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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1952 Students Need to Think For Themselves—To Live rpHE GREAT philosopher John Dewey in- sisted that human beings learn to live by living. This has vitally affected education and its contribution to a society that recog nizes the worth and dignity of the individual. Here at A&M we follow Dewey in know ing “School is life.” Yet many students who are the life and the school know little of its operation. Many are content to move with the crowd, from class to class, day by day, weekend to weekend, never stopping and giving life or school a critical analysis. Realizing that extracurricular activity is one of the best ways of putting students in demanding situations, this college has built one of the most complete student activity programs in the world. But the student activity program requires life; it requires students. Whenever the programs are taken from the students or when the students are discouraged from act ing like individuals, the possibility of thought and personality development are killed, and school is no longer life. Students should roam their campus and seek the information they desire and not be guided constantly by the wise old heads who know best. Too often, students accept as final word advice and ideas from seemingly experienced counselors, thus squelching their chance for responsibility and decision. All activities on the campus should re volve around the students with the source of power supplied by them. One does not learn to live by sitting constantly at a desk read ing, nor does one learn to live by always watching photoplays. Inspection of facilities placed here for their education and enjoyment will help students gain a better understanding of life and learn to live. And without life, there can be no school or students. Swift Essay Contest Open To Ag Students The annual Swift Essay Contest is in full swing again, and all undergraduate stu dents enrolled in agriculture at state agricultural colleges are eligible. • One winning essay will be ehos- en from those entered at each col lege, and that contestant will re ceive expense money for a trip to Chicago so he may attend the International Livestock Exposition. The winner also will participate in a market study program out lined by Swift & Co. To accept the award, the winner must parti cipate in the entire market study of livestock and meats in Chicago from 9 a. m. Dec. 7 to 3 p. m. Dec. 10. To enter this contest, a student must prepare an essay on methods employed by meat packing busi nesses in marketing meats, poul try, eggs, butter, and cheese. Swift & Co. suggests the essay cover distribution of all these pro ducts as a group and recommends that the essay contain about 1500 words. The essays here will be judged by a person or group from A&M, and all of them must be turned in to Dr. W. G. Kammlade, Jr. be fore Nov. 1, 1952. FROM THE CITY DESK Vance, Pet E Voters 9 Choice: Dept. Head Tax or Donation? ^ ),nsBankStaff By HARRI BAKER Battalion City Editor College Station has an enviable juvenile delinquency record. For a city of some 4500 people, an almost complete lack of malicious mischief on the part of the young people is just short of amazing. Credit for this can be given to the Recreation Council. Similar cities which do not have a planned recreation program have had serious delinquency problems. In Corpus Christi, reports show the number of police calls were cut by 80 per cent after a community recreation program was started. The Recreation Council has ope^ted for nine years on voluntary funds, growing in scope all the time. They now have come to the point where they feel an assured source of money is necessary. Although organizations such as the Community Chest, the Chamber of Commerce, and the City Council have been generous with contributions, fees must be charged for certain activities. If for any reason donations from these sources were cut, the fees would have to be raised, which would force a lot of people to stop participating in the program. Amendment Would Give Support Harold Vance, head of the petroleum engineering depart ment at A&M, joined the staff of the Second National Bank of Houston on a part time basis Oct. 15, as head of the oil and gas division. The 53-yeai- old petroleum en gineer was born in Geneva, Indi ana; and has lived in Texas since 1926. , After he was graduated from the University of California in 1923, Vance spent 1% years as a geol ogist with United Oil Co. in Los Angeles and l 1 /^ years with the U. S. Bureau of Mines in Casper, Wyoming, before coming to Texas. He went through the early oil booms in both Borger and Wink, Texas, having joined the Marland Oil Co. in 1926 as division petrol eum engineei’. He moved to Mid land in 1929 as division superinten dent of Continental Oil Co., suc cessor to Marland Oil Co s WhaVs Cooking Wednesday 7:15 p. m.—Aggie Christian Fel lowship, YMCA Cabinet Room B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, Room 2 A, MSC, Colonel Frank Anderson will report on the Olym pics. El Paso Club, Front of Aca demic Bldg. Tau Beta Pi, C. E. Lecture Room. 7:30 p. m.—Architectural Wives Society, South Solarium, YMCA Junior Chapter of the AVMA Aux iliary, MSC Social Room. Johnson (Continued from Page 1) Johnson explained conniption in government should be cleaned up. “We’ve got it in all our govern ment—national, city, state — but some get more attention in cer tain seasons of the year.” Democrats Are Best Speaking on Gov. Stevenson, Johnson described the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate as being “astute, able, patriotic, and above mediocrity. Each week my admiration for Stevenson rises be cause I know he would rather be right than President. “He has an appreciation of our problems- He is not a big money candidate. When you’re putting down the doe you expect some thing in return. The Democratic Party is the party of all the peo ple. And naturally it is the best party,” Johnson said. Newman Club, Basement of St, Mary’s Chapel, Final plans for dance with Baylor Newman Club at Waco. Club De Las Americas, Room 3B, MSC, everybody interested in be ing a member is requested to as sist. 8p. m.—Dames Club, YMCA. Thursday 7:30 p. m.—Aggie Wives Bridge Club, MSC Assembly Room. Texarkana-Four States Club, 301, Goodwin, plans for party. Poi’t Arthur Club, 108 Academic Bldg., Refreshments will be serv ed Spanish Club, YMCA Cabinet Room, All intei'ested in any phase of Spanish are invited to attend. Gooding Has Lead Kiwanis Pick In ‘Players’ First >53 Officers The council has drawn up a pro posal amendment to the city char ter, which would put them on a tax-supported basis. Under pro visions of the amendment, a tax of not less than five cents nor more than ten cents per $100 of assessed property value would be levied. Considering the average value of college Station property, this would amount to $1.50-$3.00 a year per taxpayer. The total estimated revenue per year would be a min imum of $1,250 and a maximum of $2,500. This tax could not be raised some time in the future without another amendment to the char ter. If the amendment is approved, the functions of the Council would not be changed in any way. It would become the Recreation Board, a part of the city govern ment, with the power to operate the city’-s recreational facilities. Newspaper Clinic To Be Held Here The Fourth Annual Texas News paper Clinic will be held February 21, in the MSC according to Don ald D. Burchard, head of the jour nalism department. The clinic is conducted by A&M w/*!! G 1^ * A and is co-sponsored by the Texas »» UL tO Press Association as an aid to the Harry Gooding will have the lead part in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”, the Aggie Players first production of the year. The play will be given. Nov. 18- 19 in the MSC Ballroom. Gooding will play Joe Keller in this tragedy produced “in the round”, a production style unique on the A&M campus according to C. K. Esten, director. The supporting cast will be Iris Bullard in the role of Kate Keller; Jerry McGarland as Chris Keller; Virginia Lemmon as Ann Deever. Others in the cast are; Bill Witty as George Deever, Richard Black as Dr. Jim Bayliss, Roger Melton as Frank Lubey, and Jeanne Mc Millan, cast in the role of Lydia Lubey. B. B. Smith was selelcted to be stage manager. Eleanor Burchard is in charge of publicity. Nominations have been made for new officers of the College Station Kiwanis Club. The elec tion will be Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the regular meeting of the club. Nominations are as follows: President, Hershel Burgess; first vice president, J. B. Baty; second vice president, J. B. Hervey and J. G. McGuire. Four members of the board will be elected. The eight nominees are E. E. Ivy, R. O. Berry, R. G. Cherry, W. H. Fincher, K. A. Man ning, Ralph Rogers, W. T. Reidel, and M. C. Krenitsky. Made by a committee headed by A. C. Magee, nominations wei’e axxnounced at the meeting Tues day by Joe Sox'X’els, vice chairman of the committee. There wex-e no additioixal nomin- atioxxs frym the floor. Board Appointments By Mayor Hillel Meeting Oak Ridge Scientist To Hear Anderson Col. Fx-ank Anderson, tx-ack Aggie Pistol Team Elects Benson Doug Benson was elected presi- dexxt of the Aggie pistol Teaxn, Thursday xxight at the rifle and pistol x'ange. Following election of officex-s, the film “Pistol Bull’s Eye” was shown axxd thexx the team was served refreshments. Other officers elected were Fx'ank Noxwell, vice president; Gene Dayhoff, secretax-y; Bill Stratton, treasux’er; Rudy Vrana and Ray McClellan, co-repox’tex*s. small daily and weekly newspap ers thx*oughout the state. The program and theme of the clinic hwve not definitely been set. The group will meet in the As sembly Room of the MSC for the morning session. The afternoon session will consist of group and panel discusions of specific prob lems of the newspaper business. Burchax-d said that 135 news men attended the last clinic and he expects a larger crowd at tlxe Febx-uary meeting. Geox-ge W. Leddicotte of the Oak Ridge, Tenri., National Labo- ratoi'y, will describe the axialysis of “hot” materials by studying their radioactivity, to the A&M section of the Amex-ican Chemical Society, said Dr. L. R. Richardsoxx, chairman of the A&M section. Leddicotte will speak at 9 p, m. Wednesday in the Chemistry Leetux-e Room. coach, will be guest speaker at the Hillel cultux*al meeting at 7:15 p. m. Wednesday in Room 2A of the MSC. His subject will be the Olympic games as a phase of the U. N. program which is being natioxxally observed this week. He will also tell of the part the Israeli delega tion took in the Olyxnpics. Astronomy Slides To Be Shown Thursday J. T. Kexxt, assistant px’ofessor of mathematics, will show slides of various astx’Oxxomical subjects to his astronomy class Thursday night at 8. The gxoup will meet in the Physics Building lecture rooixx. Home Economics Staff Holds Conference Forty people attended the A&M Agx’icultuxal Extensioxx Sexwice home economics staff coxxfei’ence in the MSC Wednesday ixioiming. Twelve distxdct home demonstra tion agents and 13 womexx special ists were in the gx-oup. Problems of home economics wex’e discussed and woxk was plan- xxed for the next two month period. The Battalion Four Men Named To Chem Faculty Three assistant professox’s and one instx’uctor have been added to the staff of the chemistry de- pax’tmeixt, accox’ding to Dr. Fx*ed W. Jensen, head of the department. Professox’s are Dr. Thomas S. Bux'khalter who will teach fxesh- man chemistry; Dr. Robert D. Thompson, ex-naval x-adar techxxi- ciaxx; and Dr. Howard K. Zimmex'- maxx, Jx\, who taught at the Uni versity of Kentucky. The instructor is Robert B. Alex ander who taught at Baylor Uxxi- vexsity. The composition of the hoax'd would be the same as the px'esent 15-member council. Member’s of the boai’d would be appointed by the Mayor, with the approval of the city coxxxxcil. Members of the board would sex-ve without pay, as the members of the council do now. The hoax’d would have the power Petition Needs 150 Names To amend the city charter’, the authors of the amendment must present to the City Coxxncil a pe tition signed by 10 per cent of the qualified voters of the city. As College Station has about 1500 qualified voter’s, the council would need 150 signatux’es on the petition. After the petition is filed with the City Council a special electifhri must be called, if no regular elec tion is scheduled for xxot less than 60 nor mox’e than 120 days after the petition is submitted. All voter’s of the city will be given a chance to vote on the amendment in this electioix. If a majox-ity of the voters ax’e in favor of the amendment, it be comes a part of the city law. If the special election is sche duled, a copy of the proposed amexxdment will be sent to all registered voter’s of the city at least 30 days befox’e the election. A special citizens committee of the Recx’eation Council, headed by Dean Howard Barlow, is circulat ing the petition. to make pur-chases of $50 and uxx- der, but all purchases above that sum would have to be bought by the city manager-, using the regu lation competitive bidding method. The proposed amendment states that the boax-d is px-ohibited fx’om spending over the amount of mon ey set aside for its use. Since 1931, Vaxxce has l^eexx a consulting engineer and indepen dent opex-ator, fix-st in KWaabre, and since 1934, at College Btafion, in addition to his duties as head of the petroleum engineering de partment of A&M. Vance has held official positions in a number of technical associa tions and societies. He is the auth or of many technical paper’s. Air active member of Amex-ican Petr-oleum Institute, Amex-ican In- stitpte of Mining and Metallurgi cal Engixxeex’s, American Associa tion of Petroleum Geologists, Am- ei’icaxx Society of Mechanical En gineers and Texas Independent Px'oducers and Royalty Owners, Vance is the author of “Petroleumj Subsux-face Engineering” and co^ author*, with E. DeGolyex*, of “Bib liography of the Petr-oleum Indus try.” He is a gx-aduate of Houstou Law School, receiving an L. L. B. degx’ee in 1939. 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