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Page 2 THE BATTALION -THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942 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, hi published three times weekly from September to June; is- lued Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings; and is pub- Bshed 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 8, 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 Plssocioted Cblle6iate Press Don Gabriel Editor B. M. Rosenthal Associate Editor Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager Sports Staff Mike Haikm Sports Editor W. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant Brooks Gofer Junior Sports Editor Chick Hurst Junior Sports Editor Circulation Staff 8ene 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, James R. Dennis, Selig Frank, John M. Holman, W. J. Hamilton, Jr., Tom Howard, Leonard Kimsey, N. W. Karbach, Jack Keith, Tom B. Journeay, Doug Lancaster, Tom Leland, Charles P. McKnight, W. B. Morehouse, Richard F. Quinn, Gordon Sullivan, C. G. Scruggs, Benton Taylor. A&M Gets Reach] Keeping in step with the times, A. & M. is rapidly taking steps which will enable this college to more fully serve the nation during the war. Within a few days it is expected that the college will take moves designed to equip the college to coordinate it educational effforts with the vital problem of national defense. A proposal has been made that the col lege course be offered in such a manner that the normal four-year course could be com pleted in three years. Such a change would be of definite benefit to the nation at this time. America is engaged in an all out war. The colleges of this country must do their part in helping this nation achieve a com plete victory. With this nation straining every effort to win the war, A. & M. college can maintain its traditions of patriotism by adapting it self to best interests of national defense. The modern slogan is speed and more speed. Ac celeration can and must be applied to our college programs. Education must not be sacrificed in our efforts to win the war, but education must learn to cooperate with the government in achieving a final victory. A. & M. has often come to the aid of the nation in time of war. This war will be no exception. This college will show that it can shoulder the responsibility of educating the nation’s youth adequately in time of war and preparing them for a useful life in the days to come after the war. At the present the college must make every effort to aid in na tional defense. The events of the next few days will show that A. & M. is again ready to serve. Labor Experiment A world in which labor and management live •and work together peacefully, co-operating and respecting each other’s rights is the ideal for which the Rev. Thomas F. Divine, S. J. and his new Marquette university Institute of Industrial Relations are striving. Divine believes that labor and manage ment have definite rights and are entitled to security. But they must seek a brand of security that fits into a system of mutual benefit and does not upset the economic structure, making security impossible for everyone. To learn and understand their rights and those of others, Milwaukee labor and management are going back to school. Their alma mater is the Marquette Institute of In dustrial Relations which held its first labor class last month. The institute has two divisions, the labor college and conference for employers. The institute has the broad aim of “education for democracy.” The curriculum consists of democracy and labor, parliamentary law, written and oral expression, public speaking, labor ethics, labor law, straight thinking and propaganda analysis, American government, problems of social justice and economic principles and problems. Tuition is free, and instructors serve without pay. Contributions support the in stitute. Divine is a youthful professor of eco nomics in his fourth year at Marquette. He states the institute’s objective for mally : “It aims to present in outline the rights of labor to the protection and guarantee of which the organized labor movement owes its justification and its record of service to humanity; and the limits set by economic reality within which these rights are opera tive. The ideal results of such a program, he continues, would be the abolition of all in dustrial strife and friction between manage ment and labor. “Of course we reach only a small per centage of both groups, but they can do endless good if we do our job properly.” Divine envisions formation of an arbi tration panel made up of some institute fac ulty members which would be available to settle differences of labor and management. Divine’s model for the Marquette insti tute was the labor college sponsored by Rock- hurst college, Kansas City, Mo., where he studied as an undergraduate. Four years old, the Rockhurst labor college is directed by Reverened John C. Friedl. —ACP Something to Read :By Dr. T. F. Mayo: :By A. F. Chalk: The long expected economic “pinch” is just now beginning to make itself felt by the vast majority of our population. It is one thing to talk glibly about civilian sacrifices and still another thing to be suddenly confronted with the problem of actually making these sacrifices. The supply situation with regard to several basic raw materials is critical, and civilian consumption of these materials will have to be drastically curtailed. It might be appropriate to comment briefly on the prob lems we confront in procuring a sufficient supply of a few of these vital raw materials. The rubber situation, about which the public has recently become very much inter ested, is one of the really acute supply prob lems confronting our war economy. Approx imately 98 per cent of all rubber for the U. S. has been coming from the East Indies. The growing shortage of ship bottoms fur ther aggravates a problem already serious as a result of war activity in the Pacific. Gov ernment efforts to build up a stock pile of rubber before hostilities commenced were ex tremely feeble. In August, 1941, we had only 206.000 long tons in this reserve, and the situation was probably not improved greatly before the outbreak of war. We will have to stimulate the production of synthetic rub ber and make better use of old rubber. New sources of raw rubber can be developed only over a period of several years. The condition with respect to the supply of aluminum has been termed “critical” by Fortune magazine. The situation is such that NO aluminum for civilian needs can be tolerated. There is not even sufficient alu minum for indirect military needs. Again there is a shipping problem, for 60 per cent of the bauxite ore, from which the U. S. derives aluminum, comes from South Amer ica. In the case of copper our production is huge and the- imports are considerable, but there is nevertheless a shortage of the metal for civilian uses. Our estimated supply of copper (both the domestic production and the imports) for 1942 is l 1 /^ million short tons. Military needs require the use of at least one million tons, and this leaves only 500.000 tons for civilians who would nor mally use about three times that quantity of the metal. Still another shortage exists in the field of nickel production. The estimated supply for 1942 is about 180,000,000 pounds, all of which is needed for military purposes. Can ada produces almost all the nickel we nor mally use, but the increased demands on the part of the British Empire have made it im possible for us to get the usual amounts from that source. Considerable time is required for the development of increased production facilities. The civilian consumption of nickel will, therefore have to cease for a long period of time. Kollegiate Kaleidoscope COVERING a THE NEW HOME OF ALPHA KAPPA PI FRATERNITY AT ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS, IS 220 YEARS OLD/ Personal Favorite (V): The Iliad (The four personal favorites already reviewed are: Fielding’s Tom Jones, 18th century Eng-. lish novel; Russell’s Political Ideals, modern social philosophy; Congreve’s The Way of the World, 18th century English comedy; Have lock Ellis’s The Dance of Life, modern philo sophy.) The people in The Iliad (best in Lang’s prose translation) fought, played and loved and hated (and swore!) several thousand years ago, but they are very much like the people we know today. Except for one thing: Homer’s characters all seem supercharged, so to speak. Their vitality is terrific. When Agamemnon the King has a public row with Achilles, his best fighter, they fairly thunder at one another. When the beautiful Helen appears, her charms don’t just tickle; they smite. Even the old Trojan gentlemen, watch ing the war from the wall, are completely bowled over—the old rascals! The mighty Achilles, having lost his pal, weeps for him all night. Diomedes, finding himself con fronted in the heat of battle with a goddess, strikes out lustily just the same, and wounds her. And then I think that The Iliad gains by the very lack of modern complexity and subtlety in its personalities. Everything is seen and felt with such crystal clearness. I suppose this is because in Homer’s time people were still capable of thinking and feel ing one thing at a time. Nowadays, even when a man has a strong impulse, he’s al ways thinking “But then, on the other hand . . . .” Achilles and Hector and the other Homeric heroes apparently never did htat. They went “full out,” as the English say, for one thing at a time. (Compare Achilles, for example, with Philip, in Of Human Bondage.) I love to read The Iliad, even though fre quently I skip about a good deal. It’s like seeing through a small clear tunnel, strech- ing back, back through hundreds of misty, mixed-up centuries, into a tiny, lucid world of white city walls, green grss, and yellow sand, where half-naked big-muscled young fellows struggle and pant and curse and laugh and weep in cleay sunshine by the “wine-dark” sea. The World Turns On campus disffloNs WITH 0TOM VANNOY (f| \) c fL- WHO INVENTED THE ^ GAME OF BASKETBALL. PLAYED IT ONLY TWICE / GOOD CLEAN FUN / On a clast rush at the university of GLASGOW^ SCOTLAND. 20,000 EGGS AND A TON OF FLOUR, SOOT AND FISH HEADS WERE HURLED. GIRLS ALSO JOINED THE BATTLE/ BY Charlie Babcock '‘Backwash: An agitation resulting from soma action or occurrsnce.”—Webstsr Happy New Year . . . Some gentle soul made that remark in a Dallas night club New Year’s eve and was slugged. His tipsied assailant gave as his reason: “Well, what’s gonna be happy about it? We’re gonna be in war up to our necks, we won’t have any tires for our cars, and on top of that, Alabama is gonna beat the hell out of the Aggies on the very first day of the year.” . . . Babcosk Ticker Tape: In Jackson Heights, N. Y., a good provider provided: for his infant’s crib, a short wave radio transmit ter; for his wife, a portable re ceiver. Result: on mama’s evenings out, subject to a howl from head quarters . . . Heard in a Dallas hotel Lobby: An old Scotch woman had her own recipe for protection from air raids and in her own words, as follows: “When the air raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit o’ prayer. Then I take a wee drap o’ whiskey to settle my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell” . . Patriotic note: Members of the college faculty are planning to contribute one day’s pay for the purchase of defense bonds soon. This plan came as a result of the statement made by State Treasur er Jesse James, to wit: “We must sell more defense bonds and stamps during the next 30 days than we have in the last 18 months.” • • • Five Cents Per Copy Newspaper men from over the nation who came to see the Cotton Bowl game were of the general journalistic variety—full of the usual human interest stories. One in particular told a quaint tale, and through the customary con versational channels, we heard it as follows: “Once upon a time, a certain man got mad at the editor and dis continued his subscription of his newspaper. “The next week he sold his corn at four cents below the market prices. His property was sold for taxes because he didn’t read the sheriff sales. He was arrested and fined eight dollars for going hunt ing on Sunday, simply because he didn’t know it was Sunday; and he paid $300 for a lot of forged notes that had been advertised for two weeks as bad notes. “He then paid a big Irishman with a foot like a forge-hammer to kick him all the way to the newspaper office, where he paid a four years’ subscription in ad vance and made the editor sign an agreement to knock him down and rob him if he ever ordered his newspaper stopped again. “Such is life without a news paper.” An oriental atmosphere, ill- gotten wealth, and love go to make up a dandy picture at Guion Hall today and tomorrow, “THEY MET IN BOMBAY.” The story is not new. It concerns two jewel thieves in Bombay, India, both after the same diamond. The thing that makes the show attractive is the cast with Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell in the leads. After trying to outsmart each other all through the story, the couple decide what’s the use and agree to use a little cooperation to get ahead in the world. Both of the stars do right well by them selves in the film. You’ll enjoy the efforts of Gable and Miss Rus sell to steal the pendant without arousing the other’s or the po lice’s interest in the mater. “MAN AT LARGE” is the title of one portion of a double-bill at the Campus today. Marjorie Weaver and Richard Derr go spy hunting. Their experiences go to ward making up an entertaining tale of the troubles of an FBI agent and a newspaper reporter. The other half of the double fea ture at the Campus today is “CADET GIRL” with Carole Lan dis and George Montgomery. It is quite a mixup of show business and the cadets at West Point along with some music by Robin and Rainger. It is liable to prove rath er uninteresting. With her character coated up considerably to cover up the not- so-pretty phases of it, “BELLE STARR” comes to the Campus tp- morrow and Saturday. Gene Tierney is the post Civil War girl who joins up with Randolph Scott to prey on the carpetbagging Yankees who have taken over their home state of Missouri. The picture is filmed in technicolox*, which heightens Miss Tieimey’s beauty. Naturally there is a lot of ex citing action and fighting between the raiders and the citizens, but it has been seen so many times before that it is getting well-worn. The climax of the story is quite dramatic when Scott gives himself up to the authorities. The picture is good, but nothing different. WHAT’S SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Thursday — “MAN AT LARGE,” with Marjorie Weaver and Richard Derr. Also “CADET GIRL,” with Carole Landis and George Montgomexy. Friday, Saturda y— “BELLE STARR,” starring Randolph Scott and Gene Tierney. AT GUION HALL Thursday, Friday—“THEY MET IN BOMBAY,” featur ing Clark Gable and Rossa- lind Russell. PALACE Thu. — Fri. — Sat. MICKEY JUDY ROONEY*GARLAND PREVIEW 11 P. M. Sat. Night Ann Sheridan — Jack Oakie in “NAVY BLUES” with Martha Raye — Jack Haley SHOWN SUN. & MON. AGGIES f We Welcome You Back To School WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE HAD TO SERVE YOU. And Hope We Can Continue To Do So Throughout 1942 AGGIELAB BEAUTY & BARBER SHOP Across From Post Office At North Gate AGGIES! Musical Meanderings By Murray Evans The latest “Downbeat” poll showers Benny Goodman with practically all the musical honors in the book. He was voted as having the greatest swing band, as the favorite soloist, and as the best small combination with his famous sextet. Freddie Martin’s popularity grows by leaps and bounds. His records have outsold all others in the nation’s music shops this year. His “Concerto” is one of the out standing recordings of the year. Freddie had a phenomenal ten- month stay at the famous Cocoa- nut Grove in Los Anglees this year and terminated it voluntarily in order to film RKO’s “The Mayor of 44th Street.” What does the average musician think of when Vincent Lopez is mentioned? Right—“Nola”! Psy chology professors, in their word association tests, use this tune title when they ask students to mention a word associated with the name of Vincent Lopez. Harry James has just record ed a pip of a fine tune, none other than the old Judy Garland num ber called “You Made Me Love You.” This record is currently go ing the rounds on the nickelodeons; it features excellent James trumpeting, and melodically the tune has definite appeal. The strings provide a vexy fine back ground for James’s smooth solo, but it must be said that they are still no match for Shaw’s fiddles. A trombone trio on the second chonxs is extremely good and features an original twist on trombone har mony. Altogether this record is high ly commendable, and is a sterling example of what can be done to revive an old tune and make it acceptable by the effective use of simple harmony and originality of arrangement. WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE THIS PAST YEAR. WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO SERVE YOU THROUGHOUT 1942. THE CAMPUS CLEANERS Over Exchange Store Of 20 members of the first board of regents of the University of Michigan, created in 1837, only seven held college degrees. /" r Y h ■.. — ■ 4-1181 LAST DAY Double Feature “CADET GIRL” CAROLE LANDIS Feature No. 2 “MAN AT LARGE” MARJORIE WEAVER Also ’42 COTTON BOWL GAME & MERRIE MELODIE FRIDAY & SATURDAY BELIE STARR IN TECHNICOLOR! GENE TIERNEY RANDOLPH SCOTT Movie GUION HALL THURSDAY — FRIDAY Clark Gable — Rosalind Russell ~ in They Met in Bombay NEWS — CARTOON — COMEDY Coming Tom, Dick and Harry SATURDAY — 6:45 & 8:30 J*
