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Battalion Editorials
MC^DAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949
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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-
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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
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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
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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*
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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!”
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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.
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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
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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
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""he leading roles of John apd
John Shanks andlBettye
displayed partici
and Al Sadler as
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Nione Carlsons sets were ex- pi a y’, highlights.
er Haggler todk supporting
his revival scene being one of t ic v),
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honofs,
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to laugh at the
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his battle scenes and the use of the
panoramic shot, had up to that
And the story itself,
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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
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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.
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