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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1949)
1 v. ■ .v • ■f ' , ■ /_y ... -1 ■’ •'> \ . rlf . 4 •' • L, n l ii •( '.if* ;• ' ' I , * v-i j- V, It f Battafio Page & ■V j ■ ■j 1 Legislators,. Why pajil Ik EdUoriats , • I ' ■ I •■ ! ' i i'i 1 "4 • I I : i All Go ■•Vi l WEDNESDAY mi TM AUG. 10, ■ ■ . On Record? ■.* : i: v 1919 ■ ! ; »• ;V: Vx .- ■ Ms vftcYft ,/tdea during from ai|y ideological differences with SUir iajture. Being Spangled Sam; our objection is a point Sam Hapna g60f bright/ the last session of the LegisU a politician great enough to j get elected of principle. We flon't thinlt the oath will the House of Representatives from Dal- Weed oijrt any Cdtnmunists, so Samj hasn't thing td protect us. In fact, Com- ie more subtle, and tnunisM will now become more subjtl their efforts will fee more indirect and con- las County, he decided that what Ithis done ar state needed was a firm loyalty oath for / munisti allV.the students and employees of state ML supported universities and college^. I ; 1 tsequentily morej dangerous. When Sam’s bill was introduced there We will sign Sam’s -qiths every day in was;a lot of neyvs and talk going around the yeaf if hie wants us to. We feel that that Communists and Communist sympa- ;jj a loyalty oath: to the United States never thtiers were in this country. Even one, hurt any good American, But Americans great big, bad fellow in a state university who aien't jfood (and Communists) will claimed before the Legislature that he was sign Si m’s oaths, too. So what good does it the idea the pat i do? j Another'thing, Sam (or his friends in the leg slature); didn't propose that legis lators fee required to sign an oath similar a Communist. Sam must have got the idea that our colleges were hot beds of bud ding Communists. '*• In a few days after Sam got the idea,; he introduced-a bill (H. B. 837) in tie to the one tljey whipped up for us. Maybe House to eliminate these admitted Com-] they fed exempt;hut, like we said, a loyal- mtfpists and also show his jconstituen s ty .oatli never hurt any good American, how true-blue American he was. The bill We’d like for pur legislators to put their passed both/Houses of the state legislature names right down orr the dotted line, ithout a ..dissenting vote. In fact ve: We don’t feel that they suspect us of iidn’t hear/a peep out of anyone opposir g; being subversive, but they just want us tfee'bjli bn any. grounds; it just wasn’t on reccrd claiming loyalty. We don’t sus- good political sense to object (we jail hate i ‘* “ - ,jkSL - L i a ^ CopimunisU) . / L,: r - Jr - ■ - , j: . Our objections to H.B. 837 are hot . > r ^ , i ' i iii Has \®als 5 Also Gal! *. Home of Brave ’ pect them, either; but, just for the books, we’d like to see their names right down alongside outs, j ) Wedge Must Be Ready To Drive Breach... r‘° ; -r ' ■ r ,, 4uil' .'i One half million Communist soldiers; control, The cause of the NationiUist gov- are marching cn Canton, Chinese Nation- eijnmeilt is lost, and soon all China will be alist capitol now under martial law and Cpmmilnist controlled, the report, conclud-^ theatres, only 250 miles from Communist grasp. r ^ ' : ■ ! ' ! >1! ii Handle By HERMAN C OOLLOB ' i 1 ij j, , Home of the Brave (Screen ArttetH Inc.) fltarrtng Jame* Ed wards (Palace). "Home of the Brive," the film which strident pit ilicity blurbs have blatantly announced as un mistakable evidence; that Holly wood has "guts" fetw awaits the nocially-cohscious ni<Megoer at the Palace, Dealing with the racial problem, "Home. . " not only has guts, but considerable gall, to boot. An extremely deli, ate undertak ing it is. this treatment of the na tion's most compourd social frac ture on the silver Screens of its* M/iiai .T.The important Nationalist city of What happened over the past few Chansha faljs to Red forces (after thd years b'hen tfee I pendulum of power has .Nationalist commander and his 90,000 trpops change sides). Reports fr6m the southern front tell of Nationalist army ■ : . J _J r j ■ -f I : Poised to the jnorth, another/150,000 j ears V'hen swung from thd Nationalist position to the Communist position is explained by the report, jlhe Rationalist’s leader’s lack of gaining support of the people and the leader’s coiinlptipn and inability toi grasp Handled without c ignity and re, straint, the picture dealing with racial issues , is hardly more than brash, vehement, and idealistic .soapbox oratory which is not only absurd : ■t Communist troops; await d.rdei^ to tun). tho situation in China and seek to effect their border skirmishes into battles And granges rt^cOmfeiended by the United roll against demoralized Nationalist arm* States are the paramount reasons for the ieis barely hanging on. Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalistic defeats and their hopeless jsgfely ensconced on formidable Formosa, future. isj feverously working to draw the Philipp This waiting off of a friendly China to pjnes and other Pacific nations into ah the Reds cijdis for a new American policy afeti-Oommunist pact, j v-toward Chinja. ye cannot abandon China - JThese are currmt hews reports from completely, if we ever hope to encourage China; these are result^ of former events her people to change to more democratic apd policies by Chinese factions and the ideals and establish a policy moire friend- A'merican governmfent over the past blind- ly toward us. Our rble now is to sit tight, rAd years. An explanation of what is hap- court every opportunity to develop a behave accordingly.! Such a sacharrine conclusion can hardly be expected to draw more than a derisory guffaw. This de partment recognizes the fact that there should be no distinction be tween white and Mack, yet we are not so blind that we cannot clearly see the gap which does 1 ex 1st be tween the two, a giap Which has been wide since Biblical days as the result of .ignorance and fear, and which cannot, as our flaming idealists and 4 Irrational zealots would have us believe, be shut by snapping the fingers and shouting “Close, sesame.” To be sure, this social abyss Is v 1 closing, bat the proeess has been ’jland must continue to he slow and deliberate. .Statute law alone cannot procure the Negro the paradise of equality and toler- anee. One cannot merely legislate a- gainst prejudice; he must educate against if as well. And to inculcate in the minds of the white the idea that all men are created equal requires time and patience, sen sibility instead of idealism, fore- -! ahd empty, but tircsbme apd offensive as Well. Such hs the case with “Home" in which .Messrs. Stanley Kramer aind Mark Robson, the producer and director responsible for the Virile and Realistic "Champion,? —_ have tossed rationality and per- * ; bearance instead of impetuosity, 'wption to the winds, *0 belabors j Otherwise, tolerance will be for- Ihg their ridiculous point that it j ever an iridescent dream, not a ' seems as ijf they apO trying to tangible reality, knock It into the heads of the [ Technically, ‘Home of the Brave' moVkgolnd pnMfe. U above average. Performances Reduced to simple terms, it is the are all of a high caliber, with the crack-up of the Negro Moss, an exception pf Jeff Corey, who is a’rmy surveyor. The lone negro imiscast as Jhe psychiatrist, among.. flvs . volunteers sent t& In the tltlei rob* of Moss, Negro scout a Jap infested'island.. Moss is star James Edwards, perform- L:, ppning now, aiuLwiy it is hhpiiPiiing thus breach betwieen the Communists of China and the Communist The example of Tito’s break Vi-ith Rus- aifld so, is contained in a two-flich-thick and the Commuhisjts of Russia. .“vi'hite paper” ,on China released Friday by the-American; State Department. -t sia should give us encouragement that a The State Departments report gives similar split ecjuld; occur between Chinese little hope for a China free of Communist leaders and the government of .Moscow. greeted writh open resentment by all except Mingo, a cynical, wise cracking sergeant, and Finch, a true and trustworthy friend with; whom Moss w-ent to school. When Finch is captured and, killed by the Japs, Moss feels re- • sponsible and completely goes toj pieces. The psychiatrist in charge discovers I he underlying cause to ' be a feeling of inferiority engend ered by the intolerance for the negro; raci. He convinces MOss that there; is no difference between b|ack andjivhite, and tells him tpi fatg. on the .screen for the first time, gives an intelligent and sensitive account of himself ^vken he is not n'qulred to be- havc with the melodramatic his- irionics of ah Af Jolson sobbing Dimitri Tiomkin’s musical score | is appropriately stirring, and cam era work Is vigorous throughout, j! We commend "Home [ of the Brave” for its admirable purpose in speaking out against intoler ance, but cannot help but find fault with its proposed solution. r itowbrow, Middlebrow, Highbrow. / i /Lowbrowr middlebrow, and highbrow ha? released his conclusion after 1 fourteen likes and dislikes jiave been widely dis- years of study, “Interest in Burlesque is cpssed since Life magazine carried an not confined to. so-called lowbrows . . . . — article several weeks ago on what |it Many Senators, governmental officials and thought was the criteria for classification even Supreme 1 C<j>urt justices have been ijn one.of-ithese divisions. found to be regular burlesque-goers.” We ho)>e the professor realizes his con- Texas Expects largest Cotton 1 r q ■ Crop Harvest in Twelve Years iirapirin^^Tnmbrowi/raiddicbroX. «•>«««*> uMky tKrotfgh hte enlighten- ajid highbrows if we are to believe Pro- . in S and ^tisfying conclusions. oct time we’re in one of the larg- ^ ? ^timng siich entertainment as a •• Lje has been hard at research for the past good old time burlesque, well not cover riant determi- our heads arid duck inside half scared But Life wasn’t; the first to think of - iesscr Stuyvesant Van Veen. According The next , tp this 'City College! of New york educator, £ r cities fea Austin, Tex., Aug 10—kP)—The largest Texas cotton.harvest sinefc 1037 was in prospect today. The crop reporting board of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated Texas production this year to bring 4,150,000 bales of 500 pounds gross ' ^weight each, based on conditions us of Aug. t. It would ' be tha largest yieljl since the 5,154,000 bales harvested 12 years' igo. Ijfljst year's productlfh was fourteen years on the important determi nation of whether interest iri burl^que is someone we know Will see us. We will hold lowbrow, middlebrcttV or highbrow. - ! ‘ ; our heads high, and give a sneer of con- j? T ' i /l j! ■ tempt to those who do not fancy such a , i Van Veen, an assbeiate professor of ifert, highbrdw pastime. : -; l. . • ! II •i ./l • 'h 'Tfr - ITT , ' 1 150,000 bales and the 10-ycar 10^-47) average] is 2,722,000 lys. he, indicated lint yield of 210 pounds per acre is above any year since 1912 when the yield was also 21Q pounds. Ljast year’s yield was 176 pounds. ]| The unusually good Texas cot ton crop, the United States Depart ment of/Agriculture said, results from very favorable growing con ditions .in all areas of the state. .,7 . * The crop was seeded under fav orable moisture conditions and near perfect stands were realized. Continued, plentiful supplies of moisture brought rigorous plant growtjh and heavy fruiting. Faitly heavy infestation of in- a- i:’ The Battalion . "SoIJier, Suiumm, Vg.mghtly Gentlemart’ r John Weinzettle Services Monday John VVeinzettlo, lOPl East 25th . . . - , - .. , t . Street. Bryart. died Sunday mom- ^cts m mapy areas have been pf* ing In a Bryan hospital Mr, Wein- fcctiyely combatted, LSD A said, zettle was born In Germany on Production promises to exceed r ■ j/ '♦ ‘; V '| ; | I ' •■il ' . ./ . )J ’ ..'T, i Lawiencc Sbllivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradkioos ,\ • k The Batta ion, Citjr of Ck>11e^ Static newspaper^of tho Agricultural and Mechanic Texas, ii puBlished five times a Wock ant 1 College of ption vate ! : \ : The Associated Press itccl to it or not ot hureiii. Rights of 01 '' ;p Entered U lecond-cliM sta* !fk« at Coltese Station, 11 otter at Tciu*. Act of ConsreM of Mar ;h 8, 1870, may be / News contribution^ • rin Hall. Classified ads t Office, Rodin 209, Goodwin Hall.] i marvin Bro\W, ciLayton sel m. Clmrlto KlrHlmtn •>.......... i.iuij liurion, Otto Kuitzu, X.tolie- Orirduli', I'ttyicvFftjijkj. I/niiM Jo: \ • : UaWJ ifuiiUj. ItoSi-rt Winlttim*....--. \V. K. \ Ceivillc. Y «’• # , Member of ' {)[ The Associated Press Production promises to exceed all past records in the important High Plains area, in the Lower Valley and in the Trans-Pecos ir rigated area. Above average pro duction Is indicated for all areas. and the through The Bat- por school dis QCOUS spatches publish- — ....wir® ia«k*: “10CM ted n»Uon»nr by NitlontI Ad- Serviee Inc, Lot Angelei, ’ationnf' New York City. San Vtaselaeo. r ^ [T Germany August 2$, Interment was niadle Monday in Mt. Calvary cemetery with six nephews serving as pall bearers. H|e came to’ the United States as a child and had been a residdnl-, .. , . ,, , , of the community,for 75 years, r , Tho: final upturn of the-crop, He is survived by-two daugh- however, is still highly dependent ters, Mta. F. J. Vitopil and Mrs, upon climatic conditions 'during Mary Sustella, both of Bryan, one remainder of the season, LSDA son F. J. Weinzettle 6f* Kansas said. . City, one sister, Mrs. Joe Holick, SMSlfflSrM Champion Holstein I Sets Milk Record Rio Vista, rand, San state pro to The iation of Hiller Furieriill chapel on Sunday evening with Msgr. J. ng wit 'Delating. B. Gleissndrf !fc "sSSt R ASvitii ........ ■I' 1 ' iriuK KJitor.v u«f NcwtouJ ff Itettorteru Wr‘ Loile '•-•mi' ,Ktiutiirv I Writer JdbvM ItoUewer , Pijot oahuflirr s' ssi irud vtUD' iau' Ijirnf Qllvi-a. ...,U_ i.j. i Uvi".'.': wm±r± trey- l > reilurl^k....Adv() ■’ .. Co-Editors .iU.. .Uugporto Kv sfis Kdttor Writers _ mri Buff Ciirtoonfct Itc-priUk-atatiwl ulutiva MuuuLvr latiuo AnsietunU ] •V \ , : j Vi \i A Boyle’s Column /k T: r 1 ' T ■ ■ i r t -V ;i V' : 1 -! >.1 ! , . m . t is Land of Beds A mmTraveler • r ••' vverages, Iran j BY HAL BOYLE reason that oar rocket ship , RH . *« g*hi speed on soon bj Jjviv,'—CAfTY year ‘ mnA INEW YORK,- t/Pt - Every year of so a l: niari opehs his morning mail andi finds a pleasant surprise —or ft rtal opportunity. [ j ! That's^tow’ lucky t ftm todAy. I've got ft chance to take ft free ride to Mars! ' I would be suspicious that some body Waft just pulhngjny leg ex- made the off been thehc himself. So it must be the 24 kftrat McCoy. The invitation came in a letter : from a gentleman in Missouri. J ' “I have just coi Mars, and I had a . he wrote. He explained he vt me to accompany him on his sec ond trip, because he wished! the people of earth to have a word pic ture of life on Mars. He said that as a professional writer 1 would be able to do this better Own hft. The voyage certainly sounded at tractive as he outlined it j / "#* wtD lie gone only ft few days” he wrote, "For the icg «sx- thing—the mail who t said he had already omo back from wonderful trip,” lained he Wanted /- It The National Institute of Health hria awarded grants totaling $54,326 to five Texas colleges for the continuation of medical and allied projects. ; The Biochemistry Department of A&M received a grant of <12,000. This grant wiR be used by Dr. j. R. Couch, who is working dn a research project concerning the nutritional requirements of the cotton ! r*(. The project has been going on for approximately two years. Dr. Couch is presently on vacation, but will be bicH,- ip another week. The Tcxfta awards wcrei among the 217 granted to 94 institutions in the nation. The projects include studfes of deafness and'speech defects, beptic ulcers, the common cold ami the relation of the endocrine glands to aging, i .! m I leaves the atmosphere, travel about as fast m ugm. • j "There u no work to ! What is Mars like? Hfre’s what |Everything that man the man says: "ITl not go much Into details Of the conditions that I found there, because It was more wonderful vocal growing oft bushes. There rain except Just an the sun up In the morning. than my vocabulary la capable of tailing you] “The planet revolves as ours does] but in place of having a magnetic pole, It also revolves north to south, which makes the temperature uniform the year round. ! /-- ; !i, j "There are no seasons. It is all just one glorious temperature They have no pests, such as flies; ftMjUjkft, . .'j/]j,l, The fowl grows on trees. They have Innerspring mattresses right there at his hand, that come out of the which they call mountal a flavor with an intoxi feet.” ’ j | Well; at first I felt te go. But I decided It wo great a strain on my If I got to Mars and growing on thft trees andjj bubbling out of the wouldn’t want to come advertise the place. Thnt’d emptj, California overnight, depopulat Texas—and crowd Mara.' No, if ifars was like stake my claim—and t at anybody else that ti y juice fka, |C kl I; • j ; . P r— T j -j Battalion Crossword ACROSS 1. Now Zealand aativ* fort 4. Commandod 8. Iota It Rubber tre* 13. Siifllcient: •pootio It. Presented 15. Former 17. JCwel It Pronoun 19. pisturh 2L Olden times fiL RIsbway 13. llodont lit Wing' d 27. Opportunity I IS. Finished IJ, Born it Car ML 4t Wyaelf/ | 41. places of i'-action II. Slake p«i . wort I { ' 45. Bracelets for. the arm • i, ; ;i V 47. Newapaptrs “ Tironrcohtr. »srl.lwd” ; .,-Hl 1 MjLl'lr doswrx>'In | 5C. CxdntnimSni > i M. Moss of jread CO, fthort M> fhoe U. Genus of the rose ft K* Vi Kmmets «f. Court U r JC2l3 Ui-ItJD C’Hli @300 nuua c;pu □□nc. □□ nupG uSciuy □□□ uram nrncT □na uram \?xi □□acuuu CilQD nauou uBpg au -uoauu nEauDO jia mm auuuu D □ a a um DDU QQD ) L l-M'l {, ... I t> 1 D 0 A s l mu Sptutlon of Yvatsrdi/ft 4. Indicate Puzzhi [ > DOWN 2. j Ce^t«(y plan1_ Li- '/-.iii !| h Professor Wylies To Marry Sept I • J i 1 ! 'j ‘ = i \ - .1 j The engagement of Mis* Eliza beth Holmes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Htdmes of- Bryan, to Stanley A. Wykes, assoointc prr>- Thc wedding will take place Sep tember 1. Wykes! is a graduate of ftinn- sylvania State College, having re ceived his BS degree there in 1940. He received an MS degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institulj 1940. He has been yvith the agoment 1 Engineering Depart; since September, 1947. j < Rash Hoar Harmony Chicago- —«.T) - Lines of auto- mobiles werc snarled in a jrush hour jafli at the edge of UteiLoop. Impaticit drivers kept blowing .their h(#ns. The traffic cop at the corner was almost but not quite - at wit’s end. He blew hla whistle raised his hands a la Toscanini and bellowed above the dirt: "Let’|try it aga|n, All together now in iihe key of C." / 1 1 J- i 1 4 n 4 r 1 ■ d r to f/\, ii 1 j j 4 ti 1. 1 | \ r' s _ m 2l m ij J i Jo i/ i. • u XT ) '! * 1 14 & P % J/ j 1 If 3b ! l 1 1 ■\ 40 L fr? 42 ! t m 44 4^ 4J0 4r w ’ | ■ wm wm sr iffii T J L. WM St ■M m S3 T 1 j j W/A m Sq 1 too j : i ji W\ ii ’ j r P b3 f! .... f| M 1 1 j bS 1 . m 11 L I. 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Hilc Antonio, has set a nc ^ ^ duction record, accord Slapstick Still Good j i Hojatem-Frieman As T-ondou —l4>i— Movie pfdduikir 4.; ; aur Dent thinks audiences still 1w <S 4 thc lea<i ,, for laugh .at somebody getting • " <»f Texas Holstems, regardless in the face with a pic, jffi-i ? a f. ^ce daily In the - did back in the twenties. HC lias fnade free use of the old ^ TeJ, with the paction of lea xr ” ra ' dy rf m of id for Testing was supervised here at . oduc-- Holslcin-Frlcsian Associuticin of i 'IF'p America. In three weeks of shoo east r uscd 500 ciiiitard pies, in part by ft government tion loan, 1 Tsf2an^Merm3!ils ; AIMOIHAND nmuit AUTHtmiC CHIUS 1 mu tkn\MUMU* f Mr I Plus Cartoon-Nona fttt. PBEVUE 11:00 p. m. 'r v FIRST BVX Plus Cartoiui SAT. FREVUE UK WBST run 5-.4 -M ftp i>i Plus Cartoon