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Battalion Editorials
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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”
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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.
Attendance at the meeting last
night was required for all advanced
contract ROTC students, but Mor
gan said if there were more talks
of that type, they probably would
not be required.
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