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O <1 £ £ 3' o* £, W S* 3' 3- ^ S'SS'^. pS'SS'^S-S P?M|n3 Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY 4FTERN00N, OCTOBER 18, 1945 On to Fort Worth . . . In the first real Corps Trip since 1941, the A. & M. Cadet Corps will join hands with the student body of the Texas State College for Women, to take over Fort Worth completely for a glorious day this Saturday. The festivities will be started by the twenty-five block parade of the Corps slated to begin at 10:30. After the parade, there will be no lonesome Aggies loafing on street corners, for there are things to do, places to go, and Tessies to help make the noon hours a lot more enjoyable. At 2:30 the climax of the day will be reached in the top Southwest Conference game of the week between the Aggies and the TCU Frogs. That night, after the victory, there will be a gala dancec at the Hotel Texas ball room, sponsored by the Fort Worth For mer Students Association, which will last from nine till one. After that, who knows—?; but next Saturday will still be a day of football, frolic and femmes. BACKWASH Backwash: “An agitation resulting from some action or occurence."—Webster. Between the Book Ends: “General Ike Let’s Go, Army . . . Fort Worth, long noted for its fine brand of Texas hospitality, plays host to the Cadet Corps this weekend, as the Aggies invade that city Saturday for the first corps trip of the year and the first one since 1941. The city “where the West begins” has always been a wonderful host to the Aggies and this year will be no ex ception. The city has already extended us the time and place to have an official parade. Other friendly plans will be self- evident soon after the corps arrives. The important thing about this corps trip is that we must not abuse these priveleges, as what the corps does, whether it is good or bad, will have a direct influence on the probability of another crops trip to Houston. Let’s show Cowtown that Aggie spirit and appreciation are not dead, but are just as alive now as they were before the war. This trip is a wonderful opportunity to show the parents of the state what A. & M. is doing now for their sons. But the Corps' one main purpose in coming to Fort Worth is not a parade, not a dance, but to beat TCU, and before a large crowd, we’ll show them that. The Team is Ready; the Twelfth Man is Ready—Let’s Tear the Toads Apart. Tales from Tessieland By Sae Jones TSCW Correspondent for The Batt Hi there, Aggies. It’s here at last . . . the long awaited official corps trip, of course. To the Tessies on the campus now, who have never before experienced a real down to earth, honest to gosh, official corps trip, it’s like a dream of college life come true. Or shall we say, a dream of TSCW life come true. TSCW will be there in Cowtown, Aggies, when the weekend of Oct. 20 rolls around. The pre-war spirit of TSCW and Aggieland is coming up to par again. This much has already been evidenced in this year’s group of Aggie Sweetheart judges and the tremendous amount of Aggies seen on the campus each weekend. And believe me, it’s a sight wonderful to all of us. Once more, our dances will fea ture Aggies in the majority, and the Aggie War Hymn will not be just a song to keep up the morale until TSCW and A&M have of ficial corps trips and such again. This year is it, the beginning of an even closer and more binding tie between our two schools. Just about the biggest thing happening up here is the corps trip, so everything else takes a minority rating. However, the dance, the first one of the year, Oct. 6, was a huge success. Al most all the college was there. Only one thing, there were about five stray Aggies that night over in one of the College stores, evidently without dates for the dance. Now that is something that just can’t happen here. Not with Aggies, any way. To Aggie D. Schwartz: ‘“He who laughs last, laughs best.” Congratulations to the Aggie football team looks like the begin ning of a Conference winner, we hope. TSCW is behind you, and here’s to the TCU game. Gotta go get ready for the corps trip now. Some of us will be there for the midnight yell practice Fri day night, and some of us will ar rive Saturday morning, but we promise, we’ll be there. So . . . looking forward to seeing you all at the game. Here’s to the CORPS TRIP. By The Collaborators Well, Old Army, Backwash hopes that everyone is back from Louis iana by now and if they’re not they had better get on their horse and head for Fort Worth because it will take them about three days to get out of that fine state. Boy they really have it on us when it somes to places of entertainment if you know what we mean. That’s about all that can be said about the Louisiana trip except this. Did you drink any of that battery acid that they call coffee? You stab it with a fork and cut it with a steak knife. 0 The publicity director for TSCW called in to say that the students are going to have a big yell prac tice on the steps of Brackenridge Hall at 10:30 Friday night. They have really got the spirit over there' it seems and it would be a good thing if we were represent ed at that yell practice. 0 Speaking of yelling, ours wasn’t anything sensational down at LSU this weekend. We will have a large rooting section this weekend at the game and let’s really make some racket so that we can be heard clear over at the stock yards in Cowtown. Let’s make it loud enough so that the announcer who is giving a play by play description of the game to the radio audience will be induced to turn his mike in our direction and let the yells go over the air, but above all let’s show that team that we are really in their fighting for them. This is the first conference game of the sea son and let’s be sure that we start it out with a bang that can be heard all around the Southwest Conference. 0 A kiss is a peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boys gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby’s right, the lover’s privilege and the hypocrite’s mask. To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity. 0 ’ Fort Worth—Where the West be gins—is in for a lot more begin nings this week-end, for the Ag gies will be there to begin this year’s corps trips, to begin to paint the town red, and to begin to win the conference. Enough said for the corps trip and the confer ence, but not so for the job of painting. With the Tessies coming down for the game there will be enough more than the usual abun dance of good looking women to have a date with, so there should be no trouble in • that department. Need more be said ? With date and accessories the last problem is where to go. To solve such a problem just stand on any street corner in that fair city and look aci’oss at the other side. Chances are you will be looking at a darn nice night club where you can have the time of your life for a most reasonable sum, for Fort Worth is loaded with good places to go for a good time. With such a won derful opportunity at hand let no man stray from the path this week end as the corps goes to see the Aggies beat T.C.U. )Eisenhower Always Played Good Game of Poker, Says Biographer By Edna B. Woods of the College Library Staff One of the first biographies of the “soldiers’ general”, GENERAL IKE, by Alden Hatch, is a full but not wordy life of Dwight D. Eisen hower. Alden Hatch’s book gives an excellent picture of Ike Eisen hower’s background and training, stressing the General’s military ability and humanness. Born in 1890, Ike Eisenhower was a disappointment to his par ents, for they had wanted a girl. From a deeply religious family of a sect similar to the Quakers, Ike and his five brothers did their sliare in creating mischief in the small town of Abilene, Kans. From foot ball to poker, Ike was no excep tion. He excelled at both games. His poker game was described as “phenomenal”. He was naturally good at estimating character and personal reaction, and his greatest pleasui’e in the game was in out guessing his opponents. That might have been recognized as a distant portent, if anyone had connected it with Karl von Clausewitz’s state ment that “War, of all branches of human activity, (is) most like a game of cards.” Injuries Wrecked Football Career Ike Eisenhower was slated to play football for West fcoint (He had preferred Annapolis and had received an appointment there al so; however, he was eight months too old to enter), but a knee injury in his Freshman year ended his football career. As a cadet, he was above average, never brilliant, tho roughly x*espectful of the Acade my’s code of honor, but he was con stantly contriving ways of evading regulations which he didn’t like. His numerous escapades are said to have brought premature gray to the otherwise brown curly locks of his roommate. While he was in the corps, Ike’s highest rank was that of Color Sergeant. Promotions Came Fast Greatness is the result of genius, opportunity, and hard work, and Mr. Hatch’s biography places Ike Eisenhower in the rank with the military great. He rose from the rank of Lt. Colonel to General in a year. He never took a platoon or a company into battle, yet the smallest military organization he ever commanded in actual combat was the Allied Expeditionary Force that went into French North Afri ca in 1942. The usually conserva tive “London Times Weekly” pub lished this statement about Dwight Eisenhower just after he was chos en Supreme Commander: “His most individual contribution of strategy has been his gift of drawing to gether officers of divers national ity and professional training into a harmonious brotherhood, thereby generating a spirit of comradeship which has been communicated to all the ranks in the field.” Eisenhower’s greatest disappoint ment during World War I was the result of his exceptional ability at training men—he wasn’t sent over seas. Eleven years later he received the Distinguished Service Medal for his “unusual zeal, foresight, and marked administrative ability in the organization and prepara tion for overseas service of tech nical troops of the Tank corps”, as commander of the Tank Train ing Center at Camp Colt, Gettys burg, Pennsylvania. Book Reviews War in Europe GENERAL IKE traces Dwight Eisenhower’s military career from camp to post, through the General Staff school, from the Canal Zone to the Philippines, and finally through the North African and European phases of World War II. Actually, the book furnishes a very clear and concise outline of ths war in the West. As a biography, GENERAL IKE is rather senti mental with respect to his family life, honest in principle, yet slight ly fictionized to add to its interest. The author, as do most Americans, regards Dwight Eisenhower with admiration and affection. General Dwight Eisenhower is the staff rather than the warrior type of officer. As chief architect of the victory in the West, he “is not a field commander or a* leader in the sense that he is on the firing line leading his troops. He is, how ever, a master of the men who do, and a master of the art they prac tice.” Less than 50 per cent of the tin can is actually tin. It is mostly steel. 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