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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1955 A Chance To Prove Itself Many students have begun to realize that personal con duct at a midnight yell practice contributes a great deal to the success of the ceremony. The Student Senate and the Senior Class have both gone on record as being opposed to the throwing of “Aggie con fetti” at yell practices, but some students have not taken the actions as sincere. Now, the Senate has charged the Senior Class with the responsibility of disciplining future midnight yell practices. This will be a great task for the class, since it will be showing the school just how much power does still exist with the number-one class on the campus. At the same time, a great thing could be done for the school as a whole. How strong the Senior Class at A&M is remains to be seen. On Campus U4th MaxShulman (Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.) ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 1 “The proper study of mankind is man,” said Geoffrey Chaucer in his immortal Casey at the Bat, and I couldn’t agree more. In these tangled times it is particularly proper to study man — how he lives, how he functions, how he works. Accordingly, this column, normally devoted to slapdash waggery, will from time to time turn a serious eye on the social sciences. In making these occasional departures, I have the hearty ap proval of the makers of Philip-Morris Cigarettes, whose interest is not only in promoting the pleasure of young Americans by providing them with a gentle cigarette, matchlessly blended of vintage tobaccos, grown with loving care and harvested with tender mercy, then cured with compassionate patience and rolled into firm, tasty cylinders and brought to you in king size or regular, wrapped in fetching packages of lively crimson and pristine white, at prices that wreak no havoc on the most stringent of budgets; but who are equally concerned with broadening the minds and extending the intellectual vistas of every college man and every college woman. I, for one, am not unmoved by this great-heartedness in the makers of Philip Morris, and though I know it is considered chic these days to disparage one’s employer, I shall not. Indeed, I shall cry “Huzzah!” for the makers of Philip Morris. I shall cry “Huzzah!” and “Bon appetitf” and “Stout Fellows!” But I digress. For our first lesson in social science, let us turn to the study of economics, often called the queen of the social sciences. (Sociology is the king of the social sciences. Advertis ing is the jack.) Economics breaks down into two broad general classifications: 1) coins; 2) folding money. But before taking up these technical aspects, let us survey briefly the history of economics. Economics was discovered by the Englishman, Adam Smith. He published his theories in 1778, but everybody giggled so hard that Smith, blushing hotly, gave up the whole thing and went into the cough drop business with his brother. For long years after that, economics lay neglected while the world busied itself with other things, like the birth of Victor Hugo, the last days of Pompeii, and the Bunny Hug. Then one day w^jile flying a kite during a thunderstorm, the American Henry George (also called Thorstein Veblen). dis covered the law of diminishing returns, and then, boy, the fat was in the fire! Before you could say “knife,” the Industrial Revolution was on! Mechanization and steam power resulted in prodigies of production. For example, a Welsh artisan named Dylan Sigafoos before the Industrial Revolution used to make horseshoes by hand at the rate of four a day. After the Indus trial Revolution, with the aid of a steam engine, Sigafoos was able to make entire horses. ^irbdfoos 1^5 o’ble to fzorses* * ■ And so it went —factories rising from the plains, cities bur geoning around the factories, transport and commerce keeping pace —until today, thanks to economics, we have smog, depres sions, and economics textbooks at $5.50. ©Max stmiman, 1055 The makers of Philip Morris, tv ho bring you this column, are no economists, but they do understand supply and demand. You •tie- man d gentle smoking pleasure^ tve supply the cigarette that has it — Philip Morris, of corris! The Battalion 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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BILL FULLERTON Editor Ralph Cole Managing Editor Ronnie Greathouse -Sports Editor Don Shepard, Jim Bower ..News Editor Welton Jones City Editor Barbara Paiee ..Woman’s Editpr Jim Neighbors, David McReynolds, Gene Davis ..Staff Writers Barry Hart Sports Staff Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent Tom Syler * Circulation Manager Phone 4-5324 To Place A Classified Ad ALMOST—Jack Pardee is stopped right on the Bruin goal line in the first quarter of play by Del Shofner (No. 27) and Dugan Pearce (No. 61). Coming up to assist is No. 12, Bobby Jones. A&M Poets Invited To Enter Contest Poets here at A&M are invited to submit original verse to be con sidered for possible publication in the Annual Anthology of College Poetry. Closing date for submission is Nov. 5, and students may submit as many manuscripts as they want. Theme and form may be in accord ance with the wish of the student. In order to give as many students as possible an opportunity for rec ognition, and because of space lim itations in the Anthology, shorter poems. are preferred for this thir teenth annual college competition. Manuscripts must be typed or written in ink on one side of a sheet. The student’s home address, name of college and college ad dress must appear on each manu script. More than a hundred thousand poems have been submitted to the National Poetry Association in the past 10 years. Of these, about 4,500 have been accepted for pub lication. Manuscripts should be sent to the following address: National Poetry Association 3210 Selby Avenue Los Angeles 34, California. Journalism Club Names Officers Dave McReynolds was re-elec ted president of the Journalism Club at their first meeting of the school year last week. Other officers elected were Jim Neighbors, vice-president; John Sullivan, secretary-treasurer; and Edward Rivers, reporter. B. H. Dewey, Jr., state repre sentative for the Brazos County district, spoke to the club on the state legislature and its relation ships with the press. The regular meeting time was set for the second and fourth Tus- day night in each month. SCONA (Continued from Page 1) Two sessions, the nights of Dec. 14 and 15, will be open to the pub lic as a part of the Gr6at Issues series. A Corps Review will be held the afternoon of Dec. 15, and a banquet the next night. There will be four keynote addresses, the speakers for which will be an nounced later, according, to John Jenkins, A&M senior who is head ing the SCONA Committee. That “new suit” I “bought” for Dad is really an old one I had rejuvenated at . . . CAMPUS CLEANERS Job Calls Job interviews this week are as follows: Wednesday CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT —January graduates in mechanical, aeronautical, architectural, civil, electrical engineering and advanc ed engineering math. (Aso inter view Thursday) ARKANSAS FUEL OIL CO.— (Cities Service Operating Co. in this area) Interviews for vacancies in field and office operations. No refinery work. Majors: EE, CE, ME, Pet., Arch, construction, geol ogy and geological engineering. ATLANTIC REFINING- CO.— Geophysical section: (primarily in- Tuesday & Wednesday THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN —Technicolor— Lex BARKER Mala POWERS Howard DUFF — Plus Second Feature — BEAU BRUMMELL Stewart Granger Elizabeth Taylor Peter Ustinov with Robt. Morley terested in mastei'’s degrees) gfeol- ogy, ME, math; Research & Devel opment, chemical engineering, EE, ME, petroleum engineering, phy sics, math; Engineering Group: Pet. E., ME, Ch.E. (Aso interview Thursday) BOEING AIRPLANE COM PANY—Group meeting, 5 p.m., room 3D, Memorial Student Center. Thursday CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT —See above. ATLANTIC REFINING CO.— See above. ^Jricincjie DRIVE IN DINING ROOM 90c LUNCH Served from 11 until 2 PLATE LUNCHES Soup or Juice — 2 Vegetables Meat — Coffee or Tea — Dessert Triangle Banquet Room OPEN FOR ALL LUNCHEONS, DINNERS, RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS AND BANQUETS — By Reservation Only — CIRCLE TUBS. & WED. ^Knight of the Round Table” Robert Taylor — A L S O — The Glass Slipper Leslie Caron .4 TODAY & WEDNESDAY TODAY thru THURSDAY OPPORTUNITIES STILL EXIST FOR GRADUATING ENGINEERS AND PHYSICISTS If we missed meeting you and visiting with you when our representative was on your campus recently, please send us your resume right away and we will give it prompt, personal attention. As a division of General Dynamics Corporation CONVAIR-FORT WORTH occupies an important place in the long-range development of the Nation’s aerial defense as well as commercial aviation. CON- VAIR’S scope of activity offers interesting, highly remunerative career opportunities. Address all correspondence to H. A. Bodley/ CONVAIR Engineering Personnel Dept. Fort Worth, Texas CONVAIR A DIVISION OF GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION FORT WORTH, TEXAS An enlarged reprint of the above cut-out silhouette, suitable for framing or pinning up, will be sent free to any engineering student on request. LI’L ABNER By AI Capp