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Battalion EDITORIALS Page 2 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 Are Aggies Always Welcome ? ? ? We like to think that as Aggies we are _ welcome whereever we go in Texas, (except ^ ih Austin): it is something of a shock to read reports of preparations that are being made in San Antonio and Houston to fight off an undisciplined horde of vandals . . . meaning us. It is even more of a chock to realize that these precautions are in some ; ; -eases being taken by prominentt Aggie-exes. * But aftter some of the things that hap pened last year, can we blame anyone but •••ourselves ? Last year there was a near riot in San Antonio at the Texas Tech game. This year ■ Santonians are making special preparations /.to forestall trouble. Four sections of Alamo Stadium have been reserved for Aggies. The bitter paint-and-shave incidents of last fall, that took place just before the Rice game, are well remembered in Houston. As a result, they are as dubious about the “pleasure” of our visit as though Buffalo Bayou was about to be invaded by a tribe of savage Comanches. Can we afford such a reputation? We like to believe thatt when the Aggie band marches down the street, every Texas heart is thrilld. And it should be that way. But lately, it seems that when the Aggie band is heard, merchants put up their steel shutters, mothers hide their daughters, and all reserve police are called to duty. These are strong words, but unfortun ately the situation appears to call for strong words. We don’t want that kind of reputation, and we don’t have to have it. If we can be have in San Antonio, and prive our critics overlylcautious, we can expect a much bet ter welcome in Houston. Dogs Never Had It So Good. LATEST ON THE FARM BELT As MacKenzie Sees It.... Soviet Will Probably Boycott ‘Little Assembly’ Every dog used to have his day. How ever, nowadays every dog has his week. And this it it—September 21-27! Dogs can celebrate National Dog Week with the view that living standards in the United States are higher than ever before. Dogs receive inoculations to protect them from disease. They get medical, dental, and feiirgical treatment. They eat one billion pounds of prepared foods a year—foods care fully prepared to give them adequate nutri tion. ■ Ah, yes, dogs are enjoying good times. A researcher has said that if we were regimented to a balanced diet like dogs, we \Vould add years to our lives and life to our years. ( Under favorable conditions, the Amer ican dog population now is up to an estima ted 18 to 20 million, the highest in history. One family in each four in cities and towns now has a dog, and hardly a farm is without one. _ « Many of the four-legged favorites have irpproved their stations in life. Among them are “Cover Dogs”,” “War Dogs,” “Seeing Eye Dogs,” and “Movie Dogs.” ^ j Needless to say, fortunes of dogs rise and i- For the friendship between a man and°his dog fall with the fortunes of their owners. TheyJi Is a feeling almost divine. Pass in Review.. After only three practices, the Aggie Band marched onto Kyle Field last Saturday and gave a splendid exhibition of maneuvers which looked much more impressive than many mid-season performances of past years. Showing a sparkle that brought “wildcat- ting” from the Aggie stands and unbounded applause from the west stands, the band ad ded spirit and color to an otherwise placid fifteen-minute half-time period. Through the years, A. & M. coaches, ath letes, and students have looked upon the A. & M. Band as a symbol of Aggie spirit. F orming the nucleus of a wildcatting corps, pounding out “saw varsities’ horns off”, and gladly share the wealth of the wealthy, and loyally share the poverty of the poor. Many of them receive little or no care, and scrounge their sustenance from neigh borhood garbage cans. So there is still a lot of room for im provement for a lot of dogs. But all in all, canines never had it so good. A poem in “American Dog and Pet Mag azine” very well expresses our sentiments: I PITY THE MAN I pity the man who has never known The pleasure of owning a pup; Who never has watched his funny ways In the business of growing up. I pity the man who enters his gate Alone and unnoticed at night, No dog to welcome him joyously home With his frantic yelps of delight. I pity the man who never receives In hours of bitterest woe, Sympathy shown by a faithful dog In a way only he seems to know. I pity the man with a hatred of dogs; He is missing from life something fine; By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The battle in the United Nations between the Democracies and the Russian bloc has developed a new angle through the declaration by a high Soviet source that the Soviet Union : u n d o ub tedly will boycott the “Little Assem- b 1 y” proposed by U. S. Secre- m tary of State f| Marshall if it is established. The “Little A s s e mbl y” would be a gen- DfrWitt Mackuui* j eral committee on which all members of the U. N. would be entitled to representa tion and it would sit permanently to consider vital matters such as those which now are being side tracked in the powerful security council by Russian veto. The Mus covites hold that , such a committee would contravene the U. N. Char ter. The Soviet threat may be a bluff, but if we accept it at face value, for the sake of argument, the question immediately arises wheth er such a boycott would jeopard ize the whole U. N. Some observ ers fear that it might, since it would tend toward a peace or ganization from which the Soviet chiming in on “The Spirit of Aggielarid”, it has become a strong thread in the pattern of bloc would stand aloof, student life. Always present at yell practices and ath letic events after spending many hours a week in practice sessions, band members as a whole make more sacrifices for the good of the student body than perhaps any other campus organization. Numbering over 200-strong (including about 80 at Little Aggieland), the band is the largest and most colorful college band in the southwest and among the top in the country. So to Lt. Col. E. V. Adams and members of the Texas Aggie Band—hats off! The answer to this, unfortun ately, is that statesmen generally .recognize that the U. N. already has been rendered impotent by Soviet tactics of obstruction. So the Little Assembly would create no threat to a unity which doesn’t exist. The U. N. already is divided along the same lines as the world at large—the Soviet bloc on the one hand and the rest of the globe on the other. ★ The ideal solution of these divi sions of course would be that ad vocated yesterday by Trygve Lie, Secretary-general of the U. N. He made an impassioned appeal to the warring East-West powers to reconcile their differences which he declared were breeding fear and hate throughout the world. “The indispensable condition for peace,” Lie told the Assembly, “is that nations with different social systems and different interests shall strive and work together, side by side, in peace. This must find expression in political nego tiations which show willingness to compromise. Without such a will no mechanism for the maintenance of international peace and security, however perfect, can be effective.” That obviously is a true bill. However, until the happy day of compromise arrives there would seem to be merit in the effort of the Democracies to drag the pres ent helpless U. N. organization out of the doldrums so that it will be partly effective. As a matter of fact a recon structed U. N. could be highly ef fective, since the majority of the world’s nations want to make it work. The absence of Russia and her satellites would be a shocking thing, and it is to be avoided by all reasonable means, but there are many who believe that it wouldn’t render the reconstructed organization useless by a long shot, It still could perform a great service for most of the globe. Women’s Shirts, Men’s Pants, Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet An Ounce of Prevention The Battalion does not often “interfere in the internal affairs of Bryan;” however, a, condition exists which needs immediate at tention. We refer to the lack of stop lights at railroad crossings running north and south in Bryan. The present warning system would be permissable if there were watchmen and better visibility. As it is, there are no watch men nor flagmen, nor is it possible to see down the railroad tracks until the car wheels are upon the tracks. Why has such a traffic hazard been neglected? - Bryan civic leaders certainly do not in- tgnd to save people’s lives on streets and intersections and then through carelessness allow these same people to be killed by on coming trains—within the city limits, too! We must admit that the train blows its whistle when approaching every crossing. But by the time the Sunbeam blows its whistle, and speeds onward, a driver would be unable to stop in ample time. A driver, ascending the elevated tracks level, would find himself in an embarrassing situation if a Sunbeam were speeding toward him. The kind of warning necessary must be given visually, since good vision is a “must” for Texas drivers. Who knows—YOU may be the lucky one who the onrushing train will pick for its next victim. The railroad company and the city of Bryan working together certainly should be able to arrive at some satisfactory conclu sion. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!” Swat the NLRB . . Latest news on the labor front, in case you care, is that the Flea, Tadpole, Worm, Cockroach, Rodent & Bird Trainers Union, AFL, has petitioned the NLRB for certifi cation as bargaining agent for animal train ers in motion pictures studios.—TIDE. Headline advice in the home service sec tion of the Portland Journal: KEEPING THAT CHAP FROM YOUR LIPS. The Battalion ■ The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week and circulated every Monday through Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination neriods. During the summer The Battalion is pub- hshed semi-weekly. 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Nolen Feature Editor Leuis Morgan, Kenneth Bond , Feature Writers D. Bruce, Jr., Howard Spencer Columnists Paul Martin .....Sports Editor Don Engleking, Arthur Howard. Larry Goodwyn Andy Matula Sports Writers Sam Lanford, W. K. Colville, L. Gray ......Cartoonists Maurice Howell ,. Advertising Manager D. W. Springer ..; Circulation Manager BY JACK RUTLEDGE Associated Press Staff Won’t some brave male step up and organize a “little below the ankle” club; for men, that is. If fashion experts have their way, women’s dresses will drop to the ankle bone, and men’s pants will come up to meet them—at the ankle. Women have gallantly battled the new decrees, and have formed a little below the knee club. Thou sands belong. You’ve read a lot about it. But little has been said and done abopt the climbing trousers. It’s just as serious. Probably more so. Some men, unused to the exposure, may catch pnuemonia. It also means tailor bills, new clothes, and red faces. A gentleman who signs himself simply ‘Smedley” writes in the Marshall News Messenger: “If the college crowd wants to go around showing the color of their sox it’s all right with me. Just don’t look for me to come to work in no high- water pants. My shanks have pass ed the stage where I consider them attractive. Women can go whistle at someone else.” The Kilgore News Herald in a brave editorial headed “Short Pants—Ugh!” calls men to arms. Or ankles. “A Mr. Tony Williams, so-called fashion arbiter for the annual list of best dressed men, was quoted as saying: ‘The shorter trouser with cuff will barely touch the top of the' shoe’. “That’s what he thinks! Mr. Williams sounds as if the matter already has been decided upon, and that’s that.” But, says the News Herald, men are rebelling. It says it looks like war. “To make matters worse, the edict has the sanction of women designers, as if it were any of their business. It looks like a deep, dark plot-r-one fit for Congress ional investigation.” Meanwhile, a former San An tonio reporter returning from California for a visit, was wear ing the things. He said many Cali fornians were wearing them six and seven inches above sea level. The climate being what it is out there, with so much rain, It’s easy to understand why. But is it necessary in Texas? ★ DALLAS, TEX., Sept. 25^-(AP) —Some favor long skirts and some don’t, but the argument goes on and on, A Hollywood pair didn’t and two fashion experts from New York did here Tuesday night on “Am erica’s Town Meeting.” Constance Bennet and Designer Adrian were the film colony duet who didn’t like long skirts and the new “look”. Fira Bennenson, designer, and Lois Long, Fashion editor, did. Miss Bennenson and Miss Long argued vehemently that women should accept the new feminine look of natural shoulders, small waist and long skirt. Miss Bennett and Adrian oppos ed what they said was “Paris dic tation” and backed the cause of the “American look” of reasonably padded shoulders and mid-calf length skirts. “If you wear the new style you might as well get a Stanley Steam er and put your husband in a three-inch collar,” Adrian said. “American women already are wearing the new fashion,” Miss Long argued. “They are tired of the way they look in their old clothes.” Miss Bennenson said she had been told that Dallas was the “hot bed” of the rebellion against the new fashion, but added that she had seen more long skirts in Dal las than in New York. Mrs. Warren J. Woodward, Dal las, founder of the Little Below the Knee Club that sent rebellion against longer skirts across the country, congratulated Adrian af ter the broadcast. The LBK Club claims 300,000 adherents in the U. S. ASHVE Meets Tonight The American Society of Heat ing and Ventilating Engineers will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Mech anical Engineering Lecture Room. AH members and prospective mem bers are urged to be present. No Matter How ‘Way of the South’ Shows Small a Role, What’s Wrong Down Here Title is There By ARMAND ARCHERD (For Bob Thomas) HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (AP) Everyone working in the motion picture industry has a title. Some are accurate, others are—just ti tles. After you’ve patrolled the sets for a couple of weeks, these titles take on new meanings. I as sure you the following impressions do not originate in Webster’s: 'Leading Man: Usually a nice guy who will be the first to ad mit, “heck, I can’t act,” yet he al ways gripes about the script. Leading Lady: Very important person, discovered only by first finding the largest dressing room on the set. Director: Ex-leading man, now getting revenge. Script Girl: Tells director what scene he’s shooting. Assistant Director: Very noisy person, whose main duty seems to be shouting, “Quiet!” Second Assistant Director: Nois ier. Producer: Terrible person spok en of in whispers. Turns out to be the most colorful and least pub licized man in the picture. Cameraman: He tells the direc tor when to shoot. Makeup Man: Always rushes about, wiping beads of perspira tion from the brow of the leading man, leading lady or anyone else who gets in the way. Production Manager: Has rou tine job of announcing that the pic ture is costing too much money. Chief Electrician: Also has dull dialogue. Before each shot he yells, “light ’em.” When the shot is made he orders, “save ’em.” Property Man: Is jovially called “prop man.” He has interesting jobs, such as oiling noisy armor in period pictures. Wardrobe Man: Discovers loose buttons before they become loose. Hardrobe Woman: Same as above, except her eagle eye is on the leading lady’s Straps. Writer: Rarely seen, yet he is blamed for everything. Character Actor: Most experi enced person on the set, but no one listens to him because he does not have “a name.” For Your Furniture Needs — See — Clayton Furniture Co. 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The author attempts to discover what is unique about the South, and why; how the South fits into the whole American pattern; and, fi nally, what can be done to pro duce “the South at its best” with in the framework of the nation. He discusses the various levels of culture, the role of religion and education, the position of women, folk music and art, and the mys tery of Southern leadership, once very, able, now sadly lacking. He traces the way in which history and nature have combined to evolve a special regional culture and special frame of mind. ■ Thoughtful people, wherever they live, will find here a new un derstanding of the South and of A.merica as a whole. * * * . EVOLUTION AND ETHICS by Sir Arthur Keith. Putnam. After a lifetime of notable scholarship and research, the man whom Earnest Hooton calls “the greatest physical anthropologist of our time from any standpoint whatsoever” brings forth a potent distillation of his thought concern ing human affairs and evolution. This is a book which no one who is interested in the fate of human ity can afford to miss. Written with the charm and insight which have made the author famous, the book concerns itsejf, ip genera), with three main issues: the manner in which the final stages of man's evolution or aseept was- accom plished; the current conception of Race and Nation; war—“the great est evil of the modern world.” Among the subjects which are treated specifically are: the pur pose and ultimate end of human life; Christian ethics versus evo lution; war as an ethical op un ethical process; the inter-relation ship between war and civilization; the evolution of patriotism and war; universalism; and an evolu tionary interpretation of the sec ond World War. These are mellow, well-consider ed discussiops, the product of an intellect which has probed deeply into the human mind and soul for many decades. 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