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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1948)
. • , : '• - ••• ■ U- w , f Tourist ttescribes Europe V 7f , i German People Work in Fields With Feet Wrapped in Rags, Student Discovers 3y CHARLES KIRKHAM f ■m 1 > -V - . I mm fe§! % ‘ , streets in many towns hare been |old Our train pulled into the station I cleared, / dress of a small town just inside the! A large when tfield was cutiv into’scene, German border. On the platform sections by the. asphalt runways us that wom^n—her hair gray, her i faded print—surveyed the and! there were those among llMlIUf, ^TEMBER.aS, .• Vv’-- Wy stood a - soldier, his rifle slung, his of a former airpoi '"Tn uniform the faded baggy green of blasted down. Men rt, the hangers /aloni 1 r 1 '* v 'vi » -J . . - V ■< were inspected and passports stam ped. This was Germany. Along the the Wermacht. Military permits stopped their work and idly watch- Scandinavian Ex- her) the ndi there were those among claimed she was crying. Perhaps this had been her home. Bremen is a port city on the Weser River. Before the war (and now) the population was over 400,- / - Ion T/J it"! t S iai ’it. ! Pr ! r-i' k 4' 1 I- I :♦. mmi ■ tk- ■ ‘m press; their dirty, worn clothes 000. Systematic bombings of the either the black Allied prisoner dodc areas and saturation bomb- , rail lines vegetable gardens °grew ?arb or the baggy, faded green of ings of the residential areas de- •■■v V|-! to within a foot of the crosstiesj the Wermacht. Children ragged stroyed 60% of the city. A single ^ . ! Workers in the fields tossed heavy and dirty waved, their arms thin, family is allowed two rooms. In / shocks of Meat onto horse drawn | their faces solemn. Almost no traf- the winter long lines of hungry y - | wagons. Men and women with rage fic v <tooved on the streets and high- people receive two hot meals daily _ _ wrapped around their feet worked : ways. r ♦ ; in vegetable patches too small for) Our train stopped in the large V.' V/l'i'.'ttrVioo'f nv no fa ' nrovo rrnn#l I dlfty Ht&hnHoff o£ BrCIHCn Altd fi If !■•' 1 . »• ^ WtC/r m wheat or oats. Crops were good T’ »• l ; -•«. - I : this year and- they were being stor- j, ed for the long winter. Small herds of Holstein cattle grazed contentedly on the grass grown over shell craters. Pour brick walls surrounded rusted ma chinery partially heaped over with rubble of a factory once there. r Rusting girders twisted into other rubble heaps of bricks and stones and dirt—what was left of a nome, Pew men were em. ployed in reconstruction, only the r-., gp—p—g—— there our American group was by a delegation of ^German students from the work camp we had come to attend. They wel comed us sincerely and assisted in loading our baggage on the bus chartered by the camp. The hard rubber tires of the bus rumbled over cobblestone streets and; either side the eye encbunU cm! only rubble heap where blocks of homes had been, Huualing on what, looks tq have been the front steps of n house, an kb .r 'Iwp. tc T/ ■i.. -w C T - ■. *• V OL. , ' H . ^iiHSM SSar. ■ m.- Barber Shop WorshipjperH ‘Sweet Adeline’ Rings Oiit As SPEBSQSA Gathers Pep qf watery potato soup ladeled out by the city government Here again little has been done toward reconstruction. Prior to the currency reform when the cigar ette was the medium bi monetary . exchange, workers would not labor for worthlels marks, and now too few people have marks enough to begin rebuilding,. Legally there are 3% marks to the dollar, A suit of men's clothes made of wood fiber costa 180 marks or a months wagon for tho worker. On the black market a pack of cigarettes costing a dime In the Army I'X will bring five merksi p fifteen cent bar of aoap la two markai and a blekle candy bar, eight tenths of a mark. Theoretically Americana have only marka obtained through the Military Government at the legal rate. Hut In |awe|ry shops Amerl* cans ara aeen buying expena}y» silverware costing hundreds of "• 1 By CHUCK MAISEL Drag out youi- atomizers and ab out last year’s lungs. The Society for Preservation and Encourage ment Barber Shop Quartet Sing ing in Americans about to set up shop again this -year. They are holding their organizational meet- : ng Thursday night after yell prac- Ice in the YMCA—the Assembly Room, not the barber shop. The local chapter expects big songs on. unsympathetic Cars and declares that ..lW. laws of the society must necessarily corres pond with those of the many states concerning disturbance of the peace. W. H. Hall of the EE Depait- e vbem- German tntrilu. The store wind loaded with shodd The store windoWs and shops are aded with shoddy goods priced t4>- high for anyone but the rich and the blackmarketeer* to buy. Coffee is about $7 a pound ($5 of that is taxes). American coffee on the Mackmarket is only $6 a pound, cheaper than the legal price. ,An American may ride the city's street cars and busses without fare ■ ’ J i, Inflijem-ed *- This slightly D; , ptetnie was drawn loij the Bat- r talion by Its geographic Expert y.»' I^r. Frank Welchi He has. tried to point out the l sights . o* spe- - xtfle historic interests to a; trav- fer, visiting San An top to. ;| : Dr. Welch will! conduct jguide tours immediately prece<Jtog and i following the pifeskin conflict. v *v- 1 I ■ Bo Finds Taclile For Bear Hunt Hi _ J... r ... . DETROIT—Bo MaMiUin. new cqbch of the! Uetroat lybns of ijcague. the National Football flashed one of tbp cnliloqufulismji j||iat helped; mak|e ten he / ABriggs. hitn amous met ijipn Taeklf Paul Texas Tech After Second Win '■ • / ' / T | ; A. . In Game With Aggies Saturday ^ \ sparkplug, Bennie Winkler, tac- ' tc kle, Joe Sjmith, end, and Tuff>' Nabors, center who was the the Batfy the Bryan Eagle, and the Bryan, Chamber of (Commerce. If enough members are ygcruited the Houston chapter, which sponsors the locals, may semf a 3 quartet to tljfe- International Convention this ypafr* I Also on the agehda will be the blanked-highly regarded West Tex- ? re P aratio " f ‘* r th . e P ublic , StntP 1<J O will Kv> cppifimr this yeal will be such playeis as tormance to be given early in FiL- „r *1,* • Dan Pursel and Bobby Garner at! November by the Brazos barber guards, Bobby IVilliamiji at center, jdioppers and guests from other Walter Edrington at did, and Cal feading chapters in the state. A ' By LEON SOMER ’ll-*’ l Te ™ 3 J.ft ™Y » ot ha ,T f S e f kle, Joe Smith, end, and Tufff (team.that it had last year but the F d y aider8 . wiU "l* be a P asb * heart of the Tech line last sea- over for any team this year. Only son [last Saturday tTje Lubbock team ' S p‘ arUing the Texas Tech team l •‘That fellow if; big!enough to hunt bear with a. if witch,” Bo, Briggs, who plajjiid fuf versity of Coloiyjlo, iatadd feet, four and n Jiulf and Hwoiglw 204 pounds. il { nieijt and president of the voto\- ^ an' 0 Am!rican P re'stouran"t fs^on’ ists, asfs for all men who love thejfour-course, sixty-cent supper. ,. - - - IRF 111 ba ™ on y. . coni ®, ou t ; *o A two room suit in the comfortable 'Jungs this annum. According to the meeting. Upon joining, th* MW Army mana ged Hotel Bremen is a S -G-. Jones vice-president, of the member checks on his application dollar a day . In the parking lot of songsters; there wasn t enough blank whether he sings bass, - tenor the hotel German men tend to resi- MAX GREINER, 190 pjoi better Aggie linemen In tbej Vmandva Philadelphia game was Limit pec ted to be ready to go ajgi Beaumont High School but; nfm!! lly time for the members to get in i barjtone, or crow. voice last year as the charter of the I group wasn’t received until April. Plans to be discussed include ^ Qrows are those who like to sit on the fenp.e and jilst listen. A voice is not heeded to join the organiza- wHh in fhe a coo^SS^f^KORA, St'^^ tt world.’ 1 dents cars-r-washing, polishing and cleaning—for the tips of cigar ettes, soap, and chocolate they re ceive. r- Our work in Bremen was-to live with |he Germans, eat with them, work with them for four weeks. f~l Starting vi i... '4$ !1 •i** h re e. iGi an akikle| Injili Gr Houfetn. Fech. •m In ■ ■■ . time la the it he is ex- luatod from Special eo t • v- 113 East Using Barts From Or ^heir second in this week’s B w.inams e game withlhe .Agg.es. . IwaUer Edrington at ehd, ^... _ „ ! V 1 ' 8 ye a L tb e Tech team will be Stevenson and Bud Conley in the spo t „n KORA’s u On the Beam” pointing toward their third straight buckfield program is in the offing also. Border Conference tftle and-once- j Despite the set-back that the ^ .u t ,u , i i again their main obstacle will be . Aggies took last Saturday, there * 0 ,J li^h a ?he%PF° the Ifardin-Sj.nmons Cowboys. wcre Home bright spot. In th^ bSQSA TJas^rgahUed in 1938 ! The Red Raidora were hit hard U-um’it offenfte. The running of b " ()w jp c a8 u nd o) b c rs I»y graduation and (bach Dell • Bobby Goff, Hob Goode, and Jim . y t u i hh ‘ Oklahoma From there j, | i Morgnih has v bebn hard pressed irt itoswe|l proved to be the main ;idea'snroad niitfi tndnv there 1 Un 4uU^^omo of Ins positions. I t spark |ln the Aggie backfleld. tera to 416 cltSa w th J rff'.rr e-- '»-> ! w *»».« of .he t™m ?,', t VKSr.hip " w ti.; 1 are such players as Freddie far from pleasing to Coach or(rttnlwtlotr pibUshe* monthly Brown, last year’s bnckrield btltelor. 1 he ( ijdets tried eleven , auK i P hooks and a quarterly muga- . . . ; passes and colmlht.jj only four. y[ tho Harmonize.-. - ‘ nliteler has heerMvdrklng the team Th) , Cod4 , of Ethics of the unique MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT THE GUNTER 3. •t - •••MV I Mi: a>un t k derette Welcomed yjou to try out 1. M I !} P 20 MM AUTOMATIC WASH! All your >v4sh ailJto|mat- J ^ically done, j You cam do ^ your own wash or ivi[e do it at no extra chaifr^ TAKES QNLV i Costs only 25c for stuU's tw foi s , r ,h, y 'finite. IhilMe proelw nil «“k, l™. c „ c ,l n nl1 ' f " hionwl 'I''"'' 1 " 1 t , » r - going to .Sap Antdnio by bus Sat urday morning. . • -j BRUSSELS—hD—A prehistoric tool which experts consider dates from 50,000 years before Christ, j has beeh discovered by Andre Mar- (c^ial of Profondeville, near Dinant, as he was digging, bis garden. DR. N > 'V\UTT DENTIST Office in Parker Building " Over Canady’s Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan. Texas mony. The Code also warns members to refrain from forcing their When you come to the game Saturday, make the Gunter your headquarters. Here you will meet your friends, old and new, in an atmosphere of friendly hospitality. The Gunter has complete facilities to accommodate your evePy V ' : J need. 'J-*- Garden Clipb Will • Have Tea Friday The A&M Garden Club will en- 'ertain with a tea from 3 to 5 Friday at the home of Mrs. R. D. Lewis, 410 Throckmorton. Members of the club and those interested in becoming members have been invited to attend! , ^ ■ , j, 530 ROOMS WITH BATH s , [. 300 ROOMS AIR-CONDITIONED H- 5 oiMy Z&t lor each 9 lbs. or less . Nihiri ■ . ..' ; , ■ 'j' — Two Convenient Locations — j SOUTH SW)E — (COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS 108 N. h'ASHINGTOX — BRYAN, TEXAS ■i. Ah! Palis mj Tiiie Spring! X Boy and X GiH Meet I DIDN’T 'Tk essqge It, J ■ t Septem!' Year ‘ . won • 15c a Copy BUDGET SAVERS . • Friday and Saturday r ! Sept. 24 & 25th SUGAR ? 5 pounds 42c OLEO—Meadolake. nlain round ... 34c MRS. TUCKER'S! OR CRUSTENE SHORTENING lb, 33c JELL-0 . . J . V . . 7 2forl5c GREEN BEANS, Alma Cut, No. 1—2 for 21c POST’S GRAPE NUTS, 12-oz.i, package 18c LIBBY or DOLE. FLAT TIN CRUSHED PINEAPPLE ..... 16c WOLF CHILI—Big No. 2 can . . /. 51c SOAP, Fine Art Complexion . . . 2 for I5c CIGARETTES . . . \. . 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