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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
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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”
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