Page 2 ■THE BATTALION -SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 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 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 3an Francisco. Office, Room 122, Administration Building. Telephone 1-644L 1941 Member 1942 Dissociated Golle&iate Press Brooks 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 E. Carter ..Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Louis A. Bridges Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Jay Pumphrey j Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff F. D. Asbury, Jr. Bill Huber H. R. Tampke Carlton Power Joe Stalcup ....Circulation Manager Senior Assistant ...Senior Assistant ...Senior Assistant Junior Assistant Saturday’s Staff JyMe C. Franklin Managing Editor Benton Taylor —Junior Editor lack Keith Jiinior Editor John Holman J ^ Junior Editor Reporters leay, ney, John Baldridf Kurts Jack John Baldridge, Charles Kaplan, Gerald Fahrentold, Bert , Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Jack Hood, Chilcoat, Bill Murphy, John Sparger, and Henry Holguin. Last Chance • This week-end is the last opportunity that Aggies will have to cast their votes for the Aggieland Orchestra in their drive to appear on the Fitch Band Wagon. This, should the band win, will mean much to Aggieland and Aggies everywhere. For the past two weeks Mothers Clubs have conducted campaigns all over the state to get the orchestra the necessary support to put the band on the Wagon. Aggies them selves have supported the orchestra well, as seen by the many votes which have gone in with the Aggieland the first choice. Let’s make sure, Aggies, that our or chestra goes over the top by a wide margin. Last minute votes may win or lose the race. So if at your home this week-end work for some votes and put the Aggieland Orchestra on a nationwide hook-up. Our Neighbors to the South By HARRY A. CORDUA What would you think of “experts” on our country who could not read a word of Eng lish, who could not understand a word our people said, could not read our newspapers, and then who would sit down and write a complete history about us. We have suffered even from Englishmen who have written books and articles about us based on super ficial knowledge and experiences after hav ing studied us for a few weeks or months. Why then should we expect Latin America to be less resentful of such fraudulent “ex- perting” than we? “Learn about Latin America says Henry G. Doyles, editor of “Hispania,” but learn about it from experts, from scholars and teachers who have given their lives to Latin American studies, from newspapermen and businessmen and consular officers who. have lived and worked for year^ in Latin Amer ica. For we have them, these real experts— we simply can’t hear them because their voices are drowned out by those who are trying to “cash in” on a superficial, “picked up” knowledge of Latin America.” In a letter written by a Bolivian to Mr. Doyles, after the release of Gunthers “In side Latin America” was expressed a feel ing which is prevalent throughout South and Central America. The letter contained this statement: “It is inconceivable, for in stance, that in the case of Bolivia, of which country I am proud to be a citizen, and which is one of the largest of the Americas, Mr. Gunther pretends to give a version of what he saw during twenty-four hours as a true picture of things as they really are in my homeland.” The Latins may conceal their feelings with a polite word, a smile, but they are not fools—the resentment, the contempt, are there nevertheless. WHAT LATIN AMERICA IS DOING! Pan-American Volunteer Project—is a suggestion made that volunteer soldiers from Latin American countries be enrolled in a special body to fight alongside U. S. troops. Vargas, President of Brazil is understood to favor the project, and to be willing to co operate as far as Brazil is concerned. Maria Gomez Carbonell, Cuba’s only woman cabinet minister, has been assigned the task of supervising the role of women in defense preparations. Anti-Axis exhibition took place in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica following the brazen torpedoing of a merchant ship in the harbor of Preto Limon on July 3. As a re sult, over eighty axis-owned business estab lishments were attacked. One big result of this incident has been a tightening of vigi lance up and down the coast of Central Amer ica. Evidence that the Castillo government in Argentina is prepared to go to almost any lengths to ward off a show-down with the German Reich was shown when the Foreign Office made public the reply of the Nazi gov ernment in regard to the sinking of the Rio Tercero. Argentina has listed for the Nazis the new names of the boats recently ac quired, announcing sailing schedules, etc., to circumvent the German blockade of eastern North America, Argentina boats will be rout- The World Turns On (PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lew, By DR. R. W. STEEN American fliers are becoming more active in raids on the continent, and the past week has seen the first raids by units made up en tirely of Americans. It is interesting to note that the first American fighter units to go into action were flying Spitfires. This could mean either of two things. It could mean that there is,as yet no American fighter which is the equal of the Spitfire, or it could mean simply that Spitfires are available in England in greater quantity than compar able American fighters. Americans have received during the past week some surprising news concerning heavy bombers. American newspapers have gen erally conceded that the Spitfire and the Hurricane are spectacular fighting machines, but had blandly assumed that the American heavy bombers were the best in the world. Americans had often wondered why the British had made no more use of the Flying Fortresses sent them some months ago. At least a part of the answer is revealed in performance figures recently released for the British Stirling, Lancaster and Manches ter bombers. These British bombers are fast er than the American heavy bombers and have greater range. They carry eight tons of bombs while the American planes carry only three and one-half tons. The British planes have about as much fire power and considerably more armor. There is, however, something to be said for the American planes. They were designed for high altitude, daylight bombing attacks where a premium is placed on accuracy. The British planes were designed primarily for night bombing attacks. The American planes have a much higher ceiling than the British —- planes and it may be that they will perform p, ■> - i excellently the task for which they were UTCnias . . . designed. The first all-American bombing o c=j a p b □ a cu hv the oaanjfocn 'PJ 7 L °w, °w campus ^ c k K e. w n & jictrArTinn^ '*h u / □ □ a £ uDllflUiu 0 rn a a □ cnciatncncDnr!, “Maybe this will teach you not to hide out in empty sand-bags!” By . Jack Hood “Backwash: An aeitation resulting: from some action or occurrence.'’-'-Webster Joe Louis, Negro slugger, was as- •»' signed. . . Johnny, formerly in C • i j j.i -n t - - Following is part of a letter—the Cavalry, is now a Second Louie raid was made recently. °n Kouen. £ was a kind that ^ us feel _ in c Schoo ,. . . daylight raid, and it 1S claimed, that the to the registrar; Picked Up: This is the last “I have a boy who will graduate straw. We don’t mind going to war, from high school and we don’t mind most of the bombing was extremely accurate. It may be that the all-out attack on Germany will re quire both day and night bombing attacks, and that the Flying Fortresses and Libera tors _ will yet play an important part in de feating the Nazis. The British are loud in their praise of American medium bombers of the type used in the raid on Tokio. They also consider certain types of American fighters as excellent machines for certain types of fighting, but stand by the Spitfire as the best all purpose fighter now in pro duction. The Commando raid on Dieppe undoubt- man Th JUKE BOX PROM tonight holds the spotlight among this weekend’s entertainments. The re pertoire of music will include all those pieces which the dancers in dicate they want heard. A regular hit parade of songs will be con ducted, similar to the national hit parade in order to determine the favorites of those attending the dance so they may have music as they like it. Freshmen and sopho mores should remember they must have dates to attend the prom. Wendy Hiller, the star of “MA JOR BARBARA”, showing at Gui- on Hall today, is worth seeing whether the show she plays in is or not. Known as the Bernard Shaw girl because this is the sec ond of the famed writer’s books she has characterized, Miss Hiller got her first start in the movie industry in an unspectacular way. She joined a theatrical company as an apprentice at seven and a week, and as such was allowed to make off-stage noises, turn on and off the stage lights and jerk the curtain up. Later she proved to have a natural talent for dialect parts and soon found herself be ing cast ^is a comic servant. When Miss Hiller was rated as a glamour girl after her success in the first Shaw production, “Py gmalion”, her personality and view points on life changed very little. She has only one husband, she likes hillbilly music and she plays golf. The fair-haired beauty is (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) Qa/npus 4-1181 Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. LAST DAY “SABOTEUR” starring Priscilla Lane Robert Cummings also News - - March of Time Cartoon PREVIEW TONIGHT —After Dance — SUNDAY - MONDAY -IW ft* FONDA-BARI-AMECHE ^ MAGNIFICENT DOPE ■TJ. Go in at 9:30 and See Both Shows in May 1943. . . horrable things that go with war, please mail en- but officials claim that peroxide trance informa- should be cut out. . . that’s going tion. . . For your too far. Think of all these lovely information, I blondes who will suffer. Instead have never pick- °f opening a conversation with ed up an A. &TM. <e ® n . as si& ned to trance into the Army. In the past nouncement that the marines were in control KOTC dulies at Trairie View State men have had to be able to read of three of the Solomon Islands. This can ^ or _ mal antl Industrial College, and write English in a fourth-grade perhaps be considered the first step in an Pra irie View, l exas, in addition to standard. . . now men will be ac- American offensive against the Japanese. k ’ s ^ u ^ es at A - & College of cepted who can understand simple Texas at C ollege Station, i exas.” or d ers in English and who have the 111 11 1 g f "11 ’ ability to absorb military training Something to Read : By Dr. T. F. Mayo- About Yourself Even the War, it seems, cannot keep the Ag gies from wondering about their own minds and about why they feel and act as they do. In other words, books on psychology continue to be checked out of the College Library at a lively rate. If you are interested in this sort of thing, here are a few sane and sensible dis cussions of the normal mind. I don’t suppose, by the way, that there is any such thing as Q-cwApnincr^ a completely “normal” mind. Everybody ovvet; F 111 & fe • • • probably has a queer quirk or two which he Aggie-Ex John M. Jones, Bryan, industriously hides from others—frequently was in charge of a troop to which from himself also. So don’t be too alarmed My Mondays are meatless, My Tuesdays are wheatless, I’m growing more eatless each day. My Wednesdays are sweetless, My Thursdays are heatless, On Friday I work without pay. My Saturdays are soapless, My Sundays are hopeless, I live on nothing but scraps. My socks are feetless, My* trousers are seatless, 0 Lord, how I do hate those Japs. rapidly. . . (See BACKWASH, Page 4) WHAT’S SHOWING AT THE CAMPUS Saturday — “Saboteur” — with Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane. Midnight, Sunday & Mon day—‘The Magnificent Dope’ with Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari and Don Ameche. AT GUION HALL Saturday — “Major Bar bara” starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. THIS WEEK’S WINNER “War and Priorities Won’t bother you; Cash for ALL When you trade with LOU.” elementary books. You might go to see the people in our local Department of Psychol ogy for further advice. At any rate, the chances are that if the whole truth were known you are no crazier than your room mate or your top kick. So don’t worry about yourself. Just read and hear what intelli gent and trained observers have to say. Here are the books: H. A. Overstreet has a pleasant and casual way of imparting useful information and advice about mental processes. Let Me Think (only 106 small pages) is bound to leave you a little smarter than you were be fore. About Ourselves: Psychology for Nor mal People goes a little more into detail, dis cussing such things as phobias (obsessive hates), fixations, adult infantilism, and wishful thinking. Perhaps the best introduction to Freu dian psychoanalysis, perhaps the most fa mous of the recent theories of the mind, is a very small English book called The Man in the Street and the New Psychology by R. A. Howden. Some of his chapter headings are: The Unconscious; Inferiority Complex; The (See SOMETHING TO READ, Page 4) ed to New Orleans and other ports, t Moreover, the Argentine government meekly concurred in Berlin’s refusal to sa lute the Argentine flag—on the grounds that such a procedure would be incompatible with the policy of the new Germany. Relations between Brazil and Nazi Ger many have gone from bad to worse, and to day are just about as bad as they could be without _ involving actual warfare. In imitation of Mexico and Colombia, Nicaragua has ordered the removal of all axis nationals from coastal areas—this fol lowed the Puerto Limon incident. 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