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i The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, November 1, 1956 Slouch Writes A Letter cartoons to come from students here on the campus In the past few weeks we have been using- a national cartoon. But although it is funny, it can’t beat local talent. In lieu of this, we now make a plea for local cartoonists to help inject a little humor into campus life here via the pages of The Battalion. Help A&M- - Write Home Write home and urge your parents to vote for amend ments 3 and 4. Tell them how badly classroom and dormitory facilities are needed on the campus and that amendment 3 al lows up to 50 per cent of the Permanent University Fund to be invested in corporate stocks and bonds, thus bringing in a bigger, faster income to enlarge the Fund. Only money from this Fund is used for building pur poses and it isn’t big enough to meet present needs, much less for the future. Write home and urge them to vote for amendment 4, the one increasing the retirement earnings for teachers. Tell them how badly teachers are needed because industry and richer schools are luring them away. This amendment allows the teachers to put more money into their retirement fund, thus making their future seem a little brighter. We alone, as students, know the true conditions existing under these problems and it is up to us to do our best to solve them. We will be doing our part if we urge our parents and friends to vote FOR these two amendments. Today, on this page, readers will find a letter to the Editor from Cadet Slouch and his buddy, Simp. j In this letter, they tell of their enjoyment in bringing J I{ -Y DAVE McREYNOLDS out “the lighter side” of Aggie life during the last three j Battalion Managing Editor years. ! With all the hullabaloo of elec- It’s good to know they enjoyed their role for certainly : tion year most persons are famil- they were worth much as morale lifters and will be remem- : iar with the names of their favor- bered by every student coming through A&M during their ite candidates for the offices in our reign. | state and federal government. But But now, Slouch and Simp have moved on to the Air ; how many of our voters are famil- Force where they happily slide through life as airmen. liar with the proposed constitution- They were discontinued in The Battalion not because of, al amendments that will be on the their worth or ability, but mainly because it is vital for ballot in Texas next Tuesday. These amendments go unnoticed by a large per cent of our popula tion. And yet, much of today’s ad vertisements, shop talk and idle gossiping is devoted to a person’s future security. Two of these amendments propose to give the average Texan more security for his money. One, AMENDMENT 3, is asking Texans to approve a way to add increased allot- ’ ments to the college building programs at the state-suppor ted colleges and universities, WITHOUT adding to the bur den of the already overburden ed taxpayer. T he other, AMENDMENT 4, will provide added retirement benefits and is designed to attract m o r e teachers to our under manned school systems. Our Democratic way of life is based on education. Both of these amendments are designed to ease the strain that is being placed on our state system of education. How many have stopped to think what condition our schools will be in 1960 if the citizens -of our state don’t see fit to change some of the conditions found here today ? By the year 1960 there will be an additional 350,000 pupils in to days already-crowded, under-staff ed schools. Proposed State Amendments Worthy Of Consideration What’s Cooking Hometown Clubs will meet to night as follows: •> 7 Wheeler-Collinsworth Club will meet in room 102 of the YMCA to plan pictures and Christmas holi days. 7:15 Texarkana Club meets in room 226, of the Academic Building to plan a Thanksgiving party. Tri-County Club is to meet in the reading room of the YMCA, to dis cuss Thanksgiving party. 7:30 Henderson County Club will meet in Bagley Hall to plan Thanks giving dance. Northeast Texas Club meets in room 203 of the Academic Build ing to plan Thanksgiving Party. for Christmas dance, Rio Grande Valley Club meets in the Biology Building to lay plans for Thanksgiving. East Texas Club will meet in room 207 Academic to plan New Yeai-’s party. Hill County Club meets in room 3D of the MSC. The A&M-TCU game film will be shown. Houston Club meets in the MSC Social Room to make final arrange ments for Christmas dance. Brazoria County Club meets in room 303 Academic. Bell County Club will meet in room 125 Academic to plan for Thanksgiving party. Beaumont Club is to meet in room 3D of the MSC. Bosque County Club meets in Waco - McLennan County Club [ room 228 of the Academic Build- meets in the YMCA to make plans ing. Here on our own campus one can easily see the effects of over-crowded rooms, not only in the teaching areas but in the dormitories. If you are “from Missouri” and have to be shown these facts just visit one of the his tory classes. These used to be The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, i« 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 Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are John W. Gossett. Murray Milner. Jr., and Leighlus E. Sheppard. Jr.. Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec retary. The Battalion 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 tegular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion Is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceeding Easter or Thanksgiving. Sub scription rates are S3.50 per semester. Sti.OO per school year. $6.50 per full year, or SI.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered aa aecond-claaa matter at Post Office at College Station. Texas, tinder the Act of Con gress of March 8. 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Serv ices. Inc., a t New York City, Chicago. Los Angeles, and San Fran 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 repubiication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Letters Editor, The Battalion Slouch, Simp and all the gang have enjoyed portraying the Ag gies’ jokes, attitudes, opinions and nonsense in The Battalion. The cartoons have never been meant to ridicule or persecute, but rather to bring out the lighter side of cam pus situations. We regret that you have seen fit to discontinue our cartoons in your paper. The last three years of cartooning for The Battalion have been highly enjoyable and we won’t forget them. Slouch, Simp and Jim Earle Editor, The Battalion. The Arkansas game weekend is almost here and Sully is still cover ed with orange paint. He’s been painted orange since Sunday and it looks like he will stay that way until some juniors or seniors clean him off. Its apparent by now that no freshman or sophomore is in tending to do anything about it. He’s been painted numerous times since he Avas placed on that granite block, but he’s been cleaned and polished even more. Shining Sully isn’t doing personal service for someone or being physically hazed because your arms get sore. Shin- ,ing Sully should be like clean ing one of our prized possessions. He belongs to us. Army, what has happened to our Spirit, pride and traditions? Why did Sully get painted in the first place ? Who did it, TU students or Aggies? Leroy Hyltin Jr. ’58 LISTEN DAILY (Except Sunday) to KORA at 11:55 A.M. THE WRITE-IN CANDIDATE W. LEE News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or a + the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. JIM BOWER Editor O'DANIEL FOR GOVERNOR (Pol. Adv. Paid for by W. Lee O'Damel) interesting and enjoyable, but it is seldom that a student en joys a class where he is a number, instead of an indivi dual. Some of these classes number well over 200 students and have to hunt all over the campus for a room large enough to accommodate this large gathering. AMENDMENT 3 will add Texas Southern University and Lamar State College to the list of colleges included in the College Building Fund financed by the present five cent ad valorem tax and would transfer Texas Western College, Tarleton State College, Arlington State College and Prairie View A&M College to the Permanent University Fund. The University of Texas System and the A&M System would be made responsible for financing the building and permanent improve ments programs of their branches through the Permanent Univer sity Fund rather than the state’s General Revenue Fund. This pro posal would also allow a broader investment base for the Perman ent University Fund to take care of the added building obligations of the two systems. Specific lim itations for handling the invest ments are set in the amendment. These safeguards will keep the investments within the safe limits of conservative bus iness. At present, limited to investment in government bonds, the fund earns an aveg- age return of 2.7 per cent. The more liberal investment base will allow a gradual in crease in returns to 3.7 per cent to meet increased respon sibilities of the two Systems. AMENDMENT 4 is designed to increase the benefits of the pres ent retirement system of employ ees of public schools and state- supported colleges and universi ties. It would also add disability and death benefits for these peo ple. State and employee contri butions into the retirement fund would each be raised to 6 per cent of the employee’s salary, with a maximum of $504 per person per year. With the number of children in our schools growing b y leaps and bounds each year, the profession needs something new to attract new teachers to the field. It is estimated that 15,000 new teachers will be required by 1960 in our state schools and, in addition, 7,000 teachers leave the field each year. These must be re placed or persuaded to stay in the profession. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler MOW imi V? COhfc. NOW-I'D THINK FOR. 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