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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
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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
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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
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Nimber 100
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At|le|ci
Trophies Awarded Hollmig,
Winkler, Gary,k|
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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
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out thrCie issues.
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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. ]
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supplies.
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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-
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if
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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.
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i, and air scouting-
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