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EDITORIALS
Page 2 . FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
No Pumpkins, Please
The Student Senate special investigat
ing committee appointed at Wednesday
evening’s meeting to investigate the cause
for many recent complaints against the
Campus Securtiy Office has possibilities
—possibilities to be a service or to be a
flop.
The committee has the opportunity to
do constructive good or either inadvertant
or purposeful harm.
The good would be their getting nearer
the truth than has yet been achieved. The
harm would be their entering into an in
vestigation unfairly prejudiced and allow
ing the evidence to merely substantiate pre
conceived notions.
Undoubtedly there are strong and valid
claims for any side of the affair one may
choose to take. And Truth can be found
in any argument.
However, Truth hovers in greater a-
bundance near one pole and that is what
Democracy In Berlin . . .
t
This United Press story from Berlin
does an excellent job of speaking for it
self.
(quote) BERLIN, Jan. 5 —(UP) Har-
nack House, a fashionable American offi
cers’ and civilians’ club in Berlin, Wed
nesday barred enlisted men as guests.
German girls are still accepted.
The decision came after a heated meet
ing Tuesday night in which an officer-led
faction out-voted the civilian group, 135
to 106.
One lieutenant colonel said he was
■perfectly willing to accept 90 per cent of
'The enlisted men — it was that other
10 per cent.
“There are 10 per cent of the enlisted
men,” he said, “who do not know how to
behave—we don’t want these enlisted bar
barians with officers and ladies.”
He said he would resign if enlisted
guests were admitted.
Civilian spokesmen urged that enlisted
men be admitted because it would be diffi-
The Passing Parade . ..
The following is a wire service descrip
tion of the surroundings during the presi
dent’s entry for his State of the Union
speech.
(quote) Mr. Truman, wearing an ox
ford gray suit and striped tie, was greet
ed by a standing ovation when he entered.
There was applause from time to time
throughout the speech.
But Southern Democrats— some of
whom had opposed his election—sat silent-
★ ★
This little inflation note comes from
the Prague.
(quote) Czechoslovakia opened a high
priced free market today to operate along
side its strictly rationed market. Typical
prices in the free market: Men’s ties at
the committee is seeking to find.
Certainly many people will participate
in the hearings, if they are to be fair and
representative. Certainly the information
will be compiled and made public.
To many of our students, this is not
just another committee. They will feel
justifiable resentment if the committee
fails to preform and produce some results.
This does not come in the form of a
challenge or threat to the committeemen,
but merely as a reminder:
A&M will be watching your actions.
A&M expects action.
And A&M will be severly critical
if the elected Senators on the commit
tee fail to preform the task they have
voluntarily assumed.
This is no Senate Un-Aggie Affairs
Committee. We do not want it to lay a
pumpkin.
cult to teach Germans democracy if social
prejudices were prominently displayed at
the club. .
After the vote, one civilian said he as
sumed Cl’s would still be allowed to attend
Catholic mass on Sundays and movies four
times a week in the club auditorium. An
irate officer replied, however, that the
vote definitely banned soldiers from step
ping inside the club, (end quote)
Locally, we’d like to say that A&M has
it’s two percent, but scarcely ever does
our “barbarian class” (as differentiated
from the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior
and Senior Classes) reach the ten percent
mark.
There are reams and reams of paper
we’d like to write on this little gem, but
we think the best thing we can offer the
Army, and particularly that nice Lieuten
ant Colonel, is five minutes of our most
eloquent silence.
Just don’t come too close, Colonel, this
silence cloud is radioactive.
ly as others applauded the president’s de
mand for passage of civil rights legisla
tion.
There was a notable absence of the us
ual Southern Rebel yells. (end quote)
We hope that the absence of Rebel
Yells will continue throughout this session
of congress. Maybe if our Rebels will quit
yelling and start thinking, they will even
tually have less to yell about.
★
$12, children’s overcoats at $58, women’s
underpants at $20 and a skirt at $78.
At first glance this sort of thing looks
pretty rugged, but have you ever been in
to some of the better Central Texas Men’s
Furnishing’s Stores?
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KENNETH BOND, TOM CARTER Co-Editors
Louis Morgan Associate Editor
Harvey Cherry, John Singletary Managing Editors
Clark Munroe Feature Editor
Mrs. Nancy Lytle Women’s Page Editor
Bill Billingsley Wire Editor
T. Nanney 1 Book Editor
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COAL CASH
Westinghouse Claims Coast To
Coast Telecasting Is Possible
By RENE J. CAPPON
BALTIMORE, Jan. 7 —<£>)—
Coast to Coast television using-
high flying airplanes now is pos
sible.
Westinghouse Electric Corpora
tion announced today it has solved
major technical problems linking
airplanes and television for great
er broadcasting range.
And, said Westinghouse, the air
borne method of telecasting is
“ready for commercial develop
ment.”
It issued a preliminary report
on the engineering phases of strat-
ovision, as the system is called, des
cribing it as a “practical and use
ful method of expanding television
and other high frequency communi
cation” such as static-free FM
broadcasting.
There are no longer, Westing
house announced, any “technical
restrictions whch will prevent the
use of stratovision broadcasting”
to provide:
1. A coast to coast television
and frequency modulation net
work.
2. Expanded TV coverage for
the “millions of rural listeners
who will be unable to receive
television programs for years,
if ever, with conventional tele
vision methods.”
3. A military communications
system independent of ground
conditions.
4. A network system for trans
mitting TV programs simultane
ously to audiences assembled in
theatres or other public places
throughout the country.
The Westinghouse report was
Equipment Arrives
To Expand College
Phone Exchange
Five hundred lines of dial equip
ment have been received for in
stallation in the College Station
telephone exchange, according to
M. C. Atkins, division manager of
the Southwestern States Telephone
Company.
This equipment along with 700
lines recently received for the Bry
an exchange will be installed with
in three or four months after Au
tomatic Electric Company install
ers arrive in Bryan, Atkins said.
Cable and other materials need
ed for outside expansion are ex
pected early in 1949. When this
material arrives the telephone com
pany will be able to catch up on
the large number of backed-up or
ders for telephone service in Bryan
and College Station, Atkins said.
based on three years of test flights
aimed at overcoming the" natural
limitation of television waves by
the earth’s curvature to about 30
miles on the ground.
Cooperating in the experiments
were Westinghouse and the Glenn
L. Martin Airplane Manufacturing
Company.
Westinghouse vice president
Walter Evans said a converted B-29
Superfortress used to relay tele
casts from a ground studio “show
ed successful reception reports
from televiewers in an area of
about 250 miles about the plane
circling at 25,000 feet.”
He said commercial development
of stratovision now awaits only
the “crystallization of public de
mand for the expanded service, the
application by the radio industry
to meet this demand, and the clari
fication of channel facilities avail
able to make possible this applica
tion.”
(Ebmk o
“God is our refuge and strength
a very present help in trouble”
Psalm 46:1.
There is trouble on every hand
for everybody everywhere: trouble
of all sorts, touching the lives of
every person that you know and
meet. Here in the Words of G'od,
we find the path of escape from
these troubles that face each of
us. God will be our strength as he
was the strength to David, to
Peter, to Paul. To receive the
strength of God in our lives, we
must do only one thing, and that
is “call on His name.”
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AGGIES ALWAYS WELCOME
Trampling Out The Vintage
Solution to Women Drivers,
Decorate Cars Distinctivly
By FRANK CUSHING
If a female instructor in New
York University has her way the
menace of the woman driver will
be a thing of the past. Obviously
after a period of heavy thought,
the lady conceived the idea of hav
ing “dainty colored” autos for all
females. That way, she figures,
women will receive a little more
common courtesy from male driv
ers.
As she sums up the situation,
“A man will tip his hat, offer a
woman a seat and other such
courtesies, but once on the high
way he becomes a prejudiced and
malicious steering tyrant.” Once
her scheme is placed into oper
ation, she believes things would
be much different.
All but color blind men ought to
Moise of Purina To
Interview Grads
A. W. Moise, representative of
Ralston Purina Company, will be
on the campus Wednesday and
Thursday to interview students
graduating in January. He is par
ticularly interested in agriculture
graduates for sales work and en
gineers for production trainee jobs.
There will be a general meeting
Wednesday at 4 p. m. in the YMCA
chapel. Interviews will be held
Thursday and appointments for
personal interviews may be made
at the Placement Office.
Students majoring in the follow
ing fields are qualified: Agricul
tural Economics, Poultry Husban
dry, Animal Husbandry, Dairy
Husbandry, Agricultural Educa
tion, Agronomy, Mechanical Engi
neering, Management Engineering,
and Agriculture Engineering.
INDONESIAN PRESIDENT
BEING HELD
BATAVIA, Java, Jan. 7 —(£>)—
A Batavia newspaper quoted offi
cial sources today as saying presi
dent Soekarno of the Indonesian
Republic is being held by the
Dutch government at Balikpapan,
Dutch Borneo, more than 700 miles
from his Java Capital of Jogjakar
ta.
second that motion in quick order.
After all, it would give the male
sex a fighting chance to get out of
the path of the distinctly painted
vehicles.
★
An Arizona State College stu
dent decided to get some facts on
people’s reactions. Being a psy
chology major, he is interested in
getting facts concerning human
behavior in given situations. For
those reasons he spent his Christ
mas vacation hitchhiking from
Phoenix, Arizona to Seattle, Wash
ington and back.
The costumes he chose for his
trek differed somewhat from the
usual. On his way to Seattle he
wore a complete Santa Claus
outfit. On his return journey he
was clothed only in a diaper, over
sized, and a silk top hat. He
informed people that he repre
sented “Baby 1949.”
His case record upon each ride-
giver should be interesting, to say
the least. One of the better and
printable comments was given by
a woman. The hardened one de
clared, “I’m not surprised by any
thing. My husband took a bubble
bath last night.” A disillusioning
event indeed.
★
Once again demonstrating how
to keep your family happy, a police
man in Belvidere, Illinois, arrested
his prospective brother-in-law. The
cop explained that “He had it
coming.” It seemed that after the
wedding rehearsal, the almost-
groom jumped in his car and drove
away from the rectory at “a high
rate of speed.”
The badge-wearer has seen his
duty all too often in his family’s
opinion. At various times he has
arrested his wife, his brother,
and an alderman, not to mention
the recently pinched brother-in-
law.
The judge had a more under
standing heart. He let off the of
fended one as a wedding present.
The police chief in Franklin, In
diana shares his garage with a
neighbor. The garage-splitter was
held under a charge of stealing
$500 in quarters from a local bank.
That wasn’t the only surprise
the chief received from his neigh
bor’s action. The fellow not only
confessed to the robbery but took
the law officers to the place
where he hid the loot. The officers
found half of the money in the
chief’s section of the garage where
the neighbor had hidden, it.
★
A gent in Patterson, New Jersey
told arresting police that he had
tried to go straight, but circum
stances were against him. The not
too honest individual claimed that
after serving his sentence for com
mitting 30 burglaries, he had re
solved to abide by the law.
Once outside the prison, he found
life dull. There was nothing to do,
he had no friends, the fellow re
lated. In desperation from his bor
ing existence he shined up his
trusty tools and returned to his
old safe-cracking trade.
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