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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1944 The Battalion • STUDENT TR1-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 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 Office at College Station, Texas, (inder the Act of Congress of March 8, 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 4-1444. Member Fbsocided Collegiate Press Calvin Brumley. Dick Goad Alfred Jefferson S. L. Inzer J. W. Bell Editor Managing Editor .Managing Editor Sports Editor Sports Writer Dick Osterbolm Robert Gold Eli Barker D. V. Hudson Renyard W. Canis. Reporter Reporter Reporter Reporter Backwash Editor Every Problem ... Two Sides East Texas Club Holds Meeting The East Texas Club, at its meeting Wednesday night, elected officers for the semester: Jack Buie, Kilgore, President; Gregory Shifflette, Gladewater, Vice-Presi dent; Robert Pritchett, Gladewater, Secretary - Treasurer; and Bev Brown, Kilgore, Reporter. It was decided to hold a party in the near future for all East Texas Aggies. The question of what towns would be included in the East Texas group .was dis cussed, and a decision was reached to include all towns east of Green ville and north of Bryan. All Aggites from East Texas are urged to attend the next meeting, Wednesday night, at 7:15, the place to be announced later, accord ing to the reporter, Bev Brown. A. & M. is in the peculiar position of being- both a civilian and a military school. In civilian educational and re search achievements A. & M. ranks high while in the mili tary phase A. & M. will bow to no school. No other insti tution can boast so proudly or so justifiably of the military success of its alumni. Much of the success of A. & M. men in all walks of life has been attributed to the system of mil itary discipline under which A. & M. students live. Yet the very thing that has made A. & M. great presents a problem that must be kept constantly in mind by the authorities. By a decision of the authorities the dis cipline of the corps is handled through the commandant who is stationed here by the army. The commandant works with cadet officers who are appointed by the president of the college to positions of responsibility because they have shown qualities of leadership. These men are doing a good job. But because A. & M. is also a civilian school there is another side to the problem. i * Certain matters arise which are not within the scope of the military. The policy which has been followed from the beginning has been to place student in positions of respon sibility and administration. As a result of this practice the corps at A.- & M. has enjoyed a voice in determining the policies of the college. At the present time the cadet officers are doing an ex cellent job of administering the military phase of the pro blem. The other side seems to have been neglected. Not neglected because there are not enough men of ability, but because the corps has failed to organize a body to act in an advisory civilian legislative capacity. The corps is losing a valuable arm if they fail to take advantage of the oppor tunity to gain the experience of self government not only in the military but also in the civil side of the problem. Education Plus Premiums . . . When the mid-semester grade reports were mailed re cently a letter from President Gilchrist accompanied every report. Gilchrist inaugurated this letter to accompany the formal grade report in an effort to develop better under standing between the college and the parents of the men in school. In the letter was a statement that in order to make the present semester successful s.cholastically the students would have to pay close attention to studies, apply themselves to cadet duties, and lose little time by trips away from the campus. These things are all requisites of successful academic work. Misunderstanding frequently arises regarding the cadet duties. Any road toward success is filled with rocks and un pleasantness as well as adventure and enjoyment. For some unknown reason many people are of the opinion that the career of a college should be one of four yearjj of loafing and good times interspersed with neglible periods of study. Others have the idea that a college student’s life should be one of academic work only. Neither is entirely correct. A. & M. does not neglect either academic, physical, spiritual, or recreational activities. Not content with these A. & M. endeavors to give a student something more. It is something that although intangible returns large dividends. Men are taught from the beginning of the freshman year to live with people and to get along with them. It might be called an extracurricular course in salesmanship. A man is taught how to sell himself. He is giving something that makes him a man worth selling. Should people forget this when they complain of the rocks and work connected with making a success at A. & M. ? Students at A. & M. have to do many things which the stu dent in other schools does not but those very things are what sets A. & M. apart, head and shoulders above the others. -AGGIE-- (Continued from page 1) tending high school there. Bob was elected President of his freshman and sophomore class and in his senior year served as President of the student body. Butch’s ac tivities didn’t center around school offices though, for he won eight letters in athletics while partici pating on his high school team. He was awarded four numerals in football, three in basketball, and one in track, while also named on the all-district football and bas ketball squads in his senior year. Fish Butchofsky spent his first year at A. & M. in E Company In fantry, with Clifford Barth his company commander. Like most Aggies, Butch has received many indelible impressions from his life at Aggieland but one of the Aggie traditions which he respects most is the fiery Aggie spirit at foot ball games. Butch said he didn’t know just how important it was until the Aggies played Arkansas U. in Fayetteville last year. Due to the distance from the campus, very few Aggies made the trip to Fayetteville and without any of the familiar Aggie yells to in spire the team that day, “the play ers out on the field were nearly lost,” said Butch. While at A. & M., Butch has been very active in the Cadet corps, having served as a corporal, First sergeant, Cadet Captain and now as cadet major. In his sopho more year, Butch served as a stu dent representative on the athletic council. At the present, he is run ning as first string blocking back on coach Norton’s grid squad, having lettered in that position last season. Incidentally, Butch played football here as a freshman, winning a numeral on the fish team. In his spare time, Butch would rather hunt and play football, but when night-time rolls around, a thick steak with some of Harry James’ music as a background, and a certain blonde nearby, satisfies his greatest desire. At present, Bob still has quite some time at A. & M. before grad uation but he’s already made his mind up as what he expects to do when that long-awaited day comes around. Upon receipt of that sac red degree. Butch intends to prac tice Veterinary Medicine in El Paso. You can’t climb the ladder of success by jumping at conclusions. I \4 ImAII Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster By Renyard W. Canis Eight weeks have passed and there are eight more weeks to go. Eight weeks before football season and until the end of the semester. Meanwhile there are regimental and corps balls to break the mo notony. It has been too hot lately to grab those afternoons of H. E., so something else will have to suf fice for relaxation in the after noons. Days of yore By Friday noon of last week the highways in all directions were crowded and Friday night saw the Aggies taking over Houston, Aus tin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Dallas. Not many of the boys got as far as Denton. Distracted and delayed on the way. Not only did the boys leave early, they came back late. Several came straggling (straggling, not staggering) in Monday morning barely in time to brush their teeth and make eight o’clock classes. Okay, so some of them didn’t get back to the cam pus until a little later. After this past weekend most of the boys should be ready for considerable studying after they get out of the hospital. Relaxation* was so complete that it is taking a rest cure to put some of the men back on their feet. Hitchhiking in this hot weather is enough to make anyone want an ice bag on their brow. By the way, has anyone been reading Dick Tracy lately? Happy birthday Stanley Knight, a vet, and sev eral of his “F” company buddies celebrated his birthday with a long hike last Thursday night. They called on all of his old friends and most likely made a few new ones. More About Haircuts.. Not so long ago this column ran a little discussion of the dangers of having the hair cut off. A bit of poetry illustrates the point. Did you ever hear aboi^jt poor Miss Lamson? She was kissed five times in a hansom: When she insisted on more, a weak voice from the floor Cried, “The name is Simpson, not Sampson.” In the same vein is the senior’s observation that you cannot kiss a girl unexpectedly—you can only kiss her quicker than she thought you would. Another bit .of poetic advice is well worth heeding. Old Army, he wary of cupid And list to the lines of this verse; To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse. (See BACKWASH, Page 3) :: As The World Turns :: ' By Dr. J. Horace Bass Dr. J. Horace Bass Russian armies are actually mov ing as rapidly as any army on maneuvers, which indicates slight German resistance in some sec tors. The Reds captured Brest- Litovsk last week and are now storming Warsaw, capitol of Po land and slightly more than 300 miles from Berlin. The Allies on the Normandy front finally adopted the Russian tactics of breaking through and by-passing. To date the Germans have offered stubborn resistance and have retreated slowly and or derly, but there is evidence that lack of oil and gasoline will ham per the mobility of the retreat and that it may turn into a rout in which whole Nazi armies will be annihilated or captured bofere reaching the temporary protection of the Westwall. Already the Ger mans are surrendering (really de serting ot the Allies) in driblets. British and U. S. submarines have sunk 48 Japanese ships in the Pacific since the last report. Min- danoa, Phillippines, is the next logical invasion target on land. Superfortresses paid a visit to Japanese steel works in Man- chuokuo (Manchuria) and did great damage. The superfortress (B-29) is the most deadly weapon developed in the war to date, not excepting the robot bomb. These giant ships car ry three times the load and have twice the range of an ordinary bomber. They can lay their eggs from an altitude of 40,000 feet, which is beyond the reach of fight er or flak. However, they cost $1,- 500,000 and there are a few “bugs” yet to be eliminated. Rumors of peace and of the im minent collapse of Germany have caused congress to hurry up post war legislation and plans. Four great problems will test the states manship of congress as it ends re cess on Wednesday. First is the international problem of peace. Then follow the three knotty do mestic problems of reconversion of industry to civilian goods, the orderly and partial demobilization of the armed forces, and the dis posal of the government’s surplus war goods and installations. In volved in the solution of all three domestic problems is the question of business opportunities for re turning service men and for civilian employers and employees who have been dislocated by conversion to war industry. Government policy must take into account the tran sition and protect as far as possi ble all classes of citizens. County conventions to name delegates to the September state convention at Dallas met on Sat urday. The stormy sessions in the counties reveal a bitter and .deep rift among Texas Democrats. Most counties instructed their delega tions to Dallas to name electors who are pledged to vote for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket in Novem ber. Some left their delegations uninstructed and others instructed their delegations against a fourth term. It was apparently the in tention of most delegates in the Brazos County convention to leave the delegation uninstructed, but once the issue was raised the con vention voted to instruct for a fourth term.