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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
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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
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