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Battalion Editorials TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1952 Page 2 Let’sRollPricesBack T ETS ROLL BACK prices and stop the inflating trend. And we can use any means possible—as long as it doesn’t step on someone’s toes. How human isi it to want to reform everyone but your self. Thus, while everyone calls for price slashes, the same voices scream just as loudly when cut-backs happen to hit them. It has been charged before that one of the weaknesses of a democracy is the fact that an especially vocal minority can hold >back the progress of the majority and can secure bene fits at the expense of a passive majority. Mr. John Doe sits by and hopes that things will get better while some business man pulls strings to make/sure that things will get better— for the businessman, of course. Let the “control wizards’’ cut the price on a given pro duct and the manufacturer of that product immediately lets out a howl that carries far and wide. That howl is heard by a Congressman. And, in his usual eager desire to make sure he doesn’t lose a vote, the Congressman steps in to sooth this voice of discontent. What’s the answer? It will be hard to find one as long as the average tax-payer refrains from exerting the energy necessary to voice his and the majority’s opinion. Until then, vote hungry politicians will continue to heed th only voice they hear./ Real Ball Players AS THE SEASON dims once again for one of the local base ball leagues, it is time to seriously consider the effect the play has made on its players. This group is the Little League where the players range from 8 to 12 years in age. Most grownups could take a lesson from these young sters—on learning the game of baseball properly and playing by the rules. It does a person good to see a ball team that takes decisions (most of the time) without griping for hours. We were quite surprised at the ability of some of the youngsters, too. Some may have the makings of real base ball players, capable of going on up in the chain of baseball’s organization. They have learned this through the capable coaches and managers who give willingly of their time and knowledge. This, plus the patronage of you, John Q. Public has given the youngsters the added incentative to try a little harder, and throgh this incentative, you will have aided them to be come the ball players they want to be. Biological Warfare fTTHIS FALL A&M College will offer a new course in Biolog ical warfare. This new course, biology 451, is being made available because the Biology Department will have three bacteriology instructors on its staff for the first time. Dr. C. C. Doaks, head of the biology department, should be congratulated for his efforts in keeping A&M abreast dur ing this progressive age. Dr. Doaks believes that the course should have wide appeal to all senior corps students. Two other courses, one in personal and public health and general micro biology will also be taught with this new bio logical course. With its new science building and the addition of three courses the Biology department is setting a fast pace as one of the most progressive departments on the campus. Showtime ‘High Noon’ Wins Place With Western Classics Ship Rammed . . . Wreck Interrupts Williams Vacation The U.S.S. Banarof, carrying Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Williams to Alaska for their vacation, rammed and seriously damaged a Greek ship, at 1:30 a.m., July 26. At 1:30 a.m. Seattle Daylight Saving Time, the Williams felt two hard bumps. Everyone was running about with life preservers but no one seemed to know what had happened. The searchlights were turned on and finally picked up a ship. The Banarof had ram med it broadside. After finding no immediate dan ger to the Banarof, attention was turned to the other ship. It was completely out of commission—no lights—no radio. Men went over to it in lifeboats. They brought R. R. Rogers Tells Navasota Kiwanis Future Farm Need American agriculture will be called upon to feed 33 million more people by 1975. This statement was made by Ralph H. Rogers, local Kiwanian, in an address to the Navasota Ki wanis Club. In his talk, “The Fifth Plate,” Rogers pointed out that for each four plates which are filled with food today an additional plate— the fifth plate—will need to be filled by 1975. The population is now increasing at the annual rate of 2.1 million Rogers explained. The greater part of his talk was then devoted to analyzing the ad ditional food needed and showing how it might be produced. Rogers was accompanied on the trip Wednesday by Otis Miller*, A. C. Magee, Sidney Loveless, and Bob Cherry. back one injured man and report ed at least three killed. The en gine room had been almost instant ly flooded, killing the men in that part of the ship. The captain of the crippled ves sel requested that the Banarof stand by until salvage tugs came. Further investigation showed that the other ship was a Greek vessel loaded with iron ore for Japan. E. L. William said the other ship “must have been running without lights.” When the collision came, there were two bumps. The first came when the engines were reversed in an attempt to miss the Greek ship. The second bump, the hard est, came when the Banarof ac tually struck the other ship. Men on the Banarof said that it must have rammed 15 to 20 feet into the side of the other vessel. Some damage was sustained by the Banarof but it was all above the water line and it was com pletely out of danger. After getting back to Seattle, Mr. and Mrs. Williams forgot their “vacation to Alaska” and went on to Canada by auto for some fish ing. The Williams arrived in Berk ley, Calif. August 3. Williams’ class for the personnel of the U.S. Bureau of Mines started as sched uled on August 5 and they return ed to College Station last weekend. By JERRY BENNETT Battalion Managing Editor “High Noon,” starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges and Katy Jurado—Unit ed Artists, Palace Theater — Sun., Aug. 17-Wed., Aug. 20. Occasionally Hollywood casts aside technicolor, white horses, and Randolph Scott to make a western that takes its place as a classic in cinema art. These films have always been a rarity, especially during the last few years. Included in this small but honored collection are “Stage Coach,” “Red River” and “The Gunfighter.” All three shunned the standard film plots and presented situations typical of the old West instead of the studio back lot. “Stage Coach” pictured the terror filled journey of a group of passengers on a stage coach traveling through an Indian infested desert. Interest was centered not in the action but on the characters, each having a different reason for being on the stage. Taken individually, their lives would each tell a separate story. “Red River” photographed the events of a cattle drive from the Texas plains to Dodge City just after the close of the Civil War. “The Gunfighter” intimately looked into the last tormented hours of a tired unloved gunman who, always hounded by men who wanted to kill him to inherit his reputation, could never find peace. Each story had one basic plot which seldom became complicated with psychological influences or the all too familiar box office com. In the end it never particularly mattered whether the hero got the girl or not. Agricultural Profs To Attend Meeting Two professors of the agricul tural economics and sociology de partments will leave August 28, for Urbana, 111., where they will participate in the annual American Farm Economic Association meet ing. Dr. J. R. Motheral will speak oh theories of land tenure reserve and Dr. J. G. McNeely will discuss in- ter-i’egional competition in beef cattle. Billy Gene Hill, president of the local collegiate agricultural eco nomics club, and Dick Hightower, vice - president, will accompany Motheral and McNeely. These movies became milestones in motion picture art for a x'eason other than their production tech nique and intelligent acting. Hol lywood had created entertainment from x-ealism instead of fantasy. “High Noon,” Stanley Kramer’s newest film achievement, can take its place among these movies. Like its predecessors “High Noon’s” plot is simple and direct. Its chax - acters are forceful but be- lieveable. Just after his max-x’iage to a young Quaker girl, mai'shal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) receives wox'd that Fx-ank Miller, a crazed killer, is ariiving on the noon traixx. Al- x - eady three of Miller’s henchmen are waiting at the depot for the arrival of their boss. Kane had sent Miller to px'ison to be hanged but due to some political juggling, Miller has been given a full pardon. His main pux'pose in returning to town is to kill Kane. Although he has already resign ed his position as marshal, Kane x-efuses to leave town. He hopes to gather a posse and stop Miller and his gang from causing trouble. When he receives news of Miller’s coming, the time is 10:30 in the morning which gives him only an hour and a half to prepax-e. But the marshal can find no assist ance. Everyone, including his best friends, are afraid of x-isking their lives and futures to help. Even his wife, who because of her religion doesn’t believe in killing for any cause, leaves him. Deserted by all, he is left in the noon sun and dusty street to face cex'tain death alone. This situation makes for one of the most powerful dx-amas seen on the scx-een since the beginning of motion pictures. The stox-y is pxxt together as tight as a dx'um and handled with the. cax-e of a master craftsman. No scene is ever allowed to dx-ag with an over abundance of dialogue or meaningless action. Each lasts just long enough to add its essen tial part to the whole, the actors seeming to take their cue fi’om the audience when it is time to change. No fade outs are used in the changing of scenes. Each trans formation is sharp, concise and conveys all the impact of two •freight cars coupling togethex\ All the action takes place in the exact time it takes to see the film. Mounting suspense is cx’eat- ed with shax*p photogx-aphy and editing, lonesome shots of the rail- x-oad tx-acks stretching into the distance, and scenes of clocks as their hands approach 12 o’clock and the arrival of the noon . train with the death that is certain tc^ 1 follow. Although he appeal’s only near? the film’s end, Frank Miller (Ian, McDonald) is molded into a strong character through the conversation of others and the suspense creat ed while awaiting his arrival. Even when he gets off the tx-ain, sus pense is held by the camera’s re fusal to show his face. When Mil ler finally tux-ns towax-d the cam era, the face is a vivid composite of his character and reputation that have been built up thx'oughout the entire show. Highlight of the film is Dimitxi (“Duel in the Sun”) Tiomkin’s ex ceptional musical scox-e. At ixx% tervals the plaintive “High Noon” ballad, sung by Tex Rittex-, can be heax-d as if it is coming from far in the distance. Accompanying th(^ ballad is the slow soft'lxAart beat rhythm of a tom tom. ThA vocals ai’e only intermittent, the r^fst of the score being ox-chestx-ative vax-- iations of the ballad that convey all the story’s approaching vio lence. “High Noon’s” entix-e cast is ex cellent. Each creates a human powerful chai-actei-, not just axx in- tex'pretation of a role. Gary Coo per is outstanding as the marshal while Lloyd Bridges is up to hia usual high standards as Kane’a jealous deputy. Katy Jurado creates a compelling pex-sonality in the role of Kane’s old gi^l friend. Grace Kelly as the marshal’s wife, Thomas Mitchell, Otto Kru- gex’, James Millican, Lon Chaney, and Henry Morgan never detoiij?' fx-om the intelligent interpretations they give their roles. Sheb Woolley, Bob Wilke and , Lee Van Cleef, as Millex-’s hench men, ax-e the pex’sonification of vil- laixxy. The film’s moral as stated by Lon Chaney applies as much to our present day communities as it does to the movie’s fictional town of Hadleyville. “People do a lot of talking aboul law and ordex’, but when it comes to doing something about it they just don’t care. They just don’t cax-e.” After seeing the pictux-e, the ' viewer might well ask himself if he - would have had the coux’age to wait for the train that arrived at high noon. 2 Directors Attend Science Training Received by Aggie Wyoming Meeting . Willard R. Gx’een, seniox’ A&M student is among the students fx-om 28 diffex’ent colleges and univer sities attending the University of Wyoming’s famous summer science camp this yeax’, Dr. S. H. Knight, directoi’, announced. Field courses in geology, botany and zoology ax-e being offered at the univex-sity camp, which has its headquai-ters in the Medicine Bow mountains. Students ai’e traveling high into the mountains, and hundi’eds of miles fx’om the camp during field ti’ips. Geology students set up a village of tents each week, conve niently near the area in which they ax-e working. A caxnp crew px-epax’es meals for the students and on weekends they return to their home base. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradition! “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman?* The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Is published by students five times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and during examination and vacation periods The Battalipn Is published twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.i>0 per month Advertising rates funished on request. G. G. Gibson, director, and J. D. Prewitt, associate dii’ector of the extension sexwice, are attending a three-day meeting of the Gi’eat Plains Agi’icultural Council at Lander, Wyo. The council is composed of the directors of the extension services of the 48 states. Gibson is chairman of the coun cil and chaii’man of the executive committee. Plans for improvement of the extension service progi’am will be discussed and the director’s will ex change ideas on extension work. Aggie Pr of Teaches At Arlington State E. V. Walton, professor of agri cultural education, is conducting an education class at Aldington State College. The philosophy course of agx’i- cultux-al education 615 is being taught to a gi’aduate class of 12 vocational agricultural teacher’s. Classes began Monday and will continue through Aug. 29. These students will receive three cx-edit hour’s of work towax’d their master degx’ee. Setting up general and special goals for each home community is the agenda for the thx’ee week coui’se. Dr. Johnston Resigns From College Position Hntered aa second - class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Ser vices Inc., af New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republlcatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republlcatlon of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial offlee, rooms 201 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. Bob Selleck Editor Bill Dickens, Jerx-y Bennett Managing Editor’s Gus Beckei’ Sports Editor Robert Bravo. Paul Ritter. Leron Satterwhite, James Uptomore, Ed Smith. Frank Weiss, Dudley Wheeler. Billy McMaster. Stan Reed. Cltff Schaffer Bill Lilly. Rudy Vrana. Bill Mc- llcrd’.e. Garland Marshall. Curtis Deavor. Hugh Howard, Sara jQhn§ot}. Etjgene DuH«. Bobbin Shepard. Perry Shepard., Staff Writers I*ai;l Sight : Advertising Representative Schiwetz Paintings On Display in MSC The pictures cux-rently being shown in the show-cases of the MSC are the work of E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz, internationally known artist. Schiwetz was an architect major of the class of ’21. The pictures are of several of the state’s historic ai’eas—Nacog doches, Gonzales, Fredericksburg and Galveston. Schiwetz’ work has been in the MSC for two months and will be returned sometime this week. The paintings of Schiwetz have been hung in international water color shows and art gallerlsc cf New York, Chicago, and -Detroit,’ Fifty War Veterans To Register in Fall Fifty Korean war veterans ax*e expected to register for the fall semester, announced Bennie Zinn, assistant dean of men. Some vetei’ans entitled to the old G.I. Bill can also qualify for the new bill provided they were called back into service after June, 1950. At present, 292 are enrolled un der the old bill, and approximately 450 axe expected to enroll under the old bill this fall. Mai’ried vetei’ans will live in col lege owned apartments while the unmarried ones will live in non- coi’ps dox’mitoi’ies, or if they de- sii’e, they may live with the corps of cadets. Anyone with at least one year of service will be exempt from the two years of basic ti’aining. Fowl Short Course Held in September The annual Turkey Short Course for ti’aining flock selecting and blood collecting agents will be held at A&M Sept. 8-12. Registration will be held in the D. H. Reid poultry laboratory Sept. 8. - - - - • - • • Dr. H. G. Johnston, head of the entomology department, resigned Friday to become dii’ector of i’e- seai’ch and entomologist for the National Cotton Council in Mem phis, Tenn., September 1. Dr. Johnston, who assisted in ox’ganizing and developing the food pi’oduction program during Woi’ld War II, i.G well known in extension teaching throughout the state on sect pi’oblems. “I want to say that I appreciate the fine cooperation fi’bm all pri vate, state, and federal agi’icultui’- al agencies, who,” Dr. Johnson said, “have helped in the x-eseai’ch and development of many new in secticides.” Dr. Johnston joined the teach ing staff at A&M as associate pro fessor of entomology in 1927. Since then, he has devoted most of his time to teaching and extension re search. A native of Cai’thage, Miss., he Skrabanek Back From Region Meet Dr. R. L. Ski’abanek of the de partment of agricultural economics and sociology xecently returned fx-om Fayetteville, Aik. where he attended a meeting of a special committee of the larger Southwest- ei’n Regional Tenure Reseai’ch committee. Representatives fx-om each state in the Southwestern region were in attendance. Besides A and M, other schools that wex-e represent ed were Oklahoma A&M College, Mississippi State College, Univer sity of Arkanssa and Louisiana State Univex’sity. The committee, of which Dr. Skxabanek is a member, foi’mulated a x’epoi’t on the impact of tech nology on rural organization, which is to be presented at the American Rural Sociological Society meeting in Stats College, Penn, the latter part of August. received his BS fi’om Mississippi State College in 1926. He also holds the MS and Ph.D. in entom ology from Iowa State College. Dr. Johnston, or “Johnnie” as his fi’iends know him, and his wife, Fi’ancis, will leave for Memphis September 1. They will be ac companied by their two sons, George, 17, Jimmy, 10, and daugh- tex*, Elaine, 12. Abernathy Named To Head Magazine Sid Abernathy, a 1951 agx-icul- tui’e journalism gi’aduate from Rush, was named editor of the “International Cattlemen” Aug. 1. “Intel-national Cattlemen,” a magazine dealing with cattle x’ais- ing and news of cattlemen organ izations, has its offices in Houston,. This magazine is a year old with cii’culatien in the United States, mostly the southern part, and sev eral foreign countries. Abernathy was president of the Journalism Club and a member of the Agriculture Council at A&M. He was also active in student pub lications and was campus news editor of The Battalion. Last year’, Abeimathy was editor of the “Gilmer Mirror” in Upshur county. J. W. Sorenson Co. Complete Line of Hardware M A S U R Y ’ S PAINTS — GIFTS We Invite You to Visit Our Store SOI N. MAIN NORTH GATS MSC Bake Shop Gets New Location The demand for pastries in the MSC will be more x’eadily met upon completion of I’emodeling and the moving of the bake shop, according to Miss Gladys Black, MSC food director. The bake shop is now being moved from the main kitchen to 3 sepai’ate room in the basement The move should be completed within the next three weeks, and will pi’ovide more space for new baking equipment. Miguel, MSC bakei’, Miss Black, and Chai’les Haas, assistarit dii’ect or and business manager, wei’e in Houston last week seai’ching for new ideas for the arrangement Q(f equipment and new trends in ing. —ELECT— AGGIE — VETERAN j ATTORNEY J B.H. Your State Representative 44th District Brazos County Active in Ex-student Assoc tion, Aggie Club and Bras County A.&M. Club. (Paid Political Adv.) j V