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Storm Warnings Hoisted Over Bryan
The Or and Jury
All is not well in neighboring Bryan
The city fathers were told Tuesday that
a shortage has been discovered in the ac
counts of the Chamber of Commerce. To
add to the confusion, the audit which re
vealed the shortage has not yet been com
pleted. An outgrowth of the Bryan C of C,
the Bryan Industrial Foundation, is also
tc| have its accounts investigated by an
audit committee.
Along with the report of the chamber
account shortages, two formep members -
of the chamber alleged that they had been
“declared off” the chamber before thier
terms had expired. A third chamberman
confirmed a report that an attempt had
been made to declare him “off” the cham
ber hut he had protested and remained a
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Once Caught, Every Man for Himself .
Robert Vogeler, American citizen,
- faced a'Hungarian people’s court earlier
this 1 week and received a prison sentence
of 15 years after his jconfession of having
participated in sabotage and spy activities
in that country. '
' Our State Department has been no
tably silent in commenting or protecting
this case involving an American. Vpgeler
| seems to have made his bed, and now he
must lie in it.
He has admitted (perhaps after coer
cion) the treasonous acts charged to him.
He is appealing his case to a higher court.
This case raises in our minds: What if
Vogeler is guilty of the Hungarian govern-
9 ment’s charges that he and others sought
to find out Hungarian'economiiC, r military
and industrial seorets for American intel
ligence? They are also charged with cut
ting the productive capacity of an electri
cal power plant recently nationalized by
Hungary to injure the : nation’s economy
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950
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has indicated that
will review the situation. The County At
torneyi promised to prosecute the case io
the limit if the Grand Jury returns an in
dictment. The foreman of the Grand Jury
said the matter will be “thoroughly” in
vestigated. ./
It will be interesting to learn the re
sults of the curreat investigations into
Bryan Chamber ol Commerce accounts.
These results shou d be forthcoming be
fore long, too, for the directors of the
chamber have set : 0 a. m., Feb. 28, as a
deadline by which they wish to know the
why’s and wherefore’s of the missing
funds. If they don’t know by then, they
promise to resort to civil action.
We can’t help wondering what such ac
tion might reveal.
whose activities ih business also serve
American intelligence? If he is, and his
confessions admit that he is, then what
should be this government’s attitude to
ward that man when he is caught. ?
Apparently Vogeler is left to his fate;
he is strictly on hi$ own.
In this chaotic world where each nation
watches and suspects every other nation,
a vast foreign intelligence network is ne
cessary. Not only [intelligence agents but
also men who reta
tage the efforts of
rd and passively sabo-
this hation’s advisaries
are important. Audi mpo who do what
Vogeler is charged with, have (flone serv
ice to that functioh, !
arie part
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and to sabotage deliveries of goods going
to Russia and other satellite countries.
Can Vogeler be one of those men we
certainly must have throughout the world t
15 years he will
Hungary is the p
ting caught. Theyj
gives to his countr
if Vogeler’s adivjjfcies in Hut
on behalf of the United States,
is a traitor to Hungary, he is
of the United States
Under the circumstances, this nation
can do nothing to k elp Robert Vt geler. The
robably spend in jail in
ce he must pja>
ofj kt
y for get-
;he life he
By Legislative Resolution, Texas Exes Pay . . ♦
On the 15th day of this month, R. E.
(Peppy, Voice of the People) Blount of-
, fered the following resolution to the state
’ legislature:
Whereas, The students of the Univer
sity of Texas, meet each year throughout
the world wherever they may be on March
Sind in observance of the anniversary of
the* signing of the unanimous declaration
of independence made .by the delegates of
the people of Texas and general conven
tion at the town of Washington on the 2nd
day of March, 1836; and
Whereas, This custom dates back to
' 1898 When junior law students cut classes
en masse to celebrate Texas Independence
Day; and the following year requests for
a legal holiday on March 2nd being re
fused, moved a cannon to the campus from
the capitol grounds and prepared to greet
the day with cannon fire; and President
G. Y. Winston h;
heard the gun |fiiting
grounds—now Clark Field
gary were
though he
a patriot
ihg Stopped) this,
on tjie atl
[—ojxlereC
later
hletic
the.
lered
cannons back to thet campus apd declared
a holiday and nq glasses were held on
March 2nd until 19ci5; and
» (Here, three more “whereqjs’ ”)
Resolved, That the Housejj of Repre-
senfatives, the Senate CDncurri|ig, do here
by commend Texas Exes everywhere for
their fine spirit in continuing! the tradi
tion of March 2nd| by meeting together on
that day each ypar and may the deter
mined spirit thal) jpaided the signefs of
the Texas Declaration of Independence
live forever in the hearts of men.
House Journal, F
Well, bully for thdm.
l.Ffl
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hasn’t heard of April 21 when
ter together in observance of
dence that was wjon.
4rse Peppy
gies mus-
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The Twelfth Man get a
delayed premium on its
ment in sportsmanship in Jt letter
received by The Battalion co-edi
tors jlaat week. The letter and a
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newspaper clipping were
from 70-year-old Mrs. C.
cock of Tyler, mother of
sor C. K. Hancock of the
The text
try department. Th
letter is as follows:
Dear Editor: .
May I have a few
of your valuable time?
haps this note will be a surprise
to you, bat I hope not.
I am -enclosing part of an
editorial from The San Marcos
Record of Feb. 10. It was writ
ten by a Mr. Leslie A. Cooper
of San Marcos.
I hope you and all Aggie sup
porters will appreciate the clip
ping as much as 1 do,
I am a loyal supporter of all
Aggies ’ Loyal
sr
the : ga
their t<
beaten.
especially hull games of
kind, despite raf ; seventy
of living. I listen to all
icet all football games.
II Mrs. C. N. Hancock
1214 N. Holmes
Tyler, Texas
The clipping was from an edi
torial urging teen-agers to sup
port theif team by staying to th«
end of every game.
It read, in pert (quote)
I am sure teen-agers do so
thoughtlessly, but it always lookr
bad 1 to .see fans at an athletic
contest get up and leave before
the game is over, just because
team is getting soundly
It is almost as bad as a
groom walking off and leaving a
bride at the alter. If the players
who are getting trounced can take
the fan* surely ought to
to take it. Suppose the
should refuse to finish a
Co-Editors
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Editor
Editor
iws Editors
Feature Editor
Britons Aye Voting
Today on Socialism
London, Feb. 23—•hT’l—The case
of! British So
Legislature Gives
TaxRate Breakdown
Austin, Tex., Feb. 22 —(/Pi— 000; and beer, J,950,000. /
Socialism—staunchly
dcjfpnded and bitterly attacked—-
gpes to a jury of 34,0()0,000 vot
ers today.
ilt will be Britain’s first gene r
rail parliamentary election since
the Socialist Labor Party of
Piime Minister Clement AUlep
won power July 5, 1945.
j Generally mild weather is ex|-
ppeted to draw h record-breaking
vite.
| They began marking their ehoil.
c<js throughout England. Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland a|t
7 a. m. (1 ai, m. CST) by 9 p. irj.
—1-14 hours later—the decision to
restrict or expand Socialism will
hhve been made. .
Vote for Commons
! The balloting will be for meni-
bfrs of the new flab-neat Housie
of Commons, whose majority will
form the new government. Thje
old House was dominated by labdp
almost five years. The labor par
ty had 390 members. The conser
vatives. labor’s major opposition,
biad 201.
\ But the choice of a winner ap
pears to fall clearly between the
labor government and the conseL
vjatives, led by wartime Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. The
Liberal third party, is making a
determined bid’ to improve its old
snowing of 10 seats. >
j Scant hours before the polls
Official Notice
I'ioiice to Candidates for Graduate (Degrc^H
iij June or July. 1950:
| Your attention is called to the Gjraduate
School regulation requiring that youjr the*;!*
proposal must, be filed at. least four weeks
pHof to the beginning of the semester or
fiimmer session in which a student expects
t^> receive a graduate degree.
I This requirement has been overlooked in
a ! niumber of cases. Your attention is
cMl;l4d to the regulation In hopes that you
nigy immediately check ypur record in youjr
major department and in! the office of thic
raduate School to be sure you are con-
jrming to this requirement.
^ Idte P. Trotter
Dean
Ifo all Graduate Students:
The attention of all graduate students,
especially those who have enrolled in tijc
graduate School for thte first time this
Sjennest^r, is called to Uje following
1 a t,: on:
j Before the end of the eighth week ef
t)he first semester a committee of not ie«s
than three nor more tt^an five composed
df those rejected by the student. supplemen
tal by appointments by the head of the
department, with the .approval ojf the
Graduate Dean, shall outline in consultation
With the.student a complete course of study
iW the degree. The committee shall Iti-
tjlude: (1) As chairman^ the faculty mekn-
bejr under whom the thesis research nhr-
nally would be done; <2) a representative
jrpm the minor or supporting department;
hd *3) the advisor of !the major depakt-
ffit.
1 A written report of the committee stiltII
oe made to the Deanj of Ute Graduate
Aol|ool hot later than I he eikhlh week pf
(he firal eemeeter of Kreiluute work
[ Prompt attention ehpuld be given to
mthmlttln* the material railed for
V half rtf t ha
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jlhce nearly half of the alch't woaka pe?^t
tuui panned.
Ide. P. Trotter.
I>ean fc
Stop the ...
Simmen. Jr,..t Sparta wntarx
Alex Munroe. i • J. .Cartoonists
“GRIME WAVE”
IK) YOU KNOW . . .
• That dirt killb more
people than bullets?
• That harmful germs
are more potent than
the atom bomb?
Yes, It’s True!
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We are sto
GRIME
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Let us
pping the
WAVE now.
do a bit of
‘Cleaning out” for you.
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eaners
South Gate Phone 4-8954
“We ghe you a dean deal”
were to open, Laborites and con
servatives were running close to
gether, according to opinion polls.
A final gallup poll of public
opinion gave the labor party a
slight advantage. The poll said
labor was preferred by 45i per
cent and the conservatice party
by 43V& per cent.
Lord Beaverbrook’s pro-conser
vative Daily Press gave the con
servatives 46 per cent, labor 44 , /4.
Both Confident
Conservative and labor leaders
predicted victory.
Churchill said:
“I call upon all who have the
lasting welfare of our country and
the empire at heart to give a sin
cere and effective vote for the
Conservative, Unionists and Na
tional Liberal candidates in to
morrow’s momentous electibn.
“Thus alone can we regain our
position in the world, preserve
our freedom, and revive the pros
perity and true progress of the
British nation.” |
Attlee was silent, but Deputy
Prime Minister Herbert Morrison,
in his final appeal to the nation
declared: |
“There are not many hours to
go. The well being and fate of
our country largely depends on
what you—the active labor work
er—do with those hours.
“Today do please help with the
final canvas?. That is vital.”
Socialism Entrenched
Labor’s program of health and
social services, controlled prices
and cradle-to-the-grave benefits
has taken firm root in the nation
al way of life. ^
The Conservatives say they will
not tamper with its innards, ex
cept to oil the machinery and cut
down waste to make it run more
, effectively.
The chief issues have been em
ployment, housing, taxes, food,
cost of living and the nationaliza
tion of industry.
In. the closing nhases of the
campaign, Churchill took up for
eign affairs with a proposal for
high-level talks with Prime Min
ister Stalin to check the cold war
and provide for atomic controls.
Though a late starter,' it threat
ened to overshadow many of the
domestic issues.
Bible Verse
And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one an
other. even as God for Christ’s
sake hath forgiven you.
. —Ephesians 4: 32
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posed increases in the state om
nibus and cigarette tax rates to
raise nioney for better Texas hos
pitals.
How much are the j present
rates? What things are taxed?
How much revenue does each item
now yield? How much more will
be raided by the increase?
Here’s a breakdown:
First, the things taxed, jthe pre
sent rates, and the estimated
yield 18-month basis as calculated
by legislative members. |
Crude oil bears a levy [of 4.125
per cept. of the market value. If
production follows the trend anti
cipated, that rate would! pull in
$110,500,000 in 18 monthk
Natural gas is taxed at| I
cent of the market value
minimum level of eleven-hne hun
dred fiftieths of one cent per 1,000
cubic feet. Prospective ! yield—
$12,750,000.
Sulphur producers pay the state
$1,272 per long ton. Revenue for
18 moiiths—$6,066,000.
Telephone companies contribute
1V4 per cent of gross receipts in
cities of less than 2,500,. per
cent in cities of 2,500 to 10)000
and 2.275 per cent in cities qver
10,000. Tax yield—$2,830;000.
Utilities (Gas, electrijc light,
power) and water works)] pay tax
rates varying froln fbrty-four
one hundredths of 1 petr cent of
gross receipts tp cities [of 7,000f*
to 2,500 to 1.5) 125 perj cent in
cities over 10,000. Eighteen-month
revenue—$2,550,000. , I
An [automobile sales jax of 1
percept of the total value would
bring in approximately $14,166,000
in the next 18 months.
Liquor, wine, ale and ; beer tax
rates as follow:
$1.28 per gallon on distilled
spirit*; 10 cents per gallon on
wine containing not more than 14
per cent of alcohol by volume; 20
cents; on wine containing more
than 14 per cent but pot more
that 24 per cent of alcohol; 25
cents on each gallon of artifically
carbonated and natural sparkling
wine; 50 cents on each gallon of
wine containing more thiat 24 per
cent of alcohol; 15 cents on each
gallon of malt liquor (beer and
ale) containing amohol in excess
of 4 per cent by weight)
Liqpor would bring irj $12,042,-
000 in taxes over thej next 18
months; wine $708,000; Ale, $142,-
Permits to sell liquor, wine and
beer would add $1,430,000.
The franchise tak bate on cor
porations is $1 per $1,000 on cap
ital applied to Texas business
Roughly, this would bring the state 1
$14500,000 from March 1, 1950
to jBept. 1, 1951.
A 2 per cent sales tax on radios
and cosinetics, and each pack of
plpying cards carries a luxury
tax of 5 cents. These three items
wopld add $750,000 to state cbf-
feift. .V 1 j j I ! Li
“Class A” carbon black is taxed
omi hundred twenty i two twelve
hundredths of one per pent -per
popmd. \yhen the market value is
4 cents per pound <j>r lead than 1.1
pejr cent of the value 1 if it exceeds
4 Cents per pound.'
I'ClasH B” carbon black is t«ix-
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IMMMwni
CLARK
GABLE-Y
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just because
beaten. Hiey wo
get [ a lot of criticism,
doubt, a part of that
would come % from' fans
serted them before the
finiahadri. , j
At College Station last 3
giving Day, I sat as
and saw the Texas
the worst drubbing from
as Longhorns that
were
justly
.nd, no
ritlcism
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TThanks-
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seeh the Farmers take from any
club in all the 40 year period I
have been watching thrtwj play. I
sat there with a sad p«»rt ami
would have wept bitter tears had
I thought it would havq helped
•lie Aggies. But did anj? Aggies
or Aggie supporters leijve that
stadium before the gaum was-
over? If there were any, I'failed to
see! them. Furthermore, ihp instant
the contest ended, a gj-oun of
cadets rushed on the field, lifted
Longhorn end. ProcterJ jivho had
played a sterling game, ;to their
shoulders and carried hiip to the
dressing room. That, Jrt^ies and
gentlemen, was good sportsman
ship. It is fine to support a ball
team that is winning. Ik is firjer
still to sit tight to Jhe ; end apd
yell for a club tpat is losing.
, (ettyl quote)
We appreciate a great 'deal not
mly the editorial by Mr; Cooper,
iut the thoughtfulness [ipf Mrs.
incOck in sending it to jis.
We hope that we nev^r forget
il obligations in team- support
a|td sportsmanship to either, you
or any of our teams.—THp Eds.
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