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THE BATTALION
-THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1942
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1941 Member 1942
Plssocioted CoIle6iate Press
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Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant
Ohiek Hurst Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Staff
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Bill Hauger ..Senior Circulation Manager
Photography Staff
Jack Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Thursday Staff
Ken Bresnen Junior Managing Editor
Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor
Sober* L. Freeland Assistant Editorial Writer
W. A. Goforth Assistant Advertising Manager
Reporters
Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Russell Chatham, Bill
Fox, Jack Keith, Tom Journeay, W. J. Hamilton, Nelson Kar-
bach, Tom Leland, Doug Lancaster, Charles P. McKnight, Keith
Kirk, Weinert Richardson, C. C. Scruggs, Henry H. Vollentine,
Bid Kingery. Edmund Bard, Henry Tillet, Harold Jordon, Fred
Pankey, John May, Lonnie Riley, Jack Hood.
Wartime Travel
The Aggies’ principal mode of travel,
highwaying, has long been synonymous with
A. & M. Since the rationing of tires by Ad
ministrator Henderson the chances to catch
rides have been greatly lessened and in fact
have been cut approximately in half.
Nevertheless, a large part of the stud
ent body gets the “Week-end corps trip”
desire every Friday and Saturday even
though these students can not afford the
cost of commercial transportation.
One way partially to relieve this situa
tion is for those men on the campus who
have cars to cooperate to the fullest extent
with those men who want rides. A half
empty car leaving A. & M. actually deprives
some Aggies of a big week-end.
Of course these men who do have cars
are handicapped to a certain extent because
they are not allowed to make mess hall
announcements as has been the custom in
the past. If the commandant’s office would
again grant students the permission to
make these short announcements the situa
tion of week-end travel would be helped
considerably.
Attitudes of 1-A Men
What are the boys who face it directly
thinking about this war? Men representing
government, education, religion, employers
and many others have given their state
ments freely. But what about the young man
who is 1-A?
Norbet Engels, professor of English in
the University of Notre Dame, has analyzed
a survey of 100 of these young men, 95 of
whom are immediately eligible for military
service. His conclusions appear in the cur
rent issue of Columbia, Knights of Columbus
magazine.
The survey is outstanding for the solid
thinking and the significant expression of
boys heading for the front lines. As Profes
sor Engels concludes, “ . . . the war and
their place in the war are much more real
to them, more concrete and tangible than
the subtle values of the poet’s mind. It is
something they can get hold of, and when
ever they can get hold of something, espec
ially something interesting and intimate to
them, they have no trouble at all in expres
sing themselves well.”
Ninety per cent of the boys said “a lot
of things matter besides the war. Maybe
some of them matter now more than they
ever did.”
Asked about the ordinary .things of life
and their relation to preparation for service,
one young man said, “We aren’t defending
a geographical location; we’re fighting for
apple pies and baseball games and public
concerts and library cards and the girl
friend.” Spiritually, as one young man put
it, they hope to retain “a trust in almighty
God that, come what may to our physical
beings, we wil always be 1-A.”
Regarding a sense of humor, the best
opinion said, “ . . . rather than dwarfing
the gravity of the situation, it enlarges the
man to meet it.”
Professor Engels’ article expresses the
confident conviction that America is going
to profit from its educational investment in
youth.—AGP.
Quotable Quotes
“When we consider that the public, because
it pays taxes for the support of the schools
and is required by law to send its children
to the schools, has a decreasing sense of re
sponsibility for these children’s education,
we see from a new angle the possible nature
of our task ^nd the possible dangers that
encompass it. Perhaps we should re-examine
the situation which faces us to determine
how much of difficulty and failure results
from the sloughing off by adults of former
parental educational responsibilities because
of a conviction that the' schools are being
supported and teachers paid to develop chil
dren into men and women.
Something to Read
:By Dr. T. F. Mayo:
Background for Ag. Students
A well-known teacher in the School of Agri
culture has obligingly worked out the follow
ing annotated list of books that everybody
should read who is interested in any part
of the field of agriculture:
1. Erskine Caldwell and Margaret
Bourke-White, “You Have Seen Their Faces”
—A gripping pictorial of life in the Deep
South. Share cropping in the Empire of the
Sun. Superb photography. The most cal
loused can never be the same after reading
this book.
2. Sydney Mangham. “Earth’s Green
Mantle.”—“In the course of the 11 chapters
the author treats on almost every conceiv
able part which the vegetable kingdom, in
its many aspects, plays or has played in the
past in the economic welfare of mankind.”
In three chapters plants are regarded as ma
chines but differing in that “no motor-car
ever built itself or bred in next year’s model
for its owner !”
3. Paul B. Sears. “Deserts on the
March.”—Dr. Sears authoritatively describes
the growth of the Southwest’s Dust Bowls
and the wastage of man’s most valuable her
itage, his soil. Methods of conservation are
discussed and note taken of the “clear and
somber” warnings of the past—“Vanished
civilizations like dead flies in lacquer, buried
beneath their own dust and mud.”
4. Rupert B. Vance. “Human Geogra
phy of the South.”—This book is the first
comprehensive and scientific effort to in
ventory and describe the physical and hu
man resources of this region. The author is
not content to describe and inventory. He
outlines plans for progress. Some real meat
for one with a good digestive system. Try it.
5. David Fairchild. “The World Was
My Garden.”—Notes and bellowed philos
ophy of a world famous naturalist, plant im
porter, scholar, and world traveler. A book
that can be read with pleasure by any lover
of growing things.
The World Turns On
Kollegiate Kaleidoscope
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BACKWASH
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Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster
By A. F. Chalk
The effect this war is having on our supply
of metals is more critical than some of us
thought would be the case. A recent article
in Fortune magazine summarizes the metal
supply situation quite well. The information
given in this article left the writer with the
impression that much is yet to be done in
the field of metal production before we can
safely engage in a war of long duration. A
few of the highlights of this article are pre
sented here for the information of those who
may not already appreciate the problems the
U. S. confronts in this field of production.
The taking of the Philippines cost us
one fourth of our supplies of chromite, and
we cannot make armor plate without this
metal. The loss of Malaya will cost us three
fourths of our customary imports of tin.
The war has thus far “crippled” the flow of
three fourths of the U. S. supplies of man
ganese, and we must have manganese in
order to make steel. These are but a few of
the ways in which the war is affecting our
normal supply of metals for national defense.
In many instances our potential supplies
of essential metals in the Western Hemi
sphere are such that the long-run outlook is
not dark. In a few instances, however, the
situation looks extremely bad in the light
of known supplies of ore and present mining
techniques. If we look at the 1940 world
mineral production, (which is the last year
of complete mineral data) it becomes appar
ent that the normal supplies of many metals
from this hemisphere must be expanded in
several fields if we are not to be severely
pinched in our defense effort.
The following is a list of 14 important
metals and the per cent of the world produc
tion of each metal which was produced in
this hemisphere in 1940: (1) aluminum ore
37% percent, (2) antimony ore—71% per
cent, (3) chromite—6 percent, (4) copper—
65 percent, (5)—iron ore—37 percent, (6)
lead ore—32 percent, (7) manganese ore—
7 percent, (8) mercury—33 percent, (9)
molybdemum—87% percent, (10) nickel—
87% percent, (11) tin ore—17 percent, (12)
tungsten ore—44 percent, (13) vanadium
ore—75% percent, (14) zinz ore— 33 per
cent.
One potential solution to the metal short
age is to be found in the renewed efforts
that are now being made to discover new
sources of many of these ores. We now have
specialists searching throughout the hemi
sphere, and favorable results have already
been obtained in several instances. Still an
other method of improving the situation is
to develop new techniques for getting the
metals out of the ores. Our rate of technolog
ical advancement in this field must be speed
ed up in several instances if we are to attain
minimum military requirements.
In the cases of zinc, lead, mercury, nick
el, antimony, and magnesium the problem is
primarily that of expanding existing pro
ductive capacities—not a lack of basic re
sources within the U. S. or within easy,
overland reach of its borders. According to
Fortune magazine, the only metal for which
the outlook is really dark is tin. The primary
deposits in this hemisphere are in Bolivia
and the only available smelters are in Eng
land. We are building one in Texas but even
if it operated full-time it would supply no
more than one third of our normal needs.
The four metals for which we can and
must find a means of increasing production
are chromite, manganese, tungsten, and
aluminum ore, but we can attain only 80
percent self-sufficiency in chromite and 60
percent self-sufficiency in tungsten.
“A & M University”
Heard in the wee, small hours
of Wednesday morning on W8XO,
WLW’s 500,000 watt short wave
station at Cincinnati, Ohio, “Here
’s a card from a Texas university
boy—reminds me of the two let
ters from lads at the University
of A. & M. last week ... I have
the “The Eyes of Texas” here but
don’t know which it belongs to—
think it’s A. & M.’s. Anyway the
one who sends the most mail to
me in the next few days will get
their school song played on the
Alley.”
Such was the comment of Mar
ion Moore, m.c. on the Dead Pan
Alley program. Jimmie Kloud and
“Dutch” Burgen sent one of the
letters, and William Henley sent
the other. Jimmie and “Dutch”
have sent him some much-needed
information on A. & M. recently,
it is said.
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Harlem Express
Jimmie Lunceford, one of the
most “degreed” bandleaders who
ever stepped upon a podium, hon
or graduate of Fisk U., former
professor of English, possessor of
four college degrees, and a recipi
ent of musical awards here and
abroad, is the first Negro orches
tra leader to win his wings and
become one of the few Negro pilots
holding a Civil Aeronautics Com
mission license in the U. S.
His music career started when
he resigned as professor of Eng
lish in Memphis, Tennessee, to
stick with nine of his students
who comprised the school band . . .
He carved the band out of the
rough and, together, they sweated
and starved up and down the coun
try, climbing the steep grade from
small time to top notch. Five of
the original members are still with
the orchestra . . . these five and
newer members comprise one of
the most educated bands in the
world . . . every man a college
graduate, every man a specialist.
Two years ago, the band toured
the capitols of Europe, receiving
Jimmie Lunceford
the praise of the critics. As a re
sult, the Lunceford name is as
well-known “over there” as in our
own swing circles. In Harlem, the
band requires a police escort thru
the mobs which gather when it
plays ... in Newark, the racke
teers had no trouble in selling 300
fake tickets to a Lunceford show
. . . which all goes to prove the
Field boys will swing out to the
music of one of the best.
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new movie screen in Guion Hall—
the two-small one was replaced
with the initial showing of “S.
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LET’S ALL
MEET
FOR THE BEST TIME YET AT
NAVLES
North of Bryan on Waco Highway
The Fencing Team and the Ru
ral Sociology club are sponsoring
the feature at the Campus today.
It is “SOULS AT SEA” with Gary
Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee,
and Henry Wilcoxon in the leading
roles. It is an excellent picture
that was made some time ago and
has been rereleased by the pro
ducers. You will find “Souls At
Sea” a really absorbing story of
piracy, shipwreck, and dramatic
courage.
If you haven’t seen “SERGEANT
YORK” at Guion Hall, there are
still two days in which to see this
adventure into the soul of Amer
ica.
Gary Cooper plays one of the
greatest roles of his entire career
in this story of the life of Alvin
York, America’s number one hero
of the first World War. He is very
capably supported by Joan Leslie
as his sweetheart and Walter Bren
nan as the crossroads philosopher
who advises York on the affairs of
his soul.
As a conscientious objector, York
experienced a great inner strife be
fore he reached his decision wheth
er to remain in the army or not.
Later he went to France and per
formed a feat that will be in his
tory books for centuries to come.
“Sergeant York” is a picture that
will make each and every one of
us still more proud that we are
living in the land called America.
Margaret Wycherly plays the
role of Ma York in the story. With
simple dignity, she goes through
life making a living for her father
less family and keeping them from
wandering away from home. And
George Tobias as “Pusher” Ross,
York’s army buddy, is outstanding.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday — “SOULS AT
SEA,” featuring Gary Coop
er, George Raft and Frances
Dee. Benefit Fencing Team
and Rural Sociology club.
Friday and Saturday—
“SPAWN OF THE NORTH”
with George Raft, Dorothy
Lamour, and Henry Fonda.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—“SER
GEANT YORK,” starring
Gary Cooper.
It seems almost incredible that
anyone could shoot as well as
York was able to when he was
young, but the shooting shown in
the picture is a duplicate of feats
acomplished by York when he was
in the army and before he entered
the army as a boy.
Jack London’s great story,
“SPAWN OF THE NORTH” has
been made into a motion picture
with George Raft, Dorothy La
mour, and Henry Fonda sharing
the starring parts.
THUR. - FRI. - SAT.
SPENCER TRACY
KATHARINE HEPBURN
In
“Woman of
The Year”
PREVIEW 11 P.M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
KAY KYSER
In
“Playmates”
Shown Sunday and Monday
(Ja/n/jtis
Dial 4-1181
Box Office Opens 2 P. M.
TODAY ONLY
“SOULS AT SEA”
Starring
Gary Cooper, George Raft
Also Comedy — Sport
All Day Benefit Show
Fencing Team and
Rural Sociology Club
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
“SPAWN OF THE NORTH”
Starring
George Raft -- Henry Fonda
Dorothy Lamour
Also News — Sport
“HOW GOES CHILE”
Nazis at work in Chile
Movie
gUION HALL
4:30 and 7:30
News - Comedy
MATINEE 40c NIGHTS 55c
The national contract on “SERGEANT YORK” specifies that
this admission price must be charged at all theatres.
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