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7 Page 2- THE BATTALION -THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1943 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, la 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, fnc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 6, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. 1941 Member 1942 Pissocided GoIlefSinto Pi w Brooks Gofer Editor-in-Chief Ken Bresnen Associate Editor Phil Crown Staff Photographer Sports Staff Mike Haikin Sports Editor Mike Mann Assistant ^^’-‘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 Senior Assistant Joe Stalcup Uunior Assistant Bill Trodlier Assistant Thursday’s Staff Jack Keith Junior Managing Editor John Holman Junior Editor Tom Journeay Junior Editor Douglas Lancaster Junior Editor Bill Jarnagin Reporter To the Seniors Friday another senior class leaves Aggie- land to take its place side by side with all other ex-Aggies on the far flung battlefields of the war. This will probably be the last regular graduating class to leave A.&M., and it is only fitting that the entire cadet corps bid them Godspeed wherever they might be going. Five hundred and seventy strong, we who are left behind to fill their places as of ficers and men of the corps, will always re member them as our immediate predeces sors and the boys on the good end of the hardwood when we were fish. Now that they will be gone, we must pledge ourselves to enter into the new col lege plan for an all-out war effort, whole heartedly, to do the job as they did—to the best of our ability. , You who are leaving, we salute you. Our hopes and our common bonds of friend ship shall be with you forever more. 1944 Longhorn? We of the Class of ’44 want a Longhorn just as much as any class before us, and the only way we can have one is to buy it before it is begun. Class annuals are the easiest, and the best way to keep a record of your years spent here at A.&M. Every class before us has had one—every class that claims to be real, old-fashioned Aggies. Well, we are real, old-fashioned Aggies, we of the Class of ’44, and we want what they got if possible. We are able to buy our Longhorns one dollar cheaper than any other class, if we buy as many as 1500 before actual work on the book is begun. We can do that, Old Army, and we want to. When you register, have that four bucks ready, and let’s have a Longhorn when we leave here. This Collegiate World === ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS== Collegiate globetrotters who have taken photographs, still or motion, in Europe, Asia or Africa are asked to lend them to the Pic torial Records Division of the Office of Stra tegic Services for use in mapping war plans. The types of material wanted are: Aerial views, industrial installations, air fields, highways, docks, harbors, coastlines, beaches, canals, and rivers. Before sending in their pictures, persons in possession of this sort of material should apply for a ques tionnaire to Col. L. E. Norris, Strategic Photos, Box 46, Station “G,” New York City. * * * Approximately 250 Princeton students have been giving up their Sundays to the task of keeping supplies moving through the Bello Mead Quartermaster Depot, ten miles from the University. They have been load ing and unloading freight cars and storing Army supplies in warehouses. The Depot’s commanding officer describes their spirit as “simply splendid.” * * * The Treasury has asked undergrads to restore their idle change, especially nickles and pennies, to circulation. Mrs. Nellie Tay lor Ross, director of the Mint, says many tons of vital metals can be saved if the coins come out of hiding. They should be spent—turned into the Mint. * * * If you didn’t have it in print before you, could you spell “nucleus”? If not don’t be disturbed because it is one of the most frequently mispelled words in the language, at least by college students, finds Harld V. Anderson, chemistry profes sor at Lehigh University. For 15 years Anderson has listed every mispelling of the word discovered in written work of his students. Te has found it incor rectly spelled hundreds of times, and spelled 61 different ways! The professor found that the rank of the students seemingly had little to do with his ability to handle this word. Graduate stu dents misspell it as often as freshmen. Commonest among incorrect forms were such spellings as “nueelous,” “nucleous,” “neclueous,” “nuclues,” and even “neuclulus.” Some time ago Anderson called atten- Something to Read PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis C3 the L Ov»/ d o a a cq £3 □ □ £3 campus ^ e dOiadlons PcncggcriociiEz^ In the dozens of interested new books and articles about the sort of post-war world which we are to work for four words recur again and again; Reactionary, Conservative, Liberal (or Progressive), and Radical. Per haps it may be useful for you to read one man’s rough-and-ready definition of each of these attitudes. You may like to exam ine your own opinions and determine which of these labels fits you. A Reactionary, I take it, desires a re turn to some former state of affairs. In ec onomics, he wants to get rid of much of the government control of business which has increased recently. I should say, off-hand, that Mr. Hoover would welcome such a move ment. His book, Of Freedom, certainly seems to say so. A Conservative opposes any fundament al changes in either direction, either fore ward or backward. Mr. Wendell Willkie, per haps, would answer this description—that is, as he appears in his more recent speeches. A Liberal, or Progressive, desires fun damental changes, but insists that they be made peacefully, gradually, legally. If he is a “right-wing” liberal, he emphasizes the gradualness and bit-by-bitness. If he in clines toward the “left,” the changes he ad vocates are very important indeed—but he still insists on legality of method. If he doesn’t, he ceases to be a Liberal and be comes a Radical, who believes in fundament al changes, and thinks that they can not be made except by illegal, if necessary forcible methods. The Communists are Radicals, ttIcI V , T " , By John Holman now-internationally-famoUs Rumor Now, it goes Without saying that a man Mil] You’ll hear tall tales nowa Knowles provide that certain ro- may be a Conservative as to religion, say, Tom Gillis . . . days, but when you hear them this mantic interest > and Leo Carrill ° Jut a liberal or a Radical as to economics r? n I . m 3 T, r is usuall y attached: “Rumor num- and Andy Devine provide most of Wilham Jennings Bryan used to be just Ex-Cadet Colonel, ex-Battahon ber six . hundred and so . and _ so » or the humor. that. Most Aggies, I have ovserved, are Editor, ex-everything else around “this one came from the Battalion” Eowdown—Typical plot, but Conservatives in economics and politics, hgj.g that counts, Tom Gillis, ’42, (grr-rr-r). It has been referred to Anne is there, though I have noticed a drift toward the ^as recently lost two fingers from lately as “the daily rag”. If that Kp on the campus, Guion hall , . ^ tllG Icist yGctrs. Fascism IS d6l- hand in an explosion. How- is the worst it is ever called we close its stately portals for initely reactionary, for all its talk of a New ever> the accident hasn’t slowed shall be eternally grateful. a ^ ew da y s after the current show- Order.” If Hitler and Mussolini had their him down much and he is now i n gs of Bette Davis in “THE LIT- way, feudalism would return to the world, lst Lt (maybe a captain by now)> Last ISSUGS ... TLE FOXES” and Regis Toomey and much of the social evolution of the last execu ti V e officer of a Coast Ar- — three centuries would be abolished Ordinary tillery battery (AA) in SeattIe) Of the Batt this week is this Calcium and phosphorous are the Socialism IS left-wing liberalism Its pro- Washington . His address is 212th one - Next P a P er wlU be lssued two most important minerals need- gram recommends fundamental changes by CAC (AA); Seattle; Washington> Friday morning, January 29, for ed by dai cows> Sources are gradual legal methods The New Deal on and would like to hear frora soine Saturday January 30. I trust you ground limestone) oys tershell flour the whole represents libera ism of the Cen- of his old buddies AU tbia comes shall have as good a time at home and le roughages grown on ter, I should say—especially the views of 4 „ „ * T as Backwash. Vice-President Wallace. Which are you? & 1 “Tm all set. Sir. Now, where are these land mines the Ser geant said I was to work at today?” ★ BACKWASU ★ “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webstar By Tom Journeay The Campus brings a Universal picture to the screen today through Saturday with none other than Anne Gwynne in it. Of course Constance Bennett and Brod Craw ford are there too, but we would like to see just for the curiosity of the whole thing, Miss Gwynne— just as a preview perhaps of what we’ll see come March when that company stamps finis on “We’ve Never Been Licked”. That picture is “SIN TOWN”, a saga all about racketeers and vil- lians out where the west begins. Bunco artists, Crawford and Ben nett find themselves out on the little end of a deal, so they promptly pack up their troubles in their old kit bag, and head out for a little wester noil town look ing for easy money. Crawford finds it when he saves a saloon owner from a lynching and is made partner in said saloon. Soon, however, residents rebel to the unlawful antics of the saloon owners and send them to greener pastures. Anne Gwynne and Patrick in “BULLET SCARS” while the corps gets a much needed rest from this war-tom school work. We are informed that Guion will be fired up again however Thursday for regular showings when the corps comes back to register for another 16 weeks of edycashun. WHAT’S SHOWING At Guion Hall Last time today, “The Little Foxes” with Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall, and Bullet Scars with Regis Toomey. At the Campus Today, tomorrow and Satur day, “Sin Town” with Con stance Bennett, Brod Craw ford and Anne Gwynne. in a letter from Leroy Brown, Tom’s former roommate, now at Ft. Bliss. Hitler's Parade Linfield College (McMinnville, Ore.) is QQg’ “90 Day in its fifty-eighth year. Wonders” . . soils rich in calcium. For roughage in feeding lambs, ’ allow one half alfalfa and one Recently Hitler’s ace right-hand- half Johnson grass or Sudan hay. man, Quisling, sponsored a parade They hay should be green in color, in Oslo, Norway, consisting of such well cured and free from mould. youth whose support he has been In the same letter Leroy tells ab i e to enlist. The Norwegians In a test of 308 days by the of some of the CCS officers that ^ oob no no tice of them with the Department of Agriculture, pullets are arriving out there. According exception of one sweet old lady, fed mash in pellet form each aver- to him, some of them know less g be stood near the curb and nodded aged 17 eggs more than those Sn'SIIIITSr 1111 !!!!!! 1 about the Army than Aggie fish. to them all as they marched by. fed unpelleted mash. Feed con- been commissioned Naval ensigns at Cornus “ Bein8, an Aggie 1 stick my chest “Why in the world are you sumption for each group was prac- been commissioned Nava ensigns ^Corpus out with pride these days with standing there greeting all those ticaiiy identical. R H >40 it f 30 damn many ‘°dds and ends’ of scoundrels?” an irritated patriot uyrd, Houston, officers in the Army.” He says fi na iiy as k e d her. Feeder lambs should have a shed formerly in Hdq. Sig- that most Fightin' Aggie Exes says finally asked her. fthe CCS grads are “Surely,” she replied, “I may for shelter against wind and rain, nal Corps, and George “strictly quantity” except those pay my respects to my dear boys D. Cams, Jr., also of from A - & M - rE St0 E n ; g ine f r e an y d Texas U. vs. Draft... the Class of ’44. According to a recent Daily “wasn’t I the matron at the jail They will now enter Texas, the good University’s en- for twenty-five years?” active duty and be rollment totalled only slightly over assigned to a post 8,000 last semester. They are in with the fleet or as the habit of attracting over 10,000 an instructor at one per term. 7.9% of the student of the Navy’s prelim- body “dropped” out last term as inary flying bases. compared with some 5 something News of eX-Cadet per cent last year. Colonel Tom Gillis and his roommate Leroy Brown appears in Bleeding’ Backwash. Lt. Brown says that he counted Has been hot and far-fetched about the “new plan” for next semester, although it is hard to see why everyone was hollering so when no one knew a great deal about it until last night. allowing four square feet to each. “But you can’t possibly know A wet lanjib in a muddy lot will them all.” not make good gain. “And why not?” she demanded, Phone 4-1168 Box Office Opens 2 P. M. Closes 10 P. M. LAST DAY DOUBLE FEATURE A GREAT ACTRESS At her greatest! |H Samuel Goldwyn piesents ,. m BETTE DAVIS inThe Little Foxes HERBERT MARSHALL Show Time: 2:10 - 5:29 - 8:48 Feature No. 2 BULLET-STREAKED THRILLS! REGIS TOOMEY ADELE LONGMIRt HOWARD da SILVA id br D. ROSS lEDERMAN irt E. KmI • I Show Time: 4:30 - 7:49 Color Cortoon — News Guion Hall will close beginning Friday & will re-open Thurs day, Jan. 28th. Keep ’em rolling, metal is needed now. Your scrap EDWIN LESLIE BYRD ten of his classmates (1942) at a Fort Bliss dance the other night. Brown is from Waco; Gillis from Fort Worth. A few of those now at Bliss that he listed are Bill Becker, cadet colonel in ’41, of Kaufman and C Field; Tom Ritchey, ’41 (president of the senior class) of San Benito and D Troop Cavalry; Tommy Hill, ’41, Dallas and E Coast; Louis Byrd, 1944 Longhorns . . . Marvin McMillan, editor of the 1944 Longhorn if the corps want, one, has a plug or two in this paper pulling for some backing. Every class wants a Longhorn, as it is the personal history of that class, and although there was no Longhorn in 1918, we can have one if we’ll get behind Marvin and buy your ticket. 1500 must be sold before work can begin on the Wf 111111111 GEORGE D. CARNS, JR. ’42; Loyal (Deacon) Evans, ’42, C Coast and Dallas; La Vere Brooks, ’42, C CAC and Somerville, Texas; himself and Gillis, all of- book - Naturally, if that many ficers can’t be sold (and I shudder to James Scott Adams, ’44, formerly in E think weVe lost that much s P irit > Infantry (home in. Smithville, Texas) has J™’ 11 & et your money back - Price been appointed Aviation Cadet Captain and ls $ 4 > 1 believe. Squadron Commander in the cadet corps of mi . -r-, the Army pre-flight school at Maxwell Field, -L LlS r rGGZe . . . Alabama. He left here to join the army and Has frozen thc hottest thing on went from there to the Air Corps. the Aggie campus _ namelyi \ he tion of the Brown and White, campus news- More of the peanuts produced paper, to his collection. Student journalists in the United States are used for ran an article about it. In the article, the making peanut butter than for any B & W spelled it neucleus.” other single purpose. Next largest Other sticklers for college students, ac- use is as salted peanuts and pea- cording to Anderson, include: separate, dis- nut candy is the third largest out- solve, precipitate, soluble, and molecule. let. Less than 10 percent of the * * * commercial crop reaches the public Columbia University is opening up a as peanuts roasted in the shell. new field for women by offering ten-week courses in electronics and in metals. The re- Research specialists in Brazil quirements are a high school diploma, math- have analyzed the composition of ematics and trigonometry and one year of the tomato seed and found the oil college physics or its equivalent. content of a great edible V alu« Women specialists in these subjects are The oil has a high vitamin content needed by the Naval Ordnance Labratory and has the further possible use as the Army Signal Corps, the Tennessee Val- a drying agent and in manufacture ley Authority and some private corporations, of varnish, according to the IJsDA Charlies Food Market Specials for Friday and Saturday January 22 and 23 We Reserve the Right to Limit All Items Armour’s Star Sliced BACON, Pound 41c HENS, Fully Dressed, Pound 43c CALF LIVER, Pound 31c Pure Pork, Lean < SAUSAGE, Country Style, Pound 39c Texas or California ORANGES, Dozen 24c California LEMONS, 490 Size, Dozen 17c GRAPEFRUIT, 96 Size, Dozen 38c Large California CRISP CELERY, Stalk 19c Fresh Home Ground CARROTS, Bunch 5c No. 2 Cans Uncle Williams Country Gentleman CORN, Cream Style—2 Cans 31c Blue Rridge JUNE PEAS, No. 2 Cans—2 for 27c Milnot for Whipping, 3 Tall Cans 26c Armour’s PEANUT BUTTER, Quart 44c Jergen’s TOILET SOAP, 4 Cakes 16c VEGETOLE Shortening, 4-lb. Cart. 71c All-Pure Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, Two 14-oz. Cans 39c Avon SLICED PEACHES, 2 No. 2 1 / 2 Cans..43c Light House CLEANSER, 3 Cans 14c (Safe Suds—White Washes) DUZ, Giant Size 59c DALACE ■ • PH O N E. 2 - 6879 Thursday - Friday Saturday “Andy Hardy’s Double Life” With Mickey Rooney Cecilia Parker Lewis Stone Fay Holden Preview Saturday Night 11 p.m. “The Crystal Ball” With Paulette Goddard Ray Milland TODAY - FRIDAY AND SATURDAY “SIN TOWN” With Anne Gwynn Boyd Crawford Constance Bennett Also March of Time Sports — News — Cartoon PREVIEW SAT. NIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY “WAKE ISLAND” With BRIAN DONLEVY 4 v P * % V