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f : V: ■ ' ' / 3, 'lr p ‘r i i’V • : v .\. ; ! \ f v lPW' •!••! I : H ■ • : : I,. .■ 1 i -f: \ it ;V i Page 2 Battalion EdUorials ' T ' V. n \: : \ * if \ t \i \ 'H -1 ■ • '-’i' [: ; i lotsm and Jetsam in (he Fountain . r-j. . •i ' 'I- .. ! • •. !, ' WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1010 ’•\Ni 14 r -&P'M :\ ^ i ' * V : . ‘ , 1 - »• -vi*. I • 'u • :.._J t ‘ ‘ ^ I “yVakening froiri a sound sleep with a want to know is why in the devil can’t (filing.. thirst the other afternoon, 1 you throw your, cigarettes on the floor >ljfd out of my sack and staggered down and stick your gum under the theater seats like the rest of the fellows? If you’re gonna, chew gum and smoke cigarettes, th^Hiall toward the. water cooler. Hteanjng over to drihk deeply of pooling liquid, I made the mistake of open- take ’em in through your own noses and mjrmy eyes.i Theire, swimming around | in mduths and don’t jforce the other lads to 1 ! 1 tl her fountain's center, were two cast-off drink them after you’ve gotten through, igflretter-butts unit one severely-smoked The cerrter-to-rim distance of the av- Ml; Smello PerfoCto.” My stoniach, being erage water cooler is seven inches. Surely lightly weakened from the previous you can move your tired features a little night’s activities, revolted at this turn of over half a foot and drop the refuse from events. i I your f«ee on the floor instead of in the 'Bidding my palate, ( “Re f?Hlm'\ 1 ^fouhtaln. ( trudged down the long flight of stairs T Those water fountains were put in the to iho second stoop, intending to satiate dorms at sdtne expense and jio little tfou- my thirsty from thdr coolor, As I drew ble. Durlng these scorching summer days near the Oasis,’I recoiled back in hdrror. they are of great comfort to the troops. AH around the rim of the fountain were So lets some of you jokers not tear up the i inumerable wads-of Mr., WrjgTey’s pro- play house by making a dumping grounds duct, alHjf which had been roundly'chew- out of the water supply, ed before being abandoned by their for- If you have a burning desire to mud- mer owners. Taking my stomach in hand, die up the fountains, take off your shoes I bolted to the Coke machine and spent and socks and get up and wade around in my weeks allowance putting out the fire.’ them awhile. It won’t take your muddy , , Now, far be it from me to come out footprints long to wash away, publicly against smoking the deadly weed. But for comfort’s sake, let’s keep the V v- ..■i - 1 ^ Boyle’s Col. • i! '. ' ♦ ^ 1 iw. ^ im . . ► • / / • :! v ’ ! ■ i • ■, i N-j'i ■H Words of Wisdom For The Befuddled Bridegroom H 1 >■ By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK, July 6 <A>>_To t|ifc pobr man’s philosopher: “Dear 1 sir, “I am 25 years old. 1 will become a June bridegroom the last day of the monttf. As this is my first mar riage, I am anxious to make a good impression. Is there anything I ought to know? Should I look for ft job now-v-or liter? , (Signed) “Bashful.” Your arixiety is quite natural, < bashful. But you must calm your self, my boy. A|ter all you soon will bo worrylnglfor two, and that takes • i , , jtfi' I . You show a lot of character in your desire to make a good im- pression at your first wedding: Yes, there are many things you ought to know. A wedding is in deed a serious matter. ji / Naturally, my bojf, there, are a few business details. And it is bet ter that they be arranged in ad vance so that there will be no hard feelings afterward. | , The first thing, of etHUWtr' is the dowry. You simply mustn't let any affection for your bride In-, fluenqe you in this important mat ter. More and more parents are finding themselves with daughters Letters To The Editor And farther yet [be it from me to dis courage the calming of the nerves with flavor impregnated chicle. But t what 1 cigarettes and gum otit of the fountains. Their memory lingers on; long after you’re gone.-- i.-' I ' ' j l i \ ••• a—— T - if * l i . > V v ' ’ The White Man Keeps an Unfair Scoreboard . . . i; ies ain't done right by us keeps the books.” qs the essence of complaints In its attempts to make western films the movie industry last weeTc interesting and blood curdling, the movie blood ^■r •. V “The-mev Indians” nji leveled at by an Oklahoma state senator of indiau , industry has made the Indians a descent. His words were most eloquent thirsty; scalping, sadistic race of brutal and the blast most passionate. j nomads who mercilessly killed whi :e peo- 1 i“Never has the Indian been portrayed pie when they settled on the Indian’s rich as the defender of his homeland in his hunting grounds. The ; -statements of Em- meager attempt] to preserve his homeland ery are undoubtedly true. We hale seen from the white aggressor,” Senator Glad- “Custer’s Last Stand” only once,] so we stone Emery said in a letter to the Motion,- can remember only once when the Indians Picture-Association ;6f America. He ; c6n-i have won. And, like he said, that] -was a tinueq,. “Bjk sitting through fCuster’s Last massacre. “COME HOME—ALL IN FORGIVEN" Mike Ferguaon : TNCW Class ’48 My Dear Mias Ferguson: Your letter (both of them, too) Was a masterpiece of literary ge nius. In it you say you are going to apologize but by the time I finished reading it I felt as though I; had, been run through a threshing machine. - It seems as though both you and Miss Jackson took my letter too seriously ... it was meant in good hsmor just as your first work of art was meant to be, which I took as such. So. to you Mike, I dffer my humblest apologies and ask, “May we be friends?” ! As you'said, so say I, much of my humor was ill-formed and rather cutting. I will admit that the co-eds on the campus are wel come, very much so, in!fact. I Have no kick coming about their possibilities of passing a screen test. Some of them would, and others would not, just as jt is done Sneak Preview but Hollywood way. ^Believe me, I took no oftense about any insult to my looks, whibh, "I griuit you, are not ex ceptional, but I'm satisfied. After reading your letter, and Lee's, i\feel like a “little man.” I have no grudge to hold against either of yqu, because, as you say, this is a democracy where the freedom of speech prevails. therefore, here is my personal "Come home, JiL, all is forgiven," if you would haviit that way. Chuck Laakso Class ’51 Organized Reserve Corps Has New Training Credit System iflawai Reaer i . JUST ADVERTISEMENTS 7 Editor, the Battalion: \ The Battalipn is overlooking a source of revenue. I’m sneaking of these letters from girls that have been printed lately. Taking into consideration the paper's'cir culation, such letters should be classified as advertisement^ and charged for accordingly. ( John Hill \ Class ’50 \ Stand’rsorjie years back twice. I’d seen the Indians wjin twice. Of course that was a ‘massacre’ because the Indians won. . “The pot slfats my folks took at wagon trains were nd inore than is done now on occasion when we find a trespasser on opr property. /h- ] * ' ML I “Try to depict the American Indian ns he was and iH kndjve shall see and-believe, if We don’t -go; ’ftatiatTcs' much in thtise parts-—especiHliy wheif the white mjtn \ ^The movres don’t want to show Mexi cans as villains because those films ar&. nerican logical Boyer Has Tight Finish When Sentenced to A Ropes End unexportable to our Squth A neighbors, so the Indian is the money making whipping boy. Is the dollar worth the indecent hu miliation of the once proud amjl potent American Indian? If our movies mW have villains, let them be white rrjen. Surely, we are strong enoug^i to see our p>vn ri)ce as sadistic villains.; The Kinp’s Men Have A Long Wait ... ! ;Thfe Belgian people have repudiated j unkingly during the war, but t»i ; thq attempts of monarchists who hop^d 1, ^ 1 - i “ , --- the election last week in that country would; show a pojiulir desire to have King Leopold return from exile. -Immediately after Germany’s capituh- tioh, Leopold was told by the Belgian par liament that Belgium didn’t appreciate this; collaboration with the Nazis arid thipgs" iin Belgium would Tun - much smoother if he would move beyond the borders. As always happens when a kipg gets Exiled,; sympathizers and hangers-4n < started plugging for his return, and Leo- : pold’s supporters have been plugging hard andloudLfj ; V - -Many of .these supporters come from the masses whpihink Leopold is a human is heart is in the right place. Several years ago his heart was won by a fair woman who w^s a commoner. Leopold disregarded both custom and pro testations of the aristocracj’ and married her. Largely for this reason thj* queen is very popular with the masses, j y > a But whefkjtcomes to voting, the peo ple’s symnatmes*were too prejudiced by mpmorie/of Leopold’s betrayal of Belgium by his shotless surrender of the country to invading German armies inj 1940, ^ Even a king’s life is not; tie ultimate in happiness. Leopqld has to find plaCea outside his homeland to spend all the money his people annually pay him for sort ofH fellow who might have behaved his upkeep. 1 M r y M.-j. r The Battalion I i k "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” i ' S 'V It | | ' : ^ Lawrchce Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions j ) Agricultural and Mechanical College Of T«xm and the IRIS* ■ "TSe CRy of Friday , ... I talion is published.tri-weekly on Monday, Wed year. Advertising rates furnished on. requesi times a week and circulated every Monday through examination periods. During the summer The Bat- y and Friday.. Subscription rate $4.30 per echoed r- l .ML ■ ■ L,-’ /■ ' m v »I■ L l^ aii j! j | By ANDY DAVIS A Woman’s Vengeance (ill) starring Charles Boj l er, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, and Sir Ceqrlc Hardwick. Life may bo tedious, h{ut we dbn’t khoiik' what tixiuble really is. Charles Boyer gets more than! his ishare In this film, hut [some rtf it [is bfoqght on by his own doihgs, Married to an invalid whose only ienjwment in life is ftfelitig sorry for ihenelf, Boyi'r seeks happiiiess elsewhere, in the form of j>no. Ann! Blyth, and an plil 'friend of the family's, Jessica Tandy. After Boyer and his wife have a Violent (quarrel over her worthless brother, Miss Tandy is called over to smooth •out the wrinkles. Tht* three have a party, and later Boyer excuses jhtmwlf to keep an engagement 1 • I i. •- ’ i mJ ’ Methodist 'ClasB Sends CARE Aid College Hiarried students and their wives in the Kum Duble Class of the Methodist Church are send ing a ten dollar CARE package to Europe every two months. The money is sent to headquar ters jin New York City and CAltE officjals select the family that will receive the package,, according to Ferfs Baker, Wesley Foundation -DilW :tor. . • | ■ The package program is under the | sponsorship of phe Social ac- tipnj committee of thje church. Dor is and Erskine Hightower are chairmen of the committee. V] i- .. '■ ! . ' ’49 Appropriation Compared to’50 *' 1 I ' * i AUSTIN, Tex., July 6 UP>— Thisj | is how appropriations voted last week by the legislature com pare with current spending: TO departments of the state — $51,396,640, (only $30,056,994 to comp from general revenue with other revenue sources supply the remhinder). Current allocation $42,812,080 (all funds). with Miss Blyth. Returning home that evening he learns that his wife has died of a sudden heart attack. All hopes of Miss Tandy’s marrying Boyer, arje shattered when he nuirries Ann Blyth, and brings her Home to live. The old gal doesn't i take it so well, and drops a hint to his wife's old '"nurse, that her death may not have been accidental, The nurse quirk to K*t e\e» with Boyer, divulges a lot of circumstantial evidence to the police. An inquest Is held after opening .'Che grave dml re-examining tlit body. Boyer ils charged with mur dering his vilfe by poisoning her With ursenlcj nnd is sentenced o die by hanging. The family phy sician, Sir Cedric Hardwick, hns his own idea)* about the Case, ard carried th’emj through to the end. Brtyer missed the noose by k thread, and itjs really a tight flnisli. An excellent cast turn in top performances. The film has a ten dency to drag in spots, but otht|r than that it should satisfy the aq- dience. j Mcllroy Renamed ToFilm Committee }|> ' • j, •' 1.1 , | | 1: !'• 1: iJjbioy, pi I Ed< Fern Speaks . To IE School George Fern, former indus trial education professor at A&M and present director of National Scholastics Awards, Scholastic Magazine of New York, is guest speaker for the joint University of Texas- A&M Industrial Education slimmer school here. Fern began as guest lecturer Monday and Will speak to vocation al classes! through Friday. A native of. Michigan, Fern be- vgan as assistant! professor of me chanical engineering and superin tendent of the M& Shops at A&M ReCeiving his^BS in industrial ed ucation }n 1929, he taught until 1933 witjhj the irank of associate professqif. , From J933 to; 1935 he served as state director of industrial edu cation ind\chaifman of vocational division, ’ Sta^e Department of Ed ucation. 'He served from 1935 to 1945 as state director of Michigan Vocational Eduction and as chief of training, Gilman Personnel Di vision,: Office of Secretary of War for one year. From 11946 Until 4,948 he was managing editor of the s Am<»rican Vocational Journal. Hu* assumed his priaVnl job in 1948. W. W. Me! Agricultural rofessor in the Education Depart- ‘ The Associated (Pres* is entitled exclusively to the usd for republication of all news dispatches [Milted to iLor not otherwise: credited in the paper and local 323.; 686. ment, has bdeh notified-Uy Ralph L. Evans, cojordinafor of the Na varro County Vocational Training Schools, that i he has been reap pointed chairman of the Cen-Tex Film Library t Executive Commit tee for another year. Mcllroy was also selected to head the auditing committee for the organization for the next fis cal year. I ! * !/, j The Cen-Teix Library, owns 228 films of educational nature. These films are loarted to veteran voca tional agriculture schools and vo cational agriculture high (schools in 31 counties in the Waco area. , Also on deposit are 15 films giv en by Industrial companies whose , . . . - • products agq Associated with farm- A higher education-$59,607,- | n g and farm problems. Current allocation^ $46,726,- New! Distributor At Delta Station A now] type] of fvrtillaor dfatrlb- Utor will, be ust<d in cxporlnumtal wprk lo bo conducted by the Col- Isgv t W'Hr. Professor J. C Smith til tliej Agronomy Depart- tmmt, sidd tbls morning. Smith, H. IK. Uua, and li. H Marti ford huye just recently re turned from ja trip to the Delta Experiment S tation at Stoneville Mississippi, where plans to builc such a distributor were,discussed The Deity Stytiop is far advancet in mechanizsition as a result of some machinery developed by W. E. Meek,! the engineer located there, Smith said j The upit desired by the A&M Agronomy Department is to be a combination of a multi-unit dis^ tributor, j anhydrous ammonia dis tributor, j conventional distributor and steed! planter. j / “Such a unit is needed so that further expensive fertilizer trials may be mode here,” said Smith. The Dnltk Station has also done work; on weed control with chemi cals, Smith added. UU TL on their hands these days, and a good man is getting hard to find. - Drive a fair but sharp bargain.' Many fathers-in-law still dislike making cash settlements. How- ! ever, if your bride’s dad is any man !' lat all he probably will be only too ; glad to present you and his daugh ter with a newly-furnished apart ment, rent-paid for three years. i There is the matter of the wed- / ding itself. Too much stress has if been laid on the importance of the ' , ring. It is only a syirtbol. Buy a simple ring. Just be sure the gold won’t wear off it until at leaat three days after the oerempny. AuthoritieH differ as to Whether you should invite your old girl j , io ceremony. For my rueneve you should;! The bight of, aay, half a dosen of your The OrRaiilzed ReMervo hft« cTianged Ity Hyiitem qflftward ing trailing creditw for retention in Afce Active Reserve, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott, Executive fbr the Telta« Military District,‘has announced. /;• 1 |i 1 The' syatem of obtaining credits by “hours” h is been —V-discarded for a system qsing the “point credit” plan. 1 , Minimum requirements for re tention in the Active Reserve is now 27 point credits a year, in cluding 15 points which will be allowed for membership in the Active Reserve. Only one point Will t>e allowed for one day of duty, whether it be for active or in active duty. i j An officer on a 30-day tour of duty will receive 30 prtints, and he will receive the same number of points by attending 30 armory meetings. As an officer will be credited with 15 points for mem bership in the Active Reserve, he actually will have to earn only 12 points throughout the year. There has been no change in the number of points required for a Satisfactory year of service! for retirement- purposes. P' An enlisted Reservist must re ceive 20 prtints for retention jin the Active Reserve, but he will have to earn only five points a year; as he also receives 15 prtints for being in the Active Reserve. One reason for the change, ac cording to Abbott, was the con- •x-flamtf w«fping in d« give your bride a feeli victory, Ami, after all, one you want to make Thorn la, otto last thing, my bqy irour faUicr-ln* wllO wULI quiet K o la tho h$ppf. i n*n> is, one msi uu* that matter of a Job, you driva off bn youi law’s car, i it might be wlae' to sug gest that ho start looking igt once for employment frtr you. Ti [ v It ia a sad time for fathers when they lose their daughters, and this task will reassure the olH man there still Is something foe him to do in the world—while yot»’rc en joying your honeymoon,, as a June bridegroom should. And take your bride along, too, my boiy. She’ll be grateful 1 forever! for this little touch of thought fulness. ’ ; vj ;i J' ! fusion which was! created by award ing “hours” for ( retention in < the Active Reserve ajnd using “points” inj calculating credits ’ for retire ment at the age of ( 0. tyie “year” of service for retirement will be the same as that foi l retention. Colonel Abbott wont , on to say that this new regulation, which be came effective June 29, directis the itre rtf a credit card to be kept; by th|e / Organized Reserve Corps u|nit tructors. for eflc!l mem .•[ Rural Phone B May Be Scuttle f ■ J • ; , ! 1 I! Washington, July &—W)—f ' h" .r- l. , - , , . Magee (B-Mo) tpld the House to- d^y a mo,ve is under way among Democrats to scuttle the Rural Telephone Legialatiom “Because the author Has opposed many ministration measures!” j. j Rrtp. Poage (D-TeX) is author of the bill. It would aUthorite gov- /to build rural tele- ■ i, f ! ' / J . J y ; i, 1 M r H in* the Active Keserv^. Points during the retirement year! brill lx at m , lb •servo, ami for nt ye lx recorded on the card, jityh & atntohient as to who Her sufficient ints for retention ! in the Act v« i) satisfactory ernntent loans phone systems^ y / The bill /is tP be considered Thursday by the/ House. “I am distressed to learn,” Magee said in a speech,, “that tttyre is a move on among some of my Dem ocrat colleagues to scuttle this bill.” U I/ V! IK , il .v M — rrr u.i, / C. tar forCetiromont purposes,; hiivv ten earned during thb year. The Army also has olimipa od thi' nomioacrlptlve! term "ingrtvo duty” in Its applIcaHm to train ing for Active Reservists net on active duty. “Rosen e duty") Ity* been substituted. ! j m L r 1 PM ME hr^om AY thru SAT. jeroin, newt: of spontaneous origin publish- Rights of republication of all oth sr matter herein ore alto reserved. its Mcond-steM matter at ,PMt Oollasa Btetiea. Tasaa, i nndar f CmtrsM ot March I, 1170. ! Member of the Associated Press or ‘iKewi contributions may bn mode by tee odwin Hall. Classified ids msy be placed flee, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. .BILL BILLINGSLEY tevaJatatS**' 4.k. MAR ! ChatTle W. jc. Col BROWN, CLATTON SELPH.. a «•••.«• 4 «•a• •* 4 4* lie. David Heines v-vie Fandcv. ijouii* Jonas., Henry Lacour. i Irue* im- sSlthV Robtrt ... .Staff Reporter* R«v(ew« Bobte Myei*. Bruce Newton. ’Barry Smith. —. wiiiiam* .......staff: • T." . IT ■ ■ ^11 . I ! 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Notice "Lv nent has an- awards for research The Vi the A&M close Ssturlay momi Assistant to the President with aj ns Professor the Sociol All childt are invited of the school aon, church the school. J} ties program, School ilethodist GhureH will ; is •i. mtiel Russell, head of ^ Department. of the commmillty the closirig »y Mrs.. D. C rotary in chari a.for five ud its summer activi- Saturday morning’s Davison said. | , R ! 1 ■ r KI ' STORY” —with— m ! ). "PuJILi’ James Stewart ft June Alyson v j ! )B THOSE DEMAND THE •X. ; \ 1 H i id \ : r XT i 1 ! LAST l^AY FIRST RUN -Featureh Start— 3:20 - 5:00 - 6:15 - 8:20 , 10:00 | -! tr , BETTY GRABLE w 6 iful “The Blonde f rom Bashful Bend” In TechniLlor NHMt J . V . J ] SMfttt ^ CHARLES BOYER i i. **Hh ANN UESSICA.X : BLYTH 1ANDY ancM'Wmim THURSj# BCGS BUNNY CARTOON THURSDAY’ONLY “GONE ■ t ,w I -Tsikrefl Start— 1:00 - 5100 - :9:00 i 4 w' iii’ MDOtm Wil HIM V** p« .1 ma. ) hi. - 'i-', II! If i iij; •>;
