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To the Voters, to the Candidates
y- , .
In keeping with the greater awakening
of interest in class elections and cam
paigning. The Battalion is attempting-a
larger-than-usual public service campaign
to acquaint voters with their would-be
class officers. .*•
If space permits, we will run a small
picture of each candidate for what we
consider the most important officerships
in the two ranking classes for next year.
In this way their classmates'may see who
each candidate is, see what grounds he
proposes to-help run class affairs on,
and then, we hope, vote intelligently on •
■ the men of their choice. 1
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, We wish we could run all candidates
! for everp position on the slate, but with
the large^fields entered this year, that
; would require about twice o.ur number; of
; pages.
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; We were prompted to try this more
• complete method of acquainting voters
AY,
1050
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tes this year by several re-
our better-financed candi-
ads on
with cam
quests fi
dates to nin up to quarter-page j
behald of tlieir candidacy. Holding, as we
do, to the time-honored theory that A&M
is a poor Hoy’s college where no one is
denied any more opportunities than ne
cessary bemuse of economic shortages,
we are refiising all such ads, thus giving
Everybody an even start in The Battalion.
This way vei feel every iclass will come
nearer to getting its best possible leader
ship.
To the liahdidates we say; “Check to
day’s front page and -get your pictures
and platforms in before deadline.”
To the voters, our charge is this,
“Look over the office-seekers when they
appear in qur columns. Pick the men you
. think will be the most Valuable to you,
your class, jand the A&M College of Texas,
and then Vote for them. If you do that,
you’ve done your best foriA&M’s future.”
• For All That Texas Has Given, Third Place
I Like old time prize fighters;who snap
I on guard then (they hearl a bell sounded,
! Texans leap to defense of their superiority
• and good name whenever and wherever it
• ii challenged. /
I Pollster CMorge Callup's recent survey
| across the country has provided Texans
; an occasion ,to stand up In defense of their
| State. When asked "If you had to move
! away from this state, to what state would
j you M0$T like to go? Texas placed a
; weak third. What is even more humitia-
; ting, California and Florida ranked above
1 us.
; California gained approximately twice
; as many mentions as the next state, Flor-
-ida. J ' f
; - ! What Texans can do about this regret-
• table ignorance on the part of the people
’ encountered by the pollsters is not readily
! apparent. We can’t convert them over-
; night. But they are people who need our
: help. ' . /•
For generations Texans have been
• telling the world (and Americana in par-
• ticular) abbut the glorious superiorities
of Texas.
The history of this nation is recounted
in the namis and deeds of Texans.
The ecojpomy of this nation is built up
on materia|s,; goods and services provided
by Texas, jj
Hongwrltcrs find morb to sing about
in Ttxaa-thah In any other state. >
Now why should Texas be so affront
ed by relegation to third place?
Califorijiiu ballyhoo has hornswaggleti
Americansj to believe that the pretty girls
from Texai who make their movies inter
esting are'Californians. And, as Texans
consume the choice citrus; fruits this state
produces aind ships; out its culls, Ameri
cans have been deceived into believing that
Florida grapefruits taste good.
Here it is, Texas is supplying more
than half ihis nation’s oil and gas, about
85% of tie world’s-sulfpr, most of the
nation’s wool,.its helium, its carbon black,
and 100% jof the Texans. All these fine
things, and we get third!
Oh, what can we (Texans) do when
they (Americans) listen, and won’t be
lieve?
From Disc Jockeys, Small Talk and Drivel
“. . . . and here’s another letter from
today’s mail, listeners. It reads, ‘Dear
Disc Jockey’ .... hmmmm, the person
doesn’t know my name . . . . T listen to
your program regularly and likq it very,
much.’ That’s good. T just wanted you
Jo know I get all my friends to listen, too.
“‘Please play for Squeeky, Dot, Bess,
Doris, Alice, Mike, Jim, Slew Foot, Bottle
Heads, Rags, Blackie, Algernon, and the
■gang Spike Jones’ arrangement of ‘Third
J/lan Theme,’ signed Egg Head.’ Egg
•Head, wc don’t have Spike Jones’ ‘Third
-Man Theme’, but we do have Eddie Ar
nold’s ‘Mother Of Mine* and I’ll just play
that. But before I do I just>want to read
another card. This one is from .... .”
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Like snakes, flys, hazards, and spiders,
3Uhc jockeys seem to bo with us, and with
us to stay. They gloat about their mail
which sounds like the product of frustra
ted two-year-olds. 17 i
But like heads of states, their proc
lamations must be heard, and we, listen
ers are dupes enough to hang on to hear
a record we like. ,j.
Instead of mixing chit-chat with good
music, and some disc jockey programs
don’t even have good music, Why not spe
cial musicless disc jockey programs sched
uled so the few who write hi their simple
cards may get theni read over the air
and the disc jockey can; make his stupid
small tell<? Then full muftic programs
with straight announcements and a few
commercials could be presented for the
majority of radio listeners.
We can’t imagine anything less inter
esting than disc jockey small talk.
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news of spontaneous origin publish-
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Office, Room 209. Goodwin Hall. ' ' '
Entered a* eecond-elaia matter at Peat
^ Pfflee at College Station, Tezaa. nndar
the Act at Consreaa of Hareh I. 1S70.
Member of
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atlonallr br WaMimal AS-
r Berric* Ine., at New Talk City,
Lot .
BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C. MUNROE-
Clayton L. Selph
Dave Coslett..
Chuck Cabaniss -
John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt, Dean Reed, Otto Kunze-
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Dave Coslett .
.jFrank ft. Manillas..
Sid Abernathy .......
Today's Issue
.. Acting Copy Editors
Chester Hicks, Bob
Curtis Edwards... \.,...Clty Editor
Bidi Abernathy, Ken Bernhardt.
Jerry Zuber. ......
BUI Barber. Bob Boyd. _—. . „
/ Hughson. Marvm Matusek. George Me Bee,
| Tom Rountree. Raymond Rushing. Walter
Tanamachi. John Tapley. ••Rip” Torn,
I Kenneth Wiggins Naws Staff
Jeff Cheek. Cheater Crltchfleld. Wayne Davl»,
/ Bill Thompson, Ray William* Vesture staff
Dudley Hughes, BUI Mebaue, Charles Sebaala.... City Desk
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Charles
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Herman -
Frank
Roger.
er.
Jack
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Co-Editors
Managing Editor
Feature Editor
Editor
liton
Editor
-ilporto News Editor
Copy Editor
Flank Mamtzas, Dean Reel, George
eta. Frank Slmmen, Jr........ L Sports Staff
Unary...... t .staff Photographer
HoUlngahead, Tommy
Hancock. Bill Hitca....
Russell Hagen*.
Advertising Repreeeotattve*
Jack stanebury, Alax Hunioa Cartoonists
.Chief Editorialist
TWO’S
COMPANY;
I
^ ‘Marsh;
App<
Plan at Last
s to be Worl
By BIGRIp
<E
Aaabrst
since Ameri-
putting out
hall Plan it
It may
had two moti
pe defeat its c
to get; Euroj
Lookin’ Back Health Service
Studies Waste
From the Battalion Files
of 15 Years Ago
A snuff-dipping contest was held
on the campus in February 1935
between two infantrymen from A
Company. To eliminate any chance
of handicaps, the two men dipped
from the same can. i
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‘ The Aggieland Orchestra jfur-
nished musieul oritertninment in
the spring of 11|35 when Or, jand
Mis. T. 0. Walton formally! re
ceived at their home menibeiH of
the Henlor (!las», latroduclinf j at
the roeeptloa were l' , i'it* Wehner,
president of the rlass, Joe jMc-
llniiey, eadet ■ colonel, and i Ifid
Mears, captain, li, (Jo, Infantry,
The three cadets had, the same
day, been among five men elect
ed the most popular on the cam
pus.
The largest headlines ever jused
In The Battalion Were run March
11, 1936. In an Kxtra, The jBuU
urged sudents to request their
parents to petition the legislature
to defeat a 'bill which would hilse
fees to $150 per student.
The bill was defeated in Com
mittee Within the next two wet-ks.
Bible \Ver8e
Follow peace with all men,; and
holiness, without which no [man
shall see the Lord.
Hebrews 12: 11
Official Notice \
A special examination for students in
C.E. 300S will be given Saturday. May <>.
J950, for aJl students who have author
ization to take the examination.
J. A. Orr.
Civil Engineering Depti.
A jeommittee on industrial
waste known as the National
Technical Task Committee on
Industrial Waste is being or
ganized by the United States
Public,* Health Service as a part
of thje pollution abatement j pro
gram it administers.; J
A
The committee will act as co
ordinating agency fur a number
of major Industrial groups. I fuller
Its auspices, 160 to 'ilw of the; host
lechnlcal minds in th» country will
he brought to bear on the problems
of Industrial pidlutium and abate
ment,
In tjhe meantime) tjiouse ReMlu-
tlon 60H(t proposing gn Income tax.
cut fpr companies j eonstrujctlhg
waste treatment plants,, Is pend
ing In the House Ways and Means
Committee. This proposal Would
give Industry an incentive to con
struct treatment plants for pollu
tion abatement, ' T [i
An incentive for municipalities
to clean up "running sores” is
contained in Senate Bill 282a. In
troduced by Senator 'Herbert Leh
man j(D., N. Y.), this bill Jseeks
to Implement the Water Pollu
tion Act by doubling the at|io;unt
of money appropriated in the pri-
.ginal law. This would increase ,tyie
funds of waste treatment plants in
municipalities from $22 .million to
$50 million.
AP Foreign Affi
For the first ti:
can taxpayers
money for the
begins to look as
work.
This is half way of the pro
gram. The U. S. has helped its
western European i nations for
about two years and proposes to
help them for another two years.
Roughly, America sent Europe
$5,000,000,000 the first year and
$4,000,000,000 the second. This com
ing year it . will be $3,°OOJ)OOJK)Q.
Two *
The U. S. had
to help Europe
ists and (2) _
tions back on their
could again swap
ly enough to pay
But when the
started out every
world wanted
had too little of
here.
In 1947 the U.
$11,000,000,000 worth of goods
over what it bough!
American world trade experts
believe that U. S. dollars can’t win
their battle abroad until the U.
S. buys, about the same amount
that it sells.
For many, many months now the
U. S. has been shipping out goods
worth about $5,000,000,000 more
than it wanted to buy. This was
called the “dollar gdp.”
Cut Gap to Zero
What American economists want
to do is to cut that gap down to
motives: (1)
commun-
pean na-
feet so they
goods even-
bills.
1 Plan
in - the
goods and
was wanted
shipped out
NsM
has
lost
tees .-
Now the National City
York reports that
dropped suddenly. In the
three months of 1949 it fell to
500JI)00»000. • • L : j
Largely this was because thol Eu
ropeans cheapened their
September. Their good
ty Bank of
it the gap
In (he last
to *3,-
ho E
mon
Is : m
ey
now
they’re
cost Americans less, so
buying more. ‘
The bank also reports other
healthy signs. It-says several na
tions-—outside Europe—are ac
tually earning more here than
they arc spending. Says the bank;
“This is especially true of our
ons with Latin America,
as a whole is earning g
dollar surplus in direct t
the United States for
time since the end of
Poultrymen PI
Third at Memp
The Texas A AM Poultry J
Team placed third in the
em Collegiate Poultry Ji
Contest in Memphis, Tenn
lb. j
Second high individual in
contest was Karl F. Feyers, agri
culture major from Canyon Ijand
third man in the contest was Dick
Taylor, poultry major from Muk-
shoe.
Members of the team making the
trip were James Y. Penix, Taj
Meyers, and alternate, Jack J.
>veU. They were accompanied
team coach Cecil B. Ryan.
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