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FRIDAY, CCTOBER SI, 1949
Reception of the Cowbell Cara
Jutjl two yean* ago,a awarm of greon yeifr we pi)ii(3 a returft visit
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and K<;rid draped cam invaded the campuH.
Cowb^llM rang frorp the North (Jate to
l(>r
Jaylqr. An
were
we reg
scene of wild, rejoicing after Baylor had
whipped, the Aggies.
„ Well, a combination of circumstances
that you all know about, or have heard
about, put a damper on all the noise that
filtered down here from around Pat Neff
Hall. A spirited A&M team sparked by the
coffin corner kicking of Stan Holmig de
feated the Baylor squad. Ten minutes
pn 1
untilj 2:30
BaylOrites the best
et to rcmlr
HURRY UP WITH THOSE MOON ROCKETS
LABOR
troubles
to
d you, we
outpointed in one of the flrest gamcH
ol th » year. Both tJ'nmH playk
ball they were capable of, but
final Whiatle had blc
the south end of Kyle Field,. The Bay!
Beara were Coming into the land of the
"aharecroppers" and were ready to take
the plnwH from our hands.
. Baylor had a 'winning football tealm in
1947. It was a good team and everjydne
but th0tdie-hard brethren bf College oLa-
tiofi were firmly convinced that Waco land
and the roads leading to it would be the Colle^ Station arc taking even-money
bets pn the Aggies.
the best
when the
wn, A$M vi'as on the
short]end of the score.
VVpH, once agai i this Satjirday the
green and f gold wil invade t h» campus.
Agaih they have a winning football team
and again only |he die-hard brethren of
fe say only this
Saturday afternoon, give the
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anywhere. Maice tljem
give |:hem a hoWdy vfhen you se > them and
ome they ever had
$
ted
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a helping hand if thjey need it.
ut let’s forget that helping hand on
the gridiron ajt game time. - Let’s show
more hods
the South
in-Brazos Copnty. The green and gold clad
automobiles and beautiful co-eds had de
serted us., A strictly partisian crowd cele
brated here .
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after the final gun there wasn’t a cowbell for the cellar than any other in
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cm that the team which rates
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can btill
Beaiis.
> We’ve done it
again.
rise up to outplay anjd beat the
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before and w? can do it
Putty Can Take No Rigid Fornj . . .
After 289 days of wrangling and fumb- . action on internaiional matters. The fight,
ling, the 81st Congress adjpurned yester- to repeal v the Taft-Hartley law, the filli-
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Letters To The\ Editor
(All lelteri to the editor which are signed by a student or employee of the
college and which do not contain obscepe or libelous material will be published. Per
sons wishing to (lave their names withheld from publication may request sucti action
and these names -will not, without the consent of \the writer, be divulged to an^ persons
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norijty groups,
misprs.
ojr coblitiohs,
ical game-everypne but one man in
gi’essibnal district is a coach, and t
the only player.
gressman,
a Con
ic Cpn-,
jcisions were
reached in
atisfactory
onljf a few' instances. ()ne of these was the
T
sit
increase legislation which
)otch made
day for 75 days before the January ses- buster ovei| civil rights, tihe
sion. During these 75 days, Congressional out pf rent dontrOl]—these are illustrations
representatives can get 'btiek hopie aijid of befuddled act^ops taken either by mi-
check on their voters’ aWl ^backqrs’’dis
positions. This vacation is similar to half-
time in a football game; oply in this polit
er compro-
made sub-
staijtial progretW toward efcval ing goyern-
merjtal Halar|eKd(f compare more favorably
wit| similar jobs in industry,
Our critlcisnl of the ;81s|t
The theoretically Democratic ’cbntijjolb
ed 81st (’ongress show'ed Ifttle disposition
to legislate platform promises nuide by
the Democratic 1 PifTty during campaigns
last. fall. Rather the Hist Congress, ticiing
like a petulant child, resisted leadership' entln mid-twenjt^th century America. The
and showed that it had a mind of its own. futijidation pDiiupjples of this country are
notj in jeopardy!; better means to imple-
Congress,
howjeVer, must b( tempered with the r^ali-
zatlpn of the con used state of mind pres-
•*
It bungled, and groped, and staggered
through a maze of political, economic, and
ipcial reforms without significant actions
one way or the. other. The 81st Congress
postponed instead of decided; it patched
instead of rebuilt.
Foreign issues were settled more easily
than diplomatic problems. Continuation
of the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Pact,
and liberal reciprocal trade agreements
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mijiit these principles to serve our needs
are;being pondered by our people.
Until thought in thjs country takes
more rigid shape, and ojur elected repre
sentatives can determine popular senti
ment on basic social, economic, and politi
cal! isjsues, we can expect nothing more
from Congress than what the 81st has
giivjen us.! Confusion throughout America
were examples of positive Congressional Has been mirrored by our Congress.
Case of the Legal Literature . , .
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! Two immortals of fiction and df’ama
were brought back into the public eye last
week.- William Shakespeare and Charles
Dickens were named the defendants in a
tax-payer’s suit in a Brooklyn court.
The Flatbush citizen asked that Oliver
Twist and The Merchant of Venice be ban
ned from New York City public schools.
His grounds for the suit were that “Fagin
and Shylock (the foremost villians of
literature), were anti-Semitic and anti-re
ligious.”
The case went all the way to the 'state
supreme court where the railing was in
favor of Dickens and Shakespeare.
other than the editors.)
PURPLE HEART ANSWER
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Editor, The Battalion-:
I just finished reading the Op
inion of the {fellow who saw the
show, “Purplje Heart T \ and who
asked if wej accomplished any
thing in the last war. Frankly it
made me jus^a little sick. I Won
der if he thinks that stopping) the
Japs and Krauts from robbing,
raping, and 'pillaging our homes,
is not an accomplishment, then I
guess in hi. 1 ! light ; j we did not,
accomplish anything. ,
If keeping- from happening here
what happened in Nanking, Dnu-
chaw, Buchtjnwald, and numerbus
and varied j other places domin
ated by the) late Axis powers' is
not an accomplishment, of wqrthy
acclaim, Jbeli I am sorry I was a
pait of it. 1 also met the Jap,
only I was an infantry jman and
saw him fa£e to faefe arid I hate
to think whftt my lifie wtjiuld have
been like under hi^ domination.
I also met the Russian face to
face and feel the same way about
him even though at the time we
were on friendly terms. If the fel
low that wrote the letter ha* a
solution to tjhe prohU'ins of World
Peace other than thuj of prepured-
iioiss against^ armed aggression, let
him come loiit with It. 1 am sure
Stiilin would get a good lutjigh.
At least u :iig VKTy.
I agree thjat we should not waste
our resources fighting each other.
But when otic of the most powerful
nations in the world insists, on
forcing her form
and her rule on the rest of f the"
world, peactjfully or otherwise, then
we are left with no alternative,
unless the [writer wishes thati we
lay down our arms and say “|ako
us over. Brother Joe, t|o with us
as you willj, our lives mean ihore^
than our freedom to| worship Cod,
and cuss the government.” Then
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thQ good of young ones in mind, but, for
ouit money, the story reeks with an odor
rerpiniscent of another man. This fellow
ha<!l a little black mustache, a world^con-
qu?ring desire, and wanted not only to out-
la\y books, but to burn them.
We doubt seriously if Shakespeare and
itlkenk “maliciously wrote these books
{arouse prejudice," as was charged by
the plaintiff. In fact, the old boys prob
ably gave a few quick revolutions in their
eapthen homes when the suit came to light.
; But now tjiey can rest, for, hundreds
of {years after-their departure from the
A&M Consolidated
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Perhaps the Brooklyn gentlerpan had mortal world, they have won their case.
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Tim Battalion* official iticwauapcr of thkijAgrlcuUjirHl und Mwhnnlcal College of Toxa* and the
City of Collogo Station, Toga*, i* publlslmd five tirmt| a week and circulatod every Monday through
Friday aftarnoon, except during holiday* ami exam mutton period*. During* the Hummer The Bat
talion I* publlahed trl-weekly on MondayJ WcdMduy • ,1( 1 Friday. Sub*erlptmn rate $4.;i0 per *chool
year. Advertising rate* tyrnlshod on r^qUe*t. I
to the use fbr rcpublication of i)lt new* dispatche*
Saturday and Sunday the Cam
pus Study Club of the A&M Con
solidated ijligh ScbOol will Spon
sor a library fair, Mrs. Owen iLeln,
Librarian dt the high school [said
today.
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Posters jiave been; made by the
Library fclub and the Future
Homemakelrs Club. They wifi he
j displayed ih the windows of stores
in the College Station area, [Mrs.
Lee said. ’ i )
The purpose of t^ie fajr js to
liaise funds for the high school
library. The Campus Study Club
qnd the Future Homemakers Clubs
Will serve at a silver tea 7 and also
manage the,concession stands at the
ijair.
Free movies will be shown (to the;
dhildren whose iwirents are [visit
ing the fab. , i
The fair will start Saturday at
p. m. and last (ill eight that
night. Sunday the fair will, open
at 3 p.m. atid luat until 8 p.m.
Coktmberry Hook Store of Dallas
ifvill send (wo hundred books to
the fair.
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of ‘g.overnnientr Ho, dear person, whoever you are,
please; take the next patient in a
ease like this, and we will be glad
to pay for the ambulance and emer
gency treatment. ;j
Russell R. Waterhouse '50
Dog McClure \ r »0
Jug Cain ’50
Hill Blackburn '50
Edgar Schwarz Jr. '50
Grant E. Judge Jr. 50
Jack Tompkins
Gordon Lecsch 150
Joe Stokes '50
Art Gorman '50;
Chief Beatty '50!
Charlie Winter M9 '
Jake Leissner '50
Jack Turcottee '50
.- C. B. Jefferies '49
Donnie Hickman '50
Patrick Ramsey '48
R, Edmund Curtis '50
Jack Prince '50
Kenneth Timmons '51
Sam Pate '50
Editor's Note—We refer you to
yesterday's lead editorial in
which wc urged immediate modi
fication of any regulations re
stricting the use of the college
ambulance or hospital to non-
students in rases of this^type.)
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Boyle’s Column
ire Making Busi
'rustrating But
he may have a point. Wle would
tyave peace but what a price we
would pay. 1 don’t think it’s wor^b
that price.
Many smarter men than any of
us have been, and still are trying
to solve the problems of world
peace and come to agreeable terms
with the Reds. I suggest that the
writer- [of that letter let them do
it their way.
Yours Sincerely,
! 1 Pat Beck
P. S. I still think we accomplished
something.
READERS ON CAMPUS
ACCIDENTS
Editor, The Battalion:
We have recently witnessed or
have been informed about one
more of the stupid, needless stunts
of our hospital.
Friday afternoon (October 14),
a little boy was struck by an auto
in the new area. Whether the hoy
was seriously injured or not; we
don’t know. Nevertheless, the ac
cident scared him vtvy hudly, und
he wa# siifferinp front shock.
The college at ihtilanco was t ail
ed which show* little thinking on
someofie's part, since a man on'
crutches coujld negotiate the dl*-J
lance much fMUer and the aerv'.
Ices o(| (ho miibt lance and lio*pital
were refused s noe the boy was
not a student!
We would like to put the fin
ger on someone for this act, but
that is probably an impossibility.
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BY HAL BOYLE ;
New York irth—;In a world of
free matches AmeificahR lire fork
ing out $50,000,000 annually for
gadget* to light their cigarette*,
The flint!World War popular-
Ixetl the wriat watch. Aiftl what
that war dltj for the wrUt watch
the aecorttl World War ha* done
for the clgaret lighter.
"Now the flint huNitie** alone i*
hlgger than the entire lighter In-
<lu*try 15 ytiars ago," said Alfred
R. Nathan, (vice president of the
Knnson Art Metal Work*, Inc, '
The Rqn*oii Company—the equi
valent of ({moral Motors in Its
fielt - *o<m \kill market its 36,000,-
OOOtli lightel'.
It was foqndcd 58 years ago by
the Louis Vi Aronson, a metallur
gical engineer who put the voice in
the mama dpll. Aronson, who died
in 1940, wa* a pink-cheeked man
with a passion for maroon-—he
even wore niaroon shirts.
‘‘Oddly,, as a young man he once
won a $5|0()0 prize from the Bel
gian government for developing
a safety hidteh,” Nathdn recalled.
Repentihg’ of this, Aronson turn
ed to the mechanical lighter. His
biggest contribution was p. push
button invention that brought the
light to lif« with the pressure of
a fingeri. It made him so much
money lie Could pal around with
kings. He bven bought a 70-foot
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Fayette Club Holds
Of fleet* Elections
The Fayette County Club held
its first meeting Tuesday night
in room 11^9, Academic Building.
New officers elected were Herb
Frede Jr., Spresident, senior from
LaGrange; Raymond Kunze, vice-
president, junior from LaGrange;
L. O. Tiet|t, secretary-treasurer,
sophomore] from LaGrange; Mor
gan McCollum, social chairman,
sophomore; from LaGrange; and
Elmer Jackson, reporter, senior
from MuRJaon.
Plans w^re discussed concerning
the Aggie dance to be held. in
LaGrange {ffovembtjr 25, and com
mittees were appointed to make
the final pfojparaiion* for the dance.
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of the yacht to the other," salt {fr ~(j, liiht* atibne §nd, wHte*|»t
UI lh(| Qth<t
Nathan. '‘Bveii had one in hiij
bathroom." . { n | f{j
One of Natian'* present vice
preHidentiul dutbs i* the a**omblli!f{
of a museum of mocha idea I light-
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"In (he early year* they pot
lighter* In everything from awotd
cane* to baby ahoorfi cu*» jij
brotvae," he said.
Till* Rococo period I* dying out {
The Ktumon Company, for example;
has cut down lt*i numper «f! mop-
els from 1,000 to alw>0t 100.
The industry hasn’t; yet.caught
up with postwar demand.
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