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Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1943 STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newepaper of the Aericultural and Meehartical Cottage of Tex a* and the City of College Station, is published three tiaaas 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 Congress of March 8, 1870. Subscription rate $3 per school year. Advertising fates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City. Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room t. Administration Building. Telephone 4-6444. 1942 Member 1943 Pissociafed Colleftlde Press H. Sylvester Boone Editor-in-Chief Andy Matula - Associate Editor Sports Staff Tuesday’s Staff Harold ' Borofsky Sports Editor Charlie Murray Managing Editor William Baker Sports Reporter Ed Katten Reporter Robert Orrick Sports Reporter Charles West Reporter Claude Stone Sports Photographer Charley L. Dobbs Reporter Thursday's Staff Saturday's Staff David Seligman Managing Editor Andy Matula Managing Editor Max Mohnke Reporter Fred Mangel, Jr - ~ Reporter R. L. Weatherly Reporter John T. Scurlock Reporter J. W. (Tiny) Standifer Reporter James C. Grant Reporter Special Columnists Miscellaneous Archie Broodo (Aggie) For Lass-o David Seligman Columnist SnSu Beard (T.S.C.W.) For Battalion J. W. Standifer Staff Photographer Advertising Staff Circulation Staff John Kelly Business Manager Steele H. Nixon Circulation Mgr. Charles R. West Ass’t. Business Mgr. George Puls Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. Welcome to Aggieland . . . This is the campus of Aggieland. Many people who are here for the game will come here as students of Texas Uni versity or as their alumni to root for their team. This is what makes the game interesting. Without competition from the student body of the opposing team, there would be no real fun to the game. Today’s game will be a game to the last man with the Aggies and their inexperienced team against the Longhorns and their V-12 unit fighting it to the last man. Every person in the stands will be yelling for one team or the other, otherwise, they would not be witnessing the game in the first place. Everyone has a right to their opin ion as to which team is the best so it is their right to give their support to the team they want to win. There is no ques tion about that. Out on the field will be two teams that will show every example of fine sportsmanship. The main root of all trouble is not where the actual playing takes place, but it usually comes from the fans. They are the ones who do not know the score. Agigeland is being opened to the Texas U. fans because they are guests of the Aggies for this day. It is the duty of every Aggie to show his sportsmanship off the field of play and treat these fans as he would like to be treated if he were a guest on the Longhorn campus. If the Texas fans act as guests while on the campus, they will be treated fairly. With this thought in mind, the Battalion would like to take this means to speak for the Corps in wishing the visit here a happy one with the hopes of getting a like treatment next year. Thanksgiving . . . “Humbly I thank Thee for all that You have brought me— for the joys and also for the trials.” We have so much to be thankful for in this year of stife and trouble. Across the ocean in the war-torn land of Europe, Asia, and Africa there are children without a crumb of bread to satisfy their racking hunger or a stitch of clothing for their cold, naked bodies. Miserable millions of our fellow men who have .so little to look forward to—no cheer for the Christmas holidays in the offing, no food, shelter, or roof above their heads—they only have their indominable faith in us to bring back tothem all of which they were stripped. It is symbolic that America alone celebrates this day of thanksgiving. It is only we who have so much to be thank ful for . . . Liberty, Hhappiness, and the Necessities of Life. We should dedicate our lives today to brotherhood and peace in all the world for the coming year. These trials which have been cast our way should serve to show us how we may help our fellow men in a world of tomorrow. Let us pause from our work for a moment to say a pray er—one of thanks for what we have and wishing for the world to have the same on the morrow. BOOST THE THIRD WAR LOAN — BUY AN EXTRA $100 BOND TODAY I i Meet the Gann- YEA AGGIES! FIGHT! Let’s get in there and win that TURKEY DAY OASSIC Beat Texas University Ai “Keep Ri ggieland Pharmacg ght at the North Gate and You Can’t Go Wrong" PENNY’S SERENADE _W. L. Penberthy — Today on our campus will be played the outstanding Thanksgiv ing Day game in our country. Un til comparatively recent years this game did not attract the attention which it deserved but today the football of this conference is on a par with the best in the land and the game will attract a great deal of interest' and attention. As an added feature the game is being broadcast by short wave to our armed forces .throughout the world. These two schools have been riv als for many years and this rivalry has changed from one in which the aim was to beat the other team instead of just outscoring it, to a very wholesome one in which the very highest degree of sportsman ship is evident. We look forward all season to our game with the Longhorns, and it is the feeling of many that to defeat them is to have a succesful season. Our boys are going out there to win and they will be playing according to the spirit as well as the letter of the rules, and I seriously doubt that there will be any intention al fouls by either team. Many very fine athletic contests have been mined by the thought less actions of some of the specta tors and although I do not feel that Aggie fans need to be cau tioned. I think it would be a mighty fine thing if spectators at all contests would take the cue from the players and show the same fine sportsmanship that we expect the players to show. The Texas team and its follow ers are our guests for the day; let’s treat them as such and let the con test be decided by the two teams, on the field. Im /on ‘Hello’ for this w'eek. Are you all getting as excited over this week’s football game as we are? T. S. C. W. gets only one holiday, therefore, many of the girls who planned to go to Aggieland will have to stay here. Those who are going, regard less, are so en vied they aren’t even being spok- SuSu en to - Last week, national food and nutrition week was stressed on this campus by programs in the dining halls during the evening meal. Each club was in charge of a program centered around a cer tain disliked food. This meant that we had ‘carrots’, ‘bunches of spin ach’, and ‘haddock’ walking among our tables. Even if a sudden lik ing for the food wasn’t acquired, the usually dull procedure of eat ing was livened. Our Freshman-Sophomore dance was a decided success. Ever so many Aggies came up, and as they well know they were hugely wel comed by all. Most of the girls that went to the dance started dressing about six o’clock, even if it’s quite obvious that a formal dress takes only a tenth of that time to be put on. In relation to your game with Texas U., a rather amusing incident occurred recently. One certain dear teacher was talking to her class about an article in our paper men tioning the word ‘tea-sippers’. She firmly stated that not everyone would know who was being referr ed to. Her class, however, firmly stated that everyone would know who a ‘tea-sipper’ was. Thus a flury of words started. Finally, the teacher, apparently out-talk ed by her class, said that she was “tired of hearing about A. & M. around this campus, anyway.” At this each girl in the class had one thought-murder her! In fact, sev eral were planning it when one brilliant miss politely asked, “In- cidently, where did you graduate?” Her distasteful reply was, “Texas University.” Nothing could have kept her class silent after that. Aggies, you see how much we’re for you, so try extra hard to win for the team, the twelfth man, and for us. May the best man win, which is only another way of saying, may the Aggies beat T. U. All good luck, with a million cheers, SuSu Something to Read Dr- T. F. Mayo Realistic Patriotism An encouraging thing is the comparative honesty and sanity of America’s current crop of war-time books, compared with the flood of violent, uncritical nationalism that poured out of the presses during the First World War. There is no doubt that the Axis threat to all that we live by, has both sharpen ed and warmed our appreciation of our own country. We are more consciously and gratefully patrio tic, I think, than ever before. But our patriotism, this time, is also far more intelligent than in any other critcal period. At the same time that we rejoice proudly in this incomparable country of ours, we encourage the writers who remind us that all is not well with this same incomparable country. Two books that I noticed in the Browsing Room this morning il lustrate fairly well these two as pects of our war-time spirit. I Am An American is a collection of short statements by eminent foreign-born Americans fo what America means to them. America’s Own Refugees, by H. H. Collins, is a heart-rending account of the plight of “our 4,000,000 homeless migrants.” The foreign bom contributors to I Am An American include such notables as Einstein, the physicist, Louis Adamic, the social writer, Walter Damrosch, the musician, the actresses Claudette Colbert, Louise Rainer, and Elissa Landi, Stephen S. Wise, the Rabbi, Ales Hrdlicka, the Arthropologist, Tony Sarg, the puppet-player, and Wil liam Knudson, the business execu tive and government official. Their testimonials make you marvey at the degree to which we have succeeded in assimilating and put ting to beneficient use talents and qualities from all over the world. The nameless heroes and heroi nes of America’s Own Refugees, on the other hand, make your face red for the awful waste of good human material which we have permitted. We boast of our historic conquest of the wilderness. “Today’s Wild erness, however, is not of tall trees and waste sands and marshes, but of migrant jungles and shacktowns, of settlement law morasses, of end less hours harvesting on illimita ble fields, and of that human and legal desert where the constitu- 1 tional guarantees of the Bill of Rights shrivel under the cold blasts ! of penury.” Naturally most of these migrants are now in the Army or at work. But unless the nation does some thing positive about it, the same ghastly situation will crop up again after the war. These two books represent the two elements in the patriotism! which has been so intensified dur ing this war. We seem to have learned somehow, since World War I, that the truest and deepest love of one’s country need not—in fact must not blind one to the fact that there is much to be done yet. The enlightened patriot loves his > —DECISIVE— J2ovjcLoojn on Qampus ‘Distractions By David Seligimm “Hit the Ice,” a side-splitting comedy of the Abbott and Costello series comes to the Campus for the Friday and Saturday attraction. The two funnymen of the radio and screen made this as their last before retiring from the movies. They were never in finer form than in this film. In fact, many fans will vote this their all-time —AGGIE— (Continued From Page 1) trip, this time to Austin for the Turkey Day game. Since this trip was unofficial, the annual parade up Congress Avenue was not to be held. Instead the 210-piece Ag gie band planned to give a 30- minute concert in front of the Austin Hotel. A Senior section was arranged by Class President Rocky Sutherland and uniform for the game was number 1. The Don Cossack chorus ap peared at Town Hall on Tuesday night. They had strong competi tion, that evening, since the bon fire was in its glory then. Before they left for the game in Austin, the Seniors didn’t for get the Elephant Walk- Wednes day morning after breakfast to the tune of the bass horn and clarinet, the Class of ’43 marched up and down Military Walk in their slow, traditional way. All had their shirttails out, boots on, and insignia off. Many an Aggie tear fell to the ground to be trampled in by Aggie boots that day. Aggieland has changed in twelve months. This year’s Seniors march down Military Walk in G.I. boots; their tears are unchanged though. Only 2,000 Aggies make up the Corps of Cadets. The bonfire will be held again, still carrying on through trying times. This year also, Reveille is being honored in a manner that is strictly Aggie. And 2,000 Texas Aggies take up at Kyle Field where 7,000 left off at Memorial Stadium last year. country, not merely for what it has been and what it is, but also for what we must make of it. best. While it may be lacking in the peaks of uproarious hilarity evident in some predecessors, its overall comedy content does not suffer due to the rapid, sustained flow of dippy dialogue and gags. The two are supported by an at tention-getting cast led by Ginny Sims and containing assorted spe cialities. The Lowdown: A top-rate side- splitter. Starting a two-day run at Guion Hall today is “Always in My Heart.” The film stars Kay Fran cis, Walter Huston, and Gloria Warren. Disregarding a noisy kid and a lot of unnecessary dramatics at the finale, Warner Bros, have a new star on the way in a picture that has a catchy melody of the same name. The find is Gloria Warren who has a beautiful voice and is quite satisfactory before the camera. Then Borah Minne- vitch and his Rascals give out on (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 3) Phone 4-1168 ADMISSION Q p Pr OAp IS ALWAYS UU Ol ^Uu Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. Closes 8*:30 TODAY and FRIDAY “ALWAYS IN MY HEART” — with. — Gloria Warren - Kay Francis Walter Huston and Borrah Minevitch’s Harmonica Rascals Plus Cartoon - News Continued From Page 1) the two schools for a battle royal- First the Longhorns will get their chance with a five-minute in terval to send their absent alumni a series of songs and yells. After the completion of the Texas root ing section, the Aggies will take over the program under the direc tion of Jack Knox, head yell-leader. The remaining portion of the time between halves will be given to the sports announcers for their usual summaries and remarks on the game. The best thought of the special program is the thrill it will give the 11,000 Aggies in the armed services all over the world. It is a safe bet that as many as possible will be hanging on to a radio as well as a gun on Thanksgiving Day. i Dial 4-1181 OPENS 1:00 P. M. LAST DAY — also — BUGS BUNNY CARTOON FRIDAY and SATURDAY Bud Abbott and Lou Costello — in — “HIT THE ICE” withGirory Simms This Theatre will be closed Thursday afternoon for the football game. C L* ALMy— Let’s g-et in there and win that ball game Turkey Day for those 11,000 Aggies fighting on the battle fronts of Democracy all over the world. They’re in there giving all they have to keep Amer ica and the rest of the world right for us to enjoy—and they’ll be listening to every play over the short wave. So Let’s Give It to Them — make every play count and win that game for those old boy’s who are following the stars and stripes through the smoke and hell of freedom’s battles. Yea! Army Fight! Fight! Fight! LCLJ PCX’S “Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You” * * $ i y y 1