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THE BATTALION
-SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1942
The Battalion
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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
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Jack E. Carter. Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
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Circulation Staff
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Saturday’s Staff
Clyde C. Franklin Managing Editor
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Jack Keith Junior Editor
Jack Hood Junior Editor
Douglass Lancaster Junior Editor
Reporters
Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz,
Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John
Sparger, M. T. Linecum, Eugene Robards, and John Kelleher.
Does This Mean You?
Today is the last time that the present sen
ior and junior classes will have the opportun
ity to go to Kyle Field and watch the Aggies
play football. Since the Rice game has been
changed to Houston the game with Arkansas
also marks the last time that a group of
^seniors and juniors will wear the maroon
and white colors in an athletic contest on
historic Kyle Field, which has seen greaft
teams as well as average teams both win
and lose games.
So far this season Aggies have had a
lot of hindrances and complications have
come up which have made it hard on some
of Aggieland’s traditions and the carrying
out of them, but on the whole a good job
has been done. And to those men who have
fallen in line and worked for the betterment
of Aggieland in the many ways that they
have, one should only say “Keep up the good
work”. We’ll get there some day, but just
be patient. To those 2% who are probably
already home and won’t be here for the
game, we can only ask “Why not change
and find out what it is to be an Aggie?”
There is a lot you don’t know about and now
is the best time to fall in with the rest of
the corps everywhere and pull for the great
est cause of Aggieland. Nobody can make
a man, who comes to A. & M., be an Aggie;
it’s a voluntary act, but those who have never
tried it are missing one of the biggest and
most important relations of their college
careers—a member of the Aggie brother
hood.
We can look back and see where we
might have been wrong, and to some things
which we would have done differently; but
those actions are to be forgotten with the
experience gained from them to be used in
the future. Everybody remembers those lit
tle things which were done not in line with
the customs and traditions of Aggieland.
The best thing to do is to profit by our mis
takes, and turn over a new leaf.
Ole Army, it all boils down to this. Today
and from now on let’s see if we can’t put out
just a little more, and correct these mistakes.
Every student who attends this college
should practice these principles of Aggie
land’s spirit more. This doesn’t apply to
those men who are Aggies and are continu
ing the progress of Aggieland and the main-
tainance of its spirit.
Today let’s make a showing worthy of
Aggieland. Let’s observe the rules of Aggie
land, and if you don’t know ask someone
who does, trying always for the betterment
of the corps, school, and ourselves.
Charles A. Duffy, 37-year-old New York
city policeman, is enrolled as the oldest
freshman at City college.
Holiday Changes
There have been many opinions expressed
about what should be done with regard to
the holidays Christmas and at mid-term. It
seems that the majority we’ve talked to,
would much prefer to have a two-week vaca
tion at the Christmas-New Year season and
eliminate the holidays at the end of the se
mester.
The point has been brought out that
the registrar needs that extra week between
semesters to prepare the grade report to be
sent home and to make necessary arrange
ments for the next semester.
On the other hand, students living in
El Paso, Amarillo, or other comparable points
—and we do have a lot of them—will not
even be able to go home at all either at
Christmas or at mid-term unless some mir-
icle of transportation is wrought. Why
couldn’t the administration change those hol
idays so that those students living a good
distance from home would at least have an
opportunity of spending three or four days
at home before settling down until June?
—TBJ
Draft boards recently granted deferment
for 986 University of Minnesota students
and faculty members.
Eula Friend, University of Omaha beau
ty queen, received 98 fan letters after her
picture was published in Look magazine.
Something to Read
By Dr. T. F. Mayo=
The War and Your Education
Though the war is, of course, interfering
exasperatingly with your college education
there is no doubt whatever that the war is
also going to educate you—for better or for
worse! Your education, after all is essentially
the formation of your mental habits (sloven
ly or keen, broad or narrow) and your atti
tudes (good or bad) toward life and the
world. Your experiences both in training
camps and on active duty are bound to in
fluence in one direction or another your ways
of thinking and your attitudes or ways of
feeling.
Will this “education” which you are sure
to get within the next few years be a good
one or a'bad one? Will the mental habits
and the attitudes with which you come out
of the war be better or worse: (1) than those
which you have now? (2) than those which
you would have had after an ordinary peace
time “education”?
The writer certainly does not know the
answer to these questions. But there is some
value, he believes, in your asking them of
yourself every now and then. One thing he
does feel sure of: that if you try, you your
self can to some extent make the answers
what you want them to be. You can in some
degree make the war “educate” you well
rather than badly.
There is denying that a war does push
people about . You can’t fight it as it should
be fought without doing what you’re told
and doing it “all over” so to speak. Most
of the things that happen to you will prob
ably be caused by forces over which you have
no control whatever. And it will be only too
natural for you, realizing your individual
powerlessness in external matters, to give
in altogether. It will be easy to become pure
ly a drifter, letting irrestible physical forces
sway and shape your real inside self as well
as your military conduct.
This would be “education,” all right but,
I submit, a very bad education. And I for
one don’t believe that it need necessarily hap
pen to you I believe that if you want it bad
enough, you can be a bang-up good soldier
or sailor or marine, do what you’re told
with your brains and your heart as well as
with your arms and legs—and still make
the war “educate” you into a stronger, more
intelligent, and more decent individual than
you are now, or than you would have been
in peace time.
Now this is just a theory of the present
writer’s, and it may be based on wishful
thinking. After all, he has only his observa
tion in World War I to go on, which we all
admit that as a war, was a mere piker com
pared to your war. And the writer must ad
mit too that in World War I he himself didn’t
practice what he is preaching here. He more
or less drifted—and regretted it later. But
he still thinks that it can be done. Just as
you people are going to make a better job
of your war for democracy than we did of
ours, so you can make of your war a better
“education” than most of us did. (For one
thing, you’ve got more sense than we- had.)
And how, you ask, can all this be done?
Well, in the first place, I don’t pretend to
have all the answers. And in the second place
my Battalion space is all used up for this
week. But if anybody asks me, by note or
word, I’ll certainly try later to specify ways
and means.
Meanwhile, as was said above, there is
value in your merely asking yourself the
question once in a while and trying to an
swer it in detail: Is my war experience bet
tering or worsening my mental habits and
my attitudes toward life and the world? Is
the war “educating” me well or ill?
From Capital to Campus
ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington
EDUCATION ELSEWHERE ...
The Japanese are operating seven Brit
ish and American church and mission schools
in Tietsin, according to the Japanese.
The pet project of all German schools
this year will be the “heroic events in the
East . . . where \;here is a wealth of in
spiration for creative work,” according to
'a Nazi mouthful.
* * *
The Nazis are setting up education
camps for children of the occupied countries
who are orphans, who were born out of wed
lock or whose relatives have been convicted
or deported. Others may be mobalized to fill
out quotas. Camp organization will be on
military lines; camp conversation will be in
German, exclusively.
* * *
Chief topics for essays and discussion in
“French” youth camps are—“The German
Army . . . Man is Meant for War . . . The
Saving Influence of Germany . . . The Meth
od of Hitlerite Youth . . . When Do You
Expect to Die? . . . Are You Against the
Jews? . . . Are You a Collaborationist? . . .”
etc. Unsatisfactory answers and interpreta
tions bring immediate dismissal.
* * *
Japanese authorities have decided to re
vise Chinese text books published before the
Greater East Aisia War. Necessary measures
are being taken by “the cultural section”
of the Japanese government.
* * *
Bulgarian teachers have been informed
they can’t resign, and those who have been
AWOL because they object to Nazi schooling
for Bulgar youth “will be immediately sub
jected to civil mobilization.”
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BACKWASH Lw
‘Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
On Homer Norton . . .
In back files of Backwash we
found the following writeup on
Coach Norton by George Fuer-
mann ... it seems to cover every-
thing we had in mind:
Jan. 30, 1941 . . . The Private
Life of a Champion’s Instructor:
You can’t see the walls of his of
fice—they’re plastered with pic
tures. There are near-life-size re
productions of Joe Routt, Joe Boyd
and Jarrin’ John Kimbrough—
three lads who have played a lit
tle football for
the Texas Aggies.
Dandy Dick Todd,
another Aggie-
great who’s do
ing his football
on a commercial
basis these days,
i is hanging in one
; c o r n e r . Then
there’s Matty
Bell, an Aggie
1934, staring down
above a color picture of Kyle Sta
dium. That’s just about a complete
inventory of the place, except the
two chairs, a bookcase, and a
small desk in the center of the
room. ,
If you’ve ever seen a volcanic
cone rising out of a plain, then
you know what kind of an impres
sion the gentleman behind that
desk makes when you walk into
coach until
his office. His birth certificate says
he’s Homer Hill Norton, and since
that slip of paper was filled out
he’s been knocking around as a
steel mill worker, a pro baseball
player and head nurse to the grid
iron hopes of two of the nation’s
football-minded colleges.
“Private life,” he laughed. “A
football coach doesn’t have one!”
It was just about then he opened
one of the overstuffed drawers of
his desk. “Do ya see that?” he
asked, pointing to half a hundred
pieces of paper with funny little
circles, x’s, and marks on them.
“That’s a batch of alleged sure-fire
trick plays which fans have sent
during the past three or four
weeks.” He added that in the 20
years he has been coaching foot
ball he has never received a suc
cessful trick play from a fan, “but
many of these ideas serve as sug
gestions which lead to successful
plays.”
Fan mail is something to write
home about. Coach Norton aver
ages 40 letters a day during the
playing season. “All kinds of let
ters,” he points out. “If we win,
we get congratulatory letters—if
we lose we catch hell!” During the
past season there was one fellow
who was a better-thary-avej^age
die-hard pessimist. Each Monday
morning Coach received a post card
signed, “The Miserable Grouch.”
Musical Meanderings
By BILL MURPHY
Of interest to the Engineers, as
well as the Corps, is the fact that
on the twentieth and twenty-first
of November Herb Miller and his
orchestra will play a two night
stand in Sbisa Hall for the Bridge
(?) Builders Ball, and for the
Corps the following night. Herb
is the younger brother of none
other than the famous Glenn Mil
ler, who is now in Uncle Sam’s
fine aggregation. Since “younger
brother” looks and acts a lot like
Glenn, he is becoming a top box-
office attraction, mostly in the
middle west. Currently he is play
ing the top notch Pla-More Ball
room in Kansas City, and is slated
to play at the swanky million dol
lar Pleasure Pier in Port Arthur.
Miller will come to Aggieland
unheralded and practically un
known, but you may depend on
good music since he is being back
ed by perhaps the largest music
bookers and advertisers in the
business.
The same night the Composite
Regiment will hold forth in Dun
can, which should also prove to be
one of the best of the balls. Al
though no band has been definite
ly set, as yet, the orchestra com
mittee is currently sweatin’ such
bands as Mitchell Ayres and his
“Fashions in Music” orchestra
who are now appearing in New
York’s famous Roseland Ballroom.
Also under consideration is the
famous music of A1 Kavelin and
his “Cascading Chords,” which
should make for good music any
way you look at it. Regardless of
the final decision of orchestras, the
weekend of the twentieth should
prove most interesting, MOST in
teresting.
Last night proved a point of
which I have long contended—that
Boyd Raeburn has the best little
band to hit this campus since
Lunceford. Regardless of prestige,
price, name, etc., Boyd has far out
shone his competitors oh this cam
pus with his fine arrangements
coupled with the fact that he knows
what the crowd wants and when
they want it.
Tonight a comparatively large
crowd is expected to attend Boyd’s
(See MEANDERINGS, Page 4)
Following the football game to
day, Town Hall presents the noted
news analyst, H. Y. Kaltenborn
for the Corps’ entertainment. The
program will begin at 7:00 p. m.
and, according to Johnny Lawrence,
Town Hall manager, everyone
should be on time for the doors
will be closed when the commen
tator starts his discussion of world
affairs. For those who do not hold
season tickets to Town Hall, addi
tional chairs will be placed in the
aisles. Admission price is $1.00.
The YMCA announces that there
will be no show in Guion Hall to
day because of the football game
and Town Hall program.
After the Corps Dance tonight in
Sbisa, the Campus Theater pre
sents “Valley of the Sun” as its
midnight preview attraction. This
is a pretty good Western with Lu
cille Ball, James Craig and Dean
dagger playing leading roles.
The acting is better than the
story, with Lucille playing the part
Coach said, “because we just could
not please him. Win, lose, or draw,
he was still unhappy.”
• • •
A Florida Resort...
Concerning his plans when his
coaching days are over, Coach Nor
ton is all-the-way certain. “I’ve al
ways wanted to run some kind of
a resort in Florida, and that’s def
initely my plan when the time
comes that I will no longer be a
football coach,” the genial mentor
said. “But remember one thing.
I’ll be coaching as long as I can
keep going. I love the game and
the profession and as long as any
one will have me, I’ll be around a
football field.”
A son of a Methodist minister
and one of ten brothers and sis
ters, Norton’s philosophy in re
spect to gridiron warfare is almost
unique. “It sounds trite for me to
say that there is more to the game
than just winning,” he said, “but
I feel just that way about it. To
me, the important thing is that we
can help young men get a better
slant on life through their partici
pation on the athletic field. I doubt
that I could be a football coach if
I didn’t feel that way about it.”
“What do I think about pro foot
ball?” he mused. “Just this—if a
boy has a future in the game and
can make money at it, then he
should grab the chance. But just to
play to be playing—well, it isn’t
worth it.”
• • •
Aggies—Grade A . . .
When a fellow talks very long
with Coach Norton he’ll sooner or
“He really was a grouch, too,”
later get the idea that Coach thinks
a whale of a lot of the A & M.
Cadet Corps, its 250-piece band,
and the college’s former .students.
(See BACKWASH, Page 4)
of the heroine, a restaurant cook;
James Craig the hero, the Indian
scout; and Dean Jagger the villain
in the form of an Indian agent in
Arizona. The addition of some real
Indians in the cast, with their
tribal dances, lends a note authen
ticity to the picture.
As the story goes, Craig arrives
in the town of Yuma, Arizona, just
in time to prevent the pretty hero
in from marrying the villain (which
would never do). Jagger has fol
lowed his habit of cheating the
nearby Indians so much that a
threat of open warfare between the
tribes and the townfolk exists.
Craig, being a friend of the In
dians, induces them to settle things
peacefully, provided Jagger returns
the cattle he has stolen from them.
Craig gets into trouble with Jag
ger after the latter refuses to re
turn the cattle and a showdown re
sults. Naturally, the hero comes
out the winner, naturally. Light
humor is provided by Billy Gil
bert as the judge who is supposed
to marry Jagger and Miss Ball.
The Lowdown: a semi-super
Western.
WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Saturday—“The Tuttles of
Tahiti,” with Jon Hall
Charles Laughton.
and
Midnight, Sunday
and
Monday—“Valley of the Sun”
starring Lucille Ball
James Craig.
and
LOUPOT
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Telephone 4-1181
Closed for Game
Open 6:45 P. M.
LAST DAY
South Seas Romance!,
}CHARLES LAUGHTON’
with JON HALL RKO RADIO Picture
Peggy Drake, Vlptor Francen,
Gene Reynolds, Florence Bates
Also
Cartoon — News
Musical
TRADE WITH LOU
HE’S RIGHT WITH
YOU
Preview Tonight
11 P. M.
SUNDAY - MONDAY
“Valley of the Sun”
with
Lucille Ball
James Craig
Also
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