Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1953
Our Star-Studded Services
IF, YOU intend to reach the rank of major
■*- general within the next year or so chances
are you may not get the promotion.
A congressman from Missouri has indi
cated the Army’s top brass is over stocked
for the number of troops on duty now in the
service.
With an Army of 1,600,000 men, we now
have approximately 450 two-star generals,
compared to 459 for seven million men during
the war.
Projector Trouble
Of Dissatisfied?
A UDIO-VISUAL education is sweeping the
^ country these days, even creeping into in
struction of military science courses at A&M.
Certain branches are noted for using this
means of teaching courses, especially the
Transportation Corps.
Some people must not realize when they
are well off, because recently a student in
quired about the possibility of transferring
from one branch to another.
Formerly enrolled in Transportation
Corps training, the student approached the
registration table of another technical ser
vice.
“Sir, I'd like to enroll in your class this
semester instead of the TC’s,” was his re
quest.
The officer looked over his record and
then inquired, “What’s the matter, did your
movie projector break down?”
The Navy also has an abundance of top
officers. They report 295 admirals for a mil
lion-man fleet, compared to 287 for a four-
million-man wartime force.
The congressmen are now faced with the
problem of what to do with so many officers.
Should they freeze promotions and hinder
the career of junior officers?
Maybe we should take inventory of our
present army and navy men with stars on
their shoulders. Perhaps the answer would be
to let some of the younger men move into
those places of responsibility.
As long as the older, yet wiser we admit,
officers remain in service, the promising
junior officers must wait a chance to prove
themselves. Why not let them move into the
top jobs now and be ready if and when all-
out war comes. That would be much easier
than changing horses in the middle of the
stream.
Candy Rationing
For Trim Figure
V/OUTHS of Great Britain took advantage
of a long awaited opportunity today. With
mouths drooling they went to the candy
counter and purchased the sweets without
first handing over a ration coupon.
Candy rationing in that country ended
at mid-night Thursday.
How trim some figures might be in this
country if the rationing were moved over
here.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Needed: Vanity Fair Pictures
Editors, The Battalion:
We’ve always read your letters
to the editors and it seemed that
most- of the letters were a means
by which someone could blow off
some steam. Well that’s exactly
what we’d like to do hight now.
An article about Vanity Fair
was placed in The Battalion way
back on Dec. 16, 1962. Since that
time, numerous articles have been
published and announcements
made about Vanity Fair.
What’s Cooking
The deadline for any senior to
enter his girl’s picture for Vanity
Fair is Feb. 15. That’s less than
two weeks away. Up to this time,
only two pictures have been en
tered.
What gives with this senior
class of ours? There are about 750
seniors in A&M right now and
only two of those 750 seniors have
had the initiative to enter their
girl’s pictures. There were seniors
up here this past semester with
girls who were really queens. Wc
can’t understand why a senior with
a good looking woman won’t en-
Monday 1Z * t * £ 1-
5 p. m.—Inter-Council Committee, AVeiSter lO opCcliV
7:15 p. m. — “Y” Association, i O AIEE Monday
YMCA Chapel. Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant will speak. 1 William Keister of the Bell
7:30 p. m.—Port Arthur Club, Telephone Laboratories Inc., of
Boom 126, Academic Bldg., Plans New York City, will speak to the
for High School Day, Coffee will student branch of the American
be served. Institute of Electrical Engineers
El Paso Club, Academic Bldg. Monday, said N. F. Bode of the
Abilene Club, Boom 201, Good- electrical engineering department,
win Hall, Important meeting. The subject of Keister’s speech
Corpus Christi Club, Boom 2D, will be ‘Can a Machine Think?’
MSC, Plans for Sports Day, Pic- The talk will cover basic ideas
ture for Aggieland will be dis- in the design of digital control
cussed. circulits such as telephone switch-
Flax Country Club, Boom 206, ing systems and computers. Em-
Academic Bldg., will discuss plans phasis will be placed on the opera-
ten her in Vanity Fair. That just
doesn’t add up.
Last year, there were so few
seniors who entered their girls’
pictures for Vanity Fair, that the
junior class was allowed to enter
pictures also. Vanity Fair has in
the past been strictly for seniors;
that is with the exception of last
year. This year we’d like to have
every Vanity Fair winner and
runner-up entered by a senior.
If .the seniors would get behind
us and help us, we could certain
ly do a much better job of the
Vanity Fair section than was done
last year. As it is at present, we’re
doing a worse job. We’d really like
some help in the form of pictures.
For a bigger and better Aggie
land ’53.
Harvey (Spider) Miller
Guy Delaney
Aggieland Co-Editors
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Tuesday
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tions in logic performed by the
systems and several machines will
be demonstrated, Bode said.
“All electrical engineering stu
dents and faculty members inter-
, ested in computers are invited
to the meeting,” he said.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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