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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1954)
T T i'v'TU ■ , r> » . Battalipn 1 Editorials Page THE BATTALION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1954 Some Money Matters Students here sometimes complain about the Exchange store, perhaps for no other reason than that it is run by the college, but these students often don’t realize what the Exchange store does for them. This week a committee met to divide up the Exchange store profits—$20,000 for the MSC’s student program, $1,000 for dormi tory athletic equipment, and $2,900 for the band. This yvtxs all the profit for last year ex cept $57.82, and all going to the students. The figures over the last few years are even more impressive: since 1945, the Ex change store has given the MSC $212,645.93; the student welfare and recreation fund, $92,327.41; the library, $17,782.67; the band $7,850; and $2,175.46 in profit sharing div idends. This is a total of $332,781.47 given away in the last nine years—a nice record for an organization some people say gyps the stu dents. Burning of SMU Floats The corps trip to Dallas last weekend was a big success from almost every stand point. No one was seriously injured in the trip up and back, the corps parade was en thusiastically received by Dallasites and the band performance at halftime was practic ally flawless. Only two things marred the trip. We lost the football game and somebody burned two SMU floats. According to meager information re ceived on the fires, a car near the scene had A&M decals on the window and the occu pants were shouting, “gig ’em.” That may or may not be good evidence that Aggies were the culprits. Anyone with a dime can buy an A&M decal and anyone with vocal chords can yell a fairly authentic “gig ’em.” More conclusive evidence is the report that Dallas police are checking on the license number of a car seen near one of the fires. We’d prefer to wait for further information on that car before trying to place the blame. However, if it should develop that Aggies were involved, college authorities should deal severely with them for several reasons. First the act was inexcusable and probably pre-meditated. Second, the amount of loss makes it a felony as well as arson, and last but not least, the corps will be taking a trip to Austin in a couple of weeks. Those people in Austin might be pretty touchy if we happen, to win the game. ‘Jumpin' General' Gen. Gavin Visits A&M Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin, the army’s “jumpim’ general”, will be {me of the guests here Saturday for Fall Military Day. Gavin, who is now army chief of staff for operations, wears four combat-jump stars en his para chutist badge, for jumps in Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and Holland. He also wears six campaign stars Maj. Gea. James M. Gavin Will Visit Here The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represente the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, official newspaper *f the Agricultural and Meehan leal College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examinatior 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 $ .75 pei month. Advertising rates furnished on request. for World War II campaigns with the 505th parachute infantry regi ment and the 82nd airbone infan try regiment. Gavin got into World War II in 1942, as commander of the 505th, which he led when it spearheaded the assult on Sicilyi He was named assistant com- mander of the 82nd airborne in 1943. This assignment was inter- rupted by a temporary tour of duty as airborne advisor to the allied supreme commander. After he returned to the 82nd, he was made commander. He led the division during its campaigns in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge, and the spring offensive of 1945 that ended in the surrender of the German army. After the surrender, the division moved to Berlin, where Gavin was U. S. representative on the city government. His service after the war in cludes commanding the fif^h army, the allied forces in southern Eu rope, and the seventh corps in Ger many. He also was army member of the weapons system evaluations group of the defense department, and chief of this group’s military studies and liaison division. He was named to'his present po sition last April. Gavin enlisted in the regular army in 1924. After he had reach ed the rank of corporal, he applied for West Point. He was accepted, graduating in 1929. He had the usual army as signment then, including duty in the Philippines. He entered the parachute school in 1940, with the rank of captain. His medals include the Disting uished Service Cross with an Oak Leaf cluster, the Silver Star with an Oak Leaf cluster, the Disting uished Service Medal, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. His foreign decorations include the British Distinguished Service Order, the Belgian Croix de Guerre, the French Croix de Guerre, and the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky. Gavin is now kno4m as an ex ponent of the “fast and hard-hit ting” infantry team, composed of airborne troops with highly mobi lized ground units. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under . the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the -paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of aepublication of all other matter herein are also reserved. BOB BORISKIE, KARRI BAKER Co-Editors Social Whirl Thursday The student chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine As sociation Auxiliary of A&M will meet in the social room of the Me morial Student Center .at 8 pan. tonight. Cadet Slouch by James Earle Cover nor at 31 Stassen To Speak Here By The Associated Press Harold E. Stassen, Republican leader and former governor of Minnesota, will speak here Nov. 17 in the second in a series of talks presented by the Great Issues com mittee of the Memorial Student Center. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota at 31, the youngest man ever elected to that office. Almost two years before the 1948 elections, he announced his candi dacy for the Republican nomina tion for president with the state ment that he wanted to steer his party along a “truly liberal path.” In the midst of widespread strikes in the aftermath of the war he declared for a national policy of “taking arbitrary power away from union leaders and giving it back to the working men themselves. Long an exponent of liberalism in GOP councils, Stassen called on his party to abandon “all remnants of a policy of economic isolation and assume “leadership of Ameri ca in .a new policy of world-wide economic participation.” He advo- Don Covey, Texas Tech’s broad- jumper, has won a $750 scholarship from a, petroleum firm for his sen ior year in competition among stu dents-of engineering. schools in the Southwest. In the top 3 per cent of his class for the past three years, Covey has an A minus aver age. cated low tariffs and a reciprocal trade agreements program. Stassen, a r s a religious leader, had proposed his own peace plan in an address before the North ern Baptist convention. “The walls o<f isolationism are gone forever,” he said at that time. In 1942 he waslchosen president of the Inter national Council of Religious Edu cation, a post he held for many years. He believed that religion would contribute vitally to averting the posibility of another World War. His administration as governor of Minnesota quickly gained him national recognition. He was pres ident of the National Council of State Governments and chairman of the Governors’ conference fn 1940-41. In 1939, when he took office, the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce named him the nation’s outstanding young man of the year. B I G HOLIDAY S II O W Clark Gable “BETRAYED” — Color Also Donald O’Connor “I LOVE MELVIN” First Show 6:30 What's Cooking THURSDAY 7:15—Rio Grande Valley home town club, room 3 C MSC. 7:30 — Galveston county home town club, room 223 Academic, plan dance. Panhandle club, Academic build ing. Fayette-Colorado county club, room 128 Academic, election of of ficers and plan Thanksgiving par ty. Marshall hometown club, MSC, guest speaker from home. Corpus Christi hometown club, MSC, information on Thanksgiving party. Port Arthur club, room 105 Biol ogy building, discuss Thanksgiving dance. The University of Texas fields fewer seniors in its starting lineup in 1954 than any time since 1945. Only three are ticketed for the first string at this time and no more than that are listed on the current No. 2 unit. TODAY & FRIDAY Les Miserasws starring c.Hiu.r.o* mitiR DESSA ROBERT ESMOND RFSHIEP4CEH1T1 M Rely On Us for Superior Service When you put clothes in our hands, you know they’ll be returned clean, well pressed and in toy form. Our reputation rests on your satisfaction. DVERS-FURSTORAOE HATTEP: .xnoir’i.eaLrL mi * i % HEY AGGIES . . . Got The Word? It’s MUMS For Both the Game and the Dance SEE YOUR DORM REPRESENTATIVE Or Come By . . . 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