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Page 2- -THE BATTALION 'S ATURBAY MORNING, OCT. 3, 1942 age i SPE< .50; [ire, ther ble, ROO ite e 5356, FOB eLux- res. iter LOS mnd] ith ;her ourn WA tent he E lioloi LO f SI o 3< UJCii Sc 1 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., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Franqisco. Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. 1941 Member 1942 Associated GoUe6icite Press Brooks Gofer Editor-in-Chief Ken Bresrien...... 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 J. 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 Trodlier Assistant Saturday’s Staff Clyde C. Franklin.... Managing Editor Jack Hood Junior Editor John Holman Junior Editor Jack Keith Junior Editor Tom Journeay ! Junior Editor Reporters arry Cordua, Bob Garrett, 'Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John Sparger, and M. T. Lincecum. Do You Appreciate Your Newspaper You may lay down two or three cents for your home town newspaper as a matter of habit expecting it to bring you the latest information from all over the world and never give a thought to how important the press is to you or your family. You never stop to think how much liberty and happi ness is bound up in the fact that you can read this kind of a newspaper; you never stop to realize that today only in the United States and some parts of the British empire can men and women read the news of their neighbors and the world without the blight* ing tourch of government control. Should you be denied the right you would soon realize that more and worse would be coming. You would know that soon your spare time would not be your own, that at any time you could be called out to a party meeting or to a parade before the local or national ruler, with terrific penalties imposed if you failed to obey the summons. You would know that you could no longer swap ideas with your neighbor without letting your self in for trouble with the secret police. You would know that you could no longer go to your own church or send your children to Sunday School. You would know that you would soon have no individual rights at all —you would be the slave of a dictatorial state. We may perhaps realize these things vaguely but few of us ever stop to think that the newspaper we take so much for granted is the keystone of the liberties of all individuals. Once this free press of ours is muzzeled it will be the signal for the suppres sion and persecution of religion, of the right to belong to a labor union, of the right to speak our minds. Where the press is free it can function as a protector of the rights of our people and of our free democratic institutions. Where the press is enslaved, these rights of the individual and the free democratic in stitutions which Americans hold so dear, soon disappear. AGP Open Forum Two Yanks in Trinidad Lately there has been a great deal of criticism of the action of some of the sophomores at yell practice. Unfortunately this criticism is deserved in many cases. There is no doubt in our mind that most of the sophs are doing their dead level best and are really trying to make these yell practices a big success, how ever there are a few “two per centers” who presist in acting like a bunch of kindergarten kids on a picnic. It is this very small minority that is giving our class a black eye. All of us go to yell practice to whoop it up and raise a little of that old Aggie Hell, but there are certain times when we have to get quite and listen to what our yell leaders have to sday. These yell leaders ere elected by us and they are doing their best to put over ever practice that we have. It seems only fair that if they are willing to shoulder this responsibility and put out all the work that it requires, that we at least can cut out these individual “bull sessions” and pay at tention. Our football team has a hard row to hoe this season, and it is going to take our full support to help put it over. We know that the sophomore class is capable of holding up its end, and we are counting on them not to let the team down. Come on fellows, let’s all pull together and make this the biggest sea son yet! Signed: Jack Orrick Sophomore Class President and Bob Garrett, Secretary. It’s TOWN HALL tonight in committed are revealed an ten Sbisa Hall at eight o’clock. Anson suspects are rounded up by the Weeks and his orchestra will pro- P°' lice - Each tries to incriminate vide the entertainment for Town the other > makin ^ ver y bafflin ° Something to Read : By Dr. T. F. Mayo 1 Hall goers for an hour before they swing out for the first Corps Dance of the semester. Admission to the Town Hall program is an old or a new Town Hall ticket or the purchase at the door of a 50c War Savings Stamp. The Corps Dance will begin at nine and last until twelve, the admission price is $1.10. Van Heflin, co-starred with Pa tricia Dane in “GRAND CENTRAL MURDER”, is well on his way to stardom, according to all indica tions. As the detective-sleuth in this murder mystery, Van shows the audience that he is capable of handling himself before a movie camera with ease and finesse. Other big name stars have begun their motion picture careers as screen detctives and Van Heflin is no ex ception. “Grand Central Murder” is the story of the murder of a glamorous actress named Mida (Patricia “Lets Go Dancin' With Anson” „ Hcr b , od 5' is ^<*>^<1 in „ , ,, T . , Grand Central station m her pn- of Screams and Squeaks With vate car by Mark Daniels> with ing was enough to wake the dead Anson Weeks”. . .take your choice, w hom she was about to elope. By . . .but we’ve got a new slant on for tonight’s the first big corps flash back sequences, things that happened before the murder was There’s one too many!—Pat O’Brien, right, Brian Donlevy and Janet Blair, co-stars in Columbia’s hilarous “Two Yanks in Trin idad,” now at the Campus Theatre, seem to be having a little trouble deciding about the “one.” And, in the new comedy, a prob lem like this is not settled by the toss of a coin! Gregory Ratoff directed the film which will play for the last time today. (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) Gampm Phone 4-1181 Box Office Closed During Game Open at 7:30 p.m. • LAST DAY BACKWASH By Jack Hood “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” Webster It’s O. K. . . . When the new cut system was announced, the weeping and wail- Victory Dance . D. DUCK INVADES THE LIBRARY Donald Duek has crashed tbeCoUege Library! the deal: We didn , t lose anything dance With him he naturally brings his ideas on mi , TT , . . how to win the war. Like you and me when ~ we won - n Tbe Weeks crew came to Aggie- the radio called on his patriotism, Donald In a nutshell, the new plan takes ^ via swank y P lac f a f grabbed his gun and shouted, “I’ll do any- the cut situation from the rules Waldorf Astoria, Meadowbrook thing,” only to fall flat on his face at the - - and regulations Country Club, Aragon Ballroom answer he got—“Your income tax.” In a Also Popeye Cartoon News - Musical - Sport • PREVIEW TONIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY “A Lady in a Jam” • Go In at 10:00 for The Midnight Show typically Walt Disney manner, Donald finds C out how his thirteen dollars in taxes will help beat the axis. With a musical back- \ ground of Beethoven’s Victory theme from the Fifth Symphony, Disney characters ranging from great factory machines shaped 1 like horses to battleships with the sinister outlines of Japanese pagodas stalk across Donald’s vision. The most terrific of them all is a batlike giant with curled black horns who swoops over defenseless towns and cities raining destruction from his mouth and eyes. afford absences. The swastika on his forehead could mean time after time and makes it an (Chicago, not Houston), and Edge- individual pro- water Beach. . .Bob Crosby, Xavier position with each Cugat, and Griff Williams all got student. A lot of their starts with Weeks, us are afraid to Dotted Notes: Anson is a sandy cut one time lest haired guy who once registered at we be gently tos- the University of California and sed out into the eloped the same day. . .Walter cold world, but Winchell originated the line the idea is this: “Dancin’ With Anson”. . .a board We’re the judge of experts at the San Francisco .we know when our grades can Fair elected him “Ambassador of If a boy cuts Rhythm” in 1939. . .likes: Jack and has punk Benny, golf, pinochle, corned beef NOTICE! WE WILL BE CLOSED DURING THE GAME TODAY We Have a Few Tickets for the American Legion Rodeo Left Aggieland Barber and Beauty Shop North Gate only one thing. It is the axis monster who & rades > he will be called up by the and cabbage, eggs at midnight, must be beaten to earth by the guns Donald dean his school and told to get newspapers. Rhapsody in Blue . . . Duck’s income tax will buy This stirring b * s ana t° m y on the line. If he stilt hates: to go to bed, “Information, movie is rightly called The New Spirit. It is lnsists on sleeping all day, he can Please”. . . one of a group of films which opens a pro- P re P a i; e t0 take a one-way corps q • gram in the Asbury Browsing Room of the tnp - 0n the 0t her hand, the man oWeepings . . . library at 8:30 tonight and will continue each * hat . , makes , sa ^ ls , fa ^ tor ^ J rade f a sign noticed in Puryear Hall: Saturday night at the same time thereafter. £ whic h are decided by the deans) N0TICE TO FLYS _ THE CAVAL _ The New Spirit is in technicolor and its sound ^ y NOTira TO FLYS THE CAVAL effects run the gamut from Donald Duck's h, s gat -- and st,ll ma he the grade EY HAS MOVED TO HART squawks to the roar of American guns bring- po,nts ba,I,nce w,th the ho “ rs - ,IALI “ 1,0 LIKEWISE OR SUF- ing down Axis planes. If poppa or mamma gets sick, FER THE CONSEQUENCES. . . With The New Spirit will be shown an we can bull’s office, get Game time today: 2:30. . .The Ag- unusual film in the exotic colors of the Ne- a pass, and go home. . .the bull’s glelamd Band played a dance at therlands East Indies. In a sort of “March- office will notify the dean’s of- other than Texas u. last night of-Time” form it has an almost ironic in- fice who will instruct the depart- ^ ^ _ they were billed as the wiimer terest since it was made before the Japanese ment to let you make up any work f R cnntpqt attack in the Pacific and depicts the economic misses if you ask to within five , , - k . g... ^ , ’ and strategic importance of these fabulous days (not the deadline on making ^ ^ stag ATTENTION Sophomores and Fish Co-eds in Wartime While the question of acceleration ceased to be an open issue for the men’s colleges soon after Pearl Harbor, it is still debatable for women’s education, in opinion of Roswell G. Ham, president of Mount Holyoke College. An immediate and obvious comment, he feels, would be that since women of college age are not concerned with the draft, there should be no necessity for them to advance the year of their graduation. “But,” he continues, “that answer takes for granted certain premises which may not be altogether sound: First, that this is a man’s war; and, second, that college women should continue in the leisurely process of liberal education, against the day when the world will need their philosophy and art. “Such a view would assume that the men’s way of acceleration is only concerned with the attainment of skills and sciences to win the war, and that for the duration they are dedicated to an illiberal and unbalanced scheme of education. Of this danger both the men’s and women’s colleges are well aware, but the latter are equally aware by this time that total war takes no account of sexes. “The second argument, that women con stitute a reserve against the future, is more tenable. “We are posed with two problems: One, whether the program of acceleration is worth while for women’s colleges during the period of the war, and another, whether it may not be a permanent and justifiable outgrowth of the present emergency. For the first I have very little to add to the argument. Leaving aside the argument that accel eration carries with it a whole train of head aches for the administrator, we may exam ine for a moment the chances of its con tinuance after the war. The arguments against compressing a four-year college into three years have to do with the maturity into college students and with the standards of their education. “As to the matter of maturity, there is -TEXAS TECH— (Continued from Page 1) chances. Officials have anounced that the of the new time obeyed by the college. islands. * the work up). Rounding out the program is Road to Inspection trips and unofficial Victory, a dramatization of the outbreak of football trips will, in some cases, war in Europe and following its course be governed by the students grades, through Belgium, Dunkirk, London, Liba When you get sick, notify the a Charley horse most of the week and the Meditteranean; and two Australian dean’s office how long you starved and Norton just isn’t taking any films, showing the fighting of Australian in there.. . soldiers in Greece and Crete and the other All in all, the system is the same giving inside glimpses of Australia’s muni- thing Aggies have been asking game will start at 2:30 regardless tions industries. The latter, entitled Soldiers for for years. . .a chance to decide Without Uniform, gives for the first time when we can cut classes without some idea of the types of work and workmen penalty. . . who kep the R.A.A.F. in Australia in the ^y e warn the first and sec- adr * . . . ond year men, though. Watch your This series of Saturday mdvies is spon- st ep—which means watch your sored by the library as a part of its contri- grades> . -we hear the deans will bution to the war effort. Through the kind- keep close tab on the fish> and an ness of Dr. Charles La Motte, the Biology e y e on sophs. But you’re safe Club and Dr. D. W. Williams of the Animal # your g rade s are. Husbandry Department, the library will have a first-rate projector and screen for showing the movies. No admission will be charged. This does not signify that the films will not be the best and latest available on the ac- WE WILL MAKE YOUR WINTER SLACKS NOW! Come Up and Get Measured ALL KINDS OF UNIFORMS Tailor Made by Uniform Tailor Shop Mendl and Hornak North Gate Incidentally, the faculty's idea was not" to destroy regular class attendence. . .just because a man blossoms out with a flock of A’s j? n < • , * . , and B’s dosen’t mean he can have tivities of all countries at war. At an early date look for the brilliant The Diary of A a vaca on - Polish Airman, the filming of a Polish air man’s diary which was written during the German invasion of Poland. Unusual movies on our valiant ally, Russia, and one on China are events to come. All students and faculty members are urged to attend these shows. Remember: Saturday evening at 8:30 on the third floor of the library. WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Saturday Midnight, Sun day, Monday—“Lady in a Jam” with Irene Dunn and Ralph Bellamy. At Guion Hall Saturday—“Grand Central Murder” with Van Heflin and Patricia Dane. certainly a point of diminishing returns, but it would hardly seem to be determined by a three as opposed to a four-year course. If only it were a matter of a specified amout of knowledge to be accumulated, doubtless we could pack the four years into two. “These arguments concern both men and women. The men’s colleges are committed for the duration; if this is to be a long war, the women increasingly will have to bear their part and, unless all predictions are awry, they will not be contented to lag be hind. “It will serve us well to have open minds. For this might also be hazarded, that, when the Aemrican public discovers that there is nothing sacrosanct about four years, will not easily revert to abandoned ways.” AGP RADIO and BICYCLE REPAIR THE STUDENT CO-OP One Block East of Mqi n p os ^ Office Ex-Student Own e ^ -1- TS7 MOVIE Guion Hall 8 P. M. and 9:30 P. M. VAN HEFLIN VIRGINIA GREY Grand Central Murder Also MARCH OF TIME “MEN IN WASHINGTON” Plus MICKEY in “Donald Gets Drafted” LATE NEWS