Page 2- -THE BATTALION- -TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1943 TTlC Bel ttaliOTl ® As the World Turns STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER r»_ *1 i> ■ Texas A. & M. COLLEGE i,|elsun The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and The National Maritime Workers Union (A. and Saturday mornings. F. Of L.) is refusing to load OP SEll SUipS Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College with goods for Spain beCailSe the gOOds Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870 might be USCd against US, and Subscription rates $3 per school year. Advertising rates are being US6d against the upon request. ' RuSS’ianS by the Spanish Anti- Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, , Jk Communist Legion. Most Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and Is » . ’ , n . San Francisco. Americans will sympathize Office, Room 6, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. .. W ith the action though it 19 42 Member 1943 IE# raises the important question • . i i-v as to whether unions should Associated Col'^fSiate be permitted to decide ques- — „... . r>1 . f n § 'SP tions of importance by means r===32S£r&XZ ■ X Wit of strikes. Danell E. Griffin ^ Staff Photographer ■; ♦ Anthony Eden, British For- Hank Avery ...Sports Editor e ig n Secretary, is in the Thoma^Boog isslstent Nelson United states. The great Tonf 06 Sutiieriand l question is WHAT IS HIS OBJECT? Is that Tommy Gouid Z^ZZZZZZZZ Reporter object to lay plans for a post war world, Joe Stalcup CirC " , “ ti * n ...f. t ! Circulation Manager OP is it to WOrk OUt political details in PC- Haskell Lindley ^^.^L-Advertlsin* Manager ^d to a COmillg Second frOlrt ill Europe? Ed Slenker Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager Many people, including Herr Hitler and hlS i!g fig£====gsgg ASt Ad, v :5Sl SSSS; generals, would like to know. Tom Leiand Tnesday^ staff ManaginK Editor Did the timing of General Giraud’s Eugene Robards Reporter speech have anything to do with the subject Jim Gabbard. Reporter matter of Eden s visit? Giraud s pledge to —restore the republican government to France and its pre-war laws is obviously planned Tmnntiunt to form the basis for all-out French cooper- impanem • • • ation in preparation for an invasion of the continent. Impatience • • • . . State-owned liquor stores are a possibil- Like a horse champing at a bit, impatient ity i n Texas, as a bill to accomplish that pur- xu un. ^ ie i mos ^ a ^ e pose has been introduced in the state legis- their bits for some action by the War De- lature. In addition the bill would force every partment and the ERC. But, unfortunately, consumer to get a twelve-dollar-a-year li- ^? 11 e ^ lorse cai * P a Y and stomp, not doing ce nse to purchase liquor. The bill might pass himself any material damage, college stu- as a wa r-time emergency measure, dents forget such things as assignments, Th IInited Mine Workers , To}in T reports, and most other things related to go- T . llle U x M1 " e Wor f e r s ^hn L. ino- Lewis are threatening a strike if they do g ri . ' .. ... not get a two dollar per day wage increase, , ^ ne Aggie father recently wrote his son, pl us pay for part of the time they spend on I know how you feel, but don t let it get the way to and from work. Hitler would your goat. As I see it, they don t need you probably contribute to the miners’ strike boys very badly or they would call you, so fund if he were approached on the subject. work” th 7 t , s “ d Jf Bare legs for girls are considered im- into service and you not, but maybe when ln Mexic °>but gin workers in Mex- your ^^¥1^ prnnrfw t xr/Mi -fz-v Yr/AiTv* Vvti- 1^,,+. . txi6 United States, where price control is country. 1 want you to do your bit, but you extremely ineffective can at lea^t Qvmna can’t force the issue ...” and therein lies thize 7 ect ve ’ can at least s y m P a ' the moral of this story You can’t force the issue—remember that. The War Department ■ is going to make up its own mind about n 11 • • tit i i things, and one little group of Aggies worry- I Dl PfTlAtp WnrlH ing about it won’t phase them much. UUhlCylCILC wi U11U You have all had yourself in and out of ______________________ the army three or four times in the last ^ . T u- , A , . few weeks, and all of those calls fell through . bel Ka ? er Larbi, son of an Arabian shiek, Why not now forget about it and start ball- \ s . Promising his friends a camel after the ing jack, racking up those old G.P.s. Cer- fmal y mted Nations victory, tainly you are used to rumors by now, so Si Kaber, who helps to teach Moroccan let’s laugh them off and toe that old scholas- at the University of Pennsylvania, is over- tic line—it’s the only line we’ve got left j°y ed that the Americans thave invaded his around here. country. “We Moroccans like the Americans very "The final end of Government is not to firTt^Wo^d'WAr'whP^ It Chtate™ 1 ™™*’ ^ t0 d ° SOOd.-’-Rufvs Krench forces . ..Casablanca fs slmewhat like ^ Philadelphia, but on the whole more mod- Purdue university engineering students ern ' 0 . ^ are producing war machine parts for West- j Kader s family live near the snow- inghouse Electric company as part of their £ a PP ed A tlas mountains. And when he goes shop practice. Their output equals that of a u 6 they , c ® lebrat ® Wlth lavish feasts of 75-man machine shop working full time , , e ? ^ ast ® d , whoIe » and eous-cous and . * kebab. The Arabs, he said, sit on the floor and eat from a low table, using only their “Wit makes its own welcome, and levels hands. Women are never allowed to eat at all distinctions”—Ralph Waldo Emerson the same table. Campus Camera SPEAKIN6 °P ENDOWMENTS... W.R MURPHY’S GIFT OF <20,000,000 TO V NORTHWESTERN UNIV. RANKS AMONG \ THE LARGEST EVER. GIVEN TO AN n EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, t rr RAISED NWS ASSETS TO #82,662,000, PUTTING THE h SCHOOL IN 6 th PLACE AMONG HEAVILY ENDOWED UNIVER SITIES-(FIRST FIVE ARE | HARVARD, YALE, CHICAGO, Ak AND ROCHESTER. ^(iz T2ovj2im to (g^aaiPTO A. C. P.'s Corroapondent Reports from Washington £ "“Military officials have been appalled at the fact that many of their recruits—college and high school graduates—have little or no knowledge of mathematics or science unless they specialized in one of these fields. Our liberal education has been so liberal that the graduate got but a smattering of any thing and retained virtually nothing. Learn ing can be made more enjoyable than it was a century ago when knowledge was gotten at the impetus of a hickory rod, but if school is going to be all recreation, then there isn’t going to be much learning.”— Dr. L. J. Leon, professor of classical lan guages at the University of Texas, predicts postwar education will have fewer “frills and more substantial teaching”. * + * “The post-war world confronts higher ed ucation with the greatest responsibility in its history. The conduct of the war is ne cessitating new patterns of government and new types of economic organization. It is making drafts upon our human resources and our technically trained men and women which are difficult to meet. The process of rebuilding will be educational and ideological as well as economic and physical. Occupied countries will need to be re-educated as a result of Nazi infiltration of recent years. Food will need to be supplied, and health conditions will need to be improved. New pat terns of government must be devised. War- torn cities must be rebuilt. In all of this activity there will be the greatest need for leadership on the part of large numbers of university-trained men and women. The de velopment of a stable and humane world or der is not a task to be achieved within a few months or a few years. It will take gen erations for its achievement. In the process statesmanship of the highest order will be required, and understanding leadership in every field of human activity. The large numbers of college men and women in Amer ica must assume an active role in this im portant undertaking. They cannot do so un less the college curriculum comes to grips with problems of international relations and deals vigorously with racial and national understanding.” Dr. E. O. Melby, president of Montana State University, emphasizes that America’s educational institutions are faced with their greatest responsibility in helping to win the war and prepare for the problems of a post-war world. Kollegiate Kaleidoscope' Military map making will be taught to qual ified senior women at the University of Michigan in a special course being offered at the request of the army map service, it is announced by Prof. R. H. Sherlock, co-ordi nator for the engineering, science and man agement war training program. During the special course, which will start Feb. 8, the women students will be given instruction in making bombing target maps for use by the air forces. Those who successfully complete the course and receiv* a degree by June, 1943, will qualify under Federal civil service as engineering aides at $1,800 a year. Positions will be available either in Washington, D. C., or other army mapping ovices throughout the country. No college credit will be given for the technical instruction in planimetric and top ographic mapping, map drafting, projections, aeronautical charts, map reproduction, photo mapping in two dimensions and checking and elevation. The lectures and laboratory work will total at least 60 hours. However, the students may elect for credit such re lated courses as mathematics, geography, surveying and geology. Sweepings ... We humans shouldn’t question God’s wisdom even if He did make mosquitoes, hurricanes, earth quakes, leprosy, and Hitler. A southern physician related a number of funny experiences among colored folk at the time of the smallpox scare in which a gen eral vaccination crusade had been undertaken. .One case was an old colored woman who said she had no time to stop work to be sick from vac cination; that the children would starve and freeze if she could not do her laundry work, and that it was positively out of the question to have a lame arm. “Well, Auntie,” said the doctor, “I’ll vaccinate you on one of your lower limbs, so it won’t interfere with your work.” “No, siree,” said Auntie, “Ah cahn’t spare one 0’ my laigs neith er.” Then the doctor said kindly: “Well, what spot could you spare, because you must be vaccinated?” The old colored woman thought and thought, and finally said slow ly, “Well, Lord knows, I don’t ever get a chance to set down.” Several years ago I attended a convention of drug salesmen. The chairman, who was president of one of the companies, called on the oldest salesman present to stand. Then he said: “Gentlemen, there stands before you the health iest man in America. He has been with us for forty years and his expense accounts show that he has never missed a meal!” this practice in artificial respira tion and the fireman’s carry at drill reminds us of yearly fire man’s short course held here, minus the hook and ladder department. Although the individual regi mental balls still stand right now, look for an announcement in a couple of days to the tune that instead of three balls, only one big corps ball will be held. Efforts are being made to get some really top-notcher in the orchestra world before releasing this. Latest date for ERC activation is a little earlier than the April 5th date previously aired—but look out, you never can tell. Senior Section ... At least once a year it is found necessary to remind the corps and all other individuals who patron ize Gnion Hall that there is a defi nite section set aside for seniors. This is a time-honored tradition which even the war should not change. We expect observance of it by the underclassmen and sin cerely hope that the navy, air corps, and marines stationed here will cooperate also. It extends from the front row of the middle section back to the wide aisle separating its two parts, and of the first two rows in the balcony. If necessary, those found there who are not clas sified seniors will be subjected to disciplinary action by the senior court. Let’s try to avoid this by taking seats elsewhere and keeping “peace in the family.” Midweek distractions at the two theatrical houses of College Sta tion this time offer a slapstick flikker and a not-so-hot comedy- melodrama. Saving the best for the last, let’s look in on the Cam pus distraction showing today and tomorrow, A NIGHT TO REMEM BER, with Brian Aherne and Lo retta Young, about an hour and a half of prolonged “entertainment” that in your reporter’s opinion sort of fails to fill the bill. It’s a comedy-mystery show with entirely too much footage of noth ing that’s interesting. The story is somewhat confusing, although on the credit side of the ledger there are several humorous situations thank to the lead, Loretta and Brian. This is a yam about an un successful reader of mystery stories who moves to Greenwich Village with his wife, laboring un der the impression that there he can pick up the material for one humdinger of a yam. What really Editorial... Following is a letter to the edi tor of the L. S. U. Revielle, stu dent newspaper of Louisiana State University, concerning the reception center at Camp Beaure gard, Louisiana. The editors of the Battalion feel that it speaks for itself. Reception Center Camp Beauregard, La. Dear Editor: The reception center here at Beauregard is not a training cen ter. Men who come here are clas sified, given supplies, and are then transferred. While in the receiv ing companies, no one is privileged, and everyone is assigned to K.P. and other duties, regardless of whethei* he is a new selectee, an old sergeant who is being reclass ified, or an officer candidate. I was much surprised to learn that most of the L. S. U. cadets who passed through here recently on their way to 0. C. S. brought unfavorable criticism upon them selves and their school by their unwillingness to take orders from “lowly” corporals and privates. They resented being given K. P. and other duties, and made it gen erally known that “It won’t be long before I’m an officer, and, brother, I just hope I meet up with you again.” This petty attitude has rewarded them with the contempt and ill- feeling of the men here who came in contact with them. These men have unanimously agreed that the Texas Aggies who were recently here are both better sports and better soldiers. As a former L. S. U. student, I know that this is not true. Since coming here I have boasted that the L. S. U. cadet can hold his own against any cadet in the entire country, but these few bad sports have certainly done nothing to up hold my claim. happens is that a real mystery de velops right under hife nose, get ting him in a number of tight spots upon his insistence to butt in on the work of the police and solve the case. It seems that the guy who was bumped off was a blackmailer preying on a number of innocent people. Miss Young and Mr. Aherne take the parts of wifey and hubby. The Lowdown: See it if you’ve nothing better to do! Now for the other half of the midweek distraction playbill, Gun- yon hall offers an A & C special, PARDON MY SARONG, a la the usual style of those two prime funsters. In addition to the two funsters, lovely-to-look-at Virginia Bruce is thrown in for extra good measure. This is beyond all shadow of a doubt one of the funniest of the Abbott and Costello pictures that’s hit the campus yet. It’s a means* for the two long time clowns to pull out every trick that they know, both old and new—and be lieve me, they do just that. The story starts in New York where our heroes have swiped a bus from the Big City and are on their way to the West coast trans porting a playboy yachtsman. Aft er millions and millions of laughs, etc., the fat boy and his side kick wind up on a South Sea isle with head hunters, beeutiful native las sies and just loads of other things. The Lowdown—Side-splittin’. Tomorrow night as Town Hall’s next attraction, Jose Iturbi, world renowned pianist, will be featured on the Guion hall stage. It’s sel dom in these times that we get to hear such noted musicians. We should take advantage of the op portunity offered so few people these days, and endeavor to keep alive appreciation of such classics as Mr. Iturbi will present on the Town Hall stage. The Lowdown—It’ll do you good. WHAT’S SHOWING At Guion Hall Today and tomorrow, “Par don My Sarong,” with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and Virginia Bruce. At the Campus Today and tomorrow, “A Night to Remember,” with Loretta Young and Brian Aherne. 4-1181 Box Office Opens 1 P. M. TODAY - TOMORROW BUD (ZZfc ^J-^ozb a y> I cover all, yellow squash. The biscuit-shooter !’ m o’er the world ’tween each called out, “Step on a Jap” to the nightfall short-order cook. And even then I light some wall. Nine hundred seamen at present are assigned to the naval training school for electricians at Purdue University. “Who says there ain’t no jus tice in this here land? I just got a divorce from my old man— I laughed and laughed at the judge’s decision ’Cause he gave him the kids, and they wasn’t even his’en!” Rumor Clinic ... No. 64,794: All ornamental brass will be discarded for the govern ment scrap piles and replaced by cloth, in every unit of the armed services. Campus Pick Ups . April 2 marks the day the in fantry and cavalry ball are sched uled to occur, which leaves only 17 more days for making all those date arrangements and hocking your roommate’s books. It seems the single men in the Senior Veterinary class don’t know when they’re licked. The married men defeated them in softball two Sundays ago and to add “insult to injury” they were beaten in a basketball game 52 to 40 last Sun day. Where does all this energy come from? Seeing the engineers doing all In China now, in America then, I long to see the great day when He gives me mark to halt my stand And make it dark in every land. I know the world, I know its Life, I feel its pulse through Peace and Strife; And when the time comes that I move on I sooth its soul with night’s quiet song. People think I have no thoughts, And that I’ll be here in days not wrought; But He, some day, will lift His hand And I’ll rest my soul in the dark ened land. I, the Day, I cover all, I’m o’er the world ’tween each nightfall And even then I light some wall. Drexel Institute of Technology, for the first time, is accepting wo men in all departments of the school of engineering. High school students who have completed the junior year and who can pass entrance tests may enter Denison university, Granville, Ohio under a new ruling. Navy Gives Details Of Officer Training Program in Colleges Details of the new Navy College Training program, designed to pro duce officers for the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, were an nounced by the Navy Department last week. Named V-12, the plan will get under way about July 1, and will give training ranging from 32 to 192 weeks for various classes of naval personnel. In general, students selected un der V-12 will spend one and one- third years in college, although some will receive longer training. As well as absorbing most of the college students now enlisted in the Navy and Marine Corps Re serves, V-12 is open to Army En listed Reservists who expressed preference for the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard when they signed up, and students holding probationary Navy Reserve com missions. High school graduates and seniors between 17 and 20 and enlisted personnel in the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are also eligible. Civilian candidates for this pro gram must be United States citi zens, be able to pass Navy physi cals—with a minimum eyesight rating of 18/20—be single and ag^ee not to marry until commis sioned, and have officer qualifica tions. All V-12s will be assigned to col leges which have Navy contracts. They will be in uniform under mili tary discipline and will receive ap- (See NAVY, page 4) BBOTT COSlElLoj A UNIVERSAL PICTURE DISNEY “PLUTO” CARTOON and SHORT TODAY - WEDNESDAY “ctLSttriinF" iMEm | YOUNG iiFiiyiiu aherne Also MERRIE MELODY “SHEEPISH WOLF” LATEST NEWS THURSDAY - FRIDAY “TISH” Susan Peters Richard Quine Morjorie Main