Battalion Editorials
Page 2
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1953
GEORGI PORGIE KISSES THE GIRLS
.'I cMf Professo rs E os l 9
In Pay Raise Shuffling
OROFESSORS AT A&M are beginning to
wonder where they fit into the proposed
pay increases which have been floating
through and around the Legislature during
the last few weeks.
Today may tell the sad or glad story.
Although the Senate has passed a bill to
raise the wages of state employes 10 per
cent on the first $3,000 of present salaries
which means about $300 added to college in
structor’s income, no further action on this
bill has been taken. It is not part of the
general bill to pay for state operations.
The active and powerful lobby of high
school teachers is rocking the Legislature
with mail, telegrams and verbal “encourage
ment” as they try for their “wanted” $600
yearly salary increase.
Neither house of the Legislature has ap
proved the $600 increase, but both agree an
increase is due.
“It is a point of wisdom to be silent when
occasion requires, and better than to speak,
though never so well.”—Plutarch.
Don’t Forget,
Please Vote Today
riiQDAY IS VOTING day for College Station
citizens.
The polls will be open until 7 tonight. You
will have the chance to pick the City Council
members who will serve you for the next two
years.
Take part in your city government today
and vote.
It’s your voice as to who will operate your
city development and planning. Don’t for
get to vote.
It is logical to assume that the Legisla
tors understand the case, although perhaps
not as well as some teachers and professors
would want them to. Legislators are urging
a sliding scale, giving the bulk of the money
as an “incentive” raise to newcomers in the
profession.
The problem facing A&M professors is
that the 10 per cent state employe raise bill
seems to have been lost in the shuffle.
Through last weekend, a joint appropria
tions committee has been thrashing through
the problem and this afternoon, public hear
ings will be heard concerning the high school
teachers’ raise.
Word from Austin indicates that the Tex
as State Teachers’ Association will help the
college professors in their fight for a raise,
after one is approved for the high school in
structors. The shame is the weakness of the
college professors’ organization and lack of
“voice appeal” to the Legislature.
But the joint committee may include the
college instructors in their appropriations’
bill although they started their conference
last week without a definite bill concerning
the college professors alone.
Today’s session should shed some light on
the confusing issue.
At the present time, the 10 per cent in
crease of state employes’ salaries and the
presence of the TSTA lobby are college pro
fessors’ only “Easter eggs.” We hope it does
not end in an April Fool.
“What is good for the swarm is not good
for the bee.”—Aurelius.
Malenkov’s Policy
Impresses Few
“The thought of suicide is a great conso
lation; by means of it one gets successfully
through a bad night.”—Nietzche.
New Law Helps
Korean Vets, A&M
AN INCENTIVE was added recently for
^ Korean veterans to enter state colleges
and universities with Gov. Shivers signing
into law a bill which makes them exempt for
payments of fees and other charges, just as
are the veterans of World War II.
The bill of Rep. George S. Be^rry of Lub
bock gives them the same privileges as the
older veterans and also provides similar
terms for children of Korean veterans who
were killed in action or died while in service.
A&M is one of the 16 major state colleges
and universities which will benefit.
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in hand
for a bird in the bush.”—Plutarch.
A MEMBER OF the Congress seems infat-
^ uated by the recent Communist moves
and feels a “substantial reduction” is needed
in military spending, if a truce succeeds in
Korea.
However, other members of the nation’s
Senate are convinced that a fatal mistake
might be made, if the United States did re
lax at this moment.
In England, a Parliament member was
carried away by Malenkov’s administration
policy during the dictator’s first month in
power and suggested that the Soviet leader
be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The United Nations and the United States
should make every effort to obtain a peace
in Korea, but also to maintain all the defen
ses established since 1945.
To begin relaxing our guard at this time
would prove disastrous to the safety of the
world.
We should make every attempt to reach
a settlement with the Soviet, but we should
continue to remember our part and trust in
maintaining world security.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
“Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published
by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examina
tion 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 va
cation 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, Tex
as under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1870.
Member ©f
The Associated Press
Represented nationally by National
Advertising Services, Inc., at New
York City, Chicago, Los Angeles,
and San Francisco.
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred
ited 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) <5r at the Student Activities Office,
Room 209 Goodwin Hall.
FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN
Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett
Harri Baker
Peggy Maddox
Co-Editors
Jerry Bennett
Harri Baker
Gus Becker
Today’s Issue
Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors News Editors
G-us Becker, Bob Boriskie, Jerry Estes... .Sports News Editors
Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice,
A1 Leroy Bruton, Guy D-awson, W. P. Franklin,
K. D. Gossett, Carl Hale, Donald Kemp, Alfred
Rogers, Ray Smith, Jerry Sonnier,
Jon Kinslow, Dick
McAfee, Bill Rogers, Ray
Edwin 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
Thgmas ,, .Sports News Writers
Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry Amusements
Jon Kinslow, Dick Porter, Calvin Pigg City News Writers
Conrad Strain Circulation Manager
Lawrence Casheer, Jewell Raymond. J. R. Shepard
Fred Hernandez, Charles F. Chick.... Circulation Manager
Bob Godfrey, Davey Davidson, Roy Wells, Keith
Nickle, Melvin Longhofer, Herman Meiners. . Phot Engravers
UN, Reds Aji
Exchange of
MUNSAN, KOREA, April 7—UP)
The United Nations and the Com
munists agreed today to exchange
all sick and wounded prisoners of
the nearly three-year-old Korean
War.
Actual mechanics of the ex
change still must be worked out.
But there were only minor dis
agreements, and Allied officers
said they anticipated no trouble
reaching swift settlement.
The Reds said they would report
within the next day or so how
many disabled prisoners they would
deliver to Panmunjom for the ex
change, which could start within
a week after plans are completed.
Civilian war internees will be in
cluded.
‘Very Favorable’
The senior Allied liaison officer,
Rear Adm. John C. Daniel, said
the Communist attitude “is very
favorablt:
opments
Negot:
went sitt
ers here' .
pave tk
Total ta!
Maj. C-
of the til Fool\s
nine-poii: ryone, a
Daniel lf or ini])i
lor thesiggestioi
nists agrt
includinE.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Sen. Moore Explains Views
On Coeds to Dallas Club
heard a
hll'-ti’t as gi
The C re wasi
followingjur solid
• Ex the bat
wounded: base,
with mirb Ml the
the sent, h base
direct rtfke a run
lands oip was tl
those »2ception
ventionoi 3 wou i ( j
sent to :it 3re rum
• know
change p as a ] 1 j j
• Beer won It
number [ betwot
ho trad Ll Id colli'
down by
Editors, The Battalion:
Attached is a letter to the Dallas
A&M Club concerning “Day-Dod
ger” Moore’s stand on coeducation
at A&M.
This letter was printed in the
“Dal-Aggie” and we feel perhaps
you would like to print it.
(The letter, dated March 9, fol
lows) :
Dallas A&M Club
Mr. Robert A. Bell
913 Telephone Road
Dallas, Texas
Dear Mr. Bell:
Relative to our telephone conver
sation recently, I wish to give you
the following:
The principal reason for intro
ducing the resolution to make A&M
College coeducational as I see it is
to provide for the normal social and
spiritual development of the indi
vidual.
At present the college can and
does train its students to enter the
various technical fields with excel
lent backgrounds. The record of
graduates of Texas A&M College
speaks for itself. Where they have
excelled, I think they will go even
further with less readjustment to
society, were the college to become
coeducational.
We speak of traditions, surely all
Aggies and Aggie friends are
proud of those of A&M College.
Likewise, we as Americans are
proud of the United States of
America and hold dear: the tradi
tions passed down through its age
of development. But I do not feel
that traditions should be so binding
and unflexible as to prevent the de
velopment of the individuals con
cerned. Can we continue to be
proud of traditions if they prevent
the natural development of the
minds and spiritual bodies of the
individual ?
All of the other major colleges
now offer military science and
A&M College is no longer exclu
sive in this field. If it could be
worked out finally and A&M Col
lege should become coeducational
the college would become not only
the largest school in the southwest
but the best school in the south
west, academically as well as in
size.
If this action in the Senate
serves no other purpose than to
cause :i thorough study to be made
of this problem, then 1 think this
resolution is worthwhile.
Yours very truly,
Wm. T. Moore
State Senator.
>r we thii
dea that
ort. Tui
• Tl
cd will b k of decc
in group track,
^ jj (i ..)f a solu
tens ghi
tionality 1
and eigt., . v
crcd. 'tot Km,
my and <•’
. Ihe ile, if a i
mit chaiKy ar d das
points o! n 9. 8 s ., r
Adm.Donds am
Reds v add weig
the exck
“their s‘..
them t" WHERE-m-w 1 .
Driver Class Helps
Students Pass Test
Science Books Top
In Circulation List
Ags Language ‘Bad’
In Theatres
Editors, The Battalion:
The purpose of this letter is not
to bring out some error that the
editors of The Battalion may have
made in printing their fine news
paper, nor even to discuss the ques
tion of whether or not A&M should
go co-ed, but to make “mention of a
few, or many, as the case may be,
thoughtless Aggies who don’t have
the decency to leave their filthy re
marks at home when attending the
local theaters.
It’s a sad state of affairs when a
man can’t take his wife to a movie
once in a while without being
“graced” by the presence of these
loud-mouth show-offs, who, I feel
sure, would be the very first to
bloxv their tops if ever faced with
the same sorry statement.
W. A. Dunn ’53
A&M Consolidated High School
students who have taken driver’s
education courses have been al
most 100 percent successful in pas
sing state driving tests for license
each year since its introduction in
194(5.
The course is conducted by A&M
Industrial Education students, said
W. E. Wright, assistant professor
of Industrial Education. At the
completion of the course, Consoli
dated students are eligible to take
driving tests, Wright said.
The purpose of the course is
two-fold, Wright added. It in
structs students in the practice of
safe driving and teachers Industri
al Education students the techni
que of instruction in driver’s edu
cation after graduation.
Industrial Education students
conduct four classes daily at A$M
Consolidated High School. Stu
dents practice in a dual-operated
Pontiac, Wright said.
Dairy Show Set By
Kream, Kow Klub
More books on applied science
were circulated from the A&M
Library than on any other sub
ject, according to Mrs. John Ebbs,
circulation librarian.
Eight hundred and ninty-two ap
plied science books were checked
out of the A&M Library,
closely followed by 808 pure
science and (567 social science,
probably due to the fact that
A&M is a mechanical college, she
said.
Other books having high cir
culation and the number circulat
ed are : history 47.3; biography
.318; literature 330, fine arts 251;
psychology 166; religion 58; langu
age 43 and general subjects 25.
Total circulation for the month
was 8,362. Total number of books
taken out of the library was 4,-
845 and books read in the library
numbered 2,269.
There were 4,031 non - fiction
books circulated and 814 fiction.
1,163 reserve books were read in
the library and 85 reserve books
were checked out.
The present Cushing Memorial
Library building was built in 1930
at a cost of $25,000, and is avail
able to citizens of the Bryan- Col
lege Station community is well as
students and members of the fac
ulty, said Mrs. Ebbs.
ROGUE
IAL Mil
TIiSD A Y
J )DAY L
1-—Fealu n
3:45 - 5:!
Plans are now being made for
the annual spring dairy show spon
sored by the Kream and Kow
Klub, the dairy department’s tech
nical club.
A. L. Darnell, professor of dairy
husbandry, will be in charge of the
show. There will be some 50
dairy animals of all ages avail
able for student use, said Darnell.
The show will be held Saturday,'
April 25, at the new dairy center.
Fraps Gives College
Technical Papers
Over 400 technical papers were
recently given to the College Ar
chives by Dr. George S. Fraps,
retired State Chemist of the Ag
ricultural Experiment Station.
The papers deal with subjects
ranging from dyeing to soil fer
tility, and are bound in 20 auto
graphed volumes.
Thonsf
lege Stai
come tif
the ne«r
St^e ■gEWS ~
Hc ARTS W
15.
Tk H
of Houst'l
ed
Katy 1
A;
HmntcC;,.,
the Fits’ RlCHARDSOl
ton anl ton TODD
Bank 1) PATRICK • Dii
Station.
P O G O
-SEWS
Gene Rydell. Ferry Shpard, John
Merill Advertising Representatives
Dean Kennedy File Clerfc