Battalion Editorials
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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.
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ALLEN ACADEMY
BRYAN
New Chairs, New Rules
For Academic Building
There is more than one new
change in the atmosphere of the
Academic Building this year.
Along with the 1,170 new chairs,
have come a new set of rules de
signed to lengthen the life of these
chairs.
According to the remarks of one
instructor, each teacher in the
building is supposed to set up a
chart showing where each student
sits so that in the event of defac
ing, the culprit may be traced
down.
Since there are 34 classrooms in
the building and some of them
hold as many as six classes a day,
this may turn into quite a book
keeping problem.
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
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Barbara 1‘aitre — Woman’s Editor
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MODERN EQUIPMENT
MODERN METHODS
and the best supplies are
not enough in modern day
dry cleaning. It also takes
a personal desire for per
fection. Here you get all
of these.
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Phone 2-1412
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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.
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Students . . . Use Our Convenient Pick Up Stations
At Taylor’s Variety Store — North Gate
Phone 2-8159 Night Phone 6-8053
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The big news is
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This new button-down oxford shirt shows
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It fits perfectly and has all the line
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and—really new—a full-length box
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The big news
breezes in . ••
Two new campus styles arrive, via Arrow.
This button-down shirt, with soft
roll collar, marks a great advance—a new
full-length back pleat for never-
before comfort. As a fitting
companion, Arrow offers'a new chino
slack with tapered legs, pleatless
front and adjustable back strap.
Chino slacks in black, tan and grey,
$5.95. Oxford shirt, $5.00, in
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