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The first wcsk
daimed as ‘‘Natittaai #
about time. If vie ever np«
we need one no
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At, APRIL 1, 1948
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van Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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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
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in a cell of the :Kre:
awaiting our sentence to
tiiings 1
lately, but we ha
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ASHVE Croup To
See Movie, Hear ]
Duchess Selection
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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
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7:80 p. m., Thursday, YM-
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| [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
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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.
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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
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tingdish every
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living thi
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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
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•ed in Farming Ma,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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“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
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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
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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
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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... ,
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[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
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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
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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
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* 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.
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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. \
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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.
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PETE SUITH
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gave :a performance in a
^ 1 U8e a ban had been
rumrih
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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
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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-
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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
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A fellow who follows the races is usually
behind. —Arkansas Ga&ette.
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