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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1944 The Battalion STUDENT 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 afternoon. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate $3.00 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 Plssodoted Cr>Ue6iate Press Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. 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 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 Mixell, Harold Phillips, Damon Tassos. A New Dean of Agriculture . . . Texas A. & M. holds the top ranking position among agricultural schools in the nation, especially in size and also in high standards. Dean E. J. Kyle shaped the School of Agriculture from the raw materials of Texas plains, forests, and mountains and from the high spirited community minded peoples of the largest state in the union. When Dean Kyle resigned he left a vacancy which few men are capable of filling. Few people realized that one of the most capable and recognized agricultural leaders in the entire country was working quietly and without benefit of publicity on the. A. & M. campus. C. N. Shepardson came to A. & M. in 1928 to head the Dairy Husbandry Department and since it has been under his direction it has become one of the most widely recog nized. His abilities were soon recognized by A. & M. and to Shepardson’s duties was added the job of general mana ger of all the A. & M. farms. Even from the poor soils of Texas A. & M. Dean Shepardson has wrested a profit. When a new Dean of Agriculture was needed the most logical man was C. N. Shepardson. His work while in the Department of Dairy Husbandry was of such quality that he was recognized as a man capable of heading the greatest School of Agriculture in the world. Don’t Fence Me In . . . Columbus did not know it but when he sailed from Spain he began and opened the way for the most startling political and social evolution that men have ever exper ienced. It may have been that a spirit of adventure motivat ed Columbus but it is likely that one of the underlying forces driving Columbus westward was a desire to escape the regimentation of the old world. Columbus found a safety valve for the boiling tem peraments of Europe. America’s early population was made up largely of two elements. One group came to the New World in search of riches while the other group came over in an effort to escape from a society whose thought pro cesses were alien to their own. These are the ancestors of Americans. w yR c™r Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.”—Webster. It SEEMS that someone was somewhat peeved about the Aggie parade in Austin. The guess is that person is getting more mail now than that person has gotten in a long time. One Aggie made a guess as to why the person in Austin was so upset. According to this Aggie the indignant man in Austin gave 7 points on the football game and as the score was only 6 to 0 he was peeved. Ummm. Could be. Painter’s Nightmare A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago the College painted the water tow er and investigation revealed that the painting was done not to cover up Aggie signs but because the water tank needed painting to pre serve the metal. Aggies couldn’t be convinced of this however. Next morning there were Aggie tracks all over the water tank. That afternoon it was painted silver again. Next morning there were •signs that the Aggies had return ed. Again the tank was painted silver. There are now some more signs up. Must be gremlins. Just a Suggestion It IS FINE to have signs of the Aggie Spirit on the water tower but one thing conspicuously stands out. Too many of the signs are initials of individuals. The old signs on the water tank were of companies and othe military or ganizations. They symbolized the true spirit of A. & M. and not* a selfish individual asking for recog nition. Morning Bath Maybe it is an old law and Puryear custom. Some say it is. The other morning all the up perclassmen in “A” company were treated to a bath in “Puryear La goon” between the two halls. From the best reports available the freshmen captured all the up- Man, Your Manners By I. Sherwood Christmas time is the best time of all the year for gift giving; we fuss about how much time it takes but we really enjoy it and have a wonderful time getting the job done. Success in gift giving depends upon giving what the recipient would like best. Try diplomatically to find out about a gift so you won’t give something that the one, who is to receive it, already has. The following list should furnish a suggestion for a Christmas gift for your girl: Charm bracelets, Identification bracelets, Bracelets, Brooches, Beads, Lockets, Vanity Cases, Pow der cases, Cigarette cases, Cigar ette holders, Match cases, Mem orandum books, Desk sets. Key cases, Artificial flowers for hair, Jeweled combs, Ear clips, Photograph frames, Stamp boxes, Ash trays, Pens and pencils, Wrist watches, Crucifix, Hosiery, Candy, Flowers. Here is a list of suitable gifts for your Mother: Candy, Flowers, After dinner coffee sets, Bonbon dishes, Bread and butter plates, Candlesticks, Hurrican lamps, Flat silver, Fruit bowls, Salad bowl—fork and spoon, Card tables. Memorandum pads, Pitcher and glasses, Pepper pots and salt cups, Place card holders, Vases, Sand wich plates. Serving trays, Syrup jug and tray, Ash trays, Dinner ware, Hosiery. The Puritans left England for religious reasons. Ger mans came over here because they were not typical of the communities from which they come. Latin peoples left southern Europe largely because they needed new outlets for their energy. Nearly every person that immigrated to America was a misfit in his old society and because they believed in themselves strongly enough they had the courage to venture into a primeval territory and carve out a society according to their specifications. Look at America today. The most powerful nation in the world grew from an an cestry of misfits. But America is not great because of these misfits. Rather America is great because always there was room for diference of opinion. Out of differences grew new ideas and from new ideas came progress. Finally geographical lim itations prevented the misfits from moving out of the set tled country and from that day forward America 'and Americans have become more and more subject to regi mentation. As the society becomes more complex individual rights become more limited and it frequently happens, as it has in Europe during the last half century, that individual rights are swallowed up in concern for the whole. This is contrary to the ideas that Americans have had since the first settlers. No longer though is there space into which misfits can move. They must stay in society. Here it might be profitable to define a misfit. A misfit is a person that is unable to reconcile the mores of the so ciety in which he lives with his own ideas of how a life should be lived. A misfit may be any shade between -ultra- progressive or ultra-regressive but because that person is different there exists no justification for suppressing that individual. From persons dissatisfied with existing condi tions come new ideas and new ways of doing things. From these America has woven a fabric of life the strength of which is not yet known. Americans must have freedom to think, they must have room to move around in, and they must have the mis fits to provide the stimulation for thought. Men that are selfwise, men that are satisfied, men that are content with things as they are, men that are afraid of progress, these are the men that build a fence around civ ilization. Today there is a fight shaping up in Texas, a fight between those that would fence society in and those that would see it grow and expand. On the one side there is the power of the inertia of government and public opinion. On the other side are the voices of academic freedom. Perhaps some of the ideas that are circulated in a com pletely free country are of questionable character and per haps many of the ideas that are proposed and advocated are unhealthy for America’s future. But is there not an advantage in Rowing these ideas thoroughly and com pletely? How can an enemy be defeated unless his strength is known? Supression of academic freedom is a violation of the sacredness of the pioneering tradition. No longer are there new forests to explore. No longer may a man be a hermit. Today each person has to live with society, Tremendous and careful thinking must be done to keep Americans free from regimentation. Where can be found the stimulus for new ideas ? Let the radicals rant and rave. Let every person with an idea speak. Gather from all the ideas that come from the granduations of radical to conservative and sift and compromise until the solution is found. Academic freedom found its birthplace when Columbus sighted the West Indies and if ever it is buried there will cease to be a New World because the blackness of the dark ages will have crept into the civilization of the New World. PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penberthy We have just finished one of the closest and most confused races in the history of Gonference Foot ball. In the opinion of many the championship team was actually one of the weak est teams in the il Conference, but If T. C. U. managed I to score just enough points to defeat their op- |i! ponent in enough games to give £.;■ :• them the title, and winning the Ramos ^s what !l|||§ pays off. It might also be said by Penberthy many that they had many good breaks, but may it be to their everlasting credit that they took advantage of these breaks. It has been my observation down through the years that the breaks are pretty well distributed. One team will get them this year, and another seems to get them the next, but these breaks usually go to the hustling team. We win some games when we feel that the other fellow had the best team and then we lose some when we feel that we had the best team, but these things are what make football the interesting game that it is. ‘ The same thing is true in life. We look around and can’t help but notice that in many cases those who seem to get the breaks and have good fortune are not nearly as worthy as some who seem to have an uphill pull all the time, but like in football the breaks usually go to the hustling individu al who is looking for them and not to the one who sits and waits for the breaks to come to him. It is the individual who is “on the ball” and “in there pitching” who covers the most ground on the road to success. Something to Read By Dr. T. F. Mayo Test Yourself? Socialism, Evolution, Uncertainty 'Principle. Pragmatism, Culture Lag. Realism. Here are six terms for theories in six fields of thought: Econo mics, Biology, Physics, Philosophy, History, The Arts. If you understand the meaning of these terms, the chief arguments for and against each theory, and the principle alternative to the acceptance of each theory, you may consider yourself, I believe, a moderately well informed person. (Please note that you will be well informed; not necessarily educated. Education includes many things beside the possession of informa tion.) If you should find (by any off chance:) that your grade on this test is low, if there should be one or two of these terms the mean ings of which are not quite clear to you (at the moment,) the Col lege Library recommends these books—purely, of course, as “re freshers”: About Socialism (Economics) Where Do We Go From Here? by Harold Laski. The present world crisis analyzed and interpreted in socialist terms by a highly intel ligent British socialist. About Evolution (Biology) Concerning Evolution, by J. Ar thur Thomson. Clear, authentic, and interesting. About the Uncertainty Principle (Physics) Physics and Philosophy, by Sir James Jeans. “Deep stuff” made plain by brilliantly lucid writing. About Pragmatism (Philosophy) Human Nature and Conduct, by John Dewey. The most influential book by the most distinguished living pragmatist (or “instrumen talist”). Tough but rewarding. About Culture Lag (History) This most interesting and use ful term was invented by W. F. Ogburn and appears first in his Social Change (1922). But the or dinary man will probably prefer to read about it in a later (and smaller) book: A Planned Society, by George Soule. (Or you might ask Dr. Steen to expound it for you.) About Realism (The Arts) Since literature is the Art with which we most frequently come in to contact, perhaps it would be best to read in this field Expression in America, a sketch by a realist (Ludwig Lewisohn) of American literature. A more explicit dis cussion of “realism” appears in The Decline and Fall of the Roman tic Ideal, by F. L. Lucas. Books Received By College Library General Reading: The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English, compiled by George Ostler. Identification; the world’s mili tary, naval and air uniforms, insig nia and flags. Hypnotism, by George H. Esta- brooks. Tales from Bective Bridge, by Mary Lavin. Pan -American Spanish: self- taught, by Francisco Ibarra. The Mediaeval Stage, by E. K. Chambers. The Fun Encyclopedia, by E. O. Harbin. Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood, by Edward Lasker. Do You Want to Become an Ac countant, by Thomas W. Brynes and K. Lanneau Baker. The Duke; a life of Wellington, by Richard Aldington. The One Story; the life of Christ, by Manuel Komroff. Applied Leathercraft, by Chris Groneman. He 0 s in the Paratroops Now, by A. D. Rathbone, IV. Hackberry Cavalier, by George Sessions Perry. Careers for Men; a practical guide to success, edited by Edward L. Bernays. Yankee from Olympus; Justice Holmes and his family. Victory at Midway, by Lieut. Commandef Bailey Coale, U.S.N.R. Social Sciences: Germans in the Conquest of America: a sixteenth century ven ture, by German Arciniegas. Come Over Into Macedonia; the story of a ten-year adventure in uplifting a war-torn people, by Harold B. Allen. Unfinished Business, by Stephen Bonsai. Belgium in Bondage, by Jan- Albert Goris. Hitler’s Counterfeit Reich; be- perclassmen and gave them a thorough ducking in the wet cold water from the rains. Towels weren’t furnished. Dancing’ With Tessie T HIS WEEKEND the TSCW gals have their annual senior dance. Rumor has it that it will be an all night dance but in these quar ters that is completely unimagin able. No one knows how many Aggies will be making the trip up Denton way for the dance but there will be at least representation. Never, hardly, is there a day passes but what there is at least one Aggie on the Tessie campus. If You’ll Listen Marriage IS LIKE a cafe teria—grab something good look ing and pay for it later. ... A girl has to have a lot of exper ience to kiss like a beginner. . . . She was just an opticians daugh ter—two glasses and she made a spectacle of herself. ... We were never able to find Grandma’s glasses, but now she leaves them just where she empties them. . . . It is said: “The noblest kind of dog is the hot dog—it actually feeds the hand that bites it.” An Aggie-ex was cursing and yelling on a London street while holding a doorknob in his fist. “Them so-and-so Nazis will pay for this—blowin’ a saloon right out of me hand.” CHEMISTRY NOTES C ONNECT 20,000 VOLTS across a pint. If the current jumps, the whiskey is poor. If the cur rent causes a precipitation of lye, tin, arsenic, iron slag, and alum, the whiskey is fair. If the liquor chases the current back into the generator, you’ve got good whiskey. Friday and Saturday “WHITE CLIFFS OF DIVER” With Irene Dunne Preview Sat. Night also Sunday and Monday Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson — in — “DOUBLE INDEMNITY” The Lowdown On Campus Tiistractions By Dick Osterholm Leading with the best show of the week is “The White Cliffs of Dover”, still showing at the Palace in Bryan. Beginning with Satur day night prevue and showing through Tuesday is “Double In demnity” starring Fred MacMur ray, Barbara Stanwick and Ed ward G. Robinson. A murder drama that will give you chills and leave you in suspense. An insurance salesman who believes he has com mitted the perfect crime is trapped by a flaw. Good action throughout the picture. The Lowdown: Two good pic tures that will be showing over the weekend. At the Campus for Saturday only is the comedy “Young and Wiling” with Susan Hayward, Wil liam Holden and Eddie Bracken. A bunch of stage struck kids live together to share expenses, and plot together to impress a great producer. It’s a happy <mix-up when luck finally comes their way and its a tangle of romantic ideas and laughs. The Lowdown: Not too recent a picture but a good, funny one. Playing second on the same billing is “Taxi, Mister” with Wil liam Bendix. Love can find its way into funny places, but here it goes from taxi cabs to gangsters. A big time racketeer falls for a taxi-cab driver’s wife, and finally the big choice comes, between taxi hind the scenes of the Nazi eco nomy, by Dr. Karl Robert. The Road Back to Paris, by A. J. Liebling. They Shall Not Sleep, by Leland Stowe. The Ten Commandments; ten short novel of Hitler’s war against the moral code, edited by Armin L. Robinson. Memoirs of My People, through a thousand years, edited by Leo W. Schwarz. Christianity and the Contemp orary Scene; thh’teen authors de pict, in fifteen essays, the church of today, edited by Randolph Crump Miller and Henry H. Shires. Economic History of the United States, by Harold Underwood Faulkner. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, edited by J. H. Calp- ham and Eileen Power. The Latin American Republics; a history, by Dana Gardner Munro. What is Our Destiny, by Norman Thomas. Man and Society in Calamity, by Pitirim A. Sorokin. Children of Bondage; the person ality development of Negro youth in the urban South, by Allison Da vis and John Dollard. Psychiatric Social Work, by Lois Meredith French. Behind the Steeel Wall, by Ar- vid Fredborg. Tar Heel Editor, by Josephus Daniels. Editor at Work, by Julie Eides- heim. (See BOOKS, Page 4) Opens 1 P.M. — 4-1181 SATURDAY ONLY Big Double Feature msmm PrssenUd by Cin*mo Guild — starring — Eddie Bracken William Holden Susan Hayward — also — William Bendix “TAXI MISTER” SUNDAY and MONDAY Also News - Merrie Melody or wife. Strictly comeay. The Lowdown: Classed as a medium comedy, lots of laughs. On the Sunday and Monday billing, comes an exceptional musi cal comedy, and in technicolor. “Rainbow Island” with Eddie Bracken and Dorothy Lamour, with a cast of others, including sarong girls. This is a south sea idyl which has to do with the adventures and romances of three U. S. mari time servicemen who find an un charted island following the tor pedoing of their ship by the Japs. They are about to be beheaded when the resemblance of one of them to the native’s God saves them and participates more trou ble, until they escape. The Lowdown: Girls, sarongs, comedy, music and south sea is land setting. What more could you ask for? At the Satruday night prevue and Sunday at the Guion, is the technicolor hit, “Cover Girl”, with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. A dancing girl, star of the chorus, tries to get to the top in a beauty contest. She wins, becomes a model but looses her boyfriend. Things happen, and the two are united again. Grand plot of music and dancing for the background. The Lowdqwn: It’s a good pic ture, and worth seeing again if you’ve already seen it once. “To Be Or Not To Be”, starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. This is a laugh a minute picture as only could be expected from Benny’s pictures. He goes through everything to become an actor and when the time arrives, he is faced with the question of his life. Great fun. The Lowdown: If the picture is not cut too much, it is still worth a lot of laughs. Phone 4-1166 ^ 0N .9cMc Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1 P.M. Closes at 8:30 FRIDAY and SATURDAY Double Feature — and — “IS EVERYBODY HAPPY” PREVUE SATURDAY 9:45 and SUNDAY MONDAY and TUESDAY “TO BE OR NOT TO BE” — with — Jack Benny Carole Lombard V I l * ^ * 1 * 4 *