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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1946
page We Who Leave . ..
7 m r We who leave Aggieland, as most of us do for the second
time, have learned in the past eight or nine years that a rea'
1 college, one that we honor and point to with pride, is not
UIl lone made up of books, profs and classes alone. No one has
•p* ever been able to accurately describe the 1 perfect college or
r irS university. No one can ever point to a school or institution
and say it is without fault.
Effe* Some of us feel that too much emphasis is placed on one
Zinn wtype of course or subject while others of us feel that we have
Bu * ld V"b een slighted in still another field. There are those amongst
Men bus w ^ 1 ° physical education and intramurals played
erly h< a great role in our college life while there are others who
ner. feel that such activities were good to merely fill idle hours.
Alth We have often grouped together for certain rights we
in the felt were deserving of the school and of the country and of
PP^^our own class, be it ’40 or ’46. We realize that the college as
vetera^he country would be in a terrible situation if we all though
the p<and reacted alike.
Zinr While we have learned the fundamentals with which
advise we can obtain higher fields and more advanced learning, we
ly zhrr^ ave a ^ so l earne d a great deal of human nature and our fel-
in thJ 0W man. This we learned not from books but from wearing
withoithat fish stripe, making those corps trips, holding the top
the \step of the “Y” or Goodwin Hall with a fellow we never
^ aco .Jcnew existed, holding a respectful brace at Silver Taps, mak-
lze x ing final reviews, and sitting in bull session after bull ses-
persoi 3 ^ 011-
time. True, we learned a great deal in the army and navy but
raged here it wasn’t forced regimentation. We could have quit any
desk, tijHe
work We have learned that A. & M. is the school we’ll always
wish be proud to look at with pride even as we say, “Taint like
with it used to be.”
Air-Conditioned Library?
if e
in thj
one 1c
three- x uo vvxiu nave nau ueea-
^hjpmiibrary this summer agree that it is
Those of us who have had occasion to use the college
a pretty hot and un
comfortable place. The library does not have fans for the
reading rooms, where the air may be stirred and circulated.
^y3uch hot reading rooms are definitely not conducive to
'study, particularly when a student may have an assignment
which requires several hours of search and study. In fact
it is pretty hard labor to have to work in the steam-hot
^reading rooms of the library for four or five hours.
The stackrooms of the library are even more unbear
able than the reading rooms. Faculty members and grad
uate students who use the stacks find the area at either
end of the stack sections extremely hot and uncomfortable.
Windows in the stacks are very small, and their type of
La^onstruction does not permit them to be opened wide. Sec-
undly, there is so little headroom in the stacks that the cir
culation of air is inadequate.
But the comfort of the students, faculty and staff of
the library is actually the least important of the reasons
1 the library should be air-conditioned. The most im-
i .portant reason would be to maintain a constant temperature
l '-.inder 80 degrees, with an average percent of humidity for
lllche nrotection of the book collection.
che protection of the book collection.
The present library book collection is valued at approx
imately $400,000. Many hundreds of volumes in this col
lection are irreplacable. At the present time, the library
-staff has to be on constant watch fof mildew on the volumes
i|>f bound periodicals in the lower stacks. These volumes have
so - be constantly removed from the shelves, dusted and treat
ed with mildew inhibitor.
In addition to those volumes that are attacked by mil-
| liew, there are hundreds of volumes whose leather and buck
ram bindings are fast deteriorating because of the excessive
^ieat and humidity during a normal summer. The high tem-
lierature and high rate of humidity has its effect on the
paper of the books and periodicals, causing it to become
brittle and deteriorate. These volumes which are no longer
Usable because of deterioration are not replacable because
they have long since been out of print.
It seems to us that it would be an excellent investment
lor the college to spend a few thousand dollars in installing
1m air conditioning system to help preserve the $400,000
Investment in books. In addition, if the reading rooms were
ir-conditioned, the maximum use would be made of the col
lection, because everyone would be able to work in comfort.
It is true that for most buildings on the campus, the
:ost of air-conditioning is prohibitive. But the library al
ready has ducts installed in the walls. The trouble is that
dr now blown by fans through the ducts is hot air, heated to
i high temperature by the sun. The stacks are of the open
;ype and cold air pumped in at one or two levels should
drculate through the entire area.
If projects are judged by the number of people benefit-
id, air-conditioning for the library should rate high.
the Battalion
_)ffice. Room 6, Administration Building, Telephone 4-5444, Texas A. & M. College.
Vugust, wl
lay, Wednesday and Friday, except during the m
when it is published weekly and circulated on Thru
,nd Mechanical Colli
es weekly and ciri
onths of June, July and
on Thursday.
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culated
Member
Phsoctoted Gplle&iate Press
Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under
Jie 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.
Hub" JUHJNSUJN, JR. .Co-Editor
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..
Serving Aggies 19 Years
Two-Day Two Service
Service Stations
Joel English, Mgr.
Campus Cleaners
OYER THE EXCHANGE — NEAR GEORGE’S
Non-Profit Exchange Store
Must Be Self-Supported
Why, who and how operates the
Exchange Store?
Frequently discussed and often
just cussed, the Exchange Store
is self operated and owned. No
provision has ever been made by
the Texas Legislature for the es
tablishment and operation of a
college book store.
Financial statements are made
each month to the Business Man
ager of the College, Comptroller,
the Board of Directors and the
president. An annual audit is made
by the State Auditor.
Like many other installations of
the college, the Exchange Store
is a non-profit one but it must be
self supporting. At the end of each
fiscal year, June 30, the net profit
is determined as is the amount
required for operation during the
next year. The difference is re
commended for rebate to student
purchasers.
Student Rebate
Next to the cash register in the
store there is a box where persons
making cash purchases may en-'
dorse sales slips and deposit same
for rebate. When the amount is
approved by the board of directors
each person who has deposited en
dorsed sales slips is proportioned
his share of the profit rebate. Pur
chasers must endorse sales slips.
The rebate usually is paid in the
month of September following the
fiscal year closed.
Books and Equipment
Department Heads notify the
Exchange Store of the books and
equipment which will be required
for the next semester based on the
planned sections. Often times this
will vary considerably with the
demand for the courses. These
items are ordered by the store and
the dealers at North Gate are now
informed by the store manager of
the required book and equipment
lists. This co-operation between
the college store and the privately
operated stores prevents the
“gate” dealers from purchasing
blind and having a heavy inventory
of unrequired items on hand.
Veterans schooling under the GI
Bill of Rights usually request new
books and equipment whereas the
majority of students here before
the war were primarily interested
in obtaining used books and ma
terials. Veterans should be sure
that in purchasing used items un
der the G. I. Bill requisition that
the used price be entered on the
sales slips.
This demand of new publications
and copies has .changed the book
business of the store considerably.
Repurchase of Books
The general policies on the re
purchase of books are as follows:
1. New books may be returned
for full refund within two weeks
of date of purchase, provided they
are unused, marked and resalable
as new books.
2. New books kept out of stock
for a longer period are refunded
at 80 per cent of list price if they
are resalable as new books.
3. New books that have been
soiled, written in or otherwise de
faced are refunded at one-half price
and are resold as new books.
The repurchase price on equip
ment runs slightly higher than the
above, usually about 60 per cent
if resalable as used equipment. The
difference is due to the hazard of
having used books left on hand
after departmental changes.
Change of List Prices
The prices of new books are
changed by publishers notification
and by invoice quotations.
When such changes are made,
prices are also changed on used
books. This is done in the follow
ing manner.
Jones buys a new book for $3.00
and resells it to the Exchange
Store for $1.50. The Exchange
Store resells the books for $2.00
to Smith. While Smith has the book
the price is raised to $3.50. The
Exchange Store repurchases the
book from Smith for $1.75 and
then resells the copy for $2.35.
Used books are kold at two-thirds
list • price.
Back Orders
Back Orders are no longer taken
on stocked items. Orders will be
taken however of items not car
ried in stock or graduate publica
tions and equipment.
Branch Store
A branch store initially stocked
with copies and equipment requir
ed for students living at Bryan
Army Air Field Annex will be
opened there, according to Carl
Birdwell, Exchange Store man-
ager.
Radar “Plumbing” and
Ex-Secret Tubes Are
Presented to College
Radar tubes—those mysterious
things that were always kept under
armed guard during the war —
have been added to the experiment
al equipment of the A. & M. Phy
sics department. A large number
of such tubes, made for military
use, were presented to the college
by Western Electric Co. Some of
them were developed by the Bell
Laboratories during the time that
Dr. J. G. Potter, now head of the
college physics department, was
associated with that research
group during the war.
Some radar “plumbing” — the
technicians’ name for ulta high-
frequency equipment—has also
been presented to the college by
the General Electric Co. and will
be used for demonstration pur
poses.
Architect Profs to
Exhibit in Dallas
Three professors in the Depart
ment of Architecture have been
invited to exhibit examples of their
work at the Museum of Fine Arts
in Dallas during the latter part of
this month and the early portion
of September while the State
Fair is going on. The exhibit is
to be titled “Contemporary Texas
Architecture” and only twenty ar
chitects in the state have been
asked to exhibit.
OFFICIAL NOTICES
All students who are interested in
student employment for the fall se
mester should call at the Placement Of
fice and file applications. This also
applies to renewals for students- now
employed. Applications will be received
beginning Monday, Aug. 19.
PLACEMENT OFFICE
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES FOR
VETERANS
All veterans who have not received au
thorization to attend school under the
“G. I. Bill” will be required to purchase
all books and supplies, retain cash sales
slips and secure a requisition for re-im-
bursement. This policy is effective at
once.
Bennie A. Zinn
Veterans Advisor
A financial statement on all Student
Concessions in effect during the sum
mer, is due at the Student Activities
Office by Thursday, August 22nd.
The College Library will be closed the
entire week of August 26-31, for the pur
pose of inventory, with one exception. From
9:00 to 12:00 on Wednesday, August 28,
the library will be oqen for faculty and
college personnel to borrow and return
books.
Classified
THE SCRIBE SHOP. Typing, mimeo
graphing, drawing. Phone 2-6705, 1007 E.
23rd, Bryan.
ENGINEERS get your math chart at
the Exchange Store. Notebook size 35tf.
Concession owned by W. O. Reese, ’46.
Last chance for Ex-Servicemen to get
Reader’s Digest for % price, get your new
or renewal before September 1st. Johnson’s
Magazine Agency at College Book Store,
phone 4-8814.
Will trade apartment in Dallas for
jartment in Bryan or College Station,
srpenter. Box 3005.
LOST—Ladies Bulova wrist watch at
Post Office in vicinity of North Gate. Re
ward offered. Box 2195.
Practically new—2 inner spring mattress
es, 1 box spring with legs, 1 heavy coil
spring. Also— 6 chairs and dining table,
1 heavy maple high chair. 214 Houston St.
on campus.
PAINT
your
CAR
$35.00
Bryan Motor Co.
N. Main St. - Phone 2-1333
Fully automatic record player and table
jnodel radio enclosed in walnut cabinet,
ular records. Will sell for $80.00. Inquire
209 Glenwood, Bryan after 5:00 p. m.
weekdays and any time Saturday and
Sunday.
Thorough courses in shorthand, book
keeping, typewriting and all commercial
subjects available for fall term beginning
September 16th. Enrollment will be limit
ed. Phone 2-6655 or call at McKinsey-
Baldwin Business College, 702 S. Wash
ington, Bryan.
FOUND—Set of keys.
Student Activities Office.
Please
claim at
FOR SALE—24 Foot
Phone 4-9064.
Trailer
House,
WASH
and
GREASE
BOTH ^ 1
ONLY
This is a real bargain, in a double
feature because both are as good as
money can buy. Drive in today,
or let us call for and deUver your
car.
AGGIELAND
SERVICE STATION
and Garage
East Gate
Letters
To The Battalion:
It’s getting to be one heck of a
thing when your own school will
not provide you with the means to
take your friends or families to
the TU game. And that is just
what has been done. It is an in
teresting commentary on policies of
this Administration that one of
its students has to depend on
friends at the U of T for tickets
to the game when they have.delib-
eriately and premeditatedly coup
led with misinformation, made it
impossible for us to secure tickets
here at school. Why?
Student Activities Office
A. & M. College of Texas
College Station, Texas
Dear Sir:
Your policy and method of hand
ling the tickets for the Texas A.
& M. game this Thanksgiving is
the neatest piece of misinforma
tion that has been perpetrated on
us to date. First, you publish in
the Battalion that applications for
tickets would be accepted Septem
ber first. In the August 15 issue
of the Battalion you state that all
the tickets had been sold. You
very neatly circumvented your
statement by saying that active
members of the Ex-Student’s As
sociation are not subject to this,
and you had sold each and every
available ticket to them. They were
carefully informed when they could
apply for tickets. Of course you
neglected, or disregarded, inform
ing the students who also desired
tickets and are not members of
the Ex-Student’s Association, if
indeed there was any chance of
their obtaining tickets under your
system.
I can find no grounds for justi
fication of this policy. It smacks
of a discrimination against those
of us forced by circumstances to
still be students and not graduates.
But the most glaring injustice is
the deliberate misleading state
ment that the tickets would be re
leased September first, no condi
tions attached. Many of us had
made plans based on the assump
tion that we could get tickets for
ourselves and friends or families
on that date, or at least have a
chance to get them. Your policy is
a good reflection of what is forc
ing the change in Aggie Spirit
from what it was in former years.
Incidentally, I am not interested
in tickets for the game. I phoned
The Daily Texan, with which I
worked while stationed in Austin,
and they have obtained tickets for
me. However, there are many more
Aggies not so fortunate. I hope you
enjoy the game as much as they
will.
Robert L. Goodman
Box 2762
College Station, Texas
(Ed Note: Your letter was mis
addressed ' to the Student Activi
ties Office. It seems as though it
should have been addressed to the
Athletic Department. The Batt and
the Student Activities Office will
take no part of the mis-announce-
ment of ticket sales. The paper
publishes the notifications of the
Athletic Department as released by
them either directly or through the
Department of Information.
As tor every student not having
a ticket to the game, it hasn’t
happened yet. If it does turn out
that every student doesn’t get at
least one, then the Batt will join
in the yell for the same.
As for you personally, the For
mer Students mailed to you at your
former address an application
blank. Perhaps you should notify
them of your change of address.
We’re sweatin’ too. —Ed)
Do not be afraid to learn word-
for-word whatever is more effi
ciently learned that way. The
sciences and languages contain
large units of subject matter than
must be memorized.—A. & M.
Handbook.
WASH
AND
GREASE
YOUR CAR
95c
Bryan Motor Co.
N. Main St. - Phone 2-1333
It’s Time to Order
NOW
SENIOR PINKS
and
JUNIOR SERGE
Neatness demands expert
tailoring in your Made-to-
Order Uniforms.
SMITHS
Cleaning and Pressing
N. Gate Phone 4-4444
PENNY’S SERENADE
By W. L. Penberthy -i
At the close of the current se
mester of Summer School 184 stu
dents will receive their degree from
this institution. Of this number
there are a very few who are not
veterans of the past war so that
this class may well be considered
the first veteran class to graduate
from the school since the First
I have always
felt that one of
the best ways to
teach is through
example and one
of the best ways
to learn and im
prove in anything
is to associate
closely and study
the best perform
ance of one who
is an expert in
the performance
of the thing one
is trying to learn.
This class of vet
erans has set an
example in sever-
First, this class is to be high
ly commended for the example it
set in the way of scholastic at
tainment. This group of men came
to us with a seriousness of pur
pose and a determination to get
the most in the least amount of
time and as a group have made a
fine record and at which fu
ture students would do well to
shoot.
Second, the conduct of these men
has been excellent and in this re
spect they have also set a fine
example for future students to
follow. I feel that our school has
done everything possible to make
our veterans, especially our mar
ried ones, as comfortable as pos
sible, but if there have been some
inconveniences they have been tak
en with understanding and good
grace. Constructive criticisms have
been made in the proper spirit and
manner.
Third, by their eagerness to get
tlie most of what the school had
to offer and their spirit of coop
eration, they have endeared them
selves to the members of the
teaching staff.
We appreciate this class set
ting the pattern and whatever they
do the best in the world is the
worst we could wish for them.
World War.
Penny
al respects.
"On This Star” Is A Relief
From Many Depressing Novels
By Wilnora Barton
College Library
The new novel by Virginia E.
Sorensen, “On This Star”, pre
sents nothing new, really in the
forever intriguing mazes of life,
love and death, but is a refresh
ing change from the overdose of
gloomy and perplexing psycholo
gical studies which we have been
getting from present-day novel
ists. This is a good story, a tale
well told, not for your edification,
but for your enjoyment, which
some of us still hope to find when
we pick up a novel.
The story takes place in a Mor
mon settlement soon after the first
World War when society had al
ready forced some modifications
on the religion and life of those
devout people. The influences of
the outside world were bringing
change to the community, and new
horizons were . opening to the
younger men and women.
Jens was the youngest son of a
large and wealthy Danish family
in the settlement. He has chosen
for his bride the most talented
and the most beautiful of all the
girls in the valley. The match was
LIBRARY CLOSED WEEK
OF AUGUST 26-31
The college library will be
closed for inventory during the
entire week from August 26
to 31, according to Paul L. Bal-
lance, librarian. The only ex
ception will be the period from
9:00 to 12:00 p. m. on Wed
nesday, August 26, when facul
ty and college staff may return
or borrow books.
GUION
HALL THEATER
Box Office Opens 1:00 p. m.
Closes 8:30 p. m.
Thursday Only
BARGAIN DAY
INTERNATIONAL PICTURES. INC. ' * ‘ fl
RANDOLPH SCOH
GYPSY ROSE LEE
DINAH SHORE
BOB BURNS
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Friday and Saturday
DOUBLE FEATURE
and
Notice!
Guion Hall will be closed
during the Summer Holidays,
beginning August 25th, to in
stall new seats and equipment
and will reopen Sept. 8th.
highly satisfactory to everyone—•
except the bride-to-be, Chel Bowen,
who had some uncomfortable mo
ments of doubt.
When Jens’ brother, a famous
pianist offered to give Chel lessons
for a wedding present during his
summer vacation, complications
set in almost immediately. The
sweeping emotion which caught
them up could not be blamed en
tirely upon their common love for
music. It has happened before,
but not like it happened for Chel
and the two brothers who loved
her. They were held helplessly
in a trap from which there was no
escape. The outcome brought com
plete and enveloping tragedy for
the whole family.
Except for a little slowness in
the beginning of the book, the
story moves along at a rapid clip.
The style is unpretentious and in
places approaches dignity, especial
ly in the passages depicting the
concealed suffering of Chel who
had no wish to be the cause of so
much misery.
This book is a review copy, a
gift from the publishers, Reynal
and Hitchcock, and is now avail
able in the Browsing Room of the
College Library.
Air Conditioned
Opens 1:00 p. m. Ph. 4-1181
Thurs. - Last Day
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Friday - Saturday
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