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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1947)
Battalion EDITORIALS Mowur OCTonim u, im? Walk, Don’t Ride, to the Hospital... »n emergency ambulance and trained per sonnel to operate It on the A. A M. CAlpMB. Though the case mentioned abbve wia too severe to have had any chance of fecov- e [y. there is a possibility that sometime In the future an ambulance and trained person nel might provide the difference between an Av-yio dead or alive. Many editorials have been written and numerous protests have been made during the past years, but so far as The Battalion has found, no one has made the first move toward securing an ambulance. Lack of funds and no authority are among the various excuses made far inac tivity on the part of reaponsible officials Someone has nOt taken the thltlattve and secured fands. nor trained the necessity au thority. Who it is w<> do hot know. We art merely pointina out an unhealthy and wjio anacceptable situation that is in definite need of immediate remedy. - We have seen sick aftimals—hogs, cows, and sheep—being carried to the veterinary hospital in collepe-owned tracks. It seems rather strange to Us that a bog can ride to the veterinary hospital at college expense while our students must either walk or beg a ride to the college hospital. It Is often titcoavenient for the tying to arrange their own transportation to the doctor.... Lights, Camera, But No Action,.. We have followed with interest, amaze ment, and jealousy the recent advertisements and articles on the new |x>licy initiated at the Bryan's Queen Theater. Bryan, it seems, will now have two thea ters showing first-run movies while College Station sits back on Its haunches and watch es. In an outdated law of yesteryear, the Palace Theater had the authority to mono polize all first-run movies for Brazos Coun ty. Since that law went into the trash can, other by-laws have been put into effect by Everytime we approach the manager of Ctuion Hall we get the same old answer. He point* to the monthly calendar at movie* already shown in Bryan 6 months av:o and says, “But that’s a GOOD SHOW!” As far as that goes, “Boom Town” was a good show—but how old is ft! Off-hind we would guess that “Boom Town” is 5 or 6 years old, but it showed at Gukm Hall ONLY LAST WEEK! . j October, we must admit, is one of the BETTER months for Guion Hall. Include the entertainment company. Such a law uf the calemlarare^The Beginning or The “the movie must have been In Bryan at least M days ago before College Station can show it“ ik an examBlf. , In 1040 a student boycott of Brysn thea ters reduced the time limit to ONLY :W) days. That was when the Asaemhlv Hall served M a movie house for College Station theater guars, (let that, gentlemen. College HUtlon. With some Mon students and I.OOfl real- dents and faculty memhera cannot show a movie until HO DAYH AKTKU It has shown 1 In Hryunt On the other hand, Bryan with 3 movies and about 15,000 people has Two FIRST- RUN THEATERS! Letters *-.ry u Imp ut ttuirnm. We isslu^ The Nation Today . i • • NAMRAU MfAN Maa, Man, i m •Wd » eeklirallaa.) * My dear Mr. Preeldftttt Hill letter 4om na* pmura« Is IvIm er Ifwtrert res « »<• wkut action riwild to taken at Oita ttmi, bat It la Intended only a» the <fta- charge of the doty of an American to keep hi* national administration Informed a* to the opinion* of ita constituent*. In spite of the all-too preralertt Ignorance of and apathy towsrd* the Marshall Plan for aidinr Euro pean nation*, there ire ttioae of oa who are convinced that it is the moat vitally nece**ary action thin nation ha* been called on to take ■ihee the end of World War II. And the need for immediate action ia terribly urgent. The European winter, like the processes of star vation, waits for nothing msn made —not even for the regular session of the United States Con-1 It Utt salvage WTfVfTWiy t,i Wssi UgVfWv vft fV WW' iMiMl »I toto wnM W mS, ws rssM* an »Ms agtes 4 Hatafff R may havs Tman ally ttodM. Ts *«y that mtt \XiIh to A* 1 * < m * torento was Id to ft I have ho UMtomat aass In wrttlnjr thia lettof aant jh> thst f n lha thinkthf A it* roars rwr, ann n » to *hs si FWp fVtoto mw 11" •rlesn puMic. KThh 0. HARWOOD, Jl. Roger* Return* l o I'Aperiment Staff I n||m A toMIfallliWllt ill M “WI wl l^gvWTvto^tovW* vfv k«psrim»nl toadso, •vtoto pwWv vtovvRv^^^to g^^vto to W^^wv w stu# to ktotagy la Uw UtoAmin mI Asia aad pnn. A A M tn tto eight faffl Ha Hi* toft to research arlivIMM He Hi*' tommltoltodi lit llim rltotod0g«ttM%4H#il tol ‘Itioni whleh are not er ? n percent of Um \mm JBWBlPto} iiH HHIlfciiiilll i v.| SEE H. L WHITLEY, JR. f ’ip. , . fof , Good Used Cars -‘f r*f Phone 2-7009 ^ ? Bryan, Texas Explaining Loyalty Checks Of 1,600,000 Government Workers By JAMBS MARLOW iSHI WASHINGTON. Oct IS (AP) -Here’s an axplanation of the check being made on the loyalty ut i.6oo,oo| of about ftoye*. TheyVe on government em- the itif to traval 5 ml Anything for a Laugh ... de on End” '•Fi•llta’^ and ‘The Hukatera”. We have al ready aetn thone movie*—In Bryan. Also on the calendar are euch grand old favorites a* “Hoppy’a Holliday" with Bill Boyd ami “My Brat her Talk* to Horae*." I Now gel ua straight—we are not “run ning down" the mnitager of the Palace and Queen Theaters. In fart *• admire her for her noun! and “gel up and-go^ attitude. ^ A, A IL Mhtg* and roller Htatlon with the prestige and aulhortto whMfTthoy are supttnsed In have, should be able to remedy this second-run situation. • One of these days we hope to see a first- run movie at Cutlegr Station—without hav- H lied to as working for the government ezeew 11 v « hrm si nki ■ ■ nmnrnrM, m tor the lebor, trea sury and com meree depart- fVtssntM •totoellto# , j t Tkers's s a I I ' if for Therefore, the government eon fire a Communist or Commurmt ympsthiter. Here's how the check goes: AR l.toto.ooo workers are finger- trinted, even though many of them lave been fingerprinted before. And they must All out an “ident ity" form: Name, date and place of birth, places where they re lived and worked In the past 10 years and what organisations they’ve he! to, other thi llltoto HU fmi lain Bryan. There hasn’t been a man living or dead who couWhtoriously udmit that he knew what la funny—and why. Yet, today, the world Is writhing mirth fully from unsuspn t xlf situations and con- versationa which .seemingly are funny; funny to some, sad to others/ldoreover, the same circumstance which brings a laugh today, may bring a frowm tomorrow. Humor is funny, but when one opens it ... up to see'what is funny there is disappoint- J ment. It is not funny anymore. It is like that nate* in the sight of another's misfortune,” Plato declared. i •*-!. — “Every amusing story must, of necessity be unkind, untrue, or immoral,” proclaimed Jowett, master of Balliol. Webster defines humor as, “The mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or ap preciating ludicrous or absurdly incongruous elements.” -*Y Milton Wright, in his book “What’* Fun ny—and Why,” explains, “For something to „ be funny it must bear a resemblance to old anatomical mytoery: where does your something that is wholly sensible. This re lap go when you stand up? (It passes to the roar, where it pops up under an assumed name). ^The whole thing thst gums up the works ik that no one group of people can agree on what is funny. This would be a sad wiorld, however, if no one could find humor in every day life. Shakespeare said that humor lies in what one thinks about something, not in the thing itself. What is it that makes one feel he Wants to laugh? A review of what some of the authorities have had to say about it might help. “The pleasure of the ludicrous origi- semblance may be utterly artifical, but it must be there.” “Furthermore, the resemblance must be a new and unexpected resemblance. There must be a similarity—a ridiculous one, t6 be sure—that we have not realized before. The sudden realization of the artificial resem blance constitues humor.” It all boils down to one thing—a laugh. IT a correct definition were to be attempted, this one might do: “If you think it is funny, it is fumy?’ After all, this would be a strange world if someone did not try to have a little fun. —Oregon Barometer w*rkin_ CwitotoB svtHs fMtorsI courts) Tbs ftofiif of all nil* i to mmmmmmi j flr# rtnnsMaesd disloyal which As«i up with fommuntst or k hvsldsnt Tr«man osksd far dhsrk. CMurrtM votodlil .OOb.OOO tor It last July. Th* ehockin* offl dolly started Oct. 1. (Other very »portal chock* arc boin| mads by the Rtats Depart msnt and by tno Army, Navy,and Atomic Encrry <'nmmi«*iot. They will ho explained later hi this so- aaM Who decides, In this search for •ii'lnyalty in the executive branch, who is disloyal and what is dis loyalty? Government hoards Mr. Truman said the No. 1 stan dard for testing loyalty shall that: ) “On all the evidence, reasonable grounds exist for belief that the person Involved is disloyal to the government of the United States. Attorney General Tom Clark has drawn up a list of about 70 organ isations which he considers com munistic or fuactstic, or subversive The government agencies check 2%’' and tto •ivt” people. Yor btoi *f OM organisations In JOHN GRIFFITHS, Detroit <Mich.) Free Prenn reporter, went to Florida on vacation, Then one day the mail man delivered a Hugo carton to Norman Fattenton,’ chief assistant city editor. Ip it were unhusked cocoanuts. “1 get it," said Patterson. * ★ A YOUTH sidled up to Max Polen. re- porter»photnffraf>her for the Nan Antonio (Tex^l Evening News, at the Elsa Tomato Festival and asked who had been named queen. Next he wanted to know who was ahefd In the rodeo con teats. “Here, Ml write them down for you,” said Max. The boy thanked him and ran on to a telegraph office. Then Max learned tlie inquisitive youth was covering for a ri val paper. ★ IN THE masthead of his Anderson (Mo.) News-Review, Editor David L. Mickey pub lished his “Truth-Not Poetry”: Firms of sise Advertise; But being wise They realise Hr who triea To use disguise. Telling lies To him who buya, the prise To other guya. ' govern! ing on loyalty will use Clark’s Hat a guide. The question arises Why should a man bfe fired frdtn the government service for being a Communist when the government permits the Communist party to exiat here? ★ Thia la the government answer you’ll get: 1. The Communist party can exist because the constitution guaran tees the right of free speech to every citisen. 2. But Working for the govern ment hi a privilege, not a right. Aa one who has witnessed a tiny segment of the misery In postwar Europe, I cannot conceive how the leaders of this nation can let any consideration whatsoever come be tween themselves and action on this Plan. f We will accept (and someot us will welcome) a return to what ever economic controls may be nee- f’HOME TUia — WED. — THtTW. GUION HALL TODAY AND TUESDAY - U - i. From thi M tf JlfMi rtminc* to thi "laugliini place" of ytoir Hart! FRI. - SAT. than religious or i as mu lone pof • 1 get* llu'lll these two forms against it* finger Hat of "aukvar saamplei Name* Communist par- pstHy Th# rm and cheeks print fils ■Ive" pool oaf thus rai Iimwm Hi mrmnvrw to with Communists, Th* oaia ta •toned If the PBI find* nothing In tht* rhaek of Its files and If tHere's no "Up" that man's disloyal. Two-fifths of Coylon's great tea op la ohlppod abroad, moatly to London, and the remainder la dls- poeod of domestically, OPENS 1*0 P. M. 4-1181 — LA ST D AY — l Bast Stromberg HEDY I \ enn emit .OAK DMlfY _ wansTtac.tMSM RPTR OUEEN —TODAY— TIES, ft toED. 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TOWN HALL PRESENTS FRANCES GREER f Soprano MaNMEfttvERE-MiSnaw^MMSMi SEATON FSIDAV - SATI KDAT ‘My Brother Talks to Horses’ - Plus Second IWtur»>-*| ; liMkMjr Seodl Betty Field "^i E “The Southerner” w ., FRANCES GREER — COMING IN CONCERT -r V I ~ 1 I • ' * .t MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 8 P.M. GUION HALL v V