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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas “PAGE 2 - Thursday, December 19, 1957 Aii Editorial • --•^>--5 otw f *C mm Safety: A. Future Thoughts of home, the folks, that wonderful sweetheart and all the fun Avaiting- undoubtedly are permeating every brain cell of study-weary Aggies on this the eve of the mass exodus. All these dreams of happiness can be snuffed out in one terrifying moment of grinding metal, shattering glass and twisted bodies. Will every Aggie) live to see his dreams come true, or will that girl, his parents and friends be standing by a casket Christmas Day instead of eating turkey and celebrating the birth of Christ? Think about it! Is 10 minutes saved worth never marry ing that dream girl or never achieving the success that will make parents and friends proud? If nothing else, think of highway safety from a selfish angle. Probably after another 20 years most of those who' will die during the holidays will be forgotten. Would it satisfy the selfish pride of anyone to feel he was dying as a relative unknown, having made little im pression on the world around him? For either reason, it pays to be safe and stay alive. As a rule, this bit is designed to create laughter. But there’s nothing funny about dying. So here’s a few safety rules to remember when driving home ward: 1. Don’t lose your head—let someone hold your beer when you go around corners. 2. Never dim your lights— there might be some cars com ing. 3. Take curves on the left— it’s less crowed—Usually. 4. Say goodby to your room mate before leaving. It may be some time before you see him again. Indeed! Death in Various Forms Lingers on High ways THRU FRIDAY “Man On Fire” With Bing Crosby Plus “Run For The Sun” With Richard Widmark Also '■Beast of Hollow Mountain “I know there’s nothing I can say to keep you speedin’ and being reckless going home! All I ‘goodbye’—It won’t be the’ same without you!” guys from can say is By E. V. WALTON Battalion Guest Writer What is death? It is hard to know, exactly, for it is many things. It can be sight and sound, speed and smell, the seen and the unseen, or the unknown chemistry in the mind of man. On the highways, death is mostly hurry. Or a gambler would say that Death is fool’s odds— long odds. If you drive 70 miles an hour, instead of 60, you may save less than 10 minutes in one hour’s driving. But you gamble then. Long odds. You bet over a quarter of a million minutes in each remaining year of your life that you can make ten or less THURSDAY & FRIDAY tixaxxvixdm STARRING k DALI FOBflffSON f •riltiCARl BENTON REID JAN MERUN Cik A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE THURSDAY JOHN PAYNE Alexander KNOX ■ Anne NEYIAND »,t,A . . . your life against the length of time it would take to sing a psalm at your funeral. Or death may be the unseen. The truck just beyond the curve or over the hill seconds away, but unseen. The unknown just be yond the beam of your headlights when you overdrive their range. It can be the seen, too. The glisten of rain on wet pavement waiting for speed and brakes or the touch of a toe on the ac celerator. Death is patient. It waits in the glaze of snow or ice on the pavement. Pretty, in nocent-looking and so terribly sudden! Death can be smell. Hot oil pourirkg from a smashed motor. The reek of gasoline and battery acid or the smell of fire and then the \L r orst stench of them all— DALLAS CHRISTMAS DANCE All Ags Invited Statler - Hilton Friday, Dec. 27 8:00 p. m. 12:00 p. m. $5.00 Per Couple Cokes Included GnemaScoPE: COLOR by Oe Luxe THE BATTALIOH / Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent ivriters only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, no7i-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community neivspaper and is gov- 'erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A & M., is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dr. Carrol! D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Libby. Ex- officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Mail subscriptions are $3,50 per semester, $6 per school year, $6,50 per full year. Advertising rates furnished on request. Address; The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. Entered as second-class matter at. the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March S, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n Associated Collegiate Press Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services. Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports Joy Roper , Society Editor Gayle McNutt, Val Polk City Editors Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors Horrible and unforgettable. Sometimes it is air. Imprison ed, tortured, heated, and hammer ed inside a tire at 70 or 80. Seek ing release, a weak spot in the tire—an old nail puncture, a cut or a flaw, any place to blow out. When it happens, it is Death. Death can be a thing of the mind. A worry about an unpaid bill, a quarrel, or a sick child can cause a moment’s incoordination or inattention to speed and weight and mass. A violation of the laws of physics, punishable by Death. It can even be anticipation of a sweetheart’s kiss or the wel come light of the family window if it impells excess speed, a chance on a hill or a gamble around a curve. Death can be sound, too. The angry scrqam of brakes. The crunch of tortured steel. The final stillness punctuated by the drip of gasoline and the tinkle of the last falling shred of glass before the crescendo of agony begins. The bubbling sound blood makes in a torn throat or crushed chest. The final insensate moan. Death is sometimes sound—the last sound. The record of Death is in the ink of the actuary’s pen who Avrites “deceased” 40,000 times a year. You can find the tracks of Death in wrecking yards and funeral homes and finally in the words, “marital status—widow”, or “father living ? No!” Death is many things. Can you recognize it—in time? AUSTIN, Texas — “Give the Gift of Life” is the slogan for Governor Price Daniel’s Christ mas Safety Campaign. “I plead with every Texan to assume normal, adult responsi bility for driving his car with utmost care. It’s the very least any of us can do. And the great est think we can do is “Give the Gift of Life for Christmas.’ ” D I L E M M A REMAINS — Whether a school district should follow state or federal law in re gard to integration is still an open question, A federal judge declined to rule on the issue for the Dallas school board. A state law, passed last spring, says a school will lose state aid if it integrates without a local election. A federal court has ordered Dallas schools to integrate Jan. 27. Members of the Texas attorney general’s staff appeared at a hearing to argue that a lower federal court could not set aside a state law. 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