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m 1 ! r Page 2 i. : ': The Ata '! . 1 vf •• •S - ^ ♦•'.1 r. > •• s Battalion ! OR IA L S r •J ■■ ' . i ! •J t'/YY'- J. • ^ V- ' . •' ffl FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1948 i> ■ ^Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" j We've split |tbe at4ra|. ko|v let’s split This more efficient use of fertilizers- one of the issues that'It has treated. Our will not seriously handicap the fertilizer control of nubljeur fission will do more industry. Less fertiliser will not be used, for uAthaiTaiejure physical strength and More will be used. Sub-marginal lands military domihitioh of ^he vijorld. (It Js which will not respond to the present use doubtfut if itj^an do that loijig.) It’s ef- of fertilize^ may be stimulated to nev^ fects are so pttjfound and varied that our production by Wtter techniques. Recent fill he Changed. We experiments Indicate that when the fer- ying military wea- tilizers themselves are treated with radia- irch to<jl that will tion they can be used to stimulate plant 1 ’ triple the spee<| of our discoiferies. growth remarkably. Increased yields of ' The immetr^*'' ii\V If T. /an Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions ■Crocery Bill . . . ■I -r? ■' ! r W|, rv I whole manner it have more than 1 pon. We have h res lanas Get Priority Over | From Visit to Unitted F “A first our re .1,' By H. R. STEWART •load of bananas took ity over our party on f voyage,” Dean <3. N. x laughingly said after his return jfrom a tour of tjaro Cen tral Aiuerican Countries which sponsored by the United Dean Shepardson was a me: of a party of 'twelve deans agricultural colleges of the and southwest. The party went on a United Fruit, Company steamei from New Orleans to Coftes, Hon duras. f- Wnile in Honduras, the party of of deans spent considerable time visiting banaua plantations in the visiting Tiquisati, the party flew back duras, where they for the voyage *1 i Shenardson expressed! hidh for * the work the Unit d Company is doing tfwa d company has a researc i m of which Dr. V. C. >ui - p, brother of Dr. A. A. Di hl» i oT the Plant Physiology ' i | ■ n , r The comj '• rex'. kers !-« m j- ■ v- 'i'" GI Training Bi 1-knonyn ; | T Registration procedure fdr GI bill education and training mh' : jKsk| atom will be the splitfcing of |ur_ grocery bill. C^ntrollei^-adiatiou. speeds up gene tic changes ip ^ plants:. We miay thereby speed'up) the 'developnaeut of ’’better food plants. Yields >j/ill noltj pnlir * increased bift neW food plants may be developed. Our national food Mil Ts over 50 hijlion dollars. If we can fi id ways to . jut^ production costs even a f percent the i|&mate sav- irig will be tre riiendouB., |l Joijl;,range ex- ers with accurate The USDiJfc r periments wiijH fertiliz controls being irieternttined; bj| the use of i;jr lifting the 90 percent have%een reported. US DA official hope tha.t the use { of radio-active substances can help solve oth er production problems also. Hardier more resistant plants are being sought. Varieties resistant to insect pests and dis eases would help immeasurably in lower ing the cost of food production. Failing to produce new plants will not negate the value of the resea/^ program. New facts about plant processes will have been learn ed and will contribute to our useful appli cation of older agricultural techniques. Amplification Department gpMVl the M> out 'to visiting banaua plantations Kinks Taken Agricflltufe, which was founded by the United Fruit Company and is now under the direction 'Witon Popenoe, a well W M Amer can botanist and one of the a-> j u ..'aS'VS.WiSt b, U,. vlke* several days In the mountains of \ *fmartini thn no* rd that country visiting Indian vfl-' • lages and seeing something of rF* g0 ^ e auh'i Indian agricultural methods. ' Og- Bfftt . thd agency said, isja c- qunemont that veterans filh c “r-. By CARROLL TRAIL Dear Sir: I am employed by the college and make $375 per month. Listed on the payroll as “Official Street Cleaner, Snow division*' I am the one who mans the. snowplow in case there is a blizzard and all traffic is snowbound. When I signed up for the job, I was guaranteed this salary at the first of every month. All I was with a haggardUook on my face and give tpe /appearance of one who is about 'to starve to death, I generally get my check. But, if I rumple my hair and give the appearance of having reached the end of my rope and go back the second day, I still get my check. Is Letters I WBAT REMAINS? Dear Name Withheld by Request I have just finished reading your tificatea of eligibility 1 at least a month before entering trailing Veterana have filed their c ir- tificates about the. same timje t) ey entered school or job training ini the past. As a result, their clai nsi for subsistence allowance, am ot er papers concerning them, frequen tly \ reached VA officials ahead jof he v certificate. “Under the new system, a r A tta- claim number will be assigned Bi each certificate is received, and vve radio-active : jtotopes.jjj Knjo\v , jiiedge about the application of fertilizers''is now iu- supposed to have to do wg.s to'go Research with the tools supplied by aJd ask ^or Ca m y 0 check 0 ' 1 ’ :_ i 1 • • i r>._a. J: atomic fission hats given us ah ’agricul tural tool that is as far reaching in its adequate and, as a - reaplt of this, we waste application as the atomic bomb to niilitary about 75 to 85;^erceii:t of all we .apply to science. The ultimate benefits to mankind c,ear m y inroal - scriDD , , , .l, ,.”'?) made by nuclear fission will not be con- cough loudly. He scribbles, about 600 muliron dollars a i'ear. Ifiwe , , , - . , i 1' , By this time I have l n increase the atomic bomb. They will be^ strangled and ho -f 0 od prices simul- contributed by the service of radio-active can cut this ytafcte in jhalf we 2c^r. ffel* H' • V . J . it to tolerate “ selves with. - . We don’t more. We cot But here’s what always happens: I walk up to the window and the clerk looks ifte straight in the eye. He immediately' looks away and starts Scribbling on I some piece of scratch paper. I clear my? throat. He scribbles. I . T substances to the agricultural sciences^ farm income taneously., j Educate ■ • .11! in-jrir ■. : wvv' ■ j n. /• The Ameritan stomach M a : tortqred, We stuff our heads the same ways vessel. Nature designed it to fe|)ld air enor- When we listen to the radio,1we don’t want ' Jhous amount lif foocil—and p|ji: -Dccasiwis it selves u$ efficiehi/ly with its don’t want an elevated discourse on Epic- |' r^reat capacit, /..jBut .rtat^irq djl not design tetus or the Renaissance. We w^nt a blood maclis and Untutored Tongues ... become notices ,mc. Whuddayawant?” “I work for B&CU and wonder ed if I could pick up my check.” “Whutehemam?” he asks, | still scribbling.i ... , The clerk keeps scribbling, and runs his finger over the box file containing the checks. Without looking at them he answers “Check not ih. Come back.” If I go back in about ten days ttje Qthuj’jjjiik stuff Olff- • ■ ■ ' ji; I Between the Book Ends — 1 j—l |4—i !! MIDWAY i Special fta’ TWO . partment at A&M, department is do- in reaucing diseases ty oy Wiiiuiog scnoois, and tive wonters. U in HonuuT- met Rat upon, mate, now uic ag- Df the Lalima luras. , : ewea acquaintances wpo graduated inng m tet)- memoeis of i who are working company lins summed A ju-ir, saiuunta in central » thu summer working tor he Jjiuted Fruit Ubmpany. Als< of interest wote natives hreur ng [cuianeua grass by nund ind a visia t» a mill Where the cit- •nnell is iexti acteu from me grass, in. |U oiid Uras the cornlielaa ex- aiqiooi to thf summit, of fimoiliiy « dh M Class i icuia ral i lOCtlOl ofu He ilso ' ritn J||. j 0 ■uaryjllp he julmo or Is this just some diabolical plot letter to the editors of 'the Batta- to inconvenience the hard-working lion published in Wednesday’s pa- man? Is the Fiscal Office just per. Whether you afe a student will be ready in advance to Than JU sadistic enough to dorsuch a thing? or a professor I do not know, but the veteran’s claim prompt y i nd . J ? . after deep concentration on my acurately,” an official explpincjd. bincerely, . - part I hive come to the conclusion. . w - K * . that you! frown on quiz cheating. Answer; I really don’t know, W. That is a very noble outlopkj'T R. Remember that those boys in am sure, and I shall not be ifool- the Fiscal Office have quite a hardy enough to voice my >Hews burden to bear. They have to han- either pro or con. However assum- dle the finances of the college, and ing I felt the same.'way about the the payroll of the employees. They matter that you feel and went so take in 'the fees and issije the far as to write a letter of my Views yellow slips. They have to tolerate I would certainly have, my name the slouch who loses his slip and published as being the "author. I needs a duplicate to get in the think that any letter written on Grove. any subject should have Ihq au- And besides, they don’t get most thor’s name given, that is i f he of the payrolls until the last of feels he's really got somethiig to the month. Most departments fool say. ’ \T around and don’t get their pay- man w h 0 will not havq his rolls dowii to the Fiscal Office name pi ace d 0 n his work must not until the 5th and that only leaves h ave much self-respect,;and “when about 25 days to make out the a person loses his self-respect and checks. , | integrity, what has he left? ’ What do you expect—overnight -| T ,, 4 cnrrxTnr ^ service ? 4 a- . £ % . ! the horn ana mate food ' Acdj)] the Ini intere ie apt might ment All Ijun this t pe tact i|)«an ture namel for p i ate ■plaic CL MIDAWAY AND t: ■ • tike oui’ food .straight! any r *’.■ ■ V , ,, etf .it with hot camstic smears which we blafnne on thp Mexicans; we stir exotic foreign!, spices into it) jjand say |ts the Bohemiap; influence; tye cloves, mustBro, pepper, and acrid sauces: and pickled blame it on^rijold family red Toynbee Surveys Universe In ‘Civilization on Trial’ curdling mystery^ sprinkled, with exotic gals and plenty of sauce .j witha bucket of blood for a chaser. We don’t want to be improved. We want to.be excited, thril led and astonished. 1 When our newspapers give us the news k it w4h^ straight, wT gay they are dull ijmd quit lene it with, reading them. News doesn’t sell newspa- fishes, and; pers—sensation sells newspapers. A good r 3. | murder is better for circulation than o{ text but it is a - piant ia lt8 Let’s notj SfcMame it bn Girandma, we eighteen astute and constructive^ editor- proportionj s Toynbee suneys the i I , i il j . « , '* . • ♦ t_ \ Universe and all there-in— the have an edup4ed stomach aiid an untu- ials. : . ■ , \ t souls and soul destroyers, the tdred tonguej. fLet’s.not kLd p|rs.elves. We We don’t want the truth—not even events and event producers.- Whe- doh’t want ^(je^oaclr^we|a thrill., pleasant truth—unless it can be spiced up. By T. NANNY CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL. By J. MAC SWINDLE Class of ’49. .★ ! JOKE NOT FUNNY Edityf, The Battalion: Some years ago a farmer sent a check to a national publisher for a text hook about farming, which he had seen advertised in a farm journal. About a month later, he sent the book'back to the publish er with this notation: “The fellow that writ the ad should have writ the book.” he same thing ^ocs for; your icl«§ on student cheating. The iuor ahd to- / We want intrigue and horror arid hullaba loo. We want our arms twisted and our i We use spicfeS; like we do 1: haccor-to in ;qxicate us. j, || ; We’ve juntj about forgptten what good , „ , ... .... . , ,, ■; food tastes Uke). Yhe rich cover their foals leg5 l"^ W» get *»*»»»‘ "' he “ «». ■j-: with wine s wipes and rare French drps- tilC " 0 or press appeals to our intelligence. ketchup. \r. The Germ bly divorced sings anid the proletariat covior theirs with We praise idiotically those >vho treat us ■ • <ii r 1 i ™ •• : < ' * •• ■' • • • lib. ' " As human beings, we are endow with this freedom of choice, and a: ,. i .. .... .. rci . Arnold J. Toynbee, Oxford \ l ni- we cannot shuffle off our respon- adyance^tories indicated a SPrious versify Press, 1948. sibility upon the shoulders of God study pf a serious problem. The This book has only 263 pages or nature.” actUal cheating stories themselves ' I A , , . are stolen from Joe Miller's joke The world has shrunk rapidly book add aren’t even funny, since 1492. As it has shrunk its Everybody makes mistakes. W r hy physical interdependence has be- no t stop the present series, admit come more and more obvious. Na- jfg inadequacy, and go out to do tiohs and empires are troubled a rea j j 0 b? The Battalion has with the lack of space. This is never istarted a more important serious and in desperate need of campaign than this, and it should solution but Toynbee’s study of carry through, history has unedvered a more im- .. j portant,interdependence. It is the 'our fnendly critic, | i|. interdependence of the spirit of WICK VAN KOUENHOVEN man, arid the religions of the { _L~ • • world which arc manifestations of ,;T that spirit • xrri ’b! ther or not he has been accurate in his observation^ and his con- * like idiots. Maybe we are. •/ ; state, having been forci- from N|azisrrt, i »ljhaving,trou- Ter who will ble with the foster jpa rents raise the children. ■ r \ iiv] "1 ■ -■ ■!: ■ ' - V • ^ . \ .. . QUEENS of the Rose Festival, said the Poland (Ore.) Journal, “will be hon or guests at services iii White Temple ..Baptist Chiirch,’/where the minister “will ‘preach on ‘The Rose of Sharon.’ The children’s choir will sin.” ! »1. Robert R. territory : * The Chi<ta* o Tribune’s McCormick, Hi >w deep in e on a tour.of tl e British Isle^ newspapermen, “I don’t 4 Igjat” NothinS shbjrt of tu|i|iing it over, was treated at the, hospital “for lacera- wb gather, satisfy the colonel. f ttens of the military police.” elusions will, not be > known with certainty* foi’ at least two and possibly 'three thousand years. It ifrould be ridiculous fdr an ordinary man to consider history as Toynbee'has considered it. But Toynbee is, saved from derision by his vast erudition and insight. These qualities make him prophet a? well as historian. He considered objectively and analytically tbo mysterious flow of events that results in the rise arid fall of civi lizations. After examining those forces which shaped the destinies of nations and continents, he com pounded his theories into a broad historical thesis. After analysing and defining history, Toynbee then showed how- it conld be useful in interpreting the present. He discussed the old question about repetion in history, the analogies between the Graeco- Roman civilization and ouf own. Fatalistic observers of man have long predicted the fall of our civi- Civilizations fail not because thy fail to solve economic prob lems but because they fail to solve ideological problems. According t< Toynbee those problems are basic ly religious. The ideologic* of this « Reservists Urged ? To Reenlist jEgrly Roenlistrocnt in the w » % . - . ''. 1 ' ; | jrasw-*%.wa •■•a- a oka va ■ w.■ v a CIlQPvOl* COItB told English ' THERE 1$ a soldier, according to the lization just as all Others prececd- history for" ; to rock the Nc>o Orleans (La.) {Tims-Pkavike, who H c % rfr—r / I -r.- year. * IK rat»■ Office, utoom r-H i* The Asse iitedt ed herein credited to it rein. K r - > ■ .41: * ^ ~ Entered aa Office at Co! ■ '< ttaT Aist of do I 'pNNETHl 14 C. t. ittOffNic r^* v !St i Y e Battalion Tojlibee is no • pessim&t. states “ .. Jwe are riot doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us, through our own ef forts, to give history, in our case . sqme new and unprecedented turn. world "are in conflict" Economic troubles, military troubles, social troubles are but ^manifestations of the deep seated, inherited religious struct?r of th | 0RC , n Augtin . Enlistc ' 1 Reservists who are * ,le . s a . r * duc to man 8 r * near completion of their current ual difficulties. ,>• enfisttnent arc urged to contact If this be true then the solution their local Instructor's Office for to our civilization’s tribulations is information concerning reenlisting, spiritual. Toynbee branches out in- Those who wish to retain the to philosophy when he reaches this advantages received as a resety*- '’ point in his reasoning. His final are requested not to wait until the chapter considers the meaning of last day of their enlistment before the soul. His conclu- reenlisting, man must solve Iris An ever-increasing importance relation with God before he can has been placed on the reserve pro- solvc hi-; relations with man. Toyn- gram as indicated by the recent bee’s statement of this tenet is passage of the Inactive powerful and sincere'. It is a vie- Training Pay and Civilian Co torious and inspiring climax to a ponents Retirement Bill, the Si historical study. f, s -*^ 1 —““ : - 1 NOW S . . ' m itajina. The Indiana build id tencea of corn nuska and obtain approx!* ty percent of their corn. ' j to Dean Shepardson, Fruit Company' ia ia students who would ike id goi to Central America next summ in to work in junior posi tions ot jthe company. Thi type of work would enable the s uddnt to find out if he is adapt d lor the special work and tj lea)d to permanent employ- after graduation. •. oi8 who are interested in sittms next Rummer. uaijan eolLec ANERS & Carry * DAIRY OtlHEN STORE A Rea \ r i The per of the Agricultural and ihed ffre times p week and circ Su mi-requei ig the summer The Bat son rate per school -K-rk — d exclusively to the use for repuhlicrition of all news dispatches Jited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin publilh- of all other matter herein are also reserved 7 ’ Member of > ; The Associated Press i. rrr -i j; I'J ^ , j , 1'iAiik Cuihlng, L Fnmk Welib. .Trank Ayrc*. B 1 Phil Koor.ce C< J. w< ■ U-: ■ ■-: r . • U, \ . wm -— rirri'-.r—‘——| Repr«wnt«d natfanuUly by National AS. veriking S«tvlc« Inc, at New York City. Chicago. Lps Angeles, and FrancUco. : rr . r^ . _ zS&ts £ XcBUtoci j-*?- Editor —* jo, wrtorg- I***, : : • . ... .<i. .. .1. r u +—I •Urn \ rr . ior Instructor said. 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