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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 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 $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 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-S444. 1942 Member 1943 Pbsocided GoUe6iate Press BEN FORTSON, Editor-in-Chief SYLVESTER BOONE, Managing Editor SATURDAY’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 Open Forum Australia August 4, 1943 Dear Staff: I don’t know l}ow to address this letter because I don’t know who is around there since I got out. If it is the same class that Tom Leland is (or was) in, then I know all of you, otherwise I pro bably know very few of the bunch. Things have happened so fast to our class (42) and to the school for that matter that we have been able to keep up with very little of the goings on. I got a clipping the other day about the “twelfth man” coming across for Homer Norton again. Maybe if they are doing like that, the school isn’t shot to hell as much as we were led to believe it would be when we left in May, ’42. I don’t suppose there is any thing that could completely take away the spirit that makes the spirit that makes the school what it is though. Incidentally, some of the boys from my class who are over here are Lts. Robin Rominger, Redfern C. Dougherty, T. C. Lambert, Hugh D. Reich, Jim Sterling, Claude Stewart, Hughes Seewald, Don Walton, Johnny Williams, Ma rion T. Steenson, and George T. Cooper. There are a number of others who finished before we did, and it seems like you find one in every corner. Our impression of this land of the Laughing Jackass and Kan garoo have been very favorable so far. Of course, we have been ra ther confined in makng observa tions, but the Australians treat us royally. They are practically Americanized, or at least to the point that we were several years ago. About the hardest thing to get used to is the cars with right hand steering wheels and driving on the right hand side of the road, and of course, with their sea sons in reverse to ours, a cold day in July isn’t just an expression. In fact everything is so backward that we will probably start getting the paper before you put it to press. Some or all of you write to me some time, and I will see if I can’t dig up an item that will help you fill that front page some afternoon when it looks like you are going to have to use fillers or a Health Department story. I pre sume that it is still a tri-weekly publication. Sincerely, Sighed 1st Lt. Lee W. Rogers 465963 Btry. “B” 82nd F. A. Bn. APO 201, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Leggett Laments Ross Rucker After time out for a few days here’s your ole Lamenter back in prist. Sorry fellas, those who miss ed me, that I didn’t have some stale stuff for you to read but if you took as many P. E.’s as I do I’m sure you’d understand. NOTE: There has been some wonderful talk flowing about the Campus and in the Bat of late about a dance at the end of the se mester. I’m for it and also hoping plans get underway soon because time is short. Seems it would be a poor substitute for the traditional Junior-Senior Banquet and Ring Dance BUT it would furnish en tertainment for the friends of the graduating class—something is definitely needed for that weekend. SINCE WHEN does the Sopho mores Class consider themselves invitation material to the Fish- Frog Dance ? AND wear Senior Rings for admittance? Of course I know some of you were there on special invitation but there were still plenty who weren’t invited. There may not be a Senior Court anymore but there are still those legal ways of doing plenty to you. . . I’d advise if you were among the group of Sophs present at the dance without a reason just to quietly get on The Line before the list of names are submitted to people who can take care of you . . . If you think that would be rather “feathery” like, you don’t know the half of it. So long as you don’t show any signs of coopera tion with the upperclassmen they certainly aren’t coming around to you . . . 8TH COMPANY CAMPUS IN TRAMURAL CHAMPIONS —- Thanks goes to everyone of the boys who participated in any game in answer to those gruesome pleas of Kyle Drake. Medals have been tossed about in our midst very freely and all of us have due rea son to be proud of the record set by our outfit. It made Sgt. Taylor happy even, and that’s an accom plishment after things have been so non-cooperative around here the last few days . . . It must just be the charm of these Lejay boys that brought all the women from the Girl-Review at Guion over to 7th and 8th Co., tables at mess the other night. .. Streetman seemed to have the Ag gies “choice” sitting to his left. You know the blonde, PERIOD. Need I say more? What a happy little group I saw over in Walton the other evening. . .Censored . . .Matula my boy, tell them how good this would have been. Kinda risky for print tho, don’t you think? But the joke was good. That’s all for now. Just a friend ly reminder that we still have a game in football with Bryan Field. Let’s back the team until then. And I’ll see you around . . . WALTON Whispers... By - ■ — Dave & Charlie - = AGGIE SPIRIT IN ARMY LIFE ... .It can’t be said that the Spirit of Aggieland dies in a fellow when he leaves this cam pus. As proof of this, we recite the incdent which happened Wed nesday afternoon. A group of re turning juniors in formation were singing the “Aggie War Hymn” while they marched. Those immor tal words drifting across the drill field really sounded good, for it is not often that they can be heard around this institution. A recent issue of “Life” magazine in an article about some engineers in South America mentioned the fact that they use the Aggie slang word “horizontal engineering” to mean sleeping. Your scribes searched the accompanying pic- ture, paying special attention to the men’s fingers, and sure enough we found an Aggie senior ring. Last Tuesday afternoon by the tune of 18-6 second company beat fifth company of Milner to win the league championship. This Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr as they appear in “Tortilla Flat”. This is one of their typical love scenes. The Milner Merry-Go-Round By Archie Broodo Time to start again with the slander or gossip so here goes nothing and you men in Milner don’t need to agree with me. It seems that a man has been slight ed around here and it is with deepest apologies that we print McAdams name along with the fact that he went to Huntsville last weekend and made the quails swoon all over the place. He went there not only to shoot squirrels but to have a date. Imagine men, our Mac having a date. What came over you Mac? Dan Cupid went to Huntsville too so that place must have something that we want to know about. It’s really funny to hear several fellows arguing about which place is best to visit for a weekend. Some say Houston and others say Dallas or Austin. If you Milner men would like to have a poll about the fact, it might in terest the rest of the campus to know which town is the favorite of a representative dorm around here and why. It might also get some more Aggies to visit that place and get a large group there some weekend for a little demon stration of spirit like we used to have right here on the campus. Bring your opinion around to Room 26 along with a few writ ten words on why you like a cer tain place and let’s see which town is the Aggie Favorite and why as if we didn’t know that al ready. Just for the sake of argu ment my favorite is Austin. Now let’s hear some arguments about that idea or does everybody agree with me. Several guys want to know when Joe Loyd is going back to Galves ton again. What’s the reason Gal veston is worthwhile hitchhiking to, Joe? Your public wants to know or elese they want to get her address maybe. Bill Terrell has a case of the reds on a certain drummer gal for not writing for a while. Maybe by the time we go to press you’ll be happier about the whole thing, Bill. Bobby Foster always has a happy expression on his face. Must be happy in love or else innocent. Can’t be the latter so he must be one of those lucky guys that some woman has on the line. Leon Dollens is the official drug store cowboy of Milner. He’s worn boots so long that he can’t wear shoes now because they hurt his feet. His romance, Dielman is the prototype of the original thin man. Due to a recent warning about haircuts, Pat Gibbons saw a chance to come out ahead on the deal so he opened his room to all who darqd enter and . be came the first tonsorial artist of Milner. Another enterprising young man in Milner is Dan Cupid Boone. He has started a candy concession in the dorm and is known around these parts lately as the candy man. He says it all goes to buy War Stamps which is a very good cause if I ever saw one. No, junior, he’s not made of candy. Richard Kovar has been giving his roommate trouble about the girl he has been asking for dates lately. Kovar has been telling Hrncirik that he has dates with the cute brunette and Hrncirik has been on the jump constantly and even started to phone the girl once to vertify the statement. Can’t you even keep track of the night you have dates Hrncirik? Nothing has been said lately about a final ball but several fel lows have asked about one and would like to know whether or not we are going to have one or not. Of course nothing official has been said about one but opinion has it that we can have it if enough men will support one. We’re sure that the corps would back such a dance and it would be sure to be a success. We will surely beat Bryan Field and all the others we play if the corps backs the team in the way that the coaches and players ask. Get out to Kyle Field and watch those practices and freshmen, leant your school yells. The first game is drawing nearer and we want to try to knock down part of Kyle Field when we show the Bryan Field Flyers some of the finer points of the game. The yelling that has been done in Kyle Field never has bothered it but we can still try. It would be very useful to general spirit if we could have a yell practice or two before the first game, but that would probably be out of the realms of the possible. Anyway, let’s keep the idea in mind even if we can’t afford to be heard uttering it and we’ll beat Bryan Field September 25 anyway. The Air Cbrps, Sailors, and Marines are with us in spirit from their actions lately and with that kind of cooperation, we can’t lose. Let’s keep it in the back of our minds all the time to Beat Bryan Field and Win The Conference. Remem ber those two things and we’ll do both. places second company among the three teams to play for the school intramural basketball champion ship. On the team were Marvin Eilenberg, Sam Mikulinsky, Joe Atlas, George Dickie, and Danny Hurst; Atlas was high point man. Latest thing from Paree . . . . Sunny Bullington’s new coiffeur. All his beautiful curls are gone, leaving stiff bristles. One advan tage of the new hair-do is that his cap fits now. Song bird of “J” ramp is Larry Rogers, whose melodious voice resounds through out the dorm these bright sunny mornings. The other day while amid his high notes and hollers, who should enter but Capt. Willi ams. “Little less noise there, son.” Was his face red. Jerry Kaplan and Bill Dinerstein are truly dis- enhearted over the fact that we only get one week’s holiday. All their elaborate plans for the trip to California are for nought. There have been some ‘‘bleeds’’ about your columnists favoring second company too much in this strip. To you who are behind the gripes, we say this: If you will bring us interesting items, or any at all, we will welcome you with open arms. Very few (if any) guys in the first or third companies ever mention a word to us about something to put in this column. We want this scripe to represent YOU, and since we can’t get around to see everything that goes on, it is up to you, as we have said in previous editions, to tell us some of the news or incidents which happen around Walton. If you give us cooperation, we gua rantee that we won’t favor any person, ramp, or company. Give us some news or give up bleeding! yiCTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS By Frog Dubose Only two more weeks to go! Already everyone is looking for ward to that week, and every day more plans are being made as to how the week is to be spent. Prob ably, most everyone will go home, have a few dates, and sleep it off. A lot of Aggies went to the girl show at Guion Hall Tuesday and Wednesday and were taken by surprise at what they saw. Oh, well, the blond at the mike was cute. Frog Borworth received, while at the act, a big kiss, but I can’t say that I envy him. The city of Mt. Vernon is well represented in this college; it boasts of about 12 Mt. Vernon boys in A. & M., among them be ing Frog Jaggars, Frog Simms, Frog Roberts, Frog Pickens and Frog Pierce. If you want to have a good ,hot argument, say some thing about the Mt. Vernon foot ball team. Frog Schultz had a real drown- out today; his steam pipe broke, and the room was flooded. No casualties. Here’s to a guy who ca?n really fit himself into any surroundings. His name is Frog Urbeana, and like all the fellows from Costa Rica, he quickly adapted himself to the new surroundings of Texas and A. & M. College. Although they sometimes have a little dif ficulty with some of the makeshift slang they hear, they have made many friends and are regular fel lows. The little pup that lives in the Sophomore dorm sure rates a lot of attention from everybody. He has an very unusual name, but it can’t be printed. Frog Harrison, of dorm 16 has, (according to a reliable source) been goinj? around in a dazed man ner as of late. I believe that he thinks there is a woman behind his peculiar actions. Looks as though there will be no more shouting about what we are going to do to Bryan Field. Let’s don’t let this fact dampen our spirit; we can lick Bryan Field whether we warn them ahead of time or not! Just save up that spir it and we will give them all we’ve got when we play the game. Appology to General Rev: I meant STARS, not stripes. iiimmiiiillllTTTm^ /Li Fish Tales By Fish Ross Hooray! Only two more weeks and home!, girls,! and what not ? ? ? ? ? All of the Fish here in Dorm No. 14 seem pretty hap py over the thought of going home. Not everyone will come back, but nevertheless, they’re gonna get to go home and see a bed until noon. Everybody is getting down to that ole “cramming” and last min ute learnin’. The main trouble for most of the Fish at the present time seems to be either Chemis try or Analytics. Not everyone will get out of these courses though. Oh yes, we must not for get P. E. Those “Charles Atlases” have really been havin’ it rough. The cross country has recently been replaced by a tearing 440. The exact number is not yet known, but it has been predicted that only about 65 or 70 of the original class that came in January will be back for the next semes ter. This is really a small number compared to the number that were in Milner last semester. A lot of guys down here are leaving before the semester clos es. Of course they’re going to the army, but nevertheless, we wish that they could stay with us next semester. Among the fellows leav ing early are: Fishes Cloinger, Ng, and Hoffman. Fish Hoffman is go ing to Cornell U. to prepare for West Point. Fish Ng and Fish Cloninger will probably go in the regular ole army. Fish Wiley has a new pqst-time . . . What it is cannot be printed, but we'think he does something very interesting in the afternoons. Laugh of the week: Fish Ander son (of the Engineers) had a very funny experience last weekend af ter the dance. Well, here’s the way it was. Fish Anderson seems to have been seeing his girl off down at the R. R. station. As he was putting her luggage on the train, she got on. The train made a SAILORS We Clean You Clean Lauterstein’s J2ouj(Xoojn on. . (^ampus distractions By Ben Fortson — This afternoon and night at Guion Hall is a double feature. KING’S ROW, with Ann Sheridan and Robert Cummings, and WRECKING CREW, with Richard Aden, Chester Morris, and Jean Parker. KING’S ROW is really a fine drama executed very creditably in terms of performance and story. The story is backgrounded by psychiatry and deals with a ro mance between Robert Cummings and Betty Field. The affair is blasted and Miss Field’s death caused by her father — Claude Rains—because of her impending insanity. This determines Cum mings, who is studying medicine, to delve into the disease of the mind. A romance between Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan paral lels the story and a major thread is the amputating of Reagan’s legs funny rumbling noise. He looked out of the window only to find College Station about a mile back. The conductor was very puzzled but decided to let him off at Welborn. He thumbed back . . . The Air Corps hasn’t got any thing on Fish Baer. This man is very braceful and never bounces, therefore making him a super-dup- er soldier. Fish Settegast is back from the Oil Bowl game. His team (the east) didn’t win, but it wasn’t Fish Settegast’s fault. They say that he caught the pass that account ed for his team’s only touchdown. We’re bettin’ that this Aggie is gonna be one of our own stars this fall. Nevertheless, we know our team will give all they’ve got, and we’re gonna be in there back in’ them. Compliments are still coming in about our Ball, and we don’t mind admitting that we were proud of it. We still want to thank the Fish and Frogs for bringing so many beautiful girls down here, especially the Frogs. A coupla’s soldiers stopped, me the other day and wanted to know where the Freshmen got all the pretty women. It was hard to say, because I haven’t seen much sights, my self, in a long time. That’s about all for now, and we’ll close. But let’s not forget to back up “General” Reveille and we’ll really give her the honor she so well deserves. Dial 4-1181 Open at 1 p. m. Air Conditioned By Refrigeration by a fanatical doctor. Cummings saves Reagan from a life of mis ery using his new methods of psychiatry. The Lowdown: A truly grand story. WRECKING CREW, the other feature at Guion Hall, narrates the story of the conventional two boys and the one girl. Chester Morris saves Jean Parker from a suicide attempt early in the show. With Richard Arlen as Morris’ buddy, you know who ultimately gets the girl. The rest of the yarn deals with the tearing down of the ‘Great Western Hotel’ with a 10 grand bond involved. In this oneyMorris doesn’t get killed sav ing his buddy’s life as is usually the case, but the show will pass as class “B”. The Lowdown: Worth waiting through to see the other feature. At the Campus tonight midnight and featured tomorrow and Mon day is FLYING TIGERS, star ring John Wayne, Anna Lee, and John Carroll. This is the first really ambi tious production about the “Fly ing Tigers” in China. It is well done with fine acting on the part of Miss Lee, Wayne, and the others. The story concerns an American pilot who joins the Flying Tigers in order to live down his past in which he has killed a man. Wayne is an old friend (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) Phone 4-1168 ADMISSION Qp Or OAp IS ALWAYS UO (X Tax Included Box Office Opens 1 p. m. 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