9. Sto'U*. (Br^O^UyJ.T^ Cadet SlOUCh Tl "‘ Art* PAGE 2 Thursday, October 16. 1958 . . . by Jim Earle BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . (ktr Liberty Deperuh on the Freedom of the Pm*. And It (onnot B*‘ Limited Without Being IamI . . . Ihomti* Jeffemon Quantity and . . . latent fiK*re.« on freshmen reHignatiora ahow a marked change from last year: only one-third as many Corps fresh men resigned during the first three weeks of the fall semes ter as compared with a similar period last year. Even with the slightly smaller enrollment for the 1958 fall term, this change is most significant. Now upperclassmen have some demonstrable proof that “Grade Point Army" has some merit—at least in retaining the crop of high sch«>ol seniors attracted to A&M each fall for the first three weeks. For the first three weeks of this year, the loss ratio compared with that of vcars past is encouraging. The i*»r- centage of losses is l»ecoming leas as the weeks pass Heal proof of the new "slow gear" policy with fourth classmen will lie the number of freshmen at final review — not the first *three weeks. But certainly, the year’s program has gotten off to a good start. Sheer numlier is not the goal being sought by de-excelle- rating the freshman training program, however. The sopho mores next year must know as much about AAM as sopho mores in the past They must be able to pass on the traditions and the strength men have found at A&M to the classes to come. To do these things, they muet do more than just sur vive the first encounters with upperclassmen. In addition to fteing here for final review, these remain ing freshmen must l»e mentally and emotionally pre|>ared to take over their part of teaching the men to follow Just staying the full nine months isn’t enough. These "fish” must be trained and polished—slowly and carefully like rare gems if they are to shine in May. If the figures on the first three weeks can l>e taken as an indication of a trend, the freshmen will l>e here in force at the end of the year The kind of Aggies they make and the kind of AA.M they pass on to their followers de{>ends on the training they receive l>etween now and then . . . Interpreting Montgomery Brings Up Old Vt ar Controversy Campus Entertainment Looks Bright for Weekend I7~^| cr^ tmUs With th»- host of young ladies from Dallas, Houston, rv*»nt«n, Austin, etc., diMcendmf upon Col- leg' 8ta*i«in this weekend. * l<><*k nt the entertamment scene seems to b*' in order. Tomorrow night. Rue t nalle p esent* a pair of Texas Chris tian ldiversity coeds ss the fea tured perfotmers in fl<*or show entertainment. June Pence, vo calist. and Katherine Davis, pan- tomimist, will be on hand in the table tennis area of the Memor ial Student Center along with the dance music of the Dave Wood ard Combo. Many who attended the ISST Intercollegiate Talent Show will rt member Miss Pence as one of the top ten acts of that event. DO \too BSEKTUlUGr?- Who’g Here! O&M Professor To Present Paper W inton be impressed by the ad mirable speed and flexibility of the American armies and groups of aimies, and the adaptiveness of conunandets and then troops to the swiftly changing condi tions of modern battles on the gieatest scale." That's what W rston < hprchiil wrote to (ien. I>w]ght F.isehhower on March H, 194 i. after the allied sweep across the Rhine. "I am glad the Hntish and Ca nadian armies in the north should have played a part in your far- reaching and triumphant combin ations," he added Churchill also has said, how ever, that prior to this time the efforts of (ten (now Field Mar shall) Vi scount Montgomery to promote a single unified north ern thrust into (lermany, under his command, fully icpresented British war policy. Montgomery now says that Ki- senhowei's refusal to listen to him prolonged the war for sev eral months. The old controversy has been renewed by publication of Mont gomery's memoirs. Always known as a curmudgeon, the hero of A la mein maintains the reputation With his fervor. He's still will- mg to argue with a winner. As Montgomery tells it, he was once so anxious to take ov*r Bradley's armies he had si ready taken ov»r Simpson's—that he suggested that Eisenhower come to see him about it. He .sal he was to bu-y^ on the laiw Countries front to go to head quartet's. 'hat is typical of the intensity with which Montgomery carried on his campaign, repeatedly ap paient in the memoranda he sent to the supreme commander. Culpepper’* Jewelry TOWNSHIKK SHOPPING ( ENTER • Diamonds • Matches • Silver Repairs Matches — Jewelry CARL Ml/E Small Electrical Appliances and Shavers KENNETH CHANEY MRS. FRANK ISH, Manager By JACK TEACH E John T. Massingale Jr , senior marketing major from ’ has probably done more traveling, or as much, as any any other pet son on the Aggie campus. The leason for the question mark is that I can’t quite make up my mind exactly wheie John is from —he has a hard time him self trying to f gure this one out. John was born in Sherman, Tex. and then the ball started rolling He kved in Sherman for one year and then moved to Cal veaton. From there he moved to Amarillo, Temple Tyler and Tex arkana, just to name the Texas residences. At 11 he went with his family to Frankfoit, (,er many, where he lived foi anothei year. And then on to Munich, Germany, wheie he lived for the “reCniiikably." as John puts it, long tune of thiae years. From there he returned to Falls Church, Va. And from Falls Chinch he returned to Sherman, where he finished high school. Yep, you guessed the reason I for all this moving. John's dad is an Army man R ght now he is chief of transportation at Ft. Sill. Ok la An Aggie ex, Class of "VI, John's dad had a lot to do w ith his coming to VAM John is a member of Squadron 14 and is athletic officer. He is in the Mar keting Society and the Business Society and a member of the <>k lahoina Hometown Club. John has changed hometown clubs three times since coming to Ag gieland, hui mg been a former member of the Grayson County and Southern Louisiana Home town dubs John sort of “fell" into his main hobby, which is traveling He has moved so much that he finds it sort of hard to settle down now This summer, after having attended summer camp at Bergstrom AFB in Austin and distinguishing himself there, he started touring the Eastern j states. Skiing is John's second love and he says he enjoyed living iu Munich, located light in the heart ; of the Alp>. John learned to ski j th. te and is now conaidered quite an expe ct at it. John's entire family had nuite an honor light aftei World War II It was the Massingale house hold w h . h had the distinction of being the fiist American family to anive m Germany after the War^ Saturday evening, the Afgieland Combo will plav at the All-Col. lege Dance in Sbitm Hall from 9 p. tr. ’till midnight. Charlie Bar nett and his Orchestra was orig inally to have played for the dance, but due to traveling diffi culties. will be unable to appear. Admission will be fl.SO per cna- p!e. Anyone who has time to catcf a flick this weekend would d well to see "Operation Mad Ball" at Guion Hal!. Your reportei What'* Cooking The following organisations will meet tonight: 7:3® Midland Hometown CJub will meet in the YMCA Cabinet Room. Cooke County Hometown Club will meet in the lounge of Pur year Hall. Panhandle Club will meet in Room 20.1 of the Academic Bldg Flat County will meet in Room 22ft of the Academic Bldg. Del Rio Hometown Club will meet in the YMCA to discuss plans for Christmas dance and dub picture for Aggieland Kunnels-C oieman Hometown C lub will meet in Room 225 of the Academic Bldg Texarkana and Four Stale* Area Hometown Club will meet in Room 22d of the Academic Bldg Vlid-( minty Hometown Club will meet in. Room 227 of the Academic Bldg The California Club will meet in the MSC by the chairs and couches near the post office. San Jacinto Hometown Club meets on the second floor of the Y MCA to disc uss social activi ties. will testify that the show is even funnier than ita preview (and those who hav* been laugiiing at Emie kovaca' monologue for the i post two weeks know that this could be a debatable endorse ment). This film also includes I the services of Jack Lemmon and Texas’ own Mrs. Crosby. Planning to Paint Kl BBEK BASE PAINT $3.95 gal. ROLLER AND PAN .. $1.29 WHITE HOUSE PAINT i$3.95 gal (HAPMAN’S PAINT STORE Next to Post Office, Bryan Rolls of refrigerator cookie dough are usually best when they are shaped about 1’* inches in diameter. When you use a 3-rup flour recipe, make two rolls. For Professional Visual Care SEE DR. G. A. SMITH Optometrist specializing in Eye Examina tion and Contact Lenses t Bry an optical clinic 1®:> N. Main TA 2-3337 Evenings by Appoinlment 1 AGGIES! : tf'V *r id: weoi-THues- BWNG THIS AD AND &ET A HAKGOfc&ee AND MllXSWAlce roe )). THE BATTALION Opinions expressed n» The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-rupporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community newspaper and is gov erned by the Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. Irat aewiMpir at T»u« A AM., w puhltahrd n Coll*** S's- •stwea* AutcSa) ssS Mooctay. and SaCiday fariaUi. Sapo-ai Tfca ■attalsm. a MuMaat x. 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Pete, Marwick Jt Vi.ebcll will interview .ACOOrNTING majtiis for positions in public accounting in US and possibly foreign roun- trtes. Lufkin Eonndry tk Machine will interview ME majors tor posi tions in machine design of oil fisid equipment. be verle v braley tours • travel »er*i« H*s»i ration, and Tickets # Business ar Vacation Truvcl • ' A FREE SERVICE % ' are ro«b«k» .asaJ OQRnff oi tha v«fri«rt mnd hoteD * Cell Uoyi Shelley «t M*»w Stvd»nt Center VI 6 ?92Y IIS Hor*h Meie Sryetr TA 3 III'’ PEANUTS Mil ill S i with yfejtQtalman (Bfth* Author of • RaUs Rount Uu Flag, Bogs/"end, "Bartfoot Boy trtXA i httk ") SAIL ON, SAIL ON! I suppose Octolier 12 is just another day to you You get up in the ordinary way and do all the ordinary things you ordinarily do You have your breakfast, you walk your ocelot, you go to rlassen, you write home for money, you hum the dean in effigy, you watch I bane viand, and you go to lied And do you give one httie thought to the fact that October 12 is Columbus Day? No, you do not. Nobody Hunk* almut Columbus these days. I>et us, there fore, pause for a luotiicut aud retell hta ever-glonous, endlessly bUrnng saga. . • 'fprkc on cl aqvn ... Christopher Columbus was horn in Genoa on August 25,1451. Jim father, Ralph T Columbus, whs in the three-minute auto wash game His mother, Eleanor (Swifty) Columbus, was a sprinter. Christopher wits an only child, except for his four brother* and eight sisters With hie father busy all day at the auto wash and I us mother constantly away at track meets, young Columbus was left pretty much to his own devices. However, the lad did not sulk or hnssl He was an avid reader ami s|vent all his waking hours immersed in a tssik. Unfor tunately, there was only one Usik in Genoa at the time— Can of Ihr IIorxi by Aristotle and after several years of reading (Inn of tin llornr, Columbus grew restless. Si when rumor reached him that there was another IssA in Barcelona, off lie run as fast as his fat little legs would carry him. The rumor, alas, proved.false The only issik in Barcelona was Cuitiar un Caballo by Aristotle, which proved to lie nothing more than a Spanish translation of Cart of Iht Hnrtt. Bitterly disappointa), Cohimbua began to dream of going to India where, according to legend, t!»err were thousands of hooka. But the only way to go to India was on horseback, anti after so many years of reading Carr of th* Uonu, Columbus never wanted to clap eyes on a horse again Then a new thought struck him: perha|is it was possible to get to India hy taxi! Fired with his revolutionary new idea, Columbus raced to the court of Ferdinand juwi Isabella on his little fat legs (Co- Itimhus was (Jaguixl with little fat legs all his life) ami ((loaded his case with such fervor that tlie rulers were (s-fsiunjcd. Oh (Vtolier 12, 1492. Columbus set fd friends, when next y*»u en|oy a fine Marlboro Cigarette, give a thought to tlie plucky Genoese, Christopher C olumbu*. w huec vmod and (icraevenuu* made the w hole lovely thing poatnUc. And thunk Columbu* too for Philip Morrit Cieurettes, for those who uant the be*t in non-Alter tmoking Philip Morris Join* Marlboro in brin§ins pou these columns throughout tha school gear. By UharlcM M. Schulz • (iokpXREf Yol/? ft?iW?' N ?5Crt0oip WE?ieARN/? EKErt'? PAY^ Mowpto?ma«:6? G ' f -i.