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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
â– . 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
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-TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1942
COVERING
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WITH
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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
â– 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
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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,
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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
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they were, too! Forty years
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GUION HALL
Tuesday and Wednesday
4:30 and 7:45
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