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-SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 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 8, 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
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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. 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
Tom Joumeay Junior Editor
Jack Keith Junior Editor
John Holman Junior Editor
Douglas Lancaster Junior Editor
Bill Jamagin Reporter
Dick Anderson Reporter
Get Hep or Get Out
Once upon a time, not so long ago, a fresh
man entered this university, ostensibly for
the purpose of study. But this freshman was
not very interested in an education; his aim
was to cut himself free from as much study
as possible. After standing in line for hours
during registration, tossing a coin to decide
nis subjects, and paying his bill, the fresh
man bought a couple of books and floated
down the hill for cokes and all the pleasure
that college life offers. His books, and his
seat in class meanwhile, slowly gathered
dust.
This freshman, as you must see, was not
college material. That he was in a university
at all was a memento of the fact that he was
one of fortunate few who make up the
“haves.” Part of his “having” was the right
to a college education, and he was “having”
even though education was being forced down
his throat with a silver spoon. All upper
classmen, of course, know this freshman
and too, too many of his kind.
But this is AMERICA, we explain eas
ily. This is Maryland, a state college, an in
stitution of the people . . . anyone can come
to Maryland.
It is time we stop kidding ourselves;
education for a great many years has been
based too much on a monetary basis. A not
ed columnists, Walter Lippman, posed this
problem some weeks ago when he asked “Do
Dollar Signs Govern Our Educational Sys
tem?” Lippmann suggested governmental
appropriations to see that real leaders, think
ers among our youth, receive a college edu
cation, and that fine citizens were not de
prived of education by monetary values.
Conditions have changed a little lately.
The war is grimmer, closer to home. Boom
ing war industries, skyrocketing wages have
sent young students into college as fresh
men who formerly would not have been able
to attend. While the dollar sign is still around
our educational system, tinkling cash regis
ters-are outringing it.
Universities have found that they can
not do business as usual. Education must
keep up with the times. Courses are revised.
It is now time that students realize that
they also must not expect business as usual.
The “haves” had better realize that educa
tion better mean something to them. The
“have nots” who have been given a chance to
go to college must make the best of this
chance. For the men at least, going lo college
is like entering the services. The government
still considers college education worthy, and
while the enlisted reserves still function, all
of us had better make the best use of our
opportunity.
“Dollar sign” education or not, we who
are the “haves” in education had better start
fighting a winning war on the educational
fronts, or we will be immediately fighting
an actual war. A slogan for the wartime col
lege man might well read: GET HEP, OR
GET OUT—The Maryland Diamondback.
—AGP
Aggie Crgptogram
(The following cryptogram was enciphered by taking a
plain-text quotation dealing with Aggieland and dividing it
into groups of five letters, then arranging each of these
groups alphabetically.)
Today’s Aggie Cryptogram
CIOTV FORRY AEGHT EGIIS EHINR
AFINR FLOOT ABGILL AEFMO EEHTY
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Thursday’s solution:
THE AGGIES INVADE ALAMO CITY
SATURDAY.
Quotable Quotes
“The secretary of war and the secretary of
the navy desire to make their position clear
with respect to this matter of continuance of
college education. They are convinced that
able-bodied young men and women must and
will be controlled in their decisions solely by
what appears to each to be his duty in help
ing to win this war. They are further satis-
From Capital to Campus
A'CP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington
NOTES ON WAR
WASHINGTON — (AGP) — Congress has
passed no legislation ordering colleges to
give students pre-military training. Nor is
there a Student Army Training Corps as in
the last war. Yet . . .
Many colleges report that 70 to 90 per
cent of their students are enrolled in one
or another branch of the military forces.
The army expects to get about a third of
its officers from college campuses. Colleges
themselves will train about 250,000 men this
academic year for the Student Enlisted Re
serve Corps, the .army and navy ROTC. An
other 250,000 will be sent from the services
to colleges for specialized training.
Besides that, 50,000 men now in uni
form will receive instruction through army
correspondence courses offered by 77 col
leges. Furthermore, some 800,000 men and
women will receive training this year, in 250
colleges and universities, for technical work
in war plants. All in all, 1,300,000 men and
women will be provided the use of college
facilities so that they may take an active part
in proescuting the x war—either in combat
service or in industry.
Despite the fact that regular student en
rollment has dropped, colleges throughout
the nation are cham-packed with the greatest
assemblage of men and women ever gathered
on their collective campuses. That’s not a
bad war record.
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FOOTNOTES ON WAR
Harvard has a one-month course for army
chaplains. Some 300 men of all creeds and
sects attend classes at the old university.
* * *
The lid is being clamped down even
harder in Norway. No church hymns may
be sung which contain the word “Devil” be
cause Quislings believe the reference is to
Nazis, a logical enough assumption on his
part.
Another decree imposes the death sent-,
ence upon Norwegians who enter or leave
occupied territory without permission and
who listen to forbidden broadcasts. “For
bidden” are all those other than Nazi and
Nazi-controlled broadcasts.
A recent release of the government’s
Office of War linformation notes that “a
critical situation confronts every woman who
cooks with gas.” It seems that if she doesn’t
conserve it, there soon may be no more gas
to cook with. Pressed for an interpretation,
officials admitted that you might take a
woman’s gas from her, but you’d never keep
her from cooking with it. Correspondents
were glad to have that one straightened out.
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EDUCATION ELSEWHERE
Going into effect at once is a Vichy order
for all French schools to put German down
as a “must” course. Until now students could
choose between English and German.
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BACKWASH
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Jack Wood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
By John Holman
Spy Story . . .
No rumor is the spy story be
ing told around E Infantry these
days.
Seems as though some E Co.
boy was coming back to school
on th,e bus about two weeks ago
when an air corps second-luie car
rying a .45 on his hip struck up
a conversation with him. The sup
posed officer said that he was
on a secret government mission
and was on his way to Florida,
and that he wanted to send a cod
ed message but didn’t know where
he could do it without arousing
suspicion. Somehow or another the
conversation got on Aggieland,
and the Aggie suggested to the
louie that he spend a day or two
on the campus, explaining that
there were plenty of vacant rooms
in number 7. The officer said okay,
so he spent Sunday night and part
of Monday. He bulled around with
the boys in E company while here,
then left for Houston, supposedly
on his way to Florida. Upon arriv
ing at Houston, he was promptly
picked up by the FBI and exposed.
• • «
was torpedoed by an American
destroyer about two miles below
the bridge. No survivors or first
hand witnesses, and the destroyer
has already gone back to sea.
• • •
Indians. . .
Almost as tall is the one about
the Aggie campus being turned
into an Indian reservation after
the war. What are they going to
do with us?
• • •
Infantry .
A student at Christian College in Ber
gen, Norway, wrote a paper in which he re
ferred to the words in John’s Gospel, “The ■Rnmn r Dpnt*
son shall make you free.” The Nazis confis- ^
cated the paper because they believed it was
a reference to the Crown Prince Olav. That
world “free” has always been a stickler for
Adolph.
Also tall is the fact that the war
department has asked for 400 vol
unteer Infantry seniors to be called
out, commissioned, graduated, and
sent overseas immediately.
Incidentally, the reason for that
Indian reservation is because the
army took over a big Oklahoma
reservation and are sending the
Indians down here.
Also just a rumor is that one
about Longley having the Long
horn out on time. (I know the
Batt Magazine won’t be, Johnnie,
so don’t say anything!)
Here are the best rumors of the
week—all of which are, of course,
not true in any shape, form or
fashion.
This Collegiate World
: ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS:
When the cheerleader pleads hoarsely for a
“Fight, fight, Siwash” and then does a cart
wheel through the rain, don’t question his
intelligence—he’s probably a little brighter
than the average.
That’s the finding of a survey conducted
at Colgate University. The investigation was
aimed at determining what relationship, if
any, existed between intelligence of Col
gate seniors and participation in extra-cur
ricular activities.
The results throw a little cold water on
the “big campus man,” the fellow who be
longs to all the clubs and appears at least a
half-dozen times in the group* pictures in
his class yearbook. Statistics show it’s not
the fact that he participates, but that he
takes part in—that gives a clue to his gray
matter. And as for the meek little student
whose name never appears on a committee,
he’s 3 per cent smarter than the average.
Long suspected, the fact was established that
the varsity letter for skill in major sports
usually adorns a strong back and an I.Q.
11 per cent below average.
The survey revealed that 30 per cent
of the nearly 800 seniors engaged in no
extra-curricular activities. The most intel
ligent group, 16 per cent above the average,
worked on student publications. Ratings for
men participating in social religious, dra
matic, musical, managerial and cheerleading
activities were found to be “slightly above
average.”
Men in the student government were
second only to those men on publications.
fied that the college must and will be sim
ilarly guided in their action. Colleges have a
definite educational function to perform in
war as well as in peace, but it is somewhat
different. Men who accept the opportunity of
enlistment in the army or navy reserve and
who conscientiously devote their efforts in
college in the manner indicated, and those
teachers in the colleges who are necessary
for the education of these men, may feel as-
surd that they are doing the jobs their coun
try wants them to do and are performing
their full duty in the war effort.”An Army
and Navy joint release to the press defines
the official attitude toward colleges.
WAACs . . .
Some digging that is being done
behind the petroleum building is
work on the foundations for a new
dormitory for 400 WAACs, who
are supposed to arrive on the cam
pus today noon. They will be temp
orarily housed in Austin hall until
the new hall is completed.
Submarines . . .
Then there is the one about the
college buying a new dredge, sup
posedly to dig out the Brazos river
for a submarine base. Incidentally,
that sub that was seen cruising un
der the Caldwell highway bridge
—SCIENCE—
(Continued From Page 1)
of the Texas Academy of Science
which was held at College Station.
The delay in announcing the
winners of this contest has been
due to a provision of the contest
which requires the judges to eval
uate the manuscripts as well as
the presentation.
Attention is being called to the
fact that it is not too early for
members of local clubs to begin
work on papers to be submitted in
the semesters ahead. The Texas
Academy is scheduled to meet at
the Texas University next fall, and
papers presented at the United
Science Club contest may be re
worked and represented at that
time.
Dr. C. C. Doak, sponsor of the
United Science Clubs, has received
a letter from J. Edward Pendray,
assistant to the president of West-
inghouse Electrical and Manufact
uring company assuring support
of the company for the awards pro
mised by Smith. In asking for
details, Pendray’s letter calls at
tention to the fact that his com
pany is interested in stimulating
research and scientific education
throughout the nation and supports
a number of other agencies besides
those mentioned above.
—RIFLE TEAM—
(Continued From Page 3)
are fired on the home range of
the teams under the supervision of
some school official. The scores
are then exchanged and the winner
announced. Also the team com
petes in several shoulder-to-
shoulder matches with teams such
as the Texas^Highway Patrol Pis
tol Team, the Houston Bayou Pis
tol Team, the Austin City Police
Team, the Dallas Civilian Team,
and many others. The team so far
this year has not fired any pistol
matches, but the prospects of a
very good season are bright with
the three outstanding lettermen—
Team Captain Russell Cook, Sec-
Treas. Robert Cox, and N. Mans
field— on the squad. Coach of
the team at the beginning of the
season was Lt. L. J. Lejkovsky.
As he was ordered away in Sept
ember, Lt. Richards is ’ at present
coaching the squad. Varsity mem
bers of the team include: Captain
Cook, Robert Cox, N. Mansfield,
W. T. Jones, R. Grady, Larry Fer
guson, and G. M. Turner.
Not since “Anthony Adverse”
has Hollywood massed so many
well-known players in one picture
as are in “King’s Row,” showing
at Guion Hall today and Monday.
Besides that Texas “oomph” gal,
Ann Sheridan, the line-up includes
Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings,
Betty Field, Charles Coburn,
Claude Rains, Nancy Colman, and
Keren Verne. Sixty-seven speak
ing parts is the amazing total in
this movie.
“Kings Row” is a story of two
boys, one the best-behaved boy
in the little town of Kings Row,
the other the bad boy of the town.
The good one, Robert Cummings,
studies medicine and after his love
for his teacher’s daughter is
thwarted by her death, goes to
Vienna to study. Meanwhile, Ron
ald Reagan as the town’s ne’er-
do-well . is also turned down by
the girl he loves and so he starts
going with the girl from “the other
side of the tracks,” Ann Sheridan.
Losing his fortune, Reagan takes
a job on the' railroad, is hurt in
an accident, and consequently loses
both legs because of a revengeful
doctor’s actions. This leaves him
in a state of hopelessness and he
loses all desire to live. His friend,
now a noted phychiatrist, returns
from abroad and practices has
knowledge of the human mind on
Reagan, inducing him to marry
Ann and set himself up in business.
He too finds a new love and hap-
p^iess in Kings Row.
“Kings Row” is a masterpiece of
good acting and emotional appeal.
It’s story is a human one and is
so realistically portrayed that it
is sure to interest any adult au
dience. Perhaps the only thing of
the movie that might be consider
ed a drawbatk is the fact that
the great number of characters
make it slightly confusing at times.
The Lowdown—Class “A” in ev
ery respect.
Along the lines of “You’ll Never
Get Rich,” in which Fred Astaire
and Rita Hayworth were together
for the first time, is “YOU WERE
NEVER LOVLIER,” slated to show
at midnight tonight at the Campus.
Fans who remember the first are
likely to be slightly disappointed
sey, Sam Rosenstein, Billy Noah,
Bob McFall, L. D. Housewright,
Wayne Rosenburg, Oscar Schu-
chart, Rex Colwick, Alanson Brown,
and Lamar Haines.
Personal interviews may be ar
ranged by Aggies with tl\ese var
ious visiting church leaders by call
ing at the Interview Desk in the
YMCA, by seeing the members of
the Inter-Church Council, or by
seeing the individual leaders them
selves.
in this second attempt. The first
emphasizes music and dancing,
the second emphasizes an over
worked story.
Astaire ; and Hayworth furnish
the show with excellent dancing,
but there doesn’t seem to be
enough of it. The scene of the
plot i§ in South America; the story
is mediocre with a lot of laughs
in it after it gets going.
The Lowdown—they tried, any
way.
ry
—CHURCHES—
(Continued From Page 1)
Each night, beginning at 8:00
p.m. the Baptist, Methodist, Cath
olic, and the Church of Christ, will
meet in the regular church build
ings, while the Presbyterian group
will meet in Guion hall. The Christ
ian Church will hold its meetings
in the Assembly Room of the sec
ond floor of the YMCA; the Hillel
club will meet i nthe YMCA, and
the Lutheran group will meet in
the YMCA Chapel.
The religious leaders will break
fast each morning,in the Aggie
land Inn at 7:45, followed by Dr.
Quillian’s sermons at 11 a.m. in
Guion hall. Tuesday morning at
6:45 there will be Mass and Holy
Communion at the Catholic Chapel.
In charge of the program for
the week’s activities is the Inter-
Church Council, made up of two
students from each church on the
campus. Members of the Inter-
Church Council include Dwain
Treadwell, president, Tom Myers,
Ross Lanier, Oran Jones, Sam
Lewis, John Evans, C. E. Outter-
side, C. W. Anderson, Frank C.
Bibbs, Charlie Thompson, Joe Kel-
WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Saturday—“Wake Island*
starring Brian Donlevy.
Midnight and Sunday,
Monday,—“You Were Never
Lovlier,” with Fred Astaire
and Rita Hayworth.
At Guion Hall
Saturday, Monday—“Kings
Row,” with Ann Sheridan
and Ronald Reagan.
Telephone 4-1181
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.
LAST DAY
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