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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.
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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.”
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Readers’ Adviser
THE WAY OF THE SOUTH by
Howard W. Odum. MacMillan,
1947.
Written by an outstanding soci
ologist, this book is the living bio
graphy of a people. It is a warm
flesh and blood likeness of the
South, offering the richness of
concrete detail found in Walt
Whitman’s poetry, and with some
thing of the same rhapsodic ef
fect.
Dr. Odum throws new light on
many problems which ai’e too fre
quently considered only in abstract
terms—the people and their ways,
labor, the rich and the poor, race
relations, caste and class, and con
flicting regional attitudes. 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. They are direct and
arresting, with a wealth of years
of experience behind them and the
force and insight of one of the
keenest minds of our days.
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