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ITORIALS
TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
in DeWare Field House . . .
This morning at 9 o’clock the Second
Annual State Junior College Basketball
Tournament got underway in DeWare
Field House.
The tournament brings together 16 of
the state’s better Junior College teams
for an elimination play off.
While only in its second year, the tour
nament seems to be a firmly entrenched
state sporting event. A jointly conceived
idea of the local business men and our
athletic department, the tournament ac
complishes several ends.
First it gives the junior colleges, al
ways a group neglected by press and pub
lic, a chance for a spot in the public gaze.
Further, it gives a better comparison of
strength between the widely geographical-
The August Domino Plaj
The present session of the Texas Leg
islature is causing many Texans to view
state government with disgust.
After costing taxpayers more than
$100,000 to organize, the House of Rep
resentatives started down the legislative
path with full steam at a snail’s speed.
The Senate visitors’ gallery heard a
full grown Senator propose a resolution
to make groundhogs stay in their holes.
At another meeting, a visitor in the
gallery could have heard another big sen
ator attempt to discredit this nation’s
most decorated war hero.
Tuesday evening “The repeated clat
ter of dominoes on a House member’s
desk last night interrupted a public hear
ing before the Game and Fish Commis
sion,” an AP wire said.
Chairman Harvey Shell of Gregory
stopped the hearing.
“ Tf you just have to make noise,’ he
cracked, ‘Please be as quiet as you can
The Passing Parade . . .
The wire brings this from Austin:
The governor’s committee on election
laws held a final session here today and
recommended a complete revision of state
election laws.
A final report will go to Gov. Beau-
ford Jester with the recommendation that
certain election law provisions be chang
ed without delay. “However, the eventual
goal should be complete revision,” the
committee said.
ly seperated two-year colleges.
From our own point of view, it gives
A&M an excellent, while not exclusive,
opportunity to ascertain the outstanding
JC players who will soon graduate to the
senior circuit.
So far as we can see, the entire tour
nament should prove universally bene
ficial. To the sponsors of the tournament
we offer our congratulations on your fore
sight and organizational ability.
To the competing teams we say wel
come to A&M. We hope you enjoy your
stay here.
The play should be fast, competitive,
and enjoyable. To paraphrase Harry Bel-
lough “May the better team emerge tri
umphant.”
ers . . .
about it.’
“The dominoe game went on, but more
quietly.”
There is nothing that pleases tax pay
ing Texans more than to read how con
scientious their elected representatives
are. These interested public servants en
gaged in domino playing while attending
a public hearing inspires us to denounce
further aggression by the federal govern
ment on states’ rights.
Men with such concentration to keep
up their game in spite of a public hearing
command our admiration. And we want
to turn over more public responsibilities
to them. We want to entrust even the most
sacred governmental rights to men of this
caliber.
^n the past we have advocated more
pay for our state legislators. But this
session has made us feel that any com
pensation is too much to men who play
dominoes, resolve against groundhogs,
and discredit war heroes.
The changes suggested include:
New dates for Democratic primaries.
Some form of secret ballot, strengthening
of laws for investigation and prosecution
of election frauds, more detailed reporting
of campaign expenditures, and a voter
registration law.
We would like to add our modest sug
gestion to this list. How about some new
candidates?
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Spain is now almost bankrupt, so they
aren’t mad at us any more. We’ve had the
Freedom Train and the Friendship Train,
but the Gravy Train is still our big at
traction.
Looks like Oleo will soon be sold over
the counter like any other grocery item.
Probably won’t taste half as good legal.
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We (Editor & Publisher) seemed un
usually certain of ourselves in the Jan. 1
issue when we reported a man to have
died from a ‘‘fatal malady.”
All generals are now rewarded for
making war. The victorious hang in the
halls of fame, the losers from the prison
scaffold.
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Amplification Department
By CARROLL TRAIL
Dear Sir:
My GI bill will run out the end
of this semester. If I am going to
Summer school, what will be the
procedure that I must take to get
an exemption from the matricula
tion fee?
Sincerely,
J. W.
Answer: Well, J. W., I feel that
I can answer this question for you
correctly, since my bill ran out
last semester, and I had to go
through the channels to get an
exemption from tuition. For sim
plicity, I will relate my experience
to you.
Last January 20 I went to Good
win Hall to pay my fees so that I
could reserve my room for this
semester. The representative of the
Fiscal Office told me that I would
have to get an exemption slip from
Johnny Zinn, recorder. By skip
ping merrily over to the Adminis
tration Building, I covered the
quarter-mile in a few minutes. I
bounced up to Mr. Zinn’s secretary
all out of breath:
“I’d like to get a tuition ex
emption slip, please.”
“Very well, may I have your
qualifying letter?”
“Letter?”
“Yes, you must get a letter from
Veteran’s Advisor Taylor Wilkins,
stating that your GI bill has ex
pired.”
I briskly walked the third of a
mile back to Goodwin Hall, and
went to Mr. Wilkins’ office. After
twenty minutes of standing in line
I got the letter and strolled the
half-mile over to the Administra
tion.
Apparently the secretary didn’t
recognize me.
“I’d like to get a tuition ex
emption slip, please.”
“Very well, may I have your
qualifying letter?”
“Yes, ma’am. Here it is.”
“Oh.” (The shocking news that
I had the letter flustered her tem
porarily, but she was thinking
fast).
“Very well, if you will have Mr.
Perryman endorse it, we’ll fix you
up.”
“Mr. Perryman?”
“Assistant registrar—just across
the room.”
We smiled sweetly at each other
and I took my leave. Strolling
across the room, I approached the
irifofmat^on desk.
“May I see Mr. Perryman,
please?”
“He’s busy now, won’t you come
in and wait?”
Although I had a chemistry quiz
the next day and needed to study
I thought I would be right out, so
I decided to wait. (Time: 3:15) I
took a seat just opposite Mr. Per
ryman’s door, and I could see him
dictating to one of the secretaries.
From time to time, Mr. Perry
man would use the telephone, talk
to anyone that would walk into
the office, and glance out the door
to see if I was still there. Seeing
T was, he would immediately turn
his back and go on with something
else.
(Time 3:40) Two more men had
joined the group. Mr. Heaton
strolled by several times, smiled,
asked if we were waiting for Per
ryman, strolled on.
(Time 4:20) Perryman, seeing
Think Of This
that he couldn’t stall us off, dis
missed his secretary, and beckon
ed me in.
“Sir, I’d like to get a slip to
exempt me from the $25 matricu
lation fee,” I said, handing him
Wilkins’ letter.
“First, I’ll have to see your rec
ord. Let’s see ... this letter says
your GI bill expires January 29,
but this is only Jan. 20.”
“Yes, sir. My bill runs out at
the end of this semester, but I
want to pay my fees for the next
semester now, so I can reserve my
room.”
“Well, Trail, I can’t exempt you
from your fees while .your GI bill
is still in force, since it covers
them.”
“But these fees are for the next
semester, not this one, and my GI
bill won’t cover them.”
“Still, I can’t exempt you from
fees while your GI bill is in force.”
“Sir, if the fee has absolutely
nothing to do with this semester,
why can’t I be exempt from it?”
“Trail, I don’t make the rules
around here. ‘They’ say that I
can’t exempt you from a fee when
your GI bill, is still in force. I only
do what ‘they’ tell me.”
(Who in blazes is this myster
ious “they?”).
“In other words, if I pay my
fees now, I must pay the tuition
fee also?”
“That’s right, but you can file
for a refund. After the 29th, come
back to see me, and I imagine
you’ll get your refund. I wouldn’t
throw Wilkin’s letter away if I
were you. I really believe you’ll
get your refund. Just don’t throw
that letter away, and come back
to see me the first of next semes
ter,” he said, radiating confidence.
(“Throw it away,” he says, I
must look like a moron.)
“Thank you very much, sir.”
I walked the mile back to Good
win Hall, determined to pay the
fee and file for refund later. I
arrived at 4:50, just as the cash
ier announced “I’m sorry, but
we’re closing. We’ll be back to
morrow morning' at 8.)
However, there is a happy end
ing to the story. Shortly after the
semester began, I filed for refund
and with Mr. Perryman’s personal
inside help I got my 25 bucks back.
So there you have the procedure
in a nutshell, J. W. I don’t see how
you can shorten the process any
whatsoever. Each and ever person
and step is necessary and an ih-
tergral part of our financial ad
ministration.
When you have finished the pro
cedure,' let me kriow: I can recom
mend a good psychiatrist.
Summer Camp Bill
Gets Endorsement
The State Affairs Committee of
the Texas House of Representative
has endorsed the bill to set up a
summer college for A&M students
in Kimball County.
If the legislature passes the bill,
A&M will build a school, for fresh
men and summer courses near
Junction. " -
Approximately $200,000 w i 11
have to be appropriated for the
new school site. ,
Curling was first introduced in
to Canada and the United States
during the early nineteenth cen
tury.
“If I have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.” 1 Cor. 13.
God created the world, man, and
all things in a spirit of love. Above
all things -which he made, man
seems to have turned out to be
the most sinful. One might there
fore think that God would become
angered and kill mankind. How
ever, these thoughts are not God’s
thoughts. He has loved us even in
out sinfulness and has given to us
a way of pardon and freedom. As
he has loved and watched over
us, so he expects us to love and
watch over our fellowman.
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Harvey Cherry, Art Howard, Otto Kunze,
John Singletary Managing Editors
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Mack Nolen Editorial Assistants
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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—$5 plus glossy applica
tion size photograph.
Where to Order—Placement Office, Room
230, Administration Building.
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Boyle’s Column . . .
Share The Spouse Plan Dies
When Wife Learns Details
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK—(A*)—It was Mrs.
Trellis Mae Peeble’s turn to lead
the weekly current events discus
sion at her club—the crochet and
croquet society.
“What’s your topic?” asked her
husband, Wilbur.
Trellis Mae looked up from her
notebook and pile of newspapers.
“More husbands for married la
dies,” she said brightly. “Don’t
you think it’s a wonderful topic?”
“I don’t get it,” said Wilbur.
“I don’t see why you say that,”
complained Trellis Mae. “It’s very
simple. I got the idea out of the
newspaper, ft says there’s a lady
schoolteacher in Germany who
found there were 7,000,000 extra
German men.
“So she thinks German wives
should be allowed more t,han orie
husband. It would keep the poor
men from becoming lortely old
bachelors. I am going to bring
her idea up before our club
members for discussion.”
Wilbur read the article careful
ly. And a smug leer spread across
his face.
“Why you’ve got the thing
backwards,” he laughed. “There
are 7,000,000 extra women, not
men, in Germany. What this school
teacher means is that men ought
to be allowed to marry more than
one woman. It’s really a share-the-
husband program, so there won’t be
any old maids.”
“Let’s see. I could get a bru
nette to cook my breakfast, a
blonde to take to a night club, and
a redhead to —.”
“Oh, Wilbur!” wailed Trellis
Mae. “You talk like a horrid old
sultan. You wouldn’t want any
other wife but me, would you?”
Wilbur saw that her hot and
cold running tear faucets were
about to open.
“No, dear,” he said hastily. “I’ll
stick by what my dad always told
my mother: T wouldn’t take a mil
lion dollars for you, and I would
not give a penny for another just
like you’.”
Trellis Mae smiled and came
over and sat in her husband’s
lap. She kissed him.
“I guess I had better pick an
other current events topic,” she
said. “That other one is too silly
for words. It doesn’t even make
sense.”
I’ Convicts
Slaying
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 28 —hP)
Flying deputies and big ground
forces today sought two “weak
minded” ex-convicts wanted in con
nection with a triple slaying in
California.
Bill Ray Gilbert, 28, one of the
hunted men, had boasted:
“I will not be taken alive. When
I go I will take at least two offi
cers with me.”
That statement was made to
Miss Florence Margaret Chisholm,
31, a Phoenix riding stable man
ager, who escaped from Gilbert at
nearby Scottsdale last night.
She repeated it today to Mari
copa County atty. Francis J. Dono-
frio.
The other man sought is George
Schmid, 22.
Miss Chisholm told Donofrio the
men had forced her to accompany
them last Tuesday from the riding
stable. From Phoenix they went
to California ahd at Needles, on
Thursday, she said, the two men
shot and killed Ernest Winsted,
21, his Wife, Frances, 22, and Wil
lis Pugh, 70.
After the shootings, Miss Chis
holm said, Gilbert commented:
“I want to go where I’m hottest
—they won’t be so likely to look
for me there.”
The trio then took off for Phoe
nix.
The woman told Donofrio she
fears for her life. She is in the
Maricopa County Jail at her own
request. No charge has been filed
against her.
Last night Gilbert escaped from
a police trap in Phoenix. Blood
hounds brought to the scene where
he finally abandoned Miss Chis
holm’s car, wrecked in a ditch at
the end of a dead-end street, fail
ed to track him. Police, who were
only a short distance behind when
he wrecked the car, lost him in
the darkness.
Three airplanes with deputy
sheriffs aboard were flying today
in the vicinity of the rugged Su
perstition Mountains searching for
Schmid’s trail.
Scores of officers were conduct
ing a careful search of the south
ern area of Phoenix in which Gil
bert was lost last night.
Records of the Arizona State
Board of Pardons and Paroles, re
leased today, described Gilbert and
Schmid as “weak minded.”
< According to these records, Gil
bert was born in Mountain View,
Oklahoma, in 1920 and left school
after the sixth grade. He was sen
tenced 'to Arizona State Prison
Jan. 6, 1941, for robbery. In March
1944, he was paroled for good con
duct, but the parole was revoked
Sept. 26, 1945, and he was return
ed to prison.
He escaped from prison Nov. 23,
1945, and was recaptured five days
later. His maximuni sentence ex
pired Oct. 19, 1948.
The records show that Schmid
was born in Phoenix Nov. 11, 1927.
He went through the eighth grade.
On Sept. 18, 1945, he was senten
ced to the Arizona State Prison
for Robbery. He was paroled Nov.
17, 1947, to his parents and taken
by them out of the state. When he
returned to Arizona his parole was
revoked, June 8, 1948, and he ser
ved out the rest of his sentence. It
expired Dec. 1, 1948.
“Why don’t you talk about Joe
Stalin, the man in the Kremlin?”
suggested Wilbur.
, “What’s he doing in there?”
asked Trellis Mae. “Won’t they
let him out?”
Wilbur sighed and reached to
ward her notebook and newspapers.
It looked like a long evening.
Civil Service Jobs
Open in Dayton
Aeronautical, mechanical, and
electrical engineering positions are
open at Wright Field, Dayton, O.,
Salary is $2,974 annually, accord
ing to Civil Service headquarters.
No written test is required, but
applicants must have had appro
priate college training in engineer
ing. Applications of college sen
iors and graduates will be accep
ted until March 31, 1949.
Age limits for the positions are
18 to 35. These age limits will be
waived for veterans entitled to
preference.
Further infornfation and appli
cation blanks may be obtained at
the College Station post office
from Roger W. Jackson.
DALLAS OFFICERS
CHECK SWINDLING
DALLAS, March 1 —(A > )—Texas
officers today investigated a swin
dle racket which they said involved
$10,000 in bogus checks on Cali
fornia banks.
They questioned a 42-year-old
man here and a 55-year-old wo
man in Fort Worth. The man was
brought here after his arrest in
Tyler, Texas.
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