The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 19, 1949, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 19, 1949, Image 2

Newspaper Page Text'!-• .-•r t •!( . ■ ' ! Page 2 ''' \ • • Battalion Editorials MC^DAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949 : mt W', T N v - i .1. 41. I Receiving Laudits From the News ... Friday’s edition of The Dallas Morn- “Fred (J. Elliott, Extension Service cot ing News contained a lengthy editorial ton wo *k specialist, attributes the wonder singing the praises of A&M and its cot- ful inciease in wield to a more general ob- ton improving, program. v ~ i servant :e of the seven step cotton program According to the New’s editors, this an educational lever the Extension Service year’s abnormally high lint yield of cotton is usin % ty pry loose farmers from year throughout the state is a credit to the after year cultivation of cotton on mar Texas farmers aftd is a ’‘greater credit to ginal jland. Briefly, the seven steps are the Texas Agricultural! and Mechanical the f|ti ingi of cotton into diversified farm- College System that btyzed the trail and mg, f s >il conservation, efficient labor, preached the methods whereby man could planting best varieties for different soil reap such bountiful grace of nature from types, nsect and disease control, the pick- the tired soil. r j ing and ginning fcS’ high grades and sell- “Favorable growing conditions, coup- ing for grade staple and variety value, led with efforts of the various agencies “T1 ere still is room for improvement, in the field—-mainly the Texas Agricul- partici larly in the last two steps. But tural Experiment Station and the Exten sion Service, together with the Soil Con servation Service and other associations of the cotton industry — have assured the state its greatest cash crop. Farmers may dents And jfaculty members in Agricultur- receive more than a billion dollars for the al de^artinents at College Station, we 6,600,000 bale crop and its seed. thank y^out ^ i. ■ • -j The Bulge Contained Armor, Footsoldiers, and Snow... A&M’sj hardest job is done. The system definitdy has proved'to the farmer that it knows what it is talking about. On tht behalf of thousands of stq- ■ V 1 f. r'V^vp'.- ''ryPrA': w y f ■ V a -i • : '■ / • •; j 1 From 1 mu i. Where! Sit A • • . >• •t . 'V 'l- 1 1 -4 I • n Ii 1 ' i'il Griffith, Houston Theat Abound in Theatrical Skill : i^* ' Letters To The Editor ilcmd t r IlMloua lllcatlc b« dlvul|*d to any W,> ti.inU* COMMENT FROM SAM (AU Utter* to th* *4ltor which art ilcmd by a itudiot or *mploy** of tha oolUio and which do not contain obacene or llbaloua raatarial will ba publuhad. Par- aona wlahlnc to hav* thalr namao withheld from puhlUitilon may raquaat auch action and tbaaa name* will not, without tha oooaant of th* writer, ba divulmd to any paraona utlirr Mian th* aditora.) This day in 1944 was a Tuesday. Four what teemed to be suicide. Surrounded, days earlier Field Marshal von Rupdstedt short on Supplies and food, and their sur- had issued the command and twenty divis- gical ions of Wermacht, along with tanks and fought artillery enough to take them just about courag anywhere they wanted to go, kicked off armor on the great Bulge offensive. saved The front chosen was the thinly guard ed line of American forces strung from Eastern Belgium to Luxemburg. Allied air reconnaissance had noticed enemy movements in this region, but headquar ters were assured that , they were not of offensive proportions. The war had bog- Prisoners frorii both the attacked and ged down in winter. North of Bastogne the attacker were shot in cold blood. Hun American GI’s were stalled on the Roer dredsi River and were moving up equipment for lucky I 1 a crossing. All along the line, Germans peered from pillboxes in their Seigfried Line and GI’^ shivered in snow covered foxholes. But the stalemate burst. An artillery barrage began on the night of the fif teenth; a half-hearted tank attack the next morning showed little strength. Then the whole front erupted. Tides of Gl-clad Germans rolled past outposts and into American rear areas. Generals’ command posts became battle centers, and cooks, repairmen, .and clerks took up rifles and died before yielding their positions. At other points along the Tine, retreats were effected and men trudged down roads vC'here three months previously they had no mass; unorganized withdrawals fro front line positions, no abandon that woulc unit captured, GI's in Bastogne back every German attack and eoijsly held their positions until an irhead and parachuted supplies thepi. Bafetogne, and other positions along the line that held — these pegs which refuse! to give way — provided anchor points for counter attacking forces, and bases kor forward assault after the of fense had been wrested from the Germans. of other soldiers captured were and were huddled into cold barbed wire IfW enclosures. Christmas Day 1944, skies cleared and Allied aircraft blasted German tauks • j ! , i j and convoys mercilessly. Dog fights be tween ouir Air Force and the German Luftwaffe provided entertainment for men ifh foxholes. T1 e Bulge remains fresh in the mem ories af the men who were there, faint in: the m emories of civilians who only recall that t was some sort of a battle. Yeti there best (who to thei German offensive. Therfe were no routs; teen cheered in triumph. This whole offensive moved under leaden skies. Fog, snow, sleet, rain — these elements calculated in the g r a n d strategy of the attack, worked their roles well and kept Allied aircraft grounded for the first week, -if Hero and there, on the line isolated American courage and bravery was exemplified, for American soldiers were just civilians in uniform) clung :ir rifles and soon stalled the mighty have permitted the Bulge to become sprinffboird to Paris and the pincer that could cans. haVe snipped off a million Ameri* :, !] Bpcadse of that American courage and bravery and, in many cases, foolhearty [recklessness the Bulge turned out to be tint fits withstood the initial German fury ■"just some sort of big battle" where an And hung on until they were decimated,■American general told the German com- r In Bastogne, 10,000 Americans choscBmander demanding his surrender,;“Nuts!” ★ '• , ★ ★ :■ j • Sammy had just had a new baby sister, little baby sister a lot." A neighbor, to teanc him, offered to buy ± th ,. ^ Samnl „ but the baby and give him a dollar a pound . > , . . ; , T ,„ t „ n . for her, but Sammy refused. The neighbor ^hl °~e Sr ‘ then said: “Sammy, you seem to like your ° • TT i .Editor, The Battalion: ' For five week* now I have nua- - RCMted you write an editorial on the fine job our yell leudern did e thin year. Since j you. the editor, feel an if our y|ell leaden! were not up to standard this year, 1 wanted to take ttji* opportunity to cpnjfrntulutc theitHtor a job well done. (I only wish I could say the same for our Editors!) To Glen, Tex, ttnd Red, I say thanks.! Thanks for leading the Aggie spirit which is still unde feated. Yes, thanks for the best job done in my four years here. No one could have done a better job. Thanks again to you, the yell leaders. Sam Clark ’50 (Editor’s Note—When you ap proached us five weeks ago, we told you we also thought it would be a good idea to acknowledge the work of the yell leaders in an editorial. ^ However, their job is like ours ^ in one respect. It isn’t finished yet and won’t be for some time to come. Do you mind if we do our editorializing at the time we^onsider most appropriate? And, whjle we’re at it, may we'extend ohr thanks to you and all Ihe others who worked around the/clock .on this year’s bonfjre? We know* all of you did an A-l job and lire glad to say so, re- gardless of your feelings on our efforts.) FISH PROTEST Editor. The Battalion: , This is a letter 4 to protest the quality of the class of ’53. I think, that a definite lack of Aggie spirit has been shown all through the year, and especially on the night of December 14. An incident occurred in one of the Annex bar racks that makes us wonder if this school wjll ever be the same as it was back in the good days. I A couple of Tea-sippers came out to visit a fish buddy of theirs, and thinking they would have some fun with the lowly Aggie fish, they idecided to impersonate upper classmen, and started a hazing party. The thing that gripes me L that some fish though this waH good Aggie hull, and took up for the Tea-nippers when they were found out and reprimanded by cer tain of the better members of the class of '53. It ended up that noth ing was done to the Tca-slppcri or their Fish symimthisers, ittul that, Mr. Editor, is not good spirit. We can’t help wondering just what the class of '3d would think of it . . . not much, we’re sure. i We realise that this is definitely going pgiiinnt our own class, but Mr. Editor, something should be done about it. Can you make any suggestions to the real Aggies of the class of 'OS-or those of ua who tr|y to be real Aggies? j Yours, with the hope thktj this condition will be changed. We psk that our names be with-- held from publication. Four Pdgnaturcs ; (’lass of ’53 Ills ‘‘DARUNG AGGIES’’ Editor; The Battalion:| I sljiould start, rather, Miss “Name Withheld by Requesjt” as this ip directed to her and hers. For her benefit, nothing is wrong with Rryan and College Station girls; nor do I think that Aggies disapprove of them. More power to the young lady in question because her brother is an Aggie. That is one good point in her favor, but he should be able tp answer her questions with out arty trouble. Since the Bryan and College Station girls are left dateless (I see vlery few without dates and those 1 feel very sorry for), they have a perfectly legal gripe com ing their way. But just try to get a datp with one of them -brrrr! And she thinks the Aggies are con ceited ! ! So far as not stopping to see if; the girls are dated up—most Ag gies- usually have an urgent class to nif'et and don’t have time to stop land bat the breeze with the fair pex when all they get is a “no” to the all-important ques tion. And not all single girls have to liVe in Dallas or Houston to date us “darling Aggies”, some of them live in other parts of the state—even in Bryan and Col lege Station. 'At least the Temple “Aggiettes” had enough courage to do some thing! solid instead of just writing anonymous letters to The Battal ion. Why don’t the local yokels try their hand at such things-i-or do they think they would lose! out in the long run. . I ! I I sign my name Chuck l.aakso ’51 No. 2—120 ij | P. O. Box 4099 College Station Texas BY HERMAN C. Present-day movie audi inclined to accept as i course such technical di screen as. the fade-oat, soft focue close-up, back lighting. They that before the days Wark Griffith, these not exist. Griffith was one of. Hoi true geniuses, perhaps est innovator the screen known. Generally acknowledged the first director to treat the m tion picture' as an art form, he iw- . jected into his pictures a genuine c ’ ar ity. atmosphere. Last Wednesday Ben Feri_ manager-owner of the Cam) gave the denizens of Bryan-( lege Statiion an opportunity to se_ Griffith’s “The Birth of a Na tion,” which introduced to Ijw screen possibilities that hjMl v bcen unheard of before with its appear ance in 1915. Audience* at Wcdnesda: 1 ing found It easy grossly exaggerated perfor of the cast and the maudUn meld- dramatic story. But they failed realise that the exciting realist which was achieved by Giflfflth , L | [ Saturday night we had the priv ilege of seeing their second pro- S SSpa cinating tale concerning th« love affair between a “Witch boy” and a mountaineer girl. Technically an amkettr group, the Little Theatre players deliv ered a production that was profes sionally handled iif every way. Di rection by Irt Mowery waa splen didly imaginative, and carefully evoked and consrasted the moods of the story with fullness and and convincing, was equally me htening the dramat lerably. As to the performanc the group of rustle superrttitiqn- ridden folk whom they represen ted real and sympathetic, f I **L * H ■ J ""he leading roles of John apd John Shanks andlBettye displayed partici and Al Sadler as • ./I • N i. Nione Carlsons sets were ex- pi a y’, highlights. er Haggler todk supporting his revival scene being one of t ic v), ar ex- ^ach- honofs, I 1 ■.] - dnesday’s show- to laugh at the id performances »y _, ,,, UI his battle scenes and the use of the panoramic shot, had up to that And the story itself, t CASH DISCOUNT on ai£ Watches purchased I v From Now TUI Christmi* Your monogram engraved FREE on the watch your choice no matter when you SEE OUR LARGE SELECTION Varlsco Bldg. SOL KLEIN WATCH REPAIR time been unknown qqantltleii. f, with all it contrived {emotions, carried i t! weight of nodal import, a I which stories had previoualy lacking. I | I No doubt the appearance of Llk- Ifttn Gish, Mae Marsh!, Henry Walthall, and Wallace Reijl opened the flood gates on a tremendous wave of nostalgia for metnbers of the audience who used to shell ot)t their weekly allowance |for the privilege of watching these former box-office draws in action. We found particularly interesting the performances of Raoul Walsh, po^ a top Warner Brothers director, as John Wilkes Booth, and Dohald Crisp,, veteran character actor, as General: Grant J, A For the second time We must sacrifice th< quality of local in terest and comment on th^ theatfi- ' cal activities of another commun ity, which again happens to be Houston, entertainment mecca jpf •' the South. That booming and bustling city owes much of its cultural promin ence to its Little Theatre group, 4 as talented a bunch of non-profes sionals as may be found anywhere in the country. ■ • ! . • " ’ ' ! I 1! ’ 'M Floyd doesn’t charge storage & he’s going to fix it oyer the holidays. M •I ■ 0 till CltAiii^nai Watch for the LAST MINUTE SHOPPER’S GUIDE in j j THE BATTALION LAST DAY > -UV • 't 4^! 1 TOM BUY M... AND PAY NEXT YEAR ^ : i r . | We StiH Have A Complete Selection of . . . \J •fH FINE GIFTS A ES— HAMILTON I j . - 1 Hi wait \\qmpu The Battalion "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman?’ | Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5-: 44) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Stuudent Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural City of College Station, Texas, .is published five times a .t Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examinatic — talion is published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription rate $4.30 per y-iar. Advertising rgtes furnished on request The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper a sd herein. Rights of republication of all other matter lie me and 1< TODAY and TUESDAY —Features Start— 0 - 3:40 - 5:45 - 7:55 - 10 First Texas Showing ir republication of all news dispa' ocal news of spontaneous origin pub! sin are also reserved. Entcrad aa itcond-clu* matter at Port Office at College Station, Texaa, under the Act of Centre** of March S, 1870.. BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROEL Member of The Associated Press Retiresented nationally by National vartMn* Service Iwl, at New York < Chicago. Loa Angela*, and Ban Franciaao. Co-Editors •i - \ Clayton Selph. Lawia Burton, Otto Kuna* ^ .Managing Bditora John Whitmore -Acting Managing Editor Charlaa Klrkhan.. ............Edltorta) Board coairmaa Oaorg* Charlton, Doan Road, Clayton SalphBdltorial Board : Emil Biinja* Jr. Dan Davie, Curtis Edward*. J. C. 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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 19, 1949, Image 2

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