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Thursday, December 13,1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 LETTER TO THE EDITOR (Continued from Page 2) 1 don’t see any reason why it should be denied to Egyptians. With hos tile desperate middle east united in the oneness of purpose, as it seems to be, I can not imagine how the British can hold on in the Suez Canal. The best way should be to rec ognize the turn of the tide and win the friendship rather than ill will of a vast majority of peo ple whom they might crush but never win. M. A. Khan Ignorance Displayed Editor, The Battalion: 1 had never expected to write a “letter to the editor,” but the one by Joe Riddle and Bob Pankonien in your Monday, December 10, is sue forces me to. The ignorance displayed in that letter was appal ling, but, worse yet, the prejudiced conceit and intolerance was dis tressing. Apparently these two members of the class of ’53 admire and are proud of such outstanding founders of our country as, for example, Thomas Jefferson. Yet the above-mentioned letter literally oozes with sentiments and attitudes which were abhorrent to Jefferson, the democratic philosopher. First, let me explain that I am not an Anglophobe. I have been in England and find much to admire about England and the English. Furthennore, f favor giving both military and economic aid to Eng land to strengthen the defense of Western Europe. That does not, however, prevent me from recog nizing that the traditional im perialistic, amoral British foreign policy W'hich had much success for centuries is now out-dated and, if relentlessly pursued further, can only end in gi ief to the British and ourselves as well as to its imme diate victims. Although Mr. Lasheen made a number of debatable “opinion” statements, for the most part he related facts which are verifiable even though known by only few Americans. He should be commend ed for resisting a natural inclina tion to employ insulting and slur ring adjectives and epithets against the British. Mr. J. R. and Mi'. B. P., however, open by referring to the “so-called” cause for Egyptian freedom. Just what is the basis for that insinuat ing term? Incidentally, one can search their letter only in vain for one single, factual statement of objective evidence against any of Mr. Lasheen’s points. If we practice the freedom, tol erance and open-mindedness we profess, w r e should welcome hear ing any temperate remarks our guests wish to make to us instead of accusing Mr. Lasheen of “over stepping himself in making such derogatory statements (not speci fied) about America’s ally, the British Empire.” Incidentally, were Mr. J. R. and Mr. B. P. equal ly indignant when guests made de rogatory statements about the U.S.S.R. seven years ago when it was our military ally? “We also wish Lasheen would refrain from comparing Egypt’s insurrection with the American revolution. The United States was fighting for progress; they are fighting against it. We were ready for independence while they are plagued with dissension and cor ruption.” Mr. Lasheen would be less than human if that didn’t make his blood boil. Just why should such a comparison be annoying? By what magic does straggle for independence suddenly become con trary to progress when indulged in by others? Since when has ex ploitation through military force become ( synonymous with prog ress ? Dissension and corruption have hardly been absent from the Amer ican scene any time in our history. What percent of the colonists vol unteered to fight the British ? Were there not 13 separate colonies which had great difficulty in unit ing? How about our present cor ruption among government offi cials ? My guess is that the Egyptians could actually make a better case for freedom from England than could our colonial forefathers. For one thing the latter were governed by their mother country, not by foreign conquerors. It was with amazement that I noticed that Mr. Joe Riddle is an Aggie debater and a highly suc cessful one at that. I thought good debaters learned to gather facts and look objectively at both sides of issues. Let us be more courteous to our guests. Try, if possible, to put ourselves in our imaginations in their places at times. Even from a selfish viewpoint, the friendship of 20 million Egyptians and tens of millions of other Near Eastern Moslems as well as that of 45 million British, is important to our present and our future. M. S. Brooks Bankers (Continued from Page 1) Dean Shepardson pointed out that in average capital investment in industry there is $7,000 per man. But the average capital in vestment on Southern farms is ap proximately $3,700 per man, about one half that invested in other in dustry. Every lecture was another step forward toward pointing out new methods to assist the farmer and at the same time build the financ ing industry, said the dean. No Help One speaker said, “You can’t collect money by collecting the col lateral, therefore neither helping the investor nor the farmer.” • Dean Shepardson made the con cluding speech challenging the bankers of the Southwest to look to opportunity for sound invest ment and constructive agricultural enterprises and riot fall into the attitude in what so many people are in today, in planning their first concern in security rather than opportunity. As a banker, look more to oppor tunity than security, he added. make it a merry Christmas Ij for the folks at home with Arrow Gifts » Arrow Shirts S3.95 up • Sports Shirts $3.95 up • Ties $1.50 up • Handkerchiefs 35# up ® Underwear .. .$1.00 up ARROW SHIRTS • TIES • SPORTS SHIRTS • UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS I Baylor, Yale Men Receive Rhodes Award Members of the Cadet Corps are getting in the spirit of Christmas by decorating the hails of their dormitories. This decoration was designed by cadets in B Coast Artillery. Houston, Dec. 13 — UP) — Students from Baylor a n cl Yale had been selected today a s Texas contestants for Rhodes, scholarships. The students arc Clyde M. Wil liams, who will receive his medical degree from Baylor University College of Medicine in June, and James Robert Copeland, a Yale student from Corsicana. Williams graduated from Rice before going to the medical school. They were chosen from 10 stu dents and will go to the six-state regional selection meeting in New Orleans next month. Four will be chosen at this meeting for the two- year scholarships to Oxford Uni versity in England. Other candidates considered yes- i terday were Marvin C. Atkins, Texas A&M; Lee D. Cady Jr., 1 Houston; Donald Everett Lewis, Abilene Christian College; James D. McKeithan, University of Tex as; Edwin M. Smyrl, University of ! Texas; Roddy Burke Walton, A&M; Richard Byrd Wilke, Southern Methodist, and George Tractt Foshee, Southern Methodist. What’s Cooking AMARILLO CLUB: Friday, 5:00 p. m., in front of YMCA. To get club picture made, BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION CLUB: Thursday, 5:00 p. m., As sembly Hall. Special organizational meeting. DALLAS CLUB: Thursday, 7:15 p. m., YMCA Assembly Room. Short meeting to discuss final party plans. DEL RIO CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., 2nd floor MSC. Club picture to be made; all members will wear No. 1 uniform or coat and tie. EAST LAN D-STEPHEN COUNTY CLUB: Thursday, 7:15 p. m., Room 307 Acad. Bldg. Emer gency meeting. FORT WORTH CLUB: Thurs day, 7:30 p. m., Room 107 New Sci ence Bldg. All Christmas dance ticket salesmen are to be present. GONZALES COUNTY CLUB; Friday, 9:00 p. m., Hillcrest Club. Big Christmas dance; semi-formal; $3.60 per couple; Aggieland Or chestra to furnish the music. GUADALUPE - COMAL COUN TY CLUB: Thursday, 7:15 p. m., Acad. Bldg. Plans for Christmas banquet and party will be discuss ed. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., basement of St. Mary’s Chapel. LAREDO CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room 127 Acad. Bldg. Last meetiing to settle dance plans. LAVACA COUNTY CLUB: Sat urday, 8:00 p. m., Halletsville, Tex as. Annual Christmas Dance at the Recreational Hall. $1.20 per per son; music by Rhine Winkler. -MARSHALL CLUB: Thursday, 7:15 p. m., YMCA Lobby. Final plans for Christmas banquet, dance, and picture show. PANHANDLE CLUB: Thursday, 7:15 p. m., Acad. Bldg. Discuss party and picture. RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB: Thursday, 7:15 p. m., Room 3-D MSC. Christmas dance discussion. RUSK COUNTY CLUB: Thurs day, 7:15 p. m., Room 306 Good win. Final plans for Christmas dance. SOUTHWEST TEXAS CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room 2-C MSC. Decide on which to deco rate gym. TRANS-PECOS CLUB: Thurs day, 7:30 p. m., 3rd floor MSC. Dis cuss Christmas party; rides home. TYLER-SMITH COUNTY CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Room 3-B MSC. Final Christmas dance plans will be announced. WALTHER CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., MSC. Lutheran Aggies, wives, friends are welcome. WRESTLING CLUB: Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Little Gym. Chest Drive (Continued from Page 1) $2,290.80; Girl Scouts of America, $2,000; Brazos County Crippled Children’s Association, $250; Salva tion Army, $500 Brazos County Hospitalization Fund, $400; Bryan YMCA, $500; Needy Chil dren’s Fund, $400; American Can cer Society, $300; College Station Recreational Council, $900; Local Chest Charity Fund, $1,000; and postage, supplies, and clerical work, $100. HOLD OH THERE! Better gift-shop before you go home! See our Arrow Christmas Favorites Do your Christmas shopping the easy way this year! Stop in at our store — today after classes. Pick the gifts for the males on your gift list from our swell Arrow lineup. (You know your self what grand gifts they make!) Arrive home with half your shopping done—and plenty of time for a happy holiday! • Arrow Shirts • Arrow. Sport Shirts • Arrow Ties • Arrow Handkerchiefs • Arrow Underwear S. D CLOTHIERS Bryan FOR ARROW UNIVERSITY STYLES PM A Man Speaks At Rotary Meeting W. I. Chenault of the Pro duction Marketing Adminis tration Office of the U.S. De partment of Agriculture on the A&M campus was speaker at the weekly meeting yesterday of the Bryan-College Station Rotary Club. Chenault spoke on “Agriculture and You.” He voiced the opinion that as we strengthen our agricul ture we strengthen our national economy. He pointed out that there is a grave danger of this country being unable to produce enough in the future to properly feed this nation due to the great increase of late years in the popu lation rate unless we very care fully conserve our soil and water and natural resources. Few business and professional men realize the important effect that agriculture has on their busi ness, stated Chenault, but he ad vised the business and professional men to learn more about agricul ture and its needs in relation to their own business and to support Alumnae of TSCW To Hold Coffee Alumnae of TSCW held a reor- ganizational meeting recently,* and elected officers. Plans for a cof fee honoring mid-term local high school graduates were also dis cussed. the work of the Production Mar keting Administration. The speaker cited great increases in cotton and crop production and soil conservation in Brazos County and the nation which has resulted to a large extent from the work and help of the Production Market ing Administration. He concluded his talk with a review of the goals for agriculture set for 1952. 25 Year A&M Employees To be Feted Employees of the A&M System will have their annual Christmas Dinner, Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 7 p. m. in Sbisa Hall. Twenty-eight employees are to be honored for 25 years service with the system. Service pens and scrolls will be presented to the employees by Gibb Gilchrist, A&M System chancellor. “The dinner is an old .custom on the campus,” said Joe E. Sor rels, master' of ceremonies for the program. Tickets for the dinner may be obtained at the main desk in the MSC. They are priced at $1.50 each and will remain on sale until Dec. 15. All employees and friends of the College are urged to attend, said Sorrels. ENTRY BLANK The Battalion 1951 Christmas Decoration Contest Nam e A d <] r e s s j Check the division and section (s) you wish to enter: Division I For all residents other than students Section I. II Ill IV Division II Section I ... II Return this blank to The Battalion Office by 6 p. m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, to be eligible for a prize. College Student Draft Exams Held on Campus Examinations for Selective Service deferments got under- wav at 12:30 today in the MSC with Dr. W. H. Varvel of the Education and Psychol ogy Department in charge. A&M was one of the many test ing centers in the United States today which examined 22,000 col lege students to see if they are eli gible for deferment from the draft. The testing system was estab lished to furnish draft boards with information. Local boards do not have to defer students who get sat- J isfactory exam reports, but they ^ may do so. The student’s scholas tic standing in his college class is also taken into consideration. A score of 70 is the present yardstick for possible deferment, plus class standing. To be defer red, a student must be in the upper half of the freshman class, upper two thirds of the sophomore class, or the upper three-fourths of the junior class. More (dubs Make Holiday Tarty Plans Several more campus clubs have announced plans for parties during the . Christmas holidays. These groups are: Tyler-Smith County Club— r Dance; Elk’s Club in Tyler, Satur day, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Band will play. No admission. Permian Basin Club —Dance; ' Lincoln Hotel Ballroom, Odessa, Saturday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.-l a.m. Jimmy Fermen Orchestra. Ad mission $3 per couple. East Texas Club—Two dances; 1 both at Club Do-Si-Do between Longview and Kilgore. Saturday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. Admission $1.50; Monday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m. Admis sion $2. Brush Country Club—D a n c e ; VFW Hall, Alice. Thursday, Dec. 27, 8 p.m. Admission $2.50. Amarillo Club—D a n c e ; Club Runnymead (The Nat). Friday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m. Admission $2.40. • GROCERIES • 3 LB. CARTON MRS. TUCKER’S Shortening 73c — PICTSWEET — • FROZEN FOODS • PACKAGE Peas & Carrots 21c 2—NO. 2 CANS LUCKY LEAF Sliced Pie Apples . . . .41c PACKAGE Broccoli 27c 2—NO. 2 CANS DOLE’S Tid Bits Pineapple . . . 57c PACKAGE Sliced Peaches 34c 2—NO. 2 CANS BLUE PLATE FRENCH STYLE Green Beans ...... 45c 2—N0.2'/ 2 CANS HAPPY HOST Elberta Peaches 61c 2—CANS LESUEUR Small Peas 55c 2—QUART BOTTLES TEA GARDEN Apple Juice 55c 2—303 CANS WHOLE PEELED Apricots 55c 46-OZ. CAN TEXAS GOLD—PINK Grapefruit Juice 22c REGULAR SIZE BLUE LABEL Star Kist Tuna 37c 2—15-OZ. PACKAGES—SUN MAID Seedless Raisins 41c • MARKET • DECKER'S TALL KORN Sliced Bacon lb. 41c 1 LB. ROLL ARMOUR’S Pure Pork Sausage . . 45c Ham Hocks lb. 25c — TENDER FED VEAL — Loin Steak lb. 89c T-Bone Steak ... lb. 89c Porter House Steak, lb. 79c ® PRODUCE • LOUISIANA Tangerines .... 2 lbs. 25c 176 SIZE FLORIDA Oranges doz. 35c LARGE CALIFORNIA PASCAL Celery 2 stalks 25c TENDER* BABY WHITE Squash lb. 10c 1—POUND CAN FOLGER’S Coffee 89c HOME GROWN BUNCH Turnips & Tops .... 15c WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES Extra Specials for Friday & Saturday - Dec. 14th & 15th Charlie's Food Market North Gate College Station — WE DELIVER -