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Page 4 — Texas’ largest underground cav ern is Longhorn Cavern, 11 miles southwest of Burnet. -THE BATTALION- IK u: •I j: What Shall I Give Him This Christmas? We suggest that you allow us to help in solving your gift prob lems . . . here you’ll find gifts for every one on your shopping list. Wool Finger Tip Coats Lined Zelan Jackets Manhattan Sportswear Manhattan Pajamas Beau-Brummel Ties Rabhor Fine Robes Evans House Slippers Swank Gift Novelties Swank and Hickok Jewelry Hickok Bar “H” Belts Meeker Bill Folds Meeker Toilet Kits Holeproof Socks Aggie Jewelry Aggie Gift Novelties GIFTS “SHE” WILL WANT Catalina Sweaters Holeproof Hoseiery Hansen Costume Gloves Ingber Handbags Rochester Handker chiefs Aggie Jewelry riTaldropflft 1 “Two Convenient Stores” ! College Bryar OFFICIAL NOTICES Classified PIANO SALE—1 beautiful Kimball console, Louis XVI style: 1 new Story and Clarke Spinette; 1 Thos. Groggan and Bro. studio, floor model. Special holiday discounts. Terms if desired. Phone 2-1244. Thos. Groggan & Bro., 609 East 26th St., Bryan, Texas. LOST—A brown, leather billfold in the vicinity of No. 11. Name and papers of John W. Griffin inside. Return wal let and papers to Griffin in 124 No. IT, keep money, no questions asked. LOST—on Tuesday before Thanksgiving, pair of glasses in tan leather case on intramural football field. Please notify or return to Room 301, No. 6. BI-SWING BLOUSE for sale. Size about 36 or larger. $27.00. 39 Mitchell. LOST—A dark blue overcoat. I left it on Aggie bench on the Caldwell Highway in Bryan the week end of the Wash ington State game. Finder please re turn to Ted Graves, 48 Goodwin for re ward. Meetings The twenty-sixth meeting of the Texas A.&M. Section of the American Chemical Society will be held in the Chemistry Lecture Room at 8:80 P.M., Wednesday, December 16, 1942. The usual informal dinner will be held at the Aggieland Inn at 7:00 p.m. Prof. John H. Yoe of the University of Virginia will speak on the subject “Inorganic Analysis With Organic Re agents.” All interested are invited to attend. A business meeting will be held after the speaker has completed answering questions, at which ballots for officers will be opened. THE DAMES CLUB is invited to the Campus Study Club Tea, Dec. 16, at 8:00 p.m., in the Y.M.C.A. Chapel. THE SAN ANGELO CLUB will have a very important meeting in room 203 Ag Building at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Plans for the Christmas Party will be dis cussed. THE NEWCOMERS CLUB will meet in the home of Mrs. E. Holdredge, 200 W. Dexter, College Park, Wednesday after noon at 3:00 p.m. Both bridge and sew ing. THE SAN ANGELO CLUB will meet tonight after supper in room 203, Ag Building. GULF COAST A.&M. CLUB—There will be a meeting of the Gulf Coast A.&M. Club tonight at 8 p.m. in Room 120, Ac ademic Bldg. Plans for the Christmas dance will be discussed. All Aggies living in or within fifty miles of Corpus Christi are eligible for membership in the club and may come to the dance. JOHNSON COUNTY CLUB—There will be a meeting of the Johnson County Club tonight, Tuesday, December 16, at 8:00 p.m. in Room 208 of the Academic Build ing. The Fort Worth A. & M. Club will meet in the Academic tonight at 8:00 o’clock. Announcements JANUARY 1, 1943, will be the last order to leave the Registrar’s Office for the “old style” ring. After January 1, 1943, all rings will he the “new style” rings. If you want the “old style” be sure WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUR EYES OR YOUR GLASSES—Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 S. Main Bryan HASWELL’S WE WILL PAY CASH FOR USED RECORDS, USED RADIOS AND PHONOGRAPHS. HASWELL’S BOOK STORE Bryan Christmas Confections Concocted With Cheer MADELEY’S PHARMACY South Gate Wishing You The Very Merriest Christmas and A Happy and Prosperous New Year » COLLEGE BOOK STORE North Gate - ’MURAL SPORTS - (Continued From Page 3) Field led the scorers with nine points. Other Artillery pointment were: C. J. Kallina, six points; M. L. Ott and T. P. Faulkner with four points each. Bill Wheeler and C. L. Brunow scored four and two points, respectively for the losing congregation. The other match, between A Coast and B Infantry, was a more hotly-contested affair. The Infan try team trailed by a count of 11- 4 at the end of the first half but came back strong to threaten in the last half. They accounted for nine points in the final period while the victors were held to a meager four. E. R. Stewart and G. E. Wil kins scored all of the points cred ited to the Coast team. Stewart made eight points while Wilkins scored seven. R. S. Hackney made seven tallies for the Infantrymen and E. W. Genther chalked up four points. —LONGHORN— (Continued From Page 1) there. When the pictures do start com ing in, the tiny task of making a myriad of plates begins—which is all the more fun because while each photo must be trimmed, some staffman invariably cuts some body’s head off, or his finger, or both as was the case this year. Staff Takes Campus Shots After the plates, all of the names and so forth must be typed out and marked, then the call for campus snapshots goes out to the corps. Only a few hundred of these are needed, and although they beg and beg, the Longhorn staff must take a day and a camera and run around snapping pictures. Just about this time, a new pro motion list, or distinguished stu dent list comes out, so the names prepared previously must be re vised—more fun! All Want Vanity Fair Shots If that isn’t enough, nobody cares about getting their girl in Vanity Fair or the Senior Favorite section, so those deadlines must be extended. When the Vanity Fair pictures come back, every news paper and magazine in the South west wants to borrow them, so that holds things up some more. When the time comes that that is out of the way, the Aggieland and Sports sections must be made up. This takes about four hours per page for one man, and the entire staff must work from about 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.—the next day! Well, just about that time every body thinks things are about wound up, so the staff starts go ing to the picture show at night instead of working. Just as the final gun is about to be fired, some stupid outsider thumbs through the dummy and asks what these two empty pages are for. What empty pages? ??•%•?! So, you have to dig up some thing to fill up two empty pages right in the middle of the book. Proof Must Be Read You can then relax, or at least you may if you can relax and read proof at the same time. Just about the time all of the proof is read and you are down in the last gal ley of the freshman class, another stupid somebody wants to know what outfits those three fish are in. Those three right there? Yeah. Well, look in the student directory and find out. But I did, and they aren’t in the student directory. What?! Yeeeee! Three extra fresh men, complete with pictures! And it’s too late to stop them! Well, you think there must be some mistake, but sure enough, the 1943 Longhorn will come out with three freshmen pictured and listed that don’t wear fish stripes. Seems as though the staff got some soph omore pictures and imaginary names mixed up, so some wet- heads are coming out in the fish section under a purely fictitious set of names. The names? C. D. Elmwood, U. C. Grabb, and W. Oscar Overtown. Believe it or not! J K€ 943. The Naval Recruiting: party will be on the campus Wednesday. December 16, for the purpose of giving: the exam ination and completing the enlistment of students under eighteen who wish to join under the Navy V-l plan. Those who have their papers ready should be at the Assembly Hall a.m. sen i am 1 be at the Assembly Hall at 11 They will be given authorized ab- ices while they are taking the ex- ination. F. C. Bolton, Dean. Taylor and Turner —BACKWASH— (Continued From Page 2) and good wishes for your suc cess and welfare. Give your sister and family our love when you see them. Your father, C. M. Winkler Backwashin’ Around... Have you seen the advertise ment on page one of this week’s Time Magazine? It shows the shape of things to come . . . don’t miss it! . . . Classes definitely won’t be dismissed today for the Christmas holidays. . . . Battalion Editor Elect John Holman receiv ed the following telegram from home yesterday: Dear John, Just heard the news. Congratulations. We are proud of you.” And inci dentally, the boys around the Batt office are too. . . To the disillu sioned Aggies: We saw Anne Gwynne and Martha O’Driscoll leaving at the S. P. depot this morning and they look pretty good without screen makeup. We had to look twice before we recognized them. . . . Then there was the lit tle moron who threw the cow over the cliff just to hear the Jersey Bounce, (ouch). Parting Thought . . . Many a sober-faced little lamb goes riding in the moonlight and comes home with a sheepish grin on her face. —KYLE FIELD— (Continued From Page 3) . . . The Aggie basketball team is having its troubles scheduling games . . . the team had a host of tilts lined up with San Antonio entries but it seems that those particular schedules have not as yet worked out . . . Anyway, Man ning Smith is working on ’em . . . The new conference rule on fresh man eligibility for varsity play probably won’t see Texas Univer sity take advantage and use the first-year men in the Cotton Bowl against Georgia Tech ... if Coach Bible does use one, he’ll probably use Frank Guess, hard-hitting full back of the Yearling team . . . UCLA showed a nice varied at tack last Saturday against USC and will prove to be a much tough er opponent to Georgia than any one suspects ... Not hinting of an upset, mind you, but you never can tell . . . What say, Chicago Bears? —DISTRACTIONS- (Continued From Page 2) is waged against Japanese occu pants of the Philippines by a crew of telephone linemen. Their purpose after capturing a plantation is to set up a counter propaganda radio unit to stir the natives and keep resistance keyed up. Surrounded and sniped at, their water runs out. Men are killed by the mistakes of others. Running a gauntlet of bullets, Miss Landis pops in with a planter. When the Japs attack again with rifle and bomb, Landis and the hero, Lloyd Nolan, are last seen broadcasting and no doubt inspired the natives. The lowdown: another good war picture. Let a Good Haircut Mean Part of a MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR AGGIELAND BARBER SHOP Children’s Health Must Be Protected Even in Winter In discussing seasonal health hazards for young children today, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, Seate Health Officer, stated that babies and young children need as careful pro tection now against winter com plaints as they do in hot summer weather against “summer com plaint.” Influenza, tonsilitis, pneumonia, bronchitis, and asthma are includ ed among those diseases which may be dangerous winter illness es among young children since they affect the respiratory or breathing system. Such diseases as pneumonia may develop from a neglected cold, they may follow as an after-effect of measles or whoop ing cough, or they may occur sud denly and with very little warning. These diseases of the respiratory system are more prevalent in winter than in summer and are much more difficult to combat than digestive ailments such as summer complaint. “These winter diseases are par ticularly dangerous to babies and young children,” Dr. Cox stat ed. “Nearly all of them are spread through the secretions from the nose and mouth. Children not in vigorous health are naturally more susceptible to these com plaints and the first line of de- dense,” Dr. Cox cautioned, “is to strengthen the powers of resistance against disease; the second is to keep them under medical supervi sion and the third is to make sure they avoid contact with others who have coughs, colds or fevers.” A rushing business is usually headed by a man who does the same. A LOUPOT TRADE IS MONEY MADE -TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1942 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—J. C. Yearie—County Agent. 11:55 a.m.—Town Crier—C. Ber ing. 12:00 noon—Sign-off. LISTEN TO WTAW Tuesday, December 15 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Treasury Star Parade (U. S. Treasury). 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—C. A. Price. 11:55 a.m.—Town Crier—R. E. Gottlieb. 12:00 noon—Sign-off. Wednesday, December 16 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Swing Serenade (Sus taining) . Tuberculosis Increase Prevalent During War Emphasizing the importance of cooperating with the national tu berculosis control program, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer, today declared that war more than any other circumstance breeds the adverse conditions conducive to an increase in the prevalence of this disease. A wife is a great comfort to her husband during the distress times a bachelor never has. HMIDKERCHIEF TEST PROVES VITM TORE MUinVS SPOTLESS Always clean and free from goo no matter how often you smoke it. Challenging higher- priced pipes in briar quali-« ty and value. WM. DEMUTH & CO., NEW YORK &> | NO GOO CAN PASS HESSON IT’S CUSHION SUARy SEALED MAY WE EXTEND TO YOU OUR WISH FOR A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR HOLICK’S BOOT SHOP North Gate Thanks a Million For Your Patronage, Army and We’re Hoping for a Merry Christmas for You HOLICK’S CLEANERS Ben Youngblood, Mgr. North Gate .V«.^ Greetings Army WE HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A SWELL TIME OVER THE HOLIDAYS. GEORGE’S Across From New Y Santa’s peering over your shoulder—at your Christmas gift list—reminding you that there are ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS to complete your shopping! Hurry, hurry, hurry: this store hears the S.O.S. and is ready to check off every last name, with a gift that will be attractive and practical. The Exchange Store An Aggie Institution ••r J