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THE EATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1946
The Battalion
STUDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Office? Room 5, Administration Building, Telephone 4-54444
Texas A. & M. College
The Battalion, official
and the City of
afternoon.
Texas A. & M. College
icial newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
College Station is published Weekly, and circulated on Thursday
Member
Pbsoaated CpUebiate Press
BACKWASH
Backwash: “An agitation resulting from some action or occurence.”—Webster.
By The Collaborators be true in the following:: “A pic-
Snow, snow, beautiful snow . . . ture of the shaved Aggie being
well, at any rate the campus had led by Baylor men (ha) to the pep
a minor blizzard that lasted for an rally was first place winner in the
hour Tuesday afternoon. What was Round-Up snapshot contest
Between the Book Ends
Is There a Farm in Your Future?
Then Read These Library Books
By Edna V. Burkhart
“The greatest fine art of the
future will be the making of a
pointing out a few ways to evade other co-operative organizations
trouble. It is written in more de- and pointing out the problems in
tail and with more dignity than is establishing a fair place for the
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under „ ,-,,.£,4^,, Qr ,j )i. mi _• lt- ui„ 0 x u s « BUY AN ACRE
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. white was pietty, and what wasn t The picture was taken by Jim East- com f or table living from a small T?T ,, T? . « XT n ttxttmpti'ipm
was icy slush. Still, we heard of land, senior Bible major ... We piece of land >. Abraham Lincoln. FIVE ACRES AND INDEPEN -
Subscription rate $3.00 per school year. Advertising rates upon request.
some sophs who were rolled in it wonder just how far back he was.
&gor t B d oston! i0 L^s y AXi^ t ^7 1 San d Tranc"^o ServiCe ’ InC " NeW Y ° rk City ' with much Pleasure and abandon by And another bit of information for
Farmer in the economic world.
Mr. Howard’s experience as a
DENCE, revised and enlarged edi- newspaper man prevents TWO BIL-
tion (1942), by M. G. Kains is LION ACRE FARM from being
m A Nivnn Tr ^ ^ f their fish. But that ain’t all . . . all of you Baylorites who seem to “Back to the farm,” is a solution more complete than either of the merely a summary of historical
miTwithpr”"’ r ‘ when the wet wetheads thought have forgotten it—A&M 19, Bay- offered by more than a few per- previous books, being a practical fact. An interesting, lively, and
Ed Brandt Sports Editor a u was over and were traipsing lor 13. sons for the housing shortage, re- guide to the selection and manage- informal history of the land, it
, . # back into the dorm, an overhead And from the ever-faithful copy employment confusion, and post ment of the small farm. It is es- reads swiftly and dramatically, pre-
Give Yoiir Dunes » . . attack by some more freshmen furnisher, The Daily Texan, we war difficulties in general. But pecially useful as a reference book, dieting a decentralization of ci-
armed with plenty of iceballs notice that in recent issues the according to Paul Corey in BUY In 334 pages, FIVE ACRES AND ties in the future.
Infantile paralysis isn’t choosy—farm children are just leaned out of second story win- letters to the editor’s columns and AN ACRE (1944), the New Fron- INDEPENDENCE discusses such Robert Lawson’s COUNTRY CO-
as susceptible to it as city children. That’s why America’s dows and pelted the sophs, but the editorialists have been going tier in America will be spread problems as drainage, water sup- LIC (1944) is a nonsensical book
rural families have their own particular stake in the work good. Oh, cruel, cruel world. lemon and tea on the “fra-ority” around our cities for a radius of Ply. wind-breaks, cropping sys- designed to amuse anyone who is
of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, whose -O- problem. No one seems to be get- fifty to a hundred miles, within terns, grafting fruit trees, etc. Its slightly interested in country life
annual March of Dimes provides funds for skilled care and Then there was the visitor who ting anywhere, which is not at all commuting distance of factory and value is increased further by a and farming. Actually it contains
treatment of polio victims even in the remotest rural areas, told a first-year kaydet that he unusual at the u. of T. business. While Mr. Corey doesn’t 50 page appendix containing tables, 67 pages of definitions of such
would like to see somebody with -o- propose this movement as a panacea graphs, charts and diagrams of things as calluses, beetles, and
Once again, last year, poliomyelitis stalked our coun- a little authority. Says the fish, The Longhorn is the Aggies’ me- for all the coming social and concrete data; an excellent index poison ivy. The author defines
try. More than 13,000 cases were reported. Hardest hit in all sincerity, “Well, I have about mento of his days of college life, economic problems, he does see it makes it easy to use. COUNTRY COLIC as “being sun-
were Tennessee, Utah, Illinois, Virginia, New York. Epi- as little authority as anybody, what One cannot be published unless all as a worthwhile venture for the TWO BILLION ACRE FARM dry remarks and observations con-
demics struck at farm and city indiscriminately. The Na- is it you want?” Aggies cooperate whole-heartedly average family. After presenting (1945), by Robert W. Howard tells cerning the joys, perils and vexa-
tional Foundation disbursed more than $1,000,000 in emer- -o- with the editor and his staff. This these ideas in his preface, he the story of American agriculture tions of Rustic Residence together
gency aid to epidemic areas, in fulfillment of its pledge that We heard of someone, an M.E., has not been done in two sections uses the next 204 pages—the re- from the time the firs t wilderness with certain suggestions of a cau-
“no victim shall go untreated for lack of funds, regardless no doubt, whose alarm clock had especially. They are “Senior Fa- mainder of the book—to discourage w as cleared, through wars and tionary nature for the enlighten-
of age, race, creed or color.” failed to get him out of bed in vorites” and Vanity Fair.” The the dreamers and wishful agra- Peace-time, tracing the Grange ment and guidance of the inex
time to make his eight o’clock class, editor, engraver, and publisher rians who visualize brooks and movement and the development of perienced.” |
Poliomyelitis is one of the most expensive diseases known He got so mad that he slammed have been gracious enough to ex- swimming pools instead of chick-
to medicine. Not only must many victims Of past epidemics it down on the floor. And when an tend their time schedules to allow en coops and fertilizer. BUY AN
receive continuing care, but each year’s outbreaks add new ex-cockroach tumbled out in a for more of these pictures to be ACRE is down-to-earth, practical,
names to the steadily growing list. Hospitalization for a maze of gears, mainsprings, etc., turned in. If there are still not and convincing. Mr. Corey makes it
single patient costs more than $2,500 a year. Some cases re- he muttered, “No wonder the thing enough, the sections will be drop- clear that to get a home in the
quire continuing care for several years. Few families can wouldn’t go. The engineer was ped without reservation. So, come country with no more than a
meet the cost of extended polio treatment. dead.” on, you seniors, do more than iust minimum to go on is a step by
-o- talk about your women, and show step program, and each step must
Eight years ago, the late Franklin D. Roosevelt created Backwashin* around . . . Even them to us in the Longhorn this lead to the next. It requires saving
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in fulfill- under the most distressing circum- year. They can’t all be that bad, at least five dollars a week, and ^ xx*.-
ment of a growing need for an organized fight against polio stances, Aggies prove their super- to hear the bull you shoot about during one step, involves living in Wl11 speak on matters vital to vet- terta j nment Committee, he has
and a “General staff” to direct that fight. Basil O’Connor, iority over Bears, teasippers, et al. those weekends at places Aggies a chicken house. erans registration for the coming given his time and labor ungeiffeh.
personal friend and former law partner of Mr. Roosevelt, The Baylor “Lariat” shows this to go. J .. .U x *xr semester m a special meeting of 2
has been the Foundation’s president since its formation. apK ^ * -o- *
By S. J. McConnell
chairman of the committee han-
MK. ZINN, veterans' .advisor,
Epidemic action and epidemic aid are the more obvious Co//gQ6 MuSOU/TI ObfOlHS hioW
and dramatic aspects of the National Foundation’s work. ^
Everyone who has come through a polio epidemic knows Pvtiihiic Anri Pnrlsr
this part of the organization’s work. But there is another t-Ali/Dllo /nfiCJ ^UiUJOl rUiKS
less spectacular and less familiar aspect; Science.
can read through BUY AN ACRE ary 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Y.M.C.A. G0LFERS OF THE WEEK*
without your desire for a home chapel. All veterans are asked to
on the land fading, then you’ll get attend this meeting, which is of Fesperman, M. R. Johnson,
there—before too much time has importance to all concerned. Qualles, and Holcomb.
passed 1 . BUY AN ACRE is written . 0 - ' 0 *
with clarity and good sense, and WHO IS HE? HE’S . . . INTRAMURALS:
New curator of the A. & M. Col- to show the work of the section of may be read in an evening. Eugene Howard, Class of ’45. At Volleyball started on the day of
The Foundation, in its eight-year history, has appropri- lel5e ““T” ‘j ?' B ' ,f ark . 3 wh 1 0 T !“ s A * M ^ » sk - Ladd Haystead, the author of A - & ‘he “big move” from Hart Hall to
afpd \7 fi73 113 for rPSParcb and Pdnration In 41 nnivur WaS tl ' ansferred from the A P lcul - ed for or alded m makln S the ex * FARM FOR FORTUNE and vice M *> Gene is studying to be a civil Dorm 16. But Dorm 16 still had
ated $/,0(3,113 tor researen and education. In 41 umver tura ] Research at San Antonio in hi bit. The task of rearranging fix- /iodo\ • * • • engineer He hails from El Paso seven men out M Wood Roy Gib-
sities, medical schools, and laboratories, men of science, SeDtember K?45 tures in the building- for the ex- Versa (1942) ’ 18 of the opimon ® ngineer - ne nails irom ^ ra80 ’ seven men out—iVi. wooa, KoyuriD
working under Foundation grants are seeking a preventive Mr Pa ; ks ls als0 bota „ ist in panding work is not complele , but that ‘ho literature of agriculture “ as and J a Era ua c 0 Aus ' ,n kons ' an 7MccTnill tIS- «e
and possible cure for mfantHe paralysis. -w. of « »■ iw ^ ovuibu, _ h„„ wh.c^eucompa^pubhcatm^of H '";‘ a p0ot Qn , FIying won »
culture, the 48 states’ departments, Fortress and a member of the 8th hard-fought victory-by a forfeit.
charge of the S. M. Tracy Herbar- already six new exhibits have been
ium, which now has about 100,000 presented.
Physicians, nurses, physical therapists, medical social specimens that can be used by the
X Xij oxx,xcmo, xxixxoco, ^xij pncx uo, ^UL-xcir specimens mat Can oe usea Dy me _ , . , „ , ' , . . AiV Fmvp ripnp nnw nrpniSpnt
workers and others are constantly being trained in modern plant student. There also are large * n the Life Alcove of the and experiment stations, is more " r ,^° e > g ^ THINGS WE NEVER EX PECT
methods of treating poliomyelitis and readjusting its victims numbers of identified plant sped- ^ US ® am ’ t} ? e dl 1 !P , ay ° f FoodS ° f voluminous than that of P ractl - cordially invites all veterans to be TO SEE*
S fU I H h VeS m l “ nS f a h nt iSTTVf edl “? ti0n iS - be T mcn5 y V° be “‘ ed and EiVe " Swi of o“p! hii ^irirtho to SYFAN minus a cup o' dope,
bring the farts alX^MxSto to t\e famines™/^rneTicI' ° -J *»« animal*. A beautiful ex- tious rathe, than realistic infer- he held at 6:S0 p.m. on January 21. BROUN (with a U, not a W)
loaned to other institutions for hibit of co * ored plates of P aintin g' s mation about farming and farm -°- without a funny paper.
The fight is costly, and the cost increases as the Na- study, and in the same time 224 hy Louis Agassz Fuertes of Abys- living under normal conditions, TIME A ^ D DATE f o r the Ex- CLASS OF ’45 not planning a
tional Foundation expands its activities; and as each sue- plant specimens have come in for sian Birds and Mammals as well that is, “when a living must be ervicemen s (ance wi e . P a ^ Y ..
ceeding epidemic adds new names to the growing list of identification. as a lar ^ e poster of the common made out of the farm and not for P- m -; January 18, at the American MAIL in the posto fice box.
patients for whom chapters must provide care, in manv Classes and individual students Lsh of the United States and Cana- the farm, as the wealthy do it.” Le g lon Eal1 ' A big crowd is ex- BONE WITZ in another touch
fnr voarq ^ m ^ masses ana inaiviauai stuaents da in color are wort hy 0 f study. pected. Come on out, meet your football game.
cases lor yeais. are daily visitors to the Herbarium FARM FOR FORTUNE is of- buddies, and let’s everybody get SPILLMAN or UTESH refusing
x xu . . x: and Museum - Many retui ' nin g serv - A second installment of Poison- f ered as a handbook for city farm- acquainted. to play “touch.”
Half of all contributions to the annual March of Dimes ice men are botanists, and others ous plants show those species said ers> attempting to answer the - 0 -
conducted by the Foundation is retained by the local chapter became interested in plants during to be less important by the Ranch- m ’ tionq moot fremientlv nuked “THAMK vniT” f Wxwxix.
for special equipment, hospitalization, transportation, treat- their stations over the world. Hear- men. A new case, Indian corn Re- Srthre piriming trgra Lrmint
ment and care of polio patients. The other half goes to the ing about the Herbarium from latives, gives by actual specimens
national organization for research, education and emergency Texas Aggies in the services, these and photograph an introduction to
aid in epidemics. men stop off at College Station for those near relatives of com and of U PIciy AYill
information on plants, or to ask the method of investigating their Wplrl of Wip*|i
This year for the first time the March of Dimes is be- where they can contact botanists relationship by hybridization. A ^ ® .
ing conducted without the living presence of the man who near their homes. second new case might be entitled fcChOOl (rym 1 onig’ht
founded the movement and who is its symbol. It is a fitting Future work of the Museum has “Where Our Wild Life Goes”. It
memorial to our late President, of whom it can be said, as necessitated a change of objectives, is a collection of almost nine hun-
-0- -0-
TO “ABE”: Congratulations!
To JOHN B. PORTER for his May your married life be long
work in behalf of the “Club.” As and happy.
The second “play night” of the
it also can be said of many others throughout the United Instead of fixed exhibits, the new died shotgun shells. This collection scb ° o1 yeai Yj 11 kf b(dd at the A *
States: “It did not conquer him!” policy will be for exhibits of the was made from a tract of land . ' °. nb ,” H 6 ,7 ° 0
visual education type to afford in- four by ten miles near San Anton- 81 u um tamght from 7:39 10 ; 00 -
struction to supplement that given io. The shells range from ten gauge ^ e a air is^sponsoie >y t e ity
in classrooms and laboratories. The to 410 and represent all of the
materials are secured from all Ammunition Companies. The shells
sources available, and are designed date from 1868 to the present year, hers of the Consolidated student
council with members of the Re
creation Council acting as chape
rones and sponsors. ChCosen to as
sist as sponsors are Mr. and Mrs.
O. C. Copeland, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Patro-
A Step Forward . . .
City Council and the city administration took a long
step in th£ right direction recently as they re-scaled electric
ate:
Recreation Council.
Hosts for the party will be mem-
ACKERMAN EXHIBIT OF PICTORIAL
ir;: cmes c cSi™: r st‘;^, 1 t^ew i ™r ,p now photographs goes up at library
pay for their electricity at the same rate as do those in * Hl/lvUiini nu ui/iikJ ui ni UlUllfllll
Bryan, for example, with the exception of those who live in
the area served by the Rural Electric Administration.
The George W. Ackerman Ex- tion came to Texas A. && M. from aella ’ ^ r ; and ^ E ‘ E ‘ ^ cGuiI ’
hibit, a collection of 72 pictorial the University of Wisconsin and en ’ an an Ib ' ' ' ai "
The result is a saving of approximately $300.00 per ^^Za’ Tm CollegelrbraS Sho^ng hew blVrdon Ga^Sctor 0^‘the 3 Ciiy
month passed on to domestic users of electrical power. The ‘ui Z Recreation Council; Mrs. G. W.
average customer will find his bill reduced by only about ‘ ,. -I 1 ’ xu^ U T f , . , „ Arrangements for bringing the Schlesselman, chairman of the
504 per month—but much more important is the signifi- j-x' P 10 i U f R.1! 1Ucliy 11 " exhibit to College Station were council; and Miss Joyce Patranella,
cance of the step in placing the city on a more favorable ing 0 au ■ a ance > co e & e made by M j ss Laura Lane, editor chairman of the Recreation Divi-
basis as “a good place to live.” 1 rarian ' of the Texas Extension Service, sion of the High School Council.
1 Ackerman is in charge of the while in Washington six months
It would be unjust to congratulate ourselves upon this photo graphic section of the Exten- ago. Bryan and College Station
improvements in our civic life without pointing out that the s * on Service, U. S. Department of residents are invited to visit the
reduced rates are due primarily to a corresponding reduction Agriculture, with headquarters at exhibi during the regular library
in the rates charged the City by the producer of the power, Washington, D. C. He is one of hours,
Texas A. & M. College. America’s outstanding photograph-
ers and has visited every state in
There still remains the matter of bringing our rates tbe nat i° n on assignment. He last
into line for commercial users of power. According to well carae to Texas in 19 3 6 when he
informed sources, rates for commercial consumers will be s P ent two weeks working with
re-scaled to conform to those of our sister city of Bryan count y agricultural agents and
within the next three or four months or as soon as Bryan hom e demonstration agents in
has put into effect a contemplated change in business rates. West Texas.
We await the change with full confidence in our city admin- The collection is of special in-
istration and City Council to act in the best interests of the terest to amateur photographers
community.
OLE’ ARMY —
A. & M. IS ON THE MARCH!
LET’S GO out and bring in those new Aggies
this next semester. You know who they are, and
you can be the best salesman for Aggieland in your
own home town.
YOU’LL BE DOING a double good turn—one
for your home-town friends and one for A. M. C.
BRING ’EM IN, AGGIES
SCHOOL IN THE U. S. A.!'
to tie BEST
J. E. LOUPOT, ’32
Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You
Support The....
VICTORY
Clothing Drive
and students of photographic tech
nique. Ackerman’s work is charac
terized by a wealth of detail and
excellent composition. He was a
pioneer in the now common tech
nique of backlighting and few have
ever achieved the perfection of one
of his early photographs, “Hen
pecked”, which is included in the
exhibit.
The photographs now on display
are duplicates of those prepared
by Ackerman at the request of the
Smithsonian Institute. The collec-
NOTICE
The BATTALION cannot pub
lish any unsigned letters. Re
quests will be granted for the
initials only to be used, but the
writers’ full names must ac
company the letters. Anonymous
letters are in the office most
of the time, and some of them
should surely be shared with
the rest of the Corps.
ZUBIK’S advises you to place your order now for
JUNIOR Blouses, Shirts, Slacks
in order to avoid any disappointment in delivery for the February term.
ALSO
WE HAVE AT PRESENT
SENIOR Ice Cream Material for Slacks
and Boot Breeches
LHMH
WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET
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UNIFORM SPECIALISTS
— 50 YEARS OF TAILORING —
1946