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
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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 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
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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
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