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Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, February 20, 1'953 Pentagon ‘Patter’ Boasting Begins In Armed Forces; IFs Budget Time WASHINGTON—This is the season when the picture turns grim and things are in a hell of a fix. It is the time when each of the armed forces tells how good it is. And it is, perchance, the time of budget-making. It happens every year, in peace and war, in every administra tion. Some years there are mysterious rumors of foreign submarines cruising off American shores. Other years there are vapor trails from highflying, unseen, unknown aircraft above the northern defense perimeter. And some years peo ple just sit down and add up all the military and diplomatic perplexities and intelligence estirates and come up with a brdad and brooding and black pitcure. Only yesterday a group of congressional leaders emerged from a White House session with military, intelligence and national security council officials—speaking cryptically but apprenhensively of the briefing they had. It was nothing- new, they said—the picture has been grim for a long time. Ready for Any Type of War I’T LIKE TO BE A WET BLANKET-BUT- Femmes, Fads, Fatuation ■ms 15 the: season of all the ANNouNc&MEMry OF BEAUTIFUL NEW CAJ2S — Mature Girl Is Man’s Ideal Regardless of His (Category -automatic THIS AND THAT — What’s Cooking The congressional leaders then went to the Capitol where Con gress is going to work on the budget. Across the Potomac at the Pen tagon the armed forces seemed to hear no . unusually loud alarms from around the world but maybe that is just because they are used to the grimness of the times. Individually, the three services wanted folks to know how each of them Wc as ready to fight any,kind Guard Against Budget Cut of war in any kind of place. There was the impression each could do it as well or a little better than either of the other two services. In fairness, perhaps they re called the economy drive of a few years ago, under Louis A. John son’s defense secretaryship. Most people in the Pentagon believe that campaign was partially re sponsible for the state of U. S. unreadiness when the Korean War broke out. Friday A&M Film Society, “It Happen- 9 a. m.-5 p. m.—Executive Train- One Night,” MSC Ballroom, ing, S. C. Library, Rooms 3B, 3C MSC. 7:30 p. m.—Piano Recital, Assem bly Room MSC. From the McGill Daily (Canada): Special to the Daily: As reported in an exclusive interview given by Professor Sigmund Duerf. According to our modern psy chologists, University students be long to the stage of development known as late adolescence. This, they tell us, is the extrovert or “show off age,” which follows the “gang age” in High School and precedes the state of maturity which we all hope to attain. McGill women in fitting into this classification can be further sub divided into the mature, the im mature and ’the pseudo-mature in dividuals. The mature girl is the ideal of every college man, no mat ter into which category he fits. Her earliest appearance in Uni versity is in the second year, but the greatest frequency of occur rence is the third and fourth years. To attain this state of mind she has to undergo certain environmental influences besides concluding the • J ° ™cS iSm Club ’ SpeCial Meet ' development of her inherent poten- ing, MSC. Saturday School, WTAW Workers Favor Engineering 8 a. in.—10 p. m.—Art MSC. Social Room. 8 a. m.-ll p. m.—Executive Train ing S. C. Library, MSC Room 3D. Carl And perhaps each service want- The Air Force, with practically and Roddy Peeples, cd to guard against too-deep cuts no urging was ready to produce WiUiams is an engine er. an its budget this yeai'. At any a press release it issued last Oct. rate— 4, saying it then had a new type The Navy announced it had de- pressure suit “enabling' pilots to veloped a fully pressurized flying survive in the near vacuum of the suit which would allow “N a v y upper atmosphere.” In that re pilots” the press release didn’t say lease, th t e author waited until he why other pilots couldn’t wear it got down eight paragraphs to say too to “travel in safety in the ex- the suit “resembles to some ex treme upper atmosphere — or even tent the popular conception of a in outer space.” space suit.” But the author of The account had wide reader in- yesterday’s Navy release hit, right terest among those anticipating the at the beginning, the idea it was a . . • r n/r- i b „ gmeering major from Mineral Wells. Williams is getting practical ex perience to go with his electrical -Has Guided Missiles engineering degree by working at *—the—station transmitter. He lives ation that “Army's new guided j n College Station. missiles now roll off assembly , lines.” But it didn’t say what the missiles are or how many have roll ed off. With the background pre- tialities. She must know, for ex ample, that among University men, all wolves are not wolves at heart, and conversely that all lambs are not harmless underneath their mild exteriors. She must understand the psychology of the minds of pro- 9-12 a. m. Latin American Group, fessors and learn how to pass a Rooms 2A, 2B MSC. course with the minimum amount Executive Training Short of work. All this education com- Engineering seems to be the Course, Rooms 3B, 3C MSC. pleted, the product is a woman choice of A&M students working 10 a. in.—5 p. m.—Texas News- with poise, self assurance, person- at radio station WTAW. paper Clinic, Assembly Room, Ball- ality and, we hope, good looks. The four announcers are Char- room, Room 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D. Lack Worldliness lie Parker, Joe Burdett, Perry Nel- 2-11 p. m.—MSC Bridge Club, Her immature sister is found Room 3D MSC. most frequently in the freshette and sophomore years. This state is a natural one and the girl merely lacks the worldliness of her older friends. This trait, however, is picked up quite rapidly at Uni versity. Her state of mind becomes most evident at a party. The normal reaction of the “nice” immature girl is to do one or all of the following. 1. She avoids dancing into any- dark patches or comei's of a dance flooiv 2. She drags her escort contin ually into the aura of as many of her female friends as possible. 3. She talks long and rapidly while dancing. Her partner is of necessity silent. 4. She talks with her friends about her date for hours after the party, trying to attribute hidden meanings in his every gesture and word. Latch A Steady These are the extreme cases f ' As the girl develops and “gets around” a little more, she gets over her initial distrust of the opposite sex and the romantic dreams of her girlhood rise and overwhelm her. She now is going to go “steady,” accepting dates from only one male. She goes out with one lad until she gets bored—or vice versa, and then latches on to another “steady.” This “steady” to “steady” sequence is poor strategy and typical of her state of mind. Any of her older and more expe- idenced fellow strategists will tell her to play a wide field and grad ually narrow the game as she wishes. However, as time passes, this stage also disappears. Now we come to our friends, the pseudo-mature young ladies. We, the men of McGill, have nothing; personal against the immature girls; theirs is a normal sequence of development and we will give them a few more years, but we do have a complaint against these. Pseudo-mature False The pseudo-mature women are an offshoot of the normal sequence of development. Basically, they are immature, but they cover up their inadequacy with a veneer of sophistication. They wish to be held up as an example to all. (Note the extrovertism). They look for artificial characteristics in the op posite sex. Unfortunately, this kind of woman makes up a large proportion of the female popula tion of McGill. To this woman, social prestige is of prime importance. Her inter est in the opposite sex stems puVe- ly from this desire. She is the cast conscious girl who tends to look down on what she considers to be her less fortunate sisters, and upon any and all males who cannot give her heightened pres tige. She is often the debutante, although far be it for me to place all debutantes in this class. The pseudo-mature girl is the party type who places the size of the party and the guests present above the personal characteristics of her escort and she is the girl who never can and never will un derstand the true male personality —if it exists. « There we have McGill women. What category does the author date? Why, haven’t you gussed? He is the studious type. Parker is best known as the “Old D J” on his early morning disk jockey show. He is a sopho more electrical engineering major from Amarillo. Burdett, from San Benito, is finishing his fifth year as a civil engineer major. Nelson and Peeples are the other announcers. Peeples is a senior agronomy major from Tehuacana. Nelson is a junior mechanical en- advent of space travel and warfare. It also had the rapt and slightly annoyed interest of the Aiv Force. Army Not Missed- suit good “even in outer space.’ The Air Force had learned a lesson in the art of publicity. The Army, perhaps not wanting to be overlooked when ideas about rocket-age arsenals were being cir culated, came up with a summary of its program in the guided mis- Instructors Merge Journalism Labs Editing and reporting labs of sile field. Through several hun- sented, the Army got to the point, dred words the Army went in for announcing: some re-representation of technical “The Army now has weapons Tl ^ fact, .bout rocket shooting cap- that ai m thJ S el ?S after the ^ ger is pulled—and it is almost im possible for them to miss a target. . . . Fantastic though it may seem, one of the Army’s surface-to-air missiles . . . carries a guidance sys tem designed to out-maneuver and hit enemy aircraft.” The enemy plane, said the Army, tioned the release with the declar- Harry Boyer Has Stomach Surgery ter for the mutual benefit of both classes. The lab work is similar to the news office on a newspaper, and is being conducted in The Battal ion office. It is under supervision of one of the department teach ers. The editing students give the Harry Boyer, chief of housing, is recovering after a major stomach . — „ „— — operation, said Bennie Zinn, assist- Tna y “dive, climb, bank, side-slip reporting students assignments to ant dean of men. or turn tail—but the Army’s new wri te. Boyer will be in Houston’s Mem- wea P° ns ft ill, will knock them out The reporting students are grad- orial Hospital for about three °t tne skies, weeks. It will be five days before he can have visitors, Zinn said. Boyer’s wife and sister, Mrs. Martell Dansby, are staying with Air Force to get out reports on ability, him. their fantastic robot weapons. ed on their ability to report and The Army’s account came out write a story. The editing students late in the day. Presumably there are graded according to their wasn’t time left for the Navy or copy-reading and headline writing The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” D. D. Burchard, head * of the journalism dept., said: “In this way, we can work the students un der conditions approximating those of an actual newspaper.” AAUP to Hear Barlow Irvin Barlow (Bones) Irvin, athletic The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, dui-ing the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, director, will speak at 7:30 p. m. and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods Tuesday on “Major Problems in and the summer terms. 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MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett Harri Baker Peggy Maddox Co-Editors ... Managing Editors ... City Editor Women’s News Editor Meetings of the AAUP, which has a local membership of 175, ology. Today’s Issue Ed Holder . Jerry Bennett Bob Boriskie ... Managing Editor News Editor .Sports News Editor Awards totaling $400 for out standing seniors and juniors in the petroleum engineering and ge ology departments have been es tablished by George P. Mitchell, ’40, a petroleum engineer and geol ogist of Houston. Recipients will be chosen by those departments under the di rection of Albert B. Stevens, head of the petroleum engineering de partment and Shirley Lynch, head Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors News Kditor Gus Becker, Bob Boriskie, Jerry Estes Sports News Editors ot tne geology department. Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice.Al Leroy Bruton, Guy Dawson, W. F. Franklin, R. D. 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