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Letters To The Editor
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AUSTIN, Tex.—It’s a compara
tively dull season at the State
Capitol now. About the only no
ticeable “sound and fury” is gen
erated by the workmen putting
air conditioning in the legislative
chambers and building new state
structures nearby.
Last year at this time the Cap
itol was a tui’bulent arena. Law
makers’ pounding debates, elec
tric disclosures and close votes
kept galleries filled, committee
rooms jampacked.
Now the lawmakers are scat-
tei'ed. But state issues are be
ing decided — elsewhere. Next
year’s legislators are out “talk
ing with the people to see how
they feel.”
SMALL TUENOVER POSSI
BLE—Prospect now is mostly for
familiar faces at the legislative
desks next January.
Barring a sudden rash of an
nouncements, at least two-thirds
of house members and nearly 90
per cent of senators will be old
hands.
GROW WITH US—Some 3,000
major new factories will locate
somewhere in the South within
the next 10 years.
In reporting this prediction.
Gov. Price Daniel urged the
state’s new Industrial Commission
to get in and pitch for a Texas
sized share of the incoming
wealth and job-making industries.
“MAKE IT PAINLESS”—Tax
talk towers over other topics in
the build-up for the 1959 legisla
tive session.
Tax Study Commission already
has issued two of a series of 8 to
10 research reports to lawmakers
for tax decisions. A third report,
on how tax money is used and
what future needs will likely be,
is due later this month.
AT LAST—Spring has finally
sprung in Texas employment,
bringing the long-awaited season
al pick-up in jobs.
Texas Employment Commis
sion’s latest report, for the first
time since Dec. 20, showed a sig
nificant decline in the number of
u n e m p 1 o y ment compensation
claims. Drop was from 92,435 to
89,326.
TEC said some 14,974 claim
ants had exhausted their benefits
during Januafy and February.
Maximum allowed is $28 a week
for 26 weeks.
Though taxes are a prime cam
paign issue, legislative candidates
are treading delicately around the
subject. One said in his an
nouncement that he opposed a
general sales tax and a state in
come tax and that “if additional
taxes have to be levied, let’s make
it as painless as possible.”
SHORT SNORTS—State Selec
tive Service Headquarters has
asked local draft boards to send
up 4,247 men for pre-induction
physical exams during May. It
will be second successive month
of high quotas—highest since Ko
rean War—to replenish pool of
potential militai-y manpower. . .
Price index of Texas farm prod
ucts rose 2 per cent from Febru
ary to March, reports U.S. Dept,
of Agriculture. Crops rose 3 per
cent, livestock 1 per cent.
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Editor
The Battalion:
Well, girls, you finally did it.
The law was on your side, so you
won your court battle. How does
it feel to be an instrument in the
destruction of Texas A&M ? I
don’t know whether your motives,
or the motives of persons or fac
tions that might be behind you
are sincere, but nevertheless,
what you have done will mean the
end of Texas A&M.
A&M, and when I say “A&M”,
I mean the Texas A&M that is
known the world over for the fine
training ground for men that it
is, cannot exist .under conditions
imposed by co-education.
I don’t need to waste words
praising the attributes of the Ag
gie system. It has proven itself.
It will not and cannot maintain
this reputation under co-educa
tion.
Granted, during the past few
years, A&M has suffered a slow
but sure weakening. Non-com-
pulsory corps brought this on.
The school lost a lot of self re
spect. People who didn’t belong .
yyeve allowed to go to school there.
A lot of guys went non-reg
when they found out they didn’t
have what it takes to be an Ag.
Their only defense was to scoff
at the corps and try to tear it
down. A lot of veterans and oth
er students who are really stran
gers to A&M see the corps as
only a bunch of green kids trying
to play soldier.
Even in the corps itself, under
the fire of uncalled for restric
tions handed down from higher
echelons, a lot of Aggies began
to feel a shroud of defeat falling
on A&M. But there is no excuse
for this. There is no reason why
A&M cannot be restored to the
proud school it once was.
Many advocating co-education
claim that A&M is out of date.
This is stupid. The products that
A&M earned its reputation for
turning out, integrity, learning to
accept responsibility by living in a
society where you must, and a
society where you learA to judge
your fellow man by how well he
accepts this responsibility, esprit
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LETTERS
Editor
The Battalion:
Who is embarrassed for whom ?
President Harrington is quoted in
Friday’s Battalion as saying “The
College has no desire to embar
rass the individual concerned....”
When a man knows that he has
done an excellent job and is fired
because he has done too good a,
job, that man is not likely to be
embarrassed at being fired. I
am emban-assed for President
Harrington, and I am embarrass
ed for A&M College. But I am
not embarrassed for Ross Strader.
My sincere congratulations go
not only to Mr. Strader for his
excellent work, but also to you,
Mr. Tindel, for being one of our
best editors.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Fred E. Ekfelt
de corps, what ever you want to
call it; these things will never be
out-dated. God help us if they
ever are.
You may call it emotionalism,
but these are the sort of things
that helped build and defend this
great nation of ours. Have they
lost their value?
Your claim to entrance at
A&M is equal rights with men.
But by the very act of making
A&M co-ed you are taking rights
from Aggies, rather than gaining
equal rights.
You are robbing every Aggie
of everything he ever worked for
in building A&M, and you are
robbing every future Aggie of the
privilege of A&M training.
Certainly you have a legal right
to enter A&M, the same legal
right that women have had since
the establishment of the first co
ed school. But it seems to me
that your sense of values has
been juggled slightly.
You have a far deeper moral
obligation to men, past and fu
ture, who have and will benefit
by A&M training, to forget your
selfish reasons and leave A&M
alone. If you had a strand of
moral fiber within you, you would
do this.
And, incidentally, speaking of
the rights of women, I know a
lot of Aggie mothers and wives
who would like to pull your hair
out by the roots. This is irrel
evant, but just thought I’d men
tion it.
My wife and I are coming to
A&M next fall. She could bene
fit by A&M going co-ed. As it is
she will have to complete her col
lege education elsewhere. But
she believes in A&M.
Ed Rivers, ’57
Editor
The. Battalion:
With the admission of females
into this college, Texas A&M has
lost the meaning that it has had
since it was founded in 1876. I
propose, therefore, that the title,
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas, be retired with
all the dignity that it has ac
cumulated since it was founded.
Preserved in history and in the
hearts of all Aggies, the name
Texas A&M will continue to have
that significance that it has had
for so many years, and the dis
credit that the fairer sex will
place on this institution will in
no way be associated with A&M.
To those fortunate enough to
have the Aggie ring, this ring
will then still mean all that it
has in the past.
I suggest that, following our
friends of the now extinct Okla
homa A&M, we change the name
of this institution to The Texas
State University.
Larry Sullivan ’59
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SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: No. 3
Once again the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, bless their tat
tooed hearts, have consented to let me use this space, normally
intended for levity, to bring you a brief lesson in science.
They are generous, openhanded men, the makers of Marlboro,
hearty, ruddy, and full of the joy of living, as anyone can tell
who has sampled their wares. In Marlboro you will find no
stinting, no stinginess. Marlboro’s pleasures are rich, manifold,
and bountiful. You get a lot to like with a Marlboro—filter,
flavor, flip-top box, and, in some models, power steering.
The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from
the Greek words astro meaning “sore” and nomy meaning
“back”. Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early
Greek astronomers, and no wonder 1 They used to spend every
blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the
sky, and if there’s a better way to get a sore back, I’d like to
hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area,
where Greece is generally considered to be.
Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from be
coming very popular until Galileo, an unemployed muleteer of
Pamplona, fashioned a homemade telescope in 1924 out of
three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What
schoolboy does not know that stirring story—how Galileo
stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how
his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered
the words heard round the world: “Let them eat cakel’5
1st THE/A
Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William
Jennings Bryan snatched Nell GWynne from the shadow of the
guillotine at Oslo; Chancellor Bismarck brought in four gushers
in a single afternoon; Enos Slaughter was signed by the Han
seatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington’s
army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his im
mortal Penrod and Sam.
But after a while things calmed down and astronomers began
the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First
man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name
he chose was Betelgeuse, after his dear wife, Betelgeuse Sigafoos,
prom queen at Michigan State from 1919 to 1931.
Then the Major Brothers of Yerkes Observatory named stars
after their wives, Ursa and Canis, and Witnick of Harvard
named one after his wife, Big Dipper, and soon all the stars
were named.
Astronomers then turned to the question: is there life on
other planets? The answer was a flat, unequivocal no. Spectro
scopic studies proved without a doubt that the atmosphere
on the other planets was far too harsh' to permit the culture of
the fine tobaccos that go into Marlboro Cigarettes ... And who
can live without Marlboro?
@ 1958 Max Shulmaa
This celestial column—like the author's more earthy ones
—is brought to you by the makers of Marlboro, the filter
cigarette with the long white ash. And in all the solar system
you won’t find a better smoke.
LI’L ABNER
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