Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1952
Supreme Court’s Decision
Watched by U. S*, World
npHE SOUTH’S reaction *to the Supreme
Court decision concerning racial discrim
ination in public schools is keeping many
persons in 17 states on their toes. The rest
of the United States and the world is v/atch-
ing too.
The answers from the high court, which
may come next spring, will affect not only
the five areas whose cases are being argued
—South Carolina, Kansas, Delaware, the
District of Columbia, Virginia—but other
states which require completely or partly
separate school systems for white and Negro
children and four more where segragation
is permitted.
Virginia’s Attorney General, J. Lindsay
Almond, believes a decision outlawing sep
arate schools for the two races would “de
stroy the public school system in Virginia as
•
‘Big Three’ Won’t
Accomplish Much
1Y[0 ONE HAS heard meetings about the
“Big Four,” or anyother “Big” number, for
quite sometime. But a meeting of a “Big
Three” may become a reality in the near
future.
The “Big Three’ would be President Tru
man, President-elect Eisenhower, Gen Mac-
Arthur, retired.
Problem to discuss: The Korean War.
Solutions to be offered: Unknown.
Expected outcome: Newspaper headlines.
Pictures of three smiling faces.
Development of meeting: Scheduling of
another in the near future.
Hope of American public: Peace.
Collective results: Utter frustration.
we know it today.” Would that be bad ?
Why should there be any discrimination
in schools?
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., one of the
pioneer supporters of President-elect Eisen
hower, believes America must end discrim
ination and human indignities at home before
it can lead the world to lasting peace. Lodge
told leaders of Protestant churches recently
at Denver, Colo.; “Work for an America that
is strong militarily, economically and politi
cally; support the United Nations; work to
make it stronger; advance tolerance and hu
man rights, encourage private American ac
tivity abroad and hold out to all of suffering
humanity the hope of liberty.
“Our discriminations are not only in con
flict with Christian ideals, but they are a
real danger, to the success of our foreign
policy.”
At the heart of the argument before the
highest judicial body is the 14th Amendment,
which says all citizens must be treated equal
ly. In 1869, the court gave its interpretation
of the law saying separate treatment for
Negroes was not unconstitutional so long as
they received equal treatment.
Here in Texas, and many other states,
the “separate but equal” doctrine has tried
to exist and suffice. No court in the 56 years
since has overturned that principle. Two
years ago, the court ruled that Texas and
Oklahoma must let Negroes into their grad
uate schools but again only on the grounds
that Negro schools were not equal to those
for whites.
Jim Crow laws on interstate buses and
trains have been knocked out by the courts.
What they will say in the coming months,
no one can say. But to expect world peace
and fair treatment of nations between each
other, it is logical to assume that charity
must begin at home.
What’s Cooking
Solar Prominences
Movie Set Monday
The film on “Solar Prominen
ces” will be shown at 7:30 p. m.
Monday in lecture room 32 of the
old wing of the Physics building.
The film is a remarkable
achievements in photography of
the gigantic eruptions occuring at
the surface of the sun, said Prof.
J. T. Kent. The running commen
tary in the film will be supple
mented by further remarks by
Prof. Kent who will lecture brief
ly on the sun and show slides of
his on sun spots and solar prom
inences.
Couch Attends North
Carolina Conference
Dr. J. R. Couch spoke Thursday
at the North Carolina Nutrition
conference, held in Raleigh.
The staff member of the De
partment of Biochemistry and Nu
trition, talked on “Application of
Recent Findings to Poultry Feed
ing.”
He will talk on the “Use of
Grains and Their By-Products in
Animal Feeding,” at the Friday
session of Ijjie conference.
Friday
7 p. m.—Petroleum Research Ban
quet, Ballroom, MSC.
7:15 p. m.—Hillel Foundation,
YMCA.
7:30 p. m.—The Birthday of the
Prophet Mohammed, Assembly
Room, MSC.
Czech Club, Room 2A, MSC.
Colloquin, Room 2B, MSC.
8:30 p. m.—Plant Science Collo-
quim, Room 2D, MSC, Soil water-
plant growth relationships will be
discussed.
Monday
7:15 p. m.—“Y” Association,
YMCA Cabinet Room, Important
business meeting.
Six County Club, 104 Academic
Bldg., Final plans for Christmas.
Port Arthur Club, 126 Academic
Bldg., Plans to be completed for
Christmas Dance at the Country
Club.
Czech Club, Rooms 2A & 2B,
MSC, Christmas Social, Refresh
ments will be served.
7:30 p. m.—Rocky Mountain States
Organizational Meeting, YMCA
Reading Room, All students from
or wanting transportation to area
are urged to attend.
Caldwell County Club, Room
303, Goodwin Hall.
Permian Basin Club, YMCA
Lounge, Final plans for annual
Christmas Dance. . ,
BSU will meet in the Baptist
Student Center. Mrs. Milling will
give a chalk talk.
Tumbling to Spark
AF-GF Halftime
The halftime activities for the
Army-Air Force Twelfth Man
Bowl football game on Dec. 18 will
feature crowd-pleasing acts pre
sented by the Aggie tumbling
team.
Clowns Bud Mathews and Con
rad Webb will be on hand to keep
the fans gasping and guffawing
at their zany antics. To see them
stagger and fall all over and
through the trampoline springs is
worth the price of admission.
For serious and precision per
formances, on the trampoline, par
allel bars, and high bars, Caii
Johnson, Bud Wilson, Darrel Rob
erts, Clyde Mahler, Nat Flores,
and Bob Doby will be the senior
performers, while the lone junior
member is Jerry Marshall.
Wilson Noble and Bob Sullins
are the soph tumblers.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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IH Members Talk
To Ag Engineers
The intricacies of the power en
gines were explained by members
of the International Harvester
Company at the meeting of the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers in the Agriculture En
gineering building last week.
FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors The Society meets the second
Ed Holder Sports Editor and fourth Tuesdays of each
Hard Baker - City Editor month and all those who are inter-
Ffiggy Maddox Women’s News Editor es ted are invited to attend. The
Today’s Issue
Bob Selleck News Editor
Bob Hendry News Editor
Ed Holder..... Sports News Editor
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors,.
Bob Selleck....... News Editors
Bus 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, John Kinslow, H. M. Krauretz, Jim Larkin, Steve Lilly,
Kenneth Livingston, Clay McFarland. Dick Moore, Roland Reynolds.
John Moody, Bob Palmer, Bill Shepard, and Tommy Short ....Staff News Writers
Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus, Gerald Estes Sports News Writers
Johh Kinslow. Ed Fries City News Editors
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry Amusements
Willson Davis.... Circulation Manager
Gene Eidell, Perry Shepard ...Advertising Representatives
Bob Godfry Photo Engraving Shop Manager
next scheduled meeting will be
held on Jan. 13.
Petroleum Meeting
Completes Session
The Fifth Oil Recovery Con
ference at A&M will end today.
Sessions will be held in the MSC.
Theme of the conference will be
the use of general purpose punch
ed card computing systems in sol
ving petroleum engineering prob
lems, It is sponsored by the Texas
Petroleum Research Committee.
Electronics FRANKLY SPEAKING
Piannedliere Content ofTexthooks, Novels
.A demonstration of electronic
instruments by members of the
Earl Lipscombe Associates of Dal
las will be conducted Dec. 15-16 in
Rooms 2C and D of the MSC,
said Norman Rode, electrical en
gineering department.
Cathode ray oscilloscopes, os
cillators, vacuum tube volt meters,
signal generators, Nuclear instru
ments, electronic control devices,
and many other electrical ma
chines will be exhibited, Rode said.
Members of the US Naval Re
serve Volunteer Unit and the
Army Research Group at College
Station will meet Monday at 7:30
p. m. in the MSC for a lecture and
demonstration of the equipment,
Rode added.
Graduate students and members
of the faculty are cordially in
vited to examine the equipment
while it is being displayed, Rode
said.
Cause Unending Controversy
Manitzas
Wesley Foundation
Sets Yule Party
The Wesley Foundation Christ
mas Party will be held Dec. 17 at
7:30 p. m. in the Wesley Founda
tion, said Leroy Admock, sponsor
of the recreation committee.
The party will include a Christ
mas worship service, group sing
ing, and a variety of games, Ad
cock said. Refreshments will con
sist of cakes and cookies brought
by Aggie Mothers.
Helping Adcock with the party
arrangements are Bill Wafer, de
corations, James Durham, invita
tions, Adrian Youngblood, publi
city, Miss Ernestine Smith, Jerry
Ramsey,. refreshments, and Frank
Fichte, recreation.
Aggies of all denominations are
invited to attend, Adcock said, and
foreign students will be special
guests.
Tessie Exes Plan Yule
Dinner at The Oaks
The Bryan - College Station
TSCW Ex-Students Association
will have a Christmas dinner Dec.
17 at 7 p.m. at The Oaks, said
Mrs. Carl Dally.
The price of the dinner is $1.75,
Mrs. Dally said.
Members wishing to attend the
dinner should cull Mrs. Dally at
2-8969 for reservations, she said.
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
jySCUSSIONS on contro-
”versial subjects usually
are ended in these three cat
egories pass-
ing a resolu
tion, forming
a committee
to study the
problem o r
tabling until
more facts
are present
ed.
The resolu-
t i o n method
was used re
cently by edu
cators at the National Coun
cil for Social Studies in Dallas.
The resolutions maintained:
“ ... it is clearly the respon
sibility of the schools and of
social studies to inform the Am
erican youth concerning affairs
about which, as citizens and vot
ers, they must form and register
opinions. This responsibility in
cludes teaching about the United
Nations and UNESCO.”
Fight Criticism
Another resolution which upheld
the use of the term “social stud
ies” said: “ . . . the term carries
no implications of a particular or
ganization or subjects or of any
political or social or economic
points of view.” This resolution,
the group explained, was neces
sary to answer the mounting crit
icism of the term by persons who
claimed “social studies” denote a
particular political note.
But the. group actually was
fighting to allow the discussion
of cbntroversial subjects in sec
ondary schools. This proves that
nothing is so controversial as a
discussion of a controversial sub
ject.
The educators assailed, and
rightly so, critics who charged
subversion in textbooks. Trevor K.
Serviss, assistant editor in chief
of D. C. Heath & Co., textbook
publishers, asserted: “ ... in dif
ficult times we are beset with at
tempts in many forms, as old as
history and as new as today’s
headline, to control learning and
bend it into strange shapes con
forming to the preconceived ideas
of self-appointed censors ... all
of the attacks on education show
the same techniques . . . use of
half truths, pure fabrications,
statements lifted from the context,
misinterpretation of statements
and presumed guilt by omission.”
Encourage Pupils
One of the best points emerging
from Mr. Serviss’ attack on crit
ics was: “ . . . Textbooks must
help boys and girls leam how to
meet controversial issues cour
ageously and intelligently. They
must encourage pupils to think
for themselves and to distinguish
among the facts, opinions, pre
judices and propaganda and to ar
rive at conclusions that are sup
ported by evidence and reason.”
Carrying out these ideas will
require the strength and deter
mination of Mr. Serviss and other
publishers. Only in this way can
pupils be supplied the facts to
think for themselves.
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Another group meeting in
Washington now also has books on
the mind. The committee is of a
congressional nature and the books
naughty.
Whoever invented the English
language would be ashamed of
himself if he could see the trouble
he’s causing. The inventor of the
Kodak probably would catch as
much of the congressmen’s fire
because of the naked pictures
which have been flowing through
the U. S. mails to the newstands
directly into everybody’s inside
pockets. But the comical point—
oh yes, comics are being investi
gated too—is when the Iliad,
Chaucer and many many of the
old time classics are being com
pared to “The Private Life of a
Strip Tease Girl,” “Night of Ec-
stacy,” “She Made It Pay,” and
“Pickup.”
Decide For Us
Whatever the question might
be in the back of the legislator’s
minds, it seems to us that they
are trying to decide whether or
not our taste is good or bad. What
right have they to say?
We have laws which protect per
sons from the obscenities and fair
ly good law enforcing groups to
carry out the wishes of these
statutes. Hence, what have the
legislators anything to legislate
about?
They could advise the Federal
Trade Commission to investigate
unfair merchandising methods
used by most pocket books. We re
fer to the color covers of the gal-
umptuous gal trying to get in aj
low cut gown. Inside the cover is
housed a reprint of Voltaire’s f
“Candie” or some other book that
has been floating around the li
braries for years.
Mail Received Recently
Concerning the letters received
by students here during the last
few days from “Personal Books”
people, we feel you might like to
know that more than $400,000 of
books similar to the one being of
fered were sold last year. It was
entitled “Love, the Science of
Sex Attraction” and sold for tlfe
$1.98 regular price.
During the investigations of the
committee, the conversation be
tween congressman and publisher
ran like this:
“What’s this picture?” asked
the lawmaker.
“It is a drawing of a very
famous statue,” said the publisher.
“And I suppose you’re doing
mankind a real service selling this
book?”
“Yes, indeed.”
“And when you go to bed at*
night, I’ll bet you don’t like your-';
self at all,” the lawmaker insisted. :
But like all publishers and writ- ’i
ers, the man replied: “Oh yes. H
have a very high regard for my
self.”
The question and answer period
ended when the publisher produc
ed letters of endorsement of th‘,
book he printed from educator/
and doctors. They read them too.
Study Club Schedules
Musical Entertainment
The Harmony Singers wall pre
sent the program at the Campus
Study Club in the MSC Social
Room at 3 p. m. Tuesday.
Members have been asked to
bring contributions for the Christ
mas cheer basket by Mrs. Carl M.
Lyman, chairman.
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