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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1947)
t In the exf Day festivitjle^ saw the an overlooked what w Battalia itor hi f/ S t ¥ !| I -f r: ~- I - I . • ■ FST I bBJVERiNG THE GrtOCERES J ^r | | ■: I! J ini JtfT W IT DOWN Sanepuce J; i r,j Statesman, Knightly l^entlenum” ^/ah Ross, Founder of ii • 1 U4i. i. n m " j 11 r. i: !i ;\ i nil Congratfedns! Well Do Aggie Traditions thanksgiving perform^ • j 41,000 fans who ■ Tsa erb. To mu the b?inc I best performances'hvjer g cfeji Ify a college organization. || : | We refer to th^lalf-t the Aggie Band. Al|i ;asoi> fort Worth,:Housi)i, am* Station,] the Aggie ,Blind i precise nalf-fime dfil s: Tl|(|s ce as suj an^ong fhn spectat ^ais may have ter than pi ever has.’, ks one of the !' Certainly, the showing topped anything : L , m Ki Trampling Out the Vin . eu,e mm ■ V V A council cuttii ess Question Raise ince which ; a lias introduced, HuntinKtori (W. V».) limiting tl^e price for headed men's hair ,to 25 cents, has a question which can be argued back long as man keeps sprouting hair. Just fegree of absence : ofj hair dock it take to /a man baldheaded ‘ M i Baltus refers said to’denote ini ny old grads’ “looked bet- in the Southwest this year. The timing in the intri iate criss-cross was perfect and the marchinriletters proved an innovation which ■ '11' r *!9&r m [M the 140 miembers praise fromf fails a|i|i ilum But turkey Ddl forth the litilei-eKtf hltve“won for gkie Band wide i.llke. > i ihappy formations have given the school wide recognition of which it has a l&w r the b right to be justly proud. So to]the! members of the Aggie Band, i<| tidemed to put and its Director,. E. V. Adams, The Battalion tljat. tabbed its s§jfs “C«'ijigratulitioiis for a job well done!” . r- i | w It was'dijring t io|( week and 'Mr. CIjf|ordj Hi was in a hurty. 11|' tHe hustlekl intip ffie Aditp jng and hurried (Jy^r toftHt bulletin board, if if bohy • fropi punching rifen offices that had fn|cyefl ye prosperity over thf < oi;nt years, ran down itlle list (|f at yStujdenjt Act|\ ? i|i^, L. BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS ... — Two Years Bjehind The Times . ' . I t ill /ftihi f| I i mhiistn tW knildiiiig, I !; Freedom of Press Defended By Harvard’s Prof, Hocking til W i . a wom^n entered, cold days lajst Went to the bulletin board to determine itnp” Staffer j where spe coijilfilj find Byron Winstead, di- Oa rector o risjtration Ruild- (ijnctory on the ijiger, shopworn newspaper ihg degrees of r l * past 20* ies, stopping ollins. Room ed Bvrci In R Winsti ad was in Room 329. r j..» x 32! i, the woman learned Mr. Winstea|iwhs no longepdirectorj of publicity, contraiyjitio. the bulletin board, %ut could Mr. Shuffle^ who WAS the! Director, help her?” lid ,1 | M Of qaurse, Ml*. Shuffler yifas^down stairs 10 . t a V (tliiC. bulletin hoard, indicates Room SjfO is occupied by the Dehn of the in Roon 'Upon finding c|it wjheto cated, “Bump” sleSpedlinlc story on the line. |-. "'‘May t-see the |i recto ties, pleastej?” Bu|j/l» as believe his. panic i| y |Vli R6hm 3 was lo an! ii D«ui College a (id the Dean of the School of Arts he,off ice, a hot the reply from ■ r, jstudeht activi- j innocently, “I i Hills.” “Why Mr. Cclli|s left Her 3 in 1945,” came and Sc cmcas) apd Wipsteacj’s office is oc cupied by Bishop; Clements, Assistant \to Shuffle rl Wit Ap the space of ten i^iiiiutes, similar incident j occurred. An ; ex-student, not fa- v-vt 111 oi ii rip! 4 Inio umir /“vv*/"! nv» seeret placed by Mir. Joe “JVell, may I scio Mr. ed undauriteid. {; “I’m sarry; ; Mr.!®kilfes the secretary sajd j Aee|ly. 'Determimed, !B ;i f m and said, “Well, ij^fy student acjtilvitic s, ^ h.otevi “I’m siure I cq.din It “you see, this, is i hs Coi Student Aciivitiiesj 1 vaii Hall three months ago.” Slowed, [but jwi :h the still burning lAidjhlly, ‘He was re miliar vith the workings of! the new order, walked into Room,5 (allegedly the offices of ijej?” Bump ask- F ip September,” I] /: student troUefr the 19- Longhto finally jck! his chili out e|the director of cj is?” : you,” she said, pjtrfcjller’s office, ed to Goodwin sweet young thing £ ml di street, still [t-.qf the reporter iljij thanked the Bleared into the inf! activities. He indicate Ttre^itse c strange one;, h HftSl fjteij was publicity'. The bullettin;board show FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Ky^ William E. Hocking. University of of Philosophy at Harvard, seeking Chicago Press, 1947. * principles .on/'which the C - •• • ■ y - i-=- — ptlec^om [of the principles .on > which; tph Commis- Shouild a democracy, in thf? name s * on on Freedom of the Press of liberty, allow harm to be done might base its work, profoundly in and to the community ? Does liberty: coyer the right to lie, to ; !■ righ defame, to. issue diiuorted propa ganda, [to degrade ?. ! Does! the principle of toleration yequire tolerating the intolerant? Or shquldi abii4e he j checked and and brilliancy re-examines the foundations of freedom of the press in philosophy 'and l^w. He declares that in a moqem state freedom is both a value] and a conditional right; freedom of expression exists as a moral «Hght only as the. ex- confusion tin* by firm commun-! ?. res$or , a88 “ 1 }” ^ p onibility to ity action for the common good,; thc ! he consumer F v or m wUh m that a plained liberty. win repay the injury, of the prun ing by ig stronger and more endur ing growth ? ! |- Uhtil the individual citizen and global wait, the consumer, no longer free not to listen, has a right to the facts reported fully and truth fully. Professor IHockjng develops but he do^s not ehead contirn what dividing 11: pess. We have !n: some high foreheads that went half-way buck to the nape e wlfo cpuld not seen anyou Sented a mild telligence. [j I Among .. bald?” ranks case irleltict ildn sUU m giving l by icrsfelf. The d hertself, w key, a jpeca four mince a: a pound of < was algo icte . , >Itfe a of the neck but we have “I iUpt put a y whether this repre- s or acute case of in- 'Ij! * | B\ • • j,j| r saltus refers to the high foreheads which telligence by those who have t say how far back and high s to be a high forehead and past it becomes instead, active bald- ii ! ; Alf d ;bf bak table quesltions, ‘‘When is a man right in thefe with • “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?” if it has not been solved in the libraries and the universities—and it hasn’t — it doesn’t look like the problem has solution in the barber shops. There Will be, first of all, the customer who is cagb lak we and quiet if ' ; > : . ><1 j ii i T /MHi 16 childrjm, six guests and of a tjvtnty-five poum tujr- tpes, tWe}vC pies (four apj Umpkih)Jf ve pounds of graphs three polinds df nuts: J The fb (of ran oie in tir, wir i |< airied 7 Hall oustt. elb] traveled! Psyche ogist hifn 1 to A&M /where he not really bald at all, ibut p’ho is very economical and, who Will demand the 2.5-cent hair-cut. '('here M wil be first, last and always the really bald men who lyould rather pay any amoupt than be classified as bald, and who may be hurt terribly If the bar ber doesn’t overcharge them. F°r them, the difference is not the price of a haircut—it is the price of reassurance that they look O.Ki NO JUSTICE : : Joseph KltiS, 28, an attendant at a service Sta tion in Chicago, obeyed when two gunmen drove up and said: “Give us the; company’s money. Mr. Kius t|>ok a roll of bills from his pocket, peeled off $10 and gave the bandits $65. “What is all this?” ope of them asked] } “The, |10 is mine;” said Mn Klus. : • The 'gUnmefn took it anyway. leaders for* f: “If they do it over tl He belie wor|d under thqir heads. The doc mind rehder miles a yealr fessors and un ebs they At Gui of people wi Once he inj’s earnin hice His chei audience of i|,()< his dressing p< a nan’s upi||ii th >atre. He foumj last < spring), said in Chl- we iiouljil nave eternal peace permitted to hypnotize world pai;’i If 1 •. / St m Peilgar said, “ I could |\hiie hei hnd the! rulers of the M i; ephi beat spune sense into .. ill '! . ... d .■ 'V 11/ di e thiin; a hypnotist. Hp is a i- travels more than 100,000 (Hirers/shocking leaitned pro-/ its thiit, folks can’t belief ; hi hypnotized a whole stag’ 0: ITIiey stood; guard o bile tbi back I lycheck in: sh Letters to the Editor ii mtei to contribute for: free h ,1)00 jif tho management cn’ultl m he couldn’t find it ibid thcMheCk undtvr the middle Of th(! like: folded tinfoil i ch ds .80F. at A&M), but it — TAIxE OF A SHIRT Editor, Bitttalipn: ., .; . ; i . rrotessor Hocking develops a tWv *1" f i' j" rL kr U | a vh <! r LS * 1 framework of principles for a free tiom;, our traditional liberalism. Ke • vi ,l. f‘neri Jnn n„f — analysjs^ the printfples of free- ^ oufclir^rSdor In Jbhni MiUon and John Stuart Mill, freedom of expression found ■ cham(Hoiis; Their philo- eame the^basis for our two nobl sophy : lx qublicatihns) iifid tusked the Corny qerti youjfig secrietan' for his copy of J6 'Longhorn (Ed. note; He got his n| all right- -two dajf-.s later when he stumbled on to the offiqes of student public^fiqrjs in Gdolwin Hall):and a repre-' sen tat iM (f the So ithwest Taper Company tried tt-ifind the AdtM Press in Room 19 as the &u ietiiv board indicated hut succeeded in obtabur g only a demonstration from the employee^ of the, photographic and visual an inalienable, uncduiditional right lids hi), irow ocoupying the office. to utter his own pphnon. \ All i i jell, the fight to find anyone in the J nda ? imn,en ^! technological ^^the^^’s in dCexperioi co, out Professor j Hocking! in this new ' of the ver y n,,ture af Han.^cety, law, and govornmerit. His book re own dee| ty, which I am but one) of a multitude who share the hama gripe at leajit once a week; that ijs, when I untie my neatly bundled^ laundry. Is it- tod much' to ask of h laun dry, even though it does ja tre mendous Volume of work, i to re turn a shjrt in one piece? Could n't they wash the dirt out with water instead of scraping it off with a sh^irp hoe? An example of this is the ease of the mangled sport shirt which was sent only last week. It wasn't an expensiveishirt, only costing about $3.00, but ,it was new—brand new. I retrieved my lost friend only ■find two) large, gaping holes will weren’t (he armpits. I can und stand wijiy an old shirt npi'ght nii^t with an accident after fait i ul irises somebody who car id MOLOTOV NAMES PRICE LONDON, pec. il—CIM-Foreign Minister V. ;M. Molotov Monday yxeitedly opened the bundle and . , ,,-vr,. , i lisfeil $10,0001,000,QQ0 (ten billions) , ' 0 f“ S?™ , L 1 *'*’: 1 reparations mi nj(ieal pfllhn cco- service, but I could ) have pls|\ football jin this shirt and not (fjfie it half the harm. Another, ample is a new khbki shirt WA looked as if someone:had stare) the cuffs in concentrated sulfnti acid. Thdri a bed |heet wit h ripped coriiier, coveralls Mit i torn shoulder, and jif I /ihoi (j; hard enough I could| re/all it more cases. i'll was written into our body of lay and underlined our theory) of freedonjr pf trie, press, holding that every man possesses nomic merger of the British and American Zones the price of M We’re npt askifig the itnposs I We like our collars/iryhed b wards then Crushed!, ialndl our: r Li . FlIL -rf Soviet agreement |to the economic unification of Gerpiany. imd maze <»N^da’roti(jns in (% Mmimatr^tion | ^“bA news and leiiviccs, and the - advances-, the increased need for Build ini a hard one,, but front line reports extreme po\yer which the agencies he battle! may not be lost. Who *>if 'stiMliU 1 activities. He knows J^The bulletin board may not always gave a depart (tig |nt'QC tdUliei! bulletin board be twoiyears behind the" times, even though as he left the TnililiiK*' 1 u ilr ji cl-mW a chanlgej: bringing it 1 up-to-date admittedly* not. a would provide a jesS eiiteijtainiiig, if more r. Aslj^imjp Jeft the Ad- orderl}] picturd, : i of eon-jmuuication yield have placed this laissez fairc notion of liberty under; fipe. In William E. (Hocking, liberty has fckupd its twentieth - century champion. The Eniflirltus Professor QUEEN Tt-ES. & WED. PALACE Wft PHON't 2*:Bff'tQ ' STARTS TUESDAY r 'H /A ] ' Jm! - i —THRU SATURDAY ris to njft-Mand numerous dth- that jmkee we have to pay it, qiathes could be sent und urnedl/frortr the: laundry with- haying, tip convert them into rags br si^re handkerchiefs. vt gqt]!me wrong, I'm not nijig; (he jBatt, but I hone lit eUnitig.) Is there any rsoii ?: Wifi anything be dine? n ,a ij'thtng be dona ? ? tl : (Sinceite no VVithbrtd by ttcq U J ■! 4—jhL-!—^— I ]TYLER, Tex., Dec. tl I’upawujy planti with no ifiloL* j (ajsl; repoitlteil over . HendJ'rson at fljltiO feet! lit 12:15! p. m’.,'was being Yl-s ' pujghjt Over East Texas Yesterday. m 1 j t Be ore end ng|t ratings of teachefs’ several moire toifits- fjo -|jje problem of evaihjditioif i shown hv t:hg faci Grant Colleges. !a| : set up a eojmm iitne gestions on a laim itry^wii] eussion, cjf icot ds<, ooi!jee|‘ of teachecsl by| Stfiidenfs, j tii’l tf rn S Yi heads, adniiiiiiitri t( rs One fetijtur pa|k administitajors iis made aghifuit iries L- rje ferior sti^dfent|.| jj'i sideration her-iiJ. asked to mark 1 hi; owh c on the report. Perhaps it the top of ainy questions, for the j it: “What do you undent -pose of this ccujrie: (Ma later; coti -4- “To learn sfjujdMn^n ksfj on of student nance, there are ctfiir qnsidered. The “T<f lejalrh specific technical procedures. “Tij understand background of events . “T| pjrjakicp creative thinking ..... Th| stiiident’s appreciation of the purpose hii ts hi.-k to ini pd|ition -(of Land lational meeting, it jpte such sug- stfjde. Their dis- |i i ipt only rating if l|y department Other means, liost teachers and e Word On Ratings mportaint as is] of the fobfsb would 1 help evaluate; his evalua tion of thjO teacher; I! L !"|!f--I ■- safeguard be halt |i „ ... po[is| klfc reports by in- infc rug :lsti)i|)n, under , cbn- hii t |t ipujgjh the reports would be : unsijgtnldj egcla Ha ye \y'c(, as students, enough intellectual honesty to rate cur teachers intelligently? \ That i$ tHe crucial question in the debate on whether or not yvo should ask to “Rate the Profs’ - at the end of each semester. We ^presumably have the intelligence to making! siiqlii a rating, or ive wouldn’t even be in But some teachers, reading this ■series pf Ibiilitbrial^, have asked if Aggies wouldjji’t $0 arrange their ratings as to dis courses ! i- S r | i t d ]bci i|;e|l 1 to include at for ftiadent might be "Jort fjictsi voting :“good” on : pipe coursi •idlelpoint average’ which itake little tinhe and trouble, and votir f I. , “badi forhll courses which assign a full lot g dor all courses which assign a full load of hodiewbrk, outside reading or theme pfe- ■ paratibn. | h • : -; XJ • L ‘.ip ] [ h|g teacheis these Npone cqn flatly answer to that aqcusa- t|) ftf swer tirst : ,tion. We must Itiqk within yurselves, injdivid-, a to be the pur- ually.jj and ask if yye would vote hoijestly, ses ry, dehtfrtoipg (jujly one) I f|igts for use in r r~ ' given such, a chance. If We convince our selves! that we would be honest, then we may legitimately press ,the “Rfife the Profs” idea. A sto read as foMowfsi ih Journal:^ 1 [ ( Other vreek-tchd theft of a car P.S.—kThe ‘ I The BattaHoi), of College afternoon, lished semi-fyef|kliy;jl(S u h fe. \ New^ Win Hall. 2Q^, Good v I I David t clie mab Back t. N|lcn Louis Morflpn, A. D. Brui Tom bartcil TW G. Martin I j ... •- ! N v » . Vick Lftidk r ^. .. Farri* Klucl , Dik^ gol enq depredations ths iMt.t't. Louis (111.) the burglaily of i vi > and b c ijadtiHqties included i automobiles and t like it. vspaiper of the Agricultural uhlished five times a week lalys! and Examination periodh- D ioh (ate $4 p6r school year. |iA(|vi Wb>A|Y- i. I WEDNESDAY AlN THUKSDAY “Lady in T it 4 ii [ijr | with . . ROBERT MONTGOMERY FRIDAY ST Double Feature: ' I^lilos Avery, writing ini the Chitago Trfb- Dpens 1:00 p.in. 4-1181 mmented thusly op the Freedom ;of mission rei>ort: L Hl >awls out The Press; , L>nard Hutchins guess iMl ney ()r fall for such a tale Iff he read the Tribune mail. >e madi? by telephone (4-5444) or a placed by telephone (4-53S4) or nd Meclanipl College t»f Texas and the City d circulated every Monday through Friday ihg the summer The Bdttalion is pub- ipinij: rates furnished on request. editorial o« A j V / ANNOUNCING i . 1 i . \ ! -II ■ • j j \ ’ 1 : • the 19 17 ) HORTICULTURE SHOW mm miRRlSOi /j/Aorwrt (jeOtlenW | l|l PALMER cooii«u(»K[-i(!mmM ptrts ^ WBQAJtr lOHHSTOB fM Suy Rdfrlf • kvi M 1 A I / IV Dec. 16.& 17 —8:00 a.m. t^) 10:00 p.m. ■/ / . Sponsored by THE HORTICULTURE SOCIETY ;': | V. j of Texas A. & M. College ^!, ; . to be held in thc main dining rootnj of SBISA HALL SOLVE YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEp Hopalong Cassidy Produciions.. . piesenl ’ > WILLIAM BOYD as, "HOPALGNG CASSIDY” m i/ 1 The Devil's Playground Horticulture Department. for gift boxes of Texas grown citnis fruit will bje taker! irt the tories, and orders may also be placed with the secretary in the. Releowl thru UNITED ARTISTS jjjg j g ^ j muummm