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
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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.
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September through May, and once a week during summer school.
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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.
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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?.'