■TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1942
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•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.
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Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
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1941 Member 1942
Plssockiied Gollefticde Press
Brooks Gofer..
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Crown
Ken
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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.
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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
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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
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