THE BATTALION
PAGE 2 Tuesday, January 5, 1960
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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Deserves Success Bears God and Honors Man; Is
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Agriculture Papers
A Safe Return
For the fourth straight year Aggies evaded the annual
holiday death call and returned safely to the campus with
happy memories gathered over the two-week period.
Another traditional Silver Taps will have to wait and
we, as Aggies, should be thankful for this delay. A number
of citizens in Texas, as a result of the many accidents during
the deadly period will not enjoy the new year of 1960.
Latest count had Texas second in traffic deaths in the na
tion over the holidays.
One of the many killed on the highways in Texas dur
ing the period could have easily been a student here at A&M.
Not an Aggie was killed and this is something that should
not be taken for granted—we should be thankful.
Although credit is dut to traffic officials throughout
the state, most of the credit no doubt goes to Aggies them
selves. Again they proved that they are gentlemen on the
highways as well as in any other activity of life. Theift- court
esy and respect for others on the highways during the holi
day period has surely influenced others in Texas and across
the nation and thereby has resulted an another move in the
right direction toward building respect for Texas A&M, some
thing for which every Aggie should be striving.
Just because we escaped the most dangerous period of
the year does not mean the race is over. Death does not
believe in holidays; it works ev6ry day of every year. We
should continue to be safety conscious and very much aware
of our actions.
The odds were even more deadly this year and for the
fourth straight year our safety record is clean for the holi
day period. The picture could have been a different one.
Take a look at your roommate, Aggie. You could have
been living alone now.
★ ★ ★
Time Is Short
The holiday is over and Aggies are filled with happy
memories of domestic happenings—happenings that are no
doubt harmful to studying.
But now is no time to let up on studying. If anything it
is the most important time to get serious about it. Time is
running out on another semester and soon some Aggies will
inevitably find themselves wondering where the time went
when the end of the semester rolls around.
The semester is far from over. There is still a lot of
work to be done and a lot of tests to be taken. It is not too
late to gather grade points and get closer to that glorious
day of graduation.
Soon the semester will be over and we will have a short
recess before another semester begins. Do your best, Ag
gie, return home proud of what you have done here. These
years here at Texas A&M are of most importance. Take
advantage of your right of education—study and study now
before it is too late.
Yes, time is short and time waits on no one. Now is the
time to apply the best of study habits. Take good notes,
listen closely in class, read widely and concentrate fully on
your work.
Above all do your best—nothing more can be asked of
a person. When you know you have done your best possible
work in your academic studies, you should have nothing to
worry about. The rest will take care of itself.
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Great! ‘An* How Were Your Holidays?’
On Other
By Alan
SMU
An editorial in the SMU Cam
pus reports that there is a great
deal of complaining concerning
the ROTC programs at various
colleges and universities. A fresh
man at the University of Califor-
10,318 Visit A&M
In Seven Months
A total of 10,318 visitors were
on the campus of A&M for the
months of June, July, August,
September, October, November and
December, P. L. Downs Jr., official
greeter of the college announced
today.
From June 1, 1949, to June 1,
1959, there were 592,276 visitors
on the campus, Mr. Downs reports
and the total for the 10 years and
the past seven months is 602,594.
The visitors attended short
courses, conferences, class reunions
and other scheduled meetings.
There were 3,265 visitors dur
ing June; 1711 in July; 1282 in
August; 364 in September; 1231
in October; 1294 in November, and
1171 during December.
There were 10 different groups
on the campus during December.
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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR
David Stoker Managing Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
BUI Hicklin, Robbie Godwin News Editors
Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob
Sloan, Bob Saile, Al Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers
Joe Jackson Photographer
Russell Brown CHS Correspondent
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5th Yr. Architects
Portrait Dates Set
5th year architects will have
their portrait made for The Ag-
gieland ’60 at the Aggieland
Studio between the hours of 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. according to the
following schedule.
Coats and ties should be
worn.
(5th Year Architects)
Jan. 6-7
Jan. 11-12
Jan. 13-14
Jan. 18-19
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Campuses
Payne
nia recently went on a hunger
strike protesting compulsory
ROTC. He even secured over one
thousand signatures to a formal
petition protesting the existence
of such a program.
Upperclassmen at Norwich Col
lege in Vermont recently revolted
because they felt things were too
“military” at the New England
school. The last review at Dart
mouth was even picketed by stu
dents who opposed the existence
of the ROTC program there.
On top of all that complaining,
the SMU “cheerleaders” are com
plaining because they had to buy
tickets to get in the gate for the
SMU-A&M game Nov. 7. One
was even quoted as saying, “I
grant that ya’ll are pretty cheap
down here, but we still ought to
get into the game free.”
TU
Those “loyal” teasippers were
having quite a problem right be
fore leaving for Dallas and the
Cotton Bowl game. It seems the
ex-students had charted a bus to
make the trip. With a chance to
see the Longhorns play the top
team in the nation, there were
still 24 vacancies on the
Ernest T. Smerdon, J. W. Sor
enson, Jr. and Nat K. Pearson of
College Station have presented
papers in Chicago before the Win
ter Meeting of the American So
ciety of Agricultural Engineers
in the Palmer House, Dec. 17 and
18.
Smerdon is an associate profes
sor in the Department of Agricul
tural Engineering. His subject was
“Critical Tractive Forces in Co
hesive Soils.” Sorenson and Pear
son’s subject was “Pneumatic
Handling of Grain.”
More than 1300 agricultural en
gineers from throughout the Uni
ted States, Canada, and several
European countries attended the
meeting. Multiple sessions, run
ning concurrently, will embrace
four major divisions—power and
machinery, electric power and pro
cessing, farm structures, and soil
and water.
Thomas E. Clague, chairman of
the Chicago section of the society,
announced that the 130 papers
read at the sessions covered up-to-
date developments in the many im
provements engineering has
brpught to agriculture over the 52-
year history o"f the society. The
sessions also provided a look into
the near future with reports on
such innovations as an electric
tractor, an “Aeromobile” for air
transport of heavy loads a few
Miss Grimes Named
Woman of the Year
Miss Mary Anna Grimes, who
retired from the professional staff
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station staff Aug. 21, has
been named Texas woman of the
year by the Progressive Farmer
magazine.
Miss Grimes served the Station
for more than 32 years working
full time on clothing and textile
research, mainly with cotton fibers
and fabrics. She served as acting
head of the Department of Rural
Home Research during 1954-56.
Miss Grimes^ is a native of Miss
ouri and holds both bachelor and
master degrees from Kansas State
University. She did graduate work
at the University of Chicago and
bus Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
IN AND OUT
Me ALE STEP, Okla. <A>> — Police
officer Leon Palmarchuck probably
was on the MeAlester department’s
payroll the shortest time of any
man. He was policeman only eight
hours. He was dismissed when it
was learned he hadn’t been a Me
Alester resident for one year.
when school was dismissed for
the holidays.
Baylor
The writer of an editorial in
the Baylor Lariat, who is un-
doubterly quite an authority on
the subject, feels women live
longer because they have more
self-respect and common sense
than men. He even tries to ex
plain his reasons for taking such
a stand, but actually says a lot
of nothing.
ogy, and before joining the TAES
staff in 1927 taught in high schools
and colleges in Kansas and Iowa.
The Progressive Farmer citation
said; “We honor Miss Mary Anna
Grimes for notable service to rural
Texas and Southern families. Miss
Grimes has done extensive research
in the field of textiles (principally
cotton). She is the author of over
50 scientific reports of work done
in her 32 years in the Textile Re
search division of TAES.”
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Jan. 6th Thru 8th
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inches above ground or water, air-
conditioned helmets and cabs for
farm . machinery operators, solar
heat for crop drying, and many
others. ‘
Other subjects included chemical
treatment of farm water supplies,
cooling of animal housing struc
tures by evaporization, plastic
films for livestock shelters, me
chanical harvesting of tomatoes
and cucumbers, effects of chemical
crop and weed spraying, new devel
opments in the pelleting and wat
ering of hay, and high speed pho
tography as an engineering tool.
A 5 lb. 8 oz. future Battalion
Sports Editor was born Sunday
afternoon at 5:50 to Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Weekley, ’60, of D-3-Z,
College View, at St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Bryan. Weekley is
sports editor of The Battalion.
The boy was named Michael
David.
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AGGIE OWNED
with
HaxShuIman
{Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf’’ “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
*'LITTLE STORIES WITH BIG MORALS’*
First Little Story
Once upon a time a German exchange student from old Heidel
berg came to an American university. He lived in the men’s
dormitory of the great American university. He was a fine,
decent young man and all the other young men in the dormitory
of the great American university tried very hard to make
friends with him, but, unfortunately, he was so shy that he
refused all their invitations to join their bull sessions. After a
while his dormitory mates got tired of asking him and so the
poor German exchange student, alas, spent every evening alone
in his room.
One night while sitting all alone in his room, he smelled the
most delicious aroma coming from the room next door. Con
quering his shyness, he walked to the room next door and there
he saw a bunch of his dormitory mates sitting around and dis
cussing literature, art, culture, and like that. They were all
smoking Marlboro cigarettes, which accounts for the delicious
aroma smelled by the German exchange student.
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Timidly, he entered the room. “Excuse me,” he said,
what is that marvelous smell I smell?”
“It’s our good Marlboro cigarettes,” cried the men, who were
named Fun-loving Ned, Happy Harry, Jolly Jim, and Tol’able
David.
So the German exchange student took a Marlboro and en
joyed those better makin’s, that finer filter, that smooth, hearty
flavor, and soon he was comfortable and easy and lost his
shyness.
From that night forward, whenever he smelled the good smell
of Marlboro cigarettes, he always went next door and joined
the bull session.
MORAL: WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THERE’S MEYER
Second Little Story
Once upon a time there was an Indian brave named Walter T.
Muskrat who had a squaw named Margaret Giggling Water.
Margaret was sort of a mess but she sure could make beaded
moccasins. Every day she whipped up a brand-new pair of
beaded moccasins for Walter, which were so gorgeous that all
the Indian maids on the reservation grew giddy with admiration.
Well, sir, Margaret got pretty tense about all the girls making
eyes at Walter and one night they had a terrible quarrel.
Walter flew into a rage and slapped her on the wrist, whereupon
she started crying like all get-out and went home to her mother
and never came back.
“Good riddance!” said Walter, but alas, he soon found out
how wrong he was, for the Indian maids were not really in
terested in him, only in his moccasins, and when he stopped
showing up with a new pair every day they quickly gave him
the yo-heave-ho. Today he is a broken man, sitting all alone in
his tepee and muttering ancient Ute curses.
MORAL: DON’T FIGHT THE HAND THAT BEADS YOU
Third Little Story
Once there was a lion which was a very quiet lion. In fact, the
only time it euer made a sound was when it had a toothache.
MORAL: WHEN IT PAINS, IT ROARS
© 1960 Max SbqLm&n
The makers of Marlboro would like to point a moral too:
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Try a pack of Marlboros
or Marlboro’s sister cigarettes—Philip Morris and Alpine—
and gain yourself a heap of pleasure.
PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schuls
PEANUTS
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