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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1947)
- i B attalion » editorials P»*e 2 • ’ ' TUESDAY, SEPHOIBER 1«. 1#47 The Gestapo Rides Again ... u/_ * .1 • ; » ! ' _ many to mfferwit bV* alw »ys believed that a man could work for whom he choae and at any occupation f ao long as he violated no laws. The State Labor Commission and the Collie Extension Service have indica ted to us that in at least one field of en deavor they are tak ing it upon t h e m- selves to tell people where they can and cannot work. It sounds silly, ... 1 . doesn’t it? Frankly we thought that the passing of Adolph Hit ler had seen the end of concentration camps and compulsory labor. • • " Little did we ever expect to find one of our own branches involved in making people art thin a designated area, r ** «*actly what is happening today. In the words of State Labor Commissioner Morgan, “I’ve had 11 or 12 deputy la bor commissioners working the highways to keep M«tican workers from getting out of u U M e ' ***" catching them at Marshall and diverting them to part of the state where farmers need them most.” Morgan could just as easily have said he had hi* gestapo watching all the high- Three More Ignoble Prizes . .. I^aA month The Battalion inaugurated an award—-the Ignoble Prise to be presented now and then to that individual or group of Individuals who^us created the greaUwt amount of dissension and confusion in his particular sphere of influence. D recifiienta of the award were Roy Badichek and Rodney Kidd of the Texas Umyeraity In terse holaatic league. They de- cidtxl that all boys over the age of 15 who participated in calf scrambles and won calves be barred from Interacholastic League con tests. Rather than slight anyone or any depart ment. we have selected three separate Ig noble Prize winners. ^ 4. 1 First Prize First prize for this issue goes to the |>erson or persons res|>onsible for the most unorganized registration since the antiquated method of runfcng from one building to the other became extinct. < This pertains to both registrations—on August 30 and September -13.) I Jbc line for athletic coupon books wound thrice around the mess hall annex, did a serpentine sort of movement through the door, and disappeared. A veteran in line for book requisition cards found a 2-hour wait ahead. ways to keep the Mexicans from escaping .m<i seeking refuge in other states, and that them ha\ The most dangerous *irur— and the most difficult—which the Assembly of the United Nations faces as ft begins tta new ■ettfona today la that of the hy maana of which any one of the Big Five (Ruaata. Britain. France, China have been caught and sent . l »bor camps throughout the A representative of the Federal Labor Department says that this action was taken at the request of the State Labor Commia- won and the Texas A. A M College Agricul tural Extension Service. Now. we find that the reason the labor- er » want to leave Texas is that they can make higher wages elsewhere. We can’t find any reasonable excuse for prevenUng people from leaving Texas to make more money. The actions of the Labor Commission certainly border on tyranny of the most despicable nature. If the Agricultural Ex tension Service has had any part in re questing the Labor Commission to practice such high-handed tactics, we think it time that someone forced their hand. This whole affair is in direct violation of the tenets of the United State* Constitu- Lon. Maybe a few of the Extension person nel could read the Constitution to advantage We recommend it. By their actions, if what we read is true hey have brought discredit to themselves! of Texa^ & M Colie * e ’ and 10 the people Sect Second Prise !ond prize goes to the man behind the desk in the Veterans Advisor’* Office on FrkUy. September 12. The line for fee watv- er slips extended along the wall on the first noor of Goodwin, down the stefia, and around to the front of Blzzell Hall. Third Prise Third, and ed\ially aa discreditable as the Hrst two. is the building and College Utilities Department for their failure to look ahead Since June 26. the BACU Department Knew mat freshmen were supposed to live at Bryan Field, the A. & M. (S.llege Annex But not until Saturday. September 6. did anyone think to look into the barracks in w h students were assigned to live. (Freshmen were already beginning to a r - nye. with the great influx of students the following day.) Barracks numbers were missing in many cases: chairs were broken; mattresses were slit open ; desk drawers were no where to be found; screens were cut; and floors were filthy. All living quarters were in a state of upheaval. So to the above three winners, we hereby p resen tlgnoble Prizes, in hopes that things will be different me next time ‘Brother Can You Spare a Nickel?’.. Weary and footsore Aggies returning to another year of “the collitch life’’ were pleas antly surprised to find “coke’’ machines in stalled in dormitories over the campus, and construction begun on the first of the new lounges scheduled to be built in all halls. No doubt, the destructive wrath of Ag- gieland will be vented on the first empty coke machine encountered, and in a few weeks the little red contraptions will either be com pletely demolished, or else lying in state at the local bottling plant. ^ “ ‘ " r, the IS Incidentally, the |>articular model in stalled here for the comfort of Aggies u designed to thwart all attempts at thievery Slugs, pocketknives. and pickaxes will not work. The lounges, being constructed of steel and concrete, will probably withstand me on slaught of the coming horde, but there is rt>om for doubt as to the permanence of the furnishings being installed in said lounges. Local interior decorator. Wick Van Kou- enhoven. foresees better times ahead for ^ * M. “with a maroon pluah couch in every student s room”. Col It? . . . The Jwtw Xr,r» Utter, a helpful little put >1 teat Ion Issued by the Joan Fabrics Corn. (Manhattan), periodically beata the drum for the u s. Dept, of Commerce and cape- clallv for the many free service* the depart- ment make* available to hunlnc^men. And recently, according to this newsletter, a small conckni In New York State had a problem nanils ami wired the de|>arimt , nt to find out whether hydrochloric add could be U . t< l J r,< * Rn R particular type of boiler tube h Jig time the company gm an answer, to this effect: ‘Lncertainties of reactive procCee make the use of acid undesirable where alkalinity is involved.” Tjhe businessman missed the point but was very grateful nonetheless. “Thanks for the advice, he wrote. “I’ll start using the acid tomorrow/* But there were delays and before he actually could begin, this wire came from Washington: “Regrettable deci- slon Involves uncertainties. Hydrochloric Mid will produce submuriate invalidating reaction*, (signed) U. 8. Dept, of Com merce. nJ > l l ! rht ? K l W, !. h attention, the bu«i- man wired back: Thanks again. Clad to know it * 0. K.” This time the department decided to stop fiddling around and sent a rush wire: “Hydrochloric acid will eat hell out of your tube.” • —TIDE i ^ S ,P ART °f » atraight report on a girls* baseball game, the Ogden. Utah Times •ports iroin * fine until git rod ? -’ ° f tHe f nh When a11 of the ***» A« Mackenzie Sees It.... Veto Becomes Issue In UNO By Ih \\ ITT MarKKMZIK AC Attorn Aaalrat The Bjattalion of Collegerstatlon! ta Mechaak^l^CgUg^ pf^Texas and the City Sub * cr1pti o n M P^ r school year. Adrertlning rata. contiibutk>n» Duty tx? Tnndu bv sr^s^% A ■ • 1 »i. oSi: , through Friday The Battalion la pub- requeat. m ' •* Itank «. Ml*. Associated 1 )N Jtiiins'aiu;;;;; Hew.rti apMcee. Better. ArUtor Hewato. r»etur* Kdtter Lwt T Ooe«WM m*~*. Ww., Zeelur. Wiiiara Ueertee Howeu * ’“•• •• WYU«r» Columnt*t* o W AdrerUeteg and the U. S.) ran kill a ma jority decision in the Security Council. Thu* far the peace organiza tion has been rendered virtu ally impotent by Russia's persis tent employ ment of this —I I 1 Paralyzing pow er which was adopted originally as a necessary safeguard but was mtended for use only in extreme emergencies. Continuation of this situation must ultimately mean the death of the U. N. as at pres ent constituted. * . Tkrae Soviet tactics of ob- ■trsrtion have coincided with Moscow'* launching of the world mvsteril* for tee spread of mni hare’been du- Plirated by similar tactics in hBted councils in Europe. The re sult Is that peace sad economic recovery hsv# been stymied— apd it’s signlfirant that turmoil f* - Provide the soil I* ohirh Communism thrives. So we see that the consistent use of. the veto power by Russia in the U.N., fits in with a broad strategy of obstruction which is favotable to the world revolution that is now in full awing. Mean time the Soviet delegation has been able to us# the U.N. as a sounding hoard for dissemination of Com munistic ideas. Hoen ver, the Russians lately have h«sn swinging Into the de- fepslve in contrast to the of fen- •Ire Which they ware maintaining Th *’ ,,th, ’ r mt ml», rs of . n.. ' “•’"I from ^ satellites--are determined to have * organization •riWI If they have to scrap the present structure and reform it •long lines which will eliminate ‘brprraent difficulties. fm hope, of course, is to get reform Without remodeling the U.N. but it will take a big inspi ration to svoles an idea that will work. A year ago British Foreign Minister Bevin proposed at a meeting of the Big Flee foreign ministers that a “Code of Conduct" h* adopted in connection with use of the vet a. But Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov vetoed this. Since then there has been eager search for a way to alter the U.N. Charter so to oreel ode abuse of Jhe veto, but tae Charter can’t be changed in face of a Russian veto. ■ . It’s Flotsam That Jetsam, Says Boyle After Loafing By HAL BOYLE r k Chinese Typewriter Types in 4 Lingos, 90,000 Symbols The Mingkwai typewriter, which types 90.000 Chinese characters and also can type in Japanese. Russian, or English, has been demonstrated by its inventor. Lin Yutang, the Chi nese author of best-selling American books. The unique machine, about the size of a standard American model typewriter, requires only three keys to be pressed for each word. A top and bottom key bring into position a choice of eight words of the same cat egory. The operator then picks the one word of the eight which key Want * hy Pf«***ing^^jmj^ Claimed to be adaptable to teletype or typesetting ma chines, the invention may be extremely important to commu nication in China. The Mittg- kwai typewriter now does a day's work by a Chinese copyist in one houv. L. ft M. FOOD MARKET i itrr. nr.MVEMY TO COLLEGE STATION PH. !-«>M NEW YORK. Sept, M <Af)- *rar* tteM I go on I vacation 1 ■wear I will never crane back and rwsuMa this mental straitjaehet raged civilized m. ' or if there i» say thing woFse than hav ing ao vatattor at M it it going back to work at the end of a vacation. The only rea son | ever want to go hack to my desk is to be L . ' sure somebody else haant been hired to put his foot there where mine belong. V **“ ■ raration is to wait until after Labor Day, then go to * * is down and cease from effort so utterly teat 1 would die rathsr thaa blow up a pair of watrrwinga to serve me from a *ud<len surge of turf. That't what I did. The reason fee waiting until September is that, contrary to popalar belief, the ocean is warmer then. And there is more sand on the beach , P*®* 1 *- Tty i» Some time. In Joly and A avast you don’t lie in sand—you lie in ice cream cone drippiMgs. cigaret stubs and beer hotUea. 1 found a nice beach on Montauk Point* which in fnr cast as you can go from Headway without "a.nimmg into a Bnli.h accent. Tners I laid me down In the sun and left instructions to be turned over every half hour until the va cation was outr. When 1 got restless, 1 just open ed on* eye and counted fat on the beach until I fell asleep •gain. I newer had to count more than a round dosen. Whenever the wind blew a dbrarded sasrspager along the lEMlh I would reach out. gr ih . H and read out loud te the “sand 4nbp M sSeut high food price* I* America. Moscow appeals far ■race work from the comrade*, and religieos massacres among the Moaleazs and Sikhs hi India. ; Rut the little saitd. doh** raid no attention. They could not realise how wc arc all fools of fate in our arpar- ways. But one of man’s feath ered friends once expreaaod' that Eanthneni perfectly. This famous bird was a parrot, a nuucot the vessel Elsie Fay. In 1H#0 the El«;s Fay crashed into the Moa- tauk R«vcks. and sailors aboard heard above the roaring waters and splitting timbers the bite* of the parrot croaking philosophical ly: "Well all go to hell together, boyar • Sure enough, the parrot was waahed ashore rh* next day frozen stiff as a hotel mattress. ///AS / 1 «>r MOHEI. hlUIT.ANK sri’I I.II K •|«•nl*N S|iortiuq <;«k>u )b»s H Main Mr> ji, t’ti. !t!MZ PALACE THEATRE BRYAN, TEXAS MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY THURSDAY — FRIDAY ami SATURDAY Crosby and Berry Fitzgerald “60ING MY WAr DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN WITH THOSE WONDERFUL‘GOING MY WAr STARS BM and BARRY- TOGETHER AGAIN ... AND 4 BETTER THAN EVER I telcmts COBUNG: BING CROSBY 1 ^ CAULFIELD . 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