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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1953 Clark Case Is Closed W i th Wh i te C h ris tm as Several years ago a songwriter with a name like the German capital jotted down a few notes, handed them to Bing Crosby and everyone started singing “White Christ mas.” The song was a hit. Irving Berlin got his income tax jacked up and Crosby could af ford a lew stable of race horses. Yet the song had one fault. In the South people could sing their lungs out but Christ mas still came and went stark naked. Last week A&M finally broke the tradi tion. It started celebrating a white Christ mas. And almost a month early, too. The festi cities are still going on and everybody’s happy. The John Clark case is closed. The press is happy. It latched on to a story that made front pages throughout the state. Even Time magazine, in its own sarcastic way, found space for John and his troubles. John Clark is happy. He’s gone to an other college and received more publicity than Marilyn Monroe would get if she start ed going steady with Georgi Malenkov. The students, who stopped by for a friendly chat with John, are happy. They can keep shining their rank or rumpling their blue jeans without being embarrased. They may have even revived another excuse for a tradition. The administrat^O-h, i^Jjappy. Why? The students are happy. Yes, everybody’s happy. Everybody’s hanging up their stockings except those who still like to toy around with the fantasy that no one who tampers with a principle of democratic freedom can get away with it. They have decided to wait until Dec. 25 for their goodies. Letters to the Editors, The Battalion: May I ask as to what church my wife and I will be permitted to at tend Sunday and every Sunday thereafter? Being a student of A &M College, living on this state owned property, paying state taxes to support this college and not haying the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and press, then we surely do not have the rights of freedom of religion while living here. In the twenty six years that I have known this college, I have never known of any such action as that of Thursday night. That action cjuljd only be classed as the most dj^igracefui thing that has ever nappened to any college in the United States. Rights that citizens of this country have fought numerous wars for are being taken away by a small group of narrow minded mobster’s that have set themselves up as judges to pass on what a person says or has printed. Do the other six thousand students agree that this small minority group is representing the entire student body? Some of us in this college have had an occasion to fight in two wars and kill human beings be cause they would not permit others to have such rights as we Ameri cans are suppose to have. And now some small group of individuals here in our own college has de cided that we as free American citizens cannot express our own opinion on some subjects. For what reason did thousands of us have to fight in foreign countries when we new have the : same problem to deal with in our own community? By whac authority do you “bodies” of that mob place your self in position to be the sole judge of others? Would you as an individual have taken that same action. Will you be the next person to be taken care of in that manner? Should I sit in my room at night and study for a major quiz never knowing if I will be on the campus in the morning? Am I to live be hind locked doors for fear of mob action ? Should I refrain from ex pressing my opinion to my wife or friends for fear of being forced to move out some night by a group of narrow-minded individuals , pre senting themselves as Aggies ? Am I not an American citizen with as much free rights as others ? ’' v ' In what manner should I defend my rights under such action • if I was forced to do so because of mob violence ? On two other occasions some of us have found that the most thorough means of defense was weapons, killing those that did not want others to have the rights of a free person. Would that,, be the only means of putting a stop to the mobsters ? As everyone knows from past experience, a mob has no power of reasoning. I do not agree with John Clark on his views of A&M but 1 do feel that he was unjustly ordered from this college by unauthorized persons and action should be taken to dismiss those students involved. Should any of the persons involved be a cadet with a contract, the contract should then be revoked as he could not and never would be a leader of men that had to place their lives in his hands. Should the' guilty students be permitted to continue-in this col lege, it would be a green light for such action again and would ex pand to such appoint that other students would not enroll for fear of being driven out by mobsters during the night. The mob action shown Thursday night by fifty or sixty students could continue and eventually end in the death of someone or several persons should the. mob try to run someone out that does not believe in such foolishness. Will silver taps be sounded a night after such faction ? Yes, if such action is permitted to i con tinue. • . , • J I for one suggest that President Morgan request and get the re signation of each individual in volved in Thursday nights ^disg raceful adventure as those individ uals could not. .possibly be repre senting A&M ; College with such action. C. M. Arrington ’51 ★ Job Calls ★ ® Dec. 1-The Bell system, which includes Southwestern Bell, Sandia corporation, Western Electric com pany, Bell Laboratories and Ameri can Telephone & Telegraph com pany, will inter-view January and June graduates in electrical, aero nautical, mechanical, industrial, and civil engineering, physics and mathematics and January grad uates in industrial education. © Dec. 1-Arthur Young and Com pany will be here from 3 to 5 p. m. to interview accounting majors graduating this year. ® Dec. 2-Halliburton Oil Well Cementing company will interview mechanical, electrical, chemical and petroleum engineering majors at all degree levels and advanced de grees in chemistry. Openings available are for trainees for field engineering in well service opera tions. Also engineers for equipment design, tool development and me chanical research and development positions. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” 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 per’iods. 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 vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .75 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as secend-class matter at Pest Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1S70. Member of The Associated Press Represented naticnaily by ^rational Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, LOs Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the tise for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or pot otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Eights of renublication 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, 2Q2 Goodwin Hall. Classified'ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. . JERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER Dmck Neighbors Managing Editor .Co-Editors Karri Baker .Campus Editor Bob Bpriskie- ^ppirti Editor J6n Kxnslow .—„.n.».City Editor jerry Estes B4iie Eivisidh Editor Bob Hendry Sditof Barbara Rubin : ...: Society Editor Jerfy Wizig.. 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Successful applicants will start as junior engineers in design and manufacture of military aircraft. © Dec. 2-lnternatioua' Business Machines corporation will inter view January and June graduates in business administration, ac counting, industrial education, in dustrial, mechanical and electrical engineering, physics and mathe matics. They have opportunities available in sales, applied science, research and development engi neering, product release and pro duction engineering, customer engi neering, manufacturing engineer ing and business administration. • Dec. 2-The U. S. Gypsum com pany will interview January grad uates at all degree levels in me chanical engineering and account ing. Mechanical engineers would work in the plant engineering de partment and do design, erection and remodeling work. Work for ac countants would cover all purchas ing, inventory control, payrolls, equipment and supply records, pro duction cost accounting and control develop in the office. ® Dec. 3-Chicago Brodge and Iron company will interview January graduates at all degree levels in civil and mechanical engineering. Trau _ would be in field con struction, shop fabrication and engineering drafting. There will be ® Dec. 3 and 4-6il Well supply will interview January graduates in mechanical engineering who are in terested m either siles engineering hr design vhrk, and business ad ministration graduates who are in terested in audit work and also sales And management. for FOE ALE THE FAMILY FEGAEDL5SS OF AGE Available The Exchange Store Cadet Slouch by Earle AN Y T M EW M I NI Q YODAV, MOTU1MG MlKU, DEAM r CADETS RAM A. STUDEIMT OUT OM A RAIL, Doe WERE FLO ATE O, ie T/SU KILLED, MILITARY DEPART MEMT DHF'STISoYED M-StC. 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