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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Soldier,*States*an, Knightly Gentlema
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of
Preventable But Upprevente
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Is ^ipton Churchill correct ip writing™ -' 2. The dissol
that no war would have been easier to pre- garian Empire an^l
vent than the recent conflict which qes-
much pf Europe? It is a bitter
r et few know better than Churc-
the truti may b
trbyed si
thought.
hiJU what
Chur
memoirs,
published! last
the New fork
Chwc lill
bibs of th 5 Alliei
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ill makbs the asfeertion in his \^ar
the first instiallment of which Was
eek in; Life Magazine 8|nd
iwes. .ji
weaknesses ;in the ppli-
Powers between 1918 a|nd
1^36 led to the resurgence of Germany and
World Wir EL 1 ' ' -
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After France, the United States 4 n d
EHtain v bn Victoy in the'First World war,
tre three ( Allies. Churchit says, thereamer
made, a fateful series I of blunders. Ambng
them, he* i&id, Were the^e:^., h ■
1. Th . fixing of huger German repara
tions payments in the peace, treaties, and
the subsequent landing df. large sums! of
mpney t4 Germany by; the United States.
tjion of the Austro-Hun-
the resultant Balkaniza
tion of Southeast Europe.
3. Imposition of a republican constitu
tion on Germany before that country was
ready for it, and jhe ensuing chaos which
paved the way fo ’ Hitler’s rise.
4. Refusal of the United States to join
the League! of N itions, and this country’s
complete detachinontfrom European affairs.
5. Failure of i.he Allies to enforce with
utmost strictness the total disarmament of
Germany. 114
The latter mistake, Churchill writes, was
the final folly whi ih led directly to the future
crimes of the one i-beaten Germans.
He saysi that Britain in the 30’s made a
further sejries off. mistakes, including its
failure to keep pafce with German air power
development, its compromise with Italy on
the partition of E
to help Frbnc6 b]5pose Germany with force | During theJSUniori Glass meeting
when the Nazis reoccupied the Rhipeland
LJ' Al o :
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Letters to the Editor
BONUS?
Editor, ThefBattalif
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I realJzetfhM thjq
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BETTER BATTA
ibpia.and its decision not Editor, The Battajl
Is there a lesson in these words ?
the war,' ''discovered to my djs-
.appointm ent that our loud and
“JfeiJo” had shrunk to
pHpt: more news and editorials
about A&M and education and
ie to be lof abyi irfi
ishall pitsent t|le
the hope tlat they rr
. value. -i , j
It is Opiiiioljii
as; importaht as a
■yeterans slould b
enough in |dvance
supjeet to | epable j inteteajbed per
sons to dis|uss and investigate!'the
matter. 1 toubt teat nios|tj of ; the
Aggie votjirs | hmd | givepi nf uc ^
thought tql the-.pfrtjiculans off the
that ,(an iisue
tate. bonusj for
. [presented ] far
of a poll on ; the
fewer articles that pertain to
culture; I can read about culture
^ ^ limited to The Batt and should
of the fellow man relationsHip of b l,
Texas - its. traditions U The majonty of the Senior Class
wouldn’t
change
“Hello?”
anyway in Class, now! that you have begun t
ay bfej of spme reconstrucpion of the foundatjon
it be a good idles to. j®’l h i Ba [ t states against the
the “Howdy”, b4 <o W‘“"l
-rr - rn 3£.” ,h So“
ed veiy exas and westein, i^n ^ maih student government was the
it a little too rurahstie and ‘Nq;- s en j or class and we<* believe that
sounding o be commensurate With that type of 8tudent government
bonus nroiosal'"prior to the ap- th< L pre ?V ge connect<? ^ is the best for a military school.
Xnerr tbe P 3icl? ife ‘A ^n^lutbin^agaSlo 0 £ T - hc Studcnt ^ i B fi " e /f
^ ‘ vniO fn* $> vnto uongrai uiations again to you, since a majority of the students
seniors. We A? gie ve ^ erans W' 0 arernon-fifiilitary but in a few yeals
behind yoji all the way m your at- ^ g^oo] will agdin be entirely
glV i B ,n U1 8ch j 00 J|military.iThe Senior Class objects
a badly needed shot in gatti policy'of continuously
ich calk
ir». ir
M ---.for, a tote
within 24 |ioun>. I feel that who-
blamp for Hhe “short
nobceness^ of ihi^ i|oll was either
loafing on jthe job or using, a
“Vi|gh presune 1 ; strategy”; towards
a certain efd'.T can only uirge tjhat,
if! either if \ these jcondiliions'did
exist, sucwcomitjpns be; qlimifiat-
ed I before inptherlTmpbrtant issue
is [presentid. r-Ipr J;. ' j '1
il’he staWmeint made ini the
article \ha| at ; thh »2 .fcontipental
♦tempt to
tradition?
the arm.
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f
U.|S.) andl$i <ov)eiseas) ■ per iday, article
‘ bjbnus bijll whuld meeting i»f the Senior Class and
figures,
cost the i
mhtely th
HAROLD D. FARRIS, ’45
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A Senior replies
Editor, The Battalion:
I would
this
atdfofll |r r-r:-r— U- • -
e hunldrid million idol- Conrad Twiggins (what would hap-
ring (poiservativelk, I pen to this letter if I signed that
feragp(veteran name).
The Batt stated that a senior
lafs.” Fi
. believe). tiat the||average!
wpuld “ 1‘eieive tjvc-thirdjs of i his
bonus at I tne $2 Irate arttl bne-
thfird at tlfe $3 rate this jfieanK he
would reciive iabbut $430 for 191
ddys servfce. ] | | [i. : jj! i:
! PersonlUy, I believe that 4he
le^vice Iri
iOd veterans would be closer to
rao days^(2 yearsl) than to WL
like to try to clarify the
<oncerning the April 14
nf the Senior Class, and
exas appxioxi- the nasty little column Written by
praising and promoting the Stu
( dent Senate and at the same time
suppressing and misrepresenting
the faetd of the Senior Class.
We asked The Batt by publish-
\ ing the; policies of the Senior
i > Class to help us try to bring back
tome of the old A&M as much a?
we can. Most of the policies of the
editors disagree with those of the
Senior Class *- one editor wants
A&M co-educational. All the Se
nior Claps asks is that The Batt
print its! policies as well as those
Of other groups. This the editors
favored Changing the ring, so that ! ™ fui * ^ or they misrep-
verage |ervice ifojr Texas’ 7#0,-
a
-and the fust of thie bonnp would
jjie corralpondirigljy higher <at
d rates, figured on 2,
-vice, pvisr OiNjE KIL-
LLARlS).
ig I sihoiuld like trf re-
thinkl tl at tlip; pueitioh
bonus land thb statistics
r sjourets) .cjonceiriing
al shoikld have been
UcizecJ i n advance pf a
taken! i
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fhe quo
pears s
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^gat that
of a stat
(iwith th
tee prop
widely p
pjol 1 bein
H^Vours
the veterans have one type and the
corps ha: another. This was NOT-
the case. He stated that he was
againat non-military student?
transferr ng from other schools to
A&M to fain the last part of theif
work toward a degree and : then
getting in Aggie ring. Th|ose Utu-
elfuse t6 do
e facts and ridicule the
Senior Class.
Disgustedly yours,
| W. K. STENZEL,’49
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NO PLACE FOR CULTURE
dentsjnply or may not be veterans Editor, The Battalion: ’
so canmt be classified as such, j j ;
The Bat. wishes to give the im- . Much; to my regret I nave
preseion that the senior class is at accused of reading The Bat-
the throats of the non-military teliop. I never read the filthy
This is not true. The se- sheet. It mifst take a guy with
< 3.0 gradepoint average to jeven
mderstand half of the words I that
the editor writes in his column.
Why don’t you get away from
last WeHmrPday night, there were
many absurd comparisons mace.
In my estimation Mr. Twiggirjs’
article i? the most absurd com
parison ^et. '
I think that it was Mr. J. T.
Miiier that brought up the issue
about gxiides and With the end >f
Mr.' Miljerfs oration, the subject
was dropped. I don’t think anyoi ic
else in the meeting said anything
about this, but this seems to )e
one of the main issues of Mr.
Twigging “DIARY.”
Since the issue of Communism
! has been in the “limelight” every
one who.likes to further his argu
ment thfows the word “Commu
nist” into hjs article or state
ment. (A little childish but very
effective; to a teb-normal mind.)
Really now, “5lr. Twiggins,”
or to whom it may concern, don t
you thitik you could throw slui|.s
at the t‘55” without the use cf
the wopd Commumsjt in your ar
ticles, or is your mental ability
handicapped to the point that it
was the best word you cou d
find?
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By the way, what;a coincidence
that the "55 /as Mr. Twiggins jre-
fers to them, had many ideas I in
common. Maybe “55” letters Were
sent out telling only a certain
clique of 55 members of the Se+
nior Clais to come to the . meeting,
but that: is as absurd as Mr. Tw>g-
gins’ article, ‘i
I think that a pocket size diary
can be acquired at the closes! 5
and 10 ijent store and for my pirt
Mr. Twiggins, your next art cle
ought to be put in this diary and
not in » newspaper that membjers
of the Senior Class are forced! to
buy - I -
Your ideas and mihd of a great
er A&M might differ a LITTLE,
but since that is a long-range pol
icy, “““IN THE EYES OF THE,
BATTALION”!’ ”!!! why not stkrt
out with not a greater but jusjt a
better Battalion???
To begip with, the changing
the senior ring was suggested
pect fo accomplish by p|ublishuq
the Thursday issue of “Conrac
Twiggins’r asinine diary? \ |
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by
one nian, and after a very short
discutei° a the whole idea was
completely discarded. Your illua-
tr.ous! composer 6f tripe left the
impression that the entire Sepioil
Class | was in favor of tie pfopo-
sal. | S'.
Fools like “Twiggins’] are the
cause? of whatever dissension
there is among corps members
and Veterans.
In the masthead of The ( Bat
talion ; are the following Words:
“publifehed daily in the interest of
a grjeater A&M.” Surely you
are not so imbecilic as to belie ve
this type of pseudojournalishi is
helping matters in the least,
k EDDIE MOORE, ’49
PALACE
bryan 2'fif79
Red Offer to H
Drive Vetoed b
Incomplete Poll Shows Over
Of Aggie Vets Favor Payment
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Representatives frqin twenty-six Texas
universities criticized Governor Beauford Je
a veterans bonus at a met ’ * '
also vetoed a proposal by
of the Texas Connnuhist P:
that party. ;
Meet ng in the Hbuse of
sentatiyea, delegates reportocTthkt
ninety percent or more vet
erans enrolled in institutions of
higher learning injfie state want
ed a bonus. They also believe that
a tax pn natural resources, parti-
exported to other
should be used to acquire
seary funds. I [
rd point agreed upon was
8 playful poke at Jester’s state
ment made a few months ago—
none of the delegates ‘ consider it
to be “un-Texan” to receive a
bonus. !
Bob Poison, delegate from
Texas A&M, quashed an attempt
by the Commuqfist Party to
spearhead the drive for the
bonus.
“I feel thpt if Addington’s re
marks are carried in the press
without any repudiation on our
part, lit will alienate some good
strong support for our side;” Poi
son said.
cularly
statei
“I i make a motion that we do
not want and do not encourage
Communist support,” he added.
That motion was carried unani
mously.
Conjipiittees to work out details
of when a bonus should be paid,
how hfiuch the bonus should be,
and what the source of revenue
for bonuses should be were ap
pointed. They met yesterday.
Committee chairmen are Fred
Reed of West Texas State Teach
ers College, Canyon; Zack Mason
of Texas Christian University and
John Qweh, Hardin-Simmons, Abi
lene; and Tom Whiteside, Tyler
Junior College, Tyler, and Poison.
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According to incomplete nSstilts
tabulated by Taylor Wilkins Fri-
and 35 against.
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Of the men for the 1
thought that it sh<
from natural gM|<Nir<;
two were for the sale
one was of no
that he was not will
sed on the subjf
One student who vc
money should come
resources tax also
ballot that both shloulc
necessary.
. The poll was take
request by the Chairi
Veterans Affairs
University of Texas.]
that the local Vetee
Association send
to the first state :
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ins iah
boijq s,
e bojriis
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Is designed to
Texas .vet-
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ital limits of
13 for each
Fisher rep-
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Sincefely yours,
veterans,
nior cla
>s is
ward thit future and is trying to
prevent A&M from turning [into
simply looking to-
trying
Jn ,
a civiliah college. It is definitely
headed hat way now*. ; j!'
The Bitt stated that the Steiq*
Class jvants only their policies
printed in The Batt. Again this
have ROBERT W. COLGLAZIER,!’49
TWIGGINS STINKS
Editor, The Battalion:
Just [exactly what did you
PLUS! POPEYE CARTOON — NEWS
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Editor,
“ Conj
Class bn
Revive
made oi
civer. ^
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bfr-the
ftaeiidabl
ihake th
On deaf
W|hen
sed in
know
Other ori
(t Was
is nothing but a lie. J. ft-' B. Nel
son was asked to include in The!
Batt tlte policies of the
Class together with the
Senior
jpoucifjif
of othef groups. To this Nelson
’ te ewi
CHUCK CABANAS
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” NOT “HOWDY”
Battalion; . j, ,
uiations to ithe Senior,
their cu Tent efforts to
e.-toadit ons | teat -have re pij ed tpm editor and I write oh
school known tee world on jy ’ m j policies. If you cin per*
, ‘ . -H - . 1 , suade ne that your policy is tbe
those orts '(ih thef part same a j mine, then I’ll print iL”
mors aji'e hliyjlriy jcOm- Si nce n ;lson and the other editors
I have ja sugigestmn to ev identl r do not believe; in tee
I hope (will hjflt teH up- policies 'of the Senior Class, [ thdn
ter j : ! it is imjpossible for those policies
i&t hera before thej war,’ to be ir i n ted. The, Senior Class
ing ‘ Howdy’’ wa4 not believes in the publication of the
outfty and as far as polices D f major groups arid not
nqt.jaHowjad ini any ju B t thise of the editors and the
amaatiod on tjile cajnpus. co i um nf|,ts.
bdito*
not
IWAVI“He!io'’ C lf<tare “'""‘“f'*
y thatllduring those: proud days Concerning the type Oi
if A&M| history: should a Iresh- rials, the Senior Class
nan reiprt tc
IoWdy|t he v
flay—coifetted-
auperiora ,
T When I ret
h|s
irjned
r-souliding “anti-dulture.” Since Nelson has
shall we repeatedly stated that the edi*
iniip^diate tors Were open to criticism an
comments, it was sugested that
a|l of that tripe about culture and
education ahd start telling the
en all about the way old A&M
as, back in the days when men
ere men arijd A’s were frowned
pon? Them was the good old
ys. I remember how we used to
ke off on Wednesday afternoon
nd come back with a stiffle hang-
ihg over our heads on Monday and
then start right in again th Silking
ftbout taking off again the next
Wednesday.
I am beginning to think that
you must be more worried about
ifiades than enjoying life so that
makes you jpst the kind of editor
’vej don’t want. We want an editor
vljo will fill the editorial colpmns
vite all of the news about 'girls;
md also lists of the newest »vail-
ible comic books and tee Corps
progress. When men graduate
rom A&M,; I want to see them
r-earing an Aggie ring on their
inger that they can be proijul of
nd not a brbwn ring around their
eck which they are ashamed of.
Sincerely yours,
FRED B. WILSON,’49
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