PAGE 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 18, 1944 • STUDENT TRJ-WEEKLT NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. Mi 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 is published two times weekly and issued on Tuesday and Friday 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 Jffice at College Station, Tex** ..tier the Act of Congress of March K tX7o Subscription rate $3 per school year Advertising rates upon request Represented nationally by National Advertising Service. Inc., at New York City, hicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office. Room 5 Administration Building. Telephone 4-B444. Member Ptssocioted Cp'leftiote Press Calvin Brumley Editor Dick Goad Managing Editor Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor S. L. Inzer Sports Editor /. W. Bell Sports Writer Dick Osterholm... Reporter Robert Gold Reporter Eli Barker ...ttt. Reporter D. V. Hudson Reporter Renyard W. Canis Backwash Editor Home Town Club News Rio Grande Students To Meet Wed. Night There will be a meeting of all students from the Rio Grande Val ley Wednesday night at 7:30 in Room 120 of the Academic Build ing. Purpose of the meeting will be the organization of a club for all students from the Rio Grande Val ley region. Officers will be elected and plans for the summer activi ties will be discussed. “All fresh men from this area are especially urged to attend as they will com prise the major portion of the membership of the club,” C. F. Ray stated in the meeting. Work, Relaxation, Efficiency . . . Summer heat has driven and is driving an ever increas ing number of persons to vacation spots. This mass exodus to vacation districts was not a let down of vital war produc tion. Labor and management realized that workers needed a rest and a chance to relieve tension accumulated during many months of strenuous production. Figures and statistics will indicate that after a rest of a few days mental and physi cal efficiency will show a marked increase. An emergency still exists. That no person will attempt to deny. Just as undeniable is the fact that efficiency can be increased by a change in the rhythm. Work day after day under conditions of extreme summer heat, which is definitely not conducive to the best results, often will meet with complete or partial failure if normal standards are re quired. Under adverse conditions the thinking person will not expect the results that would normally come from the same amount of effort. In passing upon the work a careful judge will consider the conditions under which the labor was done and grade accordingly. Either the standards should be relaxed or the routine broken. What In Memory . . . ? Last winter a part of Aggieland was buried beneath the sod of Kyle Field. Many things have been written in tribute to the little black and white dog who loved the Ag gies faithfully for so many years.; Reveille was buried while the corps stood at attention and the buglers sounded Silver Taps and the sound of those bugles reverberated around the world in foxholes and jungles, in general’s quarters* and pri vate’s slit-trenches, in the air above and enemy and the water around him. On that sad day wherever there was an Aggie there was sorrow as they remembered the loyal little dog pranc ing in front of the band. Reveille was a part of the Spirit of Aggieland. A part of the traditions that has grown up on the campus of the Fighting Aggies. A part of that Spirit was buried when “Rev” was laid to rest but in her place grew a memory. It is a memory that holds a lesson in loyalty and friendliness which every Aggie should know whether new or old. Reveille’s portrait hangs in Cushing Memorial Library as an inspiration to those who did not know Reveille person ally. Soon after Reveille’s death a movement was begun to build a monument in her memory but interest decreased and soon ceased to exist. In fact Rev has been so forgotten that it is safe to say that the majority of new men on the cam pus do not know the location of her grave. “Rev’s” grave should not be made a shrine but certainly her memory mer its consideration. Her burial place is barely distinguishable. Was not Reveille’s loyalty glorious enough and is not her memory dear enough to be deserving of at least a token in memorium ? Reveille’s Sipirit has joined the legion of marching Aggies whose ghostly platoons will march and countermatch across the gridiron this fall. Once again Rev will bark joyously as the Aggie Band plays the War Hymn. Besides having a permanent monument in the heart of every Aggie Reveille should have a memorial placed on her grave for she was a symbol of the friendliness and loyalty that is A. & M. HELP BRING VICTORY • • • BUY WAR BONDS TODAY Galveston Club Meets There will be an important meet ing of the Galveston County Club Wednesday night at 7:30 in Room 120 of the Academic Building. Discussion of activities for the mid-semester holidays will be the purpose of the meeting. All mem bers, new and old, are urged to at tend. Ninety Students Have Dropped Out of School Since the start of the semester when 1650 students enrolled at A. & M., ninety boys have withdrawn from the school for various rea sons. Forty-three left to enter the various branches of the armed forces and the merchant marine. A large group enlisted in the navy while many were inducted into the army. A few entered the A. S. T. P. and the air forces. Ten boys left to work while eleven found that they had insuf ficient preparation for college work and returned to high school. Six resigned because of personal reasons. One boy left to work and to continue his education at the same time. Seven boys were forced to drop out with physical handicaps. One of them has to have a personal diet while another needed special treat ment. Others had been in the hos pital too long to make up their work. Low grades was the cause of one boy’s withdrawal, while the lack of certain courses forced another to leave. Two boys left to go to other colleges. Two de parted without giving any reason or without resigning at the com mandant’s office. A sick grandmother, a father needing help, were two of the rea sons given by three boys who re signed because they were needed at home. One boy “wanted to stay at home.” Improper treatment was the ex planation of one student for his departure. The culture of the silkworm was introduced to Europe in the Sixth Century when two monks, sent to visit China by Justinian, returned with eggs of the silkworms con cealed in a hollow cane. Reports from Kyle Field bear a colorful promise of a fighting maroon and white team this fall. The boys have been working out these hot summer afternoons build ing the foundation for a ball team that will play eleven scheduled games this fall. For four years the chaps from the “forty acres” have been smirking on Turkey Day but this November the smirk may turn into a smack . . . those boys work ing out aren’t missing good after noon sleep for nothing. Food for thought Uncounted hours of practice and work go into the preparation of a football team. They work day after day always pointing toward that sixty minutes on Saturday after noon. Success doesn’t happen; it is made. Kinky hair Aggies aren’t the only ones that like to break the monotony on Sat urday. Last Saturday night a while before closing time the Guion Hall boys were a bit perplexed when they found a “possum” sit-1 ting in the senior section enjoying ^ the movie. The situation wasn’t cleared up any when the “possum” asked the ticket taker to run out .* and get him a sack of peanuts. After quite a chase the Guion Hall boys decided that the strange animal was a cross between “Bugs Bunny” and a “possum.” Just be- ' fore leaving, the “possum” prom ised to bring his entire family to the next double feature. Dislikes The smell of malting tar . . . perspiration running down my chin . . . rocks in the shot . . . backless play suits on some backs . . . ants in the candy box . . . an empty P. O. box . . . type written personal Tetters . . . withered onions . . . onions when other people have been eating them . . . hamburgers without onions . . . cigarette counters without cigarettes . . . red bath ing suits . . . summer tan not all over . . . politic!,1 guffaw . . . disorderly desks . . . repeat ing alarm clocks. (See BACKWASH, Page 6) :: As The World Turns :: By Dr. J. Horace Bass There has been no sensational change in the war situation during the week, but the over-all picture continues so favorable to the Allies that responsible persons are pre dicting the fall of Germany this year. The Russians have moved up to the German frontier of Prussia and have about sealed off the Baltic States. The Allies in Italy and France have blasted the Nazis steadily but the advance everywhere has been slow. The To kyo radio reports curiously that Japan has succeeded in “pulling the enemy toward us.” Guam has been “softened” for land invasion. This is a signficant week on the home political front. The Demo cratic convention convenes in Chi cago Wednesday and the State Democratic primary comes on Sat urday. Interest in Chicago meet ing centers on the second place on the ticket. Southern Democrats oppose the renomination of Mr. Wallace, and President Roosevelt has declined to prescribe his run ning mate. There will be a contest. The platform will be short. The Democratic primary has at tracted little interest except for congress. In an unusual situation, practically every congressman from Texas faces hard opposition.: Veteran congressmen in many dis-, tricts are facing the fight of their lives, and the reaction threatens to unseat some worthy incumbents. Candidates for renomination are generally finding it neccesary, so they think, to prove to their con stituents that they have not been “yes” men. The intervention of the CIO Poli tical Action Commitee (PAC) is also an interesting issue. The CIO : set up the PAC primarily to purge ! congress of anti-labor members and to re-elect President Roosevelt and Vice-president Wallace. It is t interested in personalities and not! parties. Since the Gallup Poll re cently showed that 53% of the voters disapproved and only 10% ^ approved the PAC-sponsored can didates, all candidates find it necessary to deny CIO support. The memory of Woodrow Wil son is being revived in 20th Cen tury-Fox's technicolor picture, WILSON, and in Gerald Johnson’s biography, Woodrow Wilson: The Unforgettable Figure Who Has Re turned to Haunt Us.. The impli cation is that Mr. Wilson’s peace formula might have prevented the terrible tragedy of this war. It is evidence of our great interest in peace plans now. It is well to re call that “Mr. Wilson’s League” was in operation for 20 years and that the U. S. might properly have joined the League and the World Court on any of those years. The Republicans were in power 12 of those years and the Democrats 8 - of them. It would now be bad poli tics and worse logic for either the Democratic Party of Mr. Roosevelt or the Republican Party of Mr. ^ Dewey to cast any stones. Both houses are of glass. Dean Bolton has mailed mem bers of the college staff a reprint of a report of the American Coun cil on Education which deals with college problems of the post-war period. The findings are that war veterans and war workers who will return to college will be interested only in hurry-up trade training and not liberal education. They will have little time or taste for traditional college procedures and courses. Colleges will have to make such improvisations and adapta tions to meet their needs and de mands that the normal college stu dent who comes directly from high school may find that he is ♦ neglected somewhat in the shifting of emphases.