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THE BATTALION
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1942
"the Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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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)
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