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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1949)
•; ■ L* ’" • i-H,. .. , j ffietators, and American De wouldn’t mind what happens around A&M itself to too much opportuni I H ' 1 i ■ «'f ik • HWH , - | p-ILi ■ iiiL I, If we weren’t pretty well sold on the should .. things that this Country stands for we for this improved form of elections e present rystem lends y for coer- ted voting. A&M is sup- :hool where students learn that .Contradicts the spirit of democracy, siojn and — We wouldn’t be very much interested, in poM to be a student government elections because we’d democracy, rii^ totalitarianism. Americans feel that|our readers are intelligent peo- ari reither sheep nor dictators. We revolt pie who have ability to think for them- at ary idea vfhicbj says that ttiey are, but selves and vote as they ike. 'j j here we tolerate them. We even encourage But though our readere are intelligent, *11 c^M say t : thi e L P „ e v° P 2„d a thJf t„ k L nur" g f n r ^ ^ ! and; dem<Ltic“ throughout ro tLT Zk ‘4^ole campus. We wish we could say against those who woukl arbitrarily in- this-s tte most |,mocrat.c ^chooi m the struct others how to vofej . L SElSOsfeferHT Pre r election caucuses by a handful to '\ i ls tead we say, “We hope you are one determihe. the will of everybody sotmds 0 f tiose on the Icampus win can. make more like the behavior of a student gror^p your [ selection of Candidates ; :hat you can in Moscow than at A&M College, College exercise your democratic privilege of vot- StatiOn, Texas. But isn’t that just what j n g however you! desire.” * happened -Thursday evening? i , | , And tc the meh eiected to the new Sen- Didn’t a few try to decide how 3,500 ate we must say, “Yours is!the duty to men should vote for Senator-^t-Large? make future elecjtions at; A&M free from Therefore, we are convinced that there all dictation and irregularities.” !—i-_—p ■ ■ ■' . ' ; . I • •. , . ■ . | ■ ' i i | • I lit The iron Horse Kicks at Horseless Wagons:. . Were it not for the propaganda cam- We see a thread of validity in the rail- 4paign being put on by the great Ameri- roads’ argument^, but the main fabric of can railroads, we might have gone r their obvibiis propaganda is to urge public through life thinking that the fellows in consideration of slapping more controls - the trucking industry were a prdtty good and considerable more taxes on the mush- bunch of Joe’s. 4 rooming trucking industry. But we can’t think so anymore if we The trucking industry hag, in the past are to believe Ithe railroads’ story about few years, become as vital to this nation’s 'what is happghing in the field of trans- economy as the railroads. Railroads still ! portation. Our highways, thejrailroad pro- serve the primary function of carrying als in bulk quantit Letters To THe Editor (Alt letters to : the editor which 4 . . are Signed by a student or employee of the college and which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be published. Per sons wishing to have their names withheld from publication may request such action and these names will not, without the consent of the writer, be divulged to any persons other than the editors.) j , .J, '.U, i . Carrol] Davis ’51 AGAIN, WHAT HAPPENED. Johnson Jr. ’51 Editor, The Battalion: Robert B. Jdhiwon ’51 We agree whole-heartedly with (Editor’s Note— Our deepest The Batt that all new students apologies to those whom we mis should become familiar with “im- led. Hart Hall was mislabeled as portant collegiate landmarks” at < the Extension Building in the rush A&M: but we believe the poop given to these new students should be authentic. In today’s (Thurs day’s) Batt, Hart Hall was labeled : as the Extension Building. How promises never again to committ about a correction? such an error. All county agents Carl L. Black ’51! now residing in Hart Hall will R. E. Walker ’51 herewith withdraw.) to get copy down to the print shop. Our editor in charge of misplaced buildings has been beaten severly about the head and shoulders and m paganda agencies tell us, are being crumb- raw materials in bulk quantities to factor- led by huge trucks. These trucks are real-, ies and carrying 'manufactured goods to ly tearing-iip highways which motor car central distribution points. drivers have paid for. So, because trucks J litfYfWi these distribution points trucks don’t build the highways they run on (the haul the goods to your door, or very close railroads build their own), and because to it. The truck dbmpletes the distribution ^ they don’t pay high enough taxes (Some cycle and thus, becomes as integral a part ^trucks pay from $1000 to $3000 per year) of the cycle ah the traih. ' in a year, and because the trucking in- Our railroads have cause to seek chan- dustry is ■giving the railroad industry “a ges in the existing transportation pattern run for its money/’ railroads are telling of this country. Cheaper truck and bus the public that trucks should have more rates have skimmed off a large portion of legislative control put on them. traffic that formerly moved exclusively After all, the railroads are hamstrung by rail. Furtfier! invasions into the rail- by federal rate commissions, and all sorts roads’ servicekate to be expected, of legal ties with the government which Though we acknowledge that many of makes competition with trucking industry j the railroads’jclaims against the trucking impossible.-HBefore long, the railroads’ industry have) a basis of truth, we cannot Inlet, N. Y.,—tiW—There isn’t a better woodsman in all the Cen tral Adirondack Mountains than Gerald KenWell. "Knows every (Jeer In the hiUe by its stomp,” say his neighbors. Kenwell is a catfooted man of 62 with the posture of an Indian and eyes as fresh las any, he can still Sling a fresh-killed buck deer over :his shoulder and tote it miles to the hunting camp he has run for $2 years. The) camp is, in the center of a 50-mile stretch of vir gin wilderness. Many city-bred Ipeople picture a hunting guide as a brush-faced, tobacco-chewing illiterate who nev er had the common sense to come to town. Gerald doesn’t fit into that portrait at all. He is a courteous, well-bred, widely read man who stayed in the woods by choice. And' he hhs his own Opinion of people who crowd their^lives out in stone cities and never wake up to the smell of balsam. “Nature put you on earth to keep busy,” he said, and you’ll keep busy—or pay the penalty.*’ Gerald likes to yam about the real oldtimers, alnd their endless ^ I Rollins Put On Water Board LiJl' ; :i '■ i - - Andrew P. Rolling, class of ’06 has been appointed to the State Board of Water Engin eers! by Gov. Allan Shivers. Rollins, Dallas engineer and director of the city’s public works department from :1935 to 1939, said that the governor called him from Austin and asked if he were avail able to serve. THie Aggie Ex will succeed John W. Pritchett who goes on state retirement Nov. 1. Rdllins, whose appointment is for six ;-years, will be in charge of water conservation in the eastern half; of the state while James S. Guleke of Amarillo, also appoint ed ijo the board Wednesday by the Governor, represents the western half •—Uken away in the prime of youth at 84—and “French Louie,? a hermit-like Canadian lumberman who schooled Kenwell himself in the lore of the woods. ; Hess, an px-built roan who!; could cam out two bucks on hit broad back, is a legend among Adirondack hu use any tool, inters. He could and once skinned a wolf with k safety pin. In his later years French Louie MiiMjfli on living alone in the Civil Service Job Exams Announced . The Civil Service Commission an nounces examinations for filling vacancies in the position of ap praiser and construction analyst at entrance salaries ranging from $3,727.20 to $5,232 per y$ah »Employment will be with various federal agencies in Texas. Application forms and additional information may be obtained from the College Station post office or from the regional director, 14th U.j S. Civil Service Region, 210 South H Harwood Street, Dallas,; 1, Texas. T •aid piga him flhat he war them, h<; said: i f\*0h, mix venison and fe< h<!M,!l trues*.’ ” ! (Jerald's own 1 eSr Who aeitled and built his owr to the nearest s / Some young ihe^eldier Kenw in oat fehrsomc heard lip the ing tp do ri eni wi ttyem! l ather was a in tho mouktainS; tote road 56 tor i. men once kll pionf ; tains miles asked I what wap.the iji j noise he hadl|| woods. A bear's j , ! s howl? The cry ~ i. grbWl? A wolf i of a panther? 4 the. old: man. "Th^ wuss noise 1 evdr hdard was one winter about: at of Febriiaily when I wokkii UP and heard ' the bdtiom iof t miles for | more A 49 claim, privately-owned railroads will not but feel that their claims have been ex- be able to operate in the black and our aggerated. And [all the truck drivers we -railroads will become nationalised j j know seem lil e pretty decent fellows. Rustled Muscles and Stock-Still Aij# In London the staid officials of tjiat fice warns. city's famed Windmill Burlesque House Rustled mujpdes by some blondes we seen hag been accohiplished with such American-|born h a v ei announced two blondes will move jnto star parts pn the ■■ program next month. » In the announcement came the post script that American bumps and grinds are taboo. ! 1 j have seen hi n i I I I e o * ^ n.-. Aforfer/i Fairy Tale All Sadness, Woe j By s B. F. ROLAND Once upon a time there was a state legislature. It was a big, handsome legislature with bountiful wealth at its dis posal and with much work it could accomplish. But this legislature became weary of merely passing laws for the benefit of the commonwealth and trading to its own functions. It pined for (die glamor and Romance of some of the Balkan legislatures, where every pronouncement stir red the pulses of all the constituents. This big, handsome legislature decided it would do something showy and get its name in headlines. “I will learn a lessoh from Ad61f Hitler. I will persecute an impotent little bunch of crackpots and pose as saviour of the people and get my narpe in headlines,” said the legisla ture , l , , j 1 ' : j ■] [ \ .r Sb the legislature got on its white horse and rode away from its solemn capitol until it met a little group of crack- Pote-J , ± , 'j j ; , “Aha! These look harmless,” said the legislature. “I will run get some newspaper reporters to report my deeds and then I will impale these. creatures on my legislative thk Medina bam, forty miles north lance.” I: t - I I J | of s »9 Antonio. It dashed away, found the reporters and returned to Rollins helped design many army the crackpots. Then with tuch bravado, shouting, postur- / an mg, and Screaming of insults it lunged at the -crackpots. engineer member of the renegotia- But they sidestepped and the legislature fell on its quor- tioh board to settle claims growing um. It got up and dusted itself off and said, “You crack- out °f wartime construction, pots are against free enterprise!” The legislature was care- , He ^ S 7 been a Dallas resident; Guleke replaced Col. p. V. Spence. Cop. Spence has been made Texas Interstate Compact commissioner. RjolUns has been an active en- giB#er fox more than forty years, “■hik is his second gubenatorial ppointnr.ent. In 1944, he succeeded iWb Gilchrist, now chancellor of he Texas A&M System, as chair- ah of the Texas Postwar Econo- ic Planning Copimission, !i He served in France as a tank battalion commander in World War I. He worked pn rice irrigation systems in South Texas and was onk of the principal engineers on since 1921 aab plished with such grace and ftminine becoming that we are fqrced to challenge the Lord Chamber- lajin’s dogmi.tic attitude, j !j Though statuesque poses are remind ful of classical art our American sensi bilities are ,Wore prone to admire the Hv- The Lord Chamberlain’s Office, which big art of a keeps an ^ye on burlesque and other shows But, if burlesque ar^ t<) succeed, they must obey BONN, Germany, Oct. 3—(A*)— The western German federal gov ernment announced yesterday a de valuation of the Deutschemark ex change rate from 30 cents Ameri can to 23.8905 cents. h - body in movement, thd Yankee dolls in British in Britiah, Says the girls cgn show their bodies — absolutely all they like —pro vided they stand stock-still. Bustle a mus cle and it stops being am art, the high of- T.< r" r..;, the whims of the Lord Chamberlain’s tastes and jstfend, “stock-still” not rustling a muscle. |\ i The Battalh n Soldier, Swemeti, Knightly Gentl ”SoU Lawrence The Battalion, official news] ~ ition, Ti city,of ecu*.mm, lau,I ■pobiS,'i,?‘- Aer ^ to * 1 Friday afternoon, except during holidays talion is published tri-weekly on Mon' year. Advertising except duri tri-weckly i rates Hum lishcd five ti: * SL w ^ d e ished on reques' The Associated Press is entitled exclujivelj credited to it or not otherwise credited in the; ful to cross itself reverently when it said these holy words. “You crackpots should be run out of the state!” it wail- { Mahov in ed. The newspaper reporters obediently got every word. Z'”" . ^ “You are not loyal to the Inviolate and Sacred Consti- uepreciates in V aiHC tution!” shouted the legislature, crossing itself again. It lunged once more at the crackpots with its dreadful lance, but again it missed. ; l Ti v Even the reporters were laughing at the legislature by this time, so it decided to go back to its capitol. It climbed on the white horse ahd clippoty-clopped dejectedly toward home.j j/ ; ji ' : i 111;' 'R ; , But when it arrived again at the capitol it found the doors locked and barred against it, and where it had sat, now sat another legisjiature4 ( The people had observed the undignified heroics the leg islature had put on ahd had elected another legislature to re place it. ✓ I So the ,pld legislature wandered off into the forest re peating over and over; to itself, “You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” AC IE Bryan Z’8S79 TODAY & TUESDAY And the people s&ng madrigals and danced on the village green to think that they were nd of such a silly legislature. , Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie traditions liege of Texaa and the circulated every Monday through i, iDurings the summer The Bat- ubscriptiori rate $4.30 per school credited to it or not otherwise credited In the paper and lociMnc led herein. 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Loe Aneeles. and San Francisco. itorial office, Room 201, the Stuudent Activities Co-Editors 1.../!, .'J.iicitorial Board Oialrman RMd.’ J ■ | A • . ^BMltorial Board left 0. F. Newton. jopa^Tapley. iOhn Whitmore . . . Feature Wrilera i^nce Ashburn. Jr.. Emil Ckrtis Edwards, 3. C. Bob Lane. Bee Und- Bruce Newton, Jack Raley. Oj Tiedt j.. t II, .News Writer* GdU. Ralph Gorman. Frank ; Sim men „ Sporto Writera If! 1 Oct. 24 to Be UN Day • AUSTIN, felt., Oct. 3 — ffl; Oct. 24 was designated yesterday as "United Nation’s Day” and Oct 0 was aet aside as "Grandmothers Day” Official memorandum making the designations were issued yester day by GoV. Allan Shivers. Official Notice All student* majoring tn Animal bandry who -have not worked ont their Oeirree Plan are untrd to attend a meet ing in the Lecture Room of the Anim'1 Industries Building: at 7 p. m. Wednes- d«y. ji N: 111 The purpose of the meeting ;is to ao- quaint you with the Degree Plan and purpose, jto discuss what should be d, before making out the Degree Plan, ai to answer questions concerning any phe of the Degree Plan. 1' ij; You will find it definitely to your ad vantage to attend the. meet ng. Please be there. B. R. Dana Animal Husbandly All tUfent* XT' Oepartin«n S.nYtlMY’ NOW: LAST DAT j^HUSV BOOART “Knock on Any I Door” I $325 lucky License ig Soon— c, v illiYN WEST THE HUBBA - HtJBBA GIRL mtut wet ok IKw I WED. to the QUEEN NOWitterii “Secret Garden” with. TUESDAY L’ 'i/i.'.,] Margaret O’Brien I; I " Enter The Quarterback Gliib Contest 111 WINNERS EVERY i ! ■ ■! : WEEK s Prizes Presented at I Quarterback Club Meeting See Movie of ;;’ . Wednesday . ; i ; I;