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EDITORIALS
Page 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
The Scouts Have a Birthday . . .
The week of February 6 to 12 has been
proclaimed Boy Scout Week by Mayor Er
nest Langford.
On this, the 39th anniversary of the
BSA, we might stop and observe the bene
fits of the organization we have come to
accept as a standard part of the American
scene.
In wholesome recreation and enter
tainment, scout organizations have always
been leaders.
The various phases of training offered
by the scouts have added to the educa-
Help for Our Stammerers
Speech correction has progressed into
a science since the days when the Greek
orator Demosthenes was said to have cur
ed his speech defect by talking with his
mouth full of pebbles.
Many colleges are doing much in the
field of speech correction while A&M re
mains in a stage not above that of the
Grecian Pebble Age. As a technical and
military college A&M turns out men train
ed to be leaders in many fields of endeav
or. Each of these fields demands vocal
expression; yet on this campus there are
between 300 and 500 students who are in
need, of some form of speech correction.
As a male college, A&M should take ah
additional interest for as in the case of
stammering, there exists a ratio of three
boys who stammer for every girl.
A speech correction clinic could be de
veloped here with little effort. One mem
ber of our college faculty is now complet
ing his PhD. in the field of speech cor
rection. With a few minor adjustments
Of class schedules, English 401 and 403
tion and breadth of knowledge of 15,500,-
000 Americans.
Always, scouting attempts to build
morals, character, and a love of independ
ence.
A great number of our own student
body and faculty have been, or are pre
sently, members or advisors of scout
groups. They offer a sound argument for
the benefits to be derived from scouting.
So on your 39th birthday, Boy Scouts
of America, we salute you- Ours is a better
country because of you.
• • •
could offer sections specially designed for
students seeking aid in correcting their
speech defects. The latest in equipment
and psychological tests could be made
available for these sections with little ex
pense.
We have the need and we have the
trained personnel but not the chance to
prove the benefits of a speech clinic. Is
any price too high if greater power of ex
pression can be given to A&M graduates.
Later, with experience gained from
these special speech classes, speech cor
rection could be enlarged and extended
placing A&M as a leader in still another
field of applied science.
A speech clinic is badly needed in this
section of the United States since no clinic
exists between the one at LSU on the east
coast and the one at UCLA on the west
coast.
Could we not do our bit for the esti
mated 5 per cent of our population suf
fering from various forms of speech de
fects?
Division Through Unification . . .
Unification of the armed forces has
merely brought division from two branch
es to three.
The fact of this division has been made
more evident by the present struggle by
each branch to gain a lion’s share of the
fourteen billion dollars budget allotment
for this year-
General Omar Bradley, in a Boston
speech last Friday night, presented the
case for the Army Ground Forces. He did
not think that a knockout blow could be
attained in another war by air power
alone. He felt the Navy’s role was only
that of a transportation branch to carry
and deposit ground forces in positions
strategic for ground attack on the enemy.
The Air Force is seeking huge appro
priations to build a striking force of long
range bombers capable of atom bombing
a nation into submission.
Navy men are convinced that the con
struction of an even larger navy spells
the difference between our winning or
losing the next war.
To listen to our military men one
would think war but a hair’s breath away.
Bradley, though admitting the immediate
danger of war has lessened, nevertheless
seemed to assume war in the future no
more uncertain than next fall’s football
season.
Upon this premise, that war is inevit
able in the not too distant future, military
men and others who will be far removed
from the battle fronts are building their
illogical but convincing arguments. They
are convincing enough to hasten us to
arm to the teeth, but is war necessarily in
evitable ? If so, why not plunge into a war
now that we would come nearer winning
than one a generation hence ?
War is the business of military men
and other American groups now beating
war drums. They remember the lush per
iods of power and profit that the last war
brought. And like a lion who has once
tasted fresh meat, they are obsessed to
have more.
If these desires of another war were
the ones who actually did the fighting,
their fervor would not be so intense.
Rather they would be like us who
would be sweating the artillery and small
arms fire. They would be hopefully pray
ing for continued peace, and saying,
“Peace is not so wild a dream.”
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A HOT ONE
Letters To The Editor •
Editor, The Battalion,
Last nite about eight-thirty as
we drove up College Station main
thoroughfare, we were confronted
with a solid line of cars from
Lipscombs to the Campus Theater.
We didn’t mind the cars parked in
the middle of the street in parti
cular, but when we found the en
trance to the Walton Hall parking
lot blocked we got a little peeved.
Not only is it against the laws( ? ?)
of the City of College Station to
park in the middle of the street,
but we also learned there is an
eight dollar fine attached should
the city marshall desire to line the
city treasury with a little golden
fleece.
I know none of us, Aggies that
is, could spare the eight bucks, but
maybe the people of College Sta
tion and Bryan can. There were
more cars without student tags
than there were with them parked
in the center of the street.
This is not ohly an inconvenience
having to drive a block out of your
way to get where you’re going, but
it is also a SePiotis traffic hazard.!
Not only to automobiles, hut pe
destrians crossing the street can
not see a car coming from either
direction when crossing the street
between the cars parked in the
middle.
We are sure the problem of
where the cars should park is not
the Student Senate committees’,
now investigating the traffic prob
lem on the campus, but the block
ing of the parking lot entrance is.
We thought through the Batt we
could get 1 the problem before the
committee and the city fathers of
College Station.
This is not the first time this
has happened or we wouldn’t have
squawked about it.
H. G- Smith, ’46
Charlie Munden, ’46
W. O. Stubbs, ’49
A. E. Rettig, ’49
L. L. Pittman, ’49
Editor, The Battalion,
Last . Monday, January 31, on re
turning to Beaumont, I gave two
Aggies a ride out of Houston to
the Baytown highway, at about
five in the evening. I believe that
both of them were Seniors.
When I arrived in Beaumont, and
unpacked my car, I discovered a
pair of gloves left by one of the
men on the floor of my cai\ These
are very fine gloves, and I believe
Official Notices
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
A few posts for -physics laboratory stu
dent assistantships for the present semester
are still open. Men who have completed
sophomore physics courses with superior
records are wanted to assist with instruc
tion, grading and the handling of appara
tus in the laboratories.
The scale of compensation is .60 per
hour for new assistants and .70 per hour
for experienced assistants. Men are es
pecially needed Thursday and Friday morn
ings. The opportunity for experience, as
well as earnings, should be considered.
Applicants are invited to apply at tHe
office of the department at their earliest
convenience.
J. G. POTTER
Head, Dept, of Physics
their loss was a had one for their
owner.
Unfortunately, I do not remem
ber their names, although both
men introduced themselves to me.
If, in any way, you can help me
contact the man who lost the glo
ves, I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
Just have him write me with a
brief description of the gloves and
identifying marks, and I’ll mail
them to him immediately, I drove
a maroon ’46 Chevrolet sedan, and
picked two men up near the comer
of Quitman and North Main in
Houston, near 5:30 in the evening
of Monday, January 31.
Your cooperation in this matter
is appreciated.
Sincerely,
Conrad Bering, Jr., ’43
{Think of (This
“I was hungry, and ye gave
me to eat; I was. thirsty, and ye
gave me to drink.” Matt- 25:35
A story -is told of a certain
Chinese trader who brought a very
valuable pearl to his king. He of
fered to sell the pearl for 600,000
ounces of silver. The trader claim
ed that the person who would keep
the pearl in his mouth would never
suffer thirst. The king refused to
buy the gem. He told the trader
that he could take the same value
in silver and buy enough rice to
save the lives of many of his
people. He was more interested in
the welfare of others than his own
desires. That is the way in which
Christ would have us to live. Let’s
try to do some small thing for
someone else every day.
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Sticking My Neck Out . . .
Assembly Hall Is Obstacle
Course For Any Final Exam
By C. C. MUNROE
Situated just 479 steps from
Proxy’s Fountain is one of this
college’s architectural hangovers,
the Assembly Hall. Unfortunately
it still stands, but does it have to
be used for final exams? Students
who survived the mental and phy
sic a 1 obstacle
course of finals
in that particul
ar builders’ mis
take don’t think
so.
Surely there
must have been
another place on
the campus to
hold the exams
that were held
in the Assembly
Hall, for, even
with some of the
ancient structures we have around
here, there must have been one or
two decent ' empty rooms where
those finals could have been given.
What is wrong with exams in
the Assembly Hall? Many things.
First, it is one of the most un
attractive places, both inside and
out, that we have on the campus.
It has very poor lighting and nine
times out of ten it is dirty. The
seats are hard enough when there
is good entertainment on the stage
and they get harder with each
lecture and exam given in the
place.
Then, to top it all off, those stu
dents who took exams in the
Assembly Hall last semester had
to endure temperatures that were
as low, and some claimed they
were even lower, than those out
side. It just doesn’t make sense.
One of the exams was an engi
neering final. Picture taking a
final like that with a slide rule on
one knee, a little lap board on the
other, and your knees bumping the
seat in front of you. Then try and
work out some problems using that
slide rule, figuring on scratch pa,-
per, and then juggling through
many pages of exam paper to re
cord your answer.
Add all that to the usual strain
of taking an engineering final or
any other kind of final and you
have a beautiful picture.
Classrooms are crowded and
space is at a premium, but surely
a little effort directed toward lo
cating a more suitable place for
giving final exams would pay off
in better grades.
Let’s not make the same mistake
twice.
It probably won’t be cold this
spring when exam time rolls
around, but it probably will be hot
and survivors tell of temperatures
that can’t be equalled when the
sun shines on the shaky walls of
the Assembly Hall.
★
If you stick around long enough
you can pick up some good ideas
at a bull session, for sooner or
later somebody in the crowd will
hit on a subject that, when it is
fully explored, can bring out some
pretty good points.
Well, one of these good ideas
was brought out the other evening
up in the dorm. “Why,” one of the
men asked, “is that course in pub
lic speaking always listed as a
senior subject ? It seems to me that
it would make a lot better course
for freshman, for a lot of guys do
more public speaking in college
than they’ll ever do when they get
out.”
That seems to make sense.
Why wait until a man is just
about to graduate before teach
ing him the fine points, or even
the rough points, of public speak
ing?
There are countless opportunities
for an undergraduate to do public
speaking, even if it’s only in class
or pei’haps at a club dinner or
someplace like that. But, the idea
is, if he is taught the rudiments of
good public speaking early in his
college life then he can apply them
where they will do him the most
good.
Look at it this way. Even with
today’s large classes there is some
opportunity for class discussion.
This discussion is only as good as
the ideas the speakers possess, but
even good ideas are useless unless
they can be expresed well. A fresh
man course in public speaking will
give each man the background nec
essary to enable him to express
his ideas. On the other hand, a
man who hasn’t had training in
public speaking may be hesitant in
speaking out when he feels he has
something to add to class discus
sion.
A&M’s public speaking course is
called “Speaking for Professional
Men.” Is there any reason why it
must be limited to men who have
almost completed their professional
work? Maybe we would be better
professional men if we learned to
speak well at the same time we
learned to be professional.
A&M Radio Club
To Elect Officers
The A&M Radio Club will elect
officers Monday night at 7:15 in
Room 102, Electrical Engineering
Building, according to Stanley Nel
son, reporter for the organization.
He said plans for the coming
year will be discussed.
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