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this place, but there s
it at first hanjd. We are
here as our guests, im(U
show you everythir g iw^
lik ;
„ h. j^ggieland ip a irecty
•will-find out. the huge s;
Field never knows m off-
- in 0eWkre Field House ha
ball is just beginning at
the tract. In’ between, on
alongside KylejStadiiim, S
ticeds coming Ito a close,
rujtheps and field men
with which they v pn the]
-last week. Downs Natat
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the A&M Aggie swimming
lot about see the tennis or
1 ke seeing have them too.
have you But sports are
happy to students hefe. On
mpus win Hall, ndar the
will find a large n
putting 1 out; this
talion, and The
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teams in action, but we
; the only activities
second floor of (Jc
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:S of
e second floor of Uood-
nter of the campus, you
her of students at work
iy newspaper. The Bat-
horn annual, in addition
to three magazinestjThe Engineer, The Agri-
culturist* arid the Commentator.
Other students hold offices in their (clas
ses or in th i hundreds of clubs, locality and
technical. Ihey may be Student Senators,
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TrampUng Out the Vintage . . .
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about ca
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plai t of Kyle
son. basketball
isti en bed; base-
e otter end of
le practice field
g foe tball prac- r JH .
re oui thin-clad running the studeijit government, or part
^^ Innet, whi^H coordinates re-
•! >:if! PVT F\
'h
President Trum ar seer
his denunciation o Henr>
haps late is better tl| a h n|ffer.
iqeiit’g
The president’s doclanj
prefer defeat; to the bac
cabinet officeir ma rk ad a |i
p^ign tactics^!
It acted as a ] shot in
j- ; ntinistration Derr otrats,
Dixie Civil Hight: revolt
Wallace’s third pnrty pr
.5 New York’s loya
< . spomled with apula ise
-president weint outside
' tett'\them bliintly
sus
Wallace
ieypd the form of the YMCA Ca
order Olympics ligious activities,
um, which you Texas A&M is.a place for leaderS,\We
irecord smashing hope ypiij w^ll join bs here.
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a littlo
^allacu, but per
late With come up slugging soon against thO Republi
but 1W- ■ cans.. [ ’• I ' T t
Not for long, they predict, will; Mr. Tru
man be consent to remain silent in the face
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To Gomrgo Bernard Shaw, asking children to do
riousework is simply “monstrous.”
“The school managers ought to be warned by
the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to ChHxiren, ,,
observed the playwright, “if. they required such
overtime, day in and day out all the year around,
’rom the prime minister, the Lord Chiel Justice of
the Astronomer Royal, they wbuld be certified for
a mental hospital.
“It would kill me m a week.” ; \\. .! > ‘ H
Well, asked a Press association reporter, how
would Shaw begin if he were a school teacher?
“By threatening to murder my classes if they
dared to think of their lessons out of school."
We wonder if Mr. Shaw includes college students
in his list of the overburdened ?|- :
NO UNITY HERE I ;| I, IT
Apparently the Southern Democrats don't have
a monopoly on waging intra-party war. Tht Mat
thews; man and wife, of Signal near? Long
he would
ijrig of bis ousted
kk shift in cam-
the arhi for ad-
floOiriy
th : r
A f|
; them to joiri rije Ifl
recommend defea
‘These a^-e dabs
nd. the threat of
idential race.
$on|i[of St. Patrick re-
'.e i|ni(l yells .vhen the
le hftti prepared text to
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over the
thing. But iany )r ce I'lif Wallace land his munistf
Commuriistf| is t(|p T ’*" ^
not buying any.”
Most politician
of bj
of attacks siuch ajjj the one launched against
him by a bloc of House GDlp members.
They accused the president of drumming
up an international, crisis in his address to
Congress y'psterdpy to distract, attention
from his faltering political forturies. |
But the president showed by hjs blast at
Wallace that his patience with political ene
mies is funning Iriw. p . ;i r i
It was a challenge to W'all^ce wi|h no
quarter. It was remarkable in some respects
because it came <inly| a fe\y weeks after re-
Plant Scientists Searehj For
New Plasm to Improve Cotton
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Introduction of new germ plasm for use in the improve
ment or American upland cotton is the goal of two plant
scientists Who left here Wednesday for a three-month ex
ploration in 'Southern and Eastern Mexico and in Guate
mala. ' jsSil. L j •!' | :j| •
C. W. Mainniitg, agronomist for the Texas Agricuttura
Experiment Station, hasrheeu loan.Hh '-*•
efto the U. S. Depkrbi^of Ag., ^ of ^ Wftrc
and Manning plan to avoid areas
iT:c)anotj want |md ijjiaijnot aicept the | !TteTinvitlTionThTDemocratic Naitionai
political suBtort if Hqhlf Wallacl and his peate,, lnvlt t ,tl0, ( 8 W uenfoctadic National
Communists^ If j >i ring pern or permitting
the I j rice of victory
V
\ prices tbr every-
muci
thoiighr the president’s
move marked a dt liber|te turning point in
his campaign stiktjegy.
T-
Diplomaftic oififcials
Truman has flashed a p
Premier Stalin.
But what ha:; hem Handed is thisr Will
n—Staliij apply Ithe brakes to bring
hey expect |him to
Stall
in any everit-
. 'Iff
Wallace .
have
tacit
pi
approval.
By classing \ Wallace’s fjollowiers as Com-
f, ®j|r. jTrt tpan picked lipian issue the
p'or me to ^>ay. I’m Republicans havH been using against both
him ami his forrileri cabine|t member. By his
stroke the president renoupced what neither
he, nor the Republicans, sjeeiri likely to get
Communist support.
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ed to the U. S. DepHrtYmmKof Ag
riculture for these explopatioh^. He
will accompany Dr. J 1 . 0., Ware, sen
ior agronomist for the department,
in the collection of seeds and specif-
mens of cotton, beans and other
crops for use in federal and state
breeding programs.
Leading cotton breeders feel the
genetic variability of the upland
cotton commonly krown in the Uni
ted States is becoming too narrow.
Ware and Manning hope to find
“new blood” to cross with our pop
ular varieties to increase their yield
to make them more heat ahd drouth
resisting, and better able to cope
with the hordes of diseases and in
sect pests which take a heavy toll
on cotton production.
It is known that American cot
tons grew out of a cross between
cotton strains from Asia and
from the New World, Manning
said. Just when and how these
strains came -together is the
cause of much speculation among
plant breeders.
In their search for examples of
the original New World strain^ or
where cofton .is grown commercial
ly. Rather, they will seek what i$
commonly called back-door cotton
anikplants that escaped from early
cultivation. | ; ' J
Manning is familiar with the
area to biKyisited. He aceompaniet
T. R. Richmond, agronomist in
charge of cottbk breeding work for
the Texas Station, in January and
February 1946, in\making a pre
liminary study of primitive cot
tons in Southern Mexico, and West
ern Guatemala, the supposed cen
ter of origin of AmcricaV culti
vated cotton.
George Bernard s
Against ‘Monstro
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and Mn
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Another member of the research
staff of the Texas Station, Dr. S.
G. Stephens, cytogeneticist, also
collected native cottons in this area
in the fall of 1946 and the spring
of 1947. * II
Seeds brought back by RichmotM!
and Manning and by Stephens are
now undergoing experiments in
Texas A&M. College greenhouses
and field plots. Expansion of these
studies with added participation by
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture will -result from the Ware and
Manping explorations. - j
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prtetty fair brand of dis-
Mdt thews, 72, Republican,
53, Democrat, are run-
ihe April election,
from the U candidates
whose political feelings
Angeles court her
~ and began un-
tyne Heiser WUens.
divorce, testified that
moody,
game, threw the
he noon
Fred Ml
it hq didn't
ri was
bridge game'
tit of the room." “DM
Judge Fred Miller, who
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and all week
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free that President
werful stoplight on
The first
siajns
- plojms
trope
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| Russia’s Cjomminist agression in E
] tp a quickibalt i)j the f|ce of posible
to build*up Airier£a’s injilitary might?
Or will he dtcide to prab while the ^reb-
,--l j- — bing is gocjd? !
2 “ “There; is same fetf that the Krdmlin
- may try toj step uj) its o ffensive operatioris in
1 Z a hurried attempt to e: ;tjend its control over
2 one or two more count-r as of western Europe
- before the United Stat( can act,” according
- to John M. H g itowe r| of
I Press. - , l
~ Hence on the cent ‘il issue of peace; or
T war, the next mnr th mat be the most critical
since the summar of ISof). 'p
- On April 18, t le Iti llansrare scheduled to
. 2 bold national (lection# |in which the Ccrni
T - munist party is makitt|f .am all-out bid for
! 't poWer. .] • .]' . i [T ,i '
Moreover, this js Itjhjr period in which
Z Russia and Fir land ! wll| be negotiating ojer
Soviet-propose 1 /niti1[ary alliance and in
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presideijt’s progjram by approving more or
less the military proposals he laid down or
will it decide thif this is an improper course
for the United States?
On the second question officials privately
concede that Mt. Truman took a big risk in
advocating both] universal military training
and a temporary draft as measures to meet
the Russian challenge.
These administration leaders contend that
if he fails to get his proposals through the
fact will be jumped on abroad as evidence
of a lack of rejaili support at home for this
countJ^’f new Stiop-Russja Foreign Policy.
But even more troublesome to diplomatic
the , Associated experts at th|e state department is the uncer
tainty over! what Russia will do. Speculation
takes several liries.
One is that: the Soviets? may protest
through propaganda means their innocence
of any aggtesive action in Europe. Coupled
witji this ip thjeir almost certain claim that
the: United Statjes is deliberately trying to
make Hur on the Soviet Union.
Another possibility seen; here is that
Stalin actually may try to put the brakes on
some of the Clommunist parties outside the
of eastern Europe but may be
j i-
- a soviet-propofee 1
Z which the Russians mhi make any demands Russipri sphere i
- tiheiy have in'-n di d on! Norway. unable to do so.
In all these mosp -|tiyte, events two big Secretary c f State Marshall is known to
^ military quest!ans stavl out. j^eel that this is;a real danger; that the suc-
\rru* ;J--7!yha|; moives will the Rris- ffiss pf the Communists in Czechoslovakia
li- may persuade their colleagues in Italy, for
example, that they tool cart get away with
2 sia|ns make to n^eet thf President’s new
latic offenphe? ' ) |
ill Cor grriss underwrite ^he a coup if they ltry hard enough.
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You will have to'(|ecide for jourselyes We don’t klriovv what to rhake of a letter
- whether a sign on a Tuscaloosa theatre mar- which Pete Woodward pf Sales. Managenient
£ quee i^a new highiij fedviertising or a new got the other day. “Dear Sir:”, it began,
- low in Hollywead piillicity: “Little Llilu “This will acknowledge your letter of Febru-
Z comedy and the I [eniypljy Basketeers—Nefer dry 19 which caught nje with my secretary
- mind the featircMt sticks:” (We have it,!on in the hospital.” ‘
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No, Junior, the fact you heard two men
arguing (about ithe constitution certainly
doesn’t mean they have read it. —Arkansas
Gazette. : f|j I ■ i : : ' • i ! - j
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Editor, The Battalion::
I wish to tell the many friend);
that I have down here the past, two
years that I enjoyed knowing them
and wish I could personally say
good-bye to them. But as that is
impossible I hope you will tell
them for me.
The last time I left A&M was
in 1931—came hack ilt ’46 and am
now leaving to take a job in Odessa.
Does A&M ever forget you? No!
I left in ’31, came back in ’46, and
was still on probation.
As for instructors down here, I
have nothing but “good words” for
them. They were always nice to me.
I enjoyed knowing theta.
And students, the “Old Aggie
Spirit” isn’t quite dead. You and
only you can revive it, bring it
back where it used to be.
I’m 41 years of age. Don’t you
think it is time I RETIRED?
Yours trulyjj • j
JOE B. PHILLIPS
So long, Aggies—and good luck!
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