Battalion Editorials
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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
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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
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* 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”
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Large majority of collegians
favor trim good looks of
Arrow “Gordon Dover Button-down”
“Lasting good looks” was the main reason cited
for the overwhelming popularity of Arrow
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fresh good looks all day long . . . are available at
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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors
Jon Kinslow Managing Editor
Chuck Neighbors Sports Editor
George Manitzas ; City Editor
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