■ • /• • V' •W >V ' 'mm i' Battalion “ !! ):;} ! ' Page 2 !-|l Editorial^ 1. • i •: f '. i .| ■ 1/ 4 j nr 1 i ‘ i ■ ii l TUESDA^ NOVEMBER Z TT. T . 7 Support, Both Positive and Negative . their ac- Sunday night two A&M sophomores re-1 to the TU bonf;re, it is difficult to, be an ceived a forcible demonstration of the old gry with the two sophomores. E ut when adage about how people who play with you consider the negative effect fire frequently get burned. ’ 1 ,J * r >" i • • ' In a moment.filled with more enthusi asm than thought, they set fire to one of -h \ V ,1 . several stacks of wood being readied for the University of Texas’ bonfire. Being careless with their gasoline and matches, however, they set fire to themselves at the same time, and received some not-too-ser- ious, but rather painful burns. *, ! bonfire the larg they were of: 4 • U tions had, its n different story. Instead of lelping make the 1949 \ J . I Fd'S' . Boyle’s Column IT " ^ if tm I ' 1 h. •; > ., i ■ 4 d. • r - 1 if 4 . A&M history, to undo est and best in our in Austin, trying the efforts of the university students. In few minutes time they nullified a lot of the good will 8,000 Aggies hac worked long and hard for and denied themselves a long-standing tradition to build up. _ This negatjive-type of support isn’t A portion of the university’s wood the type of support that wins trophies, supply, and the sophomore student’s commands other people’s respect, or does panes', weren’t the only things damaged the football teajm a service. BonJ ire-burn by tlje flames^ A&M’s chances of becom- ing and campqs-painting does n >thing to ing the first Southwest Conference Sports- build team spirit or support. It serves manshipf trophy winner to repeat were ser- only to indicate to the opposition that you iously singed by the burning. Until Sun- can’t meet them on an even tasis, but day, the Aggies grip on the trophy was have to stoop | to underhanded tactics to solid and growing more secure by the day. take them on a football field. But the bonfire-burning incident is pre- We don’t think our ball club needs, or cisely the type of thing that is played up wants, that kirjd pf backing from anybody, across the state and sticks in thej minds Let’s quit bushing over other people’s of its citizens. playhouses, and get behind our c wn build- Alaska Fo\ Good Hunting in Matrimony-Minded Women a girl to Mayor Johnson and City Clerk aurice T. E. A. Tonseth came to Manhattan 'airbanks, to fix th^t They had the chore of BY HAL BOYLE New York, Nov. 21 Looki for a good strong man to buil your life around, sister? ng ild Well, if you’re a robust, warm blooded girl, don’t overlook Alas ka. The odds are in your favor there. ''-'iv •-V | Considering the discomfort they are ing program. That’s the kind oi suffering over the little damage they did wins football games. • ^ j Small Steps, But In the Right Direction . . . The first bit of encouraging news we have received on the state hospital situa tion passed into our hands today. With the state legislature out of session- until January, there appeared to be no hope that any money could'be appropriated to help the state hospitals and mental institutions during the fall and winter months. Federal money, however, channeled to the states for construction of hospitals, has been doubled. The program of defer- al assistance to this construction has been extended through June, 1955. Early this month representatives of Texas newspapers toured the eleemosy nary institutions in Austin, San Antonio and other cities. On this tour conducted by state officials, the newsmen found on ly what everyone seemed to know, but found it in greater quantities. Texas hospitals are vastly overcrowd ed; many contained twice their capacity of patients. The institutions were elean, however—an, improvement made4ince the last newspaper be next to god li ter the picture there are too if 1 ! isade. Clean! mess, but health somewhere. The hospitals are vastly, unde often hundreds Letters To The Editor (All letters to the editor which are algned by a student or employee of the college and which do not contain obscene or llbeloua material -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 the writer, be divulged to any persons other than the editors.) ness may ihould en- rmanned; >f patients per doctor, pjr psychologist, per nurse. Last winter many patients were forced to sleep on screqnefi porches, with the cold air playing h^voc with their i Is. They have little else to expect this winter. Prior to October, when the federal aid became effective, the state would provide one-third the expense of buijlding and maintaining tfiese hospitals, f^ow, under the hew provisions, the state will foot two- bill, while the loejal area in thirds of the which the hospital is tjuilt has tage reduced f—Our state cial session cc its percen- ;o one-third. . j * • TT ; r (.■ legislature will meet in spe- me January. We only hope that aid for these people—who come from all classes, races, and religions-^will be the first appropriation on their agenda. The Grave Digger Must Be A Party-l iner Wanted: Man under 40 years of age to dig graves. Must be politically reliable and demonstrate a positive attitude to wards the peoples’ democratic regime. Ap plications should be addressed to the Council of Duchcov, Bohemia. This quaint, and curious, and startling want ad appeared in a Czechslovakian newspaper last week. The Council o f Duehov apparently were seeking the em ployment of a grave digger, but as a con dition i of employment, said grave-digger must be a rosey-red party-Jmer. i Of all the jobs on this earth, we would think that digging graves is the farthest 1? I r, / r ' ; - ★ i | • , • Headline in the Los Angeles News: “Film Star,. Pegs, Humans on Show.” removed from politics. It is too late for the deceased to concern himself over poli tics, and we’i think Ithat the ideological bent of the grave-digjger would have no effect upon the grave for souls already passed from this earth. But ove munists seenji that dirt and make a final clay must of all individ should be dn by minds sickle. rLzealous Czechoslovak corn- resting p thk to possess the disposition rocks fijom mother earth to ace for some mortal removed by bends purged lualistic habits. The grave g by hands that are guided t embrajee the hammer and I * •: I | ‘Is this village lighted by electricity?” ‘Only when there’s a thunderstorm.” The Battahon I ■ iv.,-". ' I- i "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradion NO COMMENT | Editor, The Battalion: I am writing this letter be cause l feel it an appropriate time to do so. It deals with grade* and some of t,he profs at A&M. It has been brought to my at tention that a number of the profs * at A&M consider it a point of hon or to conduct a class in which a great number of students are bust ed. The same profs look down on the prof who manages to pass the majority of his students. In all fairness to the profs who are able to pass most of their stu dents, I believe that a statement on their half is in order. The profs who are looked down upon because of their ability to get the work they are teaching across to the student should look down upon the profs who flunk the major ity of their students because, by flunking so many, the prof is mere ly demonstrating his inability to teach. Thank God all of the teachers at A&M aren’t misfits as these men certainly are. Name withheld by request I Murdoch Honored By AICHE Plaque The South Texas Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers recently honored Dr. P. 5 G. Murdoch, research prefessor of the Chemical Engineering Depart ment. Dr. Murdoch was recipient of the “Publication Award” which was in itiated this year as annual award by the section. It was a bronze plaque given to the member who published the best paper in a tech nical journal during the previous year. The subject of Dr. Murdoch’s paper was “Multicomponent Distil lation,” which appeared in the No vember, 1948, issue of Chemical En gineering Progress. This publica tion is the official journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Since this initial publi cation on the subject, three addi tional papers have been prepared pn further phases. ‘ From'the .”00 members of the or ganization, 16 papers were submit ted for consideration. A committee of six studied the papers 'and judged them on the basis of ori ginality of subject treatment, clar ity and completeness of presenta tion, and usefulness to 1 the profes sion. Issuing of Year Book Continues Till Thursday Issuing of the Aggieland 1949 will continue each day until Thanks giving from 8 a. m. through 5 p. m. in room 204 A, Goodwin Hall, Ro land Bing, manager of Student pub lications said today. ; OUR EARS ARE BURNING Editor, The Battalion; I have recently moved and would appreciate it greatly if you would change the addresk on my Battalion subscription to; James T. Bonnen Room 83, Perkins Hall Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts. While you arc noting the com ments of different newspapers on the A&M vs. SMU game, you might record the fact that we got a full page head line on the sports page of The New York Times (Sunday, November 6) which! usually never bothers to give a column inch to Southwest Conference football. Sincerely yours, Jim Bonrilen, !’48 Rice Campus Site Of Science Meet Rice Institute’s campus will be th site of the annual convention of the Texas Academy of Sci ences December 3 and 4. The Collegiate and Executive Committees of the T. A. S. re cently completed their program fdt 1 the annual meeting when they met at Southwestern University in Georgetown. Headquarters of the meet w’ill be the new Fondren Library at Rice, where registration will be gin Friday morning, December 3. E/vents on the agenda for the convention include special motion pictures, exhibits and demonstra tions; Two speeches will be de livered, “What Should Texas Ex pect from Science” and “Science and the Development of the South west.” The convention will be termin ated at a banquet where Dr. J. Brian Eby, former president of the organization, will speak. Hickman Asks For 30 Traffic Aides Thirty students will be needed to help handle traffic and park ing on Thanksgiving Day, accord ing to Fred Hickman, chief of the Campus Security Office. Any student interested in such work is asked to report to Hick man in his office in Goodwin Hall before Tuesday, November 22, for an assignment of place and hours. j , j ' i! /.; Crops Judges To Fort Worth! li The Crops Judging team left Friday for Fort Worth, where they visited the Uni ted State Department of Ag riculture grain grading labor atory. Prom Fort Worth, the team’ jour neys to Oklahoma A&M College, then to Kansas City. There they will participate in the Kansas City National Collegiate Crops Judg ing Contest. ' The team will visit the Chicago Grain Exchange, the Chicago In ternational Livestock Exposition, Hay and Grain Show after leaving Kansas City. 4 ♦‘HBM While in Chicago, the crops team will compete in the Interna tional Crops Judging contest and attend a meeting of the student section of the American Society of Agronomy. The society is sche duled to hold an election of na tional officers at the meeting. On the return trip, the team will-pass through St. Lobis, where they will tour the Corneli Seed Company. Members making the trip are Willie Kelling, Leo Mikeska, Joe Walzel, and Jack Williams. Beat TU Aggieland Qrch to Play Fop Dance at Annex The Aggieland Orchestra will play for a pre-Thanksgiving dance Wednesday night after the bonfire in the Annex Student Center. Tommy Butler, of Abilene, is featured vocalist. Jerry Steves will play tenor sax, Gordon Keller will provide musical background, and Glenn Torrence will sing and play the trumpet. “It’s a great place, foi find a husband,” saf Johnson, mayor which he says is the third — city in Alaska and “the largest oho farthest north/’ It has 12,000 peoplje, counting its farflung suburbs. “There are about three men tc every woman — maybe more—- throughout the temtory,” said Johnson, adding this note of cau tion “But T a lot of yqung girls who came up there, and saw our rouffh* hewn old miners might feel disap pointed. They might even want. to turn around and come back.? However, though the men are as rugged as the scenery, a girl need!- n’t worry about there being any lack of heat in the long-Alaskan winter. * i; : Aggieland 1950 Deadlines Near a $4,500,000 bond issue itld Fairbanks a new munici- owned power plant and water tment system. :.. j j It was the first revenue bond 4* mi- ed to come up to the northern lights in splendor, and said the cli-i mate here didn’t equal that of Alaska. j : “In June we, can play baseball at midnight without artificial lights,” he remarked. “It never geta dark in summer.” 1 < The mayor, before taking off ,for Fairbanks, expressed relief he t been able to complete his busim in New York before winter tra; him here. ! “I understand you had a ? » inch snowfall in one day a coup c of years ago, he said. “Why;, never have a snow like thht home. Only had 31 inches all last year. Don’t sec how you ha!n- Noon, November 24 is the final deadline for non-corps individual pictures to be made, Chuch Gaba- niss, non-corps editor of the Ag- gieland 1960, has announced. : Today, tomorrow, and the morn ing of Thanksgiving Day are: the last opportunities for non-corps students to have pictures madp at the; Aggieland Studio, he saidk Unit commanders of the Sixth Regiments and those unit command ers of the other regiments U’ho failed to have their pictures made at the scheduled time must h*vo their pictures made prior to noon Thanksgiving Day, Jim Woodall, corps editor of the ahnual reported. Only about half of the scheduled unit commander pictures have been made, and unless the men have their pictures made before the holidays begin, work on mounting the pictures will be delayed, Wood- all explained. . i Al} men who have hot picked up their proofs or who have not re- turned their proofs to the: stud ip should do so before ThqrSday so that the studio personnel can work on,', the photographs during the period while the students are away frdm the campus, the editors added. Last Day - First r i■ —-Features Start 1:50 - 3:45 4 5:55 - 8:00 BACK AGAIN ’ • - .IN " ' \ ‘ AND WANT TO SEE ALL MY AGGIE FRIENDS THIS TIME I HOPE IT DOESN’T RAIN PRE-GAME Fl N at Your DRIVE IN THEATRE )NE SHOW (j: WEDNESDAY-11 P.M. ONE NIGHT ONLY iSffl m mm] BUS SERVICE AND SEATS FOR THOSE WITHOUT CARS — COME ONE! 11 COME ALL! }'■ Any student who has hot re ceived his Aggieland ’49 may secure it by presenting his ID card or ■ |i H yellow fe'e slip to the staff issuing the annuals, Bing added. The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mejchamcal College of Texas and the City'of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week and circulated every Monday through Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination periods. Durings the summer The Bat talion is published tri-weekly on Mondl&y, Wednesday and Friday, j Subscription rate $4.30 per school ye,ar. Advertising rates furnished on request. ’ The Associated Press is entitled credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local n ed herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are exclusively to the use for ^publication gws of sp< also resei Entered as secdnd-elus matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con ere stati n^iess of March 3. 1870. Member of The Associated Press ..News contributions may be madie by telephone (4-5444) or Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-6824V or Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. jj ■ i 4- of all news dispatches ntaneous origin publish- rived. ! i I! Reproscn 1 vertUing Chicago, nationally by National Ad- Sendee Inc., at New York City, ' Angeles, and San Franeiaco. RTT.T. BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE. Clayton Selph, Lewt* Burton Otto Kunxe .... r 1 ..... Oave Coelett. Chuck Cabanies, Bill Uerman Oollob. Kenneth Martin Brad » » a a it i a r. Editor* ature Editor Co-ed i ton Editor ill Potta ...... j. .Si ,••••••.*•..•.•« (Ami leth Marak. Emmett Trout, Jack Brandt .. Cartoonist* in Howard Photographer Holmes. BUI Hites. Hardy Ross, Joe pam ’ .Trevino . . . . ^ . . Pbhto Engrav. A Ben Brittain ...Advertising Manager A. W. Fredrick................Advertising Representative f— emulation Manager ! Carry OUvar..;.. - - . Charles Kirkham George Chariton, Clayton selph W. K. Colville. Bill Thom; Woldon Aldridge Bunjes Jr I Palls " rum, Bean Bob Alien, Harold MamUau, njes 4r.t,« ils. David n, Bob Li mu Bred. .N •1 - at the edi torial office, Room 201, the Stuudent Activities after 5 p. m. Wednesday, Bing said, but issuance will probably re sume after the Thanksgiving holi days. Official Notice SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING November 5, 1PM NOTICE—ID CARDS—Will aU students In all schools having ID Card* numbered below please phone or call at the Dean of Engineering Office (phone 4-5744 or 4-S3441 at 210 Petroleum Building and give the name corresponding to their card number. A new list] will be published each day. H. W. BARLOW. Dean of Engineering Dean Reed, goffer Coalel >. John . Lawrenc John Drbdali Folzenlogei idheim. Brui * O. Tledt 7, 3868, 3895, 3836, 3944, 39*9, 4004, 4016. 4047, 4055, 4038. 4059, 4157, 4190, 4196. TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY Richard Conte — Lee J. Cqbb ‘Thieves Highway** CARTOON & NEWS j SMU - Baylor Game WED. thru SATURDAY FIRST RUN ; —Features Start 1:50 - 3:45 - 5:35 - 7:8b - fl:20 The. Ytari song-jammed claim *> fun M fame’ A**.., " * from the opening scone to the final scream! :17.: