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■TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1942
-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., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Pissocided ColiefSiote Pres*
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
Bill Huber .' Circulation Manager
H. R. Tampke...., Senior Assistant
Carlton Power..., .' Senior Assistant
Joe Stalcup.... - Junior Assistant
Bill Trodlier ■. Assistant
Tuesday’s Staff
Tom Vannoy Managing Editor
Jack Hood Junior Editor
John Holman Junior Editol-
Second Front Against Hitler
, ■ Spells His Defeat
With the Russian army still holding the
blood-soaked streets of Stalingrad and while
action on most of the other battle-scarred
fronts has died down to a “cat-and-mouse”
lull we’re adding our voice to the growing
demand for a second front.
Why not a second front?
The time to act is now. The Russians
have forced Hitler to bring up thousands
of valuable reserves draining the available
fighting manpower now stationed in con
quered France and the other subdued Euro
pean nations. A second front will force “the
world’s most hated man” to spread the power
of his so-called Blitz troops. Weakened and
battered already, the German military ma
chine will be caught in a gigantic pincer
movement. They cannot possibly survive
simultaneous attacks on two fronts.
The opening of a second front will aid
Russia immeasurably. We all know that. It
will relieve the terrific pressure and pound
ing to which her weary troops have been
daily subjugated. Russia has been guarding
the gateway to the Caucasian oil fields. She’s
been left to fight Hitler alone in Europe.
Now’s the time for England and the United
States to really get into the fight. Now’s
the time to put the skids on Hitler’s idea
of world rule. The road for a Nazi defeat
lies in the defeat of Berlin. The road for an
Allied victory in Berlin hinges on the imme
diate establishment of a second front.
The United States and Great Britain have
heen sitting back building up a military ma
chine second to none. We have the air power
now. We have the machines and we have the
men. Every day we’re building more planes,
more machines, and inducting more men.
In England Churchill tells his Parlia-
liament that the English armies are well-
equipped, that “our shipping losses are
greatly diminished and that we have over
whelming superiority in the air.”
If that is true—and there is no reason to
doubt it—then what are we waiting for?
Let’s have a second front and blast the
power of Hitler now. We must not wait un
til the German army secures its position in
the face of the coming Russian winter. We’ve
baited the trap—let’s catch the rat in it.
We must act now and win.—The Tem
ple University News.
The University of Michigan arts college
established the first chair of the science and
art of teaching in the United States.
The Kind of a World We Want
The kind of world we have after this
war will depend largely upon the kind of
peace to which the nations agree. In turn,
that peace depends upon the nature of the
parties making the terms. Naturally, we
think the Allies will be the winners in this
struggle. We are fully trusting the judg
ment of the United Nations. It is not wise,
however, to overlook the fact that although
we won the first World War, we definitely
lost the peace.
Many people think that the idea of plan
ning for the times after the war is “looney.”
They have a notion that things will auto
matically take care of themselves. If too
many out of the population of the United
Nations have such a narrow conception of
the seriousness of each move made in ar
ranging a new world, we will probably have
continuing with us the same old world situa
tion. It will eventually lead to another war,
when the wheel turns over again.
The right of public discussion—one of
The things for wheih we are fighting—can
help us to win the peace and make the kind
of world we want. More and more discus
sion groups are taking up the post war prob
lems. The national debate question for col-
Uege is along the same line of thought. It is
certin that college debaters will contribute
to the fashioning of the post war world. Ev
ery college student, whether he is a debater
or not, can think, speak, and write about
the problem. We can all share in determining
the kind of world we want.—The Tech Or
acle.
Open Forum
Dr. T. 0. Walton,
Pres. Texas A. & M. College,
College Station, Texas.
Dear Dr. Walton:
It is with proud pen that I relay to a
man who has so many boys on the fighting
fronts of the world, News and Views of those
about me. All over Australia I see them;
the ring is their trade mark; their remem
brances of A. & M. is their brotherhood. The
ground forces find them fine leaders and
they have worthy tasks; in services of sup
ply they are the boys who are getting it
through to the troops; in the Air Corps,
their wings fill the air. They are fine men
and great leaders. It is a grand feeling to
meet an Aggie over here, to find a comrade
over night ; but even more it’s the type of
man one finds in every Aggie that makes
the surge of feeling more immense. All over
the world one suddenly realizes are men
like these, men from Aggieland, men who
have received the great benefit of associa
tion and learning that A. & M. affords; each
one doing his job.
Though the task is great, and our op
ponent is strong, we are all confident that
victory will be ours in days to come. We
have no misgivings, we are fully aware of
the necessary sacrifices, and we have, seen
the grim cost of war; but courage stands
high and we go forth because of our train
ing and because we believe in our cause.
But above this, we want not only a mil
itary victory from this conflict, we want
supreme political and economic victory for
the world as well. We want all mankind to
share in the fruits of our conquest. We want
the world to be as one and for that to come
about, a political and economic transition
must take place. All people must realize that
they cannot again withdraw into their smug
corners but that they must share the entire
room and all of its richness; and that this in
turn must be ruled by a league or council of
all nations. It must be guarded by strength
and the rules set up must be enforced with
power.
We wonder here on this front if those
at home are willing to make the sacrifice
which will make us a part of this world or
ganization, or shall we remain as before and
allow these who die to do so in a somewhat
futile cause. Victory shall not be complete
until wars no longer occur. I pray that
the Victors of this war will look unselfishly
upon the problem and that they will arrive
at a solution that will free our posterity from
futile recurrences of this, our greatest hu
man degradation.
To you sir, I send my very best wishes
and sincere appreciation for your help dur
ing my stay at A. & M. and later in Wash
ington, D. C. I saw Mr. Lloyd several times,
and bid him goodbye upon my orders for
foreign duty. He, too, was extremely help
ful and kind.
Very truly yours,
Robert R. Herring
2nd Lt. AC, U. S. Army
This Collegiate World
... - — ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS / ~
America’s college students “are living on
borrowed time.” “There is no commitment
that any man may complete his college edu
cation.” So spoke Harvey H. Bundy, assist
ant to the secretary of war, in an address to
Yale freshmen.
Willingness of the government to per
mit young men to enter college rather than
go into the fighting front was described by
Bundy as a “loan” and an “experiment.”
“If the loan to the colleges becomes a
method by which men who ought to be in the
thick of the battle avoid the hazards of war;
if the colleges retain any of the aspects of
the country club which has been painfully
evident in the past; if the men ho can af
ford to go to college are considered as a
separate class exempted overlong from fight
ing, the experiment will be a dismal failure
and will not long continue,” Bundy said.
What the government expects of the
colleges is an increasing number of profes
sional men fitted for “greater future service
to their country,” Bundy declared.
* * *
Lack of fundamental education in mathe
matics presents a major obstacle in selection
and training of midshipmen for commission
ing as ensigns in the navy, Dr. H. T. Ettlin-
ger, University of Texas mathematics pro
fessor, points out, quoting a letter of Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz.
“Of 8,000 applicants—all college grad
uates:—some 3,000 had been rejected because
they had had no mathematics or insufficient
mathematics at college nor had they ever
taken plane trigonometry,” Nimitz wrote.
He added that “75 per cent of the fail
ures in the study of navigation must be at
tributed to the lack of adequate knowledge
of mathematics. A candidate for training
for a commission in the naval reserve can
not be regarded as good material unless he
has taken sufficient mathematics.”
*. * *
Right now, for example, there are open
ings for technical assistants in engineering,
metallurgy or physics for applicants who
have completed one, two or, three years of
college. The pay ranges from $1,440 to $1,800
a year.
If, by odd chance, you want to come to
Washington you can start work as a junior
clerk the third day after you arrive. You
need one day to put in your application and
another to take a routine test. The pay is
$1,440 a year. Because vacancies must be
filled promptly the current call is limited
to persons in or near Washington.
BACKWASH Jack Hood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
Engineer’s Blunder...
Lt. E. W. Elmore, stationed at
the Municipal Airport, Sacra
mento, California wrote us about a
little error the engineers out there
made recently ... he wants us to
inform the engineers here so they
can avoid such a blunder.
It seems Lt. Elmore got in a
bull session with some Engineer
officer friends . .
the conversation
turned to the liv
ing quarters and
rested on such
lack of foresight
and iriosyncracies
as the unfailing
habit of always
putting the ma
jority of rooms
on the west side
to catch all the heat and after
noon sun possible—and no con
veniences at all on the second floor
of the new barracks. Then one of
the officers asked if they knew
what the engineers had just done
Ho«d
over at the new Nurses’ Living
Quarters. No one had heard.
According to the officer, the en
gineers had already installed men’s
plumbing in every room . . . they
can’t seem to find the guilty par
ty on the job.
Sweepings . . .
We know some bull sessions get
deep, but a North Carolina school
claims one of their freshmen got
into a session discussing tire ra
tioning and came out two hours
later converted to Brahmanism,
pledged to a bankrupt fraternity,
a subscriber to Fortune, enlisted
in V-l, and dragging a dachshund
on a purple leash . . .
Conserving those two well known
products. TSCW’s President L. H.
Hubbard drives a horse and bug
gy to his office every morning . .
. . . This weekend saw probably
the first hay-burner on this cam
pus in a long time when Walter
Cardwell, Bill Black, and dates
made the Cavalry Ball in a four
wheeler . . .
Musical Meanderings
===== By BILL MURPHY —-
This past week end Aggies were
treated to two of the finest vocal
ists in the business—Loraine Daly
and Ben Purnell. In fact the two
were about the only things justifi
able in paying'a $1.10 to listen to.
Herbie Kay’s band was a shining
example of what to expect from
dance orchestras for the duration
of the war. Like so many of the
bands touring the country today,
Herbie’s band was a pickup. In
other words, the draft boards are
taking so many of the regular
musicians now days, that band
leaders have to pick up men as
they go along, sometimes never
having a chance to rehearse with
the band before an appearance.
Most of the crowd was a little dis
appointed in the band, which is
understandable. His brass section
was fine until the men began tak
ing choruses on the faster num
bers, and revealed that the only
thing that was worth “sweatin’’
here was the one and only trombon
ist, who possessed a rather smooth,
non-brassy tone. Other standouts
were the bass and piano. Other
than this, there was no band. The
vocalists really carried on the ban
ner for Kay, both being original
Texans. Purnell is an Austin boy,
while Miss Daly hails from Odessa.
Among the main “bleeds” com
ing from band leader playing here
is the lack of response or applause
after each number. They point out
that this is the only school they
play which does not show reaction
unless possibly an unusual novelty
has been played, and after all the
applause acts as a meter to the
band leader, who can then choose
the tunes that will appeal to the
crowd. What do you think about
it?
A major problem now confronts
Aggies! What will happen when
gas rationing begins November 22
and big name bands will no long
er be able to travel very far south,
and girls will not be able to visit
the campus since most train and
bus service will be used for vital
war needs? Will there be regi
mental balls and corps dances next
summer when the social season
rolls around? Think it over. From
here it looks as though the Bryan
women are due for a big rush, at
least for the duration.
Sweet music and ttiore sweet
music is in store for the Field
Artillery this coming week end
when “The Idol of the Airlanes,”
Jan Garber, and his orchestra play
the annual F. A. Ball and the
inevitable victory dance Saturday
night. Garber is really one of THE
big boys, as well as being an old
timer in the dance band game.
His music will strictly be on the
dancable side, with jive numbers
being very scarce. All in all, it
looks like another big week end
for A.&M.
US Can Build Up Reserve Of Geologists
To Aid Nation in All-Out War Effort
The United States should “build photographs, and frequently geo-
up a trained personnel of geologist- logical structures, and hence the
officers who can show us how ge- sorts of terrain to be expected
ology can be made to fight with us may be deduced from aerial photo-
and not against us,” Dr. Edward S. graphs or from actual observation
C. Smith of the department of airplanes.
geology, Union College, declared. “But if geologic maps are avail-
“The geologist has a two-fold re- able they are sometimes better
lationship to the war effort,” said than those which attempt to de-
Dr. Smith. ’ pict the surface configurations.”
“In the first place, he is con- “An experienced geologist can,
cerned with the location of ade- with some confidence, predict the
quate amounts of strategic mineral terrain to be expected from an
raw material, including the mineral examination of the geologic maps
fuels and the subsequent develop- of a region,” Dr. Smith explained,
ment of these sources of supply. “Conversely, from a study of topo-
It is from the rocks of the earth’s graphic maps, a geologist often
crust that we must wrest the metal- can draw important inferences con-
lic elements that go to make up cerning surface and subsurface
airplanes, our tanks, our bombs, structures, soils and other valuable
and our bullets. field data.”
“In the second place,” he con- In the combat zones geological
tinued, “the geologist can be of a knowledge of the region is essen-
definite military value at or near tial for the building of roads, rail-
the battle front and behind the ways, air fields, supply depots and
lines. camps, Dr. Smith said.
“Today, as in the first world “Of particular importance are
war, maps are all-important. Maps the areas selected for fortifications,
can be quickly prepared from aerial gun emplacements, landing fields
•—
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Guion Hall is showing a shoot-
’em-up picture of the underworld
today and tomorrow that has all
the fast action and gunnery one
could crave. The picture stars
Humphrey Bogart in the title role
as “THE BIG SHOT.” Co-starred
with Bogart is Irene Manning, a
new “find” of Warner Brothers.
The story is narranted by Bo
gart on his dying bed in jail. Hav
ing served three terms in the pen,
he makes the decision that he will
go straight and find a legitimate
job. His pals chang’e his mind for
him and induce him to take part in
the robbery of an armored car.
Irene Manning, his former wife,
steps in and convinces him that
he was right to try to go the
straight and narrow way and he
changes his mind again.
Then a woman who saw the hold
up which his pals staged mistakes
Bogart as one of the participants
and he is sent to jail. Then his
lawyer double crosses him and
Bogart’s only purpose in life from
then on is to escape jail and get
even with the lawyer. He succeeds
at the cost of his own and Miss
Manning’s lives.
The Lowdown:—Rough stuff in
Big Town with a Big Shot.
The Campus presents another
Michael Shayne detective story as
one of the two features showing
today and tomorrow. Shayne fans
can expect another’ story of good
entertainment and' those who are
and ammunition dumps,” he pointed
out. “The military geologist is
called upon to supply the answers
to these questions: How well will
the terrain withstand loads and
shocks? What are the excavation
problems ?
“In subsurface work, geological
considerations become all impor
tant in the construction of under
ground hangars, galleries for the
storage of munitions and fuel; the
suitability of the underground
structures must be studied, the
ease of excavation, strength of ad
jacent rock formations, and drain
age problems.
“If advances are to be made
over enemy territory, the possibil
ity of encountering land mines can
often be predicted if a complete
knowledge of the soil cover and
underlying rocks has been previ
ously obtained. For it is obvious
that a thin soil cover reduces the
liability of land mines, whereas a
deep and easily worked soil in
creases the danger.
“A commander in the zone of
combat often must have specialized
information and have it in the
shortest possible time. If it in
volves a geological question, it is
here that the geologist officer may
be of inestimable value.”
American royalties from the sale
of Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF have
been seized by the Alien Property
Custodian. About 283,000 copies of
the American edition have been sold
according to the publishers, Reynal
and Hitchcock. Since the last pay
ment on Sept. 1, 1939, some $30,000
in royalties have piled up.
not Shayne fans will manage to
enjoy the super-detecting of this
super-sleuth with little difficulty.
This time, Lloyd Nolan as
Michael Shayne, is serving on a
jury trying a society girl for mur
der. Naturally, Shayne smells a
rat, and escapes the vigilance of
the jury guard and goes out to
find the real criminal. The story
is told with speed, action and sus
pense. Supporting cast consists of
Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers and
Don Costello. The title — “JUST
OFF BROADWAY.”
The Lowdown:—not outstanding.
“THE LOVES OF EDGAR AL
LEN POE” is the other feautre on
the Campus. It’s the oft-told tale
of a mistreated* genius and his
women. Poe’s life from childhood
to deathbed are portrayed on the
screen. John Sheppard is cast in
the role of Edgar Allen and Linda
Darnell is his sweetheart. Virginia
Gilmore ably plays the part of
the “other woman” in Poe’s life.
The Lowdown:—Strictly biogra
phical.
Bicycles are going to be less
plentiful from now on. Their manu
facture has been cut to 10,000 a
month by WPB and concentrated
in two plants: the Westfield Manu
facturing Co., of Westfield, Mass.,
and the Huffman Manufacturing
Co., of Dayton, Ohio. They will
turn out a “Victory Model” which
will not carry their name or trade
mark. The rest of the industry will
produce war weapons.
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Tuesday and Wednesday—
“Just Off Broadway,” with
Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie
Weaver, also, “The Loves of
Edgar Allen Poe,” starring
Linda Darnell with John
Sheppard.
AT GUION HALL
Tuesday and Wednesday—
“The Big Shot,” starring
Humphrey Bogart.
Box Office Opens 2 P. M.
“Loves of Edgar
Allen Poe”
with
Linda Darnell
John Sheppard
Virginia Gilmore
2:14- 4:40 - 7.06
“Just Off Broadway”
with
Loyd Nolan
Marjorie Weaver
3:21 - 5:47 - 8:13
Also
Merry Melody Cartoon
COMING
“WINGS FOR THE EAGLE”
MOVIE
Guion Hall
Tuesday - Wednesday
Humphrey Bogart - Irene Manning
“The Big Shot”
Comedy — Cartoon