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■THE BATTALION-
-THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1943
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Much Serious Illness Caused By
Careless Use of Medicine Recently
The careless or uninformed use" 1
of medicines cause much serious
illness and even many deaths in
Texas every year, Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer, said today in
a statement urging the public to
use caution in self-medication.
“It is never safe to take medi
cine in the dark,” Dr. Cox said.
“Always read the label carefully
to make sure the aspirin you ex
pect to take is not a bichloride of
mercury tablet. As a matter of
fact, poisons and medicines con
taining poison should be kept to
gether, well out of the reach of
children and marked in some dis
tinctive manner. Another thing to
remember,” Dr. Cox said, “is that
medicines should always be taken
exactly as directed by a physician
because many beneficial medicines
can do untold harm if taken too
frequently or in too large quanti
ties. It is well to stop and think
that you may be taking your life
in your hands when you take medi
cines casually.”
The State Health Officer also
warned of the danger in the inclin
ation of many persons untrained
OFFICIAL
NOTICES
to diagnose and treat their own
ills. Such persons are likely to
guess wrong, he asserted, and
while they may not take medicine
that is actually hafinful, they are
nevertheless postponing an accur
ate diagnosis and the resulting
proper treatment that could help
their illness.
“The safest rule is never to use
medicine, internally or externally
that has not °been prescribed by
your doctor and for that particular
illness with which you are suffer
ing,” Dr. Cox concluded.
Movie Survey
Shows TSCW
Likes to Cry
Tear-jerking, melodramatic, ro
mantic triangles are TSCWites’
first choice in movies. A survey of
the campus movie shows that the
all-time favorites are “Rebecca,”
“Suspicion,” “Wuthering Heights,”
and “Dark Victory.”
Number one actor on the campus
is Charles Boyer with Paul Hen-
reid running him a close second.
Laurence Olivier, Walter Pidgeon,
and Jean Gabin rank high on the
list.
Classified
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Sam Browne belt. Both in excellent con
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See Duty, 102 No 15.
LOST on Aggie corner at East Gate—
Trenchcoat.—Saturday, Feb. 20. Return
to Duty, 102 No 15. Reward.
WANTED TO RENT—a garage for car
near or on campus. See L. R. Giese. 1-12
Hart, or Box 1281, College.
LOST in M.E. shops, Monday, March 1
—Bulova raised-crystal coral gold wrist
watch with leather band. Return to 412
No. 17 for reward.
Announcements
LOAN SCHOLARSHIP—The Foundation
for Education in Economics of the Amer
ican Bankers Association has allotted one
loan scholarship of $250 for the year 1943-
1944 to be awarded to a student of this
institution majoring in some field of bus
iness or economics. Information concern
ing the terms of the loan and blank forms
of application may be secured from the
undersigned. T. D. Brooks, Dean, School
of Arts and Sciences.
Commandants Office
CIRCULAR NO. 14
1. Week end passes will not be issued
to visit friends within a radius of
5 miles of the college. Those cadets
whose parents live in IJryan may se
cure a week end pass to visit in their
home provided they are in their home
by call-to-quarters on SATURDAY
night which is 12:00 midnight.
2. Those cadets submitting week end
passes must proceed to the destination
on their pass. In the event it is nec
essary that they change their plans
after submitting a pass, the pass must
be turned back to the Commandant’s
Office immediately. Cadets not con
forming to this order will be subject
to disciplinary action. 1
By order of Colonel WELTY: JOE B.
DAVIS, Major, Infantry, Assistant Com
mandant.
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College Bryan
Any plot that involves a roman
tic mystery or a triangle love situ
ation, that will cause a heavy sigh
or tear-stained eyes, is the type
TSCWites vote for. But not only
do they go for these types. War
dramas, aviation numbers, and mu
sical comedies with good plots are
heavy favorites with the girls.
Average attendance in the Main
Auditorium, come Saturday night,
is about four hundred. Record house
for this year was 644 who came
to see “Joan of Paris.” Lowest
mark of less than 200 was attend
ance at “The Invaders.”
Marked definitely “no” on stu
dents’ lists are juveniles, westerns,
and domestic plots. An especial dis
like are old worn-out musicals.
Dade Sparks, acting director of
the history department, is booker
for the shows. Movies that will
probably be shown in the future
are “My Sister Eileen,” “Fantasia,”
“The Pied Piper,” “Orchestra
Wives,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy,”
“Now, Voyager,” “Moon Tide,” and
“Mrs. Miniver,” he announced.
Source of shows is Warner
Brothers, Twentieth-Century-Fox,
Columbia, Universal, United Ar
tists, RKO, and Metro-G'oldwyn-
Mayer studios.
Conservation
Program Being
Taught at Arizona
One of the most important edu
cational developments at Arizona
State Teachers college in recent
years is a long-range conservation
program carried on in the train
ing school and throughout the col
lege. Instigated in 1937, the pro
gram is designed to teach man to
make the best possible use of the
many natural resources of this
country.
A better situation for such a pro
gram could hardly have been found.
Student teachers and children from
the training school have as their
laboratory one of the largest Pon-
derosa pine forests in the world,
vast areas of grazing and fertile
farming lands. In addition, Arizona
has an important system of con
servation dams and irrigation can
als. Mining is one of the chief in
dustries, and there are many re
forestation centers, reclamation
projects and mining bureaus.
With this background, and be
lieving that conservation is essen
tially an education program, the
college pioneered in offering in
1937 a course for teachers in soil
and water conservation, in devel
oping the next year a conservation
unit for the second grade, and in
1939 in offering a course for teach
ers in forest land use.
The courses were developed in
close cooperation with the forest
service and the soil conservation
service, with lectures by experts
and field members in these serv
ices.
During the last two years the
whole program has been continued
by bulletins and lectures to teach
ers in the southwest and an ex
change of ideas through corre
spondence by elementary teachers
of the region.
Results of the program so far
have been highly successful in
arousing in the college students
an understanding of the need for
conservation and a desire to learn
all aspects of the problem to take
into the teaching field.
How Many Are Aggies
Revolutionary
War Story Told
In Recent Booklet
How a ragged Continental army
finally learned that proper disci
pline and training were necessary
to win the Revolutionary war only
to have the lesson be forgotten
quickly with the result that the
Miami Indians, on Nov. 4, 1791,
inflicted the worst defeat ever suf
fered by United States troops, is
the story told in a booklet titled
“Lexington to Fallen Timbers,”
just published by the University
of Michigan' Press.
The booklet is illustrated with
reproductions of more than 20
original maps and letters* from the
William L. Clements library on the
university campus, with a narra
tive description by Dr. Randolph
G. Adams, director of the library,
and Howard Peckham, curator of
manuscripts. The volume covers
the years from 1775, when the Min
ute Men fought at Lexington, until
the Battle of Fallen Timbers re
sulted in Great Britain, in 1796,
giving up posts along the frontier
which she had held illegally since
1783.
The book describes how the Con
tinental army, after three years
of war, finally became a trained
and disciplined unit during the bit
ter winter of 1777-78 at Valley
Forge. Nevertheless, reliance was
placed on state militia during the
post-war period. Even after the
—SORGHUM—
(Continued from page 1)
because Blackhull Kafir and Yel
low Milo are the most productive,
they were chosen. Milo is the most
popular variety, but it is more
susceptible to diseases so Blackhull
Kafir is given more emphasis.
Large stocks of seed supplies of
Waxy Blackhull Kafir have been
built up in view of the big de
mands that would arise when a
new grain would be needed for in
dustrial purposes. Breeding work
is continuing in the hopes of find
ing a still better waxy starch.
Farmers are already receiving
benefits from seeds which were
contributed by the Station with
advantages being readily taken
care of. These important labor sav
ing varieties of starch will, if work
is continued, help speed the United
Nations to victory.
—MARINE—
(Continued From Page 1)
tenant. But in this war, he com
plains, his. luck ran out. It has
happened, after all—the very fate
he foresaw and strove to avoid.
Despite his worst efforts, he has
been promoted; so now, scores of
times daily, he has to summon up
a smile whenever some bright pun
ster hails or introduces him as
“Captain' Jenks of the Horse Mar
ines.”
United States army, as we know
it today, came into existence in
1789 with adoption of the Consti
tution, raw militia formed the bulk
of the fighting forces.
Colleges Expect
Large Enrollment
After War Is Over
Colleges face the prospect of
an enormous increase in enroll
ments after the war, according to
Dr. Warren R. Good of the Uni
versity of Michigan school of edu
cation.
“The federal government is al
ready planning to subsidize the
further education of men in serv
ice after the war, as it did after
the first World War,” Dr. Good
asserts in an article appearing
in the School of Education Bulle
tin. This means that hundreds of
thousands of young men will be
fed into the colleges every year for
several years, Dr. Good says, and
the rise in enrollments will be
further accentuated by the greater
prosperity of millions of workers
who will have the means, as well
as the ambition, to send their child
ren to college.
>r. Good warns that the colleges
are at present in no condition to
meet this prospective boom either
with adequate facilities for class-
work, organizational demands and
student housing, or with the need
ed faculty members and other
personnel.
“It is a crucial necessity, there
fore, that the higher institution
now maintain the personnel and
facilities they have as nucleus for
meeting the impending expansion,”
Dr. Good says. “They need, furth
ermore, to locate sites and make
Air Cadets Practice Formation Flying
Aircraft Identification Taught
By Use of Silhouettes on Screen
A new and improved method of
aircraft identification through use
of silhouettes projected upon a mo
tion picture screen has been devel
oped at Northwestern university,
where it is~being used successfully
in teaching naval aviation cadets.
The technique was originated by
Max Karant, instructor in the uni
versity’s Civilian pilot training
program and managing editor of
Flying Magazine.
Dr. E. L. Edmondson, director
of aeronautics at the university
and a former army flier, lauded
the methochas the “best yet devised
for the use of identifying aircraft.”
The technique has been used in
both the elementary and secondary
courses and not a single student
failed in the final examination on
aircraft identification.
Silhouettes of the front, side, and
bottom views of 110 different types
of the world’s fighting aircraft
have been drawn to scale and pho
tographed on two-inch slides fit
ting standard projectors. They
can be projected to any desired
size.
In actual tests, the method sur
passed in efficiency and accuracy
those now used by army and navy
training schools. Not only do the
silhouettes provide details lacking-
on plane models, but by projecting
the drawings on a screen the in
structor is able to teach large
classes at a time.
The speed with which the sil
houettes can be flashed on and of;f
the screen provides an accurate
test of a student’s ability to iden
tify planes. Students learn to iden
tify planes when flashed on the
screen at intervals of a twenty-
fifth of a second or faster.
As a result of the experiments
at Northwestern, standard aircraft
identification kits containing 325
slides are now available through
Flying Magazine for training
schools throughout the country.
Oldest agricultural college in the
United States is Michigan State
College, established in 1853.
plans for inevitable plant expan
sion. But they need most of all
to identify and develop the thous
ands of young people who are to
be the new teachers of this com
ing horde of college students.”
Thursday
11:25—Today’s Summary
Home Front.
11:30—Uncle Sam Series.
11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and
Home Program — Newell
Newman.
11:55—Town Crier—Richard Gott
lieb. '
12:00—Sign-off.
1:15-1:30—Texas School of the Air
(WBAP, WOAI, KPRC).
Friday
11:25—Today’s Summary on the
Home Front—Richard Gott
lieb.
11:30—Uncle Sam Series (Office
of War Information).
11:45—Brazos Valley Farm and
Home Program—Triple-A.
11:55—Town Crier—Conrad Ber
ing.
12:00—Sign-off.
4:30-5:00—Aggie Pickin’s.
5:00-5:15—Radio Speech Class.
5:15-5:30—Popular Music.
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