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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1943 STUDENT TRI-WEBKLT NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanioal 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 Jffice at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congreas 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 Pissockoted CbUe6icite Press H. Sylvester Boone Andy Matula Sports Staff Harold Borofsky Sports Editor William Baker .... Sports Reporter Robert Orrick Sports Reporter Claude Stone Sports Photographer Thursday’s Staff David Seligman Managing Editor Max Mohnke Reporter R. L. Weatherly Reporter J. W. (Tiny) Standifer Reporter Special Columnists Archie Broodo (Aggie) For Lass-o SuSu Beard (T.S.C.W.) For Battalion Advertising Staff John Kelly Business Manager Charles R. West Ass’t. Business Mgr. Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Tuesday’s Staff Charlie Murray Managing Editor Ed Katten Reporter Charles West Reporter Charley L. Dobbs Reporter Saturday’s Staff Andy Matula Managing Editor Fred Manget, Jr Reporter John T. Scurlock Reporter James C. Grant Reporter Miscellaneous David Seligman Columnist J. W. Standifer Staff Photographer Circulation Staff Steele H. Nixon Circulation Mgr. George Puls Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. The Aggie Spirit Dead? Is the Aggie Spirit dead or is it dying? That is a ques tion that has been asked time after time by exes who are now serving in the armed forces of their country and by people who are interested in the Aggies. According to P. L. Downs, Jr., ’05, the Spirit is still in force and it will never die just as long as there are “Aggies left at this institution.” To those who are led to believe that there is no Aggieland left, it is well to take the word of a man who knows what he is talking about. Having been a student at Aggieland be fore any of the present Aggies were born and living here after his graduation, the friendly Mr. Downs can be taken for a man who knows his Aggies and the certain something that keeps the Spirit what it is. It was indeed a treat for those members of the Corps who were at Yell Practice Monday night when one of the Yell Leaders introduced Mr. Downs as the man who was going to tell of Aggieland and the Aggie Spirit as he knew it and had watched it in his forty years as an Aggie. More men who can speak as did Mr. Downs are needed to make Yell Practices interesting to the Aggie. It is an almost sure thing that every Aggie who was listening Monday night enjoyed the talk, and it is also a sure thing that the Corps thanks those responsible for making the Practice as interesting and worthwhile as it was. Twenty-Five Years Ago . . . On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end, an end that most people thought was here to stay. Many people lost their lives in this war that was supposed to be a “war to end all wars.” They didn’t mind because there would never be another war, but this was far wrong be cause on December 7, 1941, the United States was again en gaged in a war—this time with the Japanese. Our country joined England and the countries that she was already fight ing with in what was known as the Allies who were fight ing for a common cause. Today, everyone in the nation will stop to pay homage to these men who lost their lives in that bloody war, but they will pause at the same time to think of the many more men who have lost their lives in this World War II. This second world conflict is much worse than the first because of the improved methods of fighting. This may be the last war, and it may not. Everyone should stop for just a few minutes today and think and pray and hope that this wlil be the last war because only with God’s help can this be the last. LOUPOT’S A Little Place . . . ... A Big Saving STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair Phone 4-4114 Let Us Do Your Altering LAUTERSTEIN’S MARINES When in Doubt About Your Eyes or Your Glasses Consult DR. J. W. PAYNE Optometrist 109 S. Main Bryan Next to Palace Theatre MEN IN SERVICE- PROTECT YOUR TRAVEL CASH Travel money is safe from loss or theft when you carry AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES. Your money is always in readily spend able form, and if lost or stolen, you receive a prompt refund. Issued in denominations of $10, $20, $50 and $100. Cost 75£ for each $100. Minimum cost 40s for $10 to $50. For sale at banks and Railway Express Offices. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES 1 NOTE YOUR APPEARANCE t . it i ! ii VISIT OUR TWO BARBER SHOPS OFTEN FOR EXPERT WORK i YMCA BARBER SHOP 1 li Central “Y” i PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penberthy In the years I have been con nected with the College I have at tended many athletic contests of various kinds and have witnessed many thrilling, as well as tense, moments. During this tjme the corps and the band have always played a very important part in the day’s program. Their part has also been a very impressive one, but since Pearl Harbor their part in the program has meant much more to me than before thkit date. For the past two football seasons I have been in a position where I could look across the field at the Corps and watch our students as they stood and saluted while our band played the national anthem. The memory of this sight stays with me while some of the thrilling plays of the various con tests have been forgoten. I wish it were so our cadets could see themselves as those of us across the field see them—I know they would be equally impressed. As the men stand there, they give the impression of unity and their yelling as the game starts and progresses certainly convinces one of their unity of purpose—to help win the game. As all this is going on, I can’t help but wonder what goals could be attained if we had that same unity of purpose about everything we undertook to do. I feel that our present success in the wqr is due to the unity of purpose and action which is now being shown. We may not always agree with a plan, but it has been my obser vation and experience that a poor plan backed by unity of purpose will meet with much more success than a good plan in which that unity is lacking. Surely our Team is a good example of this; they are all trying to get the most out of a fine sport and are due the success they are having. Man, Your Manners By 1. Sherwood S&JI* i> » #1 Ifc irnm A recent writer has come forth with wartime table manner# that break some of the tightest rules of the most noted etiquette autho rities. She doesn’t want us to go as far as Jack Sprats did, but Mr. and Mrs. Sprat had nothing on some of us for cleaning plates; they did it for reasons gastrono mic; we are doing it for reasons economic. Knowing men to break a rule takes good common sense. If you think your manners are good enough to stand the strain go ahead and break a rule, if it will help to save food. Mop up your gravy with your bread if you must have something to take the place of butter—be neat abotu it—use your fork with small portions of bread to do the mopping up process. If you think your friends won’t think any the less of you after they see you gnawing on meat bones or chicken bones—to get that last bit of meat—do as you like about it. After the war you can take a refresher course in manners. We have been taught to keep hands off, as much as possible, while we are eating grapefruit, but since they are so hard to get —for the duration—you may mas sage a half grapefruit to get that last drop of juice. Rules or no rules, and no matter what happens, we are compelled to eat three meals a day. They should be made as pleasant as pos sible in order to give our spirits a lift. Something to Read By Dr. T. F. Mayo A Meaning for the War The Coming Showdown, by Carl Dreher The Unfinished Task, by Lewis Corey Toward Full Use of Our Re sources, a bulletin by Alvin Hansen Let the People Know, by Norman Angell And Keep Your Powder Dry, by Margaret Meade One World, by Wendell Wilkie After re-reading these six of the best interpretive books which the present crisis has produced, I find that five general ideas seem to stay with me, though I can’t say exactly from which book each one came: 1. That this war can be made to mean what we, the people, want it to mean: Either one more brawl for survival and power and loot, like all the dreary hundreds of wars that have disfigurtd history; or the necessary purchase price of a better, more just, more democra tic world for everybody. 2. That Democracy is a sort of equilibrium between as much free dom and as much equality of op portunity as can be reconciled with each other. In complete freedom, the strong would so prey upon the weak that all equality of oppor tunity would disappear. For com plete equality, the strong would have to be throlled down to an in tolerable degree. Democracy, then, is a balancing of the two against each other. 3. We are fighting not to “defend Democracy,” but to preserve our chance to make a Democracy, the very best chance that ever existed in the history of the world. If Hit ler should win, that chance would vanish, perhaps forever. If we win—well, we shall still have a chance to make a Democracy. 4. That no international post war arrangement can stand up, if the separate nations fail to give a square deal to any large class of their citizens. If American Negroes and tenant farmers, if British Hin dus, if Latin American peons, if large classes of poor and helpless people anywhere, fail to be given a chance at educating themselves and living decent lives, then no League of Nations or World State, no matter how cleverly set up, can survive and prevent future wars. The problems of world peace and of social justice are one prob lem. •5. That, just as national isolation is gone forever, so the individual man can no longer isolate himself and his interests fro national con cerns. Social consciousness and a social conscience have become ab solute necessities for a free peo ple. We must all think and read and worry about the questions that so deeply concern us all. If we don’t, if we charge bull-headedly and blindly after money and plea sure and “success,” then some body will come along and do the ruling for us, some Hitler or some military clique like that of Japan. It behooves everybody who be lieves in Democracy not only to work for Democracy and, if neces sary to fight for Democracy, but —and this is really tough, I realize —to think for Democracy. 3801st Sparkles Julius Bloom, Reporter Pet point of interest (i. e.-grip- ing) in the Unit these past few days has been the change in mess- halls we have suffered. Due to the return of the 3800th men, Duncan Hall could no longer accommodate our particular brand of chow- houndery. Many is the threat of desertion that has passed the lips of a STAR since the change added three miles of walking daily to the strenuous (ed. note-Are you kidding, Bub?) routine in which our boys engage. We tried it ourself just one day, then went on sick-call and got off with the old pulled-muscle-in-the- leg- gag. Natch, the gag is hereby claimed as our own property. It should remind most of our men of the time when they were in the army, this marching eight- tenths of a mile to and from chow, then walking on back. However, the fact that we can lose that Duncan Hall baby-fat must have its compensations. Time and tide may wait for no man, but Sbisa Hall reverses the process. Life membership in the extreme ly superderogatory Order of the Purple Willkie Button is this week extended to T/4 Orville Rue for his adsolutely quiet demeanor and being on the ball. Taciturn Orville has his wife here, and that may be the check on him, but he certainly does stand out in the mess hall as an epitome of modera tion when he does not even make the usual noise of smacking his lips together. An inter-house football tourney has sprung up around our diggings to give the lads something to si lence their nervous tension. The team of House Four has whipped the pants of House One, our alma mater. Truly collegiate is the at- ^Ufze. J-Otvcloujn on (Campus distractions By David Seligman Phone 4-1168 “Hers to Hold” is the coming feature attraction at the Campus Theater. If this isn’t Deanna Dur bin’s best picture, it will serve as that until a better one comes along La Durbin has shed her last sem blance to an adolescent and has attained her place with the “grown up.” With Joseph Gotten and Char les Winnger this film is both a funny-bone tickling and and heart appealing one. The theme is that Marine Mad-Caps The tenth day of November, 1943 falls on Wednesday of this year and is indeed a day of celebration for all Marines. For Wednesday the 10th of November is the 168th birthday of the U. S. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps was cre ated by a resolution of the Conti nental Congress, on the 10th of November, 1775. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name Marine. The record of the Marine Corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world’s history. The Marines success as a fight ing organization is due in part to confidence that comes from inside each Marine. To quote from an ad dress given by Lieutenant General T. Holcomb, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps: “The Marines have confidence in themselves. And confidence is greatly different from braggadocio. Confidence doesn’t come from the outside. It comes from the inside. It comes from character, dicipline, from training and skill. “Experience has shown that it isn’t the swaggering bully that makes the great fighter. It’s the man with character, discipline and training. Take Markmanship for instance. If a Marine can’t shoot a rifle so he’s proud of his mark manship he works until he is good. And as a Marine gets to be a bet ter and better shot, he gets confi- (See Mad-Caps, page 3) - mosphere, with the lads walking around muttering under their breath. “Beat the HELL out of House Zero.’’ Attempting to pull a fastie in Dallas last weekend, Pvt. William “Fish” Eldot and Cpl. Isadore “Brigadier” Stabler had the tables slightly turned. The story goes that they met an enderly female in that town, and reckoned that they had stumbled on something good, namely a meal ticket. After binding about the good food for a while, the boys tooV matters into their own hands and steered their friend into a restau rant, and despite her persistent contention before they entered the eatery, that she was not hungry, she managed to stick them for a tidy sum. Moral: Don’t ask strange women to dinner unless they can show that they have the cash for their own bill. S/Sgt. Bernard Kirsch, finan cially embarrassed, had to give up a date the other night with a local girl. Unfortunately, she had no telephone, and Bernie couldn’t contact her. If she reads this, I am sure that she will understand that Kirsch saved her from a howling good time at home. We beg to report that the ad dress of the waitress Pvt. Robert Wood wanted has been duly dis covered and entered in the files. If we can be of any like service to anyone else, the pleasure will be surely all that of the client, as in the case of the unknown waitress. She was interested as all get-out, but only in Bob. And this column goes on, still cherchant la femme. Annoying as it may be, there will be some interest inspired by changing back to the old time schedule. We have not seen the sun rise so long that we are curi ous to learn if that practice still exists. We are sorry for our roomie, Pvt. Thomas Fritscher. Much as we would like to, it is impossible to print his name here until he reaches an achievement of note. NAVY MEN Let Us Do Your Altering LAUTERSTEIN’S LOUPOT’S Trade Wtih Lou — He’s Right With You! of a por little rich girl who goes off the deep end for a dashing aviator. Gotten., and goes to work as a defense worker to land him, wliich she does after the usual romantc hurdles. The Lowdown: Excellent enter- tanment. Guion Hall’s Thursday-Friday at traction is the old, but neverthe less excellent film entitled “Knute Rockne, All American. Starring Pat O’Brien as the famous foot ball mentor, Gale Page as his lov ing wife, Bonnie, and Ronald Rea gan in the character of George Gipp, the swivel-hipped half-back of the Notre Dame Team. The plot is a resume of Rockne’s success story. It follows him through his college days at Notre Dame and then his coaching days there with the famous ‘four horsemen.’ The scenes of the campus and the games themselves are excellent examples of what Hollywood can really do. All in all it is a gripping picture that can stir you deeply. The Lowdown: See it again. Thurs. - Fri. - Sat. “PRINCESS O’ROURKE” — with — Olivia deHavilland y Robert Cummings Preview Saturday Night 11:00 P. M. “HOLY MATRIMONY” — with — Monty Wooley Gracie Fields — Plus — Cartoon and News fsTwTvs 9c & 20c Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. Closes 8:30 Thursday and Friday the greatest football picture ever made! “KNUTE ROCKNE ALL-AMERICAN” Pat O’Brien - Ronald Reagan Gale Page also Passing Parade Travel - News Dial 4-1181 OPENS 1:00 P. M. LAST DAY “BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON” In Technicolor - starring Dorothy Lamour Richard Denning Walter Abel Tomorrow and Saturday “HERS TO HOLD” — starring — Dean a Durbin Joseph Gotten When You Need- Books- School Supplies - Drawing Supplies - Stationery - Come to the College Book Store — North Gate — A DURATION DO! Your shirts are valuable items these days and appreciate special handling. Turn up your shirt collar before sending it to the laundry. A coUar washed flat doesn’t fray so easily at the crease. Have your shirts laundered frequently. A too- soiled shirt requires more scrubbing and conse quently wears out more quickly. Go easy on the starch. Starching stiffens fabric, so that it breaks instead of hending. When you buy, buy Arrow. 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