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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, ^049
Class of ’50 Whips Out
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r Lapt night our faith in the class of ’50 pity's A&M exes,
was Restored. In an orderly, mature Where they had previously dan aged
class jitaeeting, the class retracted its pre- their chances of employment by their first
vious determined standjfor a midnight yell stand, the class members now haVe in
practice. . c.. ,j M .
It took a lot of thought and prideswal
lowing to reach that decision. Many of
the members of the class will be incon
venienced uvsoipe way by the loss of the
midnight session. r :
But in the loss of the minor details, the
class gained a lot of principles. It stopped
ose re-
have
stand, the class members now hs
creased their ohances of getting th
sponsible jobs after the sheepskins
been handed out.
And.lastly, they took a long step to
ward getting local recognition as think
ing, responsibility-accepting men.
As a summattion of the entire
a move which jeopardized A&M’s reputa- paign, we have this to say:
tion. It avoided the risk of j losing the “Well done, class of ’50—and many
friendship of the city of Houston and that happy returns of the .day.”
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With the great results of last week- 'dowhheats of this aggregation, for the
end—football victory, Frankie Carle, the price involved, the Aggieland Orchestra
ABC Ball—we have just now ; gotten could have provided an equal amount of
around to a minor, yet significant, point satisfaction to the dancers,
which we believe a mist^J U j| ; 0ur ^ orcheatra „ one . of th , U
Regimental balls, not bemg supported college groups in the 8tate . We do not
too well by attendance, are rapidly being 1 ' 1
condensed, with more and more groups
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fest. While little can be done editorial-
wise to insure a turn-out for a ball, we do
have a suggestion for more economy,
i The ABC ball was termed a success in
all respects,save one, finances. Here it
went into the well-known red.
qualify^ as musical experts, but we did
learn “chop-sticks” at an early age.; With
only this experience, we have not jheard
too many of the so-called “city” orches-.
tras emit better music than the Aggie
landers.
Realizing that an out-of-town o
tra might lend a little, a very little,
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color
For the dance, an out-of-town, fairly, to a b^ll, we nevertheless believe that this
well-known orchestra, was secured to sup- addition would be too slight to forget our
ply the music. With no disrespects to the own attractions.
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': About seventy-five mile/ from here ready over-crowded cities, find a faif-pay-
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there is a college; We/U-#ager that you
have never heard of itj 1 We hadn’t.
. The Royal Industrial College, estab
lished for the colored people of the com
munity, is in Conroe. The college is very
small, but has the potentialities of being
a good service.^ . . I :
Seven teachers, all who have received
degrees in agriculture or industrial educa
tion, comprise the faculty. One tradition-
ing job, but are burdened with high prices
and the ever-increasing cost of living].
The A&M System is proud of itp own
college designed for the colored peojple of
the state, Prairie View A&M. Prairie
View, however, is perhaps the only negro
college in the state of such high standards,
which teaches an outstanding agriculture
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The president of Royal College, a grad-
al old gray mule and one weather-beaten uate of Princeton, says that the purpose
plow comprise the sum total of the school’s of his school is serving those members of
farming equipment. J :: I “our” group who can never enter th$ larg-
The college has a definite; need for im- er schools of the state, such as Prairie
provement. If more colleges such as this View. It is designed to give them ah edu-
one were located in the farming communi- cation as inexpensively as possible^ with'
ties of Texas, a large percentage of our payments at a minimum, work at a maxi-
racial education problem would be re- ; i mum. •: 6
moved from the scene. : ;, While our need for many more of these
Many negroes like the soil; they would institutions flourishes, little Royal indus-
love to farm if they had the chance and trial College struggles along, unpubliidzed,
the required education to make their task unfinanceid, yet accomplishing its Mission
a success. Instead, they moiye to the al- for. tho$e who attend.
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Some of the boys from Greenville are Generally speaking; my wife’s okay,
mighty proud of their Exes back in the And she’s generally speaking
old home town now. The following 4x4 and day.
inch advertisement appeared ih the Green
ville Morning Herald following the A&M-
Very Tired
night
;SMU game. “For Sale, One
Poney. For Further information Contact
A&M Student Body, College $tation.
If you wish to rate
On his ledger as
Agree that his story
It just like he said it.
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"Solditv, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence S.llivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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The Fieetaiat Anderaon'a Houae by
Williamaon (Henry
Scott Gra
Holt and
Houston Corps Parade, Student
Dances, Parties Mark Weekend
A corps parade through
down-town Houston, a joint
Rice-A&M dance, and many
private parties are the extra
trimmings that will go along
with the annual A&M-Rice foot
ball game this weekend.
The joint student body dance
will be held on the Rice campus
from 9 p.rfi. until 1 a.m. Bands
will be in both the Rice Field
House and in the Student Lounge
to provide music for the dances.
The biggest private party will be
an all A&M affair in the Emerald
Room of the Shamrock Hotel. The
event is being sponsored by the
Campus Houston A&M Club. ^
The capacity of the Emerald
Room is 1,400 persons, and the
Houston ARglea sold 700 date tick
ets in less than a week.
Arrangements for the corps par
ade were made November 2 by a
corps trip Committee from the col
lege. At the time the committee
went to Houston the committee
feared a city bus strike might
force a cancellation of parade
plans. However, the strike was
settled within 12 hours and plans
for the parade arc now complete.
The corpa will form in front of
the Southern Pacific Railroad Sta
tion at 9 a.m. Saturday morning.
The parade will begin at 10 a.m.
with the corps marching one block
up Smith Street to Preston, four
, f blocks on Preston to Main, up
Main to'Lamar, and down Lamar
to the dismissal area, Sam Hous
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Meet Tonigt
The Coryell County Club will
meet tonight at 7:30 in Room 125,
Academic Building, club president
Bill Potts announced yeAerday.
The purpose of the meeting will
be, according to Potts, to have the
club’s group picture made and to
make final plans for the the club’s
dance to be held during the Thanks
giving holidays.
Potts concluded by stating that
he wished to ask every member
to attend apd to come with ties and
coats for tihe picture.
Official Notice
ALL STI DENT
College agencies will commence the nae
of student identification cards November
21. Every nttident who has not had his
photo made Should report to the Photo
graphic and Visual Aids Laboratory Nlv-
ember 14 or 15 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Cards
made afUr November 15 pd'f Issued
upon payment] of a *1.00 fee. Mr. Ownby
states that the cards will be checked at
the Texas gapie on Thanksgiving..
Bennie A. Zlnn
Assistant Dean of Students
M'HOOI. OF CNUINKICKING
November 9, IM#
NOTICK—lID CARDS W|ll all students
In all schools having ID Cgrds numbered
hi'U.w please phone or call at the Dean
of Engineering Office (phone 4-0744 or
4-a:i44i at illO Petroleum liuildlng and
jtlve the namS correspondini) to their card
number. A new list will be published each
day. i 1 '
II. W. BARLOW,
Dean of Engineering
Will tile jiiiidenlK with the following
Identification Picture Numbers pleane con
tact the office of the Dean of Engineer
ing office 4-4M34 as soon as possible.
3, 2d. 4li 40, BS, Ad, dl. AM, 74,
A2, 00. III. m. 120, 145, 147,
Idd. HIT, loo, 224, 3M, 244, 247,
262. 203, 271 287. 332. 935, 348, 350.
304, 305. 367, 3»6. 402, 410. 414, 41T,
420, 425. 427, 434, 436. 437, 440, 447.
452. 455, 466, 404 , 471, 478, 480,, 484,
485, 486, 488, 401, 468, 503, 604 , 505,
506. 507, 610. 619. 526. 817, 620, 532,
535. 537. 538, 630. 544 . 848.
Each candidate who expects to complete
the requirements for the Master’! Degree
at the end of the current eemeater should
file application for the degree with the
Dean df Uie Graduate School and with
the Registrar not later than December 1.
Dr. Ide P. Trotter
Dean, Graduate School
STUDENTS
Tnere will! be aa assembly of all stu
dents In the School of Agriculture at 11
a. ra. Thursday, November 10 In Gulon
Hall. ! 4
Agricultural students wni be excused
from class at that hour for the purpose
of attending Ibis assembly,
| CHARLES N. 8HEPARDSON
..Dean of Agriculture
The reviewing stand is on Main
Street in front of the Rice Hotel.
The band will be located across
the street from the reviewing
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All the streets on the route of
march are one-way with the ex
ception; of Smith and Main. Both
these streets are wide enough so
parking will not have to be re
stricted.
The arrangements committee
which went to Houston to plan
the parade included Lt. Col. Joe
E. Davis; Lt. Col, M. P. Bowden;
Doyle Avant, colonel of the corps;
Herman Deiterich, corps? opera
tions officer; and C. C. Munroe,
corps public information officer.
The committee toured the par
ade route when it was In Houston.
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(All (•tlvra In tha vdltor which »r* algnrd
by a atuilvnl nr amplnya* nf the coll*g»
and which do not contain obaevnv or
llbelmm 'material will be publlahtd. Per-
non* wlahlng to have their namea withheld
from publiclkllnn may reipieat euch action
and theje hamea will not, without the
conaent or (lie writer, be divulged to any
p«r.iona Other than the edltora.)
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Editor, The Battalion:
Saturday morning I went into the
M. E. Sho^s rest room to wash my
hands.’I took my Senior ring off
and la,id it on the wash stand
basin; because of the small amount
of sleeb I got the night before, I
left it in the room, that for which
I have, slaved for three years—
my ring. When I noticed • that it
was missing ten minutes later, I,
ran ha(-k-so fast that I could have
easily broken a record.
L hkve looked high and low
for my ring with no results. I have
been sitting on pins and needles for
days in hope that the finder might
contact me. If you have found my
ring, you can contact,me through
Box 5306 or come by to see me. I
live in dormitory 5, Room 417, and
the phone No. is 4-1250.
Please let me know as soori as
possible; I would like to start
sleeping again.
Glyn A. Neff ’50
Rice Trip Flights
Offered by Airline
Pionfeer Air Lines will have sev
eral football special flights from
Houston and return on Saturday,
November 12 to accomodate fans
goitjg to the Texas A&M-Rice
game, W. R, Morrison, the com
pany’s Bryan manager, said to
day. i|
One flight is scheduled to leave
Bryan at 12:0! p. m., arriving in
Houston at 12:44 p. m. while the
other flight will be scheduled to
depart!as the demand~for the ser
vice grows, Morrison said.
Theri* will also be two return
flight*; from Houston to Bryan fol
lowing) the game, he pointed out.
A fjm> of $10.60 plus fodenil
tax has been Hpt for the round-
trip service between the two .•itltm.
The flying time is 45 minutes.
“Since the demand has started
early ;for the special football
Flights, It is Important that those
coming to the game contact Pion
eer’s Bryan office at their first
opportunity,” the official concluded.
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Two represantaUvea of Ui« Vaterans
Administration RaRlonal Office. Waco, will
be In Room 260 BlzsaU Hall between the
apd 3:00 p. m
or (ha purpoee of
wki their Veteran
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hours of 9:30 a. m.
Thursday. Nov. 10, for
Any veteran with VA
to sew theae represent*
what pre\ lous action has
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tends to you $ cordial invitation
to “The Fiesta at Anderson’s
House,” in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ydur host will be Scott Graham
illiamsoi^ a young writer who
has done remarkable things in this,
hi* first novel.
At the “Fiesta .. ’’you will find
Ibert McCormick, an American
jpurnalist who has been in San
uan for months, on an assign-
ent for a magazine. It was Mac
ho hatched the idea to hold a
Fiesta on El Din del la Raza
(Columbus Day) and invite all
the friends he has made during
qia stay. Some are racked with
terrific internal conflict, the
rest conflict externally with each
other, representing exact oppos
ites in character.
Mac has chosen Anderson’s
house as the site of the fiesto.
Anderson is a quiet guy, moody,
considers himself a flop. Boraiin
Costa' Rica, his father was a stern
Englishman with rigid code of
ethics. But Andy had only been
iused by the thought of self-dis
cipline, and had yielded to every
large and small. Now his
iring weaknesses prey incessantly
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on his mind, constantly he thlnklj flldili
of his failure to live up to hit
father’s standards, j !
Among the gueita will be FedirJ
ico Moro and Tomas Alvarei, who
want liberty for Puerto Rico but
differ on how it is to be attained. :
Moro is the rationalist. At the;
beginning of the Revolutionary-
movement he was a radical, wild
and impetuous. But full realiza
tion of the consequence of sudden
revolt and change by the unenlight
ened masses placed him in the pre
carious middle-of-the-rba(|.
Alvarez, however, is a single-
minded, violent man, [“a jealous
tal; hurricane and prodigli
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; tlon of; character and fi
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and selfish man.” Hot-headed ai
rash, he is perfect material for
the revolutionary groinp.' Moro’i
withdrawal from the radicals
branded him os contem;
the eyes of Alvarez.
Other guest* will; be Bierman,
the American social worker, ideal
istic, sensitive, touched to the
quick by the suffering of the pea
sants; Velazquez, the elderly schol
ar who knows so milch of human
nature; Marie, Anderson’s wild,
voluptuous servant girl with the
uncontrolled passions of a wild
beast; Rafael, the painter who feels
that his talent cannot be given
full development in Puerto Rico,
and longs to go to New; Yqrk. j;
These are only a few of the coi
Ppf Department Seeb Aid
Of Sportsmen in Game Study;
The detective business has spread
to the woods and plains-of Texas.
Clues are needed to help identify
the mysterious factors which cause
numbers of game animals to rise
arid fall from year to year.
One item of great value is the
proportion of young animals in
the population of a game species.
This proportion indicates the ap
proximate success of the previous
breeding season. Combining this
Information with other data, gam*
biologists are able to determine
tjic probable causes of losses
aimong Juveniles and many other
f*cts which are barly needed. ;
It is possible, in quails and tur
keys, to distinguish birds bom the
previous spring from older indiv
iduals by the shapes and colors
of certain wing feathers. In order
to help in the study of these
birds, therefore, the Department of
Wildlife Management is asking
hunters and sportsmen’s clubs to
collect quail and turkey wings and
35.000 Polio Cases
Reported for Year
Approximately 35,000 cases Were
reported to the Natiohal Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis this
year before October, Basil O’Con
ner, president, said today.
He estimated that more than
41.000 cases would be reported by
December 3(. O’Conner said that (he
full bill for patient care alone for
1949 would be more than $31,000.
The emergency drive in September
Was a stop-gap measure to obtain
sufficient funds for research and
care of patients until the January
March of Dimes.
Care of thousands of this years
victims will continue into next
year, and for some time after;
that, O’Conner said. Because of this
situation, he said that the March
of Dimes in January must be the
most generous in history.
He sent pictures showing adver
tisements for the coming March
Of Dimes campaign. The Battal
ion will print some of the mats
before and during the campaign,
the co-editor said today.
Uranium Discovered
In Southern Utah
Durango, Colo. <($ > i-~Ono of the
nation’s major uranium discover
ies is believed to have been un
covered in Southern Utah, it was
reported today,
The group of claims is located
tear . Fish Lake National Foreit,
, ust outside the ampll community of
darysvale, some 220 miles loiith
of Balt Lake City.
send them in for study, || -•
All that need be done is to cut
off the outer portion of the right
Wing at the sharp bind of the
wing. Only the right wing from
each bird is wanted. Otherwisg,
both wings of one bird might he
sent in and be counted, in error,
us two birds.
Fold the wings and pliu-e them in
an envelope addressed: pepartmeht
jof Wildlife Management, Texas
A&M College, College Station,
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Enclose the name and address of
the hunter or club and the county
in which the hied wgsj killed. The
Department seeks the (Cooperation
elements brought together
by Author Williamaon in a savage
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porerp-
. forre and
fluency of his sensuous powers
of description, are highly laud
able. He Juggles a dozea charac
ters with, the skill of a presti
digitator tossing up colored
balls; the pictures he paints with
words put to shame the brush
handiworks of many an artist.
He b aa extremely erudite gent,
this young Williamson. There is
deep thought In this pro
book, much food for hot
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"mhL In is a.book! to be reap! for enjoyment
and edificatiop. Don’t pass it by.
j . Lying beside “The Fiesta . . . f’
on our glass-top, mahogany desk
is a lesa-pretentioua, paper-backed,"
low-priced (.50) thin (15<) pages
book whose author is anonymous.
: It too has a host of characters,’
but they are not as clearly de
fined as; t hose in “The Fiesta
1 Tl ”, and have practically no
individuality. All that wo learn
about tlicit! is t heir >car at coif
lege, course, school address, and
home address
.j.The plo
:o follow.
ip plot, ps far us Hthdae bleary,
bloodshot/ sleepless eyCs tan dis-
‘ 1 The title ? A droll one, to say thd
ist. And lengthy: Official I)i-
ctory of the Faculty, Staff, and
udent Body, The Agricultural
d Mechanical College of Texals; :
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d dress.
lot is practically impossible
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i&M! Durocs Take
itate Fair Prizes
Si* Durpc fat harrow* from thi
A&M swine farm brought had; .
thielr; bkcoh and ten prlieTwlnnimj :
ribbons from the a til to Fair ol;
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! ;Tho Dut’oca entered as Individ* j
ii4)f in pens of three at the show:
toftie classes as htmvywclghu and
lightwolghts. The Indijvlduwl award*
jwhi) were!reserve grand champion
pf the show, champion far bjif*
rgw, thre^ first premiums, a see-
of all sportsmen. The rmult* of the «»d premium, a fourth premium,
Sand a ifiW 1 premium. Two pens of
: tHree won! the Du roc chamnion nenl
3*ww insfvryu cnampion pen. I | l[
; ’Fred Hhle of the Anihial HUs-l
■ Department stated that;
swipe had been used foi;
both class! and expenniental work;
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study will be released upon coibi-
pilation of the data.
Bryan Field No
Longer Surplus
Bryan Field has been removed
from a surplus status! continuing
in its past “caretaker” status, Tra
vis B. Bryan, banker,; announced
yesterday. A letter from the Air
Secretary W. Stuart Symington dis
closed the information.
The letter pointed out that “care
taker" status calls for ^employment
of a maximum of 12 ;p*r*ons fbr
performance of guard duty and
fire protection. It' was advised;
however, that expenditure of ap
propriated funds for m*i n t c n anc 6
and equipment would not be justi
fiable. v 1. ] i! I] ; j
Bryan said that the Civil AerOi
nautics Administration and Pioneer
Air Lines would replace such small
items as light bulbs, and would keep
the grass mowed at the field.
Symington mentioned in his let
ter “the air force would favor
ably cwtlider an application from,
the city of Bryan for leasing all:
or part of this installation for air-!
port! purposes."
jc*»; w*, «n»i*uui»ia which
;c*n l)e substituted for corn lb. for
ilb. in a ration, and they received no
iniilk in the feeding program.