- ■«
• ]■■
/ - ■
•• ■ '<
.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<di«rMi of MsrSb h VM*'
Member of
The Associated Preu
IsafMeSt
vcriaies a«
CblMSe,
■lal! office, Boom 201,
ie Stuudont Activities
br NsMosel At-
si New Verb QHs,
BILL BIM^OSLEY, C. C. MUNROE
OlliytCm SOlph.e^SMsiseeisesstieisssssatesesMskssbssss.esSsesasssassebsssaseesBssaesssesssstsessssiSssbssssssebessIsssesnei
Dttvr Cofilott. M»sSsssse«ess#ssss»a«sse»»»sss»ssssss»esse»sss«s»s«sssessss*».p.eeiSS»es»eies«essbssM»s»esssesesJees»si|ssa^|^*esseaksi
OhUGk OtthtttllBB..*ieesse«*es>..»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<i tkfj Ilniud Arldti j
APPRECIATION
The Agronomy Society:
Speaking for this year’s Aggie
track team and as a former mem
ber ofi^the team myself, I would
like to thank the members of tho
Agronomy Society for the fin^
job they did Sunday in cleaning
up the track.
It is so unusual that we find'
people that will help us, care for
the track and we certainly do ap- '
preciate it.
II am positive that it was quite
a job taking down all the deco
rations and framework that were
put Up for the Cotton Pageant
and from the looks of the track
Saturday there was an equally
rough job to dean up everything!
If more organizations could co
operate in helping each other like
the Agronomy students helped the
track team, therP would be a lot
Itss antagonism around here and
a, lot 5)01101' Texas A&M.
Ray Holbrook ’18
Russian Air Might
Paraded in Moscow
Moscow, May I -dd'i a snimdo
of Soviet Uuindn’* armed miiuit
pamdi'd today iitidor a modify])
uivihi'olla of liomber aiul Jot plnnoH
III- a bril-llant May Day show fai’'
I'romlor STalln and mpi'o than a
million ,<|iorlatorn.
Foi'olgn ohaorvoi'x aahl the atit'
unnada was llm proalopl Huadtnli
flvfjig spnrlado bIiuh’ tho ami of
'tho war. It was led hy tho premier's
son, t,t. (ion. Vassily Stalin.
Gym inllrslmo Stalin, looking f|l
mi tho rostrum overlooking Red
Square, heard Gen. S. M. Sllto-
inenko, chief of thi* Army Genctjijil-
Staff, warn "warmongers'' that
Soviet armed forces stood ready
to resist aggressors.
"Warmongers, the formation of
aggressive blocs, the creation of
armed bases around the Soviet
Union and the people’s democra
cies, and military provocations," .
Shtemenko said, “do not scare the
Soviet Union.” , .
Foreign air attaches said this
was tht first time twin-engined
jet planes have appeared in any
Soviet air show. They also observed
this was the first time the air
force had displayed as many as
64 four-engined bombers. Iit j an
air parade last November there
were 22 such bombers. Last May-
Day there were less than a dozen
of the sky giants,
Bible Verse
And fear not them which kill the
body, but are not able to kill the
soul: but rather fear him whi<|h
is able to destroy both soul and
body in hell.
I—Matthew If): 28.
e-i .
Just Who’s
;
How Much . .
Management Sum
Data on Gradual
By CHARLES KlftKH
By looking over the (
vey data on engineering graduates,
engineering ‘students usually
mark to themselves, “Jfmm,
,1
tir-
ijhe
average graduate in such and siich
a field tnakes this much after th: led
years in the outside jworld, and 1
should easily double that amoijnt
within three .years."
We have received data on a wage
survey made hy the Management
Engineering Department. The Midi
E Department mailed question
naires to each of 214 graduates, ijind
received replies front 103 of them.
Based on results J of nearly half
riuli
of the
on
Man
graduates, these
Interpreting the News . . .
general conclusions can be drawn:
Average Salaries \*
- The average annual salary of
Man E graduates of over two years
is $4,805. Graduates front a, year
to 16 months are making $3,692.
Graduates of less than a year are
averaging $8,270 a year.
•The "high's" and "lows” in each
of those brackets varied consid
erably. 1 Take the “over two year
group” for an example. One man
reported an annual salary of
$16,000: He owns a third interest
in a lumber company and a con-
stn'etidn firm. His salary jumped
tile average of his bracket jby
around $900.
The other brackets enjoyed
Allies See Good Omen
In Peaceful May Day
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
The passage of May Day without
serious trouble in Berlin is ;be-
ing looked at hopefully in Allied
circles as a possible omen for May
28, when the Russian-sponsored
youth movement in the Eastern
zone will stage a mass demonstra
tion which once looked like! it
might become a putsch-to take ovet-
all of the city.
Definite putsch threats followed
the original announcement of the
May 28 program, but since then
there have been denials that [any
overt act is planned.
Allied circles have remained
nervous, however, over both the
May 1 and May 28 pi-ospedtj.
Troops were alerted and' specially
trained for street fighting. The
whole atmosphere has been \ One
of extreme tension.
The Communist-controlled East
German police exhibited a defin
ite desire yesterday to aVoid
clashes, falling hack before [one
relatively minor attack by tfeest
Germans rather thari run the risk
of a riot by retaliating against
taunts and stones.
This might indicate e. mere de
sire to make May- 1, a rehearsal
and await the real day. But
somehow or other it gives Ithe
impression that Russia is Hot
ready for the showdown which
some of the more holhenjlcd
Gei'jiian communists gromiU'd
for later in the month.
Oim aspect) of the May Day jh>-
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 <if the Texas State His-
u a Askiiciation at their' f ifty-
foyi! 11 annual meeting in Justin,
■il
1‘
IU
oi
27-29,
ting began with the
tho Eugene C. Barker
tory Cepler Thursday:
April 27, pt the Upjver-
as. This center’is hous-
tUI nrain liiirary build-
University Campus and
in) honor" of the “dean”
historians. Among-the
contests of the center
sinks' and more than
ages of manuscrl|)(s,r
ami photoatuts - dealing
history.'
Nuhci', nsMistaid prti-
i iet ory pi'eseiiteil a imp-i
till Adrian Willi's (('am-
oxas, ih|i!" in the meet*
jay morning., April 39, i
neejl »p. end Mrs, Gibb ;G'II»[
wtjii' Hiimng tliti’ ifudstiH at
(l oelltliL ' ,
tl.
LAST DAY
[first run
—Features Start-— •:
3:85 - 6:40 - 7:. r l() - fi^.00
please Believe
-Me” J'T.'
\
WED. thru SAT-
[first run
Features Start—
:)
30 - 5:05 - 6;45 - 8:25
10:00
IfTH ROMAN ■ DANE
[RAVMONB maiiiv,
• w tvM
NEWS
MIOOEIN' GLAD TO’Or
Mtro» wir vO‘ —
LOOlkf. LIKE IT MIGHT '
BE A PART O' MKO
swer.r rAec.r- fo‘ .
TH' nnsr TlMt, AH'LL
GIT A ROOGH IDLE. O'
whut she looks
LIKE .CF
1 f :
t k
it.
jj ..
,1
■I ,1
\l -