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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1943
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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Andy Matula Managing Editor
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Charlie Murray Reporter Fred Manget
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A Word to the Corps...
Saturday is the- day of the big - game when the Aggies
play T. C. U. at Fort Worth to see who becomes the only
undefeated team of the Southwest Conference. An unexpect
ed order from the Commandant’s office authorized an of
ficial corps trip for the Aggies, but it seems that if you
give anyone something for nothing, they will take advantage
of it and want more. The authorization stated that students
may leave the campus after their last class Friday. Leaving
after their last class on this day should give every Aggie
ample time to get to Fort Worth and have a good time at
the same time. As soon as the 'Commandant released the
order permitting students to leave on the official corps trip,
many of them statred talking about leaving early Friday
morning while others wanted to leave Thursday night.
A few years before the war nothing was said about leav
ing early to go see the team defeat another team; some
left two and three days early and their grades weren’t even
affected. Along with this, the Aggies didn’t have to worry
about whether their next Corps trips would be canceled be
cause of leaving before the time set for the Aggies to leave.
Now, however, these things should be noted carefully be
cause official Corps trips aren’t every day occurences. The
Aggie-T.C.U. game is going to be the game of the year;
the Aggie-Rice game is going to be a good one also. When
November 13 comes up, there will be a talk of another Corps
trip coming up. If an official Corps trip is announced, it will
be news and very unexpected. The only way for a trip to
be authorized is for the Corps to stay until after their last
class Friday, leave then, and give the T. C. U. Frogs every
thing that an Aggie can give them.
The commandant surprised the Corps; it is up to the
Corps to surprise the Commandant by staying here until that
last class. Which would you like to have, a Corps trip to
Fort Worth and to Rice or just have one to Fort Worth? Of
course, it is not absolutely sure that the Rice game will be
authorized for the Corps, but there will hardly be a chance
for one if the Corps doesn’t play ball with the military au
thorities now.
The Texas Aggie Band ...
Col. R. J. Dunn has and is maintaining his reputaion
of being the best band director in the nation by bringing
forth another band that will prove worthy of bearing the
name of the band of the Texas Aggies. Tuesday’s “concert”,
at which time the band practiced a little marching, proved
this. The band, although it will be good as far as bands go,
won’t be as good as in previous years for the simple reason
that there are not 210 pieces representing it and it is only
a freshman band.
Several years ago when the band had so many pieces,
it was acclaimed by some critics as being the best band in
the nation. Unfortunate circumstances of a semester or so
ago which were not the fault of the band members forced
the best members of the band from among the ranks of the
band. A simple act now would be to put these upperclassmen
back in the band and again let it rise to its former positon
in the band world. The band is now a 60-piece band, some
thing that has been unheard of for several years. It would
be a swell thing if the band could come back to where it
should be.
With another football season getting underway and the
band playing during the halves of the games, it seems a
shame to have such a small band go on the field when we
could have at least a 100-piece band go out. The Corps wants
a good band to represent Aggieland so why can’t there be a
better one than there is. Col. Dunn has done a very good
job with the material that he has, but he could do a better
one with more and more mature material.
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Man, Your Manners
Students Count the
Steps of Passer-by
By 1. Sherwood
“What is the proper way to
eat a baked potato?”
The usual way of eating a baked
potato, either white or sweet, is to
break it open with your fingers
or fingers and fork; mix the but
ter, salt and pepper into a part
of it at a time, as you need it. Do
not scoop the insides with your
knife or apply butter with your
knife. The scooping, if any is
done, should be done with the fork
and the fork should be used for
the buttering, also. The baked skin
is considered a choice morsel and
it is perfectly proper eo eat it, if
you like; your knife may be used
to cut the skin, if needed, but the
fork is usually all that is necessary.
“What, specifically, are the foods
one may eat with the fingers?”
“Finger foods”—olives, nuts,
small pickles, celery, radishes, and
other raw vegetables used as a re
lish; small fresh fruits, such as
grapes, plums, cherries, whole
strawberries; or larger fresh
fruits, such as bananas, or those
that are not too juicy to quarter,
pare or handle with the fingers,
such as apples and pears; breads,
crackers, sandwiches, cookies, non-
sticky cake, dry crisp bacon, pota
to chips and dry crisp shoestring
potatoes, and cor on the cob. Sorry,
but fried chicken is not on the list,
you are supposed to be satisfied
with what you can get with your
knife and fork (unless you are
alone in your own kitchen or at
a picnic) so say those who know.
Something to Read
T. F. Mayo
Russia’s “Winning of the East”
Emil Lengyel’s recent book,
Siberia, is the most Interesting
“travel book” I’ve ever read. In it,
Siberia appears as the parallel in
Russian history to the Far West
ern frontier in the history of the
United States. Only Russia’s “Far
East” was acquired in the 16th
Century by a bloody-minded half-
mad despot, for 350 years was
peopled by wretched exiles and fu
gitives from oppression, and was
developed, if at all, not by sturdy
individualistic pioneers like ours,
but the corrupt and inefficiently
tyrannica government of the Czars.
The first nine-tenths of Siberia’s
history makes the most horrifying
story that any country ever had.
The bright and promising chapters
begin only with the Bolshevik Re
volution of 1917, though even for
the first ten years of the Commu
nist Regime, civl war, counter-re
volutionary adventurers, and Japa
nese drives for annexation made
the country a chambles.
But the last fifteen years of
Siberia’s history have been a thrill
ing period of humane objectives,
intelligent planning, enthusiastic
and efficient work. The country
has been proven to be what even
the stupid czarist officials sus
pected it to be. An inexhaustible
store-house of practically every
thing that human beings need. The
ropics have been irrigated; the
Arctic has been electrically heat
ed. The Trans-Siberian Railway
has been double-tracked and sup
plemented by other lines. The
country has been sheltered against
Japanese aggression by the de
velopment of a great industrial
and military establishment in the
Far East. Above all, the wretched
Siberians have been given work and
hope and something to live for.
Lengyel’s Siberia is in all its
parts and from every point of
view an entertaining and informa
tive book. But the most interesting
thing about it is not even in it
(if you know what I mean): It is
the implied comparison between
the individualictic development
(USA) and the socially controlled
development (USSR) of a great
and rich domeain. If our West
hadn’t been practically fool-proof,
our sturdy individualists would
have wrecked it completely. As it
is, we are spending millions now
to try to repair the damage they
did to the soil, the forests, the
minerals, and what-not. As for
what happens when a rich new do
main is developed under social
planning and social control, for
social purposes—well, read Leng-
yel’s Siberia.
When internal combustion lab
began to pall on the recently, a
couple of V-12 seniors at M. I. T.
walked outside, pulled out their
sliderules and stop-watches and
amused themselves by calculating
the walking cadence of female
passersby. They also clocked a
couple of army officers at 119.5
steps pereminute. This figure
compares favorably with the regu
lation 120.
Conducted by experts who “know
their onions,” a special evening
lecture series for victory garden
ers was conducted this season at
the University of Texas.
The Crouse College of Fine Arts
at the Syracuse University was the
first on the North American con
tinent. Founded seventy years ago,
it was also the first school to con
fer degrees for courses in archi
tecture, painting and music.
Thurs. - Fri .- Sat.
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Betty Hutton
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Preview Saturday Night
11:00 P. M.
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— with —
Richard Arlen
Chester Morris
Also Showing
Sunday - Monday - Tuesday
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A.S.T.U. NEWS
Chem News
In the last issue of the Batt,
tall and bewildered Mr. Short ap
parently being short on news, just
as we are tonight, was forced to
print the song of fightin’ Q. M. C.
sing in their despondent moods.
After several weeks of Stink Bom
ber basic at Camp Sibert, Ala.,
Pfc. Bob Drus (then Pvt.) assem
bled and started off the day with
the following ditty, sung to the
tune of “Rambling Wreck from
Georgia Tech”:
First Verse
You know I have a son Sir
He studied Chemistry.
He joined the U. S. Army for an
education free,
And when he gets his furlough
I welcome home my pet —
I telephone the bug-house
And tell them to send a VET.
Chorus
I’m a physical wreck from Sibert
Tech
My home is my service mask.
My morale is o damn low
A furlough is all I ask.
I eat my chow from smoke pots,
I bathe in Chloride of lime,
They keep spraying gas all over
my tail,
I’m having a helluva time.
Second Verse
Now listen to the story Sir
Of poor old . Corporal Jake,
While stationed on the main guard
He made an awful break;
And did they sentence him
To ten years in the pen, no,
They sent him back to Sibert Camp
And made him train again.
Third and succeeding verses are
strictly censored. Similar songs
are included in the Sibert reper
toire. Drop in anytime, pull us
away from our Wee Willie Chem
istry, and we shall sing in silence.
Seniors Leave
On September 17, at 7:15 p. m.,
the above men received their de
grees in Veterinary Medicine. All
of these men were members of the
2nd Co. Today some of them are
actively practicing their profession
as 1st. Lts., in the Veterinary
Corps of the Army of The United
States. Others are engaged in the
fight behind the lines. These men
are preserving sanitation, saving
the lives of valuable domestic ani
mals, and preventing the usage of
spoiled or contaminated food by opr
fighting forces and our civilian for
ces. These men are today fighting
the battle that tomorrow we vets
of the 2nd Co. must fight.
I Challenge You
It is far from easy for all of us
to stay in classrooms and prepare
for the future when our closest
friends and relatives are out on the
battlefronts of the world killing
and being killed—a sanguinary
but necessary action which will
eventually lead to peace.
Yet, at this time, it’s wise to re
call that victory on the field of bat
tle will only be a prelude to ulti
mate victory which will take at
least one decade to initiate and a
century to realize. The destruction
and undermining of our material
things and moral values will leave
their indelible stamp upon succeed
ing generations to the extent that
we leave our work of reconstruc
tion undone.
True! The challenge is bold and
entails many hardships and priva
tions which will have to be con
tinued even after the actural fight
ing is over, but it is for us to de
cide—do we want a world of peace
or more wars for our children?
A new semester has just begun,
and now is the time for a resolute
decision to pitch in at the very
beginning and stay in there so that
we will not fail in our duties when
our time comes to contribute to
ward the making of a better and
more friendly world.
Sgt. Sabo Marries
I walked into the room of Sgt.
—Sabo, 2 nd Co., 1st Sgt., yester
day to get some news. Some stran
ger was the only person in the
room. I turned to walk out, but
was suddenly halted by a familiar
voice—“Well, what do ya want?”
Behold, it was no stranger. It was
the Sgt. himself but with his ap
pearance greatly changed. His
hair (?) was combed; his pants
had a razor crease, and his shoes
shone like a magnesium flare. I
knew that it was true. The Sgt.
was married. After a few ques
tions the story came out. The Sgt
was married to Mrs. Gussie Pla-
gens at the Evangelistic. Church
at Kurten, Texas, at 8:00 p. m.
last Saturday night. The bride is
the postmistress of Kurten. The
Sgt. said, that after 8 years of
eating army chow and mhking up
bunks the army way, he was going
to enjoy the help of a wife. How
this is going to work, I can’t see,
for while Mrs. Sabo wil Itake up
residence at 2905 College Road, the
Sgt. will have the extreme plea
sure of living in room 127 of
Dorm.ll and will partake of his
meals in Duncan Mess Hall.
The men of the^ 2nd Co. wish
the Sgt. all the luck in the world
and hope that he may get an over
night pass every night of the
week.
ASTP Patch
Uncle Sammy has finally gotten
around to recognizing his ASTP
brainbusters as a separate part
of the army. To prove this recog
nition, the ASTP is soon to be gi
ven an arm patch of its own. This
information appeared in the Oct.
15th issue of “Yank.’’
The patch has the sword of valor
against the lamp of knowledge. The
sword and lamp both are blue
against a background of yellow.
Consult the above mentioned issue
of “Yank” for a picture of the
patch.
Production has started of the
patch, and maybe we will get them
by January or February.
P. E. and Ha! Ha!
Last Saturday afternoon the
boys in the 2nd Co., had a work
out—and what a workout. Sur
prisingly, none of the weary wan
derers grumbled about the task.
The majority seemed to enjoy the
trek, and the rest remained neutral.
The jaunt started at the Caval
ry stables; nicked the edge of Fish
Lake; and wound up at Kyle Field.
This all around 5 mile journey was
made in three speeds—a high gal
lop, a slow trot, and a struggling
stagger.
Guion Hall comes through with
an up-to-date hit this time with
PRESENTING LILY MARS, star
ring Judy Garland.
This is a gay story of backstage
life in the big-time theaters with
delicate play of emotions all
through it, the show concerns the
consuming ambition of a girl who
can take it; a family of cute kids;
a man who falls in love with him
self. Joseph Pasternack, the pro
ducer, has lived this boy and girl
struggle to get someplace and is
still young enough to translate
his memories into entertainment
that will please most any audience.
Also in the cast are Van Heflin;
Fay Bain ter; Richard Carlson, and
Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra.
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LAST DAY
A Pqjamovnf Picture
Tomorrow and Saturday
“ESCAPE TO
GLORY ,,
The Lowdown: Strictly o. k.
At the campus today and to
morrow is ESCAPE TO GLORY,
starring Pat O’Brien and Constance
Bennett.
One of the many pictures now
being produced about the war this
one has no unusual qualities in
that it is a sea picture. Pat O’Brien
is a fine actor and it is no fault
of, his when he is put off with
this kind 6f role. It contains a good
bit of excitement when ddie ship
and crew have to fight it out with
a German submarine. There’s lots
of gun-play for those who like it
and the romantic angle is fairly
good.
The Lowdown: O. K., but you
wouldn’t miss anything if you did
not see it.
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