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by Rofcprt W, Ak^rn,
ttfwt i« visit to thv A AM CMfflpus
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Afly ROHKRT W, AKERS
Kdltor, The Kotcrprlne
They don't have pep’ rfclllcs at
Texas A&M. They have yell prac
tice. There's a differenced
That’s “ what I discovered one
riijfht this^week when I stood in the
center of the A&Mycampus and
watched 2500 cadets *Btage an in
spiring and awesome spectacle un
der a starry sky. I say “awesome”
because< come next Thursday I ex
pect to be back at College Station
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23,
-• (JP)—Two congressional mili
tary leaders joined Tuesday
in opposition to a proposal to
take away free medical serv
ice from dependents of sendee per-
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; ' Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
• House Armed Services Committee
and Hep. Kilday (D-Tex), a high-
hahking committee member, dis
closed they are formally protesting
the proposal to President Truman
and Secretary of Defense Johnson.
-The suggestion that military de
pendents be deprived of free medi
cal service in the army and navy
hospitals and by service doctors
was raised last week by budget
director Frank Page, Jr. "
He said the service should be
V cut off in this country, except in
remote areas, because recent pay
• raises given military personnel put
them in a better position to foot
- the medical bills of their depend
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The-4ecision, Kilday said, is up
to Truman and Johnson.
But, the Texan told newsmen,
when congress boosted the pay of
service personnel at its recent ses
sion, it tooljc into consideration the
fact that dependents have been re
ceiving free or reduced-rate medi
cal attention.
Except for this fact, he, intima
ted, the pay raises might have been
larger.
Kilday said the Navy claims to
have legal backing for free medi
cal service for its personnel and it
probably would take an act of
^congress to eliminate it.
- As a matter of long practice, if
jiot a law, he said, army person
nel have, since the days of the Con
tinental Array, been given the priv
ilege of obtaining medical service
in army hospitals for their depen
dents^
“This, in part, helps offset some
of thd disadvantages of being in
the armed services,” he said.
Kilday ’ said com'missions and
committees'which have made a full
study of service compensation have
based all their recommendations
on the assumption that free medi
cal service for defendents would
continue.
football team.
eh#H|M for th* l|J»lv«rnlty of T#x»
Otball team,
Thm how did I happen to be at
this Aggie yell practice In the first
place! ■[■ : : b- v 1 !
Al right, well go back to the
beginning, I hml been Invited to
speak before a group of thb A&M
jourrialism students that evening.
Before the talk I hud dinner in
Aggieland Inn with, half a dozen in
structors a n d editors of the coljege
daily, "The Battalion.” As we pol
ished off the strawberry ice cream
dessert, Cadet Lieut: Col. Clark
Munroe said, “We tyave just about
time to get in on the yell practice
before our meeting. Ever see an
Aggie yell practice?”
“No, I’ve never had that pleas
ure,” I replied. I started to add
that might be because I’m a former
siud^nt of the University of Texas.
Up tio this point I hadn’t mentioned
my T. U. connection since arriving
in College Station. Not afraid,
mind you. Just knew it would be
of rio particular interest at this
time and place. I decided now
that my first idea had been best
and didn’t enlarge on my brief
comment.
“Then you’ll have to see the one
tonight!” Mr. Munroe went on en
thusiastically.
“Yes,” interposed Bill Billingsley,
co-edit,or, along with Munroe, of
the Battalion; “you’ll enjoy this
one especially because our next
game is with T. U. and the cadets
are really out for blood on Thanks
giving day.”
“Blood?” I inquired faintly,
“T.aU. ? Oh yes, yes, the universi-
ty4-the school in Austin,” I plung
ed on.'
“That’s right,” Mr. Munroe cut
in heartily as he pushed back his
chaik “Come on. We can make
it in time for the-first yell.”
\\fe hurried along a curving con
crete walk toward the rally—par
don me---the yell practice, and Mr.
Muriroe took time to explain some
of the traditions of this event:
“We have yell practice—never
call it pep rally—twice a week,
Tuesdays and Thursdays.” Usually
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tjh«i who!? c«d«!t corps- ill them,
but tho don-corps students don’t
rn out qulto [so well, i To tho
rps its something—wc|l, almost
m (thing rtuerqd.
]|)U|ls|HjMkers, no matter! how
We ftever ustj
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Aggie yell leaders
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Hi turnout.
liiVe to have leather lungs. Loud*
ffpoakers are something for the
liookie-pushers, like at the univer-
litjr ■fr I.
! "Cookie-pushers?” I repeated. I
ratn’t sure I hgd heard (rightly.
“Sure,” the cadet officer contin-
|ed. “Teasippers, like the bunch
Mr. at Austin.”
l!i| a moment we were on the
Mp square in front of] Goodwin
Filling tlje' high and wide
|toije stairway was the huge Aggie
’—two bands! in fact, the Ma-
pon and the W-hite, that have a
ombined total of some j60 pieces.
I grouped at the top; were the
ell leaders.
asSed solidly in front of Good-
vin| hall were the cadets, the fresh
en in front. At every word re-
ailing an Aggie achievement or
ircjlicting success to come, the col-
)rful company banners of the cadet
:orps were thrust high into the air
intf the students raised fheir arms
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to be alert, but one cadet slightly
overdid it Friday.
When this particular student
passed a car parked on the cam
pus, he noticed a speaker, apparent
ly removed from a drive-in theater,!
lying on the seat of said car.
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Dean of Arts and Sciences
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AUTHOKIZtO KEEPSAKE DEAtEK
loft in the gesture known as the
‘wildcat.”
I [ere in shoulder-to-shoulder sol-
datity and in one unite(|, thunder-
ng voice was the famous “twelfth
map on the team” that fights every
nei of the way with the Aggies on
:he gridiron. A few minutes later
^he cadets sang the school song,
“We are the Aggies, the Aggies
are we; true to each other as Ag-
igies can be . Fight for. Maroon
jam White!” It had that thrilling
ne always heard in a chorus of
mefi’s voices sihging for a cause to
wh|ch they are;devoted. I
ij began to understand better that
(indefinable something known as the
spijrit of Aggieland.
(jlig ’em, old; army!: There are
(now- 8000 men at A&M with 3500
of them in the cadet corps. As the
ex-IGI’s thin out in the next two
veins the corps will again become
the majority unit on the campus.
. .It can’t be denied that military
coiirtesy and discipline make a
well-mannered bunch of young
mdn . . . When pep ral—I mean
ye|l practice--iB over the freshmen
have to run (not walk) all the way
back to their [ quarters . . . Few
night scenes in Texas are more
beautiful than the view of A&M
from the highway, lights gleaming
in hundreds of windows in row
after row of immense dormitories
. [ ; Gives you the Weird feeling
of lower Manhattan island sudden
ly looming up deep in the heart of
Tqxas . . . The Aggie newspaper is .
distributed every afternoon, M<dv
j day through Friday . . . First
query put to a visitor to A&M who
identifies himself as from Beau
mont: “Oh, then I guess you know
Charlie Babeock” . . . Handclap-
to the dean of the college and pro-
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by the college board, l.n ncmIoii
here today. v Dr. Abbott will an-
mime bis new poet on .September
1, ]{)50, succeeding Dean M. T.
Harrington, who on that date will
become President of the college.
The new dean is at present eerv-
ing as administrative head of the
freshman annex, Dryan Army Air
Field, in which post he succeeded
Dr. Harrington in 1947 as the lat
ter was named Dean of Arts and
Sciences.
Dr. Abbott, 45, is a native of
Nashville; Tennessee. He gradu
ated from Vanderbilt University in
1925 and took his Ph.D. at the
State University of Iowa in 1939,
later doing additional graduate
work at Tulane University and the
University of Wisconsin. He join
ed the faculty here as an instruc
tor in English in 1926.
While a member of the staff
here, Dr. Abbott has had two texts
published in his field, “A Supple
ment ot Essays in Liberal Thought”
and “A Manual for College Eng
lish.” The latter was published in
collaboration with Dr. George
Summey, 1 Jr.
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Turkey Day
Dances
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Just ns‘ the self-styled Sherlockjll.pfns >3 regarded as a salute used
was taking down the license num-i 1 elpefly at the decadent state uni-
bef of the car, a silver-haired!
gentleman approached and was ac-
varsity and is never heard at yell
practice—except as an insult . . .
costed by the student. The gentle- The Aggieland Inn is a fine hospi-
man proved to be Jack Farr, own-j tslity building with a restaurant
pi* r\f -> Skvwav Thcititpr who hfldii looms for visitors, but it hus
the broken speaker in the been outgrown. A large; student | P-FJnd^y, Nov. 25. Tickets may
' ion will be erected
placed
cai; himself^for repairs.
PORT ARTHUR CLUB, Dance
at the American Legion Hall, Fri
day, 8 p. m., Tickets to the $1.50
stag or drag. Aggies and friends
of Aggies are invited.
SAN. ANTONIO CLUB, Aggie
Park, Friday, 7 p.m., $2.00 stag or
drag, i
BASTROP-LEE COUNTY A&M
CLUB, dance at the Legion Hall,
JJastrop, 8 p. pi-> Friday, Nov. 25.
Admission $2.30 per couple; re
freshments included. Club mem
bers are entitled to bring one guest
couple.
BELL COUNTY A&M CLUB,
weiner ?oast, Armstrong crossing
(ten miles Bout of Belton), 6 p.
m., Saturday, Nov. 26. Drinks will
be furnished but everyone bring
their own weiners and buns. Ad
mission, $1.25.
EAST TEXAS A&M CLUB,
dance a|t the Pine Crest Country
Club, Longview, 8 p. m., Friday,
Nov. 25, Open to all .Aggies or Ag
gie-exes. Admission, $2., stag or
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EASTLAND AND STEPHENS
COUNTIES A&M CLUB, dance at
the Raijiger Country Club, Friday
night, Nov. 25.
^ FORT WORTH A&M CLUB,
dance at “Two Buck” (one mile
from Hemphill Street on Waco-
Fort Worth highway), 8:30 p. m.,
Friday, Nov. 25. Informal.
HOUSTON A&M CLUB, annual
Turkey Day Strut at the “Hi Hat
Club”, 8 p. m., Friday, Nov. 25. Ad-;
mission 60 cents per person, infer-1
mal. Floor show.
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An edi- j obtained from club members.
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the trench mouth and athlete’s ^oot
as our hallowed mascot Bevo, but
they have gone so far as to insin r
uate that the fallacious folderrol
their staffers have regurgitated is
the undistobted truth.
Crafty Colville, reportedly the
illegitimate grand-stepson of
Loupot, notorious Aggie mer
chandiser, fires ironic verbal
missiles at our Greek letter so
cieties, which we all know are
renowned repositories of the just,
the tolerant, and the humble.
Our impassioned cheer practices,
designed to set afire the blood and
quicken the pulse, are snidely dis
sected by Charlton. I have reason
to believe that Charlton is the same
Georgie-Porgie Charlton who was
deefated for cheerleader here sev
eral years back.
Not content with Colville’s dis
paragement of the fiat, John Ful
ler adds his two-cents worth tp the
furthering of its complete humili
ation. He would have done better
by investing in a couple of post
cards.
However, it is Emmet Trant,
the wry cartoonist, who has
piqued us beyond all limits of
endurance with his two-page
cartoon depicting life at the Uni
versity as a mad orgy, complete
wi(h perverted love, unbridled
love, wild debauchery, and sub
versive activities. If ever brought
to bay, artist Trant will be im
prisoned in the Tower, where he
. will be compelled to do nothing
except make silhouettes.
I was shocked to discover that
Gregory Rasputin, a wealthy lad
whose father made a killing on the
pumpernickle market, had sold the
story of his experiences with a
communistic roommate to the dis
reputable rag under discussion.
Rumor has it that Gregory is no
longer with us.
So there you have it, fellow im
bibers of orange pekoe. A glaring
mockery of our way of life. But
this should give us added incentive
to beat those uncouth sons of the
soil Thanksgiving day on their own
Kyle Field.
Battle vigorously and valiantly,
gallant football squad! Scream fe
rociously, spirited student body!
Defeat A&M!
moat capable leader
aent Benior claaat wiare
for the *am* "o*u**,”
coileji “Incomp*tenejf.” , ^
STh* facta, «« ponalbly every*
Sir, is
aftd one of thoMlj Infamou*
anectlona" waa mad* on oUr until
cia/iim«n. A bruin* on pne -ontj
aeventoen—of the unclerclansmen'l
posterior* wai deemed sufficient
evidence that hazing had occurred
,. Co urt«? 0 .r^
—either to admit that haring I
occurred and revd*! the name* 1
persona involved, osr to be relieved
of his poaition for “Incompentcncy."
lin the first case, the persona
involved Would be dropped ftom
the rolls of the coljege; in the Sec
ond case, the CO would admit noth
ing and be reduced in rank from
a Captain to a Private and be [re
moved from the outfit which Konr
ered and was honored by his pre>-
sence as its leadeii. , > [
Hazing has been the chief caUse
for controversy oh this campus
for; many years.—especially durmi
the past few—*nd j it seems tha
someone is determined to “stain]
it Out" this year—regardless of thi
personalities involved and the in
dividual suffering inflicted. Whetm
er or not hazing is the "big, bladR
evil” so depicted is not to be de
termined by this letter; rather . s |4 jj , i iillj . i , . ■ .
the methods being used to elimiij- j } s expressive not of just
ate it. 1.' “
A Senior at Texas A&M him
journeyed through three years
of study and numerous activities
to reach that position. That, alone,
is sufficient reason for him to be
regarded by his classmates, by
Aggiei-exes, and by * (he people Of
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fa he ha* garn#h*4
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Company Cohn-
. hoae same U
ha* pa marled the ra*|
admiration of the men I
olm he hue lived. He wi* ch
ive all etW* In hi* outfit be
J*c he displayed the characteriai
r a which proved him an "Agglaf
* t*(rm only Aggies cap underaiand.
;; My CO U no exception, v 'iM.';
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fault of his own the poaition fo|r
whth he had ao earnestly strived
for wak taken away from him foi*
a cause, ugajri termed ! “Incompn-
|i?Hc had a choice?” NO, he did
not! The vary grounds on which
he'; stood as the representative of
e men lir his outfit gave hHn
t one choice, and that stand he
k. And for remaining loyal to i
la Aggie creed of "All for one. one
or all.” he was dismissed as Ibe-
“incompctent.” J
any Justice? .
how until the day he dies,
my CO will have on his permanent
ivcord (201 filpl the single word
icy” to explain to his
others
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iibncompentency
prospective employers and
the reason for his release as com
mander of ! half a hundred men.
Wnat can he say in defense of hie ••
.action.? ; ; j ' ft
My Wish is that any man in his ,
outfit (and it will always be “his” ‘Tr
outfit) could be called upon to ex*
plain “incompetency”—as defined
plain “incompetency
by the authorities responsible for
his dismissal. Such devotion and
loyalty is expressive not of just a •
leader, but a grept leader, a man"
with something tailed ’’guts’’—an
Aggie!
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his state as an outstanding persoOiU >;
ality, a trained leader, and above Lfettera Continued on Page Si:
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taph, nor a ratification or denun
ciation of “hazing,” nor a censure
of anyone in my outfit; it express
es simply the feelings of fifty-
some odd wronged men—wropged
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$50 is offered for apprehensioi|
of a spCaker-thief, cbuld not b(f
convinced of Farr’s identity not?
his innocence.
Until a passerby happened td
call, “Hi, Jack,” Farr was still
under the utmost .suspicion of th([
student. The cadet did not re[
cejve $50, although he was ret
warded with passes to the drive[
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Local Men Named
Exposition Heads
Named as superintendents- and
assistant superintendents this week
w<;re four members of the Exteiij-
sijih Service for the first annual
San Antonio Livestock Expositiqp
to be held at the new two milliop
dollar Joe Freeman-Bexar County
Coliseum, February 17-26. ;
V. G. Young was named supef-
intendent of records. In this capa
city, he will supervise filing apd
recording of all entries and awards
inj the livestock exhibition. This
position is the fii^t of its kind
in any large livestock exposition.
Other College Station men dht
elude Uel D. Thompson as assist
ant superintendent in the shorjt-
hOrn class; E. M. Regenbrechit,
superintendent in the swine, clasp;
and A. L. Smith, superintendent
•ii) all-steer class. •. .1.
They will work with other vol
unteers to conduct operation of the
exposition featuring $45,000 in to
tal premiums-
The ten-day major show will
feature livestock exhibits and auc
tion, Gene Autry World’s Cham
pionship Rodeo, carnival midway,
commercial farm machinery and
appliance exhibits, j
basketball hoops in the gymnasium
hiid to be painted bright orange
because that’s the hew regulation,
eVen though its the color of (ugh!)
the University of Texas . . . Most
irritating puzzle to men from non
military campuses visiting A&M:
“Why do the girls always rave
about men in uniform?”
My recent Visit to A&M made me
prouder than ever of that school,
as a Texan.
But I still insist the Longhorns
are going to win Thanksgiving day.
The Aggies can’t scare ME (I de
cided as soon aS I left College Sta
tion.)
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Craig Speaks To
Mason Gathering
; “Let There Be Light” was the
hddress presented [by Grand Mas
ter Hugh M,;'Craig of the Grand
Lodge of Texas A. F. & A. M. to
a gathering of area Masons in
Bbisa Hall Friday night.
I Other grand officers [attending
the meet wehe Grand Junior War
den W. R. Burris of McAllen,
Grand Orator Gibb Gilchrist j of
College .Station, Deputy Grand
Master C. K.' Leighton of Bryan,
and Past G(rand Master G. R.
Montgomery of Fort Worth, who
accompanied Craig to the meeting
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Worshipful Master of the Sul
Ross Lodge of College Station,
Harry Boyer, introduced guests of
the lodge and welcomed the vis
itors. The grand master was intro
ducer by I Gilchrist, while Bennie;
Zinn gave, the invocation.
H. W. Barlow acted as presiding
officer foil the meeting.
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