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The Battalion
Friday Afternoon, March 8, 1946
The 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. . . ,
Spring Am Here; Bolds Am on De Wing J FE^4 TU-RJES
How Absoid—De Wings Am on De Boid!
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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
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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