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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1943
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
ion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texaa and the City of College Station, is published three times weekly, and iasuec
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 3, 1870.
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Office, Room S. Administration Building. Telephone 4-M44.
1942 Member 1943
Associated Cotleftide Press
H. Sylvester Boone - Editor-in-Chiei
Andy Matula
... Associate Editor
Harold Borofsky
William
Sports Staff
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Sports Editor Charlie Murray
Tuesday's Staff
Sports Reporter Ed Katten
Managi:
Robert Orrick Sporta Reporter Charles West
Claude Stone Sports Photographer Charley L. Dobbs
ng Editor
Reporter
Reporter
Reporter
Thursday’s Staff Saturday’s Staff
David Seligman Managing Editor Andy Matula Managing Editor
Max Mohnke Reporter Fred Manget, 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
SuSu 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.
An Appreciative Thanks . . .
With the close of the regular football season, the Aggies
have come through with flying colors. To the boys and to
the coaches, a hearty thanks should go. At the beginning of
the season, Homer Norton had no lettermen and no man on
the squad who had plaved football at any college unless at a
small junior college. Mid-season brought a 20 year old let-
terman into being and this helped a great deal. On the side
of this, one can see boys just out of high school opposed by
men who have had experience at the game or have had
enough age and weight on them to make the difference. It
is with these thoughts in mind that thanks should go to
each man on the squad, for only with their determination
and Aggie Spirit could they win victories over teams com
posed of men who are members of the armed forces.
A special vote of thanks should go to Coach Norton who
made his team of “youngsters” into a winning team. The
Aggies with his help and that of his assistants won seven
games, tied one, and lost one. No one in the football world
would ever conceive such a record at the first of the season,
but it took Norton to do it while at the same time putting
his fourth team in five straight years in some bowl game on
New Year’s Day. Not another coach in the Southwest Con
ference, and this includes every team and coach, has done
this. Neither can any coach look at their record and find
that they have won a part of the conference championship
three years in succession. Another year might change this,
but it doesn’t seem likely unless the Navy helps again as
it did this.
A record such as this on both the part of the men on
the team and the coacljes means that they will not stop at
any minor obstacle. In 1939, it was the Sugar Bowl and a
victory for the Aggies; in 1940, it was the same thing but
in the Cotton Bowl, and in 1941, it was again a battle in the
Cotton Bowl, but this time, it was victory for Alabama. Now,
in 1943, it will be the Orange Bowl at Miami. The outcome
will be decided on January 1st. No matter what happens on
this day, though one fact will be obvious and that is that
the boys will give a good account of themselves.
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OPEN FORUM
“Some may boast of prowess
bold,
Of the school they think so grand”
It is cold and clear in Aggieland
tonight.
Shadows en mass drift from the
street by the “Y”—
From Law and Puryear and Fos
ter—
The “New Area,” the library—
Everywhere they drift and swarm
and drive
To the old drill field.
BEAT THE H OUTTA
TEXAS!
Determined yells and exuberant
answers ....
Shadows illumined by the glare of
the bonfire ....
Aggie shadows clasping hands,
Singing songs that leave the heart
in the throat
And butterflies in the stomach.
Those same old butterflies, Army-.
“But there's a spirit that can ne’er
be told,
It’s the Spirit of Aggieland.”
We are the Aggies—the Aggies are
we,’’ ....
UniversityStudents
Earned $259,000 At
Summer Jobs in ’42
Placement Office Say
This is Increase of
80% Over Previous Year
EVANSTON, 111.—Northwestern
University students earned more
than $250,000 last year in part-time
and summer jobs, an increase of
80 per cent over the previous year’s
total of $140,000, according to
Frank S. Endieott, director of the
University’s Bureau of Placement.
More than 10,000 calls of all types
were received by the bureau during
the year, each reprecenting a need
for full or part-time help.
The bureau filled 2,334 requests
for student workers out of 4,©85
calls received for part-time help.
A total of 1,930 students were re
gistered for part-time employ
ment. There were 1,937 calls for
teachers, an increase of 14 per
cent over the previous year and
more than twice the number re
ceived in 1940. Placements in
teaching positions are expected to
exceed the previous year’s total of
232.
During the year the bureau ar
ranged for 878 interviews between
seniors and recruiting officers in
business and industry. More than
114 new graduates have already
been placed through the bureau.
The Chicago campus office of the
bureau placed a large number of
Northwestern alumni in essential
industry and business. Many posi
tions commanded salaries as high
as $10,000.
FAMOUS CLOSE SHAVES By Barber Sol
Edward Mac Dowell, Composer,
DISSATISFIED, CRUMPLED A COMPO
SITION AND THREW IT AT THE ORE-
PLACE. Mrs. mac Dowell found
THE CRUMPLED PAPER WHICH
MISSED THE FIRE. LATER SHE
SUBMITTED IT TO THE MUSIC
PUBLISHERS. IT TURNED OUT
TO BE THE EVER POPULAR
*TO A WILD ROSE*.
SHELL TOOLAUH george lait.ins
CORRESPONDENT CAUGHT IN A BARRAGE
OF ARTILLERY FIRE IN NORTH AFRICA, WAS RES
CUED WHEN A DRIVER SWUNG HIS TRUCK BE
i TWEEN LAIT AND A SHELL COMING DIRECTLY
MOiCE IN THE DARK..
ROSS MACLEAN, POPULAR BARI
TONE STOOD IN THE WINGS HUM
MING THE TUNE IN GEORGE WHITE'S
SCANDALS, WHEN THE STAR ABOUT TO
GO ON LOST HIS VOICE. MAC LEAN,
IN BLACKFACE WENT ON AND\TWE
AUDIENCE DIDN'T SUSPECT HE HAD
SAVED THE PREMIERE.
■— _
BARBER. SOL SAYS:
BOMB THE BOOT, AND BOMB THE TOE
UNTIL PUCE HOLLERS LET ME GOj
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American Colleges
Support Refugee
Children of Allies
Westminister College
Now Supporting Three
British Children
NEW WILMINGTON, P a .—
Three small British children who
have probably never heard of West
minster College are being sup
ported by two local campus orga
nizations in one of the many ways
collegians are contributing to the I
United Nations war effort.
Pretty blonde four-year-old Mar
garet Bamford is being supported
by the YWCA through the Save
the Children Fund. Margaret’s fa
ther was a reservist and was called
back on sick leave three times
lately and that meant docking the
family allowance given to Mrs.
Bamford. Money is very short in
that home in Chesterfield, and the
Westminster YWCA is helping to
make things easier for little Mar
garet whose memories are full of
war.
Royster Webb, five , whose fa
ther is in the RAF, has also been
adopted for the duration by the
YWCA. Royster’s mother goes out
to work when she is able, hut
since her small son must have
extra nounrishment because of ill-
health, the adoption funds help a
great deal.
As part of its activities as a
national sorority, the Westminster
chapter of Kappa Delta has also
adopted a ritish war child. She is
four-year-old arbar Reader who
stays with her two-year-old bro
ther in the Hampstead nursery.
Mrs. Reader and her two children
had been in London and had gone
to the country to escape the bomb
ing, but their retreat their was
badly bombed too.
Her allotment from her husband
was so small that it was impossi
ble for her to take care of herself
and her children. But through the
adoption of Barbar by the Kappa
Deltas, Mrs. Reader was able to
send her children where they would
be safe.
Don, up in Alaska,
Luke, in Italy,
(Boh—who knows where Bob may
be)
We reach across the miles—the
plains, the sea ....
“True to each other as Aggies can
be,
We’ve got to fight, Boys, we’ve
got to fight,
We’ve got to fight for maroon and
white”
And for red, white and blue.
You know that, Joe, a “jerry” shot
you down,
And, Jimmy, you stayed with your
ship to the end,
Honored to give your life in battle
for your country.
Fightin’, Texas Aggies . . •
We are proud of you.
“After we’ve boosted all the rest,
We will come and join the best,” ..
Don, up in Alaska,
Luke, in Italy,
(Bob—God bless you, wherever
you may be)
We reach across the miles—the
plains, the sea,
And you are with us here tonight.
We can hear you singing in the
swell of voices,
Wherever you may fight—
“For we are the Aggies—the Ag
gies are we,
And we’re from Texas A. M. C.”
June Brown
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Experiments On
Cream Separation
Made by Scientists
EHiker and Brown of
Purdue Experiment on
Cream Separation
Centrifugal separation is not
only the most efficient method of
separating milk but also yields
a higher quality of cream.
Experimental work at the Pur
due University laboratories by P.
R. Elliker and W. H. Brown, of
the Department of Dairy Husband
ry proves this beyond the shadow
of a doubt.
The data is particulary signifi
cant at this time when there is
an urgent need for high quality
dairy products to supply present
markets and expand future de
mands.
Here are some of the things.
Elliker and Brown observed in their
experiments:
1. After storage for four and
seven day periods at temperatures
of 60 to 80 degres, cream separat
ed by the centrifugal method was
found to contain much less mold
than cream separated by the wat
er-dilution and shallow pan grav
ity methods.
Centrifugal separation removed
i pproximately 90 per cent of the
molds and spores from both the
cream and the skimmilk, whereas
both water-dilution and shallow
pan separations tended to concen
trate the molds in the cream lay
er rising to the top.
3. Cream obtained by centrifugal
separation was superior in odor
and flavor to gravity separated j
cream after storage for varying
periods of time.
4. Skimmilk separated by the
NAVY MEN
Let U* Do Your Altering
LAUTERSTEIN’S
Army Specialized
Training Program
Graduates 1,500
ASTP Enrolls 140,000
Men in 222 Colleges
Throughout Nation
Approximately 1,500 enlisted
men have been graduated from the
Army Specialized Training Pro
gram and have been assigned to a
wide variety of responsible duties
in nearly all arms and services of
the Army, the War Department an
nounced today.
At the end of October, approxi
mately 150,000 soldiers were en
rolled in the ASTP at 222 educa
tional institutions, including A. &
M. Early in 1944, these soldier-
students wil complete their courses
in greatly increasing numbers. The
1,500 already graduated and as
signed constitute more than half
the number who entered the inaug
ural term of ASTP April 12, 1943.
They are men who entered at ad
vanced levels, and because of
background and aptitude were able
to absorb the required training in
a relatively short time.
Two hundred graduates have
been asigned to Army Air Forces
medical and psychological examin
ing units and will process aviation
students, who are screened for ap
titudes and qualifications early in
their training. More than 100 were
assigned to Army Service Forces,
where they are conducting a clas
sification survey. Some have gone
to the Sanitary Corps, and are per
forming their duties in such a
manner that the Surgeon Gener
al’s Office is increasing nearly four
fold its requests for ASTP grad
uates in that corps. Asignments to
the Corps of Engineers have in
cluded civil engineers, chemists,
chemical engineers, mechanical en
gineers and architects. Several hun
dred graduates in medicine, den
tistry and veterinary medicine have
been appointed in the appropriate
corps of the Medical Department.
Many ASTP soldiers are being
given responsible overseas as
signments.
The program includes various
courses to fit the soldiers for sev
eral types of special duty in the
various arms and services.
A number of graduates have been
selected for officer candidate
schools, among them the Transpor
tation Corps O. C. S. and the Corps
of Enginers O. C. S. The Army
Specialized Training Program is
not to be regarded, however, as a
sure road to a commission, as
ASTP graduates must compete
wtih all other enlisted men for se
lection to fill the few vacancies in
the O. C. S. Although the train
ees’ chances for advancement are
enhanced by successful completion
of their courses, with officer train
ing a possibility, the primary aim
of the program is to train soldiers
for the highest duties they are
capable of performing in spec
ialized fields where the Army has
greatest needs.
centrifugal method tested only 0.04
per cent butterfat, as compared
with 0.70 per cent butterfat found
in skimmilk separated by water-
dilution or shallow pan. The dif
ference means an annual loss of
many dollars to farmers using the
latter methods. On numerous farms
the value of the butterfat lost by
inefficient gravity separation over
a period of time would exceed the
price of a centrifugal separator.
oojdoujn on
Campus ‘Distractions
By David Seligman
‘Something to Shout About”,
starring Don Ameche, Janet Blair,
and Jack Oakie, comes to Guion
Hall Tuesday and Wednesday. The
public should shout about this one
—it’s packed with topnotch enter
tainment everything from a sensa
tional dog act to the artistic bal
lets of David Scott, and an all
around good performance by the
top-liners asure you of an excel
lent picture. The wide range of
talent is skillfully blended into the
story, although its plot which is
formula, maintains interest be
cause of the naturealnes of the
characterizations. The yarn con
cerns a Broadway producer, whose
comeback is angelled by an ex-
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
We begin our topic for discussion
with the following words by Plu
tarch, “The greatest of all sacri
fices is the sacrifice of time.”
What does this little quotation
mean? Simply this, Beavers, time
is important in this war. Yes, time.
If we had only had time when the
Japs struck at Pearl Harbor. With
time the whole course of this war
could have been changed over
night. Don’t let a moment go un
done, Beavers; every second counts
in this fast moving world. Take
everything you do with the utmost
of importance, lessons, drilling,
etc. Every second, minute, hour,
I week, month you miss is disrupt
ing the war effort. So with all this
in mind let’s go to town with this
quotation, “Don’t put off until
tomorrow what you could do to
day.”
HELP BRING VICTORY . . .
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY!
chorus girl, millionairess-by-mar
riage, who fances herself as an
actress. When the impresxario and
his press agent discover a gal with
real talent, they plot to get their
backer out of the way.
The Lowdown: Make it a scream.
At the Campus Theater for
Tuesday and Wednesday is show
ing “Quiet Please, Murder,” This
film, as the title suggests, is a
gruesome murder story starring
your Falcon of the series by the
same name, George Sanders and
also Gail Patrick. This is a story
of the murder of a wealthy man
in his library and the appearance
of Sanders on the scene, who with
the help of Gail finds the solution
and catches the killer. This is an
average story with a worn out
plot dressed up to hide its shabbi
ness.
The Lowdown: If you don’t like
it, go to sleep.
GAS RATIONING DOES NOT
STOP HOBO-DAY PARADE
BROOKINGS, S. D.—Despite
gasoline and tire rationing, the
“Bummobile” runs again this year
in the Hobo day parade at South
Dakota State college.
The Bummobile is the official
car for the Hobo day royalty. The
antiquated automobile is a 1912
Model T. Ford, owned by the Stu
dent association. It was given to
the associotion in 1939 by Frank
Weagal of Flandreau with the
understanding it was to appear
each year in the homecoming pa
rade.
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ADMISSION
IS ALWAYS
Tax Included
Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M.
Closes 8:30
TODAY and WEDNESDAY
“SOMETHING TO
SHOUT ABOUT”
— with —
Don AMECHE
Janet BLAIR
Jackie OAKIE
also Cartoon - News - Variety
ampus
Dial 4-1181
OPENS 1:00 P. M.
TODAY and WEDNESDAY
“QUIET PLEASE,
MURDER”
— also —
Merrie Melody Cartoon
“HISS AND
MAKE UP”
— also —
“SWING THAT
BAND”
— with —
Johnny Long and His Orch.
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