THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas
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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.
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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.
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S’long. . . see you next week.
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