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Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1942 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 TudMiay, Thursday and Saturday mornings. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress df 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 Pissockoted GoUe6icite Press Brooks Gofer - Editor-in-Chief Ken Bresnen 1 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 Saturday’s Staff Ken Bresnen Managing Editor Com Journeay Junior Managing Editor John Holman Junior Editor Douglass Lancaster— Junior Editor Reporters Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz, Bill Jamagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John Sparger, M. T. Linecum, Eugene Robards, and John Kelleher. .-rasa Aggies on Parade This week 6500 cadets have an opportunity to prove to the people of Dallas and North Texas that A&M is turning out officers who are mannerly and well disciplined, and who will always reflect credit upon their school and state. Aggies are “marked men”—and the uni form you wear denotes you as one of a great brotherhood, and at the same time causes you to stand out and attract attention. The people of the state have their eyes on you today. Careless or disorderly conduct on the part of one man can easily bring down on the school an unfavorable impression of the whole corps. Therefore let yourself be mark ed not only by the uniform you wear, but also by your personal conduct. Each man should strive to conduct himself in an ex emplary manner, so that the mark of an Aggie may continue to be not the uniform, but rather his personal behavior and bearing. Get out to the game and pull for the team, go out after the game and have a good time, but always remember that for all prac tical purposes, today the Aggies are on pa rade. The Editoralists - Wartime Aims (An Editorial in the Minneapolis, Minn., Star Journal.) The President says occasionally that he does not think newspapers have nearly as much influence as they used to meaning, of course the editorial columns. We think maybe he’s got something there, and we’d like to help him say what we think he means—and ap plaud it! More Americans read newspapers to day than ever did before, and surveys indi cate that more of those readers read the editorial page. But they have a lot of other avenues of information and opinion, too— the radio, and far wider diffusion of maga zines and books on current affairs, not to mention schools and pulpits and clubs in creasingly concerned with current issues. A generation or two ago and earlier, "when the daily or weekly newspaper was al most the only source of contemporary in formation in the average American home, its editorial column was the only fountain ^of “expert” opinion available to many, except the cracker-barrel forum and the occasional visit of a political candidate or a lyceum lec turer. In those days editorial columns tended naturally to develop and to thunder to (and for) followings which accepted their opinions as gospel and had few yardsticks to measure them against. The head of the house either swore by an editor’s views or wouldn’t have his cussed sheet around the house. That is’nt true to any great degree these days—which is all to the good. No opinion is expressed from any quar ter today that doesn’t have to stand up against the challenges of other opinions and interpretations—in other periodicals, over the radio, in forum groups, and often from the pulpit. In other words, the average American today makes up his own mind instead of de pending upon someone to make it up for him. This editorial column, for at least one, has no aspiration to create a cult and wouldn’t give a fig for a following which accepted its views blindly and without subjecting them to the tests of divergent opinion. But if this edi torial column can have influence in the di rection of tolerance and open-mindedness— if it and the page of which it is a part can bring information to controversy and can pry ajar new doors to the thinking of some of those who read it—and if, a good deal of the "time, it can express views which make sense after other views hav« been read or heard and weighed, views which play some useful part in the shaping by readers of their own attitudes and decisions as citizens—then it fulfills its function. It welcomes and encourages all the other means of public discussion which share and supplement its function—if only for the self ish reason that the more such means there are, the larger and more intelligent audience there is for all of them. Something to Read PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis : By Dr. T. F. May*: The War and Your Education (II) Having been asked to specify ways of making the war educate you for better instead of for worse, I suggest the following: Learn to analyze people’s motives (in cluding your own). Military life displays human character more nakedly than ordinary decorous civilian existence. Try to fit your self by reading and by thoughtful observa tion to understand why people feel, think, and act as they do. Good preparatory books are Overstreet’s “About Ourselves” and “Let Me Think,” J. W. Watson’s “Ways of Bar barism,” and R. A. Howden’s “The Man in the Street and the New Psychology.” Learn to discern the workings of social forces: economic conditions, class traditions, family habits, political systems, military life by mixing all classes together intimately will probably provide you with the best op portunity of your whole life to understand how the forces of economic class, social tra dition, and family habit shape and color per sonalities. Don’t let any prejudice that you may hold against the economic classes above and below your own, prevent you from sym pathetically studying people with back grounds very different from yours. (As to books to read in this connection, I am asham ed to say that I can’t think of any good ones. Somebody ought to write one.) Learn all about new places and peoples, both in this country and abroad. After all, even though the U.S.A. may be the best country in the world and Texas the best part of the U.S.A., there is-no land or section which has not something to teach Ameri cans and Texans. Never miss a chance to get acquainted with a decent foreigner or non- Texan American. And for heaven’s sake don’t approach him (or her) in a contemptu ous or condescending frame of mind. Learn to understand and sympathetically to toler ate customs and standards, sincerely follow ed, which may be strange to you, even though you may naturally not choose to fol low them yourself. Remember that what would be absolutely wrong and foolish for you, a Texan, may not be so wrong or fool ish for other kinds of people. Read inquisitively whenever you can. The American fighters in this war are better provided with books than fighters have ever been. Use them, and use them not altogether for “escape” reading. Above all, this war experience can teach you, if you want it to, how to adjust your self vigorously, efficiently, and cheerfully to projects and conditions over which you have no control, without losing your individuality and becoming herd men. Perhaps it may help to remember that the war won’t last for ever, and that you have a long civilian life to live afterwards. You will be shaping and coloring the self with which you’ve got to live for a long, long time. It is possible, if you go about it right, to make the war,' in some degree, “educate” that self well. This Collegiate World ; \the \l N a on a cj *C3 C3 cj cn 1—1 l_j cm i by campus n Ja r k K t distractions K e ; VA a a cu \ □ i=it=jac=iai=)ED, 1942. Knv4 Fc.uurcs Syndic,no, Iir . World rights reserved^ “I better quit now, fellows. I just got an impediment in my speech!” BACKWASH By Jack Hood “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS What’s this—three South American conti nents instead of one? That’s what the latest map of South America reveals. The map, it must be explained, is that of a University of Cincinnati paleogeographer who, after studies over the past five years, has drawn the first complete picture of the face of South America as, it appeared some 250 or 300 million years ago. The studies and the map are the work of Dr. Kenneth E. Caster, Cincinnati assistant professor of ge ology and fellow of the graduate school of arts and sciences. In that Paleozoic area great seas cov ered South America in the region now mark ed by the Andean mountains and spread widely across southern Brazil and the Am azon valley, Dr. Caster finds. Instead of one immense triangular land mass as it is now, South America was then made up three great land masses separated by wide seas. Dr. Cas ter’s map shows these ancient continental areas extending far into the regions now thq^ Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Carrib- bean sqp. Dr. Caster also holds that seas covered large areas of South America for hundreds of millions of years and, he believes, the pres ent aspect of the continent came into being only a few thousands of years ago. * * * Mathematics Dictionary, first book of its kind, has appeared from the Digest Press, Van Nuys, its authors being Dr. Glenn James, associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, and his son, a graduate of the university, Robert C. James, now teaching fellow at the California Institute of Technology. As long ago as 1858, says Dr. Glenn James, a dictionary and encyclopedia of mathematics appeared, but there has been no such handy book as a dictionary. Spend ing 12 to 14 hours a day, the authors wrote some 6,000 definitions. The meaning of the basic mathematical words and phrases, and all terms of*arithme- tic through calculus and the technical terms involved, are covered in the 280-page book. Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, the math ematics of finance and integral calculus are represented, with a wealth of explanatory drawings, formulas and tables. By John Holman On Main Street. . . . . .Tonight Dallas will undoubtedly pull up its belt a notch and heave a sigh of sorrow as the Aggies very carefully pick the little city apart piece by piece, rockin’ and rollin’ around like so many flies on a crumb of cake ... in short, fair fellows, Ole’ Army’s cornin’ to town! Nacherly, the main attraction is the little head-busting fracas in the middle of Ownby Stadium that will begin this afternoon at 2:30 promptly. And let me repeat Jack Hood’s tip—don’t try to walk out to S. M. U.—it is six miles from downtown. You had better take a bus, streetcar, taxi, or what-have- you, but walk only if you will miss the game if you don’t. > • • • From TSCW . . . . . . Comes wo/d about the little shin-dig the juniors of “M’lady’s” school threw for the boys from the Brazos wearing their serge for the first time. They say, ’twas damp out in more ways than one, but that everyone was at least “calm” enough to leave the walls in the buildings and not uproot all of the campus’ lovely vegetation. . . . And speaking of hearing tales, did you hear the one about the girl who asked her fellow, “Is my face dirty or is it my imagination?” The boy replied, “I don’t know about your imagination, but your face is clean!” (Whew!) • • • This Issue . . . . . . Of the Batt is being delivered to you on the streets of Big “D” through the courtesy of the five staff members sitting down here struggling “almost alone” to give you reading matter from the Ad ministration building right in front of the Baker Hotel. Printed 4000 strong, half of them were left in College Station, “almost alone,” for the sophs and fish that just couldn’t make it. 2000 of them are now cluttering the streets and ho tel lobbies of this fair city. • • • Tonight. . . ... If you want to really hit the best spots, drop around to the main ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel about nine and get a gob of gush ing and rushing for $1.10 from the Dallas A. & M. Mothers’ Club Ag gie Victory Ball. Then you might drop out to—but why am I doing this? Look at Murphy’s “Musical Meanderings” below this column. Or if you like the circus, Ring- ling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey present the greatest show on earth at the Oak Lanes Show Grounds It’ll cost you a buck or two, but you’ll probably never see another one until long after this war (in which I hear they are killing each other) is over. Jokes . . . . . . both good and bad turn up around here ever so often. Which reminds me of the farmer’s daugh ter who had just returned from college. The old man asked her how much she weighed. She said, “I weigh 140 pounds stripped for gym.” The farmer looked at her sort of queer-like and demanded, “And just who in hell is Jim?” Although most of you who read this won’t be anywhere within miles of College Station, the local theatres will be doing their bus iness on their same old corners this week for those few unfor tunate souls who have to stay here buried deep in the mud of the Brazos. Still under the influence of Guion Hall’s “Mrs. Miniver” and the stirring “Eagle Squadron” still showing at the Campus, it is hard to come down to earth again and dig up the low-down for you, but we’ll do our best. Current in the columned halls of Guion is the 108 minute musical comedy “Navy Blues.” There’s nothing subtle about this one. Warner Brothers quite apparently set out to make a rough house musical with the navy as a back ground, using gags as broad as the side of a barn and pounding them home relentlessly by way of mak ing certain the objective never sails off, or over, its mark. So Jack Oakie slaps Martha Raye around; Martha slaps Oakie in return and both beat on Poor Jack Haley. The whole story is feather like and goofy. Telling it fast, it deals with bets among the gobs over victory in gunnery practice, how Oakie and Haley get the navy’s prize gunsight on their boat and flounder through this and that in order to cash in the bets they’ve made. Moves fast, but is slowed down very pleasantly by some snappy musical numbers. Ann Sheridan is fair in the romantic end, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Mar tha Raye, Herbert Anderson, Jack Carson, Richard Lane, and others complete the cast. The Lowdown: If you want to laugh without sti’aining your brain, see “Navy Blues.” Still among the top few of the current war pictures is “Eagle Squadron,” showing now at the Campus Theater. This picture is a tribute to those American boys who didn’t wait for the U. S. to enter the war, but instead, joined the Eagle squadron of the Royal Air Force. Through the use of official shots of the squadron in action (the pic ture was produced with the co operative help from the RAF), some stock clips, and plenty of ex pert minature work, Producer Walter Wanger has given the picture a catching air of spectacle. Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, and Eddie Albert do yoemanlike jobs to make “Eagle Squadron” worth your time and money. The Lowdown: Still worth stay ing sober to see. In Bryan the Palace has an other goodie, making the decision of movies this week end a stiff one to pick from. “Somewhere I’ll Find You” is the story of a war correspondent, his brother and the one girl, with the story spread out all over New York, Indo-China, Manila and Bataan gives Clark Gable and Lana Turner the basis for a film that just can’t miss. Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane and Reginald Owen complete the cast. The Lowdown: Worth walking to see. Musical Meanderings By BILL MURPHY Some time before his death, he had stamped his likeness upon a little boy.— Dickens. For some must follow, and some com mand though all are made of clay!—Long fellow. With Aggies leaving every few minutes for Dallas the campus is rapidly becoming deserted, and to those Aggies who are 100% Aggie and will follow the team, win or lose, this column is respectively dedicated. In Dallas this week end it seems that the finest enter tainment available is being pro vided for Aggies and their dates. If its “Cafe Society” you like you may hear Ligon Smith and Orchestra holding forth at the Century Room with a fast and smooth floor show, and over at the Baker you will find one of the finest floor shows in the country headed by Myrus, a real wizard of mental telepathy, and the soft music of Joe Sudy and his band. If you just want to dance, let me recommend the official Aggie Corps Dance at the Adolph us, probably in the spacious Grand Ballroom. For those that love the hot, and I mean hot, Abe’s and Pappy’s have a torrid negro or chestra and review, but don’t go unless you intend to see the floor show. Ditto for Jack Pepper’s Log Cabin Club. A brand new night spot opened recently on Main Street that should prove to-be O.K.—Showtime with Shanty Morell’s orchestra pro viding the music. This is a swell place to spend an evening if you don’t want to spend much money. Other hot spots include the Sky- Vu, the Sylvan Club, the Night spot, and the Aggies favorite—the Pirate’s Cave; however, if you want to find most of the Aggies Saturday night, you will probably find them at the Plantation or Lou Ann’s out on Greenville Ave nue. If you still don’t like these suggestions then why don't you go to the circus? Ringling Broth ers & Barnum Bailey will be on hand out at the show grounds on Oak Lane. Personally, you can’t beat the beautiful White Rock Lake for scenery and stuff. Thirty-Second Notes For the Aggies who would like to see some good entertainment the Pigskin Revue out at SMU is one of the finest shows of its kind in the country. Offered annually, it features this year many of the outstanding attractions featured fith “College Capers” that travel ed throughout Texas during the summer, such as Bob Banner and his orchestra, who was one of the bands the Aggieland beat out in a race for the Fitch Summer Bandwagon. It’s good so don’t miss it. Friday night—8:15 o’clock—Mc- Farlin Auditorium out at SMU. Once again the Aggieland steps out in “Big Time” by playing the Sunday afternoon radio show “Time” sponsored by Interstate Theaters, Inc. This show will orig inate from Guion Hall Sunday af ternoon the twenty-second and will be aired all over the Southwest by the Texas Quality Network. That’s thirty for now so it’s goodbye until I see you in Dallas. Ex-Aggie in Air Corps Tells Experiences in British Isles (From San Angelo Standard) Lt. Chase Holland, administra- It doesn’t help matters any for you tive officer with the U. S. Air to tell me about the chuck wagon Forces in England, has found out suppers and the Mexican dinners the new secret weapon of the Brit- you have been having, ish allies. They have a certain “We have our own PX now, and bomb that plays “Deep In the we are able to buy soap, candy and Heart of Texes,” and when a from three to six packs of cigar- crowd gathers around to listen, it ettes a week. That with the amount explodes and kills them all. He I have on hand should last a long thinks the funniest sight he has time. seen over there was four Scotch- “We are now where we can get men standing on a comer singing laundry and dry cleaning done, and “Deep In the Heart of Texas.” that certainly helps, I never really The San Angeloan who has been appreciated clean clothes until I in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and over here. England in the month or more he “I hope to get back in London has been there, has written inter- i n a d a y or ^ wo an ^ see a ^ ew estingly to his parents, Mr. and thin g s before dark. I can’t see my Mrs. I. J. C. Holland of San An- han d before my face in the black- gelo. Going on American rations ou ^- I guess I might be considered was an item worthy of note since lucky getting to see New York he got two eggs for breakfast that an< l Loudon iu the same month, day, “really quite a treat.” Ex- Now a U 1 have to do is to see Paris, cerpts from his letters follow: Berlin, Moscow and then home by “Almost all our transportation wa ^ of Tok y° and San ^cisco.” around the camps is by bicycle, and we have been having all sorts Senior Invitations of three-point landings, slow rolls, M t g Ordered By etc., and I came riding out of a j driveway, up the right hand side Next Thursday at 6 of the road (which is the wrong 0rders for Senior invitations wi n side) and much to my horror, I was be taken next TueS( iay, Wednes- face to face with a 10-ton truck. I dayj and Thursday in the Corps sat back on the brake, but the Headquarters Office from 9 a. m. brakes are on the handlebars. The unti i 6 p . m . states Rocky Suther . truck looked pretty solid, and the land> Senior class p r e S ident. barbed wire fense looked pretty , T , , . The invitations come in three rough so I d,d a loop an Immel- ^ man turn, and a couple of Schen- , . il ’ „ . ’ , , each, with small deposits having dells, and headed back in the op- ^ . . .. .... t, ,, T to be placed when the order is posite direction. From then on I , , : . . , , , , . turned in. Thursday will definitely have remembered where my brakes , x . , x , x . • , , . . . ., , ,, j x be the last date m which to order are and which side of the road to ride on. “Howard and I took a horseback ride yesterday, just for a little re laxation. The English horses are just like American horses, and don’t mind what accent you use. “I have really been working hard .since we reached our new station, which is more like a country club. It has a huge dining room, a li brary, a billiard room, tennis courts, and a lawn that looks like something you see in the movies. The food is plentiful, but nothing to brag about. We get plenty of potatoes but they are seldom boil ed. We have fish and French fries very often and I have taken up the art of tea sipping, because the cof fee tastes like burned pecan shells. WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Today only — “Eagle Squadron” with Robert Stack and Diana Barrymore. At Guion Hall Today only—“Navy Blues” with Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, and Jack Haley. the invitations, Sutherland said. Qhmpiu Telephone 4-1181 LAST DAY “EAGLE SQUADRON” — with — ROBERT STACK DIANA BARRYMORE — Also — Stranger Than Fiction PREVIEW TONIGHT News — Cartoon SUNDAY and MONDAY j * ' r> - Go In 10:00 and See Both Shows