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f :• . ! Page; 2 Battalion Editorta THURSDAY* Let’s Open Up on Open House Day . 16, 1950 ; Yesterday one of our reporters went out to all the dean’s offices to get a story on Open House day activities, since that was the deadline set by* most of them for I | submitting exhibit plans. ■*. One deari had extended his deadline since he had no entries,! and the others reported, at best, sketchy entrance and slight interest. If this is an indication of what our Open House Day program will be like ori May 13 then we are neglecting a very lm- ! portant and effective College activity. ■ Ap College Day has evolved from a meager start as a small, Mother’s Day I ! , pus, all the college foot forward and attempt they have accomplished in field. 1 -i In the past the exhibits tremely interesting; given, definite accomplishment; pressed our own families, of future Aggies, with A& It would be a definite 1< program was allowed to those in the past because terest on the part of dents. ’ ! •■]. Let’s all—as individuals it their best show what ieir particular ,ve been ex- a feeling of have im- the families College. if this year’s inferior to a lack of in- ipating stu- ‘Wol the Stan Mulkay, the famout eki «ar?” and clubs—be program to a full scale exhibition of col- gin thinking and working harder now t( •wSM MM Nr li*, I* Reprinted from April 19S0 low ol ESQUIRE lege and student achievements over the academic year. During that day, when many student’s families nre on the cam- par's Open House Day one of bigger and better exhibits of the AAM make this year'i bigger and beti College pf Texas. Political Shifting!* in the Swamplands Long, ff their outstanding newspaper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, has its story straight, the good people of Louisi ana can just settle back and wait for an other white knight to" deliver them from ! the clutches of the second Long machine. Letters To The Editor (All Mtm to iim tailor which uc iitncd hr > iiudtai or cmphwtt of Um totltst Md which 4o not toainln ofettono or niwloui mtlorlol will bo publlthtd. Ptr« — to have lheir namat withheld from iiublloallun may raqucH attch actlaa it ol Um wrltar, ha divulged to gay paraano Only bright thread in the pattern is (he report that there isj considerable opposi tion to the compromjise among Morrison's advisors. ] ; M . I ■ . . The entire report comes as a surprise i i The Tfimes-Pictiyune said Tuesday that t and dissajppointinent to those of us observ- w Orleans Mayor Delesseps Morrison, ing the Long-Morri(fi the well-backed opponent who lost to Sen ate^ Russell B; Long in the 1948 senatorial election, is considering a truce .with Gov ernor Earl Long. „ I / Main element in the “truce”, the Times-Picayune says, is that tylorrison and Iris political organization, the Crese- cent City Democratic Association, would either endorse or not oppose the candidacy for |re-election of Russell Long, the gover- fior’s nephew and son of the;, infamous Eingfish Huey Long, in the suriimer r s sen atorial primary. In exchange^ Governor Long would use his influence with the state legislature to restore to the city , of New Orleans some or all of the revenue which the legislature took away in 1948. * As an afterthought, Morrison is also said to want back control of the police de partment, which was also shifted away from him in> 1938 after Long-Morrison fight from afar. After Morrison’s creditable race against the younger Long ip 1948, and the grow ing dissatisfaction among Louisiana vot ers over the new Long machine, (which has the same grasping ways as the King- fish’s old organization, but lacks its color) we had hoped the approaching sena- L ^ the time when, the asserted itself, ral- as a strong leader. torial race Louisiana inte! In Passing his loss to Russell mirage. JH ' . i , ' „T... lied around Morrisc and began turning the Long rascals out. But now Morrison, either through lack of principle or nerve, appears to be re sorting to log-rolling; deserting his state to the Long machine for the security of his own personal city empire. If all this is true!, the citizens of Louisi ana can bend thfeir necks back to the millstone of highek taxes and lower living conditions, ami cross off the hope for a Morrison miracle as just another bayou ■Within four days after the leopard es caped from the dklahoma City zoo, dollars started rolling lh to buHinewt ventures which produced a quantity of goodfi and nervines inspired by the spotted oat. A restaurant menu in Oklahoma City was decorated with a souvenir piece of fake leopard skin, a strip teaser performed her act In an Oklahoma City night club clad only in a* leopard skin, 'children raced about that city’s stfeets proudly display ing new T-shirts bearing a yellow and black leopard across the front. ' ' ■ The pay-off was when the dead leop- ard 4 s taxidermist’s 12-year-o|d son caught ud Mmm nimM will Mt, without Um i oiimo thoa Um •diloft.) UNDERjilANDKD TACTIC8 ; K«II I or, Th« IlhUhllon: “• hunt, WednoMduy, March S, The Itatthllon, which wumi't in u DObU t-lou to relate the truth* ctecfuruii there wait ho foundation for the be lief that there were Hlgnii of din- Holvement of the Cornu. Because of our position, we arc sure there are MANY SIGNS of disruption, and would like to use this space ns a means of enlight ening those who are unaware of the underhanded tactics intended to undermine A&M’s inherited sys tem. We fully realize that the Board of Directors-—and especially the Board’s Student Life Committee— are sincerely trying to ascertain Bible Verse Righteousness exalteth a na tion: but sin is a reproach to any people. - —Proverb!: 14: 34. Official Notice Aill Physical Education Majors including Freshmen, are requested to check with the department secretary before Saturday, March 18. C. W. Landi.ss Physical Education Department NOTRE TO AURirtXTliRAL. FRESHMEN Any agricultural freshman student plan ning to major in Dairy Husbandry; has an opportunity for a $290 annual training scholarship offered by the Amerit&H Guern sey Cattle Club. Apy student' interested should call Prof. A. L, Darnel), Office Phone 4-5624 or res idence phone (in evenings* 4-4364 for ap pointment and additional Information.. sight of the Ufelesf* monster in his father’s ^workshop. Ho charged fiye-cent admis sion prices to neighborhood kids to see the animal which cingraved Oklahoma City on the map. Father found out hia Hon’a business, refundjed nidjdes, and let the HKVWAY SHOWS AT •:<» • DRIVE IK Tonitr—M.O.M.'v tUgcrat Wr.U-m In 10 V«on> Hotwrt Taylor in •'AMAtlOM" ; r»mAV —' kids look at .for nothing. absolutely How quietly m; r No sound comes How different fr No shriek! No That 1 1 . S' ^ ft— / : j >•* . ■ t ■ -j - r • . ’ k 3. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for repufc (ited te erein. f aughter plays, rom her room, m her wonted wayS, crash! No boom! / strange, foreboding situation investigation. The Battalion 'Snldtvi. Statesman. Knightly Gentleman Lawrence Sullivan. Ross, Founder of Aggie Ti it or; not otherwise credited in the paper and local Rights of republication of all other matter herein are The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week Mechanii , . and circi ifternoon, except during holidays and examination periods. D published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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Jack Brandt, Jack Statu Who Say* OrehitlH Are Exiienxive? SATtJBDAV SPECIAL ORCHIDS Calleyas - $3.00 / ■ j :heck our prices on— Cymbidiiun Orchids ' 1 ' . , Vanda Orchid Corsages CHECK OUR PRICES ON CORSAGES OF: CARNATIONS ROSES j ! IRIS GARDENIAS ] C AMELIAS Come in and see our offers. J* Coulter Smith !| Florists 1H»*U ‘S. College Ave. • PHONE a-am ”T XL' the cHUHt*n of dlnniptlcm, We hnve the utniopt t'Oiifldnnce iti Uione or- gnnisntlnnH and appreclRte their desire to help us; however, we be lieve Home of their nouVccm of In formation are misleading and could very eu»lly cause them to make de cisions which .would destroy the college as'we now know it. Wc nre not in the position to uncover a snake in the grass or slap a good man on th<| back, but; we submit the following questions for the judgement of those who , care: T. Isn’t it true that the people (See LETTERS, Page 4) PALACE Bryan 2'8879 TODAY - SATURDAY Mbacn?/ Grojge aonlgoiMOf u Dsvy Crockett ... tough, learlei* fighter of the frontier! Davy , .trocVsl' (HOIW MCOOT m Philip Reed ei Red H*wk...tombet*eeit love mil loyellyl SPECIAL PREVUE FRIDAY It P.M. Mickey Rooney —in — ‘‘Quicksand’’ QUEEN NOW SHOWING m things ajm SSSH Sill MQt Kitts* MMift sat-nsMtums I * »’j-v•- 'J ^ Wrights Wrong, Russian Did It? Jit? day the Thursday, Barch 16— Moscow radio said to- Russians will celebrate Tuesday the 126th anniver- of the birth of the “creator first airplane in the world” —J exander Fyodorovich Mozhai sk) The broadcast gave no de- Chairmen Named } Foi Chairmen {for the several ses sions of |the third annual Confer ence for J Protective Relay Engin eers to )>e held from March 20 through 122 on the campus have been announced. J TTiey ijiclude Thomas N. Whit- r\ 'rf _ : ■ " \V i : Conference Jniversity of Houston; H. W. Tarleton State College; M. Ith, Texas Tech; M. C. B, A&M; Joe Benish. A AM. I. Haupt of A&M, isl chair- ' the program and planning Wmp DAFFODILS CAMELL i OR ■ . j ({. ‘ JAS cHidi ir 1 ; ' Student Floral Concession ; j j (See Your Dorm Uopromintatlvo) wtrn sMotwiis who k\ow.. . (Jamekfor Yes, Camels are SO MILD that in a coast to-coasl test of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels — and only Camels - for 30 consecutive days, noted throat special, ists, making weekly examinations, reported LTL ABNER NOT ONE SiNG&E CAN MHHtTATtON deem IrlTfr-T A BC MO ING TO iTAI KIT A COM!' GONNAST/ you not • E Of THROAT ts» emssJting CAMELSt 1; VOU SPASHUt-TV IS f ■j i By A1 Capp -you spashuitV ■ -so ’ - MONSTER.7 \ OFF IMS —SO -MASKED M mjiigMagewB.a ; —<*• . ‘t 1 wL 1 \ rL