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• ’ ' TUESDAY, SEPHOIBER 1«. 1#47
The Gestapo Rides Again ...
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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.
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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 ■
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, through Friday
The Battalion la pub-
requeat.
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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.
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It’s Flotsam That Jetsam,
Says Boyle After Loafing
By HAL BOYLE
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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.
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