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THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Thursday, May 1, 1947:
Editorial Favors ...
In our daily jaunts over the campus we meet with a lot
of odd and peculiar characters, but the ones that bother us
most are those who are always wanting us to say something
“nice” about someone, who everybody knows is not such a
wonderful guy after all.
Our buddies become quite provoked when they fail to
see these wonderful write-ups concerning their friends, cous
ins, brothers^r ole ladies and for thoseAvho really do insist
on havmg^stories lauding their frio^fijs published, we have
made up the following rate card, T j^ich we trust will not be
considered m>o exorbitant. We %ill not deviate from the
price, but we hope to donate a certain percentage of our earn
ings toward rounding an asylum for those feeble-minded
persons who ^‘heve^f^ltor has a soft snap.
|Eor telling^^rAggies that Joe Doaks, promising
,l, " w 'student from Buffalo Gulch, is an energetic
w studious young chap, when he really shows
promise only in “horizontial engineering”..- $ 2.75
Referring to one as a hero and a man of courage and
one who stands by his convictions, when
everybody knows he is a moral coward and
would sell out for a dime $ 4.13
Referring to some gossipy female as a one time
“Belle of Aggieland”, an estimable lady
whom it is a pleasure to meet and know,
when every man on the campus would rath
er see Satan coming $ 8.10
Lambasting the daylights out of all students who
frequently make the trek across the river,
at the behest of local dry forces $ 6.77
For referring to some gallivanting fellow who sweat
ed out freshman week in 1931 before pack
ing of home, as a True Aggie, a friend
and aid to the institution, and a living in
spiration to present day students $3,475.23
More Aggie Journalists?...
Journalism school at A. & M.? Why not?
The greatest shortage in the journalism field is of exactly
such writers as A&M is best equipped to train—reporters
and editors who write about agriculture or engineering or
science, and really know what they are writing about.
There are many misconceptions about what a school of
journalism is, and what courses are taught. Students who
have sweated through an engineering course, so loaded with
technical subjects that they get a bare minimum of other
classes, tend to think that journalists carry about 18 semes
ter hours of writing for four years, plus History 306 and
Economics 403. But that is not the way journalism courses
are planned.
For those who have a natural liking for writing—and
nobody else should enter journalism—the purpose of college
training is not so much to learn how to write as to get’ a
thorough knowledge of the matters one is to write about.
For most journalism students, who will be occupied in politi
cal, cultural and business developments, history, economics
and cultural subjects are most important. For the technical
journalist, such as A&M might train, the larger part of their
classes would deal with agriculture and rural sociology, in
one field, or engineering and science in the other. About 8
semester hours in each semester of the three final years
would be enough of technical journalistic subjects.
We believe that there should be a journalism course at
A&M, leading to BA or BS in Journalism, with minors in
agriculture, science or engineering. We believe that such a
course would be properly within A&M’s sphere of teaching
and would create a situation in which A&M trained agricul
ture editors and technical editors would be writing about
the achievements of their fellow Aggies in those fields.
A Choice...
We have a choice. The machine can be so used as to
make men free as they have never been free before. We are
not powerless. We have it in our hands to use the machine
to augment the dignity of human existence. . . .
We can choose deliberately and consciously whether the
machine or man comes first. But that choice will not be
exercised on a single occasion surrounded by spectacle and
drama. We will move from decision to decision, from issue
to issue, and you and I and all of us will be in the midst of
this struggle for the rest of our days.
We cannot master the machine in the interest of the
human spirit unless we have a faith in people.
Lilienthal
Nemesis of Texas City Is
Still Considered Useful
Ammonium nitrate, the usually
harmless aid to agriculture, is the
basis of several explosives. Amitol,
a mixture of ammonium nitrate
and TNT, is a powerful explosive
used extensively in the last World
War. Great heat and shock evolve
upon the detonation of Ammonal,
a mixture of fine aluminum pow
der and ammonium nitrate.
To ammonium nitrate is attrib
uted the initial explosions which
resulted in the devastation of Tex
as City. It is the same agent re
sponsible for the comparable devas
tation of Oppau, Germany in 1926.
The fact that it contains oxygen
in chemical compound makes its
storage and transportation danger
ous since it needs no outside source
of oxygen to result in a violent
expansion. In fertilizer mixtures,
however, it is relatively harmless.
But its practical uses far out
number its disadvantages. Nitrous
oxide, familiarly known as “laugh
ing gas” can be made from heat
ing ammonium nitrate at relative
ly low temperatures. The chemi
cal is rapidly coming into use as
a fuel for internal combustion
machines when mixed with anhy
drous liquid ammonia. ‘ It is re
ported as being used also as a fuel
for the new ram-jet or rocket type
engines, usable because it provides
its own source of oxygen, the same
reason that makes its handling
dangerous.
As far as is known, no ammoni
um nitrate is manufactured in Tex
as City. Normal production in
America is over 100,000,000 pounds
annually.
World Bank . . .
Putting World
Back on Feet
By A. D. Bruce, Jr.
U. S. private investors are about
to be asked to start taking over
the job of putting the world back
on its feet. Up to now, taxpayers
have had the job, because the U. S.
Government itself has been financ
ing world recovery, partly on a
loan basis and partly on a relief
basis. Beginning this summer, in
vestors are to be offered securities
of the new International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development,
and the Bank is to make recovery
loans abroad out of the proceeds of
these sales.
The U. S. Government, thus, is
about to bow out of one important
phase of foreign lending. This
Government will continue to make
big loans in cases where the aims
are more political than economic.
Also, the U. S. Export-I m p o r t
Bank is to make smaller loans as
needed to stimulate this country's
world trade. But for long-term
recovery loans, in cases where U.
S. political interests are not in
volved, foreign applicants are be
ing referred to the International
Bank. That is the job for which
the Bank was set up under the
Breton Woods Agreements.
Already loan applications before
the Bank add up to $2,310,000,000
and others are on the way. How
ever, until the Bank is able to get
some money from the U. S. invest
ment market, it is likely to hold
the total volume of loans below
$700,000,000.
★
The process of how the Bank
will work is briefly this: A loan is
requested by one of the Bank’s 43
member governments. Say the
French Government asks for a loan
of $500,000,000. Along with the
application, the French Government
files complete statements on what
the money is to be used for—re
building factories, buying locomo
tives in the United States, laying
in raw materials, etc. The French
also file details on their recovery
plan, and show that the loan they
seek is essential to that plan . The
Bank, after thorough investigation,
might approve the whole amount at
once or only part of it, leaving the
rest to be considered in later.
Securities are issued by the
Bank, if it develops that there
is not enough money already in
the Bank to finance the loan to
France. The securities will bear
whatever interest the market de
mands, and will mature in 10 to
25 years.
The loan is made with the pro
ceeds of the securities sale. It is
not paid out in a lump sum, but
is merely set up by the Bank as
a line of credit against which the
French Government may draw as
needed for specified projects. The
Bank tells the French in detail
what those projects can be, and no
others can be paid for out of the
loan.
The loan is repaid over a period
of years, say 20 to 25 years, with
interest and commission for the
Bank of 1 to 1% per cent. The
theory being that the projects the
French undertake with the loan
will create enough earning power
so that they can repay both the
principal and the interest without
running the Government short of
dollars. As France repays the
loan, the Bank builds up its own
obligations when due, using any
extra dollars for additional loans
abroad.
★
If France defaults the Bank
draws on whatever dollars it has
on hand, including the reserve fund
it has built up through its own
profits, to pay off its obligations.
If that is not enough, the Bank
calls on member countries to pay
in their proportionate shares of
the dollars it needs to make its se
curities good. The loss, if any, is
borne by the Bank or its member
governments, not by the investor.
Each member country holds back
80 per cent of its subscription to
meet any default on a Bank loan.
The private investor, thus, is pro
tected by the fact that 43 member
countries stand back of the Bank’s
obligations. F u rt h e r m o r e, the
Bank cannot lend more than its
capital and surplus. With that
Am I Going Crazy? . . .
‘Americans Too Worried
About Mental Diseases’
By Science Service
If you have ever thought: “Am I going crazy?” here
is reassurance:
Americans worry too much about mental disease, Dr.
C. Charles Burlingame, president of the Institute of Living,
formerly known as the Hartford Retreat, warned today. And we may
be developing a “national schizophrenic personality.”
People are bewitched by psychiatric jargon and see mental dis
ease in perfectly normal emotional swings. Unless this dangerous
preoccupation is stopped, Dr. Bur-- 4
lingame told the board of directors
of Connecticut’s oldest hospital,
thousands of Americans will be
looking for help from mental spe
cialists.
The vast majority will never
have the opportunity to get with
in speaking distance of a psychia
trist, even to be reassuerd that
they have no budding serious men
tal disease. There are only 4,000
psychiatrists to take care of ad
vising all the worried people in
the country, and only 2,500 of
these are certified by the Ameri
can Board of Psychiatry and Neu
rology.
“We have been talking a good
deal about taking a leaf from the
book of the tubercu/osis and can
cer movements,” Dn Burlin
game, “preaching that mental ill
ness must be attacked, like tuber
culosis an 4 cancer, through a na
tional alertness to early psychia
tric disorders.”
But the man who thinks he
may have signs of tuberculo
sis or cancer can get a physi
cal checkup promptly. The
person who fears he has men
tal symptoms is not going to
be so lucky.
Explaining the developing of a
possible “national schizophrenic
personality,” Dr. Burlingame ob
served that “schizophrenic”’ means
“a splitting of the personality,”
and Americans are split between
group generosity and individual
selfishness.
“On the one side, we, as a
nation, are extolling the need
for love and light and philan
thropic kindliness around the
world, while on the other side
we, as individuals, are basing
our entire existence on the
precept of ‘What can I get
out of it?”
He urged a new appreciation
of spiritual values and teaching
childi’en social responsi b i 1 i t y
through the establishment of “par-
entoriums”. Those would be parent
guidance centers, not necessarily
related to sickness of any kind.
Hypnotic Tests Indicate
The Extent of Suggestion
Examinations to Be
Held for Jobs With
Health Department
Competitive examinations for
positions in the State Department
of Health Laboratory and branch
laboratories have been announced
by the Merit System Council for
the State Department of Health.
These examinations are for public
health laboratory positions, and
will consist of evaluation of train
ing and experience ad an oral ex
amination.
Positions for which examinations
will be held, and their salaries, are:
Junior Bacteriologist ($143.50);
Assistant Bacteriologist ($172.50);
Junior Chemist ($143.50); Assist
ant Chemist ($172.50); Junior En
tomologist ($143.50); Assistant En
tomologist ($172.50); Junior Im
munologist ($143.50); Assistant
Immunologist ($172.50); Junior
Parasitologist $(143.50); Assistant
Parasitologist ($172.50); Junior
Serologist ($143.50); Assistant Se-
rologist ($172.50).
Veterans preferance will be al
lowed applicants who have been
honorably discharged from the
United States armed forces and
who make a passing grade on the
examination.
Application blanks may be ob
tained from Russel E. Shrader,
Merit System Supervisor, Little
field Building, Austin, Texas. All
applications must be mailed before
midnight May, 31, 1947.
limitation and the other safeguards
under which the Bank is to operate,
officials say the agency can ride
out a long world depression with
out getting into financial trouble.
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—Tuesday Associate Editor
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Sports Editor
Butterflies,
Moths Volumes
Now in Library
WILNORA BARTON
Reader’s Adviser
The semi-rare edition of the two
volume set of Moths and Butter
flies of the U. S. East of the Rocky
Mountains by S. F. Denton has
been added recently to the natural
history collection of the Texas A.
& M. Library. This library’s copy
is one of a limited edition which
features a very rare type of illus
tration—the transfers of the scales
in natural colors of the species
from life. In the preface the auth
or explains, “The color plates, or
Nature Prints, used in the work,
are direct transfers from the in
sects themselves; that is to say,
the scales of the wings of the in
sects are transferred to the papers
while the bodies are printed from
ingravings and afterwards colored
by hand.”
The author had to make over
fifty thousand of these transfers
for the entire edition, and not be
ing able to get any help to do the
delicate work to his satisfaction,
he collected and transferred each
one himself! This is indeed a labor
of love, and the results must have
been rewarding. Denton succeeded
in capturing all the beauty and
perfection of the species them
selves. This_ process, called Na
ture Printing, is not original with
Denton. The same process was in
use by 17th Century naturalists,
but in subsequent years has become
a lost art. Denton revived Nature
Printing and experimented with it
for some time before he used it in
his work, which was published in
1900 by Bradlee Whidden of Bos
ton.
Finch to Preach For
A&M Methodists
Dr. W. S. Finch, Administrative
Assistant and professor of Bible,
Southwestern University, George
town, Texas will preach during
the Sunday Morning Worship Serv
ice May 4 to the A. & M. Metho
dist Church on “The Call to the
Christian Ministry”.
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Hypnotism can be dangerous-'*'
Recent experiments by Dr. John G.
Watkins of Welch Convalescent
Hospital, Datona Beach, Florida,
suggested that when hypnotized,
some people might be made to com
mit murder. . ^
In one of his experiments Dr.
Watkins hypnotized a private and
told him, “In front of you, you will
see a dirty Jap soldier. He has
a bayonet, and is going to kill
you unless you kill him first. You
will have to strangle him with your
bare hands.”
“The dirty Jap soldier” was a
lieutenant colonel, head psychiat
rist and director of the neuroply-
chiatric division of the hospital.
Upon opening his eyes, the pri
vate creeped slowly forward and
with a flying tackle knocked the
lieutenant colonel against the wall
and began strangling him. Guards
pulled the soldier off. “The dirty
Jap” said that the grip had been
“strong and dangerous”.
Pointing out that the private did
not violate his own conscience, be
cause he thought he was attacking
an enemy, Dr. Watkins said the
Private “was acting under an in
duced hallucination.”
In other trance tests, Dr. Wat
kins, forced soldiers to divulge mil
itary information. “The controls,”
he explained, “were not as rigid
as one would desire to establish
firmly that criminal compulsions
are possible, yet the combined
weight of the evidence from the
studies definitely favors that con-
A&M Research Foundation
Trustees to Meet May 20
Trustees of the Texas A&M Re
search Foundation will hold their
spring meeting here May 20, Dr.
A. A. Jakkula, Foundation execu
tive directtor, announced today.
tention.”
He added that the subjects chos
en for the experiments were high
ly hypnotizable, but warned:
“There apparently would be many
thousands of individuals like them
in the total population.”
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