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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947
TNI CAT
A Look at California U....
It’* a relief to turn from the troubles of
the Texw state colleges to those of another
slate system. Recently both Time and the
Saturday Evening Post have carried articles
on the whopping-big University of Califor
nia and its 40,000 students. The articles tell
how the size of the institution worries its
top executives.
But considering what a scholastic repu
tation Cal has (one of the top four in the,
country) and how free they have been from;
the sort of trouble that has dogged our Texas*
institutions for years, we sometimes wonder
of the California system of one big uni
versity work better than our Texas system
of several unrelated schools? *
There are plenty of objections to such a
change, which would unite Texas U., A. A M.
Tfech., TSCW, NTSC, and perhaps others in
to a single administrative unit.
- But at least under such a unified system
might be spared such paradoxical rows
is the present difficulty over the College
Building Amendment. If Tech were the
West Texas branch of the University, it
would be impossible to fight the college sys
tem as a whole, in the name of the part. But
would West Texas really be willing to give
np its separate school, even though Tech
benefited bv the change?
No Aggies could be expected to vote for
a system which would make A. & iL a
branch of the University in truth, instead
of in law, as at nrmeiU. And so It goes. The
Idnt of a unified Texas state college Myittem
is probably just a pipe dnsam. Hut looking
it the University of Ualifornli, (which In
cludes IKT,A, Hants lUrimra College and
Davie Agricultural Hchunl as branches) we
•re sometlmee dubious about the advantage*
of our own system
persuaded ” Sproul it. of course, a profes
sionally persuasive man.
The 16-man Board of Regents (appoint
ed to Id-year terms and by custom reap-
C rnnted for life) own the eight campuses,
ire A fire university presidents, spend the
legislature’s appropriations as they see fK.
Sproul thlnka it would help if every baby
were awarded a bachelor's degree at birth;
that might satisfy those interested only in
the prestige of a college education. A good
many others, he suggests, should be shunted
off to junior colleges and vocational schools,
to be given the education they really want
and are fitted for. That would leave the uni
versity free for what Sproul considers its
real responsibility: the specialised work of
the junior and senior years, graduate and
professional schools, for exceptional students.
‘‘From the president of a state univer
sity, that is a bold proposal,” says Time.
But not everybody loves the “one big
school" idea. Patriotic citizens of Southern
California are hot for separating U. C. L. A.
from its sister at Berkeley. Sproul modestly
disagrees with the general verdict that “the
University of California ll held together by
me alone.” His principal argument for keep
ing the state’s coUeges in a single
is to avoid expensive duplication. To keep
Actors Pirn To
Combat Attacks Of
'Red Hollywood’
ny non mosuii
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. » (AP)-
A troop of proetinont film »ctor«.
dimtom, writer* and producer*
is organising for s campaign to
combat eontrr*»io»\*l assertion* of
the “Communtat Influence la Roily
Texans hi Washington
A.&M. Supplies Personnel I
For I.S. Agricultural Dept
11*1 1 A —
uai iV41a m ivr|H>n s
Cattle Feeder Gets $60,000*
Should He Stay in Business?
EASLEY
Bp TEX
Ap s,».-dal WaWMtp _
WASHINGTON, Oct. a-(A^)
RitfCSt Of all fnvernmentK
agendoa devoted to othei than
military acttvlttoe la tho agrical
-w-
Haro Is how Tima drsmallsea Ihs alsa-
problem* of UC.
•In the oban-alr Haaret Oroak Theater at
Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 1,000 new
f students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat
down on them, the band blared out Hail to
Cnhfomia. A huge, hearty figure strode on
'■fegr*. Robert Gordon Rprout, president of
the nation’s largest university (41,451 full-
MKb students), began to speak. As every
body had known he would, he struck juat
the right note.
“I hope you will not take this perkmai- 1
ly,” he said, “but I think that there a
10,0((>0 too many of you. You would all
happier if somehow the 10,000 could go else- 1
where. But whether you belong here or not
I welcome you.” . .
(Wonder what would happen if an A. A
M. president-addressed an entering class in
those words?)
Most experts rate California’s faculty in
the nation's top four, along with Harvard,
• Chicago and Columbia. Among Cal’s galaxy
of scientific stars: Nobel Prizewinner Er
nest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron;
Glenn T. Seaborg, discoverer of plutonium;
and—until recently—Physicist Robert Op-
parileimer. Among its strongest suits: phy
sics, chemistry, engineering, history, agri
culture, music. , ' -
; The predominance of the sciences at Cal
ia no accident; It is much easto to persuade
legislators of the tangible benefits of re
search in plkstics or potatoes than of the
value of knowing about Yeats and Keat*.
That attitude D not peculiar to legislators;
. It fat shared by many ft the faculty, by the
overwhelming majority of California un-
dergrsduates—ami by most Americans. Re-\
marked one history major last week:
“You're made to feel that If you aren't tak
ing Mb tdty*lu« and chemistry, you're west-
lif valuable space,"
Ar *
Home university president* have dieta-
turtal powers! the president of the Unlvcr-
r ally of California la nnly a prime minister.
Ills rdueatlonei program tiuai win the ap
proval of the Academic Senate, a powerful
fegulty body that pre-date* Hproul's regime,
. and makes California one at the moet demo-
; ciktlcelly ruh nnivereitlee in the U. H.
* No New courses or departments can be
•dfied. no dean appointed, no new professor
MOW, no academic budget instituted, with
out Sennit! action. Says Sproul with a grin:
“The faculty can’t be driven. It can only be
m VV AV'IIM a A |nr-11 n I v v UU IUI1. IU
Southern California happy, Sproul has help- ciw r ™i hy Is* with nrmnnn,
ed make young and lusty U. C. L. A, a strong »nd distributing useful inform*
school In Its own right. Now growing at a tinn on Sfrieultursi Robjseu, th.
faster rate than Berkeley, U, C. L A. has is r*s*rih
ita own football team, its own alumni mmo- miitrin^Uim riuX*"!n till! imo
*!*■»■ win "-x i»**»»7,uo«.«w m«nci jfjvryssE’iiiur
WMOl,
Like Harry Truman at the Army-Navy
gante, Hob Unreal reot* for U*th side* at the
annual U,('.L,A.-Cal game, He alway* get*
a big cheer when he ceremonloualy swans
at the half, (a custom that would be
A. 4 M. and T. IL should ever
h«r« *hortly after f r*dusting from
A. snd M. to IMS and plans to
rotlT* next war. He is In the live
stock branch of PfA. His brother,
Gustave Burma later, also is
eran department tmplnyt*
in* foreign affrioultural it
information.
s a vet
, haadl-
■Utistloal
fusriiens I
bein hit
■
hnld iny su L
floor Is open
the story on Caii|pntla. Dmlt
wggesMons for us, or holr The
i'll for discussion.
MniSlSTKNCE and the help of God
turned a trick for B. M. Atkinson,
linulsvHlr (Ky.) Times columnist.
Atkinson submitted a 200-word story to
the Saturday Evening Pont Postwar Anec
dotes column. With it he wrote n letter say
ing, “This is the honest-to-goodnets troth.”
The anecdote came back with a rejection
slip. Immediately he returned it, again ac
companied bjTa letter assuring them it was
the hooeat-to-g(Mj.ln«*s.s truth. Again it came
back.
For the third time. Atkinson returned the
story, this time with a letter saying, “This
is the honcst-to-God truth."
Within a week he received the $100
ekadL
j ★
THE 25th anniversary number of Lino
type News tells this story:
William Wrigley was rising with a friend
on a train from New York to Chicago. Said
the friend: “Your gum is known all over
the world. Why don T t you save the millions
of dollars you are now spending on adver
Wrigley pondered a second, then asked
“How fast ia this train going?"
“About 60 miles an hour,” was the an
Tbste !iwlu«M *#11 «wi>*rvaUi*p,
fnrm •rmilt and rural vkwlrifiva
linn program*
Taxasa at 1
n«nt to
Amofig
iherr nrrvimuly arc Dr.
■H*. w**‘Uma to* | ^,
HouateS, founder of the Kxtesato* I GalMivlto} HtolNto R. Cooper.
Rervicej Chief Justice of the U. 8. Conter, Snd C. L. Minnas, Spur,
Court «f Claim* Marvin Jones, | both in the bureau of agrlculturs
^ U f «
The aarly year* of (ha
emit ‘
J P
pariment atotlon
at A. A M year* ago, Ronnay
Youngblood, now is In eharv* «f
rwwmrtih prugram* at aniwriman
tel atotiana wragghaui tha noun
try His ihiMes taka him os Is
■imulteneoualv by | •herthtn t«ura of those aUltosa
asTdrmSto^ V M"”” ,lm '' ihse to ronrdinat*
" .*»I *«d hirert reaeareb notivltl**,
(Hhm e* Taaaa Aggie* here In
the sgrtrehurM denartment In-
Kmeat J, Netromh, Cle-
.. Pranklm
sdmtntatnstien, In th*
a great eapaniion of
l to aid farmer* who
Initial meettog of the eigaatoa
tion, a* yet unnamed, was held this
week at the home of Director Wil
liam Wyler, Academy winner for
“The Best Year* of Our Live*."
Speaker* declared something
should bo done to offset the con
gressional hearing this month at
which charges of communist activ
ities in the movief are expected to
be aired. Many Hollywood names
have been calM tn testify before
the House Un-American Activities
Committee.
The new group plans to give
the public “a truer picture of so-
called political influence In Holly
wood.” Among those attending the
first meeting were Wyler, Direc
tor John Huston, Katharine Hep
burn, Gene Kelly, producer Jerry
Wald, Mehrya Douglas, Writer
Emmet Lavery and others.
“Arch of Triumph,” after almost
a year of edging, is expected to
hit the nation’s screens In Decem
ber. The delay was due to a dif
ference of opinion between direc
tor Lewis Milestone snd enter
prise boas fharle* Einfeld over
treatment of the story.
The cold season has hit town.
Dick Powell and Irene Dunn* just
got over their sniffles and return
ed to work. Now Joan Crawford
and the four kiddie* are ailing . ..
Note to Rohert Mitchum fans:
your hero will do a lot of singing
In “Harhel” , , , Elisabeth Taylor
loins Greer Uaraon and Walter
Pigeon In "Hpeak to Me of Love 1
U» playa Uraer’a daughter,
B^ HAL BOYLE -
CLEAR LAKE, IOWA. Oct •
—(AP)—A ijftoer hare lemnMy
" '-"'•-i <h*L the Unreal tingle
rhurk mt MM to ft rattle fhed
•r In this ana, yvt today he doMth
know Whethto B *• worthwhile to
stag to hustne**.
That la tie it lemma of J. D.
Hichanison and many other asid-
W»t fnrmer* who make a career
of taking range-fed western cattle
I fattening them tote lop grade
ivy beef.
yesrs and darned if I know what
to do,” said Richardson, a tall
eyed farmer son of a fahner.
He and other* like him are be
ing scared into reduced activity
by the high price of grain, the
food-fuel that ripen* lean, grass-
fed steers into the juicy, fat-grain
ed steaks that command a premiun
in metropolitan markets.
“A fellow decant know whether
It'* worth bothering a boat,” said
Richardson, tad “they've get an
mt a hairel."
He figure* that he can buy an
X00-pound steer for $Z16 hut that
it will coat him a dollar a day for
WO or mors days to fedd It the I as before-
com and protein needed to plump I Richardson.
"CKy folk, -ometitnes blame Mm
fanger for thee* high prices but
the [farmer didn't *sk for them.
We'd U • lot bettor off if the
prices stayed tow. Now wu'r* out
on d limb/*
Rkharitoou get Ma cheek for
to,Odd for lift hick grade oteers.
“I flkura that Ifl buy a hundred
•teers at tha present price to fat-
ton,” ho mid, “they, could loo* me
the price of th* foed plus flB.000.
lahor.
V
plus the coat of my
But the tom, after a quarter
of a century, would be lonesome
without beef cattle around and he
can largely feed them with his
own com, the com he could sell
now for a nice profit If he chose
to.1
“1 never sold a bushel of com
in my life though.” he sakl “I
always have to buy from neighbors
to feed my cattle.”
And because farmers are tradi
tional people he will go on as be
fore on a reduced scale. He feels
his own ease is typical,
j “So there won’t U as much beef
to ewt in this country next year
before—that’s for sure," said
it into a I40»t pound target for the
butotor. riv
“That makes It cost me |51d, not
counting the hay It cate or my
owd ovwhead and lahor cocte,” he
said. “Nor does it include any in
terest for my money.”
But such a stoat, if sold on the
present hnfh Chicago market of
aboat $M a hundredweight, would
fetch him only |604
n* alway* have toon nroml- MAn Iritost J, HaMMal, Cto*
wsrism
RaatoM bran«h,
idvtu if Walls sad
Ixtimrion Oatoesvlle*,
cmipm
DPENMtMP, M. 4*1111
TODAY A FRIDAY
lived In Mineral
Omm T. Lac Oarton,
Maurice R.
“Thon,” aakori Wrigtoy, “why doaan’t the
railroad company remove the enflne and M
the train travel on Ha own momentum!”
PUBUCITY Deuaitment of American
Itrtmdcaating In nollvwtMid tolls this <mr
“Rivalry between radio oolumnlata often
to groiwly exa$fferated. . , . When Walter
Wln< h*ll whipH hla 15-mlnute newuoaet ov
er the ether wnvee he got a flash on the
redrue of a boy who haa bego fatred kid
M*p|»«l. It came a few necondn too late for
him to uae IL.1D he ruahed to Lmiella Far-
wma in MkMtroadcaat and she scooped the
nation on tha news.''
THE Centralis (111*! Evening Nrntinol haa
a standing head. FEU CITATION, over birth
notices. {Bit one day recently, the newly
born were listed under: TODAY’S UVE-
STOCKMKT,
once congressman from Amarillo,
who officiated as War Food Ad
miaistrator, and Grover HiU of
AanariUo, who was Underaecre-
tery of Agrfc
war.
Those from the Lone Star State
who currently hold down tome of
the top jobs in the department in
clude:
Jesse B. Gilmer of El Paso; head
ci the Prodaction and Marketing
Administration; H. H. Williamson,
an assistant chief of the Extension
Service, who formerly directed
that work at College Station; J.
C. Dykea, assistant chief of the
M»il conservation service and large
ly responsible for the operationa
of that agency. Dykea is a native
of Dallaa, a graduate of Texas A.
and M. and before coming to Wash
ington lived in Fort Worth.
Texas A. sad M. Ceilage
* odd be expected, has beta a
-lesdy source of top-flight eareep
personnel for the de pert meat fi
decades.
Williamson is of the class of 'll
and la the current oreeident of
the National Capital Texas A. and
M. Gub. Arthur L Roberts, 10.
of Weatherford
duct ion and ntarkotli
cotton section,
•Mb.
One of th* oldest affrieultor* de
partment employes is Chari** A
PunauUtor, ft Men, Tea., who «n»
FconnmtB
Edinburg,
Kemp, h
John P. Cunningham,
and Walter L Scott,
ur i. Konen*. w,
d and to th* pro-
narketing diviiiotb
ht secretary of the
AlSQ—
TOM and JERRY CARTOON
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