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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1944
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STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College
?f Texas 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,
mder 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,
"hicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-1444.
Member
Associated Gr>|le&iate Press
Calvin Bruinley Editor
Dick Goad Managing Editor
Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor
S. L. Inzer Sports Editor
J. W. Bell Sports Writer
Renyard W. Canis Backwash Editor
Robert Gold Reporter
Eli Barker Reporter
D. V. Hudson Reporter
B. J. Blankenship Reporter
Dick Osterholm Reporter
Jimmi*’ Oemopulos Cartoonist
Just Friendly . . .
War has brought many changes to A. & M. not the least
of which is the naval detachment stationed on the campus.
These sailors come from average American homes from over
the United States. They come from homes like the ones in
Texas. Even though they may like Texas they still prefer
their home if for no other reason than that it is home.
When the first naval detachment arrived on the campus
the Aggies ignored the sailors and the sailors drew into a
shell and overlooked the Aggies. They did not know the
Aggies and the Aggies did not know them. Mistakes have
been made by both sides.
The navy is here for war training because A. & M.
offers the facilities for that training. The benefits have not
all accrued to one side however. It is entirely possible that
the revenue received by A. & M. from the navy contract
has been one of the salient factors in making it possible
for A. & M. to keep its doors open to civilian students.
As long as the Navy is here it would be to the advan
tage of everyone concerned to endeavor to make them a
part of this school. Dissatisfaction has been voiced because
sailors failed to take the side of the Aggies in football games.
Is it not possible that if the Navy were made to feel com
pletely welcome and a part of A. & M. and a part of its tradi
tion that the sailors would automatically support their own
team. If they are a part of the school they would naturally
support the Aggies.
Aggies have complained of the sailors disregard for
the hitch hiking code. If navy men would abide by the rules
such as this one they will have gone a long way in making
it possible for the Aggies to accept them.
Cooperative action on both sides can do much to make
all students at A. & M. united into one student body. If the
sailors are made to feel a part of A. & M. they will spread
the word wherever they travel and will thus offer one of the
best advertisements that A. & M. can have.
An Opening Crevice . . .
A. & M. situated as it is practically midway between
the major cities of Texas, enjoys the unique advantage of
being conveniently located to receive weekend guests from
all over the state. This coupled with the renown Aggie hos
pitality has given A. & M. the reputation "as being a nice
place to visit.
Campus facilities are not the most comfortable in the
world for lady guests but it has been customary to make up
what was lacked in comfort with generosity and kindness.
Guests have here-to-fore felt assured that they would re
ceive the best of hospitality at A. & M. If this college is to
maintain its position as the most friendly campus in the
Southwest then it must continue those things which have
given it such a position.
Speaking individually, nearly all A. & M. men are gen
tlemen but acting collectively they sometimes allow crowd
psychology to warp their perspective which tends to create
the least desired impression in the minds of visitors.
A bad impression etches indelibly a crevice in the rep
utation of A. & M., a scar of which remains forever regard
less of the shifting of the sands of memory.
Guests.for weekend dances are not here long enough
to absorb the true spirit of Agieland; ,thus, it is essential
that the behavior of the corps be irreproachable. As hosts
the Aggies cannot afford to forget their position and re
sponsibilities.
By Renyard
W. Canis
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
OPEN
FORUM
August 19, 1944
Editor, The Battalion
College Station, Texas
Hi Aggie
Perhaps you are surprised at
hearing from one of the Marines,
but so what. I saw something to
night that brought back fond mem
ories to me. I thought perhaps you
might like to hear it.
I’m out here fighting some of
the slant eyed boys in the terrain
Dotty Lamour so glorifies, to coin
a phrase “Taint necessarily so,” at
at any rate tonight among the
“beautiful” coconut trees I went
to the movies—crude affair. You
sit on the fallen coconut trees in
the show.
In the movie there was a short
and there I saw the old Texas Ag
gies. There were a lot of the
buildings that were so familiar
and yet it has been two years
since I last saw them. If you are a
junior there at school you were
one of “my fish.” I was there
when the board ruled the campus
and the fish ran the details. I was
in 3rd Hq. Field Artillery . . .
Remember Sibley, Wesson, Payne,
and Henderson? They were all in
the same outfit.
I suppose that you are tiring of
this sort of stuff so I will change
the subject. There is another ex-
Aggie in the battery with me. He
was in the infantry in ’39. His
name is Cpl. John 0. Wolcott. Per
haps this will illustrate how odd
things turn out. Thousands of miles
from nowhere and we saw pictures
of the old place .... Look up my
kid bud sometime, Fish Burnett
over in No. 12. I’m not there at
school but I still hear from there
through him. At least it’s still in
the family.
Yours truly,
Wm. E. Burnett, Jr., ’46.
ReLIEF, despondency, and
quietness crept over the campus
Sunday night when the last train
whistled calling the responsive re
sponders away from another week
end of enjoyment, fun, frustration
and relaxation. Those guys really
relaxed when they put those gals
on the train, 12 hours or more.
To a casual observer a weekend
dance at Aggieland presents a
puzzling spectacle. Myriads of
girls, a few beautiful, more pretty,
others cute and attractive, and
others just girls, alight from the
train with tons of luggage and bag-
fulls of laughter and meet the
boys with varying amounts of exu
berance. For a few girls it is
their first trip to Aggieland. They
step down with eyes widened with
wonder and eagerness. For others
it is an old story. They affect an
air of careful nonchalance and cas
ual boredom. They are the sophis
ticates.
Most noticeable of all are the
diverse greetings. These two
rush to each other with outstretch
ed arms. Two over thre carefully
shake hands. That pair say hello.
This girls breathlessly wants to
know how much time she has to
get ready for the dance. Then there
are the question mark, appraising
glances of greeting exchanged by
blind dates.
At the dance
More pitiful than any sight
though is that couple at the dance
who dance every dance with each
other. She isn’t cute nor does she
dance very well. The boy is stuck
with her. What’s worse, she knows
that he is stuck with her. Disap
pointing too is the girl who uses
her date as a vehicle to get to the
dance which is only a stepping
stone not necessarily to better
things, but to other things.
Then comes intermission. The
freshman with the ill-concealed
worried look can’t find his date.
He knows where she is but dares
not admit it, even to himself. He
shouldn’t feel bad. He should re
member that a perch that bites
at every line soon becomes date-
bait.
Comes Sunday afternoon
Most are tired by Sunday after
noon. They really have their fill
of one another’s company but the
train doesn’t leave until late and,
well, they have to do something
so they bore each other.
Wise indeed is the man who per
mits the girl friend to spend suf
ficient time resting. Chances are
that she is stayjjig at a place where
their other girls to pass the time
with and if she gets plenty of
sleep she will be that much bright
er when the lad comes by to get
her. Constant association with a
date from Friday until Sunday
night is likely to fray the most
vivacious of nerves.
Goodbye now
Same place. Same couple. Dif
ferent direction. Goodbye. The
weekend was really lovely. I cer
tainly enjoyed having you down.
It’s hard to let you go. It’s harder
(See BACKWASH, Page 3)
:: As The World Turns ::
By Dr. A1 B. Nelson
Miss Bryant Joins
UNRRA Group
Miss Louise Bryant, specialist in
honm management for the A. and
M. College Extension Service, re
signed Aug. 15 for an overseas as
signment with the United States
Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis
tration. She is the second Exten
sion headquarters staff member
to join the UNRRA organization.
After a training period in Wash
ington and at the University of
Maryland, Miss Bryant will be as
signed to the Cairo, Egypt, office
as agricultural rehabilitation spe
cialist. Following liberation of the
Balkans, Miss Bryant expects to
be transferred either to Yugosla
via or Greece.
Miss Bryant has been an Exten
sion worker for 15 years. She
served as county home demonstra
tion agent in Jackson and Wharton
counties before coming to the head
quarters staff as home manage
ment specialist in 1938. In addition
to her Extension duties, Miss Bry-
.ant has served during recent
months as chairman of a four-
states’ regional committee on the
home phases of post war agricul
tural planning.
A successor to Miss Bryant has
not yet been announced.
Lodge 68, International Machin
ists, ordered San Francisco ma
chine shops working on engine
parts for landing craft to fire
fourteen machinists FOR WORK
ING OVERTIME at the request
of the Navy Department and the
Maritime Commission. The Union
called a strike because the men
were not fired and closed down
104 plants.
Nearly 2,000,000 (two million)
homes have already been destroy
ed in England by bombing and by
the robots. The Pope has urged
the English people not to become
bitter and revengeful. - Civilians
were not bombed in Rome so the
people of that city do not know
what it means to have civilian
homes made a deliberate target,
but the people of London and Eng
land in general do know.
A National Political Party asked
time on the air, for broadcast to
the troops overseas, equal to that
used by F. D. R. in his Bremerton,
Washington speech. The Army
granted the request on the ground
that the F. D. R. addres was po
litical in character. A few hours
later, however, a war department
official, a presidential appointee,
reversed the decision because the
presidents speech was NOT politi
cal in character. When congress
men threatened an investigation
the army promptly announced that
equal time would be allotted to all
parties for overseas broadcasts.
The catch is, however, that the
army still determines which of its
commander-in-chief’s broadcasts
are political, if any.
Edgar Bergen is at last engag
ed to marry, bald head and all.
The girl in the case is Frances
Westerman, a model. It has not
yet been announced whether Charlie
McCarthy will go along on the
honeymoon or not, but it is prac
tically certain he will continue to
be the wage earner of the family,
even if he is not its head.
Between two thirds and three
fourths of the French homeland
has already been freed from Ger
man domination through the ef
forts of the Allied Armies and of
the former French underground
which is certainly out in the open
now. For years the Germans have
been trying to smoke the under
ground out in the open and now
it is out and smoking up the Ger
mans, and are they disgusted.
F. D. R. has lost the farm vote,
according to the Gallup Poll. The
latest report of Gallup says that
if the election were to he held now
that the farmers, outside of the
south, would vote two to one for
Dewey, and that over the national
as a whole fifty out of every hun
dred are for Dewey. The Southern
farmers, however, still give the
majority of their votes for Roose
velt.
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