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-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.
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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.
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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”