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Battalion Editorials
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1954
The Case For The
Military Colleges
The military colleges of America will present their case
to the defense department tomorrow.
And it’s a good case. The military colleges are asking
for more benefits for their students, and the students of
military colleges deserve them.
Many people disagree with certain aspects of the mili
tary training at A&M and the other military colleges, but the
undeniable fact is that the training received does seem
to produce better reserve officers.
This training is not gotten without sacrifices on the part
of the students. He has to put up with a lot that he wouldn’t
at a civilian school.
Any A&M student could probably list a lot more reasons
for increased benefits than the administrators of the nine
military schools have listed in their formal report.
Some of these, true, are imagined. Everyone likes to
gripe. But still, there are disadvantages to student life in
a corps of cadets.
The benefits the administrators are asking for are not
unreasonable. Some of them, for instance the guarantee of
a commission after completing the fpur years if a student is
physically and mentally qualified, are only common courtesy.
It is simple good faith to honor a contract once it is made,
unless there is a good reason for breaking it.
The increase in uniform allowance is practical, consider^-
ing that A&M students are expected to wear seven days of
the week the same amount of uniform issued to civilian
college students who are expected to wear it two days of
the week.
If the proposals are accepted, a lot of the credit should
go to A&M’s President David H. Morgan, who has worked on
these proposals for more than a year, and who is responsible
for the meeting in Virginia tomorrow.
Sportsmanship Week
Monday marked the opening of the second annual South
west Conference Sportsmanship Week and Aggies can take
considerable pride in the fact that the whole idea began here.
Back in 1947, Jimmy K. B. Nelson, co-editor of The
Battalion, grew tired of the spectacle of student fights at
football and basketball games. The booing of officials who
were doing their best to officiate fairly had carried sports
manship to a very low ebb.
Nelson got authority for The Battalion to appropriate
from its funds enough money to buy a three-foot trophy to
be presented annually to the Southwest Conference school
that showed the best sportsmanship each year.
That’s the way it began. Winners of the sportsman
ship trophy have been SMU, 1947; A&M, 1948; Rice, 1949;
SMU, 1950; Arkansas, 1951; Rice, 1952 and TCU, 1953.
When balloting for the 1954 winner is completed, student
behavior, such as that which occured on the SMU campus at
the time of the A&M-Oklahoma A&M football game, will
greatly enhance A&M’s chances of being selected as the
school displaying the finest sportsmanship during the year.
Student behavior, such as the snatching of hats from
members of the TCU band at Saturday’s game, will insure
that A&M does not win.
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Military Schools
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says, “those schools will be forced
by social pressures to change to
CC type schools.”
Morgan left yesterday for the
meeting, planning, to go by the
Oak Ridge atomic laboratory on
the way. Davis left this morning
to meet him there.
Both will return Thursday night.
The nine military colleges are
A&M, VPI, Virginia Military in
stitute, The Citadel, Norwich uni
versity, New Mexico Military in
stitute, Clemson, North Georgia
college, and Pennsylvania Mili
tary college.
Th e Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
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LETTERS
Editors
The Battalion
Talk is cheap. Except when it
comes from deep inside—the heart.
After midnight yell practice the
other night, an Aggie—a non-reg
Aggie I might add—came to me
with all the sincerity in the world.
He told me that last year when
Lewis Jobe was reported missing
in action, he had written a poem
about him. James Miller didn’t
know Lew well, but Lew had made
on him the lasting impression as
he did with everyone here at Ag-
gieland as head yell leader. James
told me that he wrote this while
he was attending Kilgore Junior
college. I don’t expect many peo
ple have heard it — maybe only
James himself. But it was his
tribute to Lew who had given all
an Aggie can give, for his school,
his home and his country. For an
even greater tomorrow.
I’m sure this poem will never
win prizes. I’m sure that it will
never be published in books or
magazines. But of this I am sure.
It was written from the heart, and
by Aggies it will be read from the
heart. It is simply an example of
one Aggie’s love for another whom
he hardly knew but admired.
It was for Lew Jobe. It was
A&M.
HERE’S TO LEW
Lew was an Aggie Yell Leader
through and through,
He hollered “Pass those yells,
you! you! and you!” '
And when we yelled so loud
and clear.
In Lew’s eyes we could always
see tears.
Because Lew loved all Aggies,
both near and far.
For them he strived, and he
gave us heart.
We were the Aggie Twelfth
Man, true and fine,
We were to back that fighting
Texas Aggie line.
Turkey-Day at the game Lew
led us through,
And that day the Aggies
marched over T. U.
Lew yelled, “LIZZIE!” with a
big smile on his face,
He jumped up and down and
danced all over the place!
I guess Lew remembers that
day and the time,
That T.U. couldn’t move the
Aggie line.
Lew is leading yells still yet!
Up above where the Aggies
have met.
Some new faces, some old that
have come together to
welcome Lew Jobe.
By James W. Miller
Perhaps God looks down from
Heaven and calls for Aggies like
Lew and “some new faces”—Don
G. Dart. Perhaps he transplants
them from springtime on Porkchop
hill and autumn with a crushed au
tomobile to a better, safer place
and boosts them on their Last
Corps trip.
Howard F. M. Childers ’55
BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER C®-Editors
Jon Kinslow... Managing Editor
Jerry Wizig Sports Editor
Don Shepard, Bill Fullerton News Editors
Ralph Cole .... City Editor
Jim Neighbors, Welton Jones, Paul Savage Reporters
Jo Ann Cocanougher Women’s Editor
Kerstin Ekfelt Assistant Women’s Editor
Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent
Maurice Olian . A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent
Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager
Tom Syler, Russell Reed, Ken Livingston, Gus Baker,
A1 Eisenberg, Tony Goodwin Circulation Staff
JOHN HUBER Advertising Manager
Charles Ritchie, George Allen Advertising Salesmen
Miller Selected
To Study Feeding
Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the ani
mal husbandry department, has
been selected as one of the 23 out
standing college men to represent
the major livestock feeding sec
tions of the United States.
Miller has been named chairman
of the beef and sheep section of
the feed survey committee of the
American Feed Manufacturers as
sociation.
WEAVER
SCOPES
NEW MODEL 60
Air Tight and
Moisture-Proof
Precision Lenses
Seal Lock Turret
LESS WOUNDED
GAME
CLEANER KILLS
HILLCREST
HARDWARE
What’s Cooking
TUESDAY
7:15—American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, room 303, Me
chanical Engineering building,
speaker.
7:30—A. I. I. E., room 207 En
gineering building, speaker, topic:
I.B.M. and statical quality control.
Accounting society, MSC.
MSC Junto Committee, room 3D,
MSC, discussion of history of
Junto.
A.I.E.E.-I.R.E., Electrical Engi
neering lecture room, Mr. J. B.
Edmonds, of the Okonite company,
will discuss types of cables used
in the electrical industry.
Freshman FFA collegiate chap
ter, YMCA, all freshmen interested
welcome.
Pre-Law society, room 2B,»iUSC,
Dr. Woods of the history depart
ment, speaker, coffee.
Business society, Biology lecture
room, colored movie of Sou&iwest
football highlights will be shown
followed by business meeting,
freshman special guests.
7:45—Petroleum Engine e r i n g
club, room 140, Petroleum Engi-
FREE
FREE
FREE
Register on the 18th - 19th - 20th of October at the
MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER GIFT SHOP
To win a beautiful
$25.00 Set of Matched Grain Kaywoodie Pipes.
The winner will be announced at 6 p.m. on the 20th.
Also, on the 18th, 19th and 20th . . .
A Factory Representative of the
Kaywoodie Company
will be in the Gift Shop to bring the very latest in the pipe
world to the Aggies —
Medium Billiard Shape
Saddle-hit Bulldog
S
Large Apple Shape
Choose from our wide variety of shapes, finishes and styles in
Kaywoodie pipes at $4 to $25...all handsomely gift-boxed.
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