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merger plan of
thing seiiins tp hkvt
—the Ni .val Reserve.
At present theije.jlis k larg^ number of
Naval Ri iservists
ty bein,: non
that th^ presenc^ dj^
ists on t|e cumpu.i the majori- with th
a-tn litary ^ tudente. Th^ fact the trai
at the
porpry ianditionl
in the lefusaKojf w
lish a Nival Res^nte
That picture has
draft anjd IfMT, WHRPi: afe noV
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>r, Statesman, Kntghtly Gentleman 1 ^ K .
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entje Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
APRIL 8, 1948
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SMitr, Statesmen, Kmgbtly Gentleman?
Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie
euleJVe at A&’M?.. 1
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Ami< talk of CnilverSc! Military Train- training of naval officer^ into the military
:i^ nd 4 he nX 0 ^ 'mmm im
negleited at A&M
is the time jtfSlay the
program of Naval Rese
the groundwork for ai
rve training.
An active naval unit would not interfere
im. In fact,, many of
6f the reserve such as
''meil was a tern- radio, signaling, •! mechanics, photography
t|ie principal factor and gunnery would complepi^nt the train-
al officials to estab-' ing now given as part of the RQTC course,
n thfe campus. That an interest in naval activities does
now. If the ex ist on the campus is evidenced by the
in Congress, large number of undergraduates who enter-;
assume that ed that service during the war.
thanneled in- The increased milf
taini
changed
A&Iit has always
w’tlfe laf^e number bf officers it
has^furpished far the ai my. The merger of establish an j active iNaval Reserve unit at
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lilitary and naval budget
The iMrektej}:
authorized by Congress should be another
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CARE Offers Gift Pi
For European Mothei
, WASHINGTON —UF)—Mothers, es;
May 9 in this country, will turn their tho
other Countries on that day >this year.
Through the General Federation of
thousands of American mothers will send
on Mothers’ Day to women in’—I 1 }
Europe.
For individual contributions of
$10, packages of food or clothing
wilj be sent to some woman they
themselves know, or to a needy
woman whose name is listed at the
Federation headquarters here.
Special food packages are set up
for England, Ireland, Italy, an <l
other countries according to the
tastes and desires of the people of
that country, but .the standard food
package contains: one pound of
braised beef, one pound of live*
loaf, one pound of corned beef, two
pounds of shortening, two pounds
of sugar, one pound of apricots,
.
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RAL
drsday.
Rumors Fly Vainly .
'Javal Reser- factor which should • have a favorable bear-
than a tem- mg bn possible establishment of a navy
unit on the campus; This, together with! a
positive action on the draft and UMT, seems
to make it eyideijt that now is the time fto
_ establish an active
the services may, in| the future, bring the A&M.
for its RO-
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ever Is Rough . ..
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write about!.!it so rapturously? Well it is
good for baseball games, . especially when
A&M's home - r^n Icings are knocking the
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New North Gate Building:
r;o :tr! '/!. -T . jfj
To Replace Old! Landmark
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“Did’ja hear about the North Gate? Creamland’s mov
ing to Midway! Aw, it ain|t that—the school’s just building
eight ounces of egg powder, one
pound of fpffee (one-half pound of
tea substituted for British pack
ages), six ounces of soap, and one-
fourth ounce of yeast.
In addition to the food pack
ages, there are packages made
up of blankets, knitting, woolens,
cottons, and layettes.
Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, exten
sion secretary of the Federation’s
Foreign and Territorial dubs, says:
AGRICULTI
7:30 p. m., Tht
ed from 5 p.
AMERICA
CHEMICAL
m, Thursdayj,
Lecture Room,
DEL RIO I&.&M
day night, Reading
YMPA '
DENTON COD
p. m., Wednesiday, in
culture Buildijng ‘
ture.
a fi
CAN INSTITUTE
VL ENGINE!
ursday in Cabinet Room of
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R COUNTY CLUB, 7 pi
ursday in Room 126, Aca
THERA
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STUD!
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Room
EX.SERVICEI
BRIDGE & SOCIJ
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the new North Gate road to connect the old highway.”
• Sorry, none of the rumors are true!
The Batt, ever on the alert for what may prove to be
a news item, immediately dis- 4- i *- +
an opportunity to make
Mothers Day of 1948 a day that
will long be remembered by the
unhappy, undernourished mothers
in many countries. It will also give
evidence of our good faith and in
tentions toward the stricken
tier th<
Shakespeare of Ribwn-
class. l| is rodflh mm ecji
find themselves clmpin
other
Spring feVBr! is, Iburfh! on Everybody. It
is rough on stbdeMtsjpwiip find minds wan
dering but the window djufing Aobef lectures A&M’s home - rpn kjngs are knocking the patched a reporter to the scejne
“ ^5£S. astheyhavebee,,doin,, jSHSSl
remembjef whetlhef ;the|y r are lecturing on Sprim is good fdr dances—like last Sat- check the managing editor’s post
in a particular urday’s—-for ijCotton Balls—even for Little j office box while down there.
Hors, \i T ho suddenly Southwestern Stock Shows, if you’re a true ol< L wo £ den 0 -^“'
editorials from ag man. Bht lit |s pb good for work! pied by the u-eamiknd, ii
master
pieces tof ^ostetitf.t | H T .. system. , ., T ^ t
Whgti is spring goodj for? 'Vyhyf do poets Shakegpeare*-or are We taking Browning? west ^corner of the^same block. fl, e 0 thefs._“The occupants wish to
peo-
les throughout the world. It is
> adds, “that the moth-
of the United States would l
pies through
believed,? she
ers Of the
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ENT ASSOt-
p. rn., Wednesday.
Assembly Room. "Present
icepta of Evolution” will bp
by Professor A. L,
f«!j •j| ^IJ'-
STRIAL EDUCATION
" p. m., Wednesday, Room
Shop},
T TEXAS CLU.
:lb p.m., YMCA
»y,
48 - MlCOS CLUB, 7:15
in., ThursdayJip Room''223,
demic Building,
tE
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TEXARKANA CLUB, 7 p.
Hursday, Room 125, Acade
uilding.
ne
Guaranteed
Main
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ter Exchange
sed Typewriters
1 Repairs
Bryap
MAGNO
Phone ‘4^|l.]f8j3
MOB’
Lubrica
mselvesf cljppin
jpapers insiteid jot' writing
bb ^ostejri#. I i 1
2|t: is spring good) for? 'Vyhyf do poets Shakespeare—or ^re we taking Browning?
j pied by thi
Campus Va
ie Creamlind, layioi
iriety Store, and Char-
Market is beii
tb Charlie Opetsteny, owner of
Charlie’s' Food Market}
“The new buildftig Will be 80
feet deep, have a 96 foot front,
and will be set 2tf feet back
from the street,” Opereteny said,
“anil'it will contain four busi
ness hops^s.”
Opersteny stated hq will move
prefer to deny themselves a gift
that day: in order to send a gift to
another mother in a distant coun
try” [ '
Now -that rtiia b om P Jai nt is out, of our lie’s Food Market; is being moved his ''^* 0 c er y into one of themrbut
tem, we 11 try tO; go back and study our from its present site to the north- declined to say who would occupy
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Horticulturists
Elect Officers
AGGIE]
Servii^e Si
John Bi avenec,
GENERAL
REPAIR
We call for. an
EAST GA
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Getting an "Education
An !interesting jan^l ...disoission took
• • •
time to correct long essay questions. This
place thje otheb (jay bielliyeen j a group of unflattering admission of an undeniable fact
high school students, jfroin half a dozen lands, of current American education must be sup-
It was at the Now'York Herald jTribune For- plemented' by a recognition that even under
on school systiei na}
A yOMng 'Austda
the sort of question apked oij history ex-
A. L. Bailey has bejen elfected
w w 11M , w president of the Horticulture So-
This 24-year-old building, long an , remaiTu^ n own U forThe°present^ | ciet y {6r the. 1948-49 school year,
eyesore at Ithe Gate, is to be re- he stated. £ . j Other officers elected at the
By mmv .
plaped with a mbdern lone story, "Vhe moving operation is being I Tuesday night meeting were B.
bribk and tile building,, according conducted by E. A. Gerke, pro- Story, vice-president; W. B. Jones,
— 1 — L —‘ L: - J —'——— - ... d _ secretary; H. J. Mack, treasurer;
and J. T. Moore,, reporter.
um foil High, SehtbqlB, tuicf th^ talk turned the best of circumstances Americans-tend to i
h^dl sysjiein^ J! 1 ^ emphasize a rjructical acquisition of facts!
A ybUng ^ustralijan^ave an example •of ----- -
Letters
Letters (to the editor must' be
signed. If the wri
fessional’ housemover from Bryan.
Gerke, who has been fin the busi
ness for about four years, stated
that this has proved to be one of
his toughest jobs because of the
deep-set concrete foundations.
The managing editor had no
mail. ] ii'
MADELEY
PHARMACY
South Side
•r
If
aminatlons iri; Ijiis atjturijtr^: “Luther was a
profound conservative Lnd
novato|. DiscUs^ iU klboiltfl,'
quickly
chimed in ! thajt
examiiuition qylestkjjns
An j intelliEfenti) ydunk
‘Aggie
Vets Wife Offers
,, , ■ Tffl'ri- I," * tt —! «ignea. u me writer desires, his
more than a theoretical consideration ol name will be withheld.
their meaning. -f r V : . ‘ . ★
The youhg Dane pointed out there was DUSTY SEATS
a Reluctant in- something to be said on both sides: “Your i . Editor - Tl to BatUpestj j ; wv • _ • ,
!■!,000 words.’’This schools do teach you to stand up and*ttalkJ H ei 'Pj» a ^ I 01 ' a?1 ed ‘t°i ia l if LlHnCin? l^OlirSCS
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and Sfandanayiah [menipers Of the panel each other. The United Nations could profit
form around this school.
The best Town Hall program of
it w^s. typical of
their countries.
American student
from eaich other. The United Nations could
profit from .the acumen of these young peo
ple—and not least those American spdkes-
the year, in the) opinion of many
Aggies; was presented last Satur-, student,
day night. Many visitors were on :
the campus for this occasion, yet
when those visitors and * ^ Iii ‘
—a Nejjrp-rrejbiiijei th$t, one reason for the men whose fads are sometimes obscured by ’ walked into Guion Hall’s anefeht
prevalent tru^-false; tyilei of exlamination in a notable lack of historical scholarship and balcony and had to sit in seats
American schbcils wak tile shortage and over- political sophistication when they “stand 1 up ieo v ’ e .red wilth a half jinch of PVfL
leading ol.,teachers, whb woilld not have and talk.” -The Christian Science Monitor * dldnt leavc a favorable impres '
• i ■ : : !: '# 1 f r ' M • I
on Parade.
Re4ding tho O’tjolk gjan, daily paper of .ribbons i,t does not necessarily mean that
OklaTidma A&I4, is always a startling ex- the college is taking a trend toward the
perieri<je. Half the heads; read “Aggies This - ' • ” ? '
;. . ’’^“A&MTlbajtr’
For, their schtol nail
ours, fie share ^ ?!
sion.
Everyone will admit that it
certainiy lis no pleasure to wear
his best clothes, and have to; sit
in' a seat that; looks as if it
hadn’t been dusted for years.
I’m sure the Town Hall man
agement has the financial me£WJ2.
miary, even
to'“At gieland” 1 ai|^ba»ie for the campus.
Bull when One cobejp across;such a head
ie
lilajr voc
as tbi|i
on
th\|>, one ,siam*.i “ in Pigtails
Pa|ad6!”;. I T i :TT 1 . (-
);tily reajiing
|you see the
ly Stepping out
blouser 1 : ‘ ”
denlj
e [story, w^e find
^irlife on the campup sud
witjilblack nkirts, white
and piigtails with oranie and black learn more and more: every day,
fTTa n : — r — - ^^
ing to launch a |<&
pielces by itd owk
Gottw ild’s Kijenjli
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^ When former See
Kpnored^by lihs Oh
der oJ
given to the grajic
Ausptcj
fere is a good ideal <pf talk in the South
finr ^
jump at the chahee to pick up-an
the 30 pledges meets a extra dollar or^ twp. doing such
member on the campus, she must throw her work -
books down and report with extreme rever
ence. |
“Hear ye, hear ye, honorable Aggiette
member approaches.”
Yours truly,
l*AT HENRY, ’49
Mrs. Eva Mittendprfj, wife/ of
Ehrhard Mittendorf, veteran: ihath
student,; is opening a dancing I
schdol at the Bryan Country Club. I
Tap, ballet,'acrobatic; and ball
room dancing instruction will‘be
offered.
Registration for children above
three years of age will be held at
the Country Club from 1 to 5)
p. ni. Monday, April 12. Classes
will begin Thursday.
Mrs. Mittendorf ;haB v had 1
years of training under JudUl
'Sfiroule/'of Beaumont; former pres
ident of the Dancing Masters of
America. f
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Pig tails—hair ribbons—Aggiettes—we
Yugoslavia, lacked out of her offer to
about iaunchin s: kmbthdr permai lent political trade Trieste foil the Italian city of Gorzia.
party.; ;Persosu !llyi top pellieve. tiat two are She didn’t get faf in proposing to give some-
.enougjii to save tljie (|ou|try from each other, thing she doesn’t own for something Italy
Co; nmuniist pjret^iei Gottwa d of Czech- ; r iji 1 j *
bsloyaj da told a Prague jaudiene e that there People will fbrgive you for making mis-
wifl n< t be ajW'thfer war because the will for takes—if they ape not always the same ones,
peace^jis so sjtra|iy gjivernm mt attempt- , ! , ' >4 *■ :X
CUT GLADIOLUS }!
Variety! of beautiful colors
Reasonably! Priced
THE ROSE STAND
S. College i Rd., Bryan
Fri. - Sat. Hours—8-«
oUs iStai^, |Grand
e Battaliowf
fekly.
Of Col ege Station,
aftem ion. except
lished
win
209,
‘wouk be torn tb One reason top Russian officials
” We hiopb Premier little: trouble pushing their “butter for
Ume is
have
can-i
a tworway non” program niay be that there isn’t much
bread to jput the butter on anyway.
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ry of State Hull was The federal Bureau of the Census is go-
rovernment the Or- ing to make aj special count of Little Rock’s
Jell.
lordon* was population, and; we all hope that when we
get the lowdowrj it will be way up.
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icai College of Texas and the City
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nplidays and examination periods During! the summer The Battalion is pub-
tion raic $4.30 per school year. Advgrttoiqg rates, furbished on, rebuff*.
tonai office. Room 201, Good-
Student Activities Office, Room
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published five times a week and circ
ods Dur
be made by telephone (4-5444j or atfcwldii
f be placed by telephone (4*6324) or at th* Sl
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ATI’ENPION!:
all' rOoeo
CONTESTANTS
Plan now to attend the first show
of the season—
SAT. NIGHT, APRIL 554 and
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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IVloseley’s Arena
Dime Box;Texas
FRED C. SEALE
ELECTRIC CO.
Contracting - Appliances
Fixtures
P.O. Box 292 Dial 2-6424
Bryan, Texas, .
Announcing...
THE OPENING OF
MITTENDORF
School of
Dancing
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Tap
1 BaUet *
1 Acrobatic
Ballroom
nstration 1 - 5, Monday
r AN COUNTRY CLUB
Classes begin Thursday
Age 3 - up :
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