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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1944
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World Students Service Fund . . .
This week and for the next week, the local Young
Men’s Christian Association is and will be carrying on a
campaign to raise money to aid the prisoners of war who are
overseas- This drive is being made to help these Americans
who were unfortunate in being taken prisoner with their
morale which is so difficult to maintain when everything
of value seems to be a long arm length away. With the
money raised onthe Aggie campus added to that of the many
colleges and universities throughout the country who are
making similar drives at this time, books, musical instru
ments, athletic equipment, and other morale building ar
ticles will be bought and sent over to the men who have no
other way of taking their minds off the horrors of war.
At Aggieland students an dservice men alike are con
tributing to put the drive over. The Army Specialized Unit
reported well over $600 as their gift. No other units have
made reports, but they should be able to give as much. At
least the Sailors, Marines, Air Corps cadets, and Aggies
have a mark to shoot at. When the final report is made,
the leaders of the drive will know how much the men on
the campus are behind those who risked their lives that they
may stay in this country.
PENNY’S SERENADE
———By W. L. Penberthy
Many of us will be leaving
school for various reasons ata the
end of this semester. A small
percentage are getting much
sought after and much prized de
grees. Others will leave for mili
tary sei’vice and I am sure anoth
er group will enter other institu
tions to continue their course of
study.
I always hesitate to give advice
because I feel that advice is like
Man, Your Manners
By i. Sherwood
Table manners are very reveal
ing and if you aren’t sure of yours,
you should start work on them.
If you have ordinary, everyday
good manners, you have a pretty
good start already; formal dinner
manners won’t be too difficult—
just a few more pieces of silver
and china, with less food, served
up in a swank manner.
At a formal dinner you will us
ually be shown where to be seated
by the use of place cards at the
tablei
To seat a lady at the table —
move the chair back from the
table, for the lady on your right,
and when she has taken her posi
tion move the chair forward. If
you are a guest at a family din
ner, you should seat your hostess
or any other lady present unless
there is someone nearer to her
who is doing it.
Napkin—Take your napkin as
soon as you are seated, unfold it
part way and lay it across your
lap. When you have finished your
meal lay your napkin on the table
beside your plate. Do not fold it
unless you are in a home or broad-
ing house, where you feel certain
you are expected to use it again.
When tx> Start Eating—At small
dinners wait until the others are
served. At banquets or large din
ners, it is proper to start as soon
as those in your immediate vicinity
have been served. At a formal din
ner food is offered you from your
left instead of being served by
the head of the table.
Table Silver—Formal dinner
tables are set with all the foi’ks,
knives, and spoons necessary
through the salad course. Start
from the outside and work in to
ward your plate; the forks will
be at your left and the knives and
spoons at your right.
The knife is used only in the
right hand. In spite of statements
to the contrary your knife may be
used to cut your salad.
The fork is used in both the right
and left hand. In the left it should
be used as an adjunct to the knife
for cutting purposes with the
prongs turned down. When used in
the right hand prongs should be
turned up. When you have finish
ed with both knife and fork they
are placed across the center of the
plate side by side, handles to the
right, fork in front of knife.
The butter knife is used only for
spreading butter on bread—small
portions at a time—it is kept on
the bread and butter plate.
When using the soup spoon, dip
the soup away from you and sip
from the side of the spoon. If you
tip your soup plate, tip it away
from you.
castor oil: “Everybody wants to
give it but nobody wants to take
it.” And I also feel that quite
often “Advice costs nothing and
is worth it.” But when it comes
to practical advice I like that
whic hthe director of a camp where
I served as a councilor gave me,
as I was leaving the camp for a
day off. He said, “Penny, don’t
do anything you couldn’t do on a
bicycle.”
Aside from the humor in the re
mark there is plenty of food for
thought; because to ride a bicycle
we must have balance and it sure
ly takes balance to excell in other
sports. I have also noticed that
those who excel in the art of liv
ing are those who keep their work,
—DANCE—
(Continued from page 1)
Graf, also of Walton, for $2.50
per couple.
Seniors are urged to attend this
last annual traditional senior ban
quet, ring ceremony, and dance.
Barney Rapp and his orchestra will
be on hand to furnish all dancers
with the best music that has been
heard on this campus since last
May, it was stated by many of
the students who have been here
continuously since that time.
worship, hobbies and pleasures in
the proper balance with each
other.
WESTERN
UNION
FORD MUNNERLYN, MANAGER CENTRAL TEXAS DIVISION
SEABOARD LIFE INSURANCE CO.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
OUR DIRECTIONS HAVE INSTRUCTED ME TO EXPRESS THEIR
GRATIFICATION AT THE EXCELLENT RECORD MADE BY YOU
AND YOUR ASSOCIATES DURING 1943. IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL
CAPACITY YOU STOOD SECOND AMONG ALL SEABOARD PRO
DUCERS FOR THE YEAR. YOU SET A NEW RECORD FOR THE
COMPANY FOR ONE MONTH’S BUSINESS AND YOUR INSURANCE
IN FORCE IS NOW IN EXCESS OF $1,600,000. YOUR AGENCY, IN
SPITE OF THE LOSS OF SIX OF YOUR MEN, HAD A FINE YEAR
WITH $830,000 IN NEW BUSINESS AND AN EXCELLENT GAIN IN
INSURANCE IN FORCE, BRINGING YOUR TOTAL INSURANCE
ON THE LIVES OF PROMINENT PEOPLE IN THAT SECTION OF
THE STATE AND HUNDREDS OF A. & M. GRADUATES TO THE
IMPRESSIVE TOTAL OF $6,678,000. WE ARE VERY PROUD OF
YOU AND YOUR RECORD.
BURKE BAKER, PRESIDENT
SEABOARD LIFE INSURANCE
CENTRAL TEXAS DIVISION
FORD MUNNERLYN, MANAGER
Hershel Burgess
* P. L. Martin
A. B. Clemmer
Neill Marshall
Ruth Ravalle
R. C. Franks
* W. N. Colson
* L. R. Smith
S. L. Lovless
Eugene Hart
* H. R. Hooker
*In Military Service
Ab oar e>
UFE: jN SLIR AN CE COMPANY
H O U STO N, TEXAS
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Qampus distractions
By David
“Foreign Correspondent” is the
feature attraction at the Campus
on Thursday and Friday. The
film stars Joel McCrea, Lorraine
Day, and George Sanders in an
exciting episode of an American
correspondent who is on the trail
of the • assasin of an important
diplomat. All across Holland the
—REGISTRATION—
(Continued from page 1)
ternoon, January 28 from 1:00 p.
m. until 5:00 p.m.
Cadets completing their school
work on Saturday will move their
equipment to their new room as
signments under the supervision
of the tactical officers Saturday
morning, Januai’y 29, from 8:00
a.m. until 12:00 noon.
All rooms, hallways, and cori'i-
dors will be left in a neat and
orderly condition.
Students not returning for the
next semester will check out
through the Commandant’s Office
and their respective company head
quarters before their departure
from the college.
Dormitories will be opened for
occupancy for next semester noon
February 3, 1944.
1500 students are expected to
return and one hundred and fifty
new students are expected.
trio follows the culprit and his
gang. In the end the ring and
plot are revealed. A plane crash
almost prevents the story from
getting to the papers in the United
States. The picture is rather old
but it was I’ated as good when it
came out.
The Lowdown: Thriller.
Camera Club Holds
Banquet at Sbisa
A. and M.’s Camera Club held
its final social event of the semes
ter at Sbisa Banquet room Wed
nesday night, January 26, at 6
o’clock, Claude Stone, president of
the club announced. J. B. Clark,
official college photographer and
head of the Experiment Station
photographic laboratories, will be
the principal speaker for the even
ing. His subject will be the scien
tific aspect of photography and
its part in research.
A display of photographs taken
by members of the club were ex
hibited beginning at 4 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon in the
Lounge of Sbisa Hall. These pic
tures remained on display until
after the banquet. The Experi
ment Station laboratories also
displayed some photographs from
their files.
Something to Read
T. F. Mayo
Do These Words Confuse You?
Even casual reading nowadays
is full of terms which, the authors
assume, we all understand, and
yet which surprisingly few of us
do understand at all precisely.
Here are some of these words,
with an offhand definition of each,
and references to books in which
you may find authoritative infor
mation about them:
Fascism: A principle of social
organization which abolishes dem
ocratic government and sets up a
dictator, without destroying pri
vate ownership of “the means of
production” (industries, land,
etc.). In other words, Fascism
aims at a dictatorship ‘with cap
italism.
Communism, on the other hand,
abolishes democracy and sets up
a dictator in order to destroy
private ownership of the means
of production. It aims at a dic
tatorship with socialism, that is,
with public ownership of the means
of production. Fascism and Com
munism, then, are alike in being
dictatorships, with enormous con
centration of power in the Gov
ernment and with only one party
allowed to exist.
Fascism and Communism differ
in that Fascism leaves ownership
of industries and land in the
hands of capitalists, though the
Government controls all business;
while under Communism the Gov
ernment owns the industries and
the land, and actually -runs busi
ness and agriculture.
Germany, Italy (under Musso
lini), and Spain are Fascist dic
tatorships, though Hitler calls
German Fascism “National Social
ism (Nazism)”, and Franco calls
Spanish Fascism “Falangism”.
Fascism usually shows itself
when the owning class of a coun
try become frightened at a grow
ing tendency toward public own
ership of industries and land. It
has been flippantly defined as
“Capitalism with its back to the
wall, and a sawed-off shot-gun in
its hand.”
Do Fascism and Communism
exist in the United States? Well,
of course their germs exist in
every country. If great Ameri
can owners ever become so afraid
of Government ownership that
the yare willing, in order to save
their property, to abolish democ
racy and set up a “strong man”
to stop “radical” legislation, then
we shall have a Fascist move
ment. If, on the other hand, Am
erican laborers should ever des-
paid so completely of living de
cently under capitalism that they
were willing to set up a dictator
ship in order to destroy private
ownership by force, then we would
have an American Communist
movement. So far, the great
majority of American owners and
laborers still believe, apparently,
that they are better off under pri
vate ownership, with a free gov
ernment, than they would be un
der a dictatorship of any kind,
either of the right or of the left.
So far, therefore, Fascism and
Communism seem weak and com
paratively harmless in the United
States.
But Left and Right—what do
they mean in this connection? Well
Left is used of the forces which
move toward public ownership,
toward public ownership, toward
Socialism. The Right includes
the parties and groups which op
pose the extension of Government
control or ownership. The ex
treme Left would be the Com
munists, advocating Government
ownership even if force, revolution,
is necessary to bring it about. The
extreme Right, on the other hand,
would be Fascism, willing to de
stroy Democracy by force if this
is necessary to preserve private
ownership and avoid Socialism.
And Socialism—what is that?
Well, if you’ll continue to put up
with these offhand, non-expert
definitions, Socialism means simp
ly the owning and running of the
means of production (industry
and land) by the Government, for
use and not for profit. It is op
posed to Capitalism, which, in the
same free and easy fashion, may
be identified as a asystem under
which industries and land are
privately owned and run for pro
fit.
Socialism can exist, theoretical
ly at any rate, under a free demo
cratic government or under a dic
tatorship. If Socialism resorts to
force and a dictatorship, it be
comes Communism. If Capitalism
resorts to force and a dictator
ship, it becomes Fascism.
Though there are literally
thousands of books which deal
with these theories, it is surpris
ingly hard to name two or three
from which the ordinary man can
get the hang of the whole matter
without excessive pain and sor
row. Probably the best is Harold
Laski’s Where Do We Go From
Here ? Professor Laski is a
British Socialist (not ommunist)
of high political and academic
standing. In this book he advo
cates gradual, legal, and peace
able extension of government
ownership over key industries. He
also, however, gives the clearest
explanation of how Fascism orig-
naites and developes. Altogether,
whether you agree wth its auth
or’s program or not, Laski’s Where
Do We Go From Here? will prob
ably clear up these questions for
you better than any other single
book.
The plainest statement of the
case for Communism is The Com
ing Struggle for Power, by John
Strachey, which is not, however,
so easy to read as Laski’s book.
Probably the best simple de
fense of our present system, cap
italism, is a little book by H. G.
Moulton called Income and Econ
omic Progress.
As for Fascism, I confess that
I have never read a convincing
statement in its favor. Hitler’s
own book, Mein Kampf, of course,
is the bible of German Fascism.
But even the shocking nature of
some of its sayings is not enough
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through the 4th. the date of the
next issue. All news items which
should go in the Saturday,
February 5th, should be at the
Battalion office in room 3 or the
Administration Building by 12
noon Thursday, February 3rd.
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