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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1944
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.
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ander the Act of Congress of March 8. 1870.
at College Station, Texan
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Office, Room 5, Administration Bnilding. Telephone 4-S444.
Calvin Brumley 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
Eli Barker .....
D. V. Hudson
B. J. Blankenship....
Dick Osterholm
Jimmie Oeraopulos.
.. Reporter
....Reporter
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.Cartoonist
A Call to Duty . . .
Less than two weeks separate today from the first
football game of the season when the Aggies meet the Bryan
Army Airfield Flyers on Kyle Field. The Flyers will un
doubtedly offer the Aggies heavy early season competition
but the circumstances of the game will present an even
weighter problem for the Twelfth Man.
Coming as it does immediately after the close of the
semester there will be a marked temptation confronting the
Aggies to forsake the game for a few extra hours at home.
It is regretably true that because of the speed up program
every hour of vacation time is precious but it must be decid
ed whether it is more important to support the Aggie team
or leave early for home. The following weekend in San
Antonio there is another game which will further shrink
vacation time but again it is asked if it is worthwhile to let
the team down to spend that other day at home.
If the Aggies are going to continue to call themselves
the Twelfth Man they will have to be on hand for every
game that is within travelling radius of College Station.
Such game as that in Oklahoma and the one in Miami will
have a very light attendance. That leaves only nine games
at which the Twelfth Man can function in force. Is the corps
going to let the team down or will it be standing there in
the stands throughout the game?
Those studnts at A. & M. who think of themselves as
Aggies will be at both games. There is very little excuse for
absence. The week between semesters will separate the
Aggies from the students at A. & M.
When the Yanks March In . . .
According to speculation Americans will be celebrating
victory over Germany in the very near if not immediate
future. Cities and organizations all over the nation are now
laying plans for the celebration of V Day. 'Various educa
tional institutions have announced holidays for that day. It
must be that the directors of these institutions have realized
that regardless of whether the holiday is official or not that
the students will take the day off for the celebration.
As yet no plans have been announced for a celebration
at A. & M., the greatest of all military colleges. If the Aggies
of the present are in any way similar to those of the past
there will be a wholesale movement away from classes
whether authorized or not. If not controlled in some way a
celebration of V Day is likely to get out of hand and could
very likely cause unwarranted property damage.
Plans should oe made and authorized for an official
observance of victory over the European, enemies. Perhaps
a corps parade led by the band would be a fitting opener. It
would not be necessary for a formal review or even a dress
parade but what w;ould be more fitting than a parade around
the campus and tHen some sort of official ceremony.
A. & M. cannot afford to neglect the opportunity that
will be offered to pay her respects to those Aggie dead who
died fighting across the Atlantic. Proper activities will not
be possible if the corps'is asked to make classes on that day.
Students and administration should get together and work
out the plan for V Day.
SOMETHING TO READ
By T. F. Mayo
The very best American authority
on Chinese affairs, Owen Latti-
more, has now published an ex
cellent little book, The Making of
Modern China, which tells us exact
ly what we want to know about the
history and present problems of
China. It is so clear, entertaining,
and short that anybody can read
it easily in two evenings. It is so
sensible and fair that nobody can
read it without becoming more in
telligent about a nation whose
problems concern the whole world,
especially us Americans.
Mr. Lattimore explains the re
current “decay” of the great Chi
nese dynasties in this logical and
commonsense manner: The sur
vival of a Chinese regime depend
ed upon its ability to collect, in
taxes, a substantial part of the
peasants , surplus product, which
was also being sought by the land
lords in the form of rents. But the
government had to find its offi
cials in the landlord class, for only
their sons had enough wealth and
leisure to enable them to pass the
terrifid civil service examinations.
So the government was stopped by
the very class who were competing
it for the peasants’ surplus pro
duct. Hence, under any given re
gime, the government officials were
gradually influenced or corrupted
by their own landlord class to al
low more and more wealth to be
deflected from taxes into rents.
Thus the government became poor
er and less able to protect the pea
sants from the rent-grabbing land
lords. Finally the whole regime
broke down in a welter of peasant
revolts against intolerable squeez
ing. A “strong man’^xploited these
revolts to set up a new regime,
and the whole cycle began all over
again.
(Query! Any parallel in recent
American history?)
The last third of this brief his
tory is devoted entirely to the
present problems of China. Mr.
Lattimore is quite definite on one
point: If China survives this war
at all, the era of Western imperial
ism in Asia is over: “No longer will
the destinies of Asia be dictated
by imperial powers. Nor, on the
other hand, is an Asiatic counter
imperialism to be expected. Japan
tried that and failed. The truth is
that we no longer live in a world
of ‘the European question,’ ‘the
Balkan question’, ‘the Russian
question’, ‘the Near Eastern ques
tion,’ ‘the Indian question’, ‘the Far
Eastern question’. That era is over.
Henceforth we will live in a world
where there are only local aspects
of the world question. Whether
we make a success of that new
world will depend on the interac
tion of two things: the success
or failure that each nation makes
of its own affairs, and the suc
cess or failure of all nations in
dealing with each other as neigh
bors in a world order.”
—Attend San Antonio Agrsrie Dance—
Grayson A. & M. Club
Meets Wednesday
A reorganization of the Gray
son County A. and M. Club will be
held Wednesday night in Room
257, Bizzell Hall. All Aggies from
Grayson County are urged to be
present. Plans for activities be
tween semesters will be discussed.
By Renyard
W. Canis
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
N EARLY EVERY organization
now has a sign hanging on the
dormitories keeping up the BEAT
BRYAN FIELD spirit. It looks
good ole army but how about
some signs for the Texas Tech
game? The week before the Tech
game the corps will be gone and
because of that it wouldn’t be
out of order to begin putting up
some banners about the Tech Red
Raiders.
And you Aggies from San An
tonio won’t go wrong if you get a
few signs put up in the Alamo
City to the effect that the Aggies
are going to beat the Red Raiders.
This could be done during the week
between semesters.
Shortly before the restriction
was placed upon football banners
competition was keen for the best
banner. A prize was offered each
week to the company having the
best sign. Such a competition
judged upon basis of originality,
cleverness, and general appear
ance would be a stimulation.
Gridiron Grind
S ATURDAY was a good day
for the football team. The intra
mural track meet drew a large
crowd and most of them stayed for
the intrasquad game between the
A. B. and C teams.
It looked good to see so many
out for football practice but the
Corps still isn’t behind that team
as they should be. Where is that
old fire that used to course
through the veins of an Aggie? Is
this school dead? Does the Twelfth
Man function only on game days?
The grid squad practices every day
if it expects to spark that Aggie
team to victory this fall. Yell prac
tices aren’t all that is needed. Ac
tive, positive support of the team
is what is called for.
Blonde or Brunette
Some gentlemen prefer blondes
and some prefer brunettes. Some
prefer girls.
What are the relative merits of
blondes or brunettes ? Redheads
can’t be considered because they
are too much in the minority. Sor
ry Red. How blonde does a girl
have to be before she is a blonde?*
After considerable research
Backwash is still unable to decide
which makes the best date. Back
wash prefers the brunette type of
beauty but always seems to end
and begin with blondes.
Quoted Kissables
“The kiss you take is better than
you give”—Shakespeare.
I couldn’t stand it, sir, at all,
But up and kissed her on the spot!
I know—boorhoo—I ought to not,
But somehow, from her looks—boo-
hoo—
I thought she kind o’ wished me to!
—Palmer.
An old Spanish proverb says that
“a kiss without a mustache is like
an egg without salt.” Heine cyni
cally says, “Oh what lies there are
in kisses!” Montogue impatiently
exclaims, “In short, my dear, kiss
me and be quiet.” Swift asks,
“Lord! I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing.” Is he
kidding ?
Astounding and astonishing
The world of the future will be
entirely a woman’s woi^d. What a
statement. Yet some enterprising
young woman has gone on record
with just such a proclamation. She
went on to say that in the future
men would be kept around the
house for practically nothing but
ornamental purposes. Kinda re
versing things.
Time doesn’t wait
SlTDDENLY there are only two
weeks of school left and what is
worse only one more weekend be
fore the end of this semester. Mak
ing a bad situation worse, there
will likely be a considerably lot
of studying to be done next
weekend. What are these girls in
the big four, Dallas, Houston, Fort
Worth and Austin to do that week
end ?
Time is so short that an Aggie
won’t have time to take a long date
over the weekend. The guys will
have to be content with a short
one in Bryan. Bryan prompts an
observation. Are Tessies modeled
after the Bryan 400 or is the Bryan
gal-group patterned after the
ladies (?) from TSCW? The least
that can be said is that the lassies
from Bryan have a big advantage
when they go to TSCW. They are
wise to the ways of the sweetheart
school before their freshman year.
—AGGIE—
(Continued from page 1)
a background for his present posi
tion as editor of the Longhorn. He
was a distinguished student last
semester and at present is presi
dent of the Ft. Worth Club.
Of the many traditions instilled
into Smith during his stay here,
he says a long, lean, well tapered
instrument, usually made of Pine
or Cedar has made the greatest
impression on him thus far. He al
so regards Taps, blown after Ag
gie football games—in which the
Maroon and White comes out on
the short end of the score, as a
stirring ritual never to be for
gotten. Marc was referring to in
particular the ’42 Aggie-T. u. game
when the Aggies lost a heart-
breaker to the Lonhorns.
In his spare time, Marc collects
stamps, a practice he has main
tained for several years. As to
athletics, a good game of tennis
or a dip in the Aggie pool is his
answer to a first rate mode of re
creation. An Agriculture Econo
mics major, Marc plans to graduate
in January of ’46. Upon receipt
of his sheepskin he plans to enter
law school.
Time may be money, but we’ve
never seqn our clock grinding out
any cold cash.
HELP BRING VICTORY
BUY WAR BONDS