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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1939)
* 1'». PAGE 2 EDITORIAL PAGE OP THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1939 -rr- TRANSPORTATION IS BIG LOCAL PROBLEM m STOKE HI REALLY RAXED The dtjr irovernment of Collogf v8ptiort|! U faeod now wiUxra b4f prob,. m that of worktof otot tranuportation problem* between here »nd Bryan. For yean, while the retpUation of such was under the direct supervision at Bryaa the situs tion at tones has been deplorable Now that trans portation has become an inter-city affair, the Col lege government should act * It cannot be denied by anyone acquainted with the facta that transportation facilities are sorely lacking. The Bryan-College Tran sports ton Com pany's bus schedule m inadequate to care for 6,000 students sad even with a revision of its schedule, there could not he enough flexibrity to give stu dents the service they want and are entitliHl to. This leaves enly one alternative more taxi cabs must be allowed. The Bryan government, in stead of approaching the question from the stand point of student welfare, approached it merely by limiting to six the number of cube which eould oper ate. Six tSiirabx and an hourly bus to take care We suggest the following points as a solution to our transportation problem: 1. Allow at least IS taxicabs to operate.-with the addition of more as the need for them become* evident 1 Never allow a taxicab company to carry more than five passengers, in addition to the driver, at any time. 3. Require that rates be posted conspicuously. 4. Require that drivers of good character and standing be employed. i. Require that periodic mechanical inspection of all operating cabs be macb’ We hope and believe that the officials of Col lege Station understand the importance of this problem to the etodent boils and that they will do all in their power to effect a speedy realisation of a logical solution to the problem. homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of tha unoffending widow* with unavaii- of all of College Station sad of Bryan wai their j n g grief; help us to turn them out roofless with solution. It seems to us that the proper way to solve the problem is to allow mors taxicabs—allow at least 12—and regulate the operation of taticab companies. CHECKS-GOOD, BAD! ' In a recant issue, The Bryan Newe editorial which leaves the impression that ef A. A |L allow students to “run wild" writing cheeks is concerned. Such is not the Any student who writes a check with diahoitest Intentions is “subject to disciplinary action by the anthorities,” according to Commandant Moore. The editorial is concluded with the l|Mm|H^ “A atop in this direction is now being considered by officials af A. A M. College in the issuance of stu dent identification cards, but even this wffl not go far to correct the present situation.” As far as The Battalion can learn, no such step is being con sidered at present Several years ago student iden- their little children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst sport of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it—far our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with thf blood of their wounded feet! W# ask of —»y . xvvwts-xcvywv ww a wwwwwv^vw^ve’vfv One who is the *irit of love and who is the ever- WASHINGTON HAPPENINGS faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset, ■ ,, — —, and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant our prayer, 0 Lord! and Thine shall be the praise and honor and glory, now and forever. Amen." PREVIEWS and REVIEWS BY RAY TKKADWELL j what tbs show has to offer in tha “Out West with the Hardys". of novelty and entertainment an M-G M nieture Hr nth 1 hy To |ut K briefly, it eras made to « M-G-M pkot, dreeted b, ^ ^ thu (*»r^ B feitt. Krm pU, bp wh , t „ lboaM -Q* v *» Rfeor. Agnes Johnston, West with the Hardys”. sad William Ludwig, baaed upon Rouverol. Showing Tuesday and Wednesday at the Assembly Hall. Cast of characters: , MLACB Judge Hardy ^ Lewis Stone Tuesday only—“The Jitterbug Andy Hardy Mickey Rooney Revue", a five-act Stage show star- Cecilia Parker rjnj Barbara Kay, song stylist; character, crated bP Aaranj, ’ Mwiaa Basty. Mrs. Hardy ...„ Polly Benedict - VuthlrtWd Murry, ddneing comedies- ThU picrara 1, «* . racrat 3oo0 ""“ Ch * m '' K " ^ lease and plays up tha Hardy fam- ^rbogM”, and otbars- Also a fea- Uy that baa Wo me well known to hire show “Blondiy” starring Ban- the public through previous pie- ny Singleton, Larry Simms, and tares, “A Family Affair", “You're Artl , ur : ^ SSX picture ,uc,„, lik. 0,1. ora teal lik.TSlLSxEt' how but Otherwise H U likely to KeU3r ’ ^ ^ U be boring to see the same action* ASSEMBLY HALL ( {W over agaia with a'new co*A]of Tuesday and Wodaeaday—“Out West With the Hardys" an M-G-M Because of now contracts and the picture with Lewis Stone, Mkkay *tardom of Mickey Rooney this Rooney, Cecilia IVker, and Fay picture promises to be the last of Holden. the Judge Hardy epochs for some . ■■■ i i.i—m time to come and as a result the By CHARLES P. STEWART public. He was acquainted with public is in for a relief Wuntr New Records The funniest feature of German Benito when the latter still was a too much of anything, no matter * and Italian reaction to speeches at com P*™ tlwl > Milan news- how good it ia, ruins the whole af- A song from the category of the THE STUDENT FORUM TO THE BATTAUW : i 1 ill . , „ In re your Parade of Opinion anent fraternity ment at the suggestion that Nail- " u ‘j fr * but S ‘ fnor Mu “ ,0, * ni '* Bot t 00 * for r, *T mm*m%** v* *■« a** * «»v. j was c* w»saww«aw •'•w » w* « » m . , sIRu M OOQ ITl R H V I O’* “ ^ tificaUon cards ware issued, but siace they were no, ‘ l1 ' 11 * “I looking for coal **» »nd Faaciam, (hr from being now anywhere near enough to justify the trouble And ex panse, they were discontinued. Obviously the line of action propem^l ] would transform the officials of A. A M into collection agents for Bryan merchant*. The Battatlion does last long here for two good reasons. The student body wont put up with him and the officials wont put up with him. A Bryan firm which advertises quite a bit in recent Semicentennial Con- , ** ^ office appeal of hH. ia teamed by Richard Himber i i w bt i «r u Wnr * <lvmnc * d Lberal. Sol naturally thu senes has dropped decidedly and his Rhythmic Pyramids Or- grexsional Celebratkm In W^- do ^, n ^ ^ hira #0 weU any morfc ^ thahr last two picture, show- chestra withV^ltod new number, mgton was ambodi.d in the totsli- Except among the “bund” folks, n* that even a famfly that rose The popular tune, LETS STOP tarian governments’ super resent- Hetr WM*r never has had any ad- to aterdom from B class pictures THE CLOCK, and the new melody, mm .. Ppi. m Im| »ot good for ever. , ( ROMANCE RUNS IN THE PAM- had a good many for a while. He The story deals with the family ILY, are given tost distinctive out West in which Judge Hardy touch by the well-known Himber outside of Newcastle! You thought enough of the anything new, simply are rever- There were three propositions save, a rancher friend from rain arrangement*. Th«i voice ef Stuart article to print it in the Battalion far all the Aggies * to ns to the dark ages) or even the embodied in the three essential by hit l«*gal knowledge of water Allen la heard in both numbers, to rend. You mint have thought well of the argu- pre-dark ages. Berlin and Rome are speeches on congn-xMonal seaqui- rights with the help of an ©W menu put forth condemning “Hell Week"; do you prepared for attacks on their re- ‘VL u h which to m« «■* ^T™."raj;'.n“y '“ 1| “ U “‘ ll >«“ • ••»•»«>« hold lor th. prraoot .yam; thoy tek. s ” ^ Aggies are not cheaU or grafters, and anyone abolishment of the year-long hating of Freshmen *e position that said systems are independence. j Rooney plays the part of Andy who flta into one of those classifications doea not in this school? 1 j so young and original as not yet 2—-President Roosevelt summer- who in this chapter of the series “. . . chief contention ... still is .. . that ‘Hell 40 ** understood here or in other what, in particular, we've got is cast as a Star high school has- Week* activities are antieducatioctal and do not inatill democratic countries. But it makes hang onto - ketball player with a big head but into neophytes true ideas of fraternalism.” In moat ’em boil to have it intimated that 6—fipankor Bankhead Warm'd us fortunately he geU it removed very fraternities, "Hell Week" involves 3 or 4 days of they’re mere copy-cats from the a<rmtn * 4 Naai-ism s and Fascism’s neatly by the action cf Virginia State Farm Auto GIVES BEST SERVICE Fast Claima-Lowest Cost The Batuhon, J. C. Penney and Co., uses as one of running errands, being paddled and made to feel days of medieval despotism, the inU * rnal “ dirt y work -’’ in »» Weidler who plays the role of the its slogans, "We Cash Cadet Chocks.” A checkup there reveals that they have had "very satisfactory roaultt” in almost all instances. Their only trouble comes, it ig reported, from boys who havs dr<; p* : out of school Obviously, the high atate of The News' alarm iq unfounded. Possibly The Battalion is creating a little fric tion hers which otherwise would not exist—since most Aggies never see a Bryan newspaper—but we believe that. In all fairness, this side should bv ;> • sen ted. • ■! Bryaa merchants are coming • more and more to realise that Aggies art, after all, fair, decent, honest, law-abiding fellows and are entitled to be treated as such. The Newt editorial only seta bpek the development of this attitude. Any merchant, either at College Station or Bryan who has trouble with student chucks has two courses of actioa open to him-—he can ap; chI to the authorities, who will aid him all they can If the student has acted in bad faith, or he can apiieal to the law fbr protection who is in Ahe picture rather than A*. 1 name. Dare print this? you Parade of Opinion _ .•I ! silly and small. At A. A M “Fish" year involves pharaohs and earlier. ri ? ht ta our own to .<»wgal in Arixwia nine months of the same thing which should be Japan isn’t so sore, for the Japa- min# democracy. If you are one of the statnch abotrahed. “Hell Week" in fraternities or upperdass nese never have pretended with any Tht ‘ Hu * he * Roowvalt talks Hardy family supporters you can men va. Fish at A. A M ? sincerity to have emerged yet from ca " f T l j no com,nent - What we got have this one cheap because it is What justification ia there! The only one I ^ The Germans and [* 0K and of roari « want to those pictures built to sell have ever heard is “But you’ll be able to be « boss th * Italians, however, are driven nang onto 11 for three years, so what’s just one year of being f* ir, y Wlld at the miggestion that bossed around?” Did someone say something about they ve retrograded by a few cen- an “overgrown high-school boy”! turies. To be sura, their govern For fear of the "“"t* i *' n iMuwl n °thing official horrible con a e - on ^ but their press gives * quances of "trut of vok * to their feelinga- ■ Iflir spirit" I and * ver yone ia well aware that shall not sign my ** " their governments. Once on a time, within my recol lection, German newspapers were nearly as independent as our own. Occasionally an editor was over hauled on a ‘Vae majeste” charge but that was for getting to person- Sharply warning the nation that meetings such al relative to royalty—not on gen- as the recent gala demon*;i at on of the American * r *l political principles And he had Mutate ASSEAVKLY HALL BEFORE THE DANCE J r 'iT Let Us Clean Your UNIFORMS AND TUXEDOS CAMPUS CLEANERS “Over Exchange Store” OKAY Hera come the happy Hardyt .. •wi huuUov ihtn ia "Love Finds AadyHatdyri beef yell WAR LORD’S PRAYER Looking through The Battalion files the other day, we came arro*s an editorial which carried some words by America's immortal Mark Twain, These words. If they should be carefully considered, might bund in New York City are the fore-runners of a semi-fair trial; he wasn't slam- , „, , .. P . med into a concentration camp Hitlerism in the United States, the college press wiUK>ut , hwing It was a moder- nevertheless believes that the Constitution should be ately free press, upheld in allowing these groups to function. As for Italian journals—they The meeting of 22,000 members of the Germam Wrn downright libelous. Hlustra- NO JUICES REACH MY MOUTH MEDICO FI LURID SMOKING American Bund brought from the collegians a re- tively, Benito Muasolini ran a daily . mi r Milan, and he was so anti- do a great deal to stop some of the slaughter which affirmation of the rights of freedom of speech, governmental that, as we know, he goes on in different corners of the world today. I although some did take the position that this right argued the nation into a revolu- Th<* words are these of The War lx>r.l * should not be granted to those who would destroy tion. But now let an Italian paper our present form of government a "ythmg against Signor Mus- sol ini—and watch what happens to Prayer," which follows: “O Lord, our God, help us to tear their Best way to combat the minonty evil, the Syre- its editor. eohiiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help os to cover their smiling fields with the pale ferns of CUM University "Daily Grange" claims, ia to laugh their patriotic dead; help as to drown the thunder off their antics. "Strongest defense which Amori- t^NURESSMAN SOL BLOOM \/EDI CO'S patented filter, cotn- ^ * btning 66 Baffle Interior sr>d cellophane exterior, U greatest scien tific smoking invention ever known. It traps nicotine, juices and flakes; and breaks up hot smoke stream, resulting in cool, clean, sanitary Filtered Smoking in Medico Pipe*, JH Cigarette and nnm aaiaa Cigar Holders. can but • IMtINI mvits *ot aiaict aim Ham OULVN IMS * itaa soi of the guns with the groans of the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble The Battalion Entered as second data matter at the postoffic at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1879 Subscription rates, 12 a year. Advertising rates upon request - Office in R*Kjm 122 Adminiatiutkm building Telephone College I. Night phone ( ollege fltW. Represented for national advertising hr Nation al Advertisiag Service, Inc., 490 Madron Ave., New York City. R. L. DOSS - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING MAN Jamea Crits, Bill Murray Managing I George Fulton, B. C. Knetear. Aast. Adv, E. C. (Jaap) Oates Spo Tom Darrow Aaaiatant Spo Bob Oliver, Wayne Stark Associate Kditor* j. C. Dieta Circulation M i .get Ross Howard, H. G. Howard —Circulatkai Aaaiatoati C F. DeVUbias Kditorial Assistant TUESDAY STAFF Ray Treadwell —- Junior Editor L E Thompaor Junior Editor Bob Nisbit, A. J. Robinson. J. 8. O’Connor*, 1 D G. Burk. J. Al Staaaell, Foster Wiaa. M. L. How ard, B G. Brady, Ru hard Utaey, W, N, Tomlinson George Fuermann, T. N. Studer, Lewis Chevallliar. . . . w Congressman Sol Bloom of New cans can use against such un-Amencaa groups, it v . . . _ , York had more than any other sin- maintained, “ia tha alightty prosaic but effective g i e individual to da wKh arrang- weapon of ridicule. No one likes to be laughed at, ing the national legislative Cham- and a ridiculed cause has little af the glamour of a ‘»r’s sesquicentennial celebration suppressed one. The 160,000 granted to Mr. Dies for In fact, I think he inapirad it No further pursuing of un-American aetkrities might **rlier congressional anniversity profitably be devoted to a laughing campaign * v * r *»■ celebrated, against all borers-from-withirt and without, eulmi- Congressman Bloom is a special- nating on every Feb. 22 in a similar, but open, ' ni on American hutory and its demonstration in the Garden in honor of the fuehrer pcraonaUitiei—George Waahing- ef our country.’ ” ; ! 'i- ton, adoption of the Constitution, But, ray. th. University of lovra "Doily low..,- !"«eral~l rawirratouii.!.. »* must combat nuDm "throutrh 0 widrsprrod ram- ^ n * lt ' * 1 ****** ramo* paign of public education and enlightenment, D1 m * especially through the medium of the newspaper and the radio, and perhaps the theater. Education is the antidote and the serum for subversive pro paganda as propaganda can only thrive on ignorance and prejudice M-G-M SHORTS Tuesday - Wednesday March 14A * 15th 6:30 P, M. . -rfr-r—- — all right Congress man Bloom, by the way, was one of Mussolini’s first friends in this re- FR1DAY STAFF C. M. Wilkinson i Jtodor Editor Frank Rl>* an, H. G. Tolbot, E. A. Shields, O A. Lopes, J. P. MeGarr, Jack HanAwto^ Billy Clarkson, L. A. Nsennan, Jr, Max Paihtoa. Alfred Fiacber, Jaanee Eppler, D. K. HiU, W. W. fiallivan. M. L. Howard, Max MeOallar, Tommy MHord i \ ft. j) 1 < ; | li . i Falling in line with this view, the University of Michigan “Daily” said: “America ia not immune to fascism. Democracy here is not paeuliarly safe from the messianic threat although it is undoubted ly better entrenched than it was in Germany or Ifcky. It mus be safeguarded by action; the people most be made to feel that democracy la working to solve their problems." Only note of discord in the chorus ef those who upheld the right of the Bundsmen to meet was seundwl by the Weat Virginia University "Daily Athenaeum”: “The simplest thing to do would he to exercise rigid censorship of such demonstrations and *o prevent useless trouble. It seems to us that freedom of speech should be construed to mean that speech which ia constructive, and has no mali cious intent towards existing government.” Plan Your FUTURE • SEABOARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. Fonl Mannerly.. ’26 District Manager A seeds toe: H. E. Bargees. ’2S Sid Loveless, '38 A. H. MrCutrheon. IS 0. B. Donaho SPRING & SUMMER : STYLES Sportswear Bush Coats • • 'N«>| I x T ; IS .Lf* Neckwear it I Belts Shots Hosiery EXCHANGE STORE ‘An Aggie Institution” —~ —ra~~~ * -* ■ » --ra-