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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1950 Beware SWC, A&M Is Back Ten years ago today on Kyle Field, the A&M football team was preparing itself for its opening game with Texas A&I who was supposed to possess one of the stronger teams in this portion of the country and was rated number six in the nation. Of course, spirit was running high all over the campus, and it seemed as if the National Champions would have another ter rific year, although no one knew how the Cadets would fair against A&I who the week before handed San Jose its first defeat in forty years. No one knew what was in store the com ing weekend, but the team continued work ing, the coaches teaching, and the Twelfth Man worked harder than ever. Today, we are faced with a somewhat similar problem. For the first time since ’47, A&M won its opening game and with the largest score since the same year. At the present time, the moral of the team is at high tide, and the same can be said for the student body. No one could have appreciated the wel come which they received Sunday night at Easterwood Airport more than the seniors on the Cadet grid team. These men have seen few victorious days, in their years of varsity play, but have consistently worked hard. “This makes me want to win more games”, was the most that anyone could say when the freshmen carried the players from the plane to the bus. Our coaches are among the best, our players better than the majority, and the Twelfth Man can now show that he can never be outdistanced no matter what may happen to the others. And it paid off in ’40, when A&M de feated the Texas A&I Javelinas, 26-0. SELPH The Multiple Dangers of Peace .. . Perhaps it sounds foolish to speak of the danger of peace, but that is exactly what our country faces, or is likely to face in the near future. Barring unexpected developments, war fare in Korea other than guerrilla activity will probably be finished within three to six months. That is not a prediction, but seems to be the consensus of informed military opinion. So, supposing we do wind up our Korean fighting that soon. Russia then has two choices: She can start another fire some where else in the world—Indonesia, for in stance—in the belief that we will rush to put it out as we did in Korea, or she can sit back and see what we do. Now, if Russia wants major war, she has learned in Korea that she can get it, the more she pushes, the more we prepare. Russia knows that, and it is quite pos sible, or even probable, that she will decide to write off Korea as a bad idea, and then behave like a wooly lamb. She may., even launch a phony “peace offensive,” knowing that she can find fools in the free nations to beat the drums for it. The hard question is: What do we do in that case? Do we grab at the chance to return our far and easy existence, eating butter and for- gettin guns ? We will be so tempted, and you can depend on hearing a lot of loud propa ganda for that course. The dollar-first peo ple will go for that, and they will sing us a pretty song. It will be hard to resist, be cause we all like butter better than guns. Or, do we follow the cold, clear light of logic and refuse to slow in any way our prep aration for the conflict that must inevitably come? We all know in our hearts that it must come, or freedom must finally die. Well, answer the question in your own terms. How do you feel about it? Are you willing to have the armed services take more and more men, including yourself perhaps? Are you willing to pay higher taxes, to put up with either inflation or government con trols, to do without such things as new cars and refrigerators? That isn’t an easy question. Millions of Americans have either dodged it or answered in the negative since the fighting began in Korea. How many will refuse when we aren’t fighting anywhere ? Unfortunately, the future of our children and their children depends on how correctly and how vigorously we answer that question. We must decide wheher they are to be slaves or free men. —Temple Daily Telegram. Some Things Considered... In Answer to 4 We Stand Corrected’ By CLAYTON L. SELPH If you have as much as 20 hours, you know what pre requisites are. Today, this column has a prerequisite—the letter just to the right of where you’re reading now. It was not our plan to begin the year by answering a “Letter to the Editor,” but to day’s letter was a little too enticing. Perhaps you will excuse us for getting off to such a PI rude start. Perhaps you won’t. Mr. Virgil M. Faires, head of Post Graduation Studies and the Man agement Engineering Department: Sir, we apologize. And after a few words explaining our feelings toward Post Gradua tion Studies, we would like to offer an ex planation. First, we, too, think that Post Graduation Studies, not to mention yourself, deserve praise for its efforts to broaden the A&M graduate’s know ledge of those things which make- living a greater pleasure. Far be it from us to oppose any effort to make our students better fitted to live in a world that needs more people who know “how to live” and less who know “how to make money.” Perhaps, through your work and that of others who recognize a need for greater education in the humanites, our college will be influenced to alter its objectives. Then a student will learn how to live instead of how to “make a living.” # But we digress. On to our explanation. You, like many another Battalion reader, have probably never stopped to consider the difficulties involved in trying to be a student and produce a daily newspaper at the same time. Quite often we are not students, we just attend classes—irregularly. At the beginning of each year we suffer a shortage of staff members. It is not until the third or fourth week that we have a staff of sufficient size to do the job. Some four or fivb of our department editors have been putting your paper out this week, almost singlehanded. It was one of those same editors who, being a little weary at about 2 a. m., was willing to let the word “Post-Grad” go by in a headline because it fit well. He felt that Post Grad was sufficient because a headline is not meant to tell the whole story. Sometimes, it is necessary to abbre viate headlines to a critical point. However, in the story we noted that the words “Post Graduate Studies” had been used. We cannot excuse that. It should not have been there. As for your suggestion that we use the initials PGS, we agree, Forever after, it shall be. IF ONIY THE WRONG PARTY. DOESN’T GET HURT* Student ASCE Lists Dinner The Brazos County Branch and the Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers will sponsor a din ner honoring National and) State officers of the ASCE to night at 7 p. m. in the assembly room of the Memorial Student Center, Spencer J. Buchanan, spon sor of the Student Chapter of the ASCE announced today. Earnest E. Howard, national president of the ASCE will be the main speaker. Other speakers in clude Fred C. Scobey, national vice-president of the ASCE, C. Glenn Cappel, national director of the ASCE, Lobar Snow, president Texas section of the ASCE, and Dr. S. R. Wright, vice-president Texas section of the ASCE and head Department of Civil Engin eering, A&M. The general theme of the speak ers will be “Aims and Objectives of the ASCE”, Buchanan said. This dinner commemorates the 25th anniversary of the student chapter of the ASCE as well as the 75th anniversary of the college, Buchanan added. Buchanan was president of the student chapter (All letters to the editor which are signed by a student or employee of the when it was founded in 1925. college and which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be published. Per- Complete arrangements lor the sons wishing to have their names withheld from publication may request such action j;. nner have been made bv R L oth d er th tZ“duor,.) 0t ’ Wlth ° Ut ^ C0n8eIlt 01 ^ Wmer ’ ^ dIVUlfied * 8117 Peurifoy, president of the Brazos mm:-: 'V '■ ■ - ' VI'AA-C?-• '~ ’ ' fd.ZJZfS-— Letters To The Editor As a final thought, we call your attention to the Religious Educa tion Department. At the beginning of each semester they buy adver tising space in The Battalion to publicize their courses. Surely, we thought, since we are giving Mr. Faires a free adver tisement by listing all the courses offered in residence by PGS, he will not complain. Wc were wrong. You are fighting a good fight for a good cause, Mr. Faires. We hope that this “defense” has not offended you. Your letter did not offend us. We hope to he hearing from you again, soon. “Fifteen” for PGS. A&M Film Slowed The Nobel Peace Prize for a Noble American 0*9 Dr. Ralph Bunche, the United Nations mediator who brought an end to conflict in the Holy Land, has set an example for all ambitious American Negroes. Last Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Palestine. Dr. Bunche is the first Negro ever to win a Nobel Prize. Count Folke Bernadette of Sweden, who laid the ground work for the Jewish-Arab Palestine Agreements, was assassinated in 1948 and Dr. Bunche took up his work im mediately. Soon afterward, he effected an armistice that ended the civil war between th Arabs and the Jews that followed World War II. Although the Peace Prize amounts to about $23,000 this year, the real value of the prize is an intangible thing. This intangible thing is compounded of the respect of all tho peace-loving people of the world, a com mendation of a job well done, and the thank fulness of hundreds of mothers who would have lost sons if the war had continued. Everyone knows that the Negro does not have the equal rights that he should have in the United States. But by winning the Peace Prize, Dr. Bunche ha£ pulled the teeth of the vile propaganda di’sseminated by both foreign Communists and their American counterparts such as Paul Robeson. Be sides the United States, where else in the world could fhe grandson of Negro slaves rise to such international fame? By GEORGE CHARLTON Money, money, who’s got money ? The Senior Class wants to know. Quite a bit of that crisp, green stuff is needed for the Class of ’51’s project* for the year—the production of a technicolor motion picture depicting student life on the A&M campus. deal of people to the studies and serious attitudes within A&M. It will be very much like a well conducted tour of the campus showing what the College has to offer in the way of academic courses, extracurricular activit ies, educational facilities, and sports, and recreational activities. We Stand Corrected Editor,s The Battalion: Concerning the article about POST GRADUATION STUDIES in your issue of September 21, may I call your attention to a slight inaccuracy which has to do with the use of the words “post grad uate” and “post graduation.” Since there are others who fail to make the proper distinction between the words as we use them, this cor rection should be of interest to many others on the Campus. “Post graduate work” is college work which comes after gradua tion, and it has the very strong con notation of being advanced work of a specialized nature. By it, we nearly always mean that the work represents a more intensive study of the advanced phases of some particular field. “Post graduation” also means “after graduation”, but in Post Graduation Studies, it does NOT mean further intensive and ad vanced studies. To avoid unneces sary confusion, I would like to sug gest that POST GRADUATION STUDIES be referred to for short as PGS, rather than “post-grad” something. PGS has an entirely dif ferent objective from that of post graduate work. Instead of aimi1^g , at greater specialization, PGS aims nt a'broadening of one’s knowledge' in the humanites and social sci ences. We want to make our grad uates into better informed citizens and therefore to prepare them for greater social and business respon sibilities. Moreover, expanding a statement in your article, I think it can be said that A&M is the only accredit ed college in the world which of fers its graduates ^an opportunity to get another degree by corres pondence courses only. With t his slight commercial, I am. V. M. Faires, Head Post Graduation School (Editors’ Note: A discussion of Mr. Faires’ comments may be found in the column, “Some Things. Considered,” in the upper half of this page. County Mranch and James Tidwell, president of the J. T. L. McNew Student Chapter at College Sta tion. Floral arrangements were made by the Aggieland Floral Shop. CORPS TRIP THOSE CORPS TRIPS WILL HERE SOON BE .... and you’ll want a light sturdy hand bag to carry your over night gear in. THE EXCHANGE STORE has just what you need, ranging in price ’from five to fifteen dollars in several sizes, colors of tan, brown and maroon and white. These bags weigh only a few pounds yet they are very roomy and most of all they will not crush. COME IN TODAY THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies’’ Running time will be approx- So far, $2,000 has been allocated imately 20 minutes, from Exchange Store funds for When bids for movie companies the film, with a stipulation at- aEe 0 p en anc [ a ft er one i s accept- tached money must be returned it ^ ^ a ^. com p an y w ip assume duties not enough cash were raised to pay narra tion and script writing. The complete costs of the ^production. scr jp^ w ju fog so wr itten, with the i # The San Antonio Mother s Club a pp rova i 0 f a committee appointed A If* tp flFf 1 #* I OfHIO'P'C has joined the cause by donating b the Pl . esid e nt 0 f the College, r1 ' 11 1 ^ 11<Ui h C!5 $100, and over $200 was netted last bba |. ^ wd j } nc i ude a u aspects of Spring on key deposits. student life such as classroom study At that time, persons who turned scenes, dormitory life, and other in room key receipts were request- similar associated phases, ed by the Film Committee to d°n- rp be be distributed to ate their remitted dollars to a fund an y g r0U p 01 . organization who requests it when reels are available. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” for furthering the project. And last August, the Fiscal Committee of the Association of Former Students met and turned down a request for money. Con sequently, former student organ izations throughout the state are bbing contacted for dona tions, according to Jim Kadel, member of the senior class com mittee. Other active members of the committee this year are David Haines, Carroll SoRelle,' and Gail Brundrett. Chairman Brundrett has Unit Designations Air Force units have undergone a change in name, Col. Hayden L. Boatner, commandant of the Tentative plans have been set to college and PMS&T, has announced, have one master reel and ten aux- Units formerly known as flights iliary films to be kept in the W1 }\ be , cal ! ed squardons to conform Memorial Student Center. It was on March 28 that Bob McClure, former cadet colonel of the corps, addressed juniors and told them of the red tape, costs, work, and time involved in such an undertaking. That night, the Class of ’51 voted unanimous ly in favor of the film. with the Air Force designation of units of comparable size. Squad rons will be called groups and groups will be called wings, he said. Freshmen units 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12 will be called squadrons. Portions of the units formerly called platoons will be called flights in the new renaming pro gram. The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. Du ring the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Frida* for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday dm-ing the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 pear month. Advertising rates furnished on request. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH John Whitmore, Dean Reed, L. O. Tiedt Sid Abernathy Frank N. Manitzas Joel Austin Co-Editors Managing Editors Campus News Editor Sports Editor City News Editor Previously in 1948, a few mem- recently sent letters to A&M Moth- ber « of the Class of _’49 motioned er’s clubs requesting money. These ^at, with the_ permission of the four have been working and plan- College, a movie depicting student Student MaSOUS Meet ning for the movie since a Junior lfe ™ lg f ht be. Produced and chs- Class meeting last March when the tm bed to various clubs, „i ; „i„ mothers’ clubs, high school as semblies, and luncheon clubs project was chosen unanimously. LI’L ABNER Today’s Issue John Whitmore Managing Editor Jerry Zuber Campus News Editor Frank Manitzas Sports News Editor Joel Austin City News Editor Hay Williams Special Assignments T. M. Fontaine Editorialist Sam Molinary Chief Photographer Bill Hites Chief Photo Engraver Bob Hancock, John Hollingshead. Tommy Fontaine, James Lancaster Photo Engravers Herman C. Gollob Amusements Editor Bob Hughson, Bill Mebane, Tom Rountree Raymond Rushing, Leon McClellan, Wayne Davis News and Feature .Writers Ralph, Gorman, Roy Holbrook, Harold Gann, Joe Blanchette, Pat LeBlanc, pale Dowell, Jimmy Curtis Sports Writers Since then, 800 ft. of coloied 16 throughout the state for education mm. film taken on the campus has an d information purposes. been assembled. This film belongs to the Fisher Film Company of Denton. As a part of last year’s Mothers’ Day activities, the 800 feet of col ored film was shown to parents in a special program in the YMCA Cabinet Room. One lady, Mrs. C. A. Gilbert who is president of the A&M Mothers’ Club was so pleased by the showing that she put up a special proposal to support the pro ject. The proposal passed, and eventually should provide a large portion of money for the project. Purposes of the film will be to emphasize and educate a great Dr. Artecona to Head Latin American Club Dr. Guillermo Artecona was elected president of the Latin American Club at an election held recently. Vice president for the coming year is G'onzalo Canseco; treasurer will be Jose Barragan, and Juan Cubria will be secretary. Dr. Walter Delaphane, head of the economics department was elected sponsor of the club. A meeting of Student Masons will be held in Room 28 of the Civil Engineering Building at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. Members from any place are invited to attend. Night school classes in Shorthand, Typing and Bookkeeping will begin October 16 at 7 p.m. For further information call 3-6655. McKENZIE-BALDWIN BUSINESS COLLEGE 702 South Washington Avenue Bryan, Texas THE Mm WALKEP ABOUT BOOTS ON EVERY CAMPUS with striking new waffle embossing • This is the smart boot you'll want to wear for everything from cutting classes to week end parties. 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