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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.
Closes at 8:30
LAST DAY
“CONEY ISLAND”
— with —
Betty Grable
George Montgomery
in Technicolor
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
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FAY BAINTER
MARSHA HUNT
ELLA RAINES
FRANCES GIFFORD
DIANA LEWIS
HEATHER ANGEL
DOROTHY MORRIS
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Double Feature
“STAGE DOOR”
_ with —
Ginger Rogers
Katherine Hepburn
Adolphe Menjou
Ann Miller
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