- ■« • ]■■ / - ■ •• ■ '< .iJ'T' — Page 2 t ; TUESDAY, MAY v 2, 1950 Needed: A Change From Summer Anarc 4, • During the past two summers, student government has been very similar to what the farmer remarked upon seeing a gir affe: “There just ain’t no such animal.” Whatever the causes of student gov ernment’s hibernation during the summer months, this problem should be faced im mediately by the Student Senate before it is too late and we have another summer upon us. / . The’ Senate constitution (which needs re-writing) provides for a hit-or-miss system =of student government during the summer months. The constitution places student senators who attend summer school on a sort of caretaker basis. They constitute a committee and do the least ahiount of \york they can. So, actually, student government at A£M has been a 9 months deal with the three summer months degenerating into anarchy. , i Our experience with student govern- ment, limited as it has been, should not make us form 1 the habit of thinking of student government in terms of the two long semesters, but in terms of the whole calendar year. - * ^ ^ Meeting Thursday evening the Student Senate will wind up business for this yetr. This will be the last meeting unless enough Senatore want to finish out4heir task of strengthening student government here at A&M ahd hold extra sessions. A year’s experience is behind the present Senate and the lessons they have learned could benefit next year’s Senate, j ! / . | - Ideas and suggestions could also come from an active simmer Senate which would have a summlertipie administration and do what work was : necessary tor the summer session^. The summer Senate would not make policies that could bind the Senate elected the following October to carry on busi ness during the regular semester. Rath er, the summertime Senate would govern d u r i n g the summer, and not progress along the Slip shod path it has in the past two summers. to; elect summer impossible. Con- Dormitory elections senators would not be tinuation of the hit-or-miss summer Sen ate should be abandon^!, and some more workable and working Senate arrange ment made. I . M rv;., The . Victor’s Spoils -v -b The dividing line between, politics and office is not easily distinguished. ^ President .Truman has, on occasions past, made i tours through the country which he described as “rion-political.” On these tours he has flung many a political ycharge, and made many a political claim. ; Still, posfed as the chief executive of ;these greatfUnited States, garryfTruman was mereljftgoing to the people in the big cities and at Whistle stops telling them What he thought a president should tell . his people. Starting this coming Sunday, Presi? dent Harry Truman Will again make a jaunt through several states, givg a half doxen major addresses and 50 off-the-cuff platform talks. The president has de scribed this tout' as ‘^non-political.” | ^ For such a tffur to be “non-polltlcal" -is Impossible. Vet, the people who attend nhy of his Mpeeehes welcome the. oppor tunity to see dnd hear the President of 1 the United St4tes. Certainly his view points will be prejudiced ih sympathy with the program which he is urging Congress to approve. His talks will support the things he is for and undoubtedly they will denounce whoever and whatever opposes him and his programs of increased govern- A certain^ general stormed into the of fice where I was typist one day. “What’s; the big idea of putting Captain Smith on my staff?” he shouted. “Those were headquarters’ orders sir,” was told. ^Well, I.won’t have him. He's nothing but an Jdiot with bars on his shoulders.” “Really, sir, he isn’t that bad,” spoke mental service, control 4 and spending. Two years ago Hafry Truman on a non-political whirl just before national elections lambasted h s Opposition and promised more than his 81$t Congress has As| a result of his speeches and his been disposed to give, strenuous non-political campaigning, Harry Truman upset dope- sters and regained the presidency from 1948 until 1952. ; In felling the people; about their feder al government during his approaching tour Harry Truman is jprejdicted to point out how our governmeijjtal ills can be cor rected—elect Democrat^ in the next elect- iona. ' . Hy virtue q^hia pNaidbncy, bin word* will have great effect jand place his op- ponenta at ii. diaadvanttiigo i for many pep pie “believe that if the It. must be bo. Prenklent Maya lit, nlH; "non-political" Whether we like tours or not, they are vifitlij uh, and the old saying “To the victoi gdes the spoils” seems to still hold wat The non-political tours are merely the spoils which Harry Tn man and the Dem- acratic Party earned 1 victory. -v■,! r. ' by 1948'^ election up a colonel. “After alk dozens of battles.” | For several second® the general eyed him coldly. Then he said with dignity, “Come over here to thb window,^colonel.” The colonel did, and the general point ed outside. “See jthose jmUles. Every one through | a dozen battles re still jackasses!” — ijegipn Magazine, of them has been too . . . but they' i hej’s been through V "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Lawrence Sullivan Ross,,Founder of Aggie Traditions news dispatches ous origin publish- Herein. ichuuhv-ouvii va Oil vvsscs. sscacss* s»sc osou The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and ths / of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week and circulated fcycry Monday^through 6 Friday afternoon, except during holidays and examination periods. During! talion-is published trl-weekly pn Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subspriptio) ^nar. AavertUing rates furnlithed on request. j every Mona the sumnier The Bat- rate $6.00 por School News contributions may be made by telephone (4-6444) or] at tho editi Uondwin Hall. Classified ads may bs placed by telephone (4-6824) or at | Office, Boom 200, Goodwin Hafl. . | leteredsi »esea4^ls«s SMtter st-Tost MTIn si OeU*«« Suites, Tess*. etulw the A*t ot 0..»4»t«s«>b«S»*»».«»».ei4Me'».see««seMee»se*..Sss»M«. t>M «e»«aes*e»e»sees»e..**«iee«»eee4.ee«»*e»«4|i4i l ».«essLeee.eei Jkssesss 7 : v Dean JRvi^l ........j...... Frank N. Manltzas Today’s Istiue J - 1 %f 1 curti* Bdw^rde City Editor Bid Abernathy. K.n Bernhardt, _ •terry Zub«r Actln» Copy Editors BUI Barber. Bob Boyd, cheater Hicks, Bob Hughaon. Marvin Matuaek. George McBee.; ” Tom Rountree. Raymond Rushing. Walter , Tanamachl. John Tapley, "Rip” Torn, : Kenneth Wiggins Nasra Staff Jeff Cheek. Cheater Crltchfletd.’Wayne Davis. ~ BUI. Thompson. Kay Williams.... Feature Staff ulea Sebasta. .. .City Desk MiBllc jschobl Correspondent .1. Circulation Manager ' Klrkhnm.. bartti Cbarla Oeorge Charlton., Herman odllob Frank S. Slmmen. Jr.. Roger Coalett. Jimmy Ralph Oorman. Ray I er. Frank Manltzas. -mini .Dudley Hughes. BUI Me bane. Ct Emu Bunjea. Jr.... X,J K. Carter....... Rogers. Frank Him , Bam MoUnary Hardy Rosa, John Hollti Fontaine. Bob Han A. W. Fredericks. Don Garrett , Jack Brandt, Jack Stanabury, i Deer If/ -f—| Co-Editora -— 'Manafln* Kdjtor Fealure Kdltor Hportn Kdllt.r ....Nbws Kdltora Sports News Editor ....News Editor , r Cblaf Editorial tat Assistant Feature MSKer Amuscmenta Hdllae .Sports Feature Editor faroid Gann, rry Houa- George Sports Staff .Staff Photographsr Jommy Hites.. .Photo Rngrarers ertlslng Representatives unroe Cartooniata •J: 1 •-p ' '! * >:■ ■£ 5Ei4ATO« H^carthv POUTICAl IbbUC^ ntcj&Pr. Letters To The Editor (All letters to the editor which are signed by a student or employee of the college and which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be published. Her- aons wishing to have their names withheld from publication may request such actilon and these names will not, without the consent of the writer, be divulged to any persons other than the editors.) 1 CLASS INDEPENDENCE Editor, The Battalion: There is a tradition at A&M that is as concrete and realistic as the very- foundations of th« Academic Building'- It has existed since the inauguration of the Ag ricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and ha's done more to build this school into the finest military college in the Unitcjd States than any other custom that we have. The tradition to which we refer is that of class independency in the matter of class government. Sim plified, this means that with no exceptions in the history of the school, each class has held their elections and chosen their officers from their own thoughts and de cisions and not from the opinions of the men in the other classes. Every man in the class of 1951 is certainly capable of making his own decision in the coming run-off. I must admit that the Letters to the Editor column is a pretty good place for free campaigning and it’s too had no one thought of it before the first election, fir maybe they were too proud to usu it. Perhaps, though, a candidate's chances are gwnAly increased if the wiser men in tho class above hint provide their eiidarsoinont fur tho cnmlidafo. Dick Graves '51 Joe Perry 'M Donald Lee '51 Lester llttnl'ielil 'jW Jack tllrkner ’51 David llrifl '51 Nick Deck '51 Albert DeltaIfi, ‘51 Donald M. Hunts ‘51 .lack Cockrnnt ‘51 Itm Hollti ml '51 Ii. L. Sturdivant '51 S. G. Durdaganhin '51 Ii. G. Hlaitefiurd '51 ' E. H. Morrison '51 Marvin Engellierg '51 Hill T. Thompson '51 T. E. Ghikinger '51 Kelly-Grothaus to Be Married on June 3 Mrs. Maurine Kelley ^f Bryan has announced the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Miss Ikonna Kelley, to Fred E. Grothaus, son of Mrs. B. F. Grothaus of Saij^Diego, Cal ifornia. The marriage 'will be an event of June 3rd. j, Grothaus, a sanitary engineering major, is commander of “A” Flight, Air Force in the A&M Corp of Cadets. ft . Official Notice REGISTRAR'S OFFICE Some of our student*! are making plans to, attend the 1950 Slimmer Session in aome other college or university,' Such students should check wjitti the Registrar's, Otfjc to ’make sure that work completed elsewhere is acceptably In transfer ty. A&M. Courses will not be accepted J.n. transfer for degree credit unless it hey are (a) sub stantially equivalent In -ebaracier and ex tent. . (br normally offered at the same .level, and (c* wftn essentially the same ; prerequisites as similar courses offered at this college. Students who fall a bourse In any sub ject and subsequently jtnke siich coqcse hr subsequent courses In, the same subjects lit another coUo«e may be requited to pjasu validating examlnuhons jin such couryo! or courses before they wlW. be accepted, -for transfer toward de«ro« (equiremente, H., L( lientoi), ReKlMM'ur < , ! TUESDAY k WEDNESDAY hi/ »tE CUMMINS, JOHN DALL. KING BROTHERS PRODUCTION M«0M- lUotiMtrations In Horljn is cui'liiiiisly symbolic of the sitiluiUon on the two sides of the Iron curtain, Iti the Russian, zone there : Was a great Hiller-like show, cemjllicl* eil with military precision, llltind- reds of thotisnmls of. people Went through their, paces In rehearsed pagontrv. Everything was iq or der, and the odor of regiment tit loir was ktjrong. I On the western side the pcojple straggled ft) the meeting place J as though going to a picnic. It was a free-will demonstration of anti- commtrnism; hardly more than a soap-bpx rally, .though of gigantjq size, and breaking up after only an hour and a half of speeehmak- ing. The Communist demonstration,) on the! other hand, was a time pro gram Running through the day ijind into the night. Behind this focal point of con tact between the opposing forces of thb cold war, in the “zones, of interior” where the strategy is mapped and the supplies amassed, the situations were much the same: On the allied side free peoples bandirjg together voluntarily, but straggling greatly~at times because of their own diverse interests. On tho Russian side, singleness of pur pose and of method. 3,0(8 Sth nn u y u verb Tho 15 ibb as to I w sain bovi I.Hf) fonnp conf l< whov <\ char first Gives laries or,from $2,000 to $2,500 ir. The low man reporting ‘over two year group” said r)iieU ai yearly salary J of ing are and char ass less i r>! shet that (am eng of c r AM the den of t ill Ar l Kyle Portrait To Be Given to A&M A&M College will be presented an oil portrait of Dean E. J. Kyle at 2 p. m. Thursday in the YMCA. The portrait, done by the noted | iiamtdr, Seymour M. Stone,!, of iloustlon ami Ft. Worth is bejing mcxeiited by fi ieuyls ’iiof Dil'till opei it' tn >| :,o«i Kylti >\ tist,, presiu HKVtVAV NhoMit *- 7 lift DRIVE-IWWv TOMTK 1’rod Mar Murry — In "Dokiiehi.ine” QUEEN STARTING MAY 5TH fj'om throiiglmut the Soulh- A reception will ftillow [the Uitlou in the south s(ilui'iu|m. Kyljf. l|le first ileuhnf the School of Agriculture nl A&M, Is forpier Unltujt Sliites ttmlmssudor to ] Gualt’ionlui lie -wus bend of the iiHiletie committee nl A&M wlum Kyle [Field wits set. aside for ath, lotle activities. He itud Mrs. Kyle now Ijlve in Hi'yarr. - Brcian Z 0 SS79 LAST DAY 66 Whirlpool” QECIL B. DfMILLE’^ 'V masterpiece S^ntsun AND Delilah DON’T MISS IT! THE YEAR'S BEST ENTERTAINMENT “0 Mistress Mine” Miiy 8,1 & rt —At the — #ASSEMBLY HALL T • i 8 I’.IH. AtlnilMHlon Hie LIT ABNICK Sweet Lips AM GOT ANOTHER wtrr ctmi' ytw 'itSvts, PlTCMEf-t.O'TVt'M. TALL GAL WHOSE KNEE- car^am aims r , MARPV I ID WlL"»C : u STARTS WED. Robert Taylor Elizabeth Taylor in Conspirator” QUEEN LAST DAY V ' j ^ : 6 C* iii Itv Bystander” WED. -U THURS. TfodmaSd?... 'SSL, j- Trend Reflected .ing siilai'ics . also re nenti have been employed t an a year. 11 erestin g troflti. Less ■ grud nates reporttsl i-jc 1 start ing salary u« $3,145. (vt>r ons year and less than : inths" t roup ivportod $3,20(1'- I avenge. Fifteen-months '-year* said their stuning avera re was $3,420. Tho ■ wlo-yei r group” averutgod :ulck look at the, returned '■entWr’a names are kept tlnl4n tlie Man E office) jO reported that they hud yjid companies after their >b, wniio 68 arc still work- , { the / same company which r hirejl mem upon gratluation. The data nows (that 52 have changed origril joli assignments and 41 reper; ho bhangt?. These figures ■ |n ): Ibroken ootVn into bhpdketH '^riariy of those who haVl},. not yijd from their origiqal job nii -s.1 —- v-jl— — ijnbin^ through : the data it Is interesting to note ost tjf the $6,000-a-yeni' nion higher salaries), are sales, ers working on some sort mission basis. V ' after digesting the data of , ■ wage survey the stu- 1 i? may well sigh. “One T ie days I’ll be a .statistic.” story Professors mared at Meet D i'[j Ralph W. Steen, professor Iris ory,|was elected fourth Vice-' el id Ait