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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1954 People Should Follow Example Set by Council Planning for the future is something that takes much consideration before any thing definite can be done. College Station is considering what its needs are now and what they will be in the coming years. However, before embarking on a sewage system development plan, the city council has studied the plan thoroughly and found out the city’s needs and the solutions to these needs. The planning is now in the hands of the citizens advisory board, appointed to se lect a cure for an inadequate sewage system. After this group thinks the problems through, they will recommend to the coun cil what action they deem necessary. The council, with whom the final decision on the proposals rests, will, in all probability, pro pose a bond election based on the findings of the advisory boards. After this, the voters will be the ulti mate judge as to how wisely the council and the advisory board have handled the prob lem. The council, with the help of the city engineer, has spent 18 months trying to solve a problem of the city. After such an intensive study by the council, each voter should in turn take it upon himself to know what the issues are and what will be the long range effect on the community. Only then can anyone vote as a thinking individ ual. Letters to the Editors Editors, The Battalion: The plight of your newspaper— and unhappily not one confined ex clusively to the A&M campus—has come to my attention in several ways during recent weeks. ft first came to my attention through discussion by members of the sportsmanship group (compos ed of campus presidents, editors, cheerleaders and athletes), and lab el- in the copy of your paper now before me with the banner read ing, “SLC Group to Discuss Stu dent Publications.” The discussion I speak of—and this happily—by student leaders indicated strong sentiment against interference from outside sources with editors of the publications for which they are responsible. Con cern was registered due to increas ing tendencies toward such inter vention with campus newspapers, especially. Such movements may or may not be products of our times—period pieces aggravated by investiga tions, censorship, conformity, pres sure, supervision, restrictions and controls now becoming common place, both on our campuses and in our country. But we cannot be content to sim ply ascribe these attacks to such an atmosphere and rest on the mer its of individuality and freedom of the press. There ai'e many battle fields—and the fight must be made on each of them. l am pleased and proud that The Battalion is fight ing, and fighting well, on its edi torial pages. I am no less proud that The Battalion is fighting only through the editorial pages of the great weapon at its command, and that its news coverage of the situ ation is clear, concise, and objec tive. There are those from whom the last statement — that your- news coverage of the situation is objec tive—will evoke catcalls, cries of anguish, heated denials and open disgust. This is ever the situation when there are those who do not recognize objectivity staring them in the face—when there exists (as certainly there always shall) — completely biased, mightily indig nant and highly vocal partisans who interpret, oft times honestly to their own way of thinking, such objectivity as biased. And the key here, of course, is as always—it is biased—against their bias, as ob jectivity always is. Such complaints against press liberty always find those ready to rally round the banner of civic pride and rosy contemplation of unfound Utopias. There are those who, for specific reasons usually not hard to trace, play the role of rouser in these frays; those who join of general motivation from having been disappointed through existing circumstances, turn of events, unforeseen displeasures and the firm belief that “all’s right that’s reported right,” and those who bear personal grudges against individuals involved in the contro versy and choose to plight their disfavor through the veiled dag ger of honest disagreement. Fortunately, for our predeces sors, ourselves and our posterity, there are those whose equally firm belief in the principles at stake and whose unswerving convictions of basic liberties bring them to the defense of the freedom of the press per se. It is these, along with those of aforementioned general motivation who eventually recog nize, even in their vague reason ings,; that cures carefully studied sometimes are worse than ills they are designed to ease, that have, and shall continue to save the day for this, one of our most cherished of constitutional 'guarantees. It is our sincere hope that these fox-ces—recognizing censox-ship for the injustice axxd inequities it im poses, though the woi'd be unheard and the purpose cloaked—will rise up on the campus of the fine Texas A&M College as they have else- whei'e axid defeat the ever-chamg- ing but always-px-esent opponents on the field of pidnciple. I have x’ead the stoxies coixcexm- ing the departux-e of an Aggie fol lowing a widely-known incident on your campus. Let me congx-atulate your paper on 75 years of exist ence so inspected and so stable as to allow your unhampered x-eport- ing of such incidents. Wo hex-e at Ai'kansas ax-e also foi'tunate in that we have a paper of such sovereign statux-c. All too few schools today have campus newspapers with li cense to i-eport the news as they see it—as do all of the papers mak ing up our great Axnei’ican press axxd as must any paper retaining mutual respect and self integi'ity. The Chamber of Commerce ap proach used publicly by your an tagonists is one being seen mox-e and mox-e often. A reminder that some of the best “Chambers of Commerce,” some of the most en viable publicity, some of the most widespread public agreement on questions of importance, axxd some of the xxiost complete public ignoi’- ance of facts and events which would add conti-oversy to that do mesticated world of smug serenity exist in our year 1954, might be in order. To those who would harass The Battalion, freedom of comment, freedom of speech and freedom to disagree is yours, but never is a freedom so misused as when it is exploited in an effox-t to deny an- qther. Your “hex-oic” effox-ts to abolish what seems to you unfa- vorable comment in your daily press may be looked upon with fa vor by some, but cei’tainly cannot by those such as myself who, though respectful of A&M and bearers of highest esteem and i*e- gax-d for its traditions and pxinci- ples, must look only with contempt upon the rah-rah school newspaper philosophy advocated by the sum mer soldier and the sxinshine stu dent. Again, we hex-e ax-e confident that Americans, Texans, and surely Aggies will not fail to recognize that which by any other name still bears its brand—censorship. . . . . . . the Eyes of Arkansas ax-e upon you ... « Graham Sudbury, Managing Editor, Arkansas Daily Traveler, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ai'kansas SIndents to Hear Flora I Designer Mx-s. John E. Demmei', floxal de- signex*, commentator and owner of a Houstoix flox-ist shop, will speak to the Floriculture and Landscape Ai'chitectui’e club at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12 in the assembly room of the Memox-ial Studeixt Centex-. Mrs. Demmer will bx-ixxg hex- staff fi-onx Houston with hex*, ixx- cluding two models. The Bx-yan axxd College Station gai’den clubs have been invited, and the meeting is open to the public. CHS Band Mothers Meet Tonight At 7:30 The A&M .Consolidated high school Band Mothex-s’ club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the high school library for a business meet ing. Mi-s. Walter Vaxwel, club px-esi- dent, emphasized that this would be a vex-y important meeting and urged all band mothers to attend. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultux-al 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, 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 bn request. Sntered aa second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas iinder the Act of Con- cress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services. Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for repubU- :ation of all news dispatches credited to it ox npt otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights >f 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) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. fERRY BENNETT, ED HOLDER- Chuck Neighbors Karri Baker .Co-Editors Managing Editoi Campus Editox Bob Boriskie Sports Editox ion Kinslow City Editox ferry Estes Basic Division Editor Bob Hendry Feature Editor Barbara Rubin. Society Editor Jerry Wizig ....... Associate Sports Editor Prank Hines, Jerry Neighbors, Bob Domey, Jim Coillns, Ray WaJl, A1 Etsenberg. Arnold Goldstein, Bill. Parsons, Bill Warren, Jack Farley, John Linton. King McGowan, Jay Ireland, Charles Kingsbury, George Mah'tzas. E. B. McGowan ...Staff w:r!ters Gardner ColUns Bob Palmer, Tom Skrabanek James .Earle. ........... - - IV Seymour Smith, Will Holladay, John Maacher Larry Lightfoot 1 ^ Roland Baird, Jewel i-aymaai, Monrcei Cdc-_, 1 Syler,- Swidy \v —, Russell Reed Circulation Staff .Exchange, Editor .. . .Advertising Staff Staff Cartoonist ..Staff Photographers Circulation Manager City Builds Bridge For Kids, Bikes A footbi-idge fox- pedestx-ians and bicycles is being construct ed on Jersey street west of highway six. The bridge, which will be four and a half feet wide, is being built next to a stx-eet bi'idge. It will px-obably be ready by the end of the week, said Ran Boswell, city man ager. “Wc ax-e building it for the children who walk and ride bi cycles to school,” he said. Cadet Slouch . by Earle Student Life (Continued from Page 1) its Student Aid committee on how much money would be loaned to students for medical treatment. Loan limits were upped fx-oixi $100 to $300 for students. Mem bers of a student’s family may re ceive $200 instead of the pi-esent $100. Loans, up to $50 may be made for smaller medical needs such as glasses and dental bills. Students xxxay box-row up to $300 for emex-gencies bi'ought about by fires and auto wx-ecks. The Student Aid committee will pay for flowers sent to families of students who die while eni-olled at A&M. Flowex-s also will be sent to families of deceased faculty membex-s and staff members deal ing with students. Exchange Store A motion to use $907 from Ex change Store funds for buying ath letic equipment for doimitoi'ies and intramux-als was appx-oved. The equipment includes 24 dozen soft balls, 15 dozen soft ball bats and 15 dozen footballs. ’ Student Life members passed a motion to sponsox- “Apple Polish ing- Night” when facxxlty nxeixxbers will invite students to their homes to visit. But some ixieixibers did not like the title “Apple Polishing Night.” A motion was passed to , ,i cx i x tt ,ix.v t> xi noons a week, when the weather ’ Flying-Ts mxTe"'ohIy"on /-»/-\ i-v-*-i-vv i PPr-x/A Tix i/-»i-* w I «rvx»-»J3/-I rno rvxrrfTxt ■ - committee; which plaxxned the event to reconsider the title. Student Life will approve whatever name the committee recommends, includ ing the continuation of “Apple Polishing Nig-ht.” Foods Group Sets Annual Supper The foods group of the College Women’s Social club will hpld the axxnual Men’s Night supper at 7 p.m. Friday at the A&M Presby terian church. The husbands of the irxeinbers will be special guests for a United Nations buffet supper. Frank Coxjltcr will be guest speaker. Hostess will be Mx-s. Ralph Ter- x-y and seiwing as co-chairmen will be Mrs. R. M. Stevenson and Mrs. John A. Way. Reservations must be tui’ned in by noon Wednesday. IN on-Regs To Keep Same Housing Plan No new housing aiT-angements ax-e planned for non-militax-y stu dents next semester, said Hax-ry Boyer, of the housing office. There are 1,026 nonl-military students living iix 518 x-ooms, he said. Thei'e axe 1,036 beds iix the non-military dormitox-ies. “It is anticipated that thei'e will be enough non-military students graduating to px-ovide vacancies for new non-military students,” Boyer said. The populatioxx of Koi'ea is just under 30 million, oC which two thirds is in the South Korea. Air Force Flights Begin Again Feb. o Air Force orientation flights will be started again Feb. 8, said Maj. Luther J. Westbrook. Rides will be given to about fifty juniors, then sophoixiox-es. Accord ing to Major Westbrook it should take about four weeks to finish junior flights and they should start sophomox-e flights. There ax-e approximately 450 sophomores in Air ROTC and about 350 of these will get ox-ien- tation flights. Students in the flight category will be taken first. They ax*e taken up at the rate of eight an afternoon, four aftei'- days when good weather is px-e- valent, he said. WhaFs Cooking TUESDAY 7:15 p.m.—Range and Forestry club meeting, 3rd floor, Agriculture Engineei’ing building. Speaker on Africa, meeting will be disxxxissed in time for basketball game. 7:30 p.xxx. — Accouxxting society meeting, chapel room, YMCA. R. H. Irving, partner of Price Water- house and Company of Houston, will be the speaker. Coffee will be served. Rodeo club meeting, A&I build ing. Agronomy society, AgJ-pno ijo^-T4mi,ldjLp g. officers for next semester F. F. A. meeting, Goodwin hall. Election of spring semester officers. Election of out standing senior and junior in agri culture education. Fish and Game club meeting, 3rd floor, Agriculture Engineering. Gxrest speakers. Petroleum Engineering and Geol ogy club meeting, Petroleum Engi neering building. WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m.—Knights of Columbus, basement of St. Mary’s chapel. room 107, Although soxxxe brilliant men, Election ..of-^havK---tHnali bratns,- kxdieatiSns are hat large brains and high intelli- 301, gence often go together. ACCREDITED BIBLE COURSES lor UlC , SPRING SEMESTER (The College allows six hours of credit in Bible toward a degree. See SCHEDULE OF CLASSES) Course Number Name of Course Credit Time Location of Classroom Teacher 30G New Testament Character Studies 1 T10 Church of Christ Library Fowler oil The Synoptic Gospels 2 kwio Church of Christ Library Fowler 312 Gospel of John 1 Th8 Baptist Student Center Smith 313 Survey of New Testament 2 WF8 Baptist Student Center Smith 313 Survey of New Testament 2 TThll Baptist Student Center Smith 314 Survey of Old Testament 3 MWF10 Baptist Student Center Smith 317 The Minor Prophets 2 WF9 YMCA Anderson 318 The Book of Acts 1 T9 Church of Christ Library Fowler 320 The Book of Revelation 1 T8 Baptist Student Center Smith 321 The General Epistles 1 M10 321 The General Epistles 1 T9 323 The life of Jesus Q O MWF11 Baptist Student Center Smith ooo oZo The Life of Jesus O O MWF8 Wesley Foundation Sneed 324 The Major Prophets 3 MWF , YMCA Swygert 327 Introduction to the Bible 2 TTh9 YMCA Darwall 329 Proverbs 1 Til YMCA Taubenhaus 330 Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon 1 Thl 1 YMCA . 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