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JtV- 1 ! • ;• Page -!i. f: li L Hi 1 I \ I ■ T - i • Tf, Time for a The first wcsk daimed as ‘‘Natittaai # about time. If vie ever np« we need one no oldter; Statesman, Knightly ^entl r I :'i! i At, APRIL 1, 1948 UJ. van Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions n ig Haw®all 111 has been pro- However* there id a Hey to this issue of Week.’* It’s the Batt: you can believe what you read oh I ^ lju a good laugh, the front page andthis editorial page. When! In thir issue < f The Battalion are stale » come S to the •P™'* »“4 back PMW y° u ' re grange and -uubdievabli^ ories. Some are on your own;. 1 i j j ■true and gome are a't. TherP was a time when Americans in. general iand Texans in paiv reading an Aprd 1 issue] it iwas easy to tell ticulariy have long bejen kjjiowii for their abib the difference belween trfth and April fool ity to laugh when t: fiction. Today, bjth tyjppjpf story sound member Davy Croc t equally fantastic. [The oiiM difference is, the truth isn’t funny. Like thje story that we have enough radioadji>e matu|a| to wipe out all the earth's popilh tfqn, i^ Wf use it a certain vK *! ill \ ^L as t that we can (jut such an issue id 1 soon be sitting jjiiewing our nails, T T _ r .„ _ bpria. Some screw ey things have happened' in be clS in a cell of the :Kre: awaiting our sentence to tiiings 1 lately, but we ha jf " l. ASHVE Croup To See Movie, Hear ] Duchess Selection ,i-H t.r: 1 '' L : H. The American Society of Heating and Ventilation Engineers will meet Thursday at 7s30 p. tn. in 1 r the Mechanical Engineering lecture Room. i 1 Staron Ammons, president of the chapter, has announced that a mo tion picture entitled “There Is An Engineering Reason” will be shown. This film will consist of tt ic design of engineering and th son for conception of some of our present day machines. “An En gineering Reason” should be of rest to all engineering students to those who plan to do basic design, Ammons said. A short business meeting will follow the film. What’s Coo! HENDERSON COU 7 p. 4 m., Thursday,; Roc demic. JOHNSON CO 7:30 p. m., Academic. Plans for si > CfbUN Thursday, Thursday,] Room 7:30 ip. m., Academic, i i; VETERANS’ WTVHjS '8 r w: loom BRljt i i; m IT —0mLmlrn 7:80 p. m., Thursday, YM- +■ Womeo to Present | [Missions Speaker!)- The College Station Council ilhurch Women will 1 present tihe tew. and Mrs. Arthur Eiksnip, rorkeits among migrants for 1 the Council at ah d Friday Hn ^YMc] 1 ,’en’t cothe .1 ] ; I he United States to that uble wag greatest. Ke lt and his tall tales? Abraham Lmcoltt chuckling over Artemus Ward ? Our fathers laughing at! Will Rogers’ “All I know is what I rejftd in the papers?” Ourselves, listing to a Bob Hope broadcast during World War II ? ] Thb world is put, of jjointi the Russians and th:e radio commehtatprs have joined for- ^ m _ Feature! in. Farming Magazine first of /tprjl, the beginning of National -li r !H ] ■ : V-j-j!. 0 Laugh Week, so let’s al have one good haw-haw’! Shuddering Pieces of News. j. ! Two shudder hg pij£cief of information “We have, on hand [now : materials and have been made past few days: known; 1. That we have an *ajdequate” supply of as my own New England to the public in the MEANS jwhereb 1 tingdish every ! ! 'K living thi / England atomic bombs. 2. That we hive enough radioactive ma terial!—if used liie ’fectiv^ly’*— ; to wipe human life oiff l]he eaiti, ; I [ It. wais a Coiq p-essm^ri, ]Rep. Keefe, Wis- tofisin Republic#: i who lqt .it be known that We have an “ade iuate”!; supply of bpmbs. I it wps SeJiator MilMdhon, Connecticut Democrat, whqjtdd of thetadioactive mater ial ini an article fhis wpplf in Collier’s Maga zine. g^t together an(d ! !i MM Ag|&ign.eet|igCronp •ed in Farming Ma, . . 0 . i-.. .. J , A story <|n| — ' appears in the; News,” one of i... .. nation, i I I i| • , ^ m Frequent quotes from Fred R. Jones, head of the A&M Julius Siam, publicity chairman, that Miss Nancy Wilkins of m has been chosen to repre- the ASHVE at the Cotton Ball, is a graduate of Sophie New comb in New Orleans. Her escort will be Barton Wat* lace, a graduating senior in Me chanical Engineering and vice-pres ident of the Scholarship Honor So* ciety. •'! if we | :hose we could ex- Ihg in an area such “Wp have op hand nblw materials which, if used in certaip fashiops, would destroy the reproductive faculties of our whole nation, leaving the American pecjpip sterile and bar ren, or capable of birthing only monsters, and sons and daughters witty broken genes, so that our line would p< Meanwhile, the chairman ;of the Senate- House atomic energy committee said today he believes .that if wan comes again this vj „ ' .iiuij li-11111 , ^ . country should Use. the;bomb with the aim Keefe made 1 is stsitj^ipent after listening - shortening the conflict and saving lives. ■ lii to D»vid E. U)itiith»l,|jMe|d <4 thej govern- s t HidtenloopW (R-Iowa) 'put it merit’s atomics energy prfgram, Mlk to a this way to a reported: >j : ^ ■’ 1 As pointed oi.t by Jii i4s Marlowe of As- , ^he jiomb should be used fj.-T: vociated i'Ptessjjh* hat K^ej e| said raises blood- where It will ef^ ficinet means of ending itpe war.’ chilling questionh.: j : ; Ata ^ftdeq.iiatt ” supply [of bombs for what ? •War with one eo intry‘^Mussia, for instance? Actually, unless the system has been ISVar against a nimber ctf ic^untries? Kill how changed, no completed bombs are on hand many people? Dj^troy'jhb\f many cities? Rather, for Safety and-security reasons, the • How many be mbs da We have ? How many bomb parts are stored separately—to be fin The associate editor of the publica tion is an A&M graduate of 1943, Edgar W. Wilborn, of Alvord, Tex- as. \ ] |i .[jj '■ “Though called a college, it’s bigger than piost universities,” the author, George Fi j Massey, writes. “At Texas A&M they tell you that, iri number of students who bear down on agricultural engineering, it ranks among,the fhree top Amer ican schools. In 1946-47 it had right at 150 majoring in the mechanics of farming.” i V The article continues, > “Texas courtesy pervades the place. Any student on the trot to class, will drop everything to See that you get where you want to go, unless ne's a freshman and hasn’t learned his Own way around, in Which case he’ll see that you meet an upper /mT* 11 "* ^ T classman skilled in campus craft.” ;P mvers ? y , of , Mlchl f n 1 ’ on prob - ' Jones is quoted as follows: “What neers ; industry. ^ session, scheduled for ties is to show the farmer how he I Wednesday Mornmg April 7, will can produce, store and market his ! ntr °ducq the general phase behav- product, more economically with ^ Pet Engineers To Hold Conference Here Next Week j , • v ‘ : - ’ l i *.} W’n Over ; 200 petroleum engineers from many states in the union and several foreign countries are ex pected yWj a conference on phase relationships in oil and gas reser voirs, tdl be held on the campus April 7-9. Sponsored by the A&M Depart ment of Petroleum Engineering the conference will feature six talks by Dr. Donald L. Katz, professor of cheniiOal engineering at the Chaplain Moves j To Hart HaU ! .*' • j j I . r : | Rev. Sam Hill, A&M chaplain has moved his office from Kiest Lounge to Ramp A, Hart Hall. He may be contacted there between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. daily. His new telephone num bers are 4-9314 and 4-1210. For Your Visual Problems Consult Dr, Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main — Bryan Phone 2-IB62 PALACE iff P H O N r .’-Ml 79 TODAY— say. men tbifik are “adequate”? isicret. u McMahon? I—w... ^ “do our milita - Thati’s a: top g^vbrnnte In his Coljijer’Q aijti “The United Stales' (jf; America now Has 4 above, ground sufficient > radio-active mater lal so that, Weae iti'ejf^fedtively applied, all human life on t ie'planet Would be annihila ted. "We >>ave: qn. order : various means, for such application v j J ally assembled only in the event they are to be used. These parts are '(A) tallic components which I gether produce.the afolhic explosion, (B) ’the triggjer mechanism {for bringing them to gether afid (:C) the casing for the bombs. How [long it' takes to assemble the parts is a closely guarded secret. the fissionable me- whbn brought to- .he least possible human effort and drudgery through the use of mod em mechanical equipment.” Further, the article says, “they (the farmers) have high respect for the new knowledge that stems from such research and teaching as is carried on every day at their A&M. Their sons—yes, and their daughters—are smartly condition ed to the new and changing way of life that mechanization has brought to the Texas farm.” But A-Bomb Still Bites... , ' i- If ' ' 'I [lave annoqneea that one leared -eci that, if there are an; phase Of thfe; atom bo:npW-persistent after- from the split second of „ effeets-j-has hem over dramatized. No dam- subsequent atomic actio i. age hah.been dine in Hiroshima since the He shrugged aw^W previously published split; second in Which f%;bomb burst, they reports of luxuriant plajit growth, curiously j ; ■ ' 11 r , they would result the blast—not from We still doi’t looilj; fforward to Having an A-bomb exnliode ovet College Station. Dr. Philip E. Owep| Scientist who has Jbeoti studying Hiroshima, says the long study by the Atomic BOnib Casualty Survey Commission ’‘aisclo^df no residual radio- activityi.” He termed false speculation that the area would be for possibly 80 years. [ -1 r The scientists are? 3?irashiima arid Tomparfson. ‘ He told the Associi i to •#] y cjia — •\-.1 i'ears too soon paused fheridit I : Helen Jej ^Florida ;boxinjg [ring •placed ion the; city au jrian Federation of TTiight ]be calleq goin: •trillo. T-Ar/camt as : T - [■. |i— - President 1 * guest Key W twisted vegetables arid ^win onions. “We haven't found any such Startling results,” he commented. “They could happen anywhere, but in Hiroshima people seize on radio-activity as an explanation. It’s prob ably just potash in the soil, ashes of burned buildings and huma^i bbnes.f’ Official casualty figures on the bombing, August 6, 1945, are 178,150 killed. Radiation killed 21.2 percent;: the others died from ridying residents of concussion, injuries,; infections or perished |f nearby Kure, for in burning buildings. Another 19,699 werie 1. j injured Variously and 4jl,979 slightly, ted Press it “is eight . pr. Owen stressed that the casualties re- rifhether the bomb suited from the bla^t]—none from anything si But he emphasiz- that developed later. Vet Wives Plan Saturday Social The Veterans’ Wives’ Club is planning a bridge and “42” party for members and their husbands to be held Saturday, April 10, at 7:30 p. m. in the YMCA Cabinet Room. . if j Jj. • 1 V Invitation cards have been mail ed to members who have paid dues for the current semester. Those who desire to attend tho party and have not paid their dues should contact Loraine Ward, Trailer S^l, Area 5; or Bobbyo Bonar, 604 Restwood, Bryan, before Thursday April 8. : p: i; J — It**- The n<?xt two <^ays will be devo ted to witer hydrocarbon phase re- lations^ phase densities, surface tension 1 4nd viscosity, and behavior of reservoir fluids. \ ./ ~ ^ Hill County A&M Club Will Discuss Party Plans Tonight The Hill County A&M Club will hold ah important meeting tonight at 7 in Room 307, Academic Build ing, Travis Kirkpatrick, club presi dent, juts announced. Plans for a party to be held after the Cotton Ball .will be discussed at the meet ing, he qaid. / . ( 1 : I' ‘1 | j Prtdacil by ADIIAN . ilso anjli PETE SUITH 4* *1 ■ 4! gave :a performance in a ^ 1 U8e a ban had been rumrih est Jam as his luncheon , Cox, 1920 nomi- .nee of ]the Deihocrati^l party for president. ■We don’t want to spread gloom around, but 'after next November Mr|Truman and Mr. jCox may have uore in donimoin to trilk about. ‘—Arkansas Qazette Italic Static afternoon, I excflpi lished semi Boston’s Mayor Curley, recently pardon ed by Predident Triimt n has indorsed Gen. orium by the Amer- MacArthur for the Whlite House, jicians. That’s what' \ [That’s biting the. ha(nd that ft to the mat with Pe- 1 • •» iand that freed you. Of course,; one can understand Curley’s enthusiasm for MacArthur[ the Mayor not having been put of uniform so long himself. Jack Tarver in The Atlanta Constitution ' mF. |—[h^TT A fellow who follows the races is usually behind. —Arkansas Ga&ette. — FRED C. SEALE ELECTRIC CO. Contracting - Appliances Fixtures P.O. 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