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■ Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1:952 Staff Appointments Made In 75th Year of Publication rpODAY’S paper carries the story of The Battalion’s staff editors and appointments for the year. With the start of the 77th session of the college, The Battalion is beginning its 75th year as a student publication. Through the years, we’ve grown from a monthly to a Let no 07ie falter who thinks he is right. —Lincoln ‘Welcome, ’ Friends South of Border ^ &M should be proud today to welcome on its campus a group visiting from south of the border. They are fifteen students from the Na tional Veterinary School, here for one week to visit and inspect various parts of the A&M System. In welcoming them, Dr. David N. Morgan, dean of the college, said for the year 1950-51 (the last year for which figures were avail able), two-thirds of the foreign students at tending A&M were from Mexico and the Cen tral and South America countries, and one- half of this group were from Mexico. Better relations need to be established be tween the U. S. and Mexico, and especially between Texas and Mexico. When one reads of the counties in Texas that are on the Mexican “blacklist” because of discrimina tions which have occurred repeatedly there against Latin-Americans, then it can be seen that something needs to be done. A&M is taking a big step in that direc tion by sponsoring this group on the campus, and by welcoming and enrolling students at A&M. Students can help, too. A “howdy” goes a long way with a visitor and stranger. • If the work yon do at your little job, is always the best you can, Whenever it grows to a bigger job It tvill find you a big ger man.—Author unknown Trashy Unit Signs Hurt All Concerned ¥T’S a sad commentary on the Corps of -*■ Cadets when football signs have to be taken down or altered to make them decent and viewable by the public. Many Aggies consider it “Ole Army” to have a scantily clad female endorsing the beating of the next week’s team, when actual ly there is no connection between the two. Maybe it is true that the better-read signs and those the corps will walk a mile to see are of well-curved females, but when the week end rolls around it becomes embarrass ing to show your mother, your swtetheart, or your date the local literature. O. C. (Putter) Jarvis, Corps Chaplain, is to be commended for a good job that is high ly distasteful to him—that of telling outfits their signs will have to come down. This means the money and time spent in building it will be wasted. But it is a necessary job, and one that is being handled very diplomat ically. You can never do kindness too soon, be cause you never knoiv how soon it may be too late.—Annonymous semimonthly, to a weekly and finally a daily. We’re proud of The Battalion. We’re also proud of the fact that we are the official paper of the college and of College Station. We believe the appointed staff will help to make this year’s paper the best in our history. To achieve this, we have a long way to go. Active in nation wide contests since 1949, The Battalion has proved successful every year. In our first try, we won the National Advertisers Service, Inc. College Research Contest. The following two years we won first and second places in the College News paper Contest on safe driving, and last year a staff member won an individual national award. As a full member of The Associated Press, we keep in touch with news happen ings from the four corners of the earth, cov ering wars, presidential campaigns, mar riages, divorces, murders, sports and news commentary. We bring you news we think is important. As a newspaper, we feel our main service is to keep you informed. Our duty is a public service to the students, to the college, and to the city. We have been cussed and discussed, both by students and school officials. But we hold an open mind and open house here. The Bat talion is always ready to strive forward for the betterment of A&M College. Heaven is not reached by a single bound But tve build the ladder by ivhich ive rise. J. r G. Holland MSC Uses Vary In Helping College HTHE Memorial Student Center will play host to some 40 short courses, confer ences and .other large-scale meetings this year. Attendance for »most of the meetings will be about 100. ^ An important use of the Center is for these conferences and meetings. The main reason: A&M is an educational center with excellent facilities for such meetings. Mem bers of the faculty and students often attend and sometimes officiate at sessions. Because the MSC belongs to the people of Texas, it is their right to use the building whenever it isn’t being used by students. Occasionally a short-course or conference will tie up guest rooms on a dance weekend. For the most part, meetings and conventions taking place on the campus will be during the week. The social office of the MSC arranges its program so that a minimum of interfer ence will occur with student social life. How ever, once in a great while, an inconvenience will happen. Students should remember, however, by holding of conferences, short courses and other industry affairs here, more people get the right impfession of A&M. The Memorial Student Center goes a long way in helping that impression. Liberty is the right to do what the laivs alloiv. If a citizen had a right to do ivhat they forbid, it would no longer be liberty, for everyone else would have the same right. C. L. De Montesquick City Financial Position Strong Ran Boswell, city manager of College Station, has released the city audit report. “The city’s financial position is sound and reflects careful and con servative management on the be half of the mayor and councilmen,” Boswell said. The following statement of as sets and liabilities was taken from the detailed audit report which was approved by the City Council June 30, 1952. The entire report is available to the citizens and taxpayers of College Station. It may be exam ined at the City Hall, 101 Church St. College Station Audit Report * ASSETS LETTERS Senior Likes Idea, But Not Method Editors, The Battalion: I write this letter in px-otest to a violation of the principles of the A&M College, which I love very dearly. That A&M College, once a producer of men, has fought a losing fight and is now enter ing the beginning of the end. It has been deserted by what should have been its. most firm defend ers—the “wheels” of the Corps of Cadets. Before school stax-ted over a hundred of these “wheels” and “psuedo-wheels,” acting either un der indirect ox-ders of Col. Joe Davis (or one of his associates), or acting with religious fervor and £eal, heretofoi'e unknown on this campus, have vowed to stamp out that awful reference to the bad place beginning in H and ending in 11. Then, deciding (by themselves or with the help of Ross Hall) that emergency action was necessary if anybody ever had emei’gency pow ers, our hundred heroes reasoned, we do now. A soft word about usurption of the powers of the senior class was ventured, but our virtuous gentlemen in hot pur suit of universal decency brushed aside the asinine bother and con sumed their courageous crusade by voting that awful word off the campus. I have only admix-ation for the Ross Hall personnel who engineer ed this coup d’etat. They have achieved by cold blooded subtle ness that which they have been unable to achieve in past yeax - s by direct military orders. Although I fxown upon their methods and would have prefer red that those who wish this rul ing had brought it before the senior class, which has tradition ally handled such mattei's, I ap plaud their aims and admii'e their ingenuity. I am glad that we don’t use foul language on the campus axxymore, for no one who xoally loves A&M would object to anything which makes it a finer, cleaner, and moi'e moral place. But in the future, I hope that enough lip service will be paid to the senior class so it at least gets to rubber-stamp xxxatters which senior classes befoi’e ours have traditionally controlled. I write this letter not to step on anyone’s toes unjustly—if I have, I apologize most pi’ofusely. I believe that it is an Ameidcan’s right and duty to object to things which he considers bad or wi’ong. Unlike the philosophers of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, I do not believe that the ends justify the means regardless of how noble those ends seem to be. Hoping most sincerely that sen ior peons like myself will not be come mere figureheads in the i’un- ning of the corps and college, I thank whoever is responsible for the privilege of writing and having published this letter of protest. Sincerely, R. S. (Bob) Travis ’53 Cash for current operations Cash for debt service Cash for construction Cash for perpetual car fund United States war savings bond Accounts receivable, less estimated uncollectable accounts Taxes receivable, less estimated uncollectible taxes Due from cemetei’y fund Deposit with A&M College Inventory of materials and supplies for current use Inventory of construction materials pur chased with proceeds of bonds issued Fixed assets TOTAL ASSETS General Utility Cemetery Fund Funds Fund $ 1,908.98 $ 624.84 $ 766.30 2,341.36 664.56 165.80 36,971.32 1,348.40 740.00 General Property and Debt Fund Total ^ $ 3,300.1* 3,171.72 36,971.32 1,348.40 740.0* Accounts payable Income tax witsheld from employees Due to general fund Customers’ deposits Matured warrant interest coupons out standing . Commissions payable Taxes due A&M Consolidated Independent School Distinct Notes and warrants payable Bonds payable Reserve for perpetual care Total Liabilities Suiplus- Total Liabilities and Surplus STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF BRAZOS 936.63 11,459.11 12,395.74 1,408.02 1,408.02 10,892.78 1 10,892.78 100.00 100.00 111.29 7,494.07 7,605.36 4,456.58 4,456.58 211,166.39 11,682.10 74,725.93 297,574.42 $18,439.06 $272,836.87 $13,962.60 $74,725.93 $379,964.46 TES AND SURPLUS General Property General Utility Cemetery and Debt Fund Funds Fund Total Fund * $ 2,353.95 $ 5,699.98 $ $ $ 8,053.93 360.50 36^.50 10,892.78 **-^,892.78 100.00 5,523.00 180.00 5^803.00 44.00 44.00 194.73 194.73 1,833.98 1,833.98 7,598.81 4,043.96 300.00 14,614.89 26,557.66 150,000.00 150,000.00 1,348.40 1,348.40 $12,247.24 $165,266.94 $12,959.91 $14,614.89 $205,088.98 6,191.82 107,569.93 1,002.69 60,111.04 174,875.48 $18,439.06 $272,836.87 $13,962.60 $74,725.93 $379,964.48 I, Ran Boswell, being City Manager of the City of College Station, solemnly swear that the foregoing statement of condition is time to the best of my knowledge and belief. (Signed) RAN BOSWELL 11th day of September, 1952 (Signed) FLORENCE NEELLEY, Notary Public, Brazos County, Texas (Seal) Subscribed and sworn to befox-e me this Research Institute Report ‘Howto Handle W omen By FRANK N. MAN1TZAS Battalion Co-Editor With the first football week end only two days away, we thought now was as good a time as any to release information ob tained fiom the Research Insti tute of America, Inc. The institute’s memo is called, “How to Handle Women.” Although college upperclassmen ax-e above instruction in this rarest of management * engineer ing courses, freshmen might be interested in the results of the grueling research. Beginning to i-ead the memo, you might be discouraged for it says: “This memo has been in operation for a long time. Almost every man on our* staff has tried, his hand at it—and got nowhere.” The multi-page memo, however, did i-each this conclusion: “Wo men ai'e different fiom men.” This, of course, is not exactly an ultramodern discovery. After 17 years in the business of helping industry solve its most complicated problems with the aid of training programs for business men arid supervisors, the institute had discovex-ed that now there are nine times as many women gain fully employed as there wei’e in 1870. This resulted in the bulletin on handling the fairer sex. Science was stymied and pro- gress detoux-ed when men wei*e asked about women. The only Opinions Vary on Poll 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 four times a week, duiring the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examina tion and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday dui’ing examination and va cation peiriods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates fuimished on x-equest. YMCA Association To Meet Monday Night The Upperclassmen YMCA As sociation will hold its first meet ing of the year Monday night at 7:15 in the YMCA. Plans will be made for the com ing year. Chai-lie Beagle, px-esident, ux-ges all members to come and bring a new membei'. (Continued from Page 1) say that. As for the justification of the act, I believe this: the sen iors run the school—the cadet of- ficei’s the coi’ps.” Total Riddance Asked Othei's believe that total abol ishment of the saying was unnec essary. “I believe that it should be left up to the discretion of the fresh men,” said Chuck Cai’gill fi’om Ed dy. “Anyone of college age should be capable of determining when to say what. Natui'ally, I wouldn’t want them to say that when I am with my wife or mother, but at other times I think they should say it because it denotes our school spirit. I believe the whole senior class should have been consulted on this matter.” “In my opinion the entire sen ior class should have been con sulted,” seconded Gordon Day. Freshmen should be able to tell when or when not to use it. I think it certainly helps rather than hindei’s the team.” Bob Wicke, senior fx-om San An tonio, continued these views by saying, “I am in favor of doing away with it except for the UT game. I do not believe it should have ben passed the way it was, but the senior class as a whole should have been consulted.” Indifference Shown A gx-eat many seniors possess the views of Clayton Hendley. Said Hendley, “It actually does not make any diffei’ence to me one way or the other. I think the sen ior officers had the right to do what they did at the time it was done.” The opinion of the juniors align closely with the seniors. Said Bo Smith, junior fi'om Gilmer, “I’m glad they did it, because a lot of freshmen have i-eligious convic tions against this, and I don’t think they should be foi*ced to say it.” “I’m glad they abolished it be cause it is said so often its i-eal meaning is lost,” deducted a Hous tonian juniox-, Bob Clark. “I am in favor of the method in which - the resolution was passed.” “I am in favor of abolishing it as long as the freshman keep (See POLL, Page 5) LI’L ABNER Stairway To The Stars other soux-ce, the institute found, was to ask women about women. Results Show Results: “To supexvise women success fully, you have to: • recognize in what aspects they ax-e different from men (Tlfe isn’t hard to do.), • tx-eat them accoi'dingly, and • not let them know about it (We knew thei’e was a catch to it.) For the ah’eady discoux-aged, the institute adds gleefully, “There is no formula for women. If you knew all the answers, whei’e would the enchantment be?” The institute also says that men ai’e big women. Women havi gx-eater maxxual dextexaty, bettex color sense and mox-e patience than men. But there is one thing about them—they ax’e apt to take things personally. Hence, cxaticism al ways should be closely linked with encouragement and appx’eciation. Women Love to Talk “Women,” continued thri'-^usti- tute, “ax’e people-minded. They are intensely intex’ested in people rath er than things. They love to talk. (This, too, is not an ultramodern discovery.) Give women an oppor tunity to talk frequently. Thehe is considerable statistical evidence that women work better and pro duce more if they can socialize. Concerning man’s biggest weak ness to a pleading woman: tears. The institute says to let her cry, “recover hex-self,” then ratuim and let her know you’i'e available to discuss the difficulty. In shox-t, you’ve lost the battle. To get along with a woman, the institute gives this final bit of ad vice: “If she feels that she is being txnated fairly and that you recognize and like her as an indiv idual in her own right, her gi’ati- tude will show up in her coopera tion.” . That’s what we wanted all along. By A1 Capp Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Tex as under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services. Inc., at New York City. Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches exped ited to it or not othex-wise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of x’epublication of all other matter herein are also reseiwed. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN : Co - Editors Jerry Bennett 1 News Editor Ed Holder , Sports Editor Harri Baker : City Editor Chuck Neighbors News Writer ■4