I i!w* f .t!’ •V., •t • i ■•• J .ri V r i i '■LA r--: -r B Battalion Editorials '' , V. j‘ : [! I- •;.'ihvvipihvhj WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 194« rf y if-V't'- .. % r i v yy : . % ; ’ / ■ T'.tr\ i V' ; v 1 ' v i^iTy 4" • f 1 ' 4 4: 1 : ' i-. 1 \ M \ U j r .i:l •.'t* I : i n. \' Ik: ;'■ 1 • (■, 1 ME r( Pige 2i -J ■ . u Good Neighbors and Gl k h." • \. • .1 . " . I r" ■ rousers i4 ; i M ere’a in old expression about "the disease that has always thrived hand not knowing what the left of education. doing. This tijtne, however, it'jji And the situation doesn’t the State Department and the D i f e n s e Latin American students. A&M’s department, each of which doesn’t know ing agriculture and engineering bring students from all over th seeking to improve their countril recent Order from the Defense Depart- 1 $hAt the other is up to. i ' IWe are referring, of course, to the :k on 1: I t ^rjd with ’s outstand- schools world, ! 1 f tj j • j- 1 i • r j:V '<■ • 1 JiL MW \ h . ig to improve their countries' posi tions in these two basic industries. Each rrient, baqng foreign students from re- semester students register here from In- ceiving government issue uniforms under did, Pahkistan, many of the Latin Ameri- thlo ROTC program. The order was vig- can countries, China, the Phillipin^ Isands, orcfusly protested this week by our Board Puerto Rico, and numerous other AmerG can possesions whose ; than a , Of Directors. They said, in effect, that the government was being inconsistent by, spending large sums of money and send- ^ :, Sni surplusunifonfis to Latin American I Tho frienidly far more and good will is few GI trousers. Iji i ■ !]■ se foreign students who are in the countries (under The Good Neighbor ROTC and'must spend an extra ^250 for cy) on the sarhe hand, and then an- uniforms (when they ar^ hedgingj a bud- takonizimg these same countries by dis- get to stay in school) can not help but criminating^iganst their college students feel the sharp bite of discrimination. And oir-the other. K those other students,, not We want to both echo and expand on are Ibng accustomed to qui the Board’s statement. A&M is definitely resent the slightest show of discjrimma- stronghold of good neighbor relations, tion, notj only against then y but against Ji.—.i- lj. r _i.i_ t i t|i^ r game problems fWe are sure the military wi»s only watching its all-too-small budget when it ordered- the paring-off of foreign stu dents from its'uniform lists. But in this case, we think they should look pist the purse strings to see where they arc lead ing. /;TIs >;«!'] , , ■ ] . The least we can do fbr our foreign students is to issue them the same boots iand pajnts we issue all other students. Th^t one simple act might prevent our Gbod Neighbor Policy from getting [a boot Sn the pants a few years from now. have as high, or higher, ratio of Latin can students as any other college in tho nation. ^Nowhere else are they so readily, accepted into the social life of tjhe school. ' ; \ Students of Latin American extraction ave set high academic records at A&M, d in eight yearsmf association with the oHege we have heard nothing but praise n their 1 behalf frbm their fellow students. This ,good relationship Will pot end in] college. As the students of today become 1 in the ly detject and i corps, |;f] •;/r n ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ffi I •; —- l/v T "; ■V ■ I-: - NEW you town! It m ’t be By HAL BOYLE W Y 1 New ORK—UP> —- Oh, I York is a wonde: be fine or there wi many people crowded to enjoy it. a terrible place to in, but a grand town t*e ip. •. H t here the poor man has and’fights for his fights, a millionaire any y up all night to tell Yes, rich or poor, youjre really, important tnd. fYtfu have io belong s’L0ts just another number here. And sometimes it’s pleasant to wonder whether you’re 8,675,341 or maybe 1,435,76$. Who caies? ' I 1 There is one thihg sure: never be :Mr. Number ~ use nobody is big enough t\ important on this 4 Littlt m . /> y -( iii ’ If k'yj J . N ,j- vfil It’s Own +-it" can never belong to you is a man’s town, and it’s cpt foir ^ize. It has outgrown ev< who ever lived in itj—and it’i growing. - ■■[ I UV; . And the people} who live are growing, too, * ‘ J _ to ii The fat-voi Wetters KK ISSt’E GOES TO THE DOC^ Editor. The B^ttafioa: . j Lo! There is ah imposter oh tlj Campus. He wears, or 1 did, uhiform of an bfficer of the Ca pus Security, and he, shot a in my front yard. If anyone for names and Jluldresses of! witnesses of the. incident I y Air Crash Takes Lives Of 45; Knickerbocker Kill i* ineludi Ah airplane crash nea jraC k times Associated -Press who 1 Knickerbocker, In past years. Knickerbocker made hi i hpme at Daliad fi He ]- was graduated from .-fi— - ~ i r /eryone of the 26 seniors )ring in geology or geol- engineering at A&M e glad to fumlsK them- On call. It would seem t Wlil had a position waiting for him j*,*! after the June graduation cer- are emonies. the qujestions , , , own to, this: Mr. Hickman, atje' | fSBI^Mes. ^ou a liar, or do you not ev^i fj “This unusual record of mow what members of your fob man having a job as he graduated i, . ,l ... , tontiate my Was j n a ] arsre {j, e | charge f with pfjpof. Can you ?{ /initiative of the students in « i j i l, \ .-T | - vWv . v ;- / ; • . Bombay, India, ttjok 46 luding 14 newspapermen, one of rbock st yeaijg. lectured „l • !. every cbn- Rolxfrt B. Mayes, ’49 tacting personnel' of the oil com the leaders of tomorow, both countries will! I —(benefit by the loss of race prejudice; a] •fi T b '• v . ' ■ i !-■! The Trumpet Blows Last Respects . . . Voted to principles that inspired hdmira- tion in those who agreed with him and priticism in those who disagreed. But even those most critical of his principles can not dopht his sincerely or despise him for beliefs. -• While Mr. Jester was Governor of Texas}, several reform measures were • I / * | I A "f . S . j * *“ passed by the Legislature which are im provements in our state government: The farmers will remember his jadminis(tration When death strikes unexpectedly, jthe normal ordeij—whether it is in govern ment or family life—is interrupted and the fates of those immediately concerned are laffected./ . ' / T ’ ![. . t’h^i’e is ho one to replace a father or his ipother or child y whom death suddenly claims. Law has given to l governments security against a state on a nation be coming thrown into disorganization by the death of its chief executive, hut neverthe less, the loss is felt proportionately to the , , _ iiv , abilitv of or esteem held bv the deceased because (>f the va f ^buildirtg program , . •/ >. .. 4 J launched^Teachers and the people of Tex as will remember the passage of school reorganization and other reform measures. iiii oi/-iii-vtfuii|i City Marshal’s office in Many will remember his campaign against federal control oij the tidelands. : The - people of nor Jester with\ Texas regarded Gover- much esteem, ahd his ■I death-is being felt as a personal Ijoss by many. Texans. , I When taps-are sounded in Corsicana , today for Beauford Halbert Jester, the people of Texas will be paying their res pects to an} important Texan whose ab sence will be felt for some time to 1 ■!i • I • V I I The U. J S. poulation now stands at L The j Pasadena, Calif, chapter come. yf the 148,527,000, the Census Bureau estimated American Institute of Architects earnestly marrying, during ‘‘tremendotrs^^Tise I . last week. A spate of the war and sinde, |a in the birth rate; and continued high lev els of employment had, boosted the popu- iatidiiL_by--almqst 1 17 million in the past line} years.—Tfty mne years. l 1 -i Hif»l * -TtME. - V: 7 / l ' resolved that its members for on^ year should address each other f even in con Versation) as "Architect” instead or "Mis ter;” to -test whether the Ifhe dignity and business jprofesftioa.: ' I},," I ■ • M! ' "• ! 11-’; The Battalion Lii title added to volume of the Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions The Battalion,, official newspaper of the Agricultural ahd Mechani of College Station, Texas, is published five tiities a week and circ: Thi ay'afternoon, except^during^hplidnys^ami examination^ periods. luring ^^Adverti^ng^toa^u^hiSiS on requeat. 6 || and ”|| y ** tal College elated every Monday through dimmer The Bat- !ie v Associated s Press is entitled 1 exclusively to the nse for republication of i credited to it or not otherwise credited in thei paper and local news of spontane ed herein.) Rights of republicatidn of all other matter herein, are also iMerved. Member of d The Associated-Press Goodwin BILLINGS BROWN. , Goodwjn Hall LEY-.J — 4 U, V ...... telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial Ti : 1 ' - ■ : ii • • •• i • •••|i*** CLAyton SELPH...;.. W ( K. iColvlU*, David Hivinca.. ^_..S9E l^Nvir. jlurton, Knyie Fan Kj panics,” stated S. A. Lynch, head of the Geology Department. “This was particularly true in case of the small companies and indepen dent operators who did not send representatives to interview stu dents in any college.” Of the graduates, the largest | number, 35 per cent, took positions with small companies and indepen dent oil operators with 27 per cent, of the group accepting positions} with .geophysical companies. N> ne - teen per cent found positions with major oiL companies, and eight; per cent accepted jobs with drilling corttractors or in the field of min-jl ing geology. „ -- i ' ' f - Four per cent of the graduates accepted commissions in the Armed Forces. j Agents to Attend Arkansas School M Nineteen .county home demorj- stratioii agents, six agricultural 4| agents and three members of th headquarters staff of the Texas! Extension Service have been grant ed leaves of absence to attend the regional suhuner school for ex tension workers, UniyersitY of Ar kansas, Fayetteville, J iFl y |14 through August 10, according to irector G. G. Gibson of the Texas tension Service. he three staff members graft ed l^ave are S. L, Neal, Mrs. R6s- ella XCook, And Leta Bennett. All are districts agents with headquar ters at. College Station. Special courses will be offered at v the IJniversity for extension workers. The school is one of the four regional schools set up for the purpos/ of giving advarieed training to \extension persorjnel. Special emphasis will be placed on methods for improving the -work being done by the exjtensibn Work er, Gibson said. \ j FFA Chapter Has Watermelon Feast The Collegiate Chapter ojf the Future Farmers of Americd met in Area 3 of HenSel Park Wed nesday for Its annual watermelon 'aupper. , ' l \! Approximately 160 families pf agricultural 1 education undergrad uates, graduates, and- professors bought aWtij&km the watermtel-\ i , , f ,„ 0 ons that purchased from > the cmss of the Navasota ^ftitermelon Asso- ciatioh. : - E. R. Alexarfieir, j head of /the : Agricultural . Eoacation Depart ment, was coordinator for: the af- |1946. Southwestern U n iy| e r s i ty • it Georgetown and took postgradua e work at Southern 1 Methodist Unji- versity- where he liter taught jouf- nalismj J • ' ' }- AJ ,1 In a plane crackup hear Lqs Angelas early reports said 11 pet- sons yfrere killed and at least 5 0 persons were injured. Forty-eight persons were aboard. A French military plane crashed in French Morocco killing 18 pef- !sons, jit was reported today. T)e crash occurred yesterday; Two U.S. Airforce fliers weie found dead today beside a C-£4 which crashed in the Russian zoi e of Germany. A third'crewman w*s believed dead inside the craft. The plane, was on the Berlin; Ajirlif:. Fourteen j Americans, includin ; 13 newspaper, magazine and radio reporters, were among those killed in the crash of a Etytch airliner in a drenching rainstorm near Bonj- bay. | ’ ImLos Angeles, the Sheriffs Of- ilce.!reported that the craft which craned near there, a Staadard Airlines, plane, was burning atop Susanna Pass in the Northwest end of the San Fernando valley. The Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) Constellation smashed into a hi 1 while groping for ah airfield nort i of Bombay With which the pilots werte not familiar. /' Other than Knickerbocker, An- erican victims included Pulitzqr priie wirtnef SJ. Burton Heath qf the; Newspaper Enterprise Assoc jatifii. The correspondents were retun i- 1 ing from a visit to Ihdonesia spon sored by the Netherlands govern- metat. 1 . : -: ' I _ 4 A Coast Guard seaplane^ crackqd up! in the Pacific about 480 mihs northwest of San ifran’cisco la: t night, on a rescue mission, but all 11>: persons aboard were saved. Tqe .plane was trying to remove ah aijing passenger 'from a steamef. Smith Speaks To Business Class ;, 1 j ’ i: , ■. ’ ' , George Smith, district manager of the Houston office of the Dictj- aphone Corporation, addressed the Business 435 (Salesmanship) class {Saturday. ; Smith stressed some of the im portant poirits of selling in his talk, during which he gave g “carry and show” demonstratio i of the latest model dictaphone hi i /company now; sells,, Smith began his presentation b;’ 11 saying that in order to be a sue cessful salesman one must alway; f have the outlook that “tomorrow I is i going to be a better day.” mu whom ■tBeVI 193fe touristx a ail'd shak come here i e their t® . around again, ! saying, York C U V I'i * V/V.. I reads books. College iiornicii | College Statiojq alde'ijTnen met Monday night and among other things, authorised ] flay- Or Ernest Langfora, to re quest a joint meeting will i the Bryan city commission next week. j;..: i; The Council stated that ‘ whpit We want td talk a the REA lines in Inter-city sewage pr so be discussed. j : |( At the suggestion ut is College oblems will al- of Aide rtnan ut drive h the Station is' to 1! drdinanct, fq- and j ir9pec-| ■(■misos, was enforcepl ini- , IPI, hester SAllen rmit to pn- Highwty 6, ed for aipart- |Bob Halpin, an dll-o city limits of College . T „ r . be madq inqnediatel^; to li ;ens)e The new livestock qyiring registeratiop ti.on of livestock Ordered published! ahd mediately. A request from of Austin for U struct a “Motel” on Sbuth, in am area} zon ment houses,* was referred th the -zoning conimissiqn. /The Courteil disci sijed a .request |tioni the 'ffw-neglie hdminal contribution, action pending sitm biidget. Although the a favorable respqnsj, ed out that the city lish its oWn library The/ipeeting adjoined after set ting next Monday night to kWi' ahd recommend, the cif get, after which | a , then emphasized the importanc: of positive selling and gave spm tips on how to overcome price ob stacles and how to delay the dis } stacles and how to delay cussion of cost until after th< 1 sales presentation is completed. Smith is an A&M graduate ± J. E. Seamans Thomas,'■inll ption rate $4.30 per news dispatches origin ppUiah- 11 " — j; L- ■r *T*' and Ban Franctoco- offlie, Rook 201, Student Acfvitiea •. 1 .JSxecutlre f—" -7 L. Sybert, If I. Timmons. '.I i ‘ ; ■ j ’ , Direct 4 c alnam Rdwtv emrite Bible Class S»,*5?^!Sp r &± P Pfkvi^r pvanc-eiiat for ry Club. The dance will begin at Brazos VFW To Give Barn Dance The Brazos County VFW tion sr, evangelist for irist at College Temple Sunday of the annual Bibik School and} the ker in a s< rljes of gospel meet ings to be hel 1 July. 10-17, elders of the Central Church of Christ id today. - \ Fowler is a fprmer minister of le Central Church’jiof Christ in Temple and at present is teaching in the Rehgiou i Education Depart- &M. i I Editor Co^Editors .j.L./it..... ....SB Holmes, Hardy Rosa, Voe Trevino Phofo ..neth 'lilink- Staff n Brittain, Autrey yit drl'M...Advfrming Ri iff Cartooniat epresrntatlve* Stiiden of Vaterl Semester rl \ l',-4-44 begin at 9 p. m. and will continue until-jl, announced Adolph SloVadek Jt. f post commander. I Music will, be furnished by Bob Wills and the Texas ; JPUyLty^ Women are invited to wear gihg* ham, and men may Wear levis, Slovacek said. / Admission will be $1.80 per cou ple, and proceeds will go to'the VFW Building Fund, $lovacek con cluded. S PAL4CE Bryan 2‘$$79 TODAY thro SAT. iDity Across the River” SATUR nr 11 ■M DAY PRE .Y - tues; iEVUE DAY Notice i J MNMClNB nter the school , will be given at the Sunday, July BOKiHTON j | of Vewnnary Medicine •• ' 1 L, j [ HMS Ship in Safely Honkong, July i 13 British ship Hanyahg a| Hong Kong ' today from with 10 foreign and 8 Chi' sengers aboard. The ship’s crew alist China warshi ered as it ran th< \m oNation- ncount- . * a, •3 1 if and rlini CSty isn’t America. But New York City is and there is-no town ; more can. Because here people ly working j toward the democracy the rest off the cm about in high school "i! H PT-T L There are only a few cltli the world that are-itally hi London for courage. Paris fbi linees, Calcutta for n Isery, SI hai for sin, Rome fd * heal hurt, Athens for blu i ski for gold and intrigu j, Na a merry heart ahd |a Berlin, the^tomb arid anvil of war, MoscoW for of human rights, and Was! where every man who has elected twice can hope for a blq monument. ! Vrap them all together land you’ll almost have New York -ibut not 'quite. ;, r there is nothing as tre dotik as this tremendous vil America’s long dreatq pushed (hto a fdw square mllesiof struggle And krope, where people move like mol&s underground and hope in terms of towers. i.ll I Ijtover a day dawns here but imy~ spirit feels taller on* the way to work from seeing . the Empire State building shoulder the m< m : ing! mist, comforting as a flity tale in an hour of fear. And ;r ev er an evening sun sinks dewn without my spirit wearing^ fr om the sight of some ugliness that dwells here, too, in men and bu Id- •ings. • ‘ , ■ •’ '! !- ' I ‘•lii fly library, for fa, (mt detyyed of the ndw request |nm it. was yoint-; should (stab- (|ventual(y. ty’s nevd buid jblic heja|i]ing will be schedulei) |o( August - | Race Problems Will Disappear From U.S ^Nashville, Term. —t^Pl— Lace prbblems in the United States will halve disappeared in andtne'f 20 years and what we a^e doinjj b ow will seem amusing tlen, says Dr. Wjll Alexander, forrqi !r Vice Pres ident of the Julius RoSenwald fUnd. The one-time hiee d of the F(irm Security Administrati m addressed' a Session of Fisk lUhiversity’^i relations institute Fijiday. -•4‘ ; ■V 1 AH Students Tour Hungerfordi Ran bandty Department, toured the 1 J. D. Hudgins ranCh at Hdrigertcrd, Mohday. . v. • ' A. C. Crouch, foreman, of thi ranch, guidod the group oh a. ttui! . during which range cattle irid range conditions were seen i nd , discussed, ' ■ y M[ ; rf : 1 • • ^ ! i The Hudgins’ Brahman sl^ow herd was also ‘inspected by the * class. ^ - M 1 .lf V amp// Vi EAST DAY FIRST RCN i—Feature Starts— 3:23 - 5:27 - 7:44 - 10300 yfi m IUGS BUNNY GAR TOM ORR ilMO jijt, ' II ikinDCWc 1 wniMwtro F0RBI00»S/Rff Thursday Feature ! St 1:60-2:51-4: 8:23 — 10:£ — j- •- . m jk: s RELEASE J'Tl If:' : j im i : 1 ! No Preview Friday SAT. PREVIEW 11 “*e Judge Stef? H Out’ Also Sim. -Tlflttll FIRST RUN Mon, ir ' 1 r'f r |i '\V i |