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Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1952 ANOTHER INFLAMMABLE SWEATER .;^^; ;'p—' r ‘‘' * Some Egotism Is Good Thing U’GOTISM IS a nice thing to have if it doesn’t go too far. But take the case of something that came up in a recent edition of The Daily Texan. On the editorial page of that newspaper there was a story on the TISA meeting in El Paso. The author of the article summed up the effect of the meeting as it pertained to the university students. He said: Evaluation of what the University is getting out of the TISA takes this form. The University’s delegation agreed that the University may not be getting as much as most schools from be longing to the association. This is because the Univer sity is more advanced in student government, student- faculty relations, and other problems which concern TISA. “Our membership is partly a matter of obligation,” a student said. “Smaller schools should have the benefit of problems already solved by the University. We help lead the organization and gain prestige by it. And we do realize a lot of good out of it, though perhaps not so much as some others.” It doesn’t appear that the university is up on some of its own history. If the history we get in this neck of the Brazos not beillg made on the campus in is correct in the 40’s the University has quite a lot of trouble 1942 during student elections. Plies with the Greek letter groups running the student elections, show “the students were covering However, it isn’t fair for us to cast too many stones about elections since we are far from perfect now. But it does seem a little impertinent for a like bunch of College people to consider themselves superior to some other group or groups. -Profs Discuss Changing City’s Name “There’s going to be a lot of opposition to changing the name of College Station,” a prominent member of the engineering fac ulty said yesterday. “Why,” asked one of his two guests, also faculty members, “I can’t see that is will make much difference.” “Well,” said the first, “You might as well name the place England.” They all smiled. “All right, you have fully as many engi neers here as agricultural students, haven’t you ?” “Yes,” we had to admit this. “Okay, then take the fir$t letters of eng ineers (eng) add the word land and you get England.” Again the other faculty members smiled. “ . . . More Practical Argument ...” “If you must have a more practical ar gument,” continued the engineering profes sor, “consider that a world of records will have to be changed. It would be more of a bother than it’s worth. And remember that there is more to College Station than A&M College. If the time ever comes to vote on the question, I’m going to vote against it.” “I would vote for it,” said his friend. “I used to be against changing the name, when the argument started some years back, but my mind has been changed since then. “After all, A&M College is the center of the whole community. All of us get our liv ing from it and we should support this name changing if it would help the school.” “ . . . College is the Center ...” The third man in the group of faculty members said very little until the end of the discussion. Apparently he was neutral. But he made one remark which seems to be sig nificant. “The senior class has the right to pro pose changing the name if they feel that it should be done.” All three men agreed the question should be decided by a majority of College Station citizens. BACKWARD GLANCES 15 Years Ago Today A&M’s polo team defeated Lampassas Riders, 6-2. 10 Years Ago Today “A cigar and a kiss your baby” were the only two political moves The illusion that times that were are better thayi those that are, has probably pervaded all ages—Greeley. Truman’s Withdraw! Puzzles California Democratic Heads Sacramento, Calif., March 19 — 1 (A*)—President Truman’s sudden withdrawal from the California presidential primary left state Democratic leaders puzzling today over which way to turn. Should they put up a favorite son candidate to protect Califor nia’s 68 convention votes for the pro-Truman faction? Switch al legiance to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee or some other name Democrat? Or not do anything— and in effect concede the big dele gation to Kefauver. Mrs. Martin Gets The Truman campaign commit tee has been summoned here to- orrow to try to answer those ques tions. Meantime, members d e- clined to even guess what will hap pen. KEFAUVER supporters were elated. He is the only Democratic candidate in California’s June 3 primary. The state’s Democratic high command, almost solidly behind Truman, was left with a slate of delegates and campaign forces or ganized—but no candidate. It had gone ahead without any word as to whether the President would seek reelection. Civil Defense Job New Telephone Tl/T v«r« TV/T-1J-....J- Directories Out Mrs. Grace Martin, assistant dis trict agent for the Texas Agri- cultural Extension Service, has been appointed assistant to the Advisory Committee on Women in the Services by Anna Rosenberg, assistant secretary of defense. Mrs. Martin will aid the Texas Federation of Women’s Club in re cruiting the registering women for all civil defense jobs, including armed forces. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Martin was appointed associate director of the Extension Service in Puerto Rico where she was as signed 16 native Puerto Rican women to train as home demon stration agents. Telephone directories for Bryan- College Station a,re being distri buted with a complete listing of all new subscribers and changes of old numbers through the middle of February. G. M. Brennan, division manager, said distiubution will continue un til all subscribers have received a new copy of the directory. The 7,000 directories contain 39 pages of listed phone numbers and a 64- page classified section. This is the first publication of a directory since March last year, Brennan said. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman’' The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published by students five times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods. Sub scription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second - class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Ser vices Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los An geles. and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephone (1-5444) or at the editorial offioe, rooms 201 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. JOHN WHITMORE - - Editor Joel Austin Associate Editor Bill Streich Managing Editor Bob Selleck Sports Editor Peggy Maddox Women’s Editor T. H. Baker, Jim Ashlock, Jerry Bennett, Gardner Collins, Billy Cobble Don Copeland, J. A. Damon, Wayne Dean, Phil Gougler, Joe Hipp, Ben F. Holub, Ed. M. Holder, Charles Neighbors, Royoe Price. Dave , Roberts, Gene Steed, Ben M. Stevens, John Thomas, Ide Trotter, Edgar Watkins, Bert Weller Staff Writers Mason L. Cashion, Roddy Peebles, H. A. Cole ...Staff Photographers Frank Manitzas .Editorial Assistant Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Phillfppus, Joe Blanchette. Sports Writers Rudy Aguilar Chief Photo-Engraver Russell Hagens Advertising Manager Robert Venable. Advertising Repfesentative Sam Beck Circulation Manager LETTERS ‘We Done It’ Editor, The Battalion: Just as not for a few exes who would like to know if maybe the Class of ’52 might not be willing to change something that’s been as it is since ’76 in order to be able to put on recoil that “we done it.” I’m referring to this Aggielajid business. I’ll admit it would have been nice 76 years ago but who are they to change it now. Everybody I’ve talked to liked College Station damn well. Per haps this a wide streak of “New Army” they’ve been blowing their own tops so much about that they are all for just to immortalize themselves. Maybe they would like to put Carlson’s statue in place of Sully. Also congratulations to the joker who declared in The Ratt that he came to A&M to inflate his ego instead of doing any “silly reason ing.” I wonder how high his ego will be when they pin his little bars on and some first sergeant has to do all the reasoning for him. J. V. Drummond ’42 SQUADRON 8 MEETS TODAY Members of the 1951 Squadron S cadet unit are requested to meet at 5 p. in. today in the YMCA, Boyle R. Griffin announced last Light. On Other Campuses the Reports On TISA Vary A t Texas the campus with politician smiles, hand shakes, and vote for me’s.” 5 Years Ago Today Three agronomy students found an elephant’s tusk down along the Brazos River. Scientists claimed the animal had died in North Tex as, and its remains were brought to this area by the ancestral river of the Brazos. Many Democrats doubted that the Trumanites would hand Cali fornia’s 68 convention votes to Ke fauver by default. One or two mentioned Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois as a possibility. Most leaned toward a favorite son can didate. JAMES ROOSEVELT declared “under no circumstances” would he be willing to be the candidate. He bolted Truman in 1948 to support Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination. Defeated by Gov. Earl Warren for the gov ernorship in 1950, he has swung ov er in recent months to open support for Truman. In Los Angeles, Dave Foutz, Ke fauver campaign manager, com mented on the Truman withdrawal: “We believe that Mr. Truman must have realized that the rank and file of California Democratic voters feel a preference for Ke fauver. “We feel his action is an indica tion he will not seek reelection, thus paving the way for Kefauver’s nomination at the Democratic na tional convention.” Different Southwest schools wrote the usual reports about the past TISA meeting held in El Paso, except, perhaps, Rice and Texas University. Rice added to the regular re ports on the convention that they “were pleased” the 1952 meeting would be held on the Houston cam pus. At Texas, The Daily Texan, brought forth “the evaluation the University was getting from the TISA: THE UNIVERSITY delega tion agreed that the univer sity may not be getting as much as most schools from be longing to the Association. This is because the University is more advanced in student government, student - faculty relations, and other problems which concern TISA. “Our membership is partly a matter of obligation . . . small er schools should have the ben- ■ efit of problems ah-eady solved by the University. We help lead the organization and gain prestige by it. And we do real ize a lot of good out of it, though perhaps not so much as some others.” Concerning student government and elections, both the Rice In stitute Thresher and the Texas Christian Skiff began readying for spring elections. THE THRESHER reported concerning its own National primary held the same time as the New Hampshire election: “The young Republicans are expected to rally to the polls in great number . . . their vote may be expected to split be tween Taft and Eisenhower. But reliable sources feel Ike has the lead . . . “The ‘shocking lack’ of or ganization of Democrats and Dixiecrats is being deplored . . . feeling runs strong that such organizations would be beneficial in balancing the vote in the primary.” TSCW was also holding stu dent elections last week. The Daily Lass-O printed the “views on functions of the Col lege Government Association” o feach candidate. The win ner for the president’s office boosted this program “I be lieve that our CCA should strive to uphold and further the ideals and traditions of TSCW.” Texas Christian University’s Skiff seems to have discovered corruptibn in their own election system. IT SEEMS, as The Skiff pic- ■ tured editorially, “ . . . the poor creature who’s never been elected . . . though a senior. Perhaps, there may yet be a way . . . stuff the ballot boxes. “ . . . a poor display of sportsmanship . . . were the re sults of flagrant dishonesty at the polis. Candidate's . . . shamelessly went about their work gathering stacks of bal lots, stolen, begged or borrow ed; coercing votes, and general electioneering. The election system definitely must be re vised or we might as well toss the ideas ... in the nearest garbage can.” At Waco, Baylorites heard Carl Sandburg, an American poet, speak on movies, television and radio. His views, however, were not fav orable. THE DAILY LARIET said, “Movies are a waste of time, he (Sandburg) said. They don’t pro duce 12 good movies a year . . . (i-adio) commentators are calicious old village gossips . . . TV, where commercials last for 15 minutes and if you turn the dial as you would on a radio you then would have to fool with the snow ...” Sandbui'g was in favor of “ . . . solitude. The most difficult thing in the world is to sit in a quiet room alone.” And “Little people and people with still something of a child’s heart.” THE SMU CAMPUS of South ern Methodist has seen a need for “a rest week . . . designed to light en somewhat the tremendous load of student activities which piles up in the spring ... it is a useful step in emphasizing academic work and cutting down on the often overwhelming burden of extra cur ricular activities.” SMU has also voted to pick up a program of evaluating their pro fessors, similar to the one at A&M where they “received some of their information.’ As Dr. H. A. Trex- ler of SMU’s history department said, “It wouldn’t hurt anything if the students evaluated the pro fessors ... it just wouldn’t have any effect.” Agronomy Study Gets $500 Grant The Experiment Station has re ceived a $500 grant to be used in the department of agronomy for research to facilitate the study of pre-emergence control by chem icals of weeds and grass in cot ton, R. D. Lewis, director, an nounced recently. D. E. D. Wit man of Pittsburgh, Pa., acting for the Columbia- j Southern Chemical Corporation, j made the grant, Lewis said. [ The ZARAPE RESTAURANT (Formerly the Flamingo) Lounge) 4 Blocks East of Main Gro. Will Be Open Week Days From 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. 5 p.m. till 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. till 11 p.m. Closed Mondays —Serving— MEXICAN DISHES SHRIMP — STEAKS FRIED CHICKEN Owned and Operated by MR. & MRS. LUPE ESQUIVEL College Station AGGIES! For Saturday’s DANCE . . . She’ll Be Expecting FLOWERS From the . . . STUDENT FLORAL CONCESSION (Across Street from Exchange Store) Or See Your Dorm Representative P O G O By Walt Kelly LI’L ABNER I FACE STARVATION If ALL UNMARRIED DETECTIVES WILL BE DISMISSED FROM THE. FORCE — THAT'S THE NEW ORDER.'.'' Fearless Fosdick By A1 Capp G'H'o-.... A DENMV FOR YOUR THOUGHT, - FEAR-