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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1948
La wren
A woman
office 4 Monda; ’
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"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman’*
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ce Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditiona
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Information Ranted, Please
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d into The Battalion If you ever listened to someone try to
the distressing news explain to a new arrival to the college how
r wandered into * to get to Anch °r Hall, the baseball dia-
ji, . i_, mond, or some other place, you know that
. y no amount of pointing, map drawing or
iojuslyi shtikeli by her e^per- ver b a i directions can replace the^good old
but it h ,d one good effect, it pointed system whicji a few of the morel progres-
u ““ J for an effective system of sive cities have picked up—marking their
and streets and numbering their blocks.
Many of the streets on the catnpus are
already named, but Vvhat good is a name if
Heed
iag and
isn
but,
h-
numbering the streets
on t le campds-
the I lar gest college in
, deiice. .Visitor, i are
dop’t
around
with
know the names of many of the
street! or buil lings, eitjher.
(WW
Cave
tioiiajl
theh
Si4oe the c perat
;aken
les was
is a hard place for a visito
rj
the
like many Texas communi- nobody knows it ? Why not some s;
lace~ for a visitor to curb markings, building numberls and a p ^ mi i .
any degree of confi- good campus guide to help visit irs find KanuOm luOUgntH • •; •
not the only ones who their way around? It would require money ' r ~~ : 1 > 1 T
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Out for A Compliment . .
their way around? It would require money
effort and planning, but we think it would
be a good investment.
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one who has- taken the trouble, to
think jback and compare the Casey’s and
of today \yfeh the Casey’s and
of la it yeaf Will have to admit
e bigj changes have been made.-
still can’li get used to the names The
nd Canfpus Corner.! i . ;
Barkley Would Make Good
Vice - Presidential Nominee |
’ By CARROLljRAlL, 'H ' ; | '
When Alben Barklby topk^ the rostrum Monday
evening to deliver his keynote speech, he was faced with a
group of bickering, spiritless Democrats. But 68 minutes
provement ih the coffee, but the cither ser- H later, when he had finished his dcall to arms,” the delegates
The mpk notable improvenent has
been in the cleanliness of both locations.
Granted j there is
room
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Fur|d,!j. Wayie Stirk, there has be$h a
1 tit improvement in the quality of
ion of the two.confec
over last January by doubt resultj.
nager the Memorial Student The credit for
con
thei
the
mosphfere of both places.
jervic
vices and products are better tqan they
used to be. iGiven more room and better
facilities evfen better service
s goes not!
Stark, but to the managers of
locations arid the staff wipch
e and the general at- daily hoards that decend uporr tHem with
the regularity of fee payment diy itself
Givi Rights And the South .. .
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“Tlie Demdcratic party commits itself
to continuing its effort to eradicate all
racial, freltgioufe and economic discrimina-
tid t
again state our belief that racial
"ous minorities must have the
live, tie right to work, the right
the full and equal protection of the
a basis of equality with all citizens
nteed by the=Gonstitution.
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to vob
law; o
as
gka
TrampUng Out the Vintage ,
Okie Paper G<
Than New Lo\
By CHUCK MAISEL
The words are different but the frag-
ranoa lingers on.
Such is the plight of the Daily Oklahoman
and Tims here after they cheerfully dumped
45 pounds of concentrated perfume essence
into ihri 1 * presses Thursday.
It was all a gag to put zingo into a de- '
partrrient store’s fullrpage advertisement for ,
a perfume called ‘’Black Magic.”
They pulled that ad out yesterday, but sdr
things are still under the spell or smell. v< rs|e
Four moming and evening issues have gone site
by and the company is still getting out one- .
scent editions. •;.! • [ j f I[\j ■ • . j
“Where we mafle our mistake,” one rue
ful and redolent pressman said, “was in pour- aife
ing that stuff into the main ink fountain.
We should have used a little one made' for sajy
colored ink. , j j''j .-p j, ' I ■
“I had to let my wife smell one of those
papers before she’d let me in,” he added, as
the crowd edged away. -i'
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At least the Democrats are optimistic.
One of the buttons seen around Philadelphia
these days says:
“All 48 in ’48.”
They had a similar motto in 1900.
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the two
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to enact
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at have
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These leaders want the right
civil i rights legislation left up to
vidukl stated There , are other
the jstates’ fights controversy tl
helped in widening the split in tie party,
bilt the states’ rights to handle tJfieir own
program of.jcivil rights has been
sore spot j -
Behind the screen of “states’
lies the undeniable fact that these South-
rive the
the big
rights”
m Ken-
pf civil
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4 ?Tq secure these rights, we pledge pur- ern leaders Want to continue to dej
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Senator Barkley,
'Af lynchipg and mob violence. tucky, put the whole question
Equal opportunity in employment, rights as plajinly as it could be pujt in his
Full ancj, free political participation. Monday night keynote address at ;he con-
14. Equal (treatmerit in the armed ’ vention. Referring to the Cons dtution,
Barkley saidi that when Jefferson wrote
“All men arie created equal,” he did not
distinguish linen by their race, e'eed or
color, but simply stated “ALL men.
gave him a 28-minute ovation while parading up and down
the hall to the tune of “My Old Kentucky Home.”
Some of his colleagues in the Senate mounted the plat
form to congratulate him, and many voiced the opinion that
the Kentucky statesman was the logical candidate for vice-
president. ] J | j
And that he is. His long legislative experience, his cam
paigning ability, and his popularity among the various fac
tions of the party make'him an excellent choice as President
Truman’s running mate^ ( f
His service in Congress has made him a most capable
statesman. For 11 of his 35 years In Congress he has been
the Senate Democratic leader. Taking office at the first in
auguration of Woodrow Wilson, He has seen at first hand the
effects of the roaring twenties, the subsequent depressioh,
and recovery under the New De^l. He has attended Demo
cratic Conventions since 1920, going as keynoter in 1932
and 1936 and permanent chairman in 1940.
Often called the oratorical “iron man” Barkley has
made as many as 40 speeches in <; ne day. His eloquent phra
ses and smooth delivery make mim'one of the ablest cam
paigners the Democrats can offer. |
One has only to look at the response to the Monday night
address to see that Barkley has appeal to nearly all groups.
Here’s a local item which should cause
some interest. Wjs all know how much trouble
visiting firemen have in finding their way
about our unmarked campus, but the clinch
er came when a female newcomer to the
school set out to find Goodwin Hall recently
(although why she would want to find ine
place this reporter will never understand).
She got just a leetle bit mixed up and
walked boldly into Hotel Bizzeif.
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' Labor is’getting to be quite a problem. A , wt aipiey^
j Portland, Me., druggist however actually had wi ;h tfheii*
a volunteer for the job of soda-jerk. The
creature, who had no doubt seen the Ijfelp
Wanted sign in the front of the store, ;was
a full grown deer—of the animal typer
Deciding the animal couldn’t measure up
to a soda dispenser’s qualifications, the man
ager of the store tackled the deer behind the
fountain and turned it over to the SPCA.
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t group wfll give the animal i
and find, iU-rea. place^lii
budted detinition of a statiaticiar
ing like this: a statistician is
aws a non-existant line from a
jintto a foregone conclusion.
200 inch telescope at Paiomar
alii., is having its share of ata-r
hey are now engaged busily*con-
|| yardstick to measure the uni-
ardstick is not exactly pocket-
it is 60 million million million
It has equally imaginary raarKs
l inlches on a foot ruler. But out
end of tne yards lick tne raarKs
irately spaced, ! U ■
wnich tell the story forgot to
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life n(otet|| was killed on the spot. But his
brhtl|( r to<j>k; to ,an elephant and crashed off
inljo jthe jiungle via pach> f derm.
A|l! ogetriCr |the booze and bullets bipge—
to warm two fancy new houses the
right
it is a ruieir or
ar
measure.
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re fairly popping with the
of ^revival ot balloon cnasing by tne
isus. Tne pre-war sport was re-
rected wnen an automobile club
ed suen ah event, ine oaiioor
hW 2,200 cubic, meters of gas
e Winds. Tmrty-seven motorists
eissing and racing contest to
id oe tne nrst on tpe spot wnen
tanf^d. •• i |
rnfcs sky the spdrt is most ancient,
ess u) tnat jit is a youngster com-
;i)i« oid American custom of follow
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hi who you invite to youi
daysi There was a party given
us “Tiger Gang” in Siam at
(no, tney weren’t tne twin
ce iwined and dined wim l,uo0
. Ijnleii With no display of .manners
If-
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were ! en
Yantis Arrives in Philadel
Friends As Democratic
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By IVAN \fANTIS peh<?d to run into! my
Benjamin P’ranklin Hotel, Phii- Governor Bpauford Jes
adelphla, I’ennsylvania, (By Car- ed him ^hat he though;
riot- Pigeon). I finfahed my poli- state’s rights issue,
ticking in Tennessei and Kentue- a
Southern senators Connally, Johnston, and Hill all recom- ticking in Tennesse? and Kentue- think that President Trt
ranteed m , , RQrlrlov fAr ; hA niirvihAr W .ProciH^i- Tmmon last Saturday anc madeany way, . 4
q. quotation above was taken from
the tentative ' civil rigjhts plank of the
Democratic party’s platform. It holds
■between the N irtiera
tions of the pai ty.
To avoid hi ving
party platform ma
dudingi Governor
waged a stiff batt
have threatened,
v within iit the issues which have largely That inteirpretation is the on
y beeh the immec iate cause of the open split for a just program -of civil rights.
id Southern fac-
be the basis; for future legislation,
sooner Southern leaders
y basis
It will
The
this
aid in-
Southern leaders, in- stead of hinder a just program df equal
Jester of Texas, have rights Tor all peoples, the'better
e. Some of the leaders Democratic piarty, the South and
j, recognize
such a plank in the inescapable fact and pitch in to
, revolt.
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out lim
tation.
Entered #s
Office toUege
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tion as a whole will be.
Tihejcandida|te whb icrkams at the top ;
ice tha’
the ^orjner boy
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mended Barkley for the number 2 slot. President Truman
has even given Barkley an approving nod.
Evidently, a Truman-Barkley ticket will be the Demo
crats answer to the Dewey-Warren combination.
New York Citizens Attracted
By Traditional Senior Boots
I ' 'k ;
ing educational and instinctive the
tour itille.
up here late Sunday evening. rights nrogram,\ nor (beJ 5out l h »
The “Friendly City” is over- proposal would be'nncof flora ted fin*
flowing with personalities from to the platform. Rklur, 1c pir?
all ovet* the countryj—Texans with ( ]j c ted a compromise in 1, fotijn
their ten-gallon hats, Arizonians that would unite the u hole
with their boots and spurs, Cali- behind Truman. Cajlled thb
fornians with their taincoats. Mil- SO uri Compromise^, he
lions of every variety give the, would consolidate both k|itogi
Quaker Town the Appearance of the party and increase |th<J
a huge melting pot, stirring .and c hanec of victory in Nojve
mixing ithe masses.
I sa\y many of
Hy T. G. SMITH
Aggies attending the Army
Chemical Service summer camp at
Edgewood, Maryland are I now re
cuperating from three day passed
granted for Independence Day.
Washington D. C. claimed most
off the
the na-
Hilled three hours which might
hdjve been devoted to lugging ^28
po|Mnd mortars around.
Perhaps the most spectacular
maneuver in which the Aggies
, , b). C. claimed most hai’e participated was a “smoke
of these men for the holidays, and s ^ ce n r ' problem.
New York City the rest It
jne police started shooting it out
losta. . - i j
hosts.
• i” hridjbuilt—cost 16 lives. Four police
‘“ LJ 1sly founded and it serves them
si ig so rowdy at a social function
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did ilt
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Actress Who sued movie makers for
he will be elected n>ay be ‘ $250,000 allesred that instead of jetting
who jw^iistjed while' pass- promised billjing in the “Fuller Brush
Man” she got The Fuller Brush ofjf
nally, wb dc|n’t believe that tax-
tioni, Without ^presentation could pos- money is being spent trying to d scover
iblylhajve been worse than taxation with- a cure for the Common cold. Anybody who
We
can’t; understand why a
doesn't have one knows how to cu
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that
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mains debatable as to whether
New York was more interesting to
the Aggies or the Aggies more in
teresting to the New York Citizens.
The traditional boots were worn
majestically through the streets of
that city attracting many curious
stares. The men were - stopped by
everyone, ranging from little boys
and traffic cops to a girl just over
from France.
Those who made the sojourn to
Washington D. C. returned] with
plans for an Aggie get-together to
lie held *in the Roosevelt ■ Hotel on
the week-end, of July 10-11. All
the Aggies on the east coast are
expected to attend. [jA/
Francisco Guevera has been
made first sergeant and Bill Whee
ler squad leader and that constitu
tes the sum of the rank bestowed
upon A&M men.
On July 8 the potential officers
toured a supply depot where all
sorts of interesting and fascinat
ing things are stored. Besides be-
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problem,
rhe men were
instructed to
screen an entire peninsula to thw
art ah enemy amphibious attack.
Thjfey sallied forth in full field
unjform, including pack and gas
masks. j..,
Jeeps and trucks were every-
whjpnh Smoke generators were
everywhere. Men were everywhere.
U 11 c r chaos was everywhere.
Sn(6ke generators were set up, ra
dio! . communication was installed,
and after what seemed to be hours
all;! was iq; readiness. . /
There was one “fly ii^the qint-
metbt", however, for thejwSvere op-
eriiting in n 4.2 inch mortar target
range and had overlooked a com-
pa|y of mortars that were throw
ing 25 pound shells with carefree
abindph.
They hastily got their heads to-
geteeh and agreed Upon a “stra
tegic withdrawal” and soon stumb
led! around, over, and among each
other until they were installed in
a l&s frequented part of the range.
Kelly Field Air Force Cadets
Finish Up Last Week of Camp
n.. f t DTC-r, it,. . : iuLi it
, Last night I accident ill _
|iy old friends ^ j nU) my 0 ld bosom pa Sub Rij|*
and acquaintances frbm home. Year burn, and asked Mm ' nlmtit Hq
terday I was walking down Broad vice-presidential nomiw ti
Street when I thought I saw one
of my old cromies. “Hello, Senator
O’—I cried, stoppi ig myself just 0 ■ ra
in time. What I had taken for my oI103K 1 FCVl'
old buddy was the D moCratic par
ty’s mascot, being ! # to Conven
tion Hall.
I managed to nil elbows with
several Texanb. As a U) a t ter
fact, the Texas delegation has its
headquarters in my hotel, giving
it the dignified appearance of an
old southern mansion. A Texas
flag hangs over the door and a
Confederate flag bangs in the
lobby. “Dixie” an i “Beautiful
Texas” are sounded periodically,
and F.iE. Boone of Lexington, Ken-
All of
In Rom
By ANDY DAYjlS
And BILLY ISHIP1
“Romance .on
the! H gli
tucky, sounds off o^er the public (Technicolor) Warner 1 roll,
address system-every hour on the ring Jack (parson, Dprisi D lj k D|)i,
hour. Mint julip has replaced water De Fore, Janis Paige,i Osfcir Lc
in the drinking foun(ains. vant, and 8. Z. Sakalt.
Uppermost in mosl of the dele- Miss Doris Day itnakfs
gale’s minds is the writing of the hut in this musical coinddir a
platform. The stand on civil rights establishes herself as a no ientipl
and tidelands may si)Ht the Texas candidate for stardom. Tl i pfi
delegation. I am doing everything little blonde has a stipoi vi 4 e ati|
I can to gain the Brazos River not only thaL she is plen ty ei >sy oili'
tidelands for the farmers. As a the eye. W’ait until yoii hur hie
pledged delegate, I shall do my ut- sing, “Its Magic,” ope of lb! su
most to carry out my responsibili- hit tunes of the picture., i
ty. However, things look pretty The stoiy revolves arown 1 a di
black right now. turbed married coup! :, J Jar I
I was talking to tey old side- Paige aiid pon De Fore) Wien
kick Dan Moody, a mjember on the is compelled to cancel thi Sou
piaftoim committee. He said that American crujsc signali iin j the
my request seemed Impossible at third weddjng anniversi ry
the present, but he thought that Paige hires Miss Day tile
maybe his compromise plan could name and her cruise, iwqljB sp
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bun ii-
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ntion Begins
though he didn’t want to commit
himseit, it wan only after I ap
pealed to him as a good-buddy that
he predicted O’Mahoney or some
one else would get the nomination.
I hate to qee old Sam go but on
a limb like that just for me. That’s
whit I call a real pat
I left my old chum about 9:30 I
anti decided to shcak over to Con-
vention Hall and eaves-drop on
some Of the conferences going on
in the back-rooms- Circling the |*
Hall, I noticed a small crack of
light coming through' a drawn
shade in ’onie of the basemcrit win-
dpwiis. I crawled up 'to it, placed
my ear against the pane and
heard: ‘ISorry Harry, but my full
house bcat« your two pair.”*
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a commencement
^avo ht Bryan Gi
given in does a little checking j p oja h
Moody husbands pastimes in l ev York,
ool last Simultaneously, De Yoiie
i private detact
ibbed by ploys a
as the non* other than Ji
farmer ter tha situatiou is all
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By TOM CARTER
In the true spirit of SNAFU,
A&M men at Kelly Air Force Base
prepared to finish up their last
week of summer camp. t
] Squadron 11, the ‘ all-Aggie
squadron, seemed to be on the re
end of all the little hasty
into the making of a
The job that hlirt
that of having to
in up a bay occupied entirely
“flip*/* ‘ ‘ "
does
addition to this unp
Squadron ll was cboseh to
put -to a physical trafcihg demon
stration for visiting notables. The
men in this squadron are under
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the; itbpression that they receive
all Ithe details because they are’
the:only ones competent enough to
see!that the job gets done. Any-
way, they did the job and are now
making sick dall every moming in
an effort to get relief from sorp
mu&les. -X ig
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One of the most mtereatmg
things that has happened
wap a talk on geopolitics given
by LL Col. Keefer, professor at
ane University. The Colonel
the cadets bolt upright in
t seats when hq, said that
tas would go to
Speaking with
Voice, colonel
(See KELLY FIELD. Page 4)
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nsidered
with these mistaken idej title i,
film gets underway. Ca rsdn 1
for Miss Day,'and she fib k
Miss Paige, De Fora anil tbir '
ers finally ; come togethi r ir
ivfe, who
(>noit ‘
Sn
four
thrax
i said Monday that tha disease
vb -inA Mg)
yet rep
(Enterprise), starring Hinif
JL'
LL
une and subsequ
a phrpae-happy
Moody Plan, will _
all the fish he catches
water floods his fields
too liberal by thb die-hard Re-
publicans, the plan is designed to
appeal to the masses. ___ ,
Late yesterday afternoon I hap- and all the wrinkles are i roie i outi
The film has a tuneful arty df
! 1 numbsrs, with the comi!dj anglij
BAN MARCOS ANTHRAX being ^supplied bv Osci r Leyata
OUTBREAK CHECKED (dry humor) and B. i5. Sakallj
FORT WORTH, July U-'.Pi- Watch for Johnny Bejkei, whd
te SLSr are!!, w
Sdervny. all this plui,
Li-A. *
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11 a small fortune and their quiet
4 bomb life is disrupted.
young, handsome, aud rich hus-
gan, Rudy 1 Vallec,
Grey. .Palace Theater,
In the current attraction at the
Palace in Bryan, the audience is
taken back to the good old days
of fast spending, flapper akirts,
artd ; Prohibition. Yes, once again
Hollywood uses the “Roaring
Twenties!!” as the era for one of
its Ijatctii productions.
This the first starring part
for Henry Morgan, one^of radios’
new; comedians. 'Morgan gives »
mediocre performance as the ha
rassed spouse of Virginia Grey.
Although not an outstanding pic
ture: in any respect, it is quite
entertaining. j
Let’s go back to the year;'1919.
An sjverage American couple (Mor
gan and Grey) are living peace
fully; in South Bend, Indianr with
the wife’s young aiud attractive
eUtdr (Donna Drake). But alas.
Then^they
i off riurgcl
meet a Wall
who promptly fal
fe. After this blows ove
sistet meets and has quite *[flh
with* an ex-explorer, "a gambli!
:taliM them for quite
ick a flop show.
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on any
commended as .
tnteruinraent.
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