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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, 1944 GO g 12 THE BATTALION STUDENT TRI-WEEKLT NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Teas and the City of College Station is published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday,, Thursday and Saturday mornings except during the summer semester when it is published two times weekly and issued on Tuesday and Friday afternoons and is the official publication of the students of the A. & M. College of Texas and serves unofficially in the interest of the enlisted personnel of the United States Army and Navy stationed on the campus. th Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, ‘inder the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870. Subscription rate $3 per school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Ins., at New York City, — Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Office, Room i. Administration Building. Telephone 4-1444. Member Pbsocided CoUe&iale Press Calvin Brumley Editor Dick Goad Managing Editor Alfred Jefferson Managing Editor Renyard W. Canig Feature Writer J. W. Bell Sports Writer Dick Osterholm Reporter Bob Gold Reporter Eli Barker Reporter Time and the Future . . . What the student in A. & M. does today, this week, and this semester will have a marked influence on what he will be and do in the future. It seems ridiculous to think that a class today may be the cause of the failure of a bridge in 1964; or that an hour spent loafing at a drug store this afternoon that rightfuly has been budgeted to studying would result in the spread of an epidemic in Latin-Ameri- can ten years hence—yet it is from such tiny threads and such insignficant connections as these that the fabric of the future is woven. Today is the day and now is the time . . . minutes can march in meaningless array, or they can be ordered to per fect cadence and be equipped with armaments to fight prob lems and lead attacks that lies for in the future and win battles that are yet unthought of or undreamed. Time is expendable ... it goes by sixty seconds to the minute, sixty mintues to the hour . . .and once it is passed, it is gone. Every day, ask this question: “Have I spent my time this day, so that tomorrow will see a better world and that I will be a better man?” SOMETHING TO READ By T. F. Mayo Your Property . .. It has long been a source of amazement to observe the attitude the average person takes toward state owned prop erty and the expenditure of state funds. There’s a story going the rounds of an army oficer who breezed into a telegraph office with a lengthy wire, in which he had want only wasted words and had raised the cost of the telegram to quite a sum. The operator of the telegraph machine point ed out that money could be saved if certain words were elim inated. The officer said, “Who cares about the cost, it’s being paid by government money!” The operator turned to him with the retort, “I do. I’m a tax-payer!” Whether the student of A. & M. realizes it or not, the property of the college is just as much his as it is any other citizen of the state, member of the faculty, or college official. No student would go into his own home and deface walls, scratch furniture, carve initials on desks or tables; yet at the same time walls, desks, furniture, equipment, and build ings that are just a rightfully his are being defaced and de stroyed every day right here on the campus of A. & M. Through the far-sightedness of certain groups of people and through vision and hard work over many years, A. & M. has grown from an insignificant inland “cow-college” to one of the outstanding institutions of higher learning in the nation. It is only right and fair that those who are privileged to enjoy the advancement and progress that the efforts of past have brought into being, should expend their every ef fort to protect the physical property of the institution. If the student of A. & M. must whittle—let him whittle away on problems of getting an education; if he must mark —let him mark his name on the walls of the Hall of Fame; and if he must scratch—let him scratch away the veneer bigotry and ignorance and pettiness that ensnares the true meaning of knowledge and living. — bus — (Continued iiom page 1) lege Hills on Walton Drive and circles back to Highway No. 6, down Francis Drive and back to George’s. It arrives at George’s at 5:00 o’clock. The city manager states that this new bus service will in no way affect the present bus schedules in College Station and Bryan. Peo ple wishing to return sooner than the time of the special buses, may do so on the regular buses. The present fare of 7^^ is to be main tained. City officials have long been trying to secure this service aT the request of city residents. Whether or not this service is made available permanently de pends on the manner in which this new service is patronized. Notice is again made that this new sched ule goes into effect Wednesday, July 5th. What About India? Subject India is the title of a recent book by Henry Noel Brails- ford which every American should read, if he really wants to under stand the vast and tangled prob lem of British India. It is the author’s insistence upon the understanding and control of economic forces in the cause of human betterment, which gives its chief distinction to Braisford’s book. Chapter by chapter the author unrolls the story of the British Conquest, occupation pacif ication and exploitation of India, so that any sensible and serious reader may grasp the underlying forces, largely economic, which brought about the Conquest in the first place, which have conditioned the British occupation ever since, and which at bottom are today making it so difficult for the Brit ish to let India go, even in the face of the practically unanimous desire for independence of her four hundred millions of people, even in the midst of a war in which Britain fights in the front ranks of those who believe in the Four Freedoms, National self-determina tion, and the elimination of the bad old system of dog-eat-dog from international relationships. Brailsford in uncompromising in his insistence that the British must grant independence to India: ‘‘Our day in India is over,” he writes. “We have no creative part to play.” Yet in the tone of this insis tence, we find no lack of respect and affection for the author’s own England. Rather does the reader become more and more strongly conscious of the strength and earnestness in Braisford of the only kind of patriotism which will pass muster among enlightened and reasonable men: A love of one’s country so lofty and so fearless that one cannot bear to see one’s country playing an unworthy part in history. This is the sort of patriotism that really means some thing—not the flagwaving, down- with-the-othergang business that so often passes for patriotism but is so often a mask for unconscious egotism. This is the sort of pat riotism, the fearlessly critical sort, which requires not only animal courage (through it frequently takes plenty of that also,) but that most painful effort of lazy-mind ed humanity, the effort to think. Of such realistic patriotism, of such proud unwillingness that his England should play the part of an unjust and benighted tyrant, Brailsford’s Subject India is full. —DANCE- (Continued from page 1) secured. However, the Student Ac tivities Committee is working on the music problem and assure us that they wil have a band of right calibre for the dances. Tickets for the corps ball to which only Aggies are eligible will cost $1.50 including tax. Tickets for the all-service dance to which all Aggies and < servicemen sta tioned on the campus are invited will cost $1.20 including tax. This is the price of admission for couple or stag. Corsages are being made available through the student’s Man, Your Manners By I. Sherwood You should make the following quotation a part of your philosophy of life. “A gentleman renders ac knowledgment for every courtesy which is extended to him and for every generous, kindly, or helpful act of which he is a recipient.” If you are a week-end guest or a dinner guest, be a good one, one whom any host or hostess will be glad to give a return invitation. Adapt yourself as much as possible to the household’s way of living. If there is a servant don’t demand special service. And if there is no one to help with the housework, make as little trouble as possible —you might lend a hand with the dishes provided your best girl is washing them. * ‘Bread-and-butter” letters, so called, are letters of thanks which ^ should be written to your hostess as soon as possible after a visit or a dinner. A prompt bread and butter letter is the least return you can make for hospitality. If < you have been a week-end guest in a home, it would be thoughtful if you sent your hostess a small gift to express your appreciation. ; > A man may not want his man ners to be called “charming” but nice manners are one of the nicest possessions a man can have. corsage concession. Announcements will be made in next weeks Batt as to the final arrangements for the dances. This is first dance to be' held this se mester and from all indications it will be one to be long remem bered. —STUDENT— (Continued from page 1) this final contest will receive a special award to testify to his pro ficiency with the slide rule. In ad dition, a number of prizes will be offered to the best of this group. Hughes Tool Company, of Hous ton, has already sent six copies of a very fine book showing a number of pictures of various machining and heat treating pro cesses in their factory. These six books will be given as prizes. The engineering societies have already indicated that they will participate in making this one of the best of the engineering activ ities of the year. Farm Problems Are Discussed by Hohn The farm labor picture in Tex as through June 9 was spotty with the demand for choppers in the major cotton growing coun ties the most urgent. The Coastal Prairie area showed the greatest shortage of labor in the sections near war industries, according to reports to C. Hohn, state farm labor supervisor for the A. & M. College Extension Service. Cessation of excessive rainfall in Brown county brought a sharp upturn in the demand for harvest hands, hoers, and general laborers. Reports show, however, that a to tal of 1,173 workers, including I, 051 town and city youths, had been placed on Brown county farms through June 9. Over the state II, 714 workers had been placed. Latest reports from county agri cultural agents indicate that move ment of town and city youths to farms over the state is growing. Currently, a total of 4,742 have been placed on farms. Counties re cording 100 or more such place ments include Coleman, Atascosa, Mitchell, Coryell, Denton, Dallas, Navarro, Caldwell, Colorado and Robertson. In the Panhandle wheat areas the demand for harvest labor is expected to become acute before the end of June, Hohn says. Mean- Insects Damage Texas Cotton Damaging weevil infestations are reported in nearly all of the " 64 counties inspected by federal and state workers, but flea hop pers have increased only in the black land and the middle coastal counties, states F. L. Thomas, Tex- ^ as Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, A. & M. College of Texas. The average weevil infestation _ was 28.5 per cent as compared with 23 per cent reported last week. High average infestations occur in 44 of the 64 counties - which extend from the lower Rio Grande Valley to Bowie County in northwest Texas on the Red Riv er, but especially south and south- * west of McLennan County inclu sive. Leaf worm are gradually spread ing among the counties of the southern tip of Texas but have not yet been found in Central Tex as. According to the Bureau of En tomology and Plant Quarantine about three times as many pink bollworms found this spring dur ing the bloom inspections as were found in 1943. This type of inspec tion is now finished and is follow ed by the green boll examination. while, grain sorghums and cotton are being planted in the same areas. Small grain harvest is pro- ceeding well in the low rolling plains region, with several counties at or past the peak. Fisher county farmers are cross cultivating cot ton to simplify the work of chop ping. Shifting of combines, trucks % and men is solving the major dif ficulties in the grain harvest. Meanwhile, row crops in several counties need attention. Reports from parts of east Tex as indicate better weather and progress with crops. Exchange of labor is widely used in this part of the state. Tomato harvesting is under way in southern counties and will begin the latter part of June in areas where the crop matures later. Generally, the demand for cot ton choppers from the blacklands - areas is heavy notwithstanding that several counties report the situation well in hand. In parts of the area fields are reported wet s and the cotton heavily infested with grass, Hohn says. »