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Confusing, Isn't It?
This issue of the Battalion carries the some
what doleful news that a new order has been
received by the Commandant’s office, issued
the same day as the previous directive, but
which is exactly the converse of the first.
This mixes up again the scene which was
apparently beginning to be clarified.
Now, all we can do is wait without hope
or comment for definite, official, no-doubt-
about-it orders from the big boys in Wash
ington whose efficiency lies far below their
intelligence, we hope.
The Commandant, Military Department,
and officials of the College are as much
in the dark as the Corps is, and urge you
to go on with your work, planning for the
new semester as you normally would.
The way things stand now, no real, of
ficial change has been made in the status
of juniors, or for that matter, freshmen
and sophomores, so the thing to do is pro
ceed with your studying, get the most out
of this semester, plan for the new one, and
then accept whatever happens, if anything
does.
Quotable Quotes
“We who believe in education have a charge
to keep and a future to guard. This is, of
all times, one in which we must see to it
that ‘the light does not go out.’ We are the
eternal optimists and idealists. In spite of
discouragement let us continue to have faith
in education as our one great hope. Let us
discover that kind of form of education
which will serve the kind of world which we
hope is in the making. That will be our con
tribution to the world of the-ought-to-be.
We cannot strive for less.”—President C. A.
Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin
charts a war-time course for education.
ThisICollegiate World
: ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS=
War brings many songs. Some of them sur
vive; others do not. Not a new song, but
a new tune cooked up by students at Chi
cago Teachers College parodies the popular
“Blues in the Night.” The new version, call
ed “Blues in Berlin” was printed in the
Chicago newspaper, the Tempo.
My fuehrer done tol’ me,
When I was in Munich,
My fuehrer done tol’ me,
Hans—.
A Russian will fall back, and give you
the east front,
But when the winter snows come,
A Russian’s a two-face,
A worrisome thing, who leaves you to
sing
The blues in Berlin.
See the bombs a-fallin’
Hear the blitzes callin’
Goering! Oh, where is the luftwaffe ?
We ain’t got no booties,
All we got is cooties.
Goebbels! Oh, typhus and black plague.
Die wehrmacht! Die wehrmacht!
A clickity-clack, and soon we’ll be back.
With the blues in Berlin.
From Smolensk to Mozhaisk,
From Kiev to Lubin,
Wherever the panzers go.
I’ve taken some big towns,
And made me some big talk,
But there’s one thing I know,
A Russian’s a two-face,
A worrisome thing, who leaves you to
sing
The blues in Berlin.
Intensive instruction in Japanese is be
ing offered by the University of Michigan and
more than 20 Michigan students already have
been placed in government service. Dr. Fred
Pierce Orson, president of Dickinson college,
says the government probably will “ration”
higher education before June.
-TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1943
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.
From Capital to Campus
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
A CP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service,
Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Telephone lines to the Washington Office of
Defense Transportation are glutted with
calls from students who ask whether there
will be a government order limiting their
holiday travel.
The answer is “No.” You’ll get home for
vacation all right, assuming you aren’t
smothered by competition for fares.
In some areas where schools are close
together, college and university authorities
have voluntarily staggered vacation periods
so that all students won’t be leaving on the
same trains.
College and university enrollment has
dropped about 14 per cent in the last year,
according to latest figures from the Office
of Education. That figure will become more
imposing as 18 and 19 year olds—who make
up one-third of the country’s total male col
legiate population—ars absorbed by the
army.
Colleges interested in getting “con
tracts” to train soldiers for technical duties
are advised by the American Council of Ed
ucation to take a thorough-going inventory
of their physical plants. Once the so-called
“Army Specialized Training Program” is an
nounced, that information may come in
handy. Among other things, the government
may want to know how many additional stu
dents could be housed on or near the campus,
how many more than this number could be
housed if 50 per cent of the college’s phys
ically fit young men were drafted, etc. ■
It is under the “Army Specialized Train- rxr^ a cr
ing Program” that a selected group of 18-19 & • • •
year old draftees (and perhaps soldiers in
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By Tom Journeay ambitions. After being the lead-
Beyond the Blue Horizon serves ing light in a dancing school, she
to exhibit sarong-clad Dorothy La- gets an offer to perform at a night
mour amidst the usual jungle set- club which she promptly accepts,
ting at Guion Hall today and to- She’s a hit and gets face and
morrow, with Rich Denning and figure splattered over the news-
Jack Haley adding the supporting papers—then the fun starts! With
acting to Miss Dottie. the old maids to deal with, amusing
The sarong girl plays the part situations—one after another—
in this Paramount production of pop up and are taken care of by
a circus wild girl whose parents the dancer and her band leader-
were killed in a stampede of ele- beau, Dan Dailey, Jr. By the way
phants in the jungle. The goes it’s a Universal production!
back into the jungle to try un- The Lowdown—Get in the groove
covering the information that will and laugh, too.
establish her real identity and her
“The boys over at the barracks told me I should wear this on dress
parade, Sarge!”
★ BACKWASH ★
“Backwash: An agitation resaltlngr from some action or occurrence”
Webster
We are seeing in this issue of
other categories as well) will be sent to col- the Battalion something to back
lege for technical training Details of the all of the sensational EEC
plan, long awaited by educators in Washing
ton and elsewhere, are still a secret among stories that have appeared lately
members of the Joint Army-Navy Personnel and been taken with a grain of
Board, charged with the responsibility of salt. Still a matter for discussion
drawing up the plan. is just exactly how the new sys-
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wick- tern will be run, and what uni-
ard has made it clear that we cannot pos- form will be worn. Officials hope
sibly produce more food and fiber next year to clear this up shortly,
than the United Nations can use, even if ~ , ,
America’s six million farmers meet the rec- C/OIQ JNlg'nt . . .
ord goals they are now setting themselves Snnd ofternoon . s coId tam
for next season. _ was cause for 8 bet to be made
Desides food demands of gigantic pro- in D infantry, in dorm 9 Sunday
portions, we face the necessity of building night . Somebody bet Jimmy Sinex
To protect the things we cherish
most—
Our lives and liberty!
place in society.
Aiding in her quest, Denning
puts on the male version of Dot-
tie’s sarong and together they nar
rowly miss being killed by loads of
things. Haley is along as the cir
cus press agent to add the humor
—with the help of Go-Go, a laugh-
provoking ape.
The Lowdown—Tropically, a mad
house.
Comedy reigns with some solid
stuff thrown in by the Andrew
Sisters, in half of the Campus
double bill highlighted today and
Wednesday for local flikker-likers.
Grace McDonald plays a young
heiress gone jitterbug mad with
three old maids trying to quell her
He’ll stand by us thru thick and
thin,
Won’t falter on his way,
Or will he have to pay?
He’s not a soldier-
boy
Whose education goes
Side by side with Uncle Sam
To help defeat our foes.
stockpiles for post-war feeding of ill-nour- a C o U ple of bucks that he wouldn’t
loving Sons,
And to us—they’re
Gentlemen.
ished Europeans and hunger-worn Asiatics. s i eep on top of the dorm all night.
If these peoples hear our promises of Free- ji mmy took the bet, rounded up
dom from Want, they probably envision a about fi ve blankets, and adorned Miniatnrp Rincra?
global war against starvation. That vision in his s horts, went to bet on 1 11 d ' LU e
must develop into something more than a the asphalt about 12:30. By 3:30, Official adoption of the minia-
mirage. Jimmy was convinced that it just ture A.&M. senior class ring for
Lack of manpower is the No. 1 obstruc- wasn ’t worth it, so he came in. sweethearts, wives, and mothers tends about 660 miles frora Texa3
tion in the way of successful food and fiber He was stiU shivering at 9 yes- is in the offing, and the ring com- to Illinois.
production next year. Secretary Wickard has terday morning.. Barnum was mittee wants to know what the The 1500-horsepower motors will
already congratulated college men and worn- right> there’s a sucker born every corps thinks about them. They be used to drive centrifugal pumps
en throughout the nation, as well as others minute. have been used by West Point in booster stations at spaced points
who helped bring in the 1942 harvest, the and Annapolis for several years, along the pipe line. These pumps
most bountiful in our history. Accompanying From Parris Island . . and custom has it that they are will keep 1,330,000 barrels of oil
his congratulatory message is a call for even used for engagement rings. They flowing at a rate of 4 miles an
greater effort in 1943. His plea is echoed From Pfc. Alex Warren, ‘41, in cost about $ 19 each See the front hour or a delivery rate of 300,000
by Washington officialdom generally. ' the Marine Corps training base at page story for details. barrels a day.
No war-time job takes priority over food Parris Island, South Carolina,
production. comes the following letter by way j n many cases the person who The total annual expenditure by
* * *, Professor D. H. Reid, poultry j 3 worrying for fear he may lose the Texas government for educa-
One of three of the nations largest aero- husbandry department: Dear b j s mind, won’t miss it if he did. tional purposes exceeds $58,000,-
nautical firms is at work on a womanpower Prof and Gang: . . . They
a womanpower Prof and Uang: . . . They gave
plan that makes good sense. By way of the us various tests last week, and
American. Council of Education, the firm today I was called in and told
sent questionnaires to college deans of worn- that I made one of the highest
en to discover whether co-eds would be in- grades ever made by a member of
terested in continuing their education for the armed forces on the intelli-
a year as “engineering cadettes” on the com- gence test . . . The boys think it
pany payroll—then take a regular job with strange that a poultry student
the firm. from Texas would make the best
The response from deans has been ter- grade on an I.Q. test. I tell them
rific. . • that shows what a good poultry
Altogether, the firm wants 1,000 worn- dept, we have ... I can’t say
en. They must have had two years of col- much about the training, but I
lege, including some mathematics. Now the can assure you they don’t leave
company is getting in direct touch with the out much . . . Everyone here calls
Colleges. me ‘Private Texas.” They can’t
* * * begin to fit me in a hat! Tell all
The stocking salvage program will be my friends hello. Yours, Alex.”
in high gear by February. Here are a few
things co-eds might remember if they aren’t More About That
already aware of them: rVpw T3nv
“Useable stockings” include silk, nylon, J • • •
mixtures of silk and rayon, silk and nylon, Henry Crew, ’43, lately of Or-
nylon and rayon, silk and cotton, and nylon ange and D Troop Cavalry (and
and cotton . . . Don’t contribute other silk big-game hunter deluxe), woke
or nylon garments .. . Don’t expect to be paid up “polluted” (or promoted) Mon-
for your contributions—it’s strictly a propo- day morning. Said Mr. Crew ap-
sition for patriots . . . Hosiery collection de- peared in bulltext class with cor-
pots are set up at hosiery counters in retail poral stripes on his sleeves and
stores . . . Stores will continue to sell the senior boots on his feet,
few new stocks of silk and nylon hose that ,
are left ... If you want to contribute your What Is an Aggie.
time as well as your stockings, get in touch
with your local salvage chairmen . . . And . ® po . e ™ was whiten by an
on the final point, Capital to Campus is cau- A ss ie 3 S» rl 3 mother:
tious enough to quote the government: “Be
sure all salvage hose are washed.” To an A £g le
Between Classes . . .
Get the boost that our modern soda foun
tain affords in “just-right snacks” and
drinks
GEORGE’S
South Station
You cannot be both fashionable and
first-rate.—Logan Pearsall Smith.
Aggie Cryptogram
What is an Aggie? I’ll tell you,
folks,
He’s just some Mother’s boy,
Who dons his uniform with glee
And is her pride and joy.
(The following cryptogram
plain-text quotation dealing with Aggieland and dividing it
int
enciphered by taking
plain-text quotatii
groups of five letters, then arranging
alphabetically.)
each of these
groups
He’s just a lad—yet is a man
Who’s striving for his goal.
He’ll give his all to reach his
aim,
Yes—his very life and soul.
He’s pledged himself to his coun
try, folks,
To fight for you and me,
Today’s Aggie Cryptogram:
DGLOO CCKOU ELLNO BELOS ACDNS
ACIRR AOOUY AEERR AGGIL ES—B. H.
Luther. -
Saturday’s Solution: . term Greenhorn has all
kinds of applications; to a cow-
AGGIELAND ORCHESTRA TO HAVE boy it is someone who has never
A FULL WEEK END.
been on a ranch.
It’s No Rumor
I have contacted all the large book houses over
the country from New York, Ohio, California, and
Texas, and now have a plan whereby selected books
can be sold on the wholesale market. These houses
buy books from businesses such as ours and resell
to those of the same type at prices ranging from
25< per book to 55% off of original prices. It’s cheap,
but is at least a market. Bring your books on in and
let us buy them; however this offer is good only
until the time my quota is fulfilled.
LODPOT'S Trading Post
J. E. Loupot, ’32
North Gate
WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT
YOUR EYES OR YOUR
GLASSES—Consult
DR. J. W. PAYNE
Optometrist
109 S. Main Bryan
“Big Inch ,, Pipe Line
Motors Delivered Five
But will we stand by him, dear Weeks Ahead of Time
folks,
General Electric recently ship
ped, five weeks ahead of schedule,
but just a the first two of fifteen 1500-horse
power motors it is building for the
new War Emergency Pipe Line
now being rushed to completion
to help alleviate the oil shortage
in the east. Production is now be-
So, hats off to our Aggies, folks, ing expedited on the other motors,
God bless each of them! and the company expects to beat
For to their Mothers, they’re the schedule dates on these as
Don’t Throw It
Away
Keep riding that old bi
cycle after having it re
paired at our shop where
complete repairs can be
made.
Student Co-Op
1 Blk. East of Main P. O.
well.
Known to oil men as the“Big
Inch” pipe line because of the 24-
inch diameter pipe which makes
it the largest oil trunk pipe line
in the world, the new pipe line ex-
Telephone 4-118*
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.
TODAY - TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
3:23 - 5:51 - 8:19
“Hurricane
Smith”
With
Ray Middleton
Jane Wyatt
2:14 - 4:42 - 7:10
Also
Disney Cartoon
Box
Office Opens 2 P.M.
Closes 10 P. M.
TODAY & WEDNESDAY
DOUBLE FEATURE
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DOROTHY LAMOUR
RICHARD DENNING
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
Feature No. 2
“Devil Pays Off”
Plus
“Blitz Wolf’ Cartoon
Latest News
NO EARLY SHOW
TONIGHT
due to Town Hall—
but there will be a
complete show start
ing a few minutes
after Town Hall.
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