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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1942
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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1941 Member 1942
Pissocioted CbUe6icite Press
Brooks Gofer — j. -Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen Associate Editor
Phil Crown Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin - 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 Aset. 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
Tuesday’s Staff
Tom Vannoy Managing Editor
&taclaa* Lancaster.... — —Junior Editor
Jack Keith 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.
War Information Center
Today the Battalion announces that the war
information center will soon be open. Last
semester this project was started but be
cause of the scarcity of material it was not
established, but now enough material has
been collected to make it worthwhile to ope
rate.
This is an opportunity for all Aggies to
acquaint thmeselves with the different
phases of the present world conflict. Valu
able information can be obtained from this
new division of the library, and many stud
ents will no doubt find it profitable to spend
a little time browsing around and educating
themselves on this war. The subjects cover
ed vary from the offense to the defense of
the many nations involved in the war with
very little left out.
Every Aggie should take this opportun
ity to learn something about the war which
he will be engaged in. Many an Aggie really
doesn’t know what he’s fighting for, and this
is the most important question to be answer
ed. Take advantage of this privilege, Aggies.
The World Turns On
""" 1 - — By DR. C. C. DOAK == „
“Brotherhood of Man”—A Revolutionary
Idea—A little more than 1900 years ago,
our Great Leader proclaimed “The Brother
hood of Man.” To a prejudiced and tribal
minded world, this idea was too inclusive for
comprehension, and far too big for accept
ance. As is typical of those of narrow vision,
His contemporaries rejected the idea and
ultimately persecuted and crucified the per
son who proclaimed it. Our global war offers
thundering testimony to the fact that the
brotherhood has not yet been established.
JMo idea set free among men has had such
prolonged and far-reaching effects as has
this one. Why resist when with acceptance,
peace thrives, and when with rejection, war
flares forth?
Another Revolutionary Idea—A few
generations ago, another world-shaking idea
was loosed upon an unwilling world. It went
beyond the “Brotherhood of Man” and pro
claimed the “Kinship of All Flesh.” The pat
tern of social reaction might have been pre
dicted. The man and his works were con
demned. Society once again launched upon a
violent campaign of resistance to an idea
and a campaign of persecution against the
originator.
Our Fortunate Kinships—The anatomy
of man’s body is so much like that of a dog
or cat that medical students study these ani
mals and then apply the facts learned toward
an understanding of man. The bones, diges
tive organs, muscles, tissues, and other
structures are in such close parallel that
new names are usually not necessary when
the students of medicine graduate from dis
secting embalmed cats to working upon hu
man cadavers. How fortunate that the prin
ciples of physiology and inheritance learned
by experimentation on rats and fruit flies
have universal applications. How fortunate
that knowledge from whatever lowly source
gained can lift peoples of all races to higher
levels of culture and animals and men of all
types to higher levels of health.
A Russian discovered that the dried
blood plasma of one animal could be pre
served and later utilized in transfusion to
related forms. The principle has found wide
application in saving human life. When
bombs fell on the polyglot population around
Pearl Harbor, blood plasma was taken from
the common bank and used on Jews, Chinese,
Negroes, Hawaiians, Whites, and Mongols
with equally good effect upon all. No ques
tions were asked about sources. In dried
form, plasma of any healthy can can be
made to function in and save the life of
other men regardless of race. Does this fur
nish us with any positive physiological evi
dence of kinship or with any support for
the idea of brotherhood?
Science Versus Propaganda—Our ene
mies are attempting to use our prejudices to
defeat us. They do not permit Jews to con
tribute to their blood bank and have loosed
damaging rumors among us to the effect
that colored people should be denied the
Our Neighbors to the South BACKWASH
By
Jack Hood
By HARRY A. CORDUA
"Backwash: An agitation resulting- from some action or occurrence Webster
Pan-American Highway is 400 miles from
completion, as far as the Panama Canal;
nevertheless there’s a battle going on in
Washington, D. C., at this moment concern
ing continuation of the building of this high
way. The War department wants to block
this project but the Department of State is
preventing this by explaining the great ne
cessity of the Pan-American road. At this
moment, while the seas are infested with
ruthless axis submarines ,the imports and
exports are practically non-existent. The ex
port materials in Latin America which are
necessary for our vital war program are pil
ing up on the docks whereas the only solu
tion for this present day problem is comple
tion of the highway. With this highway, how
much closer our neighbors will be to us;
Nicaragua, little more than a week’s steam
ship trip from New Orleans, could be reached
in two days of continuous driving. This Pan-
American Highway project which has been
so unnecessarily delayed all these years must
not be blocked.
Mining of the Gulf of Paria
Venezuela officials announced in late
March that the Gulf of Paria, between Brit
ish-owned Trinidad and the Venezuelan
mainland, had been mined.
Boundary old dispute between Peru and
Ecuador which is more than a century old
was settled by the Agreement of Rio de Ja
neiro by which Peru regained land which
had been illegally under the Ecuadorian gov
ernment.
This boundary dispute between Peru
and Ecuador was the last one existing be
tween the countries of this hemisphere. Its
settlement renders more remote the possi
bility that peace here can be disturbed; and
permits these continents to devote their
whole attention to the problem, at this mo
ment fundamental, to the defense of the
Western Hemisphere.
U. S. Engineers Will Replace Germans
It is understood that a contract will be
signed whereby U. S. engineers will replace
Germans previously engaged in construction
work on Uruguay’s ambitious hydro-electric
project on the Rio Negro.
Japanese diplomats in Colombia have
been deported from Bogata, capital of Co
lumbia and left for the port of Buenaventura
on April 14 en route to the United States.
Here they will be detained till further ar
rangements can be made for their deporta
tion.
Leakage in Cuba
Cuba has appointed a government cen
sor to check all editions of Havana’s influen
tial “Diario de la Marina,” after that paper
had been guilty of publishing unauthorized
news of ship movements.
Naval Base in South America
The United States and Ecuador are col
laborating in the establishment of a naval
base at Salinas, guarding the entrance to
the Gulf of Guayaquil.
With this hemisphere collaborating as
it is, it’s impregnable, we Americas are un-
defeatable.
Batt Error
Longhorn Editor John Longley
received the following correction
from Lt. Col. John Hilger:
I have just noticed that The
Battalion of July»9 states that
I received the D.S.C. for my bit
over Japan. Since you are plan
ning on using my picture in the
Longhorn I just wanted to be
sure that you knew that I re- *
ceived the Distinguished Flying
Cross.
Please thank all the fellows
again for showing us such a nice
time and for the welcome we re
ceived. Such things make me
more proud than ever that I am
an Aggie.
Of Col. Hilger’s bit the Aggies
can say that last sentence, word
for word.
Disc Parade
Favorites with the J-buggers at
Saturday nights stomp according
to the requests are:
1. Sleepy Lagoon
2. Amen!
3. Jersey Bounce
4. Begin the Be-
guine
5. One O’clock
Jump
: 6. Somebody Else
Is Taking My
Place/
17. He Wears a
Pair of Silver
Wings
Hood
8. Skylark
9. String of Pearls
10. Take Me
Sweeping-s
Ina Ray Hutton, Fir&t Lady of
Swing, is on the dotted line for a
dance here Saturday, August 8 . . .
According to a report in the TSCW
Lass-O, boys are divided into two
groups—those who believe every
thing their girl friend tells them,
and those who haven’t any girl
friends . . . Add to your little red
book: Jane Lou Short, San An
tonio, the gal floor-scorching in
the mid-rift dress at the JB Prom
. . . dated by Bobby Harris, B
Troop . . . Jackie McKay, well-
known NTSTC beauty was on the
arm of Paul Pennington for the
week-end ... We can’t find out
exactly who started it, but some
body cut in on Lt. Utterbach and
wife . . . from there, it was like
a whirlpool . . . the lines formed
to the right and left, with the Lt.
battling with the best ... We
like that night sarge who stands
over by the old “Y” and mimics
another well-known cigar-smoking
sarge with, “Alright, boys, don’t
walk so fast, I’ll blow' my whistle
at you in a minute!” ... A Cali
fornia woman psychologist says
if the world wants more peace, it
might try putting women in charge
of international relations because
women, by training, are slightly
better with language while men
make up what they lack in elo
quence with direct action. Thus,
with women at helm in foreign
affairs there might be a lot more
talking back and forth, but the
chances are that there would be
less military action. The lady bases
her (?) theory on a study of the
crying of 32 babies over a period
of time spent in the nursery and
homes. In all crying incidents the
boys were responsible three out of
four times . . . We admit there
would be a lot more talking, and
we’d like to see a good fingernail
and hair-pulling war.
War Comments
=By Walter F. Goodman, Jr.
Few people are as important as they
think they are.
This Collegiate World
ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS
A practical laboratory of democracy, creat
ed and operated by University of Wisconsin
students, began work recently on the univer
sity campus when the new student court
heard its first 18 cases.
Established as the “third arm” of the
university’s student government, the judi
cial, the student court was approved by the
faculty last fall and set up after a general
student referendum vote favored the court
plan by more than 1,500 votes. It was rec
ommended as a procedure in democratic self-
government, and as a means of increasing
student-faculty co-operation in enforcement
of campus rules and regulations.
The court rounds out the truly Ameri-
ican type of government for students at the
university. In former years a student board
has carried out the legislative functions,
while the president of the student associa
tion has performed the executive duties. The
court now assumes the judicial duties.
The new court has jurisdiction over all
cases of student infractions of established
regulations or standards of student conduct,
with certain exceptions, such as cases now
handled by the student .life and interests
committee of the faculty, or by the Women’s
Self-Government association.
Nearly 2,500 students took correspond
ence courses offered last year by the Uni
versity of Texas.
privilege of making contributions to us. Mod
ern man thinks nothing of injecting adrena
lin from a sheep into his own blood stream
to stimulate his heart action. He thinks noth
ing of taking rennet from a calf’s stomach to
counteract a defect in his own. Insulin taken
from animals corrects diebtic symptoms in
thousands of men of all races. Body products
by the score are identical in man and the
lower animals. Is this fortunate or unfortu
nate? Are your prejudices well enough under
control that you would welcome a needed in
jection of blood plasma from unknown
sources? Would you consider it fortunate if
biologists should perfect a technique (now
under experimentation) whereby the blood
plasma of slaughter house cattle could be
used to save the lives of our wounded sol
diers ? Should these things arouse prejudices
to be cherished to our hurt, or should they
be looked upon as fortunate physiological
facts to be utilized?
This may seem like anything
but a judicious time in which to
talk about the writing of a peace
treaty at the end of the war, but
if we are to do better than we did
in the last one maybe we should
begin to formulate some positive
and logical ideas on the subject.
It’s odd that we have heard no
slogans in this war like those of
25 years ago such as “the war to
make the world free for democra
cy” and the “war to end all wars.”
But maybe we aren’t so sure man
kind can like without war and that
it’ll come about every so often no
matter what we do or try to do
about it. However, I feel fairly
confident that if we can’t write a
decisive enough peace after we’ve
won this conflict we’ll never be
able to and it’ll be about time to
quit trying. For a country of our
size and capacity to have allowed
so many of our parents’ lives to
be affected the way they were
nearly a generation ago, is almost
pure stupidity.
With all due respect to Henry
Cabot Lodge with his numerable
attributes I’m all too likely to lose
control of my emotions when I
recall his meddling narrow mind
ed interference into the peace
treaty developments and his con
tinual opposition to nearly every
thing President Wilson could pro
pose. No, if we have a Cabot Lodge
or two sow the seeds of a third
war at the end of this one, I’m
sure it would be difficult to con
vince me to fight a second time
for what my father fought for
once and I’m about to again. God
help us if ©ur children can’t grow
to maturity in a peaceful world!
But enough of the past except
to remember it as a very costly
lesson. How will we attempt to
write our peace treaty at the ter-
minous—provided there’s at least
one man on each side left who
can still write as well as fight!
Shall it be a forceful, ruthless,
dictatorial, and dominating treaty,
or shall it be one of pure logic
and scientific reasoning? There
are substantial arguments for both
sides so let’s look at them.
Undoubtedly the common man,
and by this I mean the great ma
jority of people, probably has only
one conception of how this war
should be terminated and that is
by the complete and utter destruc
tion of Germany, Italy and Japan
so that one could never conceive
of them as having anything such
as a sense of national feeling or
pride, let alone the idea that they
could someday reunite to assert
their superiority over the rest of
the world. The logical way of ar
riving at this conclusion would be
to have the countries, and parti
cularly Germany, completely con
trolled by allied powers. This could
possibly be done through the
names of leaders from the sub
dued countries themselves who are
sympathetic with the victors so
as to try and get as much co
operation from the people as pos
sible. Then, the borders of Ger
many would have to be changed.
Minorities all around her edges
would be returned to their mother
states and what would be left of
the country might then be cut in
to two or more small impotent
and non self-supporting states to
be under continual and strict sur
veillance.
To make these changes definite
ly a reality, the use of armies of
occupation would be a prime ne
cessity along with the control of
political and industrial develop
ments from the allied ranks. This
then would mean the entire absolv
ing of anything German except for
the language, local customs and a
certain amount of extant litera
ture. Complete religious tolerance
and freedom of speech and press
would be permitted within such
limits as attempts to overthrow
the government by violence. It’s
what could be called compulsory
democracy even though it may not
avail old Germans anything for
several years after its instigation
and die-hards would never benefit
from it.
But as in all unanswered ques
tions, there is usually more than
one reasonable theory or thesis.
Dr. Renner of Columbia Univer
sity’s Teachers College has put
forth his ideas of how the map of
Europe should be remade at the
end of hostilities. It is a pure
academician’s piece of work and
shows the fruits of Professor Ren
ner’s logic, which incidentally, is
upheld by other professional and
scholarly thinkers on this subject.
His is a geopolitical solution guid
ed exclusively and entirely by the
location of groups of people sim
ilar and homogeneous in descent,
language, religion and customs.
On the map he has worked out it
is startling to see that Germany
and Italy are left in nearly the
(See COMMENTS, Page 4)
With Bruce Cabot as “Wild Bill”
and Constance Bennett as a shady
lady of a gambling joint, the pic
ture “WILD BILL HICKOCK
RIDES” will show today and to
morrow at Guion Hall. Others in
this picture of the old West are
Warren William, Betty Brewer and
Frank Wilcox.
Bruce Cabot plays the part of
a badman turned good and as such,
is the highlight of the movie. The
plot is the time-worn one about a
Western town whose ranchers are
being molested by cattle thieves
and other badmen until along
comes someone and clears every
thing up.
Constance Bennett as the gam
bling queen also is on the side of
law and order although her good
intentions are mistaken at first.
After she has convinced Hickock
that the rustlers are going to blow
up the dam and drown all the
cattle, he comes through and saves
the situation. It’s a shoot ’em up
picture, with enough lead flying to
kill a regiment or so of Japs.
The Lowdown: a super Western
with all the trimmings.
One of the features today and
Wednesday at the Campus is
“NIGHT BEFORE THE DI
VORCE” with Lynn Bari, Mary
Beth Hughes and Joseph Allen,
Jr., playing the leading parts.
As its name indicates, the pic
ture is the story of a married
couple involved in divorce proceed
ings. Lynn' Bari and Joseph Allen
are the couple. As man of the
family, Allen thinks that his young
wife is too independent, that is,
she doesn’t come to him for his
advice, protection, etc. So he seeks
comfort in other channels, namely
the blonde comforter, Mary Beth
Hughes.
Naturally, “the Mrs.” gets hot
about this turn of events and starts
divorce proceedings. Just before
the divorce is granted, though, she
gets cold feet and starts a cam
paign to rewin her husband.
The Lowdown: a shallow story
about the “eternal triangle.”
In the drama—detective class is
“CASTLE IN THE DESERT”
showing as the other feature at
the Campus today and tomorrow.
This is a Charlie Chan picture,
with Sidney Toler playing the part
of the famous Oriental detective.
A millionaire has built a gigan
tic castle in the desert in Califor
nia and he and his wife live there
in the manner of the Borgias, a
clan of poisoners whose lives the
millionaire is studying. After sev
eral deaths occur, Chan is called
in to use his master mind and de
termine the murderer. The plot
becomes so involved that plausi
bility is thrown away to allow the
solution of part of the mystery.
The audience is left guessing about
many details, giving the picture a
certain incompleteness.
The Lowdown: fantastic portray
al of a script-writers implausible
imagination.
Timber on the University of Cal
ifornia’s experimental forestry
tract is increasing at a rate of
100,000 board feet a year.
Qfanpm
4-1181
Box Office Open Till 10 P.M.
TODAY AND TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
1:00-3:26-5:52-8:18-10:44
“The Night Before
The Divorce”
with
Lynn Bari Joseph Allen, Jr.
Mary Beth Hughes
2:20"- 4:4CT- 7:i2- 9:38 ~ ~ ~
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SLIDE RULES AND
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WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“Castle in the Desert” with
Sidney Toler and Arleen
Whelan. Also, “The Night
Before the Divorce” with
Mary Beth Hughes, Lynn
Bari and Joseph Allen.
At Guion Hall
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“Wild Bill' Hickock Rides”
with Bruce Cabot and Con
stance Bennett.
—
MOVIE
Guion Hall
. Tuesday and Wednesday
JULY 21 - 22 — 30:30 AND 7:00 P.M.
Pulse Pounding Adventure!
Wild Bill Hickok Rides, Rides
with
CONSTANCE BENNETT AND
BRUCE CABOT
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Thursday and Friday
Maisie Gets Her Man