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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1954 Unqualified Endorsement Given to All Mothers The Battalion finally has a chance to print a completely non-controversial edi torial. Without any reservations, we want to go on record as favoring motherhood, and we won’t qualify it by saying especially our own mother. One. absolutely safe thing to say about mothers is that everyone has had one. This is one of the principal reasons Mothers Day was established. Without Mothers, it would have to be call ed Day, which would make it indistinguish able from 364 similar periods during the year (not counting leap years). That could lead to considerable confusion. Imagine walking up to an acquaintance of the fairer sex with the greeting, “Happy Day!” If she were single, she might consider it an insult, and slap your sassy face. However, your defensive argument would be unlimited. You could claim you were re ferring to her birthday, or to Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter or even Independence. But without Mothers, the incident would never occur in the first place, since neither of you would be there to have the misunder standing. The natural conclusion is that mothers are very essential, even to arguments. It’s Dormitory Bottle Losses Lower Than Last Year Aggies must have quit bowling with bottles in the dormitories this year. Bottle losses through March have been more than 2000 less than really foolish for anyone to ever try to start out without one. Without mothers, who would wipe our noses while we’re small, and tell us to wipe our feet before coming into the house? Who would brush our hair for the elementary school commencement program, and whom would we give the diploma to afterwards? The problem of borrowing the family car from daddy for that big date would be much greater without that look from mother which makes him wonder why you bother to come to him at all. But it’s when you go away to college that mothers really come in handy. You can in vite them down for Parents Day and escort them about the campus, showing them the classwork displays in your department. Only trouble is, the exhibit will have some thing on display from every member of the class but you. Always works out that way. She’ll rush around frantically looking for some evidence of your talents, but when she doesn’t find it, she won’t blame you. She’ll blame the prof. Always works out that way, too. Guess that’s why we love ’em so much, and wouldn’t do without ’em if we could. YMCA Members Attend Conference A delegation of YMCA members will attend the regional conference of the Southwest Council of Stu dent Christian associations at Camp Classen, Okla., May 30-June 6. This conference is held annually in various YMCA camps in this region. It consists of both YMCA and YWCA members. Dr. Vinjamuri E. Devadutt will be speaker for the camp. He has been the former secretary of the India Student Christian movement and President of the Baptist Union of India. “The members of the A&M dele gation will be chosen in the near future,” said J. Gordon Gay, gen eral secretary of the YMCA. Cadet Slouch . . . by James Earle MOTU£0:<b t>S< through the same period last year. By March last year, 5,995 bottles were broken. This year, there were 3,768. Hart hall broke 1,206 bottles by March last year^ This year, 98 have been broken. Dormitory 17 improved also. They broke 218 last year; now they have a surplus of 221. The top five dormitories are dormitory 17, dormitory two with 149, Walton hall with 91, Leggett hall with 59, and dormitory three with five broken bottles. The five worst dormitories are dormitory 10 with 470 broken bot tles, dormitory one with 432, dorm itory 11 with 381, dormitory 14 with 366, and dormitory 7 with 314. WhaUs Cooking 5:30 p. m.—Institute of Aero nautical Sciences, Municipal Park, Bryan. IAS spring function and barbeque. Meet at Engineering building if you do not have trans portation. 7:15 p. m.—Entomology Society meeting, room 150, New Science building. 7:30 p. m.—Aggie Follies, Guion hall. Admission charge is 75tf SATURDAY 8 a. m.—Freshman - sophomore Dairy cattle judging, at the dairy center. Experiment Station To Test New Tomato The Agricultural Experiment station claims to have the highest yielding tomato yet developed. The new variety will be tested this summer for yield and disease resistance and will be released to farmers next year. Beltville White TURKEY 6 - 8 lb. SMOKED TURKEY — whole, halves, quarters - LB. 54C LB. 80C EGGS Medium—35c doz. large —45c doz. A&M College Poultry Plant Phone 4-9044 Triangle Drive-In Lounge SATURDAY SPECIAL ® Baked Virginia Ham Plate (Choice of Two Vegetables) *1.25 Triangle’s Sunday May 9th Dinner - COMPLETE DINIMER $1.65 - Choice of One—Tomato Juice .... Oyster Cocktail Shrimp Cocktail 2. Turkey with Dressing Giblet Gravy Cranberry Sauce 3 Spaghetti with Meat Balls & Garlic Bread Wop Salad 1. Virginia Ham . . . with Raisin Gravy Choice of Two Vegetables Candied Yams—Peas & Carrots Broccoli — Asparagus DESSERT—Lemon Meringue Pie or Ice Cream \ BEVERAGE—Tea or Coffee SPECIAL ON PIZZA PIE $1.00 A LA CARTE (Salad Inc.) ....... $1.25 1. VIRGINIA HAM with Raisin Gravy 2. TURKEY PLATE—Dressing, Giblet Gravy, Cran berry Sauce 3. SPAGHETTI PLATE with Garlic Gravy \ Triangle Drive-In Dining Lounge Try Crowflite Gas At Triangle Station - EL VS. VI&W VMS TVPlC&L. AXtQiS . MOXUS COMHS.W-V : 0*4, "TMOlsC. US KV e»OV<> e>000- COoRcreo us> . A.KTD POi-nre;* BL£S«» T14£ie WSMfcvS f AM AOdG.' 4 ^ ~ E.VEL VIE.W OF xuei , t-vpicau. -AOCIES COMM&wr, XWAX ★ cywt WETS DfctMKiM* mv e>eeK.* * I'M a OMMA OROvUKl X IM Ojrl COMM&WTV ME rs* AM* MO W> a* JET-- * Job Calls * (Editors note: This is the third in a series of summer job calls re ceived by the placement office. These will be run as space permits as a service of The Battalion.) © Floriculture & Landscape Architecture: Dallas Nurseries. © Geological Engineering: Mag nolia Petroleum company, Okla homa Natural Gas company. •Geology: Geological Survey, U. S. D. I., Magnolia Petroleum company, Oklahoma Natural Gas company, United Geophysical com pany, Inc. • Horticulture: Dallas Nurseries, Heath Survey Consultants, Inc. © Industrial Education: Hunter- Hayes Elevator company, Otis Elevator company, Panhandle East ern Pipe Line company, United Air Lines, Western Auto Supply company, The Stewart company. • Industrial Engineering: The Absorbent Cotton company, Alu minum company of America, Ben- dix Aviation corporation, Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc., John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works, Esso Standard Oil company. Baton Rouge Refinery, General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Hunter - Hayes Elevator company, Eli Lilly & company, McDonnell Aircraft corporation Bureau of Mines, U. S. D. I., Oklahoma Na tural Gas company, Otis Elevator company, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company, Texas Eastern Transmission corporation, Texas Electric Service company, West- inghouse Electric corporation. Vet-Medicine Fish Elect New Officers Donald (Russ) Blocker was elect ed president of the freshman vet erinary class for the coming year at a class meeting recently. Kenneth Piei’ce was elected vice- president and Joe Bill Jackson secretary-treasurer. Gene Harding and Jerry Van Hoosier were chosen as council representatives for the American Veterinary Medical association. Harvey Helms and Giles Schanen were selected honor council mem bers. Keeps a1<e 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. 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