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Battalion T. Wwmi-y- * ■ ■Vi - > Page 2 Editorials MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1949 On Drinking, Leading, and Two weeks ago, in our editorial col* umns, we believe we did 4 student an in* justice. In an editorial entitled "If You jublicity school little Drink Don’t Lead"; we mad< condemnation of any student drinks, and criticized one individual in par* something ticular. a general apology eader who We „ woultl do ^ good incase of incidents at the Rice game. at the time to print a public on as the weekend was past, that everyone has learned the entire affair. We have learned St it can be damaging to Although he was never mentioned by air personal problems in public^ and that name, his identity was generahy under- it is dangerous to jump to conclusions too I stood by the student body, and! he suf- rapidly. j].|l .V j V • fered some, personal embarrassment as a We hope the entire student body has result. • ‘ learned how OUr exuberant school (spirit While our general feelings have not can be mistaken for other things to a changed a bit concerning the dangers, of small degree by other students and to a any leader drinking while servinggreat degree by the general public, official capacity, we feel we have injured The Aggie Spirit is a magnificent and the individual. awe-inspiring machine. If it is turned By the-same means we formed our in the right direction, it can move* great first opinion of his drinking, we have now mountains. If it is allowed to run wild, it reversed opr beliefs. From personal ob- can destroy worthwhile structures, servation and statements of mutual J This past weekend in Houston, it was friends whose observations we trust, we rolling along fine paths and was pushing now feel the student has never been in- both the.school and the team. M-JBp ■ K r i ■ 1 iwirt otomM •-1 ; i Lord's Press Age Pushedmvestom. Sho MY HAL BOYLpI nor for a lonton prof rum, > wijh thf N fflEajll it anyway,” a«i Letters To The Editor (All letters to the editor which are signed by a student or employee of the collegji and which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be publlabed. Per sons wishing, to have their names withheld from publication may request such set ton and these names will not, without ths consent of the writer, be divulged to any persona other than the editors.) . M toxicated while performing his duties. Several days ago We made a personal apology to the individual leader. At the time we mutually agreed that the attend- Let’s keep it in that lane for the next two weeks and get a win over TU and an option on our second conference sports manship title. In New York, Triumph for the “Fair Deal” . . . F'’ V ' 1 \ • kH j ij 1 1: Five million New York staters went to the polls last Tuesday to register eith er their support for, or their opposition to, the “Fair Deal” and the welfare state idea. The bceasion of this test ballot was platform either thejir smile of approval (as in the case of Lehman) or kiss of defeat (as they did Dulles). Industrialization and unionization are spreading into the southern ( and southwestern reaches of the race between Republican John Foster these United States, and we may expect Dulles and Democrat Herbert Lehman for labor ultimately to follow the same polit* the senatorial scat vacated by retiring leal pattern us It lias in the East ■— Senator Robert Wagner. Lehman plugged support of opportunistic legislation that the "FuirDeal" and the welfarp state right, proposes to give higher wages, cheaper down the line; Dulles opposed it emphat*\ prices, and more Social security, ically. ^ • We frequently hear charges that la* The counted ballots revealed that a bor, or the farmer, or the business man is significant majority wanted Lehman and expecting something for nothing. the "Fair Deal.” In voting for Lehman, The charge is probably true for the indidentaliy the first Jewish congressman American people are great believers in ever elected, the people of New York were something for nothing and the desire to ' here <jn Dec/io.” FROM MRS. MELOY Editor, The Battalion: \ Colonel Meloy is now in Japan coinmandinK the llHh. Infantry Regiment, stationed at Beppu, Is land of Kyushu. The boys and I have been read ing Tht\“Batt’\ line by line, cover to cover,\then sending it on to him. Selfijsh niK doubt, but we couldn’t resist it. (If you don’t get appli cants for registration at A&M from this area is isn’t because the Me loy boys haven't proselyted!) We leave November UP t° J 0 ' 1 * Colonel Meloy. Our deep interes^in and affec tion for the Aggiea (less the two pcrcchtori) has not abated in the time we've been gone, knd it will he Just as strong in Japan. Con gratulations on The Balt. You're doing a fine job, and best always to The Corps, Sincerely yours. Catherine Meloy. Alexandria, Vn. BuHinesH Club Plans Flying Saucer Meet Alexandria La. <4o—The young men’s business dub today was go ing ahead with plans for a con vention of flying saucer witnesses voting for ipenstons; farm subsidies, social get rich quitik. ^|Ve have always taken security, and other promises of the ‘‘Fair short cuts, ddne things the easy way. Our Deal.” • j- u j industry is built on the idea of short cuts Though not an overwhelming majority and easy ways; we call it efficiency, (approximately 53%) Lehman. President Whether this attitude is illusory, we Truman, and the Democrats know how cannot determine because of our near- the majority of voters in New York state felt. It was a green light. New York state may, or may not be speak the national sentiment for the Fair Deal snowball effect in these United States. Certainly the results of the New sightedness. Our prejudices would say that our sights are clear and objective. Our American gullibility dictates that we accept the promises of “something for nothing” at face value, and hang tomor row when debts come due. ' [Ft i In New York state the Fair Deal tri- York election demonstrates that the Fair . , ^ . , . . . Deal and welfare state concept of national “ mP 0Ver Re R ubllcans - As sra"-— «- ss’fisrriss in the mmas or millions of American vot- ,, J r „ _ . * , ^ \ y another generation ofh Fair Deals or - * . ’ whether there is ^ome other approach to In the industrialized East the labor the security knd Welfare i our people are vote is making itself felt as an effective demanding wifhout taxation into bank- political weapon to give a candidate or a ruptcy. Af ter ten years on a tropical island, sailor a bundle of newspapers. ^ shipwrecked sailor was overjoyed one “Captain’s compliments,” he said, morning tasee a ship with a boat putting “Look these over, you lucky devil, and if off for shore. Just before the boat was < you still wint to be rescued, we’ll be back beached the officer in command tossed the for you tomorrow." ' ' The Battalion "Solditf, Statesman, Knightly, Gentleman' 1 Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions Club officials saild invitations have gone out; to rnore than 50 persons, in a dozen states who have reported they saw mysterious fly ing objects. The YMBC also ex pects yArmy, Air Force and FBI investigaton* to attend the meeting. Official Notice AIX STUDENT College agencies will commence the use of student Identification cards November 21. KVery student who has not had his photo made should report to the Photo graphic and Visual Aids Laboratory Nov ember 1.4 or 15 from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Cards made after November 15 will be Issued upon payment of a $1.00 fee. Mr. Ownby states that the cards will be checked at the Texas game on Thanksgiving. Bennie A. Zian Assistant Dean of Students SCHOOL OK ENGINEERING November 5, 1949 NOTICE—ID CARDS—Will all students in all schools having ID Cards numbered below please phone or call at the Dean of Engineering Office (phone 4 : 57(1 or 4-S344» at 210 Petroleum Building and give the name corresponding to their card number. A new list will published each day. | . If. W. BARLOW, • , Dean of Engineering Will the students with the following Identification. Picture Nimibers please con tact the office of the Ddah of Engineer ing Office 4- 4H,'I4 as soon as possible. 3 r - 2(1. 49. 53, 50. 6I. 6R, 74. 82, 95, 1H.. D7. 145, 147. (160,1 167. 195. 224. 244, , 247, 202. 263. 273. 287. 332. 33f>. 34K. 354. 355. 307, , 396, 410, 417, 420. 425. 434. 4.36. 437, .440,! 447, 452, l6.3, 480,i 464. 471. 480, 484. 486, 488. 491j 496. 6011, 604, 605, 507,j 510, 619, 526, 527, 529, 532, 537. 538,! 539, 646, 518, 621, 749. 769, 833. 8(3, 868, 2204 , 2257, 2403. 2438, 1113, 2828, 3110, 3136, 3177, 3700. 376s. .! - Each candidate who expects to complete the requiremsms for the: Master's Degree si Dir end of the current semester ghouM file Mppllcutton for this :degree with thti Dean of the OradUste School and with the itegictfur not later than December 1, Dr. M« P. Trotter Dean, Graduate Hchool We overstep our bounds Editor, the Battalion: I I IL ’ I ! | I * i ! ' i' 1 | Referring to your editorial of November 10 concerning the ABC Ball, we realize that our college orchestra is one of the best of its kind in the state. We also believe that the band that played for the ABC Bajll was the primary factor in making the dance a success. i I ' I iStitce! none of the members of the Editorial Board will be direct ly concerned with financing the de ficit, wc believe that it is none of your damn business whom wo- biro'or how much we pay a hand for OUR dance, n\ i\L ’ [Skip Lewis '50 , . ! F. A. i'leland '50 iJ.'(i. Mugruder ’50 i K. P. Miles, Jr. ’50 i J. A.\ Bitrgfrede *50 W. K. Thompson *50 j A. II. Mimes ’50 W. L Ray ’50 IJ. B. Miller *50 (Kdlior’s Note-—We agree with you 100 per cent. It wasn't any of our business, so we apologize. 'Twus a good dance, ton. Auto Plants Ready New 1950 Models Detroit 'Ah—A dozen new model autos will appear in the next few weeks, j \ None will have drastic new fea tures, but they will have some very dfisirabre engineering and styling advances. There will be quieter op eration, better braking and easier driving control all around. All the auto makers are using considerably more insulation to rid their cars of body noises. Engines also have been silenced to a note worthy extent. First of the new models to reach thi? dealers will be the 1950 line of Folds, They have been in pro duction ; for nearly two weeks and Will be shown to the public very ] Shortly. Dealers and industry reporters already have seen and driven the new Fords. Next to be shown will bp Pontiac’s new 1950 cars. They, too, may be ready for public an nouncement before the end of November. Following these will cOme Chevrolet, reportedly with its new torque converter transmission ready at the same time. The other general Motors cars. Ford’s new Lincoln and Mercury models and Chryslefr’s new units will about complete the now model procession of the next month8. Hudson and Nash have supple- nientaL lower priced modcln to in troduce hut have not indicated when they will go on sale. Farther in the future are Kal- iHer'8 now nlodeln Including a low priced car designed to compote with Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth, * rertiaing rates furnished on request. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited te it, or not otherwise credited in the papet* and local neWs of spontaneous origin publish ed heroin/ Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Entered u atcond-clau matter at Poet Office at College Station. Texae, under Uie Act of Congress of March 8, 1870. v Member of The Associated Pi 'reji Represented nationally br National Ad- rcjrtialng Service Inc., 11 New York City. Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or ati the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin'Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-53 Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. ) or at the Stuudent Activities BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE- Clayton Sslph, Lewis Burton, : Otto Kunzs Managing Editor* Dave. Coslett Footur* Bdlto* Chuck Cabanhss, Bill Pott* . .Svorta CO-edMor* Herman Gollob i Amusements Editor Kenneth Marak. Emmett Trent, Jack Brandt i. Cartooniste Martin Howard . . . . ... . . Photographer Brad Holmes, BIU Hites, Hardy Ross,/Joe PiwfiaA • • . , . . , -f. photo Bon Brittain..... J.... i.Advertising A. W. Frtdrlck Adv«ftte!ng Representative Larry OUror..•«••«««»*-.i.,«»«•««««, -Claytom Selph W. K. Colville. Roster bui - Weldon Thompsoi Ah iridge, Bunjes !r., John Kails. David nun. Bob Peon ~ logen. Bob Lane, tann. Ralph Co-Editors Board' cnatrman Editorial Board ton, John Tapley, Feature Writare Jr., Emil Edwards. J. C. , Pee Land- Jack Raley, • •». Ntws Writers Frank Sports Writare 9 • Gloria Marit-n rihce to dramatic hclgliLs in her (KirtrayaJ “ B0 ' of the , B AND N«w York, <A*i—Tha Rev, Ever ett C. Parker used to he a press agent for Chtcngn ilvestockl ahowa. Now he's an advance agent for the Lord—via radio. Jl# spark- plugs religious publicity over the airwaves. ; “This means something, he said, “that’s fthy I’m doing it. the other thing’—his former work—“only meant money. At 36 this energetic mihister is director of the protostaht radio commission. This organization of the nation’s leading protestant church groups is spending |$172,000 this year for 800 religious radio programs to be heard over some 1,000 stations. The programs are organized on tj^is unusual career is quito a story. “I had no particular religious background—and in college I lost any religion I had left,” he said. He sold doughnuts from door-to- door, worked as a chef, in a Chi cago cafeteria, then started a pub licity firm. Then he became pro gram director of a Hammond, Ind., radio station. One day the owner asked him to go out and find a commercial spon-/ Aluminu Texas- aiser DALLAS, Nov. — Henry J. Kaiser today said he is considering building an aluminum plant in Texas. He called for an expanded national economy with mbi-c liberal depreciation provisions for capital. "What this country needs is a $.'100,000,000,000 economy and an accelerated depreciation’ law. Then this nation’s induatrles will really go places,'' Kaiser said In an In terview, Thu industrialist stopped In Dal las en route to Oakland, Cullf. Kaiser said Texas had three essential requirements for an aluminum plant.. He Hated raw materials, power and demand. If business conditions turn out as bright as ho beliovus, the Kaiser Co. “will have to build a plant here,” he said. • ' i j J . | . Kaiser said his company and others would lie helped immoasure- ably if congress would enact an “accelerated depreciation law.” He Said a 20 year period for de preciation is now required. A flex ible depreciation period similar to the wartime 5 year period, he said, would tend to increase risk capi tal and permit industrial expah- sion. I j J. ' '| i" Kaiser commented thpt even tually Texas will not only produpe Kaiser automobiles for its own mar ket, but would, also produce in quantity for shipment to other parts of the country. a utilities r.'rwr "How can glows program ? “Wall, try It ownar. > ! Parker finally company to act as sponsor. With his flair for drama. Parker made the program a popular feature. It lasted 4 Hi years and was sponsored by a laundry and a cemetery, as well as by the utilities company '<1 found out the Influence " church has on the things a minis; no one else can dc, “So I decided to make the whole plunge—to go into the: ministry myself.” 4 / . ; He was graduated frorp the Chi cago Theological Seminary Magna Cum Laude. Awarded a fellowship in religious radieg he spent a year i me mnuence a a community, And linister cab do/that a do," Parker said. 8 BC network. He was h & 23 ferid a pornia mnt post with NBC buct derided h i real wish was to devote ihimbeH to the niinlitry. mtmm Neon ,. m r - „ religious ndio, and held work viral universities to hpret to other minis- i! j hive years aince then he nd 11 leading authority ief Ca ttle Center ire Completion New Dairy Gow In Development I Washington (AP) i The government* is working with Texas and Louisiana to deve lop a strain of dairy cattle that will produce more milk in the hot weather zones. Cross breeding of poqplar thor oughbred livestock with '| Indian humpback Brahmas is j 1 the key to the project. , t! Dr. Ralph E. Hodgson, assistant chief of the Agriculture Depart ment’s Bureau of Dairy Industry, said today experiments arc under way at the Texas A AM Research Station at Jeaneretto, La. “It is our hope to develop a strain of dairy cattle ! that will have strong resistance to pro longed and intense heat,” comment ed Dr.' Hodgiion. “There’ Is nothing spectacular about our work, ami it will take years to-sknow what huccoKs we wlll jjovif In this undeiitgking. If we do succeed it will mvju) a great deal, through Increased, ipllk pro- ductlon, to areas where the m'rsent yield per cow Is rriatlvdiy low,” He said that the hottei' the area, the Itss a farmer generally, can expect In produetUm from such pure stock as Jerseys, Guernseys, and Holstelns. In south Texas and most amis along the Gulf Coast ; production per head usually Is I4sf from the same , breed of cattle than It is on farms farther inland nhd north. At Texas A&M the scientists are breeding pure American-born Brah ma cows with thoroughbred Jersey' bulls. In Louisiana the. reverse pro cedure is followed, breeding pop ular-breed cows with Brahma bulls. The work has been going on for about two years, on a strictly co operative basis between; the states and the federal government 1 1 ‘ LAST DAY n. MK : “Scudda - Hoo! Sctidda - Hay!” TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY 1 ■ nt n i “Manhandled” I $ 1 F j 1 i —with^j- l Dan Dun ea t Dorothy Lamouf PALACE Mru.in 2-H7‘) TODAY A Till AY con QUEEN .cattle in ^he e: barn. ' ' barn K. if the .me e new Be^f Cattle Center ng completion. John associi te professor o! 1 Hiisl andry E^epnrtmenti they hoped to occupy the by 0hri?tmas or soon after- wkiids. > jliie majorily of the cattle will not be moved until next spring be cause at ih( present time Dairy Husban(dry Department pastures around dtxti Tuesday Qom/ju. fEPHEN MgNALI ENOUND • MllMk WHITIK t iiijivttm.nfrtemTK COMING: Tuesday ti Wednesday ll*! mumm messsai Si TV ures Start i.. LESDA^ Start — — Feai {1:50 - 4 10 - T:I5 -|l0:00 Frst Rim *uni mioTma um Plan tho N«w Tom l Jerry "IKRBV'H DIAHV” Special