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Battalion EDITORIALS Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949 "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions Glad to Have You With There is no personal welcoming service at A&M to extend to every new student the - handshake and welcome to our cam pus. It is through this sincere, but ad mittedly, impersonal medium that our welcome is extended. ■ •-'Whether you are a junior college trans feree, a veteran just out of the service, or a new college student you will find your selection of colleges just about what you make it. ^—A&M is a friendly school if you are friendly and want to help keep it that way. Most everybody here says “howdy” when they pass someone on the way to class or enrotue to the post office. Most every body introduces himself when he sits next to you in class or in a booth or at the chow table. Most everybody will be friendly and helpful in giving directions and giving you the word on certain courses. What This Country Needs It’s not a good five cent cigar that America needs, it’s a good thousand dol lar automobile. Prices of the so-called low priced cars have increased into price fields usually reserved for big cars. True, the comforts, size, and mechani cal advantages of the low priced automo biles equal, or surpass those of big cars manufactured in the thirties. But the void left in the thousand-to-fifteen-hundred dollar bracket has not, and seemingly, will hot be filled- ! English and French models could be gold for a thousand dollars but import taxes boost their selling prices to within two or three hundred dollars of our fif teen hundred-dollar plus low priced cars. Importation, however, is not the logical solution to the low priced car problem. The solution would be in American industry The Passing Parade . .. : Here are some kind words spoken re cently in Houston. Texas, no longer a pioneer outpost is developing cultural and artistic life in pace with material riches, Dr. Radoslav A. Tsanoff, head of the philosophy de partment of Rice Institute, told the philo sophical society of Texas tonight. Dr. Tsanoff spoke on “The Creative Arts in Texas.” “The astonishing economic and indus trial advance of Texas has engaged the Interest of eastern journalists,” said Dr. Tsanoff. “But their offhand dismissal of Culture prompts us to analyze our situa tion in strict and severe justice.” ; In Texas the progress of the creative arts was traced in many fields. Among them the speaker cited numer ous-schools now devoting attention to the creative impulses of students in music, the drama, painting and sculpture, aesthetics and criticism. An example in choral music is the North Texas State Teachers’ College at Denton, where Texas boys and girls sing masterpieces. This group has appeared Us . . . A&M is an unfriendly school if you judge the student body by the greater- than-two-percent who are not so friendly. By the greater-than-two-percent we mean those who do not say “howdy” when you pass, who don’t introduce themselves, or who grudgingly give directions. You see, we have all types of people here. We have pur cranks like anywhere else, only here they seem more radical. But the cranks are relatively few. A lot of the people who don’t say “howdy”, or introduce themselves aren’t what we’d call cranks. They are just neg ligent, and not thinking of the traditions they are murdering. We think you will like it here. There is something about A&M that grows on you. And once an Aggie, always an Aggie. Good luck, and good grade-pointing. • O • producing automobiles priced in the neigh borhood of a thousand dollars for home markets. American automobile manufacturers now design and produce cheap little cars for foreign markets where selling prices and gasoline efficiency are primary con siderations. These smaller and more eco nomical automobiles do not reach our home market where undoubtedly there would be a large demand. Rather, larger, higher priced cars getting half the gaso line mileage of the little cars are the only ones made available. Instead of pointing toward, and pro ducing for, this thousand dollar market, automobile producers plan bigger and more expensive cars for the future. Too many Americans are finding them selves priced out of buying a new car. The automobile has returned to its early status of being a luxury rather than a necessity. with the Houston and Dallas orchestras. Three Texas symphony orchestras, Tsanoff said, have risen above mere re gional interest and are reaching high ar tistic rank. In drama the record of achievement is not so striking, but decentralization from the East has started. Texas playwrights can have their work performed at home. Museums and libraries have been de veloped. One of the notable American col lections of English literature is at Aus tin. The school of fine arts at the Univer sity of Texas has made great progress. San Antonio, Houston and Dallas cooper ate to show the works of Texas artists. The distinguished work of the Texas folklore society under the long leadership of J. Frank Dobie was mentioned. We know this will come as a distinct shock to a minor element in our school, but nevertheless, there it is. If these “anti culture” lads aren’t too shocked by the as sociation of that word with our state, they might get their forces marshalled in time to hoot at the next performer that donates his services to Guion Hall. 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News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. KENNETH BOND, TOM CARTER Louis Morgan Associate Editor Bill Billingsley — Wire Editor Harvey Cherry, Art Howard, Otto Kunze, John Singletary Managing Editors Chuck Cabaniss, Charles Kirkham, Mack Nolen Editorial Assistants Kin j] Bnnies. A. C. Gollob, R. C. Kolbyc, Henry Lacour, Carley Puckitt, Clayton Selph, Marvin Brown Staff Reporters Joe Trevino, Hardy Ross Photo Engravers .Co-Editora Clark Munroe Feature Editor Dave Coslett, Frank Cushing, George Charlton, Buddy Luce, Chuck Maisel, H. C. Michalak, Marvin Rice, Carroll Trail Feature Writers Bob "Sack” Spocde, Bill Potts Sports Editors Leon Somer, Frank Simmen, Andy Matula Sports Writers Mrs. Nancy Lytle Women’s Page Editor Alfred Johnston : Religious Editor Andy Davis Movie Editor Kenneth Marak, Sam Lanford, R. Morales, Frank Welch, C. W. Jennings Staff Cartoonists FROZEN Letters To The Editor • RIDICULOUS SECURITY Editor, The Battalion: Down through the years, I have yet to see much accomplished through this column, but be that as it may, I am still burned up. The main purpose in mind is to call attention of my grievances to the Student Senate Committee in vestigating the Campus Security Office. Now, I realize that this office has certain duties it must perform. I do not question the authority to distribute their parking tickets. I do not question their determination as to what is “off limits” to stu dent cars. But I do mind some body else taking the rap for me. It seems that I borrowed a car from a very good friend of mine. I had some business to attend to and I also wanted to take my wife to Guion Hall to see the Olympic movie. I noticed that what ap peared to be a student cars park ing lot behind H^rt Hall, so I left the buggy there and the wife and I enjoyed the movie. On returning to the car, I find that I haven’t been parking be hind Hart Hall at all, but at the Southeast corner of the C. E. Building, according to the ticket I found on the window. I wasn’t particularly disturbed. 0. K., I had made a mistake, so I pay for it. I dash across to Good win Hall and the Securities Office and ask that this violation of the rules be stricken from the record of my friend and that I be fined or whatever they do to parking viola tors. The secretary informs me, after finding out that I have no car of my own, that my buddy is out of luck. Still restraining myself, I re- of ®f)tg “God gave the increase,” 1 Cor. 3:6b. Many Aggies have come to A&M to study agriculture. They will go back home with greatly enlarged learning on the subject. They will know about the seed to plant, and the type of cultivation to use, and the fertilizers that are- most ef fective. They will know too about harvesting and marketing the crop. But the whole thing is missing the mark unless those same Aggies learn to believe in the God who is back of nature, causing those re sults. NOTICE College Station State Bank is presently located in the Homer Adams Insurance Agency. This building is located adjacent to the Student Co-op Store. The bank will occupy this building until the early part of April during construction of our building. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK College Station, Texas Brighten up your apartments with cheerful and rest ful colors. Let us suggest TEXOLITE for your walls at $3.00 per; gallon (12 colors) and matching wood- trim in Oil Semi-Gloss at $1.40 per quart. Pastel qr deep colors. Next to the Post Office in Bryan 210 W. 26th S. Phone 2-1318 KELLEY’S ... 95c CHICKEN PLATTER (3) large pieces of golden brown “Swift’s” Premium. (milk fed cihicken) Head lettuce with 1000 Island Dressing. Hot rolls. 95« aAo SHRIMP IN THE y||C itouGH yfft French Fries Head lettuce with 1000 Island Dressing Hot rolls STEAK PLATE Fillet or 10 oz. Club Steak French fries, Salad, Hot rolls KELLEY’S “GOOD FOOD . . . THAT’S ALL!” 201 S. Main Ralph Stacy, Owner Letters called to her that the laws of the state clearly point out that I’m the guilty one, since I was driving the car, and not acting as an agent for this buddy of mine. Once again she smiles sweetly and’say, “WE have our own laws here.” My hea vens! I always thought A&M was a foreign country and now I am sure of it. If this Student Senate really means business, they will please find out why a man is not covered (protected) by the laws of the state and county here on the cam pus. I’m probably sticking my neck out, since this is state property, and special laws prevail, so hang me. It does seem rather stupid, naive, insipid, and ridi culous to punish someone else for a mistake that I made. By the way, you may most cer tainly print my name. I have cer tain rights that come from a much higher source than the Security office. MILT FRENKEL, ’46 (Editor’s Note: We are refer ring this letter to the committee in question for their information and use.) suit of underwear is worth some thing this day. Will mail it if he wants it. One of the boys said he lived in Galena Park but my husband didn’t re member the names. They were very nice young men, he said. MRS. H. .1. FOX 7346 Avenue F Houston, 11, Texas . 5 Ag Engineers Attend Meeting Five A&M agricultural engineers attended the agricultural engineer ing section of the .Southern Agri cultural Workers Association’s an nual meeting at Baton Rouge, La., January 31-February 2. They were W. L. Ulrich, P. f. Montfort, H. F. Miller, Jr., F. E. Lichte, and H. P. Smith. Representatives of the southwest and southeast sections of the American Association of Agricul tural Engineers met Feb. 2 in a joint program on cotton mechani zation. Miller discussed “Planting Cotton to a Stand” $nd Smith “Stalk Disposal and Land Prepara tion for Cotton.” WHO LOST HIS ? Editor, The Battalion: My husband took two of the students to Houston Saturday from your college and one of the boys left a canvas bag with some under wear and his toerth brush in it. Now please ask about this and let me know what to do with it. It doesn’t have a key, therefore hesi tated in mailing it. After all, a BENEDICTION St. Mary’s Chapel TONIGHT—WED., FEB. 2ND. 7:30P.M. A meeting of the technical com mittee on cotton mechanization was held February 3. Smith was a member of this committee. Watch Repair At Its Rest Our watch repairing costs no more than ordinary repairing. R. L McCARTY Jeweler — N. Gate TOJNITE FREE LUCKY LICENSE OTTE $400 (Less Tax) THE Mllie , JOSIK CECSIGK MOTtPESY FRANCES LAST DAY —Features Start— 1:55 - 4:35 - 7:15 - 10:00 CARY GRANT RITA HAYWORTH in “ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS” A Re-release BUGS BUNNY CARTOON NEWS THURS. - FRI. - SAT. 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