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The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Texas A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Ueehanical College of Texas and the City of College Station,
1* 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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Ine., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 6, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444.
1941 Member 1942
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Brooks Gofer —— — Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen Associate Editor
Phil Crown - Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin. Sports Editor
Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Reggie Smith Advertising Manager
jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
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H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant
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John Holman
Tom Journeay
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Reporter
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Thank You
For several years now, The Battalion has
been privileged to have the help and coopera
tion of the faculty and other members of
the college staff in filling the columns of
the editorial page with thoughts both in
teresting and educational.
It has been said that it takes all kinds
to make up a world. This may be applied
not only to persons but changed a bit to
read “it takes all kinds of news to make a
newspaper', and applied to the Battalion.
Their faithful attention and interest in fill
ing their columns with interesting opinions
and views, sometimes humorous philosophy,
and sometimes sound advice, has made them
an asset to the Battalion and to the Aggies
who followed their writings each day.
These are possibly the few to whom
the Battalion owes so much, and the student
staff wants to thank Mr. W. L. Penberthy
of the physical educational department; Dr.
R. W. Steen, Dr. Y. K. Sugareff, and Dr. A.
B. Nelson of the history department; Dr. J.
H, Quisenberry of the genetics department;
Dr. A. F. Chalk, economics department; Dr.
C. C. Doaks of the biology department; Dr.
T. F. Mayo of the college library; and last
but not least, Mrs. I. Sherwood, author of
the Man, Your Manners column, for their
splendid help and cooperation.
This Collegiate World
T-ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE pwers ■■
At times the talk of college students in the
halls and in rooming houses provse quite
interesting and a bit disillusioning. Natural
ly, a large part of Joe College’s conversation
with classmates the familiar trend of the
progress of the war.
There seems to be a general feeling
among the present crop of boys who fre
quent the college campuses that they are
riding the high road to an early death. And
even if the youngster is not unduly pessimis-
•tic, Latin, English, and zoology seem awfuly
trite in comparison to the incomparable ad
ventures which accompany the donning of a
uniform.
Too, each youth not now in uniform sec
retly realizes that the good jobs after the
war will go to the man who has helped on
the front lines to openly repulse the enemy.
One soldier soon after he was commissioned
a second lieutenant, was heard to remark
that he valued his bars more than his col
lege degree. He was convinced that the com
mission would be of more value after the
peace then the result of his four year’s labor
for a bachelor’s.
Then there is a feeling by many eigh
teen and nineteen year olds that this war
is the biggest adventure of the century. It
probably is. They feel that something of
“once-in-a-life-time” variety is occurring and
they are viewing it via letters from Pvt.
Bill, lectures by history professors, the news
paper and the radio.
Boys needn’t believe that just because
they are not in uniform now that they are
about to miss the entire show. The first act
of this super-thriller is still underway. And
the head Allied coach has formulated defi
nite plans for using all of his substitutes
long before that final gun.
Teachers are obviously having a difficult
time in keeping students interested in train
ing primarily for civilian life when military
training seems so much more important.
But even if this war lasts for years,
there will be people who will emerge from
it. The odds are in the soldier’s favor that
he will come back, despite the innumerable
dangers of military life in th etrenches. Of
course, people will die. People are killed an
nually in appalling numbers in automobile
accidents. Most men will be back. Then how
can college students afford to waste valua
ble time now when they could be amply fit
ting themselves not only for war but for
life?—Eastern (HI.) Teachers News.
* * * .
College Training Plans For Army, Navy Men
As students left the nation’s campuses
for holidays at home, the Secretaries of War
and Navy—with approval of Manpower
Commissioner Paul V. McNutt—announced
the long-awaited college training program
for service men and servicemen—to-be.
Loose ends of the dual program still
need to be tied together. For example, just
From Capital to Campus
ACP’s Jay Richter Reports from Washington
“Often during these long do-nothing days
and nights my mind wanders back to those
familiar faces and places which have been
stamped into my mind my constant associa
tion. The college that stands like an anchor
in a silent symphony of green, brown, and
gold, the men who steer its course, the stu
dents who give it life—all a part of my life.
It will never be the same, nor will I. This
present phase seems like an interlude, a
stormy one to be sure, between a past life
that has ended and future one that I hope
to build; an interlude that is fully dramatiz
ed by the two word date-line above (at
sea).” Don H. Gannon, with a British army
ambulance unit in Africa, writes his former
college prexy, E. O. Holland of Washington
State college.
* * *
Mark up another score for stiff exercise!
University of Texas co-eds who took a “war
conditioning” physical training course show
ed an improvement of 24,69 per cent in total
physical fitness, according to a survey of
actual tests made at the begining and end
of the course.
Results of a battery of tests given to
the co-eds have been analyzed by Miss Bertha
Lee, who has written her thesis for the de
gree of master of education in physical edu
cation on this problem.
She found that the 94 girls who com
pleted the course had: stabilized their weight
perceptibly; improved their lung capacity
4.32 per cent, their army strength 36.87
per cent, chest strength 6.65 per cent, shoul
der strength 4.47 per cent, abdominal
strength 13.25 per cent, leg strength 29 per
cent and agility 11 per cent.
* * *
A survey of the nation’s universities and
colleges shows a 9V2 per cent decline from a
year ago in the number of full-timyle students.
The report, covering 667 approved in
stitutions having 746,922 full-time students,
was made by President Raymond Walters of
the University of Cincinnati and was pub
lished in “School and Society,” national edu
cation journal.
The University of California, with 18,-
364 full-time students, ranked highest in the
nation. The University of Minnesota was
second with 11,859, and the University of
Illinois third, with 11,294.
* * *
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, noted physicist and
head of the California Institute of Technolo
gy, predicts power obtained from atom never
will displace that from oil and coal.
“The possible sources of atomic power
are too small,” he told students.
“So I make bold to predict oil and coal
will continue as our principal fuels for the
next 1,000 years. After oil and coal are
gone we can get our power from the sun.”
how men are to be chosen for the college
work isn’t yet clear.
Which colleges will be selected for
training centers is another unanswered
question, although secretary of Navy Knox
has said “We will give special consideration
to those (colleges) with meager financial
resources whose existence is threatened by
the war.”
* * *
“Provided our production reaches the de
sired volume, the coming spring and early
summer, if not sooner, will witness a gigan
tic Axis disaster by simultaneous attack
from without and by revolution of the sub
jugated nations in Europe from within. The
actual establishment of a second front on
European soil may well be the signal of Nazi
Germany’s internal collapse and of the out
break of European revolt of the nations
against the Nazis.” War analysis by Dr.
Robert J. Kerner, professor of history. Uni
versity of California.
As you’ve probably noticed, the Navy’s plan
for college training provides students more
opportunity to complete their education
does the Army plan.
The Army plan has been severely criti
cized by a number of leading educators. Dr.
Harold W. Dodds of Princeton, Dr. Edmund
E. Day of Cornell, and Chancellor Harry
Woodburn Chase of New York university
have said the Army’s plan is inadequate.
They believe it will disrupt special war train
ing programs now in operation, and weaken
colleges to boot.
President Kary T. Compton of Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology charged
that the Army plan is “clumsy” and involves
“unnecessary delays.” He said that it fails
to take advantage of existing facilities.
He pointed out that advanced students
already enrolled in courses designed to meet
Army needs would be called for basic military
training, and that the new plan “suffles
these students all together in a basic military
program and then will try to unshuffle them
so that the right ones can be sent back into
technical training programs.”
Enrollment at Catholic University of
America has reached 1,875.
Aggie Crgptogram
(The following cryptogram waa enciphered by takiag 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
HNOTW ALLPR EENST AFMOS
INSSU CGGIN ADEST GINOT HT — B.
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By John Holman
Texas U, vs. ERC . . .
Headlines in the Daily Texan,
T. U.’s daily newsrag, these days
mostly concern such things as
“Senior Reservists Called at End
of Semester’’ and similar glaring
banners. They are crying for de
grees to be given the seniors if
they are called out. Pipe this! The
ground for their pleas is “hold
ing that a sacrifice by the Uni
versity of fifteen or less hours
from the required scholastic stand
ard is little as compared with the
sacrifices we men are asked to
make.” Aren’t they noble?
University Registrar Mathews is
quoted as saying, “If I were a
senior, I would stay in school un
til somebody in uniform got in
my way and blocked my path.”
That sounds just like a registrar,
doesn’t it.
A. & M. vs. ERC . . .
An Office of War Information
pamphlet recently issued states
definitely that 18 and 19-year-
olds will be called out definitely
beginning in January, but accord
ing to an Austin, Texas, news
paper this does not apply to en
listed reservists. Fortune maga-
says that college students both in
and out of the reserves have been
“the chief victim of government
wobbling and indecision.” Back
wash agrees. As the article further
points out, what is a student to
think with the President, General
Hershey, other high government
officials, college deans and presi
dents incessantly hammering at
the kid that his place is in school.
Then, the Army turns around,, tells
him the Army needs him, then
takes him through the local draft
board. If he joins a reserve, he’s
in the mess we are now in—in
decision and confusion as to what
to do or expect.
Laugh, Brother!...
With so much cussing and dis
cussing of the government and
ERC, it is nice to have a lighter
side to the situation. The follow
ing poems were found on the
blackboard of a second-floor of the
Academic building.
My time is almost due.
I hear them calling me.
I’m feeling downright blue,
—I joined the ERC.
And this one:
Today the Army’s calling me,
I guess I’ll have to go.
I’ll tell my girl goodbye tonight,
Great guns! I’m feeling low!
You have all seen these recruit
ing signs showing Uncle Sam
pointing a mean finger at you
with the caption, “Uncle Sam
Wants You.” Someone reproduced
one on a blackboard, but crossed
Charles Cunningham
In Naval Air Corps
Charles Ray Cunningham has
been selected for training as a
Naval Aviation Cadet and will be
ordered to active duty shortly.
Graduated from Sunset High
School in Dallas, Texas, in 1941.
Since that time he has been at
tending Texas A. & M. College.
When ordered to active duty,
he will report to the U. S. Navy
Pre-Flight School, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia, for three
nionths of physical conditioning,
instruction in naval essentials,
military drill and ground school
subjects.
out the “Wants” and wrote in
“Has”!
Girls? . . .
By now it is an undisputed fact
that the freshmen have the best
looking girls down for their ball
every year than any other class.
Between twelve and fifteen hun
dred fish and their dates, seniors
and their dates, and seniors and
freshmen’s dates really cut a mean
rug around Sbisa Saturday night.
The most successful Fish ball in
many a year, too!
Married Dec. 29 . . .
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Elmer C. Ellis, Crockett, Texas,
class of ’41, to Miss Sarah Daugh-
drill, of Houston, at the First
Methodist Church in Waukegan,
Illinois. (Wonder if Jack Benny
was there.) Elmer is in the Navy
at Great Lakes. He majored in
rural sociology.
Town Hall Tonight...
Dick and his Dizzy Dandies,
alias the Swinging Kadets, alias
Jenkins’ Jive Gems, commonly
known as the Singing Cadets of
Aggieland, go their fifteen rounds
with a Town Hall audience to
night. This promises to be quite
a show, so don’t miss it. Especially
good will be the guest artist (Wal
ter Jenkins, baritone) and a new
arrangement of “The Spirit of Ag
gieland.”
On the Guion Hall double-feature
screen today and tomorrow may be
seen an oldie, but a goodie, with
two of the favorite stars of a few
years back—William Powell and
Mary Astor, in “Kennel Murder
Case.” Though Powell is still a
top-ranking star, the picture was
made a few years ago and has that
ancient look to it. It has the gen
eral stereotyped plot usually found
in movie mystery stories, but is
changed enough to give you many
minutes of spine-tingling thrills.
Bill Powell is at his usual best with
his comedy-stuff, making the show
laughable.
The Lowdown—Excellent, if you
like Powell and Astor. Fair, if you
don’t.
Number two feature on the pro-
Want to Know How
Superchargers Work?
Then Figure This Out
Want to know how an airplane
supercharger works?
Well, you can hear an explan
ation of sorts in the current Warn
er Brothers’ motion picture “Des
perate Journey.”
“How do you manage to super
charge the engines at the extreme
cold of these high altitudes?” a
Nazi officer asks a captive Amer-
ical flier.
“If I told you—the others would
not know? answers Johnny, the
prisoner, played by Ronald Rea
gan.
“Certainly not,” assures the
German. Johnny casts a glance
to the closed door.
“You’re sure they can’t hear
us?”
“Through the door? It’s quite
soundproof, Lieutenant. Now,
about the supercharger—?”
Johnny slides his chair closer
to the desk and lowers his voice
so th^t the Nazi leans forward.
“It’s done with a thermotrockle,”
says Johnny.
“With a what?” asks the Nazi.
“A thermotrockle amfilated thru
a daligonitor,” continues Johnny
beginning to sketch with his left
hand.
“You see, the dornadyne. has a
frenicoupling and the amsometer
prenulates the kinutaspel hepulace
—here—and the—”
The Nazi, now off his guard, is
then slugged by Johnny, and the
Americans, one of whom is played
by Errol Flynn, continue on their
way.
gram is also a class double “A”
feature of last year, returned as
a “B” attraction this year. It has
its setting in the terrors that are
the big city slums, and has the
usual soft, romantic love scenes by
Miss Priscilla Lane, starred with
Richard Whorf, (a newcomfer and
an excellent actor) in “Blues in the
Night.” This show is good, the act
ing is fine, but combined with
“Kennel Murder Case” gives al
most too gloomy an atmosphere to
be taken lightly in one evening of
theater-going.
The Lowdown—Also very good,
could be better if you didn’t have
to sit through the murder case to
see it.
Bright spot of the evening is the
brand-new Merrie Melody cartoon
current with the two gloomy fea
tures.
Up North-Gate way at the Cam
pus, we find another of these dra
matic super-dupers in the form of
“Ladies in Retirement.” Pictures
such as this depend on good acting
and unusual story development to
give the film its push. Ida Lupino
and Louis Hayward make all the
love in this picture, and do it very
nicely.
The Lowdown—fair to middlin’,
okay considering the partner they
tied it up in a double feature with.
Co-featured with the “Ladies”
is a ripping and roaring musical
comedy, “Sailors on Leave.” This
little number moves fast, depend
ing not so much on story and good
acting as it does on good music and
happy-feeling. Shirley Ross, come
ly little blonde crooner with a pair
of bright, flashing blue eyes, leads
William Lundigan around like a
calf follows Mama.
The Lowdown—Fair, lot of mu
sic, leg shots, and sailor atmos
phere.
ORCHIDS! ORCHIDS! ORCHIDS!
WE HAVE PLENTY OF
ORCHIDS FOR THE
SENIOR RING
DANCE
Special Prices for This Occasion
We Also Have a Good Selection
of Other Flowers Suitable
for Corsages
Call Us for Prices
J. COULTER SMITH, FLORIST
Telephone 2-6725
4-1181
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.
TODAY - TOMORROW
DOUBLE FEATURE
“LADIES IN
RETIREMENT”
With
Ida Lupino
Louis Hayward
2:00 - 4:59 - 7:58
“Sailors on Leave”
With
Shirley Ross
William Lundigan
3:48 - 6:47 - 9:46
Also
“Bugs Bunny Gets Boid”
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AGGIELAND STUDIO
North Gate
Ice Cream is a Nutritious Food
... Refreshing
Relax at George’s
After Classes
GEORGE’S
Across from New “Y”
Phone 4-1168
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.—
Closes 10 p.m.
DOUBLE FEATURE
TODAY - WEDNESDAY
“Blues in the
Night”
Starring
Priscilla Lane
Bette Field
Richard Whorf
Show Time:
3:23 - 6:34 - 9:45
—Second Feature —
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Dfe KENNEL MURDER. CASE
with MARY ASTOR
Eugene PaUette . Ralph Morgan
Helen Vinson . Paul Cavanaugh
Jack La Rue. Directed by Michael Curtiz
A Warner Brot.-Fint National Picture
Shows at
2:10 - 5:21 - 8:32
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