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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 3, 1870.
Subscription rates $3 a school year. Advertising rates
upon request.
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Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
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1941 Member 1942
Associated Golle6iate Press
E. M. Rosenthal Editor-in-chief
D. C. Thurman Associate Editor
Lee Rogers Associate Editor
Ralph Criswell Advertising Manager
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports Editor
W. F. Oxford Assistant Sports Editor
Mike Mann Senior Sports Assistant
Chick Hurst .1 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
Jack Jones Staff Photographer
Bob Crane, Ralph Stenzel Assistant Photographers
Phil Crown Assistant Photographer
Tuesday’s Staff
Lee Rogers Associate Editor
Ken Bresnen Junior Editor
Brooks Gofer Junior Editor
Tom Vannoy
W. A. Goforth
Junior Edit
Junior Editor
Assistant Advertising Manager
dey,
Tor
Report
Arthur L.
Journeay,
Fox, Jack Keith, Tom Journ
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
Pankay, John May, Lonnie Riley, Jack Hood.
Will Cuffs Go ?
Men have come to Aggieland and Aggies
have passed from its portals, and during
that time all classes at A&M have seen cuffs
on the uniforms of the juniors and seniors.
It is tradition that these two classes have
the privilege of wearing trousers with cuffs.
Cuffs are the time-honored distinction of
juniors and seniors. And now the time has
come when there is a possibility that the
upper two classes of Aggieland will no long
er wear cuffs.
From the War Production Board local
tailors have received the regulations con
cerning the production of men’s clothes.
Quoting directly from the order: “Curtail
ments on Finishing Trousers. No person shall
finish a pair of trousers made of wool cloth
with cuffs or cause such to be finished with
cuffs by others for his account.” This is the
limitation placed on local uniform makers
concerning the junior-senior uniform.
Continuing, the order has the following
exception. “Exclusions from this Order. The
provisions and terms of this order shall
not apply to the cutting or manufacturing
of garments on Defense Orders or uniforms
for any of the following: (6.) U. S. Govern
ment Military and Naval Academy and
Training Schools Students.” Do not the stud
ents of the Reserve Officers Training Corps
of A&M come under this exclusion?
Federal Inspection
The last week of this month there will
be on the campus officers from headquarters
of the Eighth Corps Area who will conduct
the annual Federal inspection.
Each cadet should take it upon himself
to keep^his appearance at its very best dur
ing the “days that the inspectors are on the
campus. It is the responsibility of every
man in the corps to do his utmost to prove
to these officers that A. & M. is now doing
more than ever to aid in the war effort. If
for no other reason, we should do this out
of pride for our school.
Military bearing among individual ca
dets can aid greatly in impressing the in
spectors.
At various times, the college needs new
equipment which it can acquire only from
the War Department. The mark the corps
makes for itself during the inspection may at
a later date pay dividends far above the small
effort needed to put the student body in top
shape for these two days.
Aside from personal appearance, it is
also important that each unit put on a dem
onstration of its ability at drill so that A.
& M. may uphold its reputation of giving
only the best training to future officers in
the armed forces of the United States.
And then, when the corps is at its best,
let each man set that mark as his criterion
for future behavior and appearance. Military
proficiency cannot be gained in one day. It
is a characteristic achieved only through
constant practice of military conduct. We
should be setting an example the year round
—not only for two days when the inspectors
are on the campus.
The World Turns On
-r By Dr. R. W. Steen= . . —
The ideas of Hitler and of Roosevelt em
body the two extremes in the present con
flict, but on certain points, they agree. Both
have said, “This is a war to the death”; both
have said in effect “We must unite our peo
ple.” The questions are who and what will
die and how and when will the wider union
of peoples be affected.
Go then to the museum and when you
shall have convinced yourself of the great
age and permanence of the world; of the
transitory nature of individuals; of the steady
trend upward out of the past; and of the
crying need for a wider extension of coop
eration between peoples, decide whether the
murderous imposition of unity by Hitlerian
THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1942
Open Forum
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
COVERING
TO THE BATTALION:
In behalf of the classes of ’43 and ’44,
we the undersigned wish to express our opin
ion in regard to the doing away of cuffs at
A&M. This has been one of the many de
sired traditions of our school that every
Aggie cherishes. We realize the important
part that every citizen must play in order
that the United States can win this war.
We ourselves are looking forward to doing
our part when the time comes. We intend
to cooperate to the fullest extent in any emer
gency that may arise.
We realize that the people of the na
tion must make sacrifices because there is a
shortage of materials, but after a thorough
investigation of the laws pertaining to this
shortage of materials we have found that
all U. S. military training schools are ex
ceptions to this law.
If cuffs are abolished there will be an
expense to the present junior class to have
their cuffs removed and also an additional
expense to the present sophomore class
whose uniforms are already completed.
In conclusion we believe that there
should be a vote cast as there has been in
the past when there has been a suggestion
made in regard to a change in the uniform
at A. & M. In this way it can be determined
how the majority feel toward this matter.
Austin Nance ’43 Vance Carrington ’44
Steve Kaffer ’43 R. C. Johnson ’44
Jack Miller ’43 Bob Phillips ’44
Bland Harrison ’43 Sid Smith ’44
Copr 1941, Kim; Features Syndicate. Inc., World riphts reserved
caps distiacflONS
WITH
TOM VANNOl
Bernard Booth ’44
D. M. Griffiths ’44
Bob McGee ’44
“Lookit, Captain, I done myself up TOO well. I’ve got a
nest of robins in my hair!”
By
vldck Hood
"Backwash: An uritation resulting; from •om* notion or occurrence.”—Webster
Queer War
Penny's Serenade
By W. L. Penberthy
I have always been impressed by a quo
tation which hangs on the wall of the of
fice of Gordon Gay, Assistant Secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. This quote reads:—“I was
without shoes and I grumbled until I met a
man without feet.” It is a particularly time
ly thought at this time, when so much em
phasis is placed on physical fitness. Here at
A. & M. the majority of our students have
good health and good sound bodies; but we
have a small group of men who have been
less fortunate and, due to illness or accident,
have partially or completely lost the use of
parts of their bodies. But thanks to God,
they have not been handicapped in their de
sires and untiring efforts toward making the
most effective use of the more sound parts.
When I was a student in college, we had
a youngster with a withered leg 'yvhich hung
to about the knee of his other leg; but this
man could and did high-jump as high as his
head. The first semester of this school year
I had a Handball class in which there were
three students whose right arms or hands
were handicapped, but it didn’t stop them
and I feel that they got as much if not more
out of the course than did the other stud
ents.
I have seen very few handicapped peo
ple who didn’t have a very cheerful attitude
and who didn’t make me feel ashamed of
the use I made of the sound body that God
gave me. Health is our greatest blessing and
asset, and at this time, more than any other
time in the history of mankind, we should
make every effort to gain and maintain a
sound healthy body. In the war effort, of
which our streamlined program is a part,
physical fitness is the foundation; and with
vacations a thing of the past I feel that
the ideal program would be for us to budget
our time so as to permit us to take a little
vacation every day in some wholesome, vig
orous recreational activity. This may be done
in the Intramural program or in any of the
voluntary unorganized activities which we
now have and which will be increased. The
period from five to six in the afternoon
would be a swell time to set aside for this
purpose.
I got a thrill out of seeing so many of
our boys competing and having a big time
at the Track Meet Sunday. The best crack
of the day came from one of our NYA of
ficials Y. B. Johnson, who after having
noted that 153 boys competed in the Class
B 100-yard dash, said, “There must be a
few boys in the hospital today.”
Quotable Quotes
“Much legislation requires for its successful
administration and execution the active co
operation of large publics, in some cases the
voters and citizens of the country as a whole.
Once public opinion reflected in acts of con
gress has given definite expression to policy
it is the function of the administrative
branch to give effect to it. This point is il
lustrated by the situation a country faces in
war-time. Before a decision on the question
of war has been decided by the legally re
sponsible authorities, freedom to advocate
varied, even conflicting policies is the recog
nized privilege of unofficial groups and in
dividuals. But after a state has once decided
on a policy, has definitely declared war, the
use of administrative publicity and propa
ganda may be absolutely necessary for its
successful conduct.” Dr. Harwood L. Childs,
associate professor of politics at Princeton
university.
force or voluntary unity under the principle
of the good neighbor is to survive. Go back
to your place and act accordingly.
Our Department of Modern
Languages is doing its bit toward
Adolph’s downfall. In answer to a
request from
Major C. R.
Warndof, class
of 1921, they
sent a group of
German books to
the Third Army
Training Center,
lat Camp Bullis.
iMajor Warndof,
Hood formerly a stu
dent of Dr. Cambell’s, is now di
rector of the School of Interroga
tors of ] Prisoners of War, with
about a hundred men in his charge
—the boys learning to make the
Huns “talk” when captured. The
brass hats will find they hit a
g-ood^lick when they put an Aggie-
Ex in charge of that department.
Before he’s through, the Nazis will
be singing out loud.
• • •
Hit Parade
Backwash will present, starting
next Tuesday, the Aggie Hit Pa
rade of Songs and Bands. A sur
vey will be conducted like last
year’s—a poll of student opinion.
So far this year, we’ve had tough
luck getting bands to Aggieland,
but things are expected to pick up
soon (we hope). To' launch (or
lynch) this gallopin’ poll, the three
top tunes of the last few weeks
are listed below:
1. The Little Barfly.
2. Fort Worth Jail.
3. Who Slapped Annie On the
Etc. (this one nosed out Milk Cow
Blues).
• • •
Sugar Parents
Lots of laurels have been passed
out concerning the remodeled “Y,”
but some of the real praise should
go to the people who dished out
the hard cash to furnish it. Be
cause of priorities, etc., all the
furnishings haven’t been installed,
but the money required to buy
them has been nearly all collected.
When a student delegation appear
ed before the Board of Directors
of the Association of Former Stu
dents to ask them to help with
the furnishing, 25 of the Directors
present dug down into their own
pockets and tossed $575 into a hat.
They also took $1000 from their
treasury, and sent out requests to
former Aggies for $2,500 more.
Another bunch of pats—%r hugs—
go to the A. & M. Mothers Clubs.
They contributed $1,01)0 to the
same cause.
o • •
Rarin’ To Go
Dr. Roy L. Donahue, of the
Agronomy department, got a let
ter from Pvt. O. M. Roper, a for
mer student of his—still an Ag
gie. Roper left school last semes
ter to join the ground force of
the Air Corps. The letter speaks
for itself to prove that he’s still
got the spirit—rarin’ to go:
I’m in an ordnance company at
tached to a bombardment squad
ron. We service them with bombs
. . . takes a strong back and a
weak mind. I’m qualified! (Dr.
Donahue says he was an outstand
ing student in his classes) . . .
this is the jumping off place and
we may get a boat ride soon. I’d
really hate to miss that . . . I
wanted to come back to Aggie
land for Easter, but didn’t get
paid until yesterday . . . Serious
ly, I think most of the boys are
ready to go. Some are scared but
that is only natural. We have a
good many married men . . . wish
I were married but glad I’m not
. . . can you figure that? . . .
These “damn Yanks” get a big
kick out of our saying “you all,”
but to me it sounds better than
their “youse” . . . “KEEP ’EM
SMILING—WE’LL KEEP ’EM
FLYING.”
• • •
Sweepings
Foreward: We’ll have a lot of
hot sweaty, drill days come the
summer, but think about the Brit-
\ (See BACKWASH, Page 4)
One of the brightest comedies
of the year with two of the
screen’s most talented actors in
the leading roles is “WOMAN OF
THE YEAR” at Guion Hall today
and tomorrow. It is gay, light,
smart, and funny with Spencer
Tracy and Katherine Hepburn
enduring the matrimonial strug
gles of a writer and her reporter
husband.
As an added attraction for the
Wednesday night show, the A Ca-
pella Choir from Langston Univer
sity will appear on the stage at
Guion Hall. The price of admis
sion for both features will be 25
cents.
Tracy has had a career in the
theatre studded with success for
a number of years. Since coming
to Hollywood, he
has won the
! Academy award
for the best per-
Iformance of the
|year twice, once
Jn 1937 for “Cap-
stains Courage
ous” and again in
1939 for “Boys
‘‘T own.” He
Spencer Tracy achieved his fame
on the legitimate stage with his
part in “Thp Last Mile,” a role
that Clark Gable later played on
the screen.
Miss Hepburn writes an inter
national on a metropolitan news
paper and Spencer is the paper’s
leading sports reporter. They meet,
fall in love and decide to get mar
ried. Husband Tracy discovers to
his discomfort that he is expected
to play second fiddle in the affair,
and the column for the paper comes
first. Spencer
figures different-
fly and they fall
out, matching
wits and any
thing else handy
in the fight that
ensues. You will
find “Woman of
the Year” con
tains some real
istic true-to-life
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
Katharine
Hepburn
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