Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 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, 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, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Member PUsocided Gdle6ide Press Office, Room S, Administration Building. Telephone <-$444. Calvin Bromley 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 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. Earnest Appreciation and Consideration . .. Today, and for many days to come, servicemen will be returning to the United States and home after many long weeks and months of overseas duty. Some come back in large transports, while others, too impatient to endure the slow voy age by sea, fly home in giant fortresses, gaining the quickest passage home. On their journey homeward, they think, in deep silence. Yes, they think a great deal, not caring to talk or divulge their thoughts to anyone. Their minds are filled with last impressions and pictures of home, their loved ones and friends. The faces of their dear ones pass by in front of them as they meditate and dream of home. Home, only a four letter word among the thousands to be found in the dictionaries; but to the returning servicemen, it has a million dollar sound and it’s the only word they know. Home, with its own quaint little oddities, and simple design. Only a mass of wood and nails, but to the returning service man every splinter of wood in that home is sacred to him, something for which he spent countless days and nights in cold, chilly foxholes. Something for which he offered his life time and again in battle; the supreme sacrifice. He remembers these times for a brief moment but then quickly changes his thoughts again to home, and those who are waiting for him. Is home still the same? Have any new buildings been built? Does Tony still have his ice cream par lor at the end of the block? I wonder if they still have the open-air band concerts every Thursday night in the park. I sure hope they’re still playing football games every Friday night at the high school stadium. I won’t mind much if all the fellows I graduated with from high school are gone. I’d sure like to see and talk to everyone of them, but I know they can’t be there. I just want to see once again the places which gave me one of the happiest and fullest child-hoods a boy could hope for. The old swimming hole, the fields where I used to hunt, and the old vacant lot where our neighbor hood had its big football game every Saturday. Just let me be by myself that I may view these holy places once again in silence. These are only a few of the thoughts racing through the mind of the war veteran as he speeds homeward, —oblivious of the world about him. He doesn’t look forward to a fast, exciting life when he gets home. He just wants to “stay around the house awhile” and listen to the radio and just sleep and take it easy. Does the returning servicemen want sympathy and pity? Many returning veterans are bitter and take hostile atti tudes toward civilians, scorning them for their happy-go- Jucky routine of life. They have just returned from distant battlefields where the ultimate was expected of a man at every moment to a life with people who do no know and understand what a booming or a strafing or an artillery bar rage can mean. Some may call it pity and sympathy which the veteran desires but isn’t there a more rightful term for it—just earnest appreciation and consideration. Earnest appreciation and consideration for men, some who are com ing back to a land they haven’t seen for two years with only one arm or one eye, or with artificial legs providing their only mobile means. Some who still retain memories of faith ful buddies being blown to bits by land mines or shot in the back by a hidden sniper. Some will offer temporary condolence to the maimed servicemen, but years later, when fleeting expressions of sympathy have long past, that shirt sleeve or pant leg will still be hollow. These men don’t ask for pity or sympathy. They will be competing with college graduates and men whose minds have not been scarred by the momories of dead comrades and nights of hell and torture on the battlefronts. But they ask no favors. They were men enough to take all that the horrors of war could offer without losing their de termination or initiative; will a missing arm or leg stop these kind of men? They don’t ask that they be treated with particular fineness and care. They ask onl ythat they receive rights and privileges accorded any citizen of this free country; the rights and privileges which we never stop, and give any deep thought to; the rights and privileges for which they offered their lives in battle time and again. Men do not ask for consideration and appreciation for services rendered but an act of gratitude or an earnest thought of appreciatio is never to be forgotten and it is sometimes the helping hand which instills in a man the self-confidence needed to lift him over the barriers which may have previously barred his path to happiness and success. On the A. & M. campus today are men who have seen and experienced the ravages of war in the fullest sense. They are adjusting themselves once more to the life of a college student; once again enjoying regulated hours of sleep, study, and relaxation. Gone are the many tiresome, sleepless nights spent in the open, facing death in its every form. Yes, at the age of 19, 20, and 21, they are war veterans. They have done their part in this war and they are now working to lift themselves over any barriers which might confront them on their road to a successful, happy, and normal life. It has always been the unwritten law at Aggieland that members of the Corps show due consideration and appreciation for fel low Aggies. An earnest act or display of consideration and appreciation is never to be forgotten and its value is priceless. The war veterans on this campus are Aggies in the truest sense. Texas Game to Be Restored by Lay A graduate of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Daniel W. Lay, will administer the second largest appropriation in the United States under the Pitt- man-Robertson Federal Aid to Game Restoration Act during the present year. Under this act, Tex as has been given $41,692.55, an allotment exceeded by only one other State in the Union namely, Michigan, with a $47,000.00 allot ment. The allotments are made in accordance with the size of each State and the number of hunting licenses sold in the State. The work in Texas has been de voted mainly to the restoration of bobwhite quail, prairie chickens, wild turkeys, antelope, and white tailed deer. Some attention has also been given to various fur animals, including the beaver, rac coon, and muskrat. Lay, now Director of Restora tion, Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission, graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege in the Department of Poultry Husbandry in the year 1936. Grad uate work in the Department of CAcrwAin By Renyard W. Canis Backwash: An agitatiftn resulting from some action or occurrence."—Webster. No Meatballs ? ? ? ? The following poem was brought to the Batt Office by a certain individual who requested that his name not be mentioned. All he had to do with this masterpiece was write it. Little Napoleon of Co. C If ever you see in Co. C A fat little man named Tony, If he’s short and plump, and real ly quite dumb, That is our hunk of baloney. If his red hair glows like mad in the dark, And he yells like some mad Turk, If he’s just plain silly and sings hillbilly That is our little fat jerk. If his nose is red, the color of his hair. And when he talks he needs a fil ter. If his voice cracks, and .that’s no joke, Then we jump and say “Kiel Hit ler’’ But you must believe the general he says, Little Napoleon is really quite big. If he sounds awful tough and thinks he’s quite rough, That’s our overstuffe'd pig. If I tell you the rest about this lad T’would be sort of overdonea, But before I go, I want you all to know, Our General, TONY BARCELONA. Big Week-end Old Canis really got an eyeful this week-end, had most of the women down and he was scared to do much bird-dogging. The dance Friday night was a big success, but the Aggie defeat took some of the life out of the Corps Ball the following night. However there are two more big weekends com ing up and gay times are ahead. . . . Just to make sure nothing will go wrong in these next two games, yours truly has figured out a plan to make the A,?gi es sure winners. Just let Slim Inzer pick the op ponents to win and the Aggies can’t lose. He hasn’t' guessed one game right all season. :: As The World Turns :: By Dr. A1 B. Nelson Nine billion dollars or more will be the annual interest charge on the United States public debt at the conclusion of the war if the interest rate does not go up AND if the debt itself does not exceed present estimates. This interest charge alone will be more than the entire yeai’ly cost of the Unit ed States government before the Roosevelt era. Another interesting bit of information is that two and a half years of war have cost the United States about three times as much as the British have paid for five years of all out war. Why ? The blame for Pearl Harbor has at last been fixed by the official naval investigating board, but the report has not been made public for the navy de partment says it is highly secret. The only possible damage present publication could vJP do would be to rU ’' n cer t a i n rcp - utations in Wash ington political circles. Charges are being openly made that if the report were made public it would ruin any chance of the present ad ministration being re-elected. If this is not true the administration Nelson could easily refute the charge by publishing the full facts as to the political, military, and naval back ground of the Pearl Harbor dis aster. The American public is en titled to know the facts in order that they may vote with full un derstanding. Carol, former King of Roumania, has been living in Mexico for the past three years, and is now on his way to Brazil (his lady friend still with him). It is rumored that Brazil is intended to be only a stop on his way back home where he hopes to once again supplant his son on the throne. Carol’s party took with them forty trunks, sixty- seven suitcases, two automobiles, six dogs, and two golden crowns studded with diamonds and emer alds. He seems to have brought plenty of money with him when he was kicked out this last time. There seems to be a shortage of Democrats in Colorado. A Repub lican lady was hired for four weeks to operate the telephone switch board at the state Democratic headquarters. The job was then filled by a deserving Democrat. The office of Surplus War Prop erty has released one million two hundred thousand cuspidors for use by civilians as stewpots. The office girls in the War Depart ment must not be chewing tobac co, or are they using the floor? Books Received By College Library The Days of Ofelia, by Gertrude Diamant. Oliver Goldsmith, by Stephen Gwynn. Transit, a novel by Anna Seghers Dude Rancher; a modern career story, by Steve Young. The trial of Adolf Hitler; a story of suspense—part fact, part fiction, by Michael Young. Metaphysical Lyrics and poems of the Seventeenth Century, by Herbert J. C. Grierson. The Maine Woods, by Thoreau, new reverside edition. Autumn, by Thoreau, new rever side edition. Behind the Front Page, by Wil bur Forrest. The Sex Technique in Marriage, by I. E. Hutton. Self Analysis, by Karen Horney. Deep South, by Allison Davis, Fish and Game was completed in 1937 and 1938 and the degree of M. S. in Fish and Game was award ed June 3 of the latter year. Mr. Lay’s thesis was on the subject, “Bobwhite Quail Population as Af fected by Woodland Management in Eastern Texas.” Since his grad uation, Lay has worked continously for the Texas Game Fish and Oys ter Commission, making a distin guished record in all phases of his work. Prior to Lay’s assumption of the directorship of the Pittman-Robert- son Program for the State Com mission, the work was directed by Phil D. Goodrum, also a Master’s degree man from the Texas A. and M. College. During the present year, Mr. Goodrum became Region al Biologist for the Fish and Wild life Service, U. S. Department of the Interior, with headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia. Lay now is taking his place as Director of the Texas program. Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner. The Menace of the Herd, by F. S. Campbell. American Constitutional Develop ment, by Carl Brent Swisher. What Marx really Meant, by G. D. H. Cole. The Small Community; founda tion of democratic life, by Arthur E. Morgan. Mexico Reborn, by Verna Carle- ton Millan. Escape to Life, by Erika and Klaus Mann. History of the N. Y. Fire De partment, by Lowell M. Limpus. The Time for Decision, by Sum ner Welles. Shake Hands with the Dragon, by Carl Click. The Age of Reform, 1815-1870, by E. L. Woodward. Memoirs of the Crusades, by Vil- lehardouin and De Joinville. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, by the late Has- tigs Rashdall; a new edition in three volumes edited by F. M. Pow- icke and A. B. Emden: Volumes I and III. The Russian Enigma; an inter pretation by William Henry Cham berlin. England, 1870-1914, by R. „C. K. Ensor. Stars and Sand, edited by Joseph L. Baron. BEAT N. T. A. C. Forest Service representatives are urging the ‘home folk” to keep the forest green for our home coming heroes. It is pointed out that the returning Service man will want to forget destruction and devastation. He will expect to find the forest lands undamaged by fire. BEAT N. T. A. C. DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS LOUPOT’S A Little Place - - - A Big Saving! OPEN FOR UM Editor’s note—The Open Forum is open to anyone who wishes to contribute. All letters will be published on either side of any subject provided these lettens 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. Ole Army: The pot has boiled over once more and conditions seem tb be re turning to those of two semesters ago when the corps was forced to arise in defense of their rights. Army, we do not wish to rebel again but we must preserve the few rights we have. We have organizations, of course, and we are certainly grate- ‘ful for that gesture. However, what do we have in them? The cadet officers have no authority except the title of their office. They are supposedly placed in the dorms to supervise the discipline of the freshman; but as soon as one looks cross-eyed at a fish, he is slapped before the D. C. An ex ample of this is presented this -week. We do not want anything new for the corps, but just a restora tion of the confidence in the cadet system and officers. Why do we have to feel like gold fish in a bowl just because we have the re sponsibility of living with the freshmen? Most of us are sacri ficing time and grade points in an effort to keep A. & M. like the Aggie-exes wish it to be kept until they return. We are more than glad to make this small sacrifice as our part in keeping this insti tution as great as it has been in the past, but that is beside the point. Instead of getting true coopera tion from the authorities of the college the cadet officers realize their positions in being kept under constant surveillance and under the constant threat of being kicked out of college. If we could only have a true confidence established between the college and the stu dents, we might feel free to carry on in this school to a higher stand ard of education in the future than we have ever had before. A. J. Longley, Jr., ’47 Warren Brown, ’47. Lloyd D. Thornton, ’47 Anthony H. Flores, ’47 Thos. B. Roxburgh, ’47 Ernest Slaughter, ’47 Ernest A. Baetz, Jr., ’47 Howard Selby, ’47 James B. Striplin, ’47 Richai’d Hembree, ’47 Bob Seyle, ’47 C. N. Banker, ’47 BEAT N. T. A. C. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS BEAT N. T. A. C. Russian Autojector Pictures to Be Shown A.V.M.A. Students Pictures will be shown Wednes day night at 7:30 of the Russian’s new machine that brings dead dogs back to life. The animals afe first given an anesthetic and when asleep the blood is drawn from the vein.s The animal’s heart stops beating and respiration ceases. Af ter 10 or 15 minutes the blood is pumped back into the dead animal and the dog is restored to life. This feat is achieved by means of a machine called an autojector. The autojector re-establishes the circu lation of the blood until the heart and lungs are revived and resume their normal functions. These experiments were perform ed at the U. S. S. R. Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy at Voronezh, Russia. Not only have the experiments been successful in a number of cases but a normal living offspring has been raised by two of the dogs that were at one time dead. Moving pictures were taken of several of the experiments and these pictures will be shown this Wednesday night at the Veterinary Hospital for the benefit of the members of the Junior Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association and for the benefit of their friends and other interested persons. yiCTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS The Lowdown On Qamtnis ^Distractions By Dick Osterholm Entertainmeht billing at the Campus this week includes a pret ty assortment of pictures. Play ing Tuesday and Wednesday is “Road To Morocco,” with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour. That top comedy team of this amazing trio struts out again in a fine comedy of laughs and beautiful girls. The story fakes us to the land of harems and Arabs, where Lamour plays the’part of a beautiful princess. Badly in need of ready cash, Crosby auctions Hope as a slave, who meets the princess this way. Romance, laughs and crooning by Crosby fill the plot. Hope loses his head over the princess, and we nearly mean this literally. The Lowdown: It’s an old pic ture, but worth seeing. You will like it, if you like solid comedy, because Hope and Crosby are a good comedy team. By all means, try and see this one. Showing Thursday and Friday, is a show that all men will enjoy. “Pin Up Girl,” starring Betty Gra- ble, John Harney, and a grand supporting cast. This is a 20th Ceptury Fox musical hit. Beauti fully done in technicolor, and filled with new song hits, and a practi cal plot, this picture will give you the entertainment you need to take your mind off anything. If you like Grable, and who doesn’t, then see her, because the picture is def initely filmed for Grable. The Lowdown: This show has everything the entertainment bill commands. Girls, music, laughs, and acting. It’s one of Grable’s latest hits, and she hits hard. Take my advice and don’t miss this show. Playing at the Palace in Bryan is the hit, “The Adventures of Mark Twain,” with Frederick March and Alexis Smith. T^ie life of Samuel Clements could never have been more vividly portrayed than it is here. It’s full of the light and heavy dramatic acting which go to make a picture a dramatic hit. It rates as one of the best movies of the year. The Lowdown: Don’t miss this picture. It’s playing till Wednes day. Starting Wednesday and play ing through Saturday is the com edy hit of the Andy Hardy series, “Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble,” with the Hardy family, Bonita Granviile, and two new stars, the Wilde Twins. This is the usual Hardy picture, only Andy’s trou ble this time is limited to the fair er sex. It has the usual punch along the familiar Rooney line, but the punch comes when you see the Wilde Twins. Brother, this is strict ly blondes on the loose. Hardy gets tied up with too many girls but manages to get out as he always does. The Lowdown: A good picture even if it has nearly the same plot as all the preceding Hardy pictures. You’ll wish you were An dy when you see the girls in this picture. See this one and wish. Playing for the last time today at Guion, is “Coney Island,” star ring Betty Grable and George Montgomery. This is a technicolor musical that you ought to see. Starting Wednesday and play- Dial 4-1181 — Opens 1 p.m. TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY “THE ROAD TO MOROCCO” — with — Dotty Lamour Bing* Crosby Bob Hope — also — “Unusual Occupations” Color Cartoon THURSDAY - FRIDAY “PIN-UP GIRL” — starring — Betty Grable — plus — Merrie Melody - Fox News Completely Air-Conditioned ing for two days is the war pic ture, “Cry Havoc,” with Margaret Sullivan, Joan Blondell, and Ann Sothern. This picture is the sequel to “So Proudly We Hail,” and as good a sequel that ever came from any one picture. It’s the story of civilian women in the Pacific who volunteer to be nurses for soldiers trapped in the Philippines. Cour ageously they stick to their duty and nurse the men, risking their lives, and losing their lives. It’s a heart-rending picture and will make you hate the Japs even more for their cruelties. The Lowdown: A good picture, but don’t see it if you can’t stand the war. This picture is excellent in acting and too true to the plot. See it. BEAT N. T. A. C. DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS BEAT N. T. A. C. In the confines of the AWS lounge at University of Washing ton, there is a small, inoffensive brown door marked ‘Date Bureau”. All a fellow has to do is describe his dream girl, and no matter how fussy or peculiar his desires may be, he’ll have a chance to meet her the following Friday. lUL Phone 4-1166 ADMISSION IS STILL . . Tax Included ,9C & 20c Box Office Opens at 1 P.M. 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