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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County/, Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 26, 1958 An Editorial A Citizen’s Choice Next week the improvement of College Station streets will be in the hands of the people. Monday night the city council took the first step to ward the sorely needed improvements. After studying possible solutions for the past two years, obtaining the ad vice of experts in the field and making comparisons between the situation here and that of other cities where improve ments similar to those they propose have been made, the council screened the few they believe best for the city and its citizens. Next week a complete summary of the proposed plans for financing the improvement measures will be mailed to every family on the city utility list, for them to choose the plan they think best. It will be the citizens who make the final decision on what is to be done. Any plan is going to mean a tax rise, but the improvements must be made. Each citizen owes it to himself and his community to read the plans submitted by the council, think about them and then vote wisely for the plan he thinks best for the future of College Station and its citizens. (—GM) Letters To The Editor Editor, The Battalion: I have followed with interest the various controversial issues that have been brought to the pages of the Aggie newspaper since I first set foot in Aggieland almost two years ago. , In the span of a few weeks I have read in your newspaper— highly enlightening—a stream of so-called letters to the editor, which are nothing but a pitiful showing of moronness on the part of laggers trying vainly to entrench themselves behind the ludicrous argument which is the protection of illegitimate “tradi tions.” There is no legitimacy in any tradition pertaining to an educa tional establishment, unless that tradition is linked to its cardinal function of education excellence! These laggers, in a desultory fashion, are veering away from the gist of the issue. Girls will add to A&M—which should be an organic nucleus of a modern technological society— a completeness which it now lacks. In a college where sup posedly the highly qualified citi zen of a country, (now entering the outerspace era), is being pre pared, a boy cannot achieve whole maturity, unless he is goaded for ward by the complementary stim ulus from the opposite sex in the progress. There is an issue of survival at stake, and girls cannot be left out from the milieu in which the out- erspaceman must grow up. The petty arguments branished by these morons, such as that skirts and lipstick do not match the martial garb of the Corps of Ca dets at a football game, are child ish and too utterly immature to stand up, let alone prevail in the denouement of the controversy. This matter of coeducation can no longer be dismissed as a case of seasonal teenagers’ spring fe ver and can no longer be looked upon perfunctorily. Once some exes—irresponsibly sporting their shortsightedness—took the floor to attack coeducation on the ground of preserving what they call “tradition,” which is really nothing more than costumes glamorizing their memoirs. It is, to my view, high time for the sensible part of the people of Tex as to repolish their glorious past EVERVOWE LOVES We Have Records To Suit Your Taste . .. © Classical ® Hillbilly • Jazz • Popular © Rock’n Roll S kaffer's ACROSS FROM THE POST OFFICE AT NORTH GATE VI 6-4818 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion ape those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community newspaper 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. Carroll 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. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 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. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-661S or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. Mail subscriptions are S3.50 per semester, S6 per school year. $6.50 per full year. Advertising rates furnished on sequest. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Gary Rollins Sports Jiditor. UffLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Sick Bible? Decision on ROTC Armory Rests With A&M Directors ‘JUST CNESTUPeNT TO'POSE' FOE, MIS5 — S££MS A , STDPIP fcUMOfc 60T AROJNP WE WEKENTWJNg CLASS’TCW/ Job Interviews The following job interviews will be held in the Placement Of fice: Thursday Colgate - Palmolive Company, Kansas City, Mo., inteiwiews chemical, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering ma jors. Factory Mutual Engineering and replenish the heart of the na tion with a deed to be remember ed. I repeat that we must bear in mind the critical aspect of the controversy as a major part of an issue of survival, which de mands not just technological su premacy but wholeness of char acter. What we, Texas Aggies, are confronted with is too great, too important for us to shun it by silence. This is the reason why as a citizen of the free world I dare to write this letter. Name Withheld Upon Request The BOOK CENTER Aggie Owned, Class ’51 “Where your business is our privilege and is deeply appreciated.” 116 S. Main Bryan DRIVE. IN THf AIK» LS f Rf I WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY “Sins Of The Borgias” First Brazos County Showing THRU WEDNESDAY “Scandal In Sorrento” Sophia Loren CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY WS8 EKBERG STERLING HAYDEN Also “Spoilers Of The Forest” Rod Cameron WEDNESDAY ■m JOHN BENTLEY-TOWN THATCHER > "klNC" Pfll F I£lf ERICKSON • RURTIH BENSON , A limVFRSAl.INTfryTiqUI PICTURE Division, Norwood, Mass., inter views architectural, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering and in dustrial technology majors. Geophysical Service Inc., Hous ton, interviews electrical, me chanical and petroleum engineer ing, geology, geophysics, mathe matics and physics majors. Thursday and Friday Texas Electric Service Com pany, Fort Worth, interviews electrical, mechanical, civil and industrial engineering, industrial technology, accounting and busi ness administration majors. The National Supply Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., interviews civil, electrical, industrial and mechani cal engineering majors. By FRED MEURER It will take more for A&M to get an ROTC armory than a Con gressional bill giving federal aid to colleges and universities for ROTC improvements. It will require approval of the armory by the A&M Board of Di rectors. Recently the board tabled a military department proposal for an armory because it chose to withhold action until Congress was given a chance to pass such a bill during its present session. Surely a bill of this kind could speed up action toward building the armory but there is no de finite indication it would. According to a top officer in the military department, the armory bid was submitted to the board long before the bill was originally discussed in Congress last year. The proposal was ignored then. Now it has been put off until the college is assured of some financial help for the build ing. What’s wrong? Has military training become so insignificant in the directors’ eyes that they won’t consider improving ROTC facili ties? This seems doubtful since they recently passed a measure making the Corps compulsory next fall. But the Corps is not getting a square deal by any means. It is no secret that compulsory Corps will function on a trial basis for some time after it gets started. It faces a difficult task of proving itself, considering its improper facilities. It is probably harder to find a better example of inade quate facilities than A&M’s mili tary training classrooms, the Shacks. Looking at it from another angle, the Corps of Cadets repre sents the largest school on the campus—the military department. There are about 2,800 cadets at A&M. Yet they are given the con sideration of a minority group by being stuck in the only available place on the campus—the wooden Shacks. It’s difficult to compare the military department with other schools on the campus without causing friction with the latter. But consider this as an example. A new athletic dorm is being built to accommodate 90 football play ers. Yet 2,800 cadets, the leaders of tomorrow, are attending classes in shanties. The Board of Directors should act now rather than wait for a Congressional bill-which may never come. Let’s face it. A&M’s enrollment has to keep rising in stead of falling. Every future stu dent will be confronted with at least two years of military train ing—a program which is wonder ful in itself. But they can’t be expected to come here facing life in a cadet Corps which is long overdue for improvements. A&M’s reputation has been a de termining factor for new students in the past but it needs bolstering for the new and bigger job ahead. Aggies - Try Youngblood’s Fried Chicken Vk Chicken - Trimmings $1.00 Barbecue — Steaks — Seafoods Rock Building South College Midway Between Bryan & College Old Army Lou Says, “Army, If You’re Going To Be A Proud Fightin’ Texas Aggie Next Year You’ve Got To Get That 1.00 G.P.R. Now. Study Hard And Get That Etftra Bit That Will Raise Your Grade To The Next Letter. Start The Semes ter Right By Whipping Out On Those First Major Quizzes” Ole Army Lou ’32 Opp&htuniti£A Loit G-lwwtk Buhl Hulsey, Texas ATM ’39, is superin tendent of transmission of Texas Electric Service Company, supervising the operation of the company's high voltage electric trans mission lines and substations. ...INA GROWING COMPANY Capable young men and women have extra opportunity in a growing company serving a growing area. During the past ten years, Texas Electric Service Company has increased its power generating capability to more than seven times that of 1947, has constructed more than 1100 miles of high voltage transmission lines and 2800 miles of distribution lines, along with related substation and other facilities, more than doubled the number of employees, and serves more than twice as many customers. And the company is continuing to build its organization as it plans and constructs new electric transmission and distribution facilities to serve our rapidly developing area. New career opportunities are opening for quali fied men and women. Mr. Burl Hulsey and other representatives of Texas Electric Service Company will interview graduates: Thursday and Friday February 27-28 ENGINEERING — Electrical, Mechanical and Civil An appointment can be arranged through your Placement Office. TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPAHY LFL ABNER By A1 Capp PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz (^UP PERISCOPE!'O'
