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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1946
Saturday Afternoon Blues . . .
Shortages are everywhere, and the football ticket bus
iness is no exception. Ed Brandt, Bill Rosser, E. C. Kobs,
Bill Beck and your editor, Allen Self, met with Dean Rol
lins, Coach Norton, Bennie Zinn, and P. L. “Pinky” Downs,
Jr., Tuesday afternoon to survey the student ticket situa
tion for out of town games.
Coach Norton explained that allotments for student
tickets had been set up during the summer when the enroll
ment was estimated at a figure far below the actual. He
said, “Had we known that the enrollment would be in excess
of 9,000, we would have been able to set aside more tickets
for the Texas Tech game in San Antonio, but there was not
a thing that could be done about the games with Texas
and Baylor.” He pointed out that the Aggies received ap
proximately 1,000 more seats for students in Austin than
they have ever before, or a total of 7,066 in all: For Baylor,
the stadium seats approximately 11,000, of which more than
half would go to the home town team, as it does in Kyle
Field. However, A. & M. was able to get approximately
4,500 seats for the students in addition to a small allotment
for the former students.
On the Texas Tech game, the' original student allot
ment was 1500, which is more than ever set aside for the
student body. When it appeared that the enrollment would
be more than previous expectations, the Athletic depart
ment was able to bring the total to 2000. The committee
agreed that the only fair way to handle these tickets is
“first come, first serve”. Other arrangements will be made
later. Price will be the regular student admission, $1.20 tax
paid. The same holds true for the Baylor gdme, and it is
urged by the committee that those students who do not act
ually have a ticket stay away from San Antonio and
Waco.
Although the day of the Baylor game is an official
holiday wtih classes suspended, it is not an official Corps
Trip. If you can’t get a ticket to the game—and they’ll be
hard to get—the unlucky might go home and see the folks.
On the SMU game, Coach Norton and the Athletic
Council along with former students of the Dallas Area
brought pressure to bear on the authorities of SMU to move
the game to the Cotton Bowl. This more than doubled the
available seats and gave A. & M. 23,000. A total of 10,000
seats were blocked out for the Aggie students and their
dates on the official corps trip to Dallas. In addition to this
10,000 another substantial block was sent up to TSCW to
be sold to the students there, to sit with the Aggies. The
news of it all is that date tickets and TSCW tickets all go
at the $1.20 tax paid price.
No worries arise over LSU and the OU game, as ample
seating is available. The distance from college should keep
many from making these trips.
After all, the fotball games sound good on the radio
while you’re studying. Or they sound even better when
you’re in a private home surrounded by all the things that
make life enjoyable—blondes, etc.
--t
With The Corps
By ALLEN SELF
Unit commanders are to be com
plimented on the way their out
fits performed at Tuesday night
retreat inspection. With such in
spections held twice a week, there
should be only a healthy amount
of tenseness in the troops when an
officer from the military depart
ment or from the Fourth Army
Headquarters drops around.
Uniformity was the keynote of
all inspection preparations, but
nevertheless, khaki and OD belts
were mixed in ranks, as were the
GI black buckles and shiny brass
buckles. This is just one more
item that should be corrected.
Certain advanced students not
living with the Cadet Corps are
still coming to drill without prop
er uniform. Two were noticed in
one of the Infantry companies
without hats—for which there is
no excuse. It’s true that the Ex
change Store is out of pants, but
one of the things they do have is
the OS cap.
Corps Chaff ...
First effort of the faculty to
lap up benefits of this fall’s foot
ball holidays comes from the Ge
ology department. A Geol. 320 prof
gave his class of sixty a choice of
going on a field trip either the
v/eekend of the SMU game or of
the Baylor game.
TSCW officials have requested
that tickets be sent to them for
the Tessies coming to the SMU
game in Dallas. Any of you plan
ning to repeat last year’s TCU
joint corps trip, which was enjoy
able beyond printed or spoken
words, should contact the sweet
things from “Heaven” immediate
ly-
We’d certainly hate to be clout-
fed on the skull by the rolls of
“Aggie confetti” flying through
the air. The dull thud as •: a roll
hits some Aggie’s back sends shud
ders through the more soft-heart
ed. On the subject, why strew
the confetti all the way from Good
win back to the new area? Not
a sight for the visitor, admit
tedly.
Assault guns for the foot troops
—105 mm.—will arrive soon after
branch immaterial instruction is
finished. To be used for tactical
operations only—no firing, please.
Order serge and pinks now, ad
vanced students—only one pair of
G. I. JOE
By VICK LINDLEY
Answering the Fish . . .
What is a veteran supposed to
say when a fish greets him with
“Beat North Texas,” “Smear S.
M. U.’ ’or any other of the foot
ball slogans we will be hearing this
fall?
Your inquiring reporter has
checked with several guardians of
the Aggie traditions, in the inter
ests of preserving good relations
between veterans and the corps,
and has come up with this conclu
sion: It doesn’t matter so much
what you say, as long as you say
SOMETHING indicating that you
share normal A. & M. sentiments.
Strictest Aggie tradition calls
for cadets to answer in the same
words they are hailed, but many
cadets this year have been answer
ing with “Mighty right.” That
seems a safe lead for veterans
to follow. Other good phrases are
“Right,” “Yeah man,” and “Ditto”.
Ex-aircorpsmen, including navi
gators, have a natural in “Roger!”
with the O. K. sign—three fingers
raised, with thumb and forefinger
in a circle.
What if you are a transfer stu
dent, from Tech let us say, and
the fish shout “Beat the .... out
of Tech? The answer is simple—
you’re an Aggie now, son.
No Black-Market Books . . .
It is to Aggieland’s credit that
despite the critical shortage of
books, there has been no appear
ance of a black market in them
here. Certain second-hand books—
Robeson’s Physics, for example—
have been so critically short that
they might have soared to the value
of a Gutenberg Bible—but they
haven’t. Boys who possessed the
treasures have been glad to turn
them over at standard prices, so
that other students might not be
handicapped. Who would have
fought that battered, dog-eared,
scribbled-in, broken-backed volumes
would be so essential to our mental
well-being ?
green serge pants will be issued
with the winter uniform.
Things to Come
Two medium light tanks for use
by the armored cavalry. Cost:
$100,000 per. 20 tons heavy, they
will have .22 rifles mounted inside
the barrels of the turret guns for
actual firing.
The Battalion
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At Last, A Good Reason for No Homework...
Shortages, Strikes, and Wrong
Estimates Cause Lack of Books
Editor’s Note:
The article below was written following
an interview with Mr. Carl Birdwell of
the College Exchange Store in an attempt
to explain to the student body the present
lack of equipment and books. The situa
tion occurs not only in the Exchange
Store but also in all of the stores which
supply students on the campus. Most of
the facts were obtained from Mr. Bird-
well and the store’s records and from J.
E. Loupot, North Gate.
“Sorry, no Pathology II ... . .
we’re out of History 306 . no
Physics books yet .... If you have
been confronted with these answ
ers to your purchase queries and
have wondered why, read this and
get the facts that are keeping you
from doing your home work.
The cause for the present short
age of texts and equipment on the
campus resolves itself into three
reasons. First is a shortage of ma
terials and labor in the printers,
publishers, and manufacturers.
Though you may have forgotten
there is still a paper scarcity, and
a large demand for printed matter
from publishers has overtaxed the
productiorf of the printers who do
their work. Publishers are six
months behind in deliveries.
The second cause is delayed de
liveries of orders already filled and
awaiting shipment. The holdup is
occuring in New York and sur
rounding area because of the cur
rent truckers strike. Many of the
books come from this region and
although a few are > received
through parcel post, large amounts
are being held on loading plat
forms.
The other reason for the lack of
these items is one for which the
blame can not be directed at any
one in particular. To be sure of
pre-term deliveries most of the
books and equipment needed were
ordered in March and April of this
year. A consultation with author
ities revealed that the upper limit
of the college facilities would al
low only 7500 students for the fall
semester. Forms were given to all
departments by the Exchange
Store for an estimate of the num
ber of each text needed and orders
were placed to cover these needs.
Deliveries were assured for August
15. It is reported that 95% of these
deliveries were made.
But in the first part of August
the authorities foresaw a possibil
ity of the college handling over
9000 students because of the addi
tion of Bryan Air Field and other
areas to its facilities. Upon re
ceiving this information the Ex
change Store immediately sent out
requests to the various depart
ments for revised lists of their
needs. However, these later orders
could not be filled immediately by
the publishers and consequently
you wait for the books.
Directly connected with this last
reason for the shortage is the
fact that many of the departments
could not accurately determine
how many of the returning stu
dents would start with each of
their offered courses. Many of the
veterans are taking mixed-up curri
cula, coordinating review with new
courses, and there was no way to
estimate their needs in advance.
An example of this was the short
age of History texts. The need was
estimated at 600 and approximate
ly 1100 students enrolled for the
course.
As for equipment, of the needed
2,000 drawing sets some 700 were
received at the Exchange Store and
they are due to get only 300 more
by the first of the year. This, of
course, is due to the shortage of
materials mentioned previously.
Along those same lines is the slide-
rule trouble. Some 4,500 rules were
ordered; 700 came in for the sum
mer term and were immediately
sold. Only 200 arrived by the time
the fall semester began and of the
obviously needed 3,000 sliderules
600 may arrive by the end of the
year. The New Orleans branch of
the Dietzgen Company has said
that their entire output for the
month of September is for the A.
& M. College Exchange Store. This
includes such equipment as engi
neers and architects, T-Squares,
and triangles.
For the most part the needed
materials are arriving somewhat
slowly, but steadily. However, some
of it will be a long while in ar
riving here. Many students have in
their possession books and equip
ment which they do not care to sell.
They are urged to loan these items
to their friends until such time as
more supplies are received. This
practice should alleviate some of
the strain and handicap that so
many are under by taking courses
without the needed textbooks and
material.s
WhaCs Cooking
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19
7:00 p.m.—Beaumont A. & M.
Club, Room 108, Acad. Bldg.
7:00 p.m.—Texarkana A. & M.
Club, Room 204, Acad. Bldg.
7:00 p.m.—Laredo A. & M. Club,
Room 224, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—San Angelo area A.
& M. Club, Room 203, Ag. Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—Bell County A. & M.
Club, Room 103, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—Southwest Texas A.
& M. Club, Main Floor, YMCA.
7:30 p.m.—Galveston A. & M.
Club, Chapel YMCA.
7:30 p.m.—Radio Club, EE Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—First Meeting Brazos
County A. & M. Club, Maggie
Parker Dining Hall, Bryan. Dinner
$1 per plate. Guest Speaker, Ho
mer Norton.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20
8:00 a.m.—5 p.m.—Veteran Stu
dents fill out form. Veteran’s
Lounge, Sbisa.
7:30 p.m.—Jewish services, YM
CA.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
2:30 p.m.—Football, Texas A. &
M. vs. North Texas State College.
7:15 p.m.—Free Jamboree show,
Guion Hall.
9:00 p.m.—All College Dance,
Sbisa.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 22
8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.—Cath
olic mass, St. Mary’s Chapel.
6:30 p.m.—Newman Club meet
ing, Assembly Hall.
MONDAY, SEPT. 23
7:30 p.m.-Ex-Servicemen’s Club,
Assembly Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Ex-Servicemen’s Wiv
es Styles and Fashions Group, at
Sbisa Lounge.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
7;30 p.m.—Fish and Game Club,
Room 115, A. & I. Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—ASCE, business meet
ing, CE lecture room.
7:30 p.m.—Ag. Engineering So
ciety, Lecture Room, Ag. Engineer
ing Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—Astronomy Club, first
meeting, Physics Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—Rural Sociology Club,
Room 203, Ag. Bldg.
7:30 p.m. — Saddle & Sirloin
Club, Special Meeting, A. & I.
Bldg.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25
7:30 p.m.—Ex-Servicemen’s Wiv
es, Sbisa Lounge.
Right after Mess—Tyler A. &
M. Club, Ex-Students Lounge, YM
CA.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26
7:30 p.m.—Class of ’45, Assem
bly Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Lamar County A. &
M. Club, Room 126 Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—Wharton County A.
& M. Club, Room 129, Acad. Bldg.
The famous painting of Reveille,
made just before the Aggies fam
ous dog mascot died, is on exhibi
tion in the newspaper room of the
A. & M. library.
C. A. Robinson, assistant profes
sor of mechanical engineering, has
resigned to enter Naval research
work at Daingerfield.
Don’t get the idea that you
study better by listening to the
radio.—A. & M. Handbook.
YMCA Needs Song
Leader, Pianist
A song leader and a pianist
to assist with services each Sun
day at the Chapel are being
sought by Mr. M. L. Cashion,
Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
Students interested should
contact Ann Hilliard or W. W.
Dominy at the Student Activ
ities Center, A&M Col. annex.
_ Letters
YES, A. & M. REALLY IS
IN 74TH SCHOOL YEAR
Dear Sir:
The September 12th Batt has a
rather puzzling headline which
reads, “Record Enrollment Set in
A. and M.’s 74th School Year”.
According to the General Infor
mation Bulletin of 1946-47, the
Historical Sketch relates, and I
quote, “The College was formally
opened and instruction begun on
October 4, 1876.”
Without the aid of a calculator
or sliderule, my mathematics in
sists that this is barely seventy
years. Aren’t we attempting to
stretch the fact and our prestige
somewhat, or could it be the Batt
has uncovered some information
we all do not know about?
The quizzical kid
Bill Strait
(For the benefit of Mr. Strait
and others who were puzzled by the
suddent boast of this being A. and
M.’s 74th yar, we inform you
that in 1942 thru 1945 the school
was on a speed-up schedule which
allowed a 4-year course to be com
pleted in 2 2-3 years. This sand
wiches in a few extra semesters
which makes it possible for the
College to be in its 74th school year
and still only be a bare 70 years
old.—ED.)
Don’t join the gang that says a
freshman doesn’t have time to
study.—A. & M. Handbook.
You can find time for classes,
study, needed recreation, and so
cial life.—A. & M. Handbook.
Start studying the moment you
sit down at your desk. Do not let
yourself fool around.—A. & M.
Handbook.
Our hair must be very ambitious.
It is determined to come out on
top.
BRYAN
SENIORS
Get those Ice Cream
Boot Pants and
Slacks
NOW!
SMITH’S
Cleaning - Pressing
North Gate - Phone 4-4444
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
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“THE BIG SLEEP”
PREVIEW SAT. NIGHT
SUN. - MON. - TUBS.
Abbott and Costello in
“Time of Their Lives”
WED. - THURS. - FRI. - SAT.
Dana Andrews in
“Canyon Passage”
QUEEN THEATER
Carole Landis in
“It Shouldn’t Happen
To a Dog”
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. R. L. Brown, Pastor
A HEARTY WELCOME TO EVERYBODY
—SUNDAY SERVICES—
9:45 a.m. Sunday School 6:15 p.m. Training Union
10:50 a.m. Morning Worship 7:15 p.m. Evening Worship
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NOW OPEN FROM 1:00 ’TIL 6:00
Model Aeroplane Supplies — Engines and Accessories
All the Better Engines and Kits, Control Line and
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HOBBY SHOP
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PENNY’S SERENADE
^ By W. L. Penberthy
It is but a couple of days until
the start of what promises to be
one of the most interesting seasons
in the history of football. All of
the teams have
a wealth of ma
terial so the
coaches problem
is one of making
the best use of
his material ra
ther than devel
opment. In com
menting on the
season ahead I
heard
whose
value, make the
statement that
the team that
wins the confer-
Penny ence will be the
one with a “spark”. By a “spark”
he meant a player who is a fine
performer, but who also has a
little something extra that makes
him an example and an inspiration
to his team mates. He is usually a
great leader and one who makes
them want to give more than they
a man,
oninion I
have with never a thought of quit
ting.
These “sparks” appear all
through our lives. We see them in
our homes, at our work, and in
our play, but to me they are the
best evident in groups that are
engaged in voluntary service such
as Boy and Girl Scouts, Churches,
Civic Groups, Red Cross, etc. In
these activities they play the same
important part as do the leaders
on our football squads.
The amount of good done by
“sparks” is hard to estimate be
cause the work done by their own
hands is just a small percent of
that which they inspire by their
fine spirit. I know I have worked
on many projects where I would
have quit had it not been that the
chairman was a “spark” and it
would have been cowardly and dis
loyal to have “let him down”.
We never know to what extent
we ourselves may be the “spark”
that someone is looking to for
help, encouragenfent, and irtspira-
tion, so it is a challenge to us to
“step out” to the best of our abil
ity in everything we undertake.
Fish at Air Field Annex Are
Brought Up In Old Tradition
By “Babe” Schwartz
Annex Reporter
What are these weird rumors
that float around the Main Cam
pus, to the effect that Fish at
the Air Field Annex go parading
around without their fish stripes,
or that upper-classmen live in
three-room suites? T’aint so.
Everything at the Annex is con
ducted as things are supposed to
be conducted on the campus. Yell
practices are held. Retreat form
ation was scheduled to begin last
night, under direction of Capt. Si
mons, and uniform regulations are
being strictly enforced.
By means of short visits, the
freshman stationed at the Annex
are rapidly learning their way
about the Main Campus. Upper
classmen who drill the fish on what
they have learned state that the
annex-fish will soon have as good
a knowledge of the main campus
as the ones who are stationed
there.
Every other phase of freshman
orientation followed at A. & M.
College is being carried out at the
annex. Aggie life at the field is no
different, in any important par
ticular, from Aggie life at the
New Area.
In fact, we wonder sometimes if
the Aggie traditions aren’t better
observed here at the annex than
they are in College Station?
Family Style . . .
Tuesday the corps at the annex
began eating “family style” in the
mess hall and comments were gen
erally favorable. The forty-odd
upperclassmen who travel to the
campus for classes every day eat
their noon meal at Duncan with
the corps.
Silver Taps ... *
Silver Taps was conducted at
the Annex Monday night, simul
taneously with the ceremony on
the main campus, for Hugh Gilles
pie, Aggie who was killed in a
plane crash at Corsicana last week
end. Gillespie’s brother is a senior
in H Battery at the annex.
Invitation . . .
Campus Aggies are invited to
come out to the Annex on Sunday
and take a look at the installation,
particularly the student center,
snack bar, day rooms and mess
hall. We’ll be glad to answer ques
tions and show you around.
A trained reference librarian is
on duty at the loan desk of the A.
& M. library.
Short-time loans for ’students
who are temporarily financially
embarrassed are available through
th eDavis Buck Fund, Placement
Office, Goodwin Hall.
GUION HALL THEATER
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Screen Play by JOHN PAXTOft
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
plus
“SENORITA FROM
THE WEST”
— with —
Bonita Granville
Allan Jones
Plus News and Cartoon
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
“FRONTIER GAL’’
with Yvonne DeCarlo and Rod Cameron
RIVOLI THEATER
A. & M. College Annex
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
“SAN ANTONIO”
with Erroll Flynn
SATURDAY
“CORNERED”
with Dick Powell
SUNDAY and MONDAY
“GAME OF DEATH”
with John Loder
Plus
“SENORITA FROM
THE WEST”
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
“JANE GETS MARRIED”