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Fosdick Now In
Not i]
ile Arriemansj sit
it up over an;'.
•-1H fcjrces of|(
on tho marchi 1 |; f i
Whjile weiquibbleLoverj vrhd will be allow
ed to vote,
work who Would
American.
ips of people
jsbfferage
7. Beveloprperit of a national capitol so
far underground 'that atomic bombs cannot
harm ! it. In connection with the, national
capitol, American^ might also wisely choose
alternate congressmen and even an alternate
president to take over in case a bomb or two
was dropped on Washington before a decla-
Wh|ile our plolififcail j leaders denounce
President Triiman ajrid thrdatejR to read him ^ration of whr. Sujch things can still happen,
out of the DimocrWiic Parlfy, plotters are at g. Preparation, of an immediate overall
work jyho hppedjto Writes America off as a plan of defense. A plan so prepared that it
world! powers ; Jill : . will function even after Washington, D. C.,
Chicago, and NeW York City have been wiped
out. It might evehj infvolve keeping a perpet-
Repeht events Ih-Xzbc^ioslovakia bring
terrible fears to a troubh d world. In C^ech-
dslovakia, one observes t ic sable techniques
as those empjoyeid bjy" Ger m|any less than ten
years) ^go. ijhe only difflrfenec is the name
\ , a |tSi(accompanying
, political ideqlo
l' m WorU
lip it
now
ar II it Nazism and
is] Gbntitunisv^l FMnJrly, they
r\
n?
both meaii ions.
Thii lessons of Wprld War III and the ap
peasers’ failure Should rii| in. our ears. We
must liealize fha)t! th^fe ca; i |)e no .compromise
with Iptalitaktapism on i ;s| own terms.
i fa. thf fact of .me'll grave danger
Ameriat mast look to bkk its defenses
and offentesij |. j j ■ ] j]
By defense We mean ] reparation to ward
off mi itary petions by f^des of totalitarian
ism. Ho enable Amej»icai|i|fol}ow a program
of complete preparedness; we favor’ these
immediate steppi!: . J j
1. Preparation of (i blan; for industrial
mobilization‘and conveysjoii. ^
-2. Preparation bjf am inventory of vital
and critical 1 materials ^nn building stock
piles cf such itemj?. »
1 " on and develop-
ual flight of planes In the air. Such planes
would be armed iwith atomic weapons and
would be prepared! to drop them on an ag
gressor nation. This may seem fantastic but
there are some of us who still haven’t for
gotten Pearl Hatbor. There must not be a
repetition. in
9. Enact Universal Military Training.
When w^ advocate such training, we hope
with tongue in cheek, that bur army will rise
above its fire-extShguisher-shining, fox-hole
digging and I grenade-throwing training
methods. Such tactics are as outmoded as
Texans Frowned Upon Lincoln,
Steen Says in History Magazine
By R. BROWN McGAUGHEY
the Model T Ford
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•- Now, for, ourjibffehses: ■ [ ■
1. We favor America’s extending aid to!
all friendly nations, but every precaution’
should be taken!to see that such materials
do not fall into tlje hands of potential ene-
mies. | j . i
2. We favor Hn all-out mobilization at
tempt to oVganiziia world government minus
the veto power. . This could be organized in
a short time if America were to take the
lead. We owe it to ourselves and to the
world to make oiie more grand effort for we
find ourselves once more walking down the
^ ^trpn^st air force in the road to destiiictibp.
In the words of Norman Cousins of the
"'•fl
“The Texas press accepted Lincoln’s election in 1860 as
a tragedy and his assassination in 1865 as a major blessing/’
states Dr. Ralph W. Steen, A&M professor of history and
author of “Texas Newspapers and Lincoln,” featured article
in the current issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Since the celebration of the cen-+—— 7——
nnial of Lincolni’s birthday in that disgraced the form of human
ity.”
Saturday Review,! “It is not too late, but it
N
has seldom Ibeen later.’
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3. Continiied re$ean
ment of atobiicj vfejapon^.
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world] !>/ r j j
5. Maintaining ia wofljp jjntelligende ser
vice! t|iat is ^ecpnp t
^ a c Ai| W IRouddup..:
General ftfacArtlii|r’4 Statement that he that he be placed above all other persons
would gcceplt the nbmin4t|on for president if Admiring his achievements, we wish h<
it worfe teridehec f fiiim, mas touched off a would come doWn out of the clouds anc
J ’ ■' ,3 ’ vdrbyJ - ^ . walk on the e&rijh like a mortal man. It is
tennial of Lincoln’s birthday
1909, Texas newspiperp have pub
lished many editorials praising the
first Republican president and in
dicating that the Southern people
had a high regard for tincoln even
during the Civil War. His death
was looked Upon ajs a great mis
fortune for the Smith.
executive. Hefie are jt,
random from the prei
Louisville
li
were tendered Jhnp
round of biljteric mtrot
Mdst of the di^iu^sioMcenters aroupd his quite possible he would enjoy it.
ability to handle the job iiEts tihe nation’s chief Columnist Jafek Tarver in the
imments taken at
ftftbe nation.
oui|ilef-Journal
l
As a Presidier tiki catiflidate he ought to
come down: froir that place and dis
cuss all of the issjues ok'.the day with his
fellow ; Ameijica|hs. It sefelfcis fairly plain that
his platfbrm jwculjd adiipcate diversion of
out principal Xiutrent eMort from West to
East; or diyisiion cjf it jb^tween the two at
a-time when we [cannot! Conceivably do ev
erything at once Ix^ fMUwe do not know
actually what to c|o in ilfhina. We believe
that public Sentiment il jthe United-States
" behind the Euro-
: aiid that thus the
is already whll crystal! i
pean Recovery Frqgrar
General again jis top lat^
Ini an earlier editorial; the Courier-Jour-
i
1 „ same pa
per says: But Die General may not prove
as successfijl a; political as military cam
paigner. For one thing, he won’t have the
Marines to establish a beachhead at Phila
delphia. fj' / - j- -
Still the MaciArthur enthusiasts are opti
mistic: They nre convinced he can win
even without th^ GI vote.
He’s straightened out Japan, they argue,
why not give him a chance at the U.S.? Be
sides, with our Russian relations apparent!;
ever worsening,!jwho can say we don’t nee<
a man i(h the White House who can be evei 1
more unreasonable than Stalin ? *
The Michigan Daily
The good stolid citizens of the United
States tend to fee hero worshippers with : 1
strong taste for the colorful and dramatic.
Dr. Steen states ithat it was not
until the hatreds ofj war had cooled
that Texas newspa rers began say
ing good things aqout Lincoln.
Excerpts from Tixas newspapers
are cited to illustrate the changing
attitude toward Lincoln.
The Texas Republican, Marshall,
Texas, April 28, 1(165—“It is cer
tainly a matter of congratulation
that Lincoln is dead, because the
world is happily rjd ot a monster
The Houston Telegraph, April 26,
1865—“From ndw until God’s judg
ment day the ininds of men will
not cease to thrill at the killing of
Abraham Lincoln, by the hand of
Booth, the actor/’
Houston Post, Houston, Texas,
February 12j 1909—“People of the
South have always felt that his
I untimely and tragic end was one pf
the severest catastrophes of the
war period.”
San Antonio Express, February
12, 1909—“Today marks' the cen
tennial anniversary of the birth of
'Abraham Lincoln, the first Re
publican to occupy tho Presidential
office, and universally conceded to
be one of the greatest of American
statesmen in all the essentials of
greatness.”
A
By BILL BILLINQSLEY
A junior high school teacher in
Pittsburgh has created an ingeni
ous teaching plan that could easily
revolutionize the entire A&M edu
cational set-up.
Miss Katherine Hutchinson,.jiaia
instructress in the Falk School,
University of Pittsburgh, discover
ed she couldn’t keep her students
from reading comic books in clkss.
Rather than think up new me ‘
of rapping the childrens kn
the ingenious school marm ap;
her teaching methods to th
and is ndw using the Sunday sup
plement as text book. „ . .
“Prince Valiant” currently in
troduces students to American my
thology and the legend of the Fait
god. “Blondie” teaches English
classes the elements of short story
construction. “Dick’s Adventures’’
opens a discussion of relations be
tween the Indians and Pilgrims.
“Room and Board” sets science
pupils investigating whether its
science is accurate.
Miss Hutchinson, in coU&boiiu-
tion with the Comic Weekly, is
sending a weekly Newsletter con
taining suggestions to other teach
ers interested.
To quote one of these letters in
part, “The chivalry of Prince^ Vclj
iant, the courage of the Lorn
er and Buz Sawyer, the simple.,
honesty of Barney Goog 1
fectious and foster charat
the teacher seeks.” ; J
The impact that such inhbvatic
have on our olvn c
easily visioned. The E
partment is already foil
saime line of thought ip
York rimes as a
and engineers are
under their breaths at.
lists now, picture theij
ttion ; when the Pit
of serious
Frpm' nf i. jurchmetat
mt will come the droi
01 a lecture reading fror
loss Fosdick” strip on tl
ative designs of cnippenc
! In !the history lecture r
d^nts will be madly flipjj
in a search for the day 1
iant tended in Newfound
! in /.homic+rit.
lash the molecular a]
his ray gun.
depautr
ig totyMs
1 “Fefxr
comp air
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Letters to the Editor
AGGIELAM) INN???
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nal sdid, “Td all appearances he suffers from MacArthur with/His famous past of militai
f-
Arkansas Gazette
Editor, The Battalion:
1 1 ' t S : •!
I don’t know whit type of prior
ity system is used it the Aggieland
Inn, but it must bj- unique.
In February I asked when they
would take reservations for the
; Mothers Day week-end. They told
me it would be sometime in March.
! So on March 1 at 9 a. m. I inquired
again and they wjere pull up.”
The reservations! must have come
j pouring in just ajhead of mo or
! something stinks, a|nd I think some-
| thing stinks. Whit can be done
! about it?
BOB DRACO, ’49
'(Ed. Note: C. jM. Sikes, man
ager of the Aggieland Inn, points
out that the Inp has only 32
rooms, some of Which must be
held open for emergency use,
with which to serve 7,000 Ag
gies and their guests^
Sikes says reservations were
opened, as advertised, on Mar. 1.)
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“HIDDEN COST”
Editor, The Battalion:
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The only statement in the “hid
den cost” article in! Thursday’s Bat
talion from which I can eke any
conceivable truth is the one that
l
TW-gene»rai’s ,a
is an authentic
jri the. famiia?:.i
hold Word. !
Biit the ^emer
;is the matter of
Tljere is the ips
! to, professional
is his lack oif ei
• limits of army
’.aloofness he w<
leader but whic
‘deal like arroga
iThe Atlanta
p ■ ■ •
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impressive. He
'f.ihero whose name
| (literally a houses
alialsoi
ake;
ihctivel American objt
Soldier^ [in politics. There"
epeq outside the narrow
re is the aura of
so WfU as a military
Ihis critics a great
Hearst papers may make a very palatablfe j ^
dish to a greatirjiany romance-hungry Amep-'
leans.
But
mess hall are not getting their full
dollar’s value for; each $1 spent.”
I The nail got a goijid square wallop
on the head there; but the rest of
spicy concoction! they win oe letting tnern-Aj'* article doesn’t: do much to get
selves in for ope big emotional stomach-achj.; th s^^smtSics i were given at
Incompetent statesmanship and militarisifi! te mp tin g to teir-Uere the mess
in government adpiinistration may be awfu
ly indigestible.
li j. . • : $ '■ j
if the APiferican people swallow thijs
ihcoctidn' they will be letting their-
1 for oiie : big emotional stomach-ach(.
l-
No one wi$h< s
ir’s milit" i “' ll “ i ' ,K
fsible to say
j
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^titution
to craicize Gen. MacAr-
■ thur’s military a )h
y thait th<
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The Batttpidn, (rffljcial
of College. Staitidn, Texas,';
afternoon, except duri
lushed! semi-weekly. Sju!
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Clftssificd 4ds
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to solve flash floods, a throwaway baby blolj-
ter made <t>f unwoven waste cotton bound ip
plastic apd calietf Pee-Wee.
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When th(#ci1jy editor assigned the repor -
er and a photographer of the Ogden (Utah!
Staudtird-Ex\tmpier, it’s no wonder their
ed witle, Sa
iever lents. But it i& pos- eyes opened wide;.;Said the city editor:
Gei oral err& in insisting “Pick up thq atory and a girl. . .
e Battalion
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spaper of the Agricultural ^nd Mechanical College of Texas and the Ciiy
s.^ published five times a week and circiilatep .'every Monday through Fridiy
dlidays and examination periods. Duripg the summer The Battalion is pu >-
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se made by telephone (4-5444) or atj the
be placed by telephone (4-5324) or
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hall dollar goes, fjinety cents of it
sounds well and good, but that KJ
cents worth pf ;dining hall ex
penses” doesn’t seem to be too well
understood. Mr. Goodwyn says that
includes replacement of equipment,
cleaning and laundry; insurance
and garbage collection-.
But the exact amoijmt tised to
replace equipment wks i)ot ob
tainable! | ; [. !;
Why isn’t it obtainable? I have
seen some people; at work in the
mess hjall office. Aren’t some of
them bookkeepers!? If! they canjt
keep up with how much is spent
on replacing equipment, maybe the
price of meals should be raised
some more in ordejr to pay more or
better bookkeepers.! [ j j
So tho mass hull was forced to
pay the creamery; $-147.97 Tor loss
of milk bottles! Well, kepording to
my, calculations, at cents per
bottle that would be 11,199 bottles
in five months. Assuming that only
5,599 students of the 7,700 enrol
led eat at the meks hall—that is 2
bottles per students in just 5
months. I don’t take any; fny
’ I '.
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roommate didn’t take any. Who
are those two guys who. took four.
Come to think of it, I know n|ore
students.that have no use for'milk
bottles than I know , one who do
use them. Who takes them all?
Now that (he number of thieves
is narrowed down a bit, why
don’t we isolate a few individuals
with bulging pockets? 4
After all, if Goodwyn will grant
me the assumption that'the mess
hall has ^ctiiftlly served meals
about 600 hours during the past 5
months, one pefson every 3 minutes
walks out of the mess hall with a
bulging pocket because he is carry
ing a milk bottle away, i. e., ac
cording to Gpodftyn’s statistics.
I won’t even bother to consider
the plates Gobdvyyn mentions, be-
cau e I don’t see how the average
? alent taifi hide ope on his person
without being seen, most especially
one dripping with gravy.
I can’t possibly understand how
that much 1 stealing of equipment
can take place without much of it
being detected at the time it occurs.
If the real answer to the “hidden
Cost” is breakage, much of it must
go toward the purchase of butter
to be used as a finger lubricant.
It seerrtS that this so-called “hid
den cost” is hidden a lot better
than Goodwyn’s article seems to
reveal. Goodwyn admits that a
cheaper meal could be had if the
hidden cost were eliminated, so it
appears to me that it would be
justifiable to spend someimoney to
find th(i “real hidden cost.”
Six Staff Members
To Present Papers
At Society Meets
Six member;M)f the A&M depart
ment of biochemistry and nutrition
will present papers at the meetings
of the Federated Societies at At
lantic City this week.
The papers will be presented at
the meetings of the American In
stitute of Nutrition and the Ameri
can Society of Biological Chemists.
The following papers will be jriv-
en at the meeting of ((lie American
Institute of Nutrition: “Southern
Peas as a (Source of Protein for
Growth;” by Dr. L. R. Richardson;
“The Availability of Amino Acids
in Some Foods,” by K. A. Kuiken,
and “The Quantitive Requirement
of the Rat for Magnesium and Ef
fects of Magnesium Deficiency in
the Rabbit,” by P. B. Pearson.
Papers Will be presented at the
American Society of Biological
Chemists by Dr. R. T. (Holman,
“Coupled Oxidations, in Enzymati-
drily“OHd6ftKi LinoUifc?Aeid,f and
by Dr. Carl M. Lyman on “Effect
of Vitamin B6 on the Utilization
of D Amino Acids by Lactic Acid
Bacteria.” A paper entitled “Stu
dies of Folic Acid* Conjugase in
Blood” will be presented by Dr.
B. S. Schweigert.
Enrbute to Atlantic City/ Dr.
Pearson and Dr. Holman will Spend
a day in Washington, D. C., con
ferring with the Division of Medi
cal Sciences of the office of Naval
Research in connection with the
project they are carrying on with
this agency. ; .!' . ;•
Social Etiquette
On YMCA Program
A program of banquet and bull-_
room etiquette will be presented by
Mrs. I. Sherwood fin the YMCA
Chapel Tuesday at 7:15 p. m.
This presentation is being spon
sored by the prudent YMCA or
ganization, Pres/idejnt Guy Daniel
said today. Purpose of the program,
hq said, is to put a touch of the
finer things in the student activi
ties on the camous.
(
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\
ineers and ag at
completely ignoi
new system. Th«
t aside their ol
and wft batterei
when the latest
ilin’ Jack”, “Ten;
>1 rates,” and “Steve Can r
vej |
down in the *g barns the
ng teams will be checking
ore) and aft points of Salo-
r J against (he characteristic !
Swine shoal. f :
tilings will be different tin ;
Station when “Funny Book; 1
entered into the Hat o'
leal electives. Picture the
e in the Club Leggett whet)
n Mason, the play boy of the
E department, returns from hit .
edkly Dfallas corps trip. . .
He will bid hia comradea in crime
oodbyc at the tralin' with these ,
oifda: “’Velbfit’a bapk to the booke
r jme, I sure hate to face that 600
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Little Orphan Annie’,that's du
wtoiirovf. I jjthink I’ll delay it
¥
with-a little light reading
r if my roomie has a cojiy
ejrential Equations I’cat
through—?’’
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