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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1952
ANOTHER INFLAMMABLE SWEATER
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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
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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.
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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. [
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