-SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1943
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THE BATTALION-
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Texas A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Maohanical Collegre of Texas and the City of College Station,
Is 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
opou request.
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Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Pissocided Golle&iote Press
Brooks Gofer. Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen -Associate Editor
phli Crown Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports Editor
Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor
Hank Avery Junior Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Regrgie Smith Advertising Manager
lack E. Carter .Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
A&l Huber Circulation Manager
H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant
Carlton Power Senior Assistant
Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant
Bill Trodlier Assistant
Saturday’s Staff
Douglas Lancaster .Junior Managing Editor
John Holman Junior Editor
Tom Journeay Junior Editor
Nelson Karbach. Junior Editor
Jack Keith Junior Editor
Bill Jarnagin Reporter
Have You Helped?
Everyday, on every radio program, in every
newspaper, you hear the sincere plea of our
national government to do your bit toward
paying for the war by buying War Bonds
and Stamps.
We hear those announcements, we read
those signs, but like so many, many other
people in this great land of ours, we fail
to do anything about it.
As students, we understand that War
Bonds and Stamps are necessary to prevent
inflation now and to convert our country
from war economy to a peace economy after
the war. We understand that the citizens
of this country can prevent such economic
horrors as inflation now by taking that mon
ey away from consumer goods and allowing
it to be absorbed in war spending.
Yes, we can understand these things,
but do we go any further? Do we ever stop
to think as we go into our third show for
the week, how many stamps we could have
bought with that money ?
Many Aggies have faithfully bought
stamps, and even bonds, but not nearly so
many as could.
Ole Army, this is the last week of a
school year. Let’s all truck over to the old
P. 0. and buy some stamps and bonds to
day—the boys who have worn class rings
this past year might appreciate it in a few
months, for your stamps and bonds may be
the dollars that give them bread and meat
in the foxholes of Guadalcanal, Alaska, or
North Africa.
Battle of the Masters
Reshevsky and Kashdan—Sam and Kash,
as the initiates call them—are now playing
a match for the chess championship of the
United States. Does that seem a minor news
item? It is. True, chess has been compared
to war and war to chess, but the metaphor
was made long before Hitler, and the lessons
of chess cannot be applied to totalitarian
conflict. No, chess is a world of its own, a
world as abstract as the higher mathematics,
as remote as another planet.
Certainly Hitler, who puts his faith in
intuition, wouldn’t understand this geomet
ric world of gambits, vital squares and fian-
bishops. Nor would he like the democracy
of chess, in which every man starts with
equal strength and plays on an equal foot
ing. And obviously he wouldn’t play the
game himself, because he could never bring
himself to use non-Aryan openings.
So it’s not surprising that Hitler hasn’t
shown up at any of the games. Not that he’d
be likely to disturb Sam or Kash. Nothing
bothers them. They just sit there and stare
at the board as if it were a crystal ball.
Ten minutes pass. Fifteen. Twenty. Kash
is making a move. He is exchanging his
knight for Sam’s bishop! It is the equiv
alent of opening up a second front. No
body cheers, but everybody knows these
games will go down in the books and that
the chess experts of Germany will play them
in the post-Hitler world. —New York Times.
A school to teach the Japanese language
to naval enlisted men is in operation at the
University of Colorado.
Lieutenant Liudmilla Pavlichenko, Rus
sia’s woman sniper credited with killing 309
Nazis, has been made an honorary student
at the University of Michigan.
Quotable Quotes
Every generation laughs at the old
fashions, hut follows religiously the new.
Who hath a fair wife needs more than
two eyes.—John Ray.
War is hell when you’re getting licked!
—Brigadier-General Henry J. O’Reilly.
We wage no ivar with women nor with
Priests.—Southey.
Mars, the unscrupulous god of war,
rages throughout the world.—Vergil.
From the blood of battlefields spring
daisies and buttercups.—Israel Zangwill.
Greenwell
Fightin' Aggie Exes
Aggies all over the world are fighting
together and for one purpose, the preserva
tion of all the decent things that make this
world so much fun.
Well, every day for about the past year,
the Batt has been getting gobs and gobs of
press releases from public relations officers
all over the country, j
Normally, we haven’t I
the space available to [
print all of these — fj
little items of these — 1
Aggies graduating j
from this flying school j
or that, because there p
has just been tool
many of them. !
We like to get these •;
releases, however, be- |
cause occasionally we %
get some news about !
some old buddy, and |
we think you would
like to hear about
yours. So here is a
new column from the
new junior staff that has just taken over
the Battalion.
It is dedicated to those ex-Aggies in the
armed forces of our country, and if you have
any news of anyone you think might be of
interest to other Batt readers, jot it down,
put it in an envelope, \ -
address it to the Bat
talion, Campus (if ad
dressed in this man
ner it doesn’t need a
stamp) and drop it in
the campus-mail slot
in the Academic build
ing.
Enough for that.
From Robins Field, ,
Georgia comes word i/lnj
that Jack G. Hester i
of New Gulf, Texas
has ‘just received j :
Army Air Corps 1
Wings.
Recently accepted -
as Naval Air Cadet,
Melvin Troy Berry, formerly of B Field (day-
student) will report for pre-flight soon.
Richard M. Zedlitz,
in Machine Gun Cav
alry in ’38 and ’39, is
now Flight Officer
Zedlitz of the Army
Air Corps.
Shown here are Wil
liam Greenwell and
Carl Wilson newly-
commissioned Naval
Ensigns and 2nd Lt.
Richard Hobbs now a
Marine flyer.
They will now take
up their battle stations
shoulder to shoulder
with over 6,000 other
Aggie exes, fighting
for victory all over the
world.
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
K^ICTOKr|P«f 8 ''
“All right! Stop blubberin’ and get in. I’ll let you drive!”
★ BACKWASH ★
“Backwash: An affitatian reanltins from soma action or occurrence” — Webster
By Nelson Karbach
Carl Wilson
Richard Hobbs
Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt has accepted elec
tion as a member of the board of trustees
of Hobart and William Smith colleges.
Captain Jack London, 1901 graduate of
the Naval Academy, is new commandant of
the University of Texas naval ROTC.
This Collegiate World
: ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS:
Stymied Vets . . .
Members of the junior class of
Dean Marsteller’s Knights of the
Excessive Frontal Protuberance
are strictly stymied. They may be
seen around the campus huddled
in small groups waving their noses
sadly from side to side discussing
the ironies of fate. It seems that
couples at the Junior Prom next
Thursday will not be bothered by
stumbling over long noses because
none of the vet boys will be there.
The good professor of one of
their major courses—throat dis
eases of the infant pig (or some
thing like that)—is the cause of
this great piece of luck for those
who like to trip the light fantastic
without tripping over a nose or two
with every step they take. The very
good professor has decided to drop
a quiz on them and the vet boys
are scared to go to the prom for
fear of flunking. Well, our hearts
bleed for the poor boys who will
be sitting around on their cases of
pinkus tuckus while we are at the
dance. We certainly hope none of
the other profs decide to follow
the example of the vet prof.
Another Rumor . . .
Editor John Longley’s latest,
statement is, “The 1943 Longhorn
will definitely be issued sometime
during 1943.”
Want Ad . . .
The Publisher’s Auxiliary on Jan
uary 2 carried this classified gem
under “Help Wanted Editorial”:
GIRL JOURNALISTIC GRAD
UATE with at least a year’s
weekly experience on news and
ads needed badly to assist pub
lisher of good weekly. Prefer gal
who is a perfect 36, beautiful,
smart, willing to work for $5 a
week, interested in weekly pa
pers, Protestant, Catholic, Jew
ish, white or colored. Because of
war we might waive some or all
preferences. Office is cold in win
ter, hot as hell in summer, the
toughest weekly joint in the state
to work in because we’re ornery.
We also expect perfection in oth
er folks. We serve beer when the
49-year-old press has a birth
day and serve sarcastic remarks
anytime. You’ll suffer here, but
you’ll be a newspaper man or
fired before you go, so don’t
come for a two-month holiday.
We just finished making a swell
newspaper man out of a guy with
a Wisconsin M.A., but right now
he wants to sleep in navy ham
mocks. Of course, if you can
cook, too, or use a Speed Graph
ic, it wouldn’t hurt, but you don’t
have to sweep the floors or wash
windows or melt metal. If you
want to take a chance, tell us
something about yourself and
what you read and what your
plans are. If you got questions,
ask ’em. We don’t want you here
only two weeks any more than
you want to get fired or quit.
We’ve got the swellest staff in
the state, or did have until the
war, and we want to keep half
way good. (Oh yes, don’t worry.
My wife can cook good.) Geo.
W. Greene, Leader-News, Waum-
pum, Wisconsin.
SEE LOU’S
BOOK LIST
NOW!
“Station WCOO is on the air!”
Girls at Western college, Oxford, Ohio, stop
their chattering and listen when they hear
this call line. Broadcasting “without reason
and with uncertain frequency,” the new
“station” entertains with news flashes,
fashion notes, campus gossip, important an
nouncements, advertisements for a formal
dance or a lost book.
The broadcasts are part of the regular
work of a new course in radio speech offered
at Western this year. Broadcasting equip
ment in the form of a public address system
has been set up in Peabody hall with the
loudspeaker located in the college dining
room. A popular weekly feature is dinner
music on Saturday evenings—an all-request
program.
The first broadcast came as a surprise
to the college. The class installed its equip
ment and wrote and rehearsed its program
without the college community suspecting
a thing.
We Will Buy . . .
BOOKS
SLIDE RULES
DRAWING EQUIPMENT
At the Highest Possible Prices
GET OUR PRICES
STUDENT CO-OP
1 Block East of Post Office at North Gate
Prof. A. H. Wright, herpetologist at Cor
nell University, on a 22,550-mile tour of the
West and South, found rare salamanders, a
large poisonous Gila monster, a hitherto un
described toad, and a group of sidewinders.
Aggie Crgptogram
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groups alphabetically.)
cryptogram was enciphered by taking a
dealing with Aggieland and dividing H
letters, then arranging each ef these
Today’s Aggie Cryptogram
EHJTU INORS AAERT * CGIKN
AMMNO ADDOT Y—B. H. Luther.
Thursday’s Solution
See Maroon vs White football game
for worthy cause Saturday.
ASSIES
CORPS DANCE
TSNISET
Music by
BARNEY RAPP
The University of Michigan’s physical
hardening program has been made compul
sory for all men students.
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MY GAL SAL, showing at
Guion Hall today for the first
time and Monday, brings a tune
fully, colorfully, lushly told bio
graph story of Paul Dresser, Vic
tor Mature, amidst the haunting
tunes such as “On the Banks of
the Wabash”, that he composed.
This is the story of Dresser’s pro
lific, vain, and romantic life, with
Rita Hayworth aided by Carol Lan
dis supplying the romance in big
allotments, as a musical comedy
star of that era, Dresser’s heart-
throb.
From his home on a farm, Vic
fleas a tryannical father, takes
up with a crooked medicine man,
gets himself tarred and feathered,
is seen by Rita, and laughed at
for his hickish behavior.
Deciding to prove the had some
thing, Vic goes to the big city and
Bill Elmore Accepted
As Naval Air Cadet
William Herman Elmore, Jr.,
has been selected for training as a
Naval Aviation Cadet and will be
ordered to active duty shortly.
He graduated from North Dallas
High School in 1941, and has at
tended A & M College for the last
year and a half.
When ordered to active duty, he
will report to the U. S. Navy Pre-
Flight School, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia, for
three months of physical condi
tioning, instruction in naval essen
tials, military drill and ground
school subjects. After completing
this course, he will be sent to one
of the Navy’s numerous *reserve
bases for primary flight training.
The surest way to stop the hen
from laying is to neglect to give
her water. One hundred laying
hens will drink from 35 to 40
pounds, or about five gallons, of
water a day.
Home vegetable gardens provide
about $20,000,000 worth of food,
excluding potatoes, to farmers of
the northeast.
discovers Rita singing a song he
composed in a hit show. From
then on they team up and so it
goes.
The Lowdown—really good en
tertainment, despite Mature.
The Campus exhibits a mad
house comedy in TWIN BEDS with
Mischa Auer and Ernest Truex,
minus customary trousers, trap
sing in and out of (whoops) Joan
Bennett’s bed room between times
and when hubby George Brent is
not looking.
At spots, this filmatic, in your
distractions reviewer’s opinion,
loses some of its humor, but the
interesting situations keep coming.
Glenda Farr el and Una Merkel add
their two cents worth before it’s
over with.
The Lowdown—if you want to
laugh, OK.
Last night, in a highly decorated
Sbisa hall, the seniors reached one
of the climaxes of their four years,
as they stepped through a huge
gold-colored ring with their one
and only and switched the position
of their senior ring. Barney Rapp
and his New Englanders provided
the music and the boots were pol
ished to the nth degree, probably
the last ring dance—at least with
boots—for the duration.
Chickens need plenty of fresh
air, also protection from drafts.
The answer is proper ventilation,
which is explained in Cornell bule-
tin E-315. Single copies are
available free from the New York
State College of Agriculture at
Ithaca, New York.
WHAT’S SHOWING
At The Campus
Midnight preview tonight,
tomorrow, and Monday Twin
Beds with Mischa Auer, Una
Merkel, and George Brent.
At Guion Hall
Today and Monday, My
Gal Sal with Rita Hayworth,
Vicitor Mature, and Carol
Landis.
Cut Out and Hang Up
SHOW CALENDAR
FOR THE WEEK
Phone 4-1168
TODAY and MONDAY
Plus
Merrie Melody
Community Singing
9.
4-1181
LAST DAY TODAY
“Major and the
“Minor”
PREVIEW TONIGHT
SUNDAY and MONDAY
tymp Jmh
BRENT-BENNETT
TUBS, and WED.
Jan. 19-20
DOUBLE FEATURE
Also
“Men of the Fleet”
TERESA WRIGHT* RICHARD CARLSON
Directed by WILLIAM WYLER
Won lilllaa HeUiW. ncvmtd
SH*rtbmMd by RKO RADIO Pittmrm
March of Time
Porky Pig — News
TUBS, and WED.
DOUBLE FEATURE
Jinx Faulkenberg
in
“Sing for Your
Supper”
Feature No. 2
“Bullet Scars”
The Saga of
JOHN DILLINGER
Also
Color Cartoon — News
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
January 21-22
“Steel Against
Sky”
Starring
Lloyd Nolan
Alexis Smith
Plus
Porky Pig - Novelty - News
and
They live on love...and laughter 1
William HQ IQ [[j Frances
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
THURS. - FRI. - SAT.
ANNE GWYNNE
in
“SIN TOWN”
Also
March of Time
“F.B.I. Front”