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-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!
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Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
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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
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LA ST D A Y
“SHANGHAI
GESTURE”
with
GENE TIERNEY
VICTOR MATURE
WALTER HUSTON
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Three Stooges — News
PREVIEW TONIGHT
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TYRONE POWER • JOAN FONTAINE
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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
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