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■TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1942 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 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 6, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. 1941 Member 1942 Plssockiied Gollefticde Press Brooks Gofer.. Bresnen.... Crown Ken thil Sports Staff Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor .Staff Photographer Mike Haikin Sports Editor Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor Chick Hurst Senior Sports Assistant Advertising Staff Reggie Smith Advertising Manager Jack E. Carter Tuesday 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 Tuesday’s Staff Tom Vannoy— Tom Leland ... John Holman Tom Journeay Douglas Lancaster. Jack Keith. Managing Editor Junior Managing Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor _...Junior Editor Junior Editor Today's Election Today once again the corps will go to the polls to select their choices for the many student positions on the campus. There will be races in which all classes of the school will be interested. Some are for the juniors alone, but other officers are chosen by the corps as a whole; so everybody including this year’s graduating seniors will have the opportunity to vote. Many do not realize the importance that the men who are elected today have in the activities of the school and the bearing they will have in the leadership of the corps. These men will occupy key positions and much will depend on their decisions in the offices they will occupy. Nobody doubts the importance of the positions. It is your right and duty to participate in today’s election and exercise another right which is a main characteristic of the demo cratic nations. Make your choice and vote for the man who you think is the best qual ified and most efficient. Don’t fail to vote; boxes are in the rotunda of the Academic building; voting will take place from 9 until 6:30. The Inter-Church Council Another Religious Emphasis Week has past, and with it the many fine speakers and in spiring hours of worship. True, the meet ings are over, but for a long time to come, every Aggie that attended any of these meets will remember them and what they mean to him. We heard the speakers, we attended the meetings, but we haven’t thought about the organization and administration of those meetings. The unseen hand that guided the admin istration of this Religious Emphasis Week was the group of boys in the A.&M. Inter- Church Council. These boys, just twenty in all, did all of the organization and execu tive work necessary to make this Religious Emphasis Week a success. To the boys whose names follow, mem bers of the Inter-Church Council, we extend our congratulations for a very inspiring Re ligious Emphasis Week. D. A. Treadwell, chairman; Tom Myers, Ross Lanier, Oran Jones, Sam Lewis, John Evans, C. E. Outterside, C. W. Anderson, Frank C. Bibbs, Charlie Thompson, Sam Rosenstein, Billy Noah, Bob McFall r L. D. Housewright, Wayne Rosenberg, Oscar Schuchart, Rex Colwick, Alanson Brown, Lamar Haines. From Capital to Campus ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington TEEN AGE DRAFT As this is written the president is signing the ’teen age draft bill. Its impact will be felt at once by colleges and universities thrpughout the nation. About one-third of all male collegians are 18 or 19 years old. Prospects for these men sum up like this: Approximately 25 per cent probably won’t be taken because of physical disabilities. Those already enlisted in college reserve training courses won’t be taken—they are already in the army, and apparently, passage of the bill won’t appreciably affect their present status. The same goes for those in senior ROTC. All other 18 and 19 year old college students are subject to draft call—and fast. It is estimated they will be inducted start ing Jan. 1. For a time it appeared that ’teen age men already in college would be able to obtain deferment until July 1, 1943. That prospect is now out the window for college men, although high school students called up in the last half of this school year may request deferment in order to finish out their terms. Enactment of the law will probably re sult in a hard drive by the navy to enlist 17 year olds, since army draft of the elder ’teen age youth will seriously cut into the navy man power potential—and the navy still insists upon voluntary enlistment. * * * ONLY A DIM OUT Passage of the bill does not mean a com- This Collegiate World PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis : ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS! The women’s service corps, newly organized military class for co-eds, walked off with the honors at the final ROTC dress parade of the fall semester, competing with men. Making their first appearance—wear ing raincoats and saddle shoes and anklets because their uniforms hadn’t yet arrived— the 73 girls now training in the corps scored 52 out of a possible 60 points. Units were graded on halting and dress ing on the line when first coming on the drill field, steadiness in ranks, alignment of companies while passing in review and keep ing in step. In winning the parade, the WSC’s instruct ed by Lieutenant Richard Ellis outpointed one signal company, four engineer companies and nine infantry companies. * * * Physical conditioning is combined with prac tical training in woodcraft in a course given at the University of Michigan by the school of forestry and the department of physical education and athletics. Through field trips, seminars and in struction in wrestling holds and jude blows, the course is designed to help students ac quire sound judgment in coping with situa tions encountered in out-of-doors life. The knowledge thus gained is useful to the stu dent whether he serves in the armed forces or joins field expeditions to any part of the globe. Fundamentals of out-of-door life are stressed with emphasis on preparation of nourishing meals, proper technique of set ting up camp, how to detect edible plants and catch wild animals which may be eaten in emergencies, and sufficient knowledge of scouting to enable students to keep on a prop er course through use of the compass, land marks, rough maps and bearings taken on the sun and stars. Safe ways of crossing bottomless mus kegs and bogs, proper handling of canoes, small boats and rafts plus training in pro tection against injuries, disease, insect and reptiles also are important features of the course. Self-defense and speedy ways of dis patching an adversary are learned from wrestling and jodo. The course developed from a non-credit seminar on personal care in the field given for forestry students by Dr. Samuel A. Gra ham and Dr. Earl C. O’Roke and a series of practical field exercises offered experi mentally in the spring semester of the 1941- 42 school year. With the advent of compul sory physical conditioning for all men stu dents, the type of instruction won approval of the department of physical education and athletics as an alternative to the regular con ditioning program. Popularity of the course, which has won attention from both the army and navy, has made it necessary to limit en rollment to 40. Here’s hoping this gets to Dad in the form of a bomb or part of a plane, because he will know what to do with it,” William H. Kenney said as he added to the scrap pile on the University of Cincinnati campus. His father is Major General George C. Kennedy, in command of the United Na tions’ air forces in the southwest Pacific. Young Kenney, pre-medical student, has been busy with scrap collecting. The univer sity’s pile to date weighs more than 150,000 pounds. Aggie Cryptogram \t he L °w d cuczj □ t=i tn a a ti by campus Ja c k K ° w n °n K e- > 1 / o a a aiJilQUlUl 13 £=3 □ cb \ jzj cn o a □ a in ED, Movie goers who enjoy techni- Carole Landis also appears in color musicals, will have the treat another attraction today and to- of their life when they see “MY in “MANILA CALLING” at the Campus theater. Starting GAL SAL/' It’s scheduled for a with a battle and ending with one> two-day run at Guion Hall today plug aerial bombardment> this is a and tomorrow. Having played pre- fair program item after a routine viously at the Campus, its popular- faghion in which guerilla warfare “I carry this rock for the first 20 miles, Sarge, and then when I throw it away, you’d be surprised how much lighter my pack feels!” BACKWASH By vldck Hood "Backwash: An agitation resultingr from some action or occurrence” — Webster You must not expect too much my boy. Walton started to scool -with ity with the student body has war ranted bringing it back for a re- showing. In “My Gal Sal,” Victor Mature plays a part entirely suited to his looks and manner. As Paul Dresser, composer of such tunes as “My Gal Sal,” “On the Banks of the Wabash,” Mature is arrogant, ex travagant, vain and hardly admir able. In his business life and in his love life, he appears slightly de testable to the audience. Rita Hayworth and Carole Lan dis play the feminine leads oppo site Mature. Rita is less effective in this role than in some previous ones that she has handled, but with technicolor and those legs—my, my. Landis is very good as the show girl who befriends the young com poser before he attains fame. The plot starts with Dresser at his Indiana home, where he flees a tyrannical father and takes up a crooked medicine man. Irate citizens tar and feather him (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) By Nelson Karbach Tragedy ... on Wednesday of last week and A Field Artillery freshman seemed wel1 P leased but Saturday a ft e r his boss leaves him holding (name witheld by request) tells ® nd / e f erda ^ we complained of t he bag. He then joins another this sad tale which has a familiar h8artache and so did not go to traveling show, is seen by New to the rest of us Aggies school today. Hope he will be well York stage star, Rita Hayworth, tomorrow. As requested in your wbo i aU g bs a t his hickish behavior, letter I send you enclosed a check ring it seems that before he came A. & M. he had a girl (one of those * Maddened by her laughs, he sets things). He said he was deeply in \° pay for ^ c L lotbin «- unifor ™ out to show Miss Smarty that she’s love with her, and she (suposedly) 1 su pP° se - J he ® he< * f 9 you ""J 11 not so smart after all. He does. In returned his feelings. School was see for $ 15 - j 00 ^ New York he finds Rita using one starting and the prospect of tear- ntl0 £ a need ° f f 13 ’ 00 but the of his songs in his show, and from other $2.00 will not come amiss. then on he composes one hit af t e r Please acknowledge receipt of the another until finally _ but that > s check. Suppose you hear from home the whole story regularly. Walton joins me in love The Lowdown _ gay go ings-on in See BACKWASH, Page 4) the Say nineties. ing himself away from his ever- lovin’ babe weighed heavily upon him. Before he left, he passionately vowed that he would return every holiday and she told him to send her a telegram so she could meet him at the station. Finally Thanks giving holidays came around and he took off like a scaled duck for Corsicana . . . and his girl. Getting off the train, he rushed to her house, only to find her courting up a storm with some other fel low. He told her what he thought of her and took the next train back to school. That evening, having a severe case of the pinkus tuckus, corner ed him and said to him, “Say, lis ten, you’ve got to forgive your girl friend; I wrote her last week to tell her what I thought of her pull ing a trick like that on you and she wrote back and said she never got your telegram!” ... all we can say is that the poor fish will learn before long.* Patronize Our Agent In Your Outfit DYEFUR 3TORAOE HATTERS TtLoncain. >1565m D. M. DANSBY, ’37 Armistice (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 AEGGI ELSST AAEHV E H IT W CHIRS AMSTW IHMOT AMOPP DEHNR. —A. G. Wallace, 1st Hq. F. A. Saturday’s Solution THE SINGING CADETS ARE SINGING THEIR SONGS DEEP INTO THE HEARTS OF TEXANS. plete blackout of educational opportunity for college ’teen agers. Once they are in the army, these men, as well as all other 18 and 19 year olds who are drafted, will be eligible to take aptitude and intelligence tests to de termine whether they may return to college for technical and scientific training. Past education, apparently, will be con sidered in final selection of draftees who may return to college. Other criteria include “qualities of leadership, military ability and aptitude for more education” as reflected in examination results. According to Representative Sparkman, Democrat, of Alabama, the army will send more men back to college than it actually needs for its own purposes. These extra men would be assigned to industrial jobs. Sparkman points out that the army plan calls for training periods of varying length, from 9 to 27 months. Principal courses would be medical and pre-medical courses, engineering and science. Those college men whose abilities and interests lie in the arts, fine and otherwise, are going to be at a dis advantage. Although there is some disagreement in Washington on the point, it appears that all of the young draftees will have to com plete basic training before they may return to college. His financial status will have nothing whatever to do with whether a man is selected to return to college for training. Ironically, it takes the dictates of wartime logic to achieve a degree of democratic se lection of those who should attend college. The recent controversy with TSCW over Clyde Franklin’s arti cle on the TSCW date bureau in the last Battalion mag has finally been called off. The two schools have (figuratively) kissed and made up. Cause of the truce was the de cision of the editorial staff of the Battalion mag to run a monthly column about TSCW in the maga zine. This column will be written by Miss Ruth Ann (Lupe to the boys) Dowd, comely blode sopho more. (Lupe wrote the other half of the TSCW date bureau story). She will be the first member of the fairer sex to be on the Bat talion staff in the history of the school. Say the editors, “The pur pose of this column is to bring about closer understanding and more intimate relationship with TSCW.” Field Artillery Sophomore Bill Murphy says he has laid claim to her—but that isn’t stopping us! Her address is box 3226, TSCW Station, Denton, Texas. THINK OF A GIFT and THINK OF A PICTURE Merry Christmas to All AGGIELAND STUDIO North Gate SAY— MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH THESE GIFTS WATCHES DIAMONDS RINGS JEWELRY VARNER’S Bryan Ex-Aggie . The following is a letter receiv ed by C. M. Winkler on October 10, 1881 when he was a brand-new freshman. It was written to him by his father. Tyler, Texas Oct. 10, 1881 C. M. Winkler Junr. College Station Dear Son, Your account of your quarters at the A. & M. as per your letter of the 4th is not a pleasant one. I hope that by this time you are better situated. You must not find wedding feasts at a college stu dents hall. (Apparently Hotard was doing his dirty work then too.) Your Ma writes me she has sent you a box of something to eat so I hope you have filled your bread basket for once during the first week of your college life. You know you don’t go there to eat With Santa Well On His Way, May We Take Time Out to Wish You a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS STUDENT CO-OP 1 Block East of Main Post Office WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Tuesday and Wednesday— “Manila Calling,” with Carole Landis and Lloyd Nolan. At Guion Hall Tuesday and Wednesday— “My Gal Sal,” with Victor Mature, Carole Landis and Rita Hayworth. LOUPOT WATCHDOG OF THE AGGIES SMART WAY Our pleasant service brings you delicious food without any effort ... at little cost. Come in for thrifty goodness. The White-Way Cafe East Gate Ph. 4-9164 Telephone 4-1181 Box Office Opens 2 p.m. TODAY - TOMORROW DOUBLE FEATURE liovd Nolan • I Lloyd Nolan • Carole Landis Cornel Wilde-lames Gleasor 3:28 - 6:28 - 9:28 “Down Mexico Way” Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Fay McKenzie 2:10 - 5:10 - 8:10 Also 2-Reel Cartoon “THE RAVEN” New Weekday Schedule Box Office Opens 2 P.M. Closes 10 P. M. MON. TUBS. - WED. Plus MR. BLABBERMOUTH SCREEN SNAPSHOT SLEEP WALKER i- t- * * * j V t * V *