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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1950)
-K'-l ! i "'f: J ; ■ i Battalion Editorial Page 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1950 New Steps Forward for The Battalion . . ♦ ! ~ ' i- I Beginning with today’s issue, The The addition of a full-time photograph* Battalion ih|iaugurates a revised depart* er to the staff and constantly available mental organization, a more complete, up- photo-engravers will increase our photo- to-the-minute Associated Press service, and factor and better photographic cov erage. I Many changes were necessary to com plete this reorganizatllon. The posts of Nows Editor, Copy Editor, and Sports News Editor were ereatcd. Their Jobs are to collect news and sports copy, edit it, assign and write headlines, and plan each day’s makeup. Hereafter, the men primarily responsible for the preparation of each day’s issue will bo given credit for theiiyvork in the masthead at the foot of this column. New reporters have joined the staff. They will enable us to give mote complete campus coverage. At the same time, these new men will learn the workings of The graphic coverage of all campus events. A new teletype schedule now brings all state, national and international sports and news reports into bur office through out the afternoon, during the enti and up to our print shop deadlii ire night, dline. As ja will be re result, any “big’V development ported in The Battalion with the same speed with which It is printed in other i v. || | ' I I A complete staff at the Annex will enable us to keep up with the happenings at that section of the college. With these changes and additions we constantly try to improve the quality of what we publish while at the same time keeping a constant training program in progress so that there always will be a Battalion and qualify themselves for high- competent staff that can continue to pub- er posts. H lish The Battalion on a daily schedule. ^ ' ~ ' ■ ■ ' j [' 1 j ^ i Natural Resources Tax, a Legislative ‘Must’ this shying away frbm resources and con centrating on sources where no powerful opposition groups are present is smart politics, and a safe way for re-election. But it is not good government. ■■ a \ \ ' j. . f . • \ The natural resources of this state fa vor Texas with a uniqiie position for tax revenue. The great bulk of Texas’ natur al resources are not (consumed in this state. Taxation on these resources would be passed onto final consumers, but the con- “ sumers would be largely from states other than Texas. In other words, higher natural resour ces taxes (taxes upon Texas’ natural re sources as they come from the well head, or pit head) would be paid in part by Tex ans consuming their share of the resour ces, but for the most part, by consumers of Texas’ oil products, Texis’ natural gas, and Texas’ sulphur in other states. We feel that tjhe legislature of Texas should concentrate on higher natural re sources taxes to provide this state with better mental hospitals, better schools, and better highways. Why should Texas’ natural resources be consumed out of state, and those re sources escape fair taxes f levied upon them ? ; ? Meetings iii special session legislators at Austin are attempting to settle upon new or improved means of bringing addi tional revenues to the state treasury. These revenues will be applied to improve this state's mental hospitals and other eleemosmary institutions. There has been a bill introduced to levy a $25 tax on each divorce filed in Tex- 88. : _ There has been a bill introduced to raise state taxes on cigarettes by a penny a pack. Even a bill was introduced to increase the levy on oil, gas and sulphur, but the chairman of the House Revenue and Taxa tion Committee doesn’t thihk his commit tee will get to that proposal. - Whatever the means of raising reven ue that will be decided upon by the legis lature, money from the new taxes will be, used for services that the state needs. Therefore, most any tax will ‘be a good tax. But the ■ legislature, in not “getting around" to consideration of a tax raise upon the natural resources of this state, is turning its back upon the state’s great est opportunity for increased revenues. Perhaps this failure of action on natural ■‘esource taxes is the legislators reluctance to buck powerful lobbies in those indus tries which process resources. Perhaps A .-University of Alabama “wolf” has acquired an unusually fine prospective date lint, consisting of. all the prettiest coeds on campus—hand-picked!. Helping out at registration, this enterprising young man stopped! each pretty girl and asked to look at her registration blank, containing name, local address and telephone number. Then he simply copied that information, letting the think it was the usual reg istration rigmarole. I i Victor Borgej describing his adven turous boyhood in Denmark: Once my father came home and found me in front of a roaring fire; Th&t made my father very mad, as we didn’t have a fireplace. - _ _ / ■ ■ Arthur Godfrey: It’s not too hard to live on' a small income if you don’t spend too much trying to keep it a secret. A young college student remarked to his date, “That’s ‘Pink Lightning’ lipstick you’re wearing, isn’t it?" Flattered that he should notice the col or of her lipstick, the girl replied, “Why yes, but how did you know ?” “Oh,” he quipped, “I’ve been struck by it before!" *. 1 The Battalwn ..•tv 4 ■ Reserve Corps College News, Program to Re Mmsm Shoes 1 lUHIdlll Ml UC Found -One pair of brown O U n it* RsirttYt 1 (\A A r4t% _ Reorganized '■ "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman?’ Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions News contributions may ba made by telephone (4-6444) or at the editorial office. Room 201. Uoodwin Hall. Classified ads may be plaeed by telephone (4-6884); or at the Stuudent Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. ■ ; . ' 1 ' ~ j The Battalion, official newspaper of the Aaricultural and Mechanical College of Texaa and the City of College Station, Texaa, is published five times a week and circulated every Monday through Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination periods. Durings the summer The Bat talion is published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription rate *4.30 per school ynar. Advertising rates furnished on request. ,. 4 The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for repubilication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news i of spontaneous origin publish ed herein. Rights of repubiicstion of all other matter hereto are i Secretary of the Army, Gordon Gray, announced that during the next three months the Army will institute a mod- ifipation of the present Organ ize^ Reserve Corps program. He declared that changes which will bejput into operation will result in “material improvement in the effi ciency and readiness of the Re serve.” It will take about three months to accomplish necessary steps incident to establishment of the program. ^Secretary Gray stressed that full details of the plan jwill be available to Army Commanders about April 1,| by which time it is planned that all administrative details and im plementing directives will be com pleted. [Summarized briefly, the new or ganization will set up an Active Reserve, an Inactive Reserve, and ah [Honorary Reserve. The Active Reserve in turn wjll include an Or ganized Reserve and a Volunteer Reserve. The Organized Reserve w|iU be made up of personnel in u(iits needed for mobilization, plus those individuals needed for mo bilization to alignment the Regular Ajrmy Units and staff agencies. The Volunteer Reserve will con sist of Individual officers and cn- liktpd men heeded for expansion of t|ie Army of the United States in event of emergency. This group ihitially will Include currently Or- k»nlzcd Training Units, The Honorary Reserve will be made up of personnel of long serv ice whh request such assignment. The Irtactlve Reserve will eonslst df personnel who eannot or do not desire [to participate In the Active Reserve, but who will be subject to call In ease of emergency despite (heir inactive status. Specialists Attend Ag. Workers Meet A. W. Crain, associate extension pasture specialist, Louise Mason and Jimmie Nell Harris, both ex tension foods and nutrition spec ialists, will leave today for Biloxi, Mississippi, to attend the annual meeting of the Southern Agri- i cultural Workers Association. In making the announcement Di- i rector G. G. Gibson,^ Texas Agri- | cultural Extension Service, said that Crain would go by way of i State College, Mississippi and i would join other pasture author- (ities there for a pasture tour on! i February 7 and 8. Director Gibson stated that Miss Mason and Miss Harris attend a regional nutrition conference in Biloxi just prior to the opening of the Southern Agricultural Workerd meeting. Both will ap-i pear on the program during the nutrition conference. They are expected to return to College Station on February 131 Non-Vet, Cadets Meet . Today at Five Non-veteran ROTC students (not living in the Corps area) will meet in the Assembly Hall at ji p. m. this afteirnoon. The formation will be compul sory, Cadet Lt. Colonel Raymonji Smythe said. Enter** a Meon4-«l*M matter *» Fate tie* at Codec* Station, To**, under Member of E«praeeated nation edr br National Ad- rertialnc Barrie* I no., at New York City. BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE j Co-Editors Clayton I,. Selph.. Dave Coslett.. j Chuck Cabaniss.. — : John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt, Dean Reed, Otto Kunze r* f-'V r Managing Editor ......Feature Editor Sports Editor News Editors )i. I .'■! ■ Tuesday Issue ' La O# TiwI^- Gluifjk Cabantes: • : : : 1- ■ ~i~ • j.-News Editor .......Sperts News Editor ' ' if: - Gaorsa Charlto* AaUftant Faatura Editor Charles Klrkhatu Herman Oallob ;Amua«menU Sdltor Frank K. Sham* Larry Oliver Clreulatlan Manager Jack Brandt, Jac - - t ’ . • < « • . • V. • ’ ii- " - j • f . : ■ ;. i - L 5 V 1 '. ' ' : , i - - > r . I \ • * • •! '-J* • MMpuxy. . 1 • . ■ ...CWat Eritorlaktl /. Sports Feature Editor Alex Munroe Cartoonists , j * .1 : | L • i Official Notice NOTICE rRKMKDICAI. - PREDKNTAI, htvdknts The Bulletinx of Information and appl cation forma for the Medical College Ai mission Tost to hf given. May 13. arc now available^ at the office of George E. Potter. Preihedlral-Predchtj Advisor. Room KJ, Sciences Hall. All medical-predcntal students who expect apply for admission to tjhe profensb schools in 1951 are required to take t! test or the follow-up test io be given N] vmber 13. 1050. Applications for the Mj 13 teat must be in Princeton. New Jei before April 29. G. E. POTTER NOTICE TO CANDIDATES FOR GRADUATE DEGREES IN JUNE. 19!) AH ciinntdatrs lor praOuat- degrees! June. 1940. must lie regutred In the On uete School this semestr. It Is the dent’s responsibility to both register check with i he Graduate School to that his record Is dlear' for graduation, scholastically and in every other way. Includes ftlltng out a teqtest for admlssl to candidacy for the degree In June. The faculty Is requested to assist th students In meeting all these requlrema promptly. IDE P. TROTTER shoes, size 9(4C, in Room 104 Ada- demic Building. Discovered after the Jan. 21 final exaiji in Busi ness 422. “I never thought that qiliz would scare anyone out of his shoes,” Professor R. L. “Satch” Elkins reported, “but what else can I think? They were right there On the floor when I got ready i to close up the room. I know they weren't there When I came in.” j Elkins says he has the footgear ijn his office. Any student who shed his shoes during the final may go up to the second floor of the Academic Building and put in a Claim. They’d better hurry though. The Shoes fit Elkins. Red Cross to Start Drive on March 1 Designation of the week-end of February 25-26 as Red Cross Sab bath and Sunday was announced today by General George C. Marsh all, president of the American Red Cross. Observance of the two special days in churches and synagogues throughtout the nation precedes the opening of the annual Red Cross fund campaign to be ton- ducted from March 1 to 31. It is traditional among clergy men of all faiths, General Marsh- i all said, to call attention on these (lays to the Red Cross appeal. In many communities uniformed Red Cross volunteers will attend reli- I gIous ceremonies in groups lot the ; special observances. Smith Named Dorm Student Senator William B. Smith was elteted Student Senator from Dormitory 15 last night in a special election, announced Bill Moss and R. D. Nance, co-chairmen of the Senate Election committee. Smith won easily oyer his op ponent, Wallace C. Mebane, by a 47 to 27 vote margin. The ballot ing produced two write-in candi dates—Artis M. Duty and He nr y Duty. Both Moss and Nance were con cerned over the light vote—79 votes out of 230 distributed bal lots. They attributed the light vote to lack of interest among some of the men in Dormitok-y 15, and to lack of information about the candidates by others, j One hundred and four (104) ballots were not returned. Smith is a junior Agricultural Engineering student from Shreve port, Louisiana. His first irieeting of the Senate will be Wedhesday evening when the Senate convenes for its regular February session. CORSAGES. Beautiful flowers for that lovely lady OUR PRICES ARE SET TO FIT YOUR POCKETBOOK ‘■‘Our flowers say it for yoti” •' 1 1 ■ i IT■ AGGIELAND Flower Shop PHONE 4-1212- * (Next to the Campus Theatre) ii T1 j— ■ f From Where I Sit - r P Iii Battleground’ Shows War As It Is—Grim and Sordid By HERMAN C. GOLLOB fan George Me talben, . all Thorap In spite °5K ttffl Ricardo Mon- Whitmore, Marsh- (Campas) the strident and on ground, fear of being termed presumptuous that this stern, stark, thbroughly human offering is the most ambi tious and deserving war chronicle yet framed by a Hollywood studio. Amid the spate of artificially trick’ed-up odea to the American soldier of World War II that have been previously offered to the public as examples of M ratr Of pump- ed-up patriotism and stagey he roics, a war of poignant lone liness and futility and despair, of empty stomachs and K-ra- Uons, of whistling shrapnel and dead buddies and undiluted, gft- tempered panic and fright. Much of "BsUliiground's’’ artls- Celebrations Plan Told by Scouters ,L Details of Boy Scout Week ac tivities announced , by pack and troop leaders indicate that the celebration will spread beyond the official observance of February 61 Kiwanis luncheon meeting. ! Jack to 12 Two radio programs are pltfhned. On Wednesday at 6:16 p. m. Wal ter Parsons, an Eagle Scouth from Troop 102, will appear with Field Executive Jack Linn on Station KORA. On Thursday at 6:16 Dr. H. W. Barlow, Brazos District chairman, land Linn will be heard over Station WTAW. Every cUb pack and scout troop in the Bryan-Coilege* Station area has scheduled some sort of spec ial event io r Om week, or during the week following. An incomplete list shows that Pack 64, sponsored by Jravis P. T. A., will hold a Blue and Gold Banquet, with Cubmaster Joe Faulk in charge. Cubmaster Carl Niederaucr has announced plans for a similar event for Pack 76, sponsored [by the Crockett P. T. A. Pack 105-N will have its charter presentation and a program at the Carver school “ cafetorium”. " Scout troop activities include: a windovjr display in downtown Bryan by Troop 12 on Friday and Saturday; a guest program for Scouts of! Troop 80 by their spon sor, the Lions Club, at the regu lar club meeting; a formal in spection [and parent’s night Wed nesday by Troop 81, sponsored by the American Legion. Troop 102, sponsored by the Ki wanis Club, will have its tradi- tional dajmp site and open house Saturday at North Gate, College Station. This troop also will have a char ter presentation at. the Tuesday Exposed Freshmen Baek in Bar rack* I | ' Nineteen freshman students re turned to Barracks T-330 at the Annex Thursday morning after it hud beejn fumigated by members of the A&M Hospital staff. Under the direction of “Mom” Claghorn, the barracks was fumigated to pre vent possible infection by spinal meningitis, which caused the death of Norbert James Lucas, fresh man engineering student, in Mar lin Wednesdsly. The students will continue to re port daily to the Annex Clinic for check-ups until Monday as an ad ditional: precaution. A bits provided by the school carrying 35 freshman buddies of the deceased and cars carrying faculty: members left [the Annex at 7:2^ Friday morning and re turned [at 1:30 that afternoon after attending both the funeral ser vices ih the St. Joseph Catholic Church) at Marlin and! the burial service: which was held at Bre- rriond, la few miles from Marlin. Taps at the services were play ed by | four freshman band mem bers. j [ , j y Explosion Jars Houston Area Houston, Feb. 5, (TPL-JA myster- ioim explosion shook Houston sub urbs and several North Harris County communities tolhlght. Windows ware broken and gro ceries knocked off shelves at Shel don, Little- York and Aldine. Neither sheriff’s department nor Houston police had located the source of the blast three hours la ter-.; O, E. Simpler, police department diapatchcr, figured on the basia of numerous telephone falls the ex plosion hsppened somewhere with in SO miles north or northwest of Crdsby, about 16 miles northeast of Houston. police and aherlff's departments, were swamped with [telephone ln : quiries. | . A weary complainf clerk at the sheriffs office sunjmed up the missing explosion this way: "Wherever it is, there sure has been one.” f * amp i i •j - _TLr'" TODAY thru THURSDAY FIRST RUN I —Features Start— 1:15 - 3:25 - 5:40 -j 7:50 - 10:00 Plus “SATURDA Burehard will present a brief re sume of the year’s activities.’ Troop 383, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, has sched uled an inspection and inventory Friday at their Scout house. A rPyrin 1 communion is scheduled for Catholic members of the troop on Sunday. Troop 364, sponsored by the Knights of Pythias, has scheduled a special Week-end hike and over night for Friday and Saturday. Troop 411, sponsored by the Rotary Club, will have a window display in Madeley’s Drug! Store, College Station South Side. A parent's night program - is scheduled Tuesday. The troop will attend religious services as a unit at St. Thomas Episcopal; chapel, College Station, on Sunday morn- ing- * I i .1 All Cubs and Scouts will attend church services on Sunday in uni- fo’rm. In some cases they will go as a uriH, in others they will at tend the church of their prefer ence. Ame the »tems fro: vigor d< . tense mi an history—the [ge—find peopled with char- tance and conviction a script [ng with nt In .ttle of [■aMt Who aren’t supgr-human or unctuous patriots, but r civilian* caught bp in the grini, inexorable vacuun) of war and looking for every opportunity to ‘iret the hell out.” T Scriptrr Arnold Nolen shows tcaln huaror*fr a« intimate da a wlra recorder In a TurklsKj harem. And remtnlaclng about home la kept front maudlin excojiaea. Ybt in the very totiglilnes* and virility of the script thllre Ilea a restrained tenderneea njid auhtle romantic aavor that kokpa “Hat- Hegmund'a" searing roaijtem from plmuring to the utterlyjirevolting. i! - - - .. aa well „ . fast and dlrtcji) added to the film’s at thentielt; have PMACE Bryjn 2'f#79 NOW SHOWING BARBARA STANWYCK I JAMES ' MASON j VAN GARDNER inM-G-HT, CYi> CHARISSE NANCY DAVIS CALC SONDERGAARD must also bo noted hety, aa the pungent photography and climatic musical score. 4 Director Wiljiam A. Wellman ia^ a master at projecting the utti r futility and sqrdidnesa at war; lie. proved this earlier with “Storl of G. I. Joe;” It is with the ujinost dex terity and sensitivity tlmt he han dles his wonderfully able cast ‘ C seemed to ua .no single idlng performanUn — each brought, hia rote to life h kden fidelity. Vail Johnson hi* cocky, happ^-go-Iucky f; John Hodiak is «m intense, fined doughfoot sirii of the leasantries of wa« Ricardo . I italban is a gooj-natared, llhjnt Mexican Gi) 1.; . and J»mes Whitmore is th| leathery, ’(-business platoon iergeant. ie “Battleground”. It's a cine- ,tic experience you wfih’t forget. treat Issued’ Open Fifty Juniors fully classified juniors ielr respeo itted to th* (Admin-* ster, S. R. the Corn- said today. The two-hour decisive course may not be offered iriil961, ao the Committee on Great* Issues de cided to allow juniorif to register for the. course', Gamrpon addech 1 inp 1 ”." 1 Pit"-, i’ with the approval of live deans, will be ad: “Great Issues” coui istration 405) this sen Gammon, Chairman 4 mlttec on Great Issues NK8DAY QUEEN TODAY and WEDNESDAY 'ammmmmmmmmLmrnemmtmmmmm !■—4- 'IT'*'""IP" i pi : I U' : I !*' •fc,-. MW, uarr cun. jk. !* S S£2S5 : lAMCt WaMMMUMI AMK MMINT mm# liMMSMCI bvai&hmm' COMING SAT?- 6-80 Ip.M. U MMvteMMUt - Triple Feature - 1. CONCERT 2 ST^E , SH nP W >rC * ie *^ ra |lol« 3. MOVIE "Act of lence — All three for 70c \ ’If • a