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E Page 2 fio tt alio it I ! I ; j (tier, Stateim SuDivan Ri sing the cost of livinigJ Dri agricyltural ijodi(icep-j w ith grain, cotton Knightly Gehtl’eln, Founder of Agg < tUARV 12, 1948 -fk ■ t seen his best prices. Fo now 'that the rest of t td take cafe of itsef. •tfeer retail drices should ly, or at least |stbp going ( euiMJl^I 1,0,1111 pilVV.O. j That questioh; i haf had .hiai jy students and , ! must be cheaper, instructors here biting f|l n l? t t r nails.all week world is beginni: long. Everyone is happy to (think that' pver- With food cheape all prices will isoop qome down, thus reduc- come down grad fi" frhe other hand, up, . ' J large stocks of But we still (fpn’tr get enough steel, or hardly enjoyed . enough of many K>f the things made of it, watching the dUof&tleiiis' dhsp the iimiii day nor enough oil, in|hi«|l-,|ip recen after day. THei Battalion’s ticker-tapes (have f become theijlifebliod of our industrial ma- been the centm of an agitatejl group all week chine’. | long, to an extent n< t experienced before. r k < All we have wlidd ijs to leave the ultimate Harry T. | Hj[on(tg<|)meiiyJ general buaine.^s consumer ivith efibMgh'monby tp buy these ” liingi inflation of .the past raiining the Gonsumer of rit would Hhve spelled cradh. i Ame^cajnii goiisumer can sit money. Too much of-it wo A Juy to himkifi ‘|‘So far, so ^ the disaster of ab economic good.’^Now there ,a *e r btiheri things to! think But — barring ptthic — that crash now nfi l. ' 1 ,[ can be avoided, T^le |yorld { V. XX i i ^ V % — •, VX XX • , X If r, \S A 4 V4 XX SJ XX ^ f X 4 4 M -X XX x land? Mjill it be brought from over-producing’-and it hasi 10 percent ^hajt i;Ht check it?(How more inhabitants than? it did before the war. about.’] ( . J4r Is a recess at h on by panic selling? ; far can the£cf 4bmniodity prices plunge! and still leave us! vyiti . ust ia rhlalthy readjust* ment? .. - | • ^ The top bushrisr brains of the country flation, i i i |' { ,■ • i i i i. i * ll »1 . i ! r After allowannd is] mac ever, the econbmiiiitp filnd p view the situation qalrrili. Thhi is wiajt they see: too many things thjat p be able to get -for Isom aye ■nbify, ,fce n eral business ! consumer \vith ef editor for thq Assrjrciktedi Press, believed that things. The spec post-war inflation his hadSits back broken, six months was and that the f r “ ” back today airnii as a ic'hole is far * ’4 fii [ r I US HAVE FAiTH THAI Riv.-HT MAKES MIGHT AND N THAI C AITH LET US TO THE Nij DARE TO DO OUR DUT AS VE UNDERSTAND IT '• ft fi ft- # CCOf ER IJH QN N‘y\ OR* Ff-fi, 17 ?8/,0 r !-t; !• *i^l S i ^plU, B Oft the VI M tu K c Whist^ That Kill Flies Invention; Only Drawbad By LARRY <*001)1 m The latest issue of the Journal of the Acousti- Society of America discloses a way ;to kill fifes 1 mosquitos that is downright sensational-r-pro- v ded the user can stand the after-effects df the hod. It’s a siren whistle that kills flies apd other in- Sts in 10 seconds. The whistle, too .high-pitched for human ears to hear, nevertheless makes a person cfose to it dizzy after a short ve to be in the sound streir. r _ _ r , . Of him is directly in the beam of $ound, close )p, that part gets : very hot ; * . ! If a hand is placed in. the stream, with fingers touching, the place where the touch, is burned. for every- pondered theijejquts' ioiisl thii week, and most analysts*vfi?vfetl the situation with confid ence. ip-ri j . : i ] P ] |v " First H must bp i-ecbgniKjd thait whenever there is room fpr it niq, wh<}rever tpeople act in the mass as (they dpi on t^e nation’s great trading marweis, m ythibg j an "happen.! The psychological| fkctui is the jpker in the| eco- nomist’s deck cards. It is ohe big unknown , , , ~ y. . j ■* . *. * - it S t* loi this hov- cun expect goods tA pe thrown ipto the mar ket for wHat'prbfit.'j cjaii still bt* had thrusts prices flirtjioridojwiji. So far, hiowevejrl; the situation seems to There should be plenty of wor. one. Mm j : Since we h^ve #ljl Hinted an end of in- lation,,we shouldiyt mourn events that are killing it. What we \yant is stabilization— we want prices dbvin Where we dan continue the record prosperity we have been building up since the war. |] | We ddirt want' prices to go down too fast, or too far, hoover,-and thejre are some dangers that they might. | : , jj A danger lies In our gray markets and large inventoried of goods Which people -pi' Wi. 'Mg mtrntmMW ha**)* * r f~T' 1 mty of room iir coiihm| dities was over- be in liand.i Tfhe coijif The 1 shakddowt due. Now it pas (j)ne. iBut nomy as a whole t ded. There aije 1 itobji jnanjyj*jo(l|| yet to be [lone. BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS . Love, Humanity That Maple Steinbeck Shown in ‘Pearl’ 1 Til ! | Tif. ’] r. \f f By MRS.|WH,NORA ARNOLD isjhfws [thc upusukl land profound Readers’ Adv#«!r | aves overheat their bodies. It heats anything the )und-blast touches. Cochroaches and caterpillars lie after* three or four minutes of exposure while fhite mice go down for the ebunt in just one. inutej. H r 'fi! :!: if p| [ Experiments jin the diroctioh of iiisect-kpling are being made with the hopp of sompday uSmg 16ud speakers p to kill crop inseqts] j) l| SENAT01W AND SAPS Political announcements— seem to have hibernated for another sibc weeks in Texas.; , - . An Associated Press story olit of Austin may provide the answer: too much biting sarcasm from members of the press directed at our ; politicians. groundhog grocer; ed 10 c I" A insky do tipped tossed 4 v Th like this 812 GP A nega fl inized tl e the barely I table wich, cfy taiitl ing abpjL t. He uppedlj with ahigh aijif which l)i{ dtopkpd out War n People ? ‘A slenator.Ane of the oldtiniurs iiture, stilted that politicians arc * t und thaw and the sap to rise.”’ asked ja ’reporter. * tip dignity jolted, made no reply. NT BUY * en entered Isadore Lashirtsky’s * icago last Saturday and purchas- ‘ jMStacjhkJ ^ut*. , V they returned, knocked Lash- , on the head with a loaf of bread, Ty of goods (jn the counter and upd the store. ;i . . d on the (way :|out that they didn’t the nuts. ] - . til: 1 - : :■■■■.■ 'v lojiking felliw Went into a La Cie- lad wjr summoltjitd the u *ant in Hjo lywood recently, *crut 7 and realized his total assets would to acqui -ei a jpeanut butter sand- hot the cipb ste^k he’d been dream- *• , ! ’ 4 4 wilier, wuit <fewn the inenu card (ti ibBled on a/blank piece of paper lat the rcceptfon desk on the way f? 1 T :V n thd figures 1004180. The cashier qnknager anjd after a long consulta- the message*\ ? for I a|te nothing.” -1L—— Letters Impoiftant 1 :ture wiill be win j Hall, Longhorn picture wiill be EAST TEXAS A&M p. Thursday, YMCA. EX-SERVICEMEN’S BRIDGE CLUB. 7:15j YMCJA. Cabinet Room MCA Cha- “C AM PC S CORN ER”—BAH!—II Editor, The Battalion: Throe cheers and a tip of the hat to the jpersons responsible fur choosing t|e names* of the* two confectioneries. ‘ ^ i I think that each of them ^hpukl be awarded, a golden tea cup janjd- one each extra-long key chain so that they might look like '/‘Tcii- slppers” as long as they seem to think along that line. i; I f uuiuunu “Campus Corner” might well do,. effect df these exciting e/ents on! if this Welle a school Where the! * t-t u n L * a little] Vermont Village—i village presence of! the fairer sex would'] l lub will meet I i 1 ' I VE hlursdaij EL PASO CLUB, 7:^ Thursday, Room 324, Ac; FALLS COUNTY A& 7:301 p. m., Thursday, R. Acujdeniic, GALVESTON A&M CLJ f: B, 7 if Hademinl mi-.i Thursday^ Room 120, GRAYSON COUNTY C p. ni, Thursday, Room 1(0(5 tAc ,* V I* Frida demib, Election of officers Ml GAUOEN CLUB, 3 n. mi ‘"fA.\ '' i I . « .. I ursilai ng at\7;ii0 in Room 3ttl of thr r - I J.IJf"' BLARL. Bj John Steinbeck, of |ut 200 men and womer sudden- make the place seem a^littlc •m.otW*' v'en ng.ul.7;|j0 in 1 IS I Viking; 19li. ly transformed jivtio a city pf 20,000 than the prfson canlp it is. Acacemic Buildmg^ Here, in this short book illumr/pluiige<|l‘into tHe draJilest campaign I peisonaiUy think that a ntbce Thumfliv Room -f\ natod by the* dchp uhdl*rstundhl|j/ in pur |C0Untry , .S history.' I macr*nlin<» fiAlmrlirwr numo Yimnlil hl» *! - J. 4^. .. masculine sounding name would be] and love of humanity that Havel J Before Danid Wiibsteil arrived,! more appropriate for the joipti mer has hi^gains, and *»« ot humanity that have:. «e«ore uanwi wuuswit J* ;..vl„4 uJ Tfu: *„i.. made John Steinbeck, Okie of the thg toWn of Stratton sajl quietly But who am 1 to say? 1 guess hrinatiorisjeco- can expect \\ hat he ultimately mo s t beloved writers of our day, beneath its. mdunitaip, defeat, selfthat 'l will, continue to eat j mV g to be StagTipe- gets fronl th^ price llrftak—-a healtHy stablll- is an old Mesican folk tale-Hhe respecting, and peacciful-li ' n * * . . • . " plejjneed and Won’t e Jjtinie. zation or some kirn :pend on developpi? should tell him mij :h Third Parties Unpopular... It seems jtliiat jnobtixiy :1 governor and Heiiry iVS^lMe are seribusly interested in (tmrriparty actj yities this year, Wallace. ,of (jours.is extreme] left, ! and Fielding (Wrig it dt-tejissjppi irisb far right that ev|n(Ta;'t lobksllij e a Commijinist, or a damnyankee, which setinds even Worse. The BatUlipn’it editorial’ position, tjiat a bolt of Soutviejrn bemjocratj L would' simply giVe .Republri’ains p free\h;iiid and dp the South no go<!idi al | all,! Wap ] ieen echoejd by most of the in|lu<ptial-papd’s df the South, - Senator Pepper* (Dj-FlajJ , (he solid South reja if sej, jhe reporter, it Will ble the Republicahp aiiy.goojtl “There is: iio . . dfe statedn the smith t Pepper safldi rei the presidentfs biv if ter aii, ? »ot much differeiice o| Walled Soutliefrt Coittserya|tii'i the Northernl Rep Meanwhilfe Gov], Fiejldlhf issippi i.said jhp ij . detferinlji souihern protect nil ve. He Severe Hardi The) compel itii in .it, Mississippi’s democrats tp decidif back “i ished. •! tp net back “anti-soutBi ublicans hartji, a wide fro tit furnished a of a recessit The next H-Will de- story of the grefat iHiiirl, how ft, weife,.fiirmei*s wp^kiiig ha few days j > vas . found, iind Ihow it] was .(lost ] q Ijvin : ,' from the stony jjagaini ' -j ; : 1. ; ]i! doil th.-blacksmith, the s' ce. Thorp- doughnuts and drink YCLl thursdayi Room 12S, NAVARRO COUNTY CLUB, 7:30 p..m., Thursdu^ floor of thp Academic Electjioh of otficerK will t»|( PORT ARTHUR CLUB It represents Bteiifttupk in • the diiver, the villae^ ministzr. Thei*e ‘vein whkh his iCHders Hike most, was ycung Chiirltis (Chittenden, in a simple story pf simple people, loye w||th Uu* minister's daughter recounted with the warmth and but fearful of marriage; Zilpha sincerity and umtvaled eraftsiian- Braytoi,. shiftless Reni Brayton’s ship he brings to his Writijig. ft is pretty Iwife, whoj contemplated a one of! the most dpcply moving tpleB misdenjeanpr which enyoljved Isaac nd S.everal others. Ther unerr] er fcRs not (kspair but hode for , restlessj anticipation .‘jpreajd through : ^ whiting itgin. N( *■"***» io5 ' s agccoath .,ny prof). Disslatisfiedly yours, BILL HARRINGTON, RIO GRANDE: VALLEY -rrr—ri *—“rif ’hursday, Room 125, Academic Building. | ij ' ! \ TRANSl-PE^OS CLUB, 7:15 p. (Thursday, Room 233, Academic Ju(iding, (Elec|ion of officers. ! / 'RI-CITIES' A&M CLUB, 7. f p./ ru.,. Thursday, Room 106, Acaderivic. THE! EL PASO CLUB will-meet ’’hursday February 12 at 7:110 in {iMim 324! pf ihc Academic Build- im/j v ‘ Tv wichiTa Balls club 7;i5 p. nj Thursday, Room 208 Academic, i’liuis. will] be jrimdc for the Easter ftirhecue. • I . ' i’"-f 1 ■ " * trdiitecture Instructor Passes State Examination jl' I r • ■•’ Boil S; 1 Haiwmons, instructor in lirchitcctute, Texas A&M College, liias piiisid tjie examination fo» he licensing pf architects in Of: State of (Texas, the* State Board H ATchitLctuval Examiners hai Wnounced. ! ' / I + ' ,/tl including thd Constitution—tjhe [first of; Which Js oiie. of the most con8ej*va:lve pHpori in Dixie, While the other is Rnje c& the iin(js| liberal. So the sentiment arhdng jSouthieijn| newspaper vib servers mustlbe prbtty; genjelal. said yesterday lly jnfy.be breaking up. old j an ‘Associated Press tbio ho\y party leaders who legislation” ban be pun- , , . ,. ; , Tr ; I f. i; »• he hals ever told., ti*agudy in the Mead j. j. . .i | i "u }■/ !!''[( , > iij } j great] tradition, jfi bcfujjjfuUy |ai^j|[ I Tht Republicans hii 1 man Op dinners furnished 'I-tbrum for most of the llankin(i - ! thej wjiiting crowds, on Stratton COP orators ' i * It is the story. too. of a family, Mountain. Next d|y, !ther< were go- * o / ‘ .V< ii' Avi' • .;L i, • the special 'Solidarity of; la man-and: ing to pe ten bands, hard cider for oenatQl, raft |oJ Ohio carried his cam- a woman and their child!. Kino,:the all, an ox-pulling eointest and best paign for the KpQffl presidential nomination fisheivnan, his wife, Juana, and! the of all, Dan’l Webster—l-ntertain- into thajeorh belt With a speech at Bloomiing- baby, Cpyotito, have ai closeness .miint, education, and h story all x— tii- f that ijs inflestrucRble. ^evejn in th^/ rolled into one,. To ejkch, the giant terrible e\ covery of ton, 111. He repeated charges that the udministra- ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY i ii itoiuoii, SU UOMHVuuy ana i nert* were others who lame, and 7 ; 30 p. m., Monday, 'Room 39, Phy- ingly presf'iiM that;{he;riul- not juit for political nasmvv A sics. John Chilton will speak on the, (Is not dedijair but hoi|e ; for , restless| anticipation spreatl through “Carbon Cycle.” mankind. ./jb 1 | ihq wjiiting crofeds. on Stratton BRUSH COUNTRY CLUB, i p t , It is the story, too, of a family, Mountain. Next day, (thei t weie go- . Thursday, Room 308, Academic.! BKAZOIUA COUNTY C L t T B.; Thursday, Room 126, iAcadelmlc Building. i i j i BRAZOS CHAPTKI? TSPE 7:3(1 I1_ l i v» C/1V. , l. v:4i Hi • 4. Suva/ I/IIV*. *, v v 11, viix ents that follow the ’dis- meeting would act as a c italyst to tbc, p4arl, the destruc- their d :sires, bringing sudden tra- .s^eJi'R j.nd the Atlanta tion is trying to ke^p prices high so that the tion of the dream. “As with all; re- g«dy to some, happiness Republican Congr^|s may !be blamed I. ^ i ’ i <|U 'Pre/Mem Xifc's: request'for wage- F°f H v Miv.r - ; black and white things; :and price controls and ritiObmg power, Taft said, n o in-between abywhcBe. If this m n j! i o it* was an attempt to ket “a strangle hold over ( story is a parablie, perhaps every- I ft KpiUV^Ilt A A/VI irid commerce ” ° 1K ; h u is ow » meaning from it! 9 ™ 1 ? ^ 1 and reads his own life mto it.” all industry, agribi|ture and Other political (evelopments;' The* AFL appointed Joseph 1), sjoivla process to do ril£)48. ue.stfo|i |a >out it,” h<i de- Trumsui! iiill carry every gaiij thijs ypar.’’/ protests against iSogram, hbvtever i ;nti angry rigptfe'fo - may mark a shift away froifi ^olid southern democratic stlpborj in lutuf ■ “After'all,’! hh said,! ference there will lie ririfjSrf^~T ] ri.f , . _ ] / .rPRe new!c|ileiidatsi Tenfiipd us that lElec tionDay in 1948 falfo 1 yeans, f r • find there is etween thjj so- \ resignea to as: . Democrat^ and party presidential (ampajgli. Wallace renMei His attack 0(ii adminis- Wright of Miss- tration foreign policy;in! a, radio address at id to keep the New Yoirk. He said it supports ^Kings. Re- tbltt a newsi con- actionaries and FAbci^fo all aTouRd the m^jjtjing bf southern world.” !/ ' u for it told tales that are j fij) people’s hearts,” theji author salys, "there s 11/1 What’s Conking? to others.; Keenan, secretary of the Ghjcago Federation of Labor the tamarack TREE. ByiHo- ( Collegi' to organize the! AGL’S league political edu-I war Bresljn. McGraw-Hill, 1947. Baton cation “as a powerlul force in thd 1948 cam- The] Taniaiack tree cast.its long! frac paign;.'' Th, league w® cm!«ntrate on eject-; | IRg congress m^RiP-rsi']pPM oppose the Taft- a sma ii New England village. Row- j membejs aided in the judging. Hartley act. .Ii! | '! .] | ar<kBroslin has hrie written afus^! Hemy d! Thucm has been elec- nior poultry judging team represent A&M in a Southern ite contest to bq held at Rouge on March 29-30. rice work hifs been done 1 and at the Hous on Stock where firospecti r e team i p. m. Monday, EE Lecture Room.» CORPUS UHRIST1 CLUB, 7:l.f' p.m.. Room: 227, Academic Build- \ w : r m COOK COUNTY CLUB 7:30 pj m. Thursday) Room 2*24 Academic. 1 COMMUNITY WOR LI) DAY PRAYER SERVICES, Friday, 3 p. j hi., St, Thomas Chapel, N DEL RIO .CLUB 7:30 p. in. Thursday, Reading Room, YMCA. DENTON COUNTY CLUB. 7: p m., Thursday, Ro6m 3|03. Good- ■)» "1*— — — "jri - • CIO President Philip Murray said at ty 'and powerful historical novel Cleveland he is against a thiytLpartv this 1 thy days when a President was year because ill! It do iU **«fe ipiit J^ $ 18^728!^^ an4;divide tRe liboi, \ote. CiO General ( der—and only incidentally politics. ■ ' ; ; Coubsel Lee pfossrian, who disagreed, has For three days in July, 1840, ft c, g. Ryan will coach 0 resigned to a^slsf 4eiy r jj A. VVaHaye’s third 1 •- m...* <] . , * . sident of the Poultry Science Club. Rrank Stockton is vice-presi- secietary- cr report- Nbvember 2nd, Sboth-sayer^ and d nt tRat th^ last s habjbjendd! fhe|;c(|>i|ntry suffered a the ‘earliest possihle date, readers of almiamies pdint i 1 ■ •t-’t '• '•-R—f- —t- three days in July, 1840, it seemed as if the whole nation lhad dcscCnded-on Atratton Mountain to hear the great Daniel! Webster speak; Tile l AMARACK TREE ilr l-r—I. judging team. For Your Visual Problems Consult - Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main — Bry an Phone 2-1662 e poultry j ygbndslide. A pew] frontier epic called The Uneon <inere(\, built arotnd the grisly ©Id theme, ^ that the! only*.gpojt I^clian is a dead Indian, is using the advdrtising, slogan:: “Only an Indian woUldn’tl like this picture.-] (Mi/M l. local siibuTbMesil.are liniud uft to bijyi tele- a typewritten memorandum attached: ‘ ^ ‘ ” 1 * lay in delivery th'dugjh the cou^tes^ of the vision setfs. sitter unless jyour - The. Batta of College £>ta afternoon, exeip jished semi-we*k * r ,News contl* W;iii Hall. ! Cl; $09, Goodwin A calendar bio sitters being tion gimmick of the Hell Messenger Service, licago thaf the came to us the othfer day by mesa " allion, olffifcialij njevislapCr df jhe i Agricultural and MecharilcallColiqge of Texas and the (pity r n i .ii. .n • T- times a week and circulatjed '^ytu' tfion, Ttojlas, is p i dujrhg Nli ished. fiyb times a week and circulatjed Monday through FYiday rs land! ekanfination periods. During'thevitimmer The Battalion is pub- jM bscri|fti jiL rate $4.30 ijer school year. Advertising; ' All-Americaai CHARLIE MUR ■ ri—ii i^lch Llndlcy Entered aa setopd-fclas.'i nlaUei Office at, College S^tio Teit<s, Die Act of Centre;a <ft lldnlh 3,1»70 T" 1 1 ; I 'I •IMMIE 1 n’t get i j baby iired for video, i Railway Rxprgs.s (’0. strike;” ter for October, a promo- senger, with irhed: “De- BaffaIio1| tidnd may b: fed ads may fi I inade by telephone (4-5444) or at the] editijiriall office, Roonji 201, $ udei|t: Activities Office, Room iced by telephone (4-5324) or at the T. Miller,' KeMiWh Boi(j Jack T. Nolen ? ,t. L.-Blllintuley, ];.ar y Giooi fora Carter„';T«| ' van' 1 ii, !: 1 ; i o°< wynr.J ' 'etamnM I ates furnished oh led cxcluijive|y ito the use for republicaftlbnsf o£ | in the papijr and local news of spontaijeoi jier matter, herein are also reserved. bir of The Associated Press rtltm/ o£ ail jnews dispa Xhes credit- AjSociaited Collegiate Prjrss Member . . . . .Wire ., .Managing , .Feature .. . Feature ! -U,- ft-p—r-t jted nationally bp National Ad- loc.. at).lew York City, L, H herein - fril Editor . MAurlae Howell Sdltors j Grady Griff:., imra,' Editor ' Sum I.anfo ’ Vritera Art Howard i James OeAnda. __ , [ Herabell Shelby ,RtfotUn Sob Knadtoy ... Ifi 1 Viii'ii,’: Franclaco. |.Co-?Wltors IF* 1 m Hammend] tMinj Manager ;>Spdrt4 Editor Opens 1:00 p!,m. 4-11^1 T O D A V LaiJigj uUmmlrlo mflIUnC Ethel BARRYMORE; MOSS ROSE ITOI ri ap —Features rih—r ■ I 11 i Mi j i [ 1:20 - 3:05 - 4:50 -6:35 r 8:^0 10 05 M! it'ri 1 vM$ 1 jy. Cartoon I’ ■ wv iwa fi 1 m mmmi l^riAHR Dr tfohn S. Caldwell Optometrist • Caldwell's Jewelry Sfore Bryan, Texas FRIDAY and SATURDAY DALACE ■ 1 > H O N r > - H nlQ TODAY THRU SATURDAY l| " • l-f ; ;h4 ! HUMPHREY BOOART . ‘ | -i' ‘ ’ ' i -*in!- - . •; * I r ^Treasure of I : rif 111 I Sierra Msidre” TODAY— FRIDAY and SATURDAY The Dead End Kids Ij ”The, bowery Buckaroos’* •1 ;■* .! h