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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
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asm than thought, they set fire to one of
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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. *, !
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Instead of lelping make the
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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.
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suffering over the little damage they did wins football games.
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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
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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
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“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
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‘Is this village lighted by electricity?”
‘Only when there’s a thunderstorm.”
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"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.
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To Fort Worth!
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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
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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
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a $4,500,000 bond issue
itld Fairbanks a new munici-
owned power plant and water
tment system. :.. j j
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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.
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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
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John Drbdali
Folzenlogei
idheim. Brui
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G. F. Newton. John Tapley.
Feature Writers
Asbburn. Jr„ Emil
Curtis Edwkrds, J. C.
Bob Lane. Bee Lamb
Newton, Jack Raley.
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Identification Picture Numbers please con
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ing Office 4-4834 as soon as possible.
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287. 367, 396, 420, 426. 434. 436, 437, 440.
447. 452. 455, .460, 464 . 480. 486, 488, 491,
496, 503. 004 , 505. 007. 510, 529, *37,i 638,
639. 646, 518. 62L 749, 769. 844, 860. 868,
2204 . 2257, 2438, 2838. !3110, 313S, 3177.
3760. 3768. 3178, 3322. 3337. 336®, 3411,
3412. 3443, 3461, 3468, 3511, 3530. 3610.
3689. 3709. 3702. 3814 . 3820, 3822. J86L
38i>7, 3868, 3895, 3836, 3944, 39*9, 4004,
4016. 4047, 4055, 4038. 4059, 4157, 4190,
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