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r ' - ‘it I '.I r. rr ; h' r M- Battalion ; •. Page 2 rT. Editorials FRII'. ■;> ■ v 11 is ever Las Will the Curve Start Its Upward j ^ ■ ■ .. ; ■ L So concerned this week have most 6f us been over other campus matters th^it we have given little thought tathe Son Conference contest coming up tomorrow afternoon on Kyle Field. Our stake in that game is as great as any during the season, and a victory would help out con siderably here at A&M. and this have been and are west lean yekrs, victorywise. We have been at the turn u ! When the words “SMU-A&l game to last are heard our memories reflec year’s game in the Cotton Bowl where an underdog Aggie team almost upset the highly favored Mustangs. And we recall the game two years ago on Kyle Field when the Aggie team tightened up and made SMU’s great star that afternoon just anotheriWalker named Doak. Again tomorrow the Maroon and White will take the field as underdogs. Again parley cards aregivfbg A&M three touch downs. Again we expect to sees the Aggie team confound dopesters and play to win, not to just hold: down the score of the Walker-Rote-McKissack touchdown and AY, NOVEMBER 4, 1949 ■ ' Vt’- ! 1". . ih; •'Si 1 ? ' * ! Q wmg? | V ciproca ship. ‘ We to our$ be and • • bottom or a curve that promises to upward soon. Perhaps Saturday will mark tie upswing of A&M’s football for tunes, £nd tbj road ahead will be paved with many wins and few losses. Apalrt from the things we have learned on the gridiron, this Aggie student body has lea final a med sbmethmg else which, in the lalysis |\ • is of greater importance than vibtories We have learned that oth er studjent bodies appreciate and will re- te our friendliness and sportsman- extra point combination. Victory is never J i " 16 0£t . u numuerb 01 C5MU so sweet as when it comes over the strong- ® tu< ^ en ! s ^ oh jthe barppus. They will est opposition — opposition who, on the surface is fiVored to win. 1. Our support of the Aggie team has would they ..continue to play as gallantly as they jhave? not in the least slackened. Who Cease to support them as long as be welcome tp attend our social functions and enjoy whatever facilities of the col lege they desirp to use. Last year they accorded Aggies sincere hospitality that made us feel genuinely welcome to their campus. This year, we want them to return to Dallas talking The football spirits of many Aggies may about Aggie hospjtality, Aggie friendli- be low, but their loyalty toward the Ma- ness, Aggie sportsmanship and Aggie roon and White is as firm and as devoted victoriy. ' [ j i 1 ~ ; • ' l r' 3 Few Fusses, They Have Their Buses Buses seem to be in the limelight in ed doWntown after the parade, trying fu- tWo of our nation’s largest cities. tiley tb thumb a ride from the corner of In Houston, the metropolis of the Gulf Main knd Texas to the Rice Stadium. Coast, transportation was at a virtual ■ Houston—^always a city for quick ac- standstill when the bus drivers caflled a tion—relieved our fears though, when they strike Thursday morning. Within a few settled their problbm. Perhaps more in hours afterward, hbwever, labor and man- dustri^s, companies, unions, and arbitra- agement had once again agreed, and the ,tion boards would hasten their settlements buse's operated. * ( j if they could see how quick and how suc- Washington, D.C., alsp is having its cessful the few-hour-strike in Houston trouble with the bus problem. Although was.. The bus drivers received a thirteen ithey are not deciding ^to strike or not to . cent wage boost, after requesting thirty strike,” the controversy in our nation’s cents. Probably after weeks of arguing, capitol is ^interesting. Sunday they will ; compromising, and cursing they would decide whether or not to have music on have arrived at the same figure, their busses and trolleys. i Nevertheless, we are happy, since we The eastern situation did not alkrm us just pould not see walking to Rice Sta- nearly so much as the Houston strike., dium. The bus drivers should be content, With the/coming corps trip, imagine the. and the corqpany^-well, they could have hundreds of Aggies who would be Strand- been ljut for more. Wary Had a Prize Winning Theme . . . I The following theme was submitted to a ninth-grade English, class of Highland Park School, in Dallas, by 13-year-old Mary Rejebian. It was written under the assigned title of ‘‘My Favorite Map in the Sports World”, Mary’s Brother is a for mer A&M student. $ f IT J “My favorite man in the sports world is quite unusual. He is that twelfth man on the A&M team. If you have ney$r heard of him I should like to tell you about him. He’s not a person but all the wonderful boys that go to A&M who help keep the < . : • \ ' i • ! i ' appro val of is enough 1 Whether twelftlh man The Batt « «• t 1^ .V • 1 I rest of the from A&M Mary go land ten a lion "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentt < Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions year.. The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Michanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Texan, is published five times a week ani circulated every Monday through Friday afternoon, except during hoIidayjB and examination periods, tulion is published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Advertising rates furnished ion rd< on request. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the lufe for ^publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local n ed herein. Rights of republkation of all other matter herein hre Entered as 8econd-c!a»s matter at Foat ofrlcc at College Station, Tcxaa, under the Act of Congreaa of March 3, 1870. ' ' v' I ' ’ { ' Member of xe Associated etnan” ■: Goodwin Hajl. Office, Roo at the editorial office, Room 201, News contributions may he made by telephone (4j5444) or r , all. Classified ads ynay be placed by telephone (4-5(324) or at the Stuudent Activities m 209, Goodwin Hall. mr.T. BILLINGSLEY, C.. Cs MUNROE ■ — f Clayton Selph, Lewla Burton* Otto Kunze I* y Dave Coeiett•••••••••••«••••• Chuck Cabanisa, Bill Potto ..Managing Edlton .....Feature Editor , ^ Co-edjtow Herman Oollob jj..... • .^Arnueemei tto^SktUot .Sporto . mu*« Kenneth Marak, Emmett T^ant, Jack Brandt Martin Howard 1 . • . - • ' Brad Holmes, BUI Hites. Hardy Roes. Joe rievino r. . • • • Wf*® , Bon Brittain.••••*••••••• •••••• ••• Advartisinj A. W. Frodriek.• lAXTf (Hivar. ••«•##••••• eial .AdvarUaBtg Repreaentattve ,,, .Circulation -A. ' .J. Charle B1H Thumps >] Palis, David run, Bob U(m Bob Air ” a— r; l ; . Klrkham Charlton. . .Editorial Board cnalrman Selph. j; .Editorial bean ReedT b>ank Simmen ♦ ••••••• have demonstrated to them and elves hat sports competition can' should be conducted on sportsman like bases. We were repaid in Fort Worth this year by |he friendliness Of TCU stu dents assisting Aggies whenever possible for the generous welcome A&M gave TCU last yejar. ' 1 ■ ; i. I .1 | / This Saturday large numbers of SMU -|-jr ii i i ! -■ , f * H ••/ ! / * ! > . j : {.! -L '. ■ j Letters To itor (All letter* to the editor which are signed by a etudent or employee of the college and which do not contain obecene or libelous material will be published. Per sons wishing to have thetr names withheld fronr publication may request such action and these names will not, without the consent of pie writer, be divulged to any persona other than the editors.) WHISTLING AND DRUM BEATING Editor, The Batalion: Perhaps a w^oman should fear to tread in an area so dominantly masculine an express her opiniop on thijligs that happen at this college, but I have a complaint that pertairis not only to Aggie audi ences but to audiences in general. During the war many men dev eloped; the habitLof whistling at the artists whom they enjoyed. This may ijtave been a good outlet for their j?motions when everyone was more or less living for the moment, but nqw that we are back to nor mal, 1 wish this annoying habit could ;he abolished. I have always disliked it, but at the Victor Borge concert I had occasion to dislike it more jbecause one of those offen sive Characters sat right beside me add whistled in my car. I am sure tne people front of him didn’t enjoy U either. There are not mahy "whistlers” left now, but I will be glad when the specie* becomes ex tinct. Applause should sufficiently prove to the performing artist that he is appreciated. . Whilb I am writing, I would like to add that several of my friends have rjemarked about the lack of publicity given some events fea tured On the campus and the abun dance [given to others. Burl Ives was advertised all summer and sev eral c^iys a week while we saw practi<jAlly nothing about Victor Borge. You might be surprised at the number of people who never heard j of Mr. Borge and they missed an evening of laughs, not to mention that the artist himself seemed rather chagrined at the size ot his audience. Man[y busy subscribers of this publication do not have time to read it vqry often and fail to see the notice of a coming attraction. The first thing that catches my eye it | a picture and I saw none news was more than suffi- cieht. We.„attempted to give Borge all the publicity we could in view of the abundant campus news cf great interest. Perhaps our judgement of reader interest erred this time, We’ll try to do better next time.) MISTAKE REALIZED Editor, The Battalion: We, the undersigned, offer this letter as an apology to the Student Seating Commitjtee in regard to the; letter which appeared in last Friday’s Batt. We signed the pro- viojus letter while in doubt as to the proper seating arrangement. Later we realized after having out mistake pointed out to us, that we were wrong. Yet it is our belief that there aru many others who do not know the proper seating order for foot ball games; therefore, wc would appreciate it Very much if you would publish the correct seating arijangement fojr’Kyle Field. Sincerely, Richard Van Court '51 Billy G; Neal ’51 Patt Patterson ’51 Jim S. Williams '51 Russ Hagens '51 K. E. Reel '51 Ralph (iorman '51 D. J. Wichman '51 (Editor’s Note—We are over whelmed. Please see map <(T stating arrangement in this is- stie.) AND ON THE RIGHT . . Editor, The Battalion: We enjoy your publication and loqk forward to the news and hum- orj In your issue of October 26th yoju included a picture of a pre sentation from the Texas Foun dries of Lufkin, Texas, of a schol- archip. You would no doubt be interested to know that Scott Say- er^, personnel manager at the ex treme right of the picture is > an of Mr. Borge until the night before. A&M man and past president playeiis’ spirft up. “Have yo|u ever seen an A&M game? If not y^u havq missed a rare thrill. To hear those boys, yelling with their deep voiced vhat their players have done, send a thrill through you. losing or winning that on the A&M team makes the team proud they are Aggies bllege ? ’. an A on her theme in High- ark. Wc think she would have got- nuch t letter grade in College Station. Duringa the summer The Bat- Subscription rate $4.30 per school the corjeert. A picture and an ac companying article about him sev eral tinlies before the concert might have resulted in a full house. These same friends remarked that the shows they have enjoyed the most were (die least advertised, so <1 hope the Battalion staff is not at fault ahd that we can blame it on the prqss agents of the artists. A student wife. Gloria Martin. (Editor’s Note — Whistling, we agree, is out of place at Guion Hall performances. How ever, we are of the opinion that a whistle does have its own part icular uses and, issued at the right time by ah experienced whLst)er, has been known to accomplish thjnks a formal in troduction cannot do. So we say this: Consider the 4>ccasion be fore you whistle, but if the oo- casion deems a whistle, carry on, and niay the best whistler win. (We hope we were not the cause for the slim audience at Victor! Borge’s concert. Our pre- preformance publicity is deter mined by the amount of space we have available and the character of other news in the paper. Dur ing the summer when Burl Ives received his drum beating the news around the campus was scarce and we were able to give Ives plenty of space. (Prior to the Borge concert you may have noticed that cam- thfe East Tex^s A&M Club Lufkin. • 1 ‘ | Cordially yours, A. Ed Caraway ’34 i Vice-President Former Students Association (Editor’s Note—Many thanks for the information. Sorry we didn’t know it at the time the pic ture was print FRIDAY & Double “Wel SATURDAY Feature ome Stranger” —with— BING CROSBY —pL 9W8 of spontaneous origin publish- also reserved, j , Represented n*tion*liy bjr National Ad- vcrtMns Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Loa Angeles, and San Franciaco. Co-Editors a Board Taplay. CoUilie, Koger Coslett. G. F. Newton. John psm; John Whitmore ... Feature Writora Im- Lawrence Ashburn, Jr., Emil ^ Driadate, Curtis Edward*. J. C. nlogon, Bob Lane, Bee Land- ink Bruce Newton. Jack Raiay, ,. O. Tladt New* Writer* Gaun, Ralph Gorman, Frank Sporto WrRan 1 •! ; : !' BETTY DICK —with— BANK HOLIDAY The Banks of Bryan and College j , 1 : • j j •; will be closed Tuesday, November Station 8, 1949 in observance of State-wide Election Day, •■'y •'!;• i .Ur ■' . ’i a legal holiday. FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY NATIONAL BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TftUST CO. COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK. , : • hj[ ■ f : Jj ! I •> . | ; h ■ i ii. " v a rL, GRABLF HAMES ; tK From Where I Sit — — 1 * : - *• ■ • l 1 v t L: ’ ■ !•! nfi Wall Tec ’ Hish Prai Yearbook,! F> Both Attract High Praise BY HERMAN C.’ GOLLOB & ! Once more we are called upon to bestow that much sought-after symbol of journalUtis merit and achievement—the Order .of the [Golden Space Bar—upon a student publications staff. At the first of the year the cre ators of the Commentator were [fortunate enough to, be thusly honored. Now it is the Aggieland ;’49 staff, straw-bossed by co-edi tors Truman Martin and Earl Rose, [who may wear with pride this cher- * ’* "> ished token of a job well done.; For this years’ annual, to be jj distributed Tuesday, is what we consider the best of the multitude : issued to date. Formerly, and . paradoxically, tabbed the ‘‘Long- : horn,” it has been changed by popular vote to “Agieland.” Apd as its name would indicate, the I Aggieland captures the essence of AftM {campus life as reflected - in the activities of the previous .year, j ' > ' ; . ; One of the most visually pleas ing yearbooks we have ever had ent lack bf skill: the pleasure of scanning, A*gfc-^-Wight and b)e«d and lay me doon jand is fronted by a maroon"ano\ to rest at bit, j • L h i •rrev mvpr tho tit.lp written at the N . and then I rise to fight again. jrey cover, the title written at the top in the maroon across a grey background while just below the Center a maroon bar bearing the iyords Texas A&M is thrust through fen enlarged replica of the Senior Ring. Eleven sections comprise the body of the Aggieland, each intro ductory page bearing a color p (ograph appropriate to the field activity depicted in that section. Of the eleven, divisions, we were impressed bj( the ‘Aggie Teams” section. S icrts Editfer Chuck Cabanlss Las achieved in layout and content a form which should serve as a model for future Aggielards. His open letter to the ’48 fish gridmen, who achieved the be<t fish record since 1947, is a singularly deft and clever In touch j !. Far more different and much more pleasing than the brawn qI the ballplayer dlspUyed in Sports is the beauty of tie babes pic tured In Vanity Fa r. Bandleader Vaughn Monroe, Cadet selecting Committee, and the Senior Class, are to be congratu ated on their good taste in his choic^ Of the delectable damsels vhose pictures constitute this section. ’ j I This department wraps around its suffering self a toga made of burlap bags and dons a crown of ash—the badge of penance. Well are we deserving of this fate, since we arc one of those .who winced each time alumnae of a different school chided and chafed us on our team’s great lack of victory. We cringed and shrank and found some poor excuse while inside we Vented our hatred upon our losing team for all its faults and its appar- Official Notice Each candidate who expects to complete the requirements for the Master’s Degree at the end of the current semester should file application for the degree with the Dean of the Graduate School and with the Registrar not later than December 1. Dr. Ide P. Trotter Dean, Graduate School T PALACE Bryan Z‘SS79 Prevue Tonight 11 P. M. i—i-S-— Saturday Prevue li P. Bl. '1: i* Then we awokq to the daihni ault that is ours. For a while ' snugly stood in the stands cu when the team didn’t come we failed to “see” ! J (: the bruising fight upon the field where bruising linemen would not yield. j T i the helpless battle 'gainst a|l the odds the guts and courage of the Gods. the aches the bumps the [bat tered ears, the backs full wrenched the tearg the heartbreaks hurts and pajmi that do attendance to a first down’s gains • yet the team | though prostrate does always ris&— for Aggie Spirit Never Djes! Lj •j 1 LT ,;Jj| „ How blind we were, not to have seen that the greatest fighter is the one who can pull himself off the flour, time an'd time fegaim It was a Bonne! Scotsman, iye bfet lieve, who wrote this hero’s tine: was lost, apparently;/but had faith that did kot foi And when at fortune lashed tl er$ well with her - and again at Go was gone jn all 1: of; few, it! burned of; Genera) Sam an and us to victory. To we dq our penan , j? Let’s eat our 1 cether. Shall we? rise to fight again. There’s courage there, and for titude. j; It takes the guts and the courage of the Gods to go out every week and fight against overwhelming odds and strike for victory. It' takes Men! How 4*sy it is to praise a winner, how easy to lose .’faith Extra Equipment < OTTAWA, Canada, (Ab Mrs. Fred Browne stopped and got out when she heard a clanging noise under her brand new car. : The car seemed to be running all right without the big steel diiT lying on the road but she decii* to take it home for her husbnn look at. ; ' j, | ! jnjj Hubble took; one look arid sug gested she take the manhole cover back. | .[ ■' —■yy—■■ih'm* "" l , • j ' If 1 j ; 4 ■' , "I'lM LAST DAY warner bros: A :: li * Directed by jf /ux RAOUL WALSH f Written by John Twist ind Edmond H. North SATURDAY ONLY MATURE-GRA Yet all if nothing risen > but opeless add brge it Wi m G< in thpse w us should worth the; from the defeated. Uje strength that came fro knows where that gate this Liberty jutd Birth when ^ ■W'.ll founder. Texas' birth Mis<r the founding fathf whip at Sfentdne liadl gone (n fell but ofi few, it burned re. How about to- eat our bumble pie Camp" / \ reatures Start :25 - 5:20 T> SAT. 7:25 - 9:K FORD Sed** KEYES Hu4 SMU • TEXAtf Football Game . Uartoon • NEWH . Prevue Tonight 11 P. JVI LI I 'v. pyl.11 tOK’h Sun m Inigiit girl nine o'clock town! eliture Startk 11:25;. y thru Tuesday FIRST TEXAS SHOWING _. O'M'' -H- PREVUE SATURDAY i j • , 1. —also— ■■ / ;! I Sunday & M WILLIAM ; j ■r m— '■ I , & -ufe»r Ra|y| I’ il i I -i Hi 1 !- " 1 il i i};i 'il in Vila to r: f KING VIDOR HENRY BL PLUS CA Prevue Saturday 11 P. M TT ** *"*1 ^ 1^1 Briaaaa ■feKttcaa dYKBIT iBEWILDERKD CENT 'HUTS NINETEEN I YEAN OllL ^DYNAMfri, 11.'. ’ p rJialti f »■' ■ k alien J Ike JtaUC \ : •; ;'! : - • • * ■ - ■ • 1 • ' ■ III |l - ■ I ex i J / l e cJJate to be announcct 4: ' I .1 . ow —i : i’j - U r V !*: ■ j.