as if we shall have to say the word
to Japan very soon.
Strange how difficult it is for the aver
age citizen to find a legitimate reason for
our fighting Japan. Most of the Japanese
we have known in the South and Midwest
have been very splendid people: for exam
ple, the Japanese students whom we used
to find much more plentifully on our own
campus. Prejudices and hatreds usually
grow out of repeated contacts between groups
representing different social and traditional
heritages, often separated by language bar
riers. The “Exclusion Act” has spared most
of us those contacts. But, is it any wonder
that Japan would join up with anyone who
might offer an opportunity to revenge our
national insult, said “Exclusion Act?”
However, with Hitler stalled in Russia,
it is quite likely that Japanese spokesman,
Saburo Kurusu, in his talks with Secretary
Hull and President Roosevelt remembered,
that, as Walter Winchell put it, “the man
who promised Japan the Pacific also prom
ised Mussolini the Mediterranean.”
-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1941
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“Hello, ‘Bundles for Britain? Would you care to drop over
to the Camp and pick up a bundle of nerves?”
BY
(barlie Babcock
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Corps Trip Aftermath . . . Rumors
of all sorts prevailed in Houston
Saturday night after the Aggie
conquest .... Most likely was the
one about the probability of the
cancellation of the A. & M.-Wash-
i n g t o n State
game in Decem
ber, provided the
Cadets whip Tex
as ... . Several
California men
were supposed to
have been at the
game, taking a
preview look at
Rose Bowl mater-
Babcock ial, the Ags ....
Aggies came back home with the
general gripe that citizens of Hous
ton were sorry hosts . . Tear gas
doesn’t serve as a warm welcome
for 6000 guests who bleed their
pocketbooks to Houston merchants
for one whole weekend. Just re
member, Mr. Cop, the cadet corps
was officially invited to come to
Houston . . . .Buddy Wunderlee,
Bobby Rizer, Wicker Poore, Ivan
Schwin—all Aggies—and Wunder-
lee’s date were on their way from
Port Arthur to Saturday’s parade
when their automobile broke down
85 miles from Houston. The custom
was for ladies to go first, so Wun
derlee and date stuck out thumbs
and highwayed the remaining dis
tance to Houston. . . Marion Pugh,
great Aggie quarterback of the
past three years, was in Houston
Saturday doing a bit of scouting
for the professional New York
Giant football team. Pugh broke
his arm recently in a New York
game and traded his uniform for a
scouting job in the Southwest for
the remainder of the season.
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Dissension
No. 1 among certain rumors in
Houston last Saturday, according
to reliable sources, was the one
concerning the presence of a star
first string Texas player at the
Rice game.
The story goes that the football
er had been suspended earlier in
the week by Coach Bible. However,
Sunday morning newspaper ac
counts of the Texas-T.C.U. game
said that the player in question
had played in the game. Evidently
the University coaching staff is
attempting to hide the facts from
the public, at least until after Tur
key Day.
Personally, we’ve been expecting
dissension of some sort on the
Longhorn team ever since the “tie”
in Waco. Although this is the first
bit of disagreement to creep out of
the Texas camp, it is probably only
the beginning.
On the other hand, this certain
player (and we know his name)
could make OUR middle name
“Chump” by getting himself re
instated and playing like a mad
man against the Aggies on Tur
key Day.
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Life Magazine
Page 114 of the latest issue of
Life Magazine carries an important
picture—a shot of Cowboy Jack
Crain and a couple of Texas beau
ties.
Something seems wrong with that
picture, however, for Crain is forc
ed to share the spotlight with—of
all people—two Texas Aggies in
full uniform! Yes sir, it is as plain
as the Academic building. Two A. &
M. cadets were standing in the
background while Crain posed.
Letters to the Life editors and
Lloyd Gregory are on the way, in
forming them of the above.
The opinion of a local military
officer was that Aggies can be
found anywhere—you can’t keep
them from sharing the spotlight.
A picture done in beautiful tech
nicolor revealing all the hates and
passions of mountian people is
“THE SHEPHERD OF THE
HILLS,” with John Wayne, Betty
Field, and Harry Cary. It will be
at Guion Hall today and tomor
row. The film story is taken from
Harold Bell Wright’s best-seller
novel.
All the hatred of a boy for his
father who left home and left his
mother to support him until death
is expertly acted by John Wayne
as Young Matt. “The Shepherd”
comes to the hills and nurses the
sick back to health. He wins the
undying friendship of the mountain
eers.
Young Matt is in love with Sam
my Lane, Betty Field. She says
that they can never be married as
long as he persists in his blood
vow to avenge his heart-broken
mother because of his father’s de
sertion.
Tense drama is unrolled as events
lead up to meeting of father and
son. . All in all, it is a fine motion
picture that goes straight to your
heart.
The double feature at the Campus
today and tomorrow,, “BUY ME
THAT TOWN,” and “CALL A
MESSENGER.” Loyd Nolan and
Constance Moore are the lead-off
names in the former. It is the
old, old story of a gangster re
defense is the sum total of the
forming when he meets that cer
tain girl. A fairly good story with
an up-to-date twist about national
show.
Mary Carlisle and Larry Crabbe
with the Dead End Kids are the
stars of “Call a Messenger.” If
you are acquainted with the past
performances of the Gang, you will
know what to expect in this pic
ture.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT GUION HALL
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“THE SHEPHERD OF THE
HILLS,” starring John
Wayne and Betty Field.
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“BUY ME THAT TOWN,”
with Lloyd Nolan and Con
stance Moore. Also “CALL
A MESSENGER,” with
Mary Carlisle and Larry
Crabbe.
Qampus
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skill at solving this coded
message. The solution will
appear in the next issue of
The Battalion.
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Solution of Crypt-O-Quiz which
appeared in the last issue of The
Battalion—“Only he who attempts
the absurd is capable of achieving
the impossible.”
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Double Feature
“CALL A
MESSENGER”
With
Dead End Kids—Little Tough
Guys
RESISTS
Hi t MB
that TOWN
With
Lloyd Nolan, Constance Moore
Yera Vague, Albert Dekker
Also
BUGS (WABBIT TWACKS)
BUNNY IN “TORTOISE
BEATS HARE”
The professional school of social Showi r™- w . mi *
work at Tulane university is only ? M . u i rL A - ,, ^ A ’
one in the south. & M ’ VS ‘ Ba y lor Footba11 Game.
Random Remarks
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For Your Slide
Rules
:By E. M. Rosenthal
It’s happened again! Three times
in a row the famed Aggie football
team has tasted the sweets of vic
tory by having at least a share of
the Southwest Conference crown.
But the season isn’t over yet; the
game for which the entire student
body has been waiting lies ahead.
Yes, the game which will bring
A. & M. the chance to attain per
sonal satisfaction of knowing that
there has been truly a successful
season has yet to be played. Bill
Henderson’s unforgetable phrase
as the final gun sounded last
Thanksgiving, “Wait until next
year,” must still be carried out.
Army, there’s a game to be play
ed, and a tough one, November 27.
Texas, though tied by an ins
pired Baylor eleven and beaten in
the last 25 seconds by T. C. U., has
the same team which routed six of
the country’s better squads by lop
sided scores. Remember, this same
team still has the same men play
ing and the same coach and will
have an additional factor come
Turkey Day. That additional fac
tor is the desire to save face and
that is what a Texas victory will
mean to the drape-coated boys on
the Forty Acres. The pain of the
Baytor tie and the wound of the
T.C.U. defeat would be almost en
tirely healed by an Aggie defeat.
BUT THIS WON’T HAPPEN!
It can’t happen if every Aggie
from the most insignificant fresh
man to the most touted senior
thinks of nothing but the game
Thanksgiving. The possibility of a
post season gridiron classic should-
(See RANDOM, Page 4)
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YOUR APPEARANCE?
Everyone Else
Does!!!
Get Your Hair Cut For
The Thanksgiving
Holidays
AT
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BARBER SHOP
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GUION HALL
TUBS. — 3:30 & After Yell Practice
WED.—3:30 & 6:45
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In
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