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J J r r^. "r : r ■ - ■. i 1 : - ‘ . ■M.t T PH^2 Battalion Editori ■ A ■ ; V; »' »..J TUEjSDAY, We Knocked Their Eyes Out’ . . . ,K4; - -c. 4. 74. J ' ^ r It’s too bad A&ifc jsn't a corporation, best'we’ve ever aeen at A&M. Dinner in '4 H - ’ 41: If it were it would probably have stock bin the market and after this past weekend A&M common and A&M preferred un doubtedly would be selling at record highs. From the arrival of the first guests on ay evening to the departure of the last g dignitary Sunday, A&M and par- icularly the Corps of Cadets -put oh a ow that few other schools and school T ganisations are capable of doing. Every thing went right.. The weather, which last year plagued the Military Ball week end, could hardly have been better. AH the detailed arrangements necessary to receive, accommodate, and entertain the xhany visitors on the campus went off vfithout a hitch. The review Saturday Was one of the ARCH 21, 1950 at The coneetC 4 the Military Ball Duncan Hall Was ei was very enjoyable, ant was as impressive as itj was entertaining. We couldn’t begin th thank all those persons whose effortsAhelped make Mili tary Day a si ccess. Their thanks must Come in the form of satisfaction of a job f- Unification Advances as Another Navy Head Rolls The armed forces have a neat way of and obedience to superiors is just one of getting rid of people in their employ that the rules of the Navy game. Policies con- they don’t like; they simply retire them, ceived and dir<*ctechby top-brass are pass- This way, service branches are nolerng- M Hnum fnr ^ er pothered by objectionable persons, the objectionable person (usually an officer .of high rank) continues to receive a sub stantial income, and taxpayers, told that huge military expenditures are needed for this country’s security, don’t seem to mind being soaked by financing this removal With, their money. ^ Latest to join the ranks of the inactive is Navy Captain John G. Crommelin, ar dent critic of both his superiors in the • Navy and unification of the armed forces. Old sea dog Crommelin was handed inde finite furlough papers the other day and also a notice that duece would be run through his payroll before making out bl9‘ check. i Crommelin joins Lewis Denfeld in the status of being “set aside.” The non- dem- :J , ocratic navy won’t tolerate free speech, V 1 ‘ ' ‘-4 a result of their efforts, the j Corps Of Cadets now eh- iter reputation for hoa- Jness, ahd military profi- 1 * i well done.' As college and th(e joy an even pitality, fr ciehcy. Military Day more than measured up to the high standards which are expected of A&M’s othe r "meet ihe public” events. It was truly a, show that eyes out.” . “knocked their ed down for inlactment and cooperation by all subordinate! personnel. “Theirs is not to reason why; theirs is to do or die” spoke the poem about the gallant 600 and all professional serviefemen. s These two men whom the Navy has re tired ajpe not the only impediments to a clear rbad for armed iforces unification, they are perhaps the j most outspoken. Others more subtle will stay on in their service capacities and balk and draw back to the maximum of theW rank. le armedi forces don’t just whdrefuse to follow or- ve. J] On second!thought,maybe the taxpay er is getting more defense out of his tax g for thO removal of draw- they were permitted to e service and work their ver and whenever possible. Too bad outright fire ders from a dollar by paj backs, than hang on m damage wher 4 Stones Hundreds of Years in The Wall Noi^ Houses... r ^ # 1 t . ■ n- ^ i s _ _ * x :j << a ^ _x! x The broadcast was indistinct. Choppy Chinese dialect is difficult to filter out of static, but radio monitors in San Francis co the other night could hardly believe ' their ears. • ' They heard a Chinese radio broadcast from communist-held Peiping. The news commentator for the Communist New China "democracy” announced that the Great Wull of China was being tpm down. Rocks from the Wall are being carted into nearby cities to aid in the communist's ambitious building programs. “First loads have begun to arrive in Peiping and Tient- the Chinese commentator said. According to the Associated Press the \Great Wall Will provide a source for build ing stones indefinitely. Quother the AP: “Started in 214 B. C. by the Emperor Shih Huang of the Chin Dynasty and ex tended and enlarged for hundreds of years, the wall is more than. 1,500 miles long. yin, A tremendous structure, as much as 50 feet high in plactoi wide enough for a road on tbp, and complete with gates and forts, it strides across the ridges in a general east-west direction. “Its location maketi much of it diffi cult to get alt, but dt one point it is as near as 30 miles to Peiping and is in such a state of deciay thatj removing materials Bhpuld bo cuBy# / | f “Intendedl originally to keep out the savage northern invaders, it has been abandoned for centuries but still is enough of< an obstacle to have influenced man euWs in the recent y tells us. nding Wonder of the ancient orld hi reductive war/’ the AI this out and modern and proverb -phrasing an A stone in | wall (Great found new utility, Chinese are para- 4' The Battatioh ears of the civil Id American saying to read: house is worth two in the r aH, that i j). "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentl Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Ai Tradition* The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for re credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper m tr 4' t-t ■■■ , Jlll paper and local ... ed hereiin. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are of all hews dispatches neous origin publish- The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col City of College jftation, Texas, is published five times a week and [ciradated Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination talion is published tri-weekly ©^Monday, Wednesday and _ of Texas ahd the every Monday through the summer The Bat- rate $6.00 per school News con! troodwin Hall. _ Office, Boom 209, Goodwin HalL as may 'ied ads be, made by telephone (4-5444) or s may be placed by telephone ( office. Room 301, Stuudent Activities Entered M rretidLShei natter at Port Dfflee at Collese BUtl the Act of Consnea oO Taxaa, nndar i «. IS70. H Member of The Assodated Preu BILL BILLING Clayton L. Selph- Dave Coslett ... Chuck Cabaniss... John Whitmore, L. O. Tie 3. C. MtlNROE™. n^aLaiSiaMsminallSlVWfli.Mti Dean Reed, Otto Kun*e. P Today’s Itoue Dave Co*lett Frank hi, Jerry Kuber • * t «•*«■•«« rtMitariayt •««*•!«• tat ••»«(attttt*saat4,((at****«4taaeM*taaee»ai * eepr wittefs 4 ga SJaSarw.'.v.'.vr.'.’/.'.'.’.wttn **»«»•«»•» *»i i • *»* ft ttkmmlly ky National A* Ine, at Maw Toth CMr. lain, and Sea maelaee. HOW Co-Editors Managing Editor ......Feature Editor .Jiews Editor jBperfts New* Editor Acting Copy Editor TRACE? ! . aollasa sons etaar Una UM I’HONB RATES RISB Editor, The Battalion: “Enclosed you will find a copy of the letter that 1 mi lled to the Bryan and College Station ^City you think Councils. If yo serve a useful my permission City Councils and Bryan, Gentlemen: It has been note the agita purpose to pub of Coll#; that it will you have' ish it.” ge Station interestip tion on g to me to die part of — — part __ the Southwestern Statep Telephone increased service ren te see them larger conn- in increase Company recently for rates. In view of the dered, I was surprised follow the steijs of the panics in requesting in rates. It seems tej me, judging from their advertisements, (hat one of their chief complaints is that their business has doubled in ten years. That is the fJrst time I have ever heard a ccjncem com plain of a,.hundred Jpercent in crease in business. Most of us would be delighted with such an increase. The compankr seems jto feel that all rates should c j3e increased. In stead of $4.77, which j they would Have us believe is the cost of a business phonje, mine averaged $13.32 per month foij 1949. This did not include $3.50 for directory advertising in) the netv directory. This, I believe, would) not be far from an average bill for a small business. . Mi • ' The telephone company has been comparing thelir rates to increases in the cost of dry goods and foods. It seems to n(e that a) fairer com- Russians Say Acheson Peace Plan is No Good Moscow, Match' 21 U. S. Secretary of State Dean Ache- aon’H seven-point plan 1 for better Russo-American relations shows “intensification of thf aggressive party organ Pravda. “All Mr. Acheson’s utterances,” wrote Soviet OommenIRtor Y. Vlk- torow, “prove one ar d the same thing: that he has ho concrete proposals whatsoever ) which arc aimed at supporting the consolidat ing of peace.’’ Acheson’s “total Viktorov continued, lomacy relying on and resorting to metH sure and intimidatidi ferent from “atomic Acheson outlined point “peace” pro he said he did not bo ieve Russia diplomacy,” s “a dip eer force s of pres- i,” no dif- llplomacy.” his seven- posal—which Bible Ve For the prophecy did time by. the will holy men of God spa were moved by the H I Lutheran Se For Lenten Fred (Mgebroff, pa A&M Lutheran Churc that his sermon topic'll nesday night Lenten be “I am the Vine.” Only two more se| in the series, he sai rse ame not in df man: but ke as they dy Ghost. Peter 2: 21. aces eason itor of the , announced >r the Wed- service will ices remain Beginning DRIVE IN Ton, to- — A Mm tow Mto- "THAT MIITMOHT KISS* With Kathryn (imjrsna March 1 and continuing through ' Tiu r k.~- Klt). - — ■•rkif March 29, services each Wednesday night) dent Center Chapel of Church at 7:80. The general theme ies is “The Great ‘ Life of Christ.” On March 29 the will be “I Am The Wa And The Life" M nounced. Palestine Club Duchess for Co The Palectine C!« tonight at 7:30 in Puryear Hall to : ash to repreevut the Cotton Salt. Tht* wtU be the determine the ducheit; being held in the Stu- >Lutheran | of the ser- im’a’ In the srmon topic The Truth, iebroff an- : : i '■ (i | ; _l. , xot;l Lane Govefnoi While Shivers is On Leave , Austin, Tex., March 21-4- (AF)—T(*xas has another new temporary governor to day. : Senator Wardlow Lane Center, president pro tempore the Senate and acting Governor, became nor when Gov. Allan , ed the state line last night tr a business-vacation trip to Chicago and New York. ■Lane is the fourth to sit in thi governor’s chair since the d< last summer of the late Gov ] ford H. Jester. Senators G. C. , ris of Greenville and G: wood of Amarillo have during Shivets’ out-of- Shivers crossed the state 1 nb about midnight by train at Texar kana. Rearm Ques i M By j. m. i* Foreign The question o: "many has been both sides of th Winston Church for it, saying Wesi not l be the - } I :/i -1 d i* 1 rearming Ger- ised again on Atlantic. 1. has come' out Europe can- defended without it. He dismantling of po- warplants, which he once SSr tion. any sort of military reviv- Germany: without trepida- Typical Problem Utm position in which he ' Mb typical of or problems involved ; in , must one; of Senator George, a member of the. Senate Relations Committee, takes a similar line. He says that without a rearmed Germany it is just a waste to send military ma terial to Western 'Europe. He says none of- the North Atlantic pact nations could resist a Soviet at tack, ant) that under present cir- beini cumstances -the arms ng ship- 7 . r jaem ped would just be taken over by the Russians in base of war. Rot to anjr fwsoas pnrison would be with public util ities since 192.1- The Lone Star Gas Company, which instituted ser vice here in the late twenties, has not increased their rates, but de creased their domestic rates ten cent per 1,000 cubic feet in 1941. In dollars and cents that probably means between 50f and $1.00 sav ing per month per customer. Let the telephone company com pare the cost of water in 1921 with the cost in 1950. The bill for 6,0Q0 gallons of water in 1921 would have run $2.65 compared to $2.30 in 1950,1 excluding Sewer, etc. Compare, the cost of electricity in 1921 with 1950. A fifty kilowatt consumption in! 1921 would have cost $7.60 compared to $3.10 to day. I would like to point out that material and labor cost have , in creased the same for other public utilities that they have for the telephone companies. Why can’t the telephone company give a decrease in rates like the other utilities? That seems like a fairer compar- isoii. I 4) 4 In closing, I would like to say that it would be unfair to expect any business to operate at a loss for our benefit. Therefore, I wotild like to suggest that the telephonb company give us the facts by pub lishing in the papers, a certified profit and loss statement for a three year period including 1921, 1922, and 1928 for. comparison with a similar statement for 1947, 1048: 1949. J-.arl , C. t uTvmngiiam, ’40 Laundromat Half-Hour Laundry. > Members Officers igo Station Ho- itoni far arch JSC, lu'otlng. itora *111 General DeGau! He Quiet Charles DoGaulle did not mention the rearmament angle in his suggestion for an economic and poliucal union of Franca and Germany. Aa a soldier, however, it is eaaumed he Would not wish to be joined to a-country which was in no poaition to!contribute to the common dtfense, ini which it is generally recogpiaed that tho French Army must bo the key. As a Frechman, however, Do Gaulle could hardly be expected Relay Engineers tint Elect ivew W Bryan-College tary Club .will elect directors for 1950-51 on Wedneaday, March at their weekly luncheon mectl . A 10-man board of dlreetor* be chosen from the 23 names )s#- 16cted, 12 of Which ate from Bryan and 11' from College Station. ;W. E. Street, the outgoing president, will automatically become a mem ber of the new board. The names from College Sta tion are: J. A. Adams, H. W. Bar- lew, Charles W. Crawford, Dutch Dillingham, S. A. Lynch, Tad Moses, Dr. George Potter, Marion Pugh, Dr. G. W. Schlesselman, Charles N. Shepardson, and A. Cecil Wamble. Truman Commends Secretary Acheson Key West, Fla., March 21—«P>— President Truman demonstrated his all-out support of Secretary of ,State Acheson yesterday with the declaration he is running the State Department “admirably" and will stay on the job there. A top White House source dis closed the president is considering giving' Senate Communist spy In vestigators limited access to loyal ty files to help clear accused mem bers of the State Department. AcheSon has been under fire from Senator McCarthy (R-Wjs) whose complaints of Communist links in the Slate Department pre cipitated an investigation by ’ a senate subcommittee, j find himself is typical tab tough both the economic and military revival of Western Europe. In th fields, German competition is feared by the other countries who must cooperate if she is actually!,to integrated into the type l-of trope which the United States dttirea and is spending so milch money to foster. j- The rearmahient question is not likely to come to a head during a period when no war seems -immin ent. If, as Russia increases her in dustrial ability to challenge the west and relatione remain strained, the need for Gtrman strength— and the patent impossibility : of LABT-DAV) first RUN Meeting Inderway would HC('enb--ln a speech at Ber keley, Calif., Thufuday. His suggestions Included Soviet cooperation In writing pehee treat ies with Japan, Austria and Oer- many, more Soviet cooperation In the United Nations, removal of Russian troops from the cast Eu ropean satellite states, an end to international Communism and ef fective international control of atomic energy. Poland Orders US Embassy Staff Cut Warsaw, Poland, March 21— (AO—Poland’s Communist-led 1 gov- ■-ernment has told the U. S. Embassy here to cut it military attache’s staff in half. Under the demand, which was forwarded to Washington for re ply, 10 officers and men on the staffs of the Army, Navy and air attaches' would be withdrawn. U. S. Ambassador Waldemar E. Gallman declined to comment. The request apparently follows a trend established i in other eastern Eu ropean countries to curb the dip lomatic and military staffs of western embassies. SKYWAY SHOW'S AT «:4t Coiling Made Head Amarillo A-M Club Dale Collins, senior business ma jor from Amarillo, wa* elected president of the Amarillo Club for the spring semester at a recent meeting. , Other officers elected were Rob Amason, vice-presidentj Ford Mid- Ison, secretary^ Dick porter; James Carter, » man and Bill Zelsman, Official Noli NOTH'* TO VKTKHlNAKY MKOirtli scmooi. Arri.icANTN All currently enrolled We-veteriljery medicine eludenle who expent to qutllry »» nppllcente (nr edmieelnn Inin the Sr of Veterinary Medicine In September, 1 ■hnuld (lie their application " lutrat's order not later th Forms to M uerd In mtkUii (or admleelon to the School < Medicine ere available at the! Infon deck In the Regletrar'e Office H. L. HEATO Registrar MOTIO. T^XOgUgPMWMAl. Any agricultural freshman student plan ning to major In Dairy Husbandry haa an opportunity (or a *250 annual tralDIn* scholarship offered by the American Ouerh- aey Cattle Club. Any student Intereeted should call Prof. Ai T-. Darnell. Office Phone 4-5524 or res- Idenpe phone (In evenings) 4-4364 for polntment and additional Information. TUESDAY * WEDNESDAY | HEDY ROBERT 1 I LAMARR- I LET’S LIVE A LITTLE E Ati Eaga lioo Filme feelsats ft The third Annual Conference for Protective Relay engineers, sponsored by the Electrical En gineering Department, got under way here with registration be ginning at 10:3(j a. m. in Bolton Hall. Purpose of the conferenct is to discuss joint problems in the de-1 sign, application, and operation of protective relay equipment as applied to electrical transmission lines and electrical machinery. M. C. Hughe*, head Electrical Engineering Department, was chairman for Monday’s session. Approximately 100 men are regis tered for the conference, which' will last three days/ A banquet for 1 the g-oup will be held, in Sbisa Hall tonight at 7:30 p. m. —Feature Starts— 1:50 - 3:65 - 5:55 - 7:55 - 10:01 “NANCY GOES! TO RIO” In Technicolor Plus: Cartoon — News WED. b]i g F 1 & THURSDAY DOUBLE FEATURE ) — Feature No. 1 — I —Starts—1:20 - 4:50 - 8:20— f THEY CANT RATION^ MB Highway Engineer Course Scheduled Texas Highway Engineers will meet here for a District Engin eers Conference Wednesday and Highway Engineering , Short Cour*e Thursday and Friday, Fret J. Benson of the CE Department chairman of the events, announced District engineers will meet in the CE Lecture room and meet ings for the short , course will held in the banquet room of SblsS Hall. Rooms will be available in Ramps I, J, and K of Walton Hall, and PG Hall. PALACE Brci.-in 2 0 $$19 TODAY TOMORROW fcfttSw >W> nw i«4ri* tees! T ituro 3:05 'i TeCHNICOLZ QUEEN LAST DAY LI’L ABNER Tell Me, Pretty Maiden Pick Ball will meet lounge of i a duch* jelub at the meeting to PLEASE, DON'T v -v BE JriVE-STBlCKOJ j to See me. just an ~ FELLOW, TIME UCrVEUESr/ ggk OHivtsm f? =. 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