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EDITORIALS
Page 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Great Issues-Grows and Grows
Great Issues has been a whopping suc
cess so far this semester.-
The course is going strong and morale
in the class seems to be very high. Last
year about this time we remember the
course was beginning to fag, soon after it
began to fizzle, and it wound up the
semester with the bang of a soggy fire
cracker.
Someone or some group has done much'
ulanning to resurrect the Great Issues
course and merits a commendation. Great
Issues Seniors feel that the course is sti
mulating, interesting, and educational.
Next year our Great Issues course has
a chance to be even more successful. Re
cently the Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of Texas voted to create a Great
Issues Tor the University.
Perhaps A&M and the University can
Come Into This House .
Fla~g manufacturers may find their
business booming soon if Congress acts
on the recommendation of the House Ter
ritories Subcommittee. The subcommittee
unanimously agreed to a bill to admit
Hawaii to the Union with full statehood.
Alaskan statehood is also being consider
ed. ■;
Admission of Hawaii and Alaska will
provide migraine headaches for song
writers, orators and poets. Through the
years, ithose citizens have laboriously ac
cumulated all possible rhymes for “forty-
eight.’’ Now they must discard them and
begin matching “fifty” with “drifty,”
jgiftvd ‘rifty,’ ‘lifty,’ ‘nifty,’ ‘shifty,’ ‘rif-
Ty,’ ‘swifty,’ ‘thrifty,’ ‘adrifty,’ and ‘up-
lifty.’ The vocabulary of rhymes in the
dictionary helps.
Orators must change their stock, dra
matic phrases to. mention the new arrivals.
The Passing Parade . ..
Some Harvard anthropologists have
been out measuring GTs to find out how
to make Army clothes fit better. After
their long and serious months of measur-
ments, they have come out with a con
clusion that might stir some Texans into
going up Harvard way and smoke-out
those scientists.
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We suppose that from now until an
other world dictator shows up, rum
ors will keep coming around. Anyway
here is the latest one from Duesseldorf:
Ruhr police today started a hunt for
a mystery woman said to be hiring agents
to spread propaganda that “Hitler is
*
A former highway patrolman, said the
Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimitar, “drew
a sentence of two years for operating a
moonshine still in Federal Court at Knox
ville.”
work together to obtain prominent speak
ers that one of our schools could not get
by itself. Men could be induced to come
“down to Texas” to lecture to the Great Is
sues classes of Texas’ two largest schpols.
Whether active collaboration will be
made or not, we still welcome the intro
duction of a Great Issues course at the
University. We do not say that to be fol
lowed with “we thought of it first.”
Courses such as Great Issues are pro
gressive steps in the field of education.
Students at every college or university
should have such a course offered.
To date only a few colleges have ven
tured Great Issues courses. With the ad
dition of the University, another promi
nent educational institution in TWas mov
es forward in giving its students oppor
tunities for broader, less technical-ized ed
ucation.
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“From the rock-bound coasts of Maine to
the sea-washed beach of Waikiki to the
rock-bound coasts of cold Alaska” will
provide a grammatical stumbling block
for more than one politico.
Opposition will arise from economists
and traditionalists who will roar that (1)
it will cost too much to change all the
flags or (2) that the blue field is too sac
red to be altered one stitch. No opposition
is expected from the flag makers.
Opposition will arise from the boost
ers and slogan-makers of Texas who will
feel that they have lost their greatest ob
ject of pride. After the consummation,
Texas will no longer be the largest state—
Alaska has 319,061 more miles than the
Lone Star.
No opposition will be forthcoming
from The Battalion. The Batt thinks the
Union neither too old to have more chil
dren nor too great to become greater.
These scholarly measures of the hu
man frame have concluded that Texans
were inferior to New Englanders in mus
cular development.
Obviously these well meaning gentle
men have never heard the universally ac
cepted statement, “We play in Texas
rougher than they fight in New England.
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alive and will return soon.” A flood of
leaflets has appeared during the last week
in this industrial region.
If the little man with the big mus
tache is still alive and does show up he
will just have to get in the bread line with
the rest of the big-wigs.
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WEDDING NOTE to be preserved is
this one in the St. Petersburg (Fla.) In
dependent :
“Immediately after the ceremony a re
ception was hell in the church parlors.”
The Battalion
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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
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Lampkin, Frank Manitzas Sports Reporters
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Frank Welch, C. W. Jennings Staff Cartoonists
RETURN OF THE FATTED CAl^F
Letters To The Editor
Letters
TOO EARLY FOR CADENCES
Editor, The Battalion:
Having neither the desire to be
sarcastic nor the ability to be wit
ty, may I simply ask the person
or persons responsible for the
mass cadence count at 7 a. m.
each morning whether this has
any purpose other than to wake up
the veterans of Mitchell, Leggett,
and Milner Halls ?
According to “the manual,” mass
commands are practiced for the
purpose of building confidence,
coordination and “espirit de corps”
of the troops ....
I can hardly believe that the
future athletes of A&M are lack
ing in any of these qualities or
that this mass cadence practice
has their achievement in mind.
N. A. “So Tired” McLain
Class of ’42
Official Notice
SENIORS
Seniors, graduating in June, July, or
August, 1919, who plan to order a set of
personnel leaflets must order these leaflets
not later than March 10. Orders for
leaflets will not be taken after March 10th,
until September, 1949.
Cost of Leaflets—$5 plus glossy applica
tion size photograph.
Where to Order—Placement Office, Room
230, Administration Building.
WENDELL R. HORSLEY,
: \, Director,
Placement Office.
NTAC Exes Club
To Elect Officers
Twenty-five former NTAC stu
dents met Wednesday night to
form an NTAC exes club.
Dick Scbtt , former footb a 11
squadman, acted as temporary
chairman in framing the constitu
tion.
A special meeting was called for
Wednesday night in the Civil En
gineering Lecture Room to elect
officers.
Think Of This
“ . .. the unknown God. Whom
therefore ye ignorantly worship,
him declare I unto you.” Acts
17:23.
As is shown in Paul’s story to
the heathern peoples, man needs
a revelation of God beyond that
mere proof of nature. Nature does
portray the divine glory of God,
but only the Bible, God’s own
words, has the power to fully show
him in his great fullness. If you
are seeking for a pathway through
the wilderness, a light for the
darkness and a comfort for the
troubles of life, seek for God while
he may be found.
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HE WAS THERE
Editor, The Battalion:
Not long ago, the beginning of
the semester to be exact, we were
all griping about the cost of books
and how many of them we had to
buy for our various courses. It
got pretty discouraging to find a
new book was being used and our
practically new copy was out of
date. How many of us can realize
what it would be like to have no
books?
Sounds pretty nice doesn’t it,
but if you were actually in that
situation education wouldn’t be
easy. Perhaps you would be ready
to join the first group who came
to help you or who promised to
make things better for your coun
try. That is the situation in Europe
today.
The students there don’t have
enough books to gripe about. Ours
cost money while theirs cost hours
of copying another’s book. Maybe
the shacks seem cold or hot but it
could be worse with no roof or no
windows as are the schools in
Europe today. Those students are
not asking for buildings or any
other big things. They want only
paper and supplies to help them
have the chance we have now.
The European student is mental
ly older than you and I, and he is
interested in his country in an ac
tive way. Sure, we are interested
in our government too but those
students are working to better
the government they have. They
are afraid of the communists, yet
I met several who were ready to
join them if they did strike at the
countries there. They felt that any
change would be better than what
they had now.
If they get aid from the United
States and particularly from stu
dents like themselves it stands to
reason that they won’t go against
their only chance for help. They
will someday be the leaders over
there and aren’t likely to forget
those w T ho help them when they are
down.
How do I fit into this picture?
By some streak of luck and some
hard work by the authorities of
the college I was a member of a
WSSF group traveling in Europe
this summer. We met the students
our aid had gone to in the past
and everywhere we went we were
as welcome as gals here at A&M.
We were entertained as only the
Europeans know how and they did
all they could to show us gratitude
for our past help. I think we
should go all out for this present
drive not because of the good
times shown us but because of the
good it will do our nation in the
future.
Let’s all see if we can’t do our
best to make a real contribution
this year. Four bits won’t squeeze
anybody over a years time. Maybe
you’ll miss a show, a card game, or
a few bottles of brew out at Ed’s,
but it will also mean some student
in Europe will get the chance you
are getting now. Think it over
carefully, fellows and co-operate
with your senator when he comes
around. Let’s put A&M on top in
the WSSF drive this year.
Donald McClure, ’50
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