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THE BATTALION
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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Andy Matula Managing Editor
Harold Borofsky Sports Editor
Ed Katten Reporter
William H. Baker Reporter
Max Mohnke Reporter
Charles R. West Reporter
Jack E. Turner Reporter
J. W. (Tiny) Stanifer Reporter
Fred Manget Reporter
Archie Broodo Reporter
Robert Orrick Sports Reporter
Claude Stone Photographer
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Editor-in-Chief Pat Bradley
Managing Editor Len Sutton
Press Club Representative Marvin Kaff
1st Co. Editor John Cornell
2nd Co. Editor Joe Bennison
3rd Company Editor R. J. Lomax, Jr.
5th Co. Editor Len Sutton
Returning Home to Aggieland ...
Greeting all the returning Aggies was a sight to behold
yesterday because a trace of that old Aggie spirit could be
seen on every face. Excepting the Engineers, every branch
of the service containing juniors has come in for a short
stay on the campus. The formerly inactive school has at
last come to life and with this has come a lot of the friend
liness that characterizes the Spirit of Aggieland. These
Aggies are going to be here with the A. S. T. P. for a short
while, and then it will be 0. C, S. for most of them.
Speaking of friendliness and the Aggie spirit being
carried in a person for the fellow man brings the thought
to mind that as an Aggie who is enrolled in College here
speaks to them, their faces light up to know that a little of
the spirit is still alive although it appears to be dead. This
is another reason why those who are enrolled here should get
the habit of speaking to everyone on the campus.
Many changes have taken place since you activated Ag
gies have left Agigeland for camps and basic training, but
the spirit is basically the same as far as the real things are
concerned. Anyway you may look at it, though, the Battalion
wishes to speak for the Corps and say “Welcome home” to
all of those who are now here for a short stay.
These two cuts are scenes of the Air Crew Training Detachment ball
which was held recently in Sbisa Hall. The top picture is one show
ing one of the men who is stationed here exhibit his well trained
voice as the enlistees dance. The bottom cut is a typical scene of
the dancers and their dates; it is most typical of the balls that the
Aggies had when regiments were on the campus.
At Ohio State the housing sit
uation is mixed up. An army ATSP
unit moved into Mack and Can-
field Halls, two coed dormitories,
while the coeds took over some of
the local fraternity houses.
What with every branch of the
services utilizing colleges for spe
cialized training, it’s no wonder
that there are many examples of
military shuffling of students that
break the bonds of Alma Mater.
Something to Read
“THE MINSTRY OF FEAR’'
The Ministry of Fear is Graham
Green’s newest novel. The author
scorns the trite furnishings of
the usual detective or horror
story His hero is a middle-aged,
shabbily dressed gentleman with
a cruel past—a past which is
tantalizingly revealed to the rea
der a dribble at a time over the
237 pages of the story, this art
fully done by the author with a
flick of the wrist while he deals
out the plot of international in
trigue.
Arthur Rowe, the middle-aged
hero, drawn by the strong com
pulsion of nostalgia, walks into
a bazaar in an English garden. It
all reminds him of his childhood,
the ladies in floppy hats and long
dresses, the smooth faced clergy
man, the stalls where cakes are
sold, and the fortune teller’s booth
and encounters the wonderful Mrs.
Bellairs. Because he has a past,
Arthur Rowe hits by crazy coinci
dence upon the words which preci
pitate him into a sequence of cha
ses, mad houses, Seances, and fifth
columnists extraordinary, in short,
into the ministry of fear which
the Fascists have set up all over
the world. The seemingly innocent
words are: “Don’t tell me the
past. Tell me the future.”
What the Fascists had not
counted upon was that Arthur
Rowe was used to living with a
horror more hideous than any
thing they could devise, the hor
ror of his own conscience. He had
killed his wife because she was
suffering from an incurable di
sease and he had not been able
to watch her suffer. Would his
wife have preferred life on any
terms to death? With this tor
turing question in his mind, Ar
thur Rowe is undaunted by the at
tempts of the Fascist ring to
murder him .
Graham Greene is much more
than a writer of first rate horror
stories. He is well launched into
the field of serious fiction, fiction
which is not dependent upon a
war or a social cause for its mate
rial. The psychological study which
he presents of Arthur Rowe does
not resolve itself in the end into
happiness. Mr. Green i| interested
in man’s dual personality, and
here he explores it minutely. As
a matter of fact, each of his cha
racters is drawn with the utmost
care. Even the traitors are indi
viduals who include a psychiatrist,
a pacifist rector, a fashionable me
dium, and a proletarian poet.
Green is a master stylist. I
know of no writer who mixes
violence and conventionality so
neatly, achieving thereby realistic
nightmare. His horror is in the
tradition of Henry James’ Turn of
the Screw and Marie Belloc Lown
des’ The Lodger. His dialogue is
intelligent and double-edged, his
commentary brief but pointed. He
is, as a writer, a challenge. “As
with the best and subtlest crafts
men he is able to write of certain
things in such a way that the
knowing are not disturbed and
the ignorant are not aware.”
Feed Buying Pools
Discussed By Ray
Converting a farmers’ feed buy
ing pool into a permanent coope
rative entails obligations not asso
ciated with the simple responsibili
ties of a temporary group engaged
in quantity buying.
Pointing out some of the re
quirements to successful operation,
C. B. Ray of the A. and M. College
Extension Service says that mem
bers of a real cooperative must
provide operating funds and a part
of the capital needed to buy facili
ties. In contrast, members of a
loosely organized pool have no obli
gations except, perhaps, to order
feed in advance and pay for it.
Notwithstanding, a cooperative
feed business has a number of ad
vantages over a buying pool, the
organization and cooperative mar
keting specialist believes. A sound
cooperative collects from mem
bers, upon delivery, the prevailing
price of feed. He suggests that it
is an excellent plan to add about
three per cent to this to be devoted
to the purchase of stock in the
cooperative for individual mem
bers. A member would actually
pay a little more for feed from
his cooperative than from other
retailers. But in a well-conducted
cooperative this stock would bear
interest and have a cash value. A
part of the purchase price should
come back to the member as a pa
tronage dividend.
“ ‘Cut rate’ cooperatives usual
ly are short-lived,” Ray observes.
Experience proves that it is better
to continue as a car-door pool than
to convert to a poorly financed
cooperative business.”
Cooperatives which own ware
houses remove the uncertainty of
delayed shipments. Cars must be
unloaded upon arrival regardless
of weather and pressure of farm
work. Once the feed buying is on a
business basis, additional services,
such as grinding and mixing, can
be added.
Shown above is Franchot Tone
and Marsha Hunt, stars of “Pil
ot No. 5”. This show will be at
Guion Hall next week.
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By Ben Fortson
The double feature on at Guion
Hall tomorrow only includes THE
MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR and
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS.
THE MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR
features John Loder, Eleanor Paiv
ker, and Bruce Lester.
Whodunit fans who like fog-
shrouded moors, dank tin mines,
mysterious killings, and headless
ghosts would enjoy this one. With
an all-British cast, the story con
cerns a half-wit who is still going
strong after being shot twice. It
is centered around an old tin mine
which the British government
wants worked because it needs the
tin for war purposes. Miners won’t
go near it, and a young English
officer and a mysterious doctor
solve the mystery.
The Lowdown: A good support
ing fare to the main feature.
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS stars
Veronica Lake and Joel MsCrea.
This is the story of a rich man
who wants to find out how the
poorer, class lives by disguising
himself' as one of them. He meets
Veronica Lake during his travels
and develops a romance with her.
During his travels he makes many
friends among the tramps and one
of his best friends is killed. The
romantic angle is played up to a
good advantage as is the adven
ture and excitement angle.
The Lowdown: This one is rated
as one of the three best pictures
of the year.
Sunday and Monday at Guion
Hall is PILOT NUMBER 6, with
Franchot Tone and Marsh Hunt.
A moving story of a young
lawyer who casts aside his details
to take a short cut to wealth,
wrecks his romance and career and
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pays his debt to his country by
diving a lane on a Japanese Air
craft carrier. It is told by means
of a message from a jungle camp
in the South Sea Islands. As the
story goes on it is interupted by
radio messages from the pilot who
has only minutes to go before his
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CHECK THIS LIST FOR YOUR NEED
Brumley—“Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals”
Williams—“Veterinary Obstetrics”
Milk—“Practical Veterinary Pharmacology, Materia, Medica, and Thero-
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Reiser—“Manual of Veterinary Bacteriology”
Udall—“The Practice of Veterinary Medicine”
Malkums—“Clinical Diagnostics”
Bark—“Index of Diagnosis”
Hobday—“Surgical Diseases of the Dog and Cat”
Sallman—“A Manual of Pharamacology”
White—“Animal Castration”
“Useful Drugs”
Stumen—“Pharmaceutical and Chemical Arithmetic”
Davidson—“Synopsis of Materia, Medica, Toxcology and Pharmacology”
Hogan—“The Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals”
Brumley—Pasology and Prescription”
Wright—“Veterinary Anaesthesia”
Duke—“The Physic of Domestic Animals”
Goodwin and Gilmer—“The Pharmacological Basis of Theropeutics”
Boyd’s—Textbook of Pathology”
Merillat—“Veterinary Surgical Operation”
Ogilvie—“Pathological Histology”
Dorlando—“The American Illustrated Medical Disctionary”
Muenscher—“Poisonous Plants of the United States”
Barger and Card—“Disease and Parasites of Poultry”
“New and Non-official Remedies—1943”
O’Connor—“Dollars Veterinary Surgery”
Howell—“Text Book of Physiology”
French—“Surgical Disease and Surgery of the Dog”
Bergmann and Hewitt—Lab. Manual for Experimental Physiology”
Hawk and Bertiem—“Practical Physiological Chemistry”
We will buy your H107, Dairying 202, and Chemistry 206, if you want
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