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.
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Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Pissocided Colle6iate Press
Brooks Gofer... : : Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen Associate Editor
Phil Crown Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin....'. Sports Editor
Mike Mann Assistant Sport's Editor
Chick- Hurst Senior Sports Assistant
N. Libson.. 1.: Junior Shorts Editor
Advertising Staff
Reggie Smith I Advertising Manager
Jack, E. Carter ...Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Louis A. Bridges ;....Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager
Jay Humphrey 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
Douglass Lancaster , Junior Editor
Jack Hood Junior Editor
John Holman—........... Junior Editor
Jack Keith Junior Editor
Tom Journeay Junior Editor
Reporters
irry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz
Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John
Sparger, and M. T. Lincecum. -
Wanger's Aggie Spirit
Walter Wanger is offering $75 in war bonds
just to get Aggies to tell him what they
think the Aggie spirit really is and means.
Aggies have always been proud of their
spirit, and have always been ready to tell
anyone about it. Why is it, then, that a man
who is going t ospend over a million dollars
telling the world about Aggieland must of
fer prizes and then get very little response
to his offer.
At 4:50 yesterday afternoon, only one
entry had been received. Come on, Army, you
surely have a spare half hour to sit down
and write down just what you think an
Aggie is. Remember, PRETTY WORDS
AND PHRASES DONT COUNT, nothing
counts but the thought in the thing. It
doesn't have to be long, or it can be as long
as you like—but do write one. You have un
til Wednesday to make the train although
the contest does not end then. Closing date
will be announced later.
Turn you entry in to either the Publicity
Office, or 103 No. 9, 71 Puryear, 311 Bizzell,
36 Goodwin, or mail them to the Publicity
office.
Above all, TURN IN YOUR ENTRY
TODAY! —JMH.
Religion
Religion no longer is an “off the campus”
subject for universities and colleges in the
United States, a research study completed by
Edward W. Blakeman, counsellor in religious
education at the University of Michigan,
has disclosed.
Published in book form by the Univer
sity of Michigan Press, Dr. Blakeman’s study
shows there are 1,051 persons on the pay
rolls of 726 universities and colleges who
are in charge of religious matters. This is
in contrast to the popular belief that the in
stitutions of higher learning leave religion
■entirely in the hands of various religious
agencies operating off the campus.
Material for the study was obtained
from questionnaires sent to the 726 univer
sities and colleges listed by the American
Council on Education. Replies were obtained
from all of the questionnaires, and this 100
per cent response is cited by Dr. Blakeman
as an indication that “institutions of higher
learning, regardless of educational purpose
or foundation, are definitely interested in
the spiritual aspirations of their students.”
Five hundred eighty-six of the universities
and colleges reported they offer courses of
study in religion.
Dr. Blakeman found that “on the cam
pus” functions of the universities and col
leges which deal with religion can be divided
into administration, correlation and instruc
tion. Administrative officials are concerned
with problems of supervision, personnel, bud
get matters and the technical relation of re
ligion to other education. Correlation of the
religious program within the universities and
colleges with the “off the campus” work of
churches and other agencies is given atten
tion.
The Technical difficulty created by sep
aration of church and state offers the big
gest problem, Dr. Blakeman points out, since
the administration must be kept strictly
non-sectarian.
At the University of Michigan, Dr.
Blakeman is an advisor within the admin
istrative side of the university’s program and
a counsellor to students. Kenneth Morgan,
director of the Student Religious association,
correlates “on campus” and “off campus”
activities. Instruction is in charge of Prof.
Leroy Waterman, who is chairman of the
degree program in religion and ethics. Under
this degree program, the university has
grouped 54 courses so as to permit students
desiring to do so to concentrate on religion
and ethics during their last two years of un
dergraduate study.
Dr. Blakeman’s book, titled “The Ad
ministration of Religion in Universities and
Colleges,” also contains a directory of of
ficials responsible for religious education and
other religious activities in universities and
colleges. —ACP
/ hate war for it spoils conversation.—
Emerson.
Penng's Serenade
Private Buckaroo
By W. L. PENBERTHY
We all like to attend an athletic contest and
see our team come on the field or court before
the contest with an air of confidence and no
signs of tenseness. We like to see our men
go into the contest with that same looseness
and reckless confidence because their confi
dence in themselves instills in us confidence
in them and their ultimate victory. It is usual
ly the sign of experience when a team has
that air because it comes from the knowledge
that it has what it takes to win the contest.
That feeling of confidence comes from
the realization that they have been thorough
ly trained for the contest and from the ex
perience of having won contests through the
application of the knowledge they have ac
quired. I have heard coaches tell their play
ers to “Go out there with lots of confidence
and determination—be reckless”, but I have
never heard a smart coach give those instruc
tions to an inexperienced team that was not
developed to the point of having well found
ed confidence.
The longer I live the more respect I have
for the expression that “Knowledge is power”.
Knowledge doesn’t just come to us; we have
to pay the price by hard work and careful
application. In order for one to have confi
dence, one must have knowledge and I know
of no feeling as comfortable as the one of
being able to tackle a job with the feeling
that you are ready for what may come and
that you have the necessary equipment to put
it over; but I know of no feeling as uncom
fortable as launching on a diferent task with
the feeling that you had to have the breaks
to succeed.
It is surely worth the price to have the
feeling that you can make the breaks rather
than having to depend upon them.
“Private Buckaroo,” Universal’s zestful comedy tunefilm, co-stars
the Andrew Sisters, Maxene (L), La Verne and Patty, with Harry
James who appears with his famous Music Makers at the Campus
for the last time today.
BACKWASH
By
Jack Hood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” —• Webster
Open Forum
(Editor’s note: The folowing letter was recently received
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Dean Kyle .and office force:
There has been lots of water under foot
since I last took time out to do any of the
things that I have wanted to do—things like
writing to you all and many others of my
friends left at school. While writing this I
am forced to recall a remark that you made
about boys writing after they get away from
their friends. After having read so many
letters from boys who forgot that they had
a true comrade in you until they found them
selves in need of some type of assistance I
have decided to just write and say “hello.”
Now life is rosy. I am seeing some of
the things that up to now have been legends
to me. My luck has been good and I have
seen the entire island from water, land and
air. Every time I go out it seems that the
latest view is the most beautiful, so I plan
for another trip to see if there was anything
left out of my previous trip.
My company on these trips is of the
most pleasant variety. There is always an
Aggie on hand somewhere who will go with
me on any little trip that can be cooked up
under the present circumstances. Boys who
are here include Captain (Buck) Finley, ’38,
Captain Bo Biron, ’40, 1st Lt. Norris Mef-
ford, ’41, 1st Lt. Don Lansford, ’40, 1st Lt.
Bert Burns, ’40, 1st Lt. Emil Hertner, ’40,
2nd Lt. Joe Slicker, ’42, 2nd Lt. Dave Brit
ain, 41, and a few others that I cannot think
of at present. This will help a little to keep
the Ex-Students file and some day we will
all be back there to have a great time to
gether like we had in the past.
How are we going to do this fall in the
line of football ? That I know would be a fool
ish question under any other circumstances,
but now there is room for question as we do
not know how hard the team is being hit in
trying to furnish good officers and men for
a cause that we are all ready to give every
thing that is left in us. Please give my best
to all the coaching staff and tell them how
much I really miss the old training schedule.
Also please tell Coach Norton that we are
still playing the game like he used to teach
it—hard but fair. We are putting everything
that we have into this game of life and may
it be over soon, so that we can all be together
again soon.
This verse expresses how much I feel
for all of you that I call my friends:
Because I Have Known You
Because I have known you
For a little while
The sunlight is flooding
The last lonely mile.
The burden is lightened.
Horizons are blue.
The songs are plainer
Because I know you!
Because I have known you
For so short a time
The hills, once so forbidding,
Are easy to climb.
My heart is no doubter,
How pleasant the view,
With hope for the future
Because I know you!
Good luck to all for a happy future.
Leon.
Hard to Nail Down . ..
At a meeting of the Brazos
County A. & M. Former Students,
the Aggie-Exes tried to answer
the question, “Why the spirit of
Aggieland predominates the life of
Aggies even after they have served
all, or nearly all,
connections with
the school.”
The discussion
was for the bene
fit of Jack Raw
lings, director of
“We’ve Never
Been Licked”,
and other Holly-
woodians, who
were present,
soaking up Aggie atmosphere and
getting on to Aggie ways.
Yet the question was never an
swered satisfactorily. . .they just
couldn’t do it—and concluded that
it is intangibly hard to put your
finger on.
Incidentally, it’s just about the
same thing that’s sought by spon
sors of the essay contest. . .it’s go
ing to be hard to answer and hard
to judge because there can be so
many different versions, but, at
the same time, it gives everybody
an even break.
Sweepings ..
Tonight’s the night for the
“Dancing Derby with Tuneful Her
bie” (boy, does that stink). . .P. L.
“Pinkie” Downs, Jr. was chosen
the most loyal Aggie-Ex at a meet-
Forestry To Be
Taught in Schools
More than 30,000 children inTOO
Texas schools will study forest
conservation this year under trial
condition^ which are to form the
basis for a unified system of for
estry teaching to be initiated in
all public schools of the state start
ing in September 1943, it is an
nounced by Paul W. Schoen, forest
management chief of the Texas
A. & M. College Forest service.
Under the direction of the State
board of education, a committee of
Texas educators headed by Dr. A.
W. Birdwell, recently retired presi
dent of Stephen F. Austin state
teachers college, have been busy
for several months with members
of the Texas Forest service, work
ing out the proposed course and it
is being assigned to selected- schools
located in every section of the
state for a year’s test. The most
intensive test is being made in
Shelby County, where all the
schools will teach the subject.
The plan calls for associating
forestry instruction with standard
subjects such as reading, writing,
arithmetic, and history, rather
than making it a separate course.
Instruction will start with kinder
garten and continue through high
school grades.
WHAT’S SHOWING
At Guion Hall
Saturday— “They Died With
Their Boots On”, starring Errol
Flynn and Oliva de Haviland.
Monday— “The Big Shot”,
with Humphery Bogart.
At the Campus
Saturday— “Private Bucke-
roo” with Harry Jame^ and the
Andrew Sisters.
Midnight Preview— “The
Great Man’s Lady”, starring
Barbara Stanwyck with Joel Me-
Crea and Brian Donlevy.
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Lovers of everything from music
to horses have the opportunity to
find their type of entertainment
today on the campus. The horse
show this afternoon is predicted
to be the best that the Cavalry and
Field Artillery boys have ever put
on. Tonight, instead of just three
hours of music, four hours of sweet
swing and hot jive may be heard
at Sbisa hall. Herbie Kay, who
made such a hit at the Cavalry
Ball last night, will play a concert
program from 8 to 9 and then for
the Corps Dance from 9 to 12. Ad
mission to the first program may
be , had by purchasing one 25c War
Savings Stamp at the door. Script
for the dance is $1.10.
Maybe your reviewer isn’t sen
timental enough and that’s the rea
son he fails to approve Para
mount’s “THE GREAT MAN’S
LADY” as top entertainment. Be
sides the sentimentality ,there’s
the fact that the show is told in
flash-back sequences, a fact that
always turns us against a show
in no small degree.
On the black list of the ledger,
there’s Barbara Stanwyck, turning
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
ing of the Brazos County Former
Students Club. . .the first class to
graduate from A. & M. was the
the class of 1880—two members. . .
the graduating class of 1881 drop
ped off 50%—one member. . .To
night at 8 p. m. Herbie Kay & Co.
will take the downbeat in Sbisa for
an hour of swing, hot, sweet, blue,
and novelty music—just as you
like it. There will be no door price
. . .we’re just asked to loan Uncle
Sammy a two-bit piece for awhile.
Shades of Yuhoodie: AI Schram
and George Huchkins can’t figure
why, on their thumbing trip to
LSU, two different girls in towns
many miles apart asked Al to re
move his cap so they might be
favored with a look-see at his
head. . .It happened in Snuggology
(ag chemistry, to the uninformed)
Friday morn: Prof Snuggs wrote
several headings on the board and
called on students to go to the
board and write something about
the subjects. . .one wrote on tem
perature, one on enzymes, etc.
When the chalk dust cleared away,
under the heading of “oxygen”
was found, On October 10, Texas
A. & M. will beat the hell out of
Corpus Christi!!
Encouragement of co-eds to en
roll in mathematics is an aspect
of the war effort at the University
of California.
Charles F. Bongardt, law professor at
Creighton university, has been appointed
supervisor of the revision of the Nebraska
statutes.
—CORPS DANCE—
(Continued from Page 1)
and according to Stephens should
prove just as popular with the
corps.
Freshmen must have dates to
attend. Scrip is $1.10
How YOU can help her
speed vital war calls
A V THEN you’re about to telephone, remember that
Ml the wires—especially Long Distance circuits—are
busier than ever before, with war calls. We can’t build
new equipment to carry the load because the materials
we need are going into ships and planes and shells.
Here’s how you can help to keep the lines open for
war calls. Unless your message is really urgent, please
don’t use Long Distance service. But if you must,
please make your calls as short as you can.
Thanks!—we know you’ll be glad to help!
CALLS COtemST:
Also
Sports — Terrytoon — Travel
News
PREVIEW TONIGHT
SUNDAY - MONDAY
Franklin and Marshall college will re
ceive about $30,000 from the estate of Ben
jamin F. Fackenthal, Jr., former chairman
of its board.
American Institute of Chemical Engi
neers has issued a charter for a student
chapter at the University of Texas.
TRADE WITH LOU
HE’S RIGHT WITH
YOU
STAHWYCK-McCREA
Go In at 10:00 for the
Midnight Show
MOVIE
Guion Hall
SATURDAY
7:00 and 8:30
“They Died With
Their Boots On”
with
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
ERROL FLYNN
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