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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1944)
PAGE 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of 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 th* Post Dfflce at College Station. Texas •older 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. Member Associated Cptleftiate Press Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-1444. 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 Reporter Eli Barker Reporter D. V. Hudson Reporter B. J. Blankenship ....Reporter Dick Osterholm Reporter Jimmie Oeraopulos Cartoonist Example to Follow . . . Upperclassmen are continually complaining about the lack of spirit displayed by the freshman class. It is un doubtedly true, if one can believe what one hears, that every freshman class is not up to the record set by the one before it. The freshmen are not on the line as they should be. There is much room for improvement. Company officers cannot be held entirely responsible for this because they are doing the best that they can consider ing the shortage of manpower that they face. Part of the fault points in another direction. It has been customary since the beginning of A. & M. to enjoy certain privileges that are reserved to each class and this is as it should always be. But there has been abuse of this. Upperclassmen, certain ones at least, are failing to set the example of an Aggie that they should. This is not a problem that can be corrected on a wholesale scale. Each upperclassman must take personal inventory and determine if he is setting an example for the freshmen to follow. Of particular concern here is the spirit. A freshman meets an upperclassman and yells, “Beat Bryan Field!” What does the upperclassman do? Does he pass it off non chalantly or does he give the freshman a spirited reply? A real. Aggie is one that does all he can to keep the spirit alive even atfer his freshman year. Dealing from the Top of the Deck ... Results During the past three months great strides have been taken by the corps and by the school administration in im proving relations between the two. Both have expressed the hope that a spirit of cooperation can be developed and indi cations are that both factions possess a much more coopera tive attitude now than they did before the beginning of the present semester. Many things have been done which have made possible the betterment of conditions but perhaps the most pertinent is the spirit in which both groups meet and discuss problems with candor and frankness. When one step is taken it must be followed by succession of steps in the same direction or movement ceases after the original momentum has played out. When a movement is started it is customary to apply more and more power until the purpose is accomplished and even then constant vigil must be maintained to insure the continuance of for ward motion. When friction develops it is immediately necessary to get at the cause of the trouble and remedy it as soon as possible and if no immediate solution presents itself there should at least be an effort made to alleviate the situation. If not the friction is likely to burn out the running bearings of the or ganization. Even in an atmosphere of apparent cooperation there sometimes exist an intangible trace of suspicion. Best re sults cannot be obtained when one side distrusts the other in the least. When two groups meet around a council table there is usually a difference of opinion but if this was not the case there would be slight excuse for the meeting. But when conditions are such that there seems to exist a hint of suspicion of ulterior motives on the part of either party, then the spirit of cooperation is lost and replaced by one of superficiality. Conference table honesty is as important as either in tellectual honesty or the honesty of personality. Groups both working toward the same goal can accomplish much more if they will lay their cards on the table and give the other side credit for doing the same thing. , Batt Needs Reporters Positions are available on the Battalion reportorial staff for interested qualified students at A. & M. Those interested should con tact the editor of the Battalion in Room 5 of the Administra tion Building or at 118 Dorm 3. —SENIORS— (Continued from page 1) the corps to have popular hands for dances it is necessary to ac cumulate a reserve of funds. The committee also announced that plans are being made for a number of dances to be held this fall during football season with the Aggieland Orchestra playing •for the majority. Included in the report was a statement that ef forts will be made to work out a plan whereby Student Activities will pay part of the cost of the next Senior Banquet and Senior Ring Dance. This will be done be cause of the small enrollment in the present senior class. Calling attention to the corps ball which will be held Friday, Sep tember 22 the committee empha sized that tickets will be on sale only at the door. The dance is scheduled from 9:00 until 1:00. The Committee on Student Ac tivities is composed of Bob Butch- ofsky, Bill Griffin, Tom Alley, Dan Hightower, and Charles Haenisch. —FOOTBALIi— (Continued; from page 1) TCU, North Texas Aggie and Ark ansas games for 60 cents each, Jones announced. The Aggie Knot Hole Gang will function again this year. The kids really get a break for, while their elders plank down $2.50 to see the Aggies perform, Knot Holers will pay only 25 cents if under 12 years of age, or 50 cents over 12. Each child, however, must obtain a Knot Hole card from his school officials, and this card is given only if the child is making passing grades in his studies. This plan has been in operation several years. In the days of abundant gasoline and tires, often school buses brought loads of school children from dis tant points. Knot Holers sit in the north stands back of the goal post at that end of the field. Mail order ticket requests have been keeping the athletic office busy, Jones said. Already more tickets have been reserved than were sold all of last year, aifd the same is true of the coupon books, good for all athletic events to be held at the Texas A&M College from September through May, 1945. One coupon in the book also covers the A&M-Rice game to be held in Houston Nov. 18. Jones an nounced that although the game with the University of Texas Long horns will be held in Austin this year, the athletic office has re ceived more ticket reservations at this time than had been received- by the corresponding date in 1943 when the annual Thanksgiving game was played at College Sta tion. Tickets to the genera) public will be handled in the order of their receipt, Jones said, and he urges those planning seeing any of the four games to be played on Kyle Field to get their requests in as early as possible. BAcrw/vrn By Renyard W. Canis Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. 0 NLY ONE WEEK left before the biggest weekend of the semes ter rises to its full heighth and dwarfs all those others that are remembered so sweetly or^head- achely, as the case may be. It isn’t too late to write that hunk of lusciousness and ask her for the final corps ball of the semester. She is just primping to come and think of the color that she will add to the stands when the Aggies BEAT BRYAN FIELD. Ask her down and tell her to bring a girl friend for your roommate. Capital Voices M EARLY EVERY freshman on the acmpus sounds off with Beat Bryan Field when greeting, someone but many of those things sound more • like bleats that BEATS. When sounding off those* fish should make it an extra point to say it like they mean it, and loud enough to make the sopnd reverberate all over the campus. Make every one of the letters in the slogan a capital. BEAT BRYAN FIELD. Notes on the Slogan A couple of days ago there were J several Aggies ambling down to ward Kyle Field to watch work outs and on the way they passed a crowd of the younger genera-^ tion (3 to 5 year olds) playing un der the watchful supervision of a nurse. Well, there are any number.} (See BACKWASH, Page 3) Man, Your Manners' By I. Sherwood rr > In these days any of you young men may find yourselves on the radio at any time. There is a defi nite radio etiquette that is well to know; you can’t just make a radio appearance without knowing what to do. The technique of speaking into a microphone is different from that of any other means of com munication. It is essentially the art of being personal. Your prob lem is to make your listeners feel your own fear or anger or comfort. Effective radio speakers realize that they hold or lose the listeners in the first minute or two so they adopt the following rules: 1. They select a timely subject. 2. They write as they talk. 3. They make their rejnarks short and to the point. 4. They write their speech so as not to crowd time—al lowing time for-emphasis. 5. They use simple under- ~ standable words. * 6. They avoid statistics. 7. They avoid humor unless they are able to put it across* 8. They never make the direct* statement that they are go ing to prove so and so. 9. They time their speech at rehearsal. 10. They leave the audience wanting more. 11. They broadcost as they talk - not as they read. 12. They avoid making any dis turbance whatsoever when near the microphone. 13. They have their manus- script in loose leaf—not clipped together— so they can drop the sheets as they are finished. PENNY’S SERENADE .By W. L. Penberthy - On most athletic teams there are usually two kinds of players— those who do the scoring and those who make scoring opportunities possible for those assigned to the scoring positions. In the past the players making the scores have been given a great deal of cre- lldifc while those II who in terf erred for or fed the Mil scor e r s were given little recog nition. However, as time passes an increasing a- mount of credit is given the line- Penberthy men and blockers in football and the guards in bas ketball, etc. It takes a good man to do a good job of a task where there is no glamour and little recognition. Often men placed in these positions covet the more publicized positions and as a result the character of their play is noticeably affected. When this happens they not only lose the chance, they may have of being shifted to a more desirable position, but may even get beaten out of the place they had previous ly won. No coach is going to shift a player from one position to another when the player has not given his best to succeed where he was originally placed because the Qoach knows that as a general rule if the player won’t perform well in an undesirable position he will fail in the pinches in the better position. It has been my observation- that doing the job right *is a habit and one of the finest habits a young person can perform. When an executive wants to hire a per son he selects one who has the habit of doing a good job regard less of the pay or the publicity* derived. It is natural for us to covet what seems to be the better jobs, but those go to the ones who have? 1 first performed the menial tasks well.