Battalion Editorials
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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
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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:.
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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. '
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Services Set
For Dr. LeRoy
Memorial services for Dr. Royce
FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN.. 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-
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TO STOP IT. NEW HAMPEVllKE POLKS 1
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duct the services.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Maiy Leroy; a son, William; and
one grandchild.
Dr. Leroy was killed in a cruiser
explosion on the Neches River near
Beaumont last Saturday. 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.
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