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The Battalion
STUDENT TKI-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 83 per school year. Advertising rates
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1941 Member 1942
Ptesocided GoUe6ide Press
John Holman ,. Editor-in-Chief
Jack Keith Associate Editor
Sports Staff
Hank Avery Sports Editor
Dick Anderson Sophomore Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Gus Boesch Advertising Manager
Ed Schlenker Tuesday Asst. Advertisiing Manager
Haskell Lindlty Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager
Billy Butz... Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
Joe Stalcup Circulation Manager
Saturday’s Staff
Doug Lancaster Managing Editor
Tom Journeay i Junior Editor
Editor’s Note: The staff organization will be completed at
the first meeting of the Battalion staff, and the mast
head will carry the complete staff as soon thereafter as
possible.
New Order. . .
There seems to be no end to the dissat
isfaction expressed by the corps about the
new plan which goes into effect Monday
morning. The most probable reason for all
of this griping, is that no one seems to un
derstand the real reason behind the new
deal.
First; When Dr. Walton and Dean Bolton
went to Washington a few weeks ago, the
first thing they found out was that the War
department just didn’t think enough of the
countries’ ROTC schools to allow us to re
main in school after the end of the semester
just closed.
Second: When they saw that point, they
immediately began to feel around govern
ment officials in an effort to see just what
the War department expects in the way of
a good ROTC program. What they found
out is what you are starting this semester.
This plan is designated solely for one
purpose—that purpose is to get the Class of
’44, and following classes if possible, degrees
from this institution. That point was not
made clear at the commanders meeting last
week because Dr. Walton didn’t want to com
mit himself to something that he might not
could make good.
If we want those degrees, we have to
convince the government that we aren’t just
playing around and tea-sipping, but that we
are definitely preparing ourselves for a place
in this war. That is the one thing the gov
ernment is interested in right now.
By playing ball with the new program,
taking it as soldiers (even though we are
not soldiers), we can not only convince the
government that we are here for a purpose,
but we can do ourselves a lot of good by
walking away from here with a sheepskin.
As a Yankee writer put it, this unique
institution of the plow, the punt, and the
patriot must buckle down, do a good job,
and the profits will be all ours.
You a "War-Aggie”
But perhaps you don’t know what a “war-
Aggie is.
A “War-Aggie” is one of those students
attending this college that is making the
most of the opportunities offered him so that
he may in turn pass that utility on to his
country.
To do that, A & M. has, since the out
break of hostilities, been forced to re-design
its set-up, to offer the most opportunities to
its students possible in the limited amount of
time available.
Those of us who have been here in the
past know what that has meant. We have had
to change a lot of things—given up a lot of
little things, that, although they seemed big
to us, were not contributing to the war ef
fort.
Yes, a lot of things have been changed,
more changes may come in the future, but
be that as it may, Aggieland will always be
Aggieland, and whether she’s fighting a
war or throwing a corps dance, she will go
into it with all her heart and soul.
You, the boys who walk about this cam
pus day after day, spending both dull and
interesting hours in classrooms, heeding an
noying bugle calls, doing a lot of things that
don’t compare with being at home with your
girl until your draft board calls you—you,
every individual in the corps, make up the
heart and soul of Aggieland, and you are the
thing that makes it tick and gives graduates
to the country that reflect fame and glory
upon our school.
A. & M. isn’t just a lot of pretty build
ings spread out on the black dirt of the
Brazos bottom. A. & M. is a way of life—a
way of life that is as American as anything
in this great country of ours, and you, the
men of the corps, are the reason it is as it is.
Before us all now is a new semester—
four months of a grind that is and will be
more strenuous than any you have seen be
fore. It will demand the best of you, and you
should give it—for yourself, for your coun
try, for your parents, and for the greatest
thing around these parts— that thing we call
"“the spirit”.
Look up, Texas Aggie, up into the clear
blue skies above us—then look up into the
black clouds that threaten every horizon, and
think. Are you going to be ready when the
time comes for you to fight those clouds, to
keep that blue sky clear? Are you making
the most of your chance to serve yourself
and your country, and will you be worthy
-THE BATTALION-
-SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1943
•\
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis j \
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood
Freshmen who come to A. and M. are
pretty apt to know in advance some of its
traditions and customs and soon after they
reach the campus they learn to accept or
adopt them. Life at A. and M. is standard
ized, but students who truly have the “Aggie
spirit” learn to like it and make it a part
of them.
This column does not deal with student
problems that pertain to dormitory life or
college regulations, but it does try to furnish
practical information on manners than con
cern men, such as: introductions, table man
ners, dates, manners in public, social cour
tesies, and personal appearance.
A. and M. social life is, of necessity,
different from most other schools; it would
be impractical to adhere to hard and fast
rules of any one authority on etiquette, so
this column will strive to give only those
social usages that appear to be useful, under
changing conditions, in a man’s school.
Among the most important qualities ex- ■ ■ -
pected in an A. and M. student are, his integ- a a / a m i
rity, his sense of fair play, his regard for ■ J Bn, /m, |g I
others, respect for his faculty, and his sense \ V ▼ J ^ ■ I
of values; these, of course, are the founda- 1 1 . . --- ■■ -■ ■
tion for all rules on social-usage.
This will be your column, and any ques
tions on manners that you may care to ask
will be gladly answered, either in this column
or by letter, on request.
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By Tom Journeay five different kinds of conspiriacy.
To welcome the corps back to One scene, the most hilarious in the
another semester of studies, we whole picture, is the roller skating
heartily recommend the fares at sequence. Don’t miss it.
*1 thought Td take this motor up with me, Sir—just in case!”
New Saddle
the local flikker halls as being
mighty good distraction until stud
ies actually get started. For the
last time today (Friday, if this
first issue of the Batt comes out
when it’s supposed to) Guion Hall
has booked a thriller from first to
last. It’s DESPERATE JOUR
NEY with Errol Flynn, Ronald
Reagan, Nancy Coleman, and Ray
mond Massey.
One long chase, crammed with
exciting incidents is this 108 min
utes of film telling of the adven
tures of a group of Royal Air
Force flyers whose bomber is hit
and crashes in a forest inside
Germany. Five of them survive
the crash and are captured by the
Germans. They manage to make
their escape, and then comes their
desperate attempt to evade Ger
man officer Massey who pursues
them and make their way back to
_ England.
, . ,, , As though this weren’t enough,
now on, because it will be the most j?- j ^ ™ -a u
, , ’ ,, , they even find time to commit sab-
advantageous one we could find—
Kay Francis is beautiful as the
mother; Andy Devine dressed up
so importantly is fit to kill.
The Lowdown—A mortal blow to
the funny-bone.
It is better to slave now than
be enslaved later. Give your scrap
metal to the Army now.
Battalion Editor
This Collegiate World
=ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS:
Wage and Hour Division of the Depart
ment of Labor wants women for jobs as
“junior wage and hour inspectors” in 12
geographical regions of the U. S.
Qualifications call for either two years
of experience in business methods and rec
ords, preferably records relating to wages
and hours—-or four years of college study,
with 12 hours in courses such as labor eco
nomics, accounting, business organization,
etc. Salary is about $2,300 to start.
Hitler's Faith
Take it on the authority of Cincinnati ex
pert on social psychology, the current world
drama in which Adolph Hitler has assigned
to himself the leading role is likely to see
the final curtain rung down with the fuehrer
committing suicide. * r
This is the opinion of Dr. Ernest L. Tal
bert, associate professor of sociology in the
university’s college of liberal arts.
Without waiting for permission of Herr
Goebbels, Dr. Talbert has sketched Hitler
and the “spottiness and contrariness of his
personality which make him a nuisance to
the world and poor company to himself.”
“Students of mental derangements have
diagnosed his case,” Dr. Talbert states.
“They find the drama of Hitler’s life is a
series of ‘projections’ or interpretations of
the outside world induced by his own mental
conflicts. He felt hatred and jealousy of
his father because his possessive parent took
away the love which belonged to him. Non-
Aryans and Jews symbolize his father.
“Germany he wishes to free from con
spiring powers. Germany symbolizes his
mother.
“To be brutal and agressive stems from
his anti-father ‘complex.’ The sentimental
side of his nature derives from his mother
(shown in his liking for music and architec
ture), yet—and here the plot thickens—the
pervers Adolph can’t bear to be tied even
to his own mother.
“Hence his contempt for women and the
German ‘masses,’ and his willingness, even
eagerness, to send them to certain slaughter.
“He is at times anxious, pessimistic. His
sleepne§s nights and frequent nightmares
reveal an unconscious feeling of guilt and
disbelief in his invincibility. But his largely
unconscious fear is countered by his belief
in fate and the magical powers of the folk
soul of the German people.
“The end of the drama? The answer of
the doctors is that confidence in his destiny
(he sees visions and hears voices which tell
him when to act) wil Ibreak down by the im
pact of repeated setbacks. He can’t endure
trench warfare in any form.
A collapse will surely take place at the
moment when German defeat becomes cer
tain enough to destroy the illusion of des
tiny which has shielded him from a full
realization of his own weakness.
“Then he will turn upon himself the vio
lence which for years he has directed toward
his ‘friends,’ his people, and the slave na
tions. Suicide announces the dropping of the
curtain.”
Dr. Talbert prefaced his analysis by a
discussion of Hitler’s background, starting
with his love for his mother, a “simple, kind
ly woman,” and hatred of his father, “a
harsh, tyrannical parent who dominated Hit
ler’s mother;” and concluded with a study
of contradictory twists in iHtler’s character.
of the title, “officer and gentleman” ?
It is a responsibility, one which must
be bucked as only the bravest can buck, but
you can do it. Pull your belt up a little tight-
er, grit your teeth a little harder, chest up,
chin in, and you will be ready.
Well, A. & M. is starting in on
this 68th session with the same
old horse, but far being from me
to have to tell you that it isn’t
the same old t saddle we’re sitting
in. There is every possibility in
the world that if we aren’t care
ful about sitting in that saddle
right, the old nag might throw we’re aiming at.
us. All we should do is sit in that
saddle to the best of our ability, NOW FrOgS .
never using too much rein or two
little. If the bit gets to chafing,
don’t worry, the boss will let us
know.
This new saddle can make our
riding a lot easier if we try to
let it. ’Course, the leather is a
little stiff right now, but as soon
as
die will do us a lot more good than
the old one.
don’t just shut up f you don’t "“uVut ““
believe this plan is a good thing.
Find somebody that knows what
this is all about, somebody sensi
ble, and you’ll probably find, as
I did, that it is a pretty good way
to get a degree from Texas A. &
M.—and that end is exactly what
Will probably find Aggieland a
lot different from what they ex
pected, but if we’ll all help them
find that “spirit”, they will love A.
& M. just as we do, but of course
if one of them comes up and ask
you “Do we have to sleep at atten-
it limbers* up” a* bit,' the "new sad- tion « n Saturday nights?” just ig
nore him.
Junior Prom
Gossip
Still talked about is the really
fine job done on the Junior Ban-
Wonder where that strictly wo
manish apparel came from that
was gracing a campus tree Fri-
of them is wounded, but fortunate
ly they are aided in their escape
by Coleman. Flynn is the squadron
leader and Reagan an American
Volunteer flying officer.
The Lowdown—Desperately good
entertainment.
Well, I’ll tell you, BETWEEN US
GIRLS—what a pleasing thought
on this female-bereft campus!
That’s the title, at any rate, of the
feature showing through Saturday
at the Campus, out west of the
North Gate.
Diana Barrymore scores a
knockout in her first juicy role, as
the daughter who hopes to help
along her mother’s romance to
handsome John Boles by posing as
a child. Robert Cummings, who
plays a friend of Boles attempts
to amuse “wittle Diana” and
finds himself the victim of thirty-
mi
US
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
“SPRINGTIME IN
THE ROCKIES”
BETTY GRABLE
JOHN PAYNE
Harry James and Orchestra
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PREVIEW SAT. NIGHT
SUNDAY - MONDAY
“BETWEEN US
GIRLS”
Diana Barrymore
Robert Cummings
quet Thursday night a week ago. day morning, January 23. Things
Also still talked about is the way that shouldn’t happen around
Hack Lmdley, the toastmaster, in- here; es p ecially when there > s a
commencement gang of visitors on
troduced Dr.
Walton” then
Walton”.
Walton
changed
as “Dean
it to “Mr.
Spirit
the campus. Watch it, boys,
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That column over to the left on
this page is supposed to be the ed
itorial column, but I just can’t help
putting a soothing word to some
of the ruffled spirit about the
new order. As editor of this pa
per, I get upstairs in the Admin
istration building a good deal, and
think I know what this thing is
all about. Take it from me, the
less hollering and raving we do,
the easier it will be for us all.
We need something to make us
study a little, anyway, and this
plan isn’t nearly so strict as a
few loud-mouthed bleeders would
have you to think.
Ice-Cream Panters ...
You new. seniors probably got
a great kick out of slipping those
gray things up and around you,
and those new buttons don’t seem
nearly as heavy as you thought.
Well, the putting over of this new
deal is up to you. Like that skunk
that came down the road with the
“convincin’ aroma, the better you
do your job, the easier it will be.
“Soft-pedal on the yelping” should
be our motto around here from
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