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Page 2 THE BATTALION SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1944 STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official news as and the City of College Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. Texas and the of Colleg paper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College i Station, is published three times weekly, and issu< nim Entered as second class matter at the Post under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Office at College Station, Texa> Subscription rate $3 per school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York Cit> Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 1942 Member 1943 P4ssocia!ed Golleftiote Press H. Sylvester Boone Editor-iH-Chief Sports Staff Tuesday's Staff Harold Borofsky Sports Kdttor Charlie Murray Managing Editor Robert Orrick Sports Reporter Ed Katten Reporter R. L. Weatherly Sports Columnist Charles West Reporter Claude Stone Sports Photographer Charley L. Dobbs Reporter Thursday’s Staff Saturday's Staff David Seligman Managing Bdltor Calvin Brumley Managing Editor Max Mohnke Reporter Fred Manget, Jr. Reporter &. L. Weatherly Reporter Stanley Weiss Reporter Special Columnists Mlsoellsaeoas Archie Broodo (Aggie) For Lese-o David Seligman Oohmmist SmBv Beard (T.S.C.W.) For Battalion Ed Katten Circulation Manager On the Aggie campus this week-end are members of the Lass-0 staff of TSCW. The following members of the staff helped the regular Battalion staff with today’s issue: Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Desk Editor Rose Samsel Judith McNeill Dorothy Anderson Rose Mooneyham Feature Writer Geneice Key News Editor Dolores Wortham Feature Writer Joan O’Brien Feature Writer SuSu Beard Columnist Alice Tucker Reporter Lorena Brooks Reporter Minti Simpson Reporter Natalie Mathews Reporter Grace Robinson Reporter Adelle Baker Reporter Just Watch That “Old Feeling” Hard as it is to understand, the war actually does help out some things. For instance, the brother-sister spirit be tween A. & M. and T.S.C.W. If reports of the “good ole daze” are correct, five years ago the spirit reached its peak, with Aggies and Tessies clicking to the tune of “The Twelfth Man.” Box numbers were exchanged. Corps trips meant almost exclusive sister- brother dates. Tessies thought it sheer disloyalty to sit down except at the half during A. & M. games, heels or no heels. And if they were caught minus the words to the Aggie songs, they’d insist right then on personal instruction. Remember? It’s coming back again, that “old feeling". Last year it hit the low mark with the Date Bureau battle advertised through student publications. But this year those same publications are printing exchange columns, “Tessie Talk” and “Amblings 'Round Aggieland.” It’s a good thing. Let’s keep it going for the time when once again Tessies can have special busses to A. & M. every week-end, and when Aggies can make TSCW look co-educational just as often.— R. S. Another Forgotten Man? In publishing the problem of post-war of employment, analysts of both radio and the newspaper have been ignor ing the question of the 12,000 conscientious objections now in Civilian Public Service all over the country. After the war the record these men will carry with them wherever they apply for jobs will be unacceptable. Yet their class is distinctly separate from that of the imprisoned draft dodgers. The greater number are sincere in their re ligious beliefs which prevent them from taking part in “in ternational mass murder.” The men in the Civilian Public Service Camps vary great ly in age, education, and faith. Ranging in years from eigh teen to thirty-six, they have schooling records as meager as fifth grade and as advanced as several university degrees. The faiths represented in the camps number over thirty, of which possibly fifteen are well-known to the average person. For the duration these men are working at hard labor, on soil-conversation projects in the Dust Bowl, forest pre servation, soil irrigation projects, and as orderlies in hospitals Fire fighting is the only exciting aspect of their job. In the Northwest, some have been used, para-troop fashion, to fight raging fires. They are not cowards—any more than they are draft dodgers perhaps double before the present draft pro gram is completed, be ignored in postwar planning because the issue is an unpopular one ? Or will their question be given its due attention, preventing an added employment problem after the war. The Moron’s Hymn By Melvin H. Daskal From the halls of dear old Leggett To the mighty North Gate stores We will fight our nation’s battles ’Till there are not any more Though we fight to pass our Physics We are proud to bear the title Of the Chairborne Engineers Our meals are served in Sbisa Hall And we never miss a one We fight in all our classrooms But never with a gun! So haid we heroes every man Let the hills resound with cheers We will win the war in Sixty Four The Chairborne Engineers In nine more months we’re P. F. C.’s Right now we’re G. F. U.’s We battle with our slide rules And we never, never lose Our casualties are very light So please don’t worry dear But admire your mite-y warrior In the Chairborne Engineers!!! —SIMILARITY— Continued From Page 1) great deal of similarity between a newspaper and a woman. If you are one of those Aggies who is hard to convince I’ll tell you why: “They both have forms. They always have the last word. Back numbers are not in demand. They are well worth looking over. They have a great deal of influ ence. You cannot believe everything they say. They carry the news wherever they go. Every man should have one of his own and not borrow his neigh bor’s.” a > GosH, Home was wever like Hiis f As the World Turns.. Of the proposals for new laws made by President Roosevelt in his “State of the nation” message to Congress this §1 week, the propos- al for the Nation- j| al Service Act f has provoked the greatest amount of discussion. In Congress the re action was vio lent. The opin ions of spokes man of various whitwell sections of the public were no less explosive. La bor leaders such as Green, Murray and Lewis branded the proposed act as a step toward “slave labor.” Local opinion as expressed to the writer was generally to the effect that the whole idea was pure politics. This is election year. President Roosevelt in part justi fied a National Service Act on the grounds that it would prevent strikes. He knows that the pub lic generally is fed up on strikes. He also knows that such a law has little chance of passing Congress. When strikes cohtinue to occur between now and election time the President can point an accusing finger at Congress with an “I told you so”. Such is the tenor of much local thinking. It can be pointed out, however, that Mr. Roosevelt has come at last to a decision which he has been reluctant to make. Nearly a year ago a bill proposing such a law was introduced in Congress by Senator Austin and Representa tive Wadsworth. Their bill was strongly approved by Secretary Stimson, Under-Secretary of War Patterson, and Rear-Admiral Land. But Manpower Commissioner Mc Nutt opposed the bill and Roosevelt went on record as favoring the de lay of any such bill as long as possible. The Austin-Wadsworth bill is now coming to life again in com mittee. It provides that every able-bodied man under 65 and every able-bodied woman under 50 be made subject to call by the government to render such non- combatent personal services in aid of the war effort as they are “deemed best fitted to perform.” Any person drafted for compul sory service would receive the same pay and work the same hours customary to the job he or she is called on to fill. England, Australia, and New Zealand have such laws. Certain ly these countries are as interested in individual rights as we are. Is there anything about the proposed law that justifies labor leaders to maintain that it would create “slave labor” in the United States? Surely if it is democratic to draft men for the armed services at $50.00 a month it would be no less democratic to draft workers at twice that amount a week. The only thing this writer sees wrong with the proposed law is that it should have been enacted two years ago. But watch Con gress and the labor leaders make an oratorical football out of this proposal of the President. Tessie lalk. Just as in Denton’s Climate, the shiwers predominate. Even though this weather does make the campus beau tiful, it does nothing for per sonal appearance. Red noses, from the cold, cracked lipstick and froz en skin never have been a boon to beauty. For tunately though, half the popula- SuSu tion can lose themselves in over abundant cloth ing. Yes, it could be true that looks often drop with the mercury. A. & M. Singing Cadets certain ly made a fine appearance in our auditorium not long ago. Marvin Brown’s song concerning the “wo man who swallowed things” receiv ed its share of feminine laughs. Then Burl Ervin’s solo ‘My Ideal’ brought just such thoughts to many of the audience. Not surprisingly, the shows main event was the spir ited singing of< the,“.Spirit of Ag gieland”. As many of you probably know, the T. S. C. W.’s weekly news staff arrived in College Station Friday noon. These girls from the Lass-0 left their school at the The University of Kansas dedi cated its new 250,000 Military Science building on December 10. —ALL-SERYTCE— (Continued From Pasre 1) sored by a “different” product, one that “presents an unusual an nouncement to potential customers of useless products” stated Gott lieb. Features of tomorrows program will be gags, music and gags, the producer announced, with listen ers getting an opportunity to par ticipate in the show. Market Co-ops Give Third of Foodstuff Under Lend-Lease Consumer Co-ops Have One-Sixth of Farm Supplies in America Marketing cooperatives in this country now supply one-third of the foodstuff under lend-lease, and consumer cooperatives now handle one-sixth of the farm supplies used in producing America’s food. These facts reveal the growth of farm cooperatives, says C. B. Ray, specialist in organization and cooperative marketing for the A. and M. College, Extension Service in commenting on the Centennial year of cooperatives which now is being observed. Cooperatives handled from 10 to, 20 per cent of the pre-war bus iness in Europe, Ray says, and in the post-war era he believes Eur opean cooperatives, if given the opportunity, will provide an ef ficient, non-profit method of dis tributing relief materials. A program for using cooperate channels in post-war reconstruc tion has been prepared by the Co operative Leagues Committee on International Cooperative Recon struction and has been presented to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull and Director General Lehman. China also offers a fertile field for expansion of cooperatives. The Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, composed of small groups of craftsmen who have moved their looms and dies into the hills as the Japanese have advanced, have been supplying much to their own Army as. well as to civilians. More •recently, the C. I. C. has been fill ing contracts for the U. S. Army Air Force, especially furniture. They have had to revive their cus tomary specifications, for Chinese chairs won’t support the average six foot airman! Texans themselves certainly are cooperative minded, Ray empha sizes. One of every three farm families in the state is affiliated with some kind of co-op. glorious hour of five o’clock dawn. Coming down the conversation, as expected, started and ended on discussions of boys the girls were to meet while down here. Such talking rotated, for while half of the girls were wondering who they would have dates with, the other half wondered who would have dates with ‘them’. Somehow, nothing violent occurred, but that may be described as unusual. Thus the hours passed. At last, the destination was reached, A. & M. There at the station, brave young men of the Aggie press, formed the welcom ing committee. From the station this group hiked to the ‘Y’ to knock off icecycles before going to lunch. So far, this comprises the ventures, but, could I say, that probably many more were in pro gression. Again Sincerely, SuSu. STUDENT CO-OP Bicycle and Radio Repair Phone 4-4114 LOUPOT’S Watch Dos: of the Aggies il ( Z7/l£ J2ovcrcLown on Qampus ‘Distractions By David Saligrnm The weekend show at Guion Hall is the thrilling story of “Action in the North Atlantic” starring Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Mas sey, and Alan Hale. The plot is about the Merchant Marine’s job in escorting and carrying the Al lied shipments of materials. The North Star is the ship on which Massey is the captain and Bogart is the first mate. They outsmart a Nazi sub by cutting off their motors and drifting away. During the trip on the way to their des tination in Murmansk, Russia, the ship alone destroyed a pack of enemy subs by a very ingenious plan. In the end they reached port under their own power but badly damaged. They are given a rousing cheer from the happy Russian women on the dock. The Lowdown: An exciting ad venture. “Wintertime” with Sonja Henie Phone 4-1168 k D KK 9c (S 20c Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1:00 P. M. Closes at 7:45 SATURDAY ONLY Double Feature “MALTESE FALCON” plus “ADVENTURE IN IRAQ” wtih John Loder - Ruth Ford also Shorts and Woodie Herman and his band is coming to the Campus Theater for the Saturday preview and Sun day and Monday. This is strictly a musical comedy of top rating. The graceful curves of Sonja plus her graceful curves on ice to the tunes of Woodie on the clarinet make a combination that is hard to beat. The plot is not so hot (ice is cold you know), in fact it is hard to find the story. The Lowdown: With Sonja what else is needed. /^\ Ljwmui v " ■ 4-1181 OPENS 1:00 P. M. ‘ LAST DAY Jivin’est Jubilee starring _ LENA HORNE BILL ROBINSON CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS BAND AY l SATURDAY PREVUE SUNDAY and MONDAY IPte m SATURDAY 9:45 PREVUE also SUNDAY and MONDAY i WARNER yStoo «f America's Htrcftmt Htrln! — back fivm Xasaitanca'fbr IMS MMONOMASSEHtAM 1111111! also Pete Smith Specialty and “Yankee Doodle Mouse” Starts 9:30 P.M. Over 11:45 P.M. News reel Pictures of Captured Nazi Films Showing “Inside of Hitler’s Europe” Start The New Year Off Right! We invite you to use the facilities of your own col lege owned and college operated store for better quality merchandise, for better service and for better prices. At the beginning of a new year, it is a good lesson to learn and a good practice to begin to recognize that quality is the essense of thrift and that by buying your supplies and necessities from us, you will effect many savings. You Are Always Welcome At The Exchange Store THE EXCHANGE STORE ‘An Aggie Institution”