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PAGE 4 THE BATTALION EDITORIAL PAGE TO THE SENIORS IN HIGH SCHOOLS 1 Thi. issue of The BstUhon is dodkmUd to two groups the seniors in Texas high school, sad the P^wsto of boys now ittefcding A. A M. •To the seniors in high school wo will state frankly why wo dedicate this issue u> them—we hope they'll cbose to A. A M 'J We hope so for very good reasons, wo believe A. A M. is the only men’s senior college in Tex- “• f ’ , It is the largest miii'sry coUogo in the world. It has the largest Agriculture School in the world. It has the second largest Veterinary School in the Unhod States. ! ' * It has the second largest Engineering School In the United State*—with 17 students lens than the largest It has the reputation of being s school which .capable of doing their work well after graduation It has traditions which make life hors Intersst- iag during school years and worth rememb^rm* fetuses. It has a “school spirit” which is I It has the most famous yelling section in the FRIDAY, MAY WELCOME, PARENTS A. A M extends e hearty and sincere welcome to the parents of her students for this weekend Tomorrow Engineers’ Day sad Sunday s Parent* Day program will offer them excellent opportunities to see the educational side of tbs school which thsir •ons ere attending. This special issue of The Battalion will, we hope, enable them to understand the tradition*, the M mi. 'he history which surround A. A IL Sunday will be observed everywhere else ss Mothers’ Day; here it is designated Parents’ Day, ijnot |p detract from the debts Wf owe our mothers, but bo observe at the same tinm, a period eg honor for our fathers. It seems altogether fitting that in sny large group of sons this procedure be followed You will find on the A. A If. campus the most democratic group of students in Texas, all of them glad to hare you here and more than happy to be of any assistance they can.! . We sincerely hope and bc4i*-\e that you, too, will get a touch of the “Aggie spirit” before you . |wuo A. A M. nrasY ruYt It is utterly democratic except for the tku to rlsssss which dll colleges have. . It offers a list of student activities—run by atedsuts alone in most rases which would be hard I to equal anywhere. It has aa intramural sports department which is second to none. It has athletic teams which the students are proad of whether they win or loee. It will have by next year more dormitories than ] any other college ia the Southwest, > apable of handl ing every prospective student [ It has a mess hall system which is remarkable in Its efficiency and economy. Wet-could “rtend the list for columns without stopping outside the bounds of truth. For these reasons, we think the fact that wo would like to have high school seniors corns here naxt year is pretty soundly based. We hope the 19,000 seniors who rseeiou^fi||p‘ issue will enjoy learning about what we consider Texas’ greatest educational institution—Texas A.- A M BRITAIN’S BONER 1 In sn appeal for world peace as moving as any we have heard in many a day, the Duke of Windsor addressed an international radio ssdienes from Ver dun, one of France’s bloodisst battlefield. was a memorable speech for mors reasons than one, The former king spoke with that touching eloquence always so effective when the sentiment so obviously cottKi from the hsart ”1 appeal to afr political leaden,” be said, “in the name of the living whose happiness is in their bands.” Speaking as “a simple soldier,” and for himself alone, be warned that in the next war “there Will be no victory for the victor. Victory will lie poly with the forces of evil" ■ He made no pretense at statesmanship. Btt as SDllMSESSIOIim.il. IS DESIGNED TO CUE FOR All TYPES The in the i sssskpi as in the regular but there are no spechic requirements Tor adnufstou to tin gspsnl Short Cos Summer Cotton School and the provided with the bait room ae- dor- Wmkler. offers work in all the different fields of i included ia the regular year. Tbs general purpose tend thgl activities <>f the teaching division of the throughout tha I year. Man and women u The first tom of will begin on with registration noon. Classes start cl 1 g. la. Mdey, last day for registration for credit, thirty-two beds pud ai• very suit' during the first term. Final Tama able for groups who n ay desire to take place on July 14-15. I live together on a eoopnative plaa. The second term bemf with As in previous sun registration ou Monday, 17. ^ will provide a ting lecturea and eatsrtain- com mods t ions in the mi to rie. Walton Hall by women students students. Fourteen to 6. tages designed especis 11 ject groups” will be the ssmmer session sb tha houses are of sight at no extra cos to the atu- Goings On SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Finals will he on Friday and Satur day, August tt-16. In addition to the six and twelve In * (ldlUon U) weeks courses of the Collie di- l«tarss. students ar vision and the Graduate School, the P* rt ’ c >P*t* ia the “ sessions of the g of short unit tnunus extending COQr *®*> 1 over a period of two or three weeks encM Speakers of to meet the needs of adults who At field, of education, cannot leave their job, for * long* rural life, and farm •r penod of time. Field sn4 tour P“ r 00 ^ Prot^r courses are available to advanced •P* cial ^ Little Bkippci i lsyed by Tom- ■todptite ia Agriculture, Gpology I f | ^ New Records a, m. to mkkught May 15—A, A M. vs. Texas Uni versity, Base bail, Kyle Field May 16—A. A M.xg. Texas Uni versity, Baseball, Kyls TW. ^ DEFICIT Yesterday while the House was railroading through the largest Navy appropriation in peacetime history ($776,000,000), the Senate was approving Hams in the largest Agriculture Department ap propriation of all time ($1,216,000,000). Both supply bills are in excess of the Pres ident's budget, which calls for an over-all deficit of $$400,060,000. ; And in the words of Secretary of the Treasury Morgan than, • “$3400,006,000 deficit is plenty’’ Meanwhile, Coagrtaa many of whose awmbsrs are critkisiag the President for extravagance while votiag to Mke the aato—is doing nothing toward raising more , reveaae. More than $2^00,000,000 in sales and nuisance excises and corporation income taxes are due to expire this year. The passage of a tax bill by this Congress, therefore, is unavoidable. Yet no stop has been taken. No tax bearings have been held. None has been scheduled. Congressional leaders apparently are waiting for the Administration to toll them what to do; the Administration appears to be waiting for Congress to take the initiative And every day, of delay increases the likelihood that expiring taxes. Over the last year there have been several nonpartisan studies by ind«'p*«i<i.'nt tax -x AU of these studies have |K>intpd to the same con elusion: (hat the present taxe structure is holding : back business enterprise and bustamp recovery, and that a simplification of tax laws would stimulate a greater business volume, and thereby produce more revenue. j . i If Congress could take time off from voting larger appropriatione, and examine these studies, we might get somewhere toward business recovery and fiscal solvency. J - -HOUSTON PRESS The Battalion STUDENT SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF sedation Senior Luncheon. 12 noon frain. Tbs recording of “Deep Pur Mess Hall May 12—Entomology Club Bene fit Show, Assembly Hall, 7 p. m. May 12—Senior Ring Dance, sn observer, he said he was profoundly confineed\^ eM 6 p. bl until 1 A m - *thst there is no land w hose pssple want wsr."( And 'May 13—Corps Dance, that is ss true of Germany, he went on, M of Britain, Hail, 6 America and France. Hence, he urged, a way to r should be actively sought Yea, it waa a memorable speech. And it Tea out of which doubt lea* more will b# heard. For sot the least remarkable, not to say astounding, thing shout it was the fart ‘ that ita broadcast was banned in Great Britain sad Caaada. The London Daily Express explained that in asmuch as ‘the king is oa his way to America,” any word to tha United States should be spoken by him. In “court circles’’ it waa suggested that the duke had “pulled another boner.” Brooklyn Collage undergraduates That somebody “pulled-a boner” there can be tost year earned $136444 doing no doubt, but H waa not tbs Duka of Windsor, odd jobs (.rocurad through the col- jhAapts at diplomatic hair-splitting may sea a alight leg*-'* empb-ymant bureau, infringement upon tile royal prerogative, but if I’* 1 ^ i - pas so blight that even the most pronounced stickler for the protocol might well have passed it up with a privately expressed grumble. What amounts to • ■m official musxle on Windsor gives the controlled freaa of Germany, Italy and Soviet Russia an opportunity to jibe at one of the great democracies for refusing to allow ita former ruler to bread cast s simple appeal for peace. t As usual, however, the ban only served to advertise the speech. Safe to say, many a Briton who might otherwise have missed it erill make H a point at leaet to read what his former king said. -HOUSTON PRESS 12, 19*f of •4 1 utercollegiato my Dorsey givSe a mellow recerd- *nd Engineering branches ' Massachusetts Institute of Tedk- ing of s pleasing melody aad sen Betides the {saguter College Di- no logy sailors aip this year spom- timental lyrics featuring Jack Leo- vistoa of summer school, the ad. soring the annual uard as the vox-shat. "Got No ministration offers a number of dinghy regatta. Time", also played by Tommy Dor- short courses, including tha^ua*- sey and his orchestra, gives medi mer Cotton School, the Tens. Social Ufa on the Syracuse Uld- um swing with the get-off work School Adm munition Conference, versity campus has Ambled in the from Tommy. Tdythe Wright voc- the Conference of Count* Smd tost five years, alises in this attractive rhythm Rural School Supervisors, the Farmers’ Short.founse, thee’Pfm J ^ .U , “V H*d I, u, Y„- Trtirurnr ScW>. ,h. Slot ^ >les Bunny Bengal) and hit or- Course for Oil MiU Opera to |6 and . _ _ l May 16—Biology Club lUgoa* chestrt * iwinc wlUl a w ,n gun- the Annual Coaching School. | | lI>aw in B. 0. T. 0. enrollment, ‘ |b,e<n *6- tune tional picture show. Assembly Mhl^ „ Berigan’a great trumpet turns Courses will be off.km jlbjert •:4& p. m. oU ^ # rtndltlon wlth K«th to the same gmiecul adnu oi May 21—Reserve Officers’ As- leen L^rie singing the vocal re- — ■ ■ - - ■■...<— —L Harvard officiala pndkt. aa the number is kow the land Cornell University scientists ha vs discovered the special enzyme that torts Jimmy Brown as vocalist, makes race horses run fast. “I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak” ia a 1 charming ballad r«- ple" with Ai*tic Shaw and kia Or- corded in Hal Kemp’s uhiqo^atyla ehaatra hardly ndeda no description *** Bob Allen as the votal»t throughout "Have a Heart" coupled wi|$ the other number to being ised by “East Side ef Heaven" and^That Kemp as Bob Alim’S fedturdd Sly Old Gentleman From FeatlStox «ong in the current tijaatrf; tagr bad lame” are brought in by'bC the Hal Kemp Sammy Kaye’s Swing and Sway nt Both . tunas street s medium sweet tempo aad fea- clarinet effects Ketnp’i dee by tha use of mrgaph. nas and a bass i Iff lash - * RADIO if] REPAIRING Parts and Tubes STUDENT CO-OP PhoM College 139 North GaU rt i every day, of in tha end Congress will merely re-enact the TEXAS A. 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Richard Utoey, W. N. Tomlmaon, George Fuermann. T. N. Studer, Lewis OhevuHtor. Hub Johnson ’ — Sports Assistant • FRIDAY STAFF C. M. Wilkinson -...-Junior Editor Freak Phelan. H. 0. Yblbot, E. A. Shields, 0. A- Lopes, J. P. McGarr, Jack Henderson. Billy Clarkson. L. A. Newman. Jr, Mai Paridaa, Allrad Ptoeher, Jamea Epplar^D. K. Hill, W.W Sullivan, M. L. Howard, Max McCullar, Tommy McCord ADVERTISING SOUCITORS ttoeeday Sta«: ^ Adams, E. L. Davenport, S. F. . Ranby, J. L. Friday Staff: Burk, D. G. f’ ! Jenkins, J. W. Wehrla, L J. On National Affairs f f T-] ; *, t , j ' f r ' . j The Cockeyed World BY DR R. P. LUDLUM j The world stays seems cockeyed in Spring. Upon this somnolent Msy afternoon, though^ aa a roupie of fugitive thoughts chase each other through my mind, I wonder whether there isn’t something deeper than mere Spring fever the matter with the world this time. Listen to these araMHnte by Walter UppUMHi: “It may, perhaps, help as to get ear bearings if we fix our attention on the truly extraordinary fact that among the great nation* of the wo rid the United States is now the only one left which is not mobilised for war. As a result, the United States is the only great nation left which has a problem of unemployment. All the others have reached or ant approaching the problems of a scarcity of labor. The United States is the only great nation left with the problem of how to dispose of surplus production AH the othors are confronted with the problem of procuring indispensable supplies. The United States to the only great nation left which to wandering how to enable and how to induce the masses to in crease consumption. All the others are taking measures to reduce the popular consumption of goods. The United States to the otRy great nation left ghtch has more capital than it now knows how to aaa. . “Ip the rest of the world where the great na- tiens are either at war or in a atoto of inefeasing mobilisation for war, the production of illimitable armaments to the one and only national businato Thu production ‘employs ... all available labor and plants and raw materials and liquid capital. It could employ much more. So the hours of work are lengthened, the tempo of work to accelerated, the 1 luxury trades are discouraged, a. cumulated cspital at home and abroad to borrowed ar confiscated by the government.” It appears, then, that the world to cockeyed enough that nations must either suffer the problems tkst vex the United States, er solve them by prep arations for war. A fine shewing for “progn -fmnee the days of the cave man! , Just to make certain nobod> diall consider the i^rterld anything but cockeyed, consider the activities of our premiere strip dsnseuae, Mias Gypsy Rose Las, Customarily, tha talents of strip-tease dancers are not considered to be of particular service toward tha I [ solution of pressing world problems Yet MMe Lee now appara as chairman of (Ironically) the nothing ,j division of the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign. Surely I should be the last to repel Miss Las , from joining tha ranks of tha progsaalvea. But when a strip-tease artist develops a social conscienea, 1 think no other proof to needed that this ia a cock eyed world. 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