The Battalion College station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, March 12, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the
Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being
Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson
Easy to be Proud
It wasn’t hard ’to. be proud,to be a Texas Aggie yester-
day.
In unprecedented numbers, the men of Aggieland turned
out to shed their blood for children who need it desperately.
The Aggies who rolled up their sleeves and shared their
lifeblood with children stricken with leukemia can stand a
little taller today. The blood they lost yesterday is more
than replaced with the feeling of pride that comes from
really being an Aggie.
Although collections were record high—the largest num
ber of pints of blood ever given in a one-day stand—it is not
truely remarkable that it happened here. It just isn’t unusual
for Ags to turn out in force to help someone in need.
Offering a helping hand isn’t doing something extra
here—on the contrary, it’s rather expected. It is one of the
fundamental differences between A&M and “just another
school ...”
To be a friend in need is part of being an Aggie. It’s
one of the things that makes A&M great. And because of
400 generous fellows, A&M was a little greater yesterday.
Letters To The Editor
The Battalion welcomes letters to the editor but reserves the rigrht to edit letters
for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for
publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published...
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have read with interest your
editorials this year. I would like
to commend you on your analyses
of some of the problems facing
students and staff at A&M.
I am confident that student
leaders who are interested in the
present and futux - e welfare of this
institutionwill rise to the chal-
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lenge which you have presented
to them through your editorials.
During my experience with young
men in the School of Agriculture
I have found them genuinely in
terested in improving in any way
possible the environment on the
campus of which they are a part.
I recently had an opportunity
to interview a group of out
standing high school boys for a
fine agricultural scholarship. The
winner would have an opportun
ity to attend any of the major
land-grant colleges in the United
States. Most of them stated if
they were given the scholarship
they would attend Texas A&M.
A member of the committee' ask
ed why they chose A&M.
Independently each of them
stated that he thought this in
stitution offered the best train
ing in the field of agriculture of
any college of which they were
acquainted.
I would say this is a real tri
bute to our institution.
If all of us would help make
the environment on the campus
more palatable I believe we
would have more and more young
men coming to A&M for a real
education in their chosen field.
R. C. Potts
Ass’t Dean
School of Agriculture
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JOE BUSER EDITOR
Fred Meurer Managing Editor
Gayle McNutt Executive News Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis ReddelI....News Editors
Bill Hicklin........ Assistant Sports Editor
Robbie Godwin, Ken Coppage, Bob Edge, Jack Harts-
field, Joe Callicoatte, Bob Saile, Jim Odom, Sam Spence,
Leo Rigsby, Bob Roberts Staff Writers
Ray Hudson Circulation Manager
This Parking Area Cost $4,243. . .
‘No Sweat’,
Moonwatchers
“No sweat” for those who no
ticed the strange light near the
moon last night and surmised
someone had beat us up here.
It wasn’t a space ship at all.
It was the planet Venus in a
rarely seen conjuction with the
moon.
According to Jack Kent, advis
or to the local Moonwatch Team,
last night’s phenomina in the
sky is very rare since the planet
seldom appears on plane with the
moon. Once a month the two
heavenly bodies pass but usually
the moon is north (or south) of
the planet, he said.
ITS FRIDAY
Get WILDROOT
CREAM-OIL Charlie!
J. PAUL SHEEDY,* hair scientist, says:
"Makes your hair look doggone hand
some!”
•of 131 So. Harr,. Hill Hd.. WiUiamnilU. N. Y,
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Just a little bit
of Wildroof
and...WOW!
Better Parking Facilities—5
Lots Have Cost $45,374
Physical Plants Report
On Campus
with
>fe§hulman
(By the Author of" Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.”)
(Editor’s Note: This is the
fifth in a series of articles on
the parking situation for stu
dents at A&M.)
By BILL REED
Battalion News Editor
A report from the Office of
the Physical Plants reveals that
$45,374.78 has been spent on stu
dent parking lots since Septem
ber, 1954.
This amount has been taken
from the Parking Area Exten
sion Account, in which all stu
dent registration and traffic
fines are deposited. W. Howard
Badgett, manager of the College
Physical Plants, also reports that
vouchers are still unpaid for con
tracts amounting to $10,001.85.
In four and one half years ex
penditures on student lots total
$55,376.63.
Badgett’s report showed the
following expenditures:
Day Student Parking
The Day Student parking area
behind the Petroleum Engineer
ing-Geology Building has cost
the student account $2,197.16.
Law-Puryear Area
Expenditures on the Law-Pur
year parking lot total $10,635.67.
What’s Cooking
The following clubs and organ
izations will meet tonight:
6:30
Midland Hometown Club will
meet on the front steps of the
YMCA and then go out to eat.
Bring pictures for sweetheart
selection.
7:15
Oklahoma Sooner Hometown
Club will meet in Room 428 of
Dorm 10.
7:30
Amarillo Hometown. Club will
meet in the Memorial Student
Center coffee shop to discuss
plans for the Easter banquet.
Guests will be Gen. William Lee,
Amarillo AF Base, and J. H.
Dunn, president of the Sham
rock Oil Co.
Angelina County Hometown
Club will meet in the YMCA. Re
freshments will be served.
Beaumont Hometown Club will
meet in the YMCA to choose a
duchess for the Cotton Ball.
Deep East Texas Hometown
Club meets in Room 127 of the
Acad. Bldg.
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet in Room 105 of the Acad.
Bldg, to take club pictures. Wear
Class A or suits and ties.
Fayette and Colorado Counties
Hometown Club will meet i n
Room 3 B in the MSC.
Marshall Hometown Club
meets in Room 105 of the Acad.
Bldg.
Rio Grande Valley Hometown
Club will meet in the second floor
lounge of the MSC to take club
pictures. Wear Class A or suits
and ties.
Southwest Texas Hometown
Club meets in Room 108 of the
Acad. Bldg.
Tyler-Smith Counties Home
town Club will meet in the Coffee
Shop, MSC to elect a sweetheart.
A film of the Baylor-A&M game
will be shown.
Trans-Pecos Hometown Club
will meet in the Business Admin
istration Building.
Galveston County Hometown
Club will meet in Gay Room,
YMCA.
The only change that students
have noticed in the lot in the past
three years is that it has been
enlarged to meet the increasing
demand for more parking space.
Students living in Leggett, Mil
ner and Mitchell are also park
ing in the lot.
Walton Parking Area
Receipts show that the Walton
Hall parking area has^ cost $2,-
395.63 during the 4%-year per
iod.
Hemstead Parking Area
In the New Corps Area, the
Hemstead parking area has cost
in the neighborhood of $4,245.35
during the same period. The area
is made up of the Hemstead and
Navasota lots.
At the present time the Hem-
stead lot is the worst lot on the
campus, and it was the last lot to
be built for student parking. The
lot was completed during the ear-
Social Whirl
7:30
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
hold its regular meeting at 7:30
in the MSC.
Mrs. E. L. Angell, sponsor, will
be assisted by Mines. E. E. Mc-
Quillen. J. J. Woolket, J. E.
Roberts, Barlow Irwin, Harry
Stiteler, Fred Lewis, and Cecil
Wamble.
Mr.
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REPRESENTS THE
JeffersM ^lanilaril
Jefferson Standard, now
guaranteeing: 2^4% on policie*
currently issued, has never
paid less than 4% interest on
dividend accumulations and
on policy proceeds left on de
posit to provide income. 4%
IS THE HIGHEST RATE OF
INTEREST PAID BY ANY
MAJOR LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY. This means EXTRA
INCOME to Jefferson Standard
policyholders and beneficiaries.
Call or write for full in
formation today.
Albert W. Seiter, Jr.
2601 Texas Avenue
Phone TA 2-0018
Representing
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Home Office: Greensboro, N.C.
ly part of last semester.
Dorm 14-17 Parking Lot
The No. 4 Dormitory parking-
area, which is used for parking
the cars of students who live in
Dorm 14-17, has cost more than
any lot on the campus.
Construction receipts show
that $11,523.19 has been spent on
the large lot.
The No. 4 lot, which is the
only paved student lot, has cost
only $887.52 more than the' Law-
Puryear parking area.
Dorm 12 Parking Lot
Monies amounting to $434.57
has been paid for construction in
the Dorm 12 lot.
The lot will park approximate
ly 100 cars.
Guion Hall Parking Lot
Since the Guion Hall parking
lot was started in the summer
1957, $952.22 has been paid out
for materials.
EAT
WELL
EAT
REASONABLY
EAT
HOTARD’S
NEW HOURS
11:00 - 2 :30
5:00 - 8:30 ’
HUSBANDS, ANYONE?
It has been alleged that coeds go to college for the sole purpose
of finding husbands. This is, of course, an infamous canard, and
I give fair warning that, small and spongy as I am, anybody,
who says such a dastardly thing when I am around had better'
be prepared for a sound thrashing!
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I Girls go to college for precisely the same reasons as men do:'
to broaden their horizons, to lengthen their vistas, to drink at
the fount of wisdom. But if, by pure chance, while a girl ia
engaged in these meritorious pursuitSj a likely looking husband
should pop into view, why, what’s wrong with that? Eh? i
What’s wrong with that?
The question now arises, what should a girl look for in a
husband? A great deal has been written on this subject. Some
say character is most important, some say background, some
say appearance, some say education. All are wrong. /
The most important thing—bar none—in a husband is health. ^
, Though he be handsome as Apollo and rich as Croesus, what
good is he if he just lies around all day accumulating bedsores?;
The very first thing to do upon meeting a man is to make
sure he is sound of wind and limb. Before he has a chance to
sweet-talk you, slap a thermometer in his mouth, roll back his
eyelids, yank out his tongue, rap his patella, palpate his thorax,
ask him to straighten out a horseshoe with his teeth. If he
fails these simple tests, phone for an ambulance and go on to
the next prospect.
If, however, he turns out to be physically fit, proceed to the
second most important requirement in a husband. I refer to
a sense of humor.
A man who can’t take a joke is a man to be avoided. There
are several simple tests to find out whether your prospect can
take a joke or not. You can, for example, slash his tires. Or burn
his “Mad” comics. Or steal his switchblade. Or turn loose his
pet raccoon. Or shave his head.
After each of these good-natured pranks, laugh gaily and
shout “April Fool!” If he replies, “But this is February nine
teenth,” or something equally churlish, cross him off your list
and give thanks you found out in time.
But if he laughs silverly and calls you “Little minx!” put him
to the next test. Find out whether he is kindly.
The quickest way to ascertain his kindliness is, of course, to
look at the cigarette he smokes. Is it mild? Is it clement? Is it
humane? Does it minister tenderly to the psyche? Does it
coddle the synapses? Is it a good companion? Is it genial? Is it
bright and friendly and full of dulcet pleasure from cockcrow
till the heart of darkness?
Is it, in short, Philip Morris? |
If Philip Morris it be, then clasp the man to your bosom with
hoops of steel, for you may be sure that he is kindly as a sum
mer breeze, kindly as a mother’s kiss, kindly to his very marrow.
And now, having found a man who is kindly and healthy and
blessed with a sense of humor, the only thing that remains is to
make sure he will always earn a handsome living. That, fortu
nately, is easy. Just enroll him in engineering. © 1959, Ma*shuim»a
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