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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1950
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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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!"
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Reserve Corps College News,
Program to Re Mmsm Shoes
1 lUHIdlll Ml UC Found -One pair of brown
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
News contributions may ba made by telephone (4-6444) or at the editorial office. Room 201.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As It Is—Grim and Sordid
By HERMAN C. GOLLOB
fan
George Me
talben, .
all Thorap
In spite
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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
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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*
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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.”
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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-
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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
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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.
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added to the film’s at thentielt;
have
PMACE
Bryjn 2'f#79
NOW SHOWING
BARBARA
STANWYCK
I JAMES '
MASON
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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
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