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The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College 6f 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 reauest.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service,
Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Associated Gotle6iate Press
Don Gabriel ,.. v 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
Brooks Gofer Junior Sports Editor
Chiek Hurst Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Staff
Gene Wilmeth Circulation Manager
Bill Hanger .'. .Senior Circulation Assistant
F. D. Asbury Junior Assistant
Bill Huber, Joe Stalcup Circulation Assistant
Photography Staff
Jaak Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Thursday’s Staff
Lee Rogers Managing Editor
John Sleeper Advertising Assistant
Charles Babcock Junior Editor
Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor
Mike Speer Junior Editor
Reportorlal Staff
Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Selig Frank, W. J. Hamilton,
Jr., N. W. Karbach, Jack Keith, Tom B. Journeay, Douglass
Laneaster, Tom Leland, Charles P. McKnight, W. B. Morehouse,
Richard F. Quinn, Gordon Sullivan, C. G. Scruggs, Benton
Taylor, John Holman.
The Great Dag
Remember Texas and 1940
The day has come! Once again a fighting Ag
gie team meets a battling Longhorn team on
Kyle Field. In a game that ranks as the
greatest sporting event in Texas, the two
teams will fight it out. It makes small dif
ference that the Aggies are already undis
puted conference champions. This is the one
game that both schools look forward to. It
is their criterion of a successful season if
they can come out victorious in the annual
Thanksgiving clash.
Today two great schools are represented
by their teams, their student bodies, and
their alumni at College Station. Thousands
of former Aggies will be on hand to see the
Aggies seek revenge for the Turkey day
game of 1940.
Aggies—thousands of visitors will be
on the campus today. Many will be former
students; others will be supporters of the
Aggie team, and still others will be members
of the Texas student body or their friends.
This is our chance to show all visitors the
true meaning of Aggie hospitality. The Ag
gie way of doing things and the spirit of
friendliness which prevails on this campus
are unrivaled at any other school.
Army! this is our day. Remember that
all day. Show these visitors on the campus
that Aggie spirit is at a new high. For
twelve months the corps has thought of this
game—this is our opportunity both for the
team and for the corps. Army—REMEMBER
TEXAS U. AND 1940.
Something to Read
his fundamental ideas. The Education of
Henry Adams (actually his autobiography)
will teach you a lot about the thought and
culture of the late nineteenth century. Col
onel Thomason’s life of Jeb Stuart, the dash
ing Confederate cavalryman, is a painless
sketch of the strategy and tactics of General
Lee at the height of his success. Professor
Baker’s Life of Stephen F. Austin covers the
formative period of our own state.
No list of biographies, of course, is com
plete without Boswell’s Life of Johnson,
which is really a collection of best conversa
tions that were ever carried on in the English
language, by a group of cronies which in
cluded Edmund Burke, David Garrick, the
great actor, 'Oliver Goldsmith, the humorist
and poet, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, the best
of English painters. It is a liberal education
all by itself. Plutarch’s Lives of Famous
Greeks and Romans is another old standby,
filled with gossipy accounts (two thousand
years old) of the heroes of antiquity, and
leaving you with a pretty good notion of how
the ancients thought and talked and acted.
The World Turns On
:By A. F. Chalk:
:By Dr. T. F. Mayo:
Learning—The Easy Way
There are very few fields to which the easiest
and most pleasant introduction is not through
biographies of distinguished men. If, for ex
ample, you want to know what Marxism is
all about, but rather dread a treatise on the
subject, try Spargo’s Karl Marx. The old boy
had enough hard times and adventures to
sweeten the process of getting a grasp of
Our national legislators will soon have pre
sented for their consideration the first pro
posed legislation designed to curb our rising
price level. The Banking Committee will
shortly offer for debate a bill which has os
tensibly been designed to prevent the con
tinuance of the present upward trend of
prices. Legislation of such a character has
been expected for some time, and many peo
ple are concerned about the probable effect
iveness of this proposed statute.
The unfortunate fact is that this sug
gested legislation is quite obviously the re
sult of extensive bargaining among political
ly organized minority groups. For instance,
farm prices would be permitted to soar to
such high levels that the term “control”
would be almost meaningless when applied
to the ceiling provided for such prices. Farm
groups have been adamant in their demands
for unshackled agricultural prices, and the
congressmen have thus far responded in a
very submissive fashion. Still another feature
of this proposed law is the absence of any
provision for controlling wages at some rea
sonable level. It is simply fantastic to imag
ine an effort to control a price level by direct
means without controlling in some way one
of the most important of the items determin
ing the cost of production. In general it can
be said that this bill possesses none of the
characteristics of a satisfactory law to con
trol prices by governmental decrees, et cetera.
One of the more hopeful aspects of the
present problem of price control legislation
is that the bill proposed by the House Bank
ing Committee is to be vigorously attacked
by an organized group of Representatives
who feel that the proposed bill is much too
weak to be effective. In fact, a substitute
measure, embodying many of the recom
mendations of Bernard Baruch is to be rec
ommended by this group. Sentiment ik at
present increasing in favor of the substitute
measure. This bill may not pass, but the
group supporting it may at least be able to
strengthen the Banking Committee bill by
inserting some stringent amendments.
The organized groups within our econ
omy will have to make common sacrifices if
we are to have a workable price-control mea
sure put through congress in the near future.
It would seem that the sole objective of the
Banking Committee in framing its bill was
to lose as few votes as possible. This inabil
ity of law-makers to look beyond the imme
diate self-interest of their constituents dur
ing such an emergency as the present one
is to be seriously regretted. Some political
commentators are wondering how much
greater the emergency will have to be before
we attain some semblance of unity in Wash
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For the last conference football game of the year the Aggie Corps will line up in Kyle Field to
support the Maroon and White as it fights the most important battle of Southwest Conference. The
shaded section shows where the Aggie Seniors and their dates will watch this important spectacle.
The junior section will encircle the senior section on three sides. Sophomores and freslunen, are in
front of the upperclassmen besides haring a section of their own past tne goal line.
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BACKWASH
BY
Charlie Babcock
For those who are unable to
leave for the Thanksgiving holi
days, there is some good enter
tainment in the pictures offered
at the local theaters. Showing at
the Campus for the last times to
day is a double feature “THEY
MET IN ARGENTINA,” with
Maureen O’Hara and James Elli
son and “SWEETHEART OF THE
CAMPUS” with Ruby Keeler, Oz-
zie Nelson and his orchestra, and
Harriet Hilliard.
An excellent musical comedy
showing at the Campus tomorrow
and Saturday is “SUNNY,” star
ring Anna Neagle and John Car-
roll and Ray Bolger. This is the
best of Miss Neagle’s three musi
cal shows—the other two were
“Irene” and “No, No, Nanette.”
Some of the memories that the
picture will arouse are those re
garding songs by Jerome Kern
such as “Who” and “Sunny.”
The show is fine diversion to
help pass some of the long hours
of the vacation days. The cast,
both the stars and the lesser lights,
have made a picture that they can
be proud of for quite some time.
Students at Emory university
prefer to call the campus water
lank the “Bobby Jones Memorial.”
The famous golfer studied law at
Emory in 1927-28.
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“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster
Today . . . The day that the Aggies take down their 1940
diary, and there on Thursday, November 28, is recorded
tragedy on tear-soaked paper.
The hand that made the record was not a steady one .. .
the ink is blotched and smeared . . . but from what we can
make out, the words telling of the events of that day are
something like this:
“That defeat in memorial stadium
today went a little hard with the Aggies.
We weren’t over-confident; we knew that
any Southwest Conference game provided
a tough row to hoe. We knew, too, that
Texas U. was double-tough in its home
stadium. We just weren’t prepared for
defeat. Nineteen consecutive victories
don’t make for very good defeatism psy
chology.
“It’s all over now, and the heartache
However, we must remember that the
team did its best, that no other Southwest Confer
ence college ever before as much as even tied for
the championship after winning it the year before,
that no other Southwest Conference school ever be
fore won 19 consecutive victories, and, most import
ant of all, that the Aggies have said since the Col
lege was founded in 1876 that their teams were first
in their hearts always; win, lose, or draw. That’s
the way it is today ... As far as the Twelfth Man
is concerned, the A. & M. team is still the nation’s
No. 1 outfit.”
But that isn’t the end of that day’s notations. Down
in the bottom right hand corner of the page, we found the
following:
“Bitter as this day is to us, shocking as this
tragedy has been ... its moments will never escape
our memory. We will never forget, and someday,
we’ll seek our revenge.
“So it is, at this time, that we, all the loyals
of Aggiedom, make this pledge to never forget the
Austin tragedy of 1940. Regardless of what our
fate shall be against other opponents, the memory
of Texas U. and 1940 will never leave us.”
And that’s the story of a group of young, inexperienced
footballers—fellas who weren’t given a chance for the cham
pionship in September, fellas that have been deeded a glorious
heritage, the right to be the team of 1941 who avenged the
1940 loss.
This Collegiate World
:ACP:
Unidentified but thorough in
truders in Seattle’s college’s 24,000
—book library one night turned the
volumes around on their shelves,
their ends and titles to the wall.
A half dozen patient co-eds were
busy for several days re-arranging
the books. Meantime library busi
ness was suspended.
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WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “THEY MET
IN ARGENTINA,” with
Maureen O’Hara and James
Ellison. Also “SWEET
HEART OF THE CAMPUS,”
featuring Ruby Keeler, Ozzie
Nelson and his orchestra, and
Harriet Hilliard.
Friday, Saturday—“SUN
NY,” starring Anna Neagle
and John Carroll.
Saturday prevue, Sunday,
Monday — “MR. SMITH
GOES TO WASHINGTON,”
starring James Stewart, Jean
Arthur, and Edward Arnold.
AT GUION HALL
Monday — “WORLD PRE
MIERE,” featuring John
Barrymore, Eugene Pallette,
and Francis Farmer.
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“PLAY GIRL,” with Kay
James, Francis Ellison, and
Mildred Coles.
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LAST DAY
“THEY MET IN
ARGENTINA”
With
Maurine O’Hara
James Ellison
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, 7:46, 10:29
Also
Merrie Melodies Cartoon
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
“SUNNY”
Starring Anna Nagle
1941 A. & M. vs. S. M. U.
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In these critical times, communications play a
vital part in defense. Here is how the Bell System
is organized to meet its great responsibility.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
coordinates all system activities, advises on tele
phone operation, searches for improved methods.
24 associated operating companies provide
telephone service in their respective territories.
Long Lines Department of A. T. & T. intercon
nects the 24 operating companies, handles Long
Distance and overseas service.
Bell Telephone Laboratories carries on scien
tific research and development for the system.
Western Electric is the manufacturing, purchas
ing and distributing unit.
Highly trained through many years of working
together, these Bell System companies provide
a nation-wide, unified service. Never have the
benefits of this system been so clear as today
when the country is under pressure.
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