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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1947
J u The Case of the Cowbell...
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Our emotions often clash with our reason. Such at
A east was the case last Saturday night in the gym when an
” ee ^nnoying cowbell, wielded in the hand of a Texas supporter,
daV vas forcib ly removed from his possession by an Aggie in
Chei rather violent, if shortlived, scuffle.
stu< Those who saw it, remembering the poor taste and in-
Regliscretion of another luckless ‘Sip who expressed his elation
listjver the home team’s victory by ringing his cowbell while
the Silver Taps were being played last Turkey Day, felt that
;he Teasipper got what was coming to him. The cowbell has
Sqpecome a symbol of unsportsmanlike conduct since the
^Thanksgiving Day episode.
E Frankly, it got irritating as the devil to hear that cow-
c Y at )ell clang whenever the Longhorns made a goal—that sound
^^ame too often. But we wonder if we ourselves did not show
teieiuestionable sportsmanship by not allowing a rival to ex-
teroress himself in support of his team in the way he saw fit.
Whfry putting yourself in Gregory Gym, where the Aggies
ire playing the Longhorns. Say it’s a weekday, and only
ibout twenty-five Aggie students could make it over, while
’ive thousand Teasippers wildly cheer their boys. Now if
he Aggies were mobbed for screaming their heads off, we’d
)e pretty mad, wouldn’t we? Granted that yelling is better
han shaking a cowbell, we should be able to laugh off the
’eeble efforts of a Teasipper to spread pep by dinglings.
The ’Sip who rang that bell had courage, we’ll all admit,
:ourage that probably won’t be duplicated at any more of
4he home games. But we should watch that we don’t abridge
he rights of a minority when we have the upper hand; we
nay be in the minority ourselves some day.
n Passing...
Visitors in Aggieland, when asked what one thing about
le campus impresses them the most usually reply, “Well,
believe it’s the spirit of friendliness and easy-going hos
pitality. Aggies speak to you as they walk down the street,
"hat’s something you find at no other college in the nation.”
This favorable impression is one that we value highly,
or besides impressing visitors, the hearty Aggie handshake
nd the cheery “Howdy” make it easier for us to live at a
ollege so strikingly lacking in unattached feminine attrac-
ions.
There is a rift in the habit of speaking, however. When
500 Aggies scurry around between classes, speaking to
very person in passing gets to be pretty tiresome. It’s em-
■arrassing as the dickens, though, when a passerby rings
ut with a greeting, and the greeting is ignored. Let’s ex
mine ourselves. Do we ignore “Hellos” or pass fellow
Lggies with averted eyes in order to avoid speaking?
R.eal Communism...
In Texas, it is quite customary to call your enemies
Communists” or “Fascists” and not mean anything by it.
’he word “communist” has been kicked around so much that
ophomores at A & M are apt to use it toward intransigent
ish. Fish are apt to call seniors “Fascists.” But there really
re such people, and our habit of promiscuous name-calling
ends to cover up that fact.
The Dies committee was partly responsible for the mis-
se of the red-colored word. A few years ago that committee
pplied the label “communist” to everybody from Mrs. Roose-
elt to the corner tailor.
The Thomas committee, successor to the Dies group,
tas finally turned up the real thing, a genuine Red-party
■’ommunist, whose activities in the country are disturbing.
Gerhardt Eisler is no caricature off the Dallas Morning
Jews editorial page. He is not a labor leader, a liberal church-
aan, or a political reformer, whose normal and proper acti-
ities get pasted with the “Communist” name by conserva-
ives. Eisler is a cold, professional revolutionist, according
o all evidence presented. Such communists are really dang-
rous. They trade on the sores in our political and economic
tructure for the benefit of another country.
The Eisler kind of communism is not native-grown. Like
lisler himself, ft has to be imported from un-democratic
lurope.
Don’t call a man a Communist just because his ideas
re not the same as yours. It is quite possible for a good
.merican to believe in the FEPC, the closed shop and com-
ulsory medical insurance. It is also quite possible for a good
unerican to oppose all those things, without being a “Fas-
ist.”
The only time to use the word “Communist” is when
ou encounter a person to whom these checks apply:
1. Believes Russia always in the right.
2. Changes opinions whenever the policy of the Commu
nist party changes. (As from “imperialist war” dur
ing the Russo-German pact to “holy war” after Rus
sia was invaded.)
3. Joins every protest organization, but instead of work
ing to eliminate the trouble, just makes a lot of noise,
about the “injustice of it all.”
4. Scorns the principle of majority rule, and tries to
control organizations through high-pressure minor
ities.
Masefield Speaks ...
John Masefield, poet laureate of England, has been
often a doctor, never a freshman.” The author of Sea
‘ever (“I must down to the ships again. . .”) has received
lany honorary degrees, though he never matriculated in
Dllege. When he might have been a fish, he was an appren-
ce seaman. When he might have been a senior, he was
r orking in a carpet factory in Yonkers, N. Y.
You might expect him to be cynical and say, “I never
r ent to college, and I’m better off for it, so it’s all nonsense.”
>ut that isn’t how Masefield feels. In receiving his latest
egree at the University of Sheffield, England, Masefield
ad this to say about universities:
“There are few earthly things more beautiful. . . It
is a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to
know, where those who perceive truth may strive to
make others see; where seekers and learners alike, band
ed together in the search for knowledge, will honor
thought in all its finer ways, will welcome thinkers in
distress or in exile, will uphold ever the dignity of
thought and learning, and will exact standards in these
things.
“Religions may split into sect or heresy; dynasties
may perish or be supplanted, but for century after cen
tury the University will continue, and the stream of life
will pass through it, and the thinker and the seeker will
be bound together in the undying cause of bringing
thought into the world. . .”
Groucho Marx Takes Pains To
Tell The Warner Brothers Off
Playing at the Campus Friday
blanca” with the Marx brothers.
Many of you may remember a
blanca” with its sultry love scenes
Wilson’s soul-stirring “As Time-
Goes By”. It seems that Warner
Brothers so liked “Casablanca”
that they resented the Marx Bro
thers using the name in their new
est picture.
Groucho Marx was so irked upon
hearing the objections raised by
Warner Brothers that he penned
the following letter:
“Apparently there is more
than one way of conquering
a city and holding it as your
own. For example, up to the
time that we contemplated
making a picture, I had no
idea that the City of Casa
blanca belonged to Warner
Brothers. However, it was only
a few days after our ' an
nouncement appeared that we
received a long, ominous legal
document, warning us not to
use the name “Casablanca.”
It seems that, in 1471, Ferdinand
Balboa Warner, the great-great
grandfather of Harry and Jack,
while looking for a short cut to
the city of Burbank, had stumbled
on the shores of Africa and, rais
ing his alpenstock, which he later
turned in for a hundred shares of
the common, he named it Casa
blanca.
I just can’t understand
Warner Brothers’ attitude.
and Saturday is “A Night in Casa-
Warner Brothers film called “Casa-
by Bogart and Bergman and Dooley
Committeemen For
Junior Prom And
Dinner Annonnced
Committees for the Junior Prom
and Banquet have been announced
by R. N. “Jug” Leatherwood, class
president. They include:
Orchestra committee: Chair
man Elmo Livingston, Pat
Brown, Charles Luther, Jerry
Fineg, and Marvin Jones.
Banquet committee: Chairman
Ray Golden, Norman Luker, Fred
Hughes, Bill Evans, Ray Hor-
any Bill Swango.
Program committee: Chairman
Jimmy O’Connell, Gus Vletas,
Bill Brown, and Don Hodges.
Decorations committee: Chair
man Jimmy Tittle, Bob Stand-
ley, Ray Hennig, Sam Marshall,
and Jimmy Gatton.
Favors committee: Chairman
Bob Bowman, Leighton Lomax,
Jimmy Berry, and Bob Hollo-
well.
General committee: President
Robert Leatherwood, Vice-Presi
dent Jack Adams, and Secre
tary-Treasurer Marvin Jones.
The banquet will be on March
7 at 7:15 p. m., and will be followed
by the prom at 9. Boyce House,
well-known author and Fort Worth
columnist, will speak at the ban
quet. Nick Stuart’s orchestra will
play for the dance.
Seniors will be admitted to the
dance at the regular prices.
Saddle and Sirloin
Club Plans 'Little
Intel nationalShow 9
In connection with Agriculture
Day, sponsored by the School of
Agriculture on May 10, the Saddle
and Sirloin Club will hold its tra
ditional “Little International Live
stock Show”, representing the Ani
mal Husbandry Department.
Two classes will comprise the
judging competition — one for
freshmen, and the other for soph
omores. For freshmen not entered
in the judging event, a showman
ship contest will be held.
Winners and runners-up in each
event will receive medals from
the Saddle and Sirloin Club.
Bill Magee, show director, has
stated that rules and qualifications
are under consideration now and
will be announced at a later date.
TOWN HALL CALENDAR
February 20 -...Donald Dickson, baritone.
March 4 „...Sam Houston A Cappella Choir
March 19..._ Singing Cadets
April 2 -...Houston Symphony Orchestra.
April 17— —Donald Dame, Tenor.
Spanish Club to Attend
Hardin-Baylor Fiesta
Forty members of the A. & M.
Spanish Club will journey to Bel
ton March 1, for a fiesta at Mary
Hardin-Baylor College. Applica
tions for the trip are being taken
by J. A. Moore in Room 121, Aca
demic Building. Orlando Olcese,
president of the club, and Walter
W. McMann, secretary, were sched
uled to go to Belton today to make
reservations.
Even if they plan on re-re
leasing the picture, I am sure
that the average movie fan
could learn to distinguish be
tween Ingrid Bergman and
Harpo. I don’t know whether
I could, but I certainly would
like to try.
So they say they own Casa
blanca and that no one else can
use that name with out their per
mission. What about Warner Bro
thers—do they own that too ? They
probably have the right to use the
name Warner, but what about
Brothers? Professionally, we were
brothers long before they were.
When Vitaphone was still a gleam
in, the inventor’s eye, we were
touring the sticks as the Marx
Brothers and even before us, there
had been other brothers—the
Smith Brothers; the brothers Ka
ramazov; Dan Brouthers, an out
fielder with Detroit, and “Brother,
can you spare a dime?”
The younger Warner Brother
calls himself Jack. Does he' claim
that, too? It’s not an original
name—it was used long before
he was born. Offhand, I can think
of two Jacks—there was Jack of
“Jack and the Beanstalk,” and
Jack the ripper, who • cut quite a
figure in his day. As for Harry,
the older brother, he probably
signs his checks sure in the belief
that he is the first Harry of all
time and that all other Harrys
are impostors. Offhand, I can
think of two Harrys that preceded
him. There was Light-Horse Harry
Lee of Revolutionary fame and a
Harry Applebaum who lived on
the comer of 93rd St. and Lexing
ton Avenue. Applebaum wasn’t
very well known—I’ve almost for
gotten what he looked like—the
last I heard of him he was-selling
neckties at Weber and Heilbroner;
but I’ll never forget his mother—
she made the best apple strudel in
Yorkville.
This all seems to add up to a
pretty bitter tirade but I don’t
mean it to. I love Warners—some
of my best friends are Warner
Brothers. It is even possible that
I am doing them an injustice and
that they themselves know noth
ing at all about this dog-in-the-
Wanger attitude. It wouldn’t sur
prise me at all to discover that
the heads of Warner’s legal de
partment know nothing about this
dispute and that the whole thing is
the scheme of some tyro just out
of law school.
Well, he won’t get away with
it! We’ll fight him to the highest
court? No pasty-faced legal ad
venturer is going to cause bad
blood between the Warners and the
Marxes. We are all brothers under
the skin and we’ll remain friends
till the very last reel of “A Night
in Casablanca” goes tumbling over
the spool.”
Groucho Marx
Heard on
WTAW
TIME FRIDAY—February 21
TIME SATURDAY—February 22
A.M.—
A.M—
6 :00—Texas Farm and Home Program
6 :00—Texas Farm and Home Program
6:15—Coffee Club
6:15—Good Morning Music
6:30—Coffee Club
6 :30—Farm Review
7 :00—Martin Agronsky
7 :00—Martin Agronsky
7 :15—Cowboy Melodies
7 :15—Cowboy Melodies
7:30—Tik Tok Time
7 :30—Arlow at the Organ
7 :55—Gems for Thought
7 :55—News Summary
8 :00—Breakfast Club
8:00—Wake Up and Smile
9:00—My True Story
9:00—Buddy Weed Trio
9 :25—Hymns of All Churches
9:25—Bible Messages
9 :45—The Listening Post
9:45—Junior Junction
10 :00—Breakfast in Hollywood
10 :00—Happy Birthday Party
10:30—Galen Drake
10 :30—Piano Playhouse
10:45—Ted Malone
10 :45—Piano Playhouse
11:00—Hollywood Headlines
11:00—Tex jVilliams
11:15—S.F.A. High School Music Group
11:15—Tell Me Doctor
11:30—It’s Pleasing to the Ear
11:80—The American Farmer
• 12 :00—Baukhage Talking
12 :00—Make Your Request
P.M.—
P.M.—
12:15—Gladiola News
12 :15—Make Your Request
12 :30—Across the Footlights
12 :30—Make Your Request
12 :45—Price Brother’s Tune Up Time
12 :46—Make Your Request
1:00—Walter Kiernan
1:00—Opera—Carmen
1:15—Ethel and Albert
1:15—Opera—Carmen
1:30—Bride and Groom
1:30—Opera—Carmen
2 :00—Ladies, Be Seated
2 :00—Opera—Carmen
2:30—Edwin C. Hill
2:30—Opera—Carmen
2 :45—Safeguard For America
2 :45—Opera—Carmen
3:00—Tommy Bartlett Show
3 :00—Opera—Carmen
3 :30—Melody Merchants
3 :30—Opera—Carmen
4 :00—Introduction to the Week-end
4:00—Tea and Crumpets
4 :30—Kerens to Veterans
4 :30—Tea and Crumpets
4 :45—Dick Tracy
4:45—Tea and Crumpets
5:00—Terry and the Pirates
5:00—Jimmy Blair
5:15—The College Speaks
6:15—The Chittison Trio
5:30—Little Show
5:30—Sports in New York Manner
5 :45—The Sportsman
6 :46—News Summary
6:00—Headline Edition
6:00—Musical Memoirs
6:15—Sign Off
6:15—Sign Off
What’s Cooking
THURSDAY, February 20
10:00 a.m.—^February meeting of
Music Interest group, Social Club,
meets in Y.M.C.A. Chapel.
7:00 p.m. — College Employees
Dinner Club, Sbisa Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Oklahoma Club meets
in Room 204, Academic Building.
7:00 p.m.—Galveston A. & M.
Club meets in Room 32, Science
Bldg.
7:30 p.m.—Williamson County A
& M Club meets in Room 228, Ac
ademic Bldg, for organizational
meeting. All students from Wil
liamson County urged to attend.
8:00 p.m.—Town Hall presents
Donald Dickson.
7:15 p.m.—Van Zandt County
Aggies meet in Room 313, Agri
culture Bldg, to form club.
7:30 p.m.—Bridge Club meets in
Veterans Lounge, Sbisa.
7:00 p.m.—Marketing & Finance
Club meets in Room 312, Agricul
ture Building.
7:15 p.m.—Tyler Club meets in
Room 108, Academic Building.
FRIDAY, February 21
7:00-8:30 p.m.—Aggie Chess
Club meets in Veteran’s Lounge.
Club Officer’s to be eleced. All
Aggies invited.
9:00 p.m.-l:00 a.m. — Freshman
Ball, Sbisa Hall.
SATURDAY, February 22
9:00-12:00 p.m.— George Wash
ington Birthday Ball, Sbisa Hall,
featuring the music of Frankie
Masters and Orchestra.
MONDAY, February 24
7:30 p.m.—A.V.C. Meeting, As
sembly Room, Y.M.C.A.
BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS . . .
Randolphs and Rutledges Tell
Of Early American Aristocracy
by Wilnora Barton
Readers’ Advisor
THE RANDOLPHS. The story of a Virginia Family. H. E. Ecken-
rode. Bobbs Merril, 1946.
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The Randolphs of Virginia are+
representative of an American
eighteenth-century tradition. Al
though their dominance lasted well
into the nineteenth century, it was
essentially a product of an earlier
day. Mr. Eckenrode’s study of
the Randolphs has in addition to
the intrinsic interest of its sub
ject a keen analysis of the time
when patricians families ruled the
country.
This family produced in every
generation, not one, but several
widely known and highly influen
tial men.- They and their land
owning neighbors were the men
who shaped the destiny of the col
onies.
The family was prolific, with a
good proportion of male children
every generation. They intermar
ried with the planter aristocracy,
always entrenching themselves
more and more solidly. To men
tion the famous Randolphs by
name—there was Sir John, who
was knighted in England for his
ability and integrity as Colonial
agent. He was one of the fore
most lawyers of either the Old or
the New World.
The first president of the Con
tinental Congress was Peyton Ran
dolph of the third generation. Al
so of this generation, John Ran
dolph, who was Attorney General
of Virginia. Then the later Ran
dolphs—Edmund, Governor of Vir
ginia, Attorney General of the
United States and Secretary of
State in Washington’s cabinet; two
Virginia governors Thomas Mann
Randolph and Beverly Randolph;
the celebrated John Randolph of
Roanoke; and George Wyth Ran
dolph, Secretary of War under
Jefferson Davis were famous and
brilliant in the traditions of the
early founders of the family.
Thomas Jefferson’s mother was a
Randolph, incidentally.
There are intense moments of
drama attached to the lives of
some of these men and over others
hang the clouds of tragedy. With
clear and evenly flowing prose,
Dr. Eckenrode presents to us a
segment of our living history.
HOUSE BY THE RIVER.
Unlike THE RANDOLPHS, this
book by Archibald Rutledge brings
us the biography of a house—not
a house merely, but a home, rather
than the story of the people who
lived in it. This is the story of
Hampton Plantatioij, whose two
thousand green acres spread along
the southern bank of the Santee
River in Coastal South Carolina.
In this old plantation land, it is
said to be the only one still oc
cupied by the original family, for
Hampton has been in Rutledge
hands since 1686.
Archibald Rutledge, its present
owner, has returned after several
years absence to restore the 209
year old house and to cultivate its
fertile acres in the productiveness
of its earlier days. The stories he
tells of the members of the family,
of some of the old slaves, whose
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Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas
descendants yet live at Hampton,
make heart-warming reading. He
tells also of certain famous visi
tors to Hampton House.
The Rutledge family, like the
Randolphs of Virginia, also bred
statesmen and great men. There
were among them Edward Rut
ledge, the signer of the Declara
tion of Independence, and John
Rutledge, the able governor of
South Carolina, not to mention
several senators and judges. Re
lated in scholarly and gracious
prose, this book has much of its
material drawn directly from fam-
i 1 y records, diaries, and guest
books.
THURSDAY—LAST DAY
News and Shorts
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
John Wayne
— In —
“WAR OF THE
WILD CATS”
Plus—Comedy
PENNY’S
SERENADE
W. L. Penberthy
Last week was truly a Religious
Emphasis week, and Mr. Cashion
is to be highly commended for
bringing Dr. Alexander to us. I
predicted that we would receive
a blessing from participating in
the services, but I am afraid I was
guilty of a gross understatement.
I feel that we
were lifted a lit
tle higher by par-
| ticipating in the
| services, and I
believe many
found a new joy
•.J in worship.
To me Dr.
Alexander
brought home a
very fundament
al point in em
phasizing the po
sitive and in ap
pealing to what
he called the “Ro-
Penny yal” in people.
So many times during the week
he made the statement “Be loyal
to the royal in you” and I was im
pressed by the number of times
he said “I like that”—-but I don’t
remember of ever having heard
him come out and say “I don’t like
that.” Many, many times he de
clared “I believe that—I really do”
in talking of his faith and confi
dence in the youth of the world.
We see so much lack of confi
dence in our fellow man that it is
certainly refreshing to find one
who is so firm in his belief in
people.
It is easy to criticize, and the
more we do it the easier it be
comes. I am afraid too often we
fail to look for and compliment
the good deeds done by our fellow
man, and in most cases a pat on
the back is much more effective
than a boot.
One of the best things I have
heard recently is that “The only
time some people use the words
‘Well done’ is when they are or
dering a steak.”
:Queen Theatre:
Thru SAT, Feb. 22
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