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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1943 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSP-APER T^xas A. & M. COLLEGE Tne Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural nn<i 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 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 Ban Francisco. Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. 1942 Member 1943 Associated GolIe6iate Press Andy Matula Editor-in-Chief TUESDAY'S STAFF Ben Forston - - Managing Editor John H. Kelly - Business Manager Conrad B. Cone Business Manager LeValle Wolf Reporter Robert Orrick Reporter Claude Stone Reporter Jacob R. Morgan -— Reporter Fred Manget, Jr - Reporter Jack E. Turner Re Reporter Archie Broodo - Columnist Bryan A. Ross - Columnist Harold Borofsky Columnist Ed Katten , Columnist Manager ager visor The following staff members use names other than their i when writing their columns: John H. Wirtz Circulation Manag Maurice Zerr — Circulation Manag D. W. May Editorial Advis Sylvester Boone Daniel Harold Borofsky Blotto D. M. Seligman Mat C. E. Murray Charlie ARMY ENGINEERS STAFF H. P Bradley Editor Ed Babich Associate D. K. Springwater Associate Bill Martin Associate M. J. Kaff Associate K. W. Parsoae - Associate Need for a Policy As cracks in the Nazi machine become more apparent, the need for a United Na tions policy toward Europe becomes even more obvious. If we drift on until Germany nears collapse, her frantic rulers may be able to play Russia against Britain and America and thus obtain better terms than those de served. A common policy by the Allied pow ers is needed to hasten Hitler’s downfall, to prevent consequent chaos and to facilitate prompt reconstruction of the devastated lands. President Roosevelt recently admitted at a press conference that we have no peace plan for Europe. Details, such as national boundaries, can be left for postarmistice set tlement; but we need to agree now with our Allies on the general terms to be offered Germany and on the occupation of enemy Man, Your Magazines Magazines besiege us with “quizzes” on our book learning; our knowledge of science, and what not; and now comes a recent maga zine with a quizz on “How are our man ners”—which gives me an idea—this column has covered a wide variety of subjects on manners so why not get out your pencils and see if you act as you should under certain circumstances. 1. How do you introduce— (a) An officer in the Army? (b) Navy? (c) Air Corps? (d) Marines? 2. Is an officer of any branch of the serv ice supposed to carry packages or an umbrella ? 3. Do you know which fork to use or the proper table technique? 4. How do you introduce a man and— (a) A woman? (b) Your mother? (c) Your father? (d) Another man? 5. Who precedes whom when you escort a lady into a— (a) Restaurant? (b) Theater or movie? (c) Taxi? 6. When you are dining out with a girl who gives the order? 7. When you find yourself socially ill at ease, do you know what to do about it ? 8. When does a wedding invitation call for a response? Does an announcement call for a wedding gift? See ANSWERS, Page 4) territory. Hitler’s downfall may come as suddenly as Mussonlini’s; if we are prepared for such an event, we may be able to use it to much better advantage than if it catches us without a peace program. Expressions from Moscow make it seem likely that Russia would join us in a policy that would contemplate liberating the Gex 1 - mans from Nazi rule and giving them a new start in democratic government instead of trying to crush them as the Nazis have tried to crush the peoples they have conquered. At any rate, we must have something better than death and destruction to offer the German people if we want them to quit Hit ler and the war instead of prolonging the conflict as long as possible and thus increas ing the suffering and loss of life on both sides. ARMY ENGINEERS Vance Plans Dance Russell Vance, prexy of the 1st Go’s dance committee announced that tentative plans for an end of term dance are well underway. Lt. Howard Pickett has been ap pointed by Lt. Arthur Jors, Com manding Officer of the 1st Com pany as acting Special Service Of ficer to investigate possibilities, of dance spot, band and dates for a gala affair. While it is too early to more than hope as yet it is re membered that the gals of TSCW were ever loyal to the AGGIES and had great times at the AGGIE BALLS. Possibly they will extend their kindness to the G. I. AGGIES. 5th Co. Leads Basics The fifth Company was again a jump ahead of the rest of the Ba sic Engineering Companies by be ing the first to appointment to the Army Engineers Staff for the “Bat”. This is the second scoop for the fifth as they were also the first basic company to enter a team in the newly organized intra mural league. One of the ball players Mike Maglio will write under the title of SPORTSLIME- LIGHT for the Engineer’s News. Maglio is well qualified for the job being an all around athelete himself with a flair for writing. He was Sports reporter and photogra pher for the HAVERHILL EVE NING GAZETTE prior to entering the Army via the Enlisted Reserve Corps last December. The other journalist of the fifth Company Lenard Sutton, will serve as Editor for the Basic En gineers. Sutton was with the STAR unit at Louisiana State. He attended Brown University where he was Managing Editor of the “Brown Herald.” Prior to enlisting in the Reserve Corps he was fea ture writer for the PROVIDENCE CHRONICLE. Sutton Column ap pears today under the heading “First Copy’’ by Len. 1st Co. Wins Opener Under the guidance of Manager Fred Marinaro the 1st co. softball team trounced the 5th co. club Sunday afternoon to the tune of 11 to 6, on “calamity field” behind dorm one. This was the opening game of the newly organized In tramural League between the ASTP Cos. Both teams played good ball with only two errors for the 5th co. and only one miscue for the 1st. The deciding factor of the game was the timely hitting of the 1st Sympathy Slips By CORNELL Just as we thought, there were cries of bitter indignation sounded by one and all of the members of the 1st S. T. Co. over the Comment in Saturday’s issue. We are hum bly apologetic to the 1st Co. since the offenders are not from this Co., but from one of the other units down Mess Hall lane. Still the offenders are from the A S. T. P. here at A. & M., and the public cannot tell which Co. is “Snafu”, and naturally blame the entire organization. Soon there will be a scarcity of G. I.s around the campus since we are required to carry class “A” passes when ever we leave the re gimental area. For the first time in over two years in this man’s Ar my we have got to get a pass to visit the barber shop. This writer will probably be ac cused of preventing Ses. 162 from achieving a shut-out victory over Sec. 168, this of course is all vi cious propaganda, the fault lies with the pitcher, who should not have allowed the batter to hit the d ball out of the infield. Even then I would have made a brilliant catch if my foot hadn’t slipped, and if the sun wasn’t in my eyes, and if the ball would not have curved away just as I reached for it. However as a whole our team is far superior to any of the teams we’ve Played to date. Well the past week end was rough, or will be, so we’ll shut down for now. Co. club. They collected eleven runs for as many hits. The losers belted nine safeties but pitchers Huby and Gambardella kept the hits scattered and allowed the vi sitors only five runs. Peery and Paterson were the heavy sluggers of the afternoon with two hits each. Peery connected to left cen ter for a through trip sending in a man ahead of him. Peterson collect ed a single and a double besides playing a hangup game at the hot corner. Motta and Huguelet made some fine put outs in the field, the latter snagging an “impossible” fly off the lamp post in short left. Hogue was the heavy slugger for the losers with two singles in three trips. Hudson and Geisert each col lected a double and were responsi ble for most of the 5th Co’s runs. “Robie Robinson of the fifth company did yeoman service as a one man cheering section and offi cial yell leader. Let’s have a few more out for next Sunday’s game when the 1st Co. tangles with the 4 th. Neal’s Knockers Knock Another Sec. 162 continued jts winning- streak by whipping Sec. 168, 8 to 1, in a hot game Friday last. Sparked by catcher, Bob Geo- gan, in the 1st inning, 162 hit completely round with Marinaro, Dykema, Ewing, and Butler fol lowing Geogan in. When the dust had cleared away the losers were trailing five to 0. From there on in the game was on ice with Marinaro holding 168 to pop flies and infield bingles. Ed Ewing relieved Marinaro in the sixth, pitching four strike outs and no hit ball for the last three inn ings. Ken Oyler’s performance at short center makes him a good prospect for the 1st Company team. Pitcher Ewing is a sure bet. For the losers, Capt. Bob Esth er, first baseman, and Paul Bis hop, catcher were tops and did their best to stem the tide but 162 would not be denied. Visitors Visit Take Home Bacon The first inter-company game proved disasterous to sec. 177 with visiting sec. 19 of the Fifth Com pany lambasting them 13 to 2. Capt. Bob Asselstine of the 19th fielded a right smart ball club which showed plenty of moxie in every dept. Right fieldei’, Bill Hutchins, showed real power at the plate con necting every time up and making two of those a triple and a homer. Asslestine shared homer honors with one of his own. Pitcher Holt seemingly had plenty on the ball and 177 fared sparingly when at bat. Adriance for the losers covered third like the vet he is, while Mer rill looked like first team mater ial behind the bat. First Copy by Len Today we pulled the mauled type writer from its cornered clink and at last offer you our first copy, the hurriedly-written rambl ing jottings and oddly-pieced not es of a new war-time group of army sophisticates — the brain- crazed engineers of the Army Specialized Training Program. For years gone by many of our recent loftier magazines and news digests have inaugurated their colorfully-dressed opening issues with a few pithy soul-jerking words on the enobled objectives BUY MORE WAR BONOS! V. S. Treasury Department ★ CAcrw/tsu ★ By Andy Matula "Buk'waafc: Am acttatiaa rMalttnc trmm mmm xtlw or oeenrn—” — Wchstor Wildcat. . . From what “Strip” Strippling says, that little pre-midnight yell practice held in Houston last Sa turday night before the midnight show was OK. Though there were- not many Aggies at the first yell, reinforcements arrived out of no where. Ex’s from Ellington Field were in there yelling along with V-12’s from Rice who were former students. Nice going, Ole Army. Detail.. . We thought the bulls were try ing to stomp this Out. Sunday at noon in front of the P. O. a car pulled up and a lady stepped out. She stood there a minute and then picked out a long, lanky frog and sent him into the Post Office with her letters. Summon the D. C. What, No Phone You can find just about every book in the library from Journals on Bacteriology to The Grapes of Wrath. But the other day we final ly discovered a dozen or so volumns of practical value in the Reference Room. You can imagine our sur prise while* looking for a book on Ancient History to run across 10 or 12 telephone directories. They were all directories of Texas ci ties, large and small. The library could be the busiest place after C. Q. if they would install a couple of phone booths. No Stamps Needed ... Remember Army, that there won’t be a meat shortage in Aggie- land come next Thanksgiving. Walton Whispers By Mat & Charlie -—* Well, the big weekend for all us dewheads is just about here. The Officers are working hard on the minor details, but it’s up to us to get those major items dates. Also tickets are on sale now. Get them from any of the class officers; price $2.00. Fifteen for Strip Stripling for getting that Yell Practice started in Houston. It just proves that there is some spirit left in the Corps and that THE SPIRIT OF AGGIELAND will never die. Damn good, Strip. The main topic of conversation around Walton is still W. N. B. L. The general opinion is that it is which they solemnly swear to pursue. And so we soon read of their divinely-inspired bent to drive the evil scourge of ignorance from the soul of honest one; and of their feverent wish to raise the flagging spirit of the down-trod den, weary soldier to the bliss of a heavenly smile. We’ve little to say to you, fel lows. Our objectives and hopes have always been yours; there is little need to say more. All we do know is that there lies within the basic engineer group a tremendous story—it’s really first copy and we intend to have it told. Our wish, then, is to create for you a means of diversion—a chance to read of yourselves, of your fel low buddies, the stories of their half crazed fling into the Army and the chance to rest your aching skulls from the swirling night mare of bejabbered velocities and drunken tangential accelerations of a few star-struck dusts spots whirl ing around with an ultracentrifuge of one million times that of grav ity. Our copy has of course . been limited, for it is rather difficult to cram a typewriter, pencils, glasses, dhd notebooks inside of a physics manual at the same time. And yet, before long, we hope to expand our facilities to care for all of your varied interests. We have taken upon ourselves the respon sibility of Serving as your means; we intend to represent your wish es and shall conseqently offer at the expedient moment our sug gestions for improvement in the phases of instruction, dormitory regulation, and entertainment, and '•ports recreation. The melting pot bubbling with the red, sweltering sands of the South, the vastness of the hurry- (See ENGINEERS, Page 4) one of the best of all time and portrays Aggieland as well as it could be done in the movies About the truest comment that this au thor heard was from Jug Pomer- antz. He said that he thoroughly enjoyed the first part of the pic ture, but later the heat and humi dity of Guion got the best of him. Can you feature “Hot Lips” Stanberry getting complimented on his bugling. Well, believe it or not he rated one and from none other than Colonel Caphton. I won der what he would say to Harry James ? Did anyone notice in Believe It Or Not that some Air Corps Cedet did 3300 sit-ups.? Preston Bruck- miller is out to beat that record; his latest is 1501. Sam Mikulinsky is Walton’s best rumor monger at present. His best so far which he started Friday af ternoon is that W. N. B. L. had not arrived, and that in place of the picture, the story would be read to the Corps by Dr. Walton. I wonder when Warren Gilbert is going to conceed that his pencil is lost. I think that this is about the fifth or sixth week that he has been asking about it. Come over, Warren, I’ll give you a nickel to to buy a new one. One of the good Aggies who stayed here this week end had a little tussle with two bowling balls. Maybe you’ll leam that the proper way to stop one of them from rolling is not to stick your finger in the way. Incidentlly, if you get a P. E. excuse or Military, Dick, let me know how you did it? Mac Ballard is now working on a record player that can be pick ed up by all the radios in Walton Hall. Of course Paul Dixon does all the work. Mac figures the thing out (you might know he is an E. E.), then Paul supplies the parts and puts the thing together (He’s an M. E.). At the last testing no thing happened but there are still hopes for the project. I hope some thing happens soon cause Paul is going to pick up some rams if it doesn’t. All the work is done on his desk. * Well, this seems to be about all the dope and gossip that I can dig Up around this hall so I’ll close with the latest rumor. “All the officers and enlisted men on this post are going to be relieved by WAC officers and enlisted women.” If this is true this is one Aggie that is going to really hit that old BULL TEXT. I J2otxr<loojn on . I Qampus ^Distractions By Ben Fortson The big distraction we’ve all been looking forward to since last sum mer has finally come and gone. According to the widest census of opinion this scan(jal-sheet could cover, it was enthusiastically re ceived by almost everyone, Aggies and civilians alike. Personally I think WNBL was a swell picture. It came just about as close to putting the old Aggie Spirit on the screen as anything could have. Hats off to Mr. Wanger. At Guion Hall today and tomor row only is the latest Abbott and Costello hit, WHO DONE IT? The supporting cast includes Patric Knowles and Wiliam Gara- gan. The show is a little relief from the usual A. & C. musicals in that in this one they turn sleuth and go after the murdered of a network head who is killed dur ing a broadcast. The two pose as radio mystery story writers and wrangle an invitation to a mid night mystery program. When the network head is murdered during the time they are there they sieze the opportunity to solve the case and land themselves a job . . . they hope. Th^y wind up in the middle of the guilty party and the real officers, all of which results in some hysterical episodes. The Lowdown: Plenty O. K. At the Campus today and to morrow is LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT-THIRTY, starring Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, and Cornel Wilde. Box-office receipts are bound to pick up when such shows as this one are produced. The cast is sup erb and the story well rounded- out with plenty of drama and comedy. Woolley plays the part of the unquenchable drunkard with Miss Lupino for his daughter. She cannot leave him even though her own future is at stake. Despite all his faults Woolley turns out to be a right guy afterall and his cur tain scene with Sara Allgood makes one feel like it is the real McCoy. ... The Lowdown: A thoroughly en joyable picture. Air Force Wants More Officers The Army Air Forces have is sued a requisition calling for the appointment of fifty (5) Mainten ance Technicians. Such Technicians are to serve as Engineering Offi cers in an echelon engaged in air craft maintenance and repair; to supervise the complete tear-down of planes and engines and on-the- spot repairs (often near actual combat areas); and to perform control and administrative duties. Applicants for such an assignment should be graduates from an ac credited college with a Degree in areonautical, electrical or mechan ical ei^ineering, and, in addition thereto, should have had experience in the maintenance, repair or man ufacture (engineering aspects) of aircraft. The Maximum age of ac ceptable candidates is 50 years. The air Forces also need 'aviation physiologists’,—men who have a Ph. D. degree in one of the bio logical sciences. In this particular field young men (under 34 years of age) are desired. Dial 4-1181 Open at 1 p. m. Air Conditioned By Refrigeration Today and Wednesday Cartoon and Short Other branches of the Service are still in urgent need of qualified men. The Surgeon General’s Depart ment is in search of nutrition of ficers, sanitary engineers, female dietitians, and female physical ther apy aides. The Corps of Engineers is still calling for ‘top-notch’ men in the fields of heavy construction, main tenance of equipment and highway engineering. Men having experience as Pier Superintendents and Water Termini Manager, or well varsed in Stev edoring operations, together with Masters, Mates and Engineers hold ing Marine licenses are wanted by the Transportation Corps. , Application should be made to the Houston Officer Procurement District, 1840 Commerce Building. Colgate university has introduced a compulsory pre-induction pro gram of military drill and physi cal conditioning requested by a vote of the students. Phone 4—1168 iTS 9c & 20c Tax Included Box Office Opens 1 p. m. 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