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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
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and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods Tuesday on “Major Problems in
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FRANK N. 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. Gossett, Carl Hale, Donald
Kemp, Alfred McAfee, Bill Rogers, Ray Smith, Jerry Sonnier,
Edward Stern, Roy Sullivan, Jon Kinslow, Dick Moore, Lionel
Garcia, John Moody, Bob Palmer, Bill Shepard Staff News Writers
Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus, Bill Thomas Sports News Writers
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry Amusements
John Kinslow, Dick Porter, Calvin Pigg City News Writers
Wilson Davis • • • Circulation Manager
Conrad Strelau, Lawrence Casbeer, Robert Huey, .lewell Raymond,
J. R. Shepard, Don Young, Fred Hernandez, Charles F.
Chick ••••/•• Circulation Staff
Bob Godfrey, XJavey Davidson, Roy Wells, Keith Nickle, Melvin
Longhofer. Herman Meiners Photo Engravers
Gene Rydell, Perry Shepard, John Merrill Advertising Representatives
Dean Kennedy File Clerk
Craft Meeting Monday
The Crafts Committee of the
MSC will hold a meeting for stu
dents in the Craft Shop at 7 p.
m. Monday.
The shop is on the lower level
of the MSC. Mrs. Jewell Marshall
is sponsor of the group.
Entire Student Body Agrees
New Arrow Radnor Is“Hit!”
New Rounded-Point Collar,
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