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THE BATTALION
Battalion Man, Your Manners
PRIVATE BUCK . . By Clyde Lewis
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 53 a school year. Advertising rates
apon 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 GoUe6icite Press
Reporters
Enough and on Time!
News releases tell us that Corregidor Fort
ress has fallen to the enemy. Reason: short
age of supplies and reenforcements.
They fail to tell that Johnny Jones fell
because he was so tired of eating monkey
meat that he didn’t much care anymore what
happened. They fail to mention that Sam
Brown fell because he had nothing to shoot
in his model 1903 rifle. Matter-of-fact re
ports came in daily that our men on the
front are short of supplies, that there are
not enough men there to do the job. And
the American people are so busy conduct
ing “business as usual” that they say, “My
that’s too bad, isn’t it.” And then they go
back to their “business as usual.”
Why is it that a nation like ours must
leave those men stranded and at the mercy
of the enemy? The United States is the
wealthiest nation in the world, possessing
greater natural resources and a more ingen
ious population than any other country. Is
it fair to bid our boys adieu and wave them
a fond farewell when their ships land them
at some far off port, and let it go at that?
Stranded to shift Tor themselves as best
they can!
If our soldiers are not worthy of receiv
ing aid and the materials of war from home,
they are not worthy of laying down their
lives for our nation.
The story is told of the old lady who told
a soldier (a country boy before the war)
how proud she was that he would lay down
his life for his country to defeat the enemy.
He answered, “No, ma’am, I’m gonna make
him lay down his for his’n.” But that pri
vate cannot make “him lay down his for
his’n” by throwing rocks at him! He must
have rifles, bullets and food to fight this
war effectively.
Corregidor Fortress has fallen! And
with it have fallen Aggies! Too little arid
too late! Our politicians seem to be too busy
log rolling and pork barreling to realize that
there is a war to be won, not votes to be
sought. For if the war is not won, there
will be no votes for anyone.
Capital and labor are occupied with their
own petty greivances. And there is a War
to be won! For if the war is not won there
will be great greivances which will not be
settled by arbitration.
Then let the parents and friends of
those Aggies who have laid down their lives
that we might keep ours get behind their
representatives in the government, let them,
if necessary, force industry and labor to
produce. Let them run the factories 24 hours
a day seven days a week and when the fac
tories are worn out, let them build new ones.
Let them risk our ships to get war materials
to the battle fr<*nts. Aggies and other Amer
ican boys are out there risking something
that can’t rebuilt or bought with money.
Let us replace the excuse, “too little
and too late,” with the motto, “enough and
on time.” Let’s start winning this war!
—KCB.
Quotable Quotes
“A certain way of relieving the present
shortage of pharmacists caused by the emer
gency is to induce more outstanding stud
ents to enter colleges of pharmacy. The
present shortage will become more acute
unless pharmacists persuade more high
school graduates to point toward pharmacy
as a career.
“Many boys and girls choose their life’s
work as a result of contact with individuals
in a community whom they admire. If each
pharmacist will point out to outstanding boys
and girls the many advantages that the
pharmacy profession offers as a career for
service, a constant supply of well-trained
pharmacists will be insured. The colleges of
pharmacy are not filled to capacity; they
can increase their enrollments easily and
thus supply more pharmacists than is being
done at present.” Dr. C. L. A. Schmidt, dean
of the University of California college of
pharmacy, says pharmacists must make it
By L Sherwood
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
Thursday’s Staff
Clyde C. Franklin Juinor Managing Editor
Ken Bresnen Junior Editor
Brooks Gofer........... - Junior Editor
Keith Kirk Junk
Ed Kingery Junio
...Junior
Keith Kirk Junior Editor
__ nior Editor
Jack Hood.. Junior Editor
A. & M. Seniors soon will be entering the
Army of the United States, as officers. A
thorough knowledge of the courtesies and
customs of the Service is essential; such a
knowledge will give the young officer con
fidence in himself and save him from em
barrassing situations.
Social life at an army post during war
time is limited, but a knowledge of what is
customary during peace time will aid in do
ing the proper thing at any time.
The following is taken from Official
Courtesy and Customs of the Service. An of
ficer arriving at a post at which he expects
to remain longer than twenty-four hours
should call on the post commander. If as
signed to duty there, he should call on all
his intermediate commanders. This official
visit to the post and intermediate command
ers should be repeated at their residences.
If the commander is married, it is the cus
tom for the officer making the visit to be
accompanied by his wife, if he has one. The
calls are formal and should not last longer
than ten minutes.
It is customary for officers to call on a
new arrival as soon as he is situated. If the
newcomer is married, ladies call with their
husbands.
Social Functions: It is customary for
officers of all grades to dance or chat with
the wives of senior officers of the unit.
A member of a dinner party later attend
ing a dance should not fail to dance with the
hostess and guest of honor.
Invitations to dinners and private func
tions, when accepted, constitute social obli
gations and should be returned.
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to termites!”
BACKWASH
By
Jack Hood
“BaokwMh: An agitation resulting from •ocna action or oeenmenoe."—Webstar
Rhythm By Raeburn Sweepings
From Capital to Campus
ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington
The Civil Service Commission faces a tre
mendous task. Recent passage of the Rams-
peck amendment brings 85 per cent of fed
eral jobs—an all-time high—under commis
sion scrutiny. Workers in non-war agencies
must be funneled into at-war agencies.
Countless new workers must be found and
dovetailed into the government army.
This means thousands of potential jobs
for college people, whose specialized training
is eagerly sought. Often the government is
stepping in, through civil service, to give
college people on-the-job training—“majors”
in lines where they are needed most.
An example is the recent move to enlist
college women for “men’s work.” As labora
tory aides in army arsenals, they inspect
gauges used in testing ordnance materials.
Co-eds who wish such jobs should have at
least two years of college work, including
some physics, chemistry and trigonometry.
The goal of civil service is 100 girls a month
for the next 10 months. Initial pay, $1620
annually.
Although about 87 per cent of govern
ment jobs are “in the field,” as Washington
ians blithely dismiss the United States, some
are located here in the capital. Don’t take
too seriously what you read and hear of
crowded and costly living conditions here.
A salary of $2,000 here is equal, roughly, to
one of $1,800- in a city of comparable size.
Living quarters are crowded to be sure, but
turn-over of tenants is high. Which means
you’ll always find a place if you watch close
ly and jump quickly.
If you were one of the some 16,000 col
lege people who filed with civil service last
month for a “junior professional assistant”
job, it may interest you to know the exams
won’t be given until this spring.
It’s open season “indefinitely” on seniors
and graduates in chemistry, physics and en
gineering. So hot is the pursuit that civil
service has abandoned competitive examina
tions in these fields—probably for the dura
tion. Simply show on your application blanks
that you have had requisite training. In the
case of successful candidates who are sen
iors, “provisional appointments” will be
made. Which means jobs, come spring and
graduation.
You’ll be classed as a “junior profession
al assistant” with starting pay $2,000 a year,
although many agencies will try to get you
for less . . . unless you say on your blank
that you won’t take less.
Others of Uncle Sam’s favorite nephews
and nieces are economists. Currently favored
are those with at least two years of gradu
ate work or experience. Successful applica
tion through civil service may bring a job
paying from $2,600 to $5,600.
their business to induce high school students
to study pharmacy if the present acute short
age of pharmacists is to be relieved.
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“Basic to sound civilian morale in a
democracy is public understanding. Ameri
ca’s schools, colleges and libraries, therefore,
have a vital part to play in developing civi
lian morale soundly based on an understand
ing of the nature of the present struggle
against totalitarianism and of the problems
which face us as a people in our resolve to
defend democracy against all threats, foreign
or domestic.”—John W. Studebaker, United
States commissioner of education, points
to a morale function for American education
al institutions.
Raeburn’s 14-piece band plays
four dates here—and Town Hall
. . . leading off with the Junior
Banquet-Prom and corps dance,
he will dash over
Alabama way
for dates, then
back to Aggie-
land for the Sen
ior Ring Dance
(Thursday), and
Town Hall and
[Final Ball (Fri
day).
Hood Keynoting the
orchestra’s style is Boyd’s own
fresh, young personality . . . the
band is recognized as one of the
better versatile outfits, giving out
with everything from swing to
waltzes. They broke the record
with a 14 week run at Chicago’s
swank Chez Paree—where they
were trademarked “Rhythm By
Raeburn” . . . Leader Raeburn is
a bright boy—graduated from
high school with the highest
grades (valedictorian), was offer
ed several scholarships and accept
ed the one for the University of
Chicago. He organized his band in
his soph year, quitting school to
take a tempting commercial offer.
• • •
The Open-Air —
—dance floor is scheduled as
a fast job ... it should be finish
ed the first week of the semester.
The site will be directly behind
the Assembly Hall, but back about
100 feet and about 100 feet south
of the street.
Next semester’s seniors will
graduate in February, so the cal
endar of dances will have to be
jammed up—^resulting in summer
regimental dances, etc. . . . Social
Secretary Bob Stevens hopes to
sign the “mosta of the besta”
bands this summer . . . good ones
will be easier to get.
We Will Buy Your
Coat Hangers
LAUTERSTEIN’S
The Society of Sigma Xi, national scien
tific organization, is installing chapters this
spring at Louisiana State university, Utah
Agricultural college and Illinois Institute of
Technology.
MOVIE
GUION HALL
Thursday and Friday
3:30 and 6:45
James Stephenson — Ronald Reagin
in
International Squadron
NEWS
COMEDY
Coming Saturday
By popular request we are having a return
engagement of
PHILADELPHIA STORY’
One of the best pictures of the year!
-THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1942
COVERING
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By Jack Keith
Movie goers who like pictures of
planes, pilots, and everything as
sociated with them will enjoy the
movie Thursday and Friday at
Guion Hall. The picture is “IN
TERNATIONAL SQUADRON”,
starring Ronald Reagan.
Reagan plays the part of an
American test pilot who lives for
today “for tomorrow he may die/’
After ferrying a bomber over to
England, he is induced to join the
Royal Air Force by a pair of his
old friends. As a member of the
International Squadron, composed
of men of all nationalities flying
for England, Reagan continually
gets into trouble for disobeying
the rules and pulling tricks on his
fellow flyers.
His love affair with Jeannette
(Olympe Bradna), a French girl
who drives a taxi cab, causes the
flyer to realize that he has been
running too wild and he does what
he can to ease his own conscience.
The picture, with its background
of war-torn London, air raids, Spit
fires and Messerschmitts, is one
of the best of the present-day pic
tures depicting the war.
The Campus is showing “MAN
HUNT” tonight for the benefit of
the Sailing club. “Manhunt” is a
unique story about one man hunt
ing down another. The cast, in
cluding Joan Bennett and Walter
Pidgeon, produce a top-ranking
adventure story which is a novel
portrayal of a fugitive from death.
Feature at the Campus Friday
and Saturday is “LYDIA”, with
Merle Oberon, Joseph Gotten and
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 6)
The QMC and Ordnance flipped
for the best location next semester
—the QMC got the two top stoops
of Legett and the Ordnance boys
claim one of the new halls. Sez
the Q-masters: “We wuz robbed!”
. . . Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis is
the only Aggie to graduate with
a perfect “A” average in the
school’s 66 years . . . Brig. General
Bruce, who will hand out the
commissions to seniors is an Ag
gie-Ex, class of 1916 . . . best yet
is the full page picture of Reville
in the Longhorn. She is shown
with a No. 1 cap on and a bag
beside her—ready to “hit the
road.” Under the photo is this
identification: Reville; mascoting;
home town, Peach Creek; age 10;
Queen; Best dressed and best drill
ed co-ed of 1932-42; No. 1 Surber-
chaser; Most traveled Aggie;
President K-9 club; and Most pop
ular Aggie . . . Colonel Welty ap
pears in the latest issue of the
screen feature “March of Time,”
filmed while he was in Newfound
land . . . Famous Last Words:
Knees are a luxury—just try to
get hold of one.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday—Benefit show,
“Manhunt,” with Joan Ben
nett and Walter Pidgeon.
Friday, Saturday—“Lydia”
starring Merle Oberon with
Joseph Gotten and Edna
Mae Oliver.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—Ronald
Reagan in “International
Squadron.”
LOUPOT’S
AN AGGIE
TRADITION
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Thursday - Friday - Saturday
BOB HOPE
MADELEINE CARROLL
“MY FAVORITE
BLONDE ,,
PREVIEW 11 P. M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
RAY MIDLAND
PAULETTE GODDARD
in
“THE LADY
HAS PLANS”
Shown Sunday - Monday
TODAY ONLY
“MAN HUNT”
with
WALTER PIDGEON
JOAN BENNETT
Also
Picture People
Comedy — Sport
Benefit Show, Sailing and
Geology Clubs
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
ALEXANDER KORDA
presents
with
ALAN MARSHALL
Also
Donald Gets Drafted
Picture People — News
Jane Doe didn’t do much out of
the ordinary—just went to class
at Eastern Oregon College of Edu
cation—but she certainly caused
a commotion. It just happened that
this Jane Doe was the real thing,
a deer doe. The little deer wander
ed into ai hall at the college, cas
ually looked over the students in
classrooms and wandered out
again.
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