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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1946)
rage 2 The Battalion Friday Afternoon, May 1, 1946 Wanted: A Pre-War Batt... Since the Battalion went to tabloid size, in order to resume tri-weekly publication, it has been on the receiving end of much criticism, friendly but astringent. Readers have remarked on the small amount of space in the four tiny pages, and the proportion taken up by advertising. No one is more conscious than the editors of the short coming of the present Battalion. Our private bull-sessions are filled with moaning. The amount of interesting material that we can’t find room to print fills many waste baskets each week. But, frankly, we’re caught over a barrel. Not only is newsprint scare, but printing facilities are jammed with other work. We’d like to put out a full-sized, pre-war Batt, but until many problems are settled we won’t able to do it. In a letter printed on this page, friendly readers Bolin and Forgerson chide us for selling 39% of our limited space for advertising. Believe it or not, we do ration our adver- tisments. Enough is offered us each week to fill more than 100% of our present space. It is general newspaper practice to hold advertising between 50% and 40% a page, which is about what we have been doing. In an eight-or-twelve page paper, that percentage would seem normal. In the BatFs four little pages, it does look rather overwhelming. It has been suggested that the Batt eliminate adver tising altogether. Unfortunately, that would also eliminate the Batt. And in the days to come, those same adver tisers will help us give you a big new Batt, with more news, features and information in a single issue that we print now in a month. All we can ask is: Sweat it out with us until we can get back to King-size format. (Hasten the day!) Then we’ll be able to give you the newspaper you’re asking for. Letters to the Editor BATT IS WILLING BUT PAPER IN SCARCE Editor of the Battalion: It has been our experience the Battalion has been an excellent newspaper, keeping Aggies up to date on the latest happenings around the campus. However, we feel that there are certain defic iencies existing in the paper which shoiild be brought to your atten tion. We consider the most important fault to be the large proportion of space devoted to advertising. For example, in this afternoon’s edition approximately 39% of the total space was given to this subject. We propose that some of this advertising be eliminated and that in place of it be substituted a ser ies of articles dealing with job opportunities, research, and gen eral information concerning each of the fields for which students at A. & M. are preparing themselves. This information could be obtained from the various departments and could also be gleaned from period icals and other publications in the particular fields. We believe that most students would be interested in and bene fit from such a series of articles. . Richard L. Bolin Carl D. Forgerson College Station (See Editorial, this issue.—Ed). Gat-Walking Painter Gets Sets Ready for “Junior Miss” Play Things are buzzing around the old Assembly Hall these days. Johnnie Helm and his crew of some nine handy men are putting up the set for u Junior Miss”, the second major production of the Aggie Players. The flats are up— after some precarious 2x4 cat walking by Johnnie—and the prim er coat has been applied. The final coat of paint and all trim should be completed by Mon day night for the first dress re hearsal. _ Production nights are May 14 and 15, with tickets going on sale Friday, May 3. Reserved seats are 50 cents, general admission 85 cents. Tickets may be obtained at the English Department and from any member of the Aggie Players. DALLAS BANKER VISITS ECONOMICS DEPT. A. C. Michaelis, assistant cash ier of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, visited the campus this week to interview economics maj ors interested in seeking summer employment and possibly future permanent employment with the Federal Reserve Bank. Mr. Michaelis was guest at a luncheon at the Aggieland Inn, with F. B. Clark and others of the economics department as his guest. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH R. L. BROWN, Pastor College Station, Texas SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School 10:50 a.m.-—Morning Worship 6:15 p.m.—Training Union 7:15 p.m.—Evening Worship A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL Building or buying a house rep resents one of the largest finan cial transactions in a lifetime for the average family, and is usually the happy conclusion of many years of planning and conscientious sav ing. The number of books that have been published on small homes building indicates the popularity of the subject, because there has been published within the past two years more than a score of books on this ever popular subject. B. Kenneth Johnstone and others have written a book entitled BUILDING OR BUYING A HOUSE. This volume does not con tain any house plans or drawings, but it is primarily concerned with those things that are so important when one either plans to buy or build. Some of the things to be con sidered in selecting a home site are: type of community, the stores, the schools, the safety of the communi ty, transportation facilities, and also the recreational facilities. The actual planning of the home is discussed in much detail. There are many other subjects covered, such as contracts, construction and construction hazards, and the parts that the architect and contractor play in the building of a house. George Nelson and Henry Wright, on the staff of the Archi tectural Forum, have written a book entitled TOMORROW’S HOUSE, HOW TO PLAN YOUR POST WAR HOME NOW. The the ory advanced in this volume is that our way of life is undergoing great changes and that many of our changes are already here. The authors state that the greatest vir tue of tomorrow’s house is pic tured in this volume, in that it frees the plan—and therefore the family—from the arbitrary con cepts which have gotten in the way of gracious living these many years. The authors do not call their designs modern, but merely provide more livable homes, with more livable space, without the old-fashioned doodads and gadgets. In his volume entitled THE SMALL HOME TOMORROW, Paul R. Williams mentions some of the things that may be expected in the home of tomorrow; such things as an electronic oven which will cook a roast in less than five minutes. There will be lamps which will kill $11 bacteria and those which will collect all of the pollen in the room. Heaters no longer than a lunch box will heat large rooms. These are just a few of the things to be expected for the home of tomorrow. The author gives some thirty-two house plans and each is accompanied with an ex terior sketch. ATLANTIC REFINING CO. TO INTERVIEW SENIORS Representatives of the Atlantic Refining Co. will be on the cam pus to interview graduating sen iors Monday and Tuesday 6 and 7. They wish to meet all seniors in terested in their company in the Mechanical Engineering Lecture room at 7:15 Monday. Personal in terviews will be arranged after the evening meeting for Tuesday. GIVE YOUR CAR A See what we mean— CAR-VACATION SPECIAL 1. Grind valve* 2. Clean and adjust carburetor 3. Test compression 4. Tighten cylinder heads and manifolds 5. Install new engine gaskets where needed 6. Adjust or replace distributor points 7. Adjust fan belt . 8. Inspect water pump 9. 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