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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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Associated Colle6iate Press
Brooks Gofer , Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen Associate Editor
£hil Crown Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports Editor
Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor
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Advertising Staff
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Circulation Staff
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H. R. Tampke.. 1 Senior Assistant
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Tuesday’s Staff
Tom Vannoy Managing Editor
Tom LelancL ! Junior Managing Editor
Douglas Lancaster Junior Editor
John Holman Junior Editor
Tom Journeay : Junior Editor
Gene Robards Reporter
Peace Plan
(
Public opinion, backed by strong men be
hind a conference table and not merely ideal
ists and dreamers, will mold the peace after
this war, Dr. Henry J. Bruman, assistant
professor of geology at Pennsylvania State
Cllege, declares in outlining a four-point
peace plan.
Dr. Bruman believes we must start now
to think about terms on which peace can
be maintained, and he lists the following
four steps for a lasting peace:
1. A program of re-education and in
doctrination for democracy in the conquer
ed countries. To do this will probably take
a lifetime, gradually placing into position
of power youth who have been taught the
principles of freedom and democracy.
2. Military occupation of Germany, It
aly, and possibly Hungry with maintenance
of an army of ccupation in those countries
for at least 8 to 10 years, and perhaps a
whole generation during the re-education
process.
3. Compulsory military training in the
United States for every male citizen to pro
vide a large standing army.
4. Generous boundary allotments to
Germany and Japan, and equally generous
allotments of sources of adequate raw ma
terials. Germany should be given Austria
and the Sudeten Germans.
“I fervently hope the powers in Russia
and the English-speaking peoples will be
able to arrive at a mutually satisfactory
agreement regarding the nature of the
peace,” Dr. Bruman concludes. “If such har
mony does not come about, we shall have
lost the peace.” —ACP.
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not
have too much of it.—Charles Dudley War
ner.
This Collegiate World
: ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS==
Brunets who dance well and are good con
versationalists are the ideal date, according
to applications received by the Independent
Women’s association dating bureau at Penn
sylvania State College.
Girls should not pay too much attention
to advice to be a good listener, it was dis
closed. The men defined a good conversa
tionalist as one between a constant chatterer
and an unadulterated listener.
Of 79 male applicants, 21 rated conver
sational ability as essential, 17 demanded
good dancers, 17 requested brunet dates, 16
voted for slenderness, 14 asked for a talk
ative date, 13 said to date should not be
too quiet, 12 objected to too much makeup,
and 10 condemned snobbishness.
Only seven votes each were given to
beauty, a sense of humor and intelligence;
five favored good figures and five “a reason
able amout of reserve;” four ruled out smok
ing and two vetoed wearing glasses. Three
voted for blonds and two for red-heads.
Co-ed applicants rated high as a virtue,
with 26 of the 64 specifying it. Ten object
ed to conceit, three to drinking, one to cigars,
and one to glasses.
* * *
Seventeen army medical officers are being
given a special course in laboratory training
and methods in the medical school at the
University of Michigan. The officers are
the first of three groups the army is sending
to the university for 12-week instruction
periods.
The extensive course provides the army
physicians with latest developments in labor
atory methods and is designed to develop
the officers into “one-man laboratories” so
they can perform any ordinary type of pro
cedure if they are established at isolated
posts.
* * *
Research in educational problems has been
woefully neglected and is in need of more
attention, says Dr. Frank N. Freeman, dean
of the school of education of the university
of California.
Dr. Freeman said there are two general
fields in which educational research is need
ed. In one are problems of organization and
administration of school; in another category
are problems of psychology, economics, po
litical science, sociology and even in biology,
physics and chemistry.
From Capital to Campus
ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washinsrton
AFTER ITS OVER
As colleges and universities lose their young
men to the services at an ever-increasing
rate, more and more attention is being di
rected at post-war educational opportunities
for those who will be veterans of World War
II.
After the last war, the government fi
nanced the education and vocational training
of only those veterans who suffered injury
during the war. This time the government’s
intentions appear to be much broader.
When he recently appointed a committee
to study the problem, the president said
nothing about wodnd-stripe pre-requisiteo
for the post-war education of veterans-to-be.
He also referred to the educational policy
of the last post-war period as “provisional,
thus indicating he thought it quite inade
quate.
He said that the plan this time should
“enable the young men whose education has
been interrupted to resume their schooling
and afford equal opportunity for the train
ing and education of other young men of
ability . . .”
That approach gives many enlightened
educators reason to hope that the war’s
aftermath will bring a revitalized educational
system, with selection of students based on
ability rather than economic privilege. At
any rate, it gives college students going
into the army some hope that there will be
a concrete freedoom waiting them at the end
of “the road back.”
“I ran out of ammunition, Sir, but I’ve been sniping’ em
with cocoanuts!”
BACKWASH
Already, the “President’s Committee on
Post-War Education of students,” as it is
officially called, is wrangling about details
of the program—which is a good sign. It in-
"Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
By Nelson Karbach
A company of selectees were be
ing moved out of a city up north
for points unknown. All of the
dicates that there is something in the wind Army IntolligUnCG . . .
worth arguing about, and that the commit
tee is active. According to the latest psycho-
Points at issue appear to be the ques- J 0 £ ic£ ^ information, the average
tion of how the plan shall be financed, how intelligence of the typical selectee
long it shall be under the jurisdiction of the of World War II is slightly high-
army, and then whether its administration or than that of the typical draftee
should be under the Veterans Administra- ° f y° rld War I . . . but we are
tion, the Office of Education, or some new be &inmng to have a few doubts,
government agency set up for the purpose.
Details of how college credits earned in
pre-war days shall be applied to a student-
veteran’s record when he returns to school, sad selectees were standing around
have been worked out by the American kissing their mothers and sweet-
Council of Education here in Washington. hearts a fond good-bye—that is,
all except one forlorn boy who had
EDUCATION ELSEWHERE no one to kiss> Finally the atmos-
The Italians are evacuating schools in P here of tender oscillation got the
zones exposed to bombing. best of Picking out a good-
Italy has ruled out new registrations in blonde, he charged up and
certain university courses for the duration began kissing her passionately,
of the war v claiming that he had no mother
All pro-axis professors at the University 1x5 see him off - The £ irI promptly
of Buenos Aires have been ordered to quit took P it; y 01 } the P oor sold i e f and
their jobs, according to a short wave radio cooperated in the most desirable
from Chile. manner. So he kissed her again
JOBS and ran to catch the train as it
An examination for “Junior Pharmacists” polled out of the station,
jobs has been announced by the Civil Serv- Now the girl is trying to find
ice Commission. Those who have finished out who the boy is—no doubt
courses in pharmacy, or who are seniors, wanting to give him a bit more
may apply. Jobs paying $2,000, $1,800, mothering. The chump didn’t even
$1,620 and $1,440 are open to those who pass take the trouble to find out her
the test. name and address. If this is an
indication of the intelligence of
— ■— . — the average buck private, we feel
sorry for the army.
Save Those Tires . . .
The special train was drawing
Quotable Quotes
yellow and hung well below his
knees. There was at least nine
inches of padding in each shoulder.
Old harrassed Backwash has
been having trouble with his fam
ily and is no longer on speaking
terms with his sister since he faint
ed when a zoot-suited rejectee from
Rice walked into his living room
to call on his sis.
BackwashiiT Around .
Bob Hanby, senior yell leader
took on a ball and chain over the
holidays when he walked down the
middle aisle with Billie Grace Ed
wards of Mesquite. The boys
around the Batt office wish him
lots of luck.
The holidays just weren’t long
enough, but somehow, we were sort
of glad to get back to the campus.
For those of you who haven’t had
enough, you can take consolation
in the fact that we will have
another week’s holiday in only
three weeks. (That’s just long
enough for us to recover from the
effects of Christmas.)
According to the circular put out
just before the holidays by Prevy’s
office, it doesn’t look like anyone
but a few boys in the Navy and
Marine Reserves will have a
chance to graduate. We happen to
be in the Navy reserve and to the
rest of you who happen to be in the
Army Reserve, all we can say is
“Ain’t it Hell!”
Parting Thought ...
We are engaged in the dirty business of war.
You did not start the conflict, but you will
have to carry it on. Yours will be the major
sacrifices, and you are preparing to make
them. All that I am saying is that, even in
such a time and under such conditions, it
is not your sole mission in life to learn to
fight, no matter what you are told. Your
preparation should be much broader. You
should get clearly in mind the kind of world
you want after the war and then prepare
yourself to bring about and to administer
this world. As you fight this war, insist that
your generation take responsibility for shap
ing the peace and equip itself to do so ef
fectively. Your country needs you in its
armed forces; it also needs you as able cit
izens, since a democracy can use to advan
tage all of the knowledge that can be ac
quired by its citizens.” —President Alexan
der G. Ruthven, University of Michigan,
urges students to get an education for life,
not for death.—ACP
* * *
“Education is the backbone of an army. The
job of the schools in this total war is to edu
cate the nation’s manpower for war and for
the peace that follws.”—The army’s Lt. Gen.
Brehon Somervell recommends that schools
and colleges become pre-induction training
centers for the armed forces, leaving the
army and navy free to concentrate on com
bat training. —ACP
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 Crytogram
ENOPS EIQRT ALSTU AFHOT AEGHT
EGIS—W. E. Scott, D. SC.
Thursday’s Solution:
FIFTEEN FOR CHUCK AND WIFE
AND HAPPY LANDINGS.
Dr. H. P. Thielman, member of the
mathematics faculty at St. Thomas College,
has been named assistant professor of math
ematics at Iowa State College.
near Houston last December 19
when it suddenly came to a stop
right out in the middle of the
prairie. Anxious, holiday-seeking
Aggies set up an awful howl be
cause they had already been de
layed an hour waiting for two
freight trains. Bleeding redoubled
when the train began to back up.
Then we found out what had
happened. The train had been
chugging along at about 65 m.p.h
when it plowed into an ice truck
making a perfect V for Victory
out of the chassis. Ice (shaved
into convenient drink-mixing size)
had been scattered along the track
for 300 yards and the truckbed
had been reduced to kindling wood.
Many Aggies were disappointed
because the driver had already
been removed to the hospital and
there was no blood splattered
around.
Several Aggies with camera®
took a few pictures and the train
moved on. Even if it did look
pretty bad it turned out that it
wasn’t much of an acident. The
driver of the unfortunate icetruck
had escaped with a minor cut on
the leg and all tires escaped with
out a single scratch.
Drape Shapes . . .
We were slightly amazed by the
numerous zoot - suits running
around over the holidays. At the
recent freshman dance of the Uni
versity of Houston poor old Back
wash didn’t get a chance all even
ing to indulge in his favorite pass
time (which is looking at the wom
en) because of his amazement at
-the zoot suits and drape shapes.
Over on one corner of the dance
floor a group of rejectees were
standing around fondly admiring
a “classy set of threads” which
they thought was ‘all reet”. It
seemed that he had to grease his
feet to get his pants on. We
wandered over to take a look at
him. Old Army, you wouldn’t be
lieve it but his coat was a bright
Girls may not be hard drinkers
but some of them have plenty on
the hip.
Mechanics Needed
As Instructors In
Army Air Forces
Hundreds of persons—men and
women—are needed for important
war service jobs as instructors at
Seymour Johnson Field, Brigadier
General Walter J. Reed, command
ing general of the field, has an
nounced. Seymour Johnson Field
is an air mechanics’ school in the
Army Air Forces Technical Train
ing Command.
By employing civilian instruc
tors, many skilled enlisted men
now serving as instructors will be
released for combat duty in ground
crews of the Army Air Forces,
General Reed said.
Technical experience is not es
sential to qualify for an instruc
tor’s job. Training is provided at
the field. Acceptable applicants
are paid the regular salary during
the training period.
To qualify as an instructor at
beginning salary of $2,000 a‘year
—about $40 a week—a person must
be a high school graduate or equiv
alent, at least 18 years of age and
a citizen of the United States. In
addition, he must meet one of these
five qualifications:
1. One year of college; 2 one
year’s experience as an automo
bile or airplane mechanic; 3. a
Civil Aeronautics Authority cer
tificate as an airplane mechanic or
ground instructor in airplane me
chanics; 4. six months’ full-time
or one year night school experience
in teaching mechanics or any other
shop subject; 5. completion of a
Federally-s ponsored training
couse in aeronautical engineering,
or any technical course in engines
or aircraft design.
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Guion Hall offers an old one
“Nothing But the Truth” as its
feature presentation today and to
morrow. Bob Hope and Paulette
Goddard hold down the leading
roles, with Edward Arnold, Leif
Erikson and Glenn Anders sup
porting.
The story is even older than the
picture, being of the 1916 vintage.
But in spite of the bewhiskered
story, Hope brings to the picture
his usual brand of fun and humor,
making it a laugh-provoker. Ac
cording to the plot, Bob bets $10,-
000 of Paulette Goddard’s money
that he can tell the truth for
twenty-four hours. Maybe you
think Edward Arnold, Leif Erik
son and Glenn Anders, who took
the bet, don’t crown our hero into
one tight corner after another.
Paulette is as good as ever in
her role and improves with each
film, but it’s Hope’s picture and,
brother, he makes the best of it.
The Lowdown—^nothing but
comedy.
Billed with “Nothing but the
Truth” is “AFFAIRS OF JIMMY
VALENTINE,” with Dennis O’
Keefe, Ruth Terry and Gloria
Dickson. The cast is good, but
the plot is mediocre. The telling
skips from one place of thought
to another and spectators are
thrown for a loss as to correct as
sumption of the various segments.
The plot has Jimmy Valentine,
after his release from jail, be
coming a country editor, raising a
family and, with a quartet of re
formed buddies, living the straight
and narrow way. Into a peaceful
village comes a radio wizard, seek
ing Valentine so he can do a radio
script and keep peace with his
sponsor. With him he brings a
cheap gangster who claims Valen
tine framed his father. Two mur
ders are done by said gangster.
When Valentine is unveiled he
tries to kill him, but dies him
self.
U S Textbooks Aid
Chinese Medical
School Students
American medical and surgical
textbooks sent to the Soviet Un
ion by hundreds of American med
ical students through Russian War
Relief, are helping to prepare new
doctors for work with the Red
Army and among Russia’s 40,000,-
000 evacuees from invaded terri
tory, it was revealed in letters sent
to Russian War Relief by students
in the First Kharkov Medical In
stitute.
The Kharkov Institute, one of
the largest medical schools in the
world, was moved to Chkalov
when the Nazis occupied Kharkov.
Classes were in full swing within
a week after the faculty and stu
dent body left Kharkov.
A letter written in painstaking
English and signed by six first
year students said that “our In
stitute, in spite of war conditions,
is preparing many new physicians
for the front and the rear and we
work hard at it.”
It also reported that “on Sun
days we work at the plants and
so help the front.”
“We students thank you for the
books which you have sent for
us,” the note concluded.
Another letter, signed by a girl
student, Lida Kalinina, 19 years
old, invited correspondence with
American students.
“My father is at the front,” she
wrote, after expressing thanks for
the text books sent by Russian
War Relief. “I study at the Med
ical Institute. At school I studied
German, at the Institute I study
English. It is a very interesting
language.
“I shall be happy to receive an
answer from you.”
Velio Stanbach, another student
who wrote in English, also ex
pressed a hope that he might hear
from American students or phy
sicians.
“I am sure that after the war
we shall be able to extend and
strengthen our relations,” he said.
Both Miss Kalinina and Stan
bach may be addressed in care
of the Public Relations Depart
ment of Russian War Relief, 11
E 35th St., New York City, which
will forward letters.
Russian War Relief is seeking
all kinds of up-to-date medical
textbooks for Soviet medical stu
dents and for the Central Medical
Library, in Moscow, which is used
by both military and civilian doc
tors.
The Lowdown—Crime and dra
ma, not too well done.
One of the features at the Cam
pus today and tomorrow is “SUI
CIDE SQUADRON.” The title
would lead you to believe that
this was an action filled picture
of airplanes, fighting and suicide
squadrons but there is only a
smattering of such.
It’s the story of a Polish pianist
who marries an American news
paperwoman. In spite of his wife’s
persuasions, he leaves her to join
a Polish flying legion in England.
She gets him back at the end, but
it is clearly seen to be a matter
of time before he will return to
fly against Germany.
The Lowdown—tale of a fight
ing, flying, Polish pianist.
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WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“Suicide Squadron” with An
ton Walbrook. Also “Sher
lock Holmes and the Voice
of Terror” starring Basil
Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, and
Evelyn Ankers.
At Guion Hall
Tuesday, Wednesday —
“Nothing But the Truth”
with Bob Hope and Paulette
Goddard. Also “Affairs of
Jimmy Valentine,” with Den
nis O’Keefe and Ruth Terry.
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Box Office Opens 2 P.M.
Closes 10 P. M.
DOUBLE FEATURE
TODAY - WEDNESDAY
Shows at
2:10 - 5:18 - 8:26 - 11:12
AFFAIRS OF
JIMMY VALENTINE
Starring
Dennis O’Keefe
Gloria Dickson
Shows at
3:42 - 6:48 - 9:56
Donald Duck
News
Telephone 4-1181
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.
TODAY - TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
“SHERLOCK HOLMES
AND THE VOICE OF
TERROR”
with
Nigel Bruce
Basil Rathbone
3:35 - 6:15 - 8:59
“Suicide
Squadron”
with
Sally Gray
Anton Walbrook
2:10 - 4:52 - 7:34
Also
Pluto Cartoon
“T-BONE FOR TWO”
SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S
EVE PREVIEW
11:30 p.m. Thursday
“Eagle
Squadron”