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winding nip
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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-
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After the counjy
- —with Gov. Jester beiig lflwed in absentia
bidder, Statesman, Knightly (gentleman!'
LawrehcellSullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Battalion
TORIALS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1948
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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
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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
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fi’!
Ell'
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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'*
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Another Set of
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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
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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-
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jflk.es . .
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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.”;
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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
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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
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'j 'p Army’s dikasterj-ti
!■■•" '"1’he di.'fastei'j’
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'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
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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
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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,
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The food wj.s
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rf Depot will si-
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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
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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
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7:^0 in Room 301, Goodwin Hall.
jA new dub treasurer will ibc
elected and plans will be made for
thi summer party.
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rush. When the music
he whipped out hid ha
and wiped his broif,
“Gosh but it’s hot
blow this firetrap an
spin in my car.”
“I can’t really. My d
Iboking for me.”
i “1 loot your date Is
Httle Corps kids. He
you; these little Corps
know from nothing,
been nowhere like i us
have. Come on, lefls g<.
T “Mo,: I can’t” j
“But, I got a (fARjf’fEgJ
! Cried in despera '
Jim Came
away.
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said.:
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iust shook my head,
knew,” I thought t|o
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