Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1952
Aggies Win Second Game,
But Still Only Fair Team
rpWO IN A ROW. The Aggie football team
has won its last two games, entering each
as the underdog.
Last Thanksgiving, the Cadets defeated
the University of Texas, 22-21, and last week
end they downed the University of Houston,
21-13.
What it all adds up to is: we’ve got a
scrappy, tough and unpredictable football
team.
Train up a child in the way he should
go, and tchen he is old he will not depart
from it.—Proverbs
Gen. Ike Quiet;
Nixon to Talk
/^EN. EISENHOWER continued his stump-
^ ing over the week end with little comment
concerning Sen. Nixon’s unexplainable (by
Ike) private fund of $18,235, but accusing
Gov. Stevenson of “false charges” and “faint
ness of heart.”
Whatever his views, Ike seemed undis
turbed about Nixon’s now revealed help in
the form of an expense account furnished to
him during his last senatorial campaign.
The general continued his same song
about Stevenson, telling no one anything
new; that is, nothing which hasn’t been said
before. He said Stevenson confessed that un
der the present administration policy the
American taxpayer is playing ball with the
Russians and not getting his dollar’s worth
in the peace fight.
No one seems to be interested anymore
about what Ike says about Adlai. Everyone
wants to hear his views on Richard’s latest
revelation. Nixon seems ready to ex
plain at 7:30 p. m. tonight over the National
Broadcasting Co. radio network. It should
prove interesting.
The moving Finger writes; and, having
writ, Moves on: 7ior all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor
all your Tears icash out of Word of it.
— Omar Kray yam
Women Change—
But Takes Time
fTtHE nation’s first woman licensed automo-
bile driver, Mrs. Walter M. Bush, 73, of
Concord, Mass, made a statement yesterday
few women could.
While driving in her early days (she has
n’t driven since 1903), Mrs. Bush said she
enjoyed speed during that time—“I drove
25 miles an hour one day.”
Time fifes, moods change—women, too.
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morn
ing and the rest of the day will take care of
itself.—Elbert Hubbard.
It plans to be ready every week end. But
many things happen which don’t help a
team. Perhaps an injury or a “bad day”
could spring up anytime. Maybe this Satur
day in Dallas when Oklahoma A&M engage
the Farmers in the Cotton Bowl, or the fol
lowing game.
The Twelfth Man supported the team all
the way Saturday. It was easy. We were
never behind, As Aggies we will support
them through the season as the Twelfth
Man has done for the last 76 years.
Everyone should remember, however,
“this year” is not A&M’s year to stride forth
on the dark horse and capture the South
west Conference crown. This being the
league it is, many will say it can be done.
We’re not denying the fact that it can’t
be done. We hope it, can and plan to support
the Aggies all the way.
That’s all we ask of you. Win or lose or
draw. A&M all the way, everyday.
We must be ivilling to pay a price, for
freedom, for no price that is ever asked for
it is half the cost of domg icithout it.
—Foster J. Hall
Stevenson Making
Climb to Presidency
pON. STEVENSON is moving fast up the
^ ladder which must be climbed by the next
President of the United States.
Speaking yesterday to the American Fed
eration of Labor (AFL) delegates in New
York, he denounced the Taft-Hartley law as
“spiteful,” threw a right and left hook at
Gen. Eisenhower’s labor views and gained
many a vote.
Today, the AFL is expected to swing in
line with the Congress of Industrial Organi
zations (CIO) and support the Democratic
Party.
Regardless of what many think, Steven
son is being endorsed from every side. Sen.
Richard Nixon’s latest stumble concerning
acceptance of $18,235 privately endowed ex
pense fund helped Stevenson and hurt the
GOP, simultaneously. ^
AFL leader William Green introduced
Stevenson: “There are a lot of people sitting
in this hall who believe he will be the next
President of the United States.”
Stevenson was interrupted during the
talk by laughter and applause more than 30
times. He brought out, that the general fav
ored some changes in the Taft-Hartley law
while he would urge its repeal.
With all his promises and statements tak
en in good faith by the AFL, Gov. Stevenson
is making progress on the White House road.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one
common heap, ivhence every one must take
an equal portion, most people would be con
tented, to take their own and depart.—Solon
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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-President Names
Academic Council’s
New Committees
The standing committees of the
Academic Council, for the 1952-53
school year, have been announced
by Pres. M. T. Harrington. They
are as follows:
Accident Prevention Committee:
Bennie A. Zinn, chairman, Ralph
J. Vernon, Roy C. Garrett, E. B.
Middleton, C. E. Tishler, C. M.
Simmang, A. A. Price, W. H.
Badgett, R. L. Melcher, Weldon
Kruger, cadet colonel of the corps,
Joel Austin and Frank Manitzas,
co-editors of The Battalion.
Community Chest Committee:
Bennie A. Zinn, chairman; John
Longley, vice-chairman; V. E.
Schember, L. J. Horn, Charlie
Smith, Mrs. Ray Oden, Mrs. Frank
Anderson, J. G. McGuire, R. E.
Callender, H. E. Hampton, Mrs.
T. W. Leland, Hairy Gorzycki,
Mrs. Herschel Burgess, Eddie
Chew and W. A. Tarrow.
Athletic Council: W. L. Pen-
berthy, J. P. Abbott, H. C. Dilling
ham, G. W. Schlesselman and E.
D. Parnell, Darrow Hooper and
Bill Brucks.
A&M Development Committee:
C. W. Crawford, 1955; G. W. Adri-
ance, 1954; Dale F. Leipper, 1953.
Convocation Committee: W. H.
Delaplane, chairman; C. H. Grohe-
man, R. O. Murry, Bennie A. Zinn,
H. L. Heaton, C. G. White.
Catalogue Committee: H. L.
Heaton, C. W. Crawford, C. B.
Godbey.
College Regulations Committee:
David H. Morgan, W. L. Penber-
thy, H. L. Heaton.
Course Committee: The Execu
tive committee.
Employees Dinner Club Com
mittee: J. E. Adams, chairman;
Stanley P. Clark, Bob M. Galloway,
W. H. Delaplane, Mrs. E. E. Brush,
Capt. Paul M. Bennett, Mrs. D. D.
Burchard, Mrs. John Q. Hays, Mrs.
Charles Richardson, A. C. Magee,
Dale F. Leipper and Jack D.
Steele.
Honorary Degree Committee:
Ernest Langford, C. B. Godbey, T.
W. Leland, C. W. Crawford and J.
H. Milliff.
Latin-American Students Com
mittee: W. H. Delaplane, chair
man; J. J. Woolket, F. P. Jaggi,
V. A. Young, E. L. Harrington,
Bennie A. Zinn and J. G. Gay.
Exchange Store Advisory Board:
W. H. Holzmann, F. W. Jensen,
Ernest Langford, E. C. Klipple,
C. G. White and V. A. Young, and
six students.
Library Committee: R. A. Houze,
J. E. Adams, L. P. Gabbard, W.
M. Potts, Dale F. Leipper, S. R.
Wright, C. C. Doak, W. H. Dela
plane, I. W. Rupel, S. S. Morgan,
C. W. Crawford.
Executive Committee: David H.
Morgan, C. N. Shepardson, J. P.
Abbott, H. W. Barlow, I. B. Bough-
ton, W. L. Penberthy, Col. Joe.E.
Davis, Ide P. Trotter, J. R. Ber
trand, H. L. Heaton.
Graduate Council: Ide P. Trot
ter, R. O. Berry, 1963; J. D. Lind
say, 1954; J. B. Page, 1954; J. G.
Potter, 1955; C. B. 11 Godbey, 1955;
E. C. iflipple, 1953; A. W. Melloh,
1953; R. E. Patterson, 1953; H,
A. Smith, 1954; R. M. Wingren,
1954; Dale F. Leipper, 1955; G. M.
Watkins, 1955.
Memorial Student Center Board:
W. L. Penberthy, F. J. Benson,
1953; S. T. Keim, 1954; E: E.
Brush, 1955; C. B. Godbey, 1956.
Museum Committe: V. A.
Young, S. A. Lynch, A. A. Lenert,
C. Doak, A. F. DeWerth and W. B.
Davis.
Sanitary Board: Col. Joe E.
Davis, H. W. Barlow, J. E. Marsh,
(See APPOINTMENTS, Page 4)
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The Aggie-nizer ,
Standardization ,
Gets Upper Hand
In Corps Dorms t
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Co-Editor
A
Standardization is the word of the day in the cadet corps.
Orders have come down from the lofty heights of Ross
Hall for counselors to make every room in corps dormitories
look approximately the same. Reason for this order was giv
en as an attempt to improve a point which A&M’s corps was
graded down gn most during federal inspection last spring—
standardization.
In a military school you can expect such things as being
told where your bed is to be located, how it is to be made up,
etc. But among the things hinted in the standardization
plan are 1) a uniform watt light globe in every room.
2) If towels are to be on the top of dressers, everyone
in the corps will have a towel on top of his dresser. 3) Blan-* i
kets will either be on all beds or on no beds in the corps, etc.
The ^counselors are now meeting
with cadet officers to discuss cer
tain points which are included in
their proposed plan. The second
division has already made plans to
act as a guinea pig for the stan
dardized rooms. We are told that
model rooms have been set up in
that division for cadets to see, so
they may in turn arrange their own
rooms accordingly.
This business of standardiza-
Second, Division A Guinea Pig
tion is something that hit most
the campus almost over night. As
big a question as it appears to be,
it looks like considerable- more
planning could have gone in to it,
along with advice from cadets.
Also, why was it necessary to
include one division in particular
to see if it would work. If the
counselors believe in what they are
doing, the new plan should be
spread corps wide, or not at all.
Progress Rolls, Traffic Detours
The good old wheels of progress
are always rolling somewhere
around the A&M campus. Right
now the biggest thing in the way
of progress or addition that’s being
constructed on our campus is a new
indoor athletic plant.
But have you noticed that long
chain of concrete pipe running
from the site of this new building
along the campus streets on down
past the new Engineering Build
ing ? Construction crews are al
ready digging ditches and disrupt
ing traffic inj the Ag Engineering
Building vacinity.
In not too many weeks they wil#
be in the area near the new athletic
Iilant—right in the middle of foot
ball season. As bad as our cam
pus streets are now, its a shams
that they must be torn up evei?
more by new pipe lines. But pro*
gress is necessary. And mark ou?
word, progress it will be just
about the time of our game with
TCU or Rice to have streets block*
ed near Kyle Field.
Campus Safety Committee Appointed
A campus Accident Prevention
Committee has been appointed by
P r e s i d e n t M. T. Harrington.
This group is something new to our
campus, and a group with a long
list of objectives already waiting
for its action.
Take for example the street
which runs between the new area,
corps dorms and the golf course.
For a school that trains highway
and street engineers, it is certain
ly a discredit to our campus scene,
hinders safe driving, and is hard
on our cars.
Everyone is still wating for the
day when Spence Street will be im
proved. In fact A&M students
have been waiting for four years
that we know of . . . no telling how
long it was in its present condition
before we first came on to this
campus.
The safety committee will also
have a problem on its hands of do
ing something about the many dan
gerous corners on our campus.
Take for example the one near the
new area corps dorms where the
commandant’s and dean of the col
lege’s homes are located. No one
knows exactly who has the rigl^,'
of way ... so cars coming from
each direction just take it.
We are glad that a campus safe
ty program is at last getting unj*
derway. Maybe it can avert a few
accidents that are in the making.
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you might as well go
first class . . .
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