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T 1 College Station, Texas Friday, January 20, 1961 THE INTERPRETING BATTALION CADET SLOUCH Changing Of Teams In Full Dignity, Pride, Confidence By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The United States stands before the world Friday in all of her innate decency, testifying to her faith in the ability of people to govern themselves. An old man ends half a cen- BATTALION EDITORIALS Who’s ‘Blarney’ ‘Blarney’ wrote a letter to The Battalion yesterday. It was an exceptional letter—one worthy of publication. But ‘Blarney’ failed to identfy himself. The letter was signed simply, ‘Blarney,’ and we could not print it. The Battalion cannot publish any unsigned letters, and, because ‘Blarney’ could not be identified properly, his fell into this catagory. ★ ★ ★ ‘Blarney’s’ letter was written in response to a Battalion editorial entitled “Dead Week . . . ?” which appeared in the Jan. 18 issue. In the same issue was another editorial entitled “Visibly Lacking,” in which the editors appealed to students, faculty and administration members for letters—letters of praise or letters of criticism. But letters which, through publication in the letters-to-the-editors column, may help “eliminate much of the misunderstanding and suspicion that exists on our campus.” Perhaps ‘Blarney’ read that editorial, too. Perhaps that is what moved him to take the time to write his excellent letter. ★ ★ ★ But, ‘Blarney,’ we must remind you and anyone who would write The Battalion, an unsigned letter to the editor is as ineffective as no letter at all. One, maybe two people read it, then it is filed away—its possible influence lost for ever. The Battalion welcomes letters to the editor, and will endeavor to print as many as space allows, providing the literary endeavors are signed. 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The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta- i, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Sep ber through May, and once a week during summer school. tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and published holiday periods, Septem- The dispatches credited to it or not spontaneous origin published herein in are also reserved. xl exclusively to the use foi otherwise credited in the n. Rights of republication lively to the use for republication of all news paper and local news of ion of all other matter here- Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally b; National Advertising by zertisxng Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, us are rnished College Station, Texas. BILL HICKLIN EDITOR Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor Bob Sloan, Alan Payne, Tommy Holbein News Editors Jim Gibson, Bob Roberts Editorial Writers Larry Smith Assistant Sports Editor Bob Mitchell, Ronnie Bookman, Robert Denney Staff Writers Johnny Herrin, Ken Coppage Photographers Russell Brown Sports Writers tury of service to his country, much beloved. A young man, not yet fully tried but walking in an atmos phere of exciting expectations, is taking over. Two others who have been through it all look on from the sidelines of age at carnival in the capital. A years-long battle for the presidency is brought to climax, made part of the history of the nation. There is no unsettling dis turbance among a people who narrowly divided. Just a changing of teams in full dignity, in full pride of the past and confidence in the future, arrival of a new generation. byjun E«ric g a ^alioii Classifieds Dai a % How To Improve Your Grades When Other Methods Fail—Study, Study, Study, Study! Sound Off (Editor’s Note: The following letter was written by 'a Univer sity of Colorado coed, Georgia Reed. It is in response to a let ter written by a student from Texas A&M, criticizing the edi torial about SCONA that appear ed recently in the University of Colorado Daily. Both letters — the one by the University of Col orado coed and the one by the Texas A&M student—are reprint ed below.) Editor, The Battalion: I am a coed at the University of Colorado, but for various rea sons my heart is and always will be at Aggieland. I think in its special fields, Texas A&M is one of the greatest colleges in our country and the men there are the best. For this reason I was very dis appointed with the letter written to John Farrell by Malcolm Har dee in reply to the editorial that Farrell wrote about Texas A&M in the Colorado Daily. The majority of the, men at Texas A&M are far superior to those here at Colorado and it is a pity that one of those Aggies has to degrade himself by writ ing a letter such as the one he wrote. To me those at Texas A&M are MEN not boys and this letter in the Colorado Daily apparently was written by a boy, not a man. This is the sort of letter I would expect to find written by a high school student. Sarcasm is fine in its place, but the Aggies get enough bad pub licity up here without having one of their own spreading more. There are numerous ^ays of re plying to an article of the type that Farrell wrote without pur posely slandering a person’s in- tellegence or character. Contrary to what you may think, my heart is at Aggieland, but I do like Colorado. That is why I am writing this to you. Georgia Reed University of Colorado Dear Mr. Farrell: In reply to your article that was recently published in your school newspaper concerning SCONA, don’t you think you were brash in your statement about our college? You are not quali fied to judge our college to any degree of accuracy. In the eyes of many cadets of the biggest military college in the world, you displayed yourself as being a per fect Jackass!!! In the first place, this is not a university; this is a military college. Its primary purpose is to turn out military officers to serve in the armed forces of this great United States of America. SHAFFER'S needs YOUR used TEXTBOOKS (You CAN Get More For Your Books) A I Staffer’s d3ook ^Store —Open Saturday All f)ay— North Gate If you will check into the ros ter of high ranking personnel of the Army, Air Force, and Navy you will find a great number of Aggies holding important posi tions. In fact, is not the com manding general of the Air Force an Aggie? He is! As far as having to have a se curity clearance to get into Tex as A&M, I can assure you that you don’t. We’ll even take you, but then we take a lot of things, we don’t want. We even have a three-legged dog that we are training in journalism. Is it pos sible that you could use him ? He is very intelligent and perhaps you could use him as a represent ative to SCONA next year. Gosh! I know your college is proud of you! You did such a fine job of representing it and advancing the primary mission of SCONA. Malcolm Hardee P. S. If you are so intelligent as to be able to tell the students of yopr university what a uni versity should be; could you please write and tell the officials of Texas A&M what a military college should be? I’m sure they would feel very indebted to you and very humble in their thanks. ★ ★ ★ (Editor’s Note: The following letter refers to the film “Opera tion Abolition,” depicting the stu dent riots in San Francisco against the House Unamerican Activities Committee. The riot in the film was definitely Com munist inspired and led to the riot). Editor, The Battalion: I would like to clarify my po sition on the film “Operation Abolition.” In response to the rumor that I “made repeated campaigns against it in the MSC and conse quently had to endure a three hour interrogation by a team of Air Force bulls” is a gross ex- ageration. On one occasion, at the Air Force make-up drill on Jan. 7, I made a statement to the effect that the film was edited by a rad ical and I felt that it did not show the true background or se quence of events concerning the riots and pickets. A week later an Air Science instructor asked me to report and explain how I had formed my opinions (From speaking to Cali fornia SCONA delegates and reading the article “Film With A Message,” The Reporter, Nov. 24, 1960, p. 41). The purpose of the meeting was to ascertain if my feelings were disloyal in a manner that would affect my of ficer status after graduation. 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