The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
“PAGE 2 - Thursday, December 19, 1957
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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
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. . . 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
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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.
But the integration order re
mains, leaving Dallas and other
districts with similar problems,
without an answer.
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till Spring!
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