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Page 2 THE BATTALION The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE Pues day, 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 4-6444. 1941 Member 1942 Plssocioted Cblle6iate 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 Brooks Cofer Chick Hurst Gene Bill ] F. D. Wilmeth laugc Ash Senitir Sports Assistant Junior Sports Editor Junior Sports Editor Circulation Staff Circulation Manager ...Senior Circulation Assistant r. v. Asnury Junior Assistant Bill Huber, Joe Stalcup -Circulation Assistant Photography Staff Jack Jones Bob Crane, Ralph Steniel... Staff Photographer ..Assistant Photographers Tuesday’s Staff E. M. Rosenthal Acting Managing Editor W. A. Goforth Assistant Advertising Manager Jack Decker —.— Junior Editor Pom Vannoy — Junior Editor Clyde Franklin — ......... Junior Editor Ken Bresnen Junior Editor Reportorial 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, chard F. Quinn, Gordon Sullivan, C. G. Scruggs, Benton Kichard F. Quinn, G Taylor, John Holman. Open Forum will be the necessary power . . . TO WHIP THE “DANTE’S INFERNO” out of Texas. —James Otis Chance (deaf mute) Man, Your Manners By I. Sherwood: Damnaggies and Teahounds A New Slant on an Old Rivalrg More potent than an editorial is the thought ex pressed in the following two letters. The first written by an Aggie and printed by The Daily Texan and the other written by a member of the Texas Student body both express the keenest rivalry possible. That is the way it should be. This game belongs to both schools. It is bne of their greatest traditions. Both schools are doubly anxious to win this game—victory in this game means more than any other victory or set of victories. As the two writers express it, the pre-game feeling is much the same in Austin as over here—but after the game remember to be the best of friends. Editor Daily Texas: I’m a Texas Aggie (Damnaggie to you) who wants to get his two cents worth. I don’t blame you for saying a “Good Aggie is a dead Aggie,” though I don’t agree with you. I must confess that I have said far worse things about the Longhorns, While I don’t think that the two student bodies should settle the affair with bricks, clubs, or bullets; why not paint insinuating signs, write insulting letters, and slam each other verbally? It’s not poor sportsmanship; it’s good fun. It makes the game twice as interesting; it makes it twice as exciting. Until the gun goes off ending the game, I shall consider all Texas university students to be sorry, lowdown, yellow, perfume-scent ed teahounds. After the game (regardless of its outcome) I’m for being friends and showing sincere cordiality; I mean it; and I’ll do my part one hundred per cent. 1/6,600 OF THE AGGIE TWELFTH MAN * * * Editor The Battalion: The above letter was printed in this morn ing’s Daily Texan. I agree with the ideas put forth in this letter. They are fine. They typify the kind of rivalry that should exist between the two greatest universities of our state. Clubs, brickbats, and fisticuffs are a stupid way of showing competitive spirit. Sure, right now I consider every Aggie to be a plow pushin’, straw chewing, share cropper ; and shall continue to do so until the game is over. After that, I too am for forgetting the pre-game insults and insinuations, and for showing the kind of friendship and cordiality that the above-mentioned Aggie expressed in his letter to us. I am a member of .the Longhorn Band and know that the rest of the boys feel the same way and are willing to do their part one hundred per cent also. Doug Vair, ’43, Texas University The Commandments of Good Manners These small courtesies may not be over looked : A man rises when a woman enters a room and remains standing as long as she stands. A person who is speaking may not be interrupted. Whenever there is a choice, one walks behind, not in front of other people. If there is no choice, he excuses himself for crossing in front of them. Any service, however slight, is acknow ledged with a “thank you,” whether or not one has paid for it. The formula, “excuse me, please,” ap plies when one touches another person in advertently; interrupts anyone, hiccups, or in any other way inconveniences or offends others. The door to another’s office, home or room is private. Before entering one should knock and wait to be invited to come in. Speak to professors, to the president, and to other administrative officers whether or not they know you personally. Remain standing in a private office un til you are invited to be seated. Don’t ask to smoke; let the invitation come from the pro fessor. Gum chewing in classes, during business hours if you are dealing with people, and at social functions is the last word in bad man ners. Other people’s privacy should be respect- -your roommate’s as well. The endearing elegance of female friend ship. —Samuel Johnson Quotable Quotes “Adequate individual and social discipline js an indispensable condition of national unity. Undisciplined America has no chance at all of remaining free and democratic in the present world. Organizing for the attainment of a more effective social discipline is one of the most pressing problems now confronting the American people. In part it is a matter of formal education. Our schools must be made to contribute more than they do to the neces sary disciplines of our democratic way of life. In part it is a matter of adult education through all the available media of communi cation. Every citizen should know and be led to practice the disciplines "which must pre vail if America is to remain free. In part it is a matter of moral leadership. America craves the leadership of those who under stand and in high office exemplify the demo cratic way of life. As a people we must be led to see first things first.” Pres. Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell university calls for a “discipline of the free.” The World Turns On By Dr. J. H. Quisenberry TO THE STUDENT BODY, DEAR GANG, Next Thursday will be round up time here at College—and all the old gang, with the ex ception of those Aggies that are in the ser vice and can’t get away,—will be here to see our annual battle with Texas. Now Army, we all know Texas has a great Team, in fact, “A dream team,” but Baylor broke into that dream, and T. C. U. walked them in their sleep, and it’s up to you Army to throw, them in a nightmare. The stage is all set. Coach Norton is READY— Our TEAM is READY- ARE YOU READY? Y^ill the 12th man be READY? Texas will be double tough Thanksgiv ing. They will try to stage a comeback, at our expense. It’s going to be a battle and the outcome will depend on your mental attitude. So get right gang. Stay right gang. Eat, sleep, and play that game from now on, from your heart out, feel right. Get tuned on the right wave length, stay tuned with that old team. If you are tuned in on that old Aggie station, those unseen vibrations from you 6,000 leather lunged Aggies will be picked up and absorbed by that old team, and it HPRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis -TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1941 COWRRIG CAMP BOVJIE. campus dismoNs WITH (H| TOM VANNOI O .»• . / . . V! Copr. 1941, King Feature* Syndicate. Inc., World right* tvxrVftl OLYoe- 'Thanks for the use of your leggins, Corporal. I found my pants! ’ BACKWASH BY Charlie Babcock “Backwash: An agritation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster Thursday, Roosevelt notwithstanding, we cel ebrate Thanksgiving. The question that gives us most concern in connection with this hol iday period is “how many of us give thanks?” Thanksgiving is uniquely an American in stitution. It is one of those fine traditions which our nation has preserved. It has been said that as we have passed from the pio neering days we have tended to forget the real meaning of Thanksgiving. Like many of our other religiously mo tivated holidays, Thanksgiving has been us ed by many as a profitable source of income and many of its spiritual relationships have become overshadowed by selfish commercial ism. That we still have a significant amount of the original motivation for “Thanks Giv ing” is shown by the unsuccessful attempt of President Roosevelt to change the date. Next year he is giving up the attempt alto gether. Thanksgiving epitomises much that is distinctly American. It represents faith at its fullest; faith in God, faith in social in stitutions, and confidence in man’s own abil ity to master his environment through the help of God. This same simple faith is one of the basic essentials of a democratic form of government. We must have faith in the in tegrity and sincerity of the men for whom we vote or else our democracy becomes a hypocritical sham and we lose confidence in our fellow man. , The religious philosophy behind Thanks giving is as essential to the democratic way of life as the Rock of Gibraltar is to Eng land’s control of the Mediterranean. Demo cracy demands a recognition of the worth of the individual and the right of expression of that individuality. On the other hand, there must be a certain amount of restriction of the individual when complete expression of the individual clashes with the welfare of the group. Religious bodies are the only or ganized institutions whose major purpose is to provide the motivation for such conduct. In these trying times the church has a great responsibility to democracy. It can meet that responsibility only as individuals voluntarily get behind its program and in telligently direct its activities. Again we say, the measure of the greatness of this Thanks giving is not how badly we beat Texas (im portant as that may be) but “how many of us give thanks.” Won’t Be Long Now . . . And that day we’ve been waiting and living a year for will be here. The Aggies will get that one chance out of every 365 days . . . The Movietone News 1941 All-America football team, dis played at the Campus theatre the past couple of days, was not agreeable with the consensus of Aggie opinion. Not a single Ag gie was named to the squad, and Babcock only two South- west Conference performers were chosen, Chal Daniel and Pete Lay- den of Texas. Daniel was placed at a first string guard position, and Layden was an honorable mention back . . . The Aggies will probably play in two bowl games this season. In addition to the New Year’s Day game, the Wash ington State fracas on December 6 has been termed as the Ever green Bowl by Washington offi cials . . . From Longhorn Editor Rusty Heitkamp comes a plea to the cadet corps for any and all kinds of action shots taken last baseball season . . . Turkey Day football programs will be bigger and better than ever before. Along with the customary facts and sta tistics will be several candid photo graphs of the Longhorn and Aggie campuses. • • • Kyle Field Jinx Some people believe that there is a hoo-doo spirit guarding over Kyle Field—a spirit that won’t let the boys wearing maroon and white lose on Thanksgiving Day. Regardless of whether or not such spirit does exist, this fact remains: In 16 years of every- other-year play at College Sta tion, Texas university has been able to defeat the Aggies only once (1923) and tie them twice (1921 and 1933). During that 16-year period, the Aggies have consistently entered the game as decided underdogs, but somehow, they’ve always play ed the Longhorns off their feet and preserved the so-called jinx. Now, with the 1941 Cadets prevail ing as the underdogs Thursday, it is well to recall a few occa sions when a favorite Longhorn team was trimmed by an A. & M. squad that wouldn’t be beaten ... We quote from the files of the Houston Post: “1925—The Longhorns were unbeaten in the conference and decided favorites. With Leo Baldwin playing his fin est game, they outgained the Aggies more than two to one. But the Cadets, starring Mule Wilson and a sophomore call ed Joel Hunt, won 28-0, large ly through a happy faculty of turning intercepted passes in to touchdowns. “1929—Only T. C. U. had scored on Texas, and the Champion Horned Frogs were lucky to win, 13-12. The Ag gies in Matty Bell’s first year had been well battered. But they were definitely superior that one day and triumphed, 13-0. “1931—Texas had Harrison Stafford and Ernie Koy, two all-time greats, but the under dog Aggies extended the su per-human effort and won, 7-6”. • • • Season’s Best This is the final week of J. E. Loupot’s Aggie sign contest . . . and the $2.50 awarded to the sign of the week will be awarded at noon meal formation today to the Band by Dick Hervey, one of the judges. ^ The Band sign was judged the best banner on the campus out ((See BACKWASH, Page 4) The double feature attraction at the Campus today, tomorrow, and Thursday has a pair of average musical stories,, “THEY MET IN ARGENTINA” and “SWEET HEART OF THE CAMPUS.” Maureen O’Hara and James Ellison are the stars of the first, and the second has Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, and Harriet Hilliard. A further attempt to weld Pan- American relations has been made in “They Met in Argentina.” It seems that if we depend on pic tures such as this to build up American good-will with South American countries, we are do ing ourselves more harm than good. The acting is fair, but the story just hasn’t enough in it to make the show a success. Ruby Keeler starts on the come back trail in “Sweetheart of the Campus.” With Nelson’s distinc tive music and Harriet’s songs, the film is stepped up consider ably. The setting is a small Amer ican college about to be taken over and made into a girls’ seminary. Nelson and his musicians enroll and save the day with their mu sic, if that could be possible. The whole situation is idealistic, but amusing, nevertheless. Maisie is here again. This time she is “RINGSIDE MAISIE.” In the cast along with Aim Sothern are Robert Sterling and George Murphy. The popularity that the “Maisie” series has built up from previous pictures suffers a lot from the current member. The spot light of the show centers mainly on Sterling, a prize-fighter. Ann has been shoved into the uncon- spicious background, much to our sorrow. Maisie’s humaness appeal ed to millions of American show- goers who have grown to enjoy the stories of her advantures. “A YANK IN THE R. A. F.” will show only at the midnight show tomorrow night at the Campus. It will return for showing on the regular run later this year. The story is very timely and also most interesting. Tyrone Power is an American polit who joins the R. A. F. in order to be near Betty Grable, a night-club dancer he thinks quite a bit of. John Sutton, an Englishman, meets Betty, and (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) ( ambus 1 I 4-1181 TUBS. — WED. — THURS. Showing 3 Days Double Feature Program WHAT’S SHOWING AT GUION HALL Tuesday, Wednesday — “RINGSIDE MAISIE,” with Ann Sothern and George Murphy. AT THE CAMPUS Tuesday, Wed., Thurs.— “THEY MET IN ARGEN TINA,” featuring Maureen O’Hara and James Ellison. Also “SWEETHEART OF THE CAMPUS,” with Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra, and Harriet Hil liard. Midnight show Thursday— “A YANK IN THE R. A. F. starring Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, and John Sutton. laureen u nara James Ellison Alberto Vila Buddy Ebsen Diosa Costello RKO RADIO Picture Shows at 1:00, 3:44, 6:08, 8:52 NO. 2 “SWEETHEART OF THE CAMPUS” With Ruby Keeler, Harriet Hilliard Ozzie Nelson And His Band Shows at 2:17, 5:01, 7:45, 10:29 Also Merrie Melodies Cartoon SPECIAL PREVUE WEDNESDAY NIGHT Starting at 12:00 DRONE POWER gr&l* a CLEAN THOSE CLOTHES For The Texas Game And Holidays Over Exchange Store — Sub-Station in New “Y” CAMPUS CLEANERS Phone 4-5114 1941 A & M vs. SMU FOOTBALL GAME AGGIES We Want “STEER MEAT” Not TURKEY For Thanksgiving Turkey Day Special Dinner TEXAS A. & M. GRILL North Gate MOVIE GUION HALL TUESDAY 3:30 & After Yell Practice WEDNESDAY 3:30 & After Bonfire Ann Sothern in “Ringside Maisie’’ Note: Due to Thanksgiving Holidays there will be no show in Guion Hall this week-end. 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