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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1948)
. - ■ - [ j tieiman^ Knightly Gentkmari’] j | Reiss, Founder of Aggie Traditu . iw iTn the ; huifd]|e, .wer^ discard' tivitifs more in kee )ing wit: of A.&M. were ad j rfhe Student Senate Were particularly A serious blov. | tatiion Fr(d4y nigh| Rest s' WelcoS atifyingl Nasi deal by the. grout sluddnt lead- J enior Class, s ;andards of t with suc- t iment. So- g at football l layers wei^e >a id other ac- ef, 2 percent just can’t iy past the type of ri valry in vogue with jthe pinner circte ft at apparent, but the seem to find their valry in vogi dunk High.” Exactly what juvenile delinquents faces the 98 perc that the solution i 1 , : do (with this group of s thle problem that now Jt. ^ The Battalion feels o this problem should j gained the distinctielhfSxfl of mentally weak f this year with tlj = hibitionism.’" The-jcloWns : referring probably .bought ing a migjhty walloii ; when they tosseq; : dressing room w i team.. Uhdoubtei ip for the buckets 3Ws of a ; brand of reasomn : in the past plotte \ morale oil opposin | irtg their campusi r played A.j&Id. To *98 i they mployi ihgeniou football |t ithe w come from the I studphts, body. More speci- true spirit ! ficially, we suggest; that the Student Senate [achieved by formulate a code of sportsmanship outlining Committee the ideals and behavior expected of all Ag- &M.’s reput S The Battalion further suggests that the dired actions Student Idfe Committee I erSons, who powers to try such offenders and to' assess p first group punishment for infractions bf this sports- n the open” manship code. j i schoor ex- Penalties might range from suspension of ■ oni we are coupon books for iminor offenders to dis- Were strik- missal from the college for habitual trouble e of A.&M. makers, j j .J ud in thb As we have already stated, the majority ing athletic of A.&M. students (have outdone themselves !the same t others, who No Longer Just,52 ; Weeks tn Already Had Twdve; Plans By LAKEY OOODWYN event, a be ci ft|oauctb Ue, Nat|« il V < H the j Cl saving; appro] i ,tiom Ca weeK; Olhier ! makca it hated inlciude ApJ)! era, H’iShpriuenV ter Writ ball, Wiijj The hojney piA) their pr()d|jct.. Qk beginn tional I. i this year in attempting to live up to the ideals of “Sully”, found at the top of this editorial column* I \ i 1 It is to the small m&hority that we direct this discussion. This whole idea is projected j|| ; J . j' as a means nf preventing the minority from percent MPjthle stilt lefts at A.&M., destroying the worji of the student body as to.lowerthe is by paJint- [![before they the fallaoy in thisHtjype of i Who Are W. . ; ^ JTT'l,1-1 Since [ Presideiit 1 Since 1 Presideiitl ‘Truma I Civil Rights Prqt|r4rn, nul i have raised their voices in « ished ])ri)tei8t. fHsfr forem such legislation htj[ been itf supremacy. But, tpjiently a absurd reason foi[ defeating Bill was proposed Houston J M In a statemeiii: Febniajr ping is puite a whole. Ridding?... Poet Laureate Honors ‘Rattler’ lohes With Heart-Rending Ditty After hearinK .two playings-of “Old Rattler” and eating a l)«iled- lobster (tinner, Rudyard Couplet, poet laureate of Club Leggett, fell into a fitful sleep. After three houra Of cjreajpless and sleepless slumber, Rudyard jumped up with a start, pen in. hand, and jotted down the words re printed below. ; .j I I 'I By way of introduction, Rudyard is a native of Mog Mog in the province of Ulithi and is a regjjlar contributor to the “New Jcrsian” and the “Calvert Tribute.” He; is a personal friend of Ivan Yantis and an accomplished five-string;, banjo pljiyer. Couplet’s immortall lines follow: By id Dn\Rl) COUPLET The Day, an gotten, lional B< begins J Day on mi jMarcb p H rtey Wk e c : lr i Thursda; j - Negroes | that the; f publican hy Hug T ]• I to an ailing child vhy it must take castor- oil, Cullen lectured tp the I. |c y 26, Cul ttiemselfh sj (!) t< “want” bioth De: to “put '; ,resebted’ his I Southerners oil, Cullen lectured) biji;'“The greatest gift iiims os angu- ever received by the ^egro race was t.he,free- oJt)jeciio|i to dom given them byi thb Republican party on ijeat to white December 18, 1866. j At that time they be- and utterly came full-fledged American citizens and re- Civil Rights - ceived all of the rights of thei Constitution pv Cullen of of the United States,! including the Bill of ml _ Rights” (!) - H t •Cullen closed hlsjsftatement to the press . I with, “I think I can]sincerely Say that the publicans to “put ji jstdp ta|GHls pohtibal dd- magoguejry perpeti^ted up(fiM|iem so mani' times'inj the pastj;’i He fuj™!* urged that “they (tjhe! Negijbfisj) khou|||iell jthfeI politi cians they d.on’t|jv)a|nt to v|)|| !fof any mah -who frie^ to Win votes by a^^ting them. . . and jlq jaw can : bli! pajssed jstop! the bad ones'!members ^iCjbieth-rac ;i|| from hurting each othjer.” Cul}e: i icontimieM]by urging the Negroes; to fighif Upinst lanti-lynching law on the ground!that th a Jaw agpirist pepW e killing' “it’s absurd to pa.fvRiiiothe 1 ton Post last “advised” the r lake i|t clear Negroes have no h c td r friend in the State j-ats and Rp- of Texas than I, add I (want them to continue s political de- to have theft freed oni] along with the White .. ■ si- ■ t : Now Rattler wasjia good old dog, In the Words of iGrandpaV band, But hear Ing about it day and night, Was mbre* than Dcould stand. Morn apd night It seven,; And thon again |t noon, I heard the hackfieyed story Of how Rattler Chased a coon. • i . ; [■ : . f ■ j ■ When I, tuned in;chamher niusie, fiy the calendar, 1948 is just about! eight weeks Old—but it already has had twelve weeks, and by Dpcember 31 it will have passed one hundred, in stead of the calendar allotted fifty-twe. Likewise, 1948 will ha,ve far more than, its .allotp ed twelve months and 366 days, for *‘:oldly factual government report shows there are loo lew days, weeks and months to go around amoiig the various causes, worthy and otherwise, in Am irica. Thus far this year, for example, th ire! have been a Week of Prayer, Civil Service Wtieks, Printing Week, JaycCe Week, Idaho Potato and Obion Week, Large Size Week, boy Scout Week, N itional Heart Week, and the current period, ending today is Amer icanism Week, National Security’Wee i. Crime Pre vention Week and National Cherry Week. Next week is American Brotherhood Week. | You may not have known it, but February was Linen Month. March is going to be a bi^ mon,th for weeks, too, with period^ devotee tp National 4-H Clubs, Save Your Vision, Doughnuts, Table Ten nis, and Honey for Breakfast. The week beginning, appropriately enough, on April Fool’s Day wi|l be National Lau jh/Week, but, more somberly, April will be Natipna. Ganger Con trol Month by Presidential prpclamati(| n. April also will be Perfect Shipping Month, devoted tb stress ing better care of goods in transit; i j; National Laugh Week is sponsorei by the Na tional Laugh Week Foundation, 104 Eapt Fortieth Street, New York, and by the Humor Business Pub- li$hing) Company of the same address Its purpose is "to spotlight the activities of laugh jnakers; to pay tribute to laugh makers in all fields of the AmdHrom, seven laughing arts; and to help pi t & smile on iterate me fact ^he map of America.” 1 , ;■ i.. j I- I'M ’ All this and more information is yours for t^n cents in a publication entitled "Specia Days, Weeks .1 u”;u --. and Months in 1948,” put out by the inquiry refer- objg: .on ence service of the Department of Cortimerce, whose cl . •r 0 ( s how Miss Marjorie V. Davis compiled thi list for the Thejobjpct purpose of assisting business men ir coordinating out to) hi a “Hv advertising and promotional plans wit h such events. Col<j Similar compilations were made ] eriodically up said the! to. 1943, when they were discontinued because of in. mijl-iilr aft the war. Cautiously, the Commerci Department rifle. r ' notes that it has followed as closely i s possible the q^ v j "sponsor’s wording*’ instating the purpose of each ^ w (|| '- l j | j : 1H' I ' !• •- i ! i. ' I il -r."!l- r r“TUT- ; PM ACC It was t hrottled llo down jiy the sounds : race. i apa | one kindpf killiRg|M h ■tpejlujir of a We know conditions in the South are not so bad as Northern politicians like to paint them. Neither,aro the| so rosy as Mr; Cullen would have us believe;^ We have an ehoriRwus problem to solve in the South—nothing* less than replacing our centuries-old‘feudal system with some anti-Iyhching more modern scheme pi life. We don’t help jilreadyi exists ourselves by exaggerating either the good or pr people, and the bad of our presenjt podes. We must look nje designating at ourselves, squarely ^s in a mirror, and admit what we see thfcrb. Otherwise,! we are ent explaining “kidding nobody huUouijselves.” ] l he Soil... ; , publicity last has comman- affairs since A&M—or any! othtei that matter-r-ca' furthering the c; mr\ A&M. would take n coop I I servaticn authqri|ijis in t to bring to Texas some ur. in a lonjg hverkihljjed field. school iii Texas for 0 too much toward soil conservation. It widespread areas if its standing in the Then,) with Conserving A&M Teceivpq|! jstate-w week for work m a field w tied a vita)l;1posftip in puK>|L { «**».!* the days of Thboitlore Roc^lfelt—Boil Con- is urgently need Bervation. ; ! j||j | J - i this state is; to MfolA The meetingt o|i:the camfe of the Texas field of agricbltui State Soil Consjeryatiqn >Btal|(f and the sub- The part A&$I w|ll play will, of course, sequent statemeiiit by PrijJdent Gibb Gil- he primarily educational in nature. “We shall Christ did muchi tij further tip cause of both expect our represeritmlveato work with dis- A&M and 1 consjerjvktion irf pie eyes of the trict supervisors|(if:tH(j soil Conservation dis people of Texasi j;| ~~ ^ | \ , . tricts in an educfitlpnkl w r ay to further the President Qilolhirist empJnajsiV.ed the lead whole program,”.Gwdnmt sjaid. ing 1 with con- To the adminjiktira||ion for its Willingness ferall program in assuming reliability in the field of y needed work soil conservation;, W0 [give a pat on the back - and a wish to “ Of a ratllp down lhe h<jll Which (•rtntaincd |a pack of hounds. Then alohir abouf study finic ;• When I thought gthey had. called a truce, 1 would hear the-'boys with the banjot), j, Scit’amjhjg “Turn'; them ( piips a-loose!” Even nijt sleep \|as affeeited And fillod with parking Sounds; Instead ; bf counting sheep to sleep, 1 counted "Blue Tick” hounds. i : ; l r It's not that I’n# temperamental, Nor possessed of] bitter ways, But that discourse on Rattler’s troubles Has shortened my life by 611 days. The arresting officer was most decent Arid hoped iliy sentence wasn’t Jong. My lawyers were 'quite effective, Since they too hpd heard, the song. :i | I ■ ! The defk sergeant was sympathetic And wUS smiling; as he \trote, “Unprovoked attack on a gentleman. Who wiis wearing a coon-skin coat!” ■ ' r ' H M -/ t4t m iArgtj Size VfWk! wae no a week, d 5 ^otqd tfq ofS?F ™ Likra with Nai collector Christmi Sept. 19, ‘prdus on ' ii rdoifsemtilit b; uly and me H, Cct. l()i Better, Pjatenthajjx n6w iterutd all. | Eigj objd class 'to ani event should 11 tile departmeki’ i|ou might susiject, j -sized people, ittyrij no connecjlion he one is for, coin otb thrift through g I Week, beg 1 lining isj^widely separated icrce Dc] to have thfi lovier, Peanut, . t.j Hojbiby, posture, f, Sweater, t4o shots at promuiting foil Breakiast Week, ndjis just plain iNa- 0<)t. 24, y and Fqtliier’s n arc notifor- Aprll 24, as does Na- F atlier and Son \yeek w« now ;have 6 Crandmother's ItioWali Family Week add a .' i • 1 ; s, Mol itfei, bait the begins Week ant, Okli .Hat ntiyb ll'iflTi I( Judy Hfyant fiound a funnj coined this one it^ ro- tjne 'far isn’t over after He! Ell 1:. HB Judy Bryant round a funny )ook- fftreit and decided to take lit to friends! Tj j ]; ' i 1 ised k lot of excitemen ' Japanese thnei bomb. 8i Richie, National Guard Officer, i hell na 1 ibbsibletje and' yas set-to explode hiring fired from a smooth!bore U' ijrship cjxpl) the khell i i, pol InoW. Richie if fnilthrj oountfy. said i j- . j J I! Letters Under “Persons Is” umns of the Clerks “HOWARD; ft contact Shobe Nil)! coming Homer item ih 'i LAS'! a, Washington,; D. Negro Who had itt on at Then followed: ‘luther rti tries or PRge SB.f’ nil 1 mi Healdline on Paige Onq’i soil conservation;, iwe j, ‘keep ™ the good work.” classified eol- j’a.) Telegram: / asked by the Assoeiatj led, caused by illustrating the weathj VE WIB’E but 0, the pajier replied ; .; spital bill.” pictures up here uRtil When the Butfe (J^ont.) Daily Post was ed Press for a picture at at 23 degrees .below We don’t usually take jit gets cold, but we'll Hr Hi | COMPARISON ' Editor, The Battalion;: Now that the Freshmen . Segre gation Plan has been tried for pne Semester,! would like to see a re port of the results. Has the number of ^flunks” ften materially reduced by this systcihi? Have the average grades improv ed? ]••! fj' *. i Sincerely youra, FRED W RISEN HU ST (Ed. Note: Results of a "fresh man tabulation” will be released wiftin the next week or two.J ' A —i".; • —— The average American spent 130 percent more for recreation^ in 1947 than he did before World War 11. 'j;;'. I 1 Movies on India To Be Shown in 6 Y’ Three movies depicting Indian architecture, music), and dances will be shown In the. RMCA chapel at 7:30 p. m. Monday; The movies will be shown by Indian students at tending A&M. They invite-all those interested in oriental art io attend. 4-. iUJ.l—-t.. j Before the war A meric and’ spent about $400i million a year for foreign travel] In 1947, the average American ate 17 percent more food than be fore World War ft j ws" column in ;iper told of a vy commission, results, and en- Ws story in To- Trumpet Play- reath.” At end ISen Sen is de- explore possibilities.’’ ' T iii Fstshiohcd Mlast-lron Pot-Bellied Stove: The Friendfy Find, that you can spit on and listen to them po “pssssas!” Williams Heating, 456 Main street, NEw Rochelle 2-8440.—Adv. ik, the fflonlcers Herald States man. Never mind theiMvid writing; just tell us what y<?U have to s ill. , - FRIDAY & SATURDAY Battalion —, • j: aper oC the Agricultural and Mechanical Go! Wished five times a week and circulated ever J s and examination periods. Diying the Bi rate 4U30 pci school year. 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