This Time;
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Recent action
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Don’t Want to Pay Our Share .
bty t^ie Texas I)|f belonging to the state is want!
its a
belonging to the state is Wandering around
on our street*! and Highways right now.
Garrison,
whose
renew tl
giving those delinquents
have run;out
almost painlessly.
ouneed that Garrison says ithat all yob need to do
a
chance to
i
partmefct of Publicis going ,
save a lot of people considerable time as But the State doesn’t jseern tot want it,
well as a gteat deal of moiejr that taight because it is
haw gone for Shw;.#
; This week, Colonel
head of t}ie department, announcea mat liamson says itni
holders of* expired drivers; licenses would if you Have a license tha<| was issued since
not be required to take a re-examination 1944 is to ask for a Renewal by mail.
*hWe Were amazed at the''figures issuid Holders of licenses issu^ prior to{ 1944
from the public safety office, Estimates, must make a hew application in the pres*
froin that office revealed that there were* ence of a license examiner v
three and one half million, drivers in this Curious to know howj we stood on the
state, but that only two ahd one half mjl-; matter, we looked in our niusty billfold
lion of those were driving with valid ji- and finally found that WoVn and browned
! [ s j ] I document we bad sweated blood to get
That seems to be ant’aljmost unbelievp.- To our utter
ble figure. With fines fori driving without had run-out
censes.
ntJ we found that; it
k last March.
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each, it means that the State could clean right away. We certaiiily don’t want to
Brannan
a license currently costing ten dollar
We're fixing to get iours in the mail
1
op if it could fine all those people at ontje. pay our share of that ] two billion, five
i -3iwo billion, five hundred million dollars hundred million.
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< Texas Tom; And Now There Are Nine . .
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If you don’t believe Texans get around, nificantly because he isj loyal, Tom Clark
take a look at some of otir boys (Texans, is President Truman’s nomination for the
that is) in Washington, j ' ninth member to the Supreme Court of
, V The Speaker of the House of Repfe- the United States. ;
sentatives, the Chairman of the Senate The appointment ofU9-year-old Clark
I Foreign Affairs Committee, the Attorney -is not an honor of the drder granted (very
General-r^th'ese three key govemmental old men who have served their party well,
positions are filled by citizens of Texas, and are put out, on tne Supreme Court
However, we are about tb lose the Attor- pasture to' graze their few remain-
itey General, but in a way we like. He is ing years; Clark can sejrve the people for
ta become - a member bf - the Supreme many ’more years on tjie Supreme Court
ys Nothing Divine
About Farm Plan
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. 1—OP).—Secretary of Agriculture
Thursday there is nothing “Divine
Brannon Farm Plan,
i, he
doesn’t adopt it oit let him give it a trial run.
broken, he declared, if Congress
Court,
,,
1
i « • | ; whose word is the ultimate in interpreta-
% *Ofn! has; been la go^ public: L™Lt. ^ of M
afi'd a faithful Democrat. Since-1945 he *' s T,ews wl11 ^ Iorrae 4 .' n “> e h S“ of ' , ' s
t n 1. _ I . .H .r Trumanesoue Democratic disnosition.
*'*•■£*?"Trarsi
)uni(ig those >ears as Attotnev .... . .. T
General, h s wqfk has been energetic a
well dorie, 7 v
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:ic disposition.
t^neral. hls.wqrR nas Been energet.c ana mentaI tacton , that ovpr here we consid .
W i ! V er almost insurmountable. In suite of the
and
_he kept right . „
dent when the days were pretty dark for
^ the Administration. Fair weather friends
were dropping right and left, but Tom re-
omined loyal. ! .”’ !' \
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f Partially because he is a good Demo
crat, partially because he is able, and sig-
“In fact, I’d like to see some
one come forward with a more
structive and useful idea,” the
,, itng secretary cold a news con-
.fwwwe. . i
"The plan which bears my name
, borrowed from experience,
iiere’s nothing divine or inspired
iut it. It may not be the final
mid only answer.
“If Congress works out a dif
ferent plan, I’ll do my doggondest
to run it so as to meet the prob
lems. And those problems—of farm
luses and maintaining prices
consumption—are very diffi
cult.*’
The career civil servant was ask
ed ! if he had given up hope that
Congress would authorize a trial
^ w _ r run of his plan, under which farm
my column. But, of course, I expect products would seek their own lev-
the boys to be a little timid, at els and producers would be directly
first about AfTiting In with their repaid the difference between those
problems. Soon I expect to be je- levels and a calculated “fair te-
luged, maybe with mail, Or perhaps turn.”
with tomatejes. “I don’t know,” Brannan smiled.
“If our recommendations are any
good their own virture is their
would help la A little if I knew to chief support. If they are no good,
will be and should be
Mew York——So you’re com
ing to visit Mew York this summer
for the first time?
And you ptht to know whether
anybody can come here and have
fun on iLlfljutil budget?
Brother, at least 7,000,000 of the
people who' live here will tell you
“Yes”—with some qualifications.
| You can. do it tf you have a real
curiousity to sec and know as much
as you Can of this circup too big
to pbt under canvas. But if your,
idea of heaven is to simper at
, gilded celebrities iii plush supper
chibs night after night—why, better
wait until your rich uncle dies.
The best things In New York—
/ its wonderful window displays,
its famous streets, its great
stores, its history-crowded mu
seums, its skyscrapers, its tre
mendous views—cost little .or
nothing to bee. And the fsbulous
people are the best show of all—
and free.
But there is a time to see
V-bestl .
's Go to Coney Island on a steam
ing Sunday and see humanity on
the half shell. That is still the
New York that O. Henry wrote
about. And so is the Bowery and
Chinatown—and the edge of Green
wich Village.
It’s best to see them at night,
and the subway will take you
C to any of those places for a dime.
When you get off your
bus, treat yourself to k
your hotel. If you
good, clean
one. ask the
BROW
F|reud Editor
Dear Mr. Brown: ,i i „
I read in jyour column the other
day of the sad case of D.L.D, I
have thought of a Question which
has been bothering me lately, and
perhaps you have the answer. My
question is as follows: When?
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Dear C.L.B.’
Before answering your question
1 want to congratulate you oh your
amazing eyesight. S9 far as I can
tell, you are the only one who read
tdes
But novt’ for your question. You
really have; a problem there. It
Support Starts
On Cottons* 1
WASHINGTON, Aug.;!—
(iP).—The goverrimeni’s new
cottonseed support program
starts today with? 1 advance
predictions that it wnljgo a
long way towards helping the
farmers.
Inauguration of the prke-sup-
porting' loans for cottonseed was
discussed at a closed meeting to
day between senators froijn cotton
growing states and Director Ralph
Trigg of the Commodity Credit
Corporation.
Afterwards, Senator Hoey (D-
NC) said, “This support 1 program
means the farmers don’tj have to
sell at low prices when the'’ cotton
is ginned.”
irant \at lunch,
y scaled lower
an likely to see
| Go to the resi
ices are us
you are
Battalion Crosstpord
. ««•** [...
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ty then. Hit the theater
( half an hour before
time. At all except the
icals or “Death 0! (A Sales-
you’ll probably be able to
a pair of ticketsl
walking and gawltng are
t fun here if you r arches
ng. Strolrf through the
district any wee : day at,
all Street, deser ed on a
y afternoon; and Times
on Saturday night, the
country town in America.
Human rac*
ith cat 1
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If. to
31. American
...Thvau.
10. Symbol for 61. Ha'
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Now Zealand
Texa^ Tom has shown great ability in hist
field and a personal integrity that we alb
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Five Percenters Worse Than
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admire. 1; ’
'though this campus can’t claim him as
an ex. WC are never-th^-less i^roud that he
is frorji Texas (the Btite. that is).
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Tfejcktdhy phrase j‘‘five percenters” Rather tian let the cjontracts fall where
makes Aggies ears pCrk up. ' t they may, these “five percenters” work,
We have our “two| percenters” and we the -angles for their clients and arrange
to picture in our minds fajt govelrnment contpicts through men
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immediately
Perc
a group two; hn^t a half time*!
when we he*|r ' ‘‘five percenter
tioned.
Since the
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new’s stories, abc
a» large
men-
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‘five
percenters” V4 have learned that they raC ' s ^
ate about the satn^ kind of people ih Wash- | ^
‘of influence” in Washington
j The namp “five pei center” comes from
the commission thes i wranglers-of-con
tracts collect from t icir contracts. Five
what you kere referring. But I
iwilTproceed^ \- ji {!• \ j- )
My answet isi just as soon as
they
Uaraed.. • ,r ■ . 1 . -i .if^
“We were performing our in-
Senator Johnson (D-SC
loan program “will pot
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inters
ing, •whisky, cold beer, watermelons, apopSibility rests with Congress."
women and other perishables. Of .farm problems as a whole,
If you need further advice meet the secretary had this to say:
me at the Triangle most ahy night i ‘‘We’re the only country in his-
and. weil talk it over. I’ll be the tory that has ha<( to cope with the
guy with a bottle of orange soda problem of excess production. Pm
pop in my hand. just as happy as can'be that we’re
M. N. Brown not facing, instead, a problem of
shortages."
my -ri I - * Brannan also had some bad news
\PYi At for the nation’s cotton growers
lien UlIipiUJC^S ni; today-and offered a solution.
ft • 1 iY •! R® to(d the Teilth Annual Cotton
bngincers Library ,.
iw TO P J Cotton export markets - are 1
take care of a bad cottonseed situ
ation existing now, but it will help
a lot.”
To fully benefit from the pro
gram, Senator Johnson slid farm
ers should have some st >rage fa
cilities on their farms,
Cottonseed prices wH( be sup
ported at 90 percent of parity un
der the program, and agriculture
experts say it will result (m a pricej
of about $50 a ton.
saidthe
entirely
4H Boys to A ttend
Dairy School Here
threatened.
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cr than the farmer’s operating
Farm income is dropping—fast-
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82 St, both of Bryan are costs.
ington that we call “two percenters” here:
;he spirit
They don’t have
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n the spirit they don’t our “ttvo percenters
7 FROM THK VISALIA
CAMPUS—Dan
But
democratic honestv. have th
is not an unfair sum. thev seem
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Mrs. filed Johnson of 811 East
Oak St. and Miss Emily Michalak,
510 Ea
two nek’ employees at the cirtula- | The cottoh carry oyer—that am-
lion desk of the Engineer’s Library, ount left unused—is continuing its
K. E. /Betts, librarian, announced three-year rise.
‘ t 1 , , . L, In the face of this, Brannan said,
Mrs;,Johnson worked at the^cirf a “sound support-price"
A training school for
4111 Dairy
Club boys will be held in College
Station \ on August 12,
fo R. E. Burleson and A.
•tna.
Approximately 75t4H
been selected by county agents
we feel that jthey are about like
they just don’t
e spirit.
\
Cupid was in the spot- ing tha t-he did not
light recently at a Betal Kappa Sigma fra- neighbor’s door to a
temity dance jat Visalia. As couples en- sister were inside, 1 „ .
tered the gyih they stepped through a admitted setting fiix to the bam “so’I
large ring ap'd were married Tdr the even- ? eould tell when everyone ran out.”
T&i Case. In Renton, Wash., explain-
vant to knock at a
if his brotlicr and
oy M. Redfield, 18,
ing by a fraternity Ju
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The Battalion
“Rby, you have di l wrong.
culotion desk at the Cushing Mem
orial Library before being trans
ferred to the Engineer’s Library.
Miss Michalak is a business grad
uate from Blinn Junior College in
Branham, r. i I * .1 .
. Mrs. C If 1 Elliott, who worked
at the circulation desk, was pro
moted to the position of secretory
following the resignation nf Mrs.
i 'Lewis Burton. : 1 r, .
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General Wooten Is
Company Head
Maj. Ger>. Ralph W. Wo< ,
AjfeM graduate of 1916, has
' ed executive vice pre:
MidfSouth Chemical
ifdiis, it was an
recently^
pwgrtm •
is needed to ntUtntain abundant
production and conaumption.
He also urged reduction of pro
duction costs by mechanization—
a theme stressed by many Congress
Speakers—and increasing domestic
consumption by (finding new uses
for cotton.
One of cotton’s problems, he de-
v. dared, is that me dropping dol-
lar-balance of nations in the Ster
ling bloc “could! seriously disrupt
the South’s exports of cotton and
have
from surrounding counties to ah-
semble in College Station Tor the
dairy training school.
according
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DoyR Avant whs selected da batta
Hon commandfir. His staff consist
ed of Fred Sadri (MIT)
Bruno (U. of 111.)
Modisett, '3-4. . f j
Among their many duties'^
most interesting was the; ins^
UOn of one of the other companh
and the conduction of a meeting
company commanders. Doyle Wi
also outstanding in that he w*s
picked for thi outstanding cadet
iroctiee
appointed cxe<
of the Mid|Sc
pany of Mcmf
tobacco.”
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Cjty of College Station,
Friday afternoon,; excep
talion is published: tri-we
y$or. Advertising ratios
Battalio,
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"S^dier, Statesman, ^nightly Gentleman 1 '
Lawtcncc Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
citil newspUp^rfof the Agricultural and Mechanical < College of Texas and the
>pt! during holi
Gwwa/’Wootcrt ■ retired W Sep- *“ <***
after sirring 31
He. began
■the j infantry;
Churchmen Turn
Cheek; Offer Bed
3NROE,
rs of the
in West
turned the other c
■brok
heavy rain. The Rev. Seals and
judging, fitting *nd the showing
of dairy animals will constitute a
major portion of the school.
The instruction will
purpose of training the
dairymen in selecting
placements and fitting animals (for
show purposes.
Burleson and Meekma wfc las-
^isj in directing the training school
here as well as giving their ser
vices in directing simih^ j schools
to be held jin Tyler, Arlington
and Waco during the second week
m August 1
' riHtf irri ’TV:
t
tat a night,
in “Stud” Wi
iprintablc thi
Army when
L pup tent
leone much short-
s head and feet
vfasi —
inside and out!
are h»d some
to say about
fbuad that his
gned for
Kan he, u-, r —,—
protruded into tme rain. / j
Such a btvouj c, It was really Hv
ijtfg; in the rough with electrk
lliglits. running beer, chow serw
trays. sHvcX and china bcin;
.1' c
&
brought to the field by truck th
times per day. f
Htmimnilft,- ; /, J.
s, K Co. Is rapidly
a a championship
leybalL In soft-
» games to go
one loss. Seven
: Wlnntogj
• iiitramui
tg towai
tball andl voile;
aref two
■ 1 ;
won but G Co.
cision in the game
K Co. will bt re-
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1 WEST mo;
lUnc " i.T)—Members
1
La., Aug. 1.
the Trinity Bap-
est Monroe have
______ utoM|, :
mber,, 1948, after serving 31- An intruder bhoke into their new
•ars with the Air Corps. He began brick church Sunday during a
rtivc duty with .the infantry; haavv rain. The Rev. Seals a
PALACE
Brqan
TODAY & TUESDAY
tished on request,
ter he commanded the U.S. Air
ircc in the South Atjantic. His
.st command prior to [retirement
| The Associateld Press i
credited to it or ftot ptlu nvi
! entitled exclusively tl) the
[ise credited in the paper ai
for republicatii
His
the Pacific Air Com-
e for repubUcatb n of all news dispatches
edlhcrcim r Rightj o^^i|ubjictttio^ajl Mhor Pm|i|ter bdreiSTare^^reae iff 800 * VrMA
Entered •» ctcon-l-cluss motLer
Collect Station.
th* Art of CimgrcM
TT News contributii
Gosdwnr Hall- Ciasaifiod qtl>i may be
D^fitfe, Room 209^ Goodwin Hall.
■YIN BROWN, CLAYTONLattLp3t
IJnrry
«(. K. CulTillc
P!t
Rcprcicnl ed nttiaMlly bf NttloMl Ad-
v«rtiiin* ;S« k» Inc^ at Vtw York City,
X> 4 Aaccka, and Ban FraacUco.
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at the o litorial offtee, Boom 201,
(4-5324) 0* the Student Activities
.jlipp mmmm
T < ^ E <^ tors
id with headquarters in Hawaii
Working On
tors Degree
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mLl~ ^
Iriodc Knapp, assistant pro
fessor of fisheries at A&M, is work-
on his doctor’s degree at Lake
exoma near
to
the Wi
(her tid os
.
C)tcolh(v>n Anbtana
Khsrovtra.
CartecnU
«
Munoscr
ar Denison, Texas, ac-
W. B., Davis, professor
, dUfe Department
essor Knapp, taught a fish-
jrevione »
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first six we
while
Texoma «
of the summer,
on his de
cree, he is using the data which
ic obtained from his class
x weeks.
News*Star:
“Someone evidently In search of
a bed cut a window screen at the
rear of our church Sunday night,
and proceeding to the kindergarten
room, crawled into an overnlaect
baby bed where he slept for the
night. So far as is known nothing
in the church has been disturbed, r
‘"We wish U> state that If anyone
wants a night’s lodging, he can
obtain it by calling at the pastor’s
home next door to the church. A
key to one of the five doors will be
cheerfully loaned.” <
When Duty Calk ...
Webster, New York firemen were
leading a carnival parade down <
Main street when the alarm rang.
The volunteers broke ranks, raced
a mile and put out a fire in an
.automobile. i'' : 1 -fcl'.-'
- They were back in time to fall
hi smartly at the head of the pre
cession.
*
QUEEN
SUN. through WedT
“LAST BANDIT
of the wjeek (from K CoU for
first weep of summer camp. j
On July 15 Doyle was ari eyewit
ness to some of the scocial life of
a Regular Army officer whan! he
was the guest of Colonel O. C.
Mood, deputy cheif of staff of the protested
second Armyl and his daughter, with the®,. _
Florence, at a formal dance at the quired to play them again,
officer’s club. -.] | f Tht volleyball team undelrithc
To say the least, Doyle was im- ; abW lnanagingt of Raymond
pressed, but whether it was wlpii
the social life of an officer or
Florence, we have yet to determine.
Field Trip
On Wednesday, July 13. K co.
(motorized) moved into the field
for problems pertaining to the
Army Security Agency,v Many of
the intrfcadep of the Army Sec
urity Agency were learned and
~ iBr^” * ’ 1 1
1
able tnanagii
MtOrew hasnjt fever had a
oneij beatlhg hlghl companies so
far without ever having to play
the third gianie In k two out of
uruy ^gency were learned and
Thursday evening woundiiip In a|^
beer bust.
A softball game with the cadr
three set with Isach one. Yesterday,
for example, t Co. was beaten to,
the tune of 15^6. The boys say they
were sorry for them so they let
them have six points in the see-
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£01 Elliot
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