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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1948)
v ; l r 1 7\ ! ' - j ■ , : tlalio TORIALS THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 'ilier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" ‘ r ' : ; J{ . " \*! II I* van Ross, Founder of Aggij Tradit J. y Is Real... !• ions Van|ialistic j spirit” are not more, tp judgelbv reports Texas cities, j- eight miles apirf,' these i rivals. Time was when fc bitter, ind the):e : were ni But toe ay^they? gpt along? have their annual! football] - Disiussingfflii| amiibij sports writer oif the Assc “I iittendedf tlpe sepor the othor night! lUou’d ha\ 'i: me of ‘‘school ool stuff” anv- (fom two North Denison. Only ties are: ihtense )all rivalry was ierous incidents. well that tHey mquet together. ’, Harold Ratliff ted Press, says: •annual banquet thought it was a~ i ub.* Everybody knew ! w* meeting of the f>ion^ [c everybody eM and t3ny spent most of the ! ‘ tancis.. No one was ly from the other time renewing acquaii , : miffed because some town occupied the spotlight^ Everyone has tened to see that his; friend from the other place got the!credit due him. “Sherman f Dlks even give Dehison credit for originating the pEa If high schoptstudents and partisans can behave decently/certainly College students should be able to.' h M ! Eng ineering, 1 fetudents] morning, scanned the .IfH Invoke the other pages of their newspapers, them cast darfi|mspicious glanc es at tfeir slide rules..A^rkulture students | stared imcomplrel|iendir^iy lit their hands all ' ,0r ? me Communist * i in the wheel of ehaos by the Red Front American value / ' |, the day. long, liky men be|h ijyed. -I "^Anc j. their t'ades, the objects ' l trust v -ere. worthless, jtrfs - b- i betrayed thevi % The' tools of man )S, the Bureau wjis chosen beejause it formulates all s. Without its otherwise stat ing, a pound fcpiuld bfe eight ounces, as it al ready is in many stotj< s. Representative J.iparnell Thomas, chair- n of the Ho ■MMpNnMaHMMi wmm thefr .greatest erous fiat. No depfended on to jpearingj in your column on March tise Ctjmmitee on Un-Ameri- 110%. That .system is sji objjoiet« |jl;^^ llhand measure a 'VI longer could aj sliide nile^bf give* th 2 right ianjswer noi horse’s height jacfuratelyjj || Whlh an eyil thought l|c|j Dr. Edward V. Condotl, head jof |the Wejrplin and Standards Bureai, who, everyone knows, consorts with Commiiniists, |hej student|bfby sjaw its many years of degrfee-iseeking jc^mble into jioth- ingnes^by defect of all msfamiring Standards. The Bureau of Weigitk and Standards, operating from its dark jhliilts in Washing ton, /was natprajlly the ffifit object can-Activities, purfed all this stiartling in-; i. 1 } 81 11 makes a his tsid in Walter Reed Hos- 1 e formation from pital in the approvi His committee don’s wife waslpf everyone knows; ^-hlat JEKDS GOP I TEXAS Editor, The Batjtalion: v I read your iuttiblc upon the Elec toral College aiid agreed, with you ATHLETE’S PRIVILEGES :Editor, The Battalion: This is in reply to a letter ap- a ’48 Packard. Now for your second article con ' the underclassmen in Hart Hall, Although unsigned, I daresay moved Machiavellian fashion, jeerning the,Southern “revolt!’ andjihut this is the same person that had discovered that Dr. Con- i State Democratic Chairman Hobertl pats up the loudest bleed whenever d of % l''Tech extraction and W. Calvert. You qudte Mr. C|lveri A&M loses an athletic contest. 1 ii oi (Lzecn extraction. ana ^ th , u y^ tire d li the I wtuld like to congratulate him, ob | Theicomm^ Apartment, ^ich sigm kiKul''IM # *S »W nn £^ ^ checks for the Bureau of Standards, allowed Yet. the only remedy that hje can done for tht> school. Most of the , thcy le |[ about awestricken first-time visitors to i iiliSu - Ti_ «<• io f ii h rlo tVl u hi on hero work nrlettV Trampling Out the Vintage , . . ideal Freshman Smith Carolina - The ideal v freshman—a first class cleaner )f rooms—has been found, blit not on the [campus bf A&M. The party concerned resides in Charleston, S. p, r ftnd is currently on the ran from the local police officers. This, latter fact, while *ot necessarily ate of his qualifying points as an “ideal freshman’’ nevertheless is interesting ia^that it is concerned with his ability to cledn rooms. ; His name is Woodrow a>hL4ike Goldilocks, fedls perfectly at home in other peopled houses. The main entered a Younges Island home-this week while the family was away. , He helped himself to a full meal, washed the dishes, set the table, then went to bed. Discovered by a neighbor’s boy, the intruder departed with a pistol •and $|5. \ » ril !.! • M “Just say Woodrow was hei l e and that I’ll be back,’’ he told the lad; , j ] / i I Charleston Police arc still looking for “Wootl- INTOXICATION: PARTS ONE AND The evils of intoxication ward brought out again last week by two separate, events in different ! cities, . jr j» ■ '! J ^ I In Plymouth, Mass., policeman George Cowilery ran to the historic First Unitarian Church when he heard the carillon bells pealing “The Sc Louis Blueis'' Mr. Cowdrey arrested the church organist, Edward Ward, 42, who later drew a year’s probation for in toxication. • l. r ■ , I' • U 1 • • ■ .*{ •; % And in Galesburgb, 111,, a 27-year old man tar ried in a cell because he insisted on chasing a love j rival into a police station. v. \ Police seized Harold F. Smith as he pursued R. L. Bone into the station. Boiie complained that Smith, tried to wreck his automobile because Bone was riding with Smith's former,-wife.* ;; ‘i V ■ [;j j i ' Bone asserted he had to go directly to the police fo1i protection as Smith, drivfng another car, tried Several more, times to force hiqi 'from the highway. Police alshheld Smith on aii intoxication charge, The gey was red hot i i ' ^ I j.!. •' 1 U ■ fofk City. That’s why I 'extern [State Teachers three i games in the jrki The troupe ihiiluded h«cl beep in New York me meal at thie Auto- in ^ where coins arc fed right out in your face, con pletely, Armed with jrlcing overtime at the ‘liWrfed four hr five pieces, .lityh ih ine asked [ ^oM’ve iboiit gotten enough another -<) i liou vford pompous disp|a(y courses ill" ."i-nrtdW you vi * >een . kerch p; in g’ dkf foil n A - ce a shoot ip an you can’t si shoot hg dicej, ■didMti : ■ -’i JLu Artthonyii tha|t Marie a tennik pn net! Bochpji^tine, valk applyflpie, B acrdsH the stHMt coin, isl’f i ' ;• J*iLL KNOW THEM l essor if [church history logical Sjcminary, soun- e bf his classes Against fm|nd [knowledge in his detkiis just to show that I, “fou can wear a handr cket to! show- [me that!" oif dice packs a moral d of: hoot. Something you othjng jig a foe. However, if I a fo’ when you’re ! '' i’l If * I ' ' WA^j OVER nplatned to Chicago police a Waitress, serves pie like alssmult 'charge against Mrs. ■ ' i i 'J ■' 1 li' U A : as how it didn’t; thi'tik Dr. Condon was “dis- thilik of is “remaining in the femo4 loyal” to the goven ment, bqt once a con-; ^rat«c party ami fighting agr^ivee gressman finds a t# to get feriame in the roqSents paper to an £tyctw>ij|: year, mere’s just no ; the South.” f % '• No Wonder Truman feels so con- undefriround dlbctknEyear, t stopping him. Thus-Thomas’s actions. . v»..-, - But let 1 there be So mass'throwing away fl<,ent that regardless of what he • ^ oRAn 4 says-and does, Clem; and S toll l nae LP ai \f L 0 underclassmen here work prletty hard tjryiag to develop them-j selves ;[nd to become a member of an A&M squad Being a good ath-j lete takes work some place along 1 the lM- and plenty of it. -,sti of \he of slide rules ol indiscriminate cutting off m ’ ybt> not likt : thc tttsU . of 1 but, ^ ^ th 4™. Communists assjault becauete Tt was already of hands: Some other use for-those commod- come election time, -they’ll l walk wh< F are taking a ntt '• ' - i** «r.“JsIRterf «“dS±TiS.trwha. Admirably/sp’ited to. be 'a cog ities may yet be discovered. World Order Comp and Gone . J U- Lll U ^ 1, . II, ■!-I i i, .J!Nj a ^ We almost! gqt a hev\|mhrl(l organization author of a prp|iosi||.jfqr the United States in a fejw minutes yestenfji'fj It was 1 whipped to take the lead hj sCTthlg .up a supreme coun- togethtr in a ;huirry b\t a diijple of Senators cil apart frdmi t$e;l|ftited Nations, Vanden- over a cup of coffee. demolished_as --berg declared: { “I don’t think'll Saturday morning aboiu 9:80 at tin* East Gate Aggie line: The line bad formed in ils usual If he manner as it had for yean/an the him report to the past, each man awaiting W^Uurn some afternoon and for a ride to Houston. At that ran 1 ’ of the boys an automobile pulled up unjl the O'a re laiong a little workout driver offered rides for four | hr go oy.er to the football field and which the first four in line rtfspon- ,-goo.d old straight Democrat*- tic- kn T rtck ^ f °f a f Whi ‘ e : . . / J.^: ?«/ or< ! ), h « coald leav< ?' « I ke ^ T , , * :. ; r. ;!| I certainly hate-to think that fifth Aggie (??), who wasjust there are still. Aggies who bleed getting out to the East Gate walk- fo ihttbiiint and oifderod pine- it at me *s though I were . Stlalcy told pilice. “The plate broke aid cut nto fate.” "‘‘“’"i oekup.-ljlrs. Bochantlne said: i irijit|alb|e customers.” ‘i wit THU SATURDA __4--h Penny Singlet b|i ed up and succeeded in “forcing”; , Mi’s Calvert further goes ibn to l ? r,ere a . , . , say that staying iHth the Demo- S^M^e some guy gets a break or ed up and succeeded in ••forcing i era,tic party IS the ^South’s! only !tWo-rbi|t I guess there always will his way in with the other four ! solution. Well,’ it’s piety llte in he - - • .. V i,/: Is this an example of A &'M ' i ‘ quickli by a jcoi|p(le of eph^rj Senators. Is ^his frilitjici laist-rjjji .'lack of tbin|inif) the ' tribution towiirdlrworllcfilftt npucp? | . i] - [)e«ice .'i Thl i propokafti) sdt uj was offered to the Sehujei iUe thinking (Or iptea States con- utship and world Supreme Council l)V fouriRepulilli- to the $6,300,- Ball urged Coqj, Fee with it.” j tq t a$k the president to invite other hktlbns tq-.ijoin the United States in a “pledge m armetl forces” to halt the “steady RussianlCommunist aggression.” He was joined | fry three Other Republicans Their itan asked; establishment of a su preme council, 'tof/ pe created outaide the the dav - now for this sparflcular v Av ‘ m / ,1 1a V m ‘; ss:l ^* sportsmanship displayed bysyfcw niece of leeisldtion (f ivil Hfehtsl Y0 * - Mr - Editor. Another track of our athlete*? Perhaps w^tged i so mavbe he? rShtithVs Se kt!ai<on “PP^ching It would be a revival of the traditions*’ ‘ , * | 1 ' • .[sincerely appreciated if you would: dropped in order to presefyd:>^ieI If everybody is in earnest iib«iut ' assign someone to cover track ones “we” decided to keep; this matter, I have very little meets and track activities who was Hitch-hiking is the ,mal^-^odf,' hope that the South can wiif out. jjon a little more intimate terms of transportation for a grci&hjany Also, I personally think th»4 the with the _jmen on the track squad Aggies and the Aggie liijie is- the chances of Harty h«fing our next /ind had a wider knowledge of tjuaU only practical solution to traveling j president are about fas klihilas a , Hy <>f track events. We are not this way. If the line is too slow or J complaining, but last year the track too long, there is no objection'from j t| ' articles wjsre butchered terribly, the majority if an individual wishes/' >t As a suggestion, why nOt nttk a to downstream. .. -f fBlondi^ /, paiaci. snowball in hell. f However, if the South lufei not As a suggestion, why not «sk a t 0 downstream, been and was idol so jsylidly |)eino- member of the s»|uad to write an Let’s continue to make that litte. TODAY Tl SATUKI) f , I’an Kciuvtor« Hri anjtesn s 1000,OOp JEurobeajn rCco\’4|->|[pijogram Scijmtor Mtiiipenberg'lisfld it was drawn up by [Senator Ball (R-IVI|m|) and hijt friends 1-- ,. and Cain (Wash - ). ;|tf did not'nitiirtion Russia i strongly* *”the 'Roinfibiioan I’- this falls to impresjt t’q™* asking ol | )V . na jpe, but thetjehvas no doubt as to its ' party. It’s then quite likely t(don’t -M r ■ Nijme-Withhcld-By-ltequestj. ^CqnjgrfSS,. Oil 24 hottrp {railed, to accept a ; ‘ t p n f ; j : you think?) that the Rjepullieank i|»leate »»k him to bring his board formula \vhi(-h ! would iMmit the United pV J d*, th 4 n /tors’*aetioh wss the rp • wouldn ’ t he so Hrongly in fifyor of ever tu room jj-f’. Hart Hall,^ and Staiy to W4- / the yljof; foreto ouu„- tries, v anuqnofif, (reci< fQtl. which Russia swallowed up Czechoslovakia over. The states that hiavjj. two (Kd. Note. >\e h»%e tried ath ‘T can’t Contemplate ]a|Jterjiptidg to hold and started grabbing for Finland. But these «i ual, y strong political riartijs and back the Euijoptfean reooi|e|y Plan which has R ua ^ n 'encroachm|nts could have been- Jav‘hr^eleSont ,fthe?- begn considered [for ei^l r ; months to develop an( i were—foreseen fmonths-i ago. Meanwhile these are the [states! that. gl-t the a military defense .progr»n|” the Marshall plan [teas—“and! is still—stalled utmost consideration from;- both ? In |a debajte tvitlr-Ser itfir Ball (R-Minn), in Congress. I k ’ f parties. It’s the old boy-girl iheme. — T-S h— —J —^ ; — —4- —r-—pj—: «—H—r 4 —— Whose SldgUnV'- / | S.™- ReXail’s.Otel-Soiliag stores and the Thrif- I * ervcd f ?. r ot ¥^ who are hot so , closely scrutinized the I effects of .. fr> 4.1..^ -il,r „ I co-operative, | the abolition of certaini detnmen- / ‘Dptlg Cc., two L<ps Angeles chains, are a ; p or the benefit of any ijpdihot i tal” traditions, at A&M and up to teu.din and a-fussip ^tn ways that might Democrats who read this, 1 -would i now it hks registered nothing but bring peace to the jHjatfields and the McCoys. to say here that we’unti have incHwcoto* ileitUresj-Aegln |:30 - !7:10 - 9:60 & SATURDAY HCnOFi-Rlithe Ulaui P. S.-rUpstieaming and ifyasbibg the line used to be a senior coiirt offense. What is it now? ,6 I (tame Wi’ve all Colli tic 1 .A to heard the Hitty ‘{I came to col lege, t|o get sonie know i|(|je,’ f etc. , . Well, it seefns thaf Mornings M College in Sioux City, Ijowa, htts diven it-a Ijif|. Thev call theirs; , , aj qpEiTO TH^|C()-ED Hcre’d to -thej cdfed loyal a|d tfue, Here’4 to her bllue-jeafn ?wi | The partly says to the; state, “floney j I’ll do ajnythirjg for'you if ijyou’ll letic-ejiirl-espendents in the past and found them unsatisfactory. Coaches do better. But we hope to get a good man on track cover age and keep him there this year.) GOOD TRADITIONS GONE DR. R. B. McNVTT DENTIST * ' Office in Parker Building Over Canady’s Pharmacy - Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas lohn WAYNE. Lorainc DAY ft K -I ill a me;” We’if nice Editor, The Battalion: a«e ! tV Roj , anyhow so the orchids a^e re- f * For a good many months I have i been democrats since great grand- tion o< M sell* *K at the lowest prices. ^ ^ B « Here’tj to-hqil sWeaterB, aSigloppy as h^L-k,, \ Here’^ to .herj“siddle$’11 dtaJodk like a wreck, Here’4 to her! tresses tfct l! lang|jlike a rope, ; 'Here’ji to h^f hby friqirljsSfor whom there\s I nb hope/ I ^ ] f Here’$ to the* pictures fe te tija^ bn the wall Of Jimmy ai d Tommy tfi&t 1 Lenny and Paul, Here’it to thdse iblife eyc> Ithat innocent look That (jatchesithe fellotfs li|e a fish on a hook, Here’i to thait chassis, ! t ip|e wbnderful legs, Here’l to the beer that^s Here’i to the fee jred lii^js That [comes when the 14t her cut,' ; ■ Herb’?.to he* liquor, !uij j ^ f Here’s to her grades thej As usual, the furor centerk around the ques- ‘F tin bf tight Nav^blue, The only amusing [thing is-fhat both chains are using big sizeiitewspaper ads and radio disgust with me; 1 have read of the two-percenters and their disgusting bphavioir to ward visitors oh the campus, but I have never, until this past week end, run across! the two-percentet spots with-^Xaqtly the same slogan. But the slogau^/ZNo olne, but no one; sells for less”- of the two-pereenters. The most surprising thing to me was to| Idarii that this penton occupied a I no danin yankee, talking. I'll stop with these remarks. The Democratic party Was a faithful horse in the old daiys and?we’ve , . ! been blindly stayingijtvith hi^t ever . r „. _ , actually belongs to; fieither. If we remember since. Seems, though, that 8n the room in Hart Hall and was sup- right, jits first tiseir- kvas no one but dear old ! I a ft few yehi's fomobod! - hasj posedly a member of >ne of ourjj " switched, animals on.ius. | Thgy still [ athletic .teams-rfthe oite place ini call him! a ho|se blit the tijiuth is all A.&M whtire spqrtsmapshipjj that he’s a jackass—aiid he shodld be fostefie d * kick! ; !'' Pil ! .; I ‘ '"" ; i ’ ii T I dependable, buckeye,' thrifty Gimbel’s —Tide While reading thru’ the Westminster Col- dowjns by the kegs lege Holcad, my eyg jwas caught by-a cartodn r D } dt dute little pout Se mother won’t Yores truly, ij MELVIN MARTlk ’lfi (Kd. Note: We, too, think that ; long; cigarettes, ’s and the D’s, rs are so hard to :V It’s just that “the prqfffc; ■( pjlease!” j . 1 f Here’p to thi^ co-eds all the nation, ; Who $ays th$y’re not .gdt|tm’.ali education ? year.) 1:-* - TIic Battalion, official of College Station aftempon, excjept lished [semi-we News coni *wln Itiall, Cl: 209, tCjoodwin | All<Xmeric«ii during Subsc tions ini led ads n i fat Battalio IV. L Tl : , wspsper of the Agricultifral ahd Mechanjical/ sublished five times, a week and cirsulatied f lj jdaysjand examination periods, During the, tion late $4.30 per school year. [Advertising' —.. -£~- 1, i.!.- dl- that depicted a scette familiar to many of us , Texas would bd better for a: Real around Q. W. A gitoijip of girls are sitting.in two-party system. But the South- various’bopths. looktog as mad as wet-hens; ® rn “ re '’®}t” attempts to .make while all the felloiivjk are grouped smilingly exas 100% ttepubhean—for a around, you gu^ssfei it, a pin-ball machine. No caption is necessary for that one. Just what may I' inquire,! is so fascinating about a pin-ball mpe iine?? ‘i If only someone would enlighten irSefbn the !subject. ffi School authorities Or student leaders cannot expect (he general student body to;be the perfect host to others when’some of our OWN .athletes show utter disregard for some of the finest Aggie traditions that are based upon common clef cency. !■ V 1 jllege vf Texas and the City T Monday through Friday imer The Battalion ia pub- ea furnlt|hcd pn reauest. rriade by telephone (4-5444) or at the riial office, Boom 201, Good- be placed by telephone (4+5324) or at the Student Activitiea Office, Room K i e Aasociiated Pr< ed to t or no| otjherwi Right of republication ,"" 'j"-#' Enl d as mci od-felass macitei t Collage siatlon, Uexs i ; Uie Ac of Congrikia il March 3, ..Ww Member Of Tht -4 e Associated Press eihtitled exclusively to the uae for republicatiort of all news dispatches credit sAited in the naoer and local news of sDontahdous origin published herein ifited in the paper and local news of spontan " oth^r matter herein are also reserved. Associated Collegiate Press Member MURRAY, p vented 'nationally by National Ad- a tjf Service. Inc., at New York Cl Vick Lfmlley i i..:..L;Ij.., 3. T.^tiilWr. KtptethilJotid, Uluv Mack % IWen ...U..-\, ...'..i ll.. 1 -v-ic i L. U lUnseioy. Tom Cu rter, Ted 3LSQN.. • •*••••• a ••••••*••••••• I p «• ••• ».< •••4•••••••••»••••«<••• fit .c. c. John Trail, Janfea^E. Nel»oi Trail, Jan Sirirlctury; arioy CUtlfy 1ft ipeland. Triituart > Wire Editor .MunuKtug Vlditors ■U—i-l Feature F.d'ttor Cooiwytl Feature Writer* 'Martin, C. C. Muoroe, It. Kunite, J. C. KailB. ..Reporters r 4tr •, f Maurice Rowell Crady Griffin Sam Uhtord, K. krt Howard I amts Dc/Vnda, Andy M& kthel . Shelby iChWheu, V 'v -r iritM • -.^1, - T- The incident to which I am about to refer happened this past i p is jijM : if ■ H i! 1 I j f j ■ T FOR THE FINEST JN .!!. 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