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The Battalion
Wednesday Afternoon, March 20, 1946
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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Texas A. & M. College
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SAM NIXON 13 " Editor
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WENDELL McCLURE....... 1.., I.... .! ; :. Advertising Manager
Staff for This Issue
ALLEN SELF............: :..... ...Managing Editor
REPORTERS—Robert Huston, Warren Rice, Paul Martin, James A. Davis.
Thoughtlessness in the Library ...
The College Library has suffered irreparable loss dur
ing the past months.
Mutilation or << taking ,, of expensive, unreplaceable
scientific journals for some students' selfish use, has pre
vented the librarian from sending volumes to the bindery,
and has likewise thwarted others in their attempts to use
these journals for research. Bound copies of periodicals
have had pertinent articles ripped from them, causing dam
age which can not be repaired.
Do we, as students, as Aggies, want our library, to lack
material when we are urgently in need of it? Is it not true
that we all want the library to continue its good services,
and to even enlarge upon them?
The thoughtless action of students in depriving others
of important printed matter should stop immediately. No
person should benefit himself at the expense of countless
others.
Texas is larger than the com- Then there was the sailor who
bined area of France, Portugal got stuck on a bar and it took
and Switzerland. four MP's to get him home.
We Are Happy to Announce
the reopening of our automobile repair
shop with the employment of
B. C. HURT Mechanic
(a veteran with four years experience in the
United States Army Motor Pool Service)
See us for general repairing
and overhauling
Aggieland Service Station
At the East Gate Phone 4-1188
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The First New Shipment of
ALL METAL WASTEBASKETS
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North Gate
Between the Book-Ends . . .
New American Folklore Series
On Ozarks, Mormons, Alaska
AMERICAN FOLKWAYS
by
Paul S. Ballance
Acting Librarian
The folk-stories of the different
sections of the country make very
interesting reading. There have
been published about nine volumes
of the American Folkways Series
and ten more proposed. These books
give an excellent insight into the
lives, customs, and habits of the
peoples , of the various sections
which have been included.
Walter ‘Stanley Campbell who
writes under the name of Stanley
Vestal has written a book Short
Grass Country. This volume is his
tory, legend, economics and humor
of that portion of the Southwest
bounded by the Ozarks and the
woodlands on the east, by the foot-
hills of the Rockies on the west, by
the Colorado River on the south
and by the cornfields of Kansas and
Nebraska, on the north. The author
has interpreted ; his land most
graphically in the various chapters
of this book.
Otto Ernest Rayburn has writ
ten a volume of this series entitled
Ozark Country. The hills people
of the Ozarks and their customs
have been curiously presented in
radio programs, cartoons, movies
and fiction. These people and their
ways of life have been misrepre
sented to other sections of the
country. The author of this volume
has lived in the Ozark hills for
a long time, and he here records
the facts, stories, legends and cus
toms of the people whom he has
observed and loved.
j Mormon Country by Wallace
Stegner makes excellent reading
and is solidly based. The author’s
residence of 15 years in the region
he is describing shows him to
mingle ease with : authority. He
combines a great amount of in
formation with excellent descrip
tion of one of the most beautiful
and least known regions of the
United States.
Thomas R. Williamson has writ
ten a volume of this series entitled
.Far North Country. This is more
of a popular narrative-type history
of Alaska from pre-historic times
through the battles of Attu and
Kiska. The author includes an
optimistic prediction as to the
FEATURES
Turn in Your Pix
Or Longhorn is Nix,
The Editor Kicks
Do you want your outfit repre
sented in the ’46 Longhorn? Pic
tures of intramurals, dormitory
and campus life, and activities are
urgently needed to complete that
section of the book.
Anyone having any pictures de
picting Aggie life in general should
bring them to the Longhorn office
in the Administration building.
Robert ,McCallum, editor .of the
Longhorn, requests that all pic
tures be turned in by Friday, March
22, or by the first of the following
week at the latest.
importance of this territory in fu
ture world development.
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