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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1948)
Reporter Expo Used tot Produ By CHUCK MAISEL The Average Aggie picking up h)8 evening copy of the Butt inis one of two reactions—1) he curses, or 2) he yawns. But, is this merely • fa inst reporters ireill sophisticated veneer to cover up his deep appreciation of the blood, sweat, and Coca-Cola that has gone I ' | 'Fevp things turmoa ih Con action in lutting* European Recov one bijliop .dollari ihg his head the reporter about to get ajn ktfn, Thjij him with theiryeyee Af lucky enough bar be near ors start industriously cli( “Now is the time, etc,” . . He KAars abdut the rooi jj. Jlhot eyirs finall|y coming t >iji|esti the njdst comfortable liookfnjj in the office. The : ter licks the blood ajid villi MTh under house, a. the leade jroprihtidns committee, „ ,-^hip )f Representative John Tabjer, a N<w Yc/k tepubli<S;an, Re versed-: it^ formed appi^l a $5,30 :00d,000 aiuthorizajtion flor fclRP and r Ominenc ended a cut The Houqe of Represerj prdvioijisl: t gone dong action pf figure,: . t^k Tab ir’s M'ord- j. . c le mnjiitt accept/ h)i s co for th|! cut. Republican leaders, ly repudiated the jstand mitteeiland the Hduse. Such men as f Stasseh, (Thomas ]E. D| we 7, Arthir Y^n- -denberg, and Pmil Hofffmln, all Repuhli- cans, immediately deni action arfl clamored f the original -figure. 4 Nor 'vere Re mblicihnsj alone nl comleEnmlition of the. HI oust action. 11 . prominent Democrats las tom Cotmally, ll'they will reverse their stand and agree Sam j|la:'burn, J. Ho\yar4 McGrath, Jo- J ■’ - seph C. (O’Mahoiiey, ainddAlbCn Bark ey were jus I as vio ent iir tl eir disapiproval of the house acton However, the 1' || 1 I, billion dollars, atik^es, which had wim the original their Hopse membsrs, imrrtedia and voted Bcommehdation ast bunded at of Taber, his co the e- m-, ),untgd the t, 11 restitu Harold hoi se ion of thbir Sdch greiiteB s who control the among t ie Repi blicar 1 House. Perhaps the popular tiOP opinion of thd House ict was a front page ‘ditorfial iji the NeW Y( rk tereby threatened! the safety of the Ujnited States in the years that lie ahead.’ The sentiment expressed in the Trib ute puts into words the thoughts of the large majority of (thinking people. The bill for authorization of ERP funds mOw goes to the Senate Appropriations Cpmmittee. It will be in its power ana in the ptoweR of the Senate which must' approve the‘committee’s recommen dation, to authorize the full amount of the original appropriation. From the testimony of many Senators we are confident that the Senate will do this, j When the Senate has completed its aithomation it will then be necessary for the two houses to compromise on the f nal authorization. The House of Repre sentatives will then have an opportunity to undo the damag'e which it has wrought. into the journal’s making? It is t! It means 1) they’ve misspell- his name, or 2) his name isn’t ittjt j ;| j 1 . Jkll , Realizing that only a strange V&sh wounds and goes ortj »n nus of the Aggie phlyum, th/:. assignment—in, this case Vfr at «re eaverus Eageri, attends stimrotex f Story on the ijew outho Imol, and knowing curipsk/ to 1 buUt by Mr. SiRrub of the j this group’s'chief trait, tEPpow- j Rhology department era that be at the BattaJjwUhave | OUR HERO decided to let out the/!ecr&* of f ^ , /i ,; just what does go 05/behirid the 1 O ur hero (thje reader , nr beangj Banks and McOure Will Study European Schools This Summei MANAGING/EDITORS Under the gi^at white fathers— the co-editor^—comes the man un der the gun for each issue, the managingreditor of the day. It is this yopg journalist’s task to give birth/fo all ideas, assign reporters tb follow them through, check the jiy, and make up the paper, flow- /6ver, his most important duty is sitting behind a desk at the door j looking like a mogul. A large sign i | ize mat all reporters an approaches Mr, Sirrub tions him on tjhc dimens ficulties encouptered in and other outhouse facts “Why are (you buildi structure, Mr. Sirrub?’ “Oh, I’ve always wan he confides. “Is there anything unus this outhouse about?” Why yes, this nd|er turmoil w bes t indication All In Favo 1 Are yjou ati o ficGr! in four home town club?. Dd you^bdong}to hny campus or ganizatioi which fun4ionfe,'more or lejss, in a parliamentary m:p^|!l?f If you ape, then you will pro 'it to fire rules listed- n Uvt Panhandler Publ sher 1 kill your Drganizsdioii. D'm'ted to anv bijd the] following criteria give you Pause t<»think, r • Seldom, if ever jko bja meeting. . If you do ettendj pii d fault with tfie work .of the officers. 3.' Never acc( pt a to Qnlicize than .0 do 4., If ajsked by a ch duly a list Of sufe- April issue of The as full authorization of the original ap- jropriaton they will regain a portion of le respect which they previously enjoyed. | However, the action of the House can ■ever be disregarded, no matter What they may do in the future, The short sighted action in cutting the ERP appro- j)riation may well be reflected when the iation goes to the polls in November. 1 ..■■ • 1 ' ... I 1 ijon’t give it anything but H - - 20: Kick) about tne cost of member ship, even though you spend as m,Uch as an entire year's dues on the World Series br a “little party.” !• Nomifiations are now. open for the pres idency. j ■ j. if heeded, «|m A Tboujilitl^s Act g elub officer, foff confusion will ]" opinion regarding soriiq natter, tell’hi you! hjaye I nothing to s after the meetin, 5. Do nothing mor necessary; but when up their’sleeves and uillilgly and Unself- field that does not witness dozens of -r ishlv use tjieir ajb'lity long.. howl that the cliques. 6. Hold back (your Bible, pr don’t pay them at all |r.j!Whon albanqup ’ body (money ia being whjcll- make a Ifig n): nothing. 8. Whbn no bannhe the (club) 1 is dea)d and it. 9.! Don't ^ ^ 1e ^ ’IbVhow it can he p you; but ift it doJsn’t lifelpte,‘resign 101. If you receive i. * 1*3 j r j off ce. It is ensile th’t gs. irr ian to givie your BUt say plen jis absolutely iembers rail to help matters a- clup) is run by a duei; as long ais pos it isn’t a pleasant thing—injuring or killing someone—but it could (happened Friday night when th6 Gaines ville Community Circus was presented on Kyle Field, Anyone who/attended the performance) could have been injured or billed by being hit withyone of the many pop bottles that wuS thrown from the rim of the bleachers] Why people foolishly endanger the life jf any person by tossing objects over the ikJe of the stadium is a puzzling problem, but there is never an event held on Kyle By OTTO KUNZE Two Aggies, Donald P. Hanks and Donald P. McClure, are goijig on a ! European study tour summer. The trip will be und the auspices of the World Student Service Fund, an organisation 'of students and faculty of American colleges and universities; The tour was organizer! to ire* quaint student leaders with condi tions of student life abroad. It Will provide an opportunity for* a broader understanding of phases of European life through travel, ing and meeting the students ubjl professors of other countrk Out of 40 students goinj America. A&M will have representative*. Hanks, who wAn last year’s president oy the Yltf- CA Cabinet, gnuluaml in .Jai|- uary and is now aw instructor i|n ''chemistry at iWAnnex. j After returning in September, he will workxmb year as the fi^ld secretary organizing drives and conducting campaigns for foreign student/] Hanks attended high schoor i|i Wichita Falls but grtld- uafdfl fkoni Abilene. He ehtejjed :M in 15)42. During the , war (be. ''served 2 years in the arhiy ajnd then returned to A&M. He engaged in numerous extra curricula ac tivities while he was a student; Hanks attended the National Student Conference at University of Edittois in 194(5. He was co-chajir- man of the YW r -YMCA foi/South Texas and also a member of the Regional Council of tjre two or ganizations. with old English" lettering saying 4 1?^ have Atr-conditi ' IT * “Bleed Here” adorns the desk. When the managing editor starts blibbering at the mouth knd beat- McGJure from Coitus Christi. He attended high. The other Agi trim, is Donal n T' ^ school at /Schreiner Institute at KqtTville/and graduated in 194ti. He entered A&M ip September of the Sjame year to major in business. m waa iilwo active In ex- Ifii curricula actlvltlefl. He rop- / re«()nted the A&M YMCA at thq Southwest Student Conference^ ' Camp Classen, Oklahoma, in 1947 and also attended the YMCA Training Conference at Comfort, Texas. McClure and a student from SMtl are the only tw« students from the Southwest Area who were selected for this trip. The combined number from the Uni* ted Stiles will be about 40. The group will sail early in June and will return about September 10. The program in Europe will be divided /into planned trips and study /lours. The American stu. dents will compose four different groups who Iwill have an option on StVCial tours. At the end of August there will heija reunion at Oombloux in the French Alps where all the groups will compare and evaluate their experiences. make this Slll'dlll 311(1 Gimlet that T replies emotiai iji 1* he C/UMih.g JW Our reported blushinglkr “thank you” aqd heads hif Will It Never Siding, I Gimlet Seeks A Jlrrirb, like uty. replies to Jhc here somowhdrcs.' He fummed in his po ethods m duiioh of Goodwill Hall to write story is to type the. woM “ThO a id stairoi at It until ths reft of the suntcqoe pops into his head. He d »ds this and, after two' honrs of • a nag, methodically types “heck' vflth It” after the initial word. He then tears the paper front tpe mjachine, inserts a clean piece and g ies to his thesaurus to find a 3lib.st lute for “the.” I Tk By Dr. ETAOIN 8HBDLU Enrollment for the first term of summer school was much lighter than had been expected, and, as a consequence, I found myself with- : out a job and reduced to making the rounds of the coin return slots of pay telephones and coke ma chines in order to supplement my meager savings. I was just raking f oponer; one handy hottr a slug from one of the telephones 0,10 l 1 * 4 *'* 1 °* RT*My at the YMCA, before hurrying \- over to the Inn ahead of Profes sor Smorgasbord,, one of my col leagues a so temporarily without funds^, wh<n I was accosted by one of m ^ ;t°y balloon. Gimlet former students, a chap E' ve J*P ' n disgust wl /! '7%., > 'aWDCQ<3 WITH—"*~"- If ield that does not witness dozens or / ] | I v ii)o.p bottles falling into the crolwd of peo- /HorSebllFff pie standing dut&ide the stadium. / en? On Parade whom \I chll “Gimlet” because he botes me, “Herr Doktor Perfe.sser Shrdlu” he bellow^l. “I would a word with you.” I would have liked to ignore him, butt Gimlet \s not the/type of per- ^oti one can, ignore. Besides, the Sigjii of his empty sleeve, for which I was ivsponfeible, made mo. pause to brush him off lightly. •Sorry, I can’t stop to talk to ydu, Mr. Gimlet, but I’m in a hurry. If you’ll bxcuse. . . ” ' “It ain’t no use, Perfesser; I just come from the coke machine at the Academic Building, and I just seen Perfesser Bmorgasbored coining from the Imi, Pickings is purty Jeam today, ain’t they.” “Oh well, what for, iiig out in the irocess thc) items: one qteck-jaclf; . 7 ,0 sizes; five sk(|leton keysL types; three, packages 0 ettes, partiallj used; ohst>) book mutches;'one handj landy botte! isy cards ,i: one pair of dieje, loaded; nj tale grey handkerchief, j used; one Handy hip po<k|e half full, alsojialf emptj;;und|oi THE STORY and cks of cigarettw, lister, he hands the opus to the managin editor, The latter gives the you nluan a cigarette and buys him, a, iZ «|iUf iys him, a, h appreciation. The Managing • then decides how the story t and decides on the space and s ze of type to be given to the hjeadl ne. Much care us put into tl»e writing of this headline as this is prob “ Ir i 1 ijd headline written, the copy bably the only part of the fhiit will be reau. sent into the dungeons of Good in Where many strange and inter esting things are about to happen ti it. If the reader has followed fius far, he is no doubt gripped by curiosity as to what happens f -om here on in, but even if he iiin’t, he gets the thing free and ilS going to be in the next issue, s) he might as well find out.] 44 ii something scribbled (cuff. “What's thal on your shiil c I asked, “poop for an icfxar,. girl’s number, j.«r the infci relation ‘Ofi, that’s light, tha ’!) is 'jiven, tell everT r ast set on btow-ou.s j i^c land accomplis h | ; f ' 1 are given, s^y ninAjls. a can tied :L; d: IV- tl Tie City 5 J :• ' i ttalion, liege St ti en T cc without joiji iRg' V eah t correct-Rbus^s u«iie88, howl thit illf' " ttitntiin to abuees (club), j ‘ for somfethi Md it, yelp, ttifity threaten to lida to resign.: I nd jja meeting, vo enigo home and do ingi don’t think >f joi 11. If the (cl ib) d in yqur heighbpr’s nothing is! clone, j 12. If fit calls a your own, reaigr frorif thi Koej) yotjr eyqjoj|i wrong, anid, when y ever}) opp quit And get yoiiir f: 15(. When yoju at to do something and the opposite. 16. Agree tej everything said at meeting and disagree jyitli it outside ll When asked fir ittbrmation, don give jt J 1 v JF , v j j- : 'I 1$. CUissthe (clut |) fotj incompletenejs of its; inf01 m^tic p. 44- , - , 10. Get all tjhe T<pDjf givtes you, bijt O^ily a moment of thought is needed |o foresee the potential danger of such foolish act, Is it too much to ask these ^pple.who endanger the lives, of others 0 refrain from such a practice? We think ot. if.] ■ ’// . : I • i T I ■ . 'j--j, ! ; / . > Under agreoment betwpnn the Air Force and the Naval Air-Force on who jhould bomb what, strategic bombing (would be primarily the function of the Air Force , but Navy fliers could engage |i|n it if, during a campaign, the Navy found that it had surplus-' planes. And bur idea is 1 that when there was fighting going pn the Navy would always be ready to declare some planes surplus. (Editor*’ Note: Mr. TexiXKham J, Billingsley of our foreign cor respondent staff is on summer!leave in Houston where he is serving in the vital capacity of deck hand on! a tug boat. Mr. Billingsley’s columns will appear here wheh his working hours and the Houston bar ht.urs do not coincide.) j ; | j ' ; Houston, the city of mechanized progress, is having horse trouble. And the difficulty s not coming from the horse’s us ual role as a draft animal.! This time its a gastronic worry. Houstonians fear they may have S tycen unwittingly eating old Dob bin for some time. ( J It all began last week when tlhc City Health Commis*ion uncover- (act ! | A naition-ivide poll showed that a large percentage of people have an exaggerated idea of profits matje under, the American economic' system. Many likewise have an exaggerated idea of the profits they could make. * . L •u hS OOlb e Associate Presja is ntitled exclusively to t. or njst 6t$nv|e credited n the hd B and pin,.and two ■ihJ di Attired in earrings, md: ‘ Dolph discussed her plans for attending a a gold necklace iamfttd rings, Miss reunion at Bucknell University.—-A’or/olfc (Vo.) Virginian-pilot. nb vtpaper of the . ’exa .is published fi' noon, iXcept [during bolidaysi and ilished tri*w< jklyj Subscription ra' 1 my ie made byTelepl ode adt may be placed by te Goodftin [all. of tei 1 ujlh ation of el] ttalion cd the fltartlihg fadt that hojnc meat was bding served, in u d|is- guised form, in one of the city’s lower eating places Subsequent investigation proved that even though the Commission went into the upper rent district, the hill of fare was still the same —rump roast of roan in disguipe. Only yesterday the probers foitnd that more than half of the city’s school children had bten fed horse meat iu the school cafe terias. Alb this proved just a bit loo much for the usually laconic Hous ton natives. In public eating plates you now see the natrons carefully probing their veal cutlets for ajny telbtale saddle marks, and one confirmed family man left his h6me in a huff because he-i claimed the roast nis wife served' him Had whinnyed at him when he picked up a carving knife. All the furor arose just as the very horsy Pin Oak Stables, dne of the city’s larger riding du)S, Letters can not this stuffed all of pockets again, and lum lf!(r ion hji cuff: “StiMa PJ th cxcluimct}, my ears, me; you u| jn, |he it up thujl, 4 CORRECTION • •. Editors, The Battalion: I should like tb call your ajt.- tctUion to an error in the article in ia box on the first ..page of The Battalion for June 9. The article concerns the hours of the Library. : The hours for the Cushing Memorial Library arc $ a. m. tp 5 p. m. Monday through Fri day; Saturday 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. and Sunday 6 to 10 p. m. The hours for the Texas Engi neers Library are from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday through Fri day, and 8 a. tn. until 12 noon on Saturday. It is important that this cor rection be . made, otherwise many pprsons will get thb idea that the Library is not open during the evertihgs. ct&er f MJWnM iM MeclKMMlUU »#: ■ *f l» . PPlit Office «t, College Ststiou,. 11xu. render a 4 the A4 of C ingress »f S, 1870. J- - -4— ; Ik cultural and Mi k lea U week s .tjon peri $4^0 per school was preparing for its fourth i,n- nual horse show. There have bqcn mated whispers that it’* all a pub- lieity: gag fob the show, but nc diredtors deny it even thougl I do you?” “ You’re t e a e h i p ’ term?” ‘ A “Ai^e you tell ing me .or , ask- ? ing me? No, I’m not teaching this teim.” “You want to make a little money?" “No, I want to make a lot of money, but I’ll listen to your proposition.’* “Well, I’m tak- in’ this English 801, Writin’ for Pmessional Men, and . ” “You’re taking 301! How did you jtet in that course? The last I hdard, you were taking 104 and flimking that." “Well, I flunked 104, but I’m tired of flunkin’ the same .old courses all the time, so when you wasn’t at registration to stop me, I! signed up for 210, Straight Thinkin’ and Cussin’.” “But I thought you kuid that ybu were taking 301.” "I’m gctti|n’ to that. I went to ope meetin’ pf that there 210 dlass, and the first thing the per fesser said was that we shouldn’t be biassed and should keep our minds open. That right there was enough fer me, so 1 got up and walked out. No perfesser is goin’ ter tell mb that I got ter be open minded. Sp then I went in and got mie changed over ter 301J” “Amazing. I’m afraid that I un- English me f|roin his Uipp jn .the .lejaching ,of “What!” I ' able to believe “You heard ‘Standardization of English’.” “Who thoug for you?” “One of the fellas in The perfpsser Worked title.” I . “And just what do yn« prove?” “That you not only don’t you don’t grac “Well, just to prove it?” “I got plenty proof. 11: five times under five dif f« fessers, an’, i — - ■ course under e “We all flun Doesh’t that spew som< ization?" “Yea, but not enoug u pedal’ I got (.be goodpj not only don’t give the on the same j theme perfesser* give but you give the satee! grade oi was a ich one t ed you, i Writer ime of the prof, the course and ictlon numbers, end then when fou get it back, you record th« i t»» yeu got.” "Wlhat's the purpose of all this i formation?" ‘‘That’s to save embarrassment fuch 4 nine students handing the i ante Itedk report into the shmu in- i truqtilir In the snmc coutee like rehitti; happened lust semester when the slobs over in ‘A’ Gompiiny got too luty to do it.!’ “Hnimm, and What about my giving you an ‘F’ on an ‘A’ papt)r?| “\Vhy, I copied this here ‘A' in per that good old Charlie'Joseph ■ vrote back in 191|), and ypu gave inolln Y on it.’’ . “But I wasn’t hero in 1919. • , “Oh, Chick Swenson got an 1 A (See GIMLET, Page 1) I -44 - r— L : ^ abject t)l(e dlasi tlh 3 at he ne rfeisci s mt : it: teach alii & e alike." ; tiow do ipiten j ook 10' ent pei| t ifferem f. dhem.” n’t'we tandafi Yoii 4 1 Vo l theme when itlj handcc twice.” “What do you maun “JUs’ what thomo on art; yfi le breeding cattle dent got an 'A and you give you not only hut you also said, ickle in.-ji that axo off of me a ‘ ain’t s indiiscri tween us stude Us," "If your spe ling on was anything I ke your . (ion, I can readily unde T on the rocognl :4 hlajfc ®thc < n’t kxew tpc tol, yeh i lopii itatii t mr Tl? iteardiiq i ate you got an ‘F’ why I didn’t second time. By the wi you know thal. had hm before and had given it . “It was bn tnc card, “What caid?” ibmittciiti- t md ii .per .it tkb bow d] i lb pa^i i f; card on was tilt ' sh file e (4-5444) or at the editorial elCphone (4-5324) of |at the rs deny it ev haimtes J datiB, l and l $teak and elates class, d op A ,o the use for republication pf all nows dispatches ^ pub “‘ Office, Room 201, The one advantage of the hor ie* Student ActiviUes meat scandal is that it give* wlit* _ INewman, Catholic Mender of The Associated Press r tUptoeaM lutMulb br KaUoaal A<1- mtisiuj Service Ind, at New York Ony. Chicago. Lou Angeles, and San Francisco. Youth Qitba Meet ^ fogiler^ghf iSTK&r 1 ^ Most of the city’s citizens re* garded the entire affair as a jdke until suddenly they found they, may have| dined somewhere on horse* burgfcr filkt-of-filly, and then i he matjjer becomes a horee of another ^ One health authority reeeJuy estiinated that iu the last^wq montha, Houstonians have unknqw. inglV consumed 76 horses. At lets no one cau say this is a one-hOffti towtfcf :;m .ii. ' !f L- ter write a technickle report in this here 301 elaes, and since you ain’t teaehin’, I figgerad maybe you’d like ter piik up ffVe budts fer writin’ oho Ter me.” “ ,r * a lot have some principles . . . why, I will never know. “How dare you offer We five dollars to write a techitietl report. Have yon no decency?’’ “I guess that Isn’t very much, red you sure look llkt you heed “The course.” “And where “In the Eng old outfit, nai “English fileJ I’m af^ understand.” ] A- “You must H new eer. Everybody -kupwg l.h j.' ‘You must bfc i . Everybody k Hah fUee/’ ft ink sized filing ca sal the you, steal the money, bucks, and IU maka it ten that’s my top price. I fit cohttit get a theme written in German -; themes, “1 m li irfteskions. to u •....I ithol: ienU, Ramsey said. il: that, and you wouldn’t have gall to ask for more to write aiiheme in my own language than fer one in a furrin language. I wasn’t really tempted, but I Was chrioUte, so I decided to string yon? teahrica! fepoft topic?” • ,( I asked. “Let’s see ... Tgot il writ down s*.. 4 ^r *■41 on it, and {he*? Sid whi QUEEN i 1 _ OID M AMES- it I mm nm IffcwW Mm tmum * i&nuc herm AimtM -U^*- ; j Today thru Wed. . >> {Lwiturea Begln-- ijHO . 3:10 - 410# • 0' 10 * r- 10:15 ri . fi b £' '’.in V f.-i, ■ ^: i 1 'll -
