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Page 2 THE BATTALION the Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE Th« 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-clas Station, Texas, under the matter at the Post Office at College Vet of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate, $3 a school year. Advertising rates ttpon request. Represented natio Inc., at New York C San Francisco. lally by National Advertising Service, ity, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and Office, Room 122, Administration Building. 4-6444. Telephone 1941 Member 1942 Pbsocided CbUe6icite 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 Hanger 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, Richard F. Quinn, Gordon Sullivan, C. G. Scruggs, Benton Taylor, John Holman. ■ Cadet Corps and War “No matter how long it may take us to over come this premeditated invasion, the Amer ican people in their righteous mind will win through to absolute victory.” With these words the President of the United States Monday morning dedicated the entire re sources of this country in the defeat of Japan. War at this time and in this manner did come as a surprise. Even though the United States has been preparing for a possible armed conflict, the sudden and treacherous onslaught of the Japanese was a distinct shock to the American people. But a shock that soon formed a strong determination to see that this country is victorious, determina tion such as was expressed by the President Monday when he said, “With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding de termination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God. What does this mean to college students ? Time alone will tell. We can rest assured that the government will recognize the worth of the educational institutions of this nation and make full use of them in the present crisis. A great many men in the cadet corps are taking advanced military training. Un doubtedly they will see active duty with the armed forces of the nation. Whether this will mean that many of them will be called before the present school year is completed is not yet known. Many other members of the corps, how ever, do not hold advanced contracts. At the present time until their government definitely calls, their place is here in college. Dr. Wal ton, president of the college pointed out the necessity of pursuing this policy in the state ment made to the corps: “Even before the events of the past few hours, the President, the War Department, and administrators of the selective service act have urged you to maintain yom* positions as students. I urge you, gentlemen, to re main in college and render service to your country in this manner. I feel sure that when your government calls, you will respond for the service where you can serve most effect ively.” The cadet corps of A. & M. stands ready —they are ready to serve when called. series is “The Rivers of America”, of which so far, we have Struthers Burts’ Powder River. Still another interesting group is the American Guide Series, notably in Oregon Trail, Ocean Highway, U. S. One, and Savan nah. Rockwell Kent, the artist, has produced a thrilling book called This Is My Own, the excellent illustrations being worthily accom panied by good reading. Say, Is This the U.S.A.? is a production of what that re doubtable team, Erskine Caldwell, the writer, and Margaret Bourke-White, the photogra pher. It smacks of the good old American soil about as racily as any recent book. Russell Lord’s Behold This Land deals with America from the Agriculturist’s point of view. Carleton Beals’ American Earth, the Biography of a Nation is as entertainingly (and as frowsily!) done as most of the books of this useful but undistinguished writer. Katherine Glover’s America Begins Again and H. H. McCarty’s Georgraphic Basis of American Economic Life tell us a lot of in teresting things that all Americans ought to know. Of more special and local interest are The American Empire by Haas; The Carib bean, by W. Adolphe Roberts; Hollywood Saga, by W. C. DeMille; Bonanza Inn (about early San Francisco), by Glasscock; and Lyle Saxon’s pleasant books, Old Louisana and Fabulous New Orleans. If your newly aroused patriotism isn’t too much on the chip-on-my-shoulder side, you will enjoy a more critical view of our country, Little Golden America, by Ilf, one of two Soviet Russian humorists who toured the U.S.A. a few years ago and recorded their faintly malicious impressions. Kollegiate Kaleidoscope LMm * Pierre WHITING CARRIED WATER FDR the first BUILDING ON THE U.OF, KENTUCKY CAMPUS AND IS STILL CUSTODIAN OF THAT BUILDING/ Quotable Quotes “This great, free, united land of our has now got to behave as if it were grown up, or very shortly it may be neither great, nor free, nor united. This America, which all men have been accustomed to think of as still very young and often despised for its bump tiousness and exuberance, stands today where only grown men can stand, the only un threatened champion of a very ancient civili zation. Over the world men turn their eyes to America and will turn them as toward a i older brother who has stood secure amid the storm, whose steadfastness men are already saying may well remain man’s only hope of a better world.”—Prof. Robert D. French of Yale university urges America to assume her full adult position in the world. The World Turns On :By A. F. Chalk: Alabama Next, Arimj! Forced to take a back seat by the current war crisis is the Cotton Bowl game to be played at Dallas on New Year’s Day. However, it’s not too soon for the corps to begin to prepare for the game. For the third consecutive year A. & M. will have a team in one of the major post-season bowl games. A team which has won three South west Conference crowns in a row deserves the support of the entire corps. Make up your mind now to attend this game and show the people of Dallas the Ag gie Twelfth Man in action. Tickets are now available. For the first time Date tickets will also be available at the regular student price. Army! Get ready for Alabama! It’s New Year’s Day in Dallas, be there. Something to Read :By Dr. T. F. Mayo: About This America Whatever else our entry into war may have done, it has quickened our sense of being Americans, and of the uniqueness of the land which Americans inhabit. In order to feed this emotion and at the same time to give it a more rational basis, the Library recom mends its fair selection of recent books de scriptive of the country and its people. The Federal Writers’ Project has done an excellent job with its books on single states. They are all both entertaining and enlightening. Don’t confine yourself to the volume on your own state. Another good Now that we are actively engaged in war, we can expect to see major changes take place in the economic life of the country. It is possible the shock to the people will not be as great as would normally be the case for a country changing from a peace-time to a war economy. This is because some ad vance “tastes” of the cost of war have been given our people in the extensive rearmament effort which was instituted before the out break of war. Problems such as that of priorities are not new and the people prob ably realize the sacrifices they are to make will be extensive. One of the first effects of our entering the war will reflect in the new tax program reputedly being prepared by the Treasury de partment. Higher personal income tax levies in the middle-income brackets are forecast. Excise taxes on products previously exempt from taxation are forecast by financial com mentators. Taxes on all luxury goods will probably be further increased. The objectives of the gigantic tax program will be two fold: (1) to help prevent inflation by curtailing consumer purchasing power, and (2) to de fray as much of the war expenditures out of current income as possible. Our expenditures will, however, be so great that the most we can hope to do is to pay one half the annual outlay from tax in come. It has been estimated by so-called authorities that within two years the Federal government will be spending at the rate of approximately 40 billions a year. This will be almost one-half the national income, and the government will probably make no effort to finance more than 20 billions from tax income. Business and labor groups will have to reconcile their differences in the public in terest if they are to prevent extremely rigid controls from being instituted by the govern ment. If strikes are to be prevented by law, then some government agency will have to be responsible for adjusting wage rates equit ably as the price level fluctuates. The mere passage of a law preventing strikes will not offer a real solution in the long run (assum ing we will have a considerable change in the level of prices during the war.) Strikes on a wide scale will not be tolerated, but the government will have to take a lesson from England and attempt to adjust wage scales when it becomes necessary. Business will have to expect much higher excess profits taxes. In fact, it is doubtful that any excess profits should be permitted when so many people will be sacrificing their lives in the front lines. As pointed out re cently in this column, the use of a steep ex cess profits levy would not only provide an important source of income for the govern ment, but it would also do away with one of the arguments used by labor when it demands higher wages. Equal sacrifices must be made if our morale is to be maintained at the level necessary to successfully prose cute a protracted war. WORLRS - -SMALLEST PARK 1 ^ PATTON PARK, LOCATED ON MUSKINGUM 00LUEGE CAMPUS, COVERS' LE55 THAN ^o™ OF AN ACRE. IT IS THE HOME OF ONE TREE, THREE STONES AND APPROXIMATELY 200.000 BLADES OF GRAS'S'. THE AVERAGE LIFE OF A FOOT BALL COACH AT ANY ONE INSTITUTION IS 5 YEARS/ AVERAGE COACHING CAREER IS 10. BACKWASH BY Charlie Babcock "Backwash: An agitation resulting from »ome action or occurrence.”—Webster The Way of Things . . . Tuesday at 9 p. m. on the Aggie campus found the greater part of the cadet corps huddled about the 2,115 radios that is estimated by the Com mandant’s Office to be the total number of receiv ing sets in all dormitories. With a vital interest in the present world events, the Ag gies were absorb ing the speech of President Roose- Ivelt. . . It seems to be generally Babcock agreed that the rendition of Chirstmas carols by the present fish class is highly commendable, perhaps the finest in many a year . . . Former Aggie students in Marshall, Texas, had a bit of that old spirit in them when they ran the following ad vertisement in the Marshall News- Messenger after the big game with TU: Texas Aggies We Thank You for a Championship Team! Southwest Conference Champions 1941 Co-Champions 1940 Champions 1939 A record unequalled in Southwest Conference Football! AGGIE FANS • • • Cross-Section Linking one little statistic with another, as compiled in a recent survey at College Station, we find: There were more than 20,000 paid admissions to dances held on the campus during last year’s social season. In six years, 1935-1941, Ag- gieland enrollment jumped from 3,213 to 6,842. More than 20,000 people will attend the various military reviews held this spring. Fifteen thousand females will be on hand for the many dances. Casual and Sunday drop-in motorists (due to excellent highways)—15,000. (Jam/un PALACE ■ PHON E 2-8879 THU. — FRI. — SAT. Randolph Scott Gene Tierney In “BELLE-STAR” With Dana Andrews John Shepperd Preview 11 P. M. SATURDAY NIGHT Deanna Durbin In “IT STARTED WITH EVE” Shown Sun. - Mon. - Tue. COMING Abbott and Costello In “KEEP ’EM FLYING” 4-1181 TODAY ONLY Now on the screen! ( ¥: llUlETW O ~~ A COLUMBIA PICTURE Based upon the Comi< - Strip created by Rust Westover With Kay Harris, William Tracy Also Edgar Kennedy, Info. Please FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Paramount Present* 7^Mm:MURRAY MARTIN ^PRESTON __ Also World Today, U. S. Iron War riors, Cartoon, Latest News. Pictorial analysis of march of Jap aggres sion on U. S. brought by Movietone News BE POPULAR! The Arthur Murray Dance Studios Offer Special Holiday Rates to Students • Guarantee yourself the best holiday of your life by brushing up on your dancing as soon as you come home from school! You’ll enjoy learning the latest Rumba and Fox Trot In just a few boms you’ll surprise your partners with the thrilling new steps. Gain poise and I confidence. Cali at the Studios and ask about • special rates for college students. Don’t wait until tbe last minute. ARTHUR MURRAY 1945 WEST GRAY HOUSTON -THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11,1941 COVERING campus dismoNs WITH ^ ||)T0MVANN0Y(§|) A new series of the complete- in-each-issue type makes its ap pearance at the Campus today. It is “TILLIE THE TOILER” with Kay Harris and William Tracy as Tillie and Mac, the comic strip characters. The story is based on the comic strip created by Russ Westover. As a starter, the story is not much. But in time, everything should work out better. Tillie gets a job in Mr. Simpkins office. She makes several costly errors, but everything comes out alright event ually. The characters for the show have been chosen as much like those in the funnies as is possible. Mary Martin appears in a dif ferent role in “NEW YORK TOWN” at the Campus tomorrow and Saturday with Fred MacMur- ray and Robert Preston. This time she plays in a straight drama role, rather than that of a singer. She meets Fred in New York where he is a sidewalk photo grapher, trying to make a living. As she is fresh from the far side of New England, she needs some schooling on how to make a liv ing in the big city. Everything goes, along fine until she meets Robert Preston, a more prosper ous townsman. . It seems that Mary is rather out of place in a pure drama role. It takes the music that she is capa ble of to make her pictures com plete. Of course, Mary is a good actress, but the show certainly does lack the vocals that made her reputation. At Guion Hall today and to morrow the feature is “DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR” with James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. The pic ture was released several years ago, and is of much more import- ’ ance now when seen in the light of present day events than when it was first released. Cagney and O’Brien are at their continual feud still. That is one fight that seems to have been going on forever. WHAT’S SHOWING AT GUION HALL Thursday, Friday—“DEV IL DOGS OF THE AIR,” starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. AT THE CAMPUS Thursday— “TILLIE THE TOILER,” with Kay Harris and William Tracy. Friday, Saturday—“NEW YORK TOWN,” featuring Fred MacMurray, Mary Mar tin, and Robert Preston. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM ! GUION HALL 3:30 & 6:45 James Cagney — Pat O’Brien | In “DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR” Comedy News COMING Sat. — 1 P. M. — POT O’ GOLD Sat. 6:45 & 8:30 — OUT OF THE FOG wiiiiiiiiuiiuiiimuiimM^ WW — a type of carrier telephone circuit — is now being • ■k built into many miles of Long Distance cable lines to increase their capacity. Engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed this circuit which enables two pairs of wires in parallel cables to carry as many as twelve separate conversations at the same time. K carrier is one of the ways we have found of adding a lot of long circuits in a hurry to meet defense commu nication needs. Such problems constantly challenge Bell System men with pioneering minds.