Battalion
EDITORIALS
Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Glad to Have You With
There is no personal welcoming service
at A&M to extend to every new student
the - handshake and welcome to our cam
pus. It is through this sincere, but ad
mittedly, impersonal medium that our
welcome is extended.
■ •-'Whether you are a junior college trans
feree, a veteran just out of the service, or
a new college student you will find your
selection of colleges just about what you
make it.
^—A&M is a friendly school if you are
friendly and want to help keep it that way.
Most everybody here says “howdy” when
they pass someone on the way to class or
enrotue to the post office. Most every
body introduces himself when he sits next
to you in class or in a booth or at the chow
table. Most everybody will be friendly and
helpful in giving directions and giving you
the word on certain courses.
What This Country Needs
It’s not a good five cent cigar that
America needs, it’s a good thousand dol
lar automobile.
Prices of the so-called low priced cars
have increased into price fields usually
reserved for big cars.
True, the comforts, size, and mechani
cal advantages of the low priced automo
biles equal, or surpass those of big cars
manufactured in the thirties. But the void
left in the thousand-to-fifteen-hundred
dollar bracket has not, and seemingly, will
hot be filled-
! English and French models could be
gold for a thousand dollars but import
taxes boost their selling prices to within
two or three hundred dollars of our fif
teen hundred-dollar plus low priced cars.
Importation, however, is not the logical
solution to the low priced car problem. The
solution would be in American industry
The Passing Parade . ..
: Here are some kind words spoken re
cently in Houston.
Texas, no longer a pioneer outpost is
developing cultural and artistic life in
pace with material riches, Dr. Radoslav
A. Tsanoff, head of the philosophy de
partment of Rice Institute, told the philo
sophical society of Texas tonight.
Dr. Tsanoff spoke on “The Creative
Arts in Texas.”
“The astonishing economic and indus
trial advance of Texas has engaged the
Interest of eastern journalists,” said Dr.
Tsanoff. “But their offhand dismissal of
Culture prompts us to analyze our situa
tion in strict and severe justice.”
; In Texas the progress of the creative
arts was traced in many fields.
Among them the speaker cited numer
ous-schools now devoting attention to the
creative impulses of students in music, the
drama, painting and sculpture, aesthetics
and criticism.
An example in choral music is the
North Texas State Teachers’ College at
Denton, where Texas boys and girls sing
masterpieces. This group has appeared
Us . . .
A&M is an unfriendly school if you
judge the student body by the greater-
than-two-percent who are not so friendly.
By the greater-than-two-percent we mean
those who do not say “howdy” when you
pass, who don’t introduce themselves, or
who grudgingly give directions.
You see, we have all types of people
here. We have pur cranks like anywhere
else, only here they seem more radical.
But the cranks are relatively few.
A lot of the people who don’t say
“howdy”, or introduce themselves aren’t
what we’d call cranks. They are just neg
ligent, and not thinking of the traditions
they are murdering.
We think you will like it here. There
is something about A&M that grows on
you. And once an Aggie, always an Aggie.
Good luck, and good grade-pointing.
• O •
producing automobiles priced in the neigh
borhood of a thousand dollars for home
markets.
American automobile manufacturers
now design and produce cheap little cars
for foreign markets where selling prices
and gasoline efficiency are primary con
siderations. These smaller and more eco
nomical automobiles do not reach our
home market where undoubtedly there
would be a large demand. Rather, larger,
higher priced cars getting half the gaso
line mileage of the little cars are the only
ones made available.
Instead of pointing toward, and pro
ducing for, this thousand dollar market,
automobile producers plan bigger and
more expensive cars for the future.
Too many Americans are finding them
selves priced out of buying a new car. The
automobile has returned to its early status
of being a luxury rather than a necessity.
with the Houston and Dallas orchestras.
Three Texas symphony orchestras,
Tsanoff said, have risen above mere re
gional interest and are reaching high ar
tistic rank.
In drama the record of achievement is
not so striking, but decentralization from
the East has started. Texas playwrights
can have their work performed at home.
Museums and libraries have been de
veloped. One of the notable American col
lections of English literature is at Aus
tin. The school of fine arts at the Univer
sity of Texas has made great progress.
San Antonio, Houston and Dallas cooper
ate to show the works of Texas artists.
The distinguished work of the Texas
folklore society under the long leadership
of J. Frank Dobie was mentioned.
We know this will come as a distinct
shock to a minor element in our school,
but nevertheless, there it is. If these “anti
culture” lads aren’t too shocked by the as
sociation of that word with our state, they
might get their forces marshalled in time
to hoot at the next performer that donates
his services to Guion Hall.
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Louis Morgan Associate Editor
Bill Billingsley — Wire Editor
Harvey Cherry, Art Howard, Otto Kunze,
John Singletary Managing Editors
Chuck Cabaniss, Charles Kirkham,
Mack Nolen Editorial Assistants
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Frank Welch, C. W. Jennings Staff Cartoonists
FROZEN
Letters To The Editor •
RIDICULOUS SECURITY
Editor, The Battalion:
Down through the years, I have
yet to see much accomplished
through this column, but be that
as it may, I am still burned up.
The main purpose in mind is to
call attention of my grievances to
the Student Senate Committee in
vestigating the Campus Security
Office.
Now, I realize that this office
has certain duties it must perform.
I do not question the authority to
distribute their parking tickets. I
do not question their determination
as to what is “off limits” to stu
dent cars. But I do mind some
body else taking the rap for me.
It seems that I borrowed a car
from a very good friend of mine. I
had some business to attend to and
I also wanted to take my wife to
Guion Hall to see the Olympic
movie. I noticed that what ap
peared to be a student cars park
ing lot behind H^rt Hall, so I left
the buggy there and the wife and
I enjoyed the movie.
On returning to the car, I find
that I haven’t been parking be
hind Hart Hall at all, but at
the Southeast corner of the C. E.
Building, according to the ticket
I found on the window.
I wasn’t particularly disturbed.
0. K., I had made a mistake, so I
pay for it. I dash across to Good
win Hall and the Securities Office
and ask that this violation of the
rules be stricken from the record
of my friend and that I be fined or
whatever they do to parking viola
tors. The secretary informs me,
after finding out that I have no
car of my own, that my buddy is
out of luck.
Still restraining myself, I re-
of ®f)tg
“God gave the increase,” 1
Cor. 3:6b.
Many Aggies have come to A&M
to study agriculture. They will go
back home with greatly enlarged
learning on the subject. They will
know about the seed to plant, and
the type of cultivation to use, and
the fertilizers that are- most ef
fective. They will know too about
harvesting and marketing the crop.
But the whole thing is missing the
mark unless those same Aggies
learn to believe in the God who is
back of nature, causing those re
sults.
NOTICE
College Station State Bank is presently
located in the Homer Adams Insurance
Agency. This building is located adjacent to
the Student Co-op Store.
The bank will occupy this building until the
early part of April during construction of
our building.
COLLEGE STATION STATE
BANK
College Station, Texas
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Letters
called to her that the laws of the
state clearly point out that I’m
the guilty one, since I was driving
the car, and not acting as an agent
for this buddy of mine. Once again
she smiles sweetly and’say, “WE
have our own laws here.” My hea
vens! I always thought A&M was
a foreign country and now I am
sure of it.
If this Student Senate really
means business, they will please
find out why a man is not covered
(protected) by the laws of the
state and county here on the cam
pus.
I’m probably sticking my neck
out, since this is state property,
and special laws prevail, so
hang me. It does seem rather
stupid, naive, insipid, and ridi
culous to punish someone else
for a mistake that I made.
By the way, you may most cer
tainly print my name. I have cer
tain rights that come from a much
higher source than the Security
office.
MILT FRENKEL, ’46
(Editor’s Note: We are refer
ring this letter to the committee
in question for their information
and use.)
suit of underwear is worth some
thing this day.
Will mail it if he wants it. One
of the boys said he lived in Galena
Park but my husband didn’t re
member the names. They were very
nice young men, he said.
MRS. H. .1. FOX
7346 Avenue F
Houston, 11, Texas .
5 Ag Engineers
Attend Meeting
Five A&M agricultural engineers
attended the agricultural engineer
ing section of the .Southern Agri
cultural Workers Association’s an
nual meeting at Baton Rouge, La.,
January 31-February 2.
They were W. L. Ulrich, P. f.
Montfort, H. F. Miller, Jr., F. E.
Lichte, and H. P. Smith.
Representatives of the southwest
and southeast sections of the
American Association of Agricul
tural Engineers met Feb. 2 in a
joint program on cotton mechani
zation. Miller discussed “Planting
Cotton to a Stand” $nd Smith
“Stalk Disposal and Land Prepara
tion for Cotton.”
WHO LOST HIS ?
Editor, The Battalion:
My husband took two of the
students to Houston Saturday from
your college and one of the boys
left a canvas bag with some under
wear and his toerth brush in it.
Now please ask about this and let
me know what to do with it. It
doesn’t have a key, therefore hesi
tated in mailing it. After all, a
BENEDICTION
St. Mary’s Chapel
TONIGHT—WED., FEB. 2ND.
7:30P.M.
A meeting of the technical com
mittee on cotton mechanization was
held February 3. Smith was a
member of this committee.
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