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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1956)
r m Or u w ci ti' In ti t3 S The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, May 8, 1956 Letters to the Editor OPEN FOR ALL BANQUETS, DINNERS RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS AND LUNCHEONS MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL TA 2-5089 “The Oaks” — TA 3-4375 BRYAN BRAZOS MOTOR COMPANY Studebaker — Packard wishes to invite you OUR A&M COLLEGE GRADUATES to visit our show room and see the 1956 models before you decide to buy — SEE . . . 1211 Texas Ave. H. L. WHITLEY, SR. Bryan c/f [ * rr S x T mmmrnt. P 3 , a) LOOK STUDENTS! We have hundreds of combinations of special type for your Olympia Portable! (the fine precision made portable). Also featuring the extra slip on type! 0 BRYAN BUSINESS MACHINE CO. 429 SOUTH MAIN STREET BRYAN — TA 2-1328 * <r A / \ - p x WhaVs Cooking The schedule for tonight is as follows: 7:30 AVMA will meet in the amphi theatre of the Veterinary Hospital. Dr. Morgan will speak and elec tions will be held. Institute of Aeronautical Science will meet in the Engineering Build ing to plan for Open House. Texas Aggie Rodeo Ass’n will meet in the A&I Building for the election of officers. Accounting Society will meet in the YMCA to elect officers. Re freshments will be served. Business Society will meet in 3D of the MSC. Eidemiller will speak and the Wall Street Journal Award will be presented. Plans for the election of officers will be discussed. 15 Town Hall Staff Jobs Open to Sophs All sophomores intex-ested in be ing on Town Hall staff for next year should place their names in the office of Student Activities, ac cording to Johnny Heard, next year’s Student Entertainment man ager. The interviews will be held Wednesday night at 7:30 in room 214, dorm 10. “All those wishing to interview should be present at that time,” said Heard. Fifteen staff positions are open. Rapid growth of a microscope or ganism in the ocean can produce a so-called “red tide” fatal to fish in wide areas. Send a Minute of TRUTH through the IRON CURTAIN- 1 The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors Trie Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of : Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications i Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.AM. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Karl E. Elmquist, ' Chairman; Donald D. Burchard. Tom Deiand and Bennie Zinn. Student members I are Derrell H. Guiles. Paul Holladay. and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are Charles Roeber. and Ross Strader, Secretary. The ^rttaiion Is published four times a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular scllool year and on Thursday during U ° summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion is not punlished on the Wednesday immediately preceding Easier 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 S. 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services. Inc., a t New York City. Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. Here’s a chance for free Ameri cans to speak up to the Com munist bosses of Satellite Europe! Sponsor a Minute of Truth on Radio Free Europe. Red bosses fear the truth, be cause it keeps alive the will to resist. They spend large sums trying to jam broadcasts and intimidate listeners. But the truth is getting through. Radio Free Europe spreads the truth from 29 powerful transmitters in West Germany and Portugal. 70 million captive people take the risk to listen. Each dollar sponsors a Minute of Truth. Send as many Truth Dollars as you can-spare to— 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. JIM BOWER Dave Me Reynolds Ms Barry Hart Bill Fullerton, Ralph CRUSADE for FREEDOM Jole, Ronnie Greathouse. Editor i iging Editor ports Editor Has-Beens i c/o lotol Postmaster Editor, The Battalion: In three years at A&M, I have seen the spirit, discipline, speaking and self-introduction . (upon which I think this school is dependent for its reputation) declining and slowly becoming a thing of the past. A good example of this is the way many men that one passes on the campus substitute a nod or grunt for the traditional “howdy.” Maybe a better example, and perhaps a more abundant one, is the practice of many just not to bother with the trouble of speaking. It’s not so hard to say “howdy” and there is no one on this campus who is too good to speak to a fellow Aggie. However, there are apparently many that don’t speak for same reason. Maybe they think they are too good. If it was just speaking, however, our problem would be small. Our problem reaches much further and the trouble is that not enough peo ple realize what that problem really is. Maybe I haven’t got the answer but I feel I have at least a vision of what is wrong. Basically, this college is founded on two things. The educational fa cilities and the Corps of Cadets. The educational facilities do not control these traditions so we must look at the Corps. This doesn’t mean civilian students do not share the blame, but they can only learn A&M’s traditions by what they see in the actions and conduct of Corps students, so that throws the load back on the Corps. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Likewise, the Corps can only be as strong as its weak est component. The building ma terial of any body of men, military or otherwise depends upon the men who comprise this organization, and how they’ve been developed. The two-percenters, or to be mod ern, the twenty-percenters are the Corps weakest components. These are the men who don’t speak. They are the men who won’t turn around to meet another Aggie. These are the men who spend four years at A&M, always taking of A&M’s benefits, but never , con tributing anything for the school’s improvement. These men sit on their dead can and worry about no one but themselves. TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY LAND OF THE PHAROAHS’ with Joan Collins — plus — “BIG TIP OFF” with Richard Conti This really begins to show itself in Aggies when they become jun iors and it is intensified about 100 per cent when they become seniors. Therefore, it’s up to the seniors to do something about this when the man is a junior and the fii-st real signs begin to show. Just what to do depends upon the individual case and offers a good chance for the seniors to show real leadership, but something definitely needs to be done. Another thing which has hurt the Corps so much is the feeling be tween Army and Air Force outfits. The most discouraging example of this feeling is what I heard a man (or should I say a person) say when he passed me as I was hitch hiking from Bryan last night. He said “Aircrappers walk tonight.” Fortunately I didn’t have to walk. An Aggie picked me up and brought me to the campus. How ever, I can’t get it out of my mind that because I \fas wearing an Air Force patch, I was not considered an Aggie. I’ve been criticized for many things but never have I been told I was not an Aggie and I never considered an Army patch as any indication of a better or worse character than myself. I get along al* right with several Army cadets I know personally and I think as much of them as I do of Air Force cadets. The difference is on an individual basis. So don’t blame everything of New Army. If the shoe fits you, blame yourself. At any rate, the future of the Corps depends upon how the Corps is handled and it is a job which everyone should share. Let’s all forget about our branch and work to be Aggies. With cooperation from everyone, this Corps will be greater than it ever has, and you will find by working with it, you will get a lot more out of it. And instead of passing an “Aircrapper” on the highway, stop and say “Get in Aggie.” Lynn Pixley ’57 Chester, Wales, has both first and second story sidewalks along four streets. The liver of one basking shark weighed 2,100 pounds. THRU WEDNESDAY THRILLING / MARIO LANZA: CIRCLE THRU WEDNESDAY “This Island Earth” Jeff Morrow — ALSO — “One Desire” Rock Hudson Girls Walked A Mile From J. Paul Sheedy* Till Wildroot Cream-Oil Gave Him Confidence "Dune anything tonight honey?” Sheedy asked his little desert flower."Get lost!” she sheiked, "Your hair’s too shaggy, Sheedy. Confidentially it sphinx !” Well, this was really insultan. So J. Paul got some Wildroot Cream-Oil. Now he’s the picture of confidence because he knows his hair looks handsome and healthy the way Nature in/e«fed . . . neat but not greasy. Take Sheedy’s advice. If you want to be popular, get a bottle or tube of Wildroot Cream-Oil. Nomad-der if your hair is straight or curly, thick or thin, a few drops of Wildroot Cream-Oil every morning will keep you looking your best. You’ll agree Wildroot really keeps Sahara-n place all day long. *0/131 So. Harris Hill Rd., Williamsville, N. Y. Wildroot Cream-Oil gives you confidence TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY The Memorial Student Center Gift Shop Invites You To Shop For A Gift For MOTHER'S DAY Our salesladies will be pleased to help you select the PERFECT gift. We offer the following suggestions: Wedgewood A&M Commemorative Plate Jewelry Box * Jewelry Perfume Atomizer Perfume Texglass Glasses (Set of eight Boxed) Westmoreland Milk Glass Handcraft Blanks Coffee Carafe Buxton Billfold and Key Caddie Jewelry with A&M Insignia FREE GIFT WRAPPING and WRAPPED FOR MAILING Li’L ABNER By A1 Capp The Battalion