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:4 . jir h ! I •u ./ Page IJ 'r meeting in bolt. And .1 fills. winding nip bolt of one able in the Texas turn the p - !ib rr !| i : ;■! !i IT i • i ,1 , ; . 3 It begins to $Mind miliar :not<L will fe stn liticabconiventions this! y<, what Pres’dential Candida] port of T ?xas elector^ Prowiisville. si he same se ipif .publican gjrqup, apt td. bii| ik in half after their Corpus Chtisti mijetiit ? goes on record as favoring;any one of the llepublican hope- :.r After the counjy - —with Gov. Jester beiig lflwed in absentia bidder, Statesman, Knightly (gentleman!' LawrehcellSullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions .j't - it- Battalion TORIALS WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1948 . i ' !• I 1 s r BATON Partp-Boltingj Becomes A Habit gh an old fa- exas state po ll.: [Regardless of iwins^the sup- ^tlie Democratic ebody is sure to tnjie of the Re- wiith an him faction or kpol Texas Demticra Gpjro-TrjumanjjDi i.. . . J cpnvfmtinns yesterday ers who; have not followed Henry Wallace into the Progressive Patty.” Jester! defeated Rainey for Governor in 1946,1 : | ! • j . ; 1 Calvert noted there are rumors^already that Rogers and his gr<)up plan to oolt the state.! convention at P>tqwnwood May 22 “When thev fail to control it’/’ . “Their policy seems jto be one of rule or ruin,’| he added. ‘‘‘‘They started bolting be fore they knew i|what they were bolting from. 1 '’ Wpodville Rogers, lehder of the Trumau tri U.l fi’! Ell' i’l i ■c I* i r' at the Trads <'ounty cjm^lnt on in Austin,, for president movement in Texas, declared and the Hurrid’(pduntyim||ting in Houston the sthternents of Robert W. Calvert are half \fabrications and “sound.like he’s scared.” He said false staterhents made by Cal vert included a charge ihat Rogers did not ( •arty platfori political IX'Sses/’ 'Chairjr vert of the State Demoqfatj mittee charges.! fj k i ' If the j pro-Truman!. f(||cej' state convention at: Bf([ivn||odp, Stieven split—a pi seems inevit- fc j party. • lio^ratsi want to er to “‘Northern Robert W. Cal- Executive Com be sold down theJ'ive :t’"’ Jfitdi'ert said in « man?’ ; statement, r -4 | who want/ ;| delegtiti' t . he! contipuied. : “Woodfillo Rpgjers of $ji|n appointed jleadpri ojf-tlu has not yet recovered iToni Antonio, self- ■ighteous who _ s fact that his candidate for go^eitnoP winfidelt'eated in 1946 e state demo- small coterie Supported Dr. rnor’s race in he labor lead- and that hje Waisj kickeS of eratic execjuth'^ IconntnijUeo of followers mo^t! of iyh. (Horper P.[) Rajiity in the . 1946! and fhe. mohei radjijea'* • I Another Set of " • - . It More strikesf It looks as thp^gh inflation battle; ivere road "'workers. I auto Ml handlers al -e.” ! f- • control the “Texas will pledged to Tru- a charge that Rogers support Truman fop vice-president in 1944; a charge that Rogers supported the renomi- nafion of Henry Wallace for vice-president, and a: charge that Rogeirs was “kicked off” the state democratic executive committee in 1946;.! I . • ] Rogers added: f, “All my friends know how I stand on principle and there is fio use of my going over them again.” ' MB ^ Small Number of Veterans Hear • ' ' ' ; . I 5-;' j ’ I ' t ' : |( y Report On ‘Operation Bonus’ v j : : , 1 |e How “Qperation Bonus” clime to the A&M campus was described last night at a small open meeting in the Assem bly Hall. • j *, ! Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor, told how a letter from the “Operation Bonus” committee at Austin was received by thej president of the Student Sen-* atq, refen ed to the non-function- sniall tax Would be adequate M y° te I , ; an • S ( tl ' ,k ‘ nts Association, puy off a vet( , raMS homig( an( , i aU . r Rogei|s admitted thajt he did not support Jais hefore 8 ^ .went°Se a -Jide ' the democratic nominee' for senator in 1922 convention of bonus-seeker* in help support schools of the 4- 1 it; shouild JM re i,T] ■ I jflk.es . . • !• ... i jc>| found of the ; Jihung, with rail-; TiA -.steelworkers ta||clngi''about morel j but said that “26-year old skeleton should be barred for limitations.”; r 1 i ' - j . 1 ★ Yes, it looks as though Texas politics will .run tyue to form] this year. There is enough faction'and fusk in our “one-party” system to supply two 4' even three parties! finally acted upon only a The b<!»nus program would take three years, Poison said. A con-[ e ., ilstitutional amiendment would have 'pecnu.sc of the nearness of the U) , )e pH J 8ed u y vote of the people, i eo. vidtion date, a qu.ckie poll | an( , ‘ natura , rosou| . ces tax 4 1 in ;The Battalion was the only 1 - - ... 1 AuDin- ® clause Politics Is Lihfk ? ■; member t months agb le. deyiiduatibb , . ? > m -.Anothij roUhq otijst iff ~ caifse more an d' yvpn s / 1 at ton. Bu w to ktop in '1 '.stop strik :: too; great . 'll- Armv to idem.to everyone! and meat pay|“or el |>y .nov that there"is noj.]j>2rCenjtag|j in; vfaere increas- k os followed by [price J] ic ilbses 5 followed in' torn by more wtjjge increaiAs] But the most! maddemip’Q tbi04about thlj.liitijflation merry-; 2 go-tiouind is, thatlher^^s iM place to get off. Is-there an k’onotr istfkiij wherb in the ” wo fid who'can jfiiiru're a]lw|ik- out of this meSs? hDon't say ‘Tn , I‘iis|i(a'!,|' for the Reds havje had their linflatjlm" roll 1 >les too. Re| the ruble a ‘few 1 jjik'ek.is bound tp ' u r anti-labor leeis- Iti-sjtrike laws fail r the bprlctest flat iop. Thei] diin’t even seem to es—the Ipre^tufJ 1 <jf inflation i itjjj , , Hcyclic l :l Mi If m Military as^stinoe;! b McKininey wasliiujift. i| A cease :1 !to;b pv thjei : — winds har i** 'j 'p Army’s dikasterj-ti !■■•" '"1’he di.'fastei'j’ I D t: 'Oinio Air Force Base Field, Da llas. Chris 0’( Fort Sant HoiiMtc 250 tents, 500 c M(lKinne.\UTwb 82 were - personnel and Si val"Reserfes wefejon the job of. military 1 elief vl ani.lonlj ce' was; town from’ Brooks Sap . M\ n, ifel iff amt Cj-54’4 t issigdtjd' to Ihei jtjojhrado-strickeh before thie Marines and Nd- jejie- But the big ipy tbe* Fourth first call. Politicians in other; states of the Union may ;be safely turned oose upon the radio, but, hot jin Texas. When you think what names our politicos' call .each other, given a free hand ;r, . ! Sjo Texas is officia ly protesting a pm- posed Federal Communications Commission ruling which would no allow radio stations to delete jlibel from pditical broadcasts. Attorney General I’rice Daniel said he had jprendred the protect, which will be pre sented when the F^TC iopens hearing in the case, of the Port Huron}, Mich., Broadcasting Company’s application for renewal of its permit. ■ . ( ■ 4 The company’s liceijse was taken away by the F'CC’ because ,it censored a political speech to lAmove material it believed libel ous.’ Daniel explained. "Tn our opinion thq Texas libeHaitfs are Ci in eiffec-jt (lesnite the feideraj communications act,'and the. FCC shoujd not force radio sta- tionls to accent speeches which contain libel ous jmaiter,” Dahiel said. Watch your \vord.s| pardner. The fellow at the loud speaker can’t see you smile when you'call your opponentj a ...! (censored.) Battalion was the omy | . . t h . f th i 1 a feasible way of sampling student J ' , opijnihn, Wilkins Said. The poll ‘ 1 * • : ! waji made.’and of the 300 ballots j! Tbe’, yorkmg committee for recHved, 85 per cent were for thejj Operation Bonus here has only | bonus, and 1*0 per cent of those i a t < i ua ^'^P c, ~ status. Poison of-, fori a natural resources tax with j'D a ! lu 'T The \ eteran Students AS-| wh eh to pay the bonus. - i conation is inactive and the Stif | iBbb Poison and Ed Fisher dent Senate is only partly compos- wjere nominated as A&M dele- M Veterans, gftes under authority of the The workung committee has VBA because they were inter- i b . t ' en askcd to . havc representa- csted and available, Wilkins j ti'es at a regional meeting in 4 id | Fort Worth at TCU May ;23; j Poison gave a detailed report on Folsott reported, whht happened at the Austin meet-! . , y, t:aase , original poll <|t ingi, where a resolution was adopt- ,A&M students was taken on short! ed ! asking a veterans’ bonus not no ^ lce > asked F* j j to iejtceed $500, to be paid from a a new P 0 ^’ with more time .for | natural resources tax. He grave [ study kind consideration; (Cou- k's to show the enormous size ! I pops for such a poll will be pub- - ‘WOLVES’ - (Continued from Page 1) lights up like a juke box and his eyes tike on a lustful glow, “1 got a bottle out in my roommate’s car. What say we have a little drink? Come on.” . M r “I don't drink, bpt thanks any way.” “Aw one little | bitty snort ain’t gonna hurt Nothing. This is good stuff too, Three Feath ers! Let's go, what yon say?” “No thanks, I dofi’t drink, real ly.” Well, I’ll tell you what How about poming alongj with me while I get one. We could sit out there and talk while I have a shot. Willya?” I was saved the need of refus ing when a fourth, and more com mon type wolf cut in. My new ad versary was an average sized, plain teatured nop-reg Romeo— who’s two years of state side duty in the army had convinced him that a direct assaujlt was the best approach to any problem, be it of heart or classroom! “Hi, babe,” he says, “my name’s Roy. What’s your’s?” “Carol.” “Carol; hmm, that sounds fa- milar. Now I got it; at a dance at. the USO in San Angelo in ’46.” i “I never attended any sort of dance in San Angelo.” “Aw, you remember; I wore a mustache and besides I was a T-5 at the time.” “But I never wejnt to any dance in San Angelo.” “Were you ever Iat Fort Bliss?” “No.” “Well, maybe itj was somebody that looked, like yob, you know how it is. You meet so piany girls when you’re, a non-com like 1 wuz,” Now that he had broken the ice, he felt that he was in. Obviously this girl in his arms is just wait ing to be led to j temporary con cealment behind a potted’shrub, or betteiv still she wants to be shown wfiat the more rjemote parts of the campus look like in moonlight. Dhtplaying admirable restraint Ex-T-5 waited until the end of the current hand selection to start ; his subtle j and brilliant figbp,. ....- — of [natural resources exports from j'' sbe " s00n Tejcas. He further stated that a Battalion.) Crippled Children Clinic Examine 108 From 13 Counties we )ne hundred and eight children re examined at the third annual ppled Children’s Clinic in the balenient of the college hospital Monday. Children were brought here from thirteen count.es to the Kiwanis- A Vicious Gag Bill r© G p dies 4ing e<iiuii(> I : The C|82, “f 2' with t wo radio j chic.'.j,!, • with their drixArSjand lv 4 be Tised -at the tprnajib lil - roll of i«fTphcips i ! refieU agencies* , Twenty thojj&jnd famous “5 in ij”; r^t on: Base land arrived j jn )a| rushed to McK)nihey Fort Worth Quiai|tern pdrvise^the final del ivory stricken commuinilty. : . Cohgratulajibi{s to jGi dy and fhe Foilirlh Ain ; jofe,of peace-timelassijjtiafce. Ohio to Hensley i field director. The House Rules!Committee yesterday approved a gag law. The bill was ostensibly designed to prevent Teaks” of confidential information; but as it} shaped up it’s just a heaty, heavy hamring'over the press’s head. [ate must yet crive their The Hoqse and Sei|a Iji of approval and the President ■eli ia request for | li X)) blanketsT'rom ! J (-47’s and ia C- apsportation of sign the bill before itj becomes law. No one knows in an electiorj year if that will be done dr. not. j Tile measure would impose punishments of a year in jail or aj $1000 fine on anyone divulging or publishing information which a congressional committee might classify as confidential. It would! also require executive departments (the President’s branch of the government) to furnish congressional com- P’- H. Hendrik, and Dr. C. B. mittees with whdtevejr information the com-; >lay from the s tate Medical oil mu joY the Army’s mitte.es decide they Taut i ■ i wr:, ‘'jeeps, ijobe tp by was loaded' ps,” completje: of]Operators ready, y the various spjmxpred clinic. There* were 60 crip pled children from Brazos Cojupty treated at the clinic; 11 ficlth Robertson County; 0, Milam; 6, (Walker; 5, Burleson; 6. Madison I, (Crimes; 3, Trinity; 2, Houston; 1.! Brewster: 1, Washington, 1 Lepni; 1. Lee. j Eighteen children from voca tion rehabilitation were treated, making a total of 126. There were r>|) Anglo-whites, 3 I.atin Amer icans, and 45. Negroes. Daniel Russell of the sociology | de lartment reported that the cli- i was considerably larger and e successful than any clinic r held here.[Most of the chil- i had such defects that could corrected by surgery. A pro-1 gipnl will be instituted through [ Crippled Children’s Division of j State Health Department to surgery for all of these chit- 1 l n ' j. ' !)r. Herbert E. Hipps of yVacoi aijd Dr. G. W. M. Eggers with Dr. j L. Schaffer, Dr. Tom McMjllan, Keepsoke ASTORIA Engog^wont Ring 150.00 Wedding Ring 50.00 Y 7^ CtNUIMl. tlClSTtiCO ’I [\eepsake DIAMOND RINGS We feature these famous Keepsake Rings in our store. Come in and see the many styles available in a wide range of prices. TODAY—Sholvs 7:30-9:05 George Brent Merle Oberon Togethier In •‘Temptation’’ O’BOY -4——P COMING: ^King of the Wild Horses” < In Technicolor Opens 1:00 I’.M. I LAST DAY Brooks Air The food wj.s otior vans. The rf Depot will si- of tihe food to the Sdhopl at Galveston conducted the ! clinic. The penalties w oil Id apply to newsmen as Well as committee members and employees WaeOcIIlS to Meet and 1 in effect would ijiiuzzle the press. _JL ■ , gressmd * ” 1 Some con^reslsmcih obviously truth will out only if they decree it think the | lihiirsday Night i. Thomas T. Hafi- ifojr. an excellent i i i The Battalion; ojfficiai) i vspa of: Gollloge Statioiii Texas,|:h lUmis afternaon, (except i during ;;h liahed semij-wecklyi jSubsdH The way many a tjellow fjills who had bal anced himself on the; fence is determined by the way.the wind; blqjws. 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