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FRIDAY, HKPTRMREK M, 1M7
Brighter Days Ahead?
In Voting to Mfid • “good Will”- n mmit
tot to tnttt with tht Hoard of Dlrteton In
San Antonio thU wttk tnd, the wnlor cImh
h«n ttt a prtc«Hl«nt that Rhould aid conaldtr*
- ably In rlMching a bettor underntaftdlng be-
tWMn atudonta and arhool offlelaD, and In
earning through a auecoaaful tchool year.
* J The idea of “working together" ha* Im>< ii
sadly neglected on the campu* of A. & M.
, Throughout the aehool’* hiitdry, atudent*
andcollege officials have butted head* In
Cycle* recurring much too frequently for the
good of the institution.
On the student*’ part, too few have paus
ed to realize that the board of directors,
president, and faculty art all working to-
x ward a greater A. A M., and not plotting to
/ undermine the institution, or found a "Tex-
a*-University-on-the-Braaos , \ Perhaps the
vision of a nationwide reputation for re
search, the training of better men in the
fields of agriculture, engineering;- and
; t science, and the development of new depart
ment* covering broader fields of knowledge
ha* not been uppermost in the mind of the
PEOPLE WHO UYC IN fLARS HOUSES*
typical Aggie. This hai boon outweighed by
the more persona! and pNMiac problem* of
the Cadet Corpl. Nevsrthele**. he la Inter
ested In making A. A M. a batter place than
ha knowa It now.
Many will ba aurpriaad to Nad that tha
typical Aggia rafarrad to abova la neither a
hell-raining giddy lad of the “Joe Collage”
era, nor a pcrtfcalarly vengeful parson bent
solely on basing freshman student*. Unfor
tunately, this reputation ha* been well estab
lished and nurtured over the atate by a small
percentage of the student body.
Where ever large group* of A. ft M, stu
dents gather, the “two-percenters" are on
hand to afford outsiders reason to criticise,
and drag down the standing of the Cadet
Corps.
During the mass movement to San An
tonio over the weekend, we ask all members
of the Aggie student body to join efforts in
preventing the recurrence of last year’s un
fortunate episodes. If this is done. The Bat
talion believes that the Student Body will
have made a good start ftjr brighter days.
High Food Prices Outlook
New Rationing Unlikely x
L Rr A. D. BRUCI, JR.
The price of food at this time la double the prewar price
and la heading higher. People am eating more of nearly
everything, especially high-priced maata. So tha averaga
fomlfy la spending even more than 12 for
evary |1 spent for food befom the wdK Sky
rocketing price* of food are met only
res buyer reaUtaaoe. Tha dollar
would htpprn te
control would bo
r If,t biwinow
al
to Rrv# repku
•oat of
fteofonft at II
instance. Tha dollar seam*
fluffs
The Plot Thickens...
t During this week Washington ha* been
humming with activity. Representative J.
Plmell Thoma*, (R-NJ.), chairman of the
Uh-American Activities Committee of the
House of Representatives, has mounted his
milk-white *teed and has begun his charge
to the sea. The object of Thqmaa' wrath in
thi* campaign appear* to be Mrs. Eleanor
' Roosevelt, wife of the late president.
Mr*. Roonevelt wn* credulous enough to
wrltu a letter In IfttO to Sumner Welles, then
UiuW*eeretary of State, urging the admit
tance of Ilium* Elsler, 64-year-old free lance
grtist, to the United States as a German
refugee,
1 KUIer hn* admitted Joining the Commu-
III I I'm it di I ir« Ilia! h« I* imw, Iir
^jivitr wa*. mi active tnembar of that organ-
Uaflon, The specific point which the 'Un-
American ('<inimittpe I* trying to bring out
, Is the po*4ll»lllty that high governnu-nt offi
cials have knowingly permitted communist*
to come to thi* country In violation of Im*
As MacKeiurie Sees It....
German Peace Treaty Held
lip by Russia and Western Bloc
By OeWTTT MecKEHUB
AT Vmwb AffOn A.aipM
Just a* the Democracies in the United State* finally have
cracked down on the tendentious obstructions of the Soviet
the atriken country, the other three Allies show marked
signs of consolidating their areas and doing the job without
bloc and are going ahead on their own with
the business of making peace, so there is
developing a similar tendency in the poll-
tioo-economic war zones of Europe and
Asia.
A prime example is the case of Ger
many, which is divided into four zones of
occupation—Russian. British, French, and
American. All effort* at drafting * German
peace treaty having failed becauM of the
migration laws.
But this week also saw much activity
at Lake Success, N. Y„ home of the United
Nations Assembly. Andrei Y. Vishinsky’s
bitter speech attacking nine citizens of the
United State* as “war-mongera*. was deliv
ered last week. To counter the Soviet deputy
foreign minister's remarks, th< United
States delegation has appointed one of its
members to answer Vishinsky’s charge. The
spokesman: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt!
Attempting to guess the reaction of the
anti-New Deal press against this move
*hould present a field day Ip all liberals (not
cotnmuniata) In ths country. Parhapa Mrs.
Roosevelt'* speech will attack Rusala and/or
communism! What on earth could tha rate-
tlonary press possibly say to such a charge?
Ah, well, let's simply adopt a “wait and . j mariMMn
soe" attitude. We'll hop on no bandwagon »Tu5»i* * Kumiss *©.
until .11 four Wh™l. .ml both »l« h.v, '* !W
Im.ii tightened, checked, and douhle-check-
le” autno
replaced
produetb.
pat poMtft butter at |
faet, and eggs go Hbe hat aakea at 91 a
in many areas
I’nc# iiuTmtiM** srow out of i)\«i Idas that
the U. S. is going to ship abroad much af
_ iU abundant food auppty. This Idaa la that
there will not br onmjgh of cverythlnt for
everybody at home. Actually, there la abun
dance at home now, but there may be a squeeze next Feb
ruary and March.
The future of food prices la contingent on many thinga.
Lilted below are a few of the
poaaibilttiM of what might hap
pen.
If other people th the world are
te eat aa well is moethe ahead as
they now are eating, the U. 8. will
have te reduce ita eating. j>ricae
can force the U. S. to eat leas.
Unleu controlled, prices can (hoot
higher and limit connumption
Controls, so far as they may be
revived, will largely he voluntary
controls aimed at reducing con
sumption. Prices will probably con
tinue to be fined by the interplay
of supply and demand, not be-vihrt
of a new Government agency. Of
ficial* point oat that if Congrea*
should decide te restore price con
trol—a highly unlikely prospect—
machinery for control would re
quire three to six months to set
ap. By that time, the country
might be trying to figure out how
to keep price* from falling, not to
keep the m from ruing. Also, there
could be no effective price controls
without control of wage*, and
s bashwm •ettmek develop#
overnight to oat of sbundaas* St
lo wee pvto** , •
Americana are aot to he asked
to jm' ap fbad so But MNRtti
diet eaa he Impsausd heymd pre*
mi htm.'mFBm contriNtum
is uade to this die! is set
eat ef Km Americas
te the cea-
pALACC
again
unions would put up s squawk
about this. Reinstatement of wage
control* could he expected ui lead
to etrikeo, a situation that Cen
tre** la anzioo* to aveid.
If rationing should be revived,
,R. I. diets might be reduced with
out another large price increase
However, this too would take about
■IX months to get xoing and
that might be too TateTTl
If km food is shipped abroad,
Wttfc diets reduced for those si-
ready pinched, food supplies in th*
9- 8. will meet all foreeaeable de
mands. And prices may adjust
nearer to normal relations with de
mand.
If drought or other natural
cause should cut the IMS crop#, it
is anybody’s guess as to what
Last Two Drjb to See
‘Hommce ol
Rosy Ridge -
with
Janet Leigh
SATURDAY PREVIEW —
Kumday • Moaday - Ttwads
lit between the Russian and Western
wasting Urn* In further futile tie-
foliations
ThU trend Is being hastened by
the rapidly Inervaslne gravity ef
th* pfonomU erlsls. U. I. Mena tor
H. Alexander Smith, New Jereey
n, who Is ee-«halmt*n of
«l by “responsible''
)rityl
Texas Gas in Pennsylvania?...
far, tty? people.of 1Vxr* havi* im* lieiti
ht4a^ 1*am en int|)ortant hearing now
bring hekt la Washington on the application
of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to
pump vast amounts of Texas natural gas to
Pennsylvania.*
David T. Searlea. counsel for the com
pany. assured the Federal Power (ommis-
dlon that such piping of gas would “cause
' no economic dislocations.” He was thinking
afyut Pennsylvania economics. What of the
qffect m Texas?
The Battalion believes that natural gas
is one of the great natural resourdes of this
state; we are glad to have factories move
down here and use our gas, but we are not
too eager to pipe away our heritage without
~ adequate compensation—such as a reason
able tax on gas that goes outside our borders.
How such a tax could help our schools!
Searles told the Fetleral Power Commis
sion that customers in the Appalachian and
Philadelphia areas need all the natural gas
that can be furnished them through the Big
and Little Inch pipelines.
Searles said, in arguments on the com
pany's application to operate the fines per
manently, that capacity deliveries of ga* are
needed in the Onlo-Westsrn Pennsylvania
area to meet emergency snd longtime re
quirements. Deliveries to Phlladelnhia, he
said, would mean the saving of $4,000,000
a year to the Philadelphia Ga* Work* com
pany alone,
lie said the saving* to lhe Philadelphia
t'ofnp.any would'he hmught about through
tha uae of oatoial ga* for enrirhiog pur*
OOM-- I. l.lMM'tm hi hf IM llnlrtim In
the manufacture of gas. He *ald Ihe corn*
parly now ha* a $1,000,000 deficit and faces
the poaslUllty hf a $$,000 l 90| deflcli at the
end of the next fiscal year.
; lie said a aecond customer, the Philadel
phia Electric Co., also is in mwd ef rtktural
ga* as “a vital public necessity."
Texas Eastern, he said, plans to trans
port 10,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas
1,000
),000
dally into the Phil
to Philadelphia Gas
to Philadelphia Electric.
He contended this amount though impor
tant to the two Philadelphia customers,
would not have any appreciable effect on
the sales of anthracite in the area. Nor, he
said, would it cause any other economic dis
locations.
However counsel for the anthracite In
dustry and a number of coal-hauling rail
roads urged that the application of Texas
Eastern Transmission Corp. for s certificate
to pipe natural gas into the Philadelphia area
be turned down.
Tom J. McGrath told the Power Com
mission during oral argument that the com
pany has not proved it has sufficient gas
for its purposes and that it has not shown
'firm commitments for financing the $148,-
000,000 purchase from the government of
the Big and Little Inch pipelines, built early
in the war to move oil.
Earlier, Lambert McAllister, attorney
for the Power Commission, said the commis-
Hion's staff does not oppose Texas Eastern’s
application—including the Philadelphia por
tion -but suggested that certain condiuons
he imposed so that additional gas could be
made available to certain midwest shortage
area* during the next two yean.
In all the diecuaeion, Texas was not
heard from.
—I...
nomlr bim! pnlltlrai l»r*blem», sUt-
*d yeatoriay In Berlin that K l*
"vitally necessary that at leant the
three western sons* of Germany
be Usd Into the Marshall Plan
Apropos of this situation, a re
cent report turned out by U. $
Congrotsional and State Depart
ment cooperation and originally
secret, says that the Russians aro
the “principal obstructionists 1 ' In
th* Allied Control Council in Ber-
; lin and that eastern Germany (un
i der Russian control) is "well on
the way to being Sovietised.” The
report further says the "suspicion
is now poosible that the U. S. S.
R. covets Austria, in order to Iso
late Caechoslovakia, and penetrate
Italy and Germany, aa well as oth
er parts of western Europe with
Communist politics and econo-
split
blocs, and the Soviet Union having refused
economic cooperation to ease the choas In
miss.''
This coincide* with the gonersl
belief among western observers
that th* Bovlet occupied part af
(larmany already la to all intent*
a Russian dominion and that Mot-
sow la maneuvering for further
westward expansion, In eonnactlon
with such belief we have an In
triguing side-light' tn th* mystery
surrounding the whereabout* of
Dr Rudolf Raul, mtsslsg premier
of the state of Thuringia In the
Soviet ton*.
Th* economic pressure has given
a fillip to tha trend toward* a
merger of th* American, British
and French sones into a unified
nation. However, the French ap
parently are not yot ready for a
complete merger, but will await
development of the Marshall Plan
for rehabilitation before casting
the die. France is fearful that Ger
many may become strong enough
to undertake military aggression
again, but on that point both Am
erica and Britain are agreed that
Fatho
For Your Visual Problems
Consult
DR. Carlton R. Lee
OPTOMETIUnT
MS *. Main — Rryaa
Phone 1-ISM
never again shall the Fatherland
be in position to start another war.
College Life las Always
Rough, Is Boyle’s View
John W Hurrlgur, praaldsni of th« Mmwm
rsllrosd, la slmpirfylRf npurailons by tllml
lotting wix car numsraU on Motion uquliv
muni, Thus, Im* car No, | on th* Ma> M
Im lattolud simply with • ”1” IntUad of BX«
10,001.
According to tbs fUianghsi Ts
the general price Index In that city roM
41.203 times between the week of last June
23 snd the same period In 1IBT. It
the Chinese have it tough, too. *
I
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By HAL BOYLE
MEW YORK. (AP)—Thg chit-
chaff roundup:
College men are parenially
broke. H A Harry Augustine of
Sherwood, Wis., dooan't believe
they an having any tougher time
financially than they did in the
he was at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin tn quest of a
MwmMa.
"Mj roommate sod I won ao
** Wm emMssa limed
NNFT | sMI s Ml 'i
tome on ftaturday ntaktii and play
^ poker for raislna.* \
* \
Johnny Floret, whose ranters
caught some of the war’s
I the
Shorttr, h* had
•rty Had lb*
x:\rr, 1 «
pair of binoculars which the de
funct Russian exar once gave to a
Turkish sultan. The price tag says
»20,ono
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I Wa. mmAwatollto Wla tesAalmw
wag* jrisfM, Man I
f«attI B^ttl
bfMr
to awakan him a! 1 a.m.,
an iNilwtHMMt ana
rv^r fe^^Us ii ivViw^Blii%
Tha next morning
kpped etWntly In,
a nau by the bodatde, and nol**-
leaahr backed out. When Flares
awoke) abertly before mid-day, be
fMp'the note:
"Mr. Flores, H k now seven
o’clock. Please wake up.”
ft
A young husband here has found
a new way to hunt mosquitoes. Ho
naas a vacuum cleaner.
Carrying one of th* tank-type
cleaners in one hand and H« how-
in the other, he stalks about hi*
apartment until he spots a mos
quito — sometimes known bar*-
He slides the hose noxsle slowly
up to the insect and suddenly—
swoosh!—it ia sucked into the
cteaner.
”1 caught eight the other night—
and two moths," boasted this
apartment house aimrod.
ft
Survey Reveals
Odd Film Facts
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poseeas yachts and M
■ton sets. A mere 10
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rwimming [mk.1* in
yards.
HoRywood dreasss well, says the
survey. Eighty-one per cent of the
boys have some of their dothes
custom-made and <5.5 per cent own
five to nine salts. Fourteen gents
replied they have over 40 suits!
And look at the educational flg-
If you have trouble at the race- ures—35.5 per cent were graduated
track following by eye the horse from college, 36.1 more attended
on which your $2 is riding, a swank college and 13.9 got past high
Madison Avenue Jewelry shop has school graduation. Of course It
just the gadget you need. could be that they’re the ones who
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