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77/e Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Tuesday, May 22, 1956 Letters to the Editor Editor, The Battalion On behalf of the Aggie Wives Council, I take this opportunity | to express appreciation to the fol lowing people for making the Ag gie wives life on the Campus more pleasant: To Barbara Paige for the excel lent coverage she has given to our clubs in the Battalion. To Mr. Gay for his cooperation CIRCLE THRU WEDNESDAY “Top of the World” Dale Robertson and untiring efforts in furnishing , a place for oux* meetings. To the personnel at the MSC for the many activities they have planned for us. To all of the faculty wives who have given freely of their time to sponsor our activities. To John Geiger and his staff for helping us with our bowling league. To the department heads who have assisted us in obtaining lists of prospective members. And finally, to the husbands who have made it possible for us to be “Aggie Wives.” Through these people many friends have been made; wonderful memories will go with us when we leave. Joy Jones Also “Long John Silver** Robert Newton TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY DIRECT FROM PARIS FRANCE! Crain Russell JCok, r* ANITA THRU WEDNESDAY MAMIE HAD EVERYTHING- BUT i RESPECT ABILITY! ioos- “GrerTtleirien ^Mariy^ruriette S 1 color iy Technicolor r Xhe Big I Buxom, Beautiful Musical I Released thru UNITED ARTISTS COLOR by De Lux, JANE RUSSELL RICHARD EGAN Be Proud, Ole Army . . . of your school. Show it by selling- the idea of coming to Aggieland to at least two hometown- buddy high school graduates. We want the best!! LOU, Class \>2 l » l 11 AIR CONDITIONERS Yon Can See And Feel tiie Difference MATTIES Air Conditioners lead all others in unit sales — because — they deliver more cold air per unit of H.P. than any other. More Coil area, more air, larger fan motors, lower head pressures, re flective cabinet surfaces, all add up to more cold air out front. You owe it to yourself to come in and SEE THE DIFFERENCE. 1 HP—11,000 BTU unit as low as — $164-95 Joe Faulk*s Gilmore Electric 214 N Bryan 1112 So. Coulter TA 2-1669 TA 2-3840 The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the View r s of the Student Editors Xtie 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 is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the a.&M. College of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Karl E. Elmquist. Chairman: Donald D. Burchard. Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members ; are Derrcll H. Guiles. Paul Holladay, and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are Charles Roeber. and Ross Strader. Secretary. The Battalion is published four times j 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 school year and on Thursday during tl e summer terms and during examination ! and vacation periods. The Battalion is not published 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- I areas of March 8. 1870. | Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising j j Services. Inc., a t New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran- j 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 (VI 6-GG18 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified* ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publica tion Office, Room 207 Goodwin Hall. JIM BOWER Dave McReynolds Barry Harf Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel Bill Fullerton, Ralph Cole, Ronnie Greathouse Welton Jones Barbara Paige John West, Leland Boyd, Ed Rivers, A1 Chappel Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor News Editors Has-Beens City Editor Woman’s Editor Reporters Loeffler Speaks (Continued from Page 1) of the War Department in the Pentagon. “In the same building, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were meeting when word came that the Russians were, in the Balkans. One of the Joint Chiefs, a famous General, i-equest- ed a report on the activities of the Russians in that area. My friend, after gathering the proper informa tion from his aides in that area, assembled the information and with his college history course at his finger tips, wrote a graphic report which was delivered to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The General, after reading the report was very enthusiastic and inquired who wrote it. Upon being told it was my friend, he said ‘Mag nificent, send that colonel a letter of commendatiqn.’ “One week later, another report was submitted by that same Col onel and it told of the Russians en tering the villages, stealing the cattle, burning the buildings and raping the women. The General read the report and purple with rage roared ‘Who wrote this report—why he doesn’t like the Russians.’ “So may we all look into our mirrors for these signs of imma turity and ask ourselves why we behave as we do. I too am im mature if I don’t bring into pi-oper focus my work at this fine college. I must attune to life and see my particular job in its proper per spective. And we must all affirm to life, for affirming to life is being in volved heart and soul in the process of living with relation to others. To be content with knowing a large number of facts is not alone suffi cient, but we must grow in knowl edge and the wise use of it. We must dare to live and think. “There is an alarming philosophy in the world today summed up in the following phrases: Get with a large corporation, stay with it, al ways conform, never get out on a limb, join a mutual adoration so ciety and await tenure. I would suggest a jail sentence would be more interesting. And I ask you to search this philosophy and ask if this is affirming to life as the mature mind woulj date to live it. “It seems almost impossible to convince a certain type of modern man that it is more important to live than to succeed (whatever that is), more vital to be happy than rich and more essential to have peace of mind than television sets. “So tonight you are not being forced to listen to one, who not having a warped intellect because of the excessive acquisition of dol lars, scientific achievements or military success, will try to tell you how to live your future life. I am only suggesting you search for maturity and once achieving it, that you have a fuller life. “Then if enough of us mature eventually, there will be enough mature people in the right place. We can look about us everyday and realize affairs are out of joint because there are not enough ma ture people in the right places. If that is the present condition, un less we all dare to live the life of the mature with linkages to life being constantly strengthened with new experiences, then we are lost and progress is a delusion. “Yes, many are the criteria of the immature; ignorance, irrespon sibility and selfishness. Your col lege education has, I hope, helped you overcome some, if not all of these things. But going into the world, you will find another ob stacle to youi - becoming a mature individual and attaining to life. You will be afraid of many things and fear will rob you of attaining that goal of maturity. You may find some sort of security, but I urge you on beyond that by asking that you dare to live. “For each new experience you have will give you a deeper appre ciation of life. If you shut life out, life will shut you out. True, you may achieve safety but that is the most contemptible of life’s gifts. You may avoid the storms but you will never know the glory of the sun, the moon, the stars nor ride the rough waves nor walk with the dawn. “Dare to live, dare to love, dare to laugh, dare to cry and dare to yearn. Dare to stand up and face life like a man. If you do, life will whip you cruelly, will scar you and blister you, and will cast you down to the darkest depths. But it will also lift you to heights sublime. That is what life will do for you if you will but face it. If you will not, life will leave you alone and that is the cruellest hell a man may know. “And so let me conclude with the words of a poet whose name es capes me for the moment. ‘Let me live oh mighty master Such a life as men should know. Tasting triumph and disaster, Joy but not too much of woe. Let me run the gamut over, Let me love and fight and laugh. Then when I’m beneath the clover, Let this be my epitaph: Here lies one who took his chances Tn the boy’s world of men. Battled luck and circumstances, Fought and fell and fought again. Sometimes won but did no crowing; Sometimes lost but did not wail. Always kept on forward going, Never let his courage fail. We need USED BOOKS See us before you sell! STUDENT CO-OP North Gate SMORGASBORD Main Dining Room at the M. S. C. FRIDAY, MAY 25 4:30 — 7 P.M. Fight “Book Fatigue" Safely Your doctor will tell you — a NoDoz Awakener is safe as an average cup of hot, black cof fee. Take a NoDoz Awakener when you cram for that exam ...or when mid-afternoon brings on those “3 o’clock cob webs.” \ ou’ll find NoDoz gives you a lift without a letdown... helps you snap back to normal and fight fatigue safely! 1 What young people are doing at General Electri Young ad man handles G-E jet and rocket engine advertising The first jet engine ever to power an Ameri can plane was built by General Electric in 1942. Since 1948, G.E. has supplied the Air Force with ov^- 30,000 of its famous J47 jet engines. And General Electric’s jet ex perience soon will be paying additional new dividends to national defense. Its J79 — called the most advanced engine of its type in the world—will soon enter production. The man responsible for reporting G.E.’s jet and rocket engine progress to its cus tomer's and the public is Roy O. Stratton, Jr., 27-year-old account supervisor in the Com pany’s Apparatus Advertising and Sales Promotion Department. Stratton’s Work Important, Interesting Stratton supervises the planning and prepa ration of direct-mail promotion, brochures, films and presentations, as well as public- informational space advertisements for Time, U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, Aviation Week, and other magazines. Considerable personal contact with the Armed Services makes Stratton’s job an in teresting one. Last year he traveled over 60,000 miles, visiting many of the country’s Air Force bases to gather necessary infor mation and pictures. 25,000 College Graduates at General Electric When Stratton came to General Electric in 1952, he already knew the kind of work he wanted to do. Like each of our 25,000 col lege graduates, he is being given the chance to grow and realize his full potential. For General Electric has long believed this: when fresh young minds are given the freedom to develop, everybody benefits—the individual, the Company, and the country. Educational Relations, General Electric Company, Schenectady 5, New York AFTER RECEIVING a B.A. in English from Brown University, Hoy Stratton joined G.E. in 1952 in the Advertising and Public Relations Training Pro gram. He worked as in struction-book editor and advertising copy writer before his current job. By A1 Capp A WAKE NEK* ' ' Since »VA3 SAFE AS COFFEE cHuCK*-E.rr-AH GOT NOTHIN'T LOSE, CEPT MAH LIFE!. 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