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Battalion EDITORIALS Page 2 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1949 "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions Leon Turns His New Leaf. . . There is a guy in our dormitory named Leon. Each semester he follows this same .ritual. With his left hand he crams a waste basket with flunked quizzes, partially-fill ed notebooks, and memos from his dean warning him not to cut anymore. In his ■ right hand he clutches, a new schedule of classes, raises it aloft, and says fervently, “This semester things are going to be different. I’m really going to dig in on those books. I’m turning over a new leaf!” Of course everybody in the dorm has heard Leon’s story before. Although they nod their heads in silent assent, they know quite well that after a week of hard dig ging, his ambition will have spent itself, and you’ll be able to find Leon and his new resolutions at the local suds parlor, drowning themselves together. Every dorm has at least one Leon- Some dorms have several. And each of us has a little, or a lot, of Leon in our make up. In back of our minds we realize we can tell fairly well what success we’ll have in later life by Jooking around at our pres ent positions. We know that the work and dependability habits we are forming now will stay with us through life. If we’re collegiate flops, we have little chance of becoming magnates in the working world. The only trouble is that it’s usually a little hard to grasp all this. It’s so much easier to dream about being a success than to work away from being a failure. Well, anyway, there isn’t too much time to think about all that. There’s a new semester coming up. Classes started yes terday. This time things are going to be dif ferent. Leon and I are really going to dig in on those books. We’re turning over a new leaf! Great Wheels Are Spinning Yesterday that august Texas assembly, the 51st Legislature, considered at length the weighty legislation before them. The Senate met for fifteen minutes; the House being a more deliberate body, met for a whole hour and fifteen minutes. Naturally, the honorable legislators, public servants doing their best for com munity good, will draw a full day’s pay for this exhausting labor. On Wednesday, the House defeated a resolution to keep groundhogs under ground. This resolution, introduced by the creditable Senator from Temple upon the request of Temple’s daily newspaper edi- ,tor, would, if it had passed, put the House of Representatives of the State of Texas on record as urging Texans to prevent the groundhog from coming outside his hole. The resolution recommended the use of baseball bats should the little beast demonstrate any intention to come outside his hole. You know what it would mean if he came out of his hole and didn’t see his shadow, don’t you ? The groundhog would go back in his hole and bring more cold weather. Really now, perhaps the full grown Senator believes that, and maybe about Santa Claus, too. We are reminded of the last session’s defeated resolution to go on record as op posing sin. Already this session of the legislature has cost Texas taxpayers over a hundred thousand dollars. For this substantial sum the legislature has accomplished next to nothing. Such legislative behavior as is being shown causes us to question the validity of state’s rights. Our legislature would be the first to defend state’s rights, but as yet they offer us no reason to support them. The people of Texas are fast losing con fidence in the integrity of the state legis lature. Their playing around, drawing a full day’s pay for an hour’s session, pro posing resolutions against groundhogs apd sin—these things which the legislators themselves are doing, contribute to that growing lack of confidence in state agen cies. With legislation such as educational improvements for school children, improv ed prison and eleemosynary systems, con stitutional revisions, and polLtax elimi nation pending, the Senate considers groundhogs. . Somewhere back along the line we read about Nero who fiddled while Rome* burn ed. ■ The Passing Parade . .. Here is an ordinary but rather pathetic item from Shanghai. (quote) The cold streets of Shanghai in December yielded 4,727 dead. Benevolent societies reported 3,879 of them were children. Some were abandon ed by parents who could not feed and house them. The deaths were caused by cold and hunger. The next time your radiator gets a little cold and you start getting rough on the janitor and feeling sorry for yourself, don’t get too excited. The world is full of people who are warm only because they are too numb to be cold. ★ A NEW comet was said by the Buenos Aires (Argentine) Standard (Eng. Lang) to be: “Visible to the Naked In South America.” ★ ★ THE RECENT longshoremen’s strikes led to this headline in the Somerset (Pa.) Daily American: “Passengers Not Allowed to Sit on Q. Elizabeth.” The Battalion The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week and circulated every Monday through Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination periods. During the summer The Bat talion is published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription rate $4.30 per school year. Advertising rates furnished on request. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin publish ed herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. f : 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 Co-Editors 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 Emil Bunjes, A. C. Gollob, R. C. Kolbye, Henry Lacour, Carley Puckitt, Clayton Selph, Marvin Brown Staff Reporters Joe Trevino, Hardy Ross - Photo Engravers Clark Munroe Feature Editor Dave Coslett, Frank Cushing, George Charlton, Buddy Luce, Chuck Maisel, H. C. Michalak, Marvin Rice, Carroll Trail Featilre Writers Bob “Sack" Spoede, 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 TRYING TO TALK HIS WW/OUT OF IT Sneak Preview . . . Daughter Follows in Mothers Footsteps and Nearly Hangs By ANDY DAVIS Belle Starr’s Daughter (20th Century Fox) starring George Montgomery, Ruth Roman, and Red Cameron. Belle Starr decides to play it straight for a while and makes a truce with the old marshall of Ani- toch. All goes well until some of her men, under Cameron’s direc tion, rob the bank in Anitoch and kill the marshall. When Belle threatens to turn Cameron over to the law, he lowers the boom on her, and Belle’s out of the picture. Her daughter Rose is led to believe that her mother was killed when attack ed by the new marshall’s possee. Montgomery, the new marshall, discovers Rose’s real identity, but the eyes of the law look upon her from a different angle, in fact from all angles. Everybody is hav ing a big time until Cameron and his henchmen stage a return en gagement to the city. Rose gets mixed up in a shooting with Cam eron, and joins troops with him, still believing that Montgomery had killed her mother. It isn’t too long before Rose realizes tljat she has made the wrong mo’jf;, and to top it off, she discovers it is Cameron who murdered her mother. The wild chase is really on when Rose makes her get-a-way with Cam eron nagging in the rear, but Montgomery shows up at an op portune moment, and the two shoot it out, with Rose watching from the side line. Belle’s daugh ter hasn’t got the spirit that Belle has, but she tries awfully hard. The film is an average western, and most likely will not be nominated for any academy award. SUPREME COURT CLOSES ‘BUILDING’ ISSUE FIGHT AUSTIN, Feb. 3 —(£>)_ Th< Supreme Court yesterday in effee buried the contest over validity o: the college building constitutiona amendment. It refused to reconsider an earl ier ruling that it had no juris diction in the case. A second motioi for rehearing could be brought but these are rarely granted. State-owned colleges are already proceeding on the 75 million dolla: building program authorized bj adoption of the amendment. Handing It to You ... For perfect cleaning and pressing there’s no service like the Campus Cleaners. QUICK, EFFICIENT SERVICE CAMPUS CLEANERS "Over The Exchange Store” HIGH PRICES Is Stocked to the Walls With Good Used Text Books. See Lou Before You Buy . . . North Gate LOUPOT’S TRADING POST Trade with LOU, He’s right with you. Off-The-Cuff Notes . . . Modern Benjamin Franklin Compiles Latest in Quotes By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK—(AP)— Off-the-cuff notes by the poor man’s philoso pher: A girl who strings a man along may be only trying to see if he’s fit to be tied. Too many old saws fill the after dinner speech with lumber. Quick wit is jest in the nick of time. A train of thought never gets far in a single track mind. Definition of a gag thief; a re- Final Plans Made For 39th Annual Boy Scout Week ,Final plans for the observation of Boy Scout Week, February 6 to 12, have been completed by the program Committee of the Brazos District of the Boy Scouts of America. Included in the list of activities planned are district meetings and round table discussions, a commis sioner’s conference, rallies, and a district-wide Court of Honor at 2:30 Sunday, February 6. This year Boy Scout Week marks the 39th anniversary of the found ing of the Boy Scout Movement in America. The official theme for this year is “Adventure—that’s Scouting.” Among the Scout leaders, who took part in the planning discus sions were District Chairman E. R. Bryant, Commander D. ,C. Jones, and vice chairman H. W. Barlow. • RECORDS • RADIOS School & Office Supplies ALL YOUR NEEDS HASWELL’S — Saturday — H. G. WELLS’ FORECAST OF— “THINGS TO COME” Thursday & Friday peating rifler. The trouble with counting on your son to support you in your old age is that he might turn out to be the kind of boy your daddy had. A nightmare is unbridled horse play after dark. Where the Voters don’t fill the ballot box it is usually stuffed by a machine. More Sayings A woman’s bargain sale is just purchase by assault. The life of a gay old dog is just one long tale of waggery. A born salesman is a man who could sell a hat to the headless horseman. Peace is that uneasy interval be tween wars which used to be told by the calendar and now is clocked by a stop watch. Love has a heart row to hoe. A girl with a rusty porch swing keeps on squeaking terms with her boy friend. In matrimony he who hesitates is bossed. An old bachelor isn’t hard-heart ed—he’s just amour-plated. A treeful of crows is like a room full of politicians—just a raucous caucus. Others Complete understanding isn’t necessary for cooperation. The fly never fully realizes his economic contribution to the window washer. An opportunist makes wine out of the other fellow’s sour grapes. A highbrow is a man whose thoughts are over his own head. l ■MU PALACE Bryan 2'$$79 TODAY thru SAT. No wonder Road house has Sued a reputation ROAD HOUSE PREVUE- - - FRIDAY — 11 P. M. B ^r HMRNIR BROS! June Bride SPECIAL PREVUE — SATURDAY NIGHT —11:00 Feb. 5th The Laugh Marriage That Was Made in Heaven! 1 Western whoppe^f Paramount P resents paleface cdor by Technicolor starring Bob HOPS Jane sosseu. ProduMd by Directed by SOBER! L. WELCH • NORMAN Z. McLEOD Old age is that time when the days get longer and the years shorter. A rowdy weed has more fun than a prim wallflower. Night is the only friend of the black sheep. Every freckle would like to be a suntan. The path of true love is only wide enough for two. The guy who curses the day he was born may still have less to regret than his mother. TODAY thru SAT. FIRST RUN —Thursday Features Start— 1:10 - 2:55 - 4:45 - 6:30. - 8:20 10:00 —Friday Features Start— 1:30 - 3:25 - 5:25 - 7:20 - 9:20 George MONTGOMERY | Rod Ruth CAMERON • ROMAN PLUS CARTOON — NEWS SPECIAL PREVUE FRIDAY — 11:00 P.M. FIRST RUN Plus Showing of the COTTON BOWL FOOTBALL CLASSIC OF 1941 See Kimbrough, Pugh & Robnett ... and CARTOON Sat. 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