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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,
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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.
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and the other down stream, some
300 yards apart. The blood-thirsty
fish are thus lured away from
the cattle who are fording the
stream at a point midway between
the two steers.
An equally strange fish is the
East Indian Gurnard, a water-liv
ing, land-walking monstrosity.
Three spiny projections on the
breast fin enable it to climb out
of the water, and into low-hanging
branches of a near-by tree, or to
wander over the land in search of
streams or rivers with a more
plentiful supply of food. Travelers
have brought back tales of these
cross-country journeys, and from
all reports the fish seem to suf
fer little from their long absence
from their native element.
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.
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