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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1952
Elected Leaders
Not Necessarily Bosses
ELECTIONS ARE completed for all major
positions on the campus for this year. In
choosing leaders, we hope the voters thought
Committee- OK
IT’S HARD to determine the batting average
•■■of a baseball player after one time at the
plate, but the MSC Dance Committee has
set the pace for big things to come with one
experience.
They netted approximately $138 at their
All-College Dance Saturday after the Ken
tucky football game. Although matched with
the $30 loss at Cafe Rue Pinalle, Friday
night, they were still more than one hundred
dollars in the black.
With student participation at such a high
level, they now will be able to bring more and
better programs to the campus for weekend
entertainment.
Friday night. Rue Pinalle will feature for
eign students in the International Night pro
gram which commemorates United Nations
Day a week early.
These people are doing much to provide
entertainment on the A&M campus for those
“big” weekends when this small community
offers little or nothing for the Aggie and his
date.
We sometimes forget what a blessing we
have in the Memorial Student Center and its
committees. Most students are already tak
ing for granted these fine programs which
didn’t exist on the A&.M campus three years
ago.
May the MSC never strike out.
out their ballots before casting them.
In the same voice, we hope the elected
leaders feel their responsibility and the big
difference between a boss and a leader.
It would help these elected men to be
come headers and not merely bosses if they
would remember:
The boss drives his men—the leader
coaches them.
The boss depends on authority—the lead
er depends on good will.
The boss says “I”—the leader says “we.”
The boss inspires fear—the leader in
spires enthusiasm.
The boss assigns the slavery—the lead
er sets the pace.
The boss says, “get here on time”—the
leader beats them to it.
The boss fixes the blame for breakdowns
—the leader fixes the breakdown.
The boss makes work a drudgery—the
leader makes it interesting.
The boss knows how to do it—the leader
shows how.
The boss says “go”—the leader says “let’s
go.”
A&M needs leaders—bosses are every
where.
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As a very important source of strength
and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving it is to use it as spa?'-
ingly as possible.Washington
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He udio has a thousand friends has not a
friend to spare, and he who has an enemy,
ivill meet him everyivhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Libraries Must Remain Free
If Liberty
From The Christian Science Monitor:
Libraries are usually quiet places but they con
tain dynamite—the dynamite of ideas. Recently a
public controversy has exploded over the propriety
of the Boston Public Library’s carrying Marxist
writings and current pro-Communist literature on
its shelves.
This is a controversy that would have been al
most incomprehensible to the founders of the Amer-
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Time "s Wasting
From The Daily Athenaeum:
Believe it or not, every hour you spend in class
is woi-th $30 to you.
This figure comes from a recent issue of the
New York Times. It is based upon the extra income
that is earned by those having a college education.
It is estimated that the college graduate averages
between $5,000 and $6,000 annually as opposed to
approximately $3,000 earned by the non-college man
or woman. Assuming that the average student
spends about 2,500 hours in class during his four
years in college, and assuming that he can look
forward to 40 years of employment after his grad
uation, one arrives at the worth of one hour spent
in class—approximately $30.
Next time you decide to sleep through that eight
o’clock class, think it over carefully before reach
ing for the alarm clock. Few of us can afford sleep
at that price.
Is Wanted
ican Republic. They were riot afraid of ideas. They
were not even, afraid of vicious falsehoods. They had
an unshakeable faith in the individual’s right to
examine all sides of every question, to know all the
facts, to compare all the arguments. As Jefferson
put it in a classic statement, error or opinion might
be safely tolerated where reason was left free to
combat it.
But reason is not free where state censorship or
popular emotion, however benevolent or well in-
tentioned, seeks to dictate what people shall read.
Nothing would be more fatal to American democracy
than a failure of Americans to realize what com
munism teaches, how it appeals,where it is wrong.
Even the man in the street or the citizen in the
library needs to be free to convince himself on this
vital subject. It is this faith in the individual that
chiefly differentiates democracy from totalitarian
ism.
If an occasional warped or maladjusted
thinker is befuddled be reading Marx or the New
World Review, this is a small price to pay in com
parison with the universal atrophy of thinking that
would take place if a rigid censorship were im
posed. And censorship seldom stops where it starts.
The trustees of the library are to be commend
ed on their unequivocal stand for traditional Am
erican freedom. There has been much fine support
from the public and press, including such a well-
informed anti-Communist fighter as Hei'bert Phil-
brick. Totalitarian thinking can make small in
roads on a people so alertly committed to the fund
amentals of liberty.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UN, Charity, Disarmament
Kentuckians Continue
Praise of Ag Spirit
Editors, The Battalion: the demonstration of your student
I want to express to you the body after the game. The game
feeling of our football team, coach
es, the Kentucky Fans, and myself
on the fine sportsmanship that
was shown by your student body
and the officials of your school
when we played your football
team in College Station.
We were all impressed by the
friendliness of your students on
the campus when they greeted all
visitors with a “Howdy”. I under
stand that this is traditional and
it certainly makes all outsiders
feel -welcome.
I have never seen anything like
‘Cat Calls At
Town Hall’
Editors, The Battalion:
I’m not writing this just to get
it in The Battalion. I do hope that
you will consider its material for
an editorial or pass it on to the
senior class president.
Two friends, my wife and I, at
tended the Town Hall concert. The
program was very high in the en
tertainment field. We enjoyed it
all, except -we were rather em
barrassed for the sake of the en
tertainers, the respectable people
in the audience, and' for each oth
er because of the whistling, lewd
remarks, and cat calls made by
some of the audience.
It was rather hard to see any'
of ’the traditions passed down by
Lawrence Sullivan Ross on dis
play there. It was more like what
one would find in a burlesque
house.
Outside the theatre, the students
more than fulfill these traditions.
I’m proud of the Aggies here and
so is everyone else. Aggies are
even proud of themselves, be
cause of this.
Some may say that this is a
man’s school, and you should ex
pect things like that. If that’s true,
why don’t we make the lewd re
marks, cat calls, etc., in the broad
daylight ? It seems that it doesn’t
take much of a man to make an
obnoxious outcry in the secrecy of
the dark.
We owe it to our college to act
like the knightly gentlemen we
profess to be.
Kelsie O’ Roach ’49
was hard-fought and clean and
was a heart-breaking loss for
everyone from Texas A&M.
When your students carried both
teams off the field it was a won
derful display of good sportsman
ship.
One of our players remarked
after the game that the Aggie
students carrying' him seemed to
be as proud of him as they were
their own players.
In Coach Bryant’s television
program Sunday he said that he
had never seen such a display of
school spirit as your students
showed during and after the game.
All of us here at Kentucky mar
veled at your school spirit and ap
preciated your fine hospitality.
Bernie A. Shively
Director of Athletics
University of Kentucky
WhaFs
Tuesday
7:30 p. m.—Ag Eco Club, Room
3C, MSC.
Caldwell County Club, Room 2B,
MSC. .
Fish and Game Club, Ag. Engi
neering Bldg.
Architecture Society, New 4th
Year Lab., Organizational Meet
ing.
Austin Chapter of Houston Club,
3rd. floor, Goodwin
7:45 p. m.—Pre-Law Society, As
sembly Room, YMCA.
8 p. m.—IE Wives, Residence of
Mrs. Chris Groneman.
Married Couples
Dance at Meeting
Dancing was the highlight of the
MSC Married Couples meeting
held Saturday night in the MSC.
Fifty members were present.
A square dance to be held in
the Assembly Room was planned
for Satux-day, Nov. 22; said Ray
Davenpox-t, advisor to the group.
An instructor will be present at
the dance, he said.
During the business meeting,
members decided to raise dues to
$1 a semester for each couple to
pay -for refreshments.
‘Prayer Necessary Item
For World Peace’—Page
The destiny of the United
States depends on whether an
agreement can be x-eached with
Russia for both nations to dis-
axm at the same rate and at the
same time, said Di\ Kix-by Page,
Christian youth leader, at the A&M
Presbyterian Church Sunday.
“The Atomic Energy Commission
says we have all the atomic bombs
we need, enough to destroy all
the sources of production in Rus
sia,” said Page. He pointed out
that the centex-s of px-oduction also
happen to be the centers of pop
ulation and the next war will be
a total wax', one that will include
all the people in the nation.
Page explained that with the
methods of communications and
our warning stations the war ac
tion would be moi’e or less simul
taneous axxd both nations would
have their production centers de
stroyed at appx’oximately the same
time.
Cooking
Hill County A&M Club, YMCA
Bldg.
Camex’a Club, MSC Social x’oom.
Wednesday
7 p. in.—Brazos County TSCW
Exes, MSC.
7:15 p. m.—Hillel Cultural Meet
ing, Room 2A, MSC, A late Israeli
film will be shown.
Institute of Aeronautical Sci
ences, Room 3B, MSC, Movies
7:30 p. in.—Aggie Christian Fel
lowship, YMCA Cabinet Room.
“We need to pi’ay for our gov-
eimment officials, our enemies,
and pray that we might become
clear thinkers. Praying,” said
Page, “is one of the most powerful
forms of peace making.”
“We ought to live with a great,
concern about all people. Before
peace can be obtained we need to
do away with starvation, malnu-
txftion and feax\ The Point Four
pxogx-am is a vexy good way of
helping people to help themselves,”
said Page.
“We need to wox-k through world
organizations such as the United
Nations so we might learn how to
substitute the confex’ence table for
the battlefield.”
Korean War Named
Page px’esented the Korean War
as an example of what happens
when peace is attempted by ag
gression. “We are not fighting
war in Korea our government^ of
ficials tell us but are acting as a
police fox-ce. Call it whatever you
wish, the x-esults ax-e th.e same.
Trying to protect Kox-ea with
police action has brought the total
destruction of most of the laxge
towns and has left many dead and
the rest merely existing” said
Page.
“Prayer, a gi’eat concern for all
people, woxid „ organizations and
total disarmament of all nations
ax-e the foux-. necessary items need
ed for world peace. One is no
more important than the othex-,”
Page said.
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Columbus Day, October 12, 1952, falling on a Sunday,
and undersigned will observe as a holiday and not be
open for business —
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1952
. . . the same being a legal holiday.
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City National Bank
First State Bank & Trust Co.
College Station State Bank
Bryan Building and Loan Ass’n.
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