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THE BATTALION
■SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 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,
is published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870.
Subscription rates $3 a school year. Advertising rates
upon request.
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Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
(Associated GoUe6iate Press
E. M. Rosenthal , Acting Editor
Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant
Chick Hurst Junior Sports Editor
Circulation Staff
Gene Wilmeth Circulation Manager
Bill Hauger Senior Circulation Manager
Photography Staff
lack Jones , .....Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Phil Crown Assistant Photographer
Saturday’a Staff
Lee Rogers Managing Editor
lack Hood Junior Editor
Keith Kirk Junior Editor
Robert L. Freeland Assistant Editorial Editor
Jack Lamberson 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,
Ed Kingery. Edmund Bard, Henry Tillet, Harold Jordon, Fred
Pankey, John May, Lonnie Riley, Jack Hood.
What Conservation Means
Conservation is a word heard very often, but
few of us realize exactly what it means and
what it should mean. We may, in a sudden
burst of patriotism, drop the silver paper
from a cigarette package into one of the
containers, or we may deposit an empty
tube that once had tooth paste in it into
one of the tin cans in the corner drug seore.
But conservation in the true sense of the
word means a great deal more. It means con
servation of health, property, natural re
sources—in fact everything which we know
or possess.
During times of war conservation is
especially important, for we are shut off
from many major sources of materials which
previously we thought nothing of and took
as a matter of fact. Rubber, sugar and hemp
are a few of the best known examples of
this.
We will not have any new tires for civ
ilian use for several years after the war, for
the plantations must once again be put into
production, and as they are captured back
from the Japs in the future it is almost
certain that they will apply the “scorched-
earth” policy even more effectively than did
the British in Malaya.
We must all strive to make everything
we own last as long as possible and to
get as much use as is practical from it.
Speeds must be reduced on the highways—
because of lack of rubber it is estimated that
more than 7,000,000 cars will be out of
service at the end of this year and 12,000,-
000 more at the end of the coming year.
In general we must learn what the word
“conserve” means and stands for.
Forget the 40 Hour Week
Many congressmen are blathering to their
constituents about their willingness to main
tain the famous 40-hour week, about main
taining all of the privileges and social rights
that the American workman now enjoys.
At present there are strikes and walk
outs in large industrial defense plants by
these same American workmen who wish
to have either the closed shop or to settle
a jurisdictional dispute, one of the worst
kinds of strikes, for the jurisdictional strike
hurts everyone concerned. Shouldn’t a man
who is a member of the A. F. of L. be al
lowed to work alongside a man who belongs
to the C. I. O., in building the things which
are necessary for national defense? This is
a land of democracy. In times like these
when everyone of us should be pulling to
gether, why can’t a man in a steel factory.
There are several million men in the
American Army today who have no 40-hour
week and who do not receive time and a half
for overtime. In fact, many work 18 and
if necessary 24 hours a day for only $21 a
month and their food and clothing.
If the people of Germany ever heard
of the 40-hour week, they certainly have for
gotten it now. They are working 64 hours a
week and are not getting overtime. The
same is true in England and in Australia.
Russia certainly doesn’t have the 40-hour
week standard. If we are to be able to lick
the Axis, we must not continue to have it
either.
This does not mean that we must perm
anently discard all of the social gains that
labor has achieved during the past decade,
but it does mean that we must set aside
many of these gains “for the duration” and
six months after the end of the war.
The 40-hour week and time and a half
for every hour or minute over this must go.
The American workman must not be re
duced to slavery or anything near it, but
the fifty-hour week and time and a half for
overtime, with this overtime pay in defense
bonds and stamps must come to be, or some
thing similar to it. If he received his over
time pay, and in fact a part of his regular
pay in these bonds, he will have the money
at a time when he will need it most, a few
years after the war’s end.
The American workman must buckle
down and accept a few hardships so that
he may effectively support those who are
Something to Read
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
:By Dr. T. F. Mayo:
By T. F. Mayo
Escape Through Adventure
Under considerable pressure from the more
frivolous element among the College Library
staff, I suggest the following to anyone who
finds everyday reality too boring and har
assing these days:
Buchan, John—“Yitch Wood”—(Witches
and blood in 17th Century Scotland.)
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg—“Ox Bow Inci
dent”—(Lynching in Long-ago Mon
tana. Cowboy story plus.)
Kingsley, Charles—“Westward Ho!”—(Eliz
abeth pirates and/or Seadogs.)
Thomason, John William—“Gone to Texas”
(Early lusty days in our own bailiwick.)
Stevenson, Robert Louis—“Master of Bal-
lantrae”—(18th Century Shoot-’em-up.)
Saint Exupery, Antoine—“Night Flight”—
(Modern classic about the insides of fly
ers.)
Page, .^Marco—“Fast Company”—(Hard-
boiled detective yarn about a rare-book
dealer.)
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard and Hall, James
Norman — “The Hurricane”; “Men
Against the Sea”; “Pitcairns Island”.
Mansfield, John—“Dead Ned”—(Sea story
about a man who was hanged but didn’t
remain so.)
Melville, Herman—“Moby Dick” (the great
White Whale); “Typee” (The greatest
of all American adventure writers.).
London, Jack—“The Sea-wolf” (Probably
his best.) ■■■ ^
Household, Geoffrey—“Rogue male”—(The gj^g-ing- Cadets
SUGGESTED 6/
PUT. STEVE kOLITA
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AMAL ODDITIES
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Tex Lynn
“You haven’t hit the target all morning, Private Buck. I’d
suggest you fix your bayonet and CHARGE it!”
BACKWASH
By
lack Hood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster
The Alaskan Fur-Seal the shore, there to remain for the
The producer of the fashionable duration of the season spending
seal-skin coat, the Alaskan fur- many sleepless nights, and going
seal, is one of the most erratic of without food of any kind for over
all warm-blooded animals. From three months! These bulls weigh
early May until the first week in in the neighborhood of 500 pounds.
September it lives on the Priblof Compared to the female of the
Islands off Alaska; the rest of the specie, who weigh about 80 pounds,
year its home is the broad Pacific, they are gigantic indeed.
The maltreated fur-seal has in- As the females come in from the
directly caused more human blood- sea, each male strives, with coax-
shed than any other wild animal— ing, whistling, roaring, and by
at one time four great nations sheer strength of his powerful
were embroiled in serious argu- jaws, to add as many females to
mentation over this animal. In 1875 his “harem” as possible. These
3.000. 000 seals inhabited the Pri- harems are composed of from 10
blof Islands, but in 1912 the num- to 100 females, the number being
her was reduced to a little over directly proportional to the
100.000. It was only through an strength of the bulls,
act of Congress that total exter- The “pups” are born 6 to 48
mination of this animal did not hours after the arrival of the
occur - mothers, and strange as it sounds,
The fur-seal is really not a true the pups have to be taught to swim
seal at all; instead of being clumsy or else they would perish in the
and helpless on land as are all true sea.
seals, it has the nimbleness of a By the end of October practical-
goat, often ascending rocky cliffs i y a n the seals have left for warm-
60 feet high just for the joy of e r water and better feeding
climbing. In the water, no other grounds farther south. Each year
quadruped can surpass this water the fur-seal covers about 8,000
acrobat. miles without once touching land!
The fur-seal, from its birth to Often the mothers can be seen
its uncertain grave, behaves unlike carrying the sleeping young on
any other land-going mammal. The their backs. How the seals manage
vanguard of the great aquatic to seep on the water is a mystery,
army arrives at the Priblofs a- for they are heavier than water,
round the middle of May. The and must necessarily move about,
Aggies discovered Norma Jean strongest and largest males are the however slowly, to remain afloat.
Jahn’s pic on page^S, surrounded mast ers; each one selects a vant- Until a few years ago Japanese
age point on the rookeries near seal-poachers would make periodic
" raids on these islands; as the
A total of 457 University of
on
mother seals
left
as
their breeding
man who stalked Hitler.)
Hough, Emerson—“The Covered Wagon”; Near the top on the Aggie’s list by the Air Corps. Comments con-
“54-40 or Fight”—(if you’ve missed of favorite entertainers, are the cerning Norma’s talents began to
these, somehow, don’t go on doing SO.) Singing Cadets. The organization, flow, ranging from “Mmmmmm”
Holmes, Wilfred Jay—“Battle Stations”— comprised of over 100 hard-work- to nose-holding. Some were of the ‘/T 1 ^U 0 . ccl10 1CL / ulccu “*s
, A \ , • -vr i j . . . . . „ Wisconsin co-eds have enrolled m grounds m search of food on the
(Adventure m our Navy, here and now.) mg Aggies, has made many con- opinion that Miss Jahn “puts on” a defense f j rst aid course
Highet, Helen Maclnnes—“Above Suspicion” cert tours over the state, and their too much on the bandstand, others ’
— (Thoroughly entertaining in a civil- reception is always the same, liked it, but nearly all agreed she With 35 defense courses costing
ized way, and pretty breathless also. In- warm and friendly—the people is lovely and luscious, if not lyri- nearly $300,000 already completed,
side Nazi Germany.) have come to know the boys as cal. Many wouldn’t comment; only Dean W. R. Woolrich of the Uni-
Hawkins, Anthony Hope—“Rupert of Kent- something more than an ordinary pat the Aggieland Orch on the versity of Texas engineering col-
zan”—(A good old warhorse about irn- glee club. This year, ably directed back for trying to provide us with lege declares the “job for Texas
aginary Balkan broils.) by Richard W. Jenkins, they have a female vocalist. industry has just been started.”
Haines, William Wister—“High Tension”: made two trips—-the first to Hous-
Tension”; made two trips-
“Slim”—(Hardboiled thriller about tele-'’ ton, where they sang for The First
This Collegiate World ‘
phone maintenance men.) Methodist Church, University of
Forester, Cecil Scott—“To the Indies”— Houston, A. & M. Mothers Club,
(Age of discovery in the Carribean.) and several high schools; and, the
Forester, Cecil Scott—“Captain Horatio second, through Conroe, Beau-
Hornblower”—(Adventure on the high mont, Orange, and Huntsville
seas in Napoleon’s time.) (they ate one of their best meals
Edmonds, Walter Dumaux—“Drums Along in the prison at Huntsville, enter- Camp figures his occupation has Homer P. Rainey of Texas
the Mohawk”—(Indian warfare during tained by inmates). received the wrong listing in the university is touring cancer hos-
ACP:
the American Revolution.)
The World Turns On
:By Dr. R. W. Steen:
Recently, the Singing Cadets telephone directory. pitals of the east and midwest to
have again been honored; they It a -d started with this mysteri- obtain information for a state can-
have been chosen in a group of
open sea, the poachers would shoot
all that came within gun shot. Not
only did this kill the mothers but
indirectly the pups too, for their
very lives were dependent on tha
mother’s milk.
With the Pacific war at such a
fever-pitch, there is no telling
where the enemy will strike next,
and if it is Alaska, the fur-seal
will take its place among the ever
growing ranks of extinct animals.
Qampus
ous telephone call: “Got any cab- cer research project.
the Of 80 seniors in the Louisiana
State university school of medi-
the running '-/auins '• tne professor ex- c i ne who are eligible for commis-
with the Cadets are 17 clubs in the Texas Tech ’ s Prof - Truman sion in the army, navy or public
central section of the. U. S.-ex- claimed. “You must have the wrong health service, 65 have applied for
The collapse of Allied, or more accurately tending from Illinois down
140 glee clubs to compete in Fred inquired a voice over
Waring’s Pleasure Time National w ^’ e -
Glee Club Contest. In the running “Cabins?” the
Texas Tech’s
Dial 4-1181
LAST DAY
number.”
Dutch, resistance in Java has brought the through Texas, and" including T.'u! “ Aain,t
Pacific war to the door of Australia. The Tj o TT
Japanese are now gathering their strength are to / be ' run ' off wit h the use of
for an invasion of that continent, and the recordin ^ each club
Australians, British and Americans are do- three—one tune of Warinxr’s
“
= at S time ^ha,* justifies a few wiU make ? heir recor / s M * arch 26> /SleSe
on the campus, with the finals industries will need 55j0 oo addi
tional workers in the next few
‘down un
notes on that country which lies
der.
Australia is the smallest of the conti
nents or
ing on whether you wish to call it a conti
nent or an island. The country has an area
of 2,974,581 square miles, which makes it
tinental United States. It has a population
of about 7,000,000, most of whom are Brit
ish in origin. There are, however, some Asi
atics and some persons from
European countries. There are, in addition,
about 60,000 aborigines.
Australia is a dominion in the British
Empire, and has therefore complete control • • •
over its own affairs. The government is fed- WacL Jino
eral in character and is copied in part after vv ^ e
coming up late in May, or the first
the largest of the islands, depend- a Ju t ”- p Tlfftl m °" ths :
trimmings.
The boys have one more trip tory at Iowa State college.
about 50,000 square miles smaller than con- bl ^ ed thl , s A cha P ter of A1 P ha Omega Al-
04^4-^^ T4 L™ « ^— ending at T. S. C. W. April 23. p ba; honor medical society, recent-
Prior to that they will appear on jy was installed at Wayne univer-
Town Hall (they are cooking up a gity.
aticsT and “somrpersons ^fr^m^ non-British “ uple f acts f ? r the P r °e raai >- Some 500 students of Louisiana
Those two performances and— State university have dropped
well, they won’t make predictions, their studies to enter the nation’s
but New York is a nice town. armed services.
m m ^ The federal government is spend
ing $5,800,000 on college ROTC
for the year ending June 30, 1942.
that of the United States. The capital is This one tops last years’ gold- State , ! * p , pr “ pl ' i “ tions p ?li de T f i 1
Canberra. This is a new city located in a fish eatiag fad. la Friday’s Hous- p “ ° p^b “gT °
federal district. It was planned completely ton Post under the head “U. of P ^ r - nnn
before any construction was begun. It is to- Texas Eats Don’t Lika Bach”: Not Fraternity buy 1,000 000
i u J ..j. U. T4 • i suits yearly; soronty women buy
day a beautiful, but isolated, city. Its isola- that it makes much difference, p * vpar
tion is due to the fact that it was built be- b ut the rats in an old building 0 ’ of th f co y ur y ' in mu
yond the settled area so as to be nearer the at the University of Texas a P - seum appr e n ti C eship offered in the
center of population m the future. The gov- par e nt iy don’t like Bach. Music United States is given at tb e W is-
ernment buildings m Canberra were opened Professor Peter Hansen reports consin un i V er S ity.
in 1927. No person can own land in Can- that rats devoured a volume of
berra. Title is retained by the government Beethoven but left Bach strictely
and individuals may lease land for specified alone .. # my! my! wha t those boys
periods. No lease can be for a longer period won > t tb j nk of next ; .
than 99 years. As soon as the latest issue of
The Australians take an active interest Life Mag hit the newss tand, the
in their government, and by American stan-
dards a remarkably large percentage of them Tb currpnt f edera i bude-et for
vote. The number voting in an election usual- a tae "conohi"
ly approximates fifty per cent of the total extension wort is ^9,000,000.
population. This may be due in part to the
fact that a voter who fails to vote without Endowment and ifts for re .
a valid excuse must pay a fine of $10. The search 3 c<mt of the
government has been quite liberal m its TT . ^ , .
labor policies, while social legislation of the U-wenaty of Pittsbarghs mcome.
old age pension variety is an old story in
Australia. y
their commissions.
The federal government’s civil
ian pilot training program for the
current fiscal year is costing
$25,000,000.
A recent tabulation reveals there
are seven osteopathic fraternities
in the United States.
Edwin G. Pike, chemistry grad
uate of the Wisconsin university,
is the sixth member of his family
to attend Wisconsin.
_ ^ . Farthest outpost of the Minne-
Construction is starting on an , .
. ,, , . . , , sota university is a weather sta-
agricultural engineering labora-
this 4850—Camp Tru
man?”
Dr. Camp looked himself up in
. the phone book, where he was list-
ed right along with Camps Dixie,
jy, Texas, and Comfort.
Dean W. R. Woolrich of the
BETTY GRABIE*VICTOR MATURE
CAROLE LANDIS HAIRD CRE6AR
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MUSICAL — CARTOON
PREVIEW TONIGHT
SUNDAY - MONDAY
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Porky Pig Cartoon
News — Sport
MOVIE
GUION HALL
fighting on the seven seas and five contin
ents. The workman of France did not, and
if he were asked now, we all know what his
answer would be to the question. He would
say “I didn’t realize it was too late.” If we
do not labour to produce and to preserve
the “American way of life” in one form or
another we, too, may become slaves as have
so many other workmen who didn’t realize
until too late that they couldn’t “eat their
cake and have it too.”
Announcing the Arrival
of New r
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Lewis Shoe Store
Bryan
and
Lauterstein’s
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