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Page 2- ■THE BATTALION TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1943 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKEY 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 6, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1942 Member 1943 Plssockited CHtefSiatp Prp<<; Holms Ceith... John Jack Kei Danell E. Griffin... Hank Avery Thomas Boog Horace Bays Ruben R. Caro Costas Sports Staff Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor -Staff Photographer Advertising Staff ; Boescto Ed Schlenker Tuesday Asst. Haskell Lindley Thursday Asst. Billy Butz Saturday Asst. Sports Editor ....Sports Assistant ...Sports Assistant Sports Writer Manager Joe Stalcup.. Tom Leland. Tom Journeay.... Gene Robards. Tommy Gould Jim Circulation Staff Tuesday’s’’Staff Gabbard.. Junioi — , 1 Advertising Advertisiing Manager Advertising Manager Advertising Manager ..Circulation Manager Editor sporter ^porter Reporter Looking Ahead... In this world of war we are living in, it is very difficult for young men, especially Ag gies, to look forward to very much other than a few years of Army service. Ahead of each of you, at the end of that Army serv ice, lies in our minds a blank void—a wall so high, so strong, so dark, that very few of us bother to think about how we are going to get over or through it when the war is over. The war is probably far from being ended, but is it not a good idea for us to just sit down every now and then and think—-to take an inventory of ourselves, our abilities, our possibilities ? A few months from now, you may be in the thick of battle many thousands of miles from here, many millions of miles away from making a living for yourself, your wife and your family—such an idea won’t enter your mind. In the first place, you’ll probably be too busy to give it much thought, and sec ondly, you’ll probably not want to have to think about it. Someday, though, you will have to face it, and what better time can be found than now—now when you still know a civilian world, when the price of eggs and butter means something to you—now while your mind-view is unwarped by battle and senior officers ? Take stock of yourself today. Could you leave school tomorrow and get a job in your major field of study? Can you face the post war world of screaming economists and pa rading politicians, of bureaucracy and mes- scracy? Think now about what you’ll do then, work out a plan of attack, and when the world once again stops this bloody battle of power and brutality, you will at least have a firm rock on which to take the first step. The Sunday Sing... Lat Sunday night, a small group of boys went in the Assembly Hall to the first meet ing of Singing Cadet Director Richard Jen kins’ Sunday Sing—an hour-long session of singing old, favorite hymns. They didn’t really expect it to be much fun, but they thought it might break the montony of a dreary Sunday. When Director Jenkins told them the next one would be the last for that time, al most everyone of those boys begged him to go on <a while longer—they were having a god time and didn’t want to stop just when everybody got warmed up.. That group was small compared to some that the Assembly Hall has seen, but if the idea, the sponsor, and the boys that were there Sunday night have anything to do with it, the Sunday Sing sessions will be the big gest thing around here before many more weeks go by. Everybody sings, every body can pick the songs they want sung; boys, girls, men, and women raised their voices to the rafters and sang, sang, sang. A quartette from the Singing Cadets gave a beautiful rendition of an old Negro spiritual, and Jenkins him self sang a solo. All in all, it was wonderful. It was church without the praying, the preaching, and the dressing-up, and the boys liked it. The Sunday Sing wasn’t created to com pete with the churches, but to provide those boys who do not go to church on Sunday night, a congenial get-together where the music of God could be sung together. And yet, instead of being stiff and unpleasant, it was fun—the boys liked it, and so will you. Seven o’clock each Sunday night in the As sembly Hall. “Quotable Quotes" AGP “Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.”—Hippocrates “To famous men, all the earth is a sep ulchre ”Thucy dies “Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.”—Douglas Jerrold “The ugliest of trades have their mom ents of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”—Douglas Jerrold. Latin-A merica At a Glance By Guillermo Moncada, Jr. Don’t be surprised if by the end of this year, some of us Latin-American students will be able to thumb it home for any holiday vaca tions we might get (we hope we get). In other words, the Inter-American highway running from Alaska to the tip of South America will be completed and ready to be traveled on by Christmas time. It won’t be uncommon to ask a passing motorist the whereabouts of his destination and get a reply something like this, “I’m going as far as the Panama Canal, if that will do you any good?” The highway through Central America is now an all-weather road and at present it’s being paved. About two hundred miles on the other side of Mexico City, you can ride on a smooth paved wide enough to let three cars pass at one time. The Department of Agriculture of this country is carrying out its plans for the es tablishment of a number of agricultural ex periment stations throughout Central and South America. Not very long ago an expert in swine production was through A. & M. and stated that a score of men with experi ence in different branches of agriculture were to be send down on or about the first of next month. These men will train students in the national universities of these countries to manage the experiment stations. At the end of a period of time when it is felt that these students have had the suficient amount Defense . . . of training in running the stations, these men will be assigned to other conutries where About two weeks ago the Rock- Conlrlbuted by the American Society of Marmrine CACfvW/iSli Tommydould "Backwash: An agitation resulting from aome action or occurrence” — Webster bf a research chemist. Measure ments should be carefully taken. If you obtain a false result, you further training of men is in plan. These dale Reporter (Rockdale, Texas) can blame it only on inaccuracy on experiment stations will enable these nations made the remark in its editor’s y° ur P ar t- to develop those agricultural resources which cotamn that it didn , t see how we First, with a great deal of care, are most needed. remove your goldfish from its do- A vast synthetic rubber program is to got away Wlth the klnd j° ke3 micile remembering to place him be launched very soon in Brazil because the printed in the Battalion magazine, (or her) immediately in another production of pure rubber is not enough to He now knows that every joke ill receptable full of water. Failure supply its local consumers and the Allies at the Batt is taken from some other to do this may prove disastrous, the same time. This nation has its own men college magazine (most of which Then, very carefully, measure to start this program and the machinery are co-educational schools). How- the amount of water that the bowl will be acquired from its own mills. This fever, the Dallas Morning News’ usually holds. Remove 4.6337% means that no more machinery will be irn- state Press column had this to say of this and add a mixture prepar- ported from the outside world and Brazil about the Reporter’s statetment: ed as follows: 2.76 parts of con- at present can hold its own as having one of the richest supply of iron in the world yet undeveloped. During the past year or so there has been noticed a considerable increase in the number of students from the Latin Ameri can countries coming up here to study cot ton—cultivation and production. Of course, there is only one conclusion as to this hap pening—that our countries have started cot ton production in large scole. Already Peru, Ecuador, and several other nations have made bids in the markets of the world to be considered as keen competitors in the ex port of cotton. The effect that the war situation has taken in Mexico City is certainly the opposite of the one this country is going through. There is no rationing of any item in the country at present, but Coca-Cola, butter, Foreign Fables chewing gum, sugar, coffee, etc., can still be had in the capital as long as you have also “W. H. Cooke in the Rockdale Reporter claims that in a recent issue of the Battalion, published by students at Texas A. & M. College, he was unable to find a humorous story in the magazine ’tame enough to print in this great family journal. I don’t see how those boys get away with it.’ The Battalion probably needs no defense against the chabge of printing risque and naughty jokes, but State Press imagines that in a school as much a part of the army as A. & M. the stan dard of humor is a little broader than would prevail in the sewing circle of the Ladies’ Aid Society.” centrated sulfuric acid, 9.7 parts of mess hall ketchup, and 1.4 parts of 20-weight motor oil. Carefully place Oswald or Nel lie—(you’ll find out which in just a minute) in this mixture. If he floats to the top, he is a boy; if she floats to the top, she is a girl. Perkins Takes Over Senior Cavalry Post Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Per kins, formerly with the Adjutant General’s Department stationed at the Eighth Service Command head quarters at Dallas, has been as signed to the Cavalry Unit here, according to Staff Sergeant Mal colm Thomas, sergeant major. Lieutenant Colonel Perkins ar- These tales are being told and rived here to take over the duties the do-re-mi to pay for them because prices circulated by the underground pat- of Cavalry senior instructor, suc- have advanced a little. Naturally, the real riots of the occupied countries of ceeding Lieutenant Colonel Carrico, be seen in this Europe. Such stories as these help transferred to Fort Bliss, definitely keep up the morale of the oppressed feeling of sacrifice cannot country yet, although Mexico knows that the United Nations are going to people: win this war. 1. After an attempted bombing V/OHipIOLG But OH the other side, the people of this of Hitler in the Munich Brauhaus _ _ great country are ready to give up anything, became known, the following no- I lirpn ilrmf ho Piin from their candy to their lives, if the instant tices appeared in the windows of HlvUtllO il/Ull comes up. Experts predict that tire and rub- several butcher shops in Prague ber rationing is on its way, but they know the next morning, not when. The government is piling wartime « There wiU unfortunately be no taxes on gasoline yet the people do not com- j ar( j or po^ today as the swine plain. Why complain when the know their wasn>t killed ye sterday.” sacirifices, however small they be, are for „ . _ . , a good cause? All in all, Mexico now is a , 2 ' A , Germa " t a! nation that sould be proud of its people and uxet ” sc 00 £ ir 0 its people s government. Of Axis-Blasting Pop NAVY POP-OFF... ne Three ex-Aggies were among the aerial Axis-blasters who today completed three months of bombing 2. A German teacher asked a operations over target areas great- ne er in size than all Germany. The one of her country’s great rulers Aggies were Second Lt _ Lee A and without hesitation she replied, Dolberry from Abilene who attend- “The Grand Duchess Charlotte.” ed A & M from 1936 tQ 1939; Hacked, the man asked sarcasti- Second Lt Carrol Q Henry> from cally, “And who fled, leaving the San Angelo . Second Lt Nowlin people in the lurch? p c 0 qj er) from Robstown, Texas. The whole class answered in A triple threat to the Axis wag chorus: HESS! revealed today with the announce- That rumbling vibration and the choked fog horn tell me that the north-bound is halting to take away my younger pals—the kid who mastered Code so quickly, then daily en couraged me to keep on trying for a word or two more per minute than I could record —that red-haired, half-bald young man who once sold accounting equipment but most re cently called the Marine cadence in that in distinct jumble — the Minnesota farm boy who was everybody’s he-man favorite—the other room-mate who had that pleasing voice and the continuous snore like an Oklahoma cyclone—and the smooth kid who talked me out of my lash-rope when at the last moment he found that some buddy had borrowed his —the “chow-hound” who always and so rude ly grabbed the “bull-neck” platter before I could—that piano-pounding fellow from ’Frisco or thereabouts—the half-pint who had fewer years and more Code-words than all legal limits specify—that part-Indian with the stalwart, graceful step and affable “Hel lo”—the grinning youngster who received Code with his left hand but sent it with either—the short little guy who knew how many sour notes that each famous orchestra made in their recent programs—and the loud rascal who called me “Pop” until I learned to like it and him too—well, they are all gone. Their average age is half of mine— just between you and me, I’ve never let them know what real amusement they have been to us—perhaps some of them may write me short letters—I’d like that too. Yep, my boys are gone—and if I were a praying man, I’d ask the Lord to be merciful to their opponents—my kids can dish out chow, fun, or bloody punishment to Axis snakes! Bull-Texan . . . This one was told in an Infantry senior m. s. class yesterday: Seems there was an Infantry company in formation somewhere in Africa. The company’s pla toons, of which there were three, had about 40 men each' in the first two, but only two men in the last. When someone remarked about how unusual it looked, the captain said, “Oh, don’t worry about that two-man third pla toon—they’re from Texas!” More truth than fiction, as battle rec ords show. Short Snorters . . . Somebody is putting the squeeze on somebody else around here from what I can find out. Seems the Short Snorters are raking in every one. They probably don’t know it, but the original Short Snorter’s Club is composed of only those persons who have flown the At lantic ocean! Wonder how many guys around here right now have done that? Goldfish Owners . . . Will be interested in this easy method of determining the sex of their pets. It must be borne in mind, however, that the test is an exacting one and must be perform ed with the care and completeness ment that the three classes of “Hell from Heaven Men,” graduated si multaneously from the schools of this vast bombardier training area are “the largest in the history of the Army Air Forces.” That was the statement of Col. John P. Kenny, commanding offi cer of the Midland Bombardier School, which today awarded com missions and bombardier wings to its fifteenth class of experts in the use of the secret American bomb- sight. Big Spring and San Angelo graduated its fourth class. More and more of the bombar diers’ training in the West Texas Bombardier Triangle now is con ducted under similar combat condi tions. Practice bombing is now done extensively from high-powered Ve ga Venturas, which have been widely used by the British. Practice bombing missions are planned and carried out exactly as they would be in the fighting fronts. Targets are the models of real battle front objectives—German and Japanese ships-of-the-line, factories and air fields. Many new methods have been de veloped to better prepare the stu dent bombardiers for the conditions they will encounter in actual com bat. Others are under way. In ad dition, veteran bombardiers re turned from the fighting fronts throughout the world have been ap pointed in advisory capacities at h’oivdoam on . . Campus THstractions jBy ^J.ou’ine.a.ij Highlighting the campus distrac tions for the middle of the week is a stage show at the Campus. This is the first time in quite a while that a vaudeville troupe has ap peared on the stage of one of the theaters here as an extra added attraction to the regular motion picture. This extravaganza is called “PRIORITIES OF 1943,” and fea tures loads of novelty acts, songs and music with plenty of showgirls, and a small band. The show will be put on right from the stage of the Campus theatre lasting 45 minutes. The showing of the regular fea ture, “HAY FOOT”, and the shorts take about 45 minutes, too, allow ing CQ bound inmates to take in both distractions and still make the curfew, a complete showing of both the priorities and the movie being able to be seen right after supper tomorrow night. The stage show will also be run of course in the afternoon, with a general ad mission ticket for both matinee and evening performances costing 35 cents. A little about HAY FOOT—it’s a sequel to TANKS A MILLION, provoking mirth to all, especially those with any knowledge of mili tary affairs and training, starring the Bombardier Triangle schools to make certain that the techniques of the bombardier training are con stantly “one up on the enemy,” of ficials disclosed. Former Student Commissioned In Naval Air Corps Jack Thomas Holland, A. & M. ex-student of Gladewater, Texas, was commissioned an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at the Naval Air Training Center at Corpus Christi last week. Ensign Holland volunteered for flight training last April. He was presented his coveted “Navy Wings of Gold” at graduation ceremonies where he received his designation as a Naval Aviator. He, and other members of the class were ad dressed by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, U.S.N., Comman dant of the training center. Completion of the intensive training at the world’s largest nav al air station qualifies the gradu ates for duty with the fleet, or as signment as an instructor at one of the Navy’s preliminary flight training bases. The instruction at the “Univer sity of the Air” included numerous phases of aeronautics, as well as gunnery and bombing tactics, radio communications procedure, naviga tion and aerology, and a rigid offi cers training course. | WAR QUIZ f Q. Can Stamps of various de nominations be placed in one album? A. More than one denomi nation in an album greatly increases the work and cost of re demption. Please, therefore, don’t mix denominations. Q. May a minor designate a co owner or beneficiary? A. Yes, if the purchase is made by the minor from his own wages or earnings. Q. Do I lose my investment if my War Savings Bond is lost, stolen, or destroyed? By Gib Crockett. A. No; upon satisfactory proof of loss or destruc tion, the Treasury De partment will issue a duplicate, usually with out requiring a bond of indemnity. Q. May I register the name of a beneficiary on a Bond with out his knowledge? A. Yes. Records of War Savings Bonds are con fidential. It is not nec essary for the Treasury to contact the bene ficiary during the own er’s lifetime. Only indi viduals may be named as beneficiaries. No as sociations, churches, or clubs may be so named. Remember—the longer you keep War Bonds, np to 10 years, the more valuable they become* William Tracy and Noah Berry Jr. In a nutshell the show has to do with three sergeants, a colonel and the latter’s daughter and plenty of emphasis is placed on handling guns, crack shooting and all that. The Lowdown — Don’t miss a good laugh fest and stage show. Guion hall swings open her doors today and tomorrow to a crowd destined to see a not especially top-notch musical comedy, but one during whch you can get a good laugh and plenty of wholesome en joyment out of. The show s PANAMA HATTIE, starring funster Red Skelton, Ann (Masie) Sothern and comedian “Rags” Ragland. Noisy all the way, rowdy in some spots, and tuneful and funny in many spots, this ver sion of an old Broadway play will certainly uphold the audience’s faith in Aim Sothern and Red Skel ton. Another attraction of the show as far as this reporter is concerned, is the appearance of “Dead-Pan” O’Brien, the songstress who never cracks a smile whether she sings Cole Porter’s immortals (many of which by the way are in this show) or “Der Fuehrer’s Face!” The Lowdown—Solid stuff with humor. WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Today and tomorrow “Hay Foot” with William Tracy, Noah BBeery Jr. and James Gleason. Also stage show, “Priorities of 1943.” At Guion Hall Today and tomorrow, “Pan ama Hattie,” with Red Skel ton and Ann Southern. ill Phone 4-1168 TODAY - WEDNESDAY Plus Merrie Melody Paratroops — News 4-1181 Box Office Opens 1 P. M. TODAY - TOMORROW ON THE STAGE “PRIORITIES OF IMS” Music - Dancing WITH NOVELTY ACTS Direct From MAJOR BOWES A STAGE PERFORMANCE WITH EVERY SHOWING OF THE PICTURE ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★IT**** With NOAH BERRY JR. ELYSE KNOX WILLIAM TRACY Also DISNEY CARTOON Admission — 35^ MATINEE AND NIGHT