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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1950)
.1 it * Battalion Editon Page 2 — T= \ . - “Thursday, april 13,1950 Our Second Mother Is a ^Standout x : A; newspaper is always made happy when a local person receives some type ot extra-mural acclaim. U* We are particularly pleased with the naming of our Mrs. M. L. Cashibn as Ag gie “Mother of the Year.” . Each year we hav<e watched with in terest, and always approved, the selec tions of the State Federation of A & M Mother’s Clubs for our “representative mother.” But always the choice has been \ some lady we know only by distant im- \pression and whom we only rarely manage r to meet.’-- -.p ^ , This year, however, the state federa tion’s customary wise selection is a def inite personality to us, and to thousandsdf riVEL CHAIR JOB Sweden Protests US Rescue Plane 1* K Stockholm, April IS—— en sent a mild protest to Embassy here today again lation of her territory by rescue planes searching t work on the campus, {wd her magnificent character which is reflected in her fine family. , For over 20 years she selor and friend to Aggies homesick, or just some motherly ai< in church and club outstanding work j o; committee. In short, we tributes that the Aj&M Mother of the Year should possess, and a few extras of her -own. | ! We commend the state organization for iheir particularly wise selection. We think we have a wonderful mother for fOW SAW* -been coun- o were sick, a kind word or has been active vities, and has done the local hospital I *■' she has all the at- f - 1950. Other Aggies who know her for her good The Placement Office Serves Us All ■j] .; This is the time of year when all sen- iprs with any hope of graduating start hearting a path to the Administration Building. More specifically, they are head* 1 itig for the Placement Office—the mecca ' nor job seekers. Fortunately this annual pilgrimage is not a one-way affair. Thanks to the efforts of Wendell Horsley, direc tor of the Placement Office, and his staff, A&M rates an A-d priority with every company which solicits new personnel in this area. . Xj This college undoiibtedly has the best College placement service • in the South west. We also rank among the top when compared with other colleges in the na tion regardless, of location. Men from other schools come here to observe our system. Students at other colleges are unreserved in their praise for our com* plete job securing service. Just recently the Daily Texan published an article cit ing A&M’s Placement Office as a great improvement over the University’s sys tem for helping its. graduates get jobs. By providing a central location for em ployers and student job seekers to get to gether the Placeihenjt Office already has the jump on many ot ler colleges. But the Director of the Placement Office doesn’t stop there. He obtains and makes avail able to interested coinpanies complete in formation in convenient form on every Letters To The Editor ‘ (AH totters to tbs editor which are sltcned by a student or employee ot the ecdege and which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be published. Per sona wishing to have their names withheld from publication may request such action ‘ - nss wilt not, without the consent of tbs writer, be divulged to any persons student registered by extensive travel he is constantly e:t] contacts which ever; vantage of through th his I office. Then, and Correspondence nding the number of tudept can take ad- he Placement Office. In addition to all this, Horsley is con tinuously helping A&M students to in crease thejr knowledge ox different bus inesses through hiq talks; to campus groups. He is active in helping students increase their cha}nces of employment once they have made a job coi one of the original suppor id hi quette course and port for a job cli other ways he is hearing serve A&M men. The college, the, students, and, above all, the thousands In Passing . tact. He was •a ;ers of the eti- is now enlisting sup- lese and many of Aggies now employ ed in this nation’js industries owe Wendell Horsley a big vd A °f thanks and a word of appreciation. While a mother on a shopping tour in a department store, aided by a floor walk er; three clerks and several bystanders, was futilely trying to quiet her surly, de structive little son, she noticed a distin guished psychiatrist was looking on. “Could you do anything with this child ?” she pleaded. , The learned man grasped the lad by an ‘A&M Dean to What, whose Seen in one of the-state papers is the startling story concerning the current corpse shortage in Kumamoto, Japan and how-that shortage is preventing 90 med ical school students from graduating. Sticklers to the old rule of the med school insist that each senior shall dis- ^Babies in England, sect one body before he is eligible for grad uutiqn. - Without corpses, no degrees. It’s a stiff proposition. arm, led him aside and whispered a few words to him—with immediate and amaz ing results. j ; \ “What on earth, did ypu say to him?” the mother gasped. “I just said, ‘if you don’t straighten up, I’ll spank your pants off!’ ” was the reply. Hehd in the Fort Worth Star Telegram: oUmt than tb» editors.) EXPLANATION, NOT APOLOGY (Editors’ Note—.Re-printed ke- l low is n copy of a letter sent to Ernest Langford, mayor of the City of College Station, by Joe Motheral, president of the Col lege Station Kiwanis Club and Official Notice Thursday. April 2h. ts th® deadline for payment of the final installment of fees for the Spring semester. The final install ment Including . room rent, board and laundry is $72.20. v W. II. Holzmann, Comptroller Notice to CandldatcN for Graduate Dcucrees in June, 1950: }, Your attention is • called to the dradu- ate School regulation that the original and the first carbon of the thesis in its final fortn must be filed with the Dean of the Graduate School not less than four weeks prior to the date of conferring of the degree. Candidates and their major advisors should plan now to turn theses Into the Graduate School by May 1. Ide P. Trotter, Dean. S OFl’ICIAL NOTICK TO ClRAlM/ATK FACULTY: Re: Committees, for Graduate Students who plan to graduate* during the Sum mer Terms. It is the responsibility of the Chairman of the student’s committee and the Head of the major department to see that the responsible members of the student’s com mittee are to be on the campus and on the faculty during any semester or term in which th© student is permitted to come up for graduation. II any difficulty is anticipated in this connection plans for handling each case should be proposed and approved in time for proper handling. , Ide P. Trotter, Dean instructor in the ; Agricultural Economics Department.) Mayor Ernest Langjford College Statiion, Texas Congratulations op your re-elec tion as Mayor of College Station. . The fact that some 10 voters chose to write in my name leaves ample room for misunderstanding; and it is the purpose of this letteii to clarify my position in the raat-i ter. The write-in vote was not al together a surprise to me, as sev eral people had intimated that they proposed to do just (that. I did everything in my power to dis courage such a movement and, I think, was partially successful. This was not enough to prevent a few write-in votes. The correct interpretation of 1 this action I (See LETTERS, Page 4) Bible Verse For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. —1 Corinthians 3:1J I SKYWAY — Show. - 7:15 - !l::iO DRIVE IH Toni to—Humphrey Bogart In "8AHARA BIRTHDAY PARTY N1TK —Be Present and Win— address Body.’ , aind/or which body? PALACE Bryan Z-SSW STARTS TODAY in the Fort Worth Star Tele- “German Perhaps we’ custom in this have their babips in hospitals. Girls Like to Have Their re old fashioned, but the country is /for women to The Battalion '’Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Lawrence Sullivan Rosa, Founder of Aggie Traditions The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for repul ercdltod to It or not otherwise credited In the paper and local newt . id herein.- Rlghta of republlcatlon of ell other matter herein are elso LAST DAY Lm McCallister-Peggy Ann I Preston Foster Presented by William Moss Pictures, Inc. 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