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The Battalion ..... College Station (Bmxos County), Texan PAGE 2 Wednesday, October 31, 1956 Shorter Letters, Please One of the primary interests of a newspaper is that its readers feel free to express themselves. In keeping - with this, The Battalion staff welcomes all Letters to the Editor but has one request. . Please keep letters as short as possible, preferably un der 250 words. Because of the limited amount of spa<*e, one lengthy let ter may keep two or three other letters from being printed. It is logical to assume that those letters falling within the 250 word limit stand the best chance for publication. Feel free to send in your thoughts and opinions but try to keep them as short as possible. US Pulls Citizens Out Of Hot Mid-East Area Yesterday the Gth Fleet was re ported cruising' between Crete and Cyprus, about 250 to 500 miles from the Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal. State Department press officer Lincoln White announced the de partment’s efforts to divert mer chant ships to ports which could be used as evacuation points. WASHINGTON, (A 5 ) — The Uni ted States strove yesterday to evacuate Americans from Middle East areas on a “women and chil dren first” basis. With major airports in Israel and Egypt reported closed to com mercial traffic, the State Depart ment was trying to get several merchant ships to put into ports where they could pick up Ameri cans. The U. S. Gth Fleet already was poised in the eastern Mediterran ean, reportedly ready either to aid in an evacuation or to join any U. N. action in the embattled re gion. And another Navy force-Hunter- Killer Group No. 2—was presum ably speeding to join the Gth Fleet after breaking off late yesterday a scheduled four-day visit to the Netherlands. The destination of the Hunter- Killer Group was not disclosed. But informed quarters said it was moving toward the Mediterranean. Major units of the Gth Fleet left Turkish and Greek ports Sunday night, after President Eisenhower first expressed publicly grave con cern over a military buildup in Israel. Sweetheart Letters To The Editor (Continued from page 1) not yet found a place to stay. Any one still hunting for a room urged to contact Jim Hudson, in Dorm 17, room 101. Largely, the person responsible for making this year’s ball the “finest one ever” is Leroy (Bunny) Foerster, chairman of the Air p’orce Ball. Other chairmen and their jobs include Byron King, Sweetheart Committee; Brad Crockett, Publicity; Dick Wall, Date Wait; Bob Hoover, Decora tions; L. E. Sheppard, Army Lia ison; Bill Easley, Budget and Ber- nie Clark, vice chairman in Charge of Facilities. Maj. Edward W. Rodgers is the Air Force faculty advisor. ^ Start your career with a progressive firm! FOLEY'S, Houston's department store will be on your campus NOVEMBER 1, to interview Senior Students majoring in Economics, Accounting Bonking and Finance, Marketing* Home Economics, Liberal Arts, Transportation, Management. Make a date to discuss a career in: Credit Traffic Management Personnel Buying, Merchandising Advertising Accounting, Control For complete information contact your Placement Office Witches Fly Tonight By HOWARD BENEDICT Associated Press Lock the doors and bar the win dows. For tonight witches will fly, black cats will shriek and ghosts will be about the land. What’s more, masked maraud ers will rove about, soaping win dows, ringing doorbells and carry ing off gates. It’s all part of the tradition of Halloween, the celebration of which has changed considerably * wiw-TW-Wft'-WTVWIt-^UKf fb **VM%.THEATRl * < MU CM M UNDHH? Y( ARV fRFI WEDNESDAY “Violent Saturday’ with Victor Mature Plus “The Come On’ with Anne Baxter since the Druids started the whole thing in Ireland some 2,000 years ago. Back in those days-Oct. 31 was set aside to honor Samhain, the Druid god of the dead. On that night the souls of those who had died during the previous year were supposed to come home, and Druid priests lit huge bonfires to warm the visitors. About midevening, when the fires were blazing briefly, the priests grabbed a fellow Druid and tossed him into the flames. Just why they did this is not certain, but one explanation says it put Samhain in a good mood. Later, Samhain’s holiday be came confused with ceremonies celebrated about the same time of year by other peoples. First to get into the act was the Roman’s annual festival of the harvest goddess, Pomona. This goddess • traditionally was sur rounded by products of the har- (See WITCHES, Page 4) Editor, The Battalion I see that the funny man has struck again. Saturday morning and again Monday morning this clown gathered together his cour age and poured paint on Sully. He never seems to realize that Sully is only a defenseless statute, and this must be “funny man’s” meth od of proving his worth as a man. Up to this point, we have al ways tried to be the optimistic type of person who believed that all the paint was thrown by either local high school kinds or students from other colleges, but lets not kid ourselves. Does it seem feasible that a Baylor University student would travel all the way from Waco with a Coca Cola cup full of green paint ? Of course not, yet a Coke cup which had been filled with green paint was lying beside Sully Saturday. Just what would cause this type of behavior on the part of an A&M student ? It appears to be the work of some frustrated character who expresses bis opposition to A&M traditions and customs by the use of negative means. Ap parently he doesn’t like it here. If tins is the case “funny boy”, then we have what we believe is the best solution for your problem —GET THE H OUT OF HERE and STAY OUT! Surely no one can solve any problem by throw ing things, much less paint on a statue. Everyone who attends this co lege finds things that lie doesn’t particularly like. The normal nearly normal person will try, through approved methods, to ad just the situation to suit himself. Though all situations are never adjusted to suit everyone, in this manner we have at least progress. We hope that this letter will bring about some favorable change and help us progress in this situ ation. We would like to ask another question. At what other college would the college authorities al low' monuments to be painted and disfigured such as this? We’ll ans wer that one ourselves; none that w'e know of. However, if an outfit paints its emblem on a sidewalk here at A&M ,there's h to pay. Why, then, can’t something be done about Sully ? Of all the people on the campus who could do something about the obnoxious painter, the Campus Se curity office has the most author ity. Why then, hasn’t some col lege official taken it upon himself to see that the Campus Security officers protect the statue against such vandalism ? However, the person who can do most to alleviate the situation is the emotionally immature adoles cent who applys the paint. At any rate, if the painting keeps up, we might as well re move the statue which was once a sacred symbol to Aggies. We show no respect for this “Soldier, Statesman, and Knightly COL. JOHN F. GUILLETT Field Representative l niled Services I.ife Insurance Co. 1625 Eye Street, N.W. Washington. D.C. 2518 Great Oaks Parkway Austin 5, Texas — Phone: GL. 3-6420 CHICLE WEDNESDAY ^THRESHOLD OF SPACE” Guy Madison ALSO “Phantom of the Rue Morgue” Gentleman” by allowing his like ness to be publicly ridiculed in This manner. The statue, at this time, is per manently ruined by the countless exhibitions of immaturity, espec ially the base upon which is in scribed the token of our respect and admiration for this man. In stead of participating in these juvenile practices, why can’t all Aggies follow the example of this great man who did so much for our school ? Lynn Pixley ’57 Donald Hicks ’57 Kirby Meyer ’57 Jack Chewning ’r>7 Louis Benavides ’57 WEDNESDAY “The ONE Picture that is a Dramatic "Must”! Cl IM emaScOPC | J [MASON-RUSH 'A jork ctNTurr rox dictum— STARTS TH URSDAY ill - c,....TECHNICOLOR - AUDREY HEPBURN HENRY FONDA MEL FERRER ANITA EKBERG VOTE THE STRAIGHT CONTINENTAL TICKET ^uonliiwulal FOR FAST COMMUTER SERVICE TO 'Wtbun/iiiental FOR CONNECTING OC-6B COACH SERVICE TO LOS JIHOiLES unliiieulul *from Houston FOR DEPENDABLE SERVICE DAILY TO WIN IN A LANDSLIDE... 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