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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. A M. COLLEGE
The
College
Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical
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 nr the Post
inder the Act of Congress of March R, 1870. y
Jffice at College Station, Texas
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 4-1444.
Member
Phsocioted Collegiate Press
Calvin Brumley Editor
Dick Goad Managing Editor
Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor
S. L. Inzer Sports Editor
/. W. Bell Shorts Writer
Dick Osterholm Reporter
Robert Gold Reporter
Eli Barker Reporter
D. V. Hudson Reporter
Renyard W. Canis Backwash Editor
Health and Hospitalization
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A. & M. College provides for the hospitalization of its
students through a hospital located on the campus anc
staffed with capable personnel. Every student when paying
his fees pays a five dollar medical charge. This entitles the
student to ordinary hospitalization and medical care.
The hospital and its staff are there for the benefit of the
students. Broken bones, cuts, bruises and many other things
can be taken care of adequately if the ailing student wil
only take the few minutes necessary to report for sick call
Many of the small things may seem so minor at first
that they are neglected until special attention is required
Even though neglible they may later cause a great deal of
pain and suffering. The old adage, “a stitch in time saves
nine”, still holds true.
Students pay for this service and are cheating others
besides themselves when they fail to take advantage of it
If the student has something contagious he is not only en
dangering himself but the other men of his organization.
Shifting Intellectual Interests . . .
Emphasis is now being placed on engineering and techni
cal training in the schools of the nation as a result of the
war. This is as it should be because it is an indisputable fact
that it takes thousands of trained technical men to operate
the machines of production and the weapons of death which
are required to win battles in this day of mechanized war
fare.
In an emergency it is only natural that other educational
pursuits become secondary or entirely forgotten. But
condition of This kind if allowed to continue will lead ulti
mately to the decay of a nation.
Technical training is not the type of training that is
required to manage the business of a country, of a govern
ment, or of a society. Agriculture and the arts and sciences
must not be forgotten for although they are playing an ever
decreasing role they are still important enough to be clas
sified as the backbone of not only the greatest nation in the
world, the United States, but also of every progressive and
open minded country.
The great leaders of government and industry are near
ly all without exception men with training in what are called
the liberal arts. This is not to say that a man with a techni
cal education cannot be liberal and open minded. It is said
only as a reminder that this country will need more than
ever in the post-war world men who can grasp a broad hu
manitarian question in a clear, analytic, logical manner
without having to think in terms of mathematical calcula
tions.
Specific engineering concepts do not give the training
necessary for a complete comprehension of the scope of
world or national problems. Technical men are accustomed
to dealing with restricted exact data and training of this
sort often fails to result in a mind capable of grasping the
deeper fundamentals of the science of living.
Before hopping on a train of-thought, one should
quire as to its destination.
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He who progresses by leaps and bounds isn’t jumping
to conclusions.
A company is known by the men it keeps.
Stepping up the frequency of the brain waves will fre
quently throw light on a controversial subject, instead of
heat.
SOMETHING TO READ
Edna B. Woods
Ass’t Circulation Librarian
Read about your profession
There are many “popularly”
written books in the- College Li
brary, which while perhaps no pro
fession would be likely to assign
them definitely to his classes,
would almost certainly broaden and
enrich your ideas about your chos
en profession. Of course your in
structors are best fitted to sug
gest such books to you. Ask them
for something good and interesting
to read along the general lines of
your major course. Meanwhile,
however, here are a few books of
this kind which we know to be
readable, stimulating, and inform
ative :
Agriculture
Plowman’s Folly, by Edward H.
Faulkner. A highly controversial
book, questioning some of the ag
ricultural fundamentals.
Vanishing Lands, by G. V. Jacks.
A world survey, by two English
men, of soil erosion, the title of
the British edition being The Rape
of the Earth.
Four Centuries of Florida Ranch
ing, by George H. Dacy. An en
tertaining survey of ranching in
a sister state under conditions just
sufficiently different from ours to
make them stimulating.
This Is Our World, by Paul B.
Sears. A distinguished Oklahoman
discusses the soil, the atmosphere,
“water the great sustainer,” “ani
mals, life on the move,” “plants,
life at anchor”, etc.
Engineering
Your Career in Engineering, by
N. V. Carlisle. A thoroughly up-to-
date survey of the engineering pro
fession from the point of view of
the man who is just entering it.
Scientists Face the World of
1942, by Karl T. Compton and oth
ers. Includes “The Case for Bio
logical Engineering,” “The Case
for Agricultural Engineering,” and
above all the excellent title essay
by Compton.
Engineering’s Part in the Develop
ment of Civilization, by Dugald Ca
leb Jackson. One of the grand old
men of the profession and certain
ly one of its most readable writers,
shows young engineers what they
have to be proud of, and what civ
ilization depends upon them to do.
Great Feats of Modern Engineer
ing, by Edward Flaxman.
Master Builders of Sixty Cen
turies, by J. A. Miller.
Great Engineers, by C. Mat-
choss.
The Quest for Power from Pre
historic Times to the Present Day,
by H. P. and M. W. Vowles.
Four painless introductions to
the history of your profession.
Medicine (including Veterinary
Medicine)
Animal Plagues: Their history,
nature, and prevention, by George
Fleming. A curious old book con
taining a history of animal plagues
from B.C. 1490 to A.D.1800.
Veterinary military history of
the United States, by L. A. Meril-
lat and D. M. Campbell. Not a bed
side book, but interesting to dip
into.
Medicine at the Crossroads, by
B. M. Bernheim. A highly contro
versial book.
Lives and Dollars, by J. D. Rat-
(See SOMETHING, Page 3)
lAIIWA/H
By Renyard
W. Canis
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster.
Mid-semester has caught many
men with their pants in the pro
verbial position. Don’t know who
thought that proverb up but it
seems to be apt. Apt to get a guy
kicked out of school if he doesn’t
change his ways or at least weigh
the consequences and results be
fore not doing the work.
Deserted Desert. . .
Even though the corps is not go
ing to have an official mid-semes
ter holiday it looks like the week
end is going to be one of relaxa
tion for most of the Aggies. It’s
only natural that a let-down fol
lows a period of quizzes and broth
er it looks like the corps is going
to let its hair down enmasse. Even
the long hairs have been seen in
the campus tonsorial parlors ^get
ting that now famous GI. (Ed
itor’s note—Sampson lost his
strength when he had the crown
ing glory clipped. Seems he was
clipped and got clipped. Don’t ever
let a woman mess with your hair.
Every time the scissors close over
a strand of hair that is the death
knell of that much appeal.) That
editor wrote a pretty long note.
Wonder where he gets such strange
ideas ?
After a period of relaxation
(prostration from either one cause
or sleepiness) the corps should be
ready for that home stretch of
eight weeks that will end the sum
mer semester. They are burning
up the track while the sweat runs
down the back. It looks like it is
going to be a great race with not
a single contestant, or married one
either, sure of having anything on
ice. Know more about this after
the northern cities settle their
(See BACKWASH, Page 7)
PENNY’S SERENADE
■ im By W. L. Penberthy ■ - —
During the Olympic Games held
in 1928, Dan Kinsey, University of
Illinois athlete, won the High Hur
dle event. In the same race were
other men who had run the event
in faster time
than was made
that day but they
had knocked down
hurdles which
slowed them and
allowed Kinsey,
who was a very
consistent p e r -
former, to win.
In all sports
the aim is con
sistently good
performance. The
bain of a coach’s
have men who are
unpredictable while the consistent
performers are his joy.
On several occasions I have had
F.B.I. agents drop by to check on
the P.E. or Intramural record of
a former student who was seeking
employment with the bureau. In
Penberthy
existence is to
talking to these men I found that
they placed a great deal of im
portance on the consistency of the
record of an applicant. They want
men whose record indicated that
they did all things consistently
well and not only those things that
they happened to like and be in
terested in. Their reason for this
was that all of the assignments
given them as agents might not
be to their liking.
In my opinion one of the chief
differences between an amateur
and a professional is that the pro
fessional is consistently good in
his play while the amateur just
has “his days.” When we team up
with a partner we like to feel that
we can always depend on him to
carry his part of the load and I
personally like one who is con
sistent.
A record of consistently good
performance in any field is a pos
session to be prized as it will pay
very large and pleasing dividends.
Man, Your Manners
By 1. Sherwood
In restaurant, hotel and other
public dining rooms, there are
many points of etiquette to be
considered aside from the all-im
portant table manners.
Avoid lengthy conversations with
friends at other tables. A greeting
is usually sufficient, but if you
must stop, stay only a moment.
If a woman pauses at your table,
you must rise and remain stand
ing until she leaves or is seated.
Because of this convention, a wom
an should not tarry at a table. If
she is remiss in her manners and
remains standing after you have
invited her to be seated, make the
request so urgent that she will
feel compelled to move on or be
seated.
A man does not rise if another
man stops at the table, unless the
man is old enough to command
special deference.
Introductions are not necessary
when anyone stops at your table
to exchange a greeting, but if the
visitor sits down for a moment, he
or she (if a stranger) must be in
troduced to those present, if there
are only a few, or to those nearby
if the party is large.
A woman dining with a man per
mits him to give her order to the
waiter. If a woman is dining with
two men she usually sits between
them. A man dining with two wom
en would sit between them. If
there are two couples the women
sit facing each other; and when
there are more than two couples
they usually sit “man, woman, man,
etc.”