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Annually the conduct of the A&M stU'
it body takes an acid test in the north*
extremities of the state, either For
• Worth or Pallas. Once again we hav
turned from Cowtown with no sei
blemishes on our record,
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I edde of the hills, but these were to
pdctedj and the localities cannot
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Our conduct was hot above reproach,
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iodical, which we
each day in al( sincerity,
ossibly lot verbatims but here was
at of the deathless prose: “Last year
er dould write of nothing
sportsmanship in their editorial Col*
ope collegef i aper dould write of nothing
t sportsmanship ih their editorial Col-
ms, but they Weren’t winning football
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jThe ladi from the acres seem to be*
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trip or the year, we Have made a far-reach- 18 i mucl ' > m P ort * nt
. ing step towards readhing the goal whieh J an ‘he development of character, some-
wje attained last year, j This was of course, foll< * V8 8 mah ^er than
our esteemed Sportsmanship Awards
; Regardless of the number of points
we bring home in gridiron statistics, we
are still bringing home a number pf >
love-thy-neighbor touchdowns. PejrhiE
it would be timely, now to mention an ed-
j To our! editorial coUeagues on the
baiM of the Colorado, we say “Gentle-
prepare for a deluge of requisitions
for j sportsmanship, for, in our eyes, there
o championships decided in this con
ference . . | and We possess one!"
(oughts on Our Letters Column
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Similar, to
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after eryone hates it. But war has a positive,
djeeing the movie “Purple Heart” the sec- tangible appeal that peace doesn’t possess,
and tinge are contained on this ptge in our We can sec the guns rolling off production
His reflections are lines. Wei can see our sidewalk throngs
become more and more mingled with uni
forms. We can hear planes overhead—
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those' of j most ex-servicemen
Who have heard the whine of en4my shells
and seen the splatter of American blood.
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His conclusion that the war of our gen-
tion was futile is shared by millions
ho participated in that war, not only in
dur country but all over the world, i
His passionate desire for peace sjtirs
all our hearts to agreement.
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These voices for peace are 1 but a mur-
inUr when compared to the clan4 of forges
beating out new weapons “just in else
there is another war.” A third world war
planes we naturally assume to be friendly
because we’ve known no others.
Peace is an intangible state that lulls
us to forget objective international rela
tions and drives us to set about at one
another’s throats over petty domestic is
sues. fWe can work for war because we
cab see the product of our labors; in peace
the intangibles get too hazy, and results
are not always clear and definite.
Whenever thoughts turn to war, let us
reflect with our reader whose letter pleas
is, to many people, |a certainty—a: (’pality fof peace and recall to out minds the trag
jto be faced a few years h^ice. ! edy of war and. the obscure confused re
Nobody will admit they want war. Evr su ts it alsd produces.
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Our ever-faithful Associated Press sieje world ever happens there,
wire channeled one small item into the of- j But jv4 wonder whai effect the clos-
i jfice Saturday that [paused us to stop and |in# of thie ciistoms house at Moellehuset
jreflect on life for a while. See what you •vrill have!on) the people of the little ham-
think of it.
“Copenhagen, October 8— (IP) —
For ten years now, the customs of
ficer at Moellehuset on the banish-
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“But the custom .house Will be
closed JariWy first. < ]
“A customs surveyor found:that
1 1 the border at Moellehuset hasn’t seen
;eh years.”
Yes, perhaps
kp you won-
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people will
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a solitary traveler in those
Insignificant, you say?
officer arid his family, if he has one? Few
(care outside of Moellehuset.
i^d even know about it if some
far-away reporter, perhaps at a loss for
copy, hadn’t^ stvtrObled upon the item bur-
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j So, nere ,ih College Station, Texas,
; UiS.A^ithoUsanlds of miles away from the
Danish-German border, we would like to
j wish the cUstopis officer |of Moellehuset
7elh<
good luck.
Wei hope he finds a new job,
but, somehow we’re sure he won’t like it
i nearly as well* as he probably did his cus-
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; it is, but then doesn’t it mal
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What kind of sleepy little place; is t°m s j°b with all its time for thought and
this Moellehuset? What kind of people reflection.
live there and what do they do for a liv- We Want him to know people do care
ing? Maybe, .in this fast-moving world What happens to him, for we as “little”
the little village on the Danish Gernfan people ourselves, are concerned for his fu-
border doesn’t even rate passing mention tijre even though he, too, is just a little
for obviously nothing important to the ofit- nian in mighty little job.
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"Soldier^ Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Rosts, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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(All; letters
college and which
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other than Ithe editors.)
to the editor* which are signed by a student or employee of the
do not contain obscene or libelous materta|l will !be published. Per
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111 not, without the consent of the writer, be divulged to any persons
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WHAT’S Y0UR OPINION
Editor, The Battalion:
Tonight I weijit to see the movie
“Purple Hearty for the second
time. The first time I saw it was
in 1943. I was just past seventeen
then and I thought I looked pretty
good in my navy blues, I remem
ber deafly my reactions to the j
movie that first time, “WcW show
them” I j thought. I was 'so full*,
of what jl thought was patriotism
that I cbuld halve licked a dozen
Japanese! soldiers single handed.
To me there coiild be only one pun
ishment for the whole face. That
there coiild possibly be any answer
but complete anhilation of the whole
race was utterly fantastic.
Since that day in 194? I have'
Keen and learned many things,!
things that make me realize how
foolish my thoughts wefe that day,
I took part ini the second wave
ashore a.t Palau and for a week
took supplies 5 to the beach am
brought wounded back from, it. j
The second and third days we
had to push the bodies out of the
way of the bOats so they could
land. The fulnerals were very
simple, i pul| lilopg side a body
and get its dingtags, loop a line
about it and tie it to some weights
for that purpose, after the chap
lain ^ad ministered the last
rites throw
go on to the
1 wern to ^
performance dn a larger scale. l|t;
was aftpr this! that I really begat!
to learn thingb, instead of ferry
ing the kvoundjed on one trip I wap
ferried myself. I spent eighteen
months in naVal hospitals. Up to
this time the wounded were just
somethihg that had'to be, but when
I becanje one of them something
happened to rtic inside.
It is hard jto spend six months
next to an 8 - y e a r old boy
who no longer has either one of
his legs;, withbut seeing the whole
sordid jmess from another angle.
You don’t listen to a chaplain in
the next ward rave half the nig^t
under t)te influence of a demented
mind that has; seen too much suffer
ing, without beginning to wonder
if maybe we are wrppg. It isn’t
easy to wateji a nurse take dicta
tion from; a 17-year old
j boy who no ibnger has a right arm
and hasn’t learned to write with
Official Notice
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the weight over and tites art wbetti
e next one. | t No lopgtjr will
Leyte to repeat the facturo purple li
“The Si|ak<
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Those students
Christmas must
who want their rlnc f f>r
get (heir order in to the
Registrar's Offiqe before November firsl.
Any student ijrho lacks hot more thin
eight hoars of hiving completed the nutn-
bgijs of hours required through the Junior
yeAr of his curriculum and who has earned
an equal , number of grade points may
purchase; Ihe A.; and M. ring.
All rings must: be paid for in full
placing the order.
The ring window is open only from K
a.m. to ! 12:00 ndon, daily except on Sv«l-
days.
H. L. Heaton,
pstrar.
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1)0 have not had Identl-
photogriphs made report to
Photographic: A ■ visual Aids Laboratoii
Room 2t. Administration Building bet'
the tidal's of 4:po p. m. and S:30 p.
October 17, 18. (19. The Laboratory
not be open for! identification photograji
at any other titne."
BENNIE A. ZINN, - j •
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Student Affairs
public fee in&.”
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IpeMlpn House Hunting
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ing difficulty buyim
up a chair aqd listei
ority on ; the subject
I have been buying a house every
Sunday sor three years. I have
driven miles (in just the
suburbs. M course) and I have
s spent $3^2.4$ on gas and oil but
I have able to do all tkis
with the 'same car, the same wife
and the help of only three ptiy-
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his left hand! yet. It is harder gtill
to listen to the words he tells her
to write, “Dear Mom and Dad, I
am just fine, I had an accident and
got my arm broken . . .”, when he
can write them himself he will
tell them thC truth.
Tonight, when I left the movie
overwhelmed with these and oth
er memories I can’t help but
wonder if it was really nece-
sary. Did wp actually accomplish
something? j I keep coming back
to the same answer, NO!! We
will never have accomplished any
thing great as long as we have
to train young men in the art
of killing, I maiming, and how
to overrun the homes of an enemy
designated by our national poli-
ticians.
Why should we waste our re
sources figh|ting each other when
we caii jejin [hands with the people
of all najtiops and fight the real
i causes of Iwars—hunger, greed,
fear, and|luj;t for power Now is
the time jfoij us to join the forces
of the Ljirdi and help him “tram
ple out ;the vintage where the
grapes of vjrath are stored.”
When thei people of all nations
do this therg, will be no more need
for the mjachines that looks so pow
erful in Itheir coats of olive drab,
machines! thpt live on young flesh
and blood, machines whose appe-
tted t>n fear and hgte.
we have to mahu-
le hearts and then thiere
will be nb n^cd for those telegrams
from, the war department, “We re
gret to i ifopn you ...” ;
This ii blow I feel after seeing
the movie t|he second time.
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In Bath, England
Bath, Erjg. L'P)—Bath magis
trates bannjed the American movie
Pit” today. They saw
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ihowing of it and said
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PLEA fc>R “n PER CENTER”
Editor, 'fhe Battalion:
Let md add a word to the con
troversy About the aeating arrange
ments fof football games.
The desird to ait during a game
does not; automatically make tjhat
person a “two percenter.” Many
veterans^: who are ardent Aggie
supported, find it extremely J in-
convient add uncomfortable ! to
stand during the whole game. Some
are physically unable to stand 1 for
long periods of time. Some [are
about to became parents and their
wives would rather not stand; the
whole time, Some cannot, afford
baby sitters and must bring their
children to the game. These con
ditions " are not Infrequent.
Last ; year the section reserved
on the west side adequately provid
ed for these cases. As a regular in
habitant of that section last year,
I know that the spirit is as Tiigh
there as in any corps section.
If nb changes are made in the
present seating arrangement, and
I have to stand to see the game,
will some self-styled ninety-eight
percenter please volunteer to hold
my 30-pound boy during the game
Saturday?, Jf . TV • i
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And so I aay to you,
don’t be afraid. You ton
your home and sanity, too. H<
banting is not at confusim
you might think.
Just don’t buy on impulse. Don’t
buy on faitl). Be practical. Make
su]re you answer all the vital ques
tions before; buying:
Who owns the lot next door and
are they planning a glue fac
tory?
Is the agent over-selling you or
under-selling; you and doel he have
a thin, harq mouth or a police
record ? ’
What exkclly does he mi
by saying, "you can own
home if you earn $4,000 a year. 1
Does he think you’ll bej able to
eat, too? When he says you can
heat the pUce for $8 a month,
does | he mean In the winter or
sumiher, : .. I ji ;![/•< !
Do you reglly like a picture win
dow and whjat do you get a pic-
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