The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Slouch
PAGE 2 Tuesday, December 3, 1957
by Jim Earle
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Letters To The Editor
Man to Man
BY JOE TINDEL
Gator Bowl, here come the Fightin’ Texas Aggies!
Yes, despite the fact that we dropped from No. 1 in the
nation to No. 3 in the Southwest Conference, we’ve earned
a spot in the Jacksonville, Fla. stadium.
Looking back over the season, it surely seems a shame
that John Crow and Company have to lower themselves
to anything’ less than the Bowl of Cotton in Dallas.
Well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. All I can say
is “Wait ‘til next year.”
* * *
I hope nobody else had the experience of another Ag
gie I know. As if the stunning defeat of the Aggies by the
lousy teasips wasn’t enough, he went home for the holidays
and broke off with his girl. Why? You guessed it. Because
of a teasip.
* * *
Now we can concentrate on studies. Or maybe we’d
rather concentrate on basketball. I understand the Aggies
are chosen to finish at the top fighting it out with TCU
and Rice. It will probably be an interesting season.
* * *
I think maybe most Aggies will join with me in ex
pressing regret at Coach Paul Bryant’s departure from
A&M. He’s done a great job and it’s a shame he can’t al
ways be with us.
Highlights and Sidelights
By VEIvN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN,—Both special ses
sions of the Legislature passed all
the bills for which Gov. Price
Daniel called them. Mostly, by
wide margins.
Even so, final days found
everyone at sixes and sevens.
House members and Senators
wrangled among themselves.
Each house sniped at the other.
And numerous lawmakers found
ways to show they were put out
with the governor.
Both houses gave lop-sided ap
proval to the bills requested by
the governor to bolster local con
trol of schools. One allows clos
ing of schools threatened with
federal occupation. The other
empowers the attorney general, to
assist local districts in fighting
anti-segregation .suits.
Then, another bill was proposed
to allow county judges to require
registration of organizations at
tempting to interfere with public
school operations. Sponsors said it
was aimed at the NAACP.
Though there seemed to be no
large block of opposition to the
measure itself, haggling techni-
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calities stretched out the time
table.
Some legislators accused others
of deliberately prolonging the
session to embarrass the gover
nor. Each day (including week
ends) made a $11,600 bite into
the governor’s emergency fund.
House members said Senators
were sticking around to have the
last word in their feud with the
Insurance Department.
Whatever the cause, it seemed
evident that the Texas Legis
lature can’t be turned on and off
like a faucet.
HINDSIGHT—Renewal of the
contest over tidelands ownership
brought criticism of Governor
Daniel’s role in the federal tide-
lands law.
Sen. Dorsey B. Hardeman of
San Angelo said he felt Daniel
should have seen to it the 1953
law recognized specifically Texas’
claim to lands 10% miles out.
Daniel, then a U. S. Senator,
sponsored the federal law. At
present a federal ,suit challenges
Texas’ claim to land beyond three
miles.
Editor:
The Battalion
Earlier you said that the Corps
seniors were virtually forcing the
proposed honor code down the
throats of the underclassmen by
so-called indoctrination.
How can we understand and
intelligently evaluate an honor
code without indoctrination ? ,
When we in the Corps know all
there is to know of the preposed
plan we will be in a position to
express our attitudes toward it.
The seniors that I have dis
cussed the code with feel that all
classes should have the oppor
tunity to vote on the honor code,
but that the vote should not be
taken until all fully understand
what the code consists of.
You complained that the
Civilians were being ingnored.
Is the Corps expected to propose
an honor code for the entire
school and submit it to the
Civilians for their approval?
When the Corps seniors first
made plans for the code, they
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The following organizations
will meet tonight:
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ASCE, Student Chapter, meets
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EDUCATION - PSYCHOLOGY
CLUB meets in Room 3D, MSC.
AMERICAN METEOROLOGI
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citations and value as an M. S. de
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Looking For
Christmas
Presents?
It’s always a problem to decide what to
give Grandmother, Cousin Alice, Uncle Jim
and the assorted Small Fry for Christmas.
This year we’ve made an honest attempt
to help you. One of our buyers has recently
returned from New York where he went
through the stocks of several of the nation’s
Large Remainder Houses. Books on almost
every subject were selected and they will
be offered to you in a Christmas Sale start
ing December 9.
These books—covering everything from
Adam to Zebras—are priced at a fraction of
their original price.
Mark your calendar now to visit our
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In Its 50th Year of Serving Texas Aggies
encouraged the Civilians to send
representatives. Did a single
Civilian show up? No! The only
thing that i,s preventing the
Civilians from having an honor
code is their lack of initiative.
Men like you are very willing
to sit and complain but never at
tempt anything worthwhile your
selves.
One of the Corps’ big com
plaints about the honor code is
that the civilians weren’t includ
ed. So why don’t you propose an
honor code that is suitable to the
Civilians ? The Corps will be more
than happy to join with you in
trying to coordinate the two.
John H. Partridge, ’59
OnCgnps
with
MaxShukan
(By the Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys! "and,
“Barefoot Boy with Cheek")
DECK THE HALLS
The days grow short, the nights grow long, the north wind
doth blow, and a light frost appears on the knees of coeds.
Christmas is icumen in, and once more our keen 3 r oung
minds turn to the vexing problem of Christmas gifts.
Let us examine first the most vexing of all gift problems:
What do you buy for the person who has everything? Well
sir, when you encounter this dilemma, the best thing to
do is seize it by the horns. Ask yourself this question: Does
he truly have everything? Does he, for example, have a
birthmark? A Mach number? A lacrosse net? An I-beam?
An S-hook? A U-bolt? A T-square? A Primus stove?
(There is, incidentally, quite an interesting little story
about how Primus came to invent the stove. Before Primus’s
invention, cooking was rather a hazardous occupation.
People just built fires any old place—the floor, the closet,’
the escritoire—and often as not the whole house would go
up in dames along with the dinner. Primus, a goose
plucker of Frankfurt-am-Main, kept thinking there must
be a more efficient way to cook. Finally, in a flash of in
spiration, it came to him: Why not build a device to contain
the fire and keep it from spreading?
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(Well sir, he built precisely such a device and named it
after his beloved wife Stove. Primus’s first Stove, it must
be confessed, was less than a triumph; his mistake was in
building it out of paper. The next Stove, built of wood,
fared hardly better. Not until he made one out of metal
could the Stove really be called a success.
(But even then the Stove was not entirely satisfactory.
The trouble was that the Stove filled up with ashes and
became useless after a few weeks. It remained for Primus’s
son Frederick to conquer that problem. He invented a
mechanism to remove ashes from the bottom of the Stove
and was thenceforth known to posterity as Frederick the
Grate.)
But I digress. We were discussing Christmas gifts. This
year, as every year, a popular gift is the smoking jacket.
And what do the smoking jackets smoke? Why, Marlboro,
of course—every man jacket of them. And why wouldn’t
they smoke Marlboros? Why wouldn’t anybody with a
taste bud in his head? You get such a lot to like in a Marl
boro—filter ... flavor... flip-top box.
Here is no filter to hollow the cheeks and bug the eye
balls ; here is a filter that draws nice and easy. Here is no
flavor to pale and pall; here is a flavor ever fresh, ever
zestful. Here is no flimsy pack to crumble and shred its
precious cargo; here is a sturdy box that keeps each ciga
rette plump and pristine.
Speaking of smoking, the year’s most unusual gift item
is a brand-new cigarette lighter that never needs refilling.
You are scoffing. You are saying you have heard such claims
before. But it’s true, I promise you. This new lighter
never, never needs refilling! The fuel supply lasts forever.
Of course, there are certain disadvantages. For one
thing, the lighter is rather bulky—170 feet long and three
stories high.
But look on the bright side: As the fuel runs out, you
can rent rooms in it. © 1057. Ma* shuiman
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