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MMSMMNMMSIMMt /- Jr ’ ( m - / •• id.. mwsammmwmrn " Battalion ITORIALS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1948, . IV —— hldief, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" iWrence Sullivan Rosa, Founder of Aggie -x—. , , . ' . r j:- ^ J~1 ZZ * ~ •••.•/ vT 11 ■ 1! * i, Iraditiono , y /.i ■ ■: i Practice fihat We Teach . ..... , ,, , Do you try the producjt which is poorly , of buildings/ private, senli-pUblic, and HvmH-.kpdi‘> 1 r J' • I nnhiiV" '• tl'. >• V Most is lx;st advert this fact ip some seems that A&M, j; public:” 1 ; ■ <i- ill buy the object which The small park in the center of the Business courses teach traffic circle at the northeast edge of the the lijiore fundamental .■ campus is in poor cor dition. Although this phases of; advertising instruction. Yet it park is located at the intersection of tWos ' 111 11 ScM, p collegje with a business important highways, one of them a Dallas school, fajils to grasp some of the most -Houston route, it has been allowed to be- cohvenient mean?j of self-advertising. ; come overgrown with unsightly weeds. The general information ’ bulletin of We believe that grounds' such as this this schopl. states that a curriculum in park should be kept'trimmed and neat, landscapel design| is offered. In explana- Where the expense is not prohibitive, tion. the bulletin pontinufes, “The.purpose areas should be further beautified and of the program in landscape design is to thus made to aid the reputation of A&M. train students ini the 4 e Ielopment of out* The best advertisement for a landscape door areas, such fas . . ’tithe surroundings art course begins at home. s Turning . . . Trampling Oat the Vintage How to Win at And Ladies Mai i i.i si By CHUCK MAISEL a l m s N ^ s ha i Here’s another sign of the times. The European Recovery Program/ more edm- monly called the Marshall Plan,, has am i.flounced the arrival in Britain of 23,300 pounds of. dehydrated dog food for the can ines of the embattled isle. The State De partment issued a statement, however, that the shipment was not made because of pre- sistant rumors that Europe has gone to the dogs. V- • Accepting the American gift for the ZLvt Working Sheep Dogs of England Ltd., Rover Shep, head of that organisation, said, “I say ■ guvner, we canines of England think it’s a bit of all rjght. After all, it’s! a long time be tween bones, you know.” will bi ii can s in jij Tilajjjers told ^drelsj tblk WdiesM latest fjashion faint. if 1 tip Bgtt has any Australian fdr ■eslders uid cbnibduch mdjde te.tfae MIS (ii thp female Tomoirow;oii!|' football team leaver for.;)can recover. The most probable weakness Philadelphia and the Villanova game..; will be our own ijnclination to condentin The^cofatest |iot-,only marks the first the team during the early part of the '.•r'sganle aifjlie '^da^on andij the_reopening Of., season. - ' .\'r fan bid rifalry, lilt it js the beginning- of f a new psfge ojf. V ' frhe been pie; Our coaching staff says, “We are qtball |or A&M. building.” Let.^ not tear down on the op- $mmediate past pages have not posite side during that construction, akfant. They havi been marked by So to the} footbfall squad we make, this bickeVingj harsifafchargeJ, and general dis- statement. Very few of us will make the 1ARROLL TRAIL V I ■ to voice a eoniplaint in something can;be done semester is too ^far I hav ; been led to believy that a librai - i i a place of study, and J,L ~ i ^ t) be kept quiR in order it as conducive to study as posf tide. But b vt you ever tried to study in the Reference Room? I have yet to Sh into that rooni when one bear S 1 wa: hopes t before gone. from seeing the gdrtd tb $ffct of that will the li- il ' ■ i we had such an * content. J. ! iNeveif beforf htive " * 1 ■ • j,' ,| • , excellent;; chanfcq to recover our football fortunes, j Our ctfatching |taff is fresh and capjable and oui| tefam, ii material is good and impiijoving fjtnadily - But hur ]>o|entialIj| machine, is just parmii once, \et% nbt choke, it rung .it lo strong gridiron up. If it fitters death before it M' :/ - trip with you physically. But because of tfae situation never before has such a per centage of the school been with you in spirit. No matter we are sweating^ you out/all the way. Stiteler has said, “We will not be ashamed of our performance.” ' We will be proud of that performance. of -the And loudest heard, the pa must what the games outcome, Our Real Purpose Slibukl Be Made Known . ... ' j '; 1 ■ . j j j | ■ . j i : \ y • i j f One (Jf -the most gr|iphic examples of of the first, the grants •w American poficu as ctiftrasted with that heip stem the tide of C<j> of |Spviejt Rilssifa was/|:iv^n at fa recent threatening to sweep thfa meeting lof ^he |(jijityfT4Nfati<ms Economic. Our purposh is perhaps selfish, for the and Soeitl Cburlcil. At the. meeting, UN stay o; en 'until then, but at niiie- thnty >ell}> start Waging, windows start : lamming, and all the per sonnel run to the doors with their coats >n .turn, yawn, and start Ktavin) holes through you until you leave. ■ ; 4 ‘ •. I ca t see whjj the typing can’t are fiitended to * be do »! t H «ne of the back rooms, • the windows dos'd after ten, and mm tin ism that IS the bdils (rung only at ten. Whd do you i hink? Sim|j i-cly. statisticians -repealed |hat in the. three hZ( United States world. But the branding of our program y«arsJBiifce'tft« «fad of tl(ie war, th^-United »f reconstruction grants as bait to bring . .Spates cLyernm^nt hasjgiven con'strucion thb nations of Europe under our doniiria- gvauts t|> the vfast of the world totaling thin is fa screen being thrown by the So- ^ ffaojre, th|n $t6,f6o,0bo|300 dollars] exclu- viets that hasi nio justification^ *1 .^ivlelof ijthe European Recovery Pijogram. j The only j way that/Europeans “ Perhaps/evefa more l- startling than thei ever realize that our generosity is not de : publ.icfat|on pf itlje size <|i' the grants is the- signed to cover a sinister purpose is to rcvelatkijn that j more than one and one- tell them the real purpose df our aid. If tt( ndantfi is nof typing. d< believe that that is the tj pewr/tcr I have ever Ihc cylinder upon .which r i-olls hpliqw fand thin? I i, that it ffii.i n beautiful come from the yo: bbary. When you are fairt working in induatry..you will njoi have a quiet office im which to work. At least at first ypu won’t.j | If you go to thfa ibig city to Work, you will probably have to tolerate the clack off a hundred typewriters, the sqfaekl of steno- grapbers being dyifed by office boys, and the clanging of the trol leys passing the bmfafapg. • \ The library has been good chough to stalrt thf conditioning ' process. Wc mustj (accept their challenge and leani Ho work under these trying condifafals. Incidentally, yoi} were right about tfae typewritii eylindm-’s be ing hollow and thR but the note is B.flat, not C snarp. Aggie followers of the game of chance known as poker are warned to go a head;, drawing to inside straights if they are fool- ,ish -enough, but don’t draw to a six-months jail sentence as did 82 year old George Ferris of Billings, Mont., * j ^ ^ It seems as though Ferris had worked out a system; After going broke^hls first . gdd night, he tribd new tactics. Fellow players csjhrl; complained that he had drawn a Hush and | (A ired three If walk^ji oijit. /,ji (irchi Batt Polls Again -—\— \ tone—sharp, I migye. And while I’m tbihking about it, I would ike to ask about yht* hours. According all the) acne- . 1—— dules cun find, the library is t i , ~i j sqppoft d o stay open until ten LUtllPninS tO HOld at nigift. I don’t deny that it does aiI M W First Med The Lufbc^in Student Associa tion will hold Its ini ial get-togeth er of the fall seivuji ter tonight at g ibroff has an- I. M. i| .or I can Ml But y Sympathize with e mustn’t let our ynu, ri, 1*1oui m v iiiumii i. ivi vui svncpfa hiets and 'motions keen us II ' 1 ■ v r 1 • 7;.'10, Rev. Fmi Ai nounced. Open house wit refreshments will Lutheran Student north of the IJfortF Richard Woi nat gineering .senior i iul | piesidcnt of the Assoeiatlon, invjtcjs all Luther an students to a the program. j Tonight h a social and l>e held in the House 2 blocks Gate. Petroleum Ert- tend and enjoy halt' billi|m dodafas of thfa total grants wen! the [>eople of Euro^te know that our oiil to jcoiinfriek jlienind the Iron Curtain. Of aim in extotuling material aid to them fa this, 7*7 j)er cent is not repayable. to help them st?k up theii; nations as sj»I Theijb have Wn ruijiiorfathat the/Uni- supporting once again, then, and thei: ted States is nof gettint the pnoi>er Credit only, will the American taxpayer receivfa for tlie I enormous amounts of food and full value for his money. r; \ :■ t machinelry that If this ijj true, to remelly that and nujjst . iiihi Europe || recover f r il , have been sent to Europe. 1 'll I; hen stapfa fsnould. be ‘taken ^ituatijpn,; for our grants to : Euro|)e hijve a two-Told purpose. First, xjirtant, | they are to help from the deyestating ef- The cold war is not merely a war of words between people of different idea it is a faar of subtle propaganda in whic the Soviets are masters. Our informatjo services should make certain that the real reason for our! extending aid to Europe i|s -WHEN YOU SEND IT HOME BY RAILWAY EXPRESS ies got you? Thfen A&M Students Prefer T J } ■ 1 j I i ' I ■ I "*! I j * To Dewey for Next Pr By CARROLL TRAIL \ President Truman has been nominated fot deucy. At least he has the endorsement of the the students polled by the Batt. Yds, in the midst of all political confusion, ihj; come through with another of its famous (or is it i polls. Although it is not designed to reveal any evidence of'fhe coming election, the poll does fiije cation.of student opinion, b f\ '-i As the students finished registering for th ter last August "(the day of registration for su students), they wke asked their choice for prefn the majority were for Harry. « 1 To be exact, the Rresidqnt beat the New Ycr 105 votes, receiving 1608 to 503. The Dixiecrat’s faVqrite son from Carol!nfa rousing 186, while Wallace Struggled along with a; sing 22.; f ’ \ About 150-students had 'fao opinion. Eitht r neut ral, had not studied the jLituation enough to ha|v ion, or were disgusted with the Whole slate of And of course there is alwaygAhe possibili. of them were for thdse not listed on tfae Batt bal the Communists or Socialists./ : \ While no names were taken and thfaballoljiife' tremely secret, a rumor leaked out that J.A?. Penis of t(ie mess hall, voted for the vegetarian cfafadidajt Rev Sam Hill Named Of State American Legi Rev. Sam Hill, A&M chaplain, wfas elected the American Legion Department of Texas at tjh^ vention in Corpus Christi, yesterday. J Hill was elected by acclamation. 4 The convention was attended by4 | approximately 2000 Legionnaires of the Presbyteriar from rlisfi*ir*Fs in pres i’ of! hand and had played t g with the pistol hi o: he one — court that Fettid il skill and luck” in dragging out the Phil Harris in the i- k : a liii In the -fjuture milady of p Mell||0Urttie tyijl cover her face Tom sea elephants. lirst timfa in history tfaat. the ijleen on tqe female face as well ]>eriod. t i- * -I rn y. %■ i ■■ ■■■ 111 41W»1» KlIOOWlllU, .UAVUI*, give all readers who have been ths t invieption ,of A. G. Beilis a : feeiing or sweet* revenge. if it le itfm cqmes from Missoula/Mont., siowld it(Kl fa} lefanonL,, _ — ^ —, i(nide|tifi jd hero in that city, unable a| call| completed on a pay telephone, n Ito h|t obscesstohs. He pulled out fa B.j shots into the booth apd - ■■■■if* /h I Zi to you, sir. I I I I i i • ' ’ 1 1 | ‘ IN ( AH SPEAKER^ WrUMY n LAST DAY “Iron Curtain” FRI. Thiirs. oh w w/th you j/ , ft - , T' Sunday “SLAVE GIRL” “T i- ! •• 'i j .vjh from 22 clistriets in T&xas. ' Rev. Hill came ‘ to A&M from ^Victorm where he aerved -as pastor fetts offthe recent war;, Second, and a part made known -to all the people. Would this |>e partial grooming? From Miorninjk NeWsc “Theijfe were at least 18 ij, wedding account in the Bellefontane (Q.j AN INTERESTING lead in the Dallas - more night mencafts in the world Thursday an thfere had been during the “Mrs. YV-j mbrninll. u 1 . 1 j '(■ . V,. groom, Was gowned in back with corifes- “Oipe elder ly gent||eman^id the job.” -—- « mother of the bride- Lliundry wo siort using tbe direcl conven ient, personalized laundry service offered by RAILWAY ' IMPRESS. By personalized serv- iep we mear]i your laundry will bfa collecte -5k I yOur home promptly, ond re turned to your college address. If your folks in si sport paying all the bills, you c an stretch your cosh-on-hond by sending laun dry home "charg ;sfaollect"and having it returne J|\pith charges J I '■ t s the ' "iJjhckpoU ;(N,< “YViitressef bust bt: neat a l. IT fteniooi pubUjha yfair. Advertisir Thu icneditt-d /•eq hercij j tending accessor ies.’ ■ | ■ 1 lassifiled rcolumnfa ■ v =' T pf the; ' Henry Wallace claims that if he wele ) Udioii-Saih: president “thefre would lire no crisis in for extra Work, good pay, Berlin today.” There might, however, be .1 .i-JL —I,- ” fa juh, ifa Washington. \ . by Railway ress pick-uja facilities/sent to prepaid at the cltktr end. No extra charge far pick-up and delivery in alt <i iet nd principal town*. Vcituolion free up ta $5fl|.00 Ha 11 .WAY<p]> KXPR V. s s ac.kncv \/ l.\C. N ATION - W l D f R A II • AIR SERVICE ' —*————•— * j Ojx-n^ 1:00 P. M.—Phonc 4-1181 Other j officers convention were Wil Craw, Dallas, Com Taylor, Smithvilli!, cate;, Manley H. 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