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Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1955 Another Look Yesterday’s editorial apparently didn’t set too well with many persons. Some considered it an insult to one of A&M’s “great” traditions ; others didn’t like it for it tried, without absolutely accomplishing its goal, to seek the truth. And many persons thought its writing was long overdue. We must not leave out the plodders, the cynics, the “I don’t care” boys. This group is large and growing larger. These indifferent students, intellectually desolated, give us a clue to the future, unless something is done about re modeling many of A&M’s traditions. Each year, more and more students are falling into these ranks. Unable any longer to stomach many traditions based on conformity, and finding nothing else in the search for a true society of A&M students, these men naturally turn to indifferentness. These students haven’t got the Aggie Spirit; they are the minority upon whom things cannot be forced. And to see the faces of freshmen at yell practice, to talk to them after wards, and to observe the actions of “upperclassmen”—the Spirit as expressed by such a mob is definitely forced. Has the Aggie Spirit always been forced upon new stu dents? Surely not, for, if so, how did it ever get started? Who forced it upon the first Aggie? And who could have forced it upon this Aggie if it had not been forced upon him ? Something more than Old Army is gone from A&M. This something is the true Aggie Spirit, a Spirit that must have grown spontaneously from individuals expressing their love for our school. Water Control Plans Thrashed Out Here High cost, duplication of effort, and lack of a comprehensive plan for water management by the Fed eral Government got a going-over at yesterday’s sessions of the state wide Water for Texas Conference being held here. Frank Newman, Houston con sulting engineer, reviewed findings of the Hoover Commission’s task force on water resources and power at the morning session. He reported the statement by Rowland Hughes, director of the bureau of the budget, that said in part that the government is the largest producer of electric power, largest insurer, borrower, landlord, tenant, holder of grazing and tim ber lands, largest truck fleet own er and biggest owner of ships and grain in the nation. The task force’s report, he said, shows the government has paid ‘‘too much of the cost of projects and required too little of bene ficiaries.” He stated that duplication and overlapping of the 43 bureaus en gaged in some phases of water management, with 25 of them de voted largely to this purpose, has resulted in excessive costs and con siderable confusion. Who should pay and what is a fair price for water were two is sues raised by experts attending the state-wide conference. Max A. Starcke, president of the Lower Colorado River Authority, told delegates to the meeting that a fundamental problem in an ade quate water management program is settling equitable rates for wa ter use. He pointed to west Texas lands where $350 an acre is gross ed in cotton on a $100 an acre in vestment which includes irrigation water, and to variation in indus trial payments of from $6 an acre foot to $36 an acre foot for var ious processors. Without establishing an equit able charge for water use, Starcke said, the entire problem of water management will become increas ingly complex. The ‘‘Water for Texas” confer ence opened Sept. 19 and final ses sions of the meeting were to be held today. Cadet Slouch by James Earle TI4& P Q.KhAA.K4 x x* WITH HIGH FIDELITY STEREOPHONIC SOUND COMING THURS. & FRL ViGE-AND,-VIOLENCE EXPOSE! .Jl mw “^YMK CONflMfHIM BRODERICK CRAWFORD • RICHARD CONTE • MARILYN MAXWELL ANNE BANCROFT-J. 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When this was pointed out to the professor mentioned above, he laughingly remarked that the pro posal had been made that each Th e Ba ttalion 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 once a week, and during examination and vacation periods, once a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, Thursday during the summer terms, and Thursday during examination and va cation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday im mediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. 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Here you get all of these. “Definitely Better” Quality Cleaners 409 South College Ave. Phone 2-1412 Bryan instructor call his class to atten tion at the end of the period and inspect desks. “Fortunately,” he said, “this was overruled.” Besides the new chairs and tab les in the Academic Building, 92 chairs were put in the Mechanical Engineering Building and 56 in the Geology Department. GOLF CLUBS and EQUIPMENT Student Co-op Store N. Gate 4-4114 Head of DH Named To Dairy Group COLLEGE STATION—Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the Dairy Husban dry Depai’tment has been selected to serve on the college Feed Sur vey Committee of the American Feed Manufacturers Association. He will serve on the Dairy Sub committee with a group of 23 out standing college men who were carefully selected to represent geo graphically every major feeding section of the United States. The committee will meet in Chi cago October 27-28 to forecast pro duction trends during the coming year for each type of livestock and poultry and the balance between feed use and supply. The committee will be divided in to smaller groups to develop indi vidual studies of prospects for dairy, poultry, swine, beef and sheep production. Students 9 Voices There’s a way any student dis satisfied with things at A&M can voice his complaint—the “Letters to the Editors” column in The Battalion. The Batt staff wel comes all letters, but requests that they be kept free from libel and obscenity, signed, and not over 250 words—except in spe cial cases when the conditions call for lengthy complaint, or maybe praise. TENNIS EQUIPMENT and BACKETS KESTRUNG Student Co-op Store DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTER.S Students . . . Use Our Convenient Pick Up Stations At Taylor’s Variety Store — North Gate Phone 2-8159 Night Phone 6-8053 BAKER TIRE COMPANY N. C. 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