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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
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it have more than
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lanas Get Priority Over
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•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 -
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ’
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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
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substances to the agricultural sciences^
farm income
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/• 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-
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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
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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-
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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
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have an edup4ed stomach aiid an untu- ials. : . â–  , \ 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.
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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
iclǤ on student cheating. The
iuor ahd to-
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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 “ «».
â– j-: with wine s wipes and rare French drps- tilC " 0 or press appeals to our intelligence.
ketchup.
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bly divorced
sings anid the proletariat covior theirs with We praise idiotically those >vho treat us
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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-
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like idiots. Maybe we are.
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from N|azisrrt, i »ljhaving,trou-
Ter who will
ble with the foster jpa rents
raise the children.
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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.”
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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
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Roenlistrocnt in the
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told English ' THERE 1$ a soldier, according to the lization just as all Others prececd- history for"
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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
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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.
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