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Page 2- THE BATTALION ■THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1942 Iflie 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 Poet 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 Ban Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone i-5444. 1941 Member 1942 Phsocided GoUe6icite Press E. M. Rosenthal Editor-in-chief D. C. Thurman Associate Editor Lee Rogers Associate 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 Russell Chatham Junior Sports Assistant 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 Stensel Assistant Photographers Phil Crown Assistant Photographer Thursday’s Staff Ken Bresnen Junior Managing Editor lack Hood Junior Editor Brooks Gofer Junior Editor Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor yg. A* Goforth Assistant Advertising Manager Reporters Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Russell Chatham, Bill Fox, Jack Keith, Tom Joumeay, W. J. Hamilton, Neison Kar- baeh, 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. Unexcused Absences? It was unfortunate that Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador to the United States was unable to make his visit to A. & M., but due to unfavorable flying- weather in San Antonio the trip was cancelled. A large group of local people were anxious to get a glimpse of the ambassador and Aggies were equally desirous of reviewing for the noted visitor. As a result of the failure to have the review, many Aggies missed their 10 and 11 o’clock classes after they had been rescheduled and received cuts as a consequence. To those who did not have a class at those hours it will make no difference, but to many students there will be,cuts chalked up. For a man to receive a cut this late in a term will hurt his grade, and because of the shortened term here the effect might be more severe. Many students had no idea that their classes were being held since they were told to meet them just a few minutes before they started. And what about those students who lived with non military out fits and did not have time to get back and make class? It seems unfair to charge a student with an unexcused absence under the condi tions of Wednesday morning. Dean Bolton has suggested a fair method of determining cuts to meet this situation. Sqch a method would be to let each student take up with his own professor the absence which he has acquired. Preps Favor Speed-up Almost half the high school students in the United States favor an accelerated college program that will enable them to complete their educations more quickly, as called for by the present emergency. This was revealed recently when results of a survey conducted by Northwestern university among 9,354 high school students throughout the country were announced. Forty-eight per cent of the students queried said they preferred one of three types of accelerated programs to the tradi tional four-year course with annual summer vacations. Percentages ranged from 35 per cent on Chicago’s North Shore to 54 per cent in the western states. Fifty per cent of the men and 45 per cent of the girls favored ac celeration, but indications were that many men voted against speed-ups because they must work during summer vacations. Most popular of three suggested faster programs was one calling for three regular years and two summer quarters, averaging 16 or 17 hours, with graduation coming in June of the third year. This was selected by 20.6 per cent of those voting, or 43.5 per cent of those favoring acceleration. Second choice among speed-up programs was one calling for three regular years and three summer quarters, averaging 15 hours each, with graduation in August of the third year. This demand for both normal and ac celerated education indicates, the survey re port points out, that colleges and universities must be prepared to maintain flexible edu cational programs during the war period. ■“Americans have always paid great defer ence to European culture patterns and the more uncritical among us have held a sense of inferiority. The average college graduate has had a greater knowledge of European culture than his own. The future will see a revival of interest in the cultural history of the United States. Close attention will be •paid vto American history, philosophy, liter ature and language. There will be a keener iinterest in American institutions, traditions and ideals. The well-balanced programs of secondary and higher education in the Unit ed States are likely to be characterized by a minimized emphasis upon European cul tural antecedents and a greater emphasis upon American and Oriental culture pat terns.” Dr. Gordon S. Watkins, dean of the college of letters and science on the Los An geles campus of the University of California. Man, Your Manners By I, Sherwood —- “To be or not to be” married—that is the question many Seniors are asking them selves, for no young officer will want to go marching off to the army and leave his best .girl at home in the care of the young man next door. A couple, no matter how long they have known each other, should not take marriage for granted until the young man has pro posed and the young woman has accepted— and it still isn’t too old fashioned to get the consent of the girl’s parents. When the announcement is to be made public, whether or not the wedding date has been set, intimate friends may be told in advance. If it is to be a surprise, they are asked to tell no one. The ring—is, of course, bought by the young man and usually is a diamopd, al though there is no arbitrary rule as to that; he may choose it himself or ask the girl to aid in its selection. It isn’t considered wise to propose and offer the ring at the same time, since this suggests to the young wom an that the man is too confident. Should an engagement be broken, each must return val uable gifts received from the other; this in cludes the ring. Engaged couples, as a rule, do not wish to have dates with others, but if the situa tion is such, and consent has been given, either may attend parties or dances with another, but naturally, not too often with the same person. Capital to Campus A Ksn<-iatpri College Press ■ — WASHINGTON—(AGP)—Secretary of War Stimson has announced that 100,000 men and women will be trained for civilian war jobs—inspectors at Government fac tories, depots and arsenals; production workers, etc.—in Government and State- owned schools. Students will be paid $900 to $1400 a year while in training. (Men trained must be “outside” Selective Service requirements.) * * * Civil Service here in Washington vir tually assures stenographers a job within one week of filing an application. Within the next few weeks Civil Service must furnish 1,000 stenographers to Washington war agencies. Typing and shorthand skills are an ex cellent entering wedge if you are interested in working for Uncle Sam and can’t discov er any vacancies in your field. Your chances of transferring to the kind of work for which you are especially trained are termed “very good” if the specialty you are seeking ties in with the war effort. * * * More than 5 per cent of the nation’s 20- year-olds who registered in the last draft are college students—some 136,700 of them. They were assigned order numbers March 17 and prospects of an early military career are very real for most of them. The War Department says that beginning June 1, quotas will probably call for men in both the first (21-35) age group and the second age group (20-year-olds and 36-45 year olds). Local boards have been instructed to mail questionnaires to registrants in the second age group in “sufficient numbers to insure filling of the June call entirely from this age group if necessary.” * * * According to an OCD survey of 400 col lege newspapers, more than half are sending the school paper free of charge to former students now in military service. The University of Hawaii was included in the survey, but a letter from Frederick Tom, president of the Hawaiian A. S. U., ex plained that the student newspaper couldn’t answer the questionnaire because publication stopped Dec. 7. Enrollment has dropped 65 per cent; almost the entire staff of the pa per, Ka Leo O Hawaii, has left school. Quotable Quotes “Education for national unity was achieved by the Nazis at the cost of a general depre ciation of intelligence, lowering of scholastic standards, and corruption of national moral ity. Absolute indoctrination was achieved by grotesque falsifications of history and by in culcating certain emotions before the criti cal faculties had a chance to develop. The Nazis proved masters not only in the psy chology of education but in its organization, as they did in all other fields. They organ ized new educational agencies and institu tions which took educational leadership away from the schools. I am referring to labor camps, so-called land years and, above all, the youth organization of the party. The re sult has been a reversal of educational values: of greatest importance now are phys ical fitness, indoctrination, the development of the ‘will,’ silent obedience and absolute loyalty; of, least importance is intellectual development.” Dr. Frederick Lilge, instruc tor in education at the University of Cali fornia.—AGP. “There is a possibility of the United States suffering defeat in the present war as a re sult of Americans failing to recognize their peril.” John DeBoer, director of student teaching at Chicago Teachers college. PRIVATE BUCK /.•: By Clyde Lewis AHlfM. ODDITIES BY Tex Lynn “You can’t kid me, Buddy. You’re not a Colonel; you’re a cook! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be wearing those chickens on your shoulders!” BACKWASy By lack Hood "Backwanh: An agitation resulting from coma action or occurrence.”—Webater Musical Pilots From the Coconut Grove, Holly wood; Hotel New Yorker, N. Y.; Meadowbrook Country Club, St. Louis; and other swanky jernts, comes the Composite Regiment’s band—Ted Fio Rito and his Sky- lined Music . . . the catch is that the rest of the Corps won’t be able to enjoy it. Ted couldn’t be had for the Sat urday night date . . . Betty Grable, a favorite with Hood ma l e sex i n general, was discovered while still in high school by Ted—she war bled with him until Hollywood crooked its finger ... He also uncovered Evelyn Keyes, Joy Hodges and “Candy” Candido, who is still with him . . . incidentally, “Candy” is a real novelty—the lit tle man with a thousand voices, or the stunt pilot with a tri-motor voice . . . the little guy can sing the scale from the shoelaces up . . . also, featured is Bert Traxler, “Stratospheric Saxophonist,” and “The Three Chicks and their “pow er diving trombones” . . . Ted is a devoted horse-raiser (like Cros by) ... his horses have paid him a net profit of twenty grand so far—they cost him five—and he claims he does it because he loves horses . . . his greatest ambition is to win a Kentucky Derby—and then write a hit tune about it, • • <1 Sweepings Foreward: the American soldier draws a $42 pay check every mon th (more when on foreign soil), which ain’t “hay,” and the Jap soldier draws a 37c pay check, which is “rice” ... a very nice looking young lass, who is blonde, blue eyed, five foot, three inches tall, and weighs 107, wants one nice cadet to take her to the Cot ton Pageant. She is a Duchess from Beaumont, and her picture may be seen by asking Mrs. John son, in the Agronomy office . . . Aggies Stanley Smith, B Engin eers, and Jim Stinson, A Cavalry, may develope date trouble, comes Cotton Ball time. The boys have dates with near-identical twins— Margaret and Jean Dahse, of Wa co ... a note—^unsigned—came in today reading: “It is rumored that one of the juniors in the Quarter master Corps joined the Prince of Wales club yesterday at drill—he fell off a stool while field strip ping a mechanical pencil.” . . . note: Backwash requests that any thing sent in be signed. Enclose in an envelope (no stamp) ad dressed to the Battalion, and drop in the campus mail slot in the Academic Bldg., or bring it to the Ad bldg . . . Famous Last Lines: Clyde Ingram, extension poul- tryman at Louisiana State uni versity, has developed a chicken brooder that can be built in spare time with about $7 worth of ma terials. Our grandmothers believed there was a destiny which shaped our ends, but the modern girl places more faith in the girle. • • • Ghost Story A guy named Sledge was on his way to Houston one afternoon in late January. Sledge wasn’t in the habit of picking up raggedly look ing thumbers, but that day he felt generous. So he picked up a couple of gypsies who were slowly trudg ing along the highway. It turned out the gypsies could sling some good bull, and they entertained him all the way to the city. Near ing their destination, the gypsies began to thank Sledge, explaining that they weren’t often picked up, but he told them to forget it. When they reached Houston, they asked him to let them tell his for tune, but he didn’t put much stock in that sort of stuff, so he de clined. They insisted that he at least ask them a question, how ever, so when he let them out, he asked them when the war would end. They huddled over at the side of the street for a few minutes, and came out with the startling decision that the war would end six months from the time he car ried a dead man in his car. Sledge laughed—uneasily—and drove off. A few blocks later he came upon a bad wreck. Stopping to investi gate, he was asked by a cop if he would carry one of the injured to the hospital—of course, he said he would. They piled the injured man into his car and he sped away to the hospital—but before he got there, the man died. Sledge doesn’t believe in fortune tellers either, but he will be glad when that six months is past—if the war ends in June, he’ll notify Ripley. By Tex Lynn In the upper reaches of the Am azon and Orinoco rivers of South America lives one of the world’s most deadly fish—the dreaded Pirahna. Although its total length is only 18 inches, it can do almost as much damage as a 3-foot shark, and is much more inclined to at tack man than is the latter. Were an animal to fall into Pi- rahna-infested waters it would be reduced to a skeleton in short order. The harmless looking fish are quick to respond to the scent of blood, and a few moments after an animal enters the realms of the Pirahna it will be attacked. In no time at all the water will be literally boiling and seething with the ravenous fish, all bent on gorg ing themselves on the flesh of the rapidly-disappearing carcass. For eigners not acquainted with this fish have been known to trail their hands in the water while drifting quietly along in a canoe; they suddenly feel a stab of pain, and upon withdrawal of that mem ber find a finger missing. Sometimes it is necessary to drive cattle across streams or small rivers in which the Pirahnas dwell—so a clever ruse has been developed by the South American natives to fool these fish. Two old steers are staked in the mid dle of the river, one up stream Le Clerc to Give Course for Consumers Belleville, HI. (AGP)—A course designed to enable every consumer to fight his way through rising prices caused by the defense pro gram and still save money has been announced by Le Clerc college. The course is offered in night school and is open to men and women for both practical value as well as college credits. Directed by Professor Charles Wuller of Le Clerc college and St. Louis university, it will follow ad vices of the federal government in how to purchase. It will cover the intricacies of new defense taxes and detailed operation of 12 federal housing agencies. Students will be instructed in how to get the most for their money in virtually every type of consumer goods and will be shown the variety of government bulle tins covering nearly every subject of interest to consumers. SOPHOMORES! Don’t Fail To See Loupot’s Uniforms LOUPOT’S DANCING for Couples Only • Delicious Food Fun and Good Music for All NAYLES North of Bryan On Waco Highway AGGIES- Come to see us today for that Shampoo and Haircut WE STRIVE TO PLEASE YOU AGGIELAP BARBER & BEAUTY SHOP North Gate — Across From Post Office S. W. 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The arniy seems quite capable of constructing submarines and tanks, and yet they seem to be baffled by a machine that would combine the finer points of the two, something this versatile fish evolved with surprising success. A close relative to this marine oddity is the “archer fish,” the William Tell of fishdom. It can eject a fine stream of water so accurately that it can bring down an insect basking on an over-hang ing leaf or branch, and without any semblance of a bomb sight what so ever. How refreshing it is to know that all fish are not as uninterest ing as our native minnow, macker el, or smelt. 2 Used TUXEDOS Must Be Sold LOUPOT’S For Good Food And A Good Time Come To The Deluxe Cafe DELUXE CAFE Bryan ER’I FEATURE 40 YEARS AGO, we sold thousands of stiff- collar, stiff bosom shirts. 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