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-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.
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Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
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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-
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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 . . .
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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.
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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.
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MOVIE
Guion Hall
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Rosalind Russell—Melvyn Douglas
“This Thing Called Love”
Shorts
Comedy
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