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The Battalion
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,
lc 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.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service,
Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
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Office, Room 5, 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
MiVo Msnn Assistant Q ’""‘nr
Hank Avery Junior Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Reggie Smith Advertising Manager
Jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
dill Huber * Circulation Manager
H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant
Carlton Power a Senior Assistant
Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant
BUI Trodlier Assistant
Thursday’s Staff
Ken Bresnen Managing Editor
Tom Journeay Junior Managing Editor
John Holman Junior Editor
Ramon McKinney Reporter
Bill Jarnagin Reporter
Still Two Weeks More, Boys
Juniors, sophomores, and freshmen still have
two more weeks of regular classwork be
fore they can sit back, sigh, and consider
the semester gone.
During those two weeks, a lot of hours
and a lot of grade points can be won or
lost, and it is to your best advantage that
you win them, not lose them.
Admittedly, as the semester’s end ap
proaches, coming social events and other
distractions may take your mind off of your
books, but be that as it may, your primary
purpose in living on this campus is to get
those old g.p.s.
Plow in, boys, and ’twill be a great day
tomorrow when we have successfully closed
the door on this semester, advanced a notch
in our rating on the campus, and can get
a new start with a new schedule of new
courses.
Something to Read
New Books
The Library has received three new books
on the subject which, next to winning the
war, is the most important one before us;
that of winning the peace. Edward H. Carr’s
Conditions of Peace is concerned both with
the fundamental issues at stake in what he
explicitly calls this revolution and with
outlines of policy after the war. He sees the
revolution, which began with the first world
war, as being against certain nineteenth cen
tury practices: liberal democracy, national
self-determination, and laissez-faire econom
ics. The new democracy, which is to be born
out of the revolution, must interpret the
terms “liberty” and “equality” in economic
terms. Political rights must win over eco
nomic power, and the benefactors of democ
racy must assume a responsibility for mak
ing their self-government work.
In discussing the roles of various na
tions after the war, Mr. Carr, an English
man, is concerned with the part Britain will
play at home, in her relation to conquered
Germany, to Europe, and the world. That
it must not be the part of an isolationist he
is positive. The smaller democracies of Eur
ope may well take exception to Mr. Carr’s
plan for the continued power of a few na
tions and the submerged roles of such coun
tries as Holland, Denmark, and Belgium.
Peter Dr'ticker in his persuasive, intel
ligent book, The Future of Industrial Man
calls himself a conservative and this study
a conservative approach. To those who vision
with dismay the appropriation of industry
by the state his conservatism will be heart
ening. Mr. Drucker acknowledges Industrial
Man as the man of tomorrow, but he warns
us that we have a task in giving industrial
man the secure knowledge that his life—
bound up with industry—has both dighity
and meaning. If we fail to do this we must
given Industry to the State.
In The Principles of Power Guglielmo
Ferrero explores his background to show
how he arrived at what he designates as
the two kinds of government, the legitimate
and the illegitimate. He had a first hand
knowledge of an illegitimate one, Fascism,
because he watched Mussolini come to power
in his native Italy. He was astonished at the
brutal acts of the new masters: acts which
indicated that the government, though all
powerful, was afraid. He concluded, however,
that fear is always present between gov
ernment and its subjects. When a govern
ment is accepted by the people; when it is
not dependent upon force and terror for its
survival, it becomes a legitimate govern
ment.
QiiotaMe Quotes
“During this most critical period in our his
tory, national unity is of extreme import
ance. For the purpose of winning the war
and protecting our national interests, it is
imperative that congress receive the respect
and enjoy the confidence of the public to
which it is justly entitled, and of which it is
proving itself worthy.” Dr. George S. Ben
son, President, Harding college, calls for a
lessening of public criticizm of congress.
-THE BATTALION-
Open Forum
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
TO THE AGGIES
When you go
You leave the Academic Building
With the flag waving high and Sul Ross
Standing bravely in the sun.
You will leave your Post Office box,
Metallic and shiny, that has held
Many letters from home and a few
From “Up Denton Way.”
You leave your roommate,
And your roommate’s kid brother, and
Your Battery Commander, and his Bud
dy,
And his roommate’s Buddy.
You leave that corner room
You have been so proud of—the calendar
You put on the wall, and the funny
sticker
That has been on the door for years.
You will leave the moonlight walks back
To the Dorm that came after a show,
Or a “Town Hall” at Guion,
Or a dance.
You will leave Kyle Field
And the yelling mob of friends at a
Home game, and everyone singing
THE SONG.
You will leave the drill field, too,
The review on Armistice day — the
hushed
Silence and the salute^—and the
Final Review when you saw your bro
ther
Cry and couldn’t figure it out because
You weren’t even a Fish then.
S^ll^fUjOSPlTAL
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-THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1943
major in the Army.
New York and Hollywood review
ers give‘it three or four bells, and
we agree. For some good laughs,
some good acting, and some good-
looking girls, see this smash hit.
The Lowdown—See it!
Campus
Distractions
‘‘It’s amazing how fast you guys recovered after you heard
the cross-country \hike had been canceled!”
★ BACKWASH ★
“Backwaxh: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence”
Webster
By John Holman
Still Talked About
L. Donahue of the agronomy de
partment. Says Aviation Cadet
Roper:
Is Frog (Fish) now—-he’s gotten “So you think I travel. You
his privileges) Ralph N. Green- don’t know the half of it. From
berg’s rendition of “Der Fuehrer’s Louisiana I went to Idaho. From
You will leave many jokes and laughs; Face” on Tuesday night’s Town Idaho...to Tennessee...from Tennes-
Yell practices that make a lump come Hall program. According to Di- see to here (Santa Ana, Califor-
In your throat.—All of the squshie, rector Jenkins, Fish Greenberg nia). I believe it is twenty one
Rainy days and blinding blue ones when didn’t learn the number at Sing- or two state lines that I’ve crossed
You went to class, and Fridays when ing Cadet rehearsals, but learned since I’ve been in the Army.
you it instead singing it for delighted “And that’s not all .that has hap-
Cut a quiz SO you could hitch-hike home, upperclassmen while they ate and pened ... I got married during
When you go, you will leave many things
You love. But you will not fail.
You will not go alone. I shall be with
Each one of you every step of the way.
For when you go, I shall go.
And I am the Spirit of Aggieland.
—June Brown
he sang.
New 0. D
.. „ ,, , Idaho and raise spuds!
. . . Starting Friday, the class (<T , , ,
„ , “I’ve now about finished
of 44 takes over the sword and
Man, Your Manners
saber that marks the officers of
the day. Six and five stripers
will serve out the rest of the
semester, when the new senior
class shall take over.
New Freshmen ...
:By I. SHERWOOD:
See BACKWASH, Page 4)
Dr. N. B. McNutt
DENTIST
Office in Parker Building
Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan. Texas
This Collegiate World
1 ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS:
Fifty per cent of the University ol
Rochester’s medical staff of 423 persons is
already in active military or government
service, and another 25 per cent will be made
available within the next year.
These men voice a protest that is gen
eral among educators, in Washington and
elsewhere. One of the Washington educators
said in a moment of exasperation that this
advice to college men would be to get into
the Navy as fast as they can. *
University of Manchester in England is
turning out engineers in two and one-third
years.
Aggie Crgptogram
(TW following- cryptogram waa ancipharad by taktag a
ilain-Uxt quotation dealing with Aggieland and dividing H
a to groups of five letters, then arranging aaah ef thaaa
groups alphabetically.)
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In
Today’s Aggie Cryptogram
AEEMS NOORV HISTW EFOOT ABGLL
AEFMO ORRTW ACHUY AESST ADRUY.
—R. Zuniga, C-CS.
Tuesday’s Solution:
TOWN HALL REPRESENTS FAMOUS
SINGING CADETS TONIGHT.
CHARLIE’S
Food Market
Specials for Friday and Saturday
January 15th and 16th
— We Reserve the Right to Limit All Items —
Texas Oranges, 252 Size Doz.—24c
Fancy Delicious Apples, 163, ..Doz.—24c
Lemons, 490 Size Doz.—16c
Cauliflower, Home Grown ... 2 lbs.—25c
California Lettuce 2 Heads—15c
Fresh Crisp Carrots 2 Bunches—15c
Armour’s Star Sliced Bacon ... Lb.—41c
Fresh Pork Shoulder Roast Lb.—35c
Armour’s Star
Hams, Half or Whole, Lb.—38c
Also Liver, Tongues, Hearts and Brains
F. & B. Fryers, Fully Dressed ...Lb.—49c
Giant Yellow
Pop Corn v
2 lbs.—25c
Snowdrift
3-lb. Pail—71c
All-Pure Sweetened
Condensed Milk
Two 14-oz. Cans
39c
o=*si[=
Green Giant Peas, 2 Medium Cans—35c
Light House Cleanser 3 Cans—13c
Libby’s
Pineapple Juice
46-oz. Cans—39c
Green and White
Lima Beans
2 No. 2 Cans—31c
Tomatoes
Texas Hand Picked
Two No. 2 Cans
23c
On at Guion Hall today, tomor
row, and Monday is Mickey
Rooney’s latest, “A Yank at Eton.”
The plot is fundamentally the same
—tradition-resenting American lad
at an ancient British seat of learn
ing starts out as a heel and fin
ishes a hero. Children will die
laughing, and grown-ups may get
a big kick out of it.
A prep-school football wizard, he
is transplanted to England when
his widowed mother marries a
Britisher. To please her, he enters
Eton where he finally winds up a
hero.
The Lowdown — Excellent for
laughs, super for Rooney, good for
everybody. See it.
Farther north, at the Campus,
today and tomorrow is one of the
brightest movies of 1942, Ginger
Rogers and Ray Milland in “The
Major and the Minor.” It’s about
a girl who poses as a twelve-year-
old and wreaks havoc in a military
academy.
Delightful musical comedy, good
acting, Ginger is cute as pie, and
Ray is a whiz as a thirty-year-old
Major Hanks Enters
QMC Training School
Major Lester Hanks, senior in-
structor of the Quartermaster
branch here, left recently to attend
a Quartermaster Training School
at Camp Lee, Virginia. Major
Hanks will be gone several days.
Phone 4-1168
Box Office Opens 2 p.m.
Closes 10 p.m.
TODAY - FRIDAY
A YANK
atmton
Also
Color Cartoon, Sport Reel
News
SATURDAY - MONDAY
“MY GAL SAL”
Starring
Rita Hayworth
the Christmas holidays. Surprised?
I married an Idaho girl . . . after
the war’s over I’m going back to
now about linisned my
pre-flight . . have an 88.3 average
which is not bad for a dumb Texan,
is it?
“What’s this I hear about them
going to turn A. & M. into an
Officer’s Training School ? Hell
I thought that is what it was now'
. . . and the darn fools had better
According to the Regis- keep someone around there learn-
For Those Considering Marriage trar’s office there will be 248 new ing a little about agriculture. Who
The subject of weddings should prove inter- frogs around Aggieland come Feb- do they think is going to feed this
esting to those Seniors who are considering ruary 1. Apparently campus-wide army ... the University of Tex-
marriage after they \ enter the army. Due j a the promotion of last semester’s as I guess . . . funny world, isn’t
to war conditions, it isn’t always possible f r og S to fish. Have you noticed it?”
for an officer to know in advance when he how weakly and shyly the newly Roper’s address is: Pilot Squad-
can get a leave or for how long it will be; privileged freshmen call you by ron 43, S.A.A.A.B., Santa Ana,
that will be the deciding factor on the type y 0Ur first name? Don’t laugh,
of wedding he will have. As a rule, the pros- y 0 u boys in boots, you did it too?
pective groom does not offer suggestions on Remember?
the kind of wedding his is to be; that is
for the bride-to-be to decide, x but sudden From California . . .
army orders and the difficulty of getting
a leave may turn elaborate plans into simple • • • Comes word from O. M.
ones—that doesn’t need to interfere with R°per, who left Aggieland for the
the charm or interest of a wedding, though, Army about a year ago, via Roy
for everyone loves to see a wedding, and
sometimes the simple ones are very impress
ive.
Military weddings are popular during
war time and they furnish more pageantry
than the usual formal type. The head
groomsman usually directs the rehearsal and
the military orders for the wedding.
An invitation is a nicer compliment than
an announcement; it should include an in
vitation to the reception. Announcements
should be sent, when there have been no in
vitations issued—they do not require gifts.
The bride-to-be and her mother select,
the invitations and mail them, but the
groom-to-be must furnish his guest list to
be included with that of the bride’s.
The trip back to an army post may, in
many cases, furnish a nice honeymoon trip
and save on the expenses, too.
PALACE
■ -PHONE 2-8879
THURS. - FRI. - SAT.
“STAND BY FOR
ACTION”
with
Robert Taylor
Brian Donlevy
and
Charles Laughton
Preview Saturday Night
11 P. M.
“War Against
Mrs. Hadley”
with
Edward Arnold
Fay Bainter
4-1181
Box Office Opens 2 P. M.
TODAY - FRI. - SAT.
Musical Comedy
News
Preview Saturday Night
Sunday - Monday
George Brent
Joan Bennett
in
“TWIN BEDS”
... in peace and war
This emblem is familiar throughout the nation as the
symbol of a well-trained team, integrated for service in
peace or war—The Bell Telephone System.
1. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. coordinates
all Bell System activities.
2. Twenty-one Associated Companies provide telephone
service in their own territories.
3. The Long Lines Department of A. T. & T. handles
long distance and overseas calls.
4. Bell Telephone Laboratories carries on scientific
research and development.
5. Western Electric Co. is the manufacturing, purchas
ing and distributing unit
The benefits of the nation-wide service provided by
these companies are never so dear as in time of war.
m CALLS COME FIRST