PAGE 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1946 Newspaper or Special Order?... What’s in store in the way of a newspaper next Fall is rather indefinite. So far, it can’t be definitely said that the present press facilities could print one issue a week to reach every student and faculty member. Read that again—one issue a week. In years gone by, student publications have published a tri-weekly paper, and two technical publications and the comic magazine each month. The obligations of the press have increased, but the facilities of the press have not. Employment of printers is practically at a stand still due to the housing shortage. This isn’t blaming the press for not being able to meet the demand but someone is at fault. A weekly issue for the long semesters when the cam pus and Bryan Field will be packed will be nothing more than a special order telling of new appointments and of new rules and regulations. Whose Club?... Last Monday night in the old Assembly Hall the Ex- Servicemen’s Club held a called meeting to hear the final mess hall committee report and to act on the selection of a new co-editor of the Battalion. There were approximately 140 veterans present. With those present the president-pro-tem tried to carry on a business meeting and to steer clear of radical moves and ideas. This is true at all meetings of this organization. The policies and decisions arrived at by the club do not represent the entire ex-servicemen enrollment here. Are they true? Do you agree with the way the organization is being run and operated? If you don’t, tomorrow morning as you pick up that brush to shave, blame it on the fellow you see staring at you with those dreary eyes, not those few who care. In bull sessions, in classes and in The Battalion poll conducted recently a great deal has been said concerning this organization which expresses the opinions of thousands with the vote of just over a hundred. Have you done your part? The club was recognized by the Dean of Men’s Office as one of the most influential on the campus last February. The Former Student Association included the officers in the board of directors of their organization. It looked like there existed one organization large enough and strong enough to successfully engage in business, scholastic and social activities. Somewhere, someone dropped the ball. The quarterbacking could have been poor in some moves, how ever the blame is placed on the whole team. The Battalion is not in defense of the club, its policies or its being. It is under no obligation to further the activities of any club or organization. It tries in every way to tell the students and community of all meetings of such gatherings. The information included in announcements is limited to that revealed by the officers of the clubs before meetings. Reporters or editors cover the large meetings. Many organi zations handle their own write-ups and announcements and other forms of publicity in the Battalion. The Architecture Society seems to be “on the ball” in this respect. Still, all of the publicity and stories that could be print ed won’t correct the misrepresentation that you are com plaining of. You alone can correct this. The Ex-Servicemen’s Club has done some good, scholastically and socially. The question remains, “Whose club?” Star-Gazers Star-gazing at Tdxas A. & M. is not confined to students with dates strolling down Military Walk after a prom. Some serious star-gazing has been done recently from the roof of the Physics building, whenever Professor E. E. Vezey takes his 12-inch reflecting mirror up to the roof and puts it in the mounting prepared there. But this a catch-as-catch-can method of sight-seeing the stars, and a group of students is now banding together to form a new organization, the A. & M. Astronomy Club. Their first project is to get a water-proof shelter erected over the telescope mounting. With such a shelter, the tele scope would be ready for use as soon as the roof was rolled back. Aggies Dick Bolin and John Holman are seeking as sistance in building such a shelter. A 12-inch reflecting telescope is no mean piece of equip ment. Many a college with courses in astronomy has to use less efficient telescopes. This instrument was built by the physics department, and Professor Vezey himself ground the mirror—a remarkable job. It is hoped that the new Astronomy Club will be able to get their shelter built, and that A. & M. will be able to boast that the most ancient of sciences has a following here. Letters The Future of Texas A. & M. As a Military College Editor: Rarely does one see an article concerning the accomplishment of A. & M. men, which does not men tion our contribution to the na tion’s armed forces. In typical Texas style, we emphasize the fact that the number of our offi cers surpassed that of any other school—well, we may be proud of that. Also, we like to think that the quality of these men is ex cellent; (and to this date there has been no evidence to the con trary) but what of the years to come? Will our school, which we look upon with pride and rever ence, uphold its traditions or will it become just another school where military science is taught? Wartme necessities played havoc with our Aggie way of life. Post war restrictions have served only to render the cadet corps into a hounded minority. The senior class has lost power and prestige. Old Aggies view with alarm an in creased tendency to quell the tra ditions which have made our school—those traditions which in culcate our cadets with discipline and respect for constituted au thority. The personality of a school is not affected by the way classes are taught or the way the grass is cut; it is our Aggie tra ditions which spell the difference here. Needless to say, the past meth od of training at A. & M. can well stand on its excellent record. As a freshman my opportunities for study were seldom, if ever, in fringed upon by the upper class. On the contrary, our organiza tion commander sought to im prove the scholastic standing of our unit in every manner possible. Every cadet studied from call to quarters until tattoo. Four years spent in the unit welded us with our Aggie spirit. It can be well understood why seniors cried at final review. Our old Aggie system, whereby the commandant and the senior class jointly administer the affairs of the cadet corps, should be re instated. Cadet officers should be placed in complete charge of their organizations. The argu ment that the present senior classes are not capable of assum ing this responsibility is not a valid one. The seniors must be given an opportunity to be lead ers if. this school is to maintain the quality of its men. We look to our school officials for this restoration. An Aggie who has seen it work and knows it will work again. A Fine Show... If one of “His Majesty’s” ships ever met with similar success as did H. M. S. Pinafore here last week, it could consider it a job well done. Congratulations to the cast, directors, orchestra and stage hands. Congratulations, too, to those local parents who transported the younger members of the cast to and from the old assembly hall for the many nights of practice. The production has been spoken of by many who saw it as the greatest ever staged by students, faculty and local high school students. It certainly set a standard for those productions to follow. It definitely strengthened the fact that A. & M. needs a good theatre or auditorium which can be used year around in comfort. WRITER HAS PRAISE FOR AGGIE CHIVALRY Editor, The Battalion: After reading Jack Holliman’s letter in the Batt, I was inspired to write a letter in a slightly differ ent vein. I would like the teachers and stu dents to know that we young wo men who are here in school this summer appreciate the friendliness and courteousness, which is shown us. A. & M. is, after all, a man’s school, and even though the stu dents may thoroughly enjoy hav ing their best girls here on week ends, I think they are probably glad that the school is not co-ed during the week. Indivually or col lectively, Aggies are tops for chiv alry and courtesy shown to the weaker” sex. Sincerely, Mrs. Allen E. Denton, Jr. Campus Scandal- They Live Together With No Legality Maroon and White Maroon and white is our favorite color combination (naturally) and we are glad to see so much of it in evidence. The Bryan-College Traction Co. is now engaged in re-painting its busses in that color scheme. The B. & C. U. department some time ago painted most of its trucks in our college col ors, and the no-parking spaces are again being marked with maroon. More power to the painters! Battalijon m — Office, Room 5, Administration Building, Telephone 4-5444, Texas A. & M. College. The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published three times weekly and circulated Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except during the months of rust, when it is published weekly and circulated on Thursday. June, July and August, Member Plssocioted Gr>Ue6icrte 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. ..- VICK BINDLEY U. V. JOHNSTON ana Co-Editor iging Editor Sports Editor WENDELL McCLURE Advertising Manager PAUL MARTIN, WALLACE H. BENNETT, FEED ENGLISH, KATHY WILSON, L. R. SCHALIT Reporters * ALLEN SELF - Co-Editor •On summer leave. You might call it a campus scandal. It could even be termed an insult to all that is upright and moral. But there they are: living together without the slight est hint of legality. What’s the straight dope on this thing? Yep, you guessed it—or did you? They are a pair of papaya plants now occupying a lion’s share of the Department of Horticulture’s greenhouse located south-east of the Science Building. Papayas, or Carica papaya, if you desire technicalities, are tropical, herbacious melon plants. The fruit is used as a fresh melon, for it’s enzymeti csecretion papain, and as a base for soft drinks. The plant itself grows very rapidly and can attain a height of 25 feet in two years time. The two specimens here verify that statement. This specie comes in three sexes and produces five distinct flower types. To add to this state of con fusion, no less than four fruit var iations are to be found. Here is the pay-off: the so-called male plant usually is capable of producing, edi ble fruit! And Aggieland’s Mr. Papaya is no exception. [kNOW YOUR. ARC|UT£CTUft£l A -■ •COOLER. •CHEAP: • houkE FLEXIBLE (This is a continuation of a series of articles presented by the Architecture Society with the pur pose of giving a few pertinent facts related to the Architecture of 1946.) Contrary to popular opinion, a “modern” house does not neces sarily have to have a flat roof. Contemporary homes, free from all traditional columns and ginger bread, can be built with a pitched roof as well as a flat one. But a flat roof does have some very definite advantages over the pitched one. The flat roof is cooler. Doing away with the great pocket of air in an attic, the flat roof al lows only the cool breeze to travel through the space between the roof joists. An excellent feature of the flat roof, proved successful in recent homes, is the possibility of flooding the roof with a layer of water to act as a cooling sys tem. The flat roof is more flexible than the pitched roof. The plan should be the primary considera tion in any home; with a flat roof practically any plan can be covered easily and at a relatively low cost. But a pitched roof will limit the plan to a certain ar rangement; there are numerous plans that cannot be executed with a pitched roof except at excessive costs. In only one case is it necessary to use a pitched roof when the span is so great that a truss of some kind is required. By cutting down the amount of lumber and other building material used in a roof, the flat roof is more economical than the pitched roof. In a flat roof almost two- thirds of the amount of lumber used in a pitched roof can be saved. Thus, the flat roof—cooler, more flexible, and more economi cal—becomes a very important element in the home of 1946. "Pinafore” Crew Receives A Wildcatting Aggie Welcome by Vick Lindley When His Majesty’s Ship Pina fore dropped anchor here for two nights last week, the crew was given a rousing Aggie welcome. The seventy-year old operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan was found to be as fresh and amusing as when it was the “newest rage” for our great-grandparents. For, as was remarked by one spectator, “peo ple haven’t changed, snobs haven’t changed at all, and even the Navy hasn’t changed very much.” A near capacity audience crowd ed the old Assembly Hall each night and gave loud eyidence of its approval. The unusual setting, showing the deck of an English Man-o-war, the colorful nineteenth century costumes, the stinging wit of the patter songs, all drew praise, and only the heat was subjected to the critics scorn. Fine voices were no novelty, as player after player burst into song. Outstanding were Miriam Forman of Houston, wife of a veteran student, as Josephine, the captain’s daughter; Watson Keen ey of Weslaco as the daring sailor, Ralph Rackstraw; Ruth Echols of Galveston as Little Buttercup; and Helmut Quiram of Waco as the Bosun’t mate. Harry Doran of San Saba lilted the lyrics of the Pinafore’s captain, and Bernyce Jenson of College Station sang Hebe. LIBRARY ASKS RETURN OF BOOKS BY AUGUST 17 In order to make a partial inventory of volumes in the Col lege Library and the Texas En gineers Library, Paul S. Bal ance, librarian, has requested that all borrowers return books on regular loan not later than August 17. This will make it possible to go forward with a program for accurate inven tory of the books that the li braries possess. The cooperation of all borrowers is asked. Pay close attention to what goes on in class—A. & M. Handbook. WASH AND GREASE YOUR CAR 95c Bryan Motor Co. N. Main St. - Phone 2-1333 PAINT your CAR $35.00 Bryan Motor Co. N. Main St. - Phone 2-1333 Your Shoes Must Last Longer TEST OUR INVISIBLE HALF SOLES COLLEGE STATION SHOE SHOP Comedy hits were made by Lloyd Baily of Waco as the be spangled, sword-wearing Sir Jo seph Porter, K. C. B., the ruler of the Queen’s Navee; and by Prof essor Tom Terrell of the Civil En gineering department; so dis guised with scars and patches that his pupils could hardly recog nize him. “Maestro” Bill Turner wielded a firm baton over both the sing ers and the College Station Sym phony, which played the sparkling score. Forrest Hood was lord of all things backstage. Turner and Hood are the regular directors, re spectively, of the Singing Cadets and the Aggie players, which joint ly produced the operetta. When the subject was first broached, the two coaches were warned that no thing like it had ever been suc cessfully produced at Aggieland. That determined them to prove the skeptic wrong. Sir Joseph’s Cousins, Nieces and Aunts, (in other words, the girls’ chorus) were Nell Arhopulos, Shirly Hampton, Betty Smith, Lei la Winstead, Jeanne Kernodle, Dale Laird, Helen Ludwig and Signe Jakkula. The crew of the Pinafore in cluded Wesley Fiedler, Bob Seyle, John Helm, Fred Hall, Tommy Mil ler, A. D. Salmon, John Smith and John Buchanan. In the orchestra were Wynette Veazy, Mary Leland, Betty Back, Mary Bonnen, Anna Jean Bodby, Frances Copeland, Shirley Long, Gene Brock Beth Hale, Nelson Mc Lain, Everett Semmonds, Richard Alvis, Tom Blankenship, Louie Hauer, Marjorie Winstead, Tom Leland, Richard Parker, Gerald Coughlin, C. B. Harrison, George Bynum; Louis Bains, Harry Otell, and Jimmy Rosenborough. Tom Puddy painted the ship-set. The technical staff and stage crew were made up of members of the Aggie Players not on stage in this production. Already the group is making plans for their fourth production, next fall, when they present George M. Cohan’s farci cal who-dun-it, “The Tavern.” New Book Tells of the Trials of Guarding Five Presidents By Wilnora Barton Readers Advisor, College Library Colonel Ed Starling was for thirty years on the Secret Serv ice Detail which guarded five presidents from Wilson to Roose velt. His story as told to Thomas Sugrue is one of the most inter esting accounts of the official and unofficial lives of the presidents which I have ever read. In fact, Starling himself was an unusually interesting individual, but prac tically all of the book is devoted to tales about his job and the men who kept him busy. The book entitled “Starling of the White House” is remarkably free from prejudice or partisanship, and he gives up graphic and some times startling glimpses of the presidents he served, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Roosevelt. From the introduction written by Sugrue we learn what manner of man could so completely and unselfishly give his life—waking and sleeping to public duty. Starling was a fine example of that American legend, the Ken tucky gentleman. He was a Southerner, suh, and a staunch Presbyterian, which means that he was as politely determined and devoted to duty as any man could be. By far the larger part of his book is given to the early years of his service. He tells of those months when Wilson was court ing the lovely Mrs. Galt; the anx ious time before we finally en tered the first World War; and finally the breaking of Wilson and his ideals of a peaceful world. Wilson was Starling’s favorite president, and he recounted his experiences with as fresh a mem ory as if they had occurred yes terday. When Starling was assigned to the White House Detail he was told “Never let the President out of your sight.” The Secret Service never spies on the private lives of the presidents, but they are or dered to stand by within hearing distance at all times, and they make themselves as unobtrusive as fence posts. It was with a great deal of embarrassment and some annoyance on both sides that the Service saw Wilson through the courtship of Mrs. Galt, later the second Mrs. Wil son. Starling was assigned to ac company the two on their rides and walks together—and the story he tells is a charming one. It is typical of the man Starl ing to be as fair and as objective bmzm 9AUIE B.CLAXK SHOULD MAWE SACRIFICE fryz her husband, but not IN /Ti£ FORM OF BURNT OFFERIN&S/ O A 6 M AOVfUTHINC CO A&M GRILL SPEC! AU Z I NO IN STEAKS .w^HOME COOKED FOODS MMSALUe S. 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