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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1945 The Battalion STUDENT BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Texas A. & M. College The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Station is published twice weekly, and circulated on lion, Texas and the City of College Tuesday and Friday afternoon. the Act red as of Co ngress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate $3.00 per school year. Advertising rates upon request. Repre Chicago, 1 ented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, oston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Member Plssocioted GpUe6icite 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 Kenyard W. Cams Backwash Editor R. L. Bynes Intramural Reporter Teddy Bernstein Amusement Editor Reporters: Eli Barker, B. J. Blankenship. S. K. Adler, R. L. Bynes, L. H. Calla han, James Dillworth, Ernest Berry, Teddy Bernstein. Student Reporters: Henry Ash, Louie Clarke, W. M. Cornelius, Edwin Mayer, John Mizell, Harold Phillips, Damon Tassos, D. L. Mitchell. Maroon and White ... Clear Through “Stand united, that’s the Aggie theme. We’re the twelfth man on the team.” Last Saturday night several hundred Aggies and other spectators witnessed one of the most stout hearted, never say die fights of any Aggie team in a long time. A. & M. lost to a vastly superior basketball team from Rice Insti tute but the Aggies as Coach Manning Smith said, “Never did quit. They were fighting all the way, and had plenty of that hustle.” That is the kind of team that A. & M. likes. Although no one expected A. & M. to win neither did they expect to see an exhibition of courage and fair play equalling that of the Aggies. They may not win a basketball game this season but they will provide plenty of thrills. The A. & M. student body has never been very enthus iastic about basketball and it’s not the Battalion’s place to boost one particular sport, but as long as A. & M. is scheduling basketball games the corps should support the team. Those boys playing basketball are wearing maroon and white uni forms and they are Aggies clear through. Every one of them. They want to know that the corps is for them and the only way that the corps can show that they are backing their basketball team is for them to attend the games. DeWare Field House has plenty of seats for every Ag gie at basketball games and until the student body manifests an interest in basketball the team cannot perform with the full confidence necessary to do their best. A. & M. has never let a football team down. .Is there any reason why A. & M. should let their basketball team play by themselves? Not Since 1923 ... A Championship A. & M. is in somewhat the same situation as was Texas university a few years ago until they hired D. X. Bible to coach football except that A. & M. needs a basketball team. In football, baseball, track, swimming, tennis, rifle teams, pistol teams, polo, and all other sports in which the Aggies participate they win their share of games and championships. Not since 1923 has A. & M. won a basketball championship and there are some Aggies on the campus that cannot remember when A. & M. won a conference bas ketball game. When A. & M. has had some good basketball players other schools in the conference have had so many better players that A. & M.’s looked bad. What is the solution to the problem? Basketball teams are made and built in the same way that football, baseball, or track teams are built. First re quisite of a good basketball team is a coach that has the abil ity and the time to devote to the game. Men that devote their time to football largely do not have the pre-season time to round a basketball team into shape for strong competi tion. Neither should A. & M. depend upon football athletes for basketball material. Some football players make good in the cage game but here again is the problem of time and practice. The only good source of basketball talent is the high schools of Texas. Every year Aggie- exes persuade football talent to attend A. & M. with the result that the Aggies usually have a foot ball team which wins its share of tne games. There is no effort being made to advocate that A. & M. hire basketball players because the student body feels that this would be a violation of Aggie tradition and the Aggie conception of collegiate competition. Graduates and ex-students of A. & M. can do a great service for their school if they will report basketball talent as diligently as they do football talent. High school boys are usually uncertain as to what school they wish to attend and if exes and other persons interested in A. &, M. would only point out A. & M.’s advantages to basketball talent, then A. & M. would have the material for a winning cage team. Postwar is given as a time for many reforms and im provements. Postwar is also used as an excuse for putting off things that should be done now. Now is the time to start building the basketball teams of the future. Get A. & M. out of the loss column. WHOOPING COUGH IS ON INCREASE STATES HEALTH OFFICER Inasmuch as the incidence of whooping cough in Texas has shown an increase during the past two months, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer, released a state ment urging that strenous efforts be made to control the spread of this debilitating childhood disease. the incidence is to be controlled,” Dr. Cox stated. “Whooping cough can only be contracted by direct exposure to the disease, and isolation of cases must be universally practiced if yiCTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS “The infectious agent or germ of whooping cough is transmitted by droplets expelled in coughing, sneezing, or speaking,” Dr. Cox said. “The discharges from the nose and throat are dangerous to sus ceptible piersons; the need for early recognition and careful iso lation of whooping cough is ob vious.” “Prevention and control o f whooping cough, especially among infants and small children, may be accomplished through use of ap proved vaccine and convalescent serum,” Dr. Cox asserted, “and it is important that such measures be taken to protect them. Neglect ing to do so, and allowing the young child to suffer an attack of this illness, may seriously impair his future health.” To protect it from light, which caused it to fade while it hung on the wall of the old Patent Office in Washington, D. C., the Declara tion of Independence is now cov ered by amber colored plates of glass. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS I CACrWAJIi By Renyard W. Canis Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.”—Webster. Why Do They? S HAME ON YOU for plagar- ism of a sort. Yes, little Skiff (T. C. U.’s student newspaper), shame on you for calling your student body the twelfth man. Only one school in the world has a Twelfth Man and you know without being hold that it is A. & M. A. & M. doesn’t if you call your student body the twelfth man but for you own sake why not be a little more original. A Skiff Quote Residents of Goode Hail at T. C. U. have compiled a list of Sweetest Words and Saddest Words. Their list: “Sweetest Words— 1. Here’s that buck I owe you. 2. Go on back to bed—you have that 8 o’clock class tomorrow. 3. Fill ’er up! 4. I love you. Saddest words— 1. “From the president of the United States, greetings.” 2. “For external use only.” 3. “No cigarettes.” 4. “Insufficient funds.” W eekendMeanderings F IRST WEEKEND after Christmas and nearly everyone leaves for the regular subsequent checkup on how things are with Renyard * * * the one left behind only a short time ago. . . . Sailors wandering around the campus looking for a way to get to the highway at the east gate . . . Darkness just be fore basketball games when play ers are being introduced makes an Aggie wish for a minute that A. & M. was a coed school .... No one at breakfast Sunday morn ing. . . . Aggies in cafes grop ing blindly for breakfast at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. . . . Lin ing up to get in to see a movie and then lining up again to get a sack of popcorn. . . . Community sings at movies that everyone is bored with because no one has courage enough to sing above a whisper. . . . Guys guying at guys dating the College or Bryan 400 over the weekend. . . . Weekend consists of movies, pool until bored, sleep until tired, then nothing ex cept a belated, “Why didn’t I study this afternoon.” . . . Weekend wanderers back Sunday night to entertain the stay at homes with stories adventure, intrigue, ro mance, and waiting on lonely cor ners for rides that never came. Explaining One Aggie came back last weekend holding his hand over his head. Between his hand and head there was a knot on his head. He had an explanation. It was like this “I ask a girl down for the Senior Ring Dance but before she answered she ask ed what we did at ring dances. Well, I told her that there would be a banquet for the seniors and then a dance at which we would go through the traditional ring ceremony. Nothing would do but I explain the ceremony. “Hon, it’s like this, I says as I slip my arm around her should ers. There’s a blown up replica of the senior ring big enough for couples to stand in. We walk into the ring and then you take my ring off my finger and turn it around (Hey leggo my finger! You turn the ring around, not my finger) and then replace it on the same finger. If you haven’t twisted it off. Then, ah yes I said as I sighed and looked up at the cobwebs on the ceiling, you have to kiss me.” “Do I have to kiss you,” she said with a whisper barely making her voice husky. “Why yes, you are priviledged to kiss me.” “That is where I made my mis take. She reached for a bottle, not that she isn’t always reaching for a bottle so I wasn’t worried, and smacked me one. Over the head I mean with the catsup bottle.” Aggie Sweetheart S OME BASHFUL LAD in D Troop Cavalry reports that he goes with the lass that was queen of the Pasadena Tournament of Ros es. She is Miss Mary Rutte. This young fellow is a sophomore and is either modest or bashful. If he had been at A. & M. as long as Canis he would be shouting from the tables in the mess hall that his girl was the Queen. In the broadcast at which Miss Rutte spoke she mentioned A. & M. and the Aggies. All the world loves an Aggie. LONGHORN TESSIE ARC SMITH, Delbert Run yon, and Longhorn Staff have just returned from a short trip to TSCW and a rendevous with the staff ladies of the Daedalian. Why yes, and a' good time was had by all. • • • • As The World Turns • • • • By Dr. A1 B. Nelson A New Year begins for AS THE WORLD TURNS with this issue and in this first column to be written in 1945 it might be well to review some of the accomplish ments, or rather some of the news, of the past year. As is usual, some of the news of 1944 was very good, some was very bad, and much must be left to the future for decision as to its ultimate effect because of insufficient information for present evaluation. Nelson The Year 1944 began with good reason for the American peoples to believe that the war in Europe might end with the waning year and as “D” day came and the might of the al lied armies rolled across France, Belgium, and parts of Holland, m ditary leaders and politicians seeking a contin uation in office began to confi dently assert that the end was near for Germany and her mur derous leaders. As Election time began to draw near officials in power made the people of the nation happy and confident by relaxation of the ra tioning restrictions, liberal grants of extra sugar stamps for “can ning” purposes were made, fac tories were released from war con tracts for the purpose of resuming production of civilian supplies, and even the Russians were persuaded by some magical means to enter into the happy pre-election spirit and grant air bases for shuttle bombing of German factories and troops. The Honeymoon was soon over. Hardly had the reverberations and recriminations of the election died doAvn before a changed spirit be gan to be evident. The Germans began to show remarkable signs of life for a supposedly defeated and dying nation. The return of industry to civilian production was halted, rationing restric tions returned with full force and those who had cooperated by not cashing in their sugar stamps until actually needed found the stamps cancelled and valueless. The Russians once more entered into the spirit and promptly can celled their permission for our planes to land at Russian bases and shuttle-bombing became a thing of the past. To what extent this cancellation was responsible for German ability to move in supplies for their great offensive movement it is impossible to guess at present but without much doubt it was a contributory factor. Books Received By College Library General Reading: Finger Printing, by Charles Ed ward Chapel Howards End, by E. M. Forster The Longest Journey, by E. M. Porster A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E. M. Forster. Bicycling as a Hobby, by Roland C. Geist The Army Life, by Private E. J. Kahn, Jr. A Compend of Luther’s Theolo gy, edited by Hugh Thomson Kerr, Jr. Manners for Modems, by Mar jorie Ellis McCrady and Blanche Wheeler Joseph the Provider, by Thomas Mann A Doctor of the 1870’s and 80’s, by William Allen Pusey Chronicle of Dawn, by Ramon J. Sender Presidential Agent, by Upton Sinclair By Light of Sun, by Elsie Sym ington. The Rainbow, by Wanda Wasi- lewski A Haunted House and Other Stories, by Virginia Woolf The World’s Great Speeches, masterpieces of eloquence from earliest times to the present day, edited by Lewis Copeland. A Treasury of Great Russian Short Stories, edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky Social Sciences: The New Economic Warfare, by Antonin Basch The United States, an historical sketch, by E. A. Benians Meet’ . . . the Common People ... ”, by Edward Garrick and Gerry Bradley Moses and Monotheism, by Sig mund Freud Financing the War, a symposium Negro Youth at the Crossways, by E. Franklin Frazier How Came the Bible? by Edgar J. Goodspeed The American People, a popular history of the United States, by Walter S. Hayward and Dorothy Adams Hamilton Sharing Information with Em ployees, by Alexander R. Heron My Life in Industrial Relations, by Clarence J. Hicks The Army of Tennessee, by Stan ley F. Horn Commercial Credit and Collection ^Practice, by Watrous H. Irons Growing up in the Black Belt, by Charles S. Johnson Governmental Adjustment of La bor Disputes, by Howard S. Kalten- born What College Presidents Say, by Edgar W. Knight Religion and the Present Crisis, edited by John Knox The Netherlands, edited by Bar tholomew Laandheer Fatal Partners, War and Disease, by Ralph H. Major, M. D. A Social Psychology of War and Peace, by Mark A. May How Criminals are Caught, by Arnold Miles Primitive Religion, by Paul Radin The Quest for Law, by William Seagle Engineering and Its Sciences: The Golden Flood, by Herbert Asbury Economic Mineral Deposits, by Alan M. Bateman Practical Emulsions, by H. Ben nett Civil Airports and Airways, by A. Black The Milky Way, by Bart J. Bok and Priscilla F. Bok Quantum Chemistry, by Henry Eyring, John Walter, and George E. Kimball Magic Motorways, by Norman Bel Geddes Space, Time and Architecture, by S. Giedion Radio as a Career, by Julius L. Hornung The Engineering Profession, by The Atlantic Charter, which had been hailed by our government as well as all the other allies as a guarantee of justice and a charter of liberties for all nations, large and small, was revealed by the President to be nothing more than a few scraps of paper on which some abstract principles, with no binding force, had been scribbled at odd moments. The revelation was a sad disillusionment for those who looked forward to something more than the cynical reign of brute force in the future. The opening days of 1945 have shown unmistakably that the free voters of the United States have' The Lowdown On Qampus THstractions By Teddy Bernstein Campus—Playing at the Campus Tuesday and Wednesday is “Jack London” starring Micheal O’Shea and Susan Hayworth. The picture tells the story of Jack London’s life. Michael O’Shea plays the wandering lover, who is tempted by all the wiles of the other sex. Lowdown: A good picture. Playing at the Campus Thursday and Friday is “Sarong Girl” with Ann Corio. This picture is some thing unusual and if you like the idea of a strip artist chasing you around go to this show. Lowdown: A fair picture. Guion— “The White Cliffs of Dover” plays at the Guion Hall Tuesday with Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, and many others. The picture is about an American lady that marries an English lord. The lord goes off to war and is killed. His wife has a son that joins up in this war and goes off to the battle. Lowdown: A very good picture. Wednesday and Thursday at the Guion Hall is a feature attraction. What A Woman with Rosalind Rus sel and Brian Aherne. Rosalind plays a big talent scout who is trying to get the author of a book for the part in a big movie but Brian Aherne doesn’t like the idea and does his best to prevent it. The Lowdown: Better than av erage. Friday and Saturday at Guion Hall is a double feature of The Marine Lieutenant, Ag-gie-Ex, Joins Combat Unit QUANTICO, VA.—Second Lieut enant Charles B. Pearson who was recently commissioned in the Ma rine Corps Reserve, has graduated from the Artillery Course, Marine Corps Schools and has been as signed duty with a combat organi zation. Lieutenant Pearson attended Texas A. & M. College, College Station where he majored in Ani mal Husbandry. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Pearson of Plano, Texas. Theodore J. Hoover and John C. L. Fish. Modern Plywood, by Thomas D. Perry Agriculture and Its Sciences: Wild Violets in North America, by Viola Brainerd Baird Artificial Manures, or The con servation and use of organic mat ter for soil improvement, by Arthur B. Beaumont Nut Growers Handbook, by Car- roll D. Bush Wake Up and Garden! by Ruth Cross Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them, by Nina Lane Faubion Burning an Empire, by Stewart H. Holbrook Chickens, by W. H. Kircher Growing Trees and Small Fruits, by H. B. Knapp and E. C. Auchter Animal Tracks, by George F. Mason Field Book of Birds of the Pan ama Canal Zone, by Bertha Bement Sturgis Improved Milk Goats, by Will L. TeWalt Beekeeping for Profit and Pleas ure, by Addison Webb. HELP BRING VICTORY BUY MORE WAR BONDS failed to make their intention^ clear in the selection of their rep resentatives to run the government in the immediate future. The new ly elected Congress, which is the sole policy making body according to the constitution, is predomi nantly a conservative body opposed to the “new deal,” while the cre ator of the New Deal was re-elect ed as the Chief Executive of the nation. The New Congress promptly gave proof of its independence by recreating the “Dies Committee” over the objectives of the executive and went a great deal further by establishing it as a standing com mittee (permanent committee) thus taking the appointment of its members out of the hands of Speaker Sam Rayburn. In addition to this action congress acted to preserve the old records of the committee which the administra tion officials wanted destroyed. Opens 1 P.M. — 4-1181 TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “JACK LONDON” — starring — Susan Hayword Michael O’Shea — Plus — 3 Stooges Comedy THURSDAY and FRIDAY “SARONG GIRL” — Featuring — Ann Corio —Plus — ‘Bugs Bunny” and Fox News Heat’s On with Mae West, Victor Moore, and William Gaxton. Mae West and William Gaxton try to persuade Victor Moore to put some of his “holy rollers” money into their show. Hey Rookie is the sec ond on the bill, with Ann Miller, Joe Besser, and Hal McIntyre and Band, Hi, Lo, Jack, and a Dame. A picture showing the life of an Army private and his love life. The Lowdown: Two hot pictures for a sold night. Palace—The Conspirators is on for the last time at the Palace to day. Hedy Lamarr and Paul Hen- reid play their roles very well. The story is about a group of undercover men and their dangers. Hedy Lamarr makes a good se ductress and Paul Henreid plays his part as the Flying Dutchmen very well. Lowdown: A darn good picture and you’d better see it. Playing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Pal ace is And Now Tomorrow with Alan Ladd and Loretta Young. A story of a doctor from across the tracks who comes across to cure a rich girl of her deafness and falls in love with her. Lowdown: A good picture and definitely worth the fare to Bry an to see it. Phone 4-1166 k d otll on . 9c & 20c Tax Included Box Office Opens at 1 P.M. Closes at 8:30 LAST DAY “WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER” — with— Irene Dunne Alan Marshall WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY “WHAT a WOMAN” — with — Rosalind Russell Brian Aherne — also — News & Supermouse Cartoon FRIDAY and SATURDAY Double Feature — and — CMISS and MlttS or HW J ANN MILLER S? 10E BESSER hnimy utile 1 HAL MclNTYRE and B&HD 1 H\ L0, JACK and the DAME J JACK GILFORD \ CONDOS BROTHERS ^ JUDY CLARK BOB EVANS "«ww THE VAGABONDS* LARRY PARKS * * v» t t \