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EDITORIALS
Page 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Whither the Coke Profits? • . .
It amounts up, these coke machine
profits.
And what to do with them is a ques
tion.
The money seems to keep rolling in
and stacking up on the credit side of dor
mitory accounts in the Student Activities
ledger book. Surely there is some means to
put more of the profits back into the
hands of the men who dropped the nickels
in the machines.
We don’t suggest splitting the pot, or
holding a lottery. But there are a number
of ways'the men in dormitories may enjoy
their coke fund profits.
What dormitory has enough athletic
equipment? Or what dormitory would.ob
ject to some sort of a party or picnic?
Those dorms with lounges have a place
where there is no limit to expenditures.
Magazine subscriptions, records for the
phonograph, pictures for the walls, arid
Talmadge Rides Again . .
When Herman Talmadge forced his
way into the governship of Georgia twice
during the past two years, both times by
rather devious methods, we said publicly
and privately that “Young Gene” was up
to no good.
At the time, however, our consciences
twinged us a bit since we were only slight
ly familiar with the younger Talmadge’s
shady political past and were forced to
admit that a great deal of our mistrust
was based on a healthy dislike for his
father, “Old Gene” Talmadge. Those who
are familiar with the old “Red Gallused
Radical’s” theories can understand how
we would suspect anyone related to the
Talmadge machine, particularly when the
relation was so obvious. But we did tend
to give him a little benefit of the doubt
since we thought he might shed his
fathers mantle and prove to be a aid to
his state.
How could we have been so wrong ? If
we ever had any doubts, his latest attempt
to take over the state lock, stock, and bar
rel have dispelled them.
Here is a list of legislations he is try
ing to ramrod through a packed state
legislature.
If upheld, the bills as passed or in the
process of passing would: Place the state
Democratic executive committee, which
Talmadge controls, above the courts in de
ciding if Talmadge is eligible for re-elec
tion, a much-debated question.
Give the committee power over all
other questions of eligibility and nomina
tion for all state offices. (Democratic
nomination Ife equivalent to election.)
Give the legislature sole power to de
termine who is elected governor and whe
ther he is qualified. Inauguration of a
governor by the legislature would not be
subject to challenge by courts. (Two
odds and ends to make the place look more
homey.
In non-military dormitories the Stu
dent Senator has charge of the dormitory
coke fund expenditures; in military dor
mitories, the ranking officer. Whenever
you have a suggestion, let him know.
We want every dormitory to have a
lounge, and eventually all will have loung
es. For now we’ve got to share them and
the men in the dormitory where the
lounge is located should make those from
other dormitories welcome. Maybe the ex
penses of the lounge could be shared.
Economics courses teach that money
should work, not be hoarded. Money is
productive.
And the products of money spent for
the dormitory would be counted in hours
of enjoyment and pleasure the troops
would receive.
years ago, Talmadge was elected and in
stalled as governor illegally by the legis
lature. After 67 days in office he was
tossed out by a Georgia supreme court
decision.)
Reduce the number of voters. Present
registration lists of 1,200,000 voters, in
cluding about 150,000 negroes, would be
wiped out. Citizens would have to register
again every four years. Registration
would be packed into four months—just
before the governor’s race. Secretary of
state Ben Fortson said this would cut the
voting list more than half.
Impose tightened registration proce
dure, requiring voters to read “intelligib
ly” or write “legibly” to the satisfaction
of registrars. Illiterates would be given a
chance to qualify by answering 10 of 30
questions specified in the bill. Talmadge
forces say this is designed to prevent mass
voting by negroes.
Extend the county unit system to gen
eral elections as well as the Democratic
primary. The unit system, similar to the
national electoral college, packs power in
rural counties, a Talmadge bulwark. Sup
porters said on the floor of the legislature
this would remove the “threat” of general
elections.
Give Talmadge power to designate
which banks shall hold state funds on de
posit and the amounts. The power was
transferred from the state treasurer, a
constitutional officer bonded to $100,000.
The governor is not bonded. Banks in turn
may invest a portion of the deposits at
large profits.
Tighten newspaper libel laws. Oppon
ents charged this was an effort to stifle
criticism.
The actions speak rather eloquently for
themselves. Do you think maybe he is up
to something?
★
Mixed trains of the Georgia R. R., ac
cording to the Athens (Ga.) Banner-Her
ald, include the: “Deodorant Cream Reg
ular $1.00.”
★ ★
Clean wishing, as described by the
Waco (Tex.) Tribune: “. . . the telephone
rang—just what they had washed for the
night before!”
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Mrs. Nancy Lytle Women’s Page Editor
Alfred Johnston Religious Editor
Andy Davis Movie Editor
Kenneth Marak, Sam Lauford, R. Morales,
Frank Welch, C. W. Jennings Staff Cartoonist!
Thoughts for Religious Week
1. Just what is sin?
“According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot
out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine in
iquity, and cleanse me from my sin.” Psalm 51:1-2
“For sin is the transgression of the law.” I John 3:4
“The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the
lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and the sinners, for
unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers
of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that
defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars,
for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is
contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel
of the blessed God.” I Tim. 1:9-11
2. Who has sinned ? Has there been anyone on earth without
sin?
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God.” Rom. 3:23
“Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that
you should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile
found in his mouth.” I Peter 2:21-23
3. What is the penalty of sin?
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Ezek. 18:4
“For the wages of sin is death. . Rom. 6:23
4. What is the remedy for sin?
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.” Heb. 9:28
“That by the name of Jesus Christ . . . Neither is there
salvation is any other: for there is no other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts
4:12 ! I'
Sneak Preview . . .
Audience Choked in Dusty
Western, “Three Godfathers”
By ANDY DAVIS
Three Godfathers (MGM)
starring John Wayne, Pedro Ar-
mendariz, and Harry Carey Jr.
(Campus)
Something different is offered
in the way of sagebrush stuff, with
the film getting under way as a
rip roarin’ shootum’ up, and then
coming to a stand still, while three
men cross a desert.
Three desperadoes rob a bank,
and then find themselves strand
ed in the Arizona flats, with Ward
Bond and his men awaiting them
TIDELANDS DISAGREEMENT
SOON TO BE OFF AGAIN
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 15 —(A>)_
The U. S. Supreme Court will hear
oral arguments in its tidelands
suit against Texas and Oklahoma
probably the first week in April,
Attorney General Price Daniel
said today.
Daniel repeived notification from
Charles Elmore Cropley, clerk of
the court .The argument will be
on motions by Texas and Louisi
ana contending the attorney gen
eral of the United States had no
authority to bring the suits chal
lenging the states’ titles.
Official Notices
SUMMER SESSION
Beginning with the fall semester of U
1949 the College will, in general, resume
its normal procedure of regularly sche
duling for the fall semester those courses
which normally fall in the first semester
programs and of scheduling for the spring
semester 1950 those courses which nor
mally fall in the second semester pro
grams.
Exceptions to this general policy may
be made to enable some seniors to grad
uate in January, 1950. Since a number
of students are irregular in their pro
grams, they- should make every effort
in the time remaining before September
to complete whatever work will be pre
requisite to those courses offered in the
fall. For that reason the summer school
offerings will be made with that idea
primarily in mind.
Students are asked to check their pro
grams carefully and to indicate on the
form provided below their needs for the
summer session of 1949. In so far as is
possible, those courses will be offered,
though the College reserves the right to,
withdraw any course in which the num
ber of registrations is too small to justify
the offering of the course.
The normal amount of work a student
may carry in a six-weeks term is six
semester hours (or seven, if one hour is
practice), except that with the approval
of the dean concerned, seven semester
hours (or eight, if one hour is practice)
may be taken by a student who has
earned at least 27 grade points in the
preceding semester.
Please indicate on the form on the last
page of today’s paper, your choice of
work for the summer session of 1949 and
return it to the Registrar’s Office by
5 p. m., February 18, 1949.
M. T. HARRINGTON
" Acting Dean of the College
at each water hole. Heading in the
opposite direction from Bond, they
run into an abandoned wagon, oc
cupied by a lady about to give birth
to a child. The three are made
Godfathers by the dying mother,
and from then on they continue on
their thirsty way. Two perish on
the salt flats, but Wayne and the
baby make it, only to be caught
by Bond.
I haven’t figured out who has
the hardest time crossing the de
sert, but I suspect it is the au
dience. As to photography and
performances, the film is excel
lent, but too much sand gets in
one’s eyes.
SWAP IN-LAWS—BE HAPPY!
LONDON—(A*)—Marriage going
on the rocks because you have to
live with your in-laws?
Then swap with another couple
and live with their in-laws.
Ninety-six young couples at sub
urban Hendon say it works.
They’re doing it until they can
find homes of their own.
This way, says W. F. Gow, of
the local housing committee —
which organized the exchange —
everybody’s happier. Young cou
ples feel they’re “independent ten
ants” instead of “being in the
way,” have fewer domestic tiffs
through mothers-in-law butting in,
and take better care of the furni
ture.”
Tuesday & Wednesday
LATEST NEWS
To Hell And Back ’Relates
Murphy’s Story of the War
By DAVE COSLETT
It took a war to make the
American public take notice of a
certain Irishman from Texas with
a chip on his shoulder. It’s liable
to take something greater than a
war to make them forget him.
Not too many years ago, in the
early days of the recent war, a
youngster just turned eighteen, ap
proached a Marine Corps recruit
ing station. An orphan, he had
been whiling away time as a fill
ing station attendant and then a
flunky in a radio repair shop until
he became old enough to fight.
Life had never been kind to him
—it seemed, in fact, that the world
was out to whip him in every de
partment. He wasn’t the kind to
be whipped, however. He had
pride. He didn’t know what it was
he wanted to fight, but he was
going to keep his fists flying in
hopes that he could lick the fate
which seemed to bind him.
The marine corps just smiled at
the not too hefty youngster and
told him that any fighting he did
wouldn’t be in their uniform. In
*a blaze of anger, he marched to the
paratroops only to find that they
too had exacting weight require
ments. The infantry finally ac
cepted him.
“Thus, with a pocket full of
holes, a head full of dreams, and
an ignorance beyond my years,
I boarded a bus for the induc
tion center,” he writes. That
fight-cravin’ kid, whose only pos
session was an indomitable pride
got his chance to fight.
But more than that, he got his
chance to lick the intangible foe
that destined to bind him to a life
of obscurity. He fought his way
into the heart of America, for that
little orphan with the chip on his
shoulder was Audie Murphy, the
most decorated soldier of World
War II.
Some might think that with the
war over, Murphy, who had seen
Letters To The Editor
Editor, The Battalion
We, the undersigned would like
to have our TS cards punched if
something can’t be done to revise
the make-up of our school paper,
namely The Battalion.
Like the mess hall, dairy, ex
change store, power plant and oth
er school enterprises, The Batt
must operate on a so called “pay
your own way” plan, we are told.
For this reason we can’t begrudge
the men who work hard to publish
a paper under handicapped condi
tions, but when the paper contin
ually comes out with more ads
than news, we can’t begin to see
the light.
We know the small Student
Activities fee can’t begin to pay
all the expenses listed under its
program, but we do expect the
publication of a paper worthy of
our school. Ads make such a
paper possible in schools, but
our paper carries more ads than
many school publications.
For the years since our eyes
first saw a Batt, we have kept our
disgust to ourselves, but the situa
tion came to a head when the edi
tion of Friday, February 11,
reached our dorm. Like seven out
of ten editions, it carried more
ads than it did news.
We took the time to Toughly
count the column inches devoted
to news, including pictures, and
that devoted to ads. In case you
have forgotten, the entire fourth
page was devoted to ads. The over
all space of approximately 576
column inches was divided into 268
colum ninches for news and 308
inches for ads.
Now our complaint is this, why
can’t we have a super paper the
day of or before a big campus
event, even if we must starve
for news on other days. Such a
paper makes a souvenir copy
worthy to send home or to
friends.
This handsome story of a week
end at A&M would be read by
many people—some may even get
the idea they would like to become
Aggies. But who wants to have
his girl friend take home a pa
per like the edition published Fri
day, February 11?
Perhaps we would have let this
edition go by with our usual in
ternal words of disgust had not it
been the day before the Military
Ball. We are not members of the
Corps but we still like to see our
school receive the proper recogni
tion it deserves.
Our spring social season is
getting off to a great start with
the presentation of the Military
Ball. We missed the boat this
time, but let’s plan ahead for
such events as the Cotton Ball,
Senior Ring Dance, and Open
House.
You may rationalize your way
out of this, but there was no rea
son to leave Lil Abner out of Fri
day’s edition.
Ralph S. Duke, ’47
Wayne D. Tiner, ’48
Robert S. Weynand, ’49
Eugene B. Adams, ’49
(Editor’s Note: Other than the
crack about our rationalizing, we
are in agreement and sympathy
with your complaints.
We had nearly as much news
which we could not print as the
Friday paper contained. Most of
this news was printed in the yes
terday’s and today’s Batt. How
ever, some of the copy was “dead”
and had to be thrown away.
The editors do not want to run
an excessive amount of advertise
ments. But , we cannot tell our ad
vertisers that they cannot adver
tise on “certain” days and then ex
pect these same people to continue
advertising in our paper. And
needless to say, we have to ac
cept advertisements and lots of
them in order to “break even.”
Friday was an unusual day
because of the business submit
ted by advertisers who were in
terested in tapping the weekend
guests. On top of these we had
a large run of Religious Empha
sis Week advertisements.
Throughout this school year.we
have been asking for six pages
daily. Six pages could carry all
the ads and still allow about 60
per cent for news. But we cannot
get six pages daily until the A&M
Print Shop gets an additional
Linotype Machine which has been
on order for lo! these many
months.
Since the shop only has three
type-setting machines, they (the
print shop) have a big job print
ing the six page papers twice a
week and doing the large job of
printing for the college.
And about Lil Abner, the 1’eason
why the cartoon did not appear in
the Friday paper was because it
was printed Thursday in antici
pation of the large run of ads
Friday.)
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more than his share of fighting,
would have been satisfied to sit
back and survey his accomplish
ments. Such was not the case. He
no longer had that chip on his
shoulder, but he wasn’t ready to
hang up the gloves.
He’s just changed tactics, for
he’s continuing to fight his way to
a more permanent fame. Hollywood
saw in the handsome hero a quiet
naturalness that would appeal to
movie-goers. So it was that James
Cagney chose him to star in the
Allied Artists production, “Bad
Boy”, having its world premiere in
Dallas Thursday.
On the same day that his new
picture is released though, Au
die will spring his latest hay
maker on the nation—his first
novel, “To Hell and Back.”
It’s not surprising to see a book
written by a famous celebrity, but ,
it’s quite another thing to find
such a book well-written. “To Hell
and Back,” in the opinion of this
writer, fits in the latter category.
The book isn’t a piece of literary .
perfection when judged by the us
ual standards of writing, but it .
wasn’t written to meet those stan
dards. Audie Murphy had some
thing to say and he said it—point
blank.
The cover-flap review quotes
him as saying that he wrote the
book “to remind a forgetful public
of a lot of boys who never made
it home.” Murphy does just that.
In an interview at the recent
Military Ball, Audie said in ref
erence lo the writing of the book
“I found that the best way to *
write was to say exactly what I
thought.” Therein lies the ex
cellence of the book.
The novel traces Murphy and -
several of his buddies from the in
vasion of Sicily through VE Day.
It pictures the war as seen through
the peep-sight of a Garand rifle;
it chronicles death as seen from
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