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Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1942 Uie Battalion The World Turns On STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Meefcanieal College of Texas and the City of College Station, ia published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. Satered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Itafcioa, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. By DR. C. C. DOAK Adjustability and Survival—This column has been consistent in urging upon Aggies and This Collegiate World ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS There was a time when the white- whiskered trustees of a university would shake their heads and mutter when tuition on a credit basis was suggested by younger members of the board. And a man starting a tailor shop near a campus was considered a lunatic if he expected to be paid regularly Subscription rates $3 ape* request. a school year. Advertising rates Americans in general the necessity of men- Everything from bird cages to barrels or well by his hatless, baggy-trousered clients, tal adjustability. The rapidity with which served as , on the W im ame tte uni- But those days are gone, according to tween" victory ZI ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Represented Inc. 8a* Francisco. nationally by National Advertising Service, at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and extinction. The stony record in the Earth’s crust is replete with the remains of plants, Office, Room (-S444. 122, Administration Building. Telephone 1941 Member 1942 Ptssocided Collegiate Press Brooks Gofer — JEditor-in-Chief Kern Bresnen.. Associate Editor Phil Crown .Staff Photographer Sports Staff Mike Haikin Sports Editor Mike Mann.,.- —Assistant Sports Editor Chick Hurst Sen ior Sports Assistant N. Libson - Junior Sports Editor Advertising Staff Reggie Smith Advertising Manager Jack X. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Louis A. Bridgee.... Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager , Circulation Staff F. D. Anbury, Jr Circulation Manager BIB Huber Senior Assistant ft. R. Tanapke.. Senior Assistant Carlton Power Senior Assistant Joe Stalcup — Junior Assistant Tuesday’s Staff Tom Vannoy Managing Editor Tom Leland. ....—... Junior Editor Dsofflaee Lancaster —Junior Editor Reporters Tom Journeay, Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKin- aey, John Baldridge, Charles Kaplan, Gerald Fahrentold, Bert ents now are paying mbre attention to bud- The Glee is an annual song contest be- gets and bills. Credit-basis tuition is a reg- animals, and civilizations which, Xn tween / lasses ’ each of w ^P h weighed in the balance of competition, were Tf sen ^. a song appiopriate for school use. e campus tailor usually dnves a pr t y found wanting. They lacked the essential Formation on the platform, often quite elab- good car and looks with joy upon his still adjustability necessary to meet the new con- ?, ra ^ e ’ 18 a ^ asis ^°. 1 judging, as well as qual- hatless but slightly u ea tei clients, ditions presented by a changing world. ^ of words > muslc and rendition. Chatburn says that nowadays students Principles of Extinction—Most people Intense inter-class rivilary encourages take pride m their promptness m paying have heard of dinosaurs, dodoes, and the nove l betting. Payoffs come the Monday debts and a great number operate on a bud- facts of extinction, yet few realize that the morning after Glee. Traditionally, men of |et basis, carefully rationing their money laws governing extinction are still in opera- the class which places fourth don swim suits tor tuition, books and hamburgers, tion, and that man himself is subject to them, and splash through the campus mill stream. The director of deferred payments, as Natural laws apply alike to animals, plants, Several losers among the stronger sex men, institutions, religions, nations, indus- had their hair clipped to one-half inch length, deahngs each year wi^ appr™ tries, races, and social systems. The first Others wore outfits forced upon them by students who are taking advantage ot the law of all is that all change. If you doubt girl friends belonging to classes which plac- P^ent aducaton this trv to name one thine- other than the ed higher m the contest. Three men vied for . a y estaoiisning a system or moniniy Su"^" 11 haS remained C °” Sta,lt edTa^u^r^S mf his^prayer^rug” reptiKMle^ ISM ^fS^^f hSin put ^in "their^appearancef upon ^he^eartln One^TeT^asIttired in pleats and homes operate on ,the same monthly pay- Open Forum Here at A. & M., we Aggies have to spend the greater part of a period of two years and eight months at work on this campus. During that time, this campus is our home and we have to live in it whether we like it or not. The general appearance of the school helps a great deal to make the place bear able. There aren’t many Aggies who believe that the appearance of a person’s home, even though that home is only temporary, can be improved by hanging signs across the face of it which violate all the common rules of decency, such as those which have ap peared all over the campus during the past week. When visitors come to this campus, they are impressed by the Aggie Spirit which stands out as a characteristic of this insti tution. There aren’t many Aggies who ac tually believe that the Aggie Spirit can be improved greatly by the appearance of many of these signs. When we bring- dates, friends, or relatives to A. & M., we don’t want to be ashamed of anything about the campus. The Aggie Spirit maintains that this school is the best in the country, but we can’t convince outsiders of that fact if the kind of atmosphere created by such signs prevails throughout the football season. Few Aggies actually think that such signs build up the morale of the football team or in any way increase the spirit of the corps. Even if anyone in the school is in favor of these signs, or believes that they can build up the corps’ spirit or do any good whatever, out of common consideration for others and respect for other peoples’ feel ings, he should by all means cooperate with a movement to remove them. Aggies, let’s clean up this mess! If every student worthy to be called an Aggie will cooperate in this matter, we can make a great, worthwhile improvement in the school. Let’s see which outfit can put up the clean est, cleverest, funniest sign on the campus, and let these offensive signs be a thing of the past. Bill Brandon, ’43 H. B. Huffmeyer, ’43 B. J. King, ’44 Doug Lancaster, ’44 John Sporge, Jr., ’43 Tom Leland, ’44 Sid Smith, ’44 Boyd 0. Reeder, ’44 Dick Moses, ’44 Bob Meredith, ’44 John Holman, ’44 J. W. Wischkaemper, ’43 B. H. Templeton, ’43 Bill Parker, ’43 Doil Hammons, ’42 Frank Spivey, ’43 R. H. Huddleston, ’43 Tom Myers, ’43 Jack Simmons, ’43 Porky Bridges, ’43 E. B. Ball, ’43 R. F. Eisenhauer, ’44 Sam B. Lewis, ’43 Louis S. Tregre, ’42 Phil Bible, ’43 Jim Cunningham, ’42 C. J. Finney, ’22 Jno. Zemanek, ’43 George Bolen, ’44 Tom H. Robb, ’43 Dwain Treadwell, ’43 W. H. Bowie, ’43 F. M. Bradshaw, ’43 Paul Langdale, ’43 Moffatt Adams, ’43 Marion D. Lyle, ’42 Ernest Langford, ’43 Arvid Hassinger, ’43 Many free countries have lost their lib erty, and ours may lose hers: but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never de serted her.—Abraham Lincoln. Farming is a most senseless pursuit, a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap, and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it—Strobaeus. These new comers started vn a wirier awav ruffles concocted from back numbers of the urent and budget basis. It’s good training Willamette Collegian. A tuxedo and shorts ** the future . ..and they realist.” combination outfitted another (mammals), the rats had the advantage of over-confidence m her class. _ . f orT1 i a declared themselves as either entire- better brains narental care a fnrrv cnat The class s P int aroused m practicing, rornia aeciarect tnemseives as eimer entire better brains, paientai care, a lurry coat, f performing- before thousands of ^ or Partly self-supporting, Chatburn said, and warm blood. They fattened upon the L V . 11 y poiioxmnig ueioxe inousaiiub ox outside ee-e-s of the dinosaurs until the last of these alumni and relatives and the hilarity of col- at tms total, U per cent naa no outsiae Ss disappeared lectin S bets make Freshman Glee one of the financial help. g tx , r/ c 1 T , . . high spots of the Willamette year. _ Dodo Races of Men—It is not so well ★ ★ ★ A memorial monument to Emma Hart known that m a similar manner our species The time-worn and rarely funny gags about Willard, pioneer of higher education for of man (Homo sapiens) with better brains, college men and their money troubles will women in the United States, recently was longer arms, and^ better weapons (the bow) h ave to be discarded, because a man who unveiled at Middlebury, Vt. hunted to extinction the small headed, short- spends his time advancing credit to students armed, bowless species (Homo neanderthal- sa y S they’re now about the best risks in the The only two chapters of Phi Lambda ensis) which before us had occupied most na tion. Pi, sole organized social sorority for married areas of the earth. Oliver M. Chatburn, assistant to the women, are found at Tulane university and The formidable foot armies of the Inca comptroller at the University of Southern Louisiana State university. and Maya civilizations armed with the bow California, who handles more than $250,000 could not meet Spanish horsemen armed with annually in tuition payments on a credit The Barnard college occupation bureau the musket. They went down before them as basis, declares the average university stud- placed more students and graduates in jobs Neanderthal man and his club went down e nt’s record for promptness in paying debts during the last academic year than ever be- before Homo and his bow, and as the French went down before the Germans and their Stukas. Speed Needed—It is not enough for us to invent this year weapons and techniques to counter Hitler’s 1940 models. We must change to the new with such breathtaking speed that he cannot retool or retrain to meet us. In order to put Hitler at the same crushing disadvantage as met the Dinosaurs, Neanderthal man, the Inca, and the French, we must repudiate the doctrine of the status quo. We must abandon fixity in everything except principles. We must give up “business as usual” and frown upon the idea of leisure for able-bodied men in time of war. Our motto should be, “More work on better wea pons and speedier change toward a better world.” War Comments : By Walter F. Goodman, Jr. ; is outstanding. fore. PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis -j _ •Don't Forget to write home i chilkout barracks (Hmoc- Intoxicated driving, uncontrolled thumbing, and indiscriminate spooning, a traffic report declares, are among the major menaces of our highway safety. (Or to put it more briefly, hie, hike and hug.) ■ The worst eye trouble is the “I” trouble.. Campus Distractions By Jack Keith Latest of the Wallace Berry— Marjox-ie Main movies is “JACK ASS MAIL”, showing today and tomorx-ow at Guion Hall. This is as dull and unentertaining a story as either of thesestars have play ed in many a day.Nothing seems to ever happen in a story that should, by allrights be filled with action of the Wild West. Berry is a roustabout with little or no scruples for law and order. Miss Main is the owner of the jackass mail delivery outfit in the small mining town, and as might be expected she runs the town. After failing to rob the jackass mail of a shipment of gold, Wally sets out to marry its owner. The usual bellowing and mugging car ried on by the pair in previous movies doesn’t help it any. The Lowdown: we’ve seen better pictures. For those who like the “Mexican Spitfire” series, “MEXICAN SPIT FIRE AT SEA” should prove to be as entertaining as the rest of the series. Lupe Velez is her usual self and Leon Errol is up to his old tricks as Uncle Matt. To add to this assignment, he also imperson ates Lord Epping. Miss Velez is married to Buddy Rogers and together, they are after a certain advertising contract. On a boat to Honolulu, complications arise when it is discovered that Eddie Dunn is after the same con tract. Leon Errol does some plain and fancy phenagling and straight ens out both the business troubles and materials of Lupe. The Lowdown:— Lowbrow com edy. CW"i 4-1181 Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. TODAY - TOMORROW DOUBLE FEATURE Riotous Honeymoon Cruise With An All-Come^vCrew! ISOM " “The censor has been returning Buck’s letters, because of his spelling!” Brazil AH the talk in the world couldn’t seem to get the South American countries to com pletely break relations with the Axis pow ers, but just let these Latins get pushed around a bit and they’ll break anything they can get their hands on. Right now Brazil would like to do some neck-breaking to a certain fellow called Adolf—it seems he got a little promiscuous with his ship sinking and accidentally sank 19 of Brazil’s merchant marine. Latins aren’t famous for holding their temper, but Brazil was doing a dandy job of it while Hitler and Co. were just put ting her boats out of commission one at a time and not more than one a day. Now this Hitler chap is a great psychol ogist and can just about make the Japanese think they’re Aryans or the Italians live on — -iir— ■■ — rise if he wanted to. But he didn’t know -rvw q p n ii horn office so the Hollywood mag- when he was well off when he was playing D x U11 * * • nate (who will soon be on the with Brazil. She had no objection to letting With football season nearing, it’s campus to start filming) will be him win all the time if it only cost her a n i ce to note that the Aggies are snowed under with a galaxy of ship or two now and then. Now here is where getting nation-wide notice. . . TEXAS beauty. . . our hero ran this pleasant winning game The swanky magazine, ESQUIRE into the ground. He didn’t seem to realize this month published it’s annual Bandwagon Winner... WHAT’S SHOWING At The Campus Tuesday, Wednesday — “Mexican Spitfire at Sea”, with Leon Errol and Lupe Velez. Also, “This Way Please”. At Guion Hall Tuesday, Wednesday — “Jackass Mail”, with Mar jorie Main and Wallace Berry. RADIO Picture ^ ® with Charles •‘BuiMy” ROGERS • ZaSu PlTTf “ThiTWayPIrf with Betty Grable Mary Livingston Buddy Rogers also CARTOON BACKWASH By lack Hood WE GIVE MORE for Slide Rules Drawing Sets Books COLLEGE BOOK STORE Next to A. M. Waldrop’s “Backwash: An agitation reanltinr from some action or occurrence Webster that maybe his opponent could get peeved at losing so consistently—for she didn’t get mad and never said anything at all. But that Latin temper again; it’s fiery and fickle and uncontrollable when aroused. So one day Mr. Hitler and Mr. Brazil were playing their game again and Mr. Hit ler won with one ship to his credit. And they played the next two days with Hiller com ing out on the long, end'each time. But now the game ends and the fight begins. Adolf had become unreasonable and getting hog gish decided to win not with only one ship now and then, but to get all he could—and in the three-day tussle went and took five Sports.. Poll., by Herb Graffis and ’ ' be announce d Wednesday. Ralph CannonT . . But win or lose ’ the TSCW Lass -° a boiling down of is due thanks for the support they the opinions of gave Curley and the bandsmen. . . 500 of the nations an editorial and front-page plug, leading sports ^ n( j w j n or j osej Aggieland men. The poll con- . J ... , . , . , . , -is still working hard. They have sists mainly of , , , . . ,. , ,, some new arrangements obtained questions by the „ ,. ,, , from Ed Gerlach, and are practic- authors and an- . . . mg three days per week. . . TSCWians now have “post of fice short order talk”. . .instead of Hood swers by the experts. One question, the most impor tant: “What ten teams do you ex py—one contented”. . . Ag note: Prof. Earl Weaver of Michigan State recommends that farmers , ,, . , , , . calling for three-cent stamps and a of his playmate’s boats. Playmate got mad .p 6 a x? a iM° n S eS 'r post card, the request is: “two hap- and decided his companion was a bully and ! u 942 ; xexas A ‘ w f ” ne that they’d played enough of these costly the top ten. .. and the only South- games west Conference team mentioned. And it so happened that Mr. Brazil had ^ fop" 1 ten ^ridmen d “tQ d be” of milk their cows three times a day ’ some reiatively close neighbors who sympa- , 42> Listed in « otlier Favorites „ instead of the customary two to thized with him and were willing to listen Sihl aorecsivp cent- keep up Wlth war P roductlon needs, to his story which sounded remarkably fa- er y ’ A college for thick-skulls—Tabor miliar. Having something in common they ‘ * ’ College—has been established in decided to join forces and see what they yQ-m-f-y Fair 0nly boys who finish high could do about winning a game or two them- ^ * * ’ school in the lowest quarter of selves. Longhorn Editor John Longley their class are accepted. . .Six Ag- - Well, folks, that’s the situation up ’til has a letter from Walter Wanger, gie-Exes were taken into the army now and there is a bookie down in the next producer of “We’ve Never Been at the same time, assigned to block who’s taking bets on this modern Licked”, consenting to select beau- Camp Roberts, California, in the World Series if you’re interested in making ties for the Vanity Fair section of same platoon, living on the same an investment. By the way—if you happen the 1943 Longhorn. . . floor of the same barracks. They to take Hitler I hear you can get some re- And now it’s up to the boys to all applied for and got into Of- markable odds. pour those pictures into the Long- ficers Training School. . . MOVIE Guion Hall Tuesday - Wednesday 3:30 and 7:00 each day THE MAIL GOES THROUGH with Wallace Beery — Marjorie Main in “JACKASS MAIL Comedy - - Cartoon ^3s=>r" 1 ==u=aA COMING Thursday - Friday “TRADE WINDS”