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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1946 o O Si h* V -frLM o hri I Is A. & M. Too Big?. Is A. & M. growing too big for its own good? Will the college this fall be so huge that the Aggie spirit will be lost, perhaps forever? These are gloomy suggestions, and the Battalion does not believe that things are quite so bad. But it is true that the constant increase in the size of this college—not just the increase due to veterans enrollment, but the normal increase of boys who want to attend A. & M.—has brought the school to a point where many policies and traditions need to be re-examined in the light of the huge institution we are becoming. Recently an Aggie veteran student was discussing college prospects with his uncle, an Ex from ’23. After hear ing how the “Bull” had turned over many functions to the Dean of Men; how the administrative branch of the school had grown to be itself as large as many small colleges; how thousands were expected to be in the freshman class next fall, the Ex just sighed and exclaimed, “A. & M. has grown too big.” It semed to him that the “personal touch” of years ago was gone forever. When a corporation grows beyond the size envisioned by its planners, it usually reorganizes, decentralizes, and tries to break itself into units that can function in them selves, as well as in regard to the whole. (As in General Motors, for instance.) Perhaps A. & M. needs to be reorganized, not piecemeal as has been done, but scientifically and completely. The Batt, (knowing that no one will take us seriously and that no state legislature would follow our advice) pre sents its own plan for reorganization of A. & M. FIRST there would be created a top-policy group to be known as The Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges of the State of Texas. (Note the S on that Colleges.) This would correspond to a holding company in a corporation. The pres ident of the colleges would head this body, and it would be understood that his duties would be administrative rather than educational. (Most university presidents in the United States today find that financial and political demands on their time leave them little chance to work as educators.) SECONDLY there would be created the office of Pro vost of the Schools at College Station, who would be rated higher than any present dean and who would be chief edu cational officer of the colleges here. Other schools such as John Tarleton and NTAC would have similar provosts, and report to the “holding company”. (If you are puzzled by the word “provost”, you will find it in Webster’s dictionary defined as covering precisely the post suggested here.) THIRDLY there would be established a Ross College on the campus, here, which would cover somewhat more ter ritory than the present School of Arts & Sciences. All fresh men, regardless of their eventual courses, would spend their first year in Ross College, taking general work, including fundamental sciences and mathematics. The success of stu dents during their first year, plus aptitude tests taken dur ing that time, would be considered when they came to apply to the technical schools at the end of that year. The nature of Ross College, operating directly under the Provost, would be such that far more personal assistance and advice would be available to the new students. During that first year, all cadets would be attached to Infantry di visions, and would move, if they so desired, to other outfits at the beginning of their sophomore years, when they en tered engineering or agricultural schools. If A. & M. finds it necessary to extend its technical courses to the five-year-plan, as it is reported other leading colleges are considering doing, then Ross College would handlG students for the first two years, and the special schools for the remaining three. Such a step might end the “lopsideness” of technical training. The deans of the departmental schools, still “kings” in their respective “castles,” would be broadly under the jurisdiction of the Provost. “Silly Plan!” do you say? Well, there is no doubt about it differing from what we have. But A. & M. is a big boy now, and our present framework was designed for about as many hundreds as there are thousands expected next fall. Is It Necessary? The press and the press associations have taken to iden tifying all veterans in crime stories as ex-GIs. To illustrate, the recent affair near Terre Haute in which two brothers dueled with shotguns was reported in some newspapers as involving a wearer of the Purple Heart. Also, in Wisconsin a murder was reported as a battle between an ex-tank corps man and an infantryman. Newspapers don’t identify other persons as former truck drivers, or former factory workers. The present occupation of the person involved in a crime is considered sufficient, if it is used. So, why should former GIs be identified? The Cincinnati Enquirer, after receiving a letter from a Cincinnati schoolteacher, has adopted the policy of not mentioning that a man is a veteran in crime stories. It would be more in keeping with good reporting if all the newspapers and all the press associations would follow a like course—Indiana Daily Student. SENATOR'S . . . (Continued from page 1) gled their way into Congress who do nor have the slightest sense of obligation they owe to the people. . . “Investigate the candidate who ask your suffrage. Find out if they have been trailing with the wrong people, for, after all, there is no better way to judge a man than by the company he keeps . . . The candidate should have had exper ience in business operation and management and should have a real appreciation of the value of a dollar. Next to integrity, business training is important.” For further emphasis we have bold faced certain points. The senator is more than right in what he has written in his column. If it can only be put to practice throughout Texas, the state will advance industrially, agriculturally, educationally and politically. JBe Battalion : * Office, Room 5, Administration Building, Telephone 4-5444, Texas A. & M. College. on, Texas and the City of on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except during the months August, when it is published weekly and circulated on Thursday. ge of circulated and Member Ptssoaded Gr>Ue6icite Press Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate $3.00 per school year. Advertising rates on request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. H- O. •'Hub” JOHNSON, JR. ~T.o-F.Hitnr VICK LINDLEY Managing Editor U. V. JOHNSTON Sports Editor WENDELL McCLURE — Advertising Manager PAUL MARTIN, WALLACE H. BENNETT, FERD ENGLISH, KATHY WILSON. L.' R. SCHALIT Reporters •ALLEN SELF Co-Editor •On summer leave. Ernie Pyle’s Last Book Brings Record of Bravery up to Date By Wilnora Barton, Reader’s Advisor The book which Ernie Pyle was writing when he was killed on Okinawa has been appropriately called “Last Chapter”. The pub lishers say it is essentially a “Brief, brave little book to com plete the record.” Ernie Pyle was America’s most beloved war correspondent, in spite of the fact that he lacked the flash of the British reporters and the flare for the dramatic which the Russian correspondents exhibited. The reason for his pop ularity is obvious enough. He was an everyday American interpret ing the war fought by ordinary Americans for those other every day Americans at home. The Eynie Pyle books which brought the human, bleeding, sweating, side of war to all of us are something of a war phenomenon, and rank in importance about on par with the invention of radar. “Here is Your War” has sold well over 1,000,000 copies, and “Brave Men” which followed was equaly as successful. Ernie did two things to conventional war reporting. He made the war real to the people at home who found that the news dispatches concern ing strategy and troop movements were too far removed from the realm of their experiences; and he wrote about the enlisted men and junior officers rather than the generals and the admirals. War was an intimate thing to the men, those in the companies and the platoons, and “Ernie was the first to discover the kind of war that the average soldier was fighting.” He could tell the people at home how the GI’s themselves felt about war because he went right along with them, slept, ate, sloshed in the mud, and slapped mosqiutos with them. “Last Chapter” is the account of that part of the war in the Pacific which he saw. He arrived late on the scene there and miss ed the bloody days of Guadalcanal, New Guinea and Bougainville. Pyle was concerned with the in dividual rather than with the war itself. His books will always be important because he captured the feel of fear, the very heart and soul of war. College Library Witnesses Three Fold Visitors Over Last September by DAVID L. WILSON The use of the library has in creased approximately three fold since last September according to Paul S. Ballance of the college li brary. As an example, during last September, 2,304 books were called for by slip and used either in the library or for outside read ing. In April, the number called for was 9,896 but this use de creased to 6,800 in June. For Ju ly, the number will be in excess of the June figure. This decrease from April is due to fewer stu dents being enrolled now than during the spring. During these summer months, the library is open 82 hours per week. On Monday through Friday the hours are 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., on Saturday, 8 to 4 p. m. are the hours, while on Sunday the time is 6 p. m. to 10 p. m. Students and their wives as STUDENT UNDER BOND Garland E. Tilley, student, is under bond to appear before the Brazos County grand jury in Aug ust to answer to charges of burg lary. Tilley is accused of steal ing two radios from the Aggieland Pharmacy and a typewriter from one of the project houses. E. L. CRAIG TO PREACH Earl L. Craig, visiting minister from Ft. Worth, will preach at the A. & M. Church of Christ on Sunday, July 28. Morning services will begin at 10:45 and the evening services at 7:15. OFFICIAL NOTICES Any student who normally expects to th ei sch Registrar’s Office NOW and make form al application for a degree. H. L. Heaton, Registrar y complete all the requirements for ' f the should call gree by the Session of he i end of chool de- 1946 Summer by the Will all seniors who plan to graduate this summer please file registration records with the Placement Office immediately. L. R. Hickman, Acting Director. well as the faculty and their fami lies are eligible to use the library. A member of the faculty has one automatic renewal for books af ter the first two weeks have elapsed. All pay a five cent fine for each day the book is kept over time. As a person enters the main door of the library he will notice a number of bulletin boards ar ranged around the walls. The book covers fastened there are from books newly acquired by the library. Five boards are thus filled. On the front display board the display is entitled “The Shape of Planes To Come” and deals with aviation. Five books are listed here; two examples are “To morrow We Fly” by William B. Stout and “The Air Future” by Burnet Harshey. These books should be interesting to any who have done any flying. The left front display deals with this subject—“Men Who Made Music.” Two books listed here are “Claude Debrussy” by Manice Dumesnil and Chopin by Basil Maine. “America-A Nation Of People From Many Countries” is the title of the front right display. “I am An American” by famous natural ized Americans, and “America” by Allan Nevens and Henry Commager are examples of books in this section. The second right display deals with “Photography” “Kodachrome and Kodacolor” by Fred Bond and “History of Photography” by Jo seph Marid Eder are two books among the ones shown on this board. On the third right board is a display of books on this subject— “Religion in Our Times.” “What I Believe” by Sholem Asch and “I Still Believe In God” by Jacob A. Dell are among the publications listed on this bulletin board. WKji ■S'-i ; miM Dear Sirs: I thought this article might be interesting to some of the Camp us wives. A SOLUTION TO THE DIAPER PROBLEM ? Yes mothers, the diaper prob lem was solved many years ago by our most ancient civilization, the Chinese. During the war many American soldiers in China lost their mental picture of diapers hanging on the family line in the back yard because all Chinese children, from families both rich and poor, are not bound with a piece of linen cloth woven in geo metric patterns known as a dia per. The mothers of China do away with back breaking washing of soiled diapers by simply making childrens’ clothes with out a seat. You may wonder about the infants, well, they merely wear a jacket similar to your bed jacket. Until the boys get their first complete pair of pants and the girls their first dress, they both wear long seatless pants. As the children grow older the gap in their wear ing apparel is gradually made smaller until it becomes an over lapping split. I firmly believe that these windowed garments satisfactorily meet the approval of the children. They are nationally worn in China and are still handed down from one generation to another. Their popularity has not spread over the “Hump” or across the Pacific Ocean, but nevertheless they of fer many possible advantages. No more diapers to wash, no talcum to buy, no empty laundry pantries and no discomfort to the many American Babies. Sincerely yours, Max B. Rotholz Box 415 College Station, Texas Newman Club to Dance in Bryan The A&M Newman Club is hold ing a dance at the K. C. Hall in Bryan on Saturday, July 27, at 8:00 P.M. Admission will be 30<£ couple or stag. There will be music by “juke box”; punch and cookies will be served. The dance wil be open to all Catholics and the married ones are invited to bring their wives. The regular meeting of the Newman Club, Friday, July 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the new area “Y”, will ar range final details. All students who are interested in tak ing flight training during the fall semes ter, under the controlled course as is now being offered, should make application at the Dean of Engineering office at once. H. W. Barlow, Dean of Engineering. VETERANS CHANGING COURSES— Veterans desiring to change courses must contact the Veterans Advisor, Administra- tiqn Building, at least four (4) weeks prior to the effective date of the change. Vete rans change of courses. Bennie A. Zinn, Veterans Advisor. Those students who have completed the requirements for admission to the School of Veterinary Medicine should apply for admission to the School of Veterinary Medicine on forms to be obtained in the Registrar’s Office. H. L. HEATON, Registrar. * Classified WANTED—Salesman desiring stationery concession on the campus. Write J. R. Buie, Box 5087, College. State dorm and room number. FOR SALE—i acre lot, 2 blocks from campus, all utilities, forms built for con crete foundation. Clayton E. Johnson, No. C-2 Trailer Camp. FOR SALE—1941, 18 foot, steel-bodied. Vagabond House Trailer. Call 4-5691, or at 227 Foster, College Hills. LOST—Slide rule in 129 Academic Building. Bob MacCallum, Dorm 9-328. Box 4147. FOR SALE—3 Watterson radios $31.10 and 3 record players $29.35. Jack Mc Kenzie, F-2 Walton. Interested in Hunter Century Floor Fan. Will the department that has it notify the Aeronautical Department. THE SCRIBE SHOP. Typing, mimeo graphing, drawing. Phone 2-6706, 1007 E. 23rd, Bryan. FOR SALE—Lot 22 in Block 3 in Col lege Hills for sale. Close to East Gate and Highway 6. Abstract goes with lot also house plan designed for lot if desired. Size of lot is 60 ft. x 132 ft. Facing south. Box 2338, College Station. Notice Ex-Servicemen—-Yearly subscrip tions to LIFE and TIME are still $3.50, READER’S DIGEST $1.50. Johnson’s Mag azine Agency at College Book Store, Phone 4-8814. FOR SALE OR TRADE—1942 Dodge, Tudor Sedan, good condition, good tires. Call 2-7273. See at 300 South Houston, Bryan. Notice to Teachers: LIFE and TIME renewals will increase July 26. See John son’s Magazine Agency at College Book Store, North Gate. Phone 4-8814 for re newals. ENGINEERS get your math chart at the Exchange Store. Notebook size 35tf. Concession owned by W. O. Reese, ’46. >|||||||||||^^^^^^^^ Wm. Alan MUDGETT r\ Five years service, U. S. Navy, fighter pilot, Law School, University of Tex. Practicing Attorney, with y|| offices and home in Bryan ■ Candidate for REPRESENTATIVE to the Texas State Legislature 26th District QUALIFIED IN THE FIELD OF LAW & SERVICE Hi a COUNTY ATTORNEY should be a MAN Who has had actual experience in the practice of law. Who will have courage and ability to prosecute fear lessly when the -need arises. Who will deal fairly and justly with all classes. Who will save the county money by thorough prelim inary investigations. Who will consider the office a trust and himself a servant of the people. Who fills these requirements? J. G. MMERT RE-ELECT HIM TO A SECOND TERM (Political Advertisement Paid for by an Ex-Aggie Veteran) PENNY’S SERENADE By W. L. Penberthy It has often been said that a pretty good test of a person is how that person bears reverses and sorrow. During the past war those of us on the home front had a chance to wit ness the effect of sorrow on people, because we had ; friends who had ? to bear the sor- i row of losing a i: son, very often an only son. I have talked with many parents who had this misfortune, / and marveled at their grand cour age and fine out look. The loss of a loved one is very Penny hard to bear, but it has been my observation that the ones who do the best are those who have a / deep and abiding faith in God. These folks seem to get comfort .through their faith that friends and loved ones, regardless of how hard they try, cannot give. I talked with a fine lady who had recently suffered a great loss in death of her husband. She re marked to me that she didn’t know what she would have done without her faith. I have heard a lot of fine things said from the pulpit, but one thing that will always stick is that “Life is not worth living for the little things.” Life is pretty difficult at times, and if we are not living for the bigger things, it just isn’t worth the effort. Surely one of the bigger things is an abiding faith that inspires us to do worthwhile things that are of service to our fellow man, and at the same time is a source of great comfort when we are in sorrow. On Other Campuses . . . Even Co-ed Schools Are Short of Girls These Days By Paul Martin Has anyone seen any co-eds re cently? Some of the co-education- al institutions that were so pre dominantly female during the war are now enjoying (?) an acute shortage of the fairer sex for the present, according to the latest tabulations. TEXAS U. Texas U. reports that men out number women by a ratio of 5 to 1 and Southwestern University at Georgetown reports a ratio of 4.33 to 1. The student assembly at Texas U., increasingly mindful of the rapidly spiraling prices of neces sary commodities and the effect of these increases on their allot ments, has appointed an investi gating committee* the Committee on Prices, to look into price in creases and make recommenda tions for combating them. Their current efforts are being directed against the proposed increase in the cost of haircuts added onto the already substantial increase since the death of the OPA. LSU L.S.U. announces the inaugura tion of a flight training curricu la plan to be put into effect in the near future, when and if the program should be approved. On July 16, L.S.U.’s official Air-Conditioned Opens 1:00 p.m.—4-1181 THURSDAY LAST DAY . MAUREEN DICK HARRY f O’HARA-HAYMES-JAMES ifial/cu Jtotse Wte 20, r OKTUrr-fox K3 also Mighty Mouse Cartoon Short FRIDAY and SATURDAY 2 Big Features 1st Feature mULLERV 1m MCE johiw SHEfFEJ) 2nd Feature FALKINBURG T -2d also Warner’s “Quent’n Quail” Cartoon SUNDAY AND MONDAY DANA ANDREWS in A WALK IN THE SUN A LEWIS MILESTONE Production 20th CENTURY-FOX TUBS. - WED. - THURS. J ;ncHNicom/ MED MuMURAM .IIIEBim 20. also Merrie Melodies Cartoon Short Subject newspaper, The Reville, published the results in the Reville Opinion Poll as to the opinion of the stu dents on the opinion poll itself. The concensus of opinion was; two in favor of continuing it as a feature, one against it, one un decided and one who did lots of talking but apparently reached no conclusion. BAYLOR Baylor U. heard an oration by J. Frank Dobie, whose address at Texas A. & M. on July 5 raised considerable comment because of political affiliations. Dobie’s ap pearance was sponsored by the Baylor Rainey-for-Governer club. GUION HALL THEATER Box Office Open 1p.m.; Close 8:30 p.m. Phone 4-1168 THURSDAY ONLY Bargain Day rwo CITIES FILMS preienl ft. - IAt. . cmmanuel mix AYLMER with GRETA GYNT and Walter rilla • F, 0 m „ n„..i b, u>„" Golding • Directed by Harold French * P ,0 ‘ i ductd by Willldm SiHrom • Releoied y S ^‘ thru United Artiit* FRIDAY and SATURDAY Double Feature “MEN In HER DIARY” starring Peggy Ryan Jon Hall Louise Allbritton Plus ThefcRlGHfoMi Strangle J Vil ~ lodeb “ \ * MICHAEL ST. ANGElTf W tKO radio picture SUNDAY and MONDAY ERNIE PYLE’S “STORY OF G. I. JOE” with Burgess Meredith TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY SHOCKING! m G»est in the illottS® mm THURSDAY, August 1st ■isr ss Sfit nffW BUSTER KEATON* IRENE RYAN JACQUELINE de WIT' -far' M.» C i *