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Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 15,1944. STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College o< 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, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate $3 per school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-8444. Tuesday’s Staff Charles R. West Managing Editor Jim Gabbard Ass’t Managing Editor Robert English Reporter Bob Webb Reporter Lloyd Garrett Reporter Saturday’s Staff Calvin E. Brumley Managing Editor Fred Manget Reporter Max Mohnke Reporter Special Writers Archiq Broodo (Aggie) For Lass-0 SuSu Beard (Tessie) For Battalion Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Staff Editor Editor Reporter Reporter Reporter Acting Sports Editor Sports Writer e Sports Writer Circulation Staff Jack Brown Circulation Manager Charles Brown Ass’t Circulation Mgr. 1942 Member 1943 Associated Goile6iate Press H. Sylvester Boone ^ David M. Seligman Thursday’s David M. Seligman Managing Fred Manget Soph Marvin Jones ... John Gutteridge Robert Gold Sports Staff R. L. Weatherly Bob Orrick Max Mohnk A Way of Life . . . A great deal has been said in regard to preserving the “American Way of Life” since the beginning of the present war. A great deal has been done about preserving it on the far flung battle fronts of the world . . . many men have given their lives, men have sacrificed their limbs . . . many men have suffered the torture and hell of prison camps . . . that the “American Way of Life” should endure. On the home front the American way of life itself has undergone radical changes, with many limtiations and deprived liber ties, . . . yet in the face of these sacrifices, even in the face of a glorious victory, the future and the preservation of the American Way of Life is not assured. America and Americans have risen to world power through outstanding leadership. Their superiority in every field of activity . . . science, engineering, medicine, econo mics, business, transportation, communication . . . has been the result of far-sighted, well trained leaders. Without the same, or even better, leadership, the American Way of Life after the war will enter into a period of decadence and the sacrifices of the present will have been in vain. The leaders of tomorrow must and will come from the generation that today is in college, the men of A. & M. and the men who are beginning college courses all over the land. The responsibility resting on their shoulders is tremendous! So it behooves the men of this school and the thousands of other schools in this land to expend their every effort to advance themselves to as near the point of perfection as possible, so that when the time comes for them to take the helm of American affairs and guide the destiny of a peace ful and free people, the American Way of Life will again shine brighter and brighter toward a greater glory. Student Personnel Office . . . An organization on the campus which is in operation primarily for the use of new students is that of the Student Personnel Office. Its chief purpose is to help the freshmen in their orientation period and that, to many boys who enter college for the first time, is found to be quite a difficult task. Under the guidance of George B. Wilcox, many new students find help and guidance that is unusual anywhere except in homes. Wilcox and his staff are ready and willing to listen to the troubles of anyone who has “hit a snag” in living the way of the college student. Boys before this time have been helped and now, it is to the advantage of present students to make use of this office. For any problem, Wilcox will give any help that he might be able to give. If college life gets difficult and a conference with someone who has had experience in such things will help, go to this office in the Academic building and seek advice. Remember that this office is for use not only for the freshmen, but also for other students who might need help. Anyone, freshman or upperclassmen, needing advice or coun sel on any subject should seek it at the Student Personnel Office. LOUPOT’S STUDENT CO-OP A Little Place . . . Bicycle and Radio Repair ... A Big Saving Phone 4-4114 2-1565 DVER5-FUR STORAGE HATTERS H*. cl" ^ Ja Hw Ly 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS FOR — BOOKS STATIONERY SCHOOL SUPPLIES GIFTS and NOVELTIES — Go to the — COLLEGE BOOK STORE North Gate DR..M.L HARVEY RODE MILES TO TAKE A ONE-HOUR EXAMINATION FOR HIS PH.D. IN HISTORY- EMORY UNIVERSITY IN GEORGIA TO THE U OF CALIFORNIA. 1938. YEARS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE COURSE AT AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, CAIRO. FOUNDED A.a 970, IT IS THE OLDEST UNI VERSITY IN THE WORLD h GIRL AT STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, WHITEWATER, WIS., SOLD ENOUGH HOGS AND POULTRY TO BUY i1,400 WORTH OF WAR BONDS./ ^HAT’S ENOUGH TO BUY lO,OOo .45 CALIBER CARTRIDGES/ . HOW IS YOUR. - - ’ B°ND BUYING D ,EOW L Here are the two Yanks in Trinidad as they appear in the film now showing at Guion Hall. Eddie Albert and Lupe Velez in the comedy “Ladies Day” com ing to Quion as part of a double feature Saturday only. Don’t Tune Out Cabbie Between rush hours, a Bayside, L. I., cabbie serves as a portable radio station at regular meter rates for Baysiders whose radios have gone dead and who like to listen to their favorite programs. He has regular calls for “Duffy’s”, Wal ter Winchell and the “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street.” Lately he’s added a morning call, “Breakfast at Sardi’s.” DO YOUR PART * BUY BONDS A NEW KIND OF WAR BOND PLAY “FIGURE IT OUT!” a fast- moving musical War Bond Show in the “Living Newspaper” tech nique, has been prepared for high school drama groups. The play combines acting, dancing, singing and pageantry in a dynamic pre sentation of the task of fighting inflation. It is expected to appeal to the entire community. Students and teachers of Edu cation will be interested in this comparatively new form of learn ing-through-entertainment. Drama critics of college publications may also want to review the script. A limited number of scripts are available. If you know the play would be of special interest to faculty members (such as Profes sors of Education or Professors of the Extension Services) or students at your college, please send your request for a copy of “Figure It Out!” to the Education Section, War Finance Division, Treasury Department, Washington 25, D. C. Students at Augsburg College, Minnesota, have given a wartime twist to a peacetinie /tradition. Augsburg holds an annual early- morning man-catching race, with the coeds pursuing male students. Gals who tag their men before the males reach the finish line can in sist on a date. This year the coeds chased their men with the object of selling thenv War Bonds and Stamps! An unorthodox, but effective method of upping War Stamp sales is reported from Harvard University. The student War Bond Chairman blocks the exit from the dining hall and talks War Bonds until he has made a sale. If would-be passers say they have no money with them, he cheerfully follows them up to their rooms and completes the sale there. We’ve Done It Before and We Will Do It Again!” was the theme song as Marquette University swung into its Fourth War Loan Drive. Under the direction of the University Victory Commission, the students used posters, slogans and rallies to sell $50,000 worth of Bonds to fellow students, friends and relatives. ^UNIVERSITYOF TEXAS STUDENT PAID HIS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE BY WORKING AS A COMBIN ATION NUT, CANDY, LIFE INSURANCE AND TOMBSTONE SALESMAN,/ GftAVgYARD Shift/ ^ ASPEB, U OF MINNESOTA'431 EARNED AS HE LEARNED BY DIGGING GRAVES- ^CLARA /WALLIN, WHO ENTERED Marquette in 1939, paid her expenses WORKING AS A TOMBSTONE ENGRAVER, ^lAN PEARCE, JR, CLOWNED HIS WAY THROUGH HARVARD WITH HIS PET PIG, WIGGY. )AM COGGINS PAID HIS FIRST FEES AT MISSISSIPPI STATE WITH ‘ NICKELS THAT HE EARNED SELLING PEANUTS/ Ruth PRITCHARD PAID HER WAY AT THE U OF WASH INGTON BY MOWING teWNS. * * BUY WAR BOND/ L Expresses Faith In Junior Colleges Junior colleges throughout the nation received praise coupled with the warning that their big test of survival is yet to come from Dr. Raymond Walters, University of Cincinnati president, when he ad dressed the American Association of Junior College in convention at Cincinnati during the first part of January. Without parallel in the world ex cept where introduced by American educators in the Near or Far East, the junior college, he said, has pioneered as a distinctive American development. Declaring he spoke as an “ob server of higher education”, Pres ident Walters stated the junior col lege movement “has a sound edu cational basis and is accomplishing a useful purpose. Its growth to 600 institutions in 45 states, with a peacetime total of 300,000. students, affords evidence that the American people approve.” “Known, as a product almost en tirely of the twentieth century,” the junior colleges have had a per iod of existence “not long enough nor is the growth secure enough to guarantee permanence in the Amer ican educational system,” the Cin cinnati president added. “Can your colleges pass through this fiery furnace of war? Where will they be a decade from now in the turmoil of postwar recon struction ? “You deserve praise for your moderation as to scope and claims, blocking out an educational area hitherto insufficiently served, studying needs, and intelligently and faithfully working to meet those needs. “You have not blown your own horn nor beat the bass drum con cerning what you plan to do but have preceeded quietly to work. And to your great credit, you have decided upon a degree for complet ing two years of college work, as sociate of arts, which is distinctive, appropriate, and in accord with Cardinal Newman’s counsel to ‘call things by theib right names.’ “It is my confident faith that the junior college will endure through the war and, in the peace to come, justify by contiinued good works its promise of abiding value to higher education and to the peo ple of America.” Sharply removed from the scene of worldly strife, “Swamp Water,” which is the attraction at the Campus today and Wednesday, is the story of a group of Georgians who border the Okefenokee swamp and find themselves conditioned by its dangers. Dana Andrews loses his dog and finds Walter Brennan, a convicted murdered who had taken to the swamp for protection. They become friends and partners in trapping, as And rews becomes convinced that Bren nan was victimized as the result of a feud. He determines to un earth the truth, finally pinning it on John Carradine and thus clear ing the way for elimination of the real murderers and Brennan’s re turn. Meanwhile, Andrews falls in love with Anne Baxter, Bren nan’s abused daughter, and there by supplies the slight romantic twist. As a whole the film lacks some punch and vitality, however, there are a few gruesome scenes such as the one picturing the sink ing of a man in the quick sand. The Lowdown: This should ap peal to those fans who like rough pictures of the blood and guts type. Showing at Guion Hall today and Wed. in a humorous comedy Dial 4-1181 Opens 1 p.m. TODAY and WEDNESDAY “SWAMP WATER” with Anne Baxter Walter Huston Walter Brenan Dana Andrews also Cartoon and Short with a sligth military background, are Brian Donlevy, Pat O’Brien, and Janet Blair, the triangle of affection in “Two Yanks in Trini dad”. The two males fight a continuous battle for possession of the luscious Janet Blair. The only time that they collabor ate like the two good friends that they are is when an attack is made on the top sergeant, the butt of most of the jokes and source of a good deal of guard house and K. P. duty. In one scene O’Brien is dressed as a beautiful senorita complete with veil. Donlevy in troduces the Sarge and starts them off dancing—the result is like fireworks. The Lowdown: A laughable show which you may have seen. HELP BRING VICTORY . . . ★ ★ ★ BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! Phone 4-1168 ADMISSION Qa Pr OAn IS ALWAYS uG a ZUC Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1:00 P.M. Closes at 7:45 TODAY and WEDNESDAY with Pat O’Brien Brian Donlevy Janet Blair also News and Color Short Welcome Back— AGGIES We’re glad to see you - come in and see us - LET LOU HELP YOU WITH YOUR PURCHASES REMEMBER—Lou’s the biggest used, book dealer in College Station. 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