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Page 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, January 16, 1952 Senior Class Endorses Change In Silver Taps Ceremonies Four recommendations, concern ing the handling of future Silver Taps ceremonies were unanimously adopted last night by the Senior Class; The motion, presented by Bob Langford of the Traditions Com mittee, is designed to have a more appropriate ceremony in the fu ture. Prior to Silver Taps, members of the committee will go to all buildings in the vicinity of the Academic Building and make cer tain lights will be turned off dur ing the ceremony. “The man responsible for a par ticular building will go to that building in the afternoon and make the necessary arrangements for turning the lights off,” Langford said. Turn Street Lights Off Frank Brown, college electrician will be contacted in advance of fu ture Silver Taps services, and ar rangements will be made with him to turn off all street lights in the vicinity of the ceremony. The Corps Adjutant will be re quested to post guards at the var ious entrance to the campus dur ing the ceremony and drivers of all cars will be requested by these guards to stop and turn off lights during the service. In addition, the Senior class agreed that arrangements should be worked out with The Battalion concerning the publishing of a picture of the deceased. Langford also said arrangements were being made concerning the possibility of publishing a new Cadence. Boot Question Postponed The question of limiting the wearing of senior boots to two se mester, was postponed until later because of the small turnout at the meeting. A preliminary vote was taken on the matter and the tabulation was 23 for the proposal and 23 against. The meeting was called to order by J. W. Dalston, class president. Minutes of the last meeting were read by Bob Dobbins, secretary. Following the reading of the min utes, Ted Stephens, chairman of the Class Gift Committee present ed his report. Five ideas were submitted' for a class gift, b«t this number was cut to two, he said. The proposals under consideration concern the erection of a permanent reviewing stand on the main drill field and the building of a marker at the East Gate. In Shape of Texas This marker would be in the shape of the map of Texas and would contain appropriate wording informing drivers they were pass ing A&M. Lighting facilities would be provided at night, if the mark er was adopted as a class gift, Stephens said. Van Vandenberg, chairman of the Calendar Sales committee, re ported that $1,573 had been col lected from sale of calendars. This money, one third of which belongs to the class, is deposited in the Student Activities office, he said. Bobby Dunn, class representa tive to the student Senate, inform ed the members what matters had been considered recently by that group. These matters included details on the Campus Chest drive, a showing of the film, “We’ve Never Been Licked,” installing each dor mitory shower with rubber mats, acceptance of the new mascot, and the opening of the Freshman area to upperclassmen. Change Mascot’s Name Lew Jobe recommended that the Senior Class request the Senate to investigate the possibility of changing the mascot’s name, Rev- elle II, to another name. Jobe’s motion was passed. Also, Jobe motioned that the class request that Senior Corps students be allowed to go non-reg after 5 p. m. This motion was un animously passed. Dalston, class representative to the Student Life Committee dis cussed work being done by that group and a discussion was held on the possibility of changing the city’s name to Aggieland. The class approved the motion. Letter to The Editor Reader Criticizes Battalion Editorial denly be filled with solicitude for ly reflected upon the organization that it was such a shame that a Editor, The Battalion: a Constitution which they have so which put him in office. But the certain French explorer went into A -psychiatrist once wrote to successfully evaded these many American people are not in the the heart of darkest Africa to find James Thurber offering to cure years. As for corruption, well, only habit of electing men of great what he might more easily have the well known humorist of draw- the blind would deny its existence, stature, and Harry Truman is no located in Springfield, Illinois, ing. Surely greater benefits might However, I rather suspect that the exception to this general rule. Later Lincoln grew a beard to add be achieved if some public minded attitude of Truman’s critics is that Bromfield claims that Truman is to his dignity. Does a hairy jaw phychiatrist could manage to cure if it did not exist they should have not a, tragic figure because he lacks really make such a difference ? the Editor of The Battalion of to invent it. Further, the problem depth of character. This claim is I’ll call a halt with one further editorial writing. Success in this of corruption is peculiar neither to true only if one employs a classi- observation of my own. Some endeavor might be vitiated only by the Federal Government nor to cal literary definition of tragedy months ago the Editor of the Bat- the fact that the Editor seems to either political party. Our under- which is not applicable here. The talion told me that if a dog catch- display even poorer judgment in paid public servants in Washington real tragedy of Harry Truman er ran against Truman, the Edi- his selection of editorials from are no more to blame for corrup- is that he was nominated and elect- tor would vote for the dog catcher, other newspapers. I have refer- tion in the body politic than are ed to office because of his very This attitude is contemptible and ence here to your columns of the underpaid football players respon- lack of character. Bromfield com- if widely adopted, a dog catcher past, two days entitled “Shivers sible for commercialism and brib- pares Truman with the more gen- is exactly what we will get—per- Speaks” and “Truman ... A Char- ery in collegiate athletics. Finally, uinely tragic, according to his de- haps in the form of another Gen- acter Study.’ the attempt to identify the Fair finition, characters of Woodrow eral Grant, or has the Editor some In view of the general tenor of Deal with socialism represents a Wilson and James Forrestal. Yet village Harding whom he would Texas politics, Governor Allan—-or serious misinterpretation of re- wasn’t the tragedy of Wilson the put at the head of the Republic Allen, the Battalion staff appar- cent American history. And the result of his own defects of char- ently couldn’t make up their col- argument can be proved only by acter and personality? After all, lective minds and used both spell- restoring to the sort of fallacious he was just as responsible for his ings in their reprint notice of logic that Stuart Chase pointed failures as he was for his success- Shivers’ recent appearance in the out in a letter to the New York es. Wilson suffered, as William Al- role of a reformer and a Jeffer- Times last fall. One of his exam- len White has pointed out, from sonian Democrat could more ap- pies went something like this: Sen- one great illusion: he thought he propriately have been included in ator Taft has sponsored a public had a first rate mind whereas ac- your column “We Laugh”. If Tho- housing bill. The Communists are tually Le possessed a third rate mas Jefferson turned over in his known to favor public housing, mind that insisted upon surround- grave the past weekend, I am sure Therefore, Senator Taft is a Com- ing itself with fourth rate men- it was not to make room for more munist. This is patently absurd, talities. Any investigation of the adherents to the principles which Happily, the' English Department Administration leaders under Wil- he hoped would promote an Empire offers a course—210—designed to son will confirm this point. Or of Liberty but to get away from correct such faulty reasoning. The take the case of Forrestal, a high- the men who would exploit these supporters of the Governor’s man- ly competent administrator, who same principles in order to estab- ifesto could profit by such training like Robert Lovett and W. Averell lish another Republic of Pals, in logic. Perhaps the Governorois Harriman gave up a lucrative pos- Granted the Truman Administra- not entirely to blame. The voice ition with an investment banking tion has not always done much to was the voice of Allan Shivers, all firm to accept a post of high re render its position more readily right, but in his “uninhibited dis- sponsibility under the government, defensible, nevertheless many of the cussion” one might detect the work Does the tragedy of these men of attacks upon it have been unfair of the deft hands of the Dallas character stem from the fact that and unfounded. They have, in fact, News and the Texas Manufactur- they are criticized and harassed manifested a cynical disregard for ers Association. by lesser creatures or from the intellectual honesty which is all fact they have devoted their abil- too prevalent in all areas of the Your commentary on the “beau- ities and energies to the formula- nation today. tiful column” by Louis Bromfield tion and implementation of military The Texas States Righters offer indicated a propensity to follow an- and foreign policies—the latter too three lines of criticism of the pre- other logical fallacy known as the often dictated by the former— sent Administration: socialism, cor- argument ad hominem—in this which have had a detrimental ef- ruption, and that great shibboleth case, an attempt to denounce a feet both at home and abroad. The of local politics—the Tidelands de- whole party along with its person- problem goes back, as William 0. cision of the Supreme Court. Per- nel and program by appealing to Douglas has just pointed out, “to haps the order should be reversed, passions and prejudices against the the fact that we carried over to Concerning the indignation at the party’s leader. Certainly Harry days of peace the military ap- Supreme Court’s decision in the Truman has not been a national proach to world affairs. Diplomacy, Tidelands case, I find it hilarous leader of great stature, and at certainly in Asia, took a back seat, that Texas politicians should sud- times his weaknesses have serious- The military approach to the Asians and their problems. That has been the great tragedy in Asia. And the tragedy to us at home has been about as great.” Louis Brom- U.S. Sabre jets Damage 2 MIGs In Air Battle Seoul, Korea, Jan. 16—(IP) Out-numbered U.S. F-86 Sa bre Jets damaged two Com munist MIG-ISs today in two flashing air battles high over northwest Korea. The U. S. Fifth Air Force said the first fight involved 36 Sabres and 80 MIGs. Later, 22 F-86s bat tled the same flight of Communist planes. One MIG was damaged in each battle. Sub Freezing Infantrymen huddled in their foxholes as subfreezing weather covered the 145-mile battlefront. Action was confined to a few small raiding operations by the Allies and probes by the Reds. The two air battles over Sinanju marked the second day of jet com bat after a three-day lapse because of bad weather. The sabres also damaged two MIGs Tuesday. Any Allied losses or damage will be reported only in a weekend summary. Capt. William A. Todd, 435 Ge- rons Ave., San Gabriel, Calif., dam aged one MIG in Wednesday’s first battle. The Red plane pulled away before he could fire a second burst. In the second battle, the dam aged MIG was credited to Maj. William T. Whisner, Shreveport, La. Whisner, who has destroyed four Communist jets, was driven off by other Red fighters while the damaged MIG dived-for sanctuary in Manchuria. California Lashed by Worst Pacific Storm in 50 Years The Battalion George Rudisill, Jr. (Editor’s Note—Earlier in the year, we decided we would not make comments on a letter—but sir! Being the one condemned, and berated by some 1,000 words we feel chastised. The one bright spot in the letter is, that if a person would read it over and look up every word he did not know—the literacy on the cam pus would take a tremendous jump. (During the first few hundred words, we were prompted to think of a speech Hamlet made to Polonius. It went something like this: “ . . . words, words, words.” (However, when we read a lit tle further we thought you might have been an upset young Demo crat who had his hero’s honor besmirched. But, reading a little further, we came to the conclu sion, it was a frustrated lexo- graphic writer trying to get something published. (After it was all over, 1,000 words later, we came to the con clusion you might have had something to say. If you ever run out of something to do . . . come over and see us about a job.) Influenza Leads Morbidity Report Abilene May Be Site for AF Base Washington, Jan. 16—(fP)—A i r Force representatives tomorrow will begin visits to areas in which ten air bases may be set up as part of the air expansion program. The Air Force said its represen tatives will seek information on both possible opposition and coop eration from the municipalities af fected. It emphasized that the visits will carry no commitments, to establish air bases. First studies will be made to morrow at Abilene, Tex., and Phil adelphia, the Air Force said. San Francisco, Jan. 16—(TP)—A stubborn, slow-moving storm lash ed the Pacific coast with moderat ing snow and rain today, but a new Alaskan-born blow was brew ing. It posed a new threat to the already extensively damaged reg ion. Thousands, most of them resi dents of mountain and lowland areas, remained marooned by eith er huge snow drifts or floods. Weary rescue parties worked in to the night to reach snowbound travelers in the blizzard-swept high Sierra northeast of San Francis co—including 226 passengers and crew members of the swank streamliner, City of San Francisco, snow-bound at Donner Pass. The three-day storm, howling in Sunday on the heels of prolonged rains, caused-at least seven deaths. How many others were killed in jured or missing in avalanches and on deep-drifted mountain roads could not be determined. In the tossing waves of the North Pacific two overturned life boats were spotted 16 miles apart by Coast Guard planes. The boats were believed from the lost Japan- bound freighter Pennsylvania, abandoned by its crew of 45 last Wednesday some 500 to 600 miles off the Washington coast. Worst In 50 Years The storm that cracked the freighter’s hull last Wednesday apparently was the forerunner of the current one which made this the worst California winter in more than 50 years. The weather bureau said the storm obstinately refused to move eastward and added: More rain in the valleys and snow flurries in the mountains to morrow. Rain-swollen creeks spilled over their banks today and forced eva cuation of families in these widely separated California lowland com munities—East Santa Barbara and nearby Goleta, the West Del Paso suburb of Sacremento, Alviso and San Tomas in Santa Clara Coun ty; South San Francisco’s Sterling Terrace section in the bay area; and the northern section of Merced in central California. At Fresno, the weather bureau issued a flood warning for all streams in the San Joaquin Val ley north of the San Joaquin Riv er and south of the Merced River. The sodden earth gave way un der many homes in several cities. Some homes crashed downhill, oth ers slid precariously. Cut Off From Food Among the mountain commun ities completely snowbound was AI- turas on the slopes of the Sierra. Its population of 2,290 was cut off from the usual dairy food de liveries but enough stocks were on hand—except bread—to prevent immediate, hardships. Isolated by rain-caused slides was Panoche Valley, some 45 miles south of Hollister in South Cen tral California. The town consists of some 100 families. Also shut down were major in dustrial plants in Eurkea and other far northern communities. Heavy snows in the Trinity Mountains knocked down power lines from Shasta Dam. Reno, Nevada’s divorce and gambling center, was digging out from under heavy snows which isolated the city today for the second time. By late afternoon, buses began moving out of Reno by a southern route with some 200 passengers stranded there since Sunday. Most of them were San Francis co-bound, by way of Bakersfield, Calif. All other roads from Reno were still blocked, except U. S. 40 to the east. DALLAS 1 Hour, 36 Minutes 2 Flights Daily PIONEER — AIR LINES-—-*-V Timed byto/lor Watches Phone 4-5034 for information and rmvations-or call your travel agent Barnes President Of Ft. Benning Ags Second Lt. W. D. “Pusher” Barnes was elected president of the Texas A&M Club at Fort Benning, Ga., recently. ‘ Barnes, a member of the Class of ’51, was outstanding in extra curricular activities while at A&M. He is the Class of ’51’s life time representative to the college. Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" 4,. ,, , ,, j. ^ i Influenza was the leading disease field, by the way, seems to feel . , ,’tv , , i u i ro Brazos County for the week that Douglas would make a bet- ,. T ,r> j- , ,, , „ m ending Jan. 12, according to the ter president than Harry Truman. .A., ’ , . . , 0 , ,, m A- T • ,, . ,. morbidity report isstied by the lo this I give my enthusiastic sup- „ „ n , TT ,,, TT ., „ 4. d x A r'j-. . Bryan-Brazos County Health Unit, port. But was the Editor actually 0/1 ALL “A’s” FOR JUNIOR and AH “A’s” in Satisfaction WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED AT AGGIE CLEANERS North Gate Socks Zip Out for Easy Home Washing You just zip off the soft glove leather sole and felt inner sole and the socks can be washed. Then zip on again. Made in sizes for men, women, and children, assorted colors. Each pair individually gift boxed. 100% wool socks. THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies" POGO The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical Texee, is published by students five times a week during the regular school During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and durini f . it ,, f f tu 1 examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Mondaj wrote one OI tile early through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer Tidelands decisions, terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip. R , , t , tt Tf tion rates $6.00 per year or $.60 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request, I3U '' ja( K 10 tiany l i uman. n you must run him into the ground, Entered as second-class Batter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, under the Act of Con. |ress of March 8, 1870. Member of The Associated Press by^NatfonaT*Advertising ^ not do so with relevant argu- ^ Service Inc.,at New York ments. I don’t see why a man, even ,,, , k , , . City, Chicago, Lo. An- if President should L condemned 0ther dlseases reported b F the geles, and San Francisco, “ ^resident, snouia De condemned j lealth un j t . , ^ u . o There were 94 cases of influenza College Ot m agreement with Bromfield here? . , , • R „ , 65 • : ho , ol J L e A I i 1 wonder. Mr. Justice Douglas, af- cX^rStation ™ Ten cases of diarrhea were re ported in College Station. Bryan had three cases of septic sore throat and College Station News contributions may be made by telephone (4-6444) or at the editorial office because he wears glasses, plays the were pneumonia six cases, gonorrhea five cases, mumps Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-6324) or al P' ano > use d a political machine to cases, chickenpox one case, the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. , reach office or because his taste ^ ^ syphilig one The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all ln c jOul e S offends othois satona cage> news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local new( sensitivities. Teddy Roosevelt wore of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matte; glasses because he Was SO near- herein are also reserved. ® sighted that the only man he could recognize while presiding over the Senate was a three hundred pound CHoOSCS OfficCl S Senator from Massachusetts. Yet T. R. was far from timid. Jeffer- Bobby Dunn was elected presi- son’s violin playing did not create dent of the Accounting Society at Accounting Society JOHN WHITMORE Editor Joel Austin Associate Editor Bill Streich Managing Editor Bob Selleck Sports Editor Frank Davis City Editor Peggy Maddox Women’s Editor a gulf between him and his friends, a meeting recently in the MSC T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, Benny Holub, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter rr • • , • Edgar Watkins; Can Posey, Gene steed, Jejry Bennett, and he helped to found one of our He is a senior accounting major Bert Weller staff Writers first political machines. And Lin- from Chillicothe. Frank^cottf.Tf.. V.".Quarterback^lub^pitectOT coln > most often acclaim ed as the Other officers elected were Dick zeek staff photographer greatest of our presidents, was so Ralph Wallingford, vice presi- Pat Lemanc^o^ugh Phiiippus, Gus Becker; Joe Blanchette ^ ^ ^^ort^ gt a ff writers undignified ill appearance that on dent; John Wagenfehr, secretary- John Lancaster chief photo Engraver his arrival in Washington in 1861 treasurer; John Schaefer, parlia- Robert Hay^V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.VAdvVrtfi^RepreM&ve he was referred to as the “original mentarian; and Don Ownes, pro- Ba® Bedf circulation Manager gorilla”. One observer remarked gram chairman. vree ceix-g^AtiN' houpav? , AN' PA&e/T THUNK UP A JOKE About 'em-He sav; "pyou I KNOW cue FiRST HOUPAVs /e THE FOURTHP~ /those celebpahtstoud A ZEAL out —- SSBMS TWO GENTLEMEN { A£E IN A HOI I PAY MOOP AN* ONE, WITH A SW CHUCKLE, " PO YOU PSALIZE- THAT m AMWAN& HAVE A RAMiy? ouf? FIRST ff Old PAY 10 /NPgPRNDIMCF PAY91? GET IT,SIR? OUR A.NO.l HOLIDAY FALLS ON THE FOURTH OF (/QQ IY- HO? HA? HEE? 1-16 <o*g. wsz-WAurkeu-Y m (Pl^r. 9Y FOfrr-HALL SVNttCAT*. By Walt Kelly ' NevisaMme 1 IM/N'MAU from NOW ON- t AIN'T A TAKIN' OFF YOU LI’L ABNER Wake Up And Dream By Al Capp HERE’S TH’ PAPER.WHICH TELLS WHUT HAPPENED TO LI’L ABNER’S IDEEL, FEAR LESS FOSDICK —AFTER HE JUMPED OFF OF TH’ WASHIN’TON MONUMENT. r /