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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1955)
Letters To The Editor Editor, Battalion, Mrs. Betty Curl, Students, Texas A&M College. To you, Mr. Editor, I can’t say too much. I’ve grown all too used, along with the rest of the Corps, to seeing- students of this college belittled in the pages of your pa per this year. It would have been too much to expect of you to have taken the slight trouble to verify the information this young lady phoned and wrote into your offices before you printed it. So, Mr. Edi tor, not a word from me about the latest of your small, sneaking shots at our backs. I can only consider the source. To you Mrs. Curl, I’m very sorry that you found yourself forced to cover up your possibly innocent violation of one of this college’s most cherished traditions with a gross exaggeration of the truth. My name appears at the bottom of this letter, so you will be able to now have someone concrete to slander rather than an unidentified body of students. Incidentally, I work 18 hours a day at being an A&M student, so excuse me if I’m not too impressed by your 13-hour stint in the lab which you saw fit to mention. - To you, the students of this col lege, I would like to relate exactly Oa Campus with MaxShuIman thor of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.) SCHULTZ IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING Beppo Schultz, boulevardier, raconteur, connoisseur, sports man, bon vivant, hail fellow well met —in short, typical Ameri can college man — smokes today’s new Philip Morris Cigarettes. “Why do you smoke today’s new Philip Morris Cigarettes, hey?” a friend recently asked Beppo Schultz. “I smoke today’s new Philip Morris Cigarettes,” replied Beppo, looking up from his 2.9 litre L-head Hotchkiss drive double overhead camshaft British sports car, “because they are neiv.” “New?” said the friend. “What do you mean —new?” “I mean modern — up-to-date — designed for today’s easier, breezier living,” said Beppo. “Like this 2.9 litre L-head Hotchkiss drive double overhead camshaft British sports carV' asked the friend. “Exactly,” said Beppo. “She’s a beauty,” said the friend, looking admiringly at the car. “How long have you had her?” jrnale, * laid dePPO • “It’s a male,” said Beppo. “Sorry,” said the friend. “How long have you had him?” “About a year,” said Beppo. “Have you done a lot of work on him?” asked the friend. “Oh, have I not!” cried Beppo. “I have replaced the pushrods and rockers with a Rootes-type supercharger. I have replaced the torque with a synchromesh. I have replaced the tachometer with a double side draft carburetor.” “Gracious!” exclaimed the friend. “I have replaced the hood with a bonnet,” said Beppo. “Land o’ Goshen!” exclaimed the friend. “I have replaced the gasoline with petrol,” said Beppo. “Crim-a-nentlies!” said the friend. “And I have put gloves in the glove compartment,” said Beppo. My, you have been the busy one!” said the friend. “You must be exhausted.” “Maybe a trifle,” said Beppo with a brave little smile. “Do you know what I do when I’m tired?” asked the friend. “Light a Philip Morris?” Beppo ventured. “Oh, pshaw, you guessed!” said the friend, pouting. “But it was easy!” cried Beppo, laughing silverly. “When the eyelids droop and the musculature sags and the psyche is depleted, what is more natural than to perk up with today’s Philip Morris in the red, white and gold package?” “A bright new smoke in a bright new pack!” proclaimed the friend, his young eyes glistening with tears. “Changed to keep pace with today’s changing world!” de clared Beppo, whirling his arms in concentric circles. “A gentler, more relaxing cigarette for a sunnier age, an age of greater leisure and broader vistas and more beckoning horizons!” Now, tired but happy, Beppo and his friend lit Philip Morrises and smoked for a time in deep, silent contentment. At length the friend spoke. “Yes, sir,” he said, “he certainly is a beauty.” “You mean my 2.9 litre L-head Hotchkiss drive double over head camshaft British sports car?” asked Beppo. “Yes,” said the friend. “How fast will he go?” “Well, I don’t rightly know,” said Beppo. “I. can’t find the starter.” ' ©Max Shulman, 1955 The makers of Philip Morris, who hritig you this column, assure you that whether you’re in a sleek new sports car or the old family sedan, your best driving companion is new, gentle Philip Morris. 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. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New York City, Chicago, Cos Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Publication Office, Room 207 Goodwin Hall. BILL FULLERTON Editor Ralph Cole . Managing Editor Ronnie Greathouse Sports Editor Don Shepard, Jim Bower News Editor Welton Jones ; City Editor Barbara Paiare Woman’s Editor Jim Neighbors, David McReynolds, Joe Tindel Staff Writers Barry Hart Sports Staff Maurice Olian ..CHS Snorts Correspondent Tom Syler Circulation Manager James Schubert, Mike Keen, Guy Fernandez. Photographers what went on inside the State Chemist Lab on the night of Silver Taps. I think it’s the least I can do to protect the student body from the slurs of the people who work on this campus and those who read this paper away from the college. Along with most of the other people in the New Area, I noticeu the lights in the building burning shortly before the ceremony. I also saw at least two people from the group I was walking with en ter that building. Whether or not they told these people to turn ofi their lights, 1 do not know. At any rate, the lights were never turned off. Immediately after Silver Taps, myself and one other member oi the Senior class went into the build ing to see why the light had not been extinguished. We were fol lowed by a group of perhaps five other boys who entered the build ing quietly, stood in the hall, and never said an audible word during the*entire time that any of us were in the building. Besides myself ane. the one other Senior, I don’t know who it could have been who so shocked your womanhood, Mrs. Curl. If you will remember a littk better now that the persons you accuse are known to you, I think you will remember a little better what DID happen. We walked in and asked you, politely, why the lights in your building had noi been extinguished. When you told us you hadn’t known what was go ing on, we accepted your reason You also informed us that since your’s was a State building and not part of the college, you weren’t actually even supposed to follow the traditional step of turning ouf your lights. Then, while the othei boy looked ai’ound the building for the Aggie graduate students you claimed were there, I stood in your office and explained to you exactly what Silver Taps was, what ii meant, how it was conducted and how you could always know when it was coming up by looking out your window during the day at the flagpole in front of the Academic Building. When my friend return ed, he and I left, followed by the several other students who had gathered quietly in the hall. Every one of them left without saying a word. Incidentally, keeping quid after Si Ivey Taps is also a part of the tradition. So, when you say that they left talking loudly and apparently uncouthly, you are ac cusing all of them of breaking a tradition that I have not seen broken in the four years that 1 have been an A&M student. There is your story, Mr. Editor, Mrs. Curl and you Aggies.I don’t know what smallness has prompted this lady to print these lies about a group of students, nor can I see where she gets the gall to demand an apology from the students con cerned. A public retraction of her remarks on her part would be much more appropriate. I’ll leave it with the students of this college to decide who is telling the truth. All 1 can say is that if an. Aggie Senior’s word is any good, you have mine that every word that appears here over my name is the truth to the best of my knowledge, which should be pretty good; I was there. Jan D. Broderick, ’56 —o— Editor Note We had another letter, this one concerning the senior ring. Because we were unable to read the signa ture, or trace to any student now registered in school what w e thought the name was, we are hold ing the letter until proper identifi cation is made. We would appre ciate the writer of the letter let ting us know what his name is, and then the letter will be printed. Well, Mr. Smarty, who knows a good way to clean clothes with gasoline. . . . Maybe next time you’ll send them to — CAMPUS CLEANERS Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955 Gonzalez Paintings In MSC Exhibit Your Community Chest The Community Chest-Red Cross Drive this year is running ahead of its last year’s total for a like period, but such favorable reports indicates no reason to let down now. Twelve local agencies benefit from the funds collected, and some of these have no other source. These agencies are: The American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Sal vation Army, United Service Organizations, Brazos County Hospital Fund, College Station Recreation Council, YMCA, College Station Youth Committee, Community Center, Inc., and Brazos County Youth Development Committee. Funds are reserved also for local charities in the Local Chest Char ity Fund. The goal of $12,100 set this year by the Chest Committee is considered one that will not only be able to amply cover the needs of these worthy groups but is one that can be reached. Last year’s goal of $16,000 was not reached by more than $4,000. Solicitors are out for contributions to the Chest, or mon ey can be mailed to the Drive headquarters at Box 1643, Clo- lege Station. The telephone number is 4-5224. Saturday is the last day for the Drive, unless collections and promises on that day show that more time might be required. Invest in the Chest—it needs your help. Patience Or Patient? The Corps Trip to Houston for the football game with ihe Owls of Rice Institute is this week. That means that 90 miles of highway must be traveled both ways, plus many more around the city. It was twice as far to Fort Worth a couple of weeks ago, but our good record there—both traffic and conduct—does not provide a reason for putting out only half the effort for tomorrow’s drive. Driving in traffic is an individual problem for every man behind the wheel. And safety is also his problem. Traffic may mean having to have a little patience, but patience is worth avoiding being a patient. CADET SLOUCH by James Earle I-5UOR.E &K GUAD WE GOT , A COQPG TRIP OQfWUviQ 'CA.OS& I’M ‘G.ET'piK* LOW OM TOWELS f 4L V ATTENTION AGGIES! All Cadets In Uniform Will Be Admitted FREE To THE FOUNTAIN LOUNGE Houston’s Most Popular Nitc Spot 818 Gray at Travis Featuring — The Inimitable Sonny Marx, His Music and His Many Novelty Acts DANCING FROM 6 TILL 1 A.M. Paintings by Xavier Gonzalez will be on exhibit in the Memorial Student Center until Nov. 21. There are nine pictures in the group, eight caseine and one oil. The exhibit is what is left of a gi’oup of paintings exhibited in New York and Boston. Gonzalez, according to Mrs. Ralph Terry, MSC art director, is one of the finest artists in the ULS. today. He is presently in Egypt doing a series of pictures for Life Magazine. Headquarters for . . . LEE RIDERS Buy Your Exact Size LEE GUARANTEE If Lee Riders are not the best fitting and longest wearing you have ever worn, you may have a NEW PAIR FREE or your money back. 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