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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
4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Associated Golle6iate 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
Brooks Cofer Junior Sports Editor
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 Assistant
Photography Staff
Jack Jones — Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Thursday’s Staff
E. M. Rosenthal Acting Managing Editor
John Sleeper Advertising Assistant
Charles Babcock Junior Editor
Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor
Mike Speer 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,
" '"van, C. G. Scruggs, Benton
Lancaster, Tom Leland, Charles P. 1
Richard F. Quinn, Gordon Sulliva
Taylor, John Holman.
Move Over Aggie!
It's Their Street Too
The pedestrian Aggie receives much sym
pathy because a lack of suitable sidewalk
space often forces him into the street, but
once in the street the average cadet promptly
proceeds along as if the street was the pri
vate property of the corps.
Unfortunately this is not the case, the
primary purpose of the streets is to carry
automobile traffic, traffic which is essential
to the college. And in the street the Aggie
becomes inconsistent—long recognized for
his courtesy and hospitality, a cadet forgets
all this while in the street. Often cars will
be blocked in their progress by cadets who
deliberately refuse to get out of their way.
Granting that at times it is necessary
for the corps to get in the street, this still
doesn’t give them license to block traffic.
This isn’t the Aggie way of doing things.
Those same rules of courtesy which we ap
ply to visitors on the campus can certainly
apply in regard to the automobile situation.
It doesn’t take but a second to move and let
a car pass by, and by doing so the Aggie
makes another friend, the driver of the car.
The corps is getting a black eye in its
conduct toward automobile drivers. Many
people visiting the campus for the first time
get an unfortunate impression of the col
lege and of the corps because of the failure
to observe a few rules of coutesy. Stop and
realize that your actions here on the campus
could be a hindrance to Aggies trying to
hitch-hike rides in other places. Yes, many
people have expressed justified disgust at
the corps conduct at times.
It doesn’t mean a surrender of the corps
right to get in the street (practically neces
sary under the existing lack of adequate side
walks) ; it only means a few common sense
rules of good conduct. Try to walk on the
edges of the street and leave room for the
cars. If a car wants to pass, give it room
right away. They have a right to the street
too.
Of course the fundamental solution lies
in the providing of more sidewalks, but make
the best of the present situation and don’t
sacrifice the Aggie tradition of courtesy
while in the street.
Historg Squabble
Vying with the war participation issue on
not a few college campuses these days is a
new dispute centering around the teaching
of American and world history. Professor
Ralph A. Burns of Dartmouth college touch
ed off the fireworks with the charge that
American history books are “so provincializ
ed by a dominant school of Harvard histor
ians” that millions of Americans are vir
tually ignorant of Russia, Canada and South
America.
These Harvard authors, Dr. Burns told
the New Jersey Education association, live
in Cambridge in the winter and Cape Cod in
the summer and “look wistfully to the “tight
little island” (England) whence all culture
came.”
As a result, the Dartmouth education
professor declared, school textbooks make
scant mention of other lands and “our youth
know nothing even of Canada and Mexico,
let alone any land south or north of these
boundaries.”
At about the same time Dr. Suhindra H.
Bose, Oriental political Science lecturer at
the University of Iowa, came forward with
the opinion that poor methods of teaching
history are partly responsible for the present
world situation.
“Too much nationalism is injected into
history courses, resulting in regular racial
misunderstandings among people of the
world,” he said. “The study of no one coun
try should precede the study of the world as
a whole.”
One authority on history at Harvard
university, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger,
responded to the Dartmouth educators charg
es with an expression of Mild Skepticism.
“It is highly flattering to Harvard >to
think that it can dominate the history edu
cation of a country 3,000 miles long and con
taining 130,000,000 people,” he commented.
However, he said, no history textbooks
of high school level have been written by
Harvard professors. —ACP
Something to Read
- By Dr. T. F. Mavn
Is This Sarcasm?
“Probably never before”, writes the Editor
of Threshold, the new intercollegiate mag
azine, “has there been greater mental fer
ment in the colleges ... On all sides students
are thinking, talking, agitating. There is a
beguiling bounce and joyous release in argu
ment that ranges the whole gamut of public
affairs. Political and sociological groups
mushroom throughout the land. Wide areas
of the student community agree on a few
first principles of common necessity; be
yond that there is infinite variety—a pro
phet and an ideaolgy and a post-war plan
suitable to everyone’s taste.”
Now, I may be doing the Aggies an in
justice, but so far as I know them, this de
scription of collegiate “mental ferment”, if
applied to our campus, constitutes a rather
severe piece of irony. Of course, as I say, I
may jilst not know 'the Aggies. Perhaps
Goodwin rings nightly with the clash of rival
ideaologies, and Hart resounds with the
learned debates of Marxists and anti-Mar
xists, and the New Area may harbor social
theorists by the score.
_ Seriously, though, aren’t we as a college,
a little below par in our interest in public
affairs? Of course, I realize that this is a
technical school, peopled with students whose
chief interest lies naturally and justifiably
in things rather than ideas. But even so, you
engineers and county agents and veterinary
doctors and such are going to have a great
deal of social and political influence in your
communities. Your “opinions and attitudes”
about non-technical matters are going to
have weight. You are going to be leaders.
Will you be blind leaders of the blind?
After all, we live in thrilling times. We
are, whether we like it or not, actors in a
terrific drama with a world for the stage.
Without even being asked, we have been en
rolled in a crew of workmen who will fashion
the future of man.
And we spend hours and hours in think
ing and talking about football!
The World Turns On
— . By A. F. Chalk—
The economies of the Latin American coun
tries are undergoing a very serious strain as
a result of the current war. This country
has been attempting to relieve the strain
wherever possible, but the condition is such
that only a return to more normal trade re
lations will greatly improve the situation.
Extensive subsidies and loans by our gov
ernment would no doubt relieve some of the
economic pressure but these procedures
might prove to be too great a financial bur
den if the war should continue for many
years.
Before the outbreak of the present war,
European countries had purchased a large
volume of the agricultural products of Latin
American countries. These European coun
tries had also sold large quantities of man
ufactured goods to our Latin American
neighbors. Now that this basic economic re
lationship has been so seriously disturbed,
countries such as Brazil and Argentina are
having to go through th erigors of adjusting
their economies to the radically changed
having to go through the rigors of adjusting
The U. S. is in a position to furnish many
of the manufactured goods which were for
merly exported to these countries by Euro
pean nations. The obvious difficulty involved
in this procedure is the inability of the Latin
American countries to buy such products
when their export markets for agricultural
products have been so greatly diminished.
It is a truism that nations cannot continue
to purchase goods abroad for long periods of
time unless they are in turn able to market
a reasonable amount of their own goods in
the channels of trade (assuming no inter
national loans are made to enable the country
to buy foreign goods).
The essential problem is, therefore, to
devise as best we can some system whereby
these countries can secure dollar exchange
which would enable them to buy our man
ufactured goods. One way in which we might
help such countries would be for us to lower
wherever politically feasible the tariffs on
certain types of agricultural products. The
agricultural interests cannot be expected to
permit a sudden influx of such products
from Latin America, but we might increase
imports of restricted types of commodities
which would not vitally inconvenience our
domestic producers.
Another measure, as indicated above,
might be adopted whereby we would extend
credits to these countries for the purchase
of some basic consumer goods which we
produce. To rely exclusively upon such a
measure would be dangerous from many
points of view, but it might provide a means
of temporary relief until more fundamental
adjustments could be made. We could de
rive certain political benefits from such in
ternational loans, for we are now very vitally
concerned with “hemisphere solidarity”.
THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941
Kollegiate Kaleidoscope
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WROTE HIS THESIS IN FRENCH AND
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BACKWASH
BY
Charlie Babcock
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
Pot-Pouri . . . Officials of the
local Cosmopolitan Club urge that
any student interested attend the
next organization meeting, Sun
day, December 7, at 3 p. m. Dean
E. J. Kyle will
speak and re
freshments will be
served. Ameri
can boys are is
sued a special in
vitation . . . Wed
ding bells rang
one week ago to
night for Aggie
baseballer Bill
Babcock Kamperman. Mrs.
Kamperman is the former Connie
Alice Campbell of Dallas . . .
Looking for jinxes? Take that
number, “23.” Let’s see, there is
23-0, 1923 (last time Texas beat A.
& M. on Kyle Field), and 23 points
(the number of points scored by
Aggie opponents before Thanks
giving) . . . Four Aggies, Jim
Sterling, Bill Sibley, Martin Ruby,
and Derace Moser have been named
to the 1941 UP All-Southwest con
ference first team. Watch Moser
make the first string grade on most
of the All-America selections . . .
Bill Henderson was being inter
viewed as part of a radio program
staged on the campus after the
Turkey Day game. At the termi
nation of the interview, the inter
viewer, Andy Anderson, Houston
Press sports editor, was asked by
Henderson, “Why didn’t you ask
me what the greatest thrill of my
life has been?” Anderson complied,
and Henderson replied, “It hasn’t
come yet. Will be when we beat
Texas!”
• • •
Thrills galore is the keynote of
“DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE”
showing at Guion Hall today and
tomorrow. Although this is the
third time that the story has been
filmed, it has lost none of its
appealing qualities. Spencer Tracy,
Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner
are the stars in this version.
Tracy plays the roles of the
kindly scientist and the cruel Mr.
Hyde. As Dr. Jekyll he makes love
to Lana. Ingrid Bergman falls vic
tim to Spencer as Mr. Hyde. Miss
Bergman plays one of her best
roles so far in the picture. Al
though Tracy slips a little from
his usual perfect performance, he
helps not a little bit in making the
story and entertaining one.
Betty Grable is the shining light
in “CAMPUS CONFESSIONS”
showing at the Campus today. All
that can be said about the picture
is that she is in it. In most cases,
this is sufficient.
A rather far-fetched story of
rich boy-get-poor girl is the fea
ture at the Campus tomorrow and
Saturday. The title is “UNEX
PECTED UNCLE” and features
Charles Coburn, Anne Shirley, and
James Craig. Coburn is a retired
business man who helps weld re
lations for everyone concerned. The
Dr. O. F. Evans, University of
Oklahoma geologist, becomes sort
of a “ripple reader” when he wants
relaxation; he interprets the sig
nificance of ripples left in sedimen
tary rocks.
audience appeal of the plot is limit
ed to the romantic side solely. It
is average entertainment inspite
of the weakness of the story.
Soon to be seen at the Campus
is the first picture made by the
former Aggie All-American back,
John Kimbrough. He is cast in a
western film.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday — “DR.
JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE,”
starring Spencer Tracy, In
grid Bergman, and Lana Tur
ner.
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “CAMPUS
CONFESSIONS,” with Bet
ty Grable.
Friday, Saturday — “UN
EXPECTED UNCLE,” fea
turing Anne Shirley, James
Craig, and Charles Cobum.
No Regrets
We once heard, “When all the
scores are in, and the winner has
been declared, it matters not wheth
er you’ve won or lost, but how
well you’ve played the game..”
That’s where the Aggies deserve
applause. It was the clean, hard-
fought game that was played on
the field, as well as the commend
able conduct of the entire corps.
The cadet corps has reason to be
proud. It displayed a sportsman
like attitude that was unbeatable.
Forty thousand fans left College
Station Thursday with the firm im
pression that the Aggies could take
it. That’s the mark of a true cham
pion.
As for the football loss, we are
reminded of a statement by Col.
Ike Ashburn last year after the
7-0 tragedy in Austin. Col. Ike’s
words were something like this:
.(See BACKWASH, Page 4)
Kimbrough
In
“LONE STAR
RANGER ,,
Coming Soon To The
CAMPUS
THEATRE
Watch For Date
Random Remarks
zBy E. M. Rosenthal
In victory or defeat Aggies are
men to be proud of.
For three years the people of the
State of Texas saw the sons of
A. & M. win all of their football
contests on Kyle Field. The Ag
gies were good winners and proud
winners, but the people of the state
wondered how these same Aggies
would act when that day of de
feat did appear.
Thanksgiving day the answer
was shouted throughout the na
tion by the silence of the cadet
corps.
The last strains of the “Spirit
of Aggieland” and “Taps” didn’t
start a mob violence as some fear
ed it would. No fights between
Aggies and Texas university stu
dents flared. The Aggies had
lost, but they accepted their de
feat in the same proud way they
had always accepted their victories.
Only an occasional tear accented
their feelings.
Ex-students who, with many Ag
gies, doubted the value of the
“peace-pact” with Texas and noth
ing but words of praise for the at
titude that was taken after the
game. To these exes it meant that
the juniors and seniors still had
control over the student body and
were able by simple instructions
to have the underclassmen act cor
rectly. For it was the juniors and
seniors who realized the value of
keeping down any disturbance,
(See REMARKS, Page 4)
THU. — FRI. — SAT.
C&a/iJ&es C^ap&fty
TIic Great
DICTATOR
PREVIEW 11 P. M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Jeanette MacDonald
“SMILIN’
THROUGH”
With
Brian Aherne — Ian Hunter
SHOWN SUN. & MON.
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SEE
“Jarrm’ Jawn ,,
Kimbrough
As The
“LONE STAR
RANGER”
Dec. 7, 8, 9
The Aggies own “Jarrin’
Jawn” becomes a new west
ern star. From the football
iield to the saddle, Kimbrough
spreads the name of the Ag
gies from coast to coast.
See this great All-Amer
ican play a raring rip-snort
ing cowyboy from Texas A.
& M. in “The Lone Star
Ranger”.
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