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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950
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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<ii putting guards around would
n’t do ahy good. And it would make
A&M look like a “police state,” anyway.
Bjxt we ctyi appeal to the guilty men
who take the half-used bar of soap left
in the shower, or the textbook left outside
the mess hall, or the boat hanging or\ a
desk in the Academic Building. We can
ask them to think a minute, and ask them
selves if what they are doing really worth
what it costs them and A&M. It costs
them considerable loss of self respect.
What petty thief can be proud of himself? 1
It cos^s A&M the trust that Aggies
put in one another We’re pretty far gone
when one Aggie starts stealing from an
other. I!
It would be a good feeling to know if
you left a bar of soap in the shower and
came back a week later, it would still be
there. Everything on; this campus has a
rightful owner. Something that is left
doesn’t lose being owned, the owner will
be back to claim it.
Legally, it’s just the respect for anoth
er’s property rights; simply stated, it’s
taking care of what’s yours and letting
things belonging to other people alone.
What could be fairer?
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Formosa and Taft, With Political Intrigue .
Robert A. Taft,senator from Ohio, co
author of the Taft-Hartley Act, despised
by the labor unions, noted conservative
j^nd isolationist Republican up for re-elec
tion this year, has crept out from under
has nearsighted bifocals (which, pre
viously have restricted his vision only to
the American domestic scene) and has
taken a rather gallant stand on far-away
Formosa.
The Ohio senator has joined ex-presi
dent-Hoover in culling for American de
fense of Formosa against Chinese Com-^
munist who are preparing to conquer this
lustfootholi of the Chinese Nationalists.
'They only want a few American ships
bristling with guns ploughing through
waters between Formosa and the Chinese
mainland to prevent the island’s seizure
by the Reds. \ \ '
We are surprised that Senator Taft
would speak so completely out of charac
ter. Always before, Taft was a stem iso-
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lationist. His chief concern was to guard
our shorjes, not island^ thousands of miles
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Suddenly the good senator has become
in internationalist. Or is he just playing
politics? He knows his Democratic oppon
ent (unnamed yet, but certainly to ap
pear) Will harp on his record of isola
tionism. This together with organized la
bor's predicted efforts to defeat him,
seems to add up that It he Senator is play
ing politics and yelling about something
ho .knows will find popular support. Who
wants to let the Communists have any
thing? ij
If Robert A. Taft didn’t face re-elec
tion thi* year, we’d regard this departure
from his previous isolationism as a good
omen—Lfhat even our most conservative
congressmen are. becoming international
mindedj As it is, we wonder if his plead
ings for Formosa’s defense are sincere or
mere political expediency?
Sun’s Lighthouses, and Parallels
The New York Sun went into eclipse
last Thursday with the publication of a
joint paper—the New York World-Tele
gram and Sun. The World-Telegram
bought out the Sun and thereby gobbled
up all its subscribers. The sale plunged
the Sun’s 1,200 employees into the ranks
of the unemployed.
On the masthead of the combined
paper appeared the lighthouse, symbol of
★ "★
A young former G. I. was married to a
twin.
The housing shortage forced the couple
to live in the home of the wife’s parents.
“Those sisters look so much alike even
their folks can't tell ’em apart—how do
control by the Scripps-Howard newspaper
combine. ; ■
We wonder if the physical difference
between the sun and a lighthouse will fol
low into the journalistic field? The sun
throws light everywhere, illuminating the
whole Wprld while a lighthouse is a bea
con guiding ships by the light that is di
rected and focused by the lighthouse
keeper. We hope not! - • ’~
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you know which one to make love to?”
observed a friend.
“I don’t know which is which either,”
was the reply, “but when I feel affection
ate I seiz^ oijie of ’em and if she ain’t mine
she defends 'herself.t’
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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.:
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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
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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, <A > )—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.”;
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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