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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1943 r* 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 Taesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. Entered as second class matter at the Post Jffice 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 S, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1942 Member 1943 Plssocided Gol!e6iflte Press TUESDAY’S STAFF Sylvester Boone Editor-in-Chief Andy Matula Managing Editor Harold Borofsky Sports Editor David Seligman Reporter Charlie Murray Reporter Max Mohnke Reporter James C. Grant Reporter Ed Katten Reporter William H. Baker Reporter Jack E. Turner Reporter J. W. (Tiny) Stanifer Reporter Robert Orrick Sports Reporter Charles R. West Reporter Fred Manget Reporter R. L. Weatherly Reporter Jerry Dobbs Reporter Ben Fortson Columnist Claude Stone Photographer John Kelley Business Manager Steele Nixon Circulation Manager Ben Fortson Asst. Circulation Mgr. ARMY ENGINEERS STAFF Editor-in-Chief Pat Bradley End Co. Editor Joe Bennison Managing Editor Len Sutton 3rd Compafay Editor R. J. Lomax, Jr. Press Club Representative Marvin Kaff ath Co. cuitor Leu sutto. 1st Co. Editor John Cornell A Free Press . . . These modern dictators who have now thrown the world into this bath of blood all began in much the same way. Once they had seized power, they lost no time getting con trol over the newspapers. In so doing, they proved that they knew their business. They also paid the press the greatest compliment that lay within their power. They acknowledged that a modern dictatorship cannot exist when the press is free. The opposite is also true. Modern democracy cannot exist without a free press. Americans take this for granted because the whole list of individual freedoms that circulate around freedom of the press have been a part of our political thinking since the foundation of the Republic. Thomas Jefferson saw the place of the newspaper in democracy most clear of all. He said, “Were it left for me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to choose the latter.” He meant that a people with newspapers would soon find their way. The American press is a people's press. Individual news papers and individual editors may err or abuse their trust. But the free press remains the vehicle of democratic thought and democratic action. It makes democracy possible. It makes dictatorship impossible. Scores of millions of people over the globe are learning this truth now the hard way. Americans do not need to learn it because they have never forgotten that a free press and a free people are inseparable. —An editorial in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in obser vance of the National Newspaper Week. Camera Of The Future . . . With all this talk of the new inventions of the post-war \vorld going on, it is only natural that newspaper photograph ers should discuss their camera of the future. The September 18, 1943, issue of Editor and Published carried an interest- arousing article for editors and photographers on just what requirements and expectations for improvements in photo graphy were among hypo-stained members of the profession. Those who participated in the discussion were Jack Price veteran news photographer, Frank Noel, chief photo grapher of AP’s New York photographic Dept, and recent Pul itzer Prize winner for the best news picture of 1942, Tony Camerano, Harold Harris' and Carl Nessensohn, all top-flight news photographers. We recommended the article to any of you who are interested in the graphic side of news reporting, but here’s the highlights of what veteran newsphotos hope for and expect in the camera work of the day-after-tomorrow. The discussion proved definitely that news cameramen are individualists and not easily stampeded by rumors or frantastic claims by producers of super-gadgets. These men have their feet on the ground and know what they want. In discussing what camera size is most desirable, Noel Harris and Camerano voted to retain the 4x5. Nessensohn for a 3% x 4V4- All four of the above wanted a more practical range finder that would serve as both a view and range finder, but they were not in accord on the type. Harris stated that the present type range finders are mere peep sights and are not practical for general news coverage. All agreed that pres ent range finders are excellent for amateurs who are not pressed for time. There was general agreement on the need for a built- in flash sypehronizer that would be an integral part of the shutter arrangement. According to these gentlemen, the camera-of-tomorrow should be an all light-weight metal affair with a telescoping metal bellows. They left the details of how that was to be accomplished to the manufacturer. They also asked for an automatic film transport which would do away with re moving films in a changing bag or darkroom. In connection with shutters, they agreed on the need for better device than the present between-the-lens-shutter. And they also wated a coupling arrangement between the shutter and the focal plane curtain that would prevent any mishap when using one or the other. Regardless of long ex perience, there comes a time in every photographer’s life when he forgets to open the front shutter when using the focal plane or closing that shutter when rewinding the cur tain. All the men wanted automatic, fool-proof synchroniza tion. And, in connection with bulbs, they hoped that smaller bulbs could be made with equal light intensity to those now employed. Frank Noel expressed the thoughts of all photographers when he covered the argument that the future cameras may be operated automatically by an inexperienced person. He said, “Regardless of the mechanical simplicity of operation of the camera of the future, it will take brains and experience to make a good news photo and cover an assignment with intelligence.” AMERICAN HEROES B* LEI F Scouting on foot in Tunisia, Pfc. Charles H. Evans was captured by 30 Italian infantrymen and marched to the rear. A bayonet at his back, Evans whirled, disarmed his guard, and escaped. Although wounded by rifle fire, he hid in a cactus patch till nightfall, slipped back to our forces with valuable information picked up as a prisoner. For this he wears the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. Celebrate Evans’ escape with another War Bond. I/. S, Treasury Department A. S. T. U. NEWS Jr. A.V.M.A. Meeting Wednesday evening, at 7:00 p. m., the Junior Chapter of The American Veterinary Medical As sociation will have its second meet ing of the new semester in the auditorium at the Veterinary Hos pital. Highlights of the meeting will be several announcements by Dean R. P. Marsteller, a techni color film on The Anemias, and the ever-welcome refreshments. All pre-veterinary and veterinary stu dents are urged to attend and to bring their ideas concerning the furtherment of the organization before the group so that they will be funtioning as active rather than passive members. Bring your room mate. Chem News A couple of Stink Bombers, Geo. Hatt and Tom Leland, dropped in on us during inspection last week. They gave us moral support and offered sacrifices while we stood at attention, but it scared them so badly they wouldn’t stay for supper. Both are in the Men’s Ar my Auxiliary Corp.— (A. S. T. P.), where if you do well you release a Wac for overseas duty. They are stationed, respectively, in Lub bock, and New Hampshire. Leland reports from the Univer sity of New Hampshire the meals are so fine they actually look for ward to them. There are some six Aggies living in a girl’s dormito ry where each room has a tub and shower for their convenience—^how ever, there are no girls in the dor mitory. The University of New Hampshire is some thirty miles from the ocean and the fellows spend their time ice-skating, skiing and playing poker—have about cleaned the Yanks out—, but if they lose they can pick up dough at the rate of 40c per hour picking apples in the afternoons. How do you like that? The women of N. H. are as plentiful as the apples but not ripe and juicy like the ones in Texas, so the report goes. Geo. Hatt had a good report from Texas Tech where a bunch of the tobacco chewing-Aggies are together. They get off at noon Saturdays, walk across the street and take their pick of 500 girls in the dormitory there. Those ex- Aggies seem to do alreet from N. Y. to Letot. The fellows from New Hamp shire had the R. A. because they weren’t returned to the Alma Ma ter; said they were returning N. H. with thankfulness in their hearts after finding us fat and well cared for. Have you got anything to pass on? How about coming around and telling us, but in the meantime settle down baby doll, settle down. Q. M. Review I suppose everyone around the campus is wondering just as much as we of the QMC art, about what effect the new time schedule will have on our activities. There are several important items foremost in our minds, but two of the most important ones are: Do we still get up at six and will we be able to get awawy on week-end passes in time to catch to 6:10 train going north on Satur day? Not that we are lazy or tired. However, the majority of men in the Stackers and Packers Corps do migrate North when they get passes. Some of the boys that are taking Accounting and Statistics have been getting floated out leather re gularly by the non-business minded, horse, mule, chicken, and cattle majors. However, for some strange reason, (probably because most of the above mentioned stockmen are now taking A&S 409) all criticism has practically stopped. And I mean that It’s a relief to know that the originators of Ag Taps have finally found out what it means to work and study for a degree, instead of barnyard labs and in spection trips for credit. Just in case there are doubters among the armed forces that the Fighting Quartermasters don’t have the spirit, here are two songs which we will sing in our despondent moods. OH mm >*$sm iffl \m WHERE OiD THAr<^£ FROMyP Wm 9# -O <03^* THE. WORD FOR THIS SUMMER’S FOOTWEAR FAD AT ALABAMA P0LYTBCH AND LSU BARE FEET FOR RAINY days/ HELLO, HELIOTROPE / HEILCL PFC/ KNOX COLLEGE up to a FEW YEARS AGO HAD LOST CONSECUTIVE GAMES- AND IN THE LAST SEASON OF THAT SPAN DID NOT SCORE A SINGLE POINT./ ‘The QUARTERBACK BROKE LOOSE, HOWEVER, ONE DAY THAT YEAR AND SEEMED TO BE ON HIS WAY TO A TOUCHDOWN- WHEN HE STEPPED IN THE WATER BUCKET/ THE WORD ^ 'hello" * IS SPOKEN \75 TIMES A DAY BY THE AVERAGE STUDENT, ACCORDING TO AW : ALFRED UNIVERSITY SURVEYJ v: the AttxJC/ BUY BOND; TOTMUMtT, f The historic gowns of the wives of the presidents of the Republic of Texas and the governors of Tex as are housed in a museum in the art building of Texas State College for Women, Denton. AT GUION HALL—Young play ers from “The Youngest Profes sion” which will be the feature attraction at the Guion Hall The atre Wednesday and Thursday. In addition to the feature play ers of this picture, which deals with autograph hunting, the leading stars of moviedom will make brief appearances in this film. National Authority Figures on Four-F’s ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico —It’s a simple matter to make a geologist chappy. Just give him a set of statistics and he is quite likely to make a map out of them. That’s what Dr. Stuart A North rop, head of the University of New Mexico geology department, did with the statistics from Gene ral Hershey’s annual Selective Ser vice report published recently. Dr. Northrop’s map shows the distri bution of 4-F’s throughout the na tion. General Hershey reported that 2,206,115 registrants out of a total of 26,332,900 have been placed iin class 4-F, which is composed of men classified as “mentally, moral ly, or physically unacceptable to the armed forces.” The percentages for the individual states range from 5.2 for Wyoming and 5.3 for Utah to 11.6 for Louisiana and 12.8 for the District of Columbia. The national average is 8.4 per cent, while New Mexico’s average is 9.2 per cent. Dr. Northrop used five differ ent colors on the map to distin guish percentage ranges. All of the healthy states are in the north; all of the unhealthy states are in the south and southeast. This in dicates some correlation between climate and 4-F’s. Mold Culture Is Studied by Group BERKELEY, Calif.—Optimum conditions for the growth of peni- cillium, the mold that produces penicillin, are being studied on the Berkeley campus of the University of California by Dr. Michael Dou- doroff, assistant professor of bact eriology, and Helen Jackins, re search assistant. The present process for making penicillin is slow and tedious and often produces small yields. The studies in the laboratory are an attempt to find out what consti tuents of the vegetable extracts used in the cultivation of the mold will stimulate the formation of more of ches needed drug. The ad dition of some unknown compound might increase the production, Dr. Doudoroff pointed out. The mold is now grown in complicated vege table media; it might be possible to find a simpler one, he added. “Many people throughout the country are studying this problem of periicillin production,” Dr. Dou doroff said. “There are many chan nels of attack and we are working on only one phase.” Shortly after University of Kan sas freshmen had finished meeting with their dean, Jim Calkins, Beta, was seen whipping out the back of Fraser hall, one hand grasping a fistful of hair, eyes frantic, teeth set. He loiked around and shouted in despair, “My gosh! They’ve gotten away!” Turning to an acquaintance, he explained, “Those rushees—they sneaked down the fire escape and eluded me.” 7i L7/L ^ O(XTdO 1STn on Qampus distractions By David Seligman 4 The feature attraction starting at the Campus Theater today is “Follow the Band” starring Skin- nay Ennis, Mary Beth Hughes, and Frances Langford. All those who like hep rug-cutters, toe-tappers, and catchy music will enjoy the show. The story of the picture is a means of combining a number of comic specialties. Misses Hughes and Langford are by no means hard on the eyes. Leon Errol furnishes some fairly good laugh-lines. The Lowdonw: Good entertain ment—a two-bell show. Background to Danger starts at Guion Hall Tuesday for a two-day run. Turkey furnishes a setting for this story of intrigue, mystery and murder. The Nazis are trying to end Turkish neutrality, the Rus sians are trying to outwit the Na zis, and George Rafe, an American agent, is trying to gum up the whole works. A few murders, an automobile chase, and tense mo ments keep the picture moving. Brenda Marshall and Osa Massen have some eye-filling scenes, and Peter Lorre gives out with some spine-thrillers. The Lowdown: Action fans will love it—two bells. Bidu Sayao is making an appear ance at Town Hall tonight. The voice fans on the campus should enjoy the program. She is to sing many of the popular selections fa- Physics Teacher Now In Navy Ward O. Mathews, former In structor in the Physics Depart ment, was commissioned an Ensign in the Navy and reported for ac tive duty October 1. Ensign Mathews came to Texas from the Division of Research NACA where he was a Junior En gineer in the Free Flight aeronau tical air tunnel at Langley Field in Virginia. He is now stationed at Cornell University which is a Naval Train ing School. He can be reached by addressing Ensign W. O. Mathews, Room 205, Founder’s Hall, USNTS, Cornell, Ithaca, New York. Dial 4-1181 Open at 1 p. m. TODAY and WEDNESDAY ^ LEO CARRILLO LEON ERROL ( MARY BETH HUGHES EDDIE QUILLAN • ANNE ROONEY FRANCES LANGFORD 1 ALVINO REY ond THE KING SISTERS • RAY EBERLE HILO HATTIE KINGS MEN ' SKINNAY ENNIS and ths GROOVE BOYS • — also — Bugs Bunny Cartoon Ik? Bl 6 - Bunny HBSBB miliar to most of the public. The presentation will be held in Guion Hall at 8 o’clock. Phone 4-1168 9c & ^ Tax Included Box Office Opens 1 p. m. Closes 7:30 Tuesday and Wednesday with PETER LORRE • Brenda Marshall Directed by RAOUL WALSH • Screen Play by W. R. Burnett • From a Novel by Eric Ambler rBUYlLwiUJuuS,! stamps; also All-America Band Cartoon - News Next Monday and Tuesday October 25 and 26 2:15 P.M. to 8:15 P.M. Clean Clothes . . . help your appearance, keep you looking neat and military. Cleaning by proper methods will preserve the life of your clothes and save you money. Let us clean your clothing properly and efficiently by the use of best methods and materials. Campus Cleaners Over Exchange Store - iY 1