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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.
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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.
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STUDENT PAID HIS WAY
THROUGH COLLEGE BY
WORKING AS A COMBIN
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LIFE INSURANCE AND
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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.
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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.
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Brian Donlevy
Janet Blair
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