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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1944
The Battalion •
STUDENT TR1-WEEKLT NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
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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
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unofficially in the interest of the enlisted personnel of the United States Army and
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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--
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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.