Battalion Editorials
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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!
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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
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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