Battalion Editorials
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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“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.
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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.
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702 South Washington Avenue
Bryan, Texas
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