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P&ge 2 THE BATTALION SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1942 "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, ia 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 8, 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 t-«444. 1941 Member 1942 Pksociated Colle6iate Press Brooks Gofer .* -Editor-in-Chief Ken Bremen Associate Editor Phil Crown v Staff Photographer Sports Staff Mike Haikln Sports Editor Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor Chick Hurst. - .....Senior Sports Assistant N. Libson Junior Sports Editor 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 Senior Assistant Carlton Power Senior Assistant Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant Saturday’s Staff Clyde C. Franklin Managing Editor Jack Keith Junior Editor Benton Taylor. .... Junior Editor Tom Leland .... Junior Editor John Holman Junior Editor Reporters Tom Joumeay, Harry 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. Lost - 5000 Aggie "Hello's LOST: Five thousand friendly Aggie “hel- lo”s on this campus every day! LOST is that old spirit of friendliness that Texas Aggies have been so proud of for all these years, and missing is that feel ing of Aggie pride and brotherly love. True, many things have changed here since the Outbreak of the war, but nothing has happened that should keep all Aggies from being real Aggies. At the rate we are going now, in another year or two no one will say “hello” to you when you cross the campus. Not many things more dreadful could happen to A. & M. The freshmen are the only ones here that don’t know what our kind of friendli ness is, and it is they who don’t even look up when crossing the campus. Wake up, freshmen, you’re at A. & M., and it’s the A. & M. way to say “hello” to everyone you meet on this campus. FIND that old spirit! Don’t let anything kill the friendliness we are accustomed to around here. Let’s ALL say “hello” to every one we meet! —JMH The World Turns On 1 •: By DR. R. W. STEEN ' —" After more than a month of waiting the public has learned many details of the bat tle of Midway Island. The navy claims posi tively the sinking or damaging of twenty Japanese vessels, and implies that others may have been damaged. It is also stated that the Japanese lost, along with four air craft carriers, at least 275 planes. The Amer ican loss is placed at one destroyer and per haps fifty planes. In addition an aircraft carrier was badly damaged. Much criticism has been offered because of the tardy release of battle reports by the navy. For example, the loss of the Lexing ton was not announced for almost two months, and it is just now announced that the Yorktown is undergoing repairs. There was doubtless good reason for keeping quiet the fact that the Yorktown was damaged, since the Japanese would like to have the information. It is probable, however, that they knew it anyway. There can be no point in holding information such as the loss of the Lexington for two months. The Japanese probably knew it long before the American public did, and it looked very much as if the navy waited for a new victory before re leasing the bad news that accompanied the first one. Certainly no citizen wants the army or the navy to release information of value to the enemy, but the average citizen does want the government to play fair with him. The navy could afford to let the enemy know of the loss of a cruiser in order to keep public confidence. It is the lack of confi dence that breeds whispering campaigns, and leads people to believe that conditions are worse than they really are. The latest naval release, incidentally, indicates that the army and navy worked to gether in the victory off Midway, and it also proves a point that had been suspected but not known positively: that is, that the dam age was all done by planes. Surface ships of the two fleets never came in sight of one another. Some figures just released by the Brit ish indicate that they too have been winning some victories in the war of production. Much has been said about the number of American planes going to Britain. Figures just released state that the RAF is now made up 87% of British planes and 13% American planes, and that Britain has ship ped out of England more planes than she has received from America. Dr. Harold S. Diehl, dean of medical sciences at University of Minnesota, be lieves eventually there will be left only one doctor to serve each' 1,500 to 2,000 civilians. University of Wisconsin has discovered a method of extracting vanillin, a vegetable product and principal ingredient of vanilla, from certain trees. Our Neighbors to the South BACKWASW By Jack Hood COVERING CBy HARRY CORDUA: “Backwash: An ajritation resulting: from some action or occurrence “—Webster Quile frequently these days, one hears the ^&rt S s U t 0 h n e S matte/wUh 6 Argentina 1 ? The Big Night . . . Sweepings . . . Why doesn’t Argentina take a definite 18 going to be August 1, when Out of the blue: Flash Gordon, stand and declare her intentions? The fol- the new dance slab will be Chris- clad in shorts, was walking to the Cflips ditfMlOIG By JACK KEITH This Collegiate World ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS ~ The British are famous for losing ressed southward to Iraq or Iran every battle but the last one. The (Persia), a coalition of Auckin- Chinese are incomparable for pa- leek’s forces with the Russians tience' tenacity, and the remark- could be formed, able feat of fighting a modern war Turkey is strategically located for five full years with little more and today is almost caught at the of five UGW courses useful to stu- than their bare hands. But today crossroads of the Caucasus battle dents in the war effort is announced by Dr. a11 three of these groups are in and when her soil is invaded she’ll Charles E. Friley, president of Iowa State desperate straits and their situa- undoubtedly step into the struggle, college. tions are getting no better fast, but which way? Similar to Argen- Three of the courses will be immediate- r ^^ ie heart of every American and tina, she’s waiting, watching, and ly useful to students called for service in probably every member of the al- planning. As this world war is not the armed forces. cause feels deeply and strong- hers, she feels, and justly so, that Mathematical theory of ballistics will ly that no matter how severe or as long as she must fight she might familiarize students with the theory of forces how hopeless our lot may eventual- as well pick the winning side. Tur- that have an effect upon computation of ] y become, we won’t be conquered, key on our side would be a strong ranges and trajectory of shells fired from we won,t be beaten! help in the Near Eastern battle as guns. Mathematics of navigation will cover However, let’s take a look at If’ 8 her own stomping ground and methods Of determining latitude and longi- the European developments and her limited facilities would be of tude and nautical astronomy and navigation, see what is what and how develop- utmost value to help supplement Chemistry of explosives and other war rna- ments may progress and what sig- fhe terrifically long supply and terials will deal with composition, prepara- nificance they will hold. If Rom- maintenance routes of the allied tion, testing, inspection and analysis. mel, an extremely brilliant tac- forces. The other two courses are electronics tician and desert strategist, should To continue. If Timoshenko is and ultra-high frequencies. in time cause the North African driven continually eastward he will * * * forces to retreat, where would they be confronted soon by which direc- This largely right-handed world should go? Undoubtedly from Cairo they tion to move, north, south, or in make more provisions for the well-being Of would choose a direct route east- both directions. However, the Ger- the left-handed minority, Neil W. Lamb, ward across the Suez Canal, de- mans may answer this question for graduate student at the University of Cali- molishing it of course, and into him if their advances continue as fornia, asserted after an exhaustive study. Northern Arabia. Any retreat they are moving now. If so, with- Left-handedness, Lamb stated, is a def- along this route though, would out a doubt the Russian forces will inite physiological characteristic. not be overnight such as the re- be separated; half to hold Moscow No attempts should be made to have treat from Tobruk towards El Ala- and in case of its fall to retreat left-handed persons write or do other tasks mein for the natural conditions eastward, and half to go due south, with their right hands, he declared. The re- and terrain would serve as a brake directly through the Caucasus to suit may be far less desirable psychological and permit a relatively slow run- form a possible junction with the conditions, such as eyestrain and stuttering, ning battle by the British. From British out of North Africa, if they “Left-handedness is not inherently a this position, then, they could must retreat, handicap, defect or deficiency any more than move in two directions—north to But if allied troops do get into blue eyes, brown eyes or red hair can be the Caucasus region, if assistance Asia, Persia, Iraq, or the rest of called such,” Lamb stated. could be given Russian troops or (See COMMENTS, Page 4) MOVIE Guion Hall SATURDAY 1:00 P.M. — 7:00 and 8:30 Conrad Veidt — Ann Ayars NAZI AGENT — ALSO — Mickey Mouse “MICKEY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY’ News Comedy Coming MON. - TUBS. - WED. “Wild Bill Hickok Rides Again”