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-r f i Page 2 ' . ' ' > ' j • |; | ;. | Battalion Editorials AY, JANUARY 17, 1950 In Texas, Death and Taxes ^ - - Pol l Taxes of poll tJX hi V- ^ . ■ ■' Whatever your sentiments about poll taxes, it’s Still, on the statutes of Texas and the deadline for paying the tax is fast approaching. The last day for payment of this year’s poll taxes is two weeks from now, January 31. Everybody between 21 and 59 years of age must pay their poll taxes in Order to vote by general elections this year. Those persons over 59 get a free vote,' if they get an exemption certificate from the County Tax Collector’s office. For people who attain 21 years of life during this 1950 the state gives them a free, 1 “on the house” vote. Here again, a tax exemption certificate must be obtained j * ; • ’ f . Spare a Dime for a Cup of Benevo from the County Tax Colle< :tor’s qffice be fore January 31. Collef e Station and Brjian banks have poll tax loOths set up for Ihe convenience payers. Arguments pro and con issue arej not valid at voting booths dur ing this summer’s primar r elections and this fall’ i national elections. In Texas it costs $1.75 to vote. If yoj are goin to pazticipa _«ate in this democracy through voting for candidates for publi: office, you just (an’t get around the $1.75. And you’d better get around to payinj it before January 31. / Throughout these next two weeks, while students here are thinking of grad uation, final exams, and another semes ter, younger studehts are thinking of other things—health, particularly. These younger students can be found in hospitals, homes, and clinics the nation over. They are victims of one of the most dreaded disease? of all time, infantile par alysis, more commonly known as polio. The greatest source of financing com bat against this disease is the^ annual March of Dimes, one of the most benevo lent and humanitarian projects in exis tence. From New York City to Snook, Texas, this country is being asked for only a dime or two from each person. ; j Texas, which suffered its worst polio epidemic in its history last year, has a share of * raising last yea: Ail te ly cured era meth the di minimum ence: $2 million inj'i campaign. The only aid treatment of 1950 patients, but must help financial burden for carry- f" and the years btf o often, polio cann within a short tim ods of controllin ; have held tl is yeafs fund- tnoney will not polio-stricken Carry the huge over cases from isease With|out a successful campaigln in 1950, advai National Foundation will a minimum. We have until January 31 to insure the of this drive. It must be done; d will be done. success it can a American Strategy and the Soft For years Alaskans and millions of Americans living along the West Coast have insisted that Alaska is the United States “soft upper belly” and contended that the frigid land is the most likely spot for Some future Russian- invasion. ^ Moreover, if Russia could take Alaska, __ lobbying groups have resounded in the Pentagon, the entire.West Coast would be \open to Red bombing attacks. The Red Force is known, for a fact, to have bomb ers that can take off from Anchorage, blast Seattle 1,326 miles away, and re turn. These same bombers could make one way suicide trips to^San Francisco, ,' Oakland, and Los Angeles. In bpite of all this, the Joint Chiefs of Stafrihave virtually left Alaska defense less. As tlji.e militarists of the nation saw it, this was the situation. It was impractical and possibly suicidal to plan in terms of defending particular places. ; Assuming that it would require 12 divisions to make Alaska impregnable, how many divisions would be needed for Japan, Okinawa, Ha waii and the Philippines, the Middle East, i the Middle West, and Greenland ? If the United States were to start building up forces td defend every place the Russians / might attack, it would soon find itself forced to expand the Army to 100 divis ions or iridre, with balanced air and naval .. forces to support them. u ' v- #- ■ ' 'V-., move in But \ Upper Belly . . . rier planes coul<| this dc la. 'It d| than gr oes mea ound fon in Alaska. The on air d ing Alajska up. It has if they them. wanted the mili i t ^ k-' i The Battalion "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentlem, rw” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at Uoodwin Hall. 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Rights of republication of all other matter, herein are also Entered ae aeeond-claae matter at Poet Office at CoUese Station, Texae, under ; the Act of Concrete of March t, 1870. Member of The Associated Press pir.r. BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE.. Clayton aelph, Lewie Burton. Otto Kunxe ....... ,V.. John Whitmore . .... : . Man«slns Kdttore .1 . Acting Manasins Editor •«««..»«. Emil Bunion Jr. Dan Davie, Curtla Edwardj. J. C. Fall*, Hencbel Fitta. Henry Lacour. B. F. Boland, fcZ? Uoimai, " ■**** ****** Trevino . Photo Ensravar* Kenneth Mdrah, Emmett Trent, Jack Brandt, Jack Stanubury ,1 Cartoonieta Dave Coelett....La. Chuck Cebaaiee, B« FTerZQAQ CrOllOb eaeebeeoeSseeisojeaoeee AS W. K. Colville. Rotter Coelett, Bob Price, John Taplay. Johi i Harold Cui Bob Allen. A. W. Fredrick. D< G inn, Frank Menitxa*. ; ’ ■- '■i Whitmore pupi^i . j. . . on the poll tax ^1 The Fantastic . p-- Fotties Uncertainty, Mark I Fello Party pooper! iship Winner Here, Studies Religious Groups ore. ot be complete- e, though mod- and checking ese cases to a March of Dimes r cement by the also be held to Consequently! the only alternative for the Joirt Chiefs of Staff was to weld all troops available into a mobile striking force, based principally in the United States. Then no matter where the first gun wss fired, American forces could to position as rapidly as troop car- reach the frdnt. not mean that the mili tary leaders werje forgetting the peninsu- that air defenses, rather es, are the primary needs pentagon began concen- sfenses. trating But the natiefn’s military leaders have n’t beer i rushing) their plans for toughen- They are taking a risk, been adihitted that Alaska is al most defenseless at present, and that the Russiarjs could probably move in tomorrow to. Nothing would stop ;arists’ risk was based on one factor especially—-that if Russia were to attack Alaska now and succeed in es tablishing a foothold on the continent, what could it do then? That would be as far hs- the Reds jcould go, because the bulk of the Russian Army is now in Europe. In thinking i about Alaskan defenses, the nation’s military strategists have ob viously been keeping the goal of global victory firmly i i mind. plication of all news dispatche* of spontaneoua origin publish- reserved. By DAV)E COSLETT Oft-bragged bn Texas even ex ceeded the expectations of Miss Nancy Evans. [The tall attractive Danforth Fellojwship winner was equally impressed with A&M. For the pas|t few days Nancy has been at A&M as part of her t work in connection with the award presented her last year when she received her B. A. degree at Welles ley Colleee nea^ Boston, Mass. Sh was one of fifteen girls in - the UBjtejd States honored with tl-e J%llewship which was begun during the war and named in honor of William H. Dan forth, president of the board of directors of the Ralston Purina ‘ Company. A native of Philadelphia, the 22-year-old miss admits that she almost refused her chance to ap ply for the award that was to bring her to Texas. Blit, exercising the As Meat Judgers Visit Fort Worth A group of six students, from which A&M’s Meat Judging Team will be selected, and : O. D. Butler, instructor, were in Fort Worth over the weekend to judge meats and carcasses in preparation for coming jpontests. Members of the group are Humberto Reyes, senior AH major from Berclair, Glenn Kothmann, senior AH major from San An tonio, Paul Weverts, junior major vet medicine major from Al pine, John Sugarek, junior AH major from Skidmore, Doug Wythe, junior AH major from Granbury, and Ed Lathem, junior AH major from Dalhart. From this group, three mem bers of the meats judging team and one alternate will be chosen on the basis of their ability in placing meats and carcasses and providing reasons for doing so. Friday and Saturday were spent at Swift and Co., judging and grad ing all classes of meat. Saturday afternoon, the group was joined by the Livestock Judging Temn, and since four of the group of meat judgers are also tentative live stock judges, the entire group tra vels to the ranch of a Hereford and Quarter Horse breeder out side Fort Worth where livestock judges placed cattle and horses. Sunday the group traveled to the ranch of Mrs. 'Amie Wilson at Plano where they judged sheep. Official Notice ORDINANCE NO. 141 AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAW FUL. TO ALLOW A DOG TO RUN AT LARGE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY; PROVIDING THAT A PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CARE OF A DOG WHO ALLOWS THE SAME TO RUN AT LARGE SHALL BE FINED; AND SPECIFYING THAT EACH IN STANCE A VIOLATION OF THIS OR DINANCE OCCURS SHALL BE CON SIDERED A SEPARATE OFFENSE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS t Section 1. It shall be unlawful to allow a doer to run at large within the limits of the City. Section 2. Any person responsible for the care of a dog who allows the same ' to run at large within the limits of the City shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than fifty f$5p.00) dollars. Section 8. Each instance that a viola tion of this ordinance occurs shall be con sidered a separate offense. Section 4. This ordinance shall be effec tive from and after passage and publica tion. Passed and approved the 9th day of January. 1950. APPROVED: s /Ernest Langford Mayor AffTBST: a/N. M. McGinnis City Secretary Represented nationally by National Ad- ig Service Ine* at Now York City, Chifaco, Loa Angelas, and San Francisco. Graduate Record Examinations will be given here. February 8 and 4. Applications for permission to take the examination must • be received at the Princeton office Co-Editors ... .Feature XMltor .Sports CoadHogf before January 21. Application blanks may be obtained directly from the Educational “ sting Si “ ~ ~ — J.; or r Testing Service. P. O. Bo* 592. Princeton, N. J.; or from Dr. W. A. V.rvel, Deport ment of Education and Piycholbcy, Room Professor of Psychology Walter A. Vorvel. . Feature Writan Sport* Writer* ■ »)»♦***»*•*•**.Advariialng Manage Garrett. Herbert GUA». ' “ " Ba«**8e*tftf»** Jatbyh Me&ag.r LET OS KNOW WHAT TOO WANT TO BtTY OR TRADE AND WE WILL GIVE TOD THE REST IN PRICES OR EXCHANGE LOUFOT’S TRADING POST Trade WMi LOG -4 Hb’* W)t|» Too n - By WILBUR MARGIN (ThU articles -aW- 1' iHI $■. Peace History of Decade is the first Of three articles on Texas attrf the fantas tic Forties). The “Forties” were fantastic tat Texas. ij!i h.- ■'%. 1 * The brought war, death, misery, regulations and, to some, a new way of life. They brought thousands of new people, new industry, new They took a heavy to man life and property. Fire, flood, hurricane nado; explosions, murder, want were an everyday the ten-year period from Jan 1940 until today. 0 7 Most Texans welcomed 1940 as woman’s prerogative, she laid aside plans for a trip aboard, and mad? her application, In due time, she was named one of the fifteen winners and pro ceeded to train five weeks at a camp in Michigan for the work she Was to assume. The Danforth award, granted by the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, does not provide for graduate Work. It offers instead a chance for selected girls to get in-service training in reli gious work for a year. The winners are sent out to var ious colleges to work inter-denomi- nationally with undergraduate stu dents, The colleges selected by the girls must be at least 1,000 miles distant from their home. Thus it was that Nancy chose Texas, and Texas University, for her year’s work. She arrived at the university Sept. 8 of last year and has been engaged in her work there since that time. The girls are usually responsi ble for schools within a 100-mile radius of their home campus. But. says Nancy, a little more latitude is needed in a place like Texas. She was here for the last few days to study the set up of the various religious organ izations and societies at A&M. As for the future, Nancy plans to do some graduate work in her major field of interest, biblical history. She enjoys working with students and hopes to be able to continue doing so after her award expires this year. She’s still got the wanderlust, though. She . hopes that California will be her next destination. • /' k t . : i'' * , Rep Renews Move That Capital Move Washington.—<A*i—: Rep] Wright Patman of Texas has renewed his move to relocate the nation’s eap- Htal west of the Mississippi River. Although Patman didn't say so, it is inconceivable that a loyal son of the Lone Star state could consider an” place "west of the Mississippi” more suitable than Texas. , Patman yesterday described [Washington as a horse-and-huggv town that cannot keep step with the 'swift pace of the atomic age. His resolution is before the rules committee. The Texan wants that committee to send it to the floor of the House for debate. “The time has arrived for a serious stud” of the proposal to remove the seat of government to a more centrall" located area,” he said in a press statement. In war it would be an easy tar get for the enemy he said. He add ed that the Atomic Energy Com mission’s recent study of what a single bomb would do to Wash ington is “enough to cause a na tional nightmare.” Patman conceded that Washing- \Jtqn may be an archaeologist’s di-earn spot, but even in peacetime it is unsuited to the needs of mod em government. Sea Voyager Returns, Confesses Boat Theft Dundee, Scotland (A 1 )—The 14- year-old sea lover whose three-day solo voyage made him seasick and homesick pleaded guilty today to a charge of stealing the $28,000 fish ing boat in which he sailed half way to Denmark. The juvenile court here adjourn ed until Thursday the case against young Johnny Guthrie, who ad mitted he stole the 50-foot fishing trawler Girl Jean last Wednes day. The trawler Reptonian found him stranded three days later 200 miles i out in the North Sea and towed him back. Johnny was taken today to a remand home— British equivalent of a reform school—until the judge decides what tp do with him. Shrode S ler*. '!,:1 ,«rv : r.-paa On Herd w ideas. 11 ■ of hu- Jm) • j- . j !■ and tor- need and part it J t Selections of; herd sires from time to time probably constitute the most important decisions along this line made- by the breeder of dairy cattle. Dr. K. R. Shrode said at the Dairyman's Short Course. “At any rate”, Dr, Shrode of the Genetics Department points out “gross errors in such decisions may be extremely fair-reaching, in their consequences.” A sire should “never be select ed solely on the basis of having one sensationally outstanding rela tive either frorti the Standpoint of production or t”''», particularly if that relative is a remote ances tor or a ‘distant collateral rela tive,” Dr. Shrode pointed °ut. “A moment’s consideration of the effects of the halving nature of inheritance is sufficient to con vince us that such a practice is extremely risky; - “The ideal for which we should strive is to obtain all of the infor mation possible and then use it as intelligently as we know how in making our decisions. It is regret table but true that we are pever certain of the [accuracy of our selections. ’ [ “We must admit that there may be many individuals whose breed ing values are better than those of the ones we : have labeled the ‘best’. In other'words, the breeding of dairy cattle is a game of chance,- but I sincerely believe that the odds are in our favor because cer tain knowledge At our disposal can keep chance from being the’ only determining factor in our failure or success,” Shrbde said. "[ |i A, L. Darnell of. the Dairy Hus bandry Department is general chairman of the short course. Eighty attended, including top flight dairymen of the -state.' Ses sions end Tuesday. Reds, Nationalists In Artillery Duel Taipei, <A>i—An artillery duel between Communist troops in Swa- tow and Nationalist Chinese on Namoa Island was repiorted today- by the Nationalists.- Swatow is a port city about 100 miles northwest of British Hong . Kong and 125 tniles west of the Southern tip of iFormosa. The ministry did not mention ground fighting on Namoa Island where the Communists have estab lished a beachhead. The ministry, said Nationalists on Linting Island, near Namoa, broke up an attempted landing by about 3,000 Reds. Nationalists reported their war planes and ships attacked and sank many troop-laden Communist junks along thhe Luichow Penin-. sula where the Communists aret massing forces for an attack on Hainan Island, uff the South China coast. many, 1 The ry. This was to be a bright near wade, with the brand new com forts of an industrial world gear- the ch ed to science. Tomorrow was to be secure. 5,1/ Today, moat Texans look to 1950 and the years beyond with • feeling akin to apprehension. Tomorrow is far from secure. The people, their cities’and their times felt the first touch of the fantastic Forties early in the de cade. The nation’s first peace-time draft was reall " ‘ mass and You can think back, to yester- ;. ine nation s iirst peace-time t was really the beginning of !a s change in a way of living its values. Harbor, Universal Draft, training camps, war bond drives, the OPA, rationing, politics, mon ey to spend and nothing to buy; the homesick soldier on the streets of your town; the tjby next door, the hqusing shortage; haaty mar- everything would be a)l right as soon an the war ended. Alt of these were crowded into the first five years of ttye fantastic ESTaMST -wflf! * The war marked one phase of the decade. Its end starred Another. The period following th« war was more fantastic tkfn the first five years. Human wants and hu man beings Were secrindary to the war, but they became a paramount issue after its - end. From 1945 < until today . . this' was the period of the Texarkana phantom, a wanton murderer; of mass death in the Tegas City ex plosion; of mysterioiuj ; death, like that of W. A. (Tex) Thornton, famed oil well, fire fighter; of brutal death on the highways. This was A period of record crops, bank deposits, high: em ployment it was the period of the veteran’s ‘‘readjustment”,; of “re conversion:” A time to try new ideas, to buy new things; a time - * -f! - ‘ TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY r— skyway VH TtlESDAY & WEDNESDA1 l . 441 ! H'- SOFT IPpl . ' : dlfca t«nf , .U.ilC nlv.-J.'NT .d v.l U ' • Fir 11, ■ i AH Students See 4 Beef Production’ Animal Husbandry students are invited to see a speciali showing of the' film “Beef Prdductiop, the Hereford Way,” Tuesday night, in the lecture room of the A&I build ing, J. R. StraiiS, Ir.'l Senior AH major from San Antonio, said' to day. In addition to this film there will be a short picture taken during the livestock judging tepm s re cent trip to Chicago. This will in clude scenes .taken framj.the Uni varsity of Ifurdue, th ’ _ of Illinois, and some ous Hereford ranches die west. Al I'M! Wip this University, se of the lam-, PALACE Brynn TODAY quft'WEpNESpAY *. nm4U***i mmwrnmmm lassaer- rTTTnr- QUEEN \ fSsT ;b| r j!? ?, — ■1* 1 —**EG1 f—■ to make the di It waa a per eonalities, of dreams come true, riod of exploaive ’ disillusionment Ument for others, pie had their problems, their troubles. A population increase of than a million, a shift in poi tion, the annexation of outl areas, the unbalanced scale of income [and tax outlay contrib a major headache,- for both. Thqrh were thousands of in dividual stories that fitted iiwo a description of the Forties (and branded them “fantastic” for [Tex as. Some of these stories you! re member. Others are told in juta tistical tables complied by indi- • viduals, by state and government agenc The state’s minerals were Valued at $839,981,000 In 1941, at | more than $$,000,000,000 in 1948. Resources of 391 ' Btate [banks on Dec. 1 1942, amounted to $428,- 680,949 and a few odd cental Total resources of 412 state bahks, in 1948 1 mounted to $1,034,628,000. THe increase was greater nor na tional banks, $1,855,40!,000 for 439 ini 1942 and $5,159,285 i (K)0 for 43$ in 1948. Proslperity has the statistical edge for Texas during the forties. Agriculture and industry fleet this. r - The people, most of thenjq make more today. They may say infla tion offsets higher . wages, but the average worker doesn’t ever want go back to his 1939 salary,* in that, period where [there was no, Inflation. Where there were few er .salaries. I . “Higher pay,” is what one white.. collar ' worker thought . was the *' biggest economic factor that had happened to him. “An easier chance to get job' and show I can hold another. Stronger unionization Avidenf in Texas industry the Forties. More Unions, The decade was a periut where I sports boomed, where bitter politi- s better ft,” said became during^ 1 , tt«* T . cal battles were fought, from El Paso to Texarkana. Where ‘history flew—a B-60 bomber that) made the first non-stop flight .around the globe, Forth Wortlf^o Fort [Worth. ■> It was a period where | music, is art and drama flourished and when Texas’ state fair mushroomed to the biggest in the land, with) atom ic energy taking its place among the- exhibits. ' It was a'time of many Worriei‘ and far removed from the fkntasy of fairy tales. Or was it? * Qamp i„ the f [ LAST DAY i FIRST RUN —Features Start - ; 1.-40 - 3:40 - 5:45 - 7:50 - |10:00 “Dancing in the Dark” 2# - 7 • FIRST ^ , -Features Start r , , 1:40 • -3:2() - 5:00 - fl:A0 -!8:15 10:00 ‘ M Hr Bugs Bunny Cartoon "RABBIT HOLD’! News FRIDAY FREVUI 11:00 P. M. Feature 11:30 P.M. [ ' RUN FIRST K ■ ■ ! . 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