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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman’’
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Time to Face the Issue...
At the beginning of this year’s fall se
mester, student and faculty alike had reason
to believe that the Cadet Corps system of
student life was in a most precarious posi
tion. The “unfortunate” incidents that took
place during the spring semester last year
aroused interest from the Rio Grande to
Washington, and brought tremendous pres
sure to bear on the board of directors and
school officials.
Under this pressure, and in consideration
of the previous unsuccessful efforts that had
been made to correct or modify the practice
of hazing by the Cadet Corps, the Board of
Directors last summer came very near abol-
-dshing the Cadet Corps in its entirety.
Cadet officers were duly impressed with
the seriousness of the situation when Board
Member Tyree Bell revealed these facts to
them at the first of last semester.
In an effort to strengthen the position
of the Corps, the Senior class sent represen
tatives to meet with the Board early in the
• year and pledge the cooperation of the Cadet
“Corps for the success of the coming school
year.
Student-Administration relations as
sumed a decidedly rosier hue; a new and
more effective student government was es
tablished; and a higher standard of sports
manship was fostered between Aggies and
fellow members of the Southwest Confer
ence ;
I By the end of November, the old scars
bf bitter conflict over the “hazing” question
• were well glossed over and it seemed that
A.&M. had at last entered an era of perman
ent prosperity.
Already the majority of the student body
and faculty had sunk back into a complac
ent lethargy, very satisfied with the condi
tions which, they thought, had resulted sole
ly from their enterprise and effort. This is
where we are now—very content, back-slap
ping each other in blind self-satisfaction ov
er a job well done.
But—, viewed objectively, what seems a
^tremendous advance toward a better Texas
A.&M. has more logically been a series of
party steps that brightened the present but
assumed little value of lasting permanence.
Actually, they appear to be evasions of the
immediate and pressing problem, the ques
tion that has dogged the Aggie way of life
sincq early in this century, if not before;—
Can boys of 20 or 21 years of age assume
responsibility of disciplining their under
classmen in a fair, just, and moderate way?
After the flare up of last year, which was
Switch to Calvert (Hie!) ...
Christian HERALD says that one of the
latest Calvert ads quoted a Mr. Jdenry Kopf
as “having switched to Calvert because it
tasted better.” A PM reporter found Kopf
“in a fifthrate saloon in Union City, New
' Jersey.” The distinguished man said: “I
didn’t get nothin’ oiit of it. Me and Louis
Setti, we were sitting here drinking. So while
we were drinking, the agent of the Calvert
Company, he comes in and says, ‘Did you
ever try Lord Calvert?’ So we says, ‘No.’ So
he says, ‘Have a drink on me.’ John (the bar
tender) didn’t have Lord Calvert, but he did
have Calvert Reserve—that’s a little cheap
er—and we found out it was a very good
drink. Then he asks me and Louis our names
and addresses and we gave it to him. I’m a
whisky drinker. I’d drink any whisky just
as long as it was whisky.”
Federal mediators are attempting to pre
vent a walkout at Western Union. The
Don’t strike—
watchword, we take it is:
telegraph!”
Under “Baby Carriages” in the For Sale
classification of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle
appeared:
Brockway 1940 5-ton; perfect condition
with milk body.
One thing we would really like to see is
what would happen if an irresistible force’
met Mr. Molotov.
Reporting a Chamber of Commerce
meeting, the Springfield (Mass.) Union said:
“In his opening remarks, MacDonald paid
high tribute to the wives of politicians who
bare with them and often seem to admire
them while they are engaged in the consum
ing business of government.”
Under a Tamaqua, Pa. dateline, the AP
reported: “More than 100 anthracite miners
wearing lighted electric lambs on their
caps. . . .”
The United Press, reporting on a con
gressional resolution to adjourn, added: “If
approved, Congress would not return until
the next regular session is scheduled to con
geal on Jan. 6.”'
The Battalion
BUCK FEVER
Trampling Out the Vintage . . .
basically a controversy over this same ques
tion, the board of directors wisely proclaim
ed a “year of grace” in which upperclassmen
could sit back and view the problem in a true
light, unhampered by the traditional task
of “making Aggies out of the freshmen”.
After a semester’s reflection, the greater ma
jority of the senior class has found the true
problem, given it considerable thought, and
are probably capable of supervising a year’s
/ activity of the Cadet Corps, freshmen and
all, without the breakdown of organized dis
cipline into' pernicious hazing. However, by
the time Freshmen are brought back into
the main campus these present seniors will
have placed the reins of the Cadet Corps in
the hands of this year’s Junior class, thus
leaving the situation relatively unchanged.
The incoming seniors next year will have had
no responsibility in dealing with corps prob
lems or experienced the serious thought
prompted by such responsibility. Not ever
having known “the inside” on the actions of
other senior classes, nor being familiar with
the actual duties and responsibilities that
face leaders of the Cadet Corps, they will
be in a poor position indeed to “run” the
corps. They, like many of their unsuccess
ful predecessors, will probably be hampered
by a tremendous lack of foresight, and thus
will base most of their policies and actions
on what classes before them may have tried
and given up as unsuccessful, rather than by
the use of open minded and defensable logic.
If this is true, and all indications point
that way, it is time that we awoke from our
stupor and started planning for next year.
The Battalion favors the initiation of an
“Orientation Plan” whereby responsible ju
niors could meet with senior leaders and pos
sibly older Aggies who had held positions of
responsibility during their cadet days, to dis
cuss the various problems that have arisen
this year and in past years, and the methods,
both successful and unsuccessful, that have
been used in dealing with them. In addition,
the delegation of more authority and respon
sibility, to members of the junior class would
add valuable experience in the handling of
Corps affairs.
The senior class could aid powerfully in
converting this plan from a mere idea into
actual practice—certainly it is their duty,
as Aggies, to act in some way for the per
manent welfare of the Cadet Corps system
of student life. Shirk this duty, fail to face
this issue squarely, and they will -have failed
in the most important task that has faced
them in A.&M.!
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ON THE SCREEN....
Stool Pigeon on the Spot
Realistic ‘Kiss of Death’
Bv DAVE SELIGMAN
KISS OF DEATH (Campus, FS)
Lacking the warmth and moral
spirit of “Boomerang”, “Kiss of
Death” deals with the narrow field
of criminal and cops, but retains
the realistic and convincing atmos
phere obtained in the former. In
its own way the film is a clean
knockout.
KOD is the story of a burglar
named Nick Bianco (Victor Ma
ture) and of the difficulties he en
counters first as a criminal, then
in trying to extricate himself from
the underworld. Having turned
state’s evidence and belonging body
and soul to the D. A. (Brian Don-
levy), his liberty depends on his
cooperativeness as a stool pigeon.
His life, and the safety of his
children and his second wife (Co-
leen Gray), the first was a suicide
case, depend precariously on sec
recy and on police protection.
The fright and suspense of the
closing scenes depend on the con
ception of Tommy Udo, an acquit
ted, pathological killer, who gives
a remarkable performance. The
earlier sequences are as hard, cold,
and clear as so many panes of
glass and even in their quietness
are fascinating.
Two members of the advertising depart
ment of the Mobile (Ala.) Press Register
found out the expensive way that it pays
to advertise.
P. D. Beville, head of the local display
advertising department, and Bobby Spotts-
wood, solicitor, placed classified ads in the
newspapers and received quick answers
from each other.
Beville wanted to buy a tricycle for his
youngster and Spottswood wanted to sell a
tricycle which one of his boys had outgrown.
Each paid 75 cents for the ads.
Mrs. Spottswood read Beville’s ad and
telephoned Mrs. Beville, who bought the tri
cycle.
Spottswood and Beville work in the same
department and their desks are only three
feet apart.
Jenkins to Lead
Church Singing
Welcome back Aggies
“POP” SHAW
is still making those
GOOD HAMBURGERS
for you.
QUEEN
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HUNT STROMBERG
GEORGE SANDERS
LUCILLE BALL
CHARLES COBURN
boris KARLOFF
executive producer HUNT SI ROMBERG
relrmJ thru United Artists
Beanblossom to Be
Officer of Texas
Poultry Council
CARNEGIE HALL (Queen, Th
FS). A galaxy of stars parade
their talent in that famous audi
torium where the best of all finally
end up. This is one of those ex
travaganzas which Hollywood puts
out ever so often to let you know
all the favorites are still running.
The money they save on screen
play writers they spend for the
short periods each entertainer ap
pears in the movie. It’s a musical
by every standard and if you like
’em go to it.
SU N VALLEY SERENADE
(Guion, FS). A revival of the de
parted: Glenn Miller heads his or
chestra once more in a musical
comedy starring Sonya Heinie,
John Payne, and Lynn Barry. The
F. Z. Beanblossom, poultry mar
keting specialist of the Extension
Service, was elected secretary of
the Texas Poultry Council which
met in Gonzales during the latter
part of January.
W. R. Archer of Houston was
elected president; R. E. Janes of
Austin, first vice-president; George
P. McCartyh of Fort Worth, sec
ond vice-president; and V. F. Tay
lor of San Antonio, treasurer.
The council’s program of 1948
was announced. Items to receive
support of the council are quality
egg marketing, year-round mer
chandising of turkey, a farm and
home egg-laying contest, and the
Chicken of Tomorrow Contest.
Counties throughout the state
are to be selected in which the pro
jects approved by the council will
,be put into effect, Beanblossom re
ported. A poultry council will be
organized in each county with the
responsibility to work with all ed
ucational agencies to develop the
projects.
Members of the A. & M. staff
who attended the meeting in Gon
zales were D. H. Reid, poultry de
partment, W. J, Moore, extension
poultry husbandman, Dr. J. H.
Quisenberry, head of the poultry
department, George Draper, state
poultry supervisor, Ross M. Sher
wood, head of the department of
poultry research, and Beanblossom.
Moral of This Story: Don’t Give Junior
A Chemistry Set-Even If He’s Passed 101
Six police squad cars and eight fire trucks rush
ed to an address in Los Angeles recently in answer
to an explosion report. One man said it “blew me
right out of my living room chair.”
Police and firemen searched the neighborhood
and found a shredded metal container, a burned spot
on the sidewalk, and information that several young
sters in the neighborhood who received chemistry
sets for Christmas had apparently progressed be
yond the instruction stage.
EASY MONEY
By LARRY GOODWYN
FATE THEY CALL IT
The latest yarn from Hollywood is entitled
“Star Doubles for Stunt Woman”’—or “How To Rake
In the Dough While Doing Nothing.”
The “star” in this case was one Miss Jacqueline
White who made the story possible by the simple
expedient of falling off her horse. The accident oc
curred in the filming of R. K. O.’s “Return of the
Bad Men,” when Miss White’s horse shied at a
rabbit and threw her in a chase scene. Luckily, the
fall was in the script—Miss White was supposed
to have been wounded and fallen.
The director voted the scene okay and the
woman stunt rider hired for the fall drew her full
check and went home, commenting “This is the first
time I ever had a star double for me.”
Arthur Crenshaw is willing to admit today that
he apparently just wasn’t meant to have a saw.
He collared a thief who had stolen his saw and
thrown it into a yard. After turning the thief over
to police, Crenshaw turned to the yard and saw the
saw was gone.
SO YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT TROUBLES
The automobile of John Sanborn of Midland,
Mich., broke through the ice of Saginaw Bay while
he was fishing nearby.
So a Pinconning, Mich., firm sent a wrepker
to retrieve it. That broke through and sank too.
A pilot, attracted by the crowd on the ice, land
ed to see what was going on. His plane broke through
also.
The problem now is to retrieve all three ve
hicles.
OVERSIGHT
This intruder didn’t give himself a ghost; of a
chance.
Not only did he pick a house where 11 state
policemen were quartered, but in entering a window,
he upset a stack of dishes and fled leaving behind
his jacket conveniently bearing his name and ad
dress. His name was not disclosed.
Law of Possibility Related To
Planning Engineering Projects
PALACE
TODAY — THRU
SATURDAY
set is in the famous resort from
which the movie- got its name.
SCANDAL IN PARIS (Guion
Double Feature). In the leads of
this little drama are Carole Landis,
Akin Tamiroff, and Gene Lock
hart. More or less something to
fill the second spot on the double
billing, the feature will do that
but .nothing more. The scandal?
You find out.
“Your chances of filling an inside straight or being dealt
a 13-spade perfect bridge hand are kinfolk of problems en
countered in planning engineering projects—related by the
laws of chance or probability.” So says Henson K. Stephen
son, A. & M. professor of structural engineering.
The theory
of probability was
elevated from cards to engineering
at the 95th annual meeting of the
American Society of Civil Engi
neers in New York January 22 by
Stephenson.
Stephenson presented a paper
before the group in which he used
the theory as an approach to the
solution of problems associated
with the behavior of highway traf
fic.
His paper covered a “variety of
typical problems relating to vehicle
grouping, which illustrate how the
method may be used for estimating
how often sequences or groups of
vehicles might be expected to oc
cur within given lengths of time
or distance.”
This would be useful, Stephen
son said, not only in the construc
tion of highway bridges, but also
in determining the need for warn
ing or stop-lights at highway and
street intersections.
He emphasized that the main
objective of his paper is to de
velop a method, rather than de
cide on numerical conclusions,
and said:
Walter Jenkins and his wife, Vi
vian, will sing and lead singing
at the A&M Method/st Church,
Sunday Night, according to Rev.
J. F. Jackson, church pastor.
Jenkins will bring duets, soloists,
and other singers from Houston
to assist in the program.
He has been International Ro
tary song leader for the past year
and is going to South America in
the near future to attend the next
International Rotary Convention
there.
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“At present, no satisfactory
method has been developed for es
timating how often two or more
heavy trucks, or combinations of
these and lighter trucks, may oc
cur on various parts of lengths of
a bridge at the same time.
“Since both the maximum stres
ses, and varying numbers of rep
etitions of lower stresses- that
might result in fatigue failure, are
practically all produced by heavy
vehicle groups rather than by in
dividual trucks, it is highly import
ant that a satisfactory method be
developed for estimating how of
ten these events would be expected
to occur.”
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