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The Battalion
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1942 Member 1943
Ptesodded Gol!e6iate Press
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
Man, Your Manners
By l. Sherwood
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John Holman Editor-in-Chief
Jack Keith - Associate Editor
Danell E. Griffin. Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Hank Avery ; - Sports Editor
John Stout Senior Sports Assistant
Thomas Boog Sports Assistant
Horace Bays Sports Writer
Tom Sutherland ^...Reporter
Tommy Gould - — —Reporter
Circulation Staff
Joe Stalcup Circulation Manager
Advertising Staff
Haskell Lindley
Ed Slenker
Buck Martib ...... Thursday Asst. Advertis
Billy Bute Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Thursday's Staff
Tom Joumeay Managing Editor
Jack Metcalf Reporter
Henry Rougagnac Reporter
Sylvester Boone -...Reporter
“Candy” Magrane - Feature Writer
War and Language. ..
America will have many new words and
phrases added to the language when the boys
come marching home again from the far
corners of the world. And the English lan
guage will be enriched by them, in the opin
ion of Prof. Walter K. Smart of the Medill
school of Journalism at Northwestern Uni
versity.
“Contacts with other races and other
peoples invaribly bring in additions to the
language,” Prof Smart said. “Wars and in
vasions through the ages have added many
new word forms while mariners and settlers
have been responsible for still others.
“From the Indians we got such words as
moose, hickory, hominy, skunk, persimmon,
toboggan, moccasin, wigwam, and squaw.
During and after the Mexican War when the
Southwest was opened to American settlers
we acquired a number pf words from the
Spanish including adobe, buro, canyon, cor
ral, coyote, sombrero, mustang, and lasso.”
With soldiers in every part of the world;
the words that they will bring home will be
as varied as the battlefields on which the
fighting is taking place, Prof. Smart said.
The war has alredy produced a number .of
words and phrases that seem destined to at
tain a place in the language.
He referred specifically to “Quisling”
when used to designate a person who be
trays his own people. Other words which
have sprung from war or related activities
are:“Commando,” “blitz,” “fifth column,”
“fox hole,” “jeep,” “ersatz,” “spearhead,”
“gremlin,” “blackout,” “paratroops,” and
“ceiling.” The latter has acquired a new
meaning when referring to “top limit.”
Many words which became popular dur
ing the first World War are still in use 25
years later, he said. Not only did the dough
boys. of 1918 learn to sing “Mademoiselle
from Armentieres,” and “Madelon,” but they
also picked up a number of French words
that still live. Among these are “beaucoup,”
“parley vouz,” and “tout de suite,” the lat
ter being popularized by the Americans as
“toot sweet.”
Some of the words that grew out of the
first World War are now so common that we
have almost forgotten their original source,
Prof. Smart said. Such words as “dud,”
“doughboy,” “pill-box,” “went west,” “carry
on,” “shock troops,” “dugohut,” “barrage,”
“cooties,” and “defeatist,” were either war
terms or grew out of the war.—ACP.
Quotable Quotes
“The center of gravity in women is too low
to permit them to be good competitive ath
letes. In racing cars a low center of gravity
is a good thing. It permits them to hold the
road and allows greater speed. Not so in the
human form. If you study an analysis of the
female body, compared with the male, you
will see that women are heavier around the
hips than men. The capacity of a woman’s
chest, on the average, is smaller than a
man’s. A woman’s heart is smaller than a
man’s. The man, with his big chest and heart
and narrow hips, has his weight where it
does him the greatest good, giving him heart
and lung capacity. A woman’s weight, how
ever, is around her hips and it adds nothing
to her endurance. Women have a greater en
durance of another sort. For example nurses
and mothers usually can stay on their feet
longer, tending a sick child, than fathers.”
—Professor Granny Johnson of Denver Uni
versity explains why the greatest athletes
aren’t women.
Introductions
“How can I best cover up my embarrassment
in introducing someone whose name I’ve for
gotten?”
If you have forgotten someone’s name
there is nothing for you to do, but say, “I’m
sorry, but I can’t remember your name for
the present,” and the other person should
furnish you with his name immediately. If
introductions aren’t easy for you, your em
barrassment may cause you to forget names
or perhaps you do not place enough import
ance on names at the time introductions are
made to you.
The following suggestions on memory
aids may be helpful:
1. Repeat the name at the time you are
introduced.
2. Ask him to spell it if it is difficult.
3. Find out something about him to
remember him by.
“What shall I say when someone says,
T’m glad to have met you’?”
* The reply is, “Thank you” or “Thank
you very much” or “I’m glad to have met
you.”
“What shall I say when I am introduced
to someone whom I have met?”
If the other person doesn’t appear to re
member you, you would say, “How do you
do,” but if he does remember you, you would
say, “Yes, Mr: Smith and I have met be
fore.”
If introductions seem difficult for you,
they won’t get any easier by avoiding them.
You should create opportunities for practic-
ing them until you find they are as easily as SweDping’S
any other social situation. Candidate for
IZZfc J2ovjclown
on
Campus ^Distractions
■!3y ^om Q.ou%nc.a.y
By Henry Rougenac Navy is faced with the task of pre-
At the Campus today, tomorrow venting the Nazis from capturing
and Saturday SHIP WITH WINGS a strategic point. In the battle
is featured. A British production, tha t follows, the advocates of air
this is another picture about World power win.
War II—this time narrowing down Many of the scenes were photo-
to the old argument of Airplane graphed from the British aircraft
vs. battleship. The theory is put carrier, Ark Royal, before it went
to Davy Jones locker courtesy der
Fuehrer. The actors, although lit
tle known to American theatre
goers, turn in swell performances.
The Lowdown— Too slow to get
started.
At the other end of the campus,
Guion Hall features THE KEEPER
OF THE FLAME, starring Kath-
“You’ll never get a promotion the other way. Now you
go in there and simply take command!”
¥ BACKWASH ★
“CAN DT” MAG CANE
"Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
We all thought it was funny as
hell, but the police made quite a
fuss about it.
Something to Read
By Dr. T. F. Mayo
the anthology of
army humor: The Camp Hood pri
vate who, when asked at a class Rumor Clinic
in military courtesy, “Whom do
you salute in the army?” answer
ed readily, “All officers and lieu
tenants, sir.”
to the acid test when the British
Who’s Who Editor
Makes Statements
About Manpower
The editor and publisher of Who’s erine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy,
Who in America says “Controlled whose names right off the bat tag
Brainpower is just as essential for this cinema as a good show.
America as controlled strategic The story is the familiar one of
materials.” a world renown newspaper man
Wheeler Sammons, of Chicago, an d foreign correspondent (Spen-
publisher of the reference volume, cer Tracy) who returns to the Uni-
told a committee of congress that ted States just at the time fnueral
training programs of the army and services are being held for an Am-
navy threaten extinction of the erican political leader of wealth
small American liberal arts col- an d fame whose hold on the people
leges. This, he said would be “an is fanatical.
irreparable loss.” Tracy sees something sinister
He warned against total, empha- i n the deceased’s recent career and
sis on technical training during family life, and tries to find out
the war period, and said “Liberal the truth from the virtually unap-
education should not be a war cas- proachable widow, Katherine Hep-
ualty.” burn. She withheld the facts from
He said denial of liberal educa- Tracy for quite a while, but finally
tion to the thousands of 18 and 19- the journalist discovered the shock-
year-olds who are being drafted ing 1 news that she murdered the
will rob the nation of its reservoir hubby, however the act was justi-
of potential professional men, and Led for the reason that the dead
emphasized the need for “controlled naan was a leader—not for the
No. 64,792: Beginning next se- k ra j npower to assure an adequate peoples liberty—but for the
mester the college curriculum will
be divided into four quarters, of
It’S easy to overlook the good books which Women must be surprised to find
are neither new best-sellers nor yet old they are as P°P ular without
enough to be recommended as “Classics.” sllks as tkey were wlth lt-
American literature since the First World „ . ,.
War has been particularly rich in books Some wives are working wives
supply.”
,, Representative Thomason
three montts each All hoi,days T insisted the and odranl8
will be eliminated to facilitate a <( , . . ,, ...
. . -a. ar e doing the best they possibly
concentrated year of study. „ , (T , ,
J can.” “I don’t see how we can save
Retraction ... all the small colleges—many of
them are on,the ragged edge any-
In last Saturday’s Battalion ref- h ow> ” he said
slavement.
of The Lowdown—A powerful mel-
War has been particularly rich m books VV1¥CC ' ” 7 erence was made to the “Veteran’s a 1- J ^ v x I-
which stirred and Stimulated people when an £ some a f workm ^ husbands of the e ^,.4 Callae o “ Sammons rephed that decentral,-
they appeared, but which are now temper- Rannms: after women never hurt * he ^ C “ e c ub "Ml pre_ sat,on of army-navy trammg pro-
arily overshadowed by the hits of the pres- catchmg them that Kcr*hi„ was thnnvht n, he onmnosed erams.s the_ answer. He mt,e,zed
ent hour. I believe that the following select- does the
ed casually from a great number, will in- . .
terest you if you missed them in the rush The “ ia ^ lcian , wall ! ea .
rvf o-o+Kna- Wn and r-aioorl the footlights and asked
gXCHIlO ia LI1C CVIIDWCX. JLJ.C: UA 1 LACAZiCJU.
bership was thought to be composed the policy of emphasis 0 ‘ n promi _
of “those poor devils who had giv- nent schools>
en up hope of graduating.” Thanks
of
to one of its former members, or not> but that they had no bus _
however, we have discovered that iness drivinR their other custom _
it really consisted of senior “pri
vates” whose “lost cause” referred
to buttons and not “sheepskins.”
ence was no longer wanted the
three remaining Aggies walked
The crowd cheered and stamped ThCSC Cnide AgglCS . . out ’ but not before the cashier got
its feet. . . in one more “ dl g>” by saying, “We
( „ , . Last Sunday night three Aggies d on ’t need the business of those
“As is customary before doing were (figuratively s p e a ki n g )
walked down to
of getting born and raised. \ ™ e IOO ™g nts and asked f youn ^
rr,. ,• - 0 . , _ r . J lx lady to step up on the stage.
The satires of Sinclair . Lewis dealt
amusingly, if rather acidly, wiKi many sides Now, as a climax to my act,
of modern life in the U.S.A. Msdl Street hits 1 am g° m g to saw this young lady
off most of the weaknesses anqf absurdities in two rig,ht before y° ur e y es -
of most small towns. Babbitt makes good-
natured fun of the Great American Business
Man. Arrowsmith will interest anybody who .xo were (.Iigurauveiy s pea King! crude Aceies anvwav
has anything to do With doctors (and who the trick,” he continued, “I’d like thrown out of Kelly’s Cafe in the ’
has not?). Elmer Gantry indicates what first to make sure that you all thriving (?) metropolis of Hemp- Llicky Dog'S . . .
might happen in the ministry. Dodsworth want to see . . . stead. It seems that after placing Discarded liquor barrels are now
accuses American husbands of spoiling their A thundering “sure” rocked the an order for some chili and wait- going to the dogs. The Army
wives. Lewis later, novels have not been SO house. ing for over an hour they discov- Quartermaster Corps is using them
pungent as these five. “And there are no objections ered that said chili was not even for the WAGS—dogs in service—
I opular psychology has.produced a num- f 0 m y performing . . .?” in the making. who, lucky devils, will get to live
her of stimulating books since 1919. Since “No!!!” About this time six more Ag- in them. The barrels are converted
most of them contradict each other, it is “The girl’s sorority sisters—do gies came in, and to prevent their into kennels at an approximate
obviously necessary to take them all with they object?” suffering the same fate of wait- cost of $3.50 each,
a . grain of salt.. Dorsey S Why We Behave “Not at all, please do.” ing they were told by our “heroes” The barrels are cleaned and lined
Like Human Beings presents clearly and en- “How about you,” he asked to where they might secure more with parafin insuring sanitation,
tertainingly a good many important things the girl. “Do you mind being sawed prompt service. After a brief con- One end of the barrel is sealed and
about your roommate S mind. Everett Dean i n two?” ference they left for another cafe the other covered with a blanket.
Martin S Psychology: Lectures in Print out The girl shook her head. causing no end of distress to the Some of them have shaded front
lines most of the interesting ideas on modern “Well then,” the magician said, cashier in Kelley’s. She told the porches where the pooches can do
psychology. Menninger S The Human Mind "here I go.” And he sawed the three Aggies that “it was imma- their “horizontal engineering”
illlfstrates with dozens of case histories all girl in two. terial to her whether they got out when off duty,
the brain-twists and complexes.
WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Today, tomorrow and Sat
urday, SHIP WITH WINGS
with John Clements and Les
lie Banks
At Guion Hall
Today and Tomorrow
KEEPER OF THE FLAME
with Spencer Tracy and
Katherine Hepburn
Also Whistling In Dixie
Perhaps the field of popular economics
has been the richest of all since the last war.
Stuart Chase has never surpassed his first
books, The Tragedy of Waste and Men and
Machines, in clearness and enduring inter
est. The Modern Corporation and Private
Property, by Berle and Means, which will
probably remain one of the classics of the
Depression Period, is also remarkably easy
and rewarding to read. Bertrand Russell’s
tiny book, Political 'Ideals, which came out
as long ago as 1916, contains more concen
trated good sense about economics and so
ciety in general than most ponderous tomes.
Income and Economic Progress, by H. G.
Moulton of the stately Brooklings Institu
tion, makes more sense to this reviewer than
most of the conservative defense of cap
italism.
Above all, if you missed Of Human
Bondage, Somerset Maugham’s only great
novel, go back and pick it up now. With
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Gals-
worth’s Man of Property, and Hemingway’s
A Farewell to Arms, it probably represents
the best that the modern Anglo-American
novel could do before Steinbeck hit his stride
and Hemingway himself wrote For Whom
the Bell Tolls.
Every branch of the Armed Services uses the telephone. One of a series, Anti-Aircraft.
This Collegiate World
: ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS:
YALE LAUNCHES PROGRAM OF
“FOREIGN AREA STUDIES”
On the theory that the “diploma follows the
flag,” Yale University is embarking on a
program of “Foreign Area Studies” to train
experts in various fields in the language,
history and customs of those parts of the
world which may be occupied by United Na
tions forces as the war unfolds.
The courses will be open to economists,
engineers, public health officers, social work
ers, government officials, business men and
others with a college degree whose precise
talents would be valuable in re-building shat
tered nations after the war.
As tentatively outlined by Edgar S.
Furniss, dean of the Graduate School, the
training will be of an intensive nature and
limited to those who may be assigned abroad
during the war and afterward. Students will
study a given section of the world for twelve
weeks, although this period might be cut to
six weeks m the case of those who had a
fair grasp of the language.
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TODAY - TOMORROW
KEEPER OF THE
FLAME
Starring
SPENCER TRACY
KATHARINE HEPBURN
Also
CARTOON — SHORTS
NEWS
SATURDAY - MONDAY
WHISTLING IN
DIXIE
With
Red Skelton
To his mother and dad it seems only yesterday that he was using the family telephone to call his
high school sweetheart. But today the orders he sends and receives over his wartime telephone
help speed the day when love and laughter, peace and progress shall again rule the world.
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