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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951 In Not Passing rjUIE constitutional amendment to allow partial investment of the University Permanent Fund in other than govern ment bonds was defeated in a state-wide election held Tues- tia y- . ij ! > Mimisyl Had the amendment passed, an estimated $1.5 million would have been added to the amount of available funds for the extension of higher learning at the University of Texas and A&M, Although the results are incomplete, it appears the rural vote was against the measure, probably stemming from an inherent distrust of rurals for the stock exchange. Also the blister raised by ex-Governor Dan Moody, who said the amendment as worded would give the Board of Re gents power to invest the university funds in anything, raised a doubt in many voters minds. Since there was dis agreement among lawyers in the wording of the amendment, many voters undoubtedly concluded the legislation had a serious flaw. Certainly the two schools could have found excellent use of the increased revenues; however, since the possibility has arisen in the minds of the citizens of Texas that unsound in vestments might be made, if not now, then at a future date, it is the hope of The Battalion the amendment will be re worded and ratified. No Time for Jokes IIONEST fellows, fun is fun, but when are we going to get the rest of the student labor checks? The weekend is almost on us and some of us would like to make some plans as to what financial arrangements we are going to have to make before going to Houston. Is there anything wrong with this, or are you against Corps Trips. If you don’t like Corps Trips tell us. If you don’t like the student workers, tell us. If you don’t like the students tell us. If you aren’t happy tell us. But at the same time, get the rest of the student checks out. We don’t want to appear hypercritical, but it does seem that twenty days is a long time to get out a payroll. Especial ly when you haven’t told us why they are being delayed. A tmost Overlooked G.l. MOTHER GOOSE THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT WAR. BUILT— -THIS 15 THE Q.l WHO RAI5EP THE JACK TO LIVE IN THE SHACK THAT WAR 0UILT ./THIS IS THE Q.AT WHO GOUGED THE JACK TO HOUSE THE GUV WHO HAD TO LIVE ;k IN THE HOUSE THAT m war Guilt/ Students Complain About Work Checks By PHILLIP GOUGLER Battalion Staff Writer Student labor personnel with limping budgets voiced their disap proval of tardy Fiscal Office checks yesterday in the MSC. Random interviews with students working in the center uncovered classical complaints of checks arriving from two to five days late. Embarrassing hardships have resulted they said. “I never know when the check is coming in, and it throws me in a bind,” says B. Q. Evans of B Squadron Air Force. “They penalize us for being late with fee payments but they don’t mind being late with our checks.” He went on to tell how checks that were due on the 15th of the month came in on the 26th. Then he added, “when I pay my fees they are uppity.” “Most of the students are caught short of funds after promise of getting paid on the 15th of the monh,” says George Nickle of A Com posite. “They want us to be on time for work,” was a remark made by senior Drexel Toland,” but they don’t seem to care about getting our checks out on time.” He also cited the example of a time he went to the Fiscal office for a refund. “I heard a fishing story between two employees before one of them finally waited on me.” “The attitude of the Fiscal Office cashier’s is one of indifference,” J. B. Bell, C Troop junior, remarked. One MSC employee who would not give his name said the case was not entirely confined to the student labor. He said the jani tors were in just about the same fix only at times they did not have the money at the end of the month to pay car fare home. All of the students interviewed agreed the MSC is blameless. ■People Will Talk ’ By BERT WELLER Battalion Staff Writer People Will Talk with Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain. Pro duced by Darryl F. Zanuck. With all the attention paid the opening of the Aggie Players pro duction of Command Decision and the showing of A Place In the Sun, another fine movie slipped almost unnoticed into the Palace in Bryan. Although comparatively little attention has been paid to its showing, the film deserves some comment. Darryl F. Zanuck, who has pro duced many of the screen’s best, has come up with an amusing farce about doctors and doctor’s patients. Although the film forgets at times that it is supposed to be a comedy, the result is something just a lit tle off the beaten track in motion picture entertainment. Cary Grant is starred as the suc cessful but not too pompous doctor faced with the problem of a moth er-to-be without a husband. Jeanne Crain, as the lady in distress, falls in love with the handsome doctor who has discovered her condition. When informed of her impending motherhood, the girl decides that a bullet would be the easiest way out of her predicament. Luckily the shot goes astray, giving the doctor an opportunity to fall in love with the unlucky lady. Although the love story forms the principal plot line for the pic ture, an interesting sub-plot de velops involving the doctor and his valet, played to perfection by Fin lay Currie. Through an amazing set of circumstances, the doctor’s man-Friday has been tried, con demned, and executed for murder. Just how a dead man can also be a very much alive servant provides the nucleus for an investigation by the doctor’s superiors. The whole tangle results in a series of hilar ious scenes that are best seen to be appreciated. Along with some of the most sophisticated comedy we have seen in a long time, People Will Talk manages to include a few sharp comments on contemporary life and morals. The combination produces a film that really does take “a new look at life,” just as the ads say. The high-brows will probably faint but most of the background music is taken directly from the masters. About all that is really unusual about this is that Zanuck isn’t afraid to come out and give the composers credit for their work. Among his many talents, the versatile doctor is also an amateur conductor. As a finale for the pic ture, the producer provides the audience with a beautiful choral and orchestral interpretation of the Academic Festival Overture with Grant apparently doing the con ducting. That alone is worth see ing. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texes, is published by students 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. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip tion rates $6.00 per year or $.60 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Wyoming Lady Questions Tale By Associated Press Ever hear of a “Jackalope ?” Alton Hughes of Pecos re ceived a letter recently from a young lady in Cheyenne, Wyo., wanting to know more about a Texas “Jackalope”, alleg edly a wild animal imnning loose on the Texas plains. The letter to Hugh revealed that a Texas Air Force sergeant sta tioned in Cheyenne had cooked up a pretty convincing story about the fictitious a,nimal. , Duties of any Chamber of Com merce manager are innumerable and widely varied, but Hughes faces the most ticklish problem of his career—that of exposing to an out-of-stater the probability that a fellow Texan was trapped in an outright lie. Hughes’ letter to the young lady was in part: “It hurts to the core to even think about a Texas lying about anything, but it hurts a lot worse to actually accuse a fellow Texan of slight exaggeration. “If there is such an animal, I have not seen it. But if there is, I’m sure it would be found in Texas. “The (the sergeant) knows that it is perfectly all right to lie about Texas, particularly West Texas, but it is an unforgiveable sin to *DI11VCaO " J-iCctU. get caught,” Hughes continued. On second thought, Hughes add ed a postscript: What’s Cooking ABILENE CLUB: Thursday af ter yell practice, Room 3-B MSC. Thanksgiving plans will be discuss ed. AMARILLO CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., MSC. BAYTOWN CLU13: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Acd. Bldg. Plans for the Thanksgiving party will be dis cussed. BRUSH COUNTRY CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room 2-C MSC. Plans for a party. COLEMAN COUNTY CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m,, Room 125 Acd. Bldg. Organizational meet ing. COLLIN COUNTY CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room 305 Goodwin. Regular meeting. DAMES: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Cabinet Room YMCA. James Pierce will speak on “Parliamentary Pro cedure.” DEL RIO CLUB: Thursday af ter yell practice, YMCA Reading Room. Final plans for the Christ mas dance will be discussed. FORT WORTH CLUB: Thurs day after yell practice, Room 107 New Science Bidg. Plans for the Christmas party will be made. GUADALUPE-COMAL COUN TY CLUB: Thursday after yell practice, 3rd floor Acd. Bldg. Fin al plans for Thanksgiving party will be discussed. HOUSTON COUNTY CLUB: Thursday after yell practice, Room (See WHATS COOKING, Page 5) “I am just about to convince my self that there is such an animal. Tell your friend to send me a good description of a ‘Jackalope’. I might even find one.” Entered as second-class Matter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, tmder the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. Wilkins The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of aU other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office. Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. JOHN WHITMORE Editor Joel Austin Managing Editor Bill Streich News Editor Allen Pengelly Assistant News Editor Bob Selleck Sports News Editor Pat Morley Women’s Editor T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, A1 Bruton, Norman Campbell, Mickey Cannon, Monte Curry, Dan Dawson, Bob Fagley, Benny Holub, Howard Hough, Jon Kinslow, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter, John Robards, Carol Vance, Edgar Watkins, Berthold Weller, Jerry Wizig, Raymond York Newa and Feature Writers Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Cartoonists Frank Scott Quarterback Club Director Jim Jenson Photographer Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Phillips, F. T. Scott, Chuck Neighbors, Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette, Ed Holder Sports News 'Writers John Lancaster Chief Photo Engraver Russel Hagens, ; .Advertising Manager Robert Haynie Advertising Representative (Continued from Page 1) and France. He fought through the campaigns of Salerno, St. Pier- to, Anzio and the invasion of south ern France. After his tour of duty overseas he was assigned as a teacher at the Command and General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth. From there he was•ordered to the G-3 section of the Army Field Forces, Ft. Monroe, Va. In commenting on Colonel Wil kins, Bowden said, he is a “high type capable man. He is an asset to the college.” About his own stay hei’e Bow den said, “I have enjoyed this tour at A&M. It has been very enlighting and profitable.” Colonel Wilkins said, “It is go ing to be a hard job to fill the job of Colonel Bowden.’ South’s Governors Dallas, Nov. 15—CP)—Coy. Allan Shivers has been recognized by Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina as political leader of the Southern Democrats, The Dallas News said today. In a story by Allan Duckworth, News staff writer, the newspaper said the aging Byrnes selected Shivers in a hotel room conference during the southern governor’s conference. Amendments (Continued from Page 1) the ceiling for welfare payments was defeated. Voters in Travis County, where the University of Texas is located, gave a whopping approval vote to the proposal to allow the school more freedom in investing its per manent fund. As of last midnight, 3403 Travis County voters approved the plan, while 1,593 were against it. In Galveston County, where the medical branch is located, the vote was 1,826 for and 1,320 against. Dallas County, where Southwestem Medical School, another branch of the University, is located, voted 6,680 for and 6,101 against. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Student Checks Editor, The Battalion: As a student of A&M College since 1947 and employed in some capacity in the college since that time I can remember when the checks for student labor were ready for distribution every month be tween the. seventh and tenth at the latest. Since that time has been increasing until now it is becoming a guessing game as to when they will be ready. This year and last have been the best example of this “guessing- game” type of handling of the student payroll. After that pay roll is made out it is not the Fis cal Offices little top to play with after the checks are made out— that money is earned on a certain date and should be due at a certain date. I think that the powers that be should recognize the need of some drastic changes in the policy of the Fiscal Office in handling the Student payroll. It appears to be a job for the “powers to be” be- •cause the men in the fiscal office don’t seem to pay any attention to any request of the students. At the same time the men in the Money office don’t seem to consider any of the problems of the student. There are a large number of stu dents on this campus that are working their way through school. When you do this, you don’t have extra money to tide you over a lean period. Also, Powers that Be, have you noticed there is a dollar a day fine for all late fees. Why is it that this organization demands prompt ness on the part of the students, while they cannot handle their own financial management. I think it would be a great serv ice to the students if the Fiscal Of fice were to set up a system of def inite dates for getting out student checks. I feel certain there are about 500 working students on this campus who will agree with me on this complaint and each one would ben efit greatly if he could plan in advance on when he could receive his pay that he has earned. Doyle Griffin ’51 Silver Taps ter provoking thought. Tuesday night we observed one of our most sacred traditions, SIL VER TAPS, in honor of one of our fellow Aggies. I sa,y sacred tradi tion, because to me (and I am sure that to many others) it is sacred. I was always led to believe that you attended SILVER TAPS in a reverent manner and left likewise, carrying to your dorm or where- ever you might go a deep feeling of humility. I was also led to be lieve that out of respect there would be no talking until you reached your destination and then you were still to observe this af fair with an orderly closing of your business for the day. To me it doesn’t mean to attend SILVER TAPS, then leave and do as you please with loud talking, bull sessions, and raising hell ip your dorm, MSC, or wherever you might be. Tradition around here seems to mean very little to quite a few, but it seems to me out of com mon decency we should always re spect SILVER TAPS and what it stands for. Editor, The Battalion: No. certain class is to blame, for This letter is not meant to be as one failed we all failed, as true one of complaint, but rather a let- Aggies in mind and spirit. No one can force this tradition on you— for as an Aggie it should come from the bottom of your heart. Respectfully, Eddie Holley, ’52 Overlooked Editor, The Battalion: Why does Spence build new as phalt highways all the way around the beef center, horse center, hog center, sewage disposal plant, poul try center, a circuit of 4.2 miles, and doesn’t touch such streets as the one east of Kyle Field, the one east of Dorms 1-11, and the one east of the power plant when they have 98.5 times the traffic on them as there is on the new “super highway’ across the tracks? Ray Holbrook, ’48 Corps Trip (Continued from Page 1) Following the parade, all colors, standards and guidons will be turn ed in at the band van, parked on Bell Street. Liaison sergeants from each regiment will supervise check ing colors in and out, Turner said. $0 -free easy on -tVie <JravM, Say Bob and Bill and Mike. They don't mean Frank or Jesse James They all mean Lucky Strikel Murray Cartan Brooklyn College DUCKIES TASTE BETTER! It takes fine tobacco to give you a better tasting cigarette. 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