Battalion Editorials LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952 Athlete Recruiting Wanted A New Life Is Waiting; But Don’t Wait for It ‘f>E NOT deceived; God is not mocked: for IS whatsoever a' man soweth, that shall he also reap.” This is the time we should -be sowing our minds with the knowledge for prosper- Extra Fat For Lean Cattle TPODAY’S housewife has added many con- veniences to her home, and many new business are prospering because of these additions. But some people are getting hurt in this new quest for products which milady suddenly can’t get along without. Take for example the soap flake makers. Wall Street Journal reports a one-third de crease in tallow sales by rendering firms. The synthetic detergents seem to have the spotlight now, and the availability of fat for soap-making is at an all time high. Maybe someone at this great agricultural institution can find a way of using this over stock of fat in the diet of cattle. The recent drought has been producing many lean steers for market. • Christmas Spirit For Business CANTA CLAUS is cranking up his factory ^in the North Pole, and before too many days go by the Christmas spirit will again be in the air. But what puts it there ? It won’t be the holly leaf or the Christ mas carols—not in late November. The big generator for the yule spirit will come from that man called Mr. Business. His advertisements for girls will crowd news-1 papers and magazines in the next few days.j What greater commercial asset is there! than Christmas? Yes Christmas, a day ofj giving and getting. ing in the days ahead. College is not a stop over period while waiting for maturity. The persons who waits for maturiay and develop ment of#his own inner abilities continues to wait. For many seniors the last few months have been a great period of awakening, they have found there is something else in this life besides dates, movies, football games, and quizzes. It’s a grim old world ahead, and it waits for no one. It helps those who help themselves, and no one gets anywhere by depending on his friend for everything. Now is the time to get ready for those cold, bitter days ahead. The groundwork is to be laid now, while there is opportunity staring you in the face. For those who take advantage and seriously seek development of their entire body, they will reap the benefits offered in the future. The world is yours. Will you make it one of short thinking, quick tempered, unambi tious individuals, or will you contribute your part to make it a place for well round ed, intelligent people who laid the ground work when the opportunity was there. We start over in life many times. When the doors of grade school opened we were equal to everyone the first day. Junior high followed and again we were the same. In high school we started over again as a freshman and worked to the top. Still again we found a new equality the first day in college when every freshman entered school the first time. We have made mistakes in college, we have done things that reflect against us when compared to other students. The real test is yet to come. You start over only once more, and that is when you are a freshman at life. There is no starting over once you mix yourself with society. What then? People hold your mistakes fagainst you the rest of your life; there’s no fnew beginning. Plan now, so you will make few mistakes. jPour the foundation and take care, much de pends on what you do today. Editors, The Battalion: It is fortunate that Aggie foot ball fans are endowed with the spirited ‘twelfth man’ and the magnificent Aggie marching band. It helps to offset the sting of see ing their team beaten so often. But even the fine performance by Reveille, during last Saturday’s fiasco, couldn’t make up for the mortification suffered by Aggie supporters. And it doesn’t take much imagination to picture how bad the players must have felt about it. A scraggly bunch of Owls, that caane hex - e minus most of their tail feathers, clobbered the Aggies, this, the eighth straight time. No doubt there are noble souls whp can still turn the other cheek and console themselves with the thought that their fighting Texas Aggies went down fighting again. Well, it was late in the fourth . quarter, during last Saturday’s af fair that I got sick and tired of turning the other cheeK. I got up and left the dreary proceedings. Since then, I have pondered the question of what can be done to lift the Aggies from the depths of football dispair. It is common policy, as a first step toward foot ball reconstruction, to cxmcify the coaches. Too maixy good coaches ax'e beixxg used as whipping boys in ox'der to appease inconsiderate fans and spox’ts wi'itex's. In some cases it is used as a covex’-up to hide the genuine weaknesses exist ing withixx a college’s athletic sys tem. In my opinion, Mi'. Geoi'ge & Co. ai’e not only competent but equal to any employed in Texas. The wolves have very little i-eason to knock at their door. They have made the most of the matei’ial giv en them and that’s all anyone could ask fox-. Thex-e’s only one mici'obe sized criticism that I can havte taught the bandmaster or somebody to kick convei'sions. The playex's I'ate aces in my book. Maybe some of them don’t produce the results desii'ed but when they’re on the field they give the game everything they got. If guts and spix-it were measures of ability the Aggies would be Na tional Champs. Some of the boys are good enough for any All-Am erican team. Mi\ Ellis, Mi\ Graves, and Mr. Little ai'e definitely of such calibex'. The cause of our delimma can not be ti'aced to the coaching staff. I think all that they need is moi'e matex'ial to work with. Any team that is built ai’ound one man is as unstable as a house built on quicksand. For instance, this year Mi'. George had to go with Mi'. Graves all the way because he didn’t have another top quai’ter- back to alternate at the “T”. He was fox'ced to fashion his entii'e offense ai’ound one clever right ann. He must have laid awake many a night worrying about Mi\ G.’s continuing health. Then, one Satui'day afternoon the thing our good coach most di’eaded, happen ed. An SMU man smashed into one of Mx*. Graves slippex-y hips and Mi\ George’s house suddenly sank into the quicksand. Today, Mi\ George’s hair is a little gi-ayer and he’s pi'obably still finding it hai'd to sleep woi'- rying about whether or not Mr. Graves will be patched up enough to go against the tea-sippei*s on turkey day. If he can’t play, then not even Goldilocks nor the thi*ee beax-s can pull it out of the fire for Mi\ George. At this writing thei'e axe only 36 moi'e shopping days until Chi'istmas. When Mx - . Geoi'ge wi'ites to Santa, in oi'der to get his stocking filled, you can bet your last dollar that he’ll ask for two smari quartex'backs—just in case one hx-eaks down. Fui-thermore, Mr. George wants lots of beefy guards; rangy, speedy ends and about foui’ good tackles to x'eplace Mr. Little. He wants a forwai'd wall that thrives on owls, fx'ogs, bear meat, hofsenieat, poi'k chops and tea-sippei's!“ The Aggie alumnus could play Santa Claus to Mr. Geoi'ge. They are the key to our football dilem ma. It is my opinion that they should immediately embai'k on a nation wide campaign to sell young men on the idea of being an Aggie. Our alumnus is scattei'ed to the four comei's of the counti'y and ai'e certainly just as much in con tact with the nation’s high schools as any other alumnus. I’m not pi'oposing that they “pay” the boys to attend A&M. This is a px-actice canned on by too many schools in oi'der to pi-oduce a “winner” and one that I detest. I believe that A&M has enough fine qualities to sell itself and all the allumnus has to do is let the kids know about it. I have come to the hai'd i'ock conclusion that a football team is only as powerful as its alumnus. Howevei', if it means subsidizing a bunch of young men to evolve a powex'house team then forget that I ever wi'ote this lettei'. Football, as a game, is an im portant pai't of American life. It’s a spoi't that pi'ovides a lot of fun for both fans and player's and is also a source of px-estige. It is un- fox-tunate that some schools look upon it as primarily a soui'ce of I'evenue. It is foi'tunate for the game that these shylocks are in the minointy. But I don’t believe it is wrong to impi'ove the status of a schools football team if your able. Any fair-minded Aggie does n’t expect to win every game nor the conference title evexy yeax\ That situation would not only be monotonous but bad for the con ference as well. Actually it would be impossible. But I do think that all Aggies would be a lot happier and take moi'e pi'ide in his school if those football freaks from Rice didn’t beat us for the ninth sti'aight time next year or the tenth sti'aight time the year after. It may be contradictory to a few of the things that I have just said, but just imagine for an instant if you will, the ecstacy that would enrapture all Aggies everywhere if we could beat the tea-sippers eight times in a i'ow—or for that mat ter, for eteraity!! Thei'e isn’t a college in Texas with a better faculty or student body than A&M. It’s a big school ** and presides as the kingpin of the vast A&M system. Moi'eover, it’s a school that has a lot of class. There’s a certain distinction of be ing an Aggie that even a tea-sip- per would like to attain. And don’t ever believe that the Aggie“how- dy” isn’t a starting rarity in this tx'oubled world. A&M deseiwes football teams that measure up to its other traditions and standax-ds —teams that should be consistently the best in Texas and the U. S.l* As a pairing shot I must reiter ate that the alumnus not only can but should snap into Opei’ation Football without further delay.,. The results of this campaign could pi'oduce an Aggie powex’house by ’54. And next turkey day could be the prelude to a much hoped for golden ei’a of A&M football. Mi'. Graves and Co. not only can but will beat the hell out ol Texas in ’52 ! ! ! ! Ray C. Mickelson ’55 LOUANNS DALLAS First American Life Insurance Co. in Texas - - - - At Houston Bryan - College Agency MATINEE DANCE REPRESENTATIVES EVERY SUNDAY L. E. (Skeeter) Winder, ’50 . 2:00 P..M. to 6:00 P. M. A. H. “Heeter” Winder, ’52 Greenville Ave. & Lovers Lane 308 VARISCO BLDG. PHONE 3-3700 t, P O G O by Walt Kelly Shorthorns Well Stocked (Continued from Page 1) Watson, and quai'tei'back; Ronald Robbins. On defense the Fish will pi'ob ably use Paul Whitlock and “Mac” Mahon at ends. Cliff Watson and Flags Wave (Continued from Page 1) seemed as is evexy outfit in the coi'ps was over at one time or the other trying to put up their flag.” Othei' outfit bannei’s which have seen “through the twilight’s last gleaming” are A Quax-tennastei', A Arnxox'ed, and A Infantry. The only other flag up at the pi'esent besides Squadron 3’s is the one sti'eaming from the antenna on top of the Electrical Engineei’ing Building. Asked what his future plans were along the flag-raising line, Clax-k x'eplied, “I believe I’ll x-e- tire. I’m going to have to rest the remainder of the semester after climbing Mt. Watertower. This whole business is dangerous.” Foster Teague at tackles, Joe Can non at the middle guai’d slot, line backers, Tommy Strait, ^Connell, Ed Canoy, and Huddleston, with the deep men being Gill Petty and Jim Walmsley. The Shorthorns will use Chai'les Brewer at quai'tei'back, Tooty Cai’~ roll and Joe Youngblood, at half back and either Delano Womack or Bill Long at fullback. Ends will be Bob Tuckei' and Don Jones, with Hei'bex’t Gx-ay at tackle and John ny Tatum at center expected to star in the line. If thei'e is I’ain before or dur ing the game, the Shorthorns may be slowed down as Cai’roll and Youngblood are very fast boys and have made the Yearlings move on outside plays this year. How ever, rain would probably hinder the Aggie attack which is mostly through the air lanes via Robbins’ passes. Both Use Split-T Both elevens use a similar split- T offense like their i-espective var sities. Huddleston will be the man the Shorthoi'ns will be trying to stop. Huddleston along with Robbins have been the spai'kplugs of the Fish attack all yeai\ The Aggie defense will have to watch Can-oil and Youngblood, while the secondary will be trying to stop a Brewer to Jones aei'ial combination that has clicked very well all season. Special Train Set A crowd of 10,000 fans ai'e ex pected for the clash, besides the Aggie Cadet Corps. A special train will leave Austin at 8:30 Satui'day to bi'ing Austin fans to the contest. Tickets for the game ai'e being sold in many stores in Bryan and College Station, and will be sold at the enti’ance to Kyle Field Sat- ui’day afternoon. On the basis of past pei'fonn- ance, the Shorthorns will be favoi'- ed, but the Aggie Fish have the matex’ial to come up with a victoxy. , US PERTY AS A fOUCe GALS l€> 114 OFFICIAL-,I'P LIKE TO i P>AA f GJFJ?. r HEAJ? HOW THIS CULPRIT SNSA