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EDITORIALS
Page 2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Friendly Texas Not So Friendly . . .
Friendly, democratic Texas has recent
ly received much publicity to the contrary.
First, there was the story about the
little Navajo girl who was kicked off a
bus when en-route from her reservation in
Arizona to accept a scholarship in an east
ern girl’s school. It seems the little girl
was mistaken for a negro. But when it was
learned she was Indian, Amarillo knocked
Itself out being nice to her.
Then there was the story on a Three
Rivers, Texas burial incident. Because the
oody of an American soldier killed over
seas and brought home was of Latin-
American extraction, the funeral home of
Three Rivers refused to handle the burial
arrangements. After much unpleasant
publicity and the actions of several con
gressmen, the soldier was buried in Arl
ington National Cemetery in Washington.
Mum’s the Word During
Silence in the stands while an oppon
ent is attempting to make a free throw
is one of the outstanding attributes of
Aggie sportsmanship.
Such sportsmanlike behavior causes
visiting teams to appreciate all the more
the famed Aggie 12th Man. The word
“appreciate” is used because athletes from
any Southwest Conference school will tell
you that they wish they had such enthu
siastic backing for themselves.
All was quiet on the night of the A&M-
Baylor fracas during the first few free
throw attempts. Before long, however, one
obnoxious individual in the west stands
began to make a whistling noise while the
Bruin players were shooting. A couple of
his cohorts soon joined the act and about
a half dozen spectators were soon busily
occupied harassing the Bear basketeers.
Nor were the Aggie sympathizers alone
Stalin Trys a New Angle
Russia’s propaganda drive against the
proposed military alliance between West
ern Europe and the United States got off
to a subtle start Wednesday when Mar
shal Stalin invited President Truman to
come chat with him.
And before the invitation was cold, the
ramifications were already becoming evi
dent. Western unity of purpose was shak
en. Both France and Austria, convinved
that Russia is all out for harmony, offer
ed themselves as a meeting place. *
Stalin’s invitation came through a
question-and-answer game in which the
questions were simple things such as
“Would Russia be willing to join with the
United States in saying they have no in
tention of going to war with each other?”
The answer was “Yes.” It couldn’t have
been much else.
The non-Communist press, somewhat
*
FOUR-LINE item in the Pasadena
(Calif.) Star-News:
“When Alan Ladd started acting it
was in radio doing 20 programs a week
for a total of $18. Now making ‘One
Woman’.”
Several national magazines and news
papers gave considerable space to the ban
in San Antonio of high school fraterni
ties- In the fraternities, the boys showed
sadistic tendencies in their initiations.
There are other publicized incidents of
people in our free, democratic state be
having in manners neither democratic nor
free to the minority group discriminated
against.
If we are big bully boys who discrimi
nate and act prejudicially and hold to
principles that are not democratic, let’s
not continue to try to fool the world and
ourselves. Let’s come out and say we don’t
stand for a lot of the things that demo
cracy does.
But then again, if we did, we’d prob
ably find ourselves on a slow boat to
Russia.
Free Throws . . .
in their pursuit of pleasure at the expense
of the players. A few hardy Baylorites be
gan to get the idea and heckled the A&M
players who were attempting to tally the
vital single-pointers.
Excepting some spontaneous yelling
which was brought on by close decisions
by the officials, the hooting was the work
of only about six Aggie rooters and an
equal number of Wacoans. This wasn’t
even the oft-repeated 2% — only 6% to
be technical, since the fieldhouse seats
2,000 persons—just a few individuals.
From now on, though, let’s all refrain
from cat-calls and Bronx cheers when the
opposition is trying to make a successful
free throw. Just remember, in one of these
games, A&M may be trying to make a
game winning free throw—and we would
all want silence from everyone then.
Remember: mum’s the word.
• • •
taken in, has been scratching its head over
the bid and saying maybe there’s some
thing to it, that we ought to check into
the matter. This thinking magnified could
force the U. S. into a conference to its dis
advantage.
Russia banks on convincing Western
Europe that there is no necessity for a
military pact. Her “Russia wants peace”
line is designed to lull the non-Communist
countries into feeling secure without pro
tective alliances-
The propaganda offensive indicates
that our present policies are proving dif
ficult for Russia to handle. It proves that
Russia wants to try a new angle in which
she might have a better advantage. So
continued firmness and wariness should
guide us. They put the Kremlin on the
same plane with the White House.
★
TO LIVE a more balanced life, accord
ing to an account in the Hamilton (0.)
Journal-News:
“. . . live it progressively and con
structively. Be a fiendly somebody do
ing something worth doing. . .”
★
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MO LATIW 1
AMERICAN^ 1
1 -ALLOWED
ALL GOOD
DEMOCRATS
SOVEREIGN
STATE OF
of (Dns
“the Lord seeth not as man
seeth; for man looketh on the
outward appearance but the Lord
looketh on the heart.” 1 Samuel
16:7
When giving to another’s needs
it is very easy to look only on the
outward appearance. We too often
give with a degree of scorn or
heat in our hearts because the
other person is not of the same
social position, or creed, as our
selves. It often slips our minds
that the same God made both of
us. In our giving and living, let us
try to see through the eyes of
God and thus look into the hearts
of man.
Official Notices
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
A few posts for physics laboratory stu
dent assistantships for the present semester
are still open. Men who have completed
sophomore physics courses w’ith superior
records are wanted to assist with instruc
tion, grading and the handling of appara
tus in the laboratories.
The scale of compensation is .60 per
hour for new assistants and .70 per hour
for experienced assistants. Men are es
pecially needed Thursday and Friday morn
ings. The opportunity for experience, as
well as earnings, should be considered.
Applicants are invited to apply at the
office of the department at their earliest
convenience.
J. G. POTTER
Head, Dept, of Physics
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Flynn Blazes Trail
Sheik of Arabia Given Bonus
For Share of ‘Black Gold’
By MACK NOLEN
The nuclear boys have done it
again! They’ve gone and presented
us with an invention as unneces
sary as a radio in the State Home
for the Deaf. This time it’s a
clock, as if we didn’t have the
place all cluttered up with clocks
ah*eady.
This new clock works on an
atomic principle and is said to be
much more ac
curate than the
stars as a time
piece. It loses
one second eve
ry ten million
years or so.
It seems w e
could have mud
dled along with
a less accurate
clock, say one
that lost a sec
ond every two
or three million
years, if instead
they had handed us a neat little
dingus for taking the idleness and
procrastination out of mankind.
As it is, we will just muddle along
anyway.
*
A luxurious 195-foot yacht chur
ned out of Long Beach, California,
the other day, on its way to cheer
Health Report For
County Announced
The Brazos County Health Unit
has announced the morbidity re
port for the week ending Jan. 29.
Diseases reported in Bryan are
chickenpox, 8; diarrhea, 11; dysen
tery, 8; gonorrhea, 6; influenza,
25; measles, 14; pneumonia, 5; sep
tic sore throat, 5; syphilis, 3; and
tuberculosis, 1.
College Station had the follow
ing report: chickenpox, 11; dysen
tery, 6; gonnrrhea, 1; influenza, 7;
measles, 8; and pneumonia, 1. No
cases of diarrhea, septic sore throat
syphilis or tuberculosis were re
ported.
up the drab and colorless life of
the Sheik of Kuwait in Arabia. It
represents a million dollar bonus
from American oil interests for
drilling rights.
What’s he going to do with the
yacht? What would anybody do?
Well, that’s it! This illustrates the
British influence in the Near East.
He is going to follow the trail
blazed by Errol Flynn.
If the Sheik lived a bit farther
north we could accuse the oil peo
ple of contributing to the delin
quency of Asia Minors.
Books Granted To
Prairie View A&M
More books for the Prairie View
A&M College library will be the
result of a gift of $50 from Hermes
Nye of 3309 Hood Street, Dallas,
according to O. J. Baker, librarian
of Prairie View.
In making the gift, Nye indicat
ed a preference that the money be
used for library books, Baker says.
The gift was officially accepted by
the A&M College board of direc
tors recently on behalf of Prairie
View.
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