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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1953 Dove of Peace Looms As People Sigh Relief (Editor’s note: This is -an editorial which appeared in The Battalion pn July 6, 1951. It sounds rather familiar.) ^ FAINT SUGGESTION of the dove of Peace looms in the indistinct future and already there are signs of relief and urgings to reduce the defense program. Just how foolish can people be? Hopes for peace are, at the most, very tentative. And, should peace in Korea come, that will mean but one thing—the only “hot” episode of the Cold War has come to an end. Few Americans would deny that they want peace. Few other countries want war. But, as long as one country—and that a strong country—shows any promise of aggression, there can be no peace. World peace is not an attitude in your mind that bades you disregard ominous warning from abroad. ISew Slates Crumble Without Discipline HTHE BEGINNING of a school term always gives a student a fresh and wonderful feeling. He says to himself he is going to put all his bad habits behind him and start with a completely new slate. A few students actually carry out this resolution. But very few. Everyone likes to think he will do better than the last time, but like a man once said, “Thinkin’ don’t make it so.” The few who do have the determination and will power to start fresh are the ones who, at the end of the semester, never worry about final exams and passing courses. They are the ones you hear about that “used to make the lowest grades around here, but all of a sudden he distinguished.” What these persons have who can thrust bad habits aside is a question to which many would like the answer. Many factors enter in individual cases, but probably one of the most common is self discipline. During freshman week each year, papers are passed out which have outlined on them a blank schedule of the week. It contains each hour of the day and each day of the week. Educators say that if these are filled out properly and abided by, they can influ ence a person’s habits a great deal. This simple little scheme shows a person how many hours he wastes each day. It shows him how to utilize these wasted hours, and in the final analysis, this little piece of paper can easily mean the difference between good and bad grades. Starting this long tough road of self dis cipline is like a person beginning a diet. Self discipline determines whether he will stick with it or cast it aside because it “wouldn’t work anyhow.” The person -who sets his course early this summer, backs it up with well-laid plans, then shoots it through with determination and self discipline, is the one who will show up at the end of the session with the best grades, most accomplished, and the most out of his time at Aggieland. Plundering Nations Are Great Gangs IUSTICE IS as strictly due between neigh- bor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.—Franklin The only real world peace is a harmony in world affairs, shown by unstrained rela tions .between the major powers of the world. Any barriers that bar exchange of thought, goods, and, above all, good will, is a sign that world peace does not exist. To wish for peace and to work for peace are entirely different aims. In the world of today, real efforts toward peace come only from logical preparations to resist a breach of- that peace. Any peace of today must be bought at the expense of armed might. That does not mean that force must always be the only road to harmonious rela tions. Quite to the contrary, a peace bought at the cost of fear and force could never endure. But, until the existing evils spawned by terrorist governments and rule by oppres sion cease to exist, an enforced peace seems to be the only answer. When the coal-miners of Pennsylvania and the miners of Siberia can openly discuss mutual questions, when a man can be assured of a just trial in all corners of the earth, and when foreign ministers can meet to calmly discuss the conduct of world affairs, citizens may well talk of peace and the luxu ries that accompany it. Until that time, peace will remain as an ideal toward which all right-thinking people must diligently work. Extra Effort Pays Off In Dividends niPHE LARGEST dividends in success and happiness are the reward of those who are willing to invest extra effort. Extra effort does not insure extra divi dends, but the policy of putting-it-off-until- tomorrow is the straightest road to failure and a minimum of happiness. -There is a—great deal of satisfaction-hi- doing a job well. Whether you are building a model airplane or trying to raise a course grade a letter, the extra effort that results in reaching the goal you have set for yourself gives you a feeling of pride-ih what you have accomplished. , If you start out to mow the lawn and it takes you a week to finish the job, it is quite disconcerting to find that the first part needs mowing again. You don’t feel you have accomplished much. The same principle holds for the model plane. If you put it down when it is half finished, what have you accomplished? Perhaps Man is the only creature with a reluctance to put out that extra effort. A complete survey of a wooded area filled with bird nests would be unlikely to produce a single bird that built half a nest—and then stopped. 'Has anyone ever heard of a beaver building half a dam, and then stopping? The dam can be washed away a dozen times, but the beaver resolutely begins the job of re building. He believes in that extra effort. At some time all of us feel that our daily work is dulled by monotony. We begin to develop the feeling of “being in a rut.” That is the time to take stock of what we are doing. Either the job is wrong, or we are wrong. If it is the job, yoq’d better consider changing to something more suitable to your personal tastes. If it is you, that extra effort will not only improve your work, but make it a more stimulating and satisfying experience. 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. PETER PAN HAD NOTHING ON THEM Lockj aw Warningj ^ Liven For Stimnir Claims Increasing numbers of lockjaw will develop between now and fall, State Health Officer Geo. W. Cox warned today, despite known meas ures of prevention. Lockjaw, or tetanus, cases jump in summertime because exposures in the form of cuts, scratches, or puncture wounds are more frequent in warm weather when people are out-of-doors. The germs of lockjaw are com monly found in soil — especially manured soil. They enter through a skin break and emit a deadly toxin which causes jaw and neck muscles to constrict so severely that jaws involuntarily close, vice- like. Slowly, the muscle constrcition spreads to other body muscles, un til the victim is bent like a bow. A fatal case of the disease has -the j been traced to a SQratcli j roset horn. Lockjaw germs are s P v y<gek e ei-s, which means they car years outside an animal ir life processes lie donnan 1 seed-like pod, sifting ab. BaV1,i ’ each bai e na la For Study and Research Wildlife Trip to Students Plan Guerrero Jungles Unusual experiences await a group of students in the Depart ment of Wildlife Management at A&M this .summer when they re sume the study begun last year on the wildlife resources of the Mexican State of Guerrero. “Parrots will chatter at them from the tree tops of the jungle, boa constrictors may slither across their paths at night, kinkajous ^nd coatis peer at them in silence and the jaguar grunts his displeasure at their intrusion of his domain,” Dr. W. B. Davis, hegd, Department of Wildlife Management, says. “Opportunity will be afforded to partake of such exotic native foods as papayas, tacos, dried iguanas,” Dr. Davis points out. Prof. Keith Dixon, Department of Wildlife Management, and Chester Rowell, Department of Biology, will be in charge of the party of 11 students. The group will make studies of the native birds, mammals, reptiles, amphi bians and plants in an effort to learn their abundance and distribu tion in the state and their economic importance. This study was ini tiated last summer at the request School Leaders Will Conduct Meeting Here The seventeenth annual meeting of the Texas School Administra tion Conference, the twentyeighth meeting of the Texas Association of County Superintendents and the third meeting of the Texas Asso ciation for Instructional Supervis ors, will be held here June 22-24. Consultant speakers for the general meetings will be Dr. Kate Wofford, head of the department of elementary education, Univer sity of Florida; Dr. Lawrence Derthick, superintendent, Chatta nooga public schools and president of the American Association of School Administrators. Also Dr. Frank Williams, assis tant superintendent in charge of instruction, Dallas public schools; David Sellars, coordinator of in struction, Fort Worth p u b 1 i c schools and Dr. A. T. Dyal, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Bryan. R. E. Slayton, superintendent of the Longview public schools, is president of the Texas School Administration Conference. G. L. Wilcox, head of the de partment of educatipn and psychol- ogy, is secretary of the confer ences. If you like fresh, of Sr. Luis Macias, director of the Mexican Department of Game, and will continue each summer until the state is adequately explored. The party will establish base camp near the village of Aca- huizotla on the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur. From there they will work the cloud forest of the mountains, which rise to an elevation of more than 11,000 feet and the tangled jun gles of the tropical lowlands. The group will have many friends in Acahuizotla as a result of a similar field study made last summer, by wildlife management students. Although the students will be living in camps, all the comforts of home life will not be lost. They can get their weekly laundry done by native women. They will be invited to attend fre quent fiestas (dances) held by the country folk. But in the main, the daily routine is work from dawn to dark collecting and pre paring specimens, writing field notes, cooking, and cleaning camp. Students making the trip ai’e Darrell Morris, Dublin; Terrell Hamilton, Abilene; Thelton Mc- Corcle, Odessa; Don Richards, Banquete; Vernon Hicks, Three Rivers; George Griffith, Smith- ville; Jude Kubicek, Wallis; H. D. Irby, San Antonio; George Wil kinson, San Angelo; Galyn Rhymes, Cross Cut and Paul Lukens, Hib- bing, Minnesota. ground until finally, through a sliver or nail; [tents gets back into live tissue, The wound may heal, bt protected as it is from thr’IHLI. spore will begin “revege and emitting deadly toxin, I Farmers arc' especially] able to lockjaw, Dr. Cox a' because the primary source jaw germs is the intestine of farm animals. They’reUBEL onto the ground in animali easily available for re-eit, • a human body when that] cut or scratched or wounded. Exposures to lockjaw i common that it is mere tjtcI sense for everyone to ma: high level of protection \ii nization. Dr. Cox called thi| od of and convenient.’ nizing shots should be gr dren early in life, at the d of the family physician. 1BELL’ “You can’t go to a doc 1 ^^ ^ every little scratch,” he er ed, “so the best way tohjyjQj, is to take an immunizing Y, shots, and keep the immun high with periodic ‘booster — MOND gaining immunity nvenient.” He said loi Directors To Meet)]\j ] Here on June 27 The board of divectors m m A&M College System wilJlVU June 27, at 10 a. m. on tt- pus of the college. MOND —mje: FT. WORTflfc 1 Hour, 56 Minutes BELL’ Timed By Baylor IPs , AI 4 Phone 4-5054 for res ‘vatioMl’s, - —YNN z£ >4i y. ‘ ted GROCERIES Chase & Sanborn’s Coffee . . . 1-1 b. can 89c IV2 Oz. Cans—Hunt’s Tomato Sauce . 2 cans 15c 14 Oz.—Snider’s Tomato Catsup ... 2 bottles 33c 7 Oz. 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