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THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1942
Tl%£ Bnttalion The World Turns On
Kollegiate Kaleidoscope
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,
la 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.
By Dr. R. W. Steen:
Subscription rates $3
ipon request.
a school year. Advertising rates
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 ColIe6iate 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.... ‘-- --- « J --—
Mike Mann
Chick Hurst Junior Sports
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
Saturday’s Staff
Ken Bresnen -.Junior Managing Editor
Clyde C.
Ed Kingery...
Brooks Gofer
snen —Junior Managing Editoi
Franklin Junior Editoi
.Junior Editor
Junior Editor
Keith Kirk Junior Editor
Jack Hood Junior Editor
Reporters
Calvin Brumley, Arthur L. Cox, Russell Chatham, Bill
Fox, Jack Keith, Tom Journeay, W. J. Hamilton, Nelson Kar-
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.
War Press
Every reputable newspaperman will heartily
agree with Secretary Knox: “The war is
not being conducted for the purpose of mak
ing news. Where the unwise employment of
news will interfere with the successful con
duct of a campaign the news will suffer.”
We have come a long way since the time of
our own War Between the States, when
Confederate commanders more than once
obtained useful information about the Union
forces by the simple expedient of reading
smuggled Northern newspapers.
“Nowadays we would rather not know
secrets that might be useful to the enemy.
Secrecy in warfare is as important as guns.
It may save lives and help win victories. All
that the public has a right to ask is that
news that cannot possibly aid the enemy be
not arbitrarily suppressed.”
Nothing does more to sustain morale at
home and in the services than knowledge
as to what is being done and who is doing
it. But where there is a choice that might af
fect the safety of our crews there can be
no doubt that it is better to publish too little
than too much. —AGP
* * *
A free and informed press is essential to a
successful program for national defense.
The press is one of great agencies through
which the American people obtain the full
facts of the domestic and international sit
uations as these develop from day to day.
Such knowledge of the facts is indispensable
to the existence in this country of an en-
lighted public opinion which in a democracy
like ours, is the greatest safeguard in the
formulation and execution of domestic and
foreign policies.
There is no graver responsibility devel
oping on our press at this time than to keep
the people currently and accurately inform
ed of the conditions of mortal danger to
everything which we, as individuals and as a
nation, hold dear. Only as our people become
aware of the facts can there develop in the
nation that unity of thought and of purpose
without which we cannot hope to create the
necessary means of self-defense against the
manifest and deadly perils confronting us.—•
ACP.
Words and the War
America’s participation in the world strug
gle has brought out the fact that we do not
know the languages of the peoples in the
areas in which we are having to fight. To
remedy this situation in the shortest pos
sible time a comprehensive program has been
worked out by the Committee on the Na
tional School of Modern Oriental Languages
and Civilizations under the sponsorship of
the American Council of Learned Societies.
The committee is now engaged in the
difficult process of “tooling up” for the pro
duction of competent scholars in such lan
guages as Malay, Siamese, Persian, North
west African Arabic, Hungarian, Russian,
Chinese and Japanese. Already work is un
der way and more will be started at Yale
(Malay), Columbia (Persian), University of
Pennsylvania (Northwest African Arabic),
Michigan (Siamese), Harvard (Hungarian
and Russian), and George Washington (Chi
nese and Japanese) as the tools are pro
duced.
Americans have never been language
conscious and because of this we are now
faced with the present situation.
There is a special reason for each of
the languages mentioned. The number of
Americans now speaking Malay is practical
ly zero. The same may be said of Thailand.
It may well be that the entire area of Persia,
Agfhanistan and northern India will be
come engulfed in the conflict. Northwest Af
rica, with its nearness to Europe and its
growing strategic importance to both sides
of the conflict, provides the motive for the
study of the Arabic languages of this region.
The location of Hungary in the center of em
battled Europe gives to the study of Hun
garian a unique strategic importance. The
reasons for studying Russian, Chinese and
It seems that a federal sales tax is on the
way. Many members of congress have fay-
ored such a tax for several years, but the ad
ministration has been opposed to it. Now,
however, the administration is coming to
look upon a sales tax with some favor. There
are several reasons for this change of heart.
One is that the income .tax, even with the
increases proposed for next year, will not
produce all of the revenue that is needed.
Another is that even with lowered exemp
tions a large portion of the nation income
would still escape taxation.
Figures published this week state that
during 1942 farmers and laborers will re
ceive an income of almost $80,000,000,000.
The income tax will claim about $4,000,000,-
000 of this amount. During this year indust
rialists and others will have an income of
about $60,000,000,000, but will pay about
$20,000,000,000 of it back to the government
in the form of taxes. Obviously, if the new
tax program is going to curb inflation it will
have to take a larger share of all incomes,
and quite definitely a larger portion of that
$80,000,000,000.
The race for the office of United States
Senator from Texas is beginning to look like
the real thing. Mr. O’Daniel is seeking re-
election, although the details of his platform
have not yet been announced. He is to be
opposed by James V. Allred who was gover
nor from 1935 until 1939 and attorney gen
eral prior to that, and who has been a United
States district judge for the last two years.
Another opponent will be Dan Moody who
was governor from 1927-1931, and who was
attorney general prior to that. Both Allred
and Moody are experienced and capable
campaigners, and both have good political
records.
Moody has never lost a major political
campaign, and Allred has not lost one since
his first attempt to become attorney general.
Moody gained most of his experience cam
paigning against James E. Ferguson, and
Mr. Ferguson was no mean campaigner.
Many people cons ider Moody the most pro
gressive, and in some respects one of the
most capable, governors Texas has had since
the days of Jim Hogg.
D£. ALEXANDER MEANS,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF EMORY UNIVERSITY;
PRODUCED THE FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT IN
AMERICA. IN 1857, 21 YEARS BEFORE EDISON,
DR. MEANS ATTACHED WIRES FROM AN ELECTRIC.
MACHINE TO A PIECE OF CHARCOAL. WHEN
THE CURRENT WAS TURNED ON THE CHARCOAL
REACHED A WHITE HEAT EMITTING A
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"Baakwath: An agitation rtaultin* from mcau notion or oesorrenoc.”—Webster
Something to Read
:By Dr. T. F. Mayo:
Are You “Getting Educated”?
According to The Educational Policies Com
mission, an education should fit you for Self-
Realization, Human Relationship, Economic
Efficiency, and Civic Responsibility.
A few Aggies may like to ask themselves
if their education is moving them satisfac
torily toward the following, which are only
a few of those objectives listed by the Com
mission in their report “The Purposes of Ed
ucation in American Democracy.”
The Objectives of Self-Realization
The Inquiring Mind: The educated per
son has an appetite for learning.
Speech: He can speak clearly.
Reading: He reads efficiently.
Writing: He writes effectively.
Health Habits: He protects his own
health and that of his dependents.
Recreation: He is participant and spec
tator in many sports and other pastimes.
Intellectual Interests: He has mental re
sources for the use of leisure.
Esthetic Interests: He appreciates beau
ty.
Character: He gives responsible direc
tion to his own life.
The Objectives of Human Relationship
Respect for Humanity: The educated
person puts human relationships first.
Friendships: He enjoys a rich, sincere,
and varied social life.
Cooperation: He can work and play
with others.
Courtesy: He observes the amenities of
social behavior.
Homemaking: He is skilled in home
making.
Democracy in the Home: He maintains
democratic family relationships.
The Objectives of Economic Efficiency
Work: The educated producer knows the
satisfaction of good workmanship.
Occupational Choice: He has selected
his occupation.
Occupational Efficiency: He succeeds in
his chosen vocation.
Occupational Appreciation: He appreci
ates the social value of his work.
Consumer Judgment: He develops stan
dards for guiding his expenditures.
Japanese hardly need explanation.
While the British were assiduous lan
guage students they never went to the trou
ble of compiling adequate grammars, dic
tionaries, etc., and those that" were com
piled are now completely out of date.
In ordinary times there is little impetus
for the production of these materials, but
now that there is a concrete need for capable
scholars in these languages, they will be pro
duced within a fairly reasonable time.
American linguistic experts have had
invaluable experience in the scientific study
of the languages of the American Indian,
which can be put to work in the present situ
ation. In the analysis and codification of
such Indian languages as Tonkowa, Quileute,
Yuchi, Zuni and Coeur d’Alene these lin
guists gained experience and perfected a
technique and a method unequaled anywhere
in the world.
Mortimer Graves of the American coun
cil states that in seven or eight months re
sults will begin to be apparent.—Henry H.
Douglas, associate fellow for the Pacific
area, Library of Congress.—A.C.P.
Men ’O War
A U. S. Army “Big Gun” shot
orchids right in our face recently
in a letter to Dean Kyle from Col
onel Levi G. Brown of New Or
leans.
Part of the letter reads:
“No doubt those Texas A. & M.
alumni will render the same ef
ficient service in
their capacities
in foreign lands
that the many
former alumni
did in the last
war, and are do
ing in this one.
It seems to me
that because of
Hood the immense ef
fort the College has put forth in
the past, and is putting forth now,
it should assume the name of ‘The
War School’ or ‘The Great War
School’.’’
• • •
“Me Brudder”
Dean Gilchrist was on the re
ceiving end of a letter from Lee
Reiff, of Newton, Kansas—little
brother of Glenn Reiff, C CAC.
This is what’s called “family co
operation”:
‘This letter concerns my inter
est in the Vox Pop broadcast on
May 11. I am twelve years old . . .
my brother is a freshman in your
department . . . Newton should
be represented as we are near the
geographical center of our great
nation . . . Oh Boy! I’d be happy to
hear my brother’s voice and I’ll be
listening ... I hope I can go to
Texas A. & M. too as I want to
do like my big brother . . .”
in houston he took a taxi to Coi-
lege Station—everybody’s got ex
penses, ain’t they? . . . Kyle Drake
and Wayne Cure were having a
helluva time with a bacteriology
make-up quiz—they were just
about to pass it (between them).
They decided to consult the book
(underhanded like) which was
well and good,- but a stolen glance
revealed they had brought the
wrong book. Moral: You can’t pass
a bacteriology quiz with a business
law book . . . Bobby Williams, D
Field, CLAIMS a Santonite, Char
lene Bledsoe, is his bride—brand
new, (but we still say “claims”)
. . . Leslie Ratliff, 2 CHQ, and
June Lynch, former TSCWite now
teaching school, listened to a
preacher lately . . . Henry Ford
(not one of the Dearborn, Fords),
D Infantry, and Gerald Hooten,
Ordnance, placed a bet as soon as
the order came out taking seniors
with commissions to war May 17.
The first one to leave collects a
large dollar bill . . . M. H. Jacobs
in the Houston Post: “For months
before Corregidor fell to hunger,
disease and the Japanese, Texans
regarded the battle for 1 that tough
hunk of rock as their own private
and personal war. Steely-eyed
Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, the
Texas artillery wizard who com
manded its big guns and directed
their deadly fire, and several doz
en hand-picked Texas A. & M.
boys who fought at his side are
responsible for that feeling.”
By Jack Keith
Boyd Raeburn and his orchestra
and their “Rhythms by Raeburn”
will predominate the week-end’s
entertainment program on the
campus. Tonight in Sbisa Hall,
they will appear for the fourth
time at A. & M. in two years, and,
according to those who attended
the dance last night, Boyd is bet
ter than ever. This is the last corps
dance of the season except for the
final ball May 15, so borrow that
buck and ten cents and dance with
Raeburn.
Midnight preview tonight after
the corps dance will star Gene
Tierney in “SUNDOWN,” with
Bruce Cabot, George Sanders and
Harry Carey. Gene Tierney as the
supposedly half-caste girl in the
wilds of Africa is very beautiful
and Bruce Cabot as the commis
sioner of a British outpost shares
equal honors with Miss Tierney
with his characterization of the
part.
“Sundown appeared as a serial
in the Saturday Evening Post writ
ten by Barree Lyndon. It is full of
action, romance, spying, and ad
venture. In fact, at times the pic
ture almost loses itself in such
an avalanche of action, but the
excellent plot and acting make it
a remarkable picture. “Sundown”
with its jungle scenes, natives and
gun-fights is a movie which should
have been filmed in color for the
black and white fail to do it jus
tice.
Katherine Hepburn returns in
another picture today only at
Guion Hall, “THE PHILADEL
PHIA STORY.” Supporting her in
the film are Cary Grant and
James Stewart.
“The Philadelphia Story” is a
story of a girl in the so-called
“upper brackets” of Philadelphia
society who is ultra sophisticated.
On the eve of her wedding to a
multi-millionaire she gets drunk
with a newspaper reporter (Jimmy
Stewart) and returns at dawn the
next day. Her would-be husband
suspects the worst of the pair, and
refuses to marry her. Cary Grant
comes into the picture as Katie’s
ex-husband whom she divorced be
cause of his perpetual drunken
ness. Havcing acquired an under
standing heart after her spree with
the reporter, she remarries the re
formed Grant.
“The Philadelphia Story” is a
splendid satire of snobbish society.
As a newspaper reporter, Jimmy
Stewart furnishes the direct op
posite to such society and, it is
through his influence that Hep
burn sees herself in the true light.
This change in her attitude is due
to cause the movie’s audience to
love her in the end as much as they
hate her at the beginning of the
story.
“Rhythms by Raeburn” Corps
Dance, Saturday nite, $1.10.
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TRADE YOUR
BOOKS
L O U P O T
LAST DAY
ALEXANDER KORDA
presents
ERIE OBERON
with
ALAN MARSHALL
Also
Donald Gets Drafted
Picture People — News
PREVIEW TONIGHT
AFTER CORPS DANCE
SUNDAY ~ MONDAY
WALTER WANGER’S
Great Adventnromance of Today!
SUNDOWN
with
GENE TIERNEY
BRUCE CABOT
GEORGE SANDERS
Also
News — Cartoon — Musical
“Rhythms by Raeburn” Corps
Dance, Saturday nite, $1.10.
• •
Sweepings
Foreword: Every man likes to
see a broad smile—especially if
she smiles at him . . . Quotes De
partment: Milton Kegley, C Coast,
got off the best war quip with,
“The sale of shoes will soon be
frozen—everything for victory and
nothing for de-feet” . . . Aggie-Ex
Earl Cunningham stationed at
Palacious: “The mosquitos are so
large that we are considering
using them as anti-aircraft prac
tice targets” . . . John G. Cole, in
terviewer of the Vox Pop appli
cants, flew to Houston from New
York, and when he missed his bus
William Anderson, chairman of
the political science department at
the University of Minnesota is cur
rent president of the American
Political Science association.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Midnight preview, tonight,
Sunday and Monday—“Sun
down” with Gene Tierney,
Bruce Cabot and George
Sanders.
AT GUION HALL
Today only—“The Phila
delphia Story,” with Kather
ine Hepburn, Cary Grant
and James Stewart.
GRADUATION GIFTS AT CALDWELL’S
Always Are Appropriate—As Well As Quality Gifts
That Last.
WATCHES DIAMONDS
AGGIE JEWELRY
— Gifts of All Kinds —
Caldwell Jewelry Store
Bryan, Texas
Gel the Newest in Both Styles on
VICTOR and FI UFRIRD RECORDS
Your Favorite Tunes When You Want To Hear Them
JERSEY BOUNCE—King Sisters %
DON’T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE—Andrews Sisters
GOODNIGHT LITTLE ANGEI^Russ Morgan
THERE ARE RIVERS TO CROSS—Woodie Herman
HASWELL’S
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MOVIE
Guion Hall
• • •
SATURDAY
“Philadelphia Story’’
Featuring
Cary Grant Katherine Hepburn
James Stewart
1 P. M. 6:45 P.M. 8:30 P.M.
Coming
MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY
H. M. FULHAM ESQUIRE
ROBERT YOUNG HEDY LAMARR
RUTH HUSSEY
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