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Page 2 The Battalion Friday Afternoon, March 8, 1946 The Battalion STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Office, Room 6, Administration Building, Telephone 4-64444 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. . . , Spring Am Here; Bolds Am on De Wing J FE^4 TU-RJES How Absoid—De Wings Am on De Boid! Member Plssocrated Gpllebicrfe Press 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.' SAM NIXON i.. ^Editor MARION PUGH .' Sports Editor: CHARLIE WEINBAUM Associate WENDELL McCLURE Advertising Manager Staff for This Issue VICK LINDLEY Managing Editor •Reporters: PAUL MARTIN, ED GRAY, JOHN A. HARRIS, T. D. PRATER. > < A Challenge to the Veterans ... The Ex-Servicemen’s Club is now launching a sustained drive for new members. The ultimate objective of the drive is to have every ex-serviceman on the campus in the club. If you are an ex G. I. and have not joined the organization you owe it to yourself to join now, without further hesi tation. In the first place there are many advantages to such an organization. It brings together everybody of mutual thought and mutual problems, and serves as a starting point for the alleviation of any undesirable elements to the group as a whole. Too, there is an individual satisfaction of having a part in conditions that concern each of us personally. Also, your personal problem may be the problem of a group, and if such is the case, the association is the best place to air a situation of that type. Secondly, you are going to school now to get as much as possible in the time you expect to, spend here. To S6e to it that you do get exactly what you expect and in the man ner you want to get it, there is no better security to assure this than a good, solid, united Veteran’s organization on the campus. But this demands that a majority of the veterans on the campus take an active part in the club, and in the end, any results obtained can be traced to every individual member and to the unity of the organization. ' In unity there is strength and in great unity there is strength that is undreamed of at present. Any thing that takes place in ill accord w r ith the desires of the veterans can be pointed in no other direction than the veterans themselves. Here is an opportunity that no single organization in Texas A. & M. College has ever had, and probably won’t have again for a long time. Here is an opportunity for each man to carry a part of an obligation that is just as big as that man is personally. The question resolves to this one single idea. Are the veterans now in school equal to the task that is before them? If you think so, and want to do something about it, join the Ex-Servicemen’s Club now. If you know a bud dy who isn’t a member, be sure that he joins. It’s not a follow the leader contest, but one in which everybody can be a leader. Let’s get in the game with everything we’ve got and when the Ex-Servicemen’s Club speaks, we will all know that it speaks for three thous and members and not for an unrepresentative group of lesser numbers. • . , In short, the potentialities are here; let’s utilize them.— R.S. By T. D. Prater • Ole Army, Spring- is here. This is the time of the year that an Aggie’s mind is full of the won ders of the world. Especially the feminine kind. Spring comes, summer is prac tically here. Spring comes, all of the extra grade points that we were going to make this semester are as vague as cigarette smoke. This is the time when a man goes to his “hole” with a firm idea that he will do all of his next week’s assignments. He sits down, gazes out the windows and sees the white flowers in bloom, the redbud trees budding. With such surroundings, how can a man do anything until after he writes that wonderful woman a long letter? Spring affects some people dif ferently. Some men can study much better in the spring. These men are in the majority here at A. & M. In fact, they make up about two per cent of the student body. Our hats are off to such men as these; but, Spring comes only once a year! This week-end is the perfect time for me to catch up on that notebook. Gosh! Isn’t this wonder ful weather? Oh yes, Jane will be down this week for the Infantry Ball. That notebook can wait until next week-end. No, that’s the time of the Rosebud Festival at Tessie- land. Then it will be time for the Cotton Ball. What’s the use, Army? Oh, nuts, here goes for another crack at Eco. Clean dry salt can be scooped up from Lake Shafter, Andrews Coun ty, Texas. SEE MR. HICKMAN FOR FOREIGN SERVICE Veterans interested in apply ing for Foreign Service with the U. S. State Department should see Mr. Hickman at the Placement Office. Applications may be obtained here, and mail ed to Board of Examiners for Foreign Service, P. O. Box 592, Princeton, N. J. COLLEGE SUPPLIES * r i'~ . . . ’ >« . ■ * 7 * ? ? “''"V ' m L 5#' Your needs, from uniforms to little personal comforts, can be supplied by your Exchange Store. The store is operated by the college for your convenience. You will find our service and merchandise of the highest quality. ~ Check over the items you need and come to the Exchange Store for them. We carry a complete line of the things you need on the campus. THE EXCHANGE STORE SERVING TEXAS AGGIES Lt. Jack Walter Anderson is in school doing graduate work in Agronomy. Jack was a Prisoner of the Germans for six months, being liberated April 28. His mailing ad dress is Box 1530, College Station. Certain bacteria multiply at such a terrific rate that if not destroyed by natural enemies, they would dominate the entire earth in less than a year’s time/ INFORMATION, PLEASE Editors, the Battalion: Please straighten out an Aggie on a tradition which has seemingly changed during the four years he has been gone: The Infantry Regiment has invited to their Ball oftly those ex-servicemen seniors who were previously members of an in fantry outfit here. Isn’t this a change from the old idea that all seniors were welcome to any organization ball? ' DAVID S. LEVENTHAL, Veteran Class of ’44. The Battalion doesn’t know. Can anyone straighten out both the Batt and Reader Leven- thal ? A BOUT 7,000 miles of coaxial cable will be added to -tl- our plant during the next few years. Inside each cable are six or eight copper tubes — each pair a broad communications highway over which two television programs or nearly 500 long distance telephone calls can travel. Giant plow-trains will "plant” much of this cable deep in the ground — safe from storm and fire. This construction is but a part of our activity in the television field. Now in an advanced experimental stage are plans to link coaxial cables and high frequency radio relay systems to provide a nationwide television network. Our part in television is the transmission of pro grams from one station to another. As this new industry develops, the Bell System will be prepared to provide whatever network facilities are needed. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM