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Breaking Tradition- W ERE not advising you to hold your breath until it happens, but Texas voters could project their state into national politi cal prominence this Fall. In an opportunity seldom offered to voters in one state, the people of the state of Texas could, by elect ing a few of the right men, gain political, leg islative, and financial assistance in our fed eral government. What do they have to do to make this Cinderella story come true? That’s easy— merely elect a few Republicans to office from this solid Democratic state. Just a minute; hold off on that lynching party. We are not damyankees, neither are we complete political heretics. We do not dare suggest a Republican slate. We men tioned a “few” Republicans. Let’s just ex amine the facts. Texas has an iron-clad tradition of vot ing for the Democratic party. The conscien tious voter, though, should examine the rea sons for the tradition. Some attribute Tex as’ Democratic habit to Civil War bitterness. That theory won’t hold water—how could Texas have advanced so far economically if its thinking and planning were still govern ed by bitterness nearly a hundred years old ? No, the tradition was founded on much firmer ground than that. The party which Texans approved for about seventy-five years was the Jeffersonian Democrat party. And that party bore little resemblance to the Fair Dealing Democratic party of today. The old Democratic party was based on the principles of states rights, minimum fed eral governmental control, and representa tion of the individual, not pressure groups. Contrast that with the Fair Dealers. The American federal government is now strong er, and less efficient, than ever before in history. Every few weeks, our states lose more of their rights and freedoms. To listen Interpreting the News . . . -For Profit. ONE HAND BEHIND HIS BACK to Truman’s speech after he returned from the conference with MacArthur proved that he would take every advantage to appeal to special minority groups. Since the Republican party has become more liberalized, it now resembles the old Democratic party more than the Fair Deal administration does. If Texas should elect some Republicans and give the indication that we were on the road toward becoming a two party state, both parties would do everything they could to help us. Consider the possibility of the tidelands problem coming before Congress. (And that is the avowed plan of U. S. Sen ator Tom Connally.) Attempting to wean Texas away from the Fair Dealers, the GOP would vote to return the tidelands. To win Texas back, the Fair Dealers would be forced to vote the same way. Religion does not require that a man be blind to common experience. Behind the Scenes •Lady Without Passport Salutes Immigration Office By FRED WALKER Just a thought for the Senior Class cam pus beautification committee. Unsightly Bikes Editor, The Battalion: This past weekend is undoubted ly the worst that any Aggie has experienced this year. We not only Even more unsightly than some of our lost a football game to a team campus “walked-out” spots is the “bicycle which we were supposedly favored , ,, , . . , , -i ,, , over 14 points, but we also park which has sprung up beside the post seemed seemed to lose something- office wing of the Memorial Student Center, which to me means much more— XT , , , ,, , •, •, , i Aggie spirit and sportsmanship. Not only has the grass been annihilated, Letters To The Editor Comments On Our Showing at Baylor was turned in by MaCready who by giving the audience some ex, could be applauded largely. As pressionahsm rarely seen. The fact that the United States’ f or Lamarr and Hodiak, each will In these days o mediocre films Immigration Service can be as appeal to opposite sexes of the this picture is to be consu eied bet- thorough and complete in its meth- aSdience. ter than most in spite of a pre- ods as any governmental agency Music by David Raskin was pass- vailing air ol naiculous lomanti- of police is proved in the Metro- a bi e , while the photography of cism. . Goldwyn-Mayer “Lady Without p a ul G. VogeLwas very good. The Comment: Particularly enjoya^ble Passport” which may be seen at latter tried mainly to arrange are the scenic shots and those dis- tfie Campus Theatre today and to- shots from unusual angles, there- playing the night life ol Havana, morrow. Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak and George MaCready team with the r ft Cit\r romantic environment of Havana, P TOm me \jllj Cuba to bring to the scz*een an- 1 —„ other well-meant salute to Immi gration officials. How well the salute will be received is another matter indeed. Exiled Hungarian Assuming the part of an exiled representative of Hungarian aris tocracy in order to gain the con fidence, of alien smugglers, Hodiak unquestionably falls for a certain member of the human currency— one Hedy Lamarr. It seems that Miss Lamarr has been in the School Kids Show Aggie Enthusiam . By Joel Austin Editor, The Battalion: time, during which period her op inion of mankind has fallen to a For the first time in my stay ]° w With such thought of dis- at A&M, I am ashamed of the * rust runm , ng t , hrou 5 h her ^ Cadet Corps. The spirit at the but the bikes can’t compete with that smooth tan wall for beauty. We intend to investigate possibilities for erecting a bicycle rack on Houston street at the foot of the sidewalk. But until one can be erected, we think making the MSC “front yard” off limits for Forget the game and the out come and what both teams did. Go up to the stands where I was and this is what you would have seen. After the first score it seemed to be as predicted, but at halftime the story seemed to come out. I’ll never be able to release from Thursday afternoon we took a short tour of the A&M “fleeing alien” _ business for some Consolidated'school campus with one of our staff members who has been assigned to report news from out there. Many A&M students would pleasantly surprised to see the way those kids strive to correlate their activities with those at A&M. True to the college whose campus their school adjoins, the students are strickly pro-Aggie in every respect. Take for example the bonfire that was nearing comple tion while we were there. Although not the massive structure , 1C1U which is built on A&M‘s drill field for the pre-Thanksgiving and we are in the "stands^with raet would have it, a pair of hoods yell practice, the boards and logs were arranged in much the is no wonder that the eager John is roundly greeted with the pro verbial icy shoulder. Hodiak had meant to use this charming alien as the needed link of evidence at first, but after many palpatations and tremors, that silly excuse was discarded. But as Kis- bicycle parking would memory the poor sportsman- , ,, , , , ship and lack of common decency be a worthwhile addition to your present shown by our yell leaders. I say yell leaders, because it was they beautification proposals. Judging Actions of Chinese Communists Difficult Task that instigated the thi - ee yells which were given during the pre sentation of Baylor’s homecoming queen. The Corps and the entire A&M student body were within their urday rights to wildcat with the entrance of the Aggie team to the field but after that wildcat we, as a school of the SWC, should have had the decency, not necessarily sports manship, but the decency to wait until the queen was presented. Hitting the Corps yelling section which includes myself, we were Baylor game Saturday was the worst I have ever seen. Instead of yelling and encour aging the team when it made mis takes, it (Cadet Corps) griped. It is really bad when the Aggies team is on the field fighting for us, and we are in the stands with , ,, . . . , , , our mouths closed. clo ^ r the frustrated paramount same fashion as the TU bonfire. HAVE THE AGGIES FORGOT- ^th lffe Jaw " Y connectlons Naturally, to follow the Aggie tradition, there was an Next Step '‘out door rest room” right up on top with big letters painted The next for MaCready, who is in the school colors of maroon and white saying, “Beat Bas- team the spirit it needed when the smuggling trop Beat the Bears! going got rough Saturday. u f Thursday morning Aggie football player Charley Royal- Als°! Goin g int0 Waco at 11:30 there can’t be two men and only ty and P. L. “Pinky” Downs were judges for a poster sign woman. contest at the high school. And again, just like the Aggies, When the truth is revealed, Hed- the students used rhymes and drawings in an effort to make dy is pertrubed with the whole sit- s jg ns an( j posters as clever as possible, uation, and agree to join the ° r r group being smuggled into the States. In the meantime John overcomes the guard assigned to him by MaCready and runs about shouting, “Somebody, Some . . Ah say, Some- TEN HOW TO YELL WHEN THE BALL IS SNAPPED? The Corps failed to give the a. m. Saturday, I was amazed to see many Aggies hitchhiking to ward Dallas and Fort Worth. In stead of staying four or five more hours and seeing the gaihe, they left at 11:30. How bad can things get? The team didn’t let us down Sat- We let them down. Buddy Freeman, ’52 Complaints About The TCU Weekend down Editor, The Battalion: A letter from my Frog daughter, By JAMES D. WHITE AP Foreign News Analyst never worse. We (speaking for the wr jtten after the TCU-Aggie game, in transfer of the aliens had been A n* mi q c onrl -i-v» xrc</nl t \ c* n /-i ivo n rl L v r\ ° - .I mi. _ „ I ‘' . .I*. or Aggies and myself) seemed to drop the Aggie team the minute they got behind and throughout the final half. AVildcatting at the “snap” was It was also the first time I had seen Aggies leave before the end of a game. Another hit at the yell leaders. Why were more yells not given and since so many of the corpsmen actually have invaded Tibet, or would have done it long ago have been ordered to, should be done a more impressive job of it. taken with considerable salt until a; j. „ , . . • Red China is making passes at all the facts are known. There is Air a y A i g d c ma three adjacent areas which have the question of whether it is phy- lt 15 quite possible that their almost abandoned completely, been much involved in China’s long sically possible to invade the roof greatest aggressive potential lies something which has always been past—Korea, Tibet, and Indochina, of the world at this time of year. in the direction of Indochina, where drilled into me every since I first The actual importance of China’s Besides this, the Chinese obviously the / already are giving material attended an A&M football game current actions is difficult to judge, have been striving for a political and advisory help to the Comrau- China’s government is Communist subjugation of Tibet, having of- ni st Vietminh gueirillas. and therefore it is next to impos- fared the Tibetans the same deal— . In the past Indochina was a more sible to know what really goes on. on paper, anyway—that Tibet had ir ) tima * e part of the Chinese em- Even if you knew, it would be hard with Chiang Kai-Shek. This was P ire than either Tibet or Korea to assess it because of the newness Leal self-government in return for e ^ r became. It has more food to and uncertainty of China’s histori- acknowledgement of Chinese su- China, as well as coal and asked for it during the second half, rubber. Its people are closer cul- why didn t we sing the “War New Tntpre«t turally and racially to the Chinese, Hymn ?” and are under the French who They (the yell leaders) may have In the case of Korea, China has symbolize western imperialism and reasons, and I for one want to know movement. Probably 99 percent an entirely new interest in that the politically popular issue of its them. of t j ie student bodv is for it and Korea, Tibet, and Indochina all region because of Japanese hydro- expulsion from Asia. I would also like to say that pre- tr ies to be courteous hosts have been part of the Chinese em- electric development along the gtatus in Indochina game affairs between the two The Battalion in an editorial Fri- pne at times. In the last century, Manchurian bolder. H? ie thedarg- „ . c , schools didnt help matters any as day before the game urged all-out not notice it nor has anyone whom however, China herself has been est power plant m Asia, at Smho Chiang Kai-Shek s government the game results show. I hope we hospitality to the visitors, and sev- we have contacted. If there was (Supung) on the Yalu River, links wrung from the Iiench after have Lamed our lesson. era i g r0U ps of Aggies officially such an occurrence it must have the economics of Manchuria and World War II an arrangement I would like to take this stand: (and n0 doubt countless groups been extremely isolated or the act the nearby part of Korea far more whereby Chinese Nationals had the Let’s forget about the Baylor and individua i s unofficially) did of someone not sitting in the stu- mtimately than the mere shaving same sort of extraterritorial status game, concentrate on the coming mu ch to make the TCU folks wel dent section ;f a fertile river va x-y ever did in Indochina that the French them- game against Arkansas, and start come . (As to disturbing the team, that m 16 t-w P^d Chi- selves had. The Chinese Reds have backing the team sincerely with ]yjy guess is that the booing was blame can be laid to another source, nese soldiers picked up in Korea inherited this vested interest m everything we have. n(d . a j med a t TCU, and just by co- The team was quartered in Bryan, seem to hint that the Reds are try- Indochina and have a far larger- And I would^ also Jike to apolo- incidence occurred during their which, that particular night, was Of course the high school students had to show their classmates that the Aggies couldn’t out-do them with their recent painting escapades to Waco and other places. On the sidewalk in front of the high school were the words, “Beat the H . . . Outa Bastrop.” Principal L. E. Boze body stole mah gal.” He finally mac i e the students clean the paint off the sidewalk, but on and the 5 office Tarts the'trackfng close inspection the imprint can still be seen. Though spirit is a fine thing, we go along with Principal Boze on the painting spree. Leaving the paint buckets at home won’t cut-down on spirit a bit. And it will save a lot of people some scrubbing time. Yes, they’ve got the spirit out there at Consolidated. And although the Tigers suffered a 27-12 drubbing at the hands of the Bears, the spirit still remains. Yell leaders out there should have no trouble getting a good response from the cheering section when the traditional “Gig ’em process. Stumps Immigration Immigration is stumped for a while, for the marked plane used sa ys: a blind. The real craft is discov- “The Aggie student body should ered by a naval observation patrol be gotten after about their atti- craft and the chase commences, tude. During our school song Sat- Eor several dull minutes, while urday they booed. Then all night Hodiak worries about his damosel, some of them kept riding by where the aliens pirate indescribable . , ,.. . . _ - our team was staying and blew platitudes on life, and the audience Tigers yell IS given at the Consolldated-Somerville game their horns and cut up so our boys waits for something to happen, the Friday night. couldn’t sleep. The TCU student plane runs out of gas and is forced body doesn’t appreciate it very to crash-land. Of course Lamarr, Macready and cally unique alliance with Russia, zerainty. China and Russia have, in the past, quarrelled over both Korea and Ti bet. much and A&M surely won’t get the Sportsmanship Award if they keep that up.” This from a girl who grew up an Aggie and is still about as much Aggie as Frog. Aggie students three years ago started the Sportsmanship Award the pilot leave the refugees and strike out alone. The last member is killed by a coral snake and the final scene occurs between the two survivors and the dogged Hodiak who has pursued them through many miles of everglades. The most convincing perfomance (See Next Column) invaded so much that the world has tended to forget the shape of the ancient balance of Asian power im plied by her ties with these areas. Loose Domination Chinese domination of such out lying regions was generally very Dance Instruction Questionnaire (See Story, Page One) Name Type oi Dance Instruction Circle one ol the following phases oi instruction BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED What day would you prefer dance instruction? Afternoon or night? Clip this blank and drop it in the box located in the MSC by Wed. Nov. 1. loose. Nominal tribute was levied ing to take precautions against los- minority of Chinese Nationals there gize to our Head football coach 11 the extreme cases. Korean ' kings ruled under the Chinese drag , . c. ., -v, , . ., il - , . , „„ , song. But apparently our yell well-populated by students from ng them share of Suiho electricity than they have in either Korea or and'his staff and the entire A&M ] eaders or cadet corps leaders two rival high schools loudly cele- . . Tr £ e fr in £ really involved Tibet, although not as large as in football squad for our actions dur- should be more on the alert to no- brating the results of their games, on throne, and the remote, priestly in the Korean war. some southeast Asian countries on ing the past week, and pledge that tice when the other school’s song The “cutting up” and horn blow- mtention remains to down the line. we will not put on such a display j s started, and to stop any noise or ing, we’re quite sure, was of their sovereigns of Tibet merely ack- knowledged Chinese suzerainty. On paper they were part of the Chi nese empire, and that was about all there was to it. Reports that Chinese Red soldiers Their real be disclosed, of course, but it seems Whether all this preponderance unlikely that if they actually in- of interest in Indochina means the tended to leap into the Korean Chinese Reds will risk war to keep conflict and probably expand it io it remains to be seen, but it’s some- world war dimensions they either thing to be kept in mind. Frank N. Manitzas ’52 The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Battle Monument To Be Erected Page 2 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1950 The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. 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Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists Bob Hughson, George Charlton, Tom Rountree, Leon McClellan, Raymond Rushing, Wayne Davis, Robert Venable, Herb O’Connell, Norman Blahuta, John Hildebrand. Jerry Fontaine, Jack Fontaine News and Feature Writers Emmett Traut, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry Cartoonists Special Assignments . Chief Photographei Ray Williams, Reger Coslett S: Sam Molinary Herman C. Gollob Amusements Editot Ralph Gorman, Ray Holbrook, Harold Gann, Joe Blanchette, Pat LeB-lanc, Dale Dowell, Jimmy Curtis, Chuck Neighbors. Fred Walker Sports Writers Bob Kvxcck, John Hollingshead, again. _ _ other act of disrespect. In pre game yell practices or formations emphatic instructions should be re peated for everyone to be on the lookout for this. Re the disturbance around the visiting team’s quarters: A mili tary student body whose graduates make the finest officers the army can find, has all it takes to stop that kind of crude impudence and quick. It would take only a little Washington —(A 5 )— The Ameri- preventive organizing and policing, can Battle Monuments Commis- j as yy Williams sion Tuesday approved a design Class Agent 1918 for a 104-foot tower to be con structed at Manila as a memorial (Editor’s Note: The letter and to American war dead. remarks made by Mr. Williams are The tower is to contain a de- sincerely appreciated, but we be- votional chapel and rooms with lieve there was a little misunder- maps in Mosaic, or other perman- standing on the part of his daugh- ent material, depicting achieVe- ter. ments of American fighting men in (Her report of booing during the the Pacific. school song is ijhe only such report Brig. Gen. Thomas North, secre- we have h^ard. We ourselves did tary, announced the commission also approved: A Mosaic map to be about 40 feet by 16 feet depicting achieve ments of American forces in France. The map is to be installed in the memorial at Epinal, France, cussed by Mrs. Marian Cullom Miss Frances Arnold. A sculptured figure for Omaha Beach, France. An etched glass wall for the Memorial at Luxembourg Ceme tery. Models for figures of American fighting men to be placed at Cam bridge, England. A sculptured figure for. St. James Cemetery in Britanny, France. The commission also approved landscaping plans for Anzio (Italy), for Luxembourg, and tor doing. (In passing, we might mention a very noticeable lack of respect by a member of the Frog team during the playing of our song. We won’t specify names, since it was pretty generally noticed. (We might also mention that this is the only ndn-complimentary word we’ve heard officially from TCU concerning that week-end.) Tastes better ... is better for you. [p>©T IN A JAM? .... Spill something over your best ensemble? Don t give it another second’s worry . . . call us NOW! 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