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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Texas A. A M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station,
ia 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 8, 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 4-8444.
1942 Member 1943
Associated GoUe6iate Press
L. Millard Collins Acting Editor-in-Chief
The Battalion is to be reorganized for the summer months
with the hope that a number of freshmen and sophomores will
be ready to help with its publication. We are working under
difficulties, yet, it is our desire to publish the best paper
Ity and the military divi-
r way possible,
e take the plac
er publications for the duration. L,et every person r
ber that we only have three boys back of us who worked
aany difficulties, yet, it is our desire to publish the best paper
possible. We wish to urge the faculty and the military div
sions on the campus to assist us in every way possible
that the Battalion may to some measure take the pi:
to urge the faculty and the military
ius to assist us in every way possible, in order
of all
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This Is Aggieland...
Welcome! Freshman to your “Aggieland.”
This is your school since you have chosen it
for the technical training needed in prepar
ing you for your life’s profession. It behooves
you, as it has all classes to contribute to the
spirit and growth of A. & M. College. I say
this because you and your sophomore friends
must hold in high esteem the challenge hand
ed to you by all the “Ex-Aggies” all over the
world.
Perhaps many of you have come to the
conclusion that nothing is as it used to be,
and that there is no true Aggie spirit to be
found. This can’t be true. Only recently mus
ters were held throughout Texas, other
parts of the United States, and in foreign
theatres of war by “Ex-Aggies.” This is an
annual gathering for all “Exes” on San Ja
cinto Day, and this year thousands of them
were in Tunisia, Australia, on Corregidor,
and the British Isles; yet the spirit still sur
vived and meant more to them all.
Each of you has a responsibility to your
self and your country. No class has ever re
ceived a greater challenge than this. Take
a part in every activity of the college—re
membering that a failure is one run in favor
of our enemies.
Since the seniors, juniors, and perhaps
some sophomores have been called to the
seryice of our country, freshmen must take
an active part in helping the college share
in this total war by contributing men who
are. ;well equipped physically and mentally
for a place in the armed forces, or civilian
actiyities. Make every day pay dividends.
The. college officials realizing the difficulties
undsir which many of you will be laboring
'are(*v,v,jy and able to assist you with any
and all your problems. Find a friend. He’ll
stay by you! If the “Aggie” spirit is not kept
going, then we have defeated our ultimate
purpose. Be an “Aggie”—a leader not a lag-
ger !:•-
Know Your Library...
Dear Freshmen:
I hear that several hundred of you have
come to A. and M. “for an education.” Well,
if you get an education, you will have to get
it for yourself. The College can and will train
you;: that is. it will teach you to do some
thing skilfully and scientifically. But educa
tion-is something else. Education is the proc
ess- of becoming as good a man. mentally,
physically, psychically, sociallv. as it is in
you to. become. Education includes training,
but.it includes other things too.
Now it is as a tool for self-education that
your College Library offers its books and
magazines, its pictures and music to you:
its 100.000 volumes, its 1.000 magazines, its
50 reproductions of great paintings, its 1200
classical records (with a phonograph). And
you will find specially trained people to help
you to use these things to the best advan
tage.
Now this, you must admit, is a valuable
tool. Texas i« spending about $50,000 a year
to keep it efficient and to make it better all
the time. If you are smart, you Freshmen,
you wiir learn to use it promptly. Later on,
your instructors will be sending you to the
Library to get up assignments, but you ought
not to wait for that. You ought to find the
Library right now, and make yourself fa
miliar with all its parts.
Drop in some time during your first
week and exnlore the building, from the en
trance hall through the third floor. Ask the
first librarian you see in each room, what is
in that room, and how to use it. Saunter
around the wall of the Periodical Room, and
look through the latest numbers of some of
the hundreds of magazines to which we sub
scribe. Note those that interest you most,
so that you may drop in every month and
read their best articles. Also on the first
floor is the Newspaper Smoking Room, where
you can relax.
Then go upstairs into the Delivery
Room. Examine the card catalogue, the most
valuable single item in the Library. Note
that it is designed to accommodate three
kinds of seekers: Those who know the name
of a desired author; those who know the
title of the book they want; those who wish
to find information on some subject. Note
also how much you can learn about a book
from the card alone; the age of the author,
the date of the book; its length; the topics
with which it chiefly deals. Then note the
three kinds of request slips: yellow, for
books to be taken out; black ®n white for
-THE BATTALION-
Man, Your Manners
By 1. Sherwood
jCourOoum on .
Campus ^Distractions
By Ben Fortson
Freshmen, this column is addressed to
you and the other young men on the campus Well, ’ole Army, here we are at
in the hope that it will help you with your the start of a new semester. Things
The Lowdown: Don’t miss it.
Today only at Guion Hall is the
everyday problems in social usage. Its pur- aren’t like they used to be, but then Astaire, Hayworth success, YOU
pose is to treat in a practical present-day that’s true of a lot of things we WERE NEVER LOVELIER. This
manner questions on introductions, table know. The Battalion has been picture costars foot loose Fred
technique, dates, public behavior, etc.; ques- Changed a little, too, but speaking Astaire and curvacious Rita Hay-
tions on etiquette that confront men on a for the staff, if I may, we are go-
man’s campus under changing conditions. in g to keep on trying to put out
Social customs change over a period of wh at we think is one of the best
time, and in our present-day world, they are college newspapers in the country,
changing rapidly. Seventy-five years from Sta y behind us, will you?
now our current social customs will sound Today only at the Campus is
as amusing as those back in 1864 when no THE FALCON’S BROTHER, with
lady walked alone after dark, called a gen- Geor S e Sanders, Tom Conway, and after her heart and after much dis-
tleman by his first name, carried on a corre- Randolph. appointment, and many laughs and
spondence with any male, except her hus-
worth for the second time in
dancing musical you won’t want
to miss.
Most of the story takes place in
South America where Miss Hay
worth is the daughter of a rich
hotel owner. Astaire is the guy
This show is 63 minutes of the fine dancing, everythings turns out
usual cop and robber story type, alright for all. The only trouble
with the Falcon’s brother as the is that there is not enough danc-
hero. In this case, the besting of ing. One dance done by Astaire
enemy agents intent on the as- and Hayworth is the shorty George
sassination of a South American and it took them four weeks of
diplomat is the problem. As al- 5-hour-a-day rehearsals before
ways is the case, the Falcon, or they were good enough to go be-
in this show, his brother, is one fore the cameras.
an y jump ahead of the blundering po- The story is one which is cur-
lice. Conway and Jane Randolph, rently being overworked but is
belong to everyday liv- a fashion reporter, fall afoul of the good,
ing; they are important in the class room Nazis, but the G-men arrive in The Lowdown: A show you will
with your classmates and faculty, and more time. Sanders, the Falcon’s broth- enjoy all the way through,
than all other places, are they important in er, is fatally shot at the oonclu- Sunday and Monday at Guion
your contact with strangers in the street or sion.
band or a relative, mentioned the word
“stomach” in polite society, or permitted a
man caller to stay later than ten o’clock.
Behavior is pretty much standardized
for you here at A. and M.; it is based on
military manners and customs. Your behav
ior should be such that it will not cast any
reflections on your home training at
time.
Good manners
in public places. Good manners are based on
kindness and consideration for others.
books to be merely examined or read inside;
red on white for periodicals. On any of these
slips you will need to copy from the Cata
logue Card (1) the “Call Numbers” from the
upper left, (2) the author (heavy black
type), (3) the title. These are simply to
guide the loan desk people to the right
shelves.
Hall is Warner Brother’s triumph,
, „ , . , ^ _ DESPERATE JOURNEY, with
usual Falcon pictures, but is better Errol Flynilj Ronald Reagan> Alan
This picture falls short of the
than the usual run of robber and
police stories.
The Lowdown: Entertaining, but
not out of the ordinary.
Hale, and Nancy Coleman.
The Perils of Pauline and the ex
ploits of Superman are pink teas
~ when compared with the situa-
Starting at the Campus with the tions and adventures to wMch this
co. Payne, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie,
and June Havoc are the members
of a dancing act that works in
saloons.
They are fired for trying an
original act of their own and sep-
midnight preview tonight, and run
ning through Sunday and Monday,
is Columbia’s HELLO FRISCO,
HELLO, starring John Payne, Alice
Faye, Jack Oakie, June Havoc, and
While you’re in this lobby, sit down in Lynn Barrie,
front of the two display cases and leaf The story is one of the late gay
through some of their contents. In these nineties, and concerns the life on
cases you will find the best new books on the Barbary Coast of San Francis-
public questions — Stuart Chase, Peter
Drucker, Herbert Agar, etc. (If these names
don’t mean anything to you, there’s a gap
in your “education.”)
Now go through the iron grill into the
Reference Room. First walk straight across
to the far wall, and look at our new Visible ara te." John Payne'makes a lot of man
Index of Magazines. On the tables and money and marries a society girl ’
shelves at your elbow, you will see “Reader’s f rom Knob Hill. Later on he finds
Guides,’ indexes to the hundreds of thou- gJm has married him for his money
sands of good magazine articles that have an d when she discovers he is
appeared since 1850 on every conceivable broke, she divorces him. By a
subject. The rest of the big room is full of streak of luck, he runs into more
all sorts Of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and money and opens a new place,
other tools for finding information quickly, Xiice Faye comes back to him and time -
easily, and copiously. Ask the Reference Li- they end the show in each other’s
brarian to show you things. She loves it. arms. Throughout the last war, only
On the third floor is the Browsing The show is highly entertaining 241 tanks were used by American
Room, full of fiction, biography, new techni- and enjoyable throughout. The act- troops in combat areas, and those
cal books, and most Of our lighter new books ing is very good and commended were made chiefly in England and
of all kinds. You may either “browse” among Tiighly by those who have seen it. France.
these in the big leather and steel spring
melodrama subjects its heroes.
Flynn, Reagan, and Hale, are the
crew of a British bomber shot
down in Germany. They escape the
Germans and get back to England
only after going through many
narrow escapes and exciting ad
ventures. The story keeps you
guessing and holds you in suspence
the whole way through. Every
moment is exciting and you’ll come
out with a lot more respect for the
British fliers. Some of the work
ings of the German underground
are shown, through Nancy Cole
man, who saves the fliers more
This is one of the best stories
of the present world war and might
easily have been true.
The Lowdown: A picture you
will want to go back for a second
Errol Flynn on his way in
“Desperate Journey”, playing
at Guion Hall Sunday and
Monday.
Schools and Colleges
Asked to Help
Conserve Paper
Schools and colleges have been
urged by the War Production
Board to join the movement to
conserve paper. Growing military
needs, said WPA in the appeal,
makes saving paper almost as im
portant today as saving gasoline
and rubber.
Paper for “V” packing boxes
alone runs to 600,000 tons a year,
and the armed forces now are
using paper substitutes for such
materials as steel, other critical
metals, lumber, glass and rubber.
The use of fiber shipping bands
or rings for bombs is said to save
more than 4,000 tons of steel a
month. In addition, the Army and
Navy cover guns, airplanes and
motor parts with impervious lay
ers of paper. Specific types of pa
per are used in making maps,
charts, sun helmets, and vests.
Medicines, foods and munitions are
packaged in paper.
' C. L. Hough, Jr., chief of the
School and College Section of the
Government Division, WPB, in a
special appeal to colleges, stated:
“Let’s give serious thought to our
paper requirements by putting into
effect immediately the following
steps which have been recommend
ed by WPB Chairman Donald M.
Nelson:
“No material should be printed,
duplicated or mimeographed un
less it will make a direct contri
bution to the war.
“Any contemplated forms, pam
phlets, form letters, etc., should be
carefully estimated in advance,
-SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1943
and, the number ordered should
be held to the minimum needed to
accomplish the purpose.
“All material to be printed or
duplicated should be checked to
avoid mistakes which would re
quire a re-run.
“In all correspondence, especial
ly inter-office communications, the
minimum number of copies should
be made. Don’t make unnecessary
carbons of the first draft of a let
ter, memorandum, or report, and
keep the finished number to a min
imum.
“Have your name removed from
all mailing lists which supply you
with material which you can satis
factorily do without.
“If you have any further sug
gestions, send them to the School
and College Section, Government
Division, WPB, Washington, D. C.”
WHAT’S SHOWING
at the Campus
Today only, THE FAL
CON’S BROTHER, with
George Sanders, Tom Con
way, and Jane Randolph.
Midnight preview tonight,
Sunday and Monday, HEL
LO FRISCO, HELLO, with
John Payne, Alice Faye,
Jack Oakie, and June Havoc.
At Guion Hall
Today only, YOU WERE
NEVER LOVELIER, with
Rita Hayworth and Fred
Astaire.
Sunday and Monday, DES
PERATE JOURNEY, with
Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan,
Alan Hale, and Nancy Cole
man.
DALACE
■ PHONE 2-387P
LAST DAY
“Reap the
Wild Wind”
chairs (a gift from the Humble and Texas
Companies), or check them out for home use
in the Required Reading room next door,
which also contains books which your pro
fessors put “on reserve” for whole classes,
and “required reading shelves” from which
they will tell you to select a book.
The Music Room across the rotunda con
tains a good remote-control phonograph,
several hundred books about music and mu
sicians, and a card catalogue of our 1200
records of classical music. Stay and play as
long as you like.
Above all, make yourself at home in your
Library. Ask questions, poke about and look
at everything, look into a lot of books, read
a new magazine or two, examine the card
catalogue and the Reader’s Guides. This is
your tool for self-education. Learn to use it
and enjoy it. It will help you to become, not
only a trained man—after all, a dog or a
monkey can be pretty highly trained—but
an educated man as well: a man who has be
come the best that it is in him to become.
Sincerely,
THOMAS F. MAYO,
Librarian.
Open Forum
To the Corps of next semester:
As an ex-Batt staff member, I’d like to say
that it has been fun working every Wednes
day afternoon from 1 to5, but it did get a
little rough when I was the only reporter
with the editor and the managing editor doing
all the work. It has been swell working down
here, but I wish I could be back in June.
There is a little flaw to this; Uncle Sam has
called me, as he has done all the other staff
members.
There will probably be no real staff
next semester, but there can be a real news
paper if you will only come down and make it
one. The Student Activities Office is finding
it so that they had to ask a good friend of
mine from Richmond to take over as editor-
in-chief, but he had to refuse because his own
paper needs his services. Think it over
though, and come on down to see what you
can do. There isn’t any money in it, but
there is a lot of fun with some honor in it
for you.
Maybe you haven’t liked the Batt for
The Final Review
May 22, 1943
There were hundreds of them:
Mothers and Dads,
“Little sisters”—Younger brothers,
Sweethearts, yes and wives,
Some of them expecting soon
To be mothers.
Hundreds standing on the
Side lines at the “Old Drill Ground.”
Some of the Dads
Had been there in Seventeen,
The mothers too, as sweethearts.
Some had seen other sons
Since Pearl Harbor
Stand on this same
Familiar ground and step forward
For the “Final Review”—
Then leave—perhaps
For the Great Adventure.
They—on the side lines
Strained for a glimpse of a
Familiar figure among the
Thousands—khaki clad
And thought of others
Over the nation—and other nations too.
Giving of their very life’s blood—
For what? That it might happen again?
Let God forbid!
Some shed tears and tried to hide them;
Some wept unashamed.
Others tried to be nonchalant
And did not succeed.
But the boys—
Obeying orders;—standing erect
Under loads perhaps we do not guess.
Saluting the Colors,
Cheering the Battle Song,
Being reverent to the Spirit of Aggieland.
Then—So long, Bill or Bob or Joe
I’ll be seeing you in Tokio.
A slap on the back
A grip of the hand
Boy it’s been grand knowing you
I’ll meet you here when this is over.
The Sailors and the Marines and
The Air Corps and the Regulars look on
With understanding—
For they have been along
The same road.
A dad,
JOHN T. LONGLEY.
Gedding, Texas
5-23-43
Dr. N. B. McNutt
DENTIST
Office in Parker Building
Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1487 Bryan, Texas
Preview Saturday Night
11 P. M.
“Hit Parade
of 1943”
— with —
John Carroll
Susan Hayward
- Featuring -
Freddie Martin and
His Orchestra
Count Basie and m
His Orchestra '■ e - room
itav McKinle'-“ t,ni lower
His Orchf Jb purchased
- Also S-
SUN. - MON.
Welcome to Aggieland - - -
NEW STUDENTS and
SERVICE MEN
From the management and
of the two picture shows — Quit
Theatre — located in the center
campus and the Campus Theatre
cated at the North Gate of the a
Here’s the movie schedule for the
day or two ...
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SATURDAY
GEORGE
SANDERS
TOM
CONWAY
MNE .'i :
RANDOLPH ^
— Plus —
Cartoon - News - Shorts
some reason or another, but it was your own
fault because you didn’t come down and put pear Editor*
your journalistic values to work. I’ve en- A . & M. has meant a lot to my tw 0 boys. If I had a
joyed the writing; I hope you enjoyed read- dozen rd try to send them all there .
ing it. And, now until the victory is ours, jf ^is will help fill space, you may use it.
IH sign oil and see you then.
Fish Boone, ’46. JOHN T. LONGLEY.
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