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Page 2 THE BATI'ALIGN SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1943 STVI>»NT Tm-WEEKLY NEW&PAPISK TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newapaper of the Atrrieultnral aibC Maehonieal Coiietce of ftouts aa<l the City of Ceilece Station, u pohlisheh three timed weekly, aod igtmed Fuaoday, Tharsday and Saturday moraines. Entered as second class matter at the Peat Jffiee at Coheoe Station. Texae. orjder the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870. Subscription rate $8 per school year. Advertising rates upon reqoest. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, lata, at New York Cits', Cbieago, Boston, Leg Angelos, and San Francisco. Office, Room S. Administration Ballding. Telephone l~S4t4. 1942 Member 1943 Plssockoted Goilegiote Press H. Sylvoator Boone Sports Staff Earold Borofsky Sports Editor WSliam Baker Sperts 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 SttSu Beard (T.S.C.W.) For Battalion Advertising Staff johr. Kelly Business Manager Eharies R. West Ass’t. Basiness Mgr. Editor-iii-Chief Tuesday’s Staff Charlie Murray Managing Editor Ed Katten Reporter Charles West Reporter Charley L. Dobbs Reporter Saturday’s Staff Dave Seligman Managing Editor Fred Manget, Jr. Reporter John T. Scnrlock Reporter Stanley Weiss Reporter Misoellansoas David Seligman Columnist J. W. Standifer Staff Photographer Circulation Staff Steele H. Nixon Circulation Mgr. George Puls Ase't. Circulation Mgr. Holiday Changes . . . As yet no announcement has been made relative to a change in dates of the holidays. December 18th to the 28th has been set as the days off for Christmas. This arrange ment lets the Corps out of classes seven days before Christ mas Day to three days before New Year’s. No obvious rea son for this setup can be found, and a number of people have asked why a change can’t be made to give the Aggies both Christmas and New Year’s Day off. It does seem reasonable for the Executive Committee which sets these dates to re lease classes on the 22nd and have them resumed on the 3rd. Two reasons for this new arrangement have been found. No Orange Bowl bid had been received by the football team at the time of setting the date. A number of Aggies have expressed their desire to go to Miami and lend their support to the all-deserving football boys. Those who do not wish to make the trip have other reasons for wanting to have •New Year’s Day off. The fathers of these Aggies are usually limited to these two days off at this time, these two days being Christmas and New Year’s. Being home seven days before Christmas will mean that these two full days will be wasted as far as visiting their parents are concerned. As to traffic congestion, there will be none since the usual Aggie way will be followed in arriving at the destina tion. Getting off right at Christmas will mean an increase in Traffic for the convenience of the boys using this Aggie way of hitch-hiking. No congestion of traffic will be found at Aggieland. With these facts, a change in holidays seems to be the best happening to the Corps as a whole. A reasonable answer as to why this change cannot be made has not yet been made. A logical solution to the problem as seen by the Battalion is for the Committee to meet again to set the dates for December 22nd, and lasting until January 3rd at 6 am. By SnSu Beard Now that the Thanksgiving game is over, there is only one com ment. The Aggies’ did their best, but not even the deserving team can always win over certain odds. In such cases it might be called Luck for the win ners and Fate for the losers. There was a special sig nificance to the playing of silver SuSu taps at the end of that game, probably because of a sincere feeling in the Aggie spirit which has been so evident at this time, or in these times. Thanksgiving holidays were too much for some of us as far as the eating part was concerned. There were virtual mob scenes around the scales that following morning —“hmmm, gained three pounds.’’ Don’t you think it is a shame the way some girls can starve them selves to a state of utter weakness, then undo all the good with about a dozen sundaes? I have mentioned before the postal confusion; well, we still have it. Two letters were sent here ad dressed to ‘Miss Smith’, and ‘Miss Jones,’ T. S. C. W.—nothing else was included. That address is ra ther vague, don’t you think? Our confused postmaster never could decide what to do, so he didn’t do anything. That means that some one’s literary efforts were of no avail. Walking through the dormitory halls, one is confronted with the tidings of Christmas. Almost each door has some sort of red and green wreath. Our holidays have finally been announced to run from December 16 until January 5- Guess it’s almost time to start packing as there is nothing like being prepared. Each dormitory plans to give a Christmas party for certain groups of the faculty. Those in charge of decorations are in a dilemma. No tinsel, no snow flakes, and no chance of getting any. However, the main woe is not being able to buy holly sprigs or trees. This situation is bound to result in one thing—our campus landscape will suddenly become very barren. It’s surprising at the ability most girls have for cutting. To keep us from getting over excited about leaving here, many of the teachers have banned to gether in assigning tests on the last day of classes. Each time we walk into the classroom, we stare first at the instructor. If he has a gleam in his eye, then it is cer tain a test will be assigned. Such is college. All good wishes until next time, SuSu Something to Read By Hazel Adams As The World Turns . . . By Charles G. Whitwell The “old Army game” has been worked again and it seems that a new columnist has been born—or has he? Perhaps this writer should at least wait to see if this first attempt receives its baptism of printer’s ink or finds its way into the editor’s waste-basket. When I was asked to assume the responsibility of the history column, the editor asked what he wanted it to consist of. He suggested that, in view of my first-hand acquaint ance with the Far East, and parti cularly with the Philippines, that the column should consist mainly of comments on happenings, past or present, in that region. This I shall try to do. It has long been my belief that a column of this kind should not be a place for the writer to air his pet prejudices and peeves, or to attempt to show his superior wis dom. Rather it should be a source of pertinent facts of interest to the readers for whom such a column is intended- This latter will be my aim. Should the readers-if any- care to cooperate, suggestions will be gladly received. An unusual election took place early last month. The Congress of the United States passed, and President Roosevelt signed a reso lution extending the term of Manu el Quezon as president of the Phi lippines until the Japanese are dri- (See WORLD TURNS, Page 3) NEED MONEY? May be you need some extra money for Christmas—Let Lou help you with your problems. LCD PCX’S “Trade With Lou—He’s Right With You” Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone Something good came out of the year 1943, an edition of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone which can be read without magnifying glass. The edition was issued by The Press of the Readers Club and has a foreword by Alexander Wooll- cott. For those whose spines be gan to tingle reminiscently at the mention of the first and best de tective story in the English lan guage this review is so much fluff. For those who have the for tune never to have read The Moonstone this is a cry of envy for the joy in horror which awaits them. Skip Mr. Woolcott’s profession ally charming introduction and get into the prologue, in which a young man writes a letter from India to his relations in England to ex plain why he no longer shakes the hand of or speaks to his cousin, John Herncastle. Before the English stormed Ser- ingapatam they had heard fabul ous tales of a Yellow Diamond, the Moonstone, which gleamed in the head of a dagger and which was guarded and had bene for centur ies by a succession of mysterious Indians. John Herncastle alone, among the soldiers, took the story seriously. On the day of battle his cousin found him bending over the body of a mortally wounded Ind ian. In his hand was a dagger dripping with blood. From the handle of the dagger gleamed a jewel which flashed like a great light. The Indian before he died, said, “The Moonstone will have its vengeance yet on you and yours!” Years later the story proper opens at a beautiful country estate in England where the Moonstone begins to have its vengeance on a fetching young woman who re ceives the diamond as a mysterious gift on her eighteenth birthday. From then on the story has ev erybody: the heroine living under a cloud of guilt; the famous Ser geant Cuff, a detective who grows roses for a hobby; a deformed woman as housemaid whose past includes a reformatory; three Indian guards of the jewel, turn ing up this time as jugglers; the hero in a very bad light; and the villian in a very good one. The story also has everything: a let ter buried in the sea; a missing nightgown; a theft; a thunder storm; and at the last a physiologi- See Something To Read, page 3) AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF For extraordinary courage Boatswain’s Mate Harold F. Smith, First Class, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. After orders to abandon the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor, he took his motor launch out to the stricken battle wagon repeatedly—in spite of fierce enemy bombing and strafing—in spite of flaming oil on the water’s surface—and brought ashore burned and wounded personnel, saving many lives. Your Payroll Savings MUST back such men as this. U. S. Treasury Department Church Notices ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHAPEL The Rev. J. H. R. Farrell, Priest-in-Charge Second Sunday in Advent Holy Communion—9 :00 a.m. Coffe Club—9 :30 a.m. Church School—9 :45 a.m. Holy Communion—11:00 a.m. The Guild of St. Thomas’ will meet Monday, December 6th, at 7:30 p.m. in the rectory. The Y. P. S. L. will meet at the Chapel at 5 :30 ages of group the Vi( ape p.m. All young people from the eleven to fifteen are welcome. This meets every Sunday night with The Woman’s Auxiliary of the College Presbyterian Church will meet in circles mee foil! lay. Circle I with Mrs. W. A. Duean, Campus, at 3 II with Mrs. J. C. Miller, at 3 p.r Circle 3 p.m. Circle III with Mrs. C. T. Spiker, Col lege Hills, at 8 p.m. Following a brief circle program the ladies will go to the Bryan Presbyterian Church and join w7th the ladies of the auxiliary there at ‘ '— - —| ’ 1 go to the Bryan join lere a program and fellowship hour. 4 p.m ship ho special The Women’s Society of Christian Serv ice of the A. and M. Methodist church will meet Monday evening at 8:00 o’clock with Mrs. R. M. Pinkerton, 206 Suffolk, South Oakwood. Mrs. L. J. Ritter is the assistant hcstess. AMERICAN LUTHERAN CONGREGATION Y.M.C.A. Chapel, Campus Kurt Hartmann, Pastor Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. Divine Service at 11:00 a.m. Student meeting at 6:30 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH R. L. Brown, Pastor C. Roger Bell, Education and Music 9 :40 a.m —Sunday School 10 :50 a.m.—Morning Worship 1:30 p.m. B. S. U. Council 4 :00 p.m.—Choir Rehearsal 6 :05 p.m.—Training Union 7 :15 p.m.—Evening Worship Each evening this week we will have our School of Missions. One session will begin at 5:15 p.m., and the second will begin at 6:15 p.m. Supper will be served at 5:45 p.m. Program will conclude at 6:4S p.m. The teachers of the School will be Rev. R. L. Brown, Mrs. Roy Simms, C. Roger Bell, Mrs. R. P. Adams. Mrs. R. L. Brown, local Mission Study Chairman, will be in charge of the School. Regular Mid-Week Prayer Service will be held at 7:00 o’clock W ing. Wednesday even- A. & M. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH College Station, Texas Norman Anderson, Pastor December 5, 1943 9 :45 a.m.-—Sunday School 11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship. Sermon topic—'“On the Alert for Christ” 6:30 p.m.—Young People’s League 7:30 p.m.—Evening Worship and Fel lowship, Morning services will be held in the Campus Theater and evening services in the YMCA Chapel. HELP BRING VICTORY . . . BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! HELP BRING VICTORY . . . BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! LOUPOT’S A Little Place . . . ... A Big Saving NAVY MEN Let Ua Do Yonr Altering LAUTERSTEIN’S LOUPOT’S Where You Always Get a Fair Trade Jlovjdovan on Campus ‘Distractions By David Seliganaaai “Bomber’s Moon” with George Montgomery and Anabella comes to the Campus as the Saturday preview and Sunday-Monday at traction. Although a few new twists offer occasional extenuation, this must be catalogued as just ano ther war picture whose general theme has been worn threadbare by a long succession of previous offerings. Performances and direc tion are acceptable, but fail to make the many far-fetched situa tions and heroics come to life. Crashing in Belgium, an American bomber is committed to a military prison within Germany. He es capes with two fellow prisoners, a Czech officer (who turns out to be a Gestapo agent) and a beau tiful Russian female lieutenant doc tor. The pair slay the Nazi and af- Qainpu Dial 4-1181 OPENS 1:00 P. M. LAST DAY .. . V ' // CLAUDETTE PAULETTE VERONICA COLBERT-GODDARD LAKE Paramount's — also — Latest Fox Movietone News SATURDAY PREVUE SUNDAY and MONDAY ter countless narrow escapes, find their way to England and Cupid. The Lowdown: Beautiful moon, (See DISTRACTIONS, Page 4) 9c & 20c Phone 4-1168 ADMISSION IS ALWAYS Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M.- Closes 8:30 SATURDAY ONLY Double Feature ROSS with ’ STUART EVELYN ERWIN • VENABLE Executive Producer SOL M. WURTZEL Directed by THOMAS Z. LORING, ^ Screen Play by Ben Mark son and Irving Cummings, Jr, Based on a Story by Peter B, Kyn* . mtnms — plus “THE NAVY COMES THROUGH” — with — Pat O’BRIEN George MURPHY Jackie COOPER PREVUE TONIGHT 9:46 also SUNDAY and MONDAY “EDGE OF DARKNESS” — with — Errol FLYNN Ann SHERIDAN Alan HALE See broadcast from stage Sunday 3-3:30 p. m. of ALL SERVICE SHOW HOUR presented each Sunday broadcast over WTAW. Plan those Christmas GIFTS NOW! 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