Battalion
EDITORIALS
Page 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Carrying It A Little Too Far . . .
There is an old saw that says, “Two
wrongs don’t make a right.” Like most ex
pressions, it has survived because it makes
a lot of sense.
As an expression, it pretty well sums
up the recent rifling and burning of rec
ords from the Campus Security Office.
From time to time we have criticized
the local Security Office for it’s policies
and methods. We were quick to say that
some of the things they have done were
unwise and improper.
Now we want to be equally prompt in
saying that looting offices and burning
records is not the way to correct the sit
uation.
For all their mistakes and inefficienc
ies, the Campus Security Office has done
a pretty decent job. On a campus over
crowded with automobiles and indifferent
n (sometimes even reckless) drivers rushing
to classes through droves of pre-occupied
students, our accident rate is unbelievably
The State Of the Union
Everybody expected President Truman
to say what he did to the Eighty-first
Congress.
He merely packaged everything he has
been plugging over the past four years.
Before the assembled houses of Con
gress he presented the aggregate program
of the Executive Department of the fed
eral government and the campaign plat
form of the Democratic Party.
Harry Truman learned during his
campaign what the larger part of the
American people want from their federal
government. Its not laissez faire govern
ment that the people who cared enough
about their government to vote want, but
^-benefactor government that acts as a
Great White Father giving to the masses
better education, more housing, more ade
quate medical care, and more goods for
the dollars they spend.
Its a government that will give to the
farmer price supports, storage facilities
for his bumper crops, and extended rural
electrification.
Its a government that will give labor
The Passing Parade . . .
This is the account of the early Decem
ber meeting of the state model govern
ment.
The second annual session of the Hi-Y
model legislature today tackled problems
of financing and school support—just like
the 51st regular legislature will in Jan.
The model legislature, a feature of the
YMCA’s “Youth in Government” program
to teach youngsters how American Demo
cracy works by letting them work it, is
sponsored this year by Gov. Jester, Dr.
W. R. White, president of Baylor Univer
sity, W. 0. Reed, speaker of the House,
and a committee of educators and state
low. To the best of our memory, there has
not been one serious accident, injury, or
death on the campus proper in over two
years. Some of the other Texas cities
might well envy our record.
But that is not primarily our com
plaint. The point is, if we want the pro
tection of Law, we can’t abuse it. If we
expect to yell for a cop when someone
jumps on us, it might be wiser not to yell
at him too much prematurely.
The next time you throw a new ticket
on your desk, along with the other sixteen
you got for parking in the same place,
stop cussing the cop and think a minute.
You might just accidentally be a little
wrong and the cop may have been a little
right.
And all the time remember this. The
last guy who went around breaking into
buildings and burning records was a little
man in a brown shirt with a mustache.
He didn’t accomplish a hell of a lot
either.
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a higher minimum wage, < closed shop
working conditions, and broadened social
security.
And its a government that will take
money from higher income brackets and
large corporation profits and plow it back
into the economy through its broadened
education, its expanded defense program,
and its waste.
Indeed, the national concept of govern
ment today has become what the liberals
a generation ago would have fearfully
termed “socialist.” The New Deal with its
TVA, its AAA,, its NRA are today mildly
conservative measures which prepared
substantially the national attitude tow,ard
a strong, centralied, powerful, federal gov
ernment. The war years contributed even
further to the nation’s relaxation of pow
er to the national government.
Whether laudable or not the change is
being made through orderly Democratic
processes, and the voting public feels that
our present direction is toward a truer
form of government “of the people, by the
people, and for the people.”
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officials.
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Their one-day reign was a little less
colorful than the one put on by some Ohio
kids recently. They took over the city
government of a medium sized Ohio town
and went about their duties so diligently
that they had raided two gambling houses
and were headed for the red light district
when the embarrased city fathers stepped
in.
If our northern neighbors can spare
them, we’d like to borrow that set of kids
for a week or two. They might turn their
attentions to our state roads and schools
and give the tidelands a rest for awhile.
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A LADY, says the Sewi Awfomo (Tex.) A writer wants to know what could
Express “told members her agenda is be better than a cold shower before break-
heavy for the next three weeks.” fast. No cold shower before breakfast.
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KENNETH BOND, TOM CARTER.
Louis Morgan Associate Editor
Harvey Cherry, John Singletary Managing Editors
Clark Munroe Feature Editor
Mrs. Nancy Lytle Women’s Page Editor
Bill Billingsley — Wire Editor
T. Nanney - Book Editor
Alfred Johnston Religious Editor
Andy Davis Movie Editor
Alan Curry Circulation Manager
Kenneth Marak, Sam Lanford, R. Morales,
Frank Welch, C. W. Jennings Staff Cartoonists
Chuck Cabaniss Charles Kirkham Editorial Assistants
.Co-Editors
Art Howard Sports Editor
Don Engelking Assistant Sports Editor
Bob “Sack” Spoede, Bill Potts, Leon Somer, Frank
Simmen, Andy Matula, Fred Sommers Sports Reporters
Joe Trevino, Hardy Ross Photo Engravers
Dave Coslett, Frank' Cushing, Tex Fields, Otto Kunze,
Buddy Luce, Chuck Maisel, H. C. Michalak, Marvin
Rice, and Eddie Smith Feature Writers
Emil Bunjes, George Charlton, A. C. Gollob, Bruce
Hagee, R. C. Kolbye, Henry Lacour, Carley
Puckitt, Clayton Selph Staff Reporter*
“eeeek;”
Gent Warns About Easter
Bunny, Santa, Birds & Bees
The annual meeting of the Sou- somewhat erroneous impression
them Psychiatric Association was that her parents had gotten her
held in Dallas recently. (For the at the local grocery store as a
purpose of this column recently premium with a pound of coffee,
may be defined as any period with That’s enough to make a per-
in the past six months.) To the son swear off the caffeine-laden
assembled, learned gentlemen a
paper was presented on the dangers
arising from parents telling con
venient lies to. their children.
Using the theme of fighting
frankness with frankness, the fea- mobile. The comparatively easy
tured psychiatrist warned that the maneuver became higly complicat-
youngsters could be permanently ed before he had finished it how-
affected by parental untruths. He ever,
advised tactful explanation to the Starting out with a wide sweep
beverage.
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All a gent in San Pedro, Cali
fornia wanted to do was to make
a simple right turn in his auto-
wee ones when they brought up
such pertinent points as, “Where
did I come from?”
Not only the birds and bees were
under fire. The speaker also blast
ed Santa Clause and the Easter
to avoid the curb he rubbed his
auto against the side of a police
car. Unnerved he continued his
movement and banged into a
second police car.
Then his vehicle bounced into a
Letters To The Editor
Bunny. 4 s a concrete example third police car and darted across
resulting from lies to the children, the street to finish up the mess by
he told about one of his neurotic smashing into the private car of
patients. That one, up until her another policeman.
10th birthday, had run under the The combined officers escorted
Sneak Preview . . .
PRO AND CON
Editor, The Battalion:
It’s all very fine of the Batt to
allow two senators to write the
points for both sides of the Long
horn question. However, it seems
to me that, if you’re going to be
fair, you should have made the
“Con” senator stick his arguments
closer to the truth instead of the
pack of outright lies he came out
with which were calculated to
arouse the students emotionally
against the change.
For instance, Con says that there
is good reason to believe that TU
will grab off the name. He Cites
as his proof that the Daily Texan
carried an article about the pro
posed change before our own pap
er did.
It happens that the man who
wrote the original Letter to the
Editor in the Batt proposing the
switch had mentioned his inten
tions to a home-town friend of his
on the Texan staff and the latter
wrote a story about it in the TU
paper. This had no more signifi
cance than if some Sip had told a
Batt staffer that he planned to
write a letter to his paper about
some change there and the Aggie
had written a story about it. We
certainly know that an article in
the Batt doesn’t show the senti
ments of our school. No, Mr. Con,
you don’t have reason one to be
lieve that TU wants the name, do
you?
He also says that all the names
submitted are already in use by
other schools. Another bald lie!
It so happens that only one of
the twelve proposed names is
the name of another college’s
yearbook.
These are only two examples of
untruths ^with which the whole ar
ticle is filled. Mr. Con must think
Aggies are very stupid if he ex
pects them to fall for such tripe.
BILL BLEKER
PESTER THE SIPS?
Editor, The Battalion:
In the editoral opposed to chang
ing the name of the Longhorn in
Tuesday’s Batt, the writer makes
much of a point that wouldn’t it be
great fun to pester “Staunch Sip-
pers” with the fact that way back
at the beginning of the century
we beat them out by twelve years
with the name Longhorn ?
Frankly, I don’t believe we make
or change things at A&M to both
er sippers but to please Aggies,
and despite what happened in our
grandfather’s time, Longhorn isn’t
as pleasing a name to Aggies as
others could be.
He also ci’acked that Aggies
don’t care what outsiders think.
The h— we don’t. We’re interested
in people knowing and understand
ing the traditions and names in
our school. If we didn’t care what
outsiders think the Corps wouldn’t
bother to march miles down var
ious Texas main streets nor would
there be any talk of sportsman
ship, et cetera.
LYNDON M. CURRY v
IS LONGHORN SUITABLE?
Editor, The Battalion:
Thei’e has been much talk on
the campus and in your paper
about changing the name of the
school annual. To my mind, the
people on both sides have lost
sight of the real issue. They clut
ter up their talk with a lot of
blow about 45 years, what TU will
think, how many ex-Aggies can be
depended upon to turn in their
graves, how the name started, and
who got what before whom.
When the air is cleared from talk
by a lot of people trying to ap
pear wise, the question comes
down to this: Is the Longhorn a
suitable name for A&M and could
there be a more suitable one?
I pride myself on being able to
foi’m my own opinion without
worrying about what the boys from
TU think and that opinion is yes,
there is not only one but many
names which would be more of a
credit to A&M than the name of
the TU football team.
FLOYD HENKS
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NO LONGHORN IN THEIRS
Editor, The Battalion:
We, the undersigned, are mem
bers of various athletic teams at
Aggieland.
We wish to have it known—for
what it is worth—that we are very
much opposed to the name Long
horn being associated with any
phase of student activities at A&M
and favor changing the name of
our annual to some title more rep
resentative of the school for which
we play.
Herschel Maltz
Kenneth Huddleston
Guy Wallace
Pat Hubert
Jim Melcher
Jack A. Quirey
Fred Sommers
J.’ F. McCarty
Bill Henry
Leroy J. Bodeman
J. H. Henry
Fish Jones
Martin White
Raymond Perez
Henry Candelari
Russell Mays
Glenn Mulcahy
Pryse Metcalfe
Charles H. Hardin
Rod Sellers
Max Greiner
R. E. Daniel
Don Spears
Charles Clark
J. D. Hampton
Royce Raven
Don Nicholas
Andy Hillhouse
Johnny L. Rumfield
Robert Shaeffer
Bill Frazelle
Jimmy Gray
Bill McPherson
Joseph Savarino
Donald Harrell
Oil Company Seeks
College Students
From Middle East
Nationals of the Middle East
countries studying in US colleges
are being sought by the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey for
possible employment in Standard’s
Middle East affiliates, W. R. Hors
ley, A&M’s Placement Office direc
tor, announced today.
“We do not expect any jobs
to materialize for another year—
maybe two or three years—but we
should like to take advantage of
the opportunity while these men
are in the United States to become
acquainted with their qualifica
tions and to discuss the possibility
of employment,” Standard’s Over
seas Personnel Office stated in a
letter to Horsley.
(Djittk of
“Ye shall be witnesses unto
me” Acts 1:8
It is one thing to desire to be a
witness for Christ and another
thing to have the sort of power
needed to fulfil that desire. The
beautiful thing about the spoken
spiritual word is that both the
speaker and the listener can be
endued with power. When this is
true, the spoken -word in witness
ing and. the kindly deed in action
become forces ladened with seeth
ing possibilities. We will do well
to remember that God desires to
fill us with this kind of power.
Yes, God will give the power to
witness for him and will also give
the reward for having been a wit
ness for him.
Venus Comes to Life, And
Walker Loves It in Local Film
the unhappy one into the presence
of the police sergeant who had
been sitting in his office, an in
terested spectator to the proceed
ings. The driver was placed in a
ready cell under the charge of
drunk while driving.
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The height of something or oth
er was reached in the Portland of
fice of Western-Airlines. The cash
iers there had found that old money
in large quantities has an un
pleasant odor. (That, I have yet
to discover.)
To combat the offending smell
perfumed devices were installed;
Now the cashiers’ cages are con
stantly sweet smelling.
Notes can be too darned helpful
is the regretful decision of a Mil
waukee housewife. As a New Year
resolution she will no longer leave
informative messages upon her
front door.
The woman, off for a shopping
tour, jotted a note to an expected
insurance man and hung it upoft
the door. It said, “There will be
no one at home until 3 p. m.”
Upon returning she found that
her note had been replaced by an
other one’ which informed her,
“Sorry you were out.” So was
she; the house had been ransacked
during her absence.
By ANDY DAVIS
One Touch of Venus (U.I.)
starring Ava Gardner, Robert
Walker, Olga San Juna, Dick
Haymes, and Eve Arden. (Guion)
When a gorgeous hunk of marble
turns into a gorgeous hunk of fe
mininity, you can start, looking
for trouble. Robert Walker, a win
dow trimmer, kisses a statue of
Venus, and she comes to life in the
form of Ava Gardner. Walker is
accused by the store of stealing
the priceless statue, and accused
by his girl, Olga San Juan, of two
timing her, but in between the two,
he and Venus find time, for relax
ation.
Miss Gardner as the Goddess of
Love, exposes all her hidden
charms, including her vocals, the
gal can sing too. With a top mu
sical comedy plot, a name heavy
cast, and Venuses’ torso, its a joke
son, the film will move at a fast
pace.
★
Rogues’ Regiment (U.I.) star
ring Dick Powell, Marta Toren,
Vincent Price, and Stephen Mc
Nally. (Campus)
At the wars end, the Nuerem-
burg trials were held, bringing jus
tice to Hitler’s henchmen, that is
all except one man. Brunner re
mained with the Furher until the
end, and then disappeared. Army
Intelligence had only a posterior
picture of him to go by, and a fe\y
scattered clues.
Enlisting in the French Foreign
Legion, in Indo China, Powell be
gins the hazardous man hunt. He
tracks down one of Brunners as
sociates, but is beaten to the punch
by Brunner. In fact Powell is dis
covered before he discovers Who’s
on first. He and Brunner«*finally
slug it out, and you can figure
out the rest. Someone meets his
Waterloo dangling from a ropes
end, and it isn’t Powell.
Romance comes to the far
east, in the form of Marta To
ren, a french agent with a hun
gry voice. Theer is nothing spec
tacular about the film, but it is
fair entertainment.
Veterans Leaving
School to Get 15
Day Leave; Wilkins
Veteran students who leave
school at the end of this semester
will receive i5 days leave unless
they notify the Veterans Admin
istration at least 20 days in ad
vance that the leave is not desired,
Taylor Wilkins veterans’ adviser,
announced Wednesday.
The 15 days leave will deduct 15
days from the student’s time al-
loted under the Servicemen’s Aid
Law, Wilkins said.
Veterans who do not want the
leave should report to the Veterans
Advisor’s Office, Room 104, Good
win Hall, before January 10, Wil
kins said.
Consult
Dr. Carlton K. Lee
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