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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,
Richard F. Quinn, Gordon Sullivan, C. G. Scruggs, Benton
Taylor, John Holman.
Aggie Officers
A. & M. produces officers for the U. S.
Army! Aggies should realize this more than
ever with the present situation of huge ex
pansion of our armed forces in mind. Our
nation needs more trained men than ever
before to fill vacancies in the officer person
nel of the proposed 8,000,000 man army.
Throughout the battle of Britain the
English have been exceedingly lenient in
allowing their young men to remain in edu
cational institutions in order that they would
be better trained for the coming conflict
and for the world they would have to live
in after the war is over.
A. & M. men should realize that there
is a place for them in the U. S. Army as lead
ers where the army is preparing to take
the men who have college training. Men of
this type will be in demand according to the
amount of education and the amount of mil
itary training they have had. They will be
much more needed in this capacity LATER
than as soldiers in the line NOW.
For over sixty years A. & M. has been
training officers in the reserves and places
at the disposal oC the government mors apd
more men wibh basic and advanced military
training. That these men will be able to be
of greater service to their country than
without this training is unquestionable.
Education and experience are the two
essentials in wartime as well as in peacetime
and by the same rule education is the short
cut to experience.
Who Lands the Job?
Scholarship and character are the qualities
most sought in college graduates by Amer
ican employers, Investors Syndicate of Min
neapolis reports after a national survey of
graduates’ job projects.
What do you know? What are you?
What can you do ? Whom do you know ? Em
ployers are querying job applicants in about
that order. Schools list qualities sought as
follows, in order named: scholarship, char
acter, adaptability, campus popularity, per
sonality, athletic prowess, ability, alertness,
extra-curricular activities, and dependability.
Industrialists faced with larger orders
that must be delivered on time, the survey
reports, are stressing production rather than
distribution. They are more interested in
what a job applicant knows than whom he
knows. Scholarship emphasis proves this
point. Scholarship, mentioned 375 times, or
23.3 per cent of an aggregate of 1,610 men
tions, is listed three times as often as either
personality or campus popularity, about four
and a half times as often as athletic prowess,
and more than nine times as often as extra
curricular activities.
Character, although in the aggregate
not mentioned as many times as scholarship,
was placed first more times than all other
qualifications combined. Adaptability ranked
second more times than all other qualities.
Dissenting slightly from the scholarship
emphasis, C. G. Griffen, assistant dean of
men, Georgia Tech, said that “personality
and adaptability seem to be playing a more
important part in the selection of men than
heretofore, though high scholarship still car
ries great weight.
James P. Kerr, professor of business,
North Central college, Naperville, 111., noted
trends toward “more specific training and
more winning personality.”
Leo P. Kibby, dean of guidance, Ven
tura, Calif.; Junior college, observed than
“an unparalleled emphasis by employers is
being placed upon the need for adaptability
of employees to new working conditions. Em
ployers belittle the notion that high academic
ability assures a corresponding ability in
work adjustment.”
Campus activities and all around abilities
elicited many comments. S. S. Von Roeder,
registrar, University of San Antonio, Texas,
felt that there “seems to be an increasing
demand for graduates who have shown by
their application to school work and partici
pation in constructive campus activities that
they are capable, energetic, and efficient in
whatever they undertake.” “The best grad
uates, according to J. M. McAnelly, director
of placement, Northern State Teachers col
lege, Aberdeen, S. D., get several chances for
positions while the mediocre are picked for
inferior positions when the good ones are
gone.
Selecting only campus leaders causes
many good men to be overlooked, a Minnesota
liberal arts college complains. —AGP
Theg Sag
. ~ V. C. Payne:=
This column would propose a memorial to
Donald Duck. In a world of hatred, tension,
and violent extremes, the movie cartoon is
making a tremendous contribution to national
sanity. After a strenuous hour of war and
espionage, selfishness and politics, peolousy
and divorce, all of us welcome the sudden
shift upon the movie screen to a ridiculous
period dominated by Mikey Mouse, Pluto, or
the little fellow looking for “wabbit twaks.”
“A little nonsense now and then is relish
ed by the best of men.”
This little rhyme shouldn’t be taken too
lightly. When we fail to see the ridiculous
in our own conduct, and cease laughing at
our own mistakes, we have lost an important
sustaining force for keeping a spiritual bal
ance. A lot of us are taking ourselves entirely
too seriously. Without a doubt, a sense of
humor is an excellent antidote to the inter
national tension of today.
Those who have seen the people under
the present Nazi tyranny can not forget the
tragic absence of smiling faces. One of the
first bans of Hitler’s rule was the cessation
of gaiety and dancing which heretofore had
characterized certain sections of pre-war
Europe.
We do not suggest an ostrich-like blind
ness to the realism of terror. We do, however,
recommend the preservation of one of hu
manity’s unique properties—the ability to
laugh. This has been one of the things which
has raised mankind above the level of beasts;
the latter are not able to laugh.
Truly, “a lot of us would rather be hated
than laughed at,” and this is an important
truth for a democratic group to remember.
Heckling has destroyed the tyranny of pow
erful demogogues, and a satiric wit has often
helped to puncture the dangers of ignorance
and stupidity.
Lin Yutang once suggested that we re
place our politicians and statesmen with well-
known humorists. With men like Will Rogers,
Steven Leacock, or Bernard Shaw sitting at
an international conference table, perhaps
justice and understanding would receive a
greater share of the spotlight in determining
post-war decisions.
At a time when everyone is suggesting
different tonics for a very sick world, we
recall that a “merry heart doeth good like a
medicine.”
The World Turns On
By Dr. R. W. Steen =======
The America First committee and a number
of isolationist congressmen looked a bit silly
last Sunday afternoon when word arrived
that Hawaii and other American possessions
were being bombed by Japanese planes. The
isolationists had argue long and loud that it
was silly to raise an army,
that it was silly to build a
larger navy, that it was silly
to prepare for war, that it
was silly to fortify Guam.
They have been busily engag
ed since Sunday in declaring
that we must now all fight
together to defend America.
As a result of the defense pro
gram, so greatly criticized by
the isolationists, America will
be much easier to defend. One
Senator commented: “I am greatly surprised.
I didn’t think Japan would do it.” The Sena
tor talked too much. He would have been
more honest if he had merely said: “I am
greatly surprised. I didn’t think.”
The declaration of war by Germany and
Italy simply brings a known fact into the
open. The alignment is now clear and un
mistakable. On the one hand stand Britain
and America and their allies. On the other
stands a collection of international gangsters.
The democracies must fight to preserve
themselves and their interests; they must
fight to preserve the rights of man and the
democratic way of life; they must fight to
restore international decency.
The speed with which a number of His-
panic-American states have aligned them
selves with the United States, is encouraging
in the extreme. Some of the larger countries
have not yet declared war, but they have
offered the use of naval bases and air fields
to the United States, and have pledged their
friendship to the American cause. There can
be little doubt that the Axis powers will
attempt to foster revolution in some of the
Hispanic-American states as a means of
crippling the American war effort. It will
take careful policing on their part to guard
against this danger.
All will concede that the Japanese, with
their surprise attack, won the first battle.
In doing so they united American public
opinion to such an extent that only one vote
was cast against the declaration of war
against Japan, and no vote was cast against
the declaration of war against Germany and
Italy. The task of the democracies, and Rus
sia, is to make sure that they win the last
battle.
Remember Pearl Harbor.
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THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13,1941
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
COVERING
“No doubt about it, Dear. The army has made a new
man of me!”
BY
Charlie Babcock
"Backwash: An agitation resultinc from *omt action or occurrence.”—Webster
Aggies in Aation
We once heard, “You can find
Aggies in every corner of the
world, and it’s a cinch that they
will be wherever the action is the
thickest.”
Truer words
were never spok
en—especially in
the case of those
former A. & M.
students who are
now on active
duty in Uncle
Sam’s armed
forces in the Pa-
Bahcock cific Ocean.
Naturally, it is impossible to
secure a complete roster of the
Aggie fighters in the Far East,
but we have been able to de
termine a few names, as follows:
Stationed at Clark Field, Fort
Stotsenburg Philippine Islands—
Captain Clarence R. Davis, ’27;
Lieutenant Jack W. Kelly, ’29;
Lieutenant Maxcey C. Chenault,
’37; and Lieutenant John R. Noles,
’39.
Stationed at Fort William Mc
Kinley, Philippine Islands—Lieu
tenant Charles M. Dempwolf, ’35;
Lieutenant Thomas Dooley, ’35,
former yell leader; Lieutenant
Charlton J. Wimer, ’39; Lieuten
ant Robley D. Evans, ’40; and Lieu
tenant Paul R. Gregory, ’40.
Stationed at Hawaii — Captain
Graham M. Hatch, Jr., ’31.
• • •
Statistics
(Machine Methods of Accounting).
The various Aggies, were polled
on several questions by the class
members themselves in a survey
similar to the one conducted by
the Institute of Public Opinion.
Among the inquiries, personal
and impersonal, were:
How many weekends do you
leave the campus each year?
Average number of picture
shows attended each week?
Number of dates brought to
the campus last year?
Do you smoke? If so, what
brand?
It is expected that the sur
vey will be completed some time
after the Christmas holidays, and
the results will be published at that
time.
This
Collegiate
World
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Typing or writing in longhand
?eemed slow to Leon A. Danco, a
Harvard freshman, so he submit
ted a 2,000-word English composi
tion on a home-made phonograph
record.
Dr. Claude M. Simpson, Jr., his
instructor, gave Danco a passing
grade, but forbade any repetition
of the stunt.
A statistical sample of Aggies “For one thing,” Simpson said,
in the Schools of Agriculture and “how can you correct spelling
Arts and Sciences is being com- and punctuation in a theme like
piled by students in Accounting 311 this?”
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Brought back to Guion hall for
this afternoon only is the show
entitled “POT O’ GOLD” with
James Stewart and Paulette God
dard. Not to be overlooked are
Horace Heidt and his orchestra.
The story centers around the band
and all their efforts to become a
success with a word every now
and then about Jimmy and Paul
ette.
The story is on the lighter
side, quite enjoyable, and we must
not neglect the music supplied by
Horace Heidt’s orchestra. They
have developed quite a reputation
in the past for introducing new
hits to the music world.
On the more dramatic side there
is “OUT OF THE FOG” at Guion
hall tonight at 6:45. John Garfield
is a petty racketeer who makes
his living at the expense of the
fishermen of Sheepshead Bay.
Among them are Thomas Mitchell
and his daughter, Ida Lupino. John
makes love to Ida while he collects
“protection” from her father. Fin
ally the pressure becomes unbear-
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LAST DAY
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Saturday—“NEW YORK
TOWN,” with Fred MacMur-
ray, Mary Martin, and Robert
Preston.
Saturday prevue, Sunday,
Monday—“WEEK-END IN
HAVANA,” starring Alice
Faye and John Payne.
AT GUION HALL
Saturday, 1:00 p. m.—
“POT O’ GOLD,” with James
Stewart, Paulette Goddard,
and Horace Heidt and his
orchestra.
Saturday; 6:45 and 8:30—
“OUT OF THE FOG,” fea
turing Ida Lupino and John
Garfield.
Monday—“BAB MEN OF
MISSOURI,” with Dennis
Morgan and Jane Wyman.
Paramount Presents
yltVf MARTIN
PRESTON
Also
FOX HEWS-F. D. R.
ASKS COMESS TO
DECURE WAR ON
JAPAN.
Prevue Saturday Night 11 P. M.
SUNDAY — MONDAY
AltCI JOHN CARMEN CESAR
FAYE-PAYNE-MIRANDA ROMERO
: .^TECHNICOLOR'
Also
Porky Pig — Stranger Than
Fiction — Latest Fox News.
Go in at 9 P.M. and see both the
regular and the prevue on same
ticket.
GUION HALL
SATURDAY — 1P. M. ONLY
James Stewart — Paulette Goddard
POT 0’ GOLD
v
SATURDAY — 6:45 & 8:30
.THOMAS MITCHELL-EDDIE ALBERT ® —
GEORGE TOBIAS
Selected Shorts
MONDAY (ONLY)
Bad Men of Missouri
3:30 & 6:45
“Another Dodge City”