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The Battalion
Monday Afternoon, March 11, 1946
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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Texas A. & M. College
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WENDELL McCLURE Advertising Manager
Watch That Speedometer! . . .
This is no fable: A veteran student who rents a cot
tage in Bryan got up late one morning this week, and rush
ed to get to class on time. He didn’t make it. He was ar
rested for speeding on the road between Bryan and College,
was late for class anyhow, and had to pay an $8.50 fine
that took a good-sized nick out of his subsistance check.
With the great number of cars owned by veteran stu
dents, traffic around College Station has become a severe
problem. There have been some bad crashes in the vicinity
of the college. The police may feel sympathetic toward a
student who is late for school, but they can’t overlook
speeding or reckless driving without penalizing everybody
else.
So, drivers, take a tip. The speed limit on the campus is
20 miles per hour. The speed limit between here and Bryan
is 30 miles per hour. If you get caught exceeding those
limits, or driving recklessly, you will find yourself short of
cash, and nobody will weep for you.
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upon the date named, and no other
effort is made toward collection.
In short, the obligation is strictly
one of Aggie honor.
All organization commanders or
faculty members who know of any
cadet who is in need of aid which
can be supplied by the fund are
requested to contact Dan A. Rus
sell, head of the Rural Sociology
Department.
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THE EGG AND I
Many of our returning veterans,
and many others too, who have
worked under pressure during the
war years, may be interested in
buying a little place in the coun
try, and settling down to a life of
quiet and peace. Even if you are
not planning to buy a little place
in the country, you will enjoy
reading Betty MacDonald’s The
Egg and I. The author briefly
sketches her life in several west
ern mining regions, and after she
reached eighteen, her experiences
on a rundown chicken ranch in the
Olympic Mountains of the State of
Washington. The characters in the
book are so vividly described that
you imagine what they actually re
semble. In introducing “Gammy,”
her paternal grandmother, the au
thor describes her as one who wore
corsets upside down and her shoes
on the wrong feet and married a
gambler with yellow eyes. The
gambler of Bardstown, Kentucky,
took his wife out West, played
Faro with his money, his wife’s
money and even some of his com
pany’s money and then tactfully
disappeared and was always spok
en of as dead. “G'ammy” lived with
the Bards (the author’s maiden
name) and even though she was
quite old fashioned in her ideas,
everyone loved her dearly. Her bed
was described as having her night
gown, bed jackets, and “chima-
loons” folded under the pillow, her
Bible tucked under the sheet at the
top right-hand side, any book she
happened to be reading tucked un
der the sheet on the other side.
There were little bags of candy,
an apple or two, current magazines,
numerous sachets and her bottle of
camphor just tucked under the
blankets or scattered under the
pillows within easy reach. Each
member of Mrs. MacDonald’s fam
ily is just as vividly described as
“Gammy.”
The author’s nearest contact with
a chicken, was fried chicken, and
her closest contact with eggs wem
fried or scrambled eggs! Soon aft
er Bob and Betty were married,
they moved to the chicken ranch
which appeared to be located in a
very lonely section of the Olympic
Mountains, with their nearest
neighbors some three or four miles
down the “hill.” The old black wood
burning stove in the kitchen is oft
FEATURES
en referred to as just “Stove,” in
the manner in which one may refer
to a person. The MacDonald’s first
year was an extremely busy one,
because the main house and all of
the other buildings needed some re
pairs and some remodeling. How
ever, the dwelling house was the
last one to get repaired, the brood
er house, the chicken house and
even the hog house had to be fin
ished first. She thought however,
when these things were done that
the house would come next, but it
was not so, it was now time to
plow and plant the garden. It was
late summer before work was start
ed on the house, and this began
with the laying of new floors, put
ting in new windows, kalsomining
walls, fixing broken sills and sag
ging doors. The kitchen was the
hub of all activities. It was here
that the egg records were kept,
mail orders were written, mail read,
meals, eaten, baths taken, where
they entertained, planned the fu
ture and discussed the past. The
day began at 4 a.m. on the Mac
Donald chicken ranch and it ended
about 8:30 in the evening.
The Kettles and the Hicks were
the closest neighbors to the Mac
Donald farm, one family on either
side of them. Mrs. Kettle is de
scribed as a mountainously fat
(See BOOKENDS, Page 3)
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