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THE BATTALION
- THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1M0
The Battalion
•to* art all part of tfcia
Tto aa-oaBto Jato I
Bofttoll Laagaa, iwimai^
, Bo. hL. tw t.ui.u Organised In 1937 And Headed By
"y - 4 -* Dr. 0. M. Ball, A. & M.’t Museum It
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Bat, ta Tto BaMallaw at toast, tto Mtoa tto tod
Uni surnmor profram to tto important Uiinf tto
thntf vtorti to tto vary foaaiattoa of Ha atoaow-
todffad aaoeaaa. Aad that ifca, aa laprmid by tto
Physical Education Dipartaisat‘»
director W. L Psatortliy, to tkto
One Of College't Fast-Growing Units
ipsrial taTto Battatoa: la top- braacto* of tto Maawai tto fa^
vveear'
liatod oa tto caatpoTdrTto ftaaa
ABM Coltofs. This awasaai was
luivf rBCtM'tMj . nf
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PHtocded Goleftde Press
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Twice Every Fourth Year
ONI HALT Of AMrlol mrj lourmv MUNil
•idoatow fot under way tost Monday as tto Grand
Old Party bocan to platform makm* and noaUaat-
tna ooavontioa in tto I tan toy Waltor-dubtod "City
of Brotherly Hate" -Thtladelphta
la three weeks more tto Democrats will do the
same thine in Cktoaco. But Wore either of those
eon mentions meet, tto party •tool troops do most
Of tto reed platform making Meeting before the
hands and hunting of a political convention have
taken ever a town, this group of nationally aigm
ftoaat committeemen do the behlnd-the-ecenoe Perk
aad generally formal*te the plane and policies which
•re later officially adopted at the convention
Because of the tremendous significance of the
day-by-day happenings in Europe, and tie resulting
attitude the United States takes in respect to these
things, the nation's attention is now being constantly
focused on the federml government Whst the plat
form-bulidert do in their respective conventions is
a matter of considerable importance to the nattoti’s
dtiaenry Texas Aggies, and collegians In general,
are vitally concerned with at least one of the plat
form plank* the one which indicate* a party's atti
tude toward the current European conflict, ami
more especially the attitude the United tSates will
take in respect to it
Beyond this, however, is a still more important
gaeation What will the virtersee* party do \FTER
the etoctioe? Platform declarations are made with
present conditions m mind But a person need only
turn bark ten months or so and see that world and
national conditions art dhangmg rapidly—net month
hy month, week by wedk, or even day by day, hut
minute by minute Whatever platform the victertoas
party may have, H caa’t peesihlr be one that will
beep pace with these rapid-fire world developments—
tto decieiens will be ap to the electees.
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No one can accurately predict the answers to
these questions No one can accurately predict the
choice of candidates that the two parties will make.
I Nor can anyone accurately predict the outcome of
the election itself But reasonable conclusions can
i he drawn from the facte at hand
Trying to forecast the opinion of the corps in
respect te the forthcoming presidential election it a
< difficult task for The Battalion or any othetr agency,
but with national and state politics coming to the
fere—entangled aa they are with current world
affaire and tto possibility that this nation may soon
be enghged in armed combat- it seems te be within
the realm of reason that a collegiate newspaper
might spine Hi respect to these affairs . . , Especially
' in view of the feet that hundreds of Aggielead s
sis thousand-odd are ef legal voting age
Aa a general rule. Tessa has long been a Dem
oeretie state. Nomination te any state office on the
Democratic ticket is tantamount te election The
vest majority ef Tessa Aggie* are Tesane. hy birth
or by choice—and it's logical to conclude, therefore,
that the vast majority of Texas Aggie* are Demo
crats also. Moat Aggies, The Battalion believe*,
would prefer t* see a Democrat as the nation * chief
esecative
t
But the field of national and state politics is
too big a on* for a collegiate newspaper to enter
into, and, as such. The Battalion has only on* hope
to espreaa ia this connection.
“Hiat world conditumk are grave, even children
understand That the United Atatee might soon hr-
come involved in armed combat it equally obvioaa
One mistake now, on the pert of our governmental
agencies, might be the very factor which would toad
to the nation's engrossment in the war; or, if war
becomes inevitable, a mistake might leave us woe
fully unprepared
The Rettalie* hopes that la the light ef the
forthcoming political campaign* veraaa the world
crtole. pre-eminence will NOT be given to politic* ...
tot that tto aattoa's leaders aad the nation's pop.
atace will give pre-eminence to tto l etted State*
% —* “
Summer-Styled For 1940
WHIN MOM THAN MO .tgOmu. of , total to-1
rollmeat ef 1ATI, take part ia a program of any
kted—that program to important
When say program of student activity can
five a long aaastoa tang to a usually listless summer
■rbeel that program to Haportant.
When any pregram ef student activity can pro
vide healthful aad aeaatbl* entertainment with a
definite student appeal—that program to ir i<
Wtoa say program af student aettvitp eaa do
pH three ef these things, that program to asere than
baparlM*—Ifa atoaaat toe vary tout af a icem
hammer-styled far 1M0 to the current program
af atodeat activity being diretoed hy the Phyttoal
earned, but these wants have been given tat inch a
way that ivnryoae can participator; or, as eaa person
recently expressed it, "The moat far |to money ”
Anyone with tto will to de so eaa play Mftoai,
tennis, and other summer sports. Anyone with a
first semester registration slip can make see •< the
swimming pool. Anyone with fifteen cento can attead
tto Jake Box Prom*. Cortalnly that repressaU
getting "tto moat for tto money.*
And tto Jake Bex Prom* they deaerve more
than jast being referred to as a part af tto summer
program Two tovo boon hold thus far, aad approx -
imutely UO persons attended each. But tto aanti-
moats expressed by those who have attend id these
donee* borders ea the unbelievable One Texas Aggie,
who seldom fails to attend the regular Saturday
night corps dances during tto spring social aaasnn
daneos which are rhythsaed hy tto nation's top-rank
ing orctoetras ia tto fUeh, declared that, Tv* en
joyed myself mors at those Jake Box Proms than
say other dances I have attended ” And hie opinion
seems to be la the same groove as Bm opinions of
ether Jake Box goers
•
™ "T mi engaging cast. H<r
in local
_ T ttoy arttoeotogy and several adacel- P* r ^ wrn, * , ' c ®*> w *th the
^ , bammd or exhibit- laaeeas items including aa Igyp- <* Lamb* Bay, Robert
ad. These collections wars: the B. tian muamay. and Billie Bark, fail to bo wj
M. Tracy barbarism, tto O. M eu w.
Ball ceHeettoa of femil pleats, and "ht^T m^Ton £ ^ T
the Mark Pvniiei* roiWiofi nf ■“•«'>» p n •• well Hi hii rola if g spoiled play
.U 1W 4mUi of Dr. ^ «*■ rT 1 ^ W, ^ UM. .
■H.t
iet novel that baa yet
ef America" Darry
ef Wrath."
will to at tto
Hall
Mark
Tharaday, follows both tto spiHlj
the letter of the book with
Praaeis hi 1PM, and the —a
queetion ef the dispoaal of Mb eol-
lectton brought about tto aalah-
liahment of tto museum All this
material was moved into a small,
mitirely fireproof building, aad Dr.
0. M. Ball, retiring aa toad af tto
department af biology, was placed
in charge of tto project.
Tto neucleus of tto Tracy her
barium io a collection of Texas aad
Gulf Coast plants, made by Mr.
8. M. Tracy aad Helge Nee* Upon
the death of these men it became News,
tto property ef tto Texas Agri- 11:80 a m
as those which will arouse tto bt-
termt of tto outsider.
ia «
Mias Day
sub-deb
sister's tixm
Bo, summor-styled for 1MB, or rurnmor styled
for any year, the current sports and activities pro
gram Is one which has not only ftllod a long-aching
cavity in tto mouth of A. A M.'s summer seas ions,
but K is one which wilt make for bigger and totter
summer sessions to corn#
Tto directors of this program dont want any
orchids—all they ask for are suggestions Hi respect
to improving the program But the flower* are theirs
nevertheless, The work that W. L Ponberthy and
assistant Luke Harrison have don# has put a new
life-blood into A. A M '■ summer school. Thetr work
—together with the fin# cooperation pf the rammer
school student body—has been a valuable contribu
tion to Texas A A M College.
*
Littlejohn And Fitch
FOR THE PAST two month* the front page* of
several Battalions have contained articles relating
to an attempt to place Jack Littlejohn's Aggieland
Orchestra oa the 1M0 Fitch Summer Bandwagon
Each aummer the F W Fitch Company stage* a
weekly radio show via NBC featuring unknown
orchestras which arc the near-equal of the name
orchestras The idea being Beside* making for a
number one radio ahow, the Fitck Company can
give a long boost to up-and-coming orchestras.
•
Texsns who listened to the programs last sum
mer—and especially those thousands of Texans fa
miliar with A. A M College—mere struck by one
fact in particular; that there was an orchestra right
her* in Texas which was the equal of those presented
on IBM’s Summer Bandwagon , . . The Aggieland
Orchestra.
These Texans, of course, were prejudiced, but
evidence has since turned ap which has given foun
dation to their belief On one occasion during the
victorious 1989 football season, the Aggieland Or
chestra played over the NBC network in the Sugar
Bowl Preview. An hour later a telegram from an
NBC official said, in part, “Littlejohn terrific" But
if the Fitch Company wants some more evidence,
then it can take a look around the state The praises
that have gone to the Aggieland Orchestra in the
past three years have been in a single groove-
terrific!
•
The Fitch Company, of couree. ia naturally In
terested In eelling their products To that end The
Battalion takes time out to indicate to the company
that If the Aggieland Orchestra appaars on their
Aummer Bandwagon, they can etart shipping hair
tonic and oil to Collega Station in carload Iota from
then on.
Maybe the Fitch Company hasn't been told that
there wore 1,000 cadets enrolled at Texas A A M
last long aeaeton; that there are 21,900 ex-Aggies
eoattored throughout the nation and world who will
be listening to the program; that there are milliona
of Aggie friends and supporters who will do the
same thing| and that the college is definitely a
new#-eali#n| from any point of view—as a great
educational Institution, as a greet military college,
and as the home of the national football champions
of 1989
In Littlejohn and Fitch, there’s definitely a
good tie-up Jack Littlejohn and the Aggieland Or-
rhestra would win with this deal; Texas A. A M.
College would win; and the Fitch Company would
win.
1199 he—29T.7 Meter*
Tharaday, Jane 17. 1949
11* ,. Sifn-On; W M tk«. "'“"r taun ‘ toto
his oern hands to grave that a sur
geon-friend la unjustly accused of
performing a del ice to brain opera
Hi the
_ . w tto Hiraltne-
ment Action ataff tto. 11:41a, m.—Texas Farm and shock-treatment to restore mental
ment Station staff, tto collection Home Program (Ta WOAI) San
tos bran greatly increased H aow ^ L from p** Rieo
1 a*®***®* extraordinary exact ness. ‘Hie Joed
^ family, "tto peopit that lira, tto
ifTjrZ Zltonto that mat nobody lick, tto
i u i paopi# that go on fortrar," come
J,at Muir to , tf# ^ „ fom ^ M Tom
does net g«va much miftltty to .. , Joad
^ Grapewia a. Grandpa and
wr. nnoare a ntrange t^m, Bowdon as Raaasharn Like
tto few* af tto eeiontific romance n. uas
scries, will be at the Aeeomhly
Hall Monday aad Tuesday with
Lew Ayres, Lionel Barry mere, aad
Lara me Day. la this picture the
tto book, tto film ia
rough, tender, and turn.
"Pleaeantdale Folks'
raltural Experiment Button. Thro- (Social Security Administration) ~~~
ugh tto efforta of H. B Parks, V. Local ^ “ "rndnera
L Cory and others of tto Expert — — - - F >t ** nL ^ u,m,r
Dr. A. Benhow
DENTIST
Pkonr 175
Antln Building - Bryan
tto teak of mounting and filing Keonon * a Department
'ht*rr i ht-r barium cases is being dors landing Porto Rieo”
carried out as rapidly aa possible lf 00 „
Onljf In Uw Im( M. ' 1...
any ef this material Imra ta such ,,
•haps aa to to really avallahie for * m^-BitnOni W«
use The herbarium la especially
rich Hi grasses, and the entire flora
‘Un-
U tl
New*.
11:90 a. m.
already formod the basis for a
"Catalogue of the Flora of Texas”
by V. L Cory and H B Parks
The 0. M Ball collection of foe-
tion).
11:45 a. m.—Texas Farm and
Home Program (To WOAI). L A
Mactomehl, Supervisor, Farm Be
all plants is
years of col
the result of thirty curtt l r Administration; A. D. Jack-
several thousand specimens rang- '
inf in age from the Cambrian to lt:00 noon—Signoff
the Oligocene A representative suit 4:80-5 80 p. m —THE AGGIE
of material of the succeeding age. CLAMBAKE.
is exhibited and the bulk of the col- ....
lection identified and stored The SMerdey, June 29. 1949
moot valuable part of this material H ^ a. tn.—Sign-On; Weather,
ia that collected from several 1©- New*
call tie* in the Texas Eocene This H 30 a m—“Drama of Food"
has bran the subject of one large (Farm Credit Administration),
monograph by Dr Ball and another U:45 a m —Texas Farm and
will appear shortly Borne of this Home Program (To WOAI) Mr*
material has bran discuss- F, L Diomas, Farm and Home
ed by E W Berry, and the Book Reviewer, Agricultural Edu-
Grran Eiver (Colorado) plants were cation Department Representative
whitton up by R Brown There are U oo noon—Signoff.
many type specimens ia this col
lection, and almost all well known
foesil plant localities in United
State* are represented by at least
s few specimens
Dr Msrk Francis was a veteri
narian; kis interest ia the origin
and dematication of animals led
him to collect and preserve th«
fossils found in southeastern Tax
es His collection is in two parts,
a large collection of Pleistocene ma
teriel, over half of which is pro- tion )
boecidean, aad a ■mailer lot of ii;4§
Miocene foesils There are a few
cretaceous fishes, scattered Mo-
•asaur vertebrae and a fairly com
plete polycotlid plesiosaur Scien
tifically the Miocene material is
the moat important It la essential
ly the same fauna aa that describ
ed by various writer* from beds
of like ag* in Florida. 0. P.
Hay published on* paper on the
Miocene vertebrates of this col
lection and several on the Plelato-
cene material Of the three
Aanday. Jan* 14. 1949
8:80 a. m.—Sign-On; Musical
Moiavits.
8:46 a. m—Roans Chapel Sing
ers.
9:00 a. m.---Masterworks.
9 80 a. m —Signoff
Monday. Jaly 1, 1949
11 26 a. m—Sign-On; Weather,
Newa.
11:80 a. m- "Homes On The
Land" (Farm Credit Adminietra-
normalcy, Dr. Kildare gambles
CAMPOS I
love and hie whole career on this
astonishing case
The Mad Mise Maaton," which
will to at Tto Campus Tuesday,
16# to 5 p. m. ' ,
26# to 11 p. m
offers Barbara Stanwyck and
Heary Fonda fine opportunities.
Today . Saturday
Miss Stanwyck has tto role of an
irresponsible, thrUl-aecking girl
“Jetse James’ 1
whose escapades arouse a serious
with
minded young newspaper editor,
Tyrona Powar
who attacks her through the col-
Nancy Rally
umna of his paper Because of tto
Hanry Fonda
reputation }to has gained fto tor
Late War Newa-Cartoon
pranks, she is disbelieved when she
Pro. Sat. Nlta.-8un.-Moa.
reports finding a body Ir a de-
eerted house Enraged at tto at-
^ Jean Arthur
titude of toth the police and Mr.
Fred MacMurray
Fonda, she sets about to solve
Melvyn Douglaa
• in
Too Many
TREAT OF
Husbands”
Late War News-Cartoon
THE WEEK
Tuesday Only
Double Size
Barbara Stanwyck
Fresh Orange Ade
Henry Fonda
tn
5*
“The Mad Miss
Banana Split
Manton”
with whip cream
9*
Wednesday • Thursday
Richard Greene
Wendy Barrie
LIPSCOMB
in
Pharmacy
“Hounds of The
North Gate
Baskervilles”
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As the World Turns...
By AL B NELSON
The Ford deal to hoi id thooaaods of plan*
eagtaes for tto United States has been cancelled
Tto reason given is that Henry Ford refueed to
make eom# at the same time far tto British Gov
ernment Tto patients belong to
England and tto English had given
permission fra tto U. S. to manu
facture them Under these condi
tions H is hard to understand the
attitude of the Ford Motor Com-
pnny
Leaders ef tto BepahUcaa party
have practically asp*lied Stimeon and
Knox from tto party fra accepting
cabinet poets under Roosevelt. Knox
"•*— was tto Republican candidate fra tto
Tteo-prsoktoaey at tto last eloctton aad Btimaon
Rajajd k. 1.4 eraefcainerad ■rawnAm aosm^RAm ■- ^ars ■ ■ ■ ■ a .
laMAJ MW*ItJ vMwleW* grvwwB UlgQVs w^^ra pxwviOwIra : ^PevPraJ—
dents Democratic party Isadora were aka to-
fnriatod at tto appointments. Tto significant paint
ia that to neither group has tto slightest fantton
toraf raised af their fkaam for tto War l .^.
mant and Navy prate
The laeiatioaiat Bloc la reagraea
la doing everything possible to
prevent aid being sent to England
The sale of the twenty torpedo
boats has Just been blocked and
other aid has bran delayed aad
protested gome of theae men wore
■aid by James Cromwell (husband
of Doris Dak*, former Minister to
Canada, and now candidate for
the Senate from New Jersey) to
be sincere fools, but Cromwell de
clared most of them Vo be crook
ed.
la spite of the preeoiaf daager
from oversee*, the Stimaon Knox
incident and the activities of the
isolationist bloc ahow that the
worst daager to the United States
is from those aeif-seeking politic
ians who knowingly or blindly sell
ont the beet inter eats of their
country fra their own personal or
party advantage
Miaee have keen lp»d at totk
entraaeee of the Pananw Canal,
aad tto satire Mena* fora* of
thirty thousand men has been plac
ed on an emergency footing ac
cording to the latest reports
The U. 8. battle fleet has toft
a m.—Texas Farm and
Home Program (To WOAI) Dr
Kelshaw Bonham. Assistant Profes
sor of Fisheries. Fish and Game
Department; S. B Apple, Depart
ment of Horticulture.
11:00 noon—Signoff
Taeeday, Jaly t. 1940
11 46 a. m.—Sign-On; Woather;
News
1180 a. m.-~"Tto Story of
Wool" (Farm Credit Administra
tion).
11:46 a. m.—Texas Farm and
Home Program (To WOAI) Roy
Snyder, Extension Service; Dr Ide
P Trotter, Head, Department of
Agronomy
12 00 noon—Signoff.
GOOD FOOD means GOOD HEALTH
CHEF JOHN SERVES THE BEST
Try Our
CHICKEN or STEAK DINNERS
Plate Lunches 25{ - 30* • 35<
Home-Made Ice Cream
CHEF JOHN’S STEAK HOUSE
On Highway No. 6 • Ntit to Grant's Sor. Sta.
its Pearl I
Uaat ion wl
up to now
gnooooa to
ftoat to ha
tto Canal I
to operate
•r tto Pnd
for tto dae-
« »ade; flw*. that tto
tod for tto Phllipptoes.
that h to a« Ha way to
tone to radar to he able
to efthra the Atlantic
fla at aaad.
WHATS SHOtriSG
AT THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Saturday—"Aad Oa* Was
Bsaatifar with Robert Cum
mings and Larairn Day.
Monday and Tuesday—“Dr
Kildare's Strange Case" with
Lew Ayrra, Lionel Barry
more, and Laralne Day.
Wednesday and Thursday
—“The Grapes af Wrath"
with Henry Fonda, Jan* Har
well, Charley Grapewm, and
Doris Bowden
AT TUB CAMPUS
Friday and Saturday—
"Jena* James" with Tyraa*
Power, Nancy Belly, and
Henry Ponds.
Preview Saturday night,
Sunday, and Monday—"Tee
Many Hnatonde" with Jean
Arthur, Prod MacMurray, and
Mehryn Douglas
Tuesday—"Tto Mad Mtoa
Manten" with Barbra Stan
wyek and Henry Fonda.
Wednesday aad Thursday
—"■aaaAi af tto Baator-
villee" with Bkherd Greene
and Wendy Barria
NWIY1 MM WIMTtOB
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