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The Battalion Something to Read
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.
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,
Ine., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room fi. Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1941 Member 1942
Associated GoIle6iate Press
Brooks Gofer..
Ken Bresnen....
Phil Crown
Mike Haikin
Mike Mann...
..Editor-In-Chief
Sports Staff
Associate Editor
..Staff Photographer
Sports Editor
..Assistant SnnW-s tiMHnr
Junior Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Advertising Manager
....Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Hank Avery
Reggie Smith
Jack E. Carter Tuesday Asst. Advertisir
Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
dill Huber Circulation Manager
H. R. Tampke Senior Assistant
Carlton Power .....Senior Assistant
Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant
BUI Trodlier Assistant
Tom Leland
John Holman
Tom Journeay
Jack Keith...
Arthur Matula
Jim Gabbard ....
Tuesday’s Staff
..Junior Managing Editor
Junior Editor
Junior Editor
Junior Editor
Reporter
iReporter
Poor Old Guion!
Poor old Guion Hall! Bless her heart, she
has housed everything from church meet
ings of several denominations to a regular
motion picture theater.
And now, uncomplaining as she is, she
has had to refuse admittance to the gradua
tion exercises to the faculty because she
just isn’t big enough to take care of them.
One of these days, and we could hardly
blame her, she will fold her tired walls and
sink to the ground—down to a well deserved
rest.
It is true that we rarely have an assem
bly that cannot be seated in Guion, but
could not the reason for that be because
the College knows it doesn’t have the auditor
ium to house it.
One of the buildings projected into the
Former Students Association’s student act-
tivities center plan is a large auditorium. It
really doesn’t matter where it comes from
or how, but one of the first things Aggieland
should have after the war is an auditorium
with a seat for every cadet, man, woman,
and child in College Station.
The Former Student Association has
foreseen this need, and through donations
from Exes all over the world is laying aside
funds for a real student activities center.
Plan to help them yourself when you
take your place on the world’s battlefields—
the fighting front, the farm front, or the
home front. Your donations, no matter how
small, will be appreciated.
Guion Hall will then be able to resume
her place of respect which she enjoyed dur
ing the life of the Assembly Hall, but until
then, alas, poor old Guion!
From Capital to Campus
ACP’a Jay Richter Reports from Washington
Selective Service Note
Men in good standing who have had a year
of almost any sort of engineering course—
including sanitary, industrial, radio, trans
portation, mining and metallurgy—have a
basis for requesting occupational deferment,
according to a recent amendment to Select
ive Service’s Occupational Bulletin, No. 10.
The same goes for men who have no
more than two years remaining in certain
other specialized courses — bacteriology,
physics, astronomy, chemistry, mathemat
ics, metorology, naval architecture and psy
chology.
If you are interested, you might check
at your local Selective Service Board, which
probably has a copy of the amendment.
All Quiet or Fairly So
Three men each from the Army, the
Navy and the Manpower Commission in
Washington are studying procedures by
which men are to be selected to attend col
lege under the recently-announced Army-
Navy college training program.
They’re working like beavers on the
testing procedures, but have nothing to an
nounce to date. Meanw’hile, male college stu
dents are asked to keep their seats—which,
no doubt, is easier said than done.
Incidentally, an Army man selected for
college work may get any one of five assign
ments when he has completed his studying
—he may go to an Officer Candidate School,
be recommended for a job as a technical non
commissioned officer, returned to troops, in
some “few cases” be tagged for advanced
technical training, and in “very exceptional
cases” made available for work outside the
army, if that work is “deemed highly im
portant to the war effort.”
More Women Wanted
As more and more men advance to battle
lines, more and more women join production
lines. And government agencies are in full
cry after them to fill vacated positions, both
m Washington and the states.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration is
offering scholarships to women—free tui
tion, plus $50 for books and $75 a month
expenses at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, New York University, Chi
cago University, California Insittute of Tech
nology and the University of California at
A Treasury of the World’s Great Leters,
2 vols., Edited by M. Lincoln Schuster, Sim
on and Schuster, New York, 1942, $3.75.
Letters make the most interesting read
ing in the world—especially other people’s.
This Inner Sanctum anthology, repre
senting many years of intensive collecting
and research by M. Lincoln Schuster, are
assembled the most interesting letters of all
time—the crucial and characteristic private
communications of the foremost people of
world history—ranging from Alexander the
Great and Saint Paul to George Bernard
Shaw and Thomas Mann.
These intimate letters—many of them
here made available to the general public for
the first time—are selected, edited, and in
tegrated to shed light—as only private and
secret letters can—on the great men, the
great events, the great ideas of history.
Each letter is prefaced by a biographi
cal prelude giving the significant and dra
matic facts about the person who wrote it
the person to whom it was written, and the
circumstances surrounding its composition.
In these two volumes are the letters of
Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Beethoven, Ben
Franklin, Voltaire, and many other greats.
These are not the great things of their life,
but the little intimate, private things —
their love letters to secret lovers, their dam
nation of national and international events
and figures—everything that makes life liv
able.
The reading of these letters makes his
tory more enjoyable, and in these pages life
and letters meet. Here biography and his
tory converge to form perhaps the most
fascinating form of literature—the private
correspondence of the mighty, and their
contemporaries.
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By Tom Journeay
Today’s distractions cover both
types of shows. If you're looking
for comedy, definitely trek north
ward and attend the Campus twin
bill. We promise you’ll not regret
it. Then on the other hand, if you
are the type that enjoys drama,
Guion’s top billing will fill your
needs. Of course for those that
still get a thrill out of “shoot-em-
ups” you’ll like at least half of
the Guion billing.
On the comedy side of the fence,
SING FOR YOUR SUPPER with
Jinx Falkenburg, the famous beau
tiful model that recently hit Hol
lywood, and Charles “Buddy” Rog
ers fill half the bill. Jinx plays
an heiress that doesn’t fancy mar
rying a playboy so her business
manager can retire; instead she
looks for a struggling chap who
happens along to be Buddy, band
leader ’ and dance hall operator.
A&M Grad Enters
Air Corps Engineers
First Lieut. Henry K. Orgain,
formerly of Temple, Texas, has
reported to the new Army Air
Forces Navigation School at San
The Dallas office of the Office Marcos, Texas, as post engineer.
Lieutenant Orgain graduated
This Newspaper
World . . .
Fightin' Aggie Exes
From the AAF Advance Flying School
in Altus, Oklahoma comes word that Cap
tain Harry G. Seeligson, ’34, has been ap
pointed Post Exchange officer at that post.
He majored in Ag Administration, was in
E Field and has been manager of the House
hold Furniture Company in San Antonio.
He has, since 1941, served as post ex
change director at Goodfellow Field and
San Angelo Field.
* * *
Lloyd W. Terry, ’40, of San Saba, (a
former M Infantry boy) has been promoted
to the rank of Captain at Fort Bliss. The
promotion comes in recognition of his mer-
itorius application to duty.
At Camp Warner Robins, Georgia, ex-
Aggie Gilbert W. Glenn, of College Station
and 3rd Hqd Field, who would have grad
uated next Friday had he stayed here, has
just been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant
in the Army medical corps.
This Collegiate World
i By John Holman
Hitler’s Promise...
The Office of War Information
tell this story similar to hundreds o£ War Information, according to , „ „ „
which the people of Occupied Eu- E ‘ ntor & Publisher magazine, was T «nas A. and M. College m
rope are telling in ridicule of their a comprehen- ^9 with a degree of bachelor of
tyrantical masters. It seems that ^ check list of Southwestern scence. Ongma y comm,ss,oned
an old Dutch Woman was arrested newspapers. So a request for a •" the F.eld Artillery Reserve, he
for listening to British Broadcast- y^’ 3 subscription was sent to the has served at Foster Field, Vic-
Wellington (Tex.) News-Leader. toria > Texas, as assistant post
among others. Enclosed were six
government forms to fill out be-
Working incognito into his band,
business and heart—well, see it and
find out how the situation works
out when an enterprising press
agent discovers Jinx’s identity.
The Lowdown—Good for plenty
of laughs.
MEET THE STEWARTS, star
ring William Holden and Frances
Dee, turns out to be a bright com
edy, due to smart scripting, clever
dialogue, competent performances,
and skillful directing by A1 Green.
At Guion Hall, BULLET SCARS,
with Regis Toomey takes care of
that “shoot-’em-up” angle we were
telling you about, and THE LIT
TLE FOXES, starring Bette Davis
and Herbert Marshall supplies a
good potion of superbly put on
drama.
It’s about the ruthless greed of
a family set against itself. Davis
as the cruel Regina holds her own
with the members of the New
York stage cast that originally
produced this play, as she permits
her sick husband, Marshall, to die
rather than lift a hand to help. In
all departments the film is per
fection itself, Samuel Goldwyn
making it even more effective than
the stage presentation.
The Lowdown—A good dramatic
thunderbolt.
ing System broadcasts from Lon
don. She was taken before a
Nazi “court”.
“Why did you do this?” asked the
judge.
“Oh, but your honor,” she re
plied innocently, “Hitler told us he
engineer.
In civilian life Lieutenant Or-
fore the Federal government was a sanitary engineer for
would authorize payment for the Texas State Department of Health.
subscription.
He is the son of Mrs. Berta Or-
Back came the forms and a brief ^ ain of Houston, Texas.
‘" 'Uj . 7 t’ , *. 7 77 note from Deskin Wells, unawed
™o d editor o f the News-Leader: Lee Cargile to Enter
Naval Air Training
1940. I’ve been listening every
day since then. I would not want
to miss der Fuehrer!”
Speaking of Hitler ...
OWI also warns collegians to
“I wouldn’t fill these out for
$1.50.”
The OWI still wishes it had a Lee Lane Cargile has been se-
subscription to the News-Leader, lected for training as a Naval
. . . Then there’s the blunder made Aviation Cadet and will be ordered
WHAT’S SHOWING
At Guion Hall
Today and Wednesday, The
Little Foxes with Bette Davis
and Herbert Marshall. Also
Bullet Scars with Regis
Toomey.
At the Campus
Today and Wednesday,
Sing for Your Supper with
Jinx Falkenburg and Buddy
Rogers. Also Meet the Stew
arts with William Holden and
Frances Dee.
by the Philadelphia bureau of the
be careful and don’t play the Axis Associated Press which read some-
game of “Bits and Pieces”—a game thing like this: “Gettysburg, Pa,
in which the careless pass along Dec. 31—AP)—The train that
bits of gossip about military move- President Roosevelt rode into
ments or war production, and the Gettysburg in 1863 to give his
to active duty shortly.
He attended Texas A&M for
one and one-half years.
When ordered to active duty,
he will report to the U. S. Navy
Pre-Flight School, University of
enemy pieces them into a pattern historic battlefield address made Georgia, Athens, Georgia, for three
which may cost American lives its last trip from Baltimore to- months of
and material. day, with a crowd of history lov- instruction
Without trying to stifle sensible ers aboard.”
discussion of the war, they offer The Detroit Bureau, which cor- subjects. After completing this
physical conditioning,
in naval essentials,
military drill and ground school
the following simple rules to fol- rected the story, wired back:
r ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS:
WOMEN WITH COLLEGE DEGREES
WANTED AS JUNIOR ENGINEERS
Women with a college degree in any field
are invited to qualify as junior engineers
in the government service by taking a short
training course in recognized engineering
schools.
Candidates may take a ten-week, full-time
course or go to school in the evenings for
27 weeks, with their tuition paid. The en
trance salary will be $2,000 and appoint
ments be made anywhere in the counthy.
Further information may be had at the Civil
Service Information Office, 801 E. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Students who are interested in earning
part of their expenses while attending
classes are- given the opportunity of working
part-time for the government under a new
Commission ruling. Part-time employees are
especially nedeed as stenographers and typ
ists, at the rate of $1,440 a year; tabulating
machine operators, $1,260 and $1,440 a year,
telephone operators, $1,260 and $1,440, and
messengers, $1,200 and $1,320. However,
applications will be accepted for any type
of position on a part-time basis.
Los Angeles.
These scholarships are open only to co
eds with private air pilots’ licenses and col
lege work in mathematics and physics.
But there is a second group of scholar
ships, offering free tuition at the same in
stitutions, but no further allowances, for
women not licensed as pilots.
Graduates from these courses might be
employed by either CAA or the Weather
Bureau, with beginning salaries ranging
from $1,800 to $2,000 annually. Applications
should be made to the Weather Bureau of
fice in Washington, Research and Training
Section, or to any of the five universities.
Aggie Crgptogram
(The following cryptogram wa» enciphered by taking a
plain-text quotation dealing with Aggieland and dividing H
into groups of five letters, then arranging each of these
groups alphabetically.)
Today’s Aggie Cryptogram
AEHRT EEMNY ADGGS EFFIO
CEIRS—W. E. Scott, D-SC.
Saturday’s solution
The juniors are taking command to
day.
low when discussing the war:
1... If you HEAR it—don’t
peat it.
2. If you SEE it—don’t talk
about it.
3. If fou READ it in a reputable
publication or hear it on the
radio, then it’s official and
there’s no reason to keep it
to yourself.
4. The most important rule is,
STOP and THINK, BEFORE
you TALK!
Barney Rapp . . .
. . . Surprised everyone by turn
ing out to be a dog-gone good
outfit. Some juniors went to
Houston to hear him last week,
thinking they might want him for
the Junior Prom and Final Ball,
but thought he was lousy. Now
he turns out to be swell. Only
complaint was that the senior, and
these girls who were at the ring
dance, had to sit through another
showing of Rapp’s “stage-show”.
Admittedly, it was good, and up
perclassmen enjoyed it.
Incidentally, Charley Fisk, the
guy who blew two trumpets at
once, until just recently headed out
of the most promising young bands
on the horizon. For unknown rea
sons, the outfit went on the rocks
about three months ago.
Lt. Robert Baird, ’39,
Assigned to Sub-Depot
Second Lieut. Robert E. Baird,
of Dallas, Texas, a graduate of
A. and M. College, has reported
to the new Army Air Forces Nav
igation School at San Marcos,
Texas, where he is assigned as
engineering officer at the sub
depot, Air Corps Supply.
Lt. Baird graduated from A. and
M. in 1939 with a degree of bach
elor of science. He majored in
architectural engineering.
In civilian life Lt. Baird was
a draftsman and estimator for the
^ j att Metal and Roller Works at
Houston and an engineer for the
Lubbock Steel Works at Lubbock.
He was commissioned Sept. 19,
1 942, and attended the Air Forces
Technical School at Chanute, HI.
His previous stations include Dun
can and Randolph Fields.
“Re-Gettysburg, thought
had only three terms.”
course, he will be sent to one of
FDR the Navy’s numerous reserve bases
for’primary flight training.
A LOUPOT TRADE
IS MONEY MADE
TODAY - WEDNESDAY
DOUBLE FEATURE
“Sing for Your
Supper”
With
Jinx Faulkenberg-
Feature No. 2
William H0S.0EN Frances
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
Plus
Merrie Melody
THURS. - FRI. - SAT.
ANNE GWYNNE
in
“SIN TOWN”
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