S'.' ■ I ■ ■■ k V'.' V ; | "i r - - Page 2 Battalion Editorials j i- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950 Let’s Give Our JC Guests A Hearty Welcome . . tip We ha.ve a lot more dormitory students this afternoon than we had yesterday at this; time. They’re not enrolled for classes and they won’t be here long, but they are mighty special students just the same. The new faces you’ll be seeing on the campus the rest of this week are those of Junior Coflege students from all over the state. They are guests of the A&M student body, here for the Brazos County *A&M Club’s annual Junior College Basketball Tournament. To each of them The Batt says "howdy, glad to have you with us,” and wo hope that you have already aaid the same to thoHo In your dormitory.' \ Moat of thoae boya have noW *been here before, and Hke many another fresh man to our campus, they’ll have a hard time finding their way around. That is,\ unless you lend a helping hand. / Scout around, find a room full of those boys and give them "the lay of the land” so that they can make the most of their stay with us. Let’s show this group the friendly hospitality that has been A&M tradition since 1876. ' J j You can find any number of ways to make their visit to remember. J your best. ner list look around and here worthwhile and one do Again we say to our Junior College guept#: "Glad to have you. Come back and H|>end a few aemeWrn with us when you finish up tlwt Junior College work." Near-true Pictures and Straws in the Wind Lilt Thursday; 80v;» of tho eligible vot- cm of droit Britain elected a precariously weak Labor Party majority to tho House of Commons. , , In November, 1948 between 40-50'<'■ of the eligible voters of the United States chose Harry Truman and a Democratic /congress by a narrow margin over Repub lican, Dixiecrat, and Progressive Party op- ( position. The Contrast of percentage should cause Americans to stop and think. Britain’s polls bulged under the heav iest balloting in that nation’s history. For the United States, several million voters - less than were anticipated failed to cast J their ballots. The stay-at-home voter approaches de mocracy in a negatives sense; the parti cipating voter approaches democracy pos itively. j ~ An election is actually a public opinion survey. The majority opinion sets the gov- f . ernmental pattern for the country for a given period. To register that opinion by voting is the right ,|md the responsibility of every American Wer 21 (in Texas and Hovcn other southern itfctM nn addition- al voting requlmment la payment of poll tuxes). Britain's election results produced a closer portrait to British political thought than the American election of 1948. Americans are no less patriotic than are the British; but Britons have demon strated greater personal concern for the future course df their government’^ pol icies than Americans have in past elec tions. ' Our 81st Congress has been crippled by the inadequacy American politi party claims a of a near-true picture of ical thought. The majority "mandate”. Minority par ties point to tne incomplete election re turns of the lj9j$8 elections. They are just ified in disputing the majority party’s claims. ( ■ _ ' 1 If we gain nothing else from the Brit ish elections of last Thursday, let us re member that 80/f of Britain’s eligible voters cast their ballots. That is a record this nation could well attempt to approxi mate. . It’s Easier to Hate Than Understand L i “To hate an enjemy is to conspire with him for your own defeat,” wrote Fulton Cursler last Sunday in “This Week” mag azine. ^ This salient fact slaps across the mind with the same sort of sting that a back hand pass at the face does. Yet a sec ond,. or maybe a third thought brings our reason to support Cursler’s idea. During the past war-grpat propagan da campaigns were waged by warring na tions to stimulate their peoples to hate their enemies, not love them. Higher fighting morale and greater willingness to sacrifice were deemed the rewards of hate for our enemies. Now in this Indian Summer of peace we find mental impediments th^at retard our willihgness to assist in the reconstruc tion of our defeated enemies. We recog nize that their reconstruction is vital to the well being of our allies. A strong France can never be established in Europe that has a weak Germany. x But we are re luctant to correct weak Germany. The psychojogy qf hate in wartime was a great enterprise and a never exhausted subject for ministers and philosophers to comment upon, Still our newspapers and radios trum|>ed for hate, and our people were, in many! cases, lulled into the cam paign of hateJ It is easierl to hate a man than try to understand him. You can stir a group to more action through preaching hate than advocating understanding. If we understood communism better we would be more able to cope with it. If our regard for the Russian people was less colored by hate, and more influenced by the desire to understand, our approach to ward tho struggle between contmunism and democracy would be more level head ed, and rational. We would be better pre pared to champion the cause qf democracy. “To hate an enemy is to conspire with him for your bwn defeat." j A The Battalion "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentlemanf’ Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradition* ;—,.... 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Tessies Choose 32 Pageant Finalists The first step toward eventual determination of the feminine half of tho Cotton Court has been tak en at Denton with the selection of 32 attractive Tessies to vie for, the title of Queen Cotton, and the eight duchess positions that round out the Royal Court of Cotton. Choseh by popular vote by their owp classmates, eight girls each were selected from the four class es. From'this group the nine fem inine members of the court will be selected by the Agronomy Soc iety members of the Cotton Court, who will go, along with their faculty sponsor Eli Whitney, to TSCW on March 11. Names of the. 32^Finalists as re leased by the TSCW publicity bu reau are: , Seniors: Frances Abernathy, Dorothy Brueck. Druena Collins^ Norma Beth Cooke. Antoinette Gratz, Mary Anne Hill. Imogene^ Newton, and LaVerne Volkman. Juniors: Helen Beys, Margie Cupples, Betty Jo Johnston, Hazel Jean Kyle, Eddy Lobenstein. Doc- ia Schultz, Mary Loyce Webb, and Sarah Witmer. Sophomores: Joanie Abraham- son, Mary Jane Burkett, Bertha Candelaria. Patricia Ann Herron, Jo And King, Mary Jane. Mon chief, Patricia Ann St. Claifo and KatheMne Sunkel. Freshmen: Jean Bond. Lillian Collins, Delores Fowler, Nan ,Hass- ler,. Rosemarie Leissner, Elizabeth Bible Verse Wednesday, March 1, 1950. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, Goid dwelleth in him, and he is in God. —I John 4:15 Official Notice ^ NKMOftM / T K#»nior« Kradufttlng in Jimiv July, nr Aliffuflt. 1060. who pi tin |o ordnr u -Hrf of p4*rnonnH imflH* mu*t orritr thmr fogf. I*t8 twit fhiin MEfrh 4th. for InurirtH will not t«k«n iiftrr March 4lh, until Hrptrmhrr, 1000 0 La Fiesta REGULAR PLATE 65c Chalupa ! Tamales Frijoles Rice Tea or Coffee Compuesta Enchiladas Chili Tortillias Pralines \ Bryan’s Original Mexican Restaurant 303 N. College Avenue Bryan AGGIES — How About That Treat At... Nila’s Newsstand & Confectionery L Owned & Operated By al Student JEROME C. KEARBY North Gate SEE A Li" FIRST! tcasr’-wm.'ssa ^ nM.fi* * • a* Libmlt f .4..iR, nn Iwm Sn Uwm lo4»yl VNtl GsM V# for a Haintt Demon*' BETTER HOf •14 N. Main Pit. »*U4t I •• i !.V., f' 7 ' ' • - ' ■ r: The College Station Story City Begun 12 Wears After College Board Okey -I . . ., -..V? .. i- j ^ > s' By GEORGE CHARLTON (Editor’# Note—This is the first of two stories on the de velopment of the City of Col- leg# Station. The second story will appear in tomorrow*# Bat- Last month College Station had a birthday. The scattered little community which bound# our cam pus from three sides is now 12- years-old—that is, j if , count back to the time of its survey conception in February; 19 For it was back Mi that month that two college staff members, Earnest Langford and J. L. Mc- New, began a survey, of what Would .be the future City of Col lege Station, This undertaking meant a aurvey of all populated areas in the immediate vicinity of the campus, encompassing approx imately 2,000 residents. Appearing In local newspapers during those formative month# were such stories as the follow- ing: ... ^'Incorporation of the College fltatlon area was discussed by a group of realdenta of that section last night in the Chemistry Lee- turn Room. On March 12, a committee aj»- peered before tho Board of Di rectors of A AM* College and asltod if thdre would be any! objections on the board's part to! the Incor poration. Uniu-d members author ized tho statement that they bad no objection to sttoh ; an. incor porated area surroutidihg and In cluding the campus. 1 ?' > A committee was appointed by residents to petition County Judge J. M. Ferguson request ing an election to decide if the section would become a city. Fifty signatures were attached to the petition. j And on October 19, 1938, eli gible voters went to the polls. Re sults of the election was 211 to 39 in favor \of the incorporation. Another general election was held November 28, at which time J. H. Binney, a professor in the Mathematics Department, was elected first mayor. ; Councilmen B&A Dept. Head Will Address Meet T. l W. Leland, head of the Busi ness Und Accounting Department', has been appointed to a national nominations board to select out standing Americans to an “Ac counting Hall of Fame.” Dr. Leland’s appointment was announced by Herman C. Miller, chairman of the Accounting De partment, Ohio State University. The 45-member nominating board consists of 15 public accountants, 15 indlisCrial and governmental accountants and 15 accounting edu cators. Each will sdrve a three- year term. Dr. Leland will be speaker at* the Southern Regional Confer ence of the Controllers 'Institute in Houston March 3 uhd 4. He will address the technical session on education! and training of accountants on Saturday, March 4. The meeting will b^ at the Sham rock Hotel. elected were A. Mitchell, Gabbard, George B. Wilcox, L. G. Jones, and Earnest Langford. After the election of! council- men, all members of the A4M fac ulty or heads of departments, tlje question arode concerning the- le gality of. college men serving as V l city officers. The question was submitted to Attorney General Gerald Ma; who’ ruled that college folk faculty members were not neces sarily state employees ip the us ual definition of the term and were therefor# perfectly 1 in their rights in holding city offices. The city council was sworn into office during February j glmost *( year to the date since ! Langford and McNew had made; 1 ijhe first survey, The first official action taken by the councilman was to appoint ,J. 8. Hopper! as City Marshall with the authority to make arrests, ! ' Hooper was a college faculty member, and due to the fact (hit many did not consider It proper for a professor to "go around ar resting people,” he. wgg repljacM by Lee Norwood, a former mem ber of the tlryan police force, These first few mitnihs Were hectic for the green «o|ineitihen, "We alerted wllh n(» place to meet, no laws except elute laws, sad no money," Langford any a concerning the period. The coun cil met for the first few times In the Agriculture Uulmlng, the UivlL Engineering HelUllug, and the Academic Building. Most of these initial meetiqgs were spent in studying l«ws regulat ing cities. . 1 ( j The money sltSutitm was part ially and temporarily Solved when a Bryan bank approved a loan to the. new city for *1*000 on the personal notes of its/council mem bers. According to Langford, then they “rented a room; over the Ag- gieland Studio, hireji ia secretary, bought a typewriter, and -put heif to work.” Perhaps the stance was a bit wobbly, but the little incorporated city of College Station: stretching in its newly found capacity had stood up on two feet for the first time. (Tomorrow’s story will carry College Station froiM thpt time un til the present.) f ! - P » m LAST DAY l wss«w*»; * - l -J THURSDAY & FRIDAY Change Announced For Radio Program “Today in Agriculture", the Fu ture Farmers of America radio! program, will be heard over sta-j tion WTAW at 7 a. m. (inch Wed-i nesday, annotmeetf Gene Graves* chairman of the local radio prof gram. f f • ’ Graves said the Bryan F- F- A. chapter will discuss their Juiiioi- Poulti y ' Show ; on Wednesday (March 8) led by W. A. Oorruth- ers, ‘ ] 1 The program! was originally heard at 12:45 ip, m, o(i Thurs- ' lu y- f pH: I, asm LAST DAY “KEY TO THE CITY* , ■ — = TOURS. - FRI. \ SAT. - ? —Features Star* -j 1:10 - 3:20 - 15:35 - 7i4B - lQ:0q HM GENE KELLY : PLUS: CARTOON—-NEWS IEVUE FRIDAY PR 11:00 PJH. —Feature 11:30 P.M.— FIRST RUN PAR1T | SUGGESTION I ■ I •' J • . I j , / • ’ .; T ; I'litn u mixed Kroup h«w)ln||; tournament , with oMery couple a team ! Women love to Hhare the excite ment of a bowling contest. RESERVE YOUR ALLEYS J [ . ; ' NOW! j . j. : ] : BRYAN Bowling Center x r PALACE Bryan 2 r 8$79 Nb XV SHOWING ; ! i. He wore his heart on wings! / • N f \ ODITl \ DNUU \)i ' 1 tfcioc/r f mu m v WtelBlljNG PREVUE FRIDAY 11P.M. 7 '• M j ! today-thi Joan ^ if : ST JwnsaMaiwn !fU In’ ■I - “RECKLESS i MOMENT?, 1 , - ! f '