Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1952 Adequate Salaries a Must For Top Teaching Staffs TljOST COLLEGE COACHES will agree money available for scholarships has much to do with determining the success of an athletic team. Money is always a big fac tor in securing players and athletes to pro duce a winning squad. But money doesn’t speak only for half backs or pitchers when it comes to colleges getting men of high caliber to bring name and fame to their institution. Sometimes we forget a college is suppos ed to gain its reputation for high academic standards instead of victorious athletic teams. To maintain or even gain such standards, men who are outstanding in their particular fields must be employed by colleges to pro duce students whose ability has been fully developed in that field. What speaks more when you bring a man to teach at an institution than money. No matter what his love of a school may be and how devoted he may be to his work, many top professors are willing to give up their jobs for better offers from industry or rich- • Texas Electors Vote Dec. 15 F’LECTORS of Texas will cast their votes Dec. 15 for a Republican presidential can didate. It will be the second time in Texas political history for a Republican to receive electoral votes from this usually southern Democratic state. In 1928 Texans gave a majority vote to Herbert Hoover, the last Republican to hold the office of top executive of the United States. Always a point of controversy and a sub ject for attack by many voters, is the system of electing presidents through electors rath er than by the popular vote. Many people had predicted Eisenhower might loose this election not from the popular vote, but from the electoral vote. If you voted for either Eisenhower or Stevenson in the Nov. 4 election you didn’t actually vote for one of these candidates, you voted for presidential electors pledged to the candidates. If you remember from the last election when Truman received Texas’ electoral votes, the Lone Star State gave him 23 votes, one less vote than Eisenhower re ceived. The 1950 census indicated the pop ulation growth would give Texas an addition al elector. One is allowed for each congress man and senator. On election night the nation knew how the electoral vote would go, but as a re quirement of the constitution, votes will be sent to Washington and formally counted. And just to let the electors know their efforts are appreciated, they will receive the same salary as a member of the legislature for their one day’s work—$10. er schools. These men still have families to clothe and feed and with the high cost of living these days it is sometimes foolish for them to scorn an offer of higher wages. It was Hare who said, “There is a glare about wordly success which is very apt to dazzle men’s eyes.” There have been many reports of pro fessors leaving A&M during recent years to accept positions in industry and at other colleges. In a few cases departments have been drained of their top authorities in cer tain fields because a salary could not be paid to keep them here. To keep pace with other educational in stitutions A&M must pay their professors adequate salaries. The college must also be able to pay enough to bring in others to fill the vacancies which have come about from time to time. The University of Texas’ new president, Dr. Logan Wilson said recently you can not keep a good faculty without paying them sufficient salaries. What is the answer for A&M? The presi dent promised early this year a cost of liv ing pay increase was due employees in the near future. Will this raise be enough to keep a professional staff which is capable of giving adequate training to studeftts of this college? If not, what then? “Each year' the graduating class should be allowed to name the fac ulty ”—Knute Rockne. Sportsmanship Committee Grows OALLOTING is now underway for the 1952 Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Tro- Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Tro phy winner. The votes are gradually coming in and it may turn out to be a very close race to see who gets the big trophy now held by the University of Arkansas. Several conference schools have empha sized sportsmanship this year and as a result their efforts have paid off to a large degree. Only the executive secretary of the sports manship committe is allowed to open the ballots, but it is our guess the schools who went all out to build sportsmanship will reap a certain amount of results in final voting for the trophy. TCU had a very thorough campaign and through their student body president, Ren Kent, their relations with other southwest schools have been bettered considerably. At Baylor, a special Sportsmanship Week was observed before the Bears’ game with A&M. Other schools also devoted editorial page space and time of student leaders to sportsmanship programs on their campuses. Perhaps this little-known-about commit tee of the Southwest Conference is gradually beginning to grow in strength through the results obtained by its members. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman. Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspapei of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published fjy students foui times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examina- .ion and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. 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Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN. Ed Holder Harri Baker Peggy Maddox Co-Editors Sports Editor City Editor Women’s News Editor Today’s Issue Bob Hendry News Editor Chuck Neighbors Assistant News Editor Ed Holder , Sports News Editor ferry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors, Bob Selleck News Editors Gus Becker Associate Sports Editor Vernon Anderson, Bob Boriskie, William Buckley, Arnold Damon, Robert Domey, Allen Hays, Joe Hladek, Bill Foley, Ed Fries, Raymond Gossett, Carl Hale, Jon Kinslow, H. M. Krauretz, Jim Larkin, Steve Lilly, Kenneth Livingston, Clay McFarland, Dick Moore, Ro land Reynolds, John Moody, Bob Palmer, Bill Shepard, and Tommy Short.... Staff News Writers Jq» B. Mattel Editorial Writer Jerry Wizlg, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus Gerald Estes Sports News Writers Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry Amusements Jon Kinslow, Ed Fries City News Editors Willson Davis Circulation Manager Gene Ridell, Perry Shepard Advertising Representatives Bob Godfrey Photo Engraving Shop Manager Bob Selleck, Leon Boettcher..-. Photo-Engravers Keith Nickle, Roddy Peeples Staff Photographers Garder Collins File Clerk Thelton McCorcle .Staff Cartoonist FRANKLY SPEAKING What Can A&M Offer to Gain M.ore Students? By FRANK N. MANITZAS Battalion Co-Editor The Korean'War helped, but many colleges are still los ing enrollment as compared to the postwar boom they enjoyed during 1948. But an answer to “what can be done to increase enrollment” has been under educators’ noses every day. But they have failed to see it. Like cigarettes, shirts, various drinks, colleges need ad vertising- to attract more customers, or students. And like these everyday commodities, colleges will have to begin mak ing claims unherald by other institutions. The University of Houston can boast: “We have five women for every man.” The University of Texas: “We have the tower of orange lights and the only steer in the state to gain more than 200 pounds during the drought.” Southern Methodist University: “The Doaker slept here,” Baylor: “That good old Baylor Line, and Bridge Burners Inc.” And what can A&M say ? “The largest military school in the world.” A modest claim. “Producers of more officers than any other institu tion.” Also true. But what can A&M or any other college add to attract more students? Make an education worthwhile? Instruc tive ? Profitable ? Here’s How Colleges Can Improve LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sixth Grade Adopts ‘Aggies’ Editors, The Battalion: I thought you might be inter ested in this as it shows how far and wide “Aggie Spirit is known and admired. I have sent him tho material requested. Lt. Col. E. V. Adams Band Director Bandmaster, Texas A&M: My name is Mike Buonassi and 1 am a teacher in Washington Jr. Hi School (6th grade) in Bethle hem, Pa. We have a club in our school and the boys would like to pat tern their cheers for our basketball team after Texas A&M. We have heard of the Texas A&M band and cheering section as being the greatest in the coun try; therefore we would like to use some of your cheers which you use for football and basketball. Our colors are maroon and white and we have adopted the name of “Aggies”. We sure would appre ciate copies of your “great” cheers-. Kindly send a list of songs that the Big Aggie band (football) has made on records which you sell tc Instead of saying, “we have the best football players in the state,” or “our spirit is the greatest in the world,” or “extracurricular ac tivities .here are unlimited,” or “come here and party, party, par ty,” colleges should boast “the best qualified, trained; equipped in structors available with unlimited facilities for the student’s educa tion.” Many times, however, this is im practical because of the money paid to educators and the methods used in training new ones. Lack of encouragement to students consid ering the teaching profession also has proved harmful. Directors of educational institu tions appropriate thousands of dol lars for building additional seats to football stadiums, re-equipping athletic teams, advancing coaches’ salaries for jobs well-done, but who ever saw raises to instructors, reg ular hiring of technical experts or consulting educators to check the ability of an institution’s present situation ? Room for Other Activities This does not mean that athle tics or extracurricular- activities should be omitted from the stu dent’s education. The advertised importance placed on items other than the educational facilities of :a college tend to draw both the stu dent’s attention and that of in structor’s from the ideas of learn ing and teaching. So often, classroom education has progressed into a recital of facts, strict objectivity and fails to project a light of equal candle- power as emitted from the other college activities. Students enter institutions of higher learning for many reasons: an education, recreational activity —both social and athletic, boredom, love, hate, tradition, all adding up to a means of getting., ahead with the degree. But the colleges were established mainly for advance ment of knowledge. Now is the lime for a return to education. Promote it. Let stu dents know what each school can offer, and in this way make it easier for him to pick the insti tution which will give him the best instruction in his chosen field. En rollment will increase accordingly to the quality of the college. yyrnnnnnro o o o o oe OT565 5 6oooooooodoooooooooaoooo6o'o /ify 'tcT eHpisrms shop xf