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Page 2- •THE BATTALION- 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. 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 Pis sodded Golle6ide Press Brooks Gofer... Ken Bresnen— Phil Crown Mike Haiktn Mike Mann Chick Hurst Reggie Smith Jack E. Carter Louis A. Bridges— Jay Pumphrey Bill Huber H. R. Tampke...—— Carlton Power Joe Stalcup Bill Trodlier Tom Vannoy John Holman Tom Journeay Douglas Lancaster.. Nelson Karbach Bill Murphy Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Staff Photographer Sports Staff Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor Senior Sports Assistant Advertising Staff Advertising Manager Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff Circulation Manager ...Senior Assistant ..Senior Assistant Tuesday’s Staff ..Senior ...Junior Assistant Assistant ..Managing Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor Reporter Since Pearl Harbor Just one year ago yesterday we were japped below the belt at Pearl Harbor and plunged into the greatest war we have ever known. Following this came other terrific losses at Bataan and the South Pacific. Our armed forces were all but chased out of the Pacific. But we had not begun to fight. As soon as the nation recovered from the initial surprise and shock, it went to work as it had never worked before. Indus try and American ingenuity achieved a mir acle of production and supplied a vast citi zens' army which sprang up over night. Slowly but surely, we began to take the sit uation in hand. And our efforts have shown results! In spired by the treachery of Pearl Harbor and MacArthur’s heroic stand at Bataan, our forces wrested such victories as the battles of Midway, the Coral Sea, and the Solomon Islands. Then came our successful second front in North Africa. Yes, we have come a long way since Pearl Harbor and things are beginning to look better. Some even claim that victory is in sight. Although our successes have been bril liant, we must guard against over-optimism. We still have a long row to hoe before we achieve final and complete victory. . More production schedules must be met; more bonds bought; and more battles won before we have completely destroyed the Hun and the Jap. With the memory of Pearl Harbor burning in our memories, Americans will fight with everything they have— mon ey, sweat, and even their life blood—until the infamy of Pearl Harbor has been aveng ed. We will not stop until the enemy is ours and we have won the peace as well as the war. We have not yet begun to fight! —NK Religious Emphasis Week Religion, according to Webster, is any sys tem of faith or worship; love and obedience toward God. This week. Aggies have a special oppor tunity to re-affirm that faith in special ser vices being held daily at 11 a.m. in Guion Hall, and in night services at their respective services. Leaders of this movement feel that you appreciate the efforts they have made in supplying you with splendid speakers—men who not only know boys, but know how to talk to boys. No matter to what degree you carry you religious thinking, you do believe in God. You owe it to yourself to attend some, or all, of these services. You won’t be bored, for these men are all excellent religious work ers, who like boys and like to talk to them. Come out this morning, won’t you? The time, 11 o’clock, the place, Guion Hall. You will be officially excused from your classes for attending these services. —JH Quotable Quotes “Every society depends in the last analysis not upon its machinery—whether economic, political, or social—but upon the fiber of its people. Any democracy, American democ racy, must depend upon a very peculiar fiber. If the basic assumption of our society is that /a people, given freedom, will have not only the strength and the courage but the re sourcefulness and the brains to run their lives and achieve their destinies in harmony with one another and to a greater degree than others could do it for them, if this is the basic assumption, then you simply must have people, millions of them, who are in fact and in living conviction just that kind of peo ple—strong men, resourceful men, cour ageous men, men who take pride, real and personal pride in the fact that win or lose, they can and will fight their own battles of life. “But if there is to be social harmony in this great enterprise, then you must also have millions of men who believe just as deeply and vividly in that harmony, men who smart at injustices, who strain against excesses, who understand when to fight for convictions, when to tolerate weaknesses, men whose impulses are generous and in stincts kindly, men who know, at first hand, Open Forum Dr. T. 0. Walton, President A. & M. College of Texas College Station, Texas Dear Dr. Walton: The Board of Directors of the Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce at its meeting held yesterday directed me to write you and through you to express to your cadets and the other College people our great appreciation for the fine service rendered our community by them in so ably assisting our local firemen in fighting and preventing the spread of the dangerous fire which destroyed the Bryan Compress and a considerable amout of cotton on last Sun day afternoon. There was a high wind blowing at the time and had this fire once gotten out of control much heavier damage would un doubtedly have resulted, in fact, the whole North Eastern section of the City would have been endangered, including the City Power Plant. On account of the current man short age, the personnel of our local fire fighting force has been considerably reduced, but thanks to the kindly assistance of your stu dents and others, this handicap was over come and the fire was held under control with a minimum of damage, considering the circumstances. Please convey through whatever chan nels are available our expression of thanks to your student body and the other College people who were kind enough to render us this very valuable assistance. Yours sincerely, D. L. Wilson, Secretary-Manager, Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce. This Collegiate World . : ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRES3= Action by management to safeguard employe interests when new production processes are installed is necessary to obtain the workers’ approval and thus permit technological changes to proceed normally, Dr. John W. Riegel, director of the University of Michi gan bureau of industrial relations, says in a book just published by the University of Michigan Press titled, “Management, Labor and Technological Change.” Dr. Riegel feels the public needs to be better informed about the fundamental im portance of invention, enterprise and compe tition in elevating the standard of living, since improved values in goods and services obtainable as a result of improved facilities and procedures -represent an increase in the true purchasing power of all income receiv ers. The author also emphasizes the need for continuation of industrial progress so as to provide maximum productivity during and after the war. Factory managers and supervisors can help to create a more favorable attitude on the part of the workers by giving advance notice of changes, by consulting with the employes on proposed methods, by showing that the welfare of the organization as a whole is promoted by improvements in tech niques, and by displaying a cooperative and helpful attitude while teaching new methods to the workers, Dr. Riegel asserts. A favor able attitude also can be induced by evidence that cost reductions made possible by im proved machines and methods are being passed on to consumers, he points out. Most important aids for displaced work ers, Dr. Riegel says, would be training in new skills and assistance in obtaining satis factory employment. In instances where pri vate firms cannot provide such assistance, Dr. Riegel believes expenditure of govern ment funds would be justified. * * * A popular and highly successful—but un listed—course on Lafayette College’s curric ulum seems to be: “How to Become a College President.” In the 15 years since Dr. William Mather Lewis became president of the school, these five faculty members have become college heads: Donald B. Prentice, president of Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haut, Ind.; Ar thur A. Hauck, president of the University of Maine; Henry E. Allen, president of Keuka College; Theodore A. Distler, head of Frank lin and Marshall, Lancaster, Pa.; and Dale H. Moore, president of Cedar Crest College. Aggie Cryptogram (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 EFHIT AEHRS GUNS AGMNX ACORS ALNST GHIT. Saturday’s solution: VICTORY FOR THE AGGIES IN THEIR FINAL FOOTBALL GAME OF THE YEAR. range on range of the finer contours and more delicate shadings that complete the panorama of the human spirit at its richest. Such are the people our democracy must have, such are the people that you and I must be and become. Otherwise our articles of faith may die, may become only an echo of a great America that used to be.” Act ing President Victor L. Butterfield of Wes leyan University calls upon his students to make themselves the kind of persons whose future leadership “will make of this mess the kind of democracy that’s worth dying for.” -TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1942 PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis it he o,., n a pi b o cn ca by V k K □ err □ m 1=3 1:3 ^ 'campus it t dSlMOTS K e: > £=i a ca “Song of the Islands,” with vi- an d enjoyable, vacious, curvaceous Betty Grable When the Arizona dust has set- and glamor boy Victor Mature will tied and the residents of Tombstone **I do hope the priority on metal won’t last too long. Captain. I’m anxious to see all the medals Buck says he’s been awarded!” BACKWASH By Jack Hood "Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster To Do or Undo . . . Military advisor for We’ve Never Been Licked, Colonel J. K. Boles, in an inactive period waiting for the sun to show the other day, was confronted with a perplexing prob lem ... a modification of the old pencil-through-a-string trick with a few fancy gadgets added. Bill Fox, head of the sound crew, designed the trick himself and at tached it to the button hole of G. Byron Winstead’s coat . . . but G.B.W.’s brow began to wrinkle when he tried to get it out. The trick made such a hit that he de cided he must try it on the Colonel (after Fox had been called in to remove it). Just M.:.-.. to be a sport, Fox told Colonel Boles he’d make him a present of the puzzle if he could work it. But the Colonel is somewhat ^ a s p,o r t himself, having knocked off a few ferocious beasts here and there, and he took it as chal lenge. Onlookers watched the Colonel concentrate a few minutes . . . then deftly remove the puz zle from his button hole. Now owner of the trick, Colonel Boles hooked it in the button hole of Captain “Chic” Sale. With the aid of Susie-in-the-adjutant’s-of- fice, Captain Sale labored with the gadget ... he fell hook, line, and sinker for a miscue casually drop ped by the Colonel. We understand the Colonel has yet to find some one that can work the thing. Live and Learn . . . Here’s some of the comments TSCWites had to make about their brief careers as movie extras dur ing the Thanksbiving weekend here: “I never want to. go in the movies!” “I’m going to have a pub lic burning of my evening dress.” “No wonder Hollywood stars make such large salaries.” However, a few of more movie- struck femes stuck by their guns and said they were more thrilled than ever by the cinema way of life . . . and all the girls agreed they wouldn’t have missed the ex perience for anything. One gal commented that the stars could afford to be very patient for a few grand a week . . . • • • Sweepings . .. Very interesting! To hear the boys talk about and compare Mar tha O’Driscoll and Anne Gwynne . . . the best we’ve heard about Martha: she’s got that “my-name- ain’t-slow” look . . . and the best about Anne: all that and cream- and-peaches skin . . . Add Odd ities: There are two Aggies named Allen Frank Labay, both fish C.E. students, both in the Engineers. No relation . . . Musical Meanderings As another year slips by our be loved campus it is VERY interest ing to look back on the bands that have played the various balls and dances. In comparing the quality of the bands with the ’41-’42 ses sion it seems that those of this year have fallen considerably. Last year we could boast of bands such as Jimmy Lunceford, Andy Kirk, George Wald, and many others you already remember. While this year Ina Ray Hutton blew up as we predicted; Jan Gar ber was same as always, with the corn just a little deeper than usual; Herbie Kay came south with a pickup band after the army riddled his sections; Noble Sissle was in troduced as the first colored band to hit the campus this year, and everyone was ready for real, hon- est-to-goodness jive, but it so hap pened that he had the whitest band we’ve heard. In fact, too white. In the way of box office receipts Ina Ray Hutton leads the flock, as she always does, with a total of around 1300 rocks coming in at the gate, and mind you, this was for one night only. Second place goes to the king of corn, Jan Gar ber, who fooled everyone by this feat. It can probably be explained by the fact that the Field Artillery is the largest outfit on the campus. The daddy-of-them-all comes with the knowledge that the lar gest dance of both years was the Bonfire Dance last year with the AGGIELAND taking off top hon ors over Lunceford and the other big boys. All I can say is—I told you so. One of these days this school will realize that it has a REAL band at its disposal, but I’m afraid the :By BILL MURPHYT realization will come too late. THIRTY-SECOND NOTES Different ones in the Senior Class are yelling for a dance the 31st of December. If you will look on your Social Calendar you’ll find a New Year’s Eve Party sched uled, but don’t count on it too much. No one knows anything about it, including the Student Activities of fice. Things are going to be mighty dull around here about that time. Do you want a dance? Juniors! Watch out for a change in your Junior Prom date. It’s scheduled for January the twenty- first, but I’ll bet even money that it will be changed . . . soon. For the first time in seven years the Aggieland will not make a Christmas tour. In these seven years the orchestra has played to crowds from Amarillo to Browns ville and have built up an envious reputation not only for themselves but A. & M. as well. This year Curly Brient received requests from all over the state for engage ments and some would have had to be turned down, IF the band had decided to make the trip. Com mon sense, however, changed the boys’ minds, and they decided to take it easy for a change. It’s very possible that Tony Pas tor and his famous band might be here for the Junior Prom, and also for the Ring Dance and Final Ball. It would be a master lick. New song: “I Got a Gal In a Kalamazoot Suit.” show at Guion Hall today and tr- morrow. Besides these two, Ja^k Oakie, Thomas Mitchell and H ; lo Hattie are on hand in this Techni color movie of the South Sea Islands. If you’re looking for a good story, “Song of the Islands” is not the show to see. But if you’re look ing for the “oomph” of I>. Grable in a grass skirt, the absurd clown ing of Jack Oakie and Bilo Hattie, the beauty of an island portrayed in Technicolor, the artics of Billy Gilbert and a couple of grand per formances by Thomas Mitchell and George Barbier, here it is. Mack Gordon and Harry Owens and the Royal Hawaiian orchestra pour out come tuneful ditties that are en joyable. The story has a pair of families, the Harpers and the O’Briens at each other’s throats so to speak over wealthy Harper’s desire to build a bridge for loading cattle on the other’s land. Miss Grable is the daughter of O’Brien and Mature the son of Harper. They meet, fall in love, quarrel and make up, all because of that bridge Harper wants to build. Oakie is the foil for Mature and provides the com edy along with Miss Hattie and Billy Gilbert. A couple of times the humor borders on slapstick, with Oakie on the receiving end. The Lowdown—colorful, tuneful Former Instructor Gets Distinguished Service Medal From the Fort Sill Replacement Center Times the following account of the awarding of the Distin guished Service Medal to Cpl. W. E. Dougherty for his father’s gallan try on Bataan. Colonel Dougherty was stationed at A. & M. in the military department late in the 1920s. “As thousands of officer candi dates stood at attention in a dawn formation yesterday, Brig. Gen. Waldo C. Potter, commander of the Field Artillery Replacement Train ing Center, awarded a Distinguish ed Service Medal to Cpl. William E. Dougherty who received it on behalf of his father, Col. Louis R. Dougherty, reported missing at Bataan. “The honor was given Corporal Dougherty at the suggestion of his mother, Mrs. Eileen B. Dougherty, of Midland, Texas. Mrs. Dougherty originally was slated to receive the award from Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan, commander of the Eighth Service Command. “General Potter was asked by Mr.s Dougherty to make the pre sentation due to a long-term friend ship between the Replacement Cen ter commander and Colonel Dough erty. Their friendship started while school buddies at the United States Military Academy. “The award came as a result of “exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in the Phillip- pine Islands.” At the time of the famous Bataan battle Colonel Dougherty was commander of the Provisional Field Artillery Brigade Philippine Division. “On hand for the presentation were Brig. Gen. J. D. Balmer, com mandant of the Field Artillery School, and Col. K. S. Perkins, post commander. “Corporal Dougherty last July, volunteered his services to his country and asked for service in Field Artillery. He was assigned to Fort Sill where his father spent many years in the service. Follow ing his basic training in the Re placement Center he went through the usual preparation school and then into Officer Candidate School.” pay fond farewell to Richard Dix for having rid the town of the law lessness that Edgar Buchanan and his ilk had visited upon them, it’s a safe bet that most Western fans will have had their money’s worth. All this occurs in “Tombstone,’* showing today and tomorrow at the Campus. As in all Westerns, “Tombstone” has the usual share of action, bark ing guns, fist fights, fast riding and wild cowboys. It’s better than the usual show of this type, though, because of the good acting and well directed scenes. Dix and Bu chanan are assisted by Frances Gifford, Don Castle and Kent Tay lor in the speaking parts. The Lowdown—crime doesn’t pay in the Wild West, either. WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Tuesday and Wednesday— “Tombstone,” with Richard Dix and Frances Gifford. At Guion Hall Tuesday and Wednesday— “Song of the Islands,” star ring Betty Grable and Victor Mature. New Weekday Schedule Box Office Opens 2 P. M. Closes 10 P. M. TODAY and WED. Plus Merry Melody Sports — Short !!lllllllllil!!llllll!!lll!lllllli!ii!:. . IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK ' ■ - - - .. M. Yff Telephone 4-1181 Box Office Opens 2 p.m. TODAY - TOMORROW 2:10- 4:07- 6:04- 8:01 -9:58 Harry James and Orchestra in “TRUMPET SERENADE” Merry Melody “DOG TIRED” Speaking of Animals At last we have the answer to that old one about why does a chicken cross the road. Because there were no cars coming either way. CLOTHES IN THE UMEUGHT NEED EXTRA CARE BE SURE YOU’RE AT YOUR BEST - HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED AND PRESSED BY EXPERTS Campus Cleaners Conveniently Located Over Exchange Store