The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 16, 1942, Image 2
Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1942 'TjlC Battalion Man, Your Manners STUDENT TEI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricul leg< a Rural and ity of College Station, ia published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday Thi Mechanical College of Texas and City of College Stat By L Sherwood and Saturday mornings. iGntered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates upon request. $3 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 t-<444. 122, Administration Building. Telephone 1941 Member 1942 Associated Colle6iate Press Brooks Gofer.. Kesi Bresnen... Phil Crown Mike Haikin.. Mike Mann. Sports Staff -4. Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor ...Staff Photographer Sports Editor Chick Hurst... ..Assistant Sports Editor Senior Sports Assistant Advertising Staff Reggie Smith Advertising Manager Jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager 'Louis A. Bridges ...Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff F. D. Asbury, Jr. Circulation Manager Bill Huber Senior Assistant H. R. Tampke... Carlton Power- Joe Stalcup Ken Bresnen Nelson Karbach... Jack Keith Benton Taylor Tom Leland... Thursday's Staff" Senior Assistant Senior Assistant ...Junior Assistant ..Managing Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor -Junior Editor Bnurlasa Lancaster.... Junior Editor Reporters Tom Joumeay, Haary Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKin ney, John Baldridge, Charles Kaplan, Gerald Fahrentold, Bert Kurtz, Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Jack Hood, Jack Chilcoat, Bill Murphy, John Sparger, and Henry Holguin. Freshman Class Meeting The freshman class meeting Tuesday night has been the outgrowth of occasions and incidents between different parts of the class which are not conducive to the smooth functioning of the cadet corps. Such inci dents only make it harder for the senior cadet officers to maintain control over their men in the proper manner. To begin with, the meeting itself was a poor demonstration for first-year college men to put on. No respect was shown the presiding officers who were trying to see that the election was run off fairly, and or der was not maintained. But the incidents which occurred as a result of the meeting are more serious. For men to fight among themselves, and espec ially during these tiroes, is not the way to get a job completed. The person to fight is the enemy and not the men next to you in the trenches. All great armies have based their success mainly on the cooperation be tween the different components, and not up on any one single unit. The simple machine proves to us that for its best operation all the many parts work smoothly together. Let’s compare the cadet corps, and we see that the success of our purpose here de pends upon the proper functioning of the many parts. Failure of our purpose reflects upon the group as a whole. Something to Read Young men who are interesting conver sationalists are usually in demand socially, even though it might appear to them that the young women prefer to do all the talk ing ; a good talker is also a good listener. Unfortunately, there is no best way for learning to be a good conversationalist; there are, however, basic principles that will help —a background of information on a number of topics, the ability to use the English lan guage effectively, and a genuine desire to give pleasure through conversation. The more varied your interests, the more you will have to talk about—an inter ested person is interesting. Busy though you may be, it is an ex cellent idea to spend as much time as pos sible in the periodical room of your library. The following magazines will furnish yr with conversational knowledge of current topics—Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Reader’s Digest, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Nation. The Sunday edi tion of the New York Times will furnish you a list of current books and help you to de cide the ones you may care to read. Emily Post says, “The first, last and only rule of importance for conversation i« stop and think what you are saying.” Comments Adolph Hitler "Psst—do you play br* BACKWASH By Jack Hood Peimg's Serenade signs.. "Backwash: An agitation reantting from some action or occurrence ”—Webster By W. L. PENBERTHY new in Aggieland. Back in 1927 Miss Joan Blcmdell was Queen of Plans should be made now for Island dialect thrown in. The mad a gala week end August 1. The doctor has the idea that he can student activities office announces bring the dead back to life, et that the new maroon concrete slab cetera. He tries hard, but finds will be completed by that date and that no mortal should tamper with a grand opening will be held to the mysteries of life and death, start the use of the slab off with The Lowdown: not good, a bang. Definite arrangements shore sin ^ as chase door Corps Dance will be held that PrBSGIltS night. Feature attraction at Guion Hall today and Friday stars Edward G. D j na h Shore sings and Ilka Robinson in ^LARCENY, INC.” Chase presents a few facts and In the support- opinions on an Austrian paper ing cast are Jane hanger named Adolf, in the Wyman, Brod- “Treasury Star Parade” broadcast erick Crawford w hich airs on Thursday at 11:30 and Edward Bro- over station WTAW. Miss Shore, phy* radio’s favorite feminine singer of As super- popular songs, contributes “Tan- thieves, Robinson, gerine,” while the actress-author, Crawford and Miss Chase, expresses her views Brophy decide to on Hitler as written in her best- rob a bank. In- selling autobiography, “Past Im- sfcead of going perfect.” In addition to providing in and holding it up as any ordin- accompaniment for Miss Shore’s Next time you are traveling the A • Rodeo She was ’ n > t Joan ary crook would do, the trio con- so io and mood music for “Past 1- i—i- -r the idea of tunneling under Imperfect,” David Broekman con- the bank from next door. To do ducts his orchestra in the novelty this, they buy a luggage store next “Reveille Rag.” door to the bank and go into busi- ness, meanwhile digging toward j u k e Box Prom Saturday...35 cents the bank. Customers in the store are so fascinated by the boys complete New York university school of commerce, accounts and finance Two in a Row... Personality . : By Dr. T. F. Mayo : Introducing a New Librarian Miss Hazel Adams, who is usually to be found in the Required Reading Room and the Browsing Room, is the latest addition to the College Library Staff. In addition to her routine work, Miss Adams is particular ly interested in telling Aggies what to read. As a beginning, here are some suggestions which she makes of recent readable books about the South: The Mind of the South—Wilbur J. Cash. Why the indestructible legend of mag nolias and moonlight? The Ku Klux Klan? The Duke fortune? These Southern institu tions and other more elusive characteristics which set us apart are explored with humor and sound scholarship. The Hamlet—by William Faulkner. “What do you think you would like if you was to make me do it.” This is the phil osophy of Will Yarner, the chief man of the Hamlet. God Shakes Creation—David Cohn. In the delta where there are more Ne groes in proportion to whites than in any similar area of the U. S., where every man, white or black, carries arms, sex is without shackles, an enemy is vanquished with a Troodoo, and religion may be as prosaic as a iburial society or as poetic as a spiritual. A Southerner Discovers the South—Jona than Daniels. Discovery begins in a cemetery of the <old South. Behind it the discoverer finds not ■an expanse of white pillars but T.V.A., Tus- kegee, the lottery machines of New Orleans, and the ghost of Huey Long. Look Homeward, Angel—Thomas Wolfe. Eugene Gant was born into the quarrel some indifference of a small town and the bombast of a wild family. His life with them and at the state university are told with in tensity. Lanterns on the Levee—William Alexander Percy. The author, a Southern aristocrat by right of heritage and attitude of mind, sets down the record of his life as a planter and a poet. Fabulous New Orleans—Lyle Saxon. No romance is more romantic than the city of New Orleans. Lyle Saxon knows the secrets that lie behind the grilled windows in the French Quarter as well as he knows the history of the duelling oaks and the food of Antoines. Culture in the South—edited by W. T. Couch. “All the chapters taken together give a picture of the more important aspects of life in the present South and their historic background.” The one on colleges and uni- the fact that they are not ready when the opportunity presents itself. Colonel Hilger went on to relate the painstaking care which was taken in pre paring for the raid and how every man in a l ities on the campus is nothing words, the group from the highest rank to the low- 1 est had memorized the chart so that they knew exactly where the target would be without having to refer to a map or chart when they were over their objective. In finite care was taken in getting ready for the raid and the success of the mission was the pay off. These men are being acclaimed as heroes because they were ready to ren der distinguished service when the opportu nity presented itself. . .jTTjriT-,.,-, through California look for a sign last Saturday morning m the Kyle Field rea(li „ Join ^ A and heI then but was Miss Rosebud Blou- Stadium rye welcomed home Colonel Hilger A & ^ win the War „ The exact deU ... the '27 Longhorn acclaim- and Ensign Gay, two of our boys who have whreaboufe ha , Dot be<m asC(!r . ed it „ the bi t and best in rendered distinguished service to our coun- but a re)iabk sour( , e say . bcauty and brawn .„ Nobody re _ ry in e piesen war. that it is to be seen there . . . ceived a permanent injury and In opening his talk, Colonel Hilger made Motoriste the States ^ wild steer available was rid . a statement to the effect that the group of be haTing a g00a deaJ of ^ at , east once . pi O S W 0 carne ou , okyo g ebbbl g re , a j r parts for their cars Stan Foran just about hit the indifference to sales, that they . ’ . , ••at would rather not be thought of as heroes l Bothin / oi th03e forbidden nai , on the heai , hen he said that flock to the shop in greater num- has ahosen ten lead T m industry but rathei as a group of men^who had been tires but tbey needn > t wor ry too we all hope that the material now hers as time goes by, causing quite and labor as participants in a new lucky enoug to receive an assign ent w lc h h b t it bccause tbc g 0V . g oin g out t0 our armed forces is an upset among local merchants course in collective bargaining. J ^ will furnish them with not “too little, too late, and second who are not getting any business. caused YbUTo be chosen a " d " * ^ very important and dangerous mission but, , thei J. cars stuck tog,ether or admitting that there was a little luck in- dur f tlon - volved, it certainly was not luck that they s P eak i n g of signs one of the were ready for the assignment. ^ P ict " re of th ® 1 tradl " ^ wll j be 1 th Q ls we . ek J* carps da " c J I am sure that these men were chosen tlonal stoTk _ a delivery he Socia Sec of the Brass Hat • l • tv, ria f because thev had insnired confidence in their Wlth the inscription attached class announces . . . this one will STREET is showing Thursday at leaders by their devotion to the task at hand “ Kee P ’ Em F1 y in e” • • • With all be same time, same place, same the Campus Theatre. The title role and their untirine- efforts in nrenarine- them the 10 P er €ent club stickers, U. money (9-12 p.m., Sbisa Mam hall, is played by Lionel Atwill; others selves SO S- Ackers, War Bond stickers, 35 cents). of the cast a^Una Merkel, Nat opportunity came along. Often men deny and new tax stam i> s the modern • • • Pendleton and Claire-Dodd, themselves the opportunity to render what motorist has quite a job to see Note . . . About all that can be said for might be called heroic service because of out of his a ^ in ^ vehicle - this movie is that the studios tried ‘ Today s column is another prod- hard to produce something good. act by a guest writer who occa- Its pretty amateurish, though, sionally against his will is pressed even with a shipwreck, a couple This business of having person- into service. Drafted in other °f murders and some South Sea The crooks almost turn legitimate and give up boring for the tunnel, but an ex-pal turns up and spoils that idea. The Lowdown: not bad. “MAD DOCTOR OF MARKET WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Thursday, Friday—“Mad Doctor of Market Street” with Lionel Atwill and Una Merkel. At Guion Hall Thursday, Friday—“Lar ceny, Inc.” starring Edward G. Robinson, with Jane Wy man and Brdderiek Craw ford. Musical Meanderings By BILL MURPHY Everything seems to 1 be shaping been running their “Caissons Go up for the gala opening of the Rolling Along.” For instance, here new open air dance pavilion, which is what an artilleryman at Camp My DadTwho ad no college training, wi 'l P«>t> a My come about the first Roberts has to say about it. “For held that a college education made a man ° f , AuE, i st As tbln ® s ‘ ook . ? ow ; ? ver y ! L ears ’ .7 mc ' 1 ready so that when an opportunity present- ° ur ' ey Brien ,‘ and hl f Agg.eland have sung the song with guts, ed itself he was ready to take advantage of 0 « h o a t ra "' ll1 be haad to fur- Now big time dance bands have it. Many of US feel that we will never use msh the Vltal ■ ,1Ve for the occasio:n - picked it up and transformed the some of the subject matter we are required By tben orchestra will or artillery hymn into a weak-tea to learn in our various curricula but knowl- s h° u l d be at its peak, since it will frilly dance tune.” In short, a 6dg6 gained is never wasted and wtll come imcl6rgon6 Giglit wggIcs of mcircli isn t <& dsinco tun©. If s in handy at the most unexpected time. Most rehearsing. Anyhow, the whole designed to snap a bunch of sweat- Of US will never have the opportunity to be- ldea ls —don’t miss the opening, ing, dog-tired, mud-caked men in come a recognized hero but I still feel that 11/8 a definite precedent in the to a route march and keep them the real heroes are those who are getting colle s e dance field - ' there - “Caissons” sung by the av- ready for the big tasks by doing the small Rumor has it that Glenn Miller erage band vocalist sounds more ones well. They are the ones who are put- has been hanging around the Naval like the call of the daffodils, ting forth their best efforts in their chosen Recruiting Station in New York. It looks‘as though all roads lead -fjgjcj From the mail comes word that to Hollywood. Band leaders are Colonel Hilger graduated in mechanical a certain Texas band is really now headed toward California in engineering and I am sure that many times ehmbing up that ole’ ladder of stead of New York. The following since his graduation he has had an opportu- success, but fast. The band is that movies are the result: “Cabin In nity to put into practice much of the train- °f Layton Bailey, who got his The Sky” with Cab Calloway; “Du ing he received in that course. start not so many moons ago at Barry Was A Lady” with T. Dor- As a result of the razzing which was in S.M.U. His father, by the way, is sey and his slip-horn; “Sweet And evidence between our students and the Navy a member of that faculty. Hot” featuring a musical feud be- and Marines, Ensign Gay in closing his talk Bailey added last week a real tween the Les Brown and Freddie made a statement to the effect that in com- chirper in one Hazel Bruce who Martin orchestras; “Off the Beat- bat the only thing that mattered concern- comes from nearby Alamo Town, en Track” with Sonny Dunham;- ing one’s comrade was whether or not he Hazel has sung with such big and last but not least Sammy Kaye could deliver when the going was tough. If names as Joe Reichman, Charlie in “So You Want To Lead A we are not ready to deliver mentally and Barnet, and others before joining Band.” All of these are fine en- physically, there is no better time to start Bailey at the Wardman Hotel in tertainment, so don’t miss them, getting ready than now. A football team Washington D. C. that waits until Friday to start getting ready Toni DiPardo pulled a cheap for Saturday’s game seldom wins. publicity stunt a few nights ago Both Hilger and Gay emphasized the by marrying on the bandstand of need for trained leadership and whether it the Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis, PALACE ■ PHONE 2-8879 Thurs. - Fri. - Sat. JOAN CRAWFORD MELVYN DOUGLAS in “They All Kissed The Bride ,, • • • PREVIEW 11 P. M. SATURDAY NIGHT WALLACE BEERY in “Jackass Mail” with Marjorie Main • • • Shown Sun. - Mon.- Tues. Qampas 4-1181 Box Office Open Till 10 P.M. TODAY ONLY “The Mad Doctor of Market Street” with LIONELL ATWILL NAT PENDLETON Also Cartoon — Short FRIDAY-SATURDAY Also Cartoon — News Stranger Than Fiction Biology Club Views Slides at Meeting Quotable Quotes The Biology Club will hold its be one semester or eight before we are called, where he was currently playing, regular meeting tonight in the let’s not let it be said we were not ready. DiPardo was getting rather des- Biology Lecture Room, at seven- perate since his draft number will thirty. be called in the next few days. The conservation of the natural. What some people will do for pub- resources of our country will be licity! DiPardo, you remember, the subject of the program. Fifty- played the Cavalry Ball last sea- fi ve slides showing the disastrous son. results all over the world of man’s Kay Kyser has been out on a disregard of the limitations of • t • „ .,. ^our-week tour of army, navy and nature, as well as a discussion of ideals ai e 1 ooted in religious f, when one mar i ne cam p S . He is paying all the slides will make up the prog- generation discards religion, the next gener- expenses of the tour, the first time ra m. ation may discard ethical ideals. ' any band has devoted a full month The club is the owner of an J iaiTl president of ^^ e j»^eny^Col- 0 £ Rg ^me to shows for the serv- expensive sound motion picture ice. This isn’t all though, he is projector. If any prospective mem- now contemplating a tour of all her is interested in learning how the out-posts in this hemisphere, to operate this machine, and make This is patriotism in its true col- some money at the same time, he is especially urged to attend Of particular interest is an item the meeting. up from various army All students, whether a Biology “As a generation, we have been using up the principal of OUT religious capital. Ethical W-weekTour‘of army, nlvy^nd nature?' lege, sees cause for alarm in the trend away from religion. versities is particularly penetrating. In This Our Life—Ellen Glasgow. Asa Timberlake possesses values, but he ors is ineffectual. He is confronted with the C irony of a selfish daughter who wrecks the picked lives of her family and friends but is her- camps. It seems that the army and major or not, who are interested self untouched by a fate which should, in especially the field artillery re- in general scientific work, are in- all justice, strike her dead. sents the way dance bands have vited to the club meeting. MOVIE Guion Hall Thursday - Friday 3:30 and 7:00 Dynamite Backfires Edward G. Robinson in Larceny, Inc. NEWS — COMEDY 312=0 Coming Saturday Nazi Agent — ▲