-p ‘ 'Ac . ' ■ r. , ; / ’ i i '// i Battalion Editorials k^-.v Page 2 .!• 'r'' ' _ MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950 , 4. ,|f Thieves, Petty and Otherwise, IJere at A&M . . • Did you ever forget and leave your soap in the shower and go back after it a little while later and find it gone? Or have you left your coat lying some-- place, in a classroom perhaps, and re- turned the next day to discover that some one had appropriated it? .Or have you been one of the many Ag gies who “lost” a textbook early in a ^ semester? Things that we have left lying somer where don’t just up and crawl away; somebody, some of own students, come behind us and pick up those thjngs. Now why they do it, we don’t know/ Surely nobody operates on so close a budget that he can’t buy his own soap. And we hope no one is so destitute that he ; has to steal clothing. And a book thief at A&M, he’s about the lowest—nobody has any use for books. Still those little anc^-big things do dis appear around here, -and the guys that lose them don’t like it one bit. None of - us who have been victims of some other Aggie’s willingness to use our soap, or books, or coats without our permission think that such conditions should exist - here at A&M. What’s to be done about this condi- tion? People who steal usually don’t get caught, 8— • - — nil Bunjes Jr. Dan Davi*. Curt!* Edward*. J. C. Fall*. ^Hetechel Kitts. Henry Lacour, B. F. Roland. Jerry Zubcr . . . . New* Writcd* Brad lllitue*. BUI Hite*. Hardy Rosa, Joe Trevino .... ............ Photo, Engravor* -Kenneth Month. Emmett Trnnt, Jock Braudt. Jack Stanibury - - Cart oon tat* Jim Reed Manager Baptmoitad nationally by National Ad- irttalng Service Inc., at Maw York City, Jhieago. Ima Angelaa, and Ban Franclaeo. Dar* Cqalatl.... Chuck Caban iw. BUI Polite Hannan Oollob.. Coeirtt,' Sot) Price, Whl more ...... Feature Writare Harole Gann. 1 rank Manitza*. Simmon ! . . . Sporta Writers Advertising Manager Ban Brittain. . A. W. Fredrick. Don Garrett. Herbert -Gibbs. 1 Ruaaell Hagen], . *, f •rT ,1/ rbert Vdver Advertising d -ONE FOR AU. From Where I Sit 1 . ij \ j f T’ If ijl IT { M H j V! T ’ i ; J r 3 I Metro’s ‘Malaya’ Top-Notch Melodrama By HEltMAir C. OOLLOB Malaya (MOM) * tarring Jamas I 4 ■ ► ' 7 Letters To The Editor (All letter* to the editor which are signed by a student or employe* of tha college and which do not contain obscene or Ubelou* material win b* published. Per sons wishing to have their names withheld from publication may request such | action and these names will not, without the consent of tha writer, be divulged to any persons other than tha editors.) CODE OP ETHICS Editor, The Battalion: So you would substitute an “ap propriate code of ethics”, devised and written by man with his very limited understanding for a law as basic as a law can be, having been made by One who understands hu man suffering, and who made the law to be kept,, intact? Just what code of ethics do you think could be devised. What man or group of men could sanely take it upon themselves to decide when it was right and when it was wrong to kill a human being? A man can be a shining light in a community: lie can be loved and respected by aljl, and yet down in bis soul there can be a weakness, an evil, which would let him sub mit to a temptation to “merci fully” kill. Killing, whether done in dark streets by hardened criminals armed with knives or done in re spectable homes by "respectable” people with fragile hypodermic needles, even if done in the name of mercy: has been wrong at least since the time of Moses and will probably continue to be wrong for a long time to come. I request that you, the editors, so capable of Influencing opin ion, consider the making of such statements very carefully In the future. Sincerely, Kvln •!. Stump 'O'J "MVP" REBttTAI. Editor. The Itattnlion: Lust night 1 picked up the Butt and saw what 1 had expected to see—a good gripe to the Student Life Committee, dealing with the midnight yell practice recommend ation. When the issue was brought up in the comnhittee, we knew we would bit a sore spot. For two sessions we labored over the sit uation, reading letters from var ious people in the cities and lis tening to the damage to Aggie reputations, and the personal dam age bestowed upon a few indivi duals, resulting from fights at yell practice. It is not our intent to abolish, or hurt in any way, the Aggie tradition. We are Aggies ourselves, some of us of very long standing; but it is our intent to see, and en deavor to help, the Aggie reputa tion among the cities and the; ex student associations. We student members of the Stu dent Life Committee were elect ed from the student body. Three men were elected from the non- reg, two editors of the Batt, the Senior class president, cadet col onel of the corps, the president of the Junior class, and members chosen from the senate. These men, plus members chosen from the faculty, give a good cross sec tion of the school. Every man of the above men tioned group thought and studied the situation, for we knew that Official Notice An examination for credit in G. E. IlooH will be Riven in the C. E. lacture Room at 1 P. M-. Saturday. January 14. 105(1, | Only thoae ntudent* authorteed by the Executive Committee may take tho exam ' 1. A. Orr, Profeanor . Civil Kiigineerina Dept;. the decision to abolish the yell practice would probably “bring the house down.” But if the men who are so strongly against our pol-' icy had read the reasons, listed in the Batt, for which the yell" practice was abolished, and consid ered the facts, they would see the reason for the abolishment of yell practice. i We must do what is good for the school, even though it may take away a small something, or even hurt a few personal feelings. For as all Aggies know, we must act for the good of the -group. That is the truest and oldest tra dition we have. As one man said in the Batt not long ago, this is the time to think for ourselves instead of letting tha group think for us. And to the Class of ’61, every class has met its crisis, and this is yours. Instead of being shamed by the abolishment of yell practice, you may be able to be proud to be the first in a movement. We are not taking away, but giving. Giving good relations for A&M. Sincerely, Be Nows contribution sr may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office. Boom 201, Goodwin Hull. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (f-5824) or at tho Stuudent Activities Office; Room 20», Goodwin Hall. 1 ; . ] : . r ' il j ! 1 i ’ • 1 ■ ■ : ! 7 ’ Tho Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical]College of Texaa 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. Durtngs the summer The Bat talion Is published trl-woekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subacriition rate 14.80 per school yoar. Advertising rates furnished on requeet j j • The Associated'Press Is entitled exclusively to the us* for rcpublicat on of all news diapatchea credited toTTor not otherwise credited in the paper and local npwa of e wntancous origin publish ed herein. Rights of ropubllcatlon of all other matter herein arq also rea>rved. | 1 Co-Editors ....Future Editor .Sport* Co-editor* Editor Rcpreeentetivee ■ > allot, Maoaaee Jim Hay. Paul Hoover. Bob Laxwell, B1U Matueh. Howard Piets, h. John Stunts . . Circulation Assistants GUlON HALL—Thun*., Jan. 19 — 6:45 P. M. & 9:00 P.M.I IN PERSON!! T $pike Janet f NEW MUSICAL DEPRECIATION REVUE OF 1950 1 Featuring Doodles Heaver as Prof. Feitlebaum George Rock, Helen Grayco, Dr. Horatio Q. Bird bath The World Famous “City Slickers” and 14 — Explosive Vod-VIl Acts — 14 ! ! SEATS NOW!! Tickets at Student Activities Office, A.4M. Colle Prk-ea: $2.50. 81-80 and 81.25 (tax included) MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED: Send check and self addressed, stamped envelope to Student Activities Committee, A.AM. CoUege. College Station. Please indicate which performance time is desired. "For The Love Of Mike - Don’t Mies Spike” 1 \ Campus).! Until today we had beeii firm be lievers In the; ancient . r ;proverb many cooks spoil the aoup.” ‘ " it)P»eC » ’ seeing “Malaya" at the Cam- heatre, where It is now show ing through Tuesday we have fal tered in our tenuous faith In the usually reliable adage. Starring James Stewart, a star of whose presence In m film Is enough to queue up block-long lines In front of the atres. “Malays” Is the niftiest melodrama to come from Holly wood for this yesr. If < Taut with suspense, ;; bristling with crackling dialogue, alive with arresting characters, “Malaya” concerns the efforts during the war of two American soldiers-of- fortune — one a free-lance report er, the other a convict-on-leave— to smuggle rubber out of Jap-in fested Malaya for American con sumption. Tracy is seen as the con, a cocky, happy-go-lucky daredevil with no particular purpose in life other than having a hell of a good time. Until the war, the same could have been said about the re porter, played by Stewart with his usual lanky ease and assurance. But the death of his brother on Wake Island has given him a goal, Boh I’atte, ’IK Member, Student Life Committee , A COED COLLEGE? Kdiliir, The IlMttnllon: From some recent articles am) letters to the editor which 1 hsvc followed in Ths Battalion, It seems that there ore a few who would like to turn A&M Into an escort bureau, instead of an edticational institution of men, not beaux. I don’t know about those students, but I certainly wouldn’t care to date a girl who would go out with any Tom, Dick, or Harry, just be cause he had on an Aggie Uniterm. We have to admit, whether wc like it or not, that everyone ad mitted to A&M is not perfect, even though we do like to feel that the majority of Aggies are those who hold the moral standards of their homes, churches, schools, and nation above any petty trifles. However, we cannot forget that, there is a minority of students who have forgotten a few' of these essential ideals. I cannot condemn those girls who have offered to date Aggies; maybe they have seen only the good side of Aggieland, in con nection with those friends and rela tives who are Aggies and with those great ideals of friendship, equality, and brotherhood which have made A&M known throughout the world. No one can conderrin a girl who admires this spirit of Aggieland and the men of A & M, who are among the cream of American youth; however, I think they are trying to get acquainted in the wrong way. Now I come to the point which I want to express. I think that A&M should have a coeducational system, for the following reasons: 1. Students at A&M have little chance to meet girls, except at home and at parties and dances. At these occasional meetings, they certainly cannot evaluate a girl ac- j cording to their own ideals. Little : can they learn about the girl’s likes and dislikes or their com mon interests. About the only judgements that can be made are those concerning appearance ^nd friendliness. ! , I assume that the majority of Knipling to Speak To Entomologists Dr. Edward F. Knipling, ’30 ri division chief in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran tine in Washington, D, C., will address the Entomology Society Tuesday night at 8, F. L. Rider, club reporter, said today. Knipling did his graduate work at Iowa State] College after grad uating from A&M. After receiving his Ph. D, Knip ling joined the Menard, Texas, staff of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. He has done his work in the Division of Insects Affecting Majn and Animal. Rider invited all persons inter ested in heading Knipling to at tend the club meeting; It will he hold in Room 10 of the Science Hall. a tangible reason for; existing. ! jFnrtunataly for the auconts of bort Roland aa another who Uvea for wine, women, and advent ore; metre** ;!and Lionel Barrymore aa a nowa- t loosely) paper publisher, add verve land i may be i Lauren dors her thick telllglbks varies from a limp, langu._. grin to a wide, ebuMeut molar- shower. The only Improvement we noticed In Mias Oorteola the change made in her friuled hair-do of Highway.”,' ; ! i 1 C In support, Sydney Greenatreet. aa a delightfully unscrupulous sa loon-owner; John Hod earnest, likeable FBI i paper publisher, depth to tho film. Dallas’ Theatre '50 Loren Disney’s comedy ny Van” Ita world premiere In'Dallas' State Fair Park. Running for three oonaot weeks through January *8* Granny Van” will be the “ play having a Texas set tel presented at the Dallas atre this will give "My Oran- ere tonight .tlx. ^ >My the second eetttng to tells* the- agent; Gil-; Robinson. Under the direction of the na tion famed Margo Jones, Mary Kln- ney will play the title role,; and will be assisted by a cast which In cludes Ben Yafee and- Virginia Der Fuehrer’s Face Shows, But Owner Disclaims Kin Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 9——Henrlch Noll says hi IK just plain tired of American military policemen asking If he’s Adolf Hitler. Noll, a 38-year-old jobless male nurse, thinks he ought to go to the United States “where people don’t worry so much about dfer Fueh- ''where people don't worry so much about dhr Fueh rer popping up.” Noll, is the spitting image of Hitler- toothbrush mustache, droop ing forelock and all. Only his voice is different. Noll is soft-spoken. "I look like Hitler but I didn’t like the old goat,” says Noll. ;"And my character Isn't like his. I like meat, cigarettes and women” Hitler was a reputed vegetarian and non-smoker. t ( Noll's first brush with the MP's came in 1945 when American* troops entered GiesSen. Noll rashly poked his head out of thd win dow of his home. Droves of MP's with t’ommy-guns stormed lido tho house thinking he was the prize catch—Der Fuehrer. “Almost everybody in town had .to swear that I’d lived there ull my life before the Americans Would let me go." he related. , * He says he grew his toothbrush mustache before Hitler catmc to power "although my wife said itj looked silly.” / j Why doesn't he' shave off his Hitler mustache now? . ] He wants to play the part at Hiller in a planned Austrian movie The Third Reich." But he says he’d rather go to Hollywood tio por tray Hitler in American movies.: i •rv In hoy should bo. able to moot girl* gml ovalunte thorn In a nor mal (invlionment, Inslqu.l of soma exaggerated social event, Lasting Aggtys will marry In tho near fu ture. t: » * ui jfgi friendships are baaed upon a firm understanding of common likes and dislikes, of faults, ahtl of good qualities. Thl* understanding can be based only upon a day-by-day association and a slow-growing, byt everlfikting friendship. This is the only j type of friendship which makes for a happy married life. 2. Aggies have to learn to get along with a mixed crowd. In few modern fields will they find com plete: male domination, and certain ly nbt in home, civic, and social life. 3. Girls seem to have’ a knack of lightening the loads of life and resurrecting fallen spirits. 4. Maybe a certain number of students would stay on the campus and study instead of traveling all over the state to have female com panionship. 5. A&M is a great educational system. Its facilities and instruc- fion should not be denied the girls of the state. I know there is only a minority which will agree with my views, but they are my beliefs, and what good ore a person’s convictions if he does not stand up for them? I am not too interested, in dates, but ;I like tio see a girl once in a while and hope to meet the right one some day. I want to prepare for a full living, not a one-sided, biasied one.] • | j,r, . i It is not my objective to dis agree with the A&M system. It is the best. I would not be here if I did not think so. I simply want to express my view' on one of its problems. Norton McDuffie Class of ’51; Frisky Heifers Avoid New Owner Oldland, England, )—Weary Charles Crycr hap sold’ his )wo racing heifers—as] is and where Is. Now ull the buyer has to dpr- is catch them. Tho heifers—«j pair of three year-old Shorthorn aisters named Rosie anti Daisy-^are lurking in a 26-aoro fjold. Two weeks ago Cryer decided to mind them up ami take thorn to market. But they ran liktriGu- xellcs every, time he entered the field. Thin went ;on fur days. In desperation; Cryer pul up a reward pt 6 pounds ($14) : for their capture. Fifteen men and four doge chased Rosie ami Daisy fruitlessly up add down the (field, This also went pn for days. ; Finally Cryer; gave up and sold them at 30 pounds (884) tinder the market price, to dealer Albert Lovell. r . "I*ve got a jfew ideas up my sleeve,” Lovell said today. "Now I’m going to let them calm down a while before I have 1 a go.”; ! V _ j f i Tiergarten Replanted Berlin—<-'P>—-The ' city of! Bre men shipped 36,000. oak arid lin den seedling trees to Berlin to re plant the once-famed “Tiergo*'- ten” which was blackened by war and then denuded by freezing Ber liners for fireWood.i -f ^ : )——H ' ; . ■ Qam/m TODAY A TUESDAY First Run — Features Start — 1:35 - 3:45 - 5:50 - 7:55 , ■ ! 10:00 ; 4 • SPtNCfR JAMES ’ TRACY STEWART ipiA-W N '• Malay* r-TTT *' I' r : —PlUB-4 [RICE - NORTH CAROLINA Cotton Bowl and the -/ [• Bugs ‘HURDl Bridge Team To Be Formed ■ . The Bridge Commiti.ee of the Memorial Student Center is making ■! plaits to select bridge players to replreaent A&M ip the National Inter- collegiuto Bridge Tournamjmt, ac* cording to Wayne! Stark, commit tee advisor. * , The Bridge Committee w II meet In room 167 Blts»l Hall o n Wed-, hesday, January II at 7;80 p. in, to discuss a method to salm i (tqunia- ment entrants, All’ studciiU sml faculty members InteregUid In bridge are Invited to nttind mid bn joy it game of brldga, Said. - i ] 1 Tha first round Intercollegiate Brldga Tout namoijt Will be played or Ktark of tho National February, and thl to the National Commitl the caripus in results! mailed «. Ttyo finalists from each of eight] regiomj will play in Ghicago for thje cham pionship. All trdVcl expenses be paid by the Natfomil mittec, Stark added. Bridge and other card games are some of the recreational detivitic: planned for the game roojn in the luimjflJ LAST DAY Mu’s Greatest AD -: I. AST HUS 1 n." ■MM- will orti- Corti new Memorial Stark concluded. ©3 ent. Center, PALACE Bryan 2'8$79 TODAY & TUESDAY Fifhtbg-Mml md Thandtriaf Tne! 4ieS3pPPRPP. Set—mC »t UsleefMHrtenUtlosti TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY ‘1 ! ' • •’ i / ■■■■y * Will! 'Mi Ui I U L— —r- WiMiurc-wTwiotnufiw QUEEN FOR ONE HILARIOUS! The happiest Hope picture In yeanf hope filming (At S'* ♦ m y w MUHti