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t Page 2- e 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. 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 Plssocioted Golle6icite Press ■. 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 F. D. Asbury Junior Assistant Bill Huber. Joe Stalcup Circulation Assistants Cedric Landon Senior Assistant Photography Staff Tack Jones Staff Photographer Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers Phil Crown Assistant Photographer Tuesday’s Staff Lae Rogers Managing Editor Ken Bresnen Junior Editor Pom Yannoy Junior Editor lack Hood —Junior Editor 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, Ed Kingery, Edmund Bard, Henry Tillet, Harold Jordon, Fred Pankey, John May, Lonnie Riley, Jack Hood. Sundaij's Awards The awards presented at Sundays’ review were more than mere awards for ability, proficiency and scholarship. They were her alds of tomorrow’s leaders. The men who received the various med als and sabers can be said already to be well on the path that every Agrgie seeks, the path which is marked by ambition and pride and which leads to services well done. They have shown the indications that in a few short weeks or months as the case may be they will be ready to assume those duties which will lead the United States ever for ward. * But these men are not the only ones who are taking advantage of A. & M.’s ability to train the best leaders. In fact every man who has stayed on the A. & M. campus for more than one day has absorbed a certain amount of this quality. All Aggies in school today are continually becoming tomorrow’s leaders of the United States’ destiny. Of course some, such as Sunday’s winners, get more than others, but nevertheless that cer tain something is here and can be had for only little more than the asking. Afterthought Aggies throughout the country and present students of the college should be proud of the program of the past week-end. Mothers and fathers, we know, are justly proud of the accomplishments of their sons as re flected in the many exhibits and shows which were put on for the enjoyment of our visitors. But what de we as Aggies think of all the celebration which took place? First, there were certain underlying characteristics to Parents Day which some of us have not thought about. Because of the present emergency and the fact that the present seniors will be called into the ser vice, tribute to our parents was held earlier than usual. This will be the last such prog ram for the present seniors before they en ter the army, and for the juniors it will probably be the last as under the present plans they will graduate before the time for another Mother’s Day. All the different exhibits, programs and occasions represented work and expenditure of the time of students. Many of us saw the demonstrations put on by the different en gineering departments. We laughed at the Slipstick Follies and Kadet Kapers, we were entertained at the corps dance, and in gen eral we used the total facilities of the college to entertain our parents and friends. The question is, do we appreciate our school and what it stands for or do we just have an attitude of not caring? As a result of the past week-end Aggies everywhere should have an increased pride for Aggie- land and the institution as a whole. There are certain intangible qualities here on the campus which should make Aggies swell in side and be proud of the fact that they attend the greatest school in the world. The program Sunday morning at Kyle Field should have awakened us to the fact that Aggieland is playing a large part in the war effort of the country, and also to the fact that we are fighting for the prin ciples which were bound up in the celebrat- iions of the past week-end. Aggies, let’s stop and think a minute, and see if we won’t increase our zeal and appreciation for the things which every man of Aggieland cher ishes. This Collegiate World Basketball is the favorite sport of Bow- lind Green, Ohio State university spectators, a survey discloses. Every campus group favors the winter sport except upperclassmen and the faculty, both the latter groups rating football on a par with basketball. Forty per cent of students and faculty members named basketball first, 27 per cent football, 10 per cent baseball, 10 per cent swimming, 9 per cent track and the re mainder golf and skiing. THE BATTALION The World Turns On :By Dr. R. W. Steen i We have, in the course of one brief week-end celebrated a number of important days on the campus. True to its streamlined program A. and M. has just observed one of the most important days in the drama of time, Eas ter. In the interest of economy of time and effort, (and rubber), Engineer’s Day, Ag Day, Mother’s Day, Dad’s Day, Army Day, and what was formerly the R. V. Holidays were observed in one week-end. This may be offered as one evidence of the seriousness with which A. and M. is as suming its responsibility in the war effort. From the cheers which greeted President Walton’s charges against Congress the peo ple of Texas, and the parents of Aggies in particular, expect no less. The mothers and dads who were on the campus over the week-end, and the thousands who could not come, are gladly giving their sons for train ing that they may assume greater responsi bilities in the pursuit of this war. They, if anyone, have the right to demand of Con gress a speeding up of our war production efforts, and will be slow to accept excuses and shifting of responsibility. Last week the Langley, the first aircraft carrier to be placed in service by the United States and the oldest of our ships servicing aircraft, was sunk without the destruction of a single enemy plane Irony indeed that Qld Maud—Kicking’ she had not a single plane to protect her from the air. “It’s 30% cream. It comes from cows or somethina.*' BACKWASH By Jack Uood “Backwash: An aeftation rcaultine from iom« action or oemurenoe.’’—Webeter might LIVE. Penng's Serenade By W. L. Penberthy One day in a small town it was about time to start a baseball game, but the umpire, who had been catching it from the spectators, was nowhere in sight. However, at the exact time set for the game to start, a voice from the stands behind home plate commanded, “Play ball!” and there sat the umpire in the stands. “d XT™ 1 " ™rjvszzz xrr. WHAT’S SHOWING AT GUION HALL Tuesday, Wednesday — “HONEY TONE,” starring Clark Gable and Lana Tur ner. AT THE CAMPUS Tuesday, Wednesday — “THE PITTSBURGH EID,” with Billy Conn and Jean Parker. Also “WOMEN IN THE WAR,” featuring Wen dy Barrie. We Refuse To Profiteer ON YOU AGGIES! Keep These Tailor Prices Down! LAUTERSTEIN Doing easily what others find dif ficult is talent; doing what is impossi ble for talent is genius. —Henri Amiel. We have no more right to consume hap piness without producing it than to con sume wealth without producing it. —George Bernard Shaw SOPHOMORES Place your order now for the best looking and fitting Junior Uniforms on the Campus JUNIORS--SENIORS Order Your “Pink” Slacks Now While 100% Wool Materials Are Still Available ZUBIK & SONS UNIFORM SPECIALISTS -TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1942 COVERING caps distracte WITH i TOM VANNOY Names such as Clark Gable and Lana Turner when they grace the title of a motion picture are bound to make sizeable impression on the success of the picture. “HONEY TONE” is no exception, either. It - ! probably won’t intake a terrific impression on i the memory of ■those who see it, %ut they will en- Sjoy it because of • Gable’s domi neering charac- ater that enables Lana Turner him ta become the absolute ruler of western min ing town in the rush days of the past century. And they will appre ciate Lana Turner’s ability to por tray a staid Bostonian at one min ute, and the very next trick Gable into marrying her. Frank Morgan as Lana’sl father hates Gable for his ability to con trol people so readily. It later causes his death. Clark uses the town and its re sources for his own benefit until the citizenry becomes aroused and threatens to ride him out of town. With a graceful exit, Gable gives the town back to them. “Honky Tonk” will be at Guion Hall today and tomorrow. More on the melodramatic side is “WOMEN IN THE WAR,” at the Campus today and tomorrow. This is the story of nurses doing their part to help the armies in (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) W J C 0 i H M I T e O • M c thing promised—and more .... piloted by R. D. Eenny and Bruce Sunday’s edition of a large Tex- mmondSj and m c ed by Joe Mr. Rayburn may charge the people of as P a P er carried a feature by Fe- , A , Texas with giving comfort and aid to the lix McEnight—on General George enemy through their complaints to a polit- F - (Old Maud) Moore. Only those comments from parents and Ag- ically anesthetized Congress about “too little who had personal contact with gies alike ... the SRO sign was and too late,” but no fighting son of an General Moore, when he was here, up qui^ and people stood Aggie mother or did will ever consider it so. as head bull know just how around the walls “Shorty” son, - r>> ^ that a man named Christ DIED that men Moore then > and was respected and was the dolt who walked around admired by the Aggies. Quoting thru the audience distributing Ice, from the feature: chicken, milk, etc . . . ‘Someone ought to tip those Kadet Papers also had its big- Japs they are just plain wasting n with a M , house ^ , time trying to root Old Maud the footba111 player-comic was said out of Corregi- to be the best “amuser” to hit the dor. Really, they campus . . . Four dances high- just don’t know light the coming week-end: The the man. H e Coast will dance to George Wald doesn t root eas- j n ma i n Sbisa, and the Hillel Club ily. If there’s one w ;n d ance to the Aggieland in the spot in the world Banquet room of the same .... the folks around g a tiddy night, the Corps will swing Texas A. & M. w ith Wald, as the Cattlemen swing College are not w ith the Prairie View Collegians VOTE US IN We Will Vote HIGH PRICES DOWN! LAUTERSTEIN Qampus Dial 4-1181 TODAY AND TOMORROW DOUBLE FEATURE femuhe "40 YEARS AGO, s mg, and the team managers and spectators 01d M d j th ith a bunch " ? engineering mag . . tripd tn indnrp him tn nssump hi<? revular nn- Uia tn m Duncn Rumors have it that Chef Hotard tried to induce mm to assume ms regular po- of hig Texas A g gieg . . . d ^ f h u } sition on the field, but he refused to move. ^ a , g0 , raeQ ^ 1 , tne sweu meai One of the most ardent fans asked him why 0 d ^ aud .^ ame about h * s nick ‘ turned out Sunday noon .. . every- he insisted on calling the game from the name that stil sticks on the cam- body got a watch or a medal except stands and the umpire replied, “You folks P us away back ia 1907 - ^ Y as ™ e - and mayb ® you • • • • three seem to be able to see them SO much better name d, m a rather undignified dots and a dash . . . from up here than I can from down there, manner ’ after a mu f~ a co ™ 1< : so I just thought I would call this one from st / ip character - 0ne fal1 UP here!” afternoon, George Moore halted m , , ... , . , front of Ross Hall, an ivy-clad Much has been written about officials dornl on the cam and ietl and officiating, and I suppose it will always ted that he could kick a be an interesting problem in sports. Person- {ootbalI ovel . the threc . story struc _ ally, some of the most pleasant experiences tur£ ^ spircs and all . TIle footbaU of my life have been in officiating, especially was dlJced and Moore tl in our own program. Spike White and I have booted it over the buildi For been getting a big kick out of our work with that kicking prowaess _ and a the kids m boxing and wrestling tourna- mtle stub i,„ raess which ^ Japs ments. I know of nothing that is more fun are ] earn j n g about—he picked up than working with them when they are in the name 01d Maud . there to wm and are enjoying it. We really ^ . ^ get a thrili out of seeing and hearing each .. No one doubts that Genera one of the boys compliment the other on his Moor !’ th<i Z A* 61 ' eraduate efforts and beg the other’s pardon for blows eTer to A come back t0 ‘ he campu J s which unintentionally landed foul. as a \ A ™ y t° ““T ^ „ . . , . the military institution, was the 1 The chief causes Of foul blows are lack t0 p commandant in the school’s jr tt TT- j.-CJrkliT-gi of instruction and experience, oyer-anxious- s j x t y S i x year history” -Helps oOlVe ness and the opponent’s turning. We are tol- ^ Nafl Defense Air erant with the boy who lands an-occasional Mc ^ m g nt aiso tens oi uenerai . -r» U | unintended foul blow but continuations must Mo 4 . or ® s greatest tft as Command- Conditioning Problem be penalized for the protection of his oppon- ank came on Apnl Fool s ay LEXINrT0N K iacp) — nent Wp rrrakp Pverv pffnrt +n indnpp +1ip a few years a g°—when it was LKA1WG1UW, Ey., tAOP).— nent. we make every eirort to induce tne The co p e g e 0 f engineering at the boxers to be cool and relaxed and to take ... ” , p . TTTUvprsitv of Eentnekv is well control of themselves so that they punch ^ ""*0° he“e Set! cai^tt^as^been^lteimerimice anef obser- w.th dangerous angles 5 ;-Old Maud” creased problem ol air-condition* vation that in sports as well as in life, in s ?°‘ led f do ™ *”‘ he t!" 'TT “ S tt* order for one to overcome his opponents he "® ht mt0 . the b,s t In ™ A A “ 7 “f 1 sch . edu ! a l .° must first overcome his own desire to do a flsh . greetmgs. Then he turn out war material. An mta- thing in the most natural way instead of the crawled up f a baggage track, cate machine designed for the pur- rnn „A p op- • 1 made a man-to-man speech about pose of performing tests and fur- j the matter, and strolled away. The nishing data for research in ef- It takes a lot of courage for roost kids fJ sb followed him out onto the ficiency of air filters—the most to step into a ring, and I am sure that many dr iii £ i e j d -where they put on a important part of any air-condi- of US fail to appreciate this fact. The boxers mock review—at his suggestion— tioning unit—has been constructed do a lot of living during the five minutes and) from there> to the mess hall by a Louisville air filter company they are in there, and the third person has w here the eats were “on the bull.” and donated to the college. an excellent opportunity to study and un- f all the A g gieg heard Gen . ! derstand human nature. We get very close Moore by short wave radio from to those youngsters and although we make corregidor. Often now, they read some mistakes in judgment which some do about him and his men at Correg- not forget, some of the best friends we have i dor . «i t thrills, but doesn’t sur- are those men with whom we have worked p r i se the Aggies to read of the in the ring. _ ack-ack and artillery fire that From the spectator’s standpoint I feel thunders out of Corregidor daily, that loyalty is the main reason for dissatis- The Japs will play hell rooting faction with officiating, because it is very old Maud out of there.” difficult to watch a contest impartially. This • • • is particularly true of individual sports such WoaVn’-n’ as boxing, wrestling, track, etc. We get to VVdbinil £>ctui pulling for a man or a team and any penalty After a big week-end: “The Slip assessed that man or team seems unjust to stick Follies of 1942” was every- us. The other night Spike went to both box ers after the second round of a contest and both of them made the same retort—“Spike, that guy is sure beating the tar out of me!” men liked socks in violent color combinations—and we had them! Great bargains they were, too! Forty years have seen great improve ments in style and values!” NOW... We Offer Men ARMOR FOOT* SOCKS Shows: 2:28 - 5:12 - 7:56 - 9:40 WOMEN IN WAR ELSIE JANISWENDY BARRIE PATRIC KNOWLES- «« a«RKE Shows: 3:44 - 6:28 - 8:12 - 10:56 Also WOODY WOODPECEER CARTOON Regular and slack lengths — fine rayon, with mercerized cotton tops, heelsjand^toes foi^extra durability^ * RegljJ. S. Pat. Off.f MOVIE GUION HALL Tuesday and Wednesday 4:30 and 7:45 Brought Back by Popular Request.. . GABLE TURNER ^HON KY TON K* WATCH THIS KISS! Screen history is in the making! 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