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wheii it cbrties Ijj i librai^fservice we Have to
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of things, but
THURSp
AY, MARCH 11,1948
of Aggie Tradil
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ditions
take thirty- eight place Ujiiong states. Of the
i 'i 254 tbuntHs iin 'jfexas,: 147 have no Ipublic
libralry wittiin their boands.” .
Trhese ptom • fV^riighf Patnian of
Texarkana,! repr ?«entati\ie in Congress, were
spoken in tihelEobse o| jRepresentatives re- have
indifferent use s madfijof A&M’s Cushing brary habit
of tie disniiWj
centSy. Th$y jte f[the story of one of Texas’ the S<
problems. They also may explain why such might
a i
paper foom doesn’t qualify anyone as a book-
worrri v | L
Seriously, there are. rniany fine books in
the CushingHibrary thati^have never been
issued We may^npt have as complete a col-
lectior of 1 booM as t[he New York Library or
even the Texas University library (one of the
ten tcjp jcollegisate institutions) but we do
i of the
)ne
e better college libraries
Southwest. It isn’t used
library, j ,. Borrowing books from the library Awaiting action in the House is a bt
and reading! tiler if is a habit, easily acquired authorizing appropriation of funds for mo-
in childhood, |a ’4 to adqpre at a later age.
It has Iqngibeen notfided that Aggies shy
K.v o:r 1
when ah inhjtruc or hanili) out a list of books
to secure from He libjrqry and read; Part
time.
be. Which brings us back to
bile libraries over the country. Rep. Patman,
suppohtinig the bill, told his colleagues:
“T’us bill would do a lot for my state of
Texas, as well as for other states. There are
more j; eople in Texas without library service
than in, any other state. Over 3,000,000 Tex
ans, on
know
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Masaryk. non-party
foreign! miijuste* in (;7|'choslovakia’s new
Cbm ttulriist-conti dfled- government, person
alize? the “cqlq vip!’,,. [1 . !
The Czechbs oyak goyernmen-t said Ma-
saryc. $on of fH)jr|i^s Mdsaryk. founder and
first president!of!
leaped to deotli trom hi
Prague. Theigqvptihmeritfannouncement /said
he “sufferdd: ah
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‘Hidden Cost’ Through
Equipment Being Paid
(This is the fifth in a series
of nine article on the current
mess hall situation at A&M. The
sixth article, concerning a poll
of Cadet Corp^ opinion on Fam
ily and Cafeteria style, win -ap
pear in the Friday issue of the
Battalion.) J,
By LARRY GOODWyV
but one small figutf* seryi
illustrate the scope. :# the
. Through loss of nilk bo
alone, the rpess hal have
forced to pay the cOilrKe cr
ery (447.97 in tpe P***
months.
Students who eat m A&M’s mess
hall are not getting their full dol
laFs value for each* $1 spent—and
they themselves are responsible in
part for the “hidden co’st” that is
part for the “hidden co’st’’ that
responsible for this situation.
The “hidden tost” is the money
the mess hall must take away from
food allotments every year in order
to pay for losses in mess hall
equipment, a loss which students
are responsible for to a large de-
gree. | j
This loss takes the form of miss
ing coffee cups, knives, forks,
glasses, plates and other assorted
eating utensils which the mess
hall rtnust replace.
Commenting on this situation,
The creamery charges foui
for each milk botlih that
returned. Students wjl
bottles out of the ni
be making it ;
fee with
th£y are ,
ience in the form of i
ha}l costs.
In an a
this loss,
a . program' uiioei»in^, . ,
to dormitory janitors for eV ^]
milk bottle's bjrought back
mess hall. This profriilm has
in a small wdy, to pyerconli
unnecessary “hidden itsst."
But the real gaii must:,
from the students. If j»pme prp^r
could be worked out tpl i
„ . jpwijl
J. G. Peniston, chief of A&M Sub- loss (and possiibly er able st
sistenjee, said, “The students don’t to have their nightl> coffee
seem to realize they are paying for i crearti”) the probhn pr^ablyi
Masaryk’s Only Way Out...
about half of our population, do not
vhat-'free public library service is.
iHa^ahy IVt lUUIlUt}! ctllU
ihe Cbcchoslovak Republic
om hik khifd floor office in
VERBAL RETCHI
My dear Mr. Murray:
Ever since you have been edl
of what used to be the Aggies
newspaper, I have writhed and
suffered in silence while leading
the asinine folderol you have seen
fit to print. I have suffered, I re
peat, in silence.
1 have disagreed with the stand
you have taken on almost every
subject you have taken a stjand.on,
put I have fought down (he im
pulse to retch verbally because I
tary aid to.' China would help stbp “Russian
aggression” in ^urope. 1
Several members of Firtland’s delegation
to negotiate q Finish-Russian pact requested
by Prijne Minister Stalin were reported in
Helsinki to have asked to be relieved of their „
assignment. Informants said Finnish Pr'esi- h ». v e .never bplieved in destructive
dent ijjiho K. Paasijdvi cut them short with mt,cism and 1 have neither the
the rerhark: “There is no question of whether
(Ifness,. coupled’ with you hajve any desire to do this or that. This
is k compulsory labor.”
Daiiish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmus
sen in Copenhagen expressed- concern for
Jege Hills leaves hisl windows open
and burns gas day and night and
the cost of the gas must be distrib
uted‘over those persons on a flat-
rate.” This sounded logical, tho'
exasperating, and sp the bills were
paid. !|t.
In September ID-7 a meter was
installed arid we tiought ~“Now
we’ll pay only for the gas ; WE
use!” But the bills continue to
double! I realize this has been a
the equipment that they take out
of the mess hall. That is exactly
the case, for wg just have to spent!
the money that should be going
for food in order to replace the
neVer+endirig loss of equipment.”
The extent of the price loss to
students is reflected in these fig
ures from the subsistence depart*
ment,; showing how the mess hall
spends each dollar in the process
of serving the; student body.. .
Sixty cents out of each dollar
goes for food; twenty-eight cents
own liberty
tacked.! He
with all available .force” if at-
did not mention any possible
source of attack on Denmark, but declared ^ M
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lihi ster Vkclav Nosek said Ma
saryk had lipent: ithe jiilght reading letters
and jtelegraras! f X)|n BHitSain and the United
States attacpjig Him fjor continuing ib the
Cbmjmqnist ijroyerrijmeni [
In Brussels, five Wjefetern Europeah na
tioni negotiatfeK 4 miliillarj' alliance agreed that “the main eastern power, the U.S.S.R.,
in ptiriciple fhei ’ linionl \/ill be open toiother is at present striving to attach Finland to
counjtries on jthe ^optinejnt. . “ the eas: European system.
At the'Vatican, Popt'!-Pius. XII said in his Ajt take Success, the much-publicized U
anniial addifess tp thfti?Rome Clergy; that S.-Russ ian agreement on Palestine partition
Catholics ini th* ltaWai| national elections appeared to be dissolving. Imminent dis-
A'prjl 18 mujdjvjtJ for'candidates who safe- agreemjent ayipeared to center on American
guavd the right? |of (Wdj and of soulk; for .insistence that the Arabs, bitter foes of par-
.the true 'God of individuais, of families and tition, be brought into United Nations con-
of .society, according to |the law of Gojd ami sulfations.
Christian moral Sc(ctnnkC ’ / . ★
In Washiiigto i the Tf i Sv C-ongress sought Yomg Masaryk apparently .saw only one
to transfoiffl (tl e IM&rkljiiill Plan for Euro- way opt of the dilemna of the world. He
pean recovers' nfo law bv April 10, Maj. jumpeti. But the rest of us cannot take such
Gen] Claire Gh^nfiault! [former commhnder a way put. Can
its upward trend, Ar the fact that
only twice dui ing.tne last 6 months
has anyone in this vicinity Seen the
meters being read.
, , Now, Mr. Anthony, my question
time nor the inclination to take i s ~tlm—Is there anything that can
part in getting out the Bait. be done to remedy this—other than
However, I can't swallow; eVerv- installing Butane Atwood burners,
thing. Monday’s issue is top mUch- 0 r talking’ to the chaplain? Any
Quoting your t6p-of-the T column e , ^plaint made to the Lone Star
editorial (?); “What more can be j G aa Co. is met with the reply, “If
particularly cold wintep but this j for lalbbP*cost, two cents for utili-
doesn’t account foi; the fact that ties such as heat, light, power, wat-
during the month 'which included ! er, fuel and gas and the remaining
the Christmas holidays when I was! 10 cetits fop-“dining hall expenses.”
gone for 2-weeks, the hill continue! i The price of replacing mess hall
equipment, along with cleaning and
laundry, insurance, garbage collec
tions, is, included in this lattet
figure. The exact percentage of
each dollar that is spent on replac
ing equipment; couldn’t be obtained,
could be licked.
Got any ideas?
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Changes Schedule
Darnell, Bryari contact re
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contact rep,.
Hart Hall ♦
YOUNG TEXANS A
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mnistra'
thfec days a week instead Of the
miming and afternoon arrange-
nr nt previously in practice.
A tie can he contacted in Ramp B,
Hart Half every Tuesday, Thurs-
\
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veterans probl
m
, iy to handle
is other than edu-
iohal qVestiOnfl.
Vamell will also maintain offi-
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de i in Brynn on Mondjay and Wed-
riepday. His office has been moved
frii
Mr t
rim the second to tne third floor
of the Howell Building:
Until now, Varnel
i a n pus every Monday
Tlursday ia,fterhoon.
visited the
morning ar
lavarro Club To
ileef Duchess
TYLER, Tex., Marbh 11
The Tyler Courier-Tibies sai
terday that Generaj j Eisen
and Jim Farley WoUkt be
favorable mention as; a prril
tial team at a meeting here Sitilr-
day of the Texas Youlilg Dem)q(' r *P
executive committee.
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PALACE
PHONE 2-AH79
Finland amj said Denmark would defend her ‘ hell of a^ot.^And nmre <?f itTasi you,- iffr—aix'l ihey U 'wouid l ,
whole i
you don’t like it—\y e ’d just, cut
to do yith the battleship Tjepcas.
If you haven’t any original ideas,
too!
MARTIN B. MARX ’45
vreii; v, iaire |t |n(‘inrauiu |jormei commanaer a way rut. t a
of. the “Flyirng Tlgersf’l in China, told the mess H-fthout
Earl Buntiar, pres djent of the National
Assn, of Mai ufs ictjlirer:i,ihe!d a press cbnfer-j
ence during the repent convention;to explain
the NAM’s l^-pjoiljit prjo^ram to fight infla-J
tioni During the duest
one report er -asl ed a hailing question] about
pricpSiand B
l\i r around thi
ajU./pio one v
drive the ;pq ht
straight to
1= I
oilsly C'horus|d:
6
Dil'fefencci of O
union
i,
we work our way out of this
getting into a thitd World
House Foreign Affairs]Committee that milH War, alnd a wdrse mess? We must.try
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B&() Promotion
Public relaiions wise, the Baltimore &
Ohio Hailroad doesn’t miss a trick through
spects of,its passenger promotion are
subtle. We refer to a slick brochure,
some a
pretty
ntjnd ansivbred at length [large-,
pcinii, an;1 (summed up: “After
an ps !|price controls agaiiii.” To
lished
road’s
York’s!
period afterward, illustrated by,Don Herold, that was just pub-
and v which tells, in part, about the
fancy rddtor coach service from New
e put the problem
cs with a rhetorical
42nd Street to the terminal in Jersey
City. A halfstorie phot of the midtown wait-
jhe report
question. ‘T# ^'ojildnA |vant price controls”
he said, “whijd *'o«?” AUwhich point a good
ly number o|[tqe lasseihfiled scribes vdcifer-
“fYes. ’ f -—TIDE
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CoHsternapion beset the Detroit A? Bu
reau wheti beffih pHones Aent out of commis
sion simultaiieoisll- du|’ifig a busy night last
week- The AlP lecuesfM quick service from
the teiephon|i c6npanf because- imi)fortant
outstafe calls [wi re expt ctlecl, so an emergency
■ushed ttithe newsroom. The I \
;Hed and rpchecked before one
finally located the trouble,
phfenesl hkd been switched.
repair crew is
repa irmen chHel.
astute mecha ilia
receivers of tie
Right aboye
the [Edinbur g
stoiVf neadedl V „ „ - _
BLAZE IN BF.lDRbo
blarhed on an e
ing rodni smarts an interesting sequence. It
shows la number of passengers waiting
around for the bijs, including a goodlooking
chap ahd a pretty girl. These two, however,
are seated sbipe distance apart from each
and aije^ Obviously supposed to be
strangers] But the next picture, showing the
bus enrdute to the station, has the two
fdfks sititing side by each and chatting
;ogetherj. ! —TIDE
loaded
young
cozily
row from the Austin dump. You
have been an outstanding propon
ent of everything advocated by the
teasips ever since you have had
your name in the Batt. I, for one, 1
am getting pretty damned sick of
it
If you value optipion formed on
tho forty acres s6 highly I suggest
you pack up land change schools. 1
have never learned anything ad
mirable about that bunch, either in
dividually or collectively, and I
know a! few. Editorialize all you
please about , battleships and
forth, but please don’t ask us to
take their word for it, whatever it
is.
H. V. KING, ’44
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MARCH 23rd
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Editor, The Battalion:
I realize this probably should be
addressed to the ,(;ity fathers of
Bryan. However before writing
them I’d like to find out if any
Other people of College Station are
in similar circumstances.
From September 1946 to about
August of 1947 we were on a “flat-
rate” for our gas. During that \yih-
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and any griping was met drith the
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HiUcreat
Hardware
2013 CoUe«; Road
fhe Navano Countir A&M Club
ijll meet Thursday it 7:30 p.
In the Academic Building to «elc
luche»8 to Fepresertt the club
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th*'annual Cotton-Bill, according
President
^twVfir
wi 1 be discuswd.
Harris requests all
mi mbers to attend.
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