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From Confusion Must
There Huh been a great deal of
aion on the campua the past week,
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Aggie B^ind, already an overworked unit.
It would further inconvenience the atudent
In a welter of aide iiHueu,, the one big body by making them ru»h from the par-
Ihuuo HeemH to be almost completely ob- , ade to the giime. And nn a final urgu-
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ecured. In an eff^f t° cl®tt r a nmall por
tion of tho cloud of confusion, the Battal-
ment, the Hupportera of a midnight yell
practice Offer a point that must always be
ion co-editors are attempting to set down .• considered—a very large group of the stu
here their feelings on the Houston mid- dent body simply want their yell practice
night yell practice. We ask only that - you at midnight.
give these views a fair reading and These are, we believe, the chief, rea-
thoughtful consideration. sonable arguments offered for both sides.
Here, as we see them, are the two ar* All we ask is that you, weigh the facts
guments for the two opposing viewpoints carefully, i /Don’t be for one side simply
—those supporting a midnight yell prac- because someone you dislike supports the
tice Friday and those supporting a morn- other side, j Tfry not to Look at the issue
ing yell practice Saturday. “ ’ "
In a morning yell practice, the corps
of cadets and the band, with all their at
tending glamour, would be displayed to
the best advantage. With the corps in
their sharpest uniforms, and the band
playing for the yell practice, one of the
most inspiring and appealing sights of
entirely for what it will mean for this year
or for your four year stay here. Look at
/it for the reflection our action in either
• event will cast on those Aggies who have
proceeded us, and for the inheritance these
actions will leave those Aggies who fol
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And in the end, remember that in our
Aggie life, a yell practice—would be dis- yell practice, our parade, and all our week
end activities,:we are guests ;of the city ofj
Houston
there miiist
ton city
Houston
Fotj every corps trip to Houston!
;be an invitation from the Hous-
couhcil, usually prompted by the
A&M Club. The type impression
we leav4 a|s guests will be the basis for
played to a highly desireable group of
people. That is, to the citizens of the
Houston area; who send more of their sons
;to A&M than does any other region; who',
give untold amounts of time, money,) and
energy to the promotion of A&M and its
interests, from athletic to academic; hnd
whose further support of our college will
play a large part in setting the type of
high school graduates who replace us as
Aggies when we graduate. ;
The second part of this argument is the
safety phase. With the gangs of gutless the emb|odiment of our host city of Hous
street thugs, who inhabit all large cities ton, dec des on the yeljl practice issue, we|
.‘ind increase in nerve with late hours ant}, will abic|e by and suppbrt,
large crowds, many Aggie stragglers! ifviU ; Whatever hour and location thtfy name
Houston 1
club for
host she
Wha
s opinion of A&M and its A&M
years to come.
We believe in this, as in any other host-
guest arrangement, that the wishes of the
uld be respected.
tever the Houston city council, as
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attacked, possibly some of theni in- for our
jured, and, as could easily happen, one or the belief that they have considered their
facilitieti in our beat interest.
All the rules of good taste by guests,
more of us killed.
Those persons supporting the Friday
; midnight yell practice list, these among we’ll try our best to follow.
their arguments. While the yell practice
mayjmt bo a long-standing tradition,! it la
a cherished tradition, j A morning yell
practice:would entail extra work for the
We’( like to be invited back in 1951.
C. C. Munroo
Bill Billingsley
iCo-cditors, The Battalion
The Wolf Takes a Fade-Out and Multi Vacations
Republican presidential nominee fade- publicai
out in 1948 and President of the Univer- through
sity of Pennsylvania Harold Stassen feot = convention time, then he is rumored to
slapped the other day by the U of P’s stu- have taken a dive to give Tom Dewey thy
dent newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian.
Wondefed the Daily Pennsylvanian in an
editorial, “(Hadn’t Prexy Stassen) un
necessarily misled the opening peal of the
school bell?” i
^Listing Stassen’s summer jaunts- to a political maneuver to stay alive politic-
Maine, fishing trips, and present London ally f° r four more years. Whatever/thy
v;sit (“third vacation” this year), the ed- grounds for his appointment, his mean-,
ityrial said, “Nd one will begrudge Stassen . deriAgs around the country smell more of
a vacation. Wb were freshmen once our- the political than the academic,
selves and realize what a hard year the 'Is Stassen perhaps another examply
first one is.” i of a poll
Stassen was being boomed for the Re- gown oi
yell practice, we will accept with
presidential nomination a 11
.1948 until just before nationa
unaminous decision. It just happened that
a few days later Stassen was named Pres
ident of the ( University of Pennsylvania.
Mid-westerner Stassen in eastern Uni
versity of Pennsylvania could have been
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; CLASSIFIED in the Montgomery (Al
abama) Advertiser^ “A small furnished
ryar apartment for rent, suited to work
ing couple, preferably married.”
itical wolf parading in the cap and
an educator?
THE! Houston (Tex.) Chronicle said;
“The suit asks $50,000damages
$5,000 for anticipated medical treatment
on one pf the ice cream trucks.’
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NEW YORK, (^1—Lady, «ay It
l»n't so, Please say It Isn't so, la
dy. \
Bay it Isn't trus this report
thkt fettials fashions are fcolnf
buck to tha 1920's for Inspiration.
No, no, no! Not that 11 What
hava we dona to deserva auoh oya*
ball punlahment? \
Don't trade the "new look” for
the "gunnyaack look." I'll ad
mit there was a lot of foolish
, Its.
male yammeria
“new look" • couple of eeMoita
back Just because It Was novel.
Every man was surprised to see
U turn out bettor thaa he had
feared
NMfils
They call the 1929; s the period
"the lost generation" and plume
It on tha disillualonmrnt
luma
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flrat world war. But jilt wui
men who were lost;
womsn. It was the Urns i; when
girls would be boys M No wonder
the boys Tefviscil to grow up ami
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Pros and Cons of Texas’ New
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Letters To The Editor
(All letters to the editor which are signed by a student or employee at 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.)
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BY JOE FULLER
Student Senate Parliamentarian
I MORE ADVICE
Editcr, the Battalion:
A little more board and a lot
less talk would do this school a
lot more gopd.
Yours truly,
John F. Gibson ’51
ON AMENDMENTS
Editor, the Battalion:
In reference! to! Joe Fuller’s
column on proposed constitutional
amendments: The arguments list
ed in opposition to raising the leg
islator’s pay and directing the
legislature tbimeet once a year
are completely fallacious.
Thirty six hundred dollars for
.'165 days is a Httlq more than $10
per day. Being a representative of
the people should be a full time job.
When the legislator is not busy in
Austin, he should be finding out
what his electors think concern
ing proposed; legislation.
"A governing body that meets
twinr us oft(im can think up twice
as many ways lb spend money.’’ Ac-
jeording to this line of reasoning,
we should (!<.» away with the legis
lature and dlinlnate taxation anil
government expense.
1 contend that u raise In pay
would In* mui|i llkelv to attract
higher cal Ik, r tiuhi who would he
less inclined to accept gifts from
lobbyist*, 1\!
live l.aodrum '.10.
Ed’s Note Joe Fuller was asked
to write nis Amendments sorics
because wb though some of ouri
renders wanted more information
on the chiRigca before they voted,
and we .fblt Fuller's position in
campus politics and knowledge of
state affairs qualified him for the
job. . . ' .
tn cacn of his articles he has
tried to present the standing pro
and con arguments for each amend
ment, without expressing his per
sonal opipion on any argument or
any amendment.
Since we are running the series
to provoke thought on the amend
ments, we welcome such construc
tive criticism as Landrum’s;
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MORE ON SEATING
Editor. The Battalion:
As members of the Sophomore
class we .have a complaint about
the seating arrangement of Sopho
mores and their dates. We feel
that-it is| unfair to require Sopho
mores with dates to sit in the first
S row's at home football games.
Since we paid $3.60 for date
tickets, we feel that we should be
ablfe to take our guest to better
scats. The conditions are crowded
on the first eight row's because
the lower two classes are given
about half the space reserved for
the upper two. We, also, do not
w-ant to take a date into the same
section that the Sophomores are
"orientating” the Freshmen,
Wq do hot want freedom of the
stadium, but we do w’ant some con
sideration! for the Sophomores that
have dates. We are not complain
ing alxmt class distinction be
cause we are glad to sit in this
section when without dates.
Three names withheld by request
Official Notice
Each candidate who Oxpsrta lo complete
the requirerttcnti. (or the Master'd Degree
a( the end of the current semester should
file application (or the degree with the
Dean of the Graduate School and with
the Registrar not later than December t.
Dr. Ide P. Trotter
Dent, Graduate School
UNDERWOOD
TYPEWRITERS
SUNDSTRAND ADDING
MACHINES
15% Discount
on Portables
C. M. WRIGHT
W&D. Clothiers
PHONE 2-1475
Bryan, Texas
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Editor, the Battalion:
Last Friday night I was working
at Nita’s Newsstand. Sometime be- •
tween the hours of 9 and 11 p.
m. someone who was either digging
in the drink box, or waiting for
his hamburger, or for some other’
reason was standing in the kitch
en happened to see my senior ring
(which I' had taken off to wash
dishes) lying in the cash drawer.
He took it. Tthis letter is for him.
I hope he reads it.
You know, jt seems to -me that it
took over a hundred years of
blood and sweat and teams and
disappointments before I finally
got that little hunk of gold that
proves I’m about to make it.
How would you feel, friend if
you were in rpy place? Would you
feel as bad about the whole thing
as I do? Whpn I was a freshman
in old fighting "B" Battery in
‘45, 1 learned! to trust my buddies,
and to work with them, and to take
their word fop anything they might
say, (except for their prow***
with the women, naturally), Con
sequently, 1 (fame t<) trust nil Ag
gies, and got a lot of trust In re-
turn, |.
Now what am I to do? Sure, I
renllxo that tfierc are approximate
ly 7,I»!H> homiift guys hm*, but what
about, my frljtnd? Where do you fit
In? Ah far ax I’m concom*d; you’re
just not an Aggie. Maybe you’re
Juxt one of Hfe people who thought
that the ring lady was against
you, and you wanted a ring at any
cost. Maybe | you jUst can’t help
taking things and lifted it. Maybe
I know you, and you don’t like
me, and you did it to hurt me.
There are a lot of "maybe’s". But
it burns my gilts for something
like that to happen.
I’d prefer to know that it was
thrown out in the garbage, (which
it wasn’t, sipce I tvent thru the
garbage, bit by bit), or just lost
(we went thru the place three dif
ferent times Friday nite and Sat
urday morning), than to have to
know that some Aggie took it.
Monday, October 31st, was the
last chance I had to re-order in
able get one before Christmas.
I didn’t do it. In the first place,
I couldn’t afford it. In the sec
ond place, I hope you will retufn
it. I’ve waited until now to write
this letter in hope that you would
return it. Tt means more to mo
than it’ll ever mean to you, be
cause if you wear it, you’ll always
have ta remember how you got it.
I’d like to have it back and be
able to trust every Aggie again.
These last four days I’ve been lock
ing my room when I leave. I have
n’t done that in a long time. See
Stundent Senate Parliamentarian
Next Nov. 8 voters all over the
state will either approve or disap
prove of ten proposed amendments
to our Texas constitution. Two
of these amendments, which Will
be numbered three and five on
your ballot, are usually consider
ed together under the heading of
'“Public Health Amendments.” |
Amendment No. 3 provides for
the setting up of comity hospital
districts, while No. 5 would per
mit city-county health units fo
raise money.
Amendment 3 would permit the
legislature to set up county hos
pital districts, and would permit
the legislature to authorize < the
counties to collect taxes for the
support of their hospital distHcjt.
In other words, the people of each
particular' district could vote to
collect taxes for the benefit of
their own hospital and public-
health service, if they so desired.
Amendment 5, which ties in very
closely with No. 3, would permit
city-county health units to collect
up to 20 cents on the $100 proper
ty evaluation, provided the resi
dents of the areat voted in favor of
the taxes. This is a sizeable in
crease over the amount that they
have previously been able to!col
lect, and, according to backers of
the bill, should enable those city-
county health units to bolster
their sagging service,
San Antonio Club
Fleets Williamson
.Iftrk Williamson, a xtmlor SN
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inoiistudent from Alamo llelgli
Hen. Antonio, wa* elected 1019-RO
president Of the San Antonio A&M
C)ul> Thursday night. -
Other officers enosomwerc Char
lie Gordon, vice president; report
er; and Don Gordon, sergean-At-
urms. j|;
A Thanksgiving party at Aggie
Park in San Antonio was planned
and Williamson appointed a fom-
nlittee to complete the arrange
ments. t .
; Club members decided to make
provisions whereby non-members
who wish to attend the club parties
will either be charged an extra
ainount or not be permitted.
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to improve their public health fa
cilities as Tnuch as they desired!
up to the 20 cents per $100 Hmita+<
tion in the case pf city-county on-
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e men out of thefr
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•cropped boy la h
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act like m
Remember
thp' girl*
t refu u
those jcl
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leia drran
Ilk* a shield?
It wasithe fond ambition of
every fashionable lass then to
tb took like a soda straw, Iml
niitoral feminine architecture
th<r often decreed that the result
xhouiri r+tqmhln a gunny sack
full of sugar on stilt*—or 'piano
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A»d If women db, men will have
to; dress, like the 1920’s, too. Re
call a thing called ‘‘the pake-eat-
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The "cake-eater" wore a Jaunty
halt, dangling sideburns, a waist-
tight coat!jacket and floppy, bell
bottom trousers that were the clos
est the Aiperican male eVer came
to skirts. Over it all he wrapped •
a raccoon poat, presumably a man- i
ly! gesture because it was hairy.
Would you like to have to go out
The attitude of most people ,
have expressed opinion on the sub
ject has been that since public
health units ape generally Inade
quate and why not permit the in
dividual districts to increase tbeif
taxes and thus improve public
health in their own area, provided
a majority of voters in the district
approve of it by ballot? An af-f |-v .
firmative vote on the amendments I ll1!)rtfPrhni*CAC A 1*0
would permit the areas effected Ltd* flUl im.1 C
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The result: a vertical caterpillar. :
on .dates Again escorted by some
thing like jthat, lady? No? Well,
save us from yoqr 1920’|j look
and we ll keep the cake-qater un
der glass. It’s ,k fair bargain.
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DAISY, Term., Oct. xo.
(/P)—Daisy Mountain’s moon
shine feud bids fair to Mk©
its place with the famed Hit-
field and McCoy squabble! in
southern mountain history; i J
Spawned during a dispute over:
tho making of corn whiskey and
fanned by bitter hatred, the feud
flamed anew over tho wcelpmd,
anbther man was i killed j on |hjo
lonely mountainside-the third : to
die since the hill country !war )•*-
:“Conferences are of great im-:
jpbrtance ;n deciding the type of
quarter hirsps we shook brood,”
said R. FI. Morrison at :he first
Quarter Horse CefTferenc; to Ir
kfld here] ■ ? , [ f
I'ij Morriso i, assistant secretary ol!
the American Quarter Horjso Asso
ciation, was principal speaker at
the conflel’ence, hold Friday after-i
npon in ' the lecture room
gan two years ago!
Police found William
Parker lying on a i
U. (Hoots l
of thd
nimnl Industries 'Building.
Purpose) of the meeting, Hai<(
Nqrriijon,! wa* to get the quart.e|
burse breede'rs together, l> deridj
tjjo preferable typo of quarte|
ive sullied for use on th) range)
e that would be supreme n all it#
odtions. j '
ijTho asiociation’s office iij Ama)
dllo had Issued, said Morriilon, four
stud book*> and .worn r^glsterink
iihout 40(1 horses per montliic.Bixty)
five pereifni of these are njares, '.'8
Parker lying on a Imiddy slope! of iMwot tjtalllons, and the remain)
th* mountuln Haliiilduy night, shotly’ 1 ' keldljig*. I
tltree (lines and bludgeoned vjlllb I!), W,! Wlfllams, vice e iaiiee||o|'
for ttjjfiitjulliifa of the AaM >Sys[.
Ictn, NveliKiniQil tho atlenllwnts a)
the I'lDxlj k*s«m(dy of th(i eonferl
•nee,
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the connection?
Kenneth J. Rachel
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Heads County Club
'Kenneth J. Rachel of Lexjng-
tbn was elected president of the
Bastrop-Lee County A&M Club at
its organizational meeting Thurs
day evening.
Other new officers are J. H-
Burttschell of Dime Box, vice pres
ident;. Johhny Diebel of Elgin, An
nex., vice president; Collier'Walker
of ^mithville, secretary-treasurer;
Cheater F. Payton of Elgin, soc
ial chairman; and Carroll C. Smith
of Smithville, reporter.
Plans for a Thanksgiving party
at Bastrop on Friday, November
2$, also were discussed.
All MX.
Hoymmul Hdl, 21), wits I’mjiul
at the scone, two nX wound* on
his head. Doll and Ills hroiher,! Kd,
23, wer* HiTcstcd and Chief!De
puty S?0tt Swafford charges them
with murder. They face arraign
ment tomorrow.
Officers have redoubled patHols
on the mountain hut have met \vith
the same tight-lipped silence that
greeted them after the twoi,provi<mn
deaths: no one knows anything
about the slaying. 1 ]
Evidence has been Sparse wht'n-
ever one of the mountaineers Has
been tried for a killing. Several
persons recently were indicted ion |‘
murder charges in the first two
deaths. Three trials were held and :
all were acquitted.
For a while it seemed thmc
would be peace on thie moun
tain. A representative of each fac
tion appeared on a nationwide radio
broadcast. (We the People) igst
December and proclaimed an end
to the feud. It evidently djdn’t take.
India Drafts Fight
To End Illiteracy
Madras, India, Nov. 2 hPi—Edu-
cation Minister Maulana Abul Khl- :
am Azad said today India plans
to draft all her educated citizqns:
as teachers for six months in
drive to end the country’s illiter-l
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Troops Get Turkey
CommuniHtk Uni I Is
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f-Turkc:
were asi ured today for
troops it
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Breiri
urt, Germany, Nov, 2 'A?
dinners pin iTi juiksgiving
r American
Gqi'mniiy and AustHu.
The Army announced tjiat 388,3p|
of turkeys
erhaven.
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Tell you what, friend; I haven’t
reported this to the K. K.’s Reading
this letUg will be the first that
they'll know about it. Let’s keep
it between you, me, and your con
science. Tie a piece pf paper to it,
put “Dick Magers, Box 2904” on it
and drop it in the mailbox out
side the North Gate post office.
Or, if you want to, slip it into
Nita’s sometime. I’d like to have
it by Friday, friend.
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Hubba, Hubba!
Tokyo, Nov. 2 'AX—The
kdishi Department Store—one of
Tokyo’s largest—made lots of new
friends today.
,lt was free taste day at the
liquor gounter.
Products of 11 Japanese distilljer-
ie| were introduced.
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