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8: i Page2 !iV ; A Con< v- J FT t How inii ilet Everytilm rda of p >tf ant automobile; li* [l50 yards chemist on solution oif pH of ] 9.67 !r *• * . Battalion ITORIA Ffk MQNDAY " '^Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentii Sullivan Rots. Founder of Aggie ■ i i\‘ :• - ' • ' ■ : ? ;k n L 7 y WfiW'S HAPPENCDIoouRORBAMMLf Trampling Out the Vintage . / tfon fhsA Most Be Corrected . t j "■ T- ' ' 1 • y ■ ’ ; • ; | / j ' ; I 1 ‘ ^ - finish on your ed a research ehen^i^t who recommended r within wer next on your that the tower be! completely drained every six months and fresh water be put in. This cannot be done without shutting down the Power P alnt, the manager stat- ed. ' / . : i '. ■ To alleviate thi condition, the man ager of the plant drains the water from the tower to[ the lowest possible level and et intb the cn cks in the paint, and replaces it with fresh water every 30 days, lly rial awa^ the metal under- There is a complete turn-over of water by you pirk your tlie evajporation P ant i4 Boomtown, you are " ” 1 vishes of a strong to the Power subjecting lit t( the chloride and al sali spray, ' ’ spkar lah d sSohfL corrode and |ru|st the exposed metal suf- m 7j'w wax coat, faces,' I event neath., ~ * i~ I . i ■ ^ B A L FrildlayHfhe Battalion obtained a sam pie of the wfcr used in the evaporation tower and had it analyzed by’ a reliable nns I! ths pus. r cor ilkalis, ithe showed that th^ wat^r conjj&ined a strong 4 the Power Plant every ring a pH of }9.67 7.p0 is hormal. There fl- spluiioin, the to a 1 exposeiimet as buniper a id grill work, ’ in the ,ps int, it wouli surfaces such nd if it enters cracks in the ,ps int, ii would rust the body. The solution would lissolve a coating of commercial 1 m c. The man iger of );he Power Plant con ' firmed these! fiQdingis. au an e^coit to effect of the water, the ho- counteract manag fl ‘ 7 r • ■ a ' ' ■ .' WT- - .* [ he plan ; had already consult- within walking distance of the classrooms. It ; " 'f ' . J’ 1 ' j: . ' ' F Deserve A Secret Ballot. . . It is aipclit; as fer be v; cast about .must ex pulsidps. ■ ,#i pr^ctijc The analysis evaporation every week, hut this strength ens the solution rather than weakens it; There is no othCr foreseeable means to correct the condit H Since it is not practical fc> shut down tical month to clean the showing a evaporation tower and since no means has iaiL- -There been found to cornect the , ^ was also a fbr mg cpneientiration of chlo* cars parked in d soine sulf* tes. 1 : 7 7 will be in consl ’ ‘ ^ chemist reported, is the 1 harmful spra; — the condition, the vicinity of the tower will be in constanjt danger of exposure to ; official of the College dd knowingly submit le damaging effect of find gome means to a vote!is in direct proportion to the free- voter to whor^ it has been given. This dom with w lieh it is past. No Texas po- makes it possible fot our “honest” offi- litician will dare to dispute this .. .^as a 7ials to determine hot oijily for whom a theory, Bht seme do have the effrojitry vote was caHt but ialso by whom it was to perpetuatje an outmoded! system of vot- cast. We trust confidently that our public ing which rob:; oifr votes of the full se- servants do not habitually avail themselves crecjj Which tle^ di serve. 7 of this opportunitj|. Political favors are a secret ballot. ■ often passed out leens descirve! • Any forni bullotir g which falls short of petty things as votes. i i ’ i | . v • f 51 , ! 1 i « * “I * m i • j a j "• I socket (R. r i jV cal a^iom that the value of bered and tto^t a record be kept of the -f- pn th$ basis of such oniphtely secret is; a partial nega- This temptatioh shoulld be removed, thje ' ; ot. ng.p ’inciple. The vote can Votes must not be;open to censorous ac- o democracies only when.it is tion nor the hint of censorous action. We eh tree from, considerations can' provide machinefy foir a secret ballot. ho\t cjth^rs wijll reaijt to the.-vote. It external com- Others have pioneered iji this field and have developed motjlprn voting devices and techniques which Insure voting secrecy. s pesiri s—nc procedure for Texas voting, We must provide^ for po man is freer .ijjes that each ballot be nunif- 1 '' 1 ' ‘J than the secrecy of pis vote. happer conscious: New England. From the Woon "Alt* held one cle: neCte(| since 1016.’ A bower was ashajnfd a Democrat r^-. i J;. [rJJ <' li : r. • ' ' r . :• i:i' j Wu were surprised to learn a poll tax The pay of lieutenants and a captains j 7 xr^Jxi i-u u-i is req 4. 4 1 V if Upderd men can’t ■ r i : cjmic w didn t run f< wired in that sc think thatlsG)rt(f north of thja ^laso: he S only in genealogy- ,.) Call, June. 21, 1948: j Ithpu rh only 53 years of age, he pfn this longest tenures as a court sichusjtts having been con- Over Classificatipn in (the Havana (Cu ba) Poaf:! ,7 s ' |f'7 | ...i" Furnished Apajrtmqpt for rent to quiet couple, no children, no pets, no furniture carving friends, no lost weekend drinking acquaintances, prompt payers, considerate econd District Court ] tenants. We lend you phone. . . to ac or a Re knbvr claims that Eisen- ojr president because he lit thpt he was either jiblie^n. . Typhoid fever has been a 30-day dis ease, but a new djrug is said to cure it in three days. There is stiH, however, no such quick and easy cure for a 30-day note. IrM ■r h ];J i'f J V New i Hampshire. W# didn’t in the army is said to be below competing was tolerated wages in business and industry. But, like •ixon lihe. columnists, they jshould look at the pres-. - kr former pavic* . . bools under the Americans .inote, those who With clothes at tyr liddli. , have to wear • .• Read Before You Ji It Doesn’t Mean -H< Tr 7 t.{; ■ • - i~ r ^ i 7 ,es 1 Amplification Department We feel that and nd student his automobile to the chemical sp; The Battalion [urges those people who have charge of parking areas on the Cam pus to immediatelf 'close parking lots ad jacent to the Power Plant and to provide parking space out df the danger area but By CARROLL TRAIL Dear Sir: ’ 1 In ^Vednesday’s Batt there wa$ an article on pajjre 2 about , the cadets at Camp Hood. Refering to two of the recruits, it saidjr “Both expect to graduate from their respective schools in June of 1948.” My question is, isn’t this Juty of 19-18, or did they both fail to graduate seven weeks ago? Love and Kisses, A. H. Answer: A. H., your question is certainly challenging one. I have done everything in my power to arrive at h satisfatcory answer. I first tried to contact the authoir Williafn Adair, but he was on J5. P.,and Could not answer my Jong- distant call. To Check for 'typo graphical m-oiV I looked for tin? original story, but it had been de stroyed. \ Next I callen\on my old buddy J. T. Kent, matlvsmiatics professojr and amateur astronomer. Consult ing his handy pocket-sized alma nac, he assured mo\hat this fe July 1948. I then checked these V.en’s re corcW^tnd found that thcV are tp graduate June 1949. Thus, as fan tastic as it may seem, theNBait By FRANK CUSHING ’ The offices of the organized reserve corps in Denison and Dallas ought to have more consideration for vets. There are some things (i.e. nerves, heart) to be placed above mere money. The government agency has been mail ing out form letters concerning routine mat ters. However many Aggies havetfl even taken time to read the material before bolt ing for the Brazos Bottoms. ! 7'* It seems that an economy drive has called into use surplus envelopes with the chilling words “Selective Service” printed on them. Through the conditioned response with their “Greetings” notes from the presi dent, recipients have reacted violently. For the benefit of those who might en counter thesje envelopes, take heart arid open are of no importance or mean- not this month. ’ r .w | Not only is this a small world but its a pretty mixed up one. During the recent Democratic convention in Philadelphia a restaurant owner desired a ten-gallon hat exactly likd the one worn by one of the rouat have made a typographical ^' exa jL delegation. „ I , error. ■ The hat wearer promised to send the ★ wishful one a genuine cow-puncher lid of "wJS* great fwifim chirf. Sit- ^ ^ ** found P>. I** infa nc office them. They j ing—at least A learned /too soon that aided tence JEveh boaster j*i unowned under trije ed five world- : The thrifty — ■ 7-7'7 .1 ir won a Democratic >ma county for the enough, sheriff. The statement issued by mils was, “He ain’t’per- St.” 17 i : dture I’k'i _ „ Saylor has a little too much anq ied fame recently in he could live, un government subsis- ■ I, jj i. pired to make the A friendly but bly jlfemaie, crawled s jtfont steps and usner- ,es from heaven into the Fi le bio wher responsibilities a new borta.J jNouj choice of ’ dogs aU i ting Bull,;ever captured? In nfy The hat band proud y proclaims the name of a Phila- delpftia hat maker. restaurant proprietor received the istory emss yesterday, I promised article postmarked from Texas, asked my instructor, Dr. A. B. However h£ is now scratching his head in- Nelson, if we would study Sitting stea( j 0 f C0 7ering it with the gift. The ( Bull s life. To which he replied, . .wtraB-T “Bull has no place in my course.” Sh U yosU can answef this ques tion lor me, I won’t mind if the WT <. histpry-course doesn’t cover it. There is something very catching and in genuine admiration, appealing About the campaign slogan of the Answer:! • late “Pretty Boy” Floyd’s brotner. The Yes, S. ll., Sitting Bull was cap tured. After three decades of out- maneuvering the best that the U. S. Army Could send into the field, the great' Indian chief was- cap tured. His captors treated him-with the greatest respect, and one ask ed if he had any special grievances to air. Sitting Bull nodded gravely, and protected, “One white man has printed terrible lies about me for all world to read.” “What did he say?” asked the reported. The chief gave vent to an impressive collection of cuss-words and con cluded, “If Indian ever find him, he sure Jscalp no-good so-and-so who siy Sitting Bull graduated at West Roitit.” bound o r otner pip; by a £>] N mon heM the clasi presents 1 toad. ’ Nodr i capable of If the what p: teacners mg * but )£m>ye Prole e to the soft-hearted, mother ignored her k a ppwder on the Baylor boy has the of! dogf thfee times a day or no “ F r^ous for refusing to be (ons. An example of an- tajken was demonstrated h 2061 class. tne repercussions .9 s a w think cate, nts desks. Origmated in Washington’s Time American Susceptible to And Flowery Phrases, Especi i ; X Dictionary Introduction Work Of 7 Devils, Reviewer Finds 7 ? By T. NANNEY If you have a dictionary donft read the introduction. It is the work of seven devils. Seal those front naees up . . . and tear theirn out if there are small children in the home. That introduction [is poison. Once a man has read tho7 pages he’ll never go to the diction ary again without quaking heart and knocking knees. The dictionary is potentially the! greatest tool of the Ameri can public. Bound up in the ety mological history of language ' romance, history, adventure, have you ever heard about Nope? It’s all the fault' of thait darned introduction. - f Most bool^p possess attractive alluring introductions that stimu late the interest and compel one to dig into and devour the con tents. Alas, the dictionary has no such attraction to stimulate its potential users. It has instead long dull pompous lists of charts, ‘keys,’ and tabulations. The accumulated force of this dry pedantic intro duction is terrific. It destroys in- : . j { ' Some Don’t Read tellectuaJteuriosity and offers noth ing in! reram. I prrpoite a “Society For The Abolishment\of Pompous Intro ductions:” It would bp called “Socfortaopi” for short. The first goal of this society would be to eliminate that cankerous growth that prefaces Our dictionary. The second goal would be to sub stitute ah introduction that would caress the sensibilities, Xtimulate the soul, and' lure the public into searching out the beauties of the dictionary. It would hint of the romance buried in the etymology of our language. It would reveal small delightful portions of the adventure and daring buried in the history of our native tongue. The third goal would be to or ganize a bo^k club that dealt ex clusively ]with the dictionary. The “Dici-ionafry of tbr Month Club” would send out dictionaries qvery month, and every one would have a npw more enticing intro^nAHon than the one before. Each preface would become more appealing, more seductive than the last. Nice to conteBiplate isn’t it? Michalak’s Report- Students Read Plays, Poems, Superman By HARRY GOODING When one picks up his news paper and reads where one candi- r. date calls himself a “deltnder of i liberty,” where one perfume com pany calls its latest creation “ir- resistable,” of where some public offic.ai has bfccn accused ol bung a “Communis);,” he is apt to ac cept the terms at face value. We ’Americans are too prone to let ourselves be taken in by flow- cry expressions of meaningless words. We dp not delve into the actual meanings of the terms and examine theip significance. For instance, take the term Communism. To most of us, this term denotes; something bad. And if someone ^ays Joe Smith is a Communist wc are apt to say that Joe Smith is bad too. Politicians like to use “Commu nist” and “Fascist” when refer ring to their opponents. Them selves, they call “defender of lib erty” and “! a true liberal.” But what is an ;untrue liberal? Until we know whjat kind of liberty the candidate would defend, to what type of liberalism he is true, this man remain^ a mystery. But peo ple like to listen to the eloquent speeches. They arc more interest ed in keeping a bad man out of office rathef than getting a good one in. A ca primarily k^iow a good number of words to Call his opponent. The best of these words in George Washingtonfs time weyc “Toly and Rebel,** in! Lincoln’s, th4y were “Rebel** and “Yankee,’* and now it’s “Communist” and “Fascist.” • A new device has been invented that may quiet a great many of the words now making the rounds. This device, known as hill-billy hoe-downs, is sometimes referred to rather i slurringly, as music. During the last few years it has token the place of many speeches, but it will never; totally 'snfffj the stumping. Quite often onp runs up ig very similar words that havj different meanings. These are a hazard to pur every cjayflife and they can ge), one into of trouble. “A woman mty be econ^m| but not cheap, She may he a kitten but cat. Call her a chick but n^t hen; V; Anyone who 'calls her Won’t call her again.” And speaking of the faiiktej several words and phrase pave become associatpd with htjr probably aren’t itruo. She is famouslor her crafci for her talking too much, mismanagement of money, her dpsire for donation. J society admits that womar dictatorship. Lqbk at the of leading perfumes—Cobn, |Sutr- rendeij, Dangerj Irresistibl s. followers of the com ill flesiring grade points, traditional apple and Alien ivioore with a ide rful thing to see people lor tnemselves but still Idle gift are unlimited, hold tnere’s no telling find tneir way to tne Y ' , 'I you. 1 I' : r. ' \ . hv ligate what wc read and hcaf tljipse who arc writers, for this world of'’words, have to make and make it. who are readers, be alert critical. Don't let this writer any< up elsp put anything over l II T 1 the makers of Chanel No. sell their product when brands promise' domination everyone will always be a n y Far too many of us In e world of words. We are tio to come down to reality uu A candidate, therefore, must spew 1 _ A For MODEL URl'LANE SUPPLIES Jones Sporting Goods 80S S ’'tain Br'. , Ph 2-2832 T cm/pm l r 0|W 5 fever thpr ovpr rtr. n a Moo Dr John S. Caldwell Optometrist Caldwell’s Jewelry Bryan, Texas FOR THOSE WHO ' * ’ DEMAND the best College Shoe Repair Gate AY —TUESDAY WIORICMArtH | > ANN IlYTH DANOlWtA SI^ONb pyltN ANOTHER PARTwfte fOREST —Plus— CiYRTOON-r NEWJS . I Vm 1 '4ws cdijtfb] Bat: riliph] Static: mSL, Battalion ,e Aslicii ted P ' tp I• o.ms* At Co. the Act .of m d-clu Mi Me .a week on — Hadl. iMjatiUed J?| mher Wfc; .'uawMfv- . « ^'. • j usively tp tire use fer repu; the’paper and ideal npwe By H. ,C. MICHALAK An exhaustive survey made dur- more iswelry. ^ int prices they students include fiction, romance, don’t they? Superman, poetry, plays,; and wps- v l w terns. However, some students said they did not even read their texts, much less .a novel just for the joy of reading. h " ’ m J n »* tng WmS ■ - ejrxT-r 'V' • VJW fessioha! m B. c. Brooks, • his favorite of all favorite books oly Bible” because it is I- Gepri major of Texas and the / Monday through summer The Bat- .$4,80 per school of,all books. C. Fairbaim, Accounting . Port Arthur, reveals that hi tlpttfcht “Raintree County” by Ross Lpckridge Jr. was the best book he. has read in quite awhilp. The moving character .if is a school teacher, John sy. 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