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"5Wi per, Statesman, Knightly Gentle,
livan Ross, Founder of Aggie
Jim Criow Ui North, Too |. F
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Texatj is stiltf experiencil
tion over the outcome of thejS!
fbotball ?ame. ’Not entire!
was a moral ^ifctor but! foi
which Penn State players, ]
colored, Iwere* treated durii|]
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^at their
rather th
of the S'
quiet satisfac-
UTenn State
because SMU
She smoothness
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their stay in
j.- Dallas.;-' ! >1 | || S|| /ill"
Though there was a cam ilaint from the |
players after thjeir return hjclci e, it was aimed j
quarters at thej Nit ^al Air Station
art at fheir hosts, ^lle first invasion
uth by a football it |im with Negro
came nothing moir||han one sports- j
players „ _ r _ r !
nivanllke footbq.ll team ente •! lining another.
Rut (liscrimjination is a >oser for Penn
State even a^hiome. Accowl ii g to The Daily
, Pepn! State itiewjft])( per, Jim Crow-
nat been stamped |c ut there either
eittced |from the fo|l|wii
Collegiar
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from theiir editorial column
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>wmg quotation
“The fight |o eliminate
the barber shops of State , ^
seriously injured Sbjy All~® ate Cabinet.
^crimination in •
allege has- bden
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any short-range jirogram- which asks patrons
to voluntarily njot get their Hhir cut at shops
that discriminate agaipst other Americans.
“The Committee oh Racial Equality pro
gram to end Jirh CroWispi will be impaired by
Cabinet’s actioijt. For bver a year this com
mittee has beenj carrying: on a plan of educa-
tio^mf publicity in Un effort to convince the
barbers that public isentiment was in favor
of eliminating discrimination. Last year a
petition which was signed by 2000 students,
faculty, and townspeople definitely proved
that at least d largjfe f sejgment of the local
population wa$ willing to patronize shops
that cut the ha r of all rapes.
“Now the bitbersS will get the impression
that by Cabinet action .the student leaders,;
and consequently the students themselves,
are apathetic towards the ending of discrim- i
ination in their Shops.-Instead, it seems, the Hl'ir f ip
students are \yilling to open a shop to ac- j 1*01 3 jGI
commodate thei Negroes and let it go at that.”
All this, not,in the Deep South, but far in
the North! Discrimipation jis not a problem
n ind prance Regain Their
rmf]' f!
li^stry but thiut lh«y did control the
|)or iunJionjs.
In Comparing bluck Mnaikct op-
fatii>H» ini Prance and England,
jGijbsbn said tlhiu there was much
ick market ac ivity In France but
ilttle in E igtanj.
on. is the steoivd of a num-
iiominenil men who will ad- '
Qreilit IflHues elaas dut ingr
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“By d vote of 13 to 8 C dbinet decided to unique to the South, but shows: itself wher-
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instruct ^ts COjtE represdn
^tives to oppose
ever there are minority groups.
Rather a Living Memorial ;. \.
fcross the state,
[.lap in order to
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but it nevertheless id quite inanimate ami in-
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capable of returning any real value for the
money invested. * j ; I
Why not a livirtg rtaemorial ? Why
By HARVEY J. (HELP
When mid-term grade reports
! were mailed out by the college 'a
not ! * Ht ot her mail wenti out too. .Stu
dents hastily devised 1 excuses and
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Fiftt en yeaijs agi) this mi ;nth—when most
of us were ju^t little' hi isances running
around the hoikse—FrankK i Delano Roose
velt toolj: the oajth;of office if; ir the first time.
He smashed a jtnidition ! by s memorizing the
We are nc
iiuite evident
But it just se
es of One F. D. R..
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‘‘My fmi:
speakers all
showmanship!
as the leader
t: condemn
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This jweek, in theatre)*
collectioiis are 'being take
set up th(e battleship Texaii;
the war heroes; of the statu.,,
Two Texas-lorn miVil fjars; Linda Dar , . .... it -m
hell and Danai4 n <h"6" , s. ajgped;to contribute; honor these soldiers of flexas by usnig the alibis to tell their edirespondehits
iriaaeinnorl n1k>n : mnruiv fOr u i!n»rnA«» frrlm whieh thp«e mon This is a fairly copiplete file of
one student’s fabrieafijdns.
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Dear Mother,.
Well, I gaess my grades Ipive
gotten home by noxjL and yp||ve | g^des on them
found out that I failed chemisljfy. k
I want yo,u tq know (hat it wa^jas
much a shock to mei; as it ;wa| ; to
j you to find it out. Since you niust
_ . i be wondering why I failed, dspedial-
ortijs a wastjg in this dky of heed Ik since I had an A jin it) ijust|be-
h fought Sfljie money collec-t to spend mondytfor the purpose of glorifying , foic ; Christmas like 1 told you,. I’ll
or a betUr'purpose 1 ' a p^st war
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science, t
fFhen Grades A re Mailed Home,
Can Excuses Be Far Behind?
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their seijvices ahd make anii npassioned pl^a:
on thd screen fbr money w th which to yon
vert the haftlesihip h)to aj Te(as shrine.
To tl ose whin like to see i he glory of Tex-i
as idolized anq pjaraded bfeforqi the public,;!
this mo .
! Certainly the people ofl Texas are proiidj
' ofi.the men w|o fought #t’ the two world)
wars. They ha\je a right; to he.- But won Id if t)
it be mpre in keeping wjth; the tradition
which these m
ted wer4| used
A monqmenk cif steel; s|ii h as the battle
: ship Texas wdlljbe sttrrinjg.'d aspiring perhaps
money) for a purpose from w'hich these men
themselves, orj their relatives ayd friends can
benefit? Canyer. research, a truly worthy
project, i t s| in need 0f ! funds. It is only one
example of^ijnany, liviqg
Texas could establish
heroes. H 1
monuments that
honor of her war
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ng a project which,
ncere goal in mind.
uy in tiielqs ot medicine and; (urej, a i 1( j his lectures were full
Ij j j • ! of profanity. 1 rem^Tpbered wlat
gliess the folks tojd you about my , In answer to your last letter,
flunking chemistry. Well, son, it’s I’m really sorry I couldn’t be there
really rough up here. If you think for our date, byt honey, like I told
you have it tough in high school, you I was jot) the bull ring week
just wpit until youicome to college! end before last. You know how
I Study six or seven- hours a night, , tough it is on that d— bul! ring,
Ipts of times to three-thirty or fotn especially *wjhen I’n) constantly
ip;the morning, fwas doing pretty thinking of ybu. . .
gdod up to my jast 1 quizzes, and 1 1 : I ★
Would have probyblv made goodf t , T l
Suit l was up al|l l,i:ar Johnn 4
night trying to help mv roommate I ' How in hell are you, am! ho>v are
pass a couple of courses (boy, is I'things going at SMU? How did
‘He described conditions jn wesM
tern Europe as quite graVi-, but
said that the people wen rork-.
ing as hard as they coud with
the: facilities they had.) Their,
greatest need is for model n tools
and ne* methods of malsei pro
duction.
By giving the western Bubo pear
nations aid, Gibson said, v c wil
give; them hope, and whea; thoj
see that their efforts an • Worth
while, they will work hare a %
One reason that France s n:l Engl:
land are so. far behirtd us iccord
ing to Gibson, is that it takes them
3 times as long to do a j )b amjl
their workers get only on- third
as much pay. Ln addition jabpjr
uniops there restrict the ipplr
tion of the techniques of niiss p
duction by not permitti y laboj
saving devices to be insblteti i
industry.
In pointing out that the t'S is
much farther ahead in mjaiis pro
duction, Gibson cited the jtase of f
the Englishwoman who * as so;
excited over her new wishing:;
machine that she spenii hours);
talking about it at a dinner par*
ty. In the United Staten a new 1 >
washing machine would wdcasion
onlj’ a casual mention over a back
yard fence.
Gibson attended the . regui
meeting of the Great Issu.-S clai
Thursday morning to ans Vji r ^uei
tion$.
When asked to what eXUpt Cdijjl
munists control French industry,,1
replied that they did riot control
nlpnii* Analyslis’ t by Aurelius Mor-
gitier ;of the A-kM department of
| m! off the pf’ess
handle, acting kca<l -
tHb departn ent announced! to- 1
Morgner
he dumb!) and as a resrilt I didn’t
have a chance to get ready for
those last quizzes. That just proves
haw tough it is here; if you miss,
one night you bust u course. Don’t hoy have 1 'been
tell the folks about this because I drunken ole time!
your grades Come out? I hope you ,
did better tfian I did. I busted
chemistry, . and just squeckled
through in English and tiig, but)
having a wild, j
l haven’t crack-;
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(jilljtliOrated wi ,h Profeaaors BobL
fikt Strotz of j Northwestern and
fjjark Allej (jf jDilke.
The bool: whibh is being pubjish-
by Prenlicle jlall Publishtng’Co.,
intended t(| accompany the
idnciple; of |Economics” corirse
nd give majiyj intriguing and’ ed-
■ative probleitis to illustrate; the
nplicatior ojf economic principles
i kctual (conojnic situations, i
Dr. ka'jd**? ;a ’ f l that* 1 the book
ill probaplM He. Used .experiment!. '
I f in Ecjmpm cs 2p8, 204, 20S, or l
)1, for a, scb ester. If it proves
i )|e a fatorab e text;, tho book; will s
reliably be Ud jpted for |kll 0? the
lioiises. , | ; . ' [ ;■; 1 ) j ’ "
A reeeft iad lititjn to the- |Eco.
Dijob.icg Dcjparti lerit, Morgner ( ame
Mi A&M laftt' September -(from
Rdrthwestjern Jniversity wiher( f h<
as a leeture in economics. He
jsj previously reviewed hookk for
hC AnnilsJ the-Accounting Re>
j kjijeb, an<l thie Southwestern Social
IfieHce Quartfirly.
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hard. Y'ou know how the folks are I
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oath in jits entirety, rep(;atitig the 35 words
altogether instead of iia bro ien phrases. As
We grew up, wWheard of’]Ri)oseyelt continu-
ing/o sijnash precedents.: Tieh—while many
of u« were in ufiifbrm-r-qarhf the news of hisj
/eath. I
Toduy morti nhud is^bfiiig! slujig at the
memory of F. I’. R. than wit t slung,even dur*
ing his life-timie—whWh; was plenty. But he
you told me when fl came hqre,
about listening ^o that so*t ‘of
thing, so I tried hard not to listen
to the cussing and Still hear the
t!*>«>**■>• rolMbutof.Ioud; SSt'iXf
aver the country. Hjs political ; However, I know ;you won’t; be;
was focusling attention on him I too angry when you know the true
not of a party so much, as of i R (°ry. Please don’t 411 anyone* the
\ | r * jj redl reason why I jfdiled, because
: M i they might not understand likeijyou
a natiop.
In 10 mojiths he jn^de 20 radio talks, a i do. About the Ford jiou got m^lfor
record-settin# performance for a chief ex- j Chriptmas for having such gjmd
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ecutive.
During his famous ‘,‘105 days”!, Congress
swiftlv grourtd out legislation, tailored almost
completely td his order. He bombarded Con
gress with missagevi Revolutionary;'economic
jswept- throng
1 grades then.
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sail, “let me assert
oW y thing we have
(still towers ab( vej our time.
On ;hat MArcjh m'orhi : bj f in 1933, m an
effort tjo bolster j;he s|piri| j Df a nation with
a bad Icaise 6: the hard-jtime jitters, he
launchei into q confidenc^-f Rudded inaugur
al speech.) (. '4; f.
; “3o, first of qll,” he
my-Lim belief; that the
to-fear is fear itself.” ,
Next day- he closer]; thb nation’s bapkss
until they could be re#ejn id on a sounder
, footing. Then He ballerf!Cop jress into'special;
session fpr em^rgincy jictwm
Eiglit' days a-tter his ; inaugurationj jlr.
i Roosevelt began trre SferieS^of fireside radio
talks wfiich delighted ih|s friends, exasperat
ed his enemiesj apd injifjreH ed jmultitudbs of
voters. \ | , jj7i il
Dear Father, , , ,,
I reckon my grajdcs at'e tfikire
by now, and you’ve found biut 1
failed chemistry. Well, sir, th|W' s
nothing I can say,;, without Sfbuii
thinking I’m just making exci|8es,
that i.j
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My Darling Janie,
If {you’ve seen Jimmy since I
last wrote, I guess you know
about my flunking chemistiy.
I Now you can understand how
much I miss you. At night I sit
sit my desk, trying to stiidy, and
everytime 1 look up I see vour
picture, and my mind skips a
hundred miles and I just <.ait’t
Study.
Don’t tell anybody else, bin I
want iyoU to know, the yba! reason
1 failed. You’re on ruy mind day
arid night when we’re apart)
"4“ j rr y *—’—
ed a bqok since mid-term arid 1
was damn lucky to pass that much.
After I got ilny new:- car the folks
gave rut* foil Christmas I’ve ojet |
all the ejute girls in .Bryan. I had a
date with a sweet little’’thing week
end before last, and did I evei have
a swell time! By the way, don't,
spread it around at home hccauSe'!
I don’t want [Janie to find ou’. .
measure* sometimes
house? in a single day,. .. .
The president was (authorized to manage • faiie/F in & ^ 0U | a :f
the national Currency; with wide inflationary ' You remember that long mah-tn-
ers. Hp took the' (country off the. golml nmn talk we .had before I camb up
Hard. 4 • t I!* .
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Be
powers
standard.
Congress created tjhe Civilian Conserva
tion Corps, rjstjbrecl 2|jcent postage, passed a
her
liqv
last Septembqi ?
you told me tij 1 always |rive
Remember
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T]je large kjze magajiirij#has finally made i
its mam. An ofitfii on Fifftfi Ave., R. E. An
drews, Is now offering ffulfcsize’’ njail boxes j
big enough to) accommodate Life, the Sat-
evepost] and Ccilliier’s at oif
F ] " i FrJ
^ Something chllea-Tie.'ftfrap, in Wilming
ton,‘Del., advertised a rfey| leal in the Satur
day Review of Literature You send 'them
ye re
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the\)thei' fellow a jl)reak? Welj, I
was xloing like - yoip said aijd it
securities 1 regulation‘|bi|ll to protect inves- <-ause<INne to fail. ,r ?.
tors and moJli£ied!th t: vfolstead act to allow : J““
the sale of •> 4 percent beer. j a broken gas-jet, which kept liH in
, At the Roosevelt iPresiden- |j
tial “honeynhoojn, i nR the summer of 1933, mu 11 ( |i ( | n - t p,- ess p bedgusef if 1 15
the press reported that a New York family moved, one of my buddies would
had named a nfjw baby Franklin Delano Blue haV e to take my place, arid I km*"
Eagle. A Chicago couple named their infant ;', ou wouldn’t want ;me to do Mny-
son Franklji Garnpr* in honor of both the „u n the Hme “xpectlhgU)qmssjSnd’
president dftl vicH-jiresKlent. All this was you can see I wasn’t really filing
a long time Id go I But we still remember F.D.R. . almut my grades when I was home
— . ■. 1) ■■ .0 jp;—L_ji_ p : Uhi istmas. When diseovcnsl; he
j ’ l . j) 1 ! i i- ' . , had failed me I thought aboujt re-
BarMart, in MAimattan, came up with a porting it to the dean, but I ikUy..
devilish Neiv' Vear'.k innovation: bottom’s- hated to get my ijrof in trmible.
: f * ; I Besides I knew- yoU’d be prqtlder
up tumblers; that pm (rounded on the bottom 0 f me if I just toolkit like a mlin
and cannot fbe set ddvvn till the drink is all
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CORSICANA. Tex.. March 5
Governor Beiauford H. Jester said !
here yesterday that 40 of the .48 j
governors of! the nation are hack
ing the stand he has taken on the j
tidelands question now bdRive
Congress.
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TODAY ONLY
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