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Page 2 The Battalion Monday Afternoon, May 27, 1946 Get Out and Vote ... BURKHALTER SEEKS REELECTION Tommorow is Election Day! The whole student body is represented by the various candidates for the various offices. The task at hand is to decide who will be more representative for each office, so that all will reap the benefits. It will not be an easy deci sion to make in several of the races, such as the ones for Junior yell leader, Veterans yell leader, and the Longhorn co-editor from the Corps. Voting, anywhere, anytime, is a privilege, and like any other privilege, should not be abused. Voting is also a duty, and like any other duty, should not be avoided. To get the best possible men to fill some of the higher offices on the campus is the purpose of this student election. It will re quire the cooperation of all concerned to do the job. Go to yell practice tonight and hear the speeches; talk to the men themselves; and talk to people who know them —then, tomorrow, get out and vote. Stream-Lined Registration . . . Congratulations to Registrar H. L. Heaton for the stream-lined registration procedure which put thousands of veterans through the works in a short time Saturday afternoon. And congratulations to Exchange Store Manager “Doc” Birdwell for the way in which the store either sup plied us with books in a hurry, or else turned us loose with requisitions on other stores in College Station. The improvement over registration-time this spring was amazing. Putting everything together in Sbisa’s huge halls certainly saved a lot of trotting back and forth across the campus—no running from Ad building to Academic and back to the Ad building. Who says a college can't do things efficiently ? GOLD DUST TWINS PLACE BIG BLEED WHILE DODGING The Battalion: It comes to our painful attention all too often here of late that cer tain inhabitants of Dorms 15 and 16 just don’t quite seem to be able to keep from making like a meat- ball. They prefer to, and practical ly insist on sailing beer and liquor bottles down the hall at odd hours of the night just to hear ’em bust. Likewise, they are prone to commit mayhem on the innocent little trash cans placed in the hall—and then set fire to them, whang hell out of light bulbs in the hallway, bash shampoo bottles against the shower walls, or pour water from an upper window on everybody that walks out the dorm entrance in hopes that they’ll “playfully” Bprinkle one of their “buddies”. Last night, though, some jerk de livered the crowning blow: With cold-blooded deliberation and ma lice aforethought he delicately smashed to smithereens both of the lower glass panels in the dorm’s tntrance, scattering glass for sev eral yards up the hall. Gleeful as all get-out, ain’t it? The painful part, though, is that by far the largest majority of stu dents in these two dorms are vete rans—guys which, so the propa ganda goes, are men! Most of the aforesaid atrocities are committed just after the committors have re turned from some beer jernt. These guys are absolutely certain it’s their born right to get swack- ed in the glassy-eyed manner and run amock like a pack of fiends. Psychologists, we are told, clas sify these neurotic personalities as High School Harrys. It ain’t the drinking, however, that’s causing all the trouble. It would be very simple to tell these jerks to take their litle activities out in the bushes somewhere, but then everybody knows that busting bottles, etc., is no fun at all un less you’re dead certain it’s an noying somebody. See what I Watch Repairs One Day Service Stems — Crowns and Main Springs One Week Service Cleaning — Staffs T. C. HINMAN Lauterstein Bldg. - N. Gate mean ? Eventually ,though, there’ll come a day when it will be necessary to put restrictions on all us vets so that these two-percenters will stay in line. The Student Affairs com mittee is already discussing the situation. What we’ve got to say to these Hubba-Hubba Huberts is simply this: There’s a sharp line of demarcation between friendly horseplay and vandalism. No M. P.’s or Gestapo or restrictions or disciplinary action is ever needed when a man is willing to act like a man instead of a High School Harry! Joel H. Smith, ’42 Dick Hearne, ’43 “TO PLEASE RETURN” IRKS ENGLISH STUDENT The Battalion: Perhaps you will recall a direc tive issued early in the semester to the effect that instructors would report students showing defective English to the department heads for further training. This rankled in the minds of the average stu dents, whose English is at least as good as that of their profes sors. Any student can catch any of his teachers making occasional mistakes in grammar and pronoun- ciation and feels that the teacher should be reported for further training. Now one of the staff, the Act ing Librarian, has split an infini tive in print (Monday’s Batt). While this is not the worst error possible, it is certainly one of the most glaring. So how about sending some of our profs to school along side the the poor stops they have reported. M. L. Reddeck As County Commissioner of Precinct No. 1 A native of his precinct and a resident of College Station for the past 24 years, Mr. Burkhalter has taken a live interest in the affairs of the community in which he re sides with his wife and four child ren. In making his announcement, he said: “In my campaign four years ago I made only two promises. One was that I would devote all my time and energy to the office, and the other was that I would give an economical and efficient adminis tration of the county affairs, which have been most faithfully adhered to. I have also managed to be with in my budget at the end of the year. Although prices, material, equipment and labor have inflated to almost 34 per cent higher than when I went in office, the budget has been the same since 1940, and despite the inflation, I have man aged to make almost 60 miles of rural road possible in all weather. In this 60 miles are five school bus routes, and I am proud to say the school bus routes have been grav eled and maintained so that now the children do not have to miss EXPLANATION OF VETERANS ABSENCE AT SILVER TAPf> The Battalion: Regarding your editorial about Silver Taps, 98 per cent of the veterans, and especially the old Aggies, would have been glad to- cooperate if we had known about it. It is questionable how many vet erans even know that Silver Taps was blown until we read about it in the Battalion. The college authorities have placed us on the opposite side of the campus from the Cadets. This may explain why we know very little about what goes on in the Corps. Maybe there would be more unity in the Texas A. & M. student body if an effort were made to include veterans in the activities here. Information might be the first step toward this ideal. Sincerely yours, Herman L. Peace (The flag was at half-mast, the Silver Taps notice was up, and the Batt had an obituary, which are the regular notices for Silver Taps. Veterans are being included in activities here; see the stories on the election.—Ed. Note.) QUALITY - COURTEOUS DRY CLEANING SERVICE Owned and Operated by the Former Students Association Campus Cleaners Over the Exchange — Substation Near George’s school on account of bad roads. I supervise all of the road and bridge work in my precinct with out an assistant, which has been customary, but during my adminis tration we have had to cut down on lots of unnecessary items. Most of that credit is due the swell bunch of men I have working with me out on the roads, who are all co operative, capable and deserving men. I am very proud of the progress which has been made in the admin istration of county affairs during the time I have served as your County Commissioner. We are oper ating on a cash basis and the in debtedness is being systematically reduced. The tax rate has been re duced and business principles and strict economies have resulted in substantial benefits which have been passed on to the taxpayer. We have employed a county en gineer especially for these two reasons: First of all is the fact that nine out of ten commissioners elected are not capable or qualified to plan for future traffic (and I am no exception). Most are elect ed because they are popular or can make the most promises or because they are good fellows and need the job—that is all very good, but doesn’t always get the job done. The primary reason, however, for the employment of technical en gineering service is that common sense and scientific calculations should be included in all road and bridge construction and mainten ance. Incidentally there is a strong tendency on the part of the state and federal governments to allot additional funds for farm-to-mar- ket road construction only to those counties which are in position to expand it under engineering super vision. In view of these enormous benefits and requirements, it is nothing but good business and sound practice for the county to have the services of a competent engineer for road and bridge ad ministration. You elected and trusted me to do the best that can be done to ward getting us out of the ruts and out of debt. Well,—that is one of the wisest moves the Court has made to do that very thing. We spend our entire time study ing these things, investigating in other counties and states—some of the trips made at our own ex- dense,—trying to make better coun ty officials. Some may say this will take part of the work off of the Com missioner, but that is a mistake for I have just as much work and responsibility as before. If I am honored by reelection, I can definitely assure our citizens “Everyone in the country should investigate the educational benefits of the G. I. Bill of Rights,” said married Army Veteran Douglas Strickland whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Strickland reside at 119 Appian Way, Dallas. His wife is the former Frances Dietsch of Dallas. He is entitled to four years of College under the G. I. Bill of Rights and is majoring in Mar keting Finance at Texas A. & M. College. Mr .Strickland was discharged in October, 1945 with 86 points after service overseas with the 461 Bomb Group, earning such decorations as* the Air Medal with Four Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross, Presi dential Citation and the European Theater Ribbon with Four Battle Stars. His wife resides with him at Walton Hall, Texas A. & M. EX-SERVICEMENS WIVES CLUB ELECT OFFICERS There will be an election to fill the offices of president and vice- president of the Ex-Servicemens Wives Club Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m., in Sbisa Hall. All members are requested to attend and to bring a pencil with them. There will be bridge after the bal loting. i the continuation of these policies. Thanking you very sincerely for your confidence and support in the past, and pledging my earnest ana’’' continued efforts to serve the peo- pel of Brazos County, I am, Very respectfuly, Norton R. Burkhalter. 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