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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 4-5444.
1942
Member
1943
Plssocided CollefSide Press
John
Editor-in-Chlef
Jack Keith -
Danell E. Griffin
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Associate Editor
Sports Staff
Sports Editor
John M. Stout
Thomas Boog
Horace Bays
Ruben R. Caro Costas
Hack Lindley
Ed SI inker
Buck Martin
Billy Butz
Joe Stalcup
Assistant Sports Editor
Sports Assistant
Sports Assistant
Advertising Staff
Tuesday Asst.
Thursday Asst.
Circulation Staff
.Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
..Circulation Manager
Tom Leland
Tom Sutherland.
Tuesday’s Staff
Reporter
Reporter
Jim Gabbard
Bill Jarnagin,
Reporter
Reporter
Sound Leadership ...
The armed services are under obligation to
do but one thing—to win the war as quickly
as possible. The responsibility of promoting
broad educational and cultural objectives
may be the concern of other branches of the
government, but not of the War Department.
Why, then, are the college students allowed
to continue their education? Because in the
judgment of the leaders of the armed serv
ices, a college education, if directed into the
proper channels, produces general qualities
of leadership not obtained in any other way.
A leader with sound judgment cannot
be produced in eighteen years. Trained minds
and ability must come into the armed serv
ices constantly if we are to cope success
fully with the enemy. There is not the slight
est doubt that, if the end of this war could
be seen this year or even next year, the gov
ernment would remove all eligible boys from
school. But we are planning a much longer
war, and it is the opinion of the leaders of
our fighting force that education should con
tinue for a picked group of men, to provide
future leaders.
Only by doing our best and exerting our
energies to their capacity can we make our
selves worthy of the additional training we
are receiving. If going to college and play
ing around becomes a means of escaping the
horrors of war, if the college keeps any of
the characteristics which once made it a
country club, if men who can afford to go
to college are regarded as a privileged group,
exempt from the draft, then the whole proj
ect is doomed to failure.
The truth of the matter is that, whether
he realizes it or not, the man who is allowed
to remain in college is preparing himself for
a much more dangerous mission than if he
were placed among the fighting men at once.
“A man’s dying is more the survivor’s
affair than his own”—Thomas Mann
“So teach us to number our days, that
we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”—The
Bible
Editorial...
There’s much less rubber for you and me,
And much less gas to spill out,
And much less sugar to sweeten tea—
But many more forms to fill out:
Forms that ask for your last name first,
Forms that beg for your names reversed,
Forms with pages of printed dope
You couldn’t read with a misroscope,
Forms to plead for defense priorities,
Forms to mail to the wrong authorities,
Green forms, yellow forms, sky-blue-pink
forms,
PLEASE PRINT PLAINLY and PLEASE
USE INK forms,
Single forms, double forms, triplicate forms,
Half of them probably out-of-date forms —
FORMS!
There’s much less traffic to make us worth,
And much less time to take out,
And much less wool for the haggard moth—
But many more blanks to make out:
Blanks with spaces you just put x in,
Blanks with your age, height, weight and sex
in,
Blanks to swear to and blanks to swear at,
With dotted lines that you doesn’t tear at,
Blanks with blocks that you mustn’t write in
Spacious enough to fly a kite in
And a spot the size of a pygmy flea
For a resume of your history!
Gas blanks, draft blanks, tax blanks, bank
blanks,
And just plain blankety-blank-blank-blank-
blanks—BLANKS!
—W. W. WATT.
Dr. Walter C. Goffey, president of the
University of Minnesota, has been named to
receive the American Farm Bureau federa
tions annual award for distinguished service
to agriculture.
Winthrop college girls from education,
sociology and physical education classes re
cently helped gather in the bumper crop of
cotton.
Registration of b,bgb at Tufts College is
one of the largest in the institution’s long
history.
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-TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1943
9 As the World Turns
...
r Dr. A1 B. Nelson 1
The French naval governor of Martinique, a
Vichy appointee, has steadily refused to al
low the aircraft carrier and two cruisers there
to be used by the allies, and has refused to
deal with the Fighting French organization
or with the government of General Giraud.
In spite of this attitude, the United States
has continued to send more than a million
dollars worth of food and other supplies to
Martinique each month. Much of this mater
ial is seriously rationed in the United States.
Rumors indicate that Mexico may send
a small expeditionary force overseas as soon
as men can be adequately
armed and equipped. There
is great demand in Mexico
for such an expedition be
cause of its moral effect and
for the advantage it might
give the nation at the peace
^v-. .-jo-.. conference when the war
ends -
i \ A According to the latest in
formation, Rommel’s attack
in Tunisia was merely a raid
in force, having as its object the destruction
of supplies and the disorganization of Allied
plans. Rommel succeeded in both objects
and retreated before sufficient force could
be brought up to endanger his advance units.
Chile, in common with most other South
American government, is faced with an ope
rating deficit of nearly one hundred million
dollars for the past year, bringing the total
deficit to nearly a half billion dollars. Judg
ing by the smallness of the deficit her pol
iticians must still believe in economy.
The majority of United States troops in
North Africa are still being held in French
Morocco to guard against a sudden thrust
from Spanish Morocco by Franco’s pro-Axis
troops, all of whom are veterans trained by
German officers during the course of the
Spanish Civil war.
Many representatives in Congress are
now urging that the AAA ban an additional
cotton planting be lifted in order that the
current supplies of much needed vegetable
oils and cotton seed meal should be increas
ed. If this should be done it might prevent a
great shortage in these necessities.
Joe Stalin is continuing his demand that
a second front be opened, claiming that the
Russians are doing all the work. The fact
of the matter is that if the shipping and sup
plies sent to Russia in the last twelve months
had been retained by England and the United
States a second front could have been open
ed. In this period the two nations together
have sent Russia more than six thousand
planes and more than five thousand tanks
plus nearly fifty thousand trucks.
Britain Aids U S by Sending
Vital Machinery Unavailable Here
Maj. John LL Smith of tho U. S. Marine* has 19 Jap plana* to his
credit—Have you aa many War Bonds?
Show all our American boya that you’re doing yonr part on the home
front to win the war, You’ve done your bit; now do your beat—Buy
more War Bonds.
u»AXumnBn/k
BACKWASH Tommy Gould
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
Moo-o-o...
Latin-A merica
At a Glance
By Guillermo Moncada, Jr.‘
Have you ever taken the trouble to find out
what the Latin American nations are doing
for the war effort? If you stop to consider
what contributions they are making to pave
the road to final victory and the peace of
tomorrow, you can rest assured that they
are out one hundred per cent to do whatever
they can in order to end the present strife
that is costing a good bit in the lives of our
fellow men.
The great country south of the Rio
Grande has awakened from its siesta and
this awakening took place way before war
was declared by Mexico against Germany
and Italy. The warring spirit that now exists
throughout the nation cannot be superseded
by any other in the world. The following are
some of the goings-on taking place in the
military and economical circles of the nation:
In a recent interview published in one
of the capital’s leading newspapers, Presi
dent Avila Camacho emphasized that the
country was now in a position to send sold
iers outside the national territory and was
ready to render military assistance to any
nation of the Eastern Hemisphere that
might ask for help. Little attention was giv
en to this statement at the time of its pub
lication, but with the present date evolu
tion in Mexico’s vast military program, it
has proven to be a significant step in the
development of the nation’s war policy. Not
very long before war was declared, it had
been understood that no Mexican troops
would fight outside Mexican territory. But
near the end of the month of October of last
year, authoritative sources reported that
the Mexican government had decided to send
troops overseas. “Mexico cannot fight a
platonic war,”‘ the president said. To further
assure the availibility of troops for foreign
duty, the War Department disclosed that an
undisclosed number of mechanized divisions,
equipped with the latest types of United
States weapons, were training for foreign
service.
By the end of this year, Mexico will have
well over eighty-five per cent of its able-
bodied male population so trained that any
man entering the armed forces will be able
to go into active duty at once. This is the
result of an immense military program now
in progress throughout the country by which
every male between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five is subject to military training
every week during certain days. The main
period for this training has been chosen on
Sunday when the men get up in the wee
hours of the morning ready to go on man
euvers. Every man is supplied with his
equipment in order to acquaint him with
what he is expected to carry the day he is
There appeared in a recent issue
of Newsweek the following descrip
tions of a cow, one a British ver
sion and a German version. I quote:
“The cow is a mammal. It has
six sides, right and left and upper
and below. At the back it has a
tail on which hangs a brush. With
this she sends flies away so they
don’t fall into the milk. The head
is for the purpose of growing
horns and so his mouth can be
somewhere. The horns are to butt
with and the mouth to moo with.
Under the cow hangs milk. It is
arranged for milking. When peo
ple milk, milk comes and there is
never an end to the supply. How
the cow does it I have not yet real
ized but it makes more and more.
The cow has a fine sense of smell
and one can smell it far away.
This is the reason for fresh air in
the country. A man cow is called
an ox. The cow does not eat much
but what it eats it eats twice so
that it gets enough. When it is hun
gry it moos and when it says noth
ing at all it is because its insides
are full up with grass.”
So much for the British version.
The German follows:
“The cow is a mammal ... it
has six sides, left and right, top
and bottom, front and back ... At
the back it has a tail with a brush
on it. With this it shoos the flies
away, so they don’t fall into the
milk. At the front is the head so
the horns can grow on it and there
is room for the mouth. The horns
are used by the cow to butt with
and the mouth to moo with. Under
the cow hangs the milk. It is ar
ranged for pulling. If you pull, the
milk comes out. The milk never
runs out entirely, as the cow pro
duces more and more. How it does
it we haven’t learned yet . . . The
cow has a fine sense of smell. One
can smell it far away; that is what
makes the good country air. The
husband of the cow is called an ox
. . The cow doesn’t need much
food. What it has eaten, it eats
again . . . After it has gulped
something, it belches and then it
has its mouth full with it again.”
ing on the rather sloppy way in
which she returned it. I’m not one
to comment on the actions of any
lady, much less those of a lady
lieutenant. But her salute was
sloppy, and if she is going to wear
those bars, she should learn to
return a salute properly. If she
remains on this campus very long,
she’ll at least get enough practice.
Cracked ice will emit flashes of
light and glows if it is cold enough.
Uniforms . . .
Are nothing unusual on the cam
pus. However, recently, there have
been some new ones added. Khaki
ties with O. D. uniforms form a
combination that Aggies aren’t
used to. Uncommon, too, on this
campus, are the dress uniforms
worn by the Air Corps officers.
Aggies got quite a kick out of
saluting a female lieutenant in
the Nurses’ Corps and comment-
American Colleges
Lack Teachers For
War Essential Fields
American colleges are suffering
from a shortage of teachers in war-
essential subjects and a surplus of
teachers in the liberal arts field,
according to a recent survey made
by the Office of Education.
Replies received from 1,060 out
of the 1717 institutions of higher
learning in the United States
showed 1,660 teaching vacancies.
All but 435 of these unfilled posi
tions are in fields directly con
nected with the war effort.
At the same time, however, that
schools are unable to fulfill vacan
cies in the technical fields, other
schools have chemistry, engineer
ing, and physics staff members
who are idle because of sharply
whittled-down enrollment in their
colleges.
In all there are about 90 idle
teachers in the strictly technical
fields, a surplus of over 100 in the
professional fields, and about 270
extra instructors in the liberal arts
fields.
Because of the tremendous num
ber of doctors who have joined the
armed forces, medicine is the most
seriously understaffed field, Office
of Education statisticians show,
with 575 vacancies and only 7
trained men available for release.
At the same time there are more
idle teachers in the dental field
than there are positions for them
to fill.
Many of the colleges and univer
sities who were asked about their
teacher problem offered to cooper
ate with the government by releas
ing staff members if necessary,
Office of Education officials re
port.
How Great Britain came to the
assistance of an American factory
with much needed manufacturing
equipment, which could not be se
cured in this country in time to
meet production schedules, has
been revealed by General Electric.
Food Hoarders
Warned Against
Rationing Evasion
Canned Foods Must Not
Be Reprocessed in Glass
Jars to Evade Rationing
Hoarders who try to evade the
intention of the point rationing
system by transferring commer
cially canned food into glass jars
are running a risk of fatal food
poisoning.
Winifred Jones, specialist in food
preservation for the A. and M.
College Extension Service quotes
a warning against this practice
from Dr. Russell M. Wilder, phy
sician and nutritionist with the
Food Distribution Administration.
“Reprocessing of foods removed
from cans is unsatisfactory for
homemakers to undertake and may
be dangerous,” Dr. Wilder says.
“Not only does the product become
a soupy mass with decreased food
value, but it may be unsafe to
eat.”
Miss Jones suggests that fam
ilies who wish to have an abund
ant supply of vegetables and fruits
should produce and conserve their
own at home rather than follow
a practice which is contrary to the
intent of the rationing program as
well as wasteful of food and food
values. She points out that home-
canned products were exempted
from the rationing regulations to
encourage an increase in home
production and preservation.
Prospects for jars for home can
ning indicate that an adequate
supply will be available, the spec
ialist says. This is because pro
duction of glass jars is not re
stricted, and there should be
enough lids to go around. The
USDA Bureau of Home Economics
believes a few tin cans will be on
the market, but Miss Jones Warns
homemakers they must not ex
pect enough to go around.
“We don’t have all the types
of containers we’re accustomed to,
but there will be some new war
time containers to take their
places,” she concludes. Synthetic
fiber jar rings made of soybeans
will be one innovation.
The Company had received early
in 1942 five huge English metal
working machines for the produc
tion of essential cargo ship propul
sion equipment.
Ironically the move not only aid
ed U. S. production but also cheat
ed the Axis of a chance of destroy
ing some of the tools inasmuch as
the points at which they had been
installed or were to be installed
in Britain were susequently bomb
ed.
Of the five giant machines in
stalled in a New England plant
two are planers used to remove
large quantities of metal from flat
surfaces of gear casings weighing
up to 20 tons each. One of these
planers is about 70 feet long, 30
feet wide, and 20 feet high. Three
large casings can be machined on
this planer simultaneously. The
other three machines are bobbers,
which are used to cut the teeth in
large low-speed gears that trans
mit power for driving the propel
lers. Some of these gears weigh
as much as 35 tons. One of the
planers had been intended for in
stallation at Sheffield. The other
had already been installed and was
in use at Sheffield but was torn
down and shipped to America when
the need for the equipment devel
oped here. These two machines in
all probability escaped destruction
when the city was subsequently at
tacked by Axis raiders. One of the
gear bobbing machines was re
moved from a British plant at Man
chester and the other two from
Belfast, Ireland.
Shipment of the five mammoth
machines from Britain was accom
plished under a cloak of great
secresy. The machines were placed
in separate vessels at different
dates to preclude the possibility
of damage or loss to the entire
group of German submarines. One
of the ships was attacked during
the crossing and sustained some
damage but made its American
port safely.
Professor of cardiovascularrenal
diseases is the title of many pro
fessor in American medical schools.
A. & M. first opened with six stu
dents in 1876.’ By the end of the
term there were 106 enrolled.
The average age of cadets in
A. & M. in 1903 was 18 years. In
1941 it was 17% years.
Aggie Ex Enrolled
In Army Air Forces
Pre-Flight Training
Willie Peter Martens, Route 1,
Hockley, Texas, an ex-student of
Texas A. & M. College, is now en
rolled as a student officer in the
Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School
(Pilot) at Maxwell Field, located
on the outskirts of Montgomery,
the capital of Alabama, where he
is receiving an intensive course
in ground training. Upon comple
tion of his instruction here he will
be sent to one of the primary fly
ing schools in the Army Air Forces
Southeast Training Center for the
first phase of his flight training.
Cadet Martens attended Texas
A. & M. in ’39-’40 and enlisted in
the Army Air Forces on Sept. 9,
1942. He was appointed an aviation
cadet on Nov. 15, 1942, at Keesler
Field, Miss., and began his pre
flight course at Maxwell Field, Ala
bama, on January 31, 1943.
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Jack HOLT • Keenan WYNN
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“War Against Mrs.
Hadley”
Good luck has a habit of always
butting in while a man is hard at
work.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Keep always with you, wherever
your course may lie, the company
of great thoughts.—H. H. Asquith.
A. & M. provides more officers
for the army each year than does
any other school in the United
States.
From 1935 to 1941 the enroll
ment of A. & M. jumped from 3214
to 6842.
called to the colors.
Last week, in one of his speeches in a
tour he made of the Pacific Coast states,
the president said that “if the problem of
the supply of war materials to the Allied
Nations becomes a secondary cause to the
manpower supply, Mexico will be able to cope
with it in the same way and traditions that
the warriors of the republic have always
done true to the traditions of the unconquer
able Aztec descendants.” He also acknowl
edged that although the government is con
fronted by many important problems in the
field of war economics, Mexico has gone a
great distance in the solution of the bottle
necks of agriculture and industry. He con
tinued to say that the United Nations now
are in real need of materials and the convey
ance of these materials to the battlefields.
The nation is in a state of speed for the
fulfillment of these needs.
To bring home to twenty million people
the fact that the republic has taken up arms
against the Huns, the government is push
ing a propaganda campaign with posters,
radio programs, movie shorts, and even In
dian minstrel bands. Your mail comes stamp
ed from the post office with war slogans.
The National Lottery invites you to take a
chance for the two-millions-pesos prize
(roughly aobut $200,000) so you can put
your winnings in the right investment—that
is, to produce what Mexico needs for free
dom. A committee of federal senators re
cently toured the nation to ask support for
the war effort. In their visit to one town, the
mayor even had an announcement to close all
business establishments, bars, pool halls, and
houses of assignation in order to receive the
said committee with the due dignity. De
spite her stormy past, this is the first time
in her history, brimming with bloodshed and
revolution, that Mexico has formally declar
ed war on a foreign country.
These are but few of the happenings
in Mexico, a country at war with its people
so united that they can fight for the right
to live in peace and the assurance that the
generation to come will not have to suffer
the same consequences the present one is
going through for the peace of tomorrow.
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