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The 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 t 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
ipon 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
Associated GoUe6iate 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 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
Tom Vannoy Junior Managing Editor
Ken Bresnen Junior Editor
Brooks Gofer Junior Editor
Clyde C. Franklin Junior Editor
Robert L. Freeland , Assistant Editorial Editor
W. A. Goforth Assistant Advertising Manager
Reporters -
Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Russell Chatham, Bill
Pox, Jack Keith, Tom Journeay, W. J. Hamilton, Nelson Kar-
oacn, rom jueianu, JL/oug ijancaster, unaries Jr. ivicxvnigiii., rveitn
Kirk, Weinert Richardson, C. C. Scruggs, Henry H. Yollentine,
Ed Kingery, Edmund Bard, Henry Tillet, Harold Jordon, Fred
Pankay, John May, Lonnie Riley, Jack Hood.
Championship?
This week-end-the Aggie baseball team will
go to Austin for a two game series with
the Longhorns. The outcome of these games
will determine the Southwest Conference
Champion for 1942. There is glory for the
winning team in capturing the coveted flag
of champion.
Not since 1937 have the Aggies been
able to hang up a baseball flag in Aggieland.
In that year the Aggies beat the Longhorns
on Kyle Field for their second baseball
championship in the history of the school.
The Longhorn monopoly on the champion
ship was broken, but they still retain some
thing like twenty-five flags to their credit.
Last year the Aggies traveled to Aus
tin for the rubber game of the conference.
Aggies followed the team with all the spirit
they could muster, but you know the out
come. The two teams played in a sea of
mud with the Texas boys victorious in a
closely fought battle. A. & M. could have
won the championship but for this one game,
and this year, as things look now, another
Aggie-Longhorn encounter will decide the
winner of the flag.
To win from a Texas team is the su
preme desire of every Aggie. Friday and
Saturday of this week should be no excep
tion, and don’t think that it will be easy
to beat the Longhorns because we won from
them here. Everyone knows how hard it is
to beat the Steers in Austin, whether it’s
baseball or not.
Since the game will be on the Forty
Acres, every Aggie should plan to go to
Austin and support his team. Last year the
band and some 1500 Aggies went to the
Capital City. Another such representation
should go this week. Detour that week-end
trip by way of Austin and give those Aggies
support.
You never know. A group of Aggies sit
ting in the stands and giving forth all
they’ve got might be the difference between
victory and defeat. Army, let’s go to Austin
and beat the Longhorns in their own back
yard.
Penny's Serenade
-— By W. L. Penberthy 'is
We have had many inquiries, since the adop
tion of the speed-up program, in regard to
what will be offered during the summer se
mester in the way of recreational opportuni
ties for the students. Although I cannot
speak with authority in regard to some
phases of the program, I think I can give
my readers a general idea of what might be
expected for the summer.
First, we hope to be able to have all of
'our required physical education classes
scheduled for the morning periods thus
throwing all of the facilities of the depart-
anent open for Intramural contests and un
organized voluntary activities during the
Wenings. These facilities include swimming,
volleyball, handball, tennis, aggieminton,
striking bags, boxing gloves, etc. The P. L.
Downs, Jr., Natatorium will in all likeli
hood be the most popular spot on the campus
and will be open for free swimming from
2:00 p. m. until 5:30 p. m. daily except Sun
day.
The sports to be offered in both divis
ions of the Intramural program are softball,
volleyball, tennis, water polo and swimming.
Other sports will be offered if there is suf
ficient demand.
Those who do not care to go to the Gym
for their recreation will be interested in
learning that plans are in progress for the
installation of facilities in the dormitory
areas for such activities as horseshoe pitch
ing, basketball goal shooting, volleyball, ag
gieminton and certain types of gymnastics.
Softball equipment will also be made avail
able as in the past.
Those of you who like to dance will be
thrilled t© learn that plans are under way
to construct three additional concrete tennis
The World Turns On
By DR. C. C. DOAK — — =
Aggies in the Spotlight—The Aggies at Cor-
regidor have been mentioned by name over
world wide broadcasts. A summary of A. &
M. achievements has been written into the
news papers. Our Representatives in Wash
ington have recorded our accomplishments
in the Congressional Record. Aggies are in
the spotlight in Athletics, in Industry, in
Corregidor, in Washington, with The Fly
ing Tigers, in short everywhere. Every Ag
gie should swell with pride at our recent
favorable publicity. The public appreciates
the working and the fighting that Aggies
have done and are doing. Let’s keep the spot
light, but let’s remember that the glaring
light of public gaze not only shows off our
good traits but shows up our defects.
Study, Work Fight—Last week the slo
gan Study, Work and Fight was proposed in
this column. It may be more than a coinci
dence that in the week during which the
words of praise for us were loudest and were
repeated most frequently a college-wide let
down in class work was reported. Could this
have been because not once in all of this pub
licity did we hear a word about Study? Work
and fight are fine, but how about study, that
third and most important ingredient in the
life, of students and colleges? Not once did we
read in the papers or hear over the radio
any loud praise for the quality or quantity
of studying being done here. Do you suppose
that if the spotlight had revealed evidences
of study, in quantities worthy of praise, that
all our friends would have neglected to men
tion it?
The Assembly Line—If a man who is
employed to work on the assembly line does
less than his best, the work is too little and
too poor, the products are not on time, and
they fail in test. The workman is a slacker,
a saboteur, a killer of our brave men, a be
trayer of his country’s cause, for the ma
chines either fail to reach the front or fail
in the crucial battle. We are at war and the
shirking workman should be dealt with se
verely. The people of Texas through mass
meetings have said so in no uncertain terms.
They have said so in resolutions sent to
ongress.
The Fighting Line—If a man is em
ployed to fight at the front but sleeps on his
post, he exposes his comrades and contrib
utes to the defeat of our cause. He is a
quitter. He should be court-martialed. Re
member the reasons for Pearl Harbor?
The Study Line—If, in this day of world
wide battle, a man is excused from the work
of the assembly line and the bleeding of the
fighting line, in order that he may pursue
the safer but more important tasks of study
ing at the study line, should he not preserve
with the same dilligence demanded of the
other boys? If he lets down, is he not also a
quitter ? If he does not deliver a trained man
at the end of the A. & M.’s officer assembly
line, is this not as great a crime as that com
mitted by the workman who fails to deliver
a machine?
Question for Patriotic Aggies—An un
trained officer exposes his men unnecessar
ily to both bullets and disease. He is a great
er menace than a defective machine in mod
ern battle. Therefore, if any among us can
not (or will not) render service through
study, should he not go either to the bench or
front ?
Fighting Aggies! Studying Aggies!
Good Aggies—your type is in the majority
here. Both we and the world know it. Should
you not insist, therefore, that every man
who shares your glorious tradition, and the
glare of your spotlight earn through a vig
orous program of study—work and fight,
the right to occupy space in our famous halls
and especially in your halls of fame?
Quotable Quotes
“If the people understand what the in
dependent universities mean to the country
they will be able to maintain them, or at
least those which are of strategic import
ance, in any economic situation that we can
now foresee. Under any political conditions
that seem likely to obtain in this country
the state universities must live in constant
fear that they will be sacrificed to fractional
fights or personal ambitions . . .
The example of the independent institu
tions is their only protection. The bulk of
education and research of the country may
be conducteed by the public institutions. The
pace must be set by the independent univer
sities.”—President Robert M. Hutchins of
the University of Chicago calls for preserva
tion of the independent universities.
courts which will also be used for outside
dancing. Roller skating will probably be in
troduced with these same courts being used
as the rink.
The Town Hall program will continue to
give very high class programs and I am
sure our friend Dick Jenkins has many tricks
up his sleeve to help us while away idle mo
ments with his Kadet Kapers.
All in all I feel that we will have many
opportunities to enjoy ourselves and keep
from getting stale and at the same time ac
quire a fair degree of physical fitness but
none of these programs will be crammed
down the student’s throats. It has been a
battle to secure funds to make many of these
activities possible and the only hope of those
who battled is that the students will show
their appreciation by using and enjoying the
various facilities, so, as Kay Kyser would
say, “come on chilluns yet’s play.”
THE BATTALION
-TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1942
Kollegiate Kaleidoscope
COVERING
campus ditfraciKis
alGHTENING STRUCK A
SPIRE OF THE DUKE U.
CHAPEL TWICE WITHIN
THREE DAYS/
Crimson , the
SCHOOL COLOR,
originated FROM
THE LARGE BAN
DANNA HANDKERCHEIF.'
Faculty "snooping"
CAUSED THE "GREAT
REBELLION OF ISZY',
WHICH RESULTED IN OVER
HALF OF THE S’ENIOR CLAST
BEING EXPELLED A FEW
WEEKS' BEFORE COMMENCEMENT ’
ROOM AND EOARD
HA? INCREASED
30 FOLD ANO
TUITION IS
70 TIMES
HIGHER THAN
WHEN
HARVARD
WAS YOUNG/
By Jack Keith
“WE WERE DANCING”, a com
edy depicting a “gentleman tramp”
is showing today and tomorrow
at Guion Hall. The cast includes
|Norma Shearer,
Melvyn Douglas,
Gail Patrick and
Marjorie Main.
The plot is based
on a Noel Cow
ard play, “To'-
night at 8:30,”
wherein all real
ism is cast aside
Melvyn Douglas and the players
seem to play their parts solely
to produce laughs.
Melvyn Douglas, as Nicki Prax,
a professional house-guest and
sponger of the rich, marries Vicki
Wilmorska (Norma Shearer) right
out from under the nose of her
wealthy fiance. He decides to get
a regular job and support Vicki
as a husband should, but changes
his mind when an opportunity to
continue his racket turns up.
Vicki sues for and wins a di
vorce after her husband has an
“incident” with one of his former
flames. She returns to her rich
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TODAY - TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
“HONOLULU LU”
N with
LUPE VELEZ
BRUCE BENNETT
LEO CARRILLO
1:28
4:08 — 6:58
“SHUT MY BIG
MOUTH”
with
AHIfHAL ODDITIES
BY
Tex Lynn
NOBODY LOVES ME ON
ACCOUNT OF I’M A SKUNK
The Indians called him Sikak,
and zoologists, more properly be
stowed the name Mephitis mephi
tis on this lonely forest dweller.
Even his pelt has been cloaked by
such names as Alaskan Sable or
Black Marten.
Too often we humans are in
clined to think of him as an evil
smelling nusiance whose only busi
ness in this world is to waft un
pleasant odors on some cool sum
mer night’s breeze. Astounding as
it may seem, the skunk is one of
the most amiable of all wood-folk,
for its life is not fraught with
squabbles or friction. From early
baby-hood the little skunk never
learns the meaning of fear, for his
right-of-way is never challenged
by even the most ferocious of ani
mals.
The baby skunk is born in early
May, and usually shares his nurs
ery with 9 or 10 brothers and sis
ters. The rate of growth of little
Sikak is slow, and when he is six
weeks old—at an age when field
mice are ready to produce young
of their own—his weight is but
14 ounces.
When eight weeks of age, this
striped, ebony-eyed mammal is
weaned, and is soon ready to make
its first trip into the great un
known. The mother skunk usually
takes the lead, and, through some
age-old custom, the liter tag along
behind in single file, looking all
the world like, some miniature cir
cus parade.
From the very first, the young
prove their mettle, and their in
herent right to the name of skunk,
for even though immature, their
ability to become obnoxious is ful
ly developed. Their diet is very
catholic; June bugs, tobacco and
tomato worms, root grubs, and
grashoppers all fall prey to the
voracious, sharp-eyed little hunter.
When older, the skunk may even
tackle the swift field mice whose
flesh is considered a delicacy in
the best of circles. A mighty popu
lar around farmers is this striped
forest-sleuth, for almost single-
handed, he can eradicate many in
jurious rodents and insects.
Sikak has his moments, though,
for games and sports are as im
portant a part of his curriculum
as are eating and sleeping. The
dance of the skunks is a rarity and
a thrill many a naturalist would
give their eye teeth to see. About
dusk of a summer evening they
will gather in a circle to begin
the weirdest of dances. As though
by a given signal the solemn-faced
skunks move in. stiff-legged hops
to the center of the circle until
their noses touch, then they re
verse the procedure, and step back
wards in an arthritic-like gait un
til the periphery of the circle is
reached. This skunk rug-cutting is
usually repeated some ten or
twelve times before the partici
pants disperse in search of some
fat, juicy bugs.
The skunk’s self-assurance is no
accident; he knows that he is im
mune from attack from all animals
save man. His knowledge of field
artillery is second nature to him,
and he has never been known to
misjudge distance or to fire a
blank. Yet he is no bully; indeed,
he will avoid any.kind of encounter
and will usually allow an ad
versary the privilege of attack or
retreat, and woe be unto the en
emy that accepts the former!
Whenever one sees the skunk’s
business end pointed in his general
direction it is high time to become
scarce.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT GUION HALL
Tuesday, Wednesday—
Melvyn Douglas and Norma
Shearer in “We Were Danc
ing.”
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday, Wednesday—
“Honolulu Lu”, with Lupe
Velez and Leo Carillo. Also
“Shut My Big Mouth,” star
ring Joe E. Brown.
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