■SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1942
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■THE BATTALION-
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,
is 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 per school year. Advertising rates
upon request.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service.
Inc.,. v at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Rootn 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Pissocided Collegiate 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 Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
F. D. Asbury, Jr Circulation Manager
Bill Huber Senior Assistant
H. R. Tampke. Senior Assistant
Carlton Power....* Senior Assistant
Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant
Saturday’s Staff
Clyde C. Franklin Managing Editor
Benton Taylor Junior Editor
John Holman Junior Editor
Jack Keith ; Junior Editor
Tom Journeay Junior Editor
Reporters
Tom Journeay, Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKin
ney, Gerald Fahrentold, Bert Kutrz, Bill Jarnagin, Bob Mere-
dith. Bill Japhet, Jack Hood, Bill Murphy, and John Sparger.
Football Signs
With the first days of September football
becomes the main topic of bull sessions; the
campus takes on a gala appearance with the
many football signs and the spirit of the
corps as it becomes interested once more in
the popular fall sport is evident.
This year’s freshman class has not
waited on the actual schedule of games, but
have already hung their signs concerning
the game with L. S. U. Some of these signs
are clever and are good representations of
the spirit of Aggieland, but others could
be improved upon. The art work of many of
these banners is evidence of the ability of
some fish, but sometimes this ability is
wasted because of the idea or theme of the
banner.
In the past no standards have been es
tablished for signs which appear on the cam
pus. It has been left up to the fish of the
organization who make the sign. But if the
sign does not meet the approval of the auth
orities it is taken down.
There have ben many comments made on
the signs which adorn the prominent places
around Aggieland. Some have been favor
able, but others have been designated as
carrying things too far. Objections have
been made to some of these banners which
visitors on the campus can not fail to see.
Remember, freshmen, when you make a
sign don’t try to make the worst sign possi
ble, but try and hang a sign which actually
is creditable to the Aggie spirit.
Latest Rumor
Rumors are to be had around this campus
at about a half a cent a dozen, and the most
prevalent ones that usually float around about
this time during a semester are the ones
concerning being kicked out of school for
adademic reasons.
Not only Aggies, but mothers and dads
are seriously concerned over a recent rumor
amounting to the fact that failure to pass
as little, as one hour is cause for dismissal.
This originated through the misinterpreted
statement of one of the college officials.
THIS IS OFFICIAL, STRAIGHT STUFF:
This college has one, and only one rule con
cerning dismissal for failure to pass work,
and that rule is this:
“A student must pass ten hours, and
make ten grade points, to stay in good stand
ing. Failure to come up to that standard
is cause for dismissal if the dean concerned
considers it the wise thing for the boy and
the college. In actual practice, about ONE
SIXTH of those failing to pass 10 hours with
10 grade points are sent home. Remember,
-each boy is an individual case, and all possi
ble efforts are made to treat each case as
such.”
That’s it, Army, the straight stuff, so
let’s cut out all these “washhouse gazette”
features. You won’t be sent home if you real
ly want to stay, so let’s not let down now!
This Collegiate World
- ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS ^ —
A practical approach to training teachers
is paying dividends for graduates of Stout
institute.
The small college has gained a national
reputation by specializing in training teach-
'ers for specific lines of work that surveys
show will be in demand at the time of grad
uation.
How well the plan works is illustrated
by Stout’s placement record. All 128 mem
bers of last June’s graduating class as well
as all of this winter’s midyear graduates
have obtained employment. With all avail
able graduates placed, employers even are
“raiding” the senior class, according to
Registrar Gertrude M. O'Brien. “In the last
•semester,” she said, “I received calls for 20
more women than I have been able to fill.”
Stout limits its curriculum to training
men for industrial education and women in
home economics. “It is the only school in
the nation with such a singleness of pur
pose,” asserts Dean C. A. Bowman.
With the present emphasis on defense
The World Turns On
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
By DR. R. W. STEEN
Responsible American and British officers
have been talking for some time of plans
for large scale raids on many German cities.
This talk, plus the raids that are being made
and the knowledge that American bomber
squadrons are being concentrated in Eng
land, doubtless means that the occupants of
German cities are doing plenty of worrying.
A current magazine presents a plan for
the destruction of German war industry by
the concentrated bombing of thirty-one key
cities in Germany. This magazine is of the
opinion that these raids can be carried out
with types of planes now available and need
not wait upon the development of new types
of planes. The plan would call for the regu
lar use of 1,000 planes, with 2,000 more held
in reserve. It would require a replacement
ability of 600 planes per month, a figure be
low the present reported production of Brit
ish and American plants. Such a force would
be able to drop from 30,000 to 50,000 tons
of bombs per month on these cities. This fig
ure assumes greater significance when it is
remembered that Coventry was practically
destroyed by 400 tons of bombs.
The American position in the Solomons
is constantly improving, and a recent attack
on New Guinea by the Japs met with com
plete failure. These facts do not mean that
Japan is through with aggression in the
South Pacific, nor do they mean that a great
Allied offensive has begun. They do indicate,
however, that the Jap is now coming into
contact with forces as large and as well
equipped as his own. If the Allied plans can
be worked out in a satisfactory manner Jap
losses will become constantly greater and
his gains will be few.
Stalingrad is now being approached by
two German armies and it would take at least
a first order miracle to save the city. It is
possible however that the drive on the city
will tax the Germans to f such an extent that
they will be unable to make another major
move for some time. It may possibly be the
last important move until next spring. If the
Russians are able to hold their armies to
gether they should certainly have relief in
the spring, because the second front will
some day have to become a reality.
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BACKWASH
By
Jack Hood
"Backwash: An agitation racniting from some action or occurence.”—Webster
Something to Read
: By Dr. T. P. Mayo :
THE DARING YOUNG MAN
FROM FRESNO
(About William Saroyan)
“Set ’em up for the boys in the back room”
is the inspiration and title of Edmund Wil
son’s closely cropped estimate of a group
of California writers which includes a chap
ter on Mr. William Saroyan. Mr. Saroyan’s
trapeze acts in drama and short-story writ
ing have irritated the critics if they have
not convinced them that Mr. Saroyan is the
greatest writer since Shakespeare. Mr. Wil
son, for instance, thinks it would be nice if
Mr. Saroyan would read a book and then
learn to write. He admits the charm of the
fellow and says that it is certainly his “en
chanting temperament which induces us to
take a good deal from him that we should
not take from other people.”
The exuberant Armenian, born in Fresno
thirty-four years ago, made his notable be
ginnings in THE DARING YOUNG MAN
ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE and LOVE,
HERE IS MY HAT. He reached his'peak
in his latest volume of stories, which he
called ’MY NAME IS ARAM. Aram lives a
life free from ordinary social responsibilities
(in Fresno, of course) in the heart of a col
orful Armenian clan. The clan is presided
over by a grandfather who can forgive any
thing, even rice cooked like swill, if he can,
in the end, sit under a tree and listen to his
foolish son play beautifully upon the zither.
Aram’s chief delight is stirring up trouble,
whether it be in the matter of acquiring a
horse, singing in the Presbyterian choir, or
taking a correspondence course that will
make him a second Bernarr McFadden.
Everyone is now familiar with Mr. Sar
oyan’s play THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE,
which won for him both the Drama Critics
award and the Pulitzer prize. He rejected
the latter and became more daring. He wrote
a play about THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
The hero of THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
writes plays of one word each; his'sister is
on the kind of terms with mice that prompt
them (she thinks) to spell out her name in
flowers across the floor at night; their broth
er, who plays the cornet, has gone to New
York, N. Y., the fartherest you can go if you
must go.
The secret of Mr. Saroyan is that he be
lieves in goodness of people. If he did not his
plays and his stories, for all his trapeze and
his acts upon it, would not win us. But when
he dedicates MY HEART’S IN THE HIGH
LANDS “to the pure in heart. To the poet
in the world. To the lowly and great, whose
lives are poetry. To the child grown old, and
the child of childhood. To the heart in the
highlands,” we believe him.
production, the result has been that Stout
graduates average $140 to $150 a month in
their first teaching positions and some get
as high as $200, according to Bowman.
Burton E. Nelson, president, collaborates
with Bowman in working out surveys used
to determine types of training. To predict
what specialized training will be in demand
four or five years hence, Nelson and Bow
man study past and present educational
trends, both political and economic. They con
sider trends in national affairs, world con
flicts, trade unionism and their effect upon
journeyman development, scientific discover
ies and education.
Ho«4
Comes The Light. . .
It seems that Louella Parsons,
Hollywood snoop artist, got the
scoop on everybody. . . as usual.
Headed “Texas Girl Cast In A. &
M. Picture”, the following appear
ed Sept. 2 under the Parson by
line:
Anne Gwynne has come up the
hard way at Universal. Without
benefit of “leg art” or bathing
suit pictures on magazines, Anne
............................... v.v.v.v.v.v.:.-.-.- v.v.- • has gone alone
tending to her
knitting in B pic
tures mostly. But
she is a darned
clever little ac
tress and Walter
Wanger has de
cided she deserves
a break. When
Walter puts “Tex
as A. & M.”, his college opus, in
to production she gets the top
femine role, with Dick Foran al
ready set for one of the heroes.
Did you know that Texas A. & M.
turned out more officers in the
last war than West Point? I didn’t
eitther, but that’s one of the facts
Scripter Norman Reilley Raine
brought back after gathering data
on the Lone Star State college.
On Every Front...
. . . this time, with the boys who
dropped in on Dieppe, France.
Aggieland and Temple had a
front seat in the person of Flying-
Pilot W. H. (Billy) Baker, Jr.,
member of the American Eagle
fighting squadron with the RAF.
Billy, who has been flying both
Spitfires and dive bombers for
months, is believed to have been a
dive bomber in the sensational
raid on the French coast.
Remembered by many after his
three years here, he left Septem
ber, 1941, and has since been pho
tographed with the king and queen
of England. . . he recently wrote
his parents about attending the
premiere of a new show in London
Lowell Thomas Heard
By WTAW Listeners
Lowell Thomas, noted news com
mentator, presents another corres
pondent’s report on the school sys
tem in Russia, in “Education for
Victory,” the “Treasury Star Pa
rade” feature which airs on Sat
urday at 11:30 a. m. over Station
WTAW. Written by an American
war correspondent in Russia
whose name has been withheld by
order of the censors, “Education
for Victory” contrasts the Rus
sian system with that in Germany,
described by Gregor Zeimer in “Ed
ucation for Death.” David Broek-
man conducts the Treasury Sym
phonic orchestra in the special
background music.
and sitting in “the Royal Circle”
with the Duke of Kent, who was
recently killed in a plane crash.
Due to be transferred to the
American Air Force Billy wrote
that he had ci’ossed the channel
“twice as many times as I am old
and two added” . . . which is 44.
Well, Well, & Well...
From Franklin, Texas, comes this
candid little kick:
The Battalion please print this
in the column that it belongs. I
have read your “Batt”—neither do
I like it.
Dear Aggies:
You two who had the misfortune
of being called “bozos”. I truly
shouldn’t have called you that,
but we do not care for any Aggies.
Pick better twins next time.
Yours truly,
“The Twins”
P. S. Those two Aggies were
tall and had natural curley hair.
Ha.
Tch, Tch! Now, we just bet that
breaks all our hearts. . .to be called
“bozos”. Only the other day, we
down and cried when our roomie
called us an oT fuddy-duddy.
And...
Grady Elms, formerly of the
Student Activities Office, now of
the U. S. Army, dropped by the
office Monday p. m. . . The band
has lost one of it’s batons. If you
know where, see Ben Schleider. . .
Captain Pelly Dittman, who stop
ped here for a visit Monday, says
the Australians area great race,
he took several of them for $600
in four days with galloping dom
inos. . . At 4:45 Thursday, Ed Ca-
denas left a class saying, “Well, so
long, fellas. . . I’m joining the
navy.”. . . at 5:45, he was standiijg
outside the mess hall in an Ensigns
uniform. . . Don’t ask us how he
did it. . .
Five dollars is a lot of money to
get just for looking like a country
hick, but that’s the amount the
A. S. A. E. is offering to the best
farmer-costumed couple at the
BARNYARD FROLIC tonight.
Curley Brient and his Bandwagon
band are are presenting the music,
this is the last time to hear them
before they appear on the air Sep
tember 13th. The lowdown on the
Frolic is that it’ll prove to be the
best dance of the summer, so get
out your overalls and straw hats.
Bobby Blake, cast in the title
role of “MOKEY”, proves tops
among the juvenile actors on the
screen today. In this part, he a typ
ical boy, not good, not bad, but
with enough imagination to get
in one scrap after another. Bobby
plays the part with understanding
and realism that are not possessed
by many older actors.
In the part of Mokey’s step
mother, is M. G. M.’s young hope
ful Donna Reed. We think that
Miss Reed is a much better movie
star than this picture gives her a
chance to show. As the stepmother
who refuses to understand her
husband’s son, she has a thankless
role that turns the audience against
her.
“MOKEY” is a story that will ap
peal to all you “family men.” The
childish escapades and the conse
quent disciplinary action make it
entertaining also to any one who
recalls his boyhood days. Chief
criticism is that the story is not
definite enough, it seems to wan
der aimlessly through disconnected
episodes.
The Lowdown:— a tear-jerker.
There’s many a chance to poke
fun at Hitler and his boys in a
story of Nazi-occupied Holland,
and the script of “THE WIFE
TAKES A FLYER” utilizes every
one of these chances. It laughs
long and loud at the Nazis and
the audience will do the same.
Theme of the film play is the
love of a German major, played
by Allyn Joslyn, for a little Dutch
Gal, Joan Bennett, Joan is supposed
to divorce her husband who is
away in a sanitarium the , next
day, so the Nazi officer nWes in
to her house. But Joan is hiding
an RAF flyer (Franchot Tone)
there, so he poses as her missing
husband. Much to the bewilder
ment of Joan and the amusement
Now Playing
Through Thursday
Diana Barrymore
Robert Stack
— in —
“EAGLE
SQUADRON”
WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Saturday—“The Mayor of
44th Street” with Anne Shir
ley and George Murphy.
Midnight & Sunday, Mon
day—“The Wife Takes a
Flyer” with Joan Bennett,
Franchot Tone and Allyn
Joslyn.
At Guion Hall
Saturday only— “Mokey”
with Donna Reed and Bobby
Blake.
MOVIE
Guion Hall
SATURDAY
1:00 — 7:30 — 8:30 P. M.
t
Don Bailey and Donna Reed
IN —
k k
MOKEY”
Comedy — News — Mickey
—COMING—
Monday — Tuesday — Wednesday
“SHIP AHOY”
of Tone, they have to be divorced
the next day to keep the Nazi from
getting suspicious. It’s a comical
situation with a happy ending for
everybody but the ardent Nazi
lover.
Though Joan Bennett and Fran
chot Tone play leading roles Allyn
Joslyn furnishes most of the
laughs. As the script has it, he’s
more “swish than swastika”.
The Lowdown:— story of an
RAF flyer who landed in Holland
and got the Nazis in Dutch.
Qambiis
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Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M.
Last Day
“MAYOR OF 44th
STREET”
- with -
George Murphy - Ann Shirley
- also -
Popeye - Cartoon - News
March of Time
Preview Tonight
Sunday and Monday
STARRING
BENNETT« TONE
Go in 9:30 and see both shows
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