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Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1955 A Liberal Spirit If the old saying that it feels better to give than to re ceive has any truth to it, then a lot of College Station folks must feel good. Nothing but success has met the efforts of people in our community to come to the aid of others who have been stricken. Maybe it’s the Christmas Spirit; maybe it’^ just the joy of giving. Whatever it is—it’s good. These are times of self-ordained demagogues, exampled in the extreme by such cases as the governor of a state trying to force his own arbitrary decisions on his state and its schools. And this one case, frustrated this year by a valiant college president, stands not alone. Many groups have banded together to prolong the social and economic enslavement of the Negro in “freedom-loving” America. They hold their opinions, on what basis it is hard to tell. Surely not the old lie that was given as an excuse for so long —the theory that the Negroid race is inferior. Closed minds breed the seeds of revolution; open minds can adjust with the natural evolution of mankind toward a society of equality. Democracy in America faces another of its crossroads; one leads to a dead-end, the other to the peaceable solution of a pressing problem. Bill Fullerton ©»■ >o< . . ^oc. 1 : "xk Why the editor of a great newspaper reads The Reader’s Digest "The Header's Digest publishes controversial and impor tant articles, regardless of the pressures that may prevail. 'J'his is a valid reason for the respect with which The Reader's Digest is read by millions like myself, not only in the United Stqtes but throughout the free world." Ogden Reid, President and Editor, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. I 5 I i i i I Sn December Reader's | Digest don't miss: 5 CONDENSATION FROM THE $4.50 BOOK: “THE MIRACLE OF LOURDES.” The cures at this /j Catholic shrine—cures of the hopelessly sick and IJ crippled—have stirred controversy for years. Now a Protestant (who lived in this French town, ques- y - tinned doctors, nurses and patients) verifies facts about Lourdes and its miracles. i | i i i HOW TO WRITE FASTER. Want to double your writing speed in a short time? Here’s an easy system of word abbreviation that can help you make full,leg ible notes in classrooms, at lectures; take messages over the phone—may even help you land a job. MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND. On a remote Pacific isle stand giant, stone-age statues—some weighing 30 tons. Who carved them? How did they get there? Story of one of the world’s most baffling mysteries. REDISCOVERING AMERICA. Areal supermarket, Negro major-league ball players, luxury motels, “do-it- yourself” servantless homes;—Paul Gallico tells the amazingrevolution that greets an American return ing to his country after 15 years abroad. Get December Reader’s Digest at your newsstand today—only 25t 38 articles of lasting interest, including the best from leading magazines and current books, condensed to save your time. >«=>«© 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. 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BILL FULLERTON Editor Ralph Cole Managing Editor Ronnie Greathouse Sports Editor Don Shepard, Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds News Editors Welton Jonas City Editor Basketball Tournament Draws 8 Area Teams Eight area teams have accepted invitations to play in the tenth an nual Consolidated High School-Ki- wanis Club basketball tournament, scheduled for Jan. 6 and 7, accord ing to the Rev. Norman Anderson, chairman of the Kiwanis Boys and Girls committee. Anderson announced the follow ing list of competitors yesterday: Consolidated High School, Somer ville, Navasota, Cyprus-Fairbanks, Bellville, Allen Academy (high school team), Hempstead and Kin- caide. President-elect Charles LaMotte announced chairmen of various Ki wanis club committees for 1956. The chairmen and their commit tees are Rev. Norman Anderson, Boys and Girls committee; John J. Sperry, Underprivileged Children; OPEN HOUSE—Open House for freshmen was held last night in all departments of the college, giving first-year students a chance to “get acquainted” with the department of their choice and related organizations. Shown is Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the Dairy Husbandry Department, and some of the students at that department’s meeting. $1,560 Each Ten Fellowships Announced The Ralston Purina Company of St. Louis, Mo., will make 10 awards under their Research Fellowship Program for the school year July 1, 1956-June 30, 1957. The amount of the fellowship is $1,560 annually. Any individual qualified for graduate study in any land-grant agricultural college or approved veterinary college who possesses desirable personal qualifications and submits a completed applica tion may be eligible. The applica tion and necessary requested in formation must be in the hands of the A wards Committee by March 1 of the year the award is made. The objective of the fellowship awards is to assist in the training of additional personnel for further ing the interests of agriculture, particularly the livestock and poul try industries. The” awards will be made in the •fields of nutrition and physiology research as applied to dairy, poul try and animal husbandry; and re search in transmissible diseases of Research Awards Open In Math A number of post-doctoral re search associateships in mathemat ics, are being established under contracts with the Office of Naval Research at the following institu tions, which invite applications, Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Gradu ate School, announced. Brown University, Cornell Uni versity, University of Michigan, Tulane University, University of Washington, University of Wiscon sin. Appointments carry a salary of $5,001) for the academic year. Ap plications for the year 1956-57 must be submitted by Jan. 31. For further details, Dr. Trotter says, contact Dr. Arthur Grad, Mathe matics Branch, Office of Naval Re search, Washington 25, D.C. livestock and poultry. Research fellowships will be awarded on an annual basis. The recipient of an award may be eli gible for reappointment not to ex ceed a tenure of three years. Not more than 10 research fel lowships will be awarded annually as follows: Not more than three each in dairy husbandry, animal husbandry and poultry husbandry and not more than one in the field of veterinary science. The selection of the recipients of the annual research fellowship awards as well as the rules gov erning the awards, will be made by a committee composed of an officially appointed representative of each of the following organiza tions: Poultry Science Association, American Veterinary Medical As sociation, American Dairy Science Association, American Society of Animal Production, Association of Land-Grant Colleges and the Ral ston Purina Company. Application blanks for these fel lowship awards may be obtained by writing the Ralston Purina Re search Awards Committee, in care of J. D. Sykes, Ralston Purina Company, St. Louis 2,' Missouri. Sample applications may be in spected in the offices of Dean of Agriculture, Director of the Agri cultural Experiment Station or The Dean of the Graduate School. Consolidated Menu Menu for A&M Consolidated Schools this week is as follows: Wednesday Hamburgers, potato chips, green limas, pickles and onions, buns, milk and raisin cookies. Thursday Chili beans, spinach, carrot and raisin salad, cornbread and butter, stewed apricots and milk. Friday Macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and crackers, green beans, beets, celery sticks, bread, milk and gingerbread. Health Report Influenza was the leading dis ease in the College Station-Bryan area for the week ending Dec. 3. Bryan had 18 cases, and 8 were reported in College Station. Di arrhea was second with 22 cases reported. Eighteen cases of strept throat were reported. CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY “Far Horizon” Charlton Heston —ALSO “Man With A Million” Gregory Peck Sid Loveless, Circle K; Loyd Keel, Vocational guidance; H. D. Bear den, Business and Public Affairs; J. G. McGuite, Church Support;* Bob Shrode, Kiwanis Education and Fellowship; D. A. (Andy) Ander son, Agriculture and Conservation; Allan Madelcy, Attendance and Membership; Dick Hervey, Inter- club Relations; and John Longley, Programs and Music. Paul J. Fries of Paris, Chairman of Kiwanis Education and Fellow ship for the Texas-Oklahoma Dis trict, spoke at the meeting on the subject “Why Clubs Lose Mem bers.” “Most men join service clubs with a genuine desire to help,” Fries said. “If he remains eli gible but drops out it is usually- the fault of the club.” Fries said good worthwhile proj ects with all members of the com mittee participating should be the’ solution to most membership prob lems. 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