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THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas Page Two Students in Publications ... We received a letter from the editor of the Clemson Col lege Tiger a few weeks ago in which he expressed amaze ment at the fact that we find time to publish a tri-weekly newspaper here at Aggieland. He went on to describe some of the difficulties their publication encountered in the way of neglect by the college administration, lack of funds to provide salaries for the editors, and lack of time to devote to writing, editing, proofing, and circulation. Clemson is the North Carolina counterpart of Texas A. & M.; has an enrollment of about 5,000, and virtually the same veteran-cadet ratio as A. & M. And yet, with coopera tion from the administration, faculty, and students, we man age to produce a fairly well-developed publications program, with publication of a tri-weekly Battalion, bi-monthly edi tions of the Engineer and Agriculturist, and the Longhorn. We have plans for even greater expansion, however, and in order to print a daily Battalion, monthly scientific mag azines, and a revival of humor magazine next fall, when pa per shortages let up, more students must be available. At present the Battalion is operating with a nucleus of report ers and editors who serve satisfactorily for a tri-weekly pa per, but would be swamped with a daily schedule. The Long horn is in need of help right now. Next fall, a great number of Aggies will have to pitch in on student publications to make it a success. The work takes time, of course, but rewards are many. Besides the dubious satisfaction of seeing your brainchild in print, there are opportunities for pay jobs when experience and ability merits. Most of the present staff had no journalistic exper ience when they first came to work, but have learned by do ing. Journalistic experience will give a graduate engineer or agriculturist an idea of the value of public relations, and the practice of writing in clear, concise language is respected by business associates. If you believe you would enjoy working on student pub lications, come down to the office in the basement of the Administration Building and talk to Roland Bing, the edi torial advisor. Look around the office and see what goes on. We want you. We need you. Success or failure of an am bitious publications program depends on your response. Those Good Grades... Those first flowers of spring are not as pretty as the first-half grades now posted in various class buildings. More A’s and B’s are blooming on the A. & M. campus than ever before. And they are not all going to veterans, either. Pac ed by the ex-GPs, the cadets have given a pretty good ac count of themselves this half. Instructors have had to throw away their curve-sheets, which show in what proportions A’s and B’s, D’s and F’s ought to be distributed. The curves don’t hold anymore. The phenomenon is not limited to Aggieland. Accord ing to reports from back East, Harvard professors are tear ing their hair over the high grades they have to record. Up there, B’s are normally reserved for extraordinary students, and A’s go only to precocious geniuses. Veterans are drag ging down A’s and B’s all over the place. But here is a word of warning: the first flowers of spring don’t last till summer, and first-half A’s can be lost if students get over-confident. Let’s keep the good grades up. Battleship ‘Texas’... People are funny, especially American people. Tradition- bound and taboo-ridden, they hesitate to discard the useless, antiquated relics of the past if there is ever so slight a hint of glory about them. The campaign to raise $100,000 to berth the battleship “Texas” at San Jacinto is a case in point. Nothing is needed less than 30,000 tons of scrap iron in Buffalo Bayou to im press the children of the state with false history. In 1918 the “Texas” lay idly in Scapa Flow when the German fleet surrendered. My father was in Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, doing as much to win the war, yet no one suggested making a state monument of him. In this past war the “Texas” stood off Normandy lobbing shells (prob ably at American troops) and later wandered aimlessly around Okinawa. It did as little to win World War II. Oliver Wendell Holmes saved the “Constitution” with a poem; the following, we hope, will have the opposite effect: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down, And tattered it well may be, But salvos of some enemy guns, Did not that decree. Ay, rip up her decks of steel and iron, That have run red with no hero’s gore, But plant her not in our bayou, An everlasting, rusty eyesore. Little children, thy dimes to pockets return, Be not part of this saving deed, Better use for thy money can be found, Than to berth this rusty sea steed. The cannon’s roar was alien To her affrighted ears, Nothing glorious she e’er accomplished, In all her many years. Ay, tear the flag from off her mast, Rescue that flag of the free, But the Battleship “Texas”, amigos dear, Consign to the floor of the sea. Better monuments to our soldiers and sailors than this corroded old hunk of junk would be youth centers in the towns and cities of the state where now only pool halls offer diversion. Or the $300,000 yearly up-keep the ship would require might be applied to raising the salary-level of the teachers. Hotv any such chauvinistic gesture can be swallowed whole by the citizens of the state would seem to me an indi cation of retarded mental development in the entire body politic. The Battalion The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published tri-weekly and circulated on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. Member Pbsocioted GpHeftiote Press Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, (Aggieland), Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate 4.00 per school year. Advertising rates on request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Allen Self Corps Editor Vick Lmdley Veteran Editor ChaHes E. Murray Tuesday Associate Editor r- Nelson Thursday Associate Editor David M. Seligman Saturday Associate Editor Paul Martin - Sports Editor Larry Goodwyn, Andy Matula, Jack Goodloe, Dick Baker, Earl Grant Sports Writers Wendell McClure Advertising Manager Martin E. Crossly Circulation Manager Ferd B. English. Franklin Cleland. William Miller, Doyle Duncan, Ben Schrader, Wm. K. Colville, Walter Lowe, Jr., Lester B. Gray, Jr., Carl C. Krueger, Jr., Mack T. Nolen Reporters Tuesday, March 25, 1947 Stan Kenton Vocalist YOUNG AND CHARMING Shirley Luster, vocalist for the Stan Kenton troupe, will appear on April 12 for the All-College Dance. P&G Positions Are Open to Applicants The Proctor and Gamble Com pany is interested in employing a number of undergraduate students who have completed their sopho more years and who eventually may be interested in factory sup ervisory positions with the com pany, W. R. Horsley of the Place ment Office has announced. To assist in the selection of qual ified candidates, the company has provided an examination to be gi ven all applicants in Room 238, Administration Building, at 9 a. m. Saturday, March 29. Students ma joring in mechanical, chemical, and management engineering and in dustrial education are eligible to take this exam. Interested students should call at the Placement Office before 5 p. m. March 28 to schedule a place at the examination. Letters DALLAS RESOLUTION “ Dear Fellow Aggies: The following resolution was passed by the Dallas A & M Club at a regular scheduled meeting on March 14, 1947, submitted to the club by E. S. Collins and sec onded by J. W. Williams: “Be it resolved: that the Dallas A & M Club wholeheartedly ap proved of the action taken by the Board of Directors of Texas A & M College at a recent meeting where by they voted to retain the present Head Coach of Athletics, releasing him, however, from his duties as Athletic Director, and creating the separate office of Athletic Direc tor. “Be it further resolved: that the Dallas A & M Club pledges its loyalty and co-operation to Texas A & M College; to its entire coaching staff, the new athletic director when named, the parti cipants in all sports, the Cadet Corps, and the entire Student Body as a whole. “Be it further resolved: that a copy of this resolution be sent to other A & M Clubs, to members of the Athletic Board, the Batta lion, The Texas Aggie, and all Dallas Newspapers.” Very Truly yours, *. R. B. Reilly, President Dallas A & M Club ★ HATS OFF Open Letter to the Band: Thanks for cleaning the trophies and trophy case Saturday after noon! TOMMY TIGHE, '45 Signal Corps Intrudes Into Realm of Mother Nature What’s Cooking by Jack Gray. Mother Nature, living in seclusion for years, is in for a surprise when she discovers that the Army Signal Corps and the General Electric Company are probing in her pri vate affairs. The two groups are out to find why it rains and snows. With the usual caution of re- - * search scientists, representatives of both groups made it clear that the program is a search for funda mental information. However, a number of hints indicate that the Army is out to harness the weath er in which case they would fling blizzards or hurricanes at the ene my instead of shellfire. Work done during the war led to recent experiments in which snow was artificially created from normally occuring cloud forma tions. The success of the experi ment brought a problem to the directors—did General Electric have the right to tinker with such large-scale phenomena as the wea ther? Deciding that the work was the work of a governmental agency and finding the Army Signal Corps more than interested, a common effort was decided upon. Speaking for the Signal Corps, Colonel J. S. Willis said, “We are in this program for the military benefits. The work may have wider appli cations—it is hoped that is will.” Dr. C. G. Suits, vice-president of General Electric in charge of re search, drew a distinction between controlling the weather and in fluencing it. The dispersion of fog or overcast at airports would be a local effect, and would be con sidered a matter of influencing local weather. Control of cyclones and anti-cyclone systems, which would alter weather over regions, is a far more difficult problem, for which the merest beginning has yet to be made. $2,000 Award For Book on Southwes Indicative of the growing inter est in Southwestern life and lore, Whittlesey House has established a Southwestern Fellowship award of $2,000 for the best in fiction or non-fiction stemming from the Southwest. While the candidate is limited in the locale of his story to,, either Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, or New Mexico, it is required that the author himself be a resident of either state at the time he sub mits his material. The contest closes September 8, and full details may be obtained by writing Whittlesey, House, Mc Graw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 330 West 42nd Street, New York 18, New York. Texas Co. Director To Address S A E TUESDAY, March 25 7:30 p.m.—College Music Club meets in the R. R. Lancaster home, 207 E. Dexter, College Park. Miss Cynthia Lancaster will be presen ted in a harp recital. 7:30 p.m.—Singing Cadets will perform in Bryan Field auditor ium. No admission charges. 6:00 p.m.—Management Society Banquet, Sbisa Hall. 7:00 p.m.—SAE meets 2nd floor of Y. R. F. Nelson, Texas Co., speaker. WEDNESDAY, March 26 8:00 p.m.—Baptist Student Coun cil meeting. 7:00—San Antonio A. & M. Club meets in Room 205, Academic Bldg. THURSDAY, March 27 7 p.m.—Tyler A.&M. Club, Room 108, Academic Building. 7:00 p.m.—Johnson County Club meets in Room 303, Academic Bldg. 7:15 p.m.—Rural Sociology Club, Room 203, Agriculture Building. Dr. Charles S. Gardiner, Director of Texas Merit System Council, will be speaker. 7:30 p.m.—Denton County Club meets in 325 Academic Bldg. Eas ter Party to be discussed. FRIDAY, March 28 3:60 p.m.—Social Club meets in Y.M.C.A., “Easter Parade of Fash ions”. Harpist to Present Program at AAVP t Banquet Thursday Miss Cynthia Lancaster, well- known harpist, will play several harp selections at the annual spring banquet of the A. & M. Col lege Chapter of the American As sociation of University Professors, to be held Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Sbisa Hall. Miss Lan caster has been a student of the harp and an instructor of the harp at the University of Texas. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Lancaster of College Station. Dean W. R. Woolrich of the School of Engineering of the Uni versity of Texas will be the lec turer at this meeting. The pro gram is open to the public and tickets may be obtained through any member of the AAUP or from the Subsistence Department, Sbisa Hall. R. F. Nelson, director of grease research of the Texas Company, Port Arthur, will be guest speaker of the Society of Automotive En gineer Tuesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in the YMCA assembly room on the second floor. He will speak on the manufacture and applica tion of lubricating greases. A short business meeting will precede the speaker, at which time the S.A.E. Duchess to the Cotton Pageant will be announced and the final report on the inspection trip will be made. The public is in vited. Social Club to Hold Easter Style Show The Social Club of A.&M. Col lege will hold its regular meeting at 3 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the YMCA. A showing of spring clothes in an “Easter Parade of Fashion” is being furnished by Lester’s Smart Shop. Models for the Parade of Fashion have been selected by the sponsor from the members of the club. Hollywood Revel-ations By Harry Revel Hi’ya Aggies. . . here’s some Dis-a and data from movieland. .. ORSON WELLES, now that his separation from RITA HAY WORTH is definite, has his eye on a French lassie just here from Paris. . . her name is BARBARA LAAGE. FRED MACMURRAY is being paged for a Broadway show called TWO ADAMS FOR EVE. . . Since OPEN THE DOOR, RICH ARD was inflicted upon a helpless radio audience, we are going to have to suffer with sequels such as THE KEY’S IN THE MAIL BOX. . . CLOSE THE DOOR, DO RA. . . RICHARD GETS HITCHED . . . the first al bum ol surreal- Harry Revel istic theapeutical records makes its bow on the market next month. . . it’s called MUSIC FROM THE MOON and is released by CAPI TOL RECORDING COMPANY... OTTO KLEMPERER, noted con ductor, was set upon by two ne groes and beaten up on Los An geles, during a ‘slumming tour’ of the colored section of that metro polis, in quest of ‘real American music’ BING CROSBY and BOB HOPE, co-producers of ROAD TO RIO, just completed, have been having New Additions To Extension Service The itinerant instructor staff, of the Texas A&M College Indus trial Extension Service was in creased to 12 traveling teachers today with the additiorf of D. L. Belcher, supervisor training ex pert, to the staff. Belcher holds B. S. and M. S. degrees from the University of North Dakota, and has had exten sive personnel training experience. Another recent staff addition is John E. Williams, who joined in March to instruct sewer and water works operators over Texas. Wil liams was civilian sanitary engin eer for Fourth Army Headquar ters, Fort Sam Houston, before coming here. E. L. Williams, head of the In dustrial Extension Service, an nounced that firemen training classes now are being held in Stockdale, Poth, Floresville and Quitman. A night course of in struction for sewerage operators in the Lubbock area will begin in the Plains capital March 24. plenty of friendly ‘feuds’ over on the Paramount lot. . . quite a battle of quips and witty retorts. . . The Fox 20th Century crew pro tographing CAPTAIN FROM CA STILE picture down in Mexico, ran into native trouble. . . seems the locale of the action takes place in and around PARICUTAN the new baby volcano. . . the natives call the volcano TA-TA which means FATHER. . . they claim that working on TA-TA PARICU- TAN’S BELLY would bring bad luck. The.second day after shoot ing had commenced, a violent storm took place followed by hail stones as large as half dollars... the natives fled in panic. Too bad LARRY PARKS didn’t get any award for his grand por trayal of AL JOLSON in the JOL- SON STORY. . . if anyone was en titled to an award, LARRY was... MAURICE CHEVALIER is a big hit on Broadway, where his one man show is a box office sellout... KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD, Norweg ian opera singer, is trying to get straightened out with her ‘Collab oration with the Nazi’ stigma on her character... there’s a lot pro and con to be said about the whole messy subject. . . THE ANNI VERSARY SONG is still Number 4,406 Vets Convert NSLI in February A total of 4,406 World War II veterans of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi filed applications for conversion of GI term insurance to permanent plans during February, The Veterans Administration an nounced. Veterans throughout the United States converted 94,000 policies during the month, compared with a national monthly average of 50,- 000. Although the majority of Na tional Service Life Insurance poli cies in force are on a term basis, veterans are increasing conver sions to permanent plans, VA said. Of the 5,784,000 NSLI policies in force on March 1, 1947, about 7 out of 8 were on a term basis. The remainder were distributed among the six available permanent plans. Twenty-payment life is more popular with veterans than any other permanent plan, VA said. TENNIS RACKETS RESTRUNG FAST SERVICE SMITH’S North Gate PRESCRIPTION?—NO! SUBCRIPTION S?—YES! 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