■i • X" . : '■ V ' , Battalion Editorials In Aggieland, a Shortcoming . During- |.he talidays we were offered a suggestioi i whiwt, although not new to t s, served &M shoi for a co We real| for additioi Mid tlfei o again remind us of one of omings. We refer to the need of remedial reading, there Is a cpnstant demand to the curriculum. Many of these demands are reasonable and will, in time, be fulfilled. It takes time, we know, to institute new courses. But a course in remedial reading is badly needed here now. We at A&M probably show less en thusiasm for English, history, education, and similar subjects than is usually shown fit other colleges. This is natural since the emphasis here is on technical courses jrather than on the humanities and asso- biated subjects: Then, too, there is the old problem of selecting for the technical stu dent those courses w.iich will be of most benefit to him in his field in later years. For that reason alone, we imagine, many worthwhile subjects are not required or, in some cases, not even offered. Blut, We are convinced that a course are c in rehnedial reading would not only bene fit tlie student in later years, but would enab e hiin to make better use of his time and (comprehend more from his present than he now does, schools have realized this need, of Texas, for one, now in reading improvement, and It is apt unusual for a student who has comi: leted the course to have doubled his reading speed with no appreciable loss of comprehension. The University course is elective and any student may drop it with out penalty anytime he feels that it is not little bit of time it requires, irer, we don’t believe we should to sell remedial reading to ident or prof—for its value irent. We do believe that such a course isjlong overdue at A&M. The soon- it can be instituted, the better it will be for the students, the teachers, and the college. court es Oher The University offers a course wort i thi Howe have to anyo: A is sel -apf Mercy Killing; Ethics Not Stricl Law . . . ^Currently astir in American thinking is ‘that age ojd subject of discussion and debate—mercy killing. Aggravating this old wound is a re cent wire report from Manchester, New Hampshire, concerning a young doctor in dicted for mercy killing when he injected 10 cubic centimenters of air into the vein of a 59-year-old, cancer-ridden woman patient. The woman was considered mortally ill with cancer, and pain had so possessed her that the doctor chose to put her out of her misery with the injection of air I info her blood veins. Air causes bubbles which find their way to the heart or some ! other part of the circulatory system and stop circulation. _ i By the law, the doctor has willfully taken a life. Therefore^ he has broken the law. He has been indiited by a grand jury andTOUst stand trial fpir murder. Whatever trials are heai>ed upon the) ! doctor, their juries must assume the role of dispensers of not law, but also justice; The issue to bo decided is one of moral# —Whether willful murder under the pip cm curcumstances is justified or if are! no circumstances in human ex- ee (when one person can take the f another or break the basic com- ent, ‘^thou shall not kill.” the patient was in such dire physical Ition, although we mayi or may not with the doctor’s actions, we that the jury should take into n that this case involves more is e tained in our present code of e dp not believe, however, that the J •• j _iL i i . .L, No Olco or State’s Rights Supreme? Dixicratic Senators must have perked- up and taken notice when Iowa’s Senator Gillette (Dem) claimed that the House- pussed bill repealing federal oleomargarine taxes attempts “a gold, bald, inexcusable j violation of states’ rights.” y Not that the Southerners are against the bill as is Senator Gillette; the south ern gentlemen are for repeal of oleo taxes B stat ators whatr thoug being It again s b^jause oleo is made largely from cotton- Man in Competition With Cows Cattlemen at the Miami convention of in o the American National Livestock Associa tion were told last week that by 1956 America’s cattle population may reach 90,000,000. •• 1 f This is good, but beware. The pork population is growing by leaps and bounds —up 5 million this past year. The gain e do e of the land should be changed or to condone mercy killings. The re- if speh a law were passed would be suffering persons, who other- might unexpectedly be saved from at (the last minute would be killed, (iuld also mean that too many per- would suddenly be handed the pow- life and death. Such a situation Mj dangerous. I F - H j I • ijstead, the decision of this case and HinUliar cases involving mercy kill- should be bast'd upon a more ap- ij-iate! code of ethics, not upon a strict of IpW. a fine southern product. it anything that tinges of violating es’ rights rouses several southern Sen- to' the point that they are against it is. The tactics by Gillette, h seriously delivered,. Strikes us as rather humoroiis. ; I may start a fad—whatever you’re :t, its a violation of states’ rights. nd Pigs . i j • ' pig population was ^ 12.1'f in crease, while the one millidn head increase in th^ cow population was an increase of v4 Hhman population increases, however, are sufficient enough, we expect this year’s census to assure us. that we needn’t fear l>eu|ig overrun by cows and pigs. The Battalion "Soldier, Statesman^ Knighth Gentleman" Lawrence Sullivan Ross, rounder News contributions may be made by telephone (4 tlaodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by tclephojn Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. , ^ The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural City of College Station, Texas, Is published five times a ' Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examinati tnlion is published tri-weekly on Monday, Wednesday and yoar. ’ Advertising rates furnished on request. I (Mechanical College ; and circulated every on periods. Durings the •'ridsy. 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Co-Editors .Feature Editor .Spuria Co^ditora Kcalura Writers' bporta Writers ivertlalng Manaser i. ReprBientetiTm nepretM rHMlatton «l| M.tust Circulation ' % / TODAYS! / Doyi r jACKPOT ( Behind the Barricade >51 VI y'- "V- V>!r VETS iA fS % < Jtjy; •’«? man. 2>V;.. Letters To The Editor fAll letters to tbe editor wtdek; are alaaad by a student or employee obscene or wtuSeld f tbe consent collage and which do not contain sons wishing to have their name, and Uiesa name* will not, without the other than the editors.) MIDNIGHT YELL PRACTICE Editor, The Battalion: Ever since we have been in A&M it has been tradition to have a mid-night yell practice the night before an out of town football game. Our ^experience has beeik that nothing destructive usually happens at the Mtc of the yell practice, and, as Tar as we have heard, the general opinion of the people is that it is just a good disj- play of genuine Aggie spirit whicl) they enjoy and respect. Next year we will be Seniors anil we centainly don’t want our Senj- ior year to be the first in which mid-nite yell practices are banncdl As .a matter of information, jus); who is on this Student Life Com. mittee anyway? Do they represent the majority of the students? WO have certainly expressed no desirf to have our yell practices discon tinued. If they are so all-powerfuli, why don’t we have a say-so lor at least have the arguments presented in the open so that all might bO allowed to hear them? Why is it necessary to eliminate all the good traditions that we have at present? (The few that are left, that is.) It seems that -all thy traditions we have loved and cher. ished while hero at Aggieland are being taken away from us one by one. Why? We, personally, feel that there Official Notice An oxumlnattun for credit In C. Ht noilK will hr given In the (\ K Leeturt lit I I*. M . Naturday. January It. ttiMt. Only thna« student* awlhorlsad It) the Kxcrtjitlvc Commlttnv may take till' exam. J. A. Orr. Profeasor Civil Etiglttta'rlng Dept. All physical education major* who ex, Poet to graduate in June or durtng tlri Slimmer pimae cheek ymur degree pla with m before Satumny. January 7. C. W. Landla* Physical Education Dept. of the signed by a student or amptoyea 01 • Uboloua material will be published. _ _ from publication may request such action of the writer, bo dfrutged to any persona SI ANDARD RECORD SALE While 480 ((ecords Last BUY ONE At 69c You get two more FREE! Shaffer’s Book Store Visit the . . . CREAMLAND . Under the new management Tillie - Osea r & Katie | S P E fcll A L STUDENT PiAtE LUNCHES (Home-cooked Meals for Aggies Away from Home) • Home-ipade Pies ■ i n jr •• m r i • SandwioheH • Fountain Service f ■■ ■' fi- ; ■ AGGIES!! Come In and try our lur ches. .. They’rfo economical & delicious’ YHE BEST V At CREAM North Gate Colleg Itation earc !Y if ’tv. T h,v r: L h Rumor Si II BY. C. c; MUNROE L Inspection Should Go would be more cause for distur bance if there were many small groups jagt wandering abound the! towns than if all were 1 assembled in one group for the purpose of yelling for A&M. In the past, we have assembled, had our yell prac tice, and then left for our various' ways; We feel that mid-nitc yell practices should be continued and we intend to do all that is within our power to see that this tradition is continued next year and all the years to follow. Killy Hoskins '51 Emil Huber '51 Ed Fincias '51 Bob Statlcr ’51 Rill Boddcker 51 Fred Sommers '51 Melvin Monerief .’51 Carl Scudder *51 Bill Witty ’51 Joe Willhelm ’51 David Sechelski ’51 Bob Smith ’51 Carl Adams '51 Ernest Miller ’48 Ronald Greet ’51 Herbert Horton '51 (Editors’ Note—The resolution recommending discontinuance orf out-of-town midnight yell practice which was sent by the Student Life Committee to the Academic Council carried with it a special notation. The notatioin specified that the votes of the student -mem bers of the committee did NOT represent the opinion of the stu dent body as a whole. (There are 21 members of the Student Life Committee. Nino are faculty members, twelve are stu dents. Faculty members are Dr. It. W. Steen, Dan Russell, M. t„ CaAhlon, R. G. Perryman, Joe Orr, U. Col. Joe Davis, Dr. F. P. Jagifi Jr., Barlow “Bones” Ir vin, and F. R. Brlson. (Student members are Hntri’ Raney, Floyd Honk, Cecil Huey, Halo-Stringer. C. D. Cabuntss, It. G. Woran, Bob Page, Doyle Avant, Office, morsel in which anyone be interested. More often than wc find, after inquiring arou that there is little if any factj behind most the stories. Such an dent occu yesterday, received , wo that many the dorms been during the'h days. An mil be expected tl didn’t strike too well so we| checked with the Campus Security Housing Office, and the Military Department. The report from each was that no rooms had been search ed. Two dormitories had been en tered by college officials after they were locked, but only to run out men who had tried to set up housekeeping there to avoid the complicatiops of moving into Wal ton, the (lorm which remained open through Christmas. Many rooms on the first flooi-s had been opened by college ployees before the dormitorii were closed, but only to make sui that-the windows were locked ter the windows had been;check the rooms were locked and were not again disturbed by anyone uh- til the students returned. We were glad to learn that the dorms had not Hi in* to n v occasionally Bjobby Byington, Bill Biliingsley, “Pusher” Barnes.) C. C. Munroe, and ; Wilman OFFERS THANKS Editor, The Battalion: L On Thursday, December 22, 194)9, I left a leather briefcase, contain ing a notebook and most of the notes I had taken this semester, at the line in front of the Church in Bryan. Saturday the mailman delivered that brief-case to my. home. If the person will get in touch with me at room 315, Dormi 3, I would like to personally thank him for tho effort I know it required. 'Sincerely, have to the dent’s present The" state f>ft*n practice ol car when such a rule, believle that lt|l cover promlecuo of private automobile Natjurally, there an For instance,'if n pel pec ted of theft then of hh) pro; However, mander or searched, end rtns on- r :*! or Igs bri ll wc which Wo tin* * er is the college belongings of to inspection njpr his auth- at all times.” the need for we do not intended : to Iriveetigations sake with 1 ' ironerty should , either the company OuscmnsU‘1' responsible si ent when put, if ».< „ But, dent’s curred Should not A student pect his car when he lea locked or no As we ha (■tend that eervo the rig i property. How the college si mete the hi of persona! dents. For tfi] tion—with should be dent conceri opportunity _ presented. | lerjt should be pto- £ inspection is ci r- ily for,appearances into o st li as have oc- it owned ca rs dtted. the right to eic- reman undisturbed m it, whether It is r; . stated, we undeii- collego muiit to Inspect persons jer, with that righ Id also seek to pm- t possible riegiv-i' vacy for the stu- reason, no inspec- exception notrtl - without the stu- being afforded ain be present or r^- ■;! LI ..SENATE - I' (tpontinued from I*age 1) • J n! QUEEN PBEVUE iy II P. M. conditions were "gi shapeV at the Bryan Field A clinic. IA tom of the cjinic was . by Forsythe, following a complaint on condition's made by several freshljien in a “Letter to; the Edi tor” on the Freshman Page of The OkU, needed is that ^-ation be given to stu- Annex on hours, fecil- ntimely requests of med ical a|dtf!Effi' minor' injuries and ir ritations,; said Forsythe. An invitation will i be extended to the! executive committee of tho Academic \Council ;to meet with the senate at the n«xt meeting to acquaint bolk bodtes with their mutugl aims and to foster better relationships between the : two groups. Joe- FuHer was named ,to extend the ihvitbtitjjns. A motion made by Charles Kirk- ham hon-corps. vice-president of the Sbnior Class, requesting pos sible panel discussion by deans in the college, passed by a unanimous vote. : . 1 T- 1 f—V--)-*! -ji- r PALACE Bfrc^an 2 £$79 TODAY thru SATURDAY 1 QampiL SATURDAY ■ea Start— )35 • 7:80 - 0:20 RUN Bute Davis Joseph Cohen ' WWW BRUM * WITH R0NMIl| mm* SATURDAY PREVUE -Aio--'- ■ i Sunday A Monday NIW MU&lCAL MMICIATION Mydi OP 19S0 | Peaturing _ { [ i i , ’D«hh1I«n Weaver an Prof. Gnorge -tRooMt * Dr. Hoiutiu O. Ulrdbe... 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