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Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 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, 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, Inc., at New York City, Chicago,' Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-B444. 1942 Member 1943 P&sodded Golleftiote Press John Holman... Jack Keith Tom Journea: Danell E. may.... Griffii Hank Avery Louis James Dick Anderson- Sports Staff Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor ..Editorial Assistant ..Staff Photographer Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Sophomore Sports Editor Advertising Staff Gus Boesch - —Advertising Manager Ed Schlenker J J ” Haskell Lindley.. Billy Butz Tuesday Asst. Advertisiing Manager Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff Joe Stalcup Circulation Manager Tuesday’s Staff Doug Lancaster Managing Editor Bill Jarnagin Junior Editor Henry Rougagnac Junior Editor Once Again, Ole Army.... Once again it is time for the cadet corps to be reminded that speaking on the campus is one of the oldest and most honored tra ditions on the Aggie campus. It is the one thing that can never be re stricted or prohibited unless voluntarily done so by the corps. We haven’t a lot of new freshmen now, but we do have a lot of old students and fish. It isn’t the Aggie way for the corps to walk down the street or sidewalk with your head held high, speaking only to those you know. Since this was last brought to the atten tion of the corps, everyone has taken an “up” in ranking and rating. Last year’s soph omores are now wearing serge, and last year’s freshmen no longer are wearing fish stripes. Ice-cream pants give the new sen iors a lift in spirit. Be that as it may, that “lift” can never be so high that we all aren’t just still Ag gies—Aggies writing their names across the pages of history with their own blood. Old Army, it has been a habit around here long enough for us never to have to be reminded, so let’s all come down off of our high horses, and get out that old “hello” again. Speak to everyone, coming and going, and A.&M. will be a lot more pleasant place to live in. Hitler, Tojo, and a Sub. ... On February 15, College Stationites will get to see for the first time, a real, death-deal ing submarine—that little 2-man affair that was captured at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. When that sub gets here, it will, or rather, should mean more to all of us than just a curio that you might pay a quarter to see at the carnival—it should mean the re-affirming of your own personal deter mination to fight the Axis, either at home or on the fighting front, until they are com pletely and utterly defeated. Beside the truck on which the sub is fastened will be a booth for the sale of War Bonds and Stamps. Everyone in uniform on the campus will be admitted free, but Texas University students bought a total of over $100,000 worth of bonds and stamps to see the same thing you will see free. We are serving our country best by staying in school, but if you are of the many that think you, yourself, are not doing your part in this war, then here is the best and most important way of doing that part. Buy bonds and stamps at the booth beside the submarine Monday week, February 15. The exhibit will be placed on the street between Mark Francis Hall and the Tex tile Engineering building. Decide now to buy your weekly or monthly quota of stamps or bonds then. Remember, T. U. topped $100,000! This Collegiate World : AS60CIATBD COLLEGIATE PRESS: College-Trained Engineers Needed By Government Literally hundreds of government jobs are open to college-trained engineers, the Civil Service Commission announced this week. The greatest iteed is for junior engi neers at $2,000 a year, open to both men and women. Any college graduate or college sen ior is eligible for these jobs upon comple tion of a short, tuition-free “Engineering Fundamentals” war training course. A stu- Man, Your Mannm By 1. Sherwood Potatoes and gravy appear more often in ordinary diets than any other foods, but have you given much thought about the proper way to eat them? Be satisfied with the way your potatoes are served you—if they are whole, let them stay whole, and cut off bites, one at a time, with your fork. Do not mash them down or cut them up. Gravy belongs on the meat and not on the potatoes. Ordinarily put a spoonful on one side of your meat next to your potato. And no matter how well you like gravy, don’t let your food swim in it. Combinations of gravy and bread, and gravy and potatoes are almost inevitably at the family table. If you have learned to like gravy that way, breaking yourself of the habit will take strength of character (if you want to break yourself). Nice table manners are a matter of knowing how to conduct oneself at a meal in a way that will not be offensive to others. We indulge in eating on an average of three meals a day throughout our lives, and since we are often judged by the way we eat, we should know how to do it correctly. This knowledge will save us any embarrassment and make us pleasant table companions. Let’s not get in such a rush that we forget what a pleasant habit eating can be, es pecially when it is done with compatible companions. PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis jC&C&dot&K (ambus ^Distractions 'Ey 'Uom ^.oume-ay “Aw, Sarge, let me wear my pack like this for a while—just till I get off this mule bam detail!” ★ IA<IUA\I I ★ “Backwash: An agitation resulting: from some action or occurrence” — Webster “Science has transformed the physical facts of our material existence with an accelera tion dating back to the stdrt of the indus trial revolution. Material change has un stabilized our economic, social and political life. We have fought and won a world war, made a peace which did not recognize the fundamental nature of changed and chang ing conditions, and have failed to recognize that science has speeded up the world and brought it close together. Instability and dis location continue to increase and have cul minated in a world cataclysm the import of which is just beginning to be recognized.”— Chancellor Deane W. Malott of the Univer sity of Kansas lists four attributes that must be developed by the man or woman ot whom society grants the favor of a higher educa tion: fulfillment of the destiny of leader ship, individual initiative, perspective, and tolerance. Fightin' Aggie Exes Two former Aggies, John Neal Bryant and ||f Fred Sterling Hume were commissioned p ensigns in the U. S. f Naval Reserve at the | Corpus Christi Naval Base on January 29. Bryant is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John James Bryant who live at 1443 Vest Third m Ave., Corsicana, Tex- T' as. He volunteered for I flight training last April, and received preliminary flight in struction at the Dal las reserve aviation base. Hume is the son of Mrs. Kathryne L. Hume, who lives at 2316 Colonial Avenue, Waco, Texas. He vol unteered for flight training last Novem ber and also^received his flight instructions at the Dallas reserve aviation base. dent who has majored in engineering or any other science major who has taken six se mester hours of engineering during his 4- year course is eligible for the jobs with no further training. Seniors may receive pro visional appointments, dependent on success ful completion of their course. If an engineering student has a year of graduate study to his credit as well as a bachelor s degree, he is eligible for more advanced engineering jobs, paying $2,600 a year. “Pink” Slacks ... That order was the first time Backwash had ever heard them called “Pink” britches, but by whatever name they are called, they are the main topic of con versation around here these days . . . Seems the main bleed of the “no-button-boys” is that they should have been told of the action before they bought their ice-cream slacks, as $17 or $18 britches just don’t grow on trees. They say that if the college had been plan ning to restrict their use, the or der should have come ou£ within a reasonable length of time before the beginning of the new semes ter, so that they wouldn’t have been out the price of a pair of pants they can’t wear. Backwashin’ Around.. Marvin Hall, state fire insurance commissioner, says that at least 328 persons in Texas were killed by fire last year . . . most of them trapped in burning buildings. A three-months-old Guernsey calf was sold for $8000 in War Bonds at Greenville, Ohio, recent ly in a bond selling campaign. That Jap Sub . . . Aggieland is out to beat Tea U.’s $107,000 bond total when the 2-man Jap sub was exhibited on said campus. The submarine, cap tured during the Jap sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, is 81 feet long and with the trailer it rides on, weighs 76,500 pounds. Someone heard that the under seas craft was about to be shown here, and immediately began spreading the rumor that that ru mor about a Jap sub being found in the Brazos river was true, and if you don’t believe it, it will be shown here complete with the des sicant bodies of its two crewmen. Strange world, isn’t it? Hitler’s Power . . . This month, Adolph Hitler, the man with the face, will celebrate the tenth anniversary of his rise to power—a dark decade of human misery. That anniversary is just one more reason why Aggies should outdo the good University when that bond-selling and stamp peddling submarine cruises into College Station Monday week. Incidentally, right after Hitler’s hordes took over Norway, Vidkun Quisling, the original of that name, built himself a house in imitation of “Der Fuehrer’s” palace at Berg- tesgarten. Also about Norway is the fact that Hitler utterly failed to wax any influence over the boys of that country. His hyp notic antics just don’t work on people with any better sense— people who have lived in a world without the man with the face that has been “righted in” so much lately. Toothpaste Grin . . . You boys who virtually eat toothpaste by brushing your teeth about twenty times a day will probably weep to learn that tooth paste tubes will henceforth be made largely of lead, instead of tin as before. This Collegiate World Not that we want to get anyone in trouble or anything like that, but provided the system has been figured out for getting out of one’s dormitory room either during the afternoon when “study” is marked on that class schedule card, or dur ing a lab that “didn’t meet” the playbill these last few days of the first week of school offer extra ordinarily good fare. So far the shows have been somewhat devoid of attendance even with th enew- ly revamped schedules that the manager of both shows on the campus has worked out. On the Guion Hall projection machines will be about five reels of Hedy Lamarr. That strikes your reporter as being worth the effort to figure out a way to get past that mean old CQ. The title of the particular distraction in mind is WHITE CARGO with Miss La marr playing the traditionally old stage part of Tondelayo, the se ductive scorcher of the Congo. The story is based on gorgeous Tondelayo’s ravishing of the prin ciples, morals, character and body of a newly arrived young British er, Richard Carlson, while the old hand at the tropics, Walter Pidg- eon, strives in vain to warn the newcomer of the Congo’s hard ships, namely the enchantress, Ton delayo. Frank Morgan turns in a stellar performance as usual, as the drunken doctor of the Congo. The Lowdown: Lamarr plus a Congo setting equals an interest ing show. Across the campus, the movie- house at the North Gate is readily stocked with humor for those se lect few who can “arrange” things to attend. One of the funniest of the “road” pictures is presented today through Saturday with those inseparable, irrepressible, irrespon sible B boys of the screen, Bing and Bob in another laugh riot, ROAD TO MOROCCO. As usual Dottie Lamour with her sarong aids and abets the wide world travelers on their sojourns, this time en route to Morocco. Out to kid themselves, the cus tomers and the picture, Hope and Crosby start out on a raft and end up on a raft . . . but oh, boy, what goes on between! Stranded in Mo rocco, hungry and broke, Crosby sells Hope a sheik for a cozy bunch of mazuma. When Crosby is warned in his dream by a fa vorite aunt (a Hope impersona tion, by the way) to locate Bob, he complies. And guess where he is? In Dottie’s boudoir (bedroom)! We’ll let you find out from there on what happens. The Lowdown: It’s a riot from start to finish. : ACP: Again, during the next year, one of America’s most urgent needs will be for nurses. Paul V. McNutt, Manpower director, pointed out the other day that 65,000 young women must enter nursing schools between June 30, 1943, and July 1, 1944, “if even minimum civilian and mili tary needs of the nation are to be met.” This number exceeds the 1942-43 group by 10,000. Where state nursing laws permit, schools are being urged to reduce the usual period of training from three year's to 30 months, or less. And incidentally, the Civil Serv ice Commission is now authorized to employ part-time women work ers in government agencies. That does not mean, however, that there will lie part-time jobs in all cities. Part-time workers will be hired when the market for full-time em ployes has been exhausted. SHAVE HITLER SAVE AMERICA WHAT’S SHOWING At Guion Hall Today and tomorrow White Cargo, with Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon and Frank Morgan. At the Campus Today, tomorrow and Sat urday, Road to Morocco, with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. V igA'gagAlL to <S&MlPt3t)j7 A. C P.'» Correspondent Reports from Washington CO-EDS PLEASE NOTE By the end of this year, about 20 per cent of America’s industrial war workers will be women—a to tal of 6 million of them, according to the War Manpower Commission. In aircraft production, employ ment of women is expected to be greater than that of men. * * * The War Manpower Commission has indicated that the proposed na tionwide occupational registration of women may be abandoned in fa vor of an “educational program” to enroll women on a voluntary basis in specific labor-shortage areas. Proposed by the Women’s ad visory committee of the Manpower Commission, the new program would be aimed at women who have never worked before. Ques tionnaires would be sent to women wdlling and able to do the type of work involved. A house-to-house canvass to recruit them would be made as a follow-up. The Perfect Gift for Every Occasion . . . A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU “Photographs of Distinction” Aggieland Studio North Gate NOTICE! 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