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THE BATTALION
The Battalion
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1941 Member 1942
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Sports Staff
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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
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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
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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
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WEDNESDAY 3:30 & After Bonfire
Ann Sothern in
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Note: Due to Thanksgiving Holidays there will be
no show in Guion Hall this week-end.
MONDAY 3:30 & 6:45
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