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■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.
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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
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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
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“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)
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LAST DAY
“SABOTEUR”
starring
Priscilla Lane
Robert Cummings
also
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PREVIEW TONIGHT
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SUNDAY - MONDAY
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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. <<y T u should’ve seen the blonde
boy on the road 1 went out with last ni S ht ’” we
E who was not a P 001 ’ ma ^ es w hl have to combat,
Hood perfect gentle- “ look ’ there S oes a shapely bullet.”
and I have given a lot of Yes ’ that ’ s what wiH happen to
edly had as one of its purposes that of prac- them rides during their vacations. P eiox ^ e - • • it 11 be turned into
ticing invasion technique. The experience 11 is for this reason that I would bullets. What do you prefer, bul-
gained in coordinating land, sea and air oper- Iike to send my boy to A. & M.” lets or blondes?. . . doesn’t really
ations was probably the most important re- Tanks, Mister! matter; they both lead to the
suit of the raid, although there were, quite same £ eneral end i n g'- • •
obviously, other important results. This raid Doublo Commandant At Last! Hope for everyone,
has received most of the headlines for SCV- The authorities have announced
eral days, but an 1 announcement of equal The Al ' m y an h N avy Journal that the War Department has low-
importance was made Thursday by the Amer- anno l inces that “Col. Maurice D. ei . ec } literacy standards for en-
ican Navy Department. That was the an- Welty ’ * n f’ kas ,>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.
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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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