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Page 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, March 1G, 1954 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 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 inonth. Advertising rates furnished on request. Hntered as second-claSs matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally bj National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, L.01 Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Eights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. O-ul JolV Acting Editor The Responsibility Of A Newspaper Condense the world into three sections and put it on every breakfast table—this is the job of the American news paper. It’s a large order but they do it every day. The proof is in every American. Ask him about anything from the latest decisions of the Kremlin to the details of Mary Jane’s wed- ing last night, from the cost of national budget to the sale price of a nylon sport shirt at J. C. Penney’s. And he will tell you. He can because his newspaper was as much a part of his breakfast menu as his second cup of coffee. He is the best- informed John Doe in the world. And because he is, he is free. He understands both sides of a political question, so he will come closer to voting for the right party. He understands why a war is being fought, so he will not shirk his duty. His customers can check his prices against his competitors’, so he produces to give them better products at lower prices. The great majority of his knowledge comes from the American free press. He has learned to trust it, believe it, and depend on it. Therefore, the newspaper has a responsibility to John Doe. It must report to him the current events of his world without bias. Truth without shading is the food of his free dom and it cannot live without it. The basic purpose of a newspaper is the delivery of this food. But mere truthful news is not enough. John Doe is a difficult student in a hurry. His news must be clear and con cise, without foggy ideas. It must be interesting so he will want to read it and simply written so he can read it. But above all, it must be truthful. John Doe is a consumer, too. And every product he buys makes the American way of life more secure. In his news paper, he finds item after item to make his life more pro fitable, easier, and more enjoyable. To hold his faith in the paper, advertising must not be misleading or even tricky. If he finds one weak spot in the news, he will be less likely to trust the rest. Veracity in advertising is the newspapers’ se cond responsibility to John Doe. Since John Doe does trust his newspaper, the press Wields a tremendous power. With this power it can cause the downfall of all the American means, or can get things done that will make the community better. The paper must decide what to fight for on its editorial page—what to use its power to sup port. This is the hardest to fulfill of all the newspaper’s responsibilities. Life without its brighter moments is hardly worth living. Feature stories give John Doe a picture of humanity that isn’t in the news. The comics give him the chuckle that starts the day off right. These and hundreds of other services that the newspaper furnishes are responsibilities. Without them the news loses its flavor and humor. Bob Alderdice Medical Missionary Churchman Visits Campus By LAMAR ASHLEY Dr. Ralph C. Lewis, a veteran of more than 20 years medical work in China and the last Pres byterian doctor to leave Peking after the Communists took over, visited here Sunday and Monday, it was announced today by Mr. Gordon Gay. His visit to the campus is part of a tour of U.S. medical and nursing schools and colleges to tell students of the needs and develop ments of medical services in China and to counsel with individual stu dents about the opportunities for work in medical fields abroad. The tour is jointly sponsored by the Student Volunteer Movement and The Christian Medical Council of Overseas Work. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis, who is also a medical missionary under com mission of the Presbyterian Church USA, lived under the Communist regime in Peking for three years before returning to this country in the fall of 1952. Their work since 1946 has been divided between two hospitals, one in Peking and one in Paoting, Hopei, 200 miles south of Peking. The last three years it has con sisted mainly of emergency sur- House Will Start Hearings On Tax Laws AUSTIN, March 16—UP)— ! A House committee expects to start hearing proposed new tax laws “as soon as possible” 1 —which probably will be the first of next week. The chairman said he would give priority as far as possible to bills incorporating the tax suggestions Gov. Shivers made. All tax bills go first to the House Revenue and Taxation Committee, Avhose chairman is Rep. D. H. Buchanan of Longview. Buchanan said the tax sugges tions of the Governor on natural gas, beer and franchise would be given priority and that any other suggestions on taxing the same sources would be heard the sanle time. gery as the area was never at peace after the Japanese surren dered. Both hospitals had 100 bed capacities and about five doc tors, ten graduate nurses and a group of locally trained aides. It is slightly more than twenty years since Dr. Lewis went to Chi na and in that tiipe he has lived and worked in several different cit ies. His first assignment was in Shunteh in North China where he was in charge of the Presbyterian mission hospital, and conducted clinics in neighboring villages. To Medical work he added Bible class es for boys in the Normal School and also took an active part in church activities. Transferred to Peking, he found real stimulus in working with the doctors of Douw Hospital, all young men who kept themselves thoroughly abreast of the times by frequent attendance at the clinics and conferences at Peking Union Medical College. During the war Dr. Lewis’ hospital work became more and more surgical as the number of patients suffering from wounds and infections from shells and bombs increased. After Pear Harbor, Dr. Lewis spent some months in a concen tration camp, and was then repa triated in 1942. He returned to What’s Cooking TUESDAY 7:15 p. rh.'—Kream and KoW meeting, room 2D, MSC. WEDNESDAY 5:15 p. m.—Amarillo A&M club | meeting, front steps of the MSC. Please be there in No. I uniform ; to have picture made. The Waco McLennan County A. & M. Club will have their picture made Wednesday, March 17 at 5 o’clock in front of the M.S.C. The uniform will be class “A”. Aggie Sweetheart Will Go To Texas Miss Jane McBriety, student of TSCW and sweetheart of A&M, will play a prominent role in the 25th annual Round-Up at The Uni versity of Texas April 2-3. She will ride in the Round-Up parade at 3 o’clock Friday after noon, April 2, and will be presented at the Revue and Ball Saturday evening, April 3, in Gregory Gym. Miss Patricia McGinn of Houston currently is the Sweetheart of The University of Texas. Students there vote on March 23 and 24 to name her successor, whose identity will not be revealed until the night of the Revue, which climaxes the Ex- St u d e n ts’ Association-sponsored celebration. Territory claimed by Australia on the Antarctic Continent is al most as large as Australia itself. Save Your Money! Save Your Clothes! C A M P U S CLEANERS / Every house needs MOORE paint. . . There are 20 interesting colors in this Benjamin Moore house paint. MANUFACTURED ESPECIALLY FOR OUR SOUTHWEST CLIMATE Chapman’s Paint & Wallpaper Co. Bryan, Texas Jl otuina DroJ,L? i§ii Let Our Greeting Cards Say It tor You! Our new hand-printed cards are a treat for any occasion. Gift Shop Memorial Student Center Some Aggies May Feel The Same Truman and Eisenhower have no monopoly on differences of opin ion. College professors have them, too. Take the case of Dr.' A. J. George of the Syracuse Univer sity language department and Dr. J. J. Woolket, head of the modern language dpartmnt at A&M. George said, “Learning to speak a foreign language is a waste of time.” Woolket countered with “1 def initely urge all college students to take some phase of foreign lan guage before leaving college.” “There has been a note worthy swinging back of re-emphasis on foreign language. In other words, more people are learning them to day than ever before,” he,- conclud- ed - m—- Peking in 1946 and divided his time between the Peking and the Paoting hospital. After a brief period in Shanghai and Hongkong at the time the Communists were establishing themselves in Peking, Dr. Lewis returned to the north, and continued his work there until he came back to the United States in the fall of 1952. Dr. Lewis is from California, and is a graduate of Occidental College. He holds a master’s de gree from the University of Cali fornia, and an M.D. from the Med ical School of Stanford University. He interned at Lane Hospital, San Francisco. As a member of the travel staff of the Student Volunteer Move ment for Christian Missions, Dr. Lewis is one of a group of more than 15 missionaries, mission can didates and others who are tour ing U.S. colleges and universities this year to interpret to students the meaning and needs of the world mission of Christ’s Church. The Student Volunteer Movement is one of the oldest ecumenical stu dent Christian groups. 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