K •' • > ’ T ft I r-’ i [•r\ ■••L- w /-Iff •r • : , : 'J. - ! :! • j;!! : V ; • " li • . . " . ,i 1 ' ; \ i^llro RIALS Page 2 . IP - :!'!■ : i i .’i-f’-' ’ •If i. ; rr ■ ' - H 4 ■ N . GETTING ■ • ' : r_ i 1 j i # j Trampling Opt the Vintage . l'."*'- '- ! • i . J : . 4 . I MONDAY, AUC j 1948 f. ■ / r. ^ / - Lawrence Si > • J i^oUi'^r, States flan, knightly (juntltmari' an Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions -;V ' -.■ •• J‘" '■ - Our Ne’ . • ‘V World Affairs nations auto^ .t it or not |or not. T|iat The grand and isola- he liir\its of The United States no\y title on a|l of its iitizei title and its csoneu*“ w ' matically, 1 whethei and whether they (merit,it title is ‘Citizen of the Wort old days of our intdividual* tionism are 4 gone forever. " our 'freedom and the extent are no longer deterimined b; personal considerations but |>y world con sideration^; " \ ; I v ! j _ . The MtirehaH Plan (Eco ation Administfatijon) is 1 aspect of our nfew position. We must not ’only |ubsidize theUqonc[mifc recovery of ^Europe,, ive must ;>lsp subs)jdize the eco- Kndaiic recovery of the wo: ►Id. And that ‘will not be enough. We rtiuJt also furnish the .spiritual vigoif for the! moral reha- v’V' bilitation of the World .j . !l that will be i exceedingly diffigujlt and exceedingly de manding. i ! ; • I , p. ■vl . ~1' fers a new Palestine? Turkey and Greece, Iraq or hey get this Egypt. She in fact dominates no one. ~ Our dollar transfusions will not be; able to resurrect hfer again. Step by step we have had to fill the vacuums made by Britian’s hasty retreat. We have not had a choice. The alternative has always seemed too severe. We did not choose to of our duties fight Germany and Japan and Italy to national and - prepare the.World for Communist domi nation. Communist “democracy” grows more distastetul each day. When British first ran short on doll ars we gave her a $3,750,000,000 loan of temporary effectiveness. Sne soon exnaus- ted tnat and nad to cut military and naval expenditures. We were forced to extend our intiuence to cover her recession. - President Truman directed tne first steps in olif attempts to contain Russia. His ‘Truman Doctrine’ took us to tne direct aid. of Greece and Turkey. feince tnat . first step we have taken | H njl * im '-yf i / r ^ m : vt 1 ib 1 ' Reminiscim iV( As OldiFriends H$ld 1 r’-A By JOE HOLLIS / f • A F6rt Worth man suffered one of those embarrassing incidents of name forgetting that happens to most of us. However he Ms a different twist to his predicament. The forgetful one was standing in his place of business when a gunman gave him the usual <, hands up routine. v> :\ jWRcopeAce I.V- I ■ 7 iomic Cooper- ut one small r Amplification Department izing' the robber’s face and recol lecting their past shared school days, the victim called the gun waver’s first-name and asked the somewhat ambiguous question— “What in the world are you doing?’' The schopl mate didn’t seem to be too happy at the prospect of spending some time reminiscing about the good old days. In-, stead he made a semi-try at finishing the business and dej to have; seen you again.” NoW the near victim wears a, puzzled and frustrated look. He just can’t seem to remember his old friend’s last name. structom demoraf; playing won. The every n the fifth al Public His ted of swinging at Mnd, gave it all up as a bad job, arted without so much as a, “glad Perhaps - a needed iven to many dubs ilf tMp had won the trophy. ★ ■ the campus newspaper at Kent Clllfg^f, Oh(|o, h|ad a stor^ last week of roused What series of events tirust this new many more serious Ones. We have now responsibility oh jus? Was ft the growth of a new Russia; the econonlic after-affect of tne wav ? Some .tell us tlat it was the machinations of Wall • Strefet and ambit ious politicians. It was something more • basic than these. The cen ! civilization has^croksed the land is now only a tiny lit she growjs the world no The, lion isi, caged. .' The Second World War r of western tlahtic. Eng- e isle. When onger jumps. jstroyed Brit- commicted our enure resources to. tne re- haOmtation of tne world and its defense ^agjainst Russian “democracy.” We will 'fail completely if we do not rhpidly show more vigor, more nerve and more charac ter in our i diplomacy. ’ ' L This new job will require a more self less economy, a more tolerant labor-man agement relationship, a more charitable nation. It will require more than taxes and a man power draft* more than a 70 1 1; By CARROLL TRAIL • Dear Sir: - Can you tell me how many words there are in the Bible ? I would like to know so_I can get the jump bn my Sunday School class teach er. Thanks a lot, J. V. [ Answer: I really don’t know the exact number, J. V. And you gave me sych short notice. Glancing through the Bible, I would guess that there were approximately 926,878 words, including those in the Apocraypha. -tt | persons had an annual income of a milhon .or more in 1945. And, this may come as a shock to you, I was not one of them. Possibly you think such talent is going unrewarded. I don’t think so. I gets my reward from the joy of knoWibg that I am straighten ing out some poor, lost, misguided soul. Money isn’t everything, you know. ! Dear Sir: My roommate and I have beeii arguing oyer what is used by the laundry to smash the buttons on A butcher in. Kalamazoo, Michigan, is extremely thoughtful of his customers. Sym pathizing with their price worries, he at tempts to make their shopping easier. With the cash register tally of their purchases he presents each customer with .an aspirin tablet. The principle of the thing is fine but with the present Inflation we have it seems to be rather ineffective. A Better aid might be a slight shot of arsenic with each amount/ due. , .j ★ . ; [i . / Golf dub profesafpnals breathed disier recently when an entry in 'a golf tournament in Atlanta, Georgia, was eliminated, The in- ' W ' 1 j ! ; ! / ' '* Playing Bull and Toreador (Editor’s ndte: Columnist Trail’s shirts. It is his opinion that they mao 1mot *« 11 r\fJ A * tt. 1 • ! 1 • t T- , « ish imperialism. With her|Btrength gone group air force. It will take intelligent, "Britain is no longer able |o furnish the conscientious legislators, diplomats and ships that Rolled thje seas. s|ie is^no longer executors. It will take an enlightened pub lic, cognizant of their responsibilities and willing to meet the demands of the chal- abje to Control the trading! of the world, no longer able to dominateifa third of the' f globe.'Theifar eaa^ is fre# of her influ ences. ; ShiLjio longer dojlifnates India, guess is just a little bit off. An .'Englishman spent three years counting the words, and set the total at 926,877, the only official count ever made. Trail’s estimation was on6 word off. But after all, he’s just an amateur.) ★ Dear Sir: How many persons in the U. S, have annual incomes of a million dollars dr mbre? Sincerely, S. G. Answer: According to the fig ures I have, S. Ci., seventy-ono lenge. It will measure our interest in man kind. - ' - use a pile driver, while I contend that it uilist be a hydraulic press. Can you help settle the question ? j Sincerely, H. T. Answer: H. T., I am afraid that you are both wrong. They Use a Boyer hapd riveting hammer made by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company;of 6 East 44 Street, New York, N|w York. They used to use one of the stationary model, but they switched to the hand type because 'it allowed the personal touch. f I - . r ,'. r . >> • • . were zing efi ight i -actei t) hi; u nd o: inks oithi t-hani upon .:.! ■ Jl- grip oil ell sh< while iwinging.! would 1 ade >een sort of tech liqi Keni, fetnter, a profe r'lwho of livm :iii :ene in part cdlai •. Thj the pro 'e.isor w; the paitiduhr p mind w :r| s illinj of ten ilo’lai-s. X that he ccjuld the prie e. Soma i^md istered diib^lief tied do^ii Ho b compldl ed s ever I master iie:e of adbrnee with sp s rench seal is. li eynote eunion , | ; i ■ 1 ■ . ■ ort ed about the possible/ ;ts that the individual’s e upon 'their pupils if he | who firmly believed jn 1 owi style, lasted through the playdffs in the Nation- - mpionship. v x playing manner consis- putting; right-handed her shots,. cross-handed and lifting his le^t leg; boost’- r’ n ame ai by the cost 1 a: id thfl(price of pajamas whole thing started when informed by a clerk that ir if pajamas he had in for the not too modest sum (e prof objected’and stated te a pair that good for half i • learning of the claim, reg? to tah faculty member set- incss. The pajamas were days later and were a onstruetion. They ,r .were ia cuff^, monagrum, and fowever the self-styled tail or’s chfcstj ajrid Head returned to a .rtormal’ size whmj h^ computed the total cost, twenty five do la -s exclunim; overhead* The professor row realizing- the; true worth >f hm creiitioji refuses to wear them for sucibr a lowlj pastime as sleeping. The top no\f(|oUbles fis v sport coat, Corr espoftaent If mds l\Icxi Interesting But Bewilderiir \ / Bie Joy of Being An Editor . .. I Getting out this InewjRpjiper/is no pic- paper is filled with junk! f nic. If we print jokes, pcc|jhj j say we are If we edit the o“ther fellow’s write-up, silly. If we don’t they say-44 are too ser- we’re too critical; if we don’t we’re asleep. rious.Tf vvej stick cljwe to thi Office all day, . If Vve elm things from other papers, we Ave ought to he around hujiting material, are too lazy to write them oursblves. If If wb go out and try to hfstle, we ought we don’t we are stuck on our own stuff. Between the Book End» .. I i J ■ e Psychiatry Takes Minor Role In Book ‘Sword From Galway’ By CHUCK MAlSEL rick, reuljzlng that it’n high time for the hovel to. come to an end, Bookshelves these days are filled the novel to come to an end, to ovenlowing with stories oi psy- can t; iipsist the desire to make rVinlncriYulIv mnn nnrl hei‘0 li to be on tljie job iii the office. If we don’t print coritlributiorts,. we dim’t appreciate ’genius: aiid if \ye do prjint them, the / •r4 A Cohstnictive Program Neglecte , k- . » j ■ Whenfh company dei#lops a method of improving its services j or its product without ii|CuiTjng| additioipl expenses, it seldom abandons that nlethod without j Now, like as not some guy will say we swiped this from some newspaper. We did! ' ’ l 1 I ve credit where credit was j. .1-' some good reason. A.& method of improvji! developed a irvices and it- rff* ■ improvjing its self last spring when the drof rating pro- grani was Inaugurkted. Bilk for some rea son that program! has.beln forgotten or relegated to. the "shelves fb| little has been heard of it since Ks introi • Approval of the pD throughput the college, dents used the opportiin the program to “get even' ticular prof, bub the maj used the .rating- program u . Ilf ■ ' Ir '; A k »*' K • 4 • ■ ction. m was general !e, some stu- ,y afforded by; with some par ity of students lor what it was intended . . • \ f i,'. due, and to constructively criticise where critidsm wa^-due. j Those profs ;whp received well deser ved praise were given the satisfaction that comes from knowing their efforts are ap preciated. The majority of those profs who were criticised made noticeable efforts to correct faults in their teaching methods. . . This latter group has not had the satis faction of knowing that their efforts have been noticedi and appreciated. We believe that the prof rating pro gram was a significant istep forward in student-teacher relationships al A&M. We believe it should be re-introduced and con tinued on a regular basis. /■ Europe may Have a ci winter but the natives wil call to make it hejt for eai -y i j shortage this o the best they other. 'h ’ ! - . if ; • A syndicated article says there are “entirely too many” sex crimes in Ameri ca. What would be^the ideal number? —I—,. i . . Battalion The Battalion, dTficial ne’iibpapei’-of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the Tubilpis published five times a week and »- :ept Jiumig holidays and examination periods. ■P woc-Uy ttn Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Sal Adveitising mtes fumiMied on request. --TL ' tiliis iniy City of College Sta Friday afternoon, e: talijon is published yeat. ted every Mo on rate ay through - The Bat- per school made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, adsiMye be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities ■ “ - , ■ I! ■■ ( • 4- Newa conti'ibu i Goodwin Qall.i Cla Office, Rc - V'H the credited to hereto. 209, ooiate'd it qr no rjghR ^ess is. i other repuJ ititled exclusively to the use for : I ci-edited in the paper and.local Rion ol all other matter herein are news dispatches origin publtth- Entcrcd as fhcc at CdJtcv Csogrou of INETH BOND, fOUlS M Meihbcr of The Associated Press F C. Munroe Harvey Chcrriy. Mary in John Sit Andy Davis T. Naimey.. Frank /J-aak ;Edd£o“ fdch.4- C. J. Woodward, iRGAN JQ | : nationally Service Inc., Los Angeles, National Ad- bw York CltK cholpgicully frustrated menl and women who fail to marry the lover of their choice because of the re- se/nblance to a great aunt who beht them in childhood. It all gets a little boring, i Seldom do books without a trace t>f psychiatry appear, So if it’s a tale dif lusty adventure you’re wanting, this doctor prescribes curling qp with A Sword From Galway by Drayton Mayranti It’s Kill one could ask. Essentially it ia the story jof an Irish Knight in love with a daugh ter of the chieftan of a feuding tribe. Irish superstition and led- gend abound between its covers. DeCnlvy, the Galway knight, thinking his true love has led him into k trap of her kinsmen, decides to let his scars heal with time. He sets sail with a stupid continental named Christopher Columbus who thinks the world is round. Upon discovering the N c w World, the Irikher is left in, com mand of a small fort while;: Chris rushes back to Spain for more shops. After many adventures, the fori is attacked by canpabal- istic Indians and, when the smoke has cleared, DeCulvy is the only member of the garrison still breath ing. 'j He manages to escape back to Ireland and finds the lady -of his choice; but sh4 wants no pari of him until: he conveniently receives a wound. Then the woman,in her. comes to the front and they settlc down for, the purpose of raising children. i ■ i All the pagentry of chivalry runs through the story adding Vpice. Columbus plays quite a mindr part in the tale, being pictured as slightly assinine. - Many of the escapades seem im possible as a movie serial, but the book has a definite charm. It is well written and holds in terest throughout. A Sw ord From Galway will never be considered a great book, nor will it linger in the readers’ mem ory long after the last page is turned. Rut it is enjoyable and a welcome relief from the bedrdoin novels we choose to call modern THE FLAMES OF TIM RAYNARD KENDRi One of the better historical nov els-now glutting the market ! fs The Flames of Time by Baynard Kendrick. .It is the story of a little-known episode in American history, the underhand attempt of hero puffer more The book ends with-the farm un der Indian attack^—the fourteenth in the bdok—and Ahnos is giving the same prayer his father gave the nighty of his birih/to take him but te spare liis son. There is certainly never a dull moment in the story. Every page finds. Artillery in the pro cess of killing some enemy or wiping the blood from his hatchet After doing so. kendriek show .strains of being a most excellent writer. The Flhmes of Time might have been a most lasting book had he resisted the impulse to make immediate profit. Veering from good literature, he ripoped to type the story ‘as the •^typical-historical novel. His hero is' pure r in heart, possesses the courage pf a lion, and simply can’t- keep every woman he meets from falling, madly in love with him. There is the usual number of bare breasts and women of the streets.: .Actually' Kendrick ia an amateur at writing such cheap material and shows it. In the sections of the story which ap proach good literature, however, he shows much promise. , Is the book good or bad? As a whole, if is very good, but the trashy passages which make it sell are, as might be guessed, so much debris. • a ILL''- ’i . Ag Writers Meet To Inspect A&M On September 4 - 5 of agriculture will be presented at the Agricultural Writers’..Confer ence to;be held here September 3- B* DAN JACKSON 1 have been in Mexico City jtt little oyri’ a week, but already I have seen .many interesting things. The bus Dip from Laredo to Mexico City took about 29 hours, but I was so interested in watch ing those little ribbons ut the bot tom of j the mountains—they 1 al ways turned' out: to be crooks and rivers—Und listening to the con versation of the French couple, the Cubutn family and the Mexicans on the ljus that I didn't gpt ve^y tired. There was also a woman doctor of languagen' who writes books on Mythology, anthropology, life in Haiti, ahd Life among the Indians in South Western United States. It was not tne parks, and build ing which first impressed me. I was amtjzed that a fat, well-dres sed marl should chase mg (hrde blocks just to give me, the name of a hotel f|>r which he was th^ agent. This j happened just about the lime that I learned that the cars in Mexico don’t slow down—the pedestrians just speed up. Next . Applications Open For Civil Service Agricultural Jobs . Announcement of. two examina tions, for filling Agricultural Re search Scientist and Cotton Tech nologist positions, was made to day bjn the U. S. Civil Service Commission. ' 1 '. ! . Agricultural Research Scientist positions cover the following op tional fields: Agronomy, Bacteri ology, Biology (wildlife), Botany, Cereal Technology, Dairy Husban dry, Dairy Manufacturing Tech nology, Entomology, Fisheries Re search Biology, Genetics, Horti culture, Meat Technology,VMicro- analysii, Mycology, Parasitology, Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology, Poultry Husbandry, Poultry Phy siology and Soil Science, j’, ’ Salaries range from $3,727 to x>r year’. To qualify, app)i- ust have completed 4 years riate college study and i had research experience in the appropriate agricultural field. Graduate study may be »ub- stitutetjl for part of the experienjee req ‘ given. • bull fig its jdst here. Th y come the sire isi T he part of fie; bull, the toi’cnlor. Tlhc V.f 1 ot time you sec a guy runniig fu 1 speed across the Street vheth< there is a car near or ni t,; you can bet that he has beer ci osi ing the streets of Mexio Fit;’. Ypu don’t see oh Sunday/down off every duy in drivers play tho and pedestrian is object is to misiijcach us closely arHpoimiblo, Wandering around aim stores and sidewalk stand tcrcstmg, but the most fu$ ju in riding the busses. You districts that are fabulou ilv r ch and beautiful, and a little furtlcr on, you can see crowded Jisirids where• people are milling selling their foods, and and singing or playing songs on the streets. k . I ; ;.•«' t TH. f On4 n^ght 1 asked an old gent- oi .. K( k ng tjhe l * n- « st call 4ee i ! ' J a 'ou nd ri iktjls, M< xiejan man w\hick bus’ toe take, and : le:t his/w ife'’on the street rner, walked me two blocks d ^aw nie safely on the 1ms. lat’n manners! A policeman rilrid some friends df mine ear th dr bugs'several blocks to a'.: V; ; del and helped Ihem settle in a >' rjiom on the third floor. All out . (j cojirtesy/ / | , s ■ ! .1 hi ve been wandering around •eting people in street cornerp,’ . rks, bussed atnl what have you. . lave listened to '.wonderful music tin Hotel del Prado (a very ank/ plarii) and 1 have been < ing the town with a Harvard etfmoinics. major and. ij Yale Eng- major. The other night I had mer with J. J. Woblket, U. E. ruggs and F, J. Serna (Aggie is) and several other Aggies J Aggie e|xe#. 1 "V, Some friends and I had a very iiJoy able tflp through the la oonn of XOchimllro, where the j xtc^H hdd | their flouting gnr* 9 ns. /■' r t i i. ■ - 'i I hi iy; to travel to some of the lereding cities arid villages Jn •next seviiral weeks. i ! _ q Forest Serwe t Aggressive to save nl h( .A Am b udget n ‘oitest fJ -y sar t The Texas Forest Ser ici las i proposed to the State Logis ature f a million-dollar program Texas timber. The Forest Service, partfof College, has its 1949-19h which calls for $2,405j)0f| ijidjid- g ] ihg $1,044,000 to cxpanfl protection. It now’ has appropriation of $609,00C Known as ‘‘operation f >rc str y,” the’ program proposes: - I 1. A 11,000,000-acrc fir ontrol and woodland managemen. system in twenty-eight Texas cointfes. !j. Increasing the annual output from 20,000,000 t( boo. $. Establishing a We nursery to furnish 1.000,1 ling a year for windbreak $96,700. 4. A $280,000 conservation pro gram in Jasper,, Newton) Harjlin, Liberty, Harris, Grimes Grange, Jefferson, Madisln,! Won, Hbustoii, and Chambers Dolmlies. Fire /protection and ref< relta ioni * ate planned. ii : 5. AJ$360,000 program orjCimp Titus, Morris, Franklin, yps mr, „ ^ Gregg, Wood, Hendcrai n,| Van Zandt, Smith, Red Rive , JJo vie, Fass, Rusk, and Andersfm Coun ties. 3|),0f0 t 00l si ed- lo lost j. # >h More 'rogram th« nation in timber production, r pi st in wildlands, but twenty- nth in state outlay for forestry, 8a . d - ■ j . " v ; 1 | ' “Ripid depletion of 1 forests in^ nte sections, recurring fire Ion- a, nnd the need to develop uses r 'v ood waste and in low-grade . cos kavg jplated Texas at the int where! it must push u more gn ssive state forestry program’’ the State Board of Control, budget jaking ageacy, was told. “A inuul fire losses preach $o,- i of,0)0, and the amount*of timber If 81 ' V fi re ‘ s iweets and disease in yeir equtil to 600,000 cords— lough to nin ohe huge Texas pa- i|r mill. / ‘T Imber cuttings on small hold ing i it 86 per cent poor or destrue- ' e * i The ,serviije proposes to increase *a ier! Ifi? full-time fire protection staff ’ m 49 to! 147, and reduce Its rt-time hfLaff from 126 to p. W >uld have 74 pieces of motor ed fire-fighting equipment, in- eai of 46p 7 airplanes instead pf 1 aiidj2*waiy radio'•for all dquif ■'V' , It’.Would include tl modern . No written teste will be . radio-controlled fire-figh inj: iva- 1 I | ! tern, replanting of abou 20 000 acres of cutover land; whe •« iniber • The | Cotton Technologist. posi- acres oi cuiover ianai wntye be filled are in the branch- volume slumped 39 percc it ih I ten naeed, Fiber, GinaiDg, and Textile Technology and are damage located in the Department of Agri- 6. Re culture, principally in Washington, for stui IE. ICK years. Fire in 1946 did 2, 00 000 in (his area. esearch including 251000 sentmg every’section of the state, Texas. • growth in East Texas bo oi liafcdB, .Salaries range fromto * 9S i* 0 $0,235 per year. To qualify^ plican ‘ iiiriiiHBi are expected to attend Press ’conferences will be held for tho writers by department heads who will place themselves at their disposal in question and answer sessions. A nationally known speaker will deliver art ad dress. The AgriculturuV Experiment Station, the Forest Service, The . •* • • • -Wire Editor .Mauacuiir Editors —Movie Editors Book Editor Wil*