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TT Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1953 Chevalier Offers Sound Advice to Students 1%/|ANY CAMPUS groups will continue to argue that speaking is weak, but one of last week’s visitors did more than his share. He was Col. Willard Chevalier, executive vice presdent of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Besides speaking to many service groups both here and in Bryan, Chevalier also spoke during the dedication ceremonies of the new engineering building and library and to the student academic councils. This informal speech, we believe, is of importance to everyone. Here are some of the points Chevalier expounded upon. “Four things most necessary for a person to gain in college,” Chevalier said, “are knowledge, intelligence, wisdom and the abil ity to work with others. Pay Increase “All these are different. Knowledge is a raw material; intelligence is the application of knowledge; wisdom is the quality of knowledge which enables a man to separate the important from the unimportant. |This we do continuously in life. And this ability to appraise the rough wisdom is what the world pays for. “The ability to work with others depends on these points: * “One’s frankness and honesty which al ways breed respect, provided these are not accompanied by arrogance of intolerance of opinion from others . “Receiving disagreement with reasoning, without becoming sore. “Thinking before speaking to a point. “When caught in error, one should admit it. Helps All Concerned PROPOSED raises for college professors may become a reality April 7 when the Legislature again takes up the problem of financing the state’s institutions of higher learning. The bill failed to be moved yesterday from the Appropriations Committee to the committee on Public Lands and Buildings, a more friendly group. The instructor pay raise proposition is the pivot point in the Legislature at this time. It would cost the state an additional 30 to 35 million dollars a year. A $600 flat increase is sought for the professors. Although this means more taxes, a natur al gas tax could raise an estimated 84 mil lion dollars a year. This money could be used for helping educate Texas’ youths. Help break the college professor’s salary drought with a rain of letters to your legis lators, urging the adoption of this bill. A living wage salary can provide more outstanding professors, better instruction, add prestige to the college and higher quality graduates. “Cultivating the habit of listening care*- fully to people who disagree with you. “When presenting a case, one should pre sent weak points first, then concentrate on strong points, and cut the grounds under ob jections of others before presenting positive points.” In talking to Chevalier and listening to him, we saw he had followed and still does many of these principles. It’s food for thought. Time Will Tell PREDICTIONS of things to come? * The Missouri House of Representatives has passed a bill which would allow Negroes to enroll at all Missouri’s state-supported uni versities and colleges. For the first time in its history, Negro delegates were recently in official attendance at the annual sessions of the Association of Texas colleges. #• Both of these incidents may be a prelude to the findings of the Supreme Court in its decision of segregation in schools. Arts and Darts Film Mixes Sex, Salt Water By JERRY BENNETT Battalion Managing Editor “Jeopardy” starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Snllivan, and Ralph Meeker — MGM — Palace Theatre “Jeopardy” confronts Barbara Stanwyck with a problem with which MGM believes every young wife has often been troubled. Should a girl make love to a desperate killer to get him to save hubby who, pinned under a log on the beach, is slowly being drowned by the rising tide ? Miss Stanwyck ponders this di lemma with the recklessness of a business major using a slide rule in scene after scene of surprisingly good celuloid rhelodrama. Disregarding its improbable theme, “Jeopardy” contains all the ingredients of the usual slick Metro production. Its calrti beginning is soon accelerated to a breakneck The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during 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, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation 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, Texas under the Act of Con gress 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 Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited 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 reserved. 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 Co-Editors Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett Managing Editors Harri Baker City Editor Peggy Maddox t. Women’s News Editor Today’s Issue Jerry Bennett .Managing Editor Joe Hipp News Editor Gus Becker.. Sports News Editor speed which completely passes most of Hollywood’s latest efforts in cinema suspense. A family of three takes a fish ing trip into lower California. The first afternoon the husband (Bar ry Sullivan) crashes through a rot ting fishing pier and is pinned under a heavy log support which falls on top of him. The log is too heavy for his wife (Miss Stan wyck) and young son to move. The beach is deserted and the water will be at high tide within four hours. While driving to find help, the wife is captured by an escaped convict (Ralph Meeker) who is not interested in getting his feet wet when the Mexican police are clos ing in on him. When not dodging police bullets, Meeker’s thoughts start turning to roughhouse romance. W'hen he catches Miss Stanwyck trying to jump from the speeding car he cracks, “Baby, you’re built for speed but not that kind.” As each of her attempts at es cape is spoiled, the tide on the beach is rising higher and higher. Miss Stanwyck uses her usual, subtle shock appeal to give the role an effectively shai'p person ality. Although allowed to speak only between breakers, actor Sul livan turns in his usual capable but unemotional performance. Ralph Meeker, who looks and sounds like a roughly polished Marlon Brando, turns in the show’s best portrayal. Whether “Jeopardy’s” answer to its water logged marital problem is what the average wife wants to hear, depends strictly on boxoffice results. . Staff News Writers Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors /.. News Editors Gus Becker, Bob Boriskie, Jerry Estes Sports News Editors Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice.Al Leroy Bruton, Guy Dawson, W. P. 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 Palhaer. Bill Shepard 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 Conrad Stralu Circulation Manager Lawrence Casheer, Jewell Raymond, J. R. Shepard, Fred Her nandez, Charles F. Chick Circulation Staff Bob Godfrey, Davey Davidson, Roy Wells, Keith Nickle, Melvin Longhofer, " Herman Meiners Photo Engravers Gene -Rydell. Perry Shepard, John Merrill Advertising Representatives Oean Kennedy; .File Cler£ Marshall A&M Club Holds Dance April 3 East Texas and northwest Louis iana Aggies are invited to the Marshall A&M Club Spring Dance at the Marshall Country Club April 3, said William Henderson, president of the club. The dance will last from 9 p. m. until midnight. Music will be furnished by the Wiley Combo, a Negro college orchestra. Marshall’s duchess to the Cotton Pageant will be presented at the dance. 15 SINGING STARS—Left to right, front row, Barbara McFarlane, Dorothy Heaton, Car olyn Morgan, Anna Hartung, Lynne Hendricks and Harva Wood. Second row, Barbara Ann Hinkley, Rosa Whisenhunt, Ethel Coffee, Mary Bob Johnson, Sue Titcomb and Eliz abeth Anne Jones. Back row, Betty Hall, Martha Stewart, Carole Ann Adams, Jerry Horning, Anne Neathery and Gloria Hipp, accompanist. Quaker Missionary Speaks Pacifism Seen as Solution By JOEL AUSTIN Battalion Co-Editor Quaker Muriel Lester has asked if America will find a man to lead its people not in the way of war, but toward spending defense dollars for training young people as agriculturists, engineers, heal ers and teachers to go about the world helping others and spread ing the word of God. byterian, Methodist, and YMCA campus Christian groups. In defining man in the three stages of her theme, she symboliz ed the brute as the member of Hit ler’s forces in World War II. Speaking to a large group of townspeople and students at the A&M Wesley Foundation Monday night the world traveler used as her theme “What is Man—Brute, Machine or Saint?” Miss Lester told of how she saw young German children being trained in the way of Nazism. “They were the happiest, heal thiest, most useful youths I had ever seen. I was told how they were led off to beautiful outdoor camps on weekends behind the waving of swastikas, only to hear of the great ‘perfect’ man whom they were fortunate to have as a lead- sed when they heard the bomb was dropped to save American lives,” charged the lecturer; they thought we were a Christian nation.” Speaking of man as a machine, she said we think more about man as a part of a machine instead of a controller. “We find our lives are becoming more mechanical and there are too many mechanical things to do,” she added. Animal Actions She emphasized that as long as we do not substitute considera tion for hate and understanding for fear, we will not find the truth and consolation of a Chrisitian way of overcoming our world problems. Russians Not Liked “We don’t like what the Rus sians are doing”, said Miss Lester, “yet we have crime, murder, and hatred in America. We don’t like these things either.” Traveling under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee (Quaker), Miss Lester is currently making her tenth tour of the United States. Her talk here was sponsored jointly by the Epis copalian, Disciples of Christ, Pres- “I was told a new sort of human being was in the process of evolu tion; healthy, happy, beautiful but animals. They never worried, be cause they had no inhibitions and nothing was wrong. They gave up their free will and their every act ion was commanded by one man. “They were nothing but brutes because their bodies were ruled by another”. Atom Bomb Brutal In reference to brutalism, she mentioned the atom bomb which America dropped on Japan. She claimed the rest of the world wasn’t so impressed with our excuses. “People of Africa, China and other countries didn’t feel impres- Rcferring to the saintly virtues of man, Miss Lester told how Hux ley once said he would gladly ac cept the opportunity to have the ability to always do what is right, without making decisions. She labeled this the same as an animal acting from instinct, taking the path that is already chosen. On the other hand, she explain ed, man has the ability to choose his course of action to select be tween light and wrong. A friend of Mahatma Gandhi, she illustrated his ability to always stand up for truth and the* way of God, regardless of the persecution and loss of following this stand created. She is a noted author and lectur er and founded Kingsley Hall near London. Miss Lester identifies her self with people of the East End of London. 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