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The Battalion
Monday Afternoon, April 8, 1946
SHIRTS MYSTERIES
In view of the fact that there are three components of the campus affected,
namely the veterans, professors, and graduating seniors, THE BATTALION deems it
necessary to present an overall view of the shirt situation.
Other campuses all over the nation are experiencing the same situation. At the
university of Texas, veterans are speculating on wearing polo shirts with suits as a
regular thing. In Aggieland, Army khakis and wools are predominant, with no re
lief, in the form of white, or colored shirts in sight.
To present the national perspective, we reprint part of an editorial from the
(Vashington Post of February 3, 1946.
Shirts in plenty, but none to wear! This new variant
of famine in the midst of plenty is provided by the barren
ness of retailers’ shelves and the news that there are more
than three million shirts being held in storage, with more
being added daily. The cause of this anomalous situation
according to the manufacturers, is an OPA price regulation
requiring them to maintain the same balance among low,
medium and high priced shirts as the balance prevailing
in their 1943 base period. A complicated method exists for
determing what the average sales price of all shirts is to be,
and penalties are exacted for failure to conform. Thus, if
too large a proportion of higher priced shirts are manu
factured and the average threatens to be exceeded, it be
comes necessary either to sell at a loss or to wait until the
surplus can be worked off at a later date. The manufactur
ers assert that they do not object to the specific ceilings set
for different classes of shirts, but they insist that low-cost
shirt fabrics are unobtainable, making compliance with the
average-price formula impossible.
The effort to regulate clothing prices has been more or
less a fiasco from the start. Mistakes were made that it
was impossible later to correct. In any case the task was
one of extreme difficulty and fresh complications have con
tinually arise to make it harder. The dilemma confronting
the shirt manufacturers is only one of innumerable in
stances of price maladjustments that are reportedly holding
pack production of textile fabrics and keeping down the
output of clothing at a time of urgent need.
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STOKE
The Exchange Store is your own col
lege owned and operated store, main
tained on the campus by the school for
your convenience.
When you buy from your Exchange
Store you can buy with the utmost con-
fidence, knowing that your money will
bring you the greatest possible return.
The Exchange Store is an Aggie tra
dition, based on many years of faithful
service to generations of Aggies.
The Friendly Place on the Campus
THE EXCHANGE STORE
SERVING TEXAS AGGIES
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood
If you are up on your home work
you already know that the lettuce
leaf under your salad should be
Letters to the Editor
Aggie Marine Finds
Buddies at Pearl Harbor
Houston, Texas
The Battalion:
I am writing to ask you to put
some news in the Batt for an ex-
Aggie who is in Pearl Harbor. He
is Pfc. Byron L. Maxwell, and his
address is USMCR, MCI Pacific
Branch, Navy, c/o F.P.O., San
Francisco, California.
Byron says he has found about
35 Aggies over there. They held
their first meeting March 28 with
about that number present. There
are others who didn’t get to the
meeting, but they expect to have
all of them in a wonderful time on
Muster Day.
He is receiving the paper over
there, and says he has met several
boys that he went to school with
in 1944 and 1945.
Sincerely,
Mrs. J. F. Maxwell.
Battalion
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eaten and head lettuce may be cut
with either the knife or fork.
Other salads are cut with the salad
fork, if they need cutting.
Crisp bacon may be eaten with
the fingers if you wish. Any foods
that can be eaten neatly without
getting the fingers sticky or greasy
may be treated as “finger foods”.
An Englishman invented the
sandwich but he wouldn’t be able
to recognize, as such, some of the
concoctions we Americans fix up
^nd call by that name, such as, the
tiny open faced sandwiches or the
“triple deckers” that make a
square meal. The tiny ones of two
or three bite size may be eaten
without breaking them up but a
medium or large one should be
broken, a piece or two at a time.
You may have to use a knife to
cut a “club sandwich” in order to
eat it neatly.
Trust your own judgment or
watch others if you don’t feel sure
of yourself about the proper way
to eat certain foods.
FEATURES
Aggie
House—Marms
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Presented herewith
is the eighth of a series of thumbnail
sketches on the house masters in charge
of the non-military dormitories on the
campus.)
A. F. (FRED) KASCH is 25
years old, from Big Spring, Tex
as. A member of the Class of 1941;
he is back in school taking Econo
mics. Entered service in Septem
ber, 1941 as a private, was dia*
charged in September, 1945 as a
Master Sergeant. Served 33 Va
months in the M.T.O. and E.T.
O. as flight chief with the 93rd
Bombardier Group. Received ETO
ribbon with 11 campaign stars and
Unit Citation. Housemaster for Mil
ner Hall and lives in Room 54.
(Next issue: G'. R. Page)
Assistant Professor A. E. Sails,
recently released from the Navy,
soon will resume teaching duties
in the electrical engineering de
partment at Texas A & M. College,
it was announced recently.
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