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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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John Holman —
By W. L. PENBERTHY
A short time ago I met a friend on the cam
pus who was in my discussion group when
he was a freshman. In the course of our con
versation I asked him how he was getting
along, to which he replied, “I am doing pret
ty well but I guess I could do better.” I sup
pose all of us have felt just that way at one
time or another. I think sometimes we feel
that we aren't doing so well when we are in
reality doing a pretty good job because in
some cases the more we do the more we see
could be done and the more dissatisfied we
are with our efforts.
I got a kick out of a remark made by
Henry Martinsen, a former student of the
college and the son of the contractor who
built our home. He was working with a man
many years his senior who had just finished
a particular piece of work in a room we fig
ured was to be the best room in the home.
The older man stepping back to inspect his
work said, “Henry, I am not satisfied with
that job,” to which Henry replied, “If you
would please your master please yourself
first.” I would say that his parents did a
fine piece of work in instilling that attitude
in their son. Many of us have the attitude
of “that's good enough” instead of “the
best possible job I am capable of doing.”
I talked with many of the workmen on
that job and several told me that they had
known the contractor' to lose money on a
job but that they had never known him to
slight a job to keep from losing. He had kept
his standard and pleased himself even
though in so doing it cost him financially.
However, in the long run he was far ahead
because I know of many who have had him
build their homes without taking competi
tive bids from other contractors. I have also
known of thoke who have knowingly paid
more to have him build their homes.
Many of us try to conduct ourselves so
as to please others but I have observed that
when there are many to please it results in
a great deal of confusion. It would appear
that in as much as we have to live with our
selves, and as we are the only ones we can’t
kid or fool, it would be well to set up for our
selves a high standard and then try to reach
that standard; and in so doing I am sure our
efforts would be very acceptable to our mas
ters because we had pleased ourselves first.
Also I know of no feeling that is as satisfy
ing as the feeling that comes from doing a
job well.
“If you would please your master please
yourself first.”
Our 1942 football season starts Septem
ber 26, when we play L.S.U. in Baton Rouge.
According to present schedules, we are to
register for the next semester on September
25, just one day before the L.S.U. game.
We would like to see some arrangement
made whereby students planning on going
to Baton Rouge Saturday wouldn’t have to
come here to register Friday. This would
allow many more‘Aggies to attend the game
than will be able to if no such arrangement
is made.
Could the corps headquarters office, the
cadet colonel, or somebody work out a plan
to eliminate this conflict? If so, the corps
will appreciate it, and the Twelfth Man can
be in Baton Rouge Saturday to start this
old season off with a bang!
ALLEN CANFIELD, '43.
Man, Your Maimers
.Senior Assistant
...Junior Assistant
..Managing Editor
Junior Editor
: Junior Editor
Reporters
Tom Journeay, Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKin
ney, John Baldridge, Charles Kaplan, Gerald Fahrentold, Bert
Kurts, Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Jack Hood,
Jack Chilcoat, Bill Murphy, John Sparger, and Henry Holguin.
Watch Where You Drive
Students with cars should be careful to ob
serve the rules issued by the Commandant’s
office concerning the driving of automobiles
on the campus.
Demerits will be given, usually ten for
each offense, and the student may have his
driving privilege taken away from him.
Present rules state that no student having
a car on the campus can drive that car on
the campus except to and from the closest
entrance and their parking lot. Cars may
be stopped for as long as fifteen minutes in
front of dormitories when loading luggage
or other things. Also, when a cadet has
guests on the campus, he may attend social
functions at either Sbisa or the new dance
slab in his car, driving onto the campus at
the entrance nearest the mess hall or slab,
and leaving by that entrance after the dance.
Cars may be parked near the mess hall or
the slab during the event only. Otherwise,
stopping or driving on the campus is abso
lutely prohibited.
Those using their automobile in some
business capacity which requires that they
be able to drive about the campus must ob
tain special permission from the Command
ant’s office, stating the specific places at
which they must stop.
Also, all students keeping cars on the
campus overnight are required to register
them and receive license plates from the
Commandant. A fee of twenty-five cents
pays for these plates.
Save yourself some trouble and tour
duty by registering your car and observing
campus traffic rules.—J.M.H.
Penny's Serenade
By L Sherwood
The Technique for eating lobster is very in
teresting and probably worth knowing, but
it is important that you know the technique
for eating sandwiches, from the lowly ham
burgers to the dainty tea sandwiches.
Probably the best general advice on
sandwiches is to be as neat as possible in the
eating of them. Tiny ones of three or four
bites do not need to be broken or cut in
smaller pieces; but all others, including
wieners and hamburgers, should be, even at
a picnic. Break any sandwich that will break
easily. Otherwise, cut it with your knife
while you steady it with the fingers of your
free hand. Cut it in small enough pieces that
you can hold in one hand.
The “triple decker” or club sandwich is
hard to manage; but if by cutting it in quar
ters and holding the layers firmly you are
able to eat it from your fingers, do so. Use
your knife and fork on any sandwich that
is more easily managed that way.
Eat the crusts if the maker has left
them on the sandwiches for you, but you
will not be expected to eat too many dry
crusts—maybe you found out years ago that
they do not make your hair curl.
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“If this picture turns out good, Fm going to send it to my
wife and show her How the Army’s made a man out of me!”
BACKWASH
By
Jack Hood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from sons action or oceorrencs.”—Webster
: By Dr. T. F. Mayo :
A Best Seller Seventy-Five Years Old
(Tolstoi’s “War and Peace”)
It’s lucky that this latest “reading fad” has
happened to single out a really magnificent
piece of fiction. Count Tolstoi’s vast and pan
oramic story of the failure of a lunge at
world conquest is a great novel because of
the grandeur of its historical sweep. But it
is also one of the greatest of the tales that
make us love and pity, respect and under
stand our own human nature.
The distinctness and warmth of the
scores of characters are wonderful. So is the
ease with which the reader makes the transi
tions from Moscow to the Russian country
side, from the campaign of Austerlitz to the
Russian retreat, back to flaming Moscow and
to the bloody snows of the Napoleonic agony,
and finally again to the fruitful peace of the
Russian land.
What “War and Peace” seems to say is
that no Conqueror, no matter how brilliant
and ruthless, can deflect the course of His
tory ; that on the other hand History pushes
Conquerors about for its own mysterious
purposes. Kutogov, the fat old Russian gen
eral; realized this with wise humility. Na
poleon, vain and theatrical, never did, even
though (according to Tolstoi) his battles al
ways got out of hand, his victories winning
themselves and his disaster striking him
down through no human planning.
But, this story seems also to say, though
the human mind and will cannot shape the
collective, human destiny, the honest, kind
ly, loving heart can spread peace and good
will around it, and can redeem and make
beautiful a few human lives. The burly
bungling Pierre, with nothing much to rec
ommend him except a good heart, grows
under the reader’s eyes from a figure of fun
into a tower of strength and comfort to his
whole circle. The uncontrollable tide of great
events sweeps over his head, but even in-
scruitable History has no power over sim
ple human goodness.
Whether or not you follow Tolstoi
through all his mystical theorizing about
History, you can’t help liking his people.
You can’t help feeling better about yourself
and your species as you recognize in his lov
able characters trait after trait which you
know that they share with us all.
Tolstoi is a good man to get acquainted
with, on general principles. He was that al
ways notable type, the aristocrat whose aris
tocracy broadens instead of narrowing his
sympathies. His Resurrection and Anna
Karenina are just as much worth reading
as War and Peace. Intensely Russian, he was
one of the really big souls yet humble and
simple and kind. He was honest and intelli
gent enough to discern and portray the ap
palling weakness and viciousness that mar
human nature, but strong and deep enough
to love humanity, and too robustly healthy
to despair of its future.
Ho«d
Three Dot Notes . . .
. . . About the Walter Wagner
production “We’ve Never Been
Licked”: Tuesday night Norman
Raine talked to students and fac
ulty interested in writing . . . .
he revealed interesting facts . . .
Shooting title for the flikker is as
stated above — the “American
Youth” part was hung on in Texas
unofficially. . . .
the finished pro
duct will prob
ably have a more
attractive name .
' ®»» sir When asked
why the film
wasn’t made at
“another college”
instead of A. &
M., Raine replied,
“Not throwing
any bouquets at you boys, but V.
M. I. is a school for boys; A. &
M. is a school for men.” . . .
First filming unit will probably
be on the campus in three or four
weeks to get background shots . . .
. The main unit with actors, direc
tor, Walter Wanger, etc., will prob
ably get here in six or eight
weeks . . . Aggies may be used for
minor pai’ts such as simple back
ground dialogue, (In “Captain of
the Clouds”, which Raine wrote,
many R. C. A. F. men were used.)
. . . . The preview of the picture
will definitely be here . . .no one
can yet say who will plaji the
male and female leads.
National Magazine
Plays up BY Frolic
(SIPA) A recent issue of “Peep”
magazine carried a two page
spread of photos of last spring’s
Agricultural Engineer Barnyard
Frolic.
Caption on the article was, “One
Barn Band That Didn’t Lay an
Egg,” and went on to say, “Down
on the farm, all right - thinking
folks are just getting up about the
time a Texas A. & M. barn dance
folds up. To make room for this
party the students had to move a
hundred cows out of the barn—and
that’s a lot of cow. Also they had
to move out a hundred and fifty
bulls—and that’s a lot of bull, too.”
The pictures were for the most
part of the 1941 season football
team and their dates, but they
were fairly representative of the
entertainment presented by the ag
engineers.
John Tarleton Offers
War Course for Girls
John Tarleton College has now
provided for National Defense
work for women. The girls are
enrolled in classes from 8:00 to
1:00 every morning, Monday thru
Friday, in household and aircraft
mechanics. This class, started June
15, is being held in the college
wood shop. The girls seem to be
enjoying the work.
Plot of the film is still a dark
secret, but it will be based on an
Aggie-Ex in the Phillipines—a
, Colonel in the army—who sends
his son back to A. & M. A good
guess is that, from there, the plot
will cover the ups and downs of
the new Aggie . . . The “Aggie-
Ex in the Phillipines as a Colonel
in the army” angle hints of Gen
eral Moore . . .
Old Timer...
Dean E. J. Kyle owns a 1902
issue of The Battalion Magazine—
a very amusing publication com
pared with the modern version. . .
Advertising throughout the mag
azine is addressed to “Gents” r
One ad advises, “Well-dressed men
always wear shoes” . . . another
announces “Shoes, negligees, over
shirts, and campaign hats for sale
—cadet trade respectfully solicit
ed” . . . Contrary to modern ad
vertising rules which try to avoid
placing ads of competitors on the
same page, the old Batt put ads
of competitors on a page with
one border around them.
In the sports section, the first
defeat of Texas U. by the Aggies
was written up. The game was
played at Austin on Thanksgiving
. . . Aggies 11, Texas 0. The sports
writer said the Aggies crashed over
the goal to shouts of, “Carry it
over, bullies” ! ! !
The 1902 idea of a good joke:
Father (to son leaving for
school)—“Have an ideal, son, and
hug it to your bosom.”
Son—I have, father, but she
won’t let me.
Something in the old issue that
you don’t see in the modern issues
were social notices scattered
through the pages reading, ‘.‘Mrs.
So-and-so will be “at home” to
cadets on Sunday afternoon, four
to six p. m.”
Future Actors . . .
To settle a point before it’s
brought up: The Aggies selected
for minor parts in the Wanger
production will be selected by the
film company with complete dis
regard to names, importance on
the campus, or whose old man
knows who. . .
A film company with thousands
of dollars tied up in a film is care
ful to choose their actors accord
ing to what type is really needed.
The boys selected here will be
selected by a man who is looking
.for a tough mugg, a scholarly
face, a midget or a fat boy. He
won’t he looking for a name.
So. . . Lady Luck will be the
one to sweat. . . she’s the only one
that can get you a part—IF you’re
interested.
A “distraction,” according to
Webster, is anything that averts
attention. That is, a distraction is
a diversion. Throughout an Aggie’s
eight (or more) semesters on the
A. & M. Campus, various distrac
tions present themselves every
week to divert him from his books,
studies and his “hole” in the dorm.
It is the purpose of this column
to preview these amusements in
each ^ issue of the Battalion, so
that readers of the paper may
know exactly “what’s cooking” in
the line of distractions.
The coming Grand Opening of
the No-Name Slab up at the West
Gate and the first Summer Corps
Dances on Friday and Saturday
nights respectively are the big
events of the week. Hearsay has it
that there’ll be oodles of imported
femmes on hand to support our
usual bevy of Bryan and College
Station gals, so Bird Dogs take
notice. Price of each dance is $1.10,
the one Friday being informal, and
the one Saturday being semi-for
mal.
Gene Tierney, Walter Huston
and Victor Mature are playing in
“SHANGHAI GESTURE,” show
ing at the Campus theater Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday. Others
in the cast are Ona Munson, Phyl
lis Brooks and Eric Blore.
The story deals with an early
love affair between Walter Huston,
and Ona Munson, the notorious
Mother Gin Sling, operator of a
Shanghai gambling joint. To get
revenge for Huston’s desertion,
Gin Sling encourages their daugh
ter to gamble, drink and carry on
a passionate love affair with the
evil Dr. Omar, played by Victor
Mature. Then, in one of the final
scenes, Gene reveals herself as the
daughter of Gin Sling and so on
to a dramatic finale.
The lavishness of scenery and
the beauty of background fail to
lift this picture out of its state of
sordidness. The story is not a
pleasant one and is not well por
trayed on the screen, consequent
ly its entertainment value is low.
Perhaps Gene Tierney is the best
recommendation that the picture
has, but even she is cast in an un
favorable part.
The Lowdown:—Well, the scen
ery is good, anyway.
Playing a return engagement at
Guion Hall today and tomorrow, Is
“THE HOUSEKEEPER’(S
DAUGHTER,” with Joan Bennett,
Adolphe Menjou and John Hub
bard.
Adolphe Menjou as an ace crim
inal reporter, John Hubbard as a
cub reporter and Joan Bennett in
the title role are all good. Hubbard
stumbles onto a murder, with the
help of a meek flower vendor,
played by George Stone, and
“scoops” the town with the story.
The murderer orders his henchmen
out to take Hubbard for a ride
and the complications that follow
cause hilarity from chuckles to
belly laughs.
The Lowdown:—An oldie, but a
goodie.
—
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday — “The
House keeper’s Daughter,”
with Joan Bennett, Adolph
Menjou and John Hubbard.
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday—“Shanghai Gesture,”
with Gene Tierney, Walter
Huston and Victor Mature.
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Betty Grable
Victor Mature
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TODAY, FRIDAY AND
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Victor Mature
Walter Huston
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