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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
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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
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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.
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