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Page Two THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Tuesday, May 20, 1947: MorePromotion,LessCrying Jets Combined With Flaps Will Give Planes Dragon-Fly Agility At last word, the Athletic Department was planning to erect steel bleachers closing the breach of the Kyle Field horseshoe, and the “mid-Victorian” press box is due for a remodeling. Also, lights have finally been put up for the football practice field. And a new wire fence encloses the sacred precincts of the Aggie athlete. This, however, is only run-of-the-mill construction, things which high schools all over the state are doing today. What A. & M. really needs is some imaginative, far-reaching, wide scale innovations on the athletic front. Lighting of the football field has been debated for years, but nothing has ever been done about it. Will the gain in gate receipts and attendance justify the expenditure? It is possible that the increase in attendance at first would not be great, but under active promotion, the gains could be tre mendous. Some of our home games, especially in the early fall, could be played at night, obviously providing more com fort for both players and spectators. Night games would begin to draw crowds from Houston and the area surround ing college. It’s conceivable that we might get some top flight junior college teams to play on Kyle Field. Another consuming gripe of Aggies is the number of interscholastic championships played at Memorial Stadium— football and track in particular. It would be difficult indeed to lure the Class AA competition away from Austin, but why not promote some good Class A football and track at Kyle Field? Aggies are still interested in high school sports and would provide a steady attendance. But, of course, such a deal must be presented, not wished for. Art Adamson, swimming coach, has led the way in this endeavor. Each year he sponsors the state interscholastic swim meet in the college pool. Then, too, observers of the inter-squad saw that as yet no scoreboard has replaced the charred remains of the one burned in protest last fall. Here is an opportunity for the Athletic Department to improve its standing. A $3500 or $4000 job will not do. Only an electric scoreboard, on a par with those in the other big football fields, will suffice. And the plea of nonavailability of cables will not fool the Aggies again. Nor will a “temporary” scoreboard. There is a marvelous opportunity for the advancement of athletics at A. & M. But talking about the opportunity will not get the job done. It takes energetic, imaginative action, with willingness to take a chance. Political Adolescence... Gen. Omar Bradley, Veterans Administrator, minces no words when he makes a speech. Last week at the Uni versity of Illinois, while helping inaugurate a new prexy there, Gen. Bradley declared that “political adolescence of American troops in World War II is an indictment of the education they suffered.” Harsh words, but they can be backed up. Some critics, as usual, have misread the intention of the address and spread the word that Gen. Bradley just hauled off and called all veterans “adolescent.” Closer read ing shows that the VA top kick was making a profound point. It is quite possible to be a college graduate, a mature engineer, and a devil with women, yet still be very much a “political adolescent.” Most of us are just that. General Bradley asserted in his prepared talk that “unless education offers youth understanding of the causes of war, we may blunder again into a crisis where the army is called on to indoctrinate men in the reasons why they fight.” He said it was “not the duty of the army to indoctrinate men with k packaged ideas of why they were fighting. Under standing of the political and economic backgrounds of war are the responsibilities of American teachers.” “If, in our zeal to equip them (the veterans) with pro fessional training for success in their jobs, we ignore their need for understanding of world affairs, we shall send them out poorly prepared for the lives they shall live.” The same point has been pounded by the Battalion a number of times this year. Technical training may get us a good job, but it alone will not keep America in a position of world leadership. Reaching for Blue Star... The .fate of the Blue Star hangs in the balance Wednesday after noon when the Cadet Corps forms on the Main Drill Field to parade before a team of inspecting officers from the War Department. Veterans and college citizens have felt as deeply as cadets about the loss of the honor rating last year—the first time in 22 years that A.&M. has failed to win the highest ranking in the ROTC program. To morrow veterans and civilians of the area can help the corps by appear ing on the parade ground at 3:30 p.m. and so exhibiting their concern. In a football game on Kyle Field when the Aggies are about to try for that point-after-touchdown, every supporter stands and “squeezes”. Somehow it seems to help. The situation now is more serious than the winning of a football game. Another failure could easily breed discontent and unrest. Fail ure would point an accusing finger at both the cadet officers and the military staff. There must be no failure. Plan to attend the review. Veterans, if possible, don’t wear parts of your old uniform during the three-day inspection Wednesday through Friday. We all have a stake in the Blue Star and we all have a way to help. NOTHING’S TOO GOOD “DURING THE WAR, this saying had gained circulation among the GI’s: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t move, pitck it up. If you can’t pick it up, paint it. The shift to peacetime family concerns has changed the advice to this: If it cries, change it. If it’s on wheels, buy it. If it’s hollow, rent it.”—Veraon County (Wisconsin) Groad- caster. 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 afternoens. Member Pbsocided GpUeftiate 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 Vick Lindley Charles E. Murray . J. K. B. Nelson David M. Seligman Paul Martin Corps Editor Veteran Editor —Tuesday Associate Editor -Thursday Associate Editor ..Saturday Associate Editor Sports Editor Larry Goodwyn, Andy Matula, Jack Goodloe, Bill Halcomb, Earl Grant-Sports Writers Wendell McClure AAyrmrtjmirtf Manager Bill Brown, Maurice Howell Advertising Assistants D. W. Springer Circulation Manager Jet-propelled airplanes will have the agil ity of dragon-flies, if a newly patented idea lives up tb its promise. Essence of the new design is the relation between the jet power units, which are em- Hollywood Revel-ations By Harry Revel Hi-ya Aggies . . . Right now, the movie colony and surroundings are being thoroughly investigated by the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities. Robert Taylor threw a bombshell at the hearings by stating that he was forced to make a pro-Russian film called SONG OF RUSSIA. Other witnesses are being called. Republic Studios are going to film the life of BABE RUTH and are collecting all the data necessary—should make a colorful movie. . . . . GENE FOWLER, famous newspaperman and author is in New York City getting anecdotes and> Harry Revel his movie based on the life of the late JIMMY WALKER erstwhile May or of N Y C during the tur bulent 20’s . .. P O R T R A IT OF JENNY and KISS OF DEATH are two films be- ing shot in Manhattan right now, and movie producers here in Hollywood are finding out that New York City is an ideal place to make pictures—particu larly of the mystery type. ^ You probably got a kick out of following the exploits of DICK TRACY and his two-way wrist radio in the daily funnies, but don’t laugh, an inventor by the name of MYRON BICKART has signed with CHESTER GOULD and the TRIBUNE SYNDICATE, and an electronic toy Wrist Radio with radar detection from power sent out by two or three stations will be on the market very soon. It’s IY2 inches in diameter and will sell for $3.98. MUSIC OUT OF THE MOON is the nation’s Number One best sell ing album of records right now— it’s rhythmic and spooky. Biggest ovation ever given to a show occurred when the Lon don company of OKLAHOMA premiered in the English capi tal—for thirty minutes after the show had closed (final curtain) opening night, the cast had to take bows. INGRID BERGMAN is a very sick gal these days. She is under the care of two physicians LARAINE DAY and LIPPY DUR- OCHER will be remarried here this coming January so’s to con form with the California marital laws .... JANE WITHERS came of age t’other day and inherited some $850,000. J. ARTHUR RANK, England’s movie czar, is in New York City and will spend two months there buying some 50 theatres through out the country to showcase his British wares. His latest two ef forts are just terrific—ODD MAN OUT and GREAT EXPECTA TIONS, to be followed by THIS GENTLE BREED and THE UP TURNED GLASS. So long . . . see you soon. P. H. Students To Compete In Poultry Judging Students in Poultry Husbandry 201 will compete in a judging con test at the college poultry farm Wednesday, May 21, from 1 to 5 p.m., Dr. J. H. Quisenberry, Head, Poultry Department, announced. All students in Poultry Husband ry 201 this semester and those taking it last semester are eligible to compete. Appropriate awards will be pro vided for the 3 high scoring en trants. Those having other classes but desiring to enter the contest may, with special permission be given an opportunity to place the classes after 5 p.m. Six or eight classes of production will be judged, using a special production standard score card. VA Begin Lecture Series The Veterans Administration hospital at Framingham, Mass., in stituted a series of 21 lectures sponsored by the Educational Re training, Medical Rehabilation Ser vice on small businesses for para plegic veteran-patients who plan to go into business when they are discharged from the hospital. Strike Three! Mike in Ump’s Mask Will Tell All the Count “YEROUT!” will resound into the farthest bleachers, in the um pire’s own tones of doom. And if the enraged batter turns round and blares “WHAAT?!!” into the umpire’s face-mask, the stands may hear that, too. But delicate ears will be spared the subsequent colloquy, if the um pire raises his right foot. Not nec essarily for the immediate physical disciplining of the protesting play er, but merely to break his cir cuit that ends up in the ball-park’s loudspeakers. This situation can be expected to become commonplace if recent invention finds its way into gener al use. The design calls for a small mi crophone to be mounted inside the mask, right in front of the offi cial’s mouth. A pair of wires runs under his clothing and down one pantsleg, to a pair of stud-like ter minals held in place under the arch of his foot by a harness around his instep and heel. In the normal position for his right foot, behind the palte, is a sunken block con taining contacts for his foot-borne terminals. A cable leads back to the amplifying system. So long as he stands in his us ual place, peering over the catch er’s head, the stands hear ’em as he calls ’em. If for any reason he steps off his contact-block, his voice loses its Doomsday thun der. bedded in the thickness of the wing, to a pair of hinged flaps on the trailing edge. When these are both directed downward, it gives the plane a big boost in take-off and fast climbing power. When they are directed “♦■upward, the plane does a power- dive. With one pair up and the opposite pair down, the plane “turns on a dime”. Pinched to gether, they intensify the effect of the jet; opened wide in oppo site directions, they minimize it and act as brakes in stopping. ★ KNEE ACTION FOR REAR WHEELS Knee action for rear wheels is the objective of the invention by James J. Carr of Raleigh, N. C. He puts crosspieces on the chas sis, just forward and to the rear of the rear axle. From each of these he drops two vertical hangers. To each hanger is pivoted a pair of arms, running out to upper and lower sides of a rear brake drum. The chassis rides on the upper arms, on spiral springs. This gives the knee action. To give necessary flexibility to the drive, the in ventor connects hub and outer end of rear axle with a short, strong coil spring. ★ BEEFSTEAK TENDERIZER With meat prices still climbing, despite presidential exhortations, the cheaper, tougher cuts are of sheer necessity becoming more popular. By the same token, so are tenderizing machines. A trio of Chicago inventors have patented a tenderizer that embodies a new way of loosening up resistant meat. It stretches and flattens the piece, as on an old-time rack, before the mechanical claws of the tender izing rollers go to work on it. A few of the 350 inventions on which patents were issued this week challenge attention: A miniature camera for detec- What’s Cooking TUESDAY, MAY 20 7:15 p.m.—Junior Class, Assem bly Hall. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21 7:15 p.m.—Sophomore Class, As sembly Hall. THURSDAY, MAY 22 7:30 p.m.—Galveston Club, Room 123, Acad. Bldg. Important meet ing. 7:15 p.m.—Corpus Christi Club, Room 227, Acad. Bldg. Election of officers and party plans. 7:15 p.m. — Fort Worth Club, Lecture Room, Science Bldg. 7:30 p.m.—Laredo A&M Club, Room 224, Acad. Bldg. —WALLACE— (Continued from Page 1) war. The gayer elements of the con gregation learned early in the evening that booing was not the thing to do. When one fellow let loose a cat-call, half a dozen big boys moved in next to him, and he didn’t think it wise to let out an other peep all night. In general, the crowd was well- behaved. Though the applause did not always indicate agreement, there were no rude displays of dis approval. Wallace was met at the airport on his arrival in Austin by some students waving hammer-and-sick- le flags and shouting over a public address system. J. Frank Dobie, University professor and folklorist, identified one of the demonstra tors as “the son of an oil company president.” After Wallace’s speech a num ber of people came on the stage to congratulate him. One ecstatic lady came away sighing, “There is our next president!” Perhaps not, but Henry Wallace is no monster. Elden W. Golden William Miller, Ben Schrader, Wm. K. Coiviile, Walter Lowe, Jr., Lester B. Gray, Jr., Carl C. Krueger, Jr., Mack T. Nolen, Robert P. Ingram, Claude Buntyn, Bruce Hartel, Richard Alterman Assistant Circulation Manager -Reporter* HAVE YOU MOVED INTO A NEW APARTMENT? Do the walls, floors or woodwork need retouching? A little wallpaper and a little paint will do the trick. That’s where CHAPMAN’S comes in. Let us advise you about what is needed at the least possible cost. Look for the store front with the AGGIE COLORS CHAPMAN’S Next to the Post Office, Bryan Phone 2-1318 tives, built to resemble a metal matchbox, is the invention of Jo seph Stoiber of Rochester, N. Y., assignor to the Eastman Kodak Company. The lens assembly is sunk into the body of the camera, and its aperture concealed except at times of actual use by a slide. Bicyclists wishing to escape from dusty summer roads can take to rivers or lakes, on the machine of C. W. Gilliam of New York. On the ends of a widely U-shaped frame at the top are seat and han dlebars, with pedals and g e a r- wheel at the bottom of the U. A vertical column extends downward through a pontoon, which supplies the floating capacity. Within this tubular column is the power shaft, which at the bottom turns a screw propeller by means of suitable bev el gearing. ‘Mudder’Planes To Be Tested With Tractor-Truck Gear Some planes in the future, like some horses, are going to be good “mudders.” A tractor-track of the endless belt type will be installed soon on the landing gear of any Army car go plane to test its ability to per mit aircraft to land on soft dirt, mud, or sand . It is a track similar to that used on caterpillar tractors. The installation of this track- type landing gear wil be on a Fair- child C-82 Packet, a twin-engine, 54,000-pound transport originally designed for use on short, unim proved fields. It has a large rear door through which heavy equip ment can be loaded into its box- car-like body. The idea is not entirely new. Track-type landing gear has al ready been tested on Douglas A- 20’s. It is now being adapted to the heavy planes. The installa tion will provide a wide-tracked surface on the nose and each main gear, all three to be retractable in the same manner is conventional wheel landing gear. OF COURSE I DOMT WANT V0U TO THINK l'M "SX HINTING, BUT TOOAVJS MV BlRTHDAV AMP I WISH S VOU'D TAKE A LOCK AT THE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES , ‘ BETTER HOMES APPLIANCES Vfe** H ^ ve , M THEIR STORE « | PUT V0UR i CHECKBOX K£^£) r v , IM HOUR IN- , SIDE COATf-'X POCKETY ^ BE SMART WITH Summer Qualify is readily apparent in the distinctive, tailored appearance of NORRIS CASUAL Sport Shirts. They are full cut, with generous pockets and true pointed collars. Made of washable cotton and rayon fabrics, they are pre sented in a wide range of colors and patterns. You will want an ample supply for the warm weather ahead. THE EXCHANGE STORE Merit System Exams To Be Held June 28 The Merit System Council of Texas will hold open competitive examinations for a number of pos itions with the Texas Unemploy ment Compensation Commission in various cities throughout the state, at 9 a.m. on June 28. The entrance salaries for these positions range from $1920 to $3480 per annum. Persons interested in these ex aminations may obtain application blanks and full information rela tive to duties, minimum qualifica tions, and salary ranges at their nearest Texas Unemployment Com pensation Commission office or by writing to the Merit System Dir ector, 808 Tribune Building. BRYAN, TEXAS WED., THURS., FRL, and SATURDAY BARBARA STANWYCK — IN — “THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS” PREVIEW SATURDAY NIGHT, SUN., MON., and TUESDAY JOAN CRAWFORD — IN — “HUMORESQUE” AIR CONDITIONED Opens 1:00 p.m. Ph. 1181 TODAY and WEDNESDAY MMen (7 dangerous /nan meets a wonaerfu/ mmaw ^ Tom ’n Jerry — News Heres Another “First Itun” Coming Your Way! 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