Battalion
Editorials
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952
Starts This Year
Good Thing Gone
Raising Standard Boosts
Probation Figures—Dean
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Associate Editor
Church Walls Save Israeli Youths
it j / • cs Stone Knesset
Hunareas ITt Jerusalem, Jan. 8-UP>-LingeM
ing hatred of German Nazis fired
By HAL BOYLE each other because of the fog, and a n10 * :, °/ Lsiaeli youths to
nothing could be heard but the ^ oim . ^ c . Knesset (paihament)
New York-(A>)_A young nun r oanng of the winds and the cries last ni e ht 1,1 a not which left more
TT A«ri r j •, •, , , r n tt • •- 1 , a p i\/r • A&M’s overwhelming number of academic
1 S HARD to admit it, but lexas University beat A&M m probation students may not seem quite so
something. They handled their blood donation campaign in large when all the reasons, or many of them
a more ostentatious manner and as a result landed in Life at least, are pointed out.
magazine. Figures after mid-term indicated that
Their campaign was based on getting a large number of 43 PTr ° f “V®? 3 ™ Divisi ° n ar ?
, . o™, ,f , „ , on probation, while an average of 20 percent
pledges instead of A&M s theory, or method, of just meeting 0;f students in other schools are on the
the requirements of the mobile blood unit. In getting pledges “dean’s team.”
they used everything from a can-can girl to a strip-tease ar- The number one point which Dr. C. C.
tist. Those publicity stunts pulled in the pledges and as a re- French, dean of the college, was quick to
suit gave the university the national recognition. point out was the new 12-12 requirement
. J ,, . aow/t ■ i i a, , . ,, , for hours and grade points. Heretofore a stu-
At the same time A&M quietly stands by and gives blood. dent needed on i y to p 0st 10 hours and 10
However, the only satisfaction we can have is the knowledge grade points to keep off the dean’s list,
that our blood is working for the interest of our nation. In the 1951-52 edition of college regula-
But let’s admit it, national recognition would be a lot ^ ons executive committee listed this
better than the quiet satisfaction of having done a good job.
We had a chance to do a good job and have the recognition.
That is water under bridge. What are we doing now to his work and would probably “have to stay in
correct the situation ?Are we carrying on any move to get school longer than the usual eight semesters.
pledges of blood donations from any of the men under 21? . sa ,^ Hie 12-12 gpr requirements was
TfriAf instituted merely as a protective device to
’ . , o T , • warn students who become that deficient in
This is one place where A&M has a chance to get a lot their work.
of recognition and at the same time do a whale of a good job. As an explanation for the higher num-
Remember, the men out on the battle fields need the her of Basic Division students on probation
“I thought it was the end for
everyone. Each one was just wait
ing for his death. So was I.
“Groups of people were blown
than 200 persons injured.
Police fought a two-hour battle
with clubs, tear gas and shots fired
into the air to keep the mob out
of the Knesset session. Ten police
men and five civilians were hospi-
. , , , ,, t ii , told how the stone walls of an
ill school now who would have normally at- old p arish chureh saved hundreds °7 T ai ”-
tended a junioi college or possibly no college 0 £ ]jy e g during a typhoon that laid
whatsoever. waste a part of the Philippines
When asked what the college could do last month,
about the situation, he said only proper coun- The deseribed by
selmg could be applied to the situation Dp. gisl „ M;l) ia Coastanda Pena in
French said that in many cases some boys a letter of a p pea i t o the very Rev.
are here who are actually not capable of do- uiric Arcand, Apostolic Missionary
ing college work and if proper action were of the Philippines rehabilitation,
taken, they would be advised to go home. whose headquarters are in St.
He said, however, that if a boy has the Paul, Minn,
proper requirements for admission, A&M “The sight of the debris is very
must accept him. Where private institutions sickening—it can drive you crazy
may weigh a man’s potentialities before ad- P y° u don’t stop thinking about students,” Sister Maria Constancia for reparations to dispossessed
away. We were all wet for hours talized with injuries. Eighty-two
and hours.” other policemen and many more
When the storm at last subsid- civilians were hurt. Seventy per-
ed, the survivors emerged to find sons suspected of rioting were ar-
their homes destroyed, many! rela- rested.
fives dead beneath the wreckage The rioters were protesting a
or swept out to sea. Noting with proposal to open direct talks with
a sore heart that “among the cas- Germany over claims of about Ui
unities were many of our 1,600 billion dollars in money and goods
change. Dr. French said the group believed
that a student who couldn’t maintain a 12-12
grade point ratio would easily get behind in
mittance, A&M must give him a chance to h,” she wrote in a graphic ac-
prove his ability because it is a state school. count of the storm -
The new 12-12 requirement, of course,
was the other principal reason why the pro
bation list was so large among the Basic
Division students.
Commenting on the situation, Dr. French
said, “It’s better to have more students on
wrote: Jews. The claims so far have been
“We have to begin from scrap Pressed only through the big four
Sister Maria Constancia is a
teacher in Assumption College in
Guiuan, a town of 28,700 popula
tion on the Island of Samar in
the Central Philippines.
agaip.
little
At a
blood and we are in a position to help them.
Corps Gels Good Idea
f| 1 HE CORPS deserves a great deal of credit for a
thoughtfulness just before the Christmas Holidays,
meeting of the Student Senate, they decided to try and write
as many of the former students serving overseas as possible.
Today we received a letter from one of the recipients of
the note from Aggieland. He was completely surprised and
pleased with the letter. To him it meant someone was
thinking of him personally at Christmas time.
For this man, who was in a hospital in Germany, it was
one of the nicest things that could have happened.
It shows that many of the things we do daily are ap
preciated a great deal more than we can ever imagine.
Again, the corps deserves a lot of praise for its effort.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Exe Says Thanks
he gave several underlying causes.
Most significant, however, was the fact
that the world situation has scared many of
the boys of Texas to go to college—especially
where ROTC is offered—as a means of escap
ing the draft immediately after high school
graduation.
The dean pointed out that many boys are
... , “Ninety-five per cent of the
probation at mid-semester because there is houses were caiT i cd int o the Pad-
half a semester to do something about it. It fic by the angry waves or C1 . us h e d
is to be regarded primarily as a warning.” down in total ruin. All our eight
The dean pointed out that more students big quonset huts which the U. S.
are scholastically deficient during the fall Amy left in 1945 were totally
semester than in the spring because of the destroyed ... not a post standing,”
large number of activities which take place she wrote,
in the fall. And then she described how the
“There is no actual reason to say that the stone wall of a centuries-old church
freshman class and sophomores still in the shielded hundreds “as a fortress.”
Basic Division are of a poorer academic level
this year,” Dr. French said.
“High schools have not changed their
standards in the past year. I believe that
there are many freshman boys at A&M who
probably just aren’t capable of doing college
work,” the dean added.
Correction
Rabbi Kahn will speak Wed
nesday night in the MSC in
stead of Monday night as was
erroneously stated in yester
day’s Battalion.
occupying powers in Germany.
Police said the rioters were fol||j
lowers of Menachem Bcigin, leader
of the Herut party. Hcrut suc
ceeded the anti-British under
ground organization, Irgun Zvai'
Lcumi, which carried on a bombing
war against British administrators
before Israeli became independent.
Beigin’s party had organized a %
mass meeting in Knesset square. J
“We sisters couldn’t stay stand
ing up during the great disaster,
for the walls were falling and the
roofs flying,” her letter continued,
The nuns joined townspeople who
had crowded by the hundreds into
the Parish Church.
OUR SVENGALI
Editor, The Battalion:
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the
cadet corps for undertaking to send Christmas greetings to
the many exes who are now serving in the armed forces
throughout the world. I know that I am more fortunate than
those serving on the battle front in Korea and I know they
appreciate the rememberance greatly.
I am in a US Army hospital and there was really very
little Christmas for me, so I doubly appreciate the greetings
I received.
I would also like to thank those persons responsible for
the idea of students writing interesting letters containing
news from the campus and rendering a feeling of close com-
radship among Aggies during this Christmas season.
I received such a well written interesting letter from
Aggie R. Q. Landers, Jr., Maroon Band, Class of ’54 and I’m
sure other Aggie-exes also received similar letters.
Thanks so much, all you Aggies who took a little time
out to inform those of us in uniform overseas.
John D. Shoemaker ’49
Second Lt. Armor
Wildlife Wives Set
Farewell Party
Peg Meschkat, president of the
Wildlife Wives’ Society, called a
meeting of club officers in her
home, A-5-B College View, Monday
evening to plan a farewell party
for wives of graduating Wildlife
Management students.
The social, set for 8 p.m. Tues
day, Jan. 15, will honor January
graduates’ wives Bobbie Jackson,
Eny Holman, Betty Daniel, and
Mackie Harris. It will be in the
form of a Canasta party in the
home of the president.
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MARCH
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JANUARY 2-31
PATIENT
CARE
RESEARCH
EDUCATION
The World Today
-US Knows
Ike’s Stand
By JAMES MARLOW foreign and domestic, of some of
the other men who have been men-
Washington, Jan. 8 (TP) Ihe £j oned as p OSS jb]e candidates, or
American public knows exactly wbo bave announce d themselves as
where General Eisenhower stands candidates, for the presidency.
on foreign affairs but very little
about what he thinks on domestic
problems.
In the foreign field he’s made it
plain he’s an internationalist:
To take two extreme opposites:
President Truman and Senator
Taft. Their views are known. And
people already have been able
to choose between' them on the
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
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that he’s for cooperation with, and basis of thcir idcas and thcir pcr .
help for, this country’s allies in f ormance>
building a wall against Russia. stiH, the opinion polls show the
But on domestic issues he’s been general—of whose domestic views
very unspecific. He’s spoken al- thc public knows practically noth-
most always in generalities. Most i ng _i s ou t i n f ro nt of all thc
of the talking was done during 0 t be rs mentioned as presidential
Entered as second-class
Batter at Post Office at
College Staton, Texas,
Rnder the Act of Con<
p-ess of March 3, 1870.
Member of
jThe Associated Press
He’s said he’s for free enter
prise and a minimum of govern
ment interference. Since most peo-
Maybe this means that at the
moment a lot of people consider
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JOHN WHITMORE Editor
Joel Austin Associate Editor
Bill Streich Managing Editor
Bob Selleck Sports Editor
Frank Davis City Editor
Peggy Maddox Women’s Editor
T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, Benny Holub, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter
Edgar Watkins, Carl Posey, Gene Steed, Jerry Bennett,
Bert Weller Staff Writers
Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Staff Cartoonist
Frank Scott Quarterback Club Director
Dick Zeek Staff Photographer
Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Philippus, Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette
Ed Holder Sports Staff Writers
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Russell Hagens Advertising Manager
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Represented nationally
Serytc^inc* 11 a^Ne^York W0U M say they feel the same, personality the issue in the com-
City, Chicago, Los An- those views are completely safe ing campaign, not the big prob-
geies, and San Francisco. £ or an y wbo m j gb t be think- lems that usually go hand-in-hand
ing of getting into politics. with a presidential race.
But yesterday he got into poll- If so, they may be looking, in
tics, whether he likes it or not, this period which is uncertain for
which is something he’ll have to everyone, for a feeling of certainty
say for himself. Senator Lodge, in a candidate, one who appears
Massachusetts Republican, put him
in the race for the Republican
presidential nomination.
The senator said he’ll place the
general’s name in the New Hamp-
Rio Grande Valley
Scene of Color Film
Everyone in the College Station
area has an invitation to attend
the free showing of the full-length
movie, “The Outlaw of the Camer
on,” Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., in thc
Assembly Room of the MSC.
This color picture filmed in the
Rio Grande Valley country of Tex
as, features the famed Snow Broth
ers, Luke and Bob, and their pack
of hunting hounds.
“Men, women, children, and
babies were there—crying, shout
ing, praying, moaning with pain
on account of the windows and
doors of the church being blown
down and hitting people. Broken
window glass flew over our
heads.”
Torrential rains and, a 135-mile-
an-hour wind willed the church
with a thick fog, although it was
daylight, she said, adding:
“That time was the crisis—from
9 a. m. to 4 p. m. we couldn’t see
REPORT OF CONDITION of
College Station State Bank
of College Station, Brazos County, Texas
at the close of business December 31, 1951, a State
banking institution organized and operating under
the banking laws of the state and a member of the
Federal Reserve System. Published in accordance
with a call made by the State Banking Authorities
and by the Federal Reserve Bank of this District.
ASSETS
Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve
balance, and cash items in process of collection....! 549,267.47
United States Government obligations, direct and
guaranteed 487,527.00,
Obligations of States and political subdivisions 12,950.00
Corporate stocks (Including !2100.00 stock of Feder
al Reserve Bank) 2,100.00
Loans and discounts (including $5,236.43 overdrafts) 660,586.50
Bank premises owned $33,700.00, furniture and
fixtures $12,600.00 46,300.00
Real estate owned other than bank premises 1,00
DR. WILLIAM
GOTTLIEB
Registered Chiropodist
I^oot Specialist
4824 S. Main, Houston
Will Be in Bryan
the 2nd Wednesday of
each month. Next visit
will be —
WEDNESDAY
Jan. 9, 1952
at thc LaSalle Hotel
Office Hours
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Evening: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
TOTAL ASSETS $1,758,731.97
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and
corporations $1,149,377.94
Deposits of United States Government (including
postal savings) ...i : 95,377.82
Deposits of States and political subdivisions 408,760.38
Other deposits (certified and officers’ checks, etc.).... 6,847.83
TOTAL DEPOSITS $1,660,363.97
Other liabilities 8,250.00
TOTAL LIABILITIES (not including subor- -
dinated obligations shown below) .... $1,668,613.97
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital* $ 50,000.00
Surplus 25,000.00
Undivided profits 15,118.00
TYPEWRITERS
Royal Quiet Deluxe — Royal Portable
Bryan Business Machine Co.
SALES — SERVICE — RENTALS — SUPPLIES
209 North Main, Bryan Dial 2-1328
TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 90,118.00
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL
ACCOUNTS $1,758,731.97
"■'This bank’s capital consists of:
Common stock with total par value of $50,000.00
MEMORANDA
Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and
for other purposes $ 443,500.00
I, Thomas W. Lee, Cashier, of thc above named bank, hereby
certify that thc above statement is true to thc best of my knowl
edge and belief.
(Signed): THOMAS W. LEE
Correct—Attest: S. A. LIPSCOMB
HAROLD SULLIVAN
L. G. JONES, Directors
(Notary Seal) State of Texas, County of Brazos ss:
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 4th day of January, 1952.
LOIS BETHEA, Notary Public.
POGO
By Walt Kelly
serene and has been able to oper
ate with unbroken success, a sym
bol of strength.
Neither Mr. Truman nor Sena
tor Taft can provide such a pic-
shire primary. Until now the gen- ture of serenity or unbroken suc-
eral has never dipped his toe into cess. Having been in politics for
the political pool far enough to say years, both have suffered rebuffs
publicly whether he’s a Republican
or Democrat.
After Lodge’s statement, the
general can’t very well play it
quiet much longer.
Meanwhile, the public is far
better informed about the views,
and defeats along with successes.
So far the general has been a
kind of American fair-haired boy.
Because he’s always stuck pretty
close to his own business, soldier
ing, he’s never had his hair mussed
by the rough hand of politics.
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