SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1942
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•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.
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1941 Member 1942
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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 i 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
Clyde C. Franklin Managing Editor
John Holman , Junior Editor
Tom Journeay .^....Junior Ed tor
Douglas Lancaster Junior Editor
Reporters
Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz,
Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John
Sparger, M. T. Linecm, Eugene Robards, and John Kelleher.
Extra Holidays
' ••■I. '. '
Many times some of us think that the exe
cutives that run A. & M. College fail to con
sider all the facts when they set down their
dicta governing the college operation. How
ever, the action by the academic council
yesterday extending the Thanksgiving holi
days to four days, is indeed commendable and
proves that those officials really do hold the
best interests of the corps uppermost in their
minds.
To show that we do appreciate their ac
tion in letting us get home before the, gas
rationing gets into effect, it will be up to
us to make up those classes we missed on
the next three Saturdays without any groan
ing. Lets get in there Ole Army, and show
the officials that we do appreciate what they
are doing for us. —TBJ
Fear may force a man to cast beyond
the moon.—John Heywood.
Harder Collegians
University of Michigan students have im
proved their physical fitness by at least 20
per cent with completion of one term of the
institution’s compulsory “hardening” course,
it is reported in a survey just completed by
the university department fo physical edu
cation and athletics.
Recently made compulsory for every
male student on the campus, the program
consists of four and a half hours each week
of supervised calisthenics, obstacle racing,
mass combat activities, rough and tumble
drills and competitive activities. Tests given
more than 1,000 men at the beginning and
end of the course indicate they have changed
their physical condition from “unsatisfac
tory” to “satisfactory.”
Physical ability of the average man en
rolled in the course improved by not less than
20 per bent during the term. Tests on which
the progress report is based include pull-ups,
push-ups, right and left hand grip, 440-yard
run, 60 r yard dash and vertical and broad
jump.
“Before and after” achievements of the
.average student revealed the following gains:
pull-ups, 7.45 to 10.20; push-ups, 15.93 to
21.18; right grip, 56.77 to 59.86 kilograms;
left grip, 53.43 to 55.67 kilograms; 440-yard
run, 74.05 to 68.30 seconds; 60-yard dash,
8.03 to 7.92 seconds; vertical jump, 19.52 to
20.25 inches; and broad jump, 91.64 to 92.01
inches.
, The report points out that major gains
are shown in those events which place heavy
demands upon “physical condition” (pull-ups,
push-ups and the 440-yard run), while minor
>.changes are shown in those activities which
place a higher premium upon “non-endur
ance and explosive power” (strength of
grip, 60-yard dash and the vertical and broad
jump.)
The report also shows that the amount
of gain was directly proportional to the
amount of time spent in the conditioning
course. While most students spent the full
four and a half hours each week, a group
of 262 ROTC students were enrolled for only
three hours per week. Comparative tests in
dicate these students gained less than 70
per cept as much as the others. Evidence
that the whole, rather than merely a fraction,
of the group had gained is provided by the
report, 90 per cent of the test records rep
resenting individual improvement.
A careful check on attitudes of the stu
dents was kept throughout the term. While
never less than 70 per cent liked the course
and never more than 16 per cent disliked it,
the report indicates the matter of proper
attitude is important in producing results.
The small group which disliked the course
g-ained only 18.2 per cent as much as those
who enjoyed the program. AGP
Fools make the banquets and wise men
enjoy them.—John Florio.
Man wants but little, nor that little
long.—Young.
How that red rain hath made the har
vest grow.—Byron.
Open Forum
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
It has been my displeasure, as well as sev
eral of yours also, I’m sure, to go to some
Dean’s or Professor’s office for a short visit.
Perhaps after waiting in line a few or even
several minutes for the students who are
ahead in line, in walks some outsider who
also desires to see the same person on whom
you have been waiting to see for several
minutes. And who gets to see the Dean or.
Professor next? The student does, of course,
after the outsider has already been granted
permission first. Maybe that is the way it
should be done, but it doesn’t seem fair to
we students.
Why can’t certain hours be arranged
for students and certain hours for outsiders
if such conditions as these continue to exist?
L. B. Tennison, Jr., ’43
This Collegiate World
ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS
Herbs and medicinal plants, including bella
donna, hendane, digitalis, and many others
which contain drugs and medicines essential
to the war effort, are being produced on the
Montana State University campus. This proj
ect being carried on by the School of Pharm
acy of the university is the only one of its
kind in the northwest.
Using WPA and university funds, Pro
fessor C. E. Mollett, dean of the school of
pharmacy, and other memebrs of• the phar
macy school staff began last summer the
cultivation of many native and foreign plants
which produce vital medicinal extracts. The
plants are being developed in the pharmacy
drug garden which Dean Mollett started in
1914 in forestry school nursery plots.
Purposes of the project are to ascertain
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Ordinarily, this column must be State Theater offers “ONE OF
written at least sixteen hours be- OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING”,
fore the paper is delivered, but a melodrama dealing with the es-
today it is being written two days cape to England of a crew of six
ahead of time. Yours truly is leav- RAF flyers from the Wellington
ing for Houston very shortly. For bomber “Bertie,” abandoned when
those who have followed and are disabled in a raid on Stuutgart.
following the team down to the In- Landing in the Dutch countryside,
stitoot campus, today, we offer a they are fed, clothed and aided in
summary of Houston’s distractions escape by the natives. Cast includes
in store for tonight. Hugh Williams, Eric Portman and
Beginning ‘way down South Main Googie Withers,
and working up, there’s the Plant- The Lowdown— very British,
ation, with Bobby Peters and his very realistic, very entertaining,
band holding sway. This will pro- Mary Astor, Humphey Bogart co-
bably be the main Aggie enter- star in “ACROSS THE PACIFIC”,
tainment headquarters. Other Ag- scheduled to show at the Majestic
gie favorites are the Ranch Club, this weekend. Leading off in the
the Cotton Club, the High Hat (we first half with plenty of humor
“How many times have I told you not to wear suspenders
when you jump?”
hear that this is where all the Uni
versity of Houston Hi-Pockets
hang out), Abe’s and Pappy’s and
Hill’s Night Spot. Up town, among
others, there are the Rice Hotel
Empire Room and the Aragon Club
and smart dialogue, “Across the
Pacific” ends up as a melodramatic
presentation of Bogart in action
against the Japs.
It all takes place before Pearl
Harbor when there were plenty of
with music and song for your danc- suspicions about t he Japs. So Cap-
BACKWASH
Bu
Jack flood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
ing pleasure.
If your date is too tired from
standing up all afternoon at the
game to dance all night, several
good shows are playing. Loew’s
By John Holman
About That Flag
Hunting Season
Brings Warning
To Texas Nimrods
“Do you belong to the Locomotive
Brotherhood?” “No, I am sorry,”
the Engineer responded apologet-
The white flag that is so beauti- ically; I am a different Jdnd of
whether such drug’s can be produced in com- fully gracing the flagpole in front engineer.” “I do not understand,”
mercial quantities in this area, to estimate of the Administration building and said St. Peter; “what on Earth do
the drug-content of cultivated plants and to which threw the fish into such a you do?” The engineer recalled a
produce seed which will be available to Mon- furor yesterday morning with its definition and calmly replied: “I
tana farmers for such cultivation. * inscription, “Rice Owls,” was placed apply mathematical principles to
* * * there Thursday night about 7
A program to “scrap out” idle scientific abil- o’clock by some Rice boys who left sounded meaningless to St. Peter,
ity and put it to work directing segments on the 7:54 Sunbeam . . . Rumor and his temper got the best of him.
of war research problems in laboratories Of had it they also broke into the “Young man,” he said, “you can go
smaller colleges has been initiated by the trophy case and took the dilapidat- to Hell with your mathematical
American Chemical Society, which comprises ed little white owl, but this isn’t principles and try your hand on
32,000 members, it is announced by Dr. SO. The case was neither broken, some of the natural forces there!”
Charles L. Parsons, sercetary of the society, nor did the owl disappear perma- “That suits me,” responded the en- the war that is enveloping the en-
Unused talents of retired directors of nently. gineer, “I am always glad to know tire world, it is more than ever
research from the universities and industry Although the fish and frogs were where there is a tough job to important that we should conserve
will be meshed with departments of chem- fightin’ mad, they probably don’t tackle.” Whereupon he departed
istry in institutions where staffs are not know what happened last year here t° r the Nether Regions,
sufficiently large or well equipped to carry and on the Rice campus. That year And it came to pass that strange
on research alone. The plan will be executed the case was broken, the owl stol- reports began to reach St. Peter,
under direction of Q. committee headed by en, and rice grains left in its place. The Celestial denizens, who had
Dr. J. Sam Guy, chairman of the chemistry Several brave Aggies got their amused themselves in the past by
department at Emory University, Atlanta, heads shaved in an attempt to re- looking down upon the less fortu-
Ga. cover it, and the case became such jiate creatures in the inferno, com-
On the committee are Dr. William Lloyd that an official apology and return rhenced asking for transfers to that
Evans, Ohio state University; Dr. Samuel of the owl was made by Rice offi- other domain. The sounds of agony care l ess handling of fire arms,
C. Lind, University of Minnesota; Dr. How- gies placed an Aggie sign on the and suffering w,ere stilled. Many asserts Dr - Geo - w - Cox > state
ard H. Willard, University of Michigan; Dr. Rice flagpole, cut the ropes and new arrivals, after seeing both
then greased the pole. All efforts places, selected the Nether Region
to get rid of it failed—including for their permanent abode. Puzzled,
those of a professional steeple- Sfc. Peter sent messengers to visit
jack. Finally, shotguns were em- Hell and to report back to him.
ployed and the flag- was shot down They returned, all excited, and re-
“This is no time for any idle “scrap” in off the pole . . . therefore we ported to St: Peter:
chemical research ability to be sitting haven’t got a great deal of kick “That engineer you sent down
around,” Dr. Guy declares. “Every man able coming. there,” said the messengers, “has
to direct research in chemistry should be up . . .Capt. Joe Davis had taken the completely transformed the place
and at it. Every college teacher, every able owl into the Commandant’s office so that you would not know it now. ;Gre - Never shoot without seeing
college student can do his bit. It is the func- for safe keeping. He has harnessed the Fiery Fur- y° ur tar K et clearly. Never crawl
tion of our committee to get these forces Late Note—Fire Chief F. B. naces for light and power. He has thr ° a g h a fenc e carrying a loaded
together. Brown took the Rice flag from the cooled the entire place with artifi- If hunting with a companion
“Many universities and industries . . . pole in front of the Administration cial refrigeration. He has drained
have a definite policy of retiring employes building at exactly 4:25 yesterday the Lakes of Brimstone and has
at an age of approximately 65 years. These afternoon. The flag was immedi- filled the air with cool perfumed
emeritus chemists have a vast store of in- ately taken into custody by the breezes. He has flung bridges
formation and inspiration which should not commandant’s office to be exam-
be lost at a time when the nation requires ined for laundry-marks in an ef-
scientific research almost more than any- fort to trace the culprits responsi-
thing else. ble. Removal of the flag culminat-
“There are also active directors of re- ed a 7-hour attempt to climb the
.search who are eger to spread their influence P° le -
beyond their individual laboratories. These • • •
men have numbers of problems, all a part Lone’ But Good Bull’ Hel1 an d has made of it a realm of
of one large scheme of research, which they * happiness, peace and industry!”—
would be glad to farm out to colleges where The Engineer—A Parable From A. I. E. E. Journal,
some wide-awake student Of the upper classes One day three men, a lawyer, a • • •
would be interested. The problems are not doctor and an engineer, appeared Sweepings
tain Bogart is “dishonorably’' dis
charged from the army to track
down the master minds behind the
attempted hari-gari of the Panama
Canal. Miss Astor’s presence, up
until the end, has many mysterious
leanings, but it later develops she
is on her way to visit her father,
a plantation owner in Cristobal,
seized by the Jap master minds as
a base for fulfilling their plot.
(See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4)
E. Emmett Reid, professor emeritus, John
Hopkins University; Dr. B. Smith Hopkins,
professor Emeritus, University of Illinois
and discoverer of the element illinium; and
Dr. Stuart R. Brinkley, Yale University.
As the hunting season ap-
the control of natural forces.” This Proaches, the Texas State Health
Department urges caution in han
dling fire arms. More than 200
Texans were killed in 1941 as a
result of carelessness in handling
guns, and at this time when hu
man lives are being snuffed out in
human lives on the home front.
With the inauguration of meat
rationing and the reduced supply
of this particular food, there is a
possibility of more hunters going
into the field than has been the
custom for many years.
“It is not enough to deplore the
waste of human lives caused by
Health Officer, “we should learn
from the deaths of these victims
the lessons of safety which will
prevent this needless and shocking
waste.” *
The State Department of Health
suggests the following safety sug
gestions in handling guns:
While hunting be sure that the
loaded gun is on safety until ready
stay close to him. Do not strike
the ground or wounded game with
the butt of a loaded gun. Never
scuffle while holding a loaded gun
or point it at a person “for fun.”
Always unload a gun before at
tempting to clean it. Always un
load guns before taking them into
the home. All guns should be care-
WHAT’S SHOWING
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Darling” with "Rosalind Russ
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across the Bottomless Abyss and
has bored tunnels through the Ob
sidian Cliffs. He has created paved
streets, gardens, parks and play
grounds, lakes, rivers and beauti
ful waterfalls. That engineer you full y P ut awa y in the home out of
sent down there has gone- through reac h of small children.
IACK 0AKIE, SAMMY KAYE AMO HIS ORCHESTRA
Also
News — Cartoon
Victory Short
Screen Snapshots
quite large enough for a doctor’s thesis but before St. Peter as he stood guard-
still offer a challenge to men in their senior ing the Pearly Gates,
year.”
Quotable Quot is
. . . Dub Sibley was the only cas-
The first man to step forward ualty on the Aggie list from the
was the lawyer. With confidence SMU game last week. Texas Uni-
and assurance, he proceeded to de- versity’s Daily Texan came oat
liver an eloquet address which left with the report that we are won-
St. Peter dazed and bewildered, dering who we are going to play
Before the venerable Saint could against Rice, that the Aggies were
“Our enemies are attacking US with two r ecover, the lawyer quickly handed in bad shape . . . Shall we tell them
types of weapon—on the one hand, with guns h* 111 a writ °f mandamus, pushed the truth ?
and tanks, with planes and ships; on the him aside, and strode through the Word has just been received
other, with the no less powerful weapon of open Portals. ^f rom the public relations office at
propaganda. Goebbels, the Nazi minister of Next came the doctor. With im- Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, that
propaganda, has contributed as much to pressive, dignified bearing, he in- Lt. Vic Myers “was a member of
German victories' as have the planes of troduced himself: “I am Dr. Phi Zeta Gamma” fraternity while
Goering . . . Without propaganda Hitler Brown.” St. Peter received him a student at A. & M.!” I’m a frat
could never have come to power; without it Cordially. “I feel I know you, Dr. boy myself—Phelta Thi, or did you
he could never have created the most power- Brown. Many who preceded you know we had them! . . . Then there
ful army the world has ever known, with- said you sent them here. Welcome is the headline in the Dallas Morn-
out it this army could never have won its to our city. ing News day before yesterday that
most spectacular victories.”—Dr. Theodore The engineer, modest and diffi- said, “Jap Sub Chases American
M. Greene, professor of philosophy and ch&ir- dent, had been standing in the back- Woman Clear Across the Pacific.”
man of the divisional program in the humani- ground. He now Stepped forward No comment
ties at Princeton University, believes that to “I am looking for a job,” he said - • • •
defeat Hitler America must discover and use St. Peter wearily shook his hen,i -m i • n ct i •
the democratic equivalent of Nazi propagan- “I am sorry,” he replied; “ W e have L ma tlCaliy Speaking*
^ a * * * * n ° .7 rk kere * or ^ ou ' y° u want Martha O’Driscoll, rising young
. . , , j* 3 * 10 ’ y ° U Ca j ^ e ^’” This Hollywood starlet who will arrive
“Education must support democracy, and at response sounded familiar to the on the campus in a day or two to
the same time democracy must continue to engineer, and made him fepi ntn™ ru,,.. t-v. j * i a. • .n.
maintain education. Our first task is to win at home -Very well,” he slid "1 P^y the second female part m the
the war, but the maintaining of educational have had Hell all .iy la e “ n 'd IT/ ',o,n th * c °“°"
facilities, while, secondary to victory, is sec- guess I can stand it better man 11 7 ("a “ “ T !
ondary to nothing else.” Dr. B. F. Pettinger, the others." St. Peter was »L!Lf il. I n ° movle “"^ct
education dean at the University of Texas, “Look here, young man what arJ the “’ w 80od ' 1 “ oklriK
cautions against relegating education to the you?” ”i am an engineer” w»! enough t 0 h h of the
background because of war. the reply. “Oh yes,” safd II Pe™ ^
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