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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 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.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service,
Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone
4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Plssociofed GoUefrote Press
Brooks Gofer
Ken Bresnen.........
Reggie Smith
Mike Haikin
Mike Mann
F. D. Asbury
Tom Vannoy
Clyde C. Franklin.
4. Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Advertising Manager
Acting Sports Editor.
.^.Assistant Sports Editor
Circulation Manager
Managing Editor
Managing Editor
Editor’s Note: Staff organization will be completed after
the first staff meeting, and the masthead will carry the com
plete staff as soon thereafter as possible.
Work With The Battalion
A definite part of the college student’s edu
cation is his activity in the many student
enterprises and functions which are going on
around him. There is invaluable experience
to be gained from student activities, and
many students pass up the opportunity to
get something besides a “book” education.
Student activities have a place in the prog
ram of the student who wants to be well-
rounded when he graduates.
Here at A. and M. there are a number
of different opportunities for Aggies. He
can join the club that parallels his course of
study; he can take part in athletics; or he
can branch out and go into fields which are
unknown to him. One of the largest extra
curricular activities on the campus is that
of student publications. Included in this are
the magazines of the agricultural and en
gineering schools besides the Longhorn and
the Battalion.
There are opportunities here for every
•student. These publications belong to the
students, and what they are is exactly what
the students make them. The formation of
new staffs leaves vacancies and new men
are needed. The editors of the many publi
cations extend an invitation to all those in
terested to join their staffs.
All students who are interested in join
ing the staff of The Battalion newspaper or
magazine are invited to come down to the
office in the Administration building and
meet with the editors on any Monday, Wed
nesday or Friday afternoon.
A Just Peace
The world can have a “just peace” when
the war is over, but not if the dictators win.
And at present we can have no peace at all
except on the dictators’ terms. These are
beliefs of Dean William 0. Sroggs of the
graduate school at Louisiana State Univer
sity.
If we seek to pbtain “peace without
victory,” which some pacifists are now ad
vocating, we shall have to submit to the
German fuehrer and give up our liberty,
Dean Srogg asserts. Such action would not
give us a just peace, but rather would bring
us both defeat and dishonor, he said in a
recent statement. , •
“This war is like a surgical operation,”
he continued. “It cannot be stopped while
we are in the middle of it. The malignant
cancer which is knawing at the vitals of our
civilization must be removed, and it can be
removed only by heroic effort. The operation
must go on, even though it does cause some
loss of blood.
“If we are to have a just peace, we must
obtain security as well as a cessation of
warfare. Such a peace will require the re
establishment of international economic life
and also some form of international organi
zation to safeguard the world against a re
currence of recent evils. After the war, while
setting our house in order, we shall need to
collaborate with other nations who are like
wise striving to bring about order in theirs.
; “One of the main post-war problems
will be to prevent a worldwide economic col
lapse and the inevitable political distur
bances which would follow. To avoid such a
debacle, every effort should be made to
stimulate production, trade, and consump
tion throughout the world, and not merely
in the victor countries. When the dictators
go out, dollars and doughnuts should roll in
and help repair the damage wrought by their
misrule.
“In post-war reconstruction we must,
above all, avoid regimentation or anything
resembling totalitarian methods in promot
ing world recovery: Otherwise we shall
again lose the peace, as we did after the first
world war.
“We shall need not only statesmanship of a
high order on the part of the national lead
ers, but the education of the people of all
countries in the fundamental economic and
political requirements for enduring peace
and prosperity.”—AGP.
Peter Lionel Hamburger, Stanford uni
versity student, has petitioned to change his
last name to Harbury because Hamburger
is “German in origin and difficult to pro
nounce.”
Under new regulations, every person en
tering the grounds of United States Military
academy, even spectators at football games,
will be required to show a special pass.
Man, Your Manners
■ - By L Sherwood —-
How do you do? Anyone who desires to be
well-liked and respected by others should
make a special effort to be courteous to ev
eryone, whether distinguished or unimport
ant, friend or enemy. Such courtesy may be
shown, particularly by the manner in which
you acknowledge the others’ presence where-
ever you happen to be. To look directly at
someone you know and not show your rec
ognition will stamp you as rude and snob
bish. We are obligated to overlook uninten
tional offenses of the near-sighted or absent-
minded. Consideration for others is the
basic rule for our social life—never take
more than your share of anything.
What do you do if someone joins your
party and no one introduces you? ask some
one else in the group whom you know to
introduce you. If for some reason you find
yourself face to face with a stranger, intro
duce yourself.
Do you know that if you take a visitor
to a party, you should first get the consent
of the hostess. Introduce him or her to the
hostess, then to the others whom you would
like him or her to meet.
Do you correct the person who mis
pronounces your name? If the correct pro-
nounciation of your name means a lot to
you, or you expect to see the person again,
you might say, “I’m sorry”, but my name is
so and so.
Something to Read
■ tty Dr. T. F. Mayo— . -
Just What the Aggies Ordered
These books have just been bought by the
College Library by request from students.
Perhaps you know that, thanks to the
A. and M. Mothers’ Clubs, you can always
have us buy any book (short of obsolute
obscenity) that you want. When your book
arrives, you will be given first shot at it.
Here is part of the current crop of re
quest numbers:
Bliven, Bruce: The Men Who Make the Fu
ture. Brilliant studies of the scientists
whose work will largely determine the
sort of world we shall live in.
Cabell, James Branch: The First Gentleman
of America: A Comedy of Conquest.
Historical novel about an Indian mag-
nifico.
Deutsch Babette: Rogue’s Legacy. Another
historical novel, about Francois Villon,
Mediaeval “house-breaker and poet”.
Gibbons, Floyd P: The Red Knight of Ger-
Many. The story of Baron von Richtho-
‘ fen, Germany’s great war bird.
Harsch, Joseph C: Pattern of Conquest.
Careful account of Hitlerian Germany’s
plans and methods.
Hayden, Joseph R: The Philippines. A study
in national development.
Hicks, Granville: Only One Storm. Novel by
the famous radical critic.
Huxley, Julian Sorell: Democracy Marches.
A socially minded biologist who can
write.
Kesselring, Joseph O.: Arsenic and Old
Lace. Gay and gruesome.
Lorwin, Lewis L.: Economic Consequences
of the Second World War.
Ludwig, Emil: Bolivar: The Life of an Ideal
ist.
McWilliams, Carey: 111 Fares the Land. Mi
grants and migratory labor in the U. S.
If The Grapes of Wrath stirred you at
all, read these facts.
Marshall, Edison: Benjamin Blake (a novel)
Moberg, Vilhelm: The Earth is Ours.
“Strong, silent” Scandinavian novel
about the folk of the soil.
Randau, Carl: The Setting Sun of Japan.
So .we hope, at any rate!
Remarque, E. M.: Flotsam. Novel by the
author of All Quiet.
Rosten, Leo C.: Hollywood: the Movie
Colony, the Movie Makers.
Schurz, William L.: Latin America: A Des-
scripitive Survey.
Wilkins, Vaughan: Seven Tempest (novel)
Wilson, Edmund: The Boys in the Back
Room
Essays on O’Hara, Fitzgerald, Saroyan,
Steinbeck, etc.
Open Forum
The Battalion of 1942-43 will make an ef
fort to be truly representative of student
opinion on the A. & M. campus. In order to
accomplish this end, the editors of the Bat
talion invite all students who are interested
to take advantage of the “Open Forum” col
umn which appears from time to time on the
editorial page.
This is your column in which you can
express your ideas concerning A. & M. The
welfare of the College is to a great degree
intrusted to the students. It is partly your
task to see that the program of this college
is progressive. This column offers all Ag
gies an opportunity to better their college.
Suggestions concerning the welfare of the
student body should find an outlet for ex
pression here.
All articles which are genuine in their
aim to improve A. &, M. will be printed in
The Battalion if they are signed. Lack of
space often will prohibit publication of arti
cles over 350 words. Try to make your ex
pressions brief and accurate. All “Open For
um” articles must be signed. If your views
are worth expressing, they are certainly
worthy of carrying your signature.
The “Open Forum” is for you. Use it to
yours and your college’s advantage.
—The Editors.
THE BATTALION
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
’’Buck’s flying blind, but he isn’t taking any chances! ”
“Campus Distractions” has been
a regular feature of the Battalion
since January of last year. Prior
to that time the column was en
titled “Movie Review” and includ
ed only short reviews of the cur
rently playing motion pictures at
the Campus and at the YMCA
shows. Since then the scope of the
column has been broadened so that
any attraction on the campus which
is apt to prove a distraction from
books, studies, worries, etc., to a
majority of the student body is
included.
Naturally, the opinions of your
reviewer about certain pictures
will not conincide with the opin
ions of everyone who reads the
column and sees the shows. It
would be practically impossible for
everyone to think the same thing
about the same picture. Because of
this, the column will give a brief
resume of each picture so that
the readers may discover what the
picture is about and who the play
ers are and hence to' be able to
form their own opinions on the
merits of the show.
The Campus today is showing a
double feature including “Ghost of
Frankenstein” and “Niagra Falls”.
The Ghost of Frankenstein is an
other of the many thrillers about
the mythical monster which lives
on and on with apparent super-
mannish qualities, not vulnerable
to any attack of fire, bullets, elec
trocution or any other destructive
force. Lon Chaney plays the role
so long occupied by Boris Karloff
who created the hideous monster
known as Frankenstein.
The Lowdown:—Scary but not
sleep-preventing.
“Naigra Falls” stars Marjorie
Woodworth and Tom Brown with
a supporting cast including Slim
Summerville and Zasu Pitts. As
its name indicates this is a story
about a honeymooning couple who
go to Niagra Falls on their wed
ding trip. While there, Slim and
Zasu stick their nose into the busi
ness of a quarreling couple and
lock them up in a hotel room all
night, forgetting their own honey
moon. The pair locked in the room
turn out to be—unmarried.
The Lowdown:—Doesn’t live up
to the Summerville-Pitts tradition.
At Guion Hall Thursday and Fri
day Constance Bennett and Jeffrey
Lynn are co-starred in “Law of
the Tropics.” The scene is tropical
and the story involves a girl who
has run away from the States. Miss
Bennett plays her part as the he
roine remarkably well with not
so good support from her hero,
Jeffrey Lynn.
The Lowdown:—The weather is
hot but the picture is not.
BACKWASH Uod
"BMkwjufa: An agitation resulting from aocM action or oeearrenae.”—Wefcatar
It’s a Hard Road
. . . getting things built these
days, with priorities and red tape
bottle-necking plans, but the ram
rods of the open-air dance pavil-
ian expect to have it completed
for dancing purposes at least) by
late June . . .
steel and con-
" >- crete are like a
H Bin iirfifiiot S° 0( l woman in
liBf+IP more ways than
xii , one—hard to get
'■} f because authori-
y jpillties were afraid
SSISill^ dances and
Hood fun mi & ht dis
turb hospital patients, the location
has been switched to just west of
the old drill field, next to the old
highway, and south of the old main
entrance (we have plenty of “old”
stuff . . . interesting sidelights:
the new*floor will have almost as
much net dancing space as the
main floor in Sbisa ... it will be
110 by 140 feet (15,400 sq. ft.) and
the floor of Sbisa is 72 by 250 feet
(18,000 sq. ft. which includes the
space occupied by the bandstand
and chairs around the walls) . . .
Social Secretary Bobby Stephens
LET US FIX
Your Radio
Expert Radio
Repair Work
STUDENT CO-OP
North Gate
Phone 4-4114
hasn’t finished mapping the dance
schedule, but says there will be a
Juke Box t Prom next Saturday
night with a two-bit “cover charge”
. . . Fish must have a date to at
tend . . . the social calendar, com
plete with Juke-Box Proms, open
air dances, etc., will be published
soon . . .
• • •
Sweepings
Rumors have it that some in the
THUR.-FRI.-SAT
Spencer Tracy
Hedy Lamarr
John Garfield
TORTILLA
FLAT”
PREVIEW 11 P. M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Madeleine Carroll
Sterling Hayden
“BAHAMA
PASSAGE”
Also
Shown Sun.-Mon.-Tues.
For Sale
15 Pair Boot Pants
L O U P O T S
Senior class are whistling Kay
Kyser’s new recording “Jingle-
Jangle” (“I got spurs that jingle,
jangle, jingle . . .”) to those who
are curious as to the whereabouts
of the rest of the new furniture
for the remodeled “Y”: the furni
ture has been ordered—more than
$6,000 worth—and nearly all paid
for, but deliveries are only drib
bling in . . . Overheard: “Boy, we
have everything here but a Nurses
Corps, and they’re afraid to put
that in”. . . Miss Kate Parker de
clares that several fish wired the
registrar to meet their bus . . .
maybe we should send a cute blond
with a basket of home cooking . . .
one industrious fish offered to
bring his cow to help defray ex
penses . . . Shavetail Jack Lamber-
son, last year’s assistant advertis
ing manager, claims he outranks
Lieut., Joe Skiles (by four days)
. . . both are in Mississippi in the
Air Corps , . . the sailors now read,
write, play the piano and radio,
drink unlimited cokes, play ping-
pong, etc., in the Silvey House
across from their dorms . . . the
house is sponsored by the “Y” and
managed by Mrs. T. R. Spence . . .
Howard Berry and Business Man-
-THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1942
ager Holmgreen pitched cookies
all over the landscape when on an
\ (See BACKWASH, Page 4)
(Jampus
Dial 4-1181
Box Office Opens 1 P. M.
LAST DAY
Double Feature
The Ghost of
Frankestein
1:10. 3:35, 5:43, 7:51, 9:19
“Niagara Falls”
with
MARJORIE WOODWORTH
SLIM SUMMERVILLE
2:17, 4:42, 6:50, 8:58, 10:08
Also
POPEYE CARTOON
For Sale
100 Engineering Tackle
Boxes
L O U P O T S
Friday, Saturday
“What’s Cookin’ ”
with
ANDREWS SISTERS
JANE FRAZEE
WOODY HERMAN
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Also
NEWS
MUSICAL CARTOON
Caldwell’s Jewelry Store
AGGIE JEWELRY
Watch, Jewelry, Clock Repairing
<
Stone Setting and Engraving
Diamonds—Watches—Jewelry of all
kinds
IF IT’S NEW WE HAVE IT
AGGIE JEWELERS
Bryan, Texas
MOVIE
Guion Hall
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, June 4-5
3:30 and 7:00 P. M.
Constance Bennett and Jeffry Lynn
, — in —
Law of the Tropics
News Comedy
COMING SATURDAY
1:00 P. M. — 7:00 P. M. — 8:00 P. M.
Gambling Lady
— with —
Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea