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Brush Receives Citation Edward E. Brush, head of the A&.M Aeronautical engineering de partment, was one of one hundred alumni ot the New York Univer- eity College of Engineering to re ceive 'acHiievement citations Satur day. . The .awards Av*/j're presented in rNew York at the Sj/ecial Mitl- Winter Convocation held in obser vance of the centennial of the Col lege. Brush was graduated from the Daniel Guggenheim School o f Aeronautics at N.Y.U., the first school of aeronautical engineering established in the United States. The Mi 1 waiikeer/Braves list 132 rdjafidi#;'. iuuU farm : tea*m players fa# the Armed Forces. ’About &IC of these are expected to be discharged prior to or during the early stages of the season. Battalion Editorials Page 2—Sec. II THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955 On Campus With Max Qhuhnan (Author of "Barefoot Boy With. Cheek," etc.) THE MAIL BAG If the spirit should ever move you to write me a letter —:«ul it’s always a pleasure to hear from you —take pen and paper and address me c/o Philip Morris, 100 Park Ave., New York 17, N. Y. Or if you don’t have any paper, snap open your Snap-Open pack of Philip Morris, remove the fine vintage cigarettes, turn the neat brown wrapper inside out and use it for stationery. The regular size Philip Morris pack is perfect for short notes. For longer letters use the king size pack. For chain letters and petitions, glue several packs together. This week’s column is devoted to a few of the many interest ing letters that have been coming in: SIR: Maybe you can help me. I came up to college eight years ago. On my very first day I got into a bridge game at the Students Union. I am still in the same bridge game. I have never gone to a class, cracked a book, or paid any tuition. All I do is play bridge. To explain my long absence and keep the money coming from home, I told a harmless little lie. I said I was in medical school. This made Dad (my father) very proud. It also enabled me to keep playing bridge. We were both terribly happy. But all good things must come to an end. Mine ended last week when I was home for spring vacation. I arrived to find that Sister (my sister) was in the hospital w'ith an ingrown spleen. Dr. Norbert Sigafoos, the eminent ingrown spleen surgeon, was scheduled to operate, but unfortunately he was run over by a hot-food cart on the way to the scrubbing room. “Oh, never mind,” chuckled Dad (my father). “Harlow (me) will fix Sister (my sister).” Well sir, what could I do? If I told the truth I would make a laughingstock out of Dad (my father) who had been bragging about me all over town. Also I would get yanked out of school which would be a dirty shame just when I am getting to under stand the weak club bid. There was nothing for it but to brazen it out. I got Sister (my sister) apart all right, but I must confess myself com pletely at a loss as to how to put her back together again. Can you suggest anything? They’re getting pretty surly around here. Harloiv Protein DoJir Harlow, liulcod I do have a solution for you — the solution that has never failed me whenever things close in: Light up a Philip Morris! Knots untie as you puff that rich vintage tobacco. Shade becomes light as you taste that mild fragrant flavor . . . Ami as you watch the pure white smoke drift lazily upward, you will know that nothing is as bad as it seems, that it is always darkest before the dawn, and that the man worthwhile is the man who can smile! SIR Do you think a girl should kiss a fellow on their first date! Blanche Carbohydrate Dear Blanche, Not unless he is her escort. SIR: Here is a rather amusing coincidence that may amuse your readers. Just off the campus where 1 go to school there is a lake called Lake Widgiwagan where students from time immemorial have gone fishing. Thirty years ago when my father was an under graduate here he went fishing one day at Widgiwagan and dropped his Deke pin into the water. Though he dived for it for many weeks, he never recovered it. Just yesterday— thirty years later, mind you —I went fishing at Widgiwagan. I caught a four pound bass. W’hen I got the fish home and opened it up. what do you think I 4ourtd inside of it? You guessed it! Two tickets to the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Fleance Fat Dear Fleance, It ccrtainlv is a small world. ©Ma* Shulmiin. 1M5 Thin column in hmught to rim by the makers of /'////.//’ MOftRIS CiRuretteBy who sugRest that if your mail has recently been hlessetl with some money from home, invest a little of it in the best smoke that money can buy ... Flllb1l‘ MORIIIS, of ctiurse. Entered a.i second-class matter at Post Office at College Station. Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3 1S70 Member of The Associated Press l/i e B attal i o n The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published by stu dents four times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms The Battalion is published twice a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publicatfon are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday aid Thursday tluring the summer terms, and Thursday during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $7.00 per full year, or j $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Represented nationally by i National Advertising Services. Inc., at New York City, Chicago. I.os Angeles, and San Fran- | cisco. . Associated Press is entitled exclusively to th« use for republi- ca ion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in e paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights o repuplication of all othei matter herein are also reserved. ?o 0 „ B k!^,!2 KIK ’ “ rRRI BAKER i, Co-Editor, Don Shepafd, Ralnh Sports Editor Bill Fullerton Ph C e Ne ." s Editors Ronnie Greathouse o C l ^ y £ d, .t° r Welton Jones, Ed Carroll Reporters ocanouirher — W'omen’s Editor — - A&M Consolidated Correspondent Ai Mrs. Jo MisS KT Bet - sy Bur chard Maurice Olian Larry Lightfoc Tom Syler, R u Claude Nussh. A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent <eli r> Y iy v. * - Circulation Manager t eed ’ Ken Livingston, Gus Baker, Bi tony Goodwin. Donations Sought College Station and Bryan have long been famous for helping out people in distress and that help is urgently need ed again. Clarence Cook and his family were almost completely burned out of their Bryan home last week. All they have left is a bed. Cook, an employee of the T and T Implement company in Bryan, has three boys, ages 1, 3 and 5 and his wife is ex pecting another child in a month. The family is staying temporarily in the home of her mother, but that house was already overcrowded. The Cooks will move as soon as he gets his next pay check. Donations of food, clothing, furniture, money or any thing useful are being taken for the family at the T and T Implement company or at the A&M Presbyterian church student center. Father Time KO’s Boxing Comebacks By FRANK ECK AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor One of the most pathetic figures in sports is the former boxing champion who tries a comeback. Boxing - is one of the tougher sports yet it is the one sport where former champions think a come back is just around the corner. How wiong they have been and continue to be. People who saw Sugar Ray Rob inson’s televised Chicago bout against Ralph (Tiger) Jones shook sympathetic heads for days follow ing the one-sided affair. Boxing writers from coast to coast agreed that Robby, a great champion who formerly Held the welter and middleweight titles, didn’t have it. They said his tim ing was off, that he lacked stam ina and that he had no punch. Most of them forgot that Robinson also was a fair hand at defending him self. Here was an ex-champion, out 30 months save for one bout two weeks previously, who was being pounded from pillar to post by a trial horse who had lost five straight bouts. That apparently qualified him as an easy mark, in Robinson’s way of thinking. It should be all the more reason why Robinson should call it quits, everybody feels*. Instead Robby says: “I need more training, m ore fights.” Joe Louis felt the same way when he was flattened by Rocky Marciano on Oct. 2(>, 19 »L A crowd of 17,211 packed Madison Square Garden to see Louis, at 37, fight an unbeaten slugger 10 years his jun- ion. Louis owed tax money and figured this was about the only match that would draw. Louis was knocked cold in 2:36 of the tighth round in almost the same spot that claimed the life of Ernie Schaaf in a 1933 knockout at the hands of big Prime Camera. Louis’ end of the purse was $94,- 281. About his pathetic finish, Louis said: “No, I’m not disappointed. I did the best that I could but I just didn’t have it.” Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey were other heavyweights who made vain attempts to come back. Jeffries was kayoed in 15 rounds at Reno by Johnson in 1910. Never fought again. In 1923 at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, Willard was knocked cold by Luis Angel Firpo in the eighth round. It was his last fight. Another sorrowful finish occur- ed in the Garden in 1932 with the late Benny Leonard being badly beaten by Jimmy McLarnin. Leonard retired in 1924 as un beaten lightweight champion at 28. But seven years later he retarded As# 6g£'Ar on W ‘ jy f 'V^\fZI~fl>OUN o S 1 Ife;. mi: Courteous Drivers Needed To Lower Texas Accidents (See FATHER TIME, Page 6) “We need all the drivers in Tex as to make “pacts” with them selves to emphasize the fact that Texas drivers are courtteous driv ers ! ” In these words, R. B. Reaper of Houston, Chief Safety Engineer, Humble Oil & Refining Company and President of the Texas Safe ty Association, Inc., today an nounced the goal of the traffic courtesy program with the Texas Safety association and the Texas Department of Public Safety are conducting in cooperation with the National Safety Council and the Inter-Industry Highway Safety Committee throughout Febiuary. Reaper explained that these “pacts” should contain the Code of the Road pledges attesting that the participants will observe seven rules of courteous driving. “Courtesy programs aren’t new,” Santee Is Sure j He’s Greatest Miler In World NEW YORK—UP) — Wes Santee, the great Kansas miler, isn’t cocky—he’s just honest and maybe a little too quick with an opinion,” San tee himself acknowledged today. “A lot of people call me chesty and swell-headed because of head lines they read in the paper,” the lean cowboy collegian added with a so-what shrug of his shoulders. “Okay, let ’em—but I’m not. “If I say I am a better guy than you or a better guy then the people out there on the street—a better person, that is—then I’d call that cocky. But if I talk about what I’ve done, what I am doing or what “j I think I can do, then that’s just ! an honest opinion.” America’s premier miler of all- y time juggled a cup of luncheon coffee and discussed his recent statements that “Maybe I’ll run the mile in 3:55” and “I think I could beat Roger Bannister and John Landy.” The Kansas Flyei" is in town to continue his pursuit of the four minute mile in the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden Satur day night. Last Saturday at Bos ton he ran the world’s fastest in door mile—4:03.8. Reaper said. “But this courtesy program is different in one im portant respect—the results can be measured.” According to Reaper, the impet us for the local program came from Midland, Michigan, where a simi lar program was conducted most successfully last October. 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