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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1949
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
Manners In the Manners Course . . .
A group of seniors on the campus has
been working hard the past few weeks in
an effort to put over effectively the course
on Aggie Social Customs and Courtesies.
However, all the hard work can be un
done by an unthinking few.
When the first few classes of the
course were over, several of the students
were heard to remark, “It was a big joke”
“Why, that guy made a joke of it him
self.”
The lower classmen who made these
remarks must have had some reason for
making them. Evidently, the instructor of
that particular class did make a joke out
of it. But we like to think of this as an ex
ception rather than the rule.
True, these senior students are not ex
perts on the courses they teach. They do
not claim to be. All of them do not claim
to be expert public speakers or instruc
tors. They are learning just like the rest
of us.
However, these senior instructors have
put in some time studying their particul
ar phase of the course, and each of them
has a few definite points that he is trying
to put across. These points are for the
student’s benefit, not his. He already
knows them.
Perhaps more time in preparation
should be spent by some of the instructors.
Their attitudes and methods of presenta
tion will do much in aiding them to convey
ideas to the classes.
On the other side of the picture, an at
tentive attitude by the class will aid the
instructor in his presentation. The talks
are only about 10 minutes long. That’s
not too long to spend in paying attention
to something that will be to each individ
ual’s benefit.
This method of learning manners is
new to A&M, but the idea is a good one.
Its purpose will be defeated however ,if
instructors and students are not willing to
meet each other half way.
The successful completion of the course
depends on everybody’s cooperating.
By the People, Of the People . . .
From Austin, Tuesday, came one of
the most heartening demonstrations of
this legislative year.
During a public hearing on a rural
roads bill by the House Committee on
Revenue and Taxation, 3,000 people crowd
ed into the house galleries to hear dis
cussion of the bill. The people, for the most
part were farmers, ranchers and small
business men. They came to urge passage
of a measure they felt would, to quote the
AP, “pull them out of the mud, help them
• get'Trheir children to school, move their
products to market, and generally promote
their welfare.”
This direct interest and approach by
the people of the state is the best, and pos
sibly the only, way to improve a govern
ment.
Our first impulse, upon hearing of
laxity in government, is to go directly to
our governmental representatives. Mom
entarily this approach can be effective.
But if evolution in government is to be
continuous, it must stem from a majority
of the people.
Individuals, newspapers, and political
ly interested groups may plug away at
legislative bodies to no avail. If they should
manage to dispose of legislative laxity,
but without the interest and backing of
The Passing Parade . ..
A group met in Washington this month
and came to this conclusion:
The schoolhouse of the future should
have smaller classes in larger classrooms,
a commission of educations and architects
said today.
The building should be so located, the
commission added, that elementary pupils
don’t have to walk more than three-quar-
the public, the laxity will reappear short
ly in other places and other forms.
Our state has so many potentialities
for development that we shudder at the
number missed annually. This year the
possibilities for improvement are even
greater than usual. There are bills before
our state congress to aid schooling, road
construction, and state institutions, as
well as a myriad of other beneficial mea
sures. If the people back them—and dem
onstrate their backing as forcibly as they
did Tuesday—Texas will advance, and
rapidly.
Legislative work is tedious and, at
times, maddening. Our representatives
frequently become lost in details and it
becomes easy to grow complacent in their
positions. But interested constituents in
the gallery can be a strong reminding
force.
Tuesday's delegation gave proof that
interest in legislation pays. The road aid
bill was not only passed in the committee,
but by a substantial vote and in record
time.
The phrases “Write your congressman
and “See your legislator” are not as emp
ty as they sound. If you show an interest
in your legislator, he will consequently
display a stronger interest in your prob
lems.
ters of a mile or ride a bus longer than
30 minutes. It said secondary pupils
shouldn’t have to walk more than two
miles or travel more than an hour each
way.
A fellow traveler in our business class
remarked that he sure wished that group
had gotten together before Boomtown
was constructed.
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Amplification Department
By CARROLL TRAIL
Dear Sir:
I want to take this opportunity
to thank you for your answer to
my letter printed in the Batt last
Tuesday. In it you explained the
article on the soccer, player.
I thought you had lost your mar
bles until I read in Wednesday’s
Dallas News, page 1, section 1,
column 1 this story corroborating
your answer:
“London, March 8 —(UP) King
Geoi’ge’s physicians anno u n c e d
Tuesday night he would undergo
an operation on his leg in the near
future.”
I guess you were right.
Sincerely,
N. S.
Answer: Yes, N. S., I was right,
and apparently the king kicked the
player harder than I had thought.
While the king’s leg is not serious
ly hurt, I understand that his cir
culation has been hampered some
what. And I am happy to report
that he will be all right.
However, let this incident be a
lesson to all athletes: good sports
manship and clean living certainly
pay off in the long run.
★
Dear Sir:
I noticed in yesterday’s paper
that the state House of Repre
sentatives has passed a constitu
tional amendment lifting the 35
million dollar annual ceiling on
state expenditure for old age pen
sions.
What prompted this action?
Sincerely,
M. T.
Answer: Well, M. T., $35 mill
ion just doesn’t go as far these
days as it used to. As you know,
the cost "of living has risen con
siderably, and the aged just can’t
make out on the previous allot
ment.
For example, I was talking just
yesterday to a student waiting to
get admitted to the Vet Med
school. He said that his pension
just can’t take care of his expen
ses. If they don’t raise the allot
ment, he will have to quit school
in the near future, and he couldn’t
do that since the board is going
to act on his application any day
now.
State Faces Financial Crisis
With Most Money in History
AUSTIN, Texas, March 10—(/P)—The state of Texas
today had more money in the bank than ever before in its
history, but it was up against a financial crisis.
It had more money, it was spending more money, but
it also wanted to spend more money during the next two
years than the experts said it +
would have to spend.
That was the crisis, because the
constitution forbids the state to
spend more money than is in hand
or in sight. The legislature either
has to cut down on projected ap
propriations, increase revenue with
new taxes, or go on deficit financ
ing. It can run in the red only by
four-fifths vote of its members,
and that has not happened since
the constitution was amended to
put the state on a cash basis.
All that came about by the
announcement yesterday from
Comptroller Robert S. Calvert that
earlier revenue estimates were too
rosy by 22 million dollars.
It left a gap of 80 million dol
lars between what Gov. Beau-
ford H. Jester called “our means
and our desires.”
He said he had no inclination to
dodge any responsibility to make
Buying Newsprint
By Carload Begun
Fifty-three thousand pounds of
newsprint were shipped here last
Friday for use by the Battalion,
Roland Bing, director of student
publications, announced.
Until now, 5 tons per month
were brought here by truck. Bing
said freight costs saved by ob
taining carloads of the print will
amount to at least eight hundred
dollars a year.
The Southland Mills of Lufkin
supply the newsprint.
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helpful suggestions to the legisla
ture and promised he would do so
soon after giving the new situa
tion “careful and prayerful study.”
Jester said the possibility that
legislature “will be forced to levy
new taxes” can not be overlooked.
Lieut. Gov. Allan Shivers said
he still thought spending should
be kept within limits of avail
able funds, but if the people de
mand the increased appropria
tions, “these can only be met
through additional taxes.”
Shivers said he had always op
posed more taxes except “in cases
of urgent necessity,” but that he
had never hesitated to vote for
new taxes “where the demands of
the people upon their government
justified expenditures.”
Think Of This
“But when he came to him
self ...” Luke 14:17
Success, as it is usually thought
of, can very easily become a very
dangerous thing. Dui’ing the early
part of 1940, the French thought
that they had the greatest army
in the entire world. However, when
it was actually put to a test, it
proved to be as nothing.
Sometimes the thing that seems
to be success, when put to some
test, proves to be nothing. So many
times the world measures a man’s
success by the number of dollars
which he controls. This, however,
was not the measure which the
Lord used. He said “What shall it
profit a man if he gains the whole
world and looses his own soul?”
Lets take time to meet ourselves,
and test out goals in life.
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Adopted New Yorker Hal
Boyle Reviews His City
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK —(A 3 )— Howdy,
stranger.
Like our town? Sure I’ll be glad
to tell you something about it. Sit
down and rest your feet.
Well, sir, it’s small as towns go
—only 12% acres. But there’s only
54 cities in the USA with more’n
our 160,000 population. We do
count our daily visitors in that
figure, but the Chamber of Com
merce in your town probably does,
too.
Of course, your town may not
average 128,000 visitors a day.
Ours does.
Yep, there are only fifteen build
ings. But you just tell me where
you can find fifteen anywhere like
’em—anA I’ll eat ’em. Cost $74,-
000,000, they did.
Our town pays $3,000,000 real
estate taxes. And we fork out $3,-
500,000 rent every year to help
keep neighbor “Ike” Eisenhower’s
Seminary running up there in the
suburbs. Yes, that’s right—Colum
bia University owns the ground.
What else have we got? Strang
er, we got what all you want. You
can buy anything here from a ca
nary to Jack Benny. Oh, no, I’m
wrong there. Jack Benny was
bought out of here the other day.
Well sir, we got 20 foreign con
sulates here, two radio networks,
12 airlines, 36 travel bureaus and
20 railroad offices—almost. You
can get a passport here, a perma
nent wave, have your eyeglasses
Bryan Lady Listed
As Aggie Graduate
By GEORGE CHARLTON
Yeah, this is a man’s school.
But it is a fact that A&M has
had one woman graduate. The
holder of this title is Mrs. L. B.
Locke, the only woman to be a-
warded a degree from this insti
tution.
Mrs. Locke, formerly Evelyn
Crawford, finished Bryan High
school in 1918 and was the star
player on the girls’ basketball
team.
As a “fish” during the school
year, 1918-19, she attended the
College of Industrial Arts at Den
ton, now known especially around
these parts, as Tessieland. The fol
lowing year she attended the Uni
versity of Texas and later taught
in the rural schools of Brazos
County and the city schools of
English Group To
Discuss Philosophy
Dr. S. S. Morgan, associate pro
fessor of English, will address the
first meeting of a discussion group
for English majors. His topic will
be Plato.
The , group was formed to give
English majors a background of
philosophy, according to Robert
Barzak, seci’etary of the group.
Literature is closely related to
philosophy, he said.
Meetings will be held every sec
ond week. Other speakers schedul
ed to talk to the group include M.
A. Hugget and Dr. J. P. Abbott of
the English Department; Dr. J. H.
Hill of the History Department,
and Dr. Joseph Stadelman of the
Modern Language Department.
Anyone interested in the talks
are invited to attend them, Bar-
zak added. The group will meet
Monday night at 7:30 in the YM-
CA lounge.
Palmer Re-enters
Veterinary Corps
First Lieutenant Jack S. Palmer
of the Veterinary Corps in the or
ganized reserves, has re-entered
the army on a tour of extended
duty, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott, ex
ecutive officer for the Texas Mili
tary District, announced today.
Palmer will be stationed with
the Inspection Service in Chicago
Illinois.
A native Texan, Palmer is a
1946 graduate of Texas A&M. His
home is in Stanton, Texas.
HIGH COURT CLOSES
CIVIL SERVICE CASES
AUSTIN, March 10 —(A 3 )— The
Supreme court closed its book Wed
nesday on the attack against vali
dity of the, firemen and policeman
civil service act passed by the leg
islature two years ago.
It refused a motion for rehear
ing, sought by the city of Fort
Worth, in the case in which the
court had upheld the law permit
ting cities to adopt the civil service
provisions.
Bryan.
Then it happened. In 1924 she
enrolled in A&M. Although before
this time daughters of college em
ployees had been allowed to visit
classes, they had never been offi
cially enrolled. At the time of Mrs.
Locke’s entrance, however, that
rule had been changed so that girls
who were relatives of college em
ployees might register. Some eight
to ten such girls had registered.
Mrs. Locke took a course in Lib
eral Arts majoring in English and
minoring in Education. She grad
uated in the summer of 1925.
The friendly, publicity shy lady
now lives in Bryan and is the wife
of L. B. Locke, assistant secretary
of the Former Students Associa
tion.
Referring to her treatment while
a student she laughingly said, “We
were tolerated by some of the ad
ministration and that’s all.”
“When I entered A&M, I didn’t
want to get any publicity. I just
wanted a better education. I stud
ied as hard as I could and tried to
complete every assignment,
even if. it wasn’t exactly right.”
The papers Mrs. Locke, wrote
must have been fairly accurate be
cause she didn’t fail to make eith
er an “A” or “B” in any of her
courses during her years here.
“I wasn’t given a diploma in
any sort of ceremony. The secre-.
tary of the registrar just handed
it to me,” "she added.
Her distinction is a unique one,
and is likely to be long lived be
cause of a court decision in 1934
by which the Board of Directors
was empowered to decide who
might be admitted as students to
the college.
repaired, your teeth filled, or your
finger bandaged. We even got a
drugstore that still sells aspirin
tablets. But we don’t have a hotel
or a jail.
Do we have culture? Why, our
town’s crawling with culture. We
got an outdoor ice and roller skat
ing rink. We got the largest indoor
movie parlor in the world—seats
6,200. And it doesn’t show double
features either.
I tell you, stranger, there never
was a town like ours. Sometimes I
almost wished I lived in it. We got
the fastest moving stairway in
the world—125 feet a minute. We
got the largest chandelier in the
world—weighs six tons and has
590 bulbs, all electric.
Now wait a minute, stranger. I
know you’re beginning to think
I’m the world’s largest outdoor
liar. But I ain’t.
Who’s the big family in our
town, stranger? W-e-e-11, we got a
lot of big families here. But I guess
you might say the Rockefellers
are the biggest. In fact we named
our town after them—Rockefeller
Center. They own it—pretty much.
One thing about the whole fami
ly, stranger. They got a dern fine
sense of propitty. And the wnole
thing started from $500. Some time
ago, that was.
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