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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
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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
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good will is
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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
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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
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York is a wonde:
be fine or there wi
many people crowded
to enjoy it.
a terrible place to
in, but a grand town
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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
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never be :Mr. Number ~
use nobody is big enough
t\ important on this
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is a man’s town, and it’s cpt foir
^ize. It has outgrown ev<
who ever lived in itj—and it’i
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are growing, too, * ‘
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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
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Ah airplane crash nea
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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
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luding 14 newspapermen, one of
rbock
st yeaijg.
lectured
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every
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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]
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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
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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
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as will remember the passage of school
reorganization and other reform measures.
iiii oi/-iii-vtfuii|i<uiu ujwii me mat ' 1
hreaith dft the dyiq? leader.
Texans are experiencing the disorder-
of mind and state government precipi
tated by the sudden death pf its governor.
The swearingrin of a new governor after
funeral ceremonies of Mr. Jester will not
immiediaitely bring things back to normal
r ih the state government. Within} the Jester ■
family, the Governor’s death has caused
a permanent disruption of home life.
Mr. Jester was an able governor, de
chief executive. Law /has established lines
of succession, and the second-in-command
becothel: first-ih-command upon the last
Apt. C-S-A, CW
Box 1826
College Station. Toy.
P.Si: The officer’s name whb
did the shooting, is Morris Mad
dox. now employed at the Annex
and still employed by the Campus
Security. ,
(Editor's No to: The Battalion
storj- of last Friday stating that
no dogs had been shot was in
error. The officer mentioned in
your iettfr 1 did dhoot ;a dog that
was reported as; being mad. Thoi
ofietr
of the
Bryan.)
was sent out on request;
> 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
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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
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The U. J S. poulation now stands at
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The j Pasadena, Calif, chapter
come.
yf the
148,527,000, the Census Bureau estimated American Institute of Architects earnestly
marrying, during
‘‘tremendotrs^^Tise
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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
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should address each other f even in con
Versation) as "Architect” instead or "Mis
ter;” to -test whether the
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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:
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ay'afternoon, except^during^hplidnys^ami examination^ periods. luring
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elated every Monday through
dimmer The Bat-
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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.
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the Act of Congreaa of March S. 1870.
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Range Students
Make Field Trip
The Range Management 409 dais
led by Dr. Harbin F. Heady; range
and forestry professor, Visited ithe
Blacklumi Experiment Station, at
Temple last Friday.
! The class wrfi conductetl op a
tour of the Station. They studied
both cultivated and native pastures
while there. The cultivated pas-
ftures included legume and grass
; mixtures in tWo and three ye«
/•otation ^ith ttiw crops. , j M\ .
Of special irgerest to the class \
was the experiments beipg carried
bn with the. nek r Evergreen Sweet
Clover which slows great promise-
][t is a biennialS reseeds itself, ami
is deep rootedj to name a few of
its outstanding qualities.
Before returtiing to A&M, the
class went se^jeral miles west} of
$eltoh to istiudji some native raUgei-
land. [T| • |. ' .}j 'i i " •
Ag Teachers Art!
Enrolled for MS
Fopty-four Texas teachers ojf
Vocational agrfculture are enrcilled
jh A&M to wt*-k on their mastem
degrees. AH of them are now en
gaged in the Reaching professiort.
According t<j Henry Ross, pro
fessor in the Agricultural Educa
tion Department, these teachers
are attending school for the dual
purpose Of furthering their pdu-
eftions and increasing their- in-
» cpmes. Due top the passage of i. the
Gilmer-Aikin ijtill, holders of ihaAf ;
ters degrees a/re gi\)en a 300; per
year raise in balary.
Thirty-four Aren are enrolled in
the farm shoi-bourse. The post
graduates are also taking courses
in dairy husbandry, animal hus
bandry and agricultural education:
Eight masters degrees will be
citoferred on |luly 16. The recip
ients will be ,1.. W. Cason, F. R.
Cherry, J. C. px, J. R. McHroy, ,
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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
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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-
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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
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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.”
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whom
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touristx a
ail'd shak
come here i
e their
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around
again, ! saying,
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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.
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At the suggestion
ut is
College
oblems will al-
of Aide rtnan
ut drive h the
Station is' to
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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<
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sales presentation is completed.
Smith is an A&M graduate
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ption rate $4.30 per
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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-
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Holmes, Hardy Rosa, Voe Trevino Phofo
..neth 'lilink- Staff
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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.
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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<
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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Hungerfordi Ran<!h
Nineteen members Of the !tH
406 class," accompanied by F -ed
Rau, instructor jn the Ahjmal Hus-* >
bandty Department, toured the 1 J.
D. Hudgins ranCh at Hdrigertcrd,
Mohday. . v. • '
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