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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1951
Roomy and Thanksgiving
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What Is There
Give Thanks For? At Meet in
Dist. Governor
10 Boosts Rotary
Truce
Home
Negotiators See End,
by Christmas Possible
Cold
Shack
Hits;
Boil
Munsan, Korea, Nov. 22—(#*)— Panmunjom. They will meet again, of the three-point plan submitted
. , , ,111 t , Truce negotiators reached virtual Friday at 11 a.m. (9 p.m. EST Wednesday by the Reds. Tt incor-
By CLARENCE McIVER , l ' Weekly iUllCneon to- a g reemen t on a three-point “armi- Thursday) to try to remove the pointed much o fthe Communist
Battalion Staff Writer c ' a y Bryan Rotary Club, gtjcg by Christmas” plan at a last stumbling block to an agree- proposal verbatim.
Kelsey Lamb of Beaumont, Thanksgiving Day session in Pan-' ment. ' Briff Gen william P Nuckols
At times roommate is just kinda dumb. He just can’t Governor of Rotary District mtinjoih. During a one hour and 55 minute U. N.‘command spokesman, said
seem to get it into his head some of the things that go on No. 190 was the honored An agreement was so near dele- moming session Allied truce ne . there was almost i mme diate agree-
around the campus—or for that matter the state or world, guest and principal speaker. Gov- gates called a Friday meeting of gotiatoi . s 0 fx ere d a revised version ment on the first two points.
ernor Lamb was in Bryan to make staff officers to, start drawing the . . ■
his annual visit to the Bryan Ro- line of battle contact across Ko-
HTHE COLD SPELL has passed and the days are getting
more like what Texans like to brag about. But knowing
Texas weather we know the cold blasts have not sounded
their last howl.
Take the conversation we had over Thanksgiving. Roomy
seemed to think that the entire state was out of step. Here
we take Nov. 28 as our Thanksgiving Holiday and tht rest
of the state takes today.
While he was ranting and raving about the holiday—
and using my toothpaste—he said the governor of the state
was just a tool of the administration. “The very idea of him
Days like this make the occupants of Splinter Village naming Nov. 22 as Thanksgiving. He knows darn good and
happy to be alive. It means the weather will be controlled well it’s Nov. 28 he comes down to see the football game.”
naturally and not be dependent upon the erratic heaters in
the wooden buildings.
These heaters are something to be cussed just a little
more than to provide a topic of conversation for the frost
bitten disseminator of education.
He has a choice of either freezing to death or becoming he started out on a long tirade on things in general.
a par broiled instructor on the half sole. This does not seem
as if it should be a choice or a problem for the instructors.
Why is it that the B&CU cannot work out a better
heating system for the shacks. If they can’t work out a
better system why don’t they suggest that the heat be com
pletely left off and the buildings be warmed by solar energy ?
The great denouncers of the 'wrongs
done by others are usually some-
ivhat proficient in proclaiming their
own virtues.
Light to New Horizon
\ AST NIGHT the lights went out in one segment of the
tary Club.
Lamb called attention in his talk
to a statement made a short time
ago by Angus Mitchell, former
President of Rotary International
at a meeting of District Rotary
Club Governors.
Mitchell gave the governors
three things to guide them: Take
Rotary seriously but not too ser
iously; disagree without being dis
agreeable and be yourself. Lamb
said he would like to pass these
three tests on to the Bryan Club
as a guide to its club activities.
The Governor also discussed the
Roomy cited the example of the military officer who problem of attendance and sug-
gave him a ticket because he was speeding—“Why can that gested that the members of the
man do the job of police officials—and stick me.” To that local club not alon s lines
Well he had a point there, but why argue with him.
So I tried to raise his general intellectual outlook on life
by asking him the thought provoking question of “why
do we have Thanksgiving holidays anyway?
He had another point. Just what do we have to be
thankful for around here. Before I could give him an answer
This line would become the cen
ter of a buffer zone 2% miles if
a full armistice is signed within
110 days.
A U. N. Command spokesman
said only one question is holding
up full accord on the buffer zone
issue. That is how a new cease
fire line would be fixed if no
agreement is reached in 30 days.
Meet in Panmunjom
Thursday was the 28th time two-
man subcommittees assigned to the
cease-fire line dispute had met in
Like Santa!
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CAMPUS CLEANERS
TAKES PRIDE IN
Service & Expert
Cleaning Methods
I just commented—“maybe the Campus Security Office
would like to get hold of that man.”
Who knows, he might even be made a brigadier gen
eral on the force.
Roomy got mad at me for making light of his sad
story and started not to ask me if l would lend him a
pair of sox.
To keep peace in the house I loaned him the sox—that
got him started again. This time it was against the laundry.
He cussed the way they did his shirts—his sox—his shorts—
and all of the rest.
I countered with—“But it’s cheap.”
Roomy just glared.
By this time he was just about dressed and was pinning
a set of buttons on his shortcoat. Getting the hard part of
it over kinda mellowed him.
Looking up at the ceiling he started to mention some
campus. Despite the howls and gripes of the students of the things we’re lucky to have. He even went so far as to
and staff who were inconvenienced it was a good thing.
Having the lights go out meant the electricity was
being connected to the new Administration Building. This
is a positive step in the progress of the building program—
a program is beginning to show itself out on the ground in
stead of on architects’ plans.
As far as the conference schools are concerned, this
means A&M is at last taking its rightful place in building a
beautiful campus. We are getting a physical plant we can
be proud of.
Headline in the Fort Wayne (hid.)
Journal Gazette: “Sen. McCarthy
Smacks Pearson In Fracas.”
say we should even be thankful to have some of the priv
ileges we have.
I almost dropped my teeth when Roomy came out with
the statement, “I think we’re pretty lucky to have this school.
It’s pretty good to have a place where a rich fellow and a
poor guy can both get a good education.”
“We’re lucky too when we consider the freedom we
have. You know in most of the military colleges in the
United States they don’t have near the freedom we have.
And when you really pin it down I guess we have to ad
mit, in the United States we have just about all the
freedom we can take of.
“Next year we can either vote one inoompetant into of
fice or break a party line and vote in another fellow. This is
something to consider,” he said.
About this time I thought I had a pretty thoughtful
roommate, but then he came out and asked to borrow fifty
cents to go to the show—you just can’t win for losing.
of 100% attendance but of the
contribution each can make by his
attendance to make the Bryan Club
a better club. ^
Lamb discussed the matter of
International Service, pointing out
that international relations is one
of our greatest problems and stat
ed that anything we can do for
the people of other countries in a
material way will be a great help.
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Yell Leader Bemoans
Tree (Quotation Use
Editor, The Battalion: who has given much time to the
In yesterday’s copy of The Batt transportation problem. These are
there appeared a quote from me in our two biggest worries and they
which I said “be sure and mention have done remarkable work. Let
that John Tapley and I cut down me also thank all people concern-
a tree.” That was merely given as ed in any way with the bonfire,
a joke and was intended for a We are doing a good job so far
laugh a,nd certainly not for publi- but we need many more axes and
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I am afraid that many men who the availability of either of these
have been working on the bonfire items, please see the committee
developed a severe case of some- chairman.
things when they read that state- pi case don’t let anything else
men L like that go in the paper. It should
The reporter who asked me how no t have been said, I guess in the
the bonfire was coming along was fa- s t place, even in a joking man-
a freshman and evidently took that ner) ajl d it should never have been
as a matter of fact. printed. The bonfire belongs to the
I would like to take this means 12th MAN and everyone should get
of publicly apologizing to the 12th the credit, no one is entitled to any
MAN and assure OLE ARMY that singular recognition unless he does
it Will never happen agan even in something spectacular such as car-
a joking manner. r y a 50 foot tree from the cutting
I hope that the responsible par- areas to the bonfire and then put
ties that are in charge of seeing it in place by himself. Since only
what goes into the paper will Superman could do that, I don’t
proof read any future articles and think that we will need any spec-
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while. Then he said, “A man’s al
ways got his mother. I could call
her, you know.”
—she must have speaking close
into the phone echo: “Thank you,
Oswald dear, for calling, you have
made my Thanksgiving Day very
“I dare you,” said Joe cautiously, happy, son.”
“Are you crazy? You think a Then the phone clicked off, and
guy doesn’t have the guts to call Mr. Belcher turned around,
his own mother on Thanksgiving “Well, everything is pretty much
Day?” the same around home,” he an-
Joe said nothing as Mr. Belcher nounced, and then saw the happy
began dialing the long distance
phone. A few moments later he
heard liis customer screaming into
the phone:
“No, mama this isn’t Elmer.
How the hell do I know where
Elmer is? This is Oswald mom.
Mama, how are you? Put your
hearing aid right next to the
eye of the bartender on him.
“I’m glad you ” began Joe.
“Oh shut up,” said Mr. Belcher,
“and give me the turkey dinner,
put some extra cranberries on it,
will you? Mama used to pile the
cranberries in thick—she cooked
them herself.”
“Merry Christmas,” said Joe,
phone, darn it, mama. I said, how. “it’s coming up.”
are you?” “Shut up,” said Mr. Belcher.
There was a murmur back and “What have you got to be thank-
forth, and then Joe heard a voice ful for anyway?”
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