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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.
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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—
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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*
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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.
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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.
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