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t The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M COLLEGE The Battalion, 9f Texas Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College and the City of College Station is published three times weekly, and issued Thursday and Saturday mornings except during the summer semester when Tuesday and Friday afternoons and M. College of Texas and serves Jnited States Army and illy in the interest Navy stationed on the campus. A. & personnel of the Un Calvin Brumley Editor Dick Goad Managing Editor Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor S. L. Inzer .! Sports Editor J. W. Bell Sports Writer Kenyard W. Canis ...Backwash Editor Robert Gold Reporter Eli Barker Reporter D. V. Hudson Reporter B. J. Blankenship Reporter Jimmie Ueraopulos.. Kep ..Carto oonist —TOWN HALL— (Continued from page 1) program of varied entertainment. On February 27, Aggieland’s own Singing Cadets, under the direction of W. M. Turner, will appear in a program that will consist of pop ular, classical, and semi-classical music, together with the traditional songs of Aggieland. The Town Hall season will close 'on March 13 with the featured artist, Rise Stevens, young opera and film star. The eight programs are offered 1 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BATTALION For Next Semester Keep Informed on College and College Station Affairs Subscribe to the Battalion for that Ex-Aggie in the armed service. As members of the “Greatest Fraternity on Earth” they want to know what is hap pening at A. & M. in the way of classes, administra tion and sports. The Battalion offers the best means of keeping the army of exes informed on the progress of A. & M. Get that subscription immediately so that it will be on the mailing list for the first issue in October. ---RATES--- Semester $1.50 Per Year $3.00 New Semester Begins October 2 Send your subscription to the Battalion, Room 5, Administration Building, College Station, Texas. Students, get your subscription when you pay your fees. Man, Your Manners By L Sherwood OPEN FORUM Editor’s note—The Open Forum is open ishes to contribute. All Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under 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, 'Thicago, Boston. Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Member Plssocided Colle6iate Press Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-1444. Many freshmen who come to A. & M. have known nothing but the very nicest table manners back home, accompanied by the nicest table settings; some have never sat down to a table that did not have perfect appointments in linen, silver and dishes. Ordinary, everyday good table manners should have become auto matic for any of you before you left home. Mess Hall style, of a necessity, has to be as simple as possible to expedite serving a large number of men at one time; tradition of the upperclassmen, has abbreviated the service still more. But the “fish” who has had nice manners all his life, even though he lets them lapse from undue pressure in the Mess Hall, will recover them v/hen the strain is lessened. Anyone who has once had some thing as fine as nice manners isn’t going to forget them; he will be smart enough to use them at the right time. If this column decides to harp on any subject, “table manners” will come in for more than their share. Beginning Today ... A new semester begins today. The slate is clean and ready for that indelible writing which each individual will inscribe upon it during the next four months. It is not often in life after college that a person has the opportunity to begin anew every four months and when this is kept in mind a good beginning takes on even more importance. Seven hundred new freshmen enroll today after having spent last week in an orientation program under the direc tion of G. B. Wilcox and Student Personnel and for them there opens a whole new horizon of activity. Many of them are away from home for the first time. The best advice that can be given to these new students is to obey instructions that are given. Their college career will be a series of taking and carrying out orders and finally of giving orders when they become seniors. Military discipline is the keynote of life in the A. & M. dormitories and a new student’s happiness and college success depends upon the adjustments which he makes at the be ginning. For the first time the new student will live under the direct supervision of cadet officers. The cadet officers of the various organizations are appointed by the president of the college upon the recommendation of the commandant. They are responsible men with a job to do in the new stu dents’ belief as well as passing their college work success fully. i Cadet officers are responsible for the conduct of all other Aggies as well as the new freshmen and because of this responsibility they will demand and expect obedience in com pliance with the regulations which they set up to run tneir companies. Other rules are promulgated in an effort to aid the new students in the process of becoming Aggies. The mistake should not be made that as soon as a person enrolls in A. & M. and puts on' the Aggie uniform that he is an Ag gie. Aggies are evolved, not made. In regard to academic work there is very little that can be said other than that each student, new or old, should do his best. The prime fault of everyone at A. & M. is put ting off assignments. Get each assignment on time. A. &; M. is glad to welcome those 700 new students. A. & M. will be proud of those 700 when they become Aggies. What’s Your I. Q? Questions of the type below will be submitted weekly by some member of the college faculty to test your intelligence, common sense, and ability to think clearly. Each question is worth ten points. A score of 90 or more en titles the reader to a superior; from 70 to 80 is above average; from 40 to 60 is average; and any score below 40 is poor. ★ 1. Who is the author of the novel, “The Razor’s Edge?” Ernest Hemingway, Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, Sin clair Lewis, Pearl Buck. 2. Which of the following is the heaviest ? Gold, Mercury, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 3. Which is the hardest? Car borundum, Corundum, Tungsten Carbide, Diamond, Silicon Carbide. 4. Which of the following mili tarists was popularly known as “The Fox”? Von Rudestedt, Mont gomery, Rommel, MacArthur, Na poleon. 5. What German pugilist, lately reported as killed in action while serving in, the German Paratroops, knocked out World’s Champion Heavyweight Joe Louis in the 12th round of the scheduled fifteen round bout a few years ago? 6. Was Max Baer ever the World’s Heavyweight Boxing champion ? 7-10. What German, commander of the Union forces, defeated Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg? (Answers in Col. 5, Same Page) Something to Read Edna B. Woods for the season price of $6 for re served s^ats; students’ season tick ets are $2.40. Special rates, ac cording to the program being pre sented, will be given to enlisted servicemen. The ticket sale opens on October 4 in the Student Ac tivities Office and at A. M. Wal drop’s in Bryan, but no advance reservations will be made, the Committee reminds. Prize American Plays, 1918-1939 A recent collection of The Pu litzer Prize Plays, edited by Wil liam Lyon Phelps, makes interest ing reading not only because the A. & M. ALTERATION When a battleship fires a broad side of nine 16-inch guns, it costs our government the equivalent of 360 $50 War Bonds or $13,500. SHOP North Gate Welcome to Aggieland, Students ip! i Let us help you look your best by altering your clothes. We can make any garment smaller or larger—turn col lars—lengthen or shorten sleeves or trousers legs. We can make your clothes feel more comfortable. Keep that military look by having your clothes fit Right. twenty plays themselves are high ly entertaining, but also because, read in order, they indicate to some extent the changes, between wars in the taste of American audiences. On the whole (with some exceptions) they show that the 1920’s liked hardboiled and cold- hearted analysis, criticism, and sa tire while the 1930’s were more sentimental, more idealistic, and perhaps more optimistic. As a mat ter of fact, a similar collection of prize-winning novels would prob ably show the same sort of change in tone. What the Pulitzer Prize Plays do not indicate clearly is the remark able growth in the American lit erature of the 1930’s of concern with the future of our social “'order. Yet undoubtedly American ' litera ture, including drama, did become muejh more “socially conscious” in the 1930’s. Perhaps the judges who awarded the Pulitzer prizes were too conservative to recognize (or to admit) the importance of “radi cal” plays. Perhaps they had “arty” ideas about the impossibil ity of making good drama out of social propaganda. At any rate, they entirely ignored Clifford Odets, the radical dramatist, and skipped the most highly “socially conscious” plays of _ prize-winners like Elmer Rice, Eugene O’Neill, and Maxwell Anderson. The two plays about negroes which won Pulitzer prizes are among the best in the collection: Abraham’s Bosom and The Green Pastures. Sidney Kingsley’s Men in White and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town do something in 1934 and 1938 toward restoring the prestige which the medical profession and the small town lost under Sinclair Lewis’ merciless attachs in Ar- rowsmith and Main Street. Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude stands out in this collection, as it would in any collection, I think, as by far the greatest American play. Altogether, Pulitzer Prize Plays is encouraging. Though the 1930’s produced no genius to compare with O’Neill, the plays do on the whole get steadily better. If you want to see how far our dramatic taste has risen since 1918, read or try to read Why Marry?, the prize-win ner (save the mark!) for that eventful year. Maybe we are grow ing up, after all. —SENIORS— (Continued .From Page 1) to entertain at an All-College Dance in the Student Activities Center on the TSCW campus. It has been customary in the past on trips of this nature to grant authorized absences to the seniors making the trip but no definite announcement can be made along that line pending action by the executive committee. The Aggie representatives will probably leave the campus Friday noon or before in order to arrive in Denton before 8. Final choice will not be made TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3, 1944 l \< I H Ai li Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster. By Renyard 1 W. Canis ! to anyone who wishes to contri letters will be published on either side of any subject provided these letters are not libelous. It is not the*policy of the Bat talion to suppress any opinion and it is the belief of the Battalion that every one has a right to express that belief. College Station, Texas September 20, 1944 Editor The Battalion Campus Dear Editor: Recently much has been said about the grave of Reveille and what type marker would be fitting. The subject has concerned me very much. In the first place, her name has been mentioned again and again in publications and over broadcasts during football seasons. The hearts of thousands of Aggies have swell ed with pride when respect was paid her. We cheered when she trotted out onto the field during games; we had her portrait painted when she died. And then! All seemed to be forgotten. Recently, however, a lot of men have been talking about the prop er and fitting marker for her grave. I think, men, that we are about ready to do something. So here’s my suggestion! Why couldn’t we raise enough money to have a likeness in stone made ? Have this likeness placed above her burial spot. The statue should be so made that Rev would be looking into Kyle Field Stad ium. Then as the men would pass by going into the game, they would observe once again the mascot of the school looking out into the great game that has helped make A. and M. famous. It seems to me that this sight would stir the hearts of every true Aggie. Think it over. And while you are thinking, decide upon some im mediate plan to raise the funds necessary to erect some fitting marker. Who should be in charge? Who should assume the responsib ility? Who should lead the fund raising campaign? Would it be too much to suggest the names of the presidents of the Junior and Senior classes ? Sincerely, Howard Palms. until Sunday after the boys bid goodbye to the girls after a week end of association. The Sweetheart will be crowned at half-time in the game between the Aggies and SMU in Dallas on November 11. UERE IS ANOTHER Monday. Mondays are usually pretty much alike, always blue. But this Mon day, well—this is the day that be gins a new semester and a new lease on life. Then on the other hand this is the Monday after a week of vacation. The word vacation is a funny one. Webster says that a vacation is a limited time in days when schools or businesses recess to give employees or students a time for recreation and rest. What is an Aggie vacation? It is a time to travel as much as possible, see as many women as can possibly be crammed into a week, and fol low the football team. Rest? Hmm. Recreation ? Rather Dissipation. Weakend Ramblings T B - ATHLETIC DEPT. - (Continued from page 1) mural activities from the very start. This past summer the com petition was the keenest it has ever been, and only after a hard fight was A Company able to cop the crown. I. Q. ANSWERS 1. Somerset Maugham 2. Gold 3. Diamond 4. Rommel 5. Max Schmeling 6. Yes 7-10. General Meade B LOOK, AGGIES! / Your name engraved FREE when you buy K. & E. Drawing Instruments from LOUPOT. I also make repairs on all K. & E. Drawing In strument Sets FREE. I want your books not later than Tuesday. Everybody will be buying Monday or Tuesday — So there’s not much sale for books after that date. LOU POT’S TRADING POST with a fiendish gleam but really it was all in fun. If we have of fended anyone (very much) we are sorry but won’t apologize. It is a tradition for Aggies anid Tessies to be Sweethearts. Tessiejs are sweet hearts. They are fine girls? Well they should be. Don’t they go with Aggies? Dial 4-1181 — Opens 1 p.m. EXAS, the entire state, was covered by Aggies last week. There were only about 1200 but they seemed to be able to take care of any situation that arose over the big and lusty state. Army, what do you know about your reputation? How does this sound? The other night an Aggie got a ride with a man but the fel low wanted to go by and pick up his wife and the Aggie naturally said yes, always eager to have female companionship. The joker came when the lady stepped to the door of the car and the Ag gie being a gentleman (?) stepped Out of the car and opened the door. The lady screamed and ran. shame. New Travel Modes Aggies have always been proud of their ability to travel. Someone came up with something new the other day that will either make the sons of A. & M. blush or chuckle. A bozo or hobo from California hitched his wagon, and we do mean wagon, to a mule (not a star) and plodd ed from California to Texas. Don’t know how long it took him but it is a fact that he left shortly after Pearl Harbor. Juke Box Pictures TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “BANJO ON MY KNEE” starirng Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea THURSDAY and FRIDAY ACKWASH was sitting in a cafe the other night drinking cof fee (The word is coffee.) and keep ing time to a juke box with his foot while reading a paper. Paper was soon fdrgotten. A flash of something or the other (Backwash didn’t see red. Well, maybe slight variation.) caused old Canis to look up. Hmmm. ’Tweren’t just a juke box. It was sort of a juke box combined with a movie. Good songs. Good pictures. Moving too. Spent more money on that thing. Well, that’s the kind of pictures they were. Irate Tessie One of the greatest stories ever produced by WARNER BROS. ^ , NANCY COLEMAN-MARY BOLAND VICTOR FRANCLN-NAZIMOVA Plus Cartoon and Fox News ACKWASH received a letter from a fiery Tessie a short while ago arid did she burn because TSCW has been getting a small amount of kidding in this column. She didn’t sign her name but it is a cinch that she was an Ex-Tessie. No one else could write like she did without burning the paper. Dear lady, Backwash was pok ing fun at TSCW in a good natured way in a sort of offhand manner Phone 4-1166 ii D smL 0N . 9c & 20c Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1 P.M. Closes at 8:30 PREVIEW SATURDAY NIGHT and SUNDAY Charles Lawton - Maureen O’Hara — in — “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME’ , MONDAY and TUESDAY October 2 and 3 John Steinbeck’s “THE MOON IS DOWN” WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY October 4 and 5 ^SOTHERNv^DOUGlRS THREE HEARMUIT (p&JtS LEE BOWMAN • RICHARD AINLEY MARTA LINDEN • REGINALD OWEN FELIX BRESSART Sorr ml So... Ho, by Uon— Homr M*tro-GoWwyn-Way»f PkMw Directed by Richard Thorp* dvcod by John W. Comidto* Jfc .4 * h ^ i * f- « J * r <** •>*>«. =*•’!'