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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1948)
n dj" — r IN BR > - s i ■ ■ i (jANDHF RNj If RACE IS rfui FA SI IMIS NEW DElJlI, Ini in, MohamlaH K.fli n<ttiii\s mpo o mony in India lay; t< day i solemn pledtfl k|y r^lij>|()iis lij ended }I' The Indiatj _• >alr{i^t spiriljial Irnil'J' dn^nk juice at 12:4 Last Wi^h which ended Jhih peaci fast ^ ter 121 hours apif 4S mjnut osj, I .in, iyei tiViIaj i five h [)U^*s I- 78fye||* old t I' it'tt If u:n- hreakinp hisffapt, the (iandhi told £ l|iy pra ’or m he did’so on. fhc “plods p andjj kiip sel” of friemfs 'roim H Indu-lf j iljn- dia and Mos|tin-leu P:ikisUi4U| They puaront sedjil he said, | c int- plete, unbroken friends nip” liipipi' HimjDs, Mosllmp and) i iikhs \ i - STASSEN S|*EAlls TflDAVj AT TEXAS ilTEC; I JiS| ; Jiiiji. 19 Onosia i|re- DUT(’H-lNI)b>ESIAM WAR ENI)I$) i BATAV1A| Jav:j The Dutch and the Iru public signeit a trice Ibtuirc :: the warfare | that summer in Java doera. The aKrcKmint aboard the 'llh-te l transport Eet|vil e pinch' tavia. J$h. ! 1 and siveel bro :e pu Stimai if a an a s ites ifed .pi | thei ik ers, lihdu 1 me j I ter 1 I’)— V i- LUBBOCKi 'rje)|4 l Jail. 19 ] Harold Sta.s|erii hiiinfrs his Tntircn for thja Fiejublicin ru lion for presidiit here tod;i js to make Itwo speei hes iil'ore appearing piijAnia •jlllo pniirl j' The youthful f< rmci * Min|i<pota governor is, t| spcaMjt' WasjfH-cft- nologieal Juifior (ham! cr oTjipm merce and I|on; :'Iub. , ■ ji E HOUSTON, I)A 1,1 AS, I T WORTH LEA\fl IN .VIA TCOLl S iji I HOUSTOjK, ppt., Jin. 1 i i.T- Houston, DfllaMand Fort V pave averaged n lore ban alcoholics ijper 00,00 0 pel' compared t| a isiate : vpra : .450 (H‘r 100|o00t I)r. FX M nek disclosed hiefe. jffi The Yalelymvi'rsity autl i)'|ity bn alcoholi.^n nap been hei }i|lje past week hfoldiji}l conBnppci'rtlon plans for a| proposed l>outIi||est- er/i Vale injtitijtf on / Ictditflimvi Ri FREEDOM (OLD TEX. TEXARKi The F'reedoij visit to Te.'eis estimated H.OjpO pie N (JITS >\ EL(X ME T«x., Jan. 1 Tijain male it freezing we hihits. TAFT HU(1( EST:5 NE'V CABINET (fFIEEW WASHIN( A suggestio Ohio) tlu»t C .shall Plan c: new Ttyist t the y *steixl ly a»i| •sons iruvt d ^!to soe tndj; TO] i by pngfi •bim 1 lay over who shfuld lion dollar I'jjjroi ( gram. “AID TO ElfROR MEAN A( (# IRI WASH1N tiros Secretary o | Sf: ' dared Satuipay •■.^European njcovi before- ('ongi^ss for nor cbnt<|nvpI|iLe (the aCpif: )a.sflf fbi ll f- military States tn reaurn sistance to rthe tries.”. lie mady ; thin statement beams ing the statyplep interest andi) cm t Jar. 19 Senater Ta ’i ;ss jfreatje : post- pt ovl to the argfi un! ItV mu an AeroVery E” DOES N(J BASE; . Jlin. I') Tjif* 1 — te- M;.i'$h;|lf-|(le- the. |prii)i|sed ptcgiram 1 Ddes lot, 11 r ! fo arouse<l in Europe by w lat t Fisi di partment called 'f n;isi|ii( tatii mh’ of Secretary Fcjj res fore the. Seifate I'orelgit Re Committee 14st T tuifsday of wage denjiand: S Woods actaialh tension of tie la; ktrengtheneef. He housing shoftagt VA ( ALLS |k)N V.Ha Q UNCOVER CCUjlSELEItS” j WASHINfflTOK Jan. 19 -I- The Veteran^ Ad ninist -attrrr'tail ed on the Amet cap N edii-id jAs- sociption to jttcriv t put injd any doctors who 1 avb h( em ing” to make ext^aj mouSy- treating wai | vote Juis ASK E^TEisiOLN loF RES CONTROL FORjnyO h EAp WASHING Housing expedite r Tighe E Saturday asled ( ingress foi year extensi|n o rpnt ion ti ter Secretary of ”opunt rce man testifieiS any !re|laxi tipn, o ... law will “direct 1 y ! .raisf th i ‘k-ost of living an|l aflt tp tlejpi asked for A- until Mafc 1950, with (piforilenient ally throughihut the Uni spid a! cbntir tics and -for most ai will be iieceilsarj years.” BREAD M 0 DEM-COM MfUNl munichIgeh </P)- Kurt Sbhun| Germany’s Social ty, said blunfly Saturday centni t vith Lrean the fight bi Communism], in would be decided ,The Qenjfnan ] politiial criticized thf Amjrdcan und {li occupation bowep for fai grant any |owei|. to the pi and declaral th it the jnci,. the country ,jw6ul 1' become i lit Ijtiofll friend^ of t te occu lyiin r eir which tresits -t icm He it. - J , ■ . k — —f j- Iwea pher East Texiis: (lomdjj, rain except snow in c>(tremi| portion, colijUir ii nortliwest tion this' s|fterni lohr an J Tuesday cloitidy, i iccasloi ial east portion| except snb^ in east poi'tiop.i IM northeast fo enjst coast. I ‘ i- I. v, 5 -t I w|!i !l t 1 T|iree Changes Announced In CE Department Tlhe employment of two as* soeijate professors and the re*i fiigiialjion of a prole^s.or have beeji an noli need ; ,:by S. H Wright, head of the civil en gineering department. Cipl. James B. Baty, who recijntljy retired from the army, has Aieejil ompjloyed as associate professor of municipal and sanitary engineering. A graduate Of A&M in civil 'en- ginderSng, Class of 1925, he did adyimje work at Cornell Univer- sity] ' : ' J 1 ] ; Baty has .served as sanitary en gineer of the Texas Department of Heajlth, the New Jersey State Dc- parimient of Health, Pennsylvahia Salt; Manufacturing Company, and ! the iDepartindnt of National Health | Otthwja, Canaida. He has also served as editor of “Water and Sewage,” forjthji? Monetary Times Publishing Conppany, Toronto, Ontario,' Cannif- i 1 1- il m I I , j t : |p i- im I- ^« 1 mm , i ■ ip Brazos Aggies ijhree Changes MMMMNl|ppHIMIll.P«nillill imsimm daily in we interest ot a greater a&m college ! ! COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland) — MONDAY, JANUARY 19 hi ! f! 4 Nimber 100 '!■; At|le|ci Trophies Awarded Hollmig, Winkler, Gary,k| 1 & g$t HI wm mm. ■ mm ■ \ '< , k S : vi. Jy.w: W?S §'.' ' m 11 m' m 'i \ f v> „ rt M } i ip .1' I S. I: 1 Hri^r to thje war Bat.V'was ass tanj professor of civil engineeri at (Queen’s University, Kingstf Ontmrio, Canada. During the war seryeo in the Army Sanitary Corps. Rrpnk M. ; Smith h as been em ployed ay assistant professor of civil engineering, Wright also 4n- itoijipried. Hb receiveid his BS in dylil (jngineeHng from AiM in 1927 anijl his MS from AitM in 19311. He iaat bad 15 years exjiu ience ttlach- in^ engineering subjects at NTAC i/Pi al jArliiigtim. During the war Smith L. st j se|'veil sis a (major in] the Engineer • an Corps and has just returncil tjrom u ),_ j the army of pccupatioin in Germajiiy. Profossoi' ] R. M. Dixon has re signed, effective January 31: Dr. Wright said. He has accepljed, a lipsition as iexeciitive secretary ftf Alje Municipal Contractors Associh- ,tibi)„ a Southwest chapter of the Associated general Contractors of Ameifica. Diion will piiake his head- dhartiers in Dallas. , ] ; 'iwmw NKHI m ita Tffiii “We’re goin^ forward from |i^re-4-not looking iaiackv W. Williams as a keynote, campus Aggies and Brazqfi exe cross-cduntry teams last Friday night in Sbisa Han. W council, presented trophies to lettermep on thhose teams.] Stan (Hondo) Hollmig, back and punter, was Mmj; 29 Cadets to Receive Commissions Jan. , ■ > j'i Major General A. D. Bruce, Glass Of 1916, Will Make Presentations Commissions as second lieutenants in the Of filers serve Corps will be presented to 29 cadets Tuesday (moi’bi at 11 in Guion Hall, Colonel G. S. MeloA Jr., commandant, s bounced yesterday. Major General A. D. Bruce Sri,! depujtj commailiding general of Fourth -4 j k | Welch ords from football I and I Witi those wprds from D. . 1| irman of the atqletic j valuable p ayer of the TbOinll seaHui nm received the I i(psicoml|)-Colfon award from W. - i (tolsspn, awards, Iiro- ARCHITKCT students gather around LARS MARNUS, Danish lecturer-architect (who visited the campus last week. Left to right, JIMMIE DEMOPULOS, PIERREPONT ^ HARRELL, A. U. SAKELLARIOU, LOUIE B. GOHMERT, JACK HARRINGTON, (MARNUS, JOHN DE HAAS. JOE HANS, and JOE BILL PIERCE. J J Iwhat Do Von Think Of... f ' n '[J • ' -•4 co-dop'oir. The also presented I Six Short Courses To Be Held Here During February Students Favor Elimination Of Small Football Openers Army, Fort Sam Houston, make the presentations. The ROTO cadets, who have .suc cessfully completed the) advance course at A&M and have fulfilled the requiremejnts, will constitute the first class of reserve officers to bo commissioned here since the end of the war. Lt. Col. William S. McElhenny, adjutant of the ROTC unit here, will administer (he oath of office, after which General Bruce will de liver an address to the new ofi'i- iTrs. Ed Brandt of Houston, Boh Mar tin of Dallas, and Harrell D. Foitik ] of Schulenburg have been deSignat- t ed as “distinguished military grad- f ' uiateK.” They have filed for direct [will • - • -jl I Kegistrati&n Experiment ■ C, 1 - Tried at Am jly orro KUNIti Annex freshmen are. mjisttei'ini for the (new. semester Jijijuaiy lr>j 22 in an experiment toijiietepniini whether; or not this metljijoiii of ijgjg (istratiop is feasible on the mliii campus,! Registrar H. ti I|ea|pi r L. (D64) Lipscomb and Qol- S■£>, weld tij Barnity Welch and I <jh Gaiy. ‘-j ! • Tljic Bert Bfaff jiwnrd for l>est went to Jim Winkler; , aind was presented by the head fojotbnll coaeR, Ilarry S(tiitiler.IGoldi foothills were given ( till senior pldycrs jhy the Senihv <.lasts, with Elmo Livingston, pfCsi- 1 rUipt of the etiSs, milking the pres- tintajtionsi. j ;Two pjayeits who iid from . injuries J’ CR fams. Frank; I wore; 1 prevent-! lettering hV early-seijison | Janies C’a ipjon anil Boh- j — M'lo praised hyJ.Wil- S, ; Caiothers, Houston businCsslnan (and humorist, ehief speakCr jif thy eveni ig, gave a ‘‘rib bing’’ tpiprominent football jilayers itiul Bnikos County j exes. Ilersohel Burgessi UoBege Station .real es-' (kite map and one-time Aggie full- !j>|ick, was niaster (of ceremonies, Ri. L. (Satch)] Elkink was chairman f)}' the cnmmijttee of exes which ar- ’ fjipgcd l|hc hjmqiK t.j \ Hoiper Niorton, ritiring head loot ha 11 touch, telegraphed from Florida. “Good luck to lilh” in Twenty-eijeht p i n y 6 r s und jtJtrcc managers wicrc announced fooljball Id ter men and three) if.Ms' I cross eountjr) (reived Ill’s. runners also .re- [ Ninety-three perce studjentis aro in jfav I fpiffling next seasons j Schedule with Yillano’ This overwhelming i commissions ip the Regular Army, i s, nnouneyd in an intervi pt- 1*riilfy. [Notification as to their regular Another reason tor eijly •cljs -appointments will he received "1 ] lratiorl ()f fre8hmen i$ tpU April alter further processing. j igRty of handling two rcHstratlpn General Bruce, an Aggie grad-1 at the Ham(1 fim# ; iIeat ,i 1 ; unto ol 191(5, or^uniitecl and corn- new jllun was voiced M. E.; more ^amcR o|i Kyle Fiehb *‘lf hijr | landed the Tank Destroyer center Manyj difficulties encon Browns-hepough crowds cunnot he handled I at Camp Hood .dyring the war, | registration on the mil of A&M ! v,m ’’ w,1 ° Ha,<1 ’ M II " a to ugh here we should play them in Hous- later serving ias commanding gen-| are beitlg eliminated by f Lj, u j opener we will know vfhere we ton instead; of Baton Rouge or S'an ] ehil of the 77th Infantry Division j experimlents at the aim. stand from the start'of t(hc season, i Antonio. This ivoiild give mpre in the Pacific Theater of Opera-( said. At} example of tho :| Foothill I lettormjeh were Jcn- mel hjings -Ai(idei}son, JohnBa]|eiitine, Buryi Baty. : Jesse ( Bui^itt, Ralph Calvin Dupree, Ellis, Boh Gn- x Grcinefi, Nm- ; By CJ C. AflUNROE of "Aggie | V ‘>VHC0S. a J«nior from 1 n f a km ; ville, who said, With a (Aggie reaction toil the new game I khcduRng policy thitt was an Si! short; courses ranging fijom j hditneod I’htwsdayj |>y 1 ' 1 rcictoi - 1 bmicl, (Boh l Dew, [|<t Dusifk, Hcrhcrt rje, Boll Gooije, Mio jlhiii Higgins, Stan Hollmig, UotUn BowelL 1 Red! Ovciiy, Oscar Rol- M!(|rl Pj-bkop, Joe Sicra, ,Ma- JM'ston ” Bdtegiikt, i ■ 1 , j This will do away with any over-; Aggies an oppoi Hvpjty to see such '• Uons. He directed the invasion ol j these experiments will taken V-itm- C0,i ^ 1< H' ,k '° fhut might develop if games as those With LSI’ and ^Vake Island. (in the Official schedulel'^f dame 1 : —* ‘ ■ '• ! j|. 1 He has received the Distinguish-! for the spring semesteij lBiU|di|ig Smith, llar^HThe^att^^tT'di^v;.' ; | a : nU? . (,klahoma ' ju lopsidtsl win. I think i|t'is a fim idea. as- Guerjnsey hfeeding to egg grilling I f ( ‘jc}or Bill ( armiifhai 1. ..inn Will be held on the campus within!: . Replied to the question, “What |ted:( the. jiext; SOjijiiys. • [ ||lo ;yoU thing of A. & M.'s new A ishort course fojr coniiinercial; jkvsftem of eliminating football sea- . , • florins will be held January “O.ijfon opening games with small 0ur t0V ' a ‘Tl St ‘ aS °" 21 under the sponsorship iif thc||( L-hools and substituiing one. big j , m 4' tea ™ not ^ *{;) l 1 .** landscape ajrt department. M ; 'Jiffntcrsectional ganic lach year on best during the »:rst game. How - The Tex'As Guernsey Bieedcijs! |„ home and home has js? f ’'were in' • Lvwschner was m favor o ij Assojciation ] will hold a ono-dij>j ; ialmost unanimous! approval. j intiu-Mfctional games being scho- uu-eU Jamiajry 20. The dairy hupj I PcijHaps the apjiio hil can host ' f 01 ' later jn^the .season. band ( 1y depiu tnicnt is sponsoring (he summed up in tjho inswer given I R- H. IM)\ E PT, senior student the ih-ent ! ’ i |. (by . W ILLIAM IL DUITY. sopho- f '-om Marshall, while in favor of ill’s U'jtifmJnM he-' A .laboratory short school,-spqpj- (more veteran sttiden:, who said, intersectional games on a home- J by 'the Texas] W’aterworTts ’"I tlviiik it is one df.Ul4‘liest thine-s and-home basis, said, “We should lib ec t) rio.nl Ejinq ean jtjjiiin sse: t ijon re| oltts' iitrjient tRal i-dni had a' il'juh- tfeat een Athletic Di- .. ; , ,,,! . . ; cd Service Crpss and Distinguished 1 and iloo nk ii) which claRifcs Arif Itl h ilie, i-xccllii'nt, _were the words ^ryj^ y[,,g a i w Ah two oak leaf ; meet will be listed on] (the eliisi A dissenting opinion was voiced ! 1 1 1 ' " •q hS , K . on , l ! )r I elusters. In 1946 he was presented } sc'hedulg. A\,n^.iung opimon was ^'. dent. He maujtiu.)^ that hig-t.me | ail honorary p,.,,. d^roi- from 1 . j (1 ny Lh»ht IINEK, a juinoi ;.g ujn< , s W ill beja boost to the spirit t I ' ! Ihis kmplovement wpi nji iron, Victoria. Lcwschner thought | )0C . lU} . ( , thtjy |wi!j-Rclp to defeat 1 General Bruce iVtufned from Ja-I ! L ' x P cri,wnt -al stage at .H that by stai tmg a season against 0 v. j-.cdnfiidetico which might , . f ,! , > A , , last veiii Heaton saidl feinie a strom-team we might ieonardize • 1 ^ , j 101 uni rut wmui mi„ni |sin mpnth, ami since that time ‘..4. ’ ' ,-l P 1 . tion^ team wt develop if wejwm openers by lop- p 0 has i )C( ,u in his . )n . st . m position , difficultiies encountered iji);anr)oiil sided scores against a school such at F nr t Sam Hmiston '• Wtg huilitlings and roomW [ with as Southweptqtn. ( v (‘ Students recciying/commissions | ^'ekil j class schedule jHavel b iiioinj „ , ... . C/ifell Sjtiuitjionborger. Boh Tidir, likirbcrt Tuiley. Barney Wvlch, J'im WunUler* W’niy Whittukgr, iind (tbiarles ] Wright. Managers reofllV- Ihg thg jawkihls wggo Boh Buntji'V ' 'I ie anlie: th 1 A iunior from San Antonio, T. G. tomorrow morning aVe: $ \ a tfons 1 s'Ued w ill jbe held] January 127, under thje kiipei'vision of the] poultry hushaif- dry department. A 1 wnteihvorks; and sewerage short school will be Held February H through 12. Mijitor Vehicle Fleet SupeiviSors’ shorj -coUrsb, to he Conducted by the iridustriinl Extension Service of A&M College, will hit held Febru- Mods i'ai'.v JO through 14. p|i ish d |sel- nf tI' pro dh ed Lt •ad "ivnt for the ;ne •r IL. |>: EH DR M FlfJH JANA, Jab cher, ien|l(|j Demon'atf' nligpR anil jSewertjgt* Association, Texas ji hat: could have hjippcneif to A. & • also trade home and, home games State Health DepArtinent, an|l i \i . R will j-jvc tisi a chance to get with stiCh teams as LSU and Okln- A&M, will he held * ' ' ‘ ' through 31] ithe start, and at tihe same time he A hhe|l egg grader’ji short course j| roo ,[ publicity for the school throughout the tuition eihurc [ ’ 1 ex- Poll Tax Payments Due Before Feb. I DAVIS, said. *.Tt ]is time for A&M to tackle biurtin}o football on a regular basis J It; will be a good drawing card] and; help the team and the school ..gain recognition wherever wc play.’] . "Just biTjuise snibu other South west Confehmce teams make it a eliminatied at the anne ! provemiint will now'* hi I on the hnlin Campus fi ! vcniencij of students. U ibis l pra|ctl'i*:l T'Jhe . January ,2b ; ;t 'line picture of thi team from homa jo as to give Aggies a chance pc ai (j ct , to (ipuii their seasons with * ' " cinch ganiek dpesn’t 'say it is a good policy for A&M,”- was the opinion put forth by H. L. CONE, senior RSee POLL on Page 4) to sifg more than three games a season played on Kyle Field." (’. This] qpinjoif was upheld by W. xt’Hrx wiiil jLiniLl ixl Engineer Corps Reserve Robert C. Alexander, Dallas Quartermaster Corps Wilson H. Beardsley Jr., Houston Another experiment jln>v hem Signal Corps • carried Ion at the annex is an' at ■ Wallace J. Bennett, Cross Plains , tempt t^ elimimitl 1 confljijcting fji yal Donald V. Schuhart Jr-. Fort.l examiiiajtions. Although] ii diffili i|ti Worth I cure has not yet been {rourulEja Field RVrtillery I this difficulty, Registra|ion Oflje John H. Cochrane Jr., Galveston 1 personnel.arc cOiitinu^uldy maklmg Joseph A, Hans Jr., San Antonio every effort to im|jirov|j regjisil|}a Aunt her reply (in favor of tho GRRSUH. who said we should play I » .11:. ... .....L .... . Joseph P. Mueller, Corpus Christi i tion facilities / (See COMMISSIONS on Page 4i Heaton boncludi whefi eve Editorials and Letters to Editor Sound Familiar ■ . (;:i ■ v;]]' ; g. : ■ tHr , . , f I ' Battalion Celebrates 70th Anniversary In 1948 N., Part I (IiPl948 The Butiitlloii is 55 years old under thal name, 70 counting predecessors under oth- *jr titles. This 4 the first in a seriek of four historical sketches telling the development of stu dent publications atj A. & XI. gpner- ifles" t rol t wo Dem iefaryj and dope oderai st wh r *y Ic Is) ! College.) Poll tiaxei iu'e now payable until February 1 and several places fot payment have been made available] B. iji.' Dewify Jr., chairman of the< "Pay your Poll Tax” Campaign ; B> . x H K jjmHlfY Committee, of the Bryan Junior Th( . y ear was isfih -fifty-five, Chalnher of Commeix|e, said y«s-|, y earB a ^ u , Lawrence Sullivan te, ,’,, ] P y ', ' , . , ' ... rr j : : HoSs, president of A.&-M. CoHege, Ihg taxijs which Will Ik*, Kyaa lajt his desk In ti e twdn-tow- may; be; paid at the^ Bryan Court-jI Old Main Biidilirg. A cadet hotnjo o|i‘ tr(e College Station Rt |llc j eljid : ift Confederate grey pepped Bank f?om|8 to 5 daily. j into the room and saluted. "Sir, The ‘‘Pay your Pol Tax” tarn-; i vvfsh to present y<Hi with the paign which is being sponsored Hj first-Ropy of our-bew student pub- thc Bi yun Junior Chninher of Com4 ji(i a tion. \Ve cal) it The Battal- merce has (as its objective thij icn-iyipn, jsir." | .j couijagemeijt of all eligible peb|)l<( J Volumle 1, Number 1 of The to play their Poll Tax, Dewey ]s)u<U Battalion, (Which wajs presented Hi was further stajteif that ! al 1 _ people whq will be i21 iji 194* There being no A.&M. Press at that tihie, the magazines were printed in Bryan, first by the Brazo^ Weekly Pilot, and later by The Bryan Eagle By standards of thei day, they were well print ed. Collegian In IK7K I ijor Ross to See - bore little re- semblance to its present-day des cendant. Published mjonthly fron) October 1893 to Jjuhe 1904, it wa» i : more a njagazine than newspaper, should secure an exoniptionj at the' Coul thouse] which will entitle then) to aj free v0te. f ] -[• J j J w4— I H . j| and |in its .scop^ splrnewHat ret • sembled The CommdUator, to- “VOICE OF A.MERICLV” ON jj]day’s liberal arts magfizine] AIR GETS SENATE NOD The Batt of those early days was (published by tw() ]“!iterary so- oietiea,” the Stephen F- Austin and Calliopean. They were debating and: discussion societies, and strange as it may seem today, they were the most important or ganizations on the campus. Four WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -i-t'Pl-] 1 A permanent “Voice pif America’* program to counter; world-wide} Communist propaganda ( against thq United States carried the unani-j mous approval of the Senate. The measure, first major, piece; of Ihgislatibn to clear itRe chamber this year, now goes hack to the; House for consideration of amend-i merjtSi The House pasked a similar bill last] June. out of five Aggies oh the other. Thei ted the editors of The Battalion, belonged to one se s three editorial staffs i>eing chosen every year, so that es eh staff put ! > _L i out thrCie issues. ! :L f ■ i -yx (?"•*■ 4 ;j # !! if i ocieties elec- The, Battalion- at least under j that name was not the first A. & M. Student publication. In 1878 two years after the college opened its dobrs, the Austin and Callio pean Literary Societies are said to have published the first issue of The Collegian, a publication about Which 1 little is known. This was ! later (renamed The College Jour-j nal, and was issued under that j name from 1889 to 1893. After i the January issue, ’93, The Jour nal suspended publication, bqt was revived in the fall Of that year as The Battalion. < Since the line from The Colle gian to The College Journal to The Battalion is unbroken, The Batt may claipi to celebrate its seven tieth apniversary in 1948, as well as its fifty-fifth under the present name. All official files of Texas A. & M. publications were lost in] the Old Main fire of 1911. Fairly Com plete files of The Battalion, The College Journal, and! The Long horn were reestablished by contri butions from exes, but ail copies of The Collegian have apparently vanished forever. The College Journal had a lav ishly-ornamented gee-gaw cover page, auch as was favored by mag azines in those Victorian days. It was pocket-size slightly larger o AGGIE, OLD STYLE (From 1908 Long Horn) nni.« adopted maroon-colored covers. The Battalion was published in that pocket-size format until 1914. est was] manifested it) game ajt all.'' By 19C was pripting reports of!( all gajiihjej in its two fall issilel] and |h A.&M. - Tulane game ((iji 1902] won by the Aggies -wsla jrevii IN VERSE.’ That ganW, ipfi tally, rhade the Aggilf '‘Chi piOns of the- South.'’ !l * Editorials Sound Familiar For all the difference's in ap pearance, there is a familiar touch in editorial comments of the early Battalions and Journals. In the first issue of The Bat talion/Editor E. D Bruce wrote: Onsured'Gridstjjehs "This thing of wading through In 19b0 The Batt cemfored water on rainy nights- caruiot last bers of the football team for long!" He suggested better cam- ferring cigarettes to. ilorv’ pus drainage and better street frequently breaking tra}iping e ti lighting, still subjects for editor- > ey by smoking or eating {items; ial consideration. j 0 n the] tjraining meny. Name}; Another editorial complained were printed. First gliUce at that prices at the campus store recor d makes it hard to urn (a private concern) were so high ; stand The Bhtt’s indignation. 1 that it was worth the 30-cent; & M. defeated LSU. Tiiiane,: 1 round-trip fare to go to. Bryan for i ori am i Houston by I lop-?. But—they lost itb ‘Vaifi Warren i Gilbert, ] and Herscl/i li* tWnltz. i Crosif comitry liittormen were j. it Bonnen, • lanol Hahn, and J. D- Ilamptom geologist Ui Talk On Oriental Soils T uesday. Jan. 20 | Jnmcsi Thorp, i‘l)iel! correllitor of ' the t’nileil States llepaytnjcmt of! Agricultjure, .will give an illiustrat- 1*1 leetuife on] the spill of Japan pml cither parts of t4)e (Orient jib the conference room of | the Agricul- tjjnil Experiment Btfition Ijuilrliiig 'fuiesday at 6 p.mj. I'Thorp is rpsponMli 1c for the das- sificatiop ojf soijs in 'the Gt\*at plains' tegiop. He was with the Mi 1 itary 1 (jedlogv Unit during the War and worked in the j Orient as- sjcpiMing iniorniajtlOn jon 'terrain fjor use in pjrepm|ing battlij plans. Following the wap he t wina'ined in the Pacific prpa Jo Obtain }hc col ored pictureH, which he will ex- .Bihit. | ’ - j. 1 j Previously; hej had spent itwp years oh a (special askignihent ii} China. The jlectu(re will le with particular emphasis on soilp ancj their usps. ] V 4 supplies. J had Apparently some' state papers ,d been editorially attacking the scores. (Ttfi dnd Sewanec. Flven tW a loss th Texas could sfli|r 8^ season. 4 . r college, saying that farmers were n’t getting enough from the col lege to justify the taxes they were j A Utile hard to beljtdvc is paying. The Batt invited the ed- fact thjit the chief article in itors to visit the campus and see first Battalion was a long cri what was being done. essay oh Shakespeare's) interpr: j - - 1 ’ 4 Ron of King, John! Otjher Same Letters to Editor describe “Life in the U :S. Ar A letter to the editor signed ) (Six installments). Th|e| two RS Departmen Offer Scouters I Course in Spring j Rural' Sociology 108/ Organiza tion for Boy Scout (Work, will be . - differed during thy spring semoster hy the rural sociology department, Dhn Ruisselh head of the depart ment, ahnouheed today, i “The 1 course isi designed to fit the needs of the student elntering the projfbssidnal field of scouting | afthougli anyone interested in skputint wiill profit froln the epurse/’ Russell };aid. yj, ij Inclui ed in the course is the his. j ! tpry of I the] scou t inovOmiiht, un- . i di rstanding tin} |l:oy, and fitting a Nemo” charged that the English ; g«st stpries ever carrileld by Were S dll} acceptance of the Ai ItM. pi toy', and f}ttin J piogranli to his lyjeds. A study will w, lur madci of the development] of boy, * 1 1 11 ' T leadership/ Reader’s Digest. The new lion appeared for ai while Ip, the first Issue j C If. • •;• than Battalion appei newspaper format, being 12 pages, each about a quar ter the site of present-day Bat talion pageW; Tjhtn it went back to the old JaurbM 1 size and style, - « ■ ’ I '• ;' ! i-' - f i ' hi ’ 1 department was assigning too much outside - reading. Ajidther letter in reply suggested -that if "Nemo” didn’t like it at A. & M. he "ifoould resign and go else where." , On the other hand, this state ment from an 1894 Batt now seems amusing: “Football at the A &M. C. is surely the coming game. Two years ago comparatively no Inter- • ’ ]! . l \ I '- Lj ! 4-1-4- if UJ 4- Collegei Journal Were Sully R. acceptajnce of the Aj kM. p dency, and the elaborat >1 mem service^ conducted in :he co cliapel when Jefferson jDavls Davis had been asked to bei first president of the lege: he declined because health but suggested fils Thomas^Gatliright insflqad right gpt the post. V ■' t ling, sea scouting,], Henirir i, and air scouting- I - ■'.i 1 ij 1 ■^4- 1,1,1 JL -i’”i 'in :!(] lilllllMlltRKIinill /]" ,V'