y . -F- Pago 2 Battalion Edii King Cotton: Long >AY, Ap: Live the King An old monarch will re-kscend t^ic throne tonight. King Cotton, w hoee royal lineage has lost much of its luatre during l. the past two decades, will be tie respect ed and talked of ,ruler in Texas for the ' approaching £4 hour period. ^ ’ ' A& M’s annual Cotton Pt.geant and ^ Ball, sponsored and well produced by the Agronomy Department and S >cipty, has probably done more for the ok king than anything since the cotton gir. With all its apparent pageantry the Agronomy / people’s annual show works tvro ways to restore our state’s leading t gricultural crop to its old position of prominence. The money it brings goes into expei -jmentation and research to improve coti ion strains and production methods, and it 5 attendant publicity makes the world mors conscious of cotton and its many modern uses. ^. There is no denying £hat tlie old King has fallen into difficult days and is in need of a little outside aid. Our land, Worked the same way with the same \ equipment for too long, no longer pro duces the two-bale per-acre, cotton with thfe minimum of cultivation end care it once did. Over-worked land, erosion, and other crop competition has roundly tar nished the glitter of King Cotton’s finery. * But although he may be sli jhtly down. 28, 1950 \ «*• A Just Before Appro War scares have a peculi the monarch is f|ir fr&n helnf out. Mod em experimentation and farming methods have proven that cotton in Tefcas pan still be produced profitably, and new tises for the snowy product are being discovered every day. ' ^-4 { “ i, . A&M’s own cotton show, growing in size and prestige as it is each year, is carrying much of the load of bringing at tention to King Cotton’s comeback. If you have noticed your state papers during thp past month, you will have ob- th< served that it has Sirable thing to becoi A&M’s Cotton editors across Te6cas more space to the’sho- indication of extra-mural ai In closing, wf thin!: it’s fer a vote of thanks to partment—and the ularly and file students of that di on 4_de- uchess to Society and city giving more and ■s the first tioh. tting to of- ory De- e rank t who ow and the service do much of the work reap no direct benefit they are doing. Our Cotton Show helps dustry and it brings a favorable attention to A&M from across the state, King Cotton's reign; has been a beneficial one for A&l Long live the Kan; •for the Cotton great amount of pnations, ir habit of occurring just before Congress is to de cide upon important foreign or defense egislation. With Congress considering) appropria tion measures for next year’s budget, we have a good old war scare. This one may well claim to be the daddy of all war Scares thus far. , ^ Apparently never missing a chance to get a few more dollars, military heads no point to- isayj. “See, if ypii doh’i give us such and such, theJJear will Ret ail of us.” The draft laikr, real which hasn’t been used, is being pushed of the "force of y only a paper law Secretary for Defense Johnson earlier this week asked, for, and most probably will get, an additional $350 000,000 for new planes and submarine; equipment above what was already planned. In Passing . . . . A noted Canadian Entorhologist was delivering a lecture on the djanger of rat infestation. The sixth grade class listen ed with apparent attention and after the lecture one of them wrote the lecturer a note of thanks. It concluded hy saying: “We didn’t eyen know what a tat looked like until you came.’ Grandmother says, And it’s probably true, That she never thought of doing Things I do. for extension because events”! of late warrants it. The Defense Department wajhts the law kept on the books' "just in We realize uation is serioi tion more of" war. We admit th maintaining a strong ment is necessary. Still we nofe the . scares Which just prec propriations measures war scares? Ape they tured. ?j Wetre ih noj position tej kn It’s just tioj) bad peace scares. ., —pt CJ/ /! I latrine international sit- . We admit that this na- needs to keep ahead in developing 5 efficient aitid mOi-e effective weapons nt all this cost for ^ defense establish- — L ilarity of war important ap- What projects the actual ori manufac- ow- that wb don’t have With all th in a . .; It hasj to pick 5 world to swirl and dodge Why is it to ope] Could It on Sa it my on Mpnda used 1 grant fhat she didn’t r But I’ll bet If The mm Lawrence Sulli fasten she had' my | eye to lodge in. eyes ay and Sunday? .'li—fs by how I’ve lived to add, would have The Associated Press Is enti credited to it or not otherwise c ed herein. Rights of republican lied exclusively to the use ft -edited in th* paper and * < n of all other matter he: The Battalion, official nowsp City of College Station, Texas, ii Friday afternoon; except during tallon is/nublished tri-weekly on. 1 ymr. Advertising rates furnish News contributions may.be Goodwin Hall. Claaalfled ads i Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. Entered u Mcund-cUu matter at Pt Office st Coll ere Station, Texae. ond the Act of Congreee of March S, 1178. BILL BILLINGSLEY, C. C Clayton L. Selph. DaVe Coslett Chuck Cabaniss apor of ths Agricultural and Me published flv* times a week and holidays and exwminatic n periot Monday, Wednesday and {Friday, fd onrequeat. ^ made by telephone (4-5d44) or al may be placed by telephone Member of The Associated Press MUNROE. John Whitmore, li O. Tiedt, Dein Reed, Uvi, John Whitmorer / , -titta Kunze. hanical Circula ■ Durl bscrip of all news dispatebea taqcoua origin publiab- 'llege of Texas and th* every Monday thsongh i the spmmer The Bat- n rate $6.00 per school th* editorial office. Room 201, IfW the Stuudent Activities lies Angclm, end Boo br NotlcMl A4- I Mow York Cttr. Co-Editors Managing Editor -Feature Editor -Sports Editor .-News Editors - Today's Issue {ii| ■f ■ I" 1 i . 1 { II J i T "" 1 ■ .Jfe Editor Sprats News Editor .City Editor Copy Editors Curtli Edwnrd*...... vj,•... Bid Abernathy, Ken Berahnrdt, BUI &r ZU ^ t > Boyd. Cbucter Hughaon. Marvjn Matusek. George McBee, Tom Rountree. Raymond Ruahlng. Walter John Tapley. "Rip*’ Torn, Kenneth Wlggjna.;. ......... Newa Staff Jeff Cheek. Chester CrltchfleM. Wayne Davta, ■ Bill Thompson, Ray Williams... Feature staff Dudley Hughes. BUI Mebane, Charles sfcbasta... .'city Desk -gmii Bunjes. Jr Public School Comapondant fc. It. Carter. ^Circulation Manager Charles Klrkham. George Charlton.. — Oollob. ., Frank Soger ....... A. W Jack l bSrsSk Qurtls, Holbrook. Qa«k Jr. . Amusements editor Jerry Houe- Reed, George Sporta Staff ,.Staff Photographer See Lead Editorial '4 FL , ~4nj3or ^Joniyht . i Swan By WAYNE ress I The DAVIS C^otton iinff Aggie Players, under the di rection of George Dillavou, will present their final play Of the Ht-meetor on three evenings begin ning Wednesday, May 3. j Ji; The play, "O Mistress Mine’’ a popular Broadway favorite of last year, is a comedy farce about the British unper classes in ihc clos ing months of the war. fair John Fletcher, the Minister Of Tank Production, and husband of an am bitious little gold-diggttr from whom he is separated, has taken as a mistress Mrs. Oliva Brown, three years widowed. Their tranquil home life is up- net by the arrival in England of Oliva’s son Michael, who has been at college in C&lada, and who is a spoiled, arrogant, communistic lit tle brat. 1 j j r Michae^js horrified by his mother’s sin, and within three ■days has succeeded in breaking up the romance, reducing Sir John ; Senators V- 1 . Into Morals to Impotent fury, and moving hia b more ibndon. lichavl under went fury, to a seedy ly flat in th mother proletarian There they falls jin lo stand hia qiotfitt^s fed Rernodle Plays Je«nne Kermxile, cost lovely widijiw, Will be no, s to Aggie kudiehces. She I peered In five Players prod' and Will bo rernetober the anger ar ions, 'eiit in his Year a fit e PI fear iptal Washington, April 28—W—A senate investigation of movie mor als pegged to the Ingrid Bergman-Roberto Rossellini romance, was dropped today. | "i-. The industry was given a chance to do some voluntary rather than compulsory cleaning up. . | Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) conferred with a dozen leaders of- the industry then announced: Public hearings scheduled for May 15 have been put off indef initely. An investigator is being recalled from Hollywood. A bill to license the industry and its actors and producers will not be pushed. As chairman of the senate commerce committee, Johnson erupted after Miss Bergman become the mother of Rossellini’s son while mar ried to a California physician. He introduced the licensing bill, which he said would hit immorality” in the movies. That \yas March 14. Since then, he had backed down a bit on the licensing idea, but not on the investigation—until today. Then, after meeting with Pres ident Eric Johnston of the Motion Picture Association and executives of major sturios, the senator said in a statement: “They convinced me that my deep convictions respecting the harm to the American people inyolvcd in the exploitation of the immorality, of motion picture performers is shared by them.” Outstanding Ags Nominated for Job Jack W. Jones of San Antonio, Albert E. Nicholson, Jr. of Brown field, and Edward E. Roberts of Carrizo Springs have been nomin ated by Col. H. L. Boatner, P.M.S.&T., for a 30 day' job with the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, this summer. AH three of the students are EE majors. Final selection of the 40 college ROTC students to receive the jobs will be made by representatives of • the laboratories. Designed as an award to spec ially selected cadets for military excellence and scientific profici ency', the program Will offer the young men experience in Signal Corps research, lead to possible permanent emplbyment after grad uation, and enable students to earn money to further their education. ■"Pay will be approximately $10 work day, less possible service tax deductions. All living expenses will be paid by the individuals, but the Army will attempt to provide reasonably priced accomodations, the Department of the Army an nouncement said. Object of the program is to make careers in science available to worthy and deserving young men who might be unable to con tinue study on their owm. Ag Engineers Elect Student Secretary Raymond engineering was elected dent branch tion of the Agricultural ing held at Giescke, agricultural major from Matador, secretary of the stu- of the Southwest Sec- American Society of Engineers at a meet- LSU last .week end. Fifth Cripp Here May 8 The Fifth Annual {Crippled Children’s Clinic will be held in the basement of the; A&M College Hospital, Monday, May 8. The clinic will have the services of three orthopedic surgeons, a neurologist, plastic surgeon, ped iatrician, and speech therapist. Some of the outstanding doctors who have volunteered Itheir ser vices for this free diagnostic clin ic are Dr. Hipps of Marlin, ana Dr. Eggers, Dr. Ainswoi-th, and Dp. Otto of Galveston, j Free examinations will be given by the clinic. Citizens of the sur rounding area are asked to coop erate by helping to loratie and send to the clinic all cripjpldd children in this region. Corrective sur gery for those needijngj it can be obtained even though {they may not be financially ab|e to pay for Local agencies cooperating in the program are the BrStos Coun ty Shrine Club, Kiwanis Club, and County Health Unit. [A large num ber of local women! sire helping to do-the volunteer work. Refresh ihents will be furnifhej attending the clinic. A luncheon is beinl noon of May 6 for tne the Bi-County Medical meet with the visiti ig ; specialists. her role of Flume, thciChaiiAston dancer, in The Aggieland Fellies of 1949. A graduate Of T$CW and the University of Texas, where she majored in speech and drama, Jeanne is married to I Kernodle of College Station has a three-year-old daugh Betsy. Haines as Michael David Haines, appearing as the ■vicious little punk, is from College Station and is a M /Sgt on the Corps Staff. ’ He is- 20 years old, and moved to College Station from Waco in 1937. II Haines is business manager of the Singing Cadets, an announcer on WTAW, and was master of ceremonies of the 1949 aid 1950 Aggie Musters, the 1949' A&M All- College Day, and the State Fair of Texas A&M Exhibit. This will be Stanolind Oil Gives Fellowship A fellowship for advanced study in petroleum engineering, has been made available to A*M students. The fellowship is| being {given by the Stanolind Oil and Gas Com pany. It has a value off $1,250 plus tuition and laboratory fees and will run for- two pr three semes ters. The company has established 10 fellowships and A&M is in cluded in the schools for which they are made available.. . [ The fellowship is available to qualified graduate' students u; application to the college. Sel lions will be made by the college in cooperation with Stanolind and will be awarded to students con sidered most worthy of kcholastio aid and best able to can y on ad vanced study in their fields. hid first ippcuranW) with thin Ag- gip Flayers. ] j ahne Ostnor, as 8ir Jwriyhls Phyllis Arhos and Mary Eh annr Vaden, us Oliva’s maid - ant ff' 1 John’s secretary respectively aiie February graduates of TSCW ami bring with them a wide vi rlcty of stage experience. Mary has seen ona of her own plays ■pro duced, and has received jt i cnol- arship to study tWw summit at Perry-Mansfield Theatre in Colo rado. . .j. Phyllis has also had one efner plays produced, and di recto 1 her own radio show, “Guess $ ’ Vho,” over WCST. Both girls have work ed- in Players productions b efore. Cay Sullivan, who will appear as the duthoress, Celia Went yorth, is enjoying^her first deasor wiih the Players; but has klreaci y ap- ’ peared as Sulla in “RjU, R” and worked backstage on {the one-act plays presented in March; Ci y bias one daughter, Terry, aged four,, and is the wife of Robert II. Sul livan, accounting senior. i Wayne Davis, as Sir] John Fletcher, is making hin finq stage appearance. all f ionj •t- Bible Verse And now, brethern, I commend you to God, and to the word 1 of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inher itance among all them which are sanctified. —Acts 20: 32 Official Notice Tom Pickett, Jr., camtidate for the de gree of PhD In Electrical Engineering will present his dissitatlon. *■'Oscillations in Glow Discharges.” Tuesday, ft a.m.. May 0. in Room 210C, Bplton Hall. Interested members of the faculty of the Graduate School arc invited to be present. Norman F. Rode f to those ilanned for doctors of Society to Speci Kream, Kojwj ’50 Picnic Planjs.Made The Kream and Ko\y Klub will hold its annual spring Outing with a picnic and barbecue at Hensel Park at 4 P- m. Saturday, April 29, it was announced by Carl Hand, president. Prizes will be awarded at the picnic to winners ot dairy products judging be held Saturday morning. AH Kream and Kow bers are reminded! that there will be a meeting of thej clqb Tuesday, May 2. cattle and contests to Klnb mem- . Xdv«rtUlnt Repr«untztlv«s Come in for A DINNER OUT GOOD BETTER BEST Bring Your Friends ' In Now ' NO PARKING WORRIES i - Lots of Hi-chairs for the Kiddies WE CARRY YOUR TRAY HOTARD’S C A F E T E R I A DON’T MISS IT! THE YEAR’S BEST ENTERTAINME /' : 1 ' j • • . “0 Mistress Mine' —At the — ASSEMBLY HALL May 3, 4 & 5 8 P.M. 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