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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1952
Navy Plane Crashes;
Eleven Believed Dead
Toy Drive Started For Needy Kids
College Not Producing
American for ‘Golden Age
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS must get to
■■•know the post-explosion American and pro
duce what he wants to suit his new tastes and
ideas.
Writing about the “American Explosion”
in a recent scientific monthly, Fenton B.
Turck of New York explains how America
has suddenly exploded into a golden age—
fresh, vital, cultural, full of opportunities
and confidence.
The same idea may be formed about A&M
with ifs evergrowing facilities and continual
turnover of new personnel in supposedly bet
ter teachers and students.
Consider the A&M physical plant and
its administration as industry and business,
then place the students as the “post-explo
sion” American. But should this “industry
and business” produce to suit the students
new tastes and ideas?
Why not? Everything is susceptible to
change.
Mr. Turck points out:
“Americans spent more dollars to go to
classical music concerts than to baseball
games last year. Americans spent nearly
twice as many constant dollars on books as
10.years ago.
“More Americans (54 per cent) own
their own homes than pay rent. During 1940-
51, 141 million people moved from one place
to another getting new ideas, new jobs, new
standards of living.
“Americans bought more Bibles in 1941-
51 than in the previous 40 years. They are
spending more (in constant dollars) on news
papers, magazines, books, toys, flowers,
seeds, sports, equipment, and hobbies, the
atre, opera, and home decoration. We travel
far more in this country and abroad. Far
more Americans are getting higher educa
tions.”
During the last decade, A&M has improv
ed its physical plant by more than 50 per
cent. Its enrollment during these years set
new records and has remained at an all time
average high of more than 300 per cent. More
and better courses have been added. Better
entertainment and recreational facilities than
ever before are available. More students
have seen oil paintings, heard symphonic
music, heard intelligentsia speak.
But one thing has not changed—the basic
attitude. The college is held from progressing
faster by neglecting to change its attitudes
and mannerisms, thereby failing to change
the student’s outlook to its superiors.
Outlived and old student habits will not
change because they are not given the free
opportunity. Responsibility many times plac
ed on unqualified students brings negative
results to both parties and neither admits his
mistake permanently.
To produce an even-better and well-
rounded student than the one who is to be
graduated in January and June, and con
struct a better educational institution of
higher learning, mature minds must meet
their masters and face the facts—no ship
moves with its anchor in the water and mud.
We want to be fresh, vital, cultural, full
of opportunities and confidence Americans.
You are the industry.
SHELTON, Wash., Nov. 13—^)
A Navy plane With 11 men aboard
crashed in flames near here last
night. State Patrolmen said it
was unlikely there were any sur
vivors.
The Navy said the plane was a
four-engined Privateer from its
Sand Point Naval Air Station at
Seattle.
The nlane, groping through
rainy skies, plunged into a hillside
on the Olympic Peninsu’a some 15
miles northwest of here about 7:30
p.m. (9:30 p.m. CST).
Don Ragan, a dairy farmer, said
he heard the plane “coming by
low.”
Very Low
“I looked out the barn door,”
Ragan said, “and could see its
wing lights, it was so low.
“There was a big flash when
she hit, therl the gas tanks ex
ploded. It must have been at least
a mile and one-half away, but it
sounded like it wasn’t even 100
feet away.”
Engineers Council
Elects Officers
Election of officers and the ap
pointment of. committees highlight
ed the first meeting of the year
of the Student Engineers Council.
The newly elected officers are
E. J. Sandoval, president, Darrow
Hooper, vice-president, Virgil
Dean, treasurer, afid John Tracy,
secretary.
The Council is composed of rep
resentatives from member and as
sociate member technical societies
in the School of Engineering. Each
society is represented by three
members on the Council.
The purpose of the organization
is to create a council of junior
and senior engineering students
with representatives from all en
gineering departments.
The Student Engineers Council
was formed in April, 1939 by Dr.
Gibb Gilchrist, chancellor of the
Texas A&M System, then Dean of
the School of Engineering.
“1 don’t see how anyone could
have lived through that. It hit
head on.”
Ragan said the plane fell into
a heavily timbered area and start
ed a fire that flared for an hour.
From Sand Point
Capt. William Chambliss, 13th
Naval District public information
officer, said in Seattle the plane
was attached to Patrol Squadron
772 at Sand Point.
A Coast Quard plane left for
the crash scene from Port Angeles,
Wash., about 50 miles north.
Ground parties started into the
rugged country, some using a rail
road speeder on a spur track run
ning into the Olympic Mountains.
The Navy reported the plane
took off from Sand Point at 6:11
p.m. and at about 6:23 p.m. it
was heard calling the Shelton CAA
radio station. The plane was not
heard from again.
At 5:40 p.m. a Western Air
lines pilot reported seeing an ex
plosion in the vicinity of Lake
West, northwest of Shelton.
A Christmas toy drive for un
derprivileged children of College
Station is under way, according to
J. B. Hervey, chairman of the
drive committee.
Members of the Kiwanis Club,
sponsor of the drive, are collect
ing broken toys that can be re-
Ag Majors Named
For National Contest
Four agronomy majors will be
selected to represent A&M at the
National Crops Judging Contest at
Kansas City and the International
Crops Judging Contest at Chicago
from Nov. 22-Dec. 3.
paired, and giving them to under
privileged children in this area for -
Christmas, Hervey said. Other,
members of the committee are Les ’
Richardson, Bardin Nelson, and J.
B. Longley.
“Anyone wishing to contribute'
toys to the drive may do so by
calling either me or Les Richard
son. A member of the Kiwanis
Club will pick the toys up Friday
afternoon,” Hervey said.
There is a need for volunteers
to help repair the toys, Hervey .
said. The toys will be taken to
Consolidated High School where
workers will repair them Hervey
explained.
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By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
“Though reason is progressive,
instinct is stationary. Five thous
and years have added no improve
ment to the hive of the bee, or
the house of the beaver.”—Colton.
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pressed in a friendly or sincere
atmosphere. When speaking, the
speaker looks neither to me nor in
my direction. He might as well
say ‘ugauga boo ugu boo boa ugu.”
It would have the same effect. The
speaker would be making a noise.”
The professor continued but re
mained calm in his speech.
person should. You might say they
are regimentally dressed. But
there, you have to draw the line.”
We tried to interrupt, but life'
continued. “Your cadet and regu
lar officers, at times, are incap
able. This may be because they are
poorly trained by the staff, but
they certainly do not carry through
HE WERE talking with a
new professor the other
day. He was amazed by A&M, sophomore with a fearless attitude,
its students, its policies, its darin £ anyone not to return his
The freshmen give their sharp with the preliminaries required of
‘howdy’ in a shade of fear. The a militarist: the following and
attitudes,
is past. He
ture.
giving of orders.
“The school treats the cadet of-
its adminVstratiorq * greeting ' while wanting himseif to ficers like babies, and in return,
-p,-. he heard. The junior checks to see they use immature methods when
pondered Its tu- w h om he speaks, as if he
speaks, as n ne ex
pects someone to address hint first,
“I cannot quite understand whil ® the senior has the typical
A&M,” he said. “When I first f °' wo Q
arrived here,.I thought I was
on the friendliest campus in
the world. Immediately per
sons who I had never met
were saying ‘howdy’ and
‘hello’, and I thought they
were sincere.
“Today, I’m the same person,
walking across the same campus,
hearing the same ‘hellos’ and
‘howdys’ but I am no longer im-
‘don’t give a dam’ attitude.
“This also is shown in the dress
of this prep school.”
We interrupted the professor at
this point to explain A&M is not
a prep school (an introductory in
stitution, preparing one for a
school of higher learning) but a
military college.
“Military college?” The profes
sor laughed. “I heard that when I
first came here, but the students
neither act nor react as a military
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dealing with underclassmen. Very
few college students continue to
beat their underclassmen. Of
course, some fraternities do, but
this period never lasts over a few
weeks. After that time persons are
accepted as equals.”
Again we tried to explain that
at A&M “Once an Aggie, always
an Aggie.” We are, in a sense,
a great fraternity and always are
working for the betterment of the
school.
He laughed. “What kind of fra
ternity are you,” he said “work
ing for the betterment of the col
lege, when you don’t even follow
college regulations or enforce the
laws given to you as cadet offi
cers ? Can you truthfully say you
are bettering anyone, the school
or the person, when you break a
state law in using a board?”
i We tried again to explain to
this out-of-stater that tradition
called for “making men at A&M,
taking the cockiness out - of the
freshmen and instilling in them a
spirit unobtainable any other way.”
Again he laughed, only harder.
“What freshman or sophomore act
ually enjoys this treatment ? Does,
he actually feel you are doing him
a favor ? W’hy doesn’t the cadet of
ficer understand that his actions,
his leadership will influence this
undei’classmen’s future life? That
strong arm-power merely causes
the freshman or sophomore to feel
the officer is incapable to handle
a situation with clear thought and
understanding.”
We were silent. He continued.
“A few years ago, a bunch of
hot-spurred officers were talked
into a revolt by a few groups,
both student and administrative,
which brought nothing but dis
grace to their school and them
selves as future officers of their
country and citizens of their com
munity and state. It seems to me,
the underclassmen should form a
grievance committee of their own,
state their actions to the way they
are being run in the corps, con
trary to supposed traditions, and
certainly against college regula
tions.
“I’ve heard only the best things
of A&M'. People like* to forget
the bad ones. But the students here
could certainly help make it what
they many times say to be: ‘the
largest military school in the world
to bring down to the lowest pos
sible figure the cost of an educa
tion which at the same time be
thorough, liberal and practical.”
He left.
We thought things over and
did a little reading. We found what
Gen. Omar Bradley said to a grad
uating class not too long ago:
“At Texas A&M there has been
an almost unlimited opportunity
for you in science, in agriculture
and veterinary medicine, in- engin
eering and arts. In true Texas tra
dition, you have been provided
with outstanding training in mili
tary science, in aeronautical sci
ence and in physical education. The
men of Texas A&M can stand up
to any men in the world and com
pare favorablly their education and
training for leadership—leadership
in the pursuits of peace, and if it
comes to war, leadership in bat
tle.”
We wonder what he would think
now if he knew the whole story.
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