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k Battalion Editorials What’s Cooking Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953 Basic Division Shows It’s Doing A Better Job CINCE THE Basic Division was started in ^1950, it has received more criticism than praise from the students, former students and a few of the instructors. The students and former students regard it as a necessary evil and the only way that freshmen would be allowed to live on the campus. They feel it was established only as a means of keeping the neophyte collegians separated from the upperclassmen. Air Accidents Are Unavoidable AIR FORCE officials answered the House Armed Services Committee recently con cerning the possibile causes of the latest military plane disasters. Their answer: The 289 lives lost in military air crashes is the price the nation must pay in safety. The Air Force believes that no faulty equipment, or sabotage, or accident pattern is responsible. Pilot errors account for 51.3 percent of the accidents, equipment failures 27.4 and improper maintenance 6.5. We hope no one asks the diplomats why accidents occur in foreign policy which makes these air accidents a possibility. Their an swer could be embarrassing. • British Steal Airline Supremacy HTHERE’S something new in the field of •*- airline travel, but the US is far behind competitors of Great Britain. This country’s tight grip on the produc tion of airliners of commercial firms all over the world has been challenged. The jet air age has touched the commer cial production line, and the British-made Comet II, only jet airliner being produced, is much in demand on the world market. One American airlines has placed an order for three to be delivered in 1956 with an option to buy seven more. American manufacturers have yet to an nounce a commercial jet airliner to compete with the British plane. One firm has laid out $15 million for development of a jet trans port. Others say they are working on a jet plane but have nothing to say about it. The Americans are confident. They claim greater manufacturing know-how plus the idea of competition demanding top develop ment of their plane will help them regain their position in production of the giant airplanes. Perhaps after a few foreign dollars which might have been spent in the US go to our European neighbor airplane manufacturers will get down to work and regain the prestige they have claimed so long. Some professors criticized the Basic Div ision because it keeps the freshmen separate from upperclassmen whose association might broaden their maturity and mental develop ment more quickly. Yet even these profes sors realize the disadvantage an entering stu dent encounters in trying to adjust himself to college life while under the strain of a policing upperclassman. But the development of the Basic Divi sion has proved it to be one of the most suc cessful educational units on the campus. It is producing a better student and more profit able results may develop later. Statistics released today by the school shows that its students are making better grades than ever before and resignation per centage is beginning to drop. The significance of better grades will gain further stature if these same students outproduce previous graduates of the college. The results bear watching. We think they will prove the effectiveness of the Basic Div ision. Hand Signal Month Needs Support /^OV. SHIVERS has designated January as ^ Hand Signal Month in Texas, urging all drivers to heed the theme: “Right turn— hand up. Left turn—hand out. Slow or stop —hand down.” Statistics show that over 50 per cent of intersection collisions are caused because of laxness in hand signals. Here there is a car for every three per sons. These motor vehicles are in operation throughout the day and use of hand signals would make for easier and safer driving. Alertness while driving, following safety rules and especially use of hand signals in close traffic can prevent accidents and per haps save a life. It’s courteous to use hand signals, and respect those of others. • Army’s New Song Could Be Belter rpHE ARMY has placed a new marching tune on the three-month trial period and thinks it may become its official song if favorable reports are received. Picked from 700 entries submitted in a contest, the song is entitled “The Army’s Al ways There.” The composer: Sam H. Stept, of New York, who is better known for “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” which was a hit during the last war. Two other songs which he wrote and later became famous might be more suitable for the Army. They are: “That’s My Weak ness Now,” and “Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone.” Friday 7:30 p. m.—Aggie Talent Show- Tentative, Ballroom, MSC. Czech Club, Room 2A, MSC. Panhandle Club, Room 2B, MSC. Mid-Winter Conference of Ag ricultural Teachers, Assembly Room, MSC. BSU Vespers, Baptist Student AH Class to Visit Hereford Ranch The Animal Husbandry 315 class will make a one-day field trip to the Straus Medina Hereford Ranch near San Antonio Friday. The purpose of this trip is to give the class some practice in judging breeding stock. The Junior Livestock Judging team to represent A&M at the Fort Worth Livestock Show and Exposition Jan. 31 will be chosen from this class. Center, Students from Prairie View A&M wil present the pro gram. Monday 7:15 p. m.—Six County Club, 104 Academic Bldg., vdll make plans for between semester dance. 7:45 p. m.—Bryan-College Station Branch of AAUW, Bryan Women’s Club, J. F. Moussalli; director of Near East Foundation in Syria, will be the guest speaker. CS City Council Postpones Meeting College Station’s monthly City Coun&l meeting, scheduled for Monday, has been postponed until Monday, Jan. 9, according to Ran Boswell, city manager. Expected items of business are voting on the Recreation Coun cil’s request for tax support and the school board’s request for a tax assessment increase. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examina tion and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and va cation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Tex as under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also I'eserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. 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 Bob SeUeck Joe Hipp Bob Borlskie Today’s Issue News Editor Assistant News Editor Sports News Editor Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors, Bob SeUeck „...News Editors Gus Becker....... 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