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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1946)
Page 2 The Battalion Monday Afternoon, April 29, 1946 A Little Piece of Cloth - - - It’s just a small piece of wool with a five-pointed star of blue on it. By itself, it's nothing, just another piece of cloth. But put it on the right sleeve of an Aggie blouse, and the meaning of the blue star changes. It signifiies that Tex as A&M has the highest possible rating as an ROTC unit. General Eisenhower praised the Reserve Officer sys tem, and especially did he laud Aggies and Aggieland. To deserve that praise, weVe got to be the best, and stay the best. To do that, the Corps has to keep ready at all times during the next four days—and even after that, it would not be out of order to stay prepared, and consider every day as another inspection. We’re proud, along with thousands of Aggie exes, of the blue star; so let’s get in the swing of this federal in spection, and do a bang-up god job of it. It’s just a little piece of cloth, but it embodies every thing that Aggies hold dear—let’s keep it. Classics to Corn - - - The Aggie Band presents its spring concert tomorrow night. The members of the band have been working pretty hard to get everything in perfection for the entertainment of the students and people of the surrounding territory. The band will play for everybody, with classics for those who appreciate classics, and with fantasies, and march music for the people who like music in a lighter vein. It’s our band and they are are doing this for our enjoyment, so don’t let them down. Turn out in full force for the concert tomorrow night at eight p.m. Classified FOR SALE—Sealy Mattress. Call 4-616T. Refresher courses in shorthand, type writing, and other commercial subjects start Monday. Phone 2-6655, McKenzie- Baldwin Business College, 702 S. Washing ton, Bryan. THE SCRIBE SHOP. Typing, mimeo graphing, drawing. Phone 2-6705, 1007 E. 25th, Bryan. Save Money on Senior Boots. Tlmost New Pair size with two pair of pants. Dorm 17, 401. Will buy World War II relics. Want all type helmets, guns, bayonets and other trophies. Dorm 17, 401. $50.00 REWARD for the recovery of “Frieda”, black Daschund pup, 6 months old, weight 14 lbs., length 18 inches. No collar. Answers to name “Frieda”. Lost Sunday night, % mile south of Hrdlicka’s Place old highway. R. B. McAshan, Call 4-8394. FOR SALE Transit and Level. See Marwil, Room 201, Dorm 1. FOR SALE—2 Tropical blouses size 38 and 36. Also 2 tropical shirts 14%-32 and two trousers 31x33. Room 83 Mitchell. —BROMFIELD— (Continued from Page 1) practices which cause once valuable farmsteads to lose productivity, and homesteads to crumble in de cay. K. J. Edwards of the Extension Service was chairman of the com mittee on arrangements for the visit of Mr. Bromfield and his party of Friends of the Land, an organization whose purpose is to conserve soil, rain and man. NOTICE We have been appointed exclusive dealers at College Station for the complete line of PITTSBURG PLATE GLASS COM PANY’S PAINTS, VARNISH, ENAMELS and MIRRORS Our stock is a complete as can be, considering conditions YOUR PATRONAGE WILL BE APPRECIATED 2 Blocks East of Post Office Wilson-Bearrie Applicance Co. College Station, Texas LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLORADO A. & M. IS NOT A TRADE SCHOOL To the Editor In a recent headline you refer to Colorado A. & M. as a “trade schoof’. The Trade and Industrial Education division at Colorado A. & M. is a department, as is Indus trial Education at Texas A. & M. Before World War II Colorado A. & M. had become a national summer school for teachers of vo cational courses. I taught there in the summers through 1937-40. War Training in Texas kept me here from 1941 on. E. L. Williams College Station (Apologies to Colorado A. & M. But let it be remembered that re serve officers in the Army and Navy always refer to West Point and Annapolis as “trade schools”, so C. A. & M. was in good com pany.—Ed.) Editor-in-Chief of “The Battalion” Texas A. & M. College College Station, Texas Dear Aggie: Can you give me any informa tion regarding the whereabouts of Sofilthia or Miss Sofie, the large cream colored German Police dog which was left at A. & M. early in 1944 by Jack Wilkinson, class of ’43 when he went overseas? He has gotten home and when members of our family were at A. & M. on Easter Sunday we heard that she had disappeared. Naturally we were very disappoint ed as he had looked forward to seeing her almost as much as the members of his family. She has spent most of her life at A. & M. and naturally when he went overseas he thought she would be happier and would have better care there than anywhere else. I was working at the time and she just sat around my office in all kinds of weather and due to meat rationing I was not able to give her the care she had always been used to having. She had never known anything but kindness and had always been well taken care of and we felt sure she would al ways get that kind of care there. Sylvester Boone, who was the edi tor of the “Bat” at that time, came to Bellville for her and hitch hik ed back to A. & M. with her the day Jack left to go overseas. She has been very happy there and was there until a short time ago as I have always asked any Aggie I have seen about her. I know she was there not long ago as a boy from here told me sh6 always went out with all the P. E. classes and that when the whis tle was blown she dashed around with the boys just like she had to. I would appreciate any informa tion you could get for me con cerning her. I hope no one has taken her away as she is not FEATURES happy anywhere but there. Prob ably she has been killed or die<> but I wish I knew definitely what has become of her. I kept her in my home almost a year and she had more friends in Bellville than most people. She was never hap pier than when in a big crowd. She always expected the very best of everything and accepted it as her right. Many old time Aggies remember her as she was known as the “Cav alry Dog” in 1941 and 1941-42. Boys who did not remember her called her “Miss Sofie” when she* came back in 1944. Aggies all over the country have known and loved her. Perhaps if you run an article, asking for information concerning her in the “Bat” we may be able to locate her. Etheline Wilkinson co The Rosenberg Herald Rosenberg, Texas. QUALITY - COURTEOUS DRY CLEANING SERVICE Owned and Operated by the Former Students Association Campus Cleaners Over the Exchange — Substation Near George’s Where Qualihj Is The Keynote We invite you to trade at the Exchange Store- operated by our own college for your own benefit. 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