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{ h-i <0 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas P AGE 2 Thursday, February 21, 1957 Letters to the Editor Editor, The Battalion: Maybe I’m dumb or maybe I just don’t understand. Lately, in fact this semester, there has been something which has been a con stant thorn in my side. To be straight-forward, the thorn is none other than one “Church Forma tion”, or so it is called. I go to church. I’m a Methodist to be specific. I don’t know about you, but I don’t need anyone to tell m6 to go to church. American democracy has its most basic principles founded upon Re ligious Freedom. Americans are free to go to the church of their choice or not at all if they piefei. When are the college officials or whoever is responsible going to realize that college students aren’t babies ? If they aren t old enough to decide for themselves now, they never will be. But what is even more outra geous is that the church formation was fofmhd for freshmen and soph omores only. Bid the planneis of this church formation believe that the juniors and seniors are per fect? Yes, I am n sophomore, but don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that just because the freshmen and sophomores fall out, the juniors and seniors should also. I’m trying to impress you with the idea that the church formation was formed for the wrong purpose entirely. Another fallacy of the church formation is the plight of the Cath olics. If a Catholic desires, he may go to 6 or 7 a.m. Mass. Yet when he gets back, he must still tall out for the church formation. Was this the purpose of the church forma tion—to haze students? In closing I would like to say that it is my firm conviction that the church formation be done away with entirely in view of the fact that college students are mature individuals—not mere adolescents. The real church formation can be only in one’s own heart. As long as the freshmen and sopho mores of Texas A&M College are forced to fall out on Sunday morn ing, someone’s good intent can be classified as only another hazing- device, Roy Anderson ’59 (Ed. Note: Anyone else have any ideas on this subject?) Air Defense Force Gets Atomic Rocket WASHINGTON —(A>)— Atomic rockets for blasting enemy bomb ers out of the sky are now being- issued to interceptor planes of the Air Defense Command within the United States. Suddenly breaking a well-kept secret, Secretary of Defense Wil son yesterday revealed this dra matic, long step in the nation s defense in a statement which also Moncrief, ’42, Joins Golf Association James B. Moncrief, ’42, this week joined the U. S. Golf As sociation Green Section South western Office. He will be working in the as sociation with . Dr. Marvin H. Ferguson, national research co ordinator. Duties he takes at the post in clude extension and advisory work in turf problems with golf course superintendents throughout lexas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Prior to coming to' the USGA office he was park supervisor and acting agronomist for Dallas. Moncrief says his wife and chil dren, a boy, 11, and girl, 6, will join him in College Station March 1. said that the same nuclear punch will be incorporated into surface to-air defense. This will include the Army’ Nike-Hercules antiaircraft missile and the Talos, a missile developed by the Navy which the Air Force has proposed to adopt. The fact that nuclear missiles already are out of the experiment al stage and going into the hands of airmen represents the greatest advance in aerial defense since World War II Housing Needed For Conference Persons with • spare rooms in their homes who would like to pro vide free housing for delegates to the Ecumenical Student Christian Conference scheduled fox* the week end of March 8-10, are asked to phone VI 6-4716, or leave their name and addx'ess at the TMCA of fice. Information as to how many delegates can be housed and wheth ex- or not thex-e is any i-ace piefei ence will be needed. The conference will hold its meetings in the A&M Methodist Chui'ch and Wesley Foundation be ginning Friday evening, March 8, and ending Suxxday morning, on March 10. NEED A BOOK? But no ready cash .... Just leave an I. O. U For any book on my shelf .... Ole Army Lou The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, dally newspaper of th ^ ^^bv^tudents In^the'"offfee of'sufdeni Texas and the City of College Station, i« ^ D i rec tor of Student Publications Puoncauons as a non-profit educational the A.&M. Colleg. la Ross Strader. The governing body of „^‘ ° „ embe rs are Dr. Carroll D of Texas is the Student p “ bli ^f. tio " s f£rchard* Pro/ Tom Leland and Mr. Bennif Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. ®“™f t rcl ’ M u r ° ay Milner, Jr., and Leighlus B Zinn. Student members are John w - D?® 36 „’ h , „ Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members Charts Koeoer ^ schoo , yeal retary. The Battalion is published f °“5 ,{Y nd exam ination periods. Days oi and once a week during tbe f ura ™®f d ® nd for th e regular school year and on Thursday publication are Tuesday throu* . Friday for tne g va c a tion periods. The Battalion during the summer terms “d .'luring examination ana or Than ksgiving. Sub Is not published on Wednesday wnmed^tely preceea^^^ 56 .5 0 per full year. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, ander the Act of Con gress of March 8. 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. cation The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi- Po'ftnnews'dSatches credited to H or not etherise credited ,, of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights the paper and local news of spontaneous origin puun^ci ^ of replication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be. made by telephone JVT 6 -6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor ottne YMCAi Classified ads may be P laced , b y telcp ( yMCA > the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the Y.IG . — : — Editor JIM BOWER -- ---- Managing Editor Dave McReynolds Sports Editor Barry Hart City Editor Welton Jones Society Editor Sand P Boyd, Jim Neighbors, Joe Tmdel...^ ^Edit” D. n G. McNutt, Vaf Polk, Fred Meurer, Joe BuS ® r staff Photographic John West, C. R. McCain Staff Cartoonist Don Collins Circulation Manager George Wise.. CHS Snorts Correspondent Maurice Olian * LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS ritf'&ICKBt, IP w <5oin‘to c- v n-r uei?A&v tr- 5 WITM ME WM£ HURfcY- by Dick Bibler] iu ,0 o TANNEAN/ r<7fl OOlN' liv. - What’s Cooking The following clubs and organ izations meet tonight: 7:15 Tri-County Hometown Club meets in room 206 of the Academic Building. G u a d a 1 u p e Valley Hometown Club meets in room 308 of the Academic Building. Deep East Texas Hometown Club meets in room 207 of the Astidemic Building to discuss the new ride system and the Easter party. Pic tures for the Cotton Pageant sweetheart are requested to be brought to the meeting. 7:30 Galveston Hometown Club meets in room 2A of the MSC. Bell County Hometown® Club meets in room 125 of the Academic Building to discuss party plans. Winters Hometown Club meets on the second floor of the Aca demic Building. Grayson County Hometown Club meets in room 106 of the Academic Building to make plans for High School Day and the Aggieland pic ture. Fort Worth Hometown Club meets in the YMCA for an import- Center News Intercollegiate Bridge Tourna ment will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Social Room. Film Society will meet tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Assembly Room. Bridge Committee will meet to morrow night at 7:30 in Room 2A. ant business meeting. A film will be shown. Discussion about the Cotton Queen candidate and Eas ter party will follow. Warning Given Of New High In Enrollment Enrollment in the nation s colleges will double in the next 10 years, according to John Kay of Time magazine. “War babies” are forcing enrollment of high schools up now and will be invading- college cam- i puses in the next two years, he said. The result of the invasion will be higher standards for all colleges and fewer loafers in the classroom since there is not room for the coming- decade of students, Kay said. Students who apply for college entrance now are applying to as many as 22 colleges in hopes of gaining entrance, he continued. The great fault in college en trance tests is some of the more intellectual students will fail the examination, but “it is not a mat ter of expediency. It is a matter of necessity,” Kay said. “The time has come when the college student must really pro duce,” he said. BLUSHING AGGIE Paul G. Masters, senior in “A” Engi- rp^b h r r s h eT k fGZ n ylV^X h 1iP it? 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