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Page 2- The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Hechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, ia 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. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. 1941 Member 1942 Associated Got!e6icite Press EL M. Rosenthal Acting Editor Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager Sports Staff Hike 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 F. D. Asbury Junior Assistant Bill Huber, Joe Staleup Circulation Assistants Cedric Landon Senior Assistant Photography Staff Jack Jones Staff Photographer Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers Phil Crown Assistant Photographer Tuesday’s Staff Lee Rogers Managing Editor Clyde C. Franklin ... Junior Editor Keith Kirk Junior Editor Ken Breenen Junior Editor Jack Hood. Junior Editor V. A. Ooforth. 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. t Dorms and Parents Daij So far the student body has given little de tailed thought to Parents’ Day next Sunday. True, most of the Aggies have written their parents concerning the events and perhaps have made a few plans concerning the day’s activities. However, such things as the ap pearance of the dormitories and reports to the organization commanders about the num ber of visitors to be present have hardly been mentioned. One thing which should receive atten tion immediately is the appearance of the dorms. Sunday will be the one day of the year in which all of our parents and friends will be allowed to visit our rooms and halls. Naturally we want our living quarters to make the best appearance possible, and this can be done only if work is started immedi ately. The work on the halls necessary falls under the heading “that which is beneficial to the entire organization” and may be done by the freshmen under the supervision of the upperclassmen. Therefore there should be enough men who do not have classes in each organization every day this week to make the dormitories appear at their best on Parents’ Day. THE BATTALION -TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1942 Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a 'probability of such. —Thomas Carlyle Personal Appearance PERSONAL APPEARANCE is one of the most important things for a person to look out for and try to improve both in civilian and military life but especially in the latter. People judge you by what you look like. If you are neat, trim and smart in appearance, you will make a good first impression which is so important. However, if sloppy, ill- dressed and dirty, it is seldom that your su periors will think much of you. We on the campus adopt the same at titude, whether we realize it or not. Although we may not like a certain officer, if he is al ways well dressed and military in appear ance, we will respect him and try to do what he wants. However, if the officer is sloppy, doesn’t return your salutes properly, and walks with a slouch, we may like him per sonally but won’t respect him. A person who is in a uniform and is sloppy will attract much more attention and discredit to himself and the uniform than will a civilian. At the same time, if he is neat and clean and has all of his brass shined and properly attached he will draw much favorable comment. Lately, there seems to have been an epidemic on the campus, not of the mumps, but of leaving collars unbuttoned, having shoes covered with mud, brass dirty, and uniform not clean, to say nothing of haircuts so long it brings to mind the old joke about the dog-catcher. People who visit the cam pus, especially at this time of year when parents are inspecting the institution where their sons expect to attend for the next se mester, are very unfavorably impressed if the cadets here have a sloppy appearance in general, for one badly dressed and unkept cadet will attract much more notice than a hundred people properly dressed and at tired. It seems that it will be to the advantage of every student here, including the five- year men and post-grads, to do his best to appear neat and military at all times, for it will not only leave a good impression with visitors and those whom you meet off the campus but will also tend to boost the mo rale of the student body as a whole; the non-reg and sloppy cadet should be looked upon with scorn and contempt by the rest of the cadet corps, instead of them trying to imitate him just “because he got away with it.” Pennij's Serenade PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis By W. L. Penberthy I got a kick out of a story I heard concerning Max Baer, former world’s heavyweight box ing champ. The story goes that he was tak ing a pretty bad beating in one of his bouts, but his seconds were trying to keep him en couraged, so when he came to his corner after a particularly bad round, his seconds said, “Nice going, Maxie—he hasn’t laid a glove on you.” To this Maxie replied, “Then somebody had better watch that referee, be cause someone is beating the tar out of me!” Our Intramural boxing started Thurs day and will continue for about three weeks. This sport always attracts a lot of interest and Lwant to take this opportunity to cor dially invite all Batt readers and their friends, especially the ladies, to attend the matches. They start at 8:30 p. m. and ap proximately 35 are held each night. Our matches consist of three one-minute rounds with a minute rest period between the rounds. If one of the boxers is knocked cleanly down or is “out on his feet” the round is stopped, awarded to the boxer scor ing the knock-down, and after a one-minute rest period the bout is resumed if both box ers are in good shape. If the bout becomes uneven, it is stopped, although every effort is made to give both men a fair chance be fore this is done. ANiAL ODDITIES K* The purpose of the bout is to give com petition and to determine the best boxer, and after that is decided we are not interest ed in seeing how much punishment a man can take. Our students may lack a little in technique, due to the fact that most en trants have not had much instruction, but they make up for it in the way they go in CampUS Spooks there and mix it. Fourteen-ounce gloves are used. “If you ask me, I think the Colonel is letting the men get too much of an upper hand around here!” BACKWASH By Tack Hood “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster The winner is decided by three judges picked from the student body for their knowl edge of the sport. For the most part, these judges are boxers entered in the tourna ment and they do a fine job. Points to be considered in judging are the number of clean solid blows landed, ability to make the opponent miss, aggressiveness if it pays off, and ring generalship. The last round carries more weight toward the decision than either of the other two, but not more than the two combined. N The average boxing audience fails to see blows that are not landed on the head and often do not understand why decisions are made in favor of a boxer who apparently re ceived the most blows on the head. Although head blows are damaging, I think most box ers will agree that where head blows can be shaken off, the body blows are the ones that are felt the most and the longest, and are the ones that pave the way for victory. I suggest that you watch the boxer’s feet, as balance is the most important thing in all sports, as well as in everyday life. Also watch where each blow lands. If my memory serves ftie right, it was Jim Corbett’s wife who insisted on sitting at the ringside at all of his matches and kept pleading, “Hit him in the slats, Jim!” The World Turns On Two years ago there were only a few bold entrants in the Ugly Boy contest. This year each of eleven Aggies claim to he uglier than anyone (not counting profs) on the campus. By process of elimina tion the Signal Corps and the Cav alry must be the glamour boys of the campus—they didn’t enter an ugly.Eyesores from the Field Ar tillery are: R. C. “Hard-rock” Loomis, 2 CHQ, George Willeford, 2Hq, George “Profile” Ogdee, A FA, L. B. “Butch” Tennison, C FA, Kyle Drake, D FA. From the Coast Artillery: Sol Mintz, G CAC, and George Kemnity, G CAC. Infantry spooks are J. P. “Possie” Alford, D Company, J. B. Strother, K Company. The Engin eers entered R. P. Burke, C Com pany. The Chem Warfare entered Clarence “Boy I’m Ugly” Cunn ingham, C Company, and Ternay Neu, C Company. With this many candidates, things should get hot quick. Most of the bally-hoo will be handled by campaign managers, but all the contestants will meet on the “Y” steps at 1:45 Tuesday to have a group picture taken (maybe for the museum). • • • Backwashin’ Around The Local Rumor mill has turned out some pretty good yarns . . . the latest is the one about the En gineers having to move out of Walton to make way for the Navy . . . some sharp Engineer pitched a pup tent in front of Walton and labeled it “Engineers Dorm” . . . one Aggie who doesn’t do things half way is the lad who was seen using a pair of field glasses sweat ing the west door of Sbisa Friday night . . . allegedly, one Aggie told another who tried to tag in on him at the Corps dance Saturday night, “Sorry, buddy, but with the war, and rationing, and every thing, I’m hoarding my sugar” . . . which brings to mind: with the coming of rationing, the gold dig gers will take to hoarding sugar daddies ... a fish got a letter from his girl asking him if it would be o.k. for her to write a Marine. The fish thought awhile and decided to ask the advice of (See BACKWASH page 6) :By Dr. R. W. Steen: Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No. No, ’tis your lean, hungry men who are continually ivorrying so ciety, and setting the whole community by the ears. —Washington Irving Last week “Science” cited the contents of a wireless dispatch from Raymond Daniell to the “New York Times.” This dispatch re ported that the British Minister of Agricul ture, Robert S. Hudson, stated on March 18 in the House of Commons that the future history of Britain and perhaps of the world might depend on this year’s harvest in the United Kingdom. England’s meat supplies are rapidly dwindling and the submarine warfare in the Atlantic is reducing the merchant tonnage. The British people are depending more and more on vegetables. At the end of the pres ent plowing season England will have about 6,000,000 more acres of tilled soil than be fore the war. This increase is insufficient to meet the dietary deficiencies and substitu tions required because of the meat short ages. It becomes necessary that greater pro duction be obtained from land already culti vated. Experts from the United States are be ing sent to England for consultation as to ways of increasing production. Practically all the available land is now being used but there is a noticeable shortage of manpower. Women are going into the fields and helping with the farm work. Life magazine has car ried several articles on this phase of Eng land’s war production program. Stenograph ers, secretaries and various other women workers in their off periods go into the fields to aid in planting, cultivation and harvesting of the crops. This spring and summer will take many school children into the fields and prisoners of war will undoubt edly be made use of for this purpose also. We in the United States are as yet suf fering no particular food shortages but as the war continues they will come because of the slowness of expansion, short-sighted ag ricultural policies including inadequate con servation of our present surpluses, and shortage of farm labor. Already we are feel ing the pinch of farm labor shortage. In the south, one of our big labor users is the harvesting of the cotton crop. For a number of years workers here at Texas A. and M. College have been working on me chanical cotton pickers. Credit for this work goes to Mr. H. P. Smith, D. T. Killough, M. H. Byrom and their associates. Farm la bor shortage makes the development of such a mechanism of added importance at this time. These mechanical harvesters are of two types—pickers and strippers. HELLO! Come on out for a grand time. Everyone has,fun! FINE * Food * Drinks * Music NAVLES North of Bryan GREETING, NAVY MEN When it’s refreshment time make us headquarters. Sat isfy your drug needs at: MADELEY’S PHARMACY 1 Block South of Your Classrooms THE TRUTH ABOUT SNAKES Snake mythology began with the ancients; in fact, if we go back far enough we will find that Adam and Eve started the first of the many tall stories about snakes. In the middle-ages snakes were not a small part of the mysterious art of concocting cure-alls. In a great Hindu literary work of an tiquity found the legend that ser pents produce from their mouths fleecy clouds which supply fresh water for the gods, and it is said that Saint Augustine believed serpents to be reincarnated devils sent by Satan for the purpose of temptation. In the present day of radio, tele vision, and Stukas we have tales concerning snakes that are scarce ly less fantastic. Stories are told about the martial devotion of snakes, which alleges that if a snake is killed, its mate will lie near a cadaver in silent grief, but will instantly attack anyone so bold as to trespass near that hal lowed spot. The myths that all green snakes are poisonous; that some snakes possess the power of hypnosis, and can hypnotize poor, defenseless birds; and that a snake’s tail will writhe and wrig gle until the sun sets in the west are as foolish and baseless as the idea that lightning does not strike twice in the same spot. Farmers of today are hardly the goateed rustics once portrayed. They keep up with all the latest information put out by the various experiment stations, listen to the farm and home hour, and even send their sons to state Agricul tural Schools; yet they have not parted with the milk-snake leg end. They could as readily part with their best mare. This villian- ous snake is credited with noctural visitations to the dairy herd, where it busies itself in stealing the cow’s hard-earned milk. The steal thy intruder glides through the grass, lifts its beady head, and drinks quart after quart of the pre cious fluid, and when the farmer returns, he finds his best produc ers dry and restless. It makes but little difference to the farmer that snakes are anatomically incapable of such performances; that most snakes dislike milk; or that it would take 60 such snakes to drain a cow dry. (See ODDITIES, page 5) r x (Ja/n/jui Dial 4-1181 TODAY - TOMORROW DOUBLE FEATURE Paramount Presents NO HANDS ON THE CLOCK Starring CHESTER MORRIS JEAN PARKER J “MELODY LANE” With THE MERRY MACS LEON ERROL ANNE GWYNNE Also Merry Melody Cartoon TONIGHT ISThT NIGHT THE SCREW BALLS TAKE OVER April Fool Midnight Show TONIGHT, 11:30 P.M. A UNIVERSAL PICTURE With OLSEN AND JOHNSON MARTHA RAYE JANE FRAZEE Also MERRIE MELODY COMMUNITY SING ~-r' ,Wim I- *.^1 IP More aluminum up there, less in new telephones “ for VICTORY! Many materials used in telephone making are listed as "critical” for war purposes. Bell Tele phone- Laboratories and Western Electric have redesigned apparatus and changed manufactur ing methods to employ available materials. Take aluminum. The reduction in its use in a year’s telephone output is enough to build 294 combat planes. This program has been replacing critical materials at an annual rate of 7,747,000 pounds. Though it grows steadily more difficult to maintain as shortages increase, the program helps to meet the greatest demand in history for military and civilian communication equipment. Western Electric ...IS hack of your BeU Telephone service i J U. t * tj # I > ll » *