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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
8, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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How Will Your Legislator Vote . . .
The Texas Legislature, after spending
the first month of the session in monkey-
shines and horseplay, yesterday started
piling up bills for consideration. House
members came forth with 269 bills and 27
proposed constitutional amendments
while the Senate put up an ante of some
186 bills.
The legislations now in the House and
Senate promise to revamp many of the
facets of Texas life, if all are passed. The
voting records of the representatives and
senators during the ensuing days of the
session bear close watching by the public.
Only careful attention can provide Texas
with an efficient law-making body-
Up for consideration in the 51st Legis
lature is a liquor-by-the-drink bill which
would legalize mixed drinks. The WCTU
has announced a counter-assault which
would not only kill the “by the drink” bill
but would tighten . existing regulations
covering liquor sales.
And the Melody Lingers
An American court finally got around
to trying an old friend of ex-ETO GI’s,
Axis Sally.
Axis Sally is the American girl who
worked for the Germans and disc jockey
ed the most popular program in Europe
during the war. The latest and best swing
and jazz records were played to already
homesick GTs. To these GI’s she’d sug
gest that possibly the wife, or girl friend,
was running around with a 4F while the
soldier was on foreign soil, fighting a war
which wasn’t his.
Every once in a while she’d give a
news report mentioning that hundreds of
fine American boys were cut down by the
machine-gun fire of gallant German sold
iers. She also had the latest word on how
our allies were playing Uncle Sam for a
sucker.
Sally had names for all the combat di
visions. Soldiers in those divisions would
The Passing Parade . ..
This information appeared recently in
Jack Bell’s Washington column:
The Navy got the word today that it
probably is going to have to play second
fiddle to the Air Force in congress-
Indirect notice of this attitude came in
the form of “so-what?” reaction among
law-makers to an announcement by sec
retary Sullivan that the Navy will have to
lay up 72 ships and cut its strength 30,000
men to keep within President Truman’s
new budget.
This was in direct contrast to the
strong sentiment that has grown up in
congress to push air force developments
far beyond the 48-group set-up proposed
by Mr..Truman.
Sullivan’s statement that three air
craft carriers and 12 cruisers, plus lesser
ships, will have to be put in moth balls was
looked on in congress at least in part as a
roundabout bid for more funds than the
$4,674,000,000 set up in the budget.
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) told a
Revision of the state’s educational ma
chinery comes up under bills for uniform
teacher contracts, multiple textbook pro
visions and increased per capita allot
ments to the school systems.
Another measure up for approval
would repeal the four-cent a gallon gaso
line tax and replace it with a one-cent a
gallon processing tax. The present four-
cent tax applies only to gas sold within
the state while the one-cent tax would ap
ply to processing gasoline, naptha, butane
and other combustible fuels for use either
in or out of Texas. The measure would
slash the price of gasoline by three cents
while increasing the state income by 43
million dollars.
The legislature has an important a-
genda before it, one that concerns all
Texans. The Texan should be interested.
How will your legislative representa
tive vote on these bills which so directly
affect you?
On . . .
brag over their “Bloody Bucket” division,
or how they got the name of “Roosevelt’s
Bloody Butchers.”
Radios were tuned to Axis Sally be
cause the music was too good to miss, and
it reminded the GI’s of home- They paid
little attention to Sally's commercials.
Now Mildred Gillars, the wartime
Sally, at 45, grey but still attractive, is
facing an American court. The prose
cution has plenty of evidence against her
in the form of recordings of her broad
casts and witnesses brought from Ger
many to testify that the voice on the re
cordings is hers.
As an American citizen she sought to
undermine American fighting moral. As
an American citizen she worked toward
the defeat of her homeland.
Due punishment will be meted out to
Mildred Gillars, no longer sultry Axis
Sally, but to Mildred Gillars, the traitor.
reporter: “We’ve already got the biggest
navy in the world. As long as we keep up
to snuff on submarine warfare, I don’t
think we have to worry too much about
the budget limits.”
We’re not worried about the Navy
playing second fiddle. What concerns us
is that the senator and some of his friends
might take the Navy out of the band al
together.
We can think of several places an air
craft can’t reach even if the Airforce play
ed a bass viol.
HERE’S a tricky headline from the
Rome (N. Y.) Daily Sentinel:
“Fatal Accident
Victim’s Injuries
Termed Critical”
ON THE MARQUEE of a theatre in
Williamson, W. Va.:
“The Mating of Millie”
With Glenn Ford
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ANYTHING BUT THAT?
JOB CALLS
AGRICULTURE
(1) Wallace & Tiernan Com
pany, Brownsville, Texas, has an
opening for a man trained in Mu
nicipal and Sanitary Engineering,
Agricultural Engineering, Horti
culture, or Dairy Husbandry, who
has had bacteriology and path
ology training. Sales of chemicals
used to preserve produce during
shipment.
LIBERAL ARTS
(1) Winship Development Com
pany, Clarkwood, Texas, has an
opening for a manager of a lum
ber yard, handling, in addition to
lumber, paint, plumbing, electrical
equipment, and hardware.
(2) Opening for a man to work
as a field office clerk with Stan
dard Oil Company of Texas.
(3) The Salesmanship Club of
Dallas is interested in locating
young men interested in full time
counselling job in their boys camp
located near Dallas.
(4) General Motors Acceptance
Corporation, Bryan, Texas, has an
opening for a man to do automo
bile finance work. Office and out
side work. Car furnished, expenses
paid when away from office. Age
limits 22-28.
(5) Durham-Goodrich & Com
pany, Brownsville, Texas, has a
position open for a young single
man who has had some experience
with a general insurance agency.
Should be qualified to handle the
entire office management of their
office which is mainly concerned
with the writing of fire, general
liability, and bonds.
ENGINEERING
(1) The Southwest Research
Institute, San .Antonio, Texas, is
opening an Engine Research Lab
oratory and will require the serv
ices of a young graduate engineer,
preferably mechanical, who has
served as an engine laboratory as
sistant either before or after grad
ation.
(2) Safety inspection and en
gineering positions open for men
with the American Associated In
surance Association, Dallas, Tex
as.
1 (3) Lone Star Cement Corpora
tion, Houston, Texas, has a va
cancy for a mechanical engineer.
Work will be drafting to start.
Permanent position with a good
opportunity for advancement to the
right man.
Sneak Preview . . .
Sharpened Wits and Dull Blades
Head Bill in Local Melodrama
By ANDY DAVIS
The Gallant Blade (Columbia)
starring Larry Parks, and Mar
guerite Chapman. (Campus).
Filmed in Cinicolor, and not bad
at that, “The Gallant Blade” pre
sents Larry Parks as the swash
buckling soldier, who saved peace
with his sword, and cast his doom
in romance.
Pai’ks gives an excellent ac
count of himself, as the gallant
aide of a general who wished no
new wars and particularly those
deliberately provoked by 17th Cen
tury French politicians for their
own private ends.
Tense romance runs through
the film with Marguerite Chap
man supplying the excitement.
Several sword fights are con
vincingly portrayed, as several
kisses are betrayed. The film is
all right for my money, but
don’t take my word, ask Kirma?
What's Cooking
JUNIOR AVMA, 7:30 p. m.,
Tuesday, Amphitheater.
ABILENE CLUB, 7:30 p. m;,
Tuesday, YMCA Cabinet Room.
AGGIE PLAYERS, 7;30 p. m.,
Tuesday, Assembly Hall.
ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY,
7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Architectural
Library. Baldwin Young guest
speaker
ACS, Student Affiliates, 7:30 p.
m., Tuesday, Room 9, Chemistry
Building.
ASCE, 7:30 p. m., Tuesday.
AIChE, 7:15 p. m., Tuesday. Pe
troleum Lecture Room.
BUSINESS SOCIETY, 7:30 p.
m. Tuesday, Reading Room of YM
CA
DISCUSSION AND DEBATE
CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Room
325, Academic Building.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB, 7:30 p. m.,
Tuesday, Room 206, Agri. Bldg.,
(Cotton Ball Duchess selection.)
A&M LUTHERAN STUDENT
ASSOCIATION, 7:30 p. m., Wed
nesday, Lutheran Student Center.
AUSTIN CLUB, 7 p. m., Wed
nesday, Room 108, Academic Build
ing. Election of officers.
SUL ROSS RESEARCH CLUB,
7 p. m., Wednesday, Physics Lec
ture Room.
GALVESTON A&M CLUB, 7:30
p. m., Thursday, 127 Academic.
HENDERSON COUNTY CLUB,
7:15 p. m., Thursday, 223, Aca
demic. Election of officers.
COOKE COUNTY CLUB, Thurs
day, Third Floor, Academic Bldg.
LAMAR COUNTY CLUB, 7 p.
m., Thursday, Room 205, Academic
Building.
SAN ANTONIO CLUB, 7:30 p.
m„ Thursday, Room 203, Academic
Building.
NAVARRO COUNTY A&M
CLUB. Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room
228, Academic Bldg. (Election of
Officer for spring term.)
of
“And thine ears shall hear a
word behind thee, saying, This
is the way, walk ye in it, when
ye turn to the right hand, and
when ye turn to the left.” Isaiah
30.21
When we plan to take a trip,
we usually try to go someplace
and secure a map which will act
as a guide to our travels. The trip
that we are now making through
life is the most important one that
we shall ever make. Does it not
seem sensible that we should have
something to guide us through it?
God has promised to be that guide
if we will call on him in our times
of need.
TEXAS TECH HAS 5,300
LUBBOCK, Tex., Feb. 8 —hP)—
Enrollment at Texas Technologi
cal College here for the spring se
mester has reached 5,386.
Men students outnumber women
4,159 to 1,227. There are 2,570 vet
erans enrolled.
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The Understanding Heart
Scientific Junket
Perplexed Wife Poses Common t 0 Span US From
Problem to Batt Answer Man Border to Border
By DR. CARROLL C. TRAIL
Bv. D. Battalion Sociologist
Dear Dr. Trail:
All my married life I have been
most happy. Never have my hus
band and I had any trouble, and I
had thought that we never would.
However, I have been mistaken;
my marriage is about to go on the
rocks.
But let me go back to the be
ginning. I have been married five
years, and even on my wedding
day, my friends told me that my
marriage would never work out.
My husband and I had nothing in
common; we were neither the
same race, nor religion. Why, we
weren’t even of the same sex. So
you can see that things were
against us even in the beginning.
But we have overcome most of
these difficulties, and all through
the war we learned to tolerate
each other’s idosyncrasies. How
ever, since my husband’s discharge
and his subsequent enrollment at
A&M, I have been confronted with
a new type of problem, which I
hope you can help me solve. I am
playing a second fiddle to a slide
rule.
My husband reads his Kent
handbook during breakfast, whips
through a little applied thermo
during dinner, and meditates on
internal combustion engines during
supper. I am slowly being crowded
out of his life. Can you suggest
some way in which I can regain
the integral part of his life that
I once held?
A STUDENT’S BEWILDERED
WIFE
Answer: Madam, I get thous
ands of letters similar to yours
each day. I can readily sympa-
Fourth Army Lists
Summer Training
Plans for Reserve
Schedules for the civilian com
ponent summer camps was announ
ced by the headquarters of the
Fourth Army yesterday. The sum
mer camps will utilize all Army
posts and camps in the Southwest.
The Organized Reserve Corps
opens the summer camp training
season on May 22 and will have
seven periods of summer camps at
the various Army installations.
Medical and Military Intelligence
units will train at Fort Sam Hous
ton; Transportation Corps and
Quartermaster units will train at
Camp. Leroy Johnson in Louisiana;
Artillery units wil Itrain at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma; Anti-Aircraft un
its at Fort Bliss, Texas; Ordnance
units at Red River Arsenal; Chem
ical units at Pine Bluff, Arkansas
and all other combat units at
Camp Hood, Texas.
Summer training for the ROTC
will begin June 20 to July 30 with
the infantry armoi’ed cavalry and
military police encamping at Camp
Hood: field artillery at Fort Sill;
anti-aircraft at Fort Bliss. Medi
cal ROTC students are scheduled
for Fort Sam Houston from June
13 to July 22 and from August 1
to September 9.
thize with you, and I believe that
I have the solution to your prob
lem.
First, you must realize that
henceforth your husband will tend
to be an entirely different per
sonality. He has, during his col
lege career, experienced a “change
of life” which will profoundly al
ter his entire outlook. Where he
once looked to you for comfort and
security, he now seeks out his
slide rule; where he once geared
his entire life around you, he now
gears it around his instructors
(this process is known in socio
logical circles as “shifting gears.”)
However, there is still a place for
you in his life, if you will acknow
ledge your husband’s changes, and
accept them as a matter of course.
But you must make this place
for yourself. Your job is to show
your husband that you can be of
help and assistance to him; you
must make him feel that you, are
not a wife, but, instead, a collea
gue. I suggest that you tell him
that you are going home for a
short visit with your mother. How
ever, go to Rice Institute for four
short years, and take your hus
band’s major. When you return,
how surprised he will be to find
you so well informed in his work!
Then and only then will you regain
the place you held in your hus
band’s life when you were first
married.
And that, madam, is my advice
to you.
Joseph C. Wampler, archaeolo
gist-mountaineer, has completed
plans for an expedition which will
carry a party of fifteen from the
Mexican to the Canadian border.
The expedition is scheduled to
leave Campo, a small community
on the Mexican border 35 miles
east of San Diego, about April,
1949. The scientist-adventurers ex
pect to complete their 2200 mile
journey along the highest moun
tain system within the United
States in about six months.
From border to border, well over
90% of the trail is through wilder
ness country; about an equal pro
portion is within National Forests
and National Parks — Sequoia,
Kings Canyon, Yosemite, Mt. Las
sen, Crater Lake and Rainier,
Wampler said.
Cost of trip is $1,000 per person.
Wample may be contacted at 1940
Hearst Avenue, Gerkeley, Calif.
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