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Page 2 The Battalion Monday Afternoon, February 4, 1946 The Battalion 0 STUDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Office, Room 5, Administration Building, Telephone 4-54444 Texas A. & M. College The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station is published weekly, and circulated on Thursday afternoon. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate $3.00 per school year. Advertising rates upon request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City. Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Member Phsocided Gr>lle6iate Press THE McLARTY CASE The action of the Supreme Court of Texas in refusing to hear the petition for mandamus of Eugene McLarty fol lows well established law that an original mandamus action will not lie against a purely administrative branch or depart ment of the government. McLarty’s pending suit in the district court of Travis County will not be subject to this objection and it can be ex pected the issues probably will be joined on the merits of the former University of Texas student's request that he be admitted to Texas A. & M. despite the ruling of the local executive committee against him on the grounds of an in sufficient scholastic average. The procedure followed by the college executive com mittee in the McLarty case is no different than that followed in all similar cases; he was tested and found lacking. It is to be hoped that all courts through which the issue may be dragged will respect this long established and essential right of an institution to protect its standards by the establish ment and enforcement of rules of admission. In a real sense the issue is more fundamental than just McLarty versus Texas A. & M. Every educational institution in the state has vital concern in the outcome. A Job Well Done In a day of shortages in materials, equipment and man power, the newly built Sbisa cafeteria is a masterpiece of ingenious thinking and planning on the part of Jay Penis- ton and his Subsistence Department staff. All of the spic and span assembly-line feeding equip ment, including railings, serving compartments, hot and cold containers, the whole job in fact, was designed and built by Peniston's organization. Utilizing old equipment the department has converted it to a modern, up-to-date cafe teria feeding twenty persons per minute. The cafeteria is operated on a pay as you select basis and is open from seven until nine for breakfast, eleven un til one for dinner and five until seven for supper. The important purposes to be served by this timely action are to alleviate and improve the feeding of the hun dreds of servicemen not living in military organizations and to furnish a convenient and inexpensive place to eat for wives of ex-servicemen students. Had the college been compelled to await delivery of this type of kitchen and cafeteria equipment, months of delay would have resulted during which time the hundreds of ex- servicemen and their wives would have been put to consider able inconvenience. For a job well done, good work, Mr. Peniston. Msas 214 SOUTH MAIN BRYAN, TEXAS Announcing Purchase of the METROPOLITAN BEAUTY SHOP by Mrs. W. D. Burley (formerly Miss Gerke) WE OFFER: Cold Waves Manicures Machine Permanent Shampoos and Sets Machineless Permanents Facials Modern Equipment — Expert Service 108 E. 26th Street Bryan Phone 2-6195 for Appointment Chandler Is New Sergeant Major Sergeant Major Joe Pansze of the military department has been tran sferred to the 8th Service Com mand ORC at Dallas after three years of service with the college. Sergeant Pans2e has been re placed by Staff Sergeant R. J. Chandler. Sergeant Chandler has just returned from overseas with the 103rd Infantry Division. He is a veteran of the Rhineland and Central Europe campaign, has a total of eleven years of service, having served eight years with the Second Infantry Division. Veterans’ Wives Invite Newcomers To Book Review An invitation to newcomer vet erans’ wives to attend a book re view at the YMCA was extended by Wilma Parker, president of the organization. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday, February 5. “We are especially eager to have as many of the newcomers as possible at this first meeting of the new semester,” Mrs. Parker stated. She emphasized that husbands would also be welcome at the affair. Officers and committee members of the Club met last Thursday and decided to maintain a table during registration at the College to aid veterans and attempt to make con tact with those wives who are new on the A. & M. campus. Ever try looking for people’s good points instead of their weak nesses? CAMPUS Opens 1:00 P. M. — 4-1181 MONDAY Alice FAYE Dana ANDREWS Linda DARNELL FALLEN ANGEL — also — Disney Color Cartoon Fliker Flashbacks Short 3 DAYS TUBS. - WED. - THURS. f,\|. 4 ^ 1 . " •••'• I"'"'- "ijjj — and! — “Bashful Buzzard” Cartoon Fliker Flashbacks Short '/t 1 * Lois Bannerman and Gordon Strings Start New Semester at Town Hall Lovely Lois Bannerman, mis tress of the harp, will appear in joint concert with the Gordon String Quartet on Wednesday evening in Guion Hall in the first Town Hall program of the semes ter. Season tickets for the re mainder of the Town Hall season will be on sale at the box office for $1.25 for students or wives of students. Miss Bannerman, in her early twenties, has thrilled audiences throughout the nation with her extraordinary technique on a dif ficult yet hautingly beautiful in strument. It will be her first ap- College Specialists Are Assisting In Fat Stock Show Four staff members of the Tex as Agricultural Experiment Sta tion are assisting in the Houston Fat Stock Show which opened February 1 and continues through February 10. J. M. Jones, chief of the Divi sion of Animal Range Husbandry, is judging all sheep classes, while John H. Jones, animal husbandman, is superintendent of the poultry show. Fred Hale, chief of the Divi sion of Swine Husbandry, is super intendent of the swine show, and O. C. Copeland, chief of the Divi sion of Dairy Husbandry, is assist ing with the dairy show. pearance before a Town Hall aud ience. Smarting time of the performance will be delayed some to avoid con flict with the basketball game scheduled for that evening, it was stated. Jones Resigns as Business Manager Of Athletics Resignation of A. E. “Pete” Jones as business manager of ath letics at Texas A. & M. was an nounced here Saturday. Jones will return to his alma mater, Baylor University, as head baseball coach and assistant foot ball coach on February 15. He was captain of both the baseball and football teams at Baylor in 1938. He has been at Texas A. & M. since 1943, and coached at Bryan High School before coming to the Aggie campus. LOUPOTS TRADE WITH LOU , HE’S RIGHT WITH YOU Open 1 p. m. Daily - - - GUION Adm. 25^ Continuous shows until 10:30 HALL Children Phone 4-1168 Monday Open Daily 1:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M. TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY A WILLIAM CAGNEY PRODUCTION *