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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1952
Welcome Pogol
Feel At Home Here
Exemption Test LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Date Set For A&M Discriminates Against
December 4 Civilians, Student Says
The first nation-wide Se
lective Service College Quali
fication Test this year will be
given locally on December 4
in the EE lecture room.
Applications for these tests
should be picked up immediately at
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Editors, The Battalion:
Here at A&M the college fath
ers long ago tried to insure a
democratic unprejudiced system of
woman-less college life that would
pills we have had to swallow arc unmarried non-regs eat at some
the following: * greasy North Gate cafe for $1 a
Unequal facilities—Post Grad- meal or at the MSC where we get
WfELCOME TO Aggieland, Pogo!
” Our campus may not be lined with over
hanging branches of century old trees and
our ivyless walls may not give the general
atmosphere of most campuses, but it’s home
to us.
And something else that's a part of our
campus life is a little fellow very dear to
your heart—Pogo!
He roared in a little unannounced about
a year ago and since then has steadily gained
following and respect in this community.
His little antics have cast a light on many
of our “crude” ways of doing things as hu
man beings, and his comical exclamations
are in themselves educational to our “uncul
tured” minds.
Our ways of doing things in America to
day deserve a certain amount of criticism,
and if the best way to reach out and tell
people is through the satirical life of animals
in the Okefenokee Swamps, then we’re for it.
Most comic strips of today are not writ
ten for children, although many old folks
won’t admit it. Certainly the true meaning
of many Pogo character witicisms can’t be
detected by children.
You have a comic strip that has done
// you would loin a man to your cause,
first convince him that you are his sincere
friend.—Lincoln.
Ags Put to Test;
Sports or Not?
A&M LAUNCHES its Southwest Confer-
• ence football season Saturday and again
the Aggies are put to the test.
They’re going to be tested in many ways
—on the football field, in the stadium, on
the campus before the game, and during
post-game activities.
Let’s start the conference season right
and not place a mark before our sportsman
ship record at the beginning.
“It requires skill and : labor to erect a
building, but any idle tramp can burn it
down,” are the words of J. M. Gibsom-The
same applies to what Aggies might do to
ward winning the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship Trophy, something we ranked
next to last in during the 1951-52 year.
Sportsmanship is rather hard to promote
in a school where you have 6,200 male stu
dents (males usually get the blame for un
sportsmanship practices). The power of sug
gestion is usually too much for many people
to survive and they are led into things they
regret later.
Let’s remind our friends about these
things at the football game and around the
campus before and after the game.
The Bible recommends that when some
thing is done to us, turn the other cheek
rather than retaliate. This isn’t so old fash
ioned, and it takes a man to turn the other
cheek. •
something many would have said impossible
—through your little animal characters has
come an appreciated, well-read piece of liter
ature that oftimes leaves us wondering just
a little, rather than laughing.
You won’t win any presidential elections,
Pogo, but perhaps your ability to show some
of the things wrong in our political, econo
mical, and personal life merits some sort of
recognition.
This paper takes no official political
stand, but we will say—“WE GO POGO!”
The larger the island of knoicledge the
longer the shore of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
Both Parties
Forget Youth
W/HEN WE think of many Texans views,
^ we think of the old Arabic proverb. It
said: “Life is composed of two parts; that
which is past—a dream; and that which is to
come—a wish.”
The past has happened.
Texas signed many papers with the na
tional government promising them all titles
to their off shore lands. We still hope to
keep them. Especially now that oil has been
found slicking up the oysters.
Texans, by tradition never forget the past
when money is involved. The Republicans and
the Democrats both know this. The big ques
tion in each of the other’s mind is: “Will
they remember about the GOP promising
aid .to return the tidelands or will they re
member about the time Texas last voted Re
publican and brought Hoover to the White
House ?”
One of the cases will have to be forgotten
when votes are cast.
Forgetting the past and taking that
which is to come—a wish.
Texans wish that everything would be
rosy-posy about the- tidelands; that seems to
be the only issue to decide the vote.
But both Ike and Adlai better remember
about a three-letter word (not oil) which
strikes mahy youngsters (over 21) at heart:
“war.”
We worry about tidelands, about civil
rights, about FEPC, about ourselves. What
about war? What has been said during the
last few weeks about war? Who has dared
mention anything about ending the Korean
War? Settling terms with the Russians
Gaining something for the blood already shed
in Korea?
Both candidates should remember that
National Guard divisions from both Texas
and Oklahoma were the first to go to the
bloody mess called the Korean front. Many
will vote Nov. 4.
But when Texans vote they’ll dream a
wish—whether they cast a Democrat or
Republican ballot. We are waiting for the
sunrise. ' .
the nearest draft board, since they inspire Aggies and promote good
must be postmarked not later than fellowship and high ideals among
midnight, Nov. 1, to be acceptable them.
for the December test.
Students whose academic ]*ear
will end in January 1953 are urged
to take the December test so they
will .have a t§st score in their
draft board files before the end of
the fall semester.
At the end of the students’ aca
demic year, his board reopens and
reconsiders his case to determine
whether he should be deferred as a
student.
To be eligible to apply for the
test, a person must intend to re
quest deferment as a student, be
satisfactoxily pursuing a full-time
course of instruction, and must
not previously have taken the test.
Applicants for the test should
mail application blanks to the Ed
ucational Testing Service, Prince
ton, N. J., test administrator,
along with a self-addressed enve
lope.
The graduate also was supposed
to come out an educated man. Dur
ing the first 70 yeaVs this plan ‘decoration,
succeeded for the most part.
As America has become more
militarized, A&M has become more
degenerated, Army style. The
corps is becoming synonymous
with the Army. “Changes” are be
ing made to the “bull’s” enjoyment
and the cadets’ disgruntlement.
But that is not what I have
chosen to speak my piece on. The
crux of this story is that while
A&M’s n o n-c o r p s population
grows, non-reg life is made more
disagreeable. Among some of the
uate Hall should have been torn
down with Foster Hall. It has
been so long since Mitchell was
fixed up that some of the older
cockroaches that inhabit this mag
nificent structure can’t remember
it. Deep cracks add to the interior
“food like - mother - used-to-make/’
Of course, we can eat cafeteria
style at Sbisa. If you don’t eat
meat, you ,can get by there for
only 25 per cent more than the
cadets pay.
The argument that there are not
enough facilities to feed everyone
Although the corps’ dormitories is false. When I was a freshman, ^
were the ones last painted, they I learned that we have two of
are to be painted first this time the largest mess halls in the world,
while non-reg dormitories suffer They could feed many more than
a 10 year quarantine from paint. the 6,000 students now enrolled.
In Law and Puryear we are en
joying three to a room while in
the corps the boys rough it with
two-one and none to a room. But
this is just a temporary unforseen
condition which happens every
The food situation is one of the
most undemocratic situations that
the military oligarchs have con
structed.
I have paid to go to college at
Texas A&M. There is nothing in
year. Let the freshmen live three the Morrill Act that says non-reg
Livestock Judges
In National Meet
The Livestock Judging Team
will meet national competition for
the first time Saturday.
The team left yesterday after
noon for the American Royal In
tercollegiate Livestock Judging
Contest at Kansas City, Missouri.
While enroute, the team plans to
visit the Greenville Hereford and
Angus Valley farms at Tulsa, Ok
lahoma.
As a junior team last year, at
Fort Worth, the team was sec
ond in all livestock classes, first
in quarter horses, and second in
sheep. ‘ •
An awards banquet will be giv
en at the Continental Hotel, Kan
sas City, honoring the contestants, that light.
Aggicrcx Cheers
Cadets’ Coach
Editors, The Battalion:
The purpose of this little note
is to tell you that we must not
ever be discouraged with the show
ing of our football team. The fact
that we have lost to Michigan by
a large score is beside the point.
In a week or so that will be for
gotten.
The important thing is that we
realize that in Coach Ray George
we have a man of whom we are
all proud. He is doing a wonderful
thing for the football team, and
for all the Texas Aggies.
The fact that we may lose any
or all future games is unimpor
tant. We must not ever be guil-.
ty of putting the slightest pres
sure on Coach George, or any of
his assistants. To do that is plac
ing the wrong emphasis on foot
ball. After all, it is only a game,
and should always be regarded in
to a room fox' a few days at the
first of the year. They thin out
rapidly.
College regulations prohibit un
derclassmen from living off the
campus.
Why don’t we do something
about it in the ordinary method?
The Student Senate you say—Al
though we have 1,700 non-corps
students or 28 per cent of the en
rollment, our Student Senate rep
resentation is, shall we say, mini
mal. Five to be exact—five out
of 40. If the U. S. government
students will be prejudiced against.
Roger H. Terk ’53
Tessie-ex Lauds
Last Week’s Tilt
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....Editors, The Battalion:
To the football team:
As some of you know, I iytn^lhc
Tessie graduate that went to Lans
ing last weekend to see the “Fight-
were set up Aggie-style instead in’ Aggie Team.” Boys, you didn’t
Sunday.
The seven members of the judg
ing team are Don Tabb, William
Thomas, Bobby Rankin, Cecil Da
vis, Jack Willingham, Billy Gene
Hill, and James Eller.
The important thing is that we
play fairly and honestly. Doing
that, the victories will take care
of themselves, and when that time
comes, we must be as humble in
victory as we are resolute in de
feat.
Yale B. Griffis ’30
Milk Group Closes
Two-Day Meeting
The Southwestern Milk Market
ing Conference closed a two-day
meeting Tuesday at A&M after
hearing top-flight authorities dis- for the Michigan State game Went
Squadron Nine
Wins Sign Award
The weekly sign contest award throughout the convention.
of Jefferson style, Nevada would
have one senator while New York
had one hundred and one.
There are many other similar
conditions like these to which non-
regs are chained. But the most dis
couraging condition of non-reg life
is the good situation.
While the corps boys eat all
they can hold for $40 a month,
Aggies Sing
In Baptist
Youth Choir
Four Aggies are among those
chosen to sing in the 80-voice
youth choir that will perform for
the Texas Baptist ^Student Con
vention in Dallas, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.
The choir, composed of mem-
bers gathered from 27 Texas col
leges, was originated by Wayne
Fhilpott, sriitc music chairman
for the Texas Baptist Student Un
ion. A Baylor University student,
Fhilpott will direct the choir
disappoint me; and from the re
marks made by dozens of Aggie-
exes at the game you didn’t dis
appoint them either.
I’ll admit the score had a lop
sided look about it. But the spec
tators at the game stayed till the
end of the fourth quarter because
they were seeing a terrific con
test not a slaughter. F
Several Michigan people have
told me that you fellas played »
good, clean, sportsman-like game.
During your short stay in Lan
sing you and the Aggie-exes real
ly demonstrated the Texas
“charm” and the Aggie spirit. It
was more than the cowboy boots,
Stetson hats, and “gig ’em Ag
gies.” It was your friendliness,
gnod manners and attitude toward
defeat.
Well fellas, I know you’re still
a great team . . . Beat TCU.
Fran McCasland
TSCW ’52
(Editor’s Note: “ E Pluribus
Gig ’em.”)
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
cuss the various phases of the in
dustry.
They were welcomed to A&M by
President M. T. Harrington. Ses
sions were held in the MSC.
Chairmen of the sessions were
B. E. Stallones of Houston, Mark
Abildgaard, Wichita, Kansas, G. G.
Gibson, director of the Extension
Service, A&M; B. S. Graham of
Oklahoma City, J. O. Woodman,
Arlington.
Dean C. N. Shepardson of
A&M’s School of Agriculture dis
cussed the “Outlook for Dairying
in the Southwest,” at the opening
session.
Other subjects discussed during
the meetings included Who’s Who
in the Southwest, recent develop
ments in marketing orders, public
relationship in association pro
grams, recruiting and training per
sonnel, extra curriculum of asso
ciation programs, marketing milk
and dairy products for membexs,
milk and marketing px’oblems in
Ax’kansas.
to Squadron 9 for fixst place, and
to Squadron 24 in the freshman
ax - ea for second place.
The two winning squadrons were
each made cash awax-ds, the first
prize $5 and the second pr-ize $2.50
were donted by Eugene Rush of
the Rush Insux-ance Agency who
sponsor's the weekly contest.
Country Club Site
Of AICE Barbeque
The Amei'ican Institute of Chem
ical Engineers will hold a barbe
cue at Bryan Country Club Fri
day, starting at 4 p. m., announc
ed Chuck Schriebex - , president.
Outdoor games and entertain
ment ai’e features of the barbecue,
he said. Undex’dassmen chemical
engineering majors are especially
invited.
Tickets may be obtained from
any club officer or from the chem
ical engineering office, said
Schrieber.
According to Fhilpott, the
choir’s membership was selected
from 150 students nominated by
student leader's on each campus.
Final selection was made on the
basis of the individual’s music
ability, spiritual life, and avail
ability.
Aggie members are Gene Har
vey, Senior Architecture major
Dallas; 'Bill Nix, senior M. E.
major from Stephenville; Earnest
McCollum, junior Religious Ed.
major from Madisonville; and
Tom Galloway, senior Animal Hus
bandry major from Beaumont.
Extension Service
To Meet Thursday
The Extension Service Club will
meet in the MSC at 3 p. m. Thurs
day.
G. G. Gibson, director of the
Texas Agriculture Extension Ser
vice, will speak on the subject,
“Extension
AH Profs Judge
In State Fairs
Four members of the animd
husbandry department have bcej^
active recently as livestock judget
and officials at shows in Texas and
neighboring states.
Professor F. I. Dahlbcrg will
sift hogs at the Texas State Fair
in Dallas Oct. 14-15. He recently
returned from the Ouachita Valley
Fair in Monroe, La., where he
judged Hereford and Angus cattle
Oct. 8.
Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the
department, judged cattle in the
Mississippi State Fair in Jackson
earlier this month.
Prof. Fred Hale spent the week
of Oct. 5 at the State Fair in
Dallas, serving as superintendent
of the swine show.
Dr. W. G. Kammlade Jr., acted
as official sheep judge in the State
4-H Club judging contest at the
fair and while in Dallas, partici
pated in the annual meeting of
Horizons.” The pro
gram will be under the direction the Texas Purebred Sheep Breed
of Mrs. E. M. Regenbrecht. ers Association
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