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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1954 Count Your Blessings If you think radar enforcement of traffic speed limits is bad, you don’t know when you’re well off. The following is a recently adopted traf fic regulation: “If an accident occurs as a result of speed or negligence, and does not result in death, the offender will be imprisoned for one year and his driving license will be withdrawn. If an accident results in the death of any passengers, and the driver is proved to be the cause, he will be executed, whoever he may be.” There’s no need to get excited about this, because the law was recently adopted in Saudi Arabia. And so far one man has been executed because of it. As the National Safety Council says, “Drive carefully; the life you save may be your own.” Movie About A&M Viewed By 43,000 The movie “We are the Aggies,” a movie about A&M student life, has been viewed by approximately 43,000 persons since its premiere six months ago. The film has been shown in Tex as, several other states and at least three foreign countries — Egypt, Turkey and Mexico. The shooting script and final narrative were written by Harry L. Kidd jr. of the English depart ment. Photography was by How ard Berry, director of the photo graphic and visual aids laboratory of the college. Twenty-seven prints of the film have been distributed, according to C. G. (Spike) White of the student activities office. Influenza Leads Influenza led th§ Bryan-Brazos county health unit’s report last week with 64 cases. Diarrhea was second on the list with 12 cases reported. /n a FEW MINUTES Cadet Slouch . . . by James Earle / Ip; TU IMOI&klS WAD "TWOUAMnr OP eOlLDlM’ —n ;save£> A uerr:-m raim- d&ncim? i MATE MUD S'nrWP&M l MV TOE^f your GREAT SOUTHERNER* * Job Calls * can plan a UFE INSURANCE program to provide you a lifetime of FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE! W. DEE KUTACH Ph. 2-1235 Res. 6-1281 Great Southern £ik Insurance Company HOME OFFICE • HOUSTON. TEXAS • Nov. 17 — Standard Oil of Texas will interview mechanical and petroleum engineers for open ings in drilling and production op erations. ® Nov. 17 — Pan-American Re fining corporation will be inter viewing January graduates in me chanical, industrial, and electrical engineering for work which will involve learning by doing all phas es of preventive maintenance: equipment inspection, interpreta tion of results, and recommenda tions for repairs or renewal, etc. Future according to interests may be in this field, design and devel opment, mechanical department planning or supervisory staff, or operations. DYERS-FUR STORAGE HATTERS •^2-1584m Students . . . Use Our Convenient Pick Up Stations At Taylor’s Variety Store — North Gate • Nov. 17-18—Columbia South ern Chemical Corp. will send rep resentatives from Corpus Christi and Lake Charles, La. to inter view chemical, mechanical, electri cal, civil, and industrial engineers, chemists, physicists, and also bus iness administration students with an interest in the purchasing field. • Nov. 17—Core Laboratories, Inc. will interview petroleum, me chanical, and geological engineers for reservoir engineering, core analysis, reservoir fluid division, special ore analysis studies, well logging, research. • Nov. 18—Bell Telephone sys tem will interview for the various branches of this system. Majors called for are January grads, in electrical, mechanical, and indus trial engineering. Also Business Administration and advanced de grees in math and physics. ® Nov. 18-19 — Texas Electric Service company will interview January graduates in electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering • and accounting and finance ma jors, for various openings. © Nov. 19-—The Texas company will interview petroleum engineers, petroleum - geological engineers, petroleum - mechanical engirteers for openings in the Houston Pro duction Division. 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 Collega 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 ol publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, find Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .75 pel 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. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by N ational 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 republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Wh a Vs Cooking WEDNESDAY 7:15—Aggie Christian Fellow ship, Assembly room MSC. 7:30—Knights of Columbus, St. Mary’s student center, commeno- rative exercises for deceased mem bers, applications for membership must be turned in at this meeting. THURSDAY 7:00—Soil Conservation society, room 207 Agronomy building. 7:15—Permain Basin club, cabi net room YMCA, plans for Christ mas dance and Aggieland pictures to be discussed. Dallas club, room 107 Biology Science building to discuss a party and business. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified, ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Publication Office, Room 207 Goodwin Hall. BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER.. ...Co-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 Mrs. Jo Ann Cocanougher Women’s Editor Miss 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 I Houston hometown club, room 301 Goodwin hall, plan Thanksgiv ing party. Guadalupe Valley hometown club, room 125 Academic building. Texarkana Four States club, room 227 Academic, organizational meeting, discuss Christmas dance. Amarillo A&M club, room 125 Academic, check rides home. Cooke county club, YMCA. Southwest Texas hometown club, room 2C MSC, Movies: 1939 A&M vs. Villanova, 1950 A&M vs. Ar kansas, coffee and cookies. At Other Schools Coeds On Display In College Papers By JON KINSLOW Battalion Managing Editor Glancing through the papers from Texas colleges that have come across our desk within the last couple of weeks we immediately noticed the abundance of pictures of pretty coeds displayed. It was homecoming time for most of the schools, which means queens have to be elected. But aside from girls, the students had many other things on their minds. University of Arkansas Students at Arkansas are going Hog wild over their football team, but we have heard no report since Saturday’s game in which the SMU Mustangs gave them their first defeat of the season. Recently, the UA ticket manager had this to say about requests for Cotton Bowl tickets: “We-had better wait and see what happens in these next two games before we start thinking about that.” Any comment now ? Another problem relating to football arose on the Hogs’ campus. Students had to stand in a 200- yard-long line to purchase tickets (season tickets are not sold), and everyone was unhappy because only one ticket window was open. The line may be shoi’ter for the remain ing games. Texas State College for Women A headline in the Daily Lass-o says, “Committee En dorses Dorm Hidden Talent Competition.” The accompany ing story never definitely says what is meant by “hidden talent,” but it sounds like something caused by the new Dior look. In the same paper, the following story appeared: “They say every dog has his day. Well, every cat has his week, too, and this is it—National Cat Week.” It then explains the week was “designated especially for fostering better re lations with all four-legged felines . . . Personally, we would like better relations with women. North Texas State College A- columnist at North Texas be a pretty powerful bunch of guys blasted what he termed “UB to do that. In the same issue is a Hounds,” which means students story expounding the virtues of the who seem to be spending their Dogpatch system of choosing a lives in the student union doing mate. The article says it is a sad nothing but sitting. They don’t thing that women of today don’t imion h either eleViSi ° n ^ ^ have such inclinations, but we think U1 A^headline in the student news- ^ is something like the gasoline paper says, “Officers Will Pick Up tax—you don’t know women are Cars in UB Driveway.” They must chasing you, but they are. Baylor University The Baylor university newspaper reports that $1,200 of a $4,400 goal has been collected in the school’s United Fund drive. Even though this figure is short of the goal, it is still a commendable job on the part of Baylor. Another short note from the Waco campus is this head line: “Fish Pond Is Scene Of DAP Buffet Supper.” Yes, that should be quite a scene. Texas Christian University The recently-approved sororities groups. No one has won yet. and fraternities continue to be the TCU has another problem, too. big topic of conversation on the This is the first year the school .Frog campus.. The college, .has has been without Saturday classes, announced what groups have been and now they are wondering how selected, and the students are hav- they can liven up the weekends. It ing a running battle, via the school seems everyone leaves and the cam- newspaper’s letters to the editor pus becomes dead, but we think column, giving the pros and cons this shows how most of the stu- on the value of the various social dents want to liven up things. Southern Methodist University A headline in the student newspaper before the A&M corps trip to Dallas read, “6,000 Aggies Due To Storm SMU Campus.” They make one football game sound like a full- scale war. The paper is conducting its own war, however, against the mistreatment of SMU students by a “certain business” on the Drag. One establishment objected, though, and coun tered with a third of a page of advertising in which it wrote its own editorial saying the newspaper was not talking about them. The final blow was struck by the paper with an edi torial captioned “If the Shoe Fits . . .” Also at the Hilltop, a fraternity housemother foiled an attempted burglary the other day. The story said a ring valued at $1,200 and a pair of reading glasses were stolen, but the thief was quickly caught. University of Texas A UT committee is taking an an- The Orange and White went wild nual tour of Austin restaurants. This “Steer Here” committee will then issue a sign of approval to each eating establishment meeting the group’s -standards. Good idea. And bless Bevo’s horns if the boys in the state capital didn’t fi nally win a conference game Sat urday, downing TCU 35-34. over the victory, and near the top of the student newspaper was the line, “Yes, Virginia, The Tower Was Orange.” The Tower has cer tainly made a saving on electricity this year, and the Aggies will try to help them save some more at Thanksgiving. Letters to the Editors Saturday Afternoon Editors, The Battalion: We have just returned from watching the Fightin’ Texas Ags play a football game. As has usu ally been the case, A&M was short a few points, but as has always been the case, those Ags played a scrapping game until the final gun. Right now we are wondering how, when the breaks go against us in the few remaining minutes and some of us in the stands have n’t even as much spirit as the Twelfth Man should, can eleven tired ball players use every ounce of prevention they have against their opponents ? That’s the spirit we’ll always be proud of if we never win a game according to the score board. It doesn’t take a highly spirited team to go great guns when the season has been all theirs, but the Aggie Spirit this year is coming from a source greater than that of confidence gained through previous victories. Film Set Today The A&M Film society will show “King Richard II” at 1 and 3 p.m. today in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. The movie stars Maurice Evans and Sarah Chprch- ill. After all, isn’t one of the goals of intercollegiate sports to build modest winners or good losers? Who can say which is more im portant ? Gig Em Army and let’s beat the out of T.U. ‘A’ and ‘B’ Engineers ATTENTION!' You May Need Some Kind of Optical Serv ice At This Time . . . We devote our time to the scientific exam ination of the eyes and the furnishing of glas ses or lens changes when needed. BROKEN LENSES DUPLICATED NEW LENSES OTHER OPTICAL REPAIRS J. W. Payne, O.D. 109 S. Main Bryan, Tex. Wehrman’s Cafe HOME COOKED FOODS 1009 West 25tli St. B E y A N ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CIVIL ENGINEERS MECHANICAL ENGINEERS BUS. ADM. MAJORS (Accounting & Finance) Looking for a Career With a Fast-Growing Electric Utility Company? Texas Electric Service Company, one of the largest utility companies in Texas, (but not so large that an ambitious young man wouldn’t be noticed) offers numerous opportunities for college graduates. Representatives of the company will be glad to give you more details about the types of job opportunities in this rapidly growing electric utility firm. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY WILL BE AT TEXAS A&M, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 AND 19. ARRANGE WITH YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE FOR APPOINTMENT. LPL ABNER By A1 Capp By Walt Kelly a GCAe HIM/ % V WHO HE'<5 PUN INTO f KNOW6, AMOTHECUNPfR* , POL.1^4 MAV 6R0UNP SPRING./ COME FI20M A “'WIP£