Battalion Editorials
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2Q, 1950
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A Successful Emphasis on Religion
Though the most; successful Religious
Emphasis Week in the history of A & M
closed last Friday, we do not believe the
words of Dr. Henry H. Crane and the
other seven religious leaders who were
here will be soon forgotten by Aggies. '
The greater part of the success of the
week was due to the : fine- selection of
leaders and the well planned program of
events by tho Religious Emphasis Com
mittee. \ v
We cothmend the students, faculty
members, College Station ministers, and
YMCA officials, who as members of the
Religious Emphasis Committee, made this
week of inspiration possible.
Special credit is due M. L. Cushion and
Gordon Gay, secretary and assistant sec
retary of the YMCA. Students playing a
major part in the week’s sue
Allan Eubank, King Egger and Ji
ter.
Student body interest in the religious
emphasis services wan demonstrated
the crowds who flocked to i attend the
Guion Hall services and evening discus-
HOW MUCH CAN THE GUY TAKE ?
sion groups. The YM 1
CA cabinet is plan-
continue these discussion groups
Tentative plans call
groups to bo held
throughout the year,
for several discussion
One night a week.
We hope thiq woirthjy movement will re
ceive continued student body support, thus
bringing God into our conscious thoughts
the year round, and net for just one week
each year.
Through a Red Light to Death for 29
Friday evening 29 people were killed
and 105 more injured because a man ignor
ed a red light and drove his train down the
track into a head-on collision with another
passenger train. The man was the motor-
man of the east bound train that shuttled
through a makeshift siding on one of the
Long Island Railroads’ circuits and truck
ed out onto the main track occupied by an
onrushing passenger train.
Reporters have sketched scenes of hu
man misery produced by the train wreck.
One man was screaming, “Kill me, please
kill me.” He thought his back was broken.
A woman, her left arm dangling by a ten
don, shrieked, “My arm, my arm, I’ve lost
my arm.”
Thirty thousand curosity seekers came
e man made a%iis-
tional mistake, but
; All this because op
tgke.
i. It wasn’t an\inten
lit was a mistake* none-the-less.
Certainly the mojtorman who didn’t
heed the red light regrets his carelessness
—now. Certainly he realizes what his er
ror has brought to the lives of many.
But for all his regrets and realizations,
for all the legal actior he may suffer, for
all the money paid cut as insurance to
beneficiaries, for all this, not one life will
be returned, or one limb amputated can
be restored.
Traffic lights whether at street inter
sections, airport runways, or along rail
road lines are safety devices to help people
live, longer. Too often when their direc-
«k
the Bghts are supposed to prevent.
or wnploToo of tbo
will bo pubUohod. Por
tnoy roquoot ouch notion
dlvulcod to nny poroono
tameless: A Car for Less-than-$l,200 . . .
out .to the accident and crowded and push- ,•.. , .., . , .
’ ed and wanted to get a peek at the chewed- j
up., bodies? the goye splattered wreckage,
the people in pain. ^ Had the Long Island motorman ©b-
..Homes of those 29 were quiet Friday [ served the red light, ^the people aboard
Evening, except possibly for the sobbing of i those two trains which crashed would have
a suddenly widowed wife, or a fatherless [gone home to complain about a long and
little girl, or a heart crushed fiance. \ routine day where notjhing happened
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iAuInmaUer Henry Kaiser is proudly the sise of British made cars wo-sea on
[demonstrating his i»ewe«t creation, andj the streets.
idggest gamble- a ieHS-tlmn-$!,2(M) car for
, the American market. Tho little automobile
<25[. lighter than deluxe Chevrolet*) will
i be Mamed In a national contest.^
Experts say, ‘'Americans won't buy a
$1,200 car. They had rather wait ft while
longer dnd buy a bigger, more flashy car
for a few hundred dollars more.” Kaiser,
retooled and operating on a $44 million
government loan, doesn’t think the self-
styled experts know what they are talk
ing about. !
The new Kaiser product will be power-
opionion of pur jstudents is pitiful
ly low; a school whose backing
of their team is confined to times
when they pre winning:, or When
their “supporters” have gotten
themselves jinto needless trouble,
is not worth much. I will always
congratulate! you .on your spirit
and loyalty, something that a
school can never have too much of.
At least, our Conference still has
one school [which is attended by
real men •wfho are not; afraid to
fight for their team—out in the
field, and npt behind dark alleys.
May no mo^e incidents like this
ever occur between the two
schools, lesti what is left of SMU’s
reputation |)e completely wiped
away.
Name Withheld
by Request
Deceased Vets
Dividends Due
Dividends due deceased vet
erans for the time they held
National Service Life Insur
ance in force prior to their
death will be paid to their
hcnoficiarioM or heirs, tho Veto-
runs Administration suid today.
Whore the insurance was ip
force at the time of the veterans
death payment will he made auto-
slly td the
Wo’ve been following th* huccvhh of tho
Kitixor automobile venture with moro then
cpmuhI intorent, Ho l*Inn IminpomUmt car
maker, nnd he’* thru*l hitn*eif Into a bu*i-
nee* which prc*ent large cnrmanufactur-
ing corporation* httvtj 1 made untenable to
many men le*» Htrong than Kaiaer. Tuck
er couldn’t do it, and there are even would-
be manufacturer who didn't get os far as
Preston did. I
There should be a large market in this
country for Kaiser’s (Jlass^f new car. We
ed by a four cylinder motor, and 35 miles ! hope he sells hundreds Of thousands of
per gallon of petrol 4s promised. It’s about i them. , ; r
We are ever thankful to our Washing-
ton governmental bureaus who are con- !
stftntly grinding out statistics which en
able one to prove just about anything. Last
week the Federal Security Agency went on
record to announce that the average length
of life in these United States is 67.2 years. |
This figure is point four years more
than the average lifespan in the U S in
1948.
The snap pronourieiktion of the words
mortality and morality sound the same
most of the time. However, the above is
mortality, and that we want more of. Mo
rality is sorriething elfse.
We’re not sure what it is, but if there’s
anything we need more of, its morality.
The Battalion
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HILLTOP 'CCpiMENTS
[Editors, The Battalion:
The conduct of a few misguided
[SMU students last week was child
ish and inexcusable. However, the
[attitude which our school, and es-
pecially the student council and
[the newspaper, has taken since
that time is truly abominable.
The fact that the argument was
[a direct result of action by one or
several Mtistangs was so unfortun-
ately obvious that, to try to cover
[this fact, the Campus had to re-
[sort to interviewing a few people
[whose knowledge of the situation
[was practically nil, and whose
[comments therefore amounted to
the fact that the whole affair was
i just “silly”!
Furthermore, action was slow in
[sending apologies to you (it had
to go through the student council
[first!!) and an editorial today ap-
; parehtly summing up the entire
i situation was brilliantly entitled
•“SWC Goodwill Necessary”! ! ! !
! An amazing deduction!
I am in great hope that, when
the real seriousness of action like
this is realized on the SMU eam-
i pus, a sincere and earnest effort
[will be made around the Hilltop..
! to clear up the real, meaning pf
| sportsmanship and the real dis-
S missing of those who persist in
;abusing its importance,.
: As far as I am concornod. my
’ A&IW Consolidated
Slimmer Class Set
T h t» Behimintrutlan Reboot,
! which has been ciondueted during
\ the past four suiimicr* In the
\ A,VM CtuistifltlMtiM Hehtatl, will
| again he eontlutilptl during (he
' Ntinutier uf IH60. neetirdlng to li. II.
| Wilcox, head of (tie Kduentlon and
Phyt'hology department.
A beglnHer’s vlass In reading’
will bil held for children who willv
be six years old on or before
September L The number enroll
ing in this class will be limited
to 25.
In case there are others who
want the beginning instruction in
reading, arrangements will be
made to receive this from student
teachers who are enrolled, in the
class, Wilcox said. \, .,
Enrollment of children will be
made by application only, first
. come first served. The parent is
asked to come to the first grade
room at the Consolidated.. School \
to fill in the application form for
his child, as to the hour and type
of instruction he prefers.
The instruction will be free for
the children.
Mrs. Paine Named
ICAR’S New Regent
Mrs. L. S. Paine has been elect
ed) regent of the La Villita Chap
ter of the Daughters' of the Amer
ican Revolution located at College
Station. ] .
Other officers elected were Mrs.
R. E. Patterson, vice-regent; Mrs.
F. B. Brown, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. Leroy L. Fpuraker,
recording secretary; Mrs. J. M.
Nance, treasurer: Mrs. R. E. Cal
lender, registrar; Mrs. R. B. Davis,
historian and Mrs. J. J. Sperry,
libi|arian.
Delegates for the State Confer-
encie jare Mrs. Fouraker and Mrs.
Paine, according to Mrs. Callen
der.
The next meeting will be held
on February 22 in observance of
the birthday of, George Washing
ton. The program will he Under the
direction of Mrs. Patterson and
Mrs. Callender will be the hostess.
matlcaily-to the hpnpfl^iary uf rec
ord, No application uf any kind
will he required in those cases,
If the inwgruuee was nut In fnreo
at (he limp the veteran died, the
dividend vyill he pniil to his es
tate through (he ex ecu tor nr ad-
inluistrutnri of Ihe estate, Where
there Is no administration, payment
will he nvnde dlreetly to those
persons who are entitled to tho
veterans estate under the Jnher-
Itanee lawk of the state of which
the veternh was a legal resident
at the tlnu) of death.
In the lapsed Insurance cases
claim forms will be Sent by the
VA directly to those persons found
to bo entitled to all or a share of
the veteraiis djvidend. No general
distribution will be made of these
claim fors, the VA said.
Payment of dividends in behalf
of deceased veterans will begin
soon, the VA said, and is expected
to be substantially completed by
June 30 ofj this year.
Wilcox to Teach
Graduate Courses
T. Glade Wilcox, associate pro
fessor in the Industrial Education
Department, will teach graduate
courses and develop the electrical
offering of the undergraduate pro
gram of ihe department, it has
been annopheed. i
Wilcox has been added to the I.
E. D. staff recently. He had been
a member of the Industrial Educa
tion staff) of tke Indiana State
College, Terre Haute.; > [
Wilcox has had teaching and in
dustrial experience in the fields
of radio apd has been an amateur
radio ope'rlitor for fifteen years.
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Tree Ends Long Career
Zion, 111.—Passers-by saw a
man sawing away at a big poplar
tree. It meant' nothing to them.
But it meant a lot to Mrs. Ella
Scrafield. ]
She planted the tree 44 years
ago. She moved four times, Each
time she brought the tree) along
nnd trnhspl&nted it. But recently,
because of decay, it had to be cut
down and hauled away.
Wo pay the highest prices lor Used Books
We niainlain wholesale and retail lists the
year round.
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Serving Texas Aggies’
Ags Respond
To IE Plea
For Judges
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Judges in a baby contest, suh—
that’s what several students were
recently.
Chris GronemAn, head of the In
dustrial Education Department, re
ports . that his department receiv
ed many requests for students'ta
perform part-time jobs. “But nev
er before have we received a re
quest that boys act aa judges in
a baby conteat,” Groneman aayp.
The babies whose ages ranged
from six months to four years,
were judges for appearance and
conduct.
The contest was part of a pro
gram sponsored by the Seint An
thony Women’s Organization of
$ry«b !
The students, ell majoring in
Industrial Education, who acted as
judges wire J. B. Johnson, Nacog-
doehes;, Charles Benshelter, Unper
Darby, Pa.; Jerry Bonncn, College
Station; Burton Lambert, Sweet
water and Thomas Currcns of
Dallas.
Harvard Opens
Fellowships to
BA Graduates
Gradute study in govern
ment and public service at
Harvard University, is open
to A&M students who will
have a bachelor of arts de
gree by; September 1, 1950. Dr.
Ide P. Trotter, Dean of [the Grad
uate School of A&M, haS received
notices that this advanced study
is available under t/wo fellowships.
A small number of decent col
lege graduates who intend to enter
public service will be given Admin
istration Fellowships that carry
stipends up, to $1,200. Men who
have had experience in public
service for federal, state or local
governments are eligible for Lu
cius N. jLittauer Fellowships that
carry stipends up, to $2,100.
Studies under these fellowships
may be [ in one of the social sci
ences, particularly economics or
political) science, or a combina
tion of two or more fields to fit
the needs of individual students.
Student^ may become [candidates
for the degree of Master ip Pub
lic Administration.
Applications for the fellowships
should be filed by April 1)5, and
awards will be announced about
May 16,i for the academic ypar be
ginning [ September 26, i960.
All applicants will bej interview
ed by a irepreHentativo of Harvard,
if possible. Those who fan not go
to Cambridge, Mass may arrange
interviews In New York City,
Washington, D, C,, [oij, possibly,
in this vicinity,
Of great interest to [A&M stu
dents, Ik the fnet that tjhe Govern
ing Hoards of Harvard College
have vpied to open thbsa fellow
ships to women. • :
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Aircraft Research
Results Announced
Results of aircraft research at
A&M, which may be a long way
toward reducing accidents of sin
gle engine airplanes, have been an
nounced by the Texas Bigineer-
ing Experiment Station.
The research, conducted by
George A. Roth and T. R. Salter
at the Personal Aircraft: Research
Center, was aimed at reducing
aircraft accidents resulting from
engine failures by use of a twin
lubrication system.'! j
Roth and Salter developed an
oil system with duplicate gear-
type pumps, oil screens, check
valves, oil preasure gunge* and
two standpipes at different oil lev
els, and put the system to test in
actual flight.
Tho installation permits engine
operation on either one or both
lubrication systems; if one fails,
the othir will carry the load, with
no adjustment necessary.
An indicator shows when the
q|l : level falls below a sale mini
mum, and an oil tank filler neck
baffle arrangement prevents dan
gerous loss of oil should the cap
become lost. / : •:)
The research project stemmed
directly from am analysin' of per
sonal airplane power plant fail
ures during 1947 by Fred E
Weick, director of the Personal
Aircraft Research Center at A&M.
Aware of the ever-inipending
threat of power plant failures and
the hazards of such in single ’en
gine aircraft, Weick studied data
Furnished by the Bureau of Safety
Investigation of the Civil Atiro-
nautics Board.
Hia object was a clue to the
causes of 1,363 accidents in 1947
involving power plant failures for
engines up to 200 horsepower
which led to accodents involving
at least major damage to the air
planes.
^Welch’s conclusions were thpt
seven-eights of the determined
power plant failures were associa
ted with the fuel system, and more
than one-half of them could have
been prevented by the use of a
properly functioning fuel I injection
system instead of a carburetor.
Of the remainder, one-third
might have been prevented by dup
lication of the oil system. He noted
131 Oases in which duplication (of
the fuel system'would be involved
on 40 cases involving duplication
of the lubrication system.
As a result of the findings,
the task of determining the
effectiveness of duplication of.
systems was undertaken, and [
Balter and Roth went to work on
the lubrication system, .lame*
G. McClure is working on a dup
licate fuel system.
Complete duplication of the en
gine's existing lubrication system
was considered impractical be
cause it would involve major re
work of the engine. All passages,
except the line to the oil pres- I
pure guage, are intjjgfal with the
engine and of sufficient size to
make the probability of complete
clogging remote.
Testing procedure of the sys
tem as a unit, and separate por
tions of the system, Involved , In
stallation of the modified C76-12
Continental engine in the 1947 ex
perimental model Ercoupe, a plane
which Weick himself designed.
Although the majbr portion of
tho w^rk was done on the ground,
some flight testing was done.
Conclusion from the research
was that a twin luhirlratlon sys
tem for engines used In persons!
type aircraft is feasible sad
prirllcable; for maximum relia
bility, all units and psHMages of
such a system should be ae in
tegral with the engine as possi
ble.
The warning given oi' tow bil
supply, which will help’ forijstell
complete engine failure, la ex
tremely desirable, Sa|tcr amt Roth
noted; and as an adjunct, a baffle
arrangement qr some other device
could be used to advantage to de
crease the rate of any possible oil
loss through the, oil tank filler
neck in event of loose cap or a
lost cap.
The application of twin lubri
cation system* to future engines
should, according to the findings,
eliminate’ a substantial proportion
of accidents due to faulty oil sys
tems or units thereof.
3
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