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The BattalionSTUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER

Texas A. & M. COLLEGEThe Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and

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TUESDAY’S STAFFAndy Matula ................................................................ - Managing EditorSylvester Boone ....................................................... Editorial AssistantBen Fortson .................................................................. Editorial AssistantRobert Orrick ............................................................... .'............... ReporterClaude Stone ..................................................................................... ReporterJohn David Marks .............................................................. PhotographerJohn H. Wirtz ....................................................... Circulation ManagerMaurice Zerr ............................................................ Circulation ManagerD. W. May ...............-................................................... Editorial Advisor

ARMY ENGINEERS STAFFH. P Bradley .............................................................. -....... -............ EditorEd Babich ............................................... AssociateD. K. Springwater ....................................................................... AssociateBill Martin ...................................................................... AssociateM. J. Kaff .................................. ............................... -........-........... AssociateK. W. Parsons .............. Associate

ACTD STAFF -iAlvin B. Cooter .................................................. Editor-and-ChiefJack E. Shaw ............................................................. Managing EditorFred J. Rosenthal ....................... .................................. Associate EditorAlan E. Goldsmith .......................................... .......... Associate EditorJas. H. Kizziar ........................................... ..... Squadron One EditorJoseph E. Platt ....... .......................L__________ Squadron Two EditorGeorge A. Martin ................................... ....Squadron Three EditorBill Peters ..................................................... ........ Squadron Five Editor

March Of The Slide RulesBy

M. A. MetcalfeRt. 1, Box 1, Olympia, Washington We put the Techs in Texas,

And for the sake of them,No toil can ever vex us

At Texas A. & M.

“We’re the Techs, we’re the Techs from Texas!

No problem can perplex us,We’ll give the Japs

assorted slaps,and a hex, and a hex from Texas,

Smack to the solar plexus,That will do for them,While over the wreck

and high on deckAre the Techs, are the Techs from Tex­

as, of Texas A. & M.”

Split in the AxisV

Italy, never a full-fledged Axis partner except in name, has become a waning satel­lite that may soon plunge out of the Axis orbit. The Italians resent Hitler’s failure to send them help in their hour of peril; and their ardor for the Nazis, not too warm at best, has been cooling rapidly. Rome officials have banned all further shipments of Ital­ian food to Germany and are reported to be planning to seize the nation’s entire grain supply.

The need of transportation for domes­tic use is given as the reason for suspend­ing Italian food exports, but resentment of the Nazis probably is also a factor. Rome and other Itailian cities have had serious food shortages. The rich can buy most kinds of food in the black market, at fabulous prices; but the poor have had to look to the government to keep them from starving. Italy should be fallow ground for Allied promises of adequate food following that nation’s surrender.

Germany, now cut off from Italian food shipments, may retaliate by refusing to ship Italy more coal. But many things may hap­pen before the Italians again need coal fires in their homes. For the. present, it is to our advantage that the European members of the Axis are on less friendly terms and are failing to co-operate with each other. With Italian troops recalled from Russia and Greece, the two powers soon may be acting independently.—Dallas News.

Federal penitentiary prisoners here have bought more than $30,000 in War Savings Bonds and have donated nearly $2,000 and 500 pint sof blood to the Red Cross.

Navigation, meteorology, map reading, celestial navagation, civil aeronautics and home economics are among new war courses at Macalester College.

Posters advertising a dance to raise money for Red Cross kit bags also mentioned that contributions would be accepted. Be­fore the dance could be held, the fund was oversubscribed through such donations.

All Catholic nuns in Denver will take the Red Cross Home Nursing course.

On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, 350 Jewish war veterans, their families and friends donated blood at the Red Cross Blood Donor Center.

Rather than miss the last session of the Red Cross Home Nursing course, a group of farm women rode to town over muddy roads in a farm wagon.

ARMY ENGINEERSAT EASE

By MartinThe newly organized comedy

team of Gossage & Springwater is . really a scream. Springwater as­sumes the role of the stem straight man and is the butt of all Gossage’s clever and well worded retorts. Both of them are wasting their time here, they should put that show on the road.

Of course, love is a wonderful thing but when the price is ten de­merits that’s another story. I won­der if Lana Turner realizes the trouble she has caused Watson, Lasnik & Sprague?

This is strictly on the side, but rumor has it that Bob White has decided to take that fatal step during the seven day furlough. Let’s not be forgetting those ci­gars on your return, Bob.

Meet the Tony Galento of 3800. Roily-Poly Jud Sprague is his name and he hails from Pleasant- ville, N. Y., the happy little vil­lage in the hills. In his high school days he was manager of the foot­ball team and a darn good one even if he does have to say so himself. Cornell was Jud’s choice for that higher knowledge and every thing went fine until he join­ed the Delta Tau Delta Frat. The boys showed him such a good time that studies were forgotten and at the end of his sophomore first semester our boy Jud found him­self behind that little black ball. However, he returned the next se­mester and redeemed himself. When he wasn’t studying, he was playing the trumpet in the band. After two years of college, Sprague accepted a position with Interna­tional Business Machines Corp. as a serviceman (he calls it Cus­tomer Engineer). After seven months of “engineering the cus­tomers” his number came up so off he went to Camp Robinson for basic training in B.I.R.T.C. His work came in mighty handy, for as soon as basic was completed he was put in the Machine Records Unit servicing I.B.M. machines. His job in the army took him from Robinson to Atlanta and then to Fort Bragg where he knew the famous Private Hargrove well enough to say “hello.” Leaping on the merry-go-round again he found himself back at Atlanta where theA. S.T.U. caught up with him and whisked him to A. & M. Since LB. M. machines are all electrically operated, it isn’t a surprise to find Jud an E.E. student. “No plans for the future,” says Jud, “I’ll just pick up where I left off.”

1ST. SOT’S GUFFBy David K. Springwater

Wolf Groan sitting in the front row at the Campus Theatre Satur­day night gaping at the pretty blonde vocalist . . . Dude Beding- field and Dutch Dykema being howled at by a couple of lovelies on the way to a train . . . The furious rush of telegrams and phone calls to and fro when Fur­loughs were announced . . . Why was Little Johnny Goddard’s mat­tress half on the floor Saturday night at bed-check? ... We found out how to keep cool these warm nights. It seems that about half the company sleeps in the raw . . . If anyone should find ten G.I.s leaping about and uttering strange noises, please return them to the orderly room. They are members of the new Capsulated Calculus Class and are taking sixteen class hours of it a week . . .

To Our New EngineersWell, fellows, it’s getting about

time for us to know each other better. After a week at the most, you have done an excellent job of settling down to our routines and catching on to our Company Spirit. We don’t want to refer to you as “new men” all the time in contrast to the rest of us, but would prefer to have one homogenous cmpany, all soldier-students alike; alike in that we have the same job to do and will do it more efficiently and get it done sooner if we work to­gether as a team.

It is unfortunately necessary that for a while you will feel in­secure and unsettled and time will drag. But in a few weeks, when classes begin and you feel more at home, get to calling the boys around you by their first names, and go to bed at night worn out after a good hard day’s work, you will feel that you belong here and that you can be reasonably happy.

The difficulty at the moment is that we have a definite prescribed way of doing things and have found out from sad experience the most efficient way to get them done. You’ll have to learn those things. It is one of the primary functions of the Cadet and Merit Systems to teach them to you, and we are trying to introduce you into that system as gently and smooth­ly as possible. You’ll find that you are referred to as gentlemen and that you are asked to do things, not ordered to. That is only one of our customs and there are many others.

We appreciate your cooperative efforts and wish you to know that if at any time you need assistance or have a question, any man in

WAR GAMESby BRAD

AIR RAIDAir Raid may be played by any

number of players. It is an excel­lent “away from camp” and “on the march” game since the only equipment needed is a strip-pack weighing three hundred pounds and a gas mask for each man. Also it is desirable that the leader has a whistle.

The ideal locale for Air Raid is any place devoid of vegetation ex­cepting cacti. However it will be found that several types of thorny shrubs make an acceptable substi­tute. A number of shallow holes partially filled with water are con­sidered a “must” by many players.

The leader, who is IT, will sound his whistle and shout “Air Raid.” At the cry of “Air Raid” the play­ers will assemble in a prone posi­tion in the ditches at either side of the road. Whereupon the Air Raider will strafe both sides and in the parlance “like shooting clay pigeons,” win easily.

The leader, who is IT, will no doubt call attention to the fact that the players rave lost and will jokingly suggest another try, cau­tioning the players “we musn’t get caught again like that, must we? Hmmmm ?”

At the next sound of the whistle and cry of Air Raid every player will dash in all directions until he is concealed under a clump of cacti or in a mud hole. The leader must see in advance that there will be enough cacti and mud holes to go around.

When every player is comfort­able in his mud hole or clump of cacti the leader will call “GAS” (see rules for playing gas). This last is an added touch and makes for much merriment.

After several games of Air Raid those players remaining may play “STRETCHER BEARER,” the rules for which will be published shortly.

Teaching of Scandinavian at the University of Wisconsin this year is under direction of Prof C. A. Clausen, who has a leave of absence from Wittenberg Col­lege, Springfield, Ohio.

Because of the importance of meteorology to the aviation pro­gram, Vassar College has added this subject to its astronomy cur­riculum.

the Company will be willing to aid you. Just introduce yourself Aggie fashion and sound off.

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War Plants Closed In Flood Area Show Flood Control Need

Shut-downs of vital war plants because of floods and the inunda­tion of thousands of acres of valu­able farm land with the loss of agricultural crops emphasize the fact that flood control is a war necessity for the Mid-West area devastated by this year’s floods. This is pointed out by Lachlan Macleay, president of the Missis­sippi Valley Association, which has called a flood control conference to meet at Hotel Statler in St. Louis on June 28.

“No monetary value can be placed on the loss of production in war plants in the flood area,” he said. “Many of them were forced to shut down entirely, and in oth­ers production was curtailed be­cause the flood waters cut off ac­cess to the plants. Nor can a mon­etary value be placed on the food crops destroyed by the floods in a year when our own and the world’s need for food is desperate.

“But in addition to the harm done to the war effort by the floods. which inundated more than 3,000,000 acres of rich agricultural land in eight states and drove nearly 200,000 persons from their homes, damage has been caused which is far in excess of the cost of the flood control measures which can be taken in wartime to safeguard those states from a rep­etition of the disaster,” Macleay stated.

In addition to considering imme­diate flood control plans, the con­ference will also discuss a long range, unified program for flood control and the economic use of the water resources of the affect­ed basins. While such a program cannot be carried out until after the war, Macleay pointed out that it is necessary to plan for it now to insure its inclusion in the na­tion’s post-war public works pro­gram.

The association is fortunate in securing as speakers for the con­ference Congressman Will M. Whittington, of Mississippi, chair­man of the House Flood Control committee and one of the nation’s outstanding authorities on flood control; Major General Eugene Reybold, Chief of Army Engineers, who by virtue of his command is in charge of federal flood control construction, and Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of Missouri, a mem­ber of the Subcommittee on Flood Control of the Senate Committee on Commerce.

Following their formal addresses the conference will be opened to discussion from the floor in which representatives from every section of the flood area will be invited to present its needs.

Acceptances already received in­dicate a good attendance at the conference despite the pressure of wartime duties. The association extends a cordial invitation to rep­resentatives of state and local gov­ernments, civic and business organ­izations, agricultural groups, in­dustries and transportation inter­ests in all the basins affected by this year’s floods. They include the Missouri Basin, the Upper Mississippi Basin, the Illinois Ba­sin, the Lower Ohio Basin, the Wabash Basin and the Arkansas Basin.

In March, 1937, after the disas­trous flood in the Ohio Valley, the association called a similar confer­ence in St. Louis. Following that conference Congress adopted an $800,000,000 flood control program for the Ohio Basin, which is now substantially completed or under construction.

WorkersLoan Tools To Air War Effort

When production requirements created an unexpected heavy de­mand for drills, taps, reamers, saws, and miscellaneous tools at General Electric’s Pittsfield, Mass., Works recently, maintenance de­partment workmen loaned the com­pany a total of 992 small tools from their own chests, augment­ing a salvage and reclamation pro­gram which averted an emergency.

The personal tool chest collec­tion was in response to an explan­ation of the situation by the main­tenance department foremen, who promised that the tools turned in would be replaced by the company as new tools were obtained. Among the 992 small tools contributed by the men were straight and taper shank drills, taps, and reamers, with a total value of $1198, and they were all fit for immediate use.

Meanwhile, through the plant’s salvage and reclamation program, 1700 pounds of high-speed steel tools were recut at a cost of $2500

Superchargers Are Delivered Ahead Of Production Time*

Six months from the time steel was delivered for General Elec­tric’s mammoth new supercharger plant in Fort Wayne, Ind., ship­ment was made of the first car­load of completed units for the U. S. Army. This was 60 days ahead of schedule and but 15 days after the first supercharger was produced.

The building, largest of all Gen­eral Electric factories and with its equipment representing a Defense Plant Corporation investment of approximately $25,000,000, covers a plot of more than 788,000 square feet. In it more geared super­charger impellers are produced than in any other plant in the United States, and it is the only General Electric plant where turbo­superchargers are manufactured under full line production methods.

Turbosuperchargers, developed by Dr. S. A. Moss of General Elec­tric, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces, are devices which make it possible for Amer­ica’s big bombers to fly at ex­tremely high altitudes, distances beyond the range of anti-aircraft fire. They are now part of the regular equipment on all Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, Consolidated B-24 Liberators, and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt pursuit planes.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can’t tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

When you’re “sitting on top of the world”—watch out for earth­quakes.

The three greatest essentials to achieve anything worth while are—first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step toward knowledge.

into new tools with a value of ap­proximately $4500. Tools which could not be reclaimed were sold to toolmakers after being spark- tested and classified according to type of steel.

jCoarcLovjn on .

Qamtms ‘DistractionsBy Ben Fortson

It looks like there’s going to be a whole lot of suspence and horror in store for all today and tomor­row at the Campus when FRANK­ENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF- MAN.

This is a Universal picture but is worth anyone’s attention. Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, both vet­eran horror actors, portray the parts of Frankenstein and the Wolfman respectively. In the story, Wolf man Chaney turns into a mur­derous beast whenever the moon is full. Here he seeks the diary of the late lamented Dr. Frankenstein and accidently stumbles on the sup-

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posedly dead monster and lets him loose. The two engage in a ser­ies of fantastic adventures in which lovely Ilona Massey and Patric Knowles play an impoi'tant role. The climax of the show comes when the two monsters become locked in a death struggle but due to an explosion which lets a liver loose, both are drowned.

The Lowdown: This should be enough horror for anyone.

Over at Guion Hall today and to­morrow is a picture showing the epic struggle between the ox- train drivers and the railroad: THE

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