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I Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1954 No Change for Bait: Truth Stilt Policy that. The Battalion has not changed. Some of the job assignments have changed, and some of the staff members who resigned under protest of the establishment of a publications committee did not return, but The Battalion policy is the same. The truth will be published for as long as the co-editors can show that truth best serves the public interest. Sometimes the truth is pleasant and sometimes it hurts. In the special election which swept the current editors into office, a total of 409 ballots were cast. That is far less than 10 percent of the student enrollment. It’s the truth and it hurts. What it means i% that less than one out of every 10 Aggies had enough interest to drop by the Memorial Student Center and cast a vote for editors of the paper. Perhaps the rest of them are waiting for an explanation of why we decided to return to the paper after writing the letters of res ignation just a few weeks ago. We could be flippant and say that if we were smart we’d be rich or cadet colonel or something like But the truth is that the threat of cen sorship as first implied by the formation of a publications committee has changed to such a degree that we felt we could return without sacrificing any of our principles con cerning a free press. We have been assured by the manager of student publications that he and all those in authority over him favor complete freedom of the press so long as all the facts are pre sented. That is all we ask. If the pressure is brought about which threatens censorship or direct suppression of the news, we will not yield to it. We will put out a fair and impartial newspaper, serv ing this community. So The Battalion will remain the same— a newspaper, not an organ of any special group. It will seek and print the truth, re strained only by the laws of our country, the ethics of our profession, and the interest of a greater A&M college. And that is all you can ask of a newspa per. $25,000 Sales Made A&M Bible Sellers Bring Back Tales By GLYNN KEY Tales of adventure and romance come from seven Aggies this year as a result of their summer ex perience as traveling- salesmen. William E. (Bill) Coppage, Charles Tcrranova, Carl Hill, Glynn Key jr., Walter Kilgo, Joe Haney, and Gerald L. Van Hoosier, spent last summer as Bible sales men in various states of their choice over the nation. It all began when the seven men decided to spen4 the summer sell ing Bibles, since they had no other job at the end of school last year and no way of earning money. Most of the group rely entirely on their summer savings and campus work for their schooling. Key and Cop- page had worked as salesmen in previous summers and told the other Aggies about the job. First stop for the Aggie Bible A&M Group Plans Goodwill Trip Seven A&M students will visit five high schools in East Texas to day and tomorrow. The high schools are in Nacogdoches, Over- ton, Gilmer, Longview and Kil gore. The purpose of the trip is to encourage high school seniors to enroll in A&M next fall. Brief talks on the life at A&M and some typi cal campus entertainment will be presented. The movie “We Are the Aggies” will be shown. Students making the trip are Bill Heed, Darrow Hooper, Dean Duncan, John C. Akard, and Tom my Short’s Combo. W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, business manager of stu dent activities, will accompany the group. The former' students club at Gilmer will give a party for the students Tuesday night and will provide places for them to stay. salesmen was sales school at the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. In one intensely consentrated week of lectures and study, the group absorbed as much as possible of the advice of former salesmen and familiarized themselves with their books. The business enter prise consisted of a contract signed with a publishing company to buy books wholesale. The men picked a section of the United States appealing to them and set out. Coppage, Terranova, and Hill decided to go north to the mountains of West Va. and Key, Kilgo, Haney, and Van Hoosier went to South Carolina. Stories of moonshining, coal minning, hill billies, cotton plantations, sex, are still being told by these Aggie traveling salesmen. When asked about the work, most of the boys said they like the job well enough to re,turn next summer and they recommend the job to anyone who needs money and has a taste for adventure, dar ing, and the determination to suc ceed. Statistics from the company for which the boys worked reveal that the seven men from A&M sold al most twenty-five thousand dollars in Bibles and other books in their ten weeks of selling. COOKING LESSON EFFECTIVE JONESBORO, Ark. — (A>) — De fending a suit against her husband for failing to pay installments on a set of aluminumware, Mrs. J. C. Davenport in a cross action charg ed food stuck to the pans. A company representative prompt- A company representative promptly whipped out a small stove, picked up a pan and fried an egg in the courtroom. Then he removed the egg and showed the jury a pan with no egg stuck to it. The jury ruled the company could have both the pans and the money Davenport had paid on them. No Review Set For Ag^ie Muster There will be no corps review for Aggie Muster this year. “A review is not traditional to Muster. The reason we had one last year and in previous years was to make official presentations to parents, and wives of war dead. We have no presentations to make this year,” said J. B. (Dick) Har vey, Former Students association secretary. The Muster program will be from 4:30 p. m. until 5:15 p. m. April 21. Gov. Allan Shivers is the principal speaker. Others on the program are Charles Parker, master of cermonies, Pat Wood, senior class president, Fred Mit chell, Corps cadet colonel, Vol (Monty) Montgonery, chairmen and Harold Dunn, president Muster Committee Former Students As sociation. The Ross Volunteers, A&M Band and the Singing Cadets will also take part in the program. WhaVs Cooking TUESDAY 5 p. m.—Business society meet ing, main entrance of the MSC. Picture to be taken for Aggieland. All members are requested to be present in a dress uniform, (blouses). 5:15 p. m.—Dallas A&M club meeting, in front of the MSC. Picture for the Aggieland will be made. 7:15 p. m.—A. C. S. Student Affiliates, Chemistry building. A I I E meeting, room 2B, MSC. Guest speaker, Mr. S. A. Brooks of the Hughes Tool Company. SAME meeting, Chemistry lecture room. Colonel Weinert will talk about the duties of the Mili tary Engineer and the various as signments he has had during his career. 7:30 p. m.—Accounting society meeting, room 3D, MSC. Mr. E. S. Packenham, comptroller, East Texas Motor Freight, will speak on “The opportunities and advant ages of industrial accounting.” Coffee will be seryed. Texas A&M Czech club meeting, room 3C, MSC. Professor M. S. Kavanaugh, associate professor of psychology, will be guest speaker: Refreshments will be served. Agronomy Society meeting, room 107, Agronomy buildihg. Important business. Good movie for program. WEDNESDAY 5:15 p. m.—West Texas San Angelo club meeting, MSC steps. Club picture to be made. San Angelo club ' meeting, in front of the MSC. Picture to be made. THURSDAY 5:15 p. m. — Corpus Christi club meeting, in front of the MSC. Picture will be made. DOCTOR ENDS A CAREER MIAMI, Fla.—CP)—Doctor’s or ders ' have driven Mrs. Frank Amand out of business. At 420 pounds she was billed as Baby Thelma in a circus sideshow but her physician said she had to come down to 200. . After she had knocked off 73 pounds, her husband, a 125-pound circus performer, had to go to a hospital with tuberculosis. Now Thelma must be the family bread winner but at some other job. The population of Canada is about 15 million. 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 month. Advertising rates furnished on request. 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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors Jon Kinslow Managing Editor Chuck Neighbors Sports Editor George Manitzas City Editor Leadership Policies Outlined The way to gain leadership is to make your subordinates feel the “need to be needed” and to be willing to do anything you ask them to do, said Dr. A. Q. Sartain. “People expect a type of lead ership that considers their feel ings,” Sartain said, speaking to advanced contract ROTC students. Sartain is a professor of psy chology and chairman of the de partment of personnel administra tion at Southern Methodist univer- Committees Chosen For RV Banquet Committees for the annual Ross Volunteer banquet and ball have been appointed by Bill Reed, com mander of the RV company. The banquet will be held April 10 in the.MSC. Reed appointed Kyle Gruene to be the banquet and dance coordi nator. Jim Hennigan is in charge of the banquet and John Farrell heads the dance committee. Ronnie Hudson will prepare the programs and Dewey Harris will invite the guests. The decorations will be under the supervision of Jack Far ley. sity. He said that a leader should also help a subordinate defend and en hance the “picture he has of him self.” Sartain admitted that enthusi asm and loyalty in employes could be bought, citing wage raises, re tirement plans and insurance ben efits as examples of “buying.” “But some of your problems will be the same after all this,” he said. “You have to do more.” He then listed the three points for gaining leadership, and added a fourth point: making the em ployes take advantage of these op portunities. “It would be easy to be a leader in a dictatorial society,” he said. Sartain also spoke to the faculty yesterday afternoon. At the meeting last night, Presi dent David H. Morgan asked stu dents to let him know if they would like to have more talks of that type. He said more talks would be scheduled if the student response was great enough. 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