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Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1943 The Battalion Postwarplat J' orms Pim^ATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis 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, published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday nd 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-B444. 1942 Member 1943 PlssocHprl P»-ps< John Holman..; - Editor-in-Chief Jack Keith Associate Editor Danell E. Griffin Staff Photographer Sports Staff Hank Avery - - --- Sport ? ® d j to T Thomas Boog .Sports Assistant Horace Bays *' -Sports Assistant Ruben R. Caro Costas Sports Writer Advertising Staff Hack Lindley Advertising Manager Ed Slinker ZZZZZ Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Buck Martin. .....Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager Billy Butz Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager Circulation Staff Joe Stalcup Circulation Manager John Holman Tom Journeay. Henry Tillet Tom Sutherland.. Tommy Gould Arthur Matula Eugene Robards Sylvester Boone... Saturday’s Staff Managing Editor ..Editorial Assistant Junior Editor .Itepw* cef Reporter Reporter rteoorter Reporter If... If American armies decided to “put off” fighting for a week; if our naval forces de termined to hunt for enemy submarines until next month—how long ould America remain free? If the producers of armament “just for got” to turn out guns and tanks and planes; if American generals “didn’t have time” to map out campaigns—how long would Amer ica remain an independent democracy? This is a war of minutes; wasting time has become synonymous with treason. And yet . . . While we can’t think of one person who hasn’t commented favorably on United States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps, and who hasn’t said “I’m going to start buying De fense Stamps without fail!”—we can think of several people who have “delayed their purchasing,” who “won’t start buying for a few days, ”or who had “just forgotten” to buy a stamp. We’re not writing this because we feel that the students of Texas A.&M. believe that V stands for Vaccination. Rather, we want to make plain our assurance that it is vitally important for students to invest their dimes and quarters in the United States as wholeheartedly, as regularly, and as syste matically as their parents invest their pay day dollars. • Wholeheartedly, regularly, and syste matically . . . just as our war is more than one isolated infantry attack; just as it re quires much more than one concerted naval drive; and just as it necessitates infinitely more than a single bombing flight—every thing we do must be continuous, unfaltering, and constant. There is more to this war than victory; America is fighting not only for today, but for tomorrow . . . for future peace and for the future good of all peoples. The Bonds and Stamps we buy are not only fighting the war, but fighting for*the peace. Aggies are thinking about this world to come; many of them are fighting for it. We who are still here are talking about it, read ing about it, planning for it. We must also help pay for it, just as all Americans must help. The dimes and quarters we set aside are important to the war effort, yes; but only if they are put aside regularly and systematic ally. Only if they reflect both the urgency of paying for this war, and the continuous dynamic philosophy behind it. Make a pledge to yourself. Remember ing that our search in the seas and the sky is continuous, that the flow of machines and munitions is never-ending, pledge your self to fall in line with America . . . Start buying Defense Stamps today. Start buying them regularly. And do not waver from your course. This Collegiate World : ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS: Viewing the vast postwar problems of em ployment and education, Dr. Edwin A Lee, dean of the school of education on the Los Angeles campus of the University of Cali fornia, offers a platform in behalf of the practical needs of the period ahead. Its eight planks are: OPPORTUNITY for every able-bodied youth to work at something which needs to be done and from which a reasonable income may be derived. PROVISION in public schools for vo cational guidance by trained personnel. PROGRAMS of vocational education over as wide a range as can be financed, from semi-skilled work to the professions. PROVISION for employment of all train ed workers, preferrably under private aus pices, but, if necessary, upon publicly sup ported projects. MAJOR attention to reestablishing the dignity of all work—white collar, blue collar or no collar. PROVISION for workers’ security, such as unemployment, accident and old-age in surance. “A good poem goes about the world of fering itself to reasonable men, who read it with joy and carry it to their reasonable neighbors "—Emerson As the World Turns Copt. 1943.‘Kin^ Fcatura Syndicate, toe.. Worl'd right, restrvtj “Release him immediately, Buck! After all our pains to cultivate their friendship, you want to start a ten-cent sideshow!” ^Jhz J^ouadovcrn on Qampus ^Distractions iSy TJom ^fouin£.a.ij :By “Count” V. K. Sugareff Forty thousand club women have united to demand that the Minnesota legislature pro vide a new mechanical and aeronautical en gineering building for the University of Min nesota. Cornell University is cooperating with the army in experiments with vaccination to combat influenza. The University of Texas student em ployment bureau last year found part-time work for 2,155 students paying them a total of $140,000. A University of Kentucky student news paper survey concludes that women students are “exhibiting more spunk, courage and bravado than the manly male” under war conditions. Pomona College will train 200 high school graduates, 18 to 21, for the army air corps in a basic pre-meteorological course. Wesleyan University has recently added a, navy pre-flight school. Having outgrown its office space occu pied since 1922, headquarters for the Uni versity of Michigan ROTC is now housed in a former fraternity house. Wayne University recently received a gift of $500 to aid in development of a branch of the Hooker Scientific library. Providence (R.I.) College recently con ferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws on President Quezon of the Philippines. Washington is what we make it. Our national capital symbolizes our national unity and there is every evidence that the country as a whole is united on winning the war. Yet, there are influential individuals and groups of individuals that differ over meth ods of an ultimate victory. The differences have become so acute that the press writes of them as the “Battle of Washington,” and “ feuds” for power in high places of our government. The causes for such differences arise from many sources. Some people foolishly think that Hitler has lost the war and there is no need for the United States to exert it self too much for the victory which is al ready ours. The leaders of our armed forces are determined to make all efforts, both for material and manpower, to end the war sooner than most of an anticipate. Grant that this is a war of production, the ques tion has been asked, “Who should control production?” The military leaders who are fighting the war or the civilian experts who seem to understand our national needs bet ter? Mr. Donald M. Nelson occupies a diffi cult position of maintaining a reasonable balance between our civilian and military needs. It is his duty to procure the raw ma terials, to allocate them to proper parties, and to produce the finished products, both for civilian and military use. Military events often disturb this balance and trouble is brewing somewhere. Our military leaders want an army of eleven million men to win the victory and maintain the peace. An army of such size appears unnecessary to many civilian officials. It will divert large quan tities of materials from civilian officials. It will divert large quantities of materials from civilian needs to military necessities. The eleven million man army program has evoked a wide discussion in Congress, the press and among our civilian population. There are too many arm-chair generals and admirals for the emofort of our army- navy leaders. Arguments will continue to rage on both sides, but our military lead ers will have their way. Some people, in the nature of things, will keep on talking. The small plant battle has been in prog ress since our national defense program was inaugurated in 1940. Some hundred large corporations handle seventy per cent of all war contracts. Mr. Lou Holland, the chair man of the Small Plants Corporation re signed from the said corporation because he was severely criticized by members of Congress and small business for having failed to secure contracts to small plants. Col. Robert Johnson succeeded him, and be tween twenty-five and thirty-fivei billion dollars has been set aside for small plants. And it is hoped that much can be accomp lished by redistributing some of the exist ing contracts and placing new ones in the small plants. Congress, having a large number of Re publicans and many anti-New Deal Demo crats, has started battles and feuds with the President, members of his cabinet, lead ers of our armed forces, and other high gov ernment officials since the opening of the 78th Congress. The House and the Senate have appointed investigating committees to investigate individual officials, government departments, and agencies which they have created but which initiate policies not with- ing their spheres. Investigation is one of the well estab lished powers of Congress and often pro duces worthwhile results. However, in a time of an emergency, Congress should devote more time to the prosecution of the war rather than indulging in petty party politics. Other battles and feuds either in progress or brewing in Washington are $25,000 salary limit, labor and industry, allocation of ma terials and manpower to proper activities, price ceiling regulations, rationing, farm prices and control of inflation. “Battles” and “feuds,” when examined closely, sim mer down to mere quarrels. And we shall “muddle through” to victory. BACKWASH Tommy Gould “Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster Showing for the first time at the midnight preview (which is not held at midnight at all—it just sounds better to call it midnight! It starts in time for a complete show to be seen before call to quarters at 12.) is THE REMARK ABLE ANDREW with Brian Don- levy, William Holden and Ellen Drew. This is one of those “spirit” shows—you know, where the main character is a spirit come to life— this time as the title implies, the spirit is the ghost of Andrew Jack- Lt Beasly Gets Bars; Air Cadets Report for Duty Lt. James O. Beasley was among the graduates who received first lieutenant bars from the 3rd Chem ical Warfare Service Command on the night of February 20. Lt. Beas ley did agricultural research work at A. & M. Experiment Station before taking this advanced study of Chemical Warfare general tac tics. Aviation Cadet F. L. Danner of Amarillo and a former student of A. & M. is to be stationed at Per rin Field, Texas, for the next nine weeks for his basic flying training. Col. ’Robert W. Warren is com manding officer of the post. Warren J. Sailor, a *39 graduate of Pampa high school and a for mer student of A. & M., has re ported to the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi for training which will lead to a commission in the U. S. Naval Reserve or in the Ma rine Corps Reserve. Sailor reported from the Navy’s Pre-flight School at Athens, Georgia, with fifty-one other cadets. Ex-Aggies Receive Naval Commissions From Columbia U Seven Aggie-exes received their commissions as Ensign, U. S. N. R. from the Naval Training School at Columbia University, New York on February 17. They have com pleted a four month intensive training program and are now en route to their new assignments. The Aggies are L. M. Duhon, Jr., ’40, Kingsville; Jack W. Adair, ’41, Dallas; Joel Karin, '41, San Antonio; Henry C. Stokes, ’42, Beaumont; George L. Stanford, ’42, Linden; Ernest W. Pannel, ’41, Waco; and Charles R. Richardson, ’42, Trenton. Duhon had been employed as Petroleum Engineer with the Hum ble Oil Co. Adair left a job with War has taught us one thing, the Soil Conservation Service. Miss Miller has decided. “We have stokes was a construction drafts- been to ° lenieilt in our courses of man an( j Stanford had just com- By Drudella Williams study. I think it will encourage a ple t e d a course in Ag. Engineering. This theory that boys are more discipline that will teach our young p annel was playillg pro football adept in mathematics than are people technical subjects thorough- before volunteering. girls is pure propaganda,” insists ly and prepare them for the things ! Miss Harlan C. Miller, recent ad- they must necessarily meet in their ., . ,. . dition to the math department, life work.” She advances the theory “J ‘""art’™ ^ Miss Miller is in a position to that a person is happier in having W uri "^ P eace 1 ^ ie ’ . know, for she has taught both boys learned something hard than some- & UF f y ’ .f. majori y 0 £ ir 3 and girls, and points out that she thing comparatively easy to grasp. W,1 ‘ "“‘’T 1 ’ more *f n . to has found girls work harder. Concerning the tradition that “ arr y and aa ttle down which is a .. , . , , logical view to take. Their war- masculme subject and .. . , . , . .. . ,, time JP bs mus t be returned to the ex-soldiers,” she says. Notwithstanding the Aggieland. . . Is not the only place where rumors run rampant. In a recent issue of the Dallas Morning News, there appeared an article about a rumor which was rather disaster- ous in its results. It seems that a certain saleslady in a certain department store in Big D quietly passed the word along that clothing was to be ra tioned. It so happened that she dropped her remark in a crowded street car, and naturally, quite a number of people picked it up. This rumor covered the entire town in a few hours. It grew and grew until finally it said that per sons were going to be limited to $45 worth of clothing annually. Then the fun started. That is, it would have been funny, had it not been so pathetic. One woman im mediately rushed down and pur chased 800 yards of piece goods. One bought $1600 worth of wear ing apparel for her family, and an other purchased $236 worth of un dergarments. One woman, who evi dently thought more of her physi cal figure than she did of the mone tary one, bought $500 worth of giydles! Aggies are good at spreading rumors, but it seems that Dallas- ites are better. Evidently. . . Mess hall fare is not so bad com pared to that obtained at some of the nation’s air bases. At least, that is what the new air corps men seem to think. One of them walked out of the mess hall with a heaven ly gleam in his eye, and said, “They even have music with it.” Poetry . . . Jack had money—Jill had nil, Jill married Jack—so Jack had Jill. Jill went to Reno—now she’s back; Jack has nothing—Jill has jack. And then there was the little moron who forgot to open the screen door and strained himself. More Poetry . . . Those Pilgrim maids were just as hot As the ones we date today. Woman alters not a jot; She behaves the self-same way. It’s true that lack of clothes will give A wholly new sensation— The Pilgrim maids were just as hot, But had more insulation! Hitler Hiking . . . Some stuck and weary boys got out of Madisonville by hoisting this sign: “HITLER RIDES IN YOUR EMPTY SEAT”. They were gone in 15 minutes. I think I’ll try it. TSCW Math Prof Discredits "Superiority of Men” Idea (Editor’s Note: The following fea- ppeared in last w Texas State Colleg omen newspaper, The Lass-O.) tore sto edition Wi ory £ of the last week’s e for average All-girl classes are no novelty ma th is a to her. She has taught at Hocka- that girls should touch it only day School for Girls and at South superficially, she says she believes Carolina State College for Women, that theory will be destroyed par- that state’s synonym for TSCW. tially through this war. However, ^ s ambition to have a home, She possesses a B.A. degree from she is afraid that the steps women ^ he , say ® she belle J es an education Wellesley College, an M.A. degree ha ve taken toward complete equal- to be the found ation for building from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tex- a secure one. “We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union”—Rufus Choate, vrre as. In addition to those positions held in all-girl schools, she has taught math in the University of Texas and in NTSTC. Miss Miller began grammar school with the idea that she would like mathematics, she relates. “My parents told me before I began the first grade that I was good in mathematics. Don’t ask me how they knew, but I believed them.” Spare time is hard to find in her routine, she says, but when, and if, she can discover some be tween housework in her small apartment, visiting with friends and family, and daily school work, she would like to continue research in what the layman would call “rubber geometry.” It is a system of mathematits in which distance has little influence. Incidentally, she comments that the leading men in this field of research were Poles, and, as far as she knows, only one has been known to escape from the German-oxmpied nation. MAKE IT A HABIT TO DROP BY For EATS DRINKS SMOKES George’s Confectionery In New Area son who comes back to help An drew Long out of a jam involving municipal accounts which fail to balance because the city govern ment is corrupt, and Andrew knows it. What, with General Jackson’s prodigious consumption of Mary land rye plus the fact that the visitor is invisible to all but the modern Andrew, he manages to get himself into a very neat mess, the interesting and humorous conclu sion we’ll leave to you. The Lowdown—Different. Tonight at Sbisa Hall the first Corps Dance of the semester will be held. The starting times appear on the front page of this issue, also the uniform requirements. Jack McGregor and his newly styled Ag- gieland Orchestra will furnish the rhythms to dance by. Get that local girl from the big metropolis 5 miles due north (if you can’t get the cutie from the home town) and swing out tonight at Sbisa. It’ll be over in time to make Dear Old CQ, Rod Brauchle says. WHAT’S SHOWING At the Campus Midnight tonight, tomor row and Monday, The Re markable Andrew, with Brian Donlevy, William Holden and Ellen Drew. At Guion Hall Today, Sunday night, and Monday, Andy Hardy’s Dou ble Life, with Mickey Rooney. Phone 4-1168 TODAY - MONDAY | ** wi,h \ SWHE • E>u£? Bunnv in “Fresh Hare^ 4-1181 Box Office Opens 1 P. M. LAST DAY Tyrone Maureen POWER-O’HARA in Rafael Sabatini’s the in TECHNICOLOR SATURDAY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY - MONDAY William Holden Ellen Drew “The Remarkable Andrew” Last showing of “Black Swan” a t 8:30—Go in for mid night show at 9:45; midnight show will start at 10:00; over at 11:50 ,