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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947
A Friendly Dinner . . .
We had a rough football season this year; our team won
a number of games and lost a number; at the end of the
schedule both student body and exes clubs were split be
tween “Fire the Coach” and “Keep the Coach” partisans.
But no matter how you feel about gridiron strategy, you
must admit that the boys who wore the maroon and white
jersies were as fine a lot as ever showed A. & M colors. They
deserve the appreciation of the entire student body and staff.
And Saturday night is when we will be able to show such
appreciation.
The second annual Aggie football party is booked for
Sbisa Hall this Saturday. “T” letters will be handed to the
football and cross-country teams. Eddie Dyer will tell how
he skippered the St. Louis Cardinals to a world championship
this fall. The Bryan A Cappella choir will sing “The Spirit
of Aggieland.” And the Aggieland orchestra will give out
with the music both for the dinner and the dance which fol
lows. Many special guests from Texas high schools will get
a sample of A. & M. life, and decide whether or not this will
be their school.
Although the Brazos County exes have taken over the
responsibility for this event, it is still our dinner for our
football team. So its up to us, by a large turnout, to show
that fundamentally our “Twelfth Man” is still united, de
spite differences of opinion.
To quote Shakespeare (courtesy of the English depart
ment) “Let's do as adversaries do in law: strive mightly, but
eat and drink as friends.”
Chapel in the Sky . ..
Relax, folks. The half-million dollar chapel that caus
ed so much hot talk in recent weeks is just a gleam in some
body's eye.
As finally straightened out, the story comes down to
this: the Board of Directors has officially said that if any
body offers A. & M. half-a-million dollars with which to build
and endow a chapel, the board will be grateful. The board
also said, in effect, that no amount less than that would be
sufficient to build and endow a chapel worthy of the college.
The board has previously given similar approval to a
number of projects planned by the A. & M. Development
Fund, which accepts contributions from Aggie exes and
others. So far the Development Fund has completed the
financing of the Student Union Memorial Building—which
is in the final stages of planning and will be built when ma
terials become available. It has also made considerable
headway in the establishment of endowed scholarships.
When the Union Building is at last erected, the prob
lem of recreational facilities should be solved, for some years
anyway. When that building becomes inadequate, the De
velopment Fund will solicit Aggie-exes (including us, by that
time) for money to build extensions. The Memorial Build
ing has been so planned that it can be extended to take care
of new needs that will arise in the distant future.
Seen against this background, the chapel idea takes on
a different color.
One source of astonishment was the amount of money
suggested. Actually, only $300,000 would be for the chapel
building, chaplain’s offices, and an outdoor ampatheatre-
chapel. The rest of the fund was planned as an endowment
for perpetual mantainance.
There is no reason to believe- that Aggies, have any fund
amental opposition to a chapel. Both at West Point and
Annapolis, the two other leading military schools in the
country, the chapels are a center of tradition. In making
plans, A. & M, would probably be wise to consult with mili
tary authorities as to the possibility of having a post chap
lain assigned here. Such a chaplain, the Batt believes,
would add to the military correctness of the college, and
would be able to do a job, similar to that of chaplains in the
Army, which would be different from the work of denomi
national pastors here.
Guion Hall Premieres? . . .
Does the end of “block-booking” mean better movie pro
grams for College Station?
Court procedure last week established the illegality of
block-booking by distributors, by means of which one group
of theatres could hold a heavy advantage over smaller, in
dependent showplaces. For a long time College Station has
been behind the eight-ball due to contracts that made it im
possible for pictures to be shown here until they had been
shown in Bryan. Perhaps a new day is dawning. The Batt
certainly hopes so.
There have been good signs recently.. The Campus
theatre has shown quite a number of first-run pictures, in
cluding the costly “Caesar and Cleopatra.” Guion Hall has
been packing ’em in, at the odd hour of 10 in the morning, to
see re-runs of classic films from the past such as “The Green
Pastures” . . . free, at that. Two more are coming up soon,
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” on January 18 and “Prince and
the Pauper” on February 1.
We look forward to the time when pictures will open
at Radio City Music Hall and Guion Hall on the same day.
Could be!
Call the Ambulance . . .
The need for little-used but important equipment is of
ten not given full consideration until some emei^ity arises
—and then it is too late.
Such is the case with the college hospital. \ A p w days
before the Christmas holidays, an Aggie broke KrPleg while
engaged in an intramural football game. It was a complete
fracture, causing great pain. His horror-stricken compan
ions attempted frantically to find some means of getting him
to the hospital. They telephoned the hospital, but were told
no ambulance was available, and that they would have to
move the injured boy in the best possible way.
Finally, after more than a half hour search, a GI truck
was found in which the unfortunate victim was carried
roughly and joltingly to the hospital.
This regrettable incident merely illustrates the crying
need of the College Hospital for an ambulance of some sort,
available at all hours of the night and day for emergency
cases. No high cost need be involved, for a repainted panel
truck, of the type used by cleaners for deliveries, would
easily suffice for the purpose.
The necessity for an ambulance cannot be shrugged off
with exceuses of “too much expense” and “seldom used.”
One of the old GI ambulances could be bought for practically
nothing. And for the “seldom needed” argument, doesn't
the illustration cited at the beginning of this editorial ans
wer that?
SONGS FOR SPEEDSTERS
At 45 miles per hour sing “Highways are Happy Ways.”
At 55 miles sing, “I’m But a Stranger Here, Heaven is My Home.”
At 65 miles sing, “Met Me There”.
At 75 sing, “Nearer, My God, to Thee”.
At 85 sing, “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder, I’ll Be There.”
At 95 sing, “Lord, I’m Coming Home.”
An Eyewitness Reports:
‘I Watch a Basketball Game!’
Letters
MX 106
Dear Editor:
Perhaps to some people it will
seem rather small of me to air
this complaint with the strains of
“Auld Lang Syne” still ringing in
our ears, but then again, it might
be the very fact that, this is a
New Year gives me the resolution
to write this letter that has so
long been pent up within me.
For three school years before
the war, 1940 to 1943, to be pre
cise, I uncomplainingly endured
the sufferings and mental cruelties
thrust upon me by the A. & M.
Laundry. . . . for three years I
endured the malicious destruction
of said laundry under the naive
misapprehension that since this
was my first experience with any
laundry other than my own home,
that it was one of the curses of
life that just had to be endured.
.... that all commercial laundries
were probably the same.
But now, four years later, older,
wiser, and much more traveled, I
know that that is not the case. It
seems that other laundries do re
turn one’s clothing in exactly the
same condition as sent, only clean
er. Now I have come to the full,
and amazing, realization that the
careful, and painstaking, shrink
ing and destruction of good cloth
ing is a peculiar, identifying char
acteristic of our one and only A.
& M. Laundry.
Having taken such loving pride
in picking my present wardrobe,
after shedding the khaki garments
so kindly loaned to me by my Un
cle Sam, it gives me great pain to
see that same wardrobe being sys
tematically ruined. Size 11 socks
shrunk to size 4, yellow socks
stained to blue, dress shirts shrun
ken beyond repair, laundry num
bers stamped where laundry num-
b e r s were never meant to be,
sheets ripped, underwear torn. . .
these are only a few complaints
among many, and I know that
there are many others who feel as
I do. It seems that what I could
once procure for a bar of choco
late in Germany is unobtainable
here at A. & M. for the semesterly
stipend we pay, not to mention the
weekly tariff I have to pay because
someone has deemed it advisable
for me not to soil more than a cer
tain number of pieces of clothing.
Really, now, if we must pay more
in order to get better service, I,
for one, shall be happy to do so.
Anything to get my name off of
that laundry mark blacklist that
I am sure my number resides on
at present! How else could the
laundry employees so unerringly
pick me out week after week as
their hapless victim?
I invite . . . yea, I even chal
lenge . . . the person in charge of
our laundry to answer my charges
here . . . here, in this very page in
the next issue . . . and explain why
the terrible situation prevailing at
present can not Ise corrected before
I find myself naked. Now, mind
you, no minor hireling . . . noth
ing but the chief scrubber himself
will do.
And, pu-leeze, don’t tell me
“There’s been a war on, and we
have shortages of competent la
bor, and shortages this, and shor
tages thai^. ....”. I know there
was a war, and besides the same
conditions existed back in the
years 1940 to 1943.
Milton R. Beychok, ’44.
POLLING THE CHAPEL
Dear Editor,
Is there such a thing as an of
ficial poll at A. & M.? If so,
one might be taken on the question
of building a half-million dollar
chapel.
G*. W. Duren, ’44.
Editor’s Note: The closest of
ficial poll A. & M. has is the
poll made by the Batt’s roving
reporter on timely topics. In
a previous issue of the paper
the sentiments of students were
voiced on the subject of a half
million dollar chapel.
HANDICAPPED!
Dear Editor,
For many years A. & M. stu
dents and faculty have operated
under extreme handicap through
the tremendous lack of equipment
placed at their disposal. Mr. Wal
lace ’46, expressed with exactness,
in his letter to the Batt on Decem
ber 17, the extent to which the
college is lacking in equipment.
Hundreds of laboratory experi
ments in the various schools are
incomplete or must be thrown out
altogether because “we do not
have the necessary equipment”.
The positions filled by many
of the faculty are grossly under
paid—the reason for A. & M.’s
marked lack of renowned men in
the various fields.
The recreational facilities on the
By Charlie Murray
Saturday night, feeling in the
spendthrift mood, with the re
mains of a three-day-old $65 check
jingling in my pocket, I went to
Bryan for supper. Weary of Pen-
niston’s roast beef, I went straight
to Hotard’s Hash Hbuse, and what
did I order, but—more roast beef—
a la barbeque. Imagine that,
forced to go all the way to Bryan
to eat, because I was dubious of
the infested eating places between
here and there.
After satisfying my ravenous ap
petite, I felt that my mission to
Bryan was completed. On the re
turn trip I picked up two band
frosh, who informed me that there
was “nothing to do in the way of
entertainment that Saturday
night”. I assured them that there
SELDOM was anything happening
in these Brazos Bottoms, EVEN
on Saturday night. But on that
Saturday night there was a bas
ketball game in DeWare Field
House. A. & M. cagers were play
ing some pill-rollers from a far
away army camp.
So in my ’27 Model T I zoomed
to the gym to watch the Aggies
beat the litter-bearers.
The stands were filling fast.
Basketball enthusiasts were filing
to their seats. Ah, yes, the spirit
was indeed tense!
I managed to find a seat on the
50-yard line.
It wasn’t long before the band
broke out in “The Aggie War
Hymn”. What a sight to be
ll o 1 d — the band, 220-strong,
dressed in their new orange and
black uniforms.
Then the game began.
“Hey, Rusty, gimme some roast
ed peanuts!” I shouted to the pass
ing vendor. So Rusty handed me
a bag of freshly roasted goobers,
saying, “Four-bits, please!” Well,
I knew that Rusty was working his
way through college, but not at 50c
per bag.
“Hey, fellow, down in front,” I
yelled to the guy in front of me.
“I wanted to count the Corpsmen
What is this world coming to
—w hen mankind must suffer
from the brutal attacks of the
Animal Kingdom--rabbits, grass
hoppers, and salmon?
After several million years of
persecution by Man, the Animal
Kingdom has suddenly begun to
take its revenge. As a result, the
human race is facing a very serious
situation.
The Animal Kingdom’s first
warlike aggressions* were brought
to the attention of *the public the
other day by the National Safety
Council of the USA in its annual
report for 1946. The report con
tained the following startling list
of such acts committed by the en
emy during the past year:
A lady in Baltimore was tak
ing a bath when her dog noticed
a gun on the washstand, put its
paw on the trigger and shot the
lady in the hand.
A kangafoo, having been hit
in the hind legs by an Australian
campus are far below those of oth
er colleges and universities of
equal size. Unfortunately, A. &
M. is not located near a large city
where the town’s facilities may be
used.
The churches in this vicinity
seem to be capable of accommo
dating the mass of people that
attend them. I have attended
churches of several denominations
on the campus, and their facilities
seem adequate in most cases.
Those churches needing a little
more space are enlarging or have
plans of doing so in the near fu
ture.
As for the plans of a new Aggie
Chapel costing one-half of a mil
lion dollars—I say ‘No’, definitely
‘No’! Until the present shortages
are cared for, the undertaking of
such a project seems ridiculous and
in my estimation the origination
of the idea for such a plan should
be investigated and the originator
interviewed and be allowed to ex
press his views and to answer
some of the questions raised in
regard to the reported plans.
Sincerely,
Henry Ash ’44. .
Editor’s Note: Following the
suggestion in the last paragraph,
the Batt has investigated, and
the results are expressed in the
editorial on this page. A pre
vious story on the front of the
paper also clarified the ‘cart-
before-the-horse’ release of a
proposed chapel.
filling out the other stands.” One-
two-three, I began to count.
The cheer leaders balanced
themselves on the rail, leading
a few rah-rahs. “L o o k”, I
nudged the gent on my left.
“There’s white stripes on the
sleeves of the cheer leaders.”
Yes, indeed, that there were^-
a narrow white stripe adorned
the sleeve of the two cheer lead
ers!
“21-22-23”, I continued to count
the Corps members across the
way.
“See that scoreboard up
there?” I asked the fellow on
my right. “That’s what they
need for Kyle Field, only a little
larger. One of those electric
scoreboards, so that everyone
can see the score.”
“45-46-47-48”, the counting con
tinued, while I munched on the
peanuts.
The band struck up a few more
songs. “There’ll Be a Cold Time in
the Cold Town Tonight”. And the
cheer leaders conducted several
more yells.
During the game I, a roving re
porter, interviewed the fish-stripe-
clad yell leaders. They, it seems,
were not the duly elected yell lead
ers; however, they braved the cold
and made their way to the gym
that Saturday night. In their
statement to the press, they said,
“We are thinking of running for
yell leader next year. Our one
platform is: no yell leader fund
will be collected from the students.
We will make it to Houston, Fort
Worth, Dallas, and the like of our
own free will.” For the time be
ing, they did not want their names
exposed for heroical actions dem
onstrated that night in the absence
of the duly elected cheer leaders.
“191”. At last I had finished
counting the Corps spectators.
By the way, the Aggies won
by a score of 50-46.
I just remembered. There
were three Corpsmen running
the scoreboard. That makes 194
uniformed students present!
hunter twined a forepaw around
the man’s rifle while he tried to
pin the animal down and shot
the hunter through the arm.
A buck deer in California, see
ing that a hunter was training
his sights on another deer,
jumped out of the thicket, struck
the man in the back and knocked
him down disarming him in the
process.
A rabbit, bagged by a boy in
Kentucky, reached out from the
game bag, pulled the trigger of
the boy’s gun and let him have
it right in the foot.
A grasshopper in Oregon flew
through the open window of an
automobile driven by a fisher
man who had his catch, a sal
mon, by his side. The grasshop
per startled the salmon, the sal
mon jumped into the driver’s lap,
the driver lost control of his
car and the car was wrecked af
ter crashing off the road.
We have become soft, that’s
what. We have adopted an inex
cusably pacifist attitude towards
the Animal Kingdom by organiz
ing the Be-Kind-To-Animals Weeks
and the like. The result is our
being subjected to intolerable ag
gression.
What to do now? Nobody is
willing and ready to fight another
war right away. Barring the Ani
mal Kingdom from membership in
the United Nations will be neces
sary, but it won’t be enough.
My suggestion is: psychologi
cal warfare on a very big scale
by a, huge army of propagan
dists. First objective should be
the organization of a Be-Kind-
To-Humans Week among the an
imals. If we fell for a trick like
that, why wouldn’t they?
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Hope Takes Serious Outlook in
Wacky Book 'So This Is Peace’
J. K. B. Nelson
“So This Is Peace”, Bob Hope’s
latest wacky work, is described in
the New York Herald Tribune as
a “Hit-and-Run Hope Chest”, be
cause, as Mr. Hope himself admits,
his humor is often of the hit-and-
run variety, but nevertheless Hope
springs eternal jokes. From time
to time in these ten chapters the
Edwin C. Hill, noted radio report
er, is heard over ABC on “The
Human Side of the News.” A
former newspaperman and a ra
dio veteran of more than 15 yeai^Sf
Hill has acquired a reputation as
a keen student of national and
international affairs.
What’s Cooking
TUESDAY, January 7
7:00 p. m. Spanish Club, Room
123, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m. ASCE, Lecture Room,
S. W. Oberg, Chief Civil Engineer,
Humble Co., guest speaker,
7:30 p. m. Kream & Kow Klub,
Creamery Lecture Room.
7:30 p. m. Veterans’ Wives Club,
business meeting, Sbisa Lounge.
WEDNESDAY, January 8
7:00 p. m. Former Navy & Mar
ine Corps personnel, organization
al meeting for club, Room 307,
Acad. Bldg. All former enlisted
men and officers urged to attend.
7:00 p. m. Battalion Staff Din
ner, Sbisa Hall Annex.
7:30 p. m. Beaumont A. & M.
Club, Room 108, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m. Reserve Officer’s
Association, Petroleum Lecture
Room. Guest speaker, Col. Tom
Adcock.
7:30 p. m. Air Forces enlisted
reservists, Assembly Hall. Or
ganizational meeting.
THURSDAY, January 9
7:00 p. m. Corpus Christi A. &
M. Club, Room 217, Acad. Bldg.
Election of officers and dance re
port.
7:00 p. m. Land of the Lakes
Club, Room 324, Acad. Bldg.
7:15 p. m. Brazoria County A.
& M. Club, Room 205, Acad. Bldg.
8:00 p. m. A I ChE & American
Chemical Society, Chemistry Lec
ture Room. Guest speaker, Dr.
K. M. Watson, University of Wis
consin Chemical Engineering Dept.
Subject, “Kinetics of Reactions
Catalyzed by Solids”.
7:30 p. m. Bell County A & M
Club Room 103, Acad. Bldg.
7:30 p. m. ASHVE meeting with
Houston (South Texas) chapter.
6 discussion groups between stu
dents and engineers, Sbisa Mess
Hall.
7:00 p. m. Greenville A. & M.
Club, Room 227, Acad. Bldg.
BRYAN, TEXAS
WED., THURS., FRL,
and SATURDAY
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comedian turns serious, for he is
aware that being at peace is not
the same as enjoying peace. How
ever Mr. Hope does not expand
this theory, but is content to mere
ly give it a “plug” and then get
on with such nonsense as these
(valuable?) biographical side
lights: “Mr. Hope is a sports
magnate. He recently acquired
part ownership of the Cleveland
Indians, who were, up to that
point, a baseball team. This deal
was “swindled” because of a life
long desire of Mr. Hope’s to get
to first base at something. Mr.
Hope has also done movie and ra
dio work.” Bob Hope has broad
ened the old Vaudeville motto of
“Leave ’em laughing”, to “keep
’em laughing and you needn’t leave
’em.” He has followed this up
all the way, and produced a very
enjoyable book, one that you def
initely do not want to miss! (Si
mon and Schuster, 1.00)
“Under the Red Sun”, by Forbes
J. Monagnan is a first hand ac
count of the Japanese occupation
of Manila, told by a Catholic
priest who literally sat on the
hottest spot in the Philippines
during the occupation. Father
Monaghan was at the outbreak of
the war, a teacher at a Catholic
college, one of the few places not
taken over by the Jap army. As
a result, it became a rallying place
for Filipino patriots, a center for
undercover activities of the guer
rillas, and escaped American G.I.’s.
From this focal point of resistance,
Father Monaghan was able to ob
serve and assist many of the re
sistance movements. Thus his
well-written account is not only
exciting, but authentic, and is
proof that a catholic priest can
write as exciting a narrative as
any news correspondent. (Under
The Red Sun, 2.75)
Two Screen Classics
On Guion Hall List
Continuing the practice of pre
senting ever-popular movies to stu
dents and residents, Guion Hall
will show two more screen classics
this month at no admission charge,
Manager Tom Puddy announced.
“Midsummer Night’s Dream”
is scheduled for January 18, and
“Prince and the Pauper” is
showing February 1.
The movies begin at 10 a. m. on
the days indicated. If the crowds
at the morning showing warrant,
there will be a matinee perform
ance at 3 o’clock that afternoon.
“Green Pastures”, the greatest Ne
gro movie ever made, was shown
last month on the program.
Opens 1:00 p.m. Ph. 4-1181
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ALEXIS SMITH in
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WED. and THURS.
“NIGHT in
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MERLE OBERON and
TURHAN BEY