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The Battalion
Friday Afternoon, March 22, 1946
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Office, Room 5, Administration Building, Telephone 4-64444
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Tex a.
and the City of College Station is published three times weekly, and circulated ot
Monday, Wednesday,'and Friday afternoons.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texaa, unde’
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Staff for This Issue
VICK LINDLEY Managing Editor
Reporters: PAUL MARTIN, ED GRAY, JOHN A. HARRIS, T. D. PRATER.
Don’t Throw Those Bricks . . .
The author of these lines is normally a sucker for peti
tions. As a rule he will sign anything that starts with a
couple of “whereases” and then asks help for the under
dog.
The other day, as a veteran student, he was asked to
sign one of the petitions now floating around the campus,
asking for a long summer term. But just before he would
have put his hen-scratch on paper he asked, “Why?” And
he has been asking that “why” ever since, without getting
much of an answer.
Although the Ex-Servicemen’s Club has been burb
ling like a volcano over the matter, no one seems willing to
set down in black and white what is supposed to be wrong
with the short sessions that a long session will cure.
It’s not a matter of the $90 a month; for it has been
settled that veterans payments need not be interrupted.
It can’t be just that veterans object on general principles
to professors getting time off. (The writer is a veteran, who
could use two weeks off this summer himself.) •
It would be absurd to suppose that it’s just a matter
of “if we had our druthers, we druther have a long session.”
The dean’s office has sworn that no one’s graduation
will be retarded by the short terms that would have been
speeded by a long term. A few issues from now the Batt
will carry a list of proposed summer classes, designed to
get all students with irregular schedules on a normal class
routine. It is a tentative schedule, and if there are screeches
over the omission or inclusion of certain subjects, result
ing in derangement of students’ study-plans, the tenta
tive list can be changed.
So what is it all about? Up to now, the smoke has hid
den the fire. Is there some secret that can be whispered but
not put into print? If the objections to the short term are
typewritable, the Batt will be glad to print them.
A. & M. College is a unit composed of students, faculty
and administration, all supposedly working to the same end
—a worthwhile education. In this controversy, until the is
sues have been clearly stated where all can read and know,
it is hardly fit for anybody to start throwing bricks at the
faculty.
In a short time organization of the board of represen
tatives for the veterans club will be completed, and per
haps that will make it possibel for the vets to speak out
what is on their minds without pettigogging and with no
possibility of a minority making their views appear to be
the attitude of the entire veterans body. Certainly the
“short-term long-term” controversy has been mishandled.
Results of the poll now being taken may surprise some
people.
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“You Can’t Take It
With You” Nears
Sell-out Stage
Both performances of “You
Can’t Take It With You,” Aggie
Players’ first production, are rap
idly approaching the sell-out stage,
with reserved seats almost gone
and general admission running a
close second, according to Raymond
Horancy, business manager.
The three-act comedy will be
presented Tuesday and Wednesday
nights, March 26 and 27, at 8 p.m.,
in the old Assembly Hall on the
A. & M. campus.
F. L. Hood, faculty sponsor of
the new dramatic club and direc
tor of its first show, has announced
the production staff. It includes
Robert Swinney as assistant direc
tor; Walter Norris, designer; Gra
dy Burns, stage manager; Fred
Kelly, assistant stage manager.
Stage crew, Hazel McClendon,
Jeanne Kernodle, Roy Garner, Tacy
Wittenbach, Billy Yowell, John
Helm, Hal Dungan, Jane Porter,
Glenn Brooks and Ruth Daniels;
electrician, Jim Stephens, assisted
by John Helm and A. D. Carr.
Properties, Sybil Bannister, Ruth
Daniels, Billy Zoller, Walter Nor
ris, Nancy Tucker, Betty Smith;
costumes, Tacy Wittenbach; make
up director, Carl Stevens; business
manager, Raymond Horancy;
prompter, Jeanne Kernodle.
Tickets are on sale today, Fri
day, March 22, from 1 to 5 p.m. in
the Rotunda of the Academic build
ing, where they will also be sold
during the same hours on March
25.
Tickets will also be sold in mess-
halls and in the English Depart
ment office. General admission is
35 cents; reserved seats, 50 cents.
—POLGAR—
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restaurant, where he caused a sen
sation by catching his customer’s
mental decisions as they read the
menu and bringing the correct
dishes without bothering to consult
them orally.
Dr. Polgar was so sure of him
self and his mastery of telepathy
when he first took to the lecture
platform that, while his manager
looked in horror, he challenged an
audience at the Detroit Town Hall
Forum: “Hide my check for giv
ing this performance. Go ahead,
hide it. I’ll go outside and you can
send as many persons as you wish
to watch me. If I can’t find the
THE
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BILLFOLD
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comes this handsome Tex-
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traying the now-vanished
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ranges. A beautiful exam
ple of the handiwork of
master leather craftsmen.
Double Longhorn and
branding iron embossed
on finest TexTan leather.
EXCHANGE STORE
“Serving Texas Aggies”
check when I come back, you keep
it and tonight is all for fun.”
They hid the check under the
hat of a woman seated in the cen
ter of the vast throng in the hall.
Polgar simply asked for a volun
teer known to the audience to give
him mental directions. Then he hur
ried down the aisle, shoved his
way past protruding knees in the
particular row, arrived at the wom
an and her hat—never having seen
either in his life—and produced the
check. It took him about four
minutes to complete the job of lo
cating one woman in 2000 to find
his pay for the evening.
Town Hall season tickets will be
honored at Monday’s performance,
while single admission tickets will
be on sale at the box office.
—CADETS—
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be entertained at various homes
in the city. Sunday morning they
will sing at services of the Travis
Ave. Baptist Church, after which
they will be guests at a church
dinner there.
Soloists for this trip will be
Watson Keene, Harry Doran, and
Grady Griffin, tenors, and Fank
Haynes, baritone.
This will be the second trip of
the semester for the singers, who
recently gave a concert at Baylor
in Waco.
FEATURES
Pageant Director.
Mrs. Manning T. Smith is di
rector of the Cotton Ball and
Pageant, which will , take place
on the A. & M. Campus April 12.
Revived after a lapse during the
war, the event is expected to be
the best ever held.
... but what else do I make?”
“I do make good telephones and I'm proud of every one
of them.
“But your Bell Telephone would be completely silent
without the other things I produce to go with it.
"Wire for instance. . . miles and miles and miles of it.
Acres of reels of cable... thousands of intricate switchboards
... delicate electronic apparatus to improve your long dis
tance calls. And that’s only the beginning ...
"That’s just my manufacturing function for the Bell System.
(I’ve been at it since 1882.) I’m purchaser for the Bell tele
phone companies, too. I distribute equipment and supplies
to them throughout the nation. I even install central office
equipment.
"I’ve helped to make our nation’s telephone service the
best in the world and the most economical.
"My name? Remember it . . .
"It’s Western Electric!”
Western Electric
SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR THE BELL SYSTEM