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Page 2 MONDAY, JULY 12, 1948
"Soldier, Statesman, ^.nightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
A System for Growth And Development . . .
The action of the Board of Directors
in establishing the A&M College System
is compatible with the development of a
greater A&M.
This action shifts over-all responsibil
ity for the various units of the system to
the new office of chancellor.
A&M outgrew its present administra
tive setup long ago. Indications for the
future are that A&M will continue to
grow, not only in the number of students
enrolled, but in the number of services of
fered to the people of Texas. In recent
years the vast responsibilities of A&M
College and its sub-divisions could not be
efficiently handled from this campus un
der a single administration. The job has
been too big.
Now, with a decentralization of con
trol which shifts responsibility for the
various units of the system from this cam
pus to the individual units, it will be pos
sible for the units and the system as a
whole to function with greater efficiency.
The way is now clear for A&M to grow
and develop far beyond its present stage.
The fact that the reorganization was
accomplished on a logical and scientific
basis rather than piecemeal or haphazard
ly is the best indication that its success
will be assured.
We join with all friends of the A&M
system in predicting a bright future. It is
our hope that this new series of changes
will result in the system’s pursuing a more
vigorous and comprehensive program on
behalf of the people of Texas.
‘Ike’ Says No, And Means It . . .
General Eisenhower has never been a
man to mince words. He proved this be
yond all doubt in a recent telegram to
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida who
said he was going to nominate Eisenhower
at the Democratic Convention despite the
General’s statements that he did not want
the nomination.
A perfect example of how to say what
you want to say, and emphasize that you
mean every word of your statement is
given in the text of Eisenhower’s tele
gram.
“The public press reports that you
may be considering in spite of my re
cent statement the presentation of my
name to the Democratic National Con
vention for nomination to the office of
presidency.
“If these reports are correct, I res
pectfully but earnestly request and urge
that you drop such intentions because I
assure you that to carry it out would
result in acute embarrassment to all
concerned as well as confusion in the
minds of our citizens. My decision,
which has twice been made public, is
based upon my sincere conviction and to
the best interests of our country. Under
no condition will I be in the position of
repudiating or even seeming to swerve
from the letter or spirit of my prior
announcement. I will not violate my
own conception of my appropriate
sphere of duty. No matter under what
terms, conditions, or premises, a pro
posal might be couched, I would refuse
to accept the nomination. I keenly rea
lize that your reported statements not
only do me high personal honor but im
ply the greatest possible confidence in
me. I venture to invoke the aid of that
confidence in asking you to accept my
refusal, as final and complete which it
most emphatically is.”
Such finality must have relieved both
candidate Dewey and future candidate
Truman.
Old Time Back Woods Stumping .. .
If hard work and lots of it have any
thing to do with winning votes in the
forthcoming state election, there is one
candidate for governor who will have a
lot of that type of vote on his side when
election day rolls around—Caso March.
March, who was soundly defeated in
the last governor’s race, has taken to the
stump in real, old-time fashion, and has
proved himself to be a seemingly tireless
worker in his effort to get his name be
fore the people.
Having just completed a trip through
West and South Texas, March says he
plans to “cover East Texas like a blanket”
between now and July 24. His unbeliev
able energy' has shown itself in many'
ways, but none has been more productive
than his effort to visit every newspaper
office in every town, regardless of size, in
Texas and shake every hand along the
way. He may miss a few, but from reports
of his past activities, he won’t miss many.
Regardless of the outcome of the elec
tion, the people of Texas know that the
fire of old time political stumping has not
burnt itself out. This can be proven by
looking at the cloud of dust stirred up by
Caso March wheeling a three-quarter ton
truck back and forth across the state in
an effort to win a two year lease on the
governor’s mansion.
A- 'A- ★
You’ve heard of being poles apart. Well
two prisoners bound together with hand
cuffs made a break for liberty in an Ohio
town, but they took divergent paths
around one of those supports for utility
wires and their differing ways got them
recaptured when they were only one pole
apart.
The National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People was told by
a Security official that Congress treated
President Truman’s civil rights program
“as a political football and refused to act
decisively.” But what is ever the subject
of more decisive action than a football?
A writer suggests that in many cases It is said that people with colds seldom
a dry wine will cure seasickness. Dry go to see a doctor. Because, perhaps, the
land will do it in all cases. movies are more interesting.
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South Needs Both Parties
By CARROLL TRAIL
What the South needs today is a strong Republican party. The
continued practice of a one-party rule is the main factor that keeps
Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and all the others from realizing their full
potentialities.
For too many years the southern vote has been taken by the Dem
ocratic party with little given in return. To be sure, during the war
certain industrial plants were established in this sector, but few were
maintained after peace came.
If there existed in Texas a strong Republican group where the two
parties would have to compete for the comparatively large Texas elec
toral vote, the Lone Stars would get many of the spoils which now go
to other “borderline” states. Natural gas and native ore give Texas
the possibilities of being as great a steel producing state as Ohio and
Pennsylvania. More and better textile mills, larger stockyards and a
greater meat packing industry lie within the realm of the state’s
possibilities.
In 1928 when the Democratic party was afraid of losing the Prot
estant southern vote, it brought its national convention to Houston,
and with it, thousands of dollars to Texas merchants and businessmen.
That, however, was the only time. Usually Pennsylvania and Illinois—
whose electoral vote is the apple of each party’s eye—get the con
ventions.
Also, the one-party rule makes for less efficient administrative
officers. If southern politics were bi-partisan, competition would bo
keener, and a candidate would have to be of higher quality than he is
now. Many candidates who are moi’e conservative than Taft are
forced to call themselves Democrats in order to insure election. These
men represent neither the Democratic party nor the people who elect
them. Quite often they join forces with the opposition after election.
Needless to say, the one-party system is not a healthy one. All of
the checks that go with two parties are lost. There is no minority
to watch the majority and report subversive activities.
If the South is to secure for itself a fair share of the pork-barrel
dividends and rise up from the agriculture state of today and become
an industrial center tomorrow, two parties are a must.
SNEAK PREVIEWS . . . s
Entertainment, Thrills, Aged
Jokes Offered by Local Movies
By ANDY DAVIS
and BILLY SHIPP
“Fighting Father Dunne” (RKO)
starring Pat O’Brien, Myrna Dell,
and Darryl Hickman, Campus
Theater.
The camera rolls back to 1905
to tell the story of a St. Louis
priest who founded a home for
homeless newsboys. The film’s
main theme, love for fellowmen, is
timeless and concerns us as much
today as it did people back when
Father Dunne said, “You can’t
push my boys around.”
Theye were juvenile delinquents
in Father Dunne’s time just as
there are today, only Father Dunne
had the courage and vitality to
fight for the underpriviledged.
Pat O’Brien is excellent in the
role of Father Dunne, but it is
really the youngsters, who look
and act like real children, who
have the starring role in “Fight-
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★
“The Noose Hang’s High”
(Eagle-Lion), starring Bud Abbot
and Lou Costello, Queen Theatre,
Bryan.
Your reviewer spent an uncom
fortable afternoon witnessing the
current attraction at the Queen
Theater. As is usual with Abbot
and Costello pictures, the audience
hears jokes and comedy routines
that were popular on the old vaude
ville circuits back in the Gay Nine
ties. Your reviewer heartily sug-
(Seo PREVIEWS, Page 4)
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Trampling Out the Vintage . . .
Wo Raise, No Praise’ Motto
Of Striking Tunisian Priests
By CHUCK MAISEL
Things might be fine in Gloccamora but
Moknine, Tunisia, is having its post-war
problems. Via UP) the flash has come telling
of the strike for higher wages called by the
Muezzins, Moslem priests who call the faith
ful to prayer. Prayer-Callers’ Local 315 has
so far refused all negotiations for a peace
ful settlement of the dispute.
Since the beginning of the three-week-
old strike, vice Pas increased in Muezzins
by 40 percent. With no one to call them to
prayer the Mohammeds’ morals have gone
from terrible to worse.
Spokesman for the strikers, Abdul L.
Lewis, said today that accusations made by
the NAM (National Association of Moham
medans), that the action was “un-Arabic,”
were unfounded. “No raise for us, no praise
for Allah,” he said.
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Maybe it’s the Bohemian strains in their
makeup, but the French are of the opinion
that thinking can’t be done hurriedly. In
fact it is tne official opinion of the French
Parliament that it takes three days to think
clearly.
Tne Assembly passed a bill authorizing
the release of a number of government em
ployees. After passage, the bill was sent
to the Council of tne Republic for review.
The Council can’t veto a bill but act as a
sort of “reflective body.”
The Assembly demanded the bill be act
ed on at once, but the Council denounced
such pressure tactics and refused to think
so fast. A Constitutional crisis threatened.
Finally a joint body agreed that three
days could be devoted to reflection on the
bill. Moreover, the Council doesn’t have to
think on Sunday. If Sunday intervenes as
one of the three days, it doesn’t count.
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Here’s a shorty proving there’ll always
be an England and England will be formal.
A sign on a bombed building where repair
men are at work says: “Danger! Gentlemen
working overhead.”
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A stray barking dog in Stockholm, Minn.,
touched off a chain reaction Einstein would
have been proud of. Arnold Maki had his
ire aroused by the barking of the pooch and
thereupon grabbed a shot gun and went out
into the night.
He tripped, the gun discharged and hit
a dynamite pit setting off 100 pounds of
explosive. The ensuing blast ripped off
Maki’s clothes, broke windows in all the
farm buildings, moved a machine shed from
its foundation, and stripped trees of their
leaves.
Maki, cut, bruised, and badly shaken, v
was taken to a hospital. The dog? Appar
ently unnurt, he set up a din of barking to
show his displeasure.
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Sparrows in Bellflower, Calif., have tak
en to vile habits.
Sheriff deputies, at first at loss to ex
plain a fire wnich destroyed the awning of
a local bank, came up with this explanation:
The fire evidently started from a cigaret
taken to their nest by sparrows.
Orders have been issued to the effect
that any person seen offering a luckie to
one of tne feathered population will be cParg-
ed with contributing to the delinquency of
a minor.
25 Cadets at Kelly Field Will
Receive Commissions July 17
KELLY AFB, San Antonio, July
9—Twenty-eight students of Tex
as A&M College will receive com
missions as second lieutenants in
the Air Force Reserve at the
Tenth Air Force ROTC Camp here
on July 17, according to Lt. Col.
D. W. Wallace, commanding of-
ficer.
The list includes:
Randolph Blumberg, 339 Carna
han Ave., San Antonio; Pat Bur
nett, 1809 O’Neal St., Greenville;
Levi Tolbert Cave, Eden; Manuel
Cirilo, 6709 Myrtle St., Houston;
Joseph J. Domas, 1301 E. Stay-
ton, Victoria; George S. Drugan
Jr., Ysleta; William R. Freeman,
2353 Cleveland, Paris; Edward A.
Hinkle, 1202 S. 29th St., Temple;
Lauren D. Hobbs, 423 S. Cypress,
Pecos; Virgil R. Huddleston, 635
Liberty St., Eldorado, Ark.; Jack
E. Jackson, 1105 Oak, Grand Prai
rie; Calvin C. Jones, Rt. 2, Thorn
ton; Thomas S. Justiss Jr., 137 S.
25th St., Paris; James J. Lee, Ros
well, N. M.; Arvel J. Longley Ji\,
1812 Ave. D. Brownwood; Melvin
S. Maltz, 3318 N. McGregor, Hous
ton; Clyde D. Martin, Hamilton;
John T. Miller, 5223 Monticello,
Dallas; Clarence J. Murphrey, Sea-
goville; Hei’man Lee Peace, Rock- n
wall; Stanley Lee Rogers, Rt. 4,
Hope, Ark.; John D. Roper, 5232
Beil St., Houston; Rene W. Schroe-
der Jr., 6017 Charlette, Houston;’
Dan T. Simpson, 1504 Windsor,
Waco; John P. Stanford, Jr., 181(1
McGowen, Houston; Bobby Jo}
Tooley, Chillicothe; Jack E. Turn
er, 606 W. Craig, San Antonio,
and Joseph N. Miller Jr., 141(i
10th St., Orange.
No Man’s Land—a term used
during World War I—dates from
the fourteenth century, when No
Man’s Land was a piece of waste
ground outside London, often used
for executions.
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