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THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
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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
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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.
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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
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