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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.
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A NEW comet was said by the Buenos
Aires (Argentine) Standard (Eng. Lang)
to be:
“Visible to the Naked
In South America.”
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THE RECENT longshoremen’s strikes
led to this headline in the Somerset (Pa.)
Daily American:
“Passengers Not Allowed
to Sit on Q. Elizabeth.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Old age is that time when the
days get longer and the years
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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
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The path of true love is only
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The guy who curses the day he
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regret than his mother.
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