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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12, 1946
How About a Truce? . . .
Isn’t it about time for a truce between veterans and
cadets ?
Earing the past month we have been airing opinions
very frankly, and that should foe all to the good. There has
been some friction; bringing it out into the open, especially
in the letters to the Battalion, has let us all know just where
the corns are. But it has also shown that only serious fric
tion is between the 2 percenters and the 98 percenters, as
it always has been.
Now, with two distinct groups on the campus, when the
2 percenter vets tangle with the 98 percenter cadets, or the
2 percenter corps members with the 98 percenter vets, the
issue gets confused and is often misinterpreted as a real
clash between the main bodies of the corps and the veterans.
By now it should be clear that the veterans and cadets
are pretty much in agreement. Neither group is out to tell
the other how to run its affairs. The views and actions of
the 2 percenters have been exposed to “pitiless publicity”
with a corrective effect. So let’s have the vets gripe about
vets, and the cadets about the corps, but call a holiday to
any criss-crossing.
Sips 1 Can’t Understand . . .
From time to time this year, the Batt has moaned in
these editorial columns that the Aggie spirit of supporting
our teams, win, lose or draw, was dying out. It seems we
were overly pessimistic. Who says so? Hold your hats, fel
lows: the Daily Texan says so.
Not in so many words, of course. It is a back-handed
compliment that Paul Tracy, the teasippers sports editor,
paid us last week. Tracy used his entire column to berate us
Aggies for supporting our team when it loses with just
as much vim as when it wins.
The Aggie sense of loyalty, it seems, will never be com
prehended on the forty acres. They cannot agree with Grant-
land Rice that:
“When the Great Scorer comes
“To write against your name,
“He will ask not if you won or lost,
“But how you played the game.”
Guion Hall Splinters ...
Years ago Guion Hall was the pride of the A. & M.
Campus. Even now, its stately columns and ivied walls seem
to express the solemnest traditions of Aggieland. But the
feelings of reverence are shattered when you go inside, sit
down, and have the seat splinter and collapse under you.
A lot has been done in fixing up the interior. The once-
horrible acoustics have been largely corrected by celetex
tiles in the ceiling and heavy drapes on th,e windows and
doors. This year the Student Activities Office purchased
300 new opera-type plush seats for the senior section, which
slightly improved the acoustics and greatly increased both
the appearance and comfort of that part of the auditorium.
But these of us who don’t get to sit in those plush-
bottoms have to lower ourselves gingerly into veneered an
tiques which either give way entirely or else creak through
out the performance.
Who will come to the rescue? Perhaps the college can
find some spare funds that could be used to add more opera-
seats' each year until the last wooden ones or removed.
Pro Football? . . .
The old question of how much a college may help a foot
ball player without professionalizing him comes up again
in the current Saturday Evening Post. Writing on “Black
Markets in Football,” Francis Wallace points out that huge
sums of money have been spent to create some of the head
line teams this year. ®
The Southwest Conference comes off pretty clean in
the account, probably due to the fact that definite rules
exist in this loop for helping a player. No subterfuges are
necessary; SWC schools can grant athletic scholarships
without trying to hide the fact, but definite limits are set
and all “hot” athletes in the conference presumably get the
limit. Wallace points out that some schools have student-
players whose major in physical education consists of such
work-loads as eight hours in Football 103; six hours of
Baseball 110, etc. We don’t have anything like that at A.
& M. How anybody can major in engineering and play foot
ball is a source of wonder, but much credit goes to tutors
who help the players keep up during the season. Certainly
no dumb-bells can hold a place on the Aggie team.
Only one of A. & M.’s opponents this year is mentioned
in the article. Coach Lookabaugh of the Oklahoma Aggies
is quoted as charging that Oklahoma U. spent $200,000
on their team, then changing it to a statement that all
Oklahoma A. & M.’s opponents collectively had spent that
much.
Dean Endorses Clean-Up . . .
Dear Editor:
May I congratulate you on your editorial directing the
attention of the student body to contributions the students
can make toward improving the appearance of the campus.
Visitors on the campus now-a-days are impressed by the ef
forts being made to beautify the buildings; those who are
vitising the campus for the first time almost invariably com-
ment favorably on the lawns and the landscaping around the
buildings, and people who have been coming for some years
immediately notice the improvement over the bare buildings
of former years.
All too frequently, though, as a visitor is being shown
about the campus, his praise stops suddenly when he reaches
the part of the campus where the lawns have been disfigured
by haphazard paths made by thoughtless persons whose pride
in the appearance of their campus is not quite great enough
to cause them to take the extra steps to save the grass, or
to hold on to that cigarette stub or scrap of paper until they
reach the trash can.
I recall my last visit to the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
and the pride of the young cadets is the well-kept appearance
of the campus. Neither cadet or visitor would think of start
ing a path across the grass or of marring the beauty of that
campus by dropping paper or trash. Among the civilian in
stitutions, Princeton, which you mention in your editorial, is
only one of a number where the admiration which comes to a
beautiful and well-kept campus has become a source of real
pride to the students and alumni as well, and our campus could
earn the same praise without an added penny of cost. It
would take just a few extra steps to follow the side walk
and a determination by every person on the campus to be
alert to his own acts and to remind the other fellow when he
forgets.
You have suggested a movement that, if carried out,
could, in the years to come, give 8,000 Exes cause for saying
with pride: “Yes, it was during my college days at A. & M.
that we decided to make the campus the cleanest and best
kept in the country.
Yours very truly,
F. C. Bolton
Dean
This Week’s Poll . . .
Veterans Almost Unanimously
Against Wearing Cadet Uniform
(This is the third in a series of
articles recording the results of
polls taken by the Battalion on
subjects concerning the student
body of Texas A & M—Eds. note.)
If the veterans now enrolled at
A. & M. have their way, it’ll be a
cold day in July before they don
the regulation cadet uniform for
everyday campus wear.
At least that’s the opinion ex
pressed by a group of veterans,
selected at random, answering this
week’s question, “Do you think all
veterans academically classified as
Freshmen or Sophomores, should
wear the regulation cadet unifornl
with the AMC brass on one collar
and the NM (non-military) on the
other.”
C. J. Schero, ’42, said, “I really
don’t see what the move would ac
complish other than to give the
campus a morp military atmos
phere. Many of the veterans now
on the campus are 25-28 years old,
yet taking Freshman and Sopho
more courses. I’m sure these men
would not favor the move.”
Gene Ray, ’45, stated he was
definitely against the idea. “The
uniform represents all which most
of the veterans on the campus
want to forget—their years in the
army. I think that if veterans
were made to wear a uniform,
many of them would go to another
school.”
Bob McGowen, another veteran,
said that the move would probably
become a reality eventually any
way, but that “I’m not in favor
of it.”
Also joining in against the pro
posal was W. D. Kutach, a veter
an who is going to A & M for the
first time. Kutach’s only com
ment concerning the uniform was:
“I’ve had enough.”
Veterans living in the Corps
were split on the question. John
Cochrane, class of ’46, a senior on
the First Field Artillery Battalion
staff, said “I would like to see
veterans in uniform but not un
less they themselves favored the
move. If it were forced on them,
dissension would exist which would
cause more harm than good.”
The opposite view was express
ed by Hugh Riggins, ’42, who is
now living in the corps. Said Rig
gins: “If the college would make
satisfactory arrangements with
the government so that about $50
a year could be given to each vet
eran to help pay for uniforms, I
think all veterans should wear the
uniform. It’s no disgrace to be
in uniform,” continued Riggins,
“and A & M College will not begin
to regain its pre-war reputation
until everybody on the campus is
in uniform.”
Mr. J. W. Carmichael, professor
of English, also favored the wear
ing of the uniform by veterans.
“The policy of wearing the uni
form”, said Carmichael, “would
conform to the practice of the col
lege. Under present conditions,
tradition is being shattered.”
The only non-veteran member of
the Corps questioned by the Bat
talion, Fred “Dutch” Maxwell, ’49,
who said, “for the good of the
school as a whole, I would like to
see everybody in uniform. How
ever, it is understandable why
some veterans don’t want to wear
the uniform. It just seems to be
a regrettable situation all the way
around.”
***
Eds. note. Do you, the reader,
have any views on the subject
which have not been expressed?
If so, write the Battalion and if
sufficient controversy arises, a
subsequent article, listing the
opinions expressed, will appear in
the Battalion.
Letters
KELLY FLOWERS
Dear Sir:
Robert Kelly’s letter to the Edi
tor, published in the October 31
issue of the Batt, struck a respon
sible note among the vets here
at the Annex. We wish to thank
Mr. Kelly for his bit of outspoken
comment and to tell him that we
are completely in accord with his
views.
We have a few comments to
add. The chief bleed the Admin
istration and the Corps has, as we
see it, is that the vets don’t have
the “School Spirit” and conse
quently will not follow blindly
everything set forth in Aggie tra
dition.
A few weeks ago during an in
tramural football game between
a Corps team and a Vet team, the
Corps supporters were yelling,
“C’mon Aggie, beat those STU
DENTS!” Is this part of Aggie
tradition or school spirit? The Batt
has repeatedly said that all of" us,
vets and non-vets, are Aggies—
why the distinction? If this rep
resents Aggie Spirit and fair play,
do you blame anyone for not giv
ing a tinker’s dam whether A. &
M. sinks or swims ? The vets are
not a group of mean, old ogres,
deliberately out to prevent A. &
M. from winning back its Blue
Star, nor are we out to wilfully
destroy Aggie tradition simply be
cause of our antipathy to all
things military.
For the most part, if there had
been no war, a great number of
us would have been here in the
Corps and there would be no con
flict now. However, since we are
exempt from ROTC now, we are re
garded as the root of all evil. Not
being required to participate in a
lot of Aggie customs, *we don’t evi
dence the “School Spirit” to the
degree manifest in the Corps.
The main issue seems to be, as
we see it, whether the Corps is
going to force its ideas on the vets,
or whether the vets are going to
upset all Aggie customs and tra
ditions, OR are the two groups
going to recognize each other’s
problems and compromise for the
furtherance of all interests? We,
as vets, understand the Corps’ de
sire of us, while interested in
A&M and its customs and tradi
tions, are primarily interested in
getting an education and getting
out as soon as possible. Most of
us don’t have time to participate
in a lot of things regarded by the
Corps as “musts”.
In brief, we’ll cooperate if you
will; leave us alone and we’ll
leave you alone!
Sincerely,
Jerry H. Werlin and
13 men of Barracks 318
Annex-ations
By Ike Ashburn, Jr.
INTRAMURAL SPEAKING: H
Battery, the winner of League A,
will play C Group Veterans of
League B sometime this week for
the Annex flag football champion
ship. These two teams have been
playing a superior brand of ball
and should go far, if not all the
way, in the college finals.
Luke Harrison of the Physical
Education department announces
that intramural basketball and
tennis are in the offing.
REQUEST from the construction
office: If you have a silex or heat
ing plate in your barracks, please
don’t overload the fuses by using
too many appliances and lights at
the same time. REASON: no
more fuses, and the house mama
doesn’t have any left either. Is that
you, black-out?
If anyone is on or going on
PROBATION, all rules, regula
tions, and requisites for the Dean’s
Team can be found on Page 12 of
the Blue Book.
What’s Cooking
(Editor’s note: Some clubs still
have not submitted lists of officers,
their dorm room and PO box to
the Student Activities Office. Will
appreciate same.)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
7:30 p. m.—Jr. FFA, Ag. Eng.
Lecture room.
7:00 p. m.—Class of ’45, Assem
bly Hall.
Sciences, Petroleum Lecture room.
7:30 p. m.—Management So
ciety, ME Lecture room.
7:30 p. m.—Biology Club, Con
ference Room, Ag. Exper. Sta.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
7:15 p. m.—Lutheran Student
Association, Assembly Room, YM
CA.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14
7:30 p. m.—Houston County A
&M Club, Room 305, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m.—Southwest Texas A
&M Club, Cabinet Room, YMCA.
7:30 p. m.—Bridge Group, Ag
gie Wives Club, Sbisa Lounge.
7:30 p. m. — Galveston A&M
Club, Room 106, Acad. Big. '
7:30 p. m.—Wilbarger County
A&M Club, Room 105, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m. — Greenville A&M
Club, Room 227, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m.—Johnson County A&
M Club, Room 303, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m.—Pre-Law Club, or
ganizational meeting, Room 205,
Acad. Bldg.
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With The Corps
By ALLEN SELF
To the Cadet Corps:
It gives me the greatest pleasure
and satisfaction to have this op
portunity to tell the men of the
A&M Cadet Corps that their per
formance in Dallas this past week
end was everything that could be
desired and then some. You hand
led your conduct and conducted
your military affairs in a superb
manner, and showed the people of
Texas that Texas A&M is, in
deed, what it is “cracked up” to be.
From hundreds of people in Dal
las came words of the highest
praise, approval, and respect for
the Corps.
The greatest moments in my life
were those in which I watched you
march past the reviewing stand,
and I’m confident that each of
you have the same pride and feel
ing for the Corps that I have.
Ed Brandt
Cadet Colonel
Parade Looked Good
Every unit looked good as they
marched up Main Street. By the
process of elimination, it was de
cided that one of the artillery bat
teries looked better than all.
When the units went past the
reviewing stand, only two men even
looked like they were out of step,
and they were a couple of “plow
boys” who must have thought they
were back on the farm behind the
white mule.
What impressed more than
marching skill was the splendor of
the uniforms. White gloves, over
seas caps, sabers, and all the boots
on the seniors, the juniors in their
new serge, and freshmen and soph
omores with brass shining made
us look like the “Ole Army.”
Few Spectators
Compared to the turn out for
the parade in Ft. Worth last year,
there were not as many specta
tors: The only spot where a crowd
gathered was by the Baker and
Adolphus. Every place else the
streets were empty, except for
street cars which the Dallas po
lice failed to keep out of the way.
maybe it was the threat of rain that
kept Dallasites away, but the
crowd was disappointing.
The Dallas Morning News and
the Times-Herald treated us right,
displaying front page pictures of
Brandt, Peggy Hendricks and Phil
Kosub and of the Aggie Band.
However, the Times-Herald went
along on its usual “SMU wuz rob-
red from” in its write-up on the
game. ^
Victory Partying
It’s regrettable that one night
club in Dallas couldn’t hold all the
Aggies and their dates. Most of
them were out at either Lou Ann’s
or the Plantation, though a good
number were sprinkled around in
the Colony Club, the Yacht Club,
Tibbett, America’s Favorite
Baritone, on Mon. Town Hall
The American baritone, Law
rence Tibbett, who will be heard
on Town Hall’s third program,
comes of the American fighting
stock that made this country. He
thinks this same pioneer spirit
fits as snugly into the picture of
American culture as it does into
American history. This may be
the reason Tibbett has been a trail
blazer for American music. He be
lieve in “fighting for what we
have.” The Tibbett performance
will be held in Guion Hall at 8:15
p. m., November 18.
Tibbett was the youngest of
four children, and his mother had
to struggle to support them. His
mother and sister taught him
what they knew about singing,
and soon his talent became known,
thus earning small fees singing
at churches and local gatherings
in his California hometown. His
first real teacher was Joseph
Dupuy in Los Angeles, but it was
Basil Rysdael, opera basso and
later radio announcer, who taught
him to sing naturally.
A man heard him sing and was
so impressed that he volunteered
to back Tibbett’s training. So with
such and offer, Tibbett went to
New York and continued his
studies. It wasn’t long until Tib
bett had reached the stage of the
Metropolitan. At the Met he has
not only been pre-eminent in the
greatest baritone roles, but he
has also created the leading roles
in such American operas as “The
Emporer Jones”, “The King’s
Henchman”, and “Peter Ibbetson”.
Lawrence Tibbett has attained
just as wide and illustrious a rep
utation in the concert field, for
Attention to the
Longhorn Deadlines
Junior Class pictures, Nov. 13.
Senior Class pictures, Nov. 13.
Military Comdrs. and Staffs,
Nov. 20.
Soph Class pictures, Nov. 22.
Fish Class pictures, Dec. 15.
Company Snapshots, Dec. 7.
Veterans pictures, Dec. 15.
Vanity Fair, Dec. 15.
Senior Favorites, Jan. 15.
Club Reservations, Jan. 15.
and even the Casino in Ft. Worth.
Glen Gray went for the Aggies
and their boots, it seems. He wants
Holick to make him some for rid
ing . . . The midnight yell prac
tice Kobs held at the Plant involv
ed more of the Aggie spirit (s)
than the one they tried to squeeze
into the “alley” between the Ba
ker and the Adolphus . . . You
could hear the Aggie War Hymn
being sung all over Dallas Sat
urday night . . . What a weekend.
his knowledge of the song liter
ature of all nations and period*
is tremendous.
His ability as an organizer and
executive has been displayed in
such undertakings as the Ameri
can Guild of Musical Artists, of
which he is president.
The Lawrence Tibbetts, includ
ing three children, have a 125-acre
farm near the little town of Wil
ton, Connecticut. For instance,
there is Stephen, the farm horse—
and Rosebud, the cow. A visitor or
passer-by is apt to see Tibbett
running a tractor, feeding the
chickens, doing a harvesting job,
or just sitting on the porch.
Don’t forget this performance
Monday evening, November ^18.
You’ll thrill to Tibbett’s version of
“Drink To Me Only With Thine
Eyes”—a great American bari
tone, a great man!
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