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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1947
"Go Elsewhere, Rembrandt...
.A* 1 ***!■: the A. 4 M.
irr h .!! "X* mon h “ blowomed forth
wl ~ ^ olne crude expresMons of the akn-
No * u 0nly U" virtuw
For miles around, the eyes of casual via-
Sf ,truck b y 411
elevated trash. A flashing Mgn on the top
•j° f T tke huiklinf in the hugest dty
b comparable to the position of our
water tower, (hie can be confident that the
£w«rs dotting the landscape surrounding the
various prison farms in the penal system of
* * le tr *-P°tot M point, more graceful
snd cleaner than that standing in the midst
of our campus. ,
rK the B4CU Department expect
th ® (y *kir r to become
R)#n, rather than little boys meddling with
! aint ’ Or is it too much to expect males be
tween 18 and 28 to be mature. ... is the
fullast sense of tbs word, that is?
Rather than risking life and limb plus
the danger of expulsion, to say nothing of
0»e unsightliness of the product, why not
legilise tbs set of pointing the weter tower!
By that w* mean guiding those idle hands
in the creation of something of which A.AM
can be proud.
Perhaps all jealousies among the many
branches of the service here on toe campus
could be dispelled with a sign worded (in
maroon paint) “Weoaren to Aggi«lalld ,, . If
that is not satMaotory. perhaps “The Home
of the Texes Aggies" would meet the appror-
tl of our home-grown Van Dykes. Any sign
of this type would certainly reduce the urge
of students to "piddle" around on the water
tower in the dirksst hours of the night.
There you have our suggestion Let s
hesr yours
TOMAN? ftUMT
^re We Ready For The Marshall Plan?...
. Are we people of the United States really
wndy to go through with the Marshall Plan !
That much-praised plan—so fhr our only
nSh 1 for preserving s non-Communist Europe
"•** 0( * merely t pst plan which we present
tSaome other nations to follow. We will have
our Part, too. which might go so far
Si to include a return to government ration-
ny and price control.
There is bound to be much opposition to
r O’Daniel has
'iffcMi
lean l
The League of Women Voters, The Pro-
ive Ci Use ns of Amsrics. and the Amer-
\eterans Committee all said congrss-
wonal action is necessary to deal adequately
with toe situation, and Norris E. Dodd un
dersecretary of agriculture, asserted tost
only the ‘lucky accident of good weather in
America" can save lives of many by food
production.
new controls. Senator W. Lee w uu
already gone on record—Pappy says that
frice control is unconsUtutional and what’s
more, he's against it. O’Daniel’s opinion is
no longer taken seriously by many people,
but there is Utttie question that a return to
•Tit nine or controls
ifljmy others.
jd Yet we cannot go on aa we are now. With
out price control, there seems no hope of
lowering or even holding prices. Without
rationing, there seems little chance that a
price control program would work. And our
committmenta under the Marshall plan will
put such pressure on Our economy that with
out controls. we can hardly avoid an even
duuier inflationary spiral.
We want peace, not war. W> want a
healthy Europe, and we have never vet
seen a ('<wnmunhtt-dominated area that we
could regard as healthy. Are we wiDiaK
to pay our part of the cost!
Ixwk at these news items from the As
sociated Press.
T Herbert Hoover 111 and accompiTTM by a
physician snd nurse, said Sunday that the
UM7 world harvest may yield as little as that
of 1945 snd he outlined steps needed "if
Urge areas of the world are to be saved
from mass starvation.*'
"Dll* to the failure of agricultural re
covery in Euroi* and Asia, together with
uevsstaling droughts in other parts of the
•trorld Including the American corn crop -
toe next 12 months will be a grim food vest “
flOliver said.
•
Can I It Happen Here?
i ■■ ' \
! We condemn many Germans for stand-
ing aside and allowing the Nazi to treat an
overpowered Europe so cruelly. •
Today we are demanding that Germany
and the German people assume a new reapect
Cor the rifehts and dignities of human be
ings. We have no time for ihose Germans
who utter the worn phrase. "Nicht Nazi".
: Before we beat our breasts in an out- i
burst of self-righteousness, we think it time
Oikt we .examine our own activities.
• 'Some of our own people are allowing the *
same intolerant and cruel treatment to be
meted out to many different minorities here
in America.
; We have a large number jof people who
will deny emphatically the charges of beinx
"Jew-baiters ’, “Nigger-hateil”, "Pope-hat
era’’, and "labor-baiters”. TMy like to think
of themselves as holding no antipathy to
ward the various races, colors, and creeds
Xpt these same individuals, if called on
to do something constructive to rid the coun
try of all its predjudices and pettv hates
become indifferent. They find it much eaa^ *
ipr to look the other way.
j They deplore all the cases of lynching,
Preaidetit Truman yesterday got a report
on the food situation at home and abroad
and recommendations on what America
should do about it from a cabinet food
... . -- CMMUttee today—but no action was in sight
would be opposed by for daya. * ; w
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said
a special session of Congress wss not even
discussed when the food committee saw Mr.
Truman.
But that did not rule out the possibility
that Secretary of State Marshall had talked
over in a separate conference with Mr. Tru
man the advisability of calling Congress back
ahead pf time.
★
A Cabinet Food Committee agreed Mon
day on future food exports they will recom
mend to present Truman. The food com
mittee meeting was the first of a series of
top administration conferences, including a
cabinet luncheon, on the general problem of
how the United States can help Europe meet
emergency needs this winter
A jiart of this question is this second one:
Should Congress be called into special ses
sion to speed aid!
I The food committee meeting, held In An-
derson's office, was attended by Secretary
of State Marshall, Secretary of Commerce
Harriman. Undersecretary of Agriculture
Dodd, snd food experts of the State, Com
merce and Agricolture departments
t
race Inequalities, and name-calling. They
readily admit something should be done
about unfair emoloyment practices, poor
housing, unequal opportunities snd facilities
for education. In fact they would much rath
er not witness any unpleasant sights. 1
Essentially, they are good people. Thev
attend church regularly, pay their bills, and
don’t beat their wives and children. Violence
is something horrible and messv to them and
they can’t undersUnd why they should be
conserned by it. After all, their station in
life,! their career, and their personal happi
ness must not be jeopardized by too dose
a contact with the ills of the world.
How can a different feeling be aroused
in the breaat,of our populace? It can’t come
from without; it mast come from within. It
must emerge from the will of the people
themselves. The only limit must be their im
agination, energy, and conscience.
The human race has no time or place for
bystanders, and those who persist in looking
the other way. Either they hop on the “band
wagon” of progress, or become lost in the
hapless scramble at the botton.
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Communist-Agitated World
Revolution Is in Progress
% MsrXKNKIC
Vamn »ffwn Aaaleai
■'j?.*** 1 *X» »««> Fnach _
r u.k. rtkt, ” ’
Foreign Min-
"toiy that hie
th
growing oat of
ns.
Iha po.ition Of the right-af-eaaior
(oremment untenable The Red*
M hr Ruaaton trained Italian Com-
mmiit Palmira TegltotU. are even
talkins revolution opmty.
If rahaMMatioii can’t be achiev
ed vs Ume to form an effective
harrier acaiait agtrcaaive Com
muntsm, then the Redicm will
overrun the re# of Barope. That
would create a aew and terrible
■»an*ce to the orient and the
wee tern hemisphere.
Batt Staff on Treasure Hunt
Gets Statue of 'Superhombre'
the “very Uf.” of the
it tt’i
only honest to
•ay one decent
eee how the op-
poeltif view*
can be reconcil
ed.
And why cant
they be recon
ciled? Having
given us some-
thtag to pon
der. M. BkUolt
•Me- stepped
. . . | that ismie — a
ttwh^s I delicate matter
for dtocuaxion hy the foreign min
ister of a country which to pre
cariously situated hi the no-man’s
land between the two dominant
power*. However, we can fill in
the gaps which be skipped. The
real key to the situation to a fact
upon which this columnist has been
msistiag because of its supreme
importance, and H is this:
Russia’s generation-oM program
of world revolution for the estab
lishment of totalitarian Commu
ntom finally is in full swing. Not
for one moment shodtd we forget
that, for the Insidious ramifica
tions of ths great offensive have
penetratad every country on the
globe. lu greatest success has been w
in Eastern Europe where » big the midway first attracted their
nea Red empire has hssn built out attention.
•f weak countries by strong arm The problem looked seo simple
• *hort time, but si- Why, sny two ysar-old can throw
ready it has s grip on other war • ball to knock down a roupto of
,0 !?c c * k# MX four sccomplish-
Jb>^hig #wtton Is whether i hs «d harlsrs, ill alumni of big leag
It flis rs
Hollywood Round-Up .....
Bachelor Girl
Says ‘Nothing
Like Marriage’
By PVAMH4N A mug
(For Boh Thomas)
IWLLTWOOB, Sept « f AFT—
Olivia ds Havdlaad, who a Mde
moiu than a n*r ago was Holy
wimr. No. 1 bachelor girl, to now
to# towi’s priae hooatar for the
marriod state.
•» M^pad playing tnaaas long
enough on ’The Snake Pit" set to
rffer a few sane observations,
gleaned from her first year as Mrs.
lUrk Goodrich:
“Tb«v’s nothing Uhs weABai
1 should
life. No gW
be without it
But don’t out married Met to ha
Mrs. Homebody, tea luaUy 4a
taww the raal thing when k ar-
rim. Malm ears yours to
"Boat fear far ysmr freedom.
•» «• >toBto
tolng. hat Tvs gained tola. I can
•van have eeffoo to bvi served
bf «r husband What bachator
girl can mUt that ■tatamant?"
When Hal WeRto bought j.n«
ft—NtW’* RhyriitdaftoJ novel.
mji an an-
sad Nfl.Mfl, thua took a leak
But thuro s boon m
•Mna ag his sum
rwi fatWi wflt.
Him and his mo
M Jans ha
gwiy, wo have another Rathtoan
on his lltti birthday, VOham I.
lUrt, Jr, same into a fioo.ooc
tomt fund set up at his birth
But thsrs's heea ns indtoattoa hTs
•st af his two-
whtok sxrludsd
^ ~ —tour, Wtnifiud
Wsstovor, from ths HAM,000 as-
■ Grouch* Man is branch-
tog sut sgsiu. Me and Norman
*vm»» hsvt written a play, "Elis-
■bsto, which Mslvyn Douglas
wUl produce and dhvrt, ho r , n g
mMually to roach Broadway with
it And Groocho's mulling a dsal
which would make him emcee af
» new radio audience-pertietpation
•how . . John Guntner to working
hard oa his newest, ’’Inside Wash
. . . Radio stations are
•Becking down on off-color record-
tags. KFWB banned 25 objection-
•Me ones tost weak.
rcbsMIitstton plan can work fast
enough to save an all but draper
st< situation Most of Europe I*
struggling In the economic morass.
Ksy countries like Britain and
France ate so hard hit that they
•re unable te holster Ihslr smsller
neighbors. That’s why so much ds-
pemlence is being placed on Amer-
top.
Hueh a condition of weakness
provides the brat possible field for
the operations of Communism. A
t rim* example to Italy which to so
ard hit that she to fighting fer
her Ilfs. Into that situaton Com
munism is throwing every ounce
of strength in the way of foment
ing strikes and disorders to make
V A Expects Record
Enrollment Of
Veteran Students
The Veterans Administration to
expecting a record enrollment of
24,500 World War II veteran* this
month in colleges and universities
of the Waco region.
The anticipated enrollment will
■et a new record of at least 30
C sr cent over the region's previous
igh enrollment of 18,600 last
April and will tax the facilities of
VA in qo«bf;-ing the veterans for
subsistence allowances.
Although no serious delays in
payment of subsistence allowances
•re expected, VA to advising stu
dent-veterans to be able to meet
peraeiml financial obligations far
the first six weeks ef the fall
tarm.
In most cases, veterans should
receive their first subsistence
chssk shout November J, if thsy
•nroll properly snd if the schoeto
•srtlfjr Ihsir snndimsnt u> VA
promptly
Ths initial rhosk will Include all
subs* tone* si Iowa nee* due ths
vsteoan from ths date nf snrall-
msnt |a Meptapibsr through the
SHmih of Ostnher.
The time lapse Iwtwran dale af
■vtirttllmeM snd rerelnt of ihs first
rhrab Involves two tar Ism First,
• vsiaran gsiwrally Is not sntlU-
•d to receive a subsistence allow-
anee until he ha* been In training
far 10 days. Roeondly, 111 ahaalts
•te mailed normally on Iks first
of ths month, covering the allow-
•Mas due for the previous month.
Therefore, a veteran enrolling dur
ing the latter part of liepteiHter
By Arthur C. Mam ♦
Never let it be said that the
, £*! »PT»»vriaU art.
Lust Friday night four members
of the hetrarchy embarked on an
art treasure hum that recalled
those of William Randolph Hrarst
A *tg»rti>t sum of money chang
ed hands for the possession of one
measly statue.
The aforementioned four visited
the carnival, each telling the oth-
• r oil toe whits that it was dis-
gusting. but all enjoyed the outing
immensely. A high-ctoss booth on
US learns, couldn't do
rja.’WLj'na
•n at • quarter • throw,
Boev than ftvs units of Ameri
can currency crossed the beard,
still ths • to tea remained Hi the
aossrasioa of the tempter. With
blllfsld. getting that Iran, hungry
look, the men railed a trace, and
asked ths hawker of hulls how
much far toe enticing status out
right. He pondered the question
* * •"*'* <*•-
J**’ prices
Hke they it, ah reken I’d have to
get three snd a half fer that MT
trick.
The “beys” lifted themselves up
from the sawdust and moaned as
if suffering from green apple pois-
raiUl * #ir * » ,r *ady l»M yau
>> 7S, you monstrous old pirate,’’
they screamed * Yoa should give
H to as gratis, or if not that way,
then free."
Slim, the dering member of the
quartet, volunteered te make one
more attack oa the coke bottles,
and with Lady Lock geMtaglS
right hand, succeeded in accomp
lishing the desired rseuhs.
08 - cmr ** d "«to»X»ny pedestal,
specially made for the pun . *.
the statue of ‘Duperhombre”, by
an uaknown sculptor, stands Hi the
Batt office Art lovers and con
noisseurs from all over the South
we# are making plans to visit
ABM to “oh" and 4h" at it. Ag-
gira may see this object d’art at
any time by making an appoint
ment with the editors.
Veteran Aggie-ex
New ‘Aggie’ Editor
James T. Noton of Austin who
ha* been namsd to ths post of as-
•‘■tow* to to* soarstary af ths
Ftetoar BteBawto Association, U a
fradiAto af ths Class af '41. ckang
Hig from Ms recent work of Uael
tag vneattonal eoarsra to veteran*
at Austin, he to siuactod to assume
Ms duttes by Octohar L Notan wttl
aim bs sdltor of the Form., stu
dunt publication "Ths Texas Ag
gts.”
Entering ths Army upon grads-
utton as a second lUteimat Ns-
tan served with ths 2nd Infantry
Divirion Hi Europe where he saw
action as • platoon leader. com
pany commander, aide-de-camp to
the commanding general, and fi
nally as regimental adjutant. He
advanced te the rank of major.
Nation Today ....
11 \ ■
Interest in Cooperatives on
Increase in United States
BY MAX HALL
(Far Jams* Marlow)
more interest in cooperative*.
begun • drive to^TSmTS
them. To «n-
dsretand this,
let’s start with
iho lqu.-«ttoBt
What is a coop
erative ?
It is a busi-
tton, run by tha
members for
ths benefit of
tbs mumhuas.
^^^*BtlVaa aiw
*•« ♦te* awmra m/
ftowpa af “pre-
. dweero ” Pay
tohar wtema ore Hstermted to.
W l»«l mWm p UMW»» k.»
totwsd to buy iBriuda of food .nd
JJto good* apd sell them te their
wtember. at eo#_thst to, without
A rtrus reiterative" is * tong.
"jw«v sntorpitor Tb. goods aran't
mti st cmrTttey am raid at about
th# asms prises as M ether stereo.
The cuatemsr. hmwfH, not frasw
ow " ateteB &S counter,
bat from refunds at % sad af
the year
oultod Rochdale ('ooiwrative*"
(p*» fitet syllable of Rechdalt
"tjtoai with acoteh). j ~
■®to ths A Ft and tha CK)
mm* out flatly Hi favor of Rock
dale Co-ops. .
i ora/it 4 *’ fo r ,mfr Wd
L1B0.0O0 members—or stoikhold
rrs—«nd the Burrau of Ubor Sts-
DALAjCC
BRYAN
LAST TIME TODAY
“Red Stallion"
Wed. Thun.
FVMay - Saturday
VAN JOHNSON
JANET LEIGH
—ill—’
"Romanct uf
Rosy Ridge"
QUEEN
I AST TIME TODAY
“Thr B<*b| \>ars
of Our Live*"
Wndamdoy • Thuruday
“The Raiders"
With an
ALL OTAR CAST
Only 3 More Days
— 1st Showing In
Bryan- College
Area.
mm
UN
DOROTHY LAM0UR
R0MRI RRKSTON
OOYD NOUN
to
I
—AUe—
M-41-II ( AXTOON — NEHU
The wait*, introduced from Ger
many into France and England at
the turn of the 18th century, eras
ridiculed at first.
ordinarily might not recoive his
first check before the last of Oc
tober.
Ths thrae-etate area supervised
by VA’s Dallas branch office is ex
pecting an enrollment of more than
100,000 veterans in colleges and
universities. The estimate for T*x-
•* “ 7W10, for Louisiana 20,068
snd for Mississippi 8,267.
Dt’s Talk PM. EndHh
AtoWtetokraZr
IWi Ddhrsst
’ you to team about
farm IdutuoTi oguraraw
toitoo, Mite inauraaoa th# pay.
y^JWJ^teoyougrtthaMo#
S.#:sHS
T J ; ' • «
H. M. Alexander Jr.
303 South Msln 3-SM7
towig» uas*
rwwwsr, lH0mt u
FABRICS
GALORE
. in a multitude of
colors, weaves, and
prints, in such popular
materials as —
COTTONS
GABARDINES
WASH SILK
WOOLENS
JERSEY
. . . and many othen
in prices you like to
p*y.
The
FABRIC SHOP
Year Ksriuslve rehrtc Oantar
BRYA* TEXAS
GUION HALL
TUESDAY - WmtERDAY - THURSDAY^
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nimiay
MONDAY
TI'KHDAY
’ I
Fagan New Head
Of Concessions,
White Announces
. } -v
Joe Fa«xn, ’42. ban been
Appointed manager of atudent
concessions. "Spike" White,
director of student activittea,
announced Monday. He replaces
Bill Dausiuy, whs has resigited to
acotet too ptwitMw Of arasstant
bumnoos manager sf North Texas
BtatS College.
Fugaa was dtoritarged from the
Navy to Fsbruary, 1846, wfth the
tank of ItouteWMit, junior grade.
He was an sir HrtelHgenes officer
Hi toe service
Prior to ths acceptance of bis
present position. Fagan was sm-
■loysd as consulting snginsor of
(lit FVessb-Nichols Company, Big
fpring.
Ths nssq manager, bis wife, and
bis 2 monto-old son will rteiito in
Coflsga Rtstlon or Bryan, depend
ing on fbf availability of housing.
•■tics rays the number to grow
ing.
Coaeunwr co-ops are strongest
III Uw North Contral Statao-aw h
as Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Da-
betas, town, Illinois. They are
weakest in the South.
AIR CONDITIONED
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