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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
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
1-6444.
1941 Member 1942
Associated Colle6iate 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
Thursday’s Staff
Clyde C. Franklin Juinor Managing Editor
Tom Vannoy Junior Editor
Ken Bresnen Junior Editor
Brooks Gofer... 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-
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
Pankay, John May, Lonnie Riley, Jack Hood.
Class of '42 Exits
Mothers and Dads, sweethearts and visitors
will gather at Aggieland this week-end to
witness another graduation of a senior class.
Today the class of ’42 will begin the final
step of their career at Aggieland. The last
official functions of the class will take place
with the annual Senior Ring Dance and later
the graduation exercises and the final re
view.
Looking back, some two thousand boys
entered A. & M. four years ago as fresh
men. The number decreased the next year
and the following two years. But a total of
some 725 will graduate in the next few days,
and go out from Aggieland as exes.
Many of these graduates will go into
the army as second lieutenants. They will
join a large list of Aggies who are already
serving their country. Some will enter de
fense industries and help fight the war
here in the United States. Everyone will be
taking a definite place in the society of
America.
As these Aggies leave college they will
take with them a spirit which no other
school in the country can equal. Each and
every one of them will have a part to play
in the upholding of the record which A. & M.
men have set up in the past. No doubt these
graduates will continue to reach the level of
past graduates, for this year’s class has
been one of the most outstanding in the
school’s history.
And as the seniors leave the burden
falls on the shoulders of the junior class to
maintain the tradition and the spirit of the
school. In the present crisis this job will be
harder than ever. Full cooperation from
every member of the class will be needed in
order to work for the improvement of Ag
gieland.
Saturday morning will be the last re
view for the present seniors, and also marks
the official transfer of command of the
corps. All Aggieland pays its final respects
to those seniors who have so faithfully la
bored for the interests of Aggieland and the
cadet corps.
To the second war class of the present
conflict, Aggies in school and out wish you
all the good luck in the world. Slap those
Japs with that Ole Army hell, but leave
some of them for us Aggies who are also
itching for the opportunity.
THE BATTALION
Silver Taps
Man, Your Manners
COVERING
By I. Sherwood
The tire shortage has compelled many per
sons to take to train travel for short as well
as long trips. Some of our younger genera
tion may find themselves on a train literally
for the first time in their lives; they will
want to brush up on train manners.
Special directions—Whether you are go
ing on a long or short trip, luggage should
be chosen to look nice—nothing makes a
worse impression upon fellow travelers than
broken-down luggage and oddly shaped bun
dles or bundles at all, for that matter. To do
nothing that can offend the sensibilities of
others, is the principal rule for conduct un
der all circumstances.
Train Manners—In the dining-car on a
day’s journey you do not usually speak to
a stranger that happens to be seated at your
table, beyond a possible request for some
thing that may not be within your reach.
To be polite to people transiently placed next
to you does not obligate you to continue the
acquaintance.
If your pullman reservation is for a low
er berth, you are entitled to the. seat that
faces forward; if you have the upper one,
your seat faces backward.
The observation or lounge car is avail
able to pullman passengers but not to day-
coach passengers.
Whether you have a drawing room,
compartment or berth you ring for the por
ter when you are ready to retire for the
night. In every variety of room, facilities
are included, so that you do not go to the
public dressing room at all. If, however, you
have a berth, you dress in the dressing room
with others; if you wish privacy you will
be compelled to do as much dressing and
undressing as possible in your berth.
Tipping is important in train travel if
you wish service and more than the usual
ten per cent is expected in the diner. The
porter expects from twenty-five to fifty
cents for an overnight trip. Longer trips
more than that.
Capital to Campus
campus distractions
:Associated College Press;
One of Aggieland’s greatest traditions should
never end. That tradition is Silver Taps.
Monday night people all over the country
heard an Aggie’s tribute to his lost brother.
Vox Pop set aside a portion of its program
to pay Aggieland’s last respect to those
Aggies who have given their lives in tha
present world war. Thirty-three exes and
former students have been killed in actioii
since the war started, and it was to these
Aggies that Silver Taps was played.
A definite part of the Aggie spirit is the
relation to one another that all men at
Aggieland have. The loss of one hurts each
man of the corp. Whether he was known by
that cadet or not, still he wore the uniform
and was a member of the Aggie brother
hood.
It’s something you don’t want to talk
about, but it’s customs such as Silver Taps
which make Aggieland what it is today. To
observe these traditions should be the pur
pose of every Aggie, and to disgrace any
such observance would be looked down upon.
The National Education Association’s
educational policies commission (President
Conant of Harvard is a member) is recom
mending a plan to anticipate Selective Serv
ice by two to three years—catch promising
boys as they leave high school, steer them
into fields where they will be of most use
in the war effort.
A “reserved category” of most promis
ing boys 17 through 19 would be allocated
to schools and colleges for training. The “re
served category” would be picked “absolutely
irrespective” of financial status of their
parents, with Uncle Sam financing the ad
vanced education.
JOBS...
WASHINGTON—(AGP)—The weather
man is likely to be a weatherwoman for the
duration. Civil Service is looking for college
women to fill vacancies at weather stations
west of the Mississippi.
If you’re interested, go to the weather
station where you would like a job and ask
for blanks. (Incidentally, some stations are
still averse to hiring women—which is some
thing you may want to know in advance.)
At least two years of college work is
required, with emphasis on mathematics and
physics. The salary is $135 a month—$120
or $105 if you are willing to take less. You’ll
have to take a written examination.
• • •
Reports filtering into the Capitol from
“the field” indicate that farmers generally
are reacting favorably to the student farm-
work plan of McNutt’s Manpower Commis
sion. The newly-created Commission is going
to enlist college and high school students to
work on farms in areas where shortage of
help threatens.
Of course, the Department of Agricul
ture here had already advised its field per
sonnel to use students. And many students
and farmers have been planning ahead of
any Washington agency. For example, in
Eastern truck gardening areas students and
farmers have been working together more
than two months.
The Manpower Commission will obtain
students through Employment Service of
fices.
• • •
The Navy needs about 50 girls for tech
nical and scientific aides. They’ll take almost
anyone who has had one or two years of
chemistry or physics. The openings are in
arsenals and ordnance plants at Dover, N. J-
Watertown, Mass.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Rock
Island, 111.; Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo.,
and Birmingham, Ala. The salary is about
$1600.
• • •
WAR.. .
It is unlikely, according to national Se
lective Service headquarters, that any stu
dent in the 20-year-old draft age group will
be called up before June. The lottery was
held in March. New draft registrants won’t
be completely classified until some time in
May.
General Hershey’s office has cleared up
the confusion on how new lists will be in
tegrated with the old. The answer is, they
won’t. Not exactly.
Instead the war department will begin
an entirely new plan, about June 1, of speci
fying not only quota numbers but also the
age group from which quotas are to be filled.
Thus, if the army says it wants men 21 to
35, the old list will be used; if it wants men
below 21 or above 35, the new list will be
used.
The latest advice to collegians from Se
lective Service is still, “stick to your college
work until you’re called.” Patriotic. fervor
has its place, but a wild rush of volunteers
will only serve to complicate planning.
Co-eds are in for careers, with or with
out husbands to manage. For “the ultimate”
is 9,000,000 more women workers.
• • •
GLAMOR . . .
Jane Seaver, 22, an acquaintance of Mrs.
Roosevelt, has the title of “co-director of
youth activities” in OCD. She’s listed on the
payroll at $2,600. A year ago she was a
Mount Holyoke college senior.
By Jack Keith
Seniors will hold their tradition
al Ring Ceremonies and dance to
night to the music of Boyd Rae
burn. The rest of the corps will
swing out to the “Rhythms by
Raeburn” tomorrow night at the
Final Ball. Civilian clothes will
be “reg” that night and the scrip
is $2.00.
Jack “Jello” Benny and the late
Carole Lombard star in the movie
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at
the Campus Theater. The picture,
“TO BE OR NOT TO BE,” an
swers its own interesting title—
it’s definitely To Be.
“To Be Or Not To Be” combines
humor, melodrama and romance
in a plot which is outstanding in
its complications yet hilarious
enough to leave the audience in a
gay mood. At times the suspense
reaches large heights only to be
cleverly turned aside with some
of Benney’s noted wise-cracks.
The scene of -the film is War
saw, Poland, shortly after the
German invasion of that country.
The actors in the troupe of which
Benney and Carole Lombard are
a part are involved in an attempt
to foil the German Gestapo. The
manner in which they befuddle the
Germans combined with the quips
of the famed radio comedian and
his jealousies over his wife, Miss
Lombard, combine to make “To
Be or Not to Be” a show not to
be missed.
Last show at Guion Hall before
the holidays is “BLOSSOMS IN
THE DUST”, with Greer Garson
(Ja/n/ms
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and Walter Pidgeon in a story
about Mrs. Edna Gladney of Ft.
Worth. Mrs. Gladney was the
founder of the Texas Children’s
Home and Aid Society and by her
influence many of our state laws
concerning social welfare were
passed.
Greer Garson is a beauty in
any man’s language, and in the
technicolor of “Blossoms in the
Dust,” she is outstanding. As Mrs.
Gladney, she catches perfectly the
deep emotionalism of a woman
who has lost her own child and
strives to take as many homeless
children into her nursery as she
possibly can. Through a brilliant
speech to the state legislature, she
succeeds in erasing the word “il
legitimacy” from their records.
Walter Pidgeon plays the part
of the man who woos and wins
Miss Garson. Other players in the
show are Marsha Hunt as Mrs.
Gladney’s best friend and Felix
Bressart as the doctor.
Major Steel Leaves
A&M for Active Duty
Major Ernest W. Steel, present
senior instructor for the Engineer
regiment, has received his orders
to report to the Office of the Coor
dinator of Inter-American Affairs
at Washington, D. C. Major Steel
was formerly head of the depart
ment of Municipal and Sanitary
Engineering before he was called
to active duty this spring.
—AGGIES—
(Continued from Page 3)
Cliff Haggerman of S.M.U., a
dangerous hitter and a great ball
hawk. Rogers and Haggerman are
the leftfielder and centerfielder,
respectively. For the other garden
spot, it was a slambing battle be
tween Frito Gonzales of S.M.U.,
Leo Daniels of A. & M., Jimmy
Sheehan of Rice, and Bruce Al
ford of T.C.U. However, after due
deliberation I award the spot to
Gonzales of S.M.U., a very dan
gerous hitter, and a speedster who
can really cover that grorund. So
there’s the outfield—Rogers (A.
& M.) left field, Haggerman (S.
M.U.) centerfield, and Gonzales
(S.M.U.) rightfield.
Catchers—John Scoggin (A. &
M.) and Dub Barrow (Rice)—
There was no question as to who
were the two best backstops in
the conference. Scoggin, one of
the greatest players in the history
of the SWC, was the league’s lead
ing slugger and showed up well
behind the plate. Barrow played on
a very weak club but still had
the best arm in the league.
Pitchers
Pitchers—Charlie Stevenson (A.
& M.), Manuel Garcia (Baylor),
and Bill Dumke (Texas)—Here
again was an easy assignment. In
fact if one should decide to pick
four hurdlers he would be in a
tough fix for there just weren’t
any more pitchers that merited
all-conference mention. Charlie
-THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1942
won 10 games for the Aggies and
was undoubtedly the outstanding
hurler of the league. Garcia was
the hard workhorse of the Baylor
Beare and was one of the two
pitchers to handcuff the mighty
Aggies. Dumke was a constant
threat and almost pitched Texas to
a championship. Yeh! I said al
most.
Well, fans, that winds it all up.
Wait a second, I did forget a coach
and even an all-conference team
needs a coach. So without hesita
tion we give you Lilburn J. (Lil)
Dimmitt and if you find a better
mentor than the above-mentioned
I’ll gladly give this game of base
ball back to the Indians. And just
to make it unanimous I’ll insert
Jim (Frog) Montgomery as the
manager and if you don’t think
that’s enough I’ll put in the rest
of the Aggie team just for good
measure.
Sigma Xi, scientific research so
ciety, has granted a charter for
establishment of a chapter at Lou
isiana State university.
Plant operation uses up 13.8 per
cent of the University of Pitts
burgh’s expenditures.
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LOU SAYS...
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your business.’'
Trade With Lou ’Cause He’s Right With You
LOUPOT’S TRADING POST
J. E. Loupot Class of ’32
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