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Battalion Editorials
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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.
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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
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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'.
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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
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Post Office at College Station, Tex
as under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1870.
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FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN : Co - Editors
Jerry Bennett 1 News Editor
Ed Holder , Sports Editor
Harri Baker : City Editor
Chuck Neighbors News Writer
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