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Page 2- -THE BATTALION SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 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 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 Plssocided Cblle6ide Press 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 Saturday’s Staff Clyde C. Franklin Managing Editor Jack Hood Junior Editor Douglas Lancaster Junior Editor John Holman Junior Editor Reporters Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurts, Bill Jarnagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, Jo Sparger, M. T. Linecm, Eugene Robards, and John Kelleh John Your Battalion Mistakes have been coming out in the Battalion quite frequently lately, and many and long have been the com plaints. It is very easy to complain about something such as a mistake in this paper, but did you ever stop to wonder just why that mistake was made? Well, it wasn’t just because some body got their head in. It was because on an average about four boys show up each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon to put out the next morn ing’s paper. Normally, there should be at least ten, better twelve or fifteen. Aggies have always been known to be able to cope with any situation that arises. At the present rate of decline, the Battalion will have to suspend pub lication in another month or so. There are over thirty men listed on the Battalion staff. Most of them never show up except at the end of the year for the Press Club banquet. Let’s do something about this. Those four or five men that work three afternoons a week so we can have a student newspaper need some help— and need it badly. Freshmen and sophomores are es pecially urged to come on down. You can get a good paying job your senior semesters. Report any Monday, Wednes day or Friday afternoon. Work begins right after lunch. Facultq Faculties There are at least 177 members of the Uni versity of Michigan faculty who are capable of teaching university courses outside of their own fields of specialization, a survey conducted by the university war board has disclosed. In addition, the survey disclosed that 617 of the 700 faculty members who responded are skilled in subjects not ordi narily found in the university curriculum— subjects which, in many cases, are import ant during the war. The war board conducted the survey to determine what skills faculty members have that would enable them to perform services outside of the line of their regular teaching duties. Many faculty members have been drawn into war service, leaving gaps to be filled by those remaining. In addition, spec ial services demanded of the university in wartime call for skills not ordinarily prac ticed or not practiced by large numbers of the faculty, such as special languages, phys ical conditioning programs, Red Cross work, first aid and braille. The war board expects that the survey will help to reduce the need for employing persons to replace faculty members called into war service. There are 44 courses represented in the replies of the 177 who indicated they could do teaching in other fields. Seventeen fields of special skills or craftsmanship were rep resented in the replies of the 617 faculty members who indicated such abilities. The war board already has made use of the information obtained from the survey by soliciting voluntary cooperation on the part of some of these faculty members in assisting with the university’s physical con ditioning program and with community first aid courses. The war board also reports that several faculty members already are teach ing regular university courses entirely out side their normal fields.—AGP Quotable Quotes ‘T cannot believe that the things which have been considered important for 2,000 years will be tossed into the scrapheap when this war is over. As a matte rof fact, the study of liberal arts is suffering no curtailment now. The navy, in its V-l, V-5 and V-7 train ing programs for students, is insisting upon the maintenance of just these studies. It is realized that a broad, well-rounded educa- Open Forum November 19, 1942 To the Open Forum: Last Thursday the Aggies were asked to fulfill a tradition that is as worthy'as it is longstanding. We were asked, not com pelled, to drop fruit into a box for the Or phan’s Home in Dallas. We at Aggieland have a reputation of acting as a body. We know it is the right of every student to do as he pleases when he passes the door, but we would like to find out why many of the sophomores who are supposed to set an example for the freshmen were seen walk ing away from the mess-hall carrying hats full of apples and some even reaching into the box for more. Not only is it an old Aggie tradition to give a little fruit at Thanksgiving but a small act of generosity which entails very little sacrifice on our part. Let us hope that there are no students in attendance here as shelfish and thoughtless as these actions indicate who still pretend to be Aggies. Get with us sophomores and let’s all act like Aggies. Signed: William E. Hensley, f 42 Sylvan E. Ray, ’43 "Thanks for the use of your spats. Fatso. I found my leggin’s!” I^Copi 1^42, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. BACKWASH Aggies, with the picture crowd on the campus, let’s look our best. By that we mean lets make A.&M. students and future officers distinctive. You’ll say yes we hav a Senior Ring; well it was called to our at tention by noticing officers at Camp Hood 1 ■ and down in Houston recently that they -r-, , v iv/r 'i stuffed their hands in their pockets, when- 1*01X1 tne IVlail -Dclg' . . . ever they are not at attention. This is a Below is a letter from up TSCW decided civilian habit and a bad one at that, way . . . and quite a letter. From so lets make the Aggies known for their it we conc i ude that the little lass alertness and military bearings with hands didn > t ii ke the article “Date Bureau out of the jacket pockets When cold wear _ Pro and (which they re gloves. Let s make it an Aggie tradition for A.&M. men to keep their hands free. A. F. Mayer, ’43 J. Rosenthal, ’43 R. H. Wagner, ’43 D. S. Kauffman, ’42 jack Hood Mistakes remember’d are not faults for got.—R. H. Newell. This Collegiate World “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence" — Webster dium. When the game’s at College Station, the teasippers bring along some kind of jinx-breaker—dirt from the Texas U. gridiron, can dles, cowbells, etc. But when the game’s at Austin, the Aggies take along the Twelfth Man, the great est jinx-buster known. Last year, the Steers refused to conform to tradition ... so they beat the Aggies on Kyle Field. We made no excuses for the defeat then, and we’ll make none now. We’ll remember it. But we got to thinking about that big red candle the teahounds brought over and burned during the game. Evident ly they brought it to help them win the game . . . Soooo, it must have been the candle that did it. quested) in the | last issue of the | B a 11 magazine. But the main rea- | son we are pub- | lishing it is to || make all you old imean Aggies feel : ashamed . . . also jit contains some very good cussing for a female. To save wear and tear on some of our : V — ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS ===== If the Roman empire had been as perman ent as the lipstick that was used by Roman school girls, we would still be talking the language now used only at the head of fancy diplomas. m For the Roman girl went two steps fur ther than the modern woman. She not only dyed her lips instead of using a temporary coloring, but she used a variety of colors, usually green, purple, or sometimes red. The startling theory of lips to match the color of the tunic was revealed by Dr. John J. Geise, professor of history at the University of Pittsburg. Further, Dr. Geise said, if the woman didn’t like the color of their hair they changed it. Blondes were at the highest premium. You don’t have to go down to the five and ten, Dr. Geise said, to get face powder if you do as the Roman girls did. All you have to do is go down in your cellar, open up a can of white lead and then rub it over your face. If that doesn’t suit you, smash up some of little sister’s blackboard chalk and rub it over your face. The Romans used both. The college girls who appear in open toed shoes from which protrude toenails lusciously covered with red paint have noth ing on the Roman lassies. It was common practice not only to paint the fingernails but also the toenails all shades of the rain bow. Then there was the ancient “mascara,” Dr. Geise added. It was nothing more than Manganese, burnt almonds, frankincese, or one of many other eyebrow shades. “The Good Neighbor” means more than emp ty words in the American Southwest, espec ially in New Mexico, where Spanish is the household language of 40 per cent of the population, and the southern border is shar ed with Old Mexico. In tune with this situation the Univer sity of New Mexico has completed forma tion of a School of Inter-American Affairs, stressing the history, economics, ethnology, politics, language and culture of our neigh bors to the south. As head of the school Josquin Ortega has set up a program of studies designed both to acquaint students with conditions in Latin America, and to prepare them to undertake careers that deal with the sister republics, whose native lan guage is Spanish or Portugese. Formation of the school climaxes a fif teen-year growth of emphasis on Spanish language studies, Spanish-American historp and the culture of Latin America at the uni versity. The resources of the departments of modern languages, history, anthropology, economics and education are at the disposal of the school. And in the university library are housed the volumes of a large collection of material, printed, manuscript and photo stat, pertaining to Latin America. The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.—Cicero. tion is productive of precise thought, which is of utmost importance now. Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia College asserts the liberal arts are essential now as in the fu ture. typewriter keys, we will abbreviate hell like this: hhhh, and damn like this: dddd. By dddd, you Aggies, why in the hhhh don’t you quit your bleeding and just rest? By dddd, we have the “reds” on you guys. We had just had a most wonderful corps trip to Dallas and a few of us made the Houston trip (and don’t think we didn’t have one hhhh of a time getting there!) Thus we return to Denton with that Aggie Spirit just to get the hhhh knocked out of us by the Bat!! O. K., you talk about your nu merous women elsewhere—I sin cerely hope they too have the true Aggie spirit and are willing to stand behind you guys all the way and Beat The HHHH Out Of Tex as U!! Our big Soph dance is this week end, and the Aggies won’t be able to make it. Guess you know where that leaves us? Naturally, you will hear us beefing about it. But, by dddd, not for long—we are be hind you 100% Turkey Day and it means a lot to us to beat the hhhh out of Texas U. So I ask you one favor: Why can’t you quit beefing at TSCW? And give us a little credit? It kinda knocks a “guy” down when you have been yelling like hhhh—rais ing that old Army hhhh for the past two weekends—then get a stab in the back!!! I don’t know exactly the pur pose of this letter (editor’s note: me either) except we are getting dddd tired of your slamming us when we are for you regardless. So one more thing. Army. Give ’em hhhh—that good old Army hhhh—and beat the hhhh out of Texas U! See you Turkey Day . . . Turkey Day Notes ... All this movie activity on the campus nearly got our mind off that certain date with the Tea- hounds ... so here’s a little back ground music for the benefit of those who wonder why Aggies start making fists when Texas U. is mentioned. As always the November battle between the Aggies and the Steers will be one of the top games in the wild Southwest scramble. And as always the Aggies or the Steers would give their right arms up to here to beat the other . . . past records for the season don’t count; this is THE game. Much worse than the time-worn McCoy-Hatfield feud is the A.&M.- T.U. rivalry.' But we don’t use guns; that’s too quick. We like to murder our teahounds slowly . . . drag them through hot coals, etc. Basis for the feud is the fact that Steers don’t beat Aggies on Kyle Field, and Aggies (traditionally) don’t beat Steers at Memorial Sta- Yessir, it was that blasted candle. And then we got to thinking about how silly we’d feel lugging a big red candle- to Austin ... so we’ll just take along the Twelfth Man this year. . . . Hunter’s Spoils ’■’’vt i i -uni •ii Home Meat Needs Deer which hunters bag this fall should mean more to the family larder than a brief variation in the home menu. With less beef, veal, pork, lamb and mutton available for civilian buying, all of the carcass from hide to hoofs should be saved. The hide is a contribu tion to be nation’s supply of tanned products, and the meat, which may be conserved in cold storage or by brining, is a valua ble reserve against future emer gencies in the domestic meat sit uation. Here are some observations from Roy W. Snyder of the A. & M. College Extension Service which will be helpful in obtaining the fullest return from a deer carcass. It should be treated comparably to beef or lamb in processing. The hams and loins make the best steaks, but the thin bony portions do not make good steaks or roasts. Snyder who is animal industries specialist, says that if the owner of the carcass to a freezer locker the ideal procedure is to have it skinned, cut into desired pieces and placed in a locker box. Other wise, the thicker muscles may be cured successfully. The shoulder, neck and lower portion of the ribs when boned make good sausage. A good re cipe calls for two parts deer meat and one part of fresh pork fat. For a drier sausage use three parts deer meat and one of pork fat. Season with 14 ounces of salt and three ounces of black pepper to 50 pounds of the meat. One and one half ounces of sage may be added to the seasoning mixture ac cording to taste. Snyder suggests seasoning the meat before it goes into the sau sage mill, where it should be ground fine. If the sausage is to be kept for some time it is desir able to stuff the product into cas ing or a bag made of muslin. It also may be smoked if that flavor is desired. Texas farmers had a cash income of $78,000,000 in August, as com pared with $30,000,000 in the same month of 1941, the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research has reported. \ rm c=j a \the a 5 c=itriat=t=it=it=i '(=i □ □ C=J / by L °w campus ^ X o c 0 c 0 J] t dsMcm □ a □ □ cn □ o Czi, Leading the list of distractions on the campus tonight is the Corps Dance in Sbisa hall. Herbie Miller, who so ably fulfilled his post as maestro of the Engineers Ball last night will play again tonight for the benefit of the Corps. Uniform is the same as for all Corps Dances; fish and frogs must have dates to attend. Dance time is 9 to 12 mid night. Bouquets are in order to the men who decorated the dining halls this week-end for the simultaneous reg imental balls. Especially does the committee in charge of decorations for the Composite Ball deserve praises and plaudits for their splendid work in decorating Duncan hall—a feat never before attempt ed. Credit for the success of the whole dance may be attributed in large part to those who decorated the floor. Joan Bennett is a show giri who’s out to “get her man” in “SHE KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS,” playing today only at Guion hall. Determined to show Franchot Tone, her sweetheart’s guardian, that she would make a proper wife for his ward, John Hubbard, she takes a job in Tone’s Wall Street office. From then on it’s everyone for himself as far as the love angle is concerned. “She Knew All the Answers” is an in-between picture. That is, it’s not good and it’s not bad, just so- so, so to speak. It’s got several good corny laugh-provoking mo ments that are enjoyable, other wise, it’s not outstanding. The lowdown—you’ve seen worse. “Serenade in Blue” and three other top hits are played by Glenn Miller and his orchestra in “OR CHESTRA WIVES,” showing at midnight at the Campus Theater. A good musical and a good com edy with a good story—this sums up “Orchestra Wives” in a nut shell. The plot has George Montgom ery, a trumpet player in Miller’s band, falling for and marrying Ann Rutherford, a swing-crazy kid from a small town. Trouble starts when Mary Beth Hughes, Carole Landis (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) Telephone 4-1181 LAST DAY JISTAIRE^ WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Saturday—“Holiday Inn”, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Midnight and Sunday, Mon day — “Orchestra Wives” with Glenn Miller and his orchestra, George Montgom ery and Ann Rutherford. At Guion Hall Saturday — “She Knew All the Answers” with Joan Ben nett and Franchot Tone. Also INFORMATION PLEASE PICTURE PEOPLE NEWS — PORKY PIG Preview Tonight Sunday and Monday iGeo. Montgomery • Ann Rutherford j-* GLENN MILLER Lynn Bari • Carole Landis - Cesar Romero U22 GO IN AT 10:00 AND SEE BOTH SHOWS! The A. and M. Presbyterian Morning Church Services WILL BE MOVED TO THE CAMPUS THEATRE Starting Nov. 22nd Sunday School . . Morning Worship . 9:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. A Cordial Welcome to All (Evening Services in the Y Chapel) Announcing . . . Organization of an Adult Class in the Presbyterian Sunday School. Dr. G. W. Adriance is the teacher — In the Campus Theatre at 9:45 Sunday morning. MOVIE Guion Hall SATURDAY 7:00 and 8:30 JOAN BENNETT FRANCHOT TONE in “SHE KNEW ALL THE AHS1HERS" Community Singing Comedy News Reel a* =n- —irs*o COMING Monday-Tuesday-W ednesday “THIS THIHG CALLED LOVE”