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The Fight at Southern Methodist Universit;
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On today’s front page we have pub
lished the story of a fight which occured
Tuesday night at Southern Methodist Uni
versity. We knew of the scrap yesterday
morning,* but didn’t report it until, we
could obtain all possible facts, for it isn’t
a story to be printed without a great deal
of consideration.
Last night we talked with the men in
volved in the fight and we talked with
persons who witnessed it. All the facts
bear out this pne thing—three non-mili
tary students from A&M were attacked
without warning and without reason by
a gang of SMU students, some of whom
have been positively identified as letter-
men on the Mustang football team. The
details of the fight are in the front page
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We have talked with the authorities
here at A&M and they informed us that
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been lodged
Southern Meth-
involved in
all |of us in the
awaiting the
an official protest has i
With the administrators <
odist University. The
the fight, together wit
student body are aiurioi
results that protest will
The time has come when incidents such
as this must be stopped. The officials of
this college have set the machinery in mo
tion to see that they are stopped and we,
together with the men
fight are convinced that
that must be handled on an official level.
Oh this point, the three Aggies said to
The Battalion, “If we could talk to every
man in the corps and to every non-reg we
would say this—‘Don’t do anything that
would in any way cast a bad reflection on
A&M. What we want to do is erase any
such reflection, not create one.’ 1
All we can say is,
involved in the
this is something
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Waltham Watch’s Last Hour
: In Waltham, Massachusetts last week
1,200 Wokers of the Waltham Watch Com
pany were permanently dismissed and the
plant shut down. Immediate reason: The
federal government had aefused Waltham
another $2 rhiillon loan to continue its op-
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The long range reason for Waltham’s
closure was its inability to compete fur
ther with im|torted Swiss-made watches.
Americans could buy. better watches made
in Switzerland and at cheaper prices than
Waltham etmld produce.
Officials of Waltham were, naturally,
indignant over the government’s refusal.
They claimed the American watchmaking
industry was being “sold down the river.’’
They wanted the importation of foreign-
made watches Checked-—to protect Amer
ican watch manufacturers.
In the case of Waltham we have an op
portunity to ask ourselves, “Should tarriff
advantages and. subsidies be given Amer
ican industries who cannot compete favor
ably with foreign producers of the goods?”
Without analyzing the watchmaking
industry, a fl^t “yes” or “no” answer can
not be given. Swiss sources of fine
watches, and other precision instruments
the watchmaking industry make would be
closed to us in the event of another war.
anti; cheaper in-
ght from watch-
ap can be manu-
into Switzerland
ucta of her crafts-
these two eoun-
Yet, in peace time bett
struments can be
makers in Switzerland
factured in this count
Also, dollars peui
for the finer, better i
ipeu. enable trade bet\
tries to exist on a casbf not a strictly give
away basis.
Waltham Watch and' other American
companies suffer because our tariff laws
do not give them privilege, while many
other Amcrleaii companies (such as the
liquor industry, the cosmetics industry
are protected by high import taxes and
can flourish oven though their products
arc not as high grade as foreign produced
ones.
If the government’s refusal to Wal
tham Watch means a changed attitude to
give manufacturers from other countries
equal competitive advantage in this coun
try (meaning better and cheaper prducts
on the American market) we say, “good.”
If the government’s refusal will be con
fined only to Waltham Watch and the pol
icy of favor to certain other American
manufacturers ia| continued, our support
goes with Waltham Watch.
‘Hitler Youth’,Gestapo
Rebuilt by East Germans
By THOMAS A. REEDY
Berlin, Feb. 9 —UP)—Eastern Germany rolled the calendar back
to 1933 tonight, creating ajnew red gestapo and drafting the young
into a regimented organization like the old Hitler youth.
The Volkskammer (People’s Chamber) enacted both laws Without
dissent. j j
The bill for a new Ministry of State Security t<j> direct a secret
political force with unlimited authority to arrest and imprison is
modeled after Russia's ownj secret police, the MVD.
It may embrace a vast nework of informera an in the daya iof
Hitler'a geatapo. The Communist Preaa said the measure waa neceaaary
ti> direct "defensive espionage" in all walks of life because the East
German state la endangered by "saboteurs of Anglo American Un-
qariallftm."
forth, a boy or girl la the Hoviet son* must bo a mem
ber of the Free Dorman youth (PIM1 or will not be able to take
part In sports, |tloulcs, hikes, Iravelu, certain solhool work and
even In the choice of a profession,
iiy the language of the act, (he youth also would be encouraiTetl
to become a gigantic inter ml spy ring, just as the Uitler jugend was
taught to tattle even on pnjrents If they were anti-Ntml,
The law "authorises iimmcraUc youth to develop Its initiative In
(ho fight against bureaucracy, sabotage and the deficiencies of labor"
- terms which thb Communists employ in attacks on their political
Opposition.
Spado-boardod Walter l lbrtcht, deputy prime minister, told
• the chamber the youth organization, now about S,000,000 strong,
would have as Its “aacr>d duty" the deepening of Soviot-Gemuui
friendship and anti-Americanism.
“We art? convinced tbit the tanks and guns Uni Americans bring
to Western Germany will be turned against them Some day, just as
it was in the case of China." he said.
Adoption of the measires coincided with reports from West Ber-
jin sources that the Communists had heightened a purge of minority
party members who observe nominal cooperation With the Comniun-
ist.
Test Tube Football Viewed Over TV
Official Ni
American Broadcasting Com
pany’s vice president Robert Saudek took
a crystal ball view of football in the future
and commented in TIME: “Sports would
be'turned over completely to television.
“Then we’ll have silent football. It will
be played indoors under perfect conditions.
The weather will always be just right, the
grass just the proper height, the ball will
never be slippery. In this test tube foot
ball, the players won’t be bothered by the
roar of the crowd, because the crowds will
all be watching at home, and they’ll be
comfortable. Tbere’ll be no one at the
game except the sponsor—and he’ll be be
hind a glass cage-”
Saudek obviously assumes that “tele
vision squint” and eye fatigue from watch
ing the television screen will be corrected
by engineers of future video sets. He as
sumes too, that sports fans will want to
trade their splintered bench-type seats in
the grandstand for comfortable living
room chairs.
Perhaps the engineers can be counted
on to iron-out television “bugs”, but we’d
not want to take any bets that sports fans
will make their part of the swap. There’s
something to being there that the TV
screen will never capture.
faculty
and in the
Religious
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The Battalion
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Rost, Founder of Aggie Tradition!
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OFFICIAL NOTICE
In order to permit students
to attend, services In Guion Hall
Annex Chapel during the annu;
Kmphasis week. Classes will
on the main campus accord;
; follow in g schedule:
Monday & Tuesday, Feb. 13
10 to 11 a.m
Wednesday & Thursday, Feb. 15 & 16—
11 to 12 a.m.
Friday. Feb. 17—9 to 10 a.m
Classes will be dismissed at; the annex
according to the following schedule:
Monday & Tuesday, Feb. li & 14—
9 to 10 a.m.
Wednesday A Thursday. Feb. 15 & 16—
10 to 11 a.m.
Friday, Feb. 17—11 to 12 a.m.
M. T. HARRIN6TON
Dean 'of the College
NOTICE
PREMEDICAL - PREDENTAL
STUDENTS
The Bulletins of Information and appli
cation forms for the Medical College Ad
mission Test to be given May 13. 1950,
are now available at the office of Dr.
George E. Potter. Premedical-Predental
Advisor. Room 13. Science Hall. Alt pre-
medlcal-predental students who expect to
apply fbr admission to the professional
schools In 1951 are required \o take this
test or the follow-up test to tye given No-
vmber 13. 1950. Applications for the May
13 test must be in Princeton. New Jersey
before April *9.
O. E. POTTER
NOTICE TO CANDIDATjEft FOR
GRADUATE DEGREES IN JUNE. 1950
Ail candidates for graduate degrees In
June. 1060. must be regiutred in the Grad
uate School this semastr. It is the sta-
denl's responsibility to both register and
check with the Graduate School to aee
that his record is eltar for grsjduation. both
scholastically and In evary other way. This
,
includes filling out a request for admission
to candidacy for the degree ih
The f
■Indents
promptly
June
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BANK HOLIDAY
The banks of Bryan and College Station
will be closed Monday, February 13,
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1950 in observance of^ Lincoln’s birth-
. day, a legal holiday.
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City National Bank
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Editor, Th« Battalion!
Thor* ia definite!)
Collage
parking
eapoc
ly a pari
problem In College View, es
telly oh "A** Avenue, but we are
of the opinion It can be remedied
Purdue Alumni To
Meet February 24
All Purdue, alumni and ..their
friends are invited to attend the
reception for far. Frank C. Hocke-
ma and Mr. Bth Baugh front Pur
due University, Lafayette, Inidiaha,
Dean H. W. Barlow announced to
day.
The reception will be held on
February 24 at 8 p. m., at the
Shamrock Hotel. Reservations
should be made with Mr. R. A.
Stapleton, 2603 Tangley, Houston.
middle of a space where tw
could easily be parked. By
ing CLOSE to a car that
ready parked we can co
space and help our nelgf *
a fellow comes in late
rainy night and has to
two blocks from his
some of
neigh-
View, let
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just because soi
space than is righ
makes a person feel
his neighbors are not
boriy.
So Drivers of
us become PARKING
and respect the
neighbors by parkingl our cars
CLOSE to each other. If we do
this there will be plenty of parking
space for everyone.
Yours truly,
Claude J. Gabryach ’49
Lonnie Boerm ’60
Kenneth Burns ’46
^ Roy Saunders *45
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Soil Service Job
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have made plans to attend sum
mer miliUry camp, Shepardson
said. ?
Doyle Peters Chooses
Norma Rider as Bride
Doyle B. Peters, agronomy grad
uate student from Houston, and
Miss Norma Faye Rider, a grad
uate of Stephen F. Austin State
College, were married in the-First
Baptist Church of Rusk, Texas,
Saturday, Feb. 4.
The newlyweds will live in
et House Apartment 6-1).
Agronomists Earn
Doctor’s Degrees
Richard C. Potts and Ethan C.
Holt, members of the forage crops
section of the A&M Agronomy De-
partment have received' Doctor of
Philosophy degrees i according to
J. E. Adams, head of the Agrono
my Department.
Potts, who is head of the for-
aga crops section, received a doc
tor a to January. 88, from the Unl-
veraity of Nehrasku. HI* major
waa In agronomy, with a minor in
botohy, \ / ; „ t
Holt received a due to re to Feb-
vuary 6, from Purdue University,
Hie major w»* In plant breeding,
wlth4k minor in pfimt phyfbdngy
and pathology.
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Organist to Hold
Recital Sunday
A recital of eacred organ music
willi he offered at Hi- Andrew's
Episcopal Church in Bryan at 7:80
p. nd. Sunday by Mjrs. C. H. Moore,
the Rev. Vern Rwartsfogep, rector,
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