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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 17, 1944
The Battalion
STUUDENT BI-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 twice weekly, and circulated on
Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College station Texas,
juder the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870.
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Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City,
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Reporters: Eli Barker, Robert Gold, D. V. Hudson, B. J. Blankenship, Teddy
Bernstein.
Student Reporters: Henry Ash. Ernest Berry, Louie Clarke, W. M. Cornelius,
James Dilworth, Edwin Mayer, John Mizell, Harold Phillips, Bobby Rosenthal,
Damon Tassos.
Calvin Brumley .Editor
Dick Goad , Managing Editor
Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor
S. L. Inzer Sports Editor
Renyard W. Canis Backwash Editor
Dick Osterholm Amusements Editor
Henry Holguin Intramural Reporter
A Time for Mature Thinking . ..
In any group which is working for a common interest
there always exist a few jealousies and some ill-feelings
which if not curbed will defeat the efforts of everyone in
volved. These things that arise are not always petty in na
ture but frequently they are. Viewed with perspectve of the
undertaking as a whole they* look insignificant and when,
analyzed seem even smaller.
All persons have individual likes and dislikes and each
has private ambitions but in a successful organization these
personal feelings are forgotten. The very foundation upon
which an institution is founded can be undermined by things
of this kind. Many worthwhile causes have been given up
as failures because some few persons were unwilling to sub
ordinate their personal interest for the welfare of the whqle.
Even though these individualistic tendencies are seem
ingly justifiable there is one thing that must be considered.
If allowed to grow will these personal feelings jeopardize
the good of the whole?
After it is decided to eliminate these things that endan
ger the entire body another question presents itself. Should
the jealousies be allowed to smoulder in the depth of the
soul or should they be brought out in the open and discussed
and eliminated?
This question can only be answered by the individuals
composing the group. If the question is one of such magni
tude that if brought into the open it is likely to split the
organization, then perhaps it would be better to keep it
hidden and subordinate it so completely that it is forgotten
in the enthusiasm that is developed for the big job at hand.
If it is one of minor significance, then by all means it
should be introduced to the group, discussed, and solved to
the satisfaction of everyone concerned.
Deciding which of the two procedures is the wiser is the
difficult task. No one person can be sure that his judgment
is mature enough to decide an issue of this nature without
careful thought. Any problem of this nature should be thor
oughly digested before it is acted upon. After a course of ac
tion has been dictated by the sobering thought of time, then
it should be pursued to the end.
Personal Selfishness . . . Disaster
Since the beginning of the ROTC system Texas A. & M.
has operated under an organization of cadet officers. Closely
allied with the cadet officers was the senior class, and the
two working in conjunction with one another formulated and
carried out most of the policies concerning student life.
Back through the years there has been one feature that
stood out as the directing force guiding the activities of
all working with the discipline of the cadets and adminis
tration of A. & M. Always there has been the desire that
things be done and in such a way as to best nurture the
growth of A. & M.
A. & M. has been through some trying times and in
all likelihood will pass through many others. The fortitude
and courage of those that love A. & M. has carried her safely
across rough seas which would have swamped A. & M.
had they not been at the helm.
Disagreements have arisen from semester to semester
but triumphing over all these has been the driving desire
to see A. & M. continue to grow. Cadet officers have given
freely of their time and ability in order that they might
contribute something to the greatness. The senior class
counseled long hours to determine the best policies to follow
that would best protect the welfare of the cadet corps and
fortunately there have been intelligent men leading the sen
ior class and as a result the policies as a whole have been
successful.
What does an analysis of the situation reveal as the un
derlying cause behind this wealth of success? First, there
was complete agreement in action among those holding
positions of re sponsibility. Though they had differences
of opinion they presented a solid wall of concerted action to
the world. Even in times of uncertainties and unusualness
they set standards and forced not only the corps to those
standards but held themselves to an even more rigid code.
The success of the cadet system stems primarily from
the fact that these rigid standards were maintained even at
the expense of personal inconveniences. The calibre of men
at A. & M. has been such and is still such that they could
always be depended upon to carry out orders.
These former seniors worked for the benefit of their
class and the classes below them. They worked in a spirit
of futurity. They thought not only of the present but also
of all those that would be coming after. Most of the things
that they did have endured. Even those things that were
buried for a few months are again operating for the bene
fit of the students. May it never be that fhe responsible
members of the cadet corps again let those glorious tradi
tions be buried even before the gravel of the last burial
be entirely brushed off.
—COLLEGE—
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the Ag Experiment Station.
These men met with a number
of feed manufacturing executives
here on the campus on June 15 and
it was agreed that four subjects
should be discussed—fats, vitamins,
minerals and proteins.
Two outside speakers of national
reputation were contracted; R. V.
Boucher, Professor of Agricultural
and Physiological Chemistry, Penn
sylvania State College, State Col
lege, Penn.; and George O. Burr,
Head of the Division of Dairy Hus
bandry, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Approximately 100 feed manu
facturers, feed salesmen, and live
stock producers attended the meet
ing, which was held October 11-12
in the Agricultural Engineering
auditorium, in the Ag Engineering
Building. Those present have re
ported obtaining much benefit
from the information given out in
the two day conference.
Practically all the large feed
manufacturing plants in the state
were represented by several men.
The whole group of Animal Indus
try men on the campus cooperated
to the highest degree and the men
attending the conference announced
it to have been a very successful
meeting.
BEAT T. C. U.
Of the total area of the Republic
of Panama, five-eighths is unoccu
pied, and only a small part of the
remainder is scientifically culti-
I
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
By Renyard
W. Canis
N O ONE, not one single indi
vidual, who went to the station
last Thursday night to see the
team off can say that they didn’t
feel a- chill down the . spine, a
twitch across the shoulders, a
quiver in the stomach, and a
constriction across the breast when
the band played the Spirit of Ag-
gieland as the train churned
around the curve bound for Louis
iana to hand the Tigers a defeat.
Can anyone doubt that love of
Aggieland is the prime mover in
an Aggie’s life ? Aggies have a
loyalty and love for their school
which is surpassed only by a
man’s patriotism for his country.
Where else does a student body
follow the team to the station be
fore a game and then meet them
there after the game, win or lose?
How can a person, student or
otherwise, deny the force that is
the Aggie Spirit? It is indomita
ble, unconquerable, everlasting, im
mortal. It is a living, pulsing,
throbbing Spirit which is as ir
resistible as the electricity which
flashes through the clouds. The
Aggie Spirit is something that
v/ill endure and adjust itself to
the times and ultimately envelop
and devour anything that attempts
to surpress or snuff out its life. To
kill the Aggie Spirit or to damp
en it would be to wound thous
ands and tens of thousands of
Aggies in civilian life and in the
service. The ghosts of the past
cry out to the seniors, the juniors,
the sophomores, and the freshmen
to keep the lamp burning, to fan the
flame. BEAT T. C. U.'.H
BOOTS AND SADDLES
N OW THE ENGLISH Tommies
know about senior boots. At the
All College dance at TSCW the
7th, four English lads saw some
Aggies in boots and got quite the
laugh until they saw the way that
the girls were attracted by the
shine. Looks like four RAF boys
will be enrolling at Aggieland im
mediately the war ends.
THE BETTER HALF?
A« & M. is not just one school,
it is two. The Tessies are begin
ning to quicken again to the old
Aggie line. Listen to this bit o^
pulsation taken from the Lass-O.
‘Oldsters on the campus can re
member when weekends saw male
Tessies (Aggies to you) swarm
this territory.” . . . Corps trips—•
big white mums, informal dances,
yells for ’ole Army,’ hoarse throats,
the Aggie ‘T’, and the Aggieday
Sweetheart. Trips to Aggieland—
corps balls in Sbisa, movies at
Guion food at the Inn, Jaunts out
to Ed’s. . . . They are the only
men in the world that belong to a
girl’s school, and we can sing
rightfully, that ‘We are the Ag
gies, the Aggies are we; We’re
from Texas AMC. . .
Mighty nice tribute lassies.
Mighty nice. Could say that the
same goes here.
RETRACTING A BIT
If ES, they have the Spirit at
Tessieland. Yes, they are the Ag
gies. They are the sweetheart
school. But individually it is still,
‘Don’t sweetheat me (too much)
dear if you don’t mean it.” It is a
fine tradition to have a whole
school full of sweethearts that are
just like the Aggies.
Maybe that is the trouble. Ag
gies and Tessies are too much
alike. Constant flirts. The grass on
the other side of the fence is al
ways greener. The next dormitory
is always sweeter.
Being a TSCW is like being
turned loose in a shop full of de
sert dew with only a very few
minutes to lap the nectar before
the 11 o’clock CQ.
TESSIE IDEAL
When the wind gets nippy
and the footballs start booming
then is the time for Aggie and
Tessie to get together. Get to
gether at the SMU game and all
the rest of the corps trips. All
night and tomorrow. Parting is
such sweet sorrow. Tessie lady, if
you don’t mind being called a lady,
get your little grip packed with
your toothbrush and what ever
else girls pack and meet that Ag
gie in Dallas the night before No
vember 11.
BEAT T. C. U.
—RETIREMENT—
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year of continuous service to the
College, provided that in no case
will the annual rate of pay so cal
culated be greater than fifty per
cent of the average annual rate of
pay received during the last five
years of employment.
In calculating the rates of pay
for modified service, the value of
perquisites received during active
service shall not be considered.
Nothing in this section shall af
fect the rates of pay of persons
now in modified service.
By this retirement policy it is in
tended that all persons holding ad
ministrative positions with the
College shall be retired on their
sixty-fifth birthdays, and such
modified service to which they
might be assigned shall not be in
administrative capacity.
According to law all employees
of the College appointed on or aft
er September 1, 1937, and other
wise eligible, are required to par
ticipate in the State Teacher Re
tirement System, and
1. Pay 5 per cent of their to
tal salary (monthly) through
the college to the State Teacher
Retirement System with a max
imum payment of $180.00 per
year.
2. Pay $1.00 per year as an
expense fee.
3. Be subject to the rules and
regulations of the State Teach
er Retirement System as well as
its privileges and benefits.
No employee appointed after
September 1, 1937, and who is eli
gible for retirement under the
State Teacher Retirement System,
shall be eligible to modified serv
ice after the age of seventy.
No employee eligible for retire
ment under the State Teacher Re
tirement System/and having passed
:: As The World Turns ::
By Dr. A1 B. Nelson
Vice President Henry Wallace
has paid dues and formally joined
the Political Action Committee of
the C. I. O. Shortly after joining
he waved his membership card in
the air during a speech and ex
tolled the PAG as a group fight
ing for the I’ights of the common
man. Wallace is taking his com-
mander-in-chief’s kick in the teeth
at the Chicago Convention without
a grumble in the
hope that by
playing up to the
Communist - C. I.
0. organizations
he may get the
presidential nom
ination four years
from now. The
question is being
asked in many
newspapers over
the land: “If
changing horses in the middle of
the stream is bad policy, why has
the President changed vice presi
dents twice?”
The Dallas Morning News and
the Galveston News, two old time
and old line Democratic newspapers
have come out for Dewey for pres
ident in the last few days. In the
case of the Dallas News this is
equal in news value to the famous
illustration of the man biting the
dog. In its editorial statement the
News pointed out the folly of build
ing up a possible dictatorship here
Nelson
at home while fighting to destroy
dictatorships abroad.
Air battles of tremendous im
portance are being fought near
Formosa and the Japanese claim
that a great naval battle is in
progress. While there is no con
firmation of the latter report as
yet there is great possibility that
it is at least partially true.
Each of the two great national
political parties has lost by death
one of its former presidential can
didates. Alfred E. Smith, who took
the Democratic Party down with
him to the most disasterous defeat
it has ever suffered in the elec
toral college, and Wendell L. Will-
kie, the 1940 Republican nominee.
The death of each solves a prob
lem for his party. A1 Smith con
sidered that Roosevelt had be
trayed him and bolted the Roose
velt standard and Willkie, with his
tremendous personal political fol
lowing could have exerted a tre
mendous weight on the future for
eign policy of his party.
The picture of Carole Landis,
film star, lighting a cigarette for
a half naked black native of New
Guinea has aroused a storm of
criticism in Australia where she
has already made herself unpopu
lar by her slurs at Australian girls.
The picture in question was print
ed in the last issue of NEWS
WEEK and bids fair to arouse its
share of adverse comment in the
United States.
The Lowdown On
Campus distractions
By Dick Osterholm
For the movie-goers who will
visit the theaters in Bryan this
week, top-notch screen entertain
ment can be expected if they see
the shows at the Palace.
Playing tonight and tomorrow
night, are the shows already re
viewed previously. Starting Wed
nesday night and playing through
Saturday is the colorful “Bathing
Beauty” with Red Skelton and car
loads of gorgeous girls. Here is a
show that will set you back in your
seat and fill you with laughs and
eyefuls throughout the whole
show. This is Skelton’s comical
self at his best, with a musical
background of the nation’s top
bathing beauties. When Skelton
the age of seventy shall be eligible
for modified compensation when
the monthly income from the State
Teacher Retirement System shall
be equal to or more than two-
thirds of the monthly modified
service compensation.
Group Insurance. A plan of
group insurance has been provided
as a protection for college em
ployees. All regular full-time em
ployees in the administrative,
teaching, research, extension, cler
ical, and stenographic staffs (eith
er nine or twelve months basis),
except officers and enlisted men
of the regular Army, are eligible,
and are urged to participate there
in. A pei'son employed by the Col
lege subsequent to April 1, 1931,
who is eligible under the plan, can
not receive modified pay for a
longer period of time than that in
which he has participated in the
plan.
The retirement policy will be put
in effect November 1, it was an
nounced by President Gilchrist.
Eleven employees of the Main Col
lege are affected by this program,
two in the Texas Forest Service,
four in the Agricultural Experi
ment Station and seven in the Ex
tension Service. Their ages range
from 65 to 69 as of September 1,
1944.
BEAT T. C. U.
U. S. Military authorities say
that many hours of flight train
ing were lost last year by Army
student pilots in some parts of
the South because of the blinding
haze of smoke resulting from
woods fires.
mixes with the “minks,” well,
things will happen.
The lowdown: This is one of the
theatrical world’s latest comedy
hits. The show is in technicolor. It’s
an eyeful and a laugh-a-minute
with Skelton. You’ll be sorry if
you miss it.
Tonight at Guion is the feature
as previously reviewed, “The Con
stant Nymph” with Charles Boyer
and Alexis Smith. You still have
time to see this show if you have
not seen it already. “Whistling In
Brooklyn” with Red Skelton and
Ann Rutherford is showing at
Guion Wednesday and Thursday.
This is another Skelton comedy
that came along with the series of
comedy mysteries that brought
Red to the public’s attention. But
it’s good. It’s filled with laughs
with the usual Skelton antics and
love-making with Ann. The under
world pries into Red’s life and
things really pop. You’ll like the
Skelton routine if you like Skel
ton.
The lowdown: It’s not too new,
but you will like it. But there’s a
better Skelton picture showing
elsewhere. See them both if you
can.
On the entertainment bill for
the Campus, playing Tuesday and
Wednesday, “Curse of the Cat Peo
ple,” with Simone Simon and Kent
Smith. This is the usual freak
stofy with people who change from
being to animal and followed with
the usual superstition story. Simon
plays the part of a vivacious cutie
who changes to a panther when
ever she is kissed. Of course, the
plot involves men who try, and
curiosity killed the cat. It will give
you the creeps and make you wary.
The lowdown: It’s not an ordi
nary picture and not too new. You
may like it if you like the sus
pense plots, but if you want to see
good acting, this picture definitely
hasn’t got it. The plot has been
over-used before and kills the pic
ture. Don’t exert pressure to see it.
Showing Thursday and Friday
is the not too recent musical,
“Hello Frisco, Hello,” starring
Alice Faye, John Payne, and Jack
Oakie. Here is a good n\usical of
the old vaudeville days and the
trials and pains they went through
to get to the top of the billing in
the theaters in which they played.
It is full of hit tunes of the time
Whether or not absence makes
the heart grow fonder, some will
note with repulsion the return of
Tessie Talk.
Seems that as time passes, the
need for information about where
to spend the weekend increases.
Not that you all don’t have your
favorite haunts in some dark cor
ner. Thus, the answer should be
Dallas or Ft. Worth (here both
Chamber of Commerce toss pea
nuts) accompanied by a creature
from TSCW. We, too, enjoy the
escape element.
Have written notices in the
Lass-0 giving dates for the ap
proaching dances at A. & M. O. K.
fellows, the girls know—and will
want to know “why” if the invita
tions fail to appear.
Plans are in progress here con
cerning “watcha gonna wear on
the 20th?” referring to the TCU
game and dance. Looks as though
that will be another weekend of
the combined Aggie-Tessie errr,
spirit!
Sure was a blow to our A. & M.
fans when “Gums” Butchofsky,
managed to get his jaw fractured.
One swell player temporarily ‘out
of order.’ Am now taking up a
collection to send him taffy and
gum drops, with chewing gum in
cluded. Speedy healing “Butch”.
Our literary societies, very mis
named, have just completed pledge
week. How nice to enjoy the break
fasts in bed, clothes washed, ten
o’clock cokes and such trivial lux
uries at the expense of the pledges.
Rather, members monetary expense
and physical expanse versus
pledges energy expense and muscu
lar expanse.
Rain—yes, monsoon has set in!
Such heavenly drippings aren’t
bothersome except when they in-
terfer with trips to the holy grail,
our postoffice. Last week I was
expecting a very important letter,
my first in ten years, and had a
time attempting to convince my
roommate that she should be the
one to float over to the P. O. How
ever, the clever girl wanted to be
fair so she flipped her two-headed
coin, and I had to don all water
repellant garments, adjust the
diving goggles then dog-paddle
out.
A firm refusal to say of the let
ter was there.
Everyone here enjoyed the visit
of Aggies en-route to Oklahoma,
and the visit of the 12 fortunate
fellows. Don’t tell me that flutter
ing lashes and gleaming teeth are
unnoticed.
Then too, those Senior boots
warrant the attention they get—
or does that high-powered gloss
naturally attract?
Again soon, with no comments
please,
SuSu
it portrays and good musical en
tertainment. However, the acting
and love angle is not of the best.
The lowdown: A good musical.
You will like this picture if you
like Alice Faye. It’s light and will
take your mind off your studies
and other things. Take one, and
see this picture.
uTJ.'.
TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY
— also —
Color Cartoon and Short
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
HELLO”
“HELLO FRISCO,
— with —
Alice Faye
John Payne
Fox News and Cartoon
Phone 4-1166
i a s d s m tTll 0N . 9c & 20c
Tax Included
Box Office Opens at 1 P.M.
Closes at 8:30
LAST DAY
“THE CONSTANT
NYMPH”
_ with —
Charles Boyer
Alexis Smith
Joan Fontaine
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
ANN RUTHERFORD
JEAN ROGERS
“RAGS" RAGLAND
RAY COLLINS
HENRY O’NEILL
WILLIAM FRAWLEY
SAM LEYENE
and
THE BROOKLYN
DODGERS
Screen Ploy by NAT PERRIN
Additional Dialogue by WIIKIE MAHONEY
Directed by S. SYIVAN SIMON
Produced by GEORGE HAIGHT
— and —
Ann WIIUEit
Betty RHODES
Jerry C010NNA
Johnnie J0HNST0W
A* Vnrn VAGUE
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