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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 194]p
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Another Great Issue to Be Discussed
An audience in Guion Hall will find
out tonight about another “Great Issue”
facing the world today.
This is the fourth in a series of speak
ers for the Great Issues Class and the
second one which has been open to the
general public in our largest auditorium.
First Churchill and now Roosevelt are
presenting their ideas on world issues.
Roosevelt as was Churchill, is partially
stymied because he is following in the
wake of a relative who is world renowned.
Roosevelt, in his discussion tonight,
plans to take his audience on a tour of
another continent, “The Near East.” This
lecture sounds like it may concern a sub
ject which is 6,000 miles away; and it is.
But it is less than 20 hours by air from
Washington.
The liberal arts students will be inter
ested in what Roosevelt has to say be
cause of the historical and cultural impli
cations.
The agricultural students, or part of
them, will come with the idea that they
may hear something about their major
subject.
Engineering students, and particular
ly petroleum students, will be interested
in knowing the status of the oil interests
in Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. The controversy
over petroleum in these countries could
carry us into a third war.
Not of minor interest will be the Com
munist elements in these countries. Roose
velt is certain to discuss how the countries
under the brow of Russia are operating.
The near East will continue function
ing whether you attend this lecture or
not, but you will have a better idea of just
how they are going about it if you do at
tend.
Updated, College Station Spring Song . . .
Warm and inviting sunshine sifted on
to the Main Drill Field outside my office
window. I gazed out on newly budding
trees and farther to the emerald grass of
the field.
The bright outdoors was like a mag
net. Through all nature pulsed the rein
vigorated breath of the vernal season.
Birds twittered, butterflies flittered and
the grass glittered beneath the entrancing
inspiration of March. Truly, it was spring.
On the boughs of an old elm two spar
rows chirped at one another. They hopped
from branch to branch, playing coyly at
the world’s oldest game, setting up a
musical din happier than a merry-go-
, .j-aund.
The boughs they skipped o’er also pro
claimed the season. Tender green dots of
color, like a closely-observed Toulouse-
Lautrec painting, shone on the rich brown
bark.
I could not remain indoors when all
nature beckoned me out. I waltzed to the
door, floated down stairs, and was wafted
away into the arms of fresh, warm spring
time.
I saw another nature-lover across the
street and I decided to ask him what the
blessed season mean’t to him.
“Spring!” he roared. “Spring be blas
ted ! If you think this nasty sunshine is all
for the good, you gotta nuther think com
ing. I have to sweat and strain and walk
all over Brazos County because of that
darn yellow translucent phenomenon. I
have to “level” this whole place and be
able to say which river a drop of rain
This ought to prove that doctors are
people. Dr. S., reporting to the Wichita
(Kas.)Eagle, says, according to Medical
Economics, he is “hale and hearty at 65,
.. .all he wants is a little peach and quiet.”
falling off Sully Ross’s statue will go to.
Pfooey. And it only happens when spring
comes around.”
I felt that the lad was twisted in his
appreciation, so I wandered on.
Another fellow loomed up on the hori
zon. He moved slowly and deliberately as
if the spirit of the season were within
him. I asked if it was.
“Aw nuts! When spring comes long,
we have to give the cattle barns their
regular spring cleaning. That ain’t no
fun. And besides, I keep remembering
that Pa is planting cotton at home right
now. When school’s out, I’ll have to go
home and hoe, hoe, hoe.”
He signed off with a few colorful re
marks and trudged Eastward. I was still
carried on the crest of the vernal impulse
carried right down to Kyle Field.
A group of big, uniformed hombres
were sitting in the shade, panting and
perspiring. I asked one if he did not
agree that spring is a delightful season.
“Ugh! Give me the dead of winter!
There’s no spring training then. I don’t
have to get out here and strain my poor
aching back when it’s snowing. Besides,
you’re all fouled up anyway—spring does- ■
n’t start until March 21. Why don’t you
drop dead?”
I was thunderstruck, amazed, taken
aback, and awed. But I quickly calculated
the equinoxes and had to agree that I was
being premature. It wasn’t spring at all.
Like a groundhog that has been thoro
ughly frightened by its shadow, I slunk
back to my hole and resumed hibernation
where I had left off. Pfooey to spring!
In a basketball game, as described by
the Columbia (Mo.) Missourian, a player
named Pippin “brought the spectators to
their feet as he . . . spun the bull through
the hoop.”
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Aggieland Then and Now
1914-1918
By GEORGE CHARLTON
An idea, determination to follow
it up, and results later—maybe—
but it’s not the same old story.
This story was brought to mind
when The Battalion and some of
the city papers carried the news
about the resolution introduced in
congress for the issuance of a
stamp commemorating A&M’s 75th
Anniversary.
The resolution has gone through
quite a bit of red tape from the
time when it was only a thought
in the mind of Jack Happy, junior
business student in A Flight Air
Force. The idea occurred to Happy
a few weeks before the Christmas
holidays when he and a local post
office employee were discussing
stamp collecting.
Happy then began the trek
through “beaucoup” channels in
order to put his idea across. He
first talked to W. G. Braezeale,
assistant director of student af
fairs. .Braezeale referred him to
Henderson Shuffler, director of
information, and at his sugges
tion, Happy wrote a letter to
Congressman Olin Teague. Tea
gue in turn; suggested he write
the Postmaster General.
Then on January 15 Happy was
promised utmost cooperation from
the presidents of some of the for
mer students associations when he
outlined his idea before them at
their annual meeting on the cam-
100 FFA Boys Will
Judge Cattle Here
One hundred FFA boys will
meet at College Station on April
9 for a dairy cattle judging con
test, Professor A. L. Darnell of the
Dairy Husbandry Department, said
today.
The boys will represent Area 3
of the agricultural education divi
sion of the state.
Similar contests are being held
in all parts of Texas. Ten per-cent
of the highest ranking teams will
be eligible for participation in the
All State Contest, Darnell said.
The All State Contest will be
held on the campus late in May,
Professor Darnell added.
Think Of This
“As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he.” Prov. 23:7
Men doctors will tell you that
a large percentage of the people
who come to them for treatment
are actually not physically sick at
all. The patient many times mere
ly thinks himself to be ill and soon
becomes thoroughly convinced of
the presence of nonexistent pains.
This will prove to a person that
the mind has powerful control over
the body. With this thought in
mind, it is easy to understand what
the Lord meant when he taught
that not only was it bad to commit
a sinful act, but that the very act
of thinking on things unpleasing
to God was to be avoided.
QUEEN
HELD OVER FOR—
Thursday & Friday
Dave Coslett, Frank Cushing, George Charlton,
Buddy Luce, Chuck Maisel, H. C. Michalak,
Marvin Rice, Carroll Trail Feature Writers
Bob “Sack” Spoede, Bill Potts Sports Editors
Leon Somer, Frank Simmen, Andy Matula,
Scotty Swinney, Travis Brock, Ben
Lampkin, Frank Manitzas Sports Reporters
Mrs. Nancy Lytle Women’s Page Editor
Alfred Johnston Religious Editor
Andy Davis Movie Editor
Kenneth Marak, Sam Lanford, R. Morales,
Frank Welch, C. W. Jennings Staff Cartoonists
pus.
Representative Herman Yezak
later introduced a joint resolution
to the state legislature proposing
the approval of the issue.
Happy took another big step,
this time with Dick Hervey, sec
retary and treasurer of the Form
er Students Association, when he
went to see Colonel Burris Jackson
of Hillsboro, president of the Na
tional Postmaster’s Association.
Colonel Jackson promised his as
sistance and suggested writing
Texas senators and congressmen.
While Colonel Jackson was in
Washington on business, he pi’e-
sented the matter to officials
there.
The latest development, of
course, is the introducing of the
resolution in congress.
Happy is a graduate of Wood-
row Wilson high school in Dallas
and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
K. Happy. He is a member of the
Dallas A&M Club, the Business
Society, the Spanish Club, and the
French Club. Also, he has been
a Distignuished Student five sem
esters here. Naturally, he has col
lected stamps for 6 or 7 years.
“I don’t know what denomina
tion the stamp will be. The most
common commemorative denom
ination, is the three-cent stamp,”
Happy said.
He added that A&M should be
given priority in a stamp issue
over other schools because it is
the largest military school in the
United States, the first institution
of higher learning in Texas, the
largest land grant college in the
United States, and the school to
turn out more officers in World
Wars I and II than any other in
the United States.
The Dallasite also has some
ideas of what the stamp should
look like if the issue is approved.
He said that pqssibly the stamp
would be maroon and white with
an Aggie senior super-imposed
against the A d m i n i stration
Building or one of the landmarks
of the college.
Happy hopes, the Student Senate
hopes, and all of us hope the con
gress will see things his way.
OLD AGE AMMENDMENT
PROPOSAL PASSES
AUSTIN, March 9 —UP)— A
proposed constitutional amend
ment lifting the 35 million dollar
annual ceiling on state expenditure
for old age pensions and other wel
fare was approved by the House
yesterday after long debate.
War Years Were An Era
Of Famous Firsts Here
“New man, McClure, I’ll speak to him first thing in the morning.”
We May Be Licked Yet . . .
A&M Stamp Issue Will Have
Happy Start, End - Maybe *
By CHUCK MAISEL
Unlike the war years just past,
Aggieland was a hubub of activity
and building during the First
World War. New building's and
new traditions were springing up
like weeds. The era 1914-1918 at
A&M saw more “firsts” than pro
bably any other time in the col
lege history.
The first of the annual bon
fires before the Turkey Day
game was burned in ’15. After
the football team was beaten by
Rice in the same year, the Corps
fell out to meet the gridders’
train at 2 a. m. marking the
first time this was ever done.
The Longhorn of ’16 had the
first Senior Favorites section. Van
ity Fair made its appearance in
the same annual, although the
pictures were of such people as
“The Most Popular Cadet,” “The
Most Military Cadet,” and so on.
The first references to the foot
ball team and the student body as
“Aggies” were in 1914 newspapers
and the first use of the term and
the act of “wildcatting” came in
’17. The campaign hat made its
initial debut on the campus when
the uniforms were changed from
The old Cadet Greys to the new
army type khaki uniforms with
“leggins” to match.
In ’18, the Field Artillery and
Signal Corps marked the first
branches other than the Infan
try at A&M. Mom Claghorn, be
loved head nurse at the hospital,
and Dana X. Bible first made
Aggieland their homes during
the four year period.
The first class of Aggies to be
inducted in the Army en masse
entered Fort Sheridan. That was
the Class of ’17 and they were soon
followed by the Classes of ’18 and
’19. With the end of the war, A&M
saw her first non-regs. These were
former officers in the Army who
had their choice of corps or non
corps student life. Ex enlisted men
were returned to the corps, how
ever.
Students of the period saw the
High School
English Group
To Meet Here
The third meeting of the Joint
Committee on Integration of En
glish Teaching in High Schools
1 and Colleges will be held here
March 25-26. Dr. T. F. Mayo,
head, of the English Department,
is chairman of the committee.
The group will lay plans for the
October workshops and discuss
comprehensive tests for high
school juniors, to be followed by
remedial work in senior year.
There are eleven districts in the
state, and a conference for each
district will be held for high school
and college teachers of English.
College members of the com
mittee are Prof. R. B. Daniels,
Houston; Sister Mary Generosa,
San Antonio; Prof. Harry B. San
ders, Kingsville; Prof. A. M. Gunn,
Lubbock; Prof. W. A. Ransom,
Arlington; Prof. H. L. Bagley, Al
pine; Dr. L. E. Dudley and Prof.
Etheridge, Kilgore; Mrs. Mattlie
E. D. Shelton, Abilene; Miss Jane
Swayne Mack, Canyon; Prof. Wil
liam Vann, Belton; Prof. L. W.
Courtney, Waco; Dr. Fred Eck-
feldt, Austin and Dr. Cleo Mc-
Christy, Brownwood.
High school members, Miss
Laurie Barefoot, Brady; Miss Olo
Casey, Austin; Miss Janet Aren-
Lee Freeman, Waco; Miss Bertha
dale, Beaumont; Miss Ollie Strat
ton, San Antonio; Miss Thelma
Walworth, Harlingen; Miss Glenis
Haney, Lubbock; Miss Mary Belle
Whitsett, Weatherford; Miss Maud
Isaaeks, El Paso; Miss Tommie
Clark, Abilene; Miss Bennie
Works, Wichita Falls; Miss Irene
Walters, Texarkana and Mrs. Alice
McDavid, Amarillo.
Academic Building open for busi
ness. Sbisa was finally finished as
was the YMCA. A new college hos
pital was built along with Guion
Hall and Bizzell Hall.
Scholastics went on the up
grade with more and more de
partments being added to the
school under the new president,
W. B. Bizzell. Enrollment more
than doubled during the four
years going from 1000 to 2500.
Hazing was again a “thing of
the past.”—to quote the Long
horn—but the old Brass Rule to
“do unto others as it was done
unto you” still was prevalent.
Corps Trips and nightly Call to
Quarters were part of the new set
up. There was even a proposed
Corps Trip to San Francisco in ’14
but the plan fell through. And the
main event of the annual social
calendar at Aggieland was the
yearly Campus Carnival which
drew visitors from throughout the
State.
A student of those days had to
answer to a roll call a total of 15
times each day. If absent at any
one of these, he was subject to
four hours on the bull ring. The
bull ring at that time consisted of
chopping weeds on Saturday after
noon.
In ’17 and ’18, all students at
the school were required to sign
enlistmeht papers in the Students
Army Training Corps—forerunner
of advanced ROTC. They received
a base pay of one dollar per day.
All were discharged in December
of ’18 with much relief to the ca
dets as the army had more or less
taken over the school, shoving aca
demic duties to the side.
1917 saw A&M’s first unde
feated, untied, unscored on foot
ball team. The ’17 Aggies ran
up a total season score of 270-0.
Bible did this with a completely
inexperienced group, only three
regulars having returned at the
start of the year.
But with all this building and
establishing of traditions, the
thing uppermost in the minds of
the sophomores in ’17 and ’18 was
the fact that freshmen students
were separated from other upper
classmen living in dorms all to
themselves. The second year cadets
were absolutely certain that the
school had never been in a worse
condition and equally sure that the
A&M they had known was dead—
never to rise again. Who says his
tory doesn’t repeat itself?
the hides of march
Y Cabinet Elects
Committee Heads
Floyd Kernes was chosen new
leader of the committee on liter
ature and pamphlets Monday at
the regular meeting of the YMCA
cabinet.
Lloyd Manjeot became chair
man of the community and cam
pus service group. Don McClure
heads the membership committee.
Bob Latson and King Egger lead
the discussion groups.
Tom Fields will head the pro
gram committee and publicity wall
be under the direction of Bill
Batey.
Two films, “Human Destiny”
and “City of David,” which pic
tures Jerusalem as it is today,
were shown during the meeting.
ROSARY AND
BENEDICTION
St. Mary’s Chapel
TONIGHT — WEDNESDAY
MARCH 9TH—7:30 P.M.
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