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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1949)
I \ r y‘ X." r ^ ^ ' . ’ ■ - .. i.'i ' ‘ f! ' - ..Y . : ii', Y •Y::’/"'' ' , i f ■ ' . /U i. ■ .j i '| ■ / i'J , Battalia . ■' -Yl " : Page 2 . n E : i " ri ! ■ . ^jY; dito MONPAY, -«* ‘ f J riah NOVEMBEI H" 'l ■ , 21, 1948 Give for A Worthy Cause: Tuberculosis t ; ii v "!: ; .vm 'r i 1?:^ B i • ... pi ■! I \kJ* ■ T ■ ■ Texans wer§ urged Saturday to help ‘ "‘The more we support the work of tu* hall r combat one of America’s most maievolent diseases—tuberculosis. Governor Allan Shivers urged ‘ gener ous support” of this year’s Christmas seal sale, which proceeds will go toward "battiifg down the disease. Praising the control program of the Texas Tuberculosis Association, the Gov-. - errioristressed the fact that the disease is spread from person to person. £e also praised projects of state and county asso ciations directed at helping to find the es timated twenty-five thousand “unknown” cases of tuberculosis in Texas. «j ■ ■ ■ ■ .-■[ Governor Shivers explained that these unknown cases are those not reported to health authorities. Many of them are unknowingly ill since the disease has no obvious symptoms in early stages, Issuing his official memorandum, the Governor said: berculosis associations, the closer we ; shall be to victory over tuberculosis in Texas. Since the annual Christmas seal stitutes the sole support of state il sale con- and local associations, we take an active; part in the fight against this disease every time we buy and use Christmas seals.” Envelopes containing Christmas seals began arriving in mail boxes of Bryan residents today. [| | . ? We should remember that this, more than ever, is a season of giving thanks. A charitable way that we can show this thanks is to support such a worthy organ ization—to prevent someone else less for tunate from suf ’ering. | Any contrib itions, no matter how small will help. People in thi^ vicinity are noted for their icharity. We know they won’t divert from that worthy reputation noiwi. And Now We Have a ‘yfeepess’ •! • • ' One of the most publicized marriages and other appellations, since that of Princess Elizabeth in Eng land took place in St. Louis Friday morn ing. The “Veep”-—vtye-president of Aheae !1 Probably the United States Albcn •himself a wife, one throughout the 1 Barkley—tc rs. Hadley. ok for Ml • (Before the papers,' the columnists, and thd publicity)men got wind of Bnrkldy'H romahee, he was just another vief-presi- dent in the eyes of many citizens. Vice- presidents, no matter what they do or what their records may be, are seldom foremost in the minds of the people. With the first few reports of Bark- Lifl factor most outstanding short courtship was the comparative ages of the couple. Barkley is 33 years his wife's senior. Often such a great difference in ages is fjrowncd upon by the citizenry, but hardly an ill word was uttered this time. . j. - - v- j \ j It is not hard to visualize what an ef fect this wedding may have on Barkley’s —and the bemqcrats’ futuro-f-politically, in 1952. Such an event as this has placed him a little closer to the votefs, and if he 1 > ley's budding romance, however, he soon entertains any qspiratiions of placing the became a household byword, known a£ secondladyoftlfelandjustonestephigh- the “Veep,” the kissing vice-president, the er cbme 1952,, his chance^ may have most romantic vice-president in history, jumped. (■ I Dishonor Before Death, New Student Idea . ■ , . r.i r i Yale men (the side.— Debate-apathetic A&M might perk u and tak^ note uP our debaters if the would choose for one of their contests a The verbal subject so alive and vital as this one used staid old Whig I .—at Princeton last week: >...* . • '* : : PRINCETON, N. Skirts may climb higher a^d necklines may plunge lower, but—by gadfrey, sir—Pitinceton men still believe every woman she uid. de fend her honor to her dying breatjh. Longer, if necessary. The Princeton men’s views on the sub ject of honor were made plAin last night when a three-man Nassau debating teeam • took on a trio from Yale. Subject of the debate was: “Resolved, a woman should* choose death before dishonor.” * Princeton defended the resolution. The Prospective voter: “I wouldn’t vote for you if you "were Saint Peter.” Candidate; “If I were Saint Peter, you couldn't vjote for me. You’d be in the wrong ilrecinct.” ^ \ • ; She: “Your heart is beating] like a drum.'! r He ill “Yeah, that's the dull to grins.'' cads); took the negative usSle, which all, drew a was held in capacity-plus audience. Watching 300 students fight their way into iijn auditorium designed to hold 250, one English professor expressed amazement ove r the sudden interest in debating. . 1 , ' i • j • : • i He said, “de jates have played to emp ty houses here since; 1763 when teams from Princeton and Harvard debated the same dishonor ' r s. death resolution. There was standing rcom only then, too.” Just for the record, Yale won the de bate. If this subjectt were chosen, we’ll vol unteer to assis : in the Debate Club’s ef forts to gain permission for use of the As sembly Hall. "Generals Lpe and Grant fought on the same side in the Mexican War.” Even more shocking is the sudderji .thought that Generals Eisenhower and Jityukov fought on the same side in the last one. j j • 4 L : j ■ j: m;: j j Headline in Texas A&M ;Collego Bat- talionf “Handball Team to Heform.” ”T 1 " »' The Battalibn "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Lawrence SulUvaji Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the j of College Station, Texas, is publ Friday afternoon, except during holldi talion is published tri-weekly on Monda year. Advertising rates furnished on request. hed five times a week and c|rcu ated every Mo and examination periods, j During* the sum , Wednesday and Friday. Subscription ratci |4 every Monday through The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of al credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneo ed herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. ' - Y £ ' | Entered w eecond-elau matter at Poet Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March S, 1870. ~ Member of The Associated Press Represented na etetislna Service II i capo. Lot Ai Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be Office. Room 209, Goodwin Hall BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE Clayton Selph, Lewis Burton, Otto Kunxe XSl Dave CoslettPea\ Chuck Cebaniu, Bill Potts ...... . .Sporta Amusements Herman Oollob Kenneth Marak. Emmett Trent, Jack Brandt Martin Howard PI Brad Holmes. Bill Hites. Hardy Boss, Joe Trevino Photo Ben Brittain.. Adverttelu* A. W. Fredrick. Advartialng Urry Oliver.,.Clroulatlca "i. t."" 1,1 Charles Klrkham... Editors tieoru* Charlton, ,ure Editor Clayton Cartoonists VMdoB Aldridge, 1 'hotographer | BUnjes^jp- Bob' Allen,^Harold flasKS tatlve Represeni J: iCurtiall X . i., v..«. Ralph - aunea . i r m Co-Editors J -F j : K . From Where I Sit . . . Y^Yi ? T ' 1 Y 1 '. i T‘f t\'' -i': ‘Thieves Highway’ Y W\* *17 X . ^ n ' '* J ?'7l|l In i r r ; f 1 sWahecl Flimsy Diversion For Fans Letters To The Editor (All letters to the editor Which are signed by a stud college and which, do not contain obecene or libelous material — *- ‘— ** J -‘ from publication t udent or employee of tbe _ r itl 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 tbe writer, be divulged to any persona other than the editors.) - ; AN EX AGREES ! ; i ' ;j Editor, The Hattaliun: li enjoyed reading the editorial, “Officials: Matty Throws jin a Wijench,’’ in The Battalion of No- vemlier 8. Very few people stop to realize the importance of football officials to the game or the amount ojf time tbe officials upend, voluntarily, in becoming proficient. This is not only a Southwest Conference prob lem, bull a national problem, The couches as well as the spectators should attach some importance to the .position in life held by these officials, when off the football field, and appreciate their effort to keep the game where it belongs. Many officials have retired because of the qgijust criticism and be cause they arc prohibited from commenting to the press, tts ex plained in the article. 1 remember an occasion at A&M when 1 was playing on the team. One of our linemen was pulled out of the game for holding. At pur •session on Sunday, when ill the team and the coaches got together and reviewad the game of the pre ceding day. the boy asked Why he was taken out of the game. The coach replnd that when a person resorts to unfair tactics in prdpr to accomplth a job-that he ha* to - do, he adjnits that his opponent is better than he, and when a man admits that his opponent is better, than he is, ne is admitting defeat, consequently, it is much better for the team to rhavc someone that I am referring to a recent issue of the Battalion which carried an editorial criticizing a yell leader because of the joke he told at yell practice Thursday. I'm not Writ ing this letter to approve, disre gard, or disapprove the joke told at yell pyactice, but rather it ia written in hopes that someone will do something officially about one of your editorial assistanta who had the gall to write that particu lar editorial when it is generally known throughloul the campus that the yell leader has more Aggie spirit in one finger than your edi torial assistant probably has in his whole body. 1 base my | accusations on the fact that your •.editorial assistant has constantly violated certain un written Aggie laws during the three 8 mer The Bat- 30 per school flY < Job Call (Each week the Placement Of fice will release for publication, in The Battalion information about coming job interviews. This information is prepared as a Placement Office service to graduating seniors, W. R. Hdrs- ley, director of the Placement Office, said. Further infor(na- tiofi concerning job opportnni may be obtained at the Place ment Office, Administration Building.) Interviews (1) Npvember 21-22: Douglas Aircraft Companyi will interview refuses to acknowledge his oppo- aeronautical, mechanical, electrical and civil engineers, and physicists (with master’s degree). (2) November 22-23: Texas Employers Insurance Association will 'interview engineers for safety engineering wore. Must be 26 years or oldeiv Engineering (1) Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 at Port Arthur has an opening for a civil, engineer to work with their present engineer as an assistant Duties will con sist of fiejld work in connection; with maintenance, surveys, securing rights of; way, etc.^ (2) The Steel Engineering Com pany in Fort Worth has an open ing for I a structural draftsman. The work will consist of preparing shop drawings for fabrication of steel. M an employed must be ca pable of reading blue prints and understand fundamental principles of design., 1 ', I I . . K (3) The Bureau of Reclamation has announced openings for 200 civil engineers for work, iij this; Wqst, Southwest, and Northwest ern .status. Applications for cx- iimihhtioi must be filed by Npvcm- ber 30, (919. Uberal Arts (1) The Imix'rial Sugar Com* pany at Sugarlami In interested In employing a n office manager. Qualification* desired are ability to deal with broker*, mutui'e ap- pearanerg, ability to think quickly, and to Hl»j telephone work. (2) Tljo Jeter Lumber Company In Odeashi •* in need of one ojr two quantity ijnirveyor*. Work will In clude ett .iinHtiiig the cost of Imalc- rial* fro n plans and specification*. Agriculture (1) j'ho G. & S. Grain & Lum ber Conpany in Hcarnc an opening in (he grain department for a H>|lci»m|m. H • nent is a better man than he is in the game than one who volun tarily resorts to unfair tactics to accomplish his task. j No group of officials can control a football game when the coach al lows his team to commit fouls or does not teach them what is and is not against the rules, (t is a Slam on the coach and player, not the official, when penalties have to be inflicted. Sincerely yours, Sam H. Sanders, M.D. i ■ * PERSONALITIES AND EDITORIALS Editor, The Battalion: I don’t take any great pride in Writing this letter, but after a great deal of summing tip the sit uation I decided to write to you in hopes that something can be done whereby a very unpleasant situation may be straightened out. Official Notice MUOOL or KMtilKEKRINU Noirmlwr S, ISM NOTICE IP CARPS -Will *U otudtBU In hII m'hooiH hHvinx IP C*rd» numbered bolnw plume plioti* or call at Mia Dean of KnKlnrertnii Office tphonr 1>A70 or 4'N34(i ut uni I'elroleum Building and gi>* th« a it ini' correNpondtng to tltelr card number. A now Hat will be publluhed egoh day, _[ 11. W, BARLOW, Lean of Krtii mooring * Win Mi* atuite(itn with th* following; liPntiflt'ailim l'leti|r« Number* Moaa* non-' tai l ilia of fti'* of j tbe Dean of Nnsmocr- in* offl'* 4-PCI4 «* noon na poMlol*. ll«. in. t>n, 74. pa, 147, 1*7, il] 14, BM.j at?. a«7. aim, lati.Yaa, up, 4:1*. m, 440J 447, 402, 400. 4tW. 4«4, 4*0, 4*M. 4**, ’*01.| 4tm, ana. r.in, ana, imT, am, aao. aar, ou*,j wm, am. at*, miJt4«, 7m». *44, fi*o, *m.| 22(11. TUT, 243*. 2*2*. 3110. 31M. 3t77. By HERMAN C. GOLLOB Thieves Highway (20th Cen tury Fox) starring Richard 1 Conte, Lee J. Cobb, and Barbara Lawrence (Campns) After indulging in a rather suc cessful melodramatic binge with “House of Strangers/' 20th Cen tury again imbibes of the hyper- emotional in “Thieves Highway/’ now showing at the Campus. Minus the performance of Ed ward G. Robinson, which gave ballast to “House. . “Thieves Highway” has left both 20th Century and this reviewer with racking hangovers. A violent conflict between fiery, cocky truck farmer Nick Cog|os (Richard Conte) and wholesale grocer Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb) constitutes the dramatic core of the film. Figlia is an unscrupu lous hypocrite who has cheated Nick’s father, caused him to lose his legs, and is now hell-bent on mulcting Nick out of a truckload of apples. Before Nick finally mauls Fig- lia’s ample body, and right achieves its inevitable triumph over might, we are introduced to several tire some characters whose prototypes have appeared on the screen count less times before: a street-walker with a good heart (Valentina Cor- tesia), a beautiful blonde beset by that nasty old materialism (Bnra- bara Lawrence); and a moronic thug (Al Griffin). MIhh Cortesia, a newcomer and a foreign import, wears a bob bed and frizzled hair-do remi- full year* he bus been “enrolled 1 ’ hero. (I say “enrolled” because he certainly isn't an Aggie in spite of the fact that he has a senior ring and will have hi* name placed beside the name* of many good Aggie* when he graduates.) Your editorial aswlHtant rarely attend* yell practice, ha* probably never put one minute of work on con- *tructlon of any year's bonfire (tbiji year included), and doenn’t ob*«rve the solemnity of Silver Taps, (or at least I’ve always seen lights in his room during Silvor Taps). j . Also, I have personally heard 1 your editorial assistant make statements to the extent that he feels he is as good, if not the best, Aggie this college has ever pro duced since it first opened its \ doors to • studehts. \ Mr. Heitors, I don’t feel I’m alone, in my convictions that this particular editorial assistant ia do ing everything he possibly can to berate his fellow senior Aggies while attempting to elevate himself as high as possible. If you. don’t believe me just ask a few real Aggies in, Puryear (his own dorm), Law, Lcgett, Dorm No. 17, arid Milnefv what they think of your editorial assistant, his Aggie hab its, and his highly biased and “un called for’! editorial. Mr. Editors, if something isn’t done to corral this particular edi torial assistant who is using the editorial column to his own per sonal benefit then I feel that I can no longer persuade or “hold off” several student groups whp have a (Continued on Page 4) —— nascent of the twenties; Her grossly exaggerated posturing smack* of the same period. A and guttural accent which _ completely unintelligi ble at timea. added to the per petual weary smile which direc tor Jules Dasain compels her to 'ear as a symbol of suffocating >m and disgust render her rmance one of the year’s ’■! major thespie atrocities. iOn the credit side, “Thieve* Highway" does have its moment^ of brilliance, namely when 'Conte and Cobb are in camera range. To be sure, both have had better ma- terial to work with, yet both are, dynamic performers capable of do ing -much with little. »\ We also enjoyed seeing plump, jovial Jack Oakie againj - Oakie is a finished comedian whose fail ure to draw more worthy assign ments when those bf the Abbott and Costello vintage abound in top- notch material impresses us as something of a minor tragedy. ★ Tommy Dorsey, who faring^ hi* celebrated band to College Station Wednesday for a concert arid dance, always makes notes of interesting oddities in his jaunts around the country. e In New York’s Greenwich Vil lage, Tommy relates, when a certain night club serves a ’cer tain drink it hands the patron a I to fiU out address and And iri Chicago | a r shop ,t sri b- to (is- whether they’d prefer si- I , y ' ( ■: J '"J [. j Wonder what Denis of unusual intorest the > (Sentimental Gem )e- man will have to relate gbout A&M after bis visit here bonfire eve? J ME i ■ | rery man! your list* Lot us . .. 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