The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 29, 1955, Image 2

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Battalion Editorials
Page 2
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1955
A Last Word
Football season is finally over, and everyone around the
conference can sit back and relax. Except, of course, for
TCU’s conference champs, who have a Cotton Bowl date with
Mississippi.
To the Texas Aggies and to the coaches, led by our
choice for “Coach of the Year,” Paul Bryant—a hearty con
gratulations for a terrific season.
And to the rest of the conference teams, and especially
the champion Froggies, also congratulations.
It was a season of many thrills, which leaves only one
thing to say: NEXT YEAR, OLD ARMY!
On Campos
with
MaxShuIman
(Author of “Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.)
THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL TALE OF
HAPPY JACK SIGAFOOS
Who would have thought that Happy Jack Sigafoos, the boy
the sky never rained on, would ever teeter on the edge of a life
of crime?
Certainly there was no sign of it in his boyhood. His home
life was most tranquil and uplifting. His mother was a nice
plump lady who hummed a lot and gave baskets to the poor. His
father was a highly respected citizen who could imitate more
than four hundred bird calls and once saved an elderly widow
from drowning in his good suit. (That is, Mr. Sigafoos was in
his good suit; the elderly widow was in swimming trunks.)
■■•Sit foifaoi m hi (food 4u.it
Happy Jack’s life was nothing short of idyllic—until he went
off to college.
In college Happy Jack quickly became a typical freshman—,
tweedy, seedy, and needy. He learned the joys of rounding out
his personality, and he learned the cost. His allowance vanished
like dew before the morning sun. There were times, it grieves
me to report, when he didn’t even have enough for a pack of
Philip Morris—and you know how miserable that can be! To be
deprived of Philip Morris’s gentle flavor, its subtly blended
tastiness, its trauma-repairing mildness, its ineffable excellence
—why, it is a prospect to break the heart in twain!
H appy Jack tried to get more money from home. He wrote
piteous and impassioned letters pointing out that the modern
large-capacity girl simply could not be maintained on his meagre
allowance. But all Jack got from home were tireseme homilies
about thrift and prudence.
Then one day a sinister sophomore came up to Jack and said,
“I know how you can get more money from home.” Jack said,
“How?” and the sinister sophomore handed him a sheet of
paper. “For one dollar,” said the sinister sophomore, “I will sell
you this list of fiendishly clever lies to tell your father when you
need extra money.”
Jack read the list of fiendishly clever lies:
1. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to buy a new
house for the Dean of Men.
2. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to buy a head
stone for Rover, our late, beloved dormitory watchdog.
3. A burtch of us fellows are getting together to buy the college
a new fullback.
U. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to endow a chair
of fine arts.
5. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to build our own
space satellite.
For a moment, poor Jack was tempted; surely his father could
not but support all these worthy causes. Then Jack’s good up
bringing cajne to the fore. He turned to the sinister sophomore
and said, “No, thank you. I could not deceive my aged parent so.
And as for you, sir, I can only say—Fie!”
Upon hearing this, the sinister sophomore broke into a huge
grin. He whipped off his black hat and pasty face—and who do
you think it was? None other than Mr. Sigafoos, Happy Jack’s
father, that’s who!
“Good lad,” cried Mr. Sigafoos. “You have passed your
test brilliantly.” With that he gave Happy Jack a check
for a half million dollars and a red convertible containing
four nubile maidens.
Crime does not pay! ©Max shuiman. 1955
The makers of Philip Morris, sponsors of this column, could not agree
more. But we'll tell you what does pay — smoking America’s gentle
cigarette . . . new 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.
Entered aa second-class
matter at Post Office at
College Station, Texas,
nhder the Act of Con
gress of March 3, 1870.
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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
Wclton Jones City Editor
Barbara Paice Woman’s Editor
Jim Neighbors, David McRcynolds, Joe Tindel Staff Writers
Barry Hart Sports §taff
Maurice Olian CHS Sports Correspondent
Tom Syler Circulation Manager
James Schubert, Mike Keen, Guy Fernandez Photographers
S-D Day Plans
For Our Safety
By BILL FULLERTON
Battalion Editor
“S-D” Day, sponsored by the
President’s Committee for Traffic
Safety in cooperation with nearly
200 national organizations, will be
observed Thursday.
For those of you wondering what
this day is, well, it’s Safe Driving
Day. And we hope that it will be
more than just a name on paper
spelled with capital letters.
The purpose of this special day,
which would be a good idea for
every day, is twofold:
Not a single traffic accident
during the 24 hours of Dec, 1—
in daylight or darkness.
Year-around public support for
year-around traffic safety pro
grams of proven effectiveness.
It is hoped that motorists and
pedestrians can be shown that a
day can pass without having any
traffic accidents—and that these
two causes of accidents can reduce
them by their own actions. The
first S-D Day held last December
brought about a reduction in the
national toll of accidents, deaths
and injuries—and this year it is
hoped that a much greater reduc
tion can be brought about.
The basic place to attack the
national safety problem is in the
community, and the responsibility
for carrying the attack rests with
each individual. S-D Day can dem
onstrate to every individual in eve
ry community the worth and im
portance of year-round support for
existing safety programs of proven
worth.
Last year traffic accidents in
our nation killed 36,000 people
and injured somebody every 25
seconds. A total of 1,250,000
persons were disabled beyond the
day of the accident. The cost of
such accidents was an estimated
4.4 billion dollars in medical bills,
property loss and other expense.
Quite a total, and quite needless.
We had brought home to us just
last week the tragedy that accom
panies an automobile accident. And
just the week before that we lost
another student in an automobile
wreck in Houston.
Our traffic toll, and that of the
nation, must and can be reduced.
And it’s up to us.
Job Calls
The following are the job inter
views for Wednesday, Nov. 30:
CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO.
—BA, Ag.E., ChE., CE, EE, IE,
ME for openings in Product and
Application Design, Research &
Development, Sales (Export, Do
mestic, Engineering), Service,
Manufacturing, Parts, Merchandis
ing, Purchasing.
S U N R A Y MID-CONTINENT
OIL CO.—-Petroleum engineers for
trainee positions in the Production
Department to be assigned follow
ing training to district offices in
Kansas, Oklahoma, South and West
Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
THE WESTERN COMPANY—
January and June graduates in
chemistry, petroleum, chemical,
mechanical, electrical, geological
engineering, geology.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES TYPEWRITER DIVI
SION—BA, Eco., Ag.Eco., indus
trial education, industrial engineer
ing, or any student interested in
sales.
North Carolina State College ex
perts estimate it would cost 42
cents today to buy almost any oth
er foods that would give the same
nourishment as a quart of milk.
Hav e that Portrait made be
fore Dec. 10 for Christmas
A&M Photo Shop
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Letters To The Editor
Editor, Battalion:
I would like to commend The
Battalion for its frequent remind
ers to its readers that they drive
cautiously. I wish I could convince
myself that they were in some
measure effective.
If it were a matter of good in
tention, I doubt that any Aggie
would ever be involved in a car ac
cident. We have fallen into the
habit of blaming traffic accidents
on carelessness, rather than on the
real cause—lack of driving skill.
Should you, therefore, replace
your well-intentioned editorials
with articles describing .and dis
cussing particular traffic hazards,
I believe you will make a more
positive contribution to Aggie
safety. Also our students should
be invited to write in — without
pointing an accusing finger at any
one—whenever they observe an ex
ample of a lack of skill in driving.
It might further be well to point
out that when an A&M man puts
an Aggie sticker on his car, he as
sumes an obligation to drive that
car in a way that will honor his
school. We undoubtedly make more
enemies for our school by discourt
esy on the road and then advertis
ing that we are from A&M by the
sticker in the rear window than in
any other way. It might be a
worthwhile Aggie tradition to force
poor drivers to remove all A&M in
signia from their cars in order to
protect our good name on the high
ways.
E. C. Breitenkamp
Ed. Note: Thank you very much,
Mr. Breitenkamp, for pointing out
something that is only too easy to
do—find something to blame that
looks like the logical villain. We
acknowledge our guilt of not em
phasizing the importance of proper
driving skills, and give our prom
ise to do better in the future. We
do not, however (and do not think
Short Course Set
The annual Dairyman’s Short
Course will be held on the A&M
campus Thursday and Friday.
The program for the course in
cludes lectures and discussions on
subjects ranging from correct feed
ing to artificial breeding and sav
ing labor in handling milk.
you do, either), lay the entire
blame to lack of driving skill. Care
lessness retains much of its blame,
for one needs only to look at acci
dents other than those on the
roads and highways. We therefore
intend to add the emphasis on driv
ing skills to our safety program
rather than replacing with them
our reminders to be careful. We
heartily endorse both of your last
two ideas, i.e., observations on lack
of driving skills (and carelessness),
arid the removal of Aggie stickers.
Whether the last mentioned is prac
tical or not is a hard question to
answer, for it would take a perfect
judge, jury and hangman.
Editor, Battalion:
After much consideration I have
come to the conclusion that some of
the accusations I made against our
hospital in rpy letter of Nov. 22
should rightfully be retracted. I
was not actually near the scene of
the accident at the time of its oc
currence and I was misinformed
as to the actual facts. I want the
light thing done; but I do not be
lieve that my letter, in its content,
was the' right thing.
We all realize that improvements
are needed at our hospital, but the
hospital has no money with which
to finance these constructive fac
tors. Most of the students fail to
realize that the only income our
hospital has to take, care of its
overall expenses is the medical fee
which we pay. With this *faltering
financial crutch the hospital is go
ing into the red more each year.
Where is the extra help going to
come from ? . . . higher medical
fees, or the administration, or
both? To this point our own ad
ministration has provided no help
to this important cause. What is
wrong ?
Those who are sitting back and
waiting for some miracle to bring
improvements to our hospital fail
to realize that WE, the student
body, are that miracle! If we all
cooperate in the movement already
underway to help 'this situation
then we will be well on our way to
a satisfactory solution. If we don’t
we are whipped before we start.
This doesn’t mean that good con
structive criticism should not be
taken to the proper authority, but
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it does mean that all those base
less rumors which have been float
ing around for some time must
come to a sudden halt.
So, Old Army, when you are ask
ed, in the near future, to support
a group planning changes in the
hospital, give them your full sup
port.
It is only then that you will re
gain confidence in this most im-
portant institution on our campus.
These corrections will not happen
overnight. It will take a little
time and the question is do we have
the patience and preserverance to
carry through on this task
DO WE?
J. P. Green wait
Class of ’58
Editor, Battalion:
I wish to compliment the stu
dents and the football team of
A&M for a good Turkey Day game.
This was the first A&M-TU game
I have seen in which there weren’t
any fights by the team or the stu
dents. I had expected to see some,
but I was surprised.
Many people say that the Ag
gies start things. Last year after
the A&M-TU freshman game won
by the Fish 20-7 they didn’t. A
boy from Huntsville on the TU
squad went to congratulate another
Huntsville boy who played for the
Fish. When another TU player
saw this he tried to stop it and
fight his own teammate. It was
stopped before anything happened.
I think if members of each team
would congratulate each other after
every game there would be better
relations and no violence between
the schools. That doesn’t apply to
just football. It applies to every
kind of event in which schools get
together. If the Aggies start it
everyone will be saying good
things about A&M and a good time
to start is now.
John Ellis, ’58
SHSTC, Huntsville
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