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Page 2- The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agriculttsral 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 b ; * National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 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 IMann 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 Bill Huber... : Circulation Manager H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant Carlton Power Senior Assistant Joe Stalcup .....Junior Assistant Bill Trpdlier: ,. Assistant Saturday’s Staff Clyde C. Franklin Managing Editor Benton Taylor Junior Editor Jack Keith.... 1 .....Junior Editor John Holman... , Junior Editor Jack Hood Junior Editor Tom Journeay , Junior Editor Reporters Harry Cordu.a, Bob Garrett, Roman McKinney, BeVt Kurtz, ill Jarnagin, Bob eredith, ill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John Spar ger, and M. T. Lincecum. Light Sockets . Attention has been brought to the fact that corridor lights and sockets in the halls are being destroyed without reason. Up to this time theSe lights have been replaceable from the supply of the college warehouse, but as soon as the present sup ply is exhausted there will not be any more. These sockets are made of brass and copper and for this reason they can not be obtained from any source because of their necessity in defense production. In the future when corridor lights can not be replaced, there will probably be much complaining on the part of students who failed to think when they knocked out a light because it shone in their eyes when they slept. Let’s take notice of this fact that there might be a shortage and do everything now to preserve these lights and sockets. The General came in a new tin hat To the shell-tom front where the ivar was at. With faithful aide at his good right hand, He made his way to No-Man's Land. —Arthur Guiterman Some of the finest sermons are acted rather than preached. The World Turns On - - By DR. R. W. STEEN Americans as a rule take little interest in the politics of neighboring states, but many Americans are glad to know that Georgia has aroused herself sufficiently to kick Eu gene Talmage out of the governor’s office. Georgia deserves the congratulations of the country for that move. On the other hand she deserves no small criticism for having kept him in office for three terms. It is to be hoped that his vacation from office will be a long one. It will take many years for Georgia to live down the reputation Talmage has given her. It will take almost as long for the schools of Georgia to regain the position they held a few years ago. Practically all rating bodies, in the country have dropped the Georgia schools from their lists as a result of the Talmage activities, and many of the best qualified teachers in the Georgia system have sought employment elsewhere. The most recent associatidn to strike the Georgia colleges from its list is the Southern Asso ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The report of the Baruch committee will doubtless receive careful study at the hands of congressional committees, and in time severe restrictions will doubtless be placed on the use of automobiles. The committee is perhaps wise in stating positively that nation wide, restrictions will be made necessary by the lack of rubber rather than the lack of gasoline. One of its suggestions, that for a national speed limit of 35 miles per hour, will probably win immediate approval. American bombers have made several additional raids over occupied territory, and have added to their reputations as fighting machines. To date the four motored Amer ican craft have made ten raids over hostile territory and have lost only two planes. Those Americans who are beginning to yell that this proves that they are better than the English planes, which are larger, and that daylight bombing should replace night bombing are overlooking two very important points. One is that the American planes have not yet appeared over the heavily fortified cities of Germany proper. The other is that they have not as yet made a raid beyond the range of fighter escorts. For example, in the raid in which two bombers were lost fifty bombers were escorted by 400 fighters. The British are sending their planes over •German cities and far beyond the range of fighter escorts. Daylight raids under similar circumstances might be very costly indeed. It will take some experimenting to find out. Words and music for seven favorite uni versity songs are being sold by the Wayne university student council in a 13-page book let. -THE BATTALION- -SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1942 "Somewhere in the Pacific" I private buck .. By Clyde Lewis (Editor’s Note: Following is a letter received by Coach Nor ton from Les Richardson, who was a guard on the Aggie football team last year.) Mr. H. H. Norton Athletic Director Texas A. & M. College College Station, Texas Hello Coach: Last year about this time I was eagerly reading a letter from one H. H. Norton con cerning the oncoming football season. Now, this year finds me several thousand miles away in an even bigger game. We take this game just as serious as we did back at A. & M. C. It is in a sense, the same type of game. We prepare ourselves mentally, phys ically and morally just as we did at A. & M. We must be at the peak in each phase or we will lose the game. No time for backslapping or boasting. We win a battle and then turn immediately to the next. Naturally we gloat a bit inside but not for long for the next battle is even tougher. We did the same at A. & M. We beat T. C. U. which was always a thrilling and mighty battle, but no time for bragging or rest—we faced the next foe for it was a tougher foe. It’s the same way out here. We face a tough and mighty foe and he gets tougher and more desperate every battle only this foe has no scruples and plays by no rules. We must fight him the same way sometimes. We were cham pions at home and we’ll be champions out here. We think the game of football has prepared us for this game. We have merely moved over to a bigger field and -a tougher league. More spectators and anxious alumni but basically the same game of beating the opponent. We wonder where our “Bowl game” will be played and when. We hope it is soon for we are ready. Then we can return to our loved ones and peace and quiet. a the L □ a czu oa a mjtucja fcD by Y'c* mni ic sgfr CdlllUUo Cl k K 6; % uljiiauy L> a a tn czj □ cn a □ in LD, dtlOC-' i r-se> 0>pr. IW, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. “It was easier to teach the horse to kneel than to teach Buck to mount properly!” BACKWASH By Jsck Hood "Backwash: An agitation resulting from soma action or occurrence.*’—Webstar Kiddies Korner And supply blocks,, marbles, and a Na poleon costume. . .a victim of quizi- Several issues ago a guest writ- ties—and peach ice cream. I hope this letter finds you in the' midst er for Backwash wrote a few choice of a very successful season. Material may be riddles. . .spacefiller. But the mail short but quality should be sufficient. We returns showed that more than a faced quantity out here but quality has been few like to play with the things... in our favor. We think quality will win even- 0 r maybe an unsolved problem tually. We have the best team in the world worries some of our intellectual and all of our players are All-Americans or slip-stick artists, they wouldn’t be here. Give all of the boys my best regards and wishes for a highly successful season. Perhaps it is a bit early to be thinking of championships but championships have be come a tradition at A. M. It is truly the home of champions. Wish I could see all of the games this season but we have business out here. How ever, I have the urge to play again, even here. I gupss a footballer never loses that desire for just one more season. I am plan ning on returning to A. & M. for my degree p resent total a £ e of shl P and boiler 1 ” • • 1 • • - 1 ' is 49 years, how old is each? Twilight leaguer^ seem to be having a hard time finishing. . . rain was the first thing that sever al times postponed the game that Anyway, here’s was to ' decide the cham P s - ^hev, trouble-maker T^day nig: ht, they finally got to play, Lipscombs beat Campus Cleaners, making another game necessary. . . Places to be: Kadet spends Kapers tonight; Fair Park auditor ium, Dallas Sunday afternoon; Ba- twice as old as its ton Rogue, September 26, . . boiler was when the ship was as old as the boiler is now, and the for the 1,00 horse power minds-and the math depart ment: If a ship is Timeliness is the best character istic which “PACIFIC RENDEZ- VIOUS”, showing today at Guion Hall, can claim. Lee Bowman and Jean Rogers are doubtless capable of much better parts than those in which they have been cast this time. Lee Bowman fplays the part of a naval Lieuten- lant and expert c ry p t o grapher. He yearns for active dtuy, but is jstuck away at a desk job, decoding enemy messages. Captured by the enemy, he escapes in time to save his life, his girl and his nation. Jean Rogers, as the young lieu tenant’s girl friend, is good in her part but she could have done better with better material to work with. Mona Maris, Carl Esmond and Blanche Yurka, enemy spies, are so obvious that the picture ap proaches ridiculousness. The Lowdown: —baloney! Despite its name, “FLIGHT LIEUTENANT” is ,not an action filled picture of planes, air fights and pilots. Aviation scenes are mostly of aircraft with back grounds of airfields. With this us an atmosphere, a story of paternal love is told in an interesting man ner. Pat O’Brien is in the leading role as the aviator who got drunk and caused a crash in which his co-pilot was killed. His license to fly taken away from him, he his time barnstorming in Guiana to support his son and to make a gentleman and crack pilot of this son. According to the stan dard plot, the boy (Glenn Ford) falls in love with the daughter of the man whom O’Brien had caused to die in the airplane crash. The course of events leads one to believe that the only way out is for O’Brien to get killed and that’s exactly what happened. Be fore he meets his death though, he manages to deliver valuable in formation to the government, mak ing him a martyr to two causes. The Lowdown: —insane but in teresting. Highest Prices for Egineering Books LOUPOT’S w If you think you’re the man the the math department says most of us aren’t, send the answer to Back wash, Box 2094. . .we’ll let you know how much you missed it later. . . when this war is over—and join the vast throng of anxious alumni. Am a second class petty officer in a construction battalion and work in the en gineering office as a draftsman and survey or. Very interesting work and in line with my chosen profession. Am lucky to be in best outfit in the service. Had originally Fickle Fate . . . planned on entering the Air Corps but color the , lou i ) , e . crossin| , dame blindness closed my career as a pilot Have s0 orten sli behind a „ d calm . no regrets because we are just as valuable , cuts mi throat deaIt the wel! _ to winning the war as the Air Force. kllown ., palooka .. j,, an unIlamcd Hope to hear a few words from you and i a d this week, the boys in a return letter. Now, beat the hell out of Texas U! Loupot’s Jingle Contest Kerens Another $5.00 Winner: “Please don’t take my ticker, Let me go and trade it with Lou, He’ll give me such a good deal There’ll be enough for me AND you.” Submitted by HAROLD FREEMAN, Box 1531, College Station, Texas. Cm™ • 4-1181 Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. LAST DAY Also Porky Pig Cartoon Stranger Than Fiction Sports — News PREVIEW TONIGHT SUNDAY and MONDAY SKY-SCORCHING THRILLS! H ColumVit ficWt* Go In 9:30 and See Both Shows Sincerely, Les Richardson L. S. Richardson CM2c 5th Naval Constr. Batt. Hdq. Co., 3rd Plat, c/o Fleet Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. This Collegiate World ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS The nation’s universities and colleges are keeping pace with the government’s defense program, in the opinion of Maj. John L. Grif fith, commissioner of athletics of the West ern conference. Physical preparedness programs in Uie colleges, he said, have two objectives: pro viding of trained leaders in the field and building of fitness in youth through inten sive athletic training and participation. As evidence of expanding athletic prog rams in the colleges, the Big Ten athletic czar pointed out that physical plant and fac ilities of the ten schools have been increased in worth $19,844,319 since 1919. Accompany ing the physical expansion has been a 67.3 per cent increase in personnel, coaches, intra mural athletics and physical education direc tors. . * * * Post-graduate athletic activity should be the goal of all American college athletes, parti cularly at this criitcal period, according to Lawson Robertson, Penn and Olympic track and field coach. “From the standpoint of physical con dition it is wrong for a young man who has been competing for eight years through high or prep school and college, upon his gradua tion from college, suddenly to stop all ath letic activity,” said Robertson, who in April observes his twenty-fifth anniversary as University of Pennsylvania track coach. “Most athletes are graduated when they are 21 or 22. That is an age when they haven’t yet reached their physical majority. They should participate in some form of athletics until they are at least 25, the age of full physical maturity. In the early part is this week, Aggie John Doe curiously and very suddenly was. stricken with Quizi- tis, the baffling ailment that for ever puzzles our finest medico. . . Obviously, the only thing he could do was go to the hospital and be come “ward 4, bed 7” for the usual (if you’re lucky) two or three days. But John is a humane soul, so instead of worrying the doctors by telling them his true trouble, he smiply complained of stomach trouble—“bellyache” to the phea sants. Then arose a problem: he was put on a strict diet of “big, lovely glass of peach juice—three times a day.” Good old peach juice. We all like peach juice. . . but John drank so much his mouth was getting fuz zy. So when his roomie dropped by for a chat, John, with the aid of a half-nelson, persuaded him to trip to the gate and bring- some food—quick! Roomie dutifully did the errand which was to save John from the squirrels. . .he? brought back the food—ice cream. . . Good ol’ PEACH ice cream. They say John has left us now for a place where it’s quiet and they Three Cornell University scien tists report a new method to re tain the full vitamin C content of pasteurized milk by taking 4;he air out of it. A quart of de-aeriated pasteurized milk has a vitamin C content to a whole orange. Vitam in C loss in ordinary pasteurized milk makes a quart equivalent to a slice of orange. id VICTOR AND BLOEBIRD RECOROS MANHATTAN SERENADE—Tommy Dorsey DEARLY BELOVED—Glenn Miller KALAMAZOO—Charlie Spivak MY DEVOTION—Charles Spivak HASWELL’S Bryan A course in fundamentals of meteorol ogy has been added to the department of physics at the College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, N. Y. WHAT’S SHOWING At Guion Hall Saturday—“Pacific Ren dezvous”, with Lee Bowman and Jean Rogers. At The Campus Saturday—“Footlight Sere nade”, with Betty Grahle, John Payne, and Victor Ma ture. Saturday Midnight — “Flight Lieutenant”, with Pat O’Brien and Glenn Ford. Guion Hall SATURDAY—1 P.M. - 7 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. LEE BOWMAN JEAN ROGERS PACIFIC RENDEZVOUS Comedy News Cartoon COMING Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday WILLIAM POWELL — HEDY LAMAR “CROSSROADS” Sophomores— TAKE SATURDAY AFTERNOON OFF AND CHECK LOUPOT’S UNIFORM DEAL Made by Lilley-Ames Company Tailors to the Army Represented Loyally By LOUPOT’S Trading Post AN AGGIE TRADITION i \ t, 'C * ■* f A l t ^ ) * i i r 4 v )