NEWS
In Brief
RICE “THRESHER” STILL
HAVING RACE PROBLEMS
HOUSTON, Jan. 21 —UP)— The
student newspaper at Rice Insti
tute here suggests editorially that
the question of admitting Negro
students should be discussed—pri
vately.
Nearly the entire editorial page
of the newspaper, the Thresher,
was devoted to the question of race
relations.
One lengthy editorial urged pri
vate discussion of admitting Ne
groes rather than the circulation of
a petition. The editorial said such
a petition was being talked about
on the campus. Student sources
said, however, that no such peti
tion is being circulated.
SOUTHWESTERN STUDENTS
GETS UNSCHEDULED BREAK
GEORGETOWN, Tex., Jan. 21—
(A 1 )—.An unscheduled recess was in
effect at Southwestern University
today as a result of a fire which
destroyed the power plant at Laura
Kuykendall Hall, a women’s dormi
tory, Wednesday.
All but January seniors were
sent home until Monday. Final ex
ams were postponed until Jan. 31
and the opening of the spring se
mester was delayed until Feb. 3.
The building housing the power
plant was a complete loss but
some of the equipment may be
salvaged.
GODBEY ADMITS KILLING
OKLAHOMA CITY LAWYER
EL PASO, Jan. 21 —(A 5 )— Au
thorities in this border city have
announced that mild-appearing Roy
Frank Godbey has confessed the
vengeance killing of an Oklahoma
City lawyer who once sent him to
prison.
The announcement was made
jointly late Thursday acting Chief
of Police J. W. Fitzgerald and FBI
Special Agent D. K. Brown.
The slightly-stooped 52-year-old
prisoner signed a statement that
he shot and killed Earl Pruet on
Jan. 11 in an Oklahoma City sky
scraper office, the announcement
said.
Godbey’s full statement was not
released. He told newsmen, how
ever, that he threw the gun used
in the shooting out of a bus window
when he left Oklahoma City after
the slaying.
Pruet was prosecutor when God
bey was tried and convicted at
Waurika, Okla., for a $9 holdup
at nearby Jefferson. Sentenced to
35 years, Godbey was released last
November 12 with time off for
good behavior.
Until the surprise confession an
nouncement, Godbey had denied he
killed Pruet but declared he should
have poisoned a town’s water sup
ply (apparently Waurika’s) and
otherwise avenged himself for a
“framed” robbery conviction.
Tired and travel-weary, G'odbey
was arrested here early Wednes
day by two rookie policemen who
recognized him from photographs.
Oklahoma officers were expected
to arrive yesterday to take Godbey
back to Oklahoma. He was waived
extradition.
NAVY TESTS NEW
PLANE IN DALLAS
DALLAS, Jan. 21 —(A>)_ The
Navy’s newest jet fighter, an odd
ly-built plane named XF7U-1, will
undergo exhaustive flight tests
here.
Otherwise known as the cutlass,
the sleek craft alighted at Hensley
Field here yesterday after its first
cross-country flights — from the
Patuxent River, Md., Naval Air
Test Centex’.
Built by Chance Vought, the
plane has wings which ai’e swept
back to the tail, eliminating the us
ual tail assembly. The two vertical
rudders are built into the wing’s
trailing edge.
SEARCH CONTINUES
FOR DOWNED FLIERS
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 21 —<A>)_
Searching air and surface vessels
concentrated on a spot some 300
miles southwest of Bermuda today
in a renewed effort to locate sur-
vivoi’S of a lost British South
American Airways plane with 20
persons aboard.
The Coast Guard received re
ports of two lights which might
have come fi’om survivoi’s of the
plane, missing since Monday on a
flight from Bermuda to Kingston
Jamaica.
CAR PRODUCTION STILL UP
DETROIT, Jan. 21 —(£>)—Motor
vehicle pi’oduction in the United
States this week will total 109,925
units, Automotive News estimated
today.
The trade paper said the factor
ies will make 82,137 cars and 27,-
788 trucks. Last week they made
an estmated 68,421 cars and 27,084
trucks.
Battalion
Volume 48
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949
Number 113
Moffett Introduces
A&M-Junction Bill
Directors Accept Land in 1946
College Plans Full Summer Program
A bill to authorize A&M to establish a research unit at
Junction in Kimble County, Texas was re-introduced into
the Texas Legislature by George C. Moffett, Tuesday.
Preliminary work was done on the project in September
1947, and the A&M Board (^f Directors accepted a gift of
land for the project at that time.
Architects
Design New
Courthouse
By KENNETH MARAK
At one time or another most
people have made the remark,
“What Bryan needs is a new court
house!” But until this time that’s
all it has remained—just a re
mark in the minds of passers-by
and a dream in the minds of con-
cientious city fathers.
However, to A&M’s fourth year
architectural students, Brazos
County’s new courthouse is no
longer a dream—they have their
ideas down on paper and even in
model form.
Under the direction of Professor
John Rowlett, the students have
spent several months on research,
consultation with Bryan officials,
preliminary plans and sketches,
and model making. They have
turned out a display of 38 differ
ent designs, complete with plans
and scale models depicting their
ideas as to how Brazos County’s
new seat of government should
look.
These designs are displayed on
the fourth floor of the Academic
Building and the public has been
invited by Rowlett to attend the
showing from now until Febru
ary 1.
These designs embody the con-
temporary way of thinking and
the cities continuing change in so
cial and governmental character.
Space is shai’ed between functions;
furniture is cagily built in; above
all, even larger areas of glass are
used to extend offices into nature's
outdoors.
Partitions are used lightly, as
shields rather than breaks in
the flow of space. Design ideas
are expressed frankly, not hidden
behind massive half-timber and
tons of concrete. Space is modu
lated into judicial, county admin
istration and public service areas
each containing sufficient char
acter to stimulate growing civic
pride.
The plot plan, with its ample
and convenient parking areas for
both employees and the public, is
zoned for business and for quiet
recreation flanking the main
stnxctui’e.
Tan Beta Pi Needs
Student Addresses
All members of Tau Beta Pi who
graduate at the end of the current
senjester should leave their fox’-
warding addresses in Dean H. W.
Barlow’s office, Barlow announced
today.
This is necessary, Barlow said,
in order that the graduating mem
bers may continue to X’eceive “The
Bent,” magazine of the national
Tau Beta Pi organization.
The bill was first introduced in the
50th Legislature and was passed
by the Senate, but it was caught in
the last minute jam in the House
of Representatives.
The late Weaver H. Baker of
Junction offered a 411-acre tract
of land situated on the South Llano
River, adjacent to Junction to
A&M in 1946. The property, ac
cording to reports, is valued at
more than fifty thousand dollars.
Planned Summer Courses
The Board accepted the land
with the purpose of developing it
into an adjunct of the college for
use in summer practice courses,
including orientation training for
entering freshmen. Research in ag
riculture through the Ag Expei’i-
ment Station, surveying, geology,
hydraulics, and agi-onomy were
listed as possible coui’ses to be
taught at this summer camp if the
bill is passed.
The Llano River at this point has
a minimum flow of 40 cubic feet
of spring water per second, accord
ing to a survey of the property.
The pi’operty has some rough tei’-
rain, bearing pecan trees, and a
horticultural farm. The land has
one and one-half miles of frontage
on the river.
Main Provisions
Main points of the bill befox-e
the Senate include the provisions
that no undergraduate courses for
college credit would be conducted
at the adjunct between October 1
and June 1 of any year.
The bill further stipulates that
not more than $200,000 may be
spent for buildings and improve
ments without specific authoi’iza-
tion by the Legislature.
Four New Courses
Offered Engineers
For Spring Term
The School of Engineering will
offer three new coui’ses for the
spring semester, H. W. Barlow,
Dean of Engineering, announced
today.
The new courses will be I. E. 306
E. D. 402, and Ch.E. 445.
I. E. 306 will cover industrial
accident prevention and will con
sist of an analysis of the funda
mentals of accident prevention and
their application to industrial su
pervision and management.
E. D. 402 will treat advanced
graphics and recent developments
in engineering drawing. A review
of recent research in graphics,
nomography, and related fields
will be included.
Ch.E. 445 will consist of advan
ced problems in chemical engi-
neex-ing. Special problems will be
assigned to individual students or
groups. The work may cover the
numerous problems in chemical en
gineering processes, and it will
consist of either laboi’atory work
or conference and discussion, Bar-
low added.
Proofreaders Are
Writers 9 Thorns
WEATHER
East Texas —
Cloudy, occasion
al rain except ex
treme northwest
portion this aft
ernoon and to
night. Warmer
east and south,
colder upper Red
River Valley to
night. Saturday
cloudy with occa
sional rain in
east portion.
Moderate north-
‘east winds on the coast becoming
east to southeast Saturday.
West Texas—Mostly cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Saturday.
Rain in Del Rio-Eagle Pass area
this afternoon. Warmer Panhan
dle and South Plains Saturday*
By CHECK MAISEL
Can you speak the English lan
guage so that your friends under
stand you? Do you own a trusty
copy of Webster? Do you have a
knack for changing one word in a
sentence and thex-eby changing the
entire meaning the writer wished
to convey?
You kin? Then, my friend, you
too can be a proofreader. A
proofreader is a very scholary
person possessing a red pencil
and a perverted sense of humor.
He can not tolerate the subject
of sax (misspelled here to fool
the guy proofing this copy) or
anything remotely related to sax.
And how them there pi’oofread-
ers do talk. They git in such a habit
of seeing bad spelled words and
poorly English that they git to
talking that way too.
Printers also cause the scanners
of the galley meny pains and grey
hairs. These lads delight in trans
posing lines of type or thi’owing
in whole new lines that aren’t
connected with the story at all.
they do this becus they want to
see if the proofreader’s are on the
ball.
I think this is the really rea
son proofreaders don’t make
since when they talk. They git
so fusterated by Coach Karow
has not yet announced the lineup
for Friday them printers that
they take it all out on we poor
writers, night’s tilt, but Jenkins,
Schrickel, DeWitt,
Proofreaders have a word they
like to throw around quite a bit.
They call it clee-shay. ever time
one of us reporters think up a
good original frase, Kirkland and
Tui’nbow will probably go to the
post for the Farmers, they hollow
this word—cleeshay—and throw it
out.
However, don’t think all proof
readers are heals. Some of them
are nice fuys and don’t hollow clee
shay ever time you say “ace-in-the
hole” or “call a spade a spade.”
Some of them even don’t mind sax.
This last groups don’t last vury
long becuz they are At the Okla
homa city tournament the Bears
turned back the Longhorns soon
transcferred to the Feature De
partment.
The gineral run of them is mean
stopid and prejudise .they are per-
fesional fault finders and don’t
fit in with a normal soceity like
the Feature Troops are in.
(Proofreader’s Note: This
young reported has offended my
colleagues by insidious remarks
casting asperation on the ulti
mate decency of our actions. As
a form of chastisment, I am
going fail to give this story my
astute proofing thereby showing
you the position the college news
paper would be in were it not for
those loyal, glory lacking geniu
ses like myself.)
Trace Of Weed Killer
Damages Cotton-Ergle
^ — J . 'Two Day 2,4-D Short Course Closes;
Sociology ZUo v ar i ous Applications Are Discussed
To Analyze War
And Revolution
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General H. K. Berry
Gives Commissions
By TOM CARTER
“You represent the ideal of
young manhood,” General K. L.
Berry, Adjutant General of the
State of Texas, told the 100 cadets
who received their reserve offi
cer commissions last night.
He told the new officers that
they had not wasted their time in
taking the ROTC training and urg
ed them to join the National Guard
as soon as they had completed
their tour of active duty.
President F. C. Bolton gave the
initial address of the evening in
which he said that “the men of
A&M worked to develop their coun-
try in time of peace and defended
it in time of war.”
In continuing, he referred to the
new officers as “citizen-soldiers”
and told them that the former men
of A&M had set an example for
them to follow and that they, the
new officers, should carry the torch
just a little higher than those be-
foi’e them.
He also said that while in the
Army they should keep in touch
with their civilian occupation and
after returning to civilian life they
should keep up their military woi’k.
Colonel H. L. Boatner, PMS&T
and commandant, left the cadets
one thought, “always do a job
better than the man who gave it
Housing,
Bryan Area Needs
Rental
Says Rent Director
Among this community’s New
Year resolutions should be one re
solving that more rental housing
be consti’ucted during 1949, Gordon
L. Benningfield, Area Rent Direc
tor today pointed out adding that
emergency rent control, as a feder
al law, is now going into its fourth
post-war calendar year.
“The Bryan Area Rent Office
continues to serve the area only
because of the continued shortage
of rental housing,” said the rent
official.
“Had congress not recognized
this as a continuing post-war em-
ei’gency condition, rent control of
fices would not now be existing.
Our continuation of service de
pends on how quickly the shortage
is ovei’come.”
Benningfield pointed out that the
pi’esent rent law has three months
more to run, through March 31,
1949, and that the new congress
will undoubtedly consider an ex
tension, since Housing Expeditor,
Tighe E .Woods, has I’ecommended
a strengthened law.
The local rent official said he
joins in a recent statement by
Woods, who said:
“I am familiar with the rent act
and the regulations under it. And
I know for a fact that under the
act and under our regulations, a
landlord has only himself to blame
if he is losing money, or if he is
not making as much money now
as he made before rent control
went into effect. Our adjustment
provisions take care of both.”
Benningfield added that for fair
ness to both tenants and landloi’ds
the expediter has recommended
coiTection in weaknesses of the
present law.
to you expected it to be done.”
Following these talks, Lt. Col.
William McElhenny, Executive Of
ficer of the Military Department,
swore in the cadets with the oath
of office.
After the presentation of com
missions by General Beriy each
officer had his new bars placed on
his shoulder by a guest or a fellow
cadet.
As the new reserve officers
stepped out of Guion Hall they
were confronted by large groups
of lower classmen waiting to salute
them and receive one dollar bills.
The custom is for each new officer
to give a dollar bill to the first
pei’son who salutes him. Several
cadets made five or ten dollars
this way.
Analysis and cause of war
and revolution will make up
more than half of the course
in Rural Sociology 206 to be
offered next semester, accord
ing to Dr. Melvin S. Brooks
of the Department of Agri
cultural Economics and Rural
Sociology.
Dr. Brooks, who will teach the
course, says American foreign
policy, past and present, will be
studied, with a view to its affect
upon world events. Factors behind
the rise of Communism in Russia
and the development of Fascism
in Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s
Italy will be noted.
Other parts of the course will
pi’obably deal with the Spanish
Civil War, the present situation in
China, and the Arah-Jewish squab
ble in Palestine, Brooks said. The
course is designed to help students
understand the causes behind cur
rent events in the world today.
Student participation in discus
sion of the issues presented will
be invited, Brooks said.
Rural Sociology 206, entitled
“Principles of Sociology,” will be
offered next semester on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday at 10 a. m.
No prerequisite is; required for the
course. i
Borneo And Juliet 9 Slated
For Guion Hall February 7<
A&M AAUP Group
Meets Thursday
The next meeting of the A&M
Chapter of AAUP will be held
Thui’sday, January 27, at 7 p. m.
in the YMCA Cabinet Room.
A repoi’t will be given on the
Austin meeting of the Executive
Committee of the College Class
Room Teachers Association. Dis
cussion and action desii’ed on this
matter will follow.
The meeting will begin at 7 p. m.
in order to leave the bulk of the
evening free for activities.
The meeting will conclude with
a brief report concerning the pro
gram for this year’s meetings.
By HANK BUNJES
“Romeo and Juliet,” one of
Shakespeare’s most popular plays
comes to Guion Hall next month
for a one night stand February 7.
The play is directed by Clare Tree
Major of the New Yox-k Classic
Theatre and will be staged at 8
p. m.
Admission price to the play will
be 50^ for students and $1 to oth
ers, C. G. White, director of Stu
dent Activities, announced.
According to publicity put out
by the Classic Theatre, unnatural
spouting of lines and bizarre tricks
of staging which have come to be
known as “Shakespearean tradi
tion” were robbing the plays of
their vitality and causing them to
lose their appeal as popular stage
entertainment.
Clare Tree Major, whose inter
national reputation as a director
of children’s plays and as an au
thority on Shakespeare cannot be
opposed, has injected some new
blood into “Romeo and Juliet” to
put it back into the public fancy.
Audiences all over the nation
ai’e in agreement with Mrs. Major’s
viewpoint that Shakespeare is
sound entertainment. The Classic
company’s productions are now in
its fourth consecutive coast-to-
coast tour.
To date “Romeo and Juliet” is
running along on about the same
par as other great Shakespearean
plays such as “Hamlet,” “Henry
Georgia Minister
Will Be Speaker
Rev. Charles A. Jackson, pastor
of the First Methodist Churchy
Statesboro, Georgia, will he the
Methodist speaker during Religious
Emphasis Week, Febx’uary 14-18.
Rev. Jackson received his B. D.
Degree from the Union Theological
Seminary, New York City. He is
a Fellow of the Yale School on
Alcoholic Studies, and was one of
the speakers at the Emory Uni
versity Religious Emphasis Week
last yeai’.
Rev. Charles A. Jackson is the
brother of Rev. James F. Jackson,
pi’esent pastor of the A&M Metho
dist Church.
During Religious Emphasis
Week, Rev. Jackson will speak
each night at the Methodist
Church. An invitation is extended
to everyone to attend services.
MONDAY BATTALION IS
LAST FOR SEMESTER
The Monday issue of The
Battalion is the last paper to
be published this semester.
Publication will be resumed
February 1.
Anyone desiring to turn in
news items is requested to do
so by noon Saturday.
V,” and “Macbeth,” which have be
come screen hits.
Featured in the play is Miss
Olga Balish in the role of Juliet.
Miss Balish favored audiences in
the past with her portrayal of
Portia in the “Merchant of Ven
ice” when that play ran in New
York.
The star is a graduate of the
National Academy of Dramatic
Art, which is conducted by Mrs.
Major.
The production is not a Town
Hall performance.
Farm Work Stock
Disappearing
Ag Engineer Says
The horse and mule, as far as
farming is concerned, have disap
peared in 40 of Texas’ 254 count
ies, accoi’ding to H. P. Smith, agri
cultural engineer of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
With the exception of some hand
hoeing and hand harvesting of cot
ton, crop production in these 40
counties is mechanized completely.
Thirty counties, Smith said after
a survey, use less than 25 horses
or mules, and in another 35 coun
ties, less than 100 horses or mules
are used.
Tractor power is used almost ex
clusively in the production of all
crops in a block of 77 Northwest
Texas counties.
Smith’s survey showed that East
Texans still use a great deal of
animal power. He attributed this
to the fact that the farms there
frequently are smaller than those
in West Texas. Some East Texas
counties use as many as 6,000 head
of mules or horses, Smith reported.
Revised Course In
Physics Offered
A new revised version of the
survey physics course, Physics 211
will be offered to liberal arts stu
dents during the spring semester,
according to Dr. J. G. Potter, head
of the Physics Department.
This course, which has not been
taught in several years, is offered
to meet the requirements of stu
dents who need two semesters of
science chosen from geology, chem
istry, and physics, Potter said.
Potter stated that the revision
of the course included a de-empha-
sis on the solution of physical
problems, and that the laboratory
period would be used largely for
demonstrations in which the stu
dents would participate rather
than for exercises to be completed
by individual students.
The course will be taught by P.
W. Barker during the coming se
mester, Potter said.
By CURLEY PUCKITT
“Experiments with the renown weed killer, 2,4-D, indi
cate that even extremely small amounts damage cotton
plants,” D. R. Ergle, A&M College chemist, explained at the
two-day short course in 2,4-D which ends today.
The short course, which was sponsored by the Plant
■f Physiology and Pathology Depart
ment, was held for the purpose of
presenting the latest developments
in the application and use of 2,4-D.
“2,4-D is now the most widely
used weed killing chemical in the
United States,” said Dr. L. S.
Evans, agronomist of the USD A
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils
and Agricultural Engineering, of
Beltsville, Md.
Kiwanis Prexy
Announces Men To
Head Committees
Committee chairmen and mem
bers for 1949 have been announced
by Dr. Ralph Steen, president, Col
lege Station Kiwanis Club. Presi
dent Steen called upon all chair
men and members to meet fre
quently and “be active throughout
the year.”
Bob Cherry is chairman of the
Attendance committee; J. H. Sou
thern, chairman, Bulletin; Achieve
ments Reports, Joe Sorrels, chair
man; Sid Loveless, W. N. Colson
and J. H. Quisenberry; Church
Support, Jimmie Jackson, chair
man; W. H. Badgett and J. G.
Gay.
Crippled Children, Dan Russell,
chairman; J. S. Mogford, C. K.
Hancock and A. M. Whitis; Fin
ance, J. M. Ward, chairman, D. B.
Gofer, N. D. Durst, L. D. Smith,
Harold Sullivan and M. N. Will
iamson; Kiwanis Education, Paul
Ballance, chairman, H. A. filler,
E. G. Smith and Clyde Rainwater;
Transportation, A. R. Orr, chair
man, W. G. Mead and A. D. Hen
son.
Vocational Guidance, W. A. Var-
vel, chairman, E. L. Williams, W.
E. Briles, R. H. Hughes and L. E.
Stark; Boys and Girls, C. W. Man
ning, chairman, Ralph Rogers, C.
A. Bonnen, G. A. DeWare, Charles
LaMotte, V. P. Robinson, E. E.
Ivy and John Longley; Conserva
tion-Resources, J. C. Gaines, chair
man, F. L. Thomas and L. N. Flan
agan.
Education, C. B. Campbell, chair
man, R. M. Wingren, G. B. Wil
cox and J. R. Couch; House-Re
ception, W. E. Wright, chairman,
L. L. Gandi and W. G. Breezeale;
Membership-Classification, R. L.
Elkins, chairman; E. L. Angell, R.
L. Peurifoy, R. L. Hunt, H. E.
Burgess and W. F. Adams; Under-
priviledged, M. D. Darrow, chair
man, W. M. Potts, H. W. Hooker,
and R. E. Snuggs; Business and
Civic Development, J. R. Oden,
chairman, J. C. Culpepper, R. L.
Brown, J. Hornak, E. E. Lang
ford, S. A. Lipscomb, Gibb Gil
christ and G. F. Sousares.
Entertainment-Recreation, J. B.
Coon, chairman, W. L. Maples, W.
H. Dawson and Marty Karow; In-
ter-Club, C. N. Smith, chairman,
E. B. Reynolds and H. Krauser;
Program, Otis Miller, chairman,
W. M. Turner, R. D. Lewis, Lloyd
Berrymen and J. B. McGurie; Pub
lic Relations-Publicity, Phil Goode,
chairman, R. D. Halpin and Eugene
Rush.
Causes Serious Disturbances
“2,4-D is not a poison in the or
dinary sense, but a hormone-like
material that causes serious dis
turbances in plants. These growth
regulating substances cause mark
ed changes in the plant’s form and
function, even from minute quan
tities,” Evans continued.
O. K. Hedden, Agricultural En
gineer of the USD A Agricultural
Engineering Laboratory, spoke on
airplane spray drift tests. Slides
of charts were shown showing cov
erage by different types and ar
rangements of nozzles used in air
plane spraying.
Edgar C. Tullis, plant patholo
gist for the USD A at Beaumont,
gave statistical information con
cerning the lateral drift of 2,4-D
when the weed killer is released
from planes.
Conflict Between Farmers
D. D. Clinton, county agricul
tural agent of Harris County, spoke
on his experience in a county where
there was a conflict between rice
farmers using 2,4-D to kill weeds,
and other farmers who were grow
ing cotton. The 2,4-D was killing
the weeds, but at the same time
was cutting down the production
of cotton. In a very humorous
manner, Clinton related his exper
iences as county agent serving
farmers of conflicting interests,
which demanded considerable a-
mount of tact and resourcefulness.
Clinton, however, believes that
most of the damage came about as
a result of carelessness and ignor
ance. Nevertheless, the cotton farm
ers have been hurt sei’iously. “You
can’t afford to be careless with
2,4-D,” Clinton said.
“The Cotton Industry’s Interest
in the use of 2,4-D” was the sub
ject of a talk by Claude L. Welch,
Director, Division of Pi’oduction
and Marketing, National Cotton
Council of America, Memphis, Ten
nessee.
Cotton Industry Interested
“The cotton industry’s primary
interest in 2,4-D and other her
bicides is three-fold,” said Clinton.
“First, the use of chemicals to
control weeds and grasses in cot
ton. Second, the use of 2,4-D in
crops in such >a manner whereby
it will not damage cotton and other
sensitive crops. Third, to vigor
ously support research and educa
tional programs designed to de
velop the fullest potential of 2,4-D
and other herbicides in southern
agriculture.”
Seek Exemptions,
But Not From Draft
By GEORGE CHARLTON
Mac, what’s the good word for
the day?
Why, natch, it’s exemptions.
Once again that dreaded time of
the year, exam time, has slipped
up on us—and here we are caught
with our pants, notes, assignments
and grades down.
Professors hurry around halls
from classes, once underpopulated,
now capacity crammed, to offices
and desks littered with last minute
calculations, exemption lists, exam
questions, and ungraded papers.
Adding machines have been sug
gested as a means to an end for
the more public-accountant-like of
fices.
Arithmetic Highly Contested
Arithmetic seems to be one of the
more contested subjects of the day.
Students, professors, and paper
graders in many cases come up
with different calculations for se
mester averages up to exam time,
and mathematical misunderstand
ings are the result. Two-thirds of
a point has never been more con
tested or calculated.
Students also are aware of the
impending storm, and fair to cloudy
results are predicted by parents,
professors, and friends of the fam-
ly. Calculus, physics and chem
istry, rest assured, are responsible
for a great percentage of this cur
ricular anguish.
Outguessing the professor’s in
genuity is one of the students most
powerful weapons of study. The
student should try to use his per
spective to realize what has come
before will come again, but the
question is “in what doses?”
“How To Win Friends and In
fluence People” is now being read
by fish and seniors alike in the
hope that basic information ac
quired from this book could be ap
plicable to professors. Professor’s
offices are crowded with one-time
wayward students now thoroughly
repentant. Professors are at the
height of their glory with such
courteous treatment from students.
Secretaries Share Problem
This time of the semester is
the testing ground, the obstacle
course, for professors’ secretaries.
Their work is doubled as new lists,
exemption lists, announcements,
letters, and examination questions
have to be typed out.
But of course, the most hard-hit
personage on the campus is the un-
conscientious, average student who
finds himself among a confusion
of notes and a profusion of un
learned facts.
Exemptions in most courses are
out now, so there is really nothing
left to do except get down on those
books, try those old mental powers,
and pray for a passing grade.