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MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1952
Critic’s Row
THAT'S THREE MORE FOR THE JODGE
Flame of Araby
Cools Audience
SUPREME COURT SAYS
EVIDENCE PUMPED PROM
STOMACH ILLEGAL, BUT.,.
Shivers Speaks
A LLEN SHIVERS has stepped forward as the leader of re-
^ form in the Democratic party, which has shown itself so
badly in need of it. In deciding to stand for renomination to
the office of Governor of Texas which he has held construc
tively and honorably for the greater part of two terms, since
the sudden death of Beuford Jester, Mr. Shivers obviously
has in mind that he can be of greater service as Governor
in the fight to clear the paty’s name and record than he
could be in a federal post, should he seek and be elepted to it.
At their recent conference in Hot Springs, southern
Governors entrusted to Allan Shivers leadership in their com
bined efforts to restore honor and dignity to the Democratic
party. They were conscious that, nationally, the party has
embraced socialism in the visible effort to exploit its emo
tional public appeal to entrenched conscienceless venality in
centralized power. The thinking South, never abandoning
the cardinal Democratic principle of States’ rights, is naus
eated when the plundering political policies of Tweed and
Pendergast are piously palmed off as Jeffersonian ideals.
At Hot Springs they went on record against it.
Governor Shivers’ press conference Saturday made his
position clear. He is a Democrat who can not vote for the
party candidate if this is Harry Truman himself or just an
other Truman. Many Southerners are deluded by, others in
ured to, still others suborned by the lack of principle in the
national administration. Unlike these the Governor made
it clear that he has hitherto voted for the nominee in hopes
of reform. Now he recognizes thAt it is hopeless to expect
anything of the Turman wing but continuing refusal or in
ability to serve the country insead of themselves. When a
good American’s stomach turns, he wants a remedy, not ex
cuses and promises.
Significant in Governor Shivers’ uninhibited discussion
with his questioners was his forthright rejection of Chief
Justice Vinson because of his written opinion in the tidelands
case. A good constitutional lawyer could question the fitness
for the bench of any jurist subscribing to that particular
opinion. It stands to reason that no fundamental constitu
tionalist can believe that the man who wrote the opinion
could be trusted to support the Constitution. Assuming that
Allan Shivers speaks for most of his fellow Governors, the
chosen leaders of the South, here is notice to the Pendergast
plunderbund that revolt is on the way.
Governor Shivers’ announcement is clear-cut recognition
that the leadership to which he has been named is a trust
that can only be carried out by continuing to serve.
—Dallas News.
By JERRY BENNETT
Battalion Staff Writer
(“Flame of Araby”—starring
Maureen O’Hara and Jeff Chand
ler—produced by Universal In
ternational — Palace Theater,
Sunday-Tuesday.)
“Flame of Araby”, now insult
ing man’s intelligence in Bryan
never gets hotter than a campfire
in a rainstorm. It only serves to
prove that television .isn’t so bad
after all.
Jeff Chandler, modeling the lat
est in Arabian sportswear, acts
as if still punch-drunk from his
last fight in “Iron Man”. As do all
good Hollywood Arabs,. Chandler
eats hunks of charred meat on a
stick with great enthusiasm, prob
ably thankful for anything after
his meal in Duncan Mess Hall last
year.
BETWEEN BITES, he makes
screen history with such momen
tous lines as “Allah be praised,
filthy dog,” and “By the beard of
the Phophet.”
Red haired Maureen O’Hara,
sunburned survivor of countless
sandy epics, is at home again in
her usual role of a frustrated des
ert princess. While the sun melts
her mascara, she romps from oasis
to oasis with all the energy of a
bubble dancer at a county fair.
Photographed in technicolor
against an African background,
Avhich looks remarkably like west .
Texas, both players injure their
reputation as competent actors in
a story that has been done many
times. Universal International, not
content with just a corrupted ver
sion of the “Arabian Nights” has
also borrowed themes from the
average western horse opera.
AT TIMES the spectator won
ders if the players have made some
mistakes and gotten on a Roy
Rogers set instead of their on.
The story concerns intrepid Be-
duoin horse trader (Chandler), who
is in love with a spirited black
stallion (this horse has great
possibilities). Just when he is
about to pop the question, “\yill
you join my herd?”, Maureen
walks into his confused but happy
life.
It seems that she is being pur
sued by three filthy villans who
have murdered her father and con
fiscated the kingdom. Thus the
usual triangle is formed; man,
woman, and horse.
NATURALLY Jeff jilts the
horse and asks the princess to mar
ry him. The only hitch is wives of
Beduoins have to chew horse hide
so it will be pliable for the making
of their husbands’ shoes.
This of course is distasteful
to the princess who has been rais
ed on such nourishing desert food
as dates and toasted crickets.
But after an hour of sheer bore
dom, the villians are foiled, the
stallion gets 'the horse laugh, Mau
reen consents to eat leather, and
everybody is happy but the disil
lusioned customer.
HOW ABOUT
KUOROSCOPeS?
Churchill Same;
Still Unpredictable
come back and have a nip. We
were only playing.’ They had the
devil of a time convincing him.”
GREAT KIDDERS. those Rus
sians,” said one of the Americans,
sourly.
“Churchill, though,” another
said, “has a priceless sense of hu-
mor himself.
Then he grinned at our startled a t; e [y nonsensical kind of humor—
By ED CREAGH
(For Hal Boyle)
Washington, Jan. 14—(A 5 )—“One
thing you must remember about
Mr. Churchill,” said the Visiting
Englishman, “is that he was
thrown from a donkey at the age
of four—and landed on his head.”
expressions and went on to ex
plain himself:
“I’m not suggesting there is any
thing wrong with the old boy’s
head now. Far from it. But you
can always count on him to do the
unexpected, just as he was doing
when he was four.
“SO I’D GO easy, if I were you
chaps, on forecasting what he’s
likely to tell your Congress when they changed much?”
more Americans than British. Yet
he adds his own John Bull touch to
ic.
“Back in 1943 he visited Niagra
Falls and a young reporter asked
how he liked it. Churchill said
he’d seen the Falls long before the
reporter was born—back around
190,0, as I remember.
“‘WELL,’ THE kid said, ‘have
Daily Job
Not Like Mother’s Cooking
But Feeds 12,612 Meals
Vishinsky’s Atomic Inspection
Proposal Given to Assembly
Paris, Jan. 14—®—The West
ern Big Three formally proposed
today that Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky’s new atomic
proposals be shunted from the U.N.
General Assembly to the newly
created disarmament commission.
Britain, France and the United
States circulated a resolution to
that effect.
The three powers were treading
carefully until they could get a
chance to gauge the effect on
world opinion of Vishinsky’s offer
to make a ban on atomic weapons
simultaneous with establishment of
a control system and to permit
continuous U.N. inspection—rather
than only periodic checks — of
atomic energy facilities.
Many high sources felt that the
Russian diplomat had scored a
propaganda triumph that the West
must counter with extreme care
and delicacy.
The Western position so far was
that the Vishinsky proposals offer
ed nothing the General Assembly
mould take up profitably now, and
the disarmament commission is the
proper forum for the Russian
move.
A British spokesman saw in Vi
shinsky’s move a victory for West
ern persistence in resisting the ear
lier Russian demands for immedi
ate and uhconditional prohibition of
teh atomic weapon.
These modifications of the Rus
sian position, the spokesman said,
evidently resulted from the secret
Big Four disarmament talks held
last month.
This, he said, gave rise to a
hope discussions on atomic control
in the disarmament commission
might bring the East and West
closer together on the subject.
U. S. delegate Ernest Gross said
Vishinsky’s proposal was “double
talk . . . words without meaning.”
British spokesmen said Russia’s
latest plan could not be branded
propaganda immediately. But the
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delegates were keenly aware of
the propaganda punch Vishinsky
packs into such moves.
The Western powers confidently
expected the assembly majority to
answer that if the Russian propo
sals have any merits, they would
be determined in the disarmament
commission.
The Western Big Three were
seeking chiefly to torpedo Vishin
sky’s request for an assembly pro
nouncement now against the use of
the atom bomb.
The Russian said it would only
be a moral condemnation, without
force of law until a control system
was set up, but he promised blandly
that Russia for one would heed it
anyway.
The West was highly suspicious.
And it strongly opposed any as
sembly restriction now—moral or
otherwise—on the use of the weap
ons which give the Western powers
their chief matcher for the Soviet
troop masses.
By R. H. WALKER
Why can’t the mess halls com
pete with Mother’s cooking?
.It might be because they pre
pare 12,612 meals every day.
It might also be because the total
operating cost every day is
$6,316.
Also Mother never tried to
cook 4,000 steaks for one meal.
The mess halls operate on a
very close budget. So close, in
fact, that they must depend upon
students being gone during the
weekends in order to operate
without a financial loss. They
stay in the red during the week
and make it up on weekends.
THEY DO HAVE a little help
along these lines from the menues
posted on the mess hall doors.
They tend to scare the students
from eating various meals.
Students usually get what we
pay for, and in this case we pay
only $1.32 per day for meals.
This is not spent during week-’
ends and holidays, but the mess
hall personnel must be paid
straight through.
Quality of meats is a pet peeve
of Aggies. Nevertheless, the
meats are bought from only the
best meat packers in Texas and
it is all very rigidly government
inspected.
Some meat is also furnished
from the class work of the meat
labs. This is also thoroughly in
spected by the Sanitation Depart
ment.
VEGETABLES AND other
produce is bought in the same
manner as meats in 9,000-lb. loads
from the lowest bids. Everything
is bought on competitive bids.
Even though the smell is some
times deceiving, mess hall eggs
are fresh. Only at special times
of the year, when it is impossible
to buy fresh eggs, are cold stor
age eggs used.
When an Aggie eats ice cream
during a cold norther, he may
wonder—what the heck? The
schedules are planned every
Thursday and cannot possibly be
changed. These schedules are
planned by the chefs, the stew
ards, the purchasing agent, and
J. G. Penniston, who is in charge
of the subsistance.
AN OUTSTANDING feature of
the mess halls is their sanitation
records. It is regularly inspected
by the campus Sanitation Depart
ment and by the Brazos County
Health Unit. It has almost a per
fect record and is setting the ex
ample for many local cafes.
This record has been only oc
casionally marred sby such in
cidents as mops being left in the
refrigerators.
The mess halls furnish employ
ment for 193 cadets plus an addi
tional 13 students employed in
the cafeteria. These students earn
$1.32 per day or 44 cents per
meal. Waiting tables is consid
ered one of the better paying
student jobs on the campus.
PRACTICALLY ALL of the
special services previously per
formed by the mess halls are
now performed by the MSC. The
mess halls still handle certain
club picnics and the Junior and
Senior banquets.
The mess halls are a non-pro
fit organization and the only
source of profit is a meager al-
lottment of IV2 per cent for the
depreciation of the buildings. At
the same time the overhead cost
is continuing to rise. Food costs
since 1939 are up 129 per cent
and labor costs are up over 100.
per cent.
“If foor continues to rise, I
would rather lower the standard
of feeding than raise the cost,”
Penniston remarked.
he addresses it next Thursday. He
may surprise you. He may sur
prise even himself.”
One of the reporters around the
table, an American, nodded.
“Like before D-Day in the late
war,” he said. “Churchill, you
know, was dead set against an , in
vasion of the south of France.
Fought it at the Quebec conference
and kept right on fighting it.
“Well, we did push ino southern
France, and who should turn up on
the deck of a destroyer offshore,
giving his V-sign, cheering the
boys on—but good old Winnie.”
WE MULLED that one for a
while. Then the Englishman said:
“He’s one of the few great men
this century has seen. No doubt
about that. But he can act like
a spoiled child on occasion.
“At one of the Big Three con
ferences during the war—Yalta, it
ihust have been, and he’s told this
“Churchill looked as if he were '
deliberating. Then he said, with
that chuckle of his:
“ ‘The principle seems the s&mflH
The water still keeps falling ov
er.’ ”
Col. Schember Will
Talk to Reserves
The 9807th Volunteer Air Re
serve Training Squadron will hold
it regular weekly meeting tonight
at 7:30 p. m. in the MSC. Lt Col.
Victor E. Schember will discuss
“Concept of Air Force Administra
tion.”
All Air Force Reserve personnel,
both airmen and officers, in the
Bryan, College Station, and Nava-
sota area are invited to attend the
story hlmseTf-Churchill Itormed meet [ n S- even though they are not
out of a party because Stalin and ™mbers of the 9807th Squadron.
Molotox were pulling his leg over Individuals attending the meeting
the question of what to do with W ^1 eai ' n points towaid retirement
Germany. and promotion.
“The Russians went after him, Col. Schember will supplement
clapped him on the back and said his discussion with the use of mo-
what amounted to, ‘rats, old boy, tion pictures.
J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil
Because Me Flunked The Finger-Nail Test
HOUSTON
42 MINUTES
J FLIGHTS DAILY
We Laugh —
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NONE of the girls were wild about this Wildcat. His hair looked
like something the cat dragged in! "I’m feline mighty low,” he
told his Paw. "Every Tomcat, Dick and Harry on campuss has
dates but me!” "Yes, Siam aware of that, son. You need Wildroot
Cream-Oil hair tonic. All the cats are using it because it’s non
alcoholic. Contains soothing Lanolin. Relieves annoying dryness.
Removes loose, ugly dandruff. Help you puss—I mean pass the
Finger-Nail Test.” So Paul got Wildroot Cream-Oil, and now
he’s the most popular Persian at school, Purr-haps it’s what you
need! Take some small change out of your kitty and pussy-foot
it to the nearest drug or toilet goods counter for a bottle or
tube of Wildroot Cream-Oil. And ask fur professional
tions at your favorite barbershop. Hurry—meow is the tinae!
^ of 131 So. Harris HillRd., IFilliamsville, N. Y. _ "kioviH 1
Wildroot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. 7^'''^
Timed by Baylor Watches
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We laugh at the sublime and
at the ridiculus.
•
We laugh—When we read
about the comments of an editor
of a military school newspaper, he
is fast on his way to being an army
officer, about the noise that four
little training planes made one day
this week flying over Aggieland.
•
We laugh—To see the number of
Aggies who do. not know where
the new modern Dairy Center is,
or have seen the new $360,000
Poultry farm or have ever heard
of “Swine Heaven”. Running out
there some afternoon is the fast
est way of going to heaven I know
of.
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We laugh—When we realize that
“our plans may be changed” after
reading that the Draft calls will
rise by spring, that more reserve
officers, especially those in with
low rank and high skills—techni
cally trained men will be called in,
that the army is weighing the need
for two more national guard divi
sions on active duty.
We laugh—To think how much
fun an Aggie block of 500 voters
could have in College Station poli
tics if they paid their poll tax this
month in Brazos County.
•
We laugh—To see so many Ag
gies of voting age not exercising
their right of franchise. It’s time
to pay your poll tax this month
if you want to vote for Ike.
•
We laugh—To think what Mark
Clark could do to the 36th Divi
sion—it ain’t funny. We hope he
goes to Rome and does as the Ro
mans do.
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We laugh—When we read that
Harry Truman is honorary presi
dent of the International Mark
Twain Society. Wonder what he is
offering the boys as white wash.
He has plenty of boys who will
go down river with him on the raft.
•
We laugh—to see grown men,
some soon to become army officers,
cheat on exams.
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