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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. She has traveled around
the world six times.
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Local Combat Pilot
Back From Korea
Lieutenant John H. Lugwig ’50,
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Ludwig
of Bryan, returned from Korea
Monday, where he flew 109 combat
missions and bagged one Red MIG.
Lt. Lugwig, pilot of an F-86
Sabre,, was in Korea eight months.
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