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Page 2 THE BATTALION - -THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1942 TllC Ba ila l ion Something to Read Kollegiate Kaleidoscope STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mashaaieal College of Texas and the City of College IWattnn. b pablisised ttuwe imes weekly freen September te Jong, W soad Tnasday, Himday, ano Saturday mornings; and is pub Babsd wetttty from June through August. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Elation, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March t, 1870. :By Dr. T. F. Mayo: Subecription rate $8 upon raquaet. ■drool year. Advertiatng rates Rep rss sated nationally hr National Advertising Ssrrioa. .. at New York City, Chisago. Boston, Los Angelas, and Office, Room 122, Admiwbtration Building. Tstapheas 1941 Member 1942 Ptssocided Golle6icite Press ■. M. Rosenthal Ralph Criswell _ Acting Ha&ht Sports Staff Advertising Msnager W. r Oxford Cfafck Hurst Sports Editor Asshtaut Sports Editor Senior Sports AMistant Junior Sporte Assistant Bene Wilmeth BID Hauger Circulation Staff Circulation Manager ..Senior Circulation Assistant f. D. Aibury.... Junior Assistant BSD Huber, Jos Stalcup Circulation Assistant Photography Staff Jack Jones Staff Photographer Boh Crane, Ralph Stensel Assistant Photographer Thursday Staff Clyde C. Franklin Junior Managing Editor Ken Bresnen Junior Editor Jack Lamberson Assistant Advertising Manager Reportorial Staff Tom Leland, Jack Kiet Tom Journeay, Leonard Lancaster, Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Charles P. Mc- Knight, C. G. Scruggs. eportorial Staff ieth, W. J. Hamilton, Jlelson Karback, Griffin, John May, Bill Fox, Doug Anti-Complacencg Mongers Publications all over the nation are com plaining of the American public’s complacen cy. They seem to resent that peculiar qual ity of an American to be able-to realize the gravity of a situation and still carry his head high with a smile on his face. True, people don’t go around continually talking of the war during the day and go to bed at night quaking with fear of what a Jap bomber might do to them before morn ing. But why should they? Would matters actually be helped by such action? Perhaps these anti-complacency mon gers feel that the American public should quit having its fun and spend every moment of its time doing concrete work for the war effort. This would be impractical under the present circumstances because it is a long established rule that a person can do better work when he works if he has complete men tal relaxation between jobs. To date the people have responded to every beck and call of the government. In almost 100 per cent of the cases when the of ficials have asked for an increase in produc tion, the increase has been met. What more is expected ? In fact what more can be done ? While on the campus last Monday Quentin Reynolds said that our nation is definitely not complacent. In his travels from New York to California during the past several weeks he sad he found that the people were ready and that they fully rea lized the gravity of the situation. Surely, the opnion of a man like Mr. Reynolds who has seen the peoples of Europe and Africa in vading and being invaded should be appre ciated on the subject of complacency. Clear Talk about Russia If you are interested in (1) Why the Rus sians are fighting Germany and (2) Why they are fighting so well, you ought to read Walter Duranty’s recent book, “The Kremlin and the People.”Mr. Duranty, you will re member, is the famous Russian correspond ent of the New York Times who for twelve years wrote the best dispatches in the world from Moscow. So he ought to know. The book is short and clear. “The Kremlin and the People” begins with the assassination of Kirov in 1934, ex plains and describes the ‘purges,’ and shows how step by step the relations between Ger many and Russia developed into the present war. Two explanations of Hitler’s invasion last June are presented: (1) That the evi dent progress of Russia’s war industries con vinced him that he must strike now or nev er; (2) That the purges and the Russo-Fin- nish war had made him look upon the Red Army as easy to beat. Mr. Duranty favors the latter explanation. As a matter of fact, according to the book, the “prge of generals” was not a bad thing for the Russians, who had been de veloping too independent an attitude toward the civilian authority. Again, according to “The Kremlin and the People” the Russians didn’t actually do badly in Finland. Though Mr. Duranty makes no attempt to whitewash Stalin and the rest, and though he depicts the purges as a sort of prolonged and constantly deepening nightmare, his book leaves one with a more cheerful feeling about Russia than most of us have had for the last four years. The author himself is so ob viously sane and well-balanced that the Bol sheviks, seen through his sceptical but tol erant eyes, take on a more credibly human aspect than they have been wearing recently in the pages of liberals horrified by the Hitler-Stalin treaty, or conservatives glee fully beating the liberal dog with this con venient stick. Anyone who reads Mr. Duranty’s book will be able, I think, to rejoice in the ex ceedingly useful Russian victories with a clearer conscience. Misery acquaints nations as well as men with strange bedfellows. This little book will make our present Russian bedfellows seem a little less strange. The World Turns On gOARD-T WANT To BE A .STAR.? TAKE LAW / THESE FORMER LAW STUDENTS NOW APPEAR BEFORE THE COURT • • ' OF PUBLIC OPINION ' 1 ■ COVERING cam dfittacte WITH i TOM VANNOY Musical Meanderings It’s a riot of comedy and un usual circumstances in “THE FEM ININE TOUCH” at Guion Hall to day and tomorrow. This is a four- cornered version of romantic mix- ups with Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis and Van Hef lin exchanging quips and slaps. Miss Russell began her stage ca reer shortly after graduation from' school. She play ed in stock showsl for years before; she won a part in a show on Broad way. Hollywood eventually g o t| hold of her to put] her excellent tal-| ent as a comedi-|| anne on the! screen. In schoolR osa li n d Russell she excelled in riding, swimming, basketball and hockey. She was elected an honorary member of an R. A. F. bombing squadron in Eng land. Jealousy is the theme of the story. Don Ameche as a college professor has written a book con cerning jealousy in all its forms : By Murray Evans By A. F. Chalk Ang Tubes Todag Last week the government made another smaW request for the people to aid the na tional war effort. Everyone was asked to save his old collapsible tubes such as tooth paste and shaving cream containers, for these items are made of valuable, war-scarce tin. Of course, the Aggies use their share of these tubes and are as willing as any Amer ican to save them for the government. The saving, however, will not be of any value un less a systematic plan of collection can be arranged. One of the many ideas which have been suggested is to have the tubes collected by organizations. A box could be placed at some specified place in each company or in each dormitory and the students could use it as a depository. Once each week the organization commanders could turn in their collection to some central point; for example, the com mandant’s office. The local Boy Scouts under the direction of Coach Manning Smith have accepted the responsibility for the collection of all scrap defense items in this area, and they are also able to see that if such a collection of tubes is carried out that the tubes would be turned over to the proper authorities. The march of the human mind is slow. Edmund Burke Quotable Quotes ‘‘There is a lot of sloppy thinking about war, as something that must be got rid of. But it has been a part of the defense of liberty. You can’t fool our students about that. Unless you can distinguish between aggression and de fense, then all the Kellogg pacts in the world will be ineffective. I think it is up to us now to make sure that the world issues we are confronted with are more clearly seen, not only by the student bodies but by the world at large." Dr. James T. Shotwell of Columbia university urges that the study of war and its causes be introduced into the classroom curricula of American colleges. It is becoming increasingly apparent that time is the essence of the present world con flict. Many of us are beginning to realize for the first time the true military signifi cance of the “blitzkrieg” principle. The pre viously unrealized advantage of constantly maintaining the initiative in a military cam paign is now being exploited with a high de gree of efficiency by our enemies. It would seem that once the urgency of the production situation is realized, we in this country would insist that nothing be al lowed to stand in the way of the production goals we have had set for us by the Admin istration. The longer we postpone this neces sary volume of production then just so long will we continue to fight the now-famous “defensive” phase—in other words, the more ground we will continue to lose. The essential tragedy of the situationlies in the ultimate cost of regaining the territory we are now losing and may lose in the future as a result of the lack of supplies. It should be apparent to most people that we must further regiment our economy for the duration of the war. This regimenta tion must come because we cannot successful ly combat regimented economies with a rela tively free economy such as that we now have. It is inevitable that many of our per sonal liberties should be sacrificed during such times as the present, and the quicker we become reconciled to it the better for the ultimate welfare of our country. When one compares the governmental economic con trols which have been instituted in European nations with those which have thus far been utilized in the U. S., he begins to realize how much more drastically we must have our economic lives regimented. The rigid control of labor mobility is an illustration of what we must do within a relatively short period of time. Some govern mental agency will have to be given the re sponsibility of allocating our labor resources in the most efficient manner possible. Eng land has mobilized her labor resources in such a way that most of her skilled laborers are in positions of maximum efficiency in the defense effort. In the early part of this war many in the U. S. criticized England for not permitting unemployment to continue in the face of a labor shortage. We in this country are hardly starting out more auspiciously than did England in that respect. This same regimentation must be ap plied to all parts of our economy. Some of the groups in our economy are even yet so con cerned with their immediate self-interest that they make this regimentation absolute ly essential. For instance, if one looks at the income statements of the 50 largest corpora tions in the U. S. during 1940 and 1941, he can appreciate the fact that organized labor is not the only group that is willing to “feath er its nest” during the war. The simple and unpleasant fact is that we are rapidly reach ing the point where we must all sacrifice for the common good. Sacrifice in war can never be absolutely equal, but the results thus far in Europe indicate that something very near equality of sacrifice must be at tained before a modern war can be success fully prosecuted. Despite its inherent drawback of being a weak-volumed instru ment, the violin is now being used more than ever in modern bands. Artie Shaw boasts one of the fin est string sections in the business. He uses them because he says they are “restful,” and that they relieve the monotony of the constant brass blare and reed whine. In organiz ing his imminently successful band, Harry James was smart enough to include five violins in his roster, and the fine receptions accorded his band everywhere he goes have started a general trend to the use of strings again, again. A small detachable microphone which fits under the violin tailpiece has provided means of amplifying the instrument and greatly en hances its solo effectiveness. Violin ensembles are best used as a background for vocals, or for instrument solos. Probably the best recording every made of “Star dust” is attributed to Artie Shaw’s new band, and a large measure of credit should go to the string sec tion for backing up each chorus with a prominent chord back ground and commendable varia tions. Harry James’ fine solo was made so by his violin support on his thoroughly popular recording of “You Made Me Love You.” And what would Bing Crosby do without John Scott Trotter’s excel lent string section to spark every number he does? WHAT’S SHOWING AT GUION HALL Thursday, Friday—“THE FEMININE TOUCH,” star ring Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, and Kay Francis. AT THE CAMPUS Thursday — ‘‘BEAU GESTE”, with Gary Cooper, Ray Milland and Susan Hay ward. Benefit T Club. Friday, Saturday—“PAR- ACHUTE BATTALION,” featuring Robert Preston and Nancy Kelly. DALACE ■ PHONE 2-8879 Thursday, Friday and Saturday “The Corsican Brothers’’ Starring DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Jr. RUTH WARRICK AKIM TAMIROFF • Preview 11 P. M. Saturday Night FREDERIC MARCH MARTHA SCOTT in “ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN” Shown Sunday and Monday and aspects. Accompanied by his wife, Rosalind, he goes to New York, to see the publisher, Van Heflin. They become acquainted with Kay Francis, Heflin’s wife, too. Misunderstanding follows mis understanding and the situation be comes more acute from a romantic standpoint, but more enjoyable from a theater-goer’s viewpoint. It is really a scream, well cast, di rected and acted. The T Club is sponsoring the feature at the Campus today, “BEAU GESTE.” It is a re-release of the picture that featured Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Brian Don- levy, and Susan Hayward. It is a good show and the money goes to a worthy organization. The newest unit of the Army is depicted in “PARACHUTE BAT- (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) \jampus Dial 4-1181 Box Office Openk 2 P. 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