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Page 2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1951
EATING HIM ALIVE
Look to Traditions
THE YEAR is still young and there is still time to take
*- stock of things and decide plans and programs for the
oming year. While in this reflective mood, let’s take a look
,t the A&M traditions.
Tradition plays an extremely important part in the func-
ioning of the student body of A&M and for this reason we
should take a look at some of the customs and traditions and
liscard those which are archaic and, for want of a better
vord, those that the just plain bad.
There are times when we have an alarming tendency to
■egard anything which has happened more than once as a
• • tradition and regardless of its merits to consider it good.
p°^ l Vhen discussing the relative merits of traditions and their
p re jmtrinsic value, we must bear in mind that unwholesome
repjfchings as well as those that are worthwhile can be perpetuat-
‘““‘“ed into traditions.
Just because something has been going on for a number
of years and has stood the so called test of time can mean
217absolutely nothing. If we allowed that type of reasoning to
-govern our actions, then we would have to say that crime and
jwar are good for they have been with us for a rather long
time.
A child could almost spot the fallacies in that type of
reasoning yet we oftimes apply just such reasons as those
mo justify a tradition. It is no longer acceptable for a reason-
ling and intelligent individual to make the statement that “if
it was good enough for my father, then it is good enough
for me.”
The next time an A&M tradition comes to mind, stop a
minute and think. Is this tradition being carried on because
it is worthwhile or only because someone told me that they
had been doing it for the past 25 years.
Too many people are thinking of
security instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than
death. —James F. Byrnes.
Interpreting The News
Argentine Press
it ® ^ Leaves After
Iranian Demonstration Request Vetoed
Starts British Worries
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Princess and
Start Canada
Quebec, Oct. 10—OP) — Princess
Elizabeth and her husband, the
Duke of Edinburgh, were guests at
a glittering state dinner last night
after a busy day of sight-seeing,
receptions and public appearances.
It was the first full-dress affair
of the royal couple’s Canadian
tour, which began officially today
with a 21-gun salute after they
left their 10-car special train at
historic Wolfe’s Cove. They ar
rived at Dorval Airport, Montreal,
yesterday after a 3,400-mile flight
from London.
Even though the Princess and
Duke had been in Canada only a
little more than 24 hours, it al
ready had become apparent that
the tour would be a smashing suc
cess as a goodwill mission. Almost
everybody agreed that both Eliza
beth and Philip were very charm
ing and likeable.
He Says
] Top Student Explains His
Secrets of Grade Making
(Editor’s Note—This article ap
peared in The Dallas Morning 1
News Sept. 30. The date makes it
a little too old to consider news,
but it is a good article to consid
er.)
New York, Sept. 29—(A 5 )—Get
ting good college marks isn’t dif
ficult. Take it from Albert M.
Wojnilower.
Albert proved it by achieving a
near straight A record and com
ing out top man in Columbia Col
lege’s class of 1951. In addition,
he made Phi Beta Kappa, the Greek
honorary scholastic society, and
walked off with the Albert Ascher
Green prize, Columbia’s highest
scholastic honor.
Albert, a scholarly-looking chap
of 21 years, is not one of those
geniuses who scoots through col
lege without cracking a book.
Neither is he a grind. He credits
his good grades to his abality to
read the pi’inted page and under
stand what he reads.
« “I’d sit down in a comfortable
chair and read my class assign
ment without interruption,” he
said. “The trick is to read every
thing twice. No matter how dif
ficult or simple, I’d always get
more out of a second reading.
Since the readings were related
to the lectures in class, I didn’t
have to make many notes but
could concentrate on what the
instructor was saying.
“If you’re up to date with your
readings,” he continued, “this
shouldn’t be too difficult.”
Instead of cramming for exam
inations and trying to decipher
hastily jotted down class notes,
he simply re-read the material to
be covered by the examination.
“If you read with comprehen
sion,” says Albert, “you soon get to
know the essential points in an
assignment and latch on to them
permanently.”
Albert took great care in pre
paring his examination answers
He never answered a question with
out first taking several minutes to
make an outline into which he put
every revalent point he could think
of.
“But knowing the points to be
covered is only part of the job,”
he says. “The next step is to put
your answer into good prose.
You need good writing style and
clarity Of expression. I always
avoided the choppy answer like
the plague. Also, I made sure
to include one or two detailed ex
planations to show the instruct
or I actually had read the course
material.”
If you’ve read your material
conscientiously throughout the se
mester, Albert says, “it’s not a
good idea to study for an examina
tion the day before you take it.
Instead, study for some examina
tion later in the week.
“Take time out to rest during the
examination—say about five or 10
minutes. Don’t leave early. Take it
easy. And oh yes, if you are tak
ing a true or false examination,
don’t second-guess yourself. You
either know the answer right off
or you don’t. If you change it, the
probabilities are you’ll be wrong.”
Two factors helped him achieve
top honors in class themes, he
says. The first was a careful se
lection of his theme. The second
was the instructor’s deadline for
submission.
Don’t ever miss, a deadline,” he
says. “While most instructors are
pretty lenient about granting ex
tensions of time, failure to get a
theme in when due is habit form
ing.”
While a student at Columbia, he
majored in economics and statistics.
GOP Senators
Sign Manifesto
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Tonight’s dinner was given by
the Prime Minister of Quebec,
Maurice Duplessis, in the huge
ballroom of the Chateau Fronten-
ac, one of Canada’s finest hotels.
For the occasion, the Princess
chose to wear a grey silver lace and
tulle evening gown with very full
skirt, a tiara and diamond neck
lace.
After the winner the royal coup
le expected to attend a concert
given by the Quebec Symphony
Orchestra and then board their
train for Ottawa. They will spend
two days in the Canadian capital.
They were formally welcomed
here by the Quebec Prime Minis
ter and the Lieutenant Governor
of Quebec, Caspard Fauteux. Af
terwards they plunged into a round
of visits that included a reception
at the Provincial Parliament, a vis
it a Laval University, a tour of
the city luncheon with the Lieuten
ant Governor, a visit to the Plains
of Abraham, and a demonstration
by 20,000 school children at the
Municipal Colisseum.
For these functions, the Princess
wore a crepe tucked dress official
ly described as olive green, with
short sleeves and belt. Over this
she wore a green velvet coat, with
soft collar and shaped skirt, and
her hat—a cloche—Was in match
ing color. Her shoes, gloves and
envelope purse were in brown
suede.
Philip had on a full-dress naval
uniform, including medals and
sword.
At the points of interest they
visited, they signed guest books
and chatted with officials of all
types, provincial cabinet ministers,
church dignitaries, professors and
mothers of dead war heroes.
Senior Dairy Team
Places 16th in Meet
A&M’s Senior Dairy Cattle judg
ing team returned this week from
Waterloo, Iowa, where they placed
16th in a contest of 31 teams from
leading colleges throughout the na
tion.
Bill Trimmer was the high point
man for the Aggies. Other mem
bers making the trip with coaern
A. L. Darnell of the daily husban
dry department were Louis Solo
mon, Jim Ldhmann, and John
Christner.
Included on the two weeks trip
were stops at the Oklahoma State
Fair, the University of Missouri,
Iowa State College, and various
dairy farms in Iowa.
Washington, Oct. 10 — GT)
All but two of the Senate’s
46 Republican members sign
ed a manifesto yesterday de
nouncing President Truman’s
new order tightening the handling
of information by government
agencies.
Senator Bridges (R-NH) read
the document to the Senate, and
also alleged that “some persons
and groups” in government are
using “smear tactics and propa
ganda techniques ... to silence any
opposition.”
A group of the GOP lawmakers
had made the text public Sept. 30
after it had been signed by 26 of
their number. As finally filed it
bore signatures of all on the Sen
ate’s GOP roster except Senators
Millikin (R-Colo) and Tobey (R-
NH). There was no explanation
of the lack of Millikin’s signature.
Tobey is ill.
The document charged that the
President’s order “tends military
security regulations to all civilian
agencies and establishes machinery
for the censorship and control of
the American television, radio, pe
riodicals and press. It is a new
and dangerous departure in Ameri
can history.”
The manifesto pledged the mem
bers to “rally to the defense of
any person against whom reprisals
are directed as a result of the
exercise of his constitutional right
of freedom of speech.”
Notes From
Grad School
Each year a series of eight to
ten Graduate Lectures are held on
the campus under the sponsorship
of the Graduate School. This series
of lecture is made possible by co
operation between the Graduate
School, the various departments
and research organizations as well
as the scientific and honor societies
on the campus. This plans was in
itiated in February of 1948 when
the administration made a small
fund available for assisting in
bringing such lectures to the cam
pus.
When outstanding scientists and
educators are known to be coming
to the southwest for other purpos
es, an effort is made to arrange
for them to come here to stay
over a day to give a lecture. All
these lectures are designed to en
courage a spirit of inquiry and to
help staff and graduate students
to become acquainted with workers
in the various fields.
Cooperation of the teachers and
research workers on the campus
has enabled a brilliant group of
speakers to come to our campus.
There are already ten or more sug
gestions as to possible graduate
lectures for the school year 1951-
52. Two have* already been present
ed in early October.
The plan is to strive to get per
sons capable of presenting broad
scientific and cultural messages of
importance to a large number of
our staff and graduate students.
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
It was inevitable that Iran’s
demonstration of her ability to defy
Britain Would bring to a head
other troubles between British in
terests and the rising nationalism
of the puddle east.
Egypt’s position as she creates
American Tank
Forces Rout
Red Offensive
U .S. Eighth Army Head
quarters, Korea, Oct. 10—UP)
A powerful tank-led American
tank force slashed eight miles
through green Chinese troops
in a surprise attack on the Eastern
front today.
Chinese “fled in every direction,”
a tank officer reported.
Front line dispatches said the
tanks clanked up a river bed trail
prepared in advance by American
engineers. On the way they shot
up Red bunkers on hilltops near
Heartbreak Ridge. A full regiment
of infantrymen—about 3,750 men
and officers at full strength—ad
vanced on the flanks of the tanks.
Other Americans were involved
in heavy fighting elsewhere in the
East. One U. S. Sebond Division
unit was forced to withdraw from
a ridge by a counterattack of
1,000 Reds. Other Second Division
forces hacked out gains of a few
hundred yards.
In the West U. S. First Division
cavalrymen beat back a 1,000-man
Chinese counterattack in the early
morning darkness, then drove
ahead a short distance against
deeply entrenched Chinese.
B-29 Superforts blasted two air
fields at Pyongyang, the Korean
Red capital, with 130,000 pounds
of high explosives in the contin
uing campaign to keep Communists
from basing their growing air force
in Korea.
Officers Wednesday picked
out a new armistice meeting place
in no-man’s-land. It is near Pan-
munjom, Red check point six air
miles from Kaesong where the
Communists broke off cease-fire
negotiations Aug. 23. Liaison offi
cers scheduled another . meeting
Thursday.
No date for resuming truce talks
was announced. But the U. N.
negotiating team reassembled in
Korea and service troops went to
Kaesong to move allied communica
tions equipment to the new loca
tion.
The smashing armored thrust
near Heartbreak Ridge was the
deepest penetration of Red lines
made by the allies in the month
long battle among the Eastern
crags.
Committee Named
For Cotton Ball
At the first meeting of the Ag
ronomy Society this year, the com
mittee for the Cotton Pageant
and Ball and other committees for
1951-52 were chosen.
The committee for the Cotton
Ball is as follows: Don Hegi,
Quinton Johnson, and Bill Lewis.
Alton Enloe, P. J. Hendee, Bob
by Henderson, Pat Hitt, and
Charles Lyons are on the program
committee. An initiation committee
Avas also appointed.
Alan Enloe, Dale Fischgrabe, and
Kert Goode gave an illustrated re
port on this summer’s meeting of
the student section of the American
Society of Agronomy, held in St.
Louis.
a new crisis is not an enviable one.
Her premier has acted precipitant-
ly in what seems to be an obvious
effort to make it appear to his
constituents that he is forcing
something, whereas he knew the
British were coming up right at
the moment with concessions.
His effort to abrogate a treaty
unilaterally will not set well with
the nations which are attempting
to set up a solid front Of coopera
tion against the threat of a new
world war.
Human’s Like Humans
Yet it is not to be expected
that human beings will not have
human reactions. When Britain had
the force she used it to make Egypt
fit into all her own plans for de
fense and control of the middle
east and what used to be much
more than at present, the lifeline
to India.
LETTERS
Custom Questioned
Editor, The Battalion:
One of the many fine attributes
that is always associated with the
student body of A&M is loyalty to
its school. This fine school spirit
is nothing new for Aggies. It has
been true of them for so long that
it has become one of their cher
ished traditions.
It would be regretable if such a
noble tradition should be comprised
by an unworthy means of showing
our loyalty, or by our allowing a
custom that is unworthy and cheap
to become an unprotested and ac
cepted method of expressing it.
Are we not abusing and debasing
our school when, in expressing oUr
loyalty to it we use profanity and
use it to such an extent that the
campus thoroughfares resound with
“hell” as student passes student on
the campus and anticipates the
next football game?
We have one of the finest foot
ball teams in the nation and our
loyalty to this team deserves
worthy channels of expression. We
have a college worthy of our love
and honor which our team repre
sents. Our loyalty to it is too fine
a prize for us to allow it to be com
promised by common and vulgar
expressions.
As college men, we should not be
reduced to road-gang language as
the customary way of expressing
our loyalty to our team and our
desire for it to win. If our loyal
ty is as fine as our team deserves,
and as our school deserves, it can
not be expressed in cheap vulgar
language.
This custom year by year could
grow to take its place in our tra
ditions side by side with our Ag
gie Friendliness, The Aggie T,
Silver Taps—boys it just doesn’t
belong. Let’s lift our sights and
keep our campus atmosphere on a
high plane.
Norman Anderson
Pastor, A&M Pres
byterian Church
(Editor’s note—The senior class
is at this time working on a pro
ject to study this “custom.”)
King Farouk may not be an ad
mirable figure. But when the Brit
ish poked the gun of a tank almost
into his freedom window during the
war, forcing him into cabinet
changes to their liking, they plant
ed a crop which they could not
avoid reaping.
As soon as the war was over
Egypt started demanding revision
of the 1936 treaty which gives
Britain the right to keep troops
in the country. That thousands of
British men died to protect Egypt
from Rommel had little meaing for
the Egyptians once the danger was
over. The prime minister says the
treaty was signed when Egypt
needed help.
Reorganize Defenses
A singularly ungrateful remark,
but one which stems back to a be
lief that England was not altruis
tic either, and that her economic
and military position, not the
Egyptians, were her real source
of interest at all times.
Britain is now trying to reorgan
ize the defense system she once-
headed in the middle east. Britain
retired from that system under
economic duress after the war, an
action which produced the Truman
doctrine of American entry into
middle eastern affairs.
Egypt must be a keystone if the
new defense area is to operate. The
Egyptians see in the situation an
opportunity to win things they
have wanted for years—complete
control of the Sudan, now under
joint BritiSh-Egyptian administra
tion, and a final severance of the
ties which, since Napoleon, have
mgde Egypt a puppet rather than
a {partner of Britain in the Mid
dle East.
Five Year Negotiation
Britain’s attitude since negotia
tions over the treaty began five
years ago has been part and parcel
of the rear guard action she has
been fighting all over the world
against the gradual but relentless
disintegration of her empire.
She has been slow to work out
the amicable arrangements which
might have been made. As a re
sult, India was unhealthily divid
ed, and the semi-colonial peoples
are striking out to take advantage
of the times, letting their ill-will
before any sense of responsibility
to the whole community of nations,
and by their acts abetting the
enemies of the democratic front.
Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct.
10 — UP) — Argentine appli
cants for membership in the
Inter-American Press Asso
ciation walked out yesterday
when 33 of their 44 bids for mem
bership were turned down by the
convention. ♦
In the excitement, 76-year-old
Tom Wallace, editor emeritus of
the Louisville (Ky.) Times and
president of the association, col
lapsed and was rushed to a hospi
tal.
Physicians said they were not
certain whether he was suffering
from a heart condition, brain hem
orrhage or extreme fatigue. He
was reported improved tonight.
A long-time campaigner for good
will among the American Repub
lics, Wallace had advocated admit
ting the Argentines on the ground
that they represented legitimate
publications and the association
already included members from
countries where press freedom is
restricted.
Some members of the associa
tion, organized in New YorkjList
year to guard freedom of the
throughout the Western h|^<s-
phere, had been alarmed at the
possibility editors supporting Pres
ident Juan Peron in Argentina
were out to capture the organiza
tion.
The association took the Peron
regime sharply to task last year
for stifling press freedom and it
was called a group of “gangsters”
by the Peron press.
Wilfrido Loro of the Ecuadorean
newspaper, Ecuatoriano, accompa
nied the Argentines on their walk
out, as did several Brazilians.
Among the Argentine newspa
pers not admitted were Democra-
cia, reported to be owned by Presi
dent Peron’s wife, Eva, and Epoca,
another ardent Peron supporter.
Five Argentine publications al
ready were members. They were
La Prensa, the independent daily
whose seizure by the Peron govern
ment wss a factor in the associa
tion’s action; La Nacion, anothci
large independent daily, the closed
Intransigente of Salta, the inde
pendent Diario of Parana and
Ahora.
Church Elects
Student Officers
Two A&M students were elected
officers recently by the College
Station Christian Science Society.
They were Richard A. Howard,
first reader; and Robert D. Gor
don, second reader.
Other officers-elected were Phil
ip Goode, president; and Mrs. Ed
ith Menefee, clerk and treasurer.
Goode is a professor in the de
partment of business administra
tion. Mrs. Menefee is the secre
tary of Gibb Gilchrist chancellor
for the A&M System.
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A price clinic will be conducted
in the Chamber of Commerce Of
fices in the Varisco Building in
Bryan from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m.
Oct. 23 and Nov. 1.
The clinic will be conducted by
the Houston District Office of
Price Stabilization. Purpose of the
clinic is to keep Southwest Texas
businessmen informed about price
regulations.
Price specialists from the Hous
ton OPS will conduct 36 clinics in
16 communities during October.
The men will advise businessmen
or the communities and nearby
areas about current price regula
tions and answer their questions
about the regulations.
Starting Oct. 2 with a meeting
scheduled at the County Court
House in Anahuac, the clinics will
continue through October, ending
with a clinic scheduled Nov. 1 in
Bryan.
Liaison Officer
Picks New Site
For Peace Talk
Munsan, Korea, Oct. 10 —
UP) — Liaison officers today
picked a site near Panmunjom
for resuming Korean truce
talks.
The spot is six air miles south
east of Kaesong where cease-fire
negotiations first began three
months ago today. The talks were
broken off by the Reds Xug. 23.
Another meeting of Allied and
Red liaison officers at Panmunjom
was scheduled for 10 a.m. tomor
row (8 p.m. Wednesday EST.)
There was no immediate an
nouncement of when the armistice
delegations would re-open their
talks—or even whether the time
had been set.
Preparations for a meeting of
the full delegations were pressed
rapidly. The United Nations truce
team assembled in Korea. Allied
service personnel went to Kaesong
to move equipment left there to the
new site.
Everything indicated the U. N.
command expected a nearly re
sumption of full-scale efforts to
end the shooting in Korea.
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