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Plans for the Diamond Jubilee, a cele-
brAtion of A&M’s seventy-fifth year in ac
tion, should soon be snowballin g into ac
tualities, if J. J. Woolket, chairman of the
[committee for the Jubilee, has his way.
We have seldom seen a mote enthus-
Y, NOVEMBER 11, 1949
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being gained; on the program, a definite
outline for tlje events should be on paper.
First of tpe scheduled plans will be the
inauguration! of Dr. M. T. jHarrington as
the first Aggie president of the college,
in June. Throughout the summer months
1
iastic man than Woolket, when he talks after that, intended operations which are
of prospective plans for the coming year, now pleasant thoughts will rapidly be
lt A&M celebrants can realize only one-
half these plans, it will be a great year.
The committee will be a w^ll-rounded
one when it is completed. Various groups
from the Former Students’ Association,
from the Board of Directors, frcm the fac
ulty, the staff, and the present student
body wifi formulate a complete program
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mind of
nal date because it is too lazy! to change
to a new conclusion day of a f *esher war.
We celebrate Armistice Day or November
11 because it marked the birtp of a new
struggle—a war on war itself
Conceived in the brillian
Woodrow Wilson, and carried
other humanitarian thinkers who had seen
how war can maim and distort entire
races, the League of Nations flared brief
ly as a hope 1 , and was then e
by indifference.
Our generation has paid bitterly for
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In September, 1950, when Aggieland
actually enters its seventy-fifth year of
existanc», tpe celebration will definite y
gain in importance. .
One of the first fall of ’50 events will
be the opening and dedication of a build-
which will be worthy of such a celebration, ing due to play a great part in the future
So far, an agenda for the yjar is only of A&M and in many Aggies’ lives, the
in the imagination of Woolket and these. | Memorial Student Center,
men, and it will take much hard work and l! Perhaps we are jumping the gun in our
much straight-thinking and practical plan- enthusiasm >yer the Jubilee, but we do not
ning. , think so. All great things take much
Yet when the end of this school year planning, ard this planning can never be-
rolls around, since such an early start is gin too earjy.
A Birthday or a Dooms Day? . . „
Todayds Armistice Day ; a tWenty-four tory’s struggles. In all the powerful na-
hour period set aside to celebrate the end tions o:’ the world, technical minds are
of a World War. [ racing ;o harness the most fearsome de-
The War whose conclusion^ we are ob- struction oyer conceived by man.
serving has already been succeeded by an- On a flat plain in New York, another
other more far-reaching and torrifyingly- small group is working. They are just
destructive conflict. completing a tall United Nation's build-
The world is not clutching to the origi- ping; the symbol of humanity’s hopes to re
move the greatest cause of humanity’s
suffering.
On bur generation’s shoulders, the bur
den resits. If we profit by our bitterly-
bought! experiences, we can turn back the
threat jto burl world’s existence. If we re
forward by sume the indifference of our predecessors,
we can! plunge ourselves into a war from
which few of us will emerge to make an
other Attempt.
It ii> our generation’s problem, and our
Lion’s attitude will decide it.
our children continue to celebrate
ber 11 as the birthday of perman-
Job Calls
Engineering
Lufkin Foundry & Machine Com-
any woujd like to select; one or
two engineers from the January
graduating class to be trained to
serve a£ salesmen for their oil
field equipment.
Geophysical
Services, Inc., has
xtinguished
t h a t indifference. We ha
ve paid in
personal suffering, unbalance of our na- ent peace, or will our tombstones bear Members of the Aggie Rodeo
tion, and the lives of our bro
' Our generation is now engaged in an overca
operation more urgent than
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Novem
hers.
a position ohen for a mechanical
engineer for design of geophysical
equipment. ^They a™ “l 80 interest
ed in ; several electrical engineers
for lab and shop work. Prefer vet
erans whose military experience
has given hi(n a familiarity with i
electronic equipment.
Schaefer and Morrell, Arcritects,
may he able [ to use two architec
tural draftsnjcn from the January
class. They are also Interested in
securing the services of a mechan
ical engineer to handle electrical
wiring, plumbing, heating, ventil
ation arid afir conditioning fori
buildings.* ;
The Chrysler Institute of En
gineering is again interested in
Rodeo! Team Off
For Kingsville
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, The TexAs AgRie Rodeo Team left
Wednesday for Kingsville to part
icipate in Texas A & I’s first Na
tional Intercollegiate Rodeio to be
held in conjunction with the 25
county Sopth Texas Fair and Live
stock Exposition.
some new date—the day that the atom
rue the brain cell, and our civiliza-
any of his- tion was wiped, off the slate?
Ma
The Readers Digest, always one to of
fer bits of homey philosophy has these
little gems-on men and women : * I
Advice to young men: Sejlect the girl forget
whose husband will be most ijkply to sue- hers
ceed. •
ny ai woman will use a pill to get rid
of a headafche and vice versa.
A woman is perturbed by what a man
a man by what a woman remem-
Th» difference between a man and a
He owes his success to his first wife> woman is thht a man will pay two dollars
* I for a
and his second wife to his success.
Most men over 35 are eithe r married or woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar
singular.
Team are Rpbha Day^ Crystal jCity;
Bo Damuth, Magnolia; Charlie
Rankin, Corsicana; Bill Hogg, Ft.
Worth; Cnarlie Wampleij, Long
view; and Wally Cardwell, Rock
dale. . j j
The Aggiie Rhdeo Team will com
pete againist 10 other college and
university teams including Okla
homa A&M, Texas Toch, Sul Ross
Texas Unlivetsity, Baylor, West
Texas Staip, Arlington State, and
Texas A & I.
Wharton to Preach
To Presbyterians
eceiying applications from out-
tanding engineering graduates who
re interested in automotive‘work,
j.’he next Graduate Training Course
;will begin around February 1.
There is an opening for an arch-
iitect, industrial education or busi-
Incss and accounting major to sell
architect, artist, and engineering
service, with Bell Reproduction
iCompany.
| Teaching
Oakland Vocational Institute in
Marlin, Texas, has an opening for
a principal of a trade school de
voted to G. I. education.
Simpson Speaks To
Marketing Society
James D. Simpson of the Soil
Conservation Service, spoke to the
Marketing and Finance Club Tues
day night. He discussed the organ
ization, functions, and methods
uked by jithe SCS in dealing with
the farhier.
Simpson said that work of the
SCS is increasing. He explained
that a quality which is needed more
by agricultural workers is sales
manship. As an example, he ex-
one-dollar item he wants, while a The Rev.
item she doesn’t want.
plained how the SCS must sell
their ideas afid methods; on soil
conservation to the farmer.
Simpson then discussed prospects
of employment with SCS and ans
wered questions concerning the
field. Ahy agricultural major who
meets certain requirements as to
credit hours in specific subjects
may apply.
Poultry Team Back
From Austirt Meet
Seveij senior candidates for the
Poultry Judging Team returned
from Austin Thursday night, after
judging at the Austin County
Poultry Show, according to Ed
Parnellj team coach.
‘ Making the trip were Parnell,
Boh Mayfield, John Lewis, Grady
Scroggins, Bill Temple, James
Boothe* Bill Doran, and Delvin
Barrett.
A saijiior judging team of four
men will be selected from the
; Headline in the Paris edition of the W 11 Rogers: Never was a country in
New York Herald Tribune? ‘French Girl the throes of more capital letters than
Chosen by Lcgipn to Inaugurate U. S. the od lisiA., but we still haven't sent
Pappy Drive.”,
Headline in the Washing
out the SOS.
server: -i'Feeblc-Minded School Dcah Has "Care
Resigned.”
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The Battalion, official newsp iper of the Agricultural and
City of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week
on, Pa., (Hi- Headline in the Calgary, Alta., Herald:
lem.”
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of Canada's Aged Is Grave Prob-
Conway T. Wharton,!
who is ifi Ameriba oh furlough)*
from his Ihissionary work in thfj
Belgian Cdlngo of Africa, will de-i
liver the sermon at the A&M PrcsJ
byterian Church Sunday
ing at 11„ according to The Rev.
Norman' Anderson, pastor of the
church. |
Wharton has spent 20 years in
Africa, during which time he has
translated!the Bible into the Ballu-
ha native tongue.
Before Aoihg to Africa, Whurton! t
served as ipaHtqr of the University ‘fief: \ ii HIV ( k PStll*V
Presbyterian Church in Austin fob , _ J
five year*, and is familiar' with
student problems, Anderson said]
Official Notice
group who made the Austin trip,
said Parnell. Selection will be made,
morn- on t^e basis of points
scored in practice judging shows.
Those chosen team members will
compete in the National Intercol
legiate Poultry Judging Contest,
to be held in Chicago, December
i, Parnell said.
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. Nov. 11 Ameri
cana oMerve Armintice Day today
the iilNt annivernary of the end-
fa* of| World War I.
President Truman will lead a
long piradc of notables to the tomb
of the Unknown Spldier for. wreath. '
laying 1 ceremonies. /
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mandei’ of the American Legion
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Lou Costello
Boris Karloff
Saturday Double Feature
“Road to Rio”
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19147. It was sent to us
Texas Highway Patrol.)
BY KENNETH FOREE
a chance to ask a qqoution.
turing him. Did, did Billy have a
chance?
The sperialist looked at Brewer
a full moment, then slowly, Word
lessly, his head kegah to ttibve.
The News didn’t caiiry a squib It moved Irom side to ^ide—not up ;J
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took the { ictures gnd Bcewer got
on lit—partly due to it seeming a
minor roll of America dicing with
th, partly to Park Cities police
clamping the lid on police news 4 in
thear area.
owever, it would have been
oni|y a squib like this: "Billy
wer, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert H. Brewer, 8813 Hanover,
was injured by an automobile last
night (May 17 1946) on Preston
Road. He was taken to Baylor
Hospital.”
Behind 'that and other such
squibs are things that should give
American’s pause. Those squibs
tell nothing of a ringing tele-
pone, Mrs. Brewer excusing her
self from after-dinner guests, an
swering it, hearing a childish
voice, “Mrs. Brewer, you won’t like
this but Billy has been run over
by a car on Preston Road.” Click!
A sinking feeling, desolation
that the boy they had
Highland Park High for
play and who said he
walk home was now .. Then
a rush back to the living room,
a frantic, “Oh, ! Bob, Billy’s hurt.”
Everyone jumping up and running
outside to cars.
Two police cars pulling Tip, a
flashlight playing on the hbuje
number, one car turning away;
the Brewers piling in their car and
following.
Brewer jerked his car to a stop
in the middle of Preston by other
stopped cars. There in the gutter is
—or—was Billy. Brewer, a fuper-
al director, has seen many dead,
Billy looked blank, eyes closed. A
man was keeping the crowd back.
Thank God, it was Dr. L. B. Hurt.
“Bob," said Dr. Hurt, "if* a
brain injury. You will need a
brain specialist. Would you like
for me to call one?”
“Please, please, ’Leonard.”
Far away a high-pitched whine
of a siren, then it became a wail,
then a scream, then it was there.
A stretcher was hurried out, the
limp figure put on it and in the
ambulance, the Brewers jumped in,
their cars with keys in it still in
the middle of Preston. The siren
snarled, the crowd parted, the CflCe
to Baylor began, Mrs. Brewer si
lently, feverishly praying, quiet,
dark-faced Brewer darker in his
grimness.
Then the hospital emergency
room and interns who handle Die
nightly, ghastly crop worked
swiftly, gave plasma, ordered X-
rays, set a right knee wjiere the
kneecap was askew and a frac
tured right hip. The X-raya showed
no skull fracture, but men lyho
can look at still faces and judge
pretty well told Brewer, “No
chance.” ■ , ‘ | 1
Then the brain specialist, Dh
Casey E. Patterson, arrived, or
dered X-rays of the brain, They
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Monte Swatzell Is
Tumbling Head
Monte Swatzell, senior Veterin
ary student from Cleburne, was
elected president of the Tumbling
Club Tuesday night.
Others elected were Bob Coon;
vice-president; Ed Hoffman; secre
tary-treasurer; Don Pittman, re
ported 4 .
The club is planning tumbling
meets with Texas and SMlJ. Meet
ings are held each Tuesday and
Thursday at 4 p. m. in the Lit
tle Gym.
But Blllly lasted through the
night, the Brewers hovering over
him, nurses, interns, doctors rush
ing in and out, fighting the old
man with | the scythe. He was still
unconscious next morning as more
nurses, doctors and red-eyed, stag
gering Brewers, fought on. Oxy
gen tent aind one nostril tube lead
ing into His lungs delivering oxy
gen, another pumping out gather
ing fluid to prevent, pneumonia.
Then the fluid tube removed and a
stomach tube inserted. He must be
fed to keep up his strength.
The Brewers got an adjoining
space with lounge chairs in it.
One dozeq while the other watched.
Occasionally the watcher woke the
other: Billy was sinking, no vis
ible respiration, just a flicker of a
pulse, nurses and doctors giving,
stimulatirig injections, shoving
Billy and three nurs*
ome. Bilfy got htrongCr, two
s left. One day the It st one,
Alta Epps, 'laid, “Notj , Billy,
big old; boy, let's try tlo tyulk.
a step, ,Come on." Bil y grin-
as she held his arm tight.:'Billy
Jy put put his left foot. “Now
pud j that right, null’ rard ” Billy
putted hard, hardeUf, hardest—the
leg: moved.! Billy grinnei. The
Briwers cheered. ^ • | [j;
newer took up the a phabet.
“Bijly, say :A.” Billy said “Uhhh.’\
“Ttir againL” Billy grinned,, tried
away that old man with the scythe.:
Each timi: they said Billy couldn’t:
rally, again. But he did, he fought
back—haid. 1 ..j^!
It seem ed that wenjt on forever;
—two weeks, three, a month, the*
boy unconscious, the parents dead
on their feet. After six weeks
Billy’s eyelids opened a fraction^
God be praised! Consciousness rei
turning, pe faioved h|s lips A bit;
an unintelligible sound came. Hd
moved His left hand and arm.
His rignt side was ; still,
After iwo and one! half months
in Baylrr, Dr. Patterson, who
marveled at the hoy’s will to livir,
slid they could take him home and
forecast the future. THcrc hud beefi
cxtemdvti damage tp the middip,
brain. It j would take a long time tp
recover- if he did. lie would hovje
to Icarr to sec, talk and walk
Saddle and Sirloin
EssaV Contest Ends
*
Three students topk top' honors
last week in the Saddle and Sir
loin essiy contest and were pre
sented prizes in a brief ceremohy
held fa the Animal Husbandry
Building.
B. W^yne S^herrep, a senior an-
mnl husbandry ptudent from Han
Antonio, was awarded first prize
in the “Leg of Lamb"' contest.
Second place went to John T. Gib
son, a miechanieal engineering soph
omore from Fort Worth. Another
animal Husbandry major from San
XHtonioi Charles R. HeWitt, won
thifd prize. .■ ’
The faster of ceremonies :fpr
tho'occnsibn was Dr. J: C. Miffar,
head of the Animal Husbandry po
part mert at the college.
J. S. Farmer, president !of [the
Texas Sheep and Goat Association,
presented the prizes, pen afid
cil sets, to the winners. :
n. HU right >id» wm
' Time would
1 Al j
They tried over
alphabet, maybe a million
Thith they put glasses on
1 ^fKr[|l|’
as jyell as!B and thp rest of the
times.
—, r _. „— him to
hejp cure Idouble’ vision, had him
exercise the lids to try to make
th<|m open wide.
It’S bjeen nearly a year now. .
Bijly can waik now minus help ai- ,
thpugh his/gait is unsteady and al- ’
though he says wiver fpr river
Mjaijis a bit difficult to under
stand at times, his mind U t bright,
ho talks a; blue streak, he begs to .
go back tp school, his wisecracks
keep everyone laughing and
Patterson told Brewer, “It looks
Hlni he’s jfoing to recover”
Thus the story back of that
squib that didn’t run, the’ squib
that would have gone likp this:
Mr. and
Robert H. Brewer, 3)118 Han-
1
“Billy Brewer, 14, son of
Mrs. Robek H. Brewer, i
oyer, was; fajured by an automo
bile on Preston Road' last night.
He was taken, to Baylor Hospital.”
/The nojjt time you read such a
siuib—a .squib possibly of your
ovn makipg—stop, shake and shi
ver and juggle a little njpie care-
f(j||y that dynamite of u steer-
iijg wheel; in your hand.
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