The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 12, 1944, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 12, 1944, Image 2

Newspaper Page TextPAGE 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1944 The Battalion STUDENT BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Texas A. & M. College The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College Texas and the City of College Station is. published twice weekly, and circulated Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Entered the Act of 5 second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under ongress of March 3, 1870. Subscription ratfe $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 Pis so dated Gr>fle6iate Press Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444. Calvin Bnimley ...Editor Dick Goad Managing Editor Alfred Jefferson Managing . Editor Miaell, ident Reporters: Henry Ash, Loui< Harold Phillips, Damon Tassos. S. L. Inzer Sports Editor Renyard W. Canis Backwash Editor Dick Osterholm... Amusements Editor Henry Holguin Intramural Editor K. Adler, R. L. Bynes, L. H. Calla- ' i_! n. M. Cornelius, Edwin Mayer, John By Renyard W. Canis Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.”—Webster. Thirty-two Missions Flown By Ex-Aggie F Rival Defends RivaL.Texas u. Upholds A&M Although A, & M. and Texas university are traditional rivals, especially on Thanksgiving Day, the Daily Texan quickly came to the defense of the Aggies concerning Horace H. Shelton’s letter. Certainly A. & M. appreciates this. To Texas university A, & M. says thanks for the following editorial: “Texas Aggies and University students have a state wide reputation of rivalry, but even rivals are not blind to each other’s good points, A recent letter written to the Dallas Morning News from a Horace H, Shelton in Austin criticizing the Aggies in their Thanksgiving Day parade down Congress Avenue, has raised a howl of protest from A. & M. students—a jus tifiable howl of protest. “Mr. Shelton wrote: “To me, it seems particularly out of place that these young men, clothed in the uniform of their country, are parading to a football game instead of to the battlefronts, when eleven million other young men are fighting gloriously for their country. “The press here reported many fist fights Wednesday and Thursday nights between students of A. & M. and The University of Texas, but do not report any volunteers for overseas duty.” “The Aggies were quick to supply answers to the queries of Mr. Shelton. “They pointed out that of the 1,993 students enrolled, I, 056 are not even within the draft age. “If Mr. Shelton had tride to volunteer for overseas duty lately, he would discover that it can’t be done. One doesn’t need to»volunteer for overseas duty. The Armed Forces have a peculiar habit of sending their men when and where they need them,” one Aggie replied. “Others pointed out that A. &, M. has furnished more officers and men to the Armed Forces than any other mil itary school, that boys have been requested to stay in school as long as possible, that Aggies wear uniforms because they receive scholastic training in military preparation for their entrance into the armed services, that underclassmen’s ages range from 15 up to 19, most seniors are discharged veterans, and those above 18 leave school daily for the Armed Forces. “Such a record hardly merits the petty insinuations that have been charged. The Aggies and University students usually indulge in a bit of tradition when in this city. The parade of well-trained, able Aggies is more something to take pride in than criticize. “As guests of the city and the school the Aggies de serve to be treated with as much courtesy as would be shown a convention of out-of-uniform civilians. “There is a line that can sometimes be drawn between a slacker and a patriot, but it seems, some fail to find the correct place to draw that line.” Seven Weeks of Class . . . Graduation February 3 seems a long way off but a bit of reflection will show that there are only seven weeks of school lefj; for underclassmen and only a few more days than six weeks left for graduating seniors. Seniors who are making plans for jobs after graduation are in one of the most critical periods of their college ca reers. It is very easy to lose sight of the immediate goal, graduation, when thinking of the long range goal of a life time of work at the chosen job. This mistake is easily fallen into and unless carefully guarded against can postpone grad uation for another semester or maybe permanently. It is not too late now to make those last few grade points that will raise the college average a few notches higher and possibly mean extra dollars in the graduate’s pocket when he does begin looking for that job. It can be disastrous to overlook the importance of these last few weeks on the permanent record. Undergraduate students have other semesters ahead of them but they too cannot afford to cease working because for them there still is the chance to get all the knowledge that so many seniors have missed. Do each day’s job com pletely and thoroughly and the accumulation will take care of itself. Magazines Disppear . . . Esquire Too Colleges and Universities provide primarily four things which when combined provide cultural, technological benefits for the national society. These 4 things are: Students, teach ers, research, and libraries. Only in combination can either or all of these function properly. Perhaps the last mentioned, libraries, is the most im portant for there all the information,'knowledge, and learning is written down, chronicled, and catalogued in a manner so that it is easily accessable to those seeking information. Libraries contain many types of publications not the least of which are magazines and periodicals. In these is the latest information about new discoveries and new de velopments in every field of learning and human activity. Cushing Memorial Library of Texas A. & M. is not the largest library in the world nor is it the most complete but despite its shortcomings it is and can be of invaluable aid to the scholar. Many assignments require work in the library and very few assignments are there that would not benefit from library preparation. Cushing Library receives every issue of hundreds of periodicals and places them in the Periodical room within easy access to anyone desiring to use them. Because of the shortage of paper the library is unable to obtain more than one copy of each issue. Each of the magazines received by the library is bound after it is taken from the Periodical Room and placed on permanent file. These bound volumes are of inestimatable value to the library in successfully serving its patrons. Recently the library has lost some issues of magazines which they cannot replace because of the shortage of paper. The periodicals have very little value to the average user after he has read them but to the library they retain their value and become more valuable as time passes. Magazines that disappear, as they cannot be replaced, leave a gap in the bound volumes that may be just the place where some Aggie will be looking for information to complete his as signment. ootball season is gone again. This year wasn’t the most success ful of all Aggie years as far as f he win and loss column stacks up, but it has been an outstanding social season. Usually there are more home o-ames and more corps balls in Sbisa but who can kick about that this year. Always an Aggie would rather go out of town and have the pick of the place rather than be tied down with one girl in Ag- gieland all weekend. Remember the trip to San Anto nio for the Texas Tech game ? That was where the Aggies had the trouble at mid-night yell practice for blocking the street and causing one of the flighty boys to miss something or the other a couple of blocks down the street. Then there was the Aggie Dance given by the San Antonio A. & M. Club and the early morning trips by starlight out to the only place that was open for a late snack of chili and tochas. The next big trip was to Dallas for the S. M. U. victory and the Aggie Sweetheart presentation. Sweet Vicki Moran was given two dozen red sweetheart roses and then every Aggie got an idea. Why not have a sweetheart of his own? They all had them Saturday night. Many is the toe that is still sore from the tromping out on Green ville Avenue as the Aggies cele brated. In quick order came the jaunt down across the rice fields to Houston and the owl plucking. The feathers flew, the wind blew, then the rains came. Blind date after blind date and they were all too tall. For instance the big blonde. Long lithsome and lovely. Nothing could have been more fun than the Aggie gathering in the dark way out on Main Street. People are still wondering if the lights went out or some amorous Aggie swiped the fuses. No candles either. A guy could always say that he couldn’t find his way back to the table after dancing off with some other guy’s date. Bird dog ging was prime. Then came the trip to teahound land. The less said the better. Summing It Up T wo hundred dollars short, 25 grade points gone, 2 good sheets hardly slept on at all, 1 pair badly battered senior boots, 1 handsome bag under each eye, a worn out suitcase, a bloody thumb, a few black eyes, blondes and brunettes and a few red heads in several towns (How can an Aggie see them all often enough to convince each that he loves her and only her?), a good time. 15TH AAF IN ITALY—1st. Lt. John A. Whitacre, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Whitacre, 695 West Washington St., Stephenville, Tex- ors came breezing in from Hunts- | as, pilot on a B-24 Liberator, re- ville and Sam Houston school al- cently flew on his 32nd combat most for girls. Those guys were mission. happy with the light in their eyes. Since arriving overseas last July, A. & M. can’t afford to let that he has participated in attacks on happen. such important objectives as rail Huntsville homes, the Aggies yards, harbor installations, air love you dearly. Don’t be lonely, fields, and industrial centers in Don’t be blue. We’ll be over in | Germany, France, Rumania, Hun gary, and Austria. The former football star of Ste phenville high school, has been awarded the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters for “meritorious achievement in aerial flight.” “When you get ready to take off . . ,, -m , | on a mission, it’s like waiting for to join the navy, Frank swears ,, , . , - b „ j.,. x ; , . the kick-off m a football game,” force to chase away the blue. Spooks and Things F rank GeUach and his spook have been going around and round. Since Frank’s roommate left school is the way he puts it. “And when that a spook has been sleeping or something in the lower bunk. , , , , . Window shades have been foll J bombs droppmg on the ing, water faucets turn themselves tarSi ; t ' ovcr w,th the , . , . , . winning touchdown.” on, closet doors swing and squeak 1 even if there is no breeze, his door locks itself, drawers are left open, Lt. Whitacre entered the service in March 1943, and received his i wings and commission at Ellington and a few other things happen con- . T , T t .. ^ Field, Texas m January 1944. He cerning unmentionables. . u Prank isn’t worried however. He ‘ S , a 8 . ra , ° f o/„ P v,T It fa calls the spook Grover and is calm- “““V 1 ?" 0 ' 194 "’ ^ att<mded ly waiting for him to flunk out Tetcas A. & M for two years prior » , , to entering the Army. His wife, Mrs. Louise Whitacre, resides at the above address. He has one brother, James, also in the Air Corps, at Langley Field, Va. Of Dove Hunting A, nd we don’t mean turtle doves although one turtle did loose his he ™ ^ ^ I Army Jeep Adaptable This isn’t particularly about dove x-i -i-x hunting but about some of the | For Farm Purposes Brazos County country over along Adaptability of the army jeep , . ^ .ito Texas farming and ranching dents pronounce it Navasot, the , , ,, ,, , j , . , , ■, « chores will be thoroughly explored the Navasota River. (Old resi- sot pronounced as in drunkard. A further corruption'is “Nasty-sot). during the coming year and re- If Texans think that the swampy I ^ ^iifVe^L"” land is confined to Louisiana they . , . ,, ,. ,. , ,, . , . , * who plan to use the little machine are slightly mistaken. Not over 10 .. , ox x- after the war, it was announced 15 miles from College Station , A t. ^ j- x * xi A. j I by A. B. Conner, director of the Texas A. & M. Agricultural Ex periment Station. A factory-reconditioned army jeep was delivered to the A. & M. there are places full of trees and water where the grass ought to be. Moss hangs from trees or maybe the moss props the trees up. It’s impossible to tell The Lowdown On £ampus ‘Distractions By Dick Osterholm Showing on the bill at the Cam pus tonight and Wednesday is the gangster picture of all time. “Roger Toughy, Gangsters” with Preston Foster and Victor Mc- Laglin. Here is the true to life story of the notorious “Toughy Gang” that terrorized the state of Illinois and suroUnding territory. It has the unknown facts behind the case, the thrilling jail-break and the life of the gang when they were free. The Lowdown: A pretty good pic ture and full of action. It proves that crime does not pay. Thursday and Friday at the Campus gives us “Make Your Own Bed” with Jack Carson and Jane Wyman. One hilarious comedy with all the trimmings. Jack Car- son, husband, finds himself in quite Marine Artillery Officer Is Aggie QUANTICO, VA.,—Marine Sec ond Lieutenant James Philip Mil ler, son of Edward D. Miller of 2003 W. Oak Street, Denton, Texas, has been graduated at the Reserve Officers Class, Marine Corps School here. He has since com pleted the artillery course and has been assigned to duty with a combat organization. Second Lieutenant Miller at tended Texas A. & M. and North Texas State Teachers College where he majored in Economics. He holds a B. A. degree. mess when wifey, Jane Wyman, sees him the victim of circum stances and we mean other wom en. There intimate situations and spies and everything to make a picture crazy. The Lowdown: Just the thing to take away our troubles and your quizes. Try it if you have the time, it’s good. Tonight at the Guion theater is Robert Casadesus, in person. For the Wednesday and Thursday bill, No Time for Love” with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. A girl photographer, smart set soph isticate, falls in love with a sand- hog, who knows all about fisticuffs and femmes. Cupid takes a hand and things happen. The Lowdown: It’s a good show with good comedy and acting. Still showing at the Palace in Bryan is ‘Double Indemnity”, a murder drama. Starting Wednesday and showing through Saturday, is the much talked of picture “Janie” with Joyce Reynolds and Robert Hutton with a fine supporting cast. This is the story of anyone’s sis ter, at about that age. Janie gets soldier struck and turns her Dad’s home into a small USO for the soldiers. There’s fun a minute, laughs a minute and fine acting. The Lowdown: Just the kind of picture about someone that will make you enjoy it. Could be you, that makes it a grand picture. It’s lonely there too. Ask Harlan L C ° llege eai ' ly thi . S * aC ' Bullock how it feels to spend the tory representative of the Willys- night sitting on the base of a tree surrounded by water all because his buddies couldn’t find him. to doVe hunting but was encounter ed on same. Aggie Fashions F ish stripes on the left cuff of first year cadets .... The be wildered expressions on faces of same .... Boys from the west Warning! Aggies S unday night a big bunch (some big and some small) of sail- Overland company, and turned over to H. P. Smith, agricultural engineering division head. The com- This doesn’t particularly pertain I pany wil1 make periodic checks on the condition of the machine, and will supply all replacement parts necessitated by the strenuous test ing program outlined for the sturdy little war-buggy. Through an arrangement made by the United States Department of Agriculture various tests of the jeep will be made in the states of Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, that wear cowboy boots constantly I Maryland, New York, Mississippi, Boys that wear cowboy boots Arizona and Washington, until their feet give out .... Cas- In Texas the tests will be con- sanova who wears senior boots con- cerned with what farm implements stantly Juniors afraid to the jeep-will pull successfully, oper- take off dark green shirts .... ating costs in comparison with Daily non-regs .... Those who other sources of farm power and go to the North Gate for coffee transportation; and its general all- in pajamas .... The pool shark around adaptability to use in the spotted with cue chalk .... dry land and irrigated sections, Non-shavers (Ed. note—It has been principally in rice harvesting oper- too cold lately to shave) . . . . ations; and on the cattle and Bareheaded Johnnies with caps in sheep ranches of the state, Mr. Former A&M Man Now Tail Gunner 15TH AAF IN ITALY—Sergeant James A. Gordon, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Gordon, 1409 West Ave., Austin, Texas, has arrived overseas and has started combat flying as tail gunner on a B-24 bomber. Among the missions that Gordon has participated in are those to Vienna, Graz and Linz, in Austria, where railyards, refineries and factories were blasted. His rough est sortie was over Graz, where his plane was punctured with 11 flak holes. A graduate of the Gilmer High School, Gordon attended Texas A. & M. College. He was employed by the Sheffield Steel Corp., in Houston before enlisting in July 1942. their hands. • • • • As The World Turns • • • • By Dr. Al B. Nelson The United States now has $25,000,000,000 (billions) of cur rency in circulation which is some five times as much as in the high-, ly prosperous period around 1929. At that time the paper money of the United States was backed by gold and was worth its face value, now the money is backed only by the prom ise of a govern ment which is in debt more than nine times as much as in 1929. Your dollar is now worth only as much as the credit of the govern ment which places a tremendous responsibility upon the wisdom of our representatives in the execu tive and legislative branches of the government. Albert B. Fall, sent to prison during the famous “Teapot Dome” oil scandals for accepting a $100,- 000 bribe (though the man who bribed him was never convicted) while he was Secretary of the Smith announced. Glowing accounts of the per formance ability of the jeep for wartime purposes have given the impression that it will solve all of the farmer’s and rancher’s prob lems in the postwar period”, Mr. Smith declared. “We sincerely hope it will do all the things that are Ft. Worth Club Meets Wednesday To Make Christmas Party Plans All Fort Worth Aggies are ask. ed to be present at the Fort Worth Club meeting that is to be held Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. a room reserved in the Academic Bldg. It is necessary that the president of the club know in ad vance how many members will be present as plans will be made con cerning the Christmas party. Pres ent plans call for the party to be held in the Oak and Alamo rooms at the Texas Hotel on December 27th. Nelson Interior under President Harding, claimed for it, but we intend to died in El Paso November 30, at fi n d ou t f or ourselves just how the age of 83. f ar }t w in so lve the problem, and Errol Flynn, movie actor, pays at what cost, his ex-wife $18,000 a year alimony, “We have outlined a pretty busy and the court just ruled that he year for our jeep in Texas, and it must reimburse her for the $11,000 will be used in different parts of in income taxes she paid on that the state in the course of our ex amount in the last two years. A periments. The manufacturer has costly ex-wife. agreed that in its rebuilt condition March of Time film C0V e ri ng wil1 do the job of a new machine ’ Texas, Brazil, Canada, and Portu- and the company is as interested in gal will be shown in the Physics U 8 Po^bihties and its limitations Lecture Room Wednesday evening as we could possibly be from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. This film A , s so ° n as we obtam su f flcient is brought to the campus by the gasoline fox our tests, we will tetart Department of History, Dr. S. R. tbe experiments. They will take us Gammon, Department Head. t0 West Texas where ranchers want to know what the jeep will The Russians are in the outskirts I do. It will be taken to the coastal of Budapest and are pushing on rice fields, and to other sections toward the borders of old Austria, of Texas to determine the jeep’s They are spending their time and adaptability to farm and ranch energies cleaning up the Baltic chores. States and the Balkans for their “When our experiments are com own private benefit which allows pleted we will have data available the Germans to concentrate their for anybody in Texas who wants strength against the American and to know just what the jeep will do, British forces on the Western and how much it will cost to oper- front. I ate on the various tasks assigned to it.” The primeval forests were our heritage. Will coming generations be proud of the forest heritage we are leaving them? ’41 Ex Serving As Navigator Overseas 15TH AAF IN ITALY—Second Lieutenant Henry T. Donohoe. 19, 2028 Park St., Houston, Texas, has arrived overseas and has been assigned to duty as a navigator in a B-24 Liberator group commanded by Col. Philip R. Hawes, Pearl River, N. Y. Donohoe entered the AAF July 12, 1943, and received his second "rrlyI Major McFarland Is Marcos, Texas. Prior to his entry MOVCCI to GrGCnSDOrO in the army, he was studying at A , Texas A. & M. College. He is a M aJ° r Archie 'M. McFarland, son graduate of Lamar high school, of Mrs - A - Garland, 137 W Houston, Texas, class of ’41. FreTlch PL ’ San Ant ° nio > Tex as, has His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. been transferred from the Carls- Donohoe, live at the Houston ad- bad Arm y A ^ r Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico, to Greensboro, N. C. He is a former student of Texas DO YOUR PART—BUY BONDS ' A. & M. College. t Opens 1 P.M. — 4-1181 TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY 9c & 20c Phone 4-1166 ADMISSION IS STILL . . Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1 P.M. Closes at 8:30 TUESDAY NIGHT Town Hall Presents Robert Casadesus WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY Also Cartoon and News FRIDAY and SATURDAY Double Feature Also Community Sing—Cartoon THURSDAY & FRIDAY 'Mole VWbwn With w — % Alan HAIE«George TOBIAS*Robert SHAYNE Directed by PETER GODFREY Plus N e ws—Comedy mjp * AAA MOUNT MttSENTT LUISE ARTURO Rainer • de Cordova WILLIAM PAUL Bendix • Lukas with Katina Paxinou Oscar '■ Mnctrt bn FRANK IUTTIE. Screen Pliy by tester Cole mt freeb butler ■ From the Korei by Stelie Heyw — and — “There’s Something About a Soldier” '-A 1 « v b* »i V Y j i A -* b

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