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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1945
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
Associated Gplle&ate Press
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
Calvin Brumley.
Dick Goad
Alfred Jefferson.
Editor
.Managing Editor
Managing Editor
S. L. Inzer
Renyard W. Canis.
R. L. Bynes
Teddy Bernstein
Sports Editor
Backwash Editor
.Intramural Reporter
... 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, J. C. Long.
We’re Not Apologizing!
In the January 4th issue of the Thresher, Rice Insti
tute’s weekly student newspaper, an editorial and a news
story were printed concerning the painting of a statue on
the Rice campus. Both these articles accused the Aggies
of doing this.
A large front page headline stated: “AGGIES PAINT
RICE STATUE SECOND TIME”. The main facts of the
story follow:
“Last Friday night, 29 December, a group of vandals,
presumably Aggies, paid this campus an unexpected visit . .
. The annonymous visitors smeared the statue in several
places with white enamel. . . . This was the second time the
Sharecroppers have displayed their artistic talent which
marks the tomb of the founder of the school. . . . Dr. Pattie,
Professor of Abnormal Psychology, is investigating possible
motives. ...”
Written in orange crayon on the copy of this paper
which was sent to an Aggie freshman by some unidentified
Rice student was: “Remember the 20th”. On this date the
Aggie basketball team is scheduled to play Rice at Houston.
One can only surmise as to what the implications of this
message are.
In the editorial also run in that paper, the writer says,
“We didn’t even know for certain who did it. . . . ” He goes
on in a highly derogatory manner saying that, “Any large
group . . . draws its bad lots, although A. & M. seems to
have exceptionally bad luck year after year.” Many more
remarks are made concerning the quality of Aggies, and
their bad conduct.
Perhaps the Thresher’s accusations are true. If so, A.
& M. should apologize for this unsportsmanlike action. But
when even the Thresher admits that it does not know for
certain that the dirty work was done by Aggies, no one
should expect the Aggies to beg forgiveness. To say that
Aggies are capable of desecrating graves is to make a ser
ious accusation. Most editors would think twice before print
ing libelous statements in their papers without conclusive
proof. Yet the Threshei* has assumed that the damage was
the work of A. & M. students without any basis but a prev
ious act, and even that has not been positively proved to
have been committed by Aggies.
Perhaps the boys from the Institute should apologize
to the Cadet Corps. Or maybe they should have the professor
of adnormal psychology figure out why the editor of the
Thresher immediately jumped to the conclusion that this
vandalism was the work of students from A. & M.—A. C. J.
Forever Forward ,.. Progress Takes Work
It is nearly time for a group of seniors to leave A. & M.
It is nearly time for a new group of men to become cadet
officers and leaders of the corps. It is time that these jun
iors that will be taking over soon begin to think about
the responsibility that will rest on their intellect. They
must begin to think in terms of the entire cadet corps rather
than themselves or their class.
There is no way of forecasting the problems that will
present themselves to be solved. Very few would be foolish
enough to attempt to prognosticate the events of the next
semester. Naturally enough there will be the routine duties
of discipling the new students and completing the discip
linary training of old students. Drilling the cadets and pro
viding the machinery for smooth running organizations will
be another of the routine jobs. There will be much individ
ual work that will require patience to complete properly.
All of these things are routine however.
It takes no exceptional person or group of exceptional
persons to make a cadet corps run smoothly. Orinary men
can handle ordinary jobs. They can accept the precedents
set by those that have been before and coast along easily
if they do not wish to progress.
But let a group of student leaders plan for progress,
plan for improvements, then it requires work, ingenuity,
intelligence, cleverness, and shrewdness. When any group
begins to show signs of wanting to change the prescribed
method of doing things they run in;o opposition. Perhaps
the opposition is right but they are not always infallibly
right.
Here is the big responsibility for a group of leaders.
When they plan they should plan wisely and carefully so
as to be ready for any opposition that may develop. They
must make sure of what they want. They must make sure
that they are right. Then they must not rest until they
have gained their objective.
Perhaps new ideas will not always be completely
adotped but those in responsible positions will realize with
time that nearly all matters of government and adminis
tration are a combination and a compromise of ideas. Some
times the compromise will be stronger than either one of the
ideas alone but an alert group of men will first make sure
that this is true and take precautions lest they be com
promised completely out of their original idea.
In government there are three things that must be
done. Ideas and plans have to be worked out. The ideas
have to be made authoratative, and the laws and refla
tions have to be carried out. The last is the least difficult.
It requires one kind of intellect to formulate plans and
it takes another kind to get those plans accepted. The suc
cess of the latter depends to a large extent upon the first
but this is not always the case. These matters must be
weighed carefully before any movement is begun.
Those men that have the responsibility next semester
and the semesters to come, those men that will be new
on an old job, those men that guide the lives of the cadet
corps have been given a heavy trust. Every Aggie-Ex is
depending on them to keep A. & M. the finest and greatest
school in the world. The people of Texas will depend upon
them to administer the rules and regulations that the people
themselves have laid down. Last, the new cadet officers
will have a responsibility to themselves not to make costly
mistakes in the administartion of their duties.
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Backwash: An agitation resulting- from some action or occurence.”—Webster.
“N
Li OT QUIT LIKE IT used to
be.” Those were the words of Ma
rine Lt. Ralph Rothman, ’44 when
he visited the campus yesterday
after having spent some time in
combat in the South Pacific. He
did say however that, “the old
buildings looked good as I was
coming up the drive but the place
looks a little vacant.”
Threshing's
P REPARE FOR A deep laugh
old army. It seems that some wise
old Owls that nest in the tree of
Rice Institute have blamed the
Renyard
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Aggies once again for putting a
bit of preserver, paint, on some
of their scenery. Well, shur and
begorra, that is a shame. They
blame the Aggies. Wrathfully
they blame the Aggies because
they have no proof of who did the
work.
Official corps trips are out of
season but maybe there is ample
justification for one about the
20th. Honor has been done dirt to.
With This Ring-
In THE RING she will kiss.
Yes, in the ring she will kiss that
Aggie with the Senior Ring on.
Whoops. Get out of here bird
dogs. Tonight is the night. To
night we love. Accentuate the ap-
positive.
Music By Request
T HE LAST FEW DAYS there
has been some Latin-American
Music played over the mess hall
loud speaker system. Some Aggies
have been doing considerable
bleeding about this. There are sev
eral students in A. & M. from
South of the Border and they re
quested authorities that some of
their music be played. Through
channels the order went to the
operator of the sound system. And
that is why Aggies have been eat
ing to the accompaniment of La
Cucaracha and little jumping beans.
Observations
He HAD A parachute chest.
Gently floating down . . . Bryan
400 is a bit more scarce now than
they were during the summer but
Jack Palmer and Jesse Martin
are still successful. . . . Grady
Jones and his whizzing auto have
left school. . . . Several other
guys are leaving school. Hmmm.
. . . The labor shortage has hit
Aggieland. Maids are surely hard
to get. . . . Graduating seniors are
sweating those last minutes. . . .
Freshmen know how many days
it is until Mister graduates. . . .
What we need around here is
heated park benches.
Explained at Last
F OR A LONG TIME Backwash
has been puzzling and wondering
who Mitzi Brown was. That name
appears on the north side of the
water tower. Don’t have to won
der any longer. It’s not a person
but two.
The first name belongs to a
girl named Mitzi with a last name
like little or something and the
other belongs to a freshmen
named Brown.
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood
In public buildings never stop to
talk in the doorways, aisles, or
passageways so that others will
have to walk around you. With
draw to one side so that you will
not be an obstruction.
When entering or leaving a pub
lic building the ordinary rules and
courtesies prevail.
Ladies always precede men
through doors but the gentleman
always opens the doors.
In the case of revolving doors,
the lady enters a compartment
first, the gentleman grasps a parti
tion and regulates the speed, and
then enters the following sec
tion.
In the lobbies Or corridors of an
office building a gentleman’s hat
remains on or is raised from his
head exactly as it would be on the
street.
In a hotel lobby a gentleman
may keep his hat on or remove it
as he chooses, of course observing
all the courtesies due women whom
he greets or with whom he talks.
In a department store, large
apartment house, indoor stadium,
or theater lobby a gentleman acts,
with regard to his hat, exactly as
he would out of doors, however,
a military man, when out of doors,
on meeting or greeting a lady,
merely touches his hat and does not
remove it and remain uncovered
as a civilian does.
PENNY’S SERENADE
immmmmmmmmmmmmm By W. L. Penberthy ~' ' ■ ' :
In all probability the first race
we ever hoard of as youngsters was
the famous race between the Tor
toise and the Hare. This race was
won by the tor-
§|! toise, who was a
| steady plodder,
1 while the hare
¥
was an overcon
fident “flash in
| the pan” sort of
fellow who fig
ured he could do
a little loafing
j, I and still win the
Llvlt race -
iljliyi Of course the
lesson to be de-
Penberthy rived from the
story is one of perseverance and
attention to duty and it was meant
for children, but in my own case
I can still learn a lot from the
story. All of us have found out
that we can make better time in
a car by driving steadily at a
moderate rate of speed than by
driving fast between towns but
stopping at every town for a coke.
The hare learned that same lesson
in his race with the tortoise.
In our daily life we see a great
many of our fellow men who spurt
by us in different ways and maybe
we are prone to be a little envious
that we don’t have what it takes
to be able to make such a spurt
but I have observed that steadiness
and dependability are mighty good
traits to develop. They will carry
us through in a great many in
stances long after our fellow man
has lost his spurt. The boys who
do the spurting often get the
headlines and the writeups but the
steady dependable boys are the
ones who get the job done.
Something to Read
By Edna B. Woods
“To do the right thing at the
right time” is an art, cultivated
not inherited. And everyone, con
sciously or unconsciously, desires
that art. For to handle every situa
tion easily—to speak the right
phrase to a new acquaintance, to
ask for a date properly, to make a
satisfactory introduction — is an
invaluable asset.
Invariably, the person who
possesses the social grace is the
one who never lacks company for
a personal venture, who receives
numerous invitations £o various
and sundry affairs, and who is al
ways in demand as a lady’s escort.
In short, mastery of the social
graces, is the surest bid for pop
ularity. Being polite is an outward
display of respect, and a genuine
interest in people is the first prin
ciple. Caution: Company manners
are a shoddy excuse for the real
thing.
Emily Post has, with the help
of her enthusiastic followers, es-
(See BOOKS, Page 4)
Books Received By
College Library
General Reading:
A Surgeon’s Fight to Rebuild
Men; the autobiography of Dr.
Fred H. Albee.
There Will be Bread and Love,
by Robert P. T. Coffin.
Defoe, by James Sutherland.
The Lost Battalion, by T. M.
Johnson and Fletcher Pratt.
Navies in Exile, by A. D. Devine.
D Day; what preceded it; what
followed, by John Gunther.
State of the Nation, by John
Dos Passes.
Consumer Problems in Wartime,
by Kenneth Dameron.
Our Invisible Friends, by Mau
rice Allen.
Earth and High Heaven, by
Gwethalyn Graham.
By Valour and Arms, by James
Street.
Live for Tomorrow, by Ralph W.
Sockman.
Fifty Great Games of Modern
Chess, by H. Colombek.
Living Musicians; biographical
and critical sketches of living vir
tuosos, edited by Davis Ewen.
Short Stories from the New
Yorker; a collection of sixty-eight
notable stories.
Reading in General Education,
edited by William S. Gray.
So You’re Going South! by Clara
E. Laughlin.
The Other Side of Main Street,
by Henry Johnson.
First Aid in Emergencies;
eleventh edition, by Eldridge L.
Eliason.
Everyday Things in American
Life, by William Chauncy Langdon.
Poetry and the Modern World,
by David Daiches.
The Art of Walt Disney, by
Robert D. Feild.
Social Sciences:
America Unlimited, by Eric
Johnston.
People on, Our Side, by Edgar
Snow.
The WPA and Federal Relief
Policy, by Donald S. Howard.
Science and Man, edited by Ruth
N. Anshen.
Religion of Tomorrow, by John
E. Boodin.
The Good Society, by Walter
Lippman.
Organized Labor and the Negro,
by Herbert R. Northrup.
A Short History of American
Democracy, by John D. Hicks.
Peoples of Southeast Asia, by
Bruno Lasker.
The Latin American Policy of
the United States, by Samuel F.
Bemis.
What Russia Wants, by Joachim
Joesten.
The New World Guides to the
Latin American Republics, editor
E. P. Hanson.
The Road to Teheran; the story
of Russia and America, by Foster
R. Dulles.
The Rest of Your Life, by Leo
Cherne.
Contemporary Italy; key to the
Italy of today and tomorrow, by
Count C. Sforza.
The German Army, by Herbert
Rosinski.
The Plough and the Sword; la
bor, land and property in fascist
Italy, by Carl T. Schmidt.
The Coming Struggle for Peace,
by Andre Visson.
You and Your Congress, by Vol
ta Torrey.
The Geography of the Peace, by
Nicholas J. Spykman.
Engineering and its Sciences:
Empire of the Air, by Matthew
Josephson.
Photographic Emulsion Tech
nique, by T. Thorne Baker.
Gun Collecting, by Charles E.
Chapel.
Boatbuilding; a complete hand
book of wooden boat construction,
by Howard I. Chapelle.
The Birth and Death of the Sun,
by George Gamow.
America’s Treasure, by W. Max
well Reed.
Industrial Radiology; second edi
tion, by Ancel St. John and Her
bert R. Isenburger.
English Church Craftsmanship,
PALACE
Friday and Saturday
“AND NOW
TOMORROW”
— with —
Alan Ladd
Loretta Young 1
Preview Saturday Nite
Also Sun. - Mon. - Tues.
“GHOST OF
CANTER VILLE”
— with —
Charles Laughton
The Lowdown On
Campus ‘Distractions
By Teddy Bernstein
Guion—Friday and Saturday at
Guion Hall is a double feature.
Showing will be “The Heat’s On”
with Mae West, Victor Moore, and
William Caxton. Mae West and
William Gaxton try to persuade
Victor Moore to give his ‘holy
rollers” to a show. This is not a
new type for Mae West.
Lowdown: A pretty good picture,
if you are out of your mind.
Second is “Hey Rookie” with Ann
Miller, Joe Besser, and Hal Mc
Intyre and band. The story of the
life of a Army private. The show
is strictly dance and song musical.
Lowdown: A good picture * 1 if you
like to watch Ann Miller dance.
Prevue Saturday night and Sun
day at Guion is “Andy Hardy’s
Blonde Trouble” with Mickey Roo
ney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Her
bert Marshall, and Bonita Gran
ville. This is a story of how Andy
goes off to college, and encoun
ters double trouble when he meets
two blondes. Andy solves the
blonde’s troubles for them in his
usual efficient manner.
Lowdown: A very good picture.
Monday and Tuesday at Guion
is “Salute to the Marines” with
Wallace Berry and Marilyn Max
well. This is a story of the typical
slapstick comedy.
Lowdown: A good funny picture,
but that is all.
Campus—Showing Friday is
“Sarong Girl” with Ann Corio. You
will like this, if you like a strip
tease artist. A racy picture made
to order for Aggies. Ann Corio is
the Strip Tease Queen of the
Police Gazette.
Lowdown: Bow-w-w-wang.
Showing Saturday and Sunday is
a double feature of “The Sullivans”
with Anne Baxter, Thomas Mit
chell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan,
Trudy Marshall, John Campbell.
This is a heroic show of the lives
of the five Sullivan brothers who
met heroic deaths when the USS
Juneau went down in the battle
of the Solomons.
Lowdown: A darn good show.
Also showing is “Isle of Forgot
ten Sins” with John Carradine,
Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler.
Two deep sea divers find the gold
there is on a scuttled ship, only to
be robbed of it by the men who
scuttled the ship. Nature inter
venes and the whole island is wash
ed away.
Lowdown: A fair picture, but
nothing out of the ordinary.
Showing Monday at the Campus
is “Casanova Brown” with Gary
Cooper, Thersa Wright, and Frank
Morgan. The story of a poor fellow
who thinks he isn’t liked by women,
but in reality the women chase
after him. He asks about every
girl he sees to marry him and to
his dismay they all accept.
Lowdown: A real good picture.
Palace—Showing in Bryan this
week is “And Now Tomorrow” with
Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan
Hayworth, and others. Emily Blair
wealthy New England girl, be
comes afflicted with deafness. Alan
Ladd, a young doctor “from the
other side of the tracks” in Blairs-
town, effects a cure when all others
diagnose the case as hopeless.
Emily falls in love with him, which
makes it easier to take the dis
covery that her sister has been
carrying on a secret romance with
Emily’s fiance.
Lowdown: A very good picture
and a mark of progress for Alan
Ladd.
Sunday and Monday in Bryan is
“Canterville Ghost’ with Charles
Laughton, Robert Young, Mar
garet O’Brien. A modernized ver
sion of the Oscar Wilde story of
a good-natured ghost in search of
a hero to free him from the curse
that keeps him on Earth. The
story is that Army man Robert
Young and his buddies visit an
old English castle and find this
ghost.
.... Lowdown: A picture of strictly
good entertainment.
LOUPOT’S
A LITTLE PLACE
A BIG SAVING!
by F. H. Crossley.
Russian Mediaeval Architecture,
by David R. Buxton.
The Land Divided; a history of
the Panama Canal and other Isth
mian canal projects, by Gerstle
Mack.
Agriculture and its Sciences:
The Book of Bulbs, by F. F.
Rockwell.
Modern Roses II, by J. Horace
McFarland.
Gardener’s Handbook, by L. H.
Bailey.
Four Seasons in Your Garden, by
John C. Wister.
Green Enchantment, by Rosetta
E. Clarkson.
Thoroughbreds, by C. W. Ander
son.
Landscaping the Home Grounds,
by L. W. Ramsey.
Biography of the Earth; its
past, present, and future, by
George Gamow.
Vegetable Gardening in Color,
by Daniel J. Foley.
Ploughs and Politicks, by Carl R.
Woodward.
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THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Ann Corio
“SARONG GIRL”
— plus
BUGS BUNNY and FOX NEWS
SATURDAY ONLY
Double Feature
BHM5
Phone 4-1166
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Tax Included
Box Office Opens at 1 P.M.
Closes at 8:30
PREVUE SATURDAY 9:45
and SUNDAY
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leap year
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“The Sullivans’
— with —
Ann Baxter
— and —
Phil Harris Musical
MONDAY and TUESDAY
— and —
‘ISLE OF FORGOTTEN SINS”
SUNDAY and MONDAY
“CASANOVA
BROWN”
—also —
— with —
Wallace Beery
Marilyn Maxwell
CARTOON and NEWS
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