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EDITORIALS
Page 2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Good Lick, Traffic Committee . . .
Enlightening and encouraging to the
students of A&M is the report of the Stu
dent Senate Campus Security Committee
which was presented at the Wednesday
meeting of the Senate.
Campus feeling seems to be that the
committee has conducted a thorough in
vestigation and is in agreement with the
findings and recommendations of the
group.
We feel that the recommendation for
student representation on the Traffic
Committee would result in improved con
ditions if it were adopted. Since the stu
dents themselves are confronted with
every imaginable traffic problem which
occurs on the campus they certainly
should be in a good position to present all
the circumstances surrounding such prob
lems. The fact that students are members
of the committee which sets up the rules
should improve the general student atti
tude towards observance of those rules
and in general improve the students as
citizens.
The findings of the committee investi
gation and numerous statements by stu
dents in the past are proof that the second
recommendation to haVe this new Traffic
Committee study and revise all existing
traffic rules and regulations should be
followed. Monthly meetings of the group
would prevent the reoccurrence of mis
understandings such as now exist and
make it convenient to maintain an up to
date set of rules.
Adoption of a regular system of pub
lication for the rules and regulations
would prevent much of the hard feeling
which can be found among student offen
ders today. It should keep the students
from breaking the rules in the first place
-since most of the present violations seem
to be the result of ignorance of the rules.
Such publication would eliminate com
plaints like, “But how was I to know? I
never read anything about that regula
tion.”
Of the three specific proposals includ
ed in the fifth recommendation we agree
completely with the suggestions for set
ting up 15 minute parking spaces at stra
tegic areas and using easily-read and well
placed signs to mark all special zones,
parking areas, and danger points.
However, we feel that it is not neces
sary to ruin some of the small amount of
landscaping and scenery the campus row
has by using the area to the west of
Guion Hall for a parking lot. Rather we
would suggest that nearby streets, such
as Lamar Street, be used for parking those
cars which could not be accommodated in
the street parking areas about Goodwin
and Bizzell Halls if some of the present
space were used for 15 minute parking.
Walking a few feet might be more health
ful than inconvenient for those who had
to park at least a half block away from
their offices in that area.
A definite plan for the probation per
iod for parking regulation offenders is
a good idea. The acceptance of the other
recommendations probably would have the
effect of reducing the need for such pun
ishments.
The mature view point taken by the
Senate committee in considering the in
formation it gathered, and based its re
commendations on, is evident in the final
proposal which calls for strict compliance
from both students and officials with the
new rules and regulations to be written by
a revitalized Traffic Committee.
Our hats are off to the committee and
the Senate—and we hope that their recom
mendations receive the approval of the
college administration.
Noble Bank of College Station . . .
Every time we pass that naked con
crete vault at the North Gate our* heart
sort of leaps up. The fact that no habi
table building encompasses its nudity is,
we realize, a temporary arrangement.
Formerly the College Station State
Bank sheltered that formidable structure
from the sting of winter wind and de
predation of nocturnal villain. Now the
bank has fallen beneath the hammer’s
blow and crowbar’s twisting, and we a-
wait the phoenix-bank’s arising from the
ashes of its old self.
A handsome bank makes a community
rich. Although our funds on deposit are
no more than cigarette money, we feel
ourselves peers of Morgan and Ford when
we walk into a bright and solid hall where
wired windows, polished marbles of rich
est hue, broad expanses of sparkling space
and visible efficiency meet our glance.
It is Our Bank! We say it over and
over to ourselves until we almost begin to
believe it. Our Bank! A lump rises in our
throat and we swallow it away while
brushing a sleeve across our eyes.
In wartime we could not have the
bank of our dreams. The marble was
needed to build landing fields. The wire
of the cages had to enclose PWs. The war
and Navy Departments monopolized ef
ficiency. And our “long green” went to
war too.
It’s over now. The bankers have be
gun to construct our dream. We offer
them our gratitude for the service they
will render us and the beautifying they
will do to the North Gate, which also con
cerns us.
At last the sun has come from behind
the clouds. The phoenix is rising. A new
bank is a-building. America looks forward
to the future with dewey-eyed confidence.
But, darn it, we still have only cigar
ette money on deposit.
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Rep. Boykin is quoted by the Mont- “We are in complete accord on this
(joinery (Ala.) Advertiser as having said bribe. He’s going to take care of the states
the following regarding a project propos- part and I’ll handle the federal angles
ed by Governor Folsom of Alabama: . pTa7r
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