% \ Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1954 Justice for the Students The banding together of the nine mili tary colleges is a big step toward getting more benefits for the students of these col leges. Nothing much has ever been accom plished without organization; the newly- formed Council of Military Colleges can do much toward making the government aware of its military schools. The proposals agreed upon by the coun- eil are good ones, mainly because they are just to the student. The army and air force’s esoteric method of handing out contracts and commissions has caused too much low morale among the students here and at other schools. A guarantee of commissions to those elig ible would help the services regain some of the face they have lost with this generation of ROTC students. As long as the students know what to expect, they won’t mind anything too much. Maybe getting an “established place” in the defense program will also set an established policy for the students. The new council honored the man who A Reminder Many Aggies will be leaving again this weekend, going to Baylor and other places. Most of them will be driving. On the way out, they will probably go by the corner of the drill field, past the wreck of the car in which Don Dart was killed. A good look would slow down Aggie traf fic on the highway this weekend. has done more than anyone else to bring about the council and present the military colleger’ case by naming him chairman. It was a small honor, considering the amount of work David H. Morgan has done on this matter. Baylor Bear Somebody stole the Baylor bear, and the Aggies are getting blamed for it. The con ditions and time of the stealing indicate that it probably wasn’t an A&M student, but the incident serves to illustrate a point—when ever something goes wrong, the Aggies are going to get blamed for it. Because of this, A&M students have to be extra-careful about their conduct, both here and at other schools. Right now, A&M’s sportsmanship is sad ly outweighed by its lack of sportsmanship. The good piart is the conduct of a group of A&M students who were involved in a fight on the SMU campus after the Oklahoma A&M football game. However, in the past few weeks, A&M students have stolen a University of Houston megaphone, a Baylor sign, and some TCU band hats. The Student Senate last night passed a resolution condemning such action, which is fine. But each individual student is going to have to make this resolution for himself be fore something can happen in Texas without the Aggies being blamed. Like Plaids? We’ve Scads! all ARROW-labeled for comfort and style Fall without a plaid shirt? Get off it, man! It’s a basic item on every campus, and Arrow has plaids aplenty for every man . . . right now! They’re bright, bold, neat or‘quiet. Why not fall into your campus dealer and slip on a new Awow plaid shirt. They’re good for the soul . . . and relaxing on the budget. Priced at $5.00 up. AZIZIOTVCASUAL WEAR SHIRTS • TIES • UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors 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 $ .76 pei month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. 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BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER V)r P 0 - E ^ors Jon Kinslow - Managing Editor Jerry Wizig ^T P ° ltS T^^i tor Don Shepard, Bill Fullerton News Editors Ralph Cole - City Editor Jim Neighbors, Welton Jones, Paul Savage —Reporters Jo Ann Cocanougher - ..Womens Editor Betsy Burchard - A&M Consolidated Correspondent Maurice Olian ..A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent WhaVs Cooking FRIDAY 5:30—Petroleum club, fall func tion at Bryan Country club. 7:30—United Nations club, YM CA chapel, birthday celebration of the U. N., everyone welcome. MONDAY 7:30—9807th Air Reserve Sqdn., 3600 College Avenue, Bryan, meet ings every Monday evening. The Texas A&M Czech club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25, in the MSC, room 2-C. This will be an organizational meeting. All stu dents of Czech descent are invited. Cramer Elected Arthur E. Cramer has been elec ted president of the Amarillo hometown club. Bob Keer was elected vice-presi dent. Other officers elected in clude Jack Lewis, secretary-trea surer; Bob Yeager and Belson Bourn, social chairman and War ren Chapman and Ben Yeager, ser- geant-at-arms. LETTERS Editors, The Battalion: Dear Editors, Hope you have found out by now that non-military is a failure as a drawing card and will be a failure in the future as the military and non-military will be at cross pur poses and divide the school so that the 12th man cannot help out. I went to a co-educational op tional military school before I came to A&M and we were always fight ing. Then, too, you will get very few girls as there is nothing at College Station or Bryan to draw girls. You have my permission to pub lish this letter if you have nerve enough to present the side against you. F. K. McGinnis ’00 President Alumnae Asso ciation in 1910 when we fired H. H. Harrington be cause the student body “struck.” MARLINS New 35 Cal. NOW AT LOWER PRICE A good deer rifle at $64.95 TERMS TO PLEASE HILLCREST HARDWARE Amendments (Continued from Page 1) tax. The poll tax requirement was lifted by constitutional amend ment during World War II. No. 11: New County Office Brazos county is not affected by this amendment either, since it applies only to those 96 counties that have a population of less than 10,000. The amendment would allow the voters of those counties to create a separate office of county tax assessor-collector. The sheriff in those counties now serves as assessor-collector in addi tion to his other duties. If the amendment passes, the voters of the counties concerned still have the privilege of deciding whether or not their county needs the additional office. Ross Volunteers Open To Juniors Applications for the Ross Vol unteers have been turned to the corps Sgt. Major, Joe Bob Walker, Commander of the Ross Volun teers, announced. About 250 juniors applied for entry but only 80 will be accepted. No defenite trips have been scheduled as yet, but plans are be ing made to make trips to the Governor’s Inauguration in Aus tin and the Mardi Gras in New Or leans. Rehearsals To Begin For Symphony The newly-formed A&M Symphony orchestra has scheduled its first rehearsal for Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music hall. “The symphony is open to students of the college and member of the community,” said W. M. (Bill) Turner, A&M music director, “We have two cellos, two double basses and two French horns available for qualified play ers.” This is the first year A&M has had a symphony orches tra, and Turner is forming one to “round out A&M’s musical activities.” Birdwell to Attend Three Meetings Carl Birdwell, manager of the Exchange store, will leave Sunday for Atlanta, Ga., where he will at tend the annual winter meeting of the board of directors of the Na tional Association of Colege Stores. The meeting will be Oct. 26-27. Birdwell will go to Ithaca, N.Y., for a regional meeting of the as sociation at Cornell university Oct. 29-30. On Oct. 31, he will go to New York City for a series of confer ences with text-book publishers. He expects to stay a week there before returning. Lammert Elected Raymond H. Lammert jr. has been elected president of the Bosque County Hometown club. Other officers elected include Don ald J. Johnson, Cransfills Gap, vice-president and Leon Syachs, Clifton, treasury. Cadet Slouch by Earle Box Supper Sales The Kiwanis club sold more than 490 boxes of chicken at the TCU football game. More than $100 profit was taken in from the sales. Lunches will be sold again Nov. 13. Guaranteed Registered and Perfect! Three important words about yeur Keepsake Diamond Ring found in the Keepsake Guarantee signed by — 1. Good Housekeeping 2. 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