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..f • • J : * • Page? * Velsnap, v; ' -r ' v ■E JUilON WfyK ted tlie Gurls *1 ' ' . 7' ;■! fi; i* • • ie, U -w ! i i I Reporter By HARRIY GOODING Since our lasti ease hiatoty was ^ published, we hs ye ]had some trou ble with prowlers seeking to get Wl-I "'fells. J; Wii >; : 4 kimi; M£sm into our files, ; Let! me to peat, thii information i4 tial; and method&^pf and old men and old theme? vault ^ith or -destroyed shou made to botheir merely to make .. t ^ '■ I ^ Cheating Studies Hidden As 1 - ' ^ ■ , > ' r ; [, - I • ' a, Ij/ \ Makes More Thorough Study a little trouble, and liomework found merely amusing. Most of it I did in class..- “It was in high school, too. Gentlemen, that I first Ijiecaine aware of the opposite sex as ‘such. My personality, my looks, my convertible—all combined to make- me irfesifttable, not only to the girls of my class but also those of the upper classes. I became a great favorite with them, I might say the favorite with them and I did my best to preserve that position. “At times, I. can remember, our phone ra^g constantly from eight in the morning until eleven at night resulting, of course, in ob jections from my parents. I earn estly advised that the line be dis connected, and I begged the girls with,'whom I was acquainted to re frain from calling me. But it was no use. There were simply toot many girls who wished to hear toy voice. ' , But I digress. “I graduated from high school ictly.! ec|nfiddto | filed ayray hlj j with the highest of honors. 1 spent test; paper in |a safety deposi orders that t ^ d any attetoptrb^ them. Wfe are Here} al studyf qfj ing, not to became an ally fcoi But hack to [thi easel historic The one that we present today i especially poignant fqr as one5 ' reads, it bpcoijHeg clear; that thi .ened by the brought about cojukl rise to great nojt if or- the 1 person involved heights, if it fact that his will; has been weaki-li Susidious by. cheating a summer of freedom enjoying toy self completely until I fell 'in love. Oh, I knowllJwas young and in % * ■ W, r ] . . « r-m ■ ' CM . — a 1 9 A ile reading this cake, remehil^jj not t* condemn this J ‘man fof he is largely a victim of circupidtances and is not entire ly-to blame. Ap in the 1 other cases, we havp altered the name of the subject! that he mpy not be embarrassed by publicity. For put-poses qf identification, we will call him ! Vejsnap. I ! VELSNAP:' ' j 'U | “I have led a •'very happy an full life, Gei|i] letoen, and! I fe^ that I have hden exceedingly foij tunate. Since imy [birth I have ncj wanted for anything althojugh mi parents could n^t be Jconsiden rich. In grade school, it. had i trouble with any j>f my studies f the level of |r iy | intelligence wal^ slightly above thait of tfie average' run of students} Ij was ajlso) blessqd(j| that curl indi ' qui with a head, cjf jhair into golden riqgfcts charmed my t2achers, [ “In high'se fliOoI, ! of <tou hair Was cttt,'but[it still charme and toy intelligerge remained u impaired^. Std(fiest here! gpve •ijsul Dr. Carlton R. tee OPTOMETRIST if our! Vi juajt'robiems i S. Mag),— Bryan ./ For Your) VI 203 S. Phtme 2-16G2 i H- experienced ias far as' true love was concerned; but still I'fell in, love—head over heels in love. I to it., 11 thought myself completely unwor- ‘ ~ ' 1 thy of the girl, which is one rea son I know that I was' truly in love. I asked her to marry me, I begged her, but she finaljy told me rather sharply that she was in love, with. another. W611, Gentle men, you can imagine the shock I experienced. ' • “Until that moment I was comi pletely confident that any woman I might ask to marry me would be hysterical with joy. A refusal smashed my confidence. It smash- etf my very ego, but it made me realize what a blot women were on the earth. I felt that I saw them in their true light for the first timk, and my only thought was to get away from them. That is why r I chose this college as my, own. “\\hen I first arrived, Gentle men,'I was, as eager as the most earnest (freshman to study and to learS and improve myself. I tried hard, and I pride myself, on the grades I made during thb first four or five weeks. Then the military life and the restric tions began to tell on nte. Grad ually my interest in women re turned. “I tried to avoid it by} burying myself in my books and ; absorb ing rqyself in the log scales of the slide rule, but it was no use. I was haunted by the pin-ups sus pended on the walls around me. . “Then I found that the military training I hpcb endured as a neces sary evff /became of outstanding j value, for] it- added character to | my carriage. Straight as a lance ); I stood in ray tailored uniform and . I have no dbubfc but that my pro file in silhouette resembled to a great extent that of John Barry more in bis better days* At any rate, my 'dplf confidence was re stored. ' -W^With practically no trouble I became acquainted with some of the village girls, and found that Tjys^devious ways and mean3 I nJ ! - ■, Unclaimed Articles In Security Office The Campus Security Office is a treasure eltest of lost items, rang ing from fountain pens to bicycles, that are yet to be claimed. Among the unclaimed items are one mechanical pencil, four identi fication bracelets, three fountain pens, one wedding ring, sevep class ring?, one ladies pocketbookj, ladies watch, one cigarette light er, and twenty-three bicycles. Fred Hickman, chief of Campus Security, urges anyonei who has lost any of-the aforementioned ar ticles to go to the Campus Securi ty Office and claim them. Recov- %ry of lost items can be speeded if their loss and a description of them is reported to the Office, he added* *• could meet with one almost every night. “Well, one thing lead to an other until I found that all the time that I had been putting in on my studies was taken up by weightier matters. Not only that, but I found that my mind wan deyed in the classroom and that consequently the instructor’s words were lost. 1 wandered about happily in this condition for some weeks before we had a test that brought me sharply to my senses, I was'in danger of failing, at least one of my courses unless T could bring myself to the point of studying. That would have meant cutting off a great deal of my extra curricul ar activities, and at this my spirit balked. I couldn’t jhielp^ h«t feel that it would be entirely unfair toj thef girls with whom I was ac-l quainted to cut myself off from them even for a short time. This was quite a problem, Gentlemen, and as you have probably surmis ed I found the answer in cheating. “However', I hesitate to call what I did cheating, for I feel that .in what I did. there was an element of chance that reduced the possi bility of success a great deal. I had no trouble with the minor quizzes which could be taken care of by small folded sheets of papfer. It was the finals for which I had to prepare. Just a glance at the assignment and with a few pre cise notes I could get through the daily and letter quizzes admirably, but on the finals which reached back to the beginning of the se mester I had to make preparations. “These preparations consisted of buying, begging, or borrowing cop ies of finals that had been CE- SORED or CENSORED from the CENSORED CENSORED CEN SORED. As I say I feel that there was quite an element of chance in volved for 1 could never be sure that a different test wouldn’t be rung in. I might say that the re sulting tension was quite hard on my nerve?. However, up to the present tiime I have [been quite successful and I have eyery hope of continuing success.” ; So ended the interview with Velsnap. There is very little we can say about the subject as the Xfacts are clCarly presented in his history. His social life I am sure has been covered ih full by Dr. Kinsey. Before leaving you, I wish once again fo remind you that there are no records available at the office, but that you are always welcome to come in and give usi your ex periences. They will be fujly ap preciated, 1 assure you. Inferior Farm-to-Market Roads Cause Rural Population Losses - : The lack of farm-to-market roads in Texas is one of the. main causes of losses in farm population, according to farmer opinion recently reported by Joe R. Motheral, rural life economist for the Agricultural Experiment Station. Motheral stated that of the reasons for the continued high rate of migration to towns and Cities, the desire for “city conveniences” was cited as the ! €,MWm TODAY AN1D TUESDAY S a ir*. - _L 1 ^ - ii - Jt For MODEL AIRl’LANE SUPPLIES Jones Sporting Goods 803 S. Main Bryan Ph. 2-2832 Tl imuicu Vm < V N ! • ' r. WED. . 1:30,3:35,5:45,7 i* rUDRS. - l , - First Run Bryan km SAT. -r h *' Miry O'Hir MONDAY principal jhotive, and “the sharp est comments dealt with unsatis factory condition of farm roads.” During 1947, the report states, the small scale back-to-the-farm movement that followed Worjd War II was reversed, the number of! persons living on Texas farms declining by 51,000. On January 1, 1948, an estimated 1,712,000 per- ?ons remained on ]fax-ms, “a mod ern peacetime lowf’l for Texas. - The putoey, which- was con ducted jointly by the Experi ment Station and the USDA Bureau of Agricultutol Econo mics, revealed that; 1^2,000 peo ple left Texas farmsi last year, while only 103,000 persons mov ed to farms. In addition there Was a substantial d e crease through interstate farm-to-farm movement. A one-sided ratio of farm births to deaths partially offset these net migration los- «r“-i. A total of 1,587 farmers, locat ed to some 46 counties, cooperated ih the survey and comments on the cbndition of farm roads came from all sections of the state. A typical statejment was made by a farmer in Angelina county. He said, “Our coijmty needs farm- to-market roads., I dpn’t blame the farmers for leaving. I’ve thought of looking for a city job myself.” ^ 1 , ■ A mail carrier in Atascosa County asserted that people are . leaving farms in his area be cause of bad roads; “I have 55 miles on my route,” he explain ed, “and not an inch of . pave ment.” \ Among the disadvantages re sulting from inadequate farm roads, farmers specifically men tioned the difficulty ; of obtaining the sendees of a-doctor when nec essary, inability ] to toarket their crops and livestock, “to get to a show and recreation,’, and to Se cure regular delivery of newspap- 1 era. Complaints originating!^ Bell, Collin, Parket and Waller coun ties all stressed this factor. A Walker county, farmer sum marized the general sentiment in these words: “We do need better roads and will not amount to much without them.’! In spme farming areas, espec ially in the vicinity of cities, the pressure of the housing shortage is having its effects on the sur rounding country. Numerous cor respondents reported that farm houses are being torn down or moved intact into nearby towns and cities. Still others noted a strong market for farmsteads as residences for families with mem bers who are employed in industry. “It appears,” the report states, “that the farm as a future de- pression refuge for the unem ployed may lack the first re quirement — readily available housing.” , In Cass, Collin, .Fayette, Floyd, Liberty, Wilbarber and Hidalgo counties, farm housing is being reduced to meet the needs of neighboring population centers, ac cording to farmer reporters. “You can drive across the county in any difbetion,” stated a Young County Tanner, “and count a number of old places where there once stood a nice home. They have been torn down and moved to town. It makes it hard to get help these days.” With the renewed farm-to-town movement c^ime a revival of war time worries over the shortage of experienced farm laborers. Some farmers regard current wage rates as excessive, despite the high level of commodity prices. Also, there were numerous complaints about the quality of available labor. In this connection, a ranchman in Ector County relayed a story of calculated indifferejnee to a try ing situation. “I operate my 1 own ranch by myself now,”: he report ed. “Before the war 1 kept a man nearly the year rouhd, but now, help is s6 sorry they, cost more than they save, so ^vhat I can!t take care of I just Ibt go hell and figure I am eveii.’^ . 18 Range-Forestry Students Observe Blackland Station By O. W. BIGBY 1‘ H. F. Heady, associate profes sor of Range and Forestry, and 18 students visited the Blackland Experiment Station ht Templd this week to observe proper manage ment of native ranges and tempor ary pastures. !; f \- Dr. J. R. Johnston, soil scientist of the Blackland Experiment Sta tion, i stressed] the importance of improving the range and tempor ary !pastures in order to get high er yields of beef by showing ex periments with the native bermu- da-buffalo grass range, and tem porary pastures of sweet sudan. In the afternoon the class ob served a range that was once in excellent condition, but is now in fair condition due to the replace ment of better plants by the in vasion of weeds and cedar. Thi* mis-managed range was compared with a good condition range, of the same soil type, in the Camp Hood area that had been protected for six years and was showing im provement J * T- I T i •/ ' . ■ ■ |[ .]( PEGGY CUMMINS CM COBURN ROBERT AIM lmiTking roberTbassler iKt Plus Cartoon — News — \ • MIDWAY CLEANERS 1 .' - ’ ' rM . Special Rates on Cash & Carry TWO DAY SERVICE ' • ' : ■ ll j ! i ;• ' I r Satisfaction Guaranteed !. J MEDAWAY AND COLLEGE ROAD ^ • t [] ■; ' ■ Soil Conservation Class Inspects Ag Experiment Plant By O. W. BIGBY The soil conservation class con ducted by^ J. F. Mills, agronomy instructor, recently visited the Elm Creek Watershed and the Black land Experiment Station at Tem ple. Thomas J. Eldrs, work unit con servationist for the Soil Conserva tion Service, conducted the tour through the Northern Elm Creek Watershed. This work unit occu pies part of Bell, Falls, and Milam Counties: The soil types through this area are Houston black and Houston clay. Eldrs stressed the importance of vegetative cover to control eros ion in this section of Blacklands. Land must have a good soil build ing rotation to make the use of terraces effective, he stated. On the Kosel farm the class saw the results of turning under soil improving crops of two years of hubam clover and one year of bu- barri and oats. This practice im proved the infiltration of water, retarded cotton root rot, and greatly Increased the yield of cot ton, according to Kosel. In the afternoon, Dr. J. R. John ston, Superintendent of the Black land Experiment Station, showed the igropp results of proper man agement of temporary pasture. He stated that 252 pounds of pain per acre had been Obtained by grazr ing five acres of sweet sudan for a \(7 day period. ‘ . Pearson Appointed To Membership In Nutrition Council nj - - / Dr. P. B. Pearson, dean of the graduate school and head of the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, has been reappointed as a member of the National Research Council committee on Animal Nu trition for a three-year period. Dri Detley W. Bronk, chairman of the National Research Council and president of Johns Hopkins University, announced the appoint ment. The National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition is composed of nine authorities in the field of animal nutrition. Dr. L. C. Norris of Cornell Univer sity is chairman. Under the gen eral committee are six subcom- mitteeC 1 . : i Dr. Pearson is the only repre sentative from the south or south west on the committee. His con tributions. to the council and to thq field are evidenced from the fact that he is also chairman of two of the subcommittees, R..E, KarpeY dfAhe Texas Agri cultural Experiment v Station and Pearson are tHe two members, of the A&M College System who ire members of the National Reserve Council. Professor Karper is a member of the committee on Plant and Ahimal Stocks. library Receives Nine New Volumes Five new fiction and four non fiction books have been added to the Gushing Memorial Library shelves in the past week accord ing to Mrs. Leita Fosmire, Read er’s Advisor. , V Among the new fiction books added to the library are: “The Stubborn Wood,” by Harvin; “The Long Walk,” by Betsy Barton; “Explosion,” by Disney; and “The Golden Hawk,” by Yerby. Besides these fiction books the following non-fiction books have been added to the shelves: “The Incredible Crosby,” by Ulanov; “The Memoirs of Cordell .Hull,” “2000 Id&s for Sportsmen,” com piled by OUTDOOR LIFE; and What the People Want,” by Ellis Arnall. V 1 \ , 1 1 The fiction books are to be found in the Asbury Browsing Room, and the non-fiction books are located at the main loan desk. 'v .ii" TEXAS INDUSTRY FACES\ SERIOUS WATER SHORTAGE CORPUS CHRISTI, Aug. 16 — (A>i_Gov. Beauford Jester told a ator conference here Friday that quih Texas’ • industrial develop ment is being handicapped by lack of water. . If Postal Service Solves Puzzle; Mail for ‘Tiger’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(iW— A letter reached Washington ad dressed simply to “The Congress of The United States, Washington, D. cT\ ■ r I Now there are 435 members of the House and 96 Senators. The sealeB letter was delivered to one »f them. \ 1 •.! Who? Rep. Olin Teague of College Sta tion.} Why? \ • • j f Because the postmark was that of a town in his district, Wort ham .That’s, the way the Postoffice here handles such mail. The letter was signed by Mrs. Tisdple, contemplating going into business for ^lerself, she wrote. Local Health Unit Warns of Disease Increase in Area Diseases in the Bryan-CollegO Station area are on the increase, according to the Brazos County Health Unit. Bryan, during the week ending August 7, reported the following cakes: 1 diptheria, 7 dysentery (bacillary), 14 gonorrhea, 2 ma* lari®, 7. measles, and 8 septic sore: throat. College Station had 4 i cases of gonprrhea, 5 measles, and 1 septic sore throat. ■ j : , i The Health Unit also warned about relapsing fever as four c^ses of it have been reported to the State Health Department from amounting West Texas County. Relapsing fever is primarily an infebtion of wild rodents and ifi transmitted by a tick called Orni- tho(|orus turicata. Persons are us ually accidentally infected by the tick bite and the disease is not communicable from person to per son. The chief sympton of relaps ing fever is short periods of fever from two to three days in length followed by periods of weakness lasting three to four days. There are usually from one to ten! ‘re- ,lapses’. Diagnosis is usually made by clinical symptons or by demonstra ting the causative organisth, a spirochete, in a dark-field pre paration of the patient’s blood. The disease is readily cured if early treatmentis given, To prevent relapsing fever, per son? should avoid tick infested caves, camp sites and ground areas sin<}e the ticks live in the soil and usu!ally bite during the night} ExV posied persons should use a tic& >n socks and trousers. In the 30 year history course, there have been mori 2500 men enrolled in the pre grjfim USSR CITIZENS LEAVINC U. S. IN LARGE NUMBER!! NEW YORK, Aug. 16 Soviet citizens' are retuift|i|i; Russia from the New York such numbers that it “savoits evacuation,” the New Yorjc Mirror said Saturday. Now Training iRIO College CraduaUs Tjie 1 General Electric Com pa ly announced that a record nunjib{erlof movie than 1400 graduates colleges* and universities havje been hired by this company thi? yeirj surpassing by almost 600 the p| vious high mark of last year. According to Maynard M. Ber ing, assistant to the the! Vi|e- president in charge of engineer-' ing policy, expansion of tl»fe co pany, coupled with the effkts the war-time • shortage of jrid- uates, led to the selection oi this record number. Of this group, 1046 are elec trjca! mechanical, and industrial engin eers. Fifty chemistry and 15 pfy«: sics graduates also havb I selected. More than 250 business [a lm||m- istration, accounting and 11 be; art? graduates have been se lecled for the Business Training U ,UI |p e > according to R. J. Canning, s upfr- visor «f Business Training, fr alld- ition, more than 40 recent grad uates have bben efiosen foi| |a isign- ments in .the Advertising and Publicity Department. ! The new college-trained ilmplpy- ees will entei 1 General -Eje wc’s which includes not only te(d nilal scientific, and business Courses but also apprentice trainijn; jfoit high school graduates. Several hundred women ic[>H|ge graduates are employed eadh yiar the majority of whom hava* bafck grounds in mathematics, blys^cs and chemistry. A small num »ei| ol women are trained as is udjenl engineers. * . j General Electric’s Bu sii Training Course lasts h] ip ‘imately ^hree years and is |s ip] ile mented by evening courses! In 1 and business si assified Ads J: 1 j ' ,1 V • WnH A BAtTALfoN CLASS!- ) AI>. Rale* ... 3< a word per insej t!on with a 251 minimum. Space ratc| in Clueified Section . . . <0f per inch. Send all classified* with Banc: to the Student Activities Of- All ads shouty be turned in by 10 :< ) a.m. of jthe day before public*tiotv. SAL1Royal portable typewriter* * froi ypvr, authorised Royal dealer, L. ~ ‘ ^ yan Business Machine C FOR I ALl of Allege! on Hwy. 6 at Lakeview Acres. Inqfire (]• !• Miller residence at Lake, Houtyc arjui, 900 ft. of! frontage, 2 bedrooms, all com i, IiTte * " ^ * ‘ * ‘r: 01: p. venlbncesj Interior finish of high quail- U at a bargain and with- Use I onlr WAN 'ED FOR I'ui ly E. Pa IZlE BALDWIN BUSINESS COli E of era refreaher course* in ahortj- b&ikkccping and associated sub- DiM 2-66G5. Bryan, Texas, Vw Village. 8ALfi-j ft. PhlWp refrigerator. new, September ,1047. Slight- iscd; excellent condition. See at 229 ;, Dextirj side, apartment. College, k. or ajll 4-7064 after 5:00 p. m. |T TU RENT garage ip College SU- Wr te Box an4 F...E. 1 ' . : ' ,• t. -W. 22nd, Bryan, Te i«e located 2 miles south 1100 sq. ft. on 4% acres'*' moderate income. —Sofa bed in good condition-, r for' a- year. - ■ See. Ballman, - ^ ^ : ' -»Ostermoor mattress and box Double.bed, bedside table, qlso bicjcle. See at' Student Owned le No.i 6 after 5:00 or write P. O. 5173 To keep your children. Rates >Ur- Apt. BS-ft. Vet .Village. aNALLMabei: j promiae to give, up king. Please come bock. John SAlR:-2-pi»ce living room auite, sprir «s, cbeft pf drawers, circulat- gaii heater. Holmes. Apt. 7-A, Vet age after- 5 i()0 p. m. SALfej-i-2’ tfailer house, and room, plate .yfith apartment cook stove elecjtrle refrigerator. A er, 'I raller . 1*7, Areh 4v C BA R G A IN 8 . Electric Refrigerator? I h » ■ ABC Washers-Like new.; i $usy i Spintlryer Washers hew. I !. Portable; Washers—Excel- it e|>H(litiojn. Term? 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