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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.
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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
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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.
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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.