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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1953 Election Commission Does Injustice to Students THIE STUDENT election commission is clo- in doing a fine job trying to make sure campus balloting is conducted fairly, but we believe this group has done the stu dents an injustice by not releasing full re sults of Thursday’s class elections. The commission withheld from publica tion the number of votes cast for each can didate for fear it may hurt the feelings of someone who received only a few votes. The commission also did not release the number of votes each man in the run-off received, believing it should be an “all or none” decis ion. We realize a few boys may get their feel ings hurt after discovering their popularity at the polls is not so high. But why protect these people in the first place? Our ballots are now jammed with names of dozens of men running for office. In many cases the candidates file for office and never do anything toward cam paigning or helping' their candidacy. If you protect these people you encourage partici pation on the ballot by people who are not enthusiastic enough to seek the post—evi dence usually they will not be very enthusi astic in carrying out its responsibilities if elected. At A&M we are plagued with the “run ner” like the “joiner” who gets his name on the role of several clubs and contributes lit tle as a member. These “runners” are being sheltered by the election commission to keep from hurting their feelings. Also in fairness to the men who support ed candidates for certain offices, we believe it a duty of the commission to make the re sults available for publication. These people like to know how their candidate finished in the race and how many votes competitors received. This action by the commission necessi tates placing a great deal of faith in their doings and leaves us to accept their an nounced results without contest. A contest would be impossible anyway since the ballots were discarded immediately after the count was taken. I TIeclic Goodwill Tour Sh re report t; -rev te.ci Clips Prexy zcev t o;■ itn in Au 3 p. « the C h;* Internal Hy HARRI BAKER Battalion City Editor President M. T. Harrington got his tie cut off yesterday when the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Goodwill Tour descended on the campus. The president’s tie clipping was only a part of the group’s hectic two-hour stay on the campus. Dressed in “Louisiana planter” hats, string bog ties, and carry ing cattleman’s canes, the 178 members of the tour were es corted from their special train to members Dimly hal that Havriti^gies. A “true” plant'Force l» president’s’, in le;n- like a strinf.ir is ;• The presiis the group t g tie through | slashing he rJ Among ftt ana’s ex-god and his hill-b:| Davis, who a political & S-'h sang severalatuxe. S band, includi:l:02 - 6 SECOND PLACE—Tom Waggoner, senior civil engineer ing student from Fort Worth, accepts the second place award for his paper “Engineering Marvels in the Great Pyramids” from Mason G. Lockwood, president of the Texas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Looking on is Walter Huber, national president of the A S C E. the MSC by the A&M band for «« an ^ '-m lunch with the College Station ^ ou A re Mj Kiwanis Club. Harrington’s Tie Splits At the luncheon, Harrington was given one of the “planters” hats by Louis Gregory, Shreveport master of ceremonies. authored. Mayors E; n lege Station; 1 <>f Bryan a'; ties and cant ’ Kiwanis pre^SON When the cane. Like:. )D K • Dinah Interviewed Seniors Say Senior Units Should Stay The week-ks — C urelay. They;——-, night and vji-EW night for c H P- “I would rather live in a senior Glaxner of Pampa, agreed they’d We recognize the hard work members of company than a. regular outfit in rather live in a senior outfit be- the commission devote to this task of run- the corps. - _ , , • *»j . i, j?i This was the opinion of 12 of 20 mng elections, but at the same time we teei soniors in seni( £ com p llnics in _ they owe to the students this privilege of terviewed before Col. Joe Davis’ knowing how many votes each candidate re- announcement of their abolish- ceived. rnent. cause it is easier to study and they meet more people in their own class. “Senior companies do not give a senior the chancq to prove him- Houston basiiij The group jf gore Junior I greatly iniproA..^ agrees, “I lived here a semester Rangerettes,’:i|!P without rank in order that I could your ba stay. A senior has much more 'p^jg t0U1 , freedom in a senior company/’ he Chambe: said. . city, to a d -'flPC. f The majority of those interview- country each; ed agreed with Jackie Price of g roU p' s S — < NEWS BRIEFS Two Students in Accident TWO STUDENTS, James Leonard DeMars of South Pasadena, Calif, and Irmin E. Stawicki of Newport Beach, Calif, met with a serious car accident at El Paso during the holidays. The damages of the wreck are unknown. Both DeMars and Sta wicki are in a hospital at El Paso. er for the college groups with ing Smith, MSC dance instructor, five to ten thousand students. MORE THAN 500 students have taken dancing lessons this year 1 said Oscar Garcia, chairman of the MSC Dance Committee. The stu- AROUND 60 STUDENTS from the animal husbandry meats class will visit the Houston Packing Company April 14. They will tour every department in the plant, which is the largest independent packing plant in the South. J. G. Moffitt is the class instructor. “The responsibilities in a senior company are actually the same as ill a regular corps outfit,” said R. this opportunity.” J. (Rudy) Stanislav from West. Steve Lilly of Nacogdoches dis- “You have better studying con ditions and meet more men in your own class by living here,” Stan islav continued. “I’d rather live in a senior company.” Only CO Runs Outfit are planning a series of square “In a regular outfit only the CO dance radio programs. has to worry and only he runs the The programs will begin Mon- outfit,” claimed Conrad Webb of day and held every Monday. It will El Paso. be broadcast from the MSC As- “In a senior unit you have more self,” claimed Richard Newman Tylor. “I like it right here,” he of Fort Worth. “If he were put said. “A senior company gi ves ;l in a regular unit, he would have person more freedom and there is reception cor- no class distinction. No bulldogging anyone else.” one sembly room. Smith will conduct friends and are closer to your own the dancing and calling from to 5:45 p. m. CONTEMPORARY art will be discussed by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coulter at 7:45 p. m. Mondays for the American Association of Uni class, but it is more like being a senior if you live in a regular out fit,” agreed Roy Lyon from Dal las. Neither More Beneficial THE SINGING CADETS will dents participated in five types of Perform for the First Methodist versity Women, said Mrs. W. H. dance classes, including beginning. Church m Houston Sunday night, rioiankno Ry^-an-Pnllocro SfnHr,„ intermediate and exhibition ball room dancing, Latin - American steps and square dancing. Delaplane, Bryan-College Station chapter president. The talk will be illustrated with * * * color slides of contemporary paint- A COMBINED SESSION of the ings, Mrs. Delaplane said. Their next appearance will be at TSCW April 18. Bryan and College Station Lions irtTe d R °°"> Hunter Talk “Actually, I don’t think either the senior company or regular outfit is more beneficial than the other,” commented Dave Chambers of Dallas. “I like the senior company bet ter because it offers more privacy,” he added. C. R. Pinson, San Antonio; John Morgan, Dallas; J. D. Centilli, Del Rio; Ralph Cox, Dallas and Joe Chancelor Gib/y^ j, ton, Burgess, ^ * City Manage L, ~ Dr. Frank S. * the College Commerce ani||j Association, m Enter \ Touri ’s — < Hubert M. Harrison Mary D. Cain Two A&M I ed in each dki? tional Debatel held here ton: \.Y 1 Joe Kiddle make up one: di vision. Job Scott compose Hk* that division. »* In the junior! East Texas CC Convention Slates Harrison and Cain first team, wl _ David Bowers y $|| The tourney; a luncheon in', Station, said Dr. R. D. Lewis, di rector. The money will be used in support of studies to determine the effectiveness of experimental defoliants upon cotton plants. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. There will be no Monday noon meeting of the College Station Lions next week because of the Tuesday affair, said L. E. McCall, of the local group. On Far East Camp Arrowmoon A female fighter for press free- to a controlled and policital press, dom and an agronomist with a Without funds or organizational Room at whiclit! awarded to the. both divisions y |f Teams haw f<#'; A&M, Del M,/ ,> Col Geortre M Hunter III will (A bent for humor have been added backing, she stumped the nation AUen Academy^/ <<<?_ r>.... Site OI aCOUt Ificet to ( the East Texas Chamber of in a freedom crusade. She rallied p,,. Hih-m Junio:**. lor, Blinn J’i ^ C. G. (SPIKE) WHITE assist ant to the dean of men for Stu- P -, i j t) ui- • ji , .. t-. commerce s z/tn annual conven- oenma ner a vast majority oi Junior asitology and Public Health m the Boy Scout troops from Brazos .. • ,, n/ra^. * •, u t- * /•,. * JUIU01 v - ouegt ’tas&a&te * 7. r 1 • 7 Jv turn program m the MSC April newspaper editors who first bit at j or ^, ssassa&v. Far East” at 8 p. m. Tuesday in county will hold the district field ^3.^4’ THE MSC CRAFT’S Committee th e lecture room of the Biological meet April 24 and 25 at Camp Hubert dent Activities and Bennie Zinn, will discuss their Mothers’ Day Sciences Building. Arrowmoon. M. Harrison, College, Si-'- 0 o Houston and U: J assistant to the dean of men, are representing A&M at a meeting of student personel administrators in East Lansing, Michigan, today. Zinn is on the registration commit tee and White is a discussion lead- exhibit at 7 p. m. Monday in the Sponsored by the graduate craft club room of the Center, said School, Hunter’s talk is open to Mrs. Garland Marshall, sponsor. THE MSC Dance Committee, radio station WTAW and Mann- The Battalion the public, said Dr. Ide Trotter, dean. The speaker is of the Medical Corps Service Corps, chief par asitology and entomology, Fourth Consolidated High School. Army Area Medical Laboratory, ta " A !?s» Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Fort Sam Houston. Hunter has done extensive work in the field of pai-asitology and has numerous papers on this sub ject, Trotter said. His earlier pub lications were predominately on the cestodes or tapewonn group of parasites. A dynamic and interesting 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, speaker, he will illustrate his lec- and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods ture with lantern slides Trotter and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per added This lect ure ‘ should be of month. Advertising rates furnished on request. interest to all zoologists, workers in animal science, veterinary medi- N ew cine, physicians, public health the bait of government advertis- general ing. manager of the regional chamber, The legislation, she preached, *** The complete Brazos district cal- announced that Mississippi rural would kill the institutions it sur- A o - l , l endar for April is as follows: newspaperwoman Mary D. Cain ported to save. She led the fight April 14 - District Committee will outline her “One Woman Re- to kill the legislation, meeting at Camp Arrowmoon for bellion” and Caesar “Dutch” Hohn, “Dutch” Hohn, Texas Agricul- all unit leaders and guests. agriculture expert, will speak on tural Extension Service expert for April 21-Cubbing show at A&M “Fun and Filosophy.” 27 years, teacher, businessman, Sum mitt (Mississippi) Sun own- and orator, was born in Yorktown, er Mary Dawson Cain, a newspaper Texas, in 1887. He has devoted his ., -r- , , staff by herself, from editor to entire life to Texas farmers. Both ,, „ April -I-Board of Review to be- p ress operator, gained national ac- speakers will appear on the April a lDonomy' depart held at the City Hall confeience c i a j m j n dei . fight for a free rural 14 morning business session. Last year, 0 o c loom m Biyan. press back in 1943. Already announced for the April majors were April 24,25-District field meet at When a plan for subsidizing 13 program are State Highway farming on tW.’HAPfi Arrowmoon. small town papers was introduced Engineer DeWitt Greer and at- said. The method.NK, ... April 20-24-Scoutmasters Train- in the Senate, Mary Cain was the torney John McCall, speaker on bers for the t JQY 3 ing course to be held at the YMCA first and loudest to point out the “Financing Water Conservation last .night ats^fBU in College Station. hidden dangers which would lead Projects.” Agronomy Societi April 23-Scout show at YMCA. Any a grow to apply for a r ^ tion of the com'” ing, said Dr. ' \lf P O G O Y 1 Entered as second - class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. 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Co-Editors ^bTheMatVthis ^ftc^noon 7n Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett Managing Editors ,. wr n r t nn i rr Harri Baker City Editor ^ A&M Methodist Church Ferris Peggy Maddox ...Women’s News Editor Baker, director of the Wesley Foundation at Denton, will con- IT SO UP TO NEWHAMP5UIFZ PEOM PANAMA-'tiXVX nobody TO STOP IT. NEW HAMPEVllKE POLKS 1 EttPOESD/ AN'THE KENTUCKY WAK31E5?—WHOO/ (SUNS IN FfcOAA COtcM^iA Evee'CHANce he err. MOL£ eO/VE KEEP l EM OLfr.C AN’you, IS you 60NE BE SKEEKTOPF LTL ABNER Good Citizenship Today’s Issue Jerry Bennett Chuck Neighbors. Bob Boriskie Managing Editor News Editor Sports News Editor Boh Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors /..News Editors Jerry Estes . . . lines. Bob Aid mklin, R. D. G< Bill Rogers, R; kie, Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice.Al Leroy Bruton. R. D. Gossett, Carl Hale, Donald IPP. Gus Becker, Bob Boriskie, Jerry Estes Sports News Editors i, Frank I - ' , W. P. 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Also kill ed were Dr. Thomas H. Haltom Sr., 56, of the chemistry depart ment and Elmo Daunie, an em ploye of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. Dr. Haltom was buried Wednes day in the Bryan City Cemetery. Dr. LeRoy’s body was cremated by the Williams Funeral Home in Beaumont. fl SEE. I BK3 WHEEL IN SLOBBOVIA. SUPPOSE "a lie I GAT SLOBSOVIAN STATE DEPOTTMENT TO PASS LAW DECLAP ING WOU A GORU.Y WOULI VOU OiAE-Y