Battalion
EDITORIALS
Page 2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
We’ve Got ’Em, Let’s Keep ’Em
You can no longer follow your nose to
find the rest rooms in Guion Hall.
Several B&CU men are now at work
replastering the walls, removing debris,
replacing the urinals, and cleaning up in
general.
Now that this work has begun, it will
only be a short time until these places will
be presentable once more. We can then
show our visitors an example of an up-
to-date modern theater.
As soon as this work is completed how-
ever-y we will be faced with another prob
lem; that of keeping them in good condi
tion. In the past, we have been chiefly
responsible for the unsightly conditions
in our rest rooms. Another mess like the
one now being cleaned up must be avoided.
It has always been said, “fools names
like monkey’s faces, are always seen in
public places.” There should not be any
fools here at A&M, so there is no need for
names to appear on the replastered walls.
Neither is there a need for pictures or
witty sayings..
Students crawling in the windows of
the basement have also been a major
cause of much of the past damage. When
crawling through, it is necessary (we are
told) to step on one of the wash basins,
and sooner or later the pipe gets broken
and floods the basement.
So, once again, the ball has been hand
ed to us and we can’t complain about foul
conditions. If we want the Guion Hall
rest rooms clean and presentable for our
own use and our visitors use, then it will
be up to us to keep them that way.
A Battleship in Every Room . .
Governor Jester announced last Week
that German, Japanese and Allied war
trophies will be made available to Texas
schools and museums under a recently
released War Department plan. All states
qualify according to the number of men
from the state who served in World
War II.
The dangerous trophies have been em
asculated, says the announcement, so no
danger accrues from having them around
the place.
The idea strikes us fine. A submarine
in every schoolroom can not make the
children any more war conscious than
they already are.
We can envision high school chapel
programs in post-trophy days. On stage
the principal berates the kiddies for their
habitual tardiness. The kiddies take his
criticisms amiss and crush him down with
one of the two Tiger tanks that flank the
stage. Or with less bother, they lob a few
grenades at him. This will bring on com
pletely new teacher-student relations.
For A&M we have in mind a more fit
ting use of the aged material. A new gran
ite ..base can be raised in front of the Aca
demic Building on which to mount our
trophy selection. We would enshrine there
a gilded GI brush and simple wooden
crosses.
Oh, they could sprinkle 88s and Sam
urai swords around the campus to thrill
visitors, but the brush and cross will
serve as an object lesson for our would-
be-martinets. Our trophies would empha
size the fact that war is not all medals
and laurels —'it’s sometimes dirt, and
wreaths.
TKe Passing Parade . ..
From the AP’s Austin office comes
this release:
Texas Democrats will eat barbecued
beef, lamb, chicken and fish together here
at $25 a plate March 24 to fatten the par
ty’s; war chest.
Mayor Tom Miller, setting the date
for the fund-raising feed today said:
‘‘This is a party for all good Demo-
*
Occasionally the efficient operator who
bangs out the AP wire news from Dallas,
gets his thumbs tied up in the keyboard
and' a typo comes out. Here is his latest
on the local situation.
Goach Harry Stiteler has shifted his
ace! fullback, Bobby Goff, to right half
on the Texas A&M football team.
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President Truman, according to a wire
dispatch received by the Racine (Wis.)
Journal-Times, “asked the Democratic fi
nance committee to stay on the job to
help void over his ‘Fair Deal’ legislative
program.”
crats who supported the Truman-Barkley
ticket and it is a real victory dinner, but
in making contributions you furnish the
much needed funds to fight back a Re
publican congress in 1950.”
You might call this meal a two-way
affair. While the Demos dine on succulent
barbecue they will try to arrange for
some nice, dry, breast of crow for the
opposition party.
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Stiteler moved Bob Smith, 1945 pound
gridder from Houston, into the No. 1 full
back spot as the Aggies continue spring
training.
The boys must be getting more to eat
on that training table than Morris Frank
would have us'believe.
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Twin beds, advertised in the Montreal
(Que.) Daily Star, have these qualifica
tions :
“ . . . complete with Marshall ventila
ted mattresses and high quality springs.
One brand new, other slightly used.”
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Letters To The Editor
LAUNDRY MARKED
Editor, The Battalion:
The laundry ticket used by the
colege laundry has on it a sec
tion marked, “Special Orders:.”
What I want to know is this: Does
that section of the laundry ticket
accomplish any useful purpose, or
is it on there for appearance’s
sake? I bought a dozen fine qual
ity T-shirts, last summer. Before
sending them to the college laun
dry, I was careful to write under
the special orders section of the
laundry ticket, “Do not put laun
dry mark in neck of shirts and T-
shirts. Put it on tail of same.”
Every time, my shirts and T-
shirts have come back with the
laundry mark (a new one, each
time) in the neck. Every other
laundry that I have sent my shirts
to have put the laundry mark on
the inside of the tail of my shirts,
right below the last button hole.
Why must our laundry be differ
ent ?
Also, I would like to mention
that, while at Ft. Sill, last summer,
I bought several pair of GI suntan
shirts and trousers from the Army
Quartermaster. I sent them to the
post laundry about five times,
without adverse effect.
The first time I sent them to
the college laundry, they came
back with cracked buttons and
had been shrunk two sizes. How
is it that our laundry has ac
complished what the Ft. Sill
Quartermaster Laundry, suffer
ing frbm a\ shortage of labor,
could not accomplish?
If the present manager of the
college laundry is the same man
that was manager of it a year and
a half ago, I would like to remind
him of a letter which he wrote to
the Batt, in which he said that he
is using the same methods here
that he used when he was manager
of the laundry for a prominent
Dallas hotel.
I would like to ask him if the
use of those methods has anything
Official Notice
SENIORS
Seniors graduating in June, July, or
August, 1949, who plan to order a set of
personnel leaflets must order, these leaflets
not later than March 10. Orders for
leaflets will not be taken after March 10th,
until September, 1949.
Cost of Leaflets—S5 plus glossy applica
tion Size photograph.
Where to Order—^Placement Office, Room
239, Administration building.
WENDELL R. HORSLEY,
Director,
Placement Office.
DeLUXE CAFE
SERVES THE BEST
IN FOOD
The Bryan Home
of the
Texas Aggies
to do with the fact that he is no
longer manager of the laundry for
the prominent Dallas hotel ? I
think that he would find it pretty
hard to convince about 5,000 of us
that it doesn’t.
James S. Hanna, Jr., *49
(Editor’s Note: The manager of
the college laundry gave the fol
lowing as his version:
“The system used in this laun
dry is set up to mark the “T”
shirts in the neck and not to mark
them in all of the places that the
customer requested. This would
cause a great deal more trouble
and thus slow down the service.
The mark on the dress shirts is
on the tail.
I have done all that I can to
get the employees to use the
minimum of marks in the shirts,
and the number has been cut
down. I invite you to visit the
laundry and see for yourself
what we do and see if you can
find a machine that will break
a button.
“We use about 500 gross of but
tons annually to replace those that
are missing. There are several
employees that spend all of their
time just sewing on buttons and
repairing rips, although some
shirts do slip through the check
ers.
The'equipment used here is the
same that is used in many of the
larger laundries and the same
technique is used.
NEWMANS MAY SUBMIT
DUCHES'S PICTURES
Newman Club members desir
ing to enter a candidate for club
duchess to the Cotton Ball and
Pageant have been requested to
submit the candidate’s picture as
soon as possible.
Think Of This
“I come to cast fire upon the
earth.” Luke 12:49
One of the greatest discoveries
ever made by man was the use of
the thing that we call fire. Jesus
said that he had come to cast fire
upon the earth. The fire that he
has contains the power to illumi
nate, clean, save and keep. The
greatest need of the world today
is more Christians who are really
on fire for the Lord. Are you one of
them ?
SATURDAY
“Of Mice arid Men”
Special Fri. Prevue
11:00 P.M.
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Cary Grant
in DON HARTMAN S production
( Every Girl Should i
' Be Married /
S The hide-and-
^ seek, tongue-
^ in-cheek tale
^ of a marriage-
shy baby-
doctor, .and
a misbehavin,’
man-huntin’
Babel
co-starring
and
introducing
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BE1SY DRAKE
4 PradiiMtl, Directed and
* Co-written by DON HARTMAN
Screen Pley CoHeboretion by
Steuben Morebouse Awry
Job Calls
INTERVIEWS
(1) March 1 and 2 — Phillips
Petroleum Company, Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, will interview chemi
cal, mechanical, petroleum, civil
and electrical engineers and chem
ists.
(2) March 2 and 3—The Car
ter Oil Company, Tulsa, Oklaho
ma, will interview petroleum, me
chanical, chemical and electrical
engineers for their training pro
gram.
(3) March 3 and 4—Continen
tal Oil Company, Ponca City, Okla
homa, will interview petroleum,
mechanical, civil, and geological
engineers, and petroleum-geology
majors.
(4) March 4 and 5—The Cali
fornia Company, New Orleans,
Louisiana, will interview geologists
and geological engineers.
ENGINEERING
(1) Industrial Road Equip
ment Corporation, Houston, Texas,
is interested in bringing in college
trained men for the position of
construction supervisor, now call
ed foremen. They prefer men with
two or three years working expe
rience in the field of municipal
engineering, or a senior who has
had some working experience dur
ing the summer months along this
line.
(2) Southwestern Public Serv
ice Company, Amarillo, Texas, has
an opening for a man to serve as
an advisor or “troubleshooter” in
counseling with some of their cli
ents and customers.
AGRICULTURE
(1) There is an opening in the
Del Rio area for a man to manage
a farm of approximately 640 acres,
on which is grown cotton, spinach,
and other vegetables.
(2) There are several openings
for men between the ages of 23
and 35 for various inter-plant jobs,
such as cotton weigher and other
foreman jobs with Exporters &
Traders Compress & Warehouse
Company, Waco, Texas.
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT
(1) Carnation Company has
several openings for men training
in dairy husbandry for the sum
mer months in their ice cream man
ufacturing work.
(2) Continental Oil Company,
Houston, Texas or Fort Worth,
Texas, has openings for under
graduate students in replacing
men in the field while they are on
vacation.
(3) Bemis Brothers Bag Com
pany, Houston, Texas, has open
ings for a few men during the
summer months.
(4) Bewley Mills, Fort Worth,
Texas, is interested in employing
men during the summer months.
They prefer men trained in animal
or dairy husbandry.
(5) Crane Company, Houston,
Texas, may have a few openings
for mechanical, chemical, electri
cal or management engineers to
work during the summer months.
This company manufactures valves,
fittings, pipe, plumbing, heating,
and pump equipment and they are
particularly interested in men who
would like to enter this business
upon graduation.
LAST DAY
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Matinee Only
Monday
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LATEST NEWS
Hayward Marries One And
Forgets Adam Has Four Sons
By ANDY DAVIS
Adam Had Four Sons (Co
lumbia) starring Warner Bax
ter, Ingrid Bergman, and Susan
Hayward. (Campus)
Truly a heart warming story
of a father, his four sons, and a
lovely lady who devoted her life
to their happiness.
Ingrid Bergman as Emily, takes
on the position as governess to
Adam’s, four sons, and it isn’t long
before she has the love and admi
ration of every member of the
family. At the death bed of
Adam’s wife, she promises to
watch after the boys, and the
promise is fulfilled.
When the stock market crashes,
Adam has to give up the house and
send Emily home, but she returns
to her boys, years later, on the
eve of World War I. All the boys
enlist, and Davis brings home his
bride, Susan Hayward, who soon
forgets just who she is married
to.
Emily leads Adam to think that
it is she in Jack’s room instead of
Miss Hayward, but when David
comes home, his wife accidently
exposes herself to him. He tries to
kill himself in a plane crash, but
does not succeed. Adam is told
the truth about Emily and he asks
her to marry him.
The film is tops from all an
gles. Miss Bergman lives up to
her high spectations of being a
fine actress, and Miss Hayward
seems to be well suited in her
portrayal of the faithless daugh
ter-in-law.
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