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DITORIALS
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
An Open Letter . . .
Gentlemen, A&M President Selection
Committee:
Within the year, you will select the
sixteenth president of A&M College.
After two weeks of discussion we have
picked some of the requirements and qual
ifications which we would prefer in our
next president.
For relations with our all-male Student
Body, our next president must have defi
nite abilities:
He should command—always by ac
tions, rarely by words—their respect.
He should be friendly and tactful at
all times and be readily approachable in
his office, over a drinking fountain, or in
the street.
He should be able to make a passable,
impromptu 5-minute speech at an intro
duction’s notice.
W He should be equally at ease heading a
reception line or taking off his tie at a
yell practice.
This next president should have suf
ficient knowledge of the students’ prob
lems to discuss them with the students,
in their language. He should never forget
that a quick “yes” can be given as college
president in addition to a tactful “No.”
The new president should be a man
trusted and respected by the faculty and
administration because he will be their
boss. His character and finesse will pro
vide the lubricating oil for this vast or
ganization i
He should know the workings of the
system.
He should be able to make decisions
and stick by them.
He should be progressive and far-see
ing.
He should be honorable and fair.
f The new president’s personality should
be more than pleasant. It should be in
gratiating so that his associates will feel
themselves inspired to work for him and,
with him.
The teachers, we feel, would like him
to have been one of them. By this they
will know that he is aware of their prob-
^ms. And his decisions w r ill make more
sense to them because they will realize he
knows whereof he speaks. They will be
quicker to execute his orders, knowing
that they are based on fact, not fancy.
The Passing Parade . ..
From the AP Washington Bureau:
“Axis Sally” took the witness stand to
day in her treason trial and launched into
the play-by-play story of her life.
It stressed her unsuccessful struggle
for success as an actress and finally her
leaving this country for Africa in 1933.
That was a decade before the wartime
broadcasts over the German radio on
which the government bases the treason
charges.
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Others besides the pedestrian in an
accident reported by the Portland (Ore.)
Journal sqemed confused by it. Said a
Paramount to the teachers and staff
will be the man’s ability. If he is a capa
ble administrator, if his background is
broad and varied, and if his justice is im
partial, the teachers and staff should have
no complaint.
Also the people of Texas hold you ac
countable. They expect the president of
your selection to educate their sons well,
spend their money wisely, and bring cred
it to this educational institution.
These people possess a personal in
terest in A&M College and charge the
president with the personal responsibili
ty of efficient management and capable
formulation of educational policy. When
A&M falls short of their expectations to
any large measure, these people usually
heap their displeasure directly on the
president, and indirectly on you who chose
him.
They want a man worthy of the trust
they invest in him. They want an educa
tor, not a showman; they want perform
ance, not promise; they want results, not
reasons or excuses.
Certainly these people—the people of
Texas whose sons and money feed this
college—are to be considered along with
students and faculty in the determination
of who is to preside over Texas A&M with
its many facilities, its great reputation,
and its service to the state of Texas.
Such a man as we have described may
be on the campus now. He may be a pro
fessor in one of the departments; he may
be one of the four school deans. On the
other hand he may have just introduced
an important educational bill in the Legis
lature, or he may be serving in the armed
forces.
Though the former students, the Fac
ulty, and we representing the Student
Body may make recommendations to you,
the big job of actually picking that six
teenth president of A&M is in your hands.
Your choice of a man will profoundly af
fect all connected with the college, espec
ially the Student Body.
We join with all the rest of the inter
ested people in saying that we hope you
make a good choice.
Sincerely yours,
The Battalion Staff
Dressed in black and fingering a hand
kerchief, Mildred E. Gillars, 48, began her
testimony at the outset of today’s court
session. (End Quote).
We respectfully submit that the Mo
tion Picture Academy of Arts and Scien
ces place Miss Gillars on their list of can
didates for Oscars.
But if she gets one, have it wraped
and crated. It will probably have to be
sent quite a distance.
*
Journal item: “ ... he was struck by a
taxi at SW 5th Avenue and Stark Street.
Flis condition was reported ‘afir’ today.”
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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, H. C. Gollob, R. C. Kolbye, Henry
Lacour, Carley Puckitt, Clayton Selph, Marvin
Brown Staff Reporters
Joe Trevino, Hardy Ross Photo Engravers
Clark Munroe - Feature Editor
Carl Thrift Circulation Manager
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
Lampkin, 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
pulse rjEEt-Ei
Boyle’s Column •
HEALTH
INSURANCE
REACTION ^
Thin But Dynamite-Packed . . .
Stylebook Is Issued
To Batt Staffers
Hollywood Improves On
Art Of Saying 44 Yes”
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK —(#)—Sam Spiegel
is a man of ten tongues— nine
living and one dead.
This enables him to say “y^”
in nine more languages than thf
average Hollywood figure. 11
should be a positive guarantee of
success in films.
But Spiegel likes to say “no.”
This, perhaps, explains why he is
an “independent producer.”
Spiegel, known professional as
S. P. Eagle, is an International
cinema adventurer. At 46 he has
written, directed or produced films
in Germany, Austria, England,
France, Mexico and the United
States.
Viennese-born and educated, he
is a man of many talents and
tastes, including a well-trained
palate for wine. He sometimes en
tertains friends by tasting and
identifynig a wide variety of wine
while blindfolded.
In the matter of languages,
Spiegel knows his way around in
English, German, French, Spanish,
Polish, Russian, Czech, Italian and
Palestinian Hebrew.
But Latin, the dead language, is
his first love. And the tributes he
pays it would bring tears of joy
to many an American high school
latin teacher.
“For my study of old Latin I
have been grateful all my life,”
said Spiegel. . “It has an enormous,
discipline—A discipline that once
you learn you can use afterward
in anything.
“Today many film writers go
off on a tangent. They lack the
rigid discipline of thought that
Latin teaches. I advise any young
script writer to read the Gallic
Wars of Caesar. Then he will know
how to write with discipline.”
But Spiegel thinks that, in other
ways, Hollywood would do well to
shuck off some of the discipline
of the past.
He is in town now hawking his
latest production, “We Were Stran
gers,” directed by young John
Huston and partly filmed in Cuba.
Hines Quits B&CI1
To Open Own Shop
Harold Hines has resigned after
serving 20 years as head mechanic
of the B&CU machine shop.
He served with the college •vol
unteer fire department during this
period.
Hines will open his own machine
shop on new Highway 6, hp said.
It deals with a revolution there.
“It is based on Thomas Jeffer
son’s phrase that resistance to
tyrants is obedience to God,” said
Spiegel, “and we hope it is a step
away from the conventional pat
tern.”
Spiegel thinks the answer to
Hollywood’s boxoffice troubles is
to avoid trite, hackneyed themes.
TODAY thru WED.
FIRST RUN
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The management of the Campus
Theatre urges you to see ‘COM
MAND DECISION.” This is the
second time in the history of the
Campus Theatre that the man
agement personally recommends
a motion picture. The first pic-
t u r e we recommended was
“Johnny Belinda” which is at
this time nominated for 12 Acad
emy Awards.
By MACK T. NOLEN
Today’s Battalion is remarkably
improved, or had you noticed? The
improvement stems from the time
ly issue of “The Battalion Style-
book.”
The Battalion’s staff had as
many theories of punctuation,
grammar and good usage as Car
ter had pills until effective thought
control was instituted by the edi
tors through their stylebook.
Editors Kenneth Bond and Tom
Carter have been speaking pom
pously of donating twenty auto
graphed copies of the stylebook to
the library.
The stylebook is a thin but
dynamite packed little publica
tion done up with an egg-shell
blue cover, containing gems of
wisdom and information not to
be found just everywhere.
For example, on page 8, in the
“Uses of Commas” department, is
the bold statement: “In recording
elections use this form: George
Washington, president; John Ad
ams, vice-president; Thomas Jef
ferson, secretary; James Madison,
treasurer.”
The form is unquestionably ex
cellent. Never have we seen such
excellent form. But the content
should have been checked more
carefully. Alexander Hamilton was
named Secretary of the Treasury.
Under the abbreviation section
we learn that only sports writers
(who are allowed wide latitude be
cause they would take it anyway)
may use abbreviations for the
Christian names Robert, Thomas,
and Alexander. Henceforth the
sports page will blossom out with
“Robt. Lane, footballer;” “Thos.
Gibson Meets With
Kream - Kow Klub
G. G. Gibson of the Extension
Service Dairy Department spoke
on “A Balanced Dairy Farm Pro
gram in Texas’ at the Kream and
Kow Klub meeting Tuesday eveii-
ing.
Texas ranks fourth in the na
tion in number of dairy cattle but
tenth in milk production, Gibson
said. He said that a balanced farm
program consists of only as many
dairy cows as a farmer can prop
erly care for.
Texas offers many opportunities
for the farsighted dairyman. One
of these is the rapid growth of
the market due to industrial move
ment into the state and the in
creasing population, Gibson con
cluded.
Mrs. C. E. Sewell was chosen to
represent the Klub in the Cotton
Pageant. Further plans were made
for the Cattleman’s Ball which is
to be held in conjunction with the
Saddle and Sirloin Club.
The Klub voted to enter a soft-
ball team in Intramural softball.
Corcoran, playboy sportsman;” and
“Alex, the Great, Soldier, States
man, and Knightly Gentleman.”
The editors admonish their
charges to write cutlines (the
identifyinig sentences beneath
pictures in the paper) with “life
and punch in them.”
We have been trying for an
hour to think up a cutline with
either of those words in it. If “life”
and “punch” must be in every
cutline, we predict that The Batt
will languish for lack of reader
interest.
This is an age of standardization
and uniformity. The call is out for
things of a mold. The Batt, ever
progressive and sensitive to the
drift of the times, is in there pro
gressing and sensing. But some
people say these times ^re “lousy.”
Nevertheless, The Batt keeps up
with the times.
Student Center To
Sponsor Art Class
Organization of a club of people
interested in art work was begun
at a meeting Friday night in the
office of the Director of the Stu
dent Center.
J. W. Stark, director of the Cen
ter, told the group that such a
club could be a part of the 'new
center. “Even though the center
has not been completed, there is
no reason why this part of the
Center’s program should not be or
ganized now,” he said.
Boyce M. Bennett, senior chem
istry student, was elected tempor
ary chairman of the committee. The
group decided that a meeting would
be held next Monday at 7 p. m.
in Room 157 of Bizzell Hall in or
der to meet with all those interest
ed in organizing a class in art
work.
The group is already taking in
structions from Mrs. Ralph Terry
in Room 351, Bizzell Hall, Bennett
said.
Think Of This
“The entrance of thy word
giveth light.” Psalm 119:130
As the strong rays of a beacon
lead a plane to safety, so will the
rays of God’s light, found through
reading his Holy Word, lead a
person to find peace and rest
through Christ. Lew Wallace tried
to write a book having as its pur
pose an attempt to prove the un
trustworthiness of the Bible. He
began to closely read and study
the Bible in order to form his
attack When he had completely
read the Words of Life, he chang
ed his plans and wrote, not a book
to criticize, but Ben Hur, which
gave evidence that the writer had
gained a full trust and faith in
God.
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As He Sees It . . .
Batt Reporter Sent to Cover
Developments on Capitol Hill
By DREW TRAIL
Washington Bureau of
The Battalion
(Editor’s note: In an effort to
give its readers the best national
news coverage, the Battalion has
dispatched its ace correspondent,
Drew Trail, to Washington to re
port on the situation there as he
sees it.)
Things on Capitol Hill were real
ly humming today as the Houpe
and Senate went back to work aft
er week-end adjournment,. In the
Senate, Secretary of Labor Mau
rice Tobin told the joint Economic
Committee that the unemployment
situation needs close watching so
that steps can be taken to “head
off a recession should one begin to
threaten.”,
I agree' with the Secretary that
the unemployment situation should
be watched, but I do not believe
that he understands its full signi
ficance. If unemployment in
creases, I believe that it will also
cause employment to decrease,
which is really what will leave
many of our citizens jobless. Of
course, this observation is pure
speculation on my part.
The Senate Labor Committee re
newed hearings on the Taft-Hart-
ley law, and there are signs that
the struggle over President Tru
man’s demand for repeal may run
into May or June. As I see it,
either the Committee must ap
prove the measure and pass it on
for ratification by Congress, or
else the committee will not pass
the measure and the labor law
will remain in force.
Secretary of State Dean Ache-
Yanity Fair Pics
To Be Returned
The Vanity Fair entries which
did not win may be picked up at
the Student Activities Office on
the second floor of Goodwin Hall,
Truman Martin, co-editor of the
Aggieland 1949, announced today.
son bluntly told me yesterday, in
an exclusive interview, that if Rus
sia bombs Washington, we will un
doubtedly declare war. “Our rela
tions with the Soviet Union have
become strained to the point that
the slightest incident might furn
ish the spark to touch off inter
national fireworks.” While the sec
retary’s statement is probably an
exaggeration of the tensesness of
the situation, I predict that if war
does come, we will fight. I realize
of couse, that when I start writing
like this, my critics will accuse me
of warmongering, but I am a real
ist and intend to face the situation
squarely.
And that just about sums up
what happened on Capitol Hill to
day. Since Congress has resumed
it usual activities, the city has
settled down for another week of
rest.
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