THE BATTALION
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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1944.
AIR CORPS
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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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
Archie Broodo (Aggie) For Lass-O
SuSu Beard (Tessie) For Battalion
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Thursday’s Staff
David M. Seligman Managing Editor
Fred Manget Soph Editor
Marvin Jones Reporter
John Gutteridge Reporter
Robert Gold Reporter
Sports Staff
R. L. Weatherly Acting Sports Editor
Bob Orrick Sports Writer
Max Mohnke Sports Writer
Circulation Staff
Jack Brown Circulation Manager
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Respond to the Call, Aggies ...
Coach Norton is issuing a call today for every Aggie
who wants to play baseball on the team this season to see
him at the gym on Thursday afternoon. He wants every
man who has played ball before, and even those who haven’t,
to join the team for the simple reason that the Aggie team
this season is starting from scratch with no man who played
on the team last year back in school. There are a number of
men on the campus who have some talent and who will make
excellent team material, and it is up to Coach Norton to
find this out at this meeting.
This is a good opportunity for you who have never done
any extra-curricular activity a chance to really do some
thing which will give you satisfaction and help the Corps
at the same time. To those who are out for basketball, noth
ing but praise can be given for the attitude they are show
ing toward the sport. There should be no reason for a good
number of men not being out for the baseball team, unless
it is for lack of time because of work or classroom studies.
Several members of the basketball team played on the foot
ball season also; surely a lot of you can do one third as
much. ■ w!
The Job
A war is not over with the cessation of organized hostil
ity. A national emergency does not end with the hauling
down of the last enemy war flags. The world will, at that
critical moment of armistice, be poised on the brink of riot
ous conflagrations, economic disorders and social upheavals.
Boiling, heaving Europe will provide many a terrible scene
of violence and destruction before its many factions can be
harnessed to the giant tasks ahead. Slaves cannot be freed
without violence; and there are so many slaves.
Our efforts J ~ '^create a balanced order of things will
'eem u Jict °. e . .the powers set loose by the crush
ing of a v ..ganized opposition. Never before m all hibtory will
so fev- men be called upon to do so much in so many places
at once, or so rapidly. They will wish they had had the wis
dom of Solomon and patience of a saint. These men will be
called upon to set right a society long gone astray. They will
need to be technical men, for there will be much to rebuild.
By the time the entire world has been regained there will
be little that will not have to be rebuilt.
The plans for the postwar orders and systems will be
then in effect. The entire economic framework will have to
be readjusted and the work will call for extensively trained
men capable of handling the transportation and distribution
of the essentials of life to people who have known little but
poverty and scarcity since Poland and Pearl Harbor. Jobs
must be provided for every man capable of working so as to
re-establish the social organization as soon as possible and
permit them to supply their own needs. Where no social or
ganization before existed all the physical fundamentals for
social living must be provided. It will be a far more satisfy
ing task than was the initial destruction of whatever these
people possessed.
There will need to be judges, for there will be so many
decisions to make. Trustworthiness has disappeared in coun
tries under domination and who will there be but these lead
ers to determine the proper organization and political setup
for every town, village and hamlet shaken by war and revolt ?
Our leadership must provide the necessary co-operation from
people who could not be beaten into submission by our ene
mies. If the civilian population will not accept them, the
ambitious little opportunities might will have to be heaved
off the band wagon and responsible ones chosen to represent
us.
They will need to be soldiers, for there will be conflicts
for a decade. Men who have killed for more than four years
will not become docile under the control of our armies. They
have been taught to hate. Their cities have been bombed—
their families killed. They will not forgive or forget easily
or quickly. They will fight and struggle in battles that may
last longer than the war. The battles will not resemble the
organized conflicts that will close the war, they will be the
vicious, treacherous street fights that follow the breakdown
of organization and domination.
No man in America will fail to have his chance to battle
for law and order. No man’s effort can be spared from these
things if ever there is to be security for us and ours on the
earth. If ever energy should be spared from the immediate
tasks that confront us, this energy must be directed to the
effort necessary for the restoration of the world.—The Car
negie Tartan.
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—A. & M.—
(Continued from page 1)
will remain as long as he is need
ed. The school is located 30 miles
from Mexico City.
The request for Moore’s ser
vices came to the College from
the U. S. Department of State,
and is in line with the program
launched several years ago of
closer cooperation with Latin
American nations by assisting in
their educational problems.
A fund of $3,000 was appro
priated from feed control funds to
conduct research in livestock feed
ing at the Stephenville substation
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station. Use of feed substi
tutes will be explored, as well as
conservation of available food
stuffs for livestock.
Several minor salary adjust
ments throughout the A. & M.
system were also voted by the
Board of Directors.
The next meeting will be held
in Fort Worth, March 11.
—SO YOXPRE—
(Continued- from page 1)
the academies of the various
branches of the Army of the Unit
ed States (that holds if you can
meet the physical and mental re
quirements and if you have
enough suction to get an appoint
ment.) This includes West Point
for the Army, Annapolis for the
Navy, King’s Point for the Mer
chant Marine, and the Coast Guard
Academy. Unregistered youths
still have a fine chance to join
the Army Air Corps or the Marines.
Otherwise, when you are drafted,
if you are lucky, you can transfer.
You seventeen-year-olds take
the advice of a veteran and join
something—quick! Of course, if
you have a chance at deferrment
—take it! We all say that we are
going to finish college; we all be
lieve we are going to finish; yet,
when it actually comes to the low-
down, most of us will not come
back after our sheep-skins! Times
changes us; new interests alter
our ambition. So the thing to do
now is get as much education as
fast as you can.
—ZINO—
(Continued from page 1)
Frequently the emaciated, sallow
faced virtuoso with his lang, black
hair and burning eyes would find
himself facing an audience as
ready to stone him for a devil as
to listen to him play. But once
he began to play all prejudices
were swept away.
Though distrustful of rivals
Paganini did yearn for a succes
sor and when he met the youthful
prodigy Sivori (just seven years
old at the time) he chose him.
Paganini not only taught the lad
but took him with him on his
triumphant tours of the European
capitals. This was not until after
many attempts to persuade Sivori’s
family who, in spite of their son’s
talent, were loathe to have him a
professional muician.
Oddly enough this situation was
repeated between Francescatti and
his own father who felt that a
musician's living was too precar
ious and wanted him to be a law
yer. It was Zino’s mother who
saw to it that he developed his
talent even though she agreed to
his becoming a lawyer. He began
to play the violin at the age of
three, made his first public ap
pearance at five, and when he
was ten appeared as soloist with
an orchestra in Marseilles playing
the Beethoven Concerto! During
the last war as a youngster he
played for the wounded soldiers in
the hospitals of Marseilles.
Zino was 22 and in the midst of
training for the law when his
father died. The family needed
money and their most saleable
possession was his talent with the
violin. Accordingly he went to
Paris to establish himself as a
concert artist; before many years
he was known throughout Europe
as one of the greatest virtuosi of
the day.
Paganini is one of Francescatti's
favorite composers along with
Bach. He considers Bach the
supreme composer of all time and
Paganini the man who best ex
ploited the technical resources of
the violin. Both composers are
notable for the number of works
they wrote for violin without ac
companiment.
Francescatti chose the Paganini
D major Concerto for his Amer
ican debut with the New York Phil
harmonic-Symphony in November,
1939. He used the original edi
tion which had been handed down
from Paginini to Sivori to Fran-
cescatti’s father and then to him.
By his effortless mastery of the
most difficult virtuoso passages
it seemed as though this was the
veritable reincarnation of Pag-
ini himelf!
University of California has es
tablished a record of putting 50,-
000 students through war courses
in 21 months.
Beaverettes’
Column
First of all, our sincere good
wishes to Squadron 3. May we
take this opportunity to say fare
well for the remaining Beaverettes
and it was nice knowing you
Squadron 3 Beaverettes who have
helped to make our meetings so
pleasant.
The Beaverettes have arranged
to see Squadron 3 wives off with
serving refreshments and a little
entertainment at tonight’s meeting.
The weather here is. giving us
the miseries again. Can’t you
pray any harder than this, folks?
Judging from the last Squadron
Dance it looks as though we must
start a dancing class for these
Beavers who are constantly hold
ing up the wall. Incidentally,
Squadron 4, you Beavers who have
been asked if you want a date, be
sure you put up both hands so
that there will be no shortage of
femininity at your dance.
Students Urged to Use
Physics Aid Classes
A new schedule for student aid
classes has been released to in
clude Squadron II and to make
allowances fo rthe new Wednes
day night scholastic passes.
We again urge all interested
students to attend as physics has
been rated the most important
subject at C. T. D.’s and provides
invaluable background in further
aircrew training.
The schedule is as follows:
Sqd. I—Monday and Thursday
Sqd. II—Tuesday and Thursday
Sqd. V—Tuesday and Thursday.
The classes start at 8 p. m. and
last approximately an hour. They
are conducted under the super
vision of a selected student in
structor.
—ROSEBUD—
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son, Nita Cobb, Sarah Cooley, Bet-
tie Eckert, Betty Hearty, Ada,
Frances Marsh, and Jean Ellen;
Ryan.
From Sayers Hall come Mary
Frances Babcock, Beverly Bird,
Mary Frances Lenert, Mahala
Menefee, Constance Potter, Jean
Seneker, Mary Frances Stubble-
field, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alli-
ene Wiggins.
Stoddard Hal! 1 is represented by
Mary Louise . v.ild, Sadie Lu Dav
idson, Doris Dowell, Cornelia Flee-
man, Dorothy Hav kins, Florine
Lindsey, Judy Stubbs Smith, Ruth
Tilley, and Kathryn Turner.
The Smith-CarroII System chose
Mary Isabelle Allison, Drew Arm
strong, Mary Bradford, Myrl Flet
cher, Frances: Hodges,, Vere Beth
Jeannes, Marian Kern, Violet Lee
Laws, Helen Louise Taylor, Betty
Jo Vaughan, Pat Wolfe, and Nancy
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our down on
Campus distractions
By David Seligman j
m
Since the original story with
white mice and pumpkin, few Cin
derella tales have had a feature
like Deanna Durbin in them. In
the picture, “It Started With Eve”,
showing at Guion today and Wed
nesday, golden-voiced Deanna is,
of course the maiden of the hearth,
Robert Cummings the Prince
Charming, and Charles Laughton
(none other) the Fairy Godmother,
although he is slightly disguised
as an octogenerian, snatched
from the clutches of death to steal
the show. Together the make up
a perfect trio to produce the
human touches and funny incidents
with which the film is replete. It
could be classified as a winner
what with the grown-up Deanna
more melodious and appealing
than ever—a bit on the sexy side,
and Laughton performing better
than some of his outstanding pro
ductions (not as good as in “This
Land is Mine”). Dying, Laughton
insists on meeting his son’s newly-
bethrothed fiancee. She cannot
be located and since it seems to
be a matter of minutes, Deanna,
a hat check girl is enlisted as a
substitute. Miraculously the old
man recovers probably because he
is so favorably impressed by his
son’s (Cummings) choice of a
mate. The necessity of continu
ing the masquerade and keeping
everybody happy creates the plot
Casey.
From the Rusk System come
Mary Jo Abernathy, Dixie Gamble,
Elizabeth Rice, Mollye Sabo,
Yvonne Seyler, and Helen Wheal-
don,
The Travis System is represent
ed by Carla Baug-h, Betsy Bow
man, Mary Frances Bryan, Louise
Hudspeth, Nancy Mueller, Velma
Nelson, Beverly Pittman, Lee Rus
sell, and Connie’ Thompson.
Local student princesses are Bet
ty Barnes, Sheila Barnes, Doris
Brown, Jesse McCuilar, Ann Mc
Pherson, and Carolyn Schmitz.
Gifts and grants totaling $26,-
366’ were accepted for the Univer
sity of Wisconsin at a recent meet
ing ȣ the board of regents.
and the rib tickling situations
which follow.
The Lowdown: Deanna is O. K.
to look at, but . . .
“The Mystery of Marie Roget”,
starring Maria Montez, Patric
Knowles and Maria Ouspenskaya
plays to the audiences at the Cam
pus today and tomorrow. If you
like thriller mysteries, fine, but
this is not quite so thrilling. The
plot runs rather slow for a picture
of this type. The scene is in Paris
in the 1889 horse and buggy days,
the time in which the original Poe
story was written. There isn’t too
much mystery as the murderer
confesses his crime about the mid
dle of the film and the fine point
is whether it was a justifiable
homicide or premeditated murder.
The Lowdown: Get the “Works
of Poe” from the Library and save
money.
Dial 4-1181
Opens 1 p.m.
TODAY AND WEDNESDAY
MARIA MONTEZ
in
Edgar Allen Poe’s
“THE MYSTERY
OF MARIE ROGET”
with
PATRIC KNOWLES
also
Cartoon and Beauty Parade
Short
Loupors
Watch Dog of the
Aggies
Phone 4-1168
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Tax Included
Box Office Opens at 1:00 P.M.
Closes at 7:45
TODAY AND WEDNESDAY
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some threesome
of the season !
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A Henry Koster Production utiUt
MARGARET TALUCHET GUI KIBBEE
WALTER CATLETT CATHARINE DOUCEI
CHARLES. COLEMAN
Directed by Produced by
HENRY KOSTER JOE PASTERNAK
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