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Page Four THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas Thusrday, March 27, 1947 Land of The Lakes Club To Select CQtton Ball Duchess Members of the Land of the Lakes Club will meet this after noon in Room 324, Academic Building. The purpose of this spe cial meeting is to discuss plans for the Easter holidays and to select a Cotton Ball Duchess. Members are urged to bring a picture of their choice for Duchess. Veterans Administration rating boards rated 345,000 cases for disability compensation or pensions during January, 1947. It Pays To Look Smartly j ivJIlen in business must pre sent every evidence of com petence and success. We recommend the smart lines of this Edgerton calf-skin oxford. QJaldropdfg Two Convenient Stores College — Bryan T Club Meets To Discuss Sports Day At the first meeting of the re activated Aggie T club held Wed nesday of last week, officers were elected and a special meeting of the association was arranged for, to be held in the C. E. Lecture room on Monday, March 31 and 7:30 p.m. Purpose of the meeting will be to discuss Sports Day and the forthcoming T club dance. All members and prospective members are urged to be present, according to the announcement by Don Deere, Publicity Manager of the organization. Other officers elected were Mar ion Flanagan, president, Leo Dan iels, vice-president, Jim Morten- son, secretary and treasurer, and Monty Moncrief, sergeant-at-arms. All men who are eligible and in terested in joining the T club may do so by turning in their name, sport in which they received their T medal, and the year they receiv ed it to either the Athletic office, • Replaceable filter in new Frank Medico Cigarette Holders, filters the smoke. • Cuts down nicotine. • Cuts down irritating tars. • In zephyrweight aluminum. • Special styles for men and women. • $2 with 10 filters, handy pouch and gift box. Army-Navy Initiate Plans For Revision of Promotion System “Up or out” is the recently revised Army-Navy plan of promotions for officers. Twin bills were placed before Con gress March 13, and action is expected very shortly. For the Army, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson re commended that all future promotions should be executed on an incentive basis—or merit-*- system—instead of the present mandatory advancement by sen iority. For the Navy, a bill was intro duced in the House calling for a system of formed promotion wherein the average admiral would be fifty-three and promotion in all ranks would be quickened. Out standing officers could be jumped in rank over their seniors. Chief spur for the new army Jim Mortenson in room 201, Dorm 4, or Marion Flanagan in room 215, Dorm 5. Requirements for joining are that the applicant must be currently enrolled in school and must have received a T medal. The deadline for application for-mem bership is Tuesday, April 1. and Staffing. 1 Day Service on Main Springs and Crowns. 2 Hour Service for Crystals. T. C. HINMAN North Gate setup was the criticism by Con gressmen against James A. Kil- ian, central figure in the Lichfield, England, brutality case, that he be granted permanent rank as a full colonel. The proposal to pro mote him was based on seniority and was required by existing laws. Brigadier General John E. Dahl- quist, chairman of a War Depart ment committee which drafted the Army bill, said it would. 1. Create boards to review qualifications of all officers to be promoted higher than the grade of first-lieutenant. 2. Eliminate officers whose records do not qualify them for promotion. 3. Establish a “pass over system”, whereby officers ranking from first lieutenant to major would be retired or dismissed after juniors had been promoted over them twice. 4. Apply a system of “forc ed attrition” to officers above the rank of major, quarantee- ing a 20 percent turnover an nually. On the Navy side, officials said the Navy’s permanent officer strength would be built up slowly during the next ten years from its present 27,000 regulars to the 46,000 approved by the Budget Bureau. During the development period reserves and temporary of ficers would fill in the gap. FDR Jr. Asks QuickPassage Of TEW Bill Washington — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., national hous ing chairman of the American Veterans Committe, urged quick passage of a “liberalized” Taft-Ellender-Wagner long range housing bill today before the Sen ate Banking and Currency Com mittee as “the major weapon need ed to attack the housing crisis.” Roosevelt said that a recent sur vey by the Bureau of the Census demonstrates that the average vet eran is faced with “a crushing housing problem.” “Veterans are unable to afford either the rental or purchase cost of the new hous ing now being produced,” he said. “The comprehensive housing pro gram proposed in the Taft Bill should be amended to hold out ad ditional incentives to builders and to protect veterans.” CLASSIFIED ADS ATTENTION ENGINEERS: Get your engineers’ math chart at the Exchange Store. THE SCRIBE SHOP—Typing, mimeo graphing, drawing. Phone 2-6706. 1007 E. 23rd, Bryan. REPAIRS: Radio and refrigerator sales and service. All work guaranteed. LEONARDS East Gate Ph. 4-1240 LOST: Dietzgen slide rule, black case, M. E. Building. Reward for return to J. K. B. Nelson, Dorm 10, Rm. 320. FOR SALE: % bed, springs and inner- spring mattress, all for $40.00. Full size innerspring mattress and springs, excel lent condition $40.00. 3 piece bedroom suite $55.00. Baby bassinette on standard with mattress and two covers, excellent condition $4.00. Lawnmower $10.00. Large gas heater $15.00. Assorted garden tools. Phone 4-5909. FOR SALE: A very nice hand-made formal, never been worn. Small size. Project House 11 D. Also baby’s stroller. WANTED: MUSIC INSTRUMENTS (BAND) ANY KIND. TOM SWEENEY, PHONE 2-7225. SMALL INVESTMENT: Four-room College Station home in good condition. Hardwood floors; ample closets; concrete porch easily screened. $5,725; $938 cash, balance at $35 per month. NEAR COLLEGE STATION: Five large rooms, screened porch, nice interior. $5,050; $910 cash, balance at $45 per month. George O. Buckhaults, Jr., Real tor, Rooms 43-44 City National Bank Bldg., Telephone 2-1220, Bryan, Texas. LIGHT HAULING: See Bill Armstrong, Project House 2B. FOUND : Fountain pen, no name. Iden tify Room 428-1. FOR SALE: Clean 1941 Super DeLuxe Tudor Ford, excellent condition, only $1095. See at 106 Batts St., Bryan. FOR SALE: 1941 Chevy Coupe, perfect paint, body, and mechanical condition. Priced right for quick sale because of new car arrival. See at 607 Fairview, College Park. Happier Hunting In Irish Free State, Norway American girls have a better chance of getting married be fore the age of twenty than their sisters in Canada, the western European countries, Australia, or New Zealand, statisticians of the Metropoli- -*tan Life Insurance Company revealed last week. The authorities found that about one American girl out of eight is married between the ages of fifteen and nine teen. That number figures out to 12 per cent. In France and Canada the proportion is 6 per cent, 5 per cent in Italy, Belgium, and Australia, and only 2 per cent in England and several other countries. Girls looking for early ro mance should stay away from the Irish Free State and Nor way. When the last population counts were made, the percen tage of married girls under twenty there was only 1. —KENTON— SEASON IS THE TIME FOR SPORTS WEAR SPORT SHIRTS and SLACKS for every Spring Occasion Smartly tailored Slacks, zipper front, of Spun Rayon $ 8.50 100% Wool Worsteds in Browns and Tans $14.50 Norris Casuals—short sleeve in Sham- bray in Tan, Blue and White $ 2.25 Cotton washable, long sleeve in Blue, Biege and Yellow $ 7.75 THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” ♦ “It is clearly impossible to sur vey the current housing problem and deny that immediate action is necessary,” Roosevelt declared. “If the Congress refuses to act it is in effect saying to veterans: “We know that you face a housing prob lem and we are grateful to you for having won the war, but don’t bother us with your troubles.” He added: “I am sure that Congress will not take this attitude.” Roosevelt said that in order to induce builders to engage in rental housing projects in the face of current high costs, the TEW Bill should be amended to reduce in terest rates on insured loans on rental and mutual ownership hous ing from 4 to 3 per cent and to extend the amortization period from 40 to 50 years. He also asked that veterans preference be given on all rental housing produced with government aid in the next four years. “Vet erans have been hardest hit by the housing shortage and need an op portunity to replace the housing they gave up when they entered (Continued From Page 1) ried, Stan is 6 feet, 4 inches tall, the tallest leader in the music business, and his ambition is to someday own a small chicken farm in California’s San Fernando Val ley. Stan moved into the Big Time as a result of his best-selling disc, “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine”, which he composed with the help of Joe Greene. Since then his star has soared and is still soaring. 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Since 1877—just one year after Bell’s long experimentation was crowned with success—it has been Western Electric’s privilege to help carry forward his great idea which gave wings to words. In that year Western Electric made its first telephone. More than 45,000,000 have followed it—over 4,000,000 of them in 1946 alone. Today, from coast to coast, in factories, offices, distributing houses and central office installation crews, there are more than 110,000 Western Electric workers. Imbued with the Bell System spirit of service, they are helping to provide equipment in record quantities to meet telephone needs far beyond any envisioned by the inventor. This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Bell’s birth in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. From early youth, he was keenly interested in aiding the hard of hearing. He became a teacher of “visible speech” when 18 years old. This work led to experiments with "telegraphing” sound, out cf which, in 1876, came his greatest invention —the telephone. Dr. Bell was a great humanitarian as well as a great sci entist. His accomplishments—in aiding the deaf, in com munications, in aviation and other fields—were outstand ing. His rich life—which had an incalculably great influ ence on the world—came to an end on August 2, 1922. Western Electric A UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM SINCE 1882