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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1953
Compulsory Activity Fee
Means Minimum Costs
“4 THOROUGH education at the lowest
^ possible cost ...”
With this statement of purpose. Gov.
Richard Coke formally installed A&M as
Texas’ first institution of higher learning in
1876.
As the school has passed through 77
years of growth and progress we have learn
ed there are other things than classroom
work necessary in obtaining this “thorough
education" he spoke of.
Extracurricular activities have come to
play a prominent part in practically every
student’s college life. Prospective employers
review your list of extracurricular activities
and gain a better understanding of how well-
rounded your college life is from participa
tion in these activities.
A&M students are availed many oppor
tunities for activities outside the classroom.
But to have these things means expense.
State funds are not available for providing
them. People of Texas will not buy you an
annual or pay for the baseball you use in
intramurals. They will not give you a ticket
to athletic events and reimburse the atheltic
department for that amount.
But if every student contributes a small
amount to these things the volume of income
can provide them at rock bottom prices. On
the other hand if all students do not pay, the
volume will be smaller and prices for individ
ual items will be more than doubled in cer
tain instances.
Until this semester all Aggies were re
quired to pay a fee of ten dollars which was
apportioned to the annual, The Battalion, in
tramural, athletics, the MSC, the atheltic de
partment and the swimming pool.
A bill is now before the state legislature
to make payment of this fee again compul
sory. The House education committee sent
it back for floor vote Tuesday. Monday the
powerful Senate state affairs committee wil^
hear arguments on the bill.
We encourage full support for this mea
sure, not only because our publication re
ceives a portion of the fees, but mainly be
cause if it fails, the minority of students who
refuse to pay will cause the majority who
wish to receive these services to jiay more
New Calendars
TUIE SOVIET 1953 calendar has a 15 mil-
4 lion circulation and its contents are un
usual.
Stalin’s picture appears on 12 pages of
the tear-off calendar, his virtues are eulo
gized in 20 poems, his name is printed 367
times.
Besides the publicity campaign on the
prime minister, the time sheet includes harsh
and bitter articles about the “enemies of
mankind,” the “maneaters," “murderers”-7r-
the United States, naturally. /
Although the United States President is
not given the calendar coverage enjoyed by
Stalin, neither Eisenhower nor Stalin could
make the news headlines in calendar form
better than Marilyn Mornroe. And Miss
Monroe does not need 12 pictures on a cal
endar to make it successful.
But the Russians would never understand.
than double the ten dolhars to get the same
benefits.
Many people grumble about taxes. Yet
through taxes we receive—to mention only
a few things—public school education for
children, police protection, a strong national
government and the greatest of all defense
machines for protecting American from an
invading force.
We are able to have all these things be
cause everyone contributes to make them
possible. If you and a few others were ex
cused from taxes it would be hard for the
fire department to stop and check a list of
taxpayers before answering a call to keep
your home from burning.
Under our democratic form of govern
ment we are called upon to contribute a nom
inal amount in order to get certain renum
erations. This is made possible because all
people take part.
All students can take part in paying this
fee to make the services it affords available
to everyone at a minimum cost.
Hands Off Policy
Needed in Congress
r'ONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION of
colleges and universities for subversive
influences was attacked recently by a woman
named as having praised the Soviet in an
article written for The Pravda.
The woman, Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer of
Washington, D.C., declared “the time has
come for a powerful counteroffensive”
against Congress’ investigations of colleges
and universities. “It must be clearly estab
lished that only the boards of education and
the administrators have the right to question
a teacher’s loyalty upon sufficient evidence.”
Sen. Velde had said earlier about Mrs.
Meyer: “It is interesting to note that in the
Moscow Pravda . . . Mrs. Agnes is quoted:
\ . . . We feel profound admiration for the
people of the Soviet Union—it simply makes
you sick at heart when you hear many radio
commentators speaking so unjustly and dis
dainfully of the Russians.”
Mr. Velde’s statement may be true, we do
not know and care less. In 1947, many peo
ple felt charitable toward Russia. But Mrs.
Meyer’s rebuttal of the congressional inves
tigations is encouraging.
The educational institutions undoubtedly
include some subversive elements, but no
more than either the national government
nor the state and city governments. At a
time when more encouragement should be
given to youth for entering the teaching
field, the national government is degrading
the profession and making it undesirable.
The investigations, if carried through,
will accomplish as much as the loyalty oaths.
But then, junior Dick Tracy personnel Velde,
McCarthy, Jenner have quite a few years
left in Congress. They have to spend their
time, our money, in some manner, but if
they want to help fight communism they
would support their educational institutions
and make an effort to raise their standards.
An investigation by Congress is fodder
for future elections rarely accomplishes the
predetermined purpose.
ESTATE FINDS
Officials
Undecided
On Use
Officials are undecided on
the use of A&M’s part of a
$4 million dollar estate recent
ly willed the college by a
Gladewater oil man, said E. E.
McQuillen, director, development
fund.
The actual amount of the inheri-
tance is unknown, he said, since
the terms of the will designated
A&M ten per cent of a trust fund
which is to be divided between ten
colleges in Texas, Oklahoma, and
Arkansas.
We have not received a copy of
the will, McQuillen said, and there
fore do not know if any limitations
on the use of the money is speci
fied.
Until a copy is obtained, noth
ing concerning its use can be plan
ned, he added.
Trustee and independent execu
tor of the will is to be the First
National Bank of Dallas.
KEY TO THE KINGDOM
n/\ru c ounno 11 ^
Certificates.
Awarded To
Flight Seniors
Thirty-three senior Air Force
ROTC cadets who have applied
for flight school and completed
physicals, received certificates this
afternoon authorizing wear of the
new “half-wing” insignia of the
ROTC flight cadet.
Col. John A. Way, PAS&T for
mally presented the scrolls at a
ceremony during leadership lab.
Next Thursday, the remainder of
the 66 seniors will receive certi
ficates.
Of the senior group, 45 cadets
are in the flight operations options
and 21 are in others.
Junior Air Force cadets will
receive certificates soon after
signing a letter of intent obligat
ing them to attend flight school
following graduation.
The gold and silver wings, which
may be worn over the cadet’s left
shirt or blouse pocket, may not be
purchased without a certificate.
The first shipment has not as yet
been received by the Exchange
Store.
Oldest and Newest
Airplanes To Be Displayed
During Pest Control Course
eloped by r red Weick, dir- _
the Personal Aircraft Re- 1.01172) Ir7
.’enter, Engineering Expert-
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One of the oldest and one of the
newest airplanes in agricultural av
iation will be demonstrated during
the Second Annual Texas Agricul
tural Aviation Conference and
Short Course on Pest Control here
Feb. 23.
The old model, a Huff Daland
“Puffer”, began service as a crop-
duster about 1922 or shortly after
ward. It was originally designed
as a navy training plane but was
not used for that purpose.
Latest development in farm fly
ing is the Ag-1 airplane, designed
and developed by Fred Weick, dir
ector of
search Center,
ment Station.
Performance and Safely
Stressing performance efficiency
and safety for the pilot, the Ag-1
was designed exclusively for such
operations as seeding, fertilizing,
dusting and spraying crops. It dm
take off from a rough unprepared
runway under work load and any
part of the plane except the en
gine can be duplicated in an ordi
nary machine and sheet metal shop.
Extreme maneuverability also is
necessary, and it was designed to
fly to the end of a field only a few
feet of the ground, then zoom over
such obstacles as trees or power
lines while loaded.
Weick, the plane’s designer, is
nationally known as an aircraft en
gineer and designer. W’hilc serv
ing with the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, Weick
directed research and made the rec
ommendations which resulted in
‘bringing the engine inside the
plane’, that is, enclosing it in na
celles, and in putting aircraft on
tricycle landing gear.
Gained Fame Quickly-
Rising from junior aeronautics
engineer, W’cick became assistant
chief of the aerodynamics division
of NACA. Later he joined the En
gineering and’ Research Corpora
tion, where his research resulted in
acceptance of the Krcoupe by Civil
Aeronautics Administration offic
ials as the first plane licensed as
“characteristically incapable of
spinning.”
Weick will serve as chairman of
the conference, which is sponsored
by the A&M College System,
the Texas Aeronautics Commission
and the Texas Flying Farmers As
sociation.
Other conference officials will be
D. W\ Williams, vice-chancellor for
agriculture of the A&M Ssytem; E.
M. (Tex) Anderson, president, Na
tional Flying Farmers Association;
Cliffe B. Green, director, Texas
Aeronautics Commission; Fred
Triplett, president, Texas Flying
Farmers Association; Dr. Vernon
A. Young, head department of
range and forestry; Dr. R. D. Lew
is, director, Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station; Dr. J. C. Gaines,
head, department of entomology.
Burchard Heads
Affairs Committee
D. D. Burchard, head of the
journalism department has been
appointed chairman of the Inter-
Association of Affairs Committee
of the American Society of Jour
nalism School Administrators.
A. E. Austin, president of
ASJSA made the appointment
Austin is head of the journalism
department of the University of
North Dakota.
Burchard’s committee is the co
ordinator between the ASJSA and
other coordinate members of the
Association for Education in jour
nalism, over all teaching groups
Baptist Vespers Plan
Laymen Panel Friday
A panel of laymen will speak at
the Vesper service, 7:30 p. m.
Friday, , Feb. 20, in the Baptist
Student Center.
But in his broken English, Gon
zalez displays a sincere belief in
what he says and keeps his audi
ence following him with his infor
mal yet challenging delivery.
He cannot keep his hands still,
but instead of distracting from his
words, the artist’s motions add to
his diversely selected words.
Painting-Geometry
About painting, Gonzalez has
been quoted most often as having
said: “Painting is the geometry
of feeling. I have to approach
painting indirectly, slowly, be
cause a painting like a flower
can die of too much handling.
The overstatement of truth kills
it.”
Gonzalez feels he should try to
act natuml rather than copy or
imitate it. He paints with a semi
abstraction, drawing from the ris
ible reality, yet weeding it to his
own needs.
He is a known master of the
summer water-colors which he uses
extensively with color, space,
movement, and textures by his
factual interpretations of water,
earth, grass and boats. His sum
mer oils are more realistic while
his serious winter paintings vary
from the realistic to the interpre
tive.
A critic said recently: “The cre
ations of Xavier Gonzalez are solid
structures on every' count of con
ception pnd realization. They at- j
tain the plastique of painting. ’
They are well within the Grand
Tradition. They are rich in pro
mise of future significant produc- j
tion.”
“OxforcT Man
Reveals Weakness of Opposite Sex!
MdtC
O nce upon a time, there was a wealthy young college man
who spent a million dollars a year on his wardrobe. But
the gals all thought he looked “square as an icc culx:.”
One day, while cruising around the campus in his solid gold
convertible with leopard-skin tires, he noticed a young fresh
man surrounded by a bevy of beautiful dolls. Slamming his
foot down upon the sterling silver brake pedal, he smoothed
out the wrinkles in his custom-tailored suit and strolled over
to this popular fellow.
‘Tell me,” he asked, “to what do you owe your great
success with the fair sex?”
“Naturally,” the young Casanova replied, “it’s the shirts I
wear.” He pointed to the pale gray Oxford button-down he
had on. “Everyone’s bashing ears about Oxford shirts this
year ... and I have Oxfords in light blue, gray, yellow, pink,
lavender ... and of course, white. Roll collars, button-downs
and those new short collars, too!”
The rich young man felt the luxurious Oxford fabric. “Your
shirtmaker must charge a Ibt for shirts like these.”
“Shirtmaker nothing,” grinned the young fellow. “I get all
my shirts from the friendly Van Heuscn dealer right down
the street. And the ante is only §3.95 apiece!”
The wealthy young man made a bee-line for the Van Hcusen
store. Since he was loaded (with money), he also Irought a
dozen deluxe N an Hcusen Oxfords, made of high-count,
lightly-twisted yam, for $4.50 apiece.
His seven wives arc suing for bigamy this month.
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The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Afrjrie Traditions
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