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The Battalion
Friday Afternoon, February 22, 1946
Tlie Battalion
* STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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Texas A. & M. College
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
and the City of College Station is published three times weekly, and circulated on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons.
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the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
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SAM NIXON Editor
MARION PUGH Sports Editor
WENDELL McCLURE Advertising and Cirulation
Staff for this Issue
VICK LINDLEY Managing Editor
PAUL MARTIN Reporter
ED GRAY...- Reporter
JOHN R. HARRIS Reporter
“Dragging” on the Mess Line . . .
Skip this editorial if you are a cadet. This beef is strictly
between veterans.
Has it happened to you lately, that you have been stand
ing in the long line for Sbisa cafeteria, only to have a man
a few steps ahead of you work his wife, her girl friend, the
g.f/s husband, and three of his buddies into the line ahead
of you?
This is a gentle reminder to some veterans that “drag
ging^ on the line is a direct violation of A. & M. tradition.
To be sure, there are no mess sergeants or masters-at-arms
around to enforce the rule. That has always been left up to
the students themselves, under the Aggie code of honor.
Can we live up to that code,
or will we have to get “bulls”
to police the line?
Maybe it should be legal for
a man to slip his wife into
the line, but that should be
the limit for even that is un
fair to the single men.
We suggest that the Ex-
Servicemen’s Club talk over
this matter at their next
meeting, and draft a code
which will be binding on all
veterans.
Between the Book-Ends
Surprising Facts Fill
Four Reference Books
By Billie Jo Lochridge
B. A. Botkin's Treasury of
American Folklore is nothing less
than an encyclopedia of the folk
lore of American history from the
days of the pioneers to the present
skyscraper and motion picture era,
from backwoods boasting to the
Little Audrey and Little Moron
jokes. Ability to produce anything
from a droll smile to rocking
laughter from casual reader or
research student makes this an
out-of-the-ordinary reference vol
ume. This literary storehouse of
the stories, legends, tall tales, bal
lads and songs of the American
people is extremely valuable be
cause of source details, cross-in
dex, and encyclopedic coverage of
well-known material.
The fostering and developing of
more friendly relations, greater
commerce, and a more thorough
understanding among the nations
of this hemisphere must be a pri
mary objective of the post-war era.
A practical and instructive guide
should aid in the achievement of
this objective, such as The Pan
American Yearbook of 1945, an up-
to-date handbook of current infor
mation concerning all the New
World, compiled from a Western
Hemisphere point of view.
This Yearbook offers a coordi
nated compilation of the most
important sources that will be
logical when read from chapter to
chapter or when consulted briefly
for some isolated point of infor
mation.
Basketball is the only major
sport played in the United States
which is purely of American origin.
Dr. James . Naismith created bas
ketball while he was the physical
director at the YMCA in Spring-
field, Mass., late in 1891. It has
more players than any other com
parative or combative sport, and
in the United States it once had
the distinction of drawing more
admissions—about 90,000,000 an
nually—than any other athletic
contest. It is now surpassed only
by soft ball.
Frank G. Menke in his Ency
clopedia of Sports includes inter
esting information about all major
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Berkeley, Calif., which Morgan left
after an extensive stay in order
to go on a country-wide tour.
In addition, Russ Morgan has
wielded the baton at many of the
leading clubs and ballrooms in the
country, including the famous
Chez Paree in Chicago; the Pal
ladium, Hollywood; Aragon Ball
room, Chicago; Beverly Hills Coun
try Club, Newport, Ky.; Casa
Manana, Fort Worth; and the Steel
Pier in Atlantic City. A great en
tertainment unit, the Morgan band
has been featured on every famous
stage in the land, including the
Paramount, Strand and Roxy Thea
tres in New York; the Paramount,
Los Angeles; the Earle Theatre,
Philadelphia; Hippodrome Thea
tre, Baltimore; Oriental, Chicago;
Stanley, Pittsburgh; and.Orpheum
Theatre in Omaha.
“Music in the Morgan Manner”
has been prominently featured on
the radio, with commercials includ
ing the Rinso program over CBS
and for Phillip Morris over CBS
and NBC.
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and minor sports. Such questions
as “Who was on the All-American
Football team of I‘j40? What are
the Marquis of Queensbury rules
of boxing ? What is the seating-
capacity of the Cotton Bowl?” are
answered in this readable compila
tion of sport news.
The weekly index and synopsis
of world events, Facts on File, ful
fills a two-fold need—a quick and
easy way to keep up with the
news and a means of finding ma
terial immediately on a current
question. It is purely objective-im
partial and unbiased. Each issue
treats the 'outstanding news of
nine fields: World Affairs, Nation
al Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Latin-
America, Finance and Economics,
Arts and Science, Education and
Religiop, Sports, and Miscellan
eous. The facts selected for inclu
sion are of national or interna
tional significance.
These books are available in the
Reference Room of the College Li
brary.
Greetings Aggies
Whether you are a new Aggie, or an old Aggie returned, we are indeed glad you are with us. We hope
to be able to contribute a little toward your convenience and pleasure in living here.
To this end, we have urged all our suppliers to increase our allotments of scarce items to help accommo
date the increased number of married families in our community. Too, we wish to bring to your attention
the recently inaugurated bus service that runs through the campus and down by our store. These buses
run hourly during the morning hours and at half hour intervals during the afternoons.' If you have no car,
these buses can be of service to you. Ask the driver about the t schedule of buses to the Southside.
Our aim has been to divide up the. scarce items among as many of our customers as possible, by putting
most of the items on display together and allowing the customers to select one or two or three items of
their choice, depending upon the total quantities we have. This weekend, you may choose any three of the
following items:
Crisco—Hers key’s Chocolate Syrup—Miracle Whip or Blue Bonnet Salad Dress
ing — Wolf Brand Chili — Big Hershey Bars — My-T-Fine Dessert — Gallon
Pineapple Juice — Gallon Sliced Pineapple — Grape Juice — Peter Pan Peanut
Butter — Uncle William Hominy — Dot Chocolate — Eagle Brand Milk — No. 2
Pineapple Juice.
We also expect to have considerable quantities of the following:
King Edward Cigars — Dromedary Pitted Dates — Oleomargarine — Ballard’s
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Canned Biscuits — Bacon — Picnic Hams — Shrimp — Fish — Oysters — etc.
We offer attractive specials every weekend, including cigarettes at
$1.55 per carton.
STORE HOURS: Saturdays, 7:30 A.M. to. 7:00 P.M.; Weekdays, we close at 6:00 P.M.
Southside Food Market
(Across from the Project Houses)