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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 28, 1944
The Battalion
STUUDENT BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Texas A. & M. College
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as and the City of College Station is published twice weekly, and circulated
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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 Editor
Reporters: Eli Barker, B. J. Blankenship, S. K. Adler, R. L. Bynes, L. H. Calla
han, James Dillworth, Ernest Berry.
Student Reporters: Henry Ash, Louie Clarke, W. M. Cornelius, Edwin Mayer, John
Mizell, Harold
■porters: Henr;
Phillips, Dai
amon Tassos.
Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence.”—Webster.
By Renyard
W. Canis
Peace Be With You . . .
Wednesday night the A. & M. Cadet Corps will be in Austin
in full force enjoying themselves and preparing for the
game Thursday against Texas university.
On that same night Texas university students are plan
ning for their bonfire and as they put it, their rally. The
Aggieland Orchestra is going to play for a dance in Gregory
Gymnasium that night and conditions will be such in Austin
that other fires beside the bonfire may easily be started.
Reports from Austin are that the Texas university students
are: planning to burn a few dummies in strawhats represent
ing Aggies.
Conditions will undoubtedly be strained considerably if
not beyond the breaking point. A football season seldom
passes without trouble between A. & M. and Texas univer
sity and this week will be no exception as the “Teasippers”
are not fully recovered from the strain of their recent
presidential difficulties and will be at high tension aggra
vated by hundreds of Aggies making that inimitable pres
ence felt in a myriad of ways.
Opportunities for usnportsmanlike conduct will be ram
pant this week in Austin and there is only one group of men
that can do anything to ease the situation. They are the
Aggies. Although many red flags will be waved in the face
of spirited Aggies few still forget the opportunity to prove
once again that A. &. M. produces the best sports of the
world as well as the best fighters.
If hostilities do break out A. & M. will undoubtedly
control the situation but under any set of circumstances
there exists an opportunity for straight thinking. It should
be remembered that any action by one or a few members
of the corps is taken by public observers as a concerted ac
tion by the A. & M. student body. The A. & M. uniform dis
solves the individuality of each person into the anonymous
ness of the corps. Any action taken by an Aggie in Austin
will cease to be his responsibility and become the liability or
asset of the corps. Thought should be given to the circum
stances.
A. & M. and Texas university will do great battle but
not until and not after the football game in Memorial Stad
ium Thursday afternoon. Let theirs be the responsibility
for any unfortunate incidents.
Yell... When the Ball is Snapped
The Daily Texan, student newspaper at Texas university,
has reported that there will be an unofficial contest between
A. & M. and their student body to determine which can yell
the most and the loudest on Thanksgiving Day. There is no
doubt as to that fact. Time and again the Aggies have out
yelled every student body in the Southwest Conference. It
does not have to be proved again.
During the Rice game the Aggie yelling was superlative
not only in volume but also in timing. Not once did the
corps forget itself and yell at the wrong time so that the
game had to be stopped. Commendations are still coming in
regarding the splendid sportsmanship of the Aggies.
Now Texas university seeks by hurling a challenge in
the face of the Aggies to undo all of this work done by the
corps and then point to the Aggies as men who yell so that
the opposing team cannot get the signals. This challenge,
this disguised taunt, will be ignored and the Aggie Cadet
Corps will go serenly on its way calmly confident that their
footballers can win the game without unfair support by the
corps.
No mistake can be made about the spirit of the
“Twelfth Man”. It is as strong if not stronger than ever
before. It is now truly a “Twelfth Man” and not a four-
year-old proud of its lungs. No longer do the Aggies interrupt
the proceedings by indiscriminate yelling.
At the proper time the “Twelfth Man” will make the
walls of Memorial Stadium reverberate to the strength and
unison of its yelling and those yells will be picked up on
overseas microphones and heard by those thousands of Ag
gies over there fighting with steel, powder, and courage.
Again and again Texas university might during the
game attempt to engage the Aggies in a yelling duel but not
until the ball is snapped will the Aggies suffocate the feeble
efforts of the boys that wear the key chains. Like the other
players on the football team the “Twelfth Man” will not
charge until the ball is snapped, but when the center passes
the ball to the quarterback, then the lusty “Twelfth Man“
will carry out its assignments with dynamic energy.
On the road to victory are 2,000
Aggies as they hit the highway
for Austin and the “forty acres”.
On the road to the big dance in
Gregory Gymnasium also. Many
and many more of those luscious
Texas university co-eds will be
there to dance with Aggies. One
little item that should be men
tioned is that they might have to
be taken out of the arms of boys
in zoot suits. But that shouldn’t be
hard, ’lowing as how they are
usually more than willing.
Remember the Day
Remember the day back in 1941
when Life played the Texas u.
team up big in a spread heralded
by a front cover build up. Boy those
guys sure did take a beating last
year, didn’t they?
The most interesting thing about
the picture spread was a picture
of Jack Crain, Texas breakway
runner, and a few co-eds doing
something or the other by a
fountain. On the fence in back of
the fountain were perched some
Aggies. Those Aggies are always
getting in someone’s hair.
Just Thought
Even thought Aggies are always
getting in someone’s hair no one
ever gets in the Aggies’ hair, be
cause someone cuts it off at nearly
every game the Aggies attend out
of town. Rice, S. M. U., they all do
it.
Thank You Ladies
In the last issue of the Lass-0
the Tessies called attention to the
fact that although the Aggies were
not any more, if as much to blame,
for any dispute that arose between
the Aggies and another school, the
gallant Aggies apologized for any
part they had in the fracas.
What makes us love you gals
is the use of that word gallant.
Simple Thoughts
Little bonfires flickering in the
dark guarding the big bonfire. . .
The lonely hollow sounds of heels
echoing down the balls of a campus
building after fickle students have
left for other more warm places. .
Freshmen straining under the
load of a big log. . . . The com
pletely questioned looks on the
faces of strangers when bonfire
guards stop their cars. . . . Men
of a company singing a birthday
song to a newly aged member of
the company in the mess hall. . .
The far away sound of that sing
ing when it is in the other end
of the mess hall. . . . Why does
a person have a feeling of futility
when trying to study for a quiz
at 2 in the morning. . . . Cold
creeping up on bonfire guards in
the early hours of morning. . . .
That never-get-there feeling so
characteristic of hitch-hikers af
ter a long wait in a line of 25 or
more thumbers. . . . Repulsiveness
of upstreamers. . . . Beat Texas
university.
Signs of the Times
Teasippers first copied the Ag
gie in calling their student body
the “Twelfth Man” and now they
have started a contest to paint
signs. There is a beautiful little
competition between each frater
nity.
Coach Dana X. Bible advised the
T. u. students, “Try some theme
such as ‘The Jinx is here to stay.
The jinx will be broken this
year.
Aggie Signs
Most talked about sign concern
ing the T. u. game, is the one on
Puryear which embodies no less
than five separate ideas. They
range from beating Texas to worse
than beating Texas.
Photo bugs have been snapping
it all week and it is almost a cinch
to win the game contest of the
week if not of the season. (One
man’s opinion.)
An Ex Tells It
Major “Satch” Elkins, ex-Aggie
and former Ag Eco teacher talked
to the football team Monday after
noon. He had this to say. “I’d rather
have an Aggie than any West
Pointer I’ve ever seen. Aggies are
intelligent, they don’t let things
worry them, and they have guts.
‘Don’t let anything worry you.
Take things in your stride and
beat hell out of Texas.”
As The World Turns
By Dr. A1 B. Nelson
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
is believed to have turned in his
resignation to the President. Hull
has been absent
from his office
with increasing
frequency of late
because of illness
and age and it is
rumored that the
President will ac
cept his resigna
tion though with
great reluctance.
It is probable
that his s u c -
cessor will b e
chosen from among the following
three men: first, James F. Byrnes,
a former senator who is still very
popular in the Senate and is rated
as acceptable to the conservative
wing of the Democratic party; sec
ond, Henry A. Wallace, the out
going Vice President, who would
be acceptable to the communists
and radicals, and third in line is
Undersecretary of State Edward
R. Stettinius.
A committee of the House of
Representatives is in England on
a tour of investigation. Their pur-
Nelson
Fairview County
Woman Demonstrates
“Home Improvement”
If you’re wondering what the
term, “home improvement” takes
in, you’ll be interested in how Mrs.
E. W. Womble of the Fairview
community in Deaf Smith County
interpreted it. Mrs. Womble holds
the record for having conducted
one of the most complete demon
strations in home improvement in
her county, according to County
Home Demonstration Agent Sadie
Lee Oliver.
To begin with, the back porch
was provided with more shelf
space, a closet for men’s work
clothes, and hot and cold water
was piped to it. In the kitchen,
cabinets were raised to a comfort
able height, toe space was built
under them, the refrigerator was
placed in a closet, walls were
papered, shelf space was added,
and two short windows replaced
a 16ng one.
As for the bedrooms, two up
stairs rooms were papered, the
floors were covered, and draperies
and a dresser were started. A new
Aggie Ex Reports for
Advanced Training
Aviation Cadet John Robert
Gaddis, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Gaddis, Rt. 4, Box 551, Ft. Worth,
Texas, has reported at Carlsbad,
New Mexico, Army Air Field,
where he will receive advanced
flight training in high-level bomb-
ardiering and dead-reckoning navi
gation.
The Carlsbad Army Air Field is
the newest bombardier school in
the Army Air Forces Training
Command.
During the twenty-four weeks
training course Cadet Gaddis will
study bombardiering and dead
reckoning navigation under simu
lated combat conditions. On grad
uation he will be awarded silver
bombardier’s wings and will be
ready for active duty as an officer
in the Army Air Forces.
He is a former student of Texas
A. & M. College, College Station,
Texas.
mattress and two new pillows and
mattress protectors were com
pleted. The house has no base-
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 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.
Editor, The Battalion,
Texas A. & M.
Well, Ole Army, I never thought
the time would come when I’d
have to write a good-bye letter,
but this is it. I received the usual
greetings from the President, and
I went. That’s about all the ex
planation necessary as to the writ
ing - of this farewell note.
Fellows, this was to be the third
time that I would have witnessed
an A&M-Texas fracas while a
student, but now this cannot be.
The teasippers beat us in ’42 and
’43. Aggies, this year it’s going
to be a different story. This will
be remembered as the year in
which the Memorial Field jinx born
in ’23, I believe, was buried.
I may not be at Austin come
Turkey day, but there is no need
to tell you where my heart and
thoughts will be November 30.
Let’s go out there and give them
a licking which the Class of ’46
will forever be proud. Saw the
Varsity’s horns off!
John R. Broussard, ’46.
The Lowdown On
Qampus ‘Distractions
By Dick Osterholm
pose is to visit the battlefronts
and check up on the supply ques
tion with everyone from command
ing officers to buck privates, in
regard to shortages of everything
from cigarettes to shells. Clare
Booth Luce, the glamorous repre
sentative from Connecticut is a
member of the Committee. One of
the committeemen laid the blame
for any possible shell shortage
upon “Labor Barons” such as Sid
ney Hillman and Han - y Bridges,
and upon the strike situation. Both
men have been accused of being
communists and Harry Bridges,
who is an alien, has been convicted
of membership in a group seeking
the overthrow of the government
by force and his deportation has
been ordered. The sentence of de
portation, however, has never been
carried out by the executive branch
of the government.
The new $60,000,000 plane car
rier Bonhomme Richard was ac
cepted and commissioned by the
Navy last Sunday. This vessel is
the thirteenth of its class to be
launched since Pearl Harbor and
carries 80 planes and has a top
speed of 30 knots.
—PROGRAM—
(Continued Trom Page 1)
the number in the Aggieland to
eighteen. Two visiting artists, R.
C. Wood from Baytown and Marian
Holick from Bryan, were also in
cluded on the program.
To get the show rolling, Marian
Holick sang “I’ll Get By” and “Does
Your Heart Beat for Me”, with the
orchestra following with several
numbers. Then Wood, one of the
visitors, left the bass fiddle and
gave his interpretation of “Star
dust”. Natalie Lane, regular vocal
ist for the Aggieland, then added
“And Her Tears Flowed Like
Wine”. “American Patrol,” was
presented by the orchestra, and
was well received by the audience.
Two selections were given by
the Singing Cadets, “The Marine’s
Hymn” featuring Watson Keeney
and “They Didn’t Believe Me” by
George Gershwin with the solo be
ing handled by Burl Ervin.
Turner announced that these pro
grams would be continued on all
weekends when the Corps was
here. He also stated that anyone
with talent who would like to ap
pear on these programs should get
in touch with him at the Student
Activities office.
SKIN THE STEERS
We need fire protection to pro
vide feed and protection for game
birds and animals.
SKIN THE STEER!
Playing for the last time tonight
at the Guion, is the blonde filled
picture, “Andy Hardy’s Blonde
Trouble”, with the Hardy family
and Bonita Granville. This picture
introduces the dazzling Wilde
Twins to the public. Andy goes off
to school and meets girls, and what
girls he runs into. Of course he
gets into the usual mess and Pop
has to get him out.
The Lowdown: Lots of laughs
and comedy but the usual run of
Mickey Rooney’s pictures.
On the bill for Wednesday only
is the picture, “Heaven Can Wait”
with Don Ameche and lovely Gene
Tierney. Here is the comedy pic
ture of a flashback playboy who
just can’t resist women. He meets
a country girl, Gene, and marries
her and to his surprise, she turns
out to be a most understanding
wife. Surprise.
The Lowdown: A pretty good
picture. Try it for size. Holidays
on Thursday so see it before then.
Showing at the Campus for the
Tuesday and Wednesday billing is
“Silver Queen” with Priscilla Lane
and George Brent. Gambling favors
the ladies in this picture, as two
men fight for the love of this mis
tress of the gamble wheels. One is
ment, but plans for a cellar have
materialized to the point that two
floors and sand needed for con
struction have been obtained.
Exterior improvement included
a lawn seat which, was built, a
cement curbing installed to keep
grass out of foundation plants and
three new plants, a nandina, a
mahonia and a pyracantha, were
set out. A redbud hedge was plant-
ted in the backyard to screen the
servant’s house. Perennial peas
and peonies were planted. The
chicken house was doubled in size
and stuccoed.
SKIN THE STEERS
Folks who want to live in wooden
houses must grow trees. But not
all of us possess a backyard big
enough for such a purpose, but
that need not deter us from help
ing the fellow who can grow tim
ber by giving him our encourage
ment and helping him in every
possible way to keep fire out of
his woods.
DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS
Patronize Battalion Advertisers.
Aggie Ex ’42, Upped
To Major Overseas
FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE IN
ITALY—Captain Shibley Azar, Jr.,
24, of El Paso, Texas, has been
promoted to the rank of Major.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Shibley
Azar, Sr., 3014 Pershing Drive, El
Paso, Texas, Major Azar is adju
tant of a veteran P-51 Mustang
figher group commanded by Col.
Marion Malcolm of San Antonio,
Texas, and has been with the
group since its arrival overseas in
Aug. 1942. He has served in Ire
land, England, North Africa, Tuni
sia, Sicily, Corsica and Italy. Major
Azar wears seven campaign stars
on his European, Middle East, Med
iterranean theatre ribbon.
Major Azar’s group recently was
presented a War Department Ci
tation for “outstanding perform
ance of duty against the enemy.”
A graduate of Austin high school
in 1938, Major Azar graduated
from Texas A. & M. College in
1942 where he also received his
commission as a Second Lieutenant
upon completion of the ROTC
course at that college.
—AGGIES—
Continued from Page 1
Rev did not stay with her orig
inal finder long but chose to be
long to every Aggie. One of her
chief pastimes was marching with
the band and running in and out
among the formations. Soon, every
one expected to see Reveille at the
front of the band and it became
necessary to take her on all corps
trips. Proudly adorned in a blanket
of maroon and white, she would
parade with the corps in all re
views. This was when there were
7,000 students, and Aggieland was
at its height.
After Rev had been here ten
years it began to be feared that
she would not get up out of her
sleep one morning because of her
rapidly growing age. Knowing
that when she died that a part of
the spirit of A&M would go with
her, the Aggies decided to preserve
her likeness in oils on canvas, so
that A&M students of coming
years would be able to know her.
Then came the war. Reveille’s
friends began to leave, and she
was offered for enlistment in the
Dogs For War Defense. The gov
ernment did not pay for the train
ing of these dogs, so it was neces
sary to have donations. Ranks were
given on the basis of the amount
of money contributed and one hun
dred dollars was necessary to be
commissioned a four star general.
This amount was immediately
raised, and enlistment followed. Be
ing too old for active duty, she
was made a 4-F member, but she
retained her rank.
More than enough money was
raised to make her a four star gen
eral, so a collar with her rank
on it was made. The balance was
then applied to the cost of having
her picture painted. Miss Marie
Haines, local artist with nation
wide recognition, was chosen for
the job, and her work exceeded
even the fondest hopes of the
Corps. Temporarily placed in the
Library, Rev’s painting is viewed
at all hours of the day by cadets
and other visitors. In time this
painting will hang in an appropri
ate niche of a building to be select
ed.
Last fall Rev had grown too old
and weak to march with the Corps
any longer. She didn’t get around
on the campus any more, but her
love for Aggies was not dimin
ished. Knowing that there were
big things in the wind, she man
aged to get out and watch the
freshmen building the bonfire last
fall, prior to the game with Texas
university. Then on Thanksgiving
Day of 1943 she made her last ap
pearance before an Aggie football
game. She was carried onto the
field and set down to walk around.
It was plainly visible that she
wished dearly to get out and romp
with the band.
The end came soon after that
on January 18, 1944. The entire
Corps fell out for her funeral
which was held on Kyle Field and
she was laid to rest just north of
the stadium. Reveille had passed
on, but what she stood for will
some day return to Aggieland. It
is for this great Aggie symbol
that the football team will beat
T. u. this year.
SKIN THE STEERS
—DANCE—
Continued from Page 1
Lloyd Wooten for dates. Arrange
ments were worked out so that 85
girls will arrive from TSCW some
time Saturday morning by train.
Approximately 200 couples are ex
pected at the Battalion dance.
Preceding the Saturday night
dance, there will be an informal
dance at the Country Club Friday
night. The dance will be held from
9 p.m. to 12 p.m.
Arrangements have been made
for all the girls from Tessieland
to stay in one of the dorms in the
new area.
George Reech and C. J. Croft
were elected co-chairmen of the
dance committee. Other members
of the committee are Floyd Ma-
hanay, D. V. Herbert, David Sims,
Richard Bates, and Bobby Gibson.
All the members of the battalion
are financing the dance.
after her money and one is after
her love. It’s quite a fight to see
who wins.
The Lowdown: Not too recent a
picture but one worth seeing for
the excitement. Pretty good pic
ture. .
Showing Thursday and Friday
is the dramatic picture, “Under
Two Flags” with Ronald Colman
and Claudette Colbert and a cast
of others. Here is a fine dramatic
picture as ever Colman turned out.
It has romance and thrills that go
to make up a great picture.
The Lowdown: Not a new pic
ture by any means but still a good
one. Fine holiday picture.
Playing at the Palace in Bryan
through Tuesday is the action-
bound picture, “Marine Raiders”
with Pat O’Brien. A great picture
and one of the best of our Pacific
war pictures. Starting Wednesday
and playing through Saturday is
the laugh hit of the year, “Casa
nova Brown” with Gary Cooper
and Teresa Wright. Here is a pic
ture that has been making box of
fice records. It’s one laugh after
another. Cooper turns wolf and
really chases the women and keeps
them going. As a matrimonial
prospect, he really does the busi
ness and what happens I can’t tell
here.
The Lowdown: Quite a picture
and one you will surely enjoy if
you see it.
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