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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and 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 3, 1870. Subscription rate $8 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 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1942 Member 1943 Pbsocided Golleftiate Press BEN FORTSON, Editor-in-Chief HENRY A. TILLETT, Managing Editor SYLVESTER BOONE, Editoral Assistant TUESDAY’S STAFF 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 Reporter Archie Broodo Columnist Bryan A. Ross Columnist Harold Borofsky Columnist Ed Katten Columnist David M. Seligman Columnist Charles E. Murray Columnist W. H. Baker Circulation Manager D. W. May Editorial Advisor The following staff members use names other than their own when writing their columns: Sylvester Boone Daniel Harold Borofsky Blotto ARMY ENGINEERS STAFF Editor-in-Chief Pat Bradley Managing Editor Len Sutton Press Club Representative Marvin Kaff 1st Co. Editor John Cornell 2nd Co. Editor Joe Bennison 5th Co. Editor Len Sutton About Beating the What Out of Who ... Army, the expression “beat the h out of Bryan Field” has been canned as you all know. Maybe it’s for the best and maybe not, but anyway it is no more. There have been several suggestions as to what the expression should be changed to and perhaps the best of these was made by one of our Managing Editors. “Liquidate Bryan Field,” was his idea. Some of the other ideas have been “Beat the pants off Bryan Field!” or “Beat the heck out of Bryan Field!” I think you will agree with me that any of these sounds bet ter than nothing at all so you fish and frogs pick out one of them and sound off with it whenever you pass someone other than a visitor on the campus. Football season is drawing nigh awful quick and it’s about a long that time when the old Aggie Spirit begins to really run high.—B. F. The Milner Merry-Go-Round By Archie Broodo Still haven’t been shot so on we go. Between Air Corps exams in P. E. and mental exams in classes the Milner men of the 22nd reich are so worn down that nothing exciting has happened lately. There hasn’t been a murder around here for weeks. We’re down to general heck raising again like the rest of the campus is satisfied with. Just wait though, the bot tom floor will come out with something by next week. They have been quiet too long down there. We need Duke back to sug gest things for the rest to do that will get evrybody including Duke in hot water. Jack Knox has been using the phone more than any of us lately since Sheila came back. He gets the droolingest look on his face when he talks to her that some of us have ever noticed. Howell “HCN” Forman is going around with a dreamy look on his face ever since last weekend. Ru mor has it that he got engaged to some girl named Barrel House Bessie. The engagement is for them to get engaged sometime in 1954. Howell believes in short en gagements, of course. The athletes of 5th company have been trying hard and one of these days will come through with more wins. The men who have been carrying the colors for fifth company lately are Dick Morrison, Howell Forman, Allan Alexander, Roy Reynolds, Louis Landry, Jimmy Eng and Jim Ritter. Back to the ramblings round Milner. The mighty men have been rather civilized lately and besides occasional spurts things are quiet. Dan Cupid is planning a big week end in Hempstead instead of Huntsville. More and more talk is circulating about a final ball. Let’s all hold high hopes and talk the idea up on the campus. Maybe we canhave one if enough people are willing to put out a little work to have that last fling with classmates and friends. It would be enjoyable to say the least. The team is still practicing dai ly and the corps is still failing to turn out for the purpose of watch ing the team. Since we can’t make our feelings heard on the cam pus, let’s make the team know that we are behind them by show ing up at these practices and yell ing a little out there to friends on the team. Let’s let those boys know that we are interested at least a little in them. We know that we are all behind the team, but how is the team to know that we are all back of them.. That first game is only three weeks away and we will all be here to see it so let’s be sure the team knows we are back of them one hundred percent and we’ll go out and BEAT BRYAN FIELD! Open Foram Dear Editor: In writing this message to the Aggies, I wish to point out the fact that I myself, was never an Aggie officially, although I have been and will continue to be one at heart. Constant bits of infor mation have poured into my ears as to the new setup under which the college is now being operated. I have been told how the govern ment has limited the Aggie spirit to as small a minimum as possi ble. To the Aggies I say, don’t let it worry you too much. The man or men have not been made that can dim the “Spirit of Aggie- land.” Also I wish to take this v:me to remind the Aggies that they know how much their school enrollment has been cut down. Be fore you Aggies go into the co ming football season you must know that at all times the eyes and thoughts of ex-Aggies will be with you. The previous 7,000 ca dets of Aggieland has now been cut to below 2,000 so boys do WE HAVE OUTLINES In Almost All Subjects Student Co-op Phone 4-4114 One Block East of North Gate | this with all your heart. At the coming games and yell practices you are .going to have to yell enough for the three guys that should be there with you but have gone to war. Don't think for a minute that they would not love to be back with you. I will not get to see the Aggies play this year but once. This will be when you come to Houston to play the Owls. Let me hear some thing out of you guys when you are down here. Gig 'em Aggies, Jim Allison Sports Section Houston Press —NEWS— (Continned from Pag* 1) Bonds and make a trip. He changed his mind, however, after a dream. It seems he was in a foxhole, picking off Japs in large and sa tisfying quantities. Suddenly, a sergeant tapped him on the shoul der and took his rifle away from him. “What’s the idea Sarge?” asked the G. I. Came the answer: “The guy who lent us the money for this rifle wants it back!” A GENTLE HINT Sgt. Crist recommends that the men of Squadron III learn their General Orders. Better know them perfectly fellows by the time you hit SAACC because you will have several opportunities to put them into use! AT GUION—Above are the stars of the Academy Award picture “Random Harvest”, showing at Guion Hall today and tomorrow. Ronald Coleman plays one of his best rolls and Garson is superb. Something to Read By Hazel Adams Sigrid Undset, lecturing in this country after she had escaped from Nazi besieged Norway where her son was killed fighting against the invaders, spoke of the heroic qual ities in man which are only brought out by circumstances of war. When this war is finished and when our best writers are looking for mat erial for a War and Peace, or a Dynasts, or another Farewell to Arms they will find an abundance of heroism in such books as Queens Die Proudly, Into the Val ley, and the Last Days of Sevas topol. These books of personal ex periences *in the war, though their only claim to permanence is in their value as historical documents, make a unique and extensive lit erature for this time. Out of an ever increasing list we may well choose those which have been for one reason and another outstand ing. Among the first and best was William L. White’s They Were Ex pendable, a tense, dramatic account of six seventy foot speedboats and the men who manned them during the tragic fall of Bataan and Cor- regidor. In their own language four officers of this Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron told Bill White just what being expendable meant. It meant, as all the world knows now, fighting a fight which was lost from the beginning in order that we might tardily prepare. More recently Bill White has written in Queens Die Proudly the story of the famous flying fort resses. The heroes of the book are all men who flew in the Philip pines when the cause seemed lost. The heroine is the B-17, the wide winged Flying Fortress that has become the smybol of American air power all over the world. Colonel Carlos Romulo, nobel prize winner in journalism and aide to General MacArthur, has written a stirring and realistic story in I Saw the Fall of the Philippines. The first chapter opens with “I was the last man out of Bataan” and continues the account of MacArthur’s men who fought without food or sleep from one foxhole to another and who hoped until the very end for reinforce ments. Russell Whelan in the Flying Tigers gives us a report of another group of expendables, the Ameri can Volunteer Group who flew and fought for China from December 1941 to July 1942. The story of how a force of seventy to eighty pilots brought down two hundred and eighty six planes in swift moving and exciting. The fliers, some of the famous Texans, are as magnificent as personalities as are their expilots. From the standpoint of re strained and, as a result, very forceful writing Into the Valley, a compact little book of one hun dred and thirty eight pages by a young war correspondent named John Hersey, is one of the most moving accounts of the war. It explains more satisfactorily than other books the importance of mis sions and stands which have fail ed—of the Bataans of the war. The author of The Last Days of Sevastopol is a young Russian dramatist who went to Sevastopol as a correspondent about a month before the city fell. The story of Sevastopol is another bright stone in the mosaic of Russian heroism. The Nazis with 280,000 men ex pected to take the city in three days. It took them eighty, and when they had completely demol ished this sea port they found that only the- wounded had left her. Russians fought until their auto matic rifles ran out of shot. Then they hurled their rifles away and swam out into the sea until they drowned. The author heard stories of cour age which revealed the grandest in Russia’ past. A captain, struck by a bullet, mortally wounded, and traippled into the mud by passing horses remained even in delirium a very brave man. “Friends,” he said, if anyone tells you that I order you to re treat, kill him as a traitor. If I come to you and repeat it, kill me. Sevastopol must be held.” Dairymen Should Keep Record of Feed Consumed By Herd The critical protein feed situa tion is a compelling reason why dairymen should keep production records, according to O. W. Thomp son, dairyman for the A. and M. College Extension Service. Records point accurately to un profitable cows and are a safe guide in culling inefficient produ cers from the herd. Records, too, are necessary in feeding cows ac cording to their production, Thomp son says. In order to make the most efficient use of the feed avail able individual cows must be fed according to the milk they give. To do this accurately the milk pro duced and the feed consumed by each cow in the herd must be weighed and systematic records kept. Production records also are es sential if the dairyman expects to follow a constructive breeding and herd improvement program, O. W. Thompson explains. This applies whether he has grade or purebred animals. Furthermore, records are imperative to a breeder of regis tered dairy cattle because he sells breeding stock on the basis of es tablished production or, in most cases, upon the production records of their ancestors. Manpower shortage is making it difficult for some herd improve ment associations to retain the services of testers having the qua lifications required before the war. However, a grqpp of dairymen in the Nacogdoches territory solved this difficulty by employing a vo cational agricultural teacher for enough days monthly to test their herds. In some cases older members of boys’ 4-H clubs, or F. F. A. boys, may be qualified as testers and can be employed on part time, the dairyman suggests. In some northern states women have been employed as full time cow testers and are doing a satisfactory job. Thompson recommends that dai rymen who cannot become mem bers of dairy herd improvement associations should weigh the milk and feed of each cow in their herds at least once weekly in or der to be able to feed according to production and to cull unprofi table milkers. Frog... Stuff By Frog Dubose Looks as though everybody has just about recovered from the ef fects of the Frehsman Ball and the “Reds” which come as an after affect. However, ther is (as usual) a rumor going around to the ef fect that ther might be an All Corps Ball at the end of the cur rent Semester, and everyone seems to want to hold a Ball at that time. One thing is almost certain, and that is that many of those who didn’t have dates for the last Ball will by this time be all but willing to have dates down for the event. Frog Fulbright found in his bed the other night a mixture that made his sleep very uncom fortable. It was made up of hair oil, shaving cream and other un- knowningredients , and set off with a box of scabs. A perfect pair for arguing is Frog daggers and Frog Sims. Hardly a day goes by without their getting together about some thing. Until now, all their word- battles nave been a draw. At last, the official notice on how the semesters are to be run has been published. The only com- Grain Planted In September Stands More Cold Weather A wheat, oat or barley pasture will stretch the available supply of protein feeds, but for best re sults this small grain grazing should be planted in September. E. R. Eudaly of the A. and M. College Extension Service says that more protein in the roughage which cattle eat .... pasture, si lage and hay .... means that less will be required in the grain mix ture. Small grain planted in Sep tember usually furnishes more gra zing and withstands more cold than when planted later. But if September is too dry, by all means plant in October. October planted grain often will provide good gra zing. Cotton fields are ideal for small grain for pasture because there usually is about three inches of loose top dirt, which makes pre paration unnecessary. If picking isn’t finished follow the pickers with the drill. The drill will not hurt unopened cotton nor will the wheat, oats or barley interfere with later picking, or late picking injure the grain, Eudaly says. Plant three-fourths of a bushel of wheat on good land and one bu shel an acre on land not so good. The ratio for oats on good and not so good land is two and two and one-half bushels, and for barley one and one and one-half bushels an acre. It is a good idea, he sug gests, to have one acre of small grain pasture per cow on good land and one and one-half acres on the other type. If it is desired to harvest these crops for grain livestock should be taken off about the first of March in the southern half of the state, and about March 15 in the northern half. Otherwise they may be grazed until the middle of May. SAILORS We Clean You Clean Lauterstein’s Take no chance* on your money being loet or stolen, change your into American Express Travelers Cheques. Spendable everywhete like cash, but refunded in full if lost or stolen. Issued in denominations of $10, $20, $50 and $100. Cost 75* for each $100. Minimum cost 40* for $ 10 to $50. For sale at Banks, Railway Express offices, at principal railroad ticket offices. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES s SfiL Soujdovjn on Campus ‘Distractions By Ben Fortson Two of the year’s best shows are the featured distractions to day and tomorrow. RANDOM HARVEST, showing at Guion Hall, and CONEY ISLAND, at the Campus. RANDOM HARVEST, which stars Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson, is the picture that Miss Garson won her Academy Award on this year. It is a down-to- earth story about a man who lost his memory in the first World War and the girl who befriended him and later fell .in love with him. The two are married and while on a business trip Coleman is hit by a car and regains his lost memory forgetting what has hap pened in the meantime. Coleman is really a very rich and brilliant man and he is considered as arisen from the dead upon his re turn to his relatives. Miss Garson poses has his secretary in an almost invain attempt to help him regain his memory of her and plaints are from those who had their hearts set on three weeks. Otherwise, the present plan seems to be pretty well liked. This last week was the last week of Sunday afternoon drill for Frog Parton, of Dorm 17, but he felt bad about it because of the fact that his date for the Ball had only arrived that day, and, of course, he had to do his prescribed drilling. However, I imagine he got in some good licks that after noon. The Architecture Class was vi sited this morning by an Ex-Ag gie who now wears the Purple Heart, and colors for three major battles. He related his story of the trip across and of the dif ferent forms of foreign architec ture that he saw while abroad. He said that in his outfit there were other Aggies fighting side by side with him; it sure makes you feel good to know that there are Aggies all over the world standing by each other, and doing their fighting together. As yet, General Rev., hasn’t got her collar but she soon will if we keep adding to the fund for her benefit. Come on, fellows, let’s put Rev over; she’ll look good with those four stripes! Dial 4-1181 Open at 1 p. m. Air Conditioned By Refrigeration Today - Friday - Saturday lonu IsiflnD 2222EsEB23BSIII — also — Popeye Cartoon “THE HUNGRY GOAT” Short Latest News their marriage. Only after many heart-breaking failures does she succeed and it all turns out hap pily- The Lowdown: A picture you’ll never forget. f CONEY ISLAND, showing through Saturday afternoon at the Campus, and starring Betty Gra- ble, George Montgomery, and Cesar Romero is the answer to a showman’s prayer. It is nostalgic to the lodsters who remember the singing waiters and quartets of the 1905 area. It has some final numbers in technicolor and it has Betty Grable. Montgomery and Romero provide some light romance with Miss Grable and Charles Winninger does a fine job of por traying a hard-drinking Irishman. The story opens in a honky-tonk in the days before Coney Island had a broadwalk and proceeds with a series of 'double crosses’ between Montgomery and Romero. There’re plenty of songs, dances, and laughs for everyone and some if Miss Grable’s dances are particu larly good. The Lowdown: Grand. Phone 4-1168 HXTs 9C & 20C Tax Included Box Office Opens 1 p. m. Closes 7:30 Thursday and Friday ^ICOLMAN GREER GARSON moum H/mw. with PHILIP DORN SUSAN PETERS Also News - Short Saturday Only Double Feature A Panmounl Picture rlwrim RICHARD CHISTtR * Jf AN ARLEN-MORRIS’PARKER SHOE REPAIR Make Your Shoes Last Longer and Look Better — By — Proper Repair Done By Experts. W E MAKE BOOTS HOUCK’S BOOT SHOP NORTH GATE