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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas (JADET SLOUCH by Jllfl Earle PAGE 2 Tuesday, March 25, 1958 Ail Editorial What’ll It Be? “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers or newspapers without government, then I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” So said Thomas Jefferson, the author of our Declara tion of Independence and a founding father of our freedoms. And so proclaim editors all over the land as government —in one form or another—fights to grab the most sacred of our freedoms from the hands of those who seek to present the truth to America. Those editors who seek .the truth and print the news are either suppressed or persecuted for doing their duty to the public they serve. In the same measure, anyone who stands up for one of our guaranteed rights—freedom of the press—is pres sured to the point that he must either give up his stand or suffer the consequences. The editors are censored at the source. Information is withheld, regardless of whether it affects the public security or not. Government leaders say: “You have freedom of the press—you can print any thing we want you to. We know what’s good for the people to read.” Texas A&M’s administration has been no different than other governmental agencies. Records show its fight to keep all the facts from the students, the faculty and people of Texas. It has sought, at times, to completely remove student freedom in editing publications so that only what it wanted published would be read by the readers. For 79 years the student publications at A&M have been free and edited by students with little or no super vision. An attempt at censorship was thwarted in the spring of 1954, and largely through efforts of our much-respected former president Dr. David H. Morgan, student publications are still free. Only since his departure have efforts increased to suppress the news and delay publication of stories the people have a right to read. Will government dictate what students, faculty and the people of Texas read about Texas A&M ? Or will all the facts—whether critical of the adminis tration or not—reach the readers unhampered for their evaluation? ATOMIC (Continued from Page 1) our conference on utilization of atomic energy,” Wainerdi stated. “There are virtually unlimited potentials for atomic energy in the future of Texas, which is already an industrial empire. “In the field of petroleum pro- WERNHER VON BRAUN KENNETH W. GATLAND H. E. ROSS A. V. CLEAVER PROJECT SATELLITE with photos, diagrams and charts $5.00 .. an excellent book" — Fred Sparks, Scripps- Howard columnist, re porting from Cape Canaveral. ^Jlie (^xchcincie wS/< 0 ^xcnancje Serving Texas Aggies ore THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are 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. 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JOE TINDEL Editor Jim Neighbors Managing Editor Gary Rollins , Sports Editor Joy Roper Society Editor Gayle McNutt City Editor Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors Robert Weekley Assistant Sports Editor David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John Warner, Ronald Easley, Lewis Reddell Reporters Raoul Roth -..News Photographer George Wise .Circulation Manager Humor seems on the downgrade this season. But possibly it is better to laugh than cry. Time will tell. ★ ★ ★ Seems like the possibilities for a home guide for demonstrations on the college campus would sell like wildfire (if books sell like wildfire) here. Do all the good you can and make no fuss about it. —Charles Dickens OOP LAST NOW-COED INSTITUTION!" Job Interviews duction and distribution alone, we are already making tremendous uses of radioactive isotopes — in medicine, agriculture, heavy in dustry, instrumentation, space flight . . . there are illimitable fields. “We believe there is a real need, now, for beginning to give Texas an impetus toward greater par ticipation in the atomic age.” The following job interviews will be held in the Placement Of fice: Wednesday Air Force Flight Test Center interviews aeronautical, electrical and mechanical engineering, chemistry and mathematics ma jors. Arthur Andersen & Company, Houston, interviews accounting majors. Atlas Powder Company, Mar shall, interviews chemical and mechanical engineering and chemistry majors. California State Personnel Board, Sacramento, Calif., inter views civil engineering majors. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company interviews ci vil, electrical, industrial and me chanical engineering, business administration and accounting majors. Fisher Governor, Marshalltown, Iowa, interviews mechanical en gineering majors. Philco Corporation interviews chemical, electrical, and mechan ical engineering, chemistry, math ematics and physics majors. Standard Oil Company of Cal ifornia interviews chemical, elec trical (power option), mechanical and petroleum engineering ma jors. SERVING BRYAN and COLLEGE STATION ^ SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR Lv. N. Zulch 10:08 a.m. Ar. Dallas • . 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch • 7:28 p.m. Ar. Houston .9:15 p.m. FORT WORTH and DENVER RAILWAY N. L. CRYAR, Agent Phone 15* NORTH ZULCH Burlington Route See Dr. G. A. Smith For Professional Visual Care Dr. Smith and Staff Optometrists • Eyes examined • Glasses prescribed • Contact lens fitted BRYAN OPTICAL CLINIC Convenient Terms TA 2-3557 105 N. Main We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by in troducing it only to the best books. —Sidney Smith AGGIES I BCINlCr TWIS AD AMD VOU GrET A MILKSHAKE FOR GENTLEMEN: We Have Short Sleeve Sport Shirts Especially Selected For You, Priced From $2.45 to $3.95. We Also Have Dress Shoes and Loafers, Priced From $9.95 to $12.95 SEE MRS. M ARC ARETE LEON B. WEISS Next To Campus Theater ir I T.Zr’W-TLT'i • . TUESDAY “Pal Joey” With Rita Hayworth Plus “Fire Down Below” With Rita Hayworth PALACE Bryan Z m S$79 LAST DAY (Cattle=! 2a EMPIRE maB Cinemascope Fran TODAY & WEDNESDAY “a,a&d. Grod. csf’ea.ted w@:ma.2&” .. but the devil in-vented Bz-igitte Barslot , AT TUB •r Si X A N © I. Engineering Prof Gets High Position E. P. Segner Jr., assistant pro fessor of civil engineering, was re cently elected executive secretary of the Texas Section of the Ameri can Society of Civil Engineers. A&M MENS SHOP 5:103 MAIN NORTH GATE AGGIE OWNED PENNY PARKER says: “I have heard there is no royal road to knowledge, but I know some in teresting short cuts to bargain buy ing” ... Venetian mirrors $6.00 to $16.00 QUALITY FURNITURE CO. 316 N. Bryan In Bryan TA 2-6446 Over half a million now and AND AT THE RATE WE'RE GOING IT WON'T TAKE LONG PEANUTS MORE PEANUTS GOOD GRIEF, MORE PEANUTS! GOOD OL' CHARLIE BROWN STILL ONLY $S EACH RINEHART & CO., INC. <9 GUION HALL STARTS TODAY LAND OF CONTRAST and MYSTERY THAT PRODUCED '■'V-tV. do vdli KNOW.. what Russian women are trained to do? if there is racial segregation behind the Iron Curtain? what Soviet teenagers are forced to learn? if there is any freedom in the U.S.S.R.? how the dreaded MVD operates? SMWK T^n^AUNTERNATIONAl, RELEASE Also added attractions “FABULOUS LAND’ and “VAPOR TRAILS” in CinemaScope! LI’L ABNER By A1 Capp -AND DO YOU, J.P. SWEETPANTS TAKE. THIS GOOD HEAVENS, MAN"'-YOU'RE JUST A SERVANT" HERE/r I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU SHOULD CRY LIKE THAT/T-PLEASE LEAVE ff PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz THEY' SAY TMAT IF YOU GAZE AT TME STARS LONG ENOUGH, ALL YOUR TROUBLES WILL SEEM SO INSIGNIFICANT THEY' LVILL DISAPPEAR WHAT DO YOU (PANT ME TO DO, STAND HERE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE?.'