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By L.\RRY GOODWYN
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Hidden
ursday’s
We Halve Mesons
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hailed is the bigkeit advan|e'in atorAic phy
sics since uranium; fissioiii was perfected
That miadle the alioi^-bomli! possible. Remem
bering what fears'the ato
to, we don’t kncjw what l}'
among scientist!); h Amfl
if
e have man-mac
gcjing to to with tic
’t qui e-Jtnderst
do understand
;he Univeri
the bigkei'l
Ohfit i |]; |
e achievennent
lityofl
Mesons; What
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llifornia has been
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bomb has led
think about the
a notable race
ca, Europe and
perhapj} elsewhene.
-■ Production, p:[ Jvlesonsj |i the laboratory
for thp first tirfe |v
by Dr. Ernest 0. ;.Lawrfi|ce^ famed atom- xfx
smasheir, and Japjes B. F
tor of the Atomic! Energy!
Thd potent particles,! i'hich eyentually
may p )int the Kyay to it )mic energy far
greatey than that jprpducel >y the atom bomb
were produced ipi he Unt\|ersity of Califor
nia’s 4 00,0 ton ctac dttron.
ate practical application, he added. Despite
the atom bomb, little is!known About the in
sides of atoms. , 1
Dr. luawrence tbrmed the accomplishment
“one of the great milestones of all time in
fundamental atomic research.”
Mesins are important because they are
the most powerful particles known to science
and because they have something to do with
nuclei vfhich researchers must learn about
before they can solve any remaining atomic
mysteries. ! p i
In nature they: come from the upper air.
Presumably they are born ..when the nucleus
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sommission.
Industrial Research Program
Of Texas Businesses Begins
la many ’controversies, the real
issues that decide public opinion
are] often hidden from view. Such
is the case, in part at: least, to
the Cafeteria vs. Family style is
sue currently being discussed on
r the; campus.
Family style feeding, despite
many “unfortunate” Aspects w
have long been a source of bi
on the part of the Cadet Corps
is still favored/by a majority o
cadets. To people not familiar with
cadet life, tW reasons why most
cadets will/stick by family style
serving regardless of its handi
caps, may hot appear too d
But, it can all be summed
in one word—tradition.
Tradition has been a powei
influence on the A&M cam
ever since the day Sully got
first tmth.Jts presence has shaped
in a score v of different forms, the
standards of cadet life for years.
Aggies have come to live by these
standards and they like it. They
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cepted and come to
traditions as a matter #>f
the fact that by chariginjf the
tern he can save five or tpt or ev
twenty-five cents a day beooa
comparatively tosignifican t,
Foir a while It may ptoire
economical to eat cafetorja at
such a program would, ^ its
nature, cause the abolishment I
virtually every traditional i>h
in a cadet mess hafl I
ing to mess would pa^s by
boards because the widt
in serving hours would
forming of outfits impodsitble.
n, it woi Id not |
seat cadets
to outfits ajul this would
end to meal service, thei
ored duty of freshmen.
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if'
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who earn their
the cadet corps
also suffer
cafeteria style,
jit toidoubtedly
J t« employ some
in a cafeteria
it is doubtful if
' df waiters could
entirety. Many
jobs.
i rea&on ’tradi tion—
uVed to be one of
otors in forming
t|on df the mess
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more
; of cadei
m of
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detai e<l Jftory on the
let corps opinion, based
f ^Gallup ToU" of the
appear ih the
lis series.)
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explodes; it. Mesonk are products of these ex
plosions.! Some have been rated as having!
energies! of hundreds of billions of volts. The
energy produced ih uranium atom explosions
is only ^00 million volts.
The — r
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Cyclotron; mesons are feeble ones—
)dut 4 million volt^. Bigger atom
Dr. Lawrencfiijd Ihbditory Mesons will smasheri ^ill be needed to produce the more
scientists* their best tfojbl for finding out powerful (jines, Dp. Lawrence said,
vjhat partifchsi there arfe in the nuclei We hope the -Mesons will behave them-
oilis. However, therelvill be no immedi- Selves.
give scientists their best tjojpl for finding out
just vji
of htoh
Klan Profits by Split...
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A&M research facilities were turned loose today m Tex
as in an effort to assemble the factual data looking to the in
dustrialization of the state, jj i I I * f
The program, the first of its scope to have been under
taken in Texas, is under fhe supervision of the management
engineering department and 1 : thef
Engineering Experiment Staton.
Holding that Texas produces ap
proximately $?60 per capita,' per
year in raw products—yet proces
ses only $51 worth of goodii per
capita—the agencies with Ritjhard
A. Downward and Donald Ki An-
Onf; organization, at lejast has profited by see the Negro treated fairly. But whenever j industrial engineers o| the
T
v therow over President Triihian’s Civil Rights
Bill Tjhe Ku Kjluc KUn* lohg dormant, is
experiencing an iihcrhkseIn membership, ac
cording to its le;)jde|r^Thej|(lan’s -profit is the
South’s loss, j i h B | j
Th^ Ku Klux Klan m^jl have been neces
sary iii Reconstruction days. But when they
suggesjt, as they jdc I today,H hat federal troops
invade the Sokih to force white
kes,t|s place at the side of white college, as r^nesientatives, 1 will
gather data on every phasei
dustry and agriculture in Jexhs.
1 the force of federal bavonets, gather data on every phase:of in-
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womerl and Ne^rbes to :
point, pt is quit? evident
ing nonsense. H 1
fcther at bayonet
lat they are talk-
itrong Kla
nitnovembht could force just
e memb?rj) claim]|hey'fear—federal matter now standsjwe must cast our ballots
‘ * ’ f for the Hgl^t as it; is most nearly represented.!
and chafnpioned jby men regardless of party”.
The pamphlet lists Klan ideals as: A
tRuctive planning white jhanfs organization; an American,
inder has stepped
(imphlet says it is
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what :
intervention by fdree.
The hooded and robe
up its. [activities; A new
teady for a period ofXo
and activity.®’ :
Spokesmen deny any
with dome acti\ ities ch
ga-oup.i But they adjv
a receipt parade in SWaih: , ....
other In Wrightsiille. (»||, on the eye of a
county; primary, ejectjionjf
In ijboth instances cros
the Nfegrb'
men -thrbki
blood will flow iij the streets of the South.
’ Therelhave been other cross burnings and
public Kljin assethblies. but Green disclaims
Klan connection; with the suspension 0 f a
high school athletic coach at Lakeview, Ga. j
Walter Rowland] < the coach, said the Klan
warned him to get out of town, after a fight
with a fomier stjudent. •
On politics, thie pamphlet says the differ
ence between the national parties now is
“Tweedledum and Tweedledee. . . as the
In order to obtain this informa
tion, which will be Available in
printed form to every !person f the
college will be assisted by.'the Pur
chasing Agents’ Association and
the chambers of commerce of Tex
as. In many instances personal con-?
tact wijl be made with every avail
able source.
The program is being initiated
iM to be of service to Texas
Pioneer Air Lines
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Request Extension
Pioneer Air Lines has aske«| the
Civil Aeronautics Board to recon
sider granting an extension of|ser
vice from Midland-Odessa to El
Paso via Peeps, Gen. Robed J.
Smith, president, has announced.
Pioneer requested this extension
in its original petition in thefAri-
zona-New Mexico case in addition
to the routes from Amarillo ijb El
Paso via Cloyis, Roswell, Aljimo-
business in all its phases and for
state,
Klan connection
geef against the
erti&e llvKdely in advance
‘ oro, Ga.^ and an-
ProtestAnt, Genljile brganization. , , , T j ^ >
It says the oMer stands for development AibXwo civS
the highest standards of ;Citizenship; Tucumcari, Las Vegas and i^nta
by A&
lap
the general welfare of the
present and future.
The objectives ate: to assist Tex
as companies in deciding on new
products they might m^kc; to sug
gest new investments in manufac-
tri ing enterprise for Texas capital;
to suggest now investments in Tex
as for outside capital! to reduce
transportation costs and speed de
liveries to consumers if] new plants
are operated in Texas and, to pro
vide information that will aid the
industrial and agricultural develop
ment of Texas.
“We produce the raw products,
We shpuld process them, too,”
don’t want to see it chang
And thus does family style'
serving tie in with tradition. Eat
ing “in outfits,” marching (o
mess, student waiters, meal ser
vice—all are irrevocably tied in
with tradition. Together, they
form a feature that distinguishes
A&M from otWr colleges.
To the A&M cadet who has ae-
Three Additions
Made to Business,
Accounting Staff
Three additions have been made
to the department of business and
accounting teaching staff, T. W
Leland, head of the department,
has announced.
W. R. Allen, formerly assistant
attorney general of Texas and atj
torney for Brazos County, is a law
instructor, Leland said, lie attend
ed Vanderbilt University -and the
University of Texas.
Eugene Rush, a graduate j of
George Washington University
%yith a bachelor of laws degree
has also joined the department as
a law instructor. He is also a grad
uate of the University of Tiixas
where he received a bachelor of
arts degree in economics.
Joe Vincent, a graduate of the
University of Missouri, joined the
department as an instructor in gen-
The United Stat
any time soon, H. R.
the Great Issues ~
with Walter Durant^
Asked the queatijbn “Ail
or wait 20 years?” MrJ fKnick
hocker replied, “We’ll ll wait
years. I do not think warjwith Rjj
sia is inevitable.; But cyan if
knew positively tljiat we wc uld
to fight Russia in 20 velars, A]
that by that tiijne Rusiiii w0l
have the same advantage over
that we now have over ijJ em, jflj
couldn’t; get Congress
gjo to W
with Russia
Lion class of
ker told a c uestion class
Li in his final Appearance
Sussia now,
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•qjlng to fight Russia
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.Knickerbocker and D|
rantj
newspaper correspondentjs: and
thors, during the morhipt sessb
answered questions about the 1’
bate* they staged Monday night'
Guion Hall. • j! ii
There is no chance iff a ih
Russian revolution in : He f
sceable fulure Knickerbif ker sal
in ansa er to another i (j best in
Russian control of poljf ! pow
is too great. “Hitler lejai ned 1 i
secret police technique jfir itm St
lin,” Knickerbocker ri* i)ott *
“The Gestapo, bad as iti jv as, w i
never so bad as the|; jRussiijq
Checka or NKVD
Asked abqut Americt
for Franco Spain, Kn
t
cji
nkl
said, “We in America ratoe a p<j
fectionist complex. If a go /ernna
isn't pei[fect,. ifj we i wouldn’t be
hai p^ witp+a iutoilar one, we don't A -'
vj^vait .to 'supportjit. But that ian't k
il pra efijcal! in countries likd 'Greece
or’Spaini. Wit dqn’t like Franco—
thef $|)anjish Civil War was dirtier
Wojrld Watjll—put there has
| to| be a injddle group. Which I
would; ybu prefer—Franco Spain
(or Rtolin Spain?” • isrt.
luraniy, asked if he thought'
Ruksjiim; were supplying equipment “
to jOliwiese Reds and Greek gueril-
lasu Stlid no; “If that vfere true, you
jtoo ild hbar plenty about it Ifrom
^hjUii; Aai Chek and the Greeks.
Phi: (. hinese Beds appear to be us-
iiifi n uc i old Japanese equipmerit.
Art :1 the Greek ; guerillas are up-
doiibtxH/ lj>cijig [supplied by other
Bai kpn statics-"
supf
erbocl
j’hiladelphi
bid diltig (he
lid i
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16,
other
’to.
Dde
Rig At;
thtotitehoutl t^e
tr4-i-4
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0 ice bad a law for-
of coal in the city
1 SoBton Tea Party ,
t was followed by
tea-qunklhg incidents
colonies.
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Downward points out. “Therefore, eral insurance. He has spent nin
we propose to assemble factual , years as special and recordin
data along these lines jwhich I be-! agCnt j in the general insurance
—«• j, . ^ U v U ...v«.., lieve will go a long Way toward ] field.
‘Rightful’’ Uise of the ballot, enforcement of Fa, New Mexico, which wore grant- awakening the business and agri-
Ja/ftpa
law by regularly) constituted authorities and edl
teaching citizenvS|l“fhat their first allegiance When the, ruling on the nev| ap
is to the-Uniiecl States.” .T I ?!i c „ a fc w £fe 18 not P efi '
cultural interests, of the state to
Tests
the situatroH,” he says
bs were burned on
On racial
ideajs, it states founders of ,the
the courthouse lawns aftM from 200 to 800 republic “peVer intended that it should fall
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hooded and robejd klansnidn paraded around
the square. Leacjers said |.|e KKK had gath^
ered tb rededicajte itselfpo maintenance of
Southern traditions, in<j:l)Mng segregation of
i-
nite, Gen. Smith said.
Pioneer now serves-some 17|Tex-
as cities with daily) scheduled
into the handk of ;an inferior race.”
j round-trip flights.
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Governor Thompson of Georgia ( where
v the Klan isistrongest) told the truth the other
day when he isaim “While our senators and j
representatives lili Washington, are saying;
that we can tiake^care of our problems our-1
lanta ^physician j ajnd Gn |d Dragon of the selves, the Klan| is cutting the .wery ground I
from under their feet.”
ur Roads...
races.;
Atj Wrightsvjilje, Dr..
Samuel Green, At-
Georgia Klan, tpld the (pjpwd. “we want to
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iglkid
i
he Spring a. young Aggies fancy light
ly turhs .to thoughts (If travel. Unfortunately
^ travel; involves ijroads, ajijcV there enters the
joker. - . ■ I . I
Taj reach thef outsidje{KMd^or even to go
vrom [gate to dcinh, thej||udent must travel
streets thait are;I*
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- tollegf streets tlhut are h ardly -flattering to
a school that ’tubs ouUttipMiotch civil engi-
•Vn^aS, , . * if-'* '[ Sr ^
/j MAst of our major' ihoroiighfares
crowtied, but in gpod rep |ir. It is the minor
roacfvvays that ara sufjfot |ng. S.ome of them
have*|»een toppejl with [asphalt in years past,
w little
but afe now
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Wh^t Price Pr||itige5
printk ]
on tlaie r
ess thdifa series of jarring
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dips and moi ru {j. Those that are unpaved,
particularly in the - newer class areas, are !
perfect grist ’or[the nill of spring quagmire
and summer llitoi
During the Inter months there was very
little work dohei'bn'the college streets. Any
one who is ifamiliar with College Station
winter weather:can se^ the logic for the in-1
activity, b I I .\
Now tlhat tlieisun ha\ reappeared again
however, it wquld be pleasant to see the
streams of Aggies going to the highways in
terspersed with; kn occassional road repair
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