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EDITORIALS
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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 In an outdated law of yesteryear, the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
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My dear Mr. Preeldftttt
Hill letter 4om na* pmura« Is
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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
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Explaining Loyalty Checks Of
1,600,000 Government Workers
By JAMBS MARLOW
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From thi M tf JlfMi rtminc* to
thi "laugliini place" of ytoir Hart!
FRI. - SAT.
than religious or
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lone
pof •
1 get*
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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,
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