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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27, 1944
THE BATTALION
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Teas and the City of College Station is published three times weekly, and issued
Tuesday,, Thursday and Saturday mornings except during the summer semester when
it ie published two times weekly and issued on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and
is the official publication of the students of the A. & M. College of Texas and serves
unofficially in the interest of the enlisted personnel of the United States Army and
Navy stationed on the campus.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Dffice at College Station, Tex a*,
under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870.
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Calvin Brumley
Dick Goad
Alfred Jefferson
Renyard W. Canis
Member
Plssocided Colle&ide Press
Editor
Managing Editor
.Managing Editor
Feature Writer
J. W. Bell
Dick Osterholm
Bob Gold
Eli Barker
Sports Writer
Reporter
Reporter
Reporter
Hello ... Old Army
Of all the glorious traditions that make A. & M. men
outstanding perhaps the greatest of all is the lusty hello on
the campus and the full voiced “ole army” that is the cus
tomary greeting when two Aggies meet on the streets of
Dallas, Houston, Austin or any other city, village, or hamlet
in Texas or further afield. That is one of the signs by
which one Aggie knows another whether in uniform or not.
Texas A. & M. does not have any fraternities and nat
urally there are no fraternity brothers. Some persons might
be of the opinion that this is a disadvantage but to anyone
who knows Aggieland and the Aggies it is a distinct asset.
Boys come here from cotton farms and the most expensive
of city homes but when they get to A. & M. they are Aggies.
Everyone wears the same khaki shirt and the same AMC
on the collar. The A. & M. man is judged by his ability and
not by the clothes he wears nor the convertible that he drives
or does not drive. Every Aggie rates the hello.
Class distinction is traditionally the only distinction
made among the cadets. As the company officers have con
tinually stressed in their company meetings the freshman
speaks first to an upperclassman. Aggies do not customarily
salute one another but the hello is a form of the salute. Just
as the enlisted men salute army officers so should the cadets
speak. The underclassman should speak first and it is a
certainty that the upperclassman will return the greeting
heartily.
Freshmen at A. & M. are especially privileged because
they have the opportunity of becoming members of the
“Greatest Fraternity on Earth”, the Fighting Aggies. It is
all one fraternity. An Aggie is an Aggie whether he rides
a mule or gives directions to a chauffer.
... On The Night Before
Only a few days more than three weeks of the current
semester have past but more than once the comment has
been made by students that alrady they are behind on their
work. Old students usually know their capacity and how
much study is required for them to pass their work.-After
a man has been at A. & M. • for a semester or more he should
be able to budget his time at his own discretion for the best
results.
Frequently a freshman makes the mistake of not sched
uling his activities and as a result more times than once a
man of ability has been dropped from the rolls for academic
deficiency. Upperclassmen usually make a point of stressing
the importance of study and keeping up with assignments
but frequently the boy just out of high school pays no at
tention until mid-semester when the preliminary reports
are made.
No one is hurt when the cadet drops out of school except
the student and his parents. Much mental anguish and dis
appointment can be avoided by preparing each assignment
as it is assigned rather than waiting until the night before
the quiz. Freshmen can do well for themselves by seeking
the advise of their company officers on this score.
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200 dressings was met tnese chap
ters would be closed. Appeals;
through local papers and from
friend to friend stepped up the
workers to 299 the second week, |
with a noutput of 12,047 dressings.!
In the past three weeks 27,958
4x4-inch dressings have been made, |
according to the records of Mrs.!
Betty Howard, county surgical
dressing chairman. This leaves
17,042 4x4’s to be made, as well
as 7,200 4x8’s by July 31. As these
volunteer workers become more ex
perienced their weekly output
should increase.
Both work rooms are in need of
enameled corset stays and women
having them are urged to bring
them by the College Station room
at 413 Throckmorton, or the Bryan
unit at the Carnegie Library. The
ones now in use are worn and
rough. These stays are used in
folding, and smoothing the gauze.
Stays covered with paper cannot
Home Town
Club News
Fort Worth Club To
Meet Wednesday Nite
Marc Smith, club president, an
nounced there would be a meeting
of the Fort Worth club Wednes
day night at 7:15.
The purpose of this meeting is
to make plans for a coming holi
day party this weekend and it is
necessary for all Fort Worth Ag
gies to be present at this meeting.
The club will assemble in room
120 of the Academic Building.
Galveston County
Aggies Meet Wed.
There will be a special meeting
of the Galveston County Club Wed
nesday night at 7:15. The meeting
will be held in Room 214 of the
Academic Building, according to
Earl Logan, president of the club.
The purpose of the meeting will
be to discuss plans for a party to
be held this weekend. The time
and place of the party will be de
cided upon and arrangements for
it will be made. Everyone from
Galveston County is urged to at
tend this important meeting, Lo
gan stated in announcing it.
be used.
Mrs. R. S. Hopkins, Jr., is chair
man of the College Station room,
and Mrs. F. H. Wilson of the one
in Bryan. Both rooms are open
from 9:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m.,
Tuesday through Friday, and from
7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Tuesday
and Thursday.
When sleet attains a diameter
of more than one-fourth of an
inch, it is called hail.
Unlike most substances, water is
lighter in the solid than in the
liquid state.
When changing into steam, water
expands 1700 times it original vol
ume.
—A. & M.-~
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Texas educator to act with the
Texas Economic Postwar Planning
Commission, of which Gilchrist is
chairman, in planning to meet one
of the objectives of this organiza
tion, which reads, “Make a study
of the possibilities of adjustments
in education to meet the needs of
a rapidly expanding program and
for the use of the existing facilities
for research in the schools and
colleges of Texas.”
Panels, with various school sup
erintendents as leaders,* Tuesday
will feature vocational education
and guidance.
The Texas Association of Coun
ty Superintendents will open its
annual meeting here Tuesday.
These two groups of educators
will attend a joint banquet at 7:30
p.m., Wednesday, at which Pres
ident Paul L. Boynton of Stephen
F. Austin State Teachers College,
will be principal speaker.
E. H. Poteet, superitnendent of
By Reynard
W. Canis
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
A man’s school. Run for and by
men. Physics is an interesting sub
ject made even more interesting
for the air corps by a woman
teacher. How many Aggies take
physics? Just a minute, men. It’s
too late to add another course to
an already full schedule. Hear tell
there are other women teachers
on the faculty. General Sherman
was right.
Sights and sounds that please
Fish stripes gleaming and flash
ing across the campus . . . the
Aggie band practicing . . . com
panies drilling in the afternoons
. . . “want a ride, Aggie” . . . ties
off until Retreat . . . exes coming
back to the campus wearing self
conscious gold bars . . . notice that
Saturday will be a holiday . . .
Aggieland after a saturated (with
events) weekend away from the
campus.
Off-Campus Distractions
Nothing is so welcome as a ride
in June in a convertible with good
tires (overworked phrase but still
good) and a good driver (only one
kind of good driver and they don’t
usually smoke a pipe) which you
have been dreaming about and
sweating but which you didn’t get
as the travelling Aggie climbs into
the back of a cattle truck. Tire
some standing up for miles.
Thumbing is a wonderful mode
of transportation.
A guy meets more interesting
people that way. Then too one
can’t forget the friendly inviting
smiles of the girls that amble by
when the Aggie is standing on the
corner wondering if the next car
will pick him up, and not caring
much whether it does or not. Well,
a guy can always tell the one and #
only that he got stuck for a few
hours in some little town. Course
he might have trouble explaining _
the lipstick on his collar. Straw
berry soda doesn’t leave that kind
of a stain.
It is rather distracting to the
sleepy nonchalant Aggie looking „
for a place to sleep and not caring
whether the world goes by or not
to be suddenly caught in a whirl
of swing shift workers and told to •
wait right there while that brawny
hunk of riveter goes home to
change and comes back in some
thing lacy and feminine smelling
like something under the moon
which she called Taboo but which ,
didn’t have any tendency to scare
anyone away.—Lose more sleep
that way.
Howdy Neighbor
Welcome to all the County
Agents and Home Demonstration
Agents that are on the campus
for a few days. Aggieland always
has the door open and every Ag
gie on the campus stands ready
to make a visitor’s stay on the
campus pleasant.
Pipe Dreams
Fill her up. Pack her down.
Light her up. Coax her on.
Warm her up. Puff on her.
Watch her smoke. Fondle her.
Enjoy her. Put her out.
Clean her up. Lay her down.
Treat her gently. Love her al
ways.
And now— *
As the golden sun is setting,
And your heart from care is free,
And o’er a thousand things ^
you’re thinking,
Won’t you sometimes think of
me?
:: As The World Turns ::
Dr. A1 B. Nelson
American troops are in Cher
bourg and it will be but a short
time now before great ships loaded
with supplies will be pouring
through the great French seaport.
This event at last makes the beach
head really secure by providing an
all-weather communication and
supply line.
The Allred-Wirtz group of bolt
ers from the Democratic State
Convention lost their court fight
to get their group of electors on the
ballot of the Democratic primary.
Their only apparent recourse is tq
start a new party and put electors
for that party on the general elec
tion ballot in November.
Mrs. James A. Farley, wife of the
man who put Roosevelt in the
White House, has announced that
she intends to vote the Republican
ticket this fall. Jim Farley has
not yet made public his own per-
schoosl at Harlingen is president
of the Texas School Administration
Conference and is presiding at gen
eral meetings.
The conference will adjourn
Thursday with a business meeting
which will hear reports’ from var
ious committees, and which will-
elect officers for the coming year.
sonal plans but has been talking
matters over with known oppon
ents of a fourth term while on his
way back from a business trip to
Mexico.
The great race riot in Detroit
took place a year ago June 21 and
great preparations, including the
presence of many police riot
squads and two regiments of state
troops, were made to prevent
another this year.
In New York, Negro youths
drove whites out of a subway train
and shot one person who failed to
move fast enough to suit them.
This seems to be the advanced
phase of race relationship which
some persons desire to see forced
upon people of the South.
Finnish Minister Procope has
been ordered out of the country
for conduct unbecoming a diplo
mat. He has been conducting prop
aganda hostile to Russia after the
United States had ordered him to
refrain. Two of his assistants have
also been ordered to leave.
Synthetic rubber production is
over the top at last with plenty
in sight for civilian needs. The
only remaining trouble is the prob
lem of getting it manufactured in
to needed products without inter
fering with war production.