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EDITORIALS
Page 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Everybody Wants in The Act . . .
Here is an editorial published in one of
the professional trade papers. The situa
tion described is general, but it hardly
ever happens locally. Only five or six
times a day.
When this happens to you—beware.
It may happen regularly. It requires tact
and diplomacy In handling. It usually
arises when least expected and when you
are facing your busiest part of the week.
The Respected Subscriber enters your
office.
“May I have a moment of your time,
Bill?” he asks.
“Of course,” you say.
“Is there some place where we may
talk privately?” he asks.
You lead him to a quiet corner behind
a pile of newsprint—or into your inner
office.
“Now here’s the problem,” Mr. R. S.
begins. “We have a little situation in our
neighborhood. You know we have just
about the best homes in town up on our
hill. Every one of ’em cost $15,000 or more.
Now there is a move to put up some pre
fab houses there. Those prefabs will cut
the value of our property. We don’t like
it!”
As an editor of some experience, you
brace yourself for what’s coming.
“Now, we had a meeting the other
night,” your Respected Subscriber con
tinues. “We formed a little informal or
ganization to fight this. We want to bring
the whole matter out in the open with
facts and figures. We want you to do
something about it.”
You marshal your ideas into three bat
talions and prepare for a regimental at
tack.
“What would you like?” you ask—
politely.
“Nothing much,” your R. S. smiles.
“We thought you could write an editorial
—put it on the front page, maybe. You
might even run a few pictures of our fine
homes and compare them with the pre
fabs. Go down to the city hall and dig up
the assessments on our places. Figure out
how much it would cost the city. Get some
dope on how lousy these new-fangled
homes can be. Blast the whole thing wide
open. You know it is no good for the
town.”
You shift in your chair to ask the
question which you know will be negative
ly answered, then you demand:
"Can I use your name in the matter?”
R. S. booms forth. “No, now we would
n’t like that. After all, we don’t want to
appear snobbish about this. People will
get the wrong idea. Just work it out as
an editorial campaign for the paper. We’ll
back you up after your paper comes out.
It will be a feather in your cap—getting
something like this taken care of for the
city.”.
Of course, there are more words to
the dialogue. You know the rest. No
names, no statements, no figures—but,
plenty of “backing” and “moral support.”
Of course, you refuse. If you’re lucky,
you get out.of it without losing R. S. and
his cohorts. If not, they’ll come back.
Someway, readers of papers must be
told that “editorial campaigns” are not
merely things written.
They are, first, programs designed for
the good of the community the paper
serves.
Secondly, if they are of far reaching
proportions, they may start with mention
in editorial columns but that is only the
beginning. To push a campaign to a suc
cessful conclusion, there should be an or
ganization of manpower to help. The or
ganization should be ready or definitely
assured, when the editorial breaks.
The place for the material which this
particular R. S. offers is in the news col
umns or in the letters-to-the-editor de
partment. If the neighbors, in this situa
tion, did form a “little informal organiza
tion” let it be a news story. If it is one
man’s opinion let it be made an open
letter—with the signed letter on file in
the newspaper’s office.
Editors will be accosted with these
ideas in many forms—somebody wants
better streets, another doesn’t like a cer
tain teacher who is. a “communist,” some
one else thinks the city is spending too
much money.
Some of them will be good ideas—
programs which you may want to accept
and expand.
A good editor is editorially fearless—
but he is smart enough to be sure of his
calculations.
Idea From Arkansas . . .*
The honorable gentleman from Lewis
ville, Arkansas, State Senator A. M. Shi-
rey gave his Ozarkian colleagues some
sure-fire head-line material last week
when, he introduced a bill to require both
students and teachers at state colleges to
sign non-communist oaths.
“If this bill becomes law,” the senator
cackled, “You’ll see a lot of resignations
handed ill.”
Arkansans could do better than re
sign ; they could work to defeat the sena
tor in the next election and rid Arkansas
if its.sepcial political blight.
Non-communist oaths are amazingly
effective in freeing governments and fa
culties of men of integrity and principle
pa-safe ,
who are not communists (a communist
would sign without qualm). Their creed
of democracy is to practice what other
men only preach. The preaching element,
notoriously a group of many words and
few principles, signs anything within
range of its Eversharp.
Men who care to see this American
experiment work will not stand for such
idiotic balderdash. It is contrary to our
democratic heritage. And the Communist
Party has yet to be outlawed.
Arkansa’s senate could concern itself
with resolutions against sin and groqnd-
hogs as our legislature does and be better
occupied than it is with this pernicious
oath-swearing nonsense.
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KENNETH BOND, TOM CARTER.
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
Emil Bunjes, A. C. Gollob, R. C. Kolbye, Henry
Lacour, Carley Puckitt, Clayton Selph, Marvin
Brown —Staff Reporters
Joe Trevino, Hardy Ross Photo Engraver*
Clark Munroe Feature Editor
.Co-Editors
Dave Coslett, Frank Cushing, George Charlton,
Buddy Luce, Chuck Maisel, H. C. Michalak,
Marvin Rice, Carroll Trail Feature Writers
Bob “Sack” Spoede, Bill Potts Sports Editors
Leon Somer, Frank Simmen, Andy Matula,
Scotty Swinney, Travis Brock, Ben
Lambkin, Frank Manitzas Sports Reporters
Mrs. Nancy Lytle Women’s Page Editor
Alfred Johnston Religious Editor
Andy Davis Movie Editor
Kenneth Marak, Sam Lanford, R. Morales,
Frank Welch, C. W, Jennings Staff Cartoonists
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TSCW Dateline . . .
Preparations Underway For
Annual Tessie Stunt Night
By JEANINE BROWN
Annually there is a night set
aside for the presentation of what
we call class stunts. This stunt
can be in any form—pageant, play
musical, and has to conform only
to the rule on time limits. Each
class is alloted by the college a
hundred dollars for expense of cos
tumes and scenery. Stunts are writ
ten by anyone
who has a brain
storm that can
be worked into
a productio n,
and the ideas
are presented to
the stunt com
mittee of the
respective clas
ses.
Then comes—
Stunt Night!
The object of
all this effort
is of course to win the loving cup
and to have that triumphant class
feeling which comes with a win
ning stunt. We began last year
having two nights for presentation
of stunts in order for everyone to
see them, and the judges attend
each night. On the last night the
judges have, their debate and de
cide on the best all-round stunt.
Class spirit is at a higher peak
during this time than at any other
Letters
ROSES?
Editor, The Battalion:
For the Officers, Directors, and
the Stockholders (94 by the last
count) of this bank, I wish to ex
press our profound thanks and ap
preciation for the very fine article
which appeared as an editorial in
your issue of February 11.
We were particularly flattered
in your statement “It is our bank”
because in building this little
banking institution we have had
the convenience of the students
uppermost in our minds. The bank
is being built on its present site
because, of the few available sites,
this one seemed to serve your in
terest best. We shall be very proud
indeed if we can continue to merit
the confidence and goodwill of the
student population to the extent
that they will feel that it is their
bank.
The problems are many, but
by constant attention and earn
est effort, we shall solve them,
and thereby improve cur service
to you and to the community as
experience dictates.
Your reference to cigarette
money also touched a tender spot
of sympathy, because the. bank is
• literally owned by people with
“cigarette money.” Some of your
instructors own stock in this bank,
maybe it’s one share, maybe five
or six. The great majority of
stockholders own from one to
twenty-five shares. So we are all
in the same boat in this respect.
In closing, I want to most sin
cerely thank the students, and all
the patrons of this bank for their
sympathetic understanding, and
their enduring patience in our
problems.
Harold Sullivan,
Executive Vice President
College Station State Bank
APE STACKS UP THE COINS
SYDNEY, Australia—(A*)—Tang,
Melbourne Zoo’s orang-outang, is
orderly. On holidays Tang is of
fered many coins by visitors. Re
cently his keeper found a neatly
stacked pile of pennies in a corner
• of his cage. Tang’s takings for
the day amounted to $1.48.
time of the year. We even have
yells and songs before stunts to
prove it!
Monday night the stunt scripts
were chosen. The senior stunt was
written by Betty Grace Chatham,
business major from Houston, and
Jean Harris, senior president and
speech major from Denton.
Writers of the junior stunt are
Peggy Lawler, English major from
New Orleans, and Jean Darnell,
recreation major from Amarillo.
The sophomore stunt was writ
ten by Christine Peterman, organ
major from Chillicothe, and Pa
tricia Massey, foods and nutri
tion major from Dallas.
A courageous freshman wrote
their stunt with no collaboration—
she is Frances Ann McCasland, so
ciology major from McKinney.
The all-important dates of
Stunt Night are March 11 and
12, though rehearsals will begin
the twenty-fourth of this month.
Naturally, this will be the main
topic of conversation now—that
is, after people stop talking
about the Vaughn Monroe week
end.
The ones who got to attend the
festivities at A&M on “that” week
end were very much impressed—
the review, concert and broadcast,
and the dance. It seems to have
been a huge success, and one of
the most spectacular weekends
since the Corps Trip! Will we see
you, and you, and you staring at
us from the pages of LIFE?
Would be nice ....
RUSSIANS FORM CZECH CLUB
PRAGUE—CP>—A club for So
viet citizens in Czechoslovakia has
been formed and official accounts
said it would number 2,000 at the
start. The club will have a library
and reading room with 40,000
books and Soviet magazines. Its
work will supplement that of the
Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship
society.
of
“The fruit thereof shall be for
food, and the leaf thereof shall
be for healing.” Ezekiel 47:12.
In Ezekiel’s vision, he saw a riv
er flowing from God. The river
grew ever deeper and wider and
brought to man all of the food and
healing power needed for the phy
sical body. It also was bringing
the things that man needed for
his spiritual body. It is still true
that mans needs are supplied by
the*grace of God; however, we can
each help to get the things to the
person who is in need by helping
to dig channels through which the
love of God can run.
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STEEL COTS AND ARMY FOLDING COTS
Sticking My Neck Out . . .
Plan Offered To Get Boot
Buyers, Sellers Together
By C. C. MUNROE
Now is the time of year that
juniors start counting their wam
pum and the seniors start looking
for juniors with wampum to count
for now is the time that the fast
and furious dealings concerning
senior boots begin.
As regular as spring itself,
every senior who wants to sell his
boots begins
looking for a
customer, and
every junior
with a chance
of staying in
school for an
other year be
gins to look for
boots to buy.
For those who
want to buy
new boots the
process is sim
ple. But, for
those who want to look around for
a second, third, or even fourth
hand pair, the situation is differ
ent. Up until now the sellers and
buyers have gotten together as
best they could. Some resorted to
elaborate signs posted around the
campus. Others set up shop with
a few pairs of boots and tried to
out-Holick Holick. For the remain
der, it has been strictly a hit or
miss proposition.
Well, if something could be
done to bring the buyers and
sellers together with the least
amount of lost motion then it
should make everyone concerned
happy.
One thing that might do the
trick is a boot exchange, sort of an
information center where anyone
wanting to get or get rid of boots
could turn to for help. Here is
how it would work.
A centrally located file would
have to be established. Then, every
man who had boots to sell would
file, on a three by five card, his
name, address, foot and calf size,
and.perhaps the price he wanted
for his boots. This would be placed
in the central file, arranged by
boot size.
Then, every junior who wanted
to buy a pair of used boots would
have only to go to the file, check
the cards, and find the men who
had boots for sale.
Working along the same idea,
another file could be established to
take care of the exchange of in
formation about boot pants. It
would work in exactly the same
mapner.
Since the yearly flurry of boot
trading has already begun, the
sooner such a file is started the
better it will be.
So, with this in mind the pow
ers that be in the corps staff
have agreed to sponsor such a
file in the guard room. Begin
ning Wednesday, if you have a
pair of boots to sell you will be
able to file, on a three by five
card, all the information per
taining to your boots in a guard
room filing box. Include on the
card your name, address, foot
and calf size, and perhaps your
asking price.
If you want to sell your boot
pants, put all the necessary sizes
plus your address on a second card
and file it in another filing box
you’ll find in the guard room Wed
nesday.
For those of you who want to
make use of the boot file and
boot pants file, just remember
that it will take only one man to
mess the works up.
Keep the cards in order—for the
boots, by foot size; for the pants,
by waist size. Don’t remove a card
unless you actually buy the arti
cles. And, pass the word around,
Forest Service To
Present Lecture
Everett F. Evans, school spec
ialist of the Texas Forest Service,
will present an illustrated lecture
on forestry in Texas at the next
meeting of the Agronomy Society,
February 22 at 7:30, John Endrizzi
Agronomy Society president, said
today.
This series of approximately 50
color slides portrays the forestry
resources and industries of Texas
and the importance of trees as a
renewable resource. Included in
the series are scenes showing the
importance of forest in soil, water
and wildlife conservation.
“Forestry in Texas” has been
shown to many school and civil
groups, Endrizzi said. During the
current school year 3,000 children
in nine Dallas schools have heard
this illustrated lecture.
BULOW JOINS
B&A FACULTY
E. R. Bulow, assistant professor,
recently joined the staff of the
Business arid Accounting Depart
ment, Dean M. T. Harrington an
nounced today. Bulow received his
B. A. degree from the University
of Utah and his Masters from Cor
nell University.
for the more people who partici
pate the more chance you will have
to find what you are looking for,
whether it be a customer or a
seller.
Civil Service
Board Reports
Job Openings
Applications for Engineer-Trai
nee examination will be accepted
by the Executive Secretary, Cen
tral Board of U. S. Civil Service
Examiners, Bureau of Reclama
tion, Denver Federal Center, Den
ver, Colorado, until March 8, 1949
according to a bulletin from the
Civil Service Commission.
From the examination will be
made appointments to jobs pay
ing $2,498 and $2,724 a year for
the grade SP-4, students having
completed two years of engineer
ing curriculum, and SP-5, those
having completed three years of
engineering curriculum, respective
ly. However, the bulletin explain
ed, that applications will be ac-.
cepted only from students who
will satisfy the requirements by
June, 1949.
These jobs are for summer posi
tions also, ip that the applicant
may be granted leave without pay
to continue his schooling. An in
crease in scholastic training will
warrant an increase in salary with
out further written examinations.
The range covered by the work
will be the area of the Bureau of
Reclamation; that is, Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah, North Dakota, South Dako
ta, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas.
The age limits are a minimum
of 18 and a maximum of 35, ex
cept in the case of veterans the
age limits will be waived. Also,
veterans are told, the federal pol
icy of veteran preference will be
exercised, that is, 5 points added
for active service during war, and
10 points for disabled veteran.
The bulletin warns that applica
tions must be on file not later than
March 8, 1949.
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