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Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 The Battalion STUDBNT 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 4-6444. 1941 Member 1942 Pissocioted Gol!e6iote Press Brooks Gofer -V 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 X Advertising Manager Jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Louis A. Bridges Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Jav Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff Rill Huber Circulation Manager H. R. Tampke...’.’... Senior Assistant Carlton Power Senior Assistant Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant Bill Trodlier Assistant Tuesday’s Staff Tom Vannoy Managing Editor Jack Hood Junior Editor John Holman Junior Editor Jack Keith 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. Are You Going To Austin? On Thanksgiving Day, 1940, 5,000 Texas Ag gies stood in Memorial Stadium in Austin and saw, with tears in their eyes, the great est football team in the nation knocked out of the Rose Bowl by a lowly Texas Univer sity eleven. Losing the game was hard enough on that Aggie team, but the ever-present thought that those boys in khaki were be hind them, win, lose, or draw, made the heart-rending defeat more bearable. They lost that game, but they didn’t lose the love of the boys from just east of the Brazos, and by virtue of that, we have a football team today that is going to Aus tin Thursday to avenge that crushing de feat. That team is our team, and they can do their best only when they know you and I are with them, there, yelling and pulling for that fightin’ Aggie team. Old Army, those boys will be there fight ing for Aggieland, for each and every man that ever wore the khaki and the AMC. They cannot put their heart into their battle knowing that the corps is not behind them, so when they look up into those stands next Thursday, let’s be sure there is a corps there to greet their eyes and ears. Come on, old Army, let’s all get to Aus tin somehow. If you haven’t any money bor row some; if you haven’t got a ride, think about the time you were a freshman or soph omore and stood there in Memorial Stadium with tears in your eyes and saw the greatest team we ever had go down before the under dog. We are going to Austin, and we will beat Texas U. in 42! This Collegiate World ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS Open Forum BACKWASH Jack Hood ‘Backwash: An agritation resulting: from some action or occurrence” — Webster What he A man’s opinion is his own. wants to do with his time, an important de- Bread and Blitter cision in these days, is concern of no other individual but himself. Not to P ass out the bread ' and Without denying that human right of butter, but to prove that the hos- free decision, I wish to say a few things pitality shown visiting college kids which I hope will reduce my blood from the on the campus is appreciated, we boiling point. print parts of a letter received by During the past few days there have the Registrar’s Office: been many “Aggies” (and those quotes aren’t ^ would Iike to express my feel- typographical errors) who have let it he ing in reference to the friendliness known that they couldn’t and wouldn’t go to sh own us, the bunch that came from Texas Tech for the game Oct. 3 . ... I have never met any finer group of boys than you fellows at A. & M. I do not speak only for myself, but for the entire student body. I ' can truthfully say I haven’t heard a conversation about the Tech-A. & M. game with out it having something to do with Austin Thursday. The reasons have been the usual run-of-the-mill excuses—home, the girl friend, and mother’s turkey dinner. Now, that brings up an inconsistency. While the “loyal Aggie” is at home helping himself to white meat, where will the foot ball boys be? Will Zapalac be eating'turkey ? Will Sibley be at home? How an Aggie who stood and watched the great Aggie team bow in Memorial Sta dium in 1940 would miss this ’42 battle is unbelievable. Don’t you remember what hap pened to our Rose Bowl hopes two years ago this week? Don’t we want revenge in some measure for that loss? If only the two per cent of the Twelfth the we were treated down there Man could get some of the spirit under their ... We sincerely hope that in the skin that the football team has, we wouldn’t near future we will have the pleas- have to worry about anything Thursday. One ure of being your hosts . . . . of the finest exhibitions of that spirit was Thankfully yours, A Tech Student.” displayed last Saturday week at the end of And we’ll come right back at the Rice game in Houston. Every gridster the Tech students by saying they stood on his feet to the last strain of “Spirit are among the swellest bunch of of Aggieland.” Certainly they had just fin- sports to visit Aggieland in many ished 60 minutes of hard football—Bucek a season, was so tired he couldn’t stand up straight— but somehow they stood there because they Showtime . . . had that little extra something under their s lQ n Aggies, and civies, that were Thursday should be a big day in the life lucky enou gb to eye the Sunday Of A. & M. Rogers, Daniels, Webster, Hen- afternoon broadcast Showtime saw derson, and all the rest plus 98 per cent of a £ ood show • • • one of the best the corps will be there to celebrate. The two Interstate has ever produced. The per cent can have their turkey! Aggieland Orchestra, the Singing Cadets, Trudy Woods, the Tune Charlie Babcock, 43 Tumblers, Noah Beery, Jr., Rich- ard Quine, etc., made up the prog- thing we want to warn you about before you hit the road, tho: Don’t let a teahound get his hands on your throat ... we have a straight tip that, during the last year, they have been developing their fingers. They don’t know it, but they have. It’s like this . . . _a zoot suit is a “must” in every Texas man’s ward robe. And, of course, they have the accessories that go with the suit . . . wide-brimmed hat, flashy suspenders, knit tie, and—most im- QMmp Telephone 4-1181 TODAY - TOMORROW portent of all—the long key chain. The 700,000th volume to be add- The key chain starts at a belt loop, ed to the University of Texas Ll- travels all the way down the right brary was catalogued recently. The leg, and back up to the right pock- Library ranks 13th nationally and et. But, the trouble is, the Texas is first in the South. boys uncontinuously twirl those — — key chains . . . it’s a natural habit; you’ve seen guys stand around and twirl their chains. With those long chains, tho, they have to use all their fingers to get the chain all wound up. Thus, they have devel oped strong fingers . . . very dan gerous fingers. This ain’t news: The females )pre here . . . referring to the fe- “SYNCOPATION” male cast of WNBL (or production _ 4.^3 . 6:06 - 7:59 - 9-52 with Charlie Barnett Benny Goodman Harry James Jack Jenny Gene Krupa Alvino Ray Joe Venuti Connie Boswell Also Merry Melody “Conrad the Sailor” Don Cossack and Chorus Quiz Kids 1280). Martha O’Driscoll greeted Director Jack Rawlins with a warm bunny-hug when she got here . . . p i 0 0 r- 3-i $ D 0 Q_p j U -u □ aacqtjczjcjfci ■ campus $ e distractions 7 ■ G r \ ' if h □ a cb\ nuciiociiczjaoo, From Capital to Campus ACP's Jay Richter Reports from Washington The first co-eds—five of them—have ap peared to take police science work out of 300 who have enrolled since this field was introduced a year ago. Professor V. A. Leonard reports the manpower problem in the police fields is be coming critical and that a number of posts in police organizations can be handled by trained women while, of course, they are in dispensable in, handling cases involving wom en and children. The diplomatic career of Ercofe Cardinal Consalvi, papal secretary of state to Pope Pius VII, is treated by the Rev. Dr. John Tracy Ellis, assistant professor of history of the Catholic university of America, in a vol ume just made available by the Catholic University of America Press. Dr. Ellis discloses Cardinal Consalvi’s relations with Great Britain, emphasizing how close and friendly the Holy See was to the British government in the years during and after the period of Napoleon. In the judg ment of historians, Consalvi was the ranking ecclesiastical statesman of the early nine teenth century. Dr. Ellis received his collegiate training at St. Viator.college and pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago, Har vard university and the Catholic University of America, taking the doctorate from the latter in 1930. He has taught at various times in the College of Saint Teresa, Domi nican College of San Rafael, Mount Saint Scholastica college, and Our Lady of the Lake college. A cooperative training program for the Boy Scouts of America has been worked out be tween University of Texas officials and Boy Scout executives, T. H. Sibley, dean of the university’s division of extension, has an nounced. The division will install training courses for scout leaders and executives in such fields as health education and recreation leadership, while two branches of the divi sion—the package loan library and the visual education bureau—will acquire and supply to Scout troops library materials and films re lating to Scout training and activities. Also under consideration is a proposal that the Interscholastic league, another uni versity extension agency, will supervise first aid and other emergency training for the Scouts. CO-EDS WANTED WASHINGTON — (AGP) — Need for nurses is most urgent. Some 55,000 are want ed immediately. A survey of two-thirds of the country’s nursing schools reveals that we’re going to fall about 19,000 nurses short of that quota. The only way to reach the goal now would be for 19,000 new girls to enroll in nursing courses in January and February. Decision to become a nurse doesn’t nec essarily mean an interruption of your college course. Perhaps you can do it simply by in cluding biological, physical, medical and so cial science courses in your schedule at the start of a new term this winter. Estimates of the number of nurses need ed have kept growing throughout the war. Some 3,000 a month have been taken from civilian life for army and navy duty. That’s 36,000 a year, as against an original esti mate of 10,000 for 1942. Those figures add up to a migraine headache for local hospitals throughout the nation. Symptomatic of the trend is the an nouncement of the Civil Service Commission here recently that liberalized rules would permit nurses who completed their training as long ago as January, 1920, to apply for government nursing jobs. The jobs pay $1,620 a year and are open to all who have had nurses training. Apply to the Commis sion here, or by way of your postoffice. For general information on nurse re cruitment, write Miss Florence Seder, Na tional Nursing Council for War Service, 1790 Broadway, New York City. OTHER JOBS The Government wants photographers and motion picture technicians to fill jobs paying $1440 to $3800 a year. Women especially are desired, although men may apply. Free-lance experience may be enough to qualify for any of the jobs and amateur ex perience is enough for $1440 and $1620 posi tions. Apply to the Civil Service Commis sion. HALT OR WE’LL FIRE! Both army and navy public relations have bogged to the point where it’s impossible to ignore the fact, and it is time for ordinary civilians to start verbal sniping as is their democratic wont. Whatever the merits of the navy’s case in withholding, even now, complete facts on losses at Pearl Harbor, whatever the merits of the army’s case in leaving the impression that no men were left behind on the Doolittle raid over Tokyo, the fact remains that the current stew is evidence enough that some thing is radically wrong with the attitude of the services toward the public. Apparently, military men charged with public relations duties often know less of that fluid problem than civilians do of war, which is virtually nothing—as the services are the first to concede. As the conservative party’s Wendell Willkie said in his fine, un-conservative speech: “The record of this war to date is not such as to inspire in us any sublime faith in the infallibility of our military and naval experts. Let’s have no more of this nonsense. Military experts, as well as our leaders, must be constantly exposed to democracy’s great est driving power—the whip-lash of public opinion, developed from honest, free discus sion.” But the thing that opened our eyes and ears was the improve ment in the Aggieland Ork . . . . 200% better if a bit. It seems the boys had the benefit of profession al advice for a couple of days be fore the show in the form of Eig Maurie Steinberg from Dallas. “Steinie” used to arange for Paul Whitman, and he really knows his sharps and islats. He toned down the brass section and drums, and got more harmony and smooth ness into the band than they have ever had before. The boys made a nice chunk of change out of the broadcast, but the experience they gained is worth more. From now on, bands will be very hard to sign . . . especially here. And any band that plays here won’t be worth the money simply because they are forced to ask high pay in these times. So what? So we have the Aggieland right here. And they can be contracted to play all the dances at a very reasonable price. Sweepings... Next stop: Forty Acres, Austin . . . , and of the slope-coats . . . one Nothing (well, practically noth ing) is held back involving love and marriage in “THIS THING CALLED LOVE,” showing today and tomorrow at Guion Hall. It’s an eyebrow lifting tale, dealing with a platonic marriage between Melvyn Douglas and Rosalind Rus sell. Maybe it should be called “This Thing Called Sex,” and treated as a warning to all you who are in love that lil’ cupid will shoot you, too, if you give him half a chance. As can be imagined from the star ring players’ past performances, this is a hilarious show portrayed in the funniest manner. Roz’s and Melvyn’s platonic love affair soon develops into the real thing—after he is found in a mess of poison oak while hiding in the bushes with secretary Binnie Barnes. The Lowdown—a risque love story. There’s about as much sense to “SYNCOPATION”, showing at the Campus, as there is to a cross question and silly answer contest. It wanders about aimlessly, get ting nowhere, in an attempt to con vey the uselessness of a musician’s fighting against his inner urge to express his individuality in music. Jackie Cooper is the boy who marries Bonita Granville, a belle from New Orleans. He joins a sym phony orchestra and leaves it to organize his own band. Adolphe Menjou has a small role. “Syncopation” was produced and directed by William Dieterle and is a far cry from his past notable successes, the subject matter and treatment being entirely different from “Zola,” “Pasteur” and “All That Money Can Buy.” Although his handling of the material is en dowed with deftness, the movie is not especially good. The Lowdown—a big discord. THURS-FRI-SAT "wW * toWN [ I Dames anti \ WJUUMltel I Mcu’gTen I w»,*0’BWEN !'••• HAVOC I LOVETT Saturday Preview - Sun. - Mon. “Men of Texas” ROBERT STACK ANNE GWYNNE AGGIES... LET’S BUTCHER THOSE STEERS WE KNOW YOU KNOW HOW TO BUTCHER— YOU KNOW WE KNOW HOW TO TAILOR ZUBIK & SONS Uniform Specialists tv r- V 1 WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Tuesday and Wednesday— “Syncopation,” with Jackie Cooper and Bonita Granville. At Guion Hall Tuesday and Wednesday— “This Thing Called Love”— starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas. Add the Finishing Touch With a Haircut Before You Put the Finishing Touches on T. U. AGGIELAND BARBER SHOP Across From P. O. at the North Gate "♦» For Tasty Drinks Made With Precision It’S CASEY’S in the Eats . . . Drinks . . . Smokes To ’Ell With the Jinx BEAT TEXAS COLLEGE BOOK STORE North Gate Igg -Jf-p;, t yfe; Switch to 3tumk. MEDICO FILTERED SMOKING 66 Baffle Filter ThrillsSmokers USED IN MEDICO PIPES, CIGAR, AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS New York—The scientific, absorbent filter has contributed mightily to the smokinp pleasure of millions of men anc women who have switched to Medico Filtered Smoking. Actually, the smoke must travel through 66 “baffles” before reaching the mouth. Flakes and slugs are trapped; and the smoke is whirl-cooled as it winds its way through the filter. MOVIE Guion Hall TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY Rosalind Russell—Melvyn Douglas “This Thing Called Love” Shorts Comedy No Show Thursday, Friday or Saturday Thanksgiving Holidays r 4 A ) 1