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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, 1944
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas and the City of College Station, is published three times weekly, and issued
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Jffice at College Station, Texas,
ander the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870.
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1942 Member 1943
Plssocided Golle6iate Press
H. Sylvester Boone
David M. Seligman Managing Editor
Charlie Murray Ass’t. Managing Editor
R. L. Weatherly Sports Writer
... Editor-iii-Chief
C. L. Dobbs Reporter
J im Gabbard Reporter
Fred Manget, Jr Reporter
Charles R. West Reporter
Do Your Part for This Publication
The Battalion, official newspaper of A. and M. College
and College Station, is published three times weekly by the
students and servicemen on the campus. It is your news
paper, so why not take an active role in its publication?
There are many students on the campus who have the
ability to write for a newspaper, but whose talents have, as
yet, not been uncovered. Work of this kind is quite educa
tional as well as interesting. It provides entertainment for
those who have several afternoons without classes.
No doubt, there are some new freshmen who took active
parts in their high school publications. Primarily, it is to
you freshmen to whom this editorial is intended. On the
other hand, no previous experience is necessary. The Bat
talion will teach you the how’s and why’s of journalism.
There are two journalism courses taught this semester :
English 331 and 332. Don W. May, editorial adviser of the
newspaper, is teaching the courses. However, neither of
these courses is needed in order to write for the Battalion.
Anyone is eligible to work on this publication. One of
the three afternoons off—either Monday, Wednesday, or
Friday—is the only requirement. Surely there are students
who can fulfill this factor.
What do you say, freshmen? Won’t you lend a helping
hand?—C.E.M.
Something to Read
By Hazel Adams
EUDORA WELTY
The field of the short story is
peculiarly unappreciated. It re
quires courage as well as a par
ticular talent for a beginning
wrtier to launch himself into it.
While a successful first novel may
bring the young author enough to
keep the pot boiling a first volume,
or a second, or a third of short
stories, however excellent, usual
ly causes only a ripple.
Eudora Welty, a young Missis
sippi writer, has demonstrated her
fidelit yto the kind of work she
does by publishing first a volume
of short stories, “A Curtain of
Green”, second, a fantasy (cer
tainly not a novel in the conven
tional sense), “The Robber Bride
groom,” and this year another
volume of short stories, “The
Wide Net.”
The College Library has been
pleased and somewhat surprised
to note the many interested read
ers for both “A Curtain of Green”
and “The Robber Bridegroom.”
Eudora Welty never took a
course in the writing of the short
story; she had very little if any
professional encouragement; and,
most amazing, she never belonged
to a radical group of young writ
ers. She lives a happy, social life
in a small town in Mississippi and
writes so unobtrusively that when
a new story appears her friends
are apt to say, “Why, Eudora,
when did you write that?”
The stories in “A Curtain of
Green” falls into several types,
but they all bear a distinctive
style, a style perhaps too often
self-conscious and leaning toward
the precious. With few excep
tions the seventeen stories are
preoccupied with the demented,
the deformed, the abnormal, and
the grotesque.
“Lily Daw” tells of a half-witted
girl in the uncompromising hands
of a group of good ladies who are
bent on doing what is best for her.
“Why I Live at the P. 0.” is a
wonderfully subtly drawn picture
of dementia praecox, the more ter
rifying because of the grin! humor
which pervades it. “The Petrified
Man” is a study in unadulterated
vulgarity, the kind found in the
gossip in a beauty parlor in a small
town.
Two of the finest and most beau
tiful of the stories are “A Worn
Path,” the story of an ancient
negress and her memorable trip to
town and “Powerhouse,” the story
of a blind piano player. The telling
of “Powerhouse” is like the music
in a symphony, the main theme
recurrent with disturbing under
tones.
“The Robber Bridegroom” is a
different matter entirely. It is a
short book about a bandit chief
and Rosamond, the beautiful
daughter of a Mississippi planter.
The bandit chief robs Rosamond
of her Paris gown, her fine petti
coats, her French hairpins, and,
shoi’tly, of her virtue. Some critics,
for lack of something to say about
so airy and pleasurable a literary
excursion, have called it an alle
gory. It might be. I prefer to think
of it as a fairy story, written by a
young writer who transferred her
knowledge of Gi'imm, Andersen,
Perrault, and Jacobs to Mississip
pi and the Natchez Trace. Among
the enticing characters is one
named simply Goat, because he
could putt his way into and out of
anything; Mike Fink, and the
brothers, Little Harp and Big
Harp.
PENNY’S SERENADE
————By W. L. Penberthy —
In his commencement address to
the class which graduated at the
close of the past semester Judge
W. S. Barron made a statement in
regard to the training of the youth
of today. He said, “Warm their
hearts, train their minds and chal
lenge their capacities.”
In my opinion all of these are
very sound points in youth train
ing; but the point that struck me
most forcibly was the one in re
gard to “challenging their capaci
ties.” As spectators we like to see
a team play when it is functioning
smoothly and we revel when our
team gets ‘hot’; that is, functions
to its fullest capacity. As perform
ers there is no greater thrill than
that which comes from executing
a skill perfectly and easily. We like
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to see folks who perform up to
their full capacity and we like to
feel that we are making the best
use of our talents; but I am afraid
that if a check could be made
many of us would be surprised and
disappointed in the results.
In sports, the professional is
consistently good in his perform
ance and has very few bad days,
while the amateur has his ‘hot
streaks,’ but may be a very ordi
nary performer between these
streaks. I think the same is true
of life. Those who perform up to
their full capacity day after day
are the successful and happy ones.
The so-called amateurs have their
good days but these are too far
apart to permit much sucessful and
happy living.
LOUPOT’S
Watch Dog of the
Aggies
Man, Your Manners
By i. Sherwood
It is difficult for some people
to make a graceful introduction.
But a little practice will help.
You should feel free to introduce
yourselves to other men any time
anywhere, but, do not introduce
yourselves to ladies unless there
is a good reason.
Always be sure of the names of
people to be introduced. Don’t be
afraid to ask a person his name,
more than once if necessary. How
ever, if you don’t get the name,
don’t let that stop you; the person
will usually help you out. You
are an exception if you do not
forget a name occasionally. Men
nearly always shake hands with
another man. Never shake hands
with a lady when introduced to
her.
The words to be used should be
simple but direct. The accepted
forms are:
“May I introduce ”
“May I present ”
“Allow me to introduce or pre
sent ”
Do not say “Meet Mr. So and
So.” Don’t ever say, “Pleased to
meet you.” The correct reply is
“How do you do.”
If you have your hat on when
presented to a lady, uncover and
remain uncovered while other in
troductions are in progress.
Always present:
1. A gentleman to a lady.
2. A younger man to an older
man.
3. An unmarried lady to a mar
ried lady.
4. A child to an older person.
.Thus:
1. “Mrs. Smith, may I present
Mr. Jones?”
2. “General Briggs, may I
present Mr. Brown?”
3. “Mrs. Brown, may I present
Miss Jones?”
4. “Mr. Jones, may I introduce
my little sister, Betty?”
It is permissible to say “Mr.
Smith — Mr. Brown.”
When introducing people it is
nice if you give a clue about them:
“Mrs. Brown, may I introduce
Major James? Major James is
just back from your home State.”
Art Boosts Morale
Of Service Men
New Rochelle, N. Y. (AGP)—
Art professors at the College of
New Rochelle are not confined to
ivory towers in wartime. Rather,
they are making an unusual and
generous contribution to service
morale.
brought him out of his depression
and gave him a new interest in
life. He is typical of the men who,
through portraits done by the ar
tists “saw themselves as individ
uals again after being just small
cogs in the huge machinery of
war.” *
In addition to the hospital wark,
the artists also work on portraits
at a New Rochelle Service Center
The College of New Rochelle
artists, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Thorne Thompson and Mr. Robert
Blattner, are members of a group
of New Rochelle artists who are
spending much of their spare time
at a near-by military hospital
making portraits of convalescent
soldiers.
“The most impressive thing
about the project,” comments
Mrs. Thompson, an instructor in
design, “is the boost in morale
which it gives to the men.” Many
of the men have been injured so
badly that they are almost psycho
pathic cases. One soldier, for in
stance, woulded in action and
facing an operation, was so de
jected that he did not want to live.
A very handsome portrait which
made him resemble a movie actor
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where men and women members
of the services come in for relax
ation. It is characteristic of ser
vicewomen, Mr. Thompson said,
to want to look more glamorous
than they really are. So far,
more than 1,000 portraits have
been finished. These are finish
ed drawings, not merely rough
sketches—three hours’ work cram
med into one. The artists use
charcoal and pastel as their media.
—DUNNIN QER—
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the like.
Judged the most /we-inspiring
feat of the evening|\oncerned a
New York telephoi ' directory.
Dunninger wrote a name on a
small slate, but did not show what
he had written to the audience. A
helper from the crowd placed a
marker between any t^ro pages of
the directory, which turned out
to be pages 172 and 173. Then
another volunteer placed his fing
er upon any name which he pleas
ed. The name to which he point
ed was “Carter”. Dunninger then
turned the slate around, and much
to our surprise, on it was written
the one word, “CARTER”!
Each of four people from the
audience thought of a four-digit
number. Dunninger wrote a num
ber on his slate. The persons
wrote the numbers of which they
were thinking on the slate, and
another helper added them. Their
sum turned out to be the num
ber which Dunninger had written
on the slate before-hand.
Dunninger’s humor added much
to the success of his performance.
Repeated jokes intended for the
ushers and fellows near-at-hand
in the balcony kept his spectators
in a jovial state.
The master-mind began his
work professionally when he was
only seven years of age. Dun
ninger, a dark-haired, 185-pound
er, has read the minds of six pres
idents of the United States. He
now offers $10,000 to anyone who
can prove that he uses mechanical
means, assistants, confederates,
stooges, outside aid, or any other
of the physical helps that might
explain his feats .
Surely he wouldn’t be kidding
about a thing like that!
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Loyola Polls Show
Fear for Complete
Control of Axis
The question — whether Axis
countries should be merely re
strained or comp etely controlled
by 1 the Allies after the war—has a
large majority of Loyola students
in a quandary.
A student opinion poll at Loyola
shows that seventy per cent of
students in all colleges of the Uni
versity are strictly against com
plete control of any nation in time
of peace, regardless of how dan
gerous its form of government
may prove to be^ A remaining
thirty per cent, however, argue
that if only restraint is placed on
a country, the people will take ad
vantage of this fact, and the re
sulting situation will be another
World War in a short time.
“I propose that the Axis coun
tries be allowed to have their own
rulers, but that these men be sub
ordinate to representatives of our
country,” stated Carolyn Stier,
junior.
Another student who holds that
restraint on Axis countries is suf
ficient is Loly Lawson, sophomore,
who believes “it is utterly impos
sible for the Allies to completely
control all the enemy countries aft
er the war, for only internal revolt
would result. We want this peace
to be a lasting one,” she adds.
Numa Bertel, a freshman, holds
that defeated nations should have
complete liberty after the war. “If
this is not the case,” she says, “we
would very definitely be inflicting
upon them all the things we’re
fighting against. Nothing but
slaves would be made of them. I
therefore believe that they should
be allowed to govern themselves
with no other supervision but their
own.”
On the other hand, Anthony Cari-
mi, freshman, says, “A system of
restraint will never work, for after
a period of years, these countries
will just rise up again. The Allies
should enforce strict military rule
upon these peoples for a period of
years sufficiently long enough to
enable them to get a taste of the
democratic way of living. Children
should be brought up according to
religious ideals.”
Dial 4-1181
Opens 1 p.ni.
TODAY AND FRIDAY
BETTY GRABLE
VICTOR MATURE
in
“I WAKE UP
SCREAMING”
with
LAIRD CREGAR
also
Cartoon - - Short
and Latest News
J2owclo*m on
Campus ‘Distractions
By Dave Seligman
Fans who delight in picking
murderers before the last reel are
going to get fooled a-plenty in “I
Wake Up Screaming,” which will
be shown at the Campus Theater
on Thursday and Friday. Victor
Mature is capable as the sports
promoter who takes Carole Landis
from a waitress to build her to
fame as a glamour model. Betty
Grable turns in a restrained, de-
sexed role as Landis’ sister. Most
of the footage is told via flash
back, as Mature, being grilled un
der suspicion of Carole’s death,
relates incidents in their associa
tion. With the background stuff
out of the way, the story settles
down to hunting the murderer.
Imagine the detective, as played
by Laird Cregar, so infatuated
with the girl who was killed that
he shields the murdered in order
to put the rap on the fellow who
replaced the detective in her ef-
fections.
Lowdown: A new twist and new
thrills await you—a spot that will
leave you breathless.
“All Through the Night” comes
for a two-day play at Guion Hall,
THURS. - FRI. - SAT.
“NO TIME FOR LOVE”
with
Claudette Colbert
Fred MacMurray
plus
CARTOON and NEWS
PREVIEW SAT. NIGHT
11 p.m.
“UNION PACIFIC”
starring
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McCrea
also showing
Sunday - Monday - Tuesday
"it
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beginning Thursday. An excel
lent example of taut melodrama
—with a Nazi spy twist that
tingles with excitement and play
ed to the hilt for suspense and ac
tion. A German baker, friend of
Bogart and his mother, Jane Dar-
well, is murdered by a Nazi sub-
agent for failure to cooperate.
Bogart, retired mobster addicted
to gambling, at first amusingly
follows a hunch for the killer, but
when he falls into some myster
ious goings on, decides in earnest
to get to the bottom. He is up
against Conrad Veidt, leader of
the Nazi ring with headquarters
in a warehouse that serves as
background for some corking sus
pense. The finale has Bogart’s
rival gang pitching in to help
wipe out the ring.
Lowdown: Killer Bogart’s dish
ing it out again, and how you’ll
love it. Look out, Gestapo, he’s
headed your way.
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THE NIGHT”
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Peter Lorre
Conrad Veidt
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looking forward to a successful and happy semester for
you here.
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ience. We invite you to use it often, to make your selec
tions from our large stock of better merchandise, to use
our book department for your texts.
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