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Will the issues
- When the (ireut. luauea cpuwe waa of
fered lust aprin^ \ye huilpd it an a great
step by A&M toward enligthtening. «tu-
denta on contemporary world affairs. Its
possibilities could be written into a list
an arm’s length; ■ h •'! .
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under of Aggit traditions
Think of w
hajij |a Great issues course
could do. Important speakers and priomi-
nent political figures could bp secured for
addresses. ' !iM
Great eventsOf the day could be ana
lyzed and their background studied.
Students would be fortified with a
little information op the history unfurling
as they watch and study it. ;
An appreciation' and interest could be
stimu ated that wpuld remain with the
student the remainder of hisl life.
There are many more “If s,” i“coulds”,
and “woulds.jiBut its DID’s are very few.
The promises- and possibilities of Great
Issues fired the Imagination of everyone
interested in world affairs. It would be a
great boon to A&M.
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[stage a weak timber was placed in the
•foundation, and the whole structure of
ile sump of the
r keys wPre| interesting and informative
rothprs were inferior caliber men.
i Great Issues became the great give-
L« , .iy i And interest and attendance drop-
to a low ebb. “Its a godd.course,’ stu-
r«inf»V» hours.
jaw,
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denis said, “a cinch three h
■have to do is go to class ev<
jjwhiie."
! If we did not think that Great Issues
■had possibilities which many would bene-
;fit by, we would leave it‘ like it is—dead.
But we would like to see such a course ef
fectively presented.
The time is now to weigh and consid-
: er the course next semester. Plans could
be made now which would profit from
last year’s mistakes. It is too good a thing
ito discontinue.
The Great Issues of today might easily
grow into the great wars of tomorrow.
The Local Rent Control Issue ..
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College students and employees who
are tenants in*Qrazbs County; will do well!
to attend the December 3 public hearing
which will probably determjine the fate
of rent control in this area jfor the next
year. 1 l
The hearing will be held in the Dis
trict Court Room, County Court House,
Bryan, at 7:80 p. m., Friday. The Bryan
Rent Advisory Board will largely base its
recommendations, concerning .rent con
trol, on the evidence presented at this
session.
- These recommendations of the board,
v . • ■ . . ■ 1 | I i ! f ' ■ * I r!
together with the evidence r|n which the
recommendation# are based, arc to be sent
to the national Housing Expediter in
Washington. Evidence presented to the
board must be factual, not general theor
ies, and for this reason anyone intending
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The Christmas ' scene hais been side-
lighted by p little! inter-state tiff over
whose tree is the largest.
Rockefeller cenljer proudly put up its
90-foot Christmas; tree today but dis
claimed any idea of competing with Cali-
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The tree went up in sunny, brisk wea
ther; the temperature was ! in the 40’s.
Hundreds of “sidewalk superintendents’
were on hand. Ice skaters spun around
the ring just below the gian(t tree, tallest
ever erected Here.
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New Mexico is dropping another of its
bi-lingual customs. After Jan. 1, legal
noticejrwill r^o longer have to bje published
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The Slate Supreme Cpurt tuday repeal
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lUstlon,
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Is nubllHhotl trl-wockly on Mondsy, Wodtin
AdvortUihir lutys funiUhojd on rsquiMt.
City of CoUvilio StHtlon, ToxUS, IS pu
Frldny uftonioou, oxoopt during hdtiduys and
billon '
y»«r.
The AsMociatod PronB is oUtliM oxcluidvBly
croditod to It or not otherwise credited In the
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All you
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to present information should have the
evidence in the correct form before at
tending the hetmng.,
Any requirements about form that are
not completely explained elspwhere in The
Battalion can be learned from the local
advisory board of which George E. Adams
is chairman.
Anyone wishing to testify either for or
[against continuation of the present con
trols will be heard.
| Certainly landlords who desire discon-
llinuMtion of the controls will be present.
|Aud if they present evidence which shows
ju need for the discontinuation, the board
jwill| no. doubt, recommend this action.
But any tenant who feels that present
[rents are sufficiently high to warrant
jfeddral controls to prevent increases in
them.should Leisure to attend.
Electric lights and ornaments as big
as basketballs were placed on the upper
part of the tree before it was raised with
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Two weeks ago little Redding, Calif.,
iilaughed at pretensions of hfew York and
;Los Angeles to the Christmas* tree cham-
■pionship. It said its 1948 tree would soar
[98 feet, topping Los Angeles’ entry by
■three feet. ' J. '
If it breaks into a national competition
jwe want to enter Fort Worth in the Mes
quite division and San Angelo in the open
,€actus sweepstakes.
led a requirement that court notices be
j published in Spanish in counties where a
.Spanish language newspaper is published.
| ’ Everyone we are sure, is happy to see
‘our language barriers melting away. Now
if only our national government would
follow suit and quit printing their income
[tax forms in Greek.
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The UsUallon, offlolfcl nuw*ni»p#r of tho AgrUwlliumlixnd Mochunio«l ColU'go of T«ixhn and the
of CoUogo Htstlon, TodiK, u gubllahisi flvio ilnio* » work mui clrouletod overy Monday through
ilnejtlen norlodH. During tho lummor Thv l»«t-
y uhd Friday. Suhacrlptlon ruto $4.U0 par aehool
n of all other natter
the uko for ropublieution of hII iiowh dinpiUches
l}ui|<ir ajjtd local nows of apontanoouit origin puhliah-
Vnein are also reaerved.
. Knitted w •iHtund.clww matter «t Ki,!,.
Offi,r at Caltate StnUun. Taxas,' unde;
the Act of ComiroM of Murch 3, 187(1.
placed
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By C. C ML’NROE
(Editor’s NoUHr-Always the first
the latcHt, The Battalion presents
an Aggie’s eye view of a presi
dential press conference which took
place last July 22.)
Battalion correapondcnts may
not be able, to get into Kyh- Field
or Guion Hall with Umr press
passim, but the ward* do turn the
trick beyond the borders of ]
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man, and of Margarri
The president, llriosi
gray suit, sat birhind!
Bnlsos f)„|)|(p,j |,y his militurj
secret sendee men.; - j
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The best examplo of this, perr
haps, was BgW] Sports Writer
Sack Spoede’k gate crashln| at thj ht ., u » p r e|.ident rrum
Olympics in England dur ng the thtfn j M |, (l f,| d tho ueW1
summer, but nanking prstty high tlenl<!H j ( on * t have *r
on the I st was the feat of Jimmie ciaI io ^ ()U but j ,
0 Connell, senior iciVil engineering in induv l
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his ROTC summer camp tour,
and while there acted as one of
the Batt’s roving correspondents
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Vfhnt do you
think of Die situation ib Berlin?"
I. “No cottunent.’
jj “What d<> you thiuk jbl- the pos
sibilities f(>r world peajife f'
To this
the priuiidcnr answered,
to send back stories on camp ac- thjnk .. ' „JlfcW,, f,.,., ’
tivities. However. O’Connell tohk ,] hty 4,0 K< f-! U * fmt ’
excellent.”
O'Conne
Dear Amplif er:
I have been a student at A&M
since 1938 and will soon complete
my five year course in business
udministratipp, but there is one
thing that I have been unable to
find put in my '< many years at
school. Since I have labored
through youi column week after
week, I feel that I am due for
some reward, so'ITl turn to you for
the answer to my problem.
What keeps Pfeuffer Hall from
falling, amPwhy?
Yours anxiously,
Austin Foster Ucffuefp
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Dear Reffuefp:
Yours is a tough question. Peo
ple who were attending A&M years
before your arrival were asking
the same 1 question, and it is rum
ored that we 1 over $150 thousand
dollars has been collected in bets
from people vho wager day after
day that "now i» the time, it can’t
stand any longer.”
However, ii keeping with this
column’s reputation for answering
the unanswerable, I have delved
into the hiMury of Pfeuffer for
the solution, didn’t find it there.
I asked architecture majors, phy
sics majoi h, math majors, and bull
majois, but gll tp no avail. Nobody
seemed to know. In desperation,
however, J turned to one source
which, inukt go unnamed. There I
discovered what MIGHT Ik- the
answer, j r ['j
.Many lung years ago, back in
1887 as mupy pconle should be
able to toll you, Pfeuffer wa-
built. At thi* lime of the initial
construction
ever, the cjn
of strange
proceedings,
lege was in
turmoM,
how?
a state
for it was
Perishable Foods
Short Course Will
Be Held on Campus
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The Loss ; Pravention in Perish
ables Short Course .is to be held
onj the' campus Dec. 13 through
December 17j Dr. Q. W. Adriance,
chairman, has announced. The
Snort Course] is sponsored by the
Horticulture, Plant Physiology and
Pathology Departments.
(Registration will be held in the
Sblisa Hal! Lounge and a fee of
$2j will he required of all regis-
trants. Meetings and discussion
groups will be held in the YMCA
and .Sbisa Mps Hall.
There is tp j he a banquet in Sbisa
Hall at 7.p. m., DeccmIter 14. The
price of.the tickets will be $2 and
will be obtainable at the registrar’s
desk.
An attendance of 50 persons is
estimated.
Radio {Stations To
Air Timm’s Talks
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Tyrus R, Timm, extension eco-
nOinjbt and j inOfeusor of agricul*
tural econojnjcH, and four other
niofoHNorji ii land grant colleges
nave made tranaeribod records
,wlh|rh will bil broadcast over 894
udio station* ttcroks the country,
DeLUXE CAFE
SERVES THE BEST
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in that year that the curricula
was extended to four years.
This was a blow that was keenly
felt by many students and the
natural reaction was one of dis
taste. In fact, there was so much
distaste around the campus be
cause of the action that some
“whipping boy” had to be found
and, again, as usual, (he student
body took their wraith out on the
mess hall food.
So great was the clamor raised
about the poor quality of the food
during that year of 1887 that a
hurried consultation was called by
the college officials and recom
mendations were heard for improv
ing the cadets* diet. Among the
recommendations was one calling
for a-change in the brand of flour
the college used in preparing its
baked goods. This was accepted,
along with some other proposals,
and several shipments of a new
improved flour were brought to
A&M.
This | left the mess hall author
ities wlith a largo amount of un
used flour on their hands and, to
make room for the new flour the
old was thrown out on the ground.
All thin occured during the
construction of Pfeuffer Hall.
Well, somehow the old flour was
mistaken for the sand which was
to have been delivered to the
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his duty to heart, and decided
that he would like to see what
a presidential press conference . , ;
was like. 9 es . k 5
Acting on his own Hook, O'Con
nell wrote a letter to presidential ,
secretary Charley Ross and re- L;
quested a pass, Boss, Who, like so
many others, looks at The Bat- | jrf
talion with a leery eye, wrote back , mt f 'fjf
spying that before the pass; could , y . A
be granted, O’CoJinell would have i ArM
to have his paper’s editor send a j JTj' 4
letter to Washington verifying h)S
status as a correspondent.:
After some huTried letter writ
ing from Befvoir, College Station
and Washington, the pass was re
ceived by O’Connell along with
instructions to be at the White
House July 22. The necessary af~
rangements for a pass were com
pleted ‘ through Captain R .C. O’
Hara, O’Connell’s platoon leader,
On the day of the conference,
O’Connell got a late start from
Belvoir and barely made the presi
dential mansion by the deadliiui.
He was in such a hurry that, ip
spite of the occasion, he had to
park beside a fijic plqg and take
his chances on~a ticket.
Two guards clOiQkefd his name
off at the first gate leading into j
the grounds of the president’s j
home. After walking up to the >
White House, O’Connell —
8;. ,*.1. ’j-t'.
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I was standing bn the
Opposite side of the; .pt^ident’s 1
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After more question)} alxjut the
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building contractors engaged in
cmiHtructing the new building,
and the builders just mixed it in
through the executive office door ’
off.
and again had
entered
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Paine checked
LAST PAfr
MGM RE-mstS the
GREAtEST “TARZAk” PHU!
with the other materials.
To make a long story short, that
noble edifice lluit leans so graue-
fully ip Tour different directions,
that architectural masterpiece is
no ordinary building. It is a living,
if teetering, monument to one of
the strangest errors ever made at
A&M, for the mortar which still
clings in spots to the side of Pfcuf-
fer Hall is not ordinary mortar,
but genuine “Brass Medal” mortar.
As any old time baker can tell
you, the slogan of. “Brass Medal
Flour” was “Anything You Bake
With Brass Medal Never Falls.”
And so, Reffuefp, that is one ex- *
planation why Pfeuffer - Hall still
stands today.
Gig ’em,
Amplifier
(Jliink of (Eljig
“I can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Philip. 4:13
There are many things that we
can not do in opr own strength.
However, when urtjted with Christ,
we can endure, achieve and accom
plish all things through the
strength that he gives us. This
should stimulate us to face life
unafraid. It is a promise that will
never fail the true and trusting
heart. The only requirement fof
receiving this': strength is to “Bev
lieve on the Lord Jesus.” (Read-
Philip. 4:10-16)
The purpose of these speuchus is
) omphuiiiKi 1 tpe imporbmev of
Having bomb to farm and ranch
families and! is bcjrig simnapiod by
the savinga ximU division of the
u. H. Truaspi 1 ; Daparlment.
Timm is w pipsenting tho Mouth
on these broadcMatu. whieh started
in M»vumbet! ami will finish up in
December.
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The first room i» which, he
stood was a Urge, all white'hall
way with a Urge prvaklvittUI
seal on the wail faring the door,
Several secret service men ques
tioned OTonpell while he was
standing there with about 35
regular White House correspon
dents who were also waiting for
the conference. Both .newspaper
and radio men were busy out
lining questions to ask President
Truman.
Secret service men ?then usherdll
O'Connell, together with 11 other;
correspondents who were not op
the regular White House staff, in
to an anteroom just outside the
President’s office! All around the
wall of the anteroom were dozens
of newspaper cartoons that were
decidedly “anti-Truman." Many bf
them were originals, givjtn to the {
President by the cartoonists. Also
on the wall was a mock degree
from the “Missouri College Of
Hunting and Fishing” which stit-
ted that “this special diploma is
hereby awarded to Harry 8. Tip?
man.” J { i; I r
A picture of the late President
Roosevelt and President Truman
hung beside the cartoons and the
diploma.
Aftpr a two miinpte wait, ail tile
regular White House correspond
ents filed through the room, down
another hallway, and into the
president's office. When the regu
lar newsmen had passed, O’Connoll
amj the othe!\ correspondents fol
lowed. Everybody had their names
checked again as they went into
the presidential [Office.
Thu office w a#Very large with
pine paneled walls, A United
States flag and thexpresidential
flag flanked the .j<U«K? A huge
picture of Roosevelt hung on the
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