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V Page 2r The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Texas A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and M—haniral College of Texas and the City of College Station, li published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday sad 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, toe., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 6, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1941 Member 1942 Plssocioted GollefSicrie Brooks Gofer.. Bresnen... Crown Ken Phil Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Staff Photographer Sports Staff 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 Jill Huber Circulation Manager ~ ’ Senior Assistant H. R. Tampke.... Carlton Power... lor .Junior Assistant Assistant ton Joe Stalcup Saturday’s " staff Clyde C, Franklin Managing Editor Douglas Lancaster Junior Managing Editor John Holman Junior Editor Tom Jot Sill Jarnagi jay... in gin .Junior .Junior Editor Reporter The Maroon-White Game A week from today. Aggies will again be called on to contribute to a worthy charity. In the past, when slich a call has been plac ed before us, we have come through willing ly and gladly. Next week, Aggies all over the campus will get a chance to contribute to the Army- Navy Relief Fund by buying a ticket to the Maroon and White football game on Kyle Field. The price is but twenty-five cents, and all of that quarter over and above the cost of putting the game on, will go. into the Army-Navy Relief Fund for the building of recreation halls, athletic fields and other such things. You all have a quarter for a good foot ball game, and not only enjoy yourself, but perhays help some Aggie somewhere in the world fighting for victory and freedom. This Collegiate World . . --—ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS== The Military Training Camps association has recommended Colgate university’s new compulsory 10-hour-a-week military drill and physical conditioning program for adoption by other colleges and universities. Adopted at the request of the universi ty’s 873 students, most of whom are look ing forward to military service in the near future, the program calls for an hour of military drill every morning before classes and five afternoon hours a week of boxing, fencing, stick-work, bayonet, hiking, basket ball, swimming and improved Commando work. President Everett Case also announced the university is spending more than $500 to purchase 150 bolt-action wooden guns with which students will be taught the man ual of arms. Seniors will receive first in structions in the manual since nearly all of them expect to go directly into service af ter first semester commencement. * * * Specialized instruction to prepare men and women for service interitories likely to be occupied or in need of assistance as a re sult of the war is now being offered by the University of Michigan graduate school. Details of the program have been an nounced by Dr.-Howard B. Calderwood, chair man of a committee which has completed arrangements. For the present, instruction will be limited to Germany, the Lowlands and countries bordering Germany on the east. When the spring term opens, a more comprehensive program, including the Far East, will be presented. Since a part of the training will be adapted to fit each student’s needs, resources of all the university’s schools and colleges will be utilized in presenting the program. Each student will be intensively trained for a particular area through a study of the language, resources, customs, institutions and history of that area. The programs have been designed. One will cover approximately eight months and is designed for mature persons with adequate training or experience in eight law, industry, finance, public utilities, education, public health, social welfare or engineering. The second program is for persons lacking such specialization and will include basic pre paration in some one of the fields. * * * Wartime living, as it’s now lived, is going to result in fewer babies—too few, Dr. Con stantine Panunzio, sociologist at Univresity of California warns. “Our situation is serious,” Panunzio de clared, because of two major factors: 1. _-So many of the armed forces sta tioned far away from home. 2. So many women employed in war industries. Unless something is done now about the nation’s slowing birth rate, the educator says, Japan’s population probably will in crease twice as much as the United States’ during the next generation. Panunzio urges that: 1. The government take into considera tion the present birth decline in preparing conscription orders for men between 22 and 36 and particularly married men be tween 22 and 26. 2. The government provide “generous” family allowances for men who mary after enlistment and “similar” allowances for each child. Open Forum (Editor's Note: The following poem was received by Dean Gibb Gilchrist from Dr. J. T. McCamant of El Paso, Texas) I KNOW SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT YOU Wouldn’t this old world be better, If folks we meet would say, “I know something good about you!” And then treat us just that way? Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy, If each hand clasp warm and true Carried with it this assurance, “I know something good about you!” Wouldn’t life be lots more happy, If the good that’s in us all Were the only thing about us That folks bothered to recall? Wouldn’t life be lots more happy, If we praised the good we see? For there’s such a lot of goodness In the worst of you and me. Wouldn’t it be nice to practice That fine way of thinking, too? You know something good about me! “I know something good about you!” From Capital to Campus ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington Main provisions of the plans, as they affect both Army and Navy, are these: Army men 21 years old and under, and Navy men 22 and under, may apply for the college work. Nothing in the new plans will affect ex isting contracts of Army or Navy with col leges. Men selected for college training will wear uniforms, be on active duty and receive service pay. Soldiers will go to school as pri vates, seventh grade; sailors as apprentice seamen. Civilian professors will do most of the teaching. Main provisions of the Army plan, known as the “Army Specialized Training Program:” Men chosen for college training will be drawn from enlisted men who are taking, or have finished, basic training. Exceptions are medical, dentistry and veterinary stu dents in the enlisted reserves who will con tinue their studies under the new program in an active duty status. Medical, dental and veterinary students not in the reserves may finish another sem ester of college. After that, they apparently will be subject to selective service and will have to qualify for training under the new program in order to continue their education. Pre-medical and pre-dental students and junior and senior engineers, whether or not they are in the reserves, also may finish another semester in college. Fourth-year ROTC students may finish another semester of college. All other students in the reserves may expect to be put on active duty soon. All other students not in the reserves are subject to the draft—now. The Navy’s side of the new program is known as the “Navy College Training Prog ram.” Normally, students in this program will be picked during their senior year in high school. At a “date to be announced,” all V-l, V-5, and V-7 reservists in college will be placed on active duty as apprentice seamen, and V-l’s and V-7’s then may continue their studies under the new plan at least through their junior year. Those who qualify as med ical, dental, engineering and theological stu dents may complete their professional stud ies. V-5’s may complete the year “current at the time of their enlistment or transfer to V-5.” Students now holding probationary commissions may resign “at a date to be an nounced,” enter the new college program, and be commissioned again later. Manpower Plan Now that general outlines are drawn for the Army-Navy college program, the War Manpower Commission is working on a sim ilar plan which would provide college train ing for prospective civilian war workers, in cluding both men and women. Plan plan should take up some of the slack in college enrollment, which has dropp ed about 14 per cent in the last year. That’s assuming the government finances such edu cation. Extent of financing depends upon how much money congress will appropriate. Principal courses of study probably would be medicine, chemistry and engineer ing, although McNutt has said liberal arts will not be overlooked. Aggie Crgptogram (The following cryptogram wa* enciphered by takiag a plain-text quotation dealing with Aggieland and dixidinc it into groups of five letters, then arranging each of these groups alphabetically.) Today’s Aggie Cryptogram EHIMT AINTU EINRR E G I S V ARSWY KNY.—B. H. Luther. Thursday’s Solution LETS TAKE THE SATURDAY NIGHT. HORNED FROGS -THE BATTALION- -SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1943 PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis \ f=n a cn \fne V \ ° 1 CD CD cn ?l g; atrj ocqtuaa’o campus ^ t distractions cn cn cn 1 s=i a "It'S not a shell crater. Sir. That’s where Private Buck was practio ing mashie shots!” ★ BACKWASH ★ "Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster By John Holman Honesty . . . Sometime Thursday Dr. V. K. Sugareff, history prof, was grad ing papers. He ran across one that frankly read, “I can’t know this because I slept through your lecture.” The next morning, after reading the amusing quiz paper to the class, he was told by some bright boy that he should have given him something for his hon esty. Dr. Sugareff replied, “I did —zero!” Fate Unknown ... .... Still in the dark are the boys in the “Enreco”, as some smiling contract boy put it, and apparently they shall worry and worry and worry without making the slightest impression on the government. Indications still seem to favor the “call out” story, but that is just opinion and absolutely cannot be relied on. Things looked pretty set there for awhile, until that contradictory order hit us— dated the same day as the “call out” one. Backwash says how ever, that Dean Bolton’s sojourn in the city of Washington is the thing to watch. Jingle Bells—1943 ... .... This is the modem way college youths look at the favorite of all Christmas songs. Credit to the Colorado Dodo: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the day. What’s the use of studying when the Army’s on its way. Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle, snort and peep. It’s awfully cold a-ridin’ in an open, bouncing jeep! And he ain’t kiddin’! Prisoners of War . . . The latest issue of the Texas Aggies carries the “prisoner of war” notice for eleven ex-Aggies, all in the Philippines. According to the Aggie, regulations prohibit the printing of a direct list of the prisoners, but may list them sep arately. A.P.O. 834 Club . . . .... Also from the Aggie comes the news that the newest organized A. & M. Club is com posed of about 40 exes somewhere outside the continental United States. As they can’t tell where they are, they just call themselves the A. & M. A.P.O. 834 Club— that is their address. Ringleaders of the club are though to be Major Jack A. Reynolds, ’32, Major Ray mond Sartain, ’33, J. C. “Bill” Francis, Jr., ’29; and Lt. Alton W. Bryant, ’30. You just can’t keep a good thing down. Finale—You Said It! This classic little gem of the realm of poetry just drifted in through the window: I wish I were a Kangaroo. Despite his funny stances. I’d have a place to put the junk My girl brings to the dances. About That Feature .. That feature that appears on the front page today and buzzes along at a very feminine clip was, believe it or not, actually written by five beautiful girls from Ran- dolph-Macon Women’s College in the equally beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The girls? Oh yes. They were Laetitia Cofer, Joy King Smith, Ann Rogers, Margar et Holman. I don’t know what they mean, but boy. I’m sho’ for it! Speaking* of Prisoners Speaking of prisoners, the best one Backwash has heard concerns the Aggie fighting in the Philli- pines when those islands fell to the Japanese. A Jap soldier was marching the slightly-angry Ag gie off to a prison camp when the Jap said to him “Don’t worry, I’ll personally see that you are treated right.” “Why? You don’t know me from any other of these Ameri cans,” the Ex replied. The Jap grinned, “Oh, yes I do, once an Ag gie always an Aggie, and you lived up on the next stoop from me wheh we were Fish at A. & M. in ’39!” The story’s said to be true. By Tom Journeay That Rita Hayworth-Fred As taire combination is here again at the Campus in YOU WERE NEVER LOVLIER, a danceaceous musical comedy for the midnight preview tonight after the fish ball and for regular showings tomorrow and Monday. An amusing situation arises as Hayworth, daughter of a wealthy Brazilian hotel owner, seems cold toward Astaire a visiting dancer from the states, much to the an- noyment of her two sisters since an old Brazilian custom forbids younger sisters marrying until their older sister takes the “I do” trail. In an attempt to defrost Miss Hayworth, her dad (Adolphe Menjou) devises an imaginary suitor ablaze with passion to do the job, but the trick backfired as Hayworth falls for Astaire, who is not liked by the old man. After many amusing incidents, a happy ending is achieved for all concerned after everything has been ex plained to the satisfaction of every one. The Lowdown—Lotsa music and Lotsa Rita. Guion hall brings a spinach and celery saga by the name of JUKE GIRL to the silver screen, with Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, and racketeering produce magnate Gene Lockhart doing the honors. Appalled by conditions Reagan sides with a Greek farmer (George Tobias) a victim of Lockhart’s greed. Reagan is backed up in his ideals by Sheridan, traveling Juke girl, who feels herself unworthy of his offer of marriage and, although she really loves him, leaves him. Richard Whorf, Reagan’s friend decides to throw his lot on the side of the money changers until Rea gan and Ann find themselves ac cused of murder. It’s then Whorf EXCELLENT FOUNTAIN SERVICE DELICIOUS SANDWICHES Can Be Found at GEORGE’S Across from New “Y” proves his worth. The Lowdown— Well, you can always watch Sheridan. Tonight’s the one night that the freshmen and frogs have then- chance to revel unmolested by any thing under the sun. Curley Brient’s Aggieland, of Bandwagon fame, will stand forth and some good sol id dancing is promised all who attend. One closing remark might be dir ected toward Guion Hall’s stage organ broadcast that was presented at 4:30 yesterday p.m. Johnny Clark frog from Sguin in E batt ery Coast turned out a stellar job on the first of a regular series of popular organ programs every Friday from Guion. Regan Elected President of ASCE Charles W. Regan was elected president of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers at the annual banquet held last night in the banquet room of Sbisa hall. John Pittman was elected to the office of junior re presentative on the Engineering Council for the coming year at this meeting. Pittman will be the A. S. C. E. representative of the council. Distinguished guests present at the combined banquet of the A. S. C. E. and the Institute of Aeron autical Sciences were Dean Dexter S. Kimball, dean emeritus of Cor nell university T. R. Spence, dir ector of the Engineering Experi ment Station, and Colonel Willard Chevalier, publisher of Business Week and vice-president of Me Craw-Hill Publishing Company. Colonel Chevalier will make a ser ies of talks during the coming week to engineering groups CUT OUT AND HANG UP SHOW CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK BOTH BOX OFFICES OPEN2-10 P. M. Uniform Allowances Available Next Week Juniors and seniors taking ad vanced military science will re ceive checks for their uniform al lowance sometime next week, the adjutant’s office asserts. The reg ular junior check will be for $29 and the senior check will be for $7. The payroll has been turned in and the checks were expected back this week but were held up because of the large number of irregular students whose enlist ments must be checked before the money is paid. 4-1168 TODAY and MONDAY Jan. 9 and 11 ANN SHERIDAN iRONALD REAGAN Sg^UMif She’s a good girt —to let alonel She’s a good girt — to let alone! A NEW WARNER BROS. HIT«mi siaumo whorf• georce torus• geke LOCKHART -AUN HALE- RETTT DREWER• Dtmtid Im C0RT1S BERNHARDT Sermon flay by A. ». Bazzcrtdta • From • Story by Theodora Prat> Adaeta’ioa by KennoM Gamal • A War oar Broe. Ftrat Notional Ftclure TUE. and WED. Jan. 12 and 13 DOUBLE FEATURE William Powell Mary Astor in “Kennel Murder Case” Feature No. 2 “Blues in the Night” Priscilla Lane Richard Whorf Plus Merrie Melody THURSDAY - FRIDAY Jan. 14 and 15 MICKY ROONEY in “YANK AT ETON” Cartoon — Sports — News SATURDAY - MONDAY Jan. 16 and 18 -VC", f&y&afc £ hayworth;-Mature f/Il S' r'C A ,N technicolor 4-1181 LAST DAY “TALES OF MANHATTAN” PREVIEW TONIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY Their Greatest Joy-Filled Hit XAVIER CUGAT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Cartoon — News TUBS. - WED. Jan. 12 and 13 DOUBLE FEATURE Ida Lupino Louis Hayward “LADIES IN RETIREMENT” Feature No. 2 “Sailors on Leave” Shirley Ross William Lundigan Plus Bugs Bunny THURS. - FRI. - SAT. Jan. 14, 15, and 16 Also Merrie Melody Community Singing Also Henry Busse and Orchestra Porky Pig — News \ -• ? * > * >| V V • t *