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Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1942 The Battalion The World Tunis On By ciyde L^ 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 3, 1870. Subscription rates $3 a school year. Advertising rates apon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service. Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. I-M44. Telephone 1941 Member 1942 Pissociafed Coile6iate Press Brook* Gofer - .Editor-in-Chief Ke« 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 F,. 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. Tamp’ke. Senior Assistant Carlton Power -Senior Assistant Joe Stalcup.. ..J Junior Assistant Saturday’s Staff lyde C. Franklin :* Managing Editor Benton Taylor .....:. : Junior Editor fadk Keith..... Junior Editor John Holman .Junior Editor Reporters Tom Journeay, Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKin ney, John Baldridge, Charles Kaplan, Gerald Fahrentold, Bert Kurtr, Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith,. Bill Japhet, Jack Hood, Jack Chilcoat, Bill Murphy, John Sparger, and Henry Holguin. Fitch Band Wagon The chips are down as far as the Aggieland and the Fitch Summer Band Wagon are con cerned. What Aggies have done by writing in the : p&st was to put the band on the bal lot and the final voting for the selection of the band to represent this section at Dallas. A good job has been done so far, and the band couldn’t be kept out of the final selec tions with the many letters pouring in to Band Wagon headquarters. # But what happens in the next two weeks between August 9 and 23 will determine whether or not the Aggieland appears on the NBC program which will be broadcast over WFAA at Dallas. It all depends on the number of votes which will be cast for the Aggieland in competition with other bands of this region. There are a number of cities whch compose the Dallas district and in which voting may be done, and through friends in these cities Aggies should push the Aggieland Orchestra. Get busy Aggies, and turn in your vote whenever you go to one of the drug stores and purchase 25 cents worth of merchandise. Remember that the job isn’t finished and what you do in the next two weeks will de termine the outcome. 1 , — By DR. R. W. STEEN Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru and their followers are playing for high stakes in In dia, and it is difficult to see what they hope to win. They are demanding that Britain grant India immediate and full independence. Britain has only recently refused to do this, but countered with an offer of complete in dependence after the war in return for In dian assistance during the war. This offer the Indians rejected. It is now declared that a campaign of passive resistance will be in stituted and that a general strike may be called. In either case the British will be faced with the problem of putting down some opposition in India, and this will of course interfere with the conduct of the war against Japan. Gandhi assumes something of a com ic appearance when he declares that the only opposition he would favor offering t to a Japanese invasion would be that of passive resistance. * India has sought freedom for many years. It must be conceded of course that Britain holds her position in India because of past imperialism. It should also be con ceded that English rule in India has, on the whole, been quite generous. The evils of Japanese imperialism should loom large in India, yet Gandhi and Nehru seem willing to take that chance. Moreover, they are tak ing some other chances'. There are many groups and many parties in England. There is no assurance that any appreciable per centage of the Indian people will rise in re sponse to the call of these leaders. If they do not, then Gandhi and Nehru will have lost their positions as leaders of the Congress Party. ¥ There is a report that a compromise ac- ■— — - ^ ceptable to both the British and the Indians TVip Grove^ At Lcist anc * ^ was on ^ y ^ me ^ as may arise at the last minute. There is a ' had to depend on his profession suggestion that a guarantee Of Indian inde- Plans for the open air dance for immediate cash. . pendence by the United Nations would sat- spot began when Joe Skiles was isfy the Indians. Such a guarantee would Student Activities Director . . . it You TG Tb.6 OnG... doubtless be acceptable to the British. Such started in a joking way when some Mnnnnv qt? pam tta a compromise would be purely a face saving wit suggested it would be nice to nobody else can DO IT: gesture for Gandhi and Nehru, since they have a Sky Terrace atop the new The Aggieland has been added “Guess what, dear! The major let me name a tank after you!" By lack Hood “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence-Webster have already been offered complete inde pendence after the war. In the years since the automobile was introduced practically all of the buggy and carriage makers have gone out of business. A few turned to the manufacture of auto mobiles but usually without success. One buggy maker, however, more hard headed than the rest, was convinced that the auto mobile was no more than a passing fancy and that buggies would one day come back. That day has now arrived ahd his small plant took “ a* serious tint After that ly) an< is positively swamped with orders. The odd hera ' ' ' reSng because onL^eds" of a mechai! IT’ Naughty, Naughty!! ized war. Most people believe the achieveme?its of war more important than those of peace, but this is a mistake. This Collegiate World = ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS Student Interest Whether a newspaper is the smallest 4-page sheef. or the largest multi-paged metropoli tan paper, it cannot find out all the news it self. No paper on earth has a staff large enough to be everywhere at the same time, even in the paper’s own territory. Every newspaper depends for a large amount of its news on the helpfulness and the self-interest of others. If there is a pub lic meeting in a community, a newspaper is glad to publicize that meeting, but it first has to be informed about it. Promotions, deaths, meetings, anniver saries, social events ... all these are news. People have a natural and legitimate inter est in each other, and a newspaper fulfills Miss Mary Mims Added to Co-op Meeting Aug 10-12 Miss Mary Mims, extension spe cialist from Louisiana State Uni versity, has been added to a list of speakers for the fifth annual Texas Co-operative Institute, to be held here by A. & M. College Aug ust 10-12. J. Wheeler Barger, head of the college’s department of agricul tural economics and general chair man of the institute, said that Miss Mims will speak to the assembled representatives of Texas co-opera tive organizations at luncheon August 11. Her subject will be “Challenges at the Crossroads of Government.” Miss Mims brings a rich back ground of experience in organiza tion of co-operatives to her Texas audience. She has studied co-ops in operation in Norway, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom, as well as in almost every state of the union. This year she has delivered a series of talks to farm bureau or ganizations throughout the middle west. Other spotlight speakers are Dr. 0. W. Hermann, acting head of the co-operative research and serv ice division, Farm Credit Adminis tration; and Ezra T. Benson, exe cutive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives. Qampm 4-1181 / Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. LA ST D A Y “SHANGHAI GESTURE” with GENE TIERNEY VICTOR MATURE WALTER HUSTON Also Three Stooges — News PREVIEW TONIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY TYRONE POWER • JOAN FONTAINE darryi f. zanuck-’S lARRYL F. ZANUCK S ■ ' Ttf/S 1 • - 'f**? • ;:NAv:- ^ Also Porky Pig Cartoon Musical — News mess hall—and to the ballot which decides the someone else ask- band that will play the Fitch Band ed where you ^y a g on j n this section . . . your let- could get a fence , ... , T fifty feet high ’' erS aia tae ^ ric ^' ^ ow ^ s a S ain topped off with up to us . . . no one else can do it. barbed wire and v °ting will be in drug stores (see broken glass to front P a S e for bsting) August 9 keep Aggies from to 23 . . . one vote with a two-bit falling off. purchase. We have a $343, 082 power in drugstores alone (annual- ater, . p ans an( j (.Q^gntrated right Congratulations Aggies! On Your New Dance Floor Let Us Make Your Corsages We Will Deliver at 7:30 J, COULTER SMITH Phone 2-6725 On Old College Road etc. . . final results: “The Grove”. Blond Bombshell Ina Ray Hut- We just can’t figure it out: ton will to night become the first T’other day after grades were “name” band to play “The Grove”, posted, a student walked into the Born in Chicago March 13, 1917, lecture room of Francis Hall ... a chestnut hair, blue eyes, curvili- quiz was in progress, watched over near, saucy nose, sings in a torchy by Prof. Kuzewski and his mus- manner, dances in Broadway tra- tache. The student had a pillow General physique of American college stu- dition: taps to snakehips—that’s which had somehow become split dents seems to be improving, if posture pic- Ina Ray. from end to end. And somehow tures of some 4,000 freshmen admitted to 0 the pillow got thrown into the air. Brown university in the last 10 years are a Just Small Change... The effect was that of a feather fair sampling. . . - snowstorm. It is rumored the stu- A survev bv Prof Leslie F Swain nf aC ^ 1 e P iession a ys (j en ^ kac j busted out of school. . . , su ey py proi. Leslie L. bwam OI w hen President Roosevelt declared the department of physical education at a bank hoIi4a> , Norman E eiu ey SwepnillVS Brown shows that 81.1 per cent of this year's was in Cana(Ja writing £or Sweepings... res iman class has posture ratings of good Hollywood. Like nearly everyone Lovely Jean Dickenson, who ap- an excellent as compared with 15 per e j se> was cau ght without pock- pears here on Town Hall August cen a cecade ago. Only 18.9 per cent of et mone y when the banks closed. 21, last week married an old boy IS year S fheshmen have poor postures jj e w j re( j k j s w jfe in Hollywood, friend. They have known each as agains 25 pei cent of freshmen admit- no j uck _ _ _ ^ was broke, other since she was 13 . . . Nor- 6( in " _ too. Next, he tried the banks, but man Raine estimated that at least ^rof. Swain S findings are based upon they wouldn’t take a check on a one-third of “We’ve Never Been mathematical measurements of silhouette XT. S. bank. So he retired to his Licked” will be filmed on the pictures of all freshmen. hotel room, unlimbered his type- campus . . .the principle actors, “The greater attention given to physical writer, and'settled down for a not doubles, will be here . . .'•if education on the part of secondary schools night’s work. The next morning he possible, copies of the shooting is doubtless one of the chief reasons for im- had completed a short story and script will b© sent to our English Jilt ORCHESIR* Corps Dance MOVIE Guion Hall SATURDAY 1:00 P. M. - 7:00 and 8:30 IT’S KAY-LOSSAU IT’S KAY-RIFFiC! A jamming, joyous /, jamboree! JOHN BARRYMORE • LUPE VEEZ • G1NNY SIMMS . v R 0BS 0 N . PATSY KELLY . PETER LIND HAYES KAY KYSER S BAND teatunng Harry Babbitt, lab Kabibble, Sully Ma.c Produced and Directed by DAVID BUTLER Scrtta Ploy by Jomej V. Ksm News — Cartoon — Comedy «gg[= ==ir=s» COMING Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday “HER CARDBOARD LOVER”