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V -TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1942 4 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The ' Mechar is published and Saturday mornings. Entered as second class matter at the P.9St Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress (5f 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-B444. 1941 Member 1942 Associated Colle6iate Press 4^ 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 Bril Trodlier Assistant Tuesday’s Staff Tom Vannoy Managing Editor Tom Leland Junior Editor Jack Hood Junior Editor Jack Keith Junior Editor John Holman Junior Editor Reporters Decisions Ahead “Our choice lies between education at the full, and training limited to the level of util ity.” In these words Dr. John Milton Potter, sixteenth president of Hobart and William Smith colleges, has summarized the problem which faces colleges and universities in gen eral and his own institutions in particular. He spoge to students, faculties and trustees of the two colleges and to several hundred distinguished guests, at his recent formal in auguration. “If we leave the choice to chance,” he continued, “and fail to exert ourselves for' the higher end, we shall ourselves be respon sible if learning and life of the mind and spirit become again the hidden possession of the very few, and those perhaps con temned, perhaps even hunted that they may be destroyed. If we make the choice of util ity only, we have no assurance that the technological means of livelihood will long remain uncorrupted by the decay of learn ing and science.” Dr. Potter also charged colleges and universities with the responsibility of miti- grating the confusion of tongues and the clouding of understanding which have been bred by the increasing separation of one field of learning from another. “They must,” he added, “strive to place the means of education and the instrumentalities of learning at the disposal of the largest possible number of those, of all sorts and conditions of men, who are capable of mak ing use of them. They must preserve, or if necessary create, an enviroment for educa tion, of human scale—not so large nor so amorphous that the opening mind is alien ated or over-whelmed by mere mass and mul titudinousness and by the penury of an- ompmity.” The Hobart-William Smith president em phasized, also, that this is a generation of doubt, but explained that doubt is a uni versal experience, and that its disappear ance could mean only that freedom and in tellectual honesty are dead. “The purpose of education,” he said, “is not to escape from doubt. It is to learn how to meet doubt head on, and again and again to grapple with it; to move through it to further conflicts with further doubts. A de cade and more ago, many young men and women in Germany sought to escape their doubts arid their confusions of spirit by ab- dicting their right to think, and by accepting the commands of other minds . . . If we fail to encourage the growth in students of in tellectual and moral discipline, what assur ance can we have that exhaustion and des pair may not one day lead to a similar ab- diction of the right to think as that which in Germany is destroying an entire generation, and has left education and learning, together with much less of civilized society, in ruins?” AGP This Collegiate World ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS From Capital to Campus ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington PRIVATE BUCK TURGID WATERS As this is written, the Potamic is overrun- ing its banks; from the top of the Washing ton monument one can see the turgid waters filling low areas throughout the District of Columbia. Six days and nights of steady rain fall have left Washington war workers, Con gressmen, officials and “parasites” limp and damp and crotchety . . . The wettest week in Washington his tory is also a week of the greatest historical significance to American colleges. Strong currents also are running through Congress and administrative offices. The bill to draft 18 and 19-year-olds is about to be passed; the senators are wrestling with it right now. That bill may determine whether you continue your education and, if you do, what shape it may take during the remainder of your years, or months, in school. * * * By the time you read this perhaps you may be able to prompt us on some of the points, but here’s the way the picture looks now: Most teen-aged college students won’t be called into military service until the end of this school year. This is particularly true of competent students, especially those tak ing scientific and technical courses. After this year, when inroads on college teen-agers are ligely to be relatively heavy, the question of who shall remain in school will be a stickler. The draft bill itself isn’t likely to lay down strict stipulations on this matter—it will be left to administrative de cision. Broadly, administrative officials will base their decision on two major considera- tions: the course a student is taking and Reviewing' . . his scholastic record. England’s policies, are a key to what H ' \ m a a he L °w o,. 3 G □ cu cn / by / v Ck « tnaatzitJCJin fej campus k w n $ Jictrcyiinrw 6; 1 M i n / cd □ a t dluilujollul U 1—I 1—\ r~T CZ1C3C3E3EI}, “Buck’s wife is waiting outside, but he told the sentry not to let her in!” BACKWASH By vkk Hood The Campus Theater’s offering Friday, for your entertainment today and “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” is one tomorrow is a double feature, “Call 0: f mos t delightful and imagi- n/r • „ j «tx u rru x native stories ever to hit the screen. Out the Marines’ and “Hold That ^ , Robert Montgomery, as prize Line, I lease. fighter Joe Pendleton, plays his The first of these, “Call Out the part as one of the most natural, Marines,” is a combination comedy lovable guys in the world. When —musical—dramatic presentation hi s plane crashes, Edward Everett starring Victor McLaglen, Edmund Horton, an o^ snooper from Heav- Lowe and Binnie Barnes. Three or e n, gathers up TOb’s soul before four times during the telling of the he’s dead and carries him off. story, there are spectacular thrills, Heaven is in a quandary, for Bob but generally it lags around and isn’t scheduled to arrive there for only tries hard to be a thriller. fifty years. Victor McLaglen and Edmund So Eddie and Bob hurry back to Lowe, through chasing girls and his body to discover it’s been cre- each other (for a while) settle ma ted. To Bob’s rescue comes Mr. down to the pursuit of a spy ring Jordan, a kindly understanding that is trying to get some impor- c hi e f from up above, who helps tant plans. It’s a mockery. him find a new body—two bodies, Mixed up in the plot are The to be exact. King’s Men. They sing. It may sound like a spooky, sym- Then there are Six Hits and a bolic affair, but we guarantee you Miss. They sing, too. it’s light and funny. Others in the cast include Corin- The Lowdown: here comes good na Mura, guitar-player and singer; entertainment. and Franklin Pangborn, comedian. “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster Best parts of the story are a mad game of tag played with Army - — “jeeps” on mountain roads and a a few times and knows what the mad dash throu ^ h Hollywood traf- „ , . fic by a motorcycle and a dilapi- score is. (one of his predictions: j. t j • , V. Kaltenborn, last Sat- The same team that won here Sat- a 6 ^ ucation here believe that American arts col leges haven’t done all they should to cope with that inevitable situation. These officials feel that some educators are slow to recognize the inevitability of the drop-off in enrollment and, consequently, are slow to prepare for it. First, say the officals, these educators should expand their curricula, and quickly, to include additional science courses, courses in physical education and the like. In short, courses that tie in more closely with prose- Here comes a good one, though a trifle oldish. It’s “Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” showing at Guion Talk about going places. Major jj a jj today only. Tomorrow’s fea- William A Ross, Quartermaster, ture will be “Mrs. Miniver,” sched- (See BACKWASH, Page 4) uled to show tomorrow through Musical Meanderings — - By BILL MURPHY o Personnel management under wartime con ditions, with major emphasis on practical methods of maintaining an adequate force of employees which will work in harmony to obtain maximum production, is being dis cussed in a special course which the Uni versity of Michigan is giving in Detroit. Designed primarily for recently appoint ed personnel officers and other executives who are responsible for developing and ad ministering employee relations programs in war industries, the course is in charge of Dr. John W. Riegel, director of the bureau of industrial relations at the university. Ex perienced personnel men are collaborating with Dr. Riegel in leading the discussion. Fifty business executives have enrolled in the class. HoUywood has never made a motion picture that faithfully reproduced American college life because the vast majority of Americans -are as unacquainted with actual college life as Hollywood’s ace script writers, in opinion of Carey Wilson, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Wilson asserts further that the great Amer ican novel dealing with the trials, tribula tions and triumps of Joe and Joan College has not yet been written so that Hollywood could follow up with a screening. may happen to students here. Although there £ rda y night’s Town Hall attrac- urday will take the Thanksgiving th^Marine^ enrollment in Britain, scientific and tech- We think Commentator Kalten- Q nical departments of the colleges are cram- born did a good job of convinc- oWeeping'S . . . full of students. Obviously, the drop has 0C- ing a jam-packed Guion Hall crowd curred in liberal arts courses. that he knew what he was talking * * * about he gave on-the-spot ex- And obviously, thesq same courses will suf- am P les to back U P many of his fer in America. Officals in the Office of Ed- statem ents. As to the second front .. idea, he thinks we | are definitely un- I prepared to jump 1 the Nazis right | now. When the I time comes, which is; will be after all Once again the “STANDING wears a pair of Aggie coveralls of North Africa ROOM ONLY” sign was hung out and wouldn’t trade them for the | is in Allied hands, j n Aggieland and the surrounding world. Who knows, he might have j Kaltenborn likes vicinity during the past weekend made a good Aggie idea of going to aru j once a g a j n a tired Corps went Rip Collins and Moon Mullins _ „ ^ Sicily, up through £ 0 Sunday night with the have recovered from the strain of cution of the war. Conversion, in many cases, Italy, and on up into Germany thoughts-of a well-spent weekend the past weekend and are resting hasn’t been thorough and it hasn’t been way...--he thinks the Italians will still in their m j n( j s . Beginning with well. All kidding aside, both of prompt. be HP 6 to revolt then. This is al- (.^g Infantry Ball Friday night these fellows should be congrat- Second, arts educators should devise a mos t the only way we could avoid (i 0W n to church services Sunday ulated for the fine job they did plan right away for keeping their best stu- Hitler’s fortifications. night everything was filled to the in making the Ball a success dents — scholastically speaking — in school. Then, there are the slant-eyes overflow point. Hotels, cafes, night .... THIRTY-SECOND NOTES .... The need in this war for trained, educated over in the west to think about..-- spots, and all available room in If plans advance in the next men and women is as great as the need for they will be harder than the Nazis the vacated dormitary for girls twenty-four hours as they have in front line fighters. It is highly important because they got the jump on us. were filled days ahead. the past few days there, will be a that the right students remain to study. Kaltenborn seemed to think it Musically, of course, it was the victory dance probably at the Adol- Recommendations Of the arts colleges, will would take a couple of year after finest weekend since Jimmy Lunce- phus Hotel next Saturday night 2:20 probably determine which are the. right the Nazi crumble to nail the Japs, ford played for the Field Ball last with the Aggieland furnishing the students, even though final decision will, There are three arrarent ways to Spring. From the first note Fri- necessary jive. The Dallas A. & M. theoretically, be up to the government. do it: (1) Go up from Austrailia, d a y night until the final strains Mother’s Club as usual is sponsor- EDUCATION ELSEWHERE island by island, into Asia, (2) 0 f his theme Saturday morning, ing the dance. Supply the 4,000,000 veteran Chin- Boyd Raeburn, re-established him- Noble Sissle and his orchestra Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels said re- ese soldiers with equipment, and self as the Aggies All-Time favor- as well as Benny Strong are now cently that no Nazi should feel it beneath establish air bases on the Chinese ite as far as dance bands are con- being considered as possible bands his dignity to write fiction. Herr Goebbels coast close enough to Japan to drive cerned. His sax section blended with for the Composite Ball to be held ought to know. them off the continent, or (3) Re- the brilliance of his brass section the twentieth in Duncan take the Aleutian Islands and use an d backed up with his punchy and Those who attended the Corps The.Nazi geneial staff has ordered Rumania them as the jumping off place to solid rhythm section made for the Dance following the Field Ball re- to give militaiy training to every student up Tokio. The first plan isn’t worth best listening and dancing this member a potent little red-head to 20 years of age. a tinker’s damn, the second one Corps has heard since the final with a big mouth and bubbling is good, but not easy to evarry ball when by the way Raeburn over with personality who climbed out, and the third one seemed to pi ay ed here. All in all it was the upon the bandstand with Jan Gar- be Kaltenborn’s favorite. biggest weekend yet. ber and sang “Amen”. Well since Germany, comments Kaltenborn, DANGLINGS FROM THE DANCE that night I have been asked a mil- is just about to fold....not com- Col. Boles was 1 heard comment- lion times who the girl was and ' pletely, but ready to start the down- ing that next to the Field Ball the (See MEANDERINGS, Page 4) “Even in the American educational world ward plunge. Hitler can hold out Infantry had the best ball as yet. ^ ‘leadership,’ SO called, exhibits itself all too for a time on what he has wrested Boyd Raeburn’s little brother flit often primarily in policing efforts . . . The -from the people of Europe....but was seen at the Corps Dance Sat- great professions — chemistry, engineering, Hitler is a fanatic who continually urday night admiring his big medicine, and the service professions, such makes the error of thinking he, and brother’s band. Little brother ,is as nursing and social work—all attempt de- nobody else, is right. Kaltenborn a private stationed at Camp Hood.. fensively to protect what they define as expects him to make the fatal er- Raeburn himself was see wear- ‘minimum standards.’ In altogether too many ror soon. ing a brand new pair of boots-Sen- instances it is an effort to keep newcomers These remarks cover only a few ior boots. It seems that while Boyd from enjoying equal opportunity—a wholly high points of the lecture....it lasted was here last year, he introduced illiberal ideal. Even at best, minimum stand- close to an hour and a half. Again himself as Fish Raeburn. This year ards are leadership in leverse . .. . Before yjQ say Kaltenborn sounded like it is Mr. Raeburn. The boys in the this war can end, the false leaders in Europe a maa that’s been around the block band tell me that he constantly must learn that police activities, however WHAT’S SHOWING At Guion Hall Tuesday—“Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” with Robert Mont gomery and Evelyn Keyes. Wednesday —■ “Mrs. Mini ver,” starring Greer Garson. At the Campus Tuesday and Wednesday— “Call Out the Marines,” with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe. Also “Hold that Line Please.” qinpus Telephone 4-1181 TODAY - TOMORROW A Y They’ve Cot the Cockeyed / " . World on Its Ear Again! ^ pyx' with Victor Edmund McLAGLEN • LOWE Binnie Barnes • Paul Kelly Robert Smith • Dorothy Lovett • Franklin Pangborn and King's Men • Six Hits and A Miss RKO RADIO Picture 4:14 - 6:08 - 8:02 - 9:56 Quotable Quotes Also BUGS BUNNY in “Hold That Lion, Please” Joe Reisman and Orchestra Community Singing Victory Short subtile and however brutal, can never firm ly undergird a political regime, much less justify arrogation of the title of leader. The same lesson needs to be learned in the Amer ican academic world.” — Henry Merritt Wriston, president of Brown University, lashes out at the concept of minimum stand ards. ill in I ROYAL DEMUTH makes pipe function superUv^ S. ULTRA FINE IMPORTED BRIAR K Wilson made his conclusions after a survey of several colleges in preparation for a new Andy Hardy picture. Wilson said he was amazed in his investigation to discover “the magnificient democracy in college life, the absence of snobbishness, the practical streamlining of curriculums . . . that school spirit is a tremendous thing.” “I find that college students today de bunk themselves and debunk the old rah rah ‘colegiate’ factor,” Wilson asserted. “Values are accepted by the 20-year-old in pretty much the same fashion as those values would appear to the 50-year-old. The Hollywood writer suggested that college literature and post-college writing jj, about college life be encouraged. 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