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Page 2 THE BATTALION -TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 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 ipon 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-4444. 1941 Member 1942 Pissocided Golle6iate Press Brocks Gofer - - .....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 K. 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 K. R. Tampke r .’.Senior Assistant Carlton Power - Senisr Assistant Joe Stalcup .'. Junior Assistant Tuesday’s Staff Tom Vannoy Managing Editor Tom Leland.. _i 1 Junior Editor John Holman .....Junior Editor Dtairlas* Lancaster - 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. The Open Forum This school is not perfect, neither is this paper. We know it, and you know it. But too often suggestions and “bleeds”, are made in the wrong places—places where they do no good. The faculty and college authorities are more interested in the welfare of every stud ent here than most of us realize, ^nd they really want to know what the student thinks and feels about various things. This paper has an Open Forum column on this page. That space is devoted entirely to what YOU have to say about this or that. We welcome fair criticism; the college does also. If you have some pet “bleed”, write it down in the best English you can, and either bring or mail it to the Battalion or Room 126, Administration building. We will print anything that is not libe lous, vulgar, or detrimental to the war ef fort, but only signed letters will be considered. The Open Forum is YOUR column. It is your lawful right to express yourself. Use the Open Forum.—JMH. Our Neighbors to the South ; By harry a. cordua , Bolivian ministers en route to Washington— Both Ministers of Finance of Bolivia are en route to Washington to sign a contract with the Export-Import Bank, involving help for Bolivia’s highway, mining, and agri cultural program. Compulsory Military training initiated in Cuba— The Chief of the Cuban Army announc ed to the country June 24 that compulsory military service would start August 1. Guatemala’s aid to our sugar needs — The president of Guatemala has given unlimited licenses for sugar exports, which can be shipped to the United States through Mexico by rail. Ecuador receives loan— An Ecuadorian Developing Corporation was recently formed to administer a $50,- 000,000 loan granted by the United States Export-Import Bank. A part of the sum is to be used for the rehabilitation of the province of El Oro, invaded by the Peruvians last summer. Peru sets up tire factory— Finance Minister of Peru announced on/ June 14 that the U. S. Government had granted priorities on machinery shipments to Peru, for setting up a tire factory which will manufacture tires from Peruvian rub ber. This has been a long time dream of Lima’s ex-mayor Eduardo Dibos, a recent visitor in Washington. Inter-American Conference— A new Inter-American Conference is -getting underway as important members of the 21 republics assembled in Washington, to coordinate plans for dealing with Frozen Axis funds. Bogota, Columbia—site for next Pan-Ameri can Conference — The_ ninth regular Pan American Con ference is scheduled for November of 1943, to be held at Bogota, capitol of Columbia. The last conference met in Lima, Pepu in 1938; more recent conferences in Panama, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro had special character. Chili moves toward Axis Break— Forces in Chili favoring a rupture of relations with the Axis gained substantially in strength during the past month. On June 19, the Santiago branch of the Radicals vot ed unanimously for a severing of Axis rela tions. Three days later, at a celebration of Mexicos entrance into the war, participants demanded that relations with the Axis be cut. The Socialists have now joined the Com munist in wholehearted support of an ag gressive policy. Before a crowd of 10,000 persons, Minister of Development Oscar Schnake stated boldly that Chili could not and should not remain neutral. On the same platform were: the Labor-leader, the secre tary-general of the Chilean Confederation of Workers (who proposed at national plebiscite on foreign policy) and the perennial spokes man of the Socialist Party. The latter is un derstood to have assured President Rios, in Open Forum This article may seem like repetition to many of the readers as far as subject matter is concerned, yet, something should be done about speaking to people on the campus. Try speaking- to everyone you meet on the sidewalks and streets. Sometimes we don’t realize how much it helps to say “hello” or “good morning” to someone but just the same it has a friendly effect and makes this tense atmosphere that we live in a more wholesome one. Speaking is like dimming your lights when you meet an approaching automobile at night. Dim your lights and in almost every case he will dim his too. It is some thing contagious that spreads everyday as it goes along. You will find out how much better it will make you feel when you are down and out and have that “not a friend in the world” feeling. All of us speak to the boys, we know personally but the object is to speak to everybody. Alright, maybe he doesn’t speak back but he will gradually get educated if he’s wise. Naturally the Freshman class as a whole are fair at speaking but the rest of us—we are way off the line. This thing takes very little effort and it nets plenty in return. Try it for a few days and if it doesn’t make you a new man come to me and I’ll give you your money back. KEITH KIRK, ’43. PRIVATE BUCK . . By Clyde Lewis “It’s just curiosity, Sarge. After 20 miles I wanted to see if I have any feet left!” The World Turns On By DR. C. C. DOAK By Jack Hood Freshmen and Seniors—What is the differ ence between the typical freshman and the typical senior? What does college do for a boy? Are the changes worth the cost? Could a man not serve as well and learn as much either in industry or the army as in college? In this day of haste and war, these are ques tions which should be on every tongue. I have watched exactly twenty freshman classes enter A. & M. They have varied but little, and they have not been unlike begin ning student groups who have entered other colleges and universities. A man is the prod uct of his inheritance plus the sum of all that he has experienced. Since freshmen have had the same parents, have lived in the same homes, have gone to the same schools, attended the same movies, and have refused to read the same books, it follows that as a group they are quite similar. You could change clothing and campuses, and the boys from the University would look and act just like Aggie freshmen. But freshmen are not like seniors, and Aggie seniors are not like seniors of any other school. This is another way of saying that the environment here is unique and therefore it does some unique things to those who experience it. Recruits and Soldiers—Recruits are very much like freshmen. They are young; they are frightened by the new environment; they are soft and individualistic. Two years of army life was long enough for me to see several groups of recruits inducted into serv ice and matured into soldiers. It was always the same. Weak, stooped, frightened, under nourished, self-centered, little bell-hops, soda- jerks, pampered-pets, and panty-waist boys were worked until their muscles bulged. They were fed regularly on wholesome food until their bodies grew heavier, healthier, and harder. They were taught to think and work with others until their minds assumed new attitudes toward everything from common sweat to uncommon patriotism. So startling were the changes wrought in a matter of weeks that mothers and sweethearts went into ecstasies over nearly any boy on his first furlough. Remembering him as he had been, they were pleased beyond words at the extent of the' improvements. A. & M. and the army are similar in what they do toward helping a boy grow into a man.'' Attitudes — If observation of twenty classes and a considerable number of recruits is sufficient to entitle one to give advice to men now in A. & M. and at the same time faced with the immediate prospect of be coming recruits, this is my offering: (1) Assume with joy the new respon sibilities for money, clothing, quarters, books, and equipment which dormitory life affords. The discharge of these details gives one a chance to prove his independence and worth both to himself and to his fellows. (2) . Without compulsion, take care of your body and person. Bathe it, exercise it, feed it regularly and wisely, wash its teeth, shave its chin, hold its shoulders up, teach its face to smile, and teach its mind to maim tain an interested alertness at all times (even in class). These things, if maintained through three years will often pin diamonds on your shoulders in the fourth year. (3) Avoid all expensive', weakening, and time-consuming habits, for they are as dead weights around the neck of any man who would be a student. (4 Select a study program to include as many of the basic sciences as possible. Work at it hard enough to convince yourself, your parents, and your Uncle Sam that you are making your greatest immediate contri bution to the national effort right where you are, because you are preparing for great er service later on. “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence ■’—-Webster Aggie Song Hits . . . The Plainsmen . . . Top tunes of dancers at Satiddy night’s Juke Box Prom add up like this: 1. My Devotion 2. Jersey Bounce 3. Not Mine 4. One o’clock Jump 5. Begin the Be- guine (i. He Wears a Pair of Sil ver Wings Hood 7. Sleepy Lagoon 8. Trumpet Blues > 9. Amen 10. Skylark Evidence that someone was using a heavy line was a request for “She’ll Always Remember” with a “Please” added . . . One request was for $1,000 cash . . . leave at main door in small bills . . . anoth er request read, “To hell with those jitterbugs!” and still another read, “Something ought to be done about those buys who ‘bust in’ without saying a d thing.” More Names . ., Still not . enough entries have come in for the dance slab naming contest ... a short, catchy, fitting name will take the prize over all those yet submitted. Prize examples of entries so far are: Heifer , Ring, Anti-Botts Inn, Birddog Paradise, Aggie Lair. When 22 Aggies traveled ovei Northeast U. S. and Canada dur ing the summer travel course ir Ag Eco, they got this write-up ir the London, Ontario Daily Free Press: “Twenty-two of the famous Texas Aggies (students of the Ag ricultural and Mechanical College of Texas) who arrived in Londor this morning to study agricultura conditions in this district, are shown above. (Front page picture) Those big hats they are wearing are a small edition of the r.egulai 10-gallon hats and are called five- gallon hats. The big boots in the front row are real Texas high- heeled riding boots.” Aggie’s Angel . . . July 25 at two o’clock, 43 Aggies were trying to “catch out” from the East Gate . . . rides were scarce, and they were about to give up. Then a trailer truck came along and picked up the whole bunch . . . headed for Houston. When he got to Hempstead, the one-armed driver stopped and bought 16 watermelons . . outside of Hempstead, he stopped ag'ain and told the’ boys to “dig in.” Later the Aggies chipped in and gave their friend a token of ap preciation. The one-armed driver will long be remembered by those Aggies' . . . (Submitted by Gerald T. Svelten- fuss, Hq. Signal Corps). Completion of Commando Course Means Tired Backs War educates the senses, calls into ac tion the will, 'perfects the physical constitu tion, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man meas ures man.—Emerson. a private conference June 11, that a break with the Axis could not be postponed inde finitely. Following a confidential analysis of the Chilean situation, the senate voted al most unanimously to leave foreign policy unaltered for the time being. By Tom Leland In two or three weeks A. & M.’s new commando obstacle course lo cated west of the infantry drill field will begin its job of harden ing the muscles and physical en durance of the Aggies to a point where they will be able to hold their own with any Jap, German, or any othe^j enemy they may meet. With the ^collection of so much of A. & M.’s military equipment by the war department to meet the present emergency, Colonel C. L. Caphton, Infantry senior instruc tor, has supervised the construc tion of the course so that the phy sical side of the Aggies’ training will be complete when new equip ment arrives. The actual designing of the course was carried out by Prof. E. J. Urbanovsky of the Landscape Art. Department. Urbanovsky gave the problem to his Landscape 307 class and let the members submit their own ideas as to how the course should be designed. The final course will be a composite of the best features from each of these designs. The members are not only doing the work of de signing but are actually working at the construction. These men are P. M. Geren, F. CAC; A. E. Hud- eck, H CAC; H. W. Phillips, CHQ; J. G. Morris, B Cav; C. M. Mc- Caskill, A CAC; R. C. McMurtrey, C CAC; D. B. Stanley, M. Inf.; E. II. Wathen, 1 CHQ; and D. : Walters. As a preview of some of the so muscles in store for Aggies in t near future, the course will sta with a series of low hurdles, f( lowed by walls, parallel bars, ro climbing, tunnels, ditches, a 1 foot ladder, twisting and wea ing paths— in short, there are d vices to exercise scientifically e ery musccle in the body. The te rain has been selected to repr sent every possible type likely be encountered in modern we Woods, plains, hills are all include The even further convert the A gies into first class fighting nn is a new course of instruction actual hand-to-hand combat, di arming opponents, capturing pi soners, and every trick of the trai in general rough and tumble figh ing. Major R. L. Roberts will s pervise this section of the ne training. The text book to be us< is entitled “Get Tough” and written by Captain Fairbairn, chi of the Shanghai police for twen years. At present this instructs is to be given to infantry senim but other organizations may r ceive this training in the near f ture. Dr. Stanley King, president Amherst college, has announc that “by various retrenchmen we are reducing the wst of bachelor of arts degree by $40i —WIN YOUR PART OF LOU’S— $ <5 ©. C © COVERING caps distracM By JACK KEITH Starring Ann Sheridan and Ron ald Reagan in a wide-eyed melo drama is “JUKE GIRL,” showing today and Wednesday at Guion Hall. Others in the cast are Rich ard Whorf, Gene Lockhart and George Tobias. Ann Sheridan plays the part of the “juke girl,” which is just a fancy name for a dance hall dame. In a Florida boom town, she gets mixed up in a dispute between Ronald Reagan, who wants the farmers, in the vicinity to get a square deal in selling their prod ucts, and Gene Lockhart? the pack er who practically has a monopoly on all the vegetables and fruits grown in' that teri'itory. Romancing is carried on by Ann and Ronald, but the juke girl turns down his offer of marriage because of the kind of gal she is. After things are straightened out be tween the packers and planters, she realizes she really loves him and they get together. The picture ,is filled with fights, a murder, hard drinking and suggestions of other things. The Lowdown:—It’s the same old story of boy and girl, but Red Head Sheridan gives it “oomph.” “MISSISSIPPI GAMBLE R”, with Kent Taylor and Frances Langford, is showing as one of the features at the Campus today and tomorrow. This is the story of a never-say- die newspaperman who undertakes singlehandedly to capture a mur derer of a race-track jockey. It’s a thousand mile chase, and he finally ends up finding the mur derer, though he is disguised by plastic surgery. Frances Langford sings, though we can’t see why. The Lowdown: You can go ‘out for a Van Dyke’ during this one. “SECRET AGENT OF JAPAN”, co-starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari, is the other feature showing now at the Campus. An authentic looking setting and an up-to-the-times plot make the show seem very real. Preston Foster is an American owner of a Shanghai night spot and he gets tangled up in interna tional affairs when Lynn Bari, a British agent whom he suspects of being in cahoots with the j Jap anese, calls at his place for an im portant letter. Finding that he values the safety of his country above that of his own life, he throws himself heart and soul into the work of spying on spies. The stars and the supporting cast, in cluding Noel Madison and Sen Yung, are all good. The Lowdown:—Apropos in that it shows that “a slip of the lip may sink a ship.” Palomar, the famous 200-inch telescope of the California Insti tute of Technology atop Mt. Palo mar in San Diego county, is barr ed to the public for the duration of the war. A recent survey reveals there are 32 teachers’ fraternities at American institutions of higher learning. I WANT Drawing Instruments Slide Rules and Engineering Books LOUPOT 4-1181 Box Office Open Until 10:00 P. M. TODAY - TOMORROW DOUBLE FEATURE rfCRETASENf * Of JAP"* "T POSTER ’ BW . m - 5:48 - 8:16 - m AT THE CAMPUS Tuesday and Wednesday— “Secret Agent of Japan,” with Preston Foster and Lynn Bari. Also, “Mississippi Gambler,” with Kent Taylor and Frances Langford. AT GUION HALL Tuesday and Wednesday— “Juke Girl,” with Ann Sheri dan and Ronald Reagan. MISSISSIPPI JL GAMBLER ■jrailP UNIVERSAL PICTURE I / with Frances Langford Kent Taylor 2:12 - 4:40 - 7:C0 - ?:28 Also Merry Melody Cartoon MOVIE Guion Hall Tuesday - Wednesday 3:30 and 7:00
